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Hi everyone, I have loved reading so many reviews on this site and I think it is only fair to share my boob story with you all, I hope this at least helps someone as I share my journey. LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME! I am 37 years old, 165cm tall and weigh about 57kg. I am married, 2 children and breast... READ MORE
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Kris Kristofferson's 21st album was released in January.
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Coarse-voiced entertainment icon Kris Kristofferson will showcase two aspects - singing and songwriting - of a multifaceted career in a May 17 performance at Carmel's Palladium.
The Country Music Hall of Famer and three-time Grammy Award winner released "Feeling Mortal," his 21st studio album, in January. Kristofferson sings on two tracks of "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," the album created by John Mellencamp, Stephen King and T-Bone Burnett that arrives in stores on June 4.
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KIRTLAND — Kirtland Central forward Zoey Hooper will continue playing soccer in college.
Hooper has signed with New Mexico Highlands University and will have the opportunity to earn playing time right away for the Cowgirls next season.
"Zoey is a gifted athlete with a great personality and attitude," NMHU head coach Justin Hagar said via email. "She's proven to be a consistent goal scorer and leader for her team, and we believe she'll continue to carry that over into her college playing career here at Highlands. Hooper is someone who has performed each year we've worked with her, and she has found ways to be dangerous whenever she has the ball at her feet. She'll battle up top for a position at striker for us in the fall."
Hooper finished the 2013 season with 20 goals and seven assists for KCHS and was named first team all-district and honorable mention all-state last year.
"It's pretty amazing. When I think about it, it feels too good to be true," said Hooper, who was one of only six 4A girls to score at least 20 goals last season. "I can't wait to show everyone what I can do."
The Lady Broncos' senior has spent the past four years working with Hagar during the offseason. KCHS head coach Leonel Camacho said maintaining contact with Hagar is important because it gives players like Hooper a chance to move on to the college level and keeping playing the sport.
"It's very important to have those connections when you're coaching at the high school level to be able to get the kids to transition to the next level," Camacho said. "Our concern is 'What are we doing to prepare them for the next level?' We feel like we're doing that."
Hooper was joined by Farmington High's Katelynn Flack as part of the NMHU 2014 signing class.
NMHU competes in NCAA Division II as part of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Cowgirls soccer team finished in fourth place in RMAC play last season and finished with a 9-7-3 record overall.


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So I've finally pieced it all together. Here is the most likely scenario for the Minnesota Vikings in the draft:
Rick Spielman trades the No. 3 overall pick to the Dallas Cowboys for the No. 14 overall pick plus a second- and third-rounder. After Dallas and Tampa swap picks 3 and 5, the Vikings package No. 14 along with a third- and a fifth-round pick and trade back up to No. 7 with Jacksonville.
That makes sense because at No. 14, Spielman probably would be looking for a value selection but might end up reaching for a tweener. At No. 7, he can get a guy with great lateral movement and whose motor is always running. Plus, he still has the option of sending a couple of third-rounders to the league offices for New Orleans' 59th overall pick, forfeited because of Bountygate.
Are you buying any of this?
Me, neither. Which is why Matt Kalil will be a Viking very shortly.
Let's give Spielman credit. It's not as if he has formal training as an actor. Yet he's out there hamming it up in William Shatner-esque fashion - emoting and spilling his guts with regards to a possible draft-day move. Yes, he'll trade down in the draft. No, Kalil isn't a sure thing. Certainly, the options are dang near overwhelming!
To be (an idiot) or not to be (an idiot), that is the question. And the answer is Matt Kalil. But you can't blame Spielman for trying to squeeze a draft pick out of somebody if he still can end up with Kalil. However, I do suggest he dabble in community theater before the next draft.
These next three days should prove very exciting for Vikings fans. It's three days because the NFL has not quite figured out how to spread the draft out over seven days - one pick per day. But it's coming as the Evil Empire seeks to become a 365-day cash cow. It's just a matter of time before the NFL moves OTAs, or organized team activities, into the stadiums and charges admission.
The Vikings are in the early stages of rebuilding mode. Very little was accomplished last season. In fact, I can't think of much of anything. We sort of think Christian Ponder is the future. That's why he needs to be protected. Other than that, the team has miles to go.
Clearly the answer does not involve free-agent signings. The guys Spielman signed are, for the most part, backups and depth types. So these draft choices are crucial. Of course, they always are. But the team at this juncture can't afford any gaffes. It's just too needy.
So after Kalil, the Vikings should draft large quantities of defensive backs and wide receivers. If you pick four defensive backs, you might get one or two who can play. Better to go for bulk at the weakest positions. In other words, Spielman probably shouldn't draft any tight ends, even though he seems to collect them the way some people collect postage stamps.
This time around, it should not be about taking the best athlete available. The holes are too deep, and this draft isn't going to fix everything. But getting two or three crackerjack players would go a long way. Pile up the bodies at the weakest positions. That could lead to some maneuvering in the latter rounds.
Maybe there's a decent linebacker next up on the board. Well, the Vikings kind of need a linebacker. But don't do it! Trade down to the next available cornerback or safety. That's drafting with a purpose.
The Vikings have a weak schedule early. They also might get some good news on the stadium front. Those two things ought to create some excitement before the team gets pounded down the stretch against playoff-caliber teams. Realistically, the goal should be to seriously contend for a playoff spot by the time the team moves into a new facility.
That's assuming the new facility is in Minnesota. I just wish I knew what was going to happen there. Draft day becomes a lot easier if we know the team is leaving. Then you just hope everybody falls face first.
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The boy who allegedly stole an iPhone last month and then used it to take a photo of himself turned himself in to police Wednesday night.
The 16-year-old suspect didn't realize that the photo was automatically uploaded to the victim's computer.
The theft occurred Sept. 22 at 12:50 a.m.
The suspect allegedly grabbed the victim's backpack and iPhone before fleeing. The suspect later used the victim's phone and took pictures of himself, which uploaded to the victim's computer.
An earlier version of this story contained the suspect's photo before it was know that he was a juvenile.


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So What Do You Do, Helen Gurley Brown?
The legendary editrix on her storied career, the state of women's magazines, and the reissue of her best-selling book, Sex and the Office.- June 15, 2004
Helen Gurley Brown just keeps going. In a recent interview, the 82-year-old self-made American icon—who famously shed her Ozark hillbilly roots, worked her way through more than a dozen offices, and ended up neatly bypassing the editorial masthead to land as Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief in 1965—all but vows that the Hearst corporation will have to kick her off the scaffolding of its shiny new Eighth Avenue headquarters before she gives up affiliation with the saucy, best-selling women's mag that was her baby for more than 30 years. This is clearly a woman who loves her job.
And why shouldn't she? In her best-selling book, Sex and the Office—which is being reissued by Barricade as a cult classic this month—Brown offers the following assessment of the workplace: "Based on my own observations and experiences in 19 different offices, I'm convinced that offices are sexier than Turkish harems, fraternity house weekends, Hollywood swimming parties, Cary Grant's smile, or the Playboy centerfold."
Sex and the Office was originally published in 1964—just a year after, poet Philip Larkin famously claimed, sex was invented. At the time, it was shocking and, some accused, anti-feminist. It doled out advice on how to dress sexy at the office but still be taken seriously, how to discreetly conduct lunchtime affairs with an officemate, and how to make romantic connections when traveling on business—in a section memorably titled "Plane Talk (Only to Men, Of Course)." Is some of Brown's advice outdated? Well, sure. Pan-Cake makeup and wigs would be considered outré these days, and there's probably not a soul reading who is going to brown-bag it tomorrow with "Nettie's Heavenly Shrimp and Crabmeat Casserole" and "Gladys Lindberg's Soy-Date Muffins." But there is a lot of be-good-at-your-job advice that holds true in any era—after all, she cautions, "few men are attracted to the office birdbrain."
Brown recently spoke to mediabistro.com about her storied career, the state of women's magazines, and, of course, sex and the office.
Don't miss our first-ever mediabistro.com Magazine Editor Hot-or-Not, inspired by Helen Gurley Brown and Sex and the Office.
Birthdate: February 18, 1922
Hometown: Green Forest, Arkansas
First section of the Sunday Times: "Front page, then maybe the Book Review."
Your ascent to the top has been pretty well documented—it's almost a part of American mythology at this point—but I think people are less aware of what you've been doing since you left Cosmo in the mid-'90s.
I didn't leave. I was only 67 years old, only been doing it for 30 years, but management decided it would be better to have a younger editor—OK, that's reasonable. And at that time, I worked for a wonderful company, the Hearst corporation, and they knew that if I didn't have some kind of job I'd go off a roof or into the river, so they made me editor-in-chief of the international editions of Cosmo. At that time—that was 1996—there were 17 of them; now there are 52 editions of Cosmo all over the world.
I go for the launch, when they start the new editions, and we make a big whoop-dee-doo. I just got back from Sofia, Bulgaria, where we opened the 51st, and then I went to Belgrade, Serbia, where we opened the 52nd. Somebody else does the business arrangements when it's decided that there should be a Cosmo in that country, then I get it started. After the magazine begins, the finished copy comes to my desk every month, and I look at it and tell them where they're going right and where they're going wrong. So I'm kind of a nanny, but it's a fulltime job.
Is there anything you miss about running the American Cosmo?
One misses, perhaps, having a product that you put out yourself every month. It's creating. You decide what will go in it, what you want them to see, what you want them to hear, what you want to tell them, and there it is out on the newsstand selling up a storm. Cosmo was always the number one-selling mag at campus bookstores, and one of the top five-selling mags at the newsstand, a real success. But I'm 82 now, and I doubt I could go on being that good. And Kate White is just fabulous.
Are you still writing?
Yes, I have a book that just went into the bookstores a few weeks ago. It's called Dear Pussycat, and it's a collection of letters that I've written to people through the years. It wasn't my idea to publish it, but St. Martin's thought it would be a good idea so we collected a lot of the letters that I've written to people. It started when I was 15 years old, and I wrote to the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. I wrote him and I said, "Dear Mr. President, my sister Mary has polio just like you, and I would like it very much if you would write a letter to her. This is her address." And he did. I have that letter framed in the hallway. So, yes, I'll go on writing. I'd do anything to write fiction, only I have no talent.
There have been a few major regime changes at Cosmo since you left. How do you think the magazine today compares with what you created in the '60s?
The magazine under my aegis was not as sexy as it is now. It was the sexiest woman's magazines there was—there wasn't any sex in women's magazines at that time. And everybody copied us and did what we were doing, but even so, I was reasonably conservative. Whereas now, virtually every article in Cosmo has something to do with men and women, and the cover blurbs are highly provocative. There's a lot of "Five Places to Touch Him," or "Twelve Places You Didn't Know You Had." It's a much more sexual creation than under my aegis. They don't do very many general articles about various subjects, but listen, one can not possibly fuss at what they are doing, because they are selling frequently 1.2 million copies at the newsstand. And you just can't fuss about that. The writing is still good, and that's important.
How do you think Cosmo influenced other women's magazines?
I think it influenced them a great deal. At one point, Cosmo was the only women's magazine that had sex, and now every women's magazine has climbed on board so now we don't have sex exclusively any more. Honey, when I wrote Sex and the Single Girl, nobody was talking about female sexuality. It wasn't supposed to exist. You were just supposed to go through with it, rearrange the spice rack in your head and think about what you were going to do tomorrow while you're having sex. I didn't do a big survey; I just wrote about my girlfriends and me, and I knew that we were having a good time. And I suggested that that's something that everybody might think about. If you were having sex you shouldn't feel guilty—you don't have to tell anybody about it, just enjoy it. Therefore, to answer your question very simply, women's magazines were not dealing with sexuality. Women might be having sex when they were married but they weren't supposed to enjoy it. I came along and said it's enjoyable, and a lot of women's magazines have now decided to say the same thing. And it's true.
Do you ever think that the sexual frankness goes too far? Some people worry that it's somewhat shocking for girls to jump right from CosmoGIRL!, which is relatively tame, to Cosmo, which is just so much sexier.
I don't think that it's probably dangerous for the CosmoGIRL! reader to go on and read Cosmo per se. It alarmed me a few years ago that so many women were having sex without real knowledge of how to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy. Just piling into bed and getting pregnant. Well that situation has improved considerably in the last years. There are far fewer teenage pregnancies among unmarried women than there were, so that situation is getting better.
When you wrote Sex and the Office, it was unimaginable that a woman could be a man's boss, and now it happens all the time. And you have so much advice on flirting and charming the boss's socks off to get ahead. Do you think the same advice holds true for a man who's trying to get ahead with his female boss?
I never have been able to advise men. I don't think like them, I don't connect with what they need or what they're doing. I'll just say that in the first chapter of the new edition, I mention that women now are working so hard to become what they have become—heads of companies, executive vice presidents—so when you're working that hard to become successful, do you have time to flirt with people who are working with you and for you? I think you can still fit in both situations. As I point out, you spend at least eight hours a day in the office—some of us spend more like 12 hours—and we're doing it on the weekends as well, so it's a shame not to use that arena. If a man is working for a woman, he can use the time to make connections at the office, make connections with the boss if he wants to. But as I said, I'm not advising them, I'm only talking about women
The workplace you describe in your book is so different, though—you talk about having long lunch breaks, hiding bottles of scotch in your drawer, taking naps in the afternoon. Do you think your advice still holds true in today's more strict workplaces? Or are people working too hard?
I certainly can't speak for America, but my personal opinion is that people are not working too hard at their jobs. To be successful in your work is more interesting than just to be a drone. And if you're successful at your job, you will get more money, you will get more recognition, and you will get more respect. Therefore, I would just say categorically that I doubt that people are working too hard at their job, because you're talking here to a woman who works—what's 10 o'clock in the morning to 6:30 at night? That's eight-and-a-half hours at the office every day.
I bring work home without any guilt or anguish, and I work on weekends, but still I have a beloved husband, we go out to see plays, movies, we go out to dinner. Friday night he took me to see Bobby Short at the Carlyle, we had a regular old-fashioned date. I think you can fit it all in if you are well-organized. What has to go is all that shopping and a few girlfriend lunches. But you can still fit in your girlfriends. Sometimes you can ask a girlfriend to come at your office and have a picnic lunch so it only takes an hour, or you can go to her office. You don't really give up anything, as I said, except all that shopping, but catalogs are more efficient these days, I buy almost everything from a catalog. So I think the harder you work, the more you get rewarded, and you can still fit in a loved one, or more than one loved one. A lot of women of course have children, and they're working hard, so they have it all.
Do you think that your books and Cosmo were pushing an idea that a woman's priority in life should be to please the man in her life?
The reason to please the man was to be able to keep the man or possibly to get the man in the first place. So it was rather self-serving, it wasn't just because you're a big altruist. There was motivation there: to please the man might mean that the man could become yours. Another reason for pleasing a man is that you'll have a happier time, you'll have a better marriage. I do a lot of man-pleasing and I've been married for 45 years. My husband frequently likes to read out loud to me, but last time I was so busy I thought I was going to go off the roof. But I thought, well, that pleases him, I need him, I'm the luckiest woman in the world. At my age, there are not any men, and I've got a wonderful man so I'll just shut up and let him read to me. Man-pleasing has to do with keeping your relationship desirable and happy, it also has to do with getting a man to commit to you if he hasn't yet done so.
Can you imagine a time when you don't want to be involved with Cosmo anymore?
Somebody else might make the decision one of these days. I'm trying to be desirable and useful, and the international editions of Cosmo are virtually their biggest moneymaker. So I'm not sure when I might not be working any longer. My husband, David, says that he and I should have retired years ago, but we didn't, and he says that now we missed the boat—we're too old.
Jill Singer is the deputy editor of mediabistro.com. You can buy Sex and the Office at Amazon.com.
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- The Florida Panthers' defensive corps remained in flux after their practice Monday.
Jason Garrison didn't take part in the short practice, but Keaton Ellerby was back on the ice after missing Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series against New Jersey.
Garrison was a late scratch for Game 4 Thursday and also sat out the Panthers' 3-0 victory in Game 5 with a lower-body injury.
Coach Kevin Dineen said Garrison would be making the trip to New Jersey, where the team will meet Tuesday in Game 6.
"It's day-to-day," Dineen said. "We're encouraged that he may get a skate in tomorrow and see if he has a chance of playing tomorrow night."
Ellerby, meanwhile, sat out Game 5 after sustaining a lower-body injury when he was checked into the New Jersey bench by Stephen Gionta. Ellerby, who was in the lineup in Game 4 in place of Garrison, was seeing his first action since March 15.
Dineen said Ellerby's status would be determined by how his body will react to skating on Monday.
With Garrison and Ellerby both out, Tyson Strachan played in his first NHL playoff game in Game 5 after being recalled from San Antonio.
Strachan, who played 67 regular season over parts of four seasons with the St. Louis Blues, appeared in 15 games for the Panthers in 2011-12.
Strachan played 13:26 in Game 5 and finished with a plus-1 ratio.
"He stepped right in and kept things simple," Dineen said. "He created some offense with his powerful shot. That's the advantage of having a guy that's played 15 games during the regular season. He's got a little bit of familiarity with our group, and I thought he did a good job for us."
Along with Garrison, the other player who didn't practice Monday was forward Tomas Fleischmann. Fleischmann played in Saturday's game after not being on the ice for the morning skate.
"Just keep giving him maintenance days," Dineen said. "He seems to react very well to days off. That's the thinking with him."
Fleischmann's place on the Panthers' top line in Monday's practice was taken by Wojtek Wolski, who has been a healthy scratch the last three games.
Here were the Panthers' practice forward lines:
Wojtek Wolski - Stephen Weiss - Kris Versteeg
Sean Bergenheim - Marcel Goc - Mikael Samuelsson
Shawn Matthias - Jerred Smithson - Scottie Upshall
Marco Sturm - John Madden - Tomas Kopecky
Krystofer Barch
Mike Santorelli
Matt Bradley (injured)


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December 19th, 2010
First, let's be timely. Lunar eclipse over North America Monday night. Check it out.
Fox News has an article about the Gaskell Affair and there are over 4000 comments. I'm scared to look…
Vulcan Bait. Totally worth a nerve pinch.
Nine Crazy Things said in Bookstores. I'm floored by the parent whose daughter liked The Diary of Anne Frank and came in asking what else she had written.
A lot of my writer friends fear Google Books for violation of copyright issues and lost revenue. However, seems that amassing this knowledge can lead to some interesting research.
The top 100 science stories of 2010 from Discover. A standalone article about one of the top results about quantum physics.
A great cartoon about global climate change. Maybe this is the right level to work on the willfully ignorant and anti-science right-wingers, but I doubt it. Maybe if Obama started calling it a hoax…(yes, they are that biased). And Discover is in this game too with 7 Visions of Our Hot, Awful Future.
Vonda McIntyre is making her Starfarers books available for free download for a limited time. Check them out. She's a very fine writer, so enjoy.
The NSF has published their latest statistics about how many PhDs are bring granted and whose getting them. (Hint: more women, foreigners, minorities, although continuing to be skewed in particular ways.)
Interview with Scott Sigler about science in his science fiction horror.
Racists pissed off about black Norse gods in the upcoming movie Thor. The folks complaining are asshats to be sure, but I kind of agree with them but for totally different reasons. Comic books and movies about superheroes already have a huge issue to deal with about suspension of disbelief. You kind of go into superheroes ready to turn off parts of your critical brain. I think it's a bad move to have your audience suddenly in the middle of the movie go, "Hey, wait, is that Norse god black? I didn't think they had blacks in Scandinavia back in the day…hmm, what was going on in this dumb movie anyway…" Maybe there's an explanation, or the acting will be so brilliant I'm convinced he's just a very tan Norse guy, but on the face of it, not the time or place to insert an actor of a mismatched race in my opinion. Some of the Marvel Comics characters have changed race in the movies (Kingpin in Daredevil and Nick Fury in the Avengers related movies) and I've been happy with those choices as the actors have delivered. Probably startled a few comics fans, but comic fans are not the majority of movie audiences. Even non-traveling culturally myopic Americans probably know about that the Norse people were a whiter shade of pale. Well, not my problem, except I want Thor to be great and successful…
50 Top Comic Book Artists. The link will go to the page for #10-8, starting with Alex Ross, one of my faves, and also Frank Miller, another. Doesn't look like they've revealed the top 7 yet. Seem to have a list of fan-voted comic book writers, too. Alan Moore ought to top that one, in my opinion, and I would be happy to see Chris Claremont, Neil Gaiman, and Garth Ennis up there, too.
News from the Large Hadron Collider…no black holes, and perhaps a strike against string theory.
Religious wars in Texas…on bus ads. Christians get mad when atheists do the same things they do. Instead of realizing that advertising is annoying and stopping it, they escalate. Cue Sean Connery talking about how they do it in Chicago.
Some funny lines taken from peer review of scientific articles. Actually, I kind of want to talk about this a little more. A lot of the time the referee's reports get forwarded as is to authors, and some anonymous referees are, frankly, assholes. I learned a long time ago from story critiquing how to be professional giving comments, but scientists are not taught how to do this. They're just asked, out of the blue, to review a paper and write a report, and many don't read the instructions well anyway. I'm making it a habit now of telling editors outright what I think of reviewers when I reply. I've had some very good and very bad positive reports, and the same for negative reports. Now, I do like to pretend that I have a perfect sense of what makes for a quality referee's report, and I'm surely biased, but I am certain about some of the unprofessional asshattery I've witnessed. Enough for now.
(Almost) everything I learned about science I learned from Isaac Asimov. Asimov ruled. Out of date, unfortunately, on many topics now.
Astronomers find evidence of four other universes. Cool, maybe. Still sounds pretty speculative, but we'll have better data soon and see if these strange circles in the microwave background radiation persist.
One step closer to invisibility.
Science Fiction Film History available via Netflix (watch instantly). Nice list.
A Gallery of Monstrous Gingerbread Houses. Cool!
Cuddle Up in Front of the Electric Fire with a Good Book. Online geeky reading, including my own Diamonds in the Sky anthology. Looks like links at the bottom to more science fiction reading, too.
OK, that was a lot of stuff piled up, and I'm even on vacation with spotty internet. Hope you're having a good one, too.
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A guard tower towers over the entrance to the now-closed Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The correctional center is the seventh prison, camp, or work release facility shuttered in 2011 as New York transferred about 2,600 inmates and 1,400 staff to its 60 remaining penal units in an effort to save millions of dollars and remove excess capacity. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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I was both shocked and saddened reading a quote from a Judicial Process Commission worker (April 22 story, "Survey looks at problems of ex-offenders"): "We're not asking that you forgive someone for their actions."
Isn't that what life is all about? Don't we have to forgive family, friends and loved ones constantly? It doesn't matter if someone has been an inmate or not, because we've all done things at one time or another that could have warranted an arrest. The point is, we all do wrong and yet we all need acceptance.
Lest we forget what Jesus said: "If you don't forgive others, God won't forgive you." (Mark 11:26)


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Asif Ali Zardari, the new co-chairperson of the PPP, could be blamed for triggering the ongoing war of words between his party and the former ruling party, PML-Q, by dubbing it as the "Qatil League," or the 'Killer League.' The implication was that the politicians allied to President General (R) Pervez Musharraf, were behind the assassination of the PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
Zardari made the remark in a fit of anger after the gruesome murder of his wife, who was the mother of their three young children. It is difficult to control emotions at times of such tragedies. In fact, he made amends in the same press conference at Naudero where he described the PML-Q as "Qatil League" by reposing his faith in the federation of Pakistan and praising Benazir Bhutto's Punjabi bodyguards for sacrificing their lives for her. It was a statesman-like approach from a man, who felt he and his family had been wronged by certain politicians and civil and military officials hailing from Punjab. Another emotional sentence or a slip of tongue could have further inflamed the anger of Sindhis in the volatile situation prevailing at that time and given vent to worrisome slogans such as 'Pakistan Na Khapay' being raised all over Sindh.
However, the Chaudhries of Gujrat are not in the habit of taking things lying down. It seems they needed an opportunity to pounce upon and snatch the initiative after having been pushed into the defensive due to Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Rawalpindi, the garrison city sited in Punjab.
The PML-Q president, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, not the most articulate person, found words to condemn Zardari for 'insulting' Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. His argument was that PML-Q stood for Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam and dubbing it as "Qatil League" amounted to insulting Pakistan's revered founder.
The argument wasn't convincing. The PML-Q, cobbled together as the 'King's Party' to serve General Musharraf's interests and his partner in perpetuating military rule, controlling the judiciary and curbing the media's freedom, cannot claim to be the inheritor of the Quaid-i-Azam's legacy. Naming the faction after Quaid-i-Azam was wrong and misleading. In fact, there should be a ban on conferring such revered names on parties and organisations.
Certain figures and symbols are sacrosanct and should remain above board and beyond petty things. The Pakistan Muslim League has split and given birth to so many factions that its self-serving leaders and military patrons have run out of names. But they manage to coin a new name every time a military dictator decides that he needs a PML faction to provide a civilian façade to his political ambitions. Therefore, the reference to PML-Q as the "Qatil League" wasn't meant to insult Quaid-i-Azam but was intended to ridicule the party leadership.
Once the first salvo was fired by the two sides, there was going to be no end to the verbal sparring. The PML-Q's Punjab-based leadership also seized upon another opportunity to pin down the PPP and harm its electoral prospects in Punjab.
The riots in Sindh, following Benazir Bhutto's assassination and the looting and burning of public and private property by mobs in rural parts of the province, prompted the PML-Q leaders to publish large advertisements in newspapers asking the affectees to approach the party for listing their losses and seeking compensation.
Provocatively and unwisely, the list of affectees in the advertisements carried the names of all ethnic groups affected by the violence except the Sindhis. The implication was that the Sindhis weren't affected but had rather caused the violence and harmed other people's property. The PML-Q announcement to set up a refugees' camp for the affectees from Sindh in Lahore also raised eyebrows.
The said advertisement had talked about large scale migration of people from Sindh. All this was clearly aimed at winning the sympathies of Punjabis and others affected by the violence in Sindh. It also meant that the PML-Q had given up on the Sindhis, as they were now effectively in the PPP camp and seeking their votes in the post-December 27 tragedy wasn't going to yield anything.
Punjab always mattered more than other provinces for those wanting to win national elections due to its size and population but recent events have pushed the province to become the real battleground in the Feb 18 polls.
As if all this wasn't enough, former Punjab chief minister and PML-Q's candidate for prime minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, started issuing hard-hitting statements against not only Zardari but also the Sharif brothers. His aggressive tone at his public meetings, which were increasingly becoming lacklustre with shrinking number of participants, could be part of a gameplan to provoke PPP and PML-N to retaliate and in the process shift the focus from the grave issues confronting the country as a result of misrule by President Musharraf and his political allies. He named Shahbaz Sharif as Zardari Jr and accused him of sponsoring violence in Punjab. Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N were dubbed as the 'B' team of the PPP. The PPP was referred to as the Zardari League and its leaders and workers were accused of involvement in violence in Sindh. Pervez Elahi was heard on television talking bluntly and employing tough language while lambasting Zardari and Nawaz Sharif.
Wild accusations and unbelievable promises are invariably made during election campaigns in Pakistan but these are difficult times for the country due to the new challenges facing the unity of the federation and care ought to be taken not to further antagonize the already disaffected ethnic groups belonging to smaller provinces such as Sindh.
There were other worrying developments that could poison the election campaign in the run-up to the polling day. A media campaign was launched against Zardari when he recently left for Dubai to meet his aggrieved children and some of the sponsored news item claimed he would not return to Pakistan. He retorted in the same vein that his enemies must know that he wasn't running away and would be back soon. He is now back in Pakistan and holding fort in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Naudero, Larkana and Karachi, the places closely associated with Benazir Bhutto. Reports also appeared in the press that past cases of corruption and misuse of power against Zardari were being reopened. It is certainly easy to target Zardari because of his past deeds and misdeeds, but the PPP leader has become a tough man after suffering imprisonment for 11 years.
Advertisements belittling political opponents seem to have become the choicest method in the election campaign. Nawaz Sharif's past statements criticising the PPP and the Bhuttos were dug out and his fluctuating posture regarding boycotting the coming elections or deciding to contest were highlighted in paid advertisements published in the name of PML-Q office-bearers to ridicule his indecisive politics. And, in a manner reminiscent of the past when Benazir Bhutto and Imran Khan's Western life-style was publicised, pictures of the 19-year old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, frolicking with girls in the United Kingdom, were emailed by unknown senders to journalists and other recipients. Only interested quarters seeking to damage PPP's electoral prospects would want to indulge in such a campaign. The pictures were accompanied by the remarks such as "Guess who?" and "New PPP head having fun."
It is not that the PPP and PML-N leaders and rank and file kept quiet and tolerated the PML-Q onslaught. They have been responding in kind and one could expect more of the same in the coming days. However, the PPP leadership would have to be patient and tolerant as a peaceful election campaign would benefit the party and enable it to reap the benefit of the sympathy vote coming its way in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
On his part, Nawaz Sharif has done his bit to placate the Sindhis and other PPP supporters by publicly mourning Benazir Bhutto's loss and visiting Naudero at the hand of a large delegation of opposition politicians to offer condolences to Zardari. As an important political leader from Punjab, his efforts mean a lot in reassuring the Sindhis that the other federating units care for them and want them to remain a part of the federation of Pakistan. Sadly, the same cannot be said about certain other Punjabi politicians who deliberately or unwisely are further alienating the distraught Sindhis.
The political temperature would certainly heat up with coining of new slogans derisive of opponents. The spineless Election Commission of Pakistan, which isn't trusted by the opposition political parties, has been a mere onlooker. It could end up earning even more criticism in case the polls are rigged. In any case, the elections under the present dispensation monopolised by the partisan president haven't generated much hope and the costly exercise could end up creating a bigger mess than the one presently haunting Pakistan.
With some Baloch, Sindh and Pashtun nationalist and Islamic parties boycotting the polls from the APDM platform because they have no confidence in the Election Commission and the Musharraf regime to hold free, fair and transparent elections, it is obvious that the polls would not be true indicator of the people's choice in parts of the country. And if the elections are postponed further or there is rigging and power isn't transferred to the winners as happened in the 1970 elections, one could imagine the threat to the uncertain, military-dominated federal set-up that we presently have in the shape of Pakistan.
By Quddus Mirza
Faiza Butt enjoys a unique position -- of an outsider both in her place of origin and her country of residence. At present she is living in England where understandably she is considered a foreigner; in Pakistan too she is viewed as an outsider who has come back after a decade to display her solo exhibition -- currently on display at Rohtas 2, Lahore.
Rendered in pointillist technique, her mixed media pieces are created on transparent (Mylar) surfaces and papers. Works from 2003 to 2007 have been included in the exhibition, some of which were previously shown at other venues in Pakistan and UK.
This status of an outsider in two different contexts becomes a kind of privilege in the case of Butt, as she can look at the two surroundings with an eye not tainted by the routine views. Thus her work suggests a critique on her adopted culture that thrives on marketing -- either products made in the factory or images and idols from the entertainment industry.
A major part of her work in the present show at Rohtas deals with the popular imagery of media. Icons from film and music world are drawn with carefully placed coloured dots on transparent surfaces. These personalities, like Madonna and Eminem, pose against backdrops filled with consumer goods such as juice packets, candies and other edibles. In some works these celebrities are placed in front of patterns inspired from traditional Islamic manuscripts, in which letters are composed in the shapes of animals and birds.
It is obvious that for Faiza, the impact and power of a consumerist society was a handy subject when she arrived in London, because during her studies at NCA and later, she was trying to work on similar concerns. During those years, she focused on popular art and her early interest in Frida Kahlo led her to develop a vocabulary that was a blend of Mexican artist's aesthetics and the native imagery from the trucks and rickshaws of Lahore.
An intelligent painter, Butt was not satisfied with the combination of the two kinds of visuals. Instead she carved a private language out of the two -- related to the realm of love, longing and sexual fantasies and fears experienced by a young woman in a patriarchal society. Thus her paintings in tempera and other media revolved round ideas and images that suggested an intimate life in a certain cultural setting. This was both portrayed and connected through formal elements of popular art -- a choice in harmony with a number of other artists' method of appropriating transport (truck, rickshaw) art in the 1990s.
It was only after she moved to UK that the popular art from the streets of Lahore gave way to pop culture. Musicians and celebrities started to appear in her surfaces. This shift from the urban art of transport decoration to the world of glamour is a sign that there can be many categories of popular art/sensibility.
This division of popular art can be clearly noticed in the work of Faiza Butt. However the previous position of the artist -- of questioning the genealogy of certain pictorial elements and their ironic usage (visuals like lion and buraq) -- is not evident in her later works where the ingredients from the popular culture are put almost in a decorative manner (somehow like Naeem Rana who shared a joint exhibition with her at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford 2005-2006). This attitude seems obvious in the scheme of putting layers of paint strokes on some of these images. Probably she is fascinated by the presence of these Pop idols but it does not lead to a further probe -- into the structure of merchandising of visual and other commodities.
It is only in her latest works that Faiza appears to be discovering her true tone -- voice of the mess and masses. In the two large scale works on paper with drawings in cross hatched technique especially, her concerns about the contemporary world come to surface. For a Pakistani living in the West, the issue of war [on terrorism] is of greater significance, in comparison with those who are 'safely' situated in their homelands. The question of conflict and battle is presented in these two works, with personal interpretation and symbols.
In these pieces, the figures of small children holding weapons like swords and guns dominate the picture plane. These characters are not unusual, as one finds kids playing with toy guns in our homes and outside. The system that introduces a child to arms seems to be the real concern for the artist. She expands these indulgences with images of warships, explosions, expulsions, resistance (Palestinian protestors throwing stones at their enemies, or carrying the injured). Tanks, rifles and other weapons serve as the background to the main imagery of a child, almost naked but holding a silver toy gun, in one painting. The nude child appears in the second large work, with a number of other kids aiming with different weapons. The artist's desire to portray these children in their natural state is perhaps a means to convey the instinctive attraction towards armoury and the acts of violence.
These images about violence are supported with the aggression of all sorts, i.e. cupid with arrows, children enjoying themselves with water guns. So in a way Butt is building a larger narrative of violence that is not specific to one incident or place, but reflects our inner self. However this position towards war or war on terrorism gives way to speculation too, as in two of her smaller works the soldiers are depicted in a rather humorous fashion. In one piece the bearded militant/soldier is kissing his mirror image, while in other work the face of an army man is hidden under a gas mask.
In both pieces Faiza seems to be addressing her primary concern -- that today war, in its essence, is a struggle to control the market or to market the goods. So the army fatigue of these two fighters is converted from the camouflage pattern to actual floral designs; their backgrounds are surrounded with products such as milk bottle, pastries, cigarettes, medicine wrappers and rotten parts of bananas. All these images serve to bring forth a world managed by the multinationals and protected by the armed division of superpowers. Yet the tone of Faiza's comment, like any mature artist, is ambiguous, pleasant and intriguing.
exhibition will remain open till January 18)
By Sarwat Ali
Shaukat Kaifi, although better known for her roles in the Bollywood films, was basically a stage actor and what she has written about her life in 'Yaad Ki Rehguzar' gives a good account of the world of theatre in India in the early days after independence.
Like so many others she was accidentally pushed into the world of acting, theatre and later films because she happened to be married to a budding and promising poet Kaifi Azmi. In India since the days of the Progressive Writers' Association and the Indian Peoples Theatre Association the leading writers played a significant role in the direction which cinema and theatre took. The great divide which had scarred the equity between serious writings and show business during the course of the 19th century seemed to be finding some meeting point in the endeavours of the Indian Peoples Theatre Association.
Her marriage to Kaifi Azmi introduced her to a totally new world. She initially wanted to be a singer and was, on the initiative of Prem Dhawan the lyricist, even coached by S.D Burman and took part in a chorus for which she was paid Rs.30. She also took part in dubbing for the films but on the advice of Mujji, the wife of Khawaja Ahmed Abbas she secured a role in Ismat Chugtai's play 'Dhani Baankain' directed by Bhisham Sahni. Zohra Saigol was also in the play. She then went on to act in another adaptation by Bhisham Sahni 'Bhoot Gari' in which Balraj Sahni played a role.
The performing arts especially theatre was looked down upon by the poets and writers during the classical period of our literature. Theatre and dance was seen to be an extension of the bhaands and poetry was seen to be respectable and gift of the gods. No serious poet or writer wrote for the stage and the poets/writers who wrote for the stage were not considered good enough to be taken seriously as poets. They were dismissed as being 'tuk bund'.
In our own culture especially during the Muslim rule performing arts were discriminated against and the performing artistes especially women were considered beyond the pale of redemption. This prejudice was perhaps fortified by the signals that were received during the 19th century from the mother country. The Victorian values merged with the values of the ahsraaf in India and created another tier of values. The theatre that was introduced in India by the European encounter was still an activity of the underclass, a baser form of entertainment and morally prohibitive. The 19th century theatre was a combination of play, dance, and gymnastics all rolled into a variety format strung together by wonderful music.
After a few years when Shaukat Kaifi had had two children, Zohra Saigol took her to Prithviraj Kapoor who had set up the Prithvi Theatres in Bombay and was running it as part-commitment-part-passion besides working in the films. The plays were staged at the Opera House and there Shaukat Kaifi, with her toddler Shabana playing in the wings, worked for many years. As part of the rehearsals the reading and understanding of Natsharatra, the first treatise on the performing arts, was compulsory and so was voice where allahhoo was chanted in the lower register and ram ram in the upper to train the voice. Every play started with a shalok (a couplet) in Sanskrit which was about the significance of theatre and the theatrical arts.
Prithviraj wanted to escape the overpowering influence of the Parsi Theatre by bringing it closer to realism. Like so many others he was inspired by Stanislavsky and wanted a complete identification of the self with the role. The plays that he staged were actually based on what was going round him and the social relevance made his theatre synch in with the times. Apparently Saigol sisters -- Uzra and Zohra -- played quite a few roles. Uzra designed the costumes and Zohra gave dance lessons and even choreographed them for performances besides giving suggestions on the set designing. In the fifteen years Prithviraj staged eight plays Shakuntala, Dewar, Pathan, Ghaddar, Ahooti, Kalakaar, Paisa and Kisan.
At the same time in Bombay Alec Padamsi was also doing theatre but those were mostly English plays The first play that Shaukat Kaifi acted in there 'Nokarani Ki Talaash' was directed by Amin Siyani of the Binaca Geetmala fame, followed by an adaptation of the 'Glass Managerie' by Riffat Shamim 'Shishoon ke Khilone'. Then as she was planning to play the role in 'All my Sons' she got an offer of an announcer in the newly set up Vivat Bharati. In 'Mun Chahe Geet' on her suggestion the name of the poet and the composer were also announced when a song was played. Previously only the name of the film was announced and later of the singer.
She then did a number of plays for Tarewani Rung Munj which was run by Sajjan. Her most famous play there was 'Pagli' where her ten year old daughter Shabana really thought that her mother had lost her sanity. Indian Peoples Theatre had become active again as its leadership was then in the hands of Hangal who had migrated from Pakistan and M. R Singh. Hangal directed a play 'Damro' which was very successful and critically acclaimed. During the course of the rehearsals she was impressed by a young man Hari Har Jariwala who took his work very seriously and was a good actor. Later he became famous as Sanjeev Kumar in the Bombay films.
She also acted in an adaptation of 'No Other Way' 'Africa Jawan Preshan' by Vishwa Mitr Adil and directed by M. R Singh. She also acted in 'Tanhai', 'Aakhari Sawal', 'Election Ka Ticket', 'Azar ka Khawab', and 'Enter a Freeman'. This happened to be her last play on stage.
Repetition overcomes truth?
I've always rather liked the school motto of Aitchison College: 'Perseverance Commands Success'.
It's a nice thought: don't give up, just keep carrying on... A variation on this theme is the strategy used by the quarters of Pakistan's erstwhile 'establishment' for the purposes of disinformation. The thinking is the same -- repetition commands success i.e. if you repeat a lie often enough, and get some of the people to reiterate the same lie, then soon all the people will begin to think it is true!
It sounds so clumsy, yet this technique is extremely effective in a society like Pakistan where few people ever question the feasibility or practicality of anything. It is very easy to spread rumours in our society because nobody ever stops to think about the logistics involved or to question the actual source of the information (the 'silsila' as it were). Plus there is no shortage of twits who will repeat the rumour as fact almost as if they witnessed everything first hand themselves. But even if nothing is proved, the rumour still becomes established (by repetition) and gains a sort of folkloric status.
This point is well illustrated by a decade old rumour that was recently pulled out of the cupboard (wherein reside so many of our state's skeletons) and re-circulated. This was the rumour that surfaced just after the killing of Benazir Bhutto's brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto in Karachi in 1996. According to this rumour Bhutto's husband Asif Zardari had wanted Murtaza dead because Murtaza had accosted Zardari at Karachi airport one mysterious evening and had held him down and publicly shaved off half of his moustache in order to humiliate him. So-called proof of this rumour was Zardari's new clean shaven look around this time.
I heard this rumour repeatedly with conviction, many times a decade ago, and it has now even started popping up in various foreign correspondents' copy (in 1997 Christina Lamb had recounted it in a Sunday Times article as if reporting fact).
But have we stopped to question the logistics of any such incident? How come Murtaza or his gunmen had a razor and foam handy at the airport to do the deed? Where in Karachi airport did the paths of the two men cross? Had they been on the same flight? Which flight? How was an opposition politician able to grab the spouse of the incumbent prime minister and manhandle him without any intervention from security personnel?
A questioning of these practicalities exposes how difficult it might have been for such an incident to occur. Perhaps the rumour did have some basis somewhere, but it seems unlikely that it anywhere resembled this shaved-moustache-at-airport folklore.
This one incident is a good example of the state's basic disinformation strategy, and it is obvious that some politicians are still trying to use it (watch Khabarnama and you'll get the general idea). But the changed media has made it much more difficult and this is why our 'establishment' hates the private electronic news media, because on television you can actually have people sit around and critique such accounts and attempt to sift the facts from the fiction. Plus, the media can use the government's own tool of repetition -- not just by showing discussions but by actually showing footage and images time and again.
These days as I sit in the UK, I like to keep tuning in to PTV Global to check out what the government wants us to believe (statements by one or the other of the Chaudhrys constitute a top story on PTV!). And about two weeks ago I was able to see president Musharraf's Aiwan-e-Sadar Say, TV show which had an audience made up mostly of the foreign press. And there again I saw the President using this same technique of 'repeating the statement whether true or not.'
Some foreign journalist asked why the President couldn't have called in Scotland Yard investigators after the 18 October blast as requested by BB, so he raved and ranted in reply that "when BB was in power she did not even call in foreign investigators to look into the death of her own brother". Now President Musharraf said this as it were fact whereas it was untrue -- the fact is that Benazir DID call in a team of Scotland Yard investigators, they DID begin work, they DID do analysis and forensic testing but their final report was buried because the PPP government was dismissed, and these detectives were politely asked to leave Pakistan. This can all be easily verified from newspaper archives of 1996 and perhaps the President might ask his media aides to brief him better for such sessions....
The thing is that these rulers like to make it all very personal. They repond to questions defensively as if the questioner has insulted them or their integrity when that is not the point. General Zia's persona was the 'humble-middle-class-good-Muslim-with-no-political-ambitions' which he used effectively to disarm all those who questioned or challenged him. This General (aka President Musharraf) is now aggressively pushing 'I-am a-non-feudal-from-an-educated-middle-class-family-and-i-am-a-straightforward-no-nonsense-sort-of-guy-who-knows-nothing-of-conspiracies-or-intrigues' image for himself. Yes, of course. And so the folklore continues to be spun...
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Last week Marty Hand and Mike Walton did really well on Lake Billy Chinook, over last week we caught over 50 Kokanee using a Ford Fender with a Wedding Ring.
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says ... on Thursday, Aug 27 at 10:27 AM
and also even if u caught them over a 7 day period u are only allowed to have a 2 day limit on u at a time sucks if your camping I know but the law is the law!!
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All, We caught all the fish over a 7 day period
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Nope all the fish caught was over a 7 day period
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i live in redmond and have fished this lake starting in 1970. one of the reason is that the numbers or way down up in the rivers and the creeks and the bull trout are also down because the bulltrout are eating there food score. also 25 kokes to many
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Sometimes they put special limits on kokes in effect because of the sheer volume of them - those are awfully small which suggests large quantities of fish available - might be why they caught (and were allowed) so many.
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over your limit! its five a day per person
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South Florida man reaches settlement with the Archdiocese of Miami in sex abuse scandal
The unidentified victim says he was sexually abused by two Catholic priests during his youth
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A South Florida man at the center of a sex abuse scandal has reached a settlement with the Archdiocese of Miami, according to the Miami Herald.
The unidentified man issued complaints about two former West Kendall priests, who served at St. Timothy Catholic Church during the 1980s and 1990s.
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U.S. Department of State 2001 Trafficking in Persons Report - Sweden
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Sweden is a destination country for trafficked women from the Baltic states and Central and Eastern Europe, with a few cases from Cuba and Colombia, for purposes of sexual exploitation. Police officials estimate that approximately 200 to 500 women were trafficked into Sweden, primarily from neighboring countries, during 2000.
The Government of Sweden does not yet fully meet the minimum standards; however, the Government is making significant efforts to combat trafficking. The law does not prohibit specifically the act of trafficking, but there are a range of other relevant laws that are being used to prosecute traffickers. Under related laws, the penalty for trafficking is roughly commensurate with those for rape or sexual assault. The Government has successfully prosecuted seven trafficking cases since 1998. The sentences for the traffickers ranged from 1 to 6 years' imprisonment. Victims do not receive temporary residence, and most are deported immediately; however, they rarely are detained and never jailed. Local social service offices give emergency help to victims when needed. The Government funds NGO's that are combating violence against women through education and shelters. The Government also provides funding to NGO's and international organizations that combat trafficking worldwide. The Government is providing specialized anti-trafficking training to its peacekeepers in the Balkans.


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Roofers across the city are slammed with work following Tropical Storm Debby last week, which brought more than 15 inches of rain to some parts of the city.
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Welcome to Portmarnock Golf Club Founded in 1894, Portmarnock is consistently ranked amongst the top golf courses in the world. With a rich history closely aligned to the progression of golf in Ireland, Portmarnock has hosted many major professional and amateur events including multiple Irish Open Championships, the Walker Cup and the Irish Amateur Close Championship. From Sam Snead to Seve Ballesteros, some of golf's best known names have tested their skills on this north county Dublin sand spit. Considered by many as a fair but challenging test of golf, Portmarnock invites you to experience one of the purest links courses in the world. Portmarnock Golf Club was ranked as the best golf course in Ireland, Golf Digest Magazine, 2009 "There are no tricks or nasty surprises, only an honest, albeit searching test of shot making skills." Tom Watson 5 Time Open Champion
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After getting my second crack at Portmarnock, my impression of the place rose immensely. The host of 13 Irish Opens in the modern era is simply one of the classiest links in Ireland, and certainly a must-play if you're in Dublin. The name 'Championship Links' certainly applies. It's stocked with brawny holes. The par 4s on the front nine along the estuary are fantastic. The par 3 15th hole follows the dune line along a beautiful beach on the Atlantic Ocean. I'm still not convinced, however, there's enough charm there to elicit such a high world ranking among the top 40 courses in the world. Top 200, maybe, but not top 50. Portmarnock lacks land movement, enough ocean views and any short holes (either a little par 3 or drivable par 4) to be fun for everybody. If I hadn't met the member I joined with on the first tee, I would have been lost trying to decipher the three or four blind/semi-blind tee shots. It's a bucket list course, to be sure, but one where you can leave the camera at home.
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Playing a true links style course is great but playing it in Ireland is fantastic. Portmarnock offers a challenge to all. Some of the carries over the fescue are long. Pot bunkers are everywhere. There is 1 par three on the back nine where the green is surrounded by pot bunkers, the Irish Sea on the right and from tee to green is fescue requiring an accurate tee shot. The staff were wonderful. The meal was excellent. I met many members who wanted to chat with a yank. I spent a couple of hours just chatting with the members. It is expensive but worth every Euro.
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We played this early in the day and the winds were down. The course is challenging but not penalizing. Every hole had its own character and the course very diverse. The view on the 15th tee with the ocean right is a great spot for a picture. It is a great golf experience, and would encourage anyone to play it if given the chance.
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Yes, 95.7 percent of China's e-commerce sales are made from PCs, but the number made on mobiles is growing fast. For 2012 Q2, iResearch estimates that 4.3 percent of such purchases will be made on mobiles – up from a mere 1.1 percent at the same point last year.
That mobile spending spree will amount to RMB 11.64 billion (US$1.84 billion) in bought items in Q2 – that's 487.9 percent higher compared to the same period in 2011. The very strong growth in Android and iOS in China will help push that forward even more, especially as nearly all of the country's e-commerce players have very nice apps for those two mobile OSes.
So who are the main players in mobile commerce in China? Perhaps it's no surprise that the two large online malls from e-commerce behemoth Alibaba – Taobao and Tmall – lead the way with a monstrous 75.6 percent share of mobile shopping [1]. Second is 360Buy, the B2C rival to Tmall with 6.2 percent. Those stats suggest that 360Buy is seriously underachieving in its mobile strategy, as Analysis International market share data for China's B2C market shows that 360Buy's share is more in the order of 15.5 percent.
The specialist e-tailers Vancl (for clothing) and Maobaobao (for handbags) stand out strongly in these m-commerce stakes:
[Source: iResearch]
The iResearch graphic mislabeled that portion of the pie as "Tmall" when it ought to refer to both the Tmall and Taobao (C2C) mobile channel sales. They also screwed up the spelling of Maobaobao, hence our hasty Skitchin'. ↩


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VA sent incorrect information to some individuals via email that stated "You can begin applying May 15, 2012, but cannot start any education or training until June 1, 2012 and you must apply to VA by March 31, 2014." The correct information is as follows: You can begin applying on May 15, 2012, for training that begins on or after July 1, 2012. Up to 12 months of training assistance may be used through March 31, 2014. Please click here to view the corrected letter. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
The Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011, provides seamless transition for Servicemembers, expands education and training opportunities for Veterans, and provides tax credits for employers who hire Veterans with service-connected disabilities. Sign up to receive personalized Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) email.
Congress passed, and the President has signed into law, the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011. Included in this new law is the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP). VRAP offers up to 12 months of training assistance to unemployed Veterans. The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are working together to roll out this new program on July 1, 2012.
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Two of Kwame Kilpatrick's former tax preparers testified. / ANDRE J. JACKSON/DFP
Wednesday was tax day for Kwame Kilpatrick, who sat in U.S. District Court as the government detailed allegations that the former Detroit mayor failed to report more than a half-million dollars in income to the Internal Revenue Service.
To underscore the point in the corruption trial, the government subpoenaed two people who prepared the joint tax returns of Kilpatrick and his wife for the years 2003 through 2008.
"Did you rely on his being truthful and accurate in his reporting of income to you?" assistant U.S. attorney Mark Chutkow asked Gregory Terrell, who computed the returns from 2003 through 2007.
"Yes," Terrell said.
Terrell, who is local, testified along with an H & R Block employee from Southlake, Texas, who prepared the 2008 tax return. Kilpatrick moved there with his family after the text message scandal that ousted him from office.
In all the years in question, the vast majority of Kilpatrick's taxable income came from his job as mayor of Detroit, the tax preparers said.
For example, in 2003, Kilpatrick made $168,151 as mayor, according to his W2 form from the City of Detroit. His total wages, as he reported that year, were $187,617.
But Chutkow showed the jury records from Kilpatrick's bank accounts that revealed cash deposits during those years of $531,401.72. The government says those are ill-gotten gains Kilpatrick received from kickbacks and bribes.
Jim Thomas, Kilpatrick's lawyer, did not dispute Kwame Kilpatrick's cash deposits, but suggested that the money represented gifts, loans and other non-taxable forms of income. Thomas had Terrell affirm on cross-examination that cash gifts -- for a recipient -- are untaxed, as well as other forms of income such as repayment of loans.
Chutkow countered by asking Terrell whether Kilpatrick ever mentioned gifts or loans. Terrell said no.
Also Wednesday, prosecutors played more secret tape recordings from Bernard Kilpatrick's tapped phone, including calls in which the mayor's father wanted to get a contractor kicked off the Book Cadillac hotel renovation downtown so one of Bernard's clients would get work.
In a Feb. 14, 2008, phone call, Bernard Kilpatrick complained to Ferguson about Detroit-based contractor Jenkins Construction kicking Bernard's clients, Capital Waste Management, off the job. Jenkins brought in someone else.
"Can uh, what's his name, George Jackson and DEGC, can he make trouble for Jim Jenkins over there?" Bernard Kilpatrick asked Ferguson on the tape. "Can he run him out of there?"
George Jackson was head of the Downtown Economic Growth Corp., which oversaw the project.
Court adjourned before defense attorneys could address the tapes. That will come today when testimony resumes.
The Kilpatricks and city contractor Bobby Ferguson each are charged with running a racket to enrich themselves off the mayor's office.
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