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- July 10, 1995
- Vol. 44
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A Night to Remember
Irresistible Englishman Hugh Grant Went Up a Hollywood Street and Came Down on the Wrong Side of the Vice Squad. What Was He Thinking?
Oh, indeed. Until last week, Hugh Grant, the shy, beguiling Brit who shot to stardom as the bumbling bachelor in last year's surprise smash Four Weddings and a Funeral, was every mother's—not to mention sister's, daughter's, aunt's and grandmother's—dream: a clever and charming 34-year-old who loved his mum and dad; adored his longtime girlfriend (29-year-old Estée Lauder model Elizabeth Hurley); was bold enough to be naughty ("I've always had a crush on cheerleaders. Catholic cheerleaders—my double favorite," he recently quipped); modest enough to be embarrassed by the fuss of fame ("The money offers are hysterical. They make me giggle," he said); and yet honest enough to admit that, well, yes, he was quite fond of the attention and the other rewards that fame brings. As he recently explained about his new Mercedes-Benz, "I've driven so many crappy old cars. I wanted something that had a solid sound when I shut the door."
Seldom, though, has an actor sped so quickly from zero to 60. Grant reportedly made only $100,000 for Four Weddings; if his new movie, Nine Months, is a hit when it opens next week, his asking price could rise to $6 million per picture. Meanwhile the fans fawn. From as far away as Japan, they send origami dragons and earnest notes saying he has a compassionate face. And in America modest box office returns in May's The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain couldn't dampen enthusiasm for the dashing darling: As far as his many admirers were concerned, the actor could do no wrong.
Until 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 27. In L.A. to promote Nine Months, a comedy about a man who flips—and not with delight—when he learns his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, Grant, along with costars Jeff Goldblum and Tom Arnold, had spent most of Saturday and Sunday doing the usual publicity-junket jazz: answering press questions with trademark wit, smiling that crooked smile for the cameras. Sunday afternoon he did laps in the pool of the Beverly Hills Four Seasons hotel. Monday was his day off, and in the evening he dined on sushi and saki with Nine Months director Chris Columbus at the trendy Matsuhisa restaurant.
At half past midnight, when the two men parted ways, Grant climbed into his white BMW and headed east on Sunset Boulevard. About an hour later he pulled the car to the curb near the corner of Courtney and Sunset in Hollywood. There he exchanged words with one Divine Marie Brown: 23 years old, brown hair, green eyes and—as the LAPD vice cops who happened to be watching the encounter described her—a "known prostitute."
Brown climbed into Grant's car, they turned onto Hawthorne Avenue, a tree-lined residential street, and parked. A few minutes later officers Terry Benny worth and Ernest Caldera walked over to the BMW and arrested Grant and Divine for engaging in what the policemen called a lewd act. Within hours, press the world over was trumpeting the news, and the man who until then had never met a situation he couldn't finesse with a glib quip issued a seemingly heartfelt statement. "Last night I did something completely insane," Grant said. "I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry than I can ever possibly say."
He may have to spend a lot of time trying. The New York Times reported that Grant hired L.A. lawyer Howard Weitzman, who defended Michael Jackson against child-molestation charges, to handle the case. In England, the headline writers had a holiday. "YOU'VE BLOWN IT, HUGH" blared The Sun, which also posted flyers in Los Angeles with a photo of Divine Brown and an offer to pay $150,000 for a "world exclusive interview with Hugh Grant's lady of the night."
Some of Grant's friends tried to minimize the damage. "I wonder how significant it all is really," says Mike Newell, the director of Four Weddings. "He hasn't hurt anybody." But it's hard to believe Hurley is feeling unscathed. While still at the police station, Grant, reportedly in tears, put in an overseas phone call to the South Kensington headquarters of his production company, Simian Films, where he knew he would find Hurley, his business partner and, more pertinent, his girlfriend of eight years. No one outside their circle knows what was said, but William Cash, the Hollywood reporter for the London Daily Telegraph and a good friend of Hurley's, notes, "I very much think that she will stand by him and this will be forgotten."
Wherever the news spread, though, jaws dropped. "It seems illogical, incredible and totally out of character," says stunt coordinator Glenn Wilder, who worked with Grant on the San Francisco set of Nine Months. "My first reaction: They must have got the wrong guy."
In Hollywood, however, some entertainment executives were wondering if they had backed the wrong up-and-coming superstar. "Sean Penn could get away with this. But not Hugh Grant," says a prominent female producer. "Every woman in America wanted him to take her out for a malt. Now the buzz in the secretarial pool is, 'Oh, yuck.' It was a self-destructive act." Not everyone agrees. "In terms of business," says producer Steve Tisch, "it's going to be a speed bump on his career path."
Yet as shocking as the news was, serious Grant-watchers might have seen trouble coming. Stardom for Grant was a heavy halo atop that famous flop of thick brown hair. "It's reached the straining point, where it's a bit sink-or-swimmy," Grant says in this month's Vogue. "I mean, if Nine Months goes well, then maybe I'll go on being at the top. But I think I could quite easily fizzle back to subzero quite fast. And that makes me tense."
Being on the top was never, in fact, in the game plan of the kid known to family and friends as Hughie. The second son of James, a carpet salesman, and Finvola, a teacher, Hugh, along with his older brother Jamie, now 36 and a banker at J.P. Morgan in Manhattan, indulged in his share of boyish fun. Speaking of his grade school production of Alice in Wonderland, in which he played the White Rabbit, Hugh likes to say, "I was extraordinarily moving. It was a huge success. And it just went on from there, just spiraled out of control, my career."
Hardly. Though not one to dwell on dark times—at least not without a dose of caustic wit—Grant will concede that a harsher reality hit the household when the recession of the '70s wiped out his father's livelihood: a carpet business that once occupied four floors of a building in London's West End.
Despite their problems, Grant's parents kept their eye on what they considered the ultimate prize: a good education for their sons. They sent both boys to the respected Latymer Upper School in West London. "Hugh was very, very friendly, and like now, very self-deprecatory," says language teacher and rugby coach Bruce Perkins. "The little kids here now say, 'Did he always have a toff's [upper-class] accent?' That's partly natural, partly a put-on. He has always been putting on different personae, anything to make an effect on other people."
Grant made enough of an impression on the admissions people at Oxford University that in 1979 they offered him a scholarship to study English literature.
After graduating from Oxford in 1982, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising, writing copy for Brylcreem and Red Stripe beer, and plugged away at an acting career in regional theater. In 1987 he won his first leading role, as a bisexual aristocrat in Edwardian England in the Merchant-Ivory production of E.M. Forster's novel Maurice. The performance won him a best actor award at the Venice Film Festival. That in turn led to roles in 1991's Impromptu, 1992's Bitter Moon and 1993's The Remains of the Day. But it was an earlier, almost entirely forgettable film—1988's historical drama Rowing with the Wind—that gave Grant his most cherished prize: then 21-year-old costar Elizabeth Hurley. "Hugh did look particularly fine in those cream britches," she has said of his Byronesque attire. "But I think I might have liked him anyway. There was an instant rapport. He made me laugh."
From the beginning, the couple has had an unusual relationship. For starters, they spent more time apart than together: He traveled to far-off locations for whatever film part came his way; she, later, moved to L.A. for two years to establish herself as an actress there. (It was not a terribly successful effort; her only significant job was a small role in 1992's Passenger 57.) Last year, Hurley moved back to London to live with Grant. They split their time between the two-bedroom apartment in London's rather posh Earl's Court neighborhood, where Grant has lived for several years, and a farmhouse in West Littleton, about 100 miles outside London.
The subject of marriage does not exactly seem to dominate their conversation. Like his Four Weddings counterpart, Grant finds the prospect of commitment terrifying. Very scary. Very scary," he has said. She seems accommodating but not of a like mind. "I can't imagine being 40 and not having children," she said last year. Yet the bond between them has always been strong. Grant says they are in many ways like brother and sister. "Which isn't to say that's not a sexy thing," he has said. "Because I think the idea of incest is quite titillating." Bored silly by interview-speak, Grant revels in the the unexpected remark. "I always find love scenes a tremendous turn-on," he told the Washington Post last year, "because you're kissing strangers and it's so naughty."
Of course, Grant deals with a good bit of naughtiness off-camera too. "There was always some woman throwing herself at him," says a crew member from Nine Months. "He's a magnet for babes. Even [his Nine Months costar] Mia Cottet had a big crush on him. Hugh would say, 'Oh, why is it you always have these temptations when you already have a girlfriend?'"
Which raises the question of why he was out on Sunset in the wee hours, cruising for a career bruising. "Ah, the mysteriousness of human beings," says director Newell, when asked for his opinion. "I can't play amateur psychologist. A significant section of this country has been playing amateur psychologist, and I'm bored with it. He's a wonderful actor, a joy to work with, and I think we should get past this awkward little juncture."
Will Hurley absorb last week's news with a stiff upper lip? There is some reason to think so. Neither can claim to be an angel: Grant has long liked to loosen up with a friendly round of beers; Hurley once sported pink hair spikes and a self-pierced nose and stayed out partying at punk-rock clubs all night long. The two seemed to have gotten over petty jealousies and reached a point where, with his movie career taking off and her campaign for Estée Lauder about to begin, they could be a true comfort to each other. At the end of the day, Hurley said recently, "neither of us has another person who we'd rather ring to tell the day's events or to ask advice."
Yet there had been strains even before last week's events. "My life is very very busy. Much too busy," Grant told the Calgary (Alta.) Herald in May. "At the moment I can't cope. That makes me very ratty. I'm thoroughly unpleasant to my girlfriend about it. Mind you, she's thoroughly unpleasant to me. She's under pressure as well."
Hurley's lucrative cosmetics contract, even if it has a morals clause, does not appear to be threatened by Grant's actions. As Eileen Ford, the grande dame of modeling, puts it: "It's not she who was found with a prostitute." Still, less than an hour after Grant called Hurley from the police station in Hollywood, she rushed out of their Simian Films production office, wearing dark glasses to mask the fact that she was extremely shaken, and into a waiting car. Later a friend was seen collecting clothes for Hurley from the Earl's Court flat. She spent the night at the West London home of her friend Henry Brocklehurst. By the following morning, Hurley had regained her calm but was offering no comment on her boyfriend's arrest.
Comments from others, though, were easy to come by. "If he were my boyfriend," says Eileen Ford, "I would go out and get another man." Friends of Grant's are kinder. "Maybe this is like a form of escape," says Cash, "from all the pressure he's been under." But what if the thing Grant has escaped from is career momentum? A few weeks ago he dreamed aloud about being able to return to the days spent staring vacantly at the telly: "I could go back to watching cricket all day, which I really like." That won't happen; the actor simply has too much going on. A week after Nine Months opens, Grant will be seen in yet another movie. It's called An Awfully Big Adventure, and, truth be told, it won't even be his first of the summer.
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MANSFIELD - Growing up in the city of Harrisburg, I am used to big buildings and busy streets. Though Harrisburg isn't exactly a big city, it is still quite different from the town of Mansfield.
The high school I attended was right in the middle of the downtown area. We had to ride the city bus and got to experience working in a business environment before we were studying for our SATs.
Being in the middle of downtown area, we were always interacting with the lawyers and accountants who worked in the same area. One of my high school's mottos was to be a walking, talking billboard for our school, so I really did appreciate learning how to carry myself as a young adult earlier than most people.
Though I did love my high school a lot, I quickly grew tired of the city. As a senior in high school, I was not always quite sure of where I wanted to go, I just knew that I wanted a different setting.
I have been visiting colleges since I was in the eighth grade and everything always blended together. No school really stood out.
When I came to Mansfield, everything was different. The other school I visited didn't feel welcoming and I didn't want to spend four years of my life there.
But at Mansfield, I felt like I was at home. Everyone was sincerely friendly and welcoming. It really reminded me of my high school. I instantly knew that I belonged here.
When I told my parents that I wanted to come three hours into the mountains to Mansfield, they didn't know what to think. They were happy that I knew where I wanted to go, but were still unsure about how I would adjust to the Mountie lifestyle. The only thing I have ever known my entire life was the city, and now I was doing a 180-degree turn.
Mansfield is a beautiful town. Main Street is the epitome of a small-town business environment where everyone knows each other. It is really refreshing and sweet to be in a place so family-oriented.
Though there is not much to do here, it is very serene and when you are bored, there is always something to discover. The scenery is breathtaking, but that is not the only reason I was interested in Mansfield University.
The small, yet diverse, student population is exactly what I was looking for. In high school, I graduated with a class of 76 students. We were a very close-knit group of students, which attributed to our overall success as a class. We really grew to love each other as a family, rather than a class.
I love the small environment and one-on-one attention. I wanted to move to a new surrounding, but I did not want to give up a family like atmosphere at school. I knew I would be more comfortable at a small school like Mansfield, therefore, I knew I would be successful.
Another thing that attracted me to Mansfield was the communications department. I have always had an interest in mass media and broadcasting; I was looking for a great place to go to expand my knowledge and have a great time doing so.
The communication department has a very strong a dedicated staff who are willing to help us learn what we need to know for the job market. The alumni from Mansfield's communications department have great jobs doing what they love and they speak highly of Mansfield.
So far, I feel like I made the best decision of my life to come to Mansfield. There are some things from the city that I miss, like having a movie theater right down the street, but I am more than willing to deal with it. Life in Mansfield is remarkable.
Hendrix is a student in Dan Mason's journalism class at Mansfield University.

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Popular Entertainment
This Museum's popular entertainment collections hold some of the Smithsonian's most beloved artifacts. The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz reside here, along with the Muppet character Kermit the Frog, and props from popular television series such as M*A*S*H and All in the Family. But as in many of the Museum's collections, the best-known objects are a small part of the story.
The collection also encompasses many other artifacts of 19th- and 20th-century commercial theater, film, radio, and TV—some 50,000 sound recordings dating back to 1903; posters, publicity stills, and programs from films and performances; puppets; numerous items from World's Fairs from 1851 to 1992; and audiovisual materials on Groucho Marx, to name only a few.
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China Poblana Dress
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- Mariachis, groups comprised of vocalists, trumpeters, violinists, and various bass and guitar players, are today considered Mexico's traditional musical ensemble. Originally from the state of Jalisco, mariachi music transformed itself from a regional to a national music between the 1930s and 1950s. Its accompanying attire is the fancy charro costume for men and the china poblana dress (like the one pictured here) for women. The thriving song, music, and dance culture surrounding mariachi today is the product of pioneering work by Mexican American educators and performers in the early 1960s. Mariachi instruction programs have since grown in popularity across Mexican American communities, with student mariachi ensembles beginning to perform as early as elementary or middle school. But Mexican American musical traditions began much earlier than the mariachi movement—they include styles as diverse as the choir music of the California missions and the corridos and ballads of San Antonio's Rosita Fernández (1925 1997). This china poblana dress, made in the 1960s, belonged to Fernández who, though performing a wide repertoire of Mexican song styles, is most identified with música norteña, rather than mariachi. Her sixty-year career as a local radio, TV, and theater star garnered her the title, "San Antonio's First Lady of Song."
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- Date made
- 1960s
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- Fernández, Rosita
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- Tenis, Mr.
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- 2001.0130.01
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- 2001.0130
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- 2001.0130.01
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The 2010-2011 Washington Capitals are a team that is trying it the hard way. After starting the season where the previous (regular) season left off, scoring goals in an exciting fashion, the Caps' coaches (seemingly inexplicably to some) changed things up. Offense-minded Thomas Fleischmann was moved for a defensive defenseman. The Caps, last season's goal scoring champions became a Trap Defense team. Unfortunately, the learning curve has proven to be fairly steep.
No one is discussing the weather and ice conditions unless they're trying to sell a newspaper, which is a good thing. Both teams played on the same surface, and the Pens lost. The final score was 3-1, a common score seen throughout the course of an NHL season. There were more goals scored in this game than in the December 23rd Pens/Caps game in Washington. If this was a 0-0 game and players were falling over themselves while taking shootout attempts, then we'd have something to talk about.
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Weekly Wrap 12.11.15: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
This week's Wrap was guest curated by Sojourners contributor Adam Ericksen. Read along for his top stories and notes from the week!
There was a lot of negativity in the news this week, but mercy also filled the airwaves. In case you missed it, here's a list of some merciful events from the week:
1. Pope Francis Opens the Door to 'Year of Mercy' in a Time of Fear
Sure, we have some differences, but we're still crushing on the Pope. "To pass through the holy door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them."


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Hal Leonard Fingerstyle Ukulele - A Method & Songbook For Fingerpicking Backup & Solos Book/CD
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If you want to take your ukulele playing to the next level, you need to start using your fingers! The sample songs and patterns found in this book/CD pack will get you started both playing solos and accompaniment - fingerstyle. You will learn how to use your picking-hand fingers and thumb to play chord melody solos on the ukulele, mixing chords and single notes like a pianist or a guitarist. You will also learn fingerpicking accompaniment patterns for a variety of textures and rhythmic grooves. Because fingerstyle playing works for all genres, folk, jazz, blues and country songs are included in this collection! Songs include: After You've Gone ¢ Aloha Oe ¢ Amazing Grace ¢ C.C. Rider ¢ I Ride an Old Paint ¢ The Red River Valley ¢ St. Louis Blues ¢ Take Me Out to the Ball Game ¢ The Wabash Cannon Ball ¢ Will the Circle Be Unbroken ¢ and more.
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Repeating a grammatical structure or an arrangement of words to create rhythm and momentum.
A comparison of two unlike things. It's a simile or metaphor that you may or may not elaborate on.
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I've heard more and more people tell me that they're taking our list of the 15 Best Burgers in Birmingham—the cover story of our July issue—and literally working their way through the entire thing. I think that indicates that number one: We love our burgers, and number 2: We love to see if what's called the "Best" is really that.
What are your thoughts on the list? We knew we couldn't include all the great burgers in town, so tell us which ones you think we missed. Personally I'm a big fan of the burger at Sam's Deli and Grill in Edgewood. It's huge, and the sesame seed bun adds just a hint of a nutty flavor that goes perfectly with the grilled beef.
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E-cigarettes: fresh air or smoke and mirrors?
"Vaping," the use of e-cigarettes, has grown in popularity recently. In just eight years or so, the number of enthusiasts around the world has grown from a few thousand to millions.
REGULATION: The Food and Drug Administration plans to regulate e-cigarettes but has not yet issued proposed rules. Right now, the agency simply states on its website that "e-cigarettes have not been fully studied so consumers currently don't know the potential risks of e-cigarettes," including how much nicotine or other chemicals are inhaled, or if e-cigs "may lead young people to try ... conventional cigarettes."
WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF: E-cigarettes are usually made of metal parts combined with plastic or glass and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They heat the liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that quickly dissipates when exhaled. The vapor looks like tobacco smoke and can feel like tobacco smoke when taken into the lungs at varying strengths, from no nicotine up to 24 milligrams or more.
IS IT COST EFFICIENT? Whether vaping is cheaper than a cigarette habit is up to how much is spent on equipment and liquids and how often one vapes. A 15-milliliter bottle of liquid can go for $12 and may be roughly the equivalent of four packs of cigarettes, depending on the strength of both liquid and leaf cigarette, among other factors like how many puffs a smoker takes in. Rechargeable devices require batteries -- another expense -- and a starter kit for reuse that comes with a device can run around $66.
By comparison, the cost of a 20-cigarette pack of regular cigarettes can range from about $5 to about $15, depending on state tax and the type of location where they're purchased.
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Two adults and a child are temporarily displaced following a home kitchen fire, officials say.
The fire broke out around 11:36 a.m. at 917 North 29th Street. No injuries were reported.
Crews had the fire extinguished in about 20 minutes, said Allentown Fire Department Captain John Christopher.
The fire damage, caused by problems with electrical wires, was contained mostly to the kitchen, Christopher said.
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Least Evil Banks
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I think it's always dangerous when you start assigning "feelings" to financial institutions. While I realize that CNN Money just wanted to throw "evil" out there to sensationalize a bit, I think it's a little irresponsible to say that a bank is evil. A bank is a create of our financial environment and, ultimately, it's a business. It's trying to make as much profit as it can and whether that comes from fees it charges you or the interest it doesn't pay you, the market needs to demand better in order for them to change.
That's also why I think this list by CNN Money is great, they've scoured the banking ecosystem to find eight banks with zero ATM fees, free checking, and higher yield accounts.
Ally Bank
I wasn't surprised to see Ally Bank at the head of the class, I personally love their 60 day penalty on closing CDs early (most banks have you pay far more). They were lauded for their ATM reimbursement, higher interest rates, and lack of maintenance fees or minimum balance requirements.
ING Direct
Again, not surprised that we have another online bank as one of the least evil. ING Direct's free checking and no ATMs were the first two reasons CNN Money mentioned, though you'll have to use an Allpoint network ATM to avoid fees. If you don't have an account, take advantage of ING Direct's referral system to get a deposit bonus ($25 if you deposit $250).
The six other banks were, in order they were listed, USAA, Capital One, Alliant Credit Union, PNC, The Incredible Bank (internet only, I'd never heard of them), and Charles Schwab Bank. I don't think it's any indication of their evilness, so don't see Charles Schwab as a little "eviler" than PNC. 🙂{ 21 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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One of the most unconventional writers and artists of the past century, Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011) was also one of the most central to the production of modern art. Born in England in 1917, she participated in the surrealist movement in Paris during the 1930s, escaped from Nazi-occupied France through Spain during the war, and then lived in Mexico City from 1945 until her death in May 2011. With a career spanning over three quarters of a century, she was at once a British writer, a French surrealist, and a Latin American artist and author who was very much part of the "boom" generation of Magical Realists as well. Her work featured strongly in feminist literary and art criticism of the 1970s and 80s, and her novels and stories were collected and published in English, French, and Spanish. This will be the first major scholarly study of Carrington's impact on modern art and literature as a whole, focusing on her interaction with international avant-garde movements such as surrealism and the Latin American boom.
A fascinating author and artist in her own right, Carrington is also one of the most powerful—if under-recognized—intellectual figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While previous studies have tended to interpret her practice as marginal to the avant-garde or on the feminist fringes of Surrealism, we propose to re-read the avant-garde through Carrington as a key player. Just as her own career brought her in contact with artists and intellectuals in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, the United States, and Mexico, her work is likewise multifarious. It both draws from a dizzying array of cultural reference-points, and yet—more profoundly still—also offers tools for working through these systems of reference, in ways that are by turns uproariously funny and deeply moving. Carrington's body of experimental art and writing provides us, we propose, with nothing less than answer to the crisis in knowledge-production we face in today's world of information systems and diminishing faith in the sustainability of art.
Chapters already solicited include Carrington and Irish fairy tales, Carrington and Magic Realism, Carrington and the new novel, Carrington and the Virago Press, Carrington and epistemology, Carrington and the Italian Renaissance. We invite proposals dealing with others aspects of her multifaceted oeuvre, particularly, but not limited to, the following:
- Carrington's Education in England
- Carrington and French Surrealism
- Carrington and Mexico (post-1968 especially)
- Carrington and Latin America
- Carrington and Sorcery, Magic and Myth
- Carrington and her contemporaries (other than Max Ernst)
- Carrington's later works
- Carrington and the aristocracy/family
- Carrington and alternative modernism
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Penn State York Dancers Complete Thon!
2/20/2006 —George Kapterian, 21, and Isaiah Miller, 19, both students at Penn State York, headed to State College this past weekend (Feb. 17 - 19) to participate in the Thirty-fourth Annual IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, "Together We'll Prevail." Thon, as the dance marathon is affectionately known, is the largest student-run philanthropy in the country and its goal is to raise money to help fight pediatric cancer.
Kapterian and Miller were both still dancing right up to Sunday, Feb.19, at 7 p.m. when the marathon ended. The dancers stayed on their feet for 48 hours and got just five breaks, each lasting only three minutes. Kapterian is a graduate of Dallastown High School and Miller is a graduate of Eastern York High School.
The dancers were selected to represent the campus based on their participation in a variety of events to raise money for Thon. Kapterian, of York, is a science major and this was his second time dancing at Thon. He is the local Thon chairperson and completed the 48-hour, no sitting, no sleeping event for the second time. Kapterian was confident about completing the Thon and was adamant about his reason for dancing. "Raising money for children with cancer is an amazing cause and cancer has really hit home for me because my aunt has been fighting it over the past year," said Kapterian.
Miller, of East Prospect and a nanofabrication manufacturing technology major, took to the Thon dance floor for the first time but shared his fellow dancer's commitment to the cause, and also completed the event.
So, what did the dancers do to prepare to stay awake and dance for 48 hours? Both Kapterian and Miller tried to be on a regular sleeping schedule, cut their sugar and caffeine intake, and tried to eat more healthy foods. Both exercised to strengthen their endurance for the long dance. Miller boasted that he practiced some dance moves that would win the hearts of men, women, and children throughout Rec. Hall. Next year Thon will be take place in the larger Bryce Jordan Center.
The dancers got support from students at Penn State York involved with Thon who have worked tirelessly to raise money and get the campus motivated for the big event.
Last year the dancers raised more than $4.1million for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. More than $30 million has been raised for kids with cancer since 1973. For more information on Thon visit www.thon.org


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Nurse accused of illegally obtaining painkillers
Woman faces more than 50 drug charges
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A nurse is facing more than 50 charges after being arrested in Altamonte Springs.
Tabetha Terry is accused of using the names of two doctors to fill prescriptions for herself.
Narcotics agents arrested the 30-year-old after they said she used the names of the doctors at a Cancer Centers of Florida Clinic to illegally obtain painkillers.
A skeptical Publix pharmacist called police and helped lead detectives to Terry.
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How about the Texas Earthquakes for new tennis team heading to Irving?
Update at 4:40 p.m. by Avi Selk: Couldn't help but notice that the word "Irving" isn't in any of the suggested team names. It's all Texas this and Texas that. Since the whole point of this $400,000 city incentive is to get Irving some national marketing exposure, I asked the mayor where her city went.
Van Duyne, whose own preference would be for the Irving Igniters, told me that she's been promised "at Irving" will be appended to whatever team name is selected. So: "Texas Tornadoes at Irving," or whatever.
Ok, but every other team in the league gets its local name at the front. It's the Sacramento Capitals and Boston Lobsters. What kind of world would this be if Elton John, who named one of his most well known songs for a World TeamTennis franchise, had to sing: "Pennsylvania Freedoms at Philadelphia I loo-oo-oove you?"
Original post by Debbie Fleck:
With two strong-for-Texas earthquakes hitting Irving within about four months, the idea came up at a news conference today to name the new Mylan World TeamTennis team the Texas Earthquakes. Not a bad idea, with apologies to the San Jose Earthquakes.
Jeff Launius, team co-owner and general manager, suggested the name. He spoke at the news conference to announce more details about the team's move to Irving. He said he felt the quake that rumbled through the city about 10:15 Tuesday night.
Also speaking at the event were Mayor Beth Van Duyne, Brad Smyth of the Texas Economic Development and Tourism Department and Ilana Kloss, Mylan World TeamTennis CEO/Commissioner.
A contest to name the team will accept suggestions through Jan. 31 at www.wtt.com/texas.
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Wynonna Judd, Dorthy Hamill Headline New 'Dancing With The Stars' Cast
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 3:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 3:50 p.m.
NEW YORK | A gold-medal figure skater, a country music legend and a kooky comedian are stepping their way onto "Dancing With the Stars."
ABC says Dorothy Hamill, Wynonna Judd and Andy Dick are among 11 contenders for the mirrored ball on the new season of the celebrity dance competition.
Other famous faces in the show's 16th edition include standup comic and actor D.L. Hughley, Baltimore Ravens football player Jacoby Jones and former "American Idol" contestant Kellie Pickler.
Also on hand will be former welterweight boxing champ Victor Ortiz, "General Hospital" star Ingo Rademacher, actress-singer Zendaya Coleman and Lisa Vanderpump from "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," as well as Olympic gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman.
The new "Dancing With the Stars" season kicks off on ABC with a two-hour premiere on March 18.
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In the following video interview with Aimee Duffy, Tyler Crowe recommends three companies with concentrated portfolios in the Bakken. He is bullish on the trio for the long term, as he believes that oil from the Bakken will supplant pricier Brent and Alaskan crude in refineries on both the East Coast and the West Coast.
His No. 1 pick is Continental Resources, the largest landholder in the Bakken, which accounts for 13% of all oil production in the region. Continental was fortunate enough to have purchased its land early and cheap, and its production has been picking up. Thanks to increasing prices that made oil in the Three Forks financially viable and countable, it just doubled its proven reserves from a month ago.
Tyler's next pick is Whiting Petroleum, the second largest landholder and the top producer in the Bakken. He lauds the company's efficiency in drilling wells.
Finally, for a more speculative pure play, Tyler pitches Kodiak Oil & Gas. This company derives 100% of its revenues from the Bakken and enjoys strong growth.
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A Short History of the Modern Van
09.02.2011To think that the surrender monkeys of France are driving around in vans superior to that of my van-driving brethren here in America burns my deep-fried, artificially flavored, apple pie pride. Of course, we have no one to blame but American industry. Van technology on this side of the pond has been stifled by an all-too-obvious, gentleman's non-compete agreement.


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My main concern w.r.t. an upcoming upgrade from 6.2-RELEASE-p9 to
6.3-RELEASE is that I do *NOT* have physical access to the console,
neither via keyboard nor via modem *AND* that UPGRADING and Lucas' book
strongly suggest that one needs to "<reboot in single user>" after a
"make kernel ..." and before a "make installworld".
Here comes my idea, and I would like to get your feedback as experienced
users (csup:/usr/src and portsnap:/usr/ports setup):
1. csup
2. make buildworld
3. make buildkernel && make installkernel KODIR=/boot/kernel-TESTING-GENERIC
4. nextboot -o "-s" -k kernel-TESTING-GENERIC
5. ssh to server
6. mergemaster -p
7. make installworld
8. make delete-old
9. mergemaster -i
10. reboot
11. keep my fingers crossed ;-)
Coming from the UNIX V world I was first looking for a way to "define" a
customized runlevel like "single user inclusive networking and sshd",
required by steps 4) and 5). But it seems that I couldn't find something
appropriate. Does someone know if that can be done easily?
One could replace steps 4) and 5) by:
4. nextboot -k kernel-TESTING-GENERIC
5. ssh to server
5b. stop all unneeded process of /etc/rc.d
Alternatively I could create a separate rc.d directory (stripped down)
for that purpose only, *but* this looks like a very dirty hack to me.
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>Lynn Snowden
"I REALLY WANTED TO BE A COP, BUT the New York City police department wouldn't hear of it; they're not going to issue a badge just because you really want them to," says freelance journalist Lynn Snowden, who had to scratch that profession off her wish list while mapping out Nine Lives. Too tall to be a jockey and too trim to make it on American Gladiators, Snowden wanted a résumé with a broad mix: high pay, low pay, blue-collar, white-collar, "highly reputable to downright sleazy." Her quest took her to nine cities, where she usually lodged in hotels and sometimes worked without pay just for the experience.
"If I had to pick one of these jobs to do for the rest of my life, teaching was the most satisfying, though I was ridiculously underpaid," says Snowden, who supplemented her salary with her book advance. Schlepping drinks to rowdy tourists in Las Vegas was by far the most demeaning job, stripping the most lucrative ($300 on a good night), and molding candy dinosaurs in a New England chocolate factory the hardest to come by (manufacturers are skittish about employees purloining secrets).
What job does she miss most? Touring as a heavy-metal-band roadie. "Once the spirit to keep myself clean was broken," she says, "I had a fabulous time sleeping in my clothes and forgetting about my moisturizer." Now out plugging her book, Snowden, who is separated and lives in Manhattan, has decided that "writing is the dream job. You get to sit down, you don't need an alarm clock or special clothes. All you have to do is think. Every time I read about a writer complaining of writer's block, I want to say, Try factor work.' "
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This study of the head of the Virgin has been pricked with tiny holes so that charcoal can be pushed through to create a dot-to-dot image on another sheet of paper or canvas.
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How has your company adapted and responded to the changing economic climate in the past five years when so many others companies did not?
Microsoft has learned to survive and thrive during dramatic market changes such as the advent of GUIs, LANs, and the Internet by finding ways to lead the charge into new technologies. Because of this we have been in the unique position to sustain and even increase our product investments over the past several years. As a result we have been able to diversify our product base and strengthen our platforms to accommodate technology shifts such as Service Oriented Architectures and Software as a Service.
What is your vision for the future of the life sciences market over the next several years?
This is an exciting time when the forward-thinking research of the last half-century will begin to have an impact on our everyday lives. Within the next several years, much of what we consider science today will be transformed into technology for molecular diagnostics, rational design of drugs, and predictive healthcare. No single company has the breadth or depth of vision to be able to bring this about alone, so this is an opportunity for companies that partner effectively to make bench-to-bedside solutions a reality.
What products and services does your company provide and what special capabilities do they offer the life sciences market?
Two products that are resonating in the life science market are the new Office Server that provides rich content management, collaboration, workflow, and data analysis features, and the Compute Cluster Server which enables "personal supercomputing" that is easy to integrate into existing environments. These are both great end user products as well as platforms that will enable software vendors to bring very competitive products to market quickly. There are also some new embedded technologies such as HD Photo for reducing the size and increasing the fidelity of biomedical images. The Microsoft Robotics Studio is also very compelling for companies that are automating their lab environments.
Partnerships are an effective way to track life science advances and ensure that your company delivers timely products and services. Which life sciences companies or organizations have you partnered with or invested in and why?
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Twitter has just launched their newest beta advertising program @Earlybird, an official profile designed to tweet exclusive deals and special offers. When talking to Twitter about this in the last few weeks leading up to launch it struck me that this could be where auction-based ad pricing makes it's way to the Twitter platform.
When I first started working in social media (back in the pioneer days of the "Numma Numma" guy) the concept of "advertising" in social spaces was looked on with disdain by community managers and savvy marketers. The reasons for this were simple – ad units sucked. There was little connection between awful banners and pop-ups and the actual behavior of users in social spaces – whether it be message boards or MySpace.
Things certainly have changed since then- a combination of smarter, more site-specific ad units coupled with better metrics to measure success are beginning to transform best practices in social media leading to a combination of paid and organic marketing (or earned and paid media in PR speak). If this sounds to you like the search universe of SEM and SEO then you are on the right track.
After all, Facebook is pushing CPC ads targeting users based on Likes and Interests and status updates (essentially a keyword based medium), Twitter's new Promoted Tweets is a keyword triggered search ad (for now) and the new and improved metrics across the big three platforms of Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are clearly derived from the rich data available from search campaigns. Even more striking is the similarity between Facebook "Like" button targeting and search re-targeting and Twitter's "Resonance Score" (designed to show the relative effectiveness of a Tweet) and Google Page Rank.
What has been missing in action so far is a social media equivalent to the search engine auction in which advertisers bid on keywords. With the advent of Earlybird however, this could be changing.
How so?
Earlybird is built on value and scarcity – the value of the deal and the scarcity of knowing that the window of availability is 24 hours (or less if the deal is for something that has limited supply). Right now advertisers reserve their days in advance with Twitter and essentially own that 24 hour window.
So what happens when this model meets high-demand days like Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, or Super Bowl Sunday?
Twitter hasn't addressed this scenario yet, but it's not a stretch to imagine pricing based on what the market will bear rather than a one-price-fits-all approach. Why not have advertisers bid on these days?


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HTC J Butterfly is a 5-inch 1080p monsterphone
0. phoneArena 17 Oct 2012, 02:05 posted on
The HTC J Butterfly has surfaced on HTC's Japanese website and it is that elusive 1080p 5-inch monsterphone we've been hearing about all along…
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
13. Luuthian (Posts: 246; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
HTC always makes these great looking phones... And then they ruin them by adding hardware buttons and weak batteries.
This could have been so beautiful.
31. nyuvo (Posts: 72; Member since: 10 May 2012)
Don't forget HTC sense.
35. blinkdagger (Posts: 81; Member since: 04 May 2012)
It is call love-hate relationship. lol
14. kartik4u98 (Posts: 511; Member since: 19 May 2012)
Take my Money!!!!!!!!!!!
15. sheik (Posts: 249; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
2020 mA battery for a 1080p display? probably they are kidding....
22. Jimstar (Posts: 259; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
That's a hilariously awful name, guess it kinda maybe makes sense for the market though. Seems to me like that resolution is a bit overkill but as long as all the other factors are in place I can't complain. With that kinda of square...inchage though, you'd think they could squeeze in a bigger battery.
24. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
2 things wrong with it
1. The alphabet game continues with another odd letter....J?? Why couldnt they just call it the HTC Butterfly?
2. Of course, the 2020 mAh battery! There really is no explanation for why they would chose, YET AGAIN, another small battery......This time is much worse, a 5 inch screen with 1080p resolution and they chose the smallest battery one could find :(
27. wendygarett (unregistered)
Japanese know how to make concept phone come true, but still they want profits... 2020mah is not surprising tho :)
33. darkskoliro (Posts: 1076; Member since: 07 May 2012)
its the Japanese variant, I seriously doubt thats its final name
38. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
Thank you for giving me hope :) lol now about that battery hmmm
25. Furbal (Posts: 980; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
Beautiful phone. Give me a 2800mah battery though...
28. dicemoney (Posts: 58; Member since: 28 Mar 2011)
after the evo 3d I said I would never buy another HTC phone again but forget all dat I want this phone come get my money HTC
30. Lawliet (Posts: 160; Member since: 02 Jul 2012)
Small battery for such a phone
37. an4564 (Posts: 39; Member since: 17 Jul 2012)
this is the best and most beautiful phone I have ever seen
42. soshi (Posts: 154; Member since: 08 Mar 2012)
This one very beautiful design, The black with red strip is very cool.
44. cheeseaddict (Posts: 49; Member since: 05 Sep 2012)
the white one looks cool
49. TheDarkKnight (banned) (Posts: 88; Member since: 12 Oct 2012)
Awwweeesssooommme specs!!!! But why bad design and htc J UI?
51. rizevnarastek (Posts: 347; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
It's not HTC J UI ....it's just a widget that can be removet, changed.
52. Kjayhawk (Posts: 293; Member since: 07 Oct 2010)
Why does this phone say "with Google" like the LG nexus... The One X or One X+ dont say it...
55. Fulah (Posts: 1; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
for those who are saying a 2020mah battery will boo us off, think again this beast has a s4 quad with good power management and also with sense 4+ which has tweaks(although i really hate it no multitasking iz s**t). say the battery will most probably last about 6-7 hours like the one x but i really also think they should really add in at least 2500mah to step up HTC's game.everything is good (2gb ram and suprisingly sd slot)
56. YetiASX (Posts: 2; Member since: 13 Oct 2012)
I'm actually waiting for the perfect phon, and i think that i've found THE phon.
I've just to wait the equivalent in equivalent in Europe...
57. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Had someone told me a year ago that this kind of display will reach market by the end of 2012 I'd call BS.
Freaking amazing!!
58. mrllano (Posts: 91; Member since: 20 Aug 2012)
59. psysect (Posts: 49; Member since: 27 Sep 2012)
HTC prove again that is monster of android...
61. takay0 (Posts: 144; Member since: 25 Mar 2012)
is it only for Japan?!
63. amansingal14 (Posts: 309; Member since: 08 Sep 2012)
May be the best phablet in the near future...
HTC has really played hard on Samsung Note II
66. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
*fangirl scream*
This is too awesome to be true. So many smartphone choices, so little money. I hate OEMs for this
68. rallyguy (Posts: 620; Member since: 13 Mar 2012)
It's most likely the new Sharp screen.
77. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
hahaahah LOL@fangirl scream
67. rallyguy (Posts: 620; Member since: 13 Mar 2012)
Ohhhh Will this be the Nexus 5?
69. chrisbo5 (Posts: 31; Member since: 26 Jan 2012)
isn't this supposed to be the rumored droid incredible x ? or the dlx. i think they called it the nexus 5 too
71. BayuAnggoromurti (Posts: 1; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
If i work at htc. I'll named it Godzilla instead Butterfly
72. D3VR04 (Posts: 34; Member since: 10 Jan 2010)
73. Twisted247 (Posts: 282; Member since: 12 Oct 2012)
For all the comments and articles saying HTC is heading for close(which I'm not disputing) here's one for ya! I love HTC personally it is the best possible UI period. Again IMHO that being said this looks like a dope phone and I love HTC. I'm on my Evo4G right now typing this out. I was going to upgrade to the HTC EVO4G LTE for Sprint( people don't know even with a gig less of RAM the senseUI runs better than touchwiz on the GS3. It took it in the benchmarks -US dualcore for both I'm speaking of- although those don't mean everything. And just running the two phones side by side it executed the same tasks quicker). Related to the gs3 vs HTC one x battle and all the comparisons why don't they run the Evo 4G LTE AGAINST THE IPHONE5/GS3 etc if they are gonna compare the other companys best why don't they compare htc's current best(out to date not including the + series which is a BEAST and can't wait to see its benchmarking blow people out the water!)
That being said I am going with the GN2 cause the specs along with SOFTWARE are utterly amazing. Unless I see some mind blowing software on the butterfly I'm sticking with the GN2.. especially considering HTC j butterfly probably won't even hit all the U.S. carriers probably just one lucky one. And i'm not switching carriers for a phone and losing my unlimited data.
94. Lboogey6 (Posts: 281; Member since: 31 Jan 2012)
i agree with your very last statement but ...... sense better than touch wiz .... i do apologize but every article and user known to man knows the cluttered sense ruins android hands down look how many people left evo for iphone because android was "too slow" or "froze" too much then the tell htc pop up is pointless ive seen many people have to switch out up to 10 evos the sensation on tmo constant reboot the battery life is horrible no one htc phone will last you and they continue to lessen the battery
99. rizevnarastek (Posts: 347; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
Sense is miles ahead of TouchWizz, everything just looks and feels better. When One X caught up SGS3 with Android 4.0.4 it killed it on benchmarks and real life performance. The same will go for 4.1, trust me. Sense is no slug and it just looks better then anything and is easier to use.
74. Twisted247 (Posts: 282; Member since: 12 Oct 2012)
Oh and btw for all the ifans preaching about the apples i5 pushing 326ppi, *Even though Android and HTC dropped the HTC Rezound a year ago(Nov 2k11) with a screen that pushed 342ppi at 4.3in! .. Not to mention their windows8 phones that's dropping soon the X model I believe is also 326+ in the ppi..
Back to the point of the post, not only did Android bring some ground breaking technology into the game yet again with a dope 1080p display, not just the ability to capture 1080p(which a lot of people commonly confuse when they say "my phone does 1080p".. no your phone SHOOTS 1080p so you can transfer it to your 1080p tv and enjoy HD on that platform etc etc..) but to actually view it. Mad props for that one, and they didn't have to make the screen small to achieve it they went BIG baby 5.0 .. Regardless of what carrier picks it up here in the states I absolutely MUST stop in the door to gasp, gaze, and drool over its magnificence!
75. speckledapple (Posts: 892; Member since: 29 Sep 2011)
It is a gorgeous device but I am very skeptical about HTC and their ability to do more than design a beautiful phone. What's underneath and the software that runs on top of it with that woeful integration with Sense is what matters. And we cannot forget about battery life.
76. yazbuh (Posts: 29; Member since: 21 Jun 2012)
Damn!.... I want this as my next device!.... So hot....
78. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
Like the look off this
80. SmartPhoneStream (Posts: 162; Member since: 21 Jun 2012)
i fit comes to Verizon with a larger battery you can shut up and take my money
82. roldefol (Posts: 4242; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
Has anyone else looked at the photo close-up of the Butterfly screen compared to the iPhone 5? It looks like this new Sharp display uses some kind of PenTile layout with triangular red, blue, green and white subpixels instead of a normal RGB stripe. Not a far cry from the PenTile prototype:
That doesn't mean it won't be the sharpest, brightest display on a phone anywhere. Just interesting to see how they did it.
87. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
THAT PHONE IS A BEAUTY excpet the battery life which is ugly HTC NEEDS TO LEARN TO MAKE A LARGER BATTERY. Look at the NOTE II it have 3200 mAh if i can remember. I'm pretty sure it's going to Verizon first. I'm going to wait till CES too see what other phones will have 1080p screens
95. Lboogey6 (Posts: 281; Member since: 31 Jan 2012)
no thank you id rather have a phone that lasts longer than 6 hours look at all of htc's phones from the touch diamond to well all of them horrible battery life yall enjoy this drool over the phone while standing next to a wall while it charges
97. JKING_25 (Posts: 53; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
I have never saw a phone I want more than this in my life lol. Time to start saving ;)
102. juan.perezperalta (Posts: 1; Member since: 21 Oct 2012)
Wouldn't it need a better graphics prossesor?
105. solidsnakeduds013 (Posts: 218; Member since: 20 Oct 2010)
OMG that phone is sexy! I will throw my money on it in a heart beat.
107. rizevnarastek (Posts: 347; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
people should make and use more car docks and no one would complain about the battery anymore
109. uneedhelp (Posts: 19; Member since: 04 Nov 2012)
The battery it's not a nexus Pleeeeeease shut up.U have never in ur small little life seen specs on a phone like this so stop crying.The problem with all the negative comments is probably because u can't own this device and ur probably stuck with a piece of s**t phone that u at one time thought was the best now ur online bitter and bashing every little thing that u can find wrong with it go back 2 looking at that pen tile piece of s**t u own and quit with all the negative comments bitches
110. Lwazi_N (Posts: 205; Member since: 23 Jun 2011)
This phone is anything but a butterfly. With these specs, they should have named it RedDragon or something!


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Survive the rigors of holiday flights
There's not much good news for fliers this Thanksgiving. Airports will be packed, planes will have few -- if any -- empty seats, and you might sit apart from a loved one, unless you pay extra.
During the 12-day Thanksgiving travel period, 25.1 million people are projected to fly. That would make this the busiest year since 2007, when an estimated 26 million people flew over the holiday period.
But don't fret, there are some things you can do -- in some cases paying a little extra -- to make your trip more pleasant, or to at least buffer the damage if something goes wrong.
- If you miss your connection -- or bad weather causes delays -- the airlines will automatically rebook you on the next available flight. However, with flights at near capacity, the next open seat could be several days away.
- Don't like the flight you're rebooked on? Get in line to speak to a customer service representative. But also call the airline directly.
- Consider buying a one-day pass to the airline lounge. For one thing, there are usually free drinks and light snacks. But the real secret to the lounges is that the airline staffs them with some of its best -- and friendliest -- ticket agents. The lines are shorter and these agents are magically able to find empty seats. One-day passes typically cost $50.
- If you and your loved ones don't have seats together already, and don't want to pay an extra $9 to $99 domestically for a "premium" coach seat, it's very likely that you will sit apart.
- Set up alerts for seat openings. ExpertFlyer.com offers free notifications when a window or aisle seat becomes vacant. For 99 cents, it sends an e-mail if adjacent seats become available.
- Check the airline's website five days before the trip. That's when some elite fliers are upgraded to first class, freeing up their coach seats. Another wave of upgrades occurs every 24 to 48 hours.


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Keep Amarillo Beautiful will celebrate Arbor Day at 10 a.m. Friday with a proclamation at John Stiff Memorial Park, along with the dedication of 93 large trees planted along Parkside Drive. The trees were purchased with money donated from the "Nites of Lites" Christmas lights display, according to KAB information.
In 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees, the news release from KAB stated. The holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than 1 million trees in Nebraska. Arbor Day now is observed throughout the nation and the world.
Arbor Season in Texas is the third week in January through the third week in April, but Arbor Day in Texas and across the nation is celebrated the last Friday in April.
Trees provide shade, cool hot streets and parking lots, muffle noise, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide privacy, the release stated.
Trees can survive in a wide variety of climates, but planting native trees enhances their chance for long-term survival.
KAB has compiled a list of trees that do well in the Panhandle. Various nurseries, the city Parks and Recreation Department and Potter and Randall counties extension agents were consulted to derive a helpful list for citizens, the release said. To obtain a copy of the tree list, call Dusty McGuire at 355-8757.
"Trees for Amarillo," a KAB project endorsed by the city commission in 1991, entailed planting one tree for every Amarillo citizen by the turn of the century. Since the beginning of the project, more than 170,000 trees have been planted, according to records from local nurseries, the Parks and Recreation Department, Texas Department of Transportation and Amarillo Independent School District.
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Letters to the editor: More health-care regulation needed
Why are lawmakers sitting by and allowing the formation of health-care monopolies? Insurance providers and hospital providers are buying each other and gaining complete control of an individual's health care.
It could be a violation of HIPPA when an insurance provider buys a hospital and has complete access to an individual's heath-care record. This would allow them an inside look at an individual's record and to possibly adjust an individual's premium rate hikes. It could also prepare them in advance to deny or delay treatment because they will know their liability well in advance.
My second thought is how are nonprofits such as Highmark able to offer $500 million to buy Allegheny General. How does a nonprofit insurance provider accumulate $500 million? They pay their executives millions of dollars in compensation. These "profits" should be used to reduce customers' premiums, not buy hospitals. Instead, they raise premiums as high as 50 percent in one year.
It appears Pennsylvania lawmakers are looking the other way by allowing such monopolies, and their constituents get stuck with the results of higher premiums and possibly limited treatment.
Jim ParentiErie
Old traffic rule important
Now that spring is here and schools will soon be out for the summer, I'd like to remind parents to tell your children that they should ride their bicycles with traffic (if in the street) and to walk against traffic.
I see too many children and adults not remembering this old rule. Ride with, walk against.
Autumn ZeiglerSummit Township
Millcreek should keep middle schools
Due to fiscal issues, the Millcreek Township School District is considering changing the middle school model to that of a junior high. This idea will surely destroy the quality of education for Millcreek students.
Research has proved that the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade model is the best for students, followed by the elementary-middle school model. The junior high model falls far behind the quality of these two.
This research caused Millcreek to change from a junior high model to that of a middle school more than 30 years ago.
Considering that the Millcreek Township School District's motto is "world class education," why would it be willing to strip teaching time? If something needs to go in the district, it should be extracurricular activities.
Middle school is the very last opportunity unmotivated students have to turn their lives around. It is their last opportunity to have teachers fully aware of their needs. It is necessary to ensure success in high school.
We will move backward if we abandon the middle school model. Millcreek's education will crumble unless the community stops this terrible movement. Our students deserve more.
Kara KlossErie
Millcreek schools need leadership
Here we go again with Millcreek schools ("Deficit up to $8.8M," Erie Times-News, April 4).
The rundown: $5 million here or there in what budget, not knowing legalities; more than $90 million in a new building they've got to have; moved football fields and parking lots; AWOL administrators; and now they are all shocked to find they are $9 million over budget.
Why would anyone trust their children to the folks behind these ongoing fiascoes? Since when did children's education become about sustaining monolithic, outdated and out-of-touch bureaucracies? Since when did children's education become about extinguishing the latest administrative dumpster fires? Why has there not been any sort of investigation into what is going on?
It is no secret that the three major metropolitan areas surrounding Erie -- Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo -- have had declining populations for years. Likewise, it is no secret folks are having fewer kids. Often kids have fewer parents, with many families run by a single parent. Many parents also now choose to be very hands-off raising their children. Potential career paths are changing. Educational options are changing. Our economy and its needs are changing. It is becoming a smaller world. Millcreek's paradigm has shifted.
Gone are the days of needing layers upon layers of bureaucrats stubbing their toes against one another while exchanging congratulations over the latest great contract offer. Millcreek needs someone to run its schools.
Paul WurstMcKean
GE seeks 'super profits'
The decisions by GE Transportation are pitting state against state. It's the state of Pennsylvania vs. the state of Texas. At the same time, General Electric's Chief Executive Jeff Immelt is also creating new GE jobs in China.
The Erie-based profits for GE in 2012 were $1 billion. The Erie-based division was GE's business of the year (with a workforce that is said to be only productive 4.7 hours a shift). That hardly seems credible.
The Erie-based profits for the first quarter of 2013 were $257 million. The total compensation for GE's top five executives in 2012 was more than $90 million. How could anyone survive on that compensation?
The GE board of directors works with a Wall Street mentality of "greed is good." They are not committed to this country, community, veterans or any of the 1,050 union and nonunion employees it is threatening with its less than honorable move to Texas.
With GE's super profits, it is not ethical for the mega wealthy to hold our community hostage. Our community needs these jobs. What corporate profit would ever be enough?
Ron DombkowskiWaterford
Privatization plan is grim fairy tale
In regard to Gov. Tom Corbett's scheme to privatize the state stores, it appears that the emperor with no clothes is attempting to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Don't expect a fairy-tale ending!
Kevin C. KantzEdinboro
Gun control efforts rapped
I wonder how soon we will be reading in the news that a suspected gunman in an assault case will get to plea bargain away all the gun charges, while the homeowner who reported the gun stolen will receive a three-year prison sentence for losing the gun.
Richard KopchickMcKean


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Soup's On! Le Soup, That Is
In our What People Are Cooking column, see how our recipes turned out in other cooks' kitchens. Every week we choose a dish that several food bloggers made and feature it here with photos and links. Share your own experience; submit your blog.
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THE RECIPE: French Onion Soup
Bon Appetit, October 2011
Bet you didn't know you could make French Onion Soup in 40 minutes. In fact, there are few soups that you can make fast without sacrificing that full-bodied flavor (sorry, the can doesn't count). Thanks to a quick and dirty trick for caramelizing onions, our Test Kitchen pulled it off, and bloggers were intrigued enough to give it a try. See what they thought below. —Joanna Sciarrino
Bloggers' Versions:
This Wisconsin Life: "This recipe, from Bon Appetit, is very flavorful, quick and easy. No, this isn't the traditional way to make French Onion soup, but it's a fantastic stand in when we don't have time to make it the usual way."
The Garden of Eden: "I was thrilled to see a recipe for French onion soup in the October issue of Bon Appetit. I've never made it at home, but the recipe was simple and delicious. Also, while this was delicious as-is, I think it could benefit from minor changes to the broth. When I make this again, I'll use 6 cups of beef broth (homemade)"
MK's Kitchen: "So…to start our Fall posts off on a good foot…how about some hearty French Onion Soup? I can't think of anything better to pair with a juicy Ribeye steak on a chilly October evening."
Weeknight Gourmet: "Last night's dinner was my attempt to have a little taste of Pastis (and Paris) at our kitchen table. I was skeptical of this onion soup recipe because it only takes 40 minutes and you saute chopped onions (as opposed to sliced) in a dry non-stick skillet. But the recipe was very tasty! I used Applejack brandy and Gruyere cheese. How bad can anything be when topped with a baguette slice and melted cheese!"


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Fri., 1;56pm: Ohio man's ex-relatives say he is a `monster'
May 10, 2013
CLEVELAND -- The man accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his home terrorized the mother of his children, frequently beating her, playing twisted psychological games and locking he......
Last sentence in article: Castro is on a suicide watch.. Who cares if he kills himself, they will charge him with a Death Sentence or 150 years in jail. They should put him in solidary confinement and give him a paper tablet, a pen and a loaded pistol...save the taxpayers a lot of money,
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This Puerto Rican pysychopath with a wide circle of relatives and not one of them would drop a dime and make a call, send a note,,do something..This is an example of multiculturalism---Judging people by what group they belong to, rather there individual behavior.
The police in Warren are confronted with this lack of public responsiblity in people failing to come forward.
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I am thinking that suicide watch can be cancelled anytime now. Why should the taxpayers continue to pay for him in prison. The taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for his trial and imprisonment. Cancel the watch. Let nature take its course.
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Here is what you do.... Permanently attach a gps device to this sorry P.O.S. Then let him out and publicly broadcast the gps readings on the internet for all to see. I'll bet the gps stops moving before the first hour is gone. Save the money of a trial because you know his guilt and he deserves anything we the public could do to him!
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The public rooms are very well fitted out but for a ship this size the theatre is too small approx 600 capacity this resulted in many passengers missing the Legends Show. This is also the only cruise ship I have travelled on that charges for entertainment,come on NCL this is just not on.
Problems on the pool deck with water not draining away and frankly the size of the pools for a ship this size is pathetic, much too small.
Food was generally very good but service in the Manhatton Dining Room was somewhat eratic waited 35 mins for a starter course and twice at breakfast service was very poor.
Disembarkation in New Yorks was a disaster too many passengers opted to walk off with their luggage overloading the immigration hall leading to long delays for other passengers with colour coded luggage over 2hrs in our case!
Not likely to travel with NCL again


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with this storm in Blackshear.
4 Panel Reflectivity – this image shows a classic 'Hook Echo' over northern Clinch county, northwest of Homerville.
Numerous power lines and trees were reported down north of Du Pont in northwest Clinch County. A Funnel Cloud was
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We combed through hundreds of nominations from our viewers. Now, here are the top 25 ice cream places in New Hampshire...
No. 24) Golick's Dairy Bar in Barrington, Dover and Rochester (3 locations)
Tie-24) Bishop's Homemade Ice Cream in Littleton
No. 23) Sugar and Ice Creamery in Barrington and Exeter (2 locations)
No. 20) The Sandwich Creamery in Sandwich
Tie-20) Ice Cream Machine in Charlestown
Tie-20) Beech Hill Farm and Ice Cream Barn in Hopkinton
No. 19) Dewey's Ice Cream Parlor and Cafe in Center Harbor
No. 18) Arnie's Place
No. 17) Johnson's Dairy Bar in Northwood
No. 16) King Kone in Merrimack
No. 15) The Puritan Backroom in Manchester
Tie-13) Goldenrod Drive-In in Manchester
Tie-13) Bobby Sue's Homemade Ice Cream in Freedom
No. 12) Connolly Brothers Dairy Farm in Temple
No. 11) Moo's Place in Derry
No. 10) Memories Ice Cream in Kingston
No. 9) Hatchland Farm's "Wicked Good" Dairy Delight in Woodsville
No. 8) Hayward's Ice Cream in Nashua and Milford (2 locations)
No. 7) Lago's Ice Cream in Rye
No. 6) Stillwells Riverwalk Ice Cream (multiple locations)
No. 5) Kimball Farm Ice Cream Restaurant in Jaffrey (plus 3 locations in Mass.)
No. 4) Walpole Creamery in Walpole and Keene (2 locations)
No. 3) Lone Oak Ice Cream in Rochester
No. 2) Slick's Ice Cream in Woodsville
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Phone "spoofing" crime surfaces in Abilene
Criminals looking to trick victims out of money
ABILENE, Texas - Phone call spoofing is becoming a growing problem in the U.S., and now Abilene is seeing the problem on the rise.
It happens when the caller I.D. on a telephone is altered by equipment to say whatever name that person or company wants.
The ultimate goal is to scam residents out of money.
"Numbers are spoofed," said Steve Abel, president of the Better Business Bureau, "made to look like it's from another business or even government entity or organization."
One company that was affected by the crime was All American Roofing, where someone was using their caller I.D. name to contact customers. They then proceeded in trying to set up appointments to do roof inspections.
"People showed up, and what they did was a roof inspection," said Bill Casher, the sales manager of All American Roofing, "They then took money up-front from the customers, which is not a good thing."
All-American Roofing told KTXS that they had received more than 10 calls from customers saying they were getting similar calls, with the company showing up on their caller I.D's.
The Abels of the Better Business Bureau says to make sure the company you are dealing with is legitimate before any money is exchanged.
He tells customers to make sure they have the proper paperwork, have business cards, proof of identification, a written contract of the work they are doing, and also the terms and conditions of the job.
If you or someone you know has experienced 'spoofing', report the incident to the Abilene Police Dept. Fraud division, or call the Better Business Bureau at 325-691-1533


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Wailuku's First Friday packs a night of fashion, food, film, music and other entertainment into walking distance. The popular Market Street block party this week from 6 to 8 p.m. features "Girls Downtown" where local-made fashion from Feisty Attire, BoxEleven and Jaisy Hanlon will be shown at the Historic Iao Theater. Participants will get limited Christmas coupons to Maui boutiques and "A Christmas Carol" at the theater. Get $5 color-change manicures or browse through the apparel and jewelry. A screening of "Hairspray" will follow. Donation is $12. Also at First Friday, see live performances by the Cocoland Band at the Main Street Promenade; Inna Vision at the Maui Thing stage; and Ikaika Blackburn at Wailuku Banyan Tree Park. Pono ... Do What is Right! store celebrates its grand opening. And a poetry slam kicks off at 8 p.m. at Gallerie Ha with a $20 prize for the winner. The night is also stacked with an array of food and a beer garden. For more information, e-mail email@example.com or call 878-1888.
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