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COVINGTON -- Georgia Perimeter College Newton Campus has once again received a grant to raise awareness of how alcohol affects operation of motor vehicles.
The $7,500 grant was awarded to GPC's Newton Campus Public Safety Office by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety.
The grant is federally funded for Young Adult Alcohol Awareness and Seat Belt Compliance education.
According to the GOHS website, the Georgia Young Adult Program promotes education and awareness to young adults about highway safety issues, including underage drinking, impaired driving, destructive decisions and other high-risk behaviors, in order to reduce the number of crashes, injuries and fatalities in young adult drivers.
Colleges participating in the program focus on alcohol education, alcohol abuse prevention, impaired driving, underage drinking, safety belts, speeding, risk reductions and other destructive decisions.
Lt. Andrew Moore said the Newton Campus Public Safety Office is the only law enforcement organization in the state to receive this educational grant to address motorist safety.
"Most grants are enforcement grants," said Moore, who heads up the GPC police department at the Newton Campus. "This is our second year to receive this grant."
Last year, GPC used the funds to purchase equipment to simulate the effects of alcohol, including fatal vision goggles and an Intoxiclock.
An Intoxiclock is a tool that demonstrates how a person's level of intoxication changes with increasing levels of alcohol consumption and the rate at which the body metabolizes alcohol given a person's weight, gender and drinking pattern.
Moore said the department will continue this year to distribute brochures and educational information to students about the dangers of drinking and driving and texting while driving, the importance of wearing seat belts, and laws regarding speeding, including the Super Speeder law that went into effect in 2010.
Moore said members of his staff, including two student assistants, will continue outreach efforts in the community, such as assisting local law enforcement agencies with road blocks.
"We also participated with Porterdale Elementary School's Red Ribbon Week," Moore said.
He said it was instructive for fifth-graders who attempted to catch a tennis ball while wearing the fatal vision goggles.
Moore said he has seen many fatal car wrecks in his more than 25 years in law enforcement.
"Since this is a grant for young adult alcohol awareness, I thought it would be a good idea to go into the schools to start educating them early," he said.
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$80 Billion Down the Plumbing
Intelligence is like statistics. Both can be manipulated to tell you anything you want to hear, and you seldom get the real story from either one. But there is one major difference between intelligence and statistics: we didn't spend $80 billion on statistics last year.
Our government announced on Thursday that it has spent $80.1 billion on intelligence activities in the last 12 months. Over $53 billion of that was rendered into thin air by the CIA and other agencies that report to the director of national intelligence, and the Military Intelligence Program blew the remaining $27 billion chasing hot tips on which Muslim weddings to bomb next.
Eighty billion dollars is almost 10 times the size of Iran's entire military budget ($9.2 billion). In 2009 the entire Department of Homeland Security budget was a piddling $51 billion. The proposed 2011 budget metes out the paltry sums of $43 billion for transportation, $38 billion for education, $18.39 billion for border and transportation security, $10 billion on energy, and $2.13 billion for higher education.
This is the first year the government has told us how much it spends on intelligence. How much we've spent on War on Ism intelligence before that will probably remain secret for national security purposes. We wouldn't want our enemies to know how much money we've already spent to deceive ourselves.
Whatever we've spent on intelligence since 9/11/01, you can bet a pretty penny it was a pretty penny, and one that we might as well have tried to throw across one of the oceans we sit between. Signs of intelligence in our intelligence conglomerate are as rare as one of Monty Python's clever sheep.
Let's start with the 9/11 attack itself, a plot the spies from Mad magazine could have stopped in its tracks before the hijackers finished flight training. After a showing that pathetic, our intelligence structure should have been pared down to hard tissue with chain saws. Instead, we made an already bloated calf even fatter, creating even more parochial sub-ministries to withhold vital information for the sake of ensuring that some other sub-ministry didn't take credit for discovering it.
Then we passed the PATRIOT Act and gave the people who failed to protect us extra-constitutional powers so they could listen in on our obscene phone conversations. We also created a budget for an Office of the Director of National Intelligence but didn't give the director himself any meaningful budget authority over the people who supposedly answer to him, meaning that nobody really answers to him.
Then we got cooked intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. Then we got cooked intelligence on Saddam Hussein's non-connections with al-Qaeda and 9/11. Then we got bad intelligence on what the bad guys were or what they were up to or who they were even.
Since Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld first gave our spy programs the special sacrament behind the altar, we have used bad intelligence to demonize Iran and to bolster corrupt regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. We have used bad intelligence to assassinate "suspects" and to slaughter untold thousands of innocent civilians. In the pursuit of that bad intelligence we have shredded every law of armed conflict enacted by humanity. When we want to get some dirty deeds done that are too dirty for our official dirty workers to do, we hire mercenaries from outfits like Blackwater to do our dirty work for us. Our spy outfits would tell you all the important stuff they've found out that way, but then they'd… Well, they wouldn't have to kill you, but they'd have to fly you off to some offshore rabbit hole and rough you up some. You're not allergic to water or electricity or anything like that, are you?
Our dysfunctional intelligence behemoth has turned our already polluted information toxic. The lines between intelligence and news and punditry and tabloid sensationalism and propaganda – already gossamer thin prior to 9/11 – have gone the way of the pager. It may never be safe or sane to believe anything you read or hear regarding U.S. foreign policy again. In post-Orwellian America, the mainstream information providers are every bit as untrustworthy as their sources.
If you think all this illegal, immoral, and otherwise downright deplorable activity is justified because our intelligence services are protecting us, consider what they did this past year to justify their $80 billion price tag.
Last December we had the Panty Bomber, whose "weapon of mass destruction," supposedly designed for him by a famous Yemeni bomb designer, didn't even leave third-degree burns on his wee-wee. The kid never should have made it on to the airplane. His father made a report to two CIA officers at the U.S. embassy in Nigeria regarding his son's "extreme religious views" the month prior to the incident. The kid's old man is one of the richest men in Africa, former chairman of First Bank of Nigeria, and former Nigerian federal commissioner for economic development. You'd think the CIA bozos would have paid attention to him, but no, they blew him off like he was just another Yusuf Sixpack looking to collect his 15 minutes of fame.
On May 1 ("Mayday," get it? 9/11 was already taken) we met the Times Square Screw-Up. His "weapons of mass destruction," fashioned from firecrackers and supposedly crafted from a Pakistani design, failed to ignite as well. In the course of attempting to execute his "attack," the Screw-Up managed to lock himself out of his bomb car, his getaway car, and his apartment. The kid had been on a U.S. government travel lookout since 1999, yet he not only managed to get into the U.S. and set up his Rube Goldberg car bomb caper unobserved, the Screw-Up darn near managed to escape back to the Middle East two days after he screwed up. U.S. agents snagged him up at JFK airport on an airplane headed to Dubai moments before it left the gate. The Screw-Up supposedly told the agents he'd been expecting them. It's a wonder he didn't say, "What took you so long?"
This past week we experienced the Rapture of the Airmail Bombing plot, and oh my God, if there's a single substantiated syllable in that entire narrative, I have yet to encounter it in the New York Times. In a series of articles from 29, 30, and 31 October, our newspaper of tarnished record created enough cognitive dissonance to drive the Dalai Lama to a therapist's couch.
We had President Obama telling us that two bombs found on airplanes underscored "the necessity of remaining vigilant against terrorism." Mr. Obama said, "The American people should be confident that we will not waver in our resolve to defeat al-Qaeda." But there's some question not only as to whether al-Qaeda was behind the attempted airplane bombings, but as to whether any actual bombs were involved. The bomb they found in or around the plane in Dubai was similar to the package found in England, but maybe the package found in England wasn't actually a bomb.
Maybe uber-evildoer Anwar al-Awlaki was involved, which might connect the Airmail Bombing to the Panty Bomber and the Screw-Up, but maybe not because maybe al-Awlaki had nothing to do with the Airmail Bombing nor with the Panty Bombing nor with the Screw-Up Bombing neither. Intelligence officials and government officials and generic officials say the Airmail Bomb deal has all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda plot but al-Qaeda might not be involved at all. Whoever mailed the bombs that might not be bombs was probably trying to target synagogues in Chicago unless they were trying to target passenger aircraft or unless they were trying to target cargo aircraft. Yemeni students studying English or computers or maybe both English and computers might have been behind the plot but maybe they weren't.
The take-away from all this is that in the last year $80 billion of your tax dollars went toward a self-preserving continuum that aggressively feeds you disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda designed to keep you confused and afraid and on board with a war against a phantom adversary that has no army or navy or air force and no budget to speak of at all.
The really sad part is that nothing you do at the polls today is going to cause the national disgrace that our intelligence structure has become to get fixed, or even make it less expensive.
Read more by Jeff Huber
- Bull Feather Merchant Marines – October 25th, 2010
- Don't Ask, Don't Care – October 20th, 2010
- Long Warfare Theory – October 11th, 2010
- Uncle Bob Wants You – October 4th, 2010
- All the King's Bull Feather Merchants – September 27th, 2010
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Pogo was talking about Earth Day when he said, "We have met the enemy and he is us" but I think it's just as apt for the lying thievery going on right now.
Great article.
yeah, "the takeaway" is this :
not difficult to see where this is going. better start getting your amtrak guest reward miles going!
Let's not omit the supposed target of the latter set of infernal devices thwarted by the alert guardians on the ramparts etc … Not only were these terrorists anti semites – targetting as they did two Chicago (??? Now, Skokie I might have believed)) synagogues, but they are also homophobic!!! One of those synagogues, we are told, caters to a particular group of GLTNO Jews who have discovered that Old Testament strictures on decavitation aren't as strict as once thought.
Today's Mil.com is posting 'intel' that the Saudi Intel service has identified their source – Farah Ali Faucett, or something, as a former Gitmo alum. Golly gee willikers they've even posted a mug shot in case he shows up for some popular gratitude in a local Qhikkie Mart.
Hoffman, DiNiro and Heche couldn't have pulled anything off better.
Pretty clever of those raghead terrorists to target a synogogue by sending a letter bomb directly to it from Yemen…like nobody at the receiving end would notice that it looked a bit odd. But hell, as Jeff notes, US intelligence will charge straight ahead with all guns blazing on it, arguing that it could have been a test run, misdirection, or something even more convoluted. My own theory is that al-Qaeda figured it could tie up US intelligence for another six month and take a giant step further towards bankrupting the American economy by sending out a couple of packages containing a mixture of kitchen chemicals.
"The really sad part is that nothing you do at the polls today is going to cause the national disgrace that our intelligence structure has become to get fixed, or even make it less expensive." -JH
That is what's so demoralizing. The American people, who are against these wars, don't have an option to vote against warmongering in this alleged 'democracy'. The war profiteers must stifle the anti-war will of the people. And with the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling we may never see a sincere anti-war candidate again.
They're already talking about "billions" to "fix" the cargo sorting and delivery systems. Before too long, I would expect shipping rates to skyrocket when the bill arrives for all these newfangled security systems and protocols being conjured up and implemented. All "Al Qaida" has to do now is figure out a way to get to the trucking industry in similar fashion.
Great article Jeff, I would submit that this (Yemini plot) is yet another attempt to scare the crap out of the American people while justifying spending $80 billion tax-payer dollars on fabricated intelligence acquisition, neo-colonialism and attendant plunder of resources, as well as the always present, murder of innocents.
Actually the news said the attackers wouldn't know when the bombs would detonate. So how could they be targeting a Synagogue?
Seriously, are we to believe that a group that can't make a letter bomb is the same group that pulled off 9/11? The comment here that Mad Magazine could have foiled the plot is an obvious indication that intelligence was in on it and at the very least allowed it to happen.
It costs twice as much when you have to finance both the 'terrorists' and the anti-terrorists.
So there's a new definition of 'intelligence' meaning "BS" or "PR" take your pick. Your tax $$'s at work.
Your kind portrayal is at least correct, probably far worse…AAAAhhhhh….. Yes… Didn't Hayden [who was in charge of NSA] get top job [CIA] by not seeing or hearing ANYTHING…??? YES!! I know he did..!!!
"In post-Orwellian America, the mainstream information providers are every bit as untrustworthy as their sources"
Beautiful Jeff… You are th'man
The defense budget of any country would certainly eat up a lot of taxpayers' money. I don't think it counts for nothing, though, even if it seems like it. We're not exactly throwing money down plumbing installed by mkaplumbing.com.au .
The defense budget of any country would certainly eat up a lot of taxpayers' money. I don't think it counts for nothing, though, even if it seems like it. We're not exactly throwing money down plumbing installed by mkaplumbing.com.au .
It's hard for us to even imagine these type of figures.
They're already talking about "billions" to "fix" the cargo sorting and delivery systems. Before too long, I would expect shipping rates to skyrocket when the bill arrives for all these newfangled security systems and protocols
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If you have been participating in the Sugar 7.7 Beta then you may have noticed that SugarCRM Engineering has refactored how CreateViews work in the Sugar application.
This post explains the motivations for the change and what Sugar Developers need to know and the actions they need to take to migrate their customizations in future Sugar 7.x releases.
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Historically, there has been some confusion in the Sugar Developer community (see here and here) around the existence of two different Create dialog layouts in the Sugar application.


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Wind Gear Manufacturer Moventas Planning 'Temporary Layoffs'
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Wind and industrial gear manufacturer and service provider Moventas Gears Oy says it will issue "temporary" layoffs next week in order to "match the market situation."
The company cited an insufficient order backlog for the first half of 2013 in proportion to the number of staff at its home base in Jyvaskyla, Finland, as the reason for the workforce adjustments.
The temporary layoffs affect Moventas' entire Finnish staff, and the layoff period will vary by personnel group during the first half of the year.
Production of Moventas' Finnish company was centralized in Jyvaskyla at the end of last year. The company also has Finnish staff in Vantaa and Karkkila. Moventas employs a total of 635 people in Finland and 970 people globally.
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The Players Championship – The Fifth Major
The Players Championship is not considered one of the "big five" tournaments in Pro Golf. Should it be?
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The 2012 Players Championship begins May 10th in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and as usual the discussion of its place in golfing has been hotly debated. Is the Players Championship the "Fifth Major?" There are some strong reasons to think that it is.
Not only does this year's Players Championship have the largest purse of any tour event this year at $9.5 million, but this year's field includes nine of the world's top 10 players. This combination of outstanding talent and an eye-poppingly large prize combine to provide excellent competition and lots of great golf. These certainly seem like th elements of a Major, but some aren't convinced.
Forbes magazine comes right out and says it: "The Players Championship is not the fifth major, but it's still a great tournament." Forbes is responding to the idea, pushed by the PGA Tour at various times over the 38-year history of the Players, that the Players was a tournament on par with the Masters, the US and British Opens, and the PGA Championship. As time has passed and the game of golf has expanded to include more tournaments with prizes upwards of $8 million, it's harder for some to see what sets the Players apart that would warrant its inclusion in the group of traditional "majors."
What about the history of the golf actually played in the Players Championship over the years? It's certainly worth noting that three of the first five Players Championship titles were won by Jack Nicklaus, one of the best known games in golf history. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, two current luminaries at the very top of their game today, are also among the past winners of the Players.
If you look at the whole list of Players winners, one fact sticks out: most of the players who have won a Players Championship have also won at least one major championship in their career. Clearly, it takes championship-quality play to prevail at the Players, and that suggests that the tournament belongs in the same esteem as the five traditional major tournaments. Even if it is never classified as a "major," though, it will continue to attract the best and brightest golfers from around the world, and remain an important win to attain.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Everett Golson didn't do much last time out to make anyone think he'll be the quarterback to lead Notre Dame back to glory.
His first pass against Michigan was intercepted, the Fighting Irish offense sputtered the five series he was in, and in his final play before being yanked in the second quarter, he lofted up an interception instead of throwing it out of the end zone. Because of his carelessness, he was replaced by backup Tommy Rees, last year's starter, who for the second time this season led the ninth-ranked Fighting Irish (4-0) to victory.
Despite the poor play against Michigan, and the disappointing numbers, coach Brian Kelly remains firmly behind Golson, saying he sees him developing every day in practice.
"An analogy that I like to use is, he's still cooking. We've taken him out of the oven. He's still learning all of the things that are not necessarily visible from game film," Kelly said.
Learning on the job isn't easy, especially with an impatient fan base eager to see an end to a national championship drought that dates to 1988. The Irish defense appears to have the potential, but so far the offense hasn't matched up. Golson has been one of the reasons the offense has stumbled.
He has a pass efficiency rating of 121.06, placing him 98th in the nation. He has played well at times, but not great. Offensive coordinator Chuck Martin said the struggles Golson is facing aren't unusual for a sophomore who didn't play as a freshman, saying the coaching staff didn't expect Golson to be great this year.
"It's very rare to be great all the time. You might be great in spurts or great on plays or great for a period of time, or even a whole game you might have a completely great game," he said.
Golson hasn't been made available to talk with the media since after the win at Michigan State. Kelly said it's not because he doesn't want Golson facing scrutiny, but because he's facing a difficult class schedule.
Golson isn't to blame for all of Notre Dame's offensive problems. The Irish rank 84th in rushing offense, 85th in passing offense and 95th in total offense. The good news is they play Saturday against Miami (4-1), which is ranked 114th in total defense.
The Irish coaches say Golson has the physical tools necessary to be successful. Martin said part of Golson's trouble is at times he knows what he should do, such as changing plays at the line of scrimmage, but he "flinches."
"He doesn't flinch all the time, he's made some great run checks this year. Other times he's kind of hesitated. Like he'll come off and say, 'I should have. ...,'Martin said. "So the nice thing is you know the knowledge is there. It' just about experience."
Tigers struggle with lack of depth
BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU is about to hit the toughest part of its schedule now with a handful of key players either unable to suit up or hobbled with injuries.
Turns out the dismissal of the honey badger, Tyrann Mathieu, was only one of several episodes of misfortune for the fourth-ranked Tigers.
At least four players who were projected starters back in early August won't be on the field for LSU (5-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) at No. 10 Florida (4-0, 3-0) on Saturday.
--Linebacker Tahj Jones has not played because of academic problems.
--Left tackle Chris Faulk, arguably the top pro prospect on the offensive line, is out for the season with a knee injury that he suffered during practice.
--Top running back Alfred Blue is sidelined indefinitely with a knee injury from LSU's third game against Idaho.
--Then last Saturday, J.C. Copeland, a 270-pound fullback with three touchdowns this season, injured his knee against Towson.
Copeland returned to practice on Wednesday and still could play. If not, that would further test LSU's depth against the Gators, who had last week off and are getting healthier.
No.13 USC 38, Utah 28
SALT LAKE CITY -- Matt Barkley passed for 303 yards and three touchdowns, including an 83-yarder to Marqise Lee in the fourth quarter, and No. 13 Southern California came back from a two-touchdown deficit to beat Utah 38-28 Thursday night.
Utah (2-3, 0-2 Pac-12) forced turnovers 1:16 apart to open the game, including a play by Nate Fakahafua to score from 8 yards out after stripping the ball from Barkley after a bad snap.
But the Trojans (4-1, 2-1) turned the tables in the fourth, scoring twice in a span of less than 3 minutes to turn a 3-point game into victory in their first trip to Salt Lake City in 95 years.
Barkley connected with Lee with 12:10 remaining, then cornerback Nickell Robey intercepted a pass by Jon Hays and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown.
Lee finished with 12 catches for 192 yards. The teams combined for 736 yards of offense and 222 yards in penalties.


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Boaz Barak specializes in theoretical computer science. He has a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, has been a member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, based in Princeton, N.J., and then moved across town to serve as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.Now, as a senior researcher at Microsoft Research New England, he is helping to verify the presence of nuclear warheads.That might seem an unlikely turn of events, but it just goes to show the unusual opportunities Microsoft Research scientists get to improve our world for the better.Scientists at Princeton University, along with colleagues from the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are working on an unprecedented process to ensure that nuclear weapons scheduled to be decommissioned actually contain real warheads. That assurance could promote nuclear-arms talks, in which countries have an interest in verifying that authentic warheads are being removed from service as expected.The trick is in achieving this task without measuring confidential information that, were it to fall into the wrong hands, could lead to precisely the opposite result: the potential for nuclear proliferation, rather than a reduction in nuclear warheads.This new process, as it turns out, depends on principles used in cryptography, a field typically used to secure online communication and one in which Barak is an expert."I was contacted by Alex Glaser, who works on nuclear disarmament at Princeton," Barak says. "He heard about the notion of zero knowledge and thought it might be relevant to questions he was dealing with involving verification of the authenticity of nuclear warheads. He contacted me, since zero knowledge is one of the subjects of my research."A zero-knowledge protocol enables the verification that a certain fact is true without revealing any information about why it is true. Data learned by one party, such as a nuclear-weapons inspector, enables verification that a statement is true but reveals no additional information that could help indicate the nature of the data itself, such as the design of an inspected warhead. In this scenario, the statement in question would be that an inspected warhead is identical to an authenticated template.Currently, such verification efforts involve inspectors counting the reduction of nuclear-weapon-delivery systems—such as submarines or missile silos—without verifying the dismantling of actual warheads.As explained in a news story published on the Princeton website, for a procedure fraught with the potential for profound consequences should something go awry, the warhead-verification system "is surprisingly simple.""You just need to know that one warhead is good," the Princeton story quotes Glaser, a physicist and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and international affairs in the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. "If you can verify that one, you can verify others."The verification effort also includes physicist Robert Goldston, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton and former director of the PPPL, and Charles Gentile, a PPPL engineer."Alex, Rob, and I together came up with the ideas behind this proposal," Barak says. "My part was helping them come up with the ideas for the zero-knowledge protocol and giving a mathematical analysis that it is actually secure."The results of their investigation can be found in the paper A New Approach to Nuclear Warhead Verification Using a Zero-Knowledge Protocol, written by Glaser, Barak, and Goldston, and delivered during the 53rd annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, held in July 2012 in Orlando, Fla."The initial goal of this project," says Barak, author of the book Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, "is not to develop a fully functioning system, but to have a proof of concept that demonstrates this is possible and gives negotiators on future nuclear treaties the confidence that it will be possible to deal with verifying authenticity, which is one of the thornier technical obstacles on the road to further disarmament."Work remains, he says, but the researchers are fine-tuning their approach."My collaborators are currently working on implementing a physical setup, as well as doing more experiments via computer simulations," Barak says. "As they do, we sometimes discover new constraints and issues that suggest modifications to our original protocol, so I am in constant touch with them. We've been coming up with several variants of our original proposal that might work better in practice."


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April Cover Star Diane Kruger Talks The Host & Life With Josh
The stately queen of icy-cool calls on Karl Lagerfeld for life advice and always kills it on the red carpet. But as she warms up to writer Margy Rochlin, Diane Kruger reveals that what she truly longs for is to get a few laughs
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"Really pleasantly terrifying." That's how Stephanie Meyer characterizes Diane Kruger's turn as a parasitic alien with a steely personality in the film adaptation of her first post-Twilight adult novel, The Host. "Diane just can do this icy thing," says Meyer, "but at the same time cover it up with, like, that warm, Oh, how are you?"
Meyer wasn't the only one wowed by Kruger's otherworldly talent in The Host, in theatres March 29th. When the film's screenwriter-director Andrew Niccol first gathered his cast together for a table read last year, one of the key actors was absent. Kruger volunteered to read the part, that of a teenage boy hiding in a cave. Though Niccol knew that she had the right sort of elegant bone structure and air of cool unattainability to pull off her own character—known only as The Seeker—he was surprised that she could be equally convincing as a 14-year-old male. "I was shocked at how versatile she was," says Niccol of Kruger, whose star ascended with her scene-stealing performance as a German movie star/allied spy in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 Second World War drama, Inglourious Basterds, and whose career has been further bolstered by her red carpet glamour, as well as the fact that she dates Pacey of Dawson's Creek fame (a.k.a. Joshua Jackson—the man many Canadian women of a certain age grew up wishing would save them from high school).


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The medical examiner's office confirmed the death of a Frederick male, age 65 or older, that occurred between Dec. 18-24, was hypothermia-related, the release states.
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Last winter, the medical examiner's office reported 15 hypothermia-related deaths in Maryland, the release states. By this time last December, one had been reported.
Hypothermia can occur when body temperature is below 95 degrees, the release states. The body begins to lose heat faster than it can produce it and, consequently, uses it up the body's stored energy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This makes it hard for the victim to think, meaning they may not know hypothermia is occurring.
Frostbite can occur when skin temperature falls below 32 degrees, according to the release. It refers to the freezing and then damaging of body tissue and is most likely to occur in toes, fingers, ears, cheeks and the tip of the nose.
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Meet Bailey, he is the third of our 3 dogs. He has been really sad recently as I posted pictures of his two brothers a few ago but none of him until now!
He is a larger than normal Labradoodle.
He is one awesome thief...can nick anything from any height. Unfortunately as a get-away driver he is no good as he has developed a very distinguishable trot that is unique to his thieving and therefore caught very easily. If I capture a photo of him in action I will post in future!
He is the most friendly, laid-back dog imaginable. We take him to hydrotherapy as he has bad hips and he almost falls asleep in the water!
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A great image, he looks so sweet and innocent, love your story
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Super image great detail
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Gorgeous dog and I love the description. He should meet Helga, our accomplished thief, for some tips.
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A charming rogue I think! A
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Have you tried Glucosamine, Chondroitin & Vitamin C pills for your dogs hips, we have an aged and arthritic cat and he limped a lot, we took him to the vet but things only got worse, so we looked on the net and found these pills, they have worked very very well, they take time to get into the system and you may not see improvement for some time but now our cat does not limp, he is more mobile, we only give him half a pill a day which we find easy for him, they are quite big pills and he only has a small mouth...........
So try Simply Pets on the net and see what you think................hope this may help in some way............our cats quality of life has shot up, it is great to see him mobile and getting up to his old tricks..........and he is climbing again............
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Thanks for the advice, he was very lame at one time and took all kinds of meds but the best thing that ever happened for him was the hydrotherapy. Other than the occasional flare up you would never realise he has any problems yet his hips are awful. The hydro has strengthened the muscles so much.
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Awwww he sounds a character
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Wonderful image of this lovely innocent dog that you have clearly maligned in your comments Thanks also to Julia for the tips, I too have an oldish rogue of a dog who sits on cold concrete when we arent looking and has difficulty getting up so I will also try what you suggest Julia
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Great photo
Regards Brian
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He is lovely - I have a dog thief too - in fact he has nicked half of my chicken today that I was planning to have for lunch ( went to answer phone only gone 2 mins and you guessed it gone in one) Great shot of him
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Nice Image!! I like it a lot!!!
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He looks a beauty
Same name as one of our cats (the youngest), who the fox had for an early breakfast on Boxing day
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Superb looking animal.
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A handsome dog well captured; hope all goes well with his hips
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What a lovely boy, so cool.
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Democrat John Hall increased his lead over U.S. Rep. Sue Kelly, R-Katonah, as more election results came in Thursday from polling sites in Westchester County.
Votes from three Westchester districts still hadn't been tallied as of Thursday afternoon, but the latest unofficial count put Hall, a Dover Plains resident, ahead by more than 4,000 votes across the district.
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This marvelously preserved tapestry representing two angels playing on harps of gold against a rich floral ground is an exemplary demonstration of the character and style of the tapestries made at the Merton Abbey Tapestry Works under the direction of William Morris. Morris founded the workshop at Merton, in Surrey, near London, in 1881 as part of his vision to use the integrity of medieval craftsmanship to revitalize the art and design of industrial Britain. These angelic figures were first conceived in 1878 for a stained-glass window for Salisbury Cathedral by Edward Burne-Jones, Morris's lifelong friend and collaborator. In 1894, the figures and those in another window design provided the inspiration for two new tapestry cartoons painted by John Henry Dearle, the principal weaver and designer at the tapestry works. Dearle enhanced the linear emphasis and patterning of Burne-Jones's figures by placing them on a millefleur ground inspired by medieval tapestries. This tapestry is the second weaving of the design. It was commissioned by Major Charles Sydney Goldman as a stand-alone panel, possibly in anticipation of his impending marriage.