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Amidst the backdrop of "Hugo," his pilgrimage to filmmaking past, the always insecure director measures himself against the greats, talks mortality and reveals how his 12-year-old daughter rules the roost.
Scorsese traces his devotion to film preservation and restoration back to the emotional limitations of his childhood. The younger of two brothers in a very Old World immigrant New York family that lived in Queens and then the Lower East Side tenements, he repeatedly was told to keep his childish opinions to himself. As an asthma sufferer, he was always sick, which meant sports and pets were off limits, leaving him with an external and internal life that only could be opened in a movie theater. "It really opened up things that I wasn't allowed to say much," Scorsese says. "I wasn't allowed to express my feelings about anybody or anything. These emotions and these questions that were being asked in my head and in my heart, a lot of this was being addressed in the films I saw."
From a very early age, he was watching everything from Singin' in the Rain to Italian neo-realist cinema. His Aunt Mary once took him and a cousin to see a rerelease of Bambi at the Forest Hills Theater in Queens, only to have to first sit through the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. "I was way too young for that one," Scorsese says with an eye roll. "I was saying to my aunt, 'When's Bambi coming on?' She said, 'Shut up, this is good.' The imagery stayed with me, that crazy poetic mood. It was really art." But On the Waterfront broke through in a way that none of the others had before -- he saw his hard-working uncles and cousins in every frame of Elia Kazan's 1954 masterpiece. "It was literally as if the camera was in my apartment or on the street corner with us," he says. "All of this meant a great deal to me and connected me with the outside world."
By his mid-20s, Scorsese had graduated from film school and was looking to put his own experiences on the screen, most notably in his 1973 crime drama Mean Streets. But the fallout of expressing his personal world in public ended up stinging him. "I had repercussions on that," he says in a clipped manner that suggests the memory is still fresh for him. "Family and friends who were insulted."
Once he found his own voice as a filmmaker, he and peers like Steven Spielberg couldn't find decent prints of the movies that had fed them as kids, and they began a campaign to convince the studios that these classics had value. "They didn't realize that to a whole generation, these were more than just commodities," he says. "It was part of who we are. It was part of everyone who has any relationship with cinema. This is something we started to get militant about. 'You may own them,' I said. 'But in actuality, you're custodians for a culture.' "
Scorsese's longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who won Oscars for Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed, remembers his horror after a LACMA screening in the early 1970s of a film classic whose print had turned pink. "It just never had occurred to him that these masterpieces that he was learning so much from could possibly disappear," she says. "He was genuinely shocked. And ever since, that's become his great mission."
In 1990, along with Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Sydney Pollack and others, he formed the nonprofit Film Foundation, and in 2007 he created the World Cinema Foundation to extend the organization's restoration work to foreign films. "To pass it on, that's the key thing," he says. (His own prints, which number in the thousands, reside at the archive in the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.) "It's about knowing the past. You don't get an accurate picture of history sometimes through film, but you get an accurate picture of the people who made it and what the world was like at that time and that place where they made it, their attitudes. It's very important."
Important enough to wage a stealth campaign to educate his own preteen daughter. Despite the wall-to-wall bookshelves, the Robbie Robertson Stratocaster from The Last Waltz and the wooden Laurel & Hardy figurines, the downstairs family room is Francesca's turf. The Steinway she plays obscures a few of her artworks, and two parakeets that her dad complains ignore him provide a singsong background while she does her homework. Although he takes an iPod everywhere, Scorsese says he doesn't get to play his music down here. "Oh, no," he says with mock seriousness, "no, no," as if he were a scared flunky working for a mob boss. On occasion, he admits that he'll stroll through humming Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" and get Francesca hooked.
Their regular ritual has become Saturday afternoon movies that he screens for her and her friends. But how does he get a gaggle of girls to sit for serious cinema? "They don't know," he says, pointing out conspiratorially that you have to do it casually. "If you start them that young, they think this is normal." He bursts into laughter and claps his hands, clearly aware that he's foisting his own passion on them without remorse. "They'll never know." He gleefully explains how he lured them in with classic Disney animated films that he borrowed from the studio, then hit them with the original The King and I, MGM musicals, Twilight Zone episodes and Westerns such as Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine and Shane. (And yes, she did watch Out of the Past with him one night on TCM while he gave commentary on the camera moves; her mother won't let her watch Bambi.)
Even in this fun daddy-daughter context, Scorsese is serious, thoughtful and specific about his approach, as if he's crafting an MFA cinema studies class for students at his alma mater, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He holds these little seminars in the screening room at his Sikelia Productions offices, rather than in the one at home, for one specific reason. "I have books and stacks of things around," he says, mildly pained at the potential disturbance of his OCD-established ways. "The next thing you know, everything has fallen down. Their legs go this way, they stretch out, they ruin everything. The thing is that I need to retrieve stuff! It has to be in a specific place. It may not make sense, but visually I know it's there."
One byproduct of spending more time with young girls again -- Scorsese's two other daughters, Catherine and Domenica, are more than 20 years older -- is that it helped convince him to make a family film out of Hugo. "You deal with them every day so that you're made to understand actually how they perceive the world around them, even from the level of their height," he says. "It's a different way of living entirely. But the thing about it is then [doing Hugo] seemed natural. It didn't seem like a stretch. Being around children, I'm very comfortable with them now."
As it happens, Scorsese's birthday is just a day after Francesca's (hers is Nov. 16), and he feigns exasperation that she gets top billing on their annual combined party. "She gets all the attention now," he says. "I've taken her aside a few times, as they say. I gave her the word: Watch it." More seriously, he just walked one of his daughters down the aisle for the first time, and it hit him hard. His middle girl, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, born right after he made Taxi Driver, a product of his marriage to Julia Cameron, was married Nov. 11 in Chicago. The milestone has shaken him; his voice softens, and he fumbles to explain the feelings it brought up.
"It was very moving, but … she's our little one," he says. "It was kind of surreal, I didn't quite … understand that it was actually happening in real time. I still can't quite grasp it. This is very good for my daughter and everything; she married a sweet young gentleman. But it starts something new. Your concern is in a different way now for them. There's not much you can do. You can help however you can, but you're older, you'll be dying. You're not going to be around. And this is it."
It's hard not to hear in that fatalism an echo of Scorsese's suspicions about the endurance of his own life's work, which now includes 30 features that have earned him eight Oscar nominations (and one win, for directing Departed) for writing and directing since his 1967 debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door. Self-deprecation to the contrary, somehow it's not hard to imagine film lovers cuing up Taxi Driver or Goodfellas centuries from now. Thirty years ago, Kiss Me Deadly director Robert Aldrich sent a letter after seeing Raging Bull that said, "In years to come, that'll be the one to be remembered." "I prize that letter," Scorsese says, then mulls the possibility with a mix of skepticism and hope.
"The reality is, for people who create anything, you always want to be remembered," he says. "You could be remembered for a year, a hundred years, you could be remembered for two thousand years, but eventually everything goes. You just have to accept that. First, it may not stand the test of time. And if it doesn't, you did the best you could. You may have affected certain people's lives -- maybe. You may have made people think differently. And that's what you were meant to do. And now it's over."
But does he not think that he has achieved this with his movies? "No," he says, explaining that while his predecessors' work was fashioned in a true artistic atmosphere, the era that shaped his own films was more divorced from that kind of inspirational bedrock. "There was grown-up art all around them. Real art," Scorsese says. "They grew up in a different culture. I don't come from that culture. If I had made Bertolucci's Before the Revolution, or The Red Shoes or Chimes at Midnight. … There were times when I thought I could. When you get to a certain age, you realize you may not, and you may never have."
"It took 10 years before Raging Bull was recognized as a significant film," says Schoonmaker. "He has experienced what it means for a great work not to be recognized. And he's seen so many of the masters he loved fall into oblivion, like Melies, so he's prepared for that. What's happened with his films is that they last, because they've got truth in them. Truth always lasts."
Scorsese seems to acknowledge this, finally, after a meaningful pause, the parakeets providing their own chattering commentary quietly behind him. He leans forward, his meditative eyes swimming in the split pools of his thick bifocals. Then he says, "A lot of them that I admire, they wouldn't have made Mean Streets -- they couldn't have made Mean Streets. What happens is, in wishing that you made those, you feed off of it. And it goes into something you're doing. And if the material is right, and if the actors are right, and the script is right, and you're in the right head to make it … that's your wish come true. That's it."
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The Sardinian outfit have not won a game since 2 October and lie tenth in the Serie A standings after yesterday's 1-0 defeat away to Atalanta.
"We will not sack our coach," Cellino told Gazzetta dello Sport. "We signed young players this summer, many foreigners and we need time for them to adapt.
"This is the path we must continue on because it's the right one. We must prepare for a difficult season because this is the price you pay when you renew a team as much as we have done."
Ficcadenti, who replaced Roberto Donadoni at the helm of Cagliari this summer, has led his club to three victories in ten league games so far. Cagliari travel to the San Siro to face Inter Milan on 19 November.

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Q: What's behind the Harry Potter phenomenon?
A: The Harry Potter stories press all the right Millennial buttons. Because they appeal to both kids and their parents--most, in fact, are jointly bought and read--they exploit today's new trend toward shared values and tastes between kids and parents. These are big books with big vocabularies that make a kid feel smart and parents proud when a kid masters them. The basic story line--the action-packed exploits of a wholesome kid who stands up to enemies in a world of conniving, spiritually deranged adults--perfectly suits the Millennial self image. As unabashed boy stories, Harry Potter feels doubly refreshing after the steady diet of tales about feelings and healings that extended through most of the Gen X childhood. The incredible volume of Harry Potter sales, including the unprecedented 3.5 million-book first printing of the latest installment, The Goblet of Fire, marks the dawning of two new trends in the kid marketplace: big-brand products, and co-purchases by parents and their children in mutual consultation. Unlike Gen Xers, young Millennials don't mind reading what everyone else is reading--as long as they think it's good, is parentally acceptable, and appeals to their better natures.
Q: What about Pokémon?
A: As a cartoon, Pokémon is composed in a Japanese animé style (never before popular in America) that maximizes the role of complex plot lines and minimizes the role of complex emotions. As a story, courage, duty, teamwork, and friendship--all proven and reproven in the heat of battle--are endlessly reaffirmed. There is nothing alienated or malicious about Ash, Misty, or Brock, who are regular kids of the Harry Potter mold. As a product line, Pokémon is the most global, cross-marketed, media-and technology- and age-bracket saturating kid entertainment product in world history. Pokémon sets a new standard for big-branding in the child marketplace.
Q: How do you explain the popularity, among today's teens, of gross-out movies such as American Pie and Scary Movie?
A: Today's movies and TV shows are the handiwork of Boomers and Gen Xers--not Millennials, who are the first youth generation in living memory to be less violent, less vulgar, and less sexually charged than the pop culture adults are producing for them. In fact, two-thirds of today's teens are either "extremely," "very," or "moderately" offended by sexuality in the media. Youth fare like Me, Myself, and Irene say no more about where Millennials are heading than Beach Blanket Bingo-style films said, in the early '60s, about where Boomers were heading. The grossness, moreover, is often quite superficial--a fact unnoticed by adults who loudly decry these movies but have never seen any of them. Underneath an often coarse veneer, many of the actors on today's made-for-teen movies and TV shows play characters who reveal good-hearted instincts that vindicate friendship and confidence over selfishness and distrust--and who often make good choices in the end.
Q: What do the authors expect the candidates to say about kids in the upcoming presidential election campaign?
A: Since Millennials began being born in the early 1980s, the need to protect and structure the lives of children has been a steadily rising priority in political debates--and in public action. With each election, the Millennials' leading edge has defined the new focus of interest, from tyke issues (child abuse, infant seats) in the mid-'80s to teen issues (curfews, v-chips, school violence) in the mid-'90s. By 1998, over half of all adults said that "getting kids off to the right start" ought to be America's number-one priority. In 2000, Millennial issues will again take center stage--though this time, with this generation's leading-edge having just graduated from high school, the focus will begin shifting toward the college and career issues affecting their future. As key youth indicators (crime, teen pregnancies, test scores) continue to change in a positive direction, and as Millennials start getting old enough to answer back, the politicians' long habit of blaming youth for America's troubles will begin to backfire. In this age of "zero tolerance," most Millennials believe that they are being held to higher standards of personal behavior than adults (even presidents). Unlike in the '80s and '90s, Americans of all ages--especially Millennials and their parents--will prefer to think of the rising generation as full of problem solvers, not trouble makers. Successful politicians will tap into this new sentiment by retooling their youth rhetoric in a more positive direction--for example, by harnessing peer pressure for positive purposes and calling on schools to encourage smart kids to learn even more, rather than by criticizing peer pressure as dangerous or calling on schools to prevent dumb kids from sinking even further.
Q: So what's going on in the classroom? Aren't a lot of kids failing the new state tests and doing worse than kids from other countries?
A: No. The two main national report cards (NAEP, TIMSS) showsteady progress, especially among the lower grades. In most states, scores on the new standard tests are improving. Our own teacher poll shows that the most dramatic gains are occurring at the younger grades, suggesting that Millennials will be a generation of strongly positive academic trends from first cohort to last.
Q: America is awash in individualism, in everything from careers to lifestyles. Aren't these kids growing up the same way?
A: Not at all. With the encouragement of parents, educators, and political leaders--and on their own initiative--Millennials are forging a new youth ethic of teamwork and civic purpose. From the new classroom buzzwords (national standards, team grading, service learning, mainstreaming the gifted and disabled) to the burgeoning school uniform movement, Millennials are becoming a "regular kid" counterpoint to the worst ego-excesses of older generations.
Q: Today's kids have a real edge in technology. How will they use it?
A: The "left-brained" indicators of achievement--for math, science, and technology--are where this generation is making its strongest strides. Our polls show that they expect to make their greatest marks in the realms of politics, economics, and (especially) technology, not so much in culture and religion. And, in a departure from Boomers and Gen Xers, they will apply technology not to empower individuals, but to empower the community.
Q: Kids spend a lot of money. What impact are they having on the economy? How are they changing the marketplace?
A: As the child generation of the rising Dow and unparalleled affluence, Millennials are the biggest youth spenders in history. But not much of this is their own money. Most of the new youth money isn't spent by them, but on them--often in co-purchases with parents. The era of "pushing the edge" and splintery niche-marketing is nearly over. Convention and big brands are poised to come back, pushed by new web technologies and positive peer pressure.
Q: What's going to happen over the next few years, as Millennials flood the nation's campuses?
A: The first Millennials are entering college in September 2000. Starting very soon, parents and politicians will rivet public attention onto college students--just as they did with these same kids in every earlier age bracket, from the Babies-on-Board of the mid-'80s, to the soccer-mommed kids of the early '90s, to the teens of the late '90s. Campuses will experience a new public spotlight on academic standards, student safety, wholesome community, vigorous political action--and national service.
Q: What kind of young workers will they be?
A: They will offer loyalty and expect it in return. They will seek worklife balance and engage in longterm career planning. They will revive unionism and seek more standard pay scales and benefit packages. They will provide the focus for the emergence of a new American middle class.
Q: Are Millennials purely an American generation?
A: No. They're global. But a post-X generation is emerging in North America (in the U.S. and Canada) a few years in advance of youth in Europe and Asia.
Q: So why are Millennials turning out this way?
A: Every generation rebels, in its own way, to reverse what it perceives as the worst excesses of its older parent generations, and to fill the role being vacated by the dying generation.
Q: Why do you call Millennials the "next great generation"?
A: History has tapped them to be the inheritors of the mantle of the upbeat, team-playing, World War II-winning G.I.s . If the rhythms of history continue, Millennials will not be culture creators to the same degree as Boomers, nor entrepreneurs to the extent of Gen Xers. Instead, they will be a generation capable of rebuilding powerful political and economic institutions and re-energizing a sense of community and public purpose. Depending on the course of events, Millennials are poised to define the 21st Century in much the same way as the G.I.s defined the 20th.
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"TUF 13" champ Tony Ferguson thinks lightweight may lie ahead but eying Amir Sadollah | MMAjunkie.com
LAS VEGAS Tony Ferguson (11-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) may not be a welterweight forever, but while he is, he'd like to take on Amir Sadollah.
Following Saturday night's knockout win in the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale, Ferguson admitted a return trip to the lightweight division could potentially loom in his future. But until he makes that call, Ferguson will eye opponents at 170 pounds, and he's already got one in mind.
"I saw Amir Sadollah over there, and I knew that he was a pretty big guy that was from 'The Ultimate Fighter,'" Ferguson said. "I think that would be a pretty good little start right there."
Of course, Sadollah already has a bout lined up for August, so Ferguson might have to put his plans on hold. Either way, he'll have a little bit of time to celebrate his victory over Ramsey Nijem at Saturday's Spike TV-broadcast event.
The matchup started out as a closely contested affair, with Nijem giving as much as he took, but Ferguson took over as the final minute of the opening round neared.
"I knew that he wasn't expecting me to go for a takedown, and that's exactly what we were practicing over at Team DeathClutch in Alexandria," Ferguson told MMAjunkie.com (UFC blog for UFC news, UFC rumors, fighter interviews and event previews/recaps | MMAjunkie.com). "I've always had hands, but I kind of forgot that I was a wrestler. If you guys saw my first fight in the house, I got taken down twice. I knew that he was going to expect to put a lot of pressure on me, so I took that in stride and remembered not to panic when he came at me.
"I knew that when he came at me, I needed to watch out for some knees and stuff. I knew he was going to be kind of sporadic, going all over the place, so I had my takedowns and tried to slow it down a little bit more."
Once Ferguson felt he was dictating the pace, he said he started to listen for suggestions from his coaches. Confident after fighting through a few big shots from his opponent, Ferguson saw the opening he needed and heeded his cornermen's instructions.
"He popped me a couple of times," Ferguson admitted. "If you guys saw, I had to shake it out a little bit. It kind of reminded me of being back in high school and playing football. You shake it out, and you have to find the play and find out where that ball is. That's what I did. I headhunted.
"I tried to move around a little bit, slip some punches. I heard my coach saying, 'Throw that hook out there. He's going to leave his hands out there.' That's exactly what I did. I tried to throw a three-punch combo, but that left hook got him straight on the ground, and I finished him."
The end came at the 3:54 mark of the opening round, and the win scored Ferguson the vaunted "six-figure contract," as well as the title of "TUF 13" champion.
But is Ferguson at home at welterweight? After all, "El Cucuy" competed at 155 pounds just two fights prior to his stint on "TUF 13."
Ferguson said he's open to suggestions from his bosses Dana White and Joe Silva, but he's getting used to life at 170 pounds.
"It depends on where everybody wants me to fight," Ferguson said. If Dana wants me to fight (at lightweight), I fought David Gardener at 155 pounds. I did really good. I'm a big 155-pounder, but I like 170 pounds. I wrestled in college at 165 pounds. I bumped up to 184 pounds for my team, but I'm comfortable where I'm at right now.
"I like food. I like eating, and I like lifting. My girl likes me a lot better at 170 pounds. I'm kind of crabby at 155 pounds. I can definitely see myself going lightweight, but I love welterweight."
In short, Ferguson doesn't know exactly what's going to come next. For now, it's just time to celebrate, and when UFC brass gives the order, Ferguson insists he'll be ready to go.
"It doesn't matter who gets put in front of me," Ferguson said. "I have great coaches that are going to get me ready for it.
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He played for prisoners and the common folks of America. He was "The Man in Black," the spokesman for blue collar workers, Native Americans, and forgotten soldiers. He recorded hundreds of songs that blended folk, country, blues, and rock and roll. He toured with Elvis and Carl Perkins. He was one of the most famous men ever to come from Arkansas. That man was Johnny Cash.
He was born this day in 1932 in Kingsland in Cleveland County, Arkansas. In 1935, Cash moved with his family to Dyess in Mississippi County. Cash lived there until 1950, when he graduated from high school and joined the military. After returning from the Air Force, where he worked as code breaker in West Germany, Cash settled in Memphis.
In 1955, he recorded his first songs for legendary producer Sam Phillips at Sun Studios. Cash soon hit the road, beginning one of the most successful careers in music. By 1969, Cash was at the height of his fame, selling more albums that year than the Beatles. By the time of his death in 2003, Cash had more than 60 original albums to his credit.
Cash, however, never forgot Arkansas. His music career began with him playing high school gyms and small clubs in his home state and eventually gravitating to concerts before thousands in Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Harrison. In 1968, he provided "foot stomping" music at rallies for Winthrop Rockefeller, the first Republican governor since Reconstruction. In 1969, Cash thrilled the inmates at Cummins prison in Lincoln County.
For all his fortune, fame, and awards, Cash never forgot his roots in the rugged cotton lands of the Delta. He visited Arkansas every decade of his adult life. Only poor health in the 1990s kept him from playing more dates in in his home state.
Since his death, Cash's legacy only seems to get stronger. He is the subject of international acclaim. In honor of his life and days in Arkansas, the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) is working on an exhibit featuring rarely seen images of Johnny Cash. The exhibit, which is opening in October 2014 at the Arkansas Studies Institute in downtown Little Rock, will feature photographs and memorabilia highlighting Cash's experiences in the Natural State. A centerpiece of the exhibit will be the concerts Cash performed for Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller in 1968 and the concert at Cummins prison farm the following year. The exhibit will also feature live concerts performances featuring the music of Johnny Cash.
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I don't know if I have reached a break-even or breaking point!
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Don't judge and waste your energy.
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McALESTER — Cameron's Austin Standridge won Wednesday night's Southeast Coaches All-Star Game Home Run Derby Wednesday night at Mike Deak Field. He hit five home runs total, four of which came in the second round.
Talihina's Austin Lawson was runner-up with two homers — one in each round. Both players will return next week to compete in the State Coaches Home Run Derby.
As for the game, the Blue, which featured Standridge, Lawson, Cameron's Dale Pearson and Talihina's Zach Curran, defeated the White 9-4.
The eighth annual Mark "Mud Duck" Sullivan Junior Golf Camp will take place Tuesday through Thursday at Choctaw Country Club. The camp will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday and Wednesday, while the final day of camp will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday. The camp is open to boys and girls of all ages. Entry fee is $20 per camper.
Instructors will be Poteau golf coaches Mike Thomas and Randall Wheat, along with Andy Perdue and the high school golf teams.
For more information, call (918) 647-3488, (918) 839-0155 or (918) 649-5030.
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Sometimes when one looks at all sides of an issue, one side seems to stick out. That was verly likely the case for Scott Gregory.
Gregory, who had been coaching the Heavener Wolves for the past seven seasons, was hired at Monday night's Poteau Public Schools Board of Education meeting as the new coach of the Poteau Lady Pirates.
With the fact that Gregory lives in Poteau will make things easier for him with the new job.
However, he is also excited about just how good the Lady Pirates can be.
There was an invasion of coaches from Latimer County, Wilburton to be precise, at Wednesday's LeFlore County Coaches Association Golf Tournament, which took place at Choctaw Country Club.
Carl Albert State College Softball Coach David Holt, who is from Wilburton, along with Wilburton High School coaches Justin Lowder and Eddie Muse and WHS Athletic Director Ken Lay won the event with a 59.
The foursome of CASC Women's Basketball Coach Jeff Tadtman, Heavener coaches Russ McDonald and Bobby Pickle and CCC member Ron Murphree was second at 60.
A benefit T-ball tournament will take place Saturday at Cameron. Entry fee is one new ball per game. Teams will play three games.
For more information or to enter, call (479) 353-0782 after 5 p.m.
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The eighth annual Mark "Mud Duck" Sullivan Junior Golf Camp will take place Tuesday through Thursday at Choctaw Country Club. The camp will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday and Wednesday, while the final day of camp will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday. The camp is open to boys and girls of all ages. Entry fee is $20 per camper.
First of all, I forgot to wish my mother, JoAnn Mattox, and my wife, Jenny, a Happy Mother's Day last week. For some strange reason, I thought Mother's Day was this Sunday instead of last Sunday — I was a week behind.
Sometimes I wonder if my elevator goes all the way to the penthouse? Anyway, Happy Belated Mother's Day, ladies.
FYI — I now keep a huge calendar on the kitchen table, and write everything down so I just don't forget anything any more.
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In the Civil War, it was the North which defeated the South. However, in the 2012 LeFlore County All-Star Basketball Games, it was the South which rose.
The South teams swept the North in the latest all-star games which took place Tuesday night at Carl Albert State College's Mick Thompson Fieldhouse. The South girls defeated the North 33-26, which was then followed by a South boys victory over the North by a score of 73-69.


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EVEN with the best will in the world, reducing our carbon emissions is not going to prevent global warming. It has become clear that even if we take the most drastic measures to curb emissions, the uncertainties in our climate models still leave open the possibility of extreme warming and rises in sea level. At the same time, resistance by governments and special interest groups makes it quite possible that the actions advocated by climate scientists might not be implemented soon enough.
Fortunately, if the worst comes to the worst, scientists still have a few tricks up their sleeves. For the most part they have strongly resisted discussing these options for fear of inviting a sense of complacency that might thwart efforts to tackle the root of the problem. Until now, that is.
A growing number of researchers are taking a fresh look at large-scale "geoengineering" projects that might be ...
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Fire at Apple R&D facility
US news channel, CBS, is reporting on a fire that broke out in the middle of the night at the Apple R&D facility in Cupertino.
Up to 66 fighters were reported to be on the scene to combat the fire that workers reported to be on the roof of the building.
Early assesment from firefighter deputy Rooney, who gave a briefing to the press, revealed that the fire started under an air conditioning unit.
The firefighters were busy trying to clear the smoke from the building before checking whether any kit in the facility had been damaged by water.
No one was reported to be in the building when the fire broke out.


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A visitor to the Louvre-Lens museum has vandalized a famous Delacroix painting "Liberty Leading the People". The woman wrote on the bottom of the iconic painting with a black marker. After she was arrested the museum was closed.
According to a museum statement, the 28-year-old woman "was immediately apprehended by a security officer and a visitor", taken to police and placed in custody.
"At first glance, the inscription is superficial and should be cleaned easily," the statement goes on to say.
"The work will be appraised by the Department of Paintings of the Louvre Museum and a restoration specialist, who immediately rushed to the site," they added.
"Depending on the results of the examination, a decision will be taken whether to move the work or not for restoration," the statement said, according to Le Figaro.
Last year President Francois Hollande cut the ribbon on the €150 million Japanese-designed museum, which opened to the public on December 12.
For its first five years, the museum's 125-metre central gallery is showcasing 200 works from Antiquity to 1850, including masterpieces by Delacroix, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci.
According to the Louvre-Lens' director, the challenge in the first year is to attract up to 700,000 visitors to the new site. The museum was opened in the former mining town in Northern France, and wants to attract at least half a million visitors annually, as compared to the nine million annual visitors to the Louvre itself.
The latest incident "does not affect the desire to share with everybody the masterpieces of the Louvre in Lens, which has already attracted 205,000 visitors since its opening," the statement emphasized.


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In a hushed Apalachicola courtroom Monday afternoon, a grieving father relived the pain of his young son's murder, and then watched as the boy's grandmother was sent to state prison for what will likely be the rest of her life.
Without comment beyond the detailed legal questioning, Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey sentenced 73-year-old Marianne Bordt, from Nufringen, Germany, to 21 years and six months for drowning her American-born grandson Camden Hiers, 5, in the bathtub of a St. George Island rental home on Jan. 4. 2010.
Bordt said nothing other than the necessary yeses and noes as she stood for sentencing, flanked by her public defender, Andy Thomas, and translator Michael Alsentzer. Just prior to that, throughout a slide show prepared by the boy's father, Dave Hiers, to accompany his victim impact statement, she sat stiffly in her chair, following intently, without emotion, as heartbreaking images unfolded of the vibrant child whose brief life she ended violently.
Over the last two-and-a-half years, prosecutors sought the death penalty for Bordt on a charge of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. Thomas had laid the groundwork for an insanity defense that would have argued Bordt suffered dementia and depression from a skull fracture she sustained as a 5-year-old, when the Russians bombed her childhood home of Breslau in Oct. 1944.
After the first trial date last July was scrapped, the trial was re-set for next month, but last week State Attorney Willie Meggs and Assistant State Attorney Robin Myers, who prosecuted the case, agreed to a plea deal with Public Defender Nancy Daniels. To fit the agreed-upon years, which will mean Bordt will likely be at least 90 before she could be released, the first-degree murder charge was reduced to second degree and the child abuse charge dropped.
Hiers, who has long said he and his family were not intent on seeing Bordt put to death, objected to Monday's plea deal, preferring a 30-year-sentence. In his victim's impact statement, he said as much.
"If she is guilty of this crime, then I want her to not be able to enjoy life - the same life she took from him - albeit a terribly unfair trade as she has mostly lived her life," he told the court. "If she is proven guilty, I want her to be punished as no person has ever been punished – and to be able to fully realize the extent and harm of her horrible crimes."
Myers said in an interview following the hearing that the plea deal satisfied the prosecution's primary objective, to make sure Bordt spent the rest of her life in prison.
"I understand his frustration," said Myers. "To us the outcome was more important than the actual number. While it's theoretically possible, we don't believe she will ever leave the Department of Corrections."
Myers said prosecutors were confident of winning the case, but knew if they were to lose and Bordt found not guilty by reason of insanity, officials at Florida State Hospital would have custody of Bordt, and could eventually petition to have her step down to a halfway house and ultimately be released.
Bordt was held in the state hospital in Chattahoochee beginning in Dec. 2010, in order to have her restored to competency, which was done over the course of the next year.
"Once she was found incompetent, no plea was allowed," said Myers. "That was the frustrating part for me (after that). There was never discussions involving a plea. We were always given the impression the defendant was not willing to accept anything involving a lengthy prison term."
Myers also noted that while the boy's age, his relationship with the defendant and the fact the crime was "heinous, atrocious and cruel" all weighed in favor of death, Bordt's age, prior psychological condition, lack of a criminal record, and consideration of proportionality, that "the punishment fit the crime," all worked against her ever being executed.
"Even if we had secured it, there's a chance they could have commuted the sentence to life," he said. "There's a good chance they would have done that."
Myers said that as a father of four, including two 14-month-old twins, his heart went out to Dave Hiers, who he worked with closely over the past two-and-a-half years. "As a father I can't even begin to imagine how he must feel," said Myers. "There's nothing I can do to fill the void in his life."
In her sentencing, Dempsey granted Bordt credit for 995 days served, some served in the Leon County Jail, but most spent in the state hospital, from which she now will be taken to go to the female penal institution in Lowell. She was also ordered to pay $770 in fines and costs, and the judge specified that she be maintained on her current medication regimen.
Bordt's admission of guilt, and the stipulation that Myers read as to the factual basis for the plea, will likely have an effect on an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit that Dave Hiers is pursuing in federal court. The plaintiff contends Marianne Bordt was culpable and her husband, Heinz, negligent during their weeklong vacation on St. George Island.
"There's no amount of money that can make me settle this case early," said Dave Hiers after Monday's hearing. "We are going to have a court case, and believe me, we're going to find the truth."
'I have lost my bearings and feel adrift'
Hiers, an Atlanta-area software engineer who met his wife, Karin, while working for several years in Germany, read a carefully prepared statement, divided into sections that covered his initial reaction, coping with the grief and feelings towards Bordt.
While Hiers and his parents, Bill and Pat Hiers, from Sharpsburg, Ga. have rarely missed a hearing, Karin Hiers has not participated in the case, and now lives in the Atlanta area, remarried, with a new daughter. The couple divorced when Camden Hiers was just 18 months old, and the parents shared custody of their son.
His voice choked with tears, Dave Hiers told of receiving the 8 p.m. cellphone call from Franklin County Lt. Ronnie Segree, in which he was told what happened.
"I remember weeping uncontrollably, trying to maintain the explosion happening in my mind, heart, and soul," said Hiers. "It was a deep physical pain and emptiness that has not yet left me since that moment."
He recounted the joys of raising his only son in words that no doubt were made possible by the help he said he has received by taking part in Compassionate Friend meetings. "I have found the occasional lost toy part between the car seat, or under a table, or behind the bed that always makes me lose it for awhile," said Dave Hiers. "One day, I found a sticker sheet (missing all the tiny stickers of course) that he got once with a race car in a Happy Meal at McDonalds. I remembered how he kept test aligning each of the tiny stickers meticulously until it was perfectly placed on the car. I was so proud of his attention to tiny details and need for alignment. I miss him so much every day, but these unexpected reminders are both wonderful and incredibly sad at the same time."
Heinz Bordt, who was flown in from Germany for the grand jury proceedings and would have been a witness at trial, told deputies the night of the drowning that after returning from an errand in Apalachicola, he found his grandson dead and his wife soaking wet from trying to drown herself in the Gulf. It was then that she told him she had killed the boy because didn't want him growing up in a broken home.
Dave Hiers addressed that alleged statement in his remarks.
"This 'excuse' makes no sense to me at all - or to anyone I know," he said. "Camden was an energetic, happy, smart, curious, artistic, affectionate, sensitive 5-year old boy. He was just starting sports and loved playing outdoors, riding his bike, loved animals, and loved other people. He loved music and movies. His pre-K teachers told me, in fact, that some of the other children envied Camden as he bragged about having two houses, two sets of cars, two sets of toys, two sets of everything.
"He told me all the time that he loved me. He also told me many times that he loved his mommy," Dave Hiers said. "He was afraid of the dark and 'monsters under the bed.' like any child his age. I told Camden that monsters were not real… but I was wrong. Camden did need saving from a real-life monster that took his precious life from us."
At what point, Dave Hiers asked of the judge questions that if courtroom rules allowed, he would have addressed to the Marianne Bordt.
"I want to know why! I would ask her what possibly changed from the times I have seen her doting over him - with such extreme concern for his well-being and safety," he said. "I would remind her of the times she would wrap Camden in a jacket and then a coat when I would pick him up on a cold day – so wrapped that he could almost not sit in his child seat. How she would call him with such fondness 'Camdeline.'
"How could she end the life of another human being that she cared for and accepted responsibility of? How could she bring such pain, destruction and disgrace to herself, her family, and all around her?" the father asked. "How can you go from that place - to a place of wanting them to be tortured and killed?"
Dave Hiers closed by telling the court he is trying to rebuild his life.
"I had so much hope for the upcoming years with Camden here. I had so much hope and anticipation about the future - to watch him go through all the stages of childhood, teen-ager, and then finally adulthood," he said. "Now, I have lost my bearings and feel adrift and lost in the world. Every day I get up and place one foot in front of the other, and take one day at a time. It's all I can do."


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Whenever Tom Baker speaks, 20 miles away someone turns round and wonders what all the noise is about. His voice is loud. And I mean loud.
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The new series of Monarch of the Glen starts on Sunday on BBC1 at 8pm. Tom Baker appears in episode two on October 3.


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Johnson Controls Battery Deal
Johnson Controls Lands $5.4 Million Battery Deal
The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC) has announced it's awarded a $5.48-million lithium-ion battery technology development contract to Johnson Controls Inc. (NYSE:JCI)
The $5.4 million will be used to aid in the process of developing JCI's lithium-ion battery technology for plug-in hybrids vehicles. The award is co-funded by the DOE and includes a 50% cost-share by Johnson Controls.
For the duration of the 24-month program, Johnson Controls will spend the bulk of its time researching how to increase the volumetric energy density of hard-cased prismatic cell technology, which was leftover from the last USABC contract award winners. With the improved energy density, volume and mass issues are addressed while also helping drop the price of the battery.
The cells will either be assembled in Johnson Controls Battery Technology Center in Milwaukee or at its lithium-ion manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan.
The contract is Johnson Controls' third with the USABC. Johnson had previously worked with USABC on developing batter cell, module and pack technology for plug-in hybrids as well as lithium-ion battery development for hybrid electric vehicles.
This is just another part of the USABC's goal to aid in developing electrochemical energy storage technologies for use in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric and fuel cell vehicles.
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BY Tyler Tschida on Sun December 28th, 2014
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Applications for the public transportation federal capital aid grant program in North Dakota are now being accepted by the North Dakota Department of Transportation. More in Monday's issue of the Times-Record.
The City County Health District has chosen Bobbi Hepper Olson as architect for remodeling the current Valley City First Community Credit Union building to turn it into a new home for City County Health. More in Monday's issue of the Times-Record.
The President's House Preservation Society will hold a holiday open house at the President's House Guest Inn on the campus of Valley City State University on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
The President's House has been decorated for Christmas, and the open house will feature refreshments, tours of the home and information about renovation plans.
Read more in Monday's Times-Record.
Erin Edinger, a senior at Valley City State University, stays very busy on campus, interacting with fellow students in a number of ways. Read more in Friday's Times-Record.
U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, North Dakota's sole representative in the House of Representatives, will visit the Valley City office of the Hospice of the Red River Valley Dec. 6. More in Friday's issue of the Times-Record.
The City County Health District has solved a problem with higher than normal lead levels being found in children being screened for health problems as part of the Health Tracks program. More in Friday's issue of the Times-Record.
An erosion study along the banks of the Sheyenne River in Valley City was recently completed and is available for public viewing at City Hall. Read more in Friday's Times-Record.
A Valley City garage and car were broken into early Saturday. Read more in Friday's Times-Record.
More than 40 Valley City State University students on campus over the Thanksgiving holiday will be treated to a Thanksgiving buffet dinner at Vicky's Viking Room restaurant in downtown Valley City on Thursday afternoon.
According to Kari Stricklin, VCSU director of student activities, the student group includes many out-of-state students and several international students, along with the men's basketball team, on campus for practice prior to weekend games on the road.
Valley City State University is in a better position today than it was a year ago, President Steve Shirley told more than 100 staff Monday in his annual state of the university address. More in Wednesday's issue of the Times-Record.


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In Our Own Backyard…There's no love like the love of a dog
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Last Sunday, our beloved âgrand dog,â Tanner, lost his fight with cancer. But it is not in dying that we remember him â but in life.
In his brief time here on earth, the yellow lab taught us more about love than most people. And as our…continue reading on pinejournal.com


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That was a fun way to put a Patriots' loss in the rear-view mirror. Pittsburgh completely dominated the Raiders, and if it hadn't been for the officials' flag-happy tendencies, we may have seen a blowout of historic proportions.
We'll have more analysis of the game on the podcast, but here are some thoughts during the game.
(You can read Ryan's thoughts from the game here.)
It's nice to see the Steelers' coaching staff respond to the problems we all saw in the loss to the Patriots. You read here how Trai Essex was the player who has serious problems in the running game — Pittsburgh replaced him with Ramon Foster.
There's been a general consensus that the wide receivers for the Steelers have lacked enough quickness and explosiveness to make secondaries sweat — so Pittsburgh activated Anthony Brown and Emmanuel Sanders in the same week and played both of them in four wide receiver formations. It's great to see guys who can get open against solid corners. Just as notably Antwaan Randle El has been reduced to a couple of gimmick snaps and the five-wide formations, but not much more than that. That said, Emmanuel Sanders needs to focus on catching this week — he had a couple of balls hit his hands that he didn't snag.
Another young gun getting an opportunity was Keenan Lewis — he again seemed to play well when given a chance to serve as a gunner on punt coverage. The combination of him, Anthony Madison and Stevenson Sylvester is an impressive combination on punt coverage.
I know that Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians gets a lot of criticism, but give him credit when things work. Check out the third and two with 10:18 to go in the second quarter. Heath Miller lined up at fullback (a pretty unusual role for him, but not completely unprecedented), then flared out into the flat at the snap — he was left wide open for an 18-yard gain on a seemingly simple dump and run. It was the kind of matchup advantage that the Steelers had clearly seen on film, and waited to use in a key situation.
Seeing Richard Seymour and Chris Kemoeatu spar with each other early in the second quarter was awesome. It was the kind of thing you would have seen in a Steelers/Raiders game from the 1970s, and it was relatively clean, just two guys going at each other a little after the whistle. Seeing Seymour punch Roethlisberger later was not as awesome, but if there ever is an unnecessary roughness penalty you accept, it's the one that Kemoeatu took for retaliating. As an offensive lineman, you can't shrug off your quarterback being punched, and thankfully Kemoeatu didn't.
As much as I love the memories of the 70s Steelers-Raiders games, in the second half we saw what would happen in the Steelers-Raiders from the 70s played now. It became a farce with penalties on every play.


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Apple's strive for innovation never ends. Case in point, word that the Cupertino, California-based company is look at new ways to add stabilization to videos taken with future iPhones, according to Apple Insider.
Using the iPhone's built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, Apple is looking at adding software-based stabilization to eliminate shaky video recordings. In a patent application entitled, "Accelerometer/Gyro-Facilitated Video Stabilization," the company describes how an iPhone might use motion-sensing data to compensate for any jittering in a recorded video.
"Motion detection devices can provide metadata that indicates motion effects of a camera during video capture, however, even though the motion detectors provide data relating to global motion of the camera, the level of shakiness between frames is often comparable to the noise level of the motion detector data," the filing reads. "Such high level of the noise in data prohibits (direct use) of accelerometer data in video stabilization."
Apple's solution would be to selectively control the motion stabilization feature, only adjusting and improving the video captured when the system determines it is necessary. This determination would be made by comparing motion sensor data to a pre-set threshold.
"Based on the determination, motion stabilization may be suspended on select portions of a captured video sequence," the application states.
First filed in 2010, Apple's patent in no way suggests this stabilization feature is coming with the iPhone being unveiled next week. Still, it could be included in iPhones released sometime later.


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Random NFL Cheerleader Pictures
It's gonna be a debate for the ages. Which league has the hotter cheerleaders? The NBA or the NFL? And frankly it's just a fun debate because I think everybody wins. It's just too bad both leagues don't have some sort of contest on television. Get a stripper pole, have them do their things. You think this wouldn't be Pay Per View special?
I really think I should be on the events committee for both leagues. You just can't do enough of this stuff. OK, whatever. I just know that NFL Cheerleades are quite tasty.
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- The Charlotte Bobcats Cheerleaders are a Positive This Year
- I think it's Time to Start Following the Portugese Soccer League
- The Cheer Fit Cheerleaders are Cheery
- The Weekend Tailgate: Elizabeth Gutierrez Lights It up, Kobe's Ankle Insurance, and A Campus Cutie
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(CHICAGO, ILL.) Chicago Music and Dance International along with the Athenaeum Theatre present 2012 World Dance Day on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7 p.m. This unprecedented day of dance celebrates the 30th anniversary of International Dance Day, a world wide celebration held every April 29th and introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute. Held at the historic Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, 2012 World Dance Day showcases performances by 11 of Chicago's most exciting ethnic dance groups representing the traditional dancing of Spain, Bolivia, Mexico, Lithuania, Romania, Korea, China, Ireland, Germany, Africa and the Philippines as well as a few of Chicago's most respected dance troupes. A special 2 p.m. performance features children dancers from the majority of the ethnic dance groups. Tickets are $15 – $35 and are available by calling 773-935-6875 or by visiting www.athenaeumtheatre.com.
"Chicago is internationally respected as a city that is passionate about the art of dance and that passion and enthusiasm for dance as an art form is shared by Mayor Emanuel, a former dancer," said Altin Naska, co-founder and artistic director of the Chicago International Dance Forum. "Chicago has a rich cultural tapestry comprised of many different ethnic groups and it is important that these beautiful century-old traditions be preserved and shared with a broad audience. Audience members that attend this performance can literally take a trip around the world through the magic of dance."
Dance groups scheduled to participate in 2012 World Dance Day include Ensemble Espanol (Spain), Renacer Boliviano (Bolivia), Mexican Dance Ensemble (Mexico), Laume (Lithuania), Miorita (Romania), Choomsarang (Korea) as well as the Joel Hall Dance, M.A.D.D. Rhythms and Chicago Dance performing hip-hop, tap and ballroom dance styles.
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Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play, I, Don Quixote, which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with scenes from his novel. The film was financed by an Italian production company, Produzioni Europee Associates, and shot in Rome. However, it is entirely in English, and all of its principal actors except for Sophia Loren are either British or American. (Gino Conforti, who plays the Barber, is an American of Italian descent.) The film was released by United Artists. It is known in Italy as L'Uomo della Mancha. The film was produced and directed by Arthur Hiller, and stars Peter O'Toole as both Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote, James Coco as both Cervantes' Manservant and Don Quixote's "squire" Sancho Panza, and Sophia Loren as scullery maid and prostitute Aldonza, whom the delusional Don Quixote idolizes as Dulcinea. Gillian Lynne, who later choreographed Cats, staged the choreography for the film (including the fight scenes). Gino Conforti, as the barber, is the only member of the original Broadway musical cast to repeat his role for the film, though James Coco also played that role, briefly, on Broadway.
Cervantes and his manservant have been imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition, and a manuscript by Cervantes is seized by his fellow inmates, who subject him to a mock trial in order to determine whether the manuscript should be returned. Cervantes' defense is in the form of a play, in which Cervantes takes the role of Alonso Quijana, an old gentleman who has lost his mind and now believes that he should go forth as a knight-errant. Quijana renames himself Don Quixote de La Mancha, and sets out to find adventures with his "squire", Sancho Panza.
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There are around 300,000 mobility scooters and 4 to 5 million bicycles on UK roads but they aren't governed by the same laws as motorists - a situation that needs to be remedied, says motoring lawyer Jeanette Miller.
There are reportedly 300,000 mobility scooters and around 4 to 5 million bicycles regularly used on UK roads.
Despite these numbers, these modes of transport are not classed as "mechanically propelled vehicles", the definition used in most modern day motoring law legislation.
So many of the motoring laws that apply to cars and other motorised vehicles do not apply to mobility scooter drivers or cyclists.
Yet there has been a number of instances over the last decade or so when mobility scooter drivers and cyclists have wound up in court.
If prosecutions are brought against operators of these "vehicles" a problem arises, as when it comes to punishing the offender there is no requirement to hold a valid driving licence to drive a mobility scooter or ride a bicycle.
There was quite a lot of noise made about this issue in 2010 when the number of serious accidents caused by mobility scooter drivers was raised in parliament.
The general consensus at that time was that despite the number of drivers reported to be regularly on the roads (or pavements), there were not enough incidents involving them to make the expensive changes to the law necessary.
When mobility scooter drivers and cyclists have been prosecuted for drink related offences, the 1998 Road Traffic Act does not apply to them.
Section 12 of the Licensing Act 1872 has been used for drink related incidents involving mobility scooters and bikes as it states that it is an offence to be riding a cycle or to be in charge of any "carriage, horse or cattle" when drunk.
The law requires the court to be satisfied that the driver was drunk - suggesting they were over the legal limit will be insufficient to secure a conviction.
There is also no lawful right for the police to request a breath, blood or urine sample to be provided in these circumstances.
If convicted, rather than being disqualified from driving or using the relevant mode of transport in the future, the penalty for this offence is either a fine of up to £200 or one month in prison.
For more serious incidents involving collisions caused by mobility scooters it is possible for the police to rely on an offence under paragraph 35 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
This gives the police powers to deal with those who use mobility vehicles in a dangerous manner and a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment may be imposed if convicted.
Another problem road safety campaigners have raised is that there is no requirement for scooter users or cyclists to take out compulsory insurance.
In April 2011 there were calls by ministers to introduce a new "causing death by dangerous cycling" offence.
Despite the low speeds of mobility scooters - most are limited to a maximum speed of 8 mph - and biycles, with the number of mobility scooters and cyclists set to increase I do not think this issue will be going away.
I think it is only a matter of time before the government will be forced to update the current 19th century laws to bring this minority class of drivers to justice in line with the motoring laws applicable to motorists.
Lawyer and legal blogger Jeanette Miller is managing director at motoring law specialists Geoffrey Miller Solicitors.
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I dont think its fair on old people its the young drivers that need reminded how dangerous the roads r. My father drives he is 74 and i would rather travel with him than some young ones they have no patience. Older people only hold a 3 year licience just like a medical licence does this mean that anyone holding a medical licience will hav to re sit a test. I think its discrimanation against older people. I know it wud take away my fathers independance the younger drivers seem to forget that they will be older some day
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These vehicles should be clsaaed as mechanically propelled vehicles, for the simple reason that that's exactly what they are! Mobility scooters are powered by electric motors, which are mechanical: pedal cycles are powered by the rider pushing on pedals which attach by chain to the rear wheel, so they're mechanical too: where's the problem?
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could anybody please let me know if it is lawfully legal for my elderly neighbour to legally drive an electric mobility scooter either a class 2 or class 3 EPV on the roads in england as he was unfortunately convicted of dangerous driving and was banned for and had his car license for 12 months and he is housebound at the moment and is desperate for some kind of transportation because he is disabled and unable to walk any kind of real ditance> Iwould be greatful if ANYONE could clarify it for him either way THANK YOU for any kind of info or web address you could supply for him
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North West: Is Kim and Kanye's baby name decided?
There's been plenty of speculation about what Kim Kardashian and Kanye West will name their newborn daughter, but thus far no name has been released.
Many are expecting it to be a strange name along the lines of "Apple" and "Pilot Inspektor," but those close to Kardashian and West are saying that the baby might be given a moniker that's a play on words. According to In Touch, Kardashian and West are leaning towards naming their firstborn daughter "North West."
"North is at the top of the list of names," a source tells the site. "They're not totally sure about it. Kanye loves it, Kim is okay with it." The problem? "The family doesn't like it [the name]," the insider explains. "They're going to decide by today [June 18]."
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I've written here before about some of the far-flung ramifications of the civil war in Syria spinning out of control. For example, Poles last month speculated that terrorists and militants holding European passports returning from Syria could strike soft targets across the Schengen Zone, those countries in Europe who have dismantled their customs and border checks effectively meaning entrance to one is entrance to them all. The result of that, of course, would be the end of the Schengen agreement and the return of passport checks at national borders.
Alas, the threat of European citizen terrorists will not be limited to Europe. Today, security has been ramped up for international flights heading to the United States because of credible threats of new terrorism using explosives not readily detectable by current screening technologies. The Syrian conflict is exacerbating the problem: Recently, a British citizen who has joined the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham has posted a video bragging about the explosives training he has received in Syria and boasted that he would soon bring that know-how home.
Airlines are doing the usual ramping up of screenings and interviewing passengers, and press reports also suggest that American officials will fly to European airports to supervise screening of passengers and baggage.
If the threat is increasingly not only the potential for harder-to-detect explosives, but also the passport holders who might carry them, perhaps it's time to bite the bullet and eliminate visa waivers. That would result in reciprocal action by mainly European countries like the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
That does not mean that all embassies need to be flooded with applicants, but rather that the United States can begin applying more of an Australian model in which everyone must apply for a visa electronically so that their names and information can be passed through applicable databases. True, the State Department and Department of Homeland Security have the Electronic System of Travel Authorization, but that is simply a preliminary system to confirm visa waiver applicability. While it reserves the right to deny anyone entrance at the U.S. border, if anyone has malicious intent when boarding an airplane, waiting until they land is too late to offset a "man-made disaster."
The visa system isn't sacrosanct. There is much that is wrong with it and almost everyone, inside or out, sees the need for reform. That may be too much a job to do for a secretary of state who believes effectiveness is measured in frequent flyer miles and, like former Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, ignore their executive responsibility to manage and reform the bureaucracies over which they preside. Rather than uphold the blanket right for countries with shifting demographics and a growing radicalism problem to have their citizens have the right to visa waivers, perhaps it's time for increased preliminary screenings. It's not too much of a hurdle for non-American travelers to apply directly online for a visa (so long as the interface isn't designed by the good folks who brought us healthcare.gov) and potentially be informed of the need for a follow-up interview. It's also not too much of a hurdle for Americans to then deal with applying for visas ahead of time should those countries insist on reciprocity.
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It is an interesting article coming from a Computer Science Major, but I see the lack of logical programming languages. I only saw 2 examples being Lisp and Python. I did not see any Prolog or the like. I would have liked to have seen how a logical programming language stacked up to the object oriented languages.


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Anurag Basu, who has no plans to make a sequel to "Barfi!", India's official entry for the Oscars this year, reveals that the film's team may take Aamir Khan's help in campaigning for the film in the US.
Basu, who is leaving the entire Oscar strategy to UTV, his producers, said: "They've more experience in the matter. This is my first film that's going to the Oscars, so I am clueless how one goes about it."
Aamir's "Lagaan(2001)" was nominated for the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the director said: "Aamir has experience in how to position an Indian film for the Oscars. We'd be happy to follow his lead. At the moment we're yet to devise a strategy for the Oscars. Abhi LA (Los Angeles) door hai."
There were talks about a sequel to the film but Basu says that "a sequel is definitely out. Where I will take Barfi's story when he is already dead? If the producers feel comfortable with the idea they're welcome to do sequel to Barfi. The Bhatts did a sequel to my film 'Murder'. I was not involved with it."
At the moment "Barfi!" seems to have a life beyond what Basu expected.
"The Oscar nomination is like a bonus. On the day it was announced, I was locked away writing my next script, so I had no clue until late in the night. Let me not be overly modest and let me admit I knew 'Barfi!" would be liked by critics and would go to various film festivals. It has already been selected for the Pusan, Marrakesh and the Taipei film festival.
"What took me by surprise was the popular mandate given to 'Barfi!'. I never expected it to be so popular. I always looked up to Rajkumar Hirani for making inspirational films that were warmly embraced by the masses. Now 'Barfi!' seems to have done the same."
As for the franchise of going into graphic and animation form, the areas are now being "seriously explored" with many global parties willing to invest in the franchise.
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Lagaan was an epic. It was true story and of India. Burfi is beautiful, sweet and heart touching story and exceptional acting by ranbir and pc and illeana but it has been copied by so many hollywood films that it is not going to be in Oscar. I wished that he didn't copy and stuck to own imagination.
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