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This just in. I just heard from organizers at CSSC and Environment California that youth turnout at San Diego State University is so high that they've completely run out of provisional ballots.
There's still over 5 hours before polls close at 8 CT - make sure you get out to vote!
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Breakin' it Down in Ohio
In the final days before the election, young people across Ohio are breakin' it down, literally. They've got three objectives in mind: (1) turning out the youth vote, (2) making the case to revitalize the Rust Belt with clean energy solutions like high-speed rail, (3) and having fun.
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Trick-Out-The-Vote in the South!
Written by Jenna Garland, cross-posted from Southern Energy Network
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays: candy, costumes, and in 2010, democracy!
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VIDEO UPDATE: Koch Refuses to Accept Debate Challenge In-Person, Responds with Security Team
Yesterday, I accompanied Joel Francis to Koch Industries' headquarters to deliver his debate challenge in person to CEO Charles Koch.
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March to the Polls: "Who's Future? Our Future!"
Written by Cara Cooper, Florida International University
Time for our generation to get off our computers and get to the polls!
Today, Florida YES Coalition students at Florida International University in Miami, Florida hosted a youth voting rally on campus and marched together to the polls.
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Video from MN: "Of course I'm voting for clean energy, there's no other way to vote"
Students at College of St. Benedicts & St. John's made this great YouTube video of them talking to other young people about the importance of getting out the vote for clean energy.
As Casey says, "young people are turning out in droves on November 2nd" you don't want to miss it!
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Video: Florida Students Create "Human Oil Spill" on 6 month anniversary of BP Disaster
Check out this great news clip of students from Florida Gulf Coast University. They created a "human oil spill" to protest the 6 month anniversary of the BP oil disaster and urge young people to vote to move beyond dirty and dangerous offshore drilling.
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A Tale of Two Cities... and Two Global Work Parties!
Denver and Atlanta are two very different cities, but on October 10, 2010, they had something in common with each other and over 7,000 communities in 188 countries around the world. On 10/10/10, young people in these two cities came together to participate in Global Work Parties inspired by 350.org and organized by community leaders and volunteers whose collective efforts resulted in the most widespread demonstration of climate solutions EVER! Whether exchanging old incandescent bulbs for newer, more efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), planting trees or creating a video message to elected officials about the urgent need for clean energy, the message was clear: "We are getting to work to address the climate crisis and so should ALL WORLD LEADERS."

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The Dallas North Republican Club will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Taffy's Restaurant, 1902 Promenade on Coit Road, between Belt Line and Arapaho roads in Richardson. The speaker will be Tina Peyton, who is North Texas field manager of the Texas Division of Citizens for a Sound Economy.
A public-interest group is offering Triad residents a chance to learn more about Social Security reform this evening.
N.C. Citizens for a Sound Economy is hosting the 90-minute forum beginning at 7 p.m. in the Jamestown Civic Center, 301 E. Main St.
The presentation includes remarks by U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who has championed reform of the retirement system, and by a staff member of the group that focuses on economic issues of national importance. U.S. Rep. Howard Coble of Greensboro also will be on hand.
Boston had their tea party. It was only a matter of time before Washingtonians began taking to the streets to voice their displeasure with the high price of a gallon of gasoline.
For instance, bureaucrats leaving the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency last week were handed pink slips, or a "Notice of Termination" on pink paper, as they headed down into the subway.
The notice read:
"To: All EPA Bureaucrats
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WINSTON-SALEM - The largest cigarette maker in North Carolina says its disagrees with a proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., to charge cigarette companies an assessment to pay for a proposed buyout of federal tobacco quota.
A buyout could pump at least $4 billion into the state's rural economy, but officials at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. say the assessment breaks the spirit of Dole's pledge not to support tax increases.
"This appears to be a classic bait and switch," said Tommy Payne, the senior vice president for external relations at Reynolds.
Published on Thursday, October 2, 2003 by OneWorld.net
WASHINGTON -- The enthusiasm of internationalists over the return of the United States to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after almost 20 years' boycott may be dampened by President Bush's choice to be the next ambassador at the Paris-based agency.
SALEM, Ore. -- In his first year in office, Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski
antagonized his labor allies with a strong push to reduce pension benefits of public employees and freeze state worker salaries. At the same time,
Kulongoski worked with legislators including Republicans to crank out a budget deal and pass bills aimed at giving a boost to the state's economy.
© 2002 Copley News Service, 12/31/2002
I was really disappointed to read in the Wall Street Journal last week that some officials inside the Bush administration are attempting to convince the president neither to accelerate the 2001 income-tax rate reductions nor to shorten the period of time that companies must wait to write off investment in new plant and equipment. Both of these changes to the president's economic growth and jobs package would unduly weaken it.
For New Jerseyans seeking auto insurance coverage, 2002 will likely be known as the worst year in state history for auto insurance choice and competition.
"Drivers are facing the ugly truth about auto insurance in New Jersey," said John Friedman, chairman of the Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition. "Excessive regulation and political interference is forcing auto insurers to flee New Jersey, leaving drivers with little choice and few options."
More than twenty-five auto insurers have left New Jersey during the last ten years. In 2002, seven auto insurers either left or announced plans to stop doing business in New Jersey:
- January: Harleysville Insurance Company agrees to pay Palisades Safety and Insurance Association and Palisades Insurance Company $4.7 million to take the 16,000 vehicles Harleysville insures.
- June: State officials approve State Farm Indemnity's request to withdraw from New Jersey.
- September: State Farm Indemnity starts non-renewing 96,000 New Jersey auto policies as part of its withdrawal.
- September: Twin City Fire Insurance Company, part of Hartford Financial Services, agrees to pay Palisades Safety & Insurance Association and Palisades Insurance Company $9.2 million to take the 24,000 vehicles Twin City insures in New Jersey.
- September: Great American Insurance Company agrees to pay Palisades Safety & Insurance Association and Palisades Insurance Company $7.0 million to take the 24,000 vehicles Great American insurers in New Jersey.
- December: The Robert Plan shuts its New Jersey business, non-renewing its last 20,000 vehicles through a Department of Banking and Insurance-ordered "solvent run-off" precipitated by the company's hazardous financial condition.
- December: Central Mutual Insurance Company announces it is leaving New Jersey.
- December: Merchants Insurance Group announces it is leaving New Jersey.
Each month, the owners of more than 4,000 vehicles learn that their auto insurance coverage is not being renewed, forcing these policyholders to search for replacement coverage in a market bereft of sufficient choice and competition.
The Coalition points to the state's excessive regulation of auto insurance as the culprit behind the lack of sufficient auto insurance choice and competition.
"Without swift action by state lawmakers, consumers will likely face fewer choices in 2003 as excessive regulations and political influence continues to take its toll," said Friedman. "Drivers need a regulatory system that promotes competition, encourages companies to sell auto insurance in New Jersey, and creates a stable market that offers more choices for consumers."
"Until reforms are made that promote greater consumer choice and industry competition, insurers will continue to lack the incentive to grow and invest capital in New Jersey, leaving drivers in a lurch," said Friedman.
The latest figures show New Jersey has 47 percent fewer companies selling auto insurance than Illinois and more than a third fewer than neighboring New York and Pennsylvania. More than twenty auto insurance companies have left New Jersey in the past ten years, and two have left in the last year.
The Coalition has been working to educate New Jersey drivers and policy makers to stem the state's unprecedented auto insurance crisis precipitated by the deterioration of the financial health of New Jersey's auto insurance industry. The group is calling for passage and enactment of the New Jersey Auto Insurance Competition and Choice Act (A-2625 and S-1999), which outlines reforms that will attract more auto insurers to New Jersey by permitting companies to use industry-accepted standard underwriting methods already used in nearly every state.
"While 2002 has been a bad year for auto insurance consumers, 2003 does offer hope for meaningful reform," said Friedman. "Governor McGreevey has acknowledged the problem and promised to present his own proposal in January to stimulate auto insurance choice and competition,"
The Coalition welcomes the participation of consumers, businesses, and associations who seek to work together to bring about meaningful and responsible auto insurance reform. Members include the National Association of Independent Insurers, Insurance Council of New Jersey, American Insurance Association, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey, Citizens for a Sound Economy, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, New Jersey Association of REALTORS, Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey, New Jersey Food Council, New Jersey Retail Merchants Association, NJ SEED (Society for Environmental, Economic Development), Somerset County Chamber of Commerce and the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey.
CONTACT: Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition
Ernie Landante, 973/799-0200
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It may be a very happy new year for taxpayers, as momentum is building on Capitol Hill for another round of tax cuts in early 2003.
The case for a new package of pro-growth tax relief was made by Dr. Daniel Mitchell, of the Heritage Foundation, and Dr. Wayne Brough, of Citizens for a Sound Economy. The economists met recently with Congressional legislative staff and the media for a CSE Policy Watch forum on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Mitchell focused on two elements of the current debate:
President Bush and lawmakers in both parties are busy compiling their wish lists for the new year, and there is no shortage of ideas for reducing, repealing or phasing out various taxes.
It isn't that the federal treasury is suddenly overflowing. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office says the federal budget ran a deficit of $157.7 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. And if the nation goes to war with Iraq, the federal balance sheet is expected to dip further into the red.
Most of the would-be tax cuts are dressed up as "economic stimulus" measures designed to spur business and consumer spending and rev up the economy. Proponents argue that a robust economy eventually will bring ample revenue back to the federal government.
Among the likely Republican initiatives are: accelerating the start date of the phased-in $1.35 trillion tax cuts that were passed in 2001; providing business tax relief in the form of more generous expensing for small businesses and additional depreciation on capital purchases; and reducing or eliminating the tax on corporate dividends.
Bush is expected to outline a tax relief package in his State of the Union address Jan. 28, and he has made no secret of his desire also to make permanent the tax cut package Congress passed last year. But skeptics, notably congressional Democrats, question how much the economy will be stimulated by such things as permanently eliminating the tax on multimillion-dollar estates.
Bush argues that the 2011 expiration date of the tax cuts creates economic uncertainty. "People need a stable environment in order to create jobs," he contends.
It wouldn't be cheap, though. Congressional sources say the White House is aiming for a tax cut package totaling $300 billion over the next decade.
Since Republicans reclaimed the Senate in the midterm elections in November, Bush can look forward to the convening in January of a Congress that is more receptive than ever to his shift away from the Clinton-era focus on debt reduction as a means of national economic stability.
No one has any illusions that Bush isn't also looking forward to 2004, when he stands for re-election. The fate of his president father, whose political fortunes tanked with the national economy, is undoubtedly on his mind. In recent weeks he has hired a new economic team whose job it will be to sell tax cuts to Congress and the American people.
"If we pass something this spring or summer, it would provide some relief to the economy by 2004, which would provide some relief going into the election campaign," says Jeff Lemieux, a tax analyst at the centrist Progressive Policy Institute.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about Congress tinkering with the economy. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan has said that making the 2001 tax cuts permanent wouldn't offer much short-term voltage to economic growth, and he cast doubt on the ability of Congress to steer the economy.
Instead, Greenspan has counseled caution, saying the economy is merely in a "soft patch" on the way to recovery.
Business groups and many Republican lawmakers see it differently and predict Congress will move ahead with a tax cut package anyway.
"I don't think Alan Greenspan would say we are in a robust economy or this is a typical recovery," says Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La., a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. "I wouldn't hesitate to cut taxes because Alan Greenspan doesn't think we should. The good news is that Republicans and Democrats see the need for further tax cuts as a way to stimulate the economy."
The two parties share some common ground when it comes to tax relief. Popular in both parties are proposals to let small businesses deduct a larger amount of their capital expenses from their taxable income and allowing businesses of all sizes to depreciate a heftier share of their capital outlays.
By giving businesses investment tax relief, the thinking goes, they will spend more money on new computers, machinery and other big-ticket items spending that will boost the economy.
In general, though, Democrats are girding for battle over a critical point in the tax cut debate: Who gets the relief?
Popular among Democrats is a temporary elimination of the 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax that workers and businesses split. Known as a payroll tax "holiday," the idea would be to put cash in consumers' pockets immediately, so their spending could spur the economy. The idea has a diverse following, including the Business Roundtable, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
Critics acknowledge that it would put money in people's pockets, but they aren't convinced it would be spent. When consumers received government tax rebates last year, many of them paid off credit card debt or put the money into savings; neither of those things provides much stimulation for the economy. Some suggest a payroll tax holiday could be geared to low-income wage earners, who would be more likely to spend the extra take-home pay.
When Congress returns, Democrats also are intent on providing some assistance to unemployed workers and are touting quick action as a form of economic stimulus. Bush has embraced an extension of unemployment benefits, and some House Republicans are also receptive to the idea, but there is no consensus yet on the issue.
Neither party expects to monopolize a tax cut package. Both recognize that to get the necessary votes, the largess will have to be spread around. The National Association of Manufacturers, for instance, is pushing business tax breaks worth about $150 billion, leaving what they say is "room for competing ideas."
Wayne Brough, chief economist for the business-friendly Citizens for a Sound Economy, says that despite Republican control of both the White House and Congress, accommodation of Democratic proposals is a political necessity in order to get any package passed.
"Especially after a year of business scandals, it will be hard to say you are just cutting taxes for business," Brough says. "When you put the package together, you want something in there for everyone."


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Whether you work in animation or 3D, or just appreciate the immense talent at work at the apex of the CG world, the announcement of a new animated movie from Disney is a very big deal. So we were truly excited last week by the company's D23 Expo, where we got details and artwork of not one, not two, but 10 brand new Disney movies, coming our way in 2014-2016. Here's what we have to look forward to...
01. The Good Dinosaur
Disney/Pixar's The Good Dinosaur reimagines history - the giant asteroid never hit the Earth, the dinosaurs never became extinct and they continued to thrive and live alongside humans. The story follows Arlo, a teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart. After a traumatic event rattles Arlo's tranquil community, he sets out on a quest to restore peace and teams up with a young human boy named Spot.
Voice talents will be provided by Lucas Neff, Bill Hader, Judy Greer, Neil Patrick Harris, John Lithgow and Frances McDormand. Directed by Bob Peterson and Peter Sohn, the movie will go on general release on May 30, 2014.
02. Planes: Fire & Rescue
Planes: Fire & Rescue is the sequel to the Cars spin-off Planes, currently in cinemas. Dane Cook returns as the voice of Dusty, alongside Julie Bowen as the voice of Lil' Dipper. Directed by Bobs Gannaway, the story sees world famous air racer Dusty joining forces with a team of aerial fire fighters and learns what it takes to become a true hero. It's released on July 18, 2014.
Although Cars was a Disney/Pixar collaboration, Pixar wasn't involved with Planes, which hasn't been receiving great reviews in the press to date. But Disney clearly has faith in the franchise, so we're intrigued to see how the sequel develops the characters and their world of talking aircraft further.
03. Big Hero 6
Inspired by the Marvel comic of the same name, 3D CG animation Big Hero 6 tells the story of robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the high-tech city of San Fransokyo.
With the help of a robot named Baymax, Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to stop them. Big Hero 6 arrives in cinemas on November 7, 2014.
04. Inside Out
From Pete Docter, the director of Up and Monsters, Inc, Disney/Pixar's Inside Out takes you to a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind. The action takes place inside the brain of 11-year-old girl and how a mixture of five emotions - voiced by Amy Poehler ('Joy'), Lewis Black ('Anger'), Mindy Kaling 'Disgust'), Phyllis Smith ('Sadness'), and Bill Hader ('Fear') - interact with each other. It's scheduled for release on June 19, 2015.
05. Finding Dory
The much-anticipated sequel to Finding Nemo, we first told you about Disney/Pixar's Finding Dory back in April. But at D23, Disney released the first still from the movie (shown above), and revealed who'll be providing the voices. Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks return as Dory and Marlin, while Diane Keaton will play Dory's mom, Eugene Levy her dad and Ty Burrell will be the voice of Bailey. Andrew Stanton also returns as director of the sequel, planned for release on Nov 25, 2015.
06. Toy Story OF TERROR!
This spooky new 30-minute special from Disney/Pixar features favourite characters from the Toy Story films. What starts out as a fun road trip for the gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate. From director Angus MacLane and producer Galyn Susman, Toy Story OF TERROR! premieres on October 16, 2013.
07. The Pirate Fairy
Disneytoon Studios' The Pirate Fairy is the newest adventure in the Disney Fairies franchise. Directed by Peggy Holmes, it will feature Christina Hendricks as the voice of Zarina, and Tom Hiddleston as the young James, aka Captain Hook.
When a misunderstood dust-keeper fairy named Zarina steals Pixie Hollow's all-important Blue Pixie Dust, and flies away to join forces with the pirates of Skull Rock, Tinker Bell and her fairy friends must embark on the adventure of a lifetime to return it to its rightful place. The movie will hit cinemas in Spring 2014.
08. Zootopia
Also at D23, Byron Howard (director of Tangled) and writer Jared Bush shared plans for an upcoming comedy adventure with the working title of Zootopia. In the animal city of Zootopia, a fast-talking fox who's trying to make it big goes on the run when he's framed for a crime he didn't commit. Zootopia's top cop, a self-righteous rabbit, is hot on his tail, but when both become targets of a conspiracy, they're forced to team up and discover even natural enemies can become best friends. In theaters in 2016.
09. Monsters University: Party Central
The Good Dinosaur will be shown in cinemas alongside a new Monsters University short from Disney/Pixar, Party Central, from May 30, 2014. Mike and Sulley are back at Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first party, but no one's showing up - so Mike and Sulley put their heads together and come up with a cunning plan.
10. Legend of the NeverBeast
Directed by Steve Loter, Legend of the NeverBeast takes the Disney Fairies on an epic action adventure. Animal fairy Fawn believes you can't judge a book by its cover - or an animal by its fangs - so she befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast. But Tink and her friends aren't so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow. The animated movie - for which no images have yet been released - will arrive in cinemas Spring 2015.
Liked this? Read these!
- Behind the scenes: how a Disney logo is created
- How to get a job at Pixar Studios
- Designers' top Pixar characters revealed
- The greatest animated music videos
- The 10 best modern cartoons
Which Disney movie are you looking forward to most? Share your views in the comments below!


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Home › Forums › General Forums › Food, Hydration, and Nutrition › Source for freeze-dried HUNKS of meat?
Aug 21, 2012 at 7:42 am #1293192
One of the more popular Mtn House meals my Scouts ate on a recent trip was the potatoes and chicken breast meal with the "whole breast" (and grill marks) chicken hunks. I was happy to see them try that one, and we discussed how we'd make that ourselves with the Ore-Ida Loaded Red instant taters and… that we have to find that chicken.
Packit Gourmet makes some great meats, but I don't see any source for whole chunks (or dried, bacon-wrapped filet) of chicken, like those Mtn House breast/rib meat. After a week out, we found the emotional value of a "civilized looking" hunk of meat with smoked paprika dashed over the top to be quite tangible.
Does anyone have any insight for sources of such a thing?Aug 22, 2012 at 8:46 am #1904901
Ben H.BPL Member
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I have wondered the same thing. I've got a buddy that is found of that dinner too, but packit gourmet only sells chunked freeze dried chicken. It is one of the more expensive freeze dried meals out there, but if you can source the chicken it is ridiculously easy to replicate.Aug 27, 2012 at 9:08 pm #1906716
Reginald DonaldsonBPL Member
@worthLocale: Wind River RangeAug 28, 2012 at 6:09 am #1906772
Reginald, I didn't find any listing for whole filets on the Provident Pantry link you posted there. Did I overlook something?Aug 28, 2012 at 4:59 pm #1906999
Franco DarioliBPL Member
@francoLocale: Tarptent
I am guessing that it is easier to freeze dry big chunks than it is to dehydrate them however the bigger the piece the longer it will take to re-hydrate, so maybe that is the reason why.
FrancoAug 28, 2012 at 5:34 pm #1907015
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
Whether it is freeze-dried or air dehydrated, small pieces of meat work a lot better than large pieces. When the pieces are all less than one centimeter across, you get a lot better consistency when rehydrated. You could do large pieces, like three centimeters, but you would end up with a lump that has a wet outside and a crunchy center.
If you really like your meat, then just use lots and lots of little pieces.
–B.G.–Aug 29, 2012 at 7:20 am #1907166
All that's generally true, fellas, but the freeze-dried, whole "rib filet" chicken hunks in the Mountain House meal rehydrate Very Nicely and are tasty, too. These are 4×5 inches, and 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick. It's seriously a nice piece of instant food.
Anyway, after hunting around, I have exhausted my skills in the search. If someone finds or discerns who's making these, other than MH, it will be a nice find, for sure.Aug 29, 2012 at 7:33 am #1907170
Cayenne RedmonkBPL Member
@redmonkLocale: Greater California Ecosystem
Call MH, they probably do it in house.
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AN: Hello and thank you for giving my story a read! I was a bit late in the game getting fully into Portal and Bioshock (I knew enough to get the jokes, when it first came out my computer couldn't handle Portal or Bioshock), but better late than never. And now that Portal 2 is out, I've fallen absolutely in love with it. So, what better to show my love/fandom than to combine the two! It basically follows along the plot of Portal 2, but with heavy Bioshock tones. Also, there will be human!Wheatley/Chell later (or Chelley as some call it), so if you don't like it, I guess don't read. Also expect some gore and violence. If I come up with anything else, I'll be sure to give due warning so as to not offend. But for now, read on and I hope you enjoy~!
Also, if I borrow any dialogue from either game, it will be marked by being written fully in italics. I do not claim these parts, but felt I needed to borrow them for the purposes of the story. If this is an issue, please inform me and I will rework the parts they are contained in.
Somewhere beyond the safety of sleep, a garbled voice seemed to drag itself to life and croaked out its automated message.
"Good morning," the male announcer gurgled. "You have been in suspension for -SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY- days. In compliance with Rhapsody Laboratories regulation, all testing candidates in the Rhapsody Science Extended Relaxation Wing must be revived periodically for a mandatory physical and mental exercise."
Groggily, the woman stood up from her bed, gazing around the room in silence after the voice's instruction. It looked much like a hotel room, though dusty and dimly lit. Despite an artificial window taking up the wall to her right imitating sunlight filtering through paper screens, she could barely make out the sound of…water? As if the room was submerged, somehow.
"You will hear a buzzer." the announcer interjected her thoughts. "When you hear the buzzer, look up at the ceiling."
From the same speakers, a jarringly loud buzz sounded and the woman turned her grey-blue eyes to the ceiling. It was as uninteresting as the rest of the room, except for what looked like a track that wound toward the closed door. The room was feeling more like it belonged in a hospital, the more she thought about it, despite the dust. How long was seven-hundred and thirty days, exactly? Before the announcer's next interruption, she concluded that it was two years.
"Good. You will hear a buzzer."
'Obviously…' she thought to herself with a displeased scowl.
"When you hear the buzzer, look down at the floor."
Again, the loud noise sounded and she looked down at her bare feet. The carpet felt stale, obviously un-vacuumed for some time. Not that it would help the dingy grey color any. She made note of her attire as well: they seemed to have her dressed in blue worker's overalls and a short-sleeved shirt of about the same color. Over her right breast was a logo of some sort…a circular design made by curved triangles…
"Good. This completes the gymnastic portion of your mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise."
'Exercise? Hardly…' she sighed, rubbing at her stiff neck as she lifted her gaze again to its normal level.
"There is a framed painting on the wall." the announcer informed her next. "Please go stand in front of it."
She managed to stagger around the end of her bed to approach the painting, finding that her legs had not quite gotten the memo that she was awake now and that they had work to do. Sure enough, a very unimaginative landscape painting greeted her on the wall, a reproduction print of some sad, long-forgotten artist's attempt at a masterpiece. Not that she could do better, of course.
"This is art. You will here a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the art."
'But I'm already staring at the-'
The buzzer sounded and caused to her flinch slightly, but she continued staring. It was a mirror-smooth lake with a simple house on the shore, pine trees around it and far in the back was a snow-capped mountain. Ticking could be heard through the speakers and she imagined that it was giving her time to…appreciate the art?
"You should now feel mentally reinvigorated." the announcer finally claimed.
'I don't.'
"If you suspect staring at art has not provided the required intellectual sustenance, reflect briefly on this classical music."
She was met with an echoing version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which made her feel even less 'reinvigorated' than from staring at the painting. Because the speakers made everything sound as if spoken through water, the melody was haunting and unpleasant…she hoped it would stop soon. It did, the song interrupted by the buzzer.
"Good, now please return to your bed."
With little complaint, she crawled back into the bed, making vague note that there was a groove forming in the mattress that fit her body perfectly. Would it be another two years before she was awakened again? Just to do the same set of tests, then instructed to sleep once more? It was something she could worry about in her dreams as they welcomed her back with open arms, she was far too tired for anything else.
It didn't seem much time had passed since her last awakening when the garbled voice woke her. But something was different.
"Good morning. You have been in suspension for nine nine nine…nine nine ni-" the announcer tried to inform her, though now sounded even further obscured by water and glitchy. "This courtesy call is to inform you that all test subjects should immediately vacate…"
The voice faded out. With knit brows, she sat up quickly and swung her legs out from under the covers, standing to looking around in the silence following the abrupt end of the announcement. The room was now dark, only the emergency lights along the floor by the far wall providing illumination. What had he been saying? All test subjects should vacate…what was going on?
She could hear what sounded like creaking pipes and somewhere far in the distance water gushing and perhaps…screaming. Even in her room she was noticing cracks that had formed in the walls and realized that the carpet was damp, feeling it squishing under her bare feet as she explored. But before she could make any sort of sense of the situation, a frantic knocking came at her door, reeling around to face it with wide eyes.
"Hello? Anyone in there?"
This new voice was clearly not a recording and that she could tell, it was a male and likely from British origin if she was hearing the accent right.
"Helloooo?" he implored again, his tone full of fret. "Are you going to open the door? At any time?"
Not wanting to be rude and, quite frankly, wanting an explanation for where she was and what was going on, she made her way over to the door and carefully turned the door's handle. He apparently heard the noise and gave a cry of triumph.
"Ha! I knew someone was alive in there."
But as she opened the door, instead of greeting another human being she stood staring at a spherical device of some sort that was attached to the ceiling-rail that seemed to also run along the hallway beyond her room. The sphere resembled an eyeball with a bright blue iris and black pupil, encased in a dinged-up grey metal case and two protruding handles on its top and bottom. Upon spotting her as well, the sphere's pupil shrank and it seemed to jump back in surprise.
"AH!" the British voice emitted from the sphere, marking 'it' as a 'he'. "Oh. My. God. You look terribl-"
Her eyes narrowed at him; she didn't need a mirror to know that she likely looked like a wreck. After all, she had been asleep for at least two years when she had last been awakened. In fairness, it was mostly just her dark brown hair that was sticking up everywhere, having long been pulled loose from her simple ponytail. Her skin was paler than it had been and bags had formed under her eyes, but she still seemed to have retained her physical fitness for the most part. While still staring the British sphere down, she pulled her hair tie out and smoothed back her fly-away hair, pulling it back into the ponytail in her best attempt at improving her appearance.
"Umm…good," he managed to correct himself with a hopeful tone, clearly not wanting to offend her. "Looking good, actually. Are you okay? Are you- don't answer that. I'm absolutely sure you're fine. There's plenty of time for you to recover. Just take it slow."
The woman nodded, relaxing a bit after her initial surprise. But the momentary peace she felt was interrupted as the speakers seemed to come back to life long enough to make another announcement.
"Please prepare for emergency evacuation."
Clearly demanding answers, she looked again to the sphere who seemed to be just as startled as she was.
"Stay calm!" he implored her, gliding into the room over her head on the rail. " 'Prepare' - that's all they're saying. 'Prepare.' It's all fine. Alright? Just- let's have a seat here on your bed, yeah? Let me explain the situation."
Nodding again while he watched her, she closed the door before seating herself on the edge of the bed. As the moments passed, she was gathering more questions than she was answers…where was she? How did she get here? What was happening? Why was their a reason for an emergency evacuation…or even the preparing for one? And what was with this eyeball?
"Well, firstly, I should introduce myself," he began, gazing down at her from his rail. "I am Wheatley. And you are…I mean, I already know who you are because of the file we have, though it looks like your last was omitted. Strange, eh? So, you're Chell."
She nodded in reply, vaguely recalling having filled out an application form at some point in the past…that must be what he was referring to.
"Not much of a talker, are you? Well! That's fine, that's fine, don't need to do a lot of talking right now anyway. That could also be the slight case of serious brain damage, we'll need to have you tested for that. Most subjects do experience some cognitive deterioration after a few months in suspension and you've been under for…well, more than a few. Quite a few, really, we'll need to do a check as soon as possible. But we can worry about all that later, for now you just need to be a good listener."
Chell was staring at him with wide-eyes and a worried expression. Wheatley was quick to babble on reassuringly.
"Don't be alarmed! Although, if you do feel alarm, try to hold onto that feeling because that is the proper reaction to being told you have brain damage. I'm sure it's nothing, just…just shock. Yes, that's it. Pretty shocking to wake up to such a mess! I mean, not just the room…the room is pretty damp and the lights are off, but what I really mean is that, well- well, to be honest, the whole facility has gone to hell in a hand basket and we need to get out of here."
Wheatley sighed, gazing around the room as he spoke while Chell listened quietly, hands in her lap.
"This is Rhapsody Science Enrichment Center," he began to explain. "I don't know if you remember that, but we are on the cutting edge of science and technology in all the world. A lab hidden deep below the ocean far away from the rest of the world so we could study and test whatever we wanted without worrying about the public going 'oh, you mustn't do that, it isn't right!' or 'oh, it's too dangerous to inject people with mantis DNA!' It was the perfect environment to further science, it was! Well, until the plasmids got out of hand, that is…"
Chell tilted her head to one side, curious. He took it as his cue to continue.
"It started here in Rhapsody, but I hear the same thing is going on over at the main city, Rapture," Wheatley spoke with a grim tone, focusing on looking at the waterlogged carpet. "Plasmids were our pride and joy and Rapture was always clamoring for more and more. New powers, stronger, better…it was crazy! What we did here was to extract unstable stem cells from this particular sea slug parasite and use them to make the body do things it normally could never do through a serum made from it we called ADAM. Levitating things, sending bolts of lightning from your fingers…it was amazing, we made people into Gods! Everything and anything was possible! But…turns out that playing with the human body is really dangerous and ADAM is really, really addictive. Like ice-cream. The test subjects we had started going bonkers, like really violently. Setting fire to the labs, ripping down cameras, setting the mantis-people loose. We had to shut down most of the facility just to keep things together. We'd pumped them so full of ADAM that they're hardly human anymore…we call them Splicers now. Nasty lot, but strong and they're organizing."
Chell sat in horrified silence as her mechanical companion continued. Gods and mantis-people?
"I don't know how Rapture's doing at this point, they stopped communicating with us sometime last year while they were in the middle of some sorta civil war. Can you imagine? A utopia under the sea tearing itself apart at the seams…and what we've done here is to blame. I can't say I'm happy with the results as they are now, but at the time- well, we were just doing science, after all. Agh, I'm babbling…I can tell you more about the whole thing along the way, but what we need to do is get you to out of here and up to my lab."
The sphere slid along his rail and indicated the closet.
"You should have a pair of special boots in here, though I'm not sure if there are any socks," Wheatley looked apologetic. "I know I'd hate wearing shoes without them, but luxury is not really an option at the moment I'm afraid. But, while you're on your way, I'll see what I can find. So, think of that as…incentive. No, a prize! But the boots, right…those are one of our less-deadly inventions that never found any real application over in Rapture: the long-fall boots!"
Chell had approached the closet during his spiel and retrieved a pair of tall boots with braces along the back, straps across the front and instead of having a proper heel, they had a curving, springy strip that almost resembled a crowbar where it touched the floor. She raised a brow, but slipped her legs into the boots, adjusting the straps before standing again, testing them.
"Those, I am happy to report, will actually keep you from harm," the sphere reported in a happier tone. "They may not look like much, but you could toss yourself off the edge of the Grand Canyon and not only will you land on your feet, but you'll be right as rain! We started issuing these to all our testers after we learned that while we could make plasmids for jumping really, really high, the impact coming back down wasn't so pleasant. What a mess that was, lots of broken legs…just, outright shattered bones."
She blinked up at him and he shook himself with an awkward chuckle.
"There I go, going on and on again," he swiveled around and headed for the door, Chell opening it for him and they both entered a dim hallway with many other doors that resembled hers, some ajar. "This, where we are right now, is the Relaxation Wing. We needed a lot of test subjects, but not all at once, so we kept them in a storage of sorts. Think of it like being on permanent vacation, but you spend most of that time sleeping and the rest running test courses requiring use of our latest plasmids...against mantis-people."
Chell simply nodded and followed behind him, peeking into some of the doors that were open. Those rooms seemed to be in the same state of ruin as her own, but in none of them could she spot any life. Had they already been evacuated and now it was her turn?
"Fortunately, the Splicers never reached this area of the facility," he commented, though looked around thoroughly enough. "Unfortunately, the power to the whole place is slowly starting to fail and I do not want to be trapped down here when it does. Even more unfortunately, we're gonna have to get you through the areas that the Splicers did take over in order to reach my lab. But even more unfortunate than that, there's also the trouble with the facility itself. You see, it's run by an advanced form of network involving ADAM, lots of wires, electricity…to put it simply, though, we figured out a way to channel out brainwaves through these robotic vessels and the one running this place has lost her last marble."
He turned to look at Chell, who had stopped in her tracks with a puzzled look, squinting up at him.
"Uh, you didn't think this was all of me, did you?" Wheatley blinked and then chuckled a bit. "Oh no no no, definitely no! I just plugged myself into my Remote ADAM Consciousness Control Cable and here we are. I'm actually sitting in my lab with my RA3C because, to be honest, I can't risk going to where you are myself. Ah, that's only because I'm no good fighting against those Splicers and I'm not so keen on having them tear me apart, which is one of their favorite activities. Not that I'm afraid of them, that is! I'm not, I'm not…just, I can't risk getting killed since I'm one of the last sane people in the place that can get us out of here."
Chell just nodded before looking further ahead to a heavy metallic door at the end of the hall.
"Just beyond that door is one of the main walkway rings," Wheatley explained, the pistons holding the door beginning to hiss and billow out steam as they pulled into the walls, the sound of gears grinding inside. "We're going to head to another safe area nearby. It's one of the few labs they haven't wrecked and has one particular set of plasmids we're going to need if we want to get you through the test chambers and up here to the personal labs."
She stood back as the door slowly lowered into the floor, revealing a glass corridor branching in two different directions. Chell gasped and walked past where Wheatley was to press her hands against the glass, gazing into the ocean surrounding the walkway ring. It was dark, but the facility had lighting from outside and within that allowed her to glimpse the seabed and the odd fish that swam by.
"Yeah, amazing, isn't it?" he chimed in, hovering just behind her shoulder; the railing ran the full length of the corridor as far as she could tell. "Normally I'd ask you not to smudge up the glass, but hey, the place is already a disaster. You can do whatever you want, so long as we get out of here in mostly one piece. Though, we should keep the sight-seeing to a minimum since, you know, the whole place is crawling with Splicers and I can't guarantee that the safe places will continue being, well, safe."
With a sigh, she stepped away from the glass and she nodded up at the sphere. He zipped down the corridor heading west of the Relaxation Wing, Chell walking briskly along behind him. It was a brief moment of silence between her and her new companion, which she was thankful for. She had hardly been awake more than five minutes and her head was spinning with everything he'd told her. Somehow she had come to reside in a scientific testing facility deep beneath the sea run by a crazed woman and it was now overrun with her former human test subjects that had superhuman-if not Godly-abilities...or possibly mantis DNA. In a word, it was terrifying and she knew that things would likely get much, much worse.
Wheatley, meanwhile, reflected on his luck in finding this seemingly mute woman. A shame she couldn't talk, it had been ages since he'd last spoken to someone who wasn't out of their mind on plasmids. Well, he hadn't made much of a point in speaking with the active test subjects, it was his job to watch over the ones who were artificially asleep in the Relaxation rooms. They never really talked, except for a few who screamed profanities when they were awoken for their mandatory physical and mental exercise. But unlike them, Chell said nothing. She only nodded and listened to him, doing what he asked without questioning or cursing or attacking him like the last five had. He might not be there physically, but the damage done to his Consciousness Core connected back to him and it was never pleasant when the test subjects assaulted him with various objects found in their rooms…especially lamps. He hated those lamps. But, as far as he was concerned, she seemed much more promising than them all, even though her file had stated that she was 'abnormally stubborn' and 'should not be tested.'
"Ah, here we are!" he exclaimed as they were coming up on another sealed door. "This is the Aperture Lab, our lastly constructed module and home to the very last plasmid we developed that never even reached Rapture. Which, is a good thing, considering what it does."
Chell gazed up at him uncertainly, but the sphere seemed both proud and excited.
"You see, 'aperture' is just another fancy word for 'portal' and that's exactly what we created! The very first plasmid to utilize both hands in its use and it would have opened up nearly infinite travel possibilities! You put one of the portals on one wall, and then the other someplace else! Step through one, out the other! No mess, no fuss, no pain! And it's this plasmid that's going to get us out of this hand basket. That, you know, is heading to hell. Hell in a hand basket…I did use that description earlier didn't I?"
She swallowed her worries and did her best to look confident as she smiled up at him with another small nod: despite it all, at least she wasn't alone in all this and while he never stopped talking, it was better than the eerie silence the facility currently offered. He was actually amusing to boot. Wheatley seemed to pause for a moment while looking down at her from his rail and far away in his lab, a slight blush bloomed on his freckled cheeks.
"W-well! Of course, back to business," he stammered, turning to the door and accessed it. "I promise that we'll both get out of here, minimal troubles, maybe a few bumpy patches here and there but in the end, mostly in one piece and on our way back to civilization. Yup."
Chell merely waited for the door to open, hoping that getting out wouldn't take too long.


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I found Localnet in the phone book. I asked did they have high speed internet and the guy said yes. he told me the prices and then took my checking account information and within an couple minutes gave me to the tech dept to set up. In setting up the tech said go to dial upand i said wait a minute i dont even have a landline i asked for high speed. he looked up my address and said it was not in their system and gave me to a Gabriel to cancel. Gabriel was the rudest person i have ever spoken to and told mei was gonna be charged for first mo and activation and i said i dont have dial up. he said too bad, i have to fax a letter and i still dont get my money back. This was the same phone call. I then called back again and talked to jason and he was rude as well. he put me on hold and said i listened to your call and they told you it was dial up. I said let me hear it and he said too bad, cant do that.I told them there is no way i would have joinedwith dial up as i dont have a landline and he said i still get charged and there is nothing else i can do.I will file with the better business bureau and someone needs to stop them. As i see, they have dont this many times before. They need to be stopped. They are thieves. I will not tolerate someone taking from me.
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I was born in Balham General in 1940 to my parents who lived on Shirly Grove, just off Lavender Hill. I made many trips to the "Granada" in my time. I was just leaving the Granada with my parents one evening about 1943/4 when a "Buzz Bomb" went off just behind some shops near that cinema.
We later moved to a new council house on Sheepcote Lane (No longer called Sheepcote Ln.) opposite the British Flag pub on Culvert Rd. My parents and my older brothers made a few trips over there.
I attended Wix's Lane elementary and Culvert Rd. (Battersea County School). My cousin and I, (Mick Browne, he lived on Taybridge.) went back recently to Wix's for an impromptu visit. The headmaster gave us a tour of the place, half of which is now a French school, (Who would have thought). They dug up our old records from the 40's. Gave us copies, nice visit.
Left England in 1965. live now in Charlotte, North Carolina USA. The climate is sooooo much better.
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However, it is not Michael's success as a villain that assures his place in criminal history; rather, it is his staggering capacity for betrayal.
On 25 April 1998, Customs investigators launched a "knock" codenamed Operation Draft. It uncovered 16kg of cocaine, 2.9 tons of cannabis worth £11.6 million, guns and £800,000 in cash. It also delivered up Michael Michael and 15 members of his gang. What happened next shocked even the Customs men and their police colleagues. Michael, an arch-criminal whose entire existence was founded on the underworld code, turned informer. So eager was he to name names, he is probably Britain's most prolific supergrass.
Not only did he inform on some of the most dangerous criminals operating today, he turned in his own mother, brother, wife, mistress and the madam who ran his brothels. And, it was to emerge, he had been "grassing up" his criminal colleagues for years. At his trial he accepted the suggestion he was a "polished liar" and offered the jury this explanation: "Yes, I had to lie, even to my family. It is in the business of informing and dealing ... being disloyal comes with the territory. My friends, family and lover are all awaiting trial because of me."
He named more than 60 criminals, ranging from millionaire master-villain Mickey Green to part-time drug mule Tracy Kirby, a former Page Three model. His information included names like Kenneth Noye, Ronnie Knight and Charlie Wilson and the details he revealed became a blueprint for a series of criminal prosecutions on a vast scale. In six completed trials, 34 defendants have been convicted and sentenced to terms ranging from 12 months to 21 years. Their sentences add up to 170 years.
Only now can Michael's story be told, because security considerations led to gagging orders and trials under armed guard at Woolwich Crown Court.
Michael, also known as Constantine, needed the security - underworld paymasters have put a £4 million price on his head. But he took a calculated risk when he decided to turn informer. When Customs raided his home in Radlett, Herts, he was carrying a gun, he had cash and other assets worth £1.6 million to hand, and he had accounts and contacts books detailing his drug and prostitution dealings.
It all added up to a prison sentence with little change out of 20 years. Even under that kind of pressure Michael cut an attractive deal. His wife Lynn, brother Xanthos and top lieutenant Janice Marlborough - all implicated by him - also turned Queen's Evidence.
The package Michael negotiated guarantees a new identity for himself and his immediate family, £19,000 a year for his wife to run a new home. £1,000 a month for their children's school fees, a £6,000 loan and £10,000 cash for a new car. His friends estimate that in all, he will benefit by around £2million from public funds, although even this does not compare with the fortune he was amassing from drugs and his massage parlour girls.
The girls operated in a chain of saunas run by Michael and his associates and earned him an estimated £500,000 a year. He was making even more out of drugs, which his gang brought into Britain from Holland, to be stored before sale in warehouses, mainly in the Hatfield area.
The couriers, who included his mother, wife, brother, and lover, never carried less than £250,000 each on every trip and in one 12-month period, 21 articulated lorries, three tourist coaches and numerous cars crossed the Channel laden with cannabis and cocaine. After the drugs were sold, the cash was delivered to Michael and either laundered through a bureau de change in Edgware, or changed into high denomination notes and sent back with couriers to Spain, Holland and France.
It took 250 interviews with Customs and police to unravel the information Michael offered. But despite the unparalleled scale of arrests and prosecutions that followed, the Michael Michael affair was not quite the triumph investigators had hope for.
A Customs source said: "We were very successful in catching and convicting people below Michael in the chain of command because we had corroborative evidence from documents and the accounts we seized when we arrested him.
"But when it came to those above him we only had his word for it. The opinion of Senior Treasury counsel was that we could not get convictions based solely on one man's word."
One man named by Michael was Mickey Green, the "Wembley Mob" armed robber turned drug dealer, wanted in four countries. Green was named as the man behind the gangland assassination of underworld figures Gilbert Wynter and Solly Nahome. Michael also accused Noel Purcell and Ian Davenport of being UK-based drug dealers.
He spoke of dealing with Spanishbased suppliers Clifford Wheeler and Stephen McGoldrick, described in court as "men of utmost violence". He named Cliff Hobbs who was said to have sent the drugs to Britain via France. But after six trials, just when it seemed these big players were about to face justice, the process came to an abrupt halt. Green was freed in June when charges were dropped.
In July, charges were dropped against McGoldrick. Detective Constable Paul Carpenter, on £50,000 bail and accused in court of being one of the most corrupt officers ever to serve in the Met, also had charges dropped.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Wheeler, Davenport and Hobbs but Customs say that now, after the end of Operation Draft, they are not "actively pursuing" them.
Michael's role as an informer is not over yet. He gave evidence, via a video link, in the Appeal Court earlier this month claiming that he was asked to act as the middleman in a £1million attempt to nobble the Guinness jury.
The Guinness four - Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, Anthony Parnes and Sir Jack Lyons - were convicted in 1990 over an alleged fraudulent share support scheme in the takeover battle for Distillers in 1986.
Michael told the court he was approached by a "villain" known as Paul McGuire who told him he had a relative on the jury who was open to a bribe. Maguire had earlier told the court he had not spoken to Michael about a juror at all, to which the country's most prolific and bestrewarded supergrass replied: "He did."
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"It could be some kind of sprained something," he said. "We just know it's nothing major."
David Greene was injured in the third quarter of No. 7 Georgia's 17-10 loss
to LSU on Saturday. The injury scared him and most of the Bulldog
"The defensive lineman got blocked into my leg," he said.
"I felt it
popping, and it just went kind of numb. I was scared because I'd never
felt that before."
Greene lay on the Tiger Stadium turf for several minutes before getting
up and waving away the trainers who offered to assist him to the
sideline. He quickly regained feeling in his lower leg and returned to
the game after missing two series.
All-American defensive end David Pollack also got a scare when he went
down clutching his right knee with 11:26 left in the third quarter.
Pollack suffered a bruised kneecap, Coach Mark Richt said, and returned
to the game after missing just two plays. Two plays after returning, he
got his first sack of the season when he and Quentin Moses took down
Matt Mauck.
Greene's injury is more serious than Pollack's, Richt said.
LOTS OF TYSON: Running back Tyson Browning said he wasn't surprised to
be such a big part of Saturday's game plan even though it was his first
game action since serving a three-game suspension.
"Coach Richt has a lot of confidence in me," he said. "He
told me to
get ready."
Browning carried the ball three times for 20 yards and caught two
passes for 104 yards, including the 93-yard touchdown catch that tied
the score at 10-10 in the fourth quarter. Browning's touchdown tied two
plays for the longest score from scrimmage in school history. One of
those plays was the historic Buck Belue-to-Lindsay Scott touchdown
against Florida in 1980.
"Right now I'm not even thinking about the way I played,"
said. "I'm thinking about getting back and getting another 'W'."
TIPPED PASSES: LSU made it tough on Georgia's quarterbacks all day by
batting down passes at the line of scrimmage. Tigers defensive linemen
were credited with six pass breakups, and linebacker Lionel Turner's key
fourth-down interception came on a tipped pass.
"They're a big defensive front," Richt said.
THORNTON MEETS CHALLENGE: LSU's standout wide receiver Michael Clayton,
the SEC's leading receiver, caught just two passes for 23 yards in the
win. Most of the time, he was being covered by senior cornerback Bruce Thornton.
"Bruce played outstanding," defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder said.
"He was looking forward to the competition all week."
SHOCKLEY'S DAY: For the first time this season, backup quarterback D.J. Shockley didn't play in the first half.
It appeared Shockley wouldn't play at all until Greene was injured and
missed two series. Richt said he didn't have a definite plan for
Shockley's playing time and it just didn't work out to get him in the
game in the first half.
CURRY RETURNS: Safety Kentrell Curry, a preseason All-SEC selection,
return to action after missing the first three games of the season due
to a stress fracture in his leg.
Curry was on the field late in the first quarter when Sean Jones
intercepted Mauck, and Curry appeared on occasional plays after that.
EARNING HIS HONORS: Georgia punter Gordon Ely-Kelso, the reigning SEC
Special Teams Player of the Week, didn't rest on his laurels Saturday.
He punted six times in the first three quarters and the most impressive
were the final two. First, he booted a 47-yard kick out of the back of
Georgia's end zone, and then he hit a 51-yarder from the front of the
end zone.
THIS AND THAT: Greene's interception in the fourth quarter was his
first in 176 attempts, tying a school record. ...
Starting linebacker Tony Taylor suffered a right ankle injury with 8:16
left in the first quarter. He returned in the fourth quarter. ...
Midway through the third quarter, Georgia's Decory Bryant and Tim Jennings went to the wrong end of the field to receive a Tiger kickoff.
LSU honored Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley during the break
between the first and second quarters. Tigers athletic director Skip
Bertman presented Dooley with a crystal tiger in an on-field ceremony.
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Philip Wood (Letters) argues that cultural anthropology should be taught in schools instead of religious education "so that children are exposed to a more critical awareness of other cultures and world views". Without commenting on RE, I can assure him that it already is! An A-level in anthropology was designed by the Royal Anthropological Institute and has been offered by the AQA examination board since 2010. Social anthropology has also been available for some years as an option within the international baccalaureate.
The A-level embraces anthropology as a whole discipline (biological as well as social). It was developed in the belief that the subject can and should be available to secondary-age students, alongside other subjects, as a core element in a contemporary liberal education. An explicit aim of the course is to foster the globally informed citizenship, which can be seen as one of the "British values" under so much current discussion. Students are encouraged to encounter, and debate critically, themes such as the relationship between global and local processes, unity and diversity in human life, the social treatment of the body, gender, personhood, ethnic identities and stereotyping of the "other".
Hilary Callan
Former director, Royal Anthropological Institute, London SW1
Defining British values
What a tour de force Frank Cottrell Boyce's piece on British values was ("You can't teach values, British or otherwise. You can only live them", Comment). If anything, it contained all the principles (values?) most sane people wish to see in society: humour, tolerance, common sense, compassion, candour, honesty, clear-sightedness. After a week of reading and listening to the claims made by politicians and commentators, most of whom have never set foot inside a state school, faith or otherwise, about what goes on in the nation's faith schools, this was refreshing indeed.
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Accepting Andrew Rawnsley's economic analysis with regard to the deficit, which is by no means agreed by all economists, he peddles the usual Westminster/south-east view of the austerity agenda ("Labour needs to be candid about painful cuts it will have to make", Comment). Those of us who live outside the M25 are outraged at the blatant unjust, inequitable implementation of that policy, especially with regard to local authorities. We would look for a Labour government to redress this imbalance where the Durhams of this world are not penalised for the benefit of the Surreys, where the poor are not paying for the rich, where need again becomes a criterion for redistribution. The total sum may be the same but the allocation of the burden should still be part of the debate.
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Peter Bazalgette is right to point out the devastating effect that local government cuts have had on regional arts organisations ("Arts in crisis – 'blame lies with council cuts'", News). Poorer areas have faced larger cuts, exacerbating Britain's cultural divide. Unfortunately further cuts are likely in the next parliament, no matter who wins the election. This means that organisations such as the Arts Council, BBC and National Lottery have an obligation to support diversity across Britain. Our recent report for the IPPR, March of the Modern Makers, found that Londoners receive three times more arts funding in total than everyone else in the country.
Absolute equity would be unwise given the national assets that are based in London for historic reasons. But the fact that the Arts Council has begun to shift funding away from London shows that the current settlement is not rational. All grant-making bodies must develop clear evidence on the right balance of funding between London and the regions, and how they will work towards it. Increasing regional funding will also help diversify the creative industries. The magnet of London for fashion, music, film, theatre and television, combined with a history in the industry of poorly paid internships and informal recruitment, is a barrier to a creative career for young people away from the capital and from less well-off backgrounds. Supporting cultural institutions in places like Manchester, Bristol and Edinburghelsewhere can help open these sectors by allowing talented young people of limited means to get their break closer to home.
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