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A cavalcade of stars, including Sting, Aerosmith, and Jersey's prodigal sons Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, appeared on a live television special on NBC last night to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. The show was, as you might guess, a mostly somber affair, but Long Island native Billy Joel delivered the evening's most memorable and emotionally resonant performance by going against the grain and rocking out.
Joel belted out "Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)," which originally appeared on his 1976 album Turnstiles, an allegorical song in which an imagined natural disaster stood in for the very real (at the time) financial crisis that was affecting the city. In a strange twist of fate, the song now carries more emotional heft than ever, as New York City indeed saw the lights go down on Broadway over the course of the last week. Joel even amended the lyrics to the introductory verses of the song to fit the events of the last few days. "The storm went on beyond the Palisades, out in the Rockaways, the oceans overflowed," Joel sang. "They shut our power down, Staten Island drowned, but we went right on with the show."
The song, which Billy Joel described during a 9/11 benefit concert just over 10 years ago as a "science fiction song," has always been about the unwavering resiliency of New Yorkers during crises, but most would agree that its words ring truer than ever today. Our hearty congratulations go out to Joel, a man who is not often seen performing in public these days, for giving the citizens of NYC an anthem around which everyone in the city can rally behind during a time of true need.

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My topic this week is the county's offer to move City Hall into the county building.
Being present at the last city commission meeting, I wondered what exactly was going on with the county's offer to allow the city to move into the county building downtown. The city commissioners stated they knew nothing about the county's offer. One city commissioner wanted to bring up the subject to discuss it. The mayor disallowed the discussion because they had not received anything formally from the county.
The county ommissioner who made the offer is either throwing a suggestion up against the wall to see if it sticks, prematurely released confidential information, or made a strategic political move. I would think the county would at least discuss it first with the entity involved to see if it was going to be feasible before announcing the idea publicly.
The reporter asked if the Chinese were going to buy City Hall. Here again, the commissioners knew nothing. I think the reporter could have phrased the question differently. He should have asked if the Chinese stopped at the corner of 222 Meigs Street to check it out. The crown jewel and no one asked the Chinese to take at least a look when they were in town?
I don't think renting space off the county will work. I was on the City Hall committee a few years back and there was a developer who wanted the city to rent from him. He had all the rental pricing worked out but when I sat down and worked out the increases in rent over the years, I found the city could afford to buy two city halls. Back then, City Hall was estimated to cost between $11 and $12 million dollars to obtain a new building. It is a bad investment to rent and have nothing to show for all the money that the city would have to pay out. It is much too risky to house two government entities in one building if something were to happen to the building or it would have to relocated for some reason.
If any developers are interested in City Hall, the red tape alone would discourage them, unless they are willing to wait years for all the transactions to be cleared away. It has taken the city 23 years just to make a decision to move City Hall, so can you imagine what it is going to be like trying to make plans to finally move once the decision is made? Each time the City Hall move is suggested, it is an absolute emergency to move because the condition of the building is so bad. But after 23 years of deliberating, the building is still standing strong.
I think if we wait long enough, the Historical Society might be able to close the deal once and for all and claim the building as a historical building, ending all the agony. At any rate, the whole process is distracting staff from progressing along with other projects that need to be taken care of in the city. Either we are going to move or we are not.
Until next week, I have to wonder where the Historical Society is when you really need them to save a building.


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SENIOR WOLF SAFETY Terrell Golden
Senior Terrell Golden is a former walk-on who has become a stalwart player at the wolf (strong) safety position and was voted team captiain this year by his teammates. Golden is the Lobos' most experienced back and the leader of the secondary. He has started 27 of 37 career games, making 151 career tackles, 7 sacks and 4 interceptions in that span. A heady player and the most sure tackler in the secondary, Golden simply finds a way to make plays. Last fall he was fifth on the team and second among members of the secondary with 61 tackles, including eight TFL's and 2.5 sacks. Equally dangerous against the pass, Golden notched five pass deflections and two interceptions, returning one for a touchdown against Utah State. No stranger to playing through pain, Golden missed spring practice in 2002 after undergoing surgery on both of his shoulders. The Los Angeles, Calif. native was awarded a scholarship in August of 2001. Majoring in Criminology, with a minor in Psychology, Golden is a three-time academic all-conference honoree and has earned Verizon Academic all-Region VI honors the past two years. He is also a two-time Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award winner.
Q: What does it mean to you to be voted a team captain?
A: It means that my teammates saw something special in me in the form of a leadership position.
Q: What do you feel your responsibilities to the team are as a captain?
A: My responsibilities are to lead the team by example, whether it be in the classroom or on the field, I try to be a model citizen.
Q: What are your personal goals on the field for the 2003 season?
A: My goals are simply to be the most productive player I can be.
Q: Which part of your game do you feel you need to continue to work on to become a more complete player?
A: I need to continue to focus on my man-to-man cover skills in order to match my competition week in and week out.
Q: What are the most enjoyable and most challenging parts of playing in coach Long's defense?
A: The most enjoyable parts are being able to run around furiously and react to plays quickly because we know what's coming. The most challenging is trying to learn all 11 defensive assignments.
Q: How have you been able to balance your athletic and academic duties so well over the past 4 years?
A: I just make sure that I prioritize my daily activities and keep in mind that being successful in school and/or football has to pay off.
Q: What non-football talents or hobbies do you have? Which hobbies would you like to pick-up or improve off the field?
A: I would like to learn more about stocks and bonds so that I can invest wisely later in life.
Q: What's your secret to playing and practicing through injuries?
A: I just try to remember that I'm not promised tomorrow, so I should go as hard as I can everyday, whether I'm hurt or not.
Q: Which team on this year's schedule do you most want to beat and why?
A: Colorado State because they have ruled the conference for the past few years, but it's our turn now.
Q: Where's the toughest place you've had to play on the road and why?
A: The toughest place I had to play was BYU in 2000. It was 20 degrees out there and as a California native, I'm used to mid-70s.
Q: What's the best class you've taken at UNM and why?
A: The best class I've taken at UNM was yoga because I learned how to let go of all the stresses of life.
Q: What do you and your teammates need to do to accomplish your team goals this season?
A: We need to out-execute, out-hustle and be more physical than every team we meet in the 2003 campaign.


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Forget the gun show – if you want hunting equipment, you can go to a supply store. And pass on the sportsman show – if you want to talk fishing knives or poles, join an internet forum. The REAL hunting-related tour this year is the Northwest Big Game Inc.'s 2011 Tour of the Northwest's Heads & Horns Wall of Kings Display.
As reported in the COAST article 2011 Tour of the Northwest's Big Game Animals, the traveling Heads and Horns display "features record breaking trophy heads from across the Northwest," including unusual and atypical horns of varying shapes and sizes.
If you're an avid hunter yourself, feel free to bring in your own game heads to be measured by officials from NW Big Game, Boone & Crockett, and Pope & Young. Record-breaking game heads will be recorded in the official big game record books of Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho, and winners will be announced at the end of the show. Winners will recieve fantastic prizes from COAST, including the dazzling High Performance H7 LED Headlamp and the versatile LED Pro Pocket Pliers. Don't miss out!
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Nothing new, normal or funny about NBC's "The New Normal"By
One of MTV's most popular shows is coming to an end. According to reports, "The Jersey Shore" will cease production at the conclusion of this year's season. "The Shore," as it is commonly referred to, follows the lives of alcoholic, spiritually-adrift twentysomethings as they party it up during their summer vacation on New Jersey's east coast.
Now that "The Shore" is coming to an end, television executives are trying to put together the next big ratings-getter. And Ryan Murphy (creator of "Glee") thinks he's got just the answer.
Murphy's show, "The New Normal" – which premiered September 10th on NBC – focuses on two men, Bryan and David, who are engaged in a committed, gay partnership. While the couple is out shopping, David sees an oh-so-precious toddler in a stroller and later tells Bryan that "It was the cutest thing I've ever seen. I must have it!" He agrees and the premise of the show is set: two gay guys want to start a family, but they "can't have a child the traditional way," so they turn to surrogacy.
Its fans praise it for its in-your-face attitude, but "The New Normal" comes off as a cheesy infomercial filled with stereotypes meant to convince on-the-fence Americans that gay marriage really isn't all that bad, and that those on the political right are just a bunch of racists.
To expose cultural conservatives for what they truly are, the show's producers created a character named Nana, the Midwestern grandmother of the woman Bryan and David pay $35,000 to be their surrogate. Nana is everything Hollywood liberals think conservatives are: bigoted, mean-spirited, and xenophobic. In one scene, Nana – played by raging leftist Ellen Barken – says she loves gay people because she could never get her hair to look good without them. In another, she informs her granddaughter that she feels like she just ate a "black and gay stew" right before she fell asleep because it feels like she is living in "a nightmare."
Right. And opponents of gay marriage want all gay people deported.
Hollywood's incessant mocking of social conservatives is meant to pressure them into supporting liberal causes. But if the show's ratings are any indication, most Americans reject the upside down reality that "The New Normal" presents.
The reality is that two men cannot start a family in any sense of the word. They have to go behind nature's back if they want to. But even then, as we are seeing in California right now, situations involving surrogate parents and same-sex couples are increasingly legally complex, and may ultimately lead to three-parent situations.
Moreover, even though Bryan and David may seem like an open-minded, caring couple, when they are told they can "create the perfect embryo" for their child, Bryan odiously demands a "skinny blonde child who doesn't cry." Eugenics anyone?
Inasmuch as "The New Normal" may be the norm for left-wing, one-percenters living in Manhattan or in that foreign country we refer to as the state of California, it isn't normal for the overwhelming majority of Americans, and it won't be anytime soon.
Americans realize that Hollywood's deep hatred for traditional values is no laughing matter. I predict that they, like the NBC affiliate in Utah that chose not to air the show, will reject what media elites see as morally permissible. Expect "The New Normal" to last no more than one season.
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"Foreign country?" Stephen, what state do you live in? Let me know and I'll come up with a stereotype about it, Pax , Greg (a native Californian.)
You must think the American public at large is pretty dumb if they can be swayed so much by a TV show.
In my opinion, Americans increasingly think cultural conservatives are bigoted because cultural conservatives CHOOSE to partner themselves with bigoted organizations like National Organization for Marriage (opposition of Lawrence v. Texas) and Family Research Council (Uganda kill-the-gays bill). This site, in fact, has a nice cozy partnership with NOM via Thomas Peters.
You're clearly a moronic drone who can't do any better than regurgitating leftist shibboleths.
If imprisoning gay people is not bigotry, or supporting the death penalty for gays is not bigotry, I don't know what is.
Shame on you.
I guess you objected to the show "Webster" as well. That straight couple went "behind nature's back" in order to start their family as well. Why can infertile straight couples on TV adopt and get a surrogate, but gay couples can not? I'll answer that myself: PREJUDICE.
Um, actually, the Church teaches that all surrogacy is immoral. Very consistent.
Thoughtful post Leila.
And as for infertile married couples (husband and wife) adopting:
1) Even infertile marital sex is *ordered* toward procreation, unlike gay sexual acts (which are not equivalent to the conjugal act; gay people cannot actually perform the marital act at all). And many infertile couples have found themselves fertile at some point, including those who actually treat the pathology and conceive naturally via treatments such as NaPro Technology, which (unlike IVF and surrogacy) is morally licit. Gay couples are not supposed to be fertile together, even if they are in the best of health. By design. That is simple biology.
2) Adoption is a restoration for a child of what is lost to him. It is *restoring* what is lost to a child (yes, repeating for emphasis). Gay people adopting or manufacturing children for themselves amounts to a situation where adults are purposely creating a loss for children (the loss of a mother, for example, on purpose, or the loss of one or both biological parents, or the loss of the child's right to be born to his or her married parents). This has nothing to do with normal adoption, but it has everything to do with child as commodity.
Adoption does not restore to a child what was lost. They will never have their biological parents. Your post is nothing but lies.
ragingcatholic, are you actually "Catholic"? Because Catholicism is extremely supportive of adoption, for the very reasons I stated. It restores the natural family structure for a child who has lost his parents for whatever reason. I'm pretty sure most folks got the point.
Please go to http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/
DANGER! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON…@Jaclyn – you're doing nothing but endangering the soul of everyone who clicks on your link. The idea that Benedict XVI and JPII were antipopes, that the Church post Vatican II is invalid…all would be ridiculous, if they weren't so heretical. I'd actually advise people to avoid the link, unless they want a good laugh.
I am a 'adoptive mother' of our 'adoptive son'. We are his parents and together we are a family. He is in a home that has a mother and father, neither one can be replaced. Biology is significant and by having parents that include both sexes his life is ordered. Studies show an intact home with mother and father prove to be most ideal for children. Simply, that is what gets restored.
As an adoptive parent, I do not appreciate this post being allowed to stand as legitimate discussion on a Catholic web-site.
Leila has acurately depicted Catholic teaching, and made it clear that once society stops seeing children as gifts from God, and reduces them to "civil rights" status, no good can come from this.
The question that never gets asked by the gay-marriage / gay-adoption advocates is this: What is in the best interests of the child?
It is wrong to assume that a child does not need a mother or a father, and that a male could adequately fulfill the role of a mother, or a femail fulfill the role of a father. Anyone who has ever been married understands the unique perspective and mindset that the opposite sex brings to a marriage. Men and women are created differently, think differently, and bring their own unique (gender based) contributions to home and family.
It is obviously unfortunate when the death of a parent or the breakup of a marriage leaves a child without a parent. But to claim that what nature has ordained as the best model for raising children for all of recorded history should be cast aside in the name of some post-modernist civil rights cause is shameful, arrogant and extremely selfish.
Children are not commodities, possessions, or "rights". Children, adopted and natural born, are gifts from God. To see them as anything less than that demeans their humanity. Shame on the gay-rights movement for using children to advance their own agenda.
the show isnt even funny!
If you don't like it, don't watch it. Freedom of speech works both ways.
It probably won't last more than a few episodes. Trying to be so "new" and "daring" puts the show on the spot, if it harps too much on its message it's going to turn people off, and if it just goes for obvious laughs then people get bored. Most likely it will die from no one being interested enough to watch after the first three episodes.
Ready to eat your words? It's been 15 episodes so far.


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Is there a benefit for our company to participate in this program?
Other companies, that have waste management guidelines in place, often pay a high price to manage small volumes of waste that they produce. These companies may contract with a waste disposal company and manage these materials as a hazardous waste or hazardous material. Often this entails personnel filling out a lot of paperwork, labeling containers and devoting a tremendous amount of time to managing these small quantities of materials. Utilizing The Big Green Box reduces time, effort and money.
In addition what we have found by speaking with various companies is that they want to be good corporate citizens and environmentally pro-active. They are utilizing The Big Green Box to launch internal recycling programs within their companies. Companies are developing and promoting "social stewardship" programs whereby they extend their sphere of influence by asking employees not to throw away even their personal batteries and electronics from their homes, but instead to bring them back to the office and properly dispose of them there. This sends a clear "Green" message to their employees and helps the environment at the same time.
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By Cheri A. KellySpecial to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 1997 A sailor and an airman shared honors for the slogan "Feel the Power ... Vote" in the annual contest.
Chief Petty Officer Marisol Nieves, Annapolis, Md., and Air Force Maj. Ricky O. Stuart, Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., submitted the winning slogan. Federal Voting Assistance Program officials received more than 8,000 entries from around the world.
Nieves and Stuart will receive plaques from the secretary of defense for their winning slogan. Their slogan will be featured in the voting assistance program's 1998-99 media campaign. Officials said they hope the slogan will motivate the more than 6 million citizens covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to exercise their right to vote.
Second through fifth place and three honorable mentions were also selected by the judges and will receive plaques from the secretary of defense.
The second place winning slogan is "Vote Today for a Better Tomorrow!" submitted by Navy Chief Petty Officer Romualdo V. Cabal, Okinawa, Japan; third place went to Army Staff Sgt. Michael Maloney, Fort Hood, Texas, "Freedom Still Has Responsibility ... Vote!"; fourth was Coast Guard Lt. and Mrs. James Elliott, Morgan City. La., "Your Honor. Your Privilege. Your Duty. Vote." The fifth place slogan, "The Voice of America is the Voice of 'Your' Vote" was submitted by D. Shon, a civilian working for the Pearl Harbor Federal Credit Union, Honolulu.
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School may be out, but hunger is still in session for children receiving school subsidized meals across New Mexico.
To provide these kids with the nourishment they need, the Roadrunner Food Bank's Mobile Food Pantry is providing eight new distribution sites during the summer.
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Efforts by President Obama to put an end to the nation's failed "War on Drugs" can't come an hour too soon—if that's his intent. From his actions, it's hard to know. Drug offenses account for about half the 200,000 Federal prison inmates behind bars, compared to just 15% of prisoners convicted of violent crimes involving […]
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We're going to provide a bit more information with our October 20 earnings announcement. In this and future announcements, we're going to include a so-called pro-forma, or non-GAAP, diluted earnings per share (EPS) number as a supplement to our GAAP EPS number.
In the past, we've only provided GAAP EPS. But because Wall Street analysts typically estimate and describe our results with non-GAAP EPS numbers, that resulted in some confusing apples-to-oranges analyses of our results. (By the way, we review non-GAAP results when we analyze our own performance.) By providing both, we hope it will be easier to understand our results.
Now, if you've got your green eyeshade handy, read on. What follows is in accountant-speak.
Earnings per share is calculated by dividing profit (net income) by the number of outstanding shares. That's GAAP. To compute our non-GAAP EPS, we'll add back to our net income things such as charges for stock-based compensation. (Before adding back stock-based compensation – or other certain charges – we'll factor in related taxes. What does that mean? When we add back a charge, we subtract the tax benefit related to it that we would get under GAAP accounting. In other words, in the non-GAAP calculation we don't want to include the GAAP tax benefit.) After tax-affecting the charges and then adding them back to net income, we'll take that sum, divide it by outstanding shares and come up with our non-GAAP EPS number.
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- Shares outstanding for Google - 600 million
$300,000,000 / 600,000,000 = $0.50Now, to get the non-GAAP EPS, we would:
- Subtract the $35 million tax affect from the $100 million stock-based compensation charge to arrive at $65 million
- Add that $65 million to the $300 million GAAP net income for a new, non-GAAP net income of $365 million
- Divide $365 million by 600 million shares outstanding and get a non-GAAP EPS of $0.61.
($300,000,000 + ($100,000,000 - $35,000,000)) / 600,000,000 = $0.61As if this weren't complicated enough, we should note that most, if not all, analysts have historically computed our non-GAAP earnings by adding stock-based compensation to net income without tax-affecting the charge. As a result, when we provide our non-GAAP EPS number, we may be adding back less to compute our non-GAAP earnings than will most of the analysts.
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Linfield Wins Team Title by 29 Strokes at Willamette Invitational
SALEM, ORE. -- Linfield College won the team title by by 29 strokes and Max Bonk of Pacific University won the individual championship by one stroke at the 36-hole Willamette Invitational at Creekside Golf Club on Monday, March 16. Linfield registered an overall score of 599, with a 307 in the first round and a four-over-par 292 in the second round. Bonk carded a 146 (74-72) to achieve medalist honors by the narrowest of margins over Yutaro Sakamoto from Linfield, who shot a 147 (75-72).
Linfield was followed by a tie for second place in the team standings between Corban College (316-312--628) and Pacific (321-307--628). Walla Walla Community College took fourth place at 633 (314-319) and Willamette was fifth, just one stroke back at 634 (316-318). The University of Puget Sound was sixth with a score of 678 and Central Oregon Community college was seventh at 705.
Bonk edge out Linfield teammates Sakamoto and Kevin Duerr to claim the individual title. Duerr, whose first-round 73 led by one stroke over Bonk, finished in third place with a 147 (73-76). Ben Bryant (Sr., Albany, OR/West Albany HS) of Willamette placed fourth at 150 after carding consecutive rounds of 75. Fifth place went to Alex Fitch of Linfield, who shot 80-72--152.
Fitch's 72 in the second round matched Bonk, Sakamoto and Joel Rychard of Linfield for the low round of the day. Rychard, who shot 81-72--153, and Mike Noreen from Walla Walla CC, who recorded 77-76-153, tied for sixth place.
Following Bryant on Willamette's team scorecard was Robbie Beard (Jr., Yankton, SD/Yankton HS) in a five-way tie for 12th place at 161. Beard shot an 80 in the first round and an 81 in the second round.
Other WU golfers who contributed scores to the Bearcats' team total were Tyler Robinson (Salem, OR/Umpqua Valley Christian School) with a 165 (86-79) and Kevin Burfeind (So., Kalispell, MT/Flathead HS) with a 168 (85-83). Shane Adversalo (Jr., Honolulu, HI/University Laboratory School) of Willamette had to withdraw after shooting a 76 in the first round.
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DURHAM, N.H. - Junior goaltender Mike Ayers (Hingham, Mass.) of the University of New Hampshire men's hockey team was named Goaltender of the Month for the third time in his career by the Hockey East Association on Thursday afternoon.
In four games in October, Ayers was undefeated with a 2-0-2 record and a 1.92 GAA and a .946 save percentage, including a career-high 44 saves in UNH's 3-1 win over then No. 1 ranked Minnesota on Oct. 19.
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By Penelope Skinner
Directed by Paul Gittins
Presented by (potent pause) Productions
at The Basement, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland
From 13 Nov 2012 to 24 Nov 2012
Reviewed by Lexie Matheson, 15 Nov 2012
There was a time when going to the theatre, or engaging in any art form as a consumer, was seen as being good for one. I can recall Russell Kerr, that priceless – and seemingly ageless – doyen of the ballet, saying, in the mid 1970s, that everyone should go to the ballet for this self-same reason. He was right then and he's still right today but things have changed.
Going to the theatre is an experience. Some companies even have a Customer Experience Manager who monitors the entire occasion from beginning to end. It's not just what happens on the stage but the journey to the theatre, the cost and convenience of car parking, finding a meal nearby, the welcome at the box office, the cleanliness of the toilets, the smile from the usher, the ambience of the theatre, the glass of wine during the interval, the ease of departure, the air conditioning, the whole kit and caboodle that makes going to the theatre a joy or a nightmare.
I've been critical of The Basement in the past but not this time. The box office experience is always pleasant and this continued to be the case with Eigengrau. A smile costs nothing and the one I was greeted with was warm and welcoming. The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy.
The usher was sweet and the theatre, to be frank, the most pleasant surprise I've had in a performance space for a long time. There was no hint of the old dust and grime; the smell of fresh paint sat lightly in the air, the walls were gleaming from a spanking new paint job and the whole place looked delightfully revamped.
The theatre was divided in half, separated by a suitably minimalist set, and the audience was left with the mild discomfort of having to look at each other while waiting for the show to start. The gender stats for the audience were unremarkable: for every man in the comfortably-sized house there were seven women. I wondered, momentarily, whether this simply reflected the fact that 80% of theatre tickets are purchased by women or that the advertising for the play reminded us all that the playwright, enfante terrible Penelope Skinner, was an ardent feminist and that this might have kept the blokes away. Either way, this gave me an excuse to peruse the audience and not to feel too embarrassed.
The set consists of four black boxes placed on the diagonal, three and one. These are placed on a square floor elegantly divided into sixteen equal squares. It's sufficient for the multiple locations Skinner's narrative requires and the shifting of the furniture and the deft addition of the occasional prop or costume make for slick and effective scene changes.
Only once does the action move from the confines of the acting space and then it's to gain maximum effect.
The name of the play is Eigengrau. This is the German word that describes the dark grey colour the eye sees in perfect darkness. Trumbull Ladd researched this as early as the beginning of the 21st century and discovered that the conscious mind can control and manipulate eigengrau and turn it into other shapes such as circles, squares and crosses.[i]
There has been considerable debate about the name of the play; debate centred on whether it's good to name a play with a single word that no-one knows the meaning of and a word that, once you do know its meaning, might cause you to ask its relevance.
I'll enter the ring on the side of the supporters of Eigengrau as a name on the grounds that a major theme in the play relates to the manipulating of one's values and beliefs to suit what our bodily urges tell us we need to do. The impassioned feminist character Cassie articulates it best when she says, "Maybe it's just inside me, this thing that I want, that so completely betrays everything I believe," just before she falls for the line being fed her by arch-cad – and one would have thought arch-enemy – Mark.
Playwright Penelope Skinner is an extraordinary young woman. Having seen Jack Thorne's When You Cure Me and been overtaken by a sudden realisation that not all playwrights were dead and that a living playwright could speak so eloquently and personally to her, she then spent two years writing her first play which she named, with great subtlety, Fucked.
Skinner decided, following the success of Fucked, that what she wanted was to be a full time writer and we've all benefitted from that decision to the tune of The Sound of Heavy Rain, The Village Bike – a free-wheeling play about sexual frustration and organic vegetables – Eigengrau, and most recently Fred's Diner. She admires Dolly Parton because "she doesn't give a shit" and would like the Dynasty theme to be the soundtrack to her life. Apart from that she's a brilliant writer of the partial line, has an inspired ability to hone in on raw nerves and to keep any wound open far beyond that moment when the audience has had enough. She's a skilled actor's dream and a director's delight.
I'd also go as far as to say that she's one of the writers (potent pause) Productions was created for. I started this review talking about how the idea of going to the theatre 'because it's good for us' has changed over the decades but I find that, even when I know I'm going to be emotionally challenged almost to my limit, experiencing a (potent pause) production is always good for me – and usually in ways I wasn't altogether expecting.
Paul Gittin's production of Eigengrau is a case in point. It's a four hander and you'll go a country mile to find four better performances.
In Gittin's skilful hands the direction is tight and effective, intelligent and fervent. He has clearly created a rehearsal environment in which these fine young performers can feel safe and explore freely because the choices they make are all top notch and this is no easy play. The sex scene alone would be enough to make most actors hide in the toilet but not Michelle Blundell and Calum Gittins. They are magnificent. Skinner takes no prisoners and if any actor isn't up for it they'll be left more exposed than a bare bum on Hampstead Heath.
The question 'whose narrative is this?' is a difficult one to answer and probably springs from the somewhat conservative and conventional idea that all plays have a central character; that a narrative has to be primarily one person's story.
Eigengrau isn't a traditional play despite being cunningly well disguised as such with its form, structure and appearance anchored strongly in the British playwrighting tradition. It's peopled by real folks doing recognisable everyday stuff but it's not a narrative driven by one of the characters alone. These are powerfully etched, egocentric and ambitious characters and they fight – no holds barred – for their place in Skinner's sun. There are no winners and no losers because essentially nothing much changes for the characters as they engage in the never ending visceral battle between intellectual ideology and programmed response and herein lies the play's nihilistic fascination. It's an emotional train-wreck and, as with all such events, we gaze on it with salacious, voyeuristic fascination. In a word, Gittins' production of Eigengrau is magnificent theatre.
Cassie (Chelsea McEwan Millar) is a young feminist working for a feminist organisation and she doesn't trust men much. She flats with Rose (Michelle Blundell), aged 23 going on 27, a sweet and manipulative hippie with a dodgy past who starts the play in the throes of sexual bliss with Mark (Calum Gittins), a man about town who works in the city and who is the ultimate example of the amoral modern roué.
Mark owns an apartment in Chiswick that he shares with Tim (Simon Ward), a sad fellow who has recently lost his Nan and who is currently looking for a job.
Eigengrau is quintessentially British in content and characters. It reminds me of Joe Orton at his blackest, not only because of the content but also because of the grunt in the lines and the power in the exchanges. It's BritSpeak 2012 with lines like Mark's, "Feminism? I didn't think people still did that stuff"and, Mark again in predator mode, "There is hope. You did something here today. You changed me." And Cassie's "Why do you have to kill someone to be a hero?"
Eigengrau in the assured hands of this cast is assertive, authentic and raw, just as Skinner has written it.
Simon Ward's Tim is a sweet, naïve and rather pathetic man who is lost in the mists of grief. Ward subtly underplays Tim but he's there when he's needed. We're pleased when he wins. Sort of.
Calum Gittins is exceptional as Mark. He's is a creep, a lecher, a predator yet we still rather like him. Just a tad.
Chelsea McEwan Millar makes a great fist of Cassie, the little Pommy battler who punches above her weight yet falls for the oldest line in the book. She carries the weight of the personal betrayal embodied in the title. She's tight, controlled, angry and efficient. We like her too. It's one of the ironies of this production – and the play – that such flawed characters end up with our sympathy.
Michelle Blundell is a fantastic Rose. She's self-deluding and a ditz, she's annoying, she's dishonest, but this is a splendidly layered performance throughout and she hits every mark and presses every button. This is fine work when you add up what the actor has to do during the evening, the emotional journey she takes and all the potential pitfalls she meets along the way.
It's one thing to applaud the courage of Skinner in revisiting the eye-gouging self mutilation of Oedipus in one of the greatest classics but making it work it a play with no kings, princesses, gods or oracles to fall back on is something else altogether. Then to find an actor who can bring this off while singing a karaoke version of Total Eclipse of the Heart without a snigger in the audience is real work indeed. Michelle Blundell does just that and she owns us all as she does it. Absolutely stunning stuff.
It somehow seems appropriate that the main thread of the play ends with the line "Anything is possible, you just have to believe"(Rose) because, to some considerable extent, this is what's at the heart of the theatre experience. It's where the actors and the audience meld into one and where we find the mutual empathy that makes us not want to go home at the end of a performance.
It's Skinner, so there is, of course, a coda. Tim, because Rose has told him he must, returns to the beach he stands on at the beginning of the play holding his beloved Nan's ashes in their appropriately naff jar. His eulogy to the departed is delicious in its heartfelt simplicity. Skinner still hasn't finished with us, though, and has one last laugh to get.
I have a coda, too. As the women in the audience clapped like crazy and brought the cast back for a couple of extra well-earned curtain calls, the solitary man in the block opposite checked his watch. I could hear Skinner whisper: "I told you so."
[i] Ladd, Trumbull (1894). "Direct control of the retinal field.". Psychological Review. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/rev/1/4/351/. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
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Apology: When this review was first posted the Cassie and Rose characters, and the actresses playing them, were mixed up. The review is now corrected (I hope).


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Averting the Greater Depression The Rich Countries' Faltering "United Front." During the 1930s, Europe and the U.S. were also unable to agree on a common strategy, which led to a worldwide trade war and the plunge into depression. –Carl Bloice Economic Recovery Will Be More than Trusting President Obama's Stimulus Plan. But then, this economic […]


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The future home of KDHX (88.1 FM) in Grand Center.
KDHX executive director Beverly Hacker gave RFT a tour of the station's future home in Grand Center. Here's a look at the raw space that will one day be the Larry J. Weir Center for Independent Media. Photos by Tom Carlson.
Read Kiernan Maletsky's article on KDHX's 25th anniversary and new home here.
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There was a blogger challenge a week or so ago to blog with your favourite bloggers. As always, I'm late but I wanted to share with you a post with, not only one of my favourite bloggers but also one of my very best friends, Natalya Homewood.
We are both huge fans of fantasy and fairies so there was really only one option for a blog post together. Photo's taken at Straylight.
What I'm wearing (right):
Hair: Maitreya Lotus – Beach Blonde
Skin: Lara Hurley-Claire pink/Pale
Tattoo: :Little Pricks: Rainbow Face Tattoo
Dress: Zaara : Mrinali *pistachio*
Wings: Tendril Wings in Luna
Ears: .ILLUSORY. Elven Ear – c4
What Nat's wearing (left):
Eyes: Glam Affair Eva Natural 02
Skin: Glam Affair Stella Eyes
Ears: MW Ilweran Elven Ear Black Miril
Hair: [e] Rush Brown 02
Wings: Venom Fae Wings Pastel Mix Cyan and Rose by Seven's Selections
Dress: ::SUGARCUBE:: HASU dress bruit rose
Body Glitter: Genesis Snowlight Body Glitter (Now Exodi)


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I noticed on Google Analytics that somebody's been searching for "I sheep things: Fanfiction". To my knowlege there has only ever been one post on this site tagged fanfiction… and I removed it after two days because it had over 200 freak spam pingbacks and I couldn't control them.
If somebody is actually looking for that story to read it, please leave me a comment and I'll put it back up, hopefully sans spam.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sunset Beach - NC's Best Kiddie Pool
We discovered a great beach for small children today while out adventuring. I highly recommend it for anyone with small children who like the ocean but not the waves. Sunset Beach, one of the Brunswick Islands on NC southern tip, is a small residential island. I love that because it was all families and older couples. Nice and slow. Perfect for little ones.
We discovered a nice sized tide pool at the northern end of the island - near the 39th street beach access for anyone looking. The tide pool was about 2.5 feet deep at high tide. It was the perfect depth for "swimming" without waves toppling over the four year old's head. Just on the other side of this 30x20ft shallow was the ocean with all the waves you could ask for for older siblings. You could tell this was a favorite place for parents of preschoolers as there was no shortage of munchkins for Ella to play with but not so many that I felt I had stumbled into a Gymboree class instead of onto a peaceful beach.
You could also easily take the Southport Ferry (Ella loves the ferry) to the NC aquarium at Ft. Fisher (Free under 5) for a great day trip. You know - if lounging on the beach all day isn't your thing.
Sorry - not many pictures this time. Too busy hanging out. Cheers!
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The court order is the latest development in a lawsuit filed by retailers nearly two years ago.
Retail trade associations and two large retailers appeal to the Supreme Court to rule on the Federal Reserve's debit interchange rule.
National Retail Federation and other groups attacked the amount of debit card interchange allowed.
Retail trade associations and firms call the Fed's debit interchange rule an issue of staggering importance.
An appeals court rules against a CUNA Management School entertainer and scolds her for filing frivolous suits.
After nine months of uncertainty regarding the minimum number of required debit networks and other details, the Fed's rule will not change.
A three-judge panel may wind up preserving the Fed's debit interchange regulation, which a lower court invalidated last year.
WASHINGTON — Judges reviewing 2013 ruling that tossed out much of the Fed's interchange reg appeared open Friday to leaving much of it in place.
Debit card issuers, Fed and merchants will present cases regarding how the Fed interpreted Dodd-Frank's Durbin Amendment.
The case deciding whether credit unions will have to reissue their debit cards inched closer to a conclusion Nov. 20.


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House Republicans today are to formally unveil "A Pledge to America," a collection of pre-election promises, some specific and some vague, that would -- as they describe it -- form a new and inspirational agenda to reconnect Washington with the nation's founding values and principles.
The document also calls for the unlikely prospect of House and Senate Democratic leaders bringing "these reforms and policies to an immediate vote" and asks "all citizens of our Nation -- men and women of good will and good heart -- who share in our beliefs, to join with us today."
The 21-page manifesto -- which some have anticipated would be something like the 1994 "Contract with America" -- is to be officially announced and distributed by House Republican leaders and other members today at an event set at a hardware store in Sterling, Va.
Rank-and-file Republicans were given a peek at a draft of the document Wednesday night, and it was not long before Democrats were panning the contents of the document, dismissing it as a retread of failed GOP policies of the past.
In fact, much of what is found in the document reflects familiar GOP positions and legislative proposals on topics ranging from national security to cutting the size of government, as well as taxes cuts, health care, and government transparency. For instance, there are promises to repeal and replace the healthcare law, extend Bush-era tax cuts due to expire Dec. 31, cut unspent stimulus funding, and cancel the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
The repeal of the massive health package, signed by President Obama six months ago today, remains a top priority. In the draft, GOP leaders say that the White House has broken some of the key promises it made when it sold the health care reform. Costs, they said, would continue to climb, new taxes will be levied and a Democratic pledge to allow individuals the same level of coverage as they had before will fall by the wayside under the new law.
"This bill did not bend the cost curve at all," said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn. "As a matter of fact, costs are going to continue to go up." In their counter proposal, Republicans said they would swap out the current law with one that caps damages on medical liability lawsuits, allows for the sale of insurance across state lines, expands the use of health savings accounts and bolsters the physician-patient relationship.
But the pledge also acknowledges that the current healthcare law is not all bad: It borrows at least one proposal from the current law -- one that aims to overhaul one of the more nefarious insurance sector practices. The pledge calls for an end to the practice of rescissions, where health plans drop patients once they get sick, and would put an end to discrimination against individuals who have a pre-existing condition. Under the GOP proposal, annual and lifetime caps would also be eliminated. "All of those things we're in agreement with," said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., on Wednesday. "But there is so much bad ... in this bill that the easiest thing to do is repeal it and start over."
Notably absent from the pledge are specific positions on tougher issues, such as the future of Social Security or Medicare.
Over its development throughout the summer, the document has been compared by some in the GOP to the 1994 "Contract with America," a document credited with helping the GOP take control of the Congress that year.
The current Pledge does bear some similarities to the 1994 Contract, but this time around members and candidates will not be called on to sign this document, as a demonstration of fealty to the party.
"I'm not going to tell them what to be for," said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions of Texas, who said members and candidates will be allowed to make their own determinations about which portions of the pledge to embrace.
Republican aides tried to cast the pledge as evidence of the GOP's attention to the concerns of voters. Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Chief Deputy Minority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California -- who led the effort to craft the document -- described the document as the result of "effort to listen to the American people and ask them their priorities. They are all things we think can be done right now, and we'll be calling on the speaker to allow them to come to the floor."
Among the general proposals are promises also to roll back most government spending to pre-stimulus levels, set strict budget caps, fight attempts "to impose a national 'cap and trade' energy tax'," pass "clean" defense appropriations bills, ensuring that alleged foreign terrorists are tried in military, not civilian courts, and preventing the closure of the Guantanamo prison.
Some proposals were very specific, including one that would require congressional approval of any new federal regulations that would cost businesses more than $100 million. Others were more vague, echoing familiar political slogans. "We must take action to secure our borders, and that action starts with enforcing our laws" and "we will fight efforts to use a national crisis for political gain." There also are calls for bills to "adhere to the Constitution," including requiring each bill moving through Congress to include a clause citing the specific constitutional authority upon which it can "be justified."
Democrats have questioned the seriousness the effort and the credibility of the document, saying that any notion that all these proposals can or should be passed by Congress before it adjourns in one or two weeks is unrealistic.
"If you liked the Bush years you're going to love what Washington Republicans have in store for America," said Doug Thornell, a spokesman for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, assistant to Speaker Pelosi.
Added Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami: "Congressional Republicans are pledging to ship jobs overseas; blow a $700 billion hole in the deficit to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires; ...once again, subject American families to the recklessness of Wall Street; and take away patients' rights. Republicans want to return to the same failed economic policies that hurt millions of American and threatened our economy."
Senate Republicans leaders, who have been relatively quiet on the House effort, say they will release a statement today about the pledge, but it is unclear how much of an embrace or endorsement that will constitute of the House plan. In August, when pressed, Senate Minority Leader McConnell would only say that Republicans would offer a plan.
"We clearly do need to make sure Americans know what we would do, and we're going to make that announcement in late September," McConnell said in an interview with Bloomberg television. Republican aides said this week that the Senate GOP will treat the proposals as a House Republican agenda and not a plan that applies to the entire party.
This article appears in the September 25, 2010 edition of NJ Daily.


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NEWS September 8, 2010
Millville, N.J. (September 8, 2010) - GEICO Powersports RMR Suzuki's Danny Eslick demonstrated exactly how motivated he is to repeat as the AMA Pro Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL Champion in 2010 with a stirring performance this weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP).
Entering with a slim 12-point title advantage, Eslick and his primary title rivals all brought their 'A-games' to NJMP, making for a pair of thrilling battles at the front.
Having scored his fourth pole position of the season with a best time of 1:23.564, the Oklahoman duked it out for position with several riders early in Saturday's 23-lap contest before breaking free of the pack at mid-distance.
However, having asked too much of his tires to make that escape, Eslick was relegated to fifth by the time he reached the checkered flag.
Eslick decided to take a more measured approach to Sunday's race, but once again found himself dicing for the lead at the front of a 10-rider pack once the adrenaline started pumping. He managed to reformulate his strategy just enough, however, and charged into the lead aboard his GSX-R600 sponsored by GEICO Powersports and Lucas Oil on the final lap with a stunning maneuver past a key challenger to score his third victory of the season.
The end result of all the intense weekend action was very little movement at the top of the points race, as Eslick leaves New Jersey Motorsports Park with an 11-point championship lead.
"My plan was totally not what I did today," Eslick laughed after his inspiring Sunday ride. "Yeah, the outcome was, but plan for the race was to sit back and wait and come in strong over the last five laps. But from the green flag that was out the window. I put my head down and went back-and-forth swapping the lead."
"I knew it was going to be a bunch of guys going for it, there are always a handful of guys in this class. I didn't know it was ten and I am glad I didn't! I didn't look back; I just wanted to go as hard as I could. Really, it seemed pretty uneventful until the last couple laps. Everybody was right up in the front so I knew something exciting was going to happen for sure."
Commenting on his decisive last-lap pass, Eslick said, "I was pretty much committed. If I wasn't, I probably would have run and hit the side of him and one of us or both of us would have crashed. It could have been really ugly, but I was committed before we got there so coming down to the last two races of the championship, it doesn't get any better or cleaner I guess than that."
Meanwhile, the RMR Bruce Rossmeyer Daytona Racing team continued their total dominance of the Vance & Hines XR1200 class as Jake Holden powered to pole and his first class victory on Sunday on his Revolution Performance-backed machine. Holden staked a 10.161 second lead at the checkered flag.
Holden was joined on the podium by teammate Travis Wyman in third while Joseph Rozynski and Michael Corbino finished in sixth and eighth, respectively.
With Eslick focused on his AMA Pro Daytona SportBike duties, Sunday winner Holden assumed control of the XR1200 championship lead.
Eslick's quest to be re-crowned as the AMA Pro Daytona SportBike champ will be decided on September 24th-26th as the season concludes at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.
GEICO Powersports RMR Suzuki is sponsored by GEICO Powersports, Lucas Oil, Suzuki, Millennium Technologies, Vortex Sprockets, EBC Brakes, and Pilot.
RMR Bruce Rossmeyer Daytona Racing Harley Davidson is sponsored by GEICO Powersports, Lucas Oil, Bruce Rossmeyer Destination Daytona, Revolution Performance, Pilot, EBC Brakes, Race Tech, Orient Express, and Pit Bull.
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Thanks for help with Woofstock
The Second Annual Woofstock Mutt and Music Festival presented by Friends of the Animal Shelter was a huge success for the benefit of our Aiken County Animal Shelter.
Thank you to all the dogs and their people who attended. The large crowds, celebrating their pets and supporting our community shelter were overwhelming.
Thank you to more than 100 sponsors and advertisers. You are so important to us.
Thank you to our six adoptable shelter dogs who came to Woofstock and were ambassadors for all of our four legged friends still at the shelter. Three were adopted and we hope more soon will be too.
Thank you to our dedicated volunteers. Our FOTAS achievements are because of you, our FOTAS family.
Thank you to our many exhibitors, vendors and demonstrators. Everyone was smiling at Woofstock due to your presence.
Thank you for the music provided by 4 Cats in the Dog House and Tony B. It was outstanding.
Thank you to our Aiken County officials for participating in our event. County Council Chairman Ronnie Young and County Councilman Scott Singer were great judges for our dog contests.
A special thanks to our youth who volunteered and who our community can be so proud: Aiken High School RJROTC, Silver Bluff National Honor Society, South Aiken High School Serteens and National Honor Society, and our essay winners and student judges, Sophia, Sofia and Christian. Aikens future is in good hands.
Thank you to Highfields Event Center for the generous donation of the use of their fabulous facility.
Finally, the most important thanks are to Edie Hubler, our Woofstock chairwoman, who spent countless hours organizing this great Event. FOTAS and the Aiken Community are already looking forward to our next one.
Jennifer Miller, Joya DiStefano and Mary Lou Welch
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By yaneth from USA on 2013-09-07 18:13:16Things I liked:Great look and great feel. First day shooting, I shot 1 inch groups, second day I shot half inch groups at seventy five yards. I was shooting at a target placed on a bundle of 25 boxes. It went through twenty of them. Along with the accuracy, this thing has the power to match. Love that its made in the U.S.A. I also was using a center pointe AR scope using weaver 22 medium mounts. This gun is loud, sounds like a rim fire.
Things I would have changed:The shoulder stock is a bit uncomfortable, otherwise nothing.
What others should know:I used the hand pump. Also well built, not American built though. It takes an hour to pump. Watch online video to properly use the pump. It works well
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Last year Ben Moore came out with a couple of colours in a tone of metal. ie: bronze metallic, copper metallic etc... they have since discountinued these products and I'm now looking for a comparable product. I need a bronze like finish. Help..... Oh, not out of a can, it has to be a brush application.Thanks
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Frying-pan Paella
I have to confess that for years I avoided making a paella, ever since I read in one cookery book that one of the ingredients was a 'singing bird'. Simply on humanitarian grounds I couldn't contemplate it. However, after fourteen years of marriage, my husband pressed me to make one with rather simpler ingredients and we were both delighted with the result. This is obviously a simplified version as it had to be scaled down for one, but if you would like to use 2 oz (50 g) chopped chicken breast and cut the prawns by 2 oz (50 g), that would be okay.
Serves 1
This recipe is from Delia' Smith's One is Fun
Shell the prawns – it will take 10 minutes at most – but leave three prawns in their shells. Cover the peeled prawns and leave them in a cool place.
When the stock is ready, strain it into a jug and discard the shells, then spoon a couple of tablespoons of stock on to the saffron to soak it a little. Next stir the rice into the frying-pan and stir it around until all the grains are coated with oil and they begin to look transparent.
Now add the chorizo, but don't stir or the rice will break and go sticky. Just push the pieces in with a skewer. Now add another 4 fl oz (110 ml) of stock and let it simmer as before just shaking the pan now and then.
Add one more fluid ounce of stock and carry on cooking for a further 5-10 minutes for the prawns and peas to heat through (still shaking the pan from time to time). You can turn the heat up a bit at this stage to accelerate the process – but no stirring!
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Georgetown City Council has decided to get help in the search for a new city administrator.
In past searches, council has opted to conduct the process on its own. This time, a recruiting service has been hired to do most of the leg work but council will have the last say on who is on the finalists list.
Carey Smith of Rock Hill is currently acting as the citys interim administrator but he told the Georgetown Times Monday he does not want the job permanently. The position became available in June when Chris Eldridge left to become Horry County administrator.
Slavin Management Consultants of Norcross, Ga. has been hired to conduct the search. Council has agreed to pay the firm up to $20,825 to do the job.
Owner Robert Slavin says his firm has recently conducted similar searches in Rock Hill and Hardeeville.
We are able to recruit well-qualified candidates for our South Carolina clients who would otherwise not have applied for fear of premature publicity, Slavin said in a letter to Smith.
Smith said to get the process started, Slavin has questioned council members to find out what qualities they would like to see in the citys next administrator.
Slavin is now using the information from council to develop a recruitment profile.
The next steps in the process are to identify and recruit qualified candidates and then make recommendations to council.
Sometime in the near future, Slavins team will meet with council to present a group of well-qualified finalist candidates for interviews, the information to the city states.
Slavin said he expects 12 semifinalists to be presented to council at progress meetings and council will probably interview the top five finalists.
The process could possibly be complete in the next two months. However, according to a timeline presented to the city, it could take longer.
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — Umno supreme council member Datuk Lajim Ukin announced today he is quitting all party positions to work with the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact in Sabah's interest, in the run-up to key national polls.
The Sabah lawmaker said he would leave it to the ruling party to decide on his Umno membership and his position as deputy minister of housing and local government.
Lajim was also reported as saying he was not joining the federal opposition as a party member despite widespread rumours that he would be defecting to PKR.
"As for my post as deputy minister, that will be decided by Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Najib Razak) at his discretion.
"Meanwhile, the Umno supreme council will determine my membership in Umno... if they feel I have violated the party's regulations then they can dismiss me," Lajim (picture) was quoted by state news agency Bernama as telling reporters during the breaking of fast at his home in Likas Jaya, near Kota Kinabalu this evening.
The news agency also reported him publicly declaring the setting up of a new movement called the Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPS), or the Sabah Reform Front, at the same event, saying the group has a line-up of 17 representatives — one for each parliamentary constituency — in the state.
Apart from sitting on the Umno supreme council, Lajim was Beaufort Umno division chief and Beaufort Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman. He said he was resigning with immediate effect.
The Beaufort MP had last month told reporters the rumour had likely spread because "I speak like I am in opposition" but that he has made "no decision to leave and no offer has been made."
"This is just speculation because I speak like I am in opposition. But it is not because I am against the government but I want improvements to my constituency. We have faced problems like flooding for over 15 years.
"But nothing is impossible in politics. If the public wants me to go, I will go, if they want me to stay, I will stay," he had said then.
Lajim also said that because of his independent stance, "the speculation could have started internally with the intention to sideline me from BN."
He had come under fire from Sabah BN secretary Datuk Rahman Dahlan last week for his vocal internal criticism of the coalition.
"There is no room in Barisan and Umno for prima donnas," Rahman was quoted as saying by The Star on July 20.
"No one is indispensable. People, including prime ministers, have come and gone," the Kota Belud MP was quoted further.
Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who earlier today confirmed he was visiting the ruling BN coalition's eastern stronghold tomorrow for a mystery function, has deepened speculation of a major political shift in Sabah.
Anwar's chief of staff, Ibrahim Yaacob, confirmed to The Malaysian Insider the PKR adviser would be in Beaufort, Lajim's parliamentary seat, but kept a tight lip on the nature of the function.
"He has just arrived from Medina this morning and will be in Beaufort tomorrow, but what programmes he will be attending we don't know," Ibrahim said when contacted today.
Anwar has also been mum on the invitation.
Yesterday, Sabah PKR chief Ahmad Tamrin Jaini was reported by news portal Malaysiakini as saying the party had been invited to attend the launch of the Sabah Reform Front (SRF), which was organised by Lajim and Tuaran MP Datuk Seri Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing.
Lajim had quit his post as Kerambai Kebatu Umno branch chief last month but maintained that he was not leaving the party to join the opposition, while Bumburing, who is also deputy president of the United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), quit his BN division chief post last week. The latter has been coy of his chances of crossing over to PKR.
In Sabah, the deep-seated issue of illegal immigrants will likely be used as a key campaign issue in the coming polls, with the Najib administration holding the trump card for having finally agreed to investigate the issue by forming a royal commission of inquiry.
Federal seats in east Malaysia's Sabah and Sarawak are expected to be PR's focal point come the elections as both states, including the federal territory of Labuan, make up a whopping 57 seats, or 25 per cent of the 222 parliamentary seats available.
In Election 2008, BN retained power over the Putrajaya administrative capital largely due to wins in east Malaysia and Labuan, where it made a near-clean sweep, winning 55 seats against PR's two.
But the ruling pact lost its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority after only securing a five-seat margin ahead of PR in the peninsula, winning in just 85 constituencies while PR secured 80 seats.