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Mardi Gras – it's one of those unqualified celebrations whose essence seems to completely inundate the New Orleans experience. Whatever the occasion, New Orleanians consistently regale one another with their "Carnival Tales" in part to reconnect with this most sacred of Crescent City traditions, and to define their relationships with the city itself. In the spirit of the holiday, read on for a few of these personal Mardi Gras moments — as told by some of the people whose stories are most deeply woven into the city's fabric.
*** "I love the holiday; I've only missed one since the first one. My Tee Boo-Boo Bear and I were stuck in Vail that year. We tried so hard to come home, every plan fell through…we were stuck. After a long strange trip through the jagged cold mountains we landed back to our house in Eagle, Colo. I ran to my bed, jumped in and cried out while kicking my feet like a child screaming "I wanna go out and play!" I truly felt like I was 6 years old. That was my Mardi Gras that year, I never felt so far, yet so connected to my home.
The year before that, Big Chief Bo Dollis of the Wild Magnolias, a man I love dearly, married me and my Tee Boo-Boo Bear…twice! On Lasalle Street in front of the Friendly Super Market. Ashley and I fell in Love on Mardi Gras a few years earlier when I took her to the H&R Bar off Second and Dryades, I have been on that corner every year since I was 17. Dave who owned it called me "Every Year" the second time I went…."Where Y'at Every Year!?" I used to talk to Bumble Bee and Lil Crip, Low Down, and Rabbit, Geechie Johnson was my tour guide. I drank gin with Gator and sweet wine with Monk at Kemps, gave my cane to Lil Michael, ate pickles and nachos and beat a 40 oz. High Life with a stick for hours. The world changed for me. I absolutely love the holiday; Mardi Gras is the second greatest love of my life."
-Chris Jones, leader of the 101 Runners
*** "When I moved to New Orleans, some 30 years ago, I was enamored and chased Indians all over town. I would go to Benny's Bar to catch the Wild Magnolias, I would go to underneath the Claiborne overpass/ underpass on the edge of Mid-City downtown, always looking for Indians and never finding them – going to Monk Boudreaux's house and waiting on him to come out and him not coming out, or coming out and saying that he wasn't exactly ready and waving off the crowds so they could go continue their celebration, and for years it seemed like I was chasing the elusive butterfly. Never getting close enough and always having to see Mardi Gras Indians either at Jazz Fest or at a local venue like Tipitina's. Never seeing them in person on Carnival Day. It just seemed like I was never gonna find an Indian.
Then I moved to Algiers and my search ended because it was too much trouble to go Uptown. I would take the ferry over and participate on Mardi Gras Day in the French Quarter. Low and behold, when I moved back over to the East Bank I moved right on the edge of downtown Mid-City – Broad and Esplanade – and moved right across the street from a Big Chief [Big Chief David Montana]. I have been involved in the Mardi Gras culture ever since. Now, every Mardi Gras day I have a special show at the Hi-Ho with a Mardi Gras Indian orchestra. I went searching for culture, and somehow became a part of it."
-John Driver, reigning King of MOMS
*** "I'm going out on a limb here but I think maybe in our society there is this impression that if there is that much joy and revelry (in something) then something must be wrong. I always march with my brass band, for the past 10 or 12 years, we [the Panorama Jazz Band] have accompanied a group called the Saint Anthony Ramblers that gather in the Marigny and go around there and the Quarter. We always go to Jackson Square and the routine the last several years has been to play a hymn, a funeral hymn, in the Square because there's always someone who has died that year, somebody close to somebody in the band. And we always see these people, these very sad and angry Christians. And now a lot of Christians are not like that, but these Christians, they are really unhappy about people having such a good time. And there are people that go out there and do battle with them and ridicule them or tease them 'cause they get upset easily, even though they try to hide it. What we have taken to doing is to play a really beautiful hymn and bring them some beauty, at least that's the way I think about it. Just to play a really sweet, beautiful Protestant hymn.
So in the midst of all this revelry, we have kind of fallen into an annual ritual of this moment of reverence, like Nearer My God to Thee (which also appears on the band's latest CD). I play the clarinet, and there comes a point in that hymn where I play the melody along with the trumpets and the saxophone and after that the mid-horns (the trombone and alto horn and tenor horn) take the melody. So there we are in Jackson Square and we're playing this gorgeous beautiful hymn and I get a moment to stop playing and just stand at attention and enjoy the music. And a few times, at least two or three years in a row, I've just dissolved into tears at that moment, just at the beauty and the majesty and at the same time the fragility of the tenor horns taking the melody line. Luckily, I've happened to be standing next to one of my trumpet players who is about my height so I've had eight bars to just grab onto him and hug him and cry my eyes out before I have to get back to work and play the melody again."
-Ben Schenck, leader of Panorama Jazz Band
*** "It's probably my third year here and I'd never been to MOMS ball. And so a friend of mine got tickets and I'd heard the various stories – people get naked, it's an all-night party, all this stuff. And I had sort of a crappy costume. Now, to get in, they don't let you in if your costume isn't good enough so I sort of pieced together this costume, this hat and some funny stuff, and I got in. It was completely electric and nuts, you know, everyone is completely off their rocker. I'm not doing any hallucinogenics, y'a know, I'm just making my way through it, and there is a woman up on the front of the stage where the Radiators are in a dominatrix costume. And she's cracking the whip and everything. And so I thought it would be a good idea if she would start whipping me. I had shorts on, and she's whipping me with the belt. And I had thought it would be kind of cool and that maybe people would think it was funny, but no one was even looking at me. And this went on for about a minute and a half, and I had to tell her to stop because it was extremely uncomfortable and I was quite sore at the time. It was just a little more than I expected.
For Fat Tuesday, the ritual is my girlfriend walks in Krewe of Julu and that krewe is completely hilarious, always the best costumes. We always meet and have drinks and then I ride my bike to my favorite meal of the year – chicken a la Hunter at my friend Chris Hunter's house – and then I ride down to the Quarter and hang out with my parents who have a place on Burgundy and check it all out and then try to find a cab home. We all end up at the Kingpin, have some cocktails, and then we go home and call it a night. We used to go to Snake and Jakes but now we've gotten too old for that so we just stay at the Kingpin."
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Researchers in Dr. Lu's lab recently described and characterized inauhzin, a small molecule that activates and stabilizes p53 by increasing its acetylation and, as a result, suppresses tumor growth. Microarray analyses combined with RT-qPCR performed by Dr. Lu and colleagues revealed that the induction of p53 target genes occurs at a much larger scale than previously thought.
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Before I had kids, I didn't read food labels. Heck, I barely read expiration dates.
But once my babies were born, I couldn't stomach the idea of feeding them anything that might hurt them.
Not to get all Gwyneth Paltrow on you, but that's when I started splurging on organic produce, hormone-free milk, grass-fed beef, free-range eggs and all the other stuff that seemed pretentious and unnecessary before my children's arrival.
Eating lots of fruits and veggies is the best thing you can do for your health, so even if you can't afford to buy organic, it's still better to eat conventionally-grown produce than to eat none at all.
But if it's important to you and you can afford it, buying organic is an awesome choice.
Every year, a group of researchers and scientists called Environmental Working Group puts out a report called "The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce." It analyzes the results of government tests on fruits and vegetables and gauges which ones have the most pesticide, fungicide and chemical residue.
Most recently, the group found that 67 percent of all produce that was tested had pesticide residue – even after it was washed or peeled!
It even found highly toxic chemicals that have been outlawed for use on food in this country.
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It includes apples, celery, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, hot peppers, imported nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, strawberries, sweet bell peppers, leafy greens (especially kale and collard greens) and summer squash.
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LONDON (AP) – Barcelona director of football Andoni Zubizarreta has denied claims by former president Joan Laporta the club could have done more to ensure Pep Guardiola continued as coach at the Nou Camp next season.
Guardiola decided to end his four-year spell in charge after being eliminated by Chelsea in the Champions League semifinals, with his assistant Tito Vilanova named as the new coach for next season.
However, Laporta, who promoted Guardiola to first-team boss in 2008, told Canal Plus that Rossell had failed to make the necessary guarantees to try to convince Guardiola to stay.
He said, "One of the consequences of the performance of Sandro Rosell's board is to destroy everything that we did in our era. Therefore, it was inevitable Pep Guardiola would walk away.
"I think they could have done more for him to continue in charge.
"My perception is they didn't do what was necessary because they weren't interested in him staying there."
Zubizarreta says Guardiola's own words prove the current Barca board did everything in their power to keep the man who has so far delivered 13 trophies in his tenure, with the Copa del Rey final still to come later this month.
He told TV3: "I am no-one to answer Laporta, but Pep has already said we did everything possible to try and get him to stay.
"Guardiola informed us of his decision on the Wednesday after the defeat to Chelsea. Afterwards there were many meetings, they were hours that seemed like months, until on the Friday morning Tito told us he would take charge."
Zubizarreta also outlined the club's intention to try and protect Vilanova and indicated the new manager will take on far fewer media responsibilities than his predecessor.
"He will constantly be compared to Guardiola but we have to view things as they are, not how they used to be," he said.
"We will help Tito and protect him as much as we can. He will only be responsible for the footballing side of things because he is different to Pep."
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"I can flatly deny that we have reached a preliminary agreement or have met with Jordi Alba.
"If there are two clubs I respect they are Athletic Bilbao and Valencia because that is where I played."
However, Zubizarreta did confirm Martin Montoya, Marc Bartra and Marc Muniesa will all graduate to the first-team squad from the Barca B team for next season.


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Let's face it, who cares about so-called 'reality' TV anymore? Cold Case DVD Hugh Laurie breathes new life into the medical genre with HOUSE M.D, the best show in years. Laurie's brilliant performance combined with a great supporting cast and some impressive celebrity guest stars,
True blood DVD this has quickly become one of my favorite TV shows. Without any signs of slowing down, I hope House will carry on to many more seasons so viewers around the world can tune in to fabulously fresh and original episodes every week. House MD DVD Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman) handles the material well with a steady hand, shaping the show, while allowing the supporting cast room to breath. The music, pacing, and excellent writing from David Shore make every installment memorable. The DVD has all 22 episodes of the groundbreaking comedy-drama, Two and a Half Men DVD and that's great to have so much to keep fans satisfied. The digital transfer is excellent too. If only other shows would take notes from House, then there would actually be something else to watch on television.


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You've noticed, I'm sure, that we have more than a few churches and faith groups nestled throughout our county. Our 2013-14 United Churches directory listed 296.
One blessing nowadays is that we can visit different churches. We embrace the fact that we are all part of God's family. Christians are brothers and sisters through Christ, cousins to members of other living faiths.
Our parents and grandparents lived with restrictions on going to other churches. My mother-in-law worried that her Catholic parents would discover she went to Baptist youth fellowship with her cousins!
Today, we go to weddings and celebrations with family and friends, special services, workshops, concerts and meals; and we don't think anything of it. We realize no two people believe exactly the same and that that's OK.
In fact, it actually helps the Church. In the opening words of scripture many translations start "In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth. ..." This speaks of God actively creating "in" the beginning. Other translations start "At the beginning of God's creating of the heavens and the earth. ..." This establishes that God was already creating when God began the creation of the heavens and the earth.
This nuanced conflict has good theological arguments on both fronts. They enlarge and deepen our idea of God and our world.
To be willing to learn is an important life lesson. Truth is seldom discovered in isolation. Each of our traditions has preserved better than others one or more aspects of the mystery of God's work in Christ. We benefit from all perspectives.
That's an important life lesson and one of 15 points suggested by the Rev. Thomas Ryan, who was the director of the Montreal-based Canadian Centre for Ecumenism when he wrote the article "What Does It Mean To Be Ecumenical." Ryan wrote this article after being asked to explain what being ecumenical meant, and his thoughts flew in many directions. (I've had that experience too.) When he got home he wrote this article. Some of his points, in brief, are ....
To pray regularly for the unity of the Church, as Christ wills it and when he wills it.
To be rooted in a particular Christian tradition, know it well to present it coherently to others, and to recognize Christian life in others even when differently expressed.
To be fascinated and curious about that which is different...
To cultivate a historical consciousness..... We are on a journey.
To be ready to celebrate vitality in the body of Christ wherever it is found.
To be willing to work together.
To feel the scandal of our divisions.
To be open to God's will for the Church.
To have an appreciation for the hierarchy of truths in Church doctrine.
To try to understand others as they understand themselves.
To be alert to the presence of God and the action of the Holy Spirit in the lives of other Christians and in members of other living faiths.
Together is the only way to discover how beautiful diversity is. I hope you'll join me in taking many opportunities to discover more about your own faith tradition, and to explore what others understand and believe about God. Remember God loves us all.
"What Does It Mean To Be Ecumenical" can be found in its' entirety at www.tomryancsp.org/newsletter.html or in Dr. Alton Motter's book, "Ecumenism 101" or through the United Churches office.
- Bernstine is the executive director of United Churches of Lycoming County.


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Dutch Pension Fund ABP Says It Settled MBS Case With JPMorgan
Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the biggest Dutch retirement fund, said it settled a lawsuit with JPMorgan Chase & Co. over sales of residential mortgage-backed securities.
"ABP is very content to have reached this settlement and is pleased that JPMorgan was willing to reach a mutually satisfactory conclusion of this litigation," the Heerlen, Netherlands-based fund said today in an e-mailed statement. Harmen Geers, a spokesman for ABP, declined to comment on the amount of the settlement.
The suit, filed in state court in Manhattan in December 2011, accused the bank of negligent misrepresentation, alleging the sales were based on false and misleading statements. New York-based JPMorgan has denied and continues to deny these claims, ABP said in today's statement. A JPMorgan spokesman declined immediate comment when called by Bloomberg News.
ABP has sued other banks in the same court over similar allegations, including Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse Group AG, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ABP serves as the pension fund for Dutch public educational and government workers and had about 274 billion euros ($356 billion) of available assets at the end of the third quarter.
The case is Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., 653383/2011, New York State Supreme Court (Manhattan).


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Pavilion Partners, which raises money to support the arts at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, is hosting a fundraiser and dinner prior to the Lionel Richie with CeeLo Green concert on Saturday, July 12.
The pre-concert fundraiser and dinner will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Pavilion's House of Blues hospitality tent. Tickets for orchestra-level seats at the concert and the dinner are $250. Mezzanine-level tickets and the dinner cost $200. Those who already have concert tickets can purchase dinner-only tickets and receive VIP passes
Pavilion Partners plans a Lionel Richie theme for the event by serving Richie's favorite cuisine, Italian. There will be a live auction and other fundraising activities during the event.
For more information, contact Leslie Williams at email@example.com or 281-210-1125. Tickets can be purchased at www.woodlandscenter.org.


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Ranbaxy Laboratories won approval to sell generic copies of the $10.7 billion cholesterol pill Lipitor in the U.S., threatening Pfizer's sales.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for Ranbaxy, India's biggest drugmaker, followed a dispute over whether the company could produce the copies given questions about its manufacturing plants. A deal to share profits with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, a generic-drug maker based in Israel, helped overcome that hurdle.
"It could well be that the Lipitor ingredients could come from Teva," said Bino Pathiparampil, an analyst at IIFL Ltd. in Mumbai, in an interview. In that scenario, "Ranbaxy will assemble the drug at their factory in New Jersey."
The approval gives Ranbaxy, which has operations in Princeton, exclusive rights to sell copies for 180 days, competing with Lipitor and a Pfizer-authorized version sold by Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker, has moved to hold on to market share of Lipitor by offering the branded medicine at the same price, or lower, than copycats in agreements sealed over the last two months with insurers and pharmacy managers.
Copycat Lipitor may generate as much as $650 million for Ranbaxy in its first 180 days of sale, according to the median estimate of five Mumbai-based analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Ranbaxy, 64 percent-owned by Daiichi Sankyo Co. and based near New Delhi, sought to convince the FDA that approval shouldn't be thwarted by an ongoing dispute about plant violations in India. The FDA approval may have been contingent on the Teva deal, Pathiparampil said.
Spokesmen at Ranbaxy and Teva declined to elaborate and terms of their agreement haven't been disclosed.


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A clinic is planned Wednesday afternoon to provide information for people interested in knowing if they are eligible to have their criminal record erased.
The session is from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Goodwill Headquarters at 2150 Eagle Drive #100 in North Charleston.
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Ever consider exactly when a tradition becomes a tradition? You serve turkey on the new platter you've been dying to use and your sister objects, "But we always have it on MeeMaw's platter. It's a tradition." Your daughter reminds you that the star goes on top the tree last—only after the lights are lit. (Since when?) And you just can't bear to toss those ratty hand-made ornaments the kids brought home from preschool. The tree wouldn't be the same without them. Traditions—be they time-honored or relatively new—are part of what make the holidays special. Here are a few I like.
"One of my favorite traditions began at the dinner table when I was a small girl. Before each meal my family would hold hands and say the Lord's blessing. Now that we're all grown with our own families, my sister, two brothers and I always have our holiday meals at our parents' home in Morgan City. Right before lunch is served, we all stand around my parents' kitchen holding hands and say the same Lord's blessing that we said when I was a girl. It's a special moment for all of us. Next year we'll be adding two new additions to the family – the first of the great grandchildren – to carry on the tradition. The dinner menu stays the same for each holiday. My daughter asked me once why we only eat those special casseroles on the holidays and my answer to her was because it's tradition." Nancy Ruiz—Mandeville
At the end of a red dirt road in rural North Louisiana on land that's been in the family for over 150 years sits the home that's entwined in all my holiday memories. When I was growing up we moved quite a bit, but the one constant was my grandparent's house. On the long drive there, I'd lay in the back seat looking up at the sky listening to Alabama's Christmas in Dixie on the radio. When tall pine trees started blocking the view I knew we were getting close. The crunch of tires on the gravel drive signaled our arrival to my grandfather's hunting dogs, who alerted everyone else. By the time I made it to the door, Grandmom and Grand would be waiting, arms outstretched. This year we'll make the annual pilgrimage again and Grandmom will be waiting to welcome my two boys with warm holiday memories in the making. Abby Hoeffner—Rockwall, Texas
Every Thanksgiving we all get together for dinner at around noon and we buy the big bottles of cheap strawberry wine. None of us like the stuff, and we typically drink good wine at any other event, but for years we've been buying it for this special day. It's funny because even now that we're all adults and our palates have changed, we still drink it and love the tradition. Michelle Cookmeyer—Covington
At the age of fourteen I moved in with my older sister because our mother died; one of my favorite holiday traditions started that year. The first holidays are always the most difficult after a loss, so my sister took me with her to get all the gifts that year and we spent two days shopping nonstop. Since that year the two of us go out and spend a weekend shopping and hanging out. We do all our Christmas shopping in two days, typically the weekend before Christmas. It's crazy and a little stressful, but it's always full of laughter and priceless memories. Ashley Jones—Northshore
"The scent of Thanksgiving or Christmas Dinner, seeing the pies displayed on my Great Grandma's buffet which also housed the "fancy" plates we only used for special occasions, the turkey on my Grandma's beautiful amber colored platter and the sounds of a large, happy family. These are the memories I hold dear from childhood and wish so much my children could also experience the times with my Grandma and Grandma Pink House (Great Grandma's nickname). This Holiday season will be special at our house because we're the new, proud owners of that same beautiful, antique buffet and that simple but precious platter that held so many hams and turkeys over the last forty years. I hope we can create those same memories for our children." Tara Taylor—Texas
"Every year I buy my three kids matching pajamas which they get 'from Santa' with a note saying he wants them to wear them on Christmas Eve so he can find them. It's something they look forward to each year and it doesn't hurt that they look adorable in their matching PJs for all those Christmas morning pictures."Amy Carrick—Owner/Publisher Living Magazine


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Another program from beachbody that I really like is ChaLEAN Extreme - a nice mix of weights and cardio w/a bit of yoga. Emphasis is on lifting heavy weights, rather than light w/lots of reps.
Most of my other DVDs sit on the shelf and play second fiddle to those three programs, which I've started switching up the order I do them in depending on my energy level for that day and what I want/need to accomplish with that workout.


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What are the best methods to foster social enterprise? Greg Dees, "father of social entrepreneurship as an academic field" joins me to discuss this topic. We start by looking at how the investment side can play a role, then we shift gears and look at how social entrepreneurs can share their knowledge to help each other succeed.
Resources Mentioned
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About Greg Dees
J. Gregory Dees is Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He has played a leading role in developing the academic field of social entrepreneurship. In 2007, the Aspen Institute and Ashoka recognized his pioneering work with their first Lifetime Achievement award in Social Entrepreneurship Education. An earlier Aspen report described him as "the father of social entrepreneurship as an academic field." Greg has produced over 60 cases, articles, chapters, and concept notes related to this topic, as well as editing two books with Jed Emerson and Peter Economy: Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001) and Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs (Wiley, 2002). His work bridges the gap between business and the social sector, and between theory and practice, making knowledge useful for social entrepreneurs, as well as the funders, consultants, and educators who work in this field. He has also published in the Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Innovations, and Society.
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If you're anything like me, you remember going to the library and either checking out or browsing through books that contained all of the weird statistics that you never thought about, but loved looking at. Well, you probably checked out some of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! books. You and your friends gathered around the book and flipped through with a variety of responses to the disgusting and wierd, but true pictures and statistics about all kinds of things. (I asked my husband about it and he was the same way growing up!)
Well, here's a great idea for a gift that's sure to be a favorite. Ripley's new book Ripley's Believe It or Not! Download the Weird is a great gift.
One of the coolest aspects about this book is the new addtion that Ripley's had added, an app that maked the book come to life. The app can be downloaded from either iTunes or Android and makes the reading of the book a whole new experience. This is next generation for reading books like this. How often do people watch TV with their smartphones interacting with what is being watched. Now the same can be done with Download the Weird app.
The new book is the next step in a long line of great books. I would probably say it's the closest thing to going to one of their great locations! Enjoy!


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While the outcome of Pennsylvania's grand experiment in gambling remains uncertain, the early returns suggest that at least Gov. Rendell has hit a political jackpot.
Recall that lowering property taxes was a centerpiece of his 2002 campaign. After an epic struggle that consumed most of his first term, Rendell did get the legislature in June to agree on a modest tax cut.
Too modest, says his Republican challenger.
Lynn Swann is countering by proposing an ambitious overhaul of the property-tax system - one so radically different that the state constitution would have to be amended. But leaving aside the question of whether he could persuade the legislature to revisit the issue, Swann may have run into a more basic problem: No one seems to care.


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WHEN SOMEONE hits a 50th anniversary, I believe, tradition calls for a gift of gold.
Suffice to say I will not be presenting Cardinal Justin Rigali with anything of karat weight in recognition of the 50th anniversary, yesterday, of his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest. Rigali celebrated his achievement with a noontime Mass in his own honor at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul.
I think a more profound way to mark the event would have been for Rigali to throw his weight behind PA House Bill 878. It would give victims of past child sex abuse a two-year window to bring civil charges against perps who've escaped criminal prosecution because the statute of limitations lapsed on their crimes.


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Non-French Novelists Embrace the Language of Balzac
Growing up in the small town of Kenadsa in the Algerian Sahara, Mohammed Moulessehoul dreamed of becoming an Arabic poet. As a Bedouin his schooling was all in Arabic and though he read books in French it was not a language he felt comfortable writing in.
Today Mr. Moulessehoul is more widely known under his nom de plume Yasmina Khadra, adopted while serving as an officer in the Algerian army to avoid military censorship.
Mr. Moulessehoul revealed his true identity in 2001 after leaving the army and going into exile in France. He is the author of 22 novels, books of essays and short stories -- all of them written in French -- and has been translated into more than 30 different languages. His latest novel to be published in France, "Ce Que le Jour Doit à la Nuit" ("What the Day Owes to the Night"), a sweeping love story set in Algeria during the country's drawn-out war for independence from France, sold 230,000 copies and was voted best book of 2008 by the French literary magazine Lire.
How did an aspiring Arabic poet end up becoming one of the most widely read contemporary novelists writing in the French language? "The turning point in my life was when I read Albert Camus' 'The Stranger,'" says the 54-year-old Mr. Moulessehoul. "I found the genius in Camus' writing was its simplicity. Camus has the gift of being able to make human absurdity understandable with words which are not complicated to grasp and with extraordinary fluidity. That was what first encouraged me to think I could write in French and become a novelist."
A growing number of other non-French writers have been thinking the same way -- and publishing novels in French that are proving popular both with critics and the book-buying public. Two of the last three winners of France's most prestigious literary award, Le Prix Goncourt, were both foreigners writing novels in French for the first time. The most recent winner was Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi, whose novel "Syngue Sabour" ("Stone of Patience") tells the story of a woman in a country resembling Afghanistan who has to care for her husband after he is left paralyzed from a bullet wound. The Goncourt jury praised "Syngue Sabour" for "its elegant portrayal of the oppressive nature of Afghan society."
Two years earlier the same jury awarded Le Goncourt to the American writer Jonathan Littell for his Holocaust novel "Les Bienveillantes" ("The Kindly Ones"). The 900-plus-page book was a huge success in France, selling 700,000 copies and earning comparisons to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Mr Littell's novel was recently published in an English translation -- though not by his own hand but by Charlotte Mandell, who has won praise for her translations of Proust and Flaubert.
"The success of 'The Kindly Ones' in France showed there is a public out there which is not being satisfied by native-born French writers," says the Spanish-born author Jorge Semprun, a Goncourt jury member who alternates between writing in French and Spanish. "Most of today's young French writers are navel-gazers, interested in nothing more than writing about their own problems. It's a kind of egotistic naturalism which is endemic of a deeper French malaise. The novels of writers like Atiq Rahimi and Jonathan Littell are far more outward-looking than most of those written by the French themselves."
For Mr. Moulessehoul, the language isn't even the main consideration; he's a storyteller first and foremost. "When I write I don't pay too much attention to the words," he says. "I'm much more interested in transmitting emotion: I push the French language to the extreme to prove that it can express everything I want it to say."
In his topical novels Mr. Moulessehoul tackles challenging issues head-on, such as a suicide-bombing in "The Attack," the repressive effect of the Taliban on ordinary Afghan families in "The Swallows of Kabul," or the way war can provoke terrorist resistance in "The Sirens of Baghdad." His books are page-turners, not the hermetic literary musings commonly associated with native-born French novelists.
"The tendency of many French writers these days is to produce elegant, thoughtful fiction on a small scale-set in France, usually Paris, often the Left Bank," says U.S. journalist and veteran France-watcher Donald Morrison, whose Time Magazine cover story "The Death of French Culture" sparked a heated debate at the end of 2007. "The French crank this stuff out and people buy a few copies but it sure isn't Balzac, Hugo, Zola or even Camus."
Non-French writers have long been attracted to the language of Balzac and Hugo. Throughout the last century such inventive stylists as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Milan Kundera, Julien Green and the Romanian philosopher and essayist Emil Cioran have written original works in French even though it was not their mother tongue. But whereas these earlier writers appealed (and in Mr. Kundera's case still appeal) to an educated elite, many of the more recent foreign-born French writers are looking to connect with a wider audience with more mainstream tastes.
"I'm certainly not writing for an elite," says Mr. Moulessehoul. "When I write in French it's not the same French as a native but that of a Francophone. I invent and inject a lot of my own sensibility as a Bedouin. Perhaps that's what a lot of my readers in France find interesting."
Other foreign-born emigrés whose French-language novels are remarkable for their strong story lines include Mr. Semprun, Eduardo Manet (Cuba), Andreï Makine (Russia), Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Nancy Huston (Canada), Anna Moi (Vietnam) and Dai Sijie (China). Also, a number of talented newcomers are earning plaudits for their novels, including: Eugene Green (U.S.), Mercedes Deambrosis (Spain), Rouja Lazarova (Bulgaria), Pia Petersen (Denmark), Brina Svit (Slovenia), Aki Shimazaki (Japan) and Giulio Minghini (Italy).
"By definition foreign writers working in French have a wider scope than native French writers because they come from elsewhere," says Ms. Huston, whose most recent novel "Fault Lines" -- about four generations of the same family -- won France's Prix Femina Award in 2006. "They see France as a country among others and live on an identity fault line that predisposes them to project themselves into other people's minds."
The Spanish-born Ms. Deambrosis, whose latest novel "Juste Pour le Plaisir" ("Just for the Pleasure") is set during World War II, finds the act of writing in French liberates her as a novelist. "Despite being totally bilingual I can't seem to write novels in Spanish at all," she says. "The only thing I can write directly in Spanish is poetry and yet I've never been able to write poetry in French for some strange reason."
One of the most common criticisms of contemporary fiction as practiced by native-born French writers is that it is inward-looking and autobiographical in the way that poetry often tends to be. The French have even invented a term for this kind of literature: autofiction.
"The two world wars and their sequelae, plus an unfortunate fascination for literary theory have damaged, not to say destroyed the ability of most French writers to believe in the virtue of storytelling per se," says Ms. Huston. "Even those who do tell stories are surprisingly unambitious, prefer not to do research in the real world, and content themselves with a very tiny scope."
The Cuban-born novelist and playwright Eduardo Manet, whose latest novel "La Maitresse du Commandant Castro" ("Commandant Castro's Mistress") brings Fidel vividly to life during and after the Cuban revolution, deliberately chose to ignore Chateaubriand's edict that no writer "is a competent judge but of works written in his own language."
"I'm very aware that I can never write the kind of French favorite poets like Baudelaire or Rimbaud once wrote," says Mr. Manet, who settled in Paris in 1968. "But that doesn't bother me anymore. What I enjoy doing is inventing a story and interesting characters. Whenever I can, I explore the structure and syntax of the French language which I then appropriate in different ways, such as occasionally inserting Spanish words into my text."
French is widely spoken in 54 countries around the world -- the first language of about 80 million people and used as the second language of 190 million people. L'Académie Française was created in 1635 to govern the language's usage and its tentacles reach far beyond the Francophone world. It was while attending the Académie-sponsored French Lycée in Kabul that future Goncourt Prix winner Mr. Rahimi first excelled in the language of Molière.
"In certain respects the French language is like a state within a state," says Eugene Green, whose first novel in French, "La Reconstruction," about an aging French university professor reminded of his past by a troubled stranger, was recently published to glowing reviews in the French press. "The fact that it was the language adopted by European elites from around 1700 to around 1950 has given it, up to a certain point, a 'universal' identity. These elements make it a language that a foreigner can master more completely than another. But in spite of this it still possesses the kind of deep mystery all languages do, and of course it's that dimension which attracts me when I write."
Mr. Green, a 61-year-old American-born filmmaker and playwright, has been writing in French every day for the last 40 years. His deep admiration for the French language led him to transpose the phoneticism of certain English branding words that have become a regular part of the French lexicon. In Mr. Green's hands "Coca Light" becomes "Quôqualaït," while "tramway" re-emerges as "tramouais."
"The spellings I adopt for these English words are an act of resistance against an occupation, which is not achieved by soldiers and tanks, but through the 'globalized economy' and modern means of communication, such as the Internet," says Mr. Green. "I think that humanity is rich because of its diversity and that you have to actually struggle to conserve languages and human culture in the same way we seek to protect elephants and whales."
Mr. Green's hard-line is diametrically opposed to writers like Atiq Rahimi and Yasmina Khadra, who often use Arabic words when they cannot find an adequate French substitute. Nonetheless, both approaches are symptomatic of ways in which the French language is undergoing changes.
"One of the most interesting things about novels by foreign-born authors is that they use foreign words and phrases un-selfconsciously," says Mr. Morrison. "The mandarins of the French Academy will hate me for saying this, but I think it's healthy that foreign words are creeping into the foreign language."
In March 2007, 44 authors, most of them from France's former colonies, signed a manifesto in Le Monde newspaper arguing that it was time for the French to stop looking down on Francophone writers not born in France. One of the biggest complaints was that many French bookshops ghetto-ize the novels of Francophone writers by placing them in sections denoting the writer's country of origin rather than on shelves alongside books of native French writers.
"I've always spoken out in favor of creating a similar situation in France to that which already exists in England with the Commonwealth writers like Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Hanif Kureishi," says native-born French writer and journalist Pierre Assouline, whose blog La Republique des Livres is one of the most widely read in France. "These writers have enormously enriched English culture and the English language. Now since about two years ago I can see something similar beginning to happen in France. Proof of that were the literary prizes handed out to reward writers like Littell, Rahimi and others. It seems to me to be a very good sign and it can only help enrich the French language."
Despite his admiration for their work, Mr. Assouline is not convinced Francophone writers like Mr. Littell and Mr. Rahimi are a match for the great French writers of the past. He also doesn't hold out much hope on the domestic front: "A perception of high quality is very subjective. But personally I don't think there is very much high quality in [contemporary] French literature. It comes along three or four times a century, writers like Proust or Celine. So rather than speaking of high quality I'd describe their writing as possessing originality."
When Mr. Littell's "The Kindly Ones" was published in the U.S. and Britain to largely negative reviews last month, many critics in these countries wondered why the book had sold so many copies and been so highly praised in France. The Times of London's Philip Kemp, who described Mr. Littell's book as "bloatedly inept," called "its reverential reception across the Channel barely comprehensible."
"I'm convinced that the vast majority of people who bought the book did not finish reading it," says Ms. Huston. "Secondly it was a sort of faddish challenge -- everyone wanted to prove that they, too, had managed to deal with a thousand pages of horror."
But those in France who originally championed Mr. Littell's novel are not about to abandon their adoptive son (the author was granted French citizenship not long after his book was published) at this late hour. "For me 'Les Bienveillantes' is a French novel, the fact that its writer is American is of no importance," says Mr. Assouline. "A writer's country is his language. If he writes in French then he is French -- that is all that counts."
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Skilling Sentence Marks Latest Crackdown on Corporate Crimes
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JEFFREY BROWN: Since its bankruptcy in December 2001, the name "Enron" has come to symbolize an era of corporate fraud. Yesterday in a Houston courtroom, former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling received a 24-year prison sentence, capping a series of high-profile convictions and punishments.
JEFFREY SKILLING, FORMER CEO OF ENRON: So, yes, I mean, of course I feel bad. I feel horrible, but that's not to say that I think I did something illegal.
JEFFREY BROWN: A federal jury convicted Skilling in May for 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy and other criminal acts that led to the loss of billions of dollars for Enron shareholders and employees. In addition to his prison term, Skilling was ordered yesterday to pay $45 million in restitution.
JEFFREY SKILLING: We'll appeal the sentence. I think we have a good basis for appeal, but I don't fault the judge for anything he did today.
JEFFREY BROWN: Skilling was the last of Enron's top executives to be sentenced. Company founder and chairman Kenneth Lay was convicted with Skilling of conspiracy and securities fraud.
KEN LAY, FOUNDER OF ENRON: Certainly, we're surprised…
JEFFREY BROWN: Lay died of a heart attack two months later. As a result, last week a federal judge wiped out his conviction.
Ousted chief financial officer Andrew Fastow is already behind bars, serving a six-year sentence that he worked out in a plea deal with prosecutors.
And it's not just Enron executives who've been hit with major prison time. Last year, ex-WorldCom chief Bernie Ebbers was given an even longer sentence, 25 years, for his role in an $11 billion accounting fraud. Also last year, Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas was sentenced to 15 years in prison for siphoning millions of dollars from what was then the nation's sixth-largest cable company. And former Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski has been in prison since August 2005, when he was sentenced to eight to 25 years for looting his company.
In addition to aggressive federal prosecutions, the series of scandals prompted Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which put new accounting requirements on companies and held executives responsible for their accuracy. President Bush signed it into law in July 2002.
In the meantime, even as the recent wave of trials comes to a close, new accusations of corporate malfeasance are coming to light, as the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates more than 100 companies for allegedly manipulating the price of stock options.
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JEFFREY BROWN: So where are we now? We ask that of Nell Minow, founder and editor of the Corporate Library, a watchdog group on corporate governance, and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of executive programs at the Yale School of Management.
Nell Minow, starting with you, have these convictions and new laws had an impact on the way business works in America?
NELL MINOW, The Corporate Library: Definitely. But I have kind of a Dickensian "best of times, worst of times" take on it. I think some things are much, much better. Boards of directors in particular are doing a much better job.
But still, we continue to see people trying to get around even the new rules and trying to push back, trying to get repeal of the Sarbanes-Oxley, which I think is one of the reasons that the market is so strong right now. It restored a lot of confidence. It would be a big mistake to water it down.
JEFFREY BROWN: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, you deal with many corporate executives. What messages are they taking from these long jail sentences?
JEFFREY SONNENFELD, Yale School of Management: They're taking it very seriously. I'm surprised at how many -- they can draw a bright line in the sand separating their highly ethical conduct from the really atrocious things that we've seen in the last five years and the number of high-profile cases, and yet they still have been able to identify with the pain, the suffering, to be separated from your family for decades.
And this is not to forgive the terrible things that were done to the families and the victims of the investors and employees of these companies, and yet still these are very stiff sentences. They're taken quite seriously. Definitely, as the Samuel Johnson philosopher once said at the turn of the last century, nothing so focuses the mind like the prospect of a hanging. And this has definitely gotten the attention of CEOs that things are serious here.
JEFFREY BROWN: You think it does work as a deterrent to bad corporate behavior?
JEFFREY SONNENFELD: Well, I think it does. I think we're seeing the end of a lot of overt plundering of shareholder wealth. We're seeing, at the same time, a lot of anxiety about trying to play by the rules. Sometimes people do careless things. Driving over here, I had a policeman following me on the bumper. I realize I didn't have my seat belt on. As you try to buckle your seatbelt, you can veer across the lanes and create another problem.
Sometimes boards that have been trying to be very attentive to certain rules can be careless in other ways. In the HP situation, it's ironic that here we have, five years after the scandals broke, Bill Lockyer, the attorney general of California, began his Enron investigations of the market and energy out there five years ago. And now at Enron he has -- with HP has his investigation going there.
But there's no plundering of shareholder wealth. In this case, it was a lot of different, often quite misguided but well-intended, views of trying to actually be better governed. A lot of different parts of the board had different views of the philosophy of governance, but nobody was stealing, and yet we still see board problems.
Going too far with regulation?
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, Nell Minow, this goes to something that a lot of people still wonder about. Five years later, were these cases aberrations or do they speak to something that is more endemic to corporate culture?
NELL MINOW: I think it's cyclical. We see something like this every few years. Just in the last couple of decades, we had the savings and loans scandals; we had the procurement scandals with the Pentagon and the contractors. And, of course, we had the Mike Milken and the other scandals, Ivan Boesky.
So you're always going to find some bad actors, and they're always going to be looking for a way around the rules. I like the fact that Jeff brought up the issue of HP, because to me it showed that Sarbanes-Oxley has really been very helpful. It was a very small, contained problem, didn't involve massive accounting fraud, didn't involve defective products. It involved invading the privacy of 11 people, and it was contained, and apologized for, and rectified pretty quickly.
So I think that part of the system, that hole in the dike, has been plugged. Which next ones are going to spring open? Not sure yet.
JEFFREY BROWN: But you're worried that some in corporate America want to -- they think that Sarbanes-Oxley goes too far? They'd like to roll that back.
NELL MINOW: Yes. There's been a lot of complaints about that. Business, in particular, has objected to the notorious Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, which -- let me tell you -- all it says is this: Companies have to have internal controls, letting them know whether their systems work or not. Section 404 says, "Could you let us know if they work? Could you let us know if your internal controls are effective?"
And companies are complaining about that, saying it's too expensive. My response to that: Yes, complying with Section 404 is expensive. Not complying, well, that's what happened at Enron, and WorldCom, and Adelphia, and all the others. That's really expensive.
JEFFREY BROWN: What do you think about that, Professor Sonnenfeld, in terms of going too far with something like Sarbanes-Oxley and these aggressive judicial cases?
JEFFREY SONNENFELD: That's a very timely question. To the surprise of many today in Milwaukee, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson actually came out asking that question himself -- have we gone too far? -- and specifically mentioned Sarbanes-Oxley.
Not to take away any credit from Senator Sarbanes and Congressman Oxley, but this would not have happened if it weren't for Hank Paulson's support. As the CEO of Goldman Sachs, he was the one lone, courageous voice in the American business community who, as an incumbent CEO, spoke out in favor of exactly these reforms.
And there are a lot of good reforms there that are having to do with rolling up the numbers fast, or whistleblower protection, the kinds of things Nell's company has a study out that actually takes a look at the back-dating that would have been prevented, the options manipulations, with the new rules in Sarbanes-Oxley that require faster reporting of certain things.
But Section 404 is a troublesome one. And it doesn't really -- as the law is written, it basically said audit committees have to attest to the adequacy of financial controls. The problem is in the rulemaking, and there's endless tests and procedures. And you just really know how much is enough. It's kind of a limitless ceiling. Some say it's a wonderful gift to the accounting community.
So there are issues out there that we need to work through, too much in the way of checklists. Your question to Nell was a great one, asking about a culture of fraud or corruption. And it's the character of the board. It's the culture, that it defies simple checklists as to who's the chairman or questions or whose excessive statements of who's conflicted on a board because somebody knew somebody back in college. I mean, it's starting to get a little crazy.
Inside candidates for CEO positions are disparaged because of a fear of cronyism. And we're essentially undermining elaborate human resource systems for fear it's going to look like it's not diligent if it's a product from within.
Some businesses now risk averse
JEFFREY BROWN: Are you worried that the pendulum can swing too -- you're not worried that it's going too far yet, huh?
NELL MINOW: I always worry that the forest of good corporate governance gets lost in the trees of checklists and compliance. People are risk-averse. They look for safe harbors, but I don't think that's the fault of Sarbanes-Oxley. I think that's the fault of, you know, the character.
I think that I worry a little bit that CEOs look at sentences like these and they become risk-averse in the wrong way, that they...
JEFFREY BROWN: How is that?
NELL MINOW: ... that, instead of being not wanting to risk breaking the law, they don't want to take any risks at all. They want to stay at home and invest the entire company's assets in T-bills or something like that.
So I do worry about that, and I think it is the job of the board of directors to make sure that the competition and other indicators that they give the CEO keep him or her focused in the right direction and taking the risks that need to be taken. So I think that that is very important.
And I worry, too, that globally we're making ourselves less competitive, not by Sarbanes-Oxley, which I think the business community sometimes says, but by some of our other business practices, like excessive compensation.
JEFFREY BROWN: You're nodding your head. Go ahead.
JEFFREY SONNENFELD: Yes, and along with Nell, who's completely right, is Sarbanes-Oxley gets blamed for other pathologies in our system. And the excessive compensation is one; the very short-term focus is a problem.
I often will speak to the portfolios of hedge funds, private equity funds, where you have rooms full of CEOs that used to be so eager to be liberated, to go out and be set free as public companies. Now they sit in these ballrooms and they say, "Please don't send us out there. It's cold."
Part of it's the scrutiny of governance issues, but a lot of it has to do with the short-term focus in way they're being judged for longer term investments. They'd rather stay as private companies. And that is -- Nell's right -- is a huge challenge.
And I also happen to agree with her that there is a historic sweep here. And it always changes as to where our vulnerability is. Where the greatest uncertainties are, where we have great dislocations, opportunists sweep in. In the war years, we regularly see profiteers. We had a lot of price-fixing in the 1960s, now referred to as some of the financial scandals of the '70s. In the 1930s, we had rampant financial scandals.
What's so horrifying about this recent period is that these were not New England aristocrats abusing positions of power and prominence that they had in the 1930s. These were people who were almost without exception people who were part of the American dream. They were upwardly mobile folks that really turned the American dream into a nightmare. And as leaders, they set terrible code of moral conduct.
NELL MINOW: Well, the other thing that was a nightmare about it was that it wasn't just the CEOs, it wasn't just the boards. It was everybody. It was the securities analysts; it was the lawyers; it was the accountants, every single system that was set up to provide some kind of check and balance. I have to say the press was pretty bad, too. They were very credulous about these guys.
And so everything failed at the same time. It was a big perfect storm. And I think Sarbanes-Oxley does address a lot of those issues. There are still some that are left open.
The future of business
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, so just as we sum up here, to the extent that you both say that this is cyclical and you're suggesting it can happen again, Nell Minow, what do you want to see happen now?
NELL MINOW: What I want to see happen is the one group we haven't really talked about yet: the shareholders. I want to see them playing more of an oversight role. And there are a lot of initiatives now that I think will make it easier and more effective for them to do that.
JEFFREY BROWN: And, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, what do you want to see now?
JEFFREY SONNENFELD: Well, I think we've seen boards become very responsive to their owners. They're doing a good job. And CEOs are very responsive to their owners who are trying much better transparency.
The people who have not been held accountable are often the advisers, many times the law firms. And that's the secret problem in places like HP: horrible legal advice. And they've never been held accountable. Many of these back-dating issues tie back to the same law firm right at the core of them.
JEFFREY BROWN: Do you see any move in that direction?
JEFFREY SONNENFELD: Not enough. It's very hard, since the lawyers write the laws and prosecute the bad guys, that not necessarily it's professional courtesy, but it's very hard to actually hold the legal community to the standards they need to be held to, to make sure that folks don't hide behind the skirts of misguided legal advice, of which there's plenty of it out there.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Nell Minow, thanks very much.
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March 29, 2010 - Mike McLain
When handicapping what the Browns might do with their first-round draft pick, don't forget the offensive line.
The only sure starters up front are left tackle Joe Thomas and center Alex Mack. Thomas has played in three Pro Bowls in three seasons and is clearly among the best. Mack shook off a slow start as a rookie last season and played extremely well down the stretch. He's a keeper.
The right side of the line was a mess last season with Floyd Womack and John St. Clair. Hank Fraley and Rex Hadnot weren't re-signed, which has created a depth problem.
Then there's left guard Eric Steinbach, who signed a seven-year, $49.5 million contract in 2007. Coach Eric Mangini wasn't a big Steinbach fan entering last season, which is why he asked Steinbach to add weight.
Steinbach has been near the top of a bad statistical category the last two seasons -- lost assignments. Steinbach gets beat too much for someone of his salary level.
If Oklahoma State tackle Russell Okung is available at number seven overall, I'd be surprised if the Browns wouldn't select him. He'd be a perfect fit opposite Thomas and would give the Browns one of the best tackle tandems in the NFL.
Most draft projections have Okung going off the board before number seven, which means the Browns would have to trade up. It's doubtful that would happen, but, then again, no one knows exactly how GM Tom Heckert and team president Mike Holmgren will approach their first draft in Cleveland.
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Potter County Commissioners Court: 9 a.m., Auditorium, 11th floor, Santa Fe Building, 900 S. Polk St. Commissioners will consider the approval of the Texas Court ID Pilot Project by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Amarillo Planning and Zoning Commission: 3 p.m., City Commission Chambers, City Hall, 509 S.E. Seventh Ave. After a 2:45 p.m. work session in Room 206, commissioners will consider granting planned development zoning to allow a professional/medical office building to be located at Southwest 45th Avenue and Van Winkle Drive.
Amarillo City Commission: 3 p.m., Commission Chamber, City Hall, 509 S.E. Seventh Ave. After a 1:30 p.m. work session, commissioners will consider granting Talon/LPE Inc. a $777,000 contract for the construction of the herpetarium building at the Amarillo Zoo.
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Man, I wish I hadn't grabbed a snack right before I sat down to start working this story. Very poor planning on my part. The full-length theatrical trailer for Tom Six' The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) has dropped, and, well, if you've so much as heard of The Human Centipede (First Sequence), you know what to expect. Watch the trailer after the jump.


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Lueree McGee, 93, of Amarillo died Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in N.S. Griggs & Sons Funeral Directors Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with Gary McDade officiating. Private family burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
Mrs. McGee was born March 17, 1914, in Shawnee, Okla., to Edgar and Alma Ferguson and married Lawrence McGee on Sept. 16, 1933. She was a member of Central Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lawrence; a sister; and a brother.
Survivors include a son, Randy McGee and wife Kaye of Lubbock; three daughters, Sylvia McDade and husband Gary, Karen Herring and husband Carroll and Barbara Vincent and husband Jack, all of Amarillo; nine grandchildren, Todd Vincent, Gregg Vincent, Brian Vincent, Mark Herring, Steve Herring, Kristy Hays, Kendra Plisga, Amy McDade and Carrie McDade; and 16 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to High Plains Children's Home, P.O. Box 7448, Amarillo, TX 79114-7448; or the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 411 S. Fillmore St., Amarillo, TX 79101.
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Cross Movement Records Re-Builds Roster With Another Signing: Young Joshua
We have confirmed a rumor that Cross Movement Records is in fact re-building their roster, and have signed the talented and hard working Philadelphia artist, Young Joshua!
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The Amarillo Dusters are offering area high school football coaches and players a special ticket price for their Intense Football League game against El Paso set for 7:05 p.m. Saturday at Cal Farley Coliseum.
"Coaches and players of any local or area high school football team can purchase a ticket for $5," Dusters head coach Don Carthel said. "The particular teams need only to call our office at 322-7277 and make arrangements."
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When you want to cozy up with a loved one in Shanghai, the Bund immediately comes to mind. Stroll past the historic buildings of the French Concession, and as the sun sets, watch the skyline light up and reflect off the Huangpu River. If your feet get tired, hop on a Huangpu River cruise and take in the sights as you slowly drift by. To experience romance like a local, spend an afternoon at Shanghai Film Park, a collection of regularly used film sets reminiscent of Shanghai in the 1930s. Chinese couples come here frequently to take wedding photos. Recreate that iconic Sleepless in Seattle scene atop Shanghai's tallest skyscraper, the World Financial Center, and see the city from above.
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