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When I show up to talk with Minka Kelly, the rising star of NBC's cinematic high-school football drama Friday Night Lights, I'm greeted by a tall man with short whiskers, long hair, and a jean jacket. He sizes me up with a suspicious glance.
"You going to be good to her?" he asks. "You're not going to do all that gossipy bullshit, are you?"
The man is the former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay. Though he laughs good-naturedly, he's clearly not messing around -- not when it comes to his daughter. And I'm just here to interview her. I can only imagine what her boyfriends go through.
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Dad leaves, and it quickly becomes obvious that despite 27-year-old Kelly's TV role as a sheltered, small-town cheerleader (her character is a born-again Christian, no less), in real life she's a chip off the old block: tough, scrappy, honest, and direct. In fact, she's the kind of woman you admire as much for her drive as for her beauty..
"I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque," she says, her dark brown eyes darting about the small Hollywood bistro we're sitting in. When she was 19, she packed a bag and moved to Los Angeles with nothing but a promise from her father that she would have a place to stay. "I started working right away. I had four jobs."
Fascinated by the procedures she saw while working in a doctor's office, she decided to go to school to become a surgical assistant. Friends tried to convince her to pursue modeling instead, but Kelly would have none of that. So a year later, Minka Kelly -- red-carpet fashionista, all-American sweetheart -- was assisting on brain surgeries, amputations, C-sections, and hysterectomies. "I've held several feet of colon in my hand. I could definitely sew up your leg. And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen."
Acting was another story. She says of her first acting class, "It was the most amazing thing I'd ever experienced. I'd just been going so fast, I didn't realize that I had put on this whole mask of a person to survive since I was 16. Class was the first time anyone had ever called me on it. And I loved it. I knew acting was what I had to do with my life. I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices."
After 5 years of scrapping it out with auditions between surgical procedures, Kelly landed roles on the NBC drama American Dreams and the hit WB series What I Like About You. Then, when she got her breakthrough role as Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights, she hung up her scrubs.
So what, exactly, is such an ambitious and tireless girl looking for in a man?
"A man has to be passionate about something," she says. "He has to be focused and genuine. He has to have drive." A woman with as much chutzpah as Kelly doesn't want to feel like a trophy or the breadwinner. She wants a partner. "I really believe that our careers are our first loves. And I think a career should be as important for him as it is for me. And that we should be able to understand that we come second."
She also demands a real, honest connection. No lines, no come-ons, just one-on-one interaction. "I really don't like dating.
I think it's awkward and uncomfortable and inauthentic. You're on your best behavior, trying to impress the other person.
"If you want to date me," she continues, "just be my friend and ask me if I want to hang out."
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Strong women aren't attracted to weak men. So, Minka, what does it take to land a tough girl?
Know more about the radiator than she does. "A man has to be good with his hands. He can't be a person who needs to hire someone to do handiwork. I can change the oil in my car. If you can't change your oil, we have a problem."
Shut up already. "A lot of guys don't know how to just listen. They'll talk and talk, and I just want them to get to know me. That's attractive. You don't want to come across as someone who can only talk about himself."
Love your imperfect family. "A man should love his family, but I don't do well with guys who come from perfect families. He has to be a little complicated and broken. I can't relate to the perfectly home-bred boy. I want someone who has had pain in his life and learned from it."
Look her in the eye. "I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover."
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Blair and Howard should start singing in the bath
He was talking about how awful most of us sound because we've lost touch with our true selves
As a near lifelong resident of the country's safest Conservative seat (if Malcolm Rifkind doesn't win Michael Portillo's old Kensington and Chelsea seat this Thursday I shall expect to see Noah's Ark floating under Albert Bridge), there's precious little point in my strolling round the corner to the Town Hall to register my tactical protest vote, though of course I shall. Apathetic moi?
As a near lifelong resident of the country's safest Conservative seat (if Malcolm Rifkind doesn't win Michael Portillo's old Kensington and Chelsea seat this Thursday I shall expect to see Noah's Ark floating under Albert Bridge), there's precious little point in my strolling round the corner to the Town Hall to register my tactical protest vote, though of course I shall. Apathetic moi?
Twenty years ago I ran into Mrs Thatcher coming out of a polling booth. She used to live in one of the six-bedroom mock-Tudor £2m jobs across from our modest shop-fronted block. I was pushing a baby in a pram at the time, and as she passed Mrs T patted Helen on the head and said: "Another little Conservative voter I hope."
I have been keeping a gimlet eye on Helen ever since having once run into an elderly gent at a bus stop who told me that Lloyd George had patted him on the head when he was a baby and by the time he was 21 he was completely bald.
Would I be more excited about E Day if we lived in a marginal constituency, I wonder. I doubt it. The moment the news comes on I turn off the radio, so disenchanted have I become with the same dreary politicians' voices ranting on about their new healthier options for Britain. I don't believe a word of it, of course, but I might if only I could warm to their voices.
According to a recent survey, the first three things that attract men to women are: one - eyes; two - bum; three - smile. Funny, I always thought it was breasts, but with all these implants men have probably become a bit wary. The survey didn't mention what attracts women to men, though to judge from my friends I suspect it's wallet, car, manners. Not with me. I go for voices. I like them deep, dark and preferably Scots.
Of all our political leaders Charles Kennedy certainly has the most attractive voice, and that's not just the opinion of a frustrated Lib Dem living in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It's the considered opinion of Stewart Pearce, the voice therapist who recently coached the people responsible for selling Britain's 2012 Olympic bid to the visiting international Olympic Committee.
I happened to hear him talking about the power of the human voice on my new improved digital radio with 25 per cent more options which lets me listen to the World Service any time I like, not just at 3am. It was a World Service programme, of course - all the others were election-driven. Mr Pearce was talking about how awful most of us sound these days because we've lost touch with our true selves.
Voice is far more than just sound. It is literally our persona (Latin per sona "through sound") and represents the totality of our being. I invited Mr Pearce to elaborate further on why politicians especially sound so aggressive and strangulated, and can reveal that the totality of his being must be in pretty good nick because he has an absolutely wonderful voice. It is everything a man's voice should be: rich, resonant and perfectly suited to his Gilbert and Sullivan title - Master of Voice for the Globe Theatre.
That figures. Everything at the Globe is authentic. The timber for the stage and auditorium is English oak cut not with a chainsaw but by hand as it would have been in the 16th century. There's not a single nail - it's all interlocked and dowelled. The costumes are hand-stitched and Mr Pearce spends hours teaching the actors how to stop speaking through their heads and return to their hearts, home of their true selves. I was impressed. And not just by his devilishly stylish suit and purple-tinted shades either. Does hand sawing and stitching really make a difference to watching a performance of The Tempest? It makes all the difference, he said severely.
So how can Blair and Howard even at this late stage improve their delivery? By drinking more water, by singing in the bath, by learning to breathe properly. Most of us breathe too high, resulting in tight shoulders, restricted throats, bandsaw voices - the whole physiology closed because it isn't being nourished by breath. We should relax, return to nature - city life is too stressful - listen to birdsong, waves crashing and allow our bodies to be caressed by the tranquillity of landscape.
Like Kennedy up there in his West Highland constituency. Failing all that you could read Mr Pearce's book The Alchemy of Voice which explains everything. If I were a candidate in a marginal seat I certainly would.
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It is troubling enough that such a small proportion of reported rapes make it to court, worse still that so few victims come forward in the first place. But most disturbing of all is the reason why so many people keep their suffering to themselves: because they do not think they will be believed. That rape is still a dirty secret, hedged about with so much blame and shame that victims feel they cannot come forward, is testament to how far we still have to go.
There are, of course, great legal difficulties in rape trials. Sexual assault is one of the few crimes where proof lies not in the physical facts of the matter, but in the subjective intentions of those involved. One person's word against another's, with no corroborating witnesses, is highly problematic for a legal system predicated on the concepts of innocent until proven guilty and proof beyond reasonable doubt.
This is no call for the wholesale abandonment of basic tenets of justice. But simply to shrug our collective shoulders, blame intractable issues of principle, and thereby leave a swathe of victims of violent assault with insufficient legal protection cannot be acceptable in what purports to be a civilised society.
The latest statistics make gruelling reading. More than a third of British women have been subjected to some kind of sexual assault, and one in 10 has been raped, according to the Mumsnet social networking site. Barely a third of victims go to the police, and another third tell no one at all, not even close friends.
In fairness, there has been significant progress in terms of institutional procedures. In many areas of the country, for example, there are now specially trained police officers and court prosecutors for cases of sexual assault. But uneven regional conviction rates only underline the extent to which such practices remain an optional extra rather than standard.
Equally, although victims no longer face the prospect of being cross-questioned by their attacker in court, pursuing a case to trial remains a horrifying ordeal. As a witness for the prosecution, the victim has no legal support, and faces intensely personal questioning from defence lawyers, often while face-to-face with their rapist for the first time since the assault. Even within the framework of innocent until proven guilty, there is more that can be done to ease the burden on victims, not least allowing them legal representation in court.
But the shortcomings of our institutions are merely part and parcel of a wider cultural understanding of rape that still militates against justice. It is that culture that must change if victims are to be encouraged to speak up. Comments from the Justice Secretary last year that appeared to imply that some rapes are more "serious" than others have hardly helped, adding to the persistent fallacy – often stoked by the media – that a person being either drunk or dressed in a certain way must take some responsibility for the actions of their attacker.
Part of the problem is the myth that rape is primarily a threat on the streets at night. Far from it. In fact, rape rarely occurs in the proverbial dark alley. The truth is both more banal, and more appalling: two-thirds of victims know their attacker, and assaults commonly take place in the home of either the victim or the rapist. Perpetrators rely on shame to keep their crime secret. Too often they are proved right. And if the conspiracy of silence is a problem for women who are raped, it is even worse for men.
Mumsnet is, therefore, to be applauded for its efforts to create a climate where victims feel they can come forward. The current Survivors UK ad campaign encouraging male victims to seek help is also welcome. But each is just one small step. Rape is one of the more appalling things that one human being can do to another, and yet there is no other crime about which our society is so ambivalent. That must change.
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Amber and her family are now in hiding
A 12-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan has escaped from her captors after being abducted, raped, and forcibly married to one of her Muslim assailants in an eight-month ordeal.
Amber was kidnapped by two armed Muslim men, who are affiliated to a militant Islamist organisation, on 24 December 2010, in her home city of Lahore, Punjab province. They took her a long distance by car to a house where she was raped.
Two days later, female relatives of the rapists presented Amber with some papers and told her to sign them, saying that she would otherwise not be released. Reluctantly, the young girl signed, but she was not set free.
Amber had unwittingly signed marriage papers, which united her to one of her captors. They tried to force her to convert to Islam, and, when she refused they manhandled and beat her.
Over the ensuing eight months, Amber was subjected to daily sexual and physical assaults by her "husband" and another man.
Amber's father had reported her abduction to the police when she disappeared, but they took no action.
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At the beginning of last month she managed to escape and called her family from Tandianwalla, Faisalabad, which is 190km from Lahore. She hid at a bus stop while her parents came to collect her.
Amber made a statement to a magistrate, but no action was taken for her protection, nor was a medical examination ordered.
Meanwhile, the perpetrators contacted the police and produced a marriage certificate showing that Amber was married to one of the accused. When her parents tried to register a case against the rapists with the police, the officers refused to accept it and said that, as Amber had married and converted to Islam, they should hand her over to her legal husband – despite the fact that it is illegal to marry under the age of 16 in Pakistan. The parents were told that if they refused, a criminal case would be filed against them.
The family, which includes Amber's two-year-old brother, has consequently been forced into hiding as the police, perpetrators and Islamists from the banned organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, seek to hunt them down.
The abductors are claiming that Amber is pregnant and has converted to Islam; she and her family have denied these statements. They received this menacing threat:
That she is now Muslim you are not her parents. If you will not cooperate then we will kill you.
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Sadly, Amber's story is an all too common one in Pakistan, where it is estimated that there are over 700 cases of abduction and forced marriage of Christian girls to Muslim men every year; around 250 Hindu girls suffer the same treatment. The violations are often carried out by influential Muslim families, who threaten and severely beat the young girls to frighten them into compliance. The authorities rarely take action, and often the young girls never return to their families unless they manage to escape their captors.
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One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash in Milford Township, Bucks County.
State police say the crash happened around 9:45 p.m. Friday on Steinsburg Road when a vehicle driven by a 46-year-old Robin Haff of Quakertown left the roadway and crashed into a tree.
Haff was was transported to St. Luke's Bethlehem, where she later passed away, officials said.
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A red-white-and-blue day for U.S. swimmers
Margaret Hoelzer and Megan Jendrick train together with the same coach, Sean Hutchison, at the King Aquatic Club in the Seattle area. Now they both have...
BEIJING — Margaret Hoelzer and Megan Jendrick train together with the same coach, Sean Hutchison, at the King Aquatic Club in the Seattle area.
Now they both have Olympic medals.
Jendrick, 24, has two golds, but from eight years ago. She wasn't able to add to her medal count in Beijing, finishing fifth in the 100 breaststroke here Tuesday morning — the same event she won in Sydney, along with a relay.
Hoelzer, 25, took the bronze medal in the 100 backstroke in Beijing, about an hour before Jendrick's race. Hoelzer, who is from Huntsville, Ala., and attended school at Auburn, moved to the Seattle-area in April to train with Hutchinson and his team with the King Aquatic Club.
Hoelzer was beaten to the silver by her roommate at Auburn, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe. The gold was taken by Natalie Couglin, in an American-record 58.96 seconds.
"It was a close race," Hoelzer said. "Third, fourth and fifth [a 59.40 by Russia's Anastasia Zueva] were very close, so it's not something you just expect."
Hoelzer will get another opportunity, in the 200 backstroke, where she owns the American record, clocked at the trials. Qualifying starts Thursday in her next race. The final is Saturday.
Tuesday turned out to be a red, white and blue morning for the American swimmers.
Aaron Peirsol defended his Olympic title in the 100 backstroke with a world record of 52.54, and teammate Matt Grevers made it a one-two U.S. finish. Peirsol beat his own mark, 52.89, set at last month's national trials in Omaha, Neb., and Grevers added to the gold he won for swimming the preliminaries of the 400 free relay.
The bronze was shared by Russia's Arkady Vyatchanin and Australia's Hayden Stoeckel.
Coughlin became the first woman to repeat as champion of the 100 backstroke. She held off Coventry, who set a world record of 58.77 in the semifinals but couldn't repeat that performance.
"It hasn't really sunk in yet," Coughlin said. "I knew when I saw the '1' by my name, because at first I thought I saw the clock wrong. It's a great feeling."
The U.S. dominance was broken only by Australia's Leisel Jones, who made up for a disappointing bronze four years ago by winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:05.17, just eight-hundredths off her own world record. Rebecca Soni, who got a berth in the event after fellow American Jessica Hardy tested positive for drugs last month, sure took advantage of her opportunity by winning the silver in 1:06.73.
In the semifinals of the women's 200 free, Katie Hoff advanced with the second-fastest time of 1:57.01. The 19-year-old American, who is like a little sister to Michael Phelps, is still trying to win her first gold medal after settling for bronze and silver in her first two events. She still has three more individual races, plus a relay, to make up for that void.
The Associated Press contributed.
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Hyun Ah and Hyun Seung another sexy performance, this time on sofa
By Jenny Chang | December 31, 2011 09:05 PM EST
Trouble Maker duo Hyun Ah and Hyun Seung took the attention with a sexy performance on sofa.
'2011 MBC Gayo Daejaejun' took place on the 31st in Il San Dream Center. It was also broadcasted live in New York Timesquare, Im Jin Gak, Busan Bexco and others. On this day, the two performed to the song 'ONE'.
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Good article Kevin - guess you know that a book has been in existence for some time - on this very subject......the actual title is "How to Shit in the Woods"..........very much the same as your major points. It does point out some of the finer points also - like consideration for wind & terrain (always get downwind and downhill if at all possible)etc...as you know - there are only a couple worse surprises than discovering a previously used campsite - even in the Quetico (for example) when people were less than thoughtful or planful.
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'Gratuitous' university catalogue photo escapes ban
By Hadassah Nymark, campaignlive.co.uk, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:05AM
LONDON - A promotional image of a partially dressed woman in a catalogue for Jack Wills University Outfitters has escaped a ban by the Advertising Standards Authority.
The photograph featured the young woman sitting on a bed wearing only knickers, with one of her breasts visible.
One person complained that the ad, produced in-house, was unnecessarily explicit and said it was offensive and inappropriate for display in a catalogue whose target audience was mainly teenagers.
Jack Wills said its target market was university students aged between 18 and 22, with 18 being the minimum age to sign up for the catalogue.
The brand said it had not received any other complaints about the image, and said such images were not intended to offend and were generally well-received by their target audience.
The ASA noted the minimum age of recipients to be 18, and although the woman's breast was visible, it was largely covered by her hair and the pose did not appear to be overly provocative.
The ASA did not find the image to be overtly sexual in content and was unlikely to cause widespread offence given its target audience. No further action was deemed necessary.
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There is a question we need to ask. It is a question which might end up annoying some people in the Cloud industry, however, it is one which we need to ask. Was the Cloud designed to be this way? This is to say, was the Cloud designed as terminology meant to distract everyday consumers from what really goes on in the world of data centers? Was the Cloud designed as a distraction?
Cloud Education
For the past two years, we have dedicated this space to one thing above the rest: explaining, highlighting and educating consumers on how the Cloud works and more importantly, how Cloud solutions can work for you. We have done this because here at Solar VPS, we firmly believe the more you know about how the Cloud works and how Cloud services can positively impact your business, the more prone you will be to investing in said Cloud services. And yet, on another level, we have dedicated this space to explaining Cloud and IT concepts because we know, just as other providers know, the more the public understands about the Cloud, the more the public will demand better IT solutions from providers. The more you know, the more you push for higher level services.
This stated, we have something to admit. For all the effort we have put into educating our readers and consumers concerning Cloud services, we have the feeling that we have failed. For all the information we have presented and created, we have the feeling that the marketing effort behind the Cloud was never meant to be educational. We have the feeling, the marketing behind the Cloud, for the most part, has been designed to mislead the consumer. Much like the first rule of magic, the marketing behind the Cloud has been nothing more than a purposeful distraction designed to make the viewer look one way to mask the truth. All said, the marketing behind the Cloud has been everything but simple.
Is the Cloud Battle Over?
Published on January 15, 2014 in InformationWeek, Reuven Cohen hits on this very subject.
"There's been a renewed debate recently over the various layers of Cloud Computing stacks. At stake is a fight for Cloud Computing market share and mind share — and possibly, the future of Cloud platforms."
"Beyond a small group of technologists, Cloud Computing remains largely a mystery for most people. Ironically, I believe that's the point of the Cloud: To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures."
That sentiment bears repeating: "Beyond a small group of technologists, Cloud Computing remains largely a mystery for most people. Ironically, I believe that's the point of the Cloud: To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures." To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures. Another way of saying this: the Cloud is meant to distract the public from an IT world which:
- They know nothing about
- Have no interest in knowing anything about
For most IT consumers and businesses, the Cloud acts as a general term meaning everything and nothing. All the polling suggests that the public has no idea what the Cloud is beyond a buzzword which now floats about the marketplace. For the public, due to the efforts of grid computing solutions, the term Cloud has stuck yet it means nothing. Cloud is amorphous. Everything and nothing. The term provides talking points without ever having to explain anything. The term provides for cost of service without ever having to explain how those revenues actual work.
On it's head, this point seems obvious. While Solar VPS might charge $5 per month for a Cloud Linux Server with .5GB RAM, 20GB Disk, 1 CPU Cores and 2TB Bandwidth running Fedora or CentOS, another provider might charge $15 per month. You might call this an issue to take up with the free market and yet, you could also make the case the price is not set by the free market but by the provider who is looking to make the most profit from a resource bank which he/she knows could be sold at a cheaper rate to the consumer. However you want to view it, the issue comes down to the confusion created by the term Cloud. People know what it is yet they have no idea what it means.
This isn't good and it needs to change.
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In the late 90′s there was this time in the California hip-hop landscape that catered towards those who appreciated lyrics, rhymes and beats. Groups from the Bay Area began to experiment with an emphasis on production. Shadow, Hieroglyphics, Blackalicious all stood out but it was the obscure name of a gentleman by the name of Peanut Butter Wolf from San Jose who began to appear in the record bins around BeatNonStop and Aarons Records around Hollywood and on the liner notes of compilations and his own releases that always caught my eye.
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This is a quintessential ladylike coat with turned down shawl collar and fit and flare silhouette.
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