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Sushi lovers rejoice. The beloved Asian cuisine has finally made its way to Marietta.
Shogun Sushi and Hibachi quietly opened Dec. 3 in the Lafayette Shopping Center and has already amassed a loyal core of customers.
"We need more tables," joked Andy Laksond, who partnered with owner Bam Bang Sutanto to open the Marietta restaurant.
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Employees at Shogun Sushi and Hibachi sit down to enjoy some of the restaurants varied dishes, including sushi and sashimi. For those who not enjoy seafood, the restaurant also offers hibachi, or grilled dishes such as chicken and steak.
In fact, business has been favorable enough that there have already been talks of expanding the restaurant, he said.
Sutanto, who already owns two sushi restaurants in Beckley, W.Va. and Wytheville, Va., decided to open a restaurant in Marietta because he noticed there were not many local options for people who like Japanese cuisine, said Laksond.
Sushi is a traditional Japanese food that combines vinegared rice and other ingredients, typically raw seafood, rolled in seaweed or a similarly thin wrap.
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Shogun Sushi and Hibachi
Location: Lafayette Shopping Center, 466 Pike St., Marietta.
Hours: Open Monday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, noon - 10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Phone: 376-0088.
Menu: Offers sushi, hibachi, nigiri and sashimi dishes.
Also available for take-out orders.
However, Laksond and Sutanto, who are both Indonesian, have brought some Indonesian flair to the dishes at Shogun.
"Indonesian food is spicy," Laksond said.
In addition, the restaurant also offers sashimi, which is raw, sliced meat; hibachi dishes, which are grilled meats such as chicken, shrimp, steak, and more; nigiri, which is seafood with rice; and tempura, which are fried versions of the sushi rolls.
Their most popular dish has been the Yum Yum roll, a sushi roll that contains crab, cucumber, avocado and cream cheese, said Laksond.
"It's very yummy, just like the name says," he said.
The traditional Japanese cuisine fills a void, said some local residents.
Reno resident Barbara Leimkuehler, 41, said she loves good sushi, and living in California for 10 years, she was able to try her fair share of the dish.
Shogun Sushi and Hibachi did not disappoint, she said.
"They have a very limited menu because they are new and a smaller business. But I was very impressed with the sushi rolls and the fish was fresh," said Leimkuehler.
The restaurant is open Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The restaurant also offers take-out and their menu can be found on their "Shogun Marietta" Facebook page, said Laksond.
As for the plans to expand, they are merely tentative for now, he said. But the sushi business in Marietta looks promising.
"Marietta people-they love sushi!" said Laksond.


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Wojciech Smarowski's haunting love story wrapped in a tragic tale of war takes place during a little-known period of Polish history: the post-World War II persecution of the Masurians, indigenous residents of the region that is now northeastern Poland.
When the area known as Masuria reverts to Polish rule after years of German control, residents face discrimination from Poles who consider them German enemies. Another threat: Russian soldiers who pillage and plunder as they resettle Poles annexed to the Soviet Union during the war. The Masurians, descendants of the Baltic Prussians (German-speaking Lutherans), are forced to undergo humiliating nationalizing procedures and attacks, all the while juggling which language to speak in order to survive.
Tadeusz, a soldier in the failed Warsaw uprising, sheds his uniform in an effort to slough off his violent past after witnessing his wife's rape and murder by conquering soldiers. He seeks out war widow Rose, an indigenous Masurian who herself has been savagely raped repeatedly. Sharing her sadness and disgust with war, he clears Rose's potato field of land mines. He offers her his protection, even as she faces brutal persecution and the failure of her health, and the two live together on her farm. With time, they develop a deep and mature love in this heartrending tale of endurance.
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In the past couple of days, I've come across a couple of articles** about space and space exploration that got me asking the following, kinda random questions …
Why haven't we found other forms life in space yet? More importantly, why haven't other forms of life found us? And could the fact that we haven't had any extraterrestrial encounters be at least somewhat supportive of the theory that humans are indeed a unique species, and that maybe there is a god or divine presence that approximates the concept as detailed by many of Earth's practiced religions?
Now I kind of understand why we haven't found life yet (by the way, this entire post presumes that Area 51 conspiracies and the like have no bearing in fact, that we have neither seen nor been seen by extraterrestrials, which admittedly is an awfully big presumption). Our space exploration attempts are still too immature, and we've barely begun to penetrate the infinite universe beyond our own galaxy, so our lack of success on the contact front shouldn't be a surprise.
But given that the universe is infinite, wouldn't one have to assume that there are also an infinite number of planets that DO harbor life and that at least on a few of those planets (if not an infinite number of them), that those life forms are so advanced that they've developed much better means of exploring the universe, including the means to contact us.
I know I've always thought that it seems almost incomprehensible to think that we're alone in this universe, but doesn't the fact that we haven't been contacted yet by ETs mean that life may in fact not exist anywhere else? Ok, this is a bit of a stretch of an analogy, and a bit silly to boot, but this line of thought is kind of like how I have to assume that our species never develops the ability to time travel because if we ever did wouldn't we somehow know about it (or perhaps the second we do develop it and test it out, we rip open the space-time continuum and destroy the universe just like Doc Brown always feared).
And if we are alone, what does that say if anything about the god question? I don't think the answer to the question of whether life exists outside this planet would by itself prove or disprove god's existence. However, I have always felt it would be very tough for most organized religions to square their beliefs and their written source materials with the existence of ETs. But isn't the reverse also true – as long as we are unable to find life outside our little planet, doesn't that support the mostly religious theory that Earth is a singularly unique place, and humans a special species whose purpose for being here is a divine mystery to be solved?
Or am I missing something very basic here?
** One article was actually a fascinating photo journal of some amazing pictures a NASA spacecraft recently took of Saturn. The other story talked about the fact that researchers have found a couple of planets outside our solar system that appear to be same size of Earth (but likely too hot to harbor life).


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- There's a summer program for women at Carleton College and we have a personal XU testimonial!
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Some University of Tulsa alumni say they're hoping the school's second high-profile leadership scandal in a year is a fluke and expressed hope that it has turned a corner after the personnel struggles.
Athletic director Ross Parmley was fired on Tuesday, a week after he was linked to a federal investigation of a man accused of running a gambling operation in Oklahoma City.
In September, Tulsa fired Geoffrey Orsak as president after 74 days on the job. The private school never gave a reason for the quick dismissal.
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- Amgen Tour of California notebook: Rider Robbie Squire scoffs at the heat
- Amgen Tour of California: Cycling, suffering and ice-filled panty hose beat Bay Area heat
- Tour of California: Rohan Dennis wins Stage 3 on Mount Diablo
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SACRAMENTO -- Here comes the hot stuff. The Amgen Tour of California might come down to one heart-thumping, stir-fried moment Tuesday from San Jose to the summit of Mount Diablo.
America's most prestigious cycling event, which begins Sunday in Sacramento, anticipates a Bay Area stage where it all boils over for 128 riders facing the twin pillars of Mount Hamilton and Mount Diablo during a heat wave. With the National Weather Service forecasting temperatures in the 90s, the 108½-mile course is expected to be one of the most trying stages in the tour's nine-year history.
"You need to drink, drink, drink so not to be completely dehydrated on the last climb" up Mount Diablo to finish Stage 3, said Germany's Jens Voigt, who has appeared in every tour.
Extreme temperatures took a toll on riders last year during the second day in Palm Springs. The tour now faces the possibility of losing riders to heat exhaustion on the marquee "Queen's Stage."
"It does have a strong effect on the body, and everybody has to be careful about it," Voigt added.
The 22 switchbacks up the spine of 4,216-foot Mount Hamilton will be a "shock to the system," said Santa Rosa-based Peter Stetina, BMC Racing's leader. "It is going to throw a lot of guys in the red."
About three hours later awaits the torture chamber 10.8-mile ascent to the top of Mount Diablo. In previous years, racers have confronted Hamilton or Diablo, but this is the first time the two have been combined.
Competitors said they will have enough time to recover from the Hamilton ascent to give it their all on Diablo -- weather permitting.
"The last 1½ miles, that's where the real game will begin," U.S. pro Fred Rodriguez, of Berkeley, said. "That's where the fire will happen."
Team Sky veteran Danny Pate added that the first ascent will wear on the legs, but "Hamilton won't have quite the sting."
The tour opens with a 120-mile stage starting and finishing in Sacramento and concludes eight days later in Thousand Oaks.
For the second time in the tour's history, the early stages are designed to play a pivotal role in the outcome, a risk for organizers who try to build to a climatic ending. Race officials hope a second mountain finish Friday in Southern California will provide enough mystery to keep the outcome in doubt until the final weekend.
"I don't think those mountain finishes are as straightforward as they look," said Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins, who won the 2012 Tour de France.
Wiggins and others predict fierce racing beyond Stage 3 with the possibility of a new leader by next weekend.
"At the end of day, it is up to the riders to decide how the race works out," said Team Sky's Ian Boswell, a rising star from Bend, Oregon.
First, however, competitors must conquer the Bay Area's Diablo Range. The mountain stage begins at Lake Cunningham in San Jose, the only host city to participate in every tour.
The Mount Hamilton climb comes five miles into the stage -- about 12 hours after an all-out sprint Monday in a 12.6-mile individual time trial in Folsom. Cyclists use different bicycles, racing positions and muscles for time trials and serious climbs.
The double punch gives racers little recovery time -- but plenty of opportunity to distance themselves from rivals.
"You have to be on from Day 1," said BMC Racing coach Bobby Julich, a pro during the Lance Armstrong era. "There is no riding into the race this year."
A year ago, when the Tour of California route ran from south to north, BMC's Tejay van Garderen won the overall title after finishing first in the Stage 6 uphill time trial in the hills east of San Jose. In Stage 7 the next day, he held off his main challengers by placing third atop Mount Diablo.
While van Garderen is focusing on the Tour de France this year, BMC is giving Stetina a chance to win his first major event.
Stetina, 27, has plenty of competition, however. Britain's Wiggins has targeted California as one of his major goals a year after struggling with health issues.
In 2012, Wiggins became the first rider to win the Tour de France and an Olympic gold medal in the same year. He also is the first Brit to win in France.
Others to watch include the Netherlands' Laurens ten Dam of Belkin Pro Cycling Team, Spain's Haimar Zubeldia of Trek Factory Racing and Houston's Lawson Craddock of Giant-Shimano.
All the talk about the mountains doesn't impress Joe Dombrowski of Marshall, Virginia. After all, the Team Sky climber trains in the French Alps.
But the promising young American added a caveat that every cyclist could appreciate:
"Anything can be made hard if you go fast enough," he said.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865. Follow him at Twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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BRECKENRIDGE - After a successful pilot season last summer, owners of Breckenridge's ProRodeo are looking to bring the event back in 2013 for a longer run with more events.
With approval to extend the rodeo from five weekends to 11 this year, Breckenridge Stables owner and rodeo sponsor Brad Bays is now asking the town to consider allowing Saturday morning children's events and a few Friday night performances to the program.
"The kid's rodeo came about due to the high demand of kids' events last year," Bays stated in a written request to the town council. "During the ProRodeo, there is just not enough time to accommodate everything."
Bays is also looking to add a championship bull riding event on July 19 and the Million Dollar Bucking Bull Championship on the Friday of Labor Day weekend.
The extended agenda would require livestock to be brought in on Friday nights, rather than Saturday mornings like last year.
The fledgling rodeo runs only on weekends, with the majority of the participants and infrastructure packing up and moving out by Monday morning.
Though the council isn't slated to discuss the event expansion until tonight's work session, some town leaders initially showed hesitation at further growing an event that was somewhat unwelcome among neighbors.
"It's the slippery slope I was afraid of, basically," Councilman Ben Brewer said. "I agree that, on the one hand, I'd like to see the guy be successful. But if we have to become a rodeo town for that to happen, I'm not in favor of that. What this feels like to me is a rodeo all day, every weekend."
The rodeo sparked a heated debate when sponsors initially pitched the ideal last spring. Opponents expressed concerns about everything from animal cruelty to noise in the area on summer evenings to impacts on the town's historic character. But proponents, particularly from the downtown business sector, favored the addition to the town's event calendar saying it would help fill rooms during the sometimes slow summer season.
But over the course of the five weeks of its first trial season, the rodeo accumulated only a handful of complaints and elicited glowing reports from professionals monitoring animal welfare.
"We had very, very few issues," Breckenridge spokeswoman Kim Dykstra-DiLallo said. "It was a really positive experience all the way around."
Of Breckenridge business owners surveyed after the rodeo, 75 percent were supportive of the event, although as many as 40 percent said they didn't think it benefitted their business.
The rodeo, officially billed the Breckenridge PRCA ProRodeo, ran weekends from Aug. 4 through the beginning of September at the town-owned overflow skier parking lots located on the north end of town.
Approximately 1,000 people attended the rodeo each night, far outpacing the expected crowds of 250-500 per day. But the event cost Bays three times more than expected as well, according to the staff report.
Bays has said he needs to expand the event to make it financially viable.
The rodeo is set to kick off June 22 and run through Sept. 1.


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The band of comics was approached by Google to produce material for a new online comedy destination, a channel that offered them free reign to produce their brand of experimental comedy. The channel made its debut at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas last weekend.
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DURHAM — Dunking in a tub of ice water after exercise — a surprisingly popular post-workout regimen used by athletes to reduce inflammation and speed recovery — is time consuming and bone-achingly painful. New research from the University of New Hampshire finds that it may not be effective, either.
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Area farmers and agri-business personnel are headed back into eight area classrooms to share their knowledge and expertise with 175 students. This is the fourteenth year that Watonwan County Farm
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Each student will receive several keepsakes from a variety of the area commodity organizations including the Pork Producers, Corn and Soybean Growers, Dairy Association and Watonwan County Farm Bureau.
"Teachers provide a vital link to their students and our future consumers," Gieseke said. She farms with her husband Peter just south of St. James on a third generation dairy farm. "As students and families move further away from the farm, some of the basics of food and fiber production are taken for granted.
Changing technology and the availability of processed and prepared foods is accepted in America where in other countries they worry about where the next meal might come from."
Minnesota is the 5th largest agricultural producer in the United States. Employment in Agriculture and food industry accounts for 15 percent of total jobs in Minnesota. Two thirds of those jobs are off the farms in processing, distribution, supply and service sectors.
Agriculture is providing the world's growing population with safer and healthier food and at the same time doing more than ever to protect
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Farm Bureau is an organization steeped in tradition and formed to help represent farmers and rural interests. We have also expanded our educational outreach by assisting a growing general public in their understanding of food production, economics and product development. Our members are very interested in providing avenues and resources to assist in the integration of agriculture into the classroom and allowing students the time to interact with area farmers or agribusiness specialists as they share their story on food production.
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Interior Department Moves Forward on Offshore Renewable Energy
November 7, 2007
The U.S. Department of Interior released its Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for alternative energy and other alternative uses of the outer continental shelf (OCS) on November 6th. The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has regulatory oversight for any renewable energy developments on the OCS, and the final programmatic EIS examines the potential environmental effects of alternative uses on the OCS over the next 5 to 7 years—including offshore wind power and wave and tidal energy projects—and identifies policies and best management practices that may be adopted to address those potential effects. It also assesses potential impacts from development, operation, and decommissioning of renewable energy facilities and identifies key issues and mitigation measures that should be considered by subsequent site-specific reviews. The EIS will support the establishment of an MMS program that provides for the efficient and orderly development of renewable energy projects on the OCS. The MMS plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the program in the spring of 2008. See the OCS Alternative Energy and Alternative Use Programmatic EIS Information Center.
To allow developers of offshore renewable energy projects to make some progress before the MMS program is established, the MMS is also proposing to establish an interim policy that provides for offshore energy resource assessment and technology testing activities. Under this interim policy, the MMS may issue limited-term leases for such activities, subject to compliance with relevant federal statutes. Developers requesting such leases must also obtain necessary approvals for the construction and placement of associated structures on the OCS lease area. The MMS warns that the leases will confer no priority rights to subsequently develop a renewable energy facility on the OCS. The MMS will accept public comments on the interim policy until January 7th and will also accept project nominations during this time period. MMS is also developing a lease form to be issued for public comment at a later date. See the MMS press release and the official notices on the Final Programmatic EIS and the proposed interim policy as published in yesterday's Federal Register.


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Haywood contends that he was libeled by two freshman students at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont (the "College"), who, as an assignment for a course, created a candidate profile of Haywood, as one of twenty-seven lesser known candidates running in the New Hampshire presidential primary, which their professor then posted on the College's website a week before the primary with the profiles of the other candidates.
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5.1 Introduction
5.5.1In her book Denying the Holocaust, it will be remembered, Lipstadt makes a series of allegations about Irving's work, both indirectly, by describing him as a Holocaust denier, and directly, by referring to him in person. Lipstadt argues that Holocaust deniers 'misstate, misquote, falsify statistics, and falsely attribute conclusions to reliable sources. They rely on books that directly contradict their arguments, quoting in a manner that completely distorts the authors' objectives' (p. 111). Since this statement comes immediately after the allegation that Irving has become a Holocaust denier, the implication that he does all these things too is unmistakable. Indeed, Lipstadt also claims that scholars 'have accused him of distorting evidence and manipulating documents to serve his own purposes' and of 'skewing documents and misrepresenting data in order to reach historically untenable conclusions' (p. 161). 'Familiar with historical evidence, he bends it until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda...he is most facile at taking accurate information and shaping it to confirm his conclusions' (p. 181).
5.1.2It is important to unravel the normal or common-sense meaning of these charges in order to determine whether or not it is reasonable to conclude after examining Irving's work that they are justified. If we put them in (a more or less arbitrary) order, they can be summarised as follows:
- 1.Irving misstates. This would seem to mean that he gives a false account of historical fact.
- 2.Irving misquotes. This must mean that he does not quote from historical documents in an accurate manner. Such misquotation can include suppression of vital parts of such documents as well as false and inaccurate quotations from the documents themselves.
- 3.Irving falsifies statistics.
- 4.Irving falsely attributes conclusions to reliable sources.
- 5.Irving relies on books that directly contradict his arguments, quoting in a manner that completely distorts the authors' objectives.
- 6.Irving distorts evidence and manipulates documents to suit his own purposes.
- 7.Irving skews documents and misrepresents data in order to reach historically untenable conclusions.
- 8.Irving bends historical evidence until it conforms to his own ideological leanings and political purposes.
- 9.Irving takes accurate information and shapes it to confirm his conclusions. The implication is that the conclusions have been reached before the information has been evaluated, and that in using accurate information, in this way, Irving distorts it.
5.1.3It has already been shown in the preceding sections of this Report how Irving adopts a variety of procedures which conform to several of the techniques of falsification and manipulation laid out in Lipstadt's list. He bends and wilfully mistranslates reliable sources; he deliberately suppresses evidence which runs counter to his argument; he skews evidence and misquotes by omitting vital parts of documents and by mistranslating other parts which he does cite; he takes accurate and reliable sources such as the Himmler phone log and shapes and bends it to suit his purposes by including speculation and pure invention which is in no way warranted by the documentary record; he misrepresents data by presenting unreliable sources as reliable when they serve his argument; he relies on books such as memoirs and diaries that directly contradict his argument, and interprets them in a way that runs counter to what the authors intended, falsely attributing to them conclusions which they did not reach.
5.1.4All of this Irving does in order to support the historically untenable conclusion that Hitler neither knew nor approved of the extermination of the Jews, and that insofar as persecution of Jews came to his notice, he did his best to stop it. This conclusion is untenable because, as we have seen above, all of Irving's attempts to prove it rest on a falsification of history. An accurate and unbiased reading of relevant parts of the documentation, as we saw in the previous section, would indeed lead any reasonable person to conclude that Hitler did indeed know, approve of and in documented instances order the killing of large numbers of Jews. But it is not necessary to prove this point beyond all reasonable doubt in order to prove that Irving is manipulating the evidence to reach an untenable conclusion. It is the untenability of Irving's argument that Hitler did not know or approve of the mass murder of the Jews that is at issue, not the validity of the contrary argument that he did.
5.1.5Part IV of this Report takes these points further, and examines other aspects of Irving's work where he is not directly engaged in the exculpation of Hitler. It begins with a discussion of one point so far largely (though not entirely) left to one side, namely the charge that Irving falsifies statistics. This Report has already shown how he falsifies statistics in the matter of the numbers killed in bombing raids on Hamburg and Pforzheim; it will now examine in more detail his account of the numbers killed in the 1945 Allied bombing raid on Dresden.
5.1.6The Report then turns to Irving's use of one particular kind of source, namely the testimony, mostly postwar, of Hitler's adjutants, much of it elicited from them in interviews by Irving himself. This will provide further evidence, on a more general level, in support of the conclusions reached above, particularly, though not exclusively, in connection with Irving's attempt to exculpate Hitler from responsibility for the extermination of the Jews.
5.1.7Finally, the Report details the ways in which Irving seeks to explain those acts of Nazi antisemitism which he can neither dismiss nor ignore. Here too, it will be demonstrated that Irving's methods involve a wholly unprofessional and dishonest falsification of the historical record.
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In 'Safe House,' the new edge of your seat thriller opening Friday, Oscar winner Denzel Washington plays Tobin Frost, the CIA's most dangerous traitor who bewilders the U.S. intelligence community when he voluntarily hands himself into their embassy in South Africa.
But complications arise when mercenaries attack the safe house where rookie Ryan Reynolds is holding Frost. After a shoot out he's forced to help him escape and stay on the run long enough to uncover who wants them both dead.
It's a gripping plot that asks thorny moral questions about the methods the U.S. has adopted to track and question detainees since 9/11. Water boarding, holding suspects without charge or trial and every other blatant abuse of international human rights rules are all front and center of this incredibly gripping film.
It's because Safe House asks tough questions while keeping the action galloping at breakneck speed that it succeeds on all fronts. The moral murkiness of the rogue traitor (Washington) versus the idealistic rookie agent (Reynolds) is further amped up by the appearance of a totally compromised CIA bigwig played by Brendan Gleeson. It's just the kind of role he gravitates to, he says.
"It's quite easy at the stage of life that I'm at now to look around you and see all sorts of unworthy people gaining by your efforts, and you being left behind in general ways and then to starting to become disillusioned," Gleeson tells the Irish Voice, explaining his compromised characters motivation.
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"My character kind of shares that outlook with Tobin Frost, but not to the same extreme."
One of the things that Gleeson wanted to tease out of the script of Safe House was just what his level of corruption was.
"It appeared to me he would pocket things that would otherwise be going into government coffers, but nevertheless he felt he was still the good guy," Gleeson said.
"He really doesn't think he's abandoned himself to the wrong side and become a bad guy. People rarely ever think that though, do they? He just thinks of himself as a guy who's decided to make the best for himself in that kind of hard done by way that a lot of people can use to justify their behavior."
The question for the audience is has Gleeson's character completely lost his principles? After all, at first he comes across as a stand up guy.
"It's a very interesting relationship between himself and Weston (Reynolds) whom he's mentoring.
Even at the end he congratulates Weston for bringing Frost in without noticing that in the process he's abandoned his own side. I found him very complex to be honest," Gleeson said.
It's easy to rationalize your own bad behavior by blaming other people's shortcomings and misdemeanors for it. After Gleeson's character gets involved in so-called Black Ops it becomes extremely difficult for him to maintain his moral high ground or his own convictions.
So it turns out that illegality and human rights abuses have a corrosive effect on the good guys as much as the bad, and Safe House underlines there's a cost attached.
"My character doesn't see himself as a bad guy, he sees himself as a guy who's made a bad situation work for himself," says Gleeson.
"Obviously he has to protect his decisions when the pressure's on. I found him interesting, and I have to say I liked the director Daniel Espinosa a lot."
What makes Safe House such a departure from the superhero spy antics of others like James Bond and Jason Bourne is that Reynolds's character isn't bullet proof. He can be hurt, and he is hurt badly.
Reynolds is also a revelation in the role, playing both toughness and sensitivity in a way that seems honest and recognizably human, and that makes the film all the more compelling.
"That reminds me of a conversation I had with Don Cheedle in The Guard (the film that broke Irish box office records) where I ask him if he's been shot and does it hurt? In Safe House the violence you see has consequences," Gleeson says.
"You see all these bullets flying around, but it ratchets the tension up a little bit and makes it more human. We do get kind of inured with all these films where millions of bullets fly but never seem to hit the heroes."
Meanwhile, the long awaited film version of the Irish masterpiece At Swim Two Birds is taking up all of Gleeson's time as both director and producer. But is it any closer to shooting?
"Well, fingers crossed, we're trying to stitch it in this year. All things are going well but we're not quite there yet. We're hoping to be there in the next month or two to where we put a start date on it," Gleeson says.
The cast, if the film gets green lit, reads like a who's who of Irish acting royalty, including Michael Fassbender, Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers for a start.
"This has been going for a while now. I'm trying not to get too hyped up about anything. I'm waiting for the apple to fall essentially. Fingers crossed and it's all in place. Hopefully we'll get the go-ahead."
Another recent critically acclaimed turn for Gleeson was his performance opposite Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs. Gleeson played a doctor from Belfast in the film and he's proud to be associated with it (Close has received an Oscar nomination for the title role).
"There was an incredible amount of estrogen on that set, as opposed to testosterone on Safe House. There are so many performances I loved in that film," Gleeson says.
"You were allowed to explore a region that's not often explored. It just felt good to have a female perspective framing it.


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eat like a monster eat ham burgers
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That's exactly what you dont want to do. You need a plan on how you will gain the weight while still staying in shape, what you will eat, etc..
just a joke
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Im 13, 5'4, and I weigh 100. I want to be 115-120
Alright well you should be eating around 2,500+ calories a day. Along with that you should be working out and excercising. Aslong as you consume 500+ calories a day than you burn you'll start gaining weight. It takes 3,500 more calories than the calories you burn in a day to gain 1lb. If it seems like it's taking too long eat more but if you start to see yourself developing a gut then ease down a bit. Oh, and don't be downing burgers and fries and all that junk. You also have to eat healthy! Foods high in protein and low in fat will help (chicken breast, salmon, tuna, egg whites, etc)
Ok, I consume about 1600 calories a day though. Should i up my eatting?
yep eat like a monster
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dont forget the big mac the fries and the shake.and some chicken nuggets .eat like a monster ha ha
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also when u see u have a gut just eat more next time 2 big macs
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Like I said, try going for 2,000 at least. 2,500 to make it go a bit faster maybe but if it seems like you're getting a big stomach then go cut down a little.
Haha bro I am exactly same age and height. I weigh 120 though. I guess just eat more. Make sure to eat more Healthy food, not junk food, so you get stronger and not fatter.
I'm seriously 166 lbs.! I really want to be at 120-125
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So my youngest brother, Lil Bot, visited me in NYC and now a handful of people want me to guide them through the sites and saloons of New York City. Visitors meet me from time to time, so I'm getting the tour guide thing down pretty well. Here are some of the things I pointed out to Lil Bot that I can show and tell you:
"All the bridges in New York are special because they were either the first of their kind or historic. The most photographed bridge after the Golden Gate Bridge is probably The Brooklyn Bridge. It's important because both Godzilla and the monster from Cloverfield attacked people there."
"Here's the Ghostbusters building."
"That's the Empire State Building. King Kong climbed that in the first and last version of the movies. In the '80s version he climbed the World Trade Center."
"The weird-shaped thing is the Flatiron Building. That's where the Daily Bugle is, in the Spider-Man movie. The Daily Bugle isn't a real newspaper though. The Daily Planet is where Superman works, but that's not a real paper either, neither is Metropolis a real city."
"The Chrysler Building is where Spider-Man first fought The Vulture."
"Those houses are called brownstones. That's where Will Smith lives in I Am Legend. That movie sucks by the way. The book is a lot better. So is the Charlton Heston version Omega Man."
While walking around my youngest sibling made a very funny observation after I pointed out some sort of landmark.
Lil Bot interrupted me, "You really know nothing about this city except where fake science fiction crap and Spider-Man fights happened."
Which, in many ways, is totally true. But I also know where to find the best Vietnamese sandwiches and cheap booze.
Metropolis IL, would like to have a word about its realness with you...
This forum needed shankig up and you've just done that. Great post!
Your arms look as big as my head in this pic. And as I was reading this, I was thinking "He always references every landmark back to a movie or superhero of some sort." But then I got to the bottom and Lil Bot totally stole my idea. I was about to call you out.
Not your typical tour guide, huh? Absolutely amazing, in a bit lame, but entertaining way. Loved it :D
And agreed, I am Legend sucks. Especially the alternative version on the DVD. What the hell were they thinking?
Way to move while I'm in Europe for the semester. Ptshh.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is way more famous, one of the big alien ships in Independance Day crashed over it and... ummm, if all the humans suddenly died then it would be the last bridge to fall. True story, i saw it on some show once. Without Will Smith.
Of course, you would post this right before you have to retire as tour guide....


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If you are like me, which I know a lot of you are, you have a job, you are a full time student, and you are in a relationship. On paper that may not seem like a big deal, but to do well in all three areas, it takes a lot of energy, time, and patience. Over the years, being married has helped me learn a few ways to maintain good standing in all three of these important areas of my life. Here are some of my tips that can hopefully help you maintain perfect balance between working, being a college student, and having a great relationship.
1. Designate Specific Days
This may not work for everyone, but having a date night for my husband and I, has helped out so much. Every Thursday night ( sometimes another night due to our schedule) is a night just for the two of us. We don't necessarily have to go out, sometimes we stay in, drink wine, and play board games or watch a movie. It's a night for us to do whatever we want. This also works for homework – set a day to get as much done as possible. I have class all day Tuesday, so my designated school work day is Tuesday nights. This help me to stay organized and know when I can get my homework done.
2. Work Together
Sometimes it's nice to do your homework with your significant other, that way you are still spending time with each other, but you are also getting your work done too. It's nice because I don't have to let any of my priorities slide and I can have an awesome study partner. You can also do homework with friends too.
3. Don't Do Homework At Your Job
It may seem like a good idea to kill two birds with one stone, especially if work is slow, but chances are your boss isn't going to like paying you to do your homework. You can't excel at your job if your attention is focused on something else and your homework won't be done well if you're not completely focused on it.
A college student typically has a million things going on at once. Hopefully these tips can help give you some ideas on how to make sure your time is balanced so that not only everything can get done, but also so you are enjoying yourself without any wasted energy or stress.
What do you like to do to make sure you balance everything you do?


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Obviously the Mayan doomsday thing was nothing to worry about.
And, no, the world is not going to end when the Earth is sucked into some black hole or hit by a screaming meteor. Stop worrying about such nonsense.
The truth is we're going to bring the end of the world upon ourselves through one simple act: Upgrading.
Talk about doomsday. All I wanted to do was upgrade the Wi-Fi signal in our modest home. OK, "wanted" might be a little strong. I'm a proud late adopter. I hate to upgrade. I don't want to make my technology better because I know that always makes it worse.
But our 8-year-old router constantly crashed. It was slow in delivering the goods when we'd try to load Web pages, especially in the evening when apparently the entire neighborhood was downloading "The Godfather" trilogy.
Anyway, how hard could it be to replace a router?
I decided to swap our overpriced Airport Extreme with a new overpriced Airport Extreme. Hey, the thing lasted eight years and I wanted something that would work seamlessly with the smaller Airport Express we use to broadcast our iTunes over our old living room stereo speakers. Besides, Alan at the Apple (AAPL) store explained that what you're paying for is the customer service, the support, the knowledge that if anything goes wrong, Apple will make it right.
But what could possibly go wrong? Other than our DSL modem croaking as soon as I hooked up the new router.
I called AT&T, our Internet provider. The technician came up with a solution, but not before asking me to unplug and plug in every conceivable cord and cable. (I became a little suspicious when she had me unplug the toaster and then plug it back in.) Oh, the solution? Sixty-nine dollars for a new modem sent by UPS.
Thus began the dark days -- 80 straight hours without a home Internet connection. And no, none of us were armed with a smartphone. (Late adopter, remember?) I've heard about people who swear by "unplugging," going on a digital diet, shutting off life's machines and living life's precious moments.
Listen, it's one thing to voluntarily push yourself away from the digital feast sated. It's another to be desperately seeking the smallest crumb of Internet connectivity.
At hour 36, after I'd crept over to the neighbor's house to feed off their robust Wi-Fi signal, I saw a Facebook post from my cousin: "Yesterday was my second Sunday without technology. My choice to begin this practice. I highly recommend taking a day off from handheld devices and laptops, to do what we would have done before technology arrived!"
Uh, what?
The thing is, technology has arrived and it's here for a reason: I need it.
For days, I walked around in an Internetless daze. I didn't know if my alma mater was playing basketball or whether various very important people were trying to reach me by email. I couldn't look up the ZIP code for Scituate, Mass. I couldn't track the progress of the online Christmas gift assault we'd launched through Amazon and Shutterfly.
On day three of the darkness, our 15-year-old daughter, Riley, realized she was going to have to text her friend just to find out what the weather forecast was.
"We live in a cave," she said. "We have no knowledge."
And it was true. Google (GOOG), you see, isn't making us dumber. Google is making us smarter. Without it, we didn't know anything, including what to do with ourselves.
Of course, I made the speech when the Internet went dark. "Kids, this will be great. We'll huddle together and play board games. We can read by the fire. Maybe Mom will knit us sweaters or churn some butter."
But I didn't believe any of it, and neither did my wife or two daughters. In fact, they began to turn on me. As if it were my fault that we didn't have an Internet connection. Well, I mean, it was my fault, but shouldn't I get credit for trying to make our lives better?
The new modem did finally arrive. I hooked it up and -- after two more calls to AT&T and an hour or so of tinkering with settings -- the Internet was back. Mostly.
No, the Airport Express would no longer play our iTunes over the old speakers and our wireless printer didn't work. But YouTube, Facebook, "Words with Friends" -- they were all back.
And that Airport Express problem? Nothing a quick trip to the Apple Genius Bar and $83 couldn't fix. (Why is it the genius advice from the Genius Bar always seems to be: "Buy a new one.")
So now, after several days, innumerable phone calls, a trip to the Genius Bar and about $350, things are almost as good as they were when I started. No, the printer still doesn't work and I'm too exhausted to wrestle with it.
But you know what? It's not exactly the end of the world.
Contact Mike Cassidy at firstname.lastname@example.com or 408-920-5536. Follow him at Twitter.com/mikecassidy.


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PARKERSBURG - A Wood County man charged with DUI causing death after a Sunday accident was arraigned Wednesday in Wood County Magistrate Court.
Charles A. McFee, 23, 568 Happy Valley Road, Parkersburg, was arraigned before Magistrate Donna Jackson and is in custody in lieu of a $20,000 bond.
Michael T. Galloway, 23, of Davisville, the passenger in McFee's car, died Sunday afternoon at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. McFee and Galloway were transported from the scene to Camden Clark Medical Center's Memorial Campus.
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Galloway was later taken to Ruby Memorial, where he died at 3:10 p.m. Sunday.
McFee was treated and released from Camden Clark Medical Center.
According to a criminal complaint filed in magistrate court, on Sunday McFee was driving a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu that crashed into a tree in the 1900 block of Nicolette Road.
Deputies said McFee was traveling east and had just negotiated a left hand bend in the road, and lost control going into a yaw. The vehicle continued onto the eastbound berm, striking a tree head-on.
McFee and Galloway were located in a residence at 1906 Nicolette Road when deputies arrived.
McFee indicated to the deputies he was driving. Deputies said they noticed an odor of alcohol on McFee's breath and he had slurred and slow speech.
A reconstruction of the crash determined a minimum speed of the vehicle was 40 mph in a 25 mph zone, police said.


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For many years I have enjoyed Oxalis triangularis (Purple Shamrock) and Lucky Shamrock with bright, light green leaves -- both have the characteristic 3-leaflet foliage.
Two weeks ago, I came across Iron Cross (Oxalis tetraphylla) or Lucky Clover, with 4-leaflet foliage and unique reddish-purple band resembling a cross at the center of the cluster.
The flowers are small, dainty and quite beautiful on long, curved flower stems several inches above the foliage.
Iron Cross belongs in the genus Oxalis, the largest genus in the family Oxalidaceae.
It's a perfect plant to add to my houseplant collection as we're getting ready to celebrate St. Patrick's day.
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POS Solutions with an iPad?
I recently came across an interesting solution that allows an iPad to be integrated to a store's POS by simply using an RFID tag, software from Global Bay, a credit card, RFID receiver and RFID antenna, and of course, an iPad. The particular video(below) that I saw used the Zebra RW 220 in order to print customer receipts.
With this solution, retail stores could offer loyalty cards for, let's say, the top 10% of their customers. The loyalty card would be embedded with an RFID chip, and upon the customers' entrance to the store, the store clerk would be alerted on the iPad.
Instantly, information about the customer can be automatically retreived, including all of their past purchases. This creates countless opportunities for enhanced buyer experience. With the wardrobing tool that comes with the software, store clerks would be able to assemble outfits with previously purchased items in conjunction with in-store items in order to create a shopping cart, or even a wish-list that integrates with an e-commerce site for later purchases. Should a product be out of stock, there's even a product locater feature.


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ALAMEDA -- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Alameda's Dance/10 studio on Santa Clara Avenue as 53 tap dancing Christmas trees prepare for Macy's 86th annual Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.
To the strains of Irving Berlin's "Happy Holiday," the dedicated tappers practice their spirited routines under the skillful eye of director/choreographer Pamm Drake. A professional dancer, Drake's many credits include the national touring company of "A Chorus Line," among others, before she settled in Alameda and opened Dance/10. The tap dancing trees began 20 years ago as the finale to one of Dance/10's holiday shows.
"There were only five of us, and we didn't do it the next year," Drake explained. "I couldn't believe how many people asked me what happened and said how much they loved the trees."
From that humble beginning, the dancing trees grew to more than 50 dancers ranging in age from 15—74.
"We have five sets of mothers/daughters and one husband and wife who are in the group this year," Drake said. "While most of our dancers are local, we have some former students now living in Arizona, Oregon and other parts of California who return to dance with the trees."
The group has so much fun doing the extravagant Christmas tree number that Drake began putting together other performance opportunities. In addition to Bay Area venues, they have danced at such places as Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, the Caribbean, Hong Kong and, this year, in London, where they entertained audience members at the Olympics.
The 2012 Thanksgiving Day parade will mark the fourth time the group has tapped its way through the streets of New York. They also appeared in 2001, 2004 and 2007.
"In 2001, we weren't sure the parade would go on, given 9/11, and, this year, after Superstorm Sandy, we didn't know if New York would be able to pull off the parade, but they just said, 'You have to come. We need the parade more than ever this year,'" Drake said.
The parade route has changed slightly over the years but, at three miles long, it's still quite a workout for the tappers who practice long hours and even "parade" around Alameda Point on Sundays. In addition to "Happy Holidays," the sparkly trees will dance to 12 songs including "Rock Around the Christmas Tree," "Need a Little Christmas," and Nat King Cole's "I Am the Happiest Christmas Tree," among others.
"It's kind of funny that out of all the things I've done, what everyone remembers are the dancing Christmas trees," Drake laughed.


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SAN JOSE -- Dating website ChristianMingle.com's slogan is "Find God's Match for You.'' But the match a San Jose divorcee found was anything but holy.
A Nigerian scam artist contacted the 66-year-old woman via the legitimate site. Wooing her with phone calls, text messages and flowers, the ersatz suitor eventually persuaded her to invest more than half a million dollars in his fictitious oil rig, Santa Clara County prosecutor Cherie Bourlard said Wednesday.
To come up with the money, the woman had to dip into her retirement account and refinance her house.
Bourlard, who works in the elder fraud unit, said her office was able to get part of the woman's money back.
But she said the case should serve as a warning to others not to loan or invest money with anyone from a dating website. Older people are particularly vulnerable, she said, because "studies show the ability to make financial decisions is the first to be affected by aging.''
"It's too easy to create a false identity or steal someone else's identity and use it on an online dating site,'' she said.
The scammer who swindled the woman claimed to be a citizen of the United Kingdom working on a Scottish oil rig. But his Skype account and email addresses were later traced to Nigeria.
The woman had turned over the money in increments, and in the last transaction, wired $200,000 to a Turkish bank account. After the victim and her son contacted the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, Bourlard with help from Investigator Tom Newland and senior paralegal Duane Shewaga asked the bank to freeze the funds.
The next day, a man named Wisdom Onokpite tried to withdraw the funds but was arrested and jailed. It turned out he was an associate of the suspect who had entered Turkey using a false passport, Bourlard said.
The bank wired the money back to the woman, but the suitor is still at large, free to troll other the web for victims.
"What's a miracle about this,'' she said, "is anyone got caught.''
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport


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DZHOKHAR: The cover of Rolling Stone
Beneath the magazine cover, what did the article say?
Most people who saw the cover of the August 1, 2013 Rolling Stone, either the postage-stamp-sized version online or on the newsstand edition, seem to agree: it ranked somewhere between tasteless and (as one person posted on my Facebook wall) "disgusting."
But what about the article by Rolling Stone contributing editor Janet Reitman in that issue? Was it too tasteless? Was it also disgusting? Reitman, interviewed after the cover ignited a storm of protests, complained that most of those criticizing the magazine and calling for boycotts had never read her article. And she has a point, because the cover of Rolling Stone and the article titled "Jahar's World" on page 46 exist in separate dimensions. Let's skip past the controversial cover and consider the article, which in many ways is about as controversial as vanilla ice cream. It exists to tell, almost unemotionally, the story of the 19-year-old Russian immigrant who Rolling Stone correctly identifies as "The Bomber." Not "The Suspect" or "The Alleged Killer," but "The Bomber." Give the magazine credit for that truth along with the sub-title explaining Reitman's article: "How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster."
Yes, "monster." Looks like a normal kid, popular, promising; acts like a monster.
The "popular, promising student" was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, younger brother of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the other bomber, who was killed in the police shoot-out that Jahar survived. In Reitman's article, we see Jahar (his nickname) first through the eyes of his wrestling coach at a Cambridge High School. Coach Peter Payack was as stunned as anybody when his son called several days after the bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon and said of a video of the suspect showed on TV, "Dad, that's Jahar."
Reitman would quote Payack: "I felt like a bullet went through my heart. To think that a kid we mentored and loved like a son could have been responsible for all this death. It was beyond shocking. It was like an alternate reality."
Other friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, those inhabiting Jahar's World, felt the same. Reitman pictures Jahar (unlike his older brother) as being on nobody's watch list. "To the contrary," she reports, "after several months of interviews with friends, teachers and coaches still reeling from the shock, what emerges is a portrait of a boy who glided through life, showing virtually no signs of anger, let alone radical political ideology or any kind of deeply felt religious beliefs."
Just like the picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Reitman spends the rest of the article trying to peer behind the cover photo, to paint a portrait, offering countless comments by his high school friends suggesting, if not proving, that Jahar existed as an anomaly, one whose mindless crime could not easily have been predicted, not by any word or action that might have alerted any governmental agency assigned to keep us safe from terrorist acts. Okay, he smoked pot, but so probably do a lot of readers of Rolling Stone. They don't suddenly load a backpack with explosives, take the T to Boylston Street, and leave the pack, or packs, on a corner to detonate and kill and maim people.
Bombs explode all the time in Iraq and Afganistan and the Breaking News offered us by CNN and other cable channels exists mostly as background chatter, another day in the continuing War Against Terror. But this was Boston? And this was our marathon? What went wrong?
Was Jahar "failed by his family," as the sell line on the cover of Rolling Stone suggests? That's a tough question to answer. The young terrorist arrived in the U.S. with his parents at the age of eight. The father got a job as a mechanic at a pay scale just above the minimum wage. The mother worked as a home-health aid, then switched to cosmetology, giving facials at a local salon. They weren't doing great, but they weren't doing badly either. The boys who would become bombers attended the same school in Cambridge once attended by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck of Hollywood fame. Disappointed that America was not the land of milk and honey, the father moved back to Russia, leaving his wife, eventually divorcing her. The wife later was arrested after shoplifting $1,600 and fled to Russia to avoid prosecution. Let's be honest: This family arrived in America with baggage, not baggage acquired after arriving here. Two sisters moved away from the family to New Jersey. An uncle lived outside Washington and seemed to have integrated well into American life. After the bombing, he would be interviewed on TV denouncing his brother's family in Cambridge, seemingly angry at the disgrace the two bombers brought him and those who were having more luck achieving the American Dream.
Jahar's older brother, Tamerlan, returned to Russia for a period, where he may have become radicalized, where he may have learned how to make bombs, then returned to Boston. Reitman devotes little of her article to the older brother, not explaining him, focusing on Jahar. Yet she fails in her attempt to explain Jahar, and I am not being critical of Reitman's journalistic ability. I'm not sure Jahar can be explained. I'm not sure the act of terrorism he committed with his brother can be explained. I don't think the brothers (one of them now dead) could have explained their actions either to themselves, or to the public. The wrestling coach got it right when he said what happened "was like an alternative reality."
"The reality," Reitman writes, "is that none of Jahar's friends had any idea he was unhappy, and they really didn't know he had any issues in his family other than, perhaps, his parents' divorce, which was kind of normal."
So we are left with the teasing question posed on the cover of Rolling Stone. It remains unanswered. We do not know "how a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster." We may never know.
About that cover: Was it tasteless? Was it disgusting? It depends on which way you approach the now iconic cover. If you were the assigning editor at Rolling Stone, who after reading Reitman's article needed to find a way to illustrate it, the photo chosen for the cover seems logical. Again, bland as vanilla ice cream. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was simply a popular, promising person, who somehow became a terrorist and killed a couple of people and injured, severely, a bunch more, and made us all mad, because the 26 miles 385 yards of the marathon course between Hopkinton and Boylston Street is sacred ground, our Mecca, and should not be profaned by popular, promising people. Rolling Stone offers on its cover, a person who was popular and promising. We are offered a Yearbook portrait, a headshot that might have been taken at a high school prom, a photo that actually did appear on the Bomber's Facebook page.
Tasteless? Disgusting? Yes, it was, but also an accurate portrait of a troubled, young man.
Hal Higdon is a contributing editor for Runner's World and author of the soon-to-be-published 4:09:43, a book about the Boston Marathon bombings from the viewpoint of those who ran the race.


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Organic brain syndrome (OBS) is a general term that describes decreased mental function due to a medical disease other than a psychiatric illness. It is often used synonymously (but incorrectly) with dementia.
OBS; Organic mental disorder (OMS); Chronic organic brain syndrome
Listed below are disorders associated with OBS.
Brain injury caused by trauma
Breathing conditions
Cardiovascular disorders
Degenerative disorders
Dementia due to metabolic causes
Drug and alcohol-related conditions
Complications of cancer can also lead to OBS.
Other conditions that may mimic organic brain syndrome include:
Symptoms can differ based on the disease. In general, organic brain syndromes cause:
Tests depend on the disorder, but may include:
Treatment depends on the disorder. Many of the disorders are treated mainly with rehabilitation and supportive care to assist the person in areas where brain function is lost.
Medications may be needed to reduce aggressive behaviors that can occur with some of the conditions.
Some disorders are short-term and treatable, but many are long-term or get worse over time.
People with OBS often lose the ability to interact with others or function on their own.
Call your health care provider if:
Apostolova LG, DeKosky ST, Cummings JL. Dementias. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 66.
Knopman DS. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 409.
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Faced with the prospect of losing their top two nose tackles, the 49ers gave a two-year contract Monday to reserve Ian Williams, who was inactive for all but three games last season.
Starting nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga and versatile lineman Ricky Jean Francois are both slated to become unrestrictred free agents Tuesday at 1 p.m.
Williams' $3.2 million extension includes $2 million guaranteed, with a $1 million signing bonus, according to a league source.
Williams made the 49ers roster in 2011 as an undrafted free agent out of Notre Dame, and he said Monday that this contract extension represents his first career signing bonus.
"I came with a suitcase and some dreams," Williams said. "I was able to call my mom and hear her excitement over the phone and know I have a little more stability now. But it's the tip of the iceberg and I'm willing to dig even deeper to get where I need to be."
He appeared in one game as a rookie, and he tallied six tackles in three games last season.
Asked if he's capable of starting, Williams humble and said he's merely going to "compete" and "do what I need to do."
"We are very pleased to extend the contract of a young, talented player like Ian," general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. "He will have the opportunity to continue to grow in our defense, and we look forward to his future development. Paraag and Drew deserve credit for working hard to put this deal together."
That would be Paraag Marathe, the 49ers' chief operating officer and primary contract negotiator, and Drew Rosenhaus, Williams' agent.
"It's a blessing to know how much I mean to the team and how far I've come since I got here," Williams said.
Going undrafted out of Notre Dame is "still burning in my mind and heart" to prove his worth, and he called it a "blessing in disguise" to end up with the 49ers' strong unit and a father figure for a position coach in Jim Tomsula.
"Watching Ricky and Ice at my position got me ready for the workload I'll partake in the next few seasons," Williams added.
Of Williams' three cameos last season, he appeared in 12 snaps during the 49ers' 42-13 loss at Seattle on Dec. 23. Williams left no doubt how intense things are becoming between the NFC West front runners.
"They've become a huge rival," said Williams, noting that he's enjoyed friendly trash talk with a fellow Notre Dame product on the Seahawks -- wide receiver Golden Tate.
The Seahawks are poised to cause more havoc for Williams and the 49ers defense, having reportedly come to terms Monday on a trade for Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin.