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Three of my many favorite Kate Bush songs.
Them Heavy People:
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It's another example of somebody's voice being very different when they sing. When she speaks, Kate sounds like just another young woman, when she sings her voice has an unbelievable richness and range.


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Stephanie Bohon is best known for her work on the growth and needs of Latino migrants in the South. This work examines the difference between Latino migrant adjustment in traditional gateways such as Miami and Houston and emerging gateways such as Atlanta and Nashville.
She is the founder and co-director of the Center for Social Justice at UT, Knoxville. Her work on Latino immigration and immigration policy has been published in several journals including Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Rural Sociology, Population Research and Policy Review, The Journal of Latinos and Education and The Journal of Latino-Latin America Studies.
She has received several teaching and research awards, including the M. G. Michael Award for innovative research and the Program Excellence Through Research Award (Southern Division) for the application of research to public policy. She holds degrees in economics, political science, sociology, and demography, including a doctorate in demography and sociology from Penn State University. Her work has been reported by several national and international media including National Public Radio, BBC-London, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times and USA Today.
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Las Vegas - Police say a mannequin dangling from a hangman's noose on a Las Vegas billboard with the words "Dying for Work" was a publicity stunt.
Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Jeremie Elliott says emergency calls started coming in early on Wednesday from drivers worried that the dummy was a real person.
The black billboard featured the words "Dying for Work" in white lettering, with a hanging, dark-suited mannequin.
A woman who answered the phone at Lamar Advertising says the sign was not authorised and was being removed. She did not provide her name.
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A similar billboard was reported in Las Vegas. That sign read "Hope You're Happy Wall Street" and featured another dummy. - Sapa-AP
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GREEN BAY – Aaron Rodgers didn't have much to say about Nick Fairley Tuesday.
Or did he?
The Green Bay Packers quarterback kept his comments to a minimum when asked Tuesday about a few plays involving the Detroit Lions defensive tackle, but Rodgers might've said more about him in his comments about Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, who won't play in Sunday's game at Soldier Field.
Asked during his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com Tuesday if he was happy that Urlacher won't play, Rodgers replied, "I am disappointed; I like him being out there. I enjoy the competition with him; it's a competitive rivalry that exists between our teams and between him and I individually. I enjoy the banter back and forth and enjoy the way he plays the game.
"I think he plays the game hard within the rules and he's a heck of a competitor, who has picked me off a couple too many times. I wish him the best and hope he gets healthy. He has been playing really well this year, that's impressive to see because he has been around for a while."
Rodgers didn't have nearly as many words when asked about Fairley, who had a few shots on Rodgers that did not draw penalties but might have been borderline hits.
The first came on a third-and-2 scramble by Rodgers in the first quarter, when he felt he slid in plenty of time but took a hit from Fairley from behind. NBC's replays showed Fairley's facemask appeared to make contact with Rodgers' helmet.
Asked if he slid late on the play, Rodgers replied, "I don't think so. I think not only was I sliding, but I was in the sliding body language pretty early there once I got past the first down.
"I felt some contact to my head. I'm not sure who it was from or what part of the body it was but I was just happy to get the first down. In a situation like that, I slid at the earliest possible time I could making sure we got the first down, and I felt like I gave everyone around me enough time to realize that I was sliding. But sometimes you're going to take some contact like that. Matthew (Stafford) had a similar play when he slid and (Packers linebackers Erik) Walden and (Dezman) Moses hit him. Sometimes when you slide, you're still going to get hit."
Late in the game, Rodgers overshot Greg Jennings in the end zone and the Packers had to settle for a field goal, and after Rodgers released the ball, NBC's replays appeared to show Fairley smacking him in the face. No penalty was called on the play.
Iin between those two plays, Fairley was seen throwing Rodgers to the ground by his neck after he'd gotten rid of the ball. No penalty was called on that one, either.
"Not that I remember," Rodgers said.
Fairley also had Rodgers in a bear hug in the teams' first meeting in Detroit on Nov. 18 but chose not to throw him to the ground.
Rodgers did draw a 15-yard roughing-the-passer penalty Sunday night on Ndamukong Suh, when Suh shoved him well after he'd thrown the ball on the Packers' first possession of the second half. While it didn't look like a violent hit in any way, referee Tony Corrente explained over the microphone that Suh made contact after taking two steps, which is a penalty.
The push was one of two such calls in the game; Packers safety Morgan Burnett continued the defense's run of personal fouls with a close call on a helmet-to-helmet hit on wide receiver Calvin Johnson
"I think in the case of our defenders, the officials are definitely erring on the side of safety. I'm not sure if every one of those hits is accompanied by a fine that gets held up, but they're definitely really trying to take care of players who aren't able to see the hit coming," Rodgers said.
"As far as quarterbacks are concerned, that's always been a point of emphasis, especially the last four or five years of making sure that we're able to avoid some of those unnecessary hits. The rule even when they didn't take care of quarterbacks like they did today was always one step. You get one step and get to hit. I think there might be a misnomer that a late push is not as unnecessary as a late tackle. But Tony Corrente obviously thought that it was unnecessary roughness."
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Coshocton Public Library, 655 Main St., Coshocton, will host the "Phantasmagorical Steampunk Extravaganza" from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 16.
Jim Kleefeld will present a 60-minute program on Victorian Era futurism, based on the books of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and other authors of futuristic fiction of the Victorian time period. The event includes hand-on activities with gear and clockwork mechanisms.
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Words you choose can speak volumes
Much has been made of the influence of body language, but the fact is, our choice of words holds great power. Like, uh, do y'know what I mean?
Let's take "filler" words as an example. Filler words are the words we subconsciously slide into our sentences as a way to stall the listener until we come up with what we want to say next. "Like," "y'know," and "um" are common filler words.
Filler words are so common that they often go unnoticed -- but sometimes not. I used to get my nails done by a manicurist who did a terrific job. She was a talkative young woman who kept a lively conversation going. However, at the end of every sentence -- and I do mean every sentence -- she said, "y'know what I mean?"
I gently tried to make her aware of her habit by frequently responding, "Yes! I know what you mean!" But she consistently took my words as affirmation that she was on the right path with her topic and therefore kept on talking. Eventually, to escape the barrage of "y'know what I means," I switched to a different manicurist.
Regional parlance can get us into trouble, too. Often unnoticeable to those who speak with regional accents and word choices, regional differences can be, for the outsider, as unintelligible as a foreign language. When I was shopping at Harrod's in London, a saleswoman asked me a question. I stared at her blankly, convinced she must be speaking a language other than English. She repeated herself twice. Still, I could not understand a single word. "I'm sorry, are you speaking English?" I asked. I guess she was, because she turned in a huff and stomped off.
Here in Pittsburgh, we certainly have our regional accent, and we use some unintelligible words. We say, "let's redd up the conference room" or "I need to order more gumbands for the office." Non-Pittsburghers are baffled, just as I was with that saleswoman at Harrod's.
Sometimes, we are just plain lazy in our word choice. We rely on bland catch-all words such as "thing" and "interesting" instead of choosing a more descriptive term. When someone says to you, "That's an interesting idea," unless the body language is exceptionally clear, you have no way of knowing what they really think of your idea. They may love it, they may hate it, they may be buying time to think it over. "Interesting" is one of those words that's always open to interpretation.
We want to impress, so we say "utilize" instead of "use" or "orientate" instead of "orient." We mispronounce, so we say, "nuke-u-lar" instead of "nuclear." We make up a word, such as "notary republic," instead of "notary public."
These nuances can be charming, irritating or, if we are fortunate, unnoticeable. But they can be costly in our careers and our businesses. What are your words costing you• A customer• Respect in the workplace• Credibility• A promotion• An opportunity to give a presentation to key clients• A job offer?
Record your voice to learn more about what you say and how you say it. Watch for words that are overused, inappropriate, unclear, slurred, mispronounced, awkward or unnecessary. You may miss some of the problem areas, so ask others to give you feedback, too.
If you choose your words carefully, you will not only sound intelligent and get your message across, but you will be more likely to advance your career. These are good reasons to pay attention to word choice, y'know what I mean?
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WINNIPEG — Kimmo Timonen used a back exit to sneak out of the Flyers dressing room late Thursday night, yet still was noticed by reporters.
The 38-year-old defenseman was easy to spot in an outside hallway. He was the one walking with a bad limp.
It was just another typical work day for the Flyers, who lost another player and won another game in continuing their against-all-odds playoff push, this 5-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs stretching their season-long win streak to four games.
The night before, the Flyers rallied in the third period for a home win over Montreal and lost tough-guy winger Zac Rinaldo indefinitely to a high ankle sprain.
On Easter Sunday, forward Max Talbot broke a leg early into a game in which the Flyers were down two goals in the third period before beating Washington in overtime.
And last week it was more of the same with three key defensemen dropping Andrej Meszaros and Braydon Coburn for the season with shoulder injuries, and Nick Grossmann with a lower-body issue that still is bothersome enough that he didnt travel with the Flyers for the first two legs of this Toronto-to-Winnipeg-to-Long Island roadtrip.
The Flyers also have been playing for a few weeks without Danny Briere, who still is having concussion symptoms, plus all season minus former captain Chris Pronger and young defenseman Marc-Andre Bourdon. Enforcer Jody Shelleys season ended early due to hip surgery as well.
The list goes on and on and on ...
Its really been all year, said Flyers coach Peter Laviolette, whose club was without 2012 All-Star winger Scott Hartnell for a month right off the bat due to a broken foot. I think its just something that weve had to deal with. I dont think it catches guys off guard. Players have come in and done the job. Even now lately it seems its been the back end quite a bit, but yet guys have been able to jump in there and fill in the different roles.
The Flyers, who had Friday off, may or may not have Timonen available for Saturdays game in Winnipeg.
The update provided Friday by Holmgren was encouraging: Timonen is a game-time decision with an undisclosed injury that occurred in the third period Thursday. This news at least beat a lot of recent medical updates in which players were sidelined indefinitely.
I didnt see actually what happened, said Bruno Gervais, Timonens defensive partner against the Leafs. We have a lot of big defensemen going down this year. Kimmo is a huge part for the power play. Offensively, hes a great veteran back there, a leader. Hopefully, its not that serious.
The Flyers cant afford to lose Timonen, who averages 21:24 of ice time and is fourth on the team with 24 points. But if he cant go today, theyll play Kurtis Foster, a frequent healthy scratch.
The Flyers were left for dead by most everyone outside their organization before their latest rash of injuries, which seemed to be a final nail in their coffin.
Somehow though, theyve surprisingly gotten hot with reinforcements that arent household names filling every corner of their dressing room veteran forwards Jay Rosehill and Adam Hall, experienced defenseman Kent Huskins and rookie blueliner Oliver Lauridsen.
Its funny the way the game can work sometimes, Hall said.
Hall and Rosehill were two-thirds of Holmgrens not-so-sexy NHL trade deadline day moves Wednesday.
A waiver claim from Tampa Bay, Hall cost the Flyers nothing. They gave up spare-part forward Harry Zolnierczyk to Anaheim for Rosehill, while also adding a stronger backup goalie and possible starter for the future in Steve Mason, who arrived from Columbus for reserve goalie Michael Leighton and a 2015 third-round draft pick.
Making their Flyers debuts against the Leafs, Hall and Rosehill were part of a productive fourth line that was centered by Sean Couturier, suddenly hot with five points in four games after enduring a long and frustrating sophomore slump.
Known for being a heavyweight brawler, Rosehill got into a fight with Leafs tough guy Colton Orr, then added a rare dose of offense by redirecting a second-period shot by Couturier into the net for a 4-2 Flyers lead, a goal that eventually became the game-winner. Not bad for a brute who Anaheim had kept in the minors all season.
Hall also got rave reviews from Laviolette for his play, as did Huskins, who arrived last weekend from Detroit for a conditional late-round draft pick. Against the Leafs, Huskins was a plus-2 and blocked four shots looking a whole better than someone who was a healthy scratch more games than not this season for the Wings.
A 6-foot-6 defenseman, Lauridsen played his first four NHL games this past week too after seemingly being buried in the minors for a few years.
We have a lot of depth, Gervais said. Guys have been stepping up. Were playing a team game right now. Everyone is chipping in.
Through Thursday, the Flyers were right there in the playoff mix just two points out of a spot with 11 games to go.


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Characterization of thermochemical properties of Al nanoparticle and NiO nanowire composites
1 Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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3 Department of Chemistry, Center for Computational Science, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
4 Microbonds Inc, 151 Amber St. Unit 12, Markham, ON L3R 3B3, Canada
Nanoscale Research Letters 2013, 8:184 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-8-184Published: 20 April 2013
Thermochemical properties and microstructures of the composite of Al nanoparticles and NiO nanowires were characterized. The nanowires were synthesized using a hydrothermal method and were mixed with these nanoparticles by sonication. Electron microscopic images of these composites showed dispersed NiO nanowires decorated with Al nanoparticles. Thermal analysis suggests the influence of NiO mass ratio was insignificant with regard to the onset temperature of the observed thermite reaction, although energy release values changed dramatically with varying NiO ratios. Reaction products from the fuel-rich composites were found to include elemental Al and Ni, Al2O3, and AlNi. The production of the AlNi phase, confirmed by an ab initio molecular dynamics simulation, was associated with the formation of some metallic liquid spheres from the thermite reaction.


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|Five-year follow-up study of a kidney-tonifying herbal Fufang for prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis and fragility fractures.
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|To observe the kidney-tonifying herbal Fufangs with phytoestrogenic epimedium for prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis with both bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture as study endpoints, a 5-year multicenter follow-up study in 194 postmenopausal women (47-70 years old) was conducted in which the subjects were given oral administration of herbal Fufang (10 g/day, twice per day, n = 101) or placebo (n = 93). Both groups were supplemented daily with calcium (600 mg) and vitamin D (400 IU). BMD at distal radius, potential adverse events, and fracture incidence were evaluated at baseline and at 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 months. At the end of 5 years, 155 subjects had completed the study, with better adherence in the treatment group (13% dropouts, n = 88 at year 5) as compared with the control group (28% dropouts, n = 67 at year 5) (P < 0.05). No notable adverse events were observed in either group. In the treatment group BMD increased significantly from baseline (0.211 ± 0.022 g/cm(2)) to the end of the study (0.284 ± 0.015 g/cm(2)), whereas the control group decreased significantly from baseline (0.212 ± 0.023 g/cm(2)) to 5 years later (0.187 ± 0.022 g/cm(2)) (P < 0.05). The fracture incidence was 2.4 fold lower in the treatment group than in the control group, with a relative risk of 0.57 for the treatment group (95% CI, 0.43-0.70, P < 0.05). In conclusion, in addition to the beneficial effects of oral herbal Fufang on prevention of postmenopausal bone loss, this 5-year multi-center clinical study demonstrated for the first time its potential for reduction in fragility fracture incidence.
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Port of the most important GNU utilities to Windows
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Great tools, very useful for those of us who work on windows and have grown fond of certain unix based tools. Only gripe is that they are REALLY out of date... last build in main zipfile is from year 2000 and the update (only on the website, not here, for some strange reason) only brings a few up to year 2003.
Simply great for the Unix admin that has to cope with Windows from time to time. These utilities will find a home on the USB stick in my keyring.
My the most favorite util is wget.exe for running my web scripts.
Just spent about 15 minutes with it. Some excellent Unix utilities here. Missing 'strings', which I use a lot. Also needed to rename the unix utilities that were also DOS utilities: find -> unixfind and type -> unixtype.
Being able to use so many Unix tools on Windows is great. UnxUtils rulez :-) . Keep on the good work! Give us more if possible. Thanks a lot!


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Canoegrass Is Back!
Canoegrass is a weekend celebration of bluegrass music, the best of the human spirit and river life. The banks of the Great Miami River will come alive with the best entertainers in the region. This isn't your ordinary festival. Get ready to get wet, wild and jam all weekeBring a friend, a cooler, camp and celebrate the river life at Adventures on the Great Miami. By the end of weekend, everyone will be yelling "Take a Drink a Beer" … [Read more...]
Mad River Run Grand Opening Monday
A grand opening event will be held for the Mad River Run at Eastwood MetroPark at 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 5. Enter at 1385 Harshman Road. Part conservation, part recreation, the Mad River Run includes a kayak and canoe whitewater feature in the Mad River, river access points, and an area for observing paddlers or just enjoying the river. Construction was funded in part by a $100,000 donation from the Rotary Club of Dayton. Members will celebrate and commemorate the Mad River Run during the grand opening. "The Rotary Club of Dayton is excited to support this new … [Read more...]
Paddle Faster, I Hear Bluegrass
Six weeks ago Tom Helbig cooked up this idea for a festival called canoegrass! Things have happened quickly: he built a website, created a logo, built a floating stage, started a Facebook page, booked 8 musicians, made t-shirts, ordered beer and ticket sales have started for the Aug 16-17 festival. Tom is quick to credit help from his friends that have helped turn his dream into a reality and invites you to join the fun. Tom also shared this will be a family friendly event. Canoegrass will be a weekend celebration of bluegrass music, the best of the human spirit and river life. The … [Read more...]
Kayak For A Cure
Join Great Miami Outfitters and the Miami Valley Region in our fight against cancer by kayaking for a cure on Saturday, Aug 10th. Funds raised through Kayak for a Cure – Dayton are donated to American Cancer Society (ACS) whose mission is to eradicate cancer and enhance the quality of life for people living with cancer. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. An experienced kayaker will paddle with each group of six (6) paddlers. Participating paddlers must be at least 16 years of age or older, and minors under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. We encourage participants to bring … [Read more...]
SUP on the water this summer!
The increasingly popular sport of stand up paddleboarding (SUP) is sweeping the Miami Valley. Cruising around local waterways is fun and easy to get out and play on the water for all ages. You can paddle anything from lakes and rivers to the ocean—no waves required. Anyone who has been on a SUP can tell you it is an amazing full body workout and provides an excellent cross-training activity for skiers, snowboarders, cyclists, runners and other athletes. While standing up you all get a new perspective and view of the natural surrounding you might not get while sitting down. It's almost like … [Read more...]
A Little (Miami River) group makes a big difference
Do you know the Little Miami River Keepers? They have a great story of a simple initiative among neighbors that has grown into a major volunteer project attracting national attention. And - they need your help with a simple click. The River Keepers are in the running for a grant from Tom's of Maine - if they end up in the top 6 (currently they're at 13, so you need to get clickin'), they will receive some much needed funding. Click here to vote for them. Learn more about why below. I spoke to River Keepers Founder Steve Knopp and Barry Tiffany, Sugarcreek Township Administrator and … [Read more...]
Completing the River – Downtown Dayton Game Changer
Over the past ten years, Dayton has been bringing people back to the shores of our rivers (Great Miami River, Mad River, Stillwater River, Wolf Creek and Twin Creek) with the ongoing development of Riverscape. Phase I/II was completed in 2001/2003 and Phase III was completed last summer with the addition of a permanent covered pavilion, new ice skating rink and bike hub. It would be easy to assume that the project is now complete but Five Rivers MetroParks is still not done, and they now have their sights set IN the river itself. On any given summer day, one can see a paddler or two in … [Read more...]
DIY, Riverscape-style
A century ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright looked at their bicycles and said, "I think we might be able to fly these things." Today, some hearty fellow Daytonians followed in their footsteps, sort of. They looked at piles of debris and said, "I think I can row this." And then they tried. At Riverscape, in the shadow of the Engineers Club and a statue of the Wright Brothers taking flight, we watched do-it-youselfers take part in Dayton's Outrageous River Derby. If I heard emcee Commodore Jim Bucher of WDTN Channel 2 correctly, this was the 14th one. But it was my first, and it turned … [Read more...]


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Saturday, November 3, 2012
TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie ordered rationing of gasoline sales in 12 New Jersey counties while Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed temporary fuel trucks around New York to help reduce miles-long lines at filling stations.
President Barack Obama also took steps Friday to increase fuel supplies to the region, including waiving a law that ordinarily permits only U.S.-flag tankers to move refined products between U.S. ports.
"Fuel is on its way," Cuomo, a 54-year-old Democrat, said at a Manhattan press conference Saturday. "You don't have to panic. We don't need anxiety. We don't need the lines."
Tempers in New Jersey and New York have flared over days of power outages and difficulties buying gasoline for vehicles and portable electric generators. Utilities are under pressure from state officials and residents to restore service faster. More than 1 million customers in New Jersey, more than a third of homes and businesses, remain without power five days after Hurricane Sandy barreled the region.
The power outages have shut gasoline depots across New Jersey. Only 25 percent of filling stations are operating north of Interstate 195, which runs from Mercer to Monmouth counties through the center of the state, Christie said Friday.
Christie late Friday ordered rationing in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Monmouth, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren counties. Vehicles with license plates ending in odd numbers can be fueled on odd- numbered days, while those ending in even numbers can get gas on even-numbered days, starting at noon Saturday.
The rations extends until Christie lifts his declaration of a state of emergency. The governor, a first-term Republican, pledged to "vigorously" enforce the order.
"This system will ease the strain on those gas stations still operating, while we work to bring more online for the public to access fuel," Christie, 50, said in a statement.
Obama, who toured the New Jersey storm damage with Christie earlier this week, Friday partially waived the Jones Act, which requires ships running between American ports to use U.S.- flagged vessels, to boost deliveries from Gulf Coast refineries. Allowing any ship to carry fuel between American ports will temporarily help relieve a shortage of qualified vessels.
The president also directed the Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency to purchase as much as 22 million gallons of unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel and transport it by tanker trucks throughout New York, New Jersey and other communities affected by the storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday in a statement.
New Jersey and New York also can expect delivery of 2 million gallons (7.6 million liters) of ultra-low-sulfur diesel from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to power emergency- response equipment. The fuel, from a depot in Connecticut, will be shipped as early as today, according to a statement from the U.S. Energy Department.
The release of diesel from the heating-oil depot in Groton, Conn., will be the first since the 42 million-gallon system was set up in 2000, the Energy Department said. A second depot is in Revere, Mass., near Boston.
Christie also suspended restrictions on out-of-state fuel purchases, and said the state and Federal Emergency Management Agency will deliver generators to filling stations shut by power outages. Cuomo waived taxes and regulations to accommodate more fuel tankers and process supplies more quickly.
Cuomo sent 5,000-gallon Department of Defense fuel trucks to five locations Saturday in New York City and Long Island to help relieve shortages. There's an additional 150,000 gallons of fuel available to restock the trucks, which will be deployed to the Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Freeport and Staten Island/Elizabeth armories, he said in a statement Saturday.
Vehicles can fill up directly off of the trucks and will be limited to 10 gallons each, Cuomo said.
Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, said the state's biggest issue is the lack of power at gasoline stations, not supply. There were extra long lines in Fairfield County Friday as people from New York and New Jersey came looking for gas, Doba said. The New Haven terminal is open and "we are able to replenish stations on a fairly regular basis," he said.
"As more stations are brought online, we'll be able to ease some of the congestion," Doba said in an email Saturdday. "The entire region will be better off once the New York facilities get up and running."
In New Jersey Saturday morning, the wait for gasoline was a half hour at the Hess Express on Route 1 north in South Brunswick. Two police officers were directing cars to open pumps.
Michael Bastin, the 31-year-old owner of a bakery in Brooklyn, was filling five 5-gallon gas containers to fuel his generators. He has 14 cans in all, most borrowed.
"I'll get maybe a day out of this," he said as he loaded the containers into his white van, pausing to show photos of his fondant creations. "I'm going to go back to the bakery and then come right back here."
Klopott reported from Albany. Contributors: Matt Townsend, Margaret Collins and Christine Harvey in New York, Bradley Olson in Houston, Jim Snyder and Mark Drajem in Washington, Terrence Dopp in Trenton , Isaac Arnsdorf in London and Stacie Sherman in Trenton.
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Nathan Fordyce, of York Springs, was recently named to the spring 2013 Honor Roll at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Fordyce is a senior studying news and information. He was named to the honor roll for the School of Journalism.
The honor roll comprises undergraduates who meet requirements in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in the schools of allied health; architecture, design and planning; business; education; engineering; journalism; music; nursing; pharmacy; and social welfare.


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Pangless except for us --
Who slowly for the Mystery
Which thou hast leaped across!
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Pass to they Rendezvous of Light,
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My Music
It was never about the artist…
Or the voice that came every time I pressed the play button.
It wasn't the genre, or the style.
Nor the amount of upbeat either.
I turned it up all the way…
Not because I couldn't hear,
But because I wanted to drown out everything else.
I wanted to forget the harsh words, the drama, and the disappointed faces.
I forgot about my failures and my flaws.
I found myself, close eyed, only hearing the music, the lyrics that described my life.
Whenever it played…I was flawless.
I saw myself living the perfect life, I saw myself…Happy.
But a song only lasts a few minutes…And then I wake up.
Finding myself in the harsh reality that was my life.
But for a few moments I could see my self flying.
But every dream has an ending….
I can't hear it anymore…
My music,
Is fading…
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Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo has announced Aracely Mares, 21, of Greenfield, was ordered to serve 10 years in prison by Judge Pamela Butler.
Mares pled guilty to felony child endangerment resulting in death on May 29.
Diego Burgos, the boyfriend of Aracely Mares, was convicted by a jury of murdering 10-month-old Camilo Miramontes on Sept. 17, 2012.
He is currently serving a 37 years-to-life sentence in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Camilo Miramontes had been killed by blunt force trauma to the back of his head on Sept. 5, 2011.
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Former Florida Gators in the NFL: Week 13 (2013)
The 2013 NFL regular season continued this week with 33 former Florida Gators spread out over 21 teams.
Eleven teams have multiple Florida players on their respective rosters including Miami (four); Washington (three); Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Jacksonville, N.Y. Giants, N.Y. Jets and Pittsburgh (two).
Below are full game statistics for all 23 active players that participated this week along with select news updates on a number of Gators for the 13th week of the regular season.
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S WILL HILL, New York Giants: Started | seven tackles (four solo, one for loss), pass defense, forced and recovered fumble
» On a fourth down completion with 1:27 remaining in the fourth quarter, Hill stripped and recovered the ball off Pierre Garçon to effectively end the game.
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Two Louisiana State Police vehicles are seen in this photo. Troop F, based in Monroe, has responded to seven wrecks in November that have resulted in 12 fatalities ? the most in any month this year.
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November has been the deadliest month for traffic fatalities in northeastern Louisiana so far this year, according to numbers provided by Troop F of the Louisiana State Police.
Troop F has responded to 12 deaths from seven wrecks this month. Before November, the deadliest month of the year had been June had with 10 fatalities from 10 wrecks.
The November numbers bring the total to 51 traffic deaths from Troop F so far in 2013. That total is higher than last year but on par with the 2011 totals, according to Trooper Albert Paxton. ...


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"If Mr. Dragon cried, his tears would be salty;
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Oceans and heartbroken people.
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Representative Rhonda Fields (D) wrote a guest editorial in Saturday's Denver Post calling for stricter gun control laws, including closing a loophole where private sellers do not have to perform background checks on potential buyers.
Fields represents the 42nd District of Colorado, which includes the Century 16 Theater. Her son was shot and killed in 2005.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners CEO Dudley Brown says that more regulation does not add protection. Brown stresses that more people need to take safety into their own hands.
"The only proper answer to unwarranted force is swift, overwhelming counterforce. Not pieces of paper, not government regulations. They just don't work, "he said.
Fields says adding guns is not going to stop violence.
"We don't need more guns. We have more guns in United States than any other country and it's not making our communities safer to have access to more guns," she said.
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Q: How can I burn more calories during my work out?
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In the SEASON FINALE of Bobby's Life, we reflect on the past season by checking out some of the best tricks, crashes, and all around moments that took place during the year. After a successful ski season, Bobby talks about his plans and goals for the upcoming year. We wrap up the season at the premiere of the new freestyle ski movie, "WE: A Collection of Individuals."
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Cape Town - Concern about the unsustainable demand for indigenous medicinal plants, still used by an estimated 70 percent of South Africa's 53 million people, is the focus of Kirstenbosch Biennale.
The biennale is an exhibition of botanical art by artists from southern African and elsewhere with the theme "Medicinal and traditional plants of southern Africa". It officially opened last week as part of the national botanical garden's centenary celebrations.
Phakamani Xaba, a research conservation horticulturist at Kirstenbosch, says the biennale highlights the rich history of traditional-plant use among indigenous people, while also aiming to raise awareness about unsustainable over-exploitation.
The people of southern Africa have used plants for food, medicine and rituals for several thousand years. At least 3 689 different plants have been used in traditional medicine in the region. Despite drastic changes in land use over the past two centuries, coupled with the advent of commercial agriculture and the introduction of exotic food plants, the use of traditional medicines remains high.
"The bulk of the demand for medicinal plants is from urban populations in a trade estimated to be worth R2.6-billion a year," he says.
Most of these urban users live in poor township areas and have little contact with the natural environment. "In this context, harvesting plants in the wild is unsustainable, and many plants are being pushed towards extinction in the wild."
Curator Nicki Westcott says the biennale's theme of medicinal and traditional use plants is "suitably topical".
"Despite the fact that some of the compounds derived from plants are now chemically generated, the exhibition highlights the increasing fragility of the supply of products deriving from the natural world."
Westcott also says one of the curatorial aims of the exhibition is "to situate botanical art clearly within the domain of art".
"For this reason, other artists have been invited and their work sets up a reverberating conversation with the botanical work."
The main exhibition consists of four works from each of 54 artists, selected during a rigorous judging process by a distinguished panel of local botanists, botanical artists and art custodians. One of the highlights on display is the work of Cape-based Margaret de Villiers, who won a gold medal and "best on show" award at the annual Royal Horticultural Society's Botanical Art show in London. - Cape Argus
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Residents: Fiscal cliff deal beats alternative
Becky Fenoglietto has heard so much griping about the Washington deal to avoid the federal "fiscal cliff" that she figures it must be a pretty good compromise.
For now, the self-employed Penn Hills attorney said she will wait to see how much the agreement affects her family budget. The legislation belts top earners hardest, but an expiring 2-percent Social Security payroll tax break hits middle-income folks too: A worker making $50,000 will lose about $1,000 a year.
"I once clerked for a wise judge who told me that 'if everyone's equally miserable, then you know you reached a good settlement,'" said Fenoglietto, 48.
"There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth on both sides. It must be one heck of a deal."
Victor Son, 58, of Hampton, has been a certified public accountant for 36 years and said the deal made sense.
"In addition to the federal income tax issues caused by the pending fiscal cliff, President Obama, in an effort to spur a depressed economy, reduced the Social Security tax contribution of the employee from 6.2 to 4.2 percent (employer contribution remained at 6.2)," said Son.
"This temporary reduction in contributions at a time when the Social Security fund is projected to have huge impending shortfalls going forward was a nice piece of candy for the worker but clearly unsustainable. The reduction was not part of the Bush tax cuts, so as a result, was not included in the extensions passed in the fiscal cliff legislation. While the elimination of the 2-percent Social Security reduction results in an immediate 2 percent decrease in the average net paycheck, this was not a tax increase but merely restores what employees have been contributing to Social Security for many, many years."
Larry Vasko, 58, also a CPA, echoed those statements.
"This was a temporary decrease for just the last two years," said Vasko, of Hampton.
"Obviously, although it was temporary, people get used to having the extra money in their paychecks. Since my wife and I are nearing retirement age within the next 10 years, you realize the viability of Social Security is already questionable in the future with the ever increasing number of baby boomers retiring and the ever increasing fact people are living longer.
"Extending the Social Security tax decrease would only compound the under-funding problem, much like the current Pennsylvania pension problem. Personally, I will lower my retirement savings to offset the tax increase."
Main Street reactions to the Washington agreement appeared similar to those on Wall Street, where markets rallied following the announcement of the agreement.
Although the deal's not perfect, many said, it beats widespread tax increases and deep spending cuts that might have triggered a recession.
"There are some big questions out there, and we'll have to see how that plays out, but certainly this is much better than the alternative," said Gus Faucher, senior economist at PNC Financial Services Group in downtown Pittsburgh.
Like many Americans, Pam Miller, 53, of Cranberry, said her family would continue to watch its spending and focus on basic needs.
"It's kind of a continuation of what we've been doing," said Miller, a customer-service representative at the Cranberry Township Municipal Center. "You tighten your belt a little more. What else can you do?"
Still, higher-income Americans — those with household incomes of more than $1 million — will shoulder more than 37 percent of the increased taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center.
"These are the people over the last decade who have received the lion's share of the tax benefits," said Joseph Rosenberg, a researcher with the Washington-based group.
"If you accept that you have to raise taxes on somebody, it's not unreasonable to look to them first."
It's a fair deal if everyone contributes, said Philip Harris, 53, of Sewickley.
"The payroll tax cut was always meant to be temporary," said Harris, a former bookstore owner and onetime president of the Sewickley Valley Chamber of Commerce. "It was nice while it lasted."
Staff writers Bethany Hofstetter, Bobby Cherry, Dona Dreeland, Deborah Deasy, Tom Fontaine, Brad Pedersen and Patrick Varine contributed to this story. Andrew Conte is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7835 or email@example.com.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama secretary of state's office is planning to have staff traveling the state starting Monday to provide photo IDs to voters who need them for the upcoming elections.
Secretary of State Jim Bennett says the mobile site visits are in addition to the IDs being available in his Montgomery office and at county boards of registrars.
The visits will take about two months. They begin Monday in Alberta and Waterloo.
Tuesday's schedule includes Maplesville, Thorsby and Athens. The tour wraps up May 12 in Hoover.
The free IDs are for registered voters who don't have one of the photo IDs that can be used to vote in Alabama.
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The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band features Bill Yates, third from left, a member of the original band.
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When talking about groundbreaking bands in the history of bluegrass, one that gets mentioned soon after Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, Flatt and Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers is the vaunted Country Gentlemen. Aside from founder and lead vocalist Charlie Waller, no musician served longer as a member of the Gents than Bill Yates, who will bring his Country Gentlemen Tribute Band to Harrisonburg's Court Square Theater on May 17.
Yates began playing in the group in 1972 and was part of the second classic version of the Gents which included Waller, Bill Emerson and Doyle Lawson. Waller ...


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Lean To by Scout Regalia x ReunionLean To was made for Reclaim x2. All proceeds of this sale will go to the Brooklyn Recovery Fund for local Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
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text: Bidding to play in her third EuroBasket Women Final Round, Vynuchalova is looking for a return to action having missed the qualification process. She showed in France two years ago that she can be a real handful inside and that was proven by only three players drawing more fouls per game in the entire tournament. Established as one of the best frontcourt players in Extraliga, she uses her shot blocking, rebounding and post moves to get some nice domestic numbers and has done the same at international level. A graduate of Penn State and having also played in Austria and Spain, she has basketball in her blood as her mother Jamila also represented the national team.


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Championship Preview: The Tigers of Hull head into Millwall's Lions' Den
Millwall and Hull City are two teams whose form has dipped recently. With Hull desperate to secure an automatic promotion place and Millwall trying to get in the play-offs, this is a crucial match for both.
We look ahead to the this match, the other standout games and the players to watch this week in the Championship……
Millwall v Hull City
Millwall have won just once in their last seven league games which has meant they have slipped to ninth and six points behind Middlesbrough who occupy the final play-off position.
Manager Kenny Jackett has blamed defensive errors and a lack of creativity as the reasons behind this slump in form.
The only positive in recent weeks has been the return of promising youngster John Marquis, who is highly rated at the New Den.
Meanwhile, Hull are only outside the automatic promotion places on goal difference despite only winning one of their last five league games.
They always pose problems for their opposition thanks to the guile of Robert Koren. However they have felt the loss of Ahmed Elmohamedy whose season-long loan at the KC Stadium was cut short by his parent club Sunderland recently. The Egyptian international provided six assists for his team-mates.
Blackburn v Bristol City – Blackburn remain inconsistent with only one win in their last four Championship games, whereas Bristol City have got off to a good start under Sean O'Driscoll by winning two games on the trot. The clean sheet against Watford was their first since April 2012.
Leeds United v Cardiff City – Leeds will be dangerous off the back of their FA cup win against Tottenham but will have to put in some performance to beat Cardiff who have won five of their last six games in the league and strengthened their squad with the arrival of Fraizer Campbell.
Alex McLeish
McLeish will this weekend take his Nottingham Forest side to Birmingham City, his former club.
Despite winning the Carling Cup with the Blues in February 2011, they were relegated from the Premier League that season under him.
Moreover following this relegation he resigned to take charge of bitter rivals Aston Villa, which means he is bound to receive a frosty reception when he returns to St Andrew's.
John Marquis
The 20-year-old Millwall youth academy graduate has come back from a groin injury, which saw him miss the start of the season.
The frontman came on as substitute against Burnley in mid-January and since has started against Aston Villa in the FA Cup and Barnsley in the league. He snatched the late winner against Villa to ensure progress to the fifth round.
He is strong, quick and a good finisher and seems to have forged a good relationship with fellow striker Andy Keogh.
Millwall face Hull at home before away trips to Blackpool and Luton in the FA Cup. Marquis will look to fire the Lions closer to the play-off places.
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Saturday was about spending time with people you feel comfortable with.
The northeastern regional meeting of the Little People of America drew about 200 short- and average-size people to Sea Crest Beach Hotel in North Falmouth for the weekend.
Three members of the Manduca family from Bourne were there with daughter Hailey, 15, who is a little person, or "LP." Paul and Linda Jameson from Guilford, Conn., were with their two children, adopted from China, all four being little people. The Crespo and Villanueva family from Monroe, Conn., brought their sons, Jaden, 8, and Adrian, 7. Jaden is a little person and also autistic.
The nonprofit Little People of America is for people who are under 4 feet 10 inches and their families. Actor Billy Barty made an appeal nationwide in 1957 for all little people to join him for a weeklong gathering in Reno, Nev., to share the challenges and victories experienced by people with dwarfism. Twenty people showed up in Reno for what was the first LPA meeting. There are now about 9,000 active members.
There are about 200 different types of dwarfism.
"It does get crazy," Hailey Manduca said of all the teens getting together for the meetings. "It does get loud when we're all together. Loud is what we love."
The many district and national meetings are all about meeting friends, helping families with LP challenges, sharing medical information and other tips for making day-to-day life easier, planning group trips like to a Red Sox game, advocating for the rights of LPs and providing the important element of moral support, especially given the stereotypes that exist about little people, the families said Saturday.
The prejudices come from the traditional, unflattering movie roles and television ads that feature dwarfs, the obvious physical differences between a LP and an average-size person, and more, they said.
Preparations for any outing includes bracing yourself for finger-pointing and staring, Leticia Crespo, who is Jaden's mom, said Saturday. "That's a normal day," Crespo said. Getting together with other families who are all or partly made up of little people is a great relief.
Near their mom, Jaden and Adrian worked on a craft project, and dad Pedro Villanueva and grandad Luis Crespo were nearby. "Most people are disrespectful about it, or they're curious," Leticia Crespo said. "A lot of people stare or point inappropriately. That's why this is such a safe environment. Everybody's just a peer."
LP kids really benefit from getting together with others who are their size, according to the Jameson family. They traveled to China to adopt Sha, 12, and Min, 8. The couple first saw Sha's picture through an adoption agency, and then met Min on their trip to get Sha. Being around other LP children can really help with a child's self-confidence, Laura Jameson said. "Especially in the teen years," she said. Both parents, who work in information technology, feel that average-size people often have the idea that little people are not educated.
Hailey Manduca, too, said that many average-size people think little people are "horrible," partly because of the roles little people have in movies, or that little people don't have feelings. Hailey was at the meeting with her mom Cheryl, her dad Richard, her brother James and her service dog Indy. Hailey, who plans to become a veterinarian's assistant, has a genetic disorder that made her short and makes her bones susceptible to breaks.
"Little people, we're just like everybody else," Manduca said. "We have the same emotions. Everything's the same."
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For "8 Women," the young director François Ozon has congregated some of the greatest actresses in French cinema--but having gotten his women, like too many men, he doesn't know what to do with them.
A summit of icons and heartbreaking beauty, the cast includes Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart and Virginie Ledoyen, who have worked with some of their country's finest directors in some of their most memorable films. (In a particularly French twist, Deneuve and Ardant were involved with one of those directors, François Truffaut, whose romantic tragedy "The Woman Next Door" was inspired by his affair with Deneuve and made the then-unknown Ardant a star.)
The excuse for this confabulation of chic is a genre pastiche that looks something like Douglas Sirk and plays out a bit like Agatha Christie. It's the late 1950s, and eight women are stranded in an isolated country manor with the body of a dead man. Deneuve is the man's wife, Gaby, while Huppert plays Gaby's sister, Augustine, and Darrieux, the pair's alcoholic nag of a mother, Mamy. The story takes off soon after Gaby's daughter Suzon (Ledoyen) returns home from college for Christmas break, and the tarty chambermaid, Louise (Béart), discovers the body. (Also in residence are Gaby's youngest daughter, Catherine, played by Ludivine Sagnier, and the housekeeper Madame Chanel, played by Firmine Richard.) A raging torrent of insults, accusations and confessions follows the discovery, and, as in any number of Agatha Christie mysteries, it isn't long before each of the eight women has become at once an accuser and the accused.
It's the old war of all against all--though here the combatants are dressed in couture and periodically break into song and dance--and for the first hour or so, it isn't bad. The women swirl about in a blur of bright color and giddy emotion like drunk butterflies, and every so often Deneuve, Huppert or Ardant steps forward to remind you that there are some grown-ups on the set. As the dead man's sister, Ardant pays red-hot homage to Rita Hayworth. Huppert, in turn, plays the neurotic Augustine to the edge of self-parody with a lot of eyeball popping and teeth gnashing, while Deneuve moves through the scenery with her glacial hauteur, an iceberg into which the rest of the women continually crash.
Ozon has said that he wanted to shoot a new version of Clare Boothe Luce's viperous comic play "The Women," which had been softened up for the screen by director George Cukor in his 1939 adaptation. When Ozon discovered that the remake rights to the Luce drama weren't available, he turned to an obscure French play called "8 Women," written by the late Robert Thomas; he and Marina De Van then shaped it into a screenplay.
Thomas' play--or at least what Ozon has fashioned from it--doesn't offer much improvement on Luce's splenetic view toward her gender. Although it starts off vaguely amusing, "8 Women" grows progressively sour, curdled by the filmmaker's bad faith and lack of compassion. It isn't just the tone that's off; it's the point. Pastiche is always difficult to pull off, but it's close to impossible when you don't have a feel for the original material. During the late 1950s, Sirk made a series of lush Hollywood melodramas about pampered, privileged women who endure crucibles of suffering in homes that resemble mausoleums. The women shed glycerin tears while wearing mink stoles. But although their lives were patently (and purposely) absurd, the characters themselves never were.
Yet if Ozon has picked up on the excesses of Sirk's style, he has mistaken the Hollywood auteur's ironic detachment for wholesale cynicism. Beneath their crinoline and endless chattering, Ozon's women hide a world of misery (one is even carrying an illicit child); they're victims as well as perpetrators of their ridiculous circumstances. If the director doesn't notice any of this, it may be because he seems more interested in making sport of his actresses and, just possibly, the directors with whom their legends were made. It may be a stretch, but it's hard not to think that when Ozon puts Deneuve and Ardant in the same film simply to throw them into a catfight that the real object of his rancor may be Truffaut.
MPAA rating: R, for some sexual content. Times guidelines: adult language and themes, with one fully clothed lesbian encounter.
'8 Women'
Danielle Darrieux...Mamy
Catherine Deneuve...Gaby
Isabelle Huppert...Augustine
Virginie Ledoyen...Suzon
Ludivine Sagnier...Catherine
Fanny Ardant...Pierrette
Emmanuelle Béart...Louise
Firmine Richard...Madame Chanel
A Fidélité Productions, France 2 Cinema and Mars Films production, released by Focus Features. Director and screenwriter François Ozon. Screenplay collaborator Marina De Van. Based on the play by Robert Thomas. Producers Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier. Director of photography Jeanne Lapoirie. Set design Arnaud de Moléron. Costumes Pascaline Chavanne. Choreography Sébastien Charles. Editor Laurence Bawedin. Original music Krishna Lévy. Running time: 1 hour, 53 minutes.
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