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Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano
A talented singer from the tender age of 15, Kate Ceberano found success early and has gone on to sustain a musical career for more than 20 years. By contrast to colleagues who tend to hit on a style early and stay with it, Kate's music making over the years has been eclectic – her work has ranged over all kinds of musical forms and tastes. She is an encompassing and embracing sort of person and this is reflected in the way she has lived and worked: her extended family has always been part of her life and her music. Her brother Phil is a member of the band; her mother and stepfather help manage her career.
Interested in people generally, Kate is also a person very interested in family – her own obviously, but also how family works, what the connections are between the generations. Kate herself has a little girl, someone she believes she can see herself in. She considers that genetics play a big part in forming our character. But her motivation for involvement in Who Do You Think You Are?® comes from other sources too.
Kate wanted to know more about the family who came before her. She was keen to learn what motivated them, what made them who they were. Her hope was that, in this way, she might then more fully understand her own outlook – or as she put it, 'why I'm so busy moving around travelling, busy getting somewhere, going somewhere'. She was not to know at the outset that family history also held some decided traps. As her research progressed, she had to confront one of the toughest questions in family research – just what exactly is the truth? And, when it comes to using heirlooms and other family memorabilia to arrive at the truth, how do you trace provenance so that you can say that you have genuinely found it?
Kate's father, Tino, was born in Hawaii of Filipina parents. Because Kate is the third generation of her family in Australia, she doesn't feel very Filipino, indeed feels that the way she was brought up has led her to feel more Anglo if anything. Her parents separated when she was 25 and both have remarried. In 1996, Kate married Lee Rogers and they have a three-year-old daughter, Gypsy. Kate's mother's name is Cherie – and she is helping to bring up Gypsy, allowing Kate time to pursue her career as well. Together with husbands, they all live in the same home.
Close as she is to her mother it is not surprising that when she begins her family history research, Kate starts with her maternal side. Kate's grandmother was Kathleen and Kate wants to know more about Grandma Kathleen's family. She has often heard Cherie say, that Kathleen's mother, Minnie, was a 'mean old bitch'. As evidence, Cherie reminds Kate that Minnie didn't even attend her own daughter, Kathleen's wedding.
Grandmother Kathleen's mother was born Elizabeth Mary Anderson in Adelaide, in 1883. But everyone called her by her nickname, 'Minnie'. Though Cherie knew little about Minnie's parents, she told Kate of a cousin in Adelaide, Ross Washington, who had done some research. Kate decided to pay him a visit.
Kate visited Adelaide and met up with Ross, who showed her a photo of Minnie's, surrounded by her family: her seven siblings and her parents, August and Maria Anderson. Minnie's father and Kate's great, great grandfather was August Anderson. Ross gives Kate a document, his Naturalisation Form – which describes him as a labourer who had been born in Sweden. This fact, that she has some Swedish blood runs in her veins, comes as an amazing discovery to Kate. She had no idea.
Ross tells Kate that August 'ran away from home' at the age of 13 to become a seaman, eventually jumping ship in Australia while still only young. Kate was delighted at the news - a gypsy traveller spirit in her past! She had always wondered why she needed to keep moving. But there was a reality check: far from being a carefree wanderer, August's travelling had probably been pretty rough. Shipping was a brutal life, the conditions were very tough and sailors' life expectancy was low. Generally, the least educated volunteered to go to sea and were often quite poor.
As for where August pitched up, well, the colony of South Australia was always happy to receive any able young men. Indeed, South Australia was prepared to take practically anyone who could make a contribution, even ship jumpers (and August was not alone: eleven of the twenty six seamen jumped the same ship). By the 1870s, when August landed, Port Adelaide was developing its industry; there was plenty of work as it began to grow into a bustling commercial centre.
Kate was thrilled enough to find a ship-jumping Swede in the family, but what about his life here? Was he married? Did he have children? If so, how many? To try to find some answers, next stop is the State Library of South Australia. Here Kate accessed a marriage certificate, as well as birth and death records. It appeared that August had married a Maria Prideaux in 1882. But then there are three death certificates for children aged less than one. Child mortality was common over 100 years ago because conditions weren't sanitary; there was overcrowding, open sewers, unpasteurised milk. Often children were malnourished and medicine was basic and very scarce. Port Adelaide was a working class suburb at the time and poverty also contributed to the above factors. As a mother herself, this information Kate was to find distressing.
The records show that after these three children died, Maria gave birth to another three. In 1908, August moved his family, to the remote town of Lameroo, some two hundred kilometres or two hours east of Adelaide. Ross drove them both there, then another fifteen kilometres beyond Lameroo to find what is still referred to as 'Anderson's Bore'. An 1895 newspaper article described the countryside thus: 'The miserable scrub, barren sand hills, and waterless land on to which it is proposed to banish the hard-working sons and daughters of hard-working farmers. What dreadful sins they must have committed to deserve such punishment…' Why here indeed? Kate was to ask rhetorically.
Lameroo was then a small town with a population of about 600. The first settlers arrived in 1906, among whom was August . He may have been a 'pioneer,' but what kind of man was August Anderson? Apparently, he had a foul temper and was an 'imperious old bugger' while Maria had a very strong character to match his. Heather adds August was also generous, contributing to the community as soon as he arrived. He was elected into the Vigilance Committee at the first town meeting. Heather explains that in pioneering towns, before they had were town councils, Vigilance Committees were formed. With the term 'Vigilance', there was a sense that the interests of the town needed to be guarded . Kate is impressed with August's commitment to community needs. Heather adds that August's business was a very successful one in Lameroo. Kate reads from an article describing the farewell given to August in 1922:
"He triumphed over all obstacles and spent a successful career… possessing exceptional vitality and energy. Once having decided that an object, which he and his committees had in view, was worth fighting for, he spared no effort until the idea had grown to be an accomplished fact…. He has been connected with and held leading positions in every body and institution… until he was forced to acknowledge that his health would no longer stand the strain to which it had been subjected in the past…"
Kate found herself reflecting on the determination August so clearly possessed – and this seems to her to be the willpower she herself has inherited.
Grandmother Kathleen Good meanwhile had a difficult childhood with Minnie as her mother, but it seemed her luck changed when she met Douglas Joyce. Kate's Grandfather Doug was born in Tasmania in 1910. As a young man, he left Tasmania with his mother and siblings to escape their alcoholic father. Doug had a charismatic and restless nature. He found his match in Kathleen Good, whom he married in 1935. They moved to Melbourne, leaving Kathleen's mother Minnie behind in Adelaide.
Together they pursued alternative lifestyles. From the 1930s they experimented with various unconventional ways of living. Members of a vegetarian Nudist hippy commune, they began health shops in three different states. Never lucky in business, Doug's quest was about idealism and artistry. A conscientious objector during the war, he became an entertainer. He was an actor in the New Theatre in Sydney in 1945. Doug was a member of the Communist Party until 1956. He joined the Scientologists in the early 1960s. As for Kate, who grew up around such free spirits, she now wondered if there were other artistic and liberal minded folk further back in her ancestry?
Whatever else he was, Doug was a great storyteller. And one of his favourite stories was about the dashing Spanish Captain Lopez, who had an affair with Kate's great, great grandmother, Lavinia. Cherie showed Kate the only photo she has of Lavinia. Together with Lopez, they had a love child – grandfather Doug's mother Edith. Kate adores the story of Captain Lopez and was determined to find out more. Cherie then suggested Kate meet her cousin Chris in Sydney as he had some Lopez family heirlooms.
At this prompt, Kate travelled to Potts Point in Sydney, to meet her mother's cousin Chris and to continue her pursuit of the Captain. Chris it seemed had a portrait painting to show Kate, which, when they got together, he announced to be of Captain Lopez himself. Thrilled, Kate didn't even know the painting existed. His mother had passed it down to Chris and she says it's a self-portrait. Kate was stunned that Lopez was a Captain and an artist as well – so there was another artist in the family…
There were various rumours about Lopez, including that he was from a wealthy Spanish family in San Francisco. That he had sailed into Tasmania, had a passionate affair with Great, Great Granny Lavinia and had an illegitimate child – Grandfather Doug's mother. But also that Lopez's wealthy father disapproved and whisked Lopez back to San Francisco.
Comparing notes, it was clear the story varied a little. No one knew the exact truth. Kate next arrived in Hobart, where her Grandfather Doug's family had lived for at least two generations. At the Tasmanian Archives online, Kate typed 'Lopez' into her laptop, and several entries appeared. Kate scanned the various names and found that Joseph Lopez had married Lavinia Mundy in 1884. Kate was surprised to discover that they were married, not merely lovers. Lopez was born in 1855 – no indication of where. And that is all there was on the database.
Kate next met Maureen Martin, a local historian who had done a comprehensive search on Lopez in Births, Deaths and Marriages. Maureen presented her with a copy of the original Marriage Certificate from the Archives and there was definitely more detail than on the internet. Great, Great Grandmother Lavinia and Joseph Lopez were married in St Helens, a small town on the east coast of Tasmania.
The certificate also described their occupations at the time – Lavinia, was a housekeeper and Joseph, a fisherman. Maureen points out that Joseph did not sign his name, he left an X on the marriage certificate – he was uneducated, while captains were usually educated. If he were of Spanish descent, he would have been literate at least in Spanish. Kate says, 'okay, so he probably wasn't a Captain. Shame!'
There was another document: the birth certificate of Lavinia's daughter, Edith. It stated that Edith was born in 1882 and her father was James Stuart. Kate was shocked. Edith's father was not Lopez? That's correct and Maureen has found absolutely nothing about James Stuart. Maureen compares the birth certificate to the marriage certificate. Lavinia gave birth to Edith in 1882 and then married Lopez two years later in 1884. Kate concludes that Lopez is not her blood relative… Her reaction is to laugh a healthy laugh – so it's all family mythology!
But who is the man in the painting? Perhaps it's still a painting of Lopez? Why is it a family heirloom? What can she discover from the painting? Before she follows up the next generation – the Mundys – Kate is going to visit an art historian and see what he can tell her.
Kate has located Paul Paffen, an art historian, who specialises in early Tasmanian art. Paul states that the clothing of the sitter in the painting reflects high male fashion in the mid 1840s. This man was well off and about 25-30 years old, meaning he would have been born around 1815 to 1820. When was Lopez born? Kate remembers that he was born in 1855 – so this cannot be a portrait of Lopez the fisherman. Kate accepts that as Paul asserts that he can probably attribute this portrait to the artist Henry Mundy – a very significant portrait artist during the 1840s whose work Paul knows well.
Kate asks him if he is sure. He is. But, Kate says that Henry Mundy was her great, great grandmother Lavinia's father. She takes out Lavinia's birth certificate and reads 'Henry Mundy'. Paul Paffen explains that Mundy was one of the pre-eminent portrait artists in Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land, as it was called then. Commissioned by the Northern money belt around Launceston to paint their portraits, he was even asked by Lady Franklin, wife of the Lieutenant Governor, to paint a portrait of her husband.
So who is the person in the painting? Was he a VIP? Paul thinks not because if the portrait was commissioned by a wealthy person, it would have remained in their family or been sold. Paul deduces that, because the portrait was passed down through Kate's family, then it's probably a portrait of one of her family members. Kate doesn't know who in her family was born during those years – 1815 -1820. But she hopes to find out.
Kate's great, great grandmother Lavinia junior's parents were Henry and Lavinia Mundy. Caroline Homer, Head Archivist, now takes Kate through her research at Birth, Deaths and Marriages. Kate reads a certificate given to her by Caroline – the Mundy's marriage certificate from 1834. Caroline explains that her great, great, great grandfather Henry Mundy indeed was the same portrait artist Kate has heard of. And, his wife Lavinia was the eldest daughter of Major Thomas Lord – another very important person in Tasmania's early history. This is exciting news for Kate.
Mundy's occupation reads, Teacher of Music. Caroline explains that in addition to Mundy's work as commissioned artist, Mundy taught music and art at a girls' school. Caroline points out on the baptism certificate that their abode was Ellenthorpe, which was a country girls' school near a town called Ross.
Because Mundy is a known artist, his story was available as public knowledge. Kate has discovered that her great, great, great grandfather Henry Mundy was born in England in 1798. Although he was not of genteel birth, he studied hard, travelled to Italy and France and became accomplished in the arts. In 1831, aged 33, Mundy arrived as a steerage passenger to teach at a private school for girls at Ellenthorpe, near Ross.
Kate decides to go and visit Sue Dowling and her family, the current owners of Ellenthorpe. Although the property is a working farm, Sue is a keen custodian of its history. She was to tell Kate that this house, which she has proudly restored, used to be the Ellenthorpe Girl's School, the place where her great, great, great grandfather taught over 150 years ago.
Henry Mundy taught art, music and French. It is also said Henry married one of his students – Lavinia Lord. Kate is surprised to hear this. But Sue has read in an article that a letter from someone at the wedding implied she was his student. Kate concludes that could explain their age difference – 36 and 16. Sue agrees. Mundy must have been very cultured and artistic, a man who would have impressed his students.
Kate's next mission was to see more of Mundy's portraits. Kate reconnected with Maureen Martin, the historian Kate made contact with when she first arrived in Tasmania. Maureen wants to show Kate a famous Mundy painting. Maureen explains that, after leaving the Ellenthorpe School in 1838, Mundy moved his family to Launceston. He continued to privately teach art and music. Maureen shows Kate Mundy's portrait of Lieutenant Frances Aubin. Aubin was a Magistrate, a significant landowner and also Mundy's brother-in-law. As to Mundy's fortunes, a depression arrived in the 1840s and the rich had less disposable incomes; the boom over, Mundy had trouble making a living as an artist.
Mundy was doing so badly financially that his father-in-law, Major Lord, forced him to buy a farm in an attempt to provide a living for his family. But Mundy knew nothing about farming and he failed miserably. So Mundy eventually moved his family to live with his in-laws, the Lords. There on, his fortunes continued to decline – a sad turn of fate it seemed to Kate. But Henry found an even darker fate in the future… He eventually committed suicide.
When Henry Mundy died, he left behind a young family. His wife Lavinia was only 30 years old and had five children. And baby Lavinia was only 1 year old. Her parents, the Lords, looked after Lavinia senior and the children before she re-married six years later. Kate remarks how awful this must have been for Lavinia Lord. From an influential family, she married a dashing society artist who became terribly unstuck – drinking publicly and then to have his suicide described so vividly in a newspaper.
Kate wanted very much to understand why the family didn't go to the funeral. And just who were the Lords? Information about them was not hard to come by, as Thomas Lord was a well known identity at the time. Kate made contact with a historian, Michael Ludeke, who has written extensively about him. Michael explained that Major Thomas Lord arrived in Tasmania in 1825, and he was made Commandant of a penal colony by Governor Arthur.
As far as penal commandants went, Michael explained that Lord was a very forward thinker – he had great compassion for the convicts and wanted to give them a trade to make their life useful rather that keep them locked up. Trades would also be practical for their post-convict life. But Arthur was not that happy with Lord's approach, believing discipline was too lax. Rather than close the factories and lock up the convicts, Lord made a show of strength with corporal punishment. Lord would flog runaways, of whom there were many. But his career as a commandant would not be as chequered as his intentions…
That Lord was in command of convicts was such an extraordinary development in Kate's family research. She was incredulous at first – the idea that she had a commandant of a penal colony in her family was hard to believe. Lord's life was so alien to her, yet she still thought him fascinating. Whatever he had done, he was a leader of a kind. Another ancestor with drive and determination.
Kate's findings in Tasmania, the rich history in her family, was beyond anything she could have ever have imagined. Her inventions so far have not been wild enough, she surmises. So inspired was she that she could not wait to tell the folks back home…
Back in Melbourne at last, Kate gathered up her mother and daughter to take them to the State Library to tell them the news of their family. There she showed Cherie two paintings by Mundy, pointing to the caption below which describes Mundy's significance as an artist. Next she took out a photo of the so-called portrait of Lopez and held it up against the hanging portraits for comparison.
Kate could explain now that Mundy was her great, great, great, great Grandfather, and it was he who had painted the portraits before them – including the one they had thought was of Lopez. Cherie, still in disbelief, found herself asking the obvious question: who was the portrait of, if it's not Lopez…? Well, Kate had her own theories…
Kate felt as if her old familiar world had been overturned by these experiences in family history. She was delighted to have found so much gypsy blood in her family – there had to be some explanation for her constantly roaming the planet! She also found it strange to look back into her past, instead of always forward. Feeling more whole as a result of her research, she also believes she can see where her artistic temperament came from, as well as her fierce drive to achieve beyond what is expected of her.
Only question was, what would Gypsy inherit from her mother..?
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Jack in the Box Super Bowl commercial: A musical trip to the bork farmAdd to Favorites | Super Bowl XLVIII
Jack in the Box commercials are often odd. Sometimes they involve music. The burger restaurant's 2014 Super Bowl commercial features both as it introduces something called "bork" that makes possible hamburger patties with bacon inside.
As a happy group of clean-cut singers inform us, Jack in the Box has its own farm, which is a magical place of curly-fry trees and helicopters. There is also a strange creature that looks like a spotted pig but has cow horns. This is a bork, described in song as "a critter that makes burgers with bacon inside."
No, you're not supposed to protest that there are other ways to get bacon inside of a burger. That's not the point. It's better to just go with the borks and go buy a burger. It's what Jack in the Box would want.
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Voluntary health workers (VHWs) in Gbarma District, Gbarpolu County are now experiencing reduction in their monthly incentive giving by the Government of Liberia (GoL). In a chat with this writer, Mr. J. Mammoh Jah II, a lab assistant at the Gbarma Clinic, said the incentive for the VHWs has been cut down by US$20 by the government.
According to him, they previously used to make US$ 99 as a monthly incentive, but that was cut to US$79 by the Liberian government. "This is very unfortunate for some of us who continue to make sacrifices for our country. How does government expect us to cater to our family? How do we send our children to school? This is unacceptable that we are treated in this way," said Mr. Jah.
Speaking last week via mobile phone, he disclosed that there are 28 health workers in the district, but only eight are on the GoL payroll. According to Mr. Jah, the other 20, including him, work on a voluntary basis, and were being paid only US$99 as monthly incentive.
He said cutting their monthly incentive by US$20 poses a great threat to the health sector of the district, because this situation could cause some volunteers to abandon their post. When contacted via mobile phone, the County Health Officer (CHO) of Gbarpolu, Dr. Anthony Tucker, confirmed the cut in the monthly incentive of the VHWs. But he said he does not know how much was cut from their monthly incentive.
According to him, the cut was due to the pulling out of an organization called African Humanitarian Action (AHA)-a health non-governmental organization. AHA, Dr. Tucker said, was the one providing the US$99 incentive to the voluntary health workers, and not GoL. Because the group left the district, he said the GoL decided to step in and in so doing, the GoL has a set standard of monthly incentive. "Before, it was an NGO. Now, it is the government which has a set standard for incentive, so our people need to understand these things," Dr. Tucker added.
Gbarma is the third most populated district in Gbarpolu County with 15,972 inhabitants, according to the census conducted by the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) in 2008. Hence the ratio of citizens to one health worker is 507 to one.
The implication of low monthly incentive for the VHWs in Gbarma is troubling. Many may decide to leave the district or county to seek greener pastures, especially in private health facilities or with health NGOs. This could pose an adverse effect on district health system, particularly when 71.4% or 20 out of the 28 health workers in the district are volunteers.
Health workers are not the only public workers experiencing low monthly incomes. This is in all sectors of the government, including education, agriculture and security. The payment of low incomes becomes more of a problem when workers are not paid on time. Such irregular payment constantly leads to public service workers going on strike. Sometimes last year, VHWs at the James Davies Hospital in Paynesville downed their tools because they had not being paid by for several months.


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Reader Photo: All Roads Lead to the Moon
A look at what's going on in Trinidad, on H Street, and in the larger area north of Capitol Hill.
Latest streetcar news:
(cue the I told you so's)
Awesome? What's awesome about it? No seriously, what's the subject of the photo? It seems rather sloppy actually.
What's sloppy about it? I think it's an excellent photo. What a strange comment.
I like the depth in the photo (created by the row of street lights) and I like the moon as it appears to be floating up there in the sky. It may just be a snapshot, but it's an interesting one. Maybe the moon will fall on a streetcar one day.
It's a lazy easy shot, again what's the subject of the photo. It could be a run way for god's sake. Caroline, I'm sorry, but awesome is for something really awesome. Standing on the hop scotch bridge taking a snap shot isn't awesome. It may be cool, and folks may like it. But really what's the subject. Is it H street? The Moon? The lights? What?
Photography, like poetry isn't a free for all art form. Every photo isn't art no more than every powerfully performed poem is really good poetry.


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China's censorship devices were faced with a challenge during Obama's inauguration speech when the new American president mentioned the word communism. Chinese broadcasters quickly faded out the translator's voice and replaced it with an unsuspecting presenter.
Images from state TV channel CCTV. Six seconds into the video, Obama begins to say "Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions." After 20 seconds he had been silenced by the Chinese broadcasters. In reality, he went on to say: "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist".
The presenter, visibly embarrassed by the sudden interruption, poses an impromptu question to a reporter, who then stumbles over a response about Obama's economic policy. On the Chinese web, only versions of the speech in English include references to communism and corruption. Extracts broadcast by the Chinese media and local press, however, were all censored.
Message posted by "Yehuchan" 21 January on this Chinese forum.
The specialist had trouble with her analysis that they showed halfway through his speech. So I thought that when they went back to Obama's speech [after the above video ends], then that was it. But no! As soon as we heard the words terrorism or communism we were whisked back to the studio to hear what the commentators had to say.
What century are we living in? They're still taking us for idiots. The internet is developed enough for us to know everything now. Does CCTV think they're clever? Someone should remind them that they represent the image of the country."
In this new Obama'esque era of everyone getting along, if you can't nuke 'em, we'll just have to deal with them and their stupid censorship.
God forbid, we would not want 1 billion free-thinking Chinese, would we?
When my daughter and son-in-law went to China the year before last, they visited Tiananmen Square and were assured by everyone they met that there had never been a massacre there. In fact, to the best of the local population's knowledge, the people they spoke to insisted there had never even been a killing in the square, so if the locals are prepared to lie through their teeth to keep a secret that everyone knows about,why is everyone so surprised that censorship is in use for Obama's broadcast?
My dughter also told me on her return that she was unable to get a genuine Chinese Chinese meal; the only restaurants they were allowed to use were those set aside for foreigners. If even the food is kept secret, what hope has diplomacy got?
The only information that I get from your comments is that your daughter and son-in-law hadn't been to China ever. And you showed your prejudice against this country. Actually, I fully understand the Chinese censorship, though it may seem ridiculous to some westerners. If you want to understand the Chinese value system, you have to learn Chinese culture and history first. China is a complex and diverse country you may never know. And the communism in China have already been changed according to Chinese value system, thus I prefer to call it Chinese communism.
And I also want to remind you that media can also be a liar. This apply to CCTV in China ,and also apply to BBC,CNN,France24,Euronews,Skynews,Foxnews,DW-TV,Russia Toady, even Al Jazeera.
I am sorry to tell you that you may brain washed by these so called independent Medias unconsciously. Fortunately, I can get the different perspectives from different countries. But, you may only get the only one voice, because you may have no knowledge in Chinese.
Actually, TC, my daughter and son-in-law did holiday in China. They spent a month there in 2007. They ended their stay by visiting Chinese friends of ours in Hong Kong, where they got their first real Chinese meal, taken to a restaurant by our friends Wing Kwong Tam and his wife Wai Kit Fung (Cindy) Tam. Tam and Cindy have been friends of ours for nearly 30 years, until Cindy very sadly passed away last September. I was their best man when they married here in England, and my wife was Cindy's matron of honour. My daughter was eight and my son three when Tam and Cindy first came to stay with us, learning to eat with chop-sticks and acquiring a life-time taste for Chinese food.
I have no prejudice against any country race or creed and never have had, and I consider it offensive that anyone would even suggest it. I was stating what happened and that was all, then giving my opinion. By the way, thanks to Tam and Cindy, I probably speak better Cantonese than you do.
I have known situations where the media have actually stirred up trouble in order to get their stories, so I am aware of their capabiities, and am glad to tell you that I most certainly have not been brain-washed.
The only thing that I can think of that you could have objected to in my comments was the mention of the Tianamen massacre. Are you also actually trying to say that it never happened?
It did happen. Actually no one deny it, we just don't want to mention it. But in fact, I even did not take notice that you mention Tiananmen, until you remind me this time. And we now treat it as a history. I don't think there is any connection between CCTV's report on Obama and Tiananmen. If we keep on talking about that british used to invade China ,massacre Chinese people, rob Chinese treasure(just see those collections in British museum and Louvre Museum), occupy Hong Kong for 100 years illegally (and reluctant to return it in 1997), When we want to make a comment on British current policy or even do business with British people. Don't you think it is ridiculous and offensive? So just don't be too west-centered, try to care a little about other's feeling.
OK, I am glad to know that you can speak Cantonese fluently. But still, you may not understand Chinese people; even you are a friend of them. When I said your daughter and son-in-law did not holiday in China, I did not mean the fact whether they have been to China or not. What I want to express is that the experience you described in your article is really unbelievable according to my experience. So, I am sorry to say that you have a lot of work to do, if you really want to know China. Anyway, you are trying to understand China. At this point, you are respectable and I do not intend to provoke you.
Referring to the censorship of the Tiananmen Square massacre, you might be interested in this article: http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080605-tiananmen-square-china-censorship-media
Well cant blame the chinese,the garbagge the west broadcast ,any educated govt. would censor.we in the west tolerate idiots in our media and our esteem anaylist which expound thier so called intelligent anaylsis.ps there are a few exceptions to the rule,but so far yet to come across.ps what is quite amusing ,with all these experts in our western media and anaylist.we yet in a finacial crisis.?the conclusions maybe these people's education needs revision.
Yet another unbelievable masterpiece from the inimitable Joseph Walker. Joseph, dear boy, may I have the temerity to ask, if you hate the western in general, and the English system in particular, including media, schools and politics as much as your semi-literate rambles give the impression that you do, why tolerate the place? Why do you not emigrate to a country - well, like China, as you seem to have an admiration. Your last line threw me a touch; let me pinch that line for a moment: ready?
the conclusions maybe these people's education needs revision
I would venture to suggest that it is your education that requires revision. Or perhaps even starting.
Typical ignorant conclusion.if i hate the western media,and english,i should emigrate,what i hate is is the idiots who tolerate the garbagge.glad to see your intelligence appreciates the ignorance.ps can see where your education was achieved.
Slight amendement,i dont hate ,i feel sorry for them.they been brainwashed with garbagge all their lives,they ability to use thier brain cells are diminished to form any intelligent anaylsis.


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Tunis — Tunisia is moving quickly to keep the security chaos in Libya from bleeding across the border.
The National Guard commander visited the eastern border region on Thursday (May 22nd) to assess the situation, while military units deployed to form a defensive line near the Libya frontier.
"The deterioration of the situation in Libya will pave the way for the infiltration of terrorists into Tunisian territory, the introduction of weapons and the execution of terrorist attacks." Tunisian defence ministry spokesman Taouik Rahmouni said earlier this week.
"The Tunisian army has taken all necessary measures to counter any potential threats," he said.
The heightened security is already seeing results. Tunisian security forces arrested eight terror suspects from Libya, interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on Wednesday.
The group trained in weapons and explosives before heading to Tunisia to commit terrorist acts, Aroui noted.
The incident highlights the threat posed by the Libya security chaos.
"Conflicts in Libya can be transferred to Tunisia," journalist Bacem Sindi agreed, noting that Tunisian militants fighting abroad may now return home due to the Libya situation.
The grave security developments in Libya will also have economic and social consequences in Tunisia. He foresees a decline in foreign investment and tourist bookings as a result of security concerns.
"The displacement of thousands of Libyan families to Tunisia will contribute directly in an increase in the cost of living and in higher real estate, which will damage our already exhausted economy," he noted.
Strengthening the security and military presence at border crossings and ports would also help prevent the smuggling of weapons or suspicious elements, he told Magharebia.
Caution and vigilance are necessary to protect the Tunisian-Libyan border from infiltration by terror cells, former Tunisian brigadier general Mokhtar Ben Nasr agreed.
The Libya security situation concerns all Maghreb countries, he told Magharebia. Ben Nasr called for concerted efforts by all regional powers to address this growing terrorist threat.
In this context, Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa on May 15th announced a new security centre that would focus on the fight against terrorism and organised crime.
This comprehensive security pole will co-ordinate the actions of different departments in order to increase efficiency, Jomaa's office said.
Tunisians are also worried about the repercussions of the Libya unrest.
"What we fear the most today is the transmission of the Libyan conflict to the Libyan community here," day labourer Ahmed Mizouri told Magharebia. "Our country is a country of tolerance, safety, and generosity," the 39-year-old said.
"We do not want harm for our Libyan brothers," he added. "We want them to live peacefully among us without creating problems."


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BOSTON – Isabel Menard and Jenn Wakefield recorded four points apiece to lead the third-seeded and ninth-ranked Boston University women's ice hockey team to a 9-1 victory against the University of New Hampshire in Sunday afternoon's Women's Hockey East Championship quarterfinal game at Walter Brown Arena.
UNH, which entered the tourney as the sixth seed despite a seven-game losing streak, ends the season at 10-22-3 overall. BU, winners of 10 of its last 11 games, improves to 21-13-1 and advances to play second-seeded Boston College in a March 3 semifinal game.
UNH starting goaltender Jenn Gilligan (Maple Ridge, British Columbia) made six saves and surrendered four goals. She exited the game after the end of the first period with UNH trailing 4-0 and was charged with the loss. Lindsey Minton (Richardson, Texas) stopped 14 of 15 shots in the second stanza and finished with 21 saves.
Menard tallied one goal and three assists, and Wakefield recorded her 200th career point on the last of her four points when she completed her hat trick in the third period. Marie-Philip Poulin (1g, 2a), Kayla Tutino (3a), Carly Warren (1g, 1a), Louise Warren (1g, 1a) and Kathryn Miller (2a) also tallied multiple points. Kerrin Sperry made 19 saves.
BU quickly turned a scoreless game into a 3-0 lead with three goals spanning 1 minute, 51 seconds in the middle of the first period. Wakefield won possession of the puck behind the net and skated to the left circle, where she fed a centering pass in front to Jill Cardella for a 1-0 lead at 9:02.
The Terriers went back on the attack and Louise Warren's pass from the left circle found Poulin alone between the hashmarks in the slot, but Gilligan slid across the crease and extended her left leg pad to keep the margin at one goal. BU sustained pressure, however, and Taylor Holze centered a pass from the left circle to Shannon Stoneburgh, whose shot fluttered into the upper-right corner of the cage at 9:57.
Wakefield gave the home team a 3-0 lead at 10:53 on a rush down the right circle in which she cut across the low slot and tuck a shot inside the left post. She netted a power-play goal at 14:54 when her blast from the lower-left circle sailed inside the near post to give the Terriers a 4-0 advantage.
Minton allowed a goal on the first shot she faced at 1:23 of the second period by Menard to make the score 5-0 in favor of BU.
UNH's Kristina Lavoie (Fonthill, Ontario) led a rush down the right wing at 6:45 and fired a shot high of the cage. She continued behind the net and corralled the puck in the left circle, then maneuvered to the slot and snapped a low, hard shot wide of the left post.
The Wildcats sustained pressure, however, to create a power-play opportunity at 7:31. They effectively cycled the puck in the offensive zone to pull within 5-1 at 8:04. From the right point, Nicole Gifford (Ennismore, Ontario) sent a pass behind the goal line to Lavoie, who quickly snapped a pass to Arielle O'Neill (St Catharines, Ontario) in the low slot for the goal.
UNH created another dangerous scoring chance with three minutes in the second stanza when Jenna Lascelle (Cornwall, Ontario) led a 2-on-1 rush with Lavoie down the left wing. The BU defender negated a passing lane and Lascelle was stoned by Sperry at the left doorstep.
The Terriers led 5-1 with a 25-10 shot advantage at the second intermission.
In the second minute of the third period, Menard maneuvered along the goal line on the right side and shifted to the top of the crease, where she attempted to slide the puck under Minton, but the goalie stayed on the ice to make the save while doing a split.
BU went on its sixth power play of the game at 4:00, and moments later Minton made another acrobatic save as she slid across the crease to make a left leg pad save against Poulin's one-timer from the slot directed at the right post, and then stoned Tutino off the rebound at the post.
The Terriers scored three consecutive shorthanded goals to extend its lead. Wakefield struck at 11:58, then Poulin (14:50) and Carly Warren (15;20) struck on the same penalty kill. Louise Warren closed the scoring at 18:12.
The end of the 2012 season marks the end of UNH careers for seniors Emma Clark (East Barre, Vt.) and Minton. The duo helped lead the Wildcats to three league tournament appearances, including one title, as well as a regular-season crown.


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Government shutdown endsWheat started and ended last week with gains, but lost enough ground during the middle of the week to have its first down week in three weeks.
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Wheat started and ended last week with gains, but lost enough ground during the middle of the week to have its first down week in three weeks. For the week ending Oct. 17, December Minneapolis dropped 9.75 cents, December Chicago dropped 6.25 cents, and December Kansas City gave back 11.25 cents.
Wheat started the week higher, following the other grains. Additional support came from continued concerns toward Russia's wheat crop. But now that wheat is up against resistance, it seems a little harder for wheat to go to the next level. The market also saw selling pressure from improving weather conditions, as recent rains should give recently seeded wheat a good soaking. Minneapolis saw the most strength, as recent rain is resulting in a slowdown in harvest progress in the Northern Plains.
The Oct. 15 and 16 sessions opened and traded with losses. Technical selling pressure and a stronger U.S. dollar caused most of the selling pressure. All three of the wheat exchanges traded up to resistance and found willing sellers. Adding pressure was news that India was considering releasing more wheat out of its reserves. The market will soon have news to help give it direction, as it was reported Oct. 16 that Congress has reached an agreement to end the shutdown.
Wheat opened and traded with gains throughout the session as traders that have been sitting on the sidelines returned to the market now that the government shutdown has ended. Traders are looking for the slew of government reports (that have been held up from the government shutdown) to help give wheat strength to rally above recent resistance. Traders are expecting the U.S. Department of Agriculture to show a stronger export sales estimate as U.S. wheat demand has been very strong because of world wheat production concerns in Russia, Ukraine and Argentina. Another supporting factor was a sharply lower U.S. dollar.
USDA estimated the past two weeks' wheat export shipments pace at 53.734 million bushels (28.447 million for Oct. 3 and 25.287 million for Oct. 10). This brings wheat's export shipments pace to 550.4 million bushels, compared with 376.7 million last year. With 33 weeks left in wheat's marketing year, shipments will need to average 16.7 million bushels to reach USDA's export projection of 1.1 billion.
Corn continued to trade in a range ($4.47 high and $4.32 low) last week because of the lack of fresh news and government shutdown. The Senate did reach a deal on Oct. 16 and USDA started to release export reports late in the week. For the week ending Oct. 17, December was up 9.75 cents.
Corn was able to close slightly higher on Oct. 14 and 15. The futures moved lower in the Oct. 13 night trade and made a new recent low at $4.32 in the December contract. The lower overnight trade created short covering during the day session as traders corrected an oversold market condition. Support also came from weekend rains that are delaying harvest. Additional support came from rumors that China, Mexico and Japan were buying U.S. corn, but no confirmations with the USDA shutdown.
The corn market traded lower on Oct. 16. Buying interest remained limited with news that China is projecting a record corn crop at 215 million metric tons versus USDA at 211 million. Additional weakness came from rumors that Mexico was banning GMO corn immediately. Also, talk continues that actual yields are coming in well above USDA's numbers.
The corn market traded in a very narrow range Oct. 17, as the government shutdown came to an end. Sharp losses in the U.S. dollar had little impact on corn prices. Traders expect strong numbers when export sales are reported in the coming days. Export inspections reported Oct. 17 were strong. Pressure is tied to good yield reports and favorable harvest weather in the five-day forecast. The October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report was cancelled with the next report slated for Nov. 8.
USDA's export inspections for corn were estimated at 25.3 million bushels for the week ending Oct 3. Export inspections were estimated at 21.7 million bushels for the week ending Oct 10. This brings the year-to-date shipments pace for corn to 115.4 million bushels, compared with 117.3 million for last year.
Soybeans traded with decent strength last week as traders start to return to the market now that the government shutdown is over. Yields continue to come in better than expected, but this news is being offset by thoughts of strong export demand. For the week ending Oct. 17, November was up 26.5 cents while January was 23.25 cents higher.
Soybeans closed higher Oct. 14 and near the middle of the day's trading range as recent rains have slowed harvest progress. But the forecast turns drier for the next few weeks, allowing the harvest to accelerate again. There was no crop progress report Oct. 14 because of the government shutdown, but the harvest is estimated to be 40 to 50 percent complete. Favorable weather for planting in Brazil is seen as a limiting factor. Additional support was tied to talk of improving Chinese demand and rumored export sales to China late in the previous week.
On Oct. 15, soybeans closed near the day's lows, as favorable weather in the U.S. and South America pressured the market. Weekend rains in Brazil encourage planting progress in South America, while the forecast turns drier in the U.S., allowing the harvest to continue to progress. Chinese demand appears stronger than expected, leading to weekly export inspections reported by the Federal Grain Inspection Service of 47.4 million bushels. National Oilseed Processors Association crush for September is expected to be around 105 million bushels.
Soybeans traded higher Oct. 16 and 17 as the government shutdown came to an end. Gains in the stock market and sharp losses in the U.S. dollar provided support. Traders believe unconfirmed export sales to China are partially responsible for the support seen in the market. Export inspections were released Oct. 17 for the first time since Sept. 30, providing additional support.
USDA reported soybean export inspections pace for the week ending Oct. 3 at 30.6 million bushels. Export inspections were estimated at 47.4 million bushels for the week ending Oct 10. This brings the year-to-date shipments pace for soybeans to 114.4 million bushels, compared with 180.8 million for last year.
USDA estimated the past two weeks' barley export shipments pace at 505,000 bushels (4,000 bushels for Oct. 3 and 501,000 bushels for Oct. 10). This brings barley's export shipments pace to 2.95 million bushels, compared with 4.47 million last year. Cash feed barley bids in Minneapolis were $3.30 per bushel, while malting barley bids were at $5.50.
USDA estimated the past two weeks' durum export shipments pace at 2.659 million bushels (665,000 bushels for Oct. 10 and 1.994 million for Oct. 3). The major destinations were Venezuela (Oct. 10: 423,000 bushels) and Italy (Oct. 3: 331,000 bushels). Cash bids for milling quality durum were at $7 per bushel in Berthold, N.D., and Dickinson, N.D.
Canola futures on the Winnipeg, Manitoba, exchange closed the week ending Oct. 17 $1.60 (Canadian) higher. Canola had a short week of trading, but managed to trade with small gains. Canola started and ended the week with losses but posted strong gains Oct. 16. Selling pressure was tied to spillover pressure from a sloppy U.S. soybean complex, as well as from heavy farmer selling because of a larger-than-expected crop. Strong commercial demand kept the canola market on the plus side for the week. Cash canola bids in Velva, N.D., were unchanged at $20.57 per hundredweight.
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The Biot–Savart law is used to compute the magnetic field generated by a steady current, i.e. a continual flow of charges, for example through a wire, which is constant in time and in which charge is neither building up nor depleting at any point. The equation is as follows:
(in SI units), where
To apply the equation, you choose a point in space at which you want to compute the magnetic field. Holding that point fixed, you integrate over the path of the current(s) to find the total magnetic field at that point. The application of this law implicitly relies on the superposition principle for magnetic fields, i.e. the fact that the magnetic field is a vector sum of the field created by each infinitesimal section of the wire individually.
Another form of the equation is:
Here, r is the full displacement vector instead of a unit vector and it has r3 in the denominator to compensate. This equation is applied identically to the one above.
The formulations given above work well when the current can be approximated as running through an infinitely-narrow wire. If the current has some thickness, the proper formulation of the Biot-Savart law (again in SI units) is:
The Biot-Savart law is fundamental to magnetostatics, playing a similar role to Coulomb's law in electrostatics.
where is the differential element of volume.
This equation is also sometimes called the "Biot-Savart law," due to its closely analogous form to the "standard" Biot-Savart law given above. Note that the law is only approximate, with its accuracy decreasing as the particle's velocity approaches c; this happens because the situation is not perfectly approximated by magnetostatics.
This expression can also be rewritten as
where E is the electric field which the charge would create if it were stationary (as given by Coulomb's law), i.e.
The exact, relativistic expression is as follows:
The Biot-Savart law is also used to calculate the velocity induced by vortex lines in aerodynamic theory.
In the aerodynamic application, the roles of vorticity and current are reversed as when compared to the magnetic application.
In Maxwell's 1861 paper ' On Physical Lines of Force', magnetic field strength H was directly equated with pure vorticity (spin), whereas B was a weighted vorticity that was weighted for the density of the vortex sea. Maxwell considered magnetic permeability μ to be a measure of the density of the vortex sea. Hence the relationship,
(1) Magnetic Induction Current
was essentially a rotational analogy to the linear electric current relationship,
(2) Electric Convection Current
where ρ is electric charge density. B was seen as a kind of magnetic current of vortices aligned in their axial planes, with H being the circumferential velocity of the vortices.
The electric current equation can be viewed as a convective current of electric charge that involves linear motion. By analogy, the magnetic equation is an inductive current involving spin. There is no linear motion in the inductive current along the direction of the B vector. The magnetic inductive current represents lines of force. In particular, it represents lines of inverse square law force.
In aerodynamics the induced air currents are forming solenoidal rings around a vortex axis that is playing the role that electric current plays in magnetism. This puts the air currents of aerodynamics into the equivalent role of the magnetic induction vector B in electromagnetism.
In electromagnetism the B lines form solenoidal rings around the source electric current, whereas in aerodynamics, the air currents form solenoidal rings around the source vortex axis.
Hence in electromagnetism, the vortex plays the role of 'effect' whereas in aerodynamics, the vortex plays the role of 'cause'. Yet when we look at the B lines in isolation, we see exactly the aerodynamic scenario in so much as that B is the vortex axis and H is the circumferential velocity as in Maxwell's 1861 paper.
For a vortex line of infinite length, the induced velocity at a point is given by
This is a limiting case of the formula for vortex segments of finite length:
where A and B are the (signed) angles between the line and the two ends of the segment.
Here is a demonstration that the magnetic field B as computed from the Biot-Savart law will always satisfy Ampere's circuital law and Gauss's law for magnetism. Click "show" in the box below for an outline of the proof.
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Thibaut Courtois - 84
Courtois rates at 84 overall, which is a fair reflection of his top performances for Atletico Madrid.
He has 82 diving and 86 reflexes, which are decent for any keeper. He also rates in at 88 handling and 69 kicking, which is a clear weak link in his abilities. He does however have 88 handling which is unmatched in the top 11, and at 199cm tall is definitely a top choice, making the goal that much smaller and therefore harder for the striker to score.


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Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra will present "A Taste of Russia" in March. The concerts will feature Jimmy Chiang, the principal conductor of Theatre Freiburg, Germany, as principal guest conductor and piano soloist, and Britta Stroher as soprano.
The programme will consist of four famous Russian compositions. Jimmy Chiang will perform Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 2" as soloist, showcasing his virtuoso technique in a piece filled with Russian passion and romance. Britta Stroher will perform Glière's technically demanding "Coloratura Soprano Concerto". The other two pieces are Rachmaninov's "Vocalise" and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture".
Conductor and pianist Jimmy Chiang was born in Hong Kong and studied under the guidance of internationally renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa and pianist Krassimira Jordan. In 2007, he won First Prize at the Fourth International Competition of Young Conductors "Lovro von Matacic" in Zagreb, Croatia. He was also awarded the "Barenreiter Urtext Preis" at the 3rd International Competition for Young Choir Directors (Vienna). Since the age of 13, Chiang has been active on stage as a concert pianist. In 2001, he was invited to appear at the European Piano Forum in Berlin.
Britta Stroher, lyric coloratura soprano, was born in Giessen, Germany. She was First Prize winner at the 14th International Erika Koeth Competition in 1997. Other international awards included various prizes at the International Enrico Caruso Competition in Milan and the International Coloratura Competition in Luxemburg. She made her opera debut at the age of 22 and has played different operatic roles on stage such as Violetta in "La Traviata", Lucia in "Lucia di Lammermoor", Queen of the Night in "Die Zauberflote", and Adele in "Fledermaus". She has also given concerts and song recitals in many countries of Europe with a repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music.
Founded by Dr Yip Wai-hong, the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra aims to promote music especially among the younger generation in Hong Kong. A number of internationally famous conductors and soloists have been invited to perform with it. By using the idiom of popular music and organising concert talks, the orchestra has successfully introduced serious music to the public and raised awareness of indigenous culture.
Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, "A Taste of Russia" by Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra will be at 8pm on March 26 (Friday), at the Auditorium, Tuen Mun Town Hall; and 8pm on March 27 (Saturday), at the Auditorium, Tsuen Wan Town Hall. Tickets priced from $80 to $140 are now available at URBTIX outlets. Half-price concessions will be granted to senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. (Limited tickets for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients are available on a first-come, first-served basis.) Please refer to programme leaflets for details of the group booking discount.
For programme enquiries, call 2268 7321; for ticketing enquiries and reservations, call 2734 9009; for credit card telephone booking, call 2111 5999; for Internet booking, visit www.urbtix.hk ; for more information, visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/cp .
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I'm a current XT1200 Super Ten owner (just over two years and climbing) and a previous KTM950/BMW1150 Adv refugee. I've also had couple other KTMs being 450exc, 640Duke . I would 1st say to the Q on is it good to buy a 1st gen KTM ans :possibly no but! :-
This engine isnt strickly that new ie its been developed from a long line of KTM VTwins from the original 950 (that was a 1st gen bike :/ ) through the 990 and also in the 1190 RC8 road bike range so its more a of a update engine put into a new chassis etc IMO.
Note KTM didnt always get thier year updates right and there are lots of history in the LC4 history of later bikes adding new "bugs" that the older ones didnt have but they also fixed bugs too. So overall I see this as a relative low risk bike in terms of new tech. My XT1200 was a perhaps a "1st gen" model and it has had mostly few bugs to iron out in my experience, all in the usually affects nearly all bikes/manufacturers category of rusty spokes/engine paint and its fared a lot better than my old 1150GSA did in that respect.
Will I buy a new 1190? hmmm price wise it seems a little steep but probably in the same price bracket as the main competition (the new w/c GS12??) . I'll probably stick with the yam for another year to see how the market pricing adjusts (avoid the 1st round of no discount full RRP scramble?) plues they may start adding bits/deals later in the year too :).
PS i think I've been subconsiously waiting for this bike since I sold my KTM950Adv .
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IT APPEARS there is a limit to how big stars can grow in today's universe: about 200 times the mass of our sun.
Astronomers used to think the size of the biggest stars in a cluster was related to the ratio, say, of the number of small sun-like stars to the number of bigger stars with 10 times the sun's mass. Applying this ratio to R136a, which is the largest cluster of stars in our galaxy in which individual stars are discernible, the biggest star should have more than 600 times the mass of the sun. But its largest star is only about 150 solar masses and the largest known star in our galaxy is about 200 solar masses - making astronomers suspect that stars had a size limit.
Now Sally Oey of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and colleagues have strong support for a size limit in ...
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At Messiah Lutheran Church, 2939 Colton Blvd., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 15, have some lefse, pie and coffee. Stroll the booths, which feature handmade arts and crafts. There is also an area of attic treasures, a bucket raffle, silent auction and baked goods. Lunch is available.


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The recent tragedy in Connecticut has already sparked a nationwide gun control debate. This debate is certain to be filled with lies and myths. As everyone will be brought into a gun control discussion in the coming weeks and months, here are some facts:
This shooting is a national tragedy that doesn't deserve or require federal intervention or oversight. State governments individually should respond accordingly with a level head devoid of emotion.
All gunman-induced massacres have occurred in target-rich environments that are regulated to be absent of any type of armed resistance (gun-free zones). All gunman-induced massacres involved attackers with mental issues. All of these massacres involved a gun or multiple guns.
There have been 181 school attacks since Columbine. Many of those attacks took place in states with stringent gun control regulations. Connecticut has some of the most stringent gun laws in our nation.
The solution is not more gun control. People need to stop blaming a gun for all of the evil in America and start accepting the truth and laying the blame where it belongs: the people who commit these terrible atrocities. The solution is to aggressively improve security at our schools using professional, trained, armed security details at each school, funded by local taxpayers. The solution is better regulation of the millions of evil lunatics who walk our streets every day. The solution is don't let your mentally challenged children have access to your firearms in your home. The solution is to revisit the concept of "Gun Free Zones" by governments and businesses and consider lifting these bans.
People need to be responsible and use some common sense. Grasp the reality that evil walks among us every day. Have a plan, whether it's defense or escape, be prepared and prepare your kids, too.
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Before practice today, we sat down for some interviews with kicker Paulo Henriques and punter Tom Hornsey. Check out the videos below as both talk about spring practice and working with Coach James Shibest. Henriques also talks about becoming a U.S. citizen this past December and what that meant to him and his family.
Special teams is a phase that the Tigers return quite a few key standouts. Henriques will be looking for a stellar senior season after going 8-of-15 on field goals in 2011. He missed his first two attempts of the season (both 50 yarders) before hitting seven of his next eight attempts, including a career-best 50-yard shot against Rice. Henriques also handles kickoffs for the Tigers and booted 45 kicks for an average of 64 yards. He had eight touchbacks on the year.
Hornsey continues to blaze through the Tiger record book, setting records for punts (95) and yards (3,993) in a single season. In just 24 career games, Hornsey ranks fifth in punts (175) and fourth in yards (7,409). In 2011, he averaged 42 yards per punt and had 19 for 50-plus yards. He dropped 23 kicks inside the opponents' 20-yard line. He is expected to be a Ray Guy Award candidate again in 2012. Hornsey and Henriques also have the benefit of having long snapper Jeremy Singler and holder Austin Weaver back again in '12.
The Tigers have six more practices remaining, including the Blue-Gray Game on March 31. Festivities on Tiger Lane will begin at 10 a.m., and the Tigers will begin their workout in the stadium at about 12 p.m. There will also be a free kids clinic for all children eighth grade and under following the scrimmage. All events, and the parking around the stadium, are free and open to the public. For more information about the spring game, please check out this link: http://www.gotigersgo.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/032012aab.html
Please check out the video below as Coach Fuente spoke with the media following today's practice. He talks about the squad continuing to get better and also spoke a good bit about the receivers.


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Sullivan's Travels is a American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are a more valuable contribution to society. The film features one of Veronica Lake's first performances as a leading lady. The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery.
In 1990, Sullivan's Travels was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
He decides to dress as a penniless hobo and hit the road to learn first-hand how the destitute really live. He repeatedly says he wants to "know trouble" so that he can return and make a film that truly depicts the sorrows of humanity. However, no matter what he does, no matter how often or how hard he tries, he somehow always winds up right back in Hollywood where he started from. On one of his attempts, he meets a young failed actress (Veronica Lake) who is contemplating quitting the business. She decides she has nothing to lose and becomes his traveling companion.
In the end, Sullivan finally gets his wish. After drifting and sleeping in homeless centers with the Girl, Sullivan finally decides he's had enough. His experiment is publicized by the studio as a huge success. The Girl wants to stay with him, but he explains he got married to reduce his taxes, only to discover that his wife costs him double what he saves in income tax &ndash and now won't give him a divorce.
Sullivan decides to thank the homeless, and goes back on the road to hand out $5 bills, but one man decides he wants more than his share and ambushes Sullivan when he is alone. Sullivan is knocked unconscious and thrown onto a train boxcar leaving the city, but the thief is run over and killed by another train. The man had earlier stolen Sullivan's shoes, which had a special identification card hidden under one of the soles, and was wearing them when he died. When the card is found, everyone assumes the unrecognizable body is Sullivan's.
Meanwhile, Sullivan wakes up in the railyard of another city, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. In his confused state, he assaults the railroad worker who finds him, for which he is sentenced to six years in a labor camp. There he finally becomes acquainted with trouble at first-hand. He regains his memory and learns the importance of laughter in the otherwise dreary lives of his fellow prisoners when they are allowed to attend a showing of Walt Disney's "Playful Pluto" cartoon. Sullivan comes to realize that comedy can do more good for the poor than his didactic and somber project, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, can.
But Sullivan still has a problem – he cannot convince anybody that he is Sullivan. Finally, he comes up with an ingenious solution: he confesses to being his own killer. When his picture makes the front page of the newspapers, his actress friend recognizes him and gets him released. His "widow" had taken up with his crooked business manager in the meanwhile, so he can now divorce her and be reunited with the Girl. A montage of happily laughing faces ends the film.
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The film as released opens with a dedication:
To the memory of those who made us laugh: the motley mountebanks, the clowns, the buffoons, in all times and in all nations, whose efforts have lightened our burden a little, this picture is affectionately dedicated.This was originally intended to be spoken by Sullivan. Sturges wanted the film to begin with the prologue: "This is the story of a man who wanted to wash an elephant. The elephant darn near ruined him." Paramount contracted with the Schlesinger Corp., who made the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, to make an animated main title sequence, but this was not used in the film, if it was ever actually produced.
The censors at the Hays Office had objections to the script which the studio submitted to them. They felt that the word "bum" would be rejected by British censors, and warned that there should be no "suggestion of sexual intimacy" between Sullivan and The Girl in the scenes in which they are sleeping together at the mission.
Sullivan's Travels went into production on 12 May and wrapped on 22 July. Location shooting took place in Canolga Park, San Marino, Castaic and at Lockheed Air Terminal.
Veronica Lake was six months pregnant at the beginning of production, a fact she didn't tell Sturges until filming began. Sturges was so furious when he learned that, according to Lake, he had to be physically restrained. Sturges consulted with Lake's doctor to see if she could perform the part, and hired former Rose Bowl queen Cheryl Walker as Lake's double. Edith Head, Hollywood's most renowned costume designer, was tasked to find ways of concealing Lake's condition. Reportedly, Lake was disliked by some of her co-stars; McCrea refused to work with her again, turning down a lead role in I Married a Witch, and Fredric March, who got the part, didn't get along with her as well.
There were some minor problems during filming. Sturges had wanted to use a clip from a Charlie Chaplin film for the church scene, but was turned down by Chaplin. McCrea does parody Chaplin's "Little Tramp" character earlier in the film. Also, the "Poverty Montage" was scheduled to take three hours to film, but instead took seven hours. Incidents such as this may account for the film, which cost $689,665.16 to produce, going $86,665.16 over budget.
The film was released in December , but the New York City opening was not until 28 January . It was marketed with a number of taglines, including: A Happy-Go Lucky Hitch-Hiker on the Highway to happiness! He wanted to see the world . . . but wound up in Lover's Lane!
When the film was released, the U.S. government's Office of Censorship declined to approve it for export overseas during wartime, because of the "long sequence showing life in a prison chain gang which is most objectionable because of the brutality and inhumanity with which the prisoners are treated." This conformed with the office's standing policy of not exporting films which could be used for propaganda purposes by the enemy. The producers of the film declined to make suggested changes which could have altered the film's status.
Sullivan's Travels was released on video in the U.S. on 16 March , and re-released on 30 June . The film was re-released in the U.K. with a restored print on 12 May .
Over time, the reputation of the film has improved tremendously, and it is now considered a classic, with at least one reviewer calling it Sturges' "masterpiece" and "one of the finest movies about movies ever made.
In 1990, Sullivan's Travels was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked it as the #61 Greatest Movie of All Time, the first inclusion of this film on the list. In addition, the movie's poster was ranked as #19 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
The scene where the prisoners are taken to watch a cartoon takes place in a Southern African-American church; and it's notable that the film treats the African-American characters there with a level of respect unusual in films of the period. The Secretary of the NAACP, Walter White, wrote to Sturges:
I want to congratulate and thank you for the church sequence in Sullivan's Travels. This is one of the most moving scenes I have seen in a moving picture for a long time. But I am particularly grateful to you, as are a number of my friends, both white and colored, for the dignified and decent treatment of Negroes in this scene. I was in Hollywood recently and am to return there soon for conferences with production heads, writers, directors, and actors and actresses in an effort to induce broader and more decent picturization of the Negro instead of limiting him to menial or comic roles. The sequence in Sullivan's Travels is a step in that direction and I want you to know how grateful we are.
In the airplane scene in Sullivan's Travels, the author of the book Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is shown to be "Sinclair Beckstein", which is an amalgamation of the names of authors Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and John Steinbeck, all of whom wrote socially conscious fiction.


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I've never ridden that Lost Coast road.
Great area. Would highly recommend it.
Popped out on Hwy 101 at Garberville. Place is a trip. Stopped for something to eat and while sitting outside at a small deli watched the freaks roll by. Apparently this place use to be a major hippie town. From what I observed not many of them left. Lots of bums and hippies just kinda roaming around doing much of nothing. Talked with the deli owner and he says it's a real problem. Pretty area but not so sure I'd want to raise a family here.
Watched this guy roll a huge joint in the coffee shop and then step out on the sidewalk to enjoy. Took the shot by holding the camera at waist level. Not sure why I was worried about him seeing me. He was so stoned I don't think he would have cared if I'd of shoved it up his nose! Saw many people just lighting up on the street. I'm all for legalizing the stuff in order that we can tax it and make some money. This place is a friggin gold mine if they ever legalize the stuff.
I think he may have been living in this.
Back on the bike and headed south on US 1. Gorgeous riding along the coastline.
Met this young lady alongside the road. Had left Canada about six weeks ago and was headed to Baja. Fun meeting people like this and talking for awhile. I had ridden a bicycle across the country years ago so we discussed the merits of traveling by bicycle. I enjoyed it when I did it but not sure I'd do it again. I need an engine nowadays.
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In October the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report assessing cooperation efforts between the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS). The report, GAO-13-128, provides an overview of DoD involvement with DHS in the event of major disasters or emergencies, and examines the extent to which DoD has issued current guidance, including doctrine, policy, and strategy, for its homeland defense and civil support missions.
In preparation of the report, GAO met with select DoD and National Guard officials and analyzed DoD homeland defense and civil support guidance. GAO also reviewed previous reports and other relevant documentation. GAO addressed gaps in DoD's Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support and gaps within the dual-status commander construct and domestic cyber. GAO also assessed the impact of the identified gaps.
GAO-13-128 makes many recommendations to address gaps in DoD's guidance for homeland defense and civil support. The recommendations include DOD assessing and updating its primary strategy; developing implementation guidance on the dual-status commander construct; and aligning guidance on preparing for and responding to domestic cyber incidents with national-level guidance to include roles and responsibilities.
For more information about GAO-13-128, please follow the link below.
GAO-13-128, Homeland Defense: DoD Needs to Address Gaps in Homeland Defense and Civil Support Guidance
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Did Anyone Deserve to Go Home on The Glee Project Season 2, Episode 3: "Vulnerability"?
So... that was different.
Tonight on The Glee Project, Ryan Murphy and Co. loved each of the bottom three performances so much — they decided nobody should have to go home! That's right, none of the contenders were eliminated during tonight's Season 2, Episode 3: "Vulnerability."
Look, we understand that it seems harsh to crush someone's Glee dream by eliminating them at the end of an episode so focused around combating bullying. But isn't this a competition show? We're pretty sure it only works if one contestant goes home every week.
Then again, maybe not. Since the lack of elimination wasn't addressed on the show, we're guessing it will go down one of two ways.
1. A shocking double-elimination in an upcoming episode.
2. Business as usual. Since Taryn Mai voluntarily eliminated herself during last week's episode, the show might just choose to substitute that exit for this week's and continue right along schedule.
Either way, this week's bottom three contenders were left to sweat it out as long as possible. Charlie Lubeck, Mario Bonds, and Lily Mae Harrington still had to give their last chance performances. Problem is, the judges just couldn't decide on which contender they though deserved to get the boot.
Ryan Murphy loved Charlie's unique, very un-karaoke take on Coldplay's "Fix You." Mario nailed the vocals during his performance "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," though his inability to perform at the same level in the studio had the mentors a bit worried.
As for Lily Mae: Not only did she kill it at her vocal performance, but Lily also showed a relatable and vulnerable side that the mentors had never seen before.
So all three contenders survived to compete another week. But had the rules been different, and someone DID have to go home, which of the three do you think deserved to get the boot?
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Been a while since I've been here. Would be nice to start up this blog again, so that's what I'm going to do. Let's start again with some amazing photos of Shenzhen (curtesy of Skyscraper City's Pingan IFC forum).
I love this city. And I love you (whoever you are).