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Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, the romantic drama "Winter's Tale" is about miracles, crossed destinies and the age-old battle between good and evil. Peter Lake (played by Colin Farrell) is a master thief, who never expected to have his own heart stolen by the beautiful Beverly Penn (played by Jessica Brown Findlay). But their love is star-crossed: She burns with a deadly form of consumption, and Peter has been marked for a much more violent death by his one-time mentor, the demonic Pearly Soames (played by Oscar winner Russell Crowe). Will Smith has a cameo in "Winter's Tale" as Pearly's satanic overlord.
Peter desperately tries to save his one true love, across time, against the forces of darkness, even as Pearly does everything in his power to take him down — winner take all and loser be damned. What Peter needs is a miracle, but only time will tell if he can find one. When Peter encounters modern-day newspaper journalist Virginia Gamely (played by Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly) and her boss (played by Oscar winner Eva Marie Saint), he discovers he just might find his true purpose. "Winter's Tale" marks the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind"), who also wrote the "Winter's Tale" screenplay, based on the acclaimed novel of the same title by Mark Helprin. Here is what Farrell, Connelly, Saint, Brown Findlay and Goldsman said at the New York City press conference for "Winter's Tale."
"Winter's Tale" has a lot of elements. There's destiny, there's sci-fi, there's a religious touch with good and evil. What about it did you enjoy most and/or least?
Saint: I enjoyed Colin Farrell.
Farrell: I was partial to Eva Marie Saint as well.
Goldsman: I enjoyed Colin Farrell. "Winter's Tale" starts off, always has, as this very lucid genre of magical realism, which is, you know, very much not something we do typically as Americans in film. It's the co-existence of serious dramatic scenes and a flying white horse, and that is either delightful to you or aversive. To me, it has always been something remarkable.
It divided people and drew people in from the first moment the book was published all the way through this object. For me, what it finally became I think is, the movie is kind of a secret message. It's kind of a decoder ring. It's a wink and a nod to people who have had loss and the need to believe in magic when you have, and that's what drew me to it.
Do you think love is sometimes overrated and that's why we need Valentine's Day to remind us of it?
Farrell: Overrated? No. Possibly underrated the importance of it and how its prevalence in a single person's life or in the life of a shared community can make incredible changes and can promote the idea of peace and harmony within a society or within a person's individual existence. I think love is .. [He starts singing the chorus to the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love."] No, it really is.
It has to be the one thing it seems that defines us as human beings, our ability to care for each other, our ability to demonstrate through acts of compassion a concern for your fellow man. Valentine's Day, I don't even know what that's about. It's whatever you make it.
You know, some people put up a Christmas tree and other people don't. I don't think there's anything wrong with flowers and chocolate cover maraschino cherries. It'd be nice if it didn't take such a publicly promoted or commercially promoted holiday for people to extend themselves in gestures of love, but yeah, I think love is really what makes it all spin.
Connelly: I agree. In my opinion there's nothing that I've experienced that's more powerful and magical than love and I think in this film, love is capable of bending time and materially shaping the physical universe and I think that that's really special.
Eva, you seem to want to jump in on this love thing?
Farrell: [He says jokingly] What do you know about love? Next!
Saint: If I don't know it by now, I never will, and that's kept me really going in my life, plus my children and our grandchildren. I don't know how I would have gotten through this life without someone to really love me. And I love them, hi and them. It's forgiving.
Love is very forgiving to one another and your friends and it's a powerful, powerful emotion and it's my favorite emotion in life. Now, write that down and read it and remember it.
Colin, you jump back and forth between centuries quite often in "Winter's Tale" ...
Farrell: Tiring!
Was it confusing? How did you remind yourself which century you were in for each scene?
Farrell: If I was wearing the wig, I was contemporary. No, it was all very clearly demarcated in the script and it was all clearly demarcated in the shooting of the film. The later Peter Lake is somebody who exists very uncomfortably in the present.
Each day is kind of devoid of meaning because it's a repetition of the day before which he can't remember. It's almost like a "Groundhog Day." He goes to bed at night and wakes up the next day and it's the beginning of a life that he has no reference point for, has no idea of what his origin is, and we as human beings, we judge ourselves in our present based on our own origin stories on where we grew up, where we were born, what our family was like, how our cultural references informs our personalities. So it was interesting.
It was fun, but it was certainly a very much more comfortable, very much more grounded Peter at the beginning of the story, as flighty as he seemed at the beginning of the story, because as much as he had a battle, as much as he had an internal rub based on his upbringing and his orphan status and his disassociation from any sense of family until he meets Beverly and her family, the Penns. He's OK with his discomfort. But it's just later in life when he is consumed by this sense of loss, but he has no idea where the loss comes from that he experiences this profound discomfort that is agitating more than anything else and disturbing more than anything else.
Akiva, what was the process like deciding what to omit from the "Winter's Tale" novel and put into the movie? And what films do you think would make a great double feature with "Winter's Tale"?
Goldsman: "Fright Night"? Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory, and then that will be similar to what other people like about it. But you can never tell, so for me, adaptation is sort of using my own memory and imagination as a template and trying to distill what is important to me out of an object.
This one was easier than it appears to be because there are 300 or so pages in the middle of the object dedicated to a character named Hardesty Marratta who existed in the one draft in an encounter with Jenny's character in the very beginning and never made it past the first draft. So, really, the book was smaller than it might seem to be when it came to adaptation. And what would make a nice double feature with this? A "Downton Abbey" marathon?
Saint: I just want to say that I believe the love scene between this talented lady, Jessica, and Colin is just one of the most beautifully done and so tastefully done, Akiva. It left something to the imagination and I find in love scenes today, they try to show everything.
That's not the real thing anyway and this is so beautifully done. It brings tears to my eyes, Akiva. I'll never forget your profile with the kiss and Colin, and I wanted to be there.
Brown Findlay: It'd be a whole different movie.
Saint: In your place!
Jessica, how was it filming that love scene with Colin Farrell?
Brown Findlay: Well, I mean, it's a beautiful moment and I suppose they're kind of aware of, you know, finding the comedy within something and the naivety and the joy of it, and a really special moment, but one that is, I suppose, for the both of them, is new in the sense that it's just true love in its highest sense. I suppose for Beverly, especially, it's something she never, ever, ever thought would happen, someone to love her who's not asked to, like a family member or something. She's found real, true love from a stranger and it's become something beautiful.
Did you ever think that might happen, working with Colin?
Goldsman: Let me disabuse you all of something. Love scenes are the most horrible thing you can ever ask actors to do. "Just try to take a moment, now take off your clothes, no but here." No, really.
Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'
Farrell: I don't know that I agree. I really don't. Maybe that's awfully sleazy and cheap of me, but it's not that I get personal kicks or gratification from them, but I do think that human touch in whatever form it comes in, as long as that form is one that is mutually compassionate and respectful, is a really gorgeous thing. So while it is an atmosphere of absolute artifice and it's not romantic, and it's never going to be sexy, if two people who are involved in it are on the same page and taking care of each other, there are worse days in the office.
Akiva, there are so many different areas of science in "Winter's Tale." The movie touches on the stars and the light, but it doesn't actually give any final answer to any of that. Was that from your input?
Goldsman: Yeah, I mean, the mythology of it is it's some marriage between me and Mark Helprin, who wrote the novel. The cosmology of Mark's book is very, very, very complex, even more complex than the movie is. I tried to distill it down to some extent. Part of what is really clear in Mark's book is the notion of light and its grammar as part of magic as something transformative, the idea that light is operating all the time in ways that we can't see, that there is more to the world, there is a world behind the world and so, what we tried to do with the movie is talk about it, but also show it, you know?
So there's that scene where when Jess, playing Beverly, says, "The sicker I become, the more I can see that everything is connected by light," we jump up and just connect stuff by light. It's not particularly subtle, but quite pretty, and that's the use of flares and what we sort of did is we made believe that the camera could see magic even when the characters for the most part couldn't.
And that gave us a little bit of an organizing principle to use light when something magical occurred, so even if you're not noticing it, when Russell [Crowe] is lurching forward or Will [Smith] is morphing, or these guys were jumping, these are all sort of digital anamorphic flares that are used to sort of create the idea of the magic flaring out.
Colin, can you talk about working with the horse or horses in "Winter's Tale"?
Farrell: I think it could double bill with Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac." [ Eva Marie Saint's opinion on the love scene. The horse that I worked with was beautiful, really nice character, because horses are people too and they differ in the way they carry themselves through the world and the way they interact with each other and the way they interact with people and I had a very understanding and very kind horse named Listo.
I think there were two horses, you're right, but the other one was more like a relief pitcher who came on when Listo was tired or agitated, which he would be having me on your back for eight hours a day, but he was a wonderful, wonderful beast. It was the first time I flew on a horse, which wasn't as scary as it would seem. No altitude sickness or fear of heights involved, because I was actually in a green screen studio sitting on a barrel, which was one of the more mortifying experiences that I'd take way after I'd choose a love scene.
But yeah, he was gorgeous. I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day. And I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
"Winter's Tale" is the first movie Jennifer Connelly has done with Russell Crowe since "A Beautiful Mind," and they also star in "Noah," which comes out the month after "Winter's Tale." Did you know when you cast the movie that both "Winter's Tale" and "Noah" would come out in the same year? And can you comment on the casting of Will Smith, because a lot of people have never really seen him play a villain before?
Goldsman: The casting of this movie is, more than anything else in my career, is a function of unbridled affection. We didn't have the money to make the movie. Warner Bros. looked at it and budgeted it and said, "It's $80 million dollars on a good day. Here's half of it." And I said, "Thank you," because that's what you do when somebody gives you even half of what you need to make the thing that you love the most.
Everyone at this table did it for love or kindness or friendship or belief in some idea of the way the world works and magic inside the world. The casting process was entirely that, from people that I've known well for a long time, to people who I've known and wanted to work with a long time, to heroes, to brand new pieces of talent. It's been amazing.
Will's a friend and I needed the devil, and I said, "What do you think?" And he said, "Sure." Hollywood is about that big, which is the good and the bad news. So yes, I knew that Russell and Jenny were in fact making a movie and actually went horrifically from the "Noah" set to our set. We were shooting here and "Noah" was shooting here, and [Hurricane] Sandy was raging here. So it was actually a very complicated time for the city. And secondarily, obviously, for movies trying to manage to have two actors in two different movies, but you know, friendship and alcohol prevailed.
One of the things that's really amazing about "Winter's Tale" is it's unabashedly a fairy tale and it is not one for children. Do you think we get too old for fairy tales. And if not, why are they necessary for adults to see?
Goldsman: I'll jump in first. I agree. I think this is a fairy tale for grown-ups and I think it is very pointedly a fairy tale for grown-ups and that's what we set out to do. And it's an interesting object because the first two thirds is a fairy tale for kids and there has always been in my life, in the development of this project, those people who say, "Well, can't it just be over there? Can't that be the movie?"
The reason it's a fairy tale for grown-ups is that life is, in fact, sinful. Life actually includes loss and life doesn't end with love. Life requires life beyond loss, and this movie is a Hail Mary to faith, the idea that even though it doesn't turn out the way the storybook promised, there's a story behind it all that we can find.
"Winter's Tale" makes a point of saying that every person has a miracle. Have any of you ever witnessed something or done something that you would construe a miracle?
Saint: I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle! Yeah, well that is another story. That's another movie, Akiva.
Is that not a miracle? How else can you explain it? There are so many things. I mean, your children, they're miracles. Your grandchildren, they are miracles, but that's my thought.
Connelly: I've never seen a flying horse or anything like that in my real life, but I have seen things similar to what Eva Marie was saying that are miraculous to me, whether or not they'd be qualified as bona fide miracles. It sounds like a horrible cliché, but yes, I have three children. Yes, they're each miracles to me.
Colin, you've spoken in the past about your tremendous regard for screen legends such as Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Taylor. What was it like working with a screen legend like Eva Marie Saint? And Eva Maria, what enticed you to do "Winter's Tale"?
Saint: Let Colin answer first.
Farrell: Working with Eva Marie Saint was a dream. I had one of the most incredible periods of the last 15 years on a film set that I had with her, and I've been aware of her work since I was in my early teens, which is not that long ago. But I love working with actors who are just slightly older than me, but have a greater kind of depth of history with regards to life and film.
And working with Eva Marie Saint, as working with Christopher Plummer, I think were two of my favorite experiences. She's a wonderful actress, but more importantly, always more importantly, always the cart that should go before the horse, is the human being and how you find them as a person. And I just adored the bones of her, and I was really spoiled to be able to spend time with her on the set. It will stay with me all my days, which I hope are plentiful.
Saint: [She says jokingly] Colin and I became lovers.
Farrell: In his mind.
Saint: You know Hollywood. You know actors. I'm playing the older woman because I'm old and I'm still working, but she's older than I am in the movie, a hundred and something, but she's still working at the paper and I think that was such an interesting idea for me to show women still working, still dressing nicely and so forth.
And I just loved the scene when she sees Peter and somebody said, "How did you know to put your arms out like little Willa did?" How did I know? I don't know. I didn't see those scenes.
Akiva said, "Just put your arms out." I didn't know that. How was I supposed to know? I didn't see the rushes, but it's so interesting, Akiva. So many people mentioned that yesterday and that's so simple that that's the little girl and every time she did that. But Colin, you haven't done that when I go like that to you.
Farrrell: The day is young, darling.
Mr. Goldsman, you're asking for us to take a willing suspension of disbelief of a tremendous level. In forming the basis for this film, did you just decide to do it without thought of the cynicism of the world?
Goldsman: I loved the novel and I love entertainment that is not cynical. I choose not to be cynical. I'll go toe to toe with anyone in the room over reasons to be cynical. So it's a choice and, for me, a worthwhile one and a worthwhile communication because the other is too easy.
There are too many reasons to give up or to not care. It's my choice. I don't say it's right or wrong, but it's mine. To then convey cynical ideas would be not true for me.
It doesn't mean that I can't be as old and tired and begrudging of the universe as anybody at the end of a long day, but I try to practice the belief that there is reasonableness and meaning. Some days it's a lot harder than others, but I'd like that messaging to be in what I do. It kind of always has been and it's not that life has given me less reasons to be cynical. It gives me more, but I choose to push past. That's just me.
And for the actors, is making a magic realism film different, in terms of your approach to your characters?
Farrell: One of the cruxes of the bedrocks of this film is the presence of a love that defies linear time and the kind of internal existence of something that is felt, but can't be defined by thought and poets are still trying to do it centuries later through language and some of them get close, but love will never be defined in a quotidian way or an empirical way where it can be judged or measured. So with that in mind, any of the more magical elements to the film, any of the more fantastical elements, whether it's a flying horse or time bending over on itself or someone existing for 100 years and not aging, were things that you became a subject of and they were almost, I think, almost easier to write off as awe-inspiring events than the whole depth of the love between Peter and Beverly is the most magical and fantastical element of the whole film.
It's much more magical and much more fantastical even and yet beautifully and gratefully much more possible than a flying horse. So not really so much. The whole script and the story seemed like this exercise in the defiance of disbelief and things happening in a person's life that they never thought or comprehended could happen. Peter wasn't looking for love and all of a sudden, this world opens up to him and the world of his former existence and the self preservation and the kind of defense of energy with which he had to carry himself through life just to survive begins to crumble and fade away and this path of love and gentility and light and true interconnectedness presents itself, so that was, for me, the most magical and fantastical element of the film.
Jennifer, in "Winter's Tale," your character is a parent. What process did that character need to go through to leave the belief in science and switch over to the belief in faith?
Connelly: The conceit of this movie is that magic exists in this world, in this very real world and right now, and I think there's something inherent in her, an inherent openness to that possibility that magic might exist. And I think that when she first sees Peter, something resonates with her, but on top of that, I think that that is compounded by her position in life that she unfortunately finds herself in.
She has a daughter who is terminally ill and she's been told by everyone that there is no hope, and so she's sort of reined that in. She's tried to rein that in and tried to process that, tried to process fathoming the possibility that there could be no hope, and I think it's terrifying for her when she meets him and he's saying, "Trust me. Give me a chance."
And I think a lot of things go through her very, very quickly, but I think a glimmer of a possibility that could it be true, absolutely. She's so desperate to save her girl. She would absolutely throw herself off a roof with a perfect stranger on a flying horse, just in case it could have been true.
Did you have to work in the winter weather when you were filming this movie? How did you deal with the cold weather?
Farrell: Jessica? Barefooted wonder.
Saint: And in the nude.
Brown Findlay: Yeah, we shot in New York in the winter and the snow. And sensibly, everyone else is in winter coats and furs and thick woolen jackets and everything.
My character, she's constantly warm from consumption. She is in summer dresses and bare feet, but yeah, you just have to do it. Some of the snow was fake, maybe sometimes when I have bare feet.
Mr. Goldsman, towards the end of "Winter's Tale," Beverly says that no one person's life is more important than any other's. Did you ever consider not including that and leaving it to the viewer's interpretation?
Goldsman: It's a line from the novel, which I very much like, and I think that it's quite important. When you develop a movie, it goes through lots of opinions before we actually end up making it. [One of the] most common sentiments was "Why is little Willa special? Why would everything conspire to save this one little girl? Who is she going to be?"
And then people would pitch ideas. 'Is she going to be president? " And some of it, I actually put into a speech of Russell's when he's talking about Beverly because somebody said to me, "Is she going to be pope?" People objected to the idea that she wasn't saved for a reason, but what I loved about the book is we're all worth saving, and that you don't have to be special for the universe to take care of you and that it is taking care of you even when you can't see it.
What did you get from your "Winter's Tale" character?
Brown Findlay: I suppose just the idea of Beverly being someone who has accepted everything that will come, will come quickly and is alive, but not living. At the end of her life, she ends up living more than some of us are ever lucky enough to live and she sees things in such a beautiful way and is incredibly brave.
Saint: That was beautiful
Connelly: I'm terrible at pitches. I'm really bad. In response to the question about what I relate to in my character, I suppose, my character is a link for Peter Lake to his past and to his own destiny. But in her own right, she is first and foremost a mother, and I think that's what really defines her is her love for her daughter. And so I suppose that is what I recognize most in her.
Farrell: I think it just kind of solidified a suspicion I already had that I think I'm OK with life being defined more by mystery than by certainty because certainty has done nothing but get me in a lot of trouble. My own certainty and my own ideals, my own attachments. I'm OK, the older I get, with reaching and hoping and aspiring to know less and less and less.
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I got it when I was 18. Like the OP, I lived in a small town, had a couple friends with vehicles so I was in no rush. Plus, I didn't have the $ for one at 16. After 18 in Massachusetts, you don't have to go to driving school, so I just took a couple lessons and passed the test with ease.
I had never driven a car in my life, and after 10 minutes behind the wheel my instructor just threw up his hands and said, "you can take the test next week if you want, you can drive." I was like WTF? Then realized he never even spoke a word to me after he said start the car, I just started driving like I had been for years.
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Kenya Moore was at an event in Las Vegas and decided to show off her skills on a catwalk. TMZ reports on Monday that the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star fell on the stage, but she was able to get up quickly and did not suffer any injuries. Moore used the opportunity to amuse the audience while kneeling on the catwalk.
Moore joined other housewives from Bravo at Caesars Palace in a series of games and competitions. They were working with high rollers and trying to keep the audience interested. Moore has admitted on Twitter that she did not choreograph the fall on the catwalk, but she was happy with the way she recovered from it.
The housewife was wearing a jumpsuit, yet she managed to trip over her own legs as she made her way down the runway in Las Vegas. Nevertheless, she flipped her hair, danced for the audience and got up again. Moore stated she actually won this round of the competition despite falling on stage.
Moore revealed that Melissa Gorga, Kyle Richards, Vicki Gunvalson and Jill Zarin joined her at Caesars Palace. She posed for photos with Richards and Gunvalson, and she later admired her own image on billboards in Las Vegas. Although she generally avoided drama or fights during the event, she still managed to attract attention by tripping on the catwalk.
Some "Real Housewives of Atlanta" fans have suggested that Moore deliberately fell on the stage to get sympathy from the audience. However, she has denied these allegations and has explained it was not planned. Although reactions have varied to her participation at the event, there was one person who was pleased to have her on stage. Gunvalson explained she was thrilled to finally meet a housewife who was taller than her after posing with Moore.


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To the Editor:
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the United States, profiting $32 billion annually, which includes more than 100,000 children being sold in the sex trade industry.
The belief that this crime only exists in third world countries only shadows the reality that human trafficking is not only occurring in the United States, but is happening in the state of Wisconsin and in our community of Iron County.
I am exceedingly proud of the immediate response from the Iron County Sheriff's Department, district attorney and victim services coordinator who are illustrating compassion and sensitivity throughout the proceedings of this case.
This is the first filed/reported case of human sex trafficking in Iron County and for me, this is one case too many.
Establishing a community-based alliance and incorporating prevention education and awareness will be the first steps in safeguarding our community, especially our children, from future crimes of human trafficking.
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Damaged during heavy storm at Pori airport area. Left main landing gear collapsed and couple of more damages can be seen on the left side. Plane arrived earlier from Stockholm-Arlanda as DNU4051.
New revised c/s for Pegasus Airlines. Departed to Istanbul (LTFJ) as "Sunturk 446".
"Mediflight 5930"
Estonian division of FlyLal Charters. Arrived from Hurghada as ELC4367. ex. LY-AQV.
Inflight FC124 from Pori to Helsinki.
Saab 340´s cabin after flight from Helsinki.
Latvian division of Primera Group. Started operations October 2014. Here arriving from Malaga as PRI234.
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Members of the Stuttgart Ricebird football team, including Spencer Dickson (from left), Kendall Hill, Waymon Johnson and coach Casey Moreland, spent Tuesday afternoon collecting money to help pay for their state championship rings.
The players visited local businesses and took donations at intersections throughout Stuttgart.
Check the Stuttgart Daily Leader for information on upcoming fundraisers and how you can help the Ricebirds.
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Baseball Upends Visiting Detroit, 11-3
May 10, 2002
Chicago, Ill. - After giving up five hits in the first two innings, University of Illinois at Chicago rookie southpaw Ryan Gehring settled down the rest of the way and the Flames' offense heated up, as UIC defeated Detroit, 11-3, at Les Miller Field on Friday evening in a Horizon League tilt.
Detroit (12-29, 2-13) came out clicking on all cylinders, as Titan centerfielder Justin Davenport tagged Gehring for a first inning home run, giving the visitors a quick 1-0 lead.
In the second, Detroit scored two more runs, as first baseman Tim Poley homered to center after Roger Wechter laid down a bunt single to give the Titans a 3-0 lead heading into the bottom half of the second.
UIC (33-12, 11-4) got one back in its half of the second, as Chuck Peters tallied his second homer of the season, a solo shot, to bring the Flames within two at 3-1.
Gehring them put the clamp down on the Titan aluminum, shutting the visitors down the rest of the way. On the night, Gehring went the distance, fanning eight, giving up ten hits, while allowing three runs to pick-up his eighth win of the season (8-1).
After singles by Mark Homco and Mike Lorenzo in the third, Peters stepped up and knocked in Homco with a single of his own to make it 3-2.
In the fifth frame, Mike Bruszer led off the inning with a single followed by a bunt base hit from Mark Homco, putting runners on first and second for Curtis Granderson.
Granderson singled to load the bases. Titan starter Keith Astrauckas then let loose a wild pitch that scored Bruszer.
Peters, the man of the night, came up again with ducks on the pond and delivered a one-out single that scored Homco that proved to be the winning run.
Homco and Kevin Nelson each added run scoring singles in the sixth and seventh innings, while the Flames plated five in the eighth.
Mike Hughes hit a hot-shot down the left field line that scored two, as he then advanced all the way home on a throwing error by Detroit shortstop Mike Malley that sailed over catcher Mike Mitrevski's head to plate the Flames' 11th run.
Astrauckas was pinned with the loss for Detroit, dropping to 2-5 on the year. The Titans fall to 12-19 and 2-13 on the season.
Game two of the Horizon League series between the Flames and Titans has been changed to 10:30 AM on Saturday, May 11 as the first game of a twinbill.
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Mark states, "Regarding my 'personal' (what a strange sounding little word that has become!) beliefs, I could never imagine a Christianity not intimately connected to the Apostle's Creed. I believe evangelical Christianity is rooted in this creed and that our agreement on this most orthodox of creeds can and should supersede our disagreements on anything else." A few of his academic interests include: the literary origins of courtly and romantic love, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, Wallace Stevens and Dante Alighieri.
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"Teen Mom" dad Adam Lind and his second baby mama, Taylor Halbur, have exchanged rings, Wet Paint reported on March 11.
The MTV star, who is the father of Chelsea Houska's daughter, Aubree, and Taylor's daughter, Paislee, gave his girlfriend a diamond promise ring, and in exchange he got a black band as well.
Is this a sign that Adam Lind and Taylor Halbur are headed for marriage, and are planning to expand their family, which has included Aubree a lot more as of late.
Adam and Taylor have been spending more time with Aubree since Paislee was born, and even though Lind recently got into a life threatening car accident, and has been charged with multiple crimes following the crash, Taylor is sticking by her man.
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Ellen DeGeneres' success is "destroying her marriage to her gorgeous wife, Portia de Rossi!" declares the National Enquirer.
The tabloid's insiders say the women "are being driven further and further apart as Ellen's career continues to soar to new heights."
"Sadly, Ellen and Portia's relationship is quickly becoming just another typical Hollywood cliche," a so-called "source" close to the couple tells the Enquirer.
DeGeneres and de Rossi are "on the rocks," according to the magazine.
"Ellen is grasping at straws in her desperate attempt to keep Portia happy by amassing all of that wealth, but it's becoming blatantly obvious that it's forcing them further apart," explains the Enquirer source.
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The 2014 UIL Girls Basketball State Tournament gets underway Thursday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin and, when it does, the Manvel Lady Mavericks will be the only Houston-area team in the field.
Manvel (36-2) earned the school's first-ever berth in the state basketball tournament with a 58-42 win over Cypress Woods in the Region III final Saturday afternoon at the Campbell Center.
They will play Plano West (27-5) in the second Class 5A semifinal Friday night at 8:30 p.m., following a matchup between Duncanville (34-0) and San Antonio Wagner (25-10) at 7:00 p.m.
But, other than Class 1A Division I Weimar, which is 90 miles west of the city, and Class 2A Hallettsville, another 25 miles southwest of Weimar, no other teams within 130 miles of downtown qualified for the tournament.
It's no surprise that Manvel is the Class 5A representative from Region III, which encompasses the metropolitan Houston area. The Lady Mavericks were the consensus favorite to be the best team in the region.
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So Manvel will be the lone Houston hope for a girls' basketball state title in 2014. And their task of bringing a trophy home will not be an easy one.
Although the Lady Mavs lost just twice during the season and are currently ranked No. 2 in the state by TABC and No. 13 in the nation by USA Today, one of their two losses was to Duncanville, the top-ranked team in the state and No. 3 in the nation.
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Written by the editor of Screen International magazine, Mike Goodridge, the acclaimed FilmCraft series, FilmCraft: Directing, features in-depth interviews with 16 of the world's most celebrated and respected film directors - most notably, Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Mystic River, Unforgiven), Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Rise of the Guardians and Pacific Rim), Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93), Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Witness, Dead Poet's Society), Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) and Park Chan-wook (Oldboy and Lady Vengeance).
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You Can't Tell a Food by its Label
March 2010
Reading a food label can be like deciphering an insurance policy—tough, but necessary. That's because companies are always making claims designed to make you think their foods are terrific for you. Some of my favorites:
- 0g trans fat—It implies that a food is healthy, though some, like Edy's Dibs frozen snacks, are loaded with saturated fat.
- 6g whole grain— You'll find it on foods like Sundried Tomato & Basil Wheat Thins, which are mostly refined flour.
- Now helps support your child's immunity— This bogus claim appeared on Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies until the San Francisco City Attorney objected.
- Omega-3 fats—Companies use it to imply that their eggs are good for your heart, despite the eggs' slug of cholesterol.
- Naturally flavored—It's typically in small, skinny letters near a word in bold type ("Strawberry," for example). And it often means that the food contains little or none of the ingredient.
- All natural—You'll see it on some foods that are made with (non-natural) high-fructose corn syrup.
After years of inaction, the Food and Drug Administration is finally going after some dishonest labels.
In 2009, for example, the FDA stopped misleading cholesterol-lowering claims on Cheerios. And it triggered the collapse of an industry-wide labeling scheme that awarded a "Smart Choices" logo to Froot Loops and other sugary cereals. We expect the FDA to expand on that activism in 2010.
Lies aside, the FDA should require labels to disclose other information: Nutrition Facts labels should reveal how much added sugar is in a serving of food. High-sugar foods shouldn't be allowed to carry a "healthy" claim. Ingredient lists should disclose the percentages of key ingredients, as the European Union requires. And the FDA should ban ingredient lists that use almostunreadable, small, skinny, capital letters on a non-contrasting background.
What's more, the FDA should require manufacturers to put key nutrition facts on the front of the package.
The British government is encouraging companies to display—on front labels—color-coded dots (red, amber, or green) signifying high, medium, or low levels of fat, saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars. We need something similar here.
But there's no need to wait for the government to grind out new regulations. You can avoid deceptive labels right now...by buying more foods that have no labels—fruits, vegetables, and bulk grains, seeds, beans, and nuts.
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Hangin' with the Hill Tribes in Northern Thailand
By Terry Braverman
"Hello……hello…." The only English word most hill tribe people speak, it's the initial greeting upon entering their villages, usually said to draw attention to the handcrafts for sale. The "I-sell-you-buy" association can be transcended in two ways. If you're fluent in the universal languages of music, mime, and sound effects, it creates a connection beyond words.
Smiles, laughter, curiosity and engagement abound when I played harmonica, made faces, or imitated animal sounds in the village. Ultimately, a guide who has established relationships in the villages and is conversant in their languages will give you a PIN to access their world and withdraw cultural understanding, yielding a richer return on your experience.
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If you're a party animal, the best time to visit is January, when most tribes celebrate New Years. Rest assured no two parties are alike since each tribe has its own language, customs, costumes, cuisine, and spiritual beliefs. And you can never wear anything too outrageous at a hill tribe party. Their flamboyant attire makes rock stars look like bankers.
The term hill tribe refers to ethnic minorities residing in the mountainous regions of northern Thailand. Most of them migrated to Thailand within the last two hundred years from China (Hmong, Yao), Tibet (Akha, Lahu, Lisu), and Burma (Karen). All the tribes cultivate rice and corn; some grow other vegetables, fruit, and opium, while the Karens and Lisus raise livestock. Many of the communities have limited electricity and no indoor plumbing; homes are made of bamboo and thatched roofs.
The hill tribes face many challenges— poverty, drug abuse, prostitution and AIDS are common. Education is also problematic— there are few schools on tribal land. Despite their long-standing presence, the Thai government refuses to grant citizenship to hill tribes, fearing massive immigration from their brethren in bordering countries.
Hmong People
The Hmong people live high in the mountains near Chiang Mai, and it was astonishing to see so many pick-up trucks in the villages. But families are large and roads are virtually impassable, making pick-ups mandatory. Spiritual beliefs are animistic, and polygamy is common.
Women tend to put their hair up in a large bun, since they're said to do the lion's share of the work, lugging large baskets with broad shoulder straps and working the fields.
The Hmong New Year festivity, known as "Noj Peb," is drenched in colorful regalia and pageantry. An event that makes Chinese New Years look like a funeral, it's not well-advertised to tourists. Over 2,000 Hmongs were in attendance, and I saw only three farangs (foreigners), including myself.
Activities ranged from wooden go-cart races to crossbow shooting, dance, and rituals. Some kids enrolled me in a variation of ball tossing that allowed me to showcase my sometimes slick, oftentimes clumsy moves which provoked laughter. Being among the Hmong was…well, a humongous pleasure.
Tha Ton
A three hour drive north of Chiang Mai is the picturesque town of Tha Ton, a gateway to more tribal territory. One morning I motorbiked with a local guide named Reinato to his Karen village in a lowland valley. Karens are renowned for their weaving skills, and dress in thickly woven v-necked tunics of various colors.
The missionaries came and conquered about 50 years ago—one settlement converted to Catholicism, another became Baptist, yet another went Buddhist. There were no Jewish converts in the area.
We left Reinato's home and plunged into a dense bamboo forest with some treacherous footing. The long steep trek and sheer beauty of the forest left us breathless, as we finally settled into a serene spot for lunch, Karen style.
My guide brought only food, and created all the utensils from bamboo branches. The rice servings were put into a banana leaf, then folded and stuffed into a hollow bamboo log with water, thrown into the fire and steamed. The chicken was put onto bamboo skewers, and the veggies inserted into a halved bamboo log. In an hour the food was cooked, and astoundingly delicious!
The Akhas
After lunch we visited the Akhas, who favor the high country. Their
villages have a special entrance gate (two large posts with an overhead connecting post) to deter evil spirits. They practice animism with emphasis on ancestor worship. The homes have no windows, and the eaves drop quite low.
Sometimes their grins reveal red-stained teeth and gums, residue from chewing betel nut, a mild hallucinogen. The elderly Akha women are aggressive in their product sales approach—they attach their beaded bracelets to both your wrists, and hold out their hand for money. I should contract them to give sales training for U.S. department stores.
The Lisu Settlement
The Lisu settlement was certainly the most "upscale" of all the tribes. They live in nicer homes and the road entering their community is paved. Socially liberal, premarital sex is reputedly common, along with free choice of marital partners, and divorce is permitted. However, people were very reticent, and the only tribe to decline photographing. Ancestor worship and spirit possession are part of their animistic beliefs.
The final trek stop with Reinato was a Lahu community, where our timing was excellent—they were about to celebrate their New Year. The tribal chief allowed us to cook dinner, so we dined in a traditional Lahu hut on a bamboo strip floor, with a stone fireplace in the middle. Beeswax candles were lit to drive away evil spirits and honor their supreme deity, Geusha. As we ate, Lahu ladies were outside singing and chanting to the spirits, and the men were inside puffing opium cigarettes, hand-rolled from dried corn husks.
Yao Village
In Chiang Rai province, I went to a Yao village. They're animistic, highlighting ancestor worship and Taoism. Ladies wear black jackets with red fur-like collars, and trousers adorned with intricately embroidered patches. A village vendor offered plates of well-cooked beetles, crickets and bamboo larvae worms. Although the spicy aroma was tempting, I couldn't get past the idea of ingesting bugs and worms.
Despite some performance interruptus, it was ecstatically satisfying to connect with the hill tribes beyond language, living standards, ethnicity, and commerce. "Hello" may be the only English word they know, but rapport can be realized through desire, patience, and a show.
Mae Kok River Village, Tha Ton – A secluded property, situated on the banks of the Mae Kok river at a cul-de-sac street juicy with small town Thai flavor. The walk into town is a great opportunity to observe and interact with townspeople, and treasure the sweeping views beyond the river to the hills that buffer Myanmar. The resort maintains an organic farm on the property, hiring local kids to work on the farm while teaching them sustainable methods. Student groups come from around the world and offer service on the farm or in local schools, from reading stories to building new classrooms, in turn receiving academic credits.
Location: Tha Ton, Chiang Mai province Tel: (66) 5 345 9355,6
Web site: maekok-river-village-resort.com
The Riverhouse, Chiang Rai – Also at the edge of the Mae Kok river, the Riverhouse sits across from Chiang Rai city. It has the look of a modern hotel, but possesses some lovely, distinctly Thai features. There is an eye-popping sculpture in the lobby titled, "The Kinaree Cave," a grotto carved into part of a teakwood trunk five meters high (about 17 feet).
Location: 482 Moo 4, Tambon Rimkok, Amphur Muang, Chiang Rai Tel: 66 5 375 0829
Web site: riverhouse-chiangrai.com
THA TON – A bona fide slice of Thai life, the morning market is abuzz with locals transacting goods and services at 8 am. Located on " Main Street." Take a hike behind the road to the monastery for a free breakfast, then farther up to the Buddha with Seven Snakeheads at sunset. If you're a performer, offer to entertain at the local elementary school.
Hill Tribe Museum & Education Center : The 3rd floor of the facility serves as a museum with typical clothing for six major tribes, folk implements and other anthropological exhibits. Also offered is a 25 minute slide show on hill tribes. Admission to the show is 20 Baht. Open: 9 am – 8 pm daily.
Location: 620/1 Thanon Thanalai. Tel: 05 371 9167, or 05 371 1475
Oub Kham Museum: Royal garb from the 15 th century, and filled with ritual pieces, lacquer ware, and silver jewelry. Considered one of the finest museums in Asia. A visit here can consolidate your time exploring the lavish objets d'art and handcrafts of the local people. Admission: 100 Baht. Open 10am – 9pm daily.
Location: San Khong Noi Road near Den Ha market, 1 kilometer from the centre of town. Tel: 05 371 3349
Buddha caves: Follow the road across Mae Fah Luang bridge to the Tham To Pu turn-off, 800m from the bridge. Follow this road 1.2km to arrive at the caves on the side of a limestone cliff.
King Mengkrai monument and statue: Commemorates first Lanna king and founder of Chiang Rai.
Location: Intersection of Singhaklai Road, Uttarakit Road, and the Superhighway to Mae Chan.
Wat Phra Kaew: Originally the home of the Emerald Buddha but still has replica, surrounded by emerald stain glass. Location: Trairat Road, between Ruang Nakorn Road and Kraisorasit Road
Wat Phra Sing: A 14 th century temple, houses a replica of the Buddha's footprint. Location: Singhaklai Road, between Overbrook Hospital and Tourist Police station
Night Market: Popular tourist spot for purchasing local crafts, and dining. Traditional dance performed nightly on large stage. Location: Next to the bus station.
CHIANG SAEN – ancient town on the Mekong River . Location: Take Highway 110 from Chiang Rai for 30 kilometers. Then take a right turn onto Highway 1016 and proceed for another 30 kilometers. Traces of old double city walls and other antiquities remain, both within and outside the town.
Wat Chedi Luang: Built in 1291. Largest pagoda in Chiang Rai province with 58 meter high brick wall surrounded by ruins.
National Museum: Provides information and exhibits on archeological sites and artifacts, town history, ethnic minorities along the Mekong River, and Buddha images. Open Wednesdays-Sundays, 9-4.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE – Viewpoint of where Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar converge. A tourist trap, but I highly recommend a visit to the Opium Museum in the village of Sop Ruak. Fascinating look at how opium is cultivated, and tools used for planting, harvesting and smoking the drug, along with weighing scales. Also, old photographs and maps of the poppy plantations.
MAE SAI – a border town situated on the River Sai opposite the Burmese berg of Tachilek, which you can visit for the day. It's a bustling marketplace with a wide range of Burmese and Thai jewelry, handicrafts and other goods.
Tam Plaa ( Fish Cave): About eight kilometers south of Mai Sai, known for its interesting rock formations. Also, home to an extended family of monkeys.
DOI TUNG – First shrine in the Lanna Kingdom, revered by Thai, Lao, and Burmese Buddhists.
Location: Take Highway 110 for about 48 kilometers. Then turn left onto Highway No. 1149, an asphalt road leading to Doi Tung. The route winds through striking scenery with many interesting sites. These include Doi Tung Royal Villa, Mae Fa Luang Garden, Akha and Lahu tribal villages.
MAE SALONG – at an altitude of over 1200 meters, its mountain peak setting not only gives fantastic views, but can be quite mystical when the mists surround it. It was originally populated with a Nationalist Chinese army regiment that fled after communism took control in the 1949 revolution. Mae Salong will charm you with its plethora of Chinese tea houses and tea plantations. Location: Highway 1089 about 60 kilometers from Chiang Rai city.
HILL TRIBE DEVELOPMENT & WELFARE CENTER – aids and administers hill tribe settlements. Handcrafts, particularly woven cloth and silverware, are available for purchase. Location: 15 kilometers along the route to Mae Salong.
PHU CHEE F AH – This mountain top is the ultimate place to be at sunrise, with spectacular views of Laos and the Mekong River . About 60 kilometers east of Chiang Rai city.
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In a country where full frontal nudity is common in television commercials, how did Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears manage to become banned from French daytime TV?
The Huffington Post reported on Jan. 10 stating the two celebrities are just way too sexy for France's daytime television program viewers. This ban specifically targets their videos. These music videos with their adult content seem to be the cause of this controversial decision. Britney Spears in her "Work B-tch" video and Miley Cyrus with her "Wrecking Ball" video specifically!
The scenes in Miley's video are described as too sexually explicit for minors to view. Her video won't be allowed to be broadcasted during daytime hours because seeing Miley swinging naked and tonguing tools is not appropriate for children.
Britney Spears' video has been placed under the same scrutiny describing it as "a sadomasochistic universe representing women in a way that risks shocking many viewers" due to her dress portraying bondage.
The CSA – Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel made their ruling so that these two videos can only be broadcast after 10:00 p.m. to make daytime television suitable for all ages. It seemed that some stations or channels that were airing these videos did so without airing the parental guidance warnings. Now the message is clear and underage viewers won't be privy to this type of content.
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Welcome to the website of the Austin A30-A35 Owners' Club, a resource for all
Austin enthusiasts and friends of the baby Austin.
The website contains much information about the club, the cars, the activities
and events but if you have a specific question please make contact via the e mail address.
Based in the UK, the Austin A30-A35 Owners' Club was founded in 1970 and has
engendered a successful and enduring friendly family atmosphere that has
acquired an international reputation. Today the Club has a world wide membership
with fellow enthusiasts in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Scandinavia,
USA and many mainland European countries.
The various models of the baby Austin certainly invoke friendship, bonhomie and
pleasure with the members exchanging technical knowledge, information and their
own experiences to the benefit of all.
The Austin A30-A35 Owners' Club is administered by a National Committee
consisting of volunteer members willing to undertake certain roles and
responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the Club. This Committee is
supported by a network of Local Groups which exist around the country. There
will be a Local Group near where you live. Details of where and when they meet
are in our Magazines and I know you will be most welcome to join them.
The Club publishes four high quality magazines each year. Spotlight summer and
winter and Sidelights spring and autumn that contain technical tips and information,
historical facts and figures together with reports from Local Groups containing
news of local rallies and other activities.
The highlight of each year is the International Rally that is held during the
last weekend of May. Each year the venue for the Rally moves to a different part
of the UK and is organized by one of the Local Groups. Members from all over the
world attend to meet and greet old friends, probably not seen since the previous
year's Rally, and to make new acquaintances. Of course the vehicles play an
important part too with judging taking place and trophies awarded.
As a member of the Austin A30-A35 Owners' Club for over 25 years I can vouch for
the helpful friendliness of the members and the thrill of driving the cars,
especially the smiles invoked as we drive by both young and old, not to mention
the many comments we receive such as 'My Dad had one of those', 'That was my first
car', 'I paid twenty quid for one of those in 1975' and 'Are the brakes any good
these days'? Let's hope that we can continue for many years to come, especially
by attracting new younger members, to join those we already have, who will be the
life blood of the club in years to come.
Benefits of membership include a fantastic club spares scheme, approved
insurance schemes, discounted offers from some manufacturers, nit to mention
this fabulous web site resource, where you can share problems and get answers
at the click of a button.
So don't be shy, come and join us and I look forward to meeting you at one
of our rallies and sharing the pleasure of Club membership with you. You will
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After reviewing his deposition, the district court excluded Carlson, writing that "none of the four admissibility criteria outlined by the Daubert court are satisfied in this case." Because the Carmichaels' only evidence was Carlson's testimony, the district court then granted summary judgment for the tire co.
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Boston Celtics All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo is being credited by Philadelphia 76ers center Nerlens Noel for being the "biggest helper" in his recovery from ACL surgery. Noel missed his entire rookie season with the injury and is not ready to start his NBA career. In an interview with CBS Sports published Friday, the young center cited Rondo as a big influence while working his way from surgery.
Noel, a native of Everett, Massachusetts, grew up a Celtics fan and admired Rondo already. He admired him even more with the way he was able to come back from his own ACL injury. Rondo missed half of last season working his way back to full strength and was one of the players who offered Noel support and guidance.
In the interview, Noel said, "He was definitely the biggest helper through this whole process, he actually gave me his phone number and told me I could hit him up whenever about it. Being from Boston, watching him growing up, and he went through it and he came back as strong as possible, actually before me, so it gave me a lot of confidence, having his good faith."
Noel is a big key in the 76ers rebuilding process. He has turned to veteran players like Rondo to obtain much of his knowledge about the professional game. The fact that he grew up a Celtics fan made his interaction with Rondo even more special.
When asked if it was crazy getting to know Rondo on a personal level, he said, "Yeah, definitely. That's definitely what made it even more of a thrill. Being able to interact with Rondo and get good advice from him, cause he's more of a veteran point guard now in this league, gone through so much with the Big 3, he's a world champion, he's a player who's very mature in this league now. So definitely, it was crazy. I took a lot from him."
Although Rondo's future with the Celtics remains up in the air, it is good to see some of the positive influences he is having on young players throughout the NBA. Sacramento Kings forward DeMarcus Cousins has called Rondo the best point guard in the league and Celtics rookie Marcus Smart is looking forward to working with and behind Rondo if he remains with the team. The positive statements made about Rondo are starting to offset the negative reputation he has received in the past.


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I am trying to install a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 webcam to Windows 7 64-bit.
If I do it without using the Logitech drivers but instead the Windows Update ones, the camera works with low frame rate and without face tracking and all other bells and whistles that it's full driver provides.
The moment I install the latest official Logitech driver, the problems begin:
Camera works fine, until I decide to go to audio settings of the LWS panel or Windows'. Then LWS freezes and with it everything that tries to output audio. I am not able to open Playback/Recording devices window (it just doesn't appear) and system gets unstable and slow with LWS.EXE process not been able to close forcefully.
If I reboot and forget the camera connected, this situation continues and system gets unstable from the beginning.
If I reboot without the camera connected, everything works fine until I connect it and try to do something with audio settings of Windows or LWS panel.
I should note, that until the freezing occurs, camera works as expected, with full frame rate, face tracking and everything that is expected to do.
The soundcard is the ASUS SupremeFX II of the ASUS Striker II Extreme motherboard.
Any ideas of what is causing this or what else to try so I can make it work as advertised?
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While there are some pop qualities infused into Cam'ron's 1st Of The Month Volume 2 EP, there are still some hard moments on the album. At five tracks and no fillers, the album sees Cam'ron taking just enough time to serve his purposes. The opener "Sweetest" sets a serious tone with Cam mourning his fallen compadres and revisiting his troubled past in other ways. "Lala" continues to examine Cam's sordid history like the first track but feels almost celebratory with the bright, upbeat piano on the beat. Cam'ron is poignant in these two cuts but also seems to be looking back fondly on the adventures of escaping the perils of his youth. More soulful sounds greet the ears on "Soulplane" with its beat filled with high pitched soul singing and light strings. On this song, Cam spends the first half or so discussing his relationship intimacies and devotes the rest to his trademark street raps. Nicki Minaj and a very feminine sounding Yummy both hop on the candy coated "So Bad" with its poppy piano and claps, about a soured relationship that should have lasted longer. Finally there is the "CFWU" finale that features Jim Jones and Hell Rell as guests. It's a hardcore track of overwhelming manpower with strong, cinematic horns and a droning bass line for the beat. Cam should be applauded once again for his crafty lyricism, but their effects tend to get overshadowed by the pomp and flash of the beats. 1st Of The Month Volume 2 is great for Cam'ron lovers and pretty good for hip hop heads.
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Avoiding the appearance of self interest as an association director.
A reader of my blog recently wrote to discuss a situation in her community where the interests of the membership came second to the interests of some board members. The reader wrote that the community had been polled and the vast majority of residents supported an expenditure of $1,500 per year so the county bus would stop outside their community. The board declined to pursue that expenditure but instead opted to spend $3,200 to install a roof over a softball field dug-out in the community; the fact that most of the board members played on that softball team did not go without comment.
The reader wrote that she had no issue with the roof but a bus to make shopping easier for the residents had been her preference along with many of her neighbors. Ultimately, the board is elected by the members to make decisions on their behalf but how often do the directors have personal interests that might be given priority attention? In the scenario provided above, being a softball player alone does not mean that a director could not vote on the respective expenditures and still decide that the roof was in the best interests of the community. However, throw in the fact that the community was polled, voiced its preference and that preference was overlooked and you now have murkier waters.
Believe it or not, directors are human and they have many of the same issues arise in their lives that non-board members experience. Nevertheless, serving on the board demands that directors recognize when their personal issues or preferences might make it difficult or even impossible to vote impartially on a matter. If the board is voting on whether or not to pursue a resident for using someone else's assigned parking space and it just happens to be the President's spot that has been seized, that is fairly pertinent information that the rest of the board deserves to know in advance of the vote. If the board is voting on whether or not to suspend the use rights of delinquent owners and the Treasurer's best friend happens to be delinquent, that relationship should not create a hurdle to doing what is right for the community.
Some issues clearly constitute a conflict of interest which would demand a director's disclosure and abstention from voting. Other issues, however, merely flirt with self interest. Those instances still demand that a director understand how he or she is voting on a particular matter and why. If there is even a whiff of self interest, the membership will sniff it out in many cases so the wise director is the one who takes steps to clarify his or her position in the face of such circumstances.
Lastly, when you poll your community members and they voice an opinion on a proposed course of action, boards who disregard that input do so at their own peril. This is not to suggest that the membership must be polled on every course of action, particularly on routine maintenance which is one of a board's main functions, but if you ask for input on discretionary spending it's probably best to heed the message your members delivered.


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New images have surfaced of what appears to be a new Apple iPad Mini that features the new anodized color that has is featured on the iPhone 5S. The new iPad mini also features the same Touch ID fingerprint scanner we saw on the recently released iPhone 5S.
Other than the color change and new fingerprint scanner, the pictured iPad Mini appears to be of the same form-factor and trim of its predecessor. With Apple's recent trend of rehashing existing products with minimal changes, this is no surprise. Apple will be hosting an event on October 15 during which it is expected to launch a new iPad and iPad mini, so all will be revealed then!.


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A dangerous activity: chasing butterflies
What is better to read in the dead of winter than a book on butterfly collecting? The author of the book Hazards of butterfly collecting is Torben B. Larsen, a well-known lepidopterist who has visited, lived and worked in dozens of countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, southern Asia and southern America. And wherever he went he collected butterflies.
Hazards of Butterfly Collecting is a delightful 250-page book of short accounts, rarely more than 3 pages long, of Larsen's butterflying adventures illustrated with many black and white photographs of people, places and, of course, butterflies. Larsen has had his share of hazards, including car accidents, guerillas with machine guns, an arsenic bottle that broke and cut his wife's hand (when they were more than 2 hours away from the nearest doctor), a case of snow-blindness (from counting butterflies for 12 h in the bright sun), a jump out of a helicopter that had just taken off (to catch a butterfly, of course), an almost fatal malaria attack (luckily he was in England at the time), drunk soldiers (with machine guns) who were convinced that Larsen was a murderous spy and a smelly tribesman who sneaked into Larsen's car and ate his sandwiches. As the authors also admits, however, the book's title is somewhat misleading since many stories are about collecting butterflies in reasonable safety, most have more or less happy endings and all leave you smiling. And the book is not only about field trips; there are many fascinating tidbits of butterfly natural history, ecology, evolution and biogeography with citations to the scientific literature.
My only criticism of the book is that it has many typos, usually in the form of missing or wrong words. Perhaps, the corrections were kept to a minimum to keep the cost down. Economics may also explain why the pictures are not in color, even though the captions sometimes refer to the butterflies' colors. Nevertheless, if you like butterflies, insects or otherwise doing field work in any branch of natural history, you are likely to enjoy reading this book. I hope Larsen will write at least another one.
The book was published in the United Kingdom in 2003. I don't know if it is available in the U.S. I got my copy last October from the Pemberley Books in the UK via their website.


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