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Humanism in India
Cherry, Matt, Free Inquiry
India is an overwhelming experience. The crowds, the color, the beauty, and the poverty enthrall and exhaust a visitor. The subcontinent of more than 900 million people is full of exotic sights and startling contrasts: sacred cows in the middle of eight-lane traffic jams; the gorgeous saris and jewelry worn even by street-dwellers; pilgrims ritually purifying themselves in a sacred river as it flows out of a hydroelectric dam; color televisions in rural mud-huts. One striking contrast is that India is a country saturated by religions - Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism - but is also the home of the largest and most active humanist movement in the world.
I was in India to visit its humanist groups and to gain firsthand knowledge of their internationally renowned development projects and social welfare programs. The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) was holding its annual board meeting in Bombay on January 1 and 2, 1996, and several Indian humanist groups organized international conferences to coincide with this event.
Practical Humanism
The first conference I attended was organized by the Indian Radical Humanists, who also hosted the IHEU Board meeting. (The religious right in the United States may be interested to hear that the leaders of the international humanist movement were transported to their board meeting in a mobile abortion clinic.) The theme was "Integrated Human Development in South Asia," and the venue was the remarkable new Radical Humanist headquarters in Bombay, the M. N. Roy Human Development Campus. When completed in 1997, the four-story campus building will have over 200,000 square feet of floor space. It will house a women's welfare center, health clinics, conference halls, libraries, educational facilities, a hostel, an arts center, and much else besides. Part of it will become the South Asian Humanist Centre, dedicated to advancing humanism throughout the region.
The inspiration behind this magnificent center is Dr. Indumati Parikh, president of the Indian Radical Humanists. In the early 1960s Dr. Parikh moved to live in one of the worst slums in Bombay. She set up a medical center there to bring health care and basic social services to the inhabitants of the shacks and tents. She still works in the slum, but she now has over 100 co-workers. These volunteers include some of the leading doctors in Bombay, along with many women from the slums. Dr. Parikh's operating area has over 100,000 people, but her influence reaches much further as many other aid and development agencies have learned from her methods.
Dr. Parikh's humanist approach to improving social conditions emphasizes education and empowerment. For example, she has promoted family planning by giving women the means and the confidence to control their fertility. Through health, hygiene, and education programs she has drastically reduced the rate of infant mortality. Now that parents can be confident that their children will live to adulthood, they are prepared to limit their family size to the number of children they are able to adequately support.
Practical development work is also carried out by the second humanist organization I visited - the Atheist Centre in Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The Atheist Center hosted a World Atheist Congress, entitled "Positive Atheism for a Positive Future." The title neatly captures the core idea of the Atheist Centre, which was founded in 1940 by the social activists Gora and Saraswathi - a husband-and-wife team who were colleagues of Mahatma Gandhi.
Conferences are usually held in specialized conference centers completely isolated from the day-to-day work and concerns of the organizers and participants. But the Atheist Congress was held in the midst of the Atheist Centre, near the modest living quarters of the workers and their school, hospital, and training center. These surroundings gave the conference a very practical focus and a warmer, more human atmosphere. …


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The government is warning people about a product that offers fuller eyelashes. They say it can actually cause eye damage.
Fuller, sexier, lusher lashes were all the rage when "Age Intervention Eyelash" came on the market in October of 2005, bringing in more than 11 million dollars in the first 11 months. But in September 2006, the FDA and the State Public Health Department ordered the company to stop making the product because it contained Bimatoprost, a drug ingredient used to treat pressure in the eye.
Jan Marini, CEO of Jan Marini Skin Research says, "It's been sitting for 14 months locked in a room."
In that time, the company released a new, nearly identically named product without the drug ingredient, but still firmly denies that either formula ever caused any health risks.
The FDA says that use of the original product may cause adverse effects including swelling of the retina, which may lead to decreased vision.
Marini says her company has done extensive tests to prove all of her products are safe, and she will keep her eyes wide open for any data from the FDA showing otherwise.

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Airport Concepts announces the winner of iPad - watch a video!
The visitors of the Airport Concepts exhibition stand at Passenger Terminal Expo 2012 had an opportunity to win an iPad by taking part in small Airport Concepts survey. Visitors were asked to answer a few questions about the concepts and to specify, which concept in particular they found the most interesting.
Around 50 answers were received and the most interesting concept for PTX visitors was airport development. This was an expected result considering the nature of the event. However, there were also several people interested in winter conditions solutions and airside solutions concepts as well.
The questionnaire revealed that the biggest benefit of Airport Concepts is that they are new and innovative, as well as complete "turnkey" solutions.
The actual iPad draw was held at the Airport Cluster Finland showroom in Helsinki Airport, and the lucky lady was the CEO of Vantaa Innovation Institute, Mrs Ritva Alatalo. The lucky winner turned out to be Ms Hoefer from Munich Airport. Congratulations!
Watch a video of the iPad draw!
By Lotta Väinölä, 9.5.2012 15:14
ACF annual spring meeting will be held on 19th April 2016.
New Executive Director
New Executive Director (acting)
ACF Open Annual Spring Meeting
Airport Cluster Finland companies exhibiting!


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Law 'incubators' help new attorneys
Two local law schools have opened "incubators" to help newly minted attorneys get their start in the legal profession and provide affordable services to clients.
Nine recent graduates of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law are working out of the Center for Solo Practitioners, which opened in November. The attorneys, all of whom have graduated and passed the bar within the past five years, pay rent in a shared downtown office and work with a director who provides practical advice along with mentors as they begin to build their businesses.
The program was designed by professors Lilys McCoy and Luz Herrera, who wanted to find a way to provide affordable legal assistance for low- and middle-income clients and help recent graduates gain the skills and experience they need to succeed in solo practice.
California Western School of Law started a similar incubator last June and now has 15 attorneys in two downtown locations.
As a requirement of that program, attorneys have to commit to 100 hours of pro bono legal work every year.
"It is not totally based on altruism. Part of our idea is that when you serve a client well, whether they can pay or not, you are really building your reputation and building your network, and that's how you get referrals," said Bob Seibel, a visiting professor at California Western School of Law and the director of the Access to Law Initiative. "It is definitely a program for people who have community service in mind, but we are aware it has some tangible benefits as well."
The programs are part of a trend in the legal profession designed to help graduates build up their clientele, learn how to run a successful business and address the so-called justice gap in which people who need legal assistance can't find affordable services.
Ten such postgraduate programs have been established under varying formats around the country, with some likening it to medical residency programs.
"The goal is to bring together alumni of the school who are interested in starting their own law practices, to bring them together in a supportive environment because it is difficult to start any business from the ground floor up," said McCoy, who directs the Thomas Jefferson program. "And to put those new solo practitioners in touch with a segment of the population who have been traditionally underserved."
Changes in the legal market have provided some motivation to create such postgraduate programs, said Beth Kransberger, associate dean for student affairs at Thomas Jefferson.
"A broader number of schools have understood that with the size of student loan debt nationally that students are graduating with, there is a profound responsibility to prepare them to be practice-ready. That has been a marvelous impetus," she said.
A large number of new graduates nationally are not able to land legal jobs that require passing the bar. Only 55 percent of more than 43,700 law school graduates in 2011 had a law-related job nine months after graduation, according to news reports that analyzed data complied by the American Bar Association.
Several law schools across the country, including Thomas Jefferson, have been hit with lawsuits by former graduates claiming they were misled by school information on how many graduates land jobs.
McCoy said the incubator programs try to provide services to clients who are in the gap that exists between very poor who qualify for legal aid and the wealthy and corporate customers who can afford to pay law firms as much as $700 per hour or more.
"You have the vast majority in the middle — lower- and middle-income people — who don't qualify for either and can't access either," McCoy said.


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Asparagus Roll-Ups
Elaine Davis, Spartanburg SC
Ingredients1 loaf thin-sliced bread
1 15-ounce can green asparagus spears, not extra long
1 8-ounce package cream cheese
6 ounces Roquefort cheese
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup margarine
Cooking InstructionsCut crust from bread and roll each slice with a rolling pin. Combine cream cheese, Roquefort and mayonnaise. Mix well. Mix in egg. Drain asparagus on paper towels. Spread cheese mixture on bread. Be sure to spread edges. Place 1 asparagus spear on each slice of bread. Roll jelly-roll style and smooth edges. Cut each roll in 3 pieces. Brush with melted margarine. Bake at 350 degrees until light brown. These can be frozen before baking. Do not bake until ready to serve.


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First, I found this article very helpful about search/index in general, and this one clued me in on proper indexing. So having used the Keyword Analyzer on my description, I am having trouble finding strings with an '*' (asterisk) in the description. For instance, I have many descriptions that start with "* note". So I would like to find:
I have also tried:
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Michael Cuddyer's flexible game plan and iron philosophy
He owns not the talent of Mauer, the pub (good or bad) of Morneau, the history of Thome, or the youth of Span, Valencia and Young.
Yet Michael Cuddyer endures among the most veteran, venerable, and valuable of Minnesota Twins both past and present.
Should he play in every game though October 2nd, he'd then reach his Minnesota Millennium, becoming just the 31st Twin to play in 1,000 ballgames for the club and the first since Torii Hunter reached the milestone in June of 2006.
In a bit of irony, Justin Morneau concluded last season with 43 more games played than Cuddyer, and appeared set to become the next member of said list.
Yet in what has segued from the Twins' rise last fall, the ballclub has continued to thrive with Cuddyer at first filling in for an injured Morneau.
After going 17-4 down the stretch to close out '09 with Justin down with a stress fracture in his back, the Twins this year have again found a Morneau-less surge with a lineup that shifts Cuddyer to first, Jason Kubel to right and Jim Thome to oft DH. Since Morneau departed the lineup with after suffering a concussion on July 7th in Toronto, the Twins have gone 27-13.
Last year, in spreading play over four positions (not including DH), Cuddyer hit .265 in 114 games while playing right. At first? He clubbed .319 over 34 games and made a lone error. The batting surge via positional switch in 2010 has mirrored last season effort. This year, while displaying continued malleability, Cuddy has played five different positions. In 61 games playing right this season, he's hit .260. In his 46 games at first? He's hitting .303 with, again, only one E-3 to his credit.
Before a game against Seattle in recent weeks, Cuddyer said of the surge-by-switch:
"I think it's coincidental. I don't think there's anything to it. I always hit better later in the year-- last year it was September when I played first and this year it's been the beginning of July into August. So, I think that actually has more to do with it than the position move."
Regarding his ability to play with success at multiple positions, he added:
"I don't like to label myself. I think once you that then you start limiting yourself. Just
because I played right field everyday I didn't consider myself just a right fielder. I consider myself a baseball player. I work at every position because I like playing the game. Today: I took grounders at shortstop. Will I ever play short? Probably not.
"You have to drop your ego," Cuddyer continued. "Most guys, they become established at one particular position and don't want to move. Whether it's for the good of the team or not, they feel like they've earned or deserve the right to play at that position and only that position. The second thing is takes is that you have to keep the team as the big focus. Obviously, you get comfortable at one position without a preference to move. But if it's for the betterment of the team you do it willingly."
But does Cuddyer ever find frustration at first, in that he isn't able to employ that rocket right arm?
"Yeah, I do," he said, with a typically Cuddy smile. "I actually take it out on J.J. [Hardy] and Valencia and those guys when I throw it around the horn after an out. I chuck it pretty good."
Yet of all the spots played in his Twins career -- one may be surprised which serves as Cuddyer's position:
"I like middle infield. Second base is probably my favorite; I like being in the middle of the action."
Curious, as he's hit just .248 there in 57 career games there, nearly 50 points worse than his lifetime clip at first. Nonetheless, there will always be a spot somewhere for Cuddy -- the rare baller who meshes a flexible game plan with an iron philosophy.
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Ted Healy and The Three Stooges
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"Just the Facts Ma'am"
Bill Cassara's previous profession, along with its "curse," is a blessing for those who enjoy reading biographies that reveal heretofore unknown information.
Before retiring, Bill was an Internal Affairs Sargeant for the Monterey County (California) Sheriff's Department. He was, and is, a film buff. Laurel and Hardy were at the top of his list, and The Three Stooges weren't far behind. Bill is a naturally curious person, and wondered why nothing substantive had been written about two beloved character actors, Edgar Kennedy and Vernon Dent; and A-list entertainer, Ted Healy.
Professional investigator–movie buff–naturally curious person…a trifecta of attributes needed to pen three biographical gems: "Edgar Kennedy – Master of the Slow Burn" (2005) and "Vernon Dent – Stooge Heavy" (2010,) and now "Nobody's Stooge – Ted Healey" (2014,) all published by BearManor Media. I've read them all; he's a good writer and knows how to hold a reader's attention.
Bill and I became friends many years ago through our mutual love and admiration for Laurel and Hardy. I first became aware of his attention to detail when I rode with him in his sheriff's vehicle as he spent his day protecting and serving. At a stoplight, he "lit up" a driver and pulled him over for tossing a lit cigarette out the window. The offense had occurred so far back down the road that I still can't figure out how he saw it. Subsequent ride-a-longs yielded similar surprises, while we discussed how he unraveled crimes starting from square one. It was no surprise to me when he became an Internal Affairs sergeant.
After Bill retired, he told me that a career in law enforcement can be a curse because it is a challenge to be out in public and not ignore people and events that don't seem quite right. By the way, he only gave the butt-tosser a warning.
It disappointed me when several fellow Three Stooges fans gave his book, "Nobody's Stooge – Ted Healy," tepid reviews because it contradicted several long held "facts" about Healy being a bad guy. You know the saying, "If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth." In this case, a legend.
That being said, I thought Bill needed a platform to discuss his research methods that uncovered new truths about Healy.
The following is our interview of March 25, 2015…and be sure to check out http://www.billcassara.com.
Kit: Why did you get into the profession of law enforcement?
Bill: I wanted to make a difference; I was an idealist and put myself through college while working in jobs that dealt with the public. I was a local history buff, so I had pride in where I lived. Another motivator; I was a victim of burglary; someone stole my coin collection that I cultivated over the years. I channeled my outrage into something constructive, a career peace officer. I consider myself a victim's advocate.
Kit: Are there parallels between criminal investigation and conducting research for a book?
Bill: There are some, I suppose it depends on what kind of book. The three books I wrote all pertain to biographies of old film clowns: Edgar Kennedy, Vernon Dent, and Ted Healy. Projects like these demand that I research from scratch, remain objective, sift the facts from the legend and corroborate with existing evidence i.e. public records and reliable newspaper accounts of the day.
Kit: Do you consider yourself a "just the facts, ma'am" author?
Bill: Hollywood bios demand a writing style that is part historical, factual and engaging. Gone are the days when bios were written by glorified press agents. Today's readers want a true picture. My career depended on my credibility as an investigator, writer of reports and expert witness testimony.
Now that I'm retired, I can write for fun. Imagine the joy I had in describing Edgar Kennedy's "Slow-Burn" as a metaphor to a volcano eruption or relating the aroma of over-ripe fruits prominent in Vernon Dent's time? I could convey that sense because I grew up in the same neighborhood Vernon did. The Healy book is more clinical and closer to how I used to write professionally.
Kit: How did you come to be a Three Stooges fan?
Bill: I think it was 1959 when all the Columbia Three Stooges films were released on television. They were a sensation and all the kids at school talked about them. Later that year, the Stooges made a promotional appearance at our local TV. affiliate and I fixated on Moe who did all the talking on the program. He communicated to the kids in a grandfatherly concerned way. The Stooges were accessible, unlike my other older film comedian heroes: Laurel & Hardy, Little Rascals, Abbott & Costello, and just about everyone in Robert Youngson's film compilations.
Kit: Why did you select Ted Healy as the subject of a biography?
Bill: I wanted a challenge. As a historian I have always been interested in "what came first?" and "how did they get there?" I appreciate those who make me laugh; take the case of the Stooges' success story. In his autobiography: "Moe Howard and the Three Stooges," he thankfully included details about the genesis of the act which started with vaudeville and Broadway star, Ted Healy. I was struck by the fact Healy died at age forty-one under mysterious circumstances with rumors that he was murdered. With my background as an Internal Investigations Sergeant, I thought I could clarify all the details. My secondary reason was Healy died four days after his only child was born, so Ted Healy Jr. grew up never knowing about his dad. When I found out that his son had recently died, I knew a book about Ted Healy would never happen unless I took on the responsibility. I dived into the murky depths of vaudeville. It was here, as documented by old newspapers and trade publications, that I compiled data and venues pertaining to Ted Healy's slow rise to stardom.
Kit: Was Joan Howard Maurer receptive to your writing a book on Healy?
Bill: Moe Howard's daughter was very supportive, she invited my wife and I over to her home to discuss it. She said it was interesting that a retired "detective" was researching Ted Healy.
Kit: What sorts of things did she share?
Bill: The thing that stood out most to me was her comment, "Ted Healy was very generous to our family." For Joan to emphasize that point is revealing, it is the opposite of what most people think about the Healy/Howard association. Joan no doubt was repeating what her father told her. After all, it was Healy who "discovered" and mentored the Howard brothers and Larry Fine.
Joan had pulled a file labeled "Healy," from her father's personal archives. There were rare photos of Moe with Healy and many ads from their various engagements. I included several images for the book with Joan's kind permission.
Kit: How did Healy come to be known as such a villain?
Bill: Healy died in 1937, almost eighty years ago and there is still quite a bit of emotion tied into it from "Stooge" fans. This was one of my interests in writing a book; why is Healy portrayed as a "Simon Legree" character in books published after Moe's death? Mel Gibson made a biopic about the lives of the Three Stooges and naturally included a Ted Healy character who was depicted viciously. The visuals made a permanent impression on the general television audience. Fans, authors and bloggers have been dog piling on him ever since.
Kit: What are your thoughts about Moe's autobiography?
Bill: Moe's book is considered the "bible" towards anything relating to Stooge history. Thank goodness his daughter took an active role in completing the project. Understandably, Moe cobbled together most of his recollections without aid of a diary or other documents.
Kit: What were the inconsistencies between Moe's recollections and the facts?
Bill: When I first read Moe's book, I was elated. Precious details were revealed for the first time in writing. It became the cornerstone for seemingly hundreds of books. Moe remembered first coming across Healy on July 4, 1909 while strumming his ukulele and singing with Ted, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll."
It should be noted that Moe was first an entertainer and a beginning story for meeting Healy was essential for his book. One has to expect these kinds of things; many celebrities rely on great stories. Ted Healy sure did.
Most other writers simply repeated Moe's tales, I started from scratch. It's where any investigation should start. It may seem inconsequential to point out, but "ukes" were not known on the east coast until they were introduced by Hawaiians for the 1915 San Francisco Panama Exhibition. And the song Moe remembered wasn't copyrighted until 1912 as a "Ragtime" piano piece.
There is a sequence in Moe's book where he recounted when he and Ted joined with some local girls for a diving stage act in 1913. Since Healy was part of this act, it seemed important to retell the circumstances to the readers. The story goes that Moe and Ted began in show business as part of the "Annette Kellerman Diving Act" of 1913. History tells us that Kellerman was an international superstar by this time and had appeared in four movies with her aquatic acts. Her diving events were heavily documented by newspapers. Kellerman did not need 16 year-olds disguised as girls to help with her high diving act. Fortunately, Moe remembered an accident associated with his act that claimed the life of Gladys Kelly, there was a mishap on the diving board where she fell to her death. This accident was written up as a small article in the New York Times in an off-Broadway stage. This wasn't the "Annette Kellerman Diving Act," So the question remains, "Did Moe intend for the version of what was printed in his book?" I'm sure he meant the act was a "knock-off" of the more established star. Still, this raises a red flag for whom was doing the editing.
Another stumbling block was to corroborate Moe's recollection detailing when he joined Healy's act in "1922." Moe said he answered an ad that Healy needed a replacement for an acrobatic act that walked out on him. It was written that Healy was playing at the Prospect Theatre in New York at the time. Later day researchers have never been able to find this "ad" in the trade papers. Furthermore, Healy did not play at the Prospect in 1922.
An existing program (May 27, 1923) shows Moe (As Moses Harry Horwitz) directing a play in his Brooklyn neighborhood. So Moe couldn't have joined Healy until after this date. Moe described this act in his autobiography, "Ted was already in an act with his wife and dog by then." This hit revue was called "Syncopated Toes," and started on Sept. 3, 1923. Ted and Betty were the stars and producers.
Kit: What about Larry's biography, written by his brother?
Bill: That book, "Larry-Stooge in the Middle" was allegedly written by Morris Feinberg in 1984. It was one of the first books about the Stooges by one who was close to the action…except he wasn't. There are so many falsehoods in this book starting with the author; it was confirmed to me by Gary Lassin and Steven Cox (who were close to the project at the time), that Larry's brother was in his eighties with a heart condition and had no access to research. This book was published by the appropriately named "Last Gasp" in San Francisco which is now defunct.
The ghostwriter apparently thought it needed "punching up" by making Healy a very imposing villain who was an archenemy with our favorite innocents. To make him more evil, the "author" described scenes in which Healy was so revengeful of the boys leaving his act that he would phone theatres where they were playing, introduced him-self and threatened to firebomb the place if their act went on. Think about this seriously; a threat like that would impact everyone in the theatre including the paying customers. The press would have written it up if such a stunt happened as described.
Perhaps even worse, the author had the audacity to print a date (September 30, 1930) in which Healy allegedly brought suit against "Howards & Fine" in Los Angeles, Ca. This was a calculated intent to invoke emotion into the prose for contrast. Even more absurd; after his day in court the author claimed, "Healy lost the case." Invented dialogue ensues with Shemp's quote to Larry, "I don't think we've heard the last from Ted Healy." None of this ever happened. I couldn't find any mention in the Los Angeles papers of that time and they would have been all over that. I made it a point to search out the court files and there was nothing. Never mind that Moe, Larry and Shemp returned to Healy on August 7, 1932, the question is; why would they return if Healy was so dangerous? The truth is: Moe, Larry and Shemp, (later replaced by Curly) rode Healy's coattails during this era. In 1933 it got them to Hollywood. This takes nothing away from the Stooges later success, but coming back to Healy was the break they needed professionally.
The damage has been done-for over thirty years people have been conditioned to believe Healy was a monster.
Kit: Did your research turn up any tidbits about the Stooges that you didn't include because they had nothing to do with Healy?
Bill: There are other examples that Moe said that weren't quite accurate; Moe said Shemp quit Healy's act to join Vitaphone as "Knobby Walsh." That role didn't occur until years later. Moe described his brother Curly cutting it up as a member of Orville Knapp's Band in 1929. Knapp didn't have his own band until 1934 (Knapp was a musician for another band in 1929). I can pass all that off as entertainment. My main concern in credibility was in one particular sequence in Moe's book; it was after the filming of "Soup to Nuts" in 1930 when Moe, Larry and Shemp split from Healy after their contract expired. According to Moe's book, the reason for the separation was because he heard a third person rumor that Fox was going to offer Moe, Larry and Shemp a seven-year deal. The story goes that Healy squashed it by appealing to a company executive. This is curious because Fox wasn't making short comedies at this time and they certainly wouldn't have started up a whole new unit during this stage of the depression. I have a hard time grasping that Fox would offer the boys (sans big name Healy) a seven-year feature deal (even back-loaded) on the strength of their performance in "Soup to Nuts." They weren't even known as "Stooges" yet. Moe allegedly claimed Healy "begged us to come back to him," and "I don't have an act without you." In truth, Ted Healy could throw his hat on the stage and be well received. He put together other comic foils and continued in big-time vaudeville. He really struck gold when he performed on Broadway with Fanny Brice and Phil Baker in "Crazy Quilt." The act toured America's biggest cities throughout 1931 based on advanced ticket sales.
This may be considered sacrilegious, but when Moe discussed the Healy era, were his writings embellished? Or did his publisher (like the Larry book), fill in details to make things more dramatic? It should be emphasized that Moe died before his book was published and tampering with the material could explain some of the inconsistencies and drama.
Kit: Any thoughts, even little ones, about writing another biography?
Bill: The reason I wrote books about Kennedy, Dent, and Healy is because I had so much interest in them from seeing their films. They deserved a study. I have many more favorites that I hope someday other authors pursue. I would love to read a book about: Leon Errol, Andy Clyde, Bud Jamison, Mae Busch, Lloyd Bacon, and even the tragic stories of F. Richard Jones and Clyde Bruckman…the list goes on. Is there a market there?
Bill Cassara about the time of the "butt-tossing" incident.
OK, finally got enough requests to convince VCI release these two on DVD!
During the 1940's – early 1950s before television killed "B" movies, army comedies, musicals (MGM or Monogram…didn't matter,) themes about Tinsel town, and of course westerns, were guaranteed hits in small town and rural America.
Producer/distributor/exhibitor, Robert L. Lippert, decided to combine the genres for sure-fire hits. He did, and they were.
"G.I. JANE", is a musical-comedy taking place at an army camp starring Jean Porter (sorry, not Demi Moore,) Tom Neal (Hollywood's real-life bad-boy), Iris Adrian, Jimmie Dodd ("Jimmie" from the "Mickey Mouse Club,) and Jeanne Mahoney, with direction by B-movie stalwart Reginald LeBorg.
At a remote Army training camp in the desert, our boys in uniform want to do more than wave at the WAC's, and a new recruit bets them $500 he can make this happen. A stern female lieutenant makes things tough but eventually it's Mission Accomplished, the barracks filled with beauties and ballads.
"I Love Girls," "Line-up and Sign-up in the Army Corps," and "Nervous in the Service," are a sampling of the musical numbers.
"GRAND CANYON," a comedy with two songs ("Love Time in Grand Canyon" and "Serenade to a Mule"!) about Hollywood producers filming a western, staring Richard Arlen, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, James Millican, Olin Howlin, Grady Sutton, and Joyce Compton, with Paul Landres in the director's seat.
There's grand fun, grand feudin' and grand fightin' in this spoof on low-budget Hollywood moviemaking. Assigned by Robert L. Lippert (who appears as himself in a pre-title sequence) to make a Western on indoor sets, Reed Hadley farcically tries and fails, and finally convinces the front office to allow him to shoot on "location." Rural audiences howled when an Arizona cowboy showed them Hollywood types a thing or two about acting, and ends up with the starring role!
Here's where the filmflimflam comes in:
The advertising claims the movie was filmed at the Grand Canyon, and a prologue to the movie even thanks the Department of the Interior for its cooperation. Sure, the exteriors are, but the scenes with actors, most of the movie, are filmed on sets, against process shots, or in a familiar location spot near L.A.…but who'd go see a movie called "Bronson Canyon?" There are a couple of scenes with "actors" filmed on location, but are in reality stand-ins, shot in such a way that the audience couldn't tell.
The fight scene featured in "Mike's" dream was taken from "The Return of Wildfire," another Arlen/Lippert film. Arlen's opponent in the fight is Reed Hadley, his "director" in "Grand Canyon."*
Viewed today, these movies are fun to watch, but remember they were made for the Princess Theatre in Meredosia, Illinois, not the Radio City Music Hall.
*Thank you Bob Dickson for this tidbit.
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The Tall Lie (For Men Only)
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The subject was "hazing," and no studio would touch it…
Paul Henreid ("Casablanca",) wanted a hard-hitting exposé of a problem he felt needed to be addressed…hazing. He pitched it to the studios, and each time was met with an emphatic "No." So he financed, produced, directed, and starred in it. When he screened the completed picture for the studios, it was the same story…none would touch it. With his options and money running out, he sold the movie outright to producer/distributor, Robert L. Lippert, known for small-town, family-friendly B movies, the exact opposite of "The Tall Lie." Lippert also released it under the more familiar title "For Men Only." Although the small towns were shocked by it, business was brisk in college towns.
"Tod" (Robert Sherman,) a gentle pledge is forced to swim in freezing water until he almost drowns…and that's before the main titles even start! In his screen debut, Russell Johnson, beloved captain of "Gilligan's Island," plays "Ky," the sadistic president of the fraternity. Vera Miles ("Psycho",) also in her first film, appears as Tod's girlfriend. Tod's grades plummet because of the unrelenting abuse. His professor, played by Henreid, takes notice and ponders whether hazing and the forthcoming "Hell Night" might have something to do with it. Nonetheless, he recommends that Tod's mother sign a release to let her son take part in the final initiation. Big mistake.
"Hell Night," the fraternity initiation of all initiations, starts off with the relatively tame ripping of the pledges' clothes and painting their faces. Then comes the final initiation…shoot a puppy; this is 1952! (His friend "Beanie" (James Dobson) wants to be inducted into the fraternity so bad he stoops to drinks blood drawn from a live puppy.) Although Tod refuses, he is subsequently ostracized, hounded to his death as a coward. This prompts Henreid to push for an investigation and reforms, but is met with resistance and organized destruction of evidence, supported by college administrators and past pledges, bent on saving the good name of the college.
Censorship was an issue. Various state censor boards objected, but the distributors emphasized that it was an "exposé" and "educational," an argument that generally had positive results. Then there was the UK where animal cruelty, real or implied, was strictly prohibited. Exclusive (Hammer) Films, the distributor throughout England, managed to get the picture passed without cuts by adding a lengthy written prologue (included in the DVD) revealing the evils of hazing.
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The Cowboy and "The Cowboy"
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"I was born to ride…"
In 1953 Robert L. Lippert commissioned a feature film to be directed by noted film editor, Elmo Williams (Academy Award winner for "High Noon"), who is still alive at 102. It was to star Lloyd Bridges, Lee J. Cobb, Marie Windsor and Luther Adler. Lippert, always interested in getting talent to work cheap, got three of the stars at a bargain rate because they were HUAC-tainted, and needed work.
Production commenced in Deming, New Mexico, and local real-deal cowboys were retained as wranglers. Among them, L.B. "Beau" Johnson, Robert Johnson, Ross May and Darrell Hawkins.
Both Williams and his wife, Lorraine, were fascinated by the cowboys who worked on the picture, and she envisioned a full-length documentary about cowboy life featuring the same cowboys who worked in "The Tall Texan." The estimated budget was around $50,000 (under $500,000 in 2014 dollars), low because there was no need to pay for stars, sets or sync sound. The meager budget, even by Lippert standards, may account for why the penurious producer sprung for filming in color.
Both movies turned out very well, and made money. "The Cowboy" was particularly successful in the Southwest. Later, when it was released in 16mm, it became a perennial favorite at Indian reservations.
In 2004 I purchased the Lippert film library, and envisioned a DVD release of "The Cowboy" with the usual special features VCI Entertainment and I specialize in. But, what special features could I come up with?
Later on I got a phone call from Bridget Kelly who worked with filmmakers in New Mexico, asking if the movie could be shown to an audience in Deming. Of course I said yes, and inquired if she knew what became of the cowboys. She replied that four of them were coming to the screening!
A commentary track featuring the actual cowboys looking at the movie a half-century later…yessss!
It was arranged to get them together for a recording session. My wife, Donna, and I went to Deming and awaited the cowboys. The first one, Beau Johnson, arrived with his wife in an old car that didn't look as if it had been through a car wash in 15 years; papers all over the dash, license plate hanging on for dear life. There he was, complete with faded Wrangler's, old boots, sweat-stained hat, and a big silver buckle, speaking authentic "cowboy," of course. Was he ever a warm and wonderful character. His passion was race horses, and he owned them…why bother with a new car when you own championship horses? Next came Beau's brother, Robert, Ross May and finally Darrell Hawkins, great guys all. Hawkins even gave me a lesson on trick roping.
I had prepared for the recording session with lots of notes and questions to toss out to keep the guys talking throughout, hoping they'd make comments about what was occurring on the screen without much prompting from me. We rolled tape and Ross May, who had retired as a school teacher, took the lead as moderator…he was a natural…knew just how to keep everyone going as if he'd done it a thousand times. Tossed my notes in the garbage…didn't need 'em.
The result was great…a group of engaging old-timers reminiscing, often humorously, and with cowboy jargon, about an era that has, for all intents and purposes, long since passed.
Donna and I recently got a call out of the blue from Beau Johnson. Hadn't spoken with him for many years although I had thought about him. He had been in the hospital, and I guess had survived a couple of brushes with death. His brother, Robert, is fine, but Ross and Hawkins are gone. Beau, still his jovial self, told us how much our friendship meant to him, which was totally unexpected, and touched us very much. He said he even kept a ribbon from a bottle of wine Donna gave him. Beau had another reason to call…a favor…asked if we'd call Elmo Williams and wish him a happy 103rd birthday. (It isn't until next year, but we'll be sure to call).
When we signed off, Beau told me he was born to ride a horse, and I told him "The Cowboy" commentary was the most fun I've ever had producing a special feature.
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Additional DVD bonus features:
"The Making of The Cowboy" by Elmo Williams
Video booklet
"Ghost Towns of the Old West – the Deserts" narrated by Rip Torn
Top: Beau and Robert Johnson from "The Cowboy"
DVD cover: Beau Johnson
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The following movies were eventually released on good quality DVD's:
APACHE RIFLES (Admiral-Fox/1964)
Picture and sound track were a jumbled mess. Technician at VCI eventually matched everything up. (I still owe someone a steak dinner!)
THE COWBOY (Lippert/1954)
35mm color negative ruined by mold. Used 16mm color "EK" (print from the original color negative) for the DVD. Black and white duplicate negative and color "separation negatives" survive. BTW, I had a blast producing the commentary track with the authentic old cowboys who were the stars of the film.
THE GLASS TOMB (Hammer-Lippert/1955)
Original 35mm material missing. Used 35mm release print borrowed from the British Film Archive
THE GREAT JESSE JAMES RAID (Lippert/1954)
35mm color material missing. Used a 16mm color "EK." 35mm black and white negative survives.
LIKE IT IS (Psychedelic Fever) (Lima/1968)
Missing sound track. Used audio from a bootleg VHS bought on eBay. Sometimes pirates serve a useful purpose!
Master 35mm material was cut for release in the UK and the excised scenes scrapped. Used missing footage found in a 35mm US release print. Scenes that were deleted prior to its US theatrical release were found in a Spanish dubbed print and are included as a Special Feature on the DVD.
MASSACRE (Lippert-Fox/1956)
Color camera negative survived – without titles. Used titles off a like-new 1956 16mm color print I bought from a collector on eBay. Not the first time a film collector has saved the day.
MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR (Palo Alto-Lippert/1954)
35mm sound track decomposed. Used track from 16mm Armed Forces negative, which was longer than the theatrical release version. Extra scenes are part of the DVD special features.
MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (Republic/1941)
Nitrate picture and track negative decomposed. Used a "fine grain" master print borrowed from the British Film Institute
OUTLAW WOMEN (Howco/1952)
Original 35mm Cinecolor material decomposed. Used mint 35mm Cinecolor print
SEA DEVILS (Coronado-RKO/1953)
Combined 3-strip Technicolor negatives located at Technicolour in London and restored by Canal+, owner of Eastern Hemisphere distribution rights.
SHOTGUN (Champion-Allied Artists/1955)
Badly faded camera negative was all that survived. VCI technician was able to bring the color back to life in a tedious process of correcting the color scene by scene. (Another steak dinner, this one due Doug at Film and Video Transfers)
SINS OF JEZEBEL (Lippert/1954)
Original 35mm color negative missing. Used mint 35mm AnscoColor print labeled "Roadshow Version". Could find no difference between the Roadshow and Regular release; not surprising given its penurious producer, Robert L. Lippert. Note: Fortunately AnscoColor, unlike widely used Eastman Color, does not tend to fade.
STRANGER ON HORSEBACK (Goldstein-UA/1955)
No color film elements known to exist. Used 35mm AnscoColor release print borrowed from the British Film Institute. 16mm black and white negative survives.
THUNDER IN CAROLINA (Howco/1962)
As with "Apache Rifles," picture and sound track were a jumbled mess. Technician at VCI eventually matched everything up. (Guess I owe three steak dinners.)
Missing in Action!
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There are movies which Kit Parker Films owns rights but cannot find suitable elements. Maybe you can help!
"The Black Pirates" (Salvador-Lippert/1954) Original AnscoColor negative missing. Duplicate negative with Spanish main and end titles survives, but was damaged by improper storage.
"God's Country" (Lippert/1946)
Original Cinecolor nitrate negative decomposed in the 1960s. 35mm and 16mm black and white duplicate negative and sound track survive.
"Highway 13" (Lippert/1948)
Not really missing, but we had to use the 16mm negative which was less than optimal. I was told not to bother because the whole movie took less than 3 days to produce but, hey, it's a mini-masterpiece!
"Rawhide Trail" (Terry and Lyon-Allied Artists/1958)
Nothing at all. The Allied Artists library was split between Warner Bros. and Paramount years ago, but this independent production was not among them.
"Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case" (Republic/1941)
Nitrate negative decomposed. Not released to television so no duplicate negatives produced.
"The Incredible Face of Dr. B"
and "House of Frights"
Mexican films from 1963 that were also released in English language versions. Although the Spanish negatives survive, the English versions apparently do not.
"Let's Live Again" (Seltzer-Fox/1948)
Only a mediocre 16mm negative and print survive.
ADDING Scratches to Film?
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You see it every day on television. Scratches, splices, specs, and hairs added by computer to reenacted scenes in order to make them appear "old." They do it to vintage film, and pre-HD video tape as well. I watched a story about NASA on network TV that used video tape from the "ancient" 1980s, and they even "antiqued" it.
I've spent over 40 years trying to take away scratches. Whatever happened to adding "archive footage" in small letters at the bottom of the screen instead of defacing the image?
Enough grousing. In my business it is a constant chore finding suitable film material to make our DVD's look good.
Here is a brief primer on what we look for in film materials to make our DVD's look good.
The basic principal of film is positives are made from negatives, and negatives from positives.
1st choice for producing digital masters –
35mm Camera Negative ("EK") – The film that actually went through the camera. Best and sharpest element to work with.
2nd choice –
35mm Fine Grain: A positive copy made from the camera negative. Grain and contrast are kept low because each successive generation (the duplicate negative and subsequent prints as described below) add both grain and contrast.
3rd choice –
35mm Duplicate Negative: A "dupe negative" is the source of manufacturing release prints.
4th choice –
35mm Print: A release print as shown in theatres.
5th choice –
16mm Duplicate Negative: Before digital, this element was used to manufacture prints for television stations, and non-theatrical exhibitors such as colleges and libraries.
6th and last choice –
16mm print. Although on rare occasions I've found 16mm prints struck off the 35mm camera negative, or dupe negative, normally 16mm prints are at least 4 generations from the camera negative, with expected result…loss of clarity. I use 16mm material only after we've searched the world for good 35mm elements.
There are many thousands of cans of films in my collection going back to 1923 stored at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Academy Film Archive (part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Both institutions offer state of the art facilities with carefully monitored cold temperature and low humidity vaults. Both institutions are dedicated to preserving our motion picture heritage, and are a pleasure to work with.
Once the best film material is selected, it is retrieved from the vault and let stand for a day or two to be brought up to room temperature. Then it is sent to the lab for digitization. The subsequent digital master is sent to VCI Entertainment where imperfections are minimized as best as possible using special computer programs…or sometimes frame by frame (by a very patient technician.) If the final output is to be a DVD, special features (the fun part) and menus are added.
BTW, while distributing the Warner Bros. classics library on film, I discovered some prints of Clint Eastwood movies struck from the original camera negatives. Clint came to my office to discuss using some of my footage for his documentary about Carmel, California, "Don't Pave Main Street," and during our conversation (he made it clear he was not interested in reminiscing about his work before "Rawhide"!), and I mentioned the EK's, which were subsequently turned over to him.
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The previous loan helped her fix her machine and obtain better profits. Her financial situation has improved and her family circumstances remain the same.
El crédito anterior le ayudo a arreglar su máquina y obtuvo mejores beneficios. Las condiciones económicas han mejorado y las circunstancias familiares se mantienen.
Previous Loan DetailsMaría works selling clothes and doing tailoring. She lives with her husband, children and grandchildren. She and her husband are the ones that work for the home. The business consists in selling clothes like shorts and girls' dresses she makes. She works almost every day and has been doing so... More from Maria Elena's previous loan »
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Rolando McClain is joining the Dallas Cowboys to get his life back in order
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BMW has announced that it will begin to supply M specification parts to the just released 4 Series.
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"Golf is the most over-taught and least-learned human endeavour; if they taught sex the way they teach golf, the human race would have died out years ago." – Jim Murray
By Ian Hardie
One of the ironies of the game of golf is that a lot of golfers leave the golf course each time that they play in a worse mood or state of mind, than they were in when they arrived.
Something that's a bit odd, when you consider that (in theory) they are there playing the game simply to be able to relax and have fun away from all of the other things that they have going on in their lives.
The reason that this comes about, as you may be aware, is that they don't play as well as they would have hoped or expected to and as a result they become:
Frustrated, angry and embarrassed about their performance on the golf course.
For the vast majority of these golfers, those things could be alleviated by doing the one thing that most better golfers do – which is to have golf lessons.
Unfortunately though, the general consensus among a lot of these golfers is that they won't bother with golf lessons – as they "don't work"
Well at least, that's what some other golfer has no doubt told them at some point.
The reality is though (as any competent golfer can tell you) that golf is actually an easier and more fun game to play when the golfer knows what they are doing and is able to do it reasonably consistently
However, even though I do my very best with every golfer that I help to make sure that they do in fact achieve better golf after each session that they have with me, I am aware that for a lot of golfers around the world – that isn't always the result that they get.
So, let's take a look at the 7 reasons why sometimes, golf lessons "don't work".
Number 1 – The teacher has failed to find the actual problem or isn't skilled enough to work it out.
Now, I know that this first one could be a bit controversial but let's face it, just as there are many examples in any other area of your life – there are going to be people who teach the game of golf who for one reason or another – simply aren't as skilled at it as their qualifications or memberships would have you expecting them to be.
Any of you reading this who have ever had a car that wasn't going well and as a result had to take it to three or four garages (at great expense) before you finally found a mechanic who was able to quickly identify and solve your problem – will know what I'm talking about.
As will people who have had medical issues that took some time and a few different expert's opinions to get past – until you found someone effective to help you.
The reality is that qualifications, experience or belonging to a particular industry group – doesn't always mean that the teacher is effective or even able to find the actual problem that a golfer has.
Be prepared to look for someone else to help you if that's the case.
Number 2 – The student has a physical or medical problem that they won't relate that is affecting everything.
Any golfer that has golf lessons from me will be able to tell you that when we first meet and from time to time after that, I will ask questions about things like hip, knee or back problems in an effort to ascertain whether their golf problems are stemming from something medical as opposed to their skills at the game.
I will also ask about their eyesight (this thing is a big one), the effect of any new glasses they are wearing and occasionally I will ask about medication changes if I'm aware that they are on a few.
This is necessary as more often than not, those health related items are a contributing factor to the problems the golfer has with the game – for example:
An injured hip or knee may restrict the amount of lower body movement for the golfer
A change in eye glasses will usually result in a change of head position (especially if they change to graduated lenses) which can lead to a problem with this.
There are many health related things that can affect your golf game and if the teacher that you go to doesn't ask you about them – you could spend an awful lot of time and money fixing a 'golf problem' that really is just a health problem.
Number 3 – The student hasn't understood what's been suggested or hasn't sought clarification if they were unsure and as a result 'heads off in the wrong direction.'
The reasons that golf lessons sometimes "don't work" are not only down to the teacher of course, quite frequently the problem is caused by the inability of the student to ask for clarification on what it is they are being shown if they aren't sure.
I recall showing a golfer a practice drill many years ago that had them hitting some small shots with one leg crossed over the other in an effort to adjust what was happening in their golf action.
Having sent the golfer away to practice this for a few weeks, I was puzzled when they came back for their next lesson complaining about having an even worse problem than they started with – until I asked them to show me what they had been practicing – which turned out to be exactly the opposite of what I had shown them to do.
When I asked why that had happened, the golfer told me that they couldn't remember which leg to cross over the other one and as a result had done quite a lot of practice with the way that felt easiest.
A simple phone call or question afterwards would have stopped that problem!
The golden rule is, if in doubt "ASK" – don't continue on with something that you aren't sure about – any good golf teacher is more than happy to answer questions at any point during the golf lesson or afterwards.
Number 4 – The teacher hasn't communicated well during the lesson or outlined the necessary steps to take after the lesson.
Sure, a lot of golf teachers are very nice people, who may have had a lot of time in the game or done a lot of study into the technical aspects of the game but that doesn't always mean they are able to communicate that knowledge well during the golf lesson or be able to summarize what's happened during it to be able to provide a clear path and action plan for the golfer to follow until next time.
If the golfer walks away from the lesson confused by the terminology used or unsure as to what they need to do to improve – then they have pretty much wasted their time and money.
Ultimately, an experience like that could confuse them and affect their golf game so much that they do in fact get worse after the golf lesson – something that shouldn't happen at all!
Number 5 – The student never intended to do anything afterwards, rather they were expecting that single lesson to eliminate their many years of golf problems without any further effort.
So, while three of the first four reasons that golf lessons sometimes "don't work" can be easily attributed to the teacher – the fifth one, which is probably the most common – is always a problem with the student.
Well, maybe not so much the actual student, it's more about their expectations of what the result of the lesson will be.
Read this next bit very carefully:
A single golf lesson is extremely unlikely to eliminate 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 30 or even 40 years of accumulated golf problems without any further effort on the student's part.
Expecting that to be the case is the main reason why this problem even exists!
Number 6 – Other golfer's comments may be sufficiently influential, that the student quickly abandons the ideas introduced during the lesson if it doesn't immediately enhance their game.
Occasionally though, it's an outside influence that can cause this problem, as quite frequently the golfers that the student plays with most often are usually well aware that they are going for a golf lesson or two.
As soon as the golfer hits a few poor shots on their very next game – instead of realising that it takes some time, effort and application to improve on the students part – the other golfers will be very quick to observe that 'the lesson hasn't worked'.
The end result will be that the student will give up trying to do what they understood that they needed to do from the lesson and instead just go back to what they did before.
Eventually, they become the person who tells other golfers that golf lessons "don't work"!
Number 7 – Implementation is generally the missing link.
As I said just above, the reality is that even if the teacher can identify the students problem, understands their current physical capability, the student is clear on what they need to do and the steps they need to take to do it – there is still one vital part of the golf lesson process that the student needs to follow.
They need to spend some time and effort implementing the ideas they were given into their golf game in order to improve.
There are no shortcuts on this part unfortunately.
Which is where most students who go for a golf lesson or two seem to fall down – they know all of this new and exciting stuff but instead they do the same things that they have always done.
As a result, they get what they have always got and end up continuing on the mind-set that a lot of golfers have that golf lessons "don't work".
Let's hope that from now on, you understand enough about it not to be one of them.
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The Coo is back, with bells on!
Fancy a day out in the mud in beautiful rural Perthshire? Comrie Croft Bikes and the Crieff & Strathearn Drovers Tryst are delighted to announce the return of the Hairy Coo Mountain Bike Challenge, to be held on 18 October 2008 at Comrie Croft, near Crieff. The Coo is a fun multi-lap race around our testing trails with forest road climbs, technical singletrack cross-country loops and some fantastic descents over a variety of terrains.
We have extended and modified the course for this year, so the majority of the downs are on singletrack, but we can still promise some challenging climbs, the odd jump and of course some adrenaline packed racing action! There are categories for all abilities, starting at age 12, and theres a fun category for dabblers who have never raced but would like to give it a go.
If you were with us last year, youll know all about the glorious weather and delicious snacks that come alongside the racing, as well as the family activities to keep the spectators amused throughout the day. In addition to all that, Comrie Croft are holding our annual barn dance and ceilidh on the evening of the race day. This is a great event with fantastic live music, wholesome soup and a licensed bar. As a way to round off a great days biking, you cant beat it.
Also being held as part of the Drovers Tryst this year is the St Fillans Mountain Bike Challenge. This is also in its second year, and is run over an excellent course in a single lap around Glen Tarken, behind St Fillans on the shores of Loch Earn. This is a great race, which had excellent feedback from its first time out, and is held to raise funds for The Margaret J Gordon Art and Craft Trust. It is held on the opening weekend of 12 October 2008, so why not race both!
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The Ministry of Natural Resources will soon dispatch a team to the Dutch island of Curacao to launch an investigation of its own to ascertain if the over 400lbs of gold stolen during a heist on Friday originated from Guyana.
A source close to the investigation here told Stabroek News that while they are not ruling out that the gold could have originated from Suriname there is little belief that it did since the royalties paid on gold in that country are less than what it is here.
There is speculation that some of the gold might have been smuggled from Guyana to the neighbouring Dutch island and mixed with legitimate gold and then exported.
Guyanese officials believe that the name of the vessel , `Summer Bliss', is not a legitimate one and that the vessel's name was changed for its smuggling purpose. The crew of the vessel is Guyanese.


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Medical care organizations (MCOS), such as health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations, have become popular in recent decades because of their ability to lower consumers' healthcare costs while increasing providers' throughput. These organizations function as healthcare intermediaries or, in a technical language, as platforms in the two-sided market for medical care, with the two sides being healthcare providers looking for patients and patients looking for healthcare providers. This function currently has negative implications for the quality of medical care, but it can be utilized to improve that quality.
This article explains how to do it. It begins with describing various factors--both legal and economic--that affect the quality of medical care under the MCO framework. This discussion singles out a serious economic anomaly that the law of medical malpractice aggravates instead of rectifying. This anomaly is the virtual absence of incentives on the part of MCOs and their doctors to compete with each other over the quality of medical care. The article offers a semi-regulatory law reform proposal that would unlock that competition.
MCOS are not just health insurers, as many take them to be. They are also, albeit less conspicuously, healthcare intermediaries. An individual pays the MCO in advance for medical care that he may require in the future. The MCO provides medical care to the individual when the need arises. This is how it functions as a health insurer.
The MCO provides this care by paying affiliated doctors and other healthcare providers who deliver care to the MCO's insureds. The doctors' affiliation to this plan is contractual. They contract with the MCO to set the prices it will pay them for the delivery of medical care to the MCO's insureds. The MCO pays the doctors by using the money collected from the insureds (either directly or, as typically is the case, through the insureds' employers). This is how the MCO intermediates between doctors and patients--a characteristic identifying it as a platform in a two-sided market. It is here where my account of MCOs' economically perverse incentives begins.
PLATFORM ECONOMY To understand these incentives, consider the simplest example of a platform in a two-sided market: a videogame console such as Sony's PlayStation or Microsoft's Xbox. These platforms effectuate transactions between the sellers of videogames (such as Bungle or EA Sports) and gamers. In this example, buyers and sellers cannot transact without the platform (no matter what transaction costs they are willing to expend). To play FIFA-07, a soccer enthusiast cannot just purchase the program from EA Sports; he needs Sony's or Microsoft's console to run the program. Without the platforms, game-programmers would not have buyers. A platform developer thus needs to design a platform that attracts many gamers and thereby induces game-programmers to develop games that port to its platform.
In other two-sided market scenarios, buyers and sellers theoretically are able to transact with each other, but their transaction costs are too high to make it happen. A seller, for example, may be willing to sell its product for, say, $100 to an individual buyer. The buyer, however, would not buy the product because $100 is too expensive. He would only be willing to pay, say, $70 for the product--a price the seller would gladly accept as well if she had at least 1,000 buyers rather than just a few. In the 1,000-buyers scenario, the seller might even be happy to sell the product to each buyer for $60. There may be 1,000 or more potential buyers for the product, but they are dispersed and consolidating them would be too expensive.
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Increasingly concerned about losing control of his product story in the face of the Internet's echo chamber, Steven Jobs has chosen to sue several sites that traffic in Apple news in an effort to determine if his employees are leaking product information.
Because the lawsuits could potentially force courts to define what a journalist is and to broaden trade secret protection for corporations, Mr. Jobs has been bitterly opposed by public interest groups and some reporters, who cite Apple's status as an underdog in the computer industry and the company's role in creating new avenues for electronic media.
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Tim Kennedy, a professional mixed martial arts fighter with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, practices grappling with a soldier during a free seminar for solders and their families Dec. 12 at the 82nd Airborne Division's Combatives and Advanced Tactics School. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Paul A. Holston/XVIII Abn. Corps PAO)
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Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort held a Lance Corporal Seminar at various locations aboard MCAS Beaufort and Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Feb. 28. During the seminar, Marines went back to their roots by viewing a graduation of Bravo and Papa Companies.
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Cited was a recent Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau board meeting during which ACVB President and CEO Bob Lander claimed the organization was in discussions with the Americana trade and awareness association to ditch Music City in favor of the Texas capital. According to Lander, Austin is on a shortlist of cities the AMA is considering migrating to — if they even decide to migrate at all.
The news — which breaks on the heels of the AMA's ninth annual conference and awards show in Nashville — would be a cultural and economic red-letter loss for the city, as well as an obvious setback for Mayor Dean's Nashville Music Council, which strives to compete with other American music meccas like Austin by bolstering Music City's brand through courting and championing events and organizations like the AMAs.
At press time, neither the AMA nor the Music Council have opted to comment on the reported possibility of the move.
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