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Oct 20th, 2011 15 Comments
Spike Jonze has directed a new animated short called Mourir Auprès de Toi, which translates as To Die by Your Side, and it is delightful. Books! Felt! Very good. Personally, I think the short…   Read Story »
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Books -- soooooo gross, right? What do I look like, a nerd who doesn't even care about making the slightest effort to not look like a nerd? No thank you. Audio books are just as gross, maybe even…   Read Story »
Sep 23rd, 2011 52 Comments
I don't know what Pride And Prejudice And Zombies is. These are the things I know about it: It's Pride And Prejudice with zombies included somehow, my nerdy brother really likes it, and it was…   Read Story »
Sep 20th, 2011 18 Comments
It's about magic versus reality, and here he is talking about it. I hope Ricky Gervais's parents give it to him for his birthday and it teaches him how to be a less annoying atheist.   Read Story »
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Everyone in this video is TOO natural and TOO comfortable in front of the camera saying what they definitely REALLY feel. It's crazy how loose and RAW people get when you just turn on the camera and…   Read Story »
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So many 9/11 coloring books aren't made with any integrity and they are always shying away from the truth. This one's different.
The thing about coloring books for children about horrific…   Read Story »
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Lauren Conrad (LC to us fans) is, of course, the former star of MTV's Laguna Beach and The Hills. Who could forget those wonderful adventures? Now she is one of America's most beloved, Pulitzer-prize…   Read Story »
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Hollywood is taking another shot at turning Neil Strauss's awful book into a movie. Kind of wish they would just bring the reality show back instead.   Read Story »
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May 1, 2013 6:38 PM by Tara Oster - KAJ News
COLUMBIA FALLS - Thirty new jobs opened up when the Evergreen sawmill recently restarted production, and they added one more employee to the schedule.
Senator Max Baucus joined employees at the sawmill for a work day. The Democrat, who recently announced his retirement, periodically travels across the state lending a hand in various jobs.
"And the more physical the work is the better. So they had me working on this edger over here that was physical work. I got a little tired. Made a few mistakes, that's fine, but I hope I didn't slow down production very much because we've got to get a lot of lumber out of here to sell for Montana homes and homes around the country," Baucus said.
Plum Creek reopened the Evergreen Sawmill just last month after it closed in 2009 as demand for stud lumber declined. Plum Creek Vice President Tom Ray says the demand is back up and the sawmill is ready to deliver.
"We are going to produce 40 million board feet of studs a year and part of that will be consumed in the state and part of that will be shipped out of state as well.
Ray says the 30 new jobs the mill provides mean about 1.5 million dollars of payroll going back into the local economy.
New jobs is exactly the reason Sen. Baucus chose to spend a day working at the sawmill.
"I want to highlight whatever one can do to get more jobs in the Flathead and certainly timber production, lumber production is a large part of it."
Even though Sen. Baucus is retiring, he still has an important goal as far as his work days are concerned, "I want to reach 100 pretty quickly and that shouldn't be hard to do."
Ray also told us that re-starting production at the Evergreen Sawmill is a direct result of the housing market rebound.
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Opposition: Syria talks at 'impasse' but not over
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, points at his wristwatch while speaking to his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier as they leave after a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, points at his wristwatch while speaking to his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier as they leave after a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, attends a press conference after a trilateral meeting with U.S. and Russian representatives during the 2nd round of negotiation between the Syrian government and the opposition, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone, Valentin Flauraud)
Representatives sit a the beginning of a trilateral meeting betwen United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov during the second round of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Valentin Flauraud,Pool)
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GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Russia blamed each other Friday for the failure of Syrian peace talks to take off, while an opposition spokesman said negotiations have reached a "dead end" but may continue for at least another day.
A second round of peace talks in Geneva has yielded little more than acrimony. Violence has escalated on the ground and delegates have not agreed on an agenda for the talks.
Louay Safi, a spokesman for the Syrian opposition delegation, told reporters that "the negotiations are not moving toward a political solution," accusing the government side of "belligerence." He urged all parties, particularly the Russians who are the Assad government's biggest ally, to exert pressure on the government to break the deadlock.
There has been no response, Safi said, to the proposal his side submitted Wednesday for ending the civil war, but the two sides might meet again Saturday.
"Unfortunately we have reached a dead end," Safi said, adding that he hoped international powers would exert enough pressure to change that.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of using Syrian the talks for the sole purpose of "regime change," while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested Moscow was backtracking on earlier commitments.
"The only thing they want to talk about is the establishment of a transitional governing body," Lavrov said.
"Only after that are they ready to discuss the urgent and most pressing problems, like terrorism," he added, speaking after meeting with the German foreign minister in Moscow.
The Syrian government delegation says halting "terrorism" should be the priority, and rules out talks on transition while the violence rages.
Kerry said in Beijing that agreeing on a transition government was the sole purpose of the talks in Geneva. He said Lavrov had stood up beside him several times when Kerry has said that was the purpose.
"There is no question about what this is about and any efforts to try to be revisionist or walk back or step away from that frankly is not keeping work or keeping faith with the words that have been spoken and the intent of this conference," Kerry said.
The talks aim to end the conflict which has killed more than 130,000 people and displaced millions in three years.
Lavrov said the Russian-American initiative for the talks in Geneva clearly stated that discussions must not have artificial time constraints or deadlines.
"Now they are saying that to keep talking is senseless, because the government (of Syria) doesn't want to agree about the makeup of a transitional governing body. We are going in circles," Lavrov said.
Associated Press writer Mathew Lee in Beijing contributed to this report.


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Union Bank of India today announced the launch of its" SELF USER CREATION " facility for users of the Bank's internet banking service. This enables retail customers to generate their own Passwords for Internet Banking. The simple process is enabled by the CBS service provider Infosys Technologies Ltd. All that the customer needs to do is to enter a few details in the link provided on the Bank's website. Once these personal details are verified, the system enables the customer to create his own Password . As a security measure, the customer will get an SMS alert as well as an e-mail intimating him that the facility for self generation is opted for by him.
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John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is an American Odyssey, a journey through unending trials to reach safe haven. As a chronicle of the Great Depression, it touched every raw nerve that national trauma uncovered, but it also portrayed men and women whose indomitable spirit helped them conquer economic hazards and emotional despair.
It would be nice to report that the Steppenwolf Company of Chicago's adaptation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," which opened last night, transfers the energy and power of the novel to the stage. The adaptation itself manages to condense the novel intelligently, but the production almost never conveys the heroic spirit of Steinbeck's characters or his prose.
Instead we watch a series of anecdotes about the Joad family and their mishaps as they leave the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to find the Promised Land of California. Seldom do the stage pictures convey the agony of those familiar photographs of Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange.
The key scenes are there, sometimes acted with intensity but more often not. Perhaps to avoid comparisons with the John Ford film, the acting seems deliberately low-key. You hear some of the speeches you remember from the book or the film, you sense the beauty and force of the writing, but you're also aware of the disparity between the words and the weight the actors give them.
One scene that could not have been included in the film is that in which the young mother whose child was stillborn agrees to breast-feed an old man who has not eaten in three days. This image, a harrowing moment of affirmation, ends the play, but it is performed with so little artistry that the audience didn't seem to know the play was over until the lights stayed out a long time.
Yes, I know. This is the second day in a row I'm complaining about actors bungling what ought to be a life-affirming moment. Since I normally complain about plays that appear to have no content at all, I should be grateful that there are plays that at least acknowledge that theatergoing should be a life-affirming experience and not niggle over details.
In this case because the moment does not seem transcendent, it comes across as mere sensationalism, a woman exposing her breast and a broken man raising himself toward it as the lights go out.
Similarly, a lot of the high points of the evening have to do with technical novelties - fires on the stage floor, a rainstorm, a pool deep enough for an actor to dive into naked.
There are stirring moments - Francis Guinan's monologue as the disillusioned Okie recounting the horrors he has seen in California; Lois Smith, as Ma Joad, mustering the strength to conceal her dead mother from the highway patrol - and there are beautiful performances, Smith's, Jeff Perry as her half-wit son, James Noah as the strong Uncle John. Terry Kinney is a mildly rascally Preacher.
Gary Sinise, the guiding spirit of Steppenwolf, plays Tom Joad as a tight-lipped, understated hero, so stoic nothing seems to move either him or us. Kevin Rigdon's simple sets and his painterly lighting evoke the period well, as do Erin Quigley's costumes (though maybe someone should take them out to the alley and muss them up a bit).
There is something heartening about seeing such a large, deeply committed company engaged in serious work, but what they achieve is something far below Steinbeck's galvanizing vision.
There are moving moments, shafts of compassion, a sense of horrified empathic outrage that embody or even symbolizes perhaps the special gift of the Steppenwolf Theater Company's quietly spectacular adaptation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," which opened on Broadway last night at the Cort Theater.
Its simple message that homelessness and poverty are evil but no sin still strikes a shocked response in the very proper radical-guilt of Broadway plush-sitters, while the remoteness of the plight of migrant farmworkers half-a-century ago cuts it down to the serviceable size of art rather than life.
The 1939 novel of the migration of the "Okies" from their bank-foreclosed farms in the Dust Bowl to the hopeful vineyards of California and despair, shot like a rocket through the social consciousness of an America turgidly stirring from the worst of the Great Depression.
A year later, with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, "The Grapes of Wrath" was made into a remarkable movie (cinematography by Gregg Toland) by John Ford, which became an instant movie classic and passed into the permanent American consciousness.
There are those who regard the Ford movie as a far more important and enduring work of art than the original Steinbeck novel, and, I suspect, those are the ones who may find this stage adaptation, for all its incidental virtues, the least satisfying.
It is not impossible to adapt a novel to the stage without using it as the basis for music theater, but it's pretty damn difficult.
The rhythms, pace and images of a novel can all be more faithfully adapted to the screen than to the stage - and this has been demonstrated time, time and time again. Agreed, certain novels, such as the wildly theatrical and structurally episodic "Nicholas Nickleby" managed to set the stage on fire, and I imagine one or two other Victorian spectaculars, with at least as much action as thought, might serve a similar term.
On the other hand, Steinbeck was always interested in the theater, and the only three plays he actually had a hand in - notably "Of Mice and Men" written in collaboration with George S. Kaufman - were taken from his novels. So the adaptor here, Frank Galati, has ample precedent.
From the moment this adaptation starts with Steinbeck's chilling comment: "The dawn came, but no day" we seem to sense the novel is in safe hands, although for lovers of the movie (and Public Television alone must have made us a quorum) the poetic images of the movie are forever missing.
Take the incident of Ma Joad's trinkets and photos. The Joad family forced off their by now barren land are moving West, accompanied by the whole family, including the eldest son, Tom, who has just been paroled from the state penitentiary after four years for killing a guy in a fight.
Now it's off to the promised land. But before they leave they must clear up their old life. In the novel, Ma Joad leafing through old letters, photos and stuff is lightly mentioned - and in this stage adaptation it passes almost unnoticed, and indeed would, were you not to know what you were noticing.
In the movie, Ford and Toland had Jane Darwell going through a ritual of release from her past that stood for the whole movie up to that point - a benchmark statement in the movie's arc from understandable despair to incredible, enduring optimism. The play has nothing of that - nor did the over-wordy, just-plain-folks novel.
Galati has directed his peasant odyssey perhaps rather too slowly at first. One longs for more rhythm, more emphasis on some aspects, less on others.
But his use of the battered old truck as something like Mother Courage's wagon is an inspired choice, and sometimes he uses simple stage effects - swimming in the watering hole or the flood at the camp - with real brilliance.
He is helped every inch of the way by the Steppenwolf ensemble, perhaps now the only true ensemble left in the English-speaking theater, for companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company or Britain's National Theater are recruited season by season. The Steppenwolf remain a pack.
With Kevin Rigdon's consistently resourceful and evocative scenery and lighting, and Erin Quigley's costumes, not to mention the haunting design by Rob Milburn and the music composed and directed by Michael Smith, the evening is doused and bathed in the before-glow of the right atmosphere.
But it is still probably the actors who carry the night. Of course, they have no wish to be compared with their Hollywood predecessors of half a century ago, but in the inevitable minds of many they must be.
Tom Joad is not simply Tom Joad, an all-American hero from a play of American social consciousness, he is equally Henry Fonda playing Tom Joad.
It is to Gary Sinise's undying credit that without the least effort on his part, he slices Fonda from the play - and remarkably so, except perhaps in one case, do all the others.
Sinise is terrific, the all-American hero unwittingly on the wrong side of wrong laws, a man of humor, compassion, love and action. Too true to be good, and yet still not Fonda, the same character painted by a different painter.
If anything Lois Smith - tautly unsentimental - seems preferable to me than the rather overripe Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and Sally Murphy as the Rose of Sharon (who is given the ending written by Steinbeck and rejected by Ford, some say for reasons of artistic taste, others suggesting the censorship of the front office) is touching without ever being sweet.
The one film character who still haunts the stage like a ghost is John Carradine's Jim Casy, the defrocked, defrocking preacher. And this has nothing to do with Terry Kinney's absolutely excellent portrayal of the role. But somehow Carradine's wolf grin and immortal sadness remain hanging in this story's branches.
This is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message - although perhaps you should give your money to the poor rather than buy theater tickets - and its entertainment quality from the performance by an ensemble you should walk miles to see.
A great piece of American theater? Don't you believe it. It's decent shaped hokum. Take it for what it is: learn and enjoy.
It's not just because audiences must step around homeless people to get to the theater that the time is right for the Steppenwolf Theater Company's majestic adaptation of ''The Grapes of Wrath.''
When John Steinbeck wrote his novel about dispossessed Okies heading west in search of the promised land of California, he was also writing about a nation in search of itself. After a decade of dog-eat-dog boom and another of Depression, Steinbeck wondered what credo the survivors could still believe in. Fifty years later - after another 1920's-style orgy of greed and with many bills yet to be paid - Americans are once more uncertain in their faith. While an all-night party celebrating democracy is being uncorked around the world, the vast inequities of our own democracy leave some Americans wondering whether they deserve to be invited.
The production at the Cort, an epic achievement for the director, Frank Galati, and the Chicago theater ensemble at his disposal, makes Steinbeck live for a new generation not by updating his book but by digging into its timeless heart. On the surface, ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is one of the worst great novels ever written. The characters are perishable W.P.A.-mural archetypes incapable of introspection, the dialogue is at times cloyingly folksy and the drama is scant. In any ordinary sense, there's no ''play'' here (and without Henry Fonda's presence, a sweetened screenplay and Gregg Toland's spectacular on-site cinematography, there wouldn't have been a movie, either). But Steinbeck wasn't trying to be Dickens or Hugo or Dreiser. Without embracing either a jingoist's flag or a Marxist's ideology, he was simply trying to unearth and replenish the soul holding a country together. That's the simple, important drama that Steppenwolf, with incredibly sophisticated theatrical technique, brings to the stage.
To be sure, Mr. Galati, as adapter, takes the audience through the narrative of the Joad family's travails by Hudson Super Six truck - a winding trail on Route 66 blighted by abject poverty, deaths, desertions, labor violence, natural disasters. But the evening's dialogue scenes are few and brief, the lines are reduced to a laconic minimum and the many people are defined by their faces and tones of voice rather than by psychological revelations.
What one finds in place of conventional dramatic elements - and in place of the documentary photography possible only on film - is pure theater as executed by a company and director that could not be more temperamentally suited to their task. As Steppenwolf demonstrated in ''True West,'' ''Orphans'' and ''Balm in Gilead'' - all titles that could serve for ''The Grapes of Wrath'' - it is an ensemble that believes in what Steinbeck does: the power of brawny, visceral art, the importance of community, the existence of an indigenous American spirit that resides in inarticulate ordinary people, the spiritual resonance of American music and the heroism of the righteous outlaw. As played by Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney, Tom Joad and the lapsed preacher, Jim Casy - the Steinbeck characters who leave civilization to battle against injustice -are the forefathers of the rock-and-roll rebels in Steppenwolf productions by Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson just as they are heirs to Huck and Jim. They get their hands dirty in the fight for right.
The audience meets Tom and Casy in the parched dust bowl, where they are introduced by the evening's first haunting mating of sight and sound: a fiddler in a lonely spotlight runs a bow across a handsaw, filling the antique Broadway house with the thin, plaintive wail of the barren plains. When the lights come up, the audience finds a set - a deep, barnlike shell of weathered wood, brilliantly designed and lighted by Kevin Rigdon - that will contain the entire event. Aside from the occasional descending wall or sign, the only major piece of scenery is the Joads' mobile truck, piled high with kitchen utensils, bundles of clothes and plucky humanity.
What follows is a stream of tableaux whose mythic power lies in their distillation to vibrant essentials. One's worst fear about a ''Grapes of Wrath'' adaptation - that it will be a patchwork quilt of sugar-coated Americana - is never realized. Mr. Galati, a director of exquisite taste, strips away sentimentality and cheap optimism. If he has an esthetic model, it is Peter Brook, not ''The Waltons.'' His ''Grapes'' looks a lot like the Brook ''Carmen,'' for its atmosphere is created with the basic elements of earth, water, fire and air. Even so, Mr. Galati and Mr. Rigdon do not regard homespun simplicity as a license for improvisatory amateurism. Elegance may seem an odd word to apply to ''The Grapes of Wrath,'' but it fits this one. While a stage production cannot compete with the photography of Walker Evans or Pare Lorentz, it can emulate the rigorous, more abstract painterly imagery of Edward Hopper or Thomas Hart Benton or Georgia O'Keeffe.
Mr. Galati conveys the loneliness of the open road with headlights burning into an inky night, or with the rotating of the truck under a starry sky to reveal each isolated conversation of its inhabitants. Campfires frequently dot the stage - the ravaged face of Mr. Kinney's itinerant preacher is made to be illuminated by lantern glow -and a sharp duel of flashlights dramatizes the violence of strikebreaking thugs. Equally astringent and evocative is Michael Smith's score, which echoes Woody Guthrie and heartland musical forms and is played by a migrant band on such instruments as harmonica, jew's-harp and banjo. Sometimes salted with descriptive lyrics from Steinbeck, the music becomes the thread that loosely binds a scattered society.
Though trimmed since its premiere in Chicago in 1988, Act I of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' still requires perseverance. Mr. Galati, like Steinbeck, demands that the audience sink into a jerky, episodic journey rather than be propelled by the momentum of character or story. Act II pays off with the flood sequence - spectacularly realized here with a curtain of rain pouring down on men shoveling for their lives - and in remarkably fresh realizations of some of the novel's most familiar scenes. When Ma Joad - in the transcendent form of the flinty, silver-haired Lois Smith - delivers her paean to the people's ability to ''go on,'' it isn't the inspirational epilogue that won Jane Darwell an Oscar but a no-nonsense, conversational reiteration of unshakable pragmatism. When Mr. Sinise leaves his already disintegrated family to join a radical underground, his ''I'll be all around in the dark'' soliloquy is not Fonda's Lincolnesque address but a plain-spoken statement of bedrock conviction.
Like the superb Miss Smith, Mr. Sinise and Mr. Kinney, the other good actors in this large cast never raise their voices. Such performers as Jeff Perry (Noah Joad) and Robert Breuler (Pa Joad) slip seamlessly into folkloric roles that are permanent fixtures in our landscape. They become what Steinbeck believed his people to be - part of a communal soul that will save America from cruelty and selfishness when other gods, secular and religious, have failed.
Can they make us believe, too? The evening concludes with the coda the movie omitted, in which the Joad daughter, Rose of Sharon (Sally Murphy), her husband gone and her baby just born dead, offers to breast feed a starving black man (Lex Monson) in a deserted barn. As acted and staged, in a near-hush and visually adrift on the full, lonely expanse of the wooden stage, the tableau is religious theater in the simplest sense. There is no pious sermon - just a humble, selfless act of charity crystallized into a biblical image, executed by living-and-breathing actors, streaked with nocturnal shadows and scented by the gentle weeping of a fiddle string.
Some of the audience seemed to be weeping, too, and not out of sadness, I think. The Steppenwolf ''Grapes of Wrath'' is true to Steinbeck because it leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit that he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found.


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How do we attain a sense of wholeness in our fractured and disjointed world?
The scriptures this week offer some insight...and the answer is really straightforward. We all need to work together.
In the Old Testament reading, we see the Israelites moved to tears as they gathered together and listened to Ezra read about God's great love for them. A people once in exile were made whole again and they wept as they rejoiced in celebration.
2500 years later, we are not so different. It is our relationships with one another – sticking together through tough times and joining to revel in the good – that make us whole.
Like the Israelites, we will find wholeness in community. When we gather together at Mass or worship and listen to the word of God. When we unite to help others in need.
Wholeness is God's plan for us. We are not complete without one another.


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Author and humourist P. G. Wodehouse was born here on October 15th 1881
59 Epsom Road, Guildford, United Kingdom
The family home of Alan M. Turing (1912-1954) founder of computer science
22 Ennismore Avenue, Guildford, United Kingdom
Castle Square Guildford was founded around AD 500 and remained a small settlement, although there was a royal residence here by the reign of Alfred the Great, some 400 years later. In the 16th century the town was enlarged as a commercial and defensive centre. A rampart and boundary ditch were dug to enclose an area north and south of what became the High Street. The southern town ditch ran here, along the line of what is now Castle Street and Sydenham Road. A mint was set up to strike silver pennies. Only seventy towns in England had their own mints, and possession of one indicates that Guildford was a 'borough' - a town owned directly by the king. Soon after 1066 William the Conqueror imposed control on his new kingdom by constructing castles in the main centres of population. Guildford's was a typical Norman castle, with a flat-topped mound or "motte" and a bailey or outer area, enclosed by a rampart and ditch. At first the defences and buildings would have been of timber, but were later rebuilt (at least partly) in stone. The great tower (or keep) was built in the 12th century from the rusty Bargate stone from the hills south of Godalming. The original outer gate of the castle may well have stood opposite here, at the main entrance to the Castle Grounds. Tunsgate, the street leading to the High Street through the arch of the former Cornmarket, was once the passageway leading through the Tun Inn. It was widened in the 1930s to take motor traffic. Until 1954 the 'Charcoal Barn' Baptist chapel stood on this spot. The green lawn across Castle Street was the site of the earliest civic swimming baths in England, built in 1889 and demolished in 1971.
Castle Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Tunsgate Arch There have probably been markets held in Guildford since Saxon times. Markets are one of the features which distinguish a town from a village, and were an essential part of rural life. Farmers from the countryside around would bring their produce into Guildford for sale, and then buy other goods. There were three markets each week: for corn, for cattle and a general market for food and household goods. The street beyond is called Tunsgate. In old Guildford "gate" meant passage or alleyway, and this one used to run through the now vanished Tuns Inn. There was never a market square and for much of Guildford's history the markets were held in the High Street. Sacks of grain need cover from the rain, however, and the cornmarket was held in the front part of the Guildhall. As more space became needed, a wooden canopy was built in front of the Tun Inn opposite. In 1818 the inn was demolished and the present archway built, with columns in the style of a Tuscan temple. The cornmarket occupied the space under the arch, with a court room for the annual assizes at the rear. Look for Guildford's coat of arms in the pediment facing the High Street. Notice behind it the sword of justice (referring to the law court) and a horn of plenty (for the cornmarket). Growing corn was the most profitable kind of farming in the Guildford area. Wheat for flour, barley for brewing beer and oats for animal food would be displayed for sale under this arch. The corn porters, who carried the sacks, would take a pint of grain from each one as a market toll. the scoops they used can still be seen in the Guildhall. The money from selling the toll went to the Corporation. In 1901 sales of corn moved to Woodbridge Road (where it ended in about 1970). This building was used by the Corporation until 1937, when the two middle columns was moved apart to build a road through to the street behind. In 1992 this road was filled in and the steps replaced. The coat of arms of Guildford and of its twin town Freiburg were set in to the pavement under the arch.
Tunsgate, Guildford, United Kingdom
The Wey & Godalming Navigations Sir Richard Weston wished to make the River Wey navigable between Guildford and the Thames. He had already experimented with locks and irrigation channels on his estate at Sutton Place, north of Guildford. In 1651, an Act of Parliament empowered a group of men led by Weston to carry out the work. Although it proceeded rapidly, the project went over the budget and there were many disputes about the finances. Despite these troubles the Navigation was finished by 1653 and was an immediate success. The Wey Navigation reached as far as the Town Wharf, just downstream of the bridge. In 1760 another Act of Parliament was obtained for a navigation upstream to Godalming. The Godalming extension involved enlarging the centre arch of Guildford's Town Bridge and dredging out the ford alongside it to allow the barges to pass. Millmead Lock was built here in 1762 to raise barges to the millstream, embanked above the natural level of the river. The principal cargoes carried were timber, coal and corn. Many other goods were carried, notably gunpwder from the mills at Chilworth and chalk from the nearby quarries for lime. The arrival of the railway in 1845 began the decline of the Wey and Godalming Navigations, but they continued to carry commercial cargoes until 1969. The navigations were presented to the National Trust by their last owner, Harry Stevens, and while no longer carrying cargo are much used by pleasure craft.
Millmead, Guildford, United Kingdom
This bridge was reconstructed by Surrey County Council using the original stonework and cast iron components and was formally opened by the Mayor of Guildford Councillor Jack Patrick JP Councillor T.R.L. Waring Chairman S.C.C. Guildford Area Partnership Highways Sub-Committee. 11th November 1985 - J.W. Melrose C.Eng F.I.C.E. County Engineer - French Kier Construction Ltd. Contractor
Millbrook, Guildford, United Kingdom
The Town Mills There was probably a water mill on this site before the Norman conquest, though the Domesday Book is silent on this. A town the size of Guildford would certainly have needed a regular supply of flour. By the later Middle Ages the mills included a fulling mill, in which locally-made woollen cloth was hammered to produce a smooth surface. In 1624 Henry Smith, a generous benefactor to Surrey, gave the mills in trust, the income going to support the poor of Guildford. In 1701 pumps were installed in the mill to supply the town with water, which was pumped up hollowed-out elm logs to a reservoir at the bottom of Pewley Hill. in 1770 the eastern part of the mills was handsomely rebuilt in brick. The western part however was simply repaired until 1851 when it was rebuilt as a two-bay extension. This followed the 1770 style so closely that it is hard to distinguish the join. The population of London was growing rapidly and Guildford, with its important corn market and river communication, was well placed to supply the metropolis. By the 1890s local milling had declined and the mills were bought by Guildford Corporation to become a water works. In the 1960s the building was taken over by the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and remains one of the town's most impressive industrial monuments.
Millbrook, Guildford, United Kingdom
Quakers Acre The Society of Friends, or 'Quakers' as they were generally known, became established in Guildford during the 1650s, when Oliver Cromwell ruled following the Civil Wars. They suffered persecution after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 but in 1672 this was relaxed. The Guildford Quakers, who had previously met in each other's homes, now felt it time to acquire a Meeting House and burial ground. In 1673 they acquired a house and a plot of land at the North Street end of the inn-yard of the Crown (now the NatWest Bank). A new meeting house was built on a site across the street in 1805 and this garden was used simply as a cemetery until it was given to the town in 1927. Nearby, the 'Speakers' Tree' had become a recognised place for public oratory. The opportunity was taken to dedicate a memorial to G. F. Watts (1817-1904), a prominent local artist who had lived and worked at Compton. Another memorial commemorates the victims of the pub bombings of 5th October 1974. Paul Craig, William Forsyth, Anne Hamilton, John Hunter and Caroline Slater were killed in the Horse & Groom across the street (now a shop). The building with the short clock tower, now public conveniences, is the former fire station of 1872. On the opposite corner of Ward Street is a bank. This was opened in 1881 as a temperance hotel. It did not thrive and in 1891 its upper floors were incorporated into the Guildford Institute, which had been built next door in Ward Street.
North Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Guildford Dispensary 1859-1866 From 1859 to 1866 this building housed the Guildford Dispensary providing medical care for the poor of the town and was the immediate forerunner of the Royal Surrey County Hospital.
Quarry Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Guildford Museum Around 1630, next to the medieval gateway of Guildford Castle, Francis Carter built a 'hall-and-crosswings' house, including two fine fireplaces. Later, the house became divided into several tenements and was bought by Guildford Corporation in 1885. In 1898 it was restored to its original form to be the headquarters of the Surrey Archaeological Society. The Society had been founded in 1854 in response to a growing interest in archaeology. It began to acquire antiquities, and in 1898 was able to display them in a permanent museum. A purpose-built gallery was added in 1911, designed by the local architect Ralph Neville. Since 1937, the museum has been run by Guildford Borough Council, though it remains the home of the Surrey Archaeological Society. As a consequence, the museum houses the principal archaeological displays for the county. These include the Stone Age, Iron Age, Roman and medieval objects from the local area. Of especial note are Roman priests' head-dresses, pagan Saxon grave goods and medieval floor tiles. The local history displays cover local trades, industries and social history, including Victorian childhood. there are special displays on Lewis Carroll and Gertrude Jekyll, the garden designer and cottage life collector. A specialist collection of needlework covers sewing techniques such as samplers, patchwork, dress accessories, baby clothes, smocks and lace. There is also a collection of needlework tools.
Quarry Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
St. Mary's Church St Mary's Church is the oldest surviving building in Guildford and is almost certainly the original church of the town. The Saxon settlers became Christians during the 7th century and there was probably at first a wooden church on this site. The church would have been rebuilt in stone in late Saxon times: the present stone tower being all that survives of this building. In about 1120, King Henry I gave St Mary's to the Canons of Merton Priory, who held it until the Reformation. Two transepts were added to the north and south of the tower. Around 1140, the chancel was reconstructed and two side chapels with rounded or apsidal ends added on either side. Later in the 12th century narrow aisles were added, a pillared arcade being opened in the walls of the nave. Early in the 13th century the chancel and the side chapels were remodelled in the current 'Early English' style, with ribbed vaulting. In the mid 13th century the aisles were extended to their present size, and the north doorway made. Essentially, St. Mary's church has changed little since then, though later in the Middle Ages windows were added or replaced and the roofs renewed. The Reformation in Tudor times saw the painted internal walls whitewashed and the stained glass replaced with plain, in accord with the simpler Protestant services. The chancel was shortened in 1825 to widen Quarry Street - it is said to allow George IV's coach to pass more easily from Windsor to Brighton. The Victorian age saw a return to medieval church practices and in this spirit St Mary's was restored in the early 1860s. Fortunately this work was done with a light hand and most of the medieval building was untouched. St Mary's function as a place of worship continues today as it has for over a thousand years.
Quarry Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Quarry Street/Rosemary Alley Quarry Street was formerly the main road south to Horsham until Millbrook was built below it in 1961. Originally South Street, it became known as Quarry Street in Georgian times because it led to the great chalk pits just outside the town. The chalk was mainly used for lime, which was used as a fertiliser and in building mortar. Before Stuart times, most of the houses in Guildford were built of timber. The great oak woodlands which covered part of Surrey provided excellent building material and many late medieval and Tudor timber houses survive today. This house, 53 Quarry Street, dates from the early 17th century and has the characteristic 'jetty' - the upper floor projecting beyond the ground floor wall. The ceiling timbers inside still retain their original painted decoration. Opposite you can see two other timber-framed houses flanking what is now called Rosemary Alley - once an open drain that ran to the river. The timber-framed houses of Rosemary Alley lean together. St. Mary's Church is the oldest in Guildford. The central tower is late Saxon, dating from about 1050. Re-buildings and extensions over the next 200 years gave the church its present form. The east end - the chancel - used to extend further into the street, making a very narrow passage. It was shortened to its present length in 1825 to allow - it is said - George IV to travel in his coach more easily from Windsor to Brighton.
Quarry Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Guildford The town of Guildford lies in the gap where the river Wey cuts through the chalk ridge of the North Downs. The main routes in West Surrey converged to cross the river, over the ford on the site of the old town bridge. It was to this spot that the first Saxon migrants came in about the year AD500, to settle at Gyldeforda - "the golden ford". The coat of arms of Guildford include the wavy lines that represent the ford. In the mid 600s, these pagan Saxons became Christians and St. Mary's Church nearby in Quarry Street has a late Saxon tower. In the Middle ages Guildford thrived as a centre for the wool trade. Lying halfway between London and the South Coast, it was well placed for trade. Although small throughout the Middle Ages, Guildford was a prosperous town having the status of a borough from the 10th century and was recognised by Henry III as the county town of Surrey. As a centre of the local road network, Guildford had a large number of inns and public houses. Opposite, White Lion Walk marks the site of the great White Lion coaching inn, demolished in 1957. Nearby, The Star was the base for most of the 'carriers' in Georgian and Victorian times. These men would transport goods to and from the outlying villages. Both The Star and the building facing it have the distinctive 'jetty', where the upper storey projects beyond the ground floor. Both date from the late Elizabethan period. The granite setts (not cobbles) have been a feature of Guildford High Street since 1869.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Angel Hotel The Angel is the only survivor of Guildford's many famous coaching inns. Situated half-way on the two day journey between London and the south coast ports, Guildford became an overnight stopping place for travellers. In 1636 the poet John Taylor wrote of Guildford, "This towne hath very fine inns and good entertainment at the tavernes, the Angell, the Crowne, the White Hart and the Lyon". The Angel has been an inn at least since Henry VIII's time. Its Tudor timber-framing is visible behind the frontage added in 1820 at the height of the stagecoach era. A "Posting House" was where a traveller in a hurry could swap a tired horse for a fresh one. You could leave your horse to be looked after at "Livery Stables". The coming of the turnpikes in the 18th century revolutionised road transport. These were privatised main roads, where tolls were paid at gates and the income used to maintain a good road surface. The Portsmouth Road was turnpiked in 1749 and the road over the Hog's Back to Southampton in 1758. This enable coaches to complete the journey in one day and travellers no longer needed to spend the night in Guildford. The Royal Mail was carried at first on horseback by boys who "posted" - that is, they changed their tired horses for fresh ones every ten or twelve miles. (We still refer to the mail as "the post".) In 1784 the mail began to be sent by coach and the early part of the last century saw a boom in the coaching trade. However, the coming of the railway to Guildford in 1845 saw the disappearance of the coaches almost overnight. Not only was the train faster and more comfortable, it was far cheaper. One by one the town's High Street inns closed and became shops. Now only the Angel remains.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Holy Trinity Church The present brick building stands on the site of an earlier church, which may have had its origins in late Saxon times. the first records of Holy Trinity is in the 12th century, when it belonged to the Augustinian canons of Merton Priory. By the later Middle Ages, Holy Trinity had become the foremost of Guildford's three parish churched. It is here that Henry Norbridge, Mayor of Guildford, was buried in 1512. He left land to the south of the town the rent of which would pay for a 'chantry' - that is, for prayers to be said for his soul. This land to this day is known The Chantries. In 1540 Sir Richard Weston of Sutton Place built his chantry chapel on the south side of the church in a chequered pattern of flint and stone; this is the only part of the earlier church which survives. Both chantries were closed down in 1548 at the time of the Reformation. The Latin tag below the clock dial means 'The hours fly and are reckoned to our account'. George Abbot, a Guildfordian who became Archbishop of Canterbury and who built the magnificent 'Hospital' or old people's home across the street, was buried in Holy Trinity in a magnificent tomb in 1633. However, by Georgian times the church had been allowed to fall into disrepair and in 1740 the central tower fell, destroying most of the ancient building. The present church was completed in 1763, designed in the Palladian style by the architect James Horne. Much of the work was paid for by the Onslow family of Clandon Park, whose crest can be seen over the clock face. In 1888, the church was extended at the east end. This involved removing a great deal of earth - and burials. This was piled up to form an L-shaped mound in the churchyard behind. When the diocese of Guildford was formed in 1927, Holy Trinity acted as the pro-cathedral until the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit was consecrated on Stag Hill in 1961. Dates and monograms of benefactors can be seen in the wrought iron railings.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
The Royal Grammar School The Royal Grammar School was founded by Robert Beckingham (a London merchant and probably a native of Guildford) who died in 1509 and whose will left property to set up a free school in Guildford. The school was established in 1512 alongside the castle until, in 1552, it was re-endowed out of former charity lands by King Edward VI. This site was acquired by the Corporation and construction of a new school was begun in 1555. It consisted of a schoolroom on the south and two houses for the Schoolmaster and his Usher on the west and east respectively. A screen wall with a gallery above was added to the street side, thus completing a quadrangle. The work was completed in 1586. Grammar School boys are recorded as playing "creckett" in about 1550 and this has often been thought to be the first reference to the game. Grammar meant essentially Latin and the boys were taught to read, write and speak it. It was the language not only of the classics and the learned professions but also the religious books that were such an important part of Tudor education. In its first hundred years the shcool produced two Lord Mayors of London and five bishops, one of whom was George Abbot, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Abbot provided Guilldford with an almshouse, the Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, a few hundred yards to the west of the school. John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, left his Latin books to the school in 1575, and they remain, attached by iron chains to the shelves in the gallery. At first, teaching was free but, as the endowments proved increasingly inadequate, later schoolmasters took in fee-payers. the school's fortunes fluctuated in the 18th and 19th centuries until it was completely re-organised in 1889. In the twenty years that followed, science classrooms and a gymnasium were added behind the original Old Building. The New Building across the street was opened in 1965.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Guildford House Guildford House, now the town's art gallery, is a rare example of a Restoration town house. John Child, a wealthy London attorney, began its construction in 1660, incorporating parts of an existing timber-framed building. It uses classical features in the style made fashionable by Inigo Jones. John Child has been born in 1629, the son of a Buckinghamshire gentleman, and rose to prominence in Guildford, where he served as mayor in 1676, 1681 and 1691. The house seems to have been built in two phases, the first in the early 1660s and then in the 1680s. The magnificent staircase belongs to this latter phase, and echoes the work of the great wood-carver Grinling Gibbons. The plaster ceilings, panelling and elaborate window ironwork all indicate that this was a house of a gentleman of taste and wealth. In 1736 the Childs sold the house to the Martyr family. They, too, were lawyers and were known as the hereditary Town Clerks of Guildford. The Martyrs made several alterations to the house, including the panelling in the first-floor front room. This was known as the Sheriff's Parlour (now the Powell Room), where the Martyrs entertained the Sheriff of Surrey. and the judges when the assizes were held in Guildford. It may also have been the Martyrs who clad the rear of the house with 'mathematical' tiles, which give the impression of brickwork. The house became a shop in 1841. The entrance steps were removed and bay windows inserted at street level. Passing through several owners, it became Nuthall's Restaurant in 1930. The Guildford Corporation bought it for use as an art gallery, which opened in 1957.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Guildford Old Bank Established 1765 This building was altered and extended in 1899 when the old front was retained at the special request of H.R.H. the Princess Louise Marchioness of Lorne and the Rt. Honble the Viscount Midleton Lord Lieutenant of Surrey on behalf of The old Guildford Society.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
On this site stood Guildford's first Cinema West's Picture Palace Opened in the Constitutional Hall 8th September 1909
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
part of the Centenary Of Cinema 1996 series
Somerset House Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748), was known as the 'Proud Duke'. He would often stay overnight in Guildford when travelling between London and his seat at Petworth. It is said that his irascible nature led him to quarrel with every inn-keeper in the town. Eventually he decided to buy his own house, just outside borough boundary. It is a good example of the contemporary Queen Anne style, with fine brickwork and a gable and entrance steps in the Dutch manner. It was extensively refurbished in 1847, but remained a private house until the 1920s, when shop fronts were knocked through the street frontage on either side of the entrance steps. The upper High Street has had various names in the past, most notably Spital Street. This was short for Hospital Street, and referred to an ancient leper hospital which stood at the junction of the London and Epsom Roads until the 1840s. An alderman's wife, Mrs Quittenton, considered the name improper and in 1901 led a successful campaign to have it changed to 'Upper High Street'. In 1961 it was formally included in the High Street, and all the addresses were renumbered. Across the street, the north side has been almost entirely rebuilt from 1931 onwards, in order to widen the roadway for motor traffic.
High Street, Guildford, United Kingdom
Birthplace of John Russell, R.A. 1745-1806 artist
Russell House, High Street (Hobbs), Guildford, United Kingdom
Daphne Frances Jackson OBE, 1936-1991, Britain's first female professor of physics, lived at this address 1972-1991.
5 St Omer Road, Guildford, United Kingdom
Castle Arch Guildford Castle was probably founded soon after 1066, with the prominent "motte" on which the keep now stands and the "bailey" to one side enclosed by a ditch and a wall. The original bailey ditch extended into this area. The gate you see in front of you was constructed in 1256 by John of Gloucester, King Henry III's master mason. At this time Henry was lavishing a great deal of money on buildings in the bailey, making it one of the most luxurious royal residences in England. On either side of the gateway can be seen the grooved in which the portcullis slid. In the gardens opposite can be seen remains of this great palace. The standing walls are probably part of the private quarters built for the young prince Edward - later Edward I - in 1246. Excavations have revealed the foundations of other palace buildings beneath the present garden. In 1630 the northern gate tower was adapted as the end wall of this house. Clad in bricks with tile-hanging on the upper storeys, it is of the hall-and-crosswings plan characteristic of the local style. It was built by Francis Carter, who had acquired the castle from James I in 1610 and had attempted at first to live in the keep. Since 1898 it has been Guildford Museum.
Castle Hill, Guildford, United Kingdom
Guildford Palace The ruins you can see nearby are the remains of what was once one of the most luxurious royal residences in England. Guildford Castle was probably founded by William the Conqueror soon after 1066, with its prominent "motte" or mound with "bailey" to one side, enclosed by a ditch and a wall. The original bailey ditch seems to have run near the spot where you are now standing, until it was filled in when the bailey was extended to Quarry Street in about 1200. Here in the bailey there would originally have been timber buildings to house the garrison. These would have been replaced with stone during the 12th century and subsequently Henry III lavished a great deal of money on buildings and decorations here. The ruin to your right may well have been the King's Great Chamber, his private quarters when staying at Guildford. We know from Exchequer records that the chamber was panelled with wood, there was glass in the windows and the ceiling was decorated with moons and stars. The king had his own chapel nearby, as did the queen. Henry's wife, Eleanor of Provence, was a highly cultured woman who introduced colonnaded gardens and tiled pavements at Guildford. The life of the castle revolved around the Great Hall, which probably lay where the Victorian brick houses now stand. Nearby buildings would have accommodated the royal children, the officials, courtiers and servants who attended the royal family. After Henry III's death in 1272 the palace buildings were used less frequently and eventually allowed to fall into decay.
Castle Hill, Guildford, United Kingdom
The statue of Alice, her sister and the white rabbit celebrates Guildford's connection with Lewis Carroll. It depicts the opening scene of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and was made by the local sculpture Edwin Russell in 1984. It stands on what once was an island called "Westnye" or later "Bennets Island". A channel once ran where the roadway is now, which served as the millstream for Artington Mill, which stood where the White House is now. The riverside meadow belonging to this mill was known as Millmead. The mill closed in the 17th. century and the stream was filled in during the 18th. The name of the island is commemorated in Westnye Gardens, which has an interesting sundial. on this side of St. Nicholas Church is the glass wall of the Parish Room built in 1977. There is a memorial to Dr. John Monsell, Rector of St. Nicholas and author of such hymns as "Fight The Good Fight", who died in 1875 during the building of the present Church. Below the old bridge can be seen the sandy riverbed that may have inspired the town's Saxon name, Gyldaford - "the Golden Ford". Until the 1960's Moon's timber yard stood there, across the river. In the flood of 1900, planks floating downstream became jammed under the arches of the ancient bridge and the pressure of water caused the stonework to collapse. A single arch iron bridge was built in 1902.
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"The Guildford Friary was founded in 1274/1275; it was a house of the Dominican Order. It was founded by Eleanor of Provence, the widow of Henry III." This is a paraphrasing of one of the paragraphs on the plaque.
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Coach Mike Woodson is calling Carmelo Anthony (knee) day-to-day.
The Pistons are emerging as a suitor for Norris Cole.
The All-Star slam-dunk contest will include Mason Plumlee, Gannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Oladipo, and Zach LaVine.
Hassan Whiteside is expected to replace Chris Andersen (elbow, back) in the starting lineup for Tuesday's game vs. the Bucks.
Chris Andersen (elbow, back) will not suit up for Tuesday's game vs. Milwaukee.
Luol Deng (sore calf) has been ruled out for Tuesday's game vs. the Bucks.
Dwight Howard tweaked his right ankle during Tuesday's practice, and remains a game-time decision for Wednesday's game vs. Dallas.
Paul Pierce (toe) did not participate during shootaround, and he is questionable for Tuesday's game vs. the Lakers.
John Wall (sore left Achilles) did not participate during shootaround, and is being listed as questionable for Tuesday's game vs. the Lakers.
Updating a previous report, Nick Young is currently undergoing an MRI on his sprained right ankle, and is looking unlikely for Tuesday's game vs. the Wizards.
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UNITED STATES/AMERICAS-Russia Will Face Economic, Political Problems in Libya With Change of Leadership
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Three of the colonel's sons - Seif Al-Islam, Muhammad, and Al-Saadi - were
taken prisoner. The Transitional Council will conduct negotiations on
handing over Al-Islam, the right-hand man and probable successor of his
father, to the Hague International Criminal Court, Jalil announced. The
order to arrest Muammar Qadhafi, his son, and head of intelligence Abdulla
al-Senussi was issued by the International Criminal Court in June.
Jalil believes that Muammar Qadhafi could also be tried in his native
country, if he surrenders. But t he colonel had ruled out surrender as a
prisoner in all of the audio statements that he had made to the people.
The Qadhafi regime is finishing out its last days, announced US President
Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron, NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and other Western participants in
the war against Libya. The Russian MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
agreed with them: "The dramatic turn of events in the Libyan conflict
testifies to a transition of power which is coming very soon in that
country, into the hands of the rebel forces."
Yesterday, Jalil promised to ensure security in the country. A mass
slaughter cannot be avoided, Ibragim is convinced: The rebels are full of
hate, and thirst for revenge. Victory of the special services
The rebels were able to get close to victory as a result of the Western
coalition's use of comprehensive methods of influence, with the special
services playing the main r ole in bribing and inclining public officials
and military men formerly loyal to Qadhafi over to their side, training
detachments of rebels by Western advisers, and practicing methodical
isolation of the regime, says Reserve Colonel Viktor Murakhovskiy.
The military operation of France, Great Britain, the US and Italy in
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action, without the support of the US, says Murakhovskiy.
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good understanding of the situation in Libya, and therefore the estimate
that the Qadhafi regime would fall in 2-3 weeks after the start of NATO
bombings was not justified. Even the former colonizers of Libya, the
Italians, do not have good positions there: They had to appeal to the
special services of Near Eastern countries, as he knows. Russia's losses
The Russian President's Special Representative on Africa, Senator Mikhail
Margelov, announced that the rebels had promised to retain and confirm all
contracts that had been concluded with Russia. But the new authorities
will not forget that Russia had abstained from the voting on Resolution
No. 1973, the head scientific asso ciate of the RAN (Russian Academy of
Sciences) Institute of Oriental Studies, Vladimir Isayev is convinced, and
France and Great Britain will enjoy economic privileges. "We have several
political questions for Russia , China and Brazil," a representative of
the Libyan oil company, AGOCO, Abdeldzhalil Mayuf, confirmed Isayev's
thoughts (quote according to Bloomberg). Gazprom Neft and Tatneft had
worked in Libya.
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start work on the project after the situation in the country normalizes,
its representative said.
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Isaykin confirmed the figure for losses from the UN sanctions against
Libya -- $4 billion. A contract for 600 million euros for delivery of the
Bal anti-ship missile complexes was concluded several days before the
resolution, laments KTRV General Director Boris Obnosov.
The contract for delivery of six Yak-130 trainer aircraft has been frozen,
the president of the Irkut Corporation, Aleksey Fedorov, reported.
In the opinion of an expert from the Center for Analysis of Strategies and
Technologies, Konstantin Makiyenko, the winner will be France, which will
be able to finally sell its Rafale jet for export.
President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev will also not extract any additional
benefit from support of the actions of the Western allies in Libya: He
strengthened his positions on the international arena by supporting the
sanctions against Libya, but, according to the polls, most Russians
support Qadhafi, says political analyst Boris Makarenko.
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Looking above at our testbed, you'll see the setup is identical to all our recent motherboard reviews. We won't go into the motherboards that we're using as you'll be able to see all that in our graphs when we start our benchmarks on the first page.
On the overclocking side of things, we go in and mess around with our voltages and take them up to a level we're comfortable with. From there we set the BCLK strap to 125 and leave everything else alone. We hope to get into Windows and complete a MediaEspresso encode with no issue.
With that working fine, we head back into the BIOS and start to adjust the multiplier. Eventually we found ourselves sitting at 39x. We actually got into Windows at 40x which gives us a 5GHz clock; unfortunately when we tried to do an encode it fell over at about the 7% mark, so back to 39x it was.
Before we finish off, we just head in again and see what we can do with the BCLK. We push it up just a little more and as you can see above, we end up in Windows at 4904MHz or 4.9GHz as shown in our graphs today.
This is a strong overclock and comes in at around the same level as the P9X79 Deluxe and Sabertooth X79. The only ASUS board that's been able to offer us a higher overclock is of course the much more expensive and overclocking orientated Rampage IV Extreme.
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Her mother… this is too sad. There's not enough we love we could send to Hikki and her family during this deep sorrow.
At around 7:00 a.m., the body of Keiko Fuji, whose real name is Junko Utada, was found on the street below the 28-story Atlas Tower apartment building in Nishi Shinjuku. Fuji, who is believed to have leaped from the building, was confirmed dead at a nearby hospital. She was 62.
According to police, the native of Iwate Prefecture shared an apartment in the building with a man. A pair of slippers were found on her unit's balcony.
Fuji was an accomplished actress and enka singer. Her debut album "Woman in Shinjuku," which was released in 1970, spent 20 straight weeks at the top of Oricon chart. Her singing career ended in 1979.
Her only child, Hikaru, 30, rose to fame in pop music in the late 1990s after the release of her debut album "First Love," which spawned the hits "Automatic/Time Will Tell" and "Movin' on Without You."
In 2006, Fuji had $400,000 confiscated from her luggage at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York by drug enforcement officials just prior to boarding a plane for Las Vegas. She was not charged.
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Jumping into a new Pre-Launch MLM opportunity might make you rich, or break you financially. Take under consideration that the majority of MLM organizations go belly up in the first 2 years; you must consider it extremely cautiously. So, what are the Pros and Cons of joining a network marketing opportunity during its prelaunch phase?
Approximately all-multilevel marketing companies start in a prelaunch stage. Why do they do that? It's to do with marketing and creating curiosity and it is also a tactic of building a distribution network, where these first distributors don't need to pay to join. If the opportunity truly looks like it will become a winner many of the preliminary distributors may have already grown their own groups that will go with them, it's simply a way of getting a lot of free advertising and getting some enthusiasm going.
The business model of any MLM business is designed so that the more distributors the company has the more sales it'll make. In this pre-launch period the organization will not be making any money and its intention is to get over this unprofitable period as quickly as possible the more distributors are attracted, ultimately the more merchandise it can get out into the market.
When any business starts out it may take them several months to reach a breakeven point and to start showing a decent return on initial investment, so obviously signing up as many groups of new distributors as possible the shorter that unprofitable stage will be.
Those distributors and their groups that do join not only benefit because they didn't have to pay a buy-in expense they also know that the new business is determined to do anything to promote the product and get it to the market as quickly as practicable.
The pre-launch MLM company can keep its operational costs as low as possible, because there is no product or distribution involved till the sales groups are set up and trained.
Sounds great doesn't it? There may be hurricane clouds on the horizon.
The simple fact is, that 9 out of 10 MLM corporations' fail during their first two years of being in business, so before you join the crowd and hop in, keep in the back of your mind that during those first 2 or 3 years, just like if you had joined an established business, you may put a good deal of effort into building your business and your team, and all that time you have invested will be fruitless.
On the other hand, People who have been fortunate enough to join a company during its pre-launch phase and have joined a company that has become successful, have gone on to become highly well-off.
Please don't be in such a hurry that you fail to take a good look at the products, the training that the company offers and, the type of compensation plan they're offering. Management of a new MLM business is vital and you have to discern whether the managerial team is experienced enough to be able to run a MLM business.
The product again is another vital factor, is it top of the line, is it something you can buy anywhere, and will you be proud to push it? Is it something that will be obsolete in only a few short months or years?
For those who are experienced in network marketing they can also have the capability to judge the company and know which factors to look for, where somebody new to network marketing may not know what to look for. If you respect your sponsor and his judgment, they ought to be able to tell you their final analysis, and you can ask questions.
It's very tempting, if you get in during the pre-launch mlm opportunity either individually or with your own team, and the company does attain success, you and your team will become very well off.
The bottom line with any network marketing business you join is going to be how you manage your business. No matter whether a company is in prelaunch or has been around for 30 years it all comes down to you and your marketing skills. It's your disposition that matters. If you are offered a wonderful chance to join a prelaunch company, could you be a success? Do you understand how to build your business under any circumstance?
Your success is completely in your own hands. Are you a risk taker, or would you be more relaxed with a business that is established? Either way, this is your business, and it all comes down to you to make it succeed, so it's up to you to choose which situation you will be most comfortable in pursuing.


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Drew Nowak escapes with only a cut on his elbow. Terry McCormick
The old Timex watch commercial proudly said the timepiece would take a licking and keep on ticking.
That's what happened Saturday to Jacksonville Jaguars guard Drew Nowak.
Nowak was in his 2001 Mercedes Benz on his way back to the team hotel Saturday when a driver of another car ran a red light, hitting his car on the passengers side and totaling it.
But Nowak, who missed his rookie season due to a foot injury, sustained only a cut on his elbow and was back practicing Sunday for the Jaguars, per the Associated Press.
Nowak says he "didn't really have any time to react. I just kind of tensed up and took it."
He added that is was good he was by himself at the time of he crash.
"If somebody was sitting next to me, they might have gotten really hurt," Nowak said.
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