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The 10 Most Insane Acts of Violence in Kickboxing History
Glaube Feitosa vs. Musashi: Tiger Knee!Glaube Feitosa is a Brazilian with a kyokushin karate background. Kyokushin karate competitions usually have rules about not punching someone in the head which makes it a badass combination of axe kicks and endurance chest punching. It was developed by Koreans as a home remedy to remove a daughter's breast implants. Training in it has given Glaube an arsenal of kicks that is borderline ridiculous -- he fights like your girlfriend does when she beats you at Tekken by slapping the kick buttons.
Glaube's sweetest weapon is a gator kick he calls the "Brazilian Kick." It's an attack that looks like his thigh and shin can't agree on what they're doing. It starts low so your opponent's elbow comes down to protect his body, then your kneecap dislodges and your foot swings over his gloves and into his betrayed face. You can't trust Glaube's leg. Glaube's leg will invite you over for sex and then sell you Amway. Poisoned Amway.
Musashi is also a karate fighter, and in his prime he was a mix of twitchy reflexes and Japanese unkillability. This was not his prime. This was towards the end of a tough career of being 40 pounds lighter than every opponent. Plus, as a Japanese hero, biased judges always sent his fights into extra "tie-breaking" rounds. Musashi could get pummeled into an amublance and the judges would chase after it to tell him he still has an extra round to fight. If you punch Musashi in the eye, the Japanese judges write that down as "Musashi sternly gazes at opponent's honorless fist: 75 points." When Musashi dies, Japanese ringside teams will exhume his body for a tie-breaker round against the robots that killed him.
When the two fought, Musashi wasn't doing much. He's a counter fighter, but you can't counter fight against a guy whose kicks taunt you seven different ways before knocking a tooth out. Counter fighting against Glaube Feitosa is like playing catch with hot soup -- it only ends quickly and stupidly. But it's not like it mattered -- no one would have been ready for the video game combo that Glaube unleashed.
Feitosa backed Musashi up with punches, threw a Brazilian Kick, then a front kick to the face. Musashi awesomely blocked and dodged all of this, but he was out of room. He bounced off the ropes just as Feitosa went into the air with a flying knee. Geologists can't explain why the ground shook for a moment, but wise men say that it was the erections of ancient war gods raging under the Earth. Glaube's knee smashed into Musashi's head like a Gallagher punchline. Then, as Musashi flopped into a heap Japanese poets might describe as "a tie," Glaube kiiYAI'ed into a karate trophy pose. Feitosa kicks ass like a 9-year-old in his imagination.
Rob Kaman vs Marek PiotrowskiRob Kaman is the greatest Dutch kickboxer of all time which is kind of like being the greatest anything of anything of all time. Kaman has the kind of mustache you normally only see stuck to a second one just like it and he wears trunks with a rainbow across the crotch. Why? Because he wants you to picture how badly he could kill you if you said something about it. Plus, it makes it impossible to tell whether he's going to fuck you or your wife.
Rob Kaman's leg kicks hit hard enough to knock the polio vaccine out of your body, but he's also a genius at setting them up. He'll punch you twice in the face and while you're concerned with that, he'll kick your undefended leg in half. And if you try to get clever and keep your leg up to block it, he'll kick the other one out from under you. Every fight with Rob Kaman comes with a free lifetime limp. Kaman was the godfather of this modern Dutch system of Muay Thai that involves more punching than traditional Thai kickboxing. When you look at upper body of the top fighters from Holland and Thailand, you'll see the reason for this might be less cultural and more physiological.
In 1992, Kaman faced Polish fighting legend Marek Piotrowski for the I.S.K.A. Oriental Rules Light Heavyweight Title. "Oriental Rules" was a vaguely racist way of saying you can kick each other in the legs. Early in the fight, Kaman broke his shin open on Piotrowski. His corner taped it closed, but there's a reason they don't make tampons out of duct tape -- it doesn't work. His shin wouldn't stop bleeding and he wouldn't stop smashing it into Piotrowski. You could tell he hated it, but Rob Kaman doesn't care -- he will beat you with his own open wound just to teach you both how weak you are.
The fight went for seven rounds. And these weren't seven rounds of jabs and high fives. They were pounding on each other. Then finally Kaman landed the kind of mind-crippling right hand that makes Polish jokes tragically unironic. Piotrowski's legs quivered like a screen door on a submarine and the ref jumped between them. Piotrowski collapsed to a knee, swinging the whole time. Then this crazy bastard wobbled back to his feet only to have the referee stop the fight. Why? Because Piotrowski was completely god damn asleep. Rob Kaman shattered the part of his brain that tells your body when it's in a coma. The referee held his unconscious body, but he was holding it more back than he was up. Which is a pretty ballsy thing to do to a guy who just turned into a zombie right in front of you.
Remy Bonjasky vs. AkebonoJapan loves to put sumo wrestlers in non-sumo situations, and it has never gone well. Sumo skills translate to fighting about as well as they do to trampoline safety. Coming into his fifth fight, Akebono had never won a kickboxing match or even demonstrated that he'd seen a kickboxing match, so it should be safe to put him against the kickboxing champion of the world, right? While I'm on the subject, Japan, have you ever made a decision when you're sober?
For two rounds Remy Bonjasky punched and kicked Akebono as he helplessly shambled in a tiny circle. Chocolate rabbits have more natural defenses than Akebono. I didn't know if Remy was toying with him or waiting for the ice cream inside to melt just to see what would happen. It was so embarrassing that I think the Japanese subtitles tried to trick the audience into thinking they were watching a panther kill a bean bag. Then, in the third round, Remy landed a head kick. Akebono looked so dead that local restaurant owners panicked. To this day, it's the most violent thing ever done to butter. They say that if you watch this fight while you're cooking, your cream sauce will break.
Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Masato: Ass Kicking of the Eight LimbsThe 2004 finals of the K-1 World MAX Tournament ended up being the fight everyone wanted -- the two best lightweights in the sport facing off. One of them was a little more best than the other, though. In the first round, Buakaw opened a Muay Thai school on Masato. Thai survivors of Japan's WWII invasion watch this and say, "Jesus, take it easy on the Japanese fella."
Most Thai fighters like to go slow in the first round and feel their opponent out. So if a Thai fighter spent the first round beating you like you were filled with candy, terrible things are in your future. Buakaw hunted Masato in a way that no behavioral forensics investigator would call human. At one point he boots Masato into the ropes, spins him around, and kicks both legs out from under him. Masato was so confused where he was, he had to spit to figure out which way was up like an avalanche victim.
In Muay Thai, the push kick is used in the same way a boxer uses a jab. It can hurt, but it's mostly there to create distance. It is most definitely not normal to see someone use it to stomp on a man's face while they're both standing up. Buakaw is the DEA and you are a meth lab door.
After this one-sided fight went the distance, it seemed pretty easy for the Japanese judges to pick a winner -- the awesome guy without all the footprints on his face. But on the other hand, Masato is Japanese. So they called it a tie and made them fight a fourth round. Coincidentally, four is the same number of years this insane decision took off Masato's lifespan.
The extra round went like the others. Buakaw filmed a How To Break A Man's Will With Muay Thai instructional tape all over Masato's legs, body, and head. Masato kept clinching to try and rest, but Muay Thai doesn't use the clinch for resting. As soon as any hug started, Buakaw either kneed an organ to death or spiked Masato into the mat like a football. After that, the judges didn't send it to a fifth round, probably because Masato's life insurance didn't cover suicide.
Cro Cop vs. Bob Sapp: Exploding Eyeball PunchBob Sapp is what ancient Greeks used to protect their mazes. He's immune to catapults and fire, but he tires quickly. After his initial charge, he'll be breathing too hard to punch and you really only have to worry about him getting your cattle pregnant. Against Cro Cop he threw everything he had into a five second groping followed by a dick punch. Cro Cop survived, grumpily, and answered back with a ramrod of a cross to Sapp's right eye. Bob Sapp wasn't used to his lunch punching him in the face and his reaction to it was to turn his entire body into a cartoon.
In comical slow motion, Sapp bent down and contorted his face in pain, surprise, and 8 emotions only buffalo have names for. He looked like he was trying to act out Total Recall for a deaf person. Shrieking louder and louder, he lowered himself to the mat. Something in his skull broke and it was taking a very long time for all the pain signals to reach the twin brains located in buttocky clusters of muscles in his calves. As it would be explained to him later at the minotaur clinic, Cro Cop broke his orbital bone. Then they of course asked him to leave. His doctor didn't go to 12 years of minotaur school to treat a filthy cyclops.


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Treating asthma in children ages 12 and older requires different steps than in younger children. Get tips on symptoms, medications and using an asthma action plan.
Asthma in older children can interfere with sleep, school, sports and social activities. But proper asthma treatment in children can keep symptoms at bay.
You and your child can reduce asthma symptoms by following an asthma action plan. This is a written plan you and your child develop with your child's doctor to track symptoms and adjust treatment.
Asthma treatment in children improves day-to-day breathing, reduces asthma flare-ups and lessens disruptions caused by the condition. By learning to avoid triggers, track symptoms and manage medications, even severe asthma can be kept under control.
Common asthma symptoms in children ages 12 and older include:
Some children have few day-to-day symptoms but have severe asthma attacks now and then. Other children have mild symptoms or symptoms that get worse at certain times. You may notice that your child's asthma symptoms get worse at night, with activity, when your child has a cold, or with triggers such as cigarette smoke or seasonal allergies.
Severe asthma attacks can be life-threatening and require emergency room treatment. Signs and symptoms of an asthma emergency in children ages 12 and older include:
For older children, doctors can diagnose and monitor asthma with the same tests used for adults. Lung function (spirometry) tests measure how quickly and how much air your child can exhale, an indication of how well the lungs are working.
Your child's doctor may be able to check for inflammation in your child's airways with a test that measures levels of nitric oxide gas in the breath. In general, higher levels of nitric oxide mean your child's lungs aren't working as well as they should be, and his or her asthma isn't under control.
The doctor may give your child a portable, hand-held device (peak flow meter) to measure how well his or her lungs are working. A peak flow meter measures how much air your child can quickly exhale. Low readings indicate worsening asthma.
You and your child may notice low peak flow readings before symptoms become apparent. This will help you recognize when to adjust treatment to prevent an asthma flare-up.
If your child's asthma symptoms are severe, your family doctor or pediatrician may refer your child to see an asthma specialist.
The doctor will want your child to take just the right amount and type of medication needed to control his or her asthma. This will help prevent side effects.
Based on your record of how well your child's current medications seem to be working, your child's doctor may "step up" treatment to a higher dose or add another type of medication. If your child's asthma is well controlled, the doctor may "step down" treatment by reducing your child's medications. This is known as the stepwise approach to asthma treatment.
As your child gets older, he or she can take more and more responsibility for watching symptoms and adjusting treatment.
Certain medications aren't specifically approved for use in children by the Food and Drug Administration, but the doctor may prescribe them based on his or her judgment of what's likely to work best for your child.
Known as maintenance medications, these are generally taken every day on a long-term basis to control persistent asthma. These medications may be used seasonally if your child's asthma symptoms become worse during certain times of the year.
Types of long-term control medications include:
These medications — called short-acting bronchodilators — provide immediate relief of asthma symptoms and last four to six hours. Albuterol is the most commonly used short-acting bronchodilator for asthma. Others include pirbuterol and levalbuterol.
Although these medications work quickly, they can't keep your child's symptoms from coming back. If your child has frequent or severe symptoms, he or she will need to take a long-term control medication such as an inhaled corticosteroid.
Your child's asthma is not under control if he or she often needs to use a quick-relief inhaler. Relying on a quick-relief inhaler to control symptoms puts your child at risk of a severe asthma attack and is a sign that your child needs to see the doctor about making treatment changes.
Track the use of quick-relief medications, and share the information with your child's doctor at every visit.
Allergy-desensitization shots (immunotherapy) may help if your child has allergic asthma that can't be easily controlled by avoiding asthma triggers. Your child will begin with skin tests to determine which allergy-causing substances (allergens) may trigger asthma symptoms.
Once your child's asthma triggers are identified, he or she will often get a series of injections containing small doses of those allergens. Your son or daughter will probably need injections once a week for a few months, then once a month for a period of three to five years. Your child's allergic reactions and asthma symptoms should gradually diminish.
Most asthma medications are given with a device that allows a child to breathe medication directly into the lungs. Your child's medication may be delivered with one of these devices:
Managing asthma can seem like an overwhelming responsibility. Following these steps makes it a lot easier.
A critical part of managing your child's asthma is learning exactly what steps to take on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. It's also important that you understand the purpose of each part of tracking symptoms and adjusting treatment. You, your child and caretakers need to:
A written asthma action plan is an important tool to let you know how well treatment is working, based on asthma symptoms. With your child's doctor, create a written asthma plan that outlines the steps needed to manage asthma. You and your child's caretakers, including relatives, teachers, school nurses and coaches, should have a copy of the plan.
The plan can help you and your child:
Many asthma plans use a "stoplight" system of green, yellow and red zones that correspond to worsening symptoms. This system can help you quickly determine asthma severity and identify signs of an asthma attack. Some asthma plans use a symptoms questionnaire called the Asthma Control Test to measure asthma severity over the past month.
Effective asthma treatment requires tracking how well medications are working on an ongoing basis — and knowing what to do when they're not working. You and your child need to:
Taking steps to help your child avoid triggers is an important part of controlling asthma. Asthma triggers vary from child to child. Work with your child's doctor to identify triggers and what steps you can take to help your child avoid them.
Common asthma triggers include:
Following and updating an asthma action plan is the key to keeping symptoms under control. Older children should take increasing responsibility for using the plan and discussing asthma with the doctor.
Work with your child to carefully track symptoms, and make medication changes as soon as they're needed. By acting quickly, you and your child can prevent a severe attack and he or she won't need as much medication to control symptoms.
With careful asthma management, your child should be able to avoid flare-ups and minimize disruptions caused by asthma.
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As a vital part of health care, under the supervision of a registered nurse or physician, a licensed practical nurse cares for patients of all ages from newborns to the elderly. Our diploma will prepare you for your license exam and qualify you to purse the Associate of Applied Science Degree in Nursing.
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In the classroom, you learn theory and basic nursing skills. Outside the classroom you gain valuable experience in a variety of health care settings and community agencies, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, and child care centers. Check the Academic Plan for more information. The Practical Nursing program is a Selective Admissions program and is approved by the Kentucky Board of Nursing. All applicants must have attended a pre-admissions conference within the last two years. Check the LPN program brochure for more information.
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Man facing child neglect charges
Alum Bridge man arrested for dangling baby over balcony
August 20, 2013
An Alum Bridge man is being held in the Central Regional Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond after state troopers alleged he dangled a baby from a seventh-floor balcony during an argument....
It was ok for Michael Jackson to do this but not this poor guy... Standards people please! Celebrities are crappy humans and need jailtime too.
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With bees...
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That's sad and disgusting! His charge only carries a 1 to 5 which means he'd do a minimum of a year and see the board or a max of two and a half years. Legislative needs to fix that!
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I think they should dangle him from a seventh story balcony... covered in bees.
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I will Pray that this lowlife creep gets sent away for twenty or so years. To endanger this baby's life due to fight with girlfriend, is unacceptable and hopefully the Courts will charge him with "Attempted Murder" of this Baby!!!
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LISBON - In Columbiana County Municipal Court, Dirk S. Weston, 49, state Route 164, Lisbon, was bound over to the Columbiana County Common Pleas Court grand jury on an assault charge. According to court documents, Weston is accused of repeatedly threatening to take a gun from Patrolman Steven Thomas of Salineville police and threatening to kill Thomas, as well as assaulting him by attempting to strangle him with his handcuffs while in custody.
Kevin C. Blackburn, 27, East Fifth Street, Salem, was fined $1,575, had his license suspended for 180 days, sentenced to 15 days in jail and required to pay $384 in restitution to Lottie Roach within 30 days for drug possession, drug abuse, drug paraphernalia, OVI first offense, failure to control, hit skip and marked lanes. Court documents claim Blackburn had Alprazolam, Clonazepam and marijuana.
Mitchell A. Hill, 28, Jefferson Avenue, Salem, was fined $1,225, had his license suspended for a year, was sentenced to 20 days in jail and required 40 hours community service for OVI second offense, driving on a closed highway and driving under OVI suspension. A citation of driving without a valid sticker was dismissed.
Gregory E. Weber, 46, East Canton, was fined $775, was sentenced to three days in jail, had his license suspended for six months and required 40 hours community service for OVI first offense and resisting arrest for running from the vehicle causing a highway patrol trooper to tase and mace him. A lane violation citation was dismissed.
Hugh W. Fraser, 53, Tower Road, Salem, was fined $725, had his license suspended for six months and sentenced to 25 days in jail for OVI first offense and handling firearms while intoxicated amended from a felony charge of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.
James Bagley III, 22, East High Street, Leetonia, was fined $100, sentenced to three days in jail and required 50 hours community service for persistent disorderly conduct for a fight he was involved in along with six others at the Leetonia coke ovens in May, which led to two people being hospitalized after they were struck by a vehicle.
A Jan. 3 pretrial was set for David J. Daniels III charged with two counts of domestic violence. Court documents alleged Daniels, 37, South Main Street, Columbiana, assaulted both his wife and their child on Friday, throwing the boy around the house, attempting to smother him and attempting to choke his wife while threatening to kill them.
A Jan. 14 pretrial was set for George A. Burkey, 47, North Jefferson Street, Lisbon, cited for driving under a child support suspension.
A Jan. 22 pretrial was set for Timothy R. Smith, 23, Pidgeon Road, Salem, charged with criminal damaging for allegedly driving his truck into a field on Gromley Road on Friday.
A Jan. 24 pretrial was set for Anthony R. Kelly, 24, Main Street, Leetonia, charged with domestic violence for allegedly throwing an item described as a toy cell phone or something similar and striking a 6-year-old girl in the head while Kelly was being evicted from his apartment on Friday.
A Jan. 29 pretrial was set for April D. Mettenberger, 32, Campground Road, Wellsville, charged with OVI first offense and a seat belt violation.
A Feb. 5 pretrial was set for Michael F. Lewis, 29, last known address Caldwell Street, Lisbon, charged with theft for allegedly taking two packages of doughnuts valued at 75 cents each from Quaker Village on Saturday.
A Feb. 7 pretrial was set for Ryan E. Sevenich, 22, Metz Road, Columbiana, charged with OVI first offense and failure to yield the right of way.


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Nine people were killed and at least 26 others injured Sunday morning when a charter bus slid off an icy stretch of Interstate 84 in northeast Oregon, smashed through a guardrail and plunged about 200 feet down a steep embankment, Oregon State Police said.
Troopers said the driver of the westbound bus lost control around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes about 13 miles east of Pendleton. The bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment a few hundred feet, troopers said.
The bus came to rest at the bottom of a snowy slope and landed upright, with little or no debris visible around the crash site.
More than a dozen rescue workers descended the hill and used ropes to help retrieve people from the wreckage in freezing weather.
Troopers said the bus reportedly was on a return trip from Las Vegas to Vancouver, B.C. They later identified the charter bus company as Mi Joo Tour & Travel of Vancouver, B.C.
A woman who answered the phone at a listing for the company confirmed with The Associated Press that it owned the bus and said it was on a tour of the Western U.S. She declined to give her name.
A bus safety website run by the U.S. Department of Transportation said Mi Joo Tour & Travel has six buses, none of which have been involved in any accidents in at least the past two years.
Investigators were still on the scene as night fell, but all of the bus occupants had been removed.
OSP and other agencies were working to confirm the total number of passengers, initially reported at about 40.
St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton confirmed 26 patients were brought there, five of which were flown to another hospital for treatment; the other 21 remained at the Pendleton hospital.
The bus driver survived the crash, troopers said, but investigators had been unable to speak to the driver due to the severity of the injuries.
Troopers said the names of those aboard also won't be released immediately. Release of the victims' names could be delayed further because they came from Canada, they added.
The cause of the crash was not known, troopers said, as investigators remained on scene doing their initial investigation.
Rescue workers used ropes to help retrieve people from the crash scene, up onto the highway.
The East Oregonian said it spoke with two South Korean passengers, ages 16 and 17. Both said through a translator that they were seated near the rear of the bus when it swerved a few times, hit the guardrail and flipped. They described breaking glass and seeing passengers pinned by their seats as the bus slid down the hill. Both said that they feared for their lives.
The paper said that the teens, one of whom injured a knee and the other suffered a broken collarbone, were staying at a hotel arranged by the Red Cross.
The Umatilla County Office of Emergency Management opened up the Convention Center in Pendleton for any bus occupants who were not hospitalized. The Red Cross will be helping at that location, troopers said Sunday night.
A tentative list of agencies involved at the scene:
* Umatilla Tribal Fire Department
* Pendleton Fire & Ambulance Service
* Pilot Rock Rural Fire Protection District
* East Umatilla Health District
* Milton-Freewater Rural Fire Department
* Walla Walla Fire Department
* Union County Ambulance


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No one can accuse Dr. Michale "Mickey" Barber of not walking the walk, literally and figuratively.
I first met Barber, an anesthesiologist by training who specializes in "age management," in 2003 when she was 48 years old and training for her first-ever figure contest, the National Physique Committee South Carolina Excalibur Contest.
No matter what your opinion is of body building and physique contests, training hard and eating lots of vegetables and lean protein for weeks before going out on stage in a skimpy bikini to be judged against women who are generally 10 years younger than you takes guts.
Despite her age, she won second place in the category for women age 35 and older.
Fast forward a decade to Aug. 10 and Barber, yes, at 58, was back on stage for the annual Excalibur at the Sottile Theater. And while she didn't win a trophy, she may have been the most memorable competitor in the contest.
Barber didn't wait 10 years purposely to compete again.
"I've always wanted to do it again, but life got in the way," she says. "A lot of things happened."
Indeed, they did. Her practice at Cenegenics Carolinas took off and she opened an office in Charlotte. She got married. And tragically, two siblings died. Her sister died from breast cancer at age 46 and her brother from a heart attack at age 53.
Six months ago, she was sitting in a consulting room with a patient at her office at Majestic Square and decided it was time to compete again.
Three months later, she was training twice a day and eating body builder-style, a half dozen small, super lean, low-carb meals a day, as advised by local, longtime bodybuilding guru Tres Bennett.
Even though Barber eats well and regularly exercises, the regimen shed 17 pounds off her 150-pound, 5-foot-5 frame and dropped her body fat down to 20 percent. But the 10 years of age, notably being post-menopausal, did have an effect.
"I didn't notice changes in my body as fast as before (in 2003)," says Barber, noting that she was even eating 300 fewer calories per day less than when she was training in 2003.
And while Barber didn't finish in the top three, Bennett, who puts on the contest, called her back on stage at the end of the show to give her some deserved props.
In an email, Bennett told me that Barber is a "testament that age is just a number and with hard work and dedication, you can achieve your goals not matter what your age."
Ultimately, Barber says she did the contest to set an example for two reasons.
First, as a doctor whose focus is on slowing the physical declines of age, she wanted to be an example.
"I can't stand, frankly, when I hear or see a doctor who is preaching to their patients to lose weight and they aren't doing it themselves. To me that's so hypocritical that's just not in my comfort zone to do that," says Barber.
"I tell my patients all the time that's not one single thing that I'm asking you to do that I won't do myself. And, that I fall off the wagon just like you do. That's OK because it's not falling off but getting back on that really counts."
Second, she wanted to send a message to women age 50 and older.
"A lot of women who hit 50 feel like they cannot get ahead of the speeding train, that they are just going to get fatter, more out of shape and less attractive. My message to them is that is not true. It doesn't have to be that way. You are in control. Now, if you want to be in control or not, that's the question."
Will she be hitting the stage again before she turns 68?
"It's been a lot of fun," says Barber. "I'd do a bunch more, if it weren't for my husband and family, because they have to put up with me. ... I don't know, maybe."
Reach David Quick at 937-5516 or dquick@postand courier.com.


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VSO and Peace Corps link up in 'special relationship'
26 May 2011
London, UK: Volunteering is part of the US-UK 'special relationship'.
During talks in London during May 2011, US President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the two countries would work together further on volunteering initiatives, through major agencies the Peace Corps and VSO.
"The partnership between Peace Corps and VSO will leverage the resources of both organizations to improve the lives of poor and marginalized people, and to promote the value of volunteering in global development," reads a US-UK joint statement.
Both the Peace Corps and VSO are partners in the International Year of Volunteers tenth anniversary campaign this year, and the news that volunteering is receiving such high-level attention can only be a boost to volunteers worldwide.
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A man was getting ready for work one morning when he heard a commotion out in the parking lot. He looked out of his window and saw two men loading his motorcycle into the back of their van. He ran outside and chased after the van that was pulling away. He managed to slam his fist into the back window of the van, shattering it, according to the report.
He called police who were able to spot the van speeding away. The driver of the van at first did not stop for the blue lights. Charleston County deputies got involved in the chase all the way to Georgetown. The suspects then ditched the van and tried to run off. They were charged with grand larceny and failure to stop for blue lights.
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Welcome to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl featuring the WAC co-champion Nevada Wolf Pack (12-1, 7-1) against the ACC's Boston College ( 7-5, 4-4).
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A Getzville man driving erratically along Transit Road in Clarence Monday was charged with having marijuana and prescription drugs in his vehicle, state police said.
Trooper Christopher Rodler stopped Matthew J. Murray, 25, about 6:40 p.m. at a NOCO gas station and said Murray had in his vehicle marijuana, a strip of Suboxone and Clonazepam tablets not in their original container.
Murray was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance not in original container. He was issued an appearance ticket returnable to Clarence Town Court on March 5.


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The blockade runner was hugging the shore of Dewees Island, trying to sneak into Charleston Harbor before first light.
But the Nellie wouldn't make it.
The steamer had sailed from Nassau with hopes of slipping past the gunboats and selling its cargo of medicine and general supplies in the city. It was a tempting prospect, one that would reap ample reward for the crew's risk -- if they survived.
The blockade had cut off Charleston's biggest trade line and supplies in the city were running low. Any ship that could make it into port was assured a handsome profit,
selling whatever it had at black-market rates.
On a weekly basis, the newspapers reported how much locals would have to pay for these supplies, usually without comment -- zinc nails, 17 cents per pound; Imperial tea, $6 per pound; carbonate of ammonia, $1.75 per pound. It was just another cost of war.
The Nellie was wise to avoid the most popular route into the city, sailing past the city far out to sea, then back-tracking along the coast north of the city. But as dawn broke over the Atlantic on Sunday, May 25, 1862, the ship lost its cover before reaching the harbor. The Nellie was quickly spotted by an errant schooner. Other blockaders were alerted and the chase was on.
Soon, Charleston would once again awake to the sound of cannon fire.
Capt. Moore, commander of the Nellie, ordered his crew to speed up. But the Union Navy was apparently more than a match for the unarmed steamship. Several ships blocked the Nellie's path, cutting off its only chance to get safely between Forts Sumter and Moultrie.
The Union boats opened fire in unison, a barrage that unnerved the Nellie's crew. The ship was trapped between the sea islands and a line of warships. With no other choice, Moore ran the boat aground on the beach at Long Island (modern-day Isle of Palms).
Throughout the day, crews worked to unload ship's cargo, both to save the merchandise and lighten the Nellie's load. While they worked, Confederate batteries on the island provided a covering fire. They would not be able to save the ship, however. That night, heavy seas pushed the ship farther ashore. By Monday, the Yankee ships were using it for target practice.
Another blockade runner out of business.
The incident was yet another reminder of Charleston's precarious situation. The blockade had bottled up the harbor, there were reports that Yankee gunboats were in Georgetown, and Union troops out of Port Royal had been spotted at a plantation on the Combahee River. On May 29, Confederates engaged some of those troops at Pocotaligo.
It was quickly becoming clear that the city was surrounded.
"The Yankees hereabouts are becoming bolder every day," The Mercury lamented.
'Day of trial at hand'
The showdown was inevitable.
Union troops had been making their way north from Port Royal since the winter, moving from one island to the next. The ultimate destination -- and prize -- was Charleston, of course, but there seemed to be no hurry in their movements until May.
Just weeks after Robert Smalls, who delivered the Confederate steamer Planter to the U.S. Navy, revealed weaknesses in the South's defense of the Stono River, the Yankees decided to test that intelligence.
On June 2, Union gunboats sailed into the river between Folly and Kiawah and began firing shells in the vicinity of the Lamar Battery, which stood at Secessionville, a James Island neighborhood named for earlier efforts by those residents to secede. The following day, Union troops went ashore.
The fighting began almost immediately. On June 3, the sound of gunfire could be heard in downtown Charleston as the two forces clashed below Secessionville, a fight that took place in a continuous rain that left the entire island in a heavy mist.
Eventually the Southerners pushed the Yankees back to the river, and the Irish Volunteers captured 20 Union soldiers near "Mr. Legare's house."
That was far from the end. The next day, The Charleston Mercury declared "Our Day of Trial at Hand."
The paper reported rumors that the Burnside Fleet was massing offshore, but predicted that "unless they have a number of Monitors," they would pay dearly for trying to run the Confederate gantlet.
"Our people are calm, and prepared for desperate resistance," the paper reported. "We have everything at stake in the struggle, and little to hope in case of failure."
The fighting mostly subsided until the weekend, when Col. Dunnovant encountered a "force of Yankee marauders" on Johns Island.
The Confederates attacked, driving the Union troops across Haulover bridge and even taking the bags of supplies dropped by the retreating Yanks. On Saturday night, some local troops captured a Union picket on James Island.
By Sunday afternoon, Northern soldiers infiltrated the island's interior deep enough to attack Confederate pickets on the road between Fort Johnson and Fort Pemberton. There, the Union soldiers were repelled by the Confederates, who killed a number of the attackers.
The night was not a total success for the South, as at least four privates on picket duty were taken prisoner.
Still, it could have turned out far worse for the Confederates. More than 6,000 Union troops -- two divisions -- had landed on James Island and were encamped near Grimball Plantation.
They outnumbered the Southern troops on the island by roughly three-to-one, but the impressive resistance of the Confederates had persuaded the North to proceed cautiously. Maj. Gen. David Hunter told Brig. Gen. Henry Benham not to attack without further orders.
On June 10, cannonading from James Island rattled downtown Charleston for most of the afternoon. The Confederate forts on the island were shelling the Yankee troops on the island and their gunboats in the Stono.
Prisoners captured by the Southerners had revealed the daunting force descending on the island -- 16 regiments, with more expected to arrive every day.
It seemed that this would be the battle for Charleston, and the South meant to get a jump on the fight.
At 3:30 that afternoon, Hagood's regiment attacked the Union troops at Grimball Plantation. It had been an ordeal just to take position. Hagood's men had to trudge through nearly a mile of pluff mud and swamp.
But once they emerged from the marsh, they showed no sign of fatigue. The regiment pushed the superior Union forces backward about 300 yards, almost to the banks of the river.
Just when the Southerners thought they had won the battle, however, Union gunboats in the Stono began to fire in concert with Yankee batteries on the island.
"The concentrated fire of the enemy's batteries, gunboat and musketry were so murderous that our little handful of men, unsupported, were compelled to retire, after having suffered a heavy loss," The Mercury reported.
Confederate military officials would estimate that the South suffered about 50 casualties from the engagement, but they had been forced backward by the heavy shelling. The only good news for Charleston, according to the newspaper, was that "The enemy's loss is believed to be heavier than our own."
For the moment, the two sides were at a standstill, merely swapping blows. The real battle was yet to come.
For the next week, the two sides fought intermittently across James Island. Minor skirmishes would break out, followed by long periods of nervous quiet. The fighting rarely amounted to much or lasted very long. It seemed clear these engagements were merely prelude to the real battle.
On Sunday, June 15, the Confederates discovered that the Yankees had planted a small battery of Parrott guns on the edge of the woods, a spot the 47th Georgia had defended only a few days earlier. The North opened fire on one of Lamar's batteries from that spot, a barrage of shells that eventually resulted in one casualty, Private John H. Andrews.
That night, sometime between 9 and 10 p.m., locals spotted a bright glare coming from the direction of Dill's Bluff. The Confederates had burned Dill's house, presumably to keep it out of enemy hands. Before night's end they would take further precautions, which turned out to be a smart move.
The Union troops were antsy, and Benham felt he had waited long enough for orders; he decided to attack. He sent his troops into the interior of James Island during the early hours of June 16. He meant to end the battle once and for all.
But Benham would soon discover that the Confederates had anticipated his next move.
The Southern troops had spent much of the night preparing for the pending Union assault. About 500 troops at Fort Lamar worked into the morning at Secessionville, building an additional battery to defend the M-shaped fort.
Many of those fatigued troops were camped in fields behind the fort around 4:30 that morning when the fort's namesake, Col. T.G. Lamar, was awakened by one of his pickets. The pickets claimed they had been overrun by a huge number of Yankees headed their way.
The Union troops had set out at 2 a.m. There were two divisions, each numbering more than 3,000 men. Many of them carried unloaded guns, and were under orders to remain silent and attack the fort with bayonets. As soon as they reached the field in front of the fort, they were less than a half mile away.
That's when the Confederates spotted them.
Lamar had ordered his junior officers to awaken the men before he looked out for himself. It was an awesome, and scary, sight -- a horde of soldiers running toward the fort, bayonets fixed. He estimated they were about 400 yards away. When he saw the sheer number of the men in blue, he sent men to Fort Johnson, about five miles away, to get reinforcements.
Lamar meant to fire the first shot in this battle. He aimed an 8-inch Columbiad at the men, but before he could fire he heard the report of a 24-pounder. The Battle of Secessionville had begun.
It all happened so quickly. Lamar's men began "pouring grape and canister against the rapidly approaching enemy," The Mercury would report the next day. "At each discharge, great gaps were visible in the Yankee ranks, but still they came on, without firing a single volley."
Lamar first assumed the men were simply out of ammunition; it would be much later before he learned that many of the soldiers he fired on had meant to sneak up and attack with bayonet.
For a while the men kept coming, but eventually the fire was "too severe for their nerves" and they fled in disorder. But it would not be that simple.
Shortly after the first wave, the Union troops re-grouped and charged again, this time reinforced by infantry and artillery. This attack brought "heavy volleys" against the Lamar batteries, but soon the Southerners had the advantage once again, mowing down the advancing men.
The third wave fared just as poorly, although some of the Northern troops reached a ditch near the battery. But when they came up on the near side of the fort, The Mercury reported, they paid for those efforts with their lives.
Before it was over, the Confederates and Yankees fell into hand-to-hand combat, a bloody exercise in mutual destruction. The brutal scene, and determination of the Union troops, even earned a measure of respect from locals.
"Our men all bear witness to the obstinate bravery of the enemy on this occasion," The Mercury's editor, Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr., wrote.
As the fort repelled the ground attack, federal gunboats in the Stono fired at Lamar while federal flanking columns formed in a last effort to take Secessionville.
The Union forces fired across the marshland to the right of the fort. Those troops might have made the difference, but at that moment the 4th Louisiana Battalion, which had been camped two miles away, arrived and quickly took advantage.
Hours of gunshot and cannon fire left James Island awash in smoke. And then, just after 9 a.m., the battlefield fell silent.
The Yankees were retreating.
A collection of little more than 2,000 Confederate troops had fought off more than 6,000 Union soldiers. No one would ever get an accurate count on the number of men who died. The South lost about 50, and the North claimed little more than 100 killed in action, a number Lamar would dispute.
Secessionville would never be considered a major battle, although it certainly would have qualified for that distinction had it gone the other way. If the Union had taken Secessionville, the rest of the war might have unfolded differently.
Instead, it was a disaster for the Union Army. Benham was arrested three days after the battle, charged with attacking without orders. He blamed it on another officer. Ultimately, he was relieved of his command.
Charleston would bask in the glow of victory for weeks. After months of worry about a pending Yankee assault, the local troops had risen to the challenge.
"It seems that the Yankees no longer rest under the hallucination that Charleston, like Nashville and New Orleans, is to fall into their hands without a desperate struggle," Rhett wrote in the June 25 edition of The Mercury.
For the first time in months, Charleston had some good news.
Next: The ironclad Palmetto State
U.S. troops charge Lamars battery at Secessionville on June 16, 1862. The Union troops were ordered to storm the fort and use their bayonets to take control of it. They found bayonets of little use against Col. Lamars big guns. This image is from Leslies Illustrated.×
The Confederates victory in the Battle of Secessionville is re-enacted yearly at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant.×
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The actress, 20, who plays straight-laced Hermione Granger in the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise, hosted a dinner at her home in England recently as filming on the series drew to a close.
"The last week of filming Emma had a dinner at her place, and we spoke about the best moments of filming, our secret crushes on set – all kinds of random questions," says James Phelps, who plays mischievous Fred Weasley in the movies. "But all the answers to these questions will stay in that room!"
Phelps and his twin brother Oliver, along with Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon and Tom Felton were in Orlando Wednesday night for the grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando. Also on hand: Potter author J.K. Rowling, who attended the event with her husband Neil Murray but didn't speak to the press.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Lynas Should Bring a "Good Product" Back to Australia
His assistant, Wee Tiat Eng, performed a live demonstration by reading the radiation levels of rare earth's residue and compared it to a banana.
MCA Chua Soi Lek supported the claim by saying that a person undergoing an X-ray exposes himself to 500 times the radiation found in the residue.
It is so simple, Nick. If it is really so good we really do not mind you bring it back to Australia and share it exclusively with your countrymen. Yes, we rather have banana trees than a rare earth plant. Is it so difficult to understand and accept?
Yes, the people of Kuantan and particularly Gebeng are suffering from mental trauma and stress over the plant. It is a serious mental issue which could affect their health, well-being and social life. Families may need to move away from the area fearing water contamination and long term exposure to the radiation, however low risk Lynas may claim.
Chua the doctor appears to be less sensitive to the fear of common people. How to compare with X-ray exposure? Some of us only conduct body check-up once a year and are exposed to X-ray for less than 2 seconds. Can it be compared to a 24 x 7 exposure to rare earth's residue?
If it is so safe as claimed by Nick, Wee and Chua then it makes no sense for the Australian government not to allow rare earth production in the country. It would be much more cost effective for the company to run the production on their turf than shipping them to be processed in Malaysia.
What is the point of forcing the plant on local residents of Kuantan and Gebeng? Lynas is obviously not welcomed by the local residents in the area.
What is MCA stand on Lynas? Chua Soi Lek should just make it LOUD and CLEAR. We will VOTE out MCA candidates if it is the official stand of the party to support a Lynas rare earth plant in Malaysia. This is a deserving reaction to a so-called 'People First' government.
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If Lynas is so safe why don's Nicky and his assistant Wee bring their families and stay in Gebeng and have babies.CSL can bring his harlem of old lovlies and mass produce in Gebeng too.Action speaks louder than words.
It sounds fishy to me.If rare earth pose no health hazards,then why set up a plant here? It defies logic that you have to transport the raw material all the way from far instead of having the plant next to the source of raw material.
Obviously there are some hidden agendas on this matter.
- My Name Is Boo said...
all MPs should vote on Lynas, then whoever says Yea, Lynas should build a plant at their constituency. eg, if Najib votes yes, then Pekan should have 1 plant there.
- My Name Is Boo said...
all MPs should vote on Lynas, then whoever says Yea, Lynas should build a plant at their constituency. eg, if Najib votes yes, then Pekan should have 1 plant there.
Of course it is a "clean and safe" product, that is why Australian government ban its production facility in Australia, denied all its citizen access to the use of the best product ever produce by Aussie. Let move Malaysians forward and let them enjoy all these safe level of radiation with the blessing from U-putra and the porn actor.
The reason is very simple, Lynas move its production facility into Malaysia so that Malaysians can enjoy the best and safest product manafacture by an Aussie first hand once they leave the assembly line. Very convenient indeed!
didnt the same govt assure the people of tanah merah safety of rare earth plant?
how many innocent families have to suffer without any compensation.
people of raub are also now suffering from cynaide discharged by a plant owned by MCA hypocrites.
kicked MCA goons out. at least, the immoral President can spend more time in a hotel room with his partner.


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It's hard to imagine a biomedical field that's not concerned with cell signaling. From immunologists studying GPCRs and neuroscientists investigating amyloid plaques, to cardiologists telling their patients to avoid caffeine, knowing what's connected to what and which kinases are phosphorylating which others is all part of the daily grind.
At Cambridge Healthtech's "Discovery on Target" conference, held earlier this month, pathways leading to and coming from PI3 kinase seemed to be in the forefront of many researchers' minds. Yet, generating tools to assess and manipulate the status of all sorts of pathways—from those involved in cancer to those responsible for addictive behavior—was of interest no matter what your favorite signaling molecule.
It's notoriously difficult to generate functional antibodies against complex cell-surface molecules. Antibodies are typically generated against "some kind of artificially expressed and folded GPCRs that don't always have their native conformation," remarked Sergej Kiprijanov, Ph.D., vp of research and preclinical development at Affitech.
Affitech wanted to antagonize GPCRs involved in cancer progression and inflammation. Using its cell-based antibody selection (CBAS) technology it screened its massive phage-display human antibody library against receptors (such as the CCR4 and CXCR4 chemokine receptors) expressed on the cell surface in their natural conformation, and identified several candidates able to impact the ability of these receptors to signal.
In the most advanced of six anti-GPCR programs, for example, an anti-CCR4 antibody was found that can deliver a strong response against CCR4+ tumors in xenografts. At the same time, the antibody is able to target CCR4+ regulatory T cells that can inhibit a robust imm?une response against the tumor.
Because of redundancy in the system, one chemokine receptor may have several natural ligands. So, unlike targeting the chemokines themselves, "by blocking the receptor with the same compound you can abolish the signal provided by three or four different chemokines," explained Dr. Kiprijanov.
Stephen Ward, Ph.D., works further inside immune cells, on signaling pathways involving PI3K. But rather than trying to directly inhibit the nearly ubiquitous kinase itself—risking substantial off-target effects—the University of Bath professor of pharmacy and pharmacology instead tries to focus efforts on a more targeted target.
Expression of the SHIP-1 is primarily restricted to cells of hematopoietic lineage. The phosphatase is responsible for degrading PIP3—the primary product of PI3K—to PIP2, essentially undoing what the kinase has done.
Dr. Ward's group initially used short hairpin RNAs to silence expression of SHIP-1 in human T lymphocytes and was surprised to find no effect on directional cell migration and an impairment of basal cell mobility. They postulated that perhaps some of the molecule's actions were the result of a scaffolding function distinct from domain-mediated effects. SHIP-1 encodes multiple structural domains that are known to interact with and recruit other molecules through protein-protein interaction and cellular relocalization.
A series of experiments using small molecules—activators and inhibitors of SHIP-1—revealed that the two approaches "don't exactly phenocopy each other or the effect of SHIP-1 knock-down," Dr. Ward noted. "One conclusion, therefore, is that the noncatalytic domain-mediated scaffolding functions may be avoided/missed by small molecule approaches."
But it may not even be that simple. Some small molecules actually inhibit both basal and activated migration.
Like PIP3, PIP2 also interacts with pleckstrin homology (PH) domains within effector proteins, so altering SHIP-1 activity—whether by a shotgun molecular approach or a more targeted pharmaceutical one—may shift the balance between PIP3 and its degradation product. "And that is critical in determining overall motile response of T cells. The functional impact of disrupting this balance can be difficult to predict given the number of downstream effector molecules."
In tumors in which PI3K is implicated, another kinase, mTOR, is often found to be dysregulated as well. Interestingly, mTOR has never been found to be mutated, but it tends to be dysregulated by things other than mutations—such as a variety of upstream pathways that feed into it.
"These proteins don't act in isolation," explained David Matthews, Ph.D., vp for drug discovery and exploratory development at Pathway Therapeutics. "They form a complex signaling network with a lot of feedback loops and interactions between them and between various other cellular components."
If mTOR is targeted on its own (for example, by a rapamycin analog), these feedback loops will actually serve to activate PI3K. Both proteins, Dr. Matthews said, really need to be targeted to have a robust effect on tumor cell signaling, and Pathway has developed just such a molecule. PWT33597 is an inhibitor of mTOR and PI3Kα, the isoform most frequently dysregulated in tumor cells. PWT33597 is very selective—"it doesn't hit any other kinases that we can tell."
The compound generates a balanced inhibition, leading to cell death, in cell-based assays, "and also nice tumor growth inhibition in xenograft models. And that's the data that has led us to move this molecule forward into the clinic."
PWT33597 is currently in a Phase I clinical study. In addition to demonstrating safety and tolerability, the company is also looking for pharmacodynamic markers of target inhibition. "To that end we put in place a panel of assays that lets us do this, monitoring PI3K and mTOR signaling in tumors, in blood, and in hair."
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Tiger Woods 'transgressions' catapulted from sublime to slime.
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A mixed race professional golfer, sometimes ignorantly misidentified as being African American. This is due to the nonsensical and horrifically racist United Statesian "one drop" rule, which states that "black" ancestry is so disgusting that any trace of it disqualifies you from belonging to any other ethnic group, regardless of whatever other heritage you have. In reality his heritage is one quarter Chinese, one quarter Thai, one quarter African American, one eighth Native American, and one eighth Dutch.
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Chef Ross Warhol will take his farm-to-table cuisine to Manhattan later this month for a dinner at the James Beard House, one of American fine dining's premier stages.
Warhol, who cooks at the Athenaeum Hotel at Chautauqua Institution, will present hors d'oeuvres and five-course dinner on Oct. 19.
It's long been a career goal for the Hamburg-raised chef, whose skills have been shaped with training stints at Ferran Adria's El Bulli and other top kitchens.
"It's a big honor to me," Warhol said. "I guess it means I'm doing something right, and it's a higher level of being noticed than I ever expected."
Details of the dinner ($130 James Beard Society members, $170 public; call 212-627-2308 for reservations) are on the jamesbeard.org website.
His appetizer list includes "Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Crispy Pigs' Ears and Sage Cr�me Fra�che," "Hudson Valley Foie Gras Torchons with Concord Grapes on Chocolate Brioche," and "Pork Belly Confit with Riesling-Compressed Apples and Pickled Mustard Seeds."
Dinner dishes, honoring Western New York producers, will include "Sous Vide Painted Meadows Farms Rabbit Saddle with Kaleidoscope Carrots, Cranberry Granola, Bacon Jam, and Green Mustard Vinaigrette," and "Andriaccio Farm Venison Loin with Gingerbread Pur�e, Brussels Sprout Slaw, and Preserved Cherries."
Warhol said he'll be cooking to represent "everywhere I've worked and everyone I've learned from. They'll be part of that experience, in my head. I'm bringing all of them with me. They'll be in my thoughts while I'm there cooking that day."
He'll especially be remembering his grandmother Helen Warhol, who died recently. "She's the one who actually got me into cooking, inspired me and showed me what good food was," Warhol said. "She'll be a main part of it that day."
The invitation came before Warhol offered his Praxis series at the Athenaeum Hotel this summer. The three dinners featured Warhol crafting dishes along a theme. First Warhol reinvented an original 1881 hotel menu; then he refined community potluck dishes.
The third Praxis dinner saw Warhol offering dishes inspired by schools of art: pointillism, pop, cubism and surrealism.
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The booking was very easy and the contact to the responsibles of the appartment perfect. They answered quick to every of our questions. The flat is like on the photos in the internet. Our contact person for the keys was everytime available and in time.
Good location of the studio, high price for what it really is., Should be cheaper ,.
I must admit that it has been renovated as new.
Buena ubicacion del studio, precio caro por lo que realmente es.,deberia ser mas barato,.
Debo reconocer que ha sido renovado como Nuevo .
The stay at the apartment was great. I recommend it 100%.
Very modern, comfortable, practical, close to everything.
Fab week.
La estancia en el apartamento ha sido genial. Lo recomiendo 100%.
Muy moderno,acogedor,practico,cerca de todo.
Repetiremos seguro.
The host was very helpful, the apartament is beautyfull, clean and well equipet - it looks like on photos. The location is really nice - it's only 10 minutes from the airport (by taxi) and only 20 minutes from city center by bus. The beach is only 3 minutes from the apartament. There is a lot of restaurants, shops, and bars.
It was really great trip!
Great location nearby amazing restaurants and bars. We loved our stay there, especially relaxing on the rooftop terrance. Really great experience!
The stay was fully to our satisfaction. Really good.
No surprises.
Easy transport from the airport to Benalmadena by train and then to the apartment by taxi. Cheap, easy and fast...
Good view from the balcony and the pool area is really good for kids aging from 7 and up..
This appartment is really nice and clean. We came in july so it was very hot outside. Thanks to the airconditioning it was agreable in the appartment. Everything was clean and comfortable. It was about 15 minutes walk to the centre. Restaurants and shops nearby. Very nice appartment!
A very beautiful apartment, with a large bathroom and a very nice terrace. Check-in was very easy and check out as well. Perfect apartment for a trip to Seville.
Great Location, friendly staff! Very Clean and nicely equiped
Great location, with lots o restaurants, cafes and bars around, but not in the middle of the tourist "traps", there is a market right downstairs to buy something and eat it on the terrace or simply to have breakfast in there, 10 minute walk to main attractions
Host was very nice and explained us well all we needed to know about the city.
There is a really nice alley that goes to the river. It has aircon, cutlery, and everything you need.
Overall it was a great experience and it has a great value for money for groups of i would say up to 6 people.
The only downside = one shower only
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An essential map for Transmississippi and American southwest collectors.
1814 (dated) 20 x 24.5 in (50.8 x 62.23 cm)
John Thomson (fl. 1804 - 1837) was a Scottish cartographer, publisher and bookbinder active in Edinburgh during the early part of the 19th century. Thomson is generally one of the leading masters of the Edinburgh school of cartography which flourished from roughly 1800 to 1830. Thomson & his contemporaries (Pinkerton & Cary) redefined European cartography by abandoning typical 18th century decorative elements such as elaborate title cartouches and fantastic beasts in favor of detail and accuracy. Thomson's principle works include the Thomson's New General Atlas, published from 1814 to 1821 and his Atlas of Scotland. The "Atlas of Scotland, a work of groundbreaking detail and dedication would eventually bankrupt the Thomson firm in 1830. Today Thomson maps are becoming increasingly rare as they are highly admired for their monumental size, vivid hand coloration, and superb detail.


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Wes Owens, Tessa Cockern and Oscar Burris at the Million Dollar Mixer party at Fedora in the Arts District on August 8, 2013
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Your New Favorite Feature in ACDSee Pro 7 is….
… Drum roll please… the new Repair Tool! Now, normally I wouldn't tell you what your favorite features would be. But this time around, there is no denying it! ACDSee Pro 7's new Repair Tool is like a dream come true for many photographers.
There are two options available for the Repair Tool: the Healing Brush and the Cloning Brush.
When you select the Healing Brush, the Repair Tool copies pixels from one area of a photo to another, but it analyzes the pixels in the source area before copying them. It also analyzes the pixels in the target area, and then blends the pixels of both source and target, to match the surrounding area. This ensures that the lighting and color of the replacement pixels integrate with the surrounding area. The Healing Brush works particularly well with photos that involve complicated textures like skin or fur.
When you select the Cloning Brush, the Repair Tool copies the exact pixels from one area of a photo to another, creating an identical image area. The Cloning Brush is more effective for photos that have strong, simple textures or uniform colors, as it is more difficult to identify the copied pixels in the finished photo.
Some flaws you might want to get rid of with the Repair Tool could include:
- Skin blemishes
- Telephone wires and other unwanted objects
- Flash flares from snowflakes or windows
- Lens scratches and water drops
Here are step-by-step instructions to help you remove those flaws from a photo:
- In Edit mode, in the Repair group click Repair Tool.
- Select one of the following: Heal or Clone.
- Drag the Nib Width and Feathering sliders.
Note: Nib Width sets the width of the brush. The maximum brush width is relative to the size of your image. Feathering sets the amount to feather on the edge of the brush to prevent sharp transitions between the original and healed part of the photo.
- Right-click the image to set a source location. Pixels will be copied from this location and used in the target location.
- Click and drag over the area that you want to cover. if you selected the healing brush, ACDSee Pro analyzes and replaces the pixels when you release the mouse button.
- Do one of the following:
- Click Done to apply your changes and close the tool.
- Click Cancel to discard all changes and close the tool.
QUICK TIP! Scroll with your mouse to adjust the brush size on the fly, or press the SHIFT key while you scroll to adjust feathering.
Have fun making your photos flawless!