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Between the lines: Obama's comments on Kashmir
President Barack Obama's words on relations with Pakistan were always going to be carefully scripted during his visit to India, where even to say the word "Kashmir" aloud in public can raise jitters about U.S. interference in what New Delhi sees as a bilateral dispute.
So first up, here's what he had to say during a news conference in New Delhi with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in response to a question about what role the United States could play in resolving the Kashmir dispute (NDTV has the video).
"With respect to Kashmir, obviously this is a long-standing dispute between India and Pakistan; as I said yesterday, I believe that both Pakistan and India have an interest in reducing tensions between the two countries. The United States cannot impose a solution to these problems but I have indicated to Prime Minister Singh that we are happy to play any role that the parties think is appropriate in reducing these tensions. That's in the interests of the region; it is in the interests of the two countries involved and it is in the interests of the United States of America.
"So my hope is that conversations will be taking place between the two countries; they may not start on that particular flashpoint; there may be confidence building measures that need to take place, but I am absolutely convinced that it is both in India's and Pakistan's interest to reduce tensions and that will enable them I think to focus on the range of both challenges and opportunities that each country faces."
"I do want to make this point though, that I think Prime Minister Singh throughout his career and throughout his prime ministership has consistently spoken out both publicly and privately on his desire, his personal commitment to reduce tensions between India and Pakistan and for that I very much commend him. I think Prime Minister Singh is sincere and relentless in his desire for peace. And so my hope is that both sides can, over the next several months, several years, find mechanisms that are appropriate for them to work out what are these very difficult issues."
A quick reading between the lines suggests that he is unfraid of referring to Kashmir in public and keeping it on the agenda, while also acknowledging that resolving the dispute may take years rather than months, and that the two countries might need to build confidence by agreeing on other issues first. He also steered a middle course between Pakistan's insistence that Kashmir is the core issue, and India's demand that "cross-border terrorism" must end before it will agree to talk.
Obama has moved quite some distance since his 2008 election campaign, when he raised hackles in India by suggesting a resolution of the Kashmir dispute could help in the war in Afghanistan by convincing Pakistan to focus on tackling militants holed up on its border rather than its traditional enemy.
"The most important thing we're going to have to do with respect to Afghanistan, is actually deal with Pakistan," Obama said in an interview with MSNBC in October 2008. "We should probably try to facilitate a better understanding between Pakistan and India and try to resolve the Kashmir crisis so that they can stay focused not on India, but on the situation with those militants."
Within a month of him giving that interview, Pakistan-based gunmen attacked Mumbai, killing 166 people in a three-day siege. India blamed the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group once nurtured by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to fight India in Kashmir, and broke off talks. When the dust has settled and the history books written on the Afghan war, Mumbai may well come to be seen as a turning point when Obama's hopes that a Kashmir settlement might help turn the tide in Afghanistan were dashed.
But then pay close attention to what happened next, as understanding what went wrong will be key to predicting the chances of any future improvement in relations between India and Pakistan.
After a six-month lull and with a renewed mandate after a national election in India, Prime Minister Singh met President Asif Ali Zardari in the Russian town of Yekaterinburg in June 2009 for the first high-level talks since Mumbai. After a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at easing tensions between the two countries. Singh held more talks with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, this time in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt. Then, even after running into criticism at home from politicians and a jingoistic media which accused him of being too soft of Pakistan, Singh insisted on pressing ahead with peace talks.
Hence Obama's words of praise for Singh's commitment to peace at their news conference in Delhi. But after that the trail went cold . What went wrong?
In October 2009 in Chicago, the United States arrested David Headley, a Pakistani American accused of scouting out targets in Mumbai before switching allegiance to al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri and plotting an attack in Denmark. Headley, who has since turned witness for the prosecution, provided fresh insight into why Mumbai happened in the way it did - see my story on testimony given by Headley to Indian investigators, based on Indian government documents.
The details he provided — again according to the Indian government documents — also suggested that many other targets in India were under consideration for attack by different Pakistan-based militants, even after Mumbai. In other words, if Singh had continued peace talks with Pakistan he would have been exposed to political criticism at a time when he could not be sure there would be no more big attacks in India.
We'll come back to that lower down, as there are many sides to this story, but for now let's stick to the timeline. As a caveat, I'd also add that this timeline is from the perspective of India-Pakistan relations, and their influence on the war in Afghanistan — Afghan specialists would probably see it differently.
By January this year, analysts had concluded that any hope of an easing of tensions between India and Pakistan would come too little, too late to make much difference to the war in Afghanistan. That same month, the idea of reaching a peace deal with the Taliban made it onto the international agenda at the London conference on Afghanistan. And as the months went by the possibility of holding talks, once seen as beyond the pale, then gathered traction until all parties to the conflict are by now considering a peace deal.
In the interim, India and Pakistan reverted to their "one step forward, two steps back" approach. An agreement between Singh and Gilani reached in April in Bhutan to hold more talks foundered during a rather sour meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan in July.
Scroll forward now to Obama's visit to India. Despite his offer of U.S. support to India for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council – something that will take years to come to fruition — his carefully chosen words on Kashmir and on relations between India and Pakistan do little to change the overall dynamics.
As the documents on Headley's testimony suggest, Pakistan has a hard time keeping groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba in check when al Qaeda and its affiliates appear to be waging a more successful – or at least more eye-catching – global jihad in Afghanistan and beyond. Reading through his testimony, it is also clear how much the LeT is ideologically committed to Kashmir — many of its commanders have lost relatives fighting there — and how difficult it might be to disarm the group without movement on a political settlement. It is also clear why the latest summer of unrest in Kashmir might have made it even harder for Pakistan to control some of its militants, whose zeal on ending what they see as Indian oppression in the region has them straining at the leash.
From an Indian point of view, any prime minister who holds peace talks runs the risk of being embarrassed by an attack on Indian targets which coincides with his or her diplomatic initiative. Prime Minister Singh made that point in his news conference with Obama. Personally I was struck by the way he used the word "request" rather than "demand" in this comment:
"As far as India's relations with Pakistan are concerned, I have always maintained a strong, peaceful moderate Pakistan is in the interests of India; is in the interests of South Asia, and the world as a whole. We are committed to engage Pakistan; we are committed to resolve all outstanding issues between our two countries including the word K; we are not afraid of that, but it is our request that you cannot simultaneously be talking and at the same time, the terror machine is as active as ever before. Once Pakistan moves away from this terror-induced coercion, we will be very happy to engage with Pakistan to resolve all outstanding issues."
From an international point of view, the jihadi soup in Pakistan appears to be getting thicker and thicker, even as the country itself, to use the words of one Pakistani official, undergoes a "paradigm shift" in its readiness to tackle Islamist militants.
Headley, according to his testimony, moved relatively easily between the Kashmir-centric Laskhar-e-Taiba and Ilyas Kashmiri, with his al Qaeda inspired global agenda. But he was not alone in that. The documents also speak of two separate "setups" in Karachi to plan attacks on India using Indian Muslims. While one was run by the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the other was run by a man identified by the alias Abdur Rehman, who in turn was in contact with Kashmiri and claimed to have met Osama bin Laden.
We already know, to quote former CIA officer Bruce Riedel, that "the bad guys don't stay in their lanes". What we really need to know, however, is whether the inter-mingling of militants focused on Kashmir with those favouring the global jihad is getting stronger. If so, that will have increased the threat not just to India, but to the world as a whole and, perhaps most significantly, to Pakistan.
I would also suspect that no amount of carefully chosen words by President Obama would change those dynamics. And if that were the case, I might ask whether the Afghan Taliban can be taken out of the thickening jihadi soup by reaching a separate peace deal with them on Afghanistan. That would depend on whether you think Afghanistan can be dealt with separately from India and Pakistan. And whether you think the Taliban are ready to deal.
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John Uri Lloyd
John Uri Lloyd (19 April 1849 – 9 April 1936) was an American pharmacist influential to the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism.[1]
He also wrote novels set in northern Kentucky. His most popular novel was the science fiction or allegorical Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey (1895). First distributed privately, it was later illustrated and printed in eighteen editions. Translated into seven languages, it was widely read in Europe as well as the United States and was extremely popular.
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John Uri Lloyd was born in upstate New York to teachers Sophia Webster and Nelson Marvin Lloyd. His family relocated to Florence and Petersburg in northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio in 1853. Lloyd took an apprenticeship with the chemist William J.M. Gordon when he was 14 years old and later apprenticed with George Eger.
His younger brothers Nelson Ashley Lloyd (1851-1926) and Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859-1926) also became chemists. During 1886 the brothers bought the Merrell and Thorpe Company, renaming it as Lloyd Brothers, Pharmacists, Inc. John Lloyd's innovations include a "cold still" for plant extractions and the first buffered alkaloid (made with hydrous aluminium silicate), called alcresta.
During 1919 Lloyd and his two brothers established trusts to fund the Lloyd Library and Museum. Today it is considered by many to house the finest collections in the world devoted to eclectic medicine, medical botany and pharmacy.[citation needed] During the 19th and early 20th century, the eclectic medicine movement was popular, which incorporated the use of medical botany. It founded associated medical schools, including the Eclectic Medical Institute, first located in Worthington in 1833, which moved to Cincinnati, where it had students from 1845-1939.
After Lloyd's death in 1936, S.B. Penick bought the Lloyd Brothers firm in 1938. In 1960 Hoechst AG, the German pharmaceutical manufacturer, purchased the operations. In 2013 the American company Eli Lilly and Company bought Hoechst AG.
Lloyd combined his interests by writing a series of local description novels about the northern Kentucky area. His most popular and influential work was the novel Etidorhpa (1895), a scientific allegory that some consider a work of science fiction. It was part of what are called the genre of "hollow earth" novels, based on a journey to the interior of the earth and another world. He first distributed the book privately. When it was printed commercially, illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp were added. It ran to eighteen editions and was translated into seven languages.
Legacy and honors[edit]
- The John Uri Lloyd House in Cincinnati was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
- The Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati.
See also[edit]
- Herbalism
- Pharmacognosy
- Pharmacology
- Eclectic medicine
- Harvey Wickes Felter
- Michael Moore (herbalist)
- David Winston
- Lloyd Library and Museum
- King's American Dispensatory
- Elixirs And Flavoring Extracts: Their History, Formulae, & Methods of Preparation (1892)
- Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson, and a History of the Thomsonian Materia Medica, as shown in "The New Guide to Health", and the Literature of that Day, Cincinnati: Lloyd Library, 1909. Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- The Eclectic Alkaloids, Resins, Resinoids, Oleo-Resins and Concentrated Principles (1910)
- History of the Vegetable Drugs of the Pharmacopeia of the United States, Cincinnati, Ohio: Lloyd Library, 1911. Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- A Lesson In Mind Study (19xx, repr. 2006)
Other works:
- Etidorhpa, illustrated by J. Augustus Knapp (1895; rpt. 1997 ISBN 1-56459-243-X)
- The Right Side of the Car: A Story of the Northern Pacific Railway (1897)
- Scroggins (1900, repr. 2007)
- Stringtown on the Pike: A Tale of Northernmost Kentucky (1901, repr. 2009)
- Warwick of the Knobs: A Story of Stringtown County, Kentucky (1901)
- Red Head: Illustrations and Decorations by Reginald B. Birch (1903, repr. 2007)
- Hydrastis canadensis : facsimile, reprint and illustrations of the article in "Drugs and medicines of North America". Lloyd Library, Cincinnati 1908. Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Felix Moses: the Beloved Jew of Stringtown on the Pike (1930)
- ^ Michael A. Flannery, John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8093-2167-X
External links[edit]
- Lloyd Library and Museum
- King's American Dispensatory @ Henriette's Herbal
- Works by John Uri Lloyd at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Uri Lloyd at Internet Archive


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Sturgell wins scratch bowling title
HUNTINGTON -- A bowler with the first name Brian won the Scratch Sport Lane Pattern Tournament of Champions on Sunday at Colonial Lanes.
It wasn't Brian Fite, who won seven of 14 tournaments during the season. It was Brian Sturgell of Portsmouth, Ohio. He secured top seed for the Eliminator Finals and survived three matches to win the $300 first prize.
The invitation-only event had 31 bowlers. J.R. Phillips of the Charleston area shot 901 to lead qualifying and get No. 1 seed for the two-game, match-play round. He won that match to grab the No. 5 seed for the Eliminator Finals.
Sturgell shot 866 to finish second followed by Tyler Sacconi (856), Fite (853), Tommy Kalb (837), Justin Blake (824), Chris Priode (821), Tony Moore (806), Sam Hobbs (801) and Justin Adkins (797).
Along with Phillps, Sturgell, Sacconi, Priode and Kalb won their matches to make the Eliminator Finals (low score out).
In Match 1, Sacconi shot 241, Kalb 215 and Phillips 196. Priode went out with 184.
In Match 2, Sacconi fired 248, Sturgell 226 and Kalb 186. A 184 for Phillips was not enough.
In Match 3, Kalb led with 258 and Sturgell shot 212 to set up the final. Sacconi went out with 171.
Sturgell prevailed in the finale, shooting 214 to 174 for Kalb. Three of the five finalists represented the Portsmouth area.
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TULSA, Okla. -- Tulsa defeated UCF 3-0 Sunday to win the Conference USA Volleyball Championship and secure the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Golden Hurricane prevailed 25-15, 25-19, 25-17. It's the second league title for Tulsa. The first came in 2007.
C-USA Player of the Year Tyler Henderson led the attack with 20 kills on 32 attempts. The senior outside hitter hit .500 over the three sets, only making four errors, and had three digs and three blocks. C-USA Libero of the Year Jessica Adams tallied a match-best 17 digs.
Ashley Gialenios and Tory McCutcheon led the Knights with seven kills each.
Workman has ace on No. 15 at Sugarwood
LAVALETTE -- Mark Workman made a hole-in-one Saturday on the 15th hole at Sugarwood Golf Club. Workman used an 8-iron on the 136-yard par 3. Jamie Lafon, Phillip Butcher and J.D. Maue witnessed the ace.
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|Papers (1921-1971) of Wasyl Halich (b. 1896), a Ukrainian American college teacher of Russian and European history, include biographical materials, materials pertaining to Ukrainian Americans, correspondence, newspaper clippings, postcards, and miscellany. Halich's papers contain information regarding, but not limited to, agriculture in North Dakota, the Catholic Church-Oriental rites, the mining industry, Protestant churches and Protestants in Ukraine, the Surma Book and Music Company, Ukrainian history, organizations of Ukrainian Americans (including minutes of the First Congress of Ukrainian Youth in the United States, 1933), and Ukrainian women. Much of the material is related to Halich's book, Ukrainians in the United States.
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Wasyl Halich (b. 1896) was born in Strilbychi, on the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. In 1912, he came to the United States, settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Bloomfield College (Bloomfield, New Jersey) which had a course in Ukrainian, and then Dubuque College (Dubuque, Iowa), where he finished high school and received a B.A. degree. In 1929, he received his M.A., and in 1934, his Ph.D. From then until his retirement, he taught Russian and European History at Wisconsin State University (Superior, Wisconsin), pioneering the study of Ukrainians in America in his book, Ukrainians in the United States. He remained active in many professional and Ukrainian American associations, including the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States, the Ukrainian American University Professors Association, and the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Organized in three sections. I. Biographical material. II. Ukrainians in the United States. III. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and miscellany.
The Halich, Wasyl collection is available for public research.
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D.C. driver intentionally strikes a bicyclist in WABA's new video
- The bicyclist hits the ground. (Photo: YouTube/WABADC)
Why the anger, travelers?
Whether driving, riding, or walking, transit has a way of awakening the rage in what might normally be an innocent, kind person. Today the Washington Area Bicyclist Association is focusing on that type of road aggression in a big way — and with video. WABA is spotlighting an August 31 clip that a D.C. area bicyclist captured from his helmet bikecam that shows a driver in a pick-up pulling alongside him, belligerently cursing, and then actually swerves to hit the bicyclist. The final seconds of the video show him on the ground cursing. You've gotta watch this:
The bicyclist had apparently just been riding along Rhode Island Avenue to work when this happened one week ago. As alarming as the video is, the anger speaks to a broader problem and doesn't entirely surprise me, even if it's hard to comprehend the emotions that could motivate such an assault. We saw that same aggression yesterday in the bus video I highlighted, the one showing a bus operator who, when confronted with a rider who wouldn't pay, grabbed the man by the arms and threw him off the bus and onto the ground ... with an audible thud. WMATA is now investigating that incident and calls it "completely unacceptable behavior." The problem also manifests for pedestrians in little ways. I talked to a Columbia Heights reverend last month who saw bicyclists riding on sidewalks as a real danger and had encountered explicitly hostile cyclists in his experience.
Why do these incidents happen? The aggression, hostility, and territorial possessiveness affect virtually all our forms of transit in varying ways and create a well of tight emotional insecurity that yields bitterness and outright assault as in these cases. At their root is fear and vulnerability.
Now, I'm not inclined to simplify these problems — they truly are big and dangerous ones, and they can't be written away with a token reductionistic thinking. But the predominant sense of vulnerability that transit and its traffic bring is what contributes to so much frustration that builds and releases in profoundly unhealthy ways (both mentally and at times physically).
What causes vulnerability? Threat and especially disparity of size. From a pedestrian's perspective, yes, those bikes on the sidewalk really do race by. From a bicyclist's perspective, cars are the beasts tearing across the land. Cars themselves often worry about the giant trucks that hurdle by on the highway. My own mother used to call them monsters. No one fully obeys traffic laws, and no one consistently enforces them. Ticket enforcers worry about getting assaulted, and this week, 19 new speed cameras are being installed around D.C. The default and wisely encouraged mode of traveling is caution. Caution, in turn, breeds mistrust. Add in attendant heavy traffic and little political frustrations and before you know it, road rage emerges.
In the case of this video of a cyclist being struck, WABA wants to create new legislation to allow bicyclists to bring civil suits after their aggressors more easily. I talked to WABA's executive director Shane Farthing earlier this summer when he first suggested such anti-harassment legislation — "It does happen frequently enough," he told me then. Now his organization has video proof, and they're trying their hardest to capitalize on the fervor that will inevitably surround it. Today's WABA news echoes his words then, and the biking organization says it wants to "creates a civil right of action for an assaulted cyclist. And, importantly, it provides for attorneys fees if the cyclist-plaintiff prevails — thereby providing an incentive for attorneys to represent the victim." What the move comes down to, for WABA, is justice. They're asking for support now, and as we've seen, WABA is quite good at marshaling support for certain biking causes. You can voice your own support here. Protecting assaulted cyclists fits right into the "new language of transit" that I referred to when describing WABA's tensions with the National Park Service. The legislation Farthing hopes to inspire would be full of new transit vocabulary speaking to that effect.
Such laws, of course, wouldn't necessarily stop the aggression that comes rippling through in this unsettling bike assault video and in yesterday's bus driver assault video — these laws simply protect the vulnerable. Is there ever a way to stop the root psychological instinct that leads to these violent transit encounters?


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Ravens CB Williams self-critical
Bynes seizing his opportunity to shine on the field
Eric Decker stopped for a split second, and Cary Williams obliged him by stopping, too.
Then Decker shot up field for a 51-yard touchdown catch from Peyton Manning as the Denver Broncos pulled away in the third quarter last week.
It was perhaps the worst moment of the season for Williams, who prides himself on not giving up touchdowns and leading the Ravens with 4 interceptions along with safety Ed Reed.
That scoring pass to Decker put the Broncos ahead 24-3 in the third quarter and effectively ended any serious chance the Ravens had to launch a comeback. Reed showed a look of exasperation as he saw Decker reach the end zone.
That was nothing compared to the tirade Williams launched against himself.
"It was a cat-and-mouse game. Peyton was able to capitalize on some situations. I felt like I didn't play the best out there," Williams said. "That's one thing that was bothering me. It's another week, another opportunity, another chance to go out there and perform well."
It'll come against Eli Manning as the New York Giants (8-6) visit M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday, the Ravens' final regular-season home game.
Despite Williams' self-diagnosis, he made some key plays to get the Ravens off on the right foot. He dropped Knowshon Moreno for a loss on Broncos' first possession to force them off the field in three plays.
He perfectly timed what appeared to be a certain 29-yard TD pass to Demaryius Thomas, coming over top of the 6-foot-3 receiver to swat the ball away. In the third quarter, Williams blanketed Decker to break up a 2nd-and-17 pass to eventually force a punt.
At that point, the game already was out of reach. Getting beat by Decker on the earlier play happens, especially when the person throwing to him is Peyton Manning.
"You're playing against other great players as well. I don't take my job lightly by any means. I spend hours watching film and studying and trying to put myself in the best position to make plays," Williams said. "I felt like I didn't make enough."
Williams will have his hands just as full with the Giants' quick-strike receivers such as Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz. The Giants were shut out 34-0 to the Atlanta Falcons last week, but they put up 52 points vs. the New Orleans Saints when Nicks and Cruz combined for 188 yards and two TDs.
"I'm very critical of myself. I feel like I'm my worst critic," Williams said. "I got to go home look at myself in the mirror and evaluate myself. That's how I've been ever since I was playing the pee wee league. It doesn't matter. I don't want to give up any touchdowns."


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Independent film shoots final scenes of Western horror movie in Corpus Christi
CORPUS CHRISTI - Picture "Pulp Fiction" meets a classic Clint Eastwood Western.
That's how the directors describe "Red on Yella, Kill a Fella,"a Western horror movie set in 1900 that filmed its climax scenes in Corpus Christi Monday and Tuesday.
A film crew of 40 descended upon a North Padre Island beach early this week to film the ending scenes from the movie.
The scene took place at Horses on the Beach Corpus Christi, near Access Road 6 south of Bob Hall Pier.
The directors of the independent film, Duane Graves and Justin Meeks, have roots in Corpus Christi. Graves grew up here, and both graduated from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 1999.
Corpus Christi native Pepe Serna also is acting in and producing the movie. The directors said Serna probably is the most seasoned actor of the cast. He's played dozens of roles, including one in "Scarface" alongside Al Pacino.
Meeks met Serna when he was a student at Tom Browne Middle School and Serna spoke there.
"It's funny how 20 years later I'm working with him on a film," Meeks said.
The film is a dark Western movie with a horror twist. It opens in West Texas in 1900 and follows a group of outlaws out for loot that is hidden at the beach, but an unknown force keeps killing people in the group. There are very few left at the end of the journey.
The film is loosely based on the famous Texas outlaw Sam Bass and his gang.
Meeks is starring in the movie. Other actors include Michael Berryman, who has been in films such as the "The Hills Have Eyes," and "Weird Science;" Arianne Martin, who was in "Drive Angry" with Nicolas Cage; and Bridger Zadina, who just wrapped up filming for "Iron Man 3" and played next to John C. Reilly in the 2011 movie "Terri."
The independent moviemakers, Meeks and Graves, have produced more than 35 short films together and own Greeks Productions. The two moved to Austin after they graduated to pursue their film careers.
Films they are known for are Grave's documentary "Up Syndrome," which did well in the festival circuit, and "The Wild Man of the Navidad" which they sold to the IFC Films.
"It feels surreal to be back in Corpus Christi," Meeks said. "It's like we've come full circle."
After production on the film wraps, the directors will take the it through the festival route and hope it gets picked up by a distributor.
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As Memorial Day approaches (May 25), many of you will be having people over to your backyards for barbeques and picnics. Perhaps it's time to trim the lawn with a lawn mower. If you have a small yard, or if you are on a budget, then the best choice for you is probably a push lawn mower. A push lawn mower, or rotary mower, will give you a great deal of control over your lawn.However, if you have a larger lawn, and a lot of work that needs to be done on it, you should consider getting a riding lawn mower. A riding mower lets you cover a much greater area then a walking lawn mower in a shorter period of time. They also allow you to save up the grass clippings in a bag, so the clippings can become mulch. Riding mowers often have a manual transmission, because you will rarely need to rapidly change your speed. However, some of the more expensive mowers have a hydrostatic transmission, which is easier to use and lets you change direction more quickly and make tighter turns. Lawn mowers with hydrostatic or continously variable transmission are usually called a Zero turn lawn mower, and they can be very useful for trimming the corners of lawns without accidentally cutting down your flowers.
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The Kings are just 'plugging away' (with 9-1-0 record in December)
Dec 23, 2013, 3:09 PM EDT
The Los Angeles Kings are having a good December. For proof, here are some bullet points:
— They're 9-1-0, with the only loss coming in Chicago after they'd play the night before in Ottawa. Which is to say, no shame there.
— They've outscored their opponent by a score of 32-13.
— Back-up (to the back-up) goalie Martin Jones (8-0-0) has three shutouts, with a 0.98 goals-against average and .966 save percentage. The 23-year-old has also allowed his team to win games it didn't necessarily deserve to win, like on Dec. 11 against Toronto.
— Among the teams Los Angeles has beaten this month, some good ones: St. Louis, Anaheim, San Jose, and Colorado.
And here's the crazy part — the Kings aren't even that satisfied.
"I think we're on the right track," said Anze Kopitar, per LA Kings Insider. "Is our game as sharp as it can be? Probably not. But we're collecting points, and that's what it is this time of the year. You have to collect points, even though maybe you're not playing the best hockey. The way this Pacific Division has been going, you lose a couple, you fall back in a pretty big way, so we just want to keep on going, keep plugging away, and we've done a pretty good job with that."
L.A. will keep "plugging away" tonight when its hosts the Stars in its last game before the Christmas break.
- joey4id - Dec 23, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Dang! Blomfeld! Who are these MIB? Surely they are aliens.
- blomfeld - Dec 24, 2013 at 12:48 AM
First and foremost I say 'bravo' to comrade Burrough for this terrific article ! Factual, succinct and laced with 'delightful' humor, this my friends is 'exactly' the type of journalism which we need today ! So 'Go' Burrough and 'Go' PHT !!!
Secondly, I'd like to take this moment to wish comrade Joey4id all the very best of the festive season and may it be that he enjoys a 'happy & prosperous' 2014 !!!
Thirdly, it's my wish to extend 'heartfelt' season's greetings to each and every one of you 'glorious' LA Kings fans out there ! Never forget friends, that 'ours' is a team of destiny, driven by conviction, belief and providence !!!
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- ron05342 - Dec 23, 2013 at 6:21 PM
He's right. They haven't played that well. I've been to all of the home games in this stretch and really their defense and goal-tending has carried them.
Just think of how scary this team will be when it gets it all together.
- endusersolutions2013 - Dec 23, 2013 at 6:57 PM
The Kings are a strong, cup contending team. And you're right about the defense carrying the team. Was not enough last year vs. the Hawks, and the teams are closer this year. Hawks are improved offensively, weaker defensively.
Hawks still have the advantage when it comes to depth.
Hawks have 15 players with 10 or more points, Kings 11.
Hawks have 22 with a positive +/-, Kings 18.
And interesting article on how the teams are using their players. If you look at the screens for the Hawks and Kings, it will be clear Hawks are deeper.
- proudliberal85392 - Dec 23, 2013 at 10:35 PM
As a Coyotes fan, I have only one thing to say: DAMN IT!
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|Marlborough, Connecticut
Location within Hartford County, Connecticut
|Coordinates: 41°38′07″N 72°29′14″W / 41.63528°N 72.48722°WCoordinates: 41°38′07″N 72°29′14″W / 41.63528°N 72.48722°W
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|Bill Black
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|23.5 sq mi (60.9 km2)
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|23.4 sq mi (60.5 km2)
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|538 ft (164 m)
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Marlborough is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It contains the census-designated place (CDP) of Terramuggus. The town's population was 6,404 at the 2010 census.[1] Marlborough is an upper class suburban and rural community. The local high school is RHAM High School. In 2013, Marlborough ranked third (of 24) in Connecticut Magazine's biannual ranking of Connecticut small towns, median home sale price between $175,000 and $224,999.[2]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 23.5 square miles (60.9 km2), of which 23.4 square miles (60.5 km2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 0.73%, is water.[1] Marlborough is adjacent to four other Connecticut towns (Glastonbury to the north, East Hampton to the west, Colchester to the south, and Hebron to the east). East Hampton, Colchester and Hebron are each in different counties from each other and from Marlborough.
Route 2, a two-lane highway (sometimes three) in most sections, bisects the town, and there are three Marlborough exits, at South Main Street, Route 66, and West Road, although there are exits westbound only for South Main and eastbound only for West Road. It takes approximately 15– 20 minutes to get to Hartford, 40 minutes to New London, 45 minutes to New Haven, and 40 minutes to Springfield, MA. Marlborough is generally equidistant between Boston and New York. Boston is an hour and 45 minutes away, while New York City is a two-hour car ride, pending traffic conditions. Popular vacation areas are also reasonable drives from Marlborough. The Berkshire Mountains are an hour and 20 minutes away, and popular Rhode Island beaches, depending on which one you go to, are an hour (Misquamicut, Westerly) to an hour and 20 minutes away (Narragansett).
As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 5,709 people, 2,005 households, and 1,626 families residing in the town. The population density was 245.2 people per square mile (94.7/km²). There were 2,057 housing units at an average density of 88.4 per square mile (34.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 97.51% White, 0.77% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 0.68% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.05% of the population.
There were 2,005 households out of which 40.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.8% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.9% were non-families. 13.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 3.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.11.
In the town the population was spread out with 27.4% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 29.9% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.2 males. According to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center the 2008 median household income in Marlborough was $125,917.
The median income for a household in the town was $105,265, and the median income for a family was $120,346. Males had a median income of $78,789 versus $64,959 for females. The per capita income for the town was $49,605. About 0.4% of families and 1.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 1.5% of those age 65 or over.
The beginnings of the town can be traced back to the opening of Sadler's Ordinary in 1648—which is still in business today. Formerly a crossroads of sorts, travelers would stop to rest at the heart of what is now Marlborough center during colonial times, and eventually a petition was filed to the colonial government to form an Ecclesiastical Society in 1747.[4] Marlborough was incorporated on 13 October 1803 with land from parts of three neighboring towns: Glastonbury, Colchester (New London County) and Hebron (Tolland County).[5][6] A complete town history called Reflections Into Marlborough's History was published in 2007.
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Notable people, past and present[edit]
- Larry Boardman (born 1936), boxer born in Marlborough
- Chris Cillizza (born 1976), news reporter born in Marlborough
- Mary Hall (1843-1927), suffragist, first female lawyer in Connecticut, born in Marlborough
- William Henry Richmond (1821-1922), anthracite coal mine operator born in Marlborough[8]
- Gretchen Ulion (born 1972), 1998 Winter Olympics ice hockey gold medalist
- Rachel Roberts (born 1991), Villanova Women's Basketball team member
- A.J. Pollock (born 1987), Major League Baseball player with the Arizona Diamondbacks; born in Marlborough, attended RHAM High School in Hebron, CT
Points of interest[edit]
- Marlborough Congregational Church, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993
- Marlborough Arts Center – A non-profit regional arts center housed in the restored Charles W. Hall building. Its art gallery is open during specific weekends when exhibits are held, and on the fourth Friday of each month for live performances as part of its Fourth Friday @ the Arts Cafe series. Art classes and workshops are available in its classroom. See website for hours and information. [1]
- ^ a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Marlborough town, Hartford County, Connecticut". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ http://www.connecticutmag.com/Connecticut-Magazine/November-2013/Rating-the-Towns-2013/Median-Home-Sale-price-175000-224999/
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "Town of Marlborough." Retrieved 2009-10-23.
- ^ Conn. Spec. Acts 1803, 2:1157-1158.
- ^ "Hartford County". Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "Registration and Party Enrollment Statistics as of October 25, 2005" (PDF). Connecticut Secretary of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2006-10-02.
- ^ "William Henry Richmond," National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 9. New York: James T. White and Company, 1899; pp. 103-104.
Further reading[edit]
- Mary Hall, Report of the Celebration of the Centennial of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough: August 23d and 25th, 1903. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1904.
External links[edit]
- Town of Marlborough official website
- Marlborough Arts Center
- Marlborough Public School District
- Richmond Memorial Library
- Marlborough Business Association
- Reflections Into Marlborough's History


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Panel to pay tribute to the Rhode Island statesman
KINGSTON, R.I. -- October 15, 2002 -- When the late U.S. Senator John H. Chafee died in 1999 there was an outpouring of tributes to him and his record of service as a statesman.
Those tributes impressed the occupants of the University of Rhode Islands Chafee Social Science Center, particularly members of the College of Arts and Sciences who have offices in the building that bares his name.
To bring awareness of his achievements to current students and future generations, the University of Rhode Island will rededicate the Chafee building on Friday, Oct. 18 beginning at 7 p.m. His widow, Virginia Chafee, and other family members including his son, U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee, will be present. The event is free and open to the public.
The tribute will include a panel discussion about the senator by those who worked with him. URI Political Science Professor Maureen Moakley will moderate. Panel members are:
o U.S. Senator Jack Reed who served along side Chafee in the U.S. Congress. Reed was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984 and served three terms and then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, succeeding Sen. Clairborne Pell.
o Michael F. Ryan, executive vice president of Narragansett Electric Co., who served as the Rhode Island director of Chafees offices and played a substantial role in two successful statewide campaigns for the senator.
o Judge Bruce M. Selya, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Boston. Selyas relationship with Chafee dates back to 1962 when as House minority leader, Chafee was considering a run for governor.
o Christy Ferguson served as director of Rhode Islands Department of Human Services from 1995 until late 2001. More recently she ran as a Republican for the 1st Congressional District. As a lawyer and health-care advisor, Ferguson was deputy chief of staff to the late senator for 13 years and played a leading role in developing an alternative to the Clinton health plan.
"Students, faculty, and staff from the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the external advisory committee all enthusiastically endorsed the idea of honoring the legacy of Senator John Chafee and commissioned a plaque," said Winifred Brownell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "We were about ready to pay tribute to the senator when PCBs were found in the building. Chafee has been tested, cleaned, remediated, and reopened. We are now ready to move forward and pay tribute to this great statesman."
Born in Providence, the son of tool manufacturer John Sharpe Chafee, Chafee descended from one of the original six families to settle in Rhode Island and came from a family long prominent in politics. A great grandfather and a great uncle served as governor of the state, another great uncle, Henry Frederick Lippitt, was a U.S. senator from Rhode Island from 1911 to 1917.
After graduating from Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., he entered Yale University. When the United States entered World War II, Chafee left Yale in his sophomore year to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private and landed with the first assault troops in Guadalcanal. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944, Chafee went to Guam and served with the Sixth Marine Division in the battle of Okinawa.
After the war ended, he returned to Yale, graduated in 1947, and enrolled in Harvard Law School, graduating in the top quarter of his class in 1950. He married Virginia Coates. Shortly after establishing a law practice in Providence, he was recalled to active duty by the Marines and served as a rifle company commander with the First Marine Division in Korea.
Chafee reestablished a law practice and entered local politics. He won election to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1956 and re-election in 1958 and 1960.
He was elected governor of Rhode Island in 1962 and was re-elected in 1964 and 1966 by wide margins. Appointed by President Nixon, Chafee served as secretary of the Navy from 1969 to 1972. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1972, but was successful in 1976. He was reelected in 1982, 1988, and 1994.
Chafee was a champion of the environment. With his ability to bring opposing political groups together, Chafee was a key player in most of the landmark environmental legislation passed in the country.
There was an outpouring of praise when he died in 1999, two days after his 77th birthday, including this from the then Vice President Al Gore: "Despite the many pressures he faced over the two decades he served in the Senate, he was never partisan, never an ideologue," Gore said. "He was simply the gentleman from Rhode Island who was never afraid to speak his mind and allow the American people to judge his actions."
The Chafee Social Science Center, with its eight-story tower is the only high-rise building on campus, dedicated in 1972, and named for Senator Chafee who was governor at the time the building was planned. Approximately 175 faculty and staff currently work in the building and thousands of students attend classes there each day.
A permanent brass relief bearing the senators likeness that acknowledges his legacy will be hung in the lobby entrance of the building, directly across from the original 1972 plaque.
The Special Collections Department of the URI Library contains the late senators gubernatorial, senatorial and Secretary of the Navy papers. Processing of the collection was made possible by the generous donation of the Chafee family. The gubernatorial and the Secretary of the Navy papers have been processed and the finding aid is online. To access it, click on www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/registers/chafee/title.html.
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Cal State Northridge (24-32, 8-16) saw it happen last Sunday: strange things happen on Senior Day. It the Matadors' turn this time around, and Ryan Pineda sent the seniors off to the tune of a walk off solo shot that lifted the Matadors to a 6-5 victory over UC Davis (34-22, 13-11).
Home runs book ended the win, as John Parham started things off with a solo blast in the first. Sunday was the first time since the third game of the season that two Matadors had homered in the same game.
After the score in the opening frame, freshman hurler Drew Muren surrendered three runs over the second and third innings, highlighted by a Ryan Royster homer in the third. The Ags stranded five runners between the two innings.
Muren found his groove through the middle innings, retiring nine straight before an error in the sixth ended the run.
The Northridge offense caught up to the pitching in the sixth, when a leadoff walk of John Parham came back to bite the Ags. Parham worked around on a sacrifice and error before scoring on a Drew Muren single.
In the seventh, a Chris Hannick two-run single put Northridge out in front 4-3, and a wild pitch that scored Parham made it 5-3.
Bryce Schoening got the Matadors into the eighth before handing off to Edwin Quirarte, who finished off the frame. Northridge was blanked in the eighth, and in the top of the ninth, a pair of Aggie runs set up the Matador dramatics.
With closer Justin Fitzgerald on the shelf after being used the previous two days, left-handed Aggie fireman Andy Suiter was the best option in the ninth. It didn't take long for Pineda to find a pitch he liked. The freshman turned the first pitch he saw around and pulled it deep over the left field wall, sending the Matadors to a walk-off victory. Pineda took his time circling the bags before being mobbed by his teammates at the plate.
The Matadors got their 24th win with the victory and moved to 8-16 in Big West play. They finish in a tie with Cal Poly for seventh in the Big West.
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It has been estimated that some 3,000 Hasidic works have been published since the appearance of Jacob Joseph of Polonoyye's Toledot Yaakov Yosef (Koretz, 1780) and Dov Baer of Mezhirech's Maggid Devarav Le‑Yaakov (Koretz, 1781). This corpus consists in the main of works by the masters, early and late. The language of these works is rabbinic Hebrew but with numerous terms adopted from the Kabbalah. Generally speaking, while Kabbalistic vocabulary is maintained in these classical works, they cannot really be considered to be in the older Kabbalistic tradition since the masters interpret the Kabbalah, as they do the Bible and the Talmud, in the spirit of Hasidism.
[Scholar of mysticism] Gershom Scholem speaks of Hasidism as the "interiorization of the Kabbalah." That is to say, the Hasidic teachers are far less interested in the relationships among the Sefirot on high than in the human psychological processes on earth. In fact, many of the masters, but not all, tend to see too much concentration on the older, extremely complex Kabbalistic system as frustrating the Hasidic ideal of dvekut. The mind of the worshipper cannot realistically be on the details of the Sefirotic map and at the same time on God.
The major works of the masters have gone into numerous editions and are studied assiduously by the Hasidim, whatever particular dynasty they happen to belong to. These works are called "holy books," taking their place, for the Hasidim, beside the Bible, the Talmud, and the Zohar, as sacred literature the study of which counts as the study of the Torah. Some of the masters were accomplished Talmudists and Halakhists, producing works in this genre. But in this activity they function as traditional Talmudists and Halakhists, making hardly any reference to specifically Hasidic themes.
Hasidism from the beginning saw great value in the stories told by the Hasidim of the mighty deeds of the Rebbes. The older Hasidim would tell these tales to the younger men, who would sit around the teller with bated breath. While the tales are full of ethical and religious sayings of the Zaddikim [the Hasidic leaders], they are chiefly intended to demonstrate the power of the saints to work miracles. Both the Mitnagdim [those who opposed Hasidism] and the Maskilim [proponents of the Jewish Enlightenment] poured scorn on the exaggerations in Hasidic hagiography, considering the telling of the tales as nothing but a frivolous waste of time. At first, these tales circulated by word of mouth but, in the nineteenth century, numerous collections of Hasidic tales were published, some more sophisticated and religiously significant than others.
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2008 was my 2nd trip out to Thailand, everything was still so new, (LOL I was still young) everyday was a holiday, a special day, I'd wake up to the Roosters yelling at me, the little lizards making that annoying noise and the Burmeese cleaning staff sweeping outside my bungalow with their wooden brooms. Everyday at Tiger was a special one, I would arrive at the camp and all the trainers would yell "Tigerrrrr", the training was FAR from soft-core the insane 3 hour training sessions were intense, the trainers were always there yelling at you pushing your body, mind and man hood to the limit.
Looking back at everything, the good, the bad, the ugly and the few near death experiences I had makes me think "what if I never took that step to come to Thailand to train Muay Thai", where would I be?. Look where I am now!, I cant beleive it, im now living here in Phuket married to Muay Thai and a beautiful Thai wife.
To all the great people I have met, became good friends with, some I see here yearly, some I exchange emails with a few times a year and some I lose contact with, thats the sad part about living out here your friends come and go all 2 often. But to the ones I may never see again, I will never forget the times we had and you have made a permanent mark in my life.
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11+, GCSEs, A-levels - it sometimes seems like the story of our children's lives is of one academic test after another. We're convinced that a good performance in these exams will lead to success later on in life. But what if we're wrong? In fact, studies are increasingly showing that the qualities most likely to ensure a better degree, a better job and, ultimately, a more fulfilling life are perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. These are qualities known to economists as 'non-cognitive', to psychologists as 'personality traits' but to the rest of us as 'character'. "How Children Succeed" introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories - and the stories of the children they are trying to help - acclaimed journalist Paul Tough traces the links between childhood stress, childhood cosseting, and life success. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents prepare - or fail to prepare - their children for adulthood. And he provides new insights into the best ways to help children growing up in poverty. Early adversity, scientists have come to understand, not only physically affects children's lives, it can also alter the neurological development of their brains. But now educators and doctors are using that knowledge to develop innovative interventions that allow children to overcome the constraints of poverty. And with the help of these new strategies, as Tough's eye-opening reporting makes clear, even children who grow up in the most painful circumstances can go on to achieve amazing things. This is a provocative and profoundly hopeful book that will change the way you think about raising and educating children.
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