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SENTENCE STRUCTUREPosted Friday, November 11, 2011, at 2:21 PM
A dramatic tone, especially in an action scene, can be demonstrated by using short, punchy sentences. Short sentences speed up the reading, and the overall impression of the segment. Say you're writing a scene with a car chase. Lots of action and speed. Cars jump the curb, knocking over the ubiquitous flower cart. And all of this takes place on a page that fly by, thanks, in part, to short, swift sentences.
One the other hand, if you're writing a romantic segment, one with a candlelit dinner set out on a linen-covered table and mood music playing in the background, your sentences will be long and flowing, both to slow down the reading and to match the mood of the scene.
But even within these two examples, you'll want to vary the length of your sentences. Sentences that are all the same length feel monotonous and read the same way. Below is an example of a paragraph that does an excellent job of varying sentence length:
The light changed. I couldn't keep my news bottled up any longer. "The manager told me if it were up to him, I'd be breaking camp with the big-league team," I blurted out. I paused a second before adding that the team's executives had agreed with the manager. For now.
Notice how the paragraph starts out with a short, three-word sentence. Then a slightly longer one, followed by two that are longer yet. Then it ends with a two-word sentence fragment. That sentence fragment at the end changes the entire tone of the paragraph. The author is relating a bit of good news. But those two words at the end - for now - hint that the good news could change at any time. It gives the reader a sense of forboding. Oh, no, what's going to happen next? It's a great way to end the paragraph.
And just as paragraph should end with its strongest sentence, a sentence should end with its most important word(s). The reader tends to better remember the sentence or word at the end, giving it more weight. If you bury the importance sentence or word, the impact is greatly diminished.
Another example:
Two weeks, later, the dog was dead.
What the reader takes away from that sentence is a feeling of grief. The dog is dead. But if you take that exact sentence and flip it, you get:
The dog was dead two weeks later.
It's the same words, but the meaning has been changed. Yes, the dog is still dead, but what the reader feels most is the time period - two weeks later.
And what about sentence fragments? Your computer program will scold you with a squiggly underline that indicates you've done something wrong. But as far as I'm concerned, sentence fragments are a great tool. I use them often, usually to add some punch to the message, just as the writer of the Guideposts paragraph did.
For me, not so good. I had a strong first few days, then, toward the end of the first week, with about thirty pages under my belt, I started to lose steam. And I thought they were pretty good pages, those I'd completed. They were clean, hopefully to need little editing when I'd revisit them down the road. But then I started to stumble. In the past couple of days I've barely squeezed out a page a day. At this rate I'm slipping farther and farther behind in my goal of 1,600 words a day, and I find myself becoming discouraged. I suspect the problem is that I've always been such an outliner, and by jumping in with both feet, so to speak, and without the benefit of a carefully constructed outline, I have written myself into the proverbial corner. But I'm not quitting.
"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Bit of Promotion:
Don't forget, Sunday, November 20th, is the date for Arts on Grand's annual Holiday Book Fair. Many area authors will be there, including Roger Stoner, of Peterson, with his new book, Horse Woman's Child, and Hartley favorite Betty Taylor, with her books The Earth Abides and Dear Folks. We'll also have copies of the brand new, fourth Midwest anthology, Make Hay While the Sun Shines, which is so fresh off the presses that the ink is barely dry. The Holiday Book Fair is an excellent opportunity to support the arts, and to pick up a few Christmas gifts at the same time!
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Soups are popular around our house especially when everyone gets to garnish their own with their own favorite toppings! Our boys can be picky at times but they know that the soup base if a non-negotiable but what they add gets to be their choice. We've found this to be a great way to have win-win situations around our dinner table as of lately!
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 2 Chicken Breasts, chopped
- 1 Tablespoon Taco Seasoning
- 3 Tablespoons Butter
- 1 Onion, diced
- 1 Red Pepper, diced
- 1 Yellow Pepper, diced
- 2 cloves Garlic; minced
- 2 teaspoons Cumin
- 1 teaspoon Paprika
- 1 teaspoon Oregano
- Salt and Pepper
- 3 Tablespoons Flour
- 32-ounces Chicken Stock or Broth
- 2 cups Half-and-Half
- 1 can Black Beans, drained
- 1 can Rotel, mild
- 1 cup of Corn (canned or frozen)
- 1/2 cup Fresh Cilantro
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- Shredded Cheese (I'm hooked on Sharp Cheddar so that's what is in the picture.)
- Sour Cream
- Avocado slices
- Fresh Lime slices
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2. Combine chopped uncooked chicken and taco seasoning to the pan. Set aside.
3. Next, add the butter to the empty pot and melt. Stir in onion, peppers, and garlic and cook for about 10 minutes; until soft.
4. Stir in spices and flour; cook for a few additional minutes. Add the broth and half-and-half; bringing it to a boil.
5. Reduce heat to low, add in Rotel, beans, corn, and cooked chicken from earlier.
6. Simmer on low for 30 minutes.
Place crushed tortilla chips in the bottom your bowl, cover with soup, and top with cheese and fresh lime! Garnish soup with your favorite toppings: sour cream, avocado, pico de gallo, etc.

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W.Va.'s gun plague
January 26, 2013
It's odd that in our debate about guns and killing we rarely mention the form of death in which guns are most frequently involved....
"All cases of human struggle and strife -- whether poverty, depression, or fractured family relationships -- become more dangerous and likely to be lethal when guns are present."
That's a good point, that's why I keep pounding on Chicago where we have an over abundance of guns and some of the nations toughest gun laws, they need to enforce the gun laws we have in place instead of ignoring them. They have the laws in place, now lets see if they can enforce them,if they can't get it done, they need to get people in power who will enforce the laws.
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Whether we're talking about suicides in the mountain west or crime in Chicago, both trends reinforce the point I was trying to make in the original column. All cases of human struggle and strife -- whether poverty, depression, or fractured family relationships -- become more dangerous and likely to be lethal when guns are present. That fact is true regardless of political philosophy, religion, race, sexual orientation, or any other differentiator we can conjure up.
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"And what do all them cities have in common".
Maj, As I have said many times before,the leadership in the urban killing fields have zero intent to protect their constituents because they know that they will get their votes no matter what happens. Its strictly about politics with Obama,Rahm and others of their ilk, they are total HYPOCRITES, just like some so called progressive writers who complain about the problems with West Virginia and yet they STILL support the same "good ol boys" when election time rolls around. They are not interested in progress, maintaining control is what they are all about. Again, nothing but HYPOCRITES !!!!!
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Sean some facts: The Most Dangerous Cities in America. Violent Crimes per 1000 people with city population over 100,000. June 11, 2012 by Douglas A. McIntyre 1. BLUE CITY - Flint, Mich. – BLUE STATE. 2. BLUE CITY - Detroit, Mich. – BLUE STATE. ... 3. BLUE CITY - St. Louis, Mo. – RED STATE. 4. BLUE CITY - Oakland, Calif. – BLUE STATE. 5. BLUE CITY - Memphis, Tenn. – RED STATE. 6. BLUE CITY - Little Rock, Ark.25% of Population of Arkansas – RED STATE. 7. BLUE CITY - Birmingham, Ala. – RED STATE. 8. BLUE CITY - Atlanta, Ga. – RED STATE. 9. BLUE CITY - Baltimore, Md. – BLUE STATE. 10. BLUE CITY - Stockton, Calif. – BLUE STATE.
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"The death toll by murder in Chicago over the past decade is greater than the number of American forces who have died in Afghanistan since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, according to a police analysis. In addition, police reports in Chicago,where President Obama once worked as a community organizer and where his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, now serves as mayor show most of the city's massive murder mayhem is black-on-black crime. A WND review of the Chicago Police Department Murder Analysis reports from 2003 to 2011 provides a statistical breakdown of the demographics of both the victims and offenders in the 4,265 murders in Chicago over that time period". Of the victims of murder in Chicago from 2003 to 2011, an average of 77 percent had a prior arrest history, with a high of 79 percent of the 436 murdered in Chicago in 2010 having arrest histories".
What a job Obama,Rahm and their fellow flunkies in Chicago are doing in keeping their loyal vote
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CHICAGO (CBS) – "A teenage girl–an honor student who had just performed at President Obama's inaugural–was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in the Kenwood neighborhood, just blocks from the high school she attended".
Any chance the we can get this researched to see if the shooter was an NRA member?
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Sean, your attempt to switch the parameters from big cities to states was already pointed out by realitycheck. What if certain demographic groups--like, for instance, the liberals--are disproportionately concentrated in a state's big cities? Then such cities could end up giving a state a bad reputation that the state doesn't necessarily deserve. For example, the city with the highest suicide rate is Las Vegas. If we could figure out what it is in some big cities that results in a high suicide rate, then maybe we could find a "cure" that would lower it. Las Vegas' unemployment rate is sky-high. So is the number of idiots who go there & gamble away their life savings. Could it be 1 of THOSE factors, and NOT easy gun access, that is to blame for the high suicide rate? I think it could be.
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"one site cited that Illinois had 377 murders in all of 2012 and the City of Chicago police website cited 532 for all 2012. As you can see the math does not add up".
I failed to point out in my above comment that the Chicago police website number was for Chicago alone. The last time I checked Chicago was part of the state of Illinois. That's why the math does not add up for the State of Illinois number of 377.
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Yeah , I missed that coment on Romney and the election. It usually helps here in these forums to say what it is your adding to or refuting. If it was aimed at the claim that cities are more liberal and the crime higher it seems rather irrelevant. A breakdown of cities would mean something. Averaged over whole states as election results are, it can easily be distorted as a "meaningful" statistic. If you want another interesting, but decidedly politically incorrect, statistic, take a look at crime and murder rates by "race", both offender and victim.
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"West Virginia is the third whitest state after Vermont and Maine, yet the murder rate is quite high. My explanation for this is that West Virginia has a very low class of white people."
The above comment was pulled directly off a website that also had comments about their state by state murder data. As you can see from this idiotic smear, ANYBODY can have an opinion, whether it is based on facts is questionable.
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Nathan, If the writer gives you any hard data I would take it with a grain of salt because you can find anything you want. for instance one site cited that Illinois had 377 murders in all of 2012 and the City of Chicago police website cited 532 for all 2012. As you can see the math does not add up. Another Illinois example had one site reporting 452 for 2011 while another site had 721 for 2011.
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"NathanHaleFan, Just for the record, Republican states -- those that voted for Romney in the last election -- have a gun murder rate that's 20% higher than those that voted for Obama and the suicide differential is even worse"
Nathan, you should have seen that one coming, he loves to play the percentage game when it suits his agenda. Ask him for hard numbers and also ask him if he has come up with the numbers of gun murder shooters were NRA members. Have fun waiting for that answer.
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I also questioned the significance of the "per capita" statistics for guns moving across state lines that you used to imply that West Virginia led the way in this problem. Also I questioned the one source for suicide rates that relate to guns (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention). It does not deal with the method of the suicide. Is that data in a different source ? Would you point it out please. I didn't read all your links. Did you extrapolate to reach these conclusions ? If not, show me the source and I would hope than it justifies the claim by how the data was gathered.
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What exactly is your prescription for gun control ? Is it a total ban ? You haven't answered how anything short of that could prevent suicide by guns. You point out the obvious fact that guns move about, but how do you intend to stop the internationl trafficking even if you could get rid of all the guns now in America. It is working well for the cartels in Mexico. After all the initial hype about America being the source of most of the guns used in crimes in Mexico, it was revealed that the bulk of their weaponry is not even sold in America, and like the guns they prefer, was largely smuggled from farther south acoss their own borders and originate predominately from China.
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Mr. O'Leary - The statistics for self defense use of firearms are not just predictions. They are based, as are most such statistics, on sampling. Do your studies all rely on fully documented cases or are they derived from mostly related statistical data ? As I tried to impress before, your argument is based on the collective mindset, common to liberal thinking. What of the "individual" tragedy of a denial of the right to effective self defense ? Your logic seems to be a contrasting view of the formulation often attributed to Joseph Stalin that a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Those statistics are made up of individual tragedies. More of those tragedies to avoid one statistic will just create a new statistic.
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NathanHaleFan, Just for the record, Republican states -- those that voted for Romney in the last election -- have a gun murder rate that's 20% higher than those that voted for Obama and the suicide differential is even worse
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Is suicide a crime? Why is someone even writing a column about suicide when it is is the ultimate "choice" and we have thousands of men women and children slaughtered in the cities across our country and the leaders in the urban areas nothing except want to take a gun away from someone who lives in Montana.
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Hmmm. So we could blame draconian gun restrictions for the high rate of gun crimes in those cities. Or we could blame the prevalence of liberals in those cities for the high rate of gun crimes.
Maybe Congress should ban liberals from owning guns, and then those mostly-liberal cities will have crime rates as low as the rates in mostly-conservative cities? Hey, "if there's even a chance that it might save one life, then we are obligated to give it a try," according to Der Fuhrer.
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Sean, it seems to me that your claims are misleading. "gun owners are twice as likely as non-gun owners to commit suicide" & "their families are more likely to suffer injury and death" are as misleading as saying that women are 1000 times more likely to have an abortion than men are. If we want to find correlations between demographic groups and gun-related crime, then let's play that game: Those crime rates are much higher in certain big cities. What could be the cause? It's not that those cities don't have "sensible gun restrictions," since those cities infringe the 2nd Amendment the most. So what IS it about those cities that could correlate with a high incidence of gun crimes? Answer: Those cities are predominantly full of LIBERALS. Those cities have been run by liberal DEMOCRATS for decades. ObamaBiden carried those cities by a wide margin in the elections.
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The NRA was mentioned several times in this column and its obvious that the writer is very anti NRA. He is trying to tie gun shooting to the NRA yet still refuses to give us "statistics" that tell us how many of the "shooters" were or are NRA members. Again, give us "statistics" that will give us the answer. For some reason I don't think he will do that, I wonder why?
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3 points.
(1) About guns "preventing" crime: The statistics for "crimes prevented" are predictions, whereas the statistics I cite showing that gun owners are twice as likely as non-gun owners to commit suicide and that their families are more likely to suffer injury and death are facts. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight and don't bring predictions to a fact fight.
(2) Concerning Australia: As with Japan, comparisons to other societies are always problematic. But, since the imposition of gun control in 1996, while assaults are up, rates of homicide and suicide have dropped significantly in Australia.
(3) Concerning Chicago: Guns flow freely across state borders, which is why national legislation is needed. The greater the prevalence of guns generally, the more often they are used in crime. Every gun used in a crime was acquired from a law-abiding gun owner.
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Sean your letter is trying to lead us to believe that without guns the suicides will not happen. If you can assume that, I can also make the assumption that all 600,000 plus prevented death. Statistics are a wonderful thing, you can manipulate them to fit your desire. What is a proven fact is that guns used for protection, work, if it didn't then why do we protect our President's children, banks, sporting events, etc.. with armed guards. What makes his children more precious than mine? If the whole point of your letter is about saving lives, why did you single out guns, cars, rope, razors, knives. More lives would be saved by banning cars and making everyone ride bikes or walk, than by banning guns.
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Maybe the "resident" analyst can tell us why we have the Killing Fields" in Chicago since they have very strict gun laws,as shown below, on the books.
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"The city of Chicago requires registration of firearms. Residents must complete a firearm safety course, pass a background check including fingerprinting, and pay a $100 permit fee which is renewed every three years. Registration of any handgun assumes an additional one time fee of $15".
"Cook County and the city of Chicago have separately banned the possession of "assault weapons", and of magazines that can hold more than 10 or 12 rounds of ammunition respectively".
"Automatic firearms, short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles, and silencers prohibited."
"To possess or purchase firearms or ammunition, Illinois residents must have a Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) card, which is issued by the Illinois State Police. An applicant is disqualified if he or she has been convicted of a felony or an act of domestic violence, is the subject of an order of protection, has been convicted of assault or battery or been a patient."
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Mr. O'Leary before you posted the nonsense about a gun in a home being more likely to be used to harm the owner or other residents of the home, you should have investigated your sources a bit more thoroughly. This was sadly a case of individuals beginning with a conclusion they wished to prove, rather than impartially investigating the facts and drawing their conclusion. Legally owned firearms are used lawfuly to prevent crime an average of 2.5 MILLION times per year ("More Guns, Less Crime" by Prof. John Lott). Prof. Lott originally tried to prove the reverse when he began his investigation, but when the facts showed otherwise, he amended his conclusion as an honest investigator of fact. You compare America to England, but you fail to take into account our much greater popultion. In addition, you fail to note the increase of violent crime, particularly home invasion and crimes using firearms, that have INCREASED in Britain and Australia since firearms were outlawed.
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The Tactless Texan was a fixture on Page 2 of the Amarillo Globe.
His folksy column touched on many local topics, most notably the weather.
The day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Amarillo in 1938 for a visit, Old Tack devoted the first eight paragraphs of the next day's column to the weather, and specifically how his forecast missed the rainstorm that soaked FDR. (For more on the president's visit, see today's Other Opinion page.)
Reading the old newspapers, a young whippersnapper might wonder,"Why did they print such drivel?" The answer was simple. Amarilloans in the '30s and '40s wanted to know the same thing that Amarilloans today want to know: Is it gonna rain today? The difference was old-timers counted on the paper to deliver the latest weather.
But just as Old Tack lost ground to television and radio in advising people to carry an umbrella, the afternoon newspaper gradually was overtaken by other news sources.
Newspapers no longer corner the market on breaking news. In the age of the 24-hour news cycle, talk radio, cable television and 50 gazillion Web sites, immediacy is the key. Morning newspapers have a hard time competing; afternoon newspapers simply can't. Don't get me wrong. An afternoon newspaper still is viable in a one-newspaper town. But in a two-paper city? Fat chance.
When a morning newspaper is put to bed each night, the rest of its circulation area also is sleeping - except, of course, the carriers. When the Globe-Times was put to bed, the New York Stock Exchange hadn't even closed for the day. Meetings still needed to be reported on, games weren't finished, courtrooms still were in session and crime sprees were just getting started.
Afternoon newspapers in large cities are doomed to fail. They can't help it. The deck is stacked against them.
In 1977, the Cullen Davis trial came to Amarillo. Until the Oprah Winfrey circus in the late '90s, Davis' trial was probably the biggest to ever hit the city. Headlines blared the day's events for months. But when the verdict was reached, the Globe-Times missed it. Well, actually the verdict missed the Globe-Times.
The front page of the Nov. 17 edition of the Globe-Times contained only a stand-alone photo of Davis' girlfriend, Karen Master, talking outside the courtroom. The story wasn't until Page 33, and the headline was "Jury Deliberates Verdict for Davis." The next day's headline in the Globe-Times was, "Davis Eager To Return To Work After Acquittal." What?
The headline on the Nov. 18 edition of the Amarillo Daily News told the story, "Jury acquits Cullen Davis."
The Globe-Times did exactly what it was supposed to do. By the time it went to press on Nov. 18, the acquittal was old news. What was fresh was Davis' plans after the trial.
But if readers wanted to know specifically about the verdict they had to read the morning newspaper. Older readers who had taken the Globe-Times for years could wait. Younger readers, who didn't grow up reading an afternoon newspaper but did grow up on fast everything, wouldn't.
Same thing happened in March 1970. When Amarillo High School went up in flames on a Sunday morning, the first possible account in the Globe-Times was about 30 hours after the fact. The Globe-Times couldn't scream "Fire Sweeps Through AHS" as the Daily News did; it had to come up with damage estimates and stories about insurance claims.
What dooms afternoon newspapers is simple math. A newspaper, like any business, needs younger customers to take the place of older ones. When the needs of younger customers aren't being met, they go elsewhere: the Internet, television or the morning newspaper.
The Globe-Times did its best. From Old Tack and his weather and Tommy Thompson and his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting to all the good writers and editors who graced its pages and paperboys and girls who delivered it to your door, the afternoon newspaper played the game as hard as it could be played.
But in the end, it was just waging a losing battle.
Jeff Farris is an editorial writer for the Amarillo Globe-News, P.O. Box 2091, Amarillo, Texas 79166. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com. His column will appear in the Friday Globe-News.
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MOBILE, Ala. -- A man robbed the Family Christian store at 7765 Airport Blvd. this evening, escaping with money after showing an employee a note, Mobile police said.
No one was injured, and no arrests have been made.
Spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said the man's note told the 19-year-old employee that he had a gun and he wanted money. The man ran from the front door after he obtained money, Levy said. The incident was reported about 6 p.m.
The robber was described as a white man, about 6 feet tall and weighing about 175 pounds. Levy said he wore a black, red and white hat, a black and red jacket and blue jeans.
He added the robber's description and method generally match those of a man involved in several other recent commercial holdups in Mobile.


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How is life for you post-Raymond?
Can't you tell? Sad.
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It's hard. All of a sudden I had all this free time and I was excited, but then after about three or four months it's like you lost a family member. You kind of block it out and it hits you later.
You're grieving?
There's a sense of loss and a sense of void there. My therapist, when the show was ending and there was nothing wrong with me, I was stupid and happy, and he goes, "Do you want to start coming twice a week?" I said, "Well, what do you mean? What do you see that I don't see?" But he was right, though.
But with more time, you must have rediscovered the joy of having kids.
Oh, yeah. I found out that they're mine. No. I spent plenty of time with them during the show, but now there are a couple of things that I can do more – go to more baseball games and more school things and that sort of thing. That's nice. But they're in Ice Age 2. The twins have a line.
What is it?
They're just one of the little animals in the beginning that yell, "Run for your life! The whole place is going to flood! The world is coming to an end!"
Are you worried they might turn into a male version of the Olsen twins?
No. They're very shy, which is weird because they want to be in showbiz and tonight they're going to be on the red carpet and people are going to go, "What was it like?" And they're going to give one-word answers.
You've been married 19 years. Was your wife happy when the show ended?
It's funny. We had a party, I said a speech, everyone cried and my wife told me that night, "I was the only one who wasn't crying. I felt bad, but it was kind of like the other woman was leaving." I said, "Well, if I have two women how come I never have sex?"
Are you comfortable now being a wealthy man?
Well, it's a good problem to have, I guess. My wife won't read any of this anyway, so I have to be honest: I wouldn't have made my house that big now. It's beautiful and she did it and worked with the designers and everyone loves it, but I like small and cozy more than big.
How big is it?
It's 10,000 square feet.
You can lose people in that.
Yeah, and we lose hamsters. Each kid has their own bedroom and bathroom, and when I grew up we had one bathroom in the house. We have nine bathrooms in our house.
What's next? Another movie?
Yeah, I'm looking at scripts, and when the right thing comes along, I'll do it. I need a real-life live-action romance.


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NEWARK — A shooting in Newark's South Ward left one person dead and another injured tonight, just four hours after gunfire claimed two lives about a mile away, prosecutors said.
Tonight's shooting took place in the 300 block of Avon Avenue around 9 p.m., said Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Carter did not identify the victims or discuss a motive for the attack.
The incident came just four hours after two men and a woman were shot around 5 p.m. near Irvine Turner Boulevard and Spruce Street, in the city's Central Ward, acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said.
The attack may have been related to a car crash. Several vehicles appeared to have collided at the center of the crime scene and the body of one of the victims could be seen inside one of the vehicles, a gold Alero.
One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene, Murray said. The woman was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where she died a short time later. The other man was hospitalized, but Murray did not disclose the extent of his injuries.
The victims' names were withheld pending notification of their families. Authorities did not discuss a motive or suspects.
Police and emergency personnel surrounded the three cars at the center of the crime scene. Bullet holes dotted the Alero. Broken glass and debris from the damaged cars littered the street several hours after the incident.
Carter said it was "unclear" whether the shootings were related.
South Ward Councilman Ras Baraka arrived at the scene after receiving a call from staff at Central High School, where he served as principal before taking a leave of absence to run for mayor.
Baraka said the victim who survived the attack was a graduate of Central High, and that police told him the man was expected to survive.
"He was okay," he said. "They said he got in the ambulance and left with his mom."


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As difficult as this is, I am appealing to the generosity of others. I am a single mom to SIX beautiful boys who lost their father to mental illness. I am struggling to keep our home, put food on the table, meet monthly bills and support my children in their endeavers. For example, my oldest son, who is 12, was chosen to be a student ambassedor in Australia next summer, he recieved a scholarship to cover most of the costs for the trip but is still short $600.
My 5 year old son is desperate to play soccor and my 7 year old is begging for guitar lessons. These wishes may seem minor but will certainly remain unfilled until I can get the family back on track. Before my, now ex, husband fell ill, he was the family bread winner, as a successful carpenter. He is now institutionalized and unable to support us at all. For the last 12 years I was a stay at home mom raising our children, I worked part-time as an independent floral designer and brought in a little extra money for the family.
I am now looking to create a full time business I can run from home but I do not have capital for the start-up, I need $25,000 to start my business, money to cover, equipment, refridgeration, tools, supplies, product and advertising.
I have depleted all of my savings paying my mortgage and ridiculous electric bill. My credit is less than favorable due to my mortgage falling behind. Finally, I have no living family. I am an only child, now 36 years old. Shortly, before my ex-husband became ill, my 52 year old mother was diagnosed with cancer and died within 3 months. My father passed away 2 years prior from surgery complications. My children and I have only each other and we are truly grateful for one another.
Please help me provide for these beautiful boys the way they deserve, the way I believed I would be able to when I brought them into this world. I know I will succeed with the help I need to get started.
God Bless and thank you.


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HSBC is extending its market leading 1.99% mortgage offer until the end of October.
HSBC launched its 1.99% discounted variable rate mortgage on 1st September and then extended the scheme by adding a further £500 million of funds late in September.
This mortgage has been so popular that HSBC are now making a further £500 million of mortgage funding available so that this mortgage deal can now run to the end of October.
The deal has led to a total of £245 million of discount mortgages having been sold during September alone.
Commenting on the success of this mortgage offer, Martijn van der Heijden, head of mortgages at HSBC, said: "Our range of mortgages have topped the best buy tables for most of the year."
"We made a commitment to stay open for business and extending the 1.99 per cent mortgage is part of that."


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Metal Sculptures from Primitive Twig
the jump... After we came home we had to look up the artists - Marcia and Bill Finks of Primitive Twig. They have been making art since 1990. Many of their sculptures are made of salvaged metal scraps, antique doll parts, old tins, and wide variety of vintage knick knacks. To see full collection, check out their website. (Images: Primitive Twig)


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Cake Kash gives a nasty sloppy blow job in this scene. You can tell she is really doing what she loves. She also really know's how to take some hard cock. Click here to see Cake Kash get her fat black ass fucked. Black BBW Tube has nothing but smoking hot black fatties!
Jola is ready for round two of her hardcore experience, now that she has tried it for the first time at XLGirls.com. Jola is no stranger to the joys of sex but fucking a pro-porn stud on-camera was a new experience in her life. And she liked it. Now Tom gets a chance to give Jola a good, hard schtupping, just the way she enjoys it.
"This kind of pure sex is more exciting to me," said Jola. "You know, it seems forbidden and that kind of sex is always more erotic. It is like being a woman in an erotic novel meeting bad boys. These big studs know how to please a woman and they don't want anything after the sex is over."
"I love it when a man cums on my boobs. The sight of a man's cock spurting his cum on me thrills me. That's what Tom did to me after he fucked me."
"One thing I want to try, besides sex with another busty woman, is having a threesome with two men. I have always wanted to do that. I think I will try that soon."
Now that Jola has done her first hardcore scene ("Bangin' Time For Jola"), the door has been opened and opened wide. Jola immediately wanted to have another guy-girl experience. This time, huge-titted Jola gets XLGirls.com regular Tom and his large lady-pleaser to service her overheated libido.
All it takes is Tom squeezing Jola's big, soft boobs and she's hot to throat his dick, slowly and lovingly with long licks of her pink tongue. She licks his nuts too. His boner slides between her fat tits. The sight of it inside her cleavage inflames her passion even more. Jola squeezes her hooters together engulfing him, then takes his shaft and taps and rubs her nipple with the tip.
Jola eagerly gets into bed and removes her panties quickly, not waiting for Tom to take them off for her. She wants his cock inside her pussy right now. Getting on her side, Jola raises one leg so Tom can enter her gates of heaven and give her the cock satisfaction she eagerly wants.
XL Girls being dicked in their bootyful buttholes. Analholic 3: Best of Anal XL stars another collection of hot anal-sex lovers enjoying the pleasures of rectal-rooting and the sensation of rigid rods rubbing their rumps. The fuckalicious fillies riding the rectum rail this edition: April McKenzie, Christina Kline, Salena Marie, Lola Lush and Lilli Blue!
The Magnificent Mams of Alana Lace
She likes to wear a blindfold and suck cock.
So says Alana Lace, a girl with incredibly beautiful and big tits.
Maybe Miss Lace will do that in a video one day. Blessed with a knock-out body and pretty face, Alana is a Florida babe who kills 'em when she leaves the house. It's hot in Florida so that means she doesn't wear a lot of clothing. Is this really fair to the male population? Then again, no one said life is fair. But life is beautiful when girls like Alana decide to spread, fuck and suck on-camera for tits and ass lovers instead of being the world's best kept secret.
Alana has the rare ability to make even a masturbation video seem like she's being fucked by a guy. She loves to really spank that hot clit and cunt, hard and fast. The fap-fap-fap, squish-squish-squish sounds of her meaty pussy being "punished" are loud and clear on the audio in her videos.
The Magnificent Mams of Alana Lace
Alana Lace, one of the most-popular new models at XLGirls, talks about her desires and needs, and one of those cravings is to be totally sexually dominated by guys. "I like being trapped and restrained," says a giggly Alana, touching her big boobs. "I love being taken advantage of. When I don't know what's coming next."
Anything a man wants to do to Alana is okay with her.
Is Alana the ultimate fuck doll?
You'd never leave the house with this girl in the palm of your hand. Who would want to?
Beck: Another Name For Massive Tits
The "new" Anna Beck. Same Beck greatness. Just much hotter. Anna has a new look. (Compare this to her original shoots.) Raven hair suits her as well as the blonde hair did. The girl is a knock-out. We don't know what she's been up to for the past four years. She was sorely missed and it was feared that she had packed up her bras and left the Big Show. And then, like magic, she reappeared and was ready to give it a go again. This time much hotter. She showed her cookie in 2010 but didn't open it to show the creamy filling, so to speak.
In this pictorial, Anna, looking so good in a tight, low-cut dress, measures herself both dressed and undressed, tries on a selection of European bras. (Anna is a shopping assistant, by the way.) After the bras are examined, worn and commented on, Anna plays with her big boobs and wet pussy. Change is good and even better when it's change like this? What will be next in store for Anna?
Anna is yet another model who wants to try skydiving. This must be the number one personal goal for most of the models here, second only to doing a boy-girl scene.
When Anna wants to relax, she likes to walk her dog, read books and socialize with a group of friends. She doesn't think she has any special talents. We respectfully disagree!
Beck: Another Name For Massive Tits
This is true. Massive tits in the Czech language translate to "Anna Beck." You don't believe this? Look it up.
Anna does not speak English. This has never stopped us before. We simply hire a translator. If you love listening to women speak in their native tongues, this is a treat. When Anna appeared suddenly after four long years away from the XLGirls camera, there was no hesitation in the decision to bring her back because we knew the XLGirls community would welcome her return.
The photographer and his assistant ask Anna to measure herself with a tape. Still dressed, Anna wraps the tape around her tits, underbust and waist. She gets 120 centimeters for her boobs. That converts to 47 inches. Her underbust is 93 cm or 37 inches rounded-off and her waist is 98 cm or 39 inches.
Now they want her to measure herself with her clothes off. The numbers come out to 117 bust, 88 underbust and 102 waist or 46, 35 and 40. That comes out to about an M cup for US manufacturers after subtracting underbust from bust in inches. This demonstration proves the importance of measuring a girl's figure when she's naked because what she wears can shape her proportions. So the next time you ask a girl if you can tape-measure her, ask her to take her clothes off first.
A brassiere holds that which we love so dear. Now Anna tries on a variety of European-made bras, all in different sizes, some a wee bit too small for a woman of epic stature. Anna provides the commentary in her native language, reviewing each bra.
When Anna's bra try-outs end, it's time for her to get cozy and do what she does when she has no man around to take care of her needs. But first, a tits in motion display. Anna can really swing those beauties around! Thank you, Anna Beck! Until next time!
It's Kitty McPherson's first sex scene at XLGirls and it's pure dynamite. Kitty didn't know Rocky, her fuck partner, until he showed up. Before he arrives, Kitty tells the studio manager how she feels. Excited. Slightly nervous. Horny just thinking about what's going to happen in a few minutes. No-strings sex with a stranger.
When they do meet, it's fireworks time without the fireworks. Rocky worships Kitty's big boobs, giving her beautiful tits the attention they deserve. She kneels before him and sucks his cock and nuts with slurping sounds. That's why sex videos don't need music. That slurping and lip-smacking sound is music itself.
Rocky checks out Kitty's butt while she's in a doggie (or rather kitty) position between his legs. He spreads her ass cheeks apart and fingers her winky, preparing it for his cock. Kitty is ready for his dick to fill her up. He begins fucking her pussy. His thrusts in and out of her cookie make their own music. Her fine booty is in his hands, for the moment. Kitty McPherson: one hot, ripe and horny redhead in the prime of her sex drive making her own brand of fireworks. We'll jack to that!
Kitty McPherson checks herself out, checking her makeup, making little adjustments to her halter top until her cleavage mounds look perfect while she waits for her fuck date to show.
She talks to the studio manager about how she feels about her first XLGirls.com sex scene with Rocky. Kitty says she's excited, nervous and ready. She doesn't know Rocky. It's pure sex with a stranger. No strings, no fuss. Sport-sex with no "I'll call you" goodbyes after they both cum.
While Kitty is speaking, Rocky is on the other side of the wall ditching his clothing so there's no downtime when he introduces himself and his cock to Kitty.
He studies Kitty's tits in her tight halter and begins to play with them, savoring their feel and size. Pulling each tit out, he sucks on her nipples, buries his face in her soft cleavage, motorboats her, inhales her scent.
Kitty kneels and swallows Rocky's long shaft to the hilt. She sucks and licks his balls. This babe can deep throat, making slurping and licking sounds. She is no head sucker. Rocky slides his dick between her tits. Kitty squeezes her jugs together, sandwiching his cock, then plants her lips around his boner again. She is passionate with her blow jobs.
Rocky leans over Kitty while she sucks him stiff and spreads her ass cheeks so he can check out her butthole, lube it and stick his finger in. He has to fuck Kitty's pussy and ass. Kitty is gagging for it too.
Pure fucking. It's a beautiful thing.


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"It's the obvious reason," said Bill Maher when I asked if there was a special reason he returns to Maui every year. "It's a tropical paradise, I don't know if you're aware of that."
Maher will ring in the Maui New Year on Jan. 1 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. I spoke with him by phone recently, wanting to know how he developed his own niche market.
He started like every other comic hoping that club gigs and a Johnny Carson appearance would inevitably create opportunity. At the time, Carson's audience averaged about 8 million viewers a night and accounted for close to 20 percent of NBC's advertising revenue. When compared to today's numbers, that would place the old "Tonight Show" as one of the highest-rated programs on television.
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"That's what we did - develop an hour of clean material, you hoped to get on Carson and then you got a sitcom," said Maher. "I did sitcoms, and it was fun at first, but after awhile you want to blow your brains out. If I had a giant hit, things might have been different."
I asked if there was one giant hit he turned down.
"The lead on 'Full House,' can you imagine if that had happened?" he said.
Maher described his father as "an old radio news guy," to which he attributes his love of politics and current events.
"I always included politics in my act, but no one wants to hear that from a 26-year-old kid, and they're right. You need a certain gravitas and you need to be older, more seasoned. I think that is the same reason that character actors get more work as they get older."
Maher credited his launch into political comedy to good timing. Comedy Central had just started out and they needed shows. As a result, the network was more open minded to new ideas. That new idea was "Politically Incorrect."
"I didn't want to do a standard talk show. I wanted everyone to talk about what was going on in the news," Maher said.
Throughout the years, Maher has fielded his share of criticism towards his political stance.
"It comes with the territory," he said. "I'm always doing something that will piss somebody off. I mean, I don't want to read my Twitter feed right before I go to bed. I vent, so why shouldn't they. It's a good thing and I don't have to read it if I don't want to. I could say good morning and someone would be mad at me. 'Ronald Reagan said it's morning in America, how dare you say good morning!' "
I asked if he could vent about the Republican Party throwing Romney under the bus post election.
"Well, he lost. It's a different era. Dewey lost and they ran him again, Adlei Stevenson lost and he ran again. Romney will be fine. He's been running for president since they brought his egg back from the moon on Apollo 11. He is programmed to run for office. When there is nothing left on the Earth but plastic bags and cockroaches, Romney will be running in a hazmat suit."
Maher was recently picked up for another two seasons of "Real Time" on HBO, and he will also be executive producing a new HBO series "Vice TV."
"It's 60 minutes of news reporting on steroids. Some very brave reporters will deliver riveting stories from incredibly dangerous locations," he explained. "It's raw and very exciting."
Maher continues to tour, performing stand up comedy throughout the year, and he plans to make Maui an annual New Year's destination.
"I can't think of a better place to celebrate the New Year. I tell my agent to book me in unlikely places, book me in the South, places people would never expect me to perform, because there is an audience out there."
* Bill Maher returns to Maui for his third annual New Year's Day performance at 8 p.m. Jan. 1 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Castle Theater. Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television garnering him 29 Emmy nominations and a Maui Film Festival Maverick Award. Tickets cost $65.50 and $85.50 (plus applicable fees), available at the MACC box office, by calling 242-7469 or online at www.mauiarts.org. A pre-show menu will be offered by Hali'imaile General Store.
This week
A Kit Kat Club Christmas Cabaret continues at Fleetwood's on Front St. with Jolly Old St. Mick. Join Mick Fleetwood and the fun and flirty entertainers of the Kit Kat Club for "naughty or nice" holiday shenanigans with two shows tonight.
Sit back, relax and let your personal butler bring you exquisite cocktails and scrumptious food all while watching sugar plum princesses, candy cane sweethearts, North Pole cuties, and sultry Miss Santas. Enjoy a cocktail reception with passed dinner pupus to begin the evening, then theater seating for the cabaret show. Reserved seating is available for parties of six or more.
The early show begins with food and cocktails at 6 p.m.; show at 7 p.m. Late-night revelers can enjoy food and cocktails at 8:30 p.m.; show at 9:30 p.m. on Fleetwood's open-air rooftop.
Tickets are $99 per person, which includes fresh ahi sliders, shrimp lollipops, filet mignon skewers, poke on house made won tons and chocolate truffles plus one complementary glass of wine, beer or a specialty holiday cocktail. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Maui Food Bank. To purchase tickets for either show or for more information, call the Fleetwood's box office at 669-6425.
Don't miss the final weekend of ProArts' Smokey Joe's Cafe tonight through Sunday at the ProArts Playhouse in Kihei. The show is directed and choreographed by Aly Cardinalli and stars Felicia Chernicki, Kate Comstock, Katerina B. Dominguez, Justin House, Julie Kawamura, Trevor Natividad, Coren Paschoal-Yamauchi and Cardinalli. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. Reserved seating tickets are $25 for adults; with a $22.50 kamaaina special tonight (with valid Hawaii ID). For reservations, call 463-6550 or visit www.proartspacific.com.
KMA Productions and Bud Light present A Comedy Story on Friday at the Maui Beach Hotel. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show starts at 7:30 p.m. Ring in the holidays with some of Hawaii's top comics including Andy Bumatai, Paul Ogata and Jose Dynamite, and hosted by Maui's Chino La Forge. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door, and may be purchased through the Maui Beach Hotel. For reservations, call 877-0051.
The Intergalactic Nemesis Live-Action Graphic Novel presented by the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, with support from Wailea Beach Marriott Resort and SpeediShuttle, will hit the Castle Theater on Jan. 9. This one-of-a-kind, all-ages stage show is a unique adventure story with more than 1,000 hand-drawn, full-color, comic book images that blast from the screen. The entire production is performed live, a la radio plays from the 1930s and '40s, but with 21st-century visual effects. Performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $12, $28 and $35 (plus applicable fees). To purchase tickets, visit the MACC box office, call 242-7469 or order online at www.mauiarts.org.


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Police arrested the man they said robbed a pedestrian in Charleston last week.
Brandon Rashard Cummings, 26, of Dewey Street, is charged with armed robbery, first-degree assault and battery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
A man was walking home Aug. 1 near Congress Street when Cummings approached him with a handgun, according to police.
Cummings assaulted the man and robbed him of his money, police said.
The pedestrian was transported to the hospital, where he was treated and released.
Reach Natalie Caula Hauff at 937-5594 or Twitter.com/ncaula.
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A Sting In Their Tales
This was a year of sting operations and exposés, from match-fixing to pilfering ministers and extorting journalists.
The media was busy this year with a surfeit of exposés. Clocking in an enviable exposé a quarter. Some shook up the system, some resulted in a few laughs, some resulted in a little egg on the media face and others were simply forgotten as the next exposé made an appearance. Here's the list of sting ops which the media were busy with this year.
Operation Dhritrashtra – The exposé by India Today–Aaj Tak claimed that Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid had siphoned away money from his trust – the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust – which is supposed to assist disabled people. If that in itself was not enough, Khurshid held a press conference where he decided to show us his wild side. He also gave us "guttersnipes" and of course the famous "ink and blood" comment which has gone down in the year's Quotable Quotes. India Today, despite legal action by the Khurshids, has refused to apologise for the sting op and stands by it. Kudos.
If you want to know more about Operation Dhritarashtra – http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/10/old-habits-die-hard/
And here's Deepak Sharma telling us how he got this story.
India TV cricket betting sting – We know, we know, India TV has as much credibility as Sheila Dikshit currently has on protecting Delhi's women. But six umpires did admit on camera to be willing to fix matches for money. And these were all ICC umpires from Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The sting op resulted in the umpires who were caught on camera being suspended, but despite cricket being the national obsession, the story seems to have died down without a trace. Read the story here (http://www.indiatvnews.com/sports/cricket/icc-umpires-caught-camera-willing-to-fix-matches-india-tv-stings-6618.html).
IBN-Cobrapost Sting – At the outset let us tell you that we had unanimously dubbed this sting Bollywood's most boring secret (http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/07/bollywoods-most-boring-secret/). While IBN called it The Real Dirty Picture and publicised it on Twitter, the reality turned out to be a damp squib. Call it our immunity to controversies and scandals, somehow the presence of black money in Bollywood was neither new nor did it really bother viewers that much. Now if it was Karan Johar talking of how he got Dawood to invest in Student of the Year, THAT would be news. Actually, how he got anybody to invest in that would have been news.
Zee-Jindal – Now this is the sting-op which had caught the media with a rotten egg omelette on its face. What we saw in the Zee-Jindal sting did make an otherwise self-righteous media pause for a moment. Journalists who moonlight as extortionists now? That demands some tough answers. Congress MP Navin Jindal unveiled a sting operation done by Jindal Steel and Power Limited on Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor and Business Head of Zee News and Sameer Ahluwalia, Editor and Business Head of Zee Business who were allegedly asking JSPL for money to stop negative reports on Jindal related to the coal scam. While the cases and counter-cases continue, the coal scam is no longer news and we haven't seen any sting operations in a while. Of course the Jindal counter sting op also managed to rake up enough dirt on Jindal and his company's operations. But sadly for Zee, while other media had rallied around the Aaj Tak Group during Operation Dhritrashtra, no one bought Zee's story that they'd been hoodwinked by Naveen. Currently, Subhash Chandra is out on anticipatory bail and the two editors got to be guests of Tihar jail. Not the best of times for Zee.
Naveen Jindal spoke to Madhu Trehan about the whole saga: http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/11/nl-interviews-naveen-jindal/
Here's everything you wanted to know about the Zee-Jindal counter sting op
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From Montreal Chest Hospital, McGill University, and Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Requests for Reprints: Richard Menzies, MD, Montreal Chest Hospital, 3650 St. Urbain Street, Montreal, P.Q., H2X 2P4, Canada.
Acknowledgments: The authors thank Ms. Braithewaite and Ms. Desrosiers for assistance in collecting data, Dr. J. Hanley and M. Olivier for assistance with data analysis, Dr. J. Martin for review of the manuscript, and the Faculties of Health Sciences as well as those responsible for student health services in the following institutions: McGill University, Universite de Montreal, and Edouard Montpetit, Dawson, and John Abbott Colleges.
Grant Support: By the Association Pulmonaire du Quebec and the Royal Edward Laurentian Foundation. Dr. Menzies was supported by The Respiratory Health Network of Centres of Excellence from 1990 to 1992.
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Objectives: No consensus exists regarding the definition and interpretation of a significant boosting reaction after sequential tuberculin testing. The booster phenomenon is thought to represent remote tuberculous infection where tuberculin reactivity has waned, but it has also been described among persons with previous exposure to other mycobacteria or bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine. We studied the factors affecting the booster phenomenon among Canadian-born young adults to determine the definition that would maximize sensitivity and specificity of a positive booster reaction in these persons.
Design: Point-prevalence survey of initial tuberculin reactions and response to repeated tuberculin testing after 1 to 4 weeks.
Setting: Community-based study of all students entering health professional training programs at six post-secondary institutions.
Measurements: In 1989, 1990, and 1991, students completed self-administered questionnaires, underwent two-step tuberculin testing with purified protein derivative-tuberculin (PPd-T), and had their childhood BCG vaccination status verified. In 1991, students were also tested with purified protein derivative-Battey (PPd-B) (for Mycobacterium intracellulare).
Results: Overall, 74 students (5.2%) had positive booster reactions, which were significantly associated with older age (P < 0.001), larger initial tuberculin reactions (P < 0.001), previous BCG vaccination (P < 0.001), older age when vaccinated (P < 0.02), longer interval from vaccination to testing (P < 0.01), and sensitivity to PPd-B (P < 0.001). Boosting was not associated with the number of BCG vaccinations, sex, or risk factors for tuberculous infection. The pattern, mean, and mode of the frequency distributions of booster reactions among those with BCG vaccination and sensitivity to PPd-B were similar to those with assumed tuberculous infection.
Conclusions: In young adults, booster reactions due to previous tuberculous infection are uncommon and cannot be distinguished from false-positive reactions due to past exposure to other mycobacteria.
Those with BCG vaccination were compared with all the participants who were not vaccinated. Those with initial and second tuberculin reactions measuring 0 mm are not shown but are included in calculation of the total percentage. Those whose second tuberculin test reaction was smaller than the first are shown in the first group (−1 to −9 mm).
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Those with initial and second tuberculin reactions measuring 0 mm are not shown but are included in calculation of total percentage. Those whose second tuberculin reaction was smaller than the first are shown in the first group (−1 to −9 mm).
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PRINCE2 Continues to Grow Worldwide (Infographic)
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PRINCE2 is now well-established as the most popular project management qualification in the world.
APMG-International, the PRINCE2 accreditation body, release annual figures for the number of candidates taking PRINCE2 examinations. These figures show that the total number of candidates taking PRINCE2 exams globally has increased every year since launch (1996). The most recent figures show record numbers of candidates sitting exams during 2011 – 136,000 – an increase of 17,000 over the previous year.
Simon Buehring is a project manager, consultant and trainer and has extensive experience within the IT industry in the UK and in Asia. He works for KnowledgeTrain which provides training in project management in the UK. He can be contacted via the KnowledgeTrain project management training website.
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Destiny and Desireby Edith Grossman Carlos Fuentes
Winner of the Cervantes Prize Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel--a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods. Josué Nadal has lost more than his innocence: He has been robbed of his life--and his posthumous narration sets the tone for a brilliantly written novel that blends mysticism and realism. Josué tells of his fateful meeting as a skinny, awkward teen with Jericó, the vigorous boy who will become his twin, his best friend, and his shadow. Both orphans, the two young men intend to spend their lives in intellectual pursuit--until they enter an adult landscape of sex, crime, and ambition that will test their pledge and alter their lives forever. Idealistic Josué goes to work for a high-tech visionary whose stunning assistant will introduce him to a life of desire; cynical Jericó is enlisted by the Mexican president in a scheme to sell happiness to the impoverished masses. On his journey into a web of illegality in which he will be estranged from Jericó, Josué is aided and impeded by a cast of unforgettable characters: a mad, imprisoned murderer with a warning of revenge, an elegant aviatrix and addict seeking to be saved, a prostitute shared by both men who may have murdered her way into a brilliant marriage, and the prophet Ezekiel himself.Mixing ancient mythologies with the sensuousness and avarice and need of the twenty-first century, Destiny and Desire is a monumental achievement from one of the masters of contemporary literature.From the Hardcover edition.
Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read Don Quixote. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 11-12 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
The General in His Labyrinthby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
Tale about Simon Bolivar, the general who dreamed of freeing South America from Spain.
The General in His Labyrinthby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!General Simon Bolivar, "the Liberator" of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won--and lost--in a life.
Hi, This Is Conchitaby Edith Grossman Santiago Roncagliolo
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winner and Granta "Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist" Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories. Told entirely in dialog, "Hi, This Is Conchita" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point-and the women who drive them crazy. Peru's heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved's answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her. The three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo's masterful range. "Despoiler" is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. "Butterflies Fastened with Pins" is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And "The Passenger Beside You" is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.
In the Night of Timeby Edith Grossman Antonio Muñoz Molina
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever alters his life.Winner of the 2012 Prix Méditerranée Étranger and hailed as a masterpiece, In the Night of Time is a sweeping, grand novel and an indelible portrait of a shattered society, written by one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists.
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hellby Edith Grossman Carlos Rojas
In Carlos Rojasâ TMs imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughelâ TMs Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies.Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premiseâ "GarcÃa Lorca in hellâ "to reexamine the poetâ TMs life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealistâ TMs eye and a moral philosopherâ TMs mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.
Living to Tell the Taleby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez's shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.
Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love, but she marries another. Will the lovers reunite after more than 50 years apart?
A Manuscript of Ashesby Edith Grossman Antonio Munoz Molina
It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana.The country house is full of traces of the poet-notes, photographs, journals-and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the beautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Inés, a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana's lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille. Looking for a book, he unravels a crime.
Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist--an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor--decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." The virgin, whom an old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying-not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant gem by the master storyteller.
Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit-he has purchased hundreds of women-he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master's work.
Nadaby Edith Grossman Carmen Laforet
One of the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain, Nada is the semi-autobiographical story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. Edith Grossman's vital new translation captures Carmen Laforet's feverish energy, powerful imagery, and subtle humor. Nada, which includes an illuminating Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe. "Laforet vividly conveys the strangeness of Barcelona in the 1940s, a city that has survived civil war only to find itself muted by Franco's dictatorship. The spirit of sly resistance that Laforet's novel expresses, its heroine's determination to escape provincial poverty and to immerse herself in 'lights, noises, the entire tide of life,' has lost none of its power of persuasion." --The New York Times Book Review. "That this complex, mature and wise novel was written by someone in her early 20s is extraordinary... But after six decades, this first novel has lost none of its power and originality, and we are fortunate to have it in this fine translation."--The Washington Post, chosen as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. "Nada does indeed recall Sartre and Camus, but it is fresher and more vibrant than either, and with its call to intuition and feelings rather than intellect, it cuts deeper... [A] mesmerizing new translation... a beautiful evocation of the tidal wave of late adolescent feeling... [Laforet] wrote Nada when she was only 23, yet the book resonates with frightening maturity, sadness and depth...a work of genius." --Los Angeles Times. "A brilliantly subtle book whose power lies in what goes unsaid... Nada is a skillfully written, multifaceted novel, and its eerie relevance to today's political climate and social attitudes is difficult to ignore." --The San Francisco Chronicle. "Laforet's moody and sepulchral debut novel... has been given new life by acclaimed translator Grossman... Andrea's narration is gorgeously expressive, rippling with emotion and meaning... fans of European lit will welcome this Spanish Gothic to the States with open arms and a half-exasperated, "What took you so long?"--Publisher's Weekly (starred review). "This Modern Library edition should be a keeper." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Carmen Laforet finds new life with this beautiful translation... dazzling in its approach... Laforet's talent in addressing complex familial and social issues us nothing short of amazing... her wiser-than-thou nature and clever handling of bitter dialogue [are] the mark of a truly gifted writer... a timeless work of art." --The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star. "Nada is neither moralist, nor prolix, unlike most other Spanish literature of the time and before. This is a modern voice, philosophically and stylistically, talking to us in freedom from the darkest hours of the victory of fascism... remarkably sophisticated." --The Independent. "[A] remarkable achievement...Nada's work is sui generis, a gothic horror story which deserves the widest possible readership." --The Sunday Herald.
News of a Kidnappingby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar - head of the Medellín drug cartel - kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors' perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He also depicts the keening ache of Colombia after nearly forty years of rebel uprisings, right-wing death squads, currency collapse and narco-democracy. With cinematic intensity, breathtaking language and journalistic rigor, García Márquez evokes the sickness that inflicts his beloved country and how it penetrates every strata of society, from the lowliest peasant to the President himself.
The Solitudesby Edith Grossman Alberto Manguel Luis De Gongora
An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Wrenched from civilization and its attendant madness, the desolate hero is transported into a natural world that is at once menacing and sublime. In this stunning edition Edith Grossman captures the breathtaking beauty of a work that represents one of the high points of poetic achievement in any language.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Worksby Julia Alvarez Edith Grossman Juana Inés de la Cruz
Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature. Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense--evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson--of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works--playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor--are also included.
Strange Pilgrimsby Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.
Why Translation Mattersby Edith Grossman
Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable." Throughout the four chapters of this bracing volume, Grossman's belief in the crucial significance of the translator's work, as well as her rare ability to explain the intellectual sphere that she inhabits as interpreter of the original text, inspires and provokes the reader to engage with translation in an entirely new way.
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