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Jon Stewart says Hugh Grant will never be invited back to "The Daily Show."
Grant appeared on "The Daily Show" in December of 2009 to promote his romantic comedy "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" opposite Sarah Jessica Parker. According to MSN, even there was no visible tension between the two during the televised interview, Stewart says Grant was a complete diva when he decided he didn't like the clip provided by the film's publicist.
"He's giving everyone (expletive) the whole time, and he's a big pain in the (expletive)," Stewart told Stephen Colbert in an interview for a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey. Stewart said Grant complained "What is that clip? It's a terrible clip."
British people. He was probably eating a crumpet and drinking tea with his superior little pinky up in the air when he said it.
Stewart says he replied, "Well, then make a better (expletive) movie."
Stewart said he'll never let Grant back on the show.
During the candid chat before a sold-out crowd, Stewart also said he almost quit the show when he took over for Craig Kilborn in 1999.
Has Craig Kilborn not had a career for that long?
"I walk in the door, into a room with the writers and producers, and the first thing they say is, 'This isn't some MTV bull (expletive) ... and then I was told not to change the jokes or improvise," he said. "(I told my agent) get me the (expletive) out of this. These people are insane. I had to be talked down from a moderately high cliff ... what I did not realize is, a lot of the people who worked there were (expletives)."
LINDSAY LOHAN CAN'T PAY STORAGE BILL: Lindsay Lohan is about to lose a lot of expensive stuff because she hasn't paid a storage bill and the unit is about to go up on the auction block.
Why do I have a feeling they'll open the thing and 400 half-full bottles of Wild Turkey will come crashing down?
Sources close to Lohan told TMZ that Lohan is way behind on her monthly bill, and now owes roughly $16,000 to the storage company.
The account is delinquent and the locker can't be opened until the balance is paid in full, and apparently Lohan doesn't have the cash. As you know -- because, like me, you have nothing better to do but scrutinize every move Lindsay Lohan makes -- the IRS has frozen her bank accounts because of unpaid back taxes.
So unless she gets lucky with Santa, everything in the unit will be auctioned off later this month. TMZ says Lohan has reached out to family and friends to loan her the money with no success.
GILLIAN ANDERSON RETURNS TO TV: Gillian Anderson finally gets to take on Hannibal Lecter.
Anderson, who was supposedly in the running to replace Jodie Foster in 2001 in the "Silence of the Lambs" sequel, is returning to TV to play Lecter's therapist in new drama "Hannibal."
It probably took a while to come up with that title.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Anderson will play Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier murderous psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter's (Mads Mikkelsen) own therapist -- in a multi-episode arc.
"Every therapist needs their own head examined and we are ecstatic that Gillian Anderson has chosen 'Hannibal' to mark her return to American television after 10 years to portray Dr. Lecter's personal psychiatrist," series creator Bryan Fuller said in a statement. "Her intelligence and sophistication, not to mention her pedigree of groundbreaking TV, make her the perfect actress to match wits and psychological manipulations with one of the greatest villains of pop culture. I couldn't be more excited."
Yes you could. You could be an "X-Files" geek who has Dana Scully pillow cases.
Since Fox's classic series "The X-Files" concluded in 2002, Anderson has appeared in miniseries such as Encore's recent "Moby Dick" adaptation and British TV series like "The Fall."
According to IMDB, Anderson's FOX contract didn't allow her to play another FBI agent, which is why she fell out of the running to play Clarice Starling in the "Silence of the Lambs" sequel (which was also named "Hannibal").
Couldn't Starling have retired, then come back as a contractor? It's a great way to double-dip on a pension.
Anderson joins a cast that also includes Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Eddie Izzard, Gina Torres, Molly Shannon, Ellen Greene and Chelan Simmons. No premiere date has been set, but insiders expect the show will likely debut in late spring, according to Entertainment Weekly.
LIAM HEMSWORTH BEATS GUY UP: Miley Cyrus' fiance Liam Hemsworth beat up some guy in the middle of the street and, of course, TMZ has the footage to prove it.
Hemsworth just left a bar early Sunday morning in Philadelphia when he confronted a guy he thought threw a rock at him and his friend.
The video shows the alleged rock-thrower on the ground, clinging to Hemsworth's leg, just before the "The Hunger Games" actor cracked him in the face, then pushed his head down toward the ground. Hemsworth's friend helped hold the guy down.
I'm sure Hemsworth needed the help.
Police arrived and dispersed the crowd, but didn't arrest anyone. Hemsworth and his brave buddy took off.
Philadelphia police told TMZ no report has been filed. A source on the scene told TMZ they didn't see anyone throwing rocks. The website said Hemsworth has not commented on the beat-down.
GABRIEL AUBRY AVOIDS CHARGES: Gabriel Aubry will not face criminal charges for the fight with Halle Berry's fiance Olivier Martinez on Thanksgiving.
Well, it wasn't much of a fight, unless you call Aubry violently ramming his face into someone else's fist a fight.
Prosecutors have officially dropped the matter, according to TMZ, with one caveat. They want to hold an informal hearing with Gabriel to discuss the incident.
They probably want to know how he got beat up by a French guy.
As TMZ has previously reported, everyone's attorneys agreed to settle the matter and avoid a messy criminal trial. Aubry was looking at possible charges because he was the aggressor ... for about four seconds. Then Martinez beat the snot out of him.
No date's been set for the informal hearing.
COURTNEY LOVE IS UPSET: There's only one person on the face of the earth who didn't think Paul McCartney and a sort-of reunited Nirvana completely rocked Wednesday night at the 12-12-12 Sandy benefit with their new song "Cut Me Some Slack."
Of course, Courtney Love is upset. Her husband Kurt Cobain fronted Nirvana before he took his own life and she seems to think she should get a check every time someone even thinks of Nirvana.
Love told TMZ before the show that she was "not amused" about McCartney playing with her husband's old mates Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear. She even played the lame "Paul McCartney was only cool because of John Lennon" card.
"Look, if John were alive it would be cool," she said.
Of course it would.
Love said she's also upset at the guys calling the show a Nirvana reunion (I don't think they did) because she says Cobain was the heart and soul of the legendary band.
Apparently, only dead people rock in Courtney Love's world.
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Friday is Dec. 14, the 349th day of 2012. There are 17 days left in the year.
1799: The first president of the United States, George Washington, died at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67.
1819: Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state.
1861: Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, died at Windsor Castle at age 42.
1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first men to reach the South Pole, beating out a British expedition led by Robert F. Scott.
1946: The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish U.N. headquarters in New York.
1961: A school bus was hit by a passenger train at a crossing near Greeley, Colo., killing 20 students.
1962: The U.S. space probe Mariner 2 passed Venus at a distance of just over 21,000 miles, transmitting information about the planet, such as its hot surface temperatures and predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere.
1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan concluded their third and final moonwalk and blasted off for their rendezvous with the command module.
1975: Six South Moluccan extremists surrendered after holding 23 hostages for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen.
1981: Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.
1986: The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.
2002: The Associated Press reported that FBI Director Robert Mueller said in an interview that nearly 100 terrorist attacks had been thwarted since 9/11. Jordanian police announced the arrest of two alleged al-Qaida members in the October killing of American diplomat Laurence Foley. (The two men were executed in 2006.)
2007: A man accused of being the Phoenix Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison for the sexual assaults of two sisters. (Mark Goudeau was tried in 2011 for the slayings of eight women and a man in 2005-2006; he was convicted and sentenced to death.)
Actress Patty Duke (66), singer Joyce Vincent-Wilson (Tony Orlando and Dawn) (66), rhythm-and-blues singer Ronnie McNeir (The Four Tops) (63), rock musician Cliff Williams (AC/DC) (63), actress Cynthia Gibb (49), actress Tammy Blanchard (36), actress Sophie Monk (33), actress Vanessa Hudgens (24).
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My mom flunked high school and married my dad, a top-of-the-line negotiator for MBNA, or present day BOA. She will not admit it, but I KNOW she married him for the money. She is unemployed, has minimal education, and pretends she's rich. When I was a kid, she told me she wanted me to do good in school so I could support my wife.
Last year my dad died from a reaction to anesthesia (some rare condition). Ever since, I've been dealing with my mom trying to hold ends together with no experience except for changing my diapers. She has totally stopped motivating and supporting us and our hobbies.
We live in Plano, TX, which is a very high end neighborhood (I dislike it, too stuffy, but it's diverse which is nice =D ). My mom has never had a job except 1, a flower shop out of high school.
To make ends meet, she makes other people do the work for her. She slept with her math teacher to pass statistics(While complaining about how he makes 18K a year) during her attempt to make it through to community college nursing school. People try and befriend her, but they fail, because she thinks she's better then everyone at the college. When things go wrong, I never hear her blame herself. She blames the person closest to her.
My 17 year old sister, who has a job at Cinemark for 8$ a hr, is being oppressed. She is forced to send in my mom's job applications and help her with community college work. When she got rejected once , she actually yelled at sis (To anyone thinking of hiring someone with a 2.0 GPA working at a flower shop, please.) for "Putting this on her".
I am a 14 year old freshman, and I'm required to do cleaning and computer work. I am considered the "useless" child since I stay upstairs as much as possible to research things on my advanced freshman courses. I have high goals for myself academically, and my mom could not be any more in the way. Recently, my mom has complained about me not being able to restore the operating system on a laptop with no administrative privledges and a broken CD drive/charger. It would be easier to install linux on a granny smith apple.
Last week my mom applied for a job at a HUGE church near us, in the bookstore. Since that, she has not stopped yelling at us about how we've strayed from being christians, despite her having no bible. Today, after going in to get some stuff from the church, she called my sister a whore, right next to the fountain with a statue of jesus.
And now we got home from that, and said this: " I never grew up with unconditional love, and I will never believe in it." I have NO SUPPORT FROM ANYONE AT ALL!!! NO ONE SUPPORTS ME!!! I want to get AWAY FROM HER. FOREVER. I NEED A NEW START IN MY LIFE.
How do I get new parents? I was thinking of
*Running away: I have a bunch of stuff on a CPS record for that, so this might be the last straw.
*Starving myself: I'm 100 pounds and my mom keeps yelling about how she has to go to trial because I'm underweight. I'm forced to drink whey protein.
*Rewriting this and sending it to CPS: Mabye they can help?
I'm sorry if this was poorly written, I'm in a rage right now. I can't think.

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It's been hard, working in a poorly-insulated plate-glass storefront office all this time, on full display for the whole neighborhood. There was that goddamned front door that never completely shut, and what if an irate commenter or story subject barged in? Now we have a new office! It's on Elizabeth Street, and it's on the fourth floor. There will be no more typing in fear. There's even a shower, for those all-nighters when a big sex-tape story breaks. And there's a phone booth, for crying in!
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Every single subway line in New York City was delayed this morning, as many of us learned much too late. The reason? "Inclement weather." Which in this case was fog. Fog broke the entire subway system.
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An employee gathering carts from a sunny parking lot of a Santa Cruz Safeway said shoppers are warming up to the city's new ban on single-use plastic bags. But some still miss the bags' convenience.
"Wrong thing to do," said a middle-aged man of the ban.
"But they're killing the innocent turtles," his wife said, adding that in Europe, reusable bags are a way of life.
The couple's disagreement is typical of the strong feelings evoked by plastic bag bans, which seem to delight environmentalists but aggravate many retailers and consumers. While there is some evidence that the bans have reduced litter on city streets and beaches, ambiguities in the data seem certain to fuel further heated debate.
San Francisco led California's war on plastic, banning bags at large grocery stores and chain drugstores in 2007. But litter surveys in the city, covering the first two years after the ban went into effect, painted a foggy picture.
Surveyors assessed more than 100 randomly selected sites in the city each year, counting every piece of litter in an area half the length of a city block. In 2007, before the ban was introduced, plastic bags amounted to 0.5 percent of large litter. By 2009, the percentage climbed to about 1.5 percent. And during the same period, the average amount of litter stayed about the same.
The city hasn't collected any litter data since the 2009 survey, said Guillermo Rodriguez, a spokesman for the city's environment department.
The ban was expanded to all retailers in July 2012 and will continue to expand to all restaurants this year. San Francisco plans to do another litter survey to see whether the new scope of the ban makes a measurable impact.
San Jose has already seen that impact. The city's 2012 bag ban immediately covered all retailers. Last December, San Jose presented results of litter surveys in city creeks, streets and storm drains. Surveys after the bag ban in 2012 found 89 percent fewer bags in storm drains, 60 percent fewer in creeks and 59 percent fewer on city streets, compared with surveys before the bag ban. Plastic bags made up 8 percent of total creek litter in 2011 and 4 percent in 2012.
A 2012 survey of Bay Area storm drains found that "other plastics," not including plastic bags, made up about 50 percent of storm drain trash. Paper, Styrofoam and drink containers together made up another 30 percent.
Litter on beaches
But the bags also show up in marine litter, making up about 15 percent of trash in the deep reaches of Monterey Bay. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute reported finding plastic bags in water nearly 2½ miles deep, according to a paper published online in May in the journal Deep Sea Research.
Closer to the ocean surface, concern for the bags' impact on marine life stems from the fact that ocean-borne plastic bags look similar to jellyfish, which sea turtles love to eat.
Whether the bans are preventing bags from reaching the ocean is hard to measure, but surveys of litter on Monterey Bay beaches provide the best available picture.
Santa Cruz-based Save Our Shores promotes weekly cleanups around Santa Cruz and Monterey counties and collects trash data from many of these events. On average, volunteers pick up only six bags at each event, down from a high of 65 in 2008.
The number of bags collected per cleanup has dropped in the past two years because of four bans that took effect in 2012, said Save Our Shores executive director Laura Kasa. The four bans covered unincorporated Santa Cruz County and the cities of Watsonville, Monterey and San Jose.
The latter ban matters because of the volume of tourist traffic coming "over the hill" to Santa Cruz beaches, said Kasa, who also credits the shift in public perception toward plastic bags in the region. "In Santa Cruz it's become the trend to be green and to bring your own reusable bags and not use plastic bags," she said.
Save Our Shores program manager Brad Hunt pointed out that Monterey County has not yet implemented a bag ban, which affects Save Our Shores' average cleanup numbers. "It could go down to one bag per cleanup after Monterey County implements theirs," Hunt said, "but we won't know that until a year or two down the road."
An opposing voice
Opponents of plastic bag bans point out that bags make up a small fraction of litter. "You're talking about such a small amount to begin with that you wouldn't notice any change," said Stephen Joseph of the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, whose members include plastic-bag manufacturers and retailers.
Joseph said political leaders have exaggerated the problem. He disputes claims by Oakland-based Save the Bay that a million plastic bags enter San Francisco Bay each year. In 16 years of living in the city, Joseph said, he never saw one bag in the bay.
"It's a hoax," he said, adding:
"There's obviously plastic bag litter. Anyone who's never seen a plastic bag flying around is blind. But that does not justify all the exaggeration."


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SAN JOSE -- A 62-year-old Los Gatos man faces an involuntary manslaughter charge after he fired a warning shot at an auto-theft suspect fleeing his home, killing the man whose body was later discovered nearly 20 miles away next to Spartan Stadium, authorities said.
Craig Yuhara is charged with involuntary manslaughter and a firearm enhancement in connection with the killing of 47-year-old Daniel Winslow, who was found dead Sunday in a Jeep abandoned near the San Jose State University tennis courts on East Humboldt Street.
Yuhara appeared calm and upbeat when he was arraigned Thursday, with his wife looking on from the court gallery. He was expected to be released after posting $75,000 bail.
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Brian Welch said the involuntary manslaughter charge was filed because the deadly shot lacked an intent to kill, describing it as Yuhara looking to "send a message" to the driver not to return to his property.
"We don't believe there is any evidence the defendant intended to kill Mr. Winslow," Welch said.
Riccardo Ippolito, a San Jose-based attorney representing Yuhara, called the situation "tragic" for everyone involved and hinted at a plea deal.
"The prosecution has the same take as I do," Ippolito said, adding that he expects a resolution that will satisfy both parties.
That left a friend of Winslow's who attended the hearing walking away in disgust. Jeff, a San Jose resident who declined to give his last name, described Winslow as the father of a son and said Winslow was emerging from a troubled past.
"Everyone who knew him loved him," Jeff said.
Winslow's death and lack of connection to the area he was found puzzled residents for several days until it surfaced that he had been shot near Yuhara's home in the Lexington Hills area of unincorporated Los Gatos.
According to a report from university police -- which spearheaded the investigation because of where Winslow was found -- two men abandoned a moving truck in a clearing across from Yuhara's home on Saturday night. Yuhara reported the vehicle to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which dispatched deputies who determined it was stolen, had a punched-out ignition and was out of gas.
The deputies contacted the registered owner of the van to make arrangements for her to reclaim it.
Before that could happen, about 8 a.m. the next morning two men, one identified as Winslow, drove up in a Jeep and started filling the van's gas tank from a can. That prompted Yuhara to emerge from his home armed with a .357 caliber Smith and Wesson handgun to confront them.
A brief argument over who owned the van followed, and Winslow got back into the Jeep and it began to drive toward Yuhara, who got out of the way, police said. As it sped away, Yuhara fired a single shot at the Jeep; the bullet entered the back of the vehicle and hit Winslow, who was in the passenger seat.
Yuhara contacted deputies who responded to take a report. An hour later, Winslow's body was discovered on university property by a neighborhood resident.
After that revelation, Yuhara was arrested at his home. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in state prison.
The driver who abandoned Winslow inside the Jeep remains at large.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga. Contact Mark Gomez a 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitter.com/MarkMGomez.


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Triad awaits OK on brine hauling
January 20, 2013
MARIETTA — A local disposal company says transporting brine from fracking operations in Pennsylvania to New Matamoras by barge is a better method than trucking, but the U.....
Oh, because "Hill Jack" which works for Triad says it is safe, it mus be safe. 1st the experts were saying that trucking was safe, now they are exposing the truth about the high ratio of trucking accidents. First the local experts said that Brine was nothing more than sand and salt water, now they are saying that it is "Heavy Metals, Natural Radioactivity, and some chemicals". Where was the truth when the community was lulled into this Fracking scam.
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Those who think injection wells are so safe,should have one drilled next to their property and watch property values spiral to nothing.The boneheads drilling these wells don't care,because they don't live near the disposal sites.Pa.--WV.--NY do not allow disposal of fracking fluids,so why should Athens county become the dumping ground for others waste products.We can thank draft dodger Dick Cheney and Haliburton for this fiasco!!!!
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To Namvet: Very well said! The Fine folks at the "Trailer Park on the Hill" in Lubeck, WV Central Environmental Service are dumping their sludge in Washington County, the problem is that nobody seems to care, or understand what this means. The lawyers won't touch it because there is no money to be made right now trying to stop the dumping. The Lawyers will wait a few years after the damage is done, then they will move in to make their millions. I personally hold the Wood county commission responsible becasue they understand what is in this "Brine" mixture but they will do nothing to stop this in the name of "Jobs". how pathetic. Stay tuned......
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Happy Birthday Billie!
btw nice socks!
Write a comment here (no HTML please)Billie Joe Happy Birthday from Spain!!!!!!!!!!
OH ! I forgot... NICE SOCKS XD
I'm Amanda (thank for the song with my name) and I'm from Italy.
Happy Birthday Billie!!! Mine it's on the 20th of this month :)
See you the 6th of June!
We wanna see GREEN DAY DESTROY the UNIPOL ARENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I'll be the girl with the poster that say "AMANDA HERE".
Probably you may receive this message more times: I had some problemes :)
Happy Birthday Billie Joe :D
Well, when I want to write or say something special, usually I can't do it... so let me, borrow Einstein's words:
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."
Billie, you ARE a miracle (and I think this seriously but I don't consider myself a fanatic :P or just a bit... xDD). Please take care yourself because your music and your soul saves lifes ^^ So Happy birthday, Rage and Love, greetings from Hungary, we love you, etc. But ya' know these all ;))
/ps: sorry for my English, I'm just a Hungarian idiot... xDD/
I know I already commented, but i'd like to improve my happy birthday greeting, or whatever you wanna call it. Today is a wonderful day to celebrate the life of someone I idolize, love, and could not live without. Your music has helped me through everything i've been through and I cannot express my gratitude and love for you and your music. Happy birthday Billie, I love you <3 Rage and Love XX
Happy Birthday Billie, from italy (and the creator of green day's holiday hehehe xD) hope you will have a super wonderful day!!! can't wait to see you here in Italy on May and June!!! Happy B-day again to the best singer and song writer of the world, and thank you sooo much, because your wonderful music have really saved my fucking idiot life!!! ❤❤❤
Happy Birthday Billie, Brazil loves you <3
Happy Birthday Billie !!
from Mexico for you HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
You're the best vocalist, guitarist and musician on the planet. Thank you for making music that is for the best. You are my idol and I hope you meet many more years. Best wishes to you, your family and friends. Happy Birthday Billie Joe thanks for all that these are the best 41 years for you. <3
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLIE!! This is the Spanish happy birthday song: I would like to sing it to you, but I can't....
Thanks for existing, thank you for being as you are and thank you for being the best musician in the world: a different person from the rest, that makes us spend good moments whenever you see. Thank you for making my life much more fun and make every morning I wake up with a smile on the face, despite how difficult that life sometimes is. The world needs more people like you.
Thank you
With love from Spain.
As Ewelina,
Best wishes Billie from Poland :D
Happy Birthday Billie Joe from Poland!
happy birthday from Colmbia I wanna said you...we love you and the my part you inspire me to carry on and wake me up when I feel defeated and I am so happy for you because you are my idol and I don't know how your music make me feel accepted in this world while around me , my family and the rest of people are all shit are hypocrites and mold me to the way them so thank you so much for all and eat much cake and sorry my English hahaha so happy birthday Billie Joe <3
Happy Birthday Billie :)
Happy Birthday from Belgium ☺
Oh! Your luck orange socks, heh! Happy birthday, BJ.
Happy f**king B-Day billie from MEXICO :)
Ps: I recommend washing your converse :)
Happy birthday from France !! :)
Happy birthday Billie joe... from chile !!!! :) have a nice day
Happy Birthday Billie!! madalena from portugal, love you you're my idol. Have fun ;)
Happy Birthday Billie. From Brazil!
Happy Birthday Billie Joe~ be better than before❤
love ya❤
HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Germany, Billie :D
happy fucking-forty-fucking-one fucking birthday fucking maaaaan! (green day style) and love you guys for the 4 dates here in italy! I'll be in milan and bologna, so please say ' letizia from Brescia rules' when you'll come


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One of the crowning moments of his career, this photo captures Pirlo in celebration after proving instrumental as AC Milan edged past Liverpool to their famous 2007 UEFA Champions League title. The item was personally signed in black ink by the Italian hero at a signing session in Turn in September 2012.
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Adam Driver will play the main villain in "Star Wars: Episode VII," according to Variety.com.
Minnie Driver? Adam's a driver? Who?
Apparently, the 30-year-old actor stars in "Girls," which lots of men don't watch. Lots. Of. Men.
The website quotes sources saying that, while no deal is done yet, Driver is close to signing up to be the bad guy in J.J. Abrams' re-start. Exact details are unknown, but Variety said the character is said to be in the vein of iconic "Star Wars" villain Darth Vader.
That better mean more Darth and less Anakin.
Driver is, unofficially, the film's first cast member to be revealed. Walt Disney Studios and Lucasfilm are planning the movie to open in theaters on Dec. 18, 2015.
Filming is scheduled to begin in April at London's Pinewood Studios. Additional cast members will likely be announced in the next month.
Variety reported Driver's name was rumored during the casting process, but the Indiana native became the top choice to play the villain in recent weeks. The delay in making a decision was due to scheduling issues between "Star Wars" and "Girls." Sources reportedly said it's not just Season 4 that was the problem, but also future seasons, since future "Star Wars" installments could coincide with upcoming seasons of "Girls." Sources reportedly said scheduling issues have been resolved and a deal should be finalized in the coming days.
Can you imagine filming on "Star Wars" being delayed by "Girls?" Plastic lightsaber-wielding nerds would overrun HBO's studios.
Abrams recently announced the script he co-wrote with Lawrence Kasdan was finished and casting decisions were coming soon. Other rumored actors up for the villain role included Michael Fassbender and Hugo Weaving.
Disney declined comment on the cast.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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10 years ago, Rick Warren wrote The Purpose Driven Life, which became the bestselling hardback non-fiction book in history, and is the second most-translated book in the world, after the Bible. PDL has inspired and changed tens of millions of lives … more than any modern book.
NOW, Rick has updated and expanded the book with new chapters on the greatest barriers to living your purpose, plus links to 42 video introductions to each chapter theme, and links to 42 additional audio messages that go deeper into each chapter.
He has also created a new small group curriculum and new sermon series for pastors, and new follow-up events to conserve the evangelistic and discipleship results you will experience.
In the original 40 Days of Purpose campaign, churches averaged 28% growth in attendance, and over 100% growth in small group Bible study! People WANT to know their purpose in life!
The Purpose Driven Life will enable a new generation in your church to discover Gods purposes for their lives and empower your church with a fresh new wind of hope, joy, and vitality!
Author Bio
Dr. Rick Warren is pastor, author, global strategist, theologian, and philanthropist. His book The Purpose driven Life has been called the bestselling non-fiction hardback in publishing history by Publishers Weekly, having sold more than 32 million copies. Warren founded Saddleback Church in 1980 with his wife, Kay. In addition to a 120-acre campus in Lake Forest, CA, the church has ten satellite campuses in Southern California and three international campuses.
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This book will guide you to greatnessthrough living the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. Make sure youre not missing the point of your liferead this book! Billy and Franklin Graham
Destined to be a classic on the Christian life, I predict The Purpose-Driven Life will become the My Utmost for His Highest of the 21st century. Timeless, profound, compelling, and transforming, this book is a priceless gift for everyone who wants to know their purpose and fulfill their destiny. As The Purpose-Driven Church has had the most profound impact on the church worldwide of any book in this generation, Rick Warrens new, groundbreaking manifesto will set millions of people free to live the lives God intended for us on earth. This is the book weve all been waiting for! Bruce Wilkinson, Author, The Prayer of Jabez
If you only read one book on what life is all aboutmake it this one! Rick Warren is absolutely brilliant at explaining our real purpose in the world and making the complex understandable. Read this book, then give it to everyone you care about. It is life-changing. Believe me, youll never be the same after reading this! What a gift! Lee Strobel, Author, The Case for Christ "
I dont know about you, but questions like What on earth am I here for? and Whats it all about? were the ones on my mind for years before I finally met my Maker and thankful I didnt have to wait for the last minute to do it! Drawing upon his years in ministry with thousands of people, Rick has learned that these questions are basic to all of us, in every generation. And he offers answers in words and concepts that we all can understand. Peggy Matthews-Rose, Christian Book Previews.com
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Cindy NavarroCullman, ALAge: 55-65Gender: female4 Stars Out Of 510th Anniversary EditionNovember 23, 2012Cindy NavarroCullman, ALAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 4Value: 3Meets Expectations: 4Ten years ago, Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church wrote one of the biggest best-sellers of the 21st century. The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? was widely read by people both churched and unchurched. It struck a chord with millions who were searching for what life has to offer...and what their reason is for being here. However, there is now a new generation of seekers, and many are people who are accustomed to a whole new way of doing things. Social media and new technology that are available now are incorporated to give this 10th anniversary edition a new look and feel and to utilize resources unheard of 10 years ago. For those who have not read the original, the book offers readers a 40-day personal spiritual journey, and presents what the author says are God's five purposes for human life on Earth. They are:
1 You were planned for God's pleasure
2 You were formed for God's family
3 You were created to become like Christ
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1. Video introductions by Rick Warren to chapters 1-40
2. An audio Bible study at the end of each chapter, with over 30 additional hours of teaching by Rick Warren.
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I still have my original book, so I was curious to see if this was a new and improved version, or merely a new cover on the same material. To be honest, I don't have a smart phone or any other handheld device that can be used with that odd looking (well, to me!) symbol on each page. If it works the way it has been explained to me, it sounds like an incredibly useful tool. I do have a computer, though, so I can access all of the features available. I love being able to hear the audio message and to know what resources I can use in individual or group studies. This isn't as much "meat" as some would like when doing an indepth Bible study, but it is a good starting place for those who want to start a daily devotional. I feel that is more of an introduction for new Christians or seekers, but everyone has to start somewhere.
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Nothing is as innocent as a child," says Darryl Worley, wiping tears from his already reddened eyes. "And we were just children when we got together, really. Fifteen years old."
Darryl is sitting at a table at Christie's Restaurant in his hometown of Savannah, Tenn., with the restaurant's owner, Christie Moore, who is also unsuccessfully fighting back a tide of emotion. Christie happens to have been Darryl's girlfriend for a tempestuous 15 years, before their breakup six years ago.
Darryl makes the 140-mile trip to Savannah from his new home in Nashville often, but he has come this time to shoot the video for his latest single, "A Good Day To Run." The split with Christie had inspired Darryl's bittersweet first hit, "When You Need My Love," along with other songs from his debut album, Hard Rain Don't Last.
"A lot of his material comes from our relationship," says Christie, laughing through her tears. "Feelings he has in a lot of his songs, I can feel them myself. I've experienced them with him."
Still, the two have long since moved on. Darryl has a girlfriend, Beverly Irvin, while Christie is married and has a young daughter. "My daughter loves his music," says Christie. "And her favorite songs are the ones that are most special to me. It is very strange."
The two reminisce for a while, about their good times and the roof-raising arguments they used to engage in. "It probably wasn't a healthy relationship," Darryl figures. "We were codependent."
"If we had stayed together, I don't think either one of us would be experiencing the success we are now," says Christie. "But I'm there for him, and he's there for me, and that won't ever change."
Darryl dries his eyes and greets his mother, Bonnie, who has dropped by for a moment on her way to the dentist. Soon, the coffee is gone and Darryl heads across the street to Hardin County High School, where he is met by biology teacher Don Carter. "I knew Mr. Carter really loved what he was teaching, and that was absolutely what gave me the love for biology," says Darryl, who earned his college degree in the subject from the University of Northern Alabama.
Shaking Carter's hand, Darryl heads up the street to Hardin County Middle School. He's greeted by Steve Smith, who was principal when Darryl taught biology here a decade ago. The two duck into Darryl's old classroom, keeping quiet to avoid disturbing the class.
"During the year Darryl taught here, Miss Tennessee visited with the Drug-Free Tennessee program," recalls Smith. "Her talent was in country music, and we talked Darryl into singing with her for the kids. I still remember the song ..."
Darryl interrupts to sing a little of that tune: You're the reason God made Oklahoma ...
"That's it," Smith says with a chuckle. "That's the first time I realized what a talent he had."
After a few more minutes, Darryl says goodbye to Smith and the kids - it's time for lunch. Darryl knows just the spot: Pusser's, owned by Darryl's friend Dwana Pusser Garrison. Dwana's father was the lawman Buford Pusser, subject of the classic Walking Tall films.
"Anyone who lived around here couldn't help but hear about Buford Pusser," recalls Darryl, who at 6 feet 7 inches knows a little about walking tall himself. "Everybody walked around with their chest stuck out because we knew him."
"Daddy stood up for what he believed in, he was a man of his word and he took up for the underdog," recalls Dwana. "And Darryl has a lot of those same features. He's good-hearted and everything he tells you is true. That's the way Daddy was."
Dwana also has a personal connection to Darryl's hit "When You Need My Love." Someone she knows, very well, turned up as a character in the tune's storyline.
"In the song, the man the girl leaves Darryl for just happens to be my ex-husband," she explains. The real-life tapestry of Darryl's many Savannah friends is "a soap opera in the making," says Dwana.
After lunch, Darryl is ready to go to Wesley's Chapel United Methodist Church, where pastor Leonard Nash is waiting for him. Darryl's faith runs deep, and this building is where he first felt that connection.
"I'll never forget it," says Darryl. "I was probably 10 or 11 years old. The service was over, and I was sitting on the back of a pew with my feet on the bench. Brother Nash turned around, and when he scanned the crowd he stopped and looked at me. He just held out his hand and said, 'Do you want to come to know Jesus Christ?' And I just couldn't sit there any longer."
Darryl begins to cry again. "I knew this was coming," he says, with a laugh. "And I just got dried up a few minutes ago."
After a few minutes of prayer alone with Nash, Darryl is ready to leave. The last stop for today is the place where it all began, his great-grandparents' house, now inhabited by his aunt and uncle.
"I have some really fond memories of this place," he says, looking around the expansive front yard. "It was the center of the family activities. It was full of love and laughter - and good food."
Those feelings don't stop at the walls of this house, though. Here in Savannah, it's as if everyone is a member of Darryl Worley's family.
"The support I get from the people here is over the top," says Darryl with a broad grin. "I wish I could be here all the time."


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From the moment we arrived when the receptionist greeted us by name to our time of departure, our stay at the Hotel dei Macchiaioli was a relaxing and enjoyable experience. Having arrived from Rome, where he had mixed experiences, all of the staff here were friendly and went well beyond the call of duty to be helpful. The location of the hotel is perfect, very close to the Duomo, with a range of excellent restaurants within a stone's throw. The hotel has been recently reburbished and is comfortably furnished, and the decor is a delightful mix of period with modern bathroom fittings. A small hotel, it has a friendly and welcoming feel, and has free wireless internet in rooms. With many reports of expensive and average accommodation in a very touristy city, it was a joy to find somewhere that was such a gem!
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Ottimo hotel, che è situato in una posizione strategica, a due passi dal duomo. La stanza ampia e accogliente, era molto pulita. Personale molto cortese e colazione abbondante. Da consigliare vivamente.
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Ich kann das Hotel nur herzlich weiterempfehlen! Ich war auf Dienstreise und habe mittels HRS das Hotel gefunden. Die gesamte Equipe war extrem freundlich und hilfsbereit. Das Zimmer war sehr nett, elegant eingerichtet und sehr sauber. Auch das Frühstück war sehr gut. Die Lage des Hotels ist optimal: zentral und gleichzeitig ruhig. Ich werde auf jeden Fall wieder hingehen!
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Un sejour de 6 nuits dans cet hotel ou tout est parfait; Emplacement idéal; chambres spacieuses et espace de vie trés propres; Et surtout un acceuil adorable et professionnel; Un merci particulier a Paolo et Francesca! N hesitez pas, vous serez ravis de cet hotel a tous les niveaux!
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1. This last summer you attended the Newport Folk Festival and saw Bob Dylan
perform 37 years after his infamous original show. Now in similar times how
has seeing Dylan affected your performances, your touring since?
1) Well...his approach to a live show is almost a "what not to do" for an artist in my position. I enjoyed it thoroughly. The tension was thick, because 36 years earlier he was booed off stage by this highly critical folk audience who rejected his introduction of electric guitars to their cipher. Hahaa. He came out...didn't say anything...started the first song and the crowd went nuts. There was no banter whatsoever in between songs. He rocked every popular song of his, but he did it in such a way that people couldn't even sing along. he changed up the cadence and the melody just enough to throw people off. I was LOVING it and hating it at the same time. I can't say I really learned much from his performance, but certain beliefs I have about my own presentation were affirmed in subtle ways. His performance was top notch and it was sad to think how limited my time was to actually witness him perform the songs that mean so much to me. It was a great moment in my life to inch my way to the 3rd row and disturb the comfortable seating arrangement of a bourgeois family who were sprawled out on a blanket behind me.
2. Do you relate to him?
2) I read an extensive biography on his life and related to a lot of it. I don't think Bob Dylan and I would have gotten along if we grew up in the same music scene, but from a distance I can say I love him and his approach.
3. Makeshift Patriot, Hey Bobby (Dylan?) Were two very intense pieces
at your show, has your writing been more influenced by world events in the
recent two years or so?
3) Things need to be dealt with. There are points in an artists career when they have an obligation to the public they feed off of. My responsibility is to strike when necessary and offer the inspiration that could help change a very unfortunate circumstance. If I don't see an artist with a potential to do something like that, I threaten their career. To give examples at this point in time would be counterproductive. heh. First and foremost, it is my intention to entertain people and have them enjoy what I present to them...sometimes you have to risk that safety of easy approval and do what's right.
4. Do you feel the need to inform your audience of what is happening in this
world (globalism, commercialism)?
4) No. I think my audience knows what is happening in this world as much as I do. I feel the need to comment on it in ways that will instigate thought and discussion. Maybe I am just theme music for however they choose to act and change things.
5. You have a degree in Journalism from the University of Rhode Island,
youve been performing hip hop since you were 12. How does poetry fit into
your life?
5) How does it fit into my life? Well...I don't know. My writing continues to improve and they way I express my observations has been regarded as "poetic." I like thoughtful pieces. I like thoughtful people. Poetry is more than an intellectual thing...it pays special attention to human emotion. I truly feel that people will find how poetry fits in their life no matter what they do. It's inescapable. I think that's why some of my favorite poets come out of a working class, blue collar background.
6. Is current commercial hip hop, underground hip hop for that matter still
what rock is not, when a media hated and celebrated king of rap blatantly
tells me to kill my mother?
6) Well...when I delivered the poem that you are alluding to (Mullet 1998), the point was...hiphop isn't sacred. I came to the conclusion that hiphop is not the exception to the "evils" that faltered rock, blues, jazz, etc...
If you are a celebrated king of rap even though the media hates you...I would have to say that's very rock and roll.
7. Many Indy hip hoppers recently have adopted a more punk rock
ethic/lifestyle, including yourself. Do you see this as a progression in
hip hop or rebellion?
7) Drastic times call for drastic measures. It was time for all of us to grab the bull by its horns and take care of ourselves. This is not a life of glitter and glamour...no need to fake like it is. It is definitely a progression as far as the welfare of its artists is concerned. Autonomy is a beautiful thing.
8. In your opinion what was the high point in hip hop history, what era of
say 5 years?
8) Definitely 1987 until 1992. That was the peak. PE ran shit then. Political and conscious hiphop was making an impact on its listeners and the fun, light hearted nature of the Native Tongues balanced shit out. Hiphop gave me everything I needed from music at that time.
9. How does that compare to what is currently happening in hip hop?
9) Too many lines have been drawn within the hundreds of sub-genres that have emerged within hiphop. People are limiting themselves in so many respects. They're afraid to branch out beyond the style and content their audience defines the artist by. Back in the 87-91 era the audience wasn't so subdivided...and the rappers had a broader range of subject matter as well as approach. It seemed like there was more freedom without much fear of their being backlash by any particular audience. Diversity was the key. We knit-pick so much now. We criticize each artist with a fine comb, and the artist seems to be overly aware of that fact. I want to see Ice Cube call white people "devils" while he does a video with the Chile Peppers again. That was the shit. Confusion is the key.
10. How do you fit into this era?
10) I fit into that particular era by being a sponge and devoted fan of anything that was considered hiphop. I fit into this current era by presenting my thoughts and ideas in a format that I feel are true to what I know hiphop to be. However that comes across and gets defined by the media and masses is beyond my concerns or control. In the end, I am sure everyone will fit in their own category of what will be considered "music." That will also be a point in time when people will have the ability to juggle more than five objects inside of their mind without drooling all over themselves.
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Those were good questions. The Independent is the shit. Check this rag if you live in the area.
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"That will also be a point in time when people will have the ability to juggle more than five objects inside of their mind without drooling all over themselves."
I wish I had faith that day would come. Thoughtful answers.
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By Wade Bourne, WF360 Mississippi Flyway Field Editor
All eyes north! That's where Arkansas duck hunters are looking as a massive winter storm blankets the state and sends temperatures plummeting. Anticipation of a new push of mallards from northern states is high, though they haven't arrived in appreciable numbers as of this writing. However, as rain and frozen precipitation fall across the state, habitat conditions are improvng, and hopes are high for a strong upsurge in new birds and hunter success.
"The second segment of our season opened yesterday (Dec. 5)," says Luke Naylor, waterfowl program coordinator for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. "I hunted in western Arkansas, and I personally didn't see evidence of a big migration. I don't think we've had a major push in the last few days. I know they're coming, and it will be interesting to see where they go when they get here. We still need more water. Most fields that haven't been flooded artificially are dry, and our rivers are low."
Naylor adds that duck numbers were average during the first segment of hunting (Nov. 23-Dec. 1), and hunter success was fair to good in pumped fields. But there is little flooding in Arkansas' major river drainages, and concentrations of ducks have been scattered out. Thus, many hunters on private lands have enjoyed good shooting, while success for public land hunters has been sporadic. Naylor says, "I'd say we've had a typical early season – spotty; on again, off again."
Naylor adds that the water level in Bayou Meto, Arkansas' premier public waterfowl area southwest of Stuttgart, is steadily rising, and hopefully precipitation from the current storm will speed this area's flooding. As of yesterday, however, ducks haven't piled into Bayou Meto.
Stan Jones runs Stan Jones Mallard Lodge near Alicia in north Arkansas. Jones corroborates Naylor's assessment that the big push hasn't arrived.
"We don't have nearly the ducks we had before the first season started," says Jones. "When the season opened, we had 3-4 nightly freezes, and I'm guessing that 90 percent of our ducks left, and they haven't come back. This morning we probably had just a fraction of the birds we had on the first opening day. And this morning we didn't see evidence of a new push of ducks into our area."
Jones adds that he's heard reports of large numbers of ducks in southern Arkansas. "They got 5 inches of rain last week when we got just a little, and supposedly there's a lot of water out in the fields down there, and the ducks typically follow the water."
Bill Alexander is manager of the Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge near Bald Knob, Arkansas. He reports that the last count on his refuge showed 260,000 ducks, which might be the peak for the year. "We haven't seen a big migration of new ducks in the last few days, and we might actually see a big migration out this coming week owing to forecast low temperatures in the teens. When we freeze up, many of our ducks head further south. When we thaw back out, we generally pick some back up, but usually not as many as left."
So, by the time this report is posted, a new flight may be winging into Arkansas. So far, however, their arrival is all smoke and no fire. It's inconceivable that new ducks won't come in from South Dakota, Iowa, northern Missouri and other points north. But as of this writing, biologists and hunters are still scanning the skies and hoping the current storm will bring a whirlwind of new birds and an improvement in hunting across much of Arkansas.
Wade Bourne is the Ducks Unlimited Magazine editor-at-large, former DU-TV host, avid waterfowler and conservationist. Bourne will provide habitat and hunting reports for the Mississippi Flyway throughout the 2013-2014 season for Waterfowl360 and the DU Migration Map.
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They get 20,000 calls a year and work more than 50, 60, sometimes even 70 hours a week. It's why they say they're just as deserving as deputies. News 12 is on your side with why firefighters want a bigger pay raise.
Firefighters are in the running for a four percent pay raise next year. But the Sheriff's Office has already secured an eight percent raise for its employees. It's why a special meeting was called Thursday afternoon.
Just days after hearing of an eight percent pay increase for sheriff's deputies, Richmond County firefighters are asking, what about us?
"They deserve their money and they deserve a pay raise, they deserve more than eight percent. But we do, too," said Sgt. Charles Masters.
It's the first time Sergeant Masters can recall that one department is set to receive a salary increase twice as high as the other. After all, both are servants of public safety.
"We work together in the streets to make sure the safety is there for our community and certainly want to be treated the same across the board," said Interim Fire Chief Howard Willis.
But while facing these firefighters in a private meeting, City Administrator Fred Russell hosed them down with the facts.
"It's a very tight resource, it's taxpayers' dollars and you want to be as conservative as you can with that. On the other hand, you've got to pay your employees a livable wage and that needs to keep pace with reality," Russell said.
A firefighter for just over a year, Mike Applebee is one of those employees.
"I've got three kids and twins on the way. I work probably eighty hours a week. I have a second job and I'm still struggling to make ends meet," Applebee said.
"The separation between the two departments, fire and sheriff's, at this time is unprecedented," Masters said.
So with the support of fire stations county wide, they say they'll continue their fight for additional funding, all while doing what they get paid to do.
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HALF MOON BAY -- When Snitch was a puppy, her breeders envisioned the adorable Saint Bernard one day competing in elite dog shows like the one hosted by the Westminster Kennel Club. But it turned out Snitch wasn't the beauty-queen type.
She's strictly a tomboy who qualified for this weekend's American Kennel Club Agility Invitational in Orlando, Fla.
And no, we're not yanking your chain -- dog or otherwise. A fluffy, 105-pound Saint Bernard will lope through a challenging course of jumps, tunnels, seesaws and other tricky obstacles in the race to be top dog.
"Sometimes I wonder if she even knows that she's a Saint Bernard," said Jann Hayes, her owner. "She's more like a border collie or golden retriever. But people usually don't believe me when I tell them that my Saint Bernard does agility contests."
Five-year-old Snitch is so unusual that she's one of just three Saint Bernards -- those stately dogs known for heroic Alpine rescues and silly "Beethoven" films -- to be invited to the nationals, where she'll defy stereotypes competing against more nimble breeds.
"The smaller dogs get all the glamour, but the glory goes to the Saint Bernards," said Carrie DeYoung, the AKC's director of agility. "That's a whole lotta dog going over a jump and filling up a tunnel. The crowd always loves Saint Bernards."
Snitch looks like a typical Saint Bernard, with her facial mask of black, brown and white, and she has a sweet-tempered disposition. She loves to roll over and have her wide tummy rubbed.
"Saint Bernards are just big marshmallows, so they're not very good guard dogs despite their size," Hayes said. "The only way a Saint Bernard will protect a house is if someone breaks a leg tripping over the sleeping dog."
Hayes, 54, a Half Moon Bay resident who works in Silicon Valley, has been enamored with the shaggy dogs for as long as she can remember. Growing up in Marin County, she received a pup on her 10th birthday, and they've been part of her life ever since.
She and husband Prentice had a male Saint Bernard, Onni, who didn't like to be left alone. That's how they ended up visiting Oregon breeders and looking at 8-month-old Snitch.
Named for the flying golden ball in the "Harry Potter" game of Quidditch, Snitch was bred to be a show dog. But then she went through the Saint Bernard version of the awkward teenage years. She became too lean and her head wasn't shaped quite right for the best-in-show world.
"If she had been a good-looking dog, we wouldn't have been able to get her," Hayes said.
But Snitch, who eats 2 pounds of raw meat a day, was an athlete. She loved chasing birds and squirrels, and endlessly fetching tennis balls. At obedience training one day, Snitch wandered over to the agility equipment and explored an A-frame obstacle.
"She chose this herself," Hayes said. "She actually looks like she's smiling when she runs. She's also not terribly slobbery. It's not like slobber is flying behind her when she runs."
While it's not clear if sleeker dogs make fun of Snitch, she's a hit with the humans.
"When we first started, nobody took us very seriously," Hayes said. "But now Snitch has a huge following in the agility community. Everyone knows her."
Competitions consist of navigating a course with 18 to 20 obstacles as fast as possible. It's a tandem effort between dog and handler. Snitch goes exactly where Hayes tells her with a combination of verbal and hand commands, which they've perfected at a San Jose training center.
There are 631 agility dogs competing in Orlando, including more than 100 in the largest animal category, where the three Saint Bernards will line up against breeds such as greyhounds and larger retrievers.
"Saint Bernards definitely are not common when it comes to agility, but they work hard and like working with people," the AKC's DeYoung said. "Why do you think they went into the mountains looking for lost people?"
But Snitch won't be wearing a little cask around her neck like the popularized image of the rescue Saint Bernards galloping through the snow.
The agility event is in an air-conditioned arena, which is a good thing because "Snitch thinks anything above 68 degrees is just ridiculous," Hayes said.
In fact, there is something else her dog enjoys as much as tummy scratches and contests, Hayes said: "She does love the snow."
Contact Mark Emmons at 408-920-5745.
Local dog, national event
What: AKC Agility Invitational, part of the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, where 5,000 dogs representing 175 breeds compete in a dog show and obedience and agility events.
Where: Orlando, Fla.
When: The main competitions are Saturday and Sunday.
Details: www.akc.org/aenc
Local dog: Snitch, a 5-year-old Saint Bernard from Half Moon Bay, will compete in agility.
Saint Bernards' history: Monks in the Alps originally bred the dog to help them traverse isolated footpaths and save trapped travelers beginning about 1700, according to the Saint Bernard Club of America.
The cask myth: There is no historical record of Saint Bernards having little barrels of liquor strapped around the necks during rescues.
Famous Saint Bernards: Barry (1800-1814) was credited with saving 40 lives. Fictional dogs include Hollywood's Beethoven, Cujo and Nana (in Peter Pan).


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Super scooper is sweet on giving back
Ben & Jerry's manager lives to serve his community
If there is anything Ephraim Mallari loves more than eating ice cream, it is serving ice cream. Specifically, serving free scoops of Ben & Jerry's ice cream on behalf of fellow San Diegans who deserve a little sweetness in their lives.
As the co-manager of the Ben & Jerry's stand in Seaport Village, the 42-year-old Mallari spends his professional life up to his elbows in Cherry Garcia and Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch. As an enthusiastic facilitator of the company's community-service mission, he also spends a good chunk of time organizing scoop-athons to benefit such local nonprofits as the Surfrider Foundation and the National Foundation for Autism Research, rallying his employees behind worthy causes and serving on the board of Fair Trade San Diego.
It's hard to know which he enjoys more, the scooping or the serving.
"It is so simple to help and give back," the genial Mallari said, as customers swarmed around the shop. "I love San Diego, and giving back feels like giving a piece of myself to my town."
Born in the Philippines and raised in Paradise Hills, Mallari traces his sweet-tooth back to his early childhood in Quezon City, where the road to his grandparents' house swung by a bush shaped like an ice-cream cone. Mallari isn't sure why that small thing made such a big impression, but he does know that when he got a part-time job as a scooper at what was then the Village Ice Cream Shop, it seemed like a big deal. Eighteen years later, it still does.
"When I was little, I used to say that my ultimate goal was to serve ice cream in a shop, and all these years later, here I am," Mallari said, looking happily around the tourist-filled courtyard.
After graduating from Morse High School in 1989, Mallari went to San Diego State, where he majored in kinesiology. He volunteered at the Continental Rehabilitation Center in Hillcrest, and spent three years as a substitute teacher in the Sweetwater Union High School District. And when his mother contracted progressive supranuclear palsy, he spent nine years being her physical therapist. She passed away last year.
Throughout it all, Mallari continued to work at Ben & Jerry's. And when he became a co-manager in 2006, serving took on a whole new meaning. It meant choosing the local nonprofits that would benefit from the company's annual "Free Cone Day." It meant nudging his employees into forming a team for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life San Diego race and putting the fundraising muscle of the store behind the National Foundation for Autism Research.
It even meant throwing his own sweat into the cause by participating in the group's annual San Diego Race for Autism.
"What is kind of amazing is, Ephraim isn't directly impacted by autism. He just sees what a diagnosis can mean to a family and he decided he wanted to help," said Sharon Leon, executive director of the San Diego-based National Foundation for Autism Research. "And he hasn't done it just once, where he raises funds and rallies friends to start a team. He has done it for years. I think that is above and beyond what is expected of him."
When he isn't at Ben & Jerrys, Mallari likes swimming at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center near his house and walking in Balboa Park with his wife, Denise Delosreyes. He loves hanging out with his Dad and his siblings and working with Fair Trade San Diego and Fair Trade La Mesa to educate companies and consumers about buying and goods with a good-karma pedigree.
After 18 years, Ephraim Mallari is still the kid who wanted to work in an ice-cream shop. As long as the serving doesn't stop at the counter.
"I used to think I was going to be a teacher, but I feel like I am doing that now. With fair trade, I am letting people know that helping out can be as simple as buying a cup of (fair-trade) coffee. The economy isn't just local, it is global, and everyone is linked in some way. With my employees, I'm teaching them that they are not just serving customers, they are connected to the community.
"I might still teach one day," he says. "When I'm done having fun scooping ice cream."


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Catherine Russell, a genuine jazz and blues vocalist who can sing virtually anything, will open the Tusten Theatre fall season with pianist Mark Shane on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m.
A native New Yorker, Catherine Russell has toured the world performing and recording with Paul Simon, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Levon Helm and Rosanne Cash, among others.
She launched the European tour of her fourth CD, Strictly Romancin' in February, followed by a North American tour in May, playing to sold out audiences from Amsterdam and Paris to Sacramento and New York.
The new CD explores loves foibles, failures and bliss, from amorous to humorous —t aking listeners on a journey from a New Orleans gin joint to Uptown Cabaret — blurring the distinctions between the carnal and the eternal with songs like "Under the Spell of the Blues" and "I'm Checking Out – Goombye."
Catherine Russell will appear with pianist Mark Shane, known by Tusten Theatre audiences for his stride piano performances.
Mark performed at Tusten in the 1990s and wowed the audience with his piano techniques. Juxtaposing Catherine Russell's incredible voice (CatherineRussell.net) to Mark's talent is the recipe for an unforgettable evening on Oct. 6.
Tusten Theatre is located at 210 Bridge St in Narrowsburg. Tickets are $27 ($25 advance sales for DVAA members). For reservations call the Tusten Theatre box office at 845-252-7272.
For more information, visit www.ArtsAllianceSite.org.
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STOCKTON – A 39-year-old woman answered a knock at her door at 4 a.m. today and was shot, police reported.
The attack took place in the 1000 block of North Wilson Way, north of Acacia Street.
The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of a nonlife-threatening injury, according to a report.
Police knew little more about the incident, noting the victim was uncooperative and did not provide further details.
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About the Book
Author Alix Strauss takes a provocative look at the self-imposed deaths of the famous and infamous in Death Becomes Them. In this fascinating and intimate chronicle of celebrity suicides, the spotlight shines on the lonely last moments of Kurt Cobain and Ernest Hemingway, Abbie Hoffman and Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Dandridge, Sigmund Freud, Hunter S. Thompson, and others. Death Becomes Them explores their sadness and madness, their accomplishments and the circumstances that led to their irreversible decision, and wishes them all a fond final good-bye.
Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler . . . all famous, some rich and powerful, some beloved, some abhorred. But when life and circumstance got to be too much, each headed for the exit door. Sigmund Freud overdosed on morphine. Dorothy Dandridge stripped naked and swallowed a handful of antidepressants. Hunter S. Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone.
These are the lonely personal nightmares behind celebrity suicides—the deaths and their causes are as diverse as the victims themselves. In Death Becomes Them, Alix Strauss bids each one a final good-bye while examining the last days and the unbearable incidents that drove these notables to end their lives. She decodes their notes, touches on their accomplishments, and delves into the methodologies of their deaths using autopsy and police reports and personal photos. Strauss also explores the morbid curiosity that feeds our fixation with famously tortured souls and provides lists of other controversial, bizarre, and poorly executed suicides in this mammoth tome.
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Critical Praise
"A truly unique, compelling and strangely life-affirming work of literary investigation. The perfect book to get you through the night. " — Rona Jaffe, author of The Room-Mating Season, among others
"Dark, grisly, and completely fascinating. I almost felt guilty for so thoroughly enjoying this look at history's most tormented souls." — A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year Of Living Biblically
"Strauss brilliantly exposes the devilry in the details and makes the profoundly moving, self-inflicted end-days of the greats a fascinating read." — Michael Largo, author of Genuis and Heroin
Product Details
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 09/15/2009
- Trimsize: 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.793 in (d)
- Pages: 352
- List Price: 15.99 USD
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Football (Weekend Whine)
With family and friends scattered far and wide, we're often away from home on the weekends. But on the rare occasion when I can be found sitting here with nothing to do on a Saturday night, my mind tends to wander (and wonder.) This often leads to the writing down of thoughts, feelings, reflections, and yes, rants. I may even start a regular feature here on The Other Side of Fifty titled "Weekend Whine." We'll see how this develops.
This particular whine revolves around football as it relates to my life, family and marriage. In my hubby's defense, it's not like I didn't realize he was a football junkie when I married him. I saw the telltale signs of his addiction throughout our courtship but failed to acknowledge and address those track marks peppering the arm of our relationship. Even on our wedding day nearly 31 years ago, when I found him sitting at the bar watching the Ohio State game, I failed to admit to the depth of the addiction. The Buckeyes played Illinois that day and won big, 45-7, and I'm pretty sure they'd have pulled off this win without my husband playing barstool quarterback, but for some reason his addiction kept him from totally giving himself to me that day.
Fast forward to January 17, 1988. If you're a Cleveland Browns fan, I don't even have to elaborate on the misery suffered that day and I apologize in advance for reopening the wound and pouring a bucket of salt into it. That game will forever be referred to as "The Fumble," and as Ernie Byner fell from grace at the Broncos' 3-yard line with 65 seconds remaining , my hubby climbed into the attic, disconnected the cable TV, and stomped off to bed. This of course might be acceptable behavior when you're watching the game with just your wife and children, but when you leave two Bronco fans (whom you'd invited over to watch the game) sitting there on the couch wondering about the game's outcome, it can be a little embarrassing to the wife who's left behind to do the explaining and apologizing.
I've gotten used to being a football widow for the most part. I've found my own interests and hobbies that occupy my time during the fall weekends. Time mellows us all, and I'm a firm believer in picking only the battles that truly matter at this stage of my life. But hubby's latest antics have forced me to suit up in rusted armor once again and take a stand. A few weeks back he texted every Buckeye fan in his cell phone address book and asked if anyone wanted to get in on tickets to next weekend's Ohio State/Indiana game in Bloomington. As the replies came back, the tally grew quickly and hubby then ordered $800 worth of tickets to the game. I was upset about this because he hadn't told me of this plan before he did this, but what came next made me want to drop kick him into next week. It turns out that he'd offered our home as Tailgate Central before the game, promising food and drink to all. I'm almost still OK with that, really I am. But the gauntlet was tossed when he told me that he'd also offered sleeping arrangements to this entire group. That's when I experienced a meltdown the likes of which haven't been seen since November 22, 1986,' when in the season's final game against Michigan, Ohio State kicker Matt Frantz missed the game-winning field goal with a minute left to play. In an attempt to comfort my very upset hubby after the devastating loss, I reached around to hug him and that's when he shrugged away from me and said, "Get the f#*! away from me."
What am I doing next weekend, you ask? I'm going to get the f#*! away from him. I'm packing my bags and heading north to visit a friend. Hubby can play host with the most and figure out what he's cooking and where he's going to sleep twenty people.
(And we'll see if I'm brave enough to leave this post up on my blog for him to see when he gets to work on Monday...LOL)
10 comments:
- Moogie said...
Whoa momma!!!!! Does he read your blog? His co-irkers are going to have a field day with this info.
You could probably be at my house in 12 hours. The clubhouse has a heated indoor pool. And I have a Margarita Machine.
- September 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- Mags said...
Moogie: He does read it and he already knows. I actually posted this last night, then deleted it. I was telling him about it this morning and he wanted me to repost it. So I did! Thanks for the invite for next weekend. Ya knows how much I love margaritas!
- September 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- June said...
Confucious say "a pound of pluck, worth a ton of luck"...ya' got lots of pluck cutie! Love it!
- September 27, 2009 at 6:29 PM
- Mags said...
June: LOL... and I'm getting the pluck out of Dodge next weekend, I can tell you that!
- September 27, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
Love the football rant! My hubby is a football junkie, as well. Last year, I decided it was easier to just join him rather than protest. Mostly I just like trash talking with my brother, who is a Steelers fan (we're Ravens fants). Hope you enjoy your weekend away!
- September 27, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- Mags said...
Thanks Jen! Ohhh... you know how we Browns fans feel about your Ravens!
- September 28, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Co Irker said...
Holy tirade, Lady!
I cannot believe that the man of which you speak is the same sweet, funny, laid back man that we enjoy everyday here at work.
And yes, he asked me to say that. And yes I did because I want him to continue to bring in treats.
But at the same time I'll have to say that I'm sure you know him way better than any of us. (And really I know who really feeds us and I ain't gonna incur your wrath.)
It's a thin line I'm walking here so I'll just stop.
- September 29, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- Mags said...
Co Irker: LOL@ that thin line! In fact, no treats for you this Friday!!
Actually, you weren't going to get treats this Friday anyway because hubby's taking the day off work and I'm going to be out of town.
He's a good man, I know... just ticks me off sometimes!
- September 29, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Mustang Terri said...
Mags, the more I read about you the more I like you. I have been known to say "UMMM you said the "F" word." at work after a co-worker said "FOOTBALL". It is a very handy hubby sitter. But why does it last from August until January, after the Stupid Bowl. If you need someone to feel for you, you got it.
- October 19, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Mags said...
Awww thanks Terri!
- October 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM


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The decision to expand the Dothan landfill will continue into the New Year.
Now attorneys are involved in the decision to move forward.
According to Dothan city commissioners, the city landfill is overflowing and it's time to expand.
But the proposal has been met with a lot of controversy, this time it's opposition over the decision of the zoning adjustment board.
"The staff has read some court decisions that in Alabama that says that for a public purpose or public project that the city zoning laws don't apply in that, municipality," says City Manager Mike West.
So now the commission wants City Attorney Lenton White to request the state Attorney General's opinion on if the city is within its right to allow the zoning board to apply zoning regulations for the expansion.
Even though the vote passed by a 4-2 margin, those who voted "no" think the commission should stick to the zoning board's lack of attention to the matter.
"They have voted, then why should I come back and supersede what the person I have put on the board, they have already voted," says District 1 City Commissioner James Reading.
"We are asking the attorney general to make a decision on how the board of zoning handles non municipal property," says District 2 City Commissioner Amos Newsome.
It's an issue that has been in the works for months now, and once the matter reaches the desk of the attorney general the issue will continue well into the New Year.
"We're hoping the fairly quickly, but we will have over that, you know we are hoping a couple of weeks it could take thirty days," says City Manager Mike West.
Days that will keep the people of Dothan from knowing if and when a 14 dollar and seventy five cent fee will start for trash pick up.
Once the attorney general gives his opinion on the zoning matter, commissioners can decide on how to move forward with expanding the landfill.


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Question: I have asthma and I'm allergic to my cats, but I don't want to give them away. Are there any new treatments for cat allergy?
Answer: Conventional asthma medications are effective. Allergy shots (immunotherapy) for cat allergy generally work. Treatment with anti-IgE is likely to be effective. Work is in progress on oral and inhaled immunotherapy. Some doctors believe that weekly bathing of the cat reduces exposure to allergens enough to decrease symptoms. There are also cleaning products available from allergy supply houses that help to break down cat allergen that may be trapped in carpeting or furniture.
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