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Archive for the 'Good Reads' Category
Good Read – Pogue's War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian
Pogue's War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian
by Forrest C. Pogue
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With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall. Pogue's War is drawn from Forrest Pogue's handwritten pocket notebooks, carried with him throughout the war, long regarded as unreadable because of his often atrocious handwriting. Supplemented with carefully deciphered and transcribed selections from his diaries, the heart of the book is straight from the field. He not only graphically – yet also often poetically – recounts the extreme circumstances of battle, but he also notes his fellow soldiers' innermost thoughts, feelings, opinions, and attitudes about the cruelty of war. Franklin D. Anderson, Forrest Pogue's nephew by marriage, is a longtime educator. He lives in Princeton, Kentucky.
Todd Hill says:
From the war-time diary of combat historian Sgt. Forrest C. Pogue, long time Murray resident and professor at MSU. Incredible story of coming ashore at Normandy. Just after the June 1944 invasion… Highly recommended!
Good Read – I Am Not The Same Girl: Renewed
I Am Not The Same Girl: Renewed
by Stacy Lattisaw Jackson
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"I Am Not The Same Girl: Renewed" is the life story of Stacy Lattisaw. As a young Rhythm and Blues (R&B) singer, she completed a total of 12 albums and toured with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons. She traveled the world as a singer and shared the stage with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Teddy Pendergrass, Stephanie Mills, Johnny Gill, and a host of others. As she began to mature in age and mind, her desires began to change and she cried out to God and asked him to fill the void in her life. Soon after Stacy walked away from the secular music world and dedicated her life to the Lord. Today she is renewed and walking in the destiny that God has set for her life.
Brian Clardy says:
West Tennessee did not have the type of cosmopolitan glamor of its more urban counterparts, but young people were still able to stay current on the latest music by innovative artists. Whether it was Prince, the Rolling Stones, or the Charlie Daniels Band, area listeners bought records by artists that appealed to their imagination and sense of having good clean fun. One of those artists was Stacy Lattisaw.
Brian Clardy spoke over the phone with the author about her book.
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Good Read – The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
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One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.
Kate Lochte says:
In February the National Symphony Orchestra performed Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe in the Carson Center in Paducah. Its thrilling layered themes were enchanting. Music for a ballet that debuted in Paris in 1912, the Ravel made me think the Hardy novel, Return of the Native.
Returning to the book, it was wonderful to come upon Hardy's chapter "The Figure Against the Sky" when the tragic heroine of the book is listening to the wind on Egdon Heath (the wild setting of the intensely romantic tale): "Part of its tone was quite special; what was heard there could be heard nowhere else. Gusts in innumerable series followed each other from the northwest, and when each one of them raced past the sound of its progress resolved into three. Treble, tenor, and bass notes were to be found therein. The general ricochet of the whole over pits and prominences had the gravest pitch of the chime. Next there could be heard the baritone buzz of a holly tree…" Ravel's composition evokes the complicated music of the world turning as well.
Return of the Native's main characters are either deeply at home on the Heath or yearning to escape its hold. That's the conflict as much as the unwise decisions about marriages less motivated by genuine affection than by desire to mate in one's own class or above it, but certainly not below it. Hardy's love of descriptive prose clothes these simple plot lines in the beautiful dark finery of the natural setting.
If you enjoy being carried away into the wildness of the world and the human heart, this book might just be a good read for you, too.
Good Read – Across the Universe
Across the Universe
by Beth Revis
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Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone – one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship – tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Matt Markgraf says:
One of the most anticipated young adult novels of the year. Publisher's Weekly raved about the first chapter, when it was released several months before the book. I caught a glimpse then and was floored by the vivid detail, the rich and colorful details and the easing into the 'rules' of the science fiction world. The story begins with young Amy being freezed in a cryochamber as her family attempts to flee Earth. The second perspective follows Elder, the young leader-to-be of the spaceship Godspeed. Things, of course, go awry and their paths cross. Both characters are believable and refreshing and the spaceship is a fascinating microcosm of an idealistic sustainable earth. Any fan of sci-fi with a little romance will love Across the Universe.
Good Read – Sinatra! The Song Is You
Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer's Art
by Will Friedwald
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Frank Sinatra remains the greatest entertainer of our age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of range and emotion. Drawing upon recent interviews with hundreds of his collaborators as well as with "The Voice" himself, this book is the only full-length work to chronicle, critique, and celebrate his five-decade career. Friedwald examines and evaluates all the classic and less familiar songs with the same astute, often witty, perceptions that earned him acclaim for Jazz Singing. With an authoritative discography and rare photos of recording sessions and performances, Sinatra! is an invaluable resource for enthusiasts and an unparalleled guide through his vast musical legacy.
Todd Hill says:
Excellent book about the singing career of Frank Sinatra. Skips the all-too-often sensationalized aspects of his personal life and concentrates on his apprenticehip as a band singer (with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey), the era of "The Voice" on his Columbia Recordings with arrangements and orchestras led by Axel Stordahl, the Capitol Recordings with Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Gordon Jenkins and the Reprise years with diverse writers/leaders such as Neal Hefti, Johnny Mandel, Quincy Jones and Count Basie. If you only know the Sinatra of "Strangers in the Night," "My Way" and "New York, New York" – not to mention the dreadful and over-produced "Duets" CDs of the 1990s – then educate yourself with this book and seek out the worthy recordings. Sinatra, more than any other performer, defined the "Great American Songbook" and many of his recordings are definitive.
Good Read – Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
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Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.
Katie Villanueva says:
Water for Elephants!! Yeah, it's that exciting. I read this and was amazed about the mysterious lives of circus folk. This is an amazing book about love and about one guy standing up for what he believes is right and wrong. A coming of age tale that could be described as a true baptism through fire. The movie was announced to be coming to theaters shortly after i finished reading the book, and you can bet I will be first in line to see it. This book is for animal lovers, men, and women alike. Read it. See it.
Good Read – Chasing the White Dog
Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine
by Max Watman
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From these moonshine pioneers, to the bathtub gin runners of the 1920s, to today's booming bootleg businessmen, journalist Max Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of white lightning, which has played a surprisingly large role in American history. It touched the election of Thomas Jefferson, the invention of the IRS, and the origins of NASCAR. It is a story of tommy guns, hot rods, and shot houses, and the story is far from over. In this fascinating, centuries-long history of illicit booze, Watman infiltrates every aspect of small-scale distilling in America, taking us from the backwoods of Appalachia to the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway. Along the way, this unrepentant lover of moonshine profiles the colorful characters who make up white whiskey's lore and hilariously chronicles his own attempts to distill hooch from his initial ill-fated batch to his first successful jar of 'shine.
Angela Hatton says:
"Some call it white lightning, hooch, red-eye, and bootleg. The moonshine still is an iconic, but clichéd image of Appalachian culture. Max Watman knifes through the stereotype of bucktoothed backwoods hill-billies with a book that's as sharp as uncut corn whiskey.
"Watman intertwines chapters on famous moonshine rings and stings, with his own bumbling attempts at illegal distillation. In one chapter, Watman sweats his way through buying still equipment at a brewer's supply store, guiltily avoiding intrusive questions like, 'what are you making?'
"Watman interviews dozens of distinct characters like a police officer who busted a multi-million dollar moonshine operation in West Virginia. He talks to distillers who've gone legit, slippery distillers who keep avoiding arrest, and one who has turned his illegal liquor into a tourist attraction.
"Chasing the White Dog traces both the personal and the political heritage of moonshine. Watman's passion for the craft and his keen journalistic perceptions come through with every word."
Good Read – Killing Mister Watson
Killing Mister Watson
by Peter Matthiessen
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Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.
Kate Lochte says:
"Matthiessen tells a story of a man thought to be a killer who is eventually killed by a mob. Matthiessen's narrative flows through fictional voices of early twentieth century residents of the Ten Thousand Islands on the west coast of Florida adjacent to the Everglades. There are some gruesome and unaccountable murders in it as well as a devastating hurricane. Dark, moldy, itchy. The swamplands are miserable, yet fecund. 'In the hurricane's wake, the labyrinthine coast where the Everglades deltas meet the Gulf of Mexico lies broken, stunned, flattened to mud by the wild tread of God. Day after day, a gray and brooding wind nags at the mangroves, hurrying the unruly tides that hunt through the broken islands and twist far back into the creeks, leaving behind brown spume and matted salt grass, driftwood.' This is an example of Matthiesen's fine and true crafting of setting for this haunting, slowly told examination of character that took me a couple of years to finish. Mathiessen sets the hook and lets you play out the line until you're reeled back in and landed at the finish."
Good Read – With Billie
With Billie
by Julia Blackburn
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Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who — contrary to myth — knew what she wanted and what really mattered to her. Julia Blackburn has pieced together an oral history of this jazz great, creating a unique and fascinating view of an astonishing woman.
Todd Hill says:
"The author serves as editor on previous research done by another through a series of interviews by those who knew the legendary Billie Holiday. The only weakness is that there are not more musicians (focusing on the music) who worked with her, although we do hear from many who did. If you are a Billie Holiday fan or just want to dispell the garbage that William Dufty invented in "Lady Sings the Blues" this is a great read. Gritty. Real."
Good Read – Battle Cry of Freedom
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James McPherson
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James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. From there it moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself–the battles, the strategic maneuvering by each side, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
Todd Hatton says:
"I think anyone who completes a reading of James McPherson's 869-page Battle Cry of Freedom could be forgiven for feeling as though they themselves have lived through the U.S. Civil War. But that's not a bad thing. In fact, it's enlightening. And it's largely due to McPherson's thorough and compelling history of the events and issues leading up to, and beyond, the war. McPherson's fellow historians, along with reviewer after reviewer, have found Battle Cry to be the indispensible single-volume history of the conflict. For what it's worth, I'll add my voice to the chorus. If you haven't read it, your understanding of the war is at best incomplete.
"Southern apologists have taken issue with McPherson over the causes he gives for the Civil War, misunderstanding or mischaracterizing his study as a simplistic contest over slavery. They argue the conflict was more accurately a principled dispute over sectional economics and political philosophy. A reading of Battle Cry of Freedom makes clear the problem with that thesis. The causes of the Civil War really were many and complex, but African slavery lies at or near the roots of any cause the South cared to name. McPherson makes it clear: no slavery in America would likely have meant no American Civil War. And what's worse (well, for southern apologists, Lost Cause advocates, and neo-Confederates, at any rate), is that McPherson meticulously sources his work from the words of the southern secessionists themselves. It's awfully hard to argue that the war wasn't about slavery when Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs, and Edmund Ruffin say it was.
"Nevertheless, Battle Cry of Freedom is not a political tract. It is a rich account of a quintessential American identity crisis. Who are we as a nation or a people? And who do we want to become? Prior to 1861, we referred to ourselves as Kentuckians, Tennesseans, and Illinoians and said that the United States are. It wasn't until after 1865 that we began calling ourselves Americans, saying that the United States is. This book is a profound insight into why."


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Jean R. (Campisi) Constantino, age 83 of Mansfield, formerly of Roslindale, passed away at home surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, February 21, 2013. She was the beloved wife of the late Francis P. Constantino.
Born in Boston, MA on October 12, 1929, she was a loving daughter of the late Joseph and Josephine (Greco) Campisi.
Jean grew up and was educated in the Hyde Park section of Boston and had attended the former Burdett School of Business, also in Boston.
For many years prior to retiring, Mrs. Constantino had been employed as a bookkeeper and following retirement, had worked part time in the food service department for the Mansfield public school system.
A resident of Mansfield for the past 17 years, Jean was a communicant of St. Mary's Church and had volunteered at the churches annual "Septemberfest". She had also volunteered at the Mansfield Council on Aging and was a former volunteer at the Holy Name School in West Roxbury,
Jeans other memberships included being a member of the Dedham Community Club, the Parkway Seniors Club in Roslindale and being a member and past president of the Italian Women's Club.
Mrs. Constantino was an avid Boston Celtics fan and especially enjoyed attending her grandchildren's sporting events. Jean was always there to help out others and will always be remembered for her charitable nature.
She is survived by her devoted children, Robert F. Constantino and his wife Dorothy of Attleboro, Elaine P. Webber and her husband Michael of Mansfield and David F. Constantino and his wife Janet of Franklin. She was the dear sister of the late Angelo Campisi, Marie Nanez and Rachel Florio, and is also survived by her cherished grandchildren, Andrea and Rob Constantino, Rose ,Christina and Mary Constantino, Mark Webber and the late Bryan Webber. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews including her godchild Linda Workman, whom she loved as a daughter.
Her Funeral, to which relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend, will be held on Wednesday, February 27th at 9:30 A.M. from the Sherman & Jackson Funeral Home, 55 North Main St., Mansfield followed by a Mass of Christian burial celebrated at 10:30 A.M. in St. Mary's Church, 330 Pratt St. (Route 106) Mansfield. Burial will follow in Knollwood Memorial Park in Canton.
Visiting hours will be held on Tuesday, February 26th from 4:00-8:00 P.M. at the Sherman & Jackson Funeral Home.
To send Jean's family a message of condolence, please visit www.shermanjackson.com

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About KPMG in Bermuda
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Our clients turn to us because they know we deliver industry-focused services that create genuine, sustainable value. Established in 1950 under the name "Butterfield & Steinhoff", KPMG was the first accounting firm in Bermuda to offer services to the international business community.
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"Other than that musically they breathe heavy metal with a tendency to dirty sleaze. The double guitars are simply awesome giving away for free numerous of imaginative solo works while vocalist Lariyah Daniels doesn't only have the looks but also one of the best hoarse female voice…among the ladies. Furthermore "Comes With The Territory" shares dozens of cool refrains and catchy choruses that will force you to buy the damn thing instantly."
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Johnnie Vrana – Shockwave Magazine
"Hessler's songs were memorable, their stage show was fun and over the top, but best of all there is something unique about each member and their individual performances. That, along with the songs, is what will keep this band rising steadily and help them be something more than just another band with a female singer. There is a hell of a lot to like about Hessler and they already have the energy and marketing smarts to keep rising so you'd be well advised to keep them on your radar."
John Parks – Legendary Rock Interviews
"'Another band that was a huge surprise was Hessler. With some of the biggest names in rock playing on the adjacent Main Stage and Hard Rock stage, it presented a challenge for the up and coming artists performing on the Retrospect Records stage to bring their A game in order to draw attention. Hessler was up for this challenge. They putt on a performance that was discussed throughout the weekend as one of the breakout performances of the festival by an up and coming band. Their entire set was energetic and fierce. The crowd which grew with each song was filled with energy. It was clear this Chicago band is one to keep on your radar."
Shawn Kellner – Chicago Music Magazine
"Kicking off the night are local heavy hitters, Hessler. You'll want to make sure you get to the show in time to catch their ultra-lively set of Rock and Metal. Fronted Lariyah Daniels, her on-stage athleticism and striking good looks are rivaled by her powerful vocals."
Brigette Sullivan – Examiner.com
"Opening the night with blazing speed was the terrorizing sexual trainwreck, Hessler. This band is a sight to see if you haven't before. They are young, ambitious, talented and blow away a lot of newer bands by way of performance. With dueling guitar solos a la Iron Maiden or Judas Priest weaving in and out of the powerful melodies of vocalist, Lariyah Daniels, Hessler is a force to be reckoned with."
Christopher Lee – Chicago Music Magazine
"In effect, guitar-wizardry is evident here with a tremendous bunch of guitar solos. Another thing that impressed me the most about this EP is the vocals. Hëssler is fronted by the gorgeous vocalist and model Lariyah Daniels. She is certainly a powerful female vocalist and completely delivers on all levels. Her vocals range from typical traditional heavy metal to a more melodic sound reminiscent of gothic inspired metal bands. The quick and loud drumming add plenty of heaviness to the EP. In my point of view, they are done right and perfectly fit the album's overall tone."
Grave Wish – Encyclopedia Metallum
"From the opening riffs of 'Shark Attack', the Chicago band Hessler delivers a punchy, energy-saturated tsunami of hard rock on their 2011 debut, Bad Blood."
Mario Salazar – Chicago's Rock
""Windy City Wild Child" is one of the tracks that can make HESSLER a household name. "Windy City Wild Child" will have the clubs rockin' between the great vocals of Daniels, killer chorus and Igz Kincaid's licks; I can see the metal horns raised up high!"
Brian Rademacher – Rock Eyez Webzine
"Yet it is the old-school sound and delivery of Hessler that keeps drawing me in"
Skid – Sleaze Roxx
"Hessler are fucking awesome too; they killed me when I saw 'em. "
Trevor Fischer – Illinois Entertainer
"'Windy City, Wild Child is a nice little up-tempo number dedicated to their home town Chicago. Catchy lyrics throughout and a ridiculously good guitar solo after the middle section"
Charlene Rance – Mtuk Metal 'Zine
"Knowing that they need another option to all the horrible pop diva's killing rock and roll then Hëssler should be looked at as a blessing. "
Andy – Heavy Metal Time Machine
"The band HESSLER has been in the Chicago area for a relatively short amount of time, but in that time, they've managed to make an impact in the eyes and ears of fans throughout the area with their energetic shows and 24/7 rock 'n' roll personas that'll sometimes make some wonder "…are these guys for real?". "
Mario Salazar – Chicago's Rock – Chicago's Rock
"HËSSLER is one of the most popular and dynamic bands coming out of the Midwest today."
Kellie Levans – The Milwaukee Examiner


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Archive for "ubisoft sofia" Tag
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD Officially Announced for PC and Consoles
Aveline heads to home consoles.
Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation Review
Is the female protagonist of the game potent enough?
Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation Story Trailer: The Many Guises of Lady Aveline
Ubisoft's new story trailer sets the background for the assassinette's tale.
Assassin's Creed III Liberation Offers 15 to 20 Hours of Gameplay
When revealing Assassin's Creed III Liberation for the PS Vita, Ubisoft were adamant in wanting to provide a... Read More
PS Vita: Assassin's Creed 3 'Liberation Gameplay Trailer'
Check out the new trailer for Assassin's Creed: Liberation which was shown at Sony's GamesCom conference. Ass... Read More
(UPDATE) Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation Leaked For PS Vita
UPDATE: Some details from the Game Informer article (via GAF) are given below- -It's out same day as Asassi... Read More


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Im lucky to be part of a group of women who convene monthly to discuss literature and the state of the universe, and to assemble enough potluck food for 50.
In April, I arrived early enough to see the host, Betty, pull from her oven an object that looked like a singed basketball. She peeled off the browned, dough-like skin to reveal a glisteningly moist, ruddy ham. Then she smeared orange marmalade on the intoxicatingly fragrant thing and put it back in the oven.
Ive seen fancy salt-crusted fish and beef, but Id never seen a homely blanket on a ham and asked Betty about it.
The recipe was in a stained cookbook called She Cooks By Ear: Old Southern Cookery, by Frances S. James.
Betty got the book when the author was a guest on a weekday TV news show Betty produced in Memphis in the 1970s. She didnt know much more.
Bettys copy, with packing tape barely holding together its flaking binding, looked as overly beloved as a toddlers stuffed bear. I asked to borrow it and another by Mrs. James, Lets Have A Party, published in 1978. The usually sweet Betty became darkly protective, but agreed. Dont let anything fall out of it, she warned as she tucked in protruding scraps of paper, her own additions to the book.
Ive collected quite a few cookbooks from churches and individuals. But they often arent, shall I say, user friendly. Directions can be sketchy and ingredients unclear. Not this one. Its 200-some pages were as tightly designed and recipes well-written as anything a Food Network chef might produce.
Mrs. James wrote in the book about her Southern upbringing, but she also had lived all over the place. There was mention of a musical career and television. And she had children. Through the miracle of the Internet, I found one of them in Utah: Julie James Mozelle.
According to her daughter, Mrs. James was a blend of Martha Stewart and Julia Child, with a Southern accent and, in young days, a resemblance to the actress Linda Darnell. At various times, Mrs. James, a smart woman who entered the University of Houston at 16, was a florist, wedding designer, informal caterer and blues singer in addition to cookbook author. The name of the cookbook came from her ability to play the piano by ear.
Mrs. James was born in Mississippi in 1922 to farming parents known for their home cooking. The family moved to Texas, which she considered home. After converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, she married her husband, Virgil, who held various executive positions that kept the family moving: San Francisco, New York, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Richmond and Salt Lake City, where she sang in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the 1940s.
At each stop, Julie says, her mother learned more about cooking.
But everywhere she went, Mrs. James carried her love of Southern food and entertaining, and an entrepreneurial spirit. When her husband was in graduate school and funds were tight, Mrs. James swapped homemade pies for piano lessons.
She cooked a lot to earn money, Julie says. During their early married days, that was what she did, exchange food when they didnt have money.
As times improved, there were elegant dinner parties with famous guests. There were some huge events, where she cooked for dozens to several hundred.
There were family parties, too. Thanksgivings with as many strangers as family; Mrs. James didnt want anyone to be left out. And teen dance parties for Julie and her older brother and sister.
Around 1972, Mrs. James children talked her into writing down her recipes.
She spent three years writing recipes that she had carried around in her head for decades she had never measured ingredients. Her husband created a format to make the recipes consistent and easy to follow (and they still are). She labeled family favorites and often-requested dishes Golden Recipes. Some of the books recipes came from friends, but Julie says about 70 percent are ones her mother came up with.
A professional photographer took photos, and a family friend, who was an artist at Walt Disney Studios, provided illustrations. They found a printer. Then Mrs. James hit the road.
She did the circuit. She went all over, to B. Dalton and Waldenbooks, doing autograph sessions and noon cooking shows and talk shows, Julie says. This was a business for her. She took it very seriously.
That was probably the time that Betty met her and got the books.
She Cooks by Ear did well, Julie says. And Mrs. James still had recipes left, so she wrote Lets Have A Party in 1978. Julie says that the menus in it from Argentine Fiesta to Family Christmas Dinner are from parties she remembers her mother actually giving.
Theyre not made up, she says. She loved the art of entertaining, and she saw that the younger generation wasnt doing it as much. She wanted to help the younger generation want to entertain and make it fun.
Mrs. James stopped promoting the books to tend to her husband, who eventually died from cancer. She later got cancer herself, and died in 1993.
The books cant be purchased anymore, although Julie has a few for her children and grandchildren. I encouraged her to find a way to preserve and, perhaps, reprint them.
I confess that its pure luck that Im writing this in the month of Mothers Day. But since it is, Im going to let Julie have the last word:
Her parents were humble people, but they shared everything they had and my mother was the same way. Anywhere she lived, you could come in and shed fix you something to eat, day or night. She was the most charitable person Ive ever known, a very great, giving lady. And it shows in her love for cooking.
I love getting this book out, knowing that I can still have my mother around.
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Baked Ham
Trim rind and all but a thin layer of fat from ham. Save excess fat for cooking beans. Blend the dry ingredients and moisten with undiluted orange juice to make a dough that can be rolled like a blanket over top and sides of fat part of ham. Cover ham with blanket and place on a rack in an oblong baking pan lined with heavy duty foil. Put in oven, then heat to 350 degrees, cooking for 20 minutes to the pound. As ham begins to juice, bast occasionally. After baking time, remove dough. Lattice top of fat with a sharp knife and glaze with apricot jam or orange marmalade. Return to oven for additional 30 to 40 minutes to brown.


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PGA hires Aime as chief financial officer
The PGA of America has named Rhona Aime, a former Coca-Cola executive, as chief financial officer.
In her new role, Aime will oversee all financial and information technology matters for the golfing organisation from its headquarters in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Aime has had 21 years of experience in leading multinational companies as a senior finance executive; most recently from 2001 to 2011, she managed all the financial aspects of Group Danone, a food-products corporation based in Paris. Prior to her time there, Aime spent nearly 12 years at the Coca Cola Company in a variety of roles including principal auditor, finance director of Coca Cola Netherlands, director of planning and corporate finance for the Brazilian division of the company and director of value management resources.
"The PGA of America is thrilled to add someone of Rhona Aime's experience and business sensibilities to our executive team as chief financial officer," said Pete Bevacqua, the PGA's chief executive officer.
"Considering her impressive track record across multiple financial disciplines and her familiarity with doing business with various entities around the world, we feel she will provide significant contributions to our objective of supporting our dedicated PGA Professionals nationwide as they teach and grow the game of golf."
"I'm delighted to join The PGA of America and lead the finance function in such an established and renowned association," said Aime. "It's a privilege to be part of any organisation that promotes sport, but especially a sport that is as popular, far-reaching and steeped in history as golf. I'm very eager to be part of the team who are driving the exciting initiatives to promote this wonderful game."
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I return to the great Midwest from my two weeks in the Sunshine State, that magical land where aspiring Broadway actors, Bible thumping fundamentalists, and octogenarians all somehow manage to mesh seamlessly into one ungodly-hot microcosm, only to sit down in front of my TV, turn on ESPN and see our beloved President Steger ear-fuck the BCS by announcing the approval of a four-team playoff. (Except the playoff really isn't a playoff. More on that later.) The heads of the (former) BCS conferences all proceed to gush all over the podium about how this is a great day for college football and the sanctity of the sport, blah-blah-blah yakkity shmakkity, and I confess, I myself started to get a little excited.
This is, after all, big fucking news. It's the closest to a true playoff the college football has ever had, and a hell of a big step in the right direction from the BCS. It is not, however, a true playoff. Quite far from it, actually. And I'll explain why.
In a true playoff, teams gain automatic qualified entry through play during the regular season by securing the best record in their respective division or conference or, failing that and depending on the sport and the playoff setup, through a predefined wildcard setup through which a team secures the best overall record among all non-division-winning teams. The one recurring theme among all true playoffs is that securing a playoff berth is an objective and indisputable achievement based on regular season record and a set of criteria that is codified and universal to all teams.
In the four team college football "playoff," although the details haven't been fully hammered out, inclusion in the playoff is going to be highly subjective and determined in high degree by a selection panel charged with finding the four best teams in 1A football. Those teams, however, need not have actually won their respective conferences, as there is nothing on the books (at least yet) that requires it for consideration before being included in the playoffs. The flip side of the coin is that actually winning your conference guarantees you nothing under this "playoff" system.
This new system is actually much less a playoff and more like a four team tournament with wide-open invitation requirements. At least in the NCAA basketball tournament anyone who wins their conference automatically gets in. Then again, March Madness has that luxury by having such a huge number of tournament invitations to send out. In this case we have roughly 120 teams and only four invites.
So no, this setup isn't perfect, and it's not a true playoff. It's a tournament and the selection process is going to be sketchy at best. But let's get down to brass tacks: how does this affect VT and its chances of winning a national championship? After much deliberation I can say in my opinion this move helps the Hokies' chances, but not by much.
First, let's be clear. To win a national championship, whether under the current BCS setup or the new four team tournament, VT is pretty much required to go undefeated. To have a shot with one loss the ACC as a whole would have to have a monster year or VT's strength of schedule would have to be through the roof, meaning two or possibly three non-conference games against other BCS conferences. What the four team tournament setup does is basically reduce the risk of an undefeated VT team getting snubbed in favor of two other undefeated teams from more prestigious conferences. Under the current setup, if Alabama, USC, and VT all went undefeated, the Hokies are odd man out in most scenarios. Under the four team tourney, an undefeated VT gets in. The new setup also slighly increases the chances of a one-loss VT squad getting a shot to play for a national championship, but any time VT puts a 1 in the loss column we're going to need some degree of luck beyond our control if we are ever to have a shot to play for it all.
To be honest, the biggest benefit to VT under the new setup might have nothing to do with the national championship at all and much more to do with the Orange Bowl. Rumors are swirling that the ACC will announce in short order that it will be maintaining its relationship with the Orange Bowl under the new format, sending its champion to play in Miami on New Year's Day in the seasons that the ACC champs don't make the tournament and the Orange Bowl doesn't host a tournament game. (Remember that the fucktarded date assignments for the BCS bowls will be out the window come 2014, which means a New Year's Day Orange Bowl once again.) The other significant rumor concerning the Orange Bowl is that the OB will announce a direct partnership with Notre Dame that will send the Irish to play in Miami if certain criteria are met (most likely a 9+ win season).
Spare me your personal feelings about the Fighting Irish, they are still a premier program that carries a lot of gravitas (and boatloads of cash and traveling fans). If the Orange Bowl can land a Notre Dame vs. ACC champions matchup a decent amount of the time that is enough to keep the Orange Bowl relevant against the Rose Bowl and the newly minted Champions Bowl, especially if the ACC champs are routinely FSU, Clemson, or VT. And honestly, do we see any other ACC team being competitive for the title any time soon?
This four team tournament does not fundamentally alter VT's path to the crystal football. It gives the Hokies a smidgen more breathing room in the form of an insurance policy against an undefeated Tech squad getting snubbed, but it doesn't make the task significantly easier than it was before. VT remains on the outside looking in as a national program. Whereas the true elites can have one and even two losses to their names and still be in the conversation, VT will require perfection to fill the empty trophy case. This new setup will not change that fact.


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Looking forward to 2012, I realized that I needed to make New Year's Resolutions. Not the traditional feel good, ho-hum ones you forget about the next week like dieting, stopping smoking, and exercise. I mused and made a list in no particular order:
1. Stay Out of the Pool
Spending the day at the Aquatic Center reinforced the fact that I am simply too old and out of shape for public consumption. Looking around, I realized that in order to enjoy the pool, I needed breast implants, liposuction, Botox, a Coppertone tan, a skimpy bikini, and beaded sandals. I have been weeded out by un-natural selection.
2. Stop Helping Kids with Homework
If an AP Honors math calculator, McGraw Hill textbook and a Bachelor of Arts in math and statistics were not enough to help my student with math homework, there was nothing else I could offer. Challenging word problems, geometry and fractals have left me crying uncle one too many times. I decided to just give up. Call the teacher.
3. Quit Drinking Water
I will stop drinking water due to the guilt trip. Bottled water is bad for the environment since the plastic ruins landfills. And the water softener guy told me that I shouldn't drink tap water because too much chlorine poses a serious health risk. I'm going back to diet soda.
4. Read a Paperback Book
With books stores disappearing as fast as the ozone, I feel like I'm traveling on the Underground Railroad searching for an actual paperback book. Can you mark up the pages with a pencil and highlighter on Kindle? Loan the Nook to a friend? Read a book before they're gone.
5. Don't Read Menus
New health laws have ruined it for us by posting the calorie count at restaurants. Is it really necessary to remind me that I eat a day's worth of calories in one meal at a place like the where the Bistro Shrimp Pasta has 2,285 calories and a slice of cheesecake has 1,326 calories? I've lost my appetite.
6. Laugh Often
Laughter reverses aging, relieves stress, and strengthens the immune system. Read "I Remember Nothing" by Nora Ephron. Watch The Middle or Modern Family. Go see stand-up at Tommy T's Comedy Steakhouse. Play FatBooth on the iPhone. Spend time with friends that make you feel good.
7. Procrastinate More
Stay in your pajamas all day. Eat breakfast in bed. Use the time to catch up on shows you've been meaning to watch all year. I have 10 episodes of The Bachelor Tivoed and want to figure out the meaning of Jersey Shore.
8. Layoff the Laundry
Laundromats rarely experience the high volume that our household outputs. My husband declared, "None of that is mine. I go to the dry cleaners." Let the laundry pile up and refuse to wash it until someone helps. Remind your family to double up on deodorant and wear clothes twice. I figure they'll notice I've stopped around Martin Luther King Day when they run out of underwear.
When it comes time for you to make resolutions, keep it easy to follow. And if you insist on including weight loss on your list, according to Jay Leno, "Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average which means, you have met your New Year's resolution."
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Brother,just ignore these messages..keep trust on Allah {S.w.t}.. It is a Bid'ah or Innovation.just ignore.
don't forward these types of messages. They can not harm you, Islam is the religion of Peace.
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Definitely dont passed them on, you could be sinful if the SMS is a silly lie. Things like this can cause problems, a Muslim makes many mistakes, but a Muslim does not lie.
I have received things like, a women saw Muhammad (S), blah blah blah and then she became very healthy. Send this to this many people and you will get good luck. LIES. I ask them how they've authenticated it.. and then tell them why its wrong without authentication.
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If one of your New Year's resolutions is to be more giving, why not consider volunteering in Chicago in 2012?
You can spend the day with a friend or your significant other and volunteer together to serve meals to the homeless; walk a dog; or help build a home through Habitat for Humanity.
Here's a list of volunteer ideas in Chicago, good anytime of the year. This list will be updated regularly as we learn about more volunteer opportunities. Have a volunteer gig you would like to promote, even if it s something that is a one-day only event? E-mail the gig's or event's information to email@example.com.
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Distressing life events and poverty behind many abortions in US
Distressing life events and poverty behind many abortions in US
Job loss, relationship break-down, and falling behind on rent/mortgage payments key factors
[More than poverty: disruptive events among women having abortions in the USA Online First 10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100311]
Most women accessing abortion services in the US have faced a major life stressor, such as job loss or separation, in the preceding year, finds research published online in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.
The researchers, from the Guttmacher Institute in New York, base their findings on feedback data from almost 9,500 women who had an abortion in 2008 (Abortion Patient Survey), in the light of 11 "disruptive" events, and the links between these, poverty, and contraceptive use.
The disruptive events included job loss, separation, falling behind on rental/mortgage payments, death of a close friend, a serious health problem, a partner being sent to prison and becoming a victim of crime.
Poverty in the US is defined as an annual income before tax of $17,500 for a family of three: in 2008, 13% of US residents met this criterion.
The researchers also carried out in-depth interviews with 49 women seeking abortions to flesh out themes from the feedback data.
Their analysis showed that more than half (57%) of the women who had had an abortion had faced a major life stressor in the preceding year. One in 5 had lost their jobs; one in 6 had separated from their partner; one in 7 had fallen behind on their rental or mortgage payments, while one in 8 had moved several times.
One in 10 had experienced the death of a close friend or had had a baby over the past year. And 7% had been subjected to some form of domestic violence.
Women said that the fall-out from one disruptive event could set up a chain reaction. For example, one woman's grief following the death of her mother kept her from leaving an abusive partner.
A higher proportion of women living in poverty (63%) had experienced at least one such event over the previous year than had affluent women (49%).
One in four women who lived in poverty had lost their job compared with 14% of financially better off women. And a higher proportion of those who were poor had also separated from a partner, fallen into arrears with rental/mortgage payments, moved several times or had given birth.
About half of the women were using contraception in the month they became pregnant, but the in-depth interviews showed that nearly half of these women said that disruptive events interfered with contraceptive use.
The authors point out that women living in poverty made up 42% of the 1.2 million abortions carried out in 2008 in the US, up from 27% of the 1.31 million abortions performed in 2000.


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just stop nadya suleman
a lot has been written about Nadya Suleman and her 14 children. Let me break down the problem for you, she is unemployed, single and has 14 children. She has 14 children! How are we arguing that this is not completely irresponsible? Her parents have financial problems so they moved into her house to live with her. How are these people supposed to cloth and feed 14 children, 8 of whom are infants. How are these people supposed to keep their sanity? How are we not seeing this as a problem?
Would this still be a problem if she was married? It depends, if her husband was loaded and they had a house large enough to accommodate 14 children and could afford enough child care, I would probably say no. But if he was as broke as she is, then yes. As it stands now, her parents are trying to support her. Her father is going back to Iraq to make some money, I guess the mother's going to stay home and take care of the kids and perhaps Nadya will go back to school and get the degree? Then what? We are in a major recession, it's not easy to get a job, no matter what type of education you have.
I get it, she was an only child and she wanted a large family. That's perfectly fine, but the manner in which she chose to do this is crazy. After successfully having six children, she decided to go back and use the 6 remaining eggs. It's not that she's ignorant, she's actually quite knowledgeable about the process and risks, she just didn't care. She just wanted to have those children.
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The East Mississippi Community College football team has rewritten its record books again, exploding in the third quarter for a program best 51 points in one quarter en route to a 79-7 win over Northwest Mississippi Community College.
The Rangers became the first team this season to score on the EMCC defense in the first half, with their only touchdown of the the night. Karsten Miller punched in a 1-yard touchdown to knot the game at 7-7 with 11:36 left in the second quarter.
The score ignited a fire in the Lions as they retailed with three touchdowns before the half ended as they scored 72 unanswered points.
The run was sparked by a 5-yard touchdown pass from Dontreal Pruitt to CJ bates with 6:13 left in the first half. Todd Mays followed with a 5-yard run roughly three minutes later. Pruitt then found Antoinne Adkins for a 54-yard pass with 57 seconds left in the second quarter.
EMCC came out of the half just as hot as they went into it. Pruitt nailed a 33-yard pass to Justin Mack for the first score of a record setting quarter in which the Lions score 51 points.
In the 15-minute quarter, EMCC scored five touchdown in the air, three on the ground and the defense recorded a safety to rack up 231 yards of offense.
Before the start of the fourth quarter, the coaches elected to start the clock at 10 minutes and let it run continuously, resulting in no scoring drives on either side.
Pruitt led the Lions on 24-of-39 for 334 yards and seven touchdowns with one interception and one sack. Mays took three snaps, all successful, for 58 yards and one touchdown. Running back Lakenderic Thomas rushes 199 yards on 11 carries. Adkins led the receiving duties with eight catches for 104 yards.
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|Fetal macrosomia - an obstetrician's nightmare?
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|OBJECTIVES: Fetal macrosomia is defined as a fetus that is of large size for gestational age, i.e. equal to or greater than the 90th percentile of weight. There is some evidence of increased perinatal mortality and morbidity rates in cases of macrosomia. Design: This is a retrospective study of patients with term pregnancy. We analyzed the deliveries of 508 infants born with birth weight ≥ 4 200 grams and considered them as a study group. The deliveries of newborns with birth weight less than 4 000 g constituted the control group (330 cases). Maternal and neonatal medical records were retrospectively reviewed for clinical data. Setting: The study was conducted in Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Warsaw Medical University from January 2004 to December 2007. Results: Maternal age, parity, BMI and pregnancy weight gain were positively related to fetal macrosomia. Prolonged first stage of labor, cesarean section rate and increased blood loss were observed more frequent in macrososmia. There were no differences between both groups according to Apgar score and neonatal birth trauma. Macrosomia was observed more frequent in male fetuses. Our data showed that careful qualification to way of delivery let us achieve the same good outcome in macrosomia. Conclusions: Older obese multiparas are at increased risk of having macrosomic baby. The increased incidence of cesarean section in these women is due to cephalo-pelvic disproportion or obstructed labor. Macrosomia is more often in male fetuses.
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CALLING all children! Your favourite CBeebies presenter, Sid Sloane wants you to help him find his shoes and socks — and he thinks they're in East Lancashire.
On his nationwide solo tour named after the man himself, the star of popular children's series Let's Play will be coming to Burnley, Clitheroe and Bolton.
"Along the way you will meet some strange and happy people and there are lots of surprises. This show is so much fun for children and for all the family, as parents are guaranteed to enjoy this as much as the little ones and everyone will go away having had a great time." said Sid.
With adventures to the bottom of the ocean, deep in the jungle and outer space, Sid promises lots of audience interaction and a meet-and-greet after the show.
But catch him while you can because the longest serving presenter at CBeebies is leaving after 13 years.
"I am enjoying being out on tour although now I think it is the time to leave the show, because I have lots to concentrate on and I am planning on taking this show to different venues across the country. I also want to concentrate on comedy, but who knows I may come back," said Sid who changed his career from stockbroking to study acting in 1997.
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"Technology can make it easy for children to have immediate access to the internet and they can watch any show that they want. And most parents know that their kids will watch TV for as long as they can. But it's important that mum and dad take youngsters along to live shows from an early age because there's nothing like live performances. It really inspires them too because they have so much curiosity at that age and hopefully it will make them spread their wings."
- Sid's Show, The Albert Halls Bolton, Friday, February 15 (01204 334400), Clitheroe Grand, Monday, February 18 (01200 421599) and Burnley Mechanics, Saturday, June 1 (01282 664400).
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NORMAN — Haley Woodard blew past everyone in the 400 at Thursday's Mid-State Conference track meet at Norman High. Next up might be the state record.
Woodard ran a 55.4 in the event on Thursday, coming just short of the state record time of 54.89. She led a host of Norman athletes who won or finished highly at the last meet before regionals.
"I felt pretty good out there," said Woodard, who also helped the T-Wolves' 400 relay team to a victory. "When I'm running out there, I can't see behind me and all I can hear is people yelling, so you have to self-motivate to push yourself."
And, while coach Mike Ramsey said he wants Woodard to not push herself before the state tournament, the sophomore is eyeing the state record a week from now.
"Next week we could be liable to get the record," she said. "Right now I'm trying to work on my form to get better."
While Woodard led the way in the sprints to North's third-place finish, it was distance runner Hayley Redwine who headlined for the Tigers. The junior easily won the 3200- and 1600-meter races while also taking second in two other events to help propel NHS to second place.
"I'm happy with how I ran," Redwine said. "And we did a good job on our relay, we knocked 10 seconds off our best time."
While Redwine is a serious contender for a title at the state meet two weeks from now, she's focusing on not getting too far ahead of herself.
"Right now I'm just trying to qualify," she said. "I'm focusing on that and improving as much as I can before then."
Her coaches were less modest.
"Hayley ran great today," Scott Monnard said. "And all four girls on our 3200 relay had (personal records) today."


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---- — When state Attorney General Martha Coakley filed a federal court lawsuit last week seeking to block the enforcement and implementation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's job- and industry-killing new fishing limits, she struck what should be an important blow for all of New England's fisheries.
She also rightfully cast a fresh spotlight on the root of the problems that have plagued the industry for at least the last three-plus years under NOAA's catch-share management system.
That's the blatant disregard NOAA's leadership has consistently shown for the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the law that governs America's fisheries and lays out a suite of rules and guidelines that NOAA is charged with enforcing. Instead, the agency has been running roughshod over it, ignoring provisions that leaders like former administrator Jane Lubchenco and now general counsel Lois Schiffer simply don't seem to like.
Coakley's legal action, filed in U.S. District Court, first seeks an injunction that would block implementation and enforcement of the dire cod limit cuts of up to 78 percent thrust on the Northeast groundfishery at the start of this month by NOAA Northeast regional administrator John Bullard.
In the suit, Coakley argues that the new cuts — imposed despite the claims of Coakley and many others, including NOAA's own New England Fishery Management Council, that Bullard and NOAA had an option to extend far lesser cuts into a second year — show "callous disregard for the well-being of New England fishermen," and that the agency "used flawed science to over-restrict the Massachusetts fishing industry." She's right.
Coakley notes NOAA has — now and when putting Lubchenco's job-killing catch share management system in place — wrongfully and we would argue willfully ignored key provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Act itself by:
Failing to allow fishermen to catch an "optimum" yield;
Failing to use the best scientific information available;
Failing to consider the economic impacts of major reductions in allotment, not only on the industry, but on fishing communities like Gloucester, New Bedford and so many others up and down the New England coast.
It was interesting to note that Coakley and others who spoke on behalf of the suit Thursday, including Congressman Stephen Lynch and state lawmakers Ann-Margaret Ferrante and Bruce Tarr, noted that this legal challenge comes as essentially a last-ditch push not only for fishing reforms, but for long-lost justice in fishery regulations and enforcement.
Indeed, it comes after state officials up to and including Gov. Deval Patrick, and federal lawmakers like Congressman John Tierney, have sent letters and emails, made phone calls and tried all sorts of pursuits to get the attention of the Obama administration regarding the damage inflicted by its own rogue agency that's responsible for a federally declared but still unfunded "economic disaster" in the Northeast groundfishery.
All have essentially been ignored — just as Lubchenco and other NOAA officials ignored similar calls in the past, and just as Bullard has defiantly refused to follow the recommendations of his own regional council while sticking to the dire limit cuts, saying the fishing industry must face its "day of reckoning."
Only time will tell, of course, how a judge will rule on Coakley's challenge to NOAA's lack of accountability regarding its own enforcement wrongdoing, or whether the industry will get the injunctive relief it deserves from quota cuts that are based on shaky science, yet are being allowed to threaten an entire industry.
Yet we'd like to think that any judge will recognize that, as Coakley alleges, this federal agency must at least abide by provisions of its own guiding Magnuson-Stevens Act — and that NOAA officials are indeed not above the law.
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Did cyberbullying cause emerging women's tennis star Rebecca Marino to quit the sport?
Feb 25, 2013, 2:28 PM EDT
The news came as quite a shocker, except perhaps to those who knew her best. Rebecca Marino, the 22-year-old Canadian tennis star who had reached No. 38 in the WTA singles rankings and was a two-time Tennis Canada Female Player of the Year, announced last week that she was quitting the game?
Marino has been battling depression for the past two years, but a contributing factor was the abuse she says she's been taking on social media. Cyberbulling is nothing new, but it's the first time to my knowledge that a young pro athlete as quit a sport because of it. Quitting Twitter, yes — but quyitting the sport? Toronto Star:
"My depression had come way before the so-called cyberbullying," Marino, 22, told reporters on a conference call, saying it stretched back six years.
"Social media has also taken its toll on me," she said in a press conference Wednesday.
"Things were being written about me, and I'm quite sensitive about that," Marino said in an interview last week. "And I'm quite nosy, so I'll look it up. And then I'll realize I shouldn't have looked it up."
Before the internet you had to have a thick skin to play professional sports, or to be in the public eye in general. But now the social media landscape can be absolutely toxic — and for someone like Marino, downright debilitating. the saddest part of this that a lot of the abuse came from gamblers who, apparently, lost money on her matches. That's just sick.
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Ubisoft's boss feels Wii U can succeed, but only at the right price
Wii U had a solid showing at E3 last week, and Mario Kart 8 sales have helped the total number of consoles sold quadruple since it launched. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has warned that the machine can only succeed if the price is right.13
Aiden might not be back for Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden – the quintessential gritty white man – is among a handful of characters criticised for their blandness. Ubisoft is taking that criticism on board, and thinking about producing more diverse characters.16
You will be waiting a while before seeing another Beyond Good & Evil game
Beyond Good & Evil 2 wasn't at E3 this year, and neither was the that rumoured Prince of Persia title, and according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, it will be a while before we see either of them.8
Aisha Tyler will tell you 'f**k you' if you tell her she's not a gamer
Aisha Tyler plays videogames and is not afraid to admit it. The host of Ubisoft's E3 press conference said that she'll tell you 'f**k you,' if you think she's pretending to be into videogames.19
This Watch Dogs PC mod makes it look as good as Ubisoft's E3 2012 demo
Watch Dogs had a pretty stunning reveal at E3 2012, but PC gamers have accused Ubisoft of downgrading the game's visuals when it launched this May. Thankfully, there's a new PC mod that makes it look all shiny and 'Ultra,' just like the E3 demo.35
Here's some direct gameplay footage of Far Cry 4
Here's some direct feed gameplay footage shot of Far Cry 4 at E3 by PlayStation Access.1
It looks like Ubisoft just let slip the Rainbow Six: Siege beta
Rainbow Six: Siege was announced at E3 2014 this week, and it appears that the tactical multiplayer shooter is going to get a beta phase before launch.7
Far Cry 4 director: we "did our best" to put playable women in, "really depressing" to have failed
Far Cry 4 nearly had playable female characters but then Ubisoft – wait for it, wait for it – wrote it off as "a workload issue".41
Ubisoft responds to lack of playable females in Assassin's Creed: Unity
The Internet was all a twitter yesterday when Assassin's Creed Unity's technical director James Therien stated that adding a female playable character to the game would have "doubled the work" despite the fact it's being developed by 10 Ubisoft studios.47
Far Cry 4: I shot an elephant in the ass and it felt like freedom
Rampaging animals and high-powered machine guns. Don't fight it, let Far Cry 4 amplify your inner asshole, says Matt Martin.21
Ubisoft attempts to explain why Assassin's Creed: Unity's co-op has no playable women
Putting in just one playable female character would "double the work" on Assassin's Creed: Unity, says Ubisoft, apparently believing this is a genuine excuse a rational human being would accept in the face of its stubborn lack of representation of almost half the world's population.125
Your buddies can't help you with Far Cry 4's single player missions
Far Cry 4′s drop-in, drop-out multiplayer will be rewarding for both players, but won't help you progress in the single-player game.1
E3 2014: Were the press conferences any good? Did Sony beat Microsoft? Expert opinion here
The dust's settling on the E3 press conferences. Find out what our writers thought of the showings from Microsoft, Sony, EA and Ubisoft.35
Ubisoft holding back finished Wii U game until console sales improve
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed that the company is sitting on a finished Wii U title until sales of Nintendo's console improve.12
Ubisoft Breaking news
Ubisoft's boss feels Wii U can succeed, but only at the right price
Aiden might not be back for Watch Dogs 2
You will be waiting a while before seeing another Beyond Good & Evil game
Aisha Tyler will tell you 'f**k you' if you tell her she's not a gamer
This Watch Dogs PC mod makes it look as good as Ubisoft's E3 2012 demo
Here's some direct gameplay footage of Far Cry 4
It looks like Ubisoft just let slip the Rainbow Six: Siege beta
Far Cry 4 director: we "did our best" to put playable women in, "really depressing" to have failed
Ubisoft responds to lack of playable females in Assassin's Creed: Unity
Far Cry 4: I shot an elephant in the ass and it felt like freedom
Ubisoft attempts to explain why Assassin's Creed: Unity's co-op has no playable women
Your buddies can't help you with Far Cry 4′s single player missions
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Ubisoft holding back finished Wii U game until console sales improve
Ubisoft and EA: which third party won E3 2014?
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The Division E3 2014 trailer paints a picture of despair – and rising hope
Far Cry 4′s explosive first five minutes cross E3 2014′s borders
Tom Clancy's The Division add-on content coming to Xbox One first – E3 2014 footage here
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HURLOCK, Md.- Samantha McDonald of Hurlock was glued to her TV hearing the news of Monday's massive tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla.
"This is my home, my home," said McDonald.The neighborhood she ran up and down as a kid is now nothing but piles of rubble."When I see my home like that it's heart wrenching," said McDonald. "It's just devastating. And I want to help so bad but I can't do anything to help."And it gets worse. McDonald does not know if her cousin made it out alive.
"The area he was living in was the area that got hit, and we cant find him," said McDonald.
McDonald told WBOC she left her cousin Billy messages on his Facebook page.
"I said, 'Please contact us, we are all worried sick about you and your daughter,'" McDonald said. "We tried contacting him at the number connected to his Facebook page. Nothing."So she is keeping a close eye on footage of the tornado's aftermath, looking for a glimpse of her cousin. "It's like I can't walk away from it," said McDonald. She added, "I walked away long enough for me to do the dishes. And even then I kept running back every time they're showing more footage from it, interviews with people, hoping that I would see him."Emergency crews are searching for survivors. There is not much left of the town.
"It's amazing that people have survived that thing," said McDonald. "That in itself is a miracle."But hope remains. McDonald is hoping her cousin is OK.
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BLACKBURN is in complete and utter shock after learning that one of their prize assets could in fact be leaving the town in a matter of weeks.
Rovers of Blackburn a leading car merchants last night put the Bentley Continental GT convertable up for sale at a cut price of just £40,000 sending Blackburn's public into a state of shock. One person when asked how shocked they were replied: "I'm a tomato sauce man myself".
The man's controvesial comments have also split the town.
Back on track (no punt intended), and a Manchester company look set to take the Bentley away from Blackburn, with a former Blackburn Bentley owner now living in Manchester with a keen interest on the pacey car.


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Nutcracker-Key West
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - The curtain has risen for a classic holiday ballet, reinterpreted to feature Key West's seafaring history and coral reef.
"Nutcracker Key West" stars professional dancers including Natalia Ashikhmina, formerly with the Russian National Ballet, alongside Florida Keys children.
The production gives a subtropical twist to the tale of young Clara's visit to the Sugarplum Fairy. Dancers portray snowy egrets, sea fans, "jewels" from a Spanish galleon shipwrecked off Key West and a conch shell.
The Key West production was created by Joyce Stahl, who performed "The Nutcracker" with New Jersey's American Repertory Ballet for 38 years. Stahl has dedicated the show to the children and families impacted by the Connecticut school shooting.
It runs through Saturday at the Tennessee Williams Theatre.
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By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, the prequel to Brad Pitt's "World War Z" is already playing live, at a theater near you, today. And the prequel, "Zombie Capitalism," is raging out-of-control, an app in full 3-D Technicolor.
Yes, it went into production decades ago, at the Wall Street Studios. Jeremy Grantham, the brilliant mind behind the $110 billion GMO money management team, touches on it in "The Race of Our Lives," his seventh special report, where he warns:
Our civilization is "in a race for our lives, as our global economy, reckless in its use of all resources and natural systems, shows many of the indicators of potential failure that brought down so many civilizations before ours ... it is likely a close race."
Yes, this clash of ideologies is the prequel, a long-running reality show we call "Zombie Capitalism," paralleling civilization's mad dash for survival, an ongoing war between the free market and the planet, where the relentless race for growth and profits is defeating the environmentalists.
We've followed Grantham through these reports, as he analyzes the impact of this toxic war that began over a generation ago with the rise of free-market capitalism and will continue for the current generation, peaking in 2050.
Contrasting the two, Brad Pitt's "World War Z" is obviously metaphorical. Both, however, are very real in our minds, for while Pitt's zombies are infected by toxic flesh-eating pathogens, Grantham's zombies are infected with a self-destructive capitalist pathogen.
Zombies-are-us: economics, banks, mortgages, zombie capitalism
Yes, "World War Z" is a powerful metaphor for today's out-of-control capitalism, also covered in books like John Quiggin's "Zombie Economics." Recently Bennett Sims, author of "A Questionable Shape," also explained to Washington Post readers: "Zombies embody the modern anxiety about globalization and societal collapse, which might explain their appeal as metaphors for these crises," where "economic meltdowns are said to be caused by zombie banks and zombie mortgages."
Future historians will reveal how this deadly capitalist virus spread so rapidly, consuming our civilization, turning humans into a new zombie species whose brain functions atrophy ... losing moral reasoning, losing the sense of what's right and wrong in the world ... while simultaneously their mortal bodies become consumed by materialism ... demanding more of everything ... addicted in a new zombie mind-set where more money, profits and power, more of the latest lifestyles, technologies, entertainments, pleasures, excitement, more of the next new thing, more of everything is now a global obsession ... and where more is never enough.
In its accelerating evolution this past generation — across America, across the entire world — the human race has actually created a symbiotic relationship with the virus. Yes, we are now all zombie capitalists. The virus has transformed into a biomachine incapable of stopping, endlessly inventing, advertising and gorging us with more and more new commercial apps and addictions, disgorging more profits for insatiable shareholders.
Yes, we are in the race of our lives and the end game is collapse
How will the race end? Very badly. And soon. Perhaps in a decade. Borrowing heavily from William Ophuls's new book "Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail," Grantham lists several triggers that resulted in the collapse of earlier societies, nations, cultures and entire civilizations throughout recorded history:
Overexpansion driven by an obsession with growth at any cost ...
Loss of their original moral spirit giving way to material softness ...
Failure to balance benefits for the people with limited resources ...


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Brierley Hill armed robber jailed for seven years
Updated 5:00pm Wednesday 1st May 2013 in Local
A BRIERLEY Hill armed robber who carried out a terrifying £11,000 robbery has been locked up for seven years.
John Cleaver from Pensnett was masked and armed with a large knife and was still on licence from a ten-year jail sentence when he burst into the Spar store in Rowley Regis with an accomplice.
He jumped onto the counter telling an assistant to open the safe before taking out all the cash and then snatching more money from the till.
The second man had been carrying a screwdriver while a third man acted as a lookout and the trio then made their escape in a Mazda 6 stolen earlier from the driveway of a Kingswinford home.
Amy Jackson, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court Cleaver was arrested a short time later and when police checked his mobile telephone they found photographs of a group of men "holding lots of money".
She added Cleaver, of Queen Street, had a long list of previous convictions for offences including robbery and burglary.
He admitted robbing the store of £10,952 and possessing a bladed article.
Judge John Warner told 31-year-old Cleaver: "You had a knife and threats were uttered, but I have to accept there was no actual injury to anyone."
Jon Roe, for Cleaver, said his client had been drinking heavily and taking drugs before the offence which, on his part, had not been pre-planned.
Mr Roe added: "He was persuaded to go along by the others and it is a decision he bitterly regrets, it was the drugs and the alcohol that lead to him committing this offence."
He said Cleaver was "sick to death" of prison having spent much of his adult life behind bars and now he was getting yet another jail term.
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ozpat says...
"Mr Roe added: "He was persuaded to go along by the others and it is a decision he bitterly regrets, it was the drugs and the alcohol that lead to him committing this offence."
So that excuses his behaviour does it? scumbags all 3 of em!
3:41pm Fri 3 May 13
Dudley Bloke says...
Another case of letting scum out of jail TOO early for them to commit other offences and sticking two fingers upto the justice system.
I flippin wish that solicitors would not try to make excuses up for thugs like him, it is nothing to do with booze and drugs, if you are a "thug and a thief" that is what your are, and it's nothing to do with drugs and drink.
I hope that he can sort himself out whilst he is doing his, eerm 3 years ??.
If he is sick of prison, there is only one way to change that, and that is change his personality, he as only himself to blame.
By the way Judge, "no actual injury" !!!!.... he may not have stabbed anyone with the knife but just think of the mental torment he inflicted on his victims.
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Together with Bob Marley, the Wailers have sold in excess of 250 million albums worldwide. In England alone, they've notched up over 20 chart hits, including seven Top 10 entries.
Outside of their groundbreaking work with Marley, the Wailers have also played or performed with international acts like Sting, the Fugees, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, and Alpha Blondy, as well as reggae legends such as Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Burning Spear. As the greatest living exponents of Jamaica's reggae tradition, The Wailers have completed innumerable other tours, playing to an estimated 24 million people across the globe.
Reggae historian Roger Steffens joins the Wailers for an exhilarating journey into the musical history of the royal family of reggae. Steffens is a frequent lecturer on the life of Bob Marley at hundreds of venues including the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Experience Music Project, and the American Film Institute. He has written for the NY Times, LA Times, High Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, and Village Voice.
The evening will begin with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into Bob Marley and the Wailers' Survival Tour (1979-1980), which ended up being their second-to-last tour together.
Steffens is the only historian to join Marley on the road, and he is now generously opening his vault to share exclusive tour photos, rehearsal footage and an interview with the band's opening act, Betty Wright. If you are a music lover, this is a unique opportunity to get a first-hand glimpse into the inner workings of the life and personality of a legend.
Following this incredible multimedia presentation, the Wailers will perform the iconic Survival album in its entirety, with songs like, "So Much Trouble in the World", "Africa Unite", and "Ride Natty Ride."
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In July we were visited by a film crew making footage for The Discovery Channel - Adam Lowe was interviewed in front of objects from the creation of the Tutankhamun Tomb's facsimile where he explained the reasons for the work and the importance of recording in monitoring the condition of fragile objects. He also described some of the advances in technology that have allowed this work to become widely accepted by institutional custodians. The crew then filmed in the various areas of the workshops - routing, scanning, material development, data processing, printing - for broadcast later this year.
We want to express our deep, very deep, sadness at the tragic death of Mohammed Ghabby. He was a wonderful, thoughtful, young, energetic, diligent, funny, caring, patient, loving friend - and truly a friend - to all who worked with him and enjoyed life with him on the Tutankhamun project. We feel a deep sense of loss together with his brother Abdo and his family, for whom we have such sympathy - it is not possible to express sufficiently our sadness.
To know more about the Foundation, read the book explaining the aims and work being carried out in collaboration with Factum Arte.
Take Care
A glibly said and clichéd throwaway over the shoulder as we leave that we don't really pay attention to - and that is very much the case with the history of our custodianship. Over the last few days we have been working on a number of projects (some of which appear in the newsletter - which I recommend) which remind us of many things, but amongst the most serious is the number of lost art works that we know of - that we know have been lost though they were valued (not always by all). We exhibit an extraordinary lack of care in our custodianship of great works, those works that represent a fundamental component of what makes us all human - our history and our culture.
We were evaluating all the various ways that we 'lose' objects of such importance - and if we examine these reasons for loss we realise just how ashamed we should be.
Let's look at our first cut:
1. Intended destruction by custodian/owner/usurper:
political, religious, ideological, aesthetic
2. Theft, appropriation, forfeiture
3. Re-use of material/canvas etc
4. Simple loss, misplacement
5. Natural disaster:
earthquake, plane crash, hungry animals, lost ship, flood/damp, visitor effect, fire, termites, avalanche, tornado etc
6. Accident - various
7. Subject of work destroys it
8. War/conflict
9. Error
10. Degradation, deterioration
11. Restoration/care
12. Artist destroys work
13. ...................
So, what this list is telling us is that however safe we judge our important artefacts, history tells us that complacency is a big mistake. And this process of 'loss' is accelerating as we find more ways to achieve it - often for benign reasons but we are still losing works constantly.
There is an answer - and that also relies on an accelerating process - our ability to record and preserve digitally. If we had been thoughtful and had recorded any - or all- of those lost works we could now not only enjoy them through technology's gift - but also our descendents could. The excuse is - we didn't have the skills so it's not our fault - well we do now and it is. It is imperative we preserve what we have been given the duty, the obligation of care for so that the record that we make is only for monitoring and research (and that's important), nothing more serious.
James Macmillan-Scott
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Allan Calonge joins Catholic Health Partners as vice president, compensation and benefits. Calonge is responsible for compensation and benefits across CHP, including health, welfare, retirement and compensation. Prior to joining CHP, he worked at Catholic Health Initiatives for more than six years, most recently as director of health and welfare plans. He began his career at Mercer Consulting, where he worked on numerous health and benefit engagements in Detroit, Columbus and Cincinnati. He is a graduate of Miami University.
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