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András Schiff, piano
Co-presented with the San Francisco Symphony
4 Sundays
October 7 & 21, 2pm,
April 14, 7pm
April 21, 2pm
Davies Symphony Hall
He drew listeners with his singing tone, elegantly shaped phrases and exquisite contrapuntal detailing.
—Los Angeles Times
AndrÁs Schiff plays Bach
Sunday, October 7: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Sunday, October 21: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Sunday, April 14: French Suites
Sunday, April 21: English Suites
October 7:
BACH: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 870 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
October 21:
BACH: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
April 14:
BACH: Italian Concerto, BWV 971
April 21:
BACH: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903
ABout this performance
Acclaimed on the great concert and recital stages of the world, András Schiff has shown particular interest in surveying the keyboard works of great composers in recent years. The works of Bach have become a monumental signature for him and, in Schiff's hands, the keyboard works of the baroque master shimmer with powerful relevance; he has the uncanny ability to bring out every complex line and counterpoint with crystal clarity and expressive energy. These four recitals are a rare opportunity for audiences to journey with one of the truly great musical artists of our age into the mind of one of history's most influential and beloved composers.
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András Schiff Lecture and Performance: Bach and His Legacy
Tuesday, October 9, 7pm
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Join us for a special conversation with pianist András Schiff on October 9 in an evening of illuminating insight into the music of J.S. Bach. Mr. Schiff will introduce and perform music by Bach and others to demonstrate the originality and impact of this singular creative genius.
Tickets to this lecture are $20. Click here to purchase or call (415) 864-6000.
Artist Biography
András Schiff is world-renowned and critically acclaimed as a pianist, conductor, pedagogue and lecturer. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1953, Mr. Schiff started piano lessons at age five with Elisabeth Vadász. He continued his musical studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy with Professor Pál Kadosa, György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados, and in London with George Malcolm.
Recognized for touring the globe with large-scale and concentrated studies of the major keyboard works, András Schiff's special recitals of J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann and Bartók form an important part of every concert season. In 2004 he embarked on an astonishing journey of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas and to date has performed the complete cycle in 20 cities. The Beethoven cycle was recorded live for ECM in the Zurich Tonhalle and released in eight volumes.
Indisputably one of the most prominent proponents of the keyboard works of J.S. Bach, Mr. Schiff has long proclaimed that Bach stands at the core of his music making. In October 2012, April 2013 and October 2013 András Schiff will embark on The Bach Project in North America, comprising six Bach recitals and a week of orchestral music of Bach, Schumann and Mendelssohn with Mr. Schiff at the piano and on the podium. The complete Project will visit Symphony Hall supported by the San Francisco Symphony, Disney Hall, supported by the LA Phil and New York City in partnership between the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, 92Y and Great Performers at Lincoln Center. Individual recitals will be presented in Vancouver, Seattle, Washington, DC, Chicago, Santa Barbara, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Boston and Toronto.
Mr. Schiff's relationship with the music of J.S. Bach is well established. Of his intelligent and educational performances, The New York Times states, "There is nothing more reliable in the world of classical music today than András Schiff playing Bach." In 2006 Mr. Schiff and the music publisher G Henle began collaborating on Mozart and Bach editions. To date both volumes of The Well-Tempered Clavier have been edited in the Henle original text with fingerings by Schiff. In 2007 he was presented with The Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize—an annual award to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the performance or scholarly study of Johann Sebastian Bach. His recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier for ECM, released in September 2012, is expected to be one of the pre-eminent performances of the work.
Mr. Schiff has established a prolific discography, and since 1997 has been an exclusive artist for ECM New Series and its producer, Manfred Eicher. Recordings for ECM include the complete solo piano music of Beethoven and Janácek, two solo discs of Schumann piano pieces as well as his second recordings of the Bach Partitas and Goldberg Variations. He is recording Beethoven's Diabelli Variations for release in autumn 2013.
András Schiff has worked with most of the major international orchestras and conductors, but now he performs mainly as conductor and soloist. In 1999 he created his own chamber orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca, which consists of international soloists, chamber musicians and friends. In addition to working annually with this orchestra, he also works every year with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
During the 2011–2012 Season, András Schiff was named one of its prestigious Perspectives artists by Carnegie Hall where he programmed twelve concerts using all three halls and which focused on Béla Bartók and the vibrant legacy the composer left on their native Hungary. Unique to the series were the many colleagues who joined Mr. Schiff—most of whom he has known since childhood.
Since childhood he has enjoyed playing chamber music and from 1989 until 1998 was Artistic Director of the internationally praised "Musiktage Mondsee" chamber music festival near Salzburg. In 1995, together with Heinz Holliger, he founded the "Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte" in Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland. In 1998 Mr Schiff started a similar series, entitled "Homage to Palladio" at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. From 2004 to 2007 he was Artist in Residence of the Kunstfest Weimar. In the 2007–8 season he was Pianist in Residence of the Berlin Philharmonic.
András Schiff has been awarded numerous prizes, the most recent being the Golden Mozart-Medaille by the International Stiftung Mozarteum. In 2006 he became an Honorary Member of the Beethoven House in Bonn in recognition of his interpretations of Beethoven's works. Other recent awards include, in 2007 the renowned Italian prize, the "Premio della critica musicale Franco Abbiati" awarded for his Beethoven piano sonata cycle; in 2008 the Wigmore Hall Medal in appreciation of 30 years of music-making at Wigmore Hall; in 2009 the Klavier-Festival Ruhr Prize for outstanding pianistic achievements and to honour a lifetime's work as a pianist; in 2011 the Schumann Prize awarded by the city of Zwickau. Mr. Schiff's relationship with G Henle continues over the next few years with a joint edition of Mozart's piano concertos in their original version to which Mr Schiff is contributing to the piano parts, the fingerings and the cadenzas where the original cadenzas are missing.
In the spring of 2011 Mr Schiff attracted attention because of his opposition to the latest Hungarian media law, and in view of the ensuing attacks on him from some Hungarian nationalists, has made the decision not to perform or return to his native country.
András Schiff has been made an Honorary Professor by the Music Schools in Budapest, Detmold and Munich, and a Special Supernumerary Fellow of Balliol College (Oxford, UK).


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PRIOR TO DUKE: Three-year letterman at Heathwood Hall under coach Jon Wheeler ... helped Heathwood Hall to consecutive state playoff berths in 2011-12 ... charted as the No. 78 offensive tackle in the nation by 247Sports.com ... listed as the No. 19 overall prospect in South Carolina by Rivals.com ... earned first team SCISA AAA all-state honors from the High School Sports Report following senior campaign ... all-area selection in 2012 by The State ... as a senior, graded out at 92 percent on offense while recording 68 tackles and 12 tackles for loss defensively ... posted 70 tackles including 13 tackles for loss during junior season ... in sophomore campaign, carded 34 tackles, seven tackles for loss and three interceptions ... earned South Carolina MVP honors at the eighth annual Oasis Shrine Bowl on November 24, 2012 in Mooresville, N.C. ... finalist for the National Football Foundation's National High School Scholar-Athlete Award ... also lettered in baseball, basketball and track and field, earning all-state honors on the diamond as a pitcher and first baseman.
PERSONAL: Son of Antara and Thomas Brandner ... mother played tennis at the University of West Virginia ... father lettered two seasons (1974-75) as an offensive tackle under Hall of Fame head coach Bobby Bowden at the University of West Virginia, helping the Mountaineers to a two-year ledger of 13-10 including a 13-10 win over N.C. State in the 1975 Peach Bowl ... born February 15, 1995.
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Jennifer Lawrence graced the cover of Vogue UK Magazine
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is best-known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, one of the popular young adult series today. The 22 years old actress makes a cover on November issue of Vogue UK Fashion Magazine. In a revealing interview with Vogue UK she speaks "I was really upset the day that The Hunger Games came out. I was shaking all day wrapped in a blanket." and What was Lawrence so worried about? Is ending up like pop icon Britney Spears.
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- Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: January 13, 2009
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
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- Audio Commentary with Jason Biggs, Writer Jordan Cahan and Producer Greg Lessans
- Audio Commentary with Director Howard Deutch
- "Making It in Beantown: Where It All Began" Featurette
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In the wildest sex comedy of the year, stand-up sensation Dane Cook is Tank Turner - the Romeo of raunch. Only Tank would charm a nice girl into hitting the town, then drag her to a strip club, insult her weight and ditch her with the bill. Tank is such a world-class jerk, other guys hire him to show their girlfriends how much worse it could get. And Tank learned behaving badly from the master: his oversexed father (Alec Baldwin), a college professor with an advanced degree in bedding co-eds. But Tank has finally crossed the wrong girl. Alexis (Kate Hudson) is his best friend's girl... and the one girl who might be as crazy as he is. Don't miss the sex comedy hailed by critics as "rude", "crude" and "very funny"!
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New Jersey Nets head coach Lawrence Frank argues a call during the third quarter against the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center in Denver on November 24, 2009. New Jersey lost to Denver 101-89 and is 0-14 in the NBA. UPI/Gary C. Caskey... Photo via Newscom
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Lawrence Frank knows he has to change everything about the Detroit Pistons in a short period of time. Luckily for him, he's got plenty of people that are ready to help. At Wednesday's Media Day, the first player to face the media was also the first one to step up to the plate. "I watched all 82 games from the sidelines last season, and I learned a lot of not-to-dos," Jonas Jerebko said. "I'm going to be a more vocal leader this season. We need that." As the team's elder statesman, Ben Wallace knows he needs to be a leader, but he's already pleased to see younger players showing signs of leadership. "We need to start caring about each other and caring about the game of basketball again," he said. "I like that guys like Will Bynum and Ben Gordon are stepping up to lead." Gordon thinks that, along with his new role as a leader, he'll also be in a better position on the floor. "Coach L strikes me as someone who really knows the game, and really knows how to...
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Heartier dishes are called for as we ease into the chilly season. Ergo, we tend to plan side dishes, as well as meat preparations, designed to warm the family cockles. Root vegetables come to mind. But leafy vegetables can play a big part in menu planning too.
Where in summer we purchase heads and heads of lettuce to use in all manner of cooling salads, in fall and winter, we tend to use other "heads" to create heartier fare. We're speaking specifically of cabbage.
Did you know that there are at least five different kinds of cabbage? There's "celery" cabbage, which resembles romaine lettuce, only is lighter in color and is a common ingredient in Asian recipes. There's Chinese cabbage, which resembles spinach in color but whose stalks look like celery; it's also known as bok choy.
Savoy cabbage grows in head form and tends to be dark green with crinkly leaves.
"Common" cabbage also comes in heads and is most often used for cole slaw and for stuffing.
And then there's red cabbage, whose head tends to be somewhat elongated and whose leaves are a cheerful deep red in color. This type of cabbage is also used in slaws and makes a traditional side dish in German households. Red cabbage purports to provide nutrients that help fight cancer and contains more vitamin C than its pale green cousin, the "common" cabbage. With only 16 calories per shredded half-cup, red cabbage proves it isn't just a pretty face. And, it's reasonably priced!
Here are some suggestions for adding color, and nutrition to weeknight meals. As is our wont, we begin with something relatively "familiar" to the darlings at our table, then move on to dishes that are a bit more "exotic."
Red and orange slaws
We present a pair of slaws, one "humble," one a bit more "upscale."
Saturday Night Slaw
Franks and home-baked beans were the menu du jour on Saturday nights when I was growing up. If you are into such humble fare, or even if you're still doing some grilling (burgers, barbecued ribs), this colorful, highly nutritious, extremely easy "salad" will stand you in good stead year round.
Most supermarkets carry some form of shredded carrots (usually in the salad bar) that can make this easy dish a whole lot easier.
4 cups shredded carrots
4 cups finely shredded red cabbage (we like to shred our own)
2/3 cup rice wine vinegar
4 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
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In a large bowl, toss together carrots and red cabbage. In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, sugar, oil and pepper. Just before serving, add some of the dressing to cabbage mixture; toss, taste and add more dressing if desired. Makes about 6 servings.


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While some history buffs were horrified to learn last week that cash-strapped Baltimore is considering the sale or lease of 15 other historic properties — prompting fears that "For Sale By Owner" signs would sprout on such icons as the Shot Tower and the War Memorial Building — preservationists say that, increasingly, this is what cities and states must do to save them.
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Most commonly, preservationists said, local and state governments retain ownership of the sites and buildings, making lease arrangements with nonprofit organizations or private companies to operate them as attractions.
Sometimes, the historic properties have transferred into private ownership, a move that can limit public access.
In other cases, though, the transition can bring new life to a landmark that had long been decaying or vacant. Baltimore is filled with examples of such recycled structures, including the American Brewery building, now home to Humanim, a nonprofit that offers social and vocational services, and the Bromo Seltzer Tower, which is leased as studio space for artists.
And, of course, the aforementioned Government House. The mansion was donated to the city, which turned it into an inn in the 1980s before selling it last year to a private group that plans to make it a boutique hotel.
The 15 properties identified for possible sale or lease include the mansion at Cylburn Arboretum, President Street Station and the Old Town Friends' Meeting House, which dates to 1781 and is the city's oldest religious structure. Some properties such as the Upton Mansion and Clifton Park Valve House have fallen into disrepair; others are still being used by city agencies.
City planning director Thomas J. Stosur said the city is open to considering any new uses for the properties. He said the city wanted to get a "fresh set of eyes" by hiring an appraisal company, Westholm & Associates of Annapolis, to assess the market value of the properties and possible future uses — even commercial ones.
"If someone wanted to turn the Peale Museum into a restaurant or cafe, that would be great," Stosur said, referring to the Holliday Street facility that has been closed since 1997.
Such a notion may make some blanch. The Peale, after all, was the first building in the country constructed specifically as a museum.
But preservationists say that regardless of who owns or operates a historic property, there is growing sentiment that preservation doesn't have to mean filling it with musty period furnishings and trying to recapture a lost era.
Many house museums, in particular, have fallen on hard times. As public and private funding have failed to keep pace with the expenses of their upkeep, museums have either closed or are open only for limited hours — the fate of the city-owned Mencken and Poe houses, for example.
"Adaptive reuse — that's the current buzzword," said Terry Davis, president of the American Association of State and Local History. "We get calls all the time: 'We've got this fantastic old house. We think we'll start a museum.' But just having a wonderful building doesn't constitute a need for a museum. It constitutes a need for saving the structure."
Across America, churches have been turned into nightclubs, factories into loft apartments. And with the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, what used to be called insane asylums have found new life as well. The west campus of St. Elizabeths in Washington (John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, is among those still housed on its east campus) is being redeveloped for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the former Agnews State Hospital in California was bought by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s for offices and research facilities.
"For a building to survive, there's got to be people in it," said Johns Hopkins, executive director of Baltimore Heritage, a nonprofit that works to preserve and promote the city's architectural history.
But he wondered whether the city is realistic in thinking it had a "gold mine" waiting to be excavated from properties that have deteriorated over the years from neglect.
"If there were a high-tech software company that wanted to move into Upton Mansion, I would applaud that," he said of the west-side building that dates to the 1830s. "I think all uses should be on the table."
Not every historic property, though, can be repurposed for modern or profit-making use, Hopkins said. "The Shot Tower: What commercial use is there? We're not making lead shot for muskets anymore."


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Around 2,000 years of cultural history include the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South and Central Germany. Bayreuth is the ideal starting point to visit the nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites under four day trip:
Day 1
Margravine Wilhelmine, the favorite art-loving sister of Frederick the Great, gave Bayreuth a numerous palaces, parks and the wonderful Margrave Opera House that has been declared as the most beautiful baroque theater in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Experience a tour of the city's Bayreuth as Margravine Wilhelmine created it.
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Trip to Würzburg and visit of the Prince's Residence with the famous ceiling frescoes by Tiepolo, which was one of the first places of Germany UNESCO World Heritage appointed. In the afternoon you will do a city-tour in Bamberm. The entire old town of Bamberg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for exactly 20 years
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Trip to the nearly 2,000-year-old Regensburg, whose intact medieval city center was also named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Move stop at White Castle at the Limes, the former Roman border fortifications in Germania and visit the Roman Museum with the famous Roman treasure. This antique border wall was included as one of the outstanding archaeological monuments in the bottom list of UNESCO Welterbstätte.
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Trip to Weimar, the sites of German classicism and the Bauhaus are represented twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Trip to Prague, which also has to have with the historic old town and the castle park Pruhonice two UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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End of the official program. We recommend to extend your trip to Dessau Worlitz, Potsdam and Berlin, and thus to increase the number of visited UNESCO World Heritage Sites on overall 14th
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"He was a workaholic and team player," the now defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya commissioner Jack Tumwa says of his former boss Samuel Kivuitu who died on Monday.
Tumwa, who worked under Kivuitu for nearly a decade, said he was saddened by his death. "I saw him last month and he was very jovial. He was confident that he would come out strong," he said.
Kivuitu, aged 74, died at the MP Shah Hospital in Nairobi where he had gone for a a routine check-up on Monday afternoon and had some X-rays taken before collapsing and being admitted. He had been battling throat cancer that has seen him in and out of hospital for two years.
Although many people blamed him (Kivuitu) for the December 27, 2007 chaotic elections, Tumwa said Kivuitu did his job but some people messed him up.
"Kivuitu was the electoral commission boss in 1997 and 2002 and we were all happy with what he did," said Tumwa. "We seem to have forgotten the 2005 referendum which was peaceful and Kivuitu was the boss which the international community and Kenyans all applauded as one of the best. He carried the cross of others in 2007."
Kivuitu was largely blamed for the bungled election which saw more than 1,300 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.
The Kriegler review team set up to investigate the 2007 polls in its findings said that the election was so gravely flawed that it was impossible to determine the winner in the presidential elections.
Kivuitu absolved himself from blame, saying his work was to announce results and he just did that. He said his business was to announce what was brought to him by returning officers.
"I did nothing wrong," Kivuitu said when asked what he felt about the 2007 elections by journalists. "I did my part. I announced the results; which was expected of me."
Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka said he learnt of Kivuitu's death with deep sorrow, sense of loss and sadness.
"I had known the late Kivuitu as a close parliamentary colleague, lawyer and friend for many years," said the VP in a statement. "Samuel was a humble, stoic, philanthropic and a social person who always strived to give his best to humanity and in particular to his country."
Former Speaker of National Assembly Francis ole Kaparo said although he did not interact much with Kivuitu, he had known him as a straightforward man. "He was strict and always kept time. In meetings we both attended, he was always on time."
Prime Minister Raila Odinga said in his considered assessment, Kivuitu was a forthright man who often spoke his mind, without fear or favour.
"Many are those who may have misunderstood him, but he certainly shepherded over our previous elections from 1997, in 2002 and in 2007," said the PM in a statement.


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Luanda — The Angolan people is celebrating on Friday, January 04, the Colonial Repression Martyrs' Day, with political, cultural and sports activities.
The date is of extreme importance in the context of the struggle for national liberation against colonialism, since it marked the start of an uprising against the Portuguese colonial occupation of about 500 years (1482-1975), with devastating human and material consequences.
In the history of the peoples, there are dates which for their cultural value and historical significance become indestructible and guiding landmarks for the lives of men.
January 04, 1961, is effectively to the Angolan people one of those dates whose content continues to inspire different generations of Angolan children in their actions in defence of liberty and well-being.
In fact, 52 years after the tragic events of the Baixa de Kassanje region (east of Angola), in which over 15.000 men and women were barbarically killed by the Portuguese colonial aviation, dropping Napalm bombs.
In face of the broad and strong movement of just claims and demands to respect their rights and liberties, the revolting peasants of agricultural fields in the Baixa de Kassanje region, the colonial authorities discharged their violence on the population of that region, a tragic act that brought about general distress and lit up the flame of the feeling of freedom from the colonial regime.
Since those tragic events, other historical moments followed which had similar impact on the lives of Angolans.
The courageous attitude of those men was the trailblazer of the liberation movement that culminated with the declaration of independence on 11 November 1975.


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Andy Rooney, whose CBS career spans the entire post-war history of network news, died Friday as a result of complications following minor surgery, the network announced.
A mainstay of Sunday night viewing for millions of Americans, the 92-year-old Rooney only stepped down from his regular commentary post on "60 Minutes" last month.
Here's the release from CBS News:
Andy Rooney, the 60 MINUTES commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays – a unique genre he is credited with inventing – died last night (4) in the hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery. He was 92 and had homes in New York City, Rensselaerville, N.Y. and Rowayton, Conn.
Rooney had announced a few weeks ago in his 1097th essay for 60 MINUTES on Oct. 2 that he would no longer appear regularly on the broadcast.
"Words cannot adequately express Andy's contribution to the world of journalism and the impact he made--as a colleague and friend--upon everyone at CBS," said Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation. "His wry wit, his unique ability to capture the essence of any issue, and his larger-than-life personality made him an icon, not only within the industry but among readers and viewers around the globe. Andy was not just a member of the CBS family; he was a member of the world's family. We treasure the legacy he has left, and his presence will be sorely missed by those of us at CBS and by his fans around the world."
"It's a sad day at 60 MINUTES and for everybody here at CBS News. It's hard to imagine not having Andy around. He loved his life and he lived it on his own terms. We will miss him very much," said Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and the executive producer of 60 MINUTES.
Rooney wrote for television since its birth, spending nearly 60 years at CBS, 30 of them behind the camera as a writer and producer, first for entertainment and then news programming, before becoming a household name – a role he said he was never comfortable in. He preferred to be known as a writer and was the author of best-selling books and a national newspaper column, in addition to his 60 MINUTES essays.
But it is his television role as the inquisitive and cranky commentator on 60 MINUTES that made him a cultural icon. For 33 years, Rooney had the last word on the most watched television program in history. Ratings for the broadcast rose steadily over its time period, peaking at a few minutes before the end of the hour, precisely when he delivered his essays, which could generate thousands of response letters.
Each Sunday, Rooney delivered one of his 60 MINUTES essays from behind a desk that he, an expert woodworker, hewed himself. The topics ranged from the contents of that desk's drawer to whether God existed. He often weighed in on major news topics, sometimes seriously and often humorously. In an early 60 MINUTES essay that won him the third of his four Emmy Awards, he reacted to the grain embargo against the Soviet Union by suggesting the U.S. sell them cereal instead. "Are they going to take us seriously as an enemy if they think we eat Cap'n Crunch for breakfast?"
Mainly, his essays struck a cord in viewers by pointing out life's unspoken truths or more often complaining about its subtle lies, earning him the "curmudgeon" status he wore like a uniform. "I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought," Rooney told the Associated Press in 1998. In typical themes, Rooney questioned labels on packages, products that didn't seem to work and curious human behavior, such as why people don't talk in elevators.
Rooney asked thousands of questions in his essays over the years, none, however, began with "Did you ever…?", a phrase often associated with him. Comedian Joe Piscopo used it in a 1981 impersonation of him on "Saturday Night Live" and, from then on, it was erroneously linked to Rooney.
Rooney was also mistakenly connected to racism when a politically charged essay highly insensitive to minorities was written in his style and passed off as his on the internet in 2003. Over the next few years, it found its way into the e-mail boxes of untold thousands, causing Rooney to refute it in a 2005 60 MINUTES essay, and again, as it continued to proliferate, in a Associated Press article a year later.
Many assumed he wrote the screed because Rooney's longtime habit of writing or speaking plainly on sensitive topics had often left him open to attacks by activist groups. The racist essay was one of the many false Rooney quotes and essays bouncing around the internet. The racism charge angered and hurt Rooney deeply. He hated racism: As a young soldier in the early 1940s, he had himself arrested in Florida by refusing to leave the seat he had chosen among blacks in the back of an Army bus.
At the height of the AIDS crisis, Rooney had his biggest run-in with a group and it had dire consequences. In February 1990, the gay magazine The Advocate interviewed him after he associated the human choices of drugs, tobacco and gay sex with death in a CBS News special, "A Year With Andy Rooney: 1989." The magazine printed racist remarks attributed to him from the interview, which he vehemently denied making. A torrent of negative publicity followed, after which then-CBS News President David Burke suspended him for three months. The outcry for his return was deafening. Burke reinstated him after only three weeks, saying Rooney was not a man "who holds prejudice in his heart and mind." The ratings for 60 MINUTES, CBS' only top-10 hit that season, dropped while Rooney was off the air.
But the negative publicity and suspension exacted a toll. Rooney said publicly he was "chilled" and admitted the new sensitivity led him to spike a later essay regarding the United Negro College Fund.
Rooney still spoke his mind, however. Thousands of angry letters arrived when he said Kurt Cobain, the young star of hit rock band "Nirvana," was essentially a waste of humanity for taking his own life. Native Americans demanded apologies when he belittled their efforts to stop sports teams from using names like "Braves" in 1995 and again in 1997, when he suggested Indian casino profits be used to support poor tribes. He reacted to the acquittal of O.J. Simpson in 1995 by offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the real killer – a reward he said he would never have to pay because Simpson committed the murders. His essay in 2004, in which he said God told him that the Rev. Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson were "whackos," resulted in 20,000 complaints – the most response any 60 MINUTES issue ever drew.
No group was off limits for Rooney, especially CBS management and his own colleagues. Rooney poked fun at the 60 MINUTES correspondents on a regular basis in his essays, while he questioned CBS management on issues, such as layoffs and strikes, sometimes in his 60 MINUTES essays, but more often in his syndicated newspaper column for Tribune Media Services or in media interviews. During a Writers Guild of America strike against CBS, Rooney, though not in the union, supported it by not writing any 60 MINUTES pieces until the strike was settled. He publicly blamed CBS's troubles of the early 1990s on Chairman Laurence Tisch's cutbacks, daring Tisch to fire him.
Long-time CBS broadcaster Andy Rooney dead at 92
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MIDDLE AMANA, Iowa - A lightning strike is believed to have started a fire at a bed and breakfast in Middle Amana. Around noon Saturday volunteer fire departments from both Iowa and Johnson Counties responded to Rose's Place, 1007 26th Ave., on a report of fire at the building.
Witnesses living in the area said they heard a loud bang and saw a flash around the time of the fire. No official cause has been released by fire investigators, who remain on the scene as of 2:15 p.m.
The building sustained moderate damage to the attic and roof areas. An official working near the scene said he wasn't aware of any injuries.
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Muslims show commitment and self-sacrifice by distributing meat to family and the poor.
Though it is time to celebrate and have fun, Muslims around the world can learn a lesson on the Eid Al Adha — or the Festival of Sacrifice — which falls on Tuesday.
Pilgrims offering Friday prayer at the grand mosque in the holy city of Makkah. — AFP
According to scholars and Imams here, the faithful need to give and forgive, share and care, and mull over the story of sacrifice which dates back to the time of Prophet Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him).
Muslims commemorate this unique example of commitment and self-sacrifice to Allah, and learn about his victory over devil's temptation not to slay his sole son Ishmael as ordered by God.
Conversely, he was all prepared to fulfill the command which later proved to be just a test. "He had shown that his love for his Lord superseded all others that he would lay down his own life or the lives of those dear to him in order to submit to God," said Mohammed Yusuf, Imam of Diyar Mosque.
Instead, Allah gifted him a great sheep to sacrifice, and that action has become a ritual for all Muslims henceforth to remember this example and practice charity on the occasion by distributing the meat of the animal sacrificed in three thirds among family, friends and the poor.
Though it is a feast, Muslims are advised to follow certain steps to best celebrate the festival by starting the Eid day early in the morning, taking a shower, and wearing their best clothes — preferably in white colour.
"They are also advised to impart a pleasant fragrance, and all members of the families — be they men, women, old or young, boys or girls — head to the Musalla (an outdoor spacious open area) to perform the Eid prayers," Egyptian Islamic researcher Dr Sheikh Mohammed Ashmawy said.
Echoing the same, Mohammed Salem, Imam of Al Taqwa Masjid, said feasts are known as times of joy and celebrations in all nations and cultures. "However, they are interrelated with worship in Islam and are aimed to develop and achieve piety, and make Muslims closer to God Almighty."
Celebrating and having fun in a disciplined manner is allowed in Islam — which never contradicts human nature — to break the monotonous daily life routine. "As such, fasting this day is forbidden, and Muslims are advised to show mercy to others, give charity, be more tolerant and patient, and visit each other," he added.
Chanting Takbeer, Allah Akbar (Allah is the greatest), Muslims happily drive or walk to the Musalla individually or in groups. The joyous occasion is attached to religion, or more specifically the Haj (pilgrimage, the fifth pillar of Islam) as is the case with the Eid Al Fitr which marks the end of fasting in Ramadan.
"On the Eid days, special foods are prepared, friends and relatives are invited, gifts are exchanged, houses are adorned with lights and decorations, and parks are thronged with visitors," said Ahmed Burei, Egyptian resident. Sheikh Tariq M, Imam of Al Huda Masjid, said Muslims would rather take two different routes when going to the Musalla and coming back. "When meeting others, Muslims are advised to say: May Allah accept (worship) from both of us."
Should a Muslim miss the chance to perform Haj this season, he may devotedly say Takbeer, and sacrifice a sheep, goat, cow, or whatever possible to get more rewards.
"As God Almighty has spared the life of Prophet Ishmael (PBUH), substituting him with a sheep, Muslims are to optionally slaughter an animal and distribute its meat, particularly to the poor in commemoration to the occasion, so that the poor enjoy this irregular luxury of eating meat in the Eid," Tariq Ayub, Imam of Al Tawheed Masjid said, adding that Eid clothes are also given to the needy to make them happier in the festival.
"Still, Muslims can share the joy of the Eid in three days of the feast, by being more tolerant, forgiving, distributing the meat of the sacrificed animal. It is advised to divide the Adahi into three parts, one third for the poor, the second for the relatives, and the third for oneself," said Imam of Tawheed Masjid Sheikh Ramadan Yunus. -email@example.com
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A few weeks ago, I saw an email in my inbox from Veruca James. Naturally, I thought someone was trying to prank me because why would Veruca James, one of the sexiest porn actresses in the world, be emailing me?
So with extreme skepticism, I replied simply with, "Is this really Veruca James?" To my surprise, it was. It turns out that Veruca James isn't only one of the sexiest porn actresses in the world, she's one of the coolest people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
She was happy to answer a few questions I had about her relationship with Damon James, being from Chicago, and her WoodRocket.com show Naked In Public. So without further ado, let's get to the Veruca James interview.
Chico: Let's just start with the basics, where are you from and how long have you been in the industry?
Veruca: I'm from Chicago and began working full-time in the industry in June 2012.
Is there an adult industry presence in Chicago?
Yes and no. If you're referring to shooting professional porn, there are a handful of performers who fly to LA to shoot porn, but no professional porn is shot in Chicago because it's illegal. Otherwise, there is a fairly large group of sex workers (dominatrix, cam girls, escorts and strippers) who are all also part of the adult industry, but might not always perform in professional porn.
I was reading a profile of yours and under assets it said, "Vast sexual energy." Would you agree with that? Did your vast sexual energy lead you to doing porn?
Haha! Where did that come from? It is totally true! I have always been a very sexual person and I do feel like it is an energy within me. I think that inner sexuality definitely contributed to me exploring porn.
I think the first time I saw you was in the Funny Or Die Measure B video so I'm wondering what are your thoughts on Measure B since it passed. Has it had any effect on your work?
Measure B is a completely unnecessary and unwarranted attack on porn. First and foremost, I don't believe it's constitutional to tell me that I'm obligated by law to use condoms, dental dams, face masks or gloves during sex with anyone. Measure B would require that Damon and I use condoms when we webcam together in the privacy of our home, that's so absurd.
There is no legitimate proof that our testing protocols are ineffective, so it doesn't make any sense to start assuming that we as adults, need law enforcement to act on our behalf and force us to do what is our personal responsibility. There are blogs all over the place from people within the industry discussing all the specifics about why Measure B makes no sense, but really it's basic.
It's also nearly impossible to actually enforce the Measure anyway. People have just stopped filing for permits, most porn is shot in private residences anyway. Or people have moved their shoots outside of LA county or some even to Vegas.
It hasn't effected that much other than just annoying everyone with it even being discussed. I haven't shot any less because of it and I have yet to use a condom in porn and there still are no serious concerns about massive STD outbreaks.
"Veruca" is a pretty interesting name. How did you decide on it? The only two Verucas I can think of are warts and Willy Wonka.
Willy Wonka of course! And for all those nerds out there that know that a verruca is a wart, they should notice the spelling differences. Also, what about Veruca Salt the band from Chicago, my home town? Actually, Veruca is a nickname that I was coined with well before I got into porn. I'm an only child and I might get a little bratty when I don't get my way. I might also stomp my feet like a child when I'm angry. So, some friends began teasing me by saying that I would have my "Veruca" moments. When I first joined twitter in 2010, my friends convinced me to name myself Veruca and when I got into porn, I just kept it.
Your husband
Fiance! Come on, let a girl enjoy her engagement.
Sorry (and also congratulations). Your fiance, Damon is also a performer. Were you guys together before porn?
We got engaged in December 2012, so I'm still enjoying showing off my ring as a newly engaged girl. Damon and I met in November 2010, so yes, we were together for a while before we both began performing. Although, from the beginning we were always excited about taking photos during sex and filming our sex.
People who don't do porn have a lot of trouble understanding pornstars in relationships. What's the secret to making it work?
Communication and effort, just like any other relationship. I think people get hung up on the monogamy issue. They exclusively associate monogamy with only have sex with one person. But, for us personally, we believe that monogamy is associated with a commitment and a relationship with one person. We believe in sharing our sexuality together and being completely honest about our desires. If one of us is interested in having sex with another person we talk about it, but not like sit down serious "we need to talk, talk" its more so incorporated in our flirting with each other.
So your open relationship (please excuse the lame choice of words) with Damon extends beyond shooting?
Absolutely not, neither of us has sex outside of our relationship except when performing in professional porn. If we decide we both want to have sex with another man/woman, then it is always done together.
So hypothetically speaking, if you wanted to have sex with someone who wrote a porn/sex blog for Sex.com you would flirt with Damon? And in this hypothetical situation, what exactly would happen to this hypothetical sex blogger that you hypothetically wanted to have sex with? It's entirely hypothetical, of course.
Hahaha I would need to convince Damon that he too would benefit in some way to watching me have sex with a hypothetical blogger. Best chances would be to find a super hot girl to offer up as a fair trade :P
Sounds fair to me. You're represented by Mark Spiegler. That's a name I hear often and he seems like this legendary porn-agent that can make anything happen. What's it like working with Mark?
Mark is the best agent in porn. He has the absolute best reputation for only representing girls that are reliable, responsible and truly great performers. He's also very picky about who he represents because of his reputation, so he only represents 25 girls at a time. Having a small roster also enables him to give each of his girls one on one attention and dedication to their careers. He genuinely cares about the girls he represents.
Are Spiegler Girls like the cool clique of porn?
No, it's not like that. There are lots of really cool girls and great performers that are represented by other agents. I think Spiegler Girls are just considered the best of the best, because they will always show up, on time, with the required wardrobe, current test and ready to perform an awesome scene.
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You and Damon had/have a blog about your sexcapes in public called Naked in Public and now it's a series on Woodrocket. How did the blog turn into a series?
The blog started around January 2011 and it was updated by Damon with photos of us out and about in Chicago and on vacation, fucking, eating, flashing my tits/pussy, getting girls to flash theirs and all that. Our good friend and producer for WoodRocket recognized that our life really is as wild as we portray it and he asked us if we would want to bring our blog to life by filming video of our craziness.
Has getting naked in public always been something you and Damon have done?
Yes. I'm not sure we have ever been in a city and not fucked in a bathroom somewhere. We've had sex all over Chicago and NYC. We are both exhibitionist, so we could sit around all day bored inside and as soon as you put us out of the house having fun, we immediately get turned on and need to fuck.
In your expert opinion, what city is the best to have sex in public in?
New York – tons of opportunities and people don't get their panties in a bundle about a little public nudity
What's the funniest/most embarrassing thing that's happened to you or Damon while having sex in public?
Damon has a knack for having "bad aim" a lot when we are in public, nothing like trying to wipe cum out of your eyelashes and then heading back to the bar. We've been caught before of course, that's initially awkward but we are typically ready for that reaction when we have sex in public.
What about the best sex or hottest thing that's ever happened to you while having sex in public?
Isn't just having sex in public pretty damn hot itself? I'm not sure if I'm coordinated or focused enough to want anything other than sex when I'm having sex in public. We've managed to bang a few girls in bathrooms, so I guess 3-way public fucking is a pretty awesome story. Oh wait, one time we actually had sex while standing at a bar!!! That's my favorite, that was awesome, thank god for short skirts and no panties!
What tips can you give to squares like myself that hardly ever have sex in public?
Watch episodes 1,3,5 of our exclusive web series on WoodRocket.com – we specifically address how to have sex in public and what you need to consider.
The format for the show is really interesting to me. Like episode 1, 2, and 5 seem to be actual sex in public that you and Damon are having. And then there's episode 4 Veruca Loves Hotdogs, which feels more like a comedy sketch followed by a porn scene (which the porn scene itself is extremely funny and totally different). Do you think you'll stay true to the Naked In Public title or can we expect some experimental/comedy porn?
As of right now, we are having a lot of fun filming the comedy sketch/porn episodes so I think you'll see some more of those. WoodRocket wants us to display our personalities and the sex is obvious, but the comedy sketches really let us "do our thing" and just be weird. I wish I could say it was all made up, but it's not. I really feel that way about hot dogs and mustard. haha We promised WoodRocket we would give them at least 3 public sex skits for each comedy/porn skit.
3 to 1 is a good ratio for the show. The first thing I associate with Chicago is comedy. Do you think that being from a place with a rich comedy tradition has influenced you to be weird?
Interesting question! Chicago does have some very well known comedians, but when I think of Chicago I think of crime and conservatives! haha :) People forget that Chicago is still a midwest city, with midwest values. Yes, the city of Chicago technically votes more liberal, but trust me, most people would be considered conservative in their values, actions and morals, especially compared to New York or LA. I think that my conservative upbringing actually contributed a decent amount to my desire/need to "let loose".
Is there a lot of planning involved when you guys are making an episode or is spontaneous?
Depends on the episode. Sometimes we just have an outline; for instance, where we are going to go for the day and where we know we can bang and then we improv the rest. Other episodes have been reenactments of things we have done previously, which surprisingly requires a lot of planning.
Is any of it staged (I have my suspicions that getting caught in the stairwell in episode 3 wasn't totally real)?
You are correct! haha That was staged, but it was still us fucking in our stairwell, so it was real public sex. We just added some staged aspects to demonstrate what can happen if you don't take the right precautions. I assure you, we aren't shooting anything in our apartment and pretending we are in public, everything really is in public.
How often are new episodes posted?
Every two weeks.
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Are the people running WoodRocket crazy? I ask this only because they're giving away this show for free.
Yes, slightly! But, I think they are on brink of something that will really take off. It's really brilliant. They are growing with the industry and providing consumers with something they want, everything for free. Really it's not free, we need advertisers to buy ads and consumers to buy from the store, so we can keep giving everything else away for free.
So after reading this, everyone should go to the WoodRocket store and buy 10 copies of Sport Fucking #10? I heard Sport Fucking #10 is great and it also makes a great gift for literally any occasion.
hahaha hmmmm maybe go to WoodRocket.com, hit like about a million times on our Naked in Public episodes and then contribute some cash to keep them up and running. I'm not sure if they sell Sport Fucking #10, but I always support buying porn, even if it's not available on WoodRocket, please buy it somewhere else. Also, I'm particularly proud of that scene, fucking hot!
What did you think of being placed at #4 in LA Weekly's Top 10 Next Jenna Jamesons list?
Honestly, I didn't realize it was in numerical order. I'm always appreciative of mainstream media featuring me. That's quite a few more people that know my name. I know most people in porn disagree with the list for some reason or the other. Let's be honest, the mainstream take on our industry is always outdated and misrepresented. But, let's also remember that mainstream attention of this type is always good for us.
How did you prepare for the role of Surprised Kitty for another WoodRocket show Memes I'd Like to Fuck?
Thankfully, I had watched the video about 50 times before I was approached to recreate the meme, so I only spent about 7 hours re-watching it the night before. I really wanted to channel my inner surprised kitty! I also made sure I got a good night's sleep so that I would be bright eyed and bushy tailed for the shoot.
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And then I had this dream that my whole family were just cartoon characters and our success had led to some crazy propaganda network called Fox News.
--Bart Simpson
When the Democratic presidential candidates, led by John Edwards, pulled out of the March debate that was to be co-sponsored by the Nevada branch of the party and Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page rendered the story thus: "The left blogosphere thinks the most popular cable-news network leans too far right, and so Democrats should not legitimate it by appearing." That's true as far as it goes--unusually so, given the source--but it does not go nearly far enough. For one thing, Fox is not a real news network. Just look at its reaction to the Democrats' refusal to play ball with them. On The Beltway Boys, Morton Kondracke likened Nevada Democrats to Communist propagandists. Bill O'Reilly found similarities between "radical" Nevada voters and Nazis. The channel's vice president, David Rhodes, accused Nevada Democrats of being "controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups." As Media Matters's Eric Boehlert pointed out, "Of course, a real news organization wouldn't issue a nasty statement like that, nor would it give the statement exclusively to Matt Drudge, which Fox News did."
As the scrupulously fair-minded reporter Ron Brownstein notes, "Through its language, its news decisions and its hosts--[Fox] generally functions more like a cog in the Republican message machine than as a conventional news organization that attempts to abide, however imperfectly, by the traditional standards of (yes) fairness and balance."
Fox, like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Washington Times, is a conservative counterestablishment institution designed to ape the functions of the real thing, doing double duty by firing up the troops with custom-crafted ideological spin, "analysis" and phony scholarship while confusing the rest of the world with nonsense disguised as news. Fox's journalistic transgressions are legion and need not detain us long here. A 2004 Center for Media and Public Affairs study found that at the height of the presidential campaign, just 13 percent of Fox News panelists' comments on Democratic candidate John Kerry were positive, compared with 50 percent for Bush. As Fox London bureau chief Scott Norvell has put it, "Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly."
Much of the MSM has played along with the Fox charade. The Wall Street Journal went so far as to publish a correction when a reporter termed the network "sympathetic to the Bush cause and popular with Republicans." And with the exception of a few combative on-air counterattacks--most notably by Bill Clinton and Barney Frank--so too have liberals and Democrats, offering themselves as bit players in Bart Simpson's nightmare. The network has made a specialty of promoting what might be termed "even the New Republic liberals"--that is, liberals who specialize in bashing liberals and liberalism. As Alex Koppelman demonstrated on Salon, Fox frequently features the likes of Susan Estrich complaining that Al Gore has gone "off the deep end" when he lays bare the Administration's deception in the "war on terror." Pat Caddell whines that only "the real fringe of this party" wants to unseat Joe Lieberman. And, of course, barely a night goes by that nasty Alan Colmes doesn't punch poor Sean Hannity in the knuckles with his face.
Fox viewers, according to a study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes, become more misinformed about the world the more they watch the network. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report likely to be better informed than the average Fox News consumer. But the impact of Fox's brand of fake news is not limited to its own viewers. When the hapless Katie Couric recently misreported that Barack Obama "grew up praying in a mosque," she was parroting a discredited Fox report that had appeared three months earlier.
The question of Fox's malevolence is settled. What remains is a disagreement among liberals over an appropriate response. Some argue that liberals ought to refuse to participate at all because it is impossible to do so without playing by Fox's fixed rules. But by sitting it out, the counterargument goes, they are shutting themselves off from cable's largest audience, and inviting the accusation of fear and wimpiness. What's more, there's money involved. A political reactionary personally, Rupert Murdoch is an equal opportunity corruptor when it comes to promoting his media businesses. Murdoch's NewsCorp gave only $5,000 last year to the Congressional Black Caucus's political action committee, but it is listed as a "Patron and Sponsor" on the webpage of the CBC foundation. Even so, Democrats wisely decided to pull out of yet a second Fox co-sponsored debate in April.
As John Edwards explained when announcing his withdrawal, "There's just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending to be objective." He also noted that he had appeared on the network more than thirty times. Edwards is right. The proper response to a Fox attack disguised as a question is, "Well, Brit, I appeared on this biased show of yours to set your viewers straight about the BS you and your fellow right-wingers have been handing them. Now here's the truth..." This might shame the station some and alert Couric's producers, among others, that they'd better lift their "news" from a better class of journalist next time. With the constant stream of right-wing and MSM abuse having gone unanswered for so long, it's way past time liberals introduced their adversaries to the concept of the left hook--aimed at the right mouth.


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In a Detroit News opinion editorial, Michigan AFL-CIO President Karla Swift points to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) suggesting that "collective bargaining is the process we should turn to in order to negotiate a better future for our state." The EPI study links the decline of the middle class to the erosion of collective bargaining in Michigan.
Swift points out the benefits everyone enjoys because of collective bargaining and encourages a YES vote on Proposal 2 to keep workers' voices strong.
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'The View' takes on 'Glee' in GQ: Barbara doesn't care
The women of "The View" touched on the "Glee"-GQ photo shoot affair Thursday (Oct. 21), and we got several things out of the discussion.
To wit:
Barbara Walters doesn't really care. Babs took the laissez-faire position on the photos of "Glee" stars Lea Michele and Dianna Agron, about which the Parents Television Council has raised a ferocious stink. Walters notes that Agron and Michele are both in their mid-20s and that no one forced them into their provocative poses. "I just can't get that passionate about it," she says.
And, over the objections of her co-hosts who worry that younger kids will be scarred by the photos, Walters says (hilariously, to our ears) that if a kid is resourceful enough to get his hands on the magazine, "it's probably not the first" racy picture he's seen.


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TINY creatures found clinging to the mouthparts of Norway lobsters are so unusual that they have been awarded the ultimate taxonomic accolade - a phylum all to themselves. The new phylum, the Cycliophora, is only the 36th ever described for all the 1.5 million or so named organisms.
A phylum is a group of creatures which share a distinct body plan. Most other phyla were described in the last century, and until the new discovery biologists thought we had a very good idea of the main groups of living organisms. "It has to be the zoological highlight of the decade," says Simon Conway Morris, an invertebrate palaeobiologist at the University of Cambridge.
The single species so far assigned to Cycliophora, Symbion pandora, has a round mouth fringed with thread-like cilia for gathering food. Asexual adults are bottle-shaped and 347 micrometres long. They hang on to the bristles surrounding a lobster's ...
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At this time, CalConnect has five elected directors. All of our elected directors also hold officer positions of the corporation. The Board holds quarterly Board Meetings in January, April, July, and October, usually by conference call.
The Board also has a brief bi-weekly conference call for strategic planning and current events update; the Chair of TC CHAIRS (the Technical Committee coordination group) and the Interperability Test Event Manager attend these calls periodically to update the Board on status and current events.
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General Information
This visa is suitable for people under 50 years of age and who have the skills and qualifications assessed as being the Australian standard for an occupation on the Skilled Occupation List (SOL) but who do not meet the pass mark of 60 points for skilled independent migration.
Visa Validity
If this visa is granted, you and any secondary applicants who have been included in your visa application will be permitted to live in Australia as permanent residents.
As an Australia permanent resident you may:
- live and work in Australia permanently
- study in Australian schools, the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector, or universities
- benefit from subsidised healthcare provided by the Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
- receive particular social security payments, subject to waiting periods
- be eligible to apply for Australian citizenship, subject to meeting residency eligibility criteria
- sponsor others for Australian permanent residence.
Visa Eligibility
Main Applicant
Age: At time of application for this visa you must be under 50 years of age. Your age on the day you make your application for this visa will determine your eligibility for points.
Points Test: 60 points is the points test pass mark for this visa.
You may be awarded points for:
- Age
- English language ability
- Australian skilled employment
- Overseas skilled employment
- Educational qualifications
- Australian study requirement
- Completion of a Professional Year
- Credentialed community language
- Partner skills
- State or Territory nomination and designated area sponsorship
Skilled employment
You can claim points for employment in your nominated occupation or in a closely related occupation, gained over the past ten years either in Australia or overseas. You can combine points for skilled employment gained in both Australia and overseas as long as the employment was undertaken in the last 10 years. The maximum number of points that you can claim for Australian or overseas employment or a combination of Australian and overseas employment is 20 points.
Points awarded: Skilled employment in your nominated occupation or a closely related occupation gained in Australia.
English Language Ability
English Language
The English language threshold is at the competent English level which is equal to a minimum score of six in each of the four components of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test or other language test and score specified by the Minister.
No points will be available for competent English however if you meet the English language threshold you may apply for a visa if you meet the other threshold visa requirements.
Passport holders and citizens of the following countries will meet the English language threshold of competent English:
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Republic of Ireland
- United Kingdom (UK)
- United States of America (USA)
You will be required to complete a relevant English language test and obtain the necessary score if you wish to claim points for either proficient or superior English language ability.
Your test must have been completed before your visa application is lodged and must no more than two years old when you make your application.
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Which English language test should I sit?
Generally, you will be required to take the general training test of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). In some circumstances a higher level of English is required for specific occupations where it forms part of the skills assessment application. In those circumstances the skills assessing body may require you to take the academic test.
Secondary applicants who need to show they have functional English may use an IELTS test if the secondary applicant sat the test no more than 12 months before the visa application was lodged.
All main and secondary applicants must comply with all Australia laws.
If you are sponsored by a State or Territory, you must also:
- reside in that State or Territory for at least 2 years
- keep your local government informed of any changes to your personal details such as address details
- comply with completing surveys and provide information as requested
Health & Character
It's compulsory for you and any secondary applicants to undergo a health examination. The purpose of this examination is that it protects the Australian community from any health risks. To be considered risk free, you and any additional applicants must be free from diseases or conditions considered to be health risks.
Health Requirements Overview
The health examination is critical because it:
- helps reduce and constrains public spending on health and community services, which also affects social security, pensions and allowances
- reduces the threat of the Australian community being exposed to potential health risks and illnesses
- improves access to health care and community services in short supply
Generally all visa applicants must meet the health requirements, and sometimes their dependents must also meet the requirements, regardless of whether they are migrating to Australia.
In certain cases where a condition or disease has been identified which requires a follow up medical check, you may be required to sign a Medical Officer of the Commonwealth (MOC). In this case you will need to sign a Health Undertaking to meet the health requirement.
Every visa applicant is required to meet the character requirements set out by the Department of Immigration before entering Australia.
Character Requirements for Temporary and Permanent Migration
To be considered good of character, you will be asked to provide police clearance certificates for every country that you have lived in for 12 months or more in the last 10 years since turning 16 years of age.
Skilled Sponsored Visa Costs
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(Any dependents (included in application) 18 years of over with less than functional English)
Important: Visa application fees are constantly changing and may be subject to an amendment. Changes usually occur on 1st July of each year.
Additional costs
In addition to the costs for the visa application, there are some other fees that should be considered when planning your visa application. We have listed some of the additional expenses with approximate fees below:
- Police clearance: £35 (per person) for UK certificate, standard service
- Health certificate: £300 (per person)
- Skill Assessment: £340 – £2,000
- IELTS English Test: £110
- Translation costs: £100
- State Sponsorship: £200 – £400
Additional Factors
Evidence To Attach To Your Application
A certified copy of a full birth certificate for the main applicant and each secondary applicant must be included in your application.
If birth certificates are not available in your country of birth, other evidence to confirm birth details include, but are not limited to the following:
- baptism certificate
- court documents that verify your date of birth
- copies of military service records or discharge papers
- family book showing date of birth
- hospital birth records
- ID document issued by your government
- Passport
- school records
Other Skilled Visas
Skilled – Independent Visa
This visa is suitable for applicants who have good English language skills and the necessary qualifications and skills in need in Australia. Sponsorship to apply for this visa is not required.
Skilled – Regional Sponsored Visa
This visa is suitable for applicants who have good English language skills and the necessary qualifications and skills in need in Australia, but who cannot meet the criteria for a skilled independent visa.
Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme
This visa is suitable for skilled workers who are sponsored by an Australian employer operating in regional and low population growth areas of Australia.