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Mercedes recalls some GL-Class vehicles
Some vehicles made in 2012 may have a problem with seat belts
Published: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:36 p.m.
Mercedes-Benz is recalling about 270 vehicles made at its plant in Vance to correct a potential seat belt problem.
A document filed by Mercedes with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on April 26 said the potential problem exists in 2013 GL-Class sports utility vehicles made between May 15, 2012, and Oct. 4, 2012.
The Mercedes report said seat belt anchor fittings on the second row of the SUV's seats might not have been tightened properly on some of the vehicles and that the vehicles will need to be checked by dealers, who will correct the problem. It said the anchor bolts are tightened using power screwdrivers.
Mercedes plant workers discovered the potential problem with the seat belts in December 2012 during pre-delivery checks, according to the document.
In the following weeks, the plant "determined the root cause of this issue and identified the potentially affected production range of vehicles," it said.
In April, Mercedes notified the NHTSA and said the defective anchoring could potentially affect the approximately 270 vehicles subject to the recall.
Mercedes plans to notify the vehicle owners about the problem. It said all the vehicles are covered by their warranties and that dealers would check and, if necessary, adjust the anchoring at no charge.
The 2013 model GL-Class SUVs marked the start of the model's second generation. A new generation means a model gets a major facelift with new features.
Mercedes started making its 2013 models in early 2012 with the vehicles going on sale at dealerships in September 2012.
Emails to Mercedes-Benz USA requesting comment were not immediately answered. Mercedes-Benz USA is based in New Jersey and is the marketing unit for Mercedes-Benz in the United States. It was listed as filing the recall information with the NHTSA.
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November 17, 2005
News about a rash of robberies involving Dollar General and Family Dollar stores in our area…News 12 has learned that investigators in Richmond and Columbia Counties are working together to see if any of the robberies are connected.
The latest robbery was at the Dollar General store 51-30 Wrightsboro Road in Grovetown. News 12 is on your side with ways to stay safe.
Cindy Lawrence is a regular at this Dollar General store on Wrightsboro Road. But the news of an armed robbery at one of her favorite stores is a worry.
"Yes, it concerns me cause you don't want like this in your neighborhood," Lawrence said.
"It's getting so bad I'm telling you, it's dangerous for people to even get to," Anonymous.
As investigators search for clues around the store and behind the store near this apartment complex, it's back to business at the store. It's hard to imagine anything went Wednesday night when two armed robbers demanded and ran off with money from the store as employees were closing.
"At this time it is an undisclosed amount of money that they have taken from this business," said Capt. Gary Owens, Grovetown Public Safety.
This is the latest in a rash of robberies at Dollar General stores and Family Dollar stores in the CSRA. Employees at the Family Dollar just down the road are worried they could be next.
"It seems that the Dollar General and Family Dollar, the ones you've seen in the news recently that these businesses have been the recent target of such events," Owens said.
And even a bigger concern, customers that may be caught in the store during a robbery.
"When I go in I know what I'm going for my articles. I have it written down what I want, I go in there, I get it, I go to the cashier and pay, I come out and get in my car and I go home," Anonymous.
"Customers should always be aware of situations out of the norm or not comfortable," Owens said.
Investigators are trying to find out the connection of robberies with Dollar General and Family Dollar stores. If you have any information regarding Wednesday night's robbery at the Dollar General in Grovetown, please call Grovetown Public Safety at 863-1212.


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For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go"...
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"In the fire of creation, gold does not vanish; the fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; how could I resist my nature, that lives for oneness with God?"
Mechtild of Magdeburg
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Composer: Adolphe Adam, with additional music, orchestrations and arrangements
by Friedrich Burgmüller, Ludwig Minkus, and Emil de Cou
Production: Helgi Tomasson
Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson after Marius Petipa, Jules Perrot, and Jean Coralli
Scenic, Costume and Lighting Designer: Mikael Melbye
Assistant Lighting Designer: Lisa J. Pinkham
Assistant to Mr. Tomasson for this production: Lola de Avila
World Premiere: June 28, 1841—Paris Opera Ballet, Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique; Paris, France
San Francisco Ballet Premiere (current production): April 8, 1999—War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
San Francisco Ballet in Tomasson's Giselle (© Erik Tomasson)
At 173 years old, Giselle remains a vigorous perennial. Choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, it is the jewel of the Romantic ballets, surpassing even its much-admired predecessor, August Bournonville's La Sylphide. Since its premiere in Paris in 1841, Giselle has not merely endured—it's one of the most frequently performed ballets in the world's classical repertory.
The story of Giselle originated in a German legend about ethereal creatures called Wilis. These maidens, who had been betrayed by their lovers and then died before they could wed, emerge from their graves at night to seek vengeance on any man who happens upon them. Théophile Gautier, a poet and leader of the Romantic movement in the French art world, discovered the legend in the writings of German poet Heinrich Heine and decided it would make a beautiful ballet. He enlisted playwright Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges to help him translate the eerie tale into a theatrical production. Together with composer Adolphe Adam, these collaborators produced an instant success: Giselle, ou les Wilis.
San Francisco Ballet first presented Giselle in 1947, courtesy of Anton Dolin, a former dancer with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, The Royal Ballet, and Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre), who had formed a touring company with Alicia Markova. But it wasn't until 1999, when Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson re-created the Romantic classic, that SF Ballet's dancers could call it their own.
Dolin's version, based on the original, featured himself and Markova in the lead roles, with SF Ballet dancers filling out the ranks. Portions of Giselle returned to the Company's repertory in 1965 (the peasant pas de deux) and 1975 (the grand pas de deux, again performed by guest artists). Twenty-four years later, Tomasson gave his dancers a new production in which they, not guest artists, would dance the leading roles.
"New," however, is a relative term. Tomasson tailored a Giselle that remains true to the original story and its themes of love, betrayal, and forgiveness. Like many productions, it retains most of the Coralli/Perrot choreography, handed down largely thanks to Marius Petipa, who restaged Giselle in classic form in St. Petersburg in 1884. Over the years, though, choreographers have taken creative license with the ballet, placing Giselle in an insane asylum, for example (Mats Ek's production for Cullberg Ballet), or setting the action in Louisiana, where the Wilis haunt the bayou rather than the forest (Frederic Franklin's version for Dance Theatre of Harlem).
More than 100 years after its premiere, Giselle became dear to the heart of a young Icelandic dancer, Helgi Tomasson. "I fell in love with that ballet," he says. "I loved dancing Albrecht." He danced in four productions, with four companies: Erik Bruhn's for the Royal Danish Ballet, Alicia Alonso's at the Paris Opéra Ballet (with Noëlla Pontois), David Blair's for American Ballet Theatre, and Anton Dolin's at National Ballet of Iceland. "When I set out to mount the ballet," Tomasson says, "I tried to bring my love for it to the stage."
Tomasson retained much of Dolin's approach to the ballet, which was filtered down from Alicia Alonso, Olga Spessivtseva, and Alicia Markova. "A lot of things Dolin had spoken about came into my mind as I was working on this production, particularly the way he interpreted Albrecht," Tomasson says. "He made him more noble, aristocratic. It's because of circumstances that he leaves Giselle in the first act; it's not his choice. He realizes how much in love with her he is."
Maria Kochetkova and Joan Boada in Tomasson's Giselle (© Erik Tomasson)
Tomasson recalls how Dolin talked about images and "showed the movement. Like when he was on the bench with Giselle—how he would stand, how he would be with her." Tomasson speculates about why Albrecht might be drawn to Giselle: "Is it because he doesn't care for the superficiality of the court? Is that what led him away? And her innocence, her joy of life—she wasn't pretending to be someone else. Maybe that's what he fell in love with first." Making Albrecht a sympathetic character enhances the poignancy of the love story.
Though Tomasson, a self-described traditionalist, wanted to honor Giselle's history, he recognizes that dancers and audiences change over time; consequently, he looked for ways to update the ballet while remaining true to the original style and intent. Such choreographic fine-tuning is like walking a tightrope: you want to engage new audiences without alienating those who know and love the tradition imbued in the classics. Some changes you make "because of what you have around you," says Tomasson. "We have fabulous male dancers these days, in many companies. Is there a way to incorporate them [more fully] into the production and still have it make sense?"
Tomasson felt compelled to give his men more to do. To expand Albrecht's dancing role, he made a pas de deux for Giselle and Albrecht in the first act; he set it to a portion of the original score that had fallen out of use, thinking it appropriate to reinstate it. "To me, Albrecht wanted to show off for Giselle, and how would he do that?" Tomasson says. "In ballet, he would dance. The music was there, so why not do that?" He also changed the Act I peasant pas de deux to a pas de cinq. After all, he reasoned, there were dancers he wanted to feature, and it made sense that a dance that celebrates friendship and the harvest would include more people. "[George Balanchine] always said to me, 'Use what you've got,' " Tomasson says. "And I have wonderful dancers."
To perform Giselle well requires impeccable technique and the ability to immerse oneself in the characters that occupy an "otherworld"—a world in which undead brides-to-be fly through the forest at night and make strong men dance to their deaths. Whether audiences connect emotionally with the fantastic story—and thus come to care about that world's inhabitants— depends largely on the choices made by the choreographer, and the dancers as well.
Giselle is famous for its difficult footwork, balances, and virtuoso sequences—all done, if you're Giselle or Myrtha (Queen of the Wilis), while looking otherworldly, weightless, and alternately serene, vengeful, or sad. But character is equally important. Giselle, in the course of a brief intermission, leaves her naïve girlhood behind and becomes a mature, loving wraith/woman capable of forgiving Albrecht for his betrayal. Albrecht can be played as a conniving cad or, as Tomasson prefers, a misguided, earnest young man in love, confused and frustrated by the social limitations imposed on him by nobility. And the outwardly heartless Myrtha must find a shred of humanity in her no-longer-human form that allows her to hesitate when Giselle pleads for Albrecht's life. Without this kind of emotional depth from the dancers, the characters become flat and distant.
For Principal Dancer Maria Kochetkova, Giselle stands apart from other classical ballets because of the profound changes the central character goes through. "It's more than a fairy tale," Kochetkova says. "It's much deeper; the story is much more intense. It's a drama." She calls Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, for example, "only one person," while in Giselle "you get to be so different, from the peasant girl into the mad scene and then into the ghost creature. It's such an amazing story to live onstage."
Kochetkova wasn't quite as enthusiastic the first time she was asked to dance the role, at age 19. When Vyacheslav Gordeyev invited her to perform Giselle with the Russian State Ballet in St. Petersburg, she turned him down. "It's not me. I don't know how to do it. It's not my kind of role," she told Gordeyev. Eventually she acquiesced. During rehearsals in London, Tamara Rojo, then a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet (now artistic director of English National Ballet), told Kochetkova to watch the film Dancer in the Dark, in which Björk portrayed a woman going blind.
Björk's performance—of a woman desperate to maintain her life despite her loss of sight—influenced Kochetkova's interpretation of the mad scene in Giselle. "I didn't want to be a madwoman running around," she says. "I didn't want it to be scary; I wanted people to feel sorry for her." To further flesh out the character, Kochetkova watched interviews and programs and read books about Giselle. "You need to know all the background in your head," she says, "who she is, how she feels, not just that she's a peasant girl. You need to know where she was yesterday and what she did a year ago, how she is with Hilarion and Albrecht."
Now, years later, Kochetkova says she sees Giselle completely differently. "The more you do it and the more you study, the more you understand," she says. She equates revisiting a role to rereading a book. "Sometimes you understand, but not quite, and you have to read it a second time. And it becomes so suddenly clear for you. That's how I feel with Giselle." The first time she danced the role she grappled with the technique. Later, as her understanding of the character grew, the steps became natural. "It's suddenly so clear—that's why I plié here, that's why I turn my head to him here," she says. "It all makes sense. The steps are the way to express whatever you do onstage. I feel like every single step is genius. Everything is in the music; it leads you into each mood. You come on in the first scene and it leads you into the rest of the ballet."
Of particular note is a deep penché (forward-leaning) arabesque in the second act. Giselle is surrounded by lines of immobile Wilis, and the stillness of the moment can make the choreography seem daunting. The penché comes out of a turn, creating one long, sustained balance. To Kochetkova, it's absolutely necessary because it prepares the dancer for the action to come. "It puts you into the mood for the second act, because you have to be so concentrated and quiet. You really have to control it. It's so quiet, so slow. It's like a transition—it transmits me into a different world. I know it's scary, I know it's hard, but I feel like that's the whole point. It makes total sense for me in the choreography." She smiles and adds, "Apart from that, it looks quite beautiful when you don't wobble!"
Choreography conveys character, which, according to Kochetkova, comes from each individual. "It's the same steps, but the story can be so different—what's behind it, how the ballerina feels," she says. "It's personal. That's why this ballet stays for centuries now."
According to Ballet Master Katita Waldo, who danced Myrtha when she was a principal dancer in the Company, Tomasson gives his dancers plenty of freedom to interpret their roles. "He tries to find what will work for you, to bring out whatever is in you that will be this character," says Waldo. She describes Myrtha as "complex" and the role as "technically brutal." "She has to be very commanding, and that's the hardest part, because you're exhausted—it's so technically demanding." The leader of the Wilis has to be "one huge, powerful thing," Waldo says. Yet underneath Myrtha's bitterness and desire for vengeance, there's "a glimmer of the young girl she was. The love that Giselle and Albrecht have for each other is so big that it lightens something in her."
That love is dramatized in a pivotal moment at the beginning of the second act. When Giselle enters, at first Albrecht can't see her; he only senses that something's there. Gradually he realizes that what he senses is Giselle's presence. As they dance together, the girl he betrayed becomes real to him. Their deep devotion, so powerful that it transcends even death, makes audiences, like Giselle, forgive Albrecht. By the time a devastated Albrecht throws himself on Giselle's grave, viewers have fallen under the spell of this eternal love story.
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Politics Counts: Limited Perils for Carbon Plan?
Dante Chinni writes Politics Counts as a regular Capital Journal feature. Mr. Chinni is the director of the American Communities Project at American University, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.
The Obama administration's proposal this week to cut carbon emissions from power plants by 30% by 2030 was portrayed as a bold move by the White House. But by political standards, it doesn't look like it will have strong negative consequences for the president or his party.
The announcement most directly hurts the coal industry – a commodity that's simply not produced in Democratic territory.
There were about 1 billion tons of coal produced in the U.S. in 2012 (the latest figures available) and about half of that was produced in just two states: West Virginia and Wyoming. Those two states last voted for a Democrat for president in 1996 and 1964 respectively.
Other big coal producers include the red states of Kentucky and Texas along with the lighter-red Indiana.
Of course, not all of coal country is red on the electoral map. Look on that chart and you'll notice a Pennsylvania, a battleground state that usually votes Democratic, and Illinois, a reliable part of the Democrats path to 270. What about those states?
This is where the all-too-common red state/blue state political trope falls down. Pennsylvania may usually be blue in presidential years, but there's a lot red in that blue state. There are more people and votes in the state's blue parts, however, and those places aren't tied to coal.
Pennsylvania has 28 counties that produced coal in 2012, and Republican Mitt Romney won 24 of them. In fact Mr. Romney won coal-producing Pennsylvania by about 100,000 votes. But he lost the state overall to President Barack Obama by about 300,000 votes.
The same pattern repeats itself in other coal-producing states with blue hues. In Illinois, Mr. Romney won coal counties by about 34,000 votes, but he lost the state by 900,000. In Colorado, Mr. Romney won the coal counties by about 12,000 votes and lost the state by about 150,000 votes.
And when you look at the difference in the number of votes coming from largely rural coal-producing counties and the rest of the state, you understand how little the Democrats rely on these places.
Coal mines pepper Pennsylvania, but far more voters live in counties that don't produce coal. And it's important to note that the presence of a mining operation doesn't mean most county residents have direct ties to it. Furthermore, Mr. Obama's already-weak support in those counties indicates that the carbon proposal can't deliver a big blow to the president or Democrats.
The carbon reduction targets could play a role Senate races in West Virginia, Montana and — maybe most critically — in Kentucky, another big coal producer.
In the Bluegrass State, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is engaged in what's thought to be a close race against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes. If the race is close, the White House announcement could hurt Ms. Grimes. But it would have to be pretty close.
Looking back at Kentucky's 2010 Senate race, Republican Rand Paul defeated Democrat Jack Conway by about 12 percentage points in the state overall and by about 15 points in coal-producing counties.
The urban/rural divide runs deeply through the U.S. It can even run through a single state, as we noted earlier this year in The Wall Street Journal. That is a big part of the political significance on the carbon reduction.
Those urban and suburban communities are not only more immune from the immediate economic impacts of the proposed reduction – with little connection to coal jobs or money – they are also more likely to believe that humans have a hand in climate change and that something should be done about it.
None of this is to say that the administration's 30% reduction target won't have political consequences. If the numbers in some of these rural locales move enough, it could possibly play a role in states such as Kentucky in this fall and Pennsylvania in 2016.
What's more, rising utility bills are something no one likes, regardless of where one lives. If there is a spike in the electric bills, city dwellers and suburbanites may suddenly find they care a great deal about life in coal country.
But 2030, the deadline for these cuts, is a long way off and any increases are likely to be smaller and/or over a longer term. For now, Mr. Obama's bold move on carbon emissions looks like a pretty safe move politically for himself and the Democrats.
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- The Marietta Family YMCA will begin offering a variety of programs for fifth- through eighth-graders. Water polo, weight lifting, basketball, swimming, aerobics, water basketball and junior lifesaving are among the programs offered. They are $10 for members and $20 for non-members.
- The Marietta City Council has approved a financing plan for buying $135,000 in radio equipment for fire, police, water and sewer departments.
100 years ago
-Six men were killed when a freight train on the C. & O. line went through the Huntington Bridge. Fifteen others were injured and at least two others are missing.
- A water main gave way on Second Street in between Washington and St. Clair streets. Water service was restored at 8 a.m.


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- Nov 2:
- EBAL roundup: Cal tested by Livermore as it clinches league title outright
- DFAL roundup: Campolindo beats Dougherty Valley to remain perfect
- Albany 56, De Anza 0
- McClymonds 60, Castlemont 0
- East Bay football roundup: Clayton Valley survives test from Concord
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- Regional football roundup: De La Salle rolls over Monte Vista
- East Bay high school/community college scoreboard for Friday, Nov. 1 events
- WACC-Foothill football roundup: San Leandro clinches share of division title
- Pittsburg High football team hands Deer Valley its first defeat
- Friday's East Bay high school football scores
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- High school roundup: Bishop O'Dowd beats Berkeley in volleyball, clinches division title
Ivan Oseguera's 2-yard touchdown run with 5:26 left lifted the visiting Liberty High football team to a 14-7 Bay Valley Athletic League victory over Heritage on Friday, making the Lions playoff-eligible for the first time since 2005.
Oseguera's run was set up by his own scramble on third-and-goal from the 9-yard line.
The Lions (5-4, 2-2 BVAL) had gained possession at the Heritage 31-yard line to start the drive after a short punt and used two critical penalties against the Patriots to move the ball inside the 10-yard line. The score wiped out a one-point advantage for Heritage, and Oseguera's conversion pass to Dylan Gilfoy completed the scoring.
Heritage (1-8, 1-3) struck first. Early in the second quarter, Nick Zalec's 3-yard run punctuated a long and efficient drive for the Patriots, in which they picked up six first downs. The Patriots offense would pick up only four more first downs the rest of the game, however, as Liberty's defense stood tall throughout the night.
Liberty got on the scoreboard with two second-quarter field goals by Anthony Martinez. His first was a 31-yard attempt and came after the Lions had taken advantage of personal foul and unsportsmanlike penalties against Heritage on the same play, resulting in a 30-yard gain for the visitors. His second was from 34 yards and was the result of a fumbled kickoff by the Patriots, setting up the Lions with great field position.
The victory was the first for Liberty in the annual Brentwood Bowl. Heritage had won the first six contests.
Oseguera led the Lions with 41 yards rushing and 90 yards passing. Leeandre White led all rushers with 52 yards for the Patriots.
Freedom 28, Antioch 27: The Falcons and host Panthers traded touchdowns in overtime, but Antioch missed its extra point attempt trailing by a point as Freedom escaped with the BVAL win.
Freedom (4-5, 2-2 BVAL) raced out to a 14-0 lead on a touchdown run by Joe Mixon and a TD pass from Joe Sweeney to Nick Garcia. Freedom then took a 21-7 lead in the second quarter on a James Allen touchdown pass. But two touchdowns by Antioch (1-8, 0-4) in the third quarter tied it at 21 going into the final 12 minutes.
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The Dastardly Ways Fast Food Joints Sucker You Into Eating More Junk
You want fries with that? Of course you do.
As BuzzFeed explains, there are at least twelve wiley ways that the masterminds behind the Super Size phenomenon operate -- and they're all geared towards getting you to ingest more than you intend to.
READ: 10 Fast Food Options That Are Good For Your Skin
From seemingly clever "inventions" like KFC's Go Cup which fits seamlessly into your car's cup holder, to the surreptitious increase of basic sizes (in 1980 a McDonald's large soda was 21 oz., by the 90s it was 32 oz.), consumers are being hoodwinked at every turn.
Take, for example, the design of most fast food joints. As BuzzFeed explains, "The color red, the bright lighting, the clatter of noise, and the nonstop smells all make us think we're hungrier and in more of a rush than we really are." And, whaddaya know? When you're in a hurry, you eat quickly and, yep, when you eat quickly you eat past your "full" point.
Of course, many of us don't even bother to go into the "restaurant," opting instead to remain stationary in our cars as we drive-thru our breakfasts, lunches or dinners. Factor in that many of the bigger burger slingers now offer home delivery and the opportunities for slothful tendencies increase exponentially.
Then, there's the addition of superfluous ingredients that make foods less healthy and more fattening. Witness the proliferation of extra cheese being added into crusts and onto patties, and being sprinkled willy nilly as a topping on just about everything. Seemingly innocuous salads also fall victim to calorie padding thanks to the additions of fried croutons, sugared nuts and fatty dressings.
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Of course, one of the most obvious ways these masters of manipulation get us to consume more than we'd planned is by packaging calorie laden foods together in hard-to-resist, easy-on-your-wallet combos. A "meal" is always cheaper than buying its components a la carte and the mindset of the "getting something for a bargain" leads consumers to eat items they'd otherwise skip.
All this is not to say that it's not ok to indulge in two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame bun every now and again, it's just a reminder to keep your senses about you the next time you step foot in (or drive up to) a restaurant that may not have your heart's health or waistline's best interests in mind.
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KFAR SHMARIAHU, Israel (WOMENSENEWS)--Before a suicide bomber positioned himself next to a group of mothers with baby carriages in Jerusalem on March 2 and pulled the detonator, killing 10 people, women caught in the violence between Israelis and Palestinians had not been killed because of their gender.
And before a Palestinian woman brandishing a knife tried to attack Israeli soldiers last August in Jerusalem, and two young Palestinian women in two separate instances blew themselves up in crowded, public settings, women and girls were not instigators in the conflict.
Of the 104 women and girls killed between October 2000 and February 2002, one-quarter of the deaths have occurred in the last 30 days, according to B'Tselem, a human rights organization in Jerusalem. Violence this month promises to balloon those figures.
According to Lior Yavne, a spokesman for B'Tselem, women are not being specifically targeted per se, but as the fighting becomes ever fiercer, with growing incursions into populated areas, women are randomly cut down as well as men.
Until the Intifada, the armed Palestinian uprising against Israel, broke out in October 2000, contacts between Israeli and Palestinian women in economic, artistic and social spheres were mushrooming. Women were reaching out to each other in a variety of projects.
Today the only initiatives are by tiny groups. On the Israeli side, these women are perceived as fringe elements on the extreme left. On the Arab side, they hardly exist. Women in the mainstream of both nationalities have, like men, adopted a garrison mentality.
"It's not that we tried to have more contact and were rebuffed, but the feeling is that there is no use making any efforts now," says Rutie Pilz-Burstein, chairwoman of the Israeli Federation for the Advancement of Women in Sport, which in 1999 organized a "Walk for Peace" along the Jordanian border. "Both sides see one another as enemies, not as partners for peace."
Amid Violence, Women's Calls for Peace Are Muted
When three pregnant women--two Palestinian and one Jewish--were shot in the last week of February and gave birth to healthy daughters, they felt no kinship. "What we did was an accident. What they did is murder," said Tamara Lifshitz, the Jewish woman who lost her father in the incident.
Response of women's groups is muted, and even groups pushing for cooperation are hardly making contact with one another. Both Palestinian and Jewish women "should stand up and shout, 'Enough of this carnage!'" says Maha Abu Dayydh, director of the Arab Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling.
Psychologist Sanaa Watad, co-director of peace center Givat Haviva's "Women in Community," a three-year project that trains women to combat gender-based violence and work for women's rights in their communities, believes that Jewish women must speak out against the Israeli occupation. "I understand that defending their homeland is important to them, but this is the humiliation of another people," says Watad, an Israeli Arab whose organization is the leading group in Israel working toward Jewish and Arab cooperation and co-existence. Palestinian women, she says, "must support and take part in the struggle by any means they chose."
In an article in the Jerusalem Post, Israeli writer Naomi Regan has used the symbol of Jewish women victims to urge the Israeli government into a more hard-line stance: "How long can the freely elected government of a democratic state allow the murder of its women? . . . How long must such a nation cater to its disproven and delusional Left as its daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, friends die, unprotected?"
Israeli women do have several peace organizations. One example of Arab and Jewish women working together is Bat Shalom, a 2,100-member Israeli feminist peace organization that is linked to the Palestinian Jerusalem Center for Women. On March 8, their Arab and Jewish representatives visited 40 foreign embassies and consulates in Israel to call for diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian intervention.
The Israel Women's Network, a non-partisan organization whose members hold a variety of perspectives, is affiliated with groups in the Israeli Arab sector. But maintaining ties has become strained, says Ella Gera, the network's executive director.
The network wants to expand its Hebrew hotline to include Arabic speakers to counsel callers about sexual harassment and family law, but despite widespread publicity, not one Arab woman has agreed to answer calls. "It is difficult for Palestinian women these days to keep in contact with an organization they view as Israeli, even if it is non-partisan," Gera says.
Men 'Know How to Make War'
Bat Shalom Director Terry Greenblatt believes that prospects for peace may be dire because women are not among the Israeli and Palestinian leadership and are therefore excluded from the negotiating tables. "Even with the situation so horrific, nobody is standing up and saying, 'Hey, maybe women have something smart to say that could help us out of this mess,'" Greenblatt says. "Men may not be best to make peace. They know how to make war."
Mohammad Darawshe, spokesman for the still-active Givat Haviva, says that the spate of women fatalities "adds to frustrations and highlights a sense of vulnerability and insecurity" in a macho society.
But he believes that the violence could be a "motivating factor" for women "to turn the situation in the other direction and create an alternative reality.
"Women," he maintains, "are greater supporters of peace than the average man."
Helen Schary Motro is an American lawyer living in Israel who writes a column for The Jerusalem Post.
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James Logan High's Amari Davis set the pace, and the Colts slugged out a 22-14 win over visiting Bishop O'Dowd on Friday.
"It's ugly, but we get it done somehow," Logan coach George Zuber said. "Our guys compete, and we're still making a lot of mistakes. I'm sure it wasn't pretty to watch, but we got it done."
Davis, a sophomore, rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns and also had an interception for the Colts (5-1).
Davis did most of the work on Logan's first scoring drive, a four-play burst in the second quarter. He rushed 25 yards on the first play of the possession and capped it with a 32-yard touchdown run that cut O'Dowd's lead to 7-6.
After the Dragons went three-and-out, Davis put the finishing touches on a nine-play drive by going 2 yards for his second touchdown. Quarterback Christian Leota scored on an option keeper for the two-point conversion that made it 14-7.
Davis then put a quick end to O'Dowd's next possession when he intercepted a deflected pass. Logan turned it back over on a fumble two plays later, but the Dragons missed a 41-yard field goal just before halftime.
The Colts' Ahki Muhammad made it 22-7 with a 13-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
O'Dowd scored with 1:26 left on an 8-yard pass from Chris Hagmaier to Cory Barrios to make it 22-14.
The Dragons elected to not attempt an onside kick, and Logan got the first down it needed to run out the clock.
Encinal 14, Alameda 10: Isaiah Hunter scored on a 1-yard run with 1:36 left in the third quarter as the host Jets (4-1) won their seventh straight Island Bowl game.
The Hornets (3-2) last won this rivalry game in 2006.
Alameda never really threatened after Hunter's score, running eight plays in the last 13-plus minutes of the game.
Nick Chen kicked a 36-yard field goal with 4:54 left in the third quarter to give the Hornets a 10-7 lead, but Jordan Parker ran back the ensuing kickoff 60 yards to give the Jets good field position at the Alameda 30.
Six plays later, including a Hunter 10-yard run to the Alameda 2, Hunter scored what turned out to be the game-winning score.
Alameda scored first with 4:33 left in the first quarter when quarterback Elijah Hernandez threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to to Keelan Doss.
Encinal showed tenacity in tying the game at 7-7 when Hunter scored on a 6-yard run with 7:09 remaining in the half. The Jets drove 54 yards in 13 plays, converting three fourth-down situations, the last on Hunter's TD run.
Encinal had a chance to take the lead just before the half, but Emily Rentschler missed a 36-yard field goal attempt with nine seconds left.
-- Scott Strain, correspondent
Las Lomas 33, Acalanes 26: The Knights ran the ball for all but one play of the second half, scoring touchdowns on three long second-half drives in a home Diablo Foothill Athletic League win over Acalanes.
Zack Fulks led the ground attack for Las Lomas (4-2, 2-0 DFAL) with 174 yards, and Jack Kane ran for 80 in the win.
The Knights trailed 19-10 when touching the ball for the first time in the second half with 7:04 left in the third.
Las Lomas responded with a 10 play, 73 yard scoring drive to cut the deficit to 19-17 with 2:55 left.
After stopping the next Acalanes (4-2, 0-2) drive on fourth down at the Knights 25, Las Lomas went on another 10-play drive. An 11-yard touchdown run by fullback Greyson Bromstad gave the Knights a 25-19 lead early in the fourth.
After another stop, an 18-yard touchdown run by Kane gave Acalanes a 14-point lead with 5:07 remaining.
Casey Harrington threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns for the Dons, including an 8 yard strike to Chad Johnson to cut the lead to 33-26 with 1:20 left.
-- Paul Burgarino
Dougherty Valley 34, Dublin 27: In a well-played, turnover-free game, it was the Wildcats' run game that had the final say, accounting for the entire offense in the DFAL victory over the host Gaels.
With the game tied 27-27, Michael Pangelinan capped a 10-play, 51-yard drive by scoring his fourth touchdown on a 4-yard run with just 56 seconds left.
Pangelinan (77 yards), Olanrewaju Adelekan (122 yards) and Julian Williams (154 yards) combined for 353 yards in a Wildcats offense that attempted only three passes.
Pangelinan's third score of the night had given Dougherty Valley a 27-20 lead midway through the fourth quarter, but Dublin put together 10-play, 66-yard drive that saw Darrell Millinder score from a yard out to tie the game with just 4:32 left.
The Gaels had also rallied to tie the game at 20-20 behind an 87-yard run by E.J. Cross for the third quarter's only score.
Cross led Dublin with 181 yards rushing, and quarterback Josh Nobida passed for 112 yards.
-- Matt Rempel, correspondent
Foothill 38, Monte Vista 3: The visiting Falcons (6-0, 2-0 East Bay Athletic League) piled up 428 yards of offense and blew open a close game in the second half to down the Mustangs (1-4, 0-2).
"It was us running out the kinks in the first half, adjusting to what they were running on defense in the second half," Foothill quarterback Kyle Kearns said. "Monte Vista came out ready to play."
The Mustangs scored first with a terrific drive to open the game. However, Alex Jenezon sacked Nikita Zamora on a second-and-goal, and Monte Vista settled for a 27-yard field goal by Noah Sol.
The Falcons responded with an eight-play, 79-yard drive capped by a 26-yard pass from Kearns to Isaiah Langley. A 30-yard field goal by Dan Rodriguez gave Foothill a 10-3 lead at halftime.
However, things changed in the second half. Zamora injured his left knee late in the second quarter and came back out wearing a knee brace. He missed on all six of his pass attempts in the second half before giving way to Sol, also the backup quarterback.
The Falcons got a quick score to open the third quarter when Jamirr Holland ran it in from the 1. A 60-yard touchdown run by Holland put the game out of reach early in the fourth quarter.
-- Damin Esper, correspondent
San Ramon Valley 41, Livermore 10: Marcus de la Pena ran for 204 yards and three third-quarter touchdowns, four for the game, and Matt Winaker directed a backbreaking 99-yard touchdown drive as the Wolves pulled away from Livermore in their EBAL opener.
The game turned for San Ramon Valley (2-3, 1-0 EBAL) when linebacker Mitchell Allen stopped Jacob House inches short of the goal line on fourth down with score 7-7 midway through the second quarter.
Winaker completed six consecutive passes, including three to Carter Nichols -- the biggest being an 18-yard connection on third-and-16 from the Cowboys 34. Winaker finished the drive himself with a 6-yard run with 1:03 left in the first half.
The Cowboys (2-4, 0-2) had knotted the score with 14 seconds left in the first quarter when Andrei Kasten got past San Ramon Valley's deep coverage and pulled in Travis Adams' pass for a 70-yard touchdown. They were knocking on the door when Christian Rabino intercepted Winaker at the Livermore 47.
A 27-yard swing pass to Tim Harris gave Livermore first-and-goal at the 4.
House, stopped by Dominic Arotzarena for a 1-yard loss on first down, got to the 2 on second down. But Carter Allen held House to a 1-yard gain on third down, then Mitchell Allen stopped him cold on fourth down.
De la Pena began to shred the perimeter of Livermore's defense in the third quarter, scoring on runs of 2, 27 and 17 yards.
-- Steve Dulas, correspondent


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WHITE PLAINS — Orange County has agreed to let a court-appointed special master finish redrawing boundaries for its 21 legislative districts for this year's elections — a responsibility the Legislature dropped last month after running out of time.
Attorneys for the county and a resident who sued over the botched redistricting appeared Friday before U.S. District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos in White Plains, indicating they agreed on main issues: updated lines were needed for the 2013 elections and an outside party should complete the work lawmakers started.
Michael Sussman, the civil-rights attorney who brought the case, told Ramos the parties had "no disagreement about where we're going," while Ben Ostrer, the attorney representing the county, said, "We're trying to muster everybody to pull in the same direction."
There were no apparent disagreement over Sussman's argument that holding elections this year with outdated legislative districts would be unconstitutional because of population variances.
Nor was there any dispute that only the courts could correct what the Legislature failed to do.
Ramos must now choose a special master to be hired at county expense. Ostrer gave Ramos names of five retired judges that he and Sussman agreed on as candidates.
The attorneys still must resolve how to modify the process candidates will use to get on the ballot. Candidates are scheduled to start collecting petition signatures June 4 and submit them by July 11, but the new map is unlikely to be done by June 4.
The question now is whether to shorten the petition period and require fewer signatures, or have party members choose candidates instead of using petitions.
The deadline to determine candidates for the September primary ballot is Aug. 9. Attorneys suggest the special master propose a new legislative map by June 3.
Two weeks would follow for public comment and adjustments before the judge imposes new lines June 17.
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A generation ago, becoming a comic book creator was usually a solitary and self-guided process. Sure, there was How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, The Kubert School (still going strong), and a few other tools, but for the most part you were on your own. Today there is a blossoming variety of resources that are building a smarter and more skilled community of tomorrow's comics makers.
One of the most recent additions is Comics Workbook, a new web magazine set up by cartoonist Frank Santoro (Storeyville, Kramer's Ergot). As he explained on his own Tumblr, Santoro intentionally set out to put together a team of contributors that consisted of more girls than boys to "flip the script on this comics magazine thing". Instead of looking to other comics sites, he turned to girls roller derby and the supportive community those teams create, and is trying to "copy their model." The results are a rough yet immediate DIY vibe that displays comics and minicomics in-progress (such as "The Great" by Alyssa Berg, pictured here), brief yet hilariously brash reviews in comics form, a series of reflections on Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, links to interviews and reviews, and more.
Santoro is in the middle of teaching an eight-week correspondence course for comic book makers, and has written a series of columns examining layouts and color for The Comics Journal. So the guy definitely knows his stuff and has some interesting theories (even if they are beyond me as a non-artist).


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Tahoe Senior Plaza Board of Directors would like to thank the following businesses for their support of Affordable Senior Housing. Thank you Embassy Suites, MontBleu, Harrah's & Harvey's Resort Casinos and Tahoe Blue Vodka, you made our year of supporting this cause a success. Tahoe Senior Plaza management along with all of our residents thank you for your dedication to help create a better life for our elders. Shelia CooperAdministrator, Tahoe Senior Plaza
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Tiger Woods was posing for pictures with a trophy Wednesday at Torrey Pines, and the tournament in San Diego hadn't even started.
He's made winning look routine, particularly on this public course along Pacific Bluffs where he already has won eight times as a professional, including a U.S. Open.
The trophy that Woods received on the eve of his title defense at the Farmers Insurance Open was for being voted PGA Tour player of the year for the 11th time.
Even though the Masters is just under three months away, any mention of Woods starts with the majors.
The playoff win at Torrey Pines in the 2008 U.S. Open was the last major he won. He has been stuck on 14 for the past five years.
This would seem to shape up as an important year because three of the majors are on courses where he has won -- Augusta National, Royal Liverpool and Valhalla. The U.S. Open is at Pinehurst No. 2, where Woods has finished third and second.
"I view it as every year is a big year," Woods, 38, said. "Every year that I get a chance to compete and play in tournaments and major championships for as long as I decide to do it ... every year counts.
"Looking back from the beginning of my career to now, I know that I don't have 20 years in my prime. I don't see being 58 and being in my prime. Most guys don't dunk from the foul line at age 58, so it's a little different.
"I still prepare the same. I still work my tail off to be ready to compete at this level and beat everyone that I'm playing against."
Woods and Phil Mickelson are the star attractions, as usual, at Torrey Pines. This was the first tour event both watched when they were boys -- Mickelson is from San Diego, and Woods is from Orange County.
Mickelson started his year last week in Abu Dhabi where he was runner-up despite a double-hit out of the bushes that led to triple bogey. He's excited about everything this year -- his new driver, his putting, off-course activities and a chance at the career Grand Slam at the U.S. Open.
"The difficult thing for me is that as I get older, it's a lot more work to be physically able to perform the way I would like," said Mickelson, 43, who's a three-time winner of this event. "I've got to watch what I eat, I've got to work out, manage arthritis. ... It's just more effort to be able to play golf at the highest level."
The inaugural event will be Jan. 15-18, 2015, at Pilar Golf in Argentina. The winner will receive a spot in the 2015 Masters and will be exempt into the final stage of qualifying for the British and U.S. opens.
"We believe this event will be motivating to current and future generations of golfers, and one day create heroes that will inspire others to give the game a try," Augusta National chairman Billy Payne said.


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Square Picks Up Food-Delivery Service Caviar
Square said Monday it will buy food-delivery startup Caviar, expanding its focus from enabling payments at food trucks and corner stores.
The deal puts the payments company squarely in the center of a fast-growing sector of the tech world: fast delivery of goods and services. That segment has drawn in a host of startups, like Postmates and Instacart; eBay snatched up Shutl last year.
Square didn't release terms of the deal, but the New York Times earlier reported Square was in talks to pay about $90 million in stock. At that price, Caviar's investors aren't getting a huge windfall initially but there is potential upside if stock is involved. The two-year-old San Francisco startup raised $2 million in seed funding last year from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and the Winklevoss twins, then another $13 million from Tiger Global Management and others.
Caviar brings customers meals to their homes from higher-end restaurants that otherwise don't offer delivery, using a fleet of contract drivers in half a dozen U.S. cities. The company competes with Seamless and GrubHub and may face new competitors, including Amazon.com, which is tiptoeing into local services.
Square faces its own challenges. The company recorded a loss of roughly $100 million in 2013 and is burning through cash at an ever-faster clip, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year. The Journal also reported Square had approached a who's who of tech firms seeking a possible sale. Square denied it approached any companies seeking a possible sale.
Square offers square-shaped credit-card readers to merchants who attach them to their smartphones or tablets, allowing them to accept credit-card or debit-card payments anywhere. It charges merchants 2.75% per payment. The company earlier this year also unveiled a new mobile app called Order, designed to let customers place take-out orders from local businesses and skip the line when they arrive.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Holiday season sales of personal computers fell for the first time in more than five years, according to industry tracker IDC, as Microsoft's Windows 8 failed to excite buyers and many opted for tablet devices and powerful smartphones instead.
"Things are getting really tough for Dell, which is not well-positioned in emerging markets. The Asia-based players will continue to grow faster.
"It's frankly become an Asia game. HP is also actually turning around its PC business, and that's one of the reasons Dell is losing a lot of share.
"Windows 8 wasn't going to be as big a catalyst. It's so different, it's almost uncomfortably different from past Windows, and there's a risk that Windows 8 ends up like Vista.
"We're not surprised with the data, and everybody knows the trends are coming, but seeing the numbers seems to crystallize it."
"That's in line to slightly worse than expected. There are multiple factors causing stagnation in the PC market.
"There's been an elongation of the replacement cycle from once every five years to once every 10 years. Historically, about 20 percent of the installed base comes up for refresh every year. Now it's 10 percent.
"There's a lack of compelling reasons to upgrade. Increases in performance have been smaller and there are fewer new applications that require more computing horsepower. In developing markets, the first purchase is not a PC, it's a smartphone, especially in markets where literacy levels are low.
"Then, not least of all, there's the incursion of tablets in the PC market.
"There are no clear compelling product cycles coming in the PC market. What could potentially resuscitate the PC market? Ultrabooks could come down in price to the level of regular laptops: $500 instead of $999. But we may be looking at low single digit growth in the PC market for some time."
"Looking at the data from the past few months, I don't think anybody is going to be terribly surprised by these numbers. A lot of people were expecting shipments in the 90 million range.
"I just came from CES and meetings with Intel (INTC) and Dell. The sense is that until Windows 8 is fully installed and prices start to come down, we will be in this state of negative dynamics in the PC market. I do think that this will lift this year as Windows XP loses support from Microsoft." (Reporting by Alistair Barr and Gerry Shih)


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Definition of bureau in English:
noun (plural bureaus or bureaux /ˈbyo͝orōz/)
- The rest of the furniture - the bureau, the night tables and the chairs - were all the same style.
- It was of average size with an unmade bed sitting in one corner, a night table, two dressers, a bureau, a desk, a small TV, and a lot of posters on the wall.
- The next morning, the soldiers gave him a room with a bed, a bureau, a desk and a window that looked out on a forest.
- They later found that the writing bureau had been broken into but nothing has been stolen.
- These should be of the same construction and of the same timber as the small drawers in the fitted part of the bureau or in the secretaire drawer.
- There was nowhere it might be stored - the bureau drawers were too small.
- Freelancers and big news agencies with international bureaux are on the ground, shooting film and talking to people, letting us see and hear first-hand about very individual stories.
- It says a great deal about the role of the media and the outlook that pervades editorial offices and network news bureaus.
- News organisations now rely on a shrinking number of sources in Iraq, including the news syndicates and wire services that have local bureaux operating there all the time.
- On the same day that Tenet resigned, the FBI proposed creation of a separate intelligence division inside the bureau.
- If workers reckon that they might have been affected by occupational diseases, they should go to occupational disease hospitals or departments, and can further apply to local public health bureaus for authentication.
- The president is setting up a department to oversee all intelligence and security bureaux.
Late 17th century: from French, originally 'baize' (used to cover writing desks), from Old French burel, probably from bure 'dark brown'.
The French word bureau originally meant 'baize', a material that was used for covering writing desks, and probably comes from a form of buire 'dark brown'. In the early 18th century bureau entered English both as a writing desk and as an office, a place where writing desks are found. In North America the piece of furniture called a bureau is a chest of drawers rather than a desk. The word is common there in the official titles of some government offices, for example the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI.
Words that rhyme with bureauchiaroscuro, Douro, enduro, euro, Ishiguro, Oruro, Truro
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21.08.2012 - Sanofi withdraws a cancer drug from the markets and aims for a relaunch in multiple sclerosis.
Sanofi is withdrawing its cancer drug Campath from the markets. The pharma plans to commercialise the antibody under a different name and dosing regime for multiple sclerosis – a much more lucrative indication.
The development of Campath-1H, also known under its generic name alemtuzumab, as a successful drug took years. The anti-CD52 antibody was thought to cure rheumatoid arthritis in the beginning of the 90s but failed expectations. Since 2001, it has finally been approved for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Since then it also washes some money into Sanofi's subsidiary Genzyme Corp. from Cambridge (USA). But revenues have been decling over the past years. Therefore Sanofi is now aiming for fresh money and a higher pricing. In a move to prevent off-label use the drug has now been pulled from European (in mid-August) and US markets (in early September) markets.
In both regions the market authorisation applications (MAAs) for a use in multiple sclerosis are pending. According to the pharma company clearing the market should ensure that "alemtuzumab is exclusively received and used in the ongoing clinical trials." Obviously, Sanofi thinks that a widely merchandised drug could jeopardise these trials. Alemtuzumab awaits its repeated market entry under the name Lemtrada. However, the German society for haematology and oncology (DGHO) criticises Sanofi for playing one group of patients against another. Sanofi responded that all leukaemia patients (so far about 4.000) will benefit from free-of-charge programmes that make sure that all patients receive their much needed medicine. In Germany, according to the DGHO, these programmes run so far quite smoothly even if they mean an increased bureaucratic effort.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-03/sanofi-timeout-for-campath.html


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With such hits as "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "Fool's Gold" to her credit, there's no question that Kate Hudson knows how to charm romantic comedy fans. But with her latest entry in the genre, Hudson said she was thrilled with the opportunity to switch things up a bit: With "Something Borrowed," she was going to be playing something new.
"There were two of Emily Giffin's books that (producers) Hilary Swank and Molly Smith acquired the rights to called 'Something Borrowed' and 'Something Blue,' and came to me with the idea of playing the character of Darcy," Hudson recalled in a recent interview. "When I read them, I loved where the character went: I never played someone who was so deeply selfish and completely all about herself without ever thinking about the consequences."
Opening in theaters Friday, "Something Borrowed" stars Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin as Darcy and Rachel, best friends since childhood who have come to an interesting set of crossroads as the latter turns 30. An attorney at a top Manhattan law firm, Rachel has all but the thing called love going for her, something that the magnetic, attention-grabbing Darcy is never afraid to remind her of.
But sparks finally fly for Rachel after her 30th birthday party, when she ends up in bed with Dex (Colin Egglesfield), a handsome guy whom she's had a crush on since law school. The problem is, Rachel half-heartedly introduced Dex to Darcy six years earlier, and the couple is engaged to be married -- and the wedding is still very much on and fast approaching despite Rachel and Dex's mutually genuine feelings for each other.
Hudson knew the storyline of a woman falling in love with someone, seeing him swept away by her best friend and sleeping with him after the fact, would definitely resonate with people. True, it's an entertaining scenario to see play out on the big screen, but you just know it happens it real life, too.
"I think it happens more often than people want to admit," Hudson said. "You hear about these things all of the time. I've heard plenty of stories where people have been married for years and years, and the wife and the husband's best friend couple."
But the interesting thing is, the story "Something Borrowed" isn't so much Rachel and Dex's romantic misgivings and the fallout from it, as it is the crucial time of their lives when it happens: the dreaded 30s.
"It's really about where they are in their life and their age, where they transition from their early 20s and their early 30s," said Hudson, 31. "They're going from being kids to young adults to adults. It's an integral transition in people's lives when they ask themselves, 'What am I supposed to be? What do I want to be? Am I making the right choices?' I think it can be a very tumultuous time for people."
Under the weight of that pressure, some people merely buckle, Hudson added -- and she thinks Giffin's best-seller perfectly encapsulates the feelings a 30-year-old goes through under certain circumstances.
"You often hear of a person getting married at that age, and six months later they are trying to annul their marriage," Hudson said. "They should be moving in the direction of having a family and solid career, but they get scared, so I liked that aspect of the story. Emily has a specific way of interpreting and sharing a thirtysomething point of view.
Also key to the effectiveness of the Giffin's story, Hudson praised, is the dynamic of Darcy and Rachel's longstanding friendship -- but how those ties are stretching thin.
"A lot of times people who've had relationships since childhood say to themselves as they get older, 'I love this person, but what am I getting out of this friendship? My life is changed and different now, and I don't necessarily like who this other person is anymore,'" Hudson explained. "Darcy needs her friend Rachel more than Rachel needs Darcy. I like all the questions that this movie poses, and that Emily's book makes you think about it."


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The Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theater said Wednesday that previews will begin Oct. 1 and the play will open Oct. 24 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Daniel Sullivan will direct.
Set as World War I rages, the play is "about a family waking up from their own personal Gilded Age as the world around them changes forever," according to producers.
It reunites Parker and Sullivan, who directed her in David Auburn's "Proof," which earned both Tonys. Parker also was in Craig Lucas' "Reckless" and in a 2009 revival of "Hedda Gabler."
White's plays include "The Other Place," stars Laurie Metcalf as a scientist whose mind is failing her.
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Royal Monceau Raffles Paris offers 149 guestrooms and suites on seven floors. Designed by Philippe Starck, accommodations feature sophisticated decor inspired by the 1940s and 1950s. Rooms are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access, cable/satellite TVs with premium channels, CD players, and direct-dial phones with voice mail. Bathrooms offer scales, bathrobes and slippers, hair dryers, and complimentary toiletries. Additional amenities at this France hotel include minibars, complimentary bottled water, and in-room safes (accommodate laptops).
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Funeral services for Mr. Obie Daniel "Danny" Morriss, 55, of Ringling, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, December 15, 2012, at the Community Fellowship Assembly of God Church of Ringling with the Rev. Chad Barron officiating. Interment will follow at Ringling Memorial Cemetery of Ringling. Services are under the direction of Alexander Funeral Home of Ringling.
Danny was born February 1, 1957, at Childress, Texas, to the late Mr. Clarence Edward Morriss and Mrs. LuEllen Goldie (Kennedy) Morriss. He departed this life Thursday, December 13, 2012, at his home in Ringling.
Danny was raised as one of 12 children mainly residing in Yucca Valley, Calif., not moving to Ringling until 1974. He served honorably in the Army National Guard for two years. Initially, he worked in the oilfield before becoming employed for Joe Roberts Welding of Ringling.
There he was employed for several years. Lastly, he was employed for Roy Neils, Lone Grove Discount Hardware as a store clerk. He and the former Mrs. Deanna May Lawrence were united in marriage on April 25, 1997, at Gainesville, Texas. They shared many wonderful times together. Danny loved working and also enjoyed collecting Elvis Memorabilia and Eight Track Tapes. He was a member of the Community Fellowship Assembly of God Church of Ringling.
Preceding him in death was his parents, Mr. Clarence Edward Morriss and Mrs. LuEllen Goldie (Kennedy) Morriss.
Survivors include wife, Deanna of the home; children, Nancy Clark and husband, Eric, Donna Ragsdale and husband, Melvin, Danny Morriss Jr., Shannon Smith, Bobby Roundtree, Tara Smith and Laura Stoker and husband, Joe; siblings, Caroline Ellis, Georgia Hurst and husband, Butch, Sonny Morriss and wife, Joyce, Fred Morriss and wife, Rhea, Larry Morriss, Nancy Jackson, Sue Bailey and husband, David, J.R. Morriss and wife, Carolyn, Frances Thompson and husband, Larry, George Morriss, and Cindy Orr; 15 grandchildren; numerous other family; adopted family such as Becky her son Sawyer, and Ron Wilcox, and church family and friends.
Pallbearers are Bobby Roundtree, Danny Morriss Jr., J.R. Morriss, Sonny Morriss, Larry Morriss, Melvin Ragsdale Sr., Melvin Morriss and Ron Wilcox.
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MOUNT VERNON - The Brewton-Parker College division of music will present its second annual Festival of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 7.
Numerous Brewton-Parker College music ensembles and college-connected lectors will combine to present the seasonal service, announced Dr. Mark Bowdidge, conductor of the College Choir and Choral Society and coordinator for the event.
Musical ensembles performing in the service include the Baron Ringers, Baron Singers, Brass Ensemble, Choral Society, Concert Choir, Percussion Ensemble and Wind Ensemble. Selections to be performed include the favorite Christmas carols for congregation and choir as well as seasonal music presented by each of the ensembles.
Nine lessons will be read from the Bible, beginning with the fall of man in the Garden of Eden in Genesis and concluding with the incarnation of Christ in the Gospel of John.
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Two Houma scrap yard employees and a third man are accused of stealing about 500,000 pounds of metal from their scrap yard and selling it to another, for about $55,000 in profits, since mid-December, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies got complaints last week that people were stealing from Larose Scrap Yard in east Houma, and detectives found a dump truck with 3,000 pounds of stolen scrap metal from the yard on Tuesday, the Sheriff's Office said. Ronald Macalusa Jr., 39, 586 Crochetville Road, Montegut, owns the dump truck, and deputies arrested him and charged him with felony theft.
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CONCORD -- When Dan Helix decided to campaign for a four-year term on the City Council, he told his wife of 59 years this: "I'd rather wear out than rust out."
Helix, a retired Army general, finished first in the election of 11 candidates running for two seats, bringing him into a select group of Bay Area politicians who have been elected as octogenarians.
At 83, Helix is certainly among the oldest city council members in the Bay Area, and might be the oldest. Nat Bates, re-elected Tuesday to the Richmond City Council, is 81 and has served since 1967. Thomas McLaughlin, who was elected to the Livermore school board on Tuesday, is also 81.
Former San Pablo mayor and Councilman Joe Gomes was 92 when he retired from council in 2008, serving contiguously since the late 1970s. In Alameda County, the average age of the five-member Oro Loma Sanitary District board is 79.8. The president of this San Leandro-based district, Howard Kerr, is 89, and the rest of the board is 86, 83, 79 and 62.
But to some -- Helix among them -- age is just a number.
"How old was President Reagan?" longtime Concord Councilwoman Laura Hoffmeister said when asked about Helix. "Every person is different. He's got energy, he's knowledgeable, he's up to speed on information."
That energy was on display at age 50, when Helix decided to go to Army parachute school. While most servicemen earn "jump wings" in their late teens or early 20s, Helix finished at the top of his class at age 50.
"He's a standup guy," said friend and campaign contributor Howard Jenkins. "When he decides it's time to do something, he just does it."
Unlike Kerr, Bates and Gomes, Helix is not a longtime elected official. Helix, a Berkeley native who moved to Concord in 1955, served two terms on the council from 1968 to 1976 and then left city politics. He returned in 2010 to fill a Concord council vacancy left by Mark Peterson, who was elected to become Contra Costa County's district attorney.
Helix marvels at how governing has changed over the past 34 years. It was once common, he said, for council members to eat steak dinners and imbibe after meetings, all on the taxpayer's dime; agenda items would be openly discussed before meetings so each knew how the other would vote (a legal no-no). In one instance, Helix said, the entire council and their families traveled to Hawaii for a conference. The tab was picked up by taxpayers.
"It was a totally different time," Helix said.
In this term, Helix said his focus will be on the Concord Naval Weapons Station, where massive commercial and housing development is planned. While on then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's military base retention council in 2004, Helix wrote the report declaring the weapons station as excess to the Navy, paving the way for the city to get the land.
He said his "dream" is to lease to developers the weapons station land the city is set to obtain. Such a lease, Helix said, would provide a steady stream of revenue to the city for years to come.
"The weapons stations makes this time unique and historic in Concord's history," he said. "To be able to create something for the future is truly exciting to me. It really gets me ginned up."
David DeBolt covers Concord and Clatyon. Contact him at 925-943-8048. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt.