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Even flanked by her former Destiny's Child band mates, there is no "we" in Beyonce's art.
Beyonce has become the supreme entertainer of her generation, and what she celebrates is herself. The Super Bowl performance was Beyonce writ large, taking her voice schooled in Aretha mixed with dance skills worthy of Michael Jackson wedded to that spark of star power we call originality.
For any smaller talent this approach leads to selfishness, narcissism and, most importantly, creative irrelevance. Yet, Beyonce's reverence for her own achievement matters because she embodies our cultural moment as totally as the Super Bowl has come to be the ultimate celebration of American sports.
She is the American idol: from her outsized talents, to her supreme success, and even her royal marriage.
Yet, of all the celebrities I've spent time around Beyonce stands out as among the nicest. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Beyonce is that while her husband can be cantankerous, she manages an effortless charm and noblesse oblige.
This was true even before her celebrity became as overpowering as her talents. I first met her over July 4 weekend at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. At the time Destiny's Child had recently gone from a quartet to a trio causing a tempest of trivial controversy that back then seemed so important the publicist thought the group would not be available to me for an interview. Now, of course, we all know the full throated way Beyonce reacts to a crisis.
So, of course we met that day and she feared no question. Mostly I remember her excitement almost giddiness -- to soon be working with live musicians at concerts, as that show was to be the last she ever performed (give or take a Star Spangled Banner) to backing tapes. Early the next year I ran into her backstage at the Grammy Awards and, yes, she recognized me. Her team was hustling her along but B. took charge and gave me a full interview.
After that, over the years, I saw her occasionally as she ascended into the pantheon of superstars. For example, she came to Vegas with her husband a few times as he opened a short lived 40/40 Club on the Strip. She was always gracious while managing with the skill of an old school politician's wife never to let the focus leave Jay-Z's project.
When promoting her own music I watched as she transformed herself from eager to dignified; but her essential decency always showed through. The last time I watched her perform live, the eager girl from Destiny's Child had come to see herself as a child who had reached her destiny. This was the autobiographical revue concert she taped for "I am...Yours" in 2009 at Wynn Resort's Encore Theater on the Strip.
Like her Super Bowl performance this one too was full of flash, dance and her now larger-than-life stage presence. At the time, the thinking was she was angling for a Vegas deal like Celine Dion. Any casino would have taken her, of course, but Beyonce proved to have more ambition than a Vegas show. "I am...Yours" celebrated the skills of a lifetime spent in show business. It was a look back to the girl from Destiny's Child.
The Super Bowl performance is a crowning achievement of the superhero Beyonce of now: sells out any venue, able to entertain presidents and teenagers, a squeaky clean role model who manages to stay cool. The moment screamed, "Kneel down Britney, LeAnn and Christina: Beyonce is the winner." Not that such a nice person as Beyonce would ever say that. On the other hand, she won't be needing to take an extra job as panel judge on a television talent show. That would be a step down.
Is it worth mentioning at this point that Beyonce was the wrong choice for the Super Bowl Halftime Show? What should have been a brilliant reminder of the legacy and power of New Orleans music was instead an epic about individual achievement: Beyonce the Great.
After a couple days to reflect: what did you think of Beyonce's Super Bowl performance?


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Police Beat
by Richard Matros
On Nov. 20, a person wearing a black leather jacket was seen leaving a grocery store acting suspiciously. One hour later, the same person and a companion were spotted placing several packs of film into their coats. The suspects were approached as they left the store and a scuffle ensued.
As one suspect ran to a nearby Jeep Cherokee and fled the scene, the store employee wrestled with the other, who managed to slip from his coat, his sweater, and eventually his shirt, and run into the woods. The license plate of the Jeep was recorded and the clothes, sizes large and extra-large, were booked as evidence.
On Nov. 26, a customer entered a local video store, approached the counter and asked to take a look at a Mortal Kombat III CD video game. As the clerk handed him the game, he grabbed it from her, said "I need to show this to my wife," and ran out the front door. By the time the clerk was able to come out from behind the counter and into the parking lot, the person was gone.
On Nov. 26, near the 14700 block of 149th Ave. NE, a resident was awakened by the sound of pelting noises outside his home. As he looked outside, he noticed a white pickup truck slowly canvassing the area, but was unable to see the vehicle occupants, who had smashed eggs on his house and vehicle.

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Galileo: Probe Into Jupiter
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The Probe Spacecraft: First Entry Into a Giant Planet's Atmosphere
The 340 kilogram (747 lb) Probe spacecraft has its own power supply, communications, command, programming, data processing, data storage systems, and science payload. The Probe will be the first spacecraft to enter the atmosphere of any of the four gas giant planets beyond the orbit of Mars. It will be the first to measure directly Jupiter's atmosphere. The Probe's protective shell is rugged enough to withstand the extreme heat generated by the high-speed plunge into this atmosphere. As the Probe is pulled in by massive Jupiter's strong gravity, an enormous release of energy occurs as the spacecraft is slowed from 170,000 km/hr (106,000 mph) to 160 km/hr (100 mph) in four minutes. The 15,500 deg. C (28,000 deg. F), incandescent plasma envelope generated ahead of the Probe will briefly be brighter than the Sun's surface.
The spacecraft consists of a descent module carrying 30 kilograms (66 lb) of seven scientific instruments (see box). A protective shell consists of fore and aft covers to shield the capsule from the heat of entry. When the spacecraft has slowed to 160 km/hr (100 mph), these covers are discarded and the descent module descends on a large parachute, with speeds ranging from 750 m/sec (2500 ft/sec) at high levels of the atmosphere to 27 m/sec (88 ft/sec) deep in the atmosphere. The sequence of events and estimated conditions during the descent are shown in the diagram on the opposite page.
The Probe's nine science experiments will greatly enhance our understanding of Jupiter as a planet. Even before entering the atmosphere, one of the instruments carried by the Probe will measure Jupiter's intense radiation belts within 8050 km (5000 miles) of the cloud tops, far closer than was possible with earlier flyby spacecraft.
As the Probe descends through the atmosphere, its electronic computer will receive information from the science payload, process and encode it, and immediately transmit the coded signal to the Orbiter overhead. There the information will be stored for later transmission to Earth. The Orbiter will be able to receive data from the Probe for up to 75 minutes.
Also, variations in the Probe's radio signals to the Orbiter will be used to determine wind speeds and atmospheric absorptions.
Data from the seven instruments and two radio experiments will be the first on-the-spot measurements in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet. By accurately determining the abundances of gaseous atmospheric constituents, such as hydrogen, helium, ammonia, methane and water, experimenters can compare the composition of Jupiter's atmosphere with the composition of the Sun to obtain information about planetary formation. Jupiter's strong gravity has prevented any of the ingredients which formed it 4.5 billion years ago from escaping. As the Probe descends it will search for droplets and solid particles which would indicate the occurrence of clouds in the atmosphere. By combining the measured gaseous composition with measurements of barometric pressure and temperature, scientists can use chemistry and physics to estimate the composition of the cloud layers. Three cloud layers should exist; the top layer of ammonia liquid droplets and ice crystals (believed to be the cloud tops we see), an ammonium hydrosulfide cloud layer, and a deeper water cloud layer. But there are large uncertainties.
Two experiments will help us understand the mysterious multiple jet streams and atmospheric superrotation. Variations in the frequency of the Probe's radio signal received by the Orbiter will reveal the variation of winds with altitude. Measurement of amounts of sunlight and of interior heat at each atmospheric level will give information about power sources driving the winds. Searches for lightning flashes and radio waves emitted from them will provide clues on how internal heat escapes from the planet's interior.
The Orbiter Spacecraft: Monitoring the Atmosphere from Orbit
Data from the Probe will apply to only one latitude, longitude, and time. Observations by the Orbiter will provide a context for the Probe results by intensely studying the entry site from orbit, comparing it with other parts of the planet, and watching its variations over time.
The Orbiter (see picture on page 2 and diagram alongside) has a unique design allowing the main body of the spacecraft (electronic bays, propulsion systems, power source, main Artist's concept of Probe approaching clouds Path of Probe through Jupiter's atmosphere antenna, and experiments to measure radiation belts and magnetic field) to spin at about three RPM. This stabilizes the spacecraft. Immediately aft of the main body a despun section, driven by an electric motor, counters the main body's rotation. This provides a scan platform with scientific instruments and the radio antenna to receive signals from the Probe.
Four instruments on the scan platform provide most of the Orbiter's observations of the atmosphere. These instruments (imaging, near infrared mapping spectrometer, photopolarimeter, and ultraviolet spectrometer) can view Jupiter from many angles at high spatial resolution with broad spectral coverage. They can also view the planet's nightside. The data obtained from the Orbiter will be less than planned because its main antenna did not fully open. The antenna problem does not affect the return of all data gathered by the Probe. Communication with Earth will rely on one smaller antenna. Galileo scientists will, nevertheless, maximize scientific returns over the mission by selecting observations that use the uniqueness of the Orbiter.
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One of my favorite shows, that unfortunately was cancelled, was called How to Make it in America [3] and one of the side characters had a job walking dogs. I always wondered if it was something that could really sustain someone (it took place in New York City and I'm sure dog walkers are well compensated in NYC) and was happy to get to ask Teresa Keel about her side gig [4] as a dog walker and sitter.
By day, she's an executive assistant. By night, she's a dog walker for about five and a half hours a week including dog sitting, and she banks nearly $500 a month caring for basically two dogs a month. Now, after hearing this, I remembered a story about my friend who was paying close to $40 a day for a dog walker (it was a puppy and the little guy needed to go out often in the beginning) and I remembered how lucrative a side gig that could be.
Anyway, enough about me, let's hear a little about dog walking as a side gig.
What is your day job?
I am an executive assistant.
What is your side gig?
My side gig is dog walking/dog sitting.
How many hours a week/month does this gig take?
This job takes 5.5 hours a week. I dog sit for two large mastiffs 5 days per week, for 30 minutes per day. I take one terrier puppy to a local dog park 3 days a week, for 60 minutes a day.
How do you find new clients?
I find new clients either by referral, or by using one of two websites: care.com or sittercity.com.
How much does it make each month?
I make $480 per month on this side gig.
Why'd you decide to start a dog walking/sitting service in the first place?
I decided to start a dog walking/sitting business because I love animals, and I saw that there was a need for this service (locally). I also thought it would be a good source of extra income.
How did you start doing your side business?
I started my side business by posting an ad on care.com and on sittercity.com. You can search for jobs in your immediate area.
Do you have a plan to try to turn it into your full time gig?
I do not plan on making this a full time gig.
What resources did you rely on in starting the business?
There really aren't any resources to rely on, except for references (which I had from past/occasional dog walking gigs).
Any funny or otherwise entertaining stories from dog walking/sitting?
No funny stories really, but I do get a kick out of taking the dogs to a dog park. It really makes them happy, and it makes me laugh – because they wrestle, run around, etc. 🙂
Do you have any advice for people looking to start something on the side?
Advice: Be persistent. You may be turned down by potential clients, and you may not know why. Don't focus on that – just keep applying to other jobs until you are successful.
Advice: Treat clients animals as you would your own. Treat the cleint's homes and belongings as if they were your own. Always be honest and up front with clients. Always report any concerns about the animals (or their environment) to the clients.
I hope you enjoyed our chat with Teresa and learned a little about dog walking as a side gig, as always, if you know someone who would make for a good profile/interview for Side Gig Thursdays, please let me know!


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[QUOTE=bloodorchid;1439022]well shit..[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=bloodorchid;1439022]well shit..[/QUOTE]
I feel that we need an in memoriam thread:
Darth Friendly
I know there's a mix of motives, but goddamn.
now what do we do?
Like Val, I've only stopped the journal. I'll still be crashing y'all's journals.
[SIZE=1]Don't throw me on the pyre yet![/SIZE]
[QUOTE=JoanieL;1439479]Like Val, I've only stopped the journal. I'll still be crashing y'all's journals.
[SIZE=1]Don't throw me on the pyre yet![/SIZE][/QUOTE]
you better show up every now an again.... don't make me come to Nawlins to find you! lol.... on second thought......
i was winding myself up to be very annoyed
you dodged a bullet there
[QUOTE=bloodorchid;1439022]well shit..[/QUOTE]
That's the statement that just about sums it up!
[QUOTE=badgergirl;1439467]I feel that we need an in memoriam thread:
Darth Friendly
I know there's a mix of motives, but goddamn.[/QUOTE]
Too right! I was trying to think of someone we've lost the other day, but can't remember the name!
[QUOTE=JoanieL;1439479]Like Val, I've only stopped the journal. I'll still be crashing y'all's journals.
[SIZE=1]Don't throw me on the pyre yet![/SIZE][/QUOTE]
Too glad to hear that, don't be a stranger J!
[QUOTE=ssn679doc;1439480]you better show up every now an again.... don't make me come to Nawlins to find you! lol.... on second thought......[/QUOTE]
D'you need a navigator....
I PMed gravy a while back and she responded. She's doing well :)
WHAT?!?!?!?! Don't you go leaving when I get lazy and don't get on here for weeks!!! BAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
If green beer isnt something that you like, there are alternatives. Just a silly copy and paste post.
Weird flavored beer from around the web:
[LIST][*]Shorts Brewing Companys Key Lime Pie. According to the Michigan-based brewery company, it's made with fresh limes, milk sugar, graham crackers and marshmallow fluff. The prominent sweet-meets-tart flavor won a Gold Medal at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival.[*][*]Rogue Ales Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale features applewood-smoked bacon and maple syrup from Portlands Voodoo Doughnuts.[*][*]Tex Mex Beers seasonal Siesta Prickly Pear Lager, which is made with local fruits from the fields of Texas.[*][*]Right Brain Brewerys Mangalitsa Pig Porter is rich, chocolatey and infused with a symphony of salty, smoky and savory flavors. Made with Mangalitsa pig heads and bones.[*][*]Odell Brewings Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout. Brewed with milk sugar and milk chocolate.[*][*]Birra Calabrona was developed after research in Rome revealed that yeast found in a hornets abdomen could survive and be stored for a long period of time, says Peter Hepp, master brewer at New York Citys Eataly.[*][*]Wells Youngs Brewing Companys Banana Bread Beer tastes exactly like the sweet stuff. Its exceptional as a stand-alone or dessert beer or paired with roast pork.[*][*]Rogues Chipotle Ale.[*][*]Craft Prides Independence Convict Hill Oatmeal Stout, includes English roasted barley, Belgian chocolate and flaked oats.[*][*]Flying Dog Ales Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout brewed with local Rappahannock River oysters. (Get your mind out of the gutter its real oysters, not the other kind of pearl necklace.) :eek:[*][*]Dogfish Heads Noble Rot brew highlights fermentable sugars from two wine grape sources, resulting in a beer with a white wine body and a tart finish.[*][*]Avocado Ale by Angel City Brewery.[*][*]More oysters! Oyster Stout by 21st Amendment Brewery.[*][*]Coconut Curry Hefeweizen by New Belgium Brewing (sounds like heaven in a bottle to me).[*][*]Spirulina Wit Beer by Free Tail Brewing Co. (Vegans gone wild?)[*][*]Kelpie Seaweed Ale by Williams Bros Brew.[*][*]Oysters must be in vogue in the beer community. Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout by Wynkoop Brewing Company.[*][*]Pizza Beer by Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer.[*][*]Bonfyre of the Daiquiris: Against The Grain Brewery.[*][*]Our second avocado offering: Avocado Honey Ale : Island Brewing Company.[*][*]Banana Split Chocolate Stout: Thomas Creek Brewery.[*][*]R&R Coconut IPA: Stone Brewing.[*][*]Crème Brûlée: Southern Tier because nothing says dessert like a bottle of the good stuff.[*][*]Fire in the Ham: Jack's Abby.[*][*]Breakfast Stout: Founders Brewing has come up with a beer that is flavored like coffee. [*][*]Ghost Face Killah: Twisted Pine Brewing Company. It's filled with the menacing fire of the Ghost Pepper, the hottest pepper in the world, along with habaneros and plenty of other chiles.[*][*]Peach Grand Cru: Great Divide Brewing Company.[*][*]Mint Chocolate Stout: Perennial Artisan Ales. (For the person who misses Girl Scout Cookies.)[*][*]Peanut Butter Cup Coffee Porter: Willoughby Brewing Company. Yoo hoo, bloodorchid would this make a good substitute for peanut butter Capn Crunch?[*][*]Southern Pecan Nut Brown Ale: Lazy Magnolia.[*][*]Alba Scots Pine Ale: Williams Bros. Brewing Company. (Might be better suited for Christmas than St. Pats Day.)[*][/LIST]
Of course, I saved the best for last:
[B]Civet Cat Poo[/B]: Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel brew uses a coffee bean delicacy that involves it passing through the gut of the civet cat, after which it's cleaned, sun-dried and roasted. (Ill have a pint of Poo Beer, please. (Not to be confused with Pooh Bear.))
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The PGA Championship
August 15, 2010 - Al Stephenson
When the fourth of this year's majors came around this week, I thought I would write about Corey Pavin and Jim Gray. After watching the final round today, I believe there are more and better stories to bring to print. I'm not, however, ready to let the Pavin-Gray dispute go.
Corey Pavin is the captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Eight players have qualified for the team and Pavin gets to pick the other four members of the team. Jim Gray is a reporter, working currently for the Golf Channel, and he is best known for his messy interview with Pete Rose.
Gray asked Rose several times if he had bet on baseball and wouldn't let the question die unanswered as Charlie Hustle refused to give a response. Now Gray asked Pavin a legitimate question. If Tiger Woods failed to qualify for the team, would Pavin use one of his captain's picks on Woods. According to Gray, Pavin's response was "of course, he is the number one player in the world." Gray reported the comment only to have it refuted a day later by Pavin.
Pavin denied saying it and was accosted by Gray after a media interview. Gray called him a liar and purportedly suggested that Pavin was "going down." I have trouble believing that Pavin's comment could have been taken out of context. It appears that one of them is lying. The question is, which one. Stay tuned.
If you think that this squabble, Woods fall from grace and Phil Mickelson not being able to ascend to the world's number one ranking suggests that professional golf is in trouble, then you should have watched the final round today. I believe it would change your mind.
From 360 yard plus drives, to clutch putts, to hole outs from all over the course, to a playoff for the title, it would appear that golf is alive and well. It was an outstanding tournament and we didn't need Tiger to charge through the field on the last day to make things exciting.
If there was one sad note, it would have to be the two stroke penalty Dustin Johnson was given on the last hole that prevented him from making it a three-way playoff. Johnson had led the U.S.Open at Pebble Beach in June after three rounds only to shoot 82 on Sunday and wonder what might have been. Nick Watney did the same thing today shooting himself out of a chance at the title with an 81 after entering the day with a three stroke lead.
Johnson came to the 72nd hole with a one shot lead and pushed his drive way to the right beyond the gallery ropes. His ball came to rest in a sandy area and with fans giving him a narrow tunnel to hit the ball, he flew the green. An up and down would win the tournament, but after hitting a great chip shot, his eight foot putt just missed the cup. A bogey and a three way playoff. Or so we thought.
The rules committee gave Johnson a two stroke penalty for grounding his club in a bunker. The sand he hit off of for his second shot was considered a bunker and the grounding of a club in a trap is illegal. Johnson admitted that he never even though about being in a trap, nor did David Feherty, the CBS on course reporter who witnessed the shot from nearby.
It didn't look like a typical trap and it was an innocent though costly mistake. If you want to know just how many bunkers there are at Whistling Straits, you may just have to go there and count them yourself. For the last two years a man was hired to count them, and in both cases the guys quit out of frustration. A tough call for tournament officials, but a correct one. Dustin Johnson has to feel like the golf gods are against him. A chance to win the U.S. Open and the PGA in the same year goes awry in a bizarre way. I'm guessing he will win a major some day. I also don't think it will be his only one.
Martin Kaymer from Germany beat Bubba Watson in the three hole aggregate playoff that is unique to the PGA and it was riveting golf.
The view from my seat would suggest that professional golf is just fine. Tiger will likely make a comeback and Phil will win his share of tournaments and perhaps become the top ranked golfer soon.
Until those things happen, just enjoy the young guns of today. They can really play this game too.
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Choice of Law in Federal Courts: From Erie and Klaxon to CAFA and Shady Grove
Kermit Roosevelt III
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Winter 2012
Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 106, Pg. 1, 2012
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-28
The article offers a new perspective on choice of law in federal courts. I have argued in a series of articles that ordinary choice of law problems are best understood through application of a particular conceptual framework, which I call the two-step model. Rather than thinking of choice of law as some sort of meta-procedure, this model takes it to address two substantive questions: what are the scope of the competing states' laws, and which should be given priority if they conflict?
My previous articles have explored the utility of this framework for tackling some perennial problems in choice of law. This one moves to a different context: choice of law in federal courts under the Erie doctrine. It argues that Erie is best understood as a straightforward application of this two-step model and that the model consequently offers a useful guide for Erie analysis. It shows how thinking about the Erie question in this way offers novel and satisfying solutions to a number of puzzles that have troubled courts and commentators in the wake of Erie. These puzzles include the effect that federal courts must give to state choice of law rules (the Klaxon issue), how Klaxon should interact with the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, and the Court's most recent venture into the Erie arena, Shady Grove v. Allstate. These issues have received substantial attention in the scholarly literature, but never from the two-step perspective.
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Keywords: conflict of laws, Choice of Law in Federal Courts, scope of the competing states' laws, priority of laws when they conflict
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MONITOR TOWNSHIP, MI — Police are investigating the break-in of a garage at a Bay County soccer complex, from which thieves stole a couple of vehicles and, curiously, spray painted them.
The burglary of the shed at the Bay Area Soccer Association complex, 4189 Monitor Road in Monitor Township, occurred the night of Thursday, Aug. 14, or in the early hours of the next morning. Debbie Tobin, head of maintenance at the complex, discovered the break-in about 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 15.
"I got out here, I opened the garage door and saw that there was missing a golf cart and a John Deer Gator and a lot of other things, too — tools and equipment we use through the soccer complex," Tobin said. "I was just shocked."
She said all of the doors on the shed had been locked the previous night and there did not appear to be any signs of damage to the shed or its doors to indicate how the burglars may have accessed the items inside.
Bay County Sheriff's deputies responded to Tobin's complaint. They found the Gator and golf cart in a patch of woods off Lauria Drive in Bangor Township, Tobin said. Both vehicles had been spray painted black and green.
"We don't know what to think of the spray painting," Tobin said. The vehicles were banged up in other ways as well, with the golf cart in particular sustaining a flat tire. The vehicles were insured, Tobin said.
The tools and other purloined items have not been recovered.
Undersheriff Troy Cunningham said deputies are still investigating and looking for the culprits.
Anyone with knowledge of the crime can reach deputies at 989-895-4050.
"It's a shame," Tobin said. "This is a volunteer organization."


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Sordo, who replaces the injured Jari-Matti Latvala in the Ford World Rally Team, completed a full day of testing at M-Sport's Greystoke facility in Cumbria today - not tomorrow as previously reported.
The Spaniard is expected to continue running in the car until the early evening, gaining as much experience of the Fiesta as possible ahead of the fifth round of the WRC.
Sordo said: "I am really excited about going to Argentina. When you are a rally driver all you want to do is to compete, so I am really happy that Prodrive has given me the chance to drive the Ford."
The Spaniard will remain at M-Sport's Cumbrian base tomorrow, working with the engineers in an effort to familiarise himself with the Fiesta ahead of his one-off Rally Argentina drive.


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Emperor Obama's clothes
February 18, 2014
It is becoming crystal clear that the emperor has no clothes — and has run out of ways to disguise his nakedness. Unless I miss my guess, he will be entirely out of ideas by late this summer....
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Obama porkulus, a.k.a. the 2009 Generational Theft Act. Some FACTS for those too stupid to see:
FACT: Obama admitted "shovel-ready jobs" were a lie & lapdog journalists admitted they helped cover it up.
FACT: Recovery (Wreckovery) Act doled out $150 billion to green energy boondoggles, 32 of which are now bankrupt.
FACT: After $2 trillion in Wreckovery spending, black unemployment rate is 12.1%, double the national rate.
FACT: More than three-quarters of jobs created/saved by porkulus were govt jobs.
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Barack Obama celebrates President's Day by honoring his favorite one: himself!
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Spot on and excellent article Mr. Myer!!!
It's just sad that some people can't 'think' and ask questions BEFORE voting!
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LOL @ Maj!!! Now that's funny and I don't care what anyone says. Lack of oxygen just MIGHT be why he stutters so much and says the dumbest things. Brain cells die without oxygen...lololol. Thanks for the first laugh of the day, which usually comes from Here's comments! (Unintentionally I'm sure!)
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"Gobbledygook? Get a thesaurus." Major, wanna bet that GDGOOK thinks a thesaurus is a kind of dinosaur? Rock on!
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I meant, "In the know" probably thinks that. (My brain got some serious global warming today and is feeling lazy.)
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Joe, perhaps you should think about what you've been saying. All we have is the government's word on who actually won an election. They count the votes, the canvas them, recount them and give us their results. We have no way of knowing who actually won. All we have in their word. However, when you see signs of fraud, you have to wonder how above board the election was. When you have districts showing well above 100% of the vote, one has to wonder how crooked our elections actually are, especially when most voter turn out is below 56% on a normal election cycle. Add the fact that Obama has the media in his pocket, and the fact that one of Obama's supporters was the owner of the company that wrote the software for the voting machines, which by the way, were responsible for the vote counts above 100%, it all adds up to fixed elections. Not to mention all of the illegal overseas campaign contributions Obama received that were never investigated. Had he been a Republican...........
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I'll start believing elections are accurately counted when Democrats stop fighting to ensure every vote counts and is counted accurately by passing VOTER ID law!!!
Only reason dems are against it is they no longer would be allowed to vote more than once and vote their dogs, dead people, barbie and ken, the unborn, the aborted, etc.......
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Don't you find it a bit odd that the Democrats are the only ones scared to death of photo ID voter cards. Your driver's license had your picture on it, your concealed carry has your picture on it, WV state ID's have your picture on it, your ID badges at work has your photo on it, and nobody thinks anything about it, but all of a sudden when someone suggest putting your photo on your voter's registration card, they go bananas. Why is that?
Just think, there would be no more multiple voting, no more fraudulent registrations, the graveyard vote would disappear, and the poll workers would know the right person was voting. I fail to see why this scares the devil out of the Democrats. They keep running their mouth about clean elections, but then they are against the one thing that could stop all the fraud. Could it be that they are afraid they can't win an election without stealing it? I'd say that about sums it up.
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Show #3962
Scarlett Johansson, and John Grant.
PLUS: dealing with the cold; a car stuck in the snow; how old is Roger?; a Velveeta crisis; North Korea: Myth and Fact; a Top Ten list; Healthbeat with Dr. Lou Aronne; and a story of Dave's mom in Florida.
". . . . and now, second tenor of The Jordanaires . . . . . . . David Letterman!"
-"The People's Choice Awards were on earlier tonight. I chose to watch something else."
"How old are you, Roger?" We quickly cut to the Teeter Hand Up commercial. We see a healthy elderly exclaim with a leap, "I'm over 72, and I feel great!"
How you doing with the cold? When the weather gets this cold, you hear a lot of advice on how to deal with the freezing temperatures. Dave saw this reminder on television that seemed particularly valuable. We take a look.
ANNOUNCE: "If the sidewalk in front of your home tends to become icy, it is extremely important to install a video camera to record any hilarious falls that occur."
We view a number of falls by pedestrians trying to make their way with snow and ice under foot. Even a moose. Yes, when others fall on the ice, it's a hoot!
ANNOUNCE: "A message from the National Weather Service."
How's that car coming along? We cut to a car stuck in the snow, spinning its tires. Dave wonders why the guy working the video camera doesn't lend a hand. And why is the car in the backyard? Lots of questions but no answers. Paul offers a suggestion of putting some cardboard under the tires. That, and warm weather, will get the car moving.
Velveeta shortage! Velveeta shortage! You know what that means . . . . .
A "Hellveeta" graphic comes flying in. Dramatic music sting from the band. Full graphic, with ominous announce: "Hellveeta: Day 2 – A Nation in Crisis!"
I'll say it's a crisis! Velveeta is the staple at my Super Bowl party.
Hoo boy, that New Jersey Governor Christ Christie . . . he got himself in a bit of a jam, pun intended. Some believe he ordered lane closures to cause traffic jams in the town of a mayor who did not support his re-election bid. The Governor hadn't caused such a tie-up since the time he was at the Arby's drive-thru. We take a look at line of cars at Arby's. C'mon, Governor, just order the roast beef and move on.
There's a lot of confusion surrounding recent events in North Korea. We sort it out for you in this segment called, "North Korea: Myth & Fact"
ANNOUNCE/GRAPHIC: "MYTH: Kim Jong-Un's uncle was torn apart by dogs."
We see a pack of snarling dogs with the growling and yelping of a man being devoured by snarling dogs.
ANNOUNCE/GRAPHIC: "FACT: Kim Jong-Un's uncle was shot to death . . . by dogs."
We see a trio of dogs toting rifles. We hear gunfire.
In for Felicia Collins tonight: Mike Muller
Before hopping aboard the Top Ten train, Dave has a tale to tell. His mom, now 92, is in Florida staying with Dave's sister for a spell. Dave's mom has one of those walkers to help her get around from here to there. It's not a walker with the tennis balls on the bottom but one with wheels. Better for the outdoors. Mom and daughter were out for a walk. While daughter got the mail, mom went ahead up the driveway back to the house. Well, mom took a break, but the walker didn't. With mom leaning on it, the walker slowly slid up the driveway. Mom hung on to the walker. The walker continued to walk while mom did not. When Dave's sister looked up, she saw mom planking. Mom had gone horizontal.
TOP TEN: NEW PRODUCTS FEATURED AT THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW – the show is now in session all this week in Las Vegas. It features exhibit after exhibit of stuff we don't need but will be convinced we do.
9. Return-O, The Gift That Returns Itself
3. Nose Hair Trimmer with Nostril Recognition
2. iPod Inappropriate Touch
Miss Scarlett has been battling this polar vortex here in New York with hot dogs, canned food, and snowmen. She now lives in Paris. Parisians were nice to her at first, but now that they know she's staying they aren't so nice.
Someday I want to be able to say that I lived in Paris for a while. Maybe I'll just go there on a two-week vacation and tell them I lived there. Nobody has to know it was only for two weeks.
Look for Scarlett in the new film, "Her." You can look for her, but you won't find her. Voice only. And it's not an animated film. Scarlett plays a very advanced computer operating system named "Samantha." The apparent nerdish Joaquin Phoenix becomes smitten with the Samantha voice. I guess it makes dating a lot cheaper.
"Her" – opens nationwide this Friday.
Tonight's Backstage Photo Club inducts assistant researcher Kat Koehler with a cutout of Danny Devito.
ANNOUNCE: "You'll want to join us again tomorrow as Dave welcomes Anderson Cooper, from 'Saturday Night Live' Billy Moynihan, and Will Hoge. The production of incandescent light bulbs is now banned in the U.S. Whale oil, here I come!"
It's time once again for our popular medical segment, "Healthbeat, with Dr. Lou Aronne." Dave points out that Dr. Lou is the real deal. He ain't no actor, ain't no pretender. Dave lauds, "He's the guy who saved my life."
We find Dr. Lou standing in front of a brick wall, a la Catch a Rising Star or The improve or the Comedy Cellar . . . one of those . . . or all of those. Not sure.
Dr. Lou is in his white lab coat. He has microphone in hand. He takes a sip of water that sits on a nearby stool.
DR. LOU: "The polar vortex is upon us, bringing extreme Arctic temperatures to much of the United States. Weather like this is dangerous. It can cause frostbite in minutes. Here's how you can tell if you have frostbite:
-If you're experiencing clumsiness due to joint and muscle stiffness, you might . . . have frostbite." Rim shot.
-If you have a slightly painful prickly or itching sensation in your fingers, toes, ears, nose or chin, you might . . . have frostbite." Rim shot.
-If a fluid-filled blister appears 24 to 36 hours after exposure, and then the area turns black and hard as your skin tissue becomes necrotic, you might . . . have frostbite." Rim shot.
-If you're suffering from any of these conditions, contact your physician immediately. Goodnight everybody!" Dr. Lou waves. Freeze.
ALAN ANNOUNCE: "Dr. Lou is currently appearing daily at the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. This has been 'Healthbeat, with Dr. Lou Aronne.' Back to you, Dave."
From his album, "Pale Green Ghosts," John Grant performed "GMF." Oh, boy, this guy deserves more listens. GMF stands for . . . "Greatest Mother'givl'er". This song, and I think others on the album, sound soulful and full of heart, but the lyrics are deliciously hateful, depressing, and full of misery and gloom. But, he's over it. He accepts life's inevitable futility and hopeless hope. That's just the way life is. At least that's what I got out of one song. Bring me more John Grant.
And that was our show for Wednesday, January 8, 2014.
JAM SCAM! I love it! Not only is it about the New Jersey/Governor Christie scandal about creating unnecessary traffic jams, it's about MY traffic jams! My George Washington Bridge! My commute! I love talking about traffic, and this one is all about mine! Governor Christie, or his people, were upset with the Fort Lee Mayor (Fort Lee is on the Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge) because the Mayor did not endorse Christie in his quest for re-election as governor. As punishment, the order was put out for lane closures leading into the bridge. This caused traffic pileups all through the city of Fort Lee by people trying to get around the traffic. What commuters don't understand, don't quite get, is that there is a need to cause traffic getting onto the bridge? Really? Doesn't that happen on its own? The bridge doesn't need help for that. Anyway, Christie is denying he knew anything about the "order." I find he is too much of "Huh? What? Not me . . . I knew nothing" and not enough of "When I find out who is responsible, heads will roll." He's in "covering ass" mode and not "kicking ass" mode. But then, by the time you read this he may be in "kicking ass" mode. He's set to make an announcement some time Thursday morning.
What have I always said? You can do anything you want in New York (and Jersey); just don't screw up the flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic. The whole metro area has someplace to go. Don't get in the way. It's all we ask.
JAM SCAM! I love it! Bring it on!
And could we please get some grownups in politics. Where are the grownups? Politicians all seem like a bunch of 8th graders, more concerned with how they look and fit in than with doing the right thing and getting the right things done. Oy.
Note to Stop & Shop supermarket. . . you need to make your coupons and specials easier to understand. "Gas Points"? How does that work? At what gas station? And I save $5 on this item if I buy 5 of these other items? What items? You mean I have to shop with the flier in my hand and check off items from the list? Wrong. You need to make it easy; make it immediate.
Yeah, that's right, I use coupons! Just try to make something of it. If you got a problem with that I'll come to your town and create traffic. Watch it.
Happy birthday, Elvis!
Elvis Presley performed 3 times on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1. September 9, 1956 --- 60 million people tuned in.
2. October 28, 1956
3. January 6, 1957
I'm on the Facebook the other day. You read all kinds of things there; some boring and tedious; others tedious and boring.
I read this public posting from an old high school acquaintance.
"Mom not doing well. Please be strong . I love you." Very sad. I said a quick prayer for her and her mom.
Six hours later I saw this on Facebook from the same person:
"Happy happy hour" – with photos of her enjoying happy hour.
The next day's post: "I need Italian rainbow cookies."
I don't remember the saint I prayed to but I apologize for taking up your time.
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More than most releases, I've taken a lot of extra time listening to Megadeth's SUPER COLLIDER, if for no other reason than to figure out just why I don't think it's very good. With Megadeth, it's always a scenario where the first few listens remind you of a lot of other stuff they have done. You have to give them more time though, as the Dave Mustaine sound has a way of either sticking with you when it's truly brilliant, or just sounding tired when it's not. Certainly, any metalhead knows the difference between an album like RUST IN PEACE and another like THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO. It's the same guy, and literally the same audio quality of performance, but that spark is completely different between the two albums. With KINGMAKER, Mustaine and company just fall flat, even though it's a well recorded album that's unmistakably Megadeth.
It's not RISK, folks. But it's not that good either. Much like Megadeth's last album THIRTEEN, all the elements are there except for one - exceptional songs. It's too bad too, because they seemed like they had clawed their way back to elite status with their unbelievably good album ENDGAME a few years ago. This time out, Mustaine has penned a collection of songs that are fair, but there's not much else to say about them. Listening to songs like "Dance In The Rain", you definitely know it's Megadeth, but you also know it's a tired, unenthused version of the band. Other songs, like "Beginning Of Sorrow" are just mid-tempo, boring numbers that lack almost all of that classic Mustaine ferocity on both vocals and guitars. In fact, the lack of great guitars could very well be the biggest element missing on SUPER COLLIDER. Having two amazing lead players like Dave Mustaine and Chris Broderick in your lineup, you just expect a lot more than what is delivered on SUPER COLLIDER. Sure, the guitars are loud, but they are very dull. On songs like "The Blackest Crow", the overall idea of guitar dichotomy mixed with banjo and some slide guitar is cool, but it just sort of lays there dead on arrival.
The same can be said about Mustaine's vocal performance throughout SUPER COLLIDER. In short, he just sounds bored and not up to his usual level of aggression that is needed to power his music. He's singing more than barking out lyrics, and that's just plain boring. "Forget To Remember" has literally no energy in it vocally at all. Even a song like the title track could have been a great track, but is plagued by vocals that are just a touch past spoken word intensity.
PITRIFF RATING - 51/100 - It's not RISK, but this one lays at the bottom of the barrel with THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO in my book. Every album can't be a home run for a band with 30 years of history, but they can all be better than this. SUPER COLLIDER sounds decent enough, but it's just flat and fairly lifeless. With each listen, you find yourself having less and less interest. This one goes straight to the forgotten list, where every once in awhile it'll come on in some shuffle play and remind me to listen to some better Megadeth albums.


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Having to with clothes and or fashion.
You can be considered Faconable or a Fashionista if your Couture is up to date.
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The judges called homelessness charity Crisis Skylight project absolutely stunning and unbelievably successful. For head of Skylight, Helen Leech, however, the most rewarding reactions were from the homeless people who attended. My favourite quote from someone on the project was, I opened up like a blooming flower,she recalls.
Skylight is designed to re-skill and re-motivate single homeless people by offering flexible first steps back into learning and society through a variety of non-compulsory courses. For homeless people, the issue of rehousing, says Leech, is only one part of the problem: Homelessness is about more than a roof. Its causes relationship breakdown, substance abuse, ill health, often have a devastating impact on people's ability to function within society.
With little existing daytime provision of services for homeless people, Skylight leased an 11,000 sq. ft building in central London, which was transformed over the summer of 2002 into an activity centre. Skylight became fully operational in December 2003 and currently offers courses including computer maintenance, bicycle repair, photography, creative writing, and karate.
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Big black dogs are among the last animals to be adopted, but local shelters are trying to turn that around with makeovers and a little better marketing.
Sometimes, all it takes is better lighting, a brightly colored collar, or even a unique squeaky toy in its cage for an animal to be noticed, shelter workers say. Black dogs just need a little help standing out.
Employees at local shelters said they have problems finding homes for black dogs.
That's definitely "the shelter worker's perception," throughout the country, said Jacque Schultz, the senior director of community outreach for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "If you see a row of 20 black dogs, they fade from your memory," she said.
"There's very little in the way of research" on whether black dogs are euthanized at higher rates, she said, but it's likely. "The longer you're at a shelter, the greater the risk," she said.
Adult black cats don't fare any better, said Emily Laurie, public relations coordinator for Pet Helpers on James Island. About half of the cats up for adoption at Pet Helper are black. "Some of the nicest animals here have black coats," Laurie said.
"It's such a desperate situation for black animals," said Kay Hyman, director of outreach and communication, for the Charleston Animal Society.
And the big black adult dog has three strikes against the likelihood of it being adopted. Many people tend to shy away from dogs that are large, more than 2 years old and black, Hyman said.
And big black dogs are one of the most common animals brought into the shelter, she said. "In the South, we see a lot of labs and lab-mixes," she said. Sometimes, she said, shelter volunteers transport the dogs to other parts of country where the large black canines are less common, she said.
The shelter is planning to hold an event sometime this summer called Black Dog Sunday, she said. People can come in that day and adopt a black dog at a reduced price. It has held such events twice in the past, she said, and the events have been successful.
Marcia Atkinson, director of the Doc Williams SPCA in Berkeley County, said with black dogs, "we make efforts to showcase them in extra special conditions."
The shelter keeps the black dogs near a light so their coats look shiny, and puts colorful collars on them, she said.
Shelter employees said they really don't know why black dogs are adopted less often, beyond not standing out as much as their lighter-coated counterparts.
Sharon Atkinson, manager at the Frances Willis SPCA in Summerville, said it's difficult to see black dogs' faces and that a sweet face can win over a person looking to adopt a pet. It's especially hard to see their faces through the bars of a cage, she said. So shelter staff members try to get the dogs out to adoption events where people can interact them and "see their full potential."
It's important that animals at shelters get noticed because many shelters have to euthanize animals if they run out of space to house them. Employees at local shelters said they don't track euthanizations by an animal's color.
Kim Intino, director of shelter services for the Humane Society of the United States, is an expert who disagrees with anecdotal reports from shelter workers that black dogs are euthanized at a higher rate. A study conducted by Pet- health Inc., a pet insurance company, suggests they're not, she said, but added the study didn't include a representative sample of shelters. Intino agrees that it takes longer for black dogs to be adopted. The trouble shelters have in finding homes for black dogs motivates staffers to "make them noticeable for their personalities," she said.
"You don't want them to blend together and become the six black dogs at the shelter," she said.
Kristin Kifer, operations manager at Pet Helpers, which doesn't euthanize animals, said it's even tough sometimes to find homes for black puppies, though nowhere near as hard as it is to find homes for adult black dogs.
The shelter now has a litter of six black puppies that are about 8 weeks old. They've been at the shelter for a week and none of them have been adopted. "Puppies usually fly out the door," she said.


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Two years after a devastating tornado hit Denning and Etna, people are rebuilding their lives.Video Transcript
TODAY-- MARKS 2 YEARS SINCE A DEVASTATING TORNADO HIT OUR AREA. 40/29'S BRETT RAINS SHOWS US HOW THE PEOPLE OF ETNA AND DENNING HAVE REBUILT THEIR LIVES AFTER A MILE WIDE TORNADO DESTROYED EVERYTHING. "it's not hard to find reminders about the deadly tornado that swept through here two years ago, fortunately most of the homes and businesses in this community, don't look like this" Terry Dictson, Home Destroyed "it's not something you forget, it stays with you forever" TERRY DICTSON WAS HOME WHEN THE TORNADO HIT, HER HOUSE WAS DESTROYED. Terry Dictson, Home Destroyed "when I went back upstairs there was no bedroom, where I had been two minutes before was gone, literally gone" TERRY AND HER HUSBAND CALLED THIS TRAVEL TRAILER HOME FOR OVER A YEAR. BUT NOW... (nats Hi, welcome to our new home) TERRY HAS A REASON TO SMILE. Terry Dictson, Home Destroyed "we're happy here, we moved in last June, and we have really enjoyed it, it's nice to have a house" (nats..."it's just a regular carpet store") JIM LANES CARPET STORE WAS ALSO DESTROYED, BUT NOW LANES CARPET IS BACK IN BUSINESS. Jim Lane, Business Owner "displaced for a year, year and a half and you just build back and it just feels like you're back home again" BOTH JIM AND TERRY SAY THEY'VE NEVER FORGOTTEN WHAT HAPPENED TWO YEARS AGO. Jim Lane, Business Owner "especially with the tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma it just brings it back home" Terry Dictson, Home Destroyed "it's really hard to watch those videos, it's really hard to watch them because I know what those people are going to be going through the next few months and years, your heart just goes out to them " BRETT RAINS 40/29 NEWS 2 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES IN DENNING AND ETNA, AND 2 MORE ALSO
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SPLIT: "Spider-Man" bad guy Willem Dafoe, 49, and his companion for 27 years, director-actress Elizabeth LeCompte, have gone their separate ways, reports the New York Post, which says that he is now with an unnamed 29-year-old Italian beauty. Dafoe and LeCompte have one son, Jack, 22.
QUOTED: "When is she coming?" -- Nicolas Cage, 40, waiting for his cousin, Original Best Screenplay winner Sofia Coppola, at Vanity Fair's Oscar party Sunday night, as quoted by The New York Times
DIED: Broadway playwright Jerome Lawrence, who with his collaborator, Robert E. Lee, wrote such hit plays as the comedy "Auntie Mame" (and its musical version, "Mame"), "Inherit the Wind" and "First Monday in October," died Sunday at his home in Malibu, say reports. Lee died 10 years ago. Their final collaboration, a play about Benjamin Franklin, was 1994's "Whisper in the Mind."
HIRED: Ex-"Baretta" star Robert Blake, 70, appeared in court Monday with a new lawyer -- his fourth since he was charged with murdering his wife three years ago, reports AP. M. Gerald Schwartzbach, 59, has practiced criminal law for more than 35 years. Blake's trial is now scheduled to begin Sept. 9.
UNSOLVED: Nearly two months after actor-writer Spalding Gray walked out of his Manhattan apartment and disappeared, his wife holds out hope that he will return unharmed, reports AP. "Everyone that looks like him from behind, I go up and check to make sure it's not him," says Kathleen Russo. "If someone calls and hangs up, I always do star-69. You're always thinking, 'Maybe.'" Police said they have received 36 tips since Gray's disappearance Jan. 10.
SUED: Game show producer Ralph Andrews, 76, has sued "American Bandstand" icon Dick Clark's production company for age discrimination, saying he was "embarrassed, humiliated and aggravated" when he was passed up for a job by his fellow septuagenarian, reports Reuters. Andrews claims in his Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that Clark, 74, sent him a letter in May of 2003 saying he was too old for a job with his production company. A rep for Clark declined comment.
ILL: Despite having filmed portions of her role, Anne Bancroft, 72, has withdrawn from playing Tea Leoni's mother and Adam Sandler's mother-in-law in James L. Brooks's "Spanglish," reports Variety columnist Army Archerd. Bancroft underwent minor surgery last week at UCLA and is recuperating at home for an anticipated complete recovery but would not be able to do the "physical things" required for the film, according to her husband, Mel Brooks.


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General Sonthi Boon-yaratglin yesterday distanced himself from the campaign to oust Surayud Chula-nont as premier.
The Council for National Security (CNS) chairman said he was "lured" into having a meeting with Assembly of Isaan People members on Tuesday at Army headquarters. He said he was informed the group would brief him about the latest developments in the Northeast.
"I thought they were going to tell me about the undercurrents in the region," he said, using the euphemism for secret resistance by people still loyal to the previous administration. Sonthi said he was not concerned about the drive by political activists to have the premier removed, adding that he considered the matter "natural". He did not elaborate.
Prime Minister Surayud yesterday played down the latest attempt by political activists to remove him from office. He said Sonthi had not yet looked into the details of the move.
Under the interim constitution's rules, Sonthi as CNS chief has the power to sack the prime minister.
Meanwhile, a group of National Legislative Assembly (NLA) members are reportedly threatening to resign in a bid to pressure Surayud to step down.
"I don't think it has brought pressure on me," Surayud said of the Assembly of Isaan People's appeal on Tuesday to Sonthi to remove him as prime minister.
Surayud said he discussed the issue with Sonthi yesterday morning. The CNS chief told him the appeal had not been taken into consideration, Surayud said.
Surayud said he was open to criticism.
He refused to comment on a warning by the group, linked to the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), that it would stage a mass rally against him if Sonthi did not sack him within two weeks.
Surayud urged all sides in the political conflict to cooperate and compromise to end the country's problems.
Mass rallies by the PAD contributed heavily to the ousting of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
NLA member Praphan Khoonmee yesterday acknowledged that some senior civilian and retired-military NLA members had planned to gather signatures of other members to pressure Surayud to quit, or otherwise they would resign.
They have serious concerns about Surayud's failure to solve various crises during his seven months in power, he said.
NLA member Chamlong Srimuang yesterday said he did not see Surayud's exit as a solution to the crisis, because a new prime minister would not do much better under a tight schedule before the end of the present government's term.
NLA Speaker Meechai Ruchuphan dismissed reports of a signature campaign, saying he had heard nothing about it.


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The Reverend W. James Gerling is a dedicated, compassionate pastor who sees his role extending far beyond the pulpit to encompass community service, social justice and advocacy. Since his arrival in Geneva nearly three decades ago, he has touched the lives of thousands of local residents as a respected senior pastor of the Presbyterian Church and a highly regarded Geneva resident.
Reverend Gerling is first and foremost a gifted and caring pastor who has served two terms as Clergy Delegate to the General Assembly, acted as Moderator of the Presbytery of Geneva and has been active in many presbytery committees.
Reverend Gerling's involvement in the community is extensive and his impact is deep, affecting progress across the entirety of the Geneva community, from the area's youngest members to its most senior residents. A listing of his civic and leadership engagement shows a variety of roles on many different projects: Unity Day, Celebrate Service, the Community Playground, the Community Lunch Program, the United Way, Habitat for Humanity, and the Campaign to renovate the Geneva Public Library. He has worked on Community Unified Today, an advocacy group for people of color in the areas of housing, childcare, human rights and social justice, and is a member of the Martin Luther King Committee.
Focusing additional efforts on the wellbeing of older Geneva residents, Reverend Gerling serves as member and past chair of the Finger Lakes Health Foundation Board. Recognizing that older community members were not being served, he took it upon himself to chair a task force to assist the health system in planning a senior living facility.
Reverend Gerling advocates for the young people of Geneva as the board president of Success for Geneva's Children, a community collaboration of agencies and programs that serves Geneva's children and their families. He is the co-chair of the capital campaign for the Boys & Girls Club of Geneva, which has raised more than $4 million and allowed for the construction of a community center. Reverend Gerling is also the co-founder of Miracle in the Park, a triathlon fundraiser to combat hunger in the community.
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Just so as you know I went ahead and double-clicked the Clouds Filter a few more times until I achieve this effect right here, and then I went ahead and saved it off as Masked sunrays.psd. In this exercise we're going to finish off the composition by adding a burst of light coming out from underneath the clouds and we are going to embellish that light using a couple of smart filters as well. Again, if you're working along with me go ahead and scroll up to the top of the list here inside the Layers panel and you'll find this layer called sunlight.
I want you to go ahead and turn it on and notice it's just this black area with this blob of white in the upper right- hand corner that I painted rather roughly. I must have been using the Brush tool. And not I'd like you go up to the layer menu and choose the Arrange command and then choose Send to Back, or we can press Ctrl+Shift+ [, Command+Shift+[ on the Mac and that'll send that layer all the way to the back of the stack directly above the background image.] So go ahead and drag it up in front of rays, like so.
If you want you can collapse the rays layer, so it takes up a little less room there inside the Layers panel. I'm going to collapse that kite layer as well. The next step because we'll be applying Smart Filters. I want you to convert this layer to a Smart Object by going up to Layers panel flyout menu and choosing Convert to Smart Object or press Ctrl+, or Command+, on the Mac if you loaded my D keys. Now let's drop out the blacks and keep that white blob by changing the Blend mode from Normal to Screen and we end up creating this bright effect here.
I've figured that wasn't quite enough. If this light was really coming directly at us and we were trying to capture this scene using a digital camera then there would be a little bit of obligatory lens flare involved. To add that lens flare, go up to the Filter menu, choose Render and then choose Lens Flare and we're going to start things off with the default settings. I'm going to change the Lens Type to 50- 300 millimeter zoom and increase that B Brightness value to 100%. Now this preview is worth beans, it's just so tiny and so difficult to follow.
What you want to do us drag that little plus sign until the effect looks like its a little bit high. We really wanted to encircle that sort of cloud thing, but you need to move it a little bit high for that to happen. So it should look more or less like this. Then click OK in order to create the effect. And it looks like I did a pretty good job. If for any reason whatsoever, you feel like you didn't absolutely nailed the effect then you just go ahead and double-click on the word Lens Flare here inside the Layers panel and you drag that guy up, for example,.
Here is the problem though, we want to drag it up maybe 1 pixel and that's not terribly easy to do of course. Go ahead and try it out to see if you can get it to move around to a better position, click OK and that is going to be good enough for our purposes because I don't want to fool around with this all day. It's going to end up looking pretty good anyway. I don't want to introduce those aberrant pinks. So I'm going to get rid of the additional Lens Flare coloring by double-clicking in the slider icons to the right of the words Lens Flare and here inside the Blending Options dialog box I'm going to change the mode from Normal to Luminosity that I'll drop out those colors and keep the natural colors from the sky.
Click OK in order to accept that modification. Now at this point I thought hey, if one Lens Flare affect looks good then two Lens Flare affects will look awesome. So I went back to the Filter menu and chose that very first command Lens Flare, or you can press Ctrl+F, Command+F on the Mac. Because we're working with the Smart Object that brings back the Lens Flare dialog box, now I want you to change the Lens Type to 105mm Prime, reduce the Brightness value to 75%, at least that's what I came up with, you can go your way. And I drag this little plus sign which indicates the center of the effect over and down to the left.
So it's down toward the bottom-left side of that bright blob and then clicked okay to create that new effect. To get rid of the coloring where this effect is concerned as well double-click on its little slider icon and once again change the mode from Normal to Luminosity and then click OK. If we zoom-out here a little bit, notice that there is a bunch of Lens Flare effects down into the left of the model's face. I don't want that. So I'm going to create a filter mask, but I want to create the filter mask from scratch because that's the easiest way to work.
So go to the existing white filter mask next to the word Smart Filters here, right-click on it and choose Delete Filter Mask. Then go ahead and grab the Elliptical Marquee tool and drag from the center of the cloud like so and as you drag, press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, to create a big huge ellipse that cuts through the model as you see here. So it should basically just go right through the model's face. And now we're going to recreate that filter mask by right-clicking on the word Smart Filters and then choose Add Filter Mask and that will go ahead and filter away the effect on the left side of the image.
Right now, we've got a very harsh transition and that transition could end up showing up later. So why don't we soften things? By making sure that the filter mask is active. Then I'm going to collapse my Color panel here and I'll go up to the Window menu and choose the Mask command and I want you to increase the Feather value to say about 50 pixels and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac and that way we're applying a parametric nondestructive softening effect to this filter mask. Let's go ahead and collapse the Mask panel once again.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom-in on my image and they're just too more finishing effects that I want to apply. First of all I decided that I wanted to regain a little bit of the hair around the model's head and you can do that if you like by going to this layer that's called M1 R40. That's the multiplied version of the image and currently I've masked away all that brightness around her head. In that way that not quite white background wasn't going to darken the rest of the scene.
Now that we've added all of these rays of light, which have tremendously brightened the scene as you can see here, we can afford to go ahead and introduce a little bit of darkening by Shift+clicking on the layer mask that's associated with that M1 R40 layer. That'll turn the layer mask off and bring back some of the finer details of hair inside of that multiply layer and then finally I'll scroll to the top of the stack and turn on this text layer that I've created for you in advance. Let's go ahead and check out the final version.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom-in on the image just a little bit here, and then I'll press the F key a couple of times in order to switch to the full screen mode. And here is the final version of the composition in which we've managed to isolate and blend two of the toughest image elements there are, hair and feathers using a combination of conventional every day masking and compositing techniques, here inside Photoshop.
- Setting up a workspace
- Working with the seven key selection tools
- Using the Color Range command
- Automating masking
- Matching a scene with Smart Filters
- Choosing the ideal base channel
- Converting a channel to a mask
- Painting with the Overlay and Soft Light modes
- Using History to regain a lost mask
- Working with the Calculations command
- Extracting a mask from a Smart Object
- Masking and compositing light
- Masking with black and white
- Working with path outlines
- Combining pixel and vector masks
- Creating and feathering a vector mask


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Tyler Cowen notes an unsavoury fact about the Chinese economic miracle:
…of the 3,220 Chinese citizens with a personal wealth of 100 million yuan ($13 million) or more, 2,932 are children of high-level cadres. Of the key positions in the five industrial sectors – finance, foreign trade, land development, large-scale engineering and securities – 85% to 90% are held by children of high-level cadres.
Cowen lifted the above quote from an interesting article that details how the regime in Beijing controls economic data coming out of the Middle Kingdom, which helps to prompt foreign investors to keep funding the great confidence trick that is the modern Chinese economy.
The family connections of China's super-rich and captains of industry must be considered alongside rosy economic statistics provided that expound China's development. These filial links between the commanding heights of China's supposedly private sector and its government betray the fact that China Inc. is the unholy alliance of a dictatorial regime and the application of corrupted 'free' market ideals. Such an arrangement will fail in due course, and will probably fail spectacularly since it has come this far.