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The DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife is looking for volunteers to help with an upcoming invasive plant "weed out" from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 27 at Woodland Beach Wildlife Area, 4876 Hay Point Landing Road, Smyrna.
Wineberry is an invasive plant that is covering and pushing out native plants in wildlife habitat at the Woodland Beach Wildlife Area.
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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS -- I've been buying Gillette's Comfort Advantage Shave Gel for over two years at a local Costco in Colorado. For that time, it always seemed that the can still had unused product in it that would not dispense. In March 2011, I decided to verify if I was right or wrong. For March, April, and May, I weighed the can when new and when it would no longer dispense product. Every month, each can weighed in at 11.4 to 11.6 ounces. Every month the "empty" can weighed 5.1 to 5.3 ounces.
The cans' labels all say there is a "net weight of 8.4 oz." Not true. Each of the three cans came up short an average of 5.1 ounces. That means I got the use of 6.5 ounces. I paid for 8.4 ounces. That's 22.6% less than than the label states. We've all heard about packages shrinking so companies "don't have to raise prices." That, of course is a joke. If the package is smaller, but you pay the same price, isn't that a price increase? This is the first time I've had a company short-fill a container by that much - 22.6%. With my regular use of a can a month, I've been cheated out of more than 7 cans every year.
My cheaper can of Barbasol is a much reliable product. It actually delivers more than the net weight on the label. Shame on you Procter & Gamble and Gillette.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS -- I have been purchasing and using the Gillette Comfort Advantage Shave Gel for quite a long time from COSTCO. On my two most recent purchases I noticed that when the gel output from the can became so slow that it was not usable, the can did not feel like it was truly empty. Upon shaking of the can it was obvious that there was a substantial amount of product remaining in the can.
As I was getting tired of this being a usual occurrence with this product, I decided to open a can in order to weigh the product remaining in the can. There was 2.4OZ. remaining. If you do the math this translates into 27% of unusable product. In my opinion this is unacceptable, and what bothers me the most is that whenever I have called Gillette on this issue in the past, they always act as if this is an unusual problem. They are always very courteous, and always offer coupons on future purchases, but they just seem unwilling to admit there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
I have been using this product for years and have found it head and shoulders (no pun intended) above the competition. That is why I was so disappointed recently when I tried to shave with better than half a can left, but couldn't get it out. Whatever propels the gel had stopped working. I hadn't had the problem before, so I simply bought a new can. Same problem. I tried to send Gillette an email but their system to send one didn't work.
So I found out who was in charge of marketing and send him an email explaining the problem, twice!! No response. They can come get those half-full cans and shove them. Maybe that will help. I'll be sampling someone else's product.
CINCINNATI, OHIO -- I recently ran out of my favorite deodorant/anti-perspirant (wild rain). I have been using this product for 15 plus years along with other of your gillette products, and now I cannot find this deodorant anywhere. I have searched several walgreens, walmarts, k-marts, targets, and even the malls. I have had no luck whatsoever. Why is it I could find it anywhere at any time and now I can't find it nowhere!!!!! Did my scent fall off the face of the earth or do I need to drive to the middle of nowhere to find it???? I want answers and I want them now.
I love your products, but if you want me and others to remain consistent consumers of your products, you need to be able to be contacted much easier than having to go through other websites to complain or even compliment you on your products. I want my smell good back please. Gillette Clear Gel Wild Rain. Sincerely, one stinky loyal consumer.
MUMBAI, MISSISSIPPI -- Very lately I've noticed that when shaving with Gillette MACH3, the blades were extremely dull. At first I thought my beard was getting tougher, but after purchasing another brand, the difference was so good, I can't help but think that Gillette is deliberately selling dull blades in order to persuade their customers to switch to Fusion. This is a very cynical and unethical move on the part of Gillette, and I will never purchase their products again.
In this regard, I have sent three mails, but the Gillette never respond to the valued customer. If the same situation continues, finally the Gillette will be alone without customers. I request that the union government should take action and save the citizens.
BOSTON,, MASSACHUSETTS -- Gillette is so arrogant it doesn't want to hear from its purchasers. The MACH3, so name because it has three blades which are supposed to be held in place by the razor, but regularly fall out while shaving. You have to hold on to the blade with a couple of fingers while shaving, or the blades fall to the floor, into the sink or toilet. That's happened to me dozens of times, particularly when shaving my neck or jaw.
Unbelievable, this once great American company leaves no possibility for any communication from we customers who pay their obscene bonuses. I'm sure the same is happening to millions of other men, and yet it wonders why its sales aren't better. Listen to the people once in while. You might learn something.
OLATHE, COLORADO -- I received my Gillette Razor in 1957 from my father. I then went into the service and still had my Gillette with me. To date, I still use the same razor and it has never failed me. Occasionally it is hard for me to find the blades. This razor has been good to me and I am now in my 70s and I will never buy another brand of razor. Although I am sure I will never again have to purchase one because this one is 55 years old.
I'll never buy another one of the Gillette products after watching the cheating actions of your advertising ambassador Thierry Henry. I'm sure your global company really won't care about my opinion but your company by its association with Henry has been tarnished and this is my only means of protest.
The Fusion blades are great and I have never had a better shave, but the cost of the blades keep going up and up. Now it cost you in Walmart for 4 blades over $14.00. I have not stop using the Fusion and started a throwaway that does give me a good shave and last as long as the Fusion. If Gillette wants me as a customer, they must be more competitive with their products.


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Recently named one of Georgia's top Mom Bloggers, Sojourner educates and empowers thousands of readers monthly through her blog, Married with Two Boys. As a social media consultant, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies and local businesses throughout the Greater Metro Atlanta Area. She has been featured on FOX 5's 'Good Day Atlanta' with Dr. Oz, Atlanta & Company, and CNN. A community organizer and global advocate, Sojourner is co-founder of Table for Two, a national campaign to establish lactation rooms in public places. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Roland and their two sons, Roland and Joshua.
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The N.C. Highway Patrol has identified the driver of the tractor-trailer who was involved in a single-vehicle accident that snarled traffic on Interstate 85 North near Thomasville on Tuesday.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Billy Holmes, 60, of Harmony, was taken by paramedics to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. A spokesman with Baptist said there was no information available regarding Holmes' condition Wednesday. A press release Tuesday from Orica USA, which owned the truck, said Holmes was conscious and talking after the wreck.
The accident, which shut down the northbound lanes of I-85 for three hours, occurred shortly after 6:15 a.m.
Holmes was traveling north on Interstate 85 in the middle lane near mile marker 101. The tractor-trailer sustained tire failure with its front left wheel, lost control, ran off the roadway to the left and overturned several times, according to the Highway Patrol. The tractor-trailer, which is an Orica USA truck, came to rest on its top on the northbound shoulder of I-85.
Pam Kearns, a spokeswoman with the N.C. Highway Patrol, said Holmes, who was wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected. She said Holmes had no passengers, and no other vehicles were involved. Kearns said defective equipment contributed to the crash, and no charges were filed because the crash was due to tire failure.
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Topic: Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general instead of believing the government should solve their problems?
A government under democracy should always be of the people, by the people and for the people. However a government exists, as the name implies, solely to "govern" people and their actions. Ultimately, society is shaped by the people themselves; the government only has a recognised means to take and sanction actions for the benefit of the people.
At the smallest scale, considering a single person, the government does not have the responsibility of baby sitting him through life; at a large scale, the same truth applies to a large population of people. Consider a society whose people do not recognise their needs or flaws, or make any attempt to fix them - the government of such a society is as useless as the people themselves.
After the devastation if the first world war, Germany lay in a pitiful state. The people were dejected and their honour besmirched as consequence of the war, and the interim government set up by the victors was utterly helpless amid the depression that swept the nation. It took the likes of Adolf Hitler, who injected such tremendous faith, pride and hope into the Germany people that their country recovered so astonishingly that they were able to start s new world war by invading two countries and putting up a great fight with several others on three different fronts. Regardless of the horrors of the second world war and the third reich, one single fact in indisputable: Germany would nev have risen so quickly to the power that it became during the war without the full support and dedication of it's people, which Hitler harnessed for his own ends.
Furthermore, if government fails to adequately address the demands of the society, it is up to the people to stand up for themselves and retaliate against the injustice. During the 1990s, the Bolivian government relinquished the control of its country's water supply to a multinational corporation which hiked prices drastically. This resulted in massive protests across the country as part of what came to be known as "Bolivia's water war". Eventually the officials of the MNC fled the country and the government took back control of the water, setting the price to a more affordable range.
A government cannot exist without people, but people can, and must, be able to survive without a government. Since the dawn of civilisation, the human race has been astonishingly self-sufficient, which has granted us rule over this planet. Our ability to take care of ourselves, especially under adverse circumstances, should be instinctive, whether there is a governing body to watch over us or not.


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The 16th anniversary of Skyland Trail's annual and primary fundraiser, Benefits of Laughter, raised $610,000 to fund services and programs that assist in the recovery of the mentally ill. Around 600 guests congregated in The St. Regis Atlanta's ballroom in Buckhead for a seated feast, a comedy show and a video presentation. They also recognized and commended the organization's late founder Charles West on more than 25 years of service. Television comedian Jake Johannsen provided the laughs during a stand-up comedy routine, and guests ended the night hobnobbing over coffee. –Photography by Lee Patterson and Tim Wilkerson


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Julianne Moore is mad for beavers. (You're all mature. No sniggering, please.) "I always tell my children"—son Caleb is 14, and daughter Liv turns 10 in April—"that my favorite animal is the beaver, because it's so industrious," the actress says. Then she adds, laughing, "And when they grow up, they'll be, 'Can you believe she said that all the time?' "
But Moore is serious. "Beavers don't seem that industrious when you look at them," she continues, "but they make those dams, little by little." She doesn't just admire the toothy rodents; she identifies with them. "I am diligent," she says. "That's one of my qualities: diligence. Not very glamorous, but true."
Her hard work (she has acted in nearly 50 movies, including Boogie Nights, Far from Heaven, The Kids Are All Right and last summer's Crazy, Stupid, Love), combined with Streep-like subtlety, has led to four Oscar nominations and a reputation as an actress who fully inhabits her characters. And her stature will only be enhanced by Game Change, the made-for-HBO movie about Sarah Palin's vice-presidential run, debuting March 10.
While the best-selling book on which the movie is based covered all the national candidates in the 2008 election, the film focuses on Palin and her increasing estrangement from Republican nominee John McCain (played by Ed Harris) and two key campaign advisers, Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) and Nicolle Wallace (Sarah Paulson).
Moore plays the former governor of Alaska and self-described hockey mom in all her contradictory glory. The portrait she creates is nuanced, complex—and surprisingly sympathetic (the film is less so, depicting Palin as intellectually and emotionally unprepared for the office to which she aspired). Moore, a registered Democrat who voted for Barack Obama, took the part for the challenge it presented. When director Jay Roach sent her the script, she says, "I was flabbergasted. I felt the role was as far away from me as I could possibly go. Once I said yes, I went into a full-fledged panic, because I was like, I don't know where to start."
But she did know. Step one was to wipe her iPod clean and fill it with the audio of Palin reading her memoir, Going Rogue; she also downloaded dozens of Palin speeches and interviews. For the two months before shooting began, Moore says, "I listened to her talk nonstop. I read every book that she wrote, the books that everybody else wrote about her, and I watched every speech and interview on YouTube. I immersed myself in her life, and I canceled everything else in my life." What wasn't part of her research: speaking to Palin in person. Moore says she didn't even try to make contact. "I don't think she was interested," she says.
Moore's intense preparation and commitment impressed her director. "I've never seen an actor work that hard to tap into the essence of a character," Roach says. He remembers that Moore often suggested they substitute a line that Palin had actually spoken in an interview for a line in the script. "She would never push you on it, but if she had found something that was stronger or more authentic, she'd make a pitch for it. She won a lot of those debates," adds Roach, who calls her performance "an embodiment, not an impersonation." Costar Sarah Paulson says, "I never felt that she was commenting on Palin's choices or her political moves from an acting perspective but rather that she was trying to play her with as much truth as possible."
Moore says that while she disagrees with Palin's politics, she does find the moose-hunting maverick "extremely charismatic" and is fascinated by how far that can take a candidate. "The movie makes the point that in politics, you need a star to win an election," she says. "I find that very disheartening as a voter—and as an actor—because knowing what that system is, it's not something I put a lot of stock in. Stardom is a quality, not a characteristic. At the end of the day, what we're looking for as citizens is leadership, and often what the system gives us is entertainment. And that I find deeply disappointing."
Moore herself has star quality aplenty, but in person, she's friendly, funny and down to earth. When we meet at a café near the Greenwich Village home she shares with her husband, director Bart Freundlich (Californication), and their children, she answers questions readily and is refreshingly frank about the joys of being a celebrity: "There's no downside! None. I explain to my kids that I'm very, very lucky. When people stop me and I'm with my kids, I always say hello and am nice. My daughter will say, 'That person was very nice, Mommy.' " And she confesses to being "the worst tweeter ever: boring and infrequent." She takes the Fifth on only one subject—her first marriage, about which she says simply, "I was too young." (She was 25 when she wed actor and stage director John Gould Rubin. They divorced nine years later, in 1995.)
If family and work are her priorities, friendship is a close third. "She is a very good girlfriend," says actress Ellen Barkin. "She's someone you can call up and share your happiness with or cry your eyes out for two hours." The two have been close pals—Moore referred to Barkin as her "BFF" in a recent tweet—since they met backstage while visiting Ralph Fiennes when he was starring in Hamleton Broadway in 1995.
Told that both Barkin and Paulson had extolled her gift for friendship, Moore says, "I like women a lot. I'm always excited to find someone I can talk to and spend time with." She is so pro-woman, in fact, that she dismisses celebrity magazines as harmful to them: "They encourage young women, and some middle-aged women, to be interested in somebody else's narrative rather than their own. I don't want my daughter or her friends to be interested in Jessica Simpson. I want them to be interested in what's happening in their own lives."
Given how strongly she identifies with women, she says, it was an eye opener, in a positive way, when her firstborn was a son: "The best thing to happen to me was that I had a boy, because then I was able to go, Oh, look, there are all these other people, and they count, too."
Moore has gained insight into men by coming to appreciate their love of sports. "I married into it. I didn't understand sports before," she says. "I just thought it was a bunch of nonsense." Now she believes that every player and team has a story. "It's narrative," she says, an epiphany that occurred when Freundlich told her, as they were watching a World Series game, that a player's young son had died and he was pitching in memory of his child. "It's men's way of expressing emotion, and once you know that, for me it becomes incredibly dynamic."
One man she's bonded with (though not over sports) is Colin Firth, with whom she costarred in A Single Man." She's one of the most fun people I've ever worked with," says Firth. "She was such fun that the work itself became something of an interruption. We were so busy telling stories that when [director] Tom Ford said 'Action,' it was a bit of a distraction."
Though Moore roots for New York teams now (she avidly talked up the Knicks with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show), she moved from place to place so often as a child that she could have accumulated a whole drawerful of home-team tees. She was born Julie Anne Smith—friends still call her Julie—in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where her father, Peter Moore Smith, an Army helicopter pilot and paratrooper, was based. He later became a military lawyer, judge and Army colonel. Moore's Scottish-born mother, Anne Love Smith, was a psychiatric social worker. Her family, which soon included a brother and sister, pulled up stakes repeatedly for her father's postings, among them overseas to Panama and Germany, an opportunity Moore now calls a gift. "The world is a much more global place than it was when we were growing up," she says, "and I feel like I was given an avenue into it at a pretty young age."
She became serious about acting while attending an American high school in Frankfurt, thanks to an English teacher who cast her in school productions of Tartuffe, Medeaand more. "She was the one who said, 'You can do this for a living,' " recalls Moore. "I'd never known any actors or seen a real play except for high school plays, and the movies were very far away, so it had never occurred to me, but she encouraged me." Moore applied to Boston University as a theater major and was accepted; her audition included a monologue from Butterflies Are Free and the song "I Cain't Say No" from Oklahoma! "I wasn't intimidated because I was so naive," she says. "I mean, I was the only one there auditioning with my mother."
She thrived at BU and, after graduating in 1983, moved to New York City, where she began winning parts in regional-theater productions and commercials. In 1985 she was hired to play dual roles on As the World Turns. Unlike some movie stars who have logged daytime duty, Moore fondly remembers her three years on the soap and her colleagues (including fellow up-and-comers Marisa Tomei and Steven Weber). "I averaged 4.5 episodes a week and worked really hard. I gained confidence and learned how to take responsibility for the work," she says. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1988 (beating out Robin Wright and Lauren Holly, among others). If anyone doubts her sincerity, know that when ATWT was canceled in 2010 after 54 years on TV, Moore returned for a farewell cameo.
But her film career has taken her far away from the soaps. Stardom came after she landed a trio of showy roles in a quick succession of memorable independent movies: Short Cuts (1993), Vanya on 42nd Street(1994) and Safe (1995). "They all came out at once, and I suddenly had this profile. It was amazing," she says.
Once Moore became a star, she stayed one. "She's a real hard worker," says Barkin. "Julie makes things happen for herself. She's not waiting to get lucky, and I don't think she ever was." Mark Ruffalo, who costarred with Moore in Blindness and The Kids Are All Right, also emphasizes her determination. "I would describe her acting style as one hand in a boxing glove and the other in an elbow-high velvet glove," he says. "She has something pretty damn fierce about her, forward leaning and aggressive. At the same time, she is filled with exquisite poise."
Even Alec Baldwin, he of the tart tongue and tarter tweets, has only compliments: "Julianne brings a beauty, warmth and intelligence to everything she does," he says of the woman his Jack Donaghy wooed on 30 Rock. "Even when she is playing a middle-aged single mom who 'sweeps dead squirrels off the porch.' "
Over the years, Moore has picked roles in more winners than clunkers. Her secret to sifting cinematic gold? "I'm a really good reader," she says. "Sometimes I think if I'd followed what interested me, I'd have ended up a librarian or an English teacher. When I started acting in high school, it just felt like reading aloud. So when I read a script now, when I can hear it and it comes alive, it's like, This script is great! I'll do this."
Back in 1996, one script she loved on first read was The Myth of Fingerprints, a family drama written by Freundlich, then an aspiring director and nine years her junior. She signed on and found herself scheduled to do her most difficult, emotional scenes at the start of shooting. "I was very focused. Then, when I'd done all of that, I woke up at the end of the first week and went, 'Oh, he's cute,' " she says, laughing. "So it kind of happened then."
What happened was that the two became involved, her first (and last) on-set affair with a director. A romance between actress and director seemed to Moore a show business cliché; she says, "I was hugely embarrassed about it, so I tried to keep it a secret. Ellen knew. I was on the phone with her and I wouldn't admit it, but she knew and she was going, 'Don't do it.' But I always say, it all worked out. We stayed together, and we have these kids together."
The couple wed in 2003 with their offspring in attendance. Barkin, who had been at the hospital with Moore for Caleb's birth and rubbed her feet when she was in labor with Liv, lent her friend a pair of long, dangly diamond earrings for the wedding. "It was the something borrowed," says Barkin. "She looked beautiful."
Moore says she and her husband realized on their most recent wedding anniversary that they've now been hitched longer than they lived together pre-ceremony. "We were like, 'Wow, we did it!' Marriage is commitment; it's the ultimate challenge. It's a very mature, adult kind of thing to do, to say I choose to have a household with you, children with you, to spend time with you." And that gets her back, as so many things do, to the idea of narrative. "Family is the ultimate narrative," she says. "It gives a story to your life in a remarkable way. And a witness."
HER FAMILY focus is so strong that she celebrated a recent birthday by going to Paris with her husbandandkids, because the couple couldn't bear to leave them behind. And yet most years, Moore manages to act in two or three movies; Being Flynn opens March 2. She also appears in advertising campaigns, saying the lucrative paychecks from companies such as Talbots, Bulgari, Revlon and Coach enable her to take roles in microbudget indie films.
Her nonacting activities are so extensive that she clearly could teach a course in time management. Maybe even to beavers. She volunteers for Save the Children, Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign (which advocates for marriage equality, among other goals). And she writes children's books, including the best-selling semiautobiographical series Freckleface Strawberry, about a girl with red hair. The first Freckleface book has been adapted to a long-running Off-Broadway musical, and a non-Freckle kids' book is in the works. This backup career, she says, "isn't terribly remunerative, but it's a lot of fun."
Moore's identity appears to be cheerfully grounded in reality, and that attitude extends to the question of plastic surgery. She hasn't had it and doesn't plan to: "I feel that, with a few exceptions, people always look like they've had surgery; they don't look any younger. I'm 51, and no matter what I do to my face, I'm still going to be 51.
"Age is about life span, about the journey we take," she says, and then returns to her favorite trope. "It gets back to narrative: You have to be where you are in your story and enjoy it for what it is." And with that she departs, heading home to add another page to the unfolding story of her life.
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For those who have worked and/or know Seminole high school football coach Mike Cullison, there should be no doubt that he is not a racist despite his deplorable use of the N-word.
Cullison used the N-word jokingly with an assistant coach Ronald Moore, who reported the incident to his superiors. As my co-worker Mike Bianchi eloquently wrote in today's paper, several of Cullison's former athletes have stepped in to support their former coach, including Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson.
"I talk to him all the time," Johnson told me on the phone. "He's always trying to help everybody. I know that guy, he's not a racist."
I wrote a column about Chris Johnson's academic issues at Olympia high school a few years back and Johnson told me about how Mike Cullison was one of the handful of supporters to give him a helping hand. Last January, I also wrote a story about another former Cullison player, Kenny Turner.
Kenny Turner, also Chris Johnson's friend, was sent to state prison at 16-years-old and cut short a promising football career. When almost every coach turned his back on Turner, Cullison was there. He wrote letters of support to Turner when he was in prison and helped him every step of the way to get a Division I scholarship to New Mexico State.
There are several other examples I could cite to show Cullison's character over the past four years I've known him, but you get the point.
The bigger issue at hand, as we stand just a few days out from Martin Luther King Day, is the use of the N-word. So many hurdles have been cleared in the past five decades, including President Barack Obama's 2008 nomination as America's first president of African American descent.
But we still can't get rid of this stupid word.
It's a complex issue within the African American community. Some hate the N-word for its ugly, painful history. Some believe as long as it's the N-word that ends with an "a" and not an "er" it's OK because it doesn't have the same connotation. It's almost a term of endearment.
"I don't mind using it," Chris Johnson said. "There's a difference between the "a" and the "er."
Surely, Johnson has heard this word on more than a few occasions in the locker room. When you combine Johnson's environment and age (he's 25), I expect these things to desensitize his perspective on the word.
But when I asked Johnson if it was OK for a white person to say the N-word, he said no.
Herein lies the complexity of this word. African Americans know it is an offensive word on some level, but say it is excusable in very particular situations and then expect other cultures to understand the "rules" of the word.
I think in 2011, most people outside of the African American community understand this. But as in the case of 52-year-old Mike Cullison he did not.
As an African American woman, I'm opposed to the use of the N-word. Truth must be truth in all circumstances, not some.
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Free agency hasn't begun YET. We're still waiting on the NFL and players to agree on a new CBA, and the best advice I can give everyone is be patient.
You wouldn't sign a 10-year mortgage without reading, understanding, and agreeing to the fine print? Well, the players are in the same position despite the owners' attempt to force a deal down their throat to save their exhibition games.
When the action gets going the Miami Dolphins need to move fast, and be aggressive.
Everyone and their momma knows that atop general manager Jeff Ireland's agenda is 1. final a veteran quarterback to challenge, if not unseat Chad Henne. 2. Find a starting caliber tailback who will complement Daniel Thomas.
How the team achieves those two missions will be tricky and complicated, but it's not mission impossible.
I discuss what I believe will be the Dolphins' order of operation will be during my Friday segment with Gino Torretta and Steve White, and you can find the audio that interview on this link.
During our talk I propose a deal with Denver to get Kyle Orton that involves players and picks.
I also explain why I'm still courting the slutty chick at the club who might have herpes (Vince Young), and plea for this franchise to re-sign Jason Taylor again, allowing him to end his career properly while filling that veteran backup pass rusher role.
I'll discuss all those issues again, and in more depth during my WQAM Saturday show, which airs today from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today on 560AM. You can find a link to the live feed here.
We've also arranged to have Dolphins outside linebacker Koa Misi on at noon, and I'm finalizing talks to have John Denney, the Dolphins' player rep, on with us at 1:30 p.m. to breakdown some of the issues the NFLPA has with the proposed CBA deal that the owners approved.
I'm going solo on radio again for the second time EVER, so hopefully you'll hold my handle bars while I get use to riding without training wheels.
I'll do extensive – hit it and quit it – call in segment for those who need to air their feels about this lockout, and talk free agency, so when I tweet to call, do so. Of course, those who say they're calling from The Mob might jump to the front of the line.


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He endured this in order to redeem human life. Life was sacred because he made it, and by His Passion and resurrection it is even more sacred because it is now raised to the heights of heaven with Him. In the book of Revelation, the Risen Christ declares, "To the victor I will give the right to sit with me on my throne." St. Paul likewise declares, "If we hold out until the end, we shall reign with Him." The destiny of the human person, therefore, is the heights of heaven — and that is yet another reason why Christians oppose abortion, which throws that life in the garbage.
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ZF-9416: Zend_Json_Encoder creates invalid JSON for Zend_Json_Decoder
This piece of JSON was created with Zend_Json_Encoder::encode
{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TTrip","IDuser":1,"Smoker":"flex","NumberPlate":"WI-EN 89","Places":2,"Contactlandline":"0221 54899","Contactmobile":"0175 54899","Description":"ich fahre nach k\u00f6ln","ClientIP":"192.168.1.20","Triptype":"offer","Routings":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TRoutingCollection",0:{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TRouting","Origin":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TPlace","Address":"K\u00f6ln, Deutschland","Accuracy":4,"CountryCode":"DE","CountryName":"Deutschland","Longitude":6.9599115,"Latitude":50.9406645,"Placetype":"geo","LatLonBox":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TLatLonBox","North":51.0530233,"South":50.8280335,"East":7.2160303,"West":6.7037927}},"Destination":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TPlace","Address":"Hamburg, Deutschland","Accuracy":4,"CountryCode":"DE","CountryName":"Deutschland","Longitude":9.9921962,"Latitude":53.5534074,"Placetype":"geo","LatLonBox":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TLatLonBox","North":53.6593331,"South":53.4472158,"East":10.248315,"West":9.7360774}},"RoutingIndex":-1}}}
During Decoding using Zend_Json_Decoder::decode this exception is thrown:
Message: Missing key in object encoding: {"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TTrip","IDuser":1,"Smoker":"flex","NumberPlate":"WI-EN 89","Places":2,"Contactlandline":"0221 54899","Contactmobile":"0175 54899","Description":"ich fahre nach köln","ClientIP":"192.168.1.20","Triptype":"offer","Routings":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TRoutingCollection",0:{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TRouting","Origin":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TPlace","Address":"Köln, Deutschland","Accuracy":4,"CountryCode":"DE","CountryName":"Deutschland","Longitude":6.9599115,"Latitude":50.9406645,"Placetype":"geo","LatLonBox":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TLatLonBox","North":51.0530233,"South":50.8280335,"East":7.2160303,"West":6.7037927}},"Destination":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TPlace","Address":"Hamburg, Deutschland","Accuracy":4,"CountryCode":"DE","CountryName":"Deutschland","Longitude":9.9921962,"Latitude":53.5534074,"Placetype":"geo","LatLonBox":{"__className":"fgSDK_Types_TLatLonBox","North":53.6593331,"South":53.4472158,"East":10.248315,"West":9.7360774}},"RoutingIndex":-1}}} Stack trace:
0 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Json\Decoder.php(174): Zend_Json_Decoder->_decodeObject()
1 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Json\Decoder.php(219): Zend_Json_Decoder->_decodeValue()
2 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Json\Decoder.php(174): Zend_Json_Decoder->_decodeObject()
3 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Json\Decoder.php(156): Zend_Json_Decoder->_decodeValue()
4 D:\dev\web[REMOVED]\service.[REMOVED]\trunk\application\controllers\TripController.php(38): Zend_Json_Decoder::decode('{"__className":...')
5 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Controller\Action.php(513): TripController->putAction()
6 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php(289): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('putAction')
7 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Controller\Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
8 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Application\Bootstrap\Bootstrap.php(97): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
9 D:\server\lib\zend1.10\Zend\Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
10 D:\dev\web[REMOVED]\service.[REMOVED]\trunk\public\index.php(76): Zend_Application->run()
11 {main}
Could you please provide the source data (array/object) for debugging?
Please see the attached files.
You need to extract the ZIP file (required types)
in the zend.php you can see the object creation and structure.
Do you need anything else?
br robert
Hi again,
sorry but its the first issue which I'm reported here.
What are the next steps? Is there a quick FIX available?
Can sombody here help in a short term?
br robert
Fixes to issues are prioritized by severity; that said, they're also going to occur based on availability of the contributors/maintainers of the components in question. The easier it is for a contributor to reproduce the issue, the easier it will be for them to work on it.
Is there any chance you can simplify the reproduce case further?
I attached already this 2 Files, including only a few files to reproduce the issue. It should be very very easy to reproduce and debug it.
For my client SOA architecture this functionality is key.
Is there a timeframe which I can communicate anyhow?
This bug is related to the fact that one of the classes is an instance of Iterator. In that case the encoder iterates the object itself instead of its variables to produce the JSON string.
It can be reproduced in the following scenarios:
class A implements Iterator {
protected $_stack;
public function __construct(array $array)
$this->_stack = $array;
public function rewind() {
public function current() {
return current($this->_stack);
public function key() {
return key($this->_stack);
public function next() {
return next($this->_stack);
public function valid() {
return $this->current() !== false;
$a = new A(array("foo"));
$encoded = Zend_Json_Encoder::encode($a);
$decoded = Zend_Json_Decoder::decode($encoded);
// Exception 'Zend_Json_Exception' with message 'Missing key in object encoding: {"__className":"A",0:"foo"}'
class B extends ArrayIterator
$b = new B(array("foo"));
$encoded = Zend_Json_Encoder::encode($b);
$decoded = Zend_Json_Decoder::decode($encoded);
// Exception 'Zend_Json_Exception' with message 'Missing key in object encoding: {"__className":"B",0:"foo"}'
ZF-9416.patch includes a test that demonstrates this bug. The problem relates to the fact that ArrayIterator gets encoded as an object in JSON, which requires a string key for each value. However, when an array without keys is encoded it is an array in JSON, which does not have keys. I'm not sure what the proper behavior should be. Do we convert numeric keys to strings and preserve it as an object? Do we embed an array within the JSON object and follow the same rules for encoding arrays?
I think the proper behavior is demonstrated by json_encode:
$iteratorA = new ArrayIterator(array('foo'));
$encoded = json_encode($iteratorA);
This produces:
string(11) "{"0":"foo"}"
I am going to follow this behavior in Zend_Json::encode and add the numeric keys as strings for safety.
In the sample code, it is calling Json_Encoder and Json_Decoder directly. A better approach is to use Json::encode and Json::decode. This way, if you have json support in PHP it will use the native functions json_encode and json_decode. Not only is it faster, but this bug does not occur. The bug only exists in the internal class Json_Encoder (which I will soon fix).
ZF-9416-2.patch fixes the bug and includes a better unit test. I fixed the bug by using the internal _encodeString function for keys within an object, since JSON requires that object keys always be strings. This handles the encoding of numeric keys in the same way as the native json_encode feature now. Unit test now passes. Should be ready to commit.
Unit test written to demonstrate the problem and prove that the patch fixes it. Please use the ZF-9416-2.patch file.
Was not resolved in code (yet).
Resolved in r22452 in trunk and in r22453 in release branch 1.10 with patch "-2" from above.


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For the most part, I don't really enjoy nostalgia acts, but when the songbooks and careers being remembered and celebrated belong to Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson, I can forgive a lot - a whole lot.
With just a handful of more recent songs sprinkled in, Kristofferson and Haggard, backed by Merle's ace backing band The Strangers, the two country music icons shared the stage Tuesday at Kingsbury Hall with Haggard handling the majority of songs in what made for a memorable show.
Kristofferson seemed perfectly content to hang back and tried to harmonize and play rhythm parts where he could. What had been billed as an "acoustic evening" was nothing of the sort. Save for Kristofferson's acoustic and Norm Hamlin's acoustic lap steel, everyone else was plugged in.
Haggard, 74, traded leads with his son Ben, who even though he's just 19, seems to have been born with an inherent knowledge of every classic country lick, tone and fill that's out there. This is the third time I've seen Ben on leads with his legendary dad and every time he effortlessly handles the role manned for decades by the late Roy Nichols.
Kristofferson generally stuck to his biggest hits, with "Me and Bobby McGee," and "Help Me Make It Through The Night," coming early and generating an annoying low-key sing-a-long with the audience. And I'll never know why certain familiar songs inspire certain audience members to think anyone paid to hear them sing, but that's what happens, and it happened a lot Tuesday. And Kristofferson, 75, didn't seem to mind and appeared in high spirits for much of the night.
Haggard played the majority of the songs and relied on his regular set for the most part - stalwarts such as "Big City," "Mama Tried," "Silver Wings," but with two notable exceptions. Watching Haggard and Kristofferson cover Townes Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty," early and Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," later on were relatively rare treats and provided goosebump moments for many in the crowd.
A few other blasts of over-the-top great country were Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee," which the Hag self-deprecatingly introduced after Kristofferson's magnificent "Sunday Morning Coming Down" had received a deservedly thundering ovation.
My lone criticism of this show is that it ended at 90 minutes on the nose and the lights went up even as Haggard's band was still playing the outro music. Eesh. And although tickets started at $45, many paid $60 to sit in Kingsbury's lonely balcony area and ended up dropping .75 cents a minute for the show. And while you could do worse with your entertainment dollar, that seems a tad pricey.
But legends are legends and even if it was a nostalgia filled show, it was easily one of the most fun, and well-received country shows in Salt Lake in some time.


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Her Project Runway role
What's inspiring [as a judge] is watching different interpretations of fashion. What is not so much fun is letting someone go. I've had debates with other judges, and it gnaws at me when I think they chose the wrong person to send home.
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As I get older, I don't worry as much. I'm a mother with two small children, so I need to make quicker decisions and not fret about them. I don't have time.
Her producer spouse
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Anyone have recs for Romantic Suspense that doesn't involve the sick, twisted mind of a psychopathic killer? I can only read so many before I need a change of pace. I'm thinking something with international intrigue or uncovering a long buried family secret. Criminals are fine as long as their intent is to get away rather than to kill in cold blood.
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Older books like Barbara Michaels? Or even older, Mary Stewart?
I confess that I don't read Romantic Suspense very often, having hit my limit on revolting psychotic serial killers some time ago. Are any current writers doing anything that raises chills without turning the stomach?
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It's been a while, but I think the Elizabeth Lowell book,
Tell Me No Lies
, did not include a serial or psychotic killer. It's an oldie, though.
Also, I'm reading a book by Marilyn Pappano called
that doesn't appear to have that type of killer. I'm only 70 or so pages in, there's been an attempted killing, but there may be a different type of motivation.
I'm sure there are others, but sometimes the details escape me. I'll get back to you if I remember any more.
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Post subject: Re: Romantic Suspense without killers
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Anyone have recs for Romantic Suspense that doesn't involve the sick, twisted mind of a psychopathic killer? I can only read so many before I need a change of pace. I'm thinking something with international intrigue or uncovering a long buried family secret. Criminals are fine as long as their intent is to get away rather than to kill in cold blood.
You should probably take a look at
this thread
from last year.
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Thanks for the link. Couldn't remember how long ago this was discussed when I started this thread.
I loved Mary Stewart's RS novels when I was young. Still have them all in MMP and go back to them when I can't find anything else. I remember reading some of Barbara Michaels but don't remember which ones.
I have some old Helen McInnes books in my TBR. May have to turn my attention to them. I'd love to find some newer authors in ebook format that are writing more in this vein.
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I would definitely second some of the older JAK romantic suspense novels (pre-arcane days) such as Absolutely Positively, Family Man, Sweet Fortune, Trust Me, Wildest Hearts, and the Eclipse Bay series. I loved those books. Definitely no evil serial killers and I'm pretty sure no villain POV (and if I'm wrong about the POV, it has to be very brief because I have little tolerance for villain POV).
In the older vein, in addition to reading Mary Stewart, I also read historical suspense by Jane Aiken Hodge. All the ones I read had a strong romance thread.
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Old suspense, espionage: Helen MacInnes. I believe that she wrote through the 1970s.
Jayne Anne Krentz's books. Oops,
I third
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This begs for a new topic thread.
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Susanna Kearsley writes books in the same genre as Barbara Michaels and Mary Stewart. There are mysteries, romance and suspense but no psycho killers and body parts. I highly recommend her if you are a Michaels/Stewart fan.
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Scent of Rain and Lightning
by Nancy Pickard did not involve a psychotic killer. There is a romance here.
Maisie Dobbs
by Jaqueline Winspear doesn't involve one that I remember. Some Romance.
The Girl is Murder
by Kathryn Miller Haines No romance but a great read.
What I Saw and How I Lied
by Judy Blundell Same as above.
Most of
The Cat Who
books deal with simple crimes, not crazed killers. Varrying romances.
Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy series starting with
Catering to Nobody
does not inovolve psychotic killers. I started with
Death by Chocolate
which is the far better book. Wasn't lost at all. Lovely romance runs throughout the series.
Cozies tend
to deal with psycho's. They do deal with killers but the killer tends to have a "logical" reason for the crime and we don't get their POV.
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There was a scary, sloshed moment sometime late last night when I became convinced that Jesse "The Body" Ventura is more of a surfer than I am.
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Which takes me back to my moment of doubt, when I wondered if Jesse "The Body" Ventura is more of a surfer than I am. My first reaction to the clip was that Ventura's very public touting of surfing is just another indication that surfing is over. Not because surfing is mainstream - but because surfing has become just what Ventura accused organized religion of being - another "sham" or "crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers."
Surfing is now what a baby-boomer like Ventura, who has traced a Forrest Gump-esque path through history, does when they need to find meaning in their twilight days. Surfing allows you to feel at one with nature, it allows you to grasp in an instant a sense of belonging, in a universe that makes no sense. When a convert like Ventura first discovers surfing, they are saved - suddenly they belong to a tribe of like-minded followers, they have an identity, they're aligned with a "cool" trend, they're grasping at youth and hedonism while tapping into a quasi-spiritualism at the same time.
It fucking disgusts me. It makes me want to quit surfing for good and try to find something in life that ACTUALLY fucking means something, instead of watching 20 more years slip away as I bicker with wetsuited walruses in two-foot slop.
That was my first reaction to Ventura's proclamation.
My second reaction was this: Ventura is more of a surfer than I am, because he's still in love with surfing. He's caught in the frantic heart of those passionate first few years, when every session holds the promise of granting you the best wave of your life. Each new day a revelation.
Jesse "The Body" Ventura can look towards the horizon and dream of all the things that surfing and life have in store for him - his first barrel, his first trip to Indo, his first session at some lauded break like Teahupoo or Mavericks... for me, it's all but over. I've had those experiences, and I can't go back and do them again with unjaded eyes.
Home will never be as good again as it was when I was a kid. Even if the waves get all-time, the crowds and bitterness and decay will ruin it for me. My skills will most likely wane from here on out. To get the best wave of my life, I'm counting on a lottery-ticket of variables to coalesce at some unnamed reef-pass 24 hours of travel, 3 diseases, and one perfect swell west of here. Who knows if that will ever happen.
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DAYTONA BEACH – Yadier Molina has been a consensus pick as baseball's best defensive catcher.
SportsVolusia.com Home Run Derby and Hilton Brawl at the Beach softball games
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WHAT: Softball home run derby between three amateur derby winners from last weekend, numerous current and former Major League Baseball players and two USSSA Major League World Series All-Tournament players
WHERE: Jackie Robinson Ballpark
WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday; gates open early for 5:30 autograph session ($15 donation required, one autograph from each player)
TICKETS: $10 adults, $5 children 4-13, children 3-and-under free
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ETC. Gates open at 10 a.m.; exotic car show on the Riverwalk inside the Jack at noon, MLB players autograph signing session during amateur softball game after 1 p.m. ($15 donation per wristband, one autograph from each player)
This week, the five-time Gold Glove catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals can lay claim to the title of baseball's best defensive player.
Molina, 30, was named the best defensive player in the majors in Greatness in Baseball Yearly Award honors announced this week at baseball's winter meetings in Nashville. The GIBBY Awards, as they are known, are presented by MLB.com and decided by votes from media, MLB front-office personnel, former big leaguers, fans and Society of American Baseball Research members.
It's one more honor in a career that has plenty of baseball left – future all-star games, likely playoffs and maybe another World Series title or two given the fact he has two championship rings already from past fall classics.
Thursday night, Molina was at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort mingling with sponsors and guests who are supporting a home run derby and charity softball doubleheader Friday night and Saturday afternoon, respectively, at Jackie Robinson Ballpark. Proceeds will benefit Molina's charitable Foundation 4.
"We're helping every cause we can," Molina said while taking a short break from posing for photos with fans and signing autographs. "We're helping abused kids, we're helping people with cancer, you name it. That's why I'm into it."
This will be the third such fundraising event for Foundation 4, which gets its name from Molina's jersey number. The first two were in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, where Foundation 4 provides assistance "because there is such a great need there," Molina said.
The youngest of three Molina brothers to play in the big leagues said he can't wait to get on the field at the Jack and launch some long balls.
"It's going to be a blast," Molina said with a smile. "It's going to be awesome being out there with my brothers and friends."
Bengie Molina, 38, who played 13 seasons in the majors, and Jose Molina, 37, a Tampa Bay Rays catcher entering his 14th big league season, will be slugging for the pros. The Molina brothers will be joined by St. Louis first baseman Tony Cruz, Cardinals third-base coach and former major leaguer Jose Oquendo and former minor leaguer Roberto Lopez. Team Easton softball sluggers Scott Kirby and Kevin Kennington also will be in the home run contest.
Three amateurs – Gary Malphurs of Edgewater, Roger Huff of Ocala and Chris Gatewood of St. Augustine – also will take part in the SportsVolusia.com Home Run Derby that begins at 7 p.m. Friday.
Several pros (Carlos Beltran, Jon Jay, Rafael Furcal and Pedro Feliciano) who were scheduled to be here dropped out Thursday, organizer Danny Acosta said.
But for those players who are here, Yadier Molina said they want to put on a good show in the home run derby and Saturday's 3 p.m. game against the winner of the Hilton Brawl at the Beach championship game at 1 p.m. between Giles Electric and the 7th Inning Villains.
"We're going to play good, we're going to have fun and we're going to protect ourselves," Yadier said. "I've got my team ready to go."
The pros even went to the Jack on Thursday afternoon for a practice, Molina said.
Clearly the main attraction to this weekend's events is fans get to see the only three brothers in baseball history to win World Series. Between the three Molinas, there are five World Series rings.
And it's a rarity – happening just once before in recent years – for the Molinas to be on the same diamond competing, even if it's just a friendly home run derby and charity softball game.
"This is only the second time in years the three of us are going to be on the same field," Yadier said. "It's awesome."
So where will the three Molinas play on the field?
"Bengie's going to DH, I'm going to play shortstop and Jose is going to play second base," Yadier said, his smile growing ever wider.
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