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(Louisville, KY)—The Kentucky High School Boys and Girls Senior All-Stars will scrimmage the Junior All-Stars Tuesday, June 5th at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, 1600 Man O'War Boulevard. The girls' game begins at 6 p.m. and the boys' game will follow. Tickets are $5 and are available at the door.
2012 Boys Junior Team
Ken-Jah Bosley, Madison Central
Kelton Ford, Larue Co.
Taylor Grover, Pulaski County
Dominique Hawkins, Madison Central
Darryl Hicks, Trinity
Lavone Holland, Ballard
Jordan Majors, Hopkinsville
Omar Prewitt, Montgomery County
Mike Smith, Dunbar
Quan Taylor, Madison Central
Charles Washington, Lafayette
Derek Willis, Bullitt East
2012 BOYS Kentucky All-Star Team
#1 Nathan Dieudonne, Trinity – 2012 Mr. Kentucky Basketball
#2 Matt Day, Buckhorn
#3 Charles Foster, Trinity
#4 Jay Johnson, Woodford Co.
#5 Twin Lancaster, Logan Co.
#6 Tamron Manning, Scott Co.
#7 Jaysean Paige, Perry Co. Central
#8 Alan Bopper Stenzel, George Rodgers Clark
#9 Jeril Taylor, Pleasure Ridge Park
#10 Mike Terry, Fairview
#11 DJ Townsend, Rowan Co.
#12 Adam Wing, Rowan Co.
Head Coach – Jason Booher, Holmes High School
Assistant Coach: Allen Feldhaus, Jr., Madison Central High School
Assistant Coach: Chris O'Hearn, Mason County High School
Game Director: Dave Satterly
Game Chairman: Stan Hardin
2012 Girls Junior All-Star Team
Larryn Brooks, Madison Central
China Dow, Christian Academy
Kelah Eldridge, Letcher Co. Central
Makayla Epps, Marion Co.
Ashton Feldhaus, Madison Central
Jordin Fender, Dunbar
Kyvin Goodin-Rogers, Marion Co.
Becca Greenwell, Owensboro Catholic
Billie Hearn, Grant Co.
Cheyenne Madden, Clay County
Leah Schaefer, Highlands
Olivia Voskuhl, Notre Dame
2012 Girls Kentucky All-Stars
#1 Sydney Moss, Boone County – 2012 Miss Kentucky Basketball
#2 Lauren Bodine, Manual
#3 Bre Elder, Marion Co.
#4 Micah Jones, Green Co.
#5 Kendall Noble, Perry Co. Central
#6 Christine Roush, Mercy
#7 Courtney Roush, Mercy
#8 Christy Soldo, Hopkinsville
#9 Jasmine Whitfield, So. Oldham
#10 April Wilson, Manual
#11 Kara Wright, Manual
#12 Leasia Wright, Manual
Head Coach – Stacy Pendleton, Manual High School
Assistant Coach: Chris Souder, Mercer County High School
Assistant Coach: Jennifer Parsons, Corbin High School
The 2012 All-Star game is scheduled for Friday, June 8th in Freedom Hall. The girls' game begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by the boys' game at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $19 and are available at Ticketmaster.com.
The Kentucky Lions All-Star Basketball Classic has matched the best Kentucky high school players against the best Indiana players since 1940, producing a rich history and intense rivalry. It is the longest running all-star game in the country.
Profits from the game and scrimmages benefit the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation.
The Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation, located in Louisville Kentucky, is a non-profit organization with the mission to prevent and cure blindness by supporting eye research, operating eye clinics, eye screenings and eye banks.


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Pharmacy Career Fair
Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy hosted a Pharmacy Career Fair sponsored by University Career Services on August 29. The event took place during the first week of classes, kicking off the Fall 2013 semester in Duquesne's Power Center Ballroom. The fair was geared towards students who are entering the professional phase of pharmacy school, particularly the second, third and fourth year students. The 207 student pharmacists in attendance were encouraged to practice their interviewing and network skills, as well as learn about career opportunities with the 15 various pharmacy-related employers that were present.
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Does anyone make scones ahead of time and then freeze them for use later? Do you make and bake....then freeze? OR do you Make...then freeze...then bake later as needed? What were your results as far as texture and taste?
Finally, Do you have a recipe that is good for doing this? I rarely eat scones and a friend of mine wanted all this information...if you could help, I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much!
I have a very difficult time deciphering the line between boredom and hunger.
Is there a really good recipe?
Hi, Shannon! I freeze scones all the time - both baked and unbaked. I haven't noticed any difference in taste or texture. This recipe calls for whipping cream and butter. IMO, it really does make a difference if a person substitutes margarine or skim milk for these items. Here is my recipe:
2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 c. butter, cut into pieces
3/4 c. whipping cream (not whipped)
2 beaten eggs
1/2 c. dried currants or snipped raisins (I always use at least 1 c.)
milk (for brushing tops)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine whipping cream, beaten eggs, and dried fruit. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Using a pastry blender (or two knives), cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. (Don't make crumbs too fine. Visible bits of butter is fine.) Make a well in center of dry mixture. Add whipping cream, eggs, and currants or raisins all at once. Using a fork, stir just until moistened.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Quickly knead 10-12 strokes or until dough is nearly smooth. Pat or lightly flatten dough and cut into squares or circles. Place scones 1-inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Brush top of scones with milk. Bake 12-14 minutes or until golden. Remove scones from baking sheet and serve warm. Yield: 16 scones
Notes: Shannon, instead of the more traditional currants or raisins, I have used dried cranberries, cherries, apricots, etc. or a mixture of several dried fruits. Also, if you are going to freeze the scones before baking, do not brush with milk.
A warm scone - a dollop of clotted cream - fresh strawberry jam = heaven!
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Thanks Diana! I got the recipe and the info and passed them along to my friend. She was very appreciative. Thanks so much! Talk to you soon!
I had to stick my 2 cents in, I am making scones today and this recipe is delish.
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Those Cranberry Orange Scones look so good!!! I need to get some orange juice and try them!
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To the Tigers' credit, their team was made up of two seniors, a junior and a bunch of underclassmen. On the other hand, Battle Mountain's roughly eight or nine seniors posed for a photo after their 13-0, mercy-rule win on the Frisco peninsula Tuesday.
Defense was the Tigers' primary issue, racking up a number of errors during Vail's 11-run third inning, which deflated the home team.
"We didn't play our best defensive game of the year," said head coach Tom Looby. "I don't know how many errors we had, but it was pretty loose on defense, and that kind of let the floodgates open."
The Tigers stayed in the game through two innings, holding off the Huskies, who loaded the bases at one point in the second.
But in the third, Battle Mountain's Joe Lybarger got things rolling off a Tiger error. Three straight walks put the Huskies on the board. Then, a rip down the first base line knocked in two more runs, putting them up 3-0.
Another hard ground ball made it 4-0 and ended freshman Thomas DeBonville's day on the mound. He was replaced by Luke Egging, who faced the top of the order.
A quick bunt loaded the bases, and Vail's Riley Robbins creamed the day's only dinger - a grand slam.
Graduating senior and team captain Gabe Stuhr, who didn't start because he pitched a full game on Saturday, came in to relieve but couldn't immediately stop the bleeding, as the Huskies made it an 11-run third inning. They tacked on a couple more in the fourth, and it was curtains for the Tigers.
"We hit the ball hard, actually, quite a few times, but they played really good defense," Looby said. "A lot of our hits were right at people, and we didn't have very many strikeouts. We hit the ball where they were, and they played good defense."
After the game the team honored senior captains Stuhr and Jason Looby.
"I'm really excited about the skill level of our young players," said Tom Looby, who plans to return as coach next season. "We had four freshmen starters in the lineup, and I'm optimistic that as they get stronger and grow, as their pitching gets stronger, as they get older - we'll be able to compete."
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Help to buy 'forcing up house prices' as demand rockets but supply dwindles
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Mortgage availability 'set to worsen'
Help to buy is increasing the demand for homes but failing to have an impact on supply which is forcing up house prices, according to a report published today.
The number of eligible properties under the government's flagship scheme in England and Wales has fallen, while average prices have risen, since the launch of its second phase, property website Zoopla.co.uk reports.
The analysis of properties available for sale in England and Wales up to a value of £600,000 shows that help to buy has done little to encourage sellers into the market since October 2013.
Since the launch of the mortgage guarantee, the number of properties eligible under the scheme has actually fallen 1.9%. The supply squeeze has pushed up the average price of properties eligible under help to buy by 2.2%, from £222,168 in October to £227,010 today.
The South East of England has seen the biggest falls in stock levels since October with the number of eligible properties down 7.4%, whilst average prices have risen 3.6% over the same period and now stand at £274,464.
London has also seen a significant drop in the number of properties eligible under help to buy which has fallen by 6.7% since October. Wales and the Midlands are the only regions to have seen increases in the number of help to buy eligible properties available.
The biggest fall in properties eligible for help to buy over the last six months has been in Brighton where there are now 15.8% fewer properties for sale that meet the criteria than there were in October. Walsall and Stockport have also seen large drops in eligible stock with 14.9% and 14.7% fewer properties for sale respectively.
In contrast, Middlesbrough, Wirral and Newport have seen the largest increases in the number of properties that qualify for the scheme coming onto the market with rises of 38.7%, 37.4% and 25.5% respectively.
Lawrence Hall of Zoopla.co.uk said: "The help to buy scheme was introduced to help grease the wheels for buyers locked out of the market. But fuelling demand was also expected to spark sellers into action and increase the supply of properties available on the market.
"That spark seems yet to ignite as the overall level of properties eligible under help to buy has actually fallen over the last six months. Unless stock levels increase, the supply shortage will continue to put upward pressure on prices as more buyers enter the market."
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|It is hoped that omega-3 supplements could help pregnant women reduce depressive symptoms.
A small scale clinical trial at the China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan looked at the use of omega-3 supplements after it was discovered that there is often a profound decrease of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in the mother during pregnancy.
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I'm pleased to announce release 3.2 of pam-krb5.
pam-krb5 is a Kerberos v5 PAM module for either MIT Kerberos or Heimdal.
It supports ticket refreshing by screen savers, configurable authorization
handling, authentication of non-local accounts for network services,
password changing, and password expiration, as well as all the standard
expected PAM features. It works correctly with OpenSSH, even with
ChallengeResponseAuthentication and PrivilegeSeparation enabled, and
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Changes from previous release:
This release fixes numerous bugs all identified by Douglas E. Engert
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Rewrite the code to drop the credlist data structure since we only
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Probe for the correct Heimdal function to set default initial
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Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag PS4 Gameplay
Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag has officially been announced as one of the first games to make a debut on the next generation of consoles, with the PlayStation 4 version already confirmed and Ubisoft already confirming that the game will come with additional content, fans of the game were quite anxious to see actual gameplay running on the next generation console. While the next Xbox is set to be revealed this coming May 21st and the PlayStation 4 has put a lot of cards on the table with their February reveal and a whole lot of surprise announcements as of GDC, we have details on the features and other perks of the console but no eyes on the console itself.
Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag PS4 Gameplay Shows The Early Power of the Next-Gen.
Assassins Creed 4 on the PlayStation 4 is going to be joining Watch Dogs as one of the consoles early launch titles, Ubisoft has already confirmed an additional 60 minutes of content for the PlayStation 4 version as they offered with the PlayStation 3 version of Assassins Creed 3.
We have seen many sneak peeks at the power of the PlayStation 4 including some gameplay video of Killzone: Shadow Fall, Infamous: Second Son and even Deep Down (A Working Title from Capcom) while the power of the exclusives has proven itself evident, we should definitely be keeping a closer eye on the multi-platform variants of the next generation titles.
So far, Assassins Creed 4 looks absolutely stunning on the new console and combined with the enormous room for exploration that has been fit in the new game, I for one can't wait to get my hands on the PlayStation 4 and this game.
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The Recipe Redux theme for this month is frozen desserts. I thought of making popsicles and got inspired at the market when I spotted some beautiful acerola cherries. Here in the Dominican Republic we call them "cerezas" and they're eaten as is or used to make juice. The amazing acerola cherry contains 60 times the vitamin C per gram of flesh of a citrus. It also contains vitamins A, B1, B2 and B3 as well as carotenoids and bioflavonoids which provide very important nutritive value and a possible use as an antioxidant. [source]
Acerola seeds are soft and the flesh is attached to it, they can't be pitted so you just blend the whole cherries and strain to obtain their precious juice. I added chia seeds for texture and lime juice because I love tart flavors
Acerola chia lime popsicles
- 6 cups of acerola cherries
- 1 cup water
- 3 limes
- 2 tablespoons of chia seeds
- 10 grams of stevia
- Wash cherries and blend with the cup of water.
- Strain the juice to remove solids, add the lime juice, chia seeds and stevia.
- Pour into popsicle molds and freeze.
Check out my fellow Redux bloggers and see what they came up with for this month's challenge:
Greek Yogurt Pavlova Popsicles
Cherie Schetselaar – Grain Crazy
Blackberry Lemon Almond Torte
Emma Cutfield-The Hearty Heart
Coconut Ice, Blueberry and Cocoa, Joint Healing Dessert
Carlene Helble- Carlene's Figments
Peanut Butter Banana 'Ice Cream' Sandwich
Janel Funk – Eat Well with Janel
Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream
Kat Lynch – Eating The Week
Coconut Chia-Seed Fruit Pops
Dr Barb, Nutrition Budgeteer
Simply Fruit Mango-Pineapple Sorbet
Rebecca Scritchfield – MeFirst
5-minute Frozen Peach Pie
gretchen – kumquat
chocolate "ice cream" bars
Emily Greenfield – The Nutriscientist
Honey and strawberry semifreddo
Liz Marr – Liz On Food
Peach Lavender Ice Cream
Elizabeth Jarrard- Don't (White) Sugar-Coat It
Adult Popsicles: Frozen Boozy Treats
Regan – The Professional Palate
Frozen Samoa Pie
Liz Weiss & Janice Newell Bissex – Meal Makeover Moms' Kitchen
Healthy Blueberry and Mango Snow Cones
Jessica Fishman Levinson – Nutritioulicious
Watermelon Sorbet
Alexandra Caspero- Delicious Knowledge
Mango & Coconut Popsicles
Karman Meyer- Nutrition Adventures
Coconut Ice Cream with Strawberry Puree
Kristen Bourque- Swanky Dietitian
Peanut Butter Coffee Popsicles
EA Stewart-The Spicy RD
Luscious Lemonade Pie
Danielle Omar – Food Confidence RD
Banana Soft Serve
Katie Caputo- East Meats West
Auntie Rosie's Ice Cream Pie
Alysa Bajenaru – Inspired RD
Coffee Granita
Kara Lydon – Peace, Love, and Food
Peanut Butter Banana "Ice Cream" With Dark Chocolate
Serena Ball- Teaspoon of Spice
Splendid Key Lime Frozen Yogurt
Nicole Ferring Holovach – Whole Health RD
Peaches and Rum Ice Cream Pie
Lisa @ Healthful Sense
Peanut Butter Vanilla Soft Serve
Jackie Mills – Delicious Diabetes Cooking
Summer Fruit Popsicles
Audra Losey – Nutrition Know How
Mocha Pops
Kristina LaRue – Love and Zest
Frozen Berry Yogurt
Stephanie Howard – Give them Something Better
Frozen Peanut Butter Pie
Have you tried acerola cherries?
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By Cris Larano
"It's more fun in the Philippines," the Southeast Asian nation's tourism mantra proclaims.
For Dr. Sienna Brooks, the heroine in bestselling-author Dan Brown's "Inferno," the latest book on the adventures of art historian and Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, the country certainly offered more — but it wasn't fun.
Spoiler alert.
The 32-year-old, blond-haired English doctor goes to the Philippines to provide humanitarian care to people in the countryside. But her group instead "settled in among the throngs in the city of Manila–the most densely populated city on earth," where Dr. Brooks could only "gape in horror" as she "has never seen poverty on this scale."
For every person she fed, Dr. Brooks could see hundreds more gazing at her with desolates eyes. The book goes on to describe city as filled with six-hour long traffic jams, suffocating pollution and horrifying sex trade, where young children are "sold to pimps by parents who took solace in knowing that at least their children would be fed."
She saw all around her humanity overrun by its instinct for survival. "When they face desperation…human beings become animals," she thought.
Dr. Brook's depression quickly turned into frantic mania that sends her running from it all, her feet leading her to a shanty town, where babies are wailing and the air is filled with the stench of human excrement.
"I've run through the gates of hell," says Dr. Brooks, shortly before a group of men assaulted her. She barely escaped rape with the help of an old, deaf Filipina, the city's redemption.
End of spoiler alert.
This isn't the first time that Manila has been at disparaged. And it surely won't be the last.
But for a country seeking to make tourism a strong pillar of its economy, Philippine officials won't take this sitting down, a work of fiction or not.
Francis Tolentino, chairman of Metro Manila Development Authority, a government official whose job is the take care of the capital, was quick to express his disappointment and displeasure over Mr. Brown's "inaccurate portrayal of our beloved metropolis."
In a letter dated May 23 to the bestselling author of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" –both movie blockbusters as well — Mr. Tolentino, a member of President Benigno Aquino III's Cabinet, wrote:
"More than your portrayal of it, Metro Manila is the central of Filipino spirit, faith and hope. Our faith in God binds us as a nation and we believe that Manila citizens are more than capable of exemplifying good character and compassion towards each other, something that your novel has failed to acknowledge. Truly, our place is an entry to heaven."
Not everyone is as piqued at how badly Manila was depicted in "Inferno," Filipino netizen comments on Twitter show. Some even think that the episode in Manila– it's less than two pages in a 460-page novel–just made them more curious about Mr. Brown's latest thriller, whose mystery is based on Italian poet Dante's masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy."


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The popular technique to make a gaussian blur in GLSL is a two-pass blur, in the horizontal and then in the vertical direction (or vice-versa), also known as a convolution. This is a classic post on this matter http://www.gamerendering.com/2008/10/11/gaussian-blur-filter-shader/, and many others you will find around the web do exactly the same. But the performance of this shader can be improved quite a lot.
The bottleneck is in the dependent texture reads, which are any texture reads in a fragment shader where the coordinates depend on some calculation, or any texture reads in a vertex shader. A non-dependent texture read is one where the coordinates are either a constant or a varying. According to the PowerVR Performance Recommendations, a dependent texture read adds a lot of additional steps in the processing of your shader because the texture coordinates cannot be known ahead of time. When you use a constant or a varying, the hardware is able to pre-fetch the texture data before it gets to run your fragment shader, hence it becomes way more efficient.
In this gaussian blur shader we can get completely rid of the dependent reads. The key is to compute all the texture coordinates in the vertex shader and store them in varyings. They will be automatically interpolated as usual and you will have the benefits of the texture pre-fetch that occurs before the GPU runs the fragment shader. In GLSL ES we can use up to 32 floats in our varyings, which allow us to pre-compute up to 16 vec2 texture coordinates in the vertex shader.
We need two vertex shaders, one for the first pass which computes the horizontal texture coordinates and another for the second pass which computes the vertical texture coordinates. And we need a single fragment shader that we can use in both passes. This is what the first vertex shader looks like:
/* HBlurVertexShader.glsl */ attribute vec4 a_position; attribute vec2 a_texCoord; varying vec2 v_texCoord; varying vec2 v_blurTexCoords[14]; void main() { gl_Position = a_position; v_texCoord = a_texCoord; v_blurTexCoords[ 0] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.028, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 1] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.024, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 2] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.020, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 3] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.016, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 4] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.012, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 5] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.008, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 6] = v_texCoord + vec2(-0.004, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 7] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.004, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 8] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.008, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[ 9] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.012, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[10] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.016, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[11] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.020, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[12] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.024, 0.0); v_blurTexCoords[13] = v_texCoord + vec2( 0.028, 0.0); }
As you can see, the v_blurTexCoords varying is an array of vec2 where we store a bunch of vectors around the texture coordinate of the vertex a_texCoord. Each vec2 in this array will be interpolated along the triangles being rendered, as expected. We do the same for the other vertex shader which pre-computes the vertical blur texture coordinates:
/* VBlurVertexShader.glsl */ attribute vec4 a_position; attribute vec2 a_texCoord; varying vec2 v_texCoord; varying vec2 v_blurTexCoords[14]; void main() { gl_Position = a_position; v_texCoord = a_texCoord; v_blurTexCoords[ 0] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.028); v_blurTexCoords[ 1] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.024); v_blurTexCoords[ 2] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.020); v_blurTexCoords[ 3] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.016); v_blurTexCoords[ 4] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.012); v_blurTexCoords[ 5] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.008); v_blurTexCoords[ 6] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, -0.004); v_blurTexCoords[ 7] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.004); v_blurTexCoords[ 8] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.008); v_blurTexCoords[ 9] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.012); v_blurTexCoords[10] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.016); v_blurTexCoords[11] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.020); v_blurTexCoords[12] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.024); v_blurTexCoords[13] = v_texCoord + vec2(0.0, 0.028); }
The fragment shader just computes the gaussian-weighted average of the color of the texels on these pre-computed texture coordinates. Since it uses the generic v_blurTexCoords array, we can use this same fragment shader in both passes.
/* BlurFragmentShader.glsl */ precision mediump float; uniform sampler2D s_texture; varying vec2 v_texCoord; varying vec2 v_blurTexCoords[14]; void main() { gl_FragColor = vec4(0.0); gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 0])*0.0044299121055113265; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 1])*0.00895781211794; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 2])*0.0215963866053; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 3])*0.0443683338718; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 4])*0.0776744219933; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 5])*0.115876621105; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 6])*0.147308056121; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_texCoord )*0.159576912161; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 7])*0.147308056121; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 8])*0.115876621105; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[ 9])*0.0776744219933; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[10])*0.0443683338718; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[11])*0.0215963866053; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[12])*0.00895781211794; gl_FragColor += texture2D(s_texture, v_blurTexCoords[13])*0.0044299121055113265; }
As you can see, all the texture reads (calls to the built-in texture2D function) receive a pre-computed texture coordinate, that is why the hardware is able to pre-fetch the texture data for these texture reads, which is a huge improvement. For more details about what happens in the hardware, check out the section 5 of the PowerVR SGX Architecture Guide for Developers.
Then, to render the blurred image we draw into an off-screen buffer (Render toTexture) the first pass using the HBlurVertexShader and the BlurFragmentShader and the second pass using the VBlurVertexShader and the BlurFragmentShader. Of course the second pass might be rendered directly into the main frame buffer if no more post processing is going to take place.
Obviously, this technique can also be applied in any other similar scenarios. You can find an implementation of blur and sharpen filters in XBImageFilters.


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You'll be greeted with a chorus of swooning sighs when you walk into a room wearing this luscious lace and mesh peek-a-boo panty! A delicate panty embellished with embroidered lace insets breathes new life into classic elements such the shaped mesh front, double gusset between the legs and satin bow at center. A must-have for the holiday season.
- See-through mesh panels at front and back
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Ted Stevens/Veco corruption investigation
|Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was previously under federal indictment for his connections to a probe of Alaskan lawmakers and their relationship to the VECO oil company. Investigators are looking into the remodeling of Stevens' home in Girdwood, Alaska that involved top VECO executives. Former VECO chief executive Bill Allen, awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to bribing Alaska lawmakers, spearheaded the remodeling project by hiring the contractors and directing them to send him the same bills that were being sent to Stevens.
On July 29, 2008, Department of Justice investigators announced a grand jury had indicted Stevens for seven counts of making false statements, alleging he failed to disclose $250,000 in goods and services, including the work done on his home, as required by the Ethics in Government Act.
On October 27, a federal jury convicted Stevens of "knowingly and willfully" making false statements on his Senate personal financial disclosure forms. He faces five years in prison for each count.
Subsequently, a federal judge threw out the conviction against him for prosecutorial misconduct.
See the main article on Ted Stevens for other information.
- 1 Background
- 1.1 House raided
- 1.2 Construction deal note
- 1.3 Calls for Stevens to step down from committee spots
- 1.4 F.B.I. investigates Veco contract
- 1.5 Allen testifies Veco's involvement in Stevens' Home Renovation
- 1.6 FBI taped conversations between Stevens and Allen
- 1.7 Committee has authority to listen to tapes
- 2 Indictment
- 3 Trial
- 4 Conviction
- 5 Articles and resources
In 2006, Stevens' son Ben Stevens, who at that point was serving as president of the Alaska State Senate, had his offices raided by the FBI. Federal officials were reportedly seeking information surrounding his ties to VECO Corp., an oil field-services firm the Senator had aided in the past through earmarks.[1]
On May 7, 2007, VECO Corp.'s CEO, Bill Allen, and a vice president, Rick Smith, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges. VECO Corp. was also used in hiring contractors in the 2000 remolding of Sen. Stevens's Girdwood, Alaska home, leading to closer investigation by the FBI and Justice Department, although the senator had not been officially targeted in the investigation. The invoices for the work were sent through former VECO CEO Bill Allen to be approved before being passed onto Stevens for payment, despite the fact that Allen himself has stated "VECO was not in the business of residential construction or remodeling."[2]
In a June 6, 2007 interview with the Washington Post, Stevens disclosed that he had been asked by the FBI to preserve his records in cooperation with the ongoing Alaska investigation, and that he had hired lawyers regarding the matter.[3]
In mid-June, it was revealed that in May 2007 a federal Grand Jury examined Stevens's ties to VECO regarding the remolding of his Girdwood house, a clear indication that Stevens himself was becoming the target of the FBI's ongoing Alaska corruption investigation.[4] A close friend of Stevens, Anchorage real estate developer Bob Penney, also testified before a Grand Jury regarding the bribery scandal in Alaska. Penney invited the Senator to a a real estate investment deal that made Stevens hundreds of thousands of dollars, and is also a member of an Alaska investors group called Alaska's Great Eagle which bought a race horse with both the Senator and former VECO CEO Bill Allen.[5]
On June 19, it was revealed by a lawyer close to the case that former aides to Stevens on Capitol Hill were being questioned by the FBI regarding the Senator's ties to Bill Allen and VECO Corp.[6]
In mid-July 2007, Stevens' approval rating, according to a poll conducted by Ivan Moore, dropped to just under 45%, while 44% of respondents stated a favorable opinion of the Senator. Previous approval ratings, between September 2005 and April 2007, ranged from 58 percent to 63 percent, demonstrating a significant change since Stevens came under investigation.[7][8]
House raided
On July 30, 2007, the FBI and the IRS raided Stevens's home in Girdwood, Alaska. The house had been in the news before because VECO, an oil company previously uninvolved in home construction, renovated the home to add another story to it for Stevens. The raid was a continuation of the probe into the relationship between Stevens and VECO.[9]
Stevens stated that the investigation would not hinder his service to Alaska and called for Alaskans "not to form conclusions based upon incomplete and sometimes incorrect reports in the media. The legal process should be allowed to proceed so that all the facts can be established and the truth determined."[10]
Construction deal note
A note found after the FBI raided Stevens's Girdwood home revealed an estimate of how much Stevens had paid for the renovations to the house.[11] In the handwritten note, Stevens wrote,
Dear WevTed"[12]
My staff tells me I did not respond to your May 23 letter. I truly believed I did as I answered a series of "thank yous" from people who wish us well in these hours of strife.
This is a sad portion of my life -- it will take time to explain. Catherine and I personally paid over $130,000 for the improvements to our chalet in Girdwood. Someone -- or more than one -- keeps telling the FBI that's not so. Takes time to go back over five years to prove they are wrong. I do appreciate your comments.
My best
This number appeared to be a suspicious estimate, as it was reported that the carpentry work alone cost $100,000. This would mean that the rest of the construction, including raising the house to make room for the new floor, moving earth to prepare the ground for construction, plumbing work, electric work, and roofing all was either done for less than $30,000, a very good deal, or was paid for by other sources.[13]
Calls for Stevens to step down from committee spots
Following the July raid of Stevens's home, the watchdog groups Taxpayers for Common Sense and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called for Stevens to temporarily step down from his seat on the committee that funds the Justice Department while he is under investigation.[14] CREW director Melanie Sloan commented,
"Senators should follow the lead of their House colleagues and require anyone whose property has been searched in connection with a criminal probe to relinquish his plum committee post. Senator Stevens, who sits on the subcommittee responsible for funding the Justice Department, which is conducting a probe into his potentially criminal activities, should immediately resign his position on the Appropriations committee."[15]
F.B.I. investigates Veco contract
In mid August, the F.B.I. began investigating a $170 million contract given to Veco to provide the National Science Foundation with polar and arctic research support. Just as Veco had no history of home construction before building additions to Ted Stevens's home, they also had no experience in polar and arctic research support.[16]
At the time, no evidence had been unearthed to prove Stevens was responsible for securing the federal contracts for Veco, though as a senior member of the Senate Commerce Committee, he would have had authority over such funding.[17]
Allen testifies Veco's involvement in Stevens' Home Renovation
Former CEO Bill Allen acknowledged that the more than $400,000 he admitted spending in the bribery charge included the work done at the home of Stevens. "I gave Ted some old furniture," Allen said. "I don't think there was a lot of material, There was some labor." He then added that the labor came from Veco employees and that he paid for these bills.[18]
FBI taped conversations between Stevens and Allen
On September 21, 2007, it was revealed that the FBI had secretly taped conversations between Sen. Stevens and VECO executive Bill Allen. While sources revealed that Allen had agreed to taping conversations with Stevens after he was confronted with evidence that he had bribed Alaska legislators, it remained unclear as to what the content of the conversations were as well as how many conversations were recorded. Allen had pleaded guilty to bribery and has since been a key witness in cases against Alaska lawmakers.[19]
The Senate Ethics Committee had authority to listen to the FBI tape recordings. In a 1981 court ruling, a federal judge declared that Senate Ethics Committee investigators fall within the legal definition of federal law enforcement agencies and must be granted access to legally obtained wiretap evidence, even when the Member involved has not been indicted. With that ruling, the Ethics committee would have a strong case if it decided to hear the tapes. However, it is still unclear whether or not the panel will even press for the tapes. [20]
In July 2008, Stevens was charged with seven counts of concealing information on his financial disclosure forms. The indictment alleges violation of the Ethics in Government Act, and that Stevens concealed more than $250,000 in good and services. The items included additions to his home, household items, and vehicles. Stevens allegedly accepted the gifts and services from former Veco CEO Bill Allen, who was seeking assistance from Stevens at the time. The indictment did not charge bribery or allege quid pro quo. Under the Ethics in Government Act, members of Congress must report and disclose large gifts and debts.[21]
Stevens steps down from leadership positions
Following his indictment on July 29, 2008, and in keeping with party rules, Stevens stepped down as the top Republican on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee; and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery. Senate Republican Conference rules require that "in the event of an indictment for a felony, the chair/ranking member or elected member of the leadership shall step down until the case is resolved."[22]
Prosecutors Reveal New Evidence
On August 14th, federal prosecutors revealed new evidence against Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). Among the allegations was the claim that, in 2006, Stevens offered to use his Washington connections to push a stalled pipeline project in his home state of Alaska. The claim was supported by the transcript of a private conversation that took place between Stevens and VECO founder Bill Allen, in which the Senator said "I'm gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here to go up there and say, 'Look, uh, you just gotta make up your mind, you gotta get this done."[23] Though the pipeline was never built, prosecutors charged that VECO frequently turned to Stevens in order to obtain government contracts and grants. As evidence of the Stevens' malfeasance, prosecutors pointed to thousands of dollars in undisclosed gifts given to the Senator by VECO. [24]
Defense motion to dismiss denied
A motion by Stevens' lawyers to dismiss the case was denied on September 29, 2008. The attorneys had argued the prosecution had withheld vital information from the defense team: the testimony of a worker whose timecards were cited by a prosecution witness. The judge granted the defense another opportunity to cross-examine that witness, Cheryl Boomershine, a former bookkeeper for VECO Corp.
Boomershire said she could not verify that a former VECO employee worked the hours recorded on a timesheet related to construction on Stevens' house.[25]
Judge throws out evidence
On October 8, presiding judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered evidence in the trial struck from the record. This included records that showed Stevens had exchanged $5,000 in cash and a 1964 Mustang worth $20,000 for a $44,000 Land Rover. The exchange occurred in 1999, when Stevens acquired the "brand-new" Land Rover from Bill Allen, the former head of VECO Inc. Judge Sullivan also threw out records showing when two former VECO employees billed Stevens for work performed on his home.
Defense attorneys for Stevens again sought a mistrial, and asked that Sullivan dismiss the seven felony charges the Alaska senator faces. They have argued repeatedly that the prosecution withheld evidence crucial to Stevens' defense. Sullivan refused to declare a mistrial, but issued a stern warning to the federal prosecutors trying the case.[26]
Extension granted
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted a last-minute extension to the Justice Department, allowing the prosecution to present a witness that could present evidence similar to that thrown out by Sullivan earlier in the trial. Prosecutors would be allowed to call Dave Anderson, a former Veco Corp. employee, to the stand. Anderson was at the worksite for Steven's Alaska home when it was remodeled in 2000 and 2001. The government said Stevens failed to disclose the renovations as required by federal law.[27]
On October 27, Stevens was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of "knowingly and willfully" making false statements on his Senate personal financial disclosure forms. Stevens faced up to five years in prison for each of the seven counts, though sentencing guidelines recommend less time. At the time of his conviction, Stevens was 84 years old and in his sixth term in the Senate. Under Senate rules, Stevens did not have to resign. However, at the time he was in a virtual tie against Democrat Mark Begich in his bid for a seventh term.[28]
Subsequently, a federal court threw out the conviction based on prosecutorial misconduct.
Articles and resources
- ↑ Justin Rood, "From D.C., Alaska Senator Keeps An Eye (and A Hand) Out For His Son" TPM Muckraker, September 1, 2006.
- ↑ "Investigators eye remodeling at home of Sen. Ted Stevens" Associated Press (delivered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer), May 29, 2007.
- ↑ Paul Kane, "Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe" Washington Post, June 7, 2007.
- ↑ Richard Mauer, "Grand jury examines Stevens' ties to Veco," Anchorage Daily News, June 17, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "Stevens' Friend That Testified Is Also Business Partner," TPM Muckraker, June 21,2007.
- ↑ Matt Apuzzo, "Sen. Stevens aides questioned in probe," Associated Press (via Yahoo News), June 19, 2007.
- ↑ "Poll shows new low in Steven's popularity," Associated Press (via Juneau Empire), July 16, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "Stevens' Popularity Sinks To New Low," TPM Muckraker, July 16, 2007.
- ↑ Elana Schor. "FBI raids Sen. Stevens's Alaska home," The Hill. July 31, 2007.
- ↑ Elana Schor. "FBI raids Sen. Stevens's Alaska home," The Hill. July 31, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "Stevens Thank You Note Shows Low Cost for Home Job," TPM Muckraker, August 10, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "Stevens Thank You Note Shows Low Cost for Home Job," TPM Muckraker, August 10, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "Stevens Thank You Note Shows Low Cost for Home Job," TPM Muckraker, August 10, 2007.
- ↑ Paul Kiel. "CREW: Stevens Should Step Down from DoJ Committee Spot," TPM Muckraker. July 31, 2007.
- ↑ Paul Kiel. "CREW: Stevens Should Step Down from DoJ Committee Spot," TPM Muckraker. July 31, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "FBI Scrutinizes Unlikely Veco Contracts," TPM Muckraker, August 16, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "FBI Scrutinizes Unlikely Veco Contracts," TPM Muckraker, August 16, 2007.
- ↑ Laura McGann, "Allen Admits Veco Employees Worked on Stevens' Home Renovation," TPM Muckraker, September 17, 2007.
- ↑ Matt Apuzzo, "FBI tapes Stevens calls as part of sting," The Associated Press, via TPM Muckraker, September 21, 2007.
- ↑ Emily Pierce, "Panel Has Claim to Stevens Tapes," Rollcall, October 1, 2007.
- ↑ Carrie Johnson, "Sen. Ted Stevens Indicted in Alaska Corruption Probe," The Washington Post, July 29, 2008
- ↑ Kathleen Hunter, "Stevens Surrenders Committee Posts," CQ Today, July 29, 2008.
- ↑ Matt Apuzzo, "Prosecutors: Senator helped oil contractor," Associated Press, August 15, 2008.
- ↑ Richard Mauer, "Feds reveal more in Stevens case," Anchorage Daily News, August 15, 2008.
- ↑ Kathleen Hunter, "Judge Scolds Prosecution But Denies Stevens' Mistrial Request," CQ Politics, September 29, 2008
- ↑ Manu Raju, "Judge deals blow to case against Sen. Stevens," The Hill, October 8, 2008
- ↑ Manu Raju, "Prosecutors win extension in Stevens trial," The Hill, October 9, 2008
- ↑ Conor Kenny, "Ted Stevens Convicted on All Counts in Corruption Trial," PRWatch.org, October 27, 2008
- Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. Cooper, "Senator's Way to Wealth was paved with Favors", Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2003
- Editorial: "Alaskan Outrage," Washington Post, December 29, 2003.
- Paul Jacob, "The appearance of corruption", Townhall.com, January 18, 2004.
- Matt Volz, "Senator Defends Fish Deal", Anchorage Daily News, April 11, 2005.
- Chris Isidore, "Big oil CEOs under fire in Congress: Lawmakers spar with execs from Exxon, Chevron over high prices, record profits, consumer pain", CNN/Money, November 9, 2005.
- Jeffrey St Clair, "Senator Ted Stevens' Empire of Corruption: King of the Hill", CounterPunch, January 27, 2006.
- Paul Kiel, "Masked bill-blocker reveals self," TPMmuckraker, August 30, 2006.
- Justin Rood, "From D.C., Alaska Senator Keeps An Eye (and A Hand) Out For His Son," TPMmuckraker, September 1, 2006.
- Amanda Terkel, "Justice Dept. Deems Sen. Stevens Too Corrupt To Participate In U.S. Attorney Scandal," Think Progress, May 30, 2007.
- "CREW releases 'Beyond DeLay: The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and two to watch)'," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, September 18, 2007.


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Don't be surprised if you spot a moose wearing a collar. It's not a pet but part of a new study of the Granite State's declining moose population.
New Hampshire's moose population has dropped dramatically from 7,600 to 4,400.
Fish and Game veteran moose biologist Kristine Rines says her division is teaming up with the University of New Hampshire to put tracking collars on nearly 100 moose cows and calves to study how long they live and to get them soon after they die.
Rines says shorter winters are spawning an increase in winter ticks and parasites.
She said concerns about the dwindling moose population have promoted a drop in moose hunting permits from 675 to 275 in the past six years.


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The Egyptian writers who rose to prominence in the 1960s cast a long shadow over decades of Arabic fiction. Youssef Rakha considers the vexed legacy of a generation.
Hunger: A Modern Arabic Novel
Mohamed el Bisatie, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
American University in Cairo Press
In July 2007, I met the novelist Gamal al Ghitani in Cairo to discuss the Egyptian State Merit Award, which he had just received (too late, he felt). We agreed that the group of writers known in Egypt as the Generation of the Sixties – a politically engaged, predominantly working-class group of poetically-inclined writers who made their names in the late 1960s and early 1970s – remain the principle reference point for much contemporary Arabic literature. Al Ghitani said that the Sixties' achievement comprises only two kinds of writing. "One draws on the news and other immediate manifestations of history to take realism to its logical conclusion; it is represented by Sonallah Ibrahim. The other, which is inspired by old books and uses the old storytelling to comment on the present, is my own."
It seemed unnecessary to disagree at the time, but I thought to myself that there was a third Sixties contingent, one typified by Ibrahim Aslan and Mohamed el Bisatie. Their work is even more typical of "the movement" than either Ibrahim's brand of hyper-realism or al Ghitani's heritage-orientated approach. It embodies all the qualities that come to mind when you think of the Generation of the Sixties: it focuses on collective rather than individual experience. It works through evocation and insinuation, is often almost too subtle to understand, and prioritises style over storytelling. It asserts the importance of the lower-middle and working classes, which were more visible under the Nasser regime than they had ever been before.
What sets Aslan and el Bisatie – the former a postman-turned-editor, the latter (like Naguib Mahfouz) a lifelong civil servant – apart from their generational cohort is their almost exclusive emphasis on the experience of marginalised groups, rather than all of society or the ebb and flow of history. Their short stories – always short, sometimes rambling – are Faulkneresque in their focus on small communities and their vernaculars. Aslan has the Nile-side Cairo slum of Kitkat, el Bisatie an unnamed small town overlooking Lake Manzalah in the north-eastern Nile Delta. Like Ibrahim, both authors engage broad themes like sex, religion and politics, but only indirectly, only to the extent that they play out in the lives of the disinherited, and generally in a more personal register. Like al Ghitani, they situate their narratives in an explicitly historical context, but only on behalf of the small, poor communities in question.
In addition to his numerous short stories, Aslan has only produced two novels – Malik al Hazin (Heron, 1983) and Asafir al Nil (Nile Sparrows, 2000). Recently, in an unprecedented move for a Sixties Generation writer, he has branched out into literary non-fiction. El Bisatie, on the other hand, has spent the last three decades steadily producing short novels of starkly uneven quality. To a greater extent than Aslan, he has failed to remedy the shortcoming inherent in much of the new writing celebrated in the 1960s and 1970s: a lack of strong characters or gripping storylines. The power of language to convey an intimately observed environment – particularly one where common people live – was thought to be enough for literature. But it rarely is; now that the Sixties' political points are no longer fresh, their style frequently seems stale as well.
"Hunger" is the idiomatic translation of both Al Ju' and Ju': the definite and indefinite forms of the word, respectively. El Bisatie's choice of the latter as the title of his latest book (since published as Hunger by the American University in Cairo press) reflects a particular humility of the Sixties: the belief that, when the title of a book is a one-word abstraction, the definite article is too presumptuous to include. To call the book Al Ju' (so goes this absurd argument, advanced by a whole range of Sixties critics) would imply that the author is laying exclusive claim to the concept of hunger (this is the rough opposite of how it works in English).
Reading Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger – another recent book about poverty in the third world, one that recognises the age-old literary virtues of character and storyline – I was reminded of many such Sixties hang-ups (all of which Adiga transcends). They include a paradoxical combination of commitment to "the people" and a lack of concern for accessibility, a tendency to prioritise flashy language over storytelling, and commitment to the unwritten commandment "Thou shalt not make context clear or state the facts". These qualities occasionally combined to produce an exquisite short story or novella (and are much less pronounced in al Ghitani and Ibrahim than in Aslan or el Bisatie), but they restricted the scope of much talent, alienated many readers and effected a huge drop in novel sales, which had reached a peak in the mid-1960s with the works of journalist-novelists like Ihsan abdul Quddous and Fathi Ghanem; contemporary Arabic literature has had serious trouble building a readership ever since.
El Bisatie devised his technique of a collective narrative voice in two 1978 novellas, Al Maqha az Zujaji (The Glass Cafe) and Al Ayyam as Sa'bah (Hard Days): simple, sad evocations of the lives of geographically isolated town-dwellers. In these books, as in the bulk of el Bisatie's subsequent work, the narration is either delivered by an amorphous "we" or by a rapidly shifting blend of individual voices – in both cases, it as if el Bisatie's small town itself is telling its own tale.
It is a technically impressive mode of writing, one el Bisatie employed to brilliant effect as recently as 1994, in Sakhab al Buhairah (Clamour of the Lake), a prose poem-cum-foundation myth of life in the rural space between the lake and the sea in the governorate of Domyat. But none of the collective voice's potential poetic power (often squandered by sloppiness and repetition) makes up for a lack of absorbing drama or vivid individual characters. This helps explain why Ju' is such a slow and dreary read.
The book opens with a woman named Sakina sitting by the doorstep of her rough-and-tumble, mostly mud-brick family house, her headscarf in a bundle between her legs. Her perpetually unemployed husband, Zaghloul, uses a piece of straw to clean his teeth – his way of telling her that she had better borrow a reghif or two of bread from the neighbour who baked that morning. Inside the house, their sons (Zaher, 12, and Ragab, 10), barely awake, caress their tummies. Dialogue between husband and wife is intermingled with their respective internal monologues, all rendered in a language somewhere between dialect and standard Arabic. El Bisatie's usual poetic intensity is replaced by a more true-to-life, mundane idiom that is neither absorbing nor (as the intention sometimes seems to be) comic.
From the start, it is hard not to recall far more powerful depictions of the subjective experience of hunger (in Mohammad Choukri or Knut Hamsen, for example). You race through the next few pages, hoping for some more compelling situation or scene. But having taken in that first image, it turns out you have taken in the whole book: paper-thin characters on the lookout for food, only food, and not thinking much at all.
Ju' is built around four anecdotes recalled without any indication of when they occur or how (or if) they relate. First, Zaghloul takes to eavesdropping on a group of young men from the town who are studying at university in Cairo. Home for the holiday, they are meeting at the cafe around which Zaghloul hovers (hoping against hope for a free drink, perhaps?). "Oh Sakina," he later recalls to his wife, "education is so sweet… Sitting on the mastaba by the wall, I hear them talking. And, oh, what talk! I understand bit, I don't understand a bit… They say that one shouldn't work everyday like a water buffalo tied to a water wheel, one has to have time to think. But, people, think about what? They did not say. I wanted to ask them but I was silent."
The encounter, far from influencing Zaghloul one way or the other, acts only to dehumanise him for the reader, to solidify him as a caricature of the sub-proletariat. Likewise, in the second anecdote he blasphemes: "God in His glory created the world and the people and everything, and ordered them to worship Him. I say to myself, if He created all this, what does He need their worshipping for … If He in His glory wants them to worship him, why doesn't He appear in whatever form He likes and say 'I created you, worship Me!' Then nobody will say no." This is a silly caricature of shallow atheism – neither interesting in its own right nor useful in developing Zaghloul's character, which remains opaque and stereotyped: the poor man with poor thoughts who invariably ends up being beaten by the imam.
The third anecdote involves Hagg Abdur Rahim – a man who "returned home from foreign countries" to the village with as much new money as new weight, which renders him immobile. Zaghloul works for Hagg Abdur for two months, bringing his family a rare stretch of financial stability. In the fourth – and perhaps the most interesting – anecdote, Sakina is similarly subcontracted as a servant by the two female teenage servants of Hagg Hashem, another affluent member of the community. When she moves into Hashem's house, she brings along her husband and children, who feast on the household's supplies. But once again, the protagonists reveal no individuality, enacting their destiny (acquiring what food they can) like shadow puppets, two-dimensional and skin deep.
Ju' ends with Zaher being beaten up by the father of his relatively affluent friend Abdalla, who has been providing him with much-needed snacks. "His father," who does not want him to mix with such rabble, "was a teacher at the primary school and he had not one but four galabeyas, he wore an undershirt and had three meals a day." Zaghloul accepts a few meters of fabric as compensation, but when Abdalla's father hands Zaher a galabeya to replace the one that was torn during the beating, Zaher throws the garment on the ground and walks away. In The White Tiger, Adiga has his poor man protagonist, Balram, rebel – and transform himself with a brutal murder. In Ju', el Bisatie has Zaher make a feeble, hackneyed gesture, without the slightest indication of whether or how the rebellion will improve (or worsen) his lot. Perhaps a gesture of this type is in character for Zaher; we never know him well enough to say.
Perhaps what al Ghitani was getting at (consciously or unconsciously) in our conversation was not that the Sixties produced only two kinds of writing but rather that only two kinds of writing have survived since. Aslan and el Bisatie's mode, arguably the most characteristic of the Generation, is fast dying out, just like the predominantly deferential, ineffectual characters it depicts. Today, the Zaghlouls of Egyptian fiction are more like Adiga's Balram: upwardly mobile heroes who at least try to change their lives. The heirs of the Generation of the Sixties (prose poets-turned-novelists some three decades younger, often referred to quite aptly as the Generation of the Nineties) have turned the principles of their forebears upside down. Writers like Mustafa Zikri and Ibrahim Farghali – however else you evaluate their achievement – have traded the collective for the individual, the musical swirl of the "we" for the developed narratives of the "I". As a vehicle for conveying modern reality, el Bisatie's collective voice sounds less and less convincing – like the echo of an echo, no longer beautiful twice removed. It is doubtful that the poetic style he perfected in Shakhab al Buhairah will live on much longer.
Early on, partly in response to the Sixties Generation's obsession with "the people", the Nineties writers avoided social and political engagement altogether, and edged away from the vernacular towards a dynamic, thoroughly contemporary standard Arabic designed for finding the magic in the quotidien. As a result, they are realists only insofar as they use everyday contemporary life as their starting point. They write about foreigners and rich people with fully developed and convincing personalities – and about ghosts, psychotic breaks, unrealistic and fantastical turns of events. Their styles borrow from across high and low culture. Most importantly, they show at least as much interest in plot and character development as style. They tell stories of love, death, hunger and the full range of specimens who experience them. In doing so, they offer the reader so much more than the Sixties version of reality which, through relentless, obstinate insistence on being true to the grassroots vernacular of its time (and nothing more), already appears unreal.
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Duke Energy today announced the appointment of Richard W. Haviland as senior vice president, construction and major projects.
The company is planning more than $23 billion in capital expenditures over the next five years, including several proposed power plants in the Carolinas and Midwest.
Our future business success will be closely linked to our success in managing the construction of new baseload, intermediate and peaking generation, said Jim Turner, president and chief operating officer, Duke Energy Franchised Electric and Gas. Ricks talent and leadership complement an experienced internal team of people and will help ensure success on these major investments in our energy infrastructure.
Before joining Duke, Haviland served as president and chief executive officer of the project execution group for Air Liquide. Prior to that, he held senior management positions at Calpine Corporation and Bechtel Power Corporation.
Ricks deep history in major power project and construction management will be a great asset to Duke Energy as we begin construction of a state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant at Cliffside Steam Station in North Carolina, and an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) generator in Edwardsport, Ind., Turner added. He will also support the construction and project management of our planned Lee Nuclear Station in South Carolina, and lead our effort to construct new natural gas-fired generation at Buck and Dan River steam stations in North Carolina.
Haviland will also be responsible for construction and project management support on the companys non-regulated generation projects, including renewable wind energy, through Duke Energy Generation Services.
Haviland holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Peter Wildfong Receives Research Grant
Duquesne University TimesFund totaling $451,172 were recently received by the Mylan School of Pharmacy, the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Nursing and the School of Education.
Dr. Peter Wildfong, School of Pharmacy, $10,000, from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., for research in the prediction of mechanically activated phase transformations.
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At a Seattle city meeting Tuesday night, Amazon presented plans for a futuristic, greenhouse-like sphere of a building in the middle of its new Seattle campus. According to the proposal, the five-story, tri-domed structure will be large enough to accommodate mature trees, allowing employees to "work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting."
In addition to a variety of workplace environments, the facility will incorporate dining, meeting and lounge spaces, as well as a variety of botanical zones modeled on montane ecologies found around the globe.
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The 29-year-old actor will play Captain America in the Marvel blockbuster - which draws together a number of superheroes, including Thor, The Hulk and Iron Man - but insists he doesn't know what will happen in the film.
He said: "I don't know anything. I don't even know what they're thinking plot-wise. It's strange. I'm in a movie and I have no idea what it's about. It's a blind challenge I'm facing."
Chris – who previously played superhero The Human Torch in 'Fantastic Four' – will first play Captain America in the forthcoming movie 'Captain America: The First Avenger' and admitted he was both excited and terrified the first time he donned his costume.
He told Empire magazine: "I'm trying to approach this as if it wasn't a superhero movie. It's just about a guy who gets this amazing gift.
"But the first time I put on the costume, it was a real mix of excitement and terror, 'What have I gotten myself into?' But it's started to feel more like home. A lot of responsibility comes with this costume, I hope I'm doing it justice. Man, I could be wearing this for ten years."


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Beers, Brats and the Chicken Dance
Each fall, cities across America fill with revelers donning lederhosen and downing steins of foamy beer in celebration of Oktoberfest. The annual German tradition pops up in towns from Texas to Maine, promising good food, great beer and lots of polka to all who come. Below is a list of great Oktoberfest celebrations nationwide.
Cincinnati, OH
— This major city in Ohio lifts up steins filled with lager at Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati, which runs from 9/18-9/20.
Backed by its Western heritage and the Rocky Mountains, Denver is a city with a growing cultural scene — something you can discover through its Oktoberfest happening 9/18-9/20 and 9/25-9/27.
Frankenmuth, MI — Fete all things German in the Harvey Kern Pavilion in Heritage Park on Weiss Street at the
Frankenmuth Oktoberfest from 9/17-9/20.
Fredericksburg, TX —Fredericksburg, a small Texas town at the gateway to the Hill Country Wine Trail, reveals a strong German heritage with its Oktoberfest from 10/2-10/4.
Helen, GA — Though Helen is really in Georgia's Appalachians, the tiny village fancies itself as being in the Bavarian Alps and presents an Oktoberfest extravaganza from 9/10-9/13 and 9/17-11/1.
Irondequoit, NY — This beautiful city, a suburb of Rochester, will celebrate its 28th annual Oktoberfest this year for two weekends of German culture, cuisine and music on 9/11-9/12 and 9/18-9/19.
La Crosse, WI — Visit La Crosse for Oktoberfest USA, where everyone can enjoy the Wisconsin autumn with time-honored Bavarian traditions, German beer and live music from 10/1-10/4.
Leavenworth, WA — This charming Washington town, modeled after a Bavarian village, holds the well-attended Leavenworth Oktoberfest on 10/2-10/3, 10/9-10/10, and 10/16-10/17.
Los Angeles, CA — Enjoy traditional food and beers, and live entertainment at the Los Angeles Oktoberfest happening 10/16-10/18.
Los Angeles, CA — Calling all herbivores! Join the Vegan Oktoberfest in LA going on from 10/3-10/4. Pours of more than 50 beers will be available and 30 food vendors will be on site to satisfy your appetite!
Mount Angel, OR — Dancing, harmony yodeling and camping are just a few things you can expect at the Mount Angel Oktoberfest from 9/17-9/20.
Newark, DE — In addition to a parade and plenty of food, a Bavarian dance group and band will perform continuous entertainment at the Delaware Saengerbund Oktoberfest from 9/18-9/20.
New Ulm, MN — Founded by German immigrants, this Minnesota town makes merry at the New Ulm Oktoberfest from 10/2-10/3 & 10/9-10/10.
New York, NY — Celebrate a German-American Oktoberfest at the Steuben Parade on 9/19 and at the Oktoberfest Tent from 10/2-10/12.
San Diego, CA- Ocean Beach Oktoberfest is from 10/9-10/10. Sip beer by the beach and indulge in wurst-eating, stein-holding and a sausage toss competition. Also: Miss Oktoberfest competition!
Francisco, CA — San Francisco is home to a colorful blend of spirited attractions and cultures — a quality that shines at the Oktoberfest from 9/25-9/27.
Seattle, WA — Fremont, a lively neighborhood in Seattle, holds an even livelier beer-fueled celebration at the Fremont Oktoberfest from 9/18-9/20.
Soulard, MO — Soulard, a city of the St. Louis Historic District, is host to one of the fastest growing Oktoberfest celebrations in the U.S. The Soulard Oktoberfest will be held the weekend of 10/9-10/11.
Southwest Harbor, ME — Celebrate the tastes and styles of New England with beer, crafts vendors, music and food at Acadia's Oktoberfest in Southwest Harbor on 10/10 and 10/11.
Torrance, CA — People from all over Los Angeles flock to Torrance's Alpine Village for its epic Oktoberfest, with events every weekend from 9/11-10/31.
Tulsa, OK — Credited as the birthplace of Route 66 and once called the "Oil Capital of the World," this city in Oklahoma is also known for the Tulsa Oktoberfest, which runs from 10/22-10/25.
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