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COLUMBIA- The Obama administration declared South Carolina a federal disaster area on Wednesday, as the worst winter weather in a decade knocked out power to thousands and snow, ice and sleet paralyzed the region.
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5,100 - Department of Transportation workers on the road
354 - Officers on the streets, working 12-hour shifts
2 - Crashes have taken place; one on Interstate 95 (a fatality), one on Interstate 26
125 - National Guardsmen active and responding
12 - Shelters open throughout the state
4,400 - Tons of salt to last through Friday
1 - Bridge closed, the Arthur J. Ravenel Bridge in Charleston
96,000 - Power outages reported by SCE&G
There were 245,000 winter-weary South Carolinians without power as of Wednesday afternoon, and flights were cancelled throughout the state. Snowfall was expected to range from as much as 10 inches in the mountains to an inch or less in Columbia and along the north coast, and an ice storm coated much of the Midlands.
The storm eclipsed a 2004 event, when 200,000 power outages were reported and many were left without power for a week.
Gov. Nikki Haley's request for a federal emergency declaration was a precautionary measure, said Doug Mayer, a Haley spokesman. The declaration allows the state to ask for federal resources, with 75 percent of the costs covered by the federal government and the state responsible for the remaining 25 percent.
In a letter to President Barack Obama, Haley said the state had already spent more than $2 million for the winter storm that hit two weeks ago.
"...the State of South Carolina and its local counties and municipalities have exhausted all other resources in this preparation and require the assistance of the federal government to adequately respond to this emergency situation," Haley wrote.
At a news conference Wednesday morning, Haley said the storm was serious and getting worse. "We are seeing snow and ice here in the Midlands and then certainly we're seeing a lot of wind down in the Lowcountry," Haley said. "The wind is really what's causing us a lot of problems because that is leading to the ice build-up."
Hundreds of car wrecks were reported, including one fatality. At 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, a woman driving a 2009 Nissan slid into a state-owned vehicle that was legally parked on the shoulder on I-95 in Clarendon County, The State newspaper reported.
"It's so important you stay off the roads," Haley said. "If you get on the roads, your speed has to be slow."
On Tuesday, Haley declared a state of emergency, which activates the National Guard and the state's emergency operation plan. S.C. National Guard Major General Robert Livingston said his units have enough capacity to meet the public's needs should the storm get worse.
"It will get worse as the day goes on," Livingston said early Wednesday.
For Nate Brown of Greenville, a 68-year-old retired teacher, it was the ice - not the snow - that was his main concern. He lost electricity for nearly a week in the earlier storm.
"This has been the worst winter in a long time. It gets hot, then cold. We've had snow. Now they're predicting ice with the snow. It's just been awful," he said.
Mindy Taylor, 43, was at a grocery store, looking for rock salt, kitty litter or anything else that could help melt ice. It took her 15 minutes to drive from her home as the snow was falling.
"I hate driving on this," she said. "Hopefully, it'll warm up by the weekend and it will all melt. I'm ready for spring."
In Myrtle Beach, which attracts millions of visitors every summer, cars were coated with a thick crust of ice, and ice frosted palm trees and idle kiddie rides at the popular Broadway at the Beach tourist attraction.
In Charleston, the towering Ravenel Bridge across the Cooper River was closed because of ice just as it was two weeks ago.
SCE&G brought in contract crews from utilities in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky to help its 1,200 workers restore power.
"Winter storms can be unpredictable. It's the combination of ice and wind that can lead to significant damage," said Keller Kissam, president of the company's retail operations.
Schools and government offices were closed in most counties across the state, as were VA outpatient clinics and the Savannah River Site near Aiken. Only essential personnel were told to report to Joint Base Charleston.
Transportation Department workers were working 12-hour shifts to apply salt and other de-icing materials. The agency also moved a number of crews from the Lowcountry to the Upstate to deal with heavy snow.
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By Mrs. Melissa K Buckley (Leonard Wood)July 18, 2012
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Col. Nancy Springer, outgoing Marine Corps Detachment Fort Leonard Wood commander, relinquished command to Col. John Giltz, incoming Marine Corps Detachment Fort Leonard Wood commander, Friday on Gammon Field.
"I will miss my Marines and civilian employees, permanent personnel and students alike. The permanent personnel's dedication and feeling for what they do is awesome," Springer said. "I will also miss the Fort Leonard Wood community. I thoroughly enjoyed living and working on this post and taking advantage of all the activities offered. There are so many things to do here on post and in the surrounding area that I just couldn't get to all of them."
Springer's next duty station is Okinawa, Japan. She said while in Fort Leonard she enjoyed watching the transformation that occurs in her junior Marines, as they learned their military occupational skill and matured as new Marines.
"The difference between our new arrivals in Marines Awaiting Training platoon and those about to graduate is startling. Seeing these Marines grow in confidence and self-assuredness is motivating and never got old," Springer said. "Our permanent personnel Marines and civilians are the ones that make this transformation happen. At our detachment everyone is a part of accomplishing our mission; everyone is important and everyone counts, because great private first classes come from great instructors backed up by a great support staff. Last year the Marine Detachment sent almost 5,000 of those great private first classes out to the Fleet."
Springer believes even though Fort Leonard Wood is an Army post, there are limitless opportunities for Marines to excel here.
"Marines like a challenge and there are many ways for them to challenge themselves and each other. Marines have won instructor, warrior and sports contests, as well as set the example as volunteers, both on and off post. It's all there for Marines who want it."
During the ceremony, Giltz said he was eager to start working on post, and honored to be taking over command of a detachment that Springer had taken such good care of.
"I am proud to be your new commanding officer, but more importantly, every day I wake up proud to be a U.S. Marine like you; that's what gets me going in the morning," Giltz said. "To the Garrison Command and Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, I look forward to working with you and seeing Marines and Soldiers working together to do great things as we move forward."
Giltz graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BA in history. He also holds a master of science degree in human resource management from Troy State University and a master of arts degree in national security studies from the Naval War College.
His decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with a gold star in lieu of second award, Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars, Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal with three gold stars and the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
He is married to the former Gioia Bozeman, and they have three children, one of which is a lance corporal in the Marine Corps.

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Like shirtless father, like son.
Matthew McConaughey says it's only a matter of time before his 2-month-old son Levi follows his father's flip-flopped footsteps as a surfer.
"He'll be getting salty soon," the actor, 38, said in Santa Monica on Wednesday while promoting his upcoming movie Surfer, Dude.
Already, McConaughey says, Levi is "outdoors as much as he is indoors," so hitting the waves is a natural progression. "He's going to be out in the middle of it too," he says.
In Surfer, Dude, McConaughey plays a soul-searching – and usually bare-chested – surfer in a comedy that pokes fun at his beach-boy image.
"When I'm lucky enough to be in a place where I don't have to wear a shirt and shoes, I don't," he says. "It's to pop the bubble and go 'Guess what? Now I'll do it the whole movie.' "
In fact, McConaughey says his much-photographed midsection came to prominence while working on this film.
"I started surfing to get ready – it's been a little less than two years," he says. "I wasn't a big surfer before."
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For more than 50 years, Red Cheek has sold its apple juice warm in supermarkets.
That changed somewhat last month, when Red Cheek, based in Fleetwood, Pa., worked out an agreement with Smiler Beverage Co., a Philadelphia beer distributor, to distribute sell Red Cheek's new, 10-ounce bottles of apple juice to delicatessens, pizza parlors or restaurants, where it can be refrigerated.
"It's called growing the business," said Franklin Claire, Red Cheek's president, when asked why the company is pushing its product through a beer distributor. "There is a huge potential for growth by selling our products in a place where it can be refrigerated."


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Infographic: Tax Cuts for Millionaires vs. Nutrition Assistance
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House Republicans recently proposed $833 million worth of cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, in next year's budget (fiscal year 2012), which is the equivalent of kicking between 325,000 to 475,000 eligible mothers, infants, and children off of one of the nation's most cost-effective programs. Ultimately over $650 million in cuts to the program are on the table in the bill that Congress will debate later this month, which would require between 200,000 and 350,000 women, infants, and children to lose access to this critical program.
Conservatives justified the cut on the grounds that tackling our nation's deficits requires "shared sacrifice." But the tax cuts they recently fought to extend will give away more money to America's 300,000 millionaires this week than it will cost to adequately fund this critical nutrition program for all of next year. Here's the math:
WIC provides nutritious foods to low-income pregnant women, new moms, babies, and children under 5 who have been identified as nutritionally at risk. The program saves countless dollars by reducing the instance of low-birth weight babies, improving child immunization rates, and promoting school-readiness by giving children the nutritional building blocks their brains need to develop at a critical stage. In fact, economists estimate that every $1 invested in WIC saves between $1.77 and $3.13 in health care costs just in the first 60 days after an infant's birth. Kicking hundreds of thousands of women, infants, and children off the program is truly the embodiment of the adage, "Penny wise, pound foolish."
Everyone agrees that we need to tackle our nation's long-term deficits, but how we do it will define us as a nation. Polls have shown that nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of the American public is concerned that the GOP deficit-reduction plan will take away needed protections for the poor and the disadvantaged and will "protect the rich at the expense of everyone else." The chart below reveals how the GOP's WIC cuts unfortunately confirm those fears.
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World Series Baseball 2K3 marks the multi-platform debut of last year's must-have Xbox baseball title. The "King of Diamonds" returns stronger than ever and poised to make a run at a Yankee-like dynasty as it heads to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. And, just like the Bronx Bombers, WSB 2K3 spent the offseason improving what was already THE baseball franchise by adding an all-new ESPN broadcast presentation, more classic uniforms for every team, player-specific batting stances and pitching styles for Hall of Fame players, and historic ballparks. WSB 2K3's unrivaled gameplay gives users what they asked for, including: a jump button for home run-robbing snatches and line drive-snaring grabs, user-controlled leadoffs, drag bunts, improved double play animations, power swings, and more. This year, WSB 2K3 is in a league of its own!
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- November 10, 1986
- Vol. 26
- No. 19
Monaco and Hollywood, the Second Time Around
Three Decades After Grace Kelly Wed Prince Rainier, Princess Stephanie Finds Romance with Rob Lowe—And Oh, How Times Have Changed
—Flash, sung by Princess Stephanie
Patrons of Hollywood's trendy restaurant the Ivy watched agog as Monaco's Princess Stephanie and Hollywood's Brat Pack prince Rob Lowe played out the latest scene in their romance. Presumably drunk with love, the two spent much of their time at the small dinner party (given in their honor by a former schoolmate of his) locked in long, passionate, tongue-baring kisses. "They were really going at it," reports another diner. Heavy smooching failed to turn the Princess starry-eyed, however: When she wasn't in Lowe gear, Stephanie was hurling blue epithets at dining companion and actor Judd Nelson: "—— off, you dirtbag!" for example. At the end of the evening the two lovebirds had to grope around under the table to locate Lowe's glasses before they staggered into the night, leaving lesser mortals to settle the bill.
A week later, at the Princess Grace Foundation junior gala in Dallas attended by her family, Stephanie and Rob arrived 90 minutes late (they'd been dining with friends) and refused to mingle with the folks who had paid $125 a head for a little royal treatment—and who were thus royally ticked off.
But if the season's hottest couple flunked etiquette, they lead the class in star appeal. Not since Mick and Bianca first took a plane has romantic fortune, jet-set division, coughed up such a news-making intercontinental pair as the handsome Princess and the pretty Hollywood kid. They seem just about perfectly matched—in age (she's 21, he's 22), in public appeal and even in looks. Lowe has proven that a good face and talent can outlast any number of mediocre films, such as About Last Night and Oxford Blues. At the same time, Stephanie has shown a gritty ability to rise phoenix-like from scorching notices, although hers have focused on extravagant real-life misbehaviors. In the last two years she has launched three successful careers—as model, swimsuit designer and now pop singer. At each career switch she claimed to have found herself. And every time, after more public tearing around, the world seemed to forgive her as young, fetchingly wild and troubled, the victim of wealth and a mother's untimely death.
And now this.
It seems the quintessential romance of the '80s—part travelogue, part photo op, part soap opera, all played at fast forward before café society on two continents. These days one must follow such goings-on very closely: In the age of zoom lenses and satellite transmission, when the most innocent peck or slightest tiff can beam around the world in seconds, a rumor will sometimes cross the dateline ahead of you and come back around as fact. During one 48-hour period last month, the New York Daily News announced that Stephanie and Rob, who exchanged Cartier rings in September, planned a June wedding (she loves him); a press agent in Paris declared that "It's been over five days" (she loves him not); Lowe's onetime girlfriend and still confidante Melissa Gilbert, who surely ought to know, insisted, "They're dating" (she loves him); and Stephanie's record-marketing director, Eric Ghenassia, announced, "Stephanie has seen the light and it's over, finished. Yesterday she had enough" (she loves him not). What is a love-starved world to think?
This much is known. Before their mini-tour of the U.S. last month, Stephanie and Rob spent 10 days together in Paris in September and were seemingly inseparable; Lowe even tagged along to her taping for a Japanese TV show and sat in the audience. That week Yves Roze, Stephanie's record producer, confidently told paparazzi, "C 'est I 'amour."
They had met—how could it be otherwise?—via the media. Last year Lowe blurted to Joan Rivers on the Tonight Show that the Princess was his fantasy date. In response Stephanie told the French magazine Globe she thought Rob was cute too. Finally a press representative with Warner-Columbia in Paris—not an obliging film festival limo driver, as one strangely resilient story has it—set up a meeting in the flesh and the rest is history, sort of. Lowe was scarcely back in Malibu in early October when Stephanie in Paris was reported to be lovingly hanging on the arm of a tall man described only as a "volleyball type," the championship games being then in the city.
It is obviously tough to keep up with Stephanie's amours; even the public list is long. Her first love, apparently, and the longest, was Paul Belmondo, the earnest, teetotaling son of actor Jean-Paul; it began when she was 17. Two years later Stephanie took up with professional bad boy and leather designer Anthony Delon, sultry son of actor Alain; Anthony was just out of prison for car theft. Male model Stéphane Labelle was next seen carrying a big, optimistic supply of shirts into Stephanie's apartment. He lasted less than a week.
Next she was pictured with race car driver Alain Prost, 31, although he's married and has a child. She was also linked to driver François Hesnault, who has since married Alix de la Comble, Stephanie's partner in the swimsuit business. That year the royal birthday (her 20th), which Monégasques scrutinize with the same attention a Kremlinologist pays to the reviewing stand in Red Square, turned up Christian De Beauvais, who had the virtue of being a count and a working architect. Monaco was pleased, for a change; Stephanie quickly cut him off. Within weeks she was hospitalized, suffering from exhaustion, an intestinal bug or the fast life, depending on your source.
Leave it to Stephanie to find love, even during a posthospital period: Returning from a rest cure she sailed into the arms of Didier Phitoussi, the son of a cardiologist, who lasted through the spring. She rounded out the year with Swedish driver Stefan Johansson, who finally declared, "She's too fast for me." Eventually there came another year, another birthday. This time, American-born actor Christopher Lambert (Greystoke) stole the show at the party by arriving late, staying even later and being seen the next day hand in hand with the Princess. Last summer featured still another driver, Nelson Piquet, in a season otherwise noteworthy for its amorous calm, until Rob.
Dizzy as all this seems, Stephanie's subjects remain largely loyal. "She is as rambunctious as any kid of her age and we're proud of both her success and her spirit," protests one governmental higher-up. Adds Vernon R. Farnsworth, vice president of Chase Manhattan in the principality: "We regard her exploits as youthful exuberance."
Lowe's exuberance is also youthful but less documented. He was romantically linked for four years with Melissa Gilbert and while he was shooting The Hotel New Hampshire in 1983, dallied with co-star Nastassia Kinski. "He's a horny young man," jokes Tony Richardson, who directed the film. Rob also loves female attention. While shooting St. Elmo's Fire, Lowe was standing naked in his dressing wagon with Emilio Estevez while outside squealing girls clamored for him. "Watch this," Lowe told Estevez, throwing open the door, leaning out and calling to his wardrobe man: "Jimmy? Do you know where my clothes are?" He barely got the door locked on the ensuing stampede. Recalls director Joel Schumacher: "We had to get the cops to drag them out of there."
Lowe is not without more mature admirers. Richardson, the 58-year old director of such classics as Tom Jones, says flatly, "I think he's the most talented young actor around. He has the sexuality, the charm, the romance to become the next Cary Grant." Melissa Gilbert remains one of Lowe's staunchest allies. "We have a very close bond," she says. "We talk every couple of days, good news or bad news."
As Lowe has found out by now, Stephanie poses problems that going out with your run-of-the-mill star doesn't entail. To begin with, there is the bodyguard demanded by her father, who has given in to her on a number of other issues. Then there is her permanent court—the hairdresser, press aide, personal secretary and others whom Stephanie keeps around to ward off interlopers; they travel in a pack, jetting wherever she is. "She wants people to take care of her," explains one of them. In addition, there is Stephanie's deep if understandable fear of being exploited. "When you give a lot and you're deceived, it's like a rape," she said once.
These days she seems to be feeling "more comfortable in her skin," as the French say, bolstered by sales of her swimwear and the success of her first album, Besoin (Need). It hit the top of the charts in France and West Germany and will be out in the U.S. next spring. Still, Stephanie, who says, "I've been very hurt," needs constant reassurance. Concedes record producer Roze: "She schemes to get love."
How long Lowe will last is anyone's guess, but he does seem, in one way at least, a kindred spirit. "I did a lot of growing up between ages 14 and 16," he said recently. "Now I seem to be in remission." Should he succeed where so many have failed, he may well heed the cautionary words of Paul Belmondo, to whom the wistful ballad Fleurs du mal on Stephanie's album is dedicated. "When I was involved with Stephanie," he says, "it happened naturally. I never looked at it as if I'd been used. But now, with some distance, I see how you can lose your private life. I would never repeat it." It's enough to make you pity the poor Princess, almost.
—Written by Lee Aitken, from reports by the Los Angeles and Paris bureaus
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Sometimes GM does things right. Take the Buick Riviera. It was a real charmer in 1980-1985: big and bold, with a powerful V-8, long hood, short deck, very distinct styling. There were a few problems. Big and bold made it difficult to park sometimes, and the powerful V-8 meant you could sprint from the light directly to the next filling station. The hood was long, and so, too, were the doors. In fact, the doors were two-handers, with both of the latter being needed, first, to open one and, second, to fold in prayer when the door you just opened banged into the car of that defensive tackle parked alongside. In 1986, Buick shrunk the Riviera. It was lighter and more fuel- efficient, with the advent of a V-6, but the style was gone. Short hood, even shorter deck; it looked dumpy and frumpy. For 1990, Riviera loyalists should give the car another try. It`s not as big as the 1985, but it`s not as small as the 1986. Buick learned its lesson and grew the personal luxury car by several inches. Wheelbase is 108 inches, and length is 198.3 inches. Those dimensions mean the car is small enough to be manageable, but not so small as to be confused with a compact. There`s very good room up front and tolerable room in the rear, where an inch more leg room would be appreciated. Trunk space is ample. While the pre-shrunk Riviera was stately, it also was a bit cumbersome. You realize that when you get behind the wheel of the `90 version. You feel weight in the wheel, but not bulk. The `90 Riv is much more maneuverable. Beefed-up front and rear stabilizer bars, added reinforcements to the body structure and dynaride suspension combine to provide good road manners. Dynaride incorporates deflected disc shock absorber valving. That technical mumbo jumbo means the suspension is soft enough to travel over highway bumps and bruises without transmitting the harshness into the passenger compartment, yet firm enough so you don`t wander and float around on the roadway in simple corners and turns, as was common with the pre-downsized models. You get better road control. Long-distance travel would be very nice in the new Riv. The Riv boasts good looks, above-average ride and handling and more-than- acceptable performance from the standard 3.8-liter, 165-horsepower V-6 teamed with 4-speed automatic. The EPA ratings are 19 miles per gallon city and 28 highway. The package is enhanced by antilock brakes (ABS), to ensure stopping accuracy regardless of road conditions. One drawback is that ABS is a $925 option. ABS vies with a $1,399 Bose compact disc system. Wisdom dictates paying the $925 for the safety it ensures. But Buick officials report that wisdom often loses out to the more expensive disc player. The disc player may give you hours of pleasure, but the ABS only has to be used once to pay for itself. Fans of the electronic control center, the TV screen in the dash that Allowed you to activate controls by pushing a word on the glass screen with your finger, will find it replaced with vacuum fluorescent readouts. The control center had proved confusing. We enjoyed the retained accessory power feature, which allows you to continue listening to the game on the radio after you switch off the key, providing you don`t open a door. And the door and trunk lock and unlock buttons on the key fob come in handy when approaching the locked car with arms full of packages. The key also has a built-in resistor that matches a sensor in the steering column to guard against theft. With such attention to detail, too bad a cupholder is absent. And we prefer a pull-out, push-in knob for lights, rather than the plastic button Riv uses, which requires more than a casual glance to determine if the lights are off. Riviera is loaded with power goodies: brakes, steering, windows, seats, doors, mirrors and deck lid release. There also are steel-belted, all-season whitewall radials; AM/FM stereo with cassette; rear-window defroster; cruise control; tinted glass; air conditioning; tilt steering; and leather-wrapped wheel. For the safety conscious, a driver`s side air bag is standard. Riviera`s base price is $23,040. Our test car ran $27,434, with the disc player, ABS, all-leather interior, ``firemist`` exterior paint and a few other options. >> 1990 Buick Riviera
Wheelbase: 108 inches Length: 198.3 inches Engine: 3.8 liter, 165h.p., V-6 Transmission: 4-speed automatic Fuel economy: 19/28 m.p.g. Base price: $23,040 Strong point: Manageable size, comfort plus performance Weak point: ABS a $925 option Chicago Tribune Graphic. >>
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It's getting cold here on the island. I detect a chilly, perhaps Icelandic, wind blowing from the north. Hmm, hope I packed a sweater.
Bjork, "Homogenic" (1997)
Each of her albums is worth hearing for different reasons, but 1997's "Homogenic" is where it all came together -- the meaty electronic beats, the swooping orchestrations, the meticulous melodic construction, and good Lord, that voice.
At the show, backed by beat programmers and a 10-piece Icelandic women's brass choir, Bjork played several of the album's highlights. "Hunter," the ominous opener, came early in the set, as did the spine-tingling "Joga." The album is rounded out by breathtaking slower numbers such as "Unravel" and "All Is Full of Love" (which was admittedly better when remixed on her greatest-hits collection), and thrilling rave-ups like "Alarm Call" and "Pluto."
I've noticed something interesting at Bjork shows: Her crowd, strangely, is very male. At the concerts, and while standing in line for tickets, I was surrounded by dudes who were roughly my age, and I'm not sure why.
I was discussing this anomaly in an e-mail exchange with Kelli Bodle, a brilliant woman I know in Chicago, and this was her take on it:
"My hypothesis about the excess of men has to do with sexual fantasies, and nothing less. I think I have been reading too much Freud. But last I heard Bjork was married to the artist Matthew Barney, which would definitely mean she is kinky in the bedroom, so the fantasies may not be unfounded."Well, I'll go ahead and plead guilty to that charge. Bjork is definitely the target of a lot of well-deserved fanboy affection. But I think it goes a little deeper than mere physicality.
Bjork, or at least the persona she projects, represents a type of femininity that is relatively overlooked in modern culture -- the pagan Earth-mother, nurturer-of-the-tribe, goddess-of-nature figure. That persona was first developed on "Post" (notably on the track "Isobel") and is thoroughly and wonderfully realized on "Homogenic."
The lyrics and musical production evoke the arid landscapes of her native Iceland and the breadth of the frigid ocean surrounding it. Hearing her sing is like witnessing a force of nature, akin to watching steam burst from a geyser.
"Homogenic" is one of those great, singular albums that seems to exist in its own weird context, completely pure, anachronistic and untouched by outside influences. Truly a classic. Or maybe I'm just fantasizing about Bjork again.
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Inventory Breaking/Cleanup Guide -Breaking Any Item Without Guilt
For those who are still having problems on inventory spaces, being unable to add any items in their inventory because it is already full or nearly full, here is a guide to free up a lot of space. There are items which could be sold, items which could be broken or both. Sell those unuseful items or break them as you wish to free up your inventory space. Item breaking, of course is thru the use of DK-P Type 0812 or more commonly known as the crafting/breaking machine on your grand chase Menu tab while you are logged in the game.
As we know (and for those who don't please read) breaking items will give off crafting materials namely Inshentyum, Noksyum and Asgadyum. This materials are used to craft armors and weapons similar to those which are dropped in dungeons and for some items that are not droppable, with stat/grade as normal, rare & epic even legendary for the transcend and eclipse.
Now, questions will follow on which items to sell/break and so this guide is created to make the selection process easier and guilt free.
So now I shall be sorting items into general categories and tell you how to deal with each. This guide is solely based on opinions, so if you think you know better, by all means do what you want. I'm not being sarcastic, since item usefulness varies per individual.
P.S. Keep a mentality of what items you REALLY (can't be stressed enough) need. It's basically the essence of this guide. Knowing what items you currently have, plan for a final build, and will use to achieve that final build will help you.
Items you SHOULD NEVER EVER sell
Emoticons - They eat a lot of visible space but never really consume inventory space. If you still sell them since you hate seeing a wall of emoticons, this guide might not be for you, but I advise you to use the Etc. function. It lets you see most of the items beyond the emoticons without scrolling down.
Beads and Spell Scrolls - These gacha related items you may unintentionally receive don't eat space, but their prizes do.
Bags - You probably have max space but you should still keep these.
Missions - Register them instead.
Items you SHOULD NOT sell
Accumulated items - Items like gems, aging cores and fragments are easy to obtain. Except you may need hundreds if not thousands. In that case don't sell them. If you hate crafting then ditch fragments altogether.
Coin of Heroes (Piece) - There's a maximum to how many of these you can obtain per day, so don't waste that time just for space.
Bonuses - Use them instead (unless you already have 99 charges, in that case you may opt to delete them because they're easy to replenish).
Cash items - Selling/breaking items you bought is kinda wasteful, even if you used event money. But come the time when you'll be able to buy higher level or stat cash items you have the option to break those old cash items since if they are equips then it will give crafting materials that are pure and these ones are hard to collect. Anything purchasable from the item mall counts, even if they were freebies (nickname change cards).
Champ tickets - If you play a lot enough to worry about your inventory, you'll probably get 3 tickets every day. It'd take more effort to sell them, and keeping them keeps you ready for champ runs.
Current equipment - Unless you like running around naked. Consumables included. Items you plan to equip also count (except NPC equips).
Useful timed items - Most obviously GC Club and Nutrients IV.
Items you SHOULD break
Costumes - One or two sets are enough now that the avatar system have slightly started. Looking cool in battle is justifiable, showing off for others is doing it wrong. Especially when you can dress up your character in the shop. Limited items and taking shots of your character doing a move while wearing a costume are exceptions, but seriously, who are you trying to impress?
Freebies - Face it, they're useless. Signboards make up most of these, but even if they're not signboards and seem useful (zero mini pet for example), delete them. The only good stuff usually come in sets (like Soul Mate accessory set) although you'll outgrow such sets by the time you'll be having cash items which have higher stats than those free ones.
Lower-tier items - Sell brave runes when you use honor runes, small potions when you use large potions. Armors too, who cares if you have a ton of epic limited or farmed equipment if a single epic gacha set outperforms them all in style and functionality? Don't get started with that lame B+ excuse again (there are always GP sets), and stuff like SD Toilet Head are jokes for the park (a single avatar set is alright though, but a ton of avatar sets are just for jerks).
You don't need several epic gacha sets for one character either - 4 at maximum if you actually collected all epic weapons (which is fine), 5 if you want to try all possible property combinations (which is dumb, especially if you have pieces with repeating properties, unless due to some stats fix and the addition of Hell Spear Damage ). No wonder cash freaks sob over their inventory.
Non-stacking items - These are culprits that you may not notice right away. Sometimes you'll have two sets of the same item, for example one set contains 1 normal SP reset card and the other set contains 12 epic SP reset cards. They're both reset cards but consume 1 space each, you may want to delete or use the other lone card.
Pets - You collected every pet in the history of GCPH yet you only keep using one of them. If you really went that far then I won't tell you to stop, but if not then get rid of your show pets. Pet books that are more than one for each kind of pet are also candidates for deletion. Use one pet of each kind not multiples.
Pet attacks - Sell these when not in use. 2k gp per 100 charges is cheap to replenish.
Training equipment - Stuff you get from job changing. Beyond aesthetics, if you worry about your inventory then you probably have enough money to buy and sell NPC equipment for temporary use.
Adventurer's set - This deserves a special mention. You get 7 pieces of trash (costume if you like, but still) per character specially when a character is newly aquired. Conversely, you can gain 7 space per character by deleting all of these, and that's a lot.
Useless rares - You have an evilis weapon and a thunder hammer weapon. If you're too dumb to figure it out then I'll kindly instruct you to break the evilis weapon.
Useless timed items - You got the monthly attendance accessories, except you have some limited edition accessories that also get stronger based on your level, are permanent and lose only by a few stats. Don't wait for two weeks, just delete the monthly accessories.
Items with charges - Items that are seemingly useful but actually useless like the gear second ring and for those who still have these season 3 consumables like the kazeaaze's healing ball, lena's artifact, true berserker's ring and oxygen and gas masks. When justified, you may keep some of these. However, you may experience this paradox - you save them for future use, yet you feel guilt when you want to use them, and you'll never really know that it's time to use them until that time has passed. Unquestionably, sell the useless masks, and think twice about keeping the useful other stuff. You won't be equipped with them forever, so might as well start practicing how to fight without them.
So there it goes, anyone could reply on things they could add or things they want to correct from my post. Just remember not to hug your items too tightly.
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Breaking timed items don't yield materials (I think).
There are also no pet cards for Pip and Sidt available now so better keep them if you have one even if they're useless.
The KazeAze consumable set is also extinct so if you have a few remaining and a complete set, better keep them. I think the "aura" effect is still available with that (correct me if I'm wrong.)
Discard the old S3 crafting materials as they're useless now. Specially the master orb thing. its just **** now. Old job change quest items also need to be discarded like the Partusay Ruby and Gaikoz Sword. It's useless now.
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yup breaking timed items don't yield crafting materials if ever they're breakable coz i think they are not, deleting them would take them out of your inventory, better do it coz they consume inventory space
thanks for the additional advices rieve
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very well said!
I'm one of the chasers that is experiencing that problem.
my inventory is always nearly full (780/800)
for me I prefer breaking the items coz of the materials you'll receive when breaking them.
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Another small tip :
If you got items like:
*Pet Box[Dungeon]
*Brave Rune Treasure Chest
*Holy Rune Treasure Chest
*Honor Rune Treasure Chest
open those items, or sell/break them.
Reason is, you can have it again and again once you dungeon run. And we all know that when we open those, what we get are useless items.
Hope you get what i mean
Anyways, thanks TS for sharing your tips
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@chezburgur yup that's ryt, i do keep honor rune treasure chest thou all others i sell/break them, reason is come rainbow 7 event i break runes that's where i got my above +9 runes, d highest one is a +15 honor rune helmet of mg sieggy
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in case your inventory is full and you have MAX GP , better not sell the items, just break it..
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Nice guide.
Useful for people confused in that thing.
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I tried breaking a cash item as an experiment... I was almost drained of all my blood when I saw what I got. >_<
I dont have an SS though, but the cash item I broke was the S4 Holy Cross Shield (Arm Ornament, Worth 20 cash points/PHP 2.00) just see it for yourself folks. haha
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woah hmmm perhaps i should try that, i've been breakin cash items but only season 3 items thou, i'm gonna experiment on that
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Rieve what will happen if I try?
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Its a surprise. (Pretty crappy for a surprise though)
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Nice guide
Btw, in my situation, I'm NOT SELLING the FREE ITEMS gave after I acquired the change job
I keep it as a TREASURE.. xDD (I'm just sharing.LOL)
Also, I use to BREAK the 1 HOLE rare,epic,normal items and I use to KEEP FIRST the 2 HOLES EPIC ITEMS , compare it and use to BREAK the NONSENSE Items..
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Concert Hall, Glasgow, Mar 5 (0141-353 8000); Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Mar 6 (0131-228 1155); Eden Court, Inverness, Mar 7 (01463 234234)
NOT MANY composers can sustain a whole concert by themselves. Is Sibelius one of them? Surprisingly, yes. His expressive range is much wider than his reputation as a composer of gloomy Nordic fatalism would suggest. These SCO performances include the famous Andante Festivo and there is also the Second Suite that Sibelius drew from the incidental music that he wrote for a production of The Tempest.
But the core of his achievement lies in the symphonies,


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I symlink to apps in my ~/home/.kde/Autostart directory to start when KDE
3.x loads.
All apps start in the same Desktop which was running when I shut down the
x server.
How can I specify which Desktop the app will start in?
For example...I have KDE configured with 4 Desktops. I would like
Mozilla to start in Desktop 1, KMail to start in Desktop 2, KWrite to
start in Desktop 4.
Couldn't find anything easily in Google.
Thanks for any suggestions.
alBERT in Orlando


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Simon's got the oceans at his fingertips - in the heart of north Cork
Published 08/11/2012 | 08:49
THERE isn't that much wind and certainly not a sighting of a tidal wave, but still it hasn't deterred an international company from setting up its base in Buttevant.
Engineer Simon De Pietro of DP Marine Energy, who deals in major wind and tidal projects, told The Corkman that he stopped off in Buttevant a little over a decade ago, spotted a house for sale, and he's been here ever since.
"I am sure people will think and say that as I'm an engineer whose work is surrounded by tidal and wind energy I won't find a lot of that in Buttevant," laughed Mr De Pietro, who is originally from Bristol.
But despite not being near wind or water, it hasn't stopped his company, which has nine staff, securing major projects around the globe.
He has recently landed a marine energy project in Scotland as well as a 100MW tidal project in Antrim. That's about enough to power 37,000 homes (a goodly section of North Cork)
While his own base is in Buttevant, his company also has one staff member full time in the UK and there is also an office in Queensland, Australia.
Meanwhile, his company is also now tendering for project for a 60MW project in Ontario, Canada.
The types of tidal energy project DP Marine gets involved with are at the very cutting edge of the drive to harness wave energy.
"Obviously, when there are so many projects, it involves quite a lot of travel. But I really do like living in Buttevant, as it's a nice quiet spot and for me it's easy to get on the motorway and railways," he said.


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A 15-passenger van flipped over in the northbound lanes of I-95 tonight in Dorchester County, injuring five children and one adult.
The crash happened about 8:30 p.m. near mile marker 70, Dorchester County Fire Chief Tres Atkinson said. All three northbound lanes are closed but Atkinson said one lane should be open soon.
Two helicopters were parked on the interstate as they waited for authorities to free a woman from the van. As of 9:40 p.m. she was being flown to Medical University Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, Atkinson said.
All of the children appeared to have non-life threatening injuries as well. They were taken to various hospitals by ambulance, Atkinson said.
Dorchester Fire and Rescue, Dorchester County EMS and Colleton County Fire and Rescue all responded to the wreck.
The S.C. Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.


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Gov. Bobby Jindal spends more time on the coast than in the Capitol these days, and rightly so. Like all other politicians up to the president, there is nothing he can do to stop the oil gushing from the BP blowout. But he could have better luck achieving something rare in government: getting the Corps of Engineers to move faster than its usual glacial pace. He is not letting up on his demand for federal approval of the plan to build up sand barriers to block the oil from getting into coastal marshes.
He and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser would deserve ample credit if the dredge work gets started in days instead of months, and on BP's dime.
Back at the Capitol, the allegedly co-equal branch of government, the Legislature, is trying to get used to doing its business without the governor there to hold hands and twist arms, to pass bills that his staff wrote and to kill ones that displease him, as did governors before him, to the astonishment of counterparts in other states.
But the enormity of the coastal ordeal and the depth of the state's fiscal woes are straining his dominance over the usually compliant Legislature.
Two of the heftiest pieces in the governor's otherwise light legislative agenda -- to give college boards more leeway to raise tuition and to tap into trust funds to close budget holes -- are far from winning two-thirds support, especially in the House.
Worse still, some lawmakers have the gall to question, even to try to gain oversight, on long-term contracts to privatize public functions, from mental health services to risk management. The Senate actually wants to confirm appointments to the board of the planned $1.2 billion academic medical center in New Orleans.
Then there's the crusade of Sen. Joe McPherson. The Democrat from Rapides Parish, the longest-serving member of the Senate, has the stick-in-the-eye bill of the session, Senate Bill 407, to repeal the $15, 70 percent fee increase on the four-year driver's license, which the Jindal administration imposed in March without a vote of the current Legislature. Besides challenging the governor's authority, the senator's measure would subtract $13.6 million in revenue from the coming year's deficit-ridden budget.
McPherson bears a resemblance to another Joe, name of Stalin, but instead of the Red Army at his back, the senator is an army of one, attacking any issue with determination, grit, barnyard wit and preparation, preparation, preparation.
When the administration insisted that a 1989 statute gave it future authorization to boost the driver's license fee, McPherson dug up the minutes of the committee meeting 21 years ago to show that legislators did not intend for all fees to rise, then or in the future.
He doesn't disagree with opponents of his bill that the increase is not onerous, a penny a day for four years. His complaint is with the sneaky procedure to bypass the Legislature, all the while the governor claims to maintain his tax virginity.
The administration's chief fee defender, State Police Col. Mike Edmonson, has found his former task, accompanying the LSU football coach onto the field, much more pleasant than running interference for this governor, who is staying way in the background.
With momentum building for the bill, Team Jindal has resorted to stall tactics, twice using the oil spill as an excuse to try to delay votes from being taken. The best they could do on the Senate floor was to get 11 solons to take timely walks from the chamber. McPherson mocked his colleagues ("They had to run to the bathroom all at the same time") but he still managed to pass his bill with one vote to spare, 21-7.
McPherson's bill now sits on the House calendar, one step away from the governor's desk, where the real fun begins. If passed within the next two weeks, Jindal could only stop the repeal by vetoing it. To do so would not only provoke the people's anger but would invite the rarest of legislative responses, to override the governor's veto pen.
This type of thing happens all the time in other states, where legislatures exercise a modicum of independence. But here it would be tantamount to a leak in the dominating flow of power from the governor's office, which, going forward, could prove very difficult to plug.
John Maginnis is an independent journalist covering Louisiana politics. He can be contacted at www.LaPolitics.com.


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NILES - Upcoming financial and performance audits are expected to show massive deficits in the city's enterprise funds, according to records obtained by the Tribune Chronicle. The records also show the city's recorded balances are less than what's really in the bank.
Niles taxpayers, who this year were hit with income tax and water rate increases, now face the possibility of even higher utility rates.
Meanwhile, the results of state-conducted financial, performance and special audits are likely to be turned over to investigators.
The deficits are highlighted in emails, some containing an aura of panic, that City Council President Robert Marino sent to other city officials. For example, on Oct. 1, Marino, referring to state auditors, wrote, ''Interestingly enough, they shared with me that our water fund balance of 12-31-12 was -$2,258,218.41. (It appears as though we are well on pace to deficit spend in the neighborhood of $800,000 - $1,000,000.00 this year.)."
Marino noted that the city's general fund was about $6.2 million, and that the budget shortfalls in the city's utility departments were being covered by the general fund.
"With pace of deficit spending I can't imagine our General Fund sustaining this type of stress," Marino wrote in an email reprinted verbatim here. "It appears to me that the administration has a few choices. Develop a plan that significantly increase water and sewer rates, significantly cut spending in both departments, or both.''
In a followup email to chief project manager Nita Hendryx and regional liaison Jim Armeni of the state auditor's office, Marino again expressed his concern over the city's finances. The email, reprinted verbatim: "Recognizing our deficit spending, the existing water fund deficit and stress on our General fund clearly demonstrates the need for the Administration, Auditor's Office, and Council to develop a long range budget plan. While (the city) await our Performance Audit, I believe all in attendance recognize the fiscal urgency and need to immediately begin developing plans."
Three months after Marino's email, the city's general fund balance was $4.6 million, a drop of about $1.6 million .
The city in February raised water rates 12 percent and plans to raise sewer rates 15 percent per year until 2017.
In an interview last week with the Tribune Chronicle, Marino said he was shocked when state auditors presented the financial figures because, he said, city officials previously painted an inaccurate picture of the finances.
''Council was told by (Mayor Ralph Infante and Auditor Chuck Nader) that our fund balances were not a problem, and that the numbers they quoted were 'just on paper.' We could not get a definitive answer on our city's finances.
''We honestly had no idea (how bad the city's deficit was) when we learned about the negative fund balances during a meeting in October.''
Nader said last week that he had alerted city officials to the deficit.
''I'll tell you this, (the deficit in the water department) did not happen over the course of one year,'' Nader said. ''It wasn't just 'boom,' here is this deficit. I was not shocked at all (by the figure). Every year, an audit comes out, and every year it showed that we were getting further and further in the hole.''
Councilman at-large and Finance Committee Chairman Steve Papalas said last week that the city's utility deficit can be traced back to the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, which sells water to the city, raising the rates it charges Niles. The city did not pass those rate increases to its own customers, Papalas said.
''Rather than raise our rates, we kept absorbing the difference, which is fine as long as there's fat in the water department,'' Papalas said. ''Council raises sewer rates, but it is up to the mayor and the service director to raise water rates. Everyone was aware that rates have not gone up, but (Infante) said he was comfortable with the way things were.''
Infante said Thursday that the deficit, which he noted is the result of years of accumulation, came about because of his desire to keep utility rates down for citizens.
''We ate (the MVSD rate increases) because our customers already get killed on utilities like gas and electric,'' Infante said. ''We raised the rates recently, but we only did that because we didn't have a choice.''
Marino said that it was the state financial auditor's initial report that prompted council to begin the process of arranging a performance audit, which has stretched beyond its original estimated completion date because of problems with the city's books and a lack of cooperation from city officials.
The ongoing performance audit and corresponding financial audits have since resulted in the indictment of a former clerk in the treasurer's office and the launching of a special audit.


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National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete married Bloemfontein businessman Nape Khomo on Saturday.
The passage of time and a raft of withering judgments against him have hardened the police minister's immunity to shame.
North West Premier sets up commission of inquiry to probe bitter battle over riches and leadership of three tribal mining communities.
This is an extract from Malcolm Ray's book, Free Fall: South African Universities in a Race against Time.
Eurocentric thinking is impeding progress towards the decolonisation of thought, but is hard to detect, writes Muxe Nkondo.
The body count under Gauteng Heath MEC Qedani Mahlangu's watch is staggering, and continues to climb, writes Don Makatile.
What if, and that is a big if, the plan all along was to convince us blacks that we had political power when we did not, writes Dumisani Hlophe.
The strategies used so far in the #FeesMustFall fight may undermine the entire struggle, writes David Maimela.
Mahesh Bang, an astrologer to Bollywood celebrities, unpacks why Brangelina could never work out - because of their star signs.