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Sochi Games Open On Friday But Not Everything Is Completed
The stage is set for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the Russia resort town on the Black Sea. With a few days to go, the scene is still looking raw — from unfinished landscaping to unready hotels.
Workers in the Russian resort town of Sochi are scrambling to put the finishing touches on President Vladimir Putin's multibillion dollar Winter Olympics. The 2014 Winter Olympics officially open on Friday, but it looks like some of the elements, including hotel rooms, may not be ready. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from Sochi.
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Hundreds of young volunteers are lined up outside an administration building in Sochi's Olympic Park, waiting to get their assignments. Many of the volunteers are already wearing their Olympic gear, multi-colored jumpers and ball caps that will identify them to the thousands of fans who will be here in the next few days.
They're not supposed to talk to the press, but this is Tatyana, a student from Moscow.
TATYANA: We're at the languages services function and we'll be trying to help people interpreting. We'll try to do all of this.
FLINTOFF: But though Tatyana and her friends are ready for their part in the show, there are a lot of other elements that aren't ready. The big worry right now is hotel rooms, especially in the mountain area, where the skiing, snowboarding and bobsledding will be held. There are construction cranes hulking over unfinished hotels, and stacks of construction materials in the streets.
Olympic officials say rather testily that everyone who comes will find a room ready, but some early arrivals are complaining that those rooms are shoddily constructed and that amenities, such as Wi-Fi, still aren't functioning. One thing that is functioning is the security. There's a new, efficient and comfortable rail system that takes visitors from downtown Sochi to the two Olympic villages, one by the Black Sea shore and the other in the nearby mountains.
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FLINTOFF: But to get onto that train, passengers will need to undergo a security check that's as rigorous as any airport inspection, including a full-body pat-down by police. One worry is that time-consuming security checks will bring the flow of visitors to a crawl. Still, for the volunteers at the Olympic staging area, the mood is one of excitement and promise. This is Svetlana, a speech teacher from Moscow.
SVETLANA: We are part of the history and we're going to meet the athletes, and I never met anyone who was an Olympic champion, and this is a great chance. I'm excited.
FLINTOFF: Once the competition starts, a lot of unfinished details may not seem so important after all. Corey Flintoff, NPR News, Sochi.
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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
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A Higher Standard for Us All
July 17, 2008 | 34 Comments
I was appalled and became disoriented upon hearing you say that Faulkner wrote The Great American Novel. Which would that be? Aside from the fact that we all know Fitzgerald wrote The Great American Novel, I'm not aware that any of Faulkner's dirges have ever even been nominated for the position. I could forgive your naming Twain, or even Toni Morrison, but Faulkner!
Not only might I not listen again to your show, I've begun to doubt now that I've actually ever enjoyed any of them previously. Where you really an English major?
My only hope is that the good people of St. Paul (home of Fitzgerald, of course) will pummel you with new and used copies of The Great Gatsby until you come to your senses.
Walter B.
Austin, TX
This is the finest angry letter I've read in months and it sets a high standard for us all. I've read it over and over with great pleasure. I especially like the "and became disoriented" and the "begun to
doubt....that I've ever enjoyed any of them previously" which are truly original and raise the thing from the usual carping criticism to something like epistolary art.
As for The Great Gatsby, it has its moments, especially in the narrative of Nick Carraway, but the main guy Gatsby is an empty suit and his play for Daisy is rather shallow and adolescent. Dreiser did it so much better in Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. Gatsby is still popular in high schools, for good reason, but we did a marathon reading of it here for FSF's centenary and it was sort of embarrassing. Ulysses it ain't. We're proud of him here but we're not deluded. (Gatsby is a slim book and so being pummeld with copies of it is like being pelted with marshmallows.)
Faulkner is such a master and I'd have to think hard about which one is the GAN—maybe Absalom, Absalom—maybe As I Lay Dying. I will try to re-read them this year and report back. Meanwhile, thanks for the letter. It made my day and my day is not so easy to make.
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Dear Garrison,
I am utterly shocked and appalled at the literary taste of this epistolarian.Toni Morrison? Highly overrated. She's a diluted version of Bill Faulkner with a pinch of Ann Rice thrown in: nowhere close to the power of The Sound and the Fury or his short story "Barn Burning."
Gatsby has lovely graceful lines("the green light at the end of the dock") and a chilling vision of the Wasteland("the eyes of Dr. Eckleberg") that kind of stays with you.
I'm torn between Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises for the number one spot. Also in contention for me are Cather's My Antonia And Dos Passos's America.
I guess anyone's top ten list would depend on what America means to him personally. Therefore consensus is difficult if not impossible.
All my best
Martha Schipul
English Major
Dear Mr. Keillor,
I agree with you so much! I came to this country 15 years ago, and one of my finding was the astonishing fact that Faulkner is almost unknown to general reading population here. Whereas in my country (Russia) Faulkner is one of the most famous not just American, but World writers of all times. My dream was to read all his books in English, and I partly fulfilled it , by purchasing every book I could find. For me, if a foreigner like myself wants to learn about America he should start with Faulkner, and keep reading his books... well, always. I do appreciate many other American writers as well, don't get me wrong, but Faulkner is one of the few who really belong to the World.
Yuriy P.
N.Aurora, IL
I also enjoyed the letter from Walter in Austin but found it amusing that he questions your qualifications as an English major by asking "...where you really an English major?". Perhaps he meant to ask two questions in one.
GK, I agree with both your assessment of the letter (it was fantastic!!) and your recommendation of As I Lay Dying as a candidate for GAN. I would like to add Song of Solomon to the list of nominees, especially as Ms. Morrison received a pass from Walter B of Austin.
Thank you for being my Knight in Shining Standards!!
It is far better to be pummelled by Gatsby than by The House of Seven Gables, or other such. what determines tha GAM anyway. I have read several tomes that I personally believe might qualify.
Brilliant response. Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Garrison! Yes, Absalom, Absalom is the great American novel! As a southerner, I wept the first time I read the words of Quentin's Harvard roommate: "Tell me about the South. How do people live there? Why do they live at all?" These may not be the exact words, but all the tragedy of the human condition is captured in them.
There seems to be some confusion as to what the Great American Novel is, and isn't. Everyone probably has a favorite work in mind, and maybe more than one, when approaching this subject. I think, though, that we are missing the point here. The GAN is not one single book that stands out above all the others, first of all because this distinction is so subjective in nature, and second of all because what we are discussing here is, in actuality, a genre or literature. The entry on this subject in the Wikipedia hits it right on the head, characterizing the GAN as "the concept of a novel that perfectly represents the spirit of life in the United States at the time of its publication." In this light, we encounter a veritable pantheon of giants, not the least of which are John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. And, we would be remiss, indeed, if we did not give equal applause to the genius of Margaret Mitchell, Harper Lee, Edna Ferber, Ayn Rand, Mary Shelley, and the Bronte sisters. The next Great American Novel is just around the corner, with, hopefully, many more to come.
Poor Walter B.,
Just be thankful that Garrison had the time to answer your dribble regarding your selection.
Be happy and proud that your opinion was printed.
Schroeder, R.K.
Marquette, IA
Please forgive my ignorance, but just what is The Great American Novel? How can you tell the difference between great american novel and just an american novel? Is there a congressional committee that decides these things? Isn't Fitzgerald out of date? The movie was a boring period piece. Story and all. Who reads him other than English teachers anyway? And why many people prefer comics over some academic's idea of relevancy and enlightenment. This is another reason Americans prefer blissful ignorance over benighted literacy. Some clever young thing should write a book titled THE Great American Novel and put all that to rest. That crap should be turned into compost lest Rush seizes on the family fight as another reason why Liberals should be put into asylums.
Thank the Lord "Gatsby" isn't "Ulysses" -- an arcane tome of esoteric gobbledygook if ever I read one! Art, to me, is a "means of communication"; on that basis Ulysses is a failure. Fortunately, Gatsby is not!
It's not often one sees someone enjoying being insulted. What I enjoyed the most was the good writing. I am married to a journalism major who has taught this math major the difference between putting words down and writing. The quality of writing in the media today is sad, so it is nice to see people who do well at expressing themselves. Thanks.
Hemingway said that Huckleberry Finn was the GAN, but I suspect that was just because he was so jealous of Fitzgerald. In any case, I have to agree with Papa. I read HF for the first time at age 7, and it motivated me to build a raft in my backyard and start smoking a corncob pipe, for which I was soundly thrashed. But I continued to sneak off to the nearby banks of the Brazos, where I caught and fried a catfish and then enjoyed another good smoke. One of the high points of my life.
I even contemplated dragging my raft down to the river and setting off for the Gulf of Mexico. (Good thing I didn't, because the Brazos currents would have surely capsized my little craft, and then there was that dam at Possum Kingdom.)
I quit tobacco 32 years ago, but now, at age 57, I still enjoy rereading HF, and am now reading it to my sons, 7 and 10. I substitute "negro" for the "n" word. Twain truly captured the essence of America in a book that can be appreciated on many levels. And I doubt if anyone else could have made a character with a soul so pure--Jim--so believable.
Gatsby? Just another rich Yankee!
Gatsby just might be the most overrated novel in American letters. As I Lay Dying and Absolom squared are much better. Light in August is much better. The Sound in the Fury is much MUCH better. Heck, "A Rose for Emily" and "Barn Burning," though "only" short stories, are better.
I myself (your humble servant) have personally writ the Great American Novel-- several times, in fact. Very few people are aware of that fact.
And you, Mr. Keillor, being me incredible joy. I'll remember this exchange the next time somebody takes a shot across my bow.
Walter B. in Austin:
Based on your Higher Standard For Us All comments, "Where you really an English major?" Where?
Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion are my most favorite entertainment experiences that I enjoy every week.
John F.
Fort Worth, TX
I'm guessing the PHC Web people mistyped the "where" in Walter's letter. And let's not slam Walter too hard, here. I tend to agree that Faulkner's work is pretty dirgey. Why do you think the Russian guy likes him so much? Good luck with that mid-summer light reading, Garrison.
The GAN should reflect humor as well as pathos. Americans are pretty goofy, even though some of us try very hard not to be (and those, we can satirize).
I don't think the Brontes wrote anything "American," as they were English. I appreciate the attempt to get some females on the list, though. I'd vote for Margaret Atwood but she's one of those Canadian types ("Great North American Novelist"?).
I'm a Southerner (now living in St. Paul, MN) and I read all of Faulkner's novels many years ago. I love 'As I Lay Dying' -- it was Faulkner's favorite, too -- and I really enjoyed the Snopes trilogy -- 'The Hamlet', 'The Town', & 'The Mansion'.
I'm still surprised that GG was considered the second best novel of the 20th Century in a top 100 listing from a few years ago.
Another Southern writer I really admire is Walker Percy ('The Moviegoer', 'The Second Coming'). And his 'Love in the Ruins' is still one of the best titles to any novel.
Best wishes!
Joe Harbin
Saint Paul, MN
Hooray for Garrison for recognizing the Gatsby is a good read but not the GAN. Of course, I don't know what the GAN is. Maybe it's being written right now (wonderful thought.
John in Texas, Can you have a "most" favorite?
Actually, as any check of a reasonably-sized card catalog will tell you, the Great American Novel was written by Phillip Roth. Go Mundys!
I won't wax Roth further, or even Bellow, and re: Joyce, the kingdom of Heaven is in hand when reading such lovingly distilled Aquinas.
No English major here, but it's a great treat to see you Dawgs duke it out!
Dear Mr Keillor,
I have always been your secrete admirer (intellectually) for years. You dealt with that pretty negative angry letter so gracefully and civilly that I adore you both as an English major and a great person!
My biggest wish about your shows is someday I will listen to ALL of them. I will be so happy and I can feel that I am almost a native-born American. This world will have one more literate person as well.
I have so much to write to you but not tonight. Thank you for being my best role model in dealing with difficult people in life.
Good night,
Not sure myself as to which is the GAN, but as a native Mississippian and and English major, I appreciate your consideration of Faulkner for the honorific as quintessential American novelist.
And Karen, don't forget my former neighbor, Eudora Welty, when listing the female GAN contingent.
Garrison gets it right, it was an excellent letter. Were it not so, there it would not have spawn all of these comments in reply.
"Sound and Fury" was an awakening for me unsurpassed by any other novel about the south. And yes, "Barn Burning" is a master stroke, all the more so as it is a short story written by a man more given to the novel.
Huck Finn is a treasure to which I have returned more than once since discovering it at an early age.
But folks, where is a word for Heller and Catch-22. No, it is not situated on the North American continent but is truly about about "Americans" in that era (ever contemplate that the citizens of only one of many nation states on two continents named "America" have laid claim to that moniker?). As a young Marine just back from 19 months in Viet Nam when I read the book I discovered in Heller a kindred spirit whose insight and wit was a true comfort to a warrior weary not just of war but the hypocrisy of those who led the charge.
In that I live a few miles west of Austin and enter that zoo from time to time, I must watch my back - while Gatsby is a slim volume akin to mushrooms, Catch-22 is mighty hefty!
Johnson City, TX
Umm, Kerouac? Salinger? Heller? "On the Road" and "Franny and Zooey" are easily two of the most influential books in my life. I can understand them not winning the title of the GAN, but surely they should at least be mentioned...
Isaac Crawford
I know the discussion is about novels but I thinks we should include some of the great playwrights...Tennessee Williams, Thurber, Thorton Wilder. I think Mark Twain is one the great american novelists, Faulkner does remind me of a russian novelist, but his screenplays were tight, Fitzgerald was lyrical, Hemingway concise and to the point, and nobody has yet to mention any of Mr Keillor's body of work. There are so many books and so many different regions of the country, I don't see how one book can be considered the Great American Novel. By the way Philip Roth wrote abook called the great american novel but I think it was non fiction.
I would have been surprised to find consensus on such a subjective subject as the GAN but not to see Moby Dick in the mix comes as both a surprise and a disappointment.
Who in their right mind would pick the mindless drivel of Fitzgerald over the pure genius of Faulkner? No contest!
However, Melville was not mentioned, Can one really discuss the GAN without mentioning Moby Dick? Get Real!
Garrison Keillor, only mentioned in passing re the Great American Novel, as to his own works, takes the prize for me, with "Homegrown Democrat." Garrison is above all else, political and HD describes beautifully his take on what could be a better American society. From his extraordinary memories of his first teachers to how quickly fire departments repond in Democratic v Republican communities, should be required reading in these highly political times. robert ashley martin, san francisco, ca originally from Minnesota
That Faulkner has written the Great American Novel is not up for discussion in my opinion. Which one of his novels is the GAN? That is the question. I would have to say the Sound and the Fury is it. But, my personal favorite has to be As I Lay Dying. Faulkner like Shakespeare breathed life into a region and set a fictional humanity into motion for us. He deserves so much more credit that he is given.
Elizabeth Little
Houston, Texas
A higher standard --
Garrison, I agree with you that Gatsby is an empty suit. Most of FSF's characters are too shallow for me. Faulkner has a certain fascination for me when in the mood, but, Absalom, Absalom was tough going. I believe it is the longest sentence ever written. Even so, Faulkner's genius is worthy of respect.
Steve Hayes
From this side of the pond, where we know a thing or two about good writing ( Stratford upon Avon is just up the road), I'd have to agree with you GK that Faulkner is the beacon that shines out in American literature, but surely, you'd have to find a little space for Steinbeck and Mark Twain on that podium ?
Walter, it is one thing to say you may never listen to the show again. That is certainly your choice. But this one comment made you so angry that shows you thought you enjoyed in the past you can now declare to not have enjoyed?
Sorry Walter, but my degree isn't in English, it is in Physics. You are claiming to change the past and, however angry you may be right now, you cannot do that. You either enjoyed those shows at the time or you didn't. And since you refer to "any of them" something obviously kept you coming back for more.
All are good candidates, especially HK, in fact Twain may have been right at the time he said it, but I would put my money on All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. Forget both movie versions, neither of which does justice to one terrific story which is worthy of the title GAN.
While I agree that several of Faulkner's novels are roughly a 57 times better than The Great Gatsby (As I Lay Dying is probably my favorite), I also think "Faulkner's dirges" is HILARIOUS and so is "became disoriented." So my thanks to both Mr. Keillor and Walter B. for a discussion of American literature that gave me a laugh. That doesn't happen as often as it ought to.
English minor -- not sure that counts for much but it's the best I've got.
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What Depression Supplement Works?
We may all experience times of sadness, stress and worry during our lives; however, they are natural responses that enable us, as humans, to handle life events. Often these symptoms related to a life event will come and go, but in some cases they may not. These symptoms may become chronic and last for a long period of time. They may begin to affect your day to day life; in this case, you may be experiencing mild to moderate depression. The good news is there are now products out there that can help lessen these symptoms and improve your daily life.
Depression Supplements
The healthier alternative to prescription drugs are depression supplements. These supplements contain all natural ingredients and are associated with fewer side effects than a prescription. They help to improve mood and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Not only do they offer benefits in reducing symptoms, but they can easily be found over the counter in many health stores from a wide variety of manufacturers. They can also be more cost effective and are more suitable for long term use than the prescription alternative.
Do They Really Work?
There are a number of depression supplements available to you; therefore, it is important to know what you are looking for when picking a product. As long as you do your research and speak with your healthcare professional prior to self-prescribing you will see results. The results you experience depend greatly on which product you choose, but it is important that it is safe and effective.
What Should you be Looking For?
When choosing a natural depression and anxiety relief supplement, as I mentioned there are important ingredients to look for. These ingredients are proven effective to help boost mood and reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety. A good supplement should help balance neurotransmitters in the brain, which provide calming effects and relaxation and regulate mood. The best depression supplement available to consumers which contains ingredients such as L-Theanine, Passionflower, Kava Kava and Roman Chamomile to name a few is serelax.
L-Theanine promotes relaxation and helps reduce symptoms of nervousness and tension while raising levels of dopamine in the brain and providing mood elevation. Passionflower also provides relaxation as well as calming and reduced anxiety all without compromising mental clarity. These two ingredients along with Roman Chamomile help to reduce stress and muscles tension.
Why You Should Use a Depression Supplement
For optimum treatment one should combine an herbal supplement such as Serelax along with counseling and lifestyle changes. Prescription drugs although effective may only be used for short periods of time and offer lots of harmful side effects. Therefore, it is important to research the product before purchasing to ensure that you are getting a safe and effective depression supplement.
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WICHITA, Kan. -- Bradley senior guard
The host Shockers scored the game's first four points, but Bradley sophomore guard
Crouch, who hit the 1,000-point mark with a 16-foot jumper with 15:31 left in the game, led three Braves in double-figures. Freshman guard Sam Maniscalco (
The Braves used an efficient offensive attack and solid defense to break the game open in the first half. Bradley hit 16-of-28 (.571) field goal attempts in the opening 20 minutes, including 7-of-11 (.636) from 3-point range. On the defensive end, the Braves limited
The large halftime cushion allowed the Braves to withstand a much colder shooting second half. Bradley made only 5-of-15 second-half field goal attempts and did not score a basket after David Collins sank a baseline jumper with 11:21 left in the game for a 54-34 lead.
Bradley milked nearly two minutes off the clock on its next possession, however, thanks to four straight Shocker fouls and eventually snapped the scoring drought when senior point guard
In his second game since returning from sports hernia surgery Dec. 28, Ruffin played 28 minutes off the bench and contributed eight points, four assists, three rebounds and a steal. He buried both of his 3-point shots, including a deep trey from in front of the
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Riddick 3 trailer: Vin Diesel romances alien predators and angry bounty hunters
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While the science fiction epic The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) did not perform as well as expected in the box office (even though it was superior to the original), star Vin Diesel and writer/ director David Twohy are back for a third Riddick chapter. Riddick 3 follows Pitch Black (2000) and the Chronicles of Riddick (2004). Left for dead on a desert planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators far more vicious than any human.
With little chance of survival unless he can escape off world, he uses a beacon to alert bounty hunters to his presence. If he can deal with the bounty hunters and use their ship to flee, perhaps he can get out of this one alive? To complicate matters, the captain of the bounty hunters ship is a face from Riddick's past, with a personal grudge to settle.
The trailer is ok, not amazing, but what worries me is that the plot seems very, very similar to the first Pitch Black Riddick film. Also, how are they going to tie it all in with chapter two? The Chronicles of Riddick ended with Riddick becoming the new Lord Marshall, leader of the Furyans, and by default the ultimate ruler of the galaxy (or something like that anyway).
Really though, what I'm trying to say is, why can't they build on the narrative they've established in the previous two films and come up with something a little more original, with a little more plot and a little more character? I don't want to have to keep writing trailer reviews where it appears as if I'm writing about the same film over and over again. Is this so much to ask? What is it with Hollywood? Jesus.
Anyway, Van Diesel is Riddick, Karl Urban reprises his role as Vaako, and the film also features Dave Bautista and Katee Sackhoff (you may remember her as Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica).
The official Riddick 3 website can be found here.
Riddick 3 is scheduled to muscle its way into cinema complexes everywhere 6 September 2013.
You can watch the trailer or ignore it completely and just wait for the film to come out. It's up to you. I don't want to twist your arm either way. I'm not that kind of guy.
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Magic in the Moonlight might be better if it weren't quite so perfectly choreographed. The audience can sense in too many scenes a meticulous director framing just the right corner of a lush garden between his hands, advising a move just a few steps to the right or left.
Winding shoreline roads with gasp-worthy views take just the right number of seconds for the characters to get from a crystal -goblet- brunch overlooking the tennis court to a day in Provence. Every outdoor meeting place is overhung with enough floral trellises to stage several weddings or else inside estates that European old money might have purchased in 1928, the year of the story. "Opulent" isn't enough to do it justice.
Against that background live the characters—not tourists, but residents who actually live there, bored Gatsby-style and seeking meaning by falling in and out of love. A young man courting Emma Stone's character is "always chasing rainbows" just like those in the song that accompanies some of the action, looking for the person who epitomizes another of its anthems, "Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand."
Emma Stone's dressed-like-a-waif character is a séance maven from this side of the pond egged on by her stage door mama, and séance aficionados in splendid houses are just waiting to be conducted into her spell. The thing is, Firth's act as a flamboyant Oriental stage magician and her act have much the same basis— purposeful distractions so that their audiences miss what the magician is actually doing.
So the ending of the film—no, I won't spoil it for you—feels remarkable, like a maestro's swift ending to a long piece sung by The Three Tenors. Allen cons us into one conclusion but then supplies another.
The plot is simple enough, one conning character trying to outcon another. To Have and Have Not is a timely reminder that this kind of plot is not new but has lasting interest. There, Betty Joan Perske—Lauren Bacall to most of us—is dancing with her mark and picking his pocket while Bogie saunters off to wait for her at the hotel. Here, Emma Stone cons—oops, creates an illusion—that delights her hostess, namely, that her late husband had loved her only and approved of her investment plans.
But the mysterious rapping in the room isn't the only evidence. A candle apparently moving through the air on its own is the last straw for those resisting the magic. How exactly was it done?
Sleight of hand, whether of a grand illusionist with a well-appointed stage or of the waif Sophie—named for "wisdom," is really the same thing, just with different props. But what about the real world? Firth's character, even though he is a stage magician, wonders if there is a metaphysical life, beyond what can be seen. More than one mention of Nietzsche seeks to justify the interest in what life and the world are all for, anyway, and so the film explores the defenses of illusion-making in general. Is there any harm in it, Sophie demands to know. The audience is left to ponder what is a central issue in the film, unresolved until the surprise ending.
Austen's novels also have characters who meet in the space of a fortnight's visit. It's just enough time to attend a ball, ride together in elegant carriages, enjoy sedate picnics on country estates, and become attached. The same kinds of goings-on happen in other decades and places besides France in 1928. So the background here is both important to the plot and at the same time of no real consequence. But there is one difference that Allen either was alluding to purposely in his almost obscene use of posh decoration or unconsciously supplied—that unseen except in hindsight is the shadow of the coming Great Depression.
The film is worth seeing for its nuanced, though largely unintellectual, explorations, and even if only for the excellent performances of Firth, Stone, and Eileen Atkins as Firth's insightful aunt.
Linda Chalmer Zemel teaches in the Communication Department at SUNY Buffalo State College. She also writes the Buffalo Alternative Medicine column.


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Some iPhone OS 4.0 features leaked; Apple's tablet might be called iTablet, not iSlate
Apple's new iPhone OS 4.0 will surely not be officially unveiled before January 27 – however, some of its features have already appeared on the Web.
First of all, according to Boy Genius Report, OS 4.0 will probably be compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS (and the upcoming iPhones, of course), so those who still have the first-generation iPhone will be forced to buy a new one if they want the latest software.
Reportedly, iPhone OS 4.0 will bring "multi-touch gestures OS-wide", lots of UI and graphical enhancements, and a new syncing feature (related to your contacts and calendar).
Another rumor points out that the Apple tablet will be simply called iTablet, not iSlate, as previously believed.
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The thermal condition of high-alpine mountain flanks can be an important determinant of climate change impact on slope stability and correspondingly down-slope hazard regimes. In this study we analyze time-series from 17 shallow temperature-depth profiles at two field sites in steep bedrock and ice. Extending earlier studies that revealed the topographic variations in temperatures, we demonstrate considerable differences of annual mean temperatures for variable surface characteristics and depths within the measured profiles. This implies that measurements and model related to compact and near-vertical bedrock temperatures may deviate considerably from conditions in the majority of bedrock slopes in mountain ranges that are usually non-vertical and fractured. For radiation-exposed faces mean annual temperatures at depth are up to 3 °C lower and permafrost is likely to exist at lower elevations than reflected by estimates based on near-vertical homogeneous cases. Retention of a thin snow cover and ventilation effects in open clefts are most likely responsible for this cooling. The measurements presented or similar data could be used in the future to support the development and testing of models related to the thermal effect of snow-cover and fractures in steep bedrock.
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My father had the end of his right thumb amputated at the knuckle due to nail bed cancer. This is a weird and rare cancer with thankfully a very low chance of spreading.
However he has difficulty holding and operating his cameras.
He shoots general family snapshots and family get togethers often indoors. He has used SLR and point and shoot cameras for years.
The obvious plan is to go to a camera store and handle a bunch of cameras to see if one works well.
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On last night's Cooking Channel season premiere episode of "The Freshman Class: Santa Cruz," viewers were introduced to the four key members of the class of the Cabrillo College Culinary Arts and Hospitality program on this episode titled "Gabe's Test."
As the class begins, Jim has left the school, the four featured chefs are; Amalia, Gabe, Kim and Matheus, who viewers met last week. Matheus has a life-threatening illness, but despite his challenges, wants to be a chef more than anything.
Gabe arrives at school and admits he missed two classes in Restaurant Lab because of his family life. Chef Carter has a study guide for the midterm, which will start next week. The two-part test includes a written test and one where students must display knife skills.
Kim goes to visit Chef Sue to find out about her options in the real world. She discovers that she will be making about $10 an hour for starters after graduation, and she suggests she intern at a restaurant while going to school to give her a better chance of knowing the business.
Matt is working at the restaurant under the tutelage of his mentor, Evan the executive chef. His manager knows about his illness, but the chef does not and has his druthers about Matt's intentions. Matt will have to come clean with him and let him know how sick he really is, and clear the air about his missed time there.
The written midterm begins, as Chef Carter announces that during the test, he will pull people aside to test their knife skills, a class Gabe missed. As the written part ends, it is Gabe's turn to show his knife skills, but they are not up to par, and he fears that his time at Cabrillo is in jeopardy.
At Kim's house, she and her husband are discussing what she spoke to Chef Sue about. Steve allays her fears about making a decent salary, but she wants to prove herself. She admitted to him that earlier in their marriage; she felt that he did not treat her well, and if she could have left, she would have. She was surprised that he accepted her stand as well as he did, and wants to see her succeed.
When the marks were given for the tests, Gabe received a 68, and is in fear of failing the class.
Kim is interviewing at Shadow-Brook Restaurant for an internship by Chef Anthony Kresge, who asked her what her expectations were after she graduated. She explained that she knew a diploma is not enough to put her in an executive chef position, but she wanted to learn all she could. After bringing her into the kitchen, she was given a task to make mushroom ragout with a sous chef to help her. He never gave her a tour of the kitchen, and having not been there before she was frustrated. He did not taste her food, but told her that she had to keep her area clean as she is cooking, but never complimented her. She feels that he is ex-military, and she does not feel that she wants to work there.
Gabe had to meet with Chef Eric about his midterm, who tells him that he is failing. He explains that he does not believe he is anything lower than a B student. If he does not bring his grade up to a C, he will fail the class. Now Gabe knows that he needs help, but does not know where to find it.
As Kim is ready to leave class, h cell phone rings, it is Chef Anthony from Shadow-Brook offering her an internship. She tells him right then, that she does not feel that it is the correct fit for her. When he asked if she would like to follow up at a later time, she said no.
At the Harborside, Matheus got a few minutes to sit with Chef Evan, who is very understanding and tells him not to worry about his job.
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Oracle Fusion Applications Strategy & Technology Sessions @ Oracle OpenWorld 2011
By Brian Dayton-Oracle on Sep 21, 2011
In the kickoff, Big Picture, blog I mentioned that there are 53 sessions in the Fusion Applications track. These are sessions being led by Fusion Applications strategy and development leaders. In the next few posts I'll break down the layout of the 53 to help you plan your Fusion Applications experience.
Oracle OpenWorld Tip: The Content Catalog tool is a good way to get an overview of what's going to be covered—even if you're not going to Oracle OpenWorld this year. The Schedule Builder tool is for registered attendees and can help you lock down your calendar each day.
The 53 sessions are allocated across the seven product families (Human Capital Management, Customer Relationship Management…) plus a cross-Fusion Applications category which includes strategic topics like User Experience, Adoption and Business Intelligence as well as key applications tools and technology sessions that should be of interest to anyone working on their Fusion Applications roadmap.
Oracle Fusion Applications Strategy and Technology Sessions
What are Fusion Applications all about? How do you integrate them? Who's using them and why? How will end-users be impacted and will they like it? How do I secure them? How can they help us make better decisions? That's what sessions in this category are all about. Here are the topics covered and quick commentary from me on what you can expect:
18582: Fusion Applications – Overview, Strategy and Roadmap
Pre-registration is strongly recommended. This session sold out in 2010. This is the core overview session for the product line and the place to find out more about the Oracle Fusion Applications strategy—what went into it, what to expect and where it's headed. Due to anticipated demand this session will be offered twice.
18700: The Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience: Transforming Insight into Action
More often than not, when people see Fusion Applications they "get it." This session, hosted by leaders from the Oracle User Experience team will cover the extensive research that went into the Fusion Applications project, their findings and how the results ended up in the products. Not enough? Hear from customers themselves on what Fusion Applications mean to them. Also, you'll get an inside look into key design trends that may find their way into future releases of Fusion Applications and the products you have today.
12753: Application Integration for Oracle Fusion Applications
A new topic for 2011. We fielded many questions on this topic last year and created a session dedicated to it. You'll hear how some of Fusion Applications' core design principles and technologies accelerate the task of integration and how Oracle's integration solutions can be applied.
17200: Oracle Fusion Applications: Security Out of the Box
Similar to integration, the topic of securing Fusion Applications drove a lot of conversations last year and warranted its own session. Technically, find out how it works. Functionally, you'll hear how Fusion Applications' security principles help deliver a role-based experience.
18580: Metrics That Matter for Your Business: Analytics for Oracle Fusion Applications
18581: Innovation in BI and Applications: Analytics for Oracle Fusion Applications
18580 and 18581 are a packaged set of session focusing on Business Intelligence within Fusion Applications. 18580 addresses the functional what/how and why topics and 18581 takes a more technical approach uncovering how and where business intelligence actually gets embedded into the applications. They're conveniently scheduled one after another on Wednesday with the Wednesday PM keynote in between.
17201: An Introduction to Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager
You've made the decision to purchase Fusion Applications—now what? That's the role of Functional Setup Manager. This was yet another popular topic last year and seeing this session in the 2011 program was a common request from members of the Oracle Applications Facebook community. Also, don't miss their demo in the Moscone West DEMOGrounds, station W-036 in the Fusion Applications area.
17220: Oracle Fusion Applications: Technology Essentials Overview
If you've ever seen Nadia Bendjou's "Top 10 Things You Can Do to Prepare for Fusion Applications" presentation then you can consider this the perfect sequel. In this session Nadia will cover the key technologies that went into Oracle Fusion Applications and will give you a clear understanding of what an Oracle Fusion Applications environment would look like in your datacenter.
17221: Oracle Fusion Applications: Adoption and Deployment Overview
I've seen this presentation in reviews as it has come together over the past few month and recommend that you pre-register for this session now. Right now. Don't wait. You'll be hearing a lot about and from Oracle Fusion Applications customers at Oracle OpenWorld this year—but this session is, in my opinion, going to be so information-rich about who's using Fusion Applications, why, and how that it's not to be missed.
17202: Application Lifecycle Management for Oracle Fusion Applications
Across the board, this year's program goes deeper into Fusion Applications than ever before. What does it take to own Fusion Applications? Installation—patching—backup—scale-out…this session, a new addition to the program, is designed to answer the key questions and cover the key scenarios you need to know about.
Moscone West – The "Fusion Applications Hot Spots"
The "Fusion Applications Hot Spots" is not an official term, so you won't find any signs or banners. But to make things as easy as possible for customers looking to attend Fusion Applications sessions the majority of them will be run in a select number of rooms—primarily on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Moscone West.
Have an interest in a particular Fusion Application product family like CRM, Supply Chain or Human Capital Management? Stay tuned to this blog and I'll cover some overall navigation tips for the product families in another post very soon.
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Memo to creationist dumbfucks: BACK AWAY FROM THE BONES.
I'm not surprised that the creationists are going international. They've pretty much reached the limit of what they can do in the States. We're down to 40% of the population actually recognizing evolution. Another 21% say they're "not sure". The rest reject evolution as Satanic monkeytalk. That, by the way, puts us just ahead of Turkey, and just behind... everybody else, in a recent survey of 32 European nations, the US, and Japan.*
But that's about as far as they can go before sanity pushes back - such as in Dover, or in Kansas, where creationists have, for the second time, been booted off the state school board. They can put doubt in people's minds, and manipulate the state of debate in the country so that people move into that "unsure" catagory. They can make the defense of fact a constant annoyance and struggle. But eventually a court, some voters, or both will push back, because it takes a lot more stupid people than even creationists have on their side to turn the known into the unknown. That ship has sailed.
But they're not giving up, and they're both thinking and acting globally. No longer content to fight in America and Australia (a.k.a. Texas With Kangaroos), evangelical creationists have targeted the National Museums of Kenya.
Why Kenya? Because northern Kenya is where Richard Leakey dug up all those bones of early hominids that help show the evolution of the species. Because the museums in Kenya are where Leakey's findings are prominently displayed. And because creationists apparently crib their strategies from dogs. If you hide the bones, the bones DON'T EXIST.
You would think that a wholesale push to tuck the evidence away in a warehouse like it was a Nazi-melting ark would expose them to the world as a bunch of paranoid frauds, but remember the debased nature of debate in the big double-zeroes. ACTUAL QUOTE TIME!
"The Christian community here is very uncomfortable that Leakey and his group want their theories presented as fact. Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory." - Bonifes Adoyo, bishop of Kenya's largest Pentecostal church.
Well, if Bishop Adoyo is uncomfortable with a near-complete statue of homo erectus that doesn't have a skeleton of a woman and a snake posed around it, tough shit. That doesn't mean you can keep people from seeing the skeleton. But I tell you what, Bishop Adoyo. I'm willing to meet you halfway. All you need to do is shoot God in the face, Cheney-style.
Then you can stuff and mount His corpse. Or even better, plasticize it, white beard an all, just like that guy on the horse. Then we can set it up right next to Leakey's bones, and people can see both sides of the argument and judge for themselves. That's what you creationists want, right? All "theories" presented equally? Well, then, put up or shut up. Get your creationist bones and we'll put 'em right next to the evolution bones.
Hell, I'll even pay for the plaque. Ball's in your court, Fido.
*In case you were wondering, tops in the survey was Iceland, where over 80% of the population accept evolution as fact. Which means, apart from the climate and the Bjork, Iceland is like paradise on Earth. Global warming should clear up the first problem, but the second may be insurmountable.


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Mr. Vernon is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre/Dance. Previously, he was an Associate Professor and Director of Dance at Alabama State University (Montgomery) where he founded one of only two BFA Dance Programs in the state. He also founded the Dance program at the University of Central Florida (Orlando) during his time there as Associate Professor and Coordinator of Dance.
Mr. Vernon has held tenure at four universities. He holds a BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and an MFA in Dance from the University of California (Irvine.)
As a performer, his credits include the international tour of the Tony Award-Winning musical Black and Blue. As a director, his credits include numerous diverse shows ranging from Ain't Misbehavin' to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Mr. Vernon has also choreographed, produced, and performed in numerous Concert Dance works. He has worked and trained with many renowned and distinguished choreographers/dancers including Henry LeTang, Donald McKayle, Milton Myers, LaVaughn Robinson, and Bunny Briggs.
Mr. Vernon has visited South Africa six times to teach dance in underprivileged townships and choreograph for a professional South African Dance Company. He remains active and serves on the Board of Directors for several arts organizations. He has received many awards and recognitions. Special among them is The University of the Arts Outstanding Alumni Award for his work in South Africa.


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For Avatar fans in Fresno, these two weeks have been pretty exciting and pretty surprising. After a surprisingly underplayed build up, the premiere to the third season of The Legend of Korra debuted to good ratings and stellar reviews. This examiner personally found the premiere to be very enjoyable and I eagerly look forward the seeing where the season goes.
But now, on top of all of that, we are also treated to the latest installment of Dark Horse's popular Avatar: The Last Airbender comic book series. Written by Eisner Award winner Gene Yuen Yang and illustrated by Gurihiri, these comics, which began with the 2012 story arc The Promise and continued with the 2013 series The Search, have done a spectacular job continuing the stories of Avatar Aang and his friends after the end of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series and slowly but surely building up the universe to what we see in The Legend of Korra. But while the first story arc served as a wonderful reintroduction to the characters and planting the initial seeds for what would become Republic City, and the second story arc finally answered the original series's biggest lingering question, the fate of Zuko's mother, the third story arc, The Rift, which dealt with Aang teaching his new disciples the ancient traditions of his people through honoring an ancient holiday and coming into conflict with his friend Toph over it, was still, but still this examiner's least favorite story in the series so far.
But the thing about these three-part stories is that the first part is ultimately a lot of set up, and now that all of that is done with, maybe now we can get to the real meat of The Rift in the second part. Let's take a look and find out.
The story picks up where Part One left off, where Team Avatar are visiting a refinery that is part of a town build on what was once sacred Air Nomad land and we find that the leader of this facility is Lao Beifong, Toph's father. This marks the first time father and daughter have seen each other since she ran away from home to train the Avatar, and he responds by pretending that this young, improper blind girl isn't his daughter at all. Toph is naturally shocked by this, but Lao order the Rough Rhinos, a team of weapon specialist mercenaries from the Fire Nation now working security at the refinery, to escort Team Avatar off the property. But Aang refuses to leave until he speaks with someone about this refinery being build on sacred land, and Toph will not leave until she speaks with her father. This leads to a huge battle between our heroes and the Rough Rhinos, during which Aang and Toph come into conflict once again, both about their disagreements over whether you should hang on to the past, as well as how reckless they should treat their enemies.
After their enemies are defeated, our heroes split up to go their own ways. Aang leads his Air Acolytes to finish celebrating Yanchen's Festival, and in doing so reacquaint themselves with a a very familiar and unexpected face. Toph literally breaks her way into her way into the refinery and enters her father's office to try to make amends, but that may not be possible unless her father is willing to accept that the proper, helpless blind girl that he tried to raise in not the young woman standing in front of him. Katara and Sokka discovered a secret tunnel underneath the town where dozens of people are laboring in an iron mine, one that not only shouldn't exist, but which is going to collapse in on itself at any moment.
In the midst of all of this, Aang enters the Avatar State and makes contact with one of his past lives, Avatar Yanchen, and discovers why you should look to the past as something to guide your actions, not bind your actions, but also that traditions do have a purpose, whether we realize them or not. To ensure that Aang does not repeat any of her past mistakes, Yanchen tells him a story about when she was younger and was called upon to help protect a city from attack from a vengeful spirit. What she discovers is that this spirit is attacking this town for a purpose, and that the Yanchen Festival was originally founded to honor an agreement between her and this powerful spirit...but after the Fire Nation began the Hundred Year War, those traditions were forgotten, hence an emerging chaos we are seeing now. Can Aang find a way to calm the spirit and save the town? Can Katara and Sokka save the people in the mine before it's too late? Can Toph finally make amends with her father? And can Team avatar overcome their differences and become a family once again?
I have to admit that after reading this part, I do think that this arc is getting more interesting. First off, those who have read my reviews have noticed that my one recurring regret with these comics is that the action sequences, while well drawn and staged, just can't quite seem to live up the the fluidity and excitement seen in the series. Well, I have to admit that I was surprised to see a major, lengthy action sequence happen so early in the story, and one that has that classic Avatar flair, all the while furthering the story. We get to see the Rough Rhinos show off their skills, including one new member who says he was forced to join their group after Aang defeated the Fire Lord and ended the war. We also get to see how Toph's mistreatment of one of the Rough Rhinos leads to even further animosity between her and Aang, something that was a big focus of the first part and which continues here. It was also great to see Katara get some good moves in, with a little quick thinking from Sokka. Heck, even the youngest of the Air Acolytes tries to take on the bad guys, in his own comedic way.
This action sequence soon leads to the characters splitting up and from here the book balances out three separate story lines, and does so pretty well. The first story line is about Toph and her attempt the reconnect with her father. This has so far been the most engaging story thread for me as an Avatar fan, as we know both from the series and from Part One that this high society man has spent all of his money and time trying to raise his daughter to be a poised, demure, obedient young woman, all the while sheltering her from the outside world because he sees her blindness as a weakness. This over protectiveness, even after witnessing firsthand her incredible earthbending talent during the series, finally pushed his daughter so far that she ran away from home to travel the world with Aang as well as train him, and in so doing she became one of the heroes that saved the entire world. But does this man see any of that when they finally reunite? No, all he can see is, as he puts it, a rude, ungrateful...thing. Even when she outlines all she has done, what she really is and why he should be proud of her, all he can do is turn his back. I feel really bad for Toph, because say what you will about her manners and her attitude, no kid deserves to be put down by their parents like that.
In my review of Part One, I commented on the theme of industrialization as this universe takes another big leap towards what we see in The Legend of Korra. One of the major faces of that progression was a character named Satoru, the nephew of the of refinery's co-owner, but in this installment that side of him is downplayed in favor of highlighting the submissive relationship he has with his uncle. Given how he was showing idol worship of Toph in the first part, this serves as a good contrast to Toph's own relationship with her father, him demonstrating exactly the kind of parent-child dynamic he has been opposing her entire life. The two eventually come to an argument about this, where Satoru yells at her for it because when he really needed his uncle, he was always there, and besides, they are family.
The second story line deals with Aang and the Air Acolytes as they continue trying to celebrate Yangchen's Festival. They have difficulty doing so at first because all of the places they have traditionally used for celebration are all gone now, including a giant leafy tree that Aang and his mentor, Monk Gyatso, used to sit under for their feast. So instead, they decide to compromise by having their ceremonial meal inside a restaurant, and this is where we get a very unexpected, but very welcome return appearance from the Cabbage Merchant! For those who are not fans of the show, this character was the subject of a running gag seem throughout the original series where he would keep showing up at seemingly every Earth Kingdom town trying to make a living selling his cabbages, which he is very, very protective and prideful of, but every time he crossed paths with Team Avatar, his cart full of cabbages would somehow always get destroyed, causing him to shout out "My Cabbages!" This was one of the most beloved jokes of the series, and I literally laughed out loud when he popped up as the owner of his own restaurant (a restaurant where seemingly everything is made from cabbages, even the cookies)...and then promptly panicked as soon as he saw Aang.
Anyway, as the characters sit down to have this meal, Aang recites a prayer that ends up sending him into the Avatar State where he meets Avatar Yanchen. You'll recall from Part One that whenever Aang saw her he could never hear anything she was saying, but this time he can hear her fine. She explains that this is because at the end of The Promise: Part Three, Aang's decision to severe his ties with his immediate predecessor and one of his primary mentors, Avatar Roku, resulted in damaging his connections to all his past lives before him. As a fan, I appreciated this callback as it was a very powerful and bittersweet decision for Aang to make at the end of that story, and to now see the unfortunate consequences of that decision was great continuity. However, Yanchen also explains that the reason why Aang is suddenly able to hear her now is because the meal they are sharing to celebrate the festival had been shared by every generation of air nomad between their lifetimes, and thus serve as a temporary conduit. This is kind of a hazy explanation for me, personally, but I am willing to go with it. What is more important is the discussion they have about why chose to cut himself off from Roku: because he was trying to push his own, dated advice onto Aang when time had moved on and Roku's ways just did not work within the world anymore. Aang severed ties with Roku because he was forcing to hold too tightly to the past...just like Toph is accusing Aang of doing now. I loved this ironic hypocrisy that is revealed here, and I look forward to whatever sort of resolution the writer has in mind for Part Three.
During her and Aang's connection, we get treated to a scene of Yanchen as a young girl having just completed her Avatar training as she is called upon to safeguard a town under siege by an angry spirit. The spirit is named General Old Iron, and he reveals that long ago, when the spirits still roamed the lands, he lived with his friend, the lovely spirit Lady Tienhai, whom he protected. One day a group of humans came to their lands to build a town and Lady Tienhai welcomed them openly, watching over them and entertaining their requests. But the general was aware of the anguish that humans were causing the other spirits, so he sought to rid the land of them, but Lady Tienhai stood against him and for his actions, ended their friendship. she stood watch over the human's city for centuries, until recently her life force faded from existence, and so General Old Iron has returned to seek vengeance. As the spirit attacked, Yanchen made an arrangement that would keep General Old Iron at bay, and the Yanchen Festival was created as a ritual to help honor that arrangement...which has not been practiced since the start of the Hundred Year War. Having bought the blu-ray for season two of The Legend of Korra literally the day before this book came out, this part of the story had a lot of parallels to the human-spirit tension seen in that season, especially the two-part episode dealing with Wan, the first Avatar. We have already seen a glimpse of General Old Iron (in full samurai armor) in Part One, so I think it is safe to say that he is an obstacle that will have to be dealt with in the resolution of this story.
The third and final story line deals with Katara and Sokka as they investigate the hidden iron mine and find people working there while it is on the verge of collapse. This is the least deep of the three story lines and once again, like The Promise and The Search before it, Katara and Sokka are coming across as mainly just tag-alongs to keep the story going or to add extra support for the mission, not to be a primary emotional or ethical drive of the story. Don;t get me wrong, they do that job well, but I do hope that in future comics they get to be more a direct focus, especially in terms of Aang and Katara's relationship. The siblings do get some bit of an arc though through something that pays off from Part One; in that comic Katara meets an old friend of her's from the Southern Water Tribe named Niyok, who, along with her sister Nutha, have moved from home to work in the refinery, and while Katara and Niyok greet each other happily, Nutha, she merely stares at her coldly. In this part, we see that both of them are working in this off-the-books iron mine for apparently low wages, and we learn that Nutha has some resentment for Katara and Sokka because after they left, things have gotten very tough back home in the Southern Water Tribe, even after the war ended. In The Search, I remember a scene between Sokka and Zuko where Sokka commented that they had been away from home for a long time; I'm wondering if all of this is Gene Luen Yang's way of foreshadowing something we will be seeing in future stories; after all, Katara is an old woman in the Southern Water Tribe during Korra, so she must have chosen to go back home at some point.
This part of the story also calls back to the theme of industrialization I discussing in my review of Part One, only this time the focus is all on the negative aspects of it. Satoru's uncle is revealed to be running this mine off the books when his partner, Toph's father, said it would be too dangerous. His motivation is simple greed, and as the mine shows signs of collapsing, he cares nothing for the lives of his workers (who, as I've said, I doubt are getting paid much anyway), but instead just that they continue working so he can make a profit. On top of all of this, it is the mining of iron ore that is polluting the river and causing earthquakes within the town. This is an apparent commentary not only of the dangers of industrialization, but also of labor abuse, though done is a way that is appropriate for children.
The last thing I'll say regarding the plot is that the book end on yet another cliffhanger, and this time it has the fell of an old-fashioned serial cliffhanger, where our characters are caught in a life-or-death situation and the few among their team who aren't trapped in there cannot use their conventional means of rescue or it could kill them all. It does it's job of making you want to wait the several months for the final part to come out, especially when you realize which groups of characters are the ones in danger.
As usual, Gurihiru's artwork captures the look and feel of the show perfectly; they have not let me down yet and I am sure they will not in the future either.
Overall, Avatar: The Last Airbender--The Rift, Part Two is another welcome addition the continuing adventure of Aang and his friends, going into more personal conflicts and touching on such things as troubled parent-child relationships, clinging to the past, the purpose of tradition, industrialization, and even labor abuse, as well as offering a amusing sense of action to get the story started. It still isn't the best arc of the series, but this installment definitely helped raise it's appeal for this particular fan; I eagerly await the resolution in Part Three.


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|We are hopeful that one day we
will get the answers that we are
Damien's family is appealing to
the people of the Isle of Wight to
help us!
We are still convinced that the
answer lies on the Isle of Wight.
We believe that something bad
happened to Damien that night.
Did you see Damien on the night
of November 2, 1996?
Who was on the High Street in
Cowes that night?
Why did the police lose the
street CCTV film footage of
Damien on the street that night?
Was there something/someone
to hide?
Who is still out there that is a
threat to local people?
Were you young and afraid to
say anything?
Do you now have children of
your own?
Do the right thing...give your
children something to be proud
of...tell what you know and stop
this now. Just say it and get it
off your conscience and out of
your head...Can you put yourself
in our place? How would you
feel if it were your child?
Call the Police 0845 045 4545 or
IW Police 101 o Missing People
116000 or email us
Please help us to find the
This video below is the last (surviving) video of
our son.
After he left this chip shop, he was picked up on
the street CCTV camera (which the police lost).
He walked to the bus stop and then walked back
along the High Street He he was last seen at
12:02 a.m on November 3 - then nothing further.
14 years later, the police say they have now
identified all of these men who were army and not
suspects according to the police.
|It is never too late to report something you heard or
saw....help us find Damien? We love our son and we
miss him incredibly...we just want to know what
happened to him...CAN YOU HELP?
|Damien enters the chip shop at the 34:37 on the
clock, which was not set correctly as the hour was
actually 11:37pm. Damien is in the center, most of
the time, and turns his back to the camera while
digging in his pockets for change
|Song for DamienSomeone Knows
by Alex Roberts
|0845-045 4545
around midnight on
November 2, 1996 as he
was caught on CCTV
which was
subsequently lost by
Damien had been out with friends and parted company from them
at approx 10.30pm. He was seen on Cowes High St by various
people throughout the evening and he was in good spirits.
Damien was caught on security camera at Yorkie's Chip Shop on
Cowes High Street at approx 11:45pm. He was surrounded by a
group of 5/6 men who, after 14 years, have been identified as army
men who were visiting the IW that weekend. The police do not feel
they were involved.
Damien was seen on the High Street after the chip shop alone,
eating chips.
Damien was seen at the bus stop and talked to people there.
Damien was caught on the High Street CCTV and disappears from
sight at 12:02 a.m. on November 3rd.
Unfortunately, the Police lost this evidence therefore limiting the
potential to see who else was on that video.
We reported Damien missing in the afternoon of November 3rd
after exhausting all possible places he could have gone but
unfortunately we were not taken seriously by police who
suggested Damien had "gone off on a funny five minutes".
We requested the police get the spotter plane up in case Damien
was injured somewhere and hoping we would come and find him.
We were refused.
We asked the police to get the sniffer dogs out to look for Damien.
We were refused.
The reaction of the police to the family was dismissive. Female
friends and family were called hysterical women by an officer.
The police had Damien's date of birth incorrect . They told his
parents that he as '19' and old enough to go missing......Damien
had just turned 16...
Damien's family made posters and blanketed the Island.
Family and friends found out who had seen Damien and relayed
this information to the police.
Damien's father, little brother and elderly grandfather searched for
Damien in the dark and the rain.
Damien's family and friends organized a search party and scoured
the town the following weekend."
Damien's family asked for Damien's case to be on Crimewatch - it
was refused as it did not fit the criteria of a "crime".
A report was made a couple of days after Damien went missing by
an individual who claims to have seen a person' that may have
been Damien' walking along the road close to home. Police told
the family the source was unreliable and it was never followed up
on - until 14 months later....
Damien was seen in a chip shop surrounded by men. Damien was
featured in a documentary, about missing teens, in early 1997. As
a result, two men were identified through an anonymous tip (see
video below). They were Army. Damien's family were given a
string of promises over the years that the police were looking to
find the other men seen in the video, however, it took 14 years
before this was actioned. Police claim they were all Army men.
Damien was last seen at 12:02 a.m. on the High Street on a CCTV
camera, but never appeared on any of the other CCTV camera's
after 12:02 a.m. on November 3, 1996.
In 2010 with new eyes on the case and it became a murder enquiry.
Family started to raise own reward with donations from the public.
Police decide to offer a UK 20K reward in October 2013.
The reward only lasted six months and expired.
Damien's mother pleaded for the reward to be extended another
year or so to give people time to consider their actions and options
- police refused.
September 2013 an anonymous businessman offered 10K pound
November 2013 the case review determined the case remain open...
|Digging on the Isle of Wight, October 2014
We are actively looking for Damien on the Isle of Wight. This activity is based
on information passed to us from a source close to a group of individuals who
have been identified as possibly involved in Damien's disappearance. Many of
these people are still living on the Isle of Wight while others my be dead. The
point is - ranks have been broken. People are scared and you have to wonder
why. Who is still a threat?
The source of the information continues to reside in Cowes, IW. We have
been given a detailed account of people involved, names and the circumstances
surrounding what happened. We were told where it happened and where
Damien's body was temporarily held before being buried at a location on the
IW. This case finally became a murder investigation in 2010. The police made
arrests based on some of this information and carried out a major search of an
area in Newport, Isle of Wight in 2010-2011.
The source, a police informant, insisted they searched the wrong area.
Police disagreed and refused to search another area that was identified
by this source.
When someone comes forward with this kind of detailed information and does
not waiver in their story and when that person is plainly afraid and looking over
their shoulder, you have to listen.
The police have discounted this information because they don't like or trust the
source. That is not good enough for our family. We need to know that every
avenue has been explored to the fullest extent. Manpower and funding is the
other reason they failed to act on this information.
Sometimes, criminals and their associates know best!
We are going to pursue every avenue and we are not giving up or giving in.


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Bergen Open House is arranged for the second time, this time in connection with the Year of Architecture 2011. It is intended to give the city's inhabitants the opportunity to visit a selection of buildings and constructions in Bergen of architectonic and cultural-historical significance, many of which are not normally open to the public.
Private houses and gardens, public buildings and outdoor facilities etc may be visited and admired Saturday 4 June and Sunday 5 June 2011. Several events on the Bergen Festival programme are adapted to various visual and architectonic contexts. The arrangements are free and open to all.
Bergen Open House is a cooperative project of the Association of Bergen Architects, NIL (The National Association of Norwegian Interior Architects and Furniture Designers) Bergen, NLA (Norwegian Teachers' Academy, a university college) Hordaland and Bergen Festival.
The exhibition presents new Norwegian architecture. SPOR: Norwegian architecture 2005-2010 shows the qualities of individual works and points out development trends of social significance. The works selected range from the small lay-by and private housing via building complexes with infrastructure to the major town transformations of recent years. By using various types of presentation and new media, the exhibition manages to communicate a composite picture of recent years' Norwegian architecture both at home and abroad.
The exhibition is the seventh in a series on contemporary architecture from 1968 to today. By presenting and problematising excerpts from all of the six previous exhibitions, this year's exhibition also embraces the growth of today's internationally recognised Norwegian architecture.
In the Culture Quarter in Ålesund, in the space between the Jugendstil Centre and the art museum KUBE with a view of the sound and Fjellstua a wicket hay barn is being built. This is a traditional style of construction in a highly unusual setting. It is a flexible building system, making effective use of the building material.
Hay barns in Sunnmøre are made of crooked and curved wood to whatever size you need. We build a three-frame structure and cover it with a glass roof, as big, as high and elaborate as the material will allow.
Photo: Asgeir Kvernberg
NAL was founded in 1911. The Board of Representatives is NAL's highest organ and its national committee is NAL's governing organ. NAL has 14 local associations, which are locally governed. NAL's administration employs 35 people.
This is what NAL does: We cooperate with various public and private institutions in order to improve general conditions for architecture. We do this by among other things acting as a body entitled to comment on proposed new laws and regulations and by participating in debates on architecture, planning and development. NAL promotes the development of architectural policy in Norway by lobbying politicians and other decision-makers. Moreover, we take part in international for and on behalf of our members.
Architectural competitions NAL is the advisor for and organiser of architectural competitions in Norway. Our competition secretariat can be contacted for advice about holding competitions as well as giving guidance and advice to our members.
Environmental Projects Via our environmental section Ecobox we take part in and develop environmental projects on our web pages. Our aim is to increase environmental awareness and interdisciplinarity among architects, planners and other actors in the construction sector.
Courses and professional development Our academy offers courses and supplementary training for architects and other related professional groups. In addition, NAL arranges seminars and conferences about architecture and local development. Each year we arrange the Day of Architecture with topical speakers from home and abroad.
Communicating architecture NAL publishes three professional periodicals: Architecture N, Architect News and Norwegian Architectural Competitions. We have the Nordic countries' largest private professional library and collection of periodicals on architecture. In addition, we have our own web dealing with central themes within architecture.
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Buddy, I think realizes that.
August 15th
your toon is fatter.
August 4th
Epic toon!
August 3rd
The one on the left looks just like you, The other one... Ehhh, Not so much.
August 2nd
July 30th
July 30th
July 27th
Earings without no ears. I N C E P T I O N.
July 27th
You sure? I can't tell the difference....
July 27th


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College Hockey:Neumann Edges Hobart, 3-2, Claims ECAC West Championship
Knights' Title Their First Ever
GENEVA, N.Y. — The storybook playoff run came to a Cinderella end for the No. 4 seeded Neumann Knights as they defeated the No. 3 seed Hobart Statesmen 3-2. Neumann defeated Utica in the play-in round and then downed No. 1 seed Elmira last weekend to make it to the championship game and win its first ECAC West title.
Our players went out there and showed it, said Neumann head coach Dominick Dawes. We were squeezing the sticks a little bit there in the first period, but in the second we outplayed [Hobart]. Their goal in the third period, we got beat down the ice. Our guys didnt give up, they wanted to be here, and they earned the right to be here.
Neumann won the game in dramatic fashion with just 4.2 ticks left on the clock when Matt Ward carried the puck into the zone. Ward went hard to the net and Hobart goaltender Keith Longo made the initial save but could not control the rebound. A scramble ensued and sophomore Jeff Rodell poked home the puck to give the Knights the 3-2 victory.
Hats off to Neumann, said Hobart head coach Mark Taylor. I have a lot of respect for their senior class as players. You saw two unbelievable character goals in the third period. Unfortunately, theirs was after ours.
Junior Aleksey Koval scored for Hobart 15:01 into the third period to tie the game 2-2 and setup the dramatic ending to the game.
With a relentless forecheck in the first period, Neumann put a lot of pressure on Hobart in the Statesmen zone, out shooting Hobart 16-7. But it was Hobart that struck first at 17:06.
The Statesmen were on their only power play of the period when Aleksey Koval dug the puck away from the half boards. Koval spotted Blake Bonham alone in the slot and fed him the puck. Bonham only got part of his stick on the puck but was able to get enough of the one timer to put it through Ross MacKinnons five-hole for the goal.
Koval stepped to the plate big time, said Taylor. He was solid for us down in Manhattanville. That goal that he scored was a great, great goal. It was skill and it was effort.
Hobart started the second period very strongly, dominating play territorially and generating several good scoring chances, including during an early power play. On that same power play, Statesmen senior goaltender Keith Longo robbed Neumann junior Matt Ward on a breakaway shorthanded scoring chance with a great glove save.
Neumann tied the game at 9:20 with a power play goal by freshman Jeremy Gates. Jesse Cole gained control of the puck behind the Hobart net and hit Gates with a long pass through the faceoff circle. Gates launched a rocket from the left point that went into the upper right corner of the net for the goal to tie the game 1-1.
Game play opened up during the middle of the second period with end-to-end action. Hobart tightened up defensively again during the waning minutes of the second period and carried play.
The Knights stuck again with just 15.2 seconds remaining in the period. Matt Ward scrambled behind the net for the puck and fed Cole just outside the left side of the crease. Cole chipped the puck over Longos shoulder to give Neumann a 2-1 lead heading into the second intermission.
Since January, Cole has been our hottest player, said Dawes. He is so good at protecting the puck. He does the little things, is in the right spot and reads the play well.
As the third period opened, Neumann had to weather a furious storm from Hobart. The Knights came through the first ten minutes unscathed and then did a great job of bottling up Hobart in its own half of the ice.
We did a good job of doing it, said Dawes. Both goalies played unbelievable. Ross MacKinnon has made a name for himself these last two games.
The Statesmen were finally able to breakout and tied the game at 15:01 due to an outstanding individual effort. Aleksey Koval carried the puck down the right side, got netminder MacKinnon to commit to the near post, and then beat him to the far post with a wrap around to tie the game 2-2.
If you look back at the game, there were many times where we were a bounce away, concluded Taylor. They found a way to get it done. There is little difference between winning and losing, and it happened to be four seconds.
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