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Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) Movie Reviews
Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
Release Date: Dec 30, 2011
Genre: Drama
Rating: (PG-13)
User reviews on Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
I absolutely loved this film and I highly recommend seeing it in the theaters, it is definitely wort your time and your money. I think the characters in this film were developed very well and they were real people with real problems. I really liked that the director did not have any villains, the characters were not bad but they were caught in evil situations and isn't that how life really is? It was interesting to see how modern Iran works and it made me really grateful to be an American, we do not realize how lucky we are but this film helped me to appreciate it much more. The film was emotional and powerful and I was moved and it made me think. Overall, I had a great experience watching this film.
This was an amazing film and I highly recommend seeing it in the theaters. What I liked most about this film is that the characters are not but but the environment that they are in is toxic and they are just trying to keep their humanity in it. The characters in this film are developed very well and every role is acted wonderfully and masterfully. I know that not a lot of Americans are going to see this film even though they really should but I hope people who decide to see it will tell other people and the word will spread because this film is important and I hope a lot of people will see it.
This was a great film and i think it is worth seeing it in the theaters and telling others about it. The movie was very interesting and I was completely involved with the characters and their actions, i love the way everything unfolded. The human interaction in the film feels very real and it was very interesting to watch, i really cared about the characters and their destinies. The film was morally challenging and i always love it when a film makes you think and wonder. The performances in this film were superb and really i have absolutely nothing bad to say about this movie.
I absolutely loved this film and I highly recommend seeing it in the theaters. I found this film to be very thrilling and interesting and sad, there were so many emotions and I love when a film is able to stir up your feelings and make you think and wonder. The film is deeply intimate and in the same time it had universal themes, I think that the director is a genius and I have not seen a film this well made in a very long time. The performances in this film are very powerful and moving and I was highly impressed. Overall, I urge you to see this film and tell others about it.
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A study says a long-term, daily coffee habit could translate to a lower risk of gout in women.
Previous research has suggested that male coffee drinkers may be protected against developing gout. But the 2010 study was the first to show that coffee could also benefit women.
"Coffee is helpful, not hurtful. I can say that," says study author Hyon Choi, MD, DrPH, a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.
Gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis that occurs when uric acid builds up in the body and crystallizes in the joints causing intense pain, inflammation, stiffness and swelling.
More than six million people have the condition, which is more common among men. But researchers say gout cases among postmenopausal women are on the rise although there's less research about how the condition affects them.
In a article published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers analyzed 26 years worth of data collected in a study of nearly 90,000 female nurses between the ages of 30 and 55. Scientists compared the number of gout cases among participants with the amount of tea and caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee the women drank. The information was gleaned from questionnaires the female participants filled out every two to four years.
Researchers discovered 896 confirmed cases of gout among participants. They also found that the more coffee a woman drank, the more her risk for gout declined. The risk of gout dropped 57 percent when women drank more than four cups of caffeinated coffee a day and decreased 22 percent when they drank one to three cups each day, compared to those who drank no coffee at all.
Dr. Choi says decaffeinated coffee is not consumed at the same rate as the caffeinated version, so his research team could only assess the effects of one cup of decaf a day. He says they found the daily intake of that beverage gave women a 23 percent lower risk of gout compared to no consumption of coffee.
He says tea consumption had a neutral effect and showed no association with gout risk. All of these results are similar to findings of a study Dr. Choi published in 2007 looking at coffee intake and gout risk in men.
Dr. Choi says coffee has antioxidant properties which may help decrease insulin concentrations in the body, helping to lower uric acid levels and decrease the gout risk. But he says it's still not totally clear exactly what's causing the protective effect and if it's coming from elements in coffee or caffeine.
"My best interpretation is caffeine is involved but other components in coffee –regular and decaffeinated – might be operating as well," Dr. Choi says.
While there is a protective effect in the long term, Dr. Choi says people need to know it appears starting to drink coffee can cause a worsening of uric acid and gout in the short term.
"Once you start lowering uric acid level, people for a few months or a few weeks at least, they start developing gout," Dr. Choi explains. "Although long term this is helpful, in the short term it may not be the same effect."
Dr. Choi says it typically takes six months for gout drugs to take effect, but he's not sure how long it takes for the positive effects of coffee drinking to kick in.
"Coffee would probably be less effective in terms of lowering uric acid levels (than a drug) so maybe it's a shorter time, like three months. But this is a guess," he says.
The bottom line, according to Dr. Choi - whatever your current coffee habits are, feel comfortable sticking with them.
"There's no point in stopping it. If they want to start it, let them do it too," Dr. Choi says. "It needs to be individualized. If you feel like drinking coffee, do it."
David S. Goldfarb, MD, chief of Nephrology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, Professor of Medicine & Physiology at NYU School of Medicine and a consultant for Takeda Pharmaceutical, the company that makes the gout febuxostat (Uloric), says it's important for patients to realize that this research isn't saying that coffee is a magic elixir for gout.
"If you want to know if you should drink coffee if you have gout, they didn't look at that. They simply looked at whether the first episode you get is related to coffee," Dr. Goldfarb explained. "I would not conclude that drinking coffee helps gout. I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. It's possible coffee might have a good effect. But I wouldn't be able to prescribe coffee to patients with gout and say this will help you. I'll say it's probably safe and won't hurt you, but it wasn't tested."
Dr. Goldfarb says this study is a good one because it followed a lot of patients for a long time and also because it answers an important question about gender and gout.
"It's not completely new because it's similar to the finding in men, but it's a legitimate question because gout is so much more common in men than women," Dr. Goldfarb says. "So I think if you have something in men you need to validate it in women."

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I went from thinking we would get very little from this event to now wondering if the pictures will ever stop coming. You won't find me complaining! Big thanks to Lu, Mayara and Crayen for sending me pictures from the event be it in MQ or HQ, sentiments are the same.
Jonny attended the event on Saturday June 15th with his gorgeous co-star Natalia to promote Belle du Seigneurs release in France and Belgium on June 19th. Until a few weeks ago I'd not heard of this film festival held in Normandy, France but I must say it made a beautiful setting and thankfully the weather stayed on there side to give us some stunning beach photocall pictures. Jonathan went to the festival with a casual look in mind wearing his signature black/grey blazer and tshirt combo, with tan colour chinos/jeans, his mala beads which were then completed with his signature RayBan sunglasses. 51 files have been added to the gallery altogether, 31 in HQ and 20 in MQ. Enjoy!
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A huge thankyou to Claudia for grabbing me these gorgeous pictures from Friday. I have lots of pictures from yesterdays event at Cabourg to come but I want to upload them all together so they will come either tomorrow or Tuesday when I get the last few pictures I need. They're worth the wait, I promise!
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As you probably know if you follow us on Twitter and Facebook that today Jonathan and Natalia attended Festival du Film de Cabourg in France. I have added 4 gorgeous HQ pictures and 3 equally gorgeous MQ pictures to the gallery.
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I came across 3 pictures of Jonny at the Champs Élysées Film Festival whilst looking for some from today at Cabourg. I have added them to the gallery and should we get anymore they will also be added.
Also, thankyou to everyone who has shared there fan pictures with us from last night making them all the more precious at the fact Jonny almost didn't get there, so again thankyou so much (you too Jonny)! New additions have been added to that part of the gallery also.
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Unfortunately as you may now well know due to a delayed flight because of French airstrikes Jonathan could not make it to the red carpet part of the Belle Du Seigneur premiere in Paris but co-star Natalia Vodianova still greeted disappointed fans. Fear not. He was on his way. He still made it to the venue at approximately 11pm after the screening of the film to the delight of those who had stayed behind. We were reliably informed that should he arrive he would be going straight into the theatre and wouldn't be staying for pictures outside for the press. There are not many pictures but we still have some ones from fans which I have just added to the fan encounters section. If by chance we get some from after the screening (I have seen some of other people) I will add an album to events but until then I have added them to the section I have just mentioned. When inside the venue @CEfilmfestival posted
@JRM_official spent 40 minutes with the fans, never looking the clock !!
Thankyou to everyone for your pictures but especially to Jonathan for still making it and not reneging on commitments that had been made. You are an absolute star! I have added 9 pictures to the gallery, 1 from Budapest and 8 from last night. More will be added as I find them. Enjoy!
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I have just recieved confirmation that Jonathan WILL be attending the Champs Elysees Film Festival to promote Belle Du Seigneurs release in France on June 14th.
Again thanks to the wonderful Flor @ Sweet Revelation for the first time JRM Source now has a matching home and gallery layout. You may also notice in the top right hand corner it says 'Back to JRM Source' so now when you're finished viewing the gallery you can get straight back to the main site to continue your visit rather than having to edit the URL in the address box or pressing the back button on your browser.
In other news it seems as though London Town may be going ahead according to Screen Daily. Unfortunately I can't access all of the article due to subscription charges but it is certainly looking promising. I have also been getting ready the information for this years birthday project which I will be posting on Monday afternoon (GMT) so keep an eye out for that if you would like to take part.
Back to Belle du Seigneur which we've been waiting an eternity to see (remember that?) it will be premiering at the Champs Elysées Film Festival on June 14th at 8:15pm.
sortiescinema on YouTube has just released the French Belle Du Seigneur trailer online and we get to see lots of previously unseen footage from the film. Please if you are a minor be aware that the trailer contains scenes of a sexual nature and some nudity. I have added 62 HD screen captures to the gallery.
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I have added 3 MQ stills to the gallery from the filming of Belle. They will be replaced once I find better quality images
Edit; The images have now been replaced with HQ versions
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California Supreme Court Issues Long-Awaited Bighorn Decision
Today, the California Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency v. Verjil (July 24, 2006, S127535) __ Cal.4th __. The case concerned whether the water agency's rates were subject to repeal by initiative pursuant to section 3 of article XIII C of the California Constitution. In the course of answering this question, the Court determined that water service charges (and by implication sewer and refuse collection fees) are "property related fees" under Article XIIII D. This decision ends a long period of uncertainty.
For agencies that impose water, sewer, and refuse collection fees, Bighorn has three basic implications. First, the adoption and increase of "property related fees" are subject to Proposition 218's procedural requirements. (Art. XIII D, sect. 6(a).) These procedural provisions require detailed noticing of each property owner 45 days prior to the hearing on the fee and prohibit the adoption of the fee or increase if a majority of the property owners protest the imposition or increase in writing. Second, property related fees are subject to Proposition 218's substantive requirements. (Art. XIII D, sect. 6(b).) Among other things, the substantive requirements provide that the amount of the fee "shall not exceed the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel," and that revenues from the fee "shall not exceed the funds required to provide the service" and "shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which the fee was imposed." Third, "property related fees" are subject to the power of the electorate to reduce them by initiative. (Art. XIII C, sect. 3).
The decision can be found here. A link to a more detailed discussion of the case is forthcoming shortly.


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January 9, 2008 edition
While they might resemble gargantuan honey dippers, the University's new sirens are designed to save lives in an emergency.
At the end of last year, the University installed and tested the UNC Emergency Alert System Siren, which will sound during an immediate life-threatening situation such as an armed and dangerous person in the area, a major chemical spill or hazard, or a tornado.
Details ...
Once again, the University is the best value in American public higher education, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. It is Carolina's seventh consecutive No. 1 ranking since the magazine started publishing its periodic analysis in 1998.
Actor, activist and author Ruby Dee will deliver the keynote lecture for the 27th annual Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
The Gazette takes a look back at the people and events that made 2007 memorable on campus.
Last spring, a task force examined how the University could maximize its resources to bolster faculty success.
The committee, composed of representatives from academic and health affairs and administrative offices, considered three areas in which the University could provide central support to enhance and gauge faculty success: teaching and learning, research and leadership.
More than 1,100 students marked the completion of their degree programs during mid-year commencement Dec. 16 in the Dean E. Smith Center.
Noted journalist and policy expert Hodding Carter III, professor of leadership and public policy, delivered the address, encouraging students to embrace change and become lifelong learners. Click to read excerpts of Carter's commencement address.
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Daniel Okun, 90, dies Dec. 10
Administrator honored for his ability to bring people together
In his 2000 book, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,"
Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the value
of connectors.
A connector, he wrote, is the human
equivalent of a computer network hub —
someone who knows many people from an array of circles and who makes a habit of introducing them to one another.
For the past 17 years, the connector at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has been its associate director, Michael O'Malley. His unique ability to bring people together was one reason 27 of his friends, colleagues and students nominated O'Malley for a 2007 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award.
Wendy Sarratt, the center's assistant director, remembers that when she first arrived O'Malley took her on a tour of the guts of the building, from the steam pipes to the ventilation systems to the immense web of hallways.
She quickly found that O'Malley did not walk the halls to check on the building; his concern was the people who filled its labs and offices. These repeated hallway encounters, over time, have helped O'Malley learn the names, faces and work of all the faculty members.
Call it wandering around with a purpose. When you are a connector, bumping into people is never an accident. It is an opportunity waiting to happen.
"He can often be heard saying, 'You know, you should really talk to X about her new project,'" Sarratt said.
And that is how, on his way to the drink
machine, he spawns new collaborations, she said.
A student of history
Of course, O'Malley will say simply that his whole career in medical research and administration began as a fortuitous accident. His original plan as an Army ROTC student at Davidson College was to be a great historian.
After graduating cum laude from Davidson in 1972 and a short stint of active-duty service, O'Malley came to Carolina in fall 1973 to pursue his master's degree in history and add his voice to telling the story of the American South.
As a boy growing up in Atlanta, he could not escape understanding — and telling — that story.
"History is something that Southerners grow up with," O'Malley said. "Some of it is not great history, but it is who we are and what we have to move on from."
But he did not move on from studying
history until he had nearly completed his master's
degree thesis on the 1906 lynching in Salisbury of five black men who had been accused of
murdering members of a local family. A mob
tortured the men with knives before hanging them. The governor, alarmed at what was one of the largest multiple lynchings of the 20th century, called in the National Guard to restore order.
The 1906 episode was a milestone in history, and O'Malley's attempt to study it marked a
turning point for him as well.
After nearly two years in graduate school, he no longer felt the same pull toward history he once did and he began to doubt whether he still had the obsession for it necessary to fuel a
successful career. Those doubts led him to drop out of the program on the cusp of finishing it to take a nondescript job at N.C. Memorial Hospital.
It was the kind of job someone in his circumstance had to take just to pay the bills. As it turned out, he worked in Patient Accounting where he was called upon to call people about their
delinquent bills. It was a job he both loathed and learned from in ways that he could fully
appreciate only in retrospect.
Without knowing it, in his role as bill collector, he found himself at "the place where the rubber hits the road," where health-care policy either works for or against the people it is intended to serve.
And before he knew it, he was hooked.
He stayed there for two years — interrupted by a four-month detour through Europe —
before he returned to graduate school in fall 1978, this time to pursue a master's degree in health policy at Carolina's School of Public Health.
He completed course work in two years and in 1980 went to work as a research assistant with Suzanne Fletcher in the School of Medicine's
division of general medicine. In 1981, he finished his paper to earn his master's, but he continued doing research with Fletcher, later as a research associate, for nine years.
After a one-year stint as a senior manager with the United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Funds in Washington, D.C., he returned to Chapel Hill to become the assistant director at Lineberger. In 1997, two years after completing his Ph.D. in health policy and administration, he began serving as an adjunct assistant professor in addition to administrative duties.
In 1998, he was named associate director at Lineberger and continues in that role today while serving as an adjunct associate professor.
Knowing your purpose
Titles do a poor job of capturing what people really do, especially for people who hold more than one, like O'Malley.
Dianne Gooch Shaw, the center's director of communications, said that to O'Malley his work is more than a job. From the time he walked through the door 17 years ago, she said, O'Malley has been a steady and innovative leader who
always goes above and beyond what is asked of him.
No task is too big or too small, said Beverly Mitchell, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, who has seen O'Malley do everything from directing traffic to mopping floors to organizing bulletin boards. "Michael is simply one of those vital individuals who makes things run," Mitchell said.
Jo Anne Earp, a professor in the School of Public Health's department of health behavior and health education, met O'Malley in 1980 when he was a research assistant for Fletcher,
now a professor of medicine at Harvard.
Earp was collaborating with Fletcher on breast
cancer research.
O'Malley not only helped with the their breast cancer screening projects, but quickly
demonstrated extraordinary writing and
analytical abilities.
"I have always prized good writing as the hallmark of good thinking, so I was delighted to embark on a collaborative co-author relationship with Michael, staring with our first publication together in 1983," Earp said.
Little did she know that O'Malley would turn out to be one of the cornerstones of the Lineberger center and that they would
collaborate regularly. O'Malley and Earp worked together to develop and implement evaluations of breast cancer screening interventions, particularly for underserved populations.
In 1992, they received major funding from the National Cancer Institute to support the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program that sought to reduce the high breast cancer mortality rates suffered by older African-American women
in five eastern North Carolina counties by
offering them regular screening mammograms.
A passion for teaching
Even as O'Malley helped launch the breast cancer-screening program, he was taking the lead to establish the Cancer Control Education
Program (CCEP) that he still co-directs with Earp. The National Cancer Institute now views the program as a model cancer control-training program for pre- and postdoctoral students.
Ahn Tran, a predoctoral fellow who has studied
under O'Malley, said O'Malley not only promoted
a strong sense of community among fellows, but he inspired excellent scientific discussion and
research. "Dr. O'Malley sees 'the big picture' and knows that many disciplines need to come
together to move science forward," Tran said.
Annice Eu-Shin Kim, a doctoral candidate in health behavior and health education, remembers how O'Malley pushed his students during the weekly CCEP Journal Club meetings to think broadly about cancer prevention, beyond the limits of their specialized content areas.
As part of their journal club activity, the
students co-wrote a paper titled "Cancer Burden in North Carolina: Priorities for Intervention."
"No professor I know would suggest, let alone lead, an effort to write a research policy
paper with nine other co-authors all early in their research careers and from different
disciplines," Kim wrote. "That is what makes
Dr. O'Malley extraordinary."
Jill Reedy, now a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., remembers the detailed e-mail from O'Malley in response to her inquiry about the CCEP and what she could expect to get out of it.
"His genuine and caring personality is evident to those who know him," she said. "It appears
inherent within his character."
'Laugh and be nice'
O'Malley does not know what to say about all the nice things being said or written about him. He is so uncomfortable about the praise that he still has not read any of the nominating letters his friends and colleagues wrote on his behalf.
He appreciates the generous gesture so many people made on his behalf. He knows that what they had to say was sincere and heartfelt. But he also sees a danger in believing all the nice things said about him.
It is the work that galvanizes him and binds all of the people at Lineberger in a cause bigger
than any one of them. It is their unending
commitment that O'Malley sees as the center's real connector.
The sense of purpose that O'Malley derives from his work is matched by the joy that his wife Nadine and their daughter Bailey, along with their dog Shelby, have brought into his life.
He credits his family for the qualities others
ascribed to him. It was his mother and her
mother — the grandma they all called Bubba — who taught him to laugh and be nice, he said.
His father, who died when he was a first-year
college student, worked hard to make ends meet. In addition to his day job as an insurance
underwriter, he worked at other jobs on
weekends to support his family. "I hope I have some of his work ethic," O'Malley said.
He learned about courage from his younger brother Richard, who was born with a number of medical problems and spent his entire life in and out of hospitals. He died in 2003 just short of his 50th birthday after spending 12 years on dialysis.
O'Malley learned more things that he can count from his sister, Mary O. Huff, who earned her Ph.D. long before he did. She is now an
associate professor of biology at Bellarmine
College in Louisville, Ky.
"In addition to raising her three kids and
building an academic career, she's taking care of Mom and before that she took care of both Mom and our brother Richard," O'Malley said. "She's a true and accomplished saint."
O'Malley credited two people, Arnie Kaluzny and Jim Veney, for deepening and broadening
his interest in health administration. "Arnie chaired my dissertation," O'Malley said. "Jim chaired my master's paper and served on my
doctoral committee."
He counted both men among his greatest
advisers and colleagues, but they are part of a long list. At the top of the list is Shelton Earp,
longtime director at Lineberger, who O'Malley described as "the best boss you can imagine." It was Earp, along with Joseph Pagano, who brought O'Malley to work at the center in 1990.
"When Michael first started, the cancer center
had fewer than 100 members and was seen as a basic science center with some public health
research," Earp said. "Today, we have 250 members
with one of the nation's premier population
science programs, an active clinical care and trials program, translational research and faculty who are nationally renown is a wide variety of areas.
"The breadth of the center, and its ability to interact with so many faculty and administrative
units, is largely thanks to Michael and his
incredible skills at bringing people together."
Earp also credited O'Malley for joining with his mentor Kaluzny to see the need for a course on cancer prevention and control, to create the course and teach it.
Pagano, Lineberger Professor of Cancer
Research, said O'Malley may well be the finest administrator he has seen in his 45 years at the University. O'Malley keenly grasps every aspect of Lineberger and its complexities with great
passion, vision and skill, he said.
"The exceptional day-and-night commitment needed for this kind of administrative leadership rests on superiority of intellect and performance —
all done with a light touch that brings order and calm to the whole enterprise," Pagano said.
"And humor! What gifts! Great things happen here every day thanks to Michael's deft touch and perfectly tuned authority. He is at the top of his form, sought after throughout the country as a consultant and an ornament to Carolina."
Daniel Okun, 90, dies Dec. 10
Daniel A. Okun, Kenan professor emeritus of environmental engineering, died Dec. 10.
Okun was hailed worldwide for his groundbreaking work in identifying pristine water sources, water management, water supply, pollution control, water reclamation and reuse, and watershed protection issues.
In 2006, he received lifetime achievement awards from the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, the national Environmental and Water Resources Institute and the International Water Association.
During his career, Okun worked in 89 countries and consulted with municipal and legislative planning committees throughout the United States. He helped design a water treatment plant in Bangkok, Thailand; established a graduate program in sanitary engineering in Lima, Peru; and studied water supply and pollution control in China for the World Bank. At home, he led the 1980s campaign to build Cane Creek Dam and Reservoir.
"Dan Okun cared deeply about his school, his community, his state and his world," said Barbara K. Rimer, dean of the School of Public Health. "And he turned that commitment into action, whether through water projects or social action. . . . Dan was a model citizen/professor, and I am so glad to have known him."
Okun began his Carolina career in 1952 and served as chair of the environmental sciences and engineering department from 1955 to 1973. During that time, the department grew from three to 25 faculty members. Although Okun retired from teaching in 1982, he remained actively involved in the profession through writing, lecturing and consulting.
"His humanity equaled his professional stature," said Mike Aitken, chair of environmental sciences and engineering in the School of Public Health. "I believe Dan's greatest legacy will be this department. . . . He transformed it from a traditional program in sanitary engineering to the multidisciplinary department we are today, at a time when this was unheard of. He was truly a man of vision who pushed us to excel even through this last year of his life."
Okun was the first engineer from North Carolina elected to the National Academy of Engineering and later to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He chaired the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council from 1991 to 1994.
Okun established a scholarship, awarded annually to a student in environmental sciences and engineering. He was also a strong supporter of the Stone Center.
Donations may be made in Okun's memory to the Dan Okun Scholarship Fund in the School of Public Health, CB# 7407. Checks, made to the Public Health Foundation, should indicate the name of the scholarship.


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Linda Gates Head of Voice and Speech at Northwestern University's Theater Department. She has authored the authoritative Voice for Performance and taught voice, speech and text analysis at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama, Central School of Speech and Drama, and Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York. She has conducted classes and vocal workshops for Bada's Midsummer at Oxford program, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Shakespeare Theater, Accademia dell'arte, (Arezzo, Italy), The Hochschule fur Musik und Theater (Hamburg, Germany), etc. She has served as the English vocal director and coach at the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, New York (Broadway) and Chicago.


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Michael Jordan got an early Valentine's Day gift, as his wife Yvette gave birth to twin girls Victoria and Ysabel on Sunday, February 9, according to People.
Victoria and Ysabel are the first children for Michael and Yvette, who tied the knot last April after six years.
Michael is already the father of three grown children -- sons Jeffrey (25) and Marcus (22), and daughter Jasmine (21) -- from his previous marriage to Juanita Vanoy.
Thirty years ago, Michael literally brought fresh "Air" to basketball when he joined the Chicago Bulls: becoming the team's breakout superstar and one of the NBA's main attractions.
Together with coach Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen and former Detroit Piston bad boy Dennis Rodman, Jordan led the Bulls to six championship titles throughout the 1990s against Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers; John Stockton, Karl "the Mailman" Malone and the Utah Jazz, and Sir Charles Barkley and the Phoenix Suns.
Michael is now the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.


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The website Gametrailers.com has confirmed another fighter that will be returning in the next "Super Smash Bros." titles. That fighter is Diddy Kong, and his return was announced on February 21, 2014. Diddy Kong will be the twenty-forth confirmed fighter for the next "Super Smash Bros." titles.
Diddy Kong was first introduced to the "Super Smash Bros." franchise in "Super Smash Bros. Brawl." He was a lightweight, fast fighter who was adept at hit-and-run attacks. He did not have many options with ranged attacks, other than a peanut gun that did not do very much damage. His attacks also had relatively short range, making him somewhat hard to master. However, one of the pre-release screenshots for the upcoming game shows him using an attack where he stretches his arms, so his range issue may be resolved in the next game.
Based on the screenshots, it seems that, other than the aforementioned attack, many of his attacks are the same as they were in his original appearance. Please note, however, that the screenshots do not show very much, so this is purely conjecture.
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Disease Proof
Red Meat Boosts Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
An upcoming study in the January 22, 2008 issue of Circulation claims eating 2 servings of red meat per day increases risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor to cardiovascular disease and diabetes, by 26%, but eating foods, like fruits and vegetables, lowers risk; CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates.
You should add nuts to that list too! A recent study showed people consuming a Mediterranean diet with a daily serving of nuts, decreased their risk of metabolic syndrome by 13.7%. And other reports link red meat with cancer of the small intestine and heightened susceptibility to bacterial toxins.
The article said it studied middle-aged people who ate 2 servings of red meat per day; I can't think of anybody who regularly eats 2 servings of red meat per day (especially middle-aged people, who are for the most part, more health conscience) so the only point the study proves is that if you're stupid enough to eat red meat twice a day every day when you're in your forties or fifties, you have a bigger risk of heart disease.....what a revelation.
Oh and by the way, the study also said not to stop eating red meat altogether, just keep the intake to less than 3 servings per week. Wonder how an article that says red meat is okay in small amounts ended up on a blog that preaches red meat is the devil?
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Oaeon One
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4rthern Ireland Government Takes
Drastice Action to Prevent Mur
ders by Sinn Fein
Three Hundred or More Prisoners
Taken' by Special Constables in
Big Clean-Up
Belfast May 23.-Three hutidred
or more prisoners were taken by
special constables in the various
counties of Ulster today. The pris
oners comprised for the most part
officers and men of the Irish Re
publican army, as well as members
of the Sinn Fein and other organi
zations opposed to the constituted
authorities here.
Although the Northern govern
ment had contemplated drastic ac
tion against the Sinn Fein,. it was
the assassination of W. J. Twaddell,
a member of the Northern Parlia
mont, that really decided the gov
ernment to act promptly. But at
the same time it reduced the num
ber of captives in the round up, as
many of the leading Republicans
left Belfast dreading reprisals, and
thus escaped the police net.
Prisoners to Be Interned
The prisoners will be interned,
but the place of their internment
%has not yet been decided.
Premier Craig in Parliament to
day declared that the recent se
rious disorders made it clear that
forcible action was necessary, con
sequently he had issued a new reg
ulation making membership in the
Irish Republican army an offense
in itself. The government had fur
ther decided to arrest a number of
persons under observation . because
it was impossible to allow such in
dividuals in Ulster to carry on a
conspiracy against authority. The
government would not hesitat' to
employ its full power to suppress
such conspiracy.
The premier emphasized that this
action was not due to panic, but
had been in mind for some weeks.
He evidently anticipated reprisals,
for he proceeded to speak of the
military which would be required if
there was any invasion of strength
against Ulster tonight.
Raid Carired Out
Belfast, May 23.-(By the Asso
ciated Press.)- The greatest raid
in the recent history of Ireland was
carired out early today when
swarms of police swept through Uls
ter and rounded up 200 Sinn Feiners,
the majority of whom were Irish Re
publican army officers.
The northern government's action
was taken, it was stated, in an ef
fort to suppress not only the Irish
Republican and the Irish Republi
can Brotherhood, but al other Sinn
Fein organizations in the six coun
ty areas.
The government's move follows
t owiftly upon Irish Republican army
raids and burning of buildings in
the counties of Down and Antrim
and the intensified hostilities in
Belfast recently culminating in the
murder yesterday of W. J. Twad
dell, member of the Ulster Parlia
Taken in Country Districts
Nearly every town and village in
Ulster was visited, but the bulk
of the prisoners was taken in the
country districts, from farm houses.
Comparatively few captures were
madec in Belfast andl most of 'the
Irish Repubilean army men liiving
in the Sinn Fein dlistricts of Bel
fast, anticipating action by the po
ice as a result of the Twvaddell
assassination had gone "o nthe run."
Trhe captures incl ude Caapal H-ealy
member of the Fermanagh County
Council and~ prominen1t Sinni Fein
leader in that district; Thomas C.
Corrigan, accountant for the Fer
managh County Council; Samuel
Sheridan, chiairmani of the recently
dlissolvedl Newry Boards of Guard
ians, and1 Eugene McGilligan, coun
ty couincillor, who was the Sinn
Fein candidate in North Derry at
the last general election.
The early estimates of the num
ber of prisoners taken ran as high
as 1,500, but these proved to be
greatly exaggerated, and officials
expressedl belief that up to this
noon the tota had not exceeded
200. In Belfast, particularly, the
number of Irish Republican army
me neaught fell far beolw the early
Des Moines, May 23.-Waving a
letter from "Wild Bill' Hart, two gun..
man of the movies, before 800 Presby
terian commissioners of the 134th
Generrl Assembly here today, the
-Rev. Gustav Briegleb, of Pasadena,
Calif., chargedl that film interests
were ridicul ir g Protestant pastors In
their pictures in retaliation for the
censorship campaign being condluctedl
against thorm by the Protestant relig
Hart's letter was a reply to one
from the minister and saidl "I adi
mire a man who will carry on his
good work even though he hats to
rob a stage coach to (10 so."
"Show me a picture where a
Catholic priest or a Jewish rabbi
is ridiculed," demanded the Rev.
* ~ *
The c e ,0WfClarendon have the
aopporttat 7 rting on Friday of see
ing the bes line of entertainments
that have appeared in Manning for a
long time. The famous Redpath
Chautauqua will be the attraction.
This' big company of up-to-date en
tertainers hps been brought here on
the guaratitee of over 100 of our
citizens with Mr. Joe Davis as chair
man of the committee. It is to be
hoped that our citizens will turn out
freely to these entertainments. The
following is the complete prograin:
First Afternoon
Introductory exercises.
Grand Concert - Nevin Concert
Admissian 50c-Children 25c.
First Night
, Concert-Nevin Concert Company.
Lecture and Art Revue Extraordin
ary-"Wit and Wisodm of the Chalk
and Clay"-J. F. Caveny.
Admission 50c-Children 2iic.
Second Afternoon
Grand Concert-Gretchen Cox and
Admission 50e-Children 25c.
I Second Night
Concert-Gretchen Cox and Com
Lecture-" Victory," Edward Am
herst Ott.
Admission 50c-Children 25c.
Third Morning
Stories for the Children-Stephani
Admission 25c-Children 5c.
Third Night
Grand Concert - National Male
Admission 75c-Children 35c.
Fourth Morning
Children's Entertainment -Hughie
Fitzpatrick, Noted Clown.
Admissian 25c-Children 10c.
Fourth Afternoon
Lecture-"America Looking Ahead"
-Montaville Flowers.
Admissian 50c-Children 25c.
Fourth Night
"Friendly Enemies", Delightful
Comedy Drama, New York cast.
Admissian $1.00--Children 50c.
Fifth Morning
Children's Entertainment- Bernice
Admissian 25c-Children 5c.
Fifth Afternoon
Popula i, Concrt-Kubl ick Company
andl~ Bernseie Van.
Admission 50c-Chtildren 25c.
Fifth Night
Concert -Kublick Company.
L'cture-"The Wonders of Bur
hank"-Dr. IH. A. Adrian.
Admissiona 50c-Children 25e.
K imball Piano Used.
Major W. T. Islake is here photo
graphed with his pet, "Mike," the
pretty tabby that will make an aero
p lane trip around the world with
.his maas ter.
The New Hero
WHEN ARE you GoING
TO INVlTE Me OVER
LlTTL[ RAP AT HEARST
Refers to Attacks Made on Her by
Knights of Columbus--Sums Up
qAgggin on Dry Question
New York, May 23.-Lady Astor
started back home to her six chil
dren and her weo'. in the House of
Commons today, smiling and viva
cious, just as she was six weeks ago
when she larded ..here for a visit
to her native land.
The first thing she is going t~o
do on ari'iving in IEngland is to
visit her chilh "en-one of them in
this school, another in that, two
more in a third, she said,-and then
go home and see the baby of the
The eldest son, she -thought, would
meet her and Lord Astor when the
Aquitania dlocks at Southampton.
Among the great number of
boxes which she is taking home are
toys worth $150 for the children.
She bought them on a shopping
tour yesterday.
Preceding Lady Astor up the
Aquitania's gang plank by only a
moment, was William Randolph
Hearst, whose name has been con
nected with gubernatorial aspira..
tions but who today enme out for
Mayor Hylan.
"When I am running for oflice I
don't run away," Lady Astor re
marked, greeting a group of re
porters on the deck.
When someone asked her if her
remark was apropos of one of her
feilow passengers, she winked and
said, "I a mjust saying that's the
E~nglish method."
Lady Astor, remarked that the
one discordant, note in her visit
had been the clamor of some who
advocated deporting her as ain un1
desirable alien.
"The only ones who wanted 111
deported as an undesirable alien,"
she said, "Are thv: who preach1
hate in the name of God.
"Ad he hee s hsth ol
thig he orhelff prs a
LAdDm ATORe LytA eon cm.
ano o the ldry Q.eP.ion he
anew LayAor May 23.-LayAge.r
DIecaring hat proibio in the ueo
Conmond Stayan siling andviva
prouisut had sheenssx k ag oi
whein she tei spireta fregenvra..
thn ofr thghe is,"Ld gongto s
sued on farewienli statement smin
visi her cpinionone dry thesioin
oin hirds o he saceanite
go home nd soin te abyvofte
're ontued, sheutought, supor
mo g ption gydret nvoterws.
bLxes Astoi si shestkn homd hare
itysaidtha $150 frc tine Amlden.c
Shel bogt themnks ahl sheopoorg
tourd ynote utdelaedsh hd o
si preciadyvrkeshto d p ther
cutesand' gaurches now - ohad a
moety reucdvask ilam a doslh
"erswhse ae thas esult off
nette ih ubnaorthe prand
prbtion hs bwouh(te to many
Wen and m chlren instfo othe al
mared, dgradatin o ore of the
prters , I the out hen.
remark foraroo thoftry has en
god. psencontinued. wiThed genra
senimentI ems to bin that it i
renly getthe ortd." i.
Lady Astor, eared that the
only ,ioant-.Am tric n hprpaganda
sha been the clard s en-o
gendr ed blior inereasants, twh
he gonly inites ater the
sheuo qsaion. S e aid prohiitionh
'And hn iterefi nths onlyprb
Knihtsof oluwefaebtsf.cea
nolitime Al wntrelIytltn O
Greer, May 20.-A marriage of un
usa mnterest was solemnized Thurs
day afternoon at 4 o'clock at the
Appalachian Teachers' home, when
Miss Nelle Cunningham of Williams
burg, Mo., became the bride of Charles
Washington Wells, formerly of Man
nmng, but now of Greenville. The cere
mony room was beautifully decorated
wvith ferns and Southern smilax. An
improvised altar with a white arch
covered with pink Dorothy Perkins
roses, and with tall pedestals upon
which burned tapers in silver candel
abra formed an artistic setting for the
bridal party. Before the ceremony
Mrs. B. A. Bennette sang "At Dawn
ing" and "I. Love You Truly." To
the strains of the wedding march from
Lohengrin, played by Miss Isabel
Free, the bridal party centered. First
came the dainty little flower girl,
IIelen Taylor of Walhalla, carrying
the rmng mn a large white rose. Mrs.
Thomas A. Richards, dame of honor,
followed. TIhe bridegroom entered
with his best man, W. W. Grimln of
Greenville, and was met at the altar
by the bride, who entered and was
given in marriage by her brother, the
Rev. J. B. Cunningham of Grenada,
Miss. The impressive ring ceremonyl
was performed by the Rev. A. G.
Wardlaw, D. D.
The bride was lovely in her wed
ding dress of white Canton crape with
coronet veil and orange blossoms.
Her only ornament was a set of
pearls, the gift of the bridegroom. Her
shower houquet was of white roses
and valley lilies. Immediately after,
the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Wells left
by automobile for Asheville. A fter
their return they will be at home at
1304 Pendelton street, Greenville. The
bride's traveling dress was a coat
suit, of navy tricotine with accessories
to match.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
M'Vrs. S. C. Cunningham of Williams
burg, M~o. She has taught for sev
eral years in the Victor and Appala
chman schools and has endeared her
self to the people of this community
by her attractive .and charming per
Mr. Wells holds a responsible posi
tion in Greenville with the Victor
Mlonoghan company.
Mlrs. Wells' coworkers in the Ap
palache school, 'Misses Kate Smnith,!
LousePlwda ad/issAla ih
burg asssted i nerani'te5
rehtivs ad fins. TeIuto
M-w CHAuES weSJ W.Eri t
GeWells and 2.-A. mrrge of uan
un'int restn was. solemnDyed Thr.an
(rL.aP Holeris, Mr. S 'loana the v
Missparaa Tefachrs ofGronime, tvhe
Mis. N.lR. Cunningham of Wirenada,
Misr, Ms, beamenahe Edwrid of Car
Waington Wlls, aryly of Manen
ning, Miss MathoObon of Grevlli'lecr
imton romiws bee aflydor aed
roses, anl Mithe tWi~dea Grpen,
abree formd Van artstheofthen Vior
schoo faduILovty.Trl."
The comenrmninsmo of the w~~igmrhfo
Mahnin, highychol'wyi be srahel
atee the Pbtralnat Chutrh Sunday
mrin t 11:0 io'citllowbev. gi.l
IL.l Mcaoy, oSumtaer.crrin
The rdaing lrexie rse. willsb
Tolock Tuecdardsnng (lae ofddnrs
follobed dee byrJ.degrontFrerd
sonh his bth anersityri ofSoCa
Threefllowiang ivs ma the atofrolf
bythe rdein class.r~lan ~a
givubyi mriageam, hiler brote, tei
Miss. ThemEsdon Brng ceremon,
Sara pesefnrmed byimer Ev.AG
Warddew, illia RihrDoLl
RihgbLrie wsprovelt, Chr Wilson
distes Won, white Canton.C~)Owt
cTeiladutnd oxrnges blossms
ofar the giftlofwhebingro.:e
thPrer-Rev. Mr. A.( Mrs.le lf
Syalutoobilelfam Aseille.Ardson.
thartur heyul lt be and hy---a
sutlo avy Prophcot-Sariacesses
Tomath. eirsEtle isn
Vralyearinct...hnhlto Pnod Apaa
CHIEF EXECUTIVE Of STATE'
Lieut. Governor Sworn in as Governor
Succeeding Cooper, at Noon
Last Saturday
Governor's Mansion Occupancy Will
Changt Early in June--Mrs.
Harvey Here
Lieutenant Governor Wilson G.
Harvey, of Charleston,. became the
governor of the state at noon last
Saturday and Governor Cooper's
resignation took effect. The new gov
ernor was sworn in and he is today a
resident of Columbia and the chief
magistrate of the commonwealth.
The inauguration ceremonies took
place in the court rooms of the su
preme court, with a large audience of
friends and officials gathered. Chi.f
.Justice Gary administer'ed the oath.
The new Governor and Mrs. Har
vey and Miss Harvey, one of their
daughters, are in Columbia, and are
stopping at the Jefferson, which will
be the "governor's mansion" for sev
eral weeks, the Ilarveys occupying
the Mansion early in June. Mrs. Har
vey and Miss Harvey will return to
Charleston this afternoon, to come
back ;o Columbia at an early date.
Governor Harvey Saturday after
noon expressed his pleasure at be
ing a resident of the capital. "A
like Columbia and am glad to be
im your midst," he stated.
The new governor has not per
formed any important official du
ties as yet, though there are sev
eral matters on his desk which
will demand his attention this
week. "My first 'official act," he
stated yesterday afternoon, "was
to write to my daughters in Charle.
ton and tell them the induction into
office had been performed success
Both the governor's maie state
ments to the press when the change
in oflice took place. Governor Cooper
thanked the people of the state for
their cooperation with his administra
tion and urged that the state's sup
port of its educational system and ti
program of education launched in re
cent years be not weakened. le ex
pressed his regret on leaving the state
and the afliliations with other state
oflicials. lie commended the splendid
executive ability of his successor and
wished him well in his new field of
Governor Ilarvey expressed his
appreciation of the administration
of Governor Cooper and urged that
the people of the state cooperate
with him as they have with the
retiring executive. lie called "for
level-headed, temperate, careful and
patriotic thought and effort," in
handling the serious alfairs of state.
Governor and Mrs. Cooper leti
Columbia last Saturday afternoon
for Washington, where the ex
governor will assume his new duties
as member of federal farm board,
and where Mrs. Cooper will make
certain arrangements for their aboeIc
in the national capital. They will:
return to Columbia within a week,
and will then leave albout .J ne 5, to
make their permanynt home in the
city on the Patonmae.
The large number who were. pre
:ent in the supreme cot roome for "
the cerenia ies incident to the change
of governors was cosmi'oo!it.m an t
relreseitat ives eof men -m wl;; of
the state. R at ives of b.h the re
tirime and noin alr nwr
J'" sent. Il'.siles~s stud pr . :. cn l
m e9(n1 w e'e there; at leatst (n1 ll1: '
presidentt., Dr. I). H;.. J hns:on1. of Win-!
throp, wvas ani attfendlant en the txe'r
(cises. P'ractically all of the :t1' oif
ficials andI miany staite emloyeesitt wer
One interested specctator who faun
his w~ay near' the st an wt ~ herec tha
oath wvas being iimeinigerd was
"B~obby"' Cooper~t' the ymiint- "on
(,over in od li 'lr Cooper. i (olet
hia Rec9 Iosd.
-His Excellency Dr. Otto Weid
fcldt, the new German Amnbassador
to the United States, said, "1 am
glad to be able to live in your most
mierestmg country," when he
la nded in New Y.rk on his way to
Fox, Gappins and Kirby to Die on
June 16th.
Convicted Last August For Killing
Brazell, Columbia Taxicab
Columbia, May 23.-S. J. Kirby, C.
0. Fox and Jesse Gappins, convicted
last August of the murder of William
C. Brazel, a youthful taxicab driver
of Columbia, were sentenced at Lex
ington today to be electrocuted here
at the State penitentiary June 16.
The trio last August hired Bra
zell's automobile on the streets of
Columbia to drive them to Augusta,
and before they reached Lexington
they struck him on the head, half
stunning him. They then, while he
was half lying on the running board,
stabbed him to death, Cox confebs' g
at the trial that he wielded the k,.. e
and "ground it in the wound." The
body was then thrown into a nearby
The men then proceeded beyond
Augusta with Brazell's car when
they had tire trouble. Kirby, who
was alone at the time, met a chain
gang guard and confessed. The
three men were locked in the Au
gusta jail, which was later sur
rounded by a iou ;roan L.a, State
"n an effort to get the iihre :.;en.
F or bile ee dys and Ii};:. armed
nen patrolled this vicinity in an
endeavor to find the men. No
trouble was experienced in getting
the men to the State penitentiary.
There was no demonstration at
their trial at Lexington in August
when they were sentenced to death
August 21. This execution was stay
ed by appeals to the State Supreme
'T'he prisoners were taken to and
fro mnthe State penitentiary today
under heavy guard. The day pre
vious, Jane 15, is the date set for
the execution of Frank M. Jei'ords
an( Ira.. Harrison, convicted- here
Saturday of the murder of J. C.
Members of the Clarendon County
Cotton Association met in the Court,
louse last Tuesday for the purpose
of electing oflicers for the County
organization and executive commit
teemen for the township organization
and also delegates to the district con
vention which meets in Sumter next:
Tuesday, May the 30th. The follow.
ing are the officers elected:
G. T. Floyd, Chairman; C. R.
'l'ouchherry, Vice Chairma a . \
IHolliday, Secretary.
The following executive ce tinnoit tee
moin were elected:
W. R. Keels, C. 'gary; N. Z. An
rews, Sammy swmv1n; J. 'T. Timch
heiTy, (oncord; A..1. . Plowden, Frii 'nd
ship; E. O. Rowe, St. Jmnes; M. J.
Iv):iis, Santee; .. S. .and, Brewing'
t n; .1. I'. Huddin, New i'/An: .1. M.
W\indlham, Mam-1uingt; P. Ii. Reaves,
Plowlen Mill; W. E. l.niels, Itar.
monay; Dr. G. E. Ga(mble, Dw: tila:: I).
.\1. Epps, Midway.
The followingt were elven 1; .e
> ifes to the district "onvention:
1. M. WinIham, N. Z. .\ndienw, .l.
0iorgan Sprott, \1. .1. DIi: , R. 1.
.11T('I CONCElN FOR
G;EN. L.EONARDl WOOD
D epa rtmenit wvas bescieged with ini-.
1u1iri's today from I'riend o 'f LIon.
aid Wood in the hole that s'nii
woritd hadl heent rece ived of hinm
since' his yacht was cautght in a ty
phooni near the island of' M1indoro
in the Philippines bu~ the depoart
mnit. had receivedl c advis t'romc
Someti .nit was expreed in
ofli~l c'ircles, althoughd the hope
wcas expr~essed t Ihat thle ya'chit hadc
a nc'hored ini a shielteredcc place andtc
that. no harmi hatd beftalIlen the Gov
ernor Genieral ori h is wife and
Cauiight in Tlyphoon
- Maila; P'. I ., Mlay 23.--(Ihy the
Assciateid Pre'ss) .-Wireless que
ris t o the yacht A po on wvhich Gov
erinor- General IL eona rd Wood anad his
wvife and dlaughiter saile'd Satur day
for M indoro have not been answered
and the typhoon which raged yester
day is believed resp~onsihel for the
delay in their return.
The apo is believed to have sought
re'fuge ini soime port of M indoro. Cen
eral Wood plannedl a brief visit, of in
spection on the island. No serious
damage from the typ~hoont has been
P'OtRUGUESE LIVES LOSTI
Brest May 23.--Of seventy-eight
Portuguese on board the Egypt,
eighteen met cieath. Nine of their
bodies were recoiveredl and funeral
services held over them this morn
ing. The funeral was attended by
the Portuguese consul, the mayor
of Brest, the captain of the Egypt,
French officials and many sur
vivors of the dlisaister. The Portu
guese consul dlelivered a funeral
oration ite which he thanked tb
city authorities for the relief giv
the surviving sailors of his nat,
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New York's "No Pants Subway Ride" is today, so look out NYC commuters. Pantless wonders will be all over the city's underground metro. Let's just hope the majority of them opt for boxers.
The 13th annual public pantless ride is today, Sunday Jan. 12, reports New York's PIX11 on Friday. The No Pants Subway Ride is organized by the performance art group Improv Everywhere, and what started as a prank has now rolled into an annual international fad.
Two rules for those who dare to show your bottom half: You have to be willing to "drop trou" (or at least leave them at home), and you have to keep a straight face about it. The first part takes some guts, but the latter takes some stoic resolve, knowing that strangers will be gawking at your pasty white New York thighs in the dead of winter.
According to the event's website, dozens of cities are participating, from New York to Copenhagen, Madrid to Warsaw and everywhere in between.
That's a lot of leg.
So given the typical stereotype of New York subway riders (sorry my fellow New Yorkers but I generally want to put more clothes on most of you, not take them off), could showing some extra skin on the subway increase a person's risk of catching an infectious disease?
That's what LiveScience asked today. The answer? It depends.
"It depends what they do there on the subway without their pants on," said Dr. Aaron Glatt, an infectious diseases specialist and president of St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage, N.Y. "If they're just sitting on the subway, then it's not a problem."
Umm what else would they doing? Check that – don't want to know.
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Mingong Hotel is located on the north section of Wusi Road with elegant and quiet environment and convenient transportation.
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MORE than 300 people are homeless as a result of the Tasmanian bushfires, according to the state government.
Emergency accommodation for these people who had either lost their homes or been displaced by the fires was being given by other households, organisations or businesses, the state Minister for Human Services, Cassy O'Connor, said.
She described the aid given as ''truly inspiring''.
The fire that took most homes, east of Hobart around Dunalley, continued burning on Wednesday but became less dangerous in cooler conditions.
Hopes were rising that despite devastating property losses, Tasmania's bushfires would prove to be fatality-free. Police acting commissioner Scott Tilyard said police had not received any official missing persons reports.


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Apple has announced its 2014 iTunes Festival schedule of performers at the eight annual event on Monday and leading the way is newcomer Sam Smith. The British soul singer has had quite the year so far and that success has seen him going from iTunes Festival spectator just a year ago to one of the musical guests who will take the stage in London this fall.
Smith is just part of a diverse musical lineup that includes Maroon 5, Pharrell Williams, Beck, Blondie, Kyle, David Guetta, 5 Seconds of Summer, Calvin Harris and Chrissie Hynde. In all, over 60 musical acts will be featured at the festival. In the announcement, it was also noted that the concerts will be available for viewing for free.
Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, said, "These live shows capture the heart and soul of iTunes and we love bringing them to our customers in the Roundhouse, as well as to the millions of people watching all over the world for free."
As for Sam Smith, the "Stay With Me" singer has continued his hot steak. Last week, Smith took over at No. 1 on the new Billboard Artist 100 chart. The new chart is a weekly ranking that measures artist activity across Billboard's most influential charts. The soul singer currently has the No. 3 album and his lead single from the album, "Stay With Me," is currently No. 5 on the Hot 100. His collaborative single, "Latch," with Disclosure has also risen to the top 10.
And if that wasn't enough, Smith has also been nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards. In an announcement made last week, the breakout artist has been nominated for "Stay With Me" for Best Male Video and has also been nominated for Artist to Watch. Fans of the young singer have certainly been following him for quite awhile and new fans have quickly learned just who Sam Smith is.


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The Bulls have granted permission to the Utah Jazz to interview assistant coach Adrian Griffin for its head coaching job.
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Griffin was one of four finalist last summer for the Philadelphia 76ers' head coaching job before they hired Brett Brown.
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I'm sure this is going to be very dependent on the harddrives and other hardware that we have in our machine, but I have no idea how to read these graphs.
This graph looks nice and low.
This one looks scary as hell.
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Leni as nn for...?? Please help
DH & I love the name Leni for our daughter, but I'm wondering if we should use Leni as a nickname for something longer - so she has a more classic or professional name for later in life.
2 questions:
a)What do you think of Leni on its own?
b)Please suggest a name that could be shortened or nicknamed "Leni"? (All I can think of is Eleanor/Lenore)
Thanks for your help!!
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I think Leni on its own is adorable. I like the cool vibe it gives off. Yet it still is adorable to me.
If you are not into going with just Leni I suggest ADELINA
I knew a set of twins named Matteo and Adelina they called the girl twin Leni for short. I think it was the a gorgeous name with a killer nick name. And I never hear the name either so it is not popular like Eleanor has become.TTC #1
Hoping to have a little Ragazzo or Ragazza soon.
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Lenore is wonderful.
Leni does bring to mind Leni Riefenstahl. Great artist, but she made propaganda films for Hitler. Not sure if anyone else has that association, or if the name is common in Germany now. That and Lenny Bruce are my only associations. Oh, and Lennie from Of Mice and Men!
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Feb. 17, 2014
NEW ORLEANS - With the new year underway, it's time to thank those who made 2013 such a special year for the Tulane Green Wave. From Jan. 27-29, the Tulane Athletics Fund (TAF) office held its student-athlete Thank-A-Thon by hosting student-athletes who have volunteered their time to reach out to TAF donors from the 2013 calendar year.
"It is really important for our student-athletes to connect with the people that help provide this incredible opportunity for them," said Mary Hoffman, Assistant Athletic Director and Director of the Tulane Athletics Fund. "The Thank-A-Thon provides the perfect opportunity to do just that while delivering a well-deserved thank you."
The Tulane Athletics Fund creates opportunities for each Green Wave student-athlete that otherwise might not be possible. Each gift goes to work immediately to meet pressing needs and to continue building programs of promise and distinction.
2013 was a special year for Tulane athletics, as many of the Green Wave varsity teams accomplished feats they set out for during the beginning of their seasons. The Tulane football team played in their first bowl game in 11 seasons. The men's and women's basketball squads earned postseason berths. The sand volleyball program was nationally ranked, and the indoor volleyball program had the best turnaround in the NCAA from 2012 to 2013. The women's golf team competed for a national championship. The track and field team qualified multiple student-athletes for regional and national championship meets.
In addition to the success in their respective sports, 14 of the 16 Tulane Green Wave varsity sports recorded team GPAs of 3.0 or higher this past fall. Many of these accomplishments by Tulane student-athletes couldn't have happened without the support from TAF donors.
This year marks an unprecedented time for TAF donors with the grand opening of Yulman Stadium. TAF donors will receive access to the best seats and amenities that Tulane has to offer. For more information regarding the Tulane Athletics Fund, visit www.TulaneAthleticsFund.com or call (504) 865-5356.


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EMEA granted Novartis' Ilaris® accelerated approval as a treatment for cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) in adults and children aged four years and over. The fully human mAb is the first treatment to be approved in the EU for CAPS patients as young as four years of age, including patients with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), the most debilitating form, according to the company adds.
EU approval follows clearance earlier this year by regulatory authorities in the U.S. (June) and Switzerland (July). In the U.S. Ilaris is sanctioned for treating the familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome and Muckle-Wells syndrome forms of CAPS. Swiss approval covers all three forms of the disease, including NOMID. Priority reviews are ongoing in other countries including Australia, Brazil, and Canada.
Ilaris targets interleukin-1 beta, which is overexpressed in CAPS patients. The drug is administered by injection once every two months. Clinical trials are also ongoing in other diseases involving Interleukin-1 beta, including COPD, type 2 diabetes, systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SIJA), and gout.
Ilaris has orphan drug designation in the EU, U.S., and Switzerland for the treatment of SJIA. Fast track status for the SJIA indication has also been granted in the U.S.
"Initially we studied Ilaris in a very rare disease with a well-understood genetic profile," comments Joe Jimenez, CEO at Novartis' pharmaceutical division. "Now that its efficacy has been proven, we are able to move ahead rapidly with development in other diseases characterized by the same inflammatory process."
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William Richert is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for his performance as Bob in the 1991 Gus van Sant film My Own Private Idaho. At age 17, he hopped a bus to Hollywood. At the age of 19, he interviewed Richard Nixon's daughters Tricia and Julie, as part of a planned documentary titled Presidents' Daughters. He directed several other documentaries and the feature films Winter Kills, The American Success Company, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, and The Man in the Iron Mask. Reardon was originally distributed by 20th Century Fox, and has since been re-cut and re-issued independently as Aren't You Even Going To Kiss Me Goodbye? Richert sued the Writers Guild of America over not being credited on the screenplay of the film The American President. Richert claimed Sorkin's screenplay was a thinly-veiled plagiarism of Richert's 1981 'The President Elopes', and that the television series The West Wing was derived from part of the same screenplay. After Guild arbitration, Aaron Sorkin was awarded full credit on American President. Richert also sued the Directors Guild of America over its collection of overseas levies for American directors who are not members.
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A new exhibition is running at the Museum of Edinburgh charting the evolution of democracy in Scotland, including the failed referendum of 1979 and the successful referendum of 1997 that led to the re-re-establishment of our parliament for the first time since 1707. Entitled Democracy for Scotland: the Referendum Experience, the exhibition runs until April 24th.
For further information visit www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/Museum-of-Edinburgh/Exhibitions/Democracy-for-Scotland--The-Referendum-Experience
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Let $K$ be an infinite field, if $K(X)$ is the field of rational function I want to find the Galois group of the extension $K(X)/K$.
Lemma 1: If $L$ is a field such that $K\subsetneq L\subseteq K(X)$ then $[K(X):L]$ is finite.
Proof. It is easy to show that $X$ is algebraic over $L$, so $K(X)/L$ is a finite extension.
Lemma 2: $Gal(K(X)/K)$ contains only finite (proper) subgroups.
proof. Suppose that $H<G$ is infinite; for the lemma 1 we have that $[K(X): Fix(H)]=n$, and so $|Gal(K(X)/Fix(H))|\le n$. But $Gal(K(X)/Fix(H))\supseteq H$ and this is a contraddiction.
Now I know that the group $Gal (K(X)/K)$ is a group with only finite subgroups, but I can't find other informations about its structure. Maybe this group depends strongly from the field $K$.
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With the start of another high school sports season comes another opportunity to remind players, coaches and fans about respect both for officials and for the game itself. We all remember the tragic death of a recreation league soccer official in Taylorsville, only last year after he was punched by a player he was trying to discipline.
Then, this week, a 24-year-old Cameroonian soccer player died after being hit in the head by an object thrown from the stands just seconds after scoring on a penalty kick.
While it's highly unlikely that such a drastic event would take place here in Summit County, it's important that coaches teach players the proper way to interact with game officials and to provide good examples themselves.
And, as fans and parents, we need to remember that high-school and lower-level players are looking up to us as well. Constant complaining from the sidelines won't affect a referee's decision and will only serve to set a bad example to the athletes on the field.
While disagreements are part of every competitive sport, there is a right way and a wrong way to voice displeasure. Let's hope our Summit County athletes and coaches set a good example for younger athletes in the community who look up to them and handle the inevitable bad calls with respect and restraint.


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OK, this is really, really vague. Sorry. But this is for work and the boss man, justifiably or not, is really worried about intellectual property and ROI and blah blah blah. So I can't say much. But anyway: I have a mathematical expression that has a 0/0 problem. That is, at a set of discrete points, the straightforward evaluation of the expression collapses to 0/0. Now, limits can be taken to produce completely reasonable results at these points. But the catch is I have to program this, and 1) I don't want to put in an exception for these points and 2) even if the inputs don't land us exactly on these points, computational accuracy will suffer in their neighborhood.
So, are there any generic methods of wide applicablity for re-writing expressions to get rid of 0/0 problems? I know about l'Hopital's rule etc., but again, I want to be able to program this thing without putting in special exceptions. Sorry again to be so vague. Thanks for whatever you've got!


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Economic Recession: Let them Eat Doughnuts
Krispy Kreme offered free doughnuts to mark the occasion when the Salvation Army served coffee and doughnuts to thousands of homesick soldiers during the Great Depression. More from the MSN Money Blog:
Around here we think of every day as doughnut day, but those with more self-restraint know the real thing comes the first Friday in June – today, in fact…This nauseates me as much as car makers offering cheap gas for a year if you run out right now and buy a brand new car—exploiting a bad situation, classless.
…Doughnut purveyor Krispy Kreme is offering a free calorie bomb. No doubt you can find your nearest store in your sleep, but here's a way to find one if for some reason you've awakened in a strange part of town. Wait for the "hot light" if you want one of their notorious melt-in-your-mouth glazed, but you can choose one (1) of any of their varieties at participating stores. Here's a peek at their lineup.
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It was a bold red carpet at this year's Emmys with most stars opting for plunging necklines, bright colors, or vibrant prints. Here's a look at some of the evening's most notable looks.
Giuliana Rancic
The consummate professional, Giuliana Rancic cut her maternity leave short to host E!'s red carpet. She opted for a thigh-high slit Romona Keveza gown.
Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd showed off quite the hairstyle with a custom Carolina Herrera fishtail hem halter gown. The bow detail at the back may have been a bit much...
Carroll and Lena Dunham
It pains one to say this because she looks so adorable, but Lena Dunham's Prada dress looks like it was fashioned out of curtains.
Elisabeth Moss
Ruffles, florals, and lots of leg for Elisabeth Moss who opted for Dolce & Gabbana.
Emilia Clarke
Emilia Clarke looking beautiful in Chanel.
January Jones
Love it or hate it, January Jones' Zac Posen gown made for one of the night's most memorable looks.
Jena Malone
Jena Malone shows she's all grown up in a stunning J. Mendel creation.
Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt
The night's most adorable couple! Jennifer Westfeldt opted for a midnight blue J. Mendel gown with a peekaboo skirt.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
It has been a while since Julia Louis-Dreyfus looked this good. Here she is in a custom Vera Wang gown.
Julie Bowen
What a gorgeous color! Julie Bowen opted for a sculpted Monique Lhuillier lime green gown for the night.
Leslie Mann
While this two-tone Naeem Khan gown may be very Jil Sander-esque, it suited Leslie Mann perfectly.
Christina Hendricks
Showing off her famed physique, Christina Hendricks opted for strapless Christian Siriano.
Ginnifer Goodwin
Ginnifer Goodwin was one of the night's best dressed in an orange floral embroidered Monique Lhuillier gown.
Heidi Klum
This Alexandre Vauthier gown may be uninventive, but Heidi Klum nonetheless looks stunningly beautiful.
Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere is the first to wear a creation from Marchesa's India-inspired Spring 2013 collection.
Julianna Margulies
Julianna Margulies dazzled in an eye-catching Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown.
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore looked radiant in arguably the most memorable look from the Fall 2012 Christian Dior Haute Couture show (the top portion was sheer in its original form).
Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu opted for a classic metallic Versace look.
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman showed off a hot-off-the-runway Spring 2013 Antonio Berardi gown.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara looks gorgeous, but her teal green Zuhair Murad...a little cheesy, no?
Zooey Deschanel
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Amidst all of the fanfare about Northern Illinois barging into one of the big time BCS Bowl Games and the righteousness of their being there – or not – two ancillary matters seem not have gotten sufficient attention.
1. Northern Illinois coach, Dave Doeren, put the entire Northern Illinois/Mid-American Conference experience into perspective. About 48 hours after he and his team learned that they would play in the Orange Bowl, Doeren bolted from his contract with NIU that ran until 2017 and signed on to coach North Carolina State. The lesson here is that the so-called "mid-major" schools in "mid-major" conferences make for nice underdog stories, but the people working there see those places as stepping-stones.
2. Northern Illinois is obligated to sell 17,500 tickets to the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. If they do not, then the Athletic Department has to buy up any remaining balance of the tickets at face value. Why is that a big deal? If my calculations are correct, Northern Illinois played to an average home crowd of less than 15,700 this year. I wonder if they will sell out those tickets.
Greg Cote had this item in the Miami Herald recently regarding the "mid-major" football conferences:
"College football's conference carousel is dizzying. Everybody is switching leagues. Now FAU is following FIU from the Sun Belt to Conference USA. Did Conference USA lose a bet or something?"
Sports writers and commentators have showered attention on an issue that is only marginally interesting and surely not important. The golf mavens have decided to outlaw the belly putter. I suspect that Western Civilization as we know it will survive but I am not sure how long it will take it to recover from this pronouncement. Given all of the cogitation and all of the consideration that must have gone into taking this bold step, I have a simple question for the golf mavens:
If belly putters are such a blight on the game that they merit banishment, why is it OK to continue to use them until January 1, 2016?
Speaking of golf, here is an item from Mike Bianchi in the Orlando Sentinel:
"Actual sign posted at golf club in Scotland: "(1) Back straight, knees bent, feet shoulder width apart. (2) Form a loose grip. (3) Keep your head down. (4) Stay out of the water. (5) Try not to hit anyone. (6) If you're taking too long, let others go ahead of you. (7) Don't stand directly in front of others. (8) Quiet please while others are preparing. (9) Make sure you're aligned properly with the target. (10) Well done! Now, flush the urinal, go outside and tee off."
I cannot think along the lines of futile moves made by sports governing bodies without mentioning the latest news from the International Olympic Committee. [Aside: The acronym, "IOC", might also stand for "Idiocy Or Corruption", but that is for another time…] From its headquarters/hideout in Lausanne Switzerland, the IOC announced this week:
It has revoked the medals won by four athletes – including one gold medal – at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
An ongoing investigation into a fifth medalist at those same games remains ongoing.
Those competitions happened more than 8 years ago and the IOC sleuths and the phalanx of drug testers that feed off the IOC pronouncements about the purity of The Olympic Movement are just getting around to figuring out that some athletes cheated. I do not know about you, but I had been holding my breath to see if that Ukrainian shot putter had won his gold medal cleanly or not. As silly as this situation is, you do have to acknowledge that they actually detected that these folks were doping; that is more than the IOC and its allied sanctioning bodies can say about Lance Armstrong.
Speaking of Lance Armstrong, the IOC says that they may revoke the bronze medal he won in the 2000 Olympic Games. With regard to that announcement by the IOC, here is a cogent observation from Conan O'Brien:
"A little tip for the IOC, if Lance was on steroids and he came in third, you might want to take a peek at the guys with gold and silver."
The NY Jets will start Mark Sanchez this weekend against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Given the amount of attention focused on that choice, I fully expected the news to be delivered by a puff of white smoke coming out of the chimney at the Jets Training Center.
If Rex Ryan – and the Jets – had chosen to do that, I wonder if Roger Goodell would assume the role of the commissioner of the No Fun League and drop a humongous fine on the team and/or the coach. It seems to me that if the public took it lightly and seemed to enjoy the stunt, then the Commish would have to channel his inner Darth Vader…
There is a story out there that the New Orleans Hornets will change their name to the New Orleans Pelicans. Other than creating a market for newly designed Pelicans' jerseys and related paraphernalia and moving the inventory of Hornets gear that does not sell well, the name of the team is hardly important. Do you think the team will play better and win more games if they are called the Hornets, the Pelicans or the Pekingese? If you want a name that is indicative of the local culture, call them the New Orleans Filé Gumbo.
Finally, here is a comment from Brad Dickson in the Omaha World-Herald:
"After his loss to Sergio Martinez, boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. tested positive for something banned by boxing. When you look at the state of boxing today, I believe that would be common sense."
But don't get me wrong, I love sports………