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What It Means for Personalized Medicine. Measuring methotrexate polyglutamate levels may allow a doctor to adjust methotrexate doses to raise or lower the polyglutamate levels in each patient until it reaches a therapeutic level. But more research is needed, says Susan M. Goodman, MD, a rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
"There is significant overlap between polyglutamate levels in patients who have responded to methotrexate and those who haven't, so standards would be difficult to define. And it takes months for methotrexate polyglutamate levels to reach a steady state, which lessens the usefulness in using the levels to guide therapy," she says.
Vectra DA: A New Multi-Biomarker Test
What It Is. Vectra DA is a blood test that measures 12 biomarkers of RA. "Researchers began with 396 biomarkers and winnowed those down to the 12 that have the strongest and most consistent relationship with the disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis," says Dr. Curtis. Some of the biomarkers include those that are of part of typical RA labwork such as c-reactive protein (CRP); interleukin 6, a driver of RA inflammation, and tumor necrosis factor, type 1 (TNF-R1), a chemical also involved in RA inflammation. Vectra DA is not used to diagnose RA but to monitor disease activity and to help predict joint damage.
Why It's Different. It's the first test that measures multiple biomarkers for RA at once. "It reveals disease activity in a way that correlates with the way we usually measure it," says Dr. Curtis. "It also does a pretty good job of predicting joint damage and flares that correlates with ultrasound and MRIs [magnetic resonance imaging]."
Dr. Curtis stresses that not everyone who has RA needs the test: "It's only needed when there is uncertainty about how active the RA is or if the doctor is unsure whether to make a change in treatment."
What It Means for Personalized Medicine. "It's one more piece of information that a doctor can use to optimize the care of an RA patient," says Dr. Curtis. He notes that while not every doctor has ready access to ultrasound or MRI equipment, this test requires a blood draw only, so it's a more accessible test and may help predict joint damage as well.


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It's that time again -- the Kalamazoo Gazette is holding their annual Readers' Choice Awards. This competition invites all readers to give their two cents about which businesses really stand out in the Kalamazoo area. Voting began this past Sunday, September 12th and goes through 5 p.m. on on Friday, September 24th.
This year's awards include five main categories: Arts & Entertainment, Services, Sports & Leisure, Shopping and Dining. Within those categories are over 70 total subcategories. For example, under Dining you'll be able to vote for your favorite pizza place, Italian restaurant, coffee shop, the best wine list and lunch spot, among other things.
Commonly, many subcategories feature local restaurants as the top winners, though some chain restaurants make it onto the list as well. For each category, the first, second and third place winners are featured along with some honorable mentions. Last year, several locales won multiple awards, including the Air Zoo, Food Dance Cafe, Webster's Prime Steakhouse, Bravo! Restaurant & Cafe and Bell's Brewery.
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UTSA will begin their first ever season as a full Football Bowl Subdivision member as they head to Houston to open the Cougar's new stadium, TDECU Stadium, on Friday night.
It is the first time the Roadrunners will not be playing on a Saturday, as a result of the match being rescheduled for television, with the game showing on ESPN U.
The Roadrunners are coming in one shy of a program record with five straight wins closing out the 2013 season and will come in with a nation leading 37 seniors for the 2014 season.
That run could well come to an end on Friday with Houston determined to break the seal on their new stadium in the best way possible. It would also be in line with history, with Cougars winning their only previous meeting with an impressive fourth quarter performance with a 59-28 win.
UTSA head coach, Larry Coker, reflected on Houston's ability in his weekly media round table "First off, the quarterback is good, and they have size and excellent speed. Houston has always had good speed in that program. They have a positive mindset. They have the confidence that they are going to be good and that is a lot of it... We are playing big time competition and the Houston Cougars are big time competition for us."
Houston's domination of the 2013 game augers as a sign of not only ending UTSA's winning streak but also would seem to likely end their streak of season openers, having never lost an opening match in school history.
The game brings something of a rivalry in to the encounter, with 14 of the Roadrunners, along with a significant percentage of the student body, hailing from Houston. In addition there will be three former members of UTSA on the coaching staff with former offensive coordinator, Travis Bush, former recievers coach, Tony Jeffery and, most notably, inaugural quarterback, Eric Soza, all serving coaching roles for the Cougars.
Despite all of UTSA's experience, losing Soza has come as a big hit with Tucker Carter, the leader on the depth chart in the position, the only player with any experience, with just five appearances off the bench in the 2013 season, the third lowest for a starting quarterback in the FBS.
Carter is the only member of UTSA's quarterback team that has had any game time as Austin Robinson and Blake Bogenschutz both come in as freshmen.
Despite that, Coker was confident, "We are a better football team now and we have more talent. We are going to have to play better on Friday, but we are a more talented team, we are stronger, we are bigger and we have more experience and all those types of things, so I certainly feel better about this team going into the first game."
UTSA have been tipped to come third in their Conference-USA division and could go a long way to that by winning against Houston on Friday but it will certainly be against the odds.


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The Patriots are bringing former assistant Brian Daboll back to the staff, effective immediately, Bill Belichick told reporters during a conference call Monday.
Daboll spent the 2012 season as the Chiefs' offensive coordinator. He was with New England from 2000-06 before going to the Jets with Eric Mangini. He was the Browns' offensive coordinator from 2009-10 and then the Dolphins' offensive coordinator in 2011.
From 2002-06, Daboll was the Patriots' wide receivers coach. Last year, the Patriots brought Josh McDaniels in during the playoffs, and he eventually took over as offensive coordinator after Bill O'Brien left for Penn State.
The Patriots beat the Texans 41-28 on Sunday and will host the Ravens in the AFC title game. Daboll faced the Ravens with the Chiefs earlier this season in a 9-6 loss.
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On June 9, 2010 the United Nations imposed new sanctions on Iran. The ongoing effort to force Iran into compliance with international demands over its nuclear program has the feel of too little too late.
Security Council Resolution 1929 has been heralded as a crucial step in the process of containing Iran, but appears Shakespearean: Much Ado About Nothing.
It was passed by 12 votes after the U.S. cobbled the package together over a period of six months. Brazil and Turkey voted against it, while Lebanon abstained. The lack of a unified front is widely regarded as weakness.
President Obama, speaking at the White House, advised that this round of sanctions were the toughest ever faced by the Iranian government. He said, "We know that the Iranian government will not change its behavior overnight, but today's vote demonstrates the growing costs that will come with Iranian intransigence."
A defiant Tehran responded with a slightly different view, insisting that punitive measures will change absolutely nothing. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejab said, "These resolutions have no value. . .it is like a used handkerchief that should be thrown in the waste bin. Sanctions are falling on us from the left and the right. For us they are the same pesky flies. We have patience and we will endure throughout all of this."
Iran has been vociferous in their enthused claims of innocence regarding their nuclear program—it is peaceful and they have no plans or intention to build nuclear weapons.
Ah-huh. If any unbiased individual truly believes those assertions, it'd be headline news. Any reasoned reading of Iran's history reveals that the regime's current anti-Israel bombast is merely ancient hatred rooted in complex religious and tribal animosities that go back thousands of years. The fact that it repeatedly gets refashioned and recycled every generation is testimony to the dark heart of humanity.
Of course, we live in a world where history is given little credence—for far too many people, history is simply last night's television shows.
Instead of learning lessons history teaches about the severe limitations of diplomacy when it comes to dealing with tyrants and bullies, we operate within the confines of a false hope for a good outcome. To allow Iran to defy the international community reveals that there is serious disconnect between policy failures and reality because we continue to pursue a disingenuous course while wishing for the best.
In mid-February 2010, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), released a report that outlined Iran's potential for producing a nuclear weapon which includes plans for developing a missile-ready warhead.
Iran is determined to dominate the region. It is on record for being in full support of destroying Israel—erasing the nation from the map while eliminating the people from the face of the earth. President Ahmadinejab has continually spewed virulent anti-Israel rhetoric which is quite often matched by other Iranian leaders.
This latest U.N. initiative is the fourth round since 2006, and despite the hard words from the Obama Administration, these sanctions are merely the window dressing of a feckless foreign policy. Eighteen months into his presidency, Obama has proven himself to be all talk no action.
These sanctions are in no way crippling or conducive to changing Iran's behavior, which is their intent. If this is the best the U.S. could do in six months of negotiating, then it'd be wise for Israel to come to terms with the truth that they have no ally presently occupying the Oval Office.
Senator John McCain noted that the U.N. Resolution was modest and called for unilateral sanctions. He said, "I wish I could say that today's Security Council Resolution is worth the more than six months it took to produce, but that is just not the case. The resolution is a lowest common denominator product, which builds only modestly on the three sanctions resolutions that the U.N. Security Council has passed already."
A nuclear armed Iran ought to be of deep concern for anyone who desires peace in the Middle East. Iran and Israel are on a collision course.
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When Guinness World Records editor Stuart Claxton is asked about world records, he is like a father who doesn't want to be seen as favoring one child over another.
The venerable record-keeping organization has just released its list of top records for 2012 and Claxton insists all of them are important in their own way, whether it be the massive record Barack Obama set when 771,635 people retweeted his "Four more years" remark on election night or the death of Besse Cooper, who, before dying recently, was one of the 10 oldest people ever verified in history.
Claxton is also impressed that the shortest male and female in the world met each other -- the first time in history that this has happened. At the meeting, Both Jyoti Amge of India, who stands slight over two feet met her male counterpart, Chandra Bahadur Dangi of India, who is 21.5 inches tall, wore traditional outfits from their native countries.
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In this image taken from video, Kazuhiro Watanabe, 40, a fashion designer from Tokyo, shows off his 3-foot-8-point-6-inch hairdo in New York City's Washington Square Park on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. To make it stand upright he says it takes stylists two hours, one can of gel and three cans of hairspray. The New York appearance was to promote the newest version of the Guinness World Records book, which for the first time includes Watanabe. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
In an undated photo provided by Guinness World Records 2013 Book, Kevin Doorlag stands with his dog Zeus in Otsego, Mich. The Great Dane is now officially the worlds tallest canine according to the record book. The 3-year-old measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder. Standing on his hind legs, Zeus measures 7-foot-4. (AP Photo/Guinness World Records 2013 Book, Kevin Scott Ramos, HO)
The South Korean pop star's video for "Gangnam Style" is not only the top music video on YouTube but also the most viewed video online of any kind. But the records won't stop there - looking further ahead, the video is poised to become the first online video to register 1 billion views, a mark likely to come before Christmas.
The tightest parallel park is 14 cm (5.51 in) and was achieved by Ronny Wechselberger aka Ronny C' Rock (Germany), at Flugplatz Kindel in Eisenach, Germany, on June 18th, 2012.
The world's oldest person, Besse Cooper, died of natural causes Tuesday at the age of 116.
Twenty-eight limber ladies from Sussex, England squeezed their way to a new record, by simultaneously stuffing themselves inside a Mini Cooper hatchback in honor of November's eighth annual Guinness World Records Day. The organizer, Dani Maynard, had her team of gymnasts take on a training regime which included extra stretching and hula-hoop relay racing in order to prepare for the record. It took 10 minutes for all the women to get inside with all doors and windows shut for at least five seconds.
Miranda Ferguson, a 16-year-old cheerleader in Texas, gave the halftime performance of a lifetime last week. As her team and the audience cheered her on, the Texas high school junior broke the world handspring record with a series of 35 back flips. At last year's game, Ferguson completed 20 handsprings, and when she found out that the current world record was 32, she set her sights on beating it. At this year's big game, two Guinness Book of World Records officials stood by to witness and keep count as Ferguson backflipped her way from one 15-yard line on the field to the other.
The first person to perform a '1080' on a skateboard (three full rotations while airborne) is Tom Schaar, a 12-year-old from Malibu, California who achieved the feat using a "mega ramp" at Woodward West, Tehachapi, California on March 26th, 2012.
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world's shortest man and Jyoti Amge, the world's shortest woman met for the first time to celebrate the organisation which made them famous. The 18-year-old from India and the 72-year-old Nepalese both made headlines last winter when they were given their titles.
The most live concerts performed in 24 hours in multiple cities is eight, and was achieved by The Flaming Lips as they hit eight different cities throughout the Mississippi Delta by bus between June 27th-28th, 2012. The gig was documented by Viacom's O Music Awards, which celebrates the world of digital music. The record was previously held by rapper Jay Z who performed concerts in seven different cities to promote the release of his new album 'Kingdom Come' in 2006.
The Austrian aeronautic pioneer's death defying jump from near the edge of space recorded the most concurrent views of a live stream with over 8 million people tuning in to watch the milestone feat! The unprecedented feat is also being considered for three new Guinness World Records: the highest freefall parachute jump (both FAI-sanctioned and unsanctioned), the highest vertical speed in freefall, and the greatest freefall distance.
President Obama's re-election generated the most widespread social networking message in 24 hours: "Four more years." The iconic phrase was re-tweeted more than 771,635 times on Twitter by different individuals within 24 hours of its first appearance on November 7th. The online sentiment beat out famed pop star Justin Bieber's Twitter record, which was 251,878 re-tweets of a "Happy Birthday" during his 18th birthday.
The Austrian aeronautic pioneer's death defying jump from near the edge of space recorded the most concurrent views of a live stream with over 8 million people tuning in to watch the milestone feat! The unprecedented feat is also being considered for three new Guinness World Records: the highest freefall parachute jump (both FAI-sanctioned and unsanctioned), the highest vertical speed in freefall, and the greatest freefall distance.
Claxton's will admit, however, that one record stands taller than the rest: Felix Baumgartner's freefall from 24 miles in the sky.
"Not to slight the others, but if I have to pick one record that sticks out, it has to be Felix Baumgartner because he broke a record that stood for 50-plus years," Claxton told The Huffington Post. "It almost summed up what Guinness is about: People who chase dreams trying to achieve the impossible and having the courage to follow through."
On the other hand, there are records that couldn't have been broken 50 years ago because they represent technology that didn't exist, such as Obama retweet record or Psy's 824,665,713 views for "Gangnam Style."
"There are two kinds of records, I think. Inspirational and aspiriational." Claxton said. "It's safe to say that Psy's record for likes will eventually be broken, but not everyone can do a freefall. However, they might try to do a 1080-degree spin on a skateboard or 35 backflips in a row.


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This homemade caramel corn far surpasses the store-bought variety. Adding nuts makes it extra special. I like to double the recipe for gifting. —Karen Edwards, Sanford, Maine
- 10 cups popped popcorn
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup mixed nuts
- Place popcorn in a large bowl; set aside.
- In a large heavy saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter, corn syrup and salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture comes to a rolling boil. Cook and stir until candy thermometer reads 238° (soft-ball stage). Remove from heat; stir in baking soda (mixture will foam). Quickly pour over popcorn and mix well; stir in nuts.
- Transfer to two greased 13x9-in. baking pans. Bake at 200° 45 minutes, stirring once. Remove from pans and place on waxed paper to cool. Break into clusters. Store in airtight containers. Yield: 2-1/2 quarts.
Editor's Note: We recommend that you test your candy thermometer before each use by bringing water to a boil; the thermometer should read 212°. Adjust your recipe temperature up or down based on your test.
Originally published as Caramel Corn with Nuts in Taste of Home December/January 2010, p64
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"This is the best ever. I use to make a big batch of this for the kids in the family and they would hide from there moms and dads. This is in my Land o Lakes cookbook 1992 pg 492Now as a grandmother I hand it out to the grandchildren. Yes they hide it too.Great as a Christmas gift for teachers. Injoy ! Grandmakitty3"
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"I have made this for the last two Christmases for gifts, but I have to make extra because we eat so much of it before it is packaged. I am thinking I might make it for Halloween also."
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"YUM!! This recipe is simple to make and tastes just like Fisher's popcorn we get at the beach in Ocean City, MD. Makes great Christmas gifts."


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Looking ahead, GfK MRI data show that 4.6% of U.S. consumers are very or somewhat likely to purchase a Tablet in the next 12 months and 5.4% are very/somewhat likely to purchase an eReader. The generational breakdown shows that that Millennials, GenXers and Boomers are all looking to purchase these devices.
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Somehow Carolina Galvan-Rodriguez is holding on to her three restaurants. Teresa Gubbins ate at Taco Mundo and one location of Carolina's Mexican Kitchen. She files the following review. Have you been? What do you think? Why are tacos suddenly the new "it" food?
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Carolina's is incredible (the reason I wrote it in for a vote in the 'Best of Dallas' polls), the brisket tacos are by far the best I've had in Dallas.
http://www.thedallascookbook.blogspot.com Amy S
I loved the back-story.
"She did it mostly because it's what she knows, but also maybe because she had something to prove about herself and the role she played in Mi Cocina's success. Though her journey since then has been rocky, the three restaurants she's opened indicate that the role she played was greater than we realized."
I hope she succeeds.
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Good tacos are the new "it" food because we're all looking for something better than the greasy ground beef tacos that we've been forced to make do with for so long. I also like the attention being paid to making good tortillas rather than the same old crispy tacos with no flavor. I went to Rusty Taco for lunch today and was a very happy camper.
Thoroughly enjoyed the article about Carolina's and Taco Mundo in the print product. Job well done.
Love the chicken enchiladas at Carolina's and the patio at their North Dallas location is pretty awesome.
The one in north Dallas at the 2 tollways has a great patio. The location seems kinda hidden at first but once your there, your glad it is so there isn't a huge wait. The food and device beats any other Mexican place in town and the atmosphere is tops as well. Been 5 times and it somehow gets better each time. Hope she puts mico in their place as a avg Tex Mex hole.


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Taylor Swift Beatboxes for LL Cool J
Taylor Swift once again practiced her beatboxing skills at the 2013 Grammy Nominations Concert on Wednesday night, providing a little background music for her co-host, LL Cool J.
The pop singer admitted, "This is gonna be terrible. I'm only doing this for you," before launching into her questionable beat.
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IPFW Rallies For 12-7 Victory Over Baseball In Extra Innings
April 24, 2005
Chicago, Ill. - IPFW designated hitter Sean Kirk broke a 3-all tie in the top of the eighth inning with a two-run double, as the visiting Mastodons exploded for nine runs in the frame to pick up the 12-7 come-from-behind, non-conference, extra-inning victory over the University of Illinois at Chicago baseball squad in Game One of their doubleheader at Les Miller Field on Sunday afternoon.
UIC sophomore starter Ryan Zink (3-5) opened the eighth inning, by issuing walks to both IPFW outfielders Ryan Keena (2-for-4, 2 runs, RBI) and Dustin Fremion (1-for-3, 2 RBI, 2 runs), setting the stage for Kirk's heroics.
Kirk (2-for-5, 3 RBI, run) moved over to third base on a flyout by catcher Brent Doty and scored on a Caleb Smith RBI single, extending IPFW's lead to 6-3. The Mastodons tacked on six more runs in the frame to secure the come-from-behind victory.
With the victory, IPFW improves to 19-14 overall, while the Flames fall to 19-15-1 on the campaign.
IPFW reliever Keegan Laycock (3-4) picked up the victory for the Mastodons, allowing four runs and five hits in 6.1 innings of work. Zink was tagged with the loss, allowing nine runs, six earned, while scattering 11 hits and striking out six batters.
UIC freshman first baseman Mark Hallberg led the Flames' offensively, going 2-for-4 with two runs and a RBI, while teammate Larry Gempp Jr. was 2-for-3 at the plate with a RBI and a run scored. Flames' senior third baseman Bryan Russo chipped in two RBI in the defeat.
UIC took a 3-0 lead into the sixth inning, before the Mastodons tallied twice in the frame behind a RBI singles from shortstop Ryan Steinbach (3-for-5, 2 runs, RBI) and Kirk, cutting the Flames' advantage to 3-2.
The Mastodons completed the rally in the seventh as Smith reached base on an infield single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by third baseman Tyler Fowler. IPFW second baseman Brent Alwine (2-for-4, 2 RBI, run) evened the score at 3-apiece with a RBI single up the middle.
UIC got on the board in the first inning, as senior second baseman Bruszer drew a lead-off walk and moved over to third on a single up the middle by Hallberg. Gempp plated Bruszer with a RBI single, giving the Flames the 1-0 advantage.
Hallberg moved over to third on the play and scored on a RBI groundout by junior designated hitter Ted Rosinski, extending UIC's lead to 2-0.
The Flames tacked on another run in the second inning, as senior right fielder Shane Crowder (2 runs) drew a lead-off walk and moved over to third base on a wild pitch and a sacrifice bunt by junior catcher Bryan Nolte.
Senior shortstop Jeff Gremley plated Crowder with a RBI double, his team-best, 13th of the season, pushing the Flames' ahead 3-0.


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Gastech offers the ideal opportunity to catch up on the latest technical developments in the LNG and LPG shipping sectors
CONFERENCE REPORT Regulators must balance the need for safety with the practical implications of the restrictions they impose. They may not always get it right, but as delegates to the VCA seminar this year heard, they face a lot of complexity
ROAD TANKERS Authorities in the UK are tightening their oversight of third-party certifications after it emerged that there were problems with certificates issued by at least one inspection body
The UK government has issued an authorisation (No 409) under the CDG Regulations, to permit the continued use of road tanker vehicles manufactured by GRW Engineering in South Africa.
CONSTRUCTION The UK has discovered a significant number of substandard road tankers in operation, with the fault being laid at the door of the initial type approval. Removing or improving these tanks is one issue, but this may well be just the tip of an iceberg
EQUIPMENT October's Gastech show in London previewed some of the technological innovations that will soon be commercially available as the LNG transport sector moves into another new age
Tank container and road tanker component manufacturer Perolo has introduced its Neatflow MKIII external spring foot-valve.
INLAND WATERWAYS With multimodal issues being discussed by the joint experts, the ADN Safety Committee contents itself mainly with issues related to vessel design and operation.
Northern Marine Management Ltd, the ship management division of Stena AB, is the first shipping company to be certified according to the new BS ISO 50001-2011 – Energy Management Systems standard, following an audit by Bureau Veritas.
Bureau Veritas Certification North America (BV) has awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification to pressure vessel manufacturer Fiba Technologies.


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Carnival of souls: Special "The Most Eventful Memorial Day Weekend in Nerd History" edition
* Guillermo del Toro is no longer directing the two Hobbit movies due to its ongoing MGM-related delays playing havoc with his schedule. I'm pretty glad about this, since I thought both Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth were bad in just the sort of unimaginatively dingy way that would be really problematic for The Hobbit. (Click the links for my reviews if you want.) But del Toro's still co-writing the movie with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, which I guess I'm okay with since Tolkien's original should mitigate against del Toro's tendency toward lackadaisical plotting. What I really wonder is how much of his art direction will survive into the final product--as you might have guessed, I think his creature work is overrated. Jackson says he'll step in to direct the movies himself if push comes to shove (via The One Ring), but only then, and he sounds less than thrilled by the idea. Neill Blomkamp, call your agent.
* The Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint: October 12, 2010.
* Here's the new trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
I know Michael Cera comes in for a lot of criticism just for being Michael Cera, but it's Mary Elizabeth Winstead's flat-affect Ramona Flowers that's throwing me for a bit of a loop here. Oh well, it's just a trailer, I'm sure it'll be at least pretty good. (Via Shaggy Erwin.)
* Recently on Robot 6: an H.P. Lovecraft art show featuring Johnny Ryan and Aeron Alfrey.
* Deadspin's "Dead Wrestler of the Week" series by its anonymous wrestling reporter is just plain magnificent. A couple of the earliest installments are a bit rough, but the pieces on Andre the Giant, the Junkyard Dog, and Miss Elizabeth are bleakly insightful elegies, exploring the strange and shady world of pro wrestling and their iconic roles in it. Even a piece on a borderline jobber like Dino Bravo is memorable for what it reveals about how wrestling changed in our lifetimes. And dig this passage from the article on the Ultimate Warrior Is Dead rumor:
As an insurgent, the Ultimate Warrior was irrepressible, but as a champion he was dull. The eccentricity that once made him stand out made him seem dark and bizarre in comparison to the shining light of Hulkamania. When Hogan rallied his little Hulkamaniacs to his cause, it seemed a joyous army; when the Warrior spoke to his "little warriors," he seemed to be preaching to a cult. If Hogan was the wrestling Billy Graham (the evangelist, that is, not the actual wrestler), the Warrior was Jim Jones.Man oh man. (Via Eric Harvey.)
* Just curious, and I'm sure some of you actually have the answer: How many times has Jeph Loeb introduced a big new mystery villain, killed off the character everyone suspected as being that mystery villain, then revealed that that character wasn't really dead and a doppelganger of some sort was involved and the real character was indeed the mystery villain all along? I know he did it in Hush--didn't he do that in one or two of those Tim Sale Batman books, too?
* Rest in peace, Dennis Hopper. As far as tributes are concerned, I couldn't find that bit from Land of the Dead where he shoots his assistant in the face, but Matt Zoller Seitz's 25-minute salute to the man and his career as an actor and director will more than suffice.
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I've always had Ramona's default mode down as pretty flat. Kinda inscrutable.
What throws me for a loop isn't so much the fact of Cera, I like Cera's screen presence when used appropriately, it's the fact that Cera isn't as beautiful as I think Scott should be. In my head it just makes sense that Scott should look angelic (in a childlike way) as it helps to explain how he's thus far coasted through life, and how he gets away with behaving like such a selfish git. It just... fits... That said, I don't mind them going another route, I can see what they're gunning for and it could absolutely work, it's just not what I was expecting.
Zom-- I think you're spot-on about Ramona's cipher-like quality, and I like the idea of Scott just being too beautiful, but I'm not sure if that's the only reason that I remain unsold on Cera as Pilgrim. What Scott essentially lacks is any kind of self-awareness. He is totally blind to social cues. Cera's general screen persona is nothing but self-awareness, and a paralyzing attention to social cues. This trailer seems to suggest a little of that quality, but can you imagine him innocently and cluelessly dating a high-schooler in the way that comic-Scott does?
I know what you mean, but I live in hope that the guy can act.
Also, Cera's self-awareness could perhaps be translated into other anxieties. Scott is plagued by terrors, after all, it's just that most of them aren't the ones that Cera's known for inhabiting.
I don't think Ramona is cipher-like, I think she's a slowly unraveling mystery. That's not to say that she lacks personality altogether, just that what we know about her is deliberately limited.
I care about this film being good rather more than I care about most comic to film adaptions. There's something so right about Scott Pilgrim as a multimedia experience.
I'm pretty sure The Long Halloween used a similar structure with one of the killers (?) being someone who was presumed dead earlier.


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new kernel available (up2date) --------> 2.6.9-89.x.xx.
For some reason , i need the new kernel version number before actually doing the upgrade... Is there a safe way of doing this with up2date , without actualy doing the update.
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Penelope Green
Penelope Green joined The New York Times as a staff editor for the Sunday magazine in 1990, overseeing a column about food and reporting on the cosmetics industry. She has been the editor of Styles of the Times (a precursor to the Sunday Styles section) as well as the Home section.
During a 10-year period as a freelance writer, Ms. Green contributed articles to Vogue, House Beautiful and House & Garden, among other publications. From June 2003 to September 2005, she wrote the weekly Habitats column in The Times's Real Estate section.
She returned to The Times full time in 2006 as a reporter for the Home section, for which she has considered the implications of black toilet paper ("This Season's Must Have: The Little Black Roll"), life in a glass building ("Yours for the Peeping") and the meaning of clutter ("Saying Yes to Mess").
Before starting at The Times, Ms. Green was an editor at 7 Days, an award-winning New York City weekly, which folded in 1990.
Selected Articles by Penelope Green
A Glow in the Desert
A former Manhattanite decamped to a 60-acre tract deep in West Texas where he lives off the grid, like a modern-day Thoreau.March 10, 2011 gardenNews
In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal
After he lost his memory, Mark Hogancamp created a universe of his own: a tiny World War II-era town called Marwencol, the subject of a documentary.April 7, 2011 gardenNews
The House Inherited Them
A colorful family of Livingston and Astor descendants have 43 rooms full of legacy at Rokeby, their 195-year-old home, but not the money to maintain any of it.July 22, 2010 gardenNews
Tiny Home Test Drive
A night in one of New York City's new micro apartments.
June 12, 2016, Sunday
Whit Stillman and His Duffel-Bag-Size Life in Paris
Yes, the director once dubbed "the WASP Woody Allen," lives in the storied French city these days. But it's hardly what one could call a glamorous existence.
June 9, 2016, Thursday
MORE ON: Stillman, Whit , Movies , Paris (France) , Americans Abroad , Books and Literature , Austen, Jane
The Age of Consignment
Online stores like Material Wrld, the RealReal and other resale sites aim to make "refreshing" your possessions ever easier.
May 22, 2016, Sunday
MORE ON: Fashion and Apparel , E-Commerce , Gazelle Inc , Orderliness and Clutter
Kips Bay Offers a Colorful Answer to Décor Sameness
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House features 21 design firms in a new Upper East Side townhouse.
May 12, 2016, Thursday
After Etsy, Scratching an Itch
The founder of the global crafters' marketplace creates his own handmade world.
May 5, 2016, Thursday
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Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule
The 'Shadowhunters' author travels in a rock-star bus, her events are mobbed, and she lives in steampunk splendor. But there are twists in her story.
April 24, 2016, Sunday
At Home With Gloria Vanderbilt
Ms. Vanderbilt covers the familiar terrain of her colorful life in a new documentary and a memoir with her son Anderson Cooper.
April 3, 2016, Sunday
The Facebook Breakup
The social network's "Compassion Team" has made calling it quits online a little easier.
March 13, 2016, Sunday
MORE ON: Facebook Inc , Dating and Relationships , Social Media , Computers and the Internet , Empathy
Cooper Hewitt's Triennial Asks: What Makes Something Beautiful?
At the design museum, designers from around the globe will explore ideas of beauty.
February 14, 2016, Sunday
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Cooper Davis is a husband and father at age 21. And he has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Kids Rock Out at "Uncle Jay" and Kanye West's Concert (PHOTO)
Gwyneth Paltrow is one pretty cool mom.
The actress took her children, eight-year-old Apple (sporting pink hair!) and six-year-old Moses, to Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Watch the Throne" tour on Saturday night in London.
Paltrow posted a photo of the kids making Jay-Z's diamond hand sign with the caption, "Yup. Uncle Jay at the O2."
With Chris Martin as their dad, and Jay-Z and Beyonce as close family friends, it's safe to say that Apple and Moses will develop a strong appreciation of music.


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C.M.B. Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku © Katou Motohiro/Kodansha
CM.B.'s Sakaki Shinra rendezvous+es with Q.E.D. Shomei Shuryo's Touma Sou in Egypt. But while Touma probes into the mystery surrounding a pharaoh's necklace in the earlier-released Q.E.D. volume 28, in C.M.B. volume 6 which streets next Wednesday, Shinra buries his nose in a canopic jar, one of those stone-carved or pottery jars the ancient Egyptians used to preserve mummies' internal organs.
The January Komikologi blurb explains that Shinra flew to Egypt to investigate a series of murders that started with the destruction of one of his mother's "heirlooms." (I'm guessing it's not your average chachski.) The Wunderkammer curator is determined to stop the serial killer before s/he can finish off the job of harvesting his/her victims' organs.
How will Touma (I still have to watch the J-dorama!) help his little cousin (who assisted him in dating the pharaoh's necklace in Q.E.D.)? And what's that about Shinra's mom?? I can't wait to find out in this latest C.M.B. manga. (More summaries after the Elex release list.)
Elex Media manga and manhua (2009.02.11)
Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details and cover scans.
Links like this are Amazon.com (commercial) links, in case you're interested in another language version.
- Burning Moon (Incandescent Moon) 2 of 5 by Selena Lin Qing Hui
- C.M.B. (C.M.B. Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku) 6 of 10+ by Katou Motohiro
- Dan Doh Next Generation 2 of 4 by Sakata Nobuhiro, Banjo Daichi
- Dear Boys Act II 28 of 30+ by Yagami Hiroki
- Et Cetera 6 of 9 by Nakazaki Tow
- Ghost Sweeper Mikami (GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!!) 31 of 39 by Shiina Takashi
- Imaginary Beasts (Genjuu no Seiza) 9 of 14 by Akino Matsuri
- Kitchen Princess (Kitchen no Ohimesama) 8 of 10 by Ando Natsumi, Kobayashi Miyuki
- MÄR 8 of 15 by Anzai Nobuyuki
- Nurse Diary (Jitsuroku! Kangofu Monogatari) 3 of 10 by Kai Sayumi
- The Pitcher (Nanto Magoroku) 64 of 69+ by Sadayasu Kei
- [Premiere] Rose Hip Zero 1 of 5 by Fujisawa Tohru
- School X Fight 3 of 4 by Hara Asumi
- Serial Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches • The Boscombe Valley Mystery Volume 9 of 10 (Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by Ishikawa Morihiko, supervised by Ishinomori Shotaro)
Burning Moon 「 焚月 」 by Selena Lin Qing Hui
C.M.B. Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku
Dan Doh!! Next Generation
Dear Boys Act II 「 DEAR BOYS ACT2 」 by Yagami Hiroki
Et Cetera 「 えとせとら 」 by Nakazaki Tow
GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!!
Genjuu no Seiza 「 幻獣の星座 」 by Akino Matsuri
Kitchen no Ohimesama 「 キッチンのお姫さま 」
MAR 「 MAR 」 by Anzai Nobuyuki
Jitsuroku! Kangofu Monogatari 「 実録!看護婦物語 」 by Kai Sayumi
Akita Shoten Suspiria (or
Susperia, alternatively Suspiria Mystery), shoujo
Volume 3 first published in Japan 1997.04
Nanto Magoroku 「 なんと孫六 」 by Sadayasu Kei
Rose Hip Zero 「 ROSE HIP ZERO 」
School X Fight 「 スクール×ファイト 」
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches and The Boscombe Valley Mystery synopses available
Source: Elex Media forum
mangazines (2009.02.10)
Shonen Magz 56/2009 (Indonesian version of Shounen Magazine)
Among the shounen manga in serialization—
- BECK by Harold Sakuishi
- Fairy Tail by Mashima Hiro
- Ghost Doctor (Youkai no Oisha-san) by Satou Yuuki
- Kindaichi Case Files by Sato Fumiya
- Kungfu Boy Legends (Tekken Chinmi Legends) by Maekawa Takeshi
- Sanzoku Ou by Sawada Hirofumi
- Tokkyu!! by Komori Yoichi, Kubo Mitsurou
- Tribal 12 by Osada Yu-Ko
- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle by CLAMP
- Vinland Saga by Yukimura Makoto
No featured titles blurbed in Komikologi February, just an advisory that in this ShoMagz, winners of the latest contest will be announced.
More synopses
Blurbs are translated from the original Indonesian appearing in either Komikologi Elex January or February unless indicated otherwise.
If you religiously follow Shonen Magz series, you would've already encountered Fujisawa Tohru-sensei's Rose Hip Zero as it was first serialized in that anthology. In case you're new to this shounen manga by the creator of GTO — blurb incoming!
Rose Hip Zero 1
by Fujisawa Tohru
Rose Hip Zero © Fujisawa Tohru/Kodansha
Because of her powers beyond those of a normal human, genetically engineered Asakura Kasumi is detailed to help the Tokyo police in bringing down a terrorist organization, ALICE. But apparently, she's not the only one with a genotype advantage.
[Adapted from the Komikologi Elex February blurb and TOKYOPOP's synopsis for the series, as excerpted by Baka-Updates Manga]
Burning Moon 2
AKA Incandescent Moon by Selena Lin Qing Hui
Now grown-up, Chenfeng and Shudan are reunited. While love once suppressed again blooms, trouble lurks not far away. Chenfeng's parents have arranged Chenfeng's engagement to another girl, the haughty Yi Xianglin. Xianglin who discovers Chenfeng's feelings for Shudan connives to break the two apart and grab Chenfeng for herself.
Dear Boys Act II V28
by Yagami Hiroki
Winner of Kodansha's Best Shounen Manga in 2007
At the end of the second quarter, Tendouji leads with a score of 51-38. In the next quarter, Tendouji changes strategies and deploys Motoharu Kamakura. Coming up against Motoharu's 3P offensive, Meiwadai faces a big pinch. Will he be able to squash Motoharu in the end?
(You can tell I don't write sports news stories...)
Imaginary Beasts 9
Genjuu no Seiza by Akino Matsuri
A monster ape is born from the resentment of animals used in organ transplant experiments. Will Fuuto be able to save those that no longer have a place to call home?
by Anzai Nobuyuki
Rapunzel, one of the 13 Zodiacs, steps up to the plate in the fourth War Game battle. Her cruelty and hysteria, however, don't win
You go! favor from Ginta and the rest of the MÄR team.
Sherlock Holmes Series 9
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by Ishikawa Morihiko, supervised by Ishinomori Shotaro
Synopsis: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Petualangan di Copper Beeches)
The out-of-work Violet Hunter consults with Holmes on possible jobs. She eventually lands work as a governess in Copper Beeches, the country estate owned by one Jephro Rucastle. The conditions attached to her employment, however, are the utmost in peculiar: among the strangest provisos—she must cut off her long hair.
[Adapted from the Komikologi Elex February blurb with additions from the Wikipedia entry about this short story]
Synopsis: The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Misteri di Lembah Boscombe)
Charles McCarthy is killed in the forests of Boscombe Valley; his son James is arrested for the crime by Scotland Yard detective Lestrade on circumstantial evidence. But what truth really lies behind the unusual murder?
[Adapted from the Komikologi Elex February blurb with additional information from the Wikipedia entry about this short story]
I would've loved if the penultimate School X Fight had a synopsis floating around, but it doesn't. *gloom*
Tracking Commitment VS. Fulfillment
Eleven of 54 manga (excluding anthologies) that Elex promised to release in February appear in the above release list. Of course, there are January slackers—two of them: C.M.B. 6 and Imaginary Beasts 9—that were rescheduled. So at the midway mark, Elex has delivered on 28% of its February commitments.
The other titles originally scheduled for January but released the following month (those on this list) are: Dan Doh Next Generation 2, Et Cetera 6, and Ghost Sweeper Mikami 31.
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03) Elex Media forum
Cover images and source summaries used here are © their respective intellectual rights holders. No infringement intended.
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- No Level Comics manga on 10 February 2009
- m&c! (2009.02.11): Special A 10, Lovely Days 6 of 6, Sprout 7 of 7, Cynical Orange 5, Cherry 29, Happy Dining Table
manga available this week
- Level Comics (2009.02.03): Arms 12
- Elex Media (2009.02.04): Burning Moon 1, Flash of Wind 24, Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Sherlock Holmes 8, Sugar Sugar Rune 8 of 8, Mr. Fullswing 17, Hayate The Combat Butler 11, Shonen Star 49
- m&c! (2009.02.04): Born to Cook (Mister Ajikko II) 3, Crossroad 2, Aria 10, My Heavenly Hockey Club 8
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Can you imagine the kind of excitement that would sell-out a full season for a single play in less than ten minutes? That's what happened when tickets for "Macbeth" went on sale in the United Kingdom earlier this year. This wasn't just any production of the Scottish play. This is the Manchester International Festival's presentation with Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston ("Doctor Who" and "ER"), being broadcast by National Theatre Live.
The actual live broadcast was done in early summer of this year, 2013. What you can see now is the encore broadcasts. Don't miss it. Rob Ashford and Branagh share directing duties and the setting is hard to match. They also share a few awards. Ashford won an Olivier for "Anna Christie" and a Tony for "Thoroughly Modern Millie."
Branagh has been nominated for five Oscars and won an Emmy (the 2001 "Conspiracy").
Manchester is a city in North West England and is the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. By car it is about three hours and 30 minutes. The production took a deconsecrated church and made a few adjustments. Instead of pews, the audience is boxed in, partitioned away on both sides of what would have been an aisle. The sides of the box are made with wood and beautifully finished. Much care has been taken with the details.
The aisle was then filled with porous dirt which becomes mud when there's theatrical rain. Yet the alter is kept separate, mostly bare except for the throne that is under beautiful antique stained glass windows. In another scene, there is a multitude of candles burning.
You can't help feeling the hand of God or the thought of faith and purity as the action is contrasted between the alter and the muddy pathways. Branagh's Macbeth starts out as an ordinary sort. He has no fire, no ambition, no spark of resentment toward his king--even after hearing the predictions of the weird sisters. He is only the Thane of Glamis who meets some odd ladies with his fellow general Banquo.
Branagh and Ashford respect the conventions of the time. The weird sisters aren't voices within Macbeth or hallucinations. They are real because the people of Shakespeare's day would have believed them to be real, just as they believed in ghosts and the devil. These three witches (Charlie Cameron, Anjana Vasan and Laura Elsworthy) are slender, attractive young women, dirty with the mud of common life with shrill, cackling voices.
Yet slowly, we see him become a man driven. There's a small spark when he is named Thane of Cawdor. Are the predictions his destiny? And does destiny need a little help? When he's pushed by his wife and his own selfish desires, he becomes a man burning with envy and arrogance.
Ray Fearon has a beautiful sonorous voice and a sturdy build--his MacDuff has the necessary authority to stand against Branagh's Macbeth. Kingston's Lady Macbeth isn't an evil woman. She sees an opportunity and encourages her husband to move forward, but she has not been a warrior and murder is new to her. We are reminded that in these times, betrayal among family and friends was common place. To stay above the dirt and scrambling existence of the commoners, these men and their soldiers must kill other at close range. Safety comes from defeating enemies and making and breaking alliances.
We might not see everything the audience could see, but the directors show us what they want us to see and there are some overhead shots that are meant for the moviegoers. We see and hear the rain. The muck is important. Closeups reveal some wear in the battle clothing of the men. We see the sweat on the brow of an actor and some actors definitely play to the cameras better than others.
This is a solid, passionate production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" that is presented as both a play and a movie and does well in either category. Since so few were lucky enough to snatch up those tickets, take a few hours to catch this production at a location near you. If you can't see it live, seeing it on the big screen in the next best thing.
"Macbeth" is presented by the National Theatre Live and you can visit their website to see where the next encore performance is.


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With some of these guys that get released from WWE and then come back to say how they treat the talent so bad, they put a damper on someone who is an aspiring pro wrestler. What are these guys talking about? How are they being "exploited"?
WWE classifies their wrestlers as independent contractors, not employees of the company. This means they are not given benefit packages such as retirement and healthcare that someone working in the office is given. The argument is that while classified as independent contractors, wrestlers are treated as employees. Everything from when they work to what they wear to what happens when they are not working for WWE is controlled by WWE. The classification has been fought in court but so far, WWE performer's contracts have proven to be iron clad. I don't like the classification and fully believe that WWE wrestlers should be classified as employees and get healthcare benefits as well as retirement. However, it drives me crazy when someone released comes back and claims the deal wasn't fair. They signed it, they have to abide by it. Don't like it? Don't sign it. Someone will say, well they didn't know what they were getting into until after they signed. Well, that's just not how a contract works. A contract is executed when both parties agree to the terms and it's silly to fight the terms after they have been agreed upon.
With more & more fighters looking into pro wrestling and pro wrestlers looking into MMA, do you think MMA and wrestling working together could be successful? UFC & WWE or TNA & Bellator. Or perhaps someone like Zuffa doing both MMA & pro wrestling under their own brand?
The transition from the octagon to the ring or the ring to the octagon isn't as seamless as some people think. It's been tried both ways and there have been success stories. Ken Shamrock went from the octagon to the ring as did Dan Severn. Brock Lesnar is the latest success story, going from WWE to become the UFC heavyweight champion. However, despite the success stories, I'm afraid a lot of MMA guys think pro wrestling is something they just do following their fighting days and that just isn't the case. Pro wrestling is a craft that, like Jim Ross said, requires full-time effort. Just like MMA requires full-time effort. Shane McMahon pushed Vince back in his days with the company to get into MMA but Vince always pushed back. His argument was fighters lose their value after suffering a loss. People always act like Vince is crazy when he says UFC isn't competition and while I certainly think they are competition in the pay-per-view marketplace, I'm not sure the fan bases are as similar as some think. When Lesnar was with UFC, he brought a lot of pro wrestling fans with him but it's not like UFC has taken WWE's business either. I'll admit Rampage Jackson to TNA intrigues me. He's a big name and is much more marketable than someone that worked in the mid-card in WWE and bounced around in the indies. He's athletic enough to make the transition but it will ultimately hinge on how serious he is about being successful. Let's see how the TNA and Bellator relationship plays out before we judge whether or not a promotion can do both successfully because so far, we haven't seen success.
How about a "where are they now?" – former WCW Cruiserweight Champion Alex Wright
The last I heard Alex Wright was considering an in-ring comeback. He's been training talents in Germany at his wrestling school called "The Wright Stuff" in Nuremberg. Wright hasn't worked since 2003 but has began doing DDP Yoga and getting back into shape.
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College Hockey:Diamond's two goals help Maine nab tie with Providence
ORONO, Maine — Maine forward Joey Diamond scored two goals in the third period and Black Bears goaltender stopped Providence College forward Noel Acciari's last second shot in overtime to secure a 2-2 tie at the Alfond Arena on Friday night.
"It was a good comeback, good to fight back and tie it up," said Maine coach Tim Whitehead. "We had some chances to win it, and so did they; it was a hard-fought point. We're pleased with how hard the guys fought for each other."
"I thought even when we scored the second goal we had settled down a little bit and had a couple good chances to extend the lead; we were rattled a lot the first period, this is a tough environment," said Providence coach Nate Leaman. "We took two bad penalties by upperclassmen and we let them back in the game. It's a process to learn how to win, and I'm really disappointed we only got one point, because we had control of that game. The environment got to a couple of our upperclassmen. We need better leadership."
At 11:07 of the first period, two Maine defenders were facing their own goal trying to hit the loose puck out of the path to the net, not noticing Providence forward Mark Jankowski trailing behind. Jankowski squeaked between the defenders to get control of the loose puck and shot one past Maine goaltender Martin Ouellette to give the Friars a 1-0 lead.
Two minutes later, Diamond started the Black Bears' best chance to answer back when he had an open path to the net, but Providence goaltender Jon Gillies blocked Diamond's shot and stopped an onslaught of rebound attempts before finally smothering the puck.
The start of the second period brought another unusual play that almost tied the game for the Black Bears. A deflection of an attempted clear hit a Providence player on the way out of the zone, making the puck slide backward. Gillies noticed just in time, smothering the puck before the goal line to keep the score at 1-0.
Providence extended its lead 6:55 into the third period when forward Derek Army took the puck from a faceoff on the right side of the net and scooped it past Ouellette to put the Friars up 2-0.
"It got stuck under my feet and it got poked forward; I just went in towards the net and it was laying there and nobody was grabbing me, so I just shot it toward the net," Army said.
"A lot of people probably thought the game was over after they scored that second goal, but we kept working hard," Ouellette said.
However, while short-handed, Diamond stole the puck and streaked down the left side of the rink with one defender to beat. He crossed over to the right side and scooped the puck underneath the glove of Gillies.
"We had the momentum going into the third," Diamond said. "We believed in each other and that's where we knew that if we did believe in each other and were fortunate enough, we'd be able to get two goals, and we did. I just read the play, poked the pass, and just went into the breakaway and scored. I put it over his pad and under his glove. It gave us a big boost [of momentum], and then we were able to get on the power play and score another."
With Providence forward Tim Schaller sitting in the box, Diamond struck again with a special-teams goal, this time with Maine having the one man advantage. With 17:00 gone in the third, Maine forwards Devin Shore and Cerretani assisted Diamond with the game-tying goal, giving Maine a momentum advantage going into overtime.
In the closing seconds of overtime, Friars forward Nock Acciari stole the puck and raced down the ice in a race with the clock, firing a shot with two seconds left, but Ouellette made the save to preserve the 2-2 tie.
"I went into the net hard; unfortunately, I couldn't put it in for the team," Acciari said.
"He kind of surprised me, he shot it pretty quickly; I was able to be patient and make the save," Ouellette said.
"I love the way played tonight, no qualms with the effort or execution," Whitehead said. "I thought we were a little tentative in the first [period], a little nervous, but I thought as the game went on we played with more poise and the hard work was there from the beginning. But the first period, offensively we played a little tentative."
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TUCSON, Ariz. - The Arizona baseball team has begun its preparations for the 2010 season with the commencement of official practices.
Practices officially began on Friday and Saturday and resumed on Monday when head coach Andy Lopez and several Wildcats met with the media for the first time. The Wildcats have spent the first few days playing against each other in scrimmage situations to get pitchers and hitters in the swing of things after preseason workouts.
Early season practices will be critical for the Wildcats as they break in as many as 23 newcomers to the roster. It is one of Lopez's youngest groups that he has coached at Arizona, certainly in recent seasons after the Wildcats turned in back-to-back 40-seasons in 2007 and 2008.
Lopez talks to the media
The Wildcats return 12 key members from a 2009 club that finished with a 30-25 record, narrowly missing the postseason for just the second time since 2003. Among the returnees is First Team All-Pac-10 member Bryce Ortega, who will be one of the UA's leaders in the clubhouse throughout the season.
"I know they don't have a lot of experience," Ortega said of the newcomers in the program. "But they've played a lot of baseball and I think they can handle it pretty well. I think the season is going to be a lot better than some people might think."
Bandy, Ortega talk to media
"They're young, but they're real teachable," Lopez said. "I'm excited about them."
While the Wildcats are not showing up in any preseason top-25 polls and their standing in the preseason Pac-10 Coaches poll is yet to be determined, they aren't concerned about what outsiders think. They know that they will receive credit in time when it is deserved.
Until then, the Wildcats are going to continue building towards a 2010 season that they hope will be highly successful.
"They may be just goofy enough to do something nobody expects, which I hope is true." Lopez said of the Wildcats. "I'm having a good time with them."
Arizona opens the season against Utah Valley in a three-game series that begins on Feb. 19 at Jerry Kindall Field.


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Dogs take their best jumps in this weekend's Pet Fest at Black River Landing in Lorain.
Photo gallery: Families enjoy fun day at Elyria church
Children enjoy Emmanuel Lutheran Church family fun day Saturday in Elyria. The sixth-annual free event included games, refreshments, water balloon toss, fire department tours and raffle.
Photo gallery: 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' opens tonight
Jacob Schindler, a senior at Vermilion High, runs through a final dress rehearsal Wednesday as Joseph in the Lorain Community Music Theater production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at Stocker Center at Lorain County Community College. The show opens today at 7:30 p.m. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Read More…
Photo gallery: Kids and cops enjoy Operation Open Heart
Children enjoyed the day with law enforcement and dinner Wednesday at the Vermilion River Reservation as part of Operation Open Heart. The program is for at-risk children from Lorain County. More than 40 kids and 24 law enforcement and safety services officers from Lorain County participated.
Photo gallery: New London Relays
Photos from yesterday's New London Relays.
Photo gallery: Elyria High crews get a tasty thank you
Students in the Elyria High Family and Consumer Science club delivered hundreds of cookies — with thank-you notes attached — on Thursday to construction workers working on the school.
Photo gallery: Concert raises $2,500 for Haiti relief
Ladysmith Black Mambazo performed at a Haiti fundraiser at Finney Chapel in Oberlin on Wednesday. Eastwood Elementary students, including Katherine Doane, 5, a kindergartner sang "We Are One with You Haiti" before the concert. Eastwood students raised $2,500 for Haiti relief.
Never too late: WWII vet receives Elyria High diploma on 85th birthday
John Butler, a World War II veteran from Elyria, was presented his Elyria High School diploma from Associate Superintendent Gordon Dupree at Butler's 85th birthday party Saturday at Church of Christ on Lake Avenue.
S'novim godom! Russian new year celebrated in Lorain
The Lorain County Sacred Landmarks Initiative celebrated the Russian New Year's Eve on Saturday at St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church in Lorain. Guests were treated to the traditional black bread dipped in salt, garlic and honey. The event featured singers, dancers and strolling violin players, as well as an experienced fortune teller. At the end Read More…
A big welcome home for Marines who served with David Hall
A celebration of the weekend welcomed home Lance Cpl. Jean Fenelus and his wife, Misty, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Fenelus is a member of 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, the same unit in which Lance Cpl. David Hall, of Elyria, served before he was killed Aug. 31 in Afghanistan Read More…


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Ray-Ray Armstrong receives preseason buzz
'Tis the season for award watch-list announcements. Today begins the barrage of massive lists that practically includes every player eligible for a given award.
Regardless, Miami safety Ray-Ray Armstrong was listed among the players eligible for the Bednarik Award going to the nation's top defensive player.
The senior from Sanford played in seven games last year, starting once, after being suspended twice. He missed the first four games for dealing with rouge booster Nevin Shapiro. Later he was withheld from the Florida State game after having a meal with a public relations company the represents pro athletes. He collected 34 tackles while his only interception came in his lone start against Duke.
The first cut for the Maxwell Award also hit the streets Monday, but did not include a Miami representative.
Click here to take a look at both watch lists. Then debate the merits of both in a civil matter in the comments section found below.
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The New Jazz Composers Octet: Bad Alchemy
Bad Alchemy
The New Jazz Composers Octet
The Turning Gate (MTM-00019)
Myron Walden (alto sax), Nasheet Waits (drums),
David Weiss (trumpet, flugelhorn), Steve Davis (trombone), Jimmy Greene (tenor and soprano saxes), Norbert Stachel (baritone sax, bass clarinet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass).
Composed by John Greaves.
Recorded: Brooklyn, NY, January 19 and December 20, 2005
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
"Bad Alchemy" is an interesting reversal on the widely held assumption that modern jazz is more complex than rock, made more interesting that this Henry Cow song is covered by a collective of musicians that has the word "composers" in its name.
The song itself is operatic in its dramatic, stilted structure, and the original even contains obtuse lyrics that were sung in the style of a Broadway musical. Those singing lines work well as horn charts in the NJCO's hands. It was undoubtedly challenging enough to interpret this composition straight, but the group wasn't satisfied with doing merely that. Instead they loosened up the highly structured composition some with improvisation via cascading, urgent notes from Myron Walden's sax solo and Nasheet Waits filling and rolling on his kit underneath.
Advanced jazz groups don't typically look at 1970s avant-rock groups for source material, but seeing how well this rendition of "Bad Alchemy" turned out, perhaps they should do so more often.
Reviewer: S. Victor Aaron
Tags: 2000s jazz
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Part Three
That Damn Roof...
Time to put a little lamp base on. At this point I still don't know what I'm going to use for a lamp, but I'm sure there's something suitable somewhere about the house.
Sure enough, a nice fat "Lloyds TSB" pen comes in handy, and after a good half-hour sawing away with a Stanley blade, I finally end up with a short cylinder of clear plastic that is just the ticket. Blimey! It's a TARDIS!
Putting the base on was a bit of a no-brainer. The only thing it showed up is how not quite 100% straight my TARDIS is in places. I don't care. Maybe next time I'll take a bit more care...or simply not leave it 5 years between sessions! But like all models, it sure looks good when you stand back and admire it.
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The Doctor's Christmas Quilt
|When her unwed medical student daughter discloses that she is pregnant, Dr. Laura Branson is torn between excitement and fear. Until now, her beliefs and stance on pro-life issues have been more theoretical than personal. It isn't until she receives a Christmas gift a quilt that depicts the life of pioneer Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in America that she is forced to wrestle with her beliefs. What does she really believe, and will she have the courage to stand by her convictions?
Kathi Macias is an Angel-award winning writer who has authored or co-authored thirty books, including the bestselling devotional A Moment A Day, the popular Matthews mystery novels, and theExtreme Devotionseries scheduled for 2010-2011 release. She is a popular speaker at churches, women s clubs and retreats, and writers conferences, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs. She also hosts the international blogtalkradio program Write the Vision for The International Christian Network (www.THEICN.com) and is a regular online contributor to Crosswalk.com, The Christian Pulse, and Churchmouse. Visit her on the web atwww.kathimacias.com.


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Carmen McRae: Suddenly (aka In Walked Bud)
Suddenly (aka "In Walked Bud")
Carmen McRae (vocals)
Carmen Sings Monk (Bluebird 63841)
Carmen McRae (vocals), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Larry Willis (piano), George Mraz (bass), Al Foster (drums).
Composed by Thelonious Monk; lyrics by Jon Hendricks.
Recorded: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, January 30—February 1, 1988
Rating: 90/100 (learn more)
While she was plagued by poor health in her final years, Carmen McRae produced several fine recordings in the late 1980s and early 1990s. "Carmen Sings Monk" was one of her best recordings and it included lyricized versions of Thelonious Monk's compositions (but not his solos). Some of the tunes were included in live and studio versions, and this live version of "In Walked Bud" featured Monk's tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse in one of his final performances. The words were originally written by Jon Hendricks on short notice for a recording session with Monk. Hendricks describes a mythic jam session with Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Monk and of course, Bud Powell. McRae's performance begins as she scats the melody, followed by a full chorus of Hendricks' words. Rouse takes the first solo, followed by Mraz and Willis, each of whom starts his solo with a quote, Mraz citing the song's harmonic base ("Blue Skies") and Willis acknowledging the Basie standard "Topsy". McRae continues the parade of quotes with a phrase from "Louise" then goes into a short scat solo where she develops a small motive into a longer idea, then takes the end of the long idea and develops it into another phrase. When she goes back to the lyrics, she nearly stretches the song's syncopations to their breaking point before bringing it back into sync with the band.
Reviewer: Thomas Cunniffe
Tags: 1980s jazz · in walked bud · jazz vocals · monk covers · vocalese
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A fairly new handmade vegan hair, bath and body brand has gained in popularity, beginning with Etsy and expanding to major retailers, keeping with the same basic ingredients. Gnarly Whale has answered the call of the many consumers on the hunt for vegan bath, body and hair care beauty products that are also cruelty free, and smell out of this world,
The quest for all things natural could sometimes leave health-conscious buyers feeling less than satisfied with their vegan beauty products. Some do not fulfill the promises the brands advertise and do not lather, cleanse, hydrate or often leave behind filmy residues. The Gnarly Whale vegan hair, bath and beauty brand started as a hobby by Ashley and Nathan Griffith in 2012. The couple had a mission to encourage a greener Earth, and now the startup has gained the attention of eco-conscious consumers and can be found in major retail chains such as Urban Outfitters and Kitson.
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I agree we haven't shown it with HS players and I would certainly sign Anderson and Cooke up today, but sooner or later, Fred is going to start landing a big fish or two.
Transfers are big fish imo.
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By Gary Yates
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Whenever you are learning a skill, it always helps to have a good model to follow. I've recently been learning a new software package by watching the tutorial videos over and over again. When the tutorials don't work, I turn for help to my 10-year old son. He clicks a few buttons, shows me how it's done, and I'm on my way.
When you're learning to cook, having Emeril on the Food Network is better than figuring out the recipe book for yourself. I learned my golf swing from an 85-year old retiree at the retirement home where I worked while in seminary, and people who see me play are not surprised to learn that.
In his book Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, Jim Cymbala reminds us that the church in the book of Acts was born out of a prayer meeting, and there are more than 30 references to prayer in Acts.1 If we as Christians are looking for a role model for prayer, there is no better example than the early followers of Jesus in the book of Acts. In Acts, we see four key features of the early church at prayer.
The Early Church Prayed Dependently (
Jesus told His disciples to go from Jerusalem to the remotest parts of the world as His witnesses. If twelve apostles and a hundred or so disciples are going to reach the world, they had better get busy. But, the first thing they do when Jesus ascends back to heaven is lock themselves up in a room, shut themselves off from everything, and pray for ten days for the power of the Holy Spirit. They understood that they needed supernatural power for a superhuman work.
The most important lesson we can ever learn about prayer is that we are absolutely dependent on God. Jesus tells us in
Thurman Thomas was the leading rusher in the AFC in 1991 and helped to lead the Buffalo Bills to the Super Bowl that year. But, on the very first play of the Super Bowl, Thomas wasn't even on the field because he had lost his helmet in the pre-game warm-ups. A football player wouldn't dream of going onto the field without his helmet; and we as Christians shouldn't think of facing life or doing ministry without prayer underlying everything we do.


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Alfred Angelo gown style #2187 (currently discontinued) Size 10 ivory crystal organza gown with crystal beading and silver thread embroidery. Sweetheart neckline with pleating (rouching) along bodice, and dropped asymmetrical waist. Ruffled layered skirt with rosette details at hem line. Extremely flattering. Very lightweight and comfortable with chapel-length train. Corset back. Never worn; purchased as a designer sample from the Alfred Angelo boutique. Retail price $1125. Asking only $300! More pictures upon request.
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New DAR leaders installed
On Saturday, May 4, Anna Lee, a member of the Mary Tyler DAR Chapter and District VI chairperson of the Texas Society, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, installed new officers of the Elizabeth Denton English Chapter in Mineola.
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- Divorce : History of Divorce In New York -
Before the enactment of Alexander Hamilton's divorce law in 1787, nonjudicial divorces had been granted in New Netherlands, under the "Duke's Laws", and at different periods by the royal governor, sometimes on grounds other than adultery.
During the period of the Dutch rule of New Netherlands an occasional divorce was granted. In 1655 John Hickes of Flushing presented a petition for divorce to the colonial council alleging that his wife had deserted him for nine years and had procreated five or six children by another man. The council granted him "letters of divorce" and authorized him to marry "some honest maid or widow." The records of Rhode Island show that in 1640 the wife, who had been married to Hickes at age thirteen, had obtained a divorce in Rhode Island. New Netherlands records show two other cases of absolute divorce, one in 1657 for a wife's adultery, and another in 1664 for a bigamous marriage of the husband while in Amsterdam.
After the English conquest of New Netherlands in 1664, divorces continued to be granted sporadically for the next eleven years. The "Duke's Laws" provided that where a husband or wife had been traveling "into any forraigne Parts" and had not been heard from for five years such party might be presumed dead and the other was free to marry, and in another clause indirectly permitted divorce in cases of adultery. The early English governors apparently felt that they had authority to grant divorces. In 1669 a divorce was granted for a wife's adultery and in another case for the husband's impotence. Several other divorces were granted before 1675. In that year the governor apparently decided that assumption of divorce jurisdiction was of doubtful legality and there is no clear evidence of any further divorces being granted in New York for the rest of the colonial period. However, there are indications that governors were receiving divorce petitions as late as 1711. One colonial official writing in 1759 noted that governors had ceased granting divorces since 1688. On January 22, 1787, the New York legislature received a petition from Isaac Gouverneur, Jr., a member of a prominent New York City family, praying for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery. The request was referred to a special committee under the chairmanship of Alexander Hamilton. The committee brought in a bill providing for the first general divorce law in New York, limited to cases of adultery, and stipulating that it should not be lawful for the party convicted of adultery "to remarry any person whatsoever" but the innocent party might make another marriage "in like manner as if the party convicted was actually dead." Under the terms of the bill, the chancellor might provide for a jury trial. On March 19, 1787, Governor George Clinton, Chief Justice Richard Morris, and Justice John S. Hobart, members of the council of revision, objected to the bill "as inconsistent with the public good," because of its prohibition on the remarriage of the adulterous party. The realistic view of the council was rejected by the legislature which overrode the council's veto by a vote of 38 to 16 in the assembly and 10 to 4 in the senate. Not until 1879, was the prohibition against remarriage by the guilty party relaxed so as to permit the guilty spouse to remarry if the court modified its decree.
The power to grant divorces was transferred from the legislature to the Court of Chancery by Chapter 69 of the Laws of 1787, in which the preamble recited that it was thought "more advisable for the legislature to make some general provision in such cases than to afford relief to individuals upon their partial representations, without a just and constitutional trial of the facts.
The Council of Revision regarded the latter proviso as unrealistic and too harsh, but the legislature, aware that legislative divorce also was obtainable, overrode the veto. Until early in this century, when the state constitution was amended, legislative divorces were granted, sometimes on grounds other than adultery. In effect, New York made parliamentary divorce the model for judicial divorce, while legislative divorce on grounds other than adultery reflected the grounds for judicial divorce in other jurisdictions.
The 1787 law, however, instead of following precedent or the lead of Protestant reformers in countries other than England, accepted the rule of parliamentary divorce. Reaction against the limitation of judicial divorce to the ground of adultery, while other states broadened their grounds, set in almost immediately in New York.
Chancellor Kent, while objecting to legislative divorce, also decried migratory divorce. Nevertheless, the nineteenth century saw New Yorkers in increasing numbers resorting to migratory divorce since probably one-third to one-half of the total number of New York marriages dissolved each year were dissolved out of state. It also has been estimated that thirty-five per cent of divorces for New Yorkers were migratory divorces. Various states enjoyed popularity as divorce havens depending upon both grounds and residence requirements.
Omnibus grounds plus short residence requirements accounted for their popularity. Later, other jurisdictions began to compete. Rhode Island, Iowa, the District of Columbia, Utah, and the Dakotas, enjoyed a substantial interstate trade in divorce, but after 1908 for several years only Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, and Texas had short residence requirements. Since the 1930's, Arkansas, Idaho, Florida, and Wyoming and especially Nevada, have been the leading specialists in migratory divorce. In the 1950's Alabama became, and remained for a while, the favorite due to its residence requirements."Quickie Divorce" Scandal in Alabama, The Bench and Bar Act When the Legislature became Stymied, published in 1964 by the American Bar Association. At its peak in 1960, Alabama granted 17,328 divorces, (many of which were to New Yorkers), compared with 9,724 in Nevada.
During the twenties many Americans were divorced in France and Havana and after that the Virgin Islands and Mexico enjoyed considerable popularity. It is noteworthy that the divorce "mill" in Paris was created by American lawyers to cater to wealthy New Yorkers and clients from other states, and that the 'mill" collapsed after it became extremely difficult to get Paris courts to pass upon the American cases. Havana is also said to have been a wealthy divorce resort during the 1930's because only thirty days' residence was required.
A few of the Mexican states became divorce havens after the Mexican constitution of 1917 permitted divorce. In 1933, Chihuahua amended its divorce laws to provide some twenty grounds for divorce, jurisdiction being based upon submission or legal residence acquired by the signing of the municipal register. It is estimated that in 1955, some 4,300 Mexican divorces were granted to Americans.
The first important change in New York matrimonial law occurred in 1813. That year the legislature rejected its commission's recommendation that desertion be made a ground for divorce and instead enacted a judicial separation statute for the benefit of mistreated or deserted wives, which was not extended to husbands until 1880.
In 1827, the legislature rejected a committee recommendation that habitual drunkenness be made a ground for divorce. In 1830 it enacted an annulment statute authorizing annulments for non-age, bigamy, insanity, fraud or force, and physical incapacity.
As early as 1869 and 1970, the New York Times campaigned against fraud, corruption, and divorce rings in New York City. In 1934, the New York Mirror exposed the "unknown blonde" who had been the co-respondent in over a hundred divorce cases and during the daytime was employed as a legal secretary.
Between 1900 and 1933, numerous bills were introduced to reform New York matrimonial law but the only significant enactment was the "Enoch Arden" act of 1922, authorizing decrees of presumed death where a spouse had not been heard of for five years. During the 1930's, Judge Cohalan's determined fight against collusive divorce actions was widely publicized in the New York press.
It had been common knowledge for several years that the situation in New York had resulted in the appearance of a new remunerative occupation -- that of the professional co-respondent. These conditions were brought to public attention on November 30, 1948, when New York District Attorney Frank S. Hogan announced the arrest of members of a "divorce ring' on charges of perjury and subornation of perjury." All in all, the number of decrees dropped about one-third in New York City, but only one-tenth in the upstate counties." The investigation confirmed what had long been suspected, namely, that fraud, perjury, and collusion were rampant in all types of matrimonial actions -- including even those based on the so-called Enoch Arden Law.
Between 1949 and 1956, Assemblywoman Janet Hill Gordon waged a continuous fight for the creation of a legislative commission to study the divorce laws, but when the commission was created in 1956 its mandate was circumscribed and it had no authority to make recommendations relating to grounds for divorce.
Throughout this century, spokesmen for the New York State Catholic Welfare Conference, until the enactment of the Divorce Reform Law in 1966, succeeded in blocking divorce reform, and, usually, when the matter was at issue before the legislature, a majority of Democrats and a minority of Republicans have voted against reform, with most of the support for reform coming from up-state Republicans.
The 1965 Court of Appeals decision in Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel, made obvious the built-in discriminations of the divorce law of New York, including its policy of recognizing bilateral out-of-state divorces, and became a major factor in achieving divorce reform in 1966.
The 1966 Divorce Reform Law grew out of the 219 page report of the Joint Legislative Committee on Matrimonial and Family Laws, commonly called the "Wilson Committee". The Joint Committee was itself established pursuant to a joint resolution dated June 8, 1965. Besides its report, the Committee sponsored legislation which was introduced at the 1966 legislative session known as the "Wilson-Sutton Bill." Alternative legislation, know as the "Leaders Bill" was proposed by Senators Travia, Hughes, and Brydges. It differed substantially from the Wilson-Sutton measure. Thereafter, compromises were effected between the sponsors of the competing bills and the law which finally was enacted contained features taken from both bills. The crux of the compromise was acceptance of the Conciliation Bureau device and a portion of the Uniform Divorce Recognition Act in return for the new grounds without defenses. The Conciliation Bureau provision in Domestic Relations Law article 11-B was repealed in 1973 and New York's version of the Uniform Divorce Recognition Act was also repealed in 1973.
The significant factors in gaining acceptance for divorce reform were the extensive hearings of the Wilson Committee and strong pubic support manifested throughout the state for divorce reform; the changes in legislative membership and the disestablishment of the establishment occasioned by the 1964 presidential election; the vocal support of liberal Catholics and leading churchmen of all faiths for reform of the old law; the detailed recommendations of bar association committees which were well reasoned and thoroughly documented; and public reaction to the economic and social discrimination between disgruntled spouses that resulted from New York's recognition of Mexican bilateral divorces secured by affluent New Yorkers, (the practical result being that although poor New Yorkers who wanted a divorce might have difficulty getting one at home). Those who could afford it readily obtained divorces in Mexico or some other convenient forum. Since all prior efforts to change New York's substantive law of divorce had met with repeated failure for over 150 years, it was the combination of the above factors that made for success in 1966.
When the legislature in 1966 created additional grounds for divorce it selected from among the most popular American grounds for divorce and also considered the statute (Domestic Relations Law, 200) and case law which had evolved in New York regarding legal separation. It was logical to accept abandonment as a ground for divorce since "desertion" existed as a ground in every other state but North Carolina. In phrasing the abandonment ground the legislature omitted qualifying adjectives such as "wilful," "continued," or "obstinate," which are used in some states, and also left for judicial construction the problem of "constructive desertion."
The legislature also selected "imprisonment" as a ground but instead of referring to felony conviction, or crimes involving moral turpitude, simply referred to the length of imprisonment. In the case of the new "cruel and inhuman treatment" ground, the legislature melded two different grounds for legal separation which had existed under the old law. It used a conjunctive "or" to indicate that either "physical" or "mental cruelty" could be the basis for "cruel and inhuman treatment." It was intended that conduct of the defendant which endangered the mental well being of the plaintiff so as to make it improper to continue cohabitation, as well as conduct endangering the physical well being that made it unsafe to continue cohabitation, should be a ground for divorce. "Adultery" as a divorce ground was redefined so as to include deviate sexual intercourse.
In addition to the "fault" grounds for divorce, the legislative scheme was to add two "no-fault" grounds based upon separation or living apart. The legislative compromise was to accept the "no-fault" theory of separation as a ground for divorce but to add requirements which would vouch for its authenticity.
The sponsors of divorce reform in 1966 made no effort to propose incompatibility as a ground for divorce in New York, although it is a ground in seven other American jurisdictions, because it was believed that it would be futile to do so. The same was true of "irremediable breakdown" which at that time had not been adopted in any jurisdiction in the Western world but later became a ground in many states. Prior experience in New York with reference to the collusion, fraud, and perjury which often accompanied the adultery ground, led a wary legislature to stipulate that the separation must be pursuant to a separation agreement or judgment of legal separation. Thus, there emerged an esoteric ground in Domestic Relations Law section 170(6), i.e., separation pursuant to a separation agreement and the so-called "conversion" ground in subsection (5).
The Divorce Reform Law of 1966 became the source of controversy as adjustments were made to its new declaration of public policy. Almost from the beginning there was dispute as to whether or not the conciliation procedure was worth its cost and inconvenience. The automatic bar to alimony imposed upon a wife by Domestic Relations Law section 236[A] where she was guilty of such misconduct as would constitute grounds for legal separation or divorce, affected judicial construction of the new grounds. Before the Equitable Distribution Law of 1980, there was an improvised and delicate balance of economic justice as between husband and wife fashioned by statute and procedure. Formerly in statute and decision, the wife was favored by the imposition of a unilateral duty to support from the husband, in large measure regardless of their comparative economic circumstances. On the other hand, New York law made it difficult for that obligation to be enforced.
There evolved a sense that even a poor wife deserved support and a share of the property acquired by either spouse during the marriage upon divorce unless she was egregiously unfit or guilty of heinous marital offenses. The Equitable Distribution Divorce Law of 1980 accomplished this.
Where there is no contest, the statutory divorce grounds are mostly of academic interest. Statutory provisions and prior court decisions set parameters for negotiating a settlement. Statutory grounds for divorce and legal precedents have their most immediate impact in negotiation and settlement efforts of the divorce process, because bargaining leverage is very important New York where the dominant characteristic of its divorce law is that in operation it is consensual, and true no-fault divorce is unavailable.


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Mixed Signals On Apple
Comcast seems to be waffling on Apple TV. Asked Wednesday at a Goldman Sachs conference if the company would ever cede control of the user interface in its set-top cable-television boxes, Comcast Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis responded: "I don't think we can depend on anybody else to provide a great experience to our customers."
Mr. Angelakis, who emphasized Comcast's heavy investment in its own new set-top box, the cloud-based X1, didn't name Apple directly. But his questioner did, referring to the set-top box Apple is reportedly developing.
Left at that, Comcast would have distanced itself from Time Warner Cable. That company has expressed a willingness to use third-party technology. But Mr. Angelakis didn't slam the door on potential partners. He noted that Comcast partners with Microsoft's Xbox and has Google and Apple apps, adding it would consider future opportunities that benefit consumers and the company.
In that regard, Mr. Angelakis said, Comcast's view isn't much different from some of its peers. When a partner could be Apple, even Comcast never says never.