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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2006 A U.S. Marine was killed in Iraq yesterday, Iraqi police recently thwarted a roadside bomb ambush on coalition forces, and raids yesterday in northern Iraq led to the capture of five terrorist suspects, U.S. military officials in Baghdad reported today.
Officials said the Marine, assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, died of wounds received from small-arms fire in Ramadi. The Marine's name is being withheld until next of kin are notified.
Fast-thinking Iraqi police manning a checkpoint Jan. 9 stopped a convoy, headed by Staff Sgt. Mark Matthews, 801st Brigade Support Battalion, 506th Regimental Combat Team, and warned about a roadside bomb, officials said. An Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal team soon arrived and destroyed the makeshift device.
"The Iraqi police provided additional security to help secure our convoy while we waited, then (they) exploded the device," Matthews said. "The IPs tested the route, then we made it through with no problems."
Three raids yesterday in northern Iraq led to the capture of five suspected terrorists.
Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team received a tip that led them to a terrorist cell member. Once the troops closed in and caught the terrorist, he turned informant and gave up information on another member of his cell. The soldiers were able to capture the other suspect from the information given.
Members of the cell are wanted for attacks against civilians and security forces, car theft, kidnapping and improvised explosive device emplacement.
Three more terrorist suspects were detained near Mosul in relation to car bomb attacks. All three men were rounded up by the 172nd SBCT along with a sniper rifle and various identification cards.
The Task Force Band of Brothers rewards program continues to garner support from the local population, officials said, as many citizens provide information leading to the discovery of individuals involved in crimes against the people of Iraq as well as attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)

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VIDEO: Motorola Xoom: The trailer
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That's pretty much what you'll get from this Motorola Xoom trailer teaser video, posted to YouTube by Motorola in readiness for the shop launch of the company's new shiny Android 3.0 tablet, which was first announced at CES earlier in January.
While the video shows us nothing new, it will no doubt make you wonder how a tablet can make you out to be part of Minority Report once you own one.
Oh, and that repetitive soundtrack will either get on your nerves enough to force you to stop watching and hurl your computer out of the window, or will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day.


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Here are updates from the past two weeks, since I was unable to post anything last Monday:
Max Becker has missed the last four games for the SilverBacks due to an injury, but should return after Christmas.
Connor McLaren tallied two goals in Gloucester's 5-1 win over Hawkesbury on Dec. 13, including the game-winning goal. He recorded another multi-point game on Dec. 17, netting a goal and assist in the team's 7-4 win over Kanata. McLaren had an assist on Dec. 15
Ryan Kuffner has not played since Dec. 1.
Stuart Pomeroy was traded from the Sioux City Musketeers of the USHL to the Amarillo Bulls of the NAHL, where he now plays with fellow Princeton recruit Joe Grabowksi.
Pomeroy missed two months with a wrist injury and returned to the Musketeers on Dec. 6. He played on Dec. 7 as well, but missed Sioux City's next two games and was traded on Dec. 15.
David Hallisey assisted on both of the Islanders Hockey Club goals in the 2-0 win over the P.A.L. Junior Islanders on Dec. 13. He scored the team's lone goal in the 5-1 loss to Portland on Dec. 19.
Ben Halford appeared in one of Bay State's last three games, stopping 34 of 36 shots in a shutout loss to Portland on Dec. 14.
The USHL was off this week. Here are last week's stats:
Michael Lackey stopped 29 pucks on 33 shots, leading the USNTDP team to a 5-4 win over Dubuque on Dec. 13. Dubuque's Eric Robinson recorded an assist and a plus-1 rating in the loss.
Josh Melnick is injured and has not played since Nov. 27.
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Aflac Incorporated Files Amendment to Shelf Registration, Continues Investment Portfolio Derisking
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Aflac Incorporated Files Amendment to Shelf Registration, Continues Investment Portfolio Derisking08:48 EDT Thursday, June 23, 2011COLUMBUS, Ga., June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated announced today that it has filed an amended shelf registration with the Japanese authorities to issue debt securities up to 100 billion yen. The original shelf registration was filed in November 2009. As part of the filing, the company provided an update on its investment portfolio derisking. During the second quarter of 2011, Aflac will recognize a pretax loss of $165 million on the sale of investments associated with banks and other financial institutions of Greece and Ireland, $72 million of which was previously disclosed. The company estimates it will recognize $445 million of pretax impairment losses on investments in Portugal banks.Aflac Chairman and CEO Daniel P. Amos commented: "As we communicated at our Financial Analysts Briefing in May, we are executing on our plan to proactively derisk our investment portfolio. We have made substantial progress with this derisking program this quarter and anticipate concluding this initiative by the end of 2011. The strength of our capital base allows us to pursue our derisking strategy to further strengthen our balance sheet and enhance shareholder value for the long term."ABOUT AFLACWhen a policyholder gets sick or hurt, Aflac pays cash benefits fast. For more than 55 years, Aflac insurance policies have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the United States, Aflac is the number one provider of guaranteed-renewable insurance. In Japan, Aflac is the number one life insurance company in terms of individual policies in force. Aflac insurance products provide protection to more than 50 million people worldwide. For five consecutive years, Aflac has been recognized by Ethisphere magazine as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies and by Forbes magazine as one of America's Best-Managed Companies in the Insurance category. In 2011, Fortune magazine recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for the thirteenth consecutive year. Also, Fortune magazine included Aflac on its list of Most Admired Companies for the tenth time in 2011. Aflac Incorporated is a Fortune 500 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AFL. To find out more about Aflac, visit aflac.com or aflacenespanol.com. 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Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 — November 22, 1993) was an English novelist, critic, composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Manchester, he lived for long periods in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East; the Enderby quartet of novels about a poet and his muse; Nothing Like the Sun, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life; A Clockwork Orange, an exploration of the nature of evil; and Earthly Powers, a panoramic saga of the 20th century. He published studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence, produced the treatises on linguistics Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air, and was a prolific journalist, writing in several languages. He translated and adapted Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Carmen for the stage; scripted Jesus of Nazareth and Moses the Lawgiver for the screen; invented the prehistoric language spoken in Quest for Fire; and composed the Sinfoni Melayu, the Symphony (No. 3) in C, and the opera Blooms of Dublin.
His mother, Elizabeth Burgess Wilson, died when Burgess was one year old, a casualty of the 1918–1919 Spanish flu pandemic, which also took the life of his sister Muriel. After the death of his mother, Anthony was raised by his maternal aunt in Crumpsall. Burgess described his father, Joseph Wilson, as descended from an "Augustinian Catholic" background. Burgess's father had a variety of means of earning a living, working at different times as an army corporal, a bookmaker, a public house piano-player, a pianist in movie theatres accompanying silent films, an encyclopaedia salesman, a butcher, a cashier, and a tobacconist. Burgess described his father, who later remarried a public house landlady, as "a mostly absent drunk who called himself a father". The adjective he used to describe the relationship he had with his father was "lukewarm". Burgess's grandfather was half-Irish.
Burgess was raised by his maternal aunt and later by his stepmother, whom he detested (he was to include a slatternly caricature of her in the Enderby quartet). His childhood was in large part a solitary one, during which he felt "perpetually angry" and resentful, but he taught himself to play the piano and violin, and learned to read music. He lived in Dickensian circumstances, his home being shabby rooms above an off-licence and newsagent's-tobacconist's shop that his aunt ran, and above a pub.
Burgess was to a large degree an autodidact, but nevertheless received a formal education of a high standard.
He first attended St. Edmund's Roman Catholic Elementary School and moved on to Bishop Bilsborrow Memorial Roman Catholic Primary School in Moss Side. For some years his family lived on Princess Street in the same district.
Burgess's first published work was an essay on Torbay for the children's section of the Daily Express newspaper in 1928.
Good grades from Bishop Bilsborrow resulted in a place at the noted Manchester Catholic secondary school Xaverian College, run by the Xaverian Brothers along religious lines. It was during his teenage years at this school that he lapsed formally from Catholicism, although he cannot be said to have broken completely with the church. His history teacher at Xaverian College, L.W. Dever, is credited with introducing Burgess to James Joyce's writings.
Burgess entered the Victoria University of Manchester in 1937, graduating three years later with the degree of Bachelor of Arts (2nd class honours, upper division) in English language and literature. His thesis was on the subject of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. One of Burgess's professors at the University of Manchester was A.J.P. Taylor. Grading one of Burgess's term papers, the great historian wrote: "Bright ideas insufficient to conceal lack of knowledge."
Burgess wrote that as a child he did not care at all about music. One day he heard on his home-built radio "a quite incredible flute solo, sinuous, exotic, erotic" and became spellbound. Eight minutes later the announcer told him he had been listening to Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) by Claude Debussy. He refers to this as a "psychedelic moment... a recognition of verbally inexpressible spiritual realities". Suddenly music was very important to him. He eventually came to hold the opinion that music before the time of Wagner was orchestrally naive - it had little appeal to him.
He announced to his family that he wanted to be a composer ("like Debussy" he said), but they were against it because "there was no money in it." Music was not taught at his school so at about age 14 he strove to become a self-taught pianist, and in his spare time he would eventually turn himself into a composer.
Burgess's father died of flu in 1938 and his stepmother of a heart attack in 1940.
He later moved to the Army Educational Corps, where among other things he conducted speech therapy at a mental hospital. He failed in his aspiration to win an officer's commission.
In 1942, in Bournemouth, Burgess married a Welshwoman named Llewela Jones, eldest daughter of a high-school headmaster. She was known to all as "Lynne". Although Burgess indicated on numerous occasions that her full name was Llewela Isherwood Jones, the name "Isherwood" does not appear on her birth certificate, and this appears to have been a fabrication. Burgess also on occasion - consciously or unconsciously - gave the impression that Lynne may have been a relative of Christopher Isherwood, but both the Lewis and Biswell biographies confirm that this was not so. Lynne and Burgess were fellow students at the University of Manchester. Their by all accounts tempestuous marriage was childless.
"I really do think, allowing for everything, Lynne was one of the most awful women I've ever met", one friend of the Burgesses once declared. But as Burgess's biographers have pointed out, Lynne provided much unacknowledged help to Burgess as he sought to establish himself as a writer - both financial and as his muse. Lynne died of cirrhosis in 1968.
Burgess was next stationed in Gibraltar at an army garrison (see A Vision of Battlements). Here he was a training college lecturer in speech and drama, teaching German, Russian, French and Spanish. An important role for Burgess was the help he gave in taking the troops through "The British Way and Purpose" programme, which was designed to reintroduce them to the peacetime socialism of the post-war years in Britain and gently inculcate a sense of patriotism. He was also an instructor for the Central Advisory Council for Forces Education of the Ministry of Education.
On one occasion in the neighbouring Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción, Burgess was arrested for insulting General Franco. He was released from custody shortly after the incident.
Burgess's flair for languages was noticed by army intelligence, and he took part in debriefings of Free Dutch and Free French who found refuge in Gibraltar during the war.
Burgess was pursued by military police of the British Armed Forces for desertion after overstaying his leave from Morpeth military base with his bride Lynne in 1941.
During Burgess's wartime stint, Lynne was raped by three American AWOL soldiers who had invaded their home. Burgess recounted this experience in his novel, A Clockwork Orange.
At the end of 1950 he took a job as a secondary school teacher of English literature on the staff of Banbury Grammar School (now defunct) in the market town of Banbury, Oxfordshire (see The Worm and the Ring, which the then mayoress of Banbury claimed libelled her). In addition to his teaching duties Burgess was required to supervise sports from time to time, and he ran the school's drama society.
The years were to be looked back on as some of the happiest of Burgess's life. Thanks to financial assistance provided by Lynne's father, the couple was able to put a down payment on a cottage in the village of Adderbury, not far from Banbury.
Burgess organised a number of amateur theatrical events in his spare time. These involved local people and students and included productions of T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes (Burgess had named his Adderbury cottage Little Gidding, after one of Eliot's Four Quartets) and Aldous Huxley's The Gioconda Smile.
It was in Adderbury that Burgess cut his journalistic teeth, with several of his contributions published in the local newspaper the Banbury Guardian.
The would-be writer was a habitué of the pubs of the village, especially The Bell and The Red Lion, where his predilection for consuming large quantities of cider was noted at the time. Both he and his wife are believed to have been barred from one or more of the Adderbury pubs because of their riotous behaviour.
At the end of 1953 Burgess applied for a teaching post on Sark, but did not get the job. However, in January 1954 he was interviewed by the Colonial Office for a post in Malaya (now Malaysia) as a teacher and education officer in the British colonial service. He was offered the job and accepted, being keen to explore Eastern lands. Several months later he and his wife travelled to Singapore by the liner Willem Ruys from Southampton with stops in Port Said and Colombo.
Burgess was stationed initially in Kuala Kangsar, the royal town in Perak, in what were then known as the Federated Malay States. Here he taught at the Malay College, dubbed "the Eton of the East" and now known as Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK).
In addition to his teaching duties at this school for the sons of leading Malayans, he had responsibilities as a housemaster in charge of students of the preparatory school, who were housed at a Victorian mansion known as "King's Pavilion". The building had once been occupied by the British Resident in Perak. It had also gained notoriety during World War II as a place of torture, being the local headquarters of the Kempeitai (Japanese secret police).
As his novels and autobiography document, Burgess's late 1950s coincided with the communist insurgency, an undeclared war known as the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) when rubber planters and members of the European community–not to mention many Malays, Chinese and Tamils–were subject to frequent terrorist attacks.
In the aftermath of an alleged dispute with the Malay College's principal, J.D.R. Powell, about accommodation for himself and his wife, Burgess was posted elsewhere. The couple occupied an apparently rather noisy apartment in the building mentioned above, where privacy was supposedly minimal, and this caused resentment. This was the professed reason for his transfer to the Malay Teachers' Training College at Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Kota Bharu is situated on the Siamese border (the Thais had ceded the area to the British in 1909 and a British adviser had been installed).
Burgess attained fluency in Malay, spoken and written, achieving distinction in the examinations in the language set by the colonial office. He was rewarded with a salary increment for his proficiency in the language. Malay was still at that time rendered in the adapted Arabic script known as Jawi.
He devoted some of his free time in Malaya to creative writing—"as a sort of gentlemanly hobby, because I knew there wasn't any money in it" and published his first novels, Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East. These became known as The Malayan Trilogy and were later published in one volume as The Long Day Wanes. During his time in the East he also wrote English Literature: A Survey for Students, and this book was in fact the first Burgess work published (if we do not count an essay published in the youth section of the London Daily Express when he was a child).
About this time Burgess "collapsed" in a Brunei classroom while teaching history. He was expounding on the causes and consequences of the Boston Tea Party at the time. There were reports that he had been diagnosed as having an inoperable brain tumour, with the likelihood of only surviving a short time, occasioning the alleged breakdown. Burgess has claimed that he was given just a year to live by the physicians, prompting him to write several novels to get money to provide for his widow. This was misleading - there was no tumour, nor was a tumour ever diagnosed - and has been explained by Burgess's biographers by reference to his (mild and mischievous) mythomania.
He was, however, suffering from the effects of prolonged heavy drinking (and associated poor nutrition), of the often oppressive Southeast Asian climate, of chronic constipation, and of overwork and professional disappointment. As he put it, the scions of the sultans and of the elite in Brunei "did not wish to be taught", because the free-flowing abundance of oil guaranteed their income and privileged status. He may also have wished for a pretext to abandon teaching and get going full-time as a writer, having made a late start.
Describing the Brunei debacle to an interviewer over twenty years later, Burgess commented: "One day in the classroom I decided that I'd had enough and to let others take over. I just lay down on the floor out of interest to see what would happen." On another occasion he described it as "a willed collapse out of sheer boredom and frustration". He gave a different account to the British arts and media veteran Jeremy Isaacs in 1987 when he said: "I was driven out of the Colonial Service for political reasons that were disguised as clinical reasons." He alluded to this in an interview with Don Swaim, explaining that after his wife Lynne had said something "obscene" to the UK Queen's consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, during an official visit, the colonial authorities turned against him. He had already earned their displeasure, he told Swaim, by writing for the newspaper of the revolutionary opposition party the Parti Rakyat Brunei, and for his friendship with its leader Dr. Azahari.
On his discharge, benefiting from a sum of money Lynne had inherited from her father together with their savings built up over six years in the East, he decided he had the financial independence to become a full-time writer.
The couple lived first in an apartment in the town of Hove, near Brighton, on the Sussex coast (see the Enderby quartet of novels).
They then moved to a semi-detached house called "Applegarth" in the inland Sussex village of Etchingham. This is about a mile from the Jacobean house in Burwash where Rudyard Kipling lived, and also one mile from the Robertsbridge home of Malcolm Muggeridge.
Finally, when Lynne came into some money as a result of the death of her father, the Burgesses decamped to a terraced town house in the Turnham Green section of Chiswick, a western inner suburb of London. This was conveniently located for the White City BBC television studios of which he was a frequent guest in this period.
During these years Burgess became a regular drinking partner of the novelist William S. Burroughs. Their meetings took place in London and Tangiers.
A cruise holiday Burgess and his wife took to the USSR, calling at St Petersburg (then still called Leningrad), resulted in Honey for the Bears and inspired some of the invented slang "Nadsat" used in A Clockwork Orange.
Liana Macellari, an Italian translator 12 years younger than Burgess, came across Burgess' novels One was Inside Mr Enderby and A Clockwork Orange while writing about English fiction. The two first met in 1963 over lunch in Chiswick. They began began an affair and in 1964, Liana gave birth to Burgess' son, Paolo Andrea. The affair was hidden from Lynne, Burgess' alcoholic and aggressive wife, and Burgess refused to leave her because he was afraid of offending his cousin, George Patrick Dwyer, then Catholic Bishop of Leeds. Lynne died aged 47 from liver cirrhosis in March 1968. Six months later, in September 1968, Burgess married Liana. Once Burgess and Liana were married, he acknowledged the four year old boy as his own, describing himself as "a belated father", although the birth certificate listed Roy Halliday, who was previously Liana's companion, as the father. An attempt to kidnap Paolo-Andrea in Rome, is believed to have been one of the factors deciding the family's move to Monaco. Paolo Andrea (also known as Andrew Burgess Wilson) died in London in 2002, aged 37.
His first place of residence after leaving England was Lija, Malta (1968-1970), where he bought a house. Problems with the Maltese state censor later prompted a move to Rome. He maintained a flat in the Italian capital, a country house in Bracciano, and a property in Montalbuccio. There was a villa in Provence, in Callian of the Var, France, and an apartment just off Baker Street, London, very near the presumed home of Sherlock Holmes in the Arthur Conan Doyle stories.
Burgess lived for two years in the United States, working as a visiting professor at Princeton University (1970), where he helped teach the creative writing program, and as a "distinguished professor" at the City College of New York (1972). At City College he was a close colleague and friend of Joseph Heller. He went on to teach creative writing at Columbia University. He was also a writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1969) and at the University at Buffalo (1976). He lectured on the novel at the University of Iowa in 1975.
Eventually he settled in Monaco, where he was active in the local community, becoming a co-founder in 1984 of the Princess Grace Irish Library, a centre for Irish cultural studies.
Although Burgess lived not far from Graham Greene, whose house was in Antibes, Greene became aggrieved shortly before his death by comments in newspaper articles by Burgess, and broke off all contact. Gore Vidal revealed in his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation that Greene disapproved of Burgess's appearance on various European television stations to discuss his (Burgess's) books. Vidal recounts that Greene apparently regarded a willingness to appear on TV as something that ought to be beneath a writer's dignity. "He talks about his books", Vidal quotes an exasperated Greene as saying.
Burgess spent much time also at one of his houses, a chalet two kilometres outside Lugano, Switzerland.
In fact he died in the country of his birth. He returned to Twickenham, an outer suburb of London, where he owned a house, to await death. He died on November 22, 1993. His death (from lung cancer) occurred at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in the St John's Wood neighbourhood of London. He is thought to have composed the novel Byrne on his deathbed.
It is believed by some that he would have liked his ashes to be kept in Moston Cemetery in Manchester, but they instead went to the cemetery in Monte Carlo.
The epitaph on Burgess's marble memorial stone, behind which the vessel with his remains is kept, reads "Abba Abba", being
Burgess had delivered the eulogy at the memorial service for Benny Hill in 1992; the eulogies at his own memorial service at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London in 1994 were delivered by the journalist Auberon Waugh and the novelist William Boyd.
His Malayan trilogy The Long Day Wanes—the three books are Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East—was Burgess's first published venture into the art of fiction.
It was Burgess's ambition to become "the true fictional expert on Malaya", and with the trilogy, he certainly staked a claim to have written the definitive Malayan novel (i.e. novel of expatriate experience of Malaya).
The trilogy joined a family of such Eastern fictional explorations, among them Orwell's treatment of Burma (Burmese Days), Forster's of India (A Passage to India) and Greene's of Vietnam (The Quiet American). Burgess was working in the tradition established by Kipling for British India and, for the Southeast Asian experience, Conrad and Maugham.
Unlike Conrad, Maugham and Greene, who made no effort to learn local languages, but like Orwell (who had a good command of Urdu and Burmese, necessary for his work as a police officer) and Kipling (who spoke Hindi, having learnt it as a child), Burgess had excellent spoken and written Malay. This linguistic command results in an impressive authenticity and sensitive understanding of indigenous concerns in the trilogy.
Burgess's repatriate years (c. 1960-69) produced not just Enderby but the neglected The Right to an Answer, which touches on the theme of death and dying, and One Hand Clapping, partly a satire on the vacuity of popular culture. This period also witnessed the publication of The Worm and the Ring, which was withdrawn from circulation under the threat of libel action from one of Burgess's former colleagues.
A product of these highly fertile years was his best-known work (or most notorious, after Stanley Kubrick made a motion picture adaptation), the dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). Inspired initially by an incident during World War II in which his wife Lynne was allegedly robbed and assaulted in London during the blackout by deserters from the U.S. Army (an event that may have contributed to a miscarriage she suffered), the book was an examination of free will and morality. The young anti-hero, Alex, captured after a career of violence and mayhem, is given aversion conditioning to stop his violence. It makes him defenceless against other people and unable to enjoy music that, besides violence, had been an intense pleasure for him. In the non-fiction book Flame Into Being (1985), Burgess described A Clockwork Orange as "a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die."
Burgess followed this with Nothing Like the Sun, a fictional recreation of Shakespeare's love-life and an examination of the (partly syphilitic, it was implied) sources of the bard's imaginative vision. The novel, which made some use of Edgar I. Fripp's 1938 biography Shakespeare, Man and Artist, won critical acclaim and placed Burgess in the front rank of novelists of his generation.
By the 1970s his output had become highly experimental, and some see a falling-off in the quality of his work in the period between the release of the Clockwork Orange movie, which brought Burgess fame, and the end of the decade.
Indeed, Burgess has been considered by some critics to be uneven in the quality of his output, and he has been faulted for what has been called a "novelettish kind of dialogue".
The bold and extraordinarily complex M/F (1971) showed the influence of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the structuralists, and was later listed by the writer himself as one of the works of which he was most proud. Beard's Roman Women is considered by some to be his least successful novel (plea of mitigation: it was written entirely while on the road in his Bedford Dormobile campervan). Burgess has frequently been criticised for writing too many novels and too quickly. All the same, Beard was revealing on a personal level, dealing with the death of his first wife, his bereavement, and the affair that led to his second marriage.
In another ambitious and unashamedly modernist fictional expedition, Napoleon Symphony, Burgess brought Bonaparte to life by shaping the novel's structure on Beethoven's Eroica symphony. This daring fictional experiment contains among many other assets a superb portrait of an Arab and Muslim society under occupation by a Christian western power (Egypt by Catholic France). The novel showed that while Burgess always regarded himself as little more than a student and epigone of Joyce, he was able at times to equal the master of modernism in literary sophistication and range.
There was a triumphant return to form in the 1980s, when religious themes began to weigh heavily (see The Kingdom of the Wicked and Man of Nazareth as well as Earthly Powers). Though Burgess lapsed from Catholicism early in his youth, the influence of the Catholic "training" and worldview remained strong in his work all his life. This is notable in the discussion of free will in A Clockwork Orange, and in the apocalyptic vision of devastating changes in the Catholic Church—due to what can be understood as Satanic influence—in Earthly Powers (1980). That work was written in the first instance as a parody of the blockbuster novel.
He kept working through his final illness, and was writing on his deathbed. A late novel was Any Old Iron, a generational saga about two families, one Russian-Welsh, the other Jewish. It encompasses the sinking of the Titanic, World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the early years of the State of Israel, as well as the imagined rediscovery of King Arthur's Excalibur.
A Dead Man in Deptford, about Christopher Marlowe, is a kind of companion volume to his Shakespeare novel Nothing Like the Sun. The verse novel Byrne was published posthumously.
Then came the Joyce studies Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (also published as Re Joyce) and Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce. Also published was A Shorter 'Finnegans Wake', Burgess's abridgement.
His 1970 Encyclopædia Britannica entry on the novel (under "Novel, the") is regarded as a classic of the genre.
Burgess wrote full-length critical studies of William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway and D. H. Lawrence. His Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 remains an invaluable guide, while the published lecture Obscenity and the Arts explores issues of pornography.
"Burgess's linguistic training," wrote Raymond Chapman and Tom McArthur in The Oxford Companion to the English Language, "is shown in dialogue enriched by distinctive pronunciations and the niceties of register."
His interest in linguistics was reflected in the invented, Anglo-Russian teen slang of A Clockwork Orange (Nadsat), and in the movie Quest for Fire (1981), for which he invented a prehistoric language (Ulam) for the characters to speak.
The hero of The Doctor is Sick, Dr. Edwin Spindrift, is a lecturer in linguistics. He escapes from a hospital ward which is peopled, as the critic Saul Maloff put it in a review, with "brain cases who happily exemplify varieties of English speech."
Burgess, who had lectured on phonetics at the University of Birmingham in the late 1940s, investigates the field of linguistics in Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air.
"He was our star reviewer, always eager to take on something new, punctilious with deadlines, length and copy", wrote Burgess's literary editor at The Observer, Michael Ratcliffe.Selections of Burgess's journalism are to be found in Urgent Copy, Homage to QWERT YUIOP and One Man's Chorus.
He devised the Stone Age language for La Guerre du Feu (Quest for Fire) (Jean-Jacques Annaud 1981, with Everett McGill, Ron Perlman and Nicholas Kadi).
Burgess was co-writer of the script for the TV series Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980).
He penned many unpublished scripts, including one about Shakespeare which was to be called Will! or The Bawdy Bard. It was based on his novel Nothing Like The Sun.
Among the motion picture treatments he produced are Amundsen, Attila, The Black Prince, Cyrus the Great, Dawn Chorus, The Dirty Tricks of Bertoldo, Eternal Life, Onassis, Puma, Samson and Delila, Schreber, The Sexual Habits of the English Middle Class, Shah, That Man Freud and Uncle Ludwig.
Encouraged by his novel Tremor of Intent (a parody of James Bond adventures), Burgess wrote a screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. It was rejected. Burgess's plot featured Bond's identical twin 008 and revolved around an organisation called CHAOS (Consortium for the Hastening of the Annihilation of Organised Society). CHAOS has accumulated enough money to achieve its plans and is now concentrating on power for its own sake. It blackmails international figures into humiliating themselves by terrorism. During Burgess's proposed opening sequence, an airliner full of passengers is exploded as it takes off, CHAOS's response to the Pope's refusal to personally whitewash the Sistine Chapel. Bond discovers a plot to implant 'micro-nukes' in appendectomy patients, the aim being to blow up Sydney Opera House during a visit by international royals and presidents (this atrocity being in response to the US President's refusal to masturbate on live TV). In You've Had Your Time, Burgess commented that the only idea that survived from his screenplay was that the villains' hideout was a ship disguised as an oil tanker.
His works are infrequently performed today, but several of his pieces were broadcast during his lifetime on BBC Radio. His Symphony (No. 3) in C was premiered by the University of Iowa orchestra in Iowa City in 1975. Many of his unpublished compositions are listed in This Man and Music.
Sinfoni Melayu, characterised by the Burgess biographer Roger Lewis as "Elgar with bongo-bong drums", was described by Burgess, its composer, as an attempt to "combine the musical elements of the country into a synthetic language which called on native drums and xylophones".
The structure of Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements (1974) was modelled on Beethoven's Eroica symphony, while Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991) mirrors the sound and rhythm of Mozartian composition, among other things attempting a fictional representation of Symphony No.40. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 features prominently in A Clockwork Orange (and also in Stanley Kubrick's film version of the novel).
Burgess made plain his low regard for the popular music that has emerged since the mid-1960s, yet he has been called "the godfather of punk" as a result of the nihilist future world he created in A Clockwork Orange.
When Burgess was on the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio programme in 1966, he made the following choice: Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway; Bach, Goldberg Variations No. 13; Elgar, Symphony No. 1 in A flat major; Wagner, Walter's Trial Song from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Debussy, Fêtes; Lambert, The Rio Grande; Walton, Symphony No. 1 in B flat; and Vaughan Williams, On Wenlock Edge.
For a list of some of Burgess's musical compositions, see under List of Burgess' works.
He created an operetta based on James Joyce's Ulysses called Blooms of Dublin (composed in 1982 and performed on the BBC), and wrote the book for the 1973 Broadway musical Cyrano, using his own adaptation of the Rostand play as its basis.
His new libretto for Weber's Oberon was performed by the Edinburgh-based Scottish Opera.
He revealed in Martin Seymour-Smith's Novels and Novelists: A Guide to the World of Fiction (1980) that he would often prepare a synopsis with a name-list before beginning a project. But Seymour-Smith wrote: "Burgess believes overplanning is fatal to creativity and regards his unconscious mind and the act of writing itself as indispensable guides. He does not produce a draft of a whole novel which he then revises, but prefers to get one page finished before he goes on to the next, which involves a good deal of revision and correction."
His output from when he began writing professionally in his early forties until his death was to produce, at a minimum, 1,000 words of fair copy per day, weekends included, 365 days a year. His favoured time for working was the afternoon, since "the unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon".
Even so, by the end of 2007, the ban had been lifted, and the title was again on open sale.
During his years in Malaya, and after he had mastered Jawi, the Arabic script adapted for Malay, Burgess taught himself the Persian language, after which he produced a translation of Eliot's The Waste Land into Persian. It was never published, in Tehran or elsewhere. He also worked on an anthology of the best of English literature translated into Malay, which also failed to achieve publication.
One of Burgess' literary achievements is as a memoirist. His two volumes of autobiography (entitled Little Wilson and Big God and You've Had Your Time, respectively) are notable for their unflinching self-examination, but also for the frank assessment of how aspects of his personal life informed his work. While the bulk of his fiction is not overtly autobiographical, several characters share the attributes or life experiences of their creator.
Burgess was an occasional smoker of opium, which he described as "a fine drug", during both his Kota Bharu and Brunei years, but he was under no illusions as to its negative effects: "Later, abetted by an ailing liver, the bad visions would come", he wrote. He once became an unwitting smuggler of opium. In 1957 Graham Greene asked him to bring some Chinese silk shirts back with him on furlough from Kuala Lumpur. As soon as Burgess handed over the shirts, Greene pulled out a knife and severed the cuffs, into which opium pellets had been sewn.
Burgess evinced qualified approval towards the smoking of hemp or cannabis, but with the proviso that it should be a means to an end rather than the end itself. Speaking of young people in a BBC Omnibus documentary in the 1960s, he said: "They smoke their marihuana, which is an admirable thing in itself, but no end of anything..."
In Burgess's novel Time for a Tiger, the Malay state of Perak is named Lanchap, which is the Malay word for masturbate. Burgess announced on several occasions that he had never in his life had carnal relations with an Englishwoman. He enjoyed a miscellany of sexual partners from other lands, however, including Buginese, Japanese, Welsh, Malay, Chinese, Siamese, Italian and Sinhalese women. He wrote in the first volume of his autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God (p. 386 of the Penguin edition), that he had had sexual encounters "with Tamil women blacker than Africans, including a girl who could not have been older than twelve, but none with Bengalis and Punjabis". The vast majority of the liaisons had been, as he put it, "sadly commercial".
However, on a visit to Sarawak, he spent a night in an Iban longhouse where he was invited to sleep with the chief's daughters. He wrote: "The Ibans waved me off with smiles of gratitude....I sometimes think of the child I may have fathered...I hope I have given something to the East."
By most accounts, Burgess was a heavy consumer of alcoholic beverages, especially of cider during his Banbury/Adderbury years, of brandy-and-ginger in the East, and, throughout his life, of gin. Burgess created his own version of the cocktail, "Hangman's Blood," first described by novelist Richard Hughes in his 1929 novel, A High Wind in Jamaica. He described its preparation as follows: "Into a pint glass, doubles [i.e. 50ml measures] of the following are poured: gin, whiskey, rum, port and brandy. A small bottle of stout is added and the whole topped up with Champagne... It tastes very smooth, induces a somewhat metaphysical elation, and rarely leaves a hangover." Burgess cut his alcohol consumption to some extent in later life. "I drank too much until I was 50", he wrote.
Burgess nursed a lifelong hatred for physical fitness and its advocates and exponents. He conceived this antipathy in wartime Gibraltar, where the army put himself and other soldiers through a compulsory, and gruelling, programme of exercise. "Keep-fit men", he once stated, "are no good in bed." One of the reasons he apparently despised the Welshman J.D.R. ("Jimmy") Howell, headmaster of the Malay College where he taught in the 1950s, was that Howell was an enthusiastic rugby player.
Burgess's house in Lija, Malta, was confiscated by the Maltese authorities over non-payment of taxes. Burgess was a currency smuggler. His house in Bracciano was, he wrote, paid for "by smuggling dollar royalty cheques into the [Italian] peninsula and paying them into the bank account of an expatriate American sculptor living near Rome". His move to Monaco in 1974 was prompted by the knowledge that there is no income tax in the principality, and moreover that his widow Liana would not be required to pay death duties on his estate.
For a brief period during his studies of the Malay language and culture during the late 1950s, Burgess seriously considered becoming a Muslim.
Explaining the allure of Islam in a 1969 interview with the University of Alabama scholar Geoffrey Aggeler, Burgess remarked: "You believe in one god. You say your prayers five times a day. You have a tremendous amount of freedom, sexual freedom; you can have four wives. The wife herself has a commensurate freedom. She can achieve divorce in the same way a man can."
He later fantasized: "Four wives and an incalculable number of offspring, all attesting my virility and sustained by my patriarchal authority."
In the novel 1985 (1978), Burgess imagines what Britain might be like if a virile, triumphant Islam won far-reaching influence in the country.
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The First SLU Art Fair "Where Creativity Touches Lives" will take place 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in the Wool Ballroom located in the Busch Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Faculty, staff, alumni and student artists will showcase and sell their creations with 10 percent of the proceeds being donated to the "Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit."
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question on fire brick
I am about to order some fire bricks to build a pompeii oven. The smaller one I believe 36". I see It states you need approximately 130 bricks, but in the plans it states you will need 130 half bricks. Does anyone know what I should order. Half or full size.The pics appear to indicate half bricks for the dome
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The dome is built of half-bricks, but you will have to cut them yourself. I have not heard of anyone finding half-bricks for sale. There are several ways to cut the bricks - check out some of the build threads on this forum to see how others have done it. There is a thread in the Newbie Forum here: A newbies survey of the Forno Bravo treasures hiding in the archives that will point you toward several especially helpful builds.
There is also a description of the various ways to cut bricks in the free pompeii oven plans.
Good Luck! :)
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There are half size fire bricks - but half in the thin dimension. They're called "splits" and they are usually the same price as full size bricks. You don't want these. The regular firebrick that you can buy at a masonry supply or brickyard is what you want. Halving bricks is pretty simple: a diamond saw cuts them easily, you can even break them in half with a special chisel called a brickset. You'll probably want some kind of diamond saw, as some trimming is called for in even the most simple build.
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Hey thanks guys. I found a place that does sell half bricks but now with the info I just got I will have to go and see them rather thenvjust a phone call. If they are splits ill be buying full bricks. Thanks very much for your help. I'm very excited about doing this and could use allot of help lol
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I don't think the OP is asking about buying half bricks, I think they are asking if the 130 brick count is for whole bricks or if that is the amount of half bricks needed, meaning 65 full bricks split into 130 half.
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correct Shuboyje
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thank you, i got the slab form ready with enough room to have a small patio near the oven, hopefully for some pizza parties haha
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At every Africa Nations Cup, football fans go through a range of emotions.
From the thrills and spills to the agony of defeat, football in Africa is a real party carnival, with various things to spice up the game of sane men chasing an inflated sheath of leather. For instance, you have sexy dress styles that colour the stadium even before the ball is kicked.
Then there are the various jigs when a player scores a goal. But, as others before it, this year's Africa Cup of Nations has served up some curious, even hair-raising hairstyles. For all the antics and solid defending Rigobert Song was known for, Cameroon's former iconic defender pulled up some rare stunt at the 2008 Nations Cup: the brown dreadlocks and beard. In a way, it seemed to reflect the fact that he was an old man.
Well, now that he is retired, Ghana's Isaac Vorsah came to this year's Nations cup with the same style. In similar fashion, Ghana's forward, Asamoah Gyan appears to have spent more time styling his hair than practising how to score a goal. He simply enjoys reminding us of his favourite shirt number- 3, which boldly appears in a brown tint in his head.
Much of these styles are influenced by the players' need to be noticed. A brown tint runs through Burkina Faso's Mohammed Koffi right up to his beard. While Zambia's Mukuka Mulenga spent most of the tournament on the bench, the few minutes he played, provided a moment to see this 19-year old's Mohawk hairstyle.
Not as sharp as that of the controversial Mario Balotelli, but enough for you to notice his footwork. One will say the same of Nigeria's Brown Ideye. His Mohawk was much more noticeable than his football on the field.
Well, your showy African footballer might say, if you miss the goal, at least catch the eye!


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Internship (unpaid)
The museum is seeking creative individuals to assist the museum's marketing team. This position is designed as a non-paid internship experience with the opportunity to gain valuable job knowledge and work in a highly creative environment with skilled professionals. Hours per week are flexible and will not total more than 30 hours per week. Please include samples of work or a link to an online portfolio.
Basic responsibilities (including but not limited to):
• Assist the graphic designer
• Assist in the creation of brochures, fliers, invitations, posters, rack cards, and other print materials that reflect the Museum in a positive way.
• Assist in the printing of large format signs and posters and mounting and/or laminating of images
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Wisconsin gets it. Let's hope the rest figure it out.By
Again, this is not about opposition to organized labor. Unions have done great good for society and workers and labor conditions over the last 100 or so years.
But the goings-on in Wisconsin show us the difference between organized private sector labor and organized public sector labor.
Scott Walker and the Wisconsin took drastic steps to prevent a fiscal crisis. A significant part of that required changing the rules on what can and cannot be included in collective bargaining agreements for public sector contracts.
Remember: those are the ones where the parties bargaining with one another are divvying up tax dollars. The politician (management) is supposed to be the good steward of the public money (i.e., your and my tax dollars). The workers' negotiators are trying to get the best deal for their workers. So far so good. The problem comes when the politicians realize that they will get more of that sweet, sweet milk of political life—campaign contributions (from Big Labor)—if they demonstrate greater willingness to give the unions more of what they want—your and my tax dollars.
And if tax dollars start running out? Well, raise 'em. The fat cats who run private sector companies are greedy, right?
Set that in contrast to the private sector contract negotiations. In those, the management has a finite pool of money to figure out how to divvy up among all business expenses—rent, utilities, salaries, benefits, capital improvements, research and development, oh, and those aforementioned taxes—and they cannot simply raise taxes to get more money. They actually have to satisfy the market and attract customers to buy what they're selling. So the private sector negotiations are intrinsically different. Unlike the you-scratch-my-back-I'll-fund-your-campaign relationship in the public sector negotiations, there is an adversarial relationship, no matter how congenial the relationship between management and labor at a given company.
In Wisconsin they passed laws that, among other things, greatly curtailed the ability of politicians and public sector labor to stick it to the tax payers for their own mutual benefit. This, naturally, enraged those who liked that arrangement quite a bit, thankyouverymuch.
Well, the reforms worked, the budget deficit is gone already, and yesterday the voters of Wisconsin strongly rejected the Dems' and Big Labor's recall of Governor Walker.
Collective bargaining in the private sector is not a bad thing, in and of itself. It can be done poorly by the management, and it can be abused by the unions, either to the detriment of the company. But public sector collective bargaining, since the money is not earned but is taken through taxation, is an entirely different animal. Thus, the laws must treat it differently to protect the tax-paying public.
Wisconsin gets it. Let's hope the rest of the country figures it out soon.
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funny, no one likes to hear from the people these policies actually hurt. and being the good Catholic family that we are we have 6 children and aren't really interested in buying an insurance policy on the market. It would cost my entire salary from MPS, which, by the way, was reduced by 15% down by $400 a month.
Wow you really believe that load of crap you just wrote about. Scott Walker is being lead around like a well groomed sheep. I guess you missed seeing all the people gathering from city to city standing in the cold snow covered ground defending their rights. Scott Walker is now owned by the koch brothers and will do what they tell him to. This is about greed and power. If the people want the unions to go away then they will find a legal way to make it happen. As for a balanced budget, surely you have checked your facts and verified that the money necessary to show a positive amount was borrowed on a credit card.
At least I am not a lazy American that takes everything they hear and see on tv as the gospel truth. Now if any of you are confused just take the time to look up the facts after all they are on public record.
While there were people out in the streets standing in favor of the unions on this issue, there were clearly more people standing up for Gov Walker in the ballot box. The people of WI were given an opportunity to replace Gov Walker and they clearly chose to stand behind him. That says a lot. I'm sorry it didn't turn out the way you would have liked, but the responsibility lies solely with your fellow voters.
I've said this before today, and I'll say it again: As a Wisconsinite who voted for Walker, I'm sick of hearing the losing side say he only won because he was supported by big money! It's insulting. Do you think you're so much smarter than the majority of our state who agreed with Governor Walker and with what he had the guts to do? You think the majority of us can be bought or tricked by fancy advertising? You really think we're that dumb? We got tired of the Democrats whining (and leaving the state when they couldn't get their way) just because they didn't agree with his actions. We got tired of public employee unions thinking that 1K is too much to contribute toward their deductibles. We got tired of people being FORCED to join unions if they wanted to have a job as a public employee. We got tired of expecting our children and grandchildren to pay for public employee pensions that make our own pensions (if we're even lucky enough to have them) look paltry. We're tired of being in debt. We're tired of the mailings giving out information to our neighbors on who voted and who didn't. We're tired of Democrats who say "We survived Bush, you'll survive Obama," but aren't willing to "survive" Walker. Grow up and stop blaming the win on the fact that Walker had more money for advertising. Face the facts; the people have spoken.
I'm no leftie or fan of organized labor. However I think if you are going to post a blatantly political post like this on a site that purports to be teaching the Catholic faith, that the post should be a lot more religious and less partisan.
What people are forgetting is that there is a federal model for public sector collective bargaining. Federal employees, by law, contribute 22% to their medical plans. Been going on for decades. Since 1986 with FERS (Federal Employees Retirement System), federal employees contribute to their retirement (like a 401K) with mg't contributing matching funds which took the place of the old Civil Service retirement system. Fed employee salaries are not negotiated but set by the Congress, GS (General Schedule) except for specialized occupations under WG (wage grade). Cost-of-living (COLA) raises (fed employees have not received one for 3 years) under congressional jurisdiction. Also, fed employees choose to join the union, they are not forced to do so. So, let the State public sector employees follow the federal model.
The claim that public employee benefit cuts "balanced" the budget is not really factual. For starters, the budget wasn't balanced…you may recall Walker simply kept national foreclosure settlement funds to balance the budget, rather than distribute to affected homeowners. Second, this completely ignores the $900 million cut from schools in the state to pay for corporate and upper-tax tier individual tax cuts, and the hundreds of millions cut to Medicare and Medicaid in the state. Something had to pay for those corporate/wealthy cuts. For those of us with senior family members in the state, the cuts ARE being felt. The question is: when will the trickle down start? Is 5900 jobs (circa March) created in the first half of his term acceptable for brunt of the cuts felt by the middle and lower classes? http://www.jsonline.com/news/128099318.html
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The second 2014 spring flooding prediction for Valley City shows a lower chance than normal for any type of flooding by April 27, according to Bill Barrett, National Weather Service meteorologist/technician for the Grand Forks office. More in Monday's issue of the Times-Record.
LaMoure/Litchville-Marion girls basketball defeated Strasburg-Zeeland 69-21 on the road on Saturday night and begins the District 5 Tournament at 1 p.m. Saturday in Ellendale, N.D. against the winner of Friday's No. 4 Edgeley/Kulm/Montpelier and No. 5 Barnes County North matchup.
Lady Loboes senior forward Tasha Piehl, 8th-grade guard/forward Anna Holen and junior guard/forward Kennedy Witt spurred LaMoure/Litchville-Marion with 12 points each. Witt sank four three-pointers in the evening, Piehl three more and Holen another.
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine gave Oakland's school lunch program a C+ in its latest report card, down from a B last year, based on self-reported information from the district.
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Each year, the committee reviews the lunch menus and nutrition education programs of 20 school districts in different regions of the country to check for fruit and low-fat veggie side dishes, non-dairy beverages and healthy entrees.
The committee did observe an encouraging trend: that more schools are finding ways to cut the grease and ramp up the nutrition despite rising food costs. The report noted that 36 Oakland schools had fresh salad bars, and that some offered a Harvest of the Month program, in which kids get to sample different seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Curious about what Oakland kids are putting into their bodies each day? The menus are posted online.
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Marco Reus and Robert Lewandowski each struck twice in a 5-0 win over Freiburg which improved Dortmund's goal difference compared to Bayern Munich, who remain level with them at the top of the table on 19 points.
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