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It's often said that "if you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there....
Baloney, its johnson and the republicans in the house of reps that are the true culprits here! The pres and the senate had tried over and over for coopertion from the house that right now is led by the party of no!
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15.11.2012 - Despite an ongoing dispute, the US government has signed two new contracts with Danish vaccine developer Bavarian Nordic.
The Danish drugmaker announced the closing of two new contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The contracts were valued at up to US$18.9m for the development of recombinant Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) vaccines.
The NIH contract, valued at up to US$17.9m, supports the advanced development of an MVA-based human vaccine against the viral haemorrhagic fever Marburg. The DHS contract, valued at nearly US$1m, supports the development of an MVA-based animal vaccine against Foot-and-mouth disease. "These new contracts demonstrate the versatility of our MVA platform for infectious disease vaccines and cancer immunotherapeutics," said Anders Hedegaard, President and CEO of Bavarian Nordic A/S.
Bavarian Nordic is currently in an argument with the US government. Denmark's biggest drugmaker accuses its customer not to fulfil the conditions of a 2007 contract worth US$500m. The government had promised to order 20 million doses of a smallpox vaccine that has less side effects than common ones. As Bloomberg noted, the biotech company had said in August that it would have to shed hundreds of jobs and shut down a plant if the U.S. government didn't order more of the vaccine until January.
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DOVER — Two additional homes were targeted by thieves Friday as police continue to investigate more than two dozen residential burglaries in the city in recent months, most of which involved forced entry.
According to Lt. Brant Dolleman, the two most recent break-ins occurred at residences on Back River Road and were similar to previous incidents in that they occurred during daylight hours, involved forced-entry and the thief or thieves appeared to have targeted similar items, such as jewelry.
"We're still investigating them all," he said Monday morning.
No one was home at either residence Friday and there were no injuries reported.
On Friday, Dolleman said these types of burglaries have been occurring in some surrounding communities and police are actively working with local agencies to pursue leads.
And the best way to protect one's home, he also said, is by using some of the "old standbys" of locking doors and windows and notifying police of any suspicious activity.
Though no one has been injured in any of the burglaries, such an event is always a dangerous scenario, he said. And though residents need not be necessarily alarmed for their safety, he said police want people to be aware of what's happening and to contact them immediately if they have been burglarized or notice anything out of the ordinary.
Anyone who wishes to hear suggestions on how to better secure their home can call the Dover Police Department to learn about useful deterrents.
Residents are also asked to report any suspicious activity and anyone with information about the recent burglaries or similar incidents is asked to call the Dover Police Department at 742-4646.
Those wishing to remain anonymous can provide information to the Dover Crimeline at 749-6000. The Dover Crimeline can also be contacted via www.dovernhcrimeline.org.
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A Few Quick Notes
And now some things to note: The best short story collection of the year has finally been released: Magic For Beginnersby Kelly Link (you can find out more at the Small Beer Press site for it). I've read most of the book now, though haven't yet had a chance to read the title novella. Many of the stories I read when they were first published, but I liked them even more on returning to them, and the new stories are equally wonderful. This is inventive, intelligent, elegant fiction from a writer who truly deserves that over-utilized adjective unique. There are only a handful of short story writers whose work I read with as much pleasure and excitement as Kelly's, and as impressed as I was with her previous collection, I think this one is vastly better.
You might not know that Kelly Link is, in addition to being a writer, a slush editor for SciFiction. But of course, the omniscient (and occasionally beneficent) Slush God knows this, and has just interviewed her about this aspect of her life.
Speaking of the Slush God, I've now received the latest issue (August) of the magazine at which he toils, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and it includes a new story by not only M. Rickert, but also Eugene Mirabelli, whose last story for the magazine, "The Only Known Jump Across Time", I wrote about in one of the earliest posts for this site. Of course, I haven't had time to read either story yet, but it always brightens my day to have a new story by M. Rickert arrive, and especially to have it arrive along with a new Eugene Mirabelli story. (You know folks, life could only get better than this if supreme executive power derived from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.)
In completely other, and entirely less important, news: I will be at ReaderCon (probably Friday afternoon, all day Saturday, and part of Sunday), and would appreciate any interventions people offer to keep me from spending money in the dealers' room.
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- Tim Pratt6/28/2005 2:02 PM
Wow, you're in for a treat. "Magic for Beginners" is awesome. It might be my favorite Kelly Link story ever, certainly my favorite since "The Specialist's Hat", which was the story that turned me into a lifelong Link fan. "Some Zombie Contingency Plans" is one of the most disturbing horror stories I've ever read, and in such a totally unexpected way.ReplyDelete
We'll miss you, but in summer everything slows down, especially the human brain. Hope you're enjoying the stillness.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/01/2005 7:59 PM
Better than In the Palace of Repose? :-)ReplyDelete
Yup. Which is no slam of Holly -- I think ItPoR is a marvelous collection, particularly for a first collection. I've been chided for being premature in announcing Magic for Beginners as the best of the year, and, indeed, it is a bit premature, but in this particular case I'm pretty confident it will bear out.ReplyDelete
I guess I should note here that Small Beer (that is, Kelly and Gavin) have made her first collection, Stranger Things Happen available for free download here. I like that collection quite a bit, but I think the work in the new one, on the whole, is vastly more complex and mature. (Although I'm apparently the only person on Earth who thought "The Faery Handbag" was a nice story but hardly earthshaking, particularly in comparison to most of the others.)


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UWA splits in softball at Christian Brothers
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. | The University of West Alabama waited until the late innings of both games to put runs on the scoreboard while splitting a Gulf South Conference doubleheader against Christian Brothers.
West Alabama won the opener, 3-1, and dropped the second game, 7-4.
The Tigers (15-6 overall, 6-4 in GSC) took the lead in the opener on sixth-inning doubles by Tamara Vickers and Michal Robertson and an RBI single by Whitney Brown. Vickers then drove in Kelsey Cooper, who had doubled, with the final run in the seventh inning.
Sarah Ray (9-1) scattered seven hits over six innings and struck out four to earn the win. Taylor Tucker worked the seventh for her fourth save.
The Lady Bucs roughed up UWA second-game starter and losing pitcher Skylar Davis (0-1) for eight hits and seven runs before chasing her in the bottom of the third.
CBU got 10 hits in the second game, nine of them singles. Anna Shartzer, Scarlett Wright and Vickers got two hits each in the second game for West Alabama. Shartzer drove in a pair of runs.
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Conference play wasted no time in heating up as the East Newton girls and Lamar Tigers locked horns in a Big 8 showdown at East Newton High School on Thursday.
The Lady Patriots got the better end of the battle, however, as they went ahead early and held on for a thrilling 51-47 victory.
The Lady Patriots went ahead 13-9 at the end of the first quarter and held a 31-24 advantage at halftime. The Lady Tigers would threaten in the third quarter as they fought back to trim the deficit to two points (39-37).
The seesaw battle continued in the fourth quarter, but East Newton managed to close it out despite being outscored in the second half (23-20).
Emily Brummett led the way for the Lady Patriots with 12 points while Shelbey Thomlinson chipped in eight, Ellie White two, Kortney Cambers two, Haley Heilig five, Laura Hopper seven, Whitney Thomlinson two, Sarah Harper six and Kourtney Brewster seven.
Tara Jackson and Brooke McDonald each scored 12 for the Lady Tigers while Ryan O'Sullivan added 10, Trinity Cornell four and Chynna Moore seven.
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- Top of the Line for the Beginer This gun is EXCELLENT for the beginner. I already had this gun before it came out on shorty, and then i saw it came out on shorty so i knew i had to leave a review on it. It is nice plastic, and a great RPM. The fps is also descent too. The thing that's good about this gun is that because of its fps you can use it for the field, and cqb. The shots curve off a little at about 100 feet. But once again, this gun is for a beginner. Not an experienced player. I've been playing for years, but bought this only because how cheap it was! I recommend it.
- Best gun for any levelI received this gun in 2 fast days. This is a great gun for beginner and the pros. With a little bit of upgrade, you can make this gun unbelievable. I love the weight and feel of the gun. It is extremely sturdy and durable. That is one of the aspects you will recognize right away with this gun. The power is amazing with this gun. Accuracy for this gun can be better. Its not too great.
Here are the pros and con's
Nice power
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CQB or field play
Adjustable sights
Realistic weight
Came in a nice packaged box
Large battery component
Grip gets hot easily
SUPER DIFFICULT to open battery component in the foregrip. It took me a good 20 minutes to take it off and put it back on
Accuracy isn't great. But it can be better with a tightbore barrel
Unremovable flash hider (unless cut off)
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LODI – The Lodi Unified School District calendar will increase by five school days in 2013-14.
Lodi teachers union President Jeff Johnston announced a tentative agreement between the teacher's union and the district that will restore five of 7 � furlough days that were negotiated as a pay cut in the district in 2010.
The agreement still must be ratified by a teacher vote before it can take effect.
It's unknown where the five days will be fit in onto the calendar, Johnston said.
Read Thursday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Keith Reid.
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Notification system for OS X apps.
Growl is a notification system that allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it. You can (for example) be notified that you have new email, or that a download completed, etc.
Support for Applescript, Perl, Python, TCL, Cocoa, Carbon, Ruby and more being added.
Required OS: 10.7
Tags: notifications , adium , system , preference , pane
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I love the ever expanding list of applications that use it as well. The notifications are small floating windows that fade in and out with the notification text or image in it. For example, if you're working in another app and you get an IM from an Audium ( http://osx.iusethis.com/app/adium ) contact a floating bubble will fade in on the upper right hand side of the screen with the contact icon and message they sent.
Very cool app.
I can't imagine using a Mac without this application anymore.
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7 Winter Diet Tips Nutritionists Swear By
Prevent unwanted padding this season with the diet tips experts rely on to save their own waistlines
"When it's cold outside, my husband and I use our indoor grill to make chicken, veggie burgers, and grilled vegetables like eggplant. Instead of frying or using a lot of oil, we marinate the protein or vegetables in fresh herbs and just a small amount of olive oil; then we coat the cooking surface with nonstick spray, and grill. It's so easy and you get that delicious charred flavor without the fat of other cooking methods."
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already do these
by aishak55 Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 01:38PM Report as inappropriate
Good soup can be very filling!
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I really like the two bite strategy, will have to try. hopefully i could stop myself :)
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I already do all of these.
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i already know/ do this ... year round :/ kinda just a refresher nothing new
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Definitely going to try some of these - more fluids is always good.
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Ready for the winter and definitely going to try these tricks!! Excited about the soup one ;]
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Love the clear soup idea and greek yogurt filling suggestions!
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Aren't these our tips for the whole year? (veggies and water???)
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Could someone please tell me if this is a bug, or why trim fails in this simple example?
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Draw the outer box using the box tool and then draw parallel lines inside each side.
Try to trim the inner large square with either trim or trim both. This seems to happen regularly in larger more complex drawings and it's becoming a real problem.
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"Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of America's national parks the same qualities that made TR so fascinating a figure—an astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style and an inexhaustible energy."
—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals
A vast, inspiring, and enormously entertaining book."
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From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America's conservation movement—now approaching its 100th anniversary.
One of the Best Books of the Year
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In this monumental biography, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley examines the life and achievements of Theodore Roosevelt, our "naturalist president," and his tireless crusade for the American wilderness—a legacy now more important than ever.
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"To understand America, you need to appreciate Teddy Roosevelt. Doug Brinkley brilliantly uses the lens of Roosevelt's love of nature to show why he is so influential, fascinating, and relevant to our own times. This wonderful book is as vibrant as he was." — Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein
"No president has been a greater champion of our natural world—especially its wildlife—than Theodore Roosevelt. Now that extraordinary force of nature has his own champion in Douglas Brinkley's stirring account of the man who turned our attention to conservation and the many glories of our American landscape." — Ken Burns, co-author of The War
"What an absolutely perfect match between subject and writer. This is a major contribution to our understanding not only of Roosevelt but of the historic movement to save our wilderness." — Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals
"Douglas Brinkley has brought us an important, deeply researched, compellingly readable and inspiring story. Exactly a century after his Presidency, there could not be a better time to revisit and celebrate T.R.'s unfinished environmental legacy." — Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage
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Power Back on in Bartow
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BARTOW | Power has been restored following an outage earlier this morning.
The outage occurred about 9:15 a.m.
Businesses north of East Main Street were without power. City Hall, the Tax Collector's Office and the Property Appraiser's Office also lost power as did scattered areas throughout the city.
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The rim diameter is 13 inches equally for front and rear.
The tread width of front tires.
The tread width of rear tires.
The diameter of dry tires.
Compared to the dry weather tires, the wet versions have a 10mm larger diameter.
Dry weather tires, known as slicks, are characterised by a tread pattern that is devoid of blocks or channels. They come in four compounds: supersoft, soft, medium and hard. The different compounds mean that the tires are well suited to a wide variety of circuits, according to the type of asphalt, the number and severity of the corners, and the top speed on the straights. This allows the teams to make use of an ample range of strategies. For each track, Pirelli – in accordance with the FIA - nominates the two dry compounds best suited to the tracks characteristics and the temperature to be expected.
Wet weather tires, characterised by grooves in the tread pattern, are split into two types: full wets and intermediates. The full wet tires can be easily recognised by the deep grooves in the tread pattern and sipes to drain off water on wet asphalt. The intermediates feature channels that are less deep and are designed for damp or slightly wet surfaces, as well as uncertain weather conditions.
Cinturato™ Green Intermediate. This tire is best suited for light rain or damp track conditions and it disperses approximatley 4.4 gallons of water per second at high speed. This year the Cinturato™ Green Intermediate has a new rear construction but the tread pattern remains the same as last year. However, modifications made to the rear tires in particular have enhanced what was already one of Pirelli's most successful and driveable products.
Cinturato™ Blue Wet. In 2013 this tire also benefits from a new construction. Like the intermediate, the rear tires have been redesigned to offer more progressive traction and reduce snap oversteer, while maintaining the ability to disperse 13.2 gallons of water per second at top speed: six times more than a road car tire which disperses about 2.2 gallons per second at much lower speed. The characteristics of this tire are now more closely aligned to those of the intermediate.
P Zero™ Red Supersoft. Last year it was the only tire to remain unchanged, but for 2013 it is all new with a softer compound designed to increase performance and degradation. The warm-up has been made even faster this year, thus ensuring that it will be instantly on the pace and offer optimal grip. This tire is ideally suited for slow and twisty circuits.
P Zero™ Yellow Soft. This tire is just over half a second per lap slower than the supersoft, but it is still softer than the equivalent compound last year. However, it has a high working range that makes it suitable for an extremely wide range of conditions, which is likely to make it one of the most frequently used compounds this year. This is the compound that has seen the greatest increase in the working range of its performance in 2013
P Zero™ White Medium. This extremely versatile tire adapts itself well to all sorts of track conditions, particularly when asphalt and circuit characteristics are variable. It is a low working range tire, making it the ideal choice for circuits that are slightly less demanding or have lower ambient temperatures. The new medium tire is not dissimilar to last year's soft, making it around 0.8s per lap faster than the hard tire.
P Zero™ Orange Hard. The new hard tire guarantees maximum durability and the least amount of degradation, together with optimal resistance to the most extreme conditions. The P Zero™ Orange is ideal for long runs, taking more time to warm up, as well as being suited to circuits with abrasive asphalt, big lateral forces and high temperatures. For 2013 this tire has become a lot softer – and it is now closer to last year's medium. It is also the tire that is the most visually different compard to last year as it changes color from Silver to Orange.


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Officials in Warren County are hoping to become the horse capital of Ohio by transforming the old racetrack at the fairgrounds into an equestrian destination.
County Commissioner Dave Young has proposed turning the 90-acre, county-owned property into an area to keep horses, and he wants to open the fairgrounds to show them.
"What I'd like to see happen, let's make Warren County the Lexington of Ohio," Warren said.
A new racino is being built nearby, which will feature come casino games and horse racing.
"I just think this equestrian center just ties so naturally in with our No. 1 industry, which is tourism, and our No. 2 industry, which is agriculture," Young said.


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OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
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Hmm...using a G5 with 1.5GB ram, I don't see a lot of difference in performance from NeoOffice. Still pretty sluggish for me.
I have been using it, and I like it. I have already trashed Neo Office as this runs much faster. I have had very few crashes.
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I use it (version 3.0 beta). It's ok.The only thing is, that I had a crash or two when printing an ODF to a PDF document. But I saved the ODF before. So it actually was no problem to reopen it.
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anyone tried this yet? would you recommend switching from the current neo office build to this?
Version 3.0 will be out soon. And the thing is: Is does not need X11 any more!
Here's a listing without the version number in the title...
There are regular aqua builds being produced now.
Tried this, used it for a while, and was horribly irritated when it was painfully slow to do anything. It even lags a few keystrokes behind my typing.
I've been using NeoOffice. OOo was uninstalled shortly after the switch.
Now I'm with bikefridaywalter. While OOO is pretty good, I'll take a native application over an X11 one any day. NeoOffice is now my spreadsheet of choice, again, until the Apple alternative arrives.
i used this for a long time.. until the latest neooffice came out. sure is nice to avoid x11 and run a native app.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue Thursday but missed Wall Street projections for profit.
Revenue was $16.86 billion, up 17 percent in the fourth quarter compared with a year ago, and profit was $3.4 billion, up 17 percent compared with the year before.
But the company's earnings of $9.90 a share, or $12.01 after subtracting one-time charges, fell short of Wall Street projections as the average cost of search ads declined by 11 percent.
Google's average "cost-per-click" continued to fall as advertisers moved to mobile devices where ads are cheaper. But overall, the number of paid clicks for Google ads rose about 31 percent from the year before, the company reported Thursday.
Shares of Google closed at $1,135.39, up 2.57 percent, then jumped more than 4 percent in after-hours trading to about $1,183.
"As soon as the (earnings) call started, the stock started to come up more," said Martin Pyykkonen of Wedge Partners. "Google's still a great story that for now continues to be predictable. There wasn't anything out of the numbers that you could call a new negative."
Google reported its latest earnings one day after announcing it was abandoning its unprofitable Motorola phone division for nearly $3 billion -- just 20 months after buying it.
Google's $12.4 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility represented its biggest deal ever as it tried to amass patents while producing high-end, Android-based units to compete with Apple's iPhone.
"The loss that Motorola reported was more than double what they experienced in the prior year's fourth quarter," said Josh Olson of Edward Jones. That makes Wednesday's announcement "look even better," he said. "We thought it was a good deal for Google (Wednesday) and we think it looks even better today."
Like other analysts, Olson said he is not alarmed that Google's costs-per-click continue to fall as the company offers advertisers deals for smartphone ads.
"We continue to see this shift to the mobile platform, which is getting lower pricing than we see on the traditional desktop ad platform," Olson said. "Ultimately, the pricing will come more in line with what they get for the desktop and for the tablet. There is always going to be some level of discount there. But we do think it will improve. Overall, ad revenue was really pretty solid."
Google also announced an April 2 date to distribute shares of its Class C, nonvoting capital stock, which will ensure that control of the company remains with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
In an appeasement to nonvoting shareholders, Google announced that its Class C shares will trade under the current GOOG ticker symbol, while its Class A voting shares will have a new symbol of GOOGL.
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Two Lakeside High School students are charged with indecent exposure after they were spotted having sex on campus.
Just as teachers and bus drivers arrived to work early Tuesday morning, one male and one female student were alone on a softball field...about to be caught in the act.
It wasn't what the school's security officer expected to find in the softball field dugout.
"Everybody's talking about it. Everybody is," says Melissa Summers, a Lakeside senior. "And how they got caught. It's pretty much a shock."
It's a shock to parents, teachers and school administrators that a crime this sexual in nature could occur, not only on school grounds but also by two of its students.
"That is messed up," Summers says. "Who would do that? Especially on school property?"
It happened around 7:30 Tuesday morning.
A sixteen-year-old male and sixteen-year-old female having sex just forty feet from a school parking lot.
Damien Hussaini, a Lakeside sophomore, says, "It's something you would never expect to happen, but when it does, it's kind of big news."
And while rumors fly, legal action is underway.
According to the school's code of conduct, public indecency is a serious violation, with even more serious consequences...including expulsion.
It's rare behavior, students say, for a school like Lakeside.
"I don't think it's reflective of Lakeside High School at all," says Hussaini. "Most of the students at Lakeside High School are well-mannered students. They're really focused on studying."
According to the Columbia County sheriff's office, the two students had a detention hearing Wednesday. They have since been released to their parents.
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A Frankford teen-ager died Sunday, Sept. 8, from injuries suffered in a collision at 12:27 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, on U.S. 61 at Route RA in Pike County, Mo.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported Brendan D. Weber, 18, of Bowling Green, Mo., was driving a 1993 Ford Taurus and attempting to turn onto Route RA from U.S. 61.
The front of a 2014 Chevrolet Impala driven by Martin E. Snyder, 65, of Cecilia, Ky., hit the right side of the Weber car.
The occupants of both vehicles were wearing seat belts.
Weber's passenger, Hannah L. Buchanan, 15, of Frankford, Mo., suffered serious injuries. She was flown to Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur, where she died at 12:15 a.m. Sunday.
Synder had minor injuries and his passenger, Veronica F. Snyder, 63, of Cecilia, Ky., had moderate injuries. Both went by ambulance to Hannibal Regional Hospital.
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The Bay Area's summer festival season for classical music is a busy one; there's always more.
Try Merola Opera's summer events around San Francisco, including concerts (July 18 and 20), a production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" (Aug. 1 and 3) and a Grand Finale Concert at War Memorial Opera House (Aug. 17; www.merolaopera.com/publicperformances).
At the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Bach Soloists' summer festival closes July 21 with a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor (www.americanbach.org).
Or drive down to the Central Coast for the Carmel Bach Festival, which spreads out through Carmel-by-the-Sea with dozens of events (through July 27; www.bachfestival.org).
Alternatively, head north to Napa Valley's Festival del Sole, where remaining performances include ones by violinist Sarah Chang, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and pianist Vadym Kholodenko, who won this year's Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (through July 21; festivaldelsole.org).
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1. Fireworks and hot chocolate: 02:42
We brought picnic stuff along - a mat, an umbrella, even some snacks - but were too entranced by the flashy stuff to remember to sit, much less eat anything.
Wonderful conversation afterwards over hot chocolate at a Portuguese cafe near Dufferin. =) I really enjoyed that, and I look forward to our next conversation. (We forgot about the oranges then, too. And they were mandarins, too! My favorite...)
Random Japanese sentence: テーブルに猫の足跡が付いている。 There are footprints of a cat on the table.
2. Tango thoughts: 02:48
Oh, and being told that I'm too intense, that I smile too much - I suppose that does make sense in tango's traditional poses, but I like focusing on people, not floors. I dance with my eyes, too. It's not that I'm getting my cues from them, but I like having the occasional connection. I can dance with my eyes closed, and I love that feeling of trust as well. Still... =b
It's a pity, as I really did enjoy the contact. Socially sanctioned, wouldn't be misinterpreted, safe... <laugh> It wasn't just that, either. It was really just being able to follow, to listen, to be the instrument that another person dances through...
Maybe I should try dancing again. After all, I still have my shoes...
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A good dance is like playing a good song, once you get into the groove your mind comes into the present and you just become the dance or song.
Random Japanese sentence: うちの猫って甘えん坊で、どこでも私のあと着いて来るのよね。 My cat is such a baby, she follows me around wherever I go.
3. Too hot, too cold, just right: 14:19
Well, third version's the charm, and I'm lucky to have a supervisor who makes tons of helpful comments.
Okay, I need to head over to IBM tomorrow and get more data.
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Random Japanese sentence: 私が出掛けている間、猫の面倒をみてください。 Please look after my cats while I'm away.
4. Basic Technical Japanese: 14:24
Did I give it to someone else, knowing that I wouldn't be able to take it to Canada during the first trip? Argh. Anyway, if I did, chances are that I gave it to one of my barkada. Anyone?
I definitely have to get it next time I fly home. It's a pretty hefty book, but I'll make space for it!
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Random Japanese sentence: 問題は誰が猫に鈴をつけるかだ。 The question is who will bell the cat.
5. Darn, double-booked: 15:03
Let me see if I can give this ticket away, as it's Really Unlikely that I'll get to refund it.
Random Japanese sentence: どのねこも、どのねこもひとくちずつ草を食べました。すると野原中の草はすっかりなくなってしまいました。 Each cat ate a mouthful of grass and not a blade was left!
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Anyways, I tried commenting out that line as you suggested:
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and the results were actually kinda nice! the application stays open for one, and the rest of the application seems to fire up without a hiccup...
There's just a null pointer exception at the end and it doesnt recognize any renderers (my ps3). All perfectly logical I guess.
Here's the resulting log: http://pastebin.com/FUFV8Z02
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Some parents in Choctaw County, Ala., are calling for schools to be closed so that they can be sanitized due to several cases of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, surfacing there.
"I will not send her back until they sanitize the school," said parent Sierra Dubose, who has a 5-year-old daughter diagnosed with swine flu late last week.
"I'm saying, 'can they shut it down for one day?' That's all I'm saying," Dubose said Monday.
However, at this point school superintendent Sue Moore says that will not happen.
"We are not having a trend or pattern here of a need to close schools," Moore said. "We had about two or three cases in each of the schools and at one school no cases of fever on Friday."
With about 1900 students in the district's four schools, Moore says each school is sanitized daily and that the district is now gearing up to receive H1N1 vaccinations, starting next month, that will be offered free to students.
"We take it very seriously," said Moore. "Our children are the most important thing that we have. And if there was a reason for alarm, that we needed to close our schools, we would definitely do that. But right now we're seeing a really good attendance rate at our schools."
The state of Alabama has reported more than 2,100 total cases of the swine flu. Eight people have died from it.
The state does not report specific county numbers, so it's not know exactly how many cases have surfaced in Choctaw County.


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Robert L. Gray, 78, of Salisbury, passed away on Monday evening, Sept. 16, 2013, peacefully at his home, with his loving family surrounding him.
He was born on June 26, 1935, a son of the late Harold and Ruby (Ward) Gray. Bob was educated in Dolgeville and Little Falls schools. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in October 1952 and served during the Korean War as a private first class. Bob earned the National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal and the United Nations Service Medal. In November 1955, Bob was honorably discharged. He was a proud United States Marine Corps veteran.
For 29 years, Bob shared his life with his companion, Janette Jaikin. Their devoted relationship combined their families as one.
Bob spent most of his life employed by road construction for Talerico Construction of Little Falls for 30 years, until his retirement. In younger years, Bob went to technical school for small engine repair while he worked for Provorst Motors of Dolgeville.
Bob was interested in old tractor restoration, hunting and spending time with his family. He was a lifetime member of the Dolgeville Fire Department. Bob was well-known within his community and known as a devoted family man. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
He is survived by his beloved companion, Janette Jaikin, at home; his children, Michelle Frederick and her fiance, Terry Comstock, of Dolgeville, Robert Gray and his wife, Teresa, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Wayne Gray, of Hardeeville, N.C.; two stepsons, Randy Kilmartin and his wife, Evett, of California, and James Kilmartin, of Appalachia; sisters, Dorothy Young, of Oppenheim, Judy Hall and her husband, Zane, of Clifton Park, Ruby Grande and her husband, Jack, of Greenville, and Mary Wright and her husband, Duane, of Greenville; a brother, Ronald Gray and his wife, Pat, of Oppenheim; 25 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Bob was predeceased by a special son, Ricky Allen Gray, in 1980, and his siblings, Donna Shepardson, Charles Gray and Harold Gray.
Relatives and friends are invited to calling hours which will be held on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Miller-Plonka Funeral Home, 30 Wolf St., Dolgeville. A funeral service will be held on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the funeral home with Pastor Lynn Lockwood officiating. Military honors will be given at the funeral home following the service.
In lieu of floral arrangements, please consider memorial contributions for the Dolgeville Fire Department, 20 S. Helmer Ave., Dolgeville, NY 13329 or the Oppenheim Fire Department, 6786 State Highway 29, St. Johnsville, NY 13452. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.
To leave a message of sympathy for the Gray family, please visit www.millerplonkafuneralhome.com and sign the guest book.
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Plum Puddin' wrote: As long as i can keep using it to donate to my violent racial hate groups, snuff sites, & the westboro baptists i think i'm ok with this.
MF Noob wrote: Well apparently no one really read the article. If you posted the article along with the link maybe this could have kicked off a better discussion.
The "payment" comes from ads that are placed on these pirated websites. Among other things, Mastercard is talking about disallowing ad payments that are generated by clicks that happen on sites that offer illegal downloads. Or something like that. How will this be implemented? Is this just a story about Mastercard trying to look cool in front of their friends when they actually don't have the muscle power to make actual moves?
Mark in Minnesota wrote: I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure every one of my credit cards has something in the service agreement saying that I can't use their card to pay for illegal goods or services. The ire of Anonymous types should be against the government legislative bodies who pass laws criminalizing this stuff, and against the IP companies who lobby those bodies. To the extent that b.Freyer may be encouraging that kind of continued action against Mastercard, b.Freyer is engaging in the same sort of foolishness as the people who are DDoSing Spamhaus because of that organization's apparently-truthful warnings that wikileaks.info is a malware site not in any way associated with Wikileaks itself.
What Mastercard is talking about supporting here isn't really all that different than Visa using their PCI security standards to kick a shitload of porn merchants out of their credit card networks. It's about forcing the middleware companies who produce tools (AdSense, affiliate marketing tools, PayPal, etc) that ultimately fund greyware operations to do a better job of self-policing their customer base for illegal activity.
I actually support the law (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3804.RS:) -- putting these powers into the framework of explicit statute takes companies like MasterCard, Amazon, and PayPal out of a legal and political grey area with respects to things like the pressure they were under to de-fund and de-host Wikileaks. The biggest areas of criticism against those companies for their choices regarding Wikileaks was that nothing in law required them to take those actions; taking the actions anyway exposes them to legal repercussions not unlike the ones major phone companies had after the NSA wiretapping stuff during the Bush years. Having explicit laws on the books codifies an existing relationship between major Internet companies and the United States government, which has the positive side effect of putting it more squarely in the oversight of our courts.
If our government is going to be able to compel companies like Mastercard, PayPal, etc. to knock sites off of the Internet, I would much rather that the mechanism our government is using to do that be a legal mechanism rather than an extra-legal one.
That being said, in the long run these kinds of laws are probably only going to accelerate the coming legal crisis about the USG's direct soverign authority over the company (ICANN) which effectively owns the root DNS servers. An alternate DNS system outside the U.S. government's jurisdiction is a necessary prerequisite to effective cyberwar against us; cavalier abuse of our control over ICANN to help people like the MPAA and the RIAA resolve strictly civil issues probably only hastens the establishment of that alt-root system.
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I have recently been involved in some online discussions on S.3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which the Senate Judiciary Committee recently unanimously passed to the full Senate over the apparent objections of groups including the EFF and the ACLU.
Such objections are not surprising to me, since I have now read the text of S.3804 and note that it appears to require American ISPs to block their end-users from accessing any site that appears on a DOJ-maintained list of foreign websites that do not adhere to a specific set of American laws.
Takedowns of the exact sort that would be passed into law by this bill were recently exercised against Wikileaks, apparently using extra-legal government pressure rather than statutory powers of the kind that S.3804 grants. While I would hope that this law might prevent the United States government from pressuring corporations into doing things above and beyond the requirements of the law that could get them sued by their customers, I think there's significant debate over whether the government should have pressured Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard, et al to cut their ties with Wikileaks in the first place. Expansion of powers that are already (in the eyes of some) being misused seems like an idea that merits some public defense.
Additionally, the portions of the bill requiring ISPs to block access to non-domestic websites on the DOJ's ban list seem dilutive to our long-standing message that China, Iran, and other repressive and authoritarian regimes should give its citizens free and unfettered access to the Internet.
As you sit on the committee that unanimously voted this bill out of committee a mere four days before public mention of the coming Cablegate leaks was first made by Wikileaks, I was hoping your office would be willing to send me some information on the bill's history and your specific rationale for voting it out of committee.


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You don't have to wait for the season's opening bell to start scouting for birds. In fact, a little time spent scouting in the off-season can save a lot of time come fall.
For New York hunter and Avery Pro-Staff member Mike Bard, a quick trip during the summer months to visit with farmers who typically allow him to hunt gives him an idea of what their plans are for the land. That information helps Bard make a plan of his own for fall.
"I like to know what crops are planted—whether beans, silage corn, picking corn, sweet corn, small grains, wheat, barley or alfalfa—and when they are likely to be taken out of the field," Bard says. "It gives me an idea as to when I should watch a farm or specific field within the season, based on weather conditions and the migration."
During his trips to visit with landowners, Bard also keeps tabs on the progress of locally hatched waterfowl, especially Canada geese. Based on past observations of where those birds will end up in late summer and into early fall Bard can narrow down which fields he should watch when the season opens in September.
"This is a big time and fuel saver," says Bard.
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I've been pondering what it takes to keep up with the world these days, what it takes to keep relevant and employable. In my recent activities related to hiring a few new employees, I interviewed young folks and older folks and had some interesting conversations with a few people. I was left pondering the question of how to stay relevant and employable in this new age.
Back in the 1950's, 60's and such, many people started with one company and ended their careers with that same, or a very similar, company. The best employees would gradually rise within the ranks and end up as managers. Those without management acumen could still have a decent career as skilled labor.
The key to keeping employed and on your track back then was recurrent training. For management folks, that might be seminars and the occasional college class. Maybe even night school for an MBA. For the laborer, it might have been something as simple as learning how to drive a new model of forklift, or putting down the old arc welder for a new model heli-arc welder. Keeping relevant and employable was largely about recurrent training.


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20.08.2012 - German chemicals company BASF, US-based Cargill and Danish biotech
Novozymes join forces to develop technologies to produce acrylic acid from
renewable feed stocks.
BASF SE, the world's largest producer of acrylic acid, will join the research collaboration with Novozymes A/S and Cargill Inc., which have already worked together on renewable acrylic technology since 2008. Both firms have been involved in the development of microorganisms that are capable of producing 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) from renewable feedstock. 3-HP is one potential chemical precursor for the synthesis of acrylic acid.
The bio-based acrylic acid will first be used to manufacture superabsorbent polymers, which can soak up large amounts of liquid and are used mainly in baby diapers and other hygiene products, but also in adhesive raw materials and coatings.
According to the three companies, the annual global market volume of acrylic acid was approximately 4.5 million tons with a value of around US-$11bn at the end of 2011, with a annual growth rate of about 4%.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-03/trio-to-develop-bio-based-diapers.html


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It may seem like a simple summer cold, but for infants and children it could become a lot worse.
Dr. Dennis Perry at Meridian Primary Care in Okemos, a partner of McLaren-Greater Lansing, is seeing cases of enterovirus, which is a viral infection common during the winter months.
Symptoms include: sore throat, mild headache and a high fever that can last up to five days.
Because it's a viral infection, antibiotics won't work.The best way to treat enterovirus is to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids. Acetaminophen or ibuprofen can help relieve the pain and bring down the fever.
Dr. Perry is also treating sports injuries like sprains and strains.
The best remedy is to follow the RICE treatment, which is rest, ice, compression and elevate.
Dr. Rubina Shaikh at Allegiance Family Medicine--Michigan Center is seeing a rash of poison ivy cases.
Symptoms include: an uncomfortable red, itchy rash; burning skin; and swelling, blisters or hives.
To treat poison ivy, Dr. Shaikh suggests taking a cool shower and using over-the-counter lotions.
See a doctor if the rash is severe. Most cases clear up within five to 12 days.


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Lucky Lake Union neighbors, you have scored quite a spring treat! The Farmboat Floating Market is happening! Every Thursday, starting this week (5/10, 11am-3pm), you can shop for fresh produce and locally crafted treats aboard the "Virgina V." The historic 125' steamship used to haul goods between Seattle and Tacoma in the early 20th century.
Better yet, the boat is moored in the new Lake Union Park (860 Terry Ave. N), so after you've purchased heaps of delicious produce, you can hang out on the spacious deck and soak in (hopefully) a little sunshine, great views and even live music.
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Whitby, situated on the mouth of the river Esk, is one of the finest coastal fishing ports and seaside holiday resorts in England. The Langley, Whitby, offers the perfect overnight bed and breakfast accommodation when visiting the area.
The Langley guest house offers "5 Star" bed and breakfast accommodation in Whitby, very high standards of comfort and cleanliness with excellent breakfasts, coupled with a warm, friendly family atmosphere. We are situated on Whitby's popular West Cliff, where most of the guesthouses, hotels and bed & breakfasts are established. We are close to the leisure centre, swimming pool, Whitby Spa Pavilion Theatre and beaches. The town centre is just a few minutes' walk from the Langley luxury guest house and hotel, so take that leisurely stroll along the cliff tops, down through ancient cobbled streets, enjoying the sea and harbour views on your way.
Whitby's history includes black jet jewellery, whaling and the whaling family of Scoresby, Captain James Cook, Dracula and Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, St Hilda and Whitby Abbey. The North York Moors National Park offers everything for moors & coastal walkers, being on the edge of Whitby.
Whitby has wonderful sandy beaches with donkey rides, quaint shops for holiday gifts, fine bars, bistros, local pubs and many restaurants that offer Indian, Chinese, Italian, French, International cuisines but the best of all, "fresh Whitby fish & chips". All this coupled with its annual themed events of Whitby Regatta, Whitby Folk week, Whitby Gothic festivals, so there is plenty for the family to do and for all ages.
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- Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 19. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming north after midnight.
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Galliano man accused of raping woman he kept captive for three days
Published: Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 1:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 8:25 p.m.
A Galliano man was arrested Monday after holding a woman captive in his home for three days, threatening her life and raping her, Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Lee Hartman, 27, 156 Jerica St., was arrested Monday afternoon after deputies and detectives responded to a call from Hartman's victim, deputies said.
Deputies said the imprisonment began after an argument between Hartman and the victim on Friday night. Hartman allegedly threatened the woman with a knife and refused to let her leave his home or contact authorities.
Over the course of the weekend, several other incidents between Hartman and the victim allegedly occurred, though the victim was unable to recall the specific dates or times of the incidents, deputies said.
Hartman allegedly threatened the victim with a knife and raped her, poked her in the eye with an unidentified object and threatened to kill her if she contacted police.
The victim said Hartman was acting erratically during the ordeal and appeared to be under the influence of narcotics.
The woman was released from Hartman's home Monday when another man arrived at the residence and began arguing with him, allowing her time to contact the Sheriff's Office, deputies said.
During questioning, Hartman admitted to several details of the ordeal, including that he smoked methamphetamines on Friday prior to arguing with the victim, deputies said. But he claimed he could not remember everything.
Hartman was charged with aggravated rape, aggravated battery with a dangerous weapon, false imprisonment while armed with a dangerous weapon and contempt of court in connection with a warrant for a nonrelated offense. He is being held on a $450,200 bond at the Lafourche Parish jail.
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Liverpool Message Board
Suarez's latest comments
3 questions I would love to ask him:
1) Why did you sign a new contract then?
2) Why did you go on about being here for many years?
3) why didn't your idiot advisers put a specific clause in your contract? The club would have had to let you go by now.
To be honest, this is becoming so tedious. He must be gutted Real are buying Bale!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Aug 8, 2013 22:59 Flag
For me the comments were a turning point. Until yesterday I held out hope the club, and the reaction he got from the fans were persuade him that moving to Arsenal is nothing but a sideways move. But unless he steps up with real contrition I think he may have burnt a lot of bridges with people.
However I still think we should not sell to the gunners, as you just don't strengthen your competitors as your own expense. If a foreign club comes in for him fine, otherwise I'd use the threat of rotting in the reserves the season before a world cup to try to change his mindset. Paying him not to play may still be better than seeing him play for a competitor.
But as you've said before, and I agree, he stays unless we get a market offer bid. Same thing goes for December and next summer. Market rate maybe lower then based on the fact he's worked some of his contract down, but we should not give away players, especially to our competitors.
Hey Loki
You're right of course but you're making the mistake of dealing in logic.
The way I see it is that this interview is just another way of ramping up the pressure on Liverpool to sell at less than the market rate (as Liverpool see it).
If he actually goes through with his threat and hands in a request, it will be an escalation of that pressure.
If that happens, I hope the club come out and say in public what I'm sure they are saying in private. Namely ...
"Suarez has made a formal request to leave the football club and as such we are willing to sell him to anyone who bids £55m (or whatever value we place on him). In the event that a bid of this size is not forthcoming, Suarez will be a Liverpool player next season"
In other words, stand firm over Suarez, not just for the sake of £15m but to set down a marker for all future such negotiations (Coutinho next year for example). The FSG way seems to be to uncover future stars and let them use Liverpool as a showcase in return for improving the team. In which case, we are going to face more and more of these situations in the future. We can't be viewed as being a soft touch going forward.
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You're damn right Paddy. Don't sign a four year contract then try and #$%$ off a year later with this verbal promise #$%$ If it isn't in black and white, it never happened! With regards to future contracts, I think these boys might actually have some intelligence and will make sure each one is bomb proof from now on.


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'Die Fledermaus' set at Broome
Published: Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 5:12 p.m.
What do you get when you combine a philandering husband, an amorous tenor and a vengeful best friend? An evening not to be forgotten!
The Spartanburg Repertory Company will close its 25th anniversary season with a production of Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus," aka "The Bat."
This classic operetta by the famed "waltz king" will be sung in English. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. March 8 and 9, and 3 p.m. March 10 at Broome High School District 3 Auditorium. Tickets will be available at the door and are $18 for adults, $16 for seniors (older than 55), and $7 for students and children. The cast is set to include Ross Magoulis as Frosch the jailer, and international tenor Wayne Hobbs as Alfred.
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An idealistic young man strives to make his way among the like-minded of his own black community and the larger white world beyond only to experience cascading disillusionment in both. He is The Invisible Man, the protagonist of Ralph Ellison's masterpiece, electrifying today, and devastatingly so when published in 1953. A richly poetic and cinematic work carrying a searing social critique, the novel features a first-person narrative that seems written to be heard as much as read. And the actor reading to us here seems to have been born for the role; as the movie trailers say, Joe Morton is The Invisible Man.
From his nameless and hidden existence in a Manhattan basement, our narrator leads us through the events leading to his identity or lack of one. A high school valedictorian down South, he receives a scholarship from a white group after being brought onstage for a humiliating, bigoted burlesque. Honored at his black college to chauffeur a visiting white benefactor, he accedes to the request to take a fateful detour through the town's black slums. As a result, the college's president, a venerated yet utterly Machiavellian figure, scapegoats him. Expelled and directed north for redemption and employment, he again becomes the fall guy, literally and figuratively, when he is injured and laid off from his job in a union-embattled New York City factory.
Nursed back to health by the kind, maternal Mary up in Harlem, he seems to find his calling at the unlikely event of an elderly couple's eviction. Spontaneously addressing the roiling crowd to temper their rage lest it incite the armed white evictors, the injustices he shares with them by race, as well as those befalling him for less obvious reasons, impassion him to eloquently encourage their defiance. His oratory draws him to the attention of Jack, head of 'the brotherhood' (Ellison's stand-in for the Communist movement), who offers him work and successfully indoctrinates him with utopian propaganda and sets him up to lead the party's Harlem chapter. Seduced by his prestige among the party's white sophisticates and a long-craved sense of purposefulness he embraces his work, even standing down Ras, an afro-centric nihilist violently competing for followers. Intrigue upon intrigue later, a more sinister threat reveals itself in his dogmatically ruthless brother-mentor plotting to further his cause even at the expense of others' lives. Racism, our narrator shatteringly learns, is but one form of man's inhumanity to man. And so, he has hibernated, invisibly, until now, until a stirring in his soul and imagination suggests the possibilities of his own spring.
Propelled largely through its characters' richly defined verbal personae, the novel is perfectly realized by Joe Morton's masterful, dramatically distinct vocal embodiments; the protagonist himself is, not surprising, his tour de force. In the end, we experience the sensibility of actor and author as one and the same: a perfect match-up indeed. Elly Schull Meeks
Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of 20th-century African-American life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching - yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places.
After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience from the hero's high-school days; it then moves quickly to the campus of a "Southern Negro college" and then to New York's Harlem, where most of the action takes place.
The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures, in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed - as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity and the blindness of others.
Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the anomalous position of blacks in American society.
©1952 Ralph Ellison (P)2010 Random House
"You've been waiting, buy it, you won't be sorry..."
Ralph Ellison's masterpiece comes to life in the hands and voices of Joe Morton. The author's prose is alive, urgent, commanding of your attention.
This is a reading which perfectly matches narrator to subject matter. Mr. Morton is to be commended for his dazzling ability to traverse generation, race, nationality, gender and regional dialects with ease, often in the same sentence. Many passages which deal with multiple voices, the narrator along with other speakers, are confronted with natural ease and pacing. I found, on several occasions, I had to pleasantly remind myself there was only one person responsible for the many clearly identifiable characters.
Invisible Man's absence from the Audible catalog has finally been rectified, and thankfully it has been given the reading and treatment it deserves.
This is a difficult book. On the one hand, this is a young man's story and it should be read by young people. The lessons in it are invaluable especially to those who might not have yet become aware of how power works; especially in the United States. I wish I read this just after getting out of high school.
On the other hand, reading The Invisible Man and grasping what it is about is, I think, nearly impossible for a young person. To a young person (like a younger me) Ellison's wisdom would sound, I presume, like the rantings of an old drunk in a dive bar. It's a rollercoaster of things that sound embellished. If such a drunk starts to tell you of the terrible things he's seen and done you look for the exit. And so you put away the book.
Sadly, if we could pay attention to the drunk we would learn things that change our lives--not that Ellison is a drunk in a dive bar; far from it. The world might start appearing in it's true and terrifying colors. But we're too damn young and arrogant to pay attention.
The Invisible Man is a life-changing book in the same way. Reading it when young is impossible, and reading when old excruciating. Brilliantly, this is precisely the dilemma of the protagonist, who doesn't see 'it' until it is too late.
I can't think of a comperable American novel. Gore Vidal was absolutely right in saying that the 'Battle Royale' section in a different novel would make it excellent. In The Invisible Man, it's just one of a series of equally eye-opening vignettes about America and Americans.
And this is not a book just about being black in America. To say so is an injustice to its brilliance. Ellison's insights can and should be generalized to all the relationships between the haves and the have-nots. Most of all, to the power dynamics between the young hungry masses and the old satiated elites. The protagonist's journey is a story of any young person's confrontation with real power. This is Kafka with an AK-47.
"This Great American Novel"
Joe Morton lives and breathes this wonderful look into the life of an exceptional American who tells a story of life in this country. We couldn't have had a better, more passionate narrator.
Ellison delivers to us a rare glimpse into the lives of those who truly depict the soul of America and the state of the country in all its savage complexity and psychopathic depravity. The man with no name is all of us. Ellison says, in one book, what many great novelists take their entire careers to say. This is America at the crossroads and at the beginning of modern American civil rights.
It's a great book and a superb production.
Occasional Thinker
"How Did This Escape Me?"
I've never been one to deplore my lack of quality education in public school. I figured that whatever I missed was likely due to inattentiveness and lack of inquisitiveness on my part; but after reading INVISIBLE MAN, I finally come away insensed! Angry and insensed that this book was not assigned to me as part of my upbringing. Even if I can forgive my public schools, then I must blame my private / public university and well-heeled graduate educations for not at least trying to make me aware that this great literature exploring MY American background exists. While I was raised in the most caucasion of caucasion communities, I feel I should still have been made aware--by somebody!--that I needed to read INVISIBLE MAN!
Well . .. now that I've raved a bit, I must admit that even in grad school I wasn't always the most attentive of students. I was deeply involved in whatever topics were discussed at hand, and I wrote stellar essays, I suppose . . . but I might have been daydreaming the day(s) that Ellison's profound influence on modern literature and social and racial issues was discussed . . . perhaps. What a masterpiece. I will read and study it again, and do all I can to influence persons whose education I hope for to read it and read it well.
By the way, if a reader orders this after reading my rant here, please make sure you listen to the introduction. It helps. The book is exquisitely performed and masterfully written. Not only does it provide an essential piece in one's education, but it's also a great, entertaining, riveting, and even humorous in many ways, read.
I remember seeing this book on my parents' bookshelf when I was a kid. I don't know what made me finally decide to check it out, but I am SO glad that I did! First of all, Ellison's writing is phenomenal. So vivid and bursting with rich, poetic detail. Second, actor Joe Morton's narration was so stunning and passionate, I felt like I was listening to a stage play. His performance was genius! Another reviewer mentioned that this was well worth getting and I couldn't agree more. It's a masterpiece.
Ellison's social commentary is sadly, still applicable today in some ways. But this story is told in a way that doesn't preach to the reader. Just enlightens. It is a fantastic listen--bravo to both Ellison and Morton.
I've listened to more than 100 novels in the past 5 years... I'm hooked!
"This is WELL worth it!"
I read this classic as an undergrad ( more than 30 years ago) I have only fond memories of the printed version, however, listening to it again after so many years is very enjoyable.
One needn't try to make comparisons to the classic genius of Ralph Ellison. If you like this genre, this is well worth your purchase.
This performance was riveting...Lot's of emotion. I was well entertained.
"Masterfully written; perfectly narrated"
It is a compelling story, full of the suspense and uncertainty that could plague any invisible man. It is also a fascinating guided tour of the main character's feelings: how invisibility feels to him, and how he feels about the fact that he is invisible.
The moment when the main character experiences his second major surprise; when he realizes that he had still been running.
It was perfect. At no point did I notice that the book was being narrated. I felt all through that the voice I was hearing was that of the main character.
I did not have an "extreme" reaction to the book, but I feel that it is one of the most memorable books that I will ever read.
This book is more than a mere good story or complex opinion piece. I feel that to fully appreciate this work, one must be ready to openly contemplate the themes therein.
"Love Joe Morton"
Dense story, but it's a classic. What really made this story for me was Joe Morton's wonderful reading.
I'm an audiobook narrator and I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Happy to share my thoughts on books I've enjoyed.
Joe Morton gives a brilliant performance. One of the best narrations I have ever had the pleasure to experience and I have listened to a lot of audiobooks.
Perhaps some elements of The Warmth of Other Suns insofar as the descriptions of life in the south and Harlem in the early to mid 20th century.
From a technical point of view, I was completely taken with Joe's work. He put so much life into his characters that I am driven to compare the text to the narration to see if what he does with the work was written into the text or just the magic that he brought to this book.
The story is very engaging. I can't recommend this audiobook enough.
"A Classic that deserves Whispersync!"
If Whispersync was available I would be so excited to re-read and add notes! Too many layers for one reading.
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First Communion: A Collection Of Modern Irish Stories
By Jack Scoltock
Against the sobering background of decades long civil strife, ordinary citizens of Derry had little choice but to press on and hope for better times. It's doubtful that any writer knows Derry's recent history – from the vernacular of its undaunted citizens to the private toll of the war on their individual lives – better than author Jack Scoltock.
In his vivid new collection of short stories Scoltock recreates the red-letter days of a northern childhood -- going fishing, swimming, boating and lamping.
The shocking savagery of that last pursuit, using flashlights to lure hypnotized rabbits from their borrows only to beat their brains out, is vividly recalled in a story that contemplates how fragile the little flame of life actually is in us all.
Scoltock captures the hopes and dreams of working class northerners, still characters rarely seen in modern collections, and at all times he does this in the twinkling dialect of his own city. Here is a pen that records all of human nature but gravitates habitually toward the good.
In his collection of 42 new stories he has crafted an up to the minute portrait of a city and its people.
Barking Rain, $12.95.
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
By James R. Barrett
The history books only tell you the half the story, because the truth is that from the coffin ships to the rise and fall of JFK, the Irish certainly built America, but they also helped to shape its character.
In his remarkably insightful new study, historian James R. Barrett carefully examines the profound impact that Irish immigrants have had on virtually every aspect of American society.
From their grudging reception in the 19th century to their dramatic ascendancy in the 20th century, Barrett focuses on the period 1890 to 1930, when the Irish finally led the country in politics, trade unions, the theater, the professions and in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
Then, as now, there was a tension inside the community between a progressive identification with other immigrant communities and a narrower parochial defensiveness that recalled the reception they had once received themselves. That internal tension continues to this day in the two main political parties and among the Irish Americans leaders who find themselves still squaring off in Washington.
The Irish were among the first to battle reductive notions about the worth of immigrants, and in the process they helped forge a larger multiethnic American identity, a remarkable turnaround.
Barnett's book is the most insightful meditation on that transformation to have appeared in recent years.
Penguin, $29.95.
Britain And Ireland's Best Wild Places
By Christopher Somerville
Sometimes a man (or woman) takes it into his head to break out of imprisoning routines and branch out with a new project.
That kind of resolution can often lead to a journey, as it did with author Christopher Somerville, who set himself the revivifying task of exploring the wild forgotten corners of Ireland and Britain for a year.
Gifted with a mordant eye and immense patience, Somerville turns out to be an ideal candidate for an epic journey around the Emerald Isle, taking us on the back roads to the back of beyond.
The thing about Ireland's out-of-the-way places is that they have retained their untrammeled charm, and Somerville becomes our delighted tour guide, gleefully drawing our attention to ruined churches, abandoned cottages, hidden waterfalls and forgotten woods.
Check out all this overlooked wonder, he enthuses, remembering to note that generation after generation of war and economic crisis have had paid an unexpected dividend -- whole swathes of the country are still preserved in their pristine grandeur. This remarkable guide aims to help you rediscover them all.
Penguin, $22.
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Fans of Alan Glynn's debut novel The Dark Fields, a fast paced thriller that was made into the box office smash Limitless starring Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, will know what to expect from Bloodlands, the Irish thriller writer's latest.


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World's Oldest Digital Computer Rebooted in U.K.
The oldest working digital computer in the world has been brought back to life at the U.K. National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) based at Bletchley Park. It has taken three years to restore after it had been lost for 15 years. The 2.5 tonne machine was built to help scientists at the U.K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, according to the BBC.
The machine first ran in 1951 and was known as the Harwell Dekatron — so named for the valves it used as a memory store. Although slow — the machine took up to 10 seconds to multiply two numbers — it proved very reliable and often cranked up 80 hours of running time in a week.
When it became outmoded in 1957 it was given to Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College where it acquired its convoluted acronym "the Witch" — Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell. In 1973 it was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Birmingham which closed in 1997 when it was dismantled and put into storage.
By chance Kevin Murrell, one of the TNMOC's trustees, spotted the control panel of the Witch in a photograph taken by another computer conservationist who had been in the municipal store seeking components for a different machine.
Mr Murrell said that as a "geeky teenager" he had regularly seen the Witch during many trips to the museum and instantly recognised its parts in the background of the photograph…
The restoration effort was led by conservationist Delwyn Holroyd who said it was "pretty dirty" when the machine first arrived at Bletchley. Remarkably, he said, it had not suffered too much physical damage and the restoration team has been at pains to replace as little as possible. The vast majority of the parts on the machine, including its 480 relays and 828 Dekatron tubes, are entirely original, he said.
BBC: Two-tonne Witch computer gets a reboot
The National Museum of Computing: The world's oldest original working digital computer


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"Argo," based on a true story, is well-timed to coincide with current events unfolding in the Middle East. The film's opening is a primer in recent Persian history. In 1979, increasing unrest causes Iran's Shah (the Persian word for king) to flee. Anti-American sentiment, for our friendship with the Shah, is running high when Muslim leader, Ayatollah Khomeni, is installed as that nation's new leader. Throughout the film, his frowning portrait is an omnipresent, disapproving reminder of America's sins.
These events are sympathetically narrated in a Persian female's voice, but the film's tenor changes when, angered by the Shah's admittance to the U.S. for cancer treatement, rioters attack the U.S. Embassy in Iran's capital, Tehran. We experience this harrowing attack from the perspective of embassy workers scrambling to destroy sensitive documents with little thought for their own safety.
The Embassy staff is taken captive, leaving President Jimmy Carter's administration to grapple with a terrible situation. Meanwhile, six U.S. State Department employees (working out of a building situated on the U.S. Embassy compound) escape capture and make their way to the Canadian Ambassador's home. This film documents our efforts to bring those six safely back to the U.S..
Ben Affleck directs this adaptation of the book "The Master of Disguise." Written by Antonio J. Mendez. The author Affleck portrays is an ex-Central Intelligence Agency officer whose expertise was exfiltration, defined as removing personnel, by stealth or deception, from areas under enemy control. His plan, to cast the six as part of a Canadian filmmaking team, was an improbable notion termed "Our best bad idea" by Mendez's supervisor, Jack O'Donnell, played by Bryan Cranston, using his intensity to ramp up the tension while alternately letting us see him sweat, then providing whiffs of amusement.
As portrayed by Affleck, Mendez maintains a level of composure and humanity that are ideal in a clandestine operative under extreme duress. Mendez's plan is further humanized by cantankerous Hollywood producer Lester Siegel, played by Alan Arkin, who humorously insists, "If I'm gonna make a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit." John Goodman climbs aboard as Siegel's pal, award-winning makeup artist John Chambers. Together they embody the hope and cynicism extended to any Hollywood project, including this phony one.
One challenge is to represent the fakery, based on a tacky science fiction script set in the Middle East, as the next Western blockbuster. To its credit, the operation even takes out an under-development movie advertisement in a well-known industry rag.
At two hours, the film whizzes by, partly due to the engrossing depiction of Mendez's plan, and partly because the story rarely eases up on its edge-of-your-seat tension. Smaller, but excellent performances by Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham and Kerry Bishe, as the six escapees, and by Victor Garber as Canada's Ambassador, contribute to the film's air of credibility.
If his last few films are an indication, Ben Affleck is the Robert Redford of his generation. Storybook handsome, Affleck is an extremely smart guy, excelling behind the camera despite sometimes failing in front of it. In addition to "Argo," during the past five years Affleck has directed "Gone Baby Gone," and "The Town," fine works that demonstrate his ability to convey the big picture.
"Argo" is arguably the best of Affleck's efforts, released at the beginning of a cycle timed for "Oscar Consideration." It's hard to imagine a production more worthy of receiving the Best Picture award.


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Berlin District Court, closed since July 18 flood caused by faucet left running, finally reopens
Most of the building has been closed since July 18 because of damage due to flooding when a faucet in a mop sink was left running overnight.
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So mild, hands ask for it by name. [Print advertising.] [General circulation publications,] 1991
- Summary
- Illustration: Hands spelling out IVORY in sign language.
- Published Jan. 1991. Scanned in two parts.
- Date
- 1991
- advertiser
- Procter & Gamble Company
- Local number
- Ivorydata4 1583
- 0307910388 (Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar Innovative Lives Presentation, August 3, 2005
- Notes
- Dr. Hernandez-Rebollar was born in the state of Puebla, Mexico. He received his B.S. in Electronics at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in 1993. He received his Master's in Electronic Engineering from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, and his Doctorate in Science in Electrical Engineering at George Washington University.
- Summary
- Original and reference audio cassettes, transcript, digital images and copies of PowerPoint presentation documenting Dr. Hernandez-Rebollar's invention of the AcceleGlove. The AcceleGlove prototype can translate the alphabet and over 300 words into American Sign Language in English and Spanish.
- Cite as
- Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar Innovative Lives Program, August 3, 2005, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 2005
- August 3, 2005
- 21st century
- creator
- Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
- Hernandez-Rebollar, Jose L
- Local number
- 2006.3047 (NMAH Acc.)
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- Archives Center - NMAH