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Are there any vitamin and mineral supplements that will improve climbing performance?
You are what you eat. Such supplements are normally not necessary when eating a varied and balanced diet. Some climbers (especially elite climbers) eat restrictive and low energy diets. If the diet is not varied and/or major food groups are excluded (i.e. dairy, meat, fruit/vegetables), deficiencies in both vitamins and minerals are likely.
During periods of high-intensity training, if a proper and adequate diet is not eaten to maintain body weight, this can result in loss of muscle mass, loss or failure to gain bone density, menstrual dysfunction, and increase the risk of fatigue, illness and injury.
Get the basics right first with your diet and hydration before even considering supplements to see if they are really necessary. If possible, get a sport nutritionist or dietician's help to accommodate your specific needs and goals. Those under 18 years, pregnant, or who have pre-existing health problems should seek a medical professional's advice about any supplementation.
Will glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate supplements prevent or repair damage to the cartilage in climbers' fingers?
Trials have not shown these supplements to be unequivocally useful to repair damage to the cartilage in climbers' fingers although many climbers use these supplements. More studies need to be published before the usefulness of these supplements can be determined. .
Are the fingers of young climbers different to those of competitive adult climbers?
Yes. Fingers stop growing around age 16 to 17 years, and so training should respect the fact that fingers are still growing. There are no international bouldering competitions for under 16s. The limited amount of studies on the fingers of dedicated young climbers suggest training intensity should be reduced during the adolescent growth spurt to reduce the risk of fractures to the growth plates in the fingers, and other possible finger/s damage. The final growth spurt is around age 13 to 15. This growth period is very obvious if height and weight are regularly plotted on growth charts, or when clothes/shoes are outgrown.
What should I do to help relieve joint pain in fingers after climbing?
As with any sporting participation, a proper warm up at the beginning of the session and warm down with stretching at end of climb session - including the forearms and fingers - will aid recovery, maintain proper limb functioning, and help prevent injury. Many veteran climbers have fingers that are slightly bent, so they cannot place their hands palm-side down completely flat on a smooth surface – so stretch your fingers out after climbing. The whole musculo-tendinous unit from elbow to finger tip needs to be stretched not just the fingers. Over stretching of individual joints of the fingers is discouraged as this affects the joint capsule and may (no evidence) encourage less stability under stress.
Crimping holds create the most potential for injury. So if you are training on crimpy routes, or simply training intensively (ie more overhangs), your finger pain may be the result of this, so reduce the training load.
The following recovery methods have been used by different countries for the hands specifically, especially after an intensive climbing workout – soak hands in ice water or apply cold packs to them (even holding a cold drink can), soak in sulphur bath, move fingers or fan them as if playing on a piano, rotate Chinese exercise balls in palm of hand. Painkillers/anti-inflammatory medications are useful as well, but don't make a habit of using them regularly because chronic use of them can lead to other health problems. Be wary of anti inflammatory medication used in this way – not only because it can mask an overload situation but you also the risk gastro-intestinal problems, namely gastrointestinal bleeding.
Should I use the campus board to train?
If any campus board training is done, it should only be undertaken by veteran climbers (i.e. climbing around 8 to 10 years), and not those aged up to around 16 or 17 as their fingers are still growing. Such training should only be done when 'fresh'. Know your own limits when doing this type of training, as the potential for injury is greater. Such training is not suitable for all climbers. This is a very intense form of training and intense training should be accompanied by increased rest to allow recovery and adaption.
Should I buy climbing shoes 1 to 2 sizes smaller than my street wear shoes? Historically this was the advice, but not now. Today there is a wide variety of climbing shoes available to suit a climber's ability, climbing preferences and foot shape. There are enough studies on climber's feet demonstrating that excessively tight or irregularly shaped climbing shoes can cause acute or permanent pain and various permanent foot deformities and conditions that cannot always be corrected.
A climbing shoe should fit the shape of your foot, and not the other way around – i.e. squeezing your foot into a shoe that doesn't fit. There should be no 'hot spots' where the climbing shoe is rubbing your foot, and there should be no 'dead space' in the shoe. Snug, but not painful! This is very important for growing feet as marked changes will impact the gait and spinal mechanics detrimentally – and horribly so for some people.
Will getting thin help me to climb better?
A person's ideal weight is influenced by age, gender, genetics, and the sport. This ideal weight may be slightly different if competing or climbing a major project. Some people are just naturally slimmer. In adults, the estimated amount of body fat that is compatible with human health and performance is 5 per cent in men, and 12 per cent in women.
Good climbers typically have a high strength to body weight ratio, similar to a gymnast, but with exceptionally strong fingers and forearms. There are no scientific studies to prove that losing weight will automatically make you a better climber. In fact there is no data to show what the perfect climbing body type is, or what the perfect body composition (percentage of body fat and muscle) should be for an elite climber, in spite of so much written about it magazines.
If you lose weight too quickly you will lose muscle glycogen, and this depletion is closely related to muscular fatigue. Quick weight loss also increases the risks of illness and injury. Maintaining an excessively lean state may result in other health and performance detriments whether you are an adult or child/adolescent.
It is a smarter and healthier option to build up sport-specific strength and endurance (ie powerful forearms) for both health and performance, rather than losing weight quickly or maintaining low energy diets.
Is climbing a good exercise for healthy bones?
Bones are not static structures; they are constantly changing in response to exercise, diet, and your age. Climbing is an excellent load-bearing exercise that should encourage very strong remodelling of your bones, and a great physique!
However, if you are excessively lean, your bones may not be as strong as they could be and other aspects of your health may also be adversely affected. For example, a woman's bone mass peaks in her 20's and declines thereafter if not maintained, especially after menopause. If you are eating a low energy diet and/or have minimal body fat, this single opportunity to maximise your total adult bone mass in your mid-20's is reduced and this could be very detrimental to your health.
Is there anything that should be different in the way a dedicated young climber trains compared to an adult?
Just because some elite young climbers climb similar grades to elite adults does not mean they should train in a similar fashion as they are still growing! Full adult maturation of bones, tissues and organs is not complete until approximately age 19-20 years in females, and age 22-23 in males. Intensive/inappropriate training and/or trying to keep excessively lean can result in full adult developmental growth being delayed, reduced, or in extreme cases never achieved.
The adolescent growth spurt will increase muscle mass (especially in males), and increase the hormone levels needed for putting on muscle and anaerobic training. Bones will widen and lengthen significantly. These combined increases in muscle and bone size will increase total body weight. But remember in order for such growth to happen, connective structures like ligaments and tendons must be weak. These connective structures are two to fives times weaker than that of an adult. So a similar force that results in a sprain in an adult will do more damage to an adolescent during this time.
Do not increase finger strengthening exercises or train excessively on routes that place strain on the weaker connective tissues in fingers/upper limbs during this growth spurt. Remember your finger bones are still growing, and the finger tendons need time to strengthen and adapt to this growth spurt. Remember, climbing should be enjoyed over a lifetime, so train correctly to ensure this is possible.
How do you use growth charts to adjust training in young athletes?
Every child/adolescent should have their height and weight plotted regularly on growth charts. This is probably the easiest thing anyone can do to monitor the health and development of youngsters. You can ask your doctor for such charts, or download them from the internet.
By regularly plotting a child/adolescent's growth on height and weight charts (i.e. every three months), their developmental growth is clear. If they outgrow their clothes or shoes, growth should be plotted more often, and training adjusted during this period if they are dedicated sports people. If your child's height or weight drops two percentiles (growth lines) on these charts, they may need specialist referrals to investigate the cause.
What are the early signs of overuse injuries, and how can they be prevented?
EARLY SIGNS: Don't ignore pain and see your doctor! Overuse injuries result in pain - pain either when doing certain moves, intermittent or chronic pain, pain that builds up slowly, or pain occurring soon after climbing. Those who climb frequently and/or at a high ability level are more likely to suffer from overuse injuries. Classically it is pain some time after activity, then pain at the start and then after activity, then pain during and after, then pain all the time. Not all overuse injuries manifest themselves this way but many do. Whatever the case - do not wait until you have pain all the time! Deal with it!
AVOIDING OVERUSE INJURIES: Avoiding overuse injuries generally requires a methodical and gradual increases in training so that tendon strength can match the loading on newly formed muscles. Muscles can appear in six to eight weeks of training, but the tendons may take a minimum of two years to adapt to such training.
In terms of tendon injuries by the time the pain is showing up there has already been significant micro-trauma, there is now a big gap between what the tendon is and should be able to tolerate therefore it needs to be addressed appropriately keep overloading and it will tend to degenerate further. The more degenerate the more repair required.
Muscles and tendons can experience some damage at a cellular level in response to training, and this is normal. Good training programmes make allowances for such muscle and tendon tissues to heal, build in strength, and adapt to new training loads. However, if the training is excessive or inappropriate, muscles and/or tendons can become torn or injured. Tendons require much more time and rehabilitation to heal compared to muscles.
Correct training of all relevant and complementary muscle groups involved in climbing can generally prevent overuse injuries. Cranking on routes before your body is up to it can be impressive, but this may contribute to overuse symptoms.
A training diary can be a useful tool to identify the volume and intensity of your training, and how this relates to when/where injuries occurred, and what the symptoms are. It can even identify the lack of rest days needed for recovery! Chronic overuse injuries in climbing are generally limited to the upper body – fingers, elbows, and shoulders. Many overuse injuries are the result of muscle imbalances such as over development of some muscles, while neglecting other muscles like shoulder rotator cuff or forearm extensor muscles. Tendons take time to adapt to training otherwise they can become damaged. The knee is structurally more prone to injury in women, and so some women may suffer more injuries to their knees from doing excessive drop knee moves or rockovers.
It is important to get a proper diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible from someone who understands climbing injuries. Climbers already tend to not to go and see a doctor when injured, and this is very dangerous!
When should I tape a finger pulley injury (ie A2 pulley), and can I still climb while it is healing?
Get a proper diagnosis first and the right treatment. Generally a fresh single pulley rupture (normally A2) does not require surgical repair, only multiple pulley ruptures do. A single pulley injury can be healed by taping it functionally or by wearing a softcast ring. There should be no climbing between 6-8 weeks, depending on the symptoms.
Other finger injuries may require splinting, taping, ice baths, a local injection of corticosteriods, painkillers, or simply just climbing less intensively using more open-handed holds. Definitely get a proper diagnosis by a skilled doctor with expertise in this area.
What is a shoulder impingement injury?
There can be many reasons for shoulder pain, and the cause needs a proper medical diagnosis and treatment. Shoulder impingement injuries in climbing are quite common, and may be the result of tendons, rotator cuff or other structures getting 'pinched' from the constant reaching and pulling of overhead holds. You may even hear a 'popping' or 'cracking' noise in your shoulder during such movements. It's possible you may need physiotherapy to promote joint mobility, and to strengthen all the muscles in the shoulder to help deal with the loading and movement they undertake during climbing.
Why should I keep hydrated during climbing?
There is a fine balance to be struck to keep hydrated, especially during exercise. As the body cannot store fluid or electrolytes before exercise, it is easy to become dehydrated during exercise if fluids are not drunk. Being dehydrated will impair strength, reaction time, endurance, and concentration. It may also create temporary learning deficits, lethargy, and an electrolyte imbalance will leads to other problems. Not ideal when on sighting or otherwise.
Drinking too much may dilute your body's electrolyte balance and cause other problems.
Every adult needs six to eight glasses of fluid a day if they are not exercising and are not in a hot environment. This drinking should be spaced out throughout the day. If sweating excessively (i.e. sweat 'stings' eyes), it's hot, or the climbing is particularly intense, a sport drink or electrolyte drink may be required to help replace electrolytes, and to top up glucose levels.
How do I know whether I tore a finger tendon?
This is something you cannot answer for yourself, go and see a physician - preferably one that has an understanding of climbing injuries. But if you suddenly loaded the finger and heard/felt a pop it is quite possible, particularly if the finger swells afterward, this warrants investigation by someone who knows what they are looking at.
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The guardian roeports the David Tennant will be starring in the BBC's Comedy-drama "Single Father" It is a four-part series based on a photograper named Dave (no last name given). This will be his first starring role since "Doctor Who".
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On the face of it, not much has been added to the Nokia N96 to distinguish it from its predecessor, the N95 8GB (which beefed up the memory and changed the colour of the original, silver-clad N95).
This time the sleek black livery's the same, but the memory has been expanded again to 16GB – and you also get microSD card expansion for bumping that up further (something the last one was painfully missing).
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Plenty of memory is is pretty much essential on a multimedia phone like this, and it has a DVB-H mobile TV tuner that you probably won't be able to use yet, unless you happen to visit somewhere like Italy, where they actually have DVB-H TV services in operation. The UK currently has no similar DVB-H services available or imminent, mainly due to a number of technical and regulatory issues.
It looks very similar to the N95 too but closer inspection reveals that it's slightly longer and wider, but also thinner and lighter than its predecessor; it's still on the chunky side, but not quite as much.
While the original N95 was hailed as a superphone on its arrival, it quickly gained a reputation for buggyness, slow operation and a tendency to crash. Since then, software upgrades with the N95 and N95 8GB have solved these issues, and on our brief acquaintance with the new N96 model, its seems to be fine as far as reliability is concerned.
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The case slides up to reveal the keypad, and slides down to reveal a set of dedicated media player controls, flipping into landscape mode as it does so. But while this feature was present on the N95, the N96 has added an additional set of hidden media player controls around the D-pad/scroll wheel, which light up when you're in multimedia mode.
The 5 megapixel camera has the same Carl Zeiss lens as the N95 and takes a very good snap, showed off to good effect on the sharp and bright 16 million colour screen. This version has a brighter flash with two LEDs instead of one – it's not exactly blinding, but does give you a bit more scope in low light conditions, especially for video.
There's also a secondary camera on the front for video-conferencing.
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Your pictures can be automatically geotagged, which of course means that there's A-GPS on board, backed up by Nokia Maps, which works very well indeed, though you can also download Google Maps to take advantage of that system's aerial photographs.
Video playback at 30fps (video recording can also be set at this level) is generally smooth and there's a fold-out stand on the back (which doubles as the frame for the camera lens and flash) so you can set it up on a desk for watching mini widescreen viewing.
It works, but there's no real option to adjust the angle it sits at. Incidentally, when it's positioned this way, the stereo speakers sit on top at each end of the phone – ideal positioning in other words.
Intuitive music player
The web browser, whether it be connecting through the fast-ish HSDPA 3G connection (up to 3.6Mbps) or the fastest Wi-Fi link, is decent if not spectacular, especially when you can flip into landscape mode and use the slide-out media player controls for streaming video or music.
The music player is still a good one, easy to load up the 16GB of onboard memory with tracks from your PC or via Bluetooth and intuitively organised.
The dual speakers go fairly loud though they seemed to get a bit hissily distorted at higher volume, and there's a 3.5mm jack plug so you can upgrade the (admittedly not bad) supplied headphones. And if you get bored with your own tunes, there's FM radio too.
Battery life hasn't been significantly increased, according to the specs, and sure enough, we found ourselves refuelling every other day.
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The N96, like both flavours of N95, is a great multimedia phone, but it's a fairly straightforward upgrade on its predecessor, with increased memory as well as the thinner and lighter casing the main advantages.
If you haven't already got an N95, it's definitely worth a look, but if you have, and are thinking of upgrading, your decision will largely depend on how much you need the extra memory.
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Clay Crabtree, a Marshall University biology student, was awarded a grant to research diabetic retinopathy. The common eye disease occurs when there is excessive growth of blood vessels causing damage to the retina.
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Q: PES 2011 feels like PES, but the most changed PES since maybe PES 5. I think there's a chance this year's game will be something PES fans have been wanting for quite some time. It's quite exciting.
Jon Murphy: Absolutely. That's exactly what we think.
Q: Last year's game promised a lot of changes. Was that the first step to what we've got this year?
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Q: The new physicality of the players has really changed the way the game plays. PES fans are going to have to learn how to play.
JM: I hope so. I mean I think the additional tactics that you can sort out should help that as well. I think you can take on any team now and play in all kinds of different styles and decide what suits you best. It might not necessarily be Barcelona.
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JM:: Yeah, very difficult.
Q: It was the pinnacle of football games.
JM: They were for many, many, many years as well. What people tend to forget is that EA has put together a couple of good titles and it's like PES has never existed. That's it, they're the winners, they've done it.
Q: It would be wrong for EA to write off PES.
JM: I hope they don't. To be honest from what I've heard I don't think they've done anywhere near as much as we have.
Q: It is difficult to see any big change from FIFA 10 to FIFA 11. With PES 11 it does feel like something new.
JM: From my understanding they've gone for refinement, which they're entitled to do when everyone has said they are the number one product. But I still think it's dangerous to do that when we... you know, we haven't been destroyed by them, much as I think they would like to destroy us. We're still a big factor in football games going forward and I think 2011 will be a big year in terms of quality. I'm not sure whether or not we'll swing opinions back totally our way, but I think it shows what we are willing to do year-on-year now to drive back to being the best football game. We will become the best football game.
Q: So the goal is to get back on top?
JM: We want to be the best football game, without question. A football game of quality. No matter what else we try and do. We have some great licenses and we spend as much money as possible on this, but as much as we try and do those sorts of things, we have to admit that when EA want to put money on the table for a license they can just kick us out entirely. It's what they do, and they've done it in other sports.


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I am wondering if there will be any way to integrate 3rd party applications to the web apps and especially outlook web access, like it is possible with the office clients using the VSTO technology?
I mean is it possible to make add-ins, change the ribbons and let 3rd party apps connect and communicate with the web apps and/or share point or exchange server through the web apps?
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More incoming apps means Office 2013 is surely going towards good direction!
Love these episodes.
We are interested in the line of business and file share viewing experience with office web apps server 2013 preview, and it seems this part of functionality has some issues in the current preview release. Anybody get this working and want to share a blog around how to appropriately stand it up? Trying to evaluate this capability.
@Rob - please send me an email more specifically on what issues you are facing and I can help you out. email@example.com
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The Senate 42 race through the eyes of residents in one of its most distinctive neighborhoods.
Five of six Democrats showed up, including Charleston lawyers Emmanuel Ferguson and Marlon Kimpson, retired veterans counselor Herbert Fielding, North Charleston businesswoman Margaret Rush and Charleston contractor Bob Thompson.
Key dates
Aug. 6: Democratic candidate forum from 7-8:30 p.m. at Trident Technical College in North Charleston
Aug. 13: Democratic primary election
Aug. 27: Democratic primary runoff, if needed
Oct. 1: Special election.
The forum attracted about 200 people and provided a high-profile chance for those candidates to separate themselves just weeks before their Aug. 13 primary.
They agreed on a lot, such as the need to support public education; repeal at least part of the state's Stand Your Ground law; and increase gender and racial diversity on the Medical University of South Carolina's board.
Libertarian candidate Rodney Travis, the sole white candidate on stage, often said the political opposite, drawing repeated boos when he criticized President Obama. He also was the sole voice supporting the state's Stand Your Ground law — a law getting new scrutiny in the wake of the recent George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin verdict in Florida.
"You shoot a person when you are in danger," Travis said, later adding: "If you don't want to be profiled, you need to pull your pants up and look nice. And you will be left alone."
Ferguson quickly jumped in. "You're wrong," he told Travis. "Just because my clothes aren't how you like it doesn't make me a thug."
The Rev. Joseph Darby of the Charleston NAACP moderated the debate. Since the NAACP is nonpartisan, Darby said Libertarian candidate Alex Thornton and Republican Billy Shuman also were invited but could not attend because they were out of town.
It was unclear why Democrat and former Charleston City Councilman Maurice Washington did not show. Organizers placed his placard on the table but removed it minutes into the forum.
The candidates are vying for the seat vacated when Ford resigned because of his health and because his colleagues found he had violated state ethics laws. Ford was popular in the district and had a reputation as an outspoken fighter, and several appeared to try to take up his mantle as a fighter for the African-American majority district.
"If we can spend time in the General Assembly passing a bill to expand the size of alcohol sold in a beer mug," Kimpson said, "then we certainly can spend time clothing the naked, feeding the hungry and making sure people have health care."
Fielding said he judges people by their character, not race. "I won't let you be prejudiced around me. In the Senate, I'm not going to tolerate a rhetoric that has those undercurrent words. Those people can't talk to me."
Rush noted that all the male candidates expressed concern about a lack of women on the Medical University's board but noted if she were elected, she would be the only woman on the Charleston County Legislative Delegation.
"You can't lead where you haven't been," she said. "If you haven't been there, you can't tell anyone how to get there."
Rush also talked about the need to hold industries accountable for illnesses in neighboring communities, particularly those in Charleston's Neck Area.
"No one thought about the quality of health for the residents who live in the impacted area. I'm going to do something about that and we're going to back it up 50 years," she said. "I will be that voice, and I will be a strong voice."
Thompson, 68, is the oldest candidate in the race, but he drew laughs when contrasting his soft-spoken ways with others on the stage. "I'm up here with a lot of great lawyers. Let me tell you, you've got the words," he said to them, "but I'm the one you want to send to the state Senate, a man of few words but a lot of action."
Kimpson also stressed the need to diversify the state's judges, noting only five of 46 circuit judges are black. "We must elect African-American judges to the bench who can interpret the law in a fair and equitable manner," he said.
Travis may have stood out most on the question of South Carolina's refusal to accept the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Healthcare Act. All the Democrats said Gov. Nikki Haley and the Legislature made a mistake by blocking it, but not Travis.
"Government does a lot of things and most everything it does is bad," he said. "As far as Nikki Haley rejecting the Medicaid expansion, we have to watch out. Who is the Medicaid expansion going to go for? Is it the illegal aliens? We have to watch out."
The Senate race has been relatively low-key to date, with candidates walking door to door, placing yard signs and sending out mail. Radio or TV ads have been scarce so far, but that could change soon.
At least one more joint appearance is in the works. The South Carolina Democratic Party has scheduled a similar forum for 7 p.m. Aug. 6 at Trident Technical College's North Charleston campus.


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on December 25, 2012 - 1:00 AM
, updated December 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM
Quentin Tarantino has made his heist-gone-wrong film, his post-modern crime jumble, his hazy Elmore Leonard adaptation, his revenge fantasy, his war story, and now, unintentionally, his disaster film.
For "Django Unchained," the director's long-awaited slavery epic, is, in Tarantino terms at least, a disaster – a waste of time, talent and money. It is not just the larger-than-life director's worst feature (I'm leaving out the god-awful "Death Proof"), but 2012's most crushing cinematic disappointment.
It will, you can be sure, draw many raves. It already has.
But as a filmgoer who found seeing "Pulp Fiction" at age 14 a life-changing experience, and who considers "Inglourious Basterds" one of his favorite films, it is shocking to write this: It's a bad movie. Period.
That's especially upsetting because, typically for a Tarantino creation, it is sprinkled with moments of brilliance.
But things are amiss from Scene One. As the film begins, we see Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave in chains, marched through a desolate landscape – clearly, we're in Sergio Leone territory, right down to the Morricone, although the spaghetti Western "Django" is the more literal connection. (Its star, Franco Nero, has a cameo here.)
Django and his captors are approached by a bearded German "dentist" on a rickety wagon, and this charismatic figure, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), is seeking one man: Django. Schultz is a bounty hunter and wants Django's help to find men whose faces he has never seen, but Django has.
The scene plays out slowly, ending in the expected blood-burst, but it feels forced, unlike the similarly lengthy opening of "Basterds," which also featured a smooth-talking Waltz. Sadly, this sets the tone for the film.
The first hour – "Django" is a stunning 165 minutes, longer than "Lincoln" and even "Les Misérables" – is by far the film's finest stretch, as Schultz and Django bond, and begin their search for Django's wife, Broomhilda.
Broomhilda is owned by the colorful, and horrible, plantation owner Calvin Candie, played by an oily and effective Leonard DiCaprio. Surprisingly, things turn sour upon his introduction, and our arrival at his estate, "Candie Land."
It is not Leo's fault, but from here on, "Django" descends into the grotesque – "Mandingo fighting," two of the more horrific deaths of Tarantino's career, and, eventually, gunfight upon gunfight.
There are, of course, moments of great Quentin-ian wit, gorgeous cinematography, a killer soundtrack (in a perfect world, Rick Ross' "100 Black Coffins" would score an Oscar nod). And, of course, there is the cast.
Foxx has never been better, capturing Django's pain as well as his weary optimism. He makes the character's march toward Broomhilda undeniably cathartic. But unsurprisingly, it is Waltz who steals the show. His Schultz could be Hans Landa's great-grandfather, and the performance equals his Oscar-winning work in "Basterds."
DiCaprio is fine as the dandy plantation owner, but never as memorable as he should be; Samuel L. Jackson, as Candie's paranoid house slave, and Don Johnson and Dennis Christopher make droll contributions. (Kerry Washington as Broomhilda is saddled with the film's most thankless role.)
But it all gets old. And it gets dull. And even though it is surely accurate, the unrelenting brutality, and the near constant use of the n-word – there are times when it seems to be in every other sentence – make it even more unpleasant.
"Django" features some of the most violent, unsettling scenes of 2012, and of course, depictions of slavery should be this repellent. But the film isn't good enough to justify the scenes.
Here Tarantino, that proponent of exploitation cinema, is exploiting the darkest segment of American history for the sake of ... What, exactly? What does "Django Unchained" add in its view of slavery?
Nothing, because its director is far too interested in how the film plays off of other films than in making a real statement of any substance. He is a masterful filmmaker, but he falls victim to his worst tendencies, including casting himself in a distracting role, complete with a ridiculous Aussie accent.
The world's most well-known lover of trash cinema has now moved into actually making trash cinema. What he will do next is anyone's guess, but I can't wait to find out if "Django" proves to be the nadir of his career. For the sake of the world's cinephiles, I sure hope QT has hit bottom.


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JRI offers hope for state's inmate overcrowding
January 27, 2013
Recommendations to help West Virginia cope with prison overcrowding appear to be based firmly on the philosophy that most criminals can be rehabilitated — that, in effect, once they are released fro......
Pamela-Games Neely is to be applauded! She is doing everything she can to keep people out of prison. If she is not cutting deals, she's losing a murder case. Keep up the good work, Pam!
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Well, I wouldn't put it that way, squirmy. In fact, I didn't. That's terribly crass. But she is a public official and is well protected by The Journal, just as Manny Arvon and the Board of Education are. I don't like what I see from any of them and until I'm given the old heave-ho, I'll continue to make my thoughts known about these, our servants.
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how many 2nd and 3rd time offenders are in the jails ?
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on December 23, 2012 - 12:01 AM
''At least the table looks good."
It did – everything was shiny and perfect. The other preparations were coming along, too, though there was much still to do. With luck, they would have it ?all ready in time.
And then: "Grrrrrr ... GRRRRR!" loud and louder!
What on earth was upsetting the dog?
"Here's a biscuit ... What's the matter? You don't want it?"
The growling continued. The hair on the dog's back stood on end as she glared at, but did not approach, the door. "Marie, I told you to put that decrepit dog to sleep months ago!," her husband Charlie said as he hand-mashed the last batch of potatoes, splattering small clumps of warm soft spuds on his bright red suspenders. The aroma of roasting turkey and cooling pumpkin pies washed over the room, stirring everyone's appetite. The bucolic scene in the kitchen stood in stark contrast to the rainstorm engulfing the region. A hurricane had made ?its way up the coast and was now taking out its fury on their part of the world. Local creeks were flooding and most of the smaller roads were covered in thick, slick mud.
The lights dimmed for a moment and then flickered as heavy rain and fierce winds rattled the windows of the 1870s farmhouse. Brilliant blue flashes of lightning lit up the room, casting shadows of the trees outside on the walls.
The farmhouse had been in the Calandra family for six generations. Its dining room was crowned by an oak-beamed ceiling over its fieldstone walls. There was a traditional 18th century French table that could seat 12 when needed. In the family room, a Bellagio fireplace was surrounded by architectural stone and capped by an ornate carved wooden mantel over a sturdy Venetian granite hearth. An oil painting encompassing three generations of Calandras hung above the fireplace and was the focal point of the room.
"Not only is she half-blind and arthritic, now she's senile and hallucinating," said Charlie, as he added the home-churned butter to his potatoes.
"Charlie, it sounds like your description fits you more than Sophie," Marie said with a smile as she gently stroked the back of the large German shepherd, finally calming her down. Sophie was a 13-year-old retired police dog. The Calandras had taken her in a year ago when a close friend, a retired detective, died unexpectedly. She had some medical problems that came with her advanced years, but she was a lovable and loyal dog.
The ceilings creaked as the Calandras' three grandchildren played hide-and-seek between the connecting closets in the upstairs bedrooms. The two boys, Jacob, 6, and Robert, 8, were pushing through dozens of shoes and dresses as they chased their younger sister, Madison, from one room to the next. Thunder occasionally boomed loud enough to shake the walls and cause the children to shriek and run downstairs for reassurance. They'd been told it was only the angels bowling, but these intense bursts of sound caused them to doubt that explanation.
"What a terrible, terrible night," said Jennie, the Calandras' oldest daughter, as she entered the kitchen with hair still dripping from a shower. Marie looked up from the simmering gravy she was stirring as if her total concentration on the task would block out her anxiety about the storm.
"The temperature must have dropped 20 degrees this afternoon. I don't recall it being this cold and windy so early in the year in a long, long time. Now Jennie, where is Jack? I thought your husband would have been here by now," she remarked.
Just as her last words echoed in the room, Sophie stood up and howled into the air before settling back down next to Charlie's tufted black leather chair. Perhaps the storm was upsetting her. She was usually happy to sleep away the evening, rousing only for dinner or for a short walk around the property.
"The humane thing would be to put that poor dog down," Charlie mumbled to himself while sipping from a glass of Meridian Chardonnay. Holidays always made Charlie a bit grumpy. All the formality, cleaning, cooking and requisite small talk exhausted him. Truth be known, he would be happy to be in his robe and slippers having a microwaved frozen dinner, smoking a Macanudo cigar and reading the newspaper.
"Jack will be here, Mama, don't worry. He had a few errands to run in town. I think he was also going to help a co-worker replace a broken sump pump. The weather has probably slowed him down."
"Well, on a night like this I'd like to see him here, with us, safe and sound. Especially with those horrible things going on around these parts," Marie's voice trailed off to a whisper as she recalled the recent newspaper articles and television reports.
She was referring to a series of grisly murders that had occurred over the past six months. Four entire families, killed in a most brutal manner. The police had no suspects, and the crimes appeared random and unprovoked. The only thing tying these horrible crimes together was the victims' profile. Families seemed to be the target. The city and surrounding towns were in a panic. The last murders, just a month ago, had occurred only 20 miles from the Calandras' remote farmhouse. There had been only one survivor, a 9-year-old girl. She could only describe a tall, muscular man with short beard and dressed in black clothes. She said he had angry eyes … eyes full of hate.
"It's just terrible. I heard he used an ax and … I just can't talk about this anymore. … It's too upsetting," Jennie said as she carefully placed the Waterford crystal glasses on the table. She then went into the kitchen to check on her cream of squash soup. Jennie hoped her husband would get here soon. She was starting to feel a little anxious, especially with her mother reminding her about those murders … those were the type of things Jennie preferred to not think about.
Just then Sophie's hair bristled and she stared at the front door. Her ears were back and tail straight out. Her intense "Grrrrrrr" grabbed everyone's attention. A moment later a knock on the front door broke the silence and everyone's eyes were riveted toward the foyer.
"Who's there?" Jennie called out. There was no answer, only a distant rumble of thunder. Sophie grew increasingly agitated as Jennie cautiously approached the door. "Who's there?," she said. Then finally, over the screeching wind, she heard, "It's me honey. It's Jack. Please open up. I'm getting soaked out here!"
Jennie quickly opened the heavy oak door. There stood her husband, unrecognizable, in a thick green parka, looking like he had just climbed out of a swimming pool. He walked toward the fireplace as Sophie cautiously approached him growling, with her upper lip shaking. Her dark brown eyes fixed on him.
"What's the matter, it's just me ole girl. We'll have to get you a pair of thick glasses like Charlie's," Jack said, smiling as he dried his beard and hung the soaked parka on a brass hook near the fire.
"What took you so long to get here?," Jennie asked, as Jack came back into the family room.
"Actually, I've been outside for a bit. I noticed one of the gutters was plugged with leaves, and water was backing up on the far side of the house. I was trying to clean it out before the roof started leaking."
The big shepherd slinked away from Jack and moved toward the fireplace. She began growling at the coat. She sniffed and barked as if it were a wild animal that meant her harm.
"What is with her tonight?," Jennie asked a little exasperated. "She's been acting very strange the last half hour. I've never seen her worked up like this."
Jack answered: "Maybe she doesn't like the coat … the fur collar and all. I admit it's awful looking, not my style at all. I borrowed it from Gavin when I saw the weather turning for the worse. I was helping him replace his sump pump."
"I knew I didn't recognize that old stained coat. I thought maybe you dug it out of one of the bags in the attic," Jennie said, relieved to have Jack in the house.
"Well, I can give it back to him. He called me on my cell to say I dropped my wallet in his basement. He's going to drop it off. Maybe he can stay for dinner. It looked like he was going to have Thanksgiving alone. I don't know that much about him, he keeps to himself at work. I think I see his pickup parked by the barn. He should be here any minute."
Marie's heart suddenly sank. Her brain had been mulling on a simple thought that had only just made its way to her consciousness. Sophie wasn't just any old police dog. She had spent her career as a cadaver dog.
Marie said nothing as she quickly left the room and frantically grabbed the phone to dial 911. Her heart almost stopped when she realized there was no dial tone. She hoped upon hope it was the storm that had caused the outage.Then, a knock at the front door. It resonated through the house, mixing with the sound of the children running downstairs. Marie had heard a thousand knocks on that door over the years, but this one was different. It didn't sound like flesh on wood … more like metal.


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I thought it logical to begin the journey by talking about wool. I began with sheep's wool five months ago and we have barely touched the surface. So many interesting things have happened to me since then (as these things do on a voyage) that I felt compelled to share here, that I strayed from this "logical" course I had set.
I plan today to "set things right." in the best way I know how, straying from logical and going with my heart! As you can see in my sidebar, I am participating in two simplifying challenges - two extraordinary simplifying challenges that I highly suggest you join! The Simple Living Challenge and the De-Clutter Challenge. Although these challenges touch many subjects, organization, finances, consumerism, my number one problem always has been, and will always be stress. That is my goal for joining these challenges, simplify to reduce stress. You might not think that blogging alone at home in your nightgown with a nice cup of coffee surrounded by your cats could be stressful, but, believe me, it is!
|House cats know nothing of stress!
According to the experts, in order to be successful at blogging, one must have a plan. According to psychologists, in order to reduce one's stress, one must not have to high expectations vis-a-vis their goals. So, here is my doable blogging plan that I share with you, also as a means of reducing stress!
I commit to writing three posts per week, one on fiber discovery, but rather than follow a logical course, I will share the types of fibers as they come. One on Knit-a-Square, because it has become a very big part of my life. And finally, one on anything related, far or near, to yarn, crafting, animals, etc.
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After another night of fantastic dancing, the top 16 became the top 14 on So You Think You Can Dance, as another boy and girl were sent home Wednesday night.
"It's a terrible situation," judge Nigel Lythgoe said after the bottom-six dancers were revealed to be Amber Jackson, Lindsay Arnold, Eliana Girard, George Lawrence II, Brandon Mitchell and Dareian Kujawa.
Lythgoe told Lawrence that he "looked a little tired" after his Nappytabs hip-hop number, but he was eventually saved.
Joining him was Arnold, who fell into the bottom after earning praise for a contemporary number by choreographer Mandy Moore. "I've [told you] you are a little juvenile in your work," Lythgoe told her earlier in the evening. "But your spirit was in the right place tonight."
That left Kujawa, Mitchell, Jackson and Girard dancing for their lives.
Girard had received a standing ovation and was put on judge Mary Murphy's "hot-tamale train" earlier in the evening, but her future in the competition was determined by her ballet solo – and it worked.
"Mrs. Ballet, you were getting down out there," Murphy told Girard.
Which meant Jackson was sent home. "Amber, we love you, and tonight you showed your potential," Lythgoe told her. "If America had voted on tonight, you would not be in the bottom three."
Then it was time for the boys to learn their fate, and it wasn't even a question who would get to stay.
"You've got tricks coming out your sleeve. You did the most incredible routine to save your life tonight," Lythgoe told Kujawa, before sending home Mitchell.
"Brandon, you are incredible," Lythgoe said. "I am heartbroken about it, but thank you for being on the show."
Mitchell, who is featured in the new dance film Step Up Revolution, was still all smiles after learning he would not continue. "I'm just happy to have been here," he said to host Cat Deeley. "It was so fun."
So You Think You Can Dance: Two More Go Home
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A song added and edited the video of vansh (a frnd/sis baby) who is just 16 months old. ENJOY!!!
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Sri Rama Navami Utsvam and Chaturbhuja Rama Sevai( Shangu, Chakra, Bow & Arrow) at Sri Devaperumal Mutt/shanguchakra Home. The alangaram is done by shanguchakra on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami. The accompanying song "Sri Ramachandra Kripalau Bhajamana" is composed by Sant Tulasidas and rendered by "Bharat Ratna" "Sangeetha Saraswathi" Smt. MS Subbulakshmi in her own Divine Voice. Rama Navami or correctly; Sri Rama Navami (Devanāgarī: राम नवमी) is a Hindu; namely; Veda Dharma - (misnomer: Hindu) festival, celebrating the earthly appearance or the birth of Bhagwaan Sri Ramacandra or Rama, to Emperor Dasharatha of Ayodhya and of one of his wives Kausalya. Bhagwan sriramacandra is the 7th incarnation of Bhagwan Sri Maha Vishnu. Tulsidas (also Tulasidas, Gosvāmī Tulsīdās, Tulasī Dāsa) (1532-1623) Devanāgarī: तुलसीदास) was a great Awadhi bhakta (devotee), philosopher, composer, and the author of Ramacharitamanasa, an epic poem and scripture devoted to the Hindu god Rama. Tulsidas is regarded as an incarnation of the great sage Valmiki. In Bhavishyottar Purana, Lord Shiva tells Parvati how Valmiki got a boon from Hanuman to sing the glories of Lord Rama in vernacular language in the Kali Yuga. This prophecy of Lord Shiva materialised on the Shraavan Shukla Saptami, Vikrami Samvat 1554 when Valmiki reincarnated as Tulsidas. "वाल्मीकिस्तुलसीदासः कलौ देवि भविष्यति | रामचन्द्रकथामेतां भाषाबद्धां ...
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jyoti & kiran (sisters) sang for vansh(nephew) 4th birthday..dedicated to dear vansh also to India for Republic Day on jan 26..same day i left for india..video is made by my sister ritu.my sisters visted me and we sang this song and hope u will have little fun..vansh want to become pilot when grow up..hes my sweetheart..love him.. .Movie Name: Son Of India (1962) Singer: Shanti Mathur Music Director: Naushad Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni Year: 1962 Actors: Kamaljeet, Kumkum, Sajid Theme: Love, Social Nanhaa Munnaa Raahii Huu.N, Desh Kaa Sipaahii Huu.N Bolo Mere Sa.Ng, Jay Hi.Nd, Jay Hi.Nd, Jay Hi.Nd ... Raste Pe Chaluu.Ngaa Na Dar\-Dar Ke Chaahe Mujhe Jiinaa Pa.De Mar\-Mar Ke Ma.Nzil Se Pahale Naa Luu.Ngaa Kahii.N Dam Aage Hii Aage Ba.Dhaau.Ngaa Kadam Daahine Baae.N Daahine Baae.N, Tham! Nanhaa ... Dhuup Me.N Pasiinaa Bahaau.Ngaa Jahaa.N Hare\-Bhare Khet Laharaae.Nge Vahaa.N Dharatii Pe Faake Na Paae.Nge Janam Aage Hii Aage ... Nayaa Hai Zamaanaa Merii na_ii Hai Dagar Desh Ko Banaau.Ngaa Mashiino.N Kaa Nagar Bhaarat Kisii Se Na Rahegaa Kam Aage Hii Aage ... Ba.Daa Ho Ke Desh Kaa Sitaaraa Banuu.Ngaa Duniyaa Kii Aa.Nkho.N Kaa Taaraa Banuu.Ngaa Rakhuu.Ngaa Uu.Nchaa Tira.Ngaa Haradam Aage Hii Aage ... Shaa.Nti Ki Nagarii Hai Meraa Ye Vatan Sabako Sikhaauu.Ngaa Pyaar Kaa Chalan Duniyaa Me.N Girane Na Duu.Ngaa Kahii.N Bam Aage Hii Aage ...
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wassup guys! For the four and a half weeks I've been working on this video, trying to capture all the random and crazy things that go on in Irvington. After getting 8 hours of film, I put together this 2 minute video. Hope this gets you pumped for being a proud Viking. This year I'm running for ASB Vice-president and I want to make next year's spirit week awesome! So remember to vote for vansh! I vansh you to vote for me! :D Song: Blame it on the Pop by Dj Earworm
for ma all freinds n for deepika ,dia ,sanskriti,mayank n all!
bullet bike stunts r done by sme trainers..It was done in the celebration of 100 years of gidderbaha on 9-dec-2009 in malwa school.with the chief guest SARDAR MANPREET SINGH BADAL (FINANCE &PLANNING MINISTER OF PUNJAB) camera man-karan bansal. director-karan bansal & vansh kakar. producer-karan bansal. sound-mix of all us....
Vansh macdonald's Julla First time. A child through out his fear with song.
Vansh macdonald's Julla First time. A child through out his fear with song.
Vansh macdonald's Julla First time. A child through out his fear with song.
MOVIE : VANSH " (1992) SONG : aake TERI BAHON MEIN HAR SHAAM LAGE SINDOORI MERI DIL KO TARPAYE........ [HQ] SINGER :LATA MANGESHKAR,"SP BALSUBRAMANYM " CAST : SUDHESH BERRY " EKTAA " PRIYANKA"
this is a very nice song by Jal..... but we jammed on dis song... listen and say how we did....... singer---------------------naveen and rohit drummer-----------------vansh
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This is a very beautiful duet song originally sung by Lataji & SPBalasubramaniamji.. We could not find a female singer, so the song is sung solo by Mohammed Aslam.. Is there anyone who is interested in making this song duet again????
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Bubbly and vivacious actress Preity Zinta promotes her film videsh with gitanjali and D'Damas. The director of the film Deepa Mehta is back with a bang! VIDESH starring Preity Zinta and Vansh Bhardwaj releases in both Hindi and Punjabi and will now hit the theaters on 20th March 2009.
Vote Vansh Jain for Junior Class Vice President because he'll make a great leader and knows what hes doing. He is extremely intelligent and knows how to get work done. He'll make Junior year the best for us. I know Junior prom will be great because of him so I think you should vote for Vansh! If you like the song, look forward to the music video on Friday!
Vansh singing Kabhi Kabhi Aditi and Reuben on the guitar during Manoranjanam a concert for aidbloomington
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Phulwaria Vansh Kee Utpati - (Rajasthani Song Odhni) - Phulwaria 2009
This is the debut song of VANSH MANKOO. He has sung and written the song. Music is provided by JUSTICE PRODUCTIONS.
sang lata ji version..love to sing devotional songs. lyrics:shri ram chandra kripalu Shree Ram Chandra Kripalu Bhajman Haran Bhav Bhaya Darunam Nav Kanj Lochn kanj Mukh Kar Kanj Pad Kanjarunam shree Ram Chandra..... Kandarp Aganeet amit chabi Nav neel niraj sundaram Pat Peet ma nav tadit ruchi shuchi navmi janak sutavaram Shree ram chandra .... Shir Mukut kundal tilak charu udar ang vibhushanam ajanu bhuj sar cha padhar sangram jit kar dushnam Shree Ram chandra.... Bhaj Ddeen Bandh Dinesh danav Daitya vansh nikandam Raghu nand anand kand Kaushala chandra dasharath nandanam Shree Ram Chandra .... Iti vadata Tulsidas Shankar Shesh muniman ranjanam mama hridaya kunj nivas kuruka madikhala dal ganjanam Shree Ram Chandra...
Vansh & his friends performing Jingle Bell song at the Rosevelt School in North Arlington on 12/16/2008
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Vansh Shah Performing on Dhoom Tana
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rahat fateh ali khan's too good song from kalyug.This song for trishika and vansh.Trishika danced on baby shower for vansh. lyrics Tujhe dekh dekh sona, kalyug tujhe dekh dekh sona - 2 tujhe dekh kar hain jagna maine yeh zindagani sang tere bitaani tujhmein basi hain meri jaan haai (jiya dhadak dhadak - 3 jaayen) - 2 tujhe dekh dekh sona tujhe dekh kar hain jagna maine yeh zindagani sang tere bitaani tujhmein basi hain meri jaan haai jiya dhadak dhadak - 3 jaayen kabse hai dil mein mere armaan kai ankahe - 2 inko tu sunle aaja chaahat ke rang chadha jaa - 2 kehna kabhi to mera maan haai (jiya dhadak dhadak - 3 jaayen) - 2 lagta hain yeh kyu mujhe sadiyon se chaahu tujhe - 2 mere sapno mein aake apna mujhko banake - 2 mujhpe tu kar ehsaan haai (jiya dhadak dhadak - 3 jaayen) - 2 tujhe dekh dekh sona tujhe dekh kar hain jagna maine yeh zindagani sang tere hain bitani haai (jiya dhadak dhadak - 3 jaayen) - 2 dhadak jaaye jiya dhadak jaaye jaaye jiya dhadak dhadak jiya dhadak dhadak dhadak dhadak dhadak jaaye (jiya dhadak dhadak - 3 jaaye) - 4
In delhi my only nephew vansh is my jaan and his mom sings this for him so as me.this is his first b'day and my gift to him is this song . lyrics Chanda Hai Tu By Lata Mangeshkar (Chanda Hai Tu, Mera Sooraj Hai Tu o Meri Aankhon Ka Taara Hai Tu) -3 jeeti Hoon Main Bas Tujhe Dekhakar is Toote Dil Ka Sahaara Hai Tu tu Khele Khel Kaee, Mera Khilona Hai Tu -2 jisase Bandhi Har Aasha Meri mera Vo Sapana Salona Hai Tu nanha Sa Hai Kitana Sundar Hai Tu chhota Sa Hai Kitana Pyaara Hai Tu chanda Hai Tu, Mera Sooraj Hai Tu munne Tu Khush Hai Badaa, Tere Gudde Ki Shaadi Hai Aaj -2 main Vaari Re Main Balihaari Re ghoonghat Mein Gudiya Ko Aati Hai Laaj yoonhi Kabhi Hogi Shaadi Teri doolha Banega Kunvaara Hai Tu chanda Hai Tu, Mera Sooraj Hai Tu purvaai Van Mein Ude, Panchhi Chaman Mein Ude -2 raam Kare Kabhi Ho Ke Bada tu Banake Baadal Gagan Mein Ude jo Bhi Tujhe Dekhe Vo Ye Kahe kis Maan Ka Aisa Dulaara Hai Tu chanda Hai Tu, Mera Sooraj Hai Tu
Vansh first b'day celebrated home at delhi.He is dancing with bhuas and masies and one and only sister is holding him.


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Opera House will announces events
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Shepherdstown Opera House has announced the following lineup:
Friday: Moogatu with Kings of Belmont;
Feb. 7: The Weber Brothers with Camryn Wessner;
Feb. 11: The Main Squeeze;
Feb. 22: People's Blues of Richmond;
March 5: Zach Deputy;
March 15: Blue Mafia;
April 4: The Grascals;
April 6: Tom Paxton.
Admission ranges from $5 to $30, depending on the concert, and more information is available at www.OperaHouseLive.com.
One on One Singles dance set
WILLIAMSPORT, Md. - A One on One Singles dance will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight Friday at 400 American Legion Drive. Open to anyone 21 and older. Casual dress, cash bar and music by Slate's D.J.'s. Admission is $7 for member; and $8 for non-members. Dances are held the first and third Friday of each month.
For more information, call Phil at 304-274-3809 or 304-839-2322.
Ballroom dance party set for Friday
SHEPHERDSTOWN - ABCdancesport will sponsor a ballroom dance party from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday at The War Memorial Building, 102 E. German St. An American Tango lesson will be given from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission is $12 per person, which includes the lesson.
For more information, call 503-309-7250 or visit www.abcdancesport.com
'Double Take' show set at gallery
FREDERICK, Md. - During February, The Artists' Gallery, 4 East Church St., will feature paintings, prints, photographs, ceramics, and mixed media works with the theme "Double-Take." Some pieces are diptychs, others reflect on each other, and some contain elements you might overlook at first but are worth a second look. Opening reception will be held from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Gallery is open from noon to 5 p.m. Friday to Sunday.
For more information, call 301-696-8187 or visit www.the-artists-gallery.org
Artist Don Rees exhibit scheduled
SHEPHERDSTOWN - Paintings from the estate of local artist Don Rees will be featured in a special exhibit Saturday through Feb. 23 at The Bridge Gallery. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday.
For more information, call 304-876-2300 or visit www.bridgegalleryandframing.com


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FORT SUMTER -- The ceremony was subdued and simple: The U.S. flag was lowered and the Stars and Bars rose to take its place.
Much the same as it happened 150 years ago.
On Thursday, Union and Confederate re-enactors relived the Fort Sumter surrender ceremony. On April 14, 1861, U.S. Army Maj. Robert Anderson and his men turned over the fort to Confederate troops one day after a 34-hour bombardment ended with the Union's surrender.
Sumter historian Richard W. Hatcher narrated the drama for crowds that assembled on the fort's parade grounds throughout the day.
"This is one of the most historic days in the history of Fort Sumter and the United States," Hatcher said at the first re-enactment.
As the Union troops stood at attention on one side of the parade ground, Confederate soldiers stood on the other side. The 33-star United States flag was lowered solemnly and carried out of the fort by the men in blue to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
After that, the flag of the Palmetto Guard went up on one of Sumter's flagpoles. In 1861, the plan was for the Confederate flag to go up first, but Private John Styles Bird of the guard jumped the gun and put his unit's flag up on the parapet. So that's what the crews at Sumter did Thursday.
And then the Stars and Bars -- the seven-star First National Flag of the Confederacy -- was hoisted high above Fort Sumter.
Don McWaters of St. Simons Island, Ga., portrayed a Union soldier in the re-enactment. He said the ceremonies this week were a time for reflection.
"I thought about my nation first and then I thought about my two great-great grandfathers. It would be the death of them," McWaters said. "One died at Jonesboro, the other died at Chancellorsville."
That was a running theme among the men who re-created the ceremony Thursday. It was a time to remember the country's most divisive days, when a four-year war claimed 620,000 lives. It was lost on no one that the conflict began at Fort Sumter.
Jerry Morris of Barnwell, who portrayed a member of the 1st S.C. Artillery, called it an emotional event.
"When you think about those times, I think 'lest we forget' comes to mind," Morris said.
No one died during the Sumter bombardment, although U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Hough was killed in an accident during the gun salute as the U.S. flag was lowered. Hatcher told the audience the story, but re-enactors did not portray the first casualty of the Civil War.
Union re-enactors occupied the fort on Saturday, staying the better part of the week. The hand-over ceremony left the fort occupied by Confederate re-enactors, who will be there through the weekend. Both sides have done their best to channel 1861 in their time at Sumter.
McWaters said that he and other Union re-enactors tried to do just what Anderson's men did.
"I stood guard duty and we ate what they ate," he said. "One day it was bacon and rice, the next day it was rice and bacon."
Louis Varnell of Chattanooga said it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance.
"We got an opportunity that just a few people got," Varnell said. "We fired the first volley at the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War."
The troops lived on the same clock as Anderson's men, which was 1:20 behind Charleston time. On Tuesday, at the exact moment Anderson got the word that Confederates would fire on the fort, Varnell and his men raised the U.S. flag, just as Anderson's men had a century and a half earlier.
The Confederates held Fort Sumter from April 14, 1861 until 1865 when Charleston was abandoned. Although Fort Sumter was hit by more than 40,000 rounds in that time, the North was never able to flush out the Southern troops.
These days, the fort stands as perhaps the ultimate monument to the war, and the men who portrayed their ancestors here said it was an important way to remember history.
"I just feel glad to be one of the few re-enactors here on the anniversary," said Randy Burbage, who portrayed Confederate Maj. David R. Jones, a recruiting officer. "It's a powerful setting when you know what happened here."
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
There was no Summerville as such in 1776, but as we observe our country's Declaration of Independence this weekend, we can also observe the sowing of the first seeds of Summerville some 237 years ago. And it all began with pine trees and mosquitoes.
James Stewart, a local rice planter and militia captain, loved his overnight summer hunts, but he had a problem. Like everybody else in this area, he was plagued by mosquitoes. Captain Stewart was determined to find a better campsite. One day, going out to explore, he left his Beech Hill Plantation about four miles from our current town. When he got here, he found what he was looking for. It was a relatively high ridge so thickly forested with pine trees that the sun was barely visible.
The ridge was some 70 feet above sea level and high enough to catch sea breezes from the ocean 22 miles away. The forest's density was a heat buffer from the lower lying Charleston coast. Captain Stewart found the area intensely aromatic with pine scent, relatively cool – and mosquito free. He shared his find with friends and militia colleagues and they began camping here too.
The pine filled campsite had sandy soil which drained well, leaving no standing water and thus did not attract mosquitoes – which were then the cause of the seasonal malarial scourge. This annual outbreak spread from rivers and lakes in the Low Country. It's hard to believe now when we spend our summers swatting at these insects, but in colonial times here, there were scant impervious surfaces. The landscape was almost totally natural with few buildings and roads.
Captain Stewart didn't know then that pine scented air would be found to be good for the lungs – which is what a century later lured people from around the world with pulmonary problems to Summerville. This led to the building of sumptuous inns, inspiring our first tourist boom.
But in the late 1700's came a slow migration from near the camp site, seeking out this ridge. People built rough summer camp houses. More came "marooning" from plantations along the Ashley River during the sickly season –May to October. There was no malaria here.
As our country declared independence, won the Revolutionary War and continued to prosper, so did our campsite evolve. It went from a seasonal respite to a summer settlement to a tiny but growing summer village of all-year residents. By the time of Summerville's incorporation in 1847, the United States had been independent for 71 years. Summerville had become an official town with a population that thrived, in the beginning, mainly because of a railroad transportation system. This brought an increase in population and prosperity.
In fact, we grew so fast and so many pines were cut – for business and home construction, to make way for more railroad tracks and for fuel – that leaders of our new town had to act. They passed as one of their first ordinances, one to protect trees of a certain size. It's believed to be the first of its kind in America. It came with a stiff penalty. Still does.
Summerville was a colonial town in one of the original 13 states. Like our country, we have continued to grow and also like our country, we have a rich history. And it's a lot more than pines and mosquitoes.
This needs celebrating too.
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Cool Magnetic Molecules
Planning is well underway for the ALS Users' Meeting, which will be held October 3-5 (save the date). The meeting will consist of one and a half days of lecture, with several invited speakers emphasizing the relevance of synchrotron radiation in industry, an equal amount of workshop time, and the second annual student poster slam. The photography contest is back again by popular demand, and this year it will be open to everyone, so shutterbugs get your cameras out!
It's not too late to submit your ideas and workshop suggestions to meeting co-chairs
Proposal scores for the July - December 2011 cycle have been finalized and users have been notified of their beam time allocations. The distribution of proposal scores and the cutoff scores for each beamline are posted online.The User Office is accepting new General User Proposals from scientists who wish to conduct research at the ALS in the next cycle. Please visit our Web site for information on how to Apply for Beamtime, or follow the relevant links below:PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Structural Biology/ Biological SAXS Beamlines Cycle: August - October 2011Deadline: June 15, 2011PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for all other (General Sciences) Beamlines Cycle: January - June 2012Deadline: July 15, 2011BEAM TIME REQUESTS on ACTIVE PROPOSALSProposals for general sciences beamlines are considered active for two years, or until the total shifts requested in the proposal have been used. If you are the PI or experimental leader of an active proposal for which you would like to request beam time during the July-December 2012 cycle, you will receive an email with instructions.APPROVED PROGRAM PROPOSALS:Deadline: June 15 2011An Approved Program (AP) enables an investigator or a group of investigators to receive an assured percentage of beam time for a period of up to three years to carry out an extended program of research. Users wishing to apply for an AP need to contact the ALS Deputy Division Director for Science. See the Web site for more information.
With hot weather arriving, ALS staff and users are reminded that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirements remain the same year-round. Anyone working on the ALS experiment floor must wear long pants (or equivalent) and closed-toe shoes at all times. Shorts and/or open-toed sandals are not permitted at any time on the red floor! Read the ALS PPE guidelines.
All users are welcome to contact their UEC representatives to raise issues of concern relating to their own research, or to alert us to issues facing our whole community.
ALS Project Manager Steve Rossi prepares users for the upcoming ALS shutdown. Want to know what's planned? Read the Article
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Moro is a great little town. It's got that off-the-beaten track, locals-only, undiscovered territory kind of charm. And since it's so hush-hush, we currently don't have any stories or activities for this little gem. We can tell you about towns nearby, but as for Moro, we're counting on you to go exploring and report back.
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Nearby The Dalles
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The South Carolina Legislature is moving to ease some of the states judicial backlog by appointing nine new roving judges for the state early next year.
That sounds like good news, but the sudden burst of appointments once again calls into question the states method of judicial selection. Plain and simple, its controlled, start to finish, by the Legislature.
The judges are nominated by the 10-member Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which is appointed, and hence controlled by the Legislature, then all 170 members of the Legislature vote on the nominees. Public input is limited and maybe not all that effective in the first place.
Six of the 10 members of the JMSC must be sitting members of the Legislature three from the House and three from the Senate and the other four dont always seem that independent, not that it would matter much if they were. A current House appointee to the commission is John Davis Harrell, the brother of House Speaker Bobby Harrell.
To be fair, there is one additional step in South Carolinas system. Judicial candidates must be qualified by the JMSC prior to nomination by the JMSC. This includes taking (and presumably passing) a test on court procedures, and surviving a background check conducted by the South Carolina Bar Association and regional citizens commissions appointed by the JMSC.
Various interest groups have complained about the South Carolina system in general, and about its ineffectiveness at selecting judges from certain subgroups women, minorities, the Pee Dee but supporters say it beats the alternative: judicial elections. Elective systems North Carolina picks judges this way gives the people a say, but it opens the door to any and all candidacies and other possible perversions of the selection process. Recent Supreme Court rulings relating campaign financing, say some critics, have put judicial seats up for sale. An interest group could easily buy a judgeship with advertising and marketing, given that most judicial campaigns arent well-funded and candidates struggle to gain attention on crowded ballots. A couple hundred thousand not a big sum compared to the benefits a corporation might reap from certain rulings could sway many races.
That tips the scales in many minds back to merit selection, but that leads back to worries about secretive good ol boy systems, like the one employed by South Carolina.
South Carolina is in the majority when it comes to judicial selection. Thirty-three of 50 states use what can generally be called the merit selection process. But merit systems vary and critics of the S.C. system say it is more closed than most. Other states involve the governors office the governor appoints, the Legislature confirms and still others use popular referendums for nomination or first-term recall.
South Carolinas current system is actually a recent reform. When legislators picked two judges in 1995 who were not qualified i.e., they flunked the test outrage led to the creation of the JMSC in 1997.
The JMSC does not release test scores, but is supposed to assure that all nominated are qualified. The problem now isnt finding qualified candidates. For most seats, there are far more who qualify than can be nominated. The JMSC is limited to three nominations per seat.
Thats where the funny business insider trading if you will could come into play. The biggest hurdle to becoming a judge is getting into the final three. Its the JMSC that makes that choice, with considerable legislative input, of course.
The S.C. system could stand more reform. Involvement by some other body independent from the Legislature the governors office, or an JMSC not handpicked by the legislators might do the trick.
The chances of that happening?
Not good.
The folks whod have to initiate such a change are, of course, our state legislators.


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Events for January 13 - 20, 2013Open: Sunday 11:00 am - 4:30 pm
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Cheekwood is closed on Mondays including Memorial Day & Labor Day
ExhibitionsMarch 31 - August 25 Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood's Collection
Tuesdays for Tots
January 15 Cheekwood in Color
From the Museum of Art and Botanical Garden to the Pineapple Room dishes and Gift Shop items, color is everywhere at Cheekwood! Stop by the studios to create your own colorful art project.
Lunch and Lecture
January 17 Ask the Experts
How would you like to have your own personal gardener or in-house horticulturist? Back by popular demand, this lecture is designed specifically to answer your most mystifying gardening questions! Our horticulturists are experts in their fields, and are eager to share their knowledge. Participants will be asked to submit questions prior to the program, and our panel of experts will answer as many as possible. Join us during this interactive and informal program to get the answers to your most puzzling queries. No question is too big or too small, so please submit them all! More...


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You have a unique medical history. Therefore, it is essential to talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors and/or experience with post-traumatic stress disorder. By talking openly and regularly with your doctor, you can take an active role in your care.
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Talk to your doctor about the traumatic event and your feelings. Describe any scary memories, depression, trouble sleeping, or anger. Let them know if these problems keep you from doing everyday things and living your life.
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5 Things They Never Told Us
One Year, You'll Have Your Last Summer And You Probably Won't Even Realize It
"Ooh, I'm 15 years old and my life's the best. There's a school year, but then a summer, and it's awesome because I have three full months to do whatever, and this will never, ever change, so I might as well not spend a second thinking about it."
The Reality
Unless you're a teacher, one day you'll stop getting summers off, and you'll never get them back. It seems like such an obvious, intuitive point, but if it hasn't happened to you already, I guarantee you it'll take you by surprise. As much as you can say "Sure, clearly one day I'll have a job that won't give me Summers off, that's the way life goes," it's different once you're actually doing it. It's not just about having time off, or being able to go to the beach in the middle of the week, or being free from responsibility. It's more than that. The school system conditions you for two full decades to believe that your life gets divided up into chapters. A chapter ends when a school year ends, and then you can decide "Okay, it's a new chapter, it's freshman year of college, so it's time for me to be a new me now." And when that chapter ends, you become an even newer you, (which, in college, usually just means you but with a terrible goatee).
"We're not in high school anymore, guys, I'm a new man. I have a goatee, I tell people I'm in a band. It's pretty great."
It's actually a really handy way to organize your life, to be able to say "The theme of my eighth grade year was playing a lot of Dodgeball and getting really into Comedy Central's Battlebots," and "I felt like Junior year of high school was really the year of chasing girls and doing literally nothing else," and "Sophomore year of college was all about really figuring out who I am, and what makes me tick and, in a much broader sense, lots and lots of weed."
One day, that will stop happening forever. Your life won't be divided up into years, and your years won't be divided up into semesters and winter breaks and summer breaks. Your life will just be the work that you do. You'll turn around one day and realize that, while it's technically Summer, Summer is technically meaningless. You're still going to the office or factory or lab or spaceship, Monday through Friday. Summer will eventually bleed into Fall which, while it's the start of a brand new semester for some, is also meaningless to you. Apart from the weather, there's no difference between the Summer and the Winter, it all blends together, work, family, weekends, in the continuous ribbon that is your life. And most people don't even realize they've had their last actual summer until waaaay after. You're so concerned with finding a job after you graduate, you lose sight of the fact that a job means no more long stretches of total freedom.
One day you'll just have a job. And, if you're successful at your job and you don't get fired, you will never have three straight months off again for the rest of your life.
You're An Idiot
You're constantly bombarded with information. As a student, your entire day is spent moving from one room to another and getting pelted with facts about everything, that is your entire existence. You sit there while someone tells you about American history, and when that's done someone tells you about Marine Biology, and then you move on and someone teaches you Spanish, and then the bell rings and someone else teaches you calculus. You cover what, to a twentysomething, seems like an impossible spectrum of information, every single weekday. So surely you must know something.
The Reality
Here's what's going to happen. At one point, you will honestly believe that you have every single thing figured out. You reach an epiphany where you understand yourself, you know what you want to do with your life, you know what kind of woman or man you're looking for, and you've figured everyone else out, you're a good judge of character. Exactly two years later, you'll say "Man, I was an idiot two years ago when I thought I had life figured out, but now I've REALLY got it figured out." You'll calm down a little bit and look back on your youthful ignorance and laugh. "How could I think life was all about [X] when it's CLEARLY all about [Y]? So young."
Two years later, you'll do the exact same thing- scrapping all of your old, childish assumptions in favor of your current, brilliant assumptions. In fact, you'll repeat that process every two years. Life, from what I've gathered so far, is largely about looking back on your past self and realizing how stupid you were. And you'll keep convincing yourself that, even though you were clueless two years ago, now you've got it figured out, until you finally reach a tipping point, and then you'll say "Man, I was an idiot two years ago, and two years before that, and two before that, so- you know what? Even if I think I have things figured out, I'm probably an idiot right now."
The boundlessness of my own stupidity is the most important lesson I have ever learned in my entire life.
So many people will read a book or see a movie and think "Yes, this is what the world is about." And then they'll go to college and take their first Philosophy class and think "No no no, THIS is what the world's about." They'll read a lot, and talk a lot, and come up with theories about fucking everything. The person who hasn't yet realized what an idiot he is loves coming up with cute little theories, they love making rules and putting together little categories of human behavior. Walk into any college bar, strike up a conversation with a twenty-one-year-old chick, and I guarantee you that, at one point in the conversation, she will say either "I believe there are six kinds of people in the world, and you fall under the category of [X]" or "Oh, you like [random inconsequential thing]? I have a theory that anyone who likes [random inconsequential thing] is also the kind of person who [broad, sweeping generalization that attempts to sum up your entire, complicated life into a single sentence]. You can tell absolutely everything about someone by their [taste in music/favorite Beatle/fucking shoes or whatever]."
"You're a dog person? That means you're a selfish lover and you hate communists and your favorite food is ham and you'll die alone."
I did it too. I would ask everyone I met the same, hypothetical question and, depending on what their answer was, I would convince myself I had them completely figured out. I did this because I was and am the dumbest person on the planet.
But, really, this is all okay, because everyone else is too. You'll reach a point when you stop trying to compartmentalize people, and you stop trying to figure everything out. You'll still grow as a human, but you'll be much calmer when you settle down and admit the fact that "Hey, I'm just an idiot who does... things."
Because, no matter how you dress it up, that's what the world is. A community of idiots doing a series of things until the world explodes and we all die.
Happy Weekend, everybody!
Special thanks to Charley, Soren, and Utako who indirectly helped research this column by having what I'm sure they assumed was just a friendly conversation with me.
For more lessons you wish they'd taught you, check out The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You In School. Or for the things we talk about instead, check out DOB's look at 5 Things You Love to Discuss That Nobody Else Cares About.