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The mutt honcho of the land does not want mutts in the White House. What kind of example does he set for others? Did we not elect him as a mutt?
| In his first post-election press conference, President-Elect Barack Obama mused that his family is looking for the puppy he famously promised his daughters in his victory speech in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2008. The problem, he noted, is that his younger daughter is allergic to dogs so they have to find one that is hypoallergenic. Their own preference is to pick a dog from a shelter (the good Democrat that he is!), but unfortunately, "obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are 'mutts' like me." That is, they are not purebred. Apparently, purebreds are less hypoallergenic.
So begins the search for the First Dog of the new First Family in the United States.
But this is all at the literal level. Given the country's mindset, a literal discussion of anything, from the film you watched to the most significant political and cultural events, dominates. In their search for dogs, and the need to avoid mutts like the President-Elect, everyone seems to have lost sight of his eloquence. He offered a gold mine of insight into how he sees the world and we should too.
The columnist Patricia Williams noted that the remark has sparked a conversation about our own "muddled notions of race." We are all mutts: "As humans, we descended from a common African ancestor and have been mixing up ever since," she says. Williams offers a sharp classification of how we name mutts. The hypodescendents are assigned the race of the parent with a lower social standing. Thus, the saying in the South: "One drop and you are Black." The hyperdescendents, on the other hand, claim identity from the parent of the dominant social group. Thus, Williams says, Jennifer Lopez is identified as White or Latina, but never Black or biracial.
All of this is intriguing and requires us to think about where our labels come from. If we have been mutts all along, then what is the impulse to embrace claims of purity? Somehow, the purists want to return to the original scene of the crime and claim a purity that is only in the eye of the beholder. To be a purist is to cling to a mythical reality that does not exist. Now that we have the most famous and significant mutt on the world stage in the President-Elect, perhaps a real conversation about race and identity can begin.
In an increasingly multicultural and multiracial world, it is impossible to retain claims of purity and perhaps we can wake up to a new reality, not just in theory, but also in practice, one that is so close to our skin. If you remember Warren Beatty's brilliant film, Bulworth (very prescient about the current political scene and election), you may recall the exasperation of the senator as he struggles over the issue of race in this country. Translating into the mutt language of today, he says, the only way we can solve the race problem is by mutting ourselves constantly, all over the place, until "everyone looks like everyone else." We ought to become mutts.
Some of us became proud parents of lovely mutts and we can see before our own eyes that their future is different. They will continue to mutt as they grow older and have their own lineages. Languages will struggle to give them names, but we will have followed the senator in Bulworth to a better and different future.
Reading the blogs on this issue is instructive. Mutt is a derogatory term, even though the Mutt-in-Chief pronounced it on national stage. Many mothers say they do not like the term and would "choke" someone if their kids were ever called mutts. We hardly hear of the term as a compliment, so Obama's remark shows we have come a long way, indeed.
We can imagine how dogs must feel. Does their loyalty come from being mutts? We know now that all domestic dogs are intentional mutts, descending from the wolf and his various mates. Yet, there are still newer breeds of dogs. Just take a walk on any street in this country. The fancy of owners knows no bounds as they amuse themselves creating new mutts. And, let us not even talk about national resources and money expended ($40 billion a year) on these pets. The day the grocery aisles for dog food shrink, you can be sure the depression has really arrived. Domestic dogs are here to stay and reward us for their abuse and pampering by the mess they leave on our sidewalks.
But let us return to the wonderful ironies in the President-Elect's remarks. The mutt honcho of the land does not want mutts in the White House. And that too, for his daughters who are even more mutty than he is. What kind of example does he set for others? Did we not elect him as a mutt? Did we not just cross a major historical threshold by not electing purebreds by voting for a mutt? This is surely inconsistent policy.
This was his first presidential decision, even before he rolled out his cabinet. It simply did not say much about his acumen other than affirm his identity as a Democrat and a liberal by choosing heart over hard policy by refusing to say no to domestic lobbyists.
We need to wonder also about his facile comment about mutts in animal shelters. Are most dogs in shelters mutts? Is that some kind of metaphor, a systemic failure of our attempts to socialize and naturalize mutts? Do we really know if purebreds do not end up in shelters?
Are Republicans right after all? There is something wrong about our social structures if only mutts are inclined to take handouts in shelters. No purebred would ever be seen there!
As president he also needs look into the pervasive allergies in this country. Every kid seems to have allergies of some kind. Is it because of pollution or is nuclear waste the culprit? Have we killed the major defenses of our immune system? Wouldn't you think that these pressing issues are a serious component of the HealthCare debate in this country? Instead, Obama caves in to kids who whine about this or that allergy.
Should we stop designing mutts because the First Family has allergies? In one fell swoop, his pronouncement at the press conference has roused a national conversation on different dog breeds and allergies. It is time we stop designing drugs for every allergy and take a good look at the environment to understand why these allergies are so prevalent.
And please, stop disparaging mutts. Every presidential pronouncement is important, they say. Who knew this is the way we find out?


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Monday 27 September at 6:00 p.m.
Teatro alle Tese - Arsenale
conductor Andrea Pestalozza
Francesca Verunelli (1979) En Mouvement (Espace Double) for orchestra (2009, 8') Italian premiere
Silvia Colasanti (1975) Cede pietati, dolor (Le anime di Medea) for orchestra (2007, 12')
Emanuele Casale (1974) Buongiorno stanza audace (2010, 10') commission from La Biennale di Venezia, world premiere
Francesco Antonioni (1971) Gli occhi che si fermano for orchestra (2009, 8')
Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) Inverno in-ver eleven musical poems for small orchestra, (1973 – rev. 1978, 22')
The Mitteleuropa Orchestra widens the horizons of collaborations that the Biennale di Venezia has engaged in the area: last year it joined the historic partners of the Festival of Contemporary Music, the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona. Recently constituted, the Mitteleuropa Orchestra has an intense schedule whose purpose is to highlight the artistic and musical legacy of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and the adjacent regions – such as Carinthia, Slovenia, Veneto – working with institutions in the region and abroad. The podium of this orchestra has hosted conductors such as D. Renzetti, G.G. Rath, G. Pehlivanian, M. Hamel, E. Rojatti, G. Schmoehe, B. Kocsár, R. Gessi, Y. Sugiyama, Lü Jia, P. Rophè, A. Lonquich and P. Guth.
With conductor Andrea Pestalozza, founder of one of the most active ensembles in contemporary music, United Berlin, the Venetian concert offers pages of new music made in Italy, composed by authors between the ages of 30 and 40: Francesca Verunelli, the composer of En Mouvement, Silvia Colasanti, with Cede pietati, dolor (le anime di Medea), Emanuele Casale, to whom La Biennale has commissioned the work Buongiorno stanza audace and Francesco Antonioni, who wrote Gli occhi che si fermano.
In this array of pieces, one work stands out: written by Niccolò Castiglioni, Inverno in-ver is one of the most representative pieces of the musical evolution of this retiring composer, who coherently pursues a post-Webernian poetic. It consists in eleven musical poems, translated into small free forms, in which his "poetics of purity and luminosity" (Roberta Milanaccio) shine brightly. "what he expresses of winter – writes Castiglioni – is above all the sense of melancholy. In the music there is a sort of abandonment to sentiment, a sort of expressive striving that here and there contains stylemes that would be trite in and of themselves, were it not that here they are almost justified as a melancholy context for a nostalgically old-fashioned style of the single winter "pictures". The essence of these 'poems' is probably the following: abandoning the sense of melancholy".
Thirty-year old Francesca Verunelli in En Mouvement (Espace Double) alludes to the "double significance of movement and space that characterize writing: the movement is that of the body that moves through a space to gather a concrete experience of it and, at the same time, it is interior energy (pulsation) that stretches the points of the explored space. And therefore – in the case of a sound space – this means that height/interior energy/pulsation are indissoluble elements, but also that the 'history' of sound objects is caused by the movement of perception and the memory that remains of it; exactly as if we entered a room we have never seen blindfolded and took conscience of it simply with the story our touch gives of it".
Inspired by the tragic story of Medea, Silvia Colasanti dwells on the profound interior conflict that shakes the heart of a woman in love and betrayed: "anger puts love to flight and love anger" wrote Seneca. "Before great tempests, reason shipwrecks – writes Colasanti; it turns over into passion, into furor, into lucid delirium, which makes one vacillate between desire and the fear of understanding the causes and solutions for one's own personal conflicts. The orchestra reproduces the dramaturgy of reason that tears itself apart, the battle between opposite tensions that before resolving into furor, are blocked in a momentary inhibition of the will: when Medea oscillates between her function as a wife and her function as a mother. The protagonist is led, on the one hand, to take horrible revenge on the disloyal husband by taking it out on what is most dear to her: her children. On the other hand, as a mother, she wants to save her own children. In this drama between reason and destructive passion, Medea finally puts an end to the unresolved questions of her spirit by letting hate prevail over pietas".
Composed upon commission from the Festival, Buongiorno stanza audace, by thirty-six year old Sicilian composer Emanuele Casale, "unfurls, largely, along very slow movements and halos of sound". In this work, continues the author, as in others I have composed in the past, I try to put aside certain 'fears' that have always accompanied part of my musical education: the fear of consonance, of repetition, of 'explicit' sound figures from an aesthetic point of view… I follow the resonance, the sense of distance, the delicate flow of slow tangles".
Not yet forty, but frequently performed in Italy and abroad, Francesco Antonioni is the author of a kind of music that seeks a synthesis between various contemporary artistic trends within forms derived from the classical tradition. The idea for the piece he presents at the Biennale, Gli occhi che si fermano, came after he read the novel Il tuo volto domain by Javier Marìas, of which the title is a quotation, and a consideration on the ambiguity that every statement about the future carries within it. Antonioni suggests that the novel could complete the title with this question: "How can today I not know your face tomorrow?" Antonioni believes that the ambiguities of the text are transferred to the formal plane and determine the tension of the piece, for example: "The formal play at the origin of the piece consists in giving increased focus to a sound image, until it breaks apart, to see, like in a blow-up of a digital photo, the white spaces that separate the tiny dots that constitute the image, and then return to an overall vision… The first ambiguity, therefore, consists in overlaying, in the orchestra, sounds that are kept long and sounds that are repeated. Thanks to the diversity of volume and levels of sonority, the two sonic entities should appear as a divided yet indivisible dyad at the same time, two sound perspectives of the same object that dialectically refer to one another: the long sounds grow shorter with the interpolation of silences that distance the repercussions of the sound from one another, until they become very short; the short sounds come closer and closer to one another until they almost efface the silence that separates one from the other, tending, in the infinite to become long sounds…" (F.Antonioni).
Francesca Verunelli (Pietrasanta – Italy, 1979) – She studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano and piano at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini of Florence, earning two diplomas with the highest grades. In 2004 and 2005 she attended summer school at the Accademia Chigiana, where her music was performed and received the Emma Conestabile scholarship. In 2005 she was admitted to Azio Corghi's specialization course at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she earned her diploma in June 2007. In November of the same year the Freon Ensemble performed her work Luminal at the Auditorium in Rome. She participated in the 2007 edition of the Centre Acanthes de Metz; her work En Mouvement (Espace Double) was performed at the Arsenal by the Orchestre National de la Lorraine conducted by Jacquest Mercier. The same year she was selected for a record publication of the competition organized by CEMAT for electro-acoustic works. In 2008 she was selected to participated in the international Forum of the Aleph Ensemble, and created RSVP. The same year she followed the Cursus in composition and computer music at IRCAM which ended with the creation of Interno rosso con figure for accordion and electronics and she received a commission for a composition for an orchestra of cellos written for the Nomos Ensemble, which performed it in March 2010. In 2009 she was chosen to attend the second year of the Cursus at IRCAM, where she wrote a work for the Ensemble Intercontemporain which will be performed in October 2010 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has received commissions from the KDM Ensemble and Accroche Note.
Silvia Colasanti (Rome – Italy, 1975) – She earned her diploma in piano with Di Bella and in composition with Chiti at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she studied the History and Aesthetics of Music with Annibaldi. She attended master classes with Vacchi, Rihm and Dusapin (selected by Acanthes). In 2003 and 2004 she participated (winning the Diploma of Merit) in the Courses in Composition at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana held by Corghi, with whom she is specializing at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has won prizes in many national and international competitions, including "Zeitklang – International Composition competition Musikfabrik NÖ" (Vienna), "Lopes Graça" (Lisbon). Winner of the selection for "Tactus - Young Composers' Forum 2006" – Brussels – Belgium. Radio Rai selected Silvia Colasanti to represent Italy at the International Rostrum of Composers. The Arditti Quartet, Massimo Quarta, Arturo Tamayo, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Daniel Kawka, Lior Shambadal are just some of the musicians for whom Silvia Colasanti has written her pieces. Her musical theatre works Orfeo. Flebile queritur lyra interpreted by Maddalena Crippa and L'angelo del Liponard. Un delirio amoroso interpreted by Sandro Lombari, and presented in Rome and Florence, will be performed in Italy and in Germany next season. Her works are published by Ricordi.
Emanuele Casale (Catania – Italy, 1974) – He studied double bass with Sebastiano Nicotra, composition with Eliodoro Sollima, electronic music with Alessandro Cipriani, earning his diploma at the Istituto Vincenzo Bellini in Catania. He attended specialization classes with Aldo Clementi, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giorgio Nottoli and Barry Truax. He has won many international composition competitions, including: first prize at the Irino Prize in Tokyo, at the Reading Panel in Paris (IRCAM–Ensemble Intercontemporain), at the Concours International de Musique Electroacustique in Bourges, (France), at the Grame del Centre National de Creation Musicale in Lyon, at the Tribuna Irem of the International Music Council of UNESCO (Copenhagen-Paris), the Premio Cemat in Rome and the selection for the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He has received commissions from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (in 2003 when the theatre reopened after it was restored), the Frankfurt Opera House, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and La Biennale di Venezia. Many famous soloists, chamber and symphonic groups have played his music in concert programs in Europe, the United States, South America and the Far East. His works are published by Ricordi and Nuova Stradivarius.
Francesco Antonioni (Italy, 1971) – He has been taught by Raffaele Gervasio, Francesco Valdambrini, Edgar Alandia for composition and Pierluigi Camicia for piano. After earning his diplomas at the conservatory in both subjects, he continued his musical studies with Azio Corghi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Winner of a scholarship (Queen Elisabeth the Queen Mother), he studied with Julian Anderson at the Royal College of Music in London. His works include: Chat-Opera, staged at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and at the Piccolo Regio in Turin, presented by RAI at the Prix Italia 2003; Morphing for string quartet, commissioned by the Biennale di Venezia in 2001; Variazioni su una pop-song per flauto ed harmonizer, a composition that won the Francesco Pennisi Prize in 2001; Codice Ovvio, "a visual cantata" based on writings, drawings and projects by Bruno Munari, commissioned and performed by the Ensemble Modern at the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt; Giga for large orchestra, commissioned by the Goethe Institut, by the Ernst von Siemens Stiftung and by the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and Demand me Nothing, a meditation on the figure of Yago, for orchestra. In January 2009, in Birmingham, he presented the world premiere of Ballata (dell'abbandono e della fortuna) for eight string soloists. He teaches composition at the Conservatory in Vibo Valentia. He is published by Ricordi.

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This is a discussion on When were firearms invented? Late 1500s? within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by pax "The prevailing academic consensus is that gunpowder was discovered in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of ...
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
No, in 1911.
"If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Place on Earth!" Ronald Reagan
Looks like firearms were first invented back in the late 9th century and continued improvement continued until around 1911. Since then we have been content just to refine and streamline the manufacturing process with no real improvement in the actual product. Seems like in the last 95 years someone would have come up with a revolutionary change but I guess all the creativity has gone to electricity and cars. Or is it that the 1911 design is so perfect that it can't be improved?
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The game kicked off with Blues shooting towards the Tilton Road end and St. Andrew's bathed in glorious sunshine.
Following an even opening, Blues fashioned the first chance on goal after nine minutes when Ravel Morrison tried a curling effort from distance, but it flew high and wide. The same player came desperately close to opening his account three minutes later. A sublime piece of skill from Morrison saw him bamboozle his marker and leave him on the floor before curling the ball over Paddy Kenny towards the top corner. Unfortunately the bar came to Leeds' rescue and the ball bounced away from the danger zone.
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BJP accuses Congress of delaying Owaisi's arrest
Accusing Congress of delaying the arrest of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, BJP today alleged that the Centre maintained 'double-standards' by giving 'protection' to such people while cracking down on peaceful protesters like Ramdev and Anna Hazare.delhi Updated: Jan 08, 2013 19:39 IST
Accusing Congress of delaying the arrest of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, BJP on Tuesday alleged that the Centre maintained 'double-standards' by giving 'protection' to such people while cracking down on peaceful protesters like Ramdev and Anna Hazare.
"BJP strongly condemns the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh Congress government for acting as helping hands for MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi to become a hero out of his hate speech," party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
He alleged that Congress had delayed the arrest of Owaisi as the party depends on MIM support in Hyderabad. "We have doubts about Congress' intentions and policies," he told reporters in New Delhi.
Owaisi, facing multiple cases for his alleged hate speech, was today arrested by Andhra Pradesh Police. He was earlier subjected to medical examination at the Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad.
BJP alleged that Owaisi made such statements every three months as a part of a "political strategy".
The main opposition said instead of arresting Owaisi promptly after his return from London, the government allowed a "heroic welcome" and gave him police protection. "This is a dubious and condemnable act," Javadekar said.
He maintained that as per the criminal procedure, Owaisi should have been arrested upon arrival and presented before a court and only then given medical treatment, if at all required. BJP criticised the government for "delay" in arresting Owaisi and allowing him to use "ill-health as an alibi".
"The double standards of the Congress government is writ large by the fact that Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters who were holding a peaceful protest were lathicharged in a midnight crackdown and Anna Hazare was arrested to prevent him from participating in a hunger strike," Javadekar said.
He also said that a man in Pudducherry was arrested for tweeting against Union Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti.
BJP alleged that in the cases of Owaisi and Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the government gives them "wilful protection" instead of arresting them. "Geelani had given a hate speech in Lutyen's Delhi," he said, adding that he was not arrested.


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Once you're done with that lab, there are a number of others that you can go through to add depth to your knowledge, written by Adam and Laurence. Download them here. And if even that isn't enough for you, there are some tutorials here that Jesse Liberty has been working on. Hopefully that's plenty to get you up and running for now!


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Some reserved, polite reading at Borders or Barnes & Noble or Changing Hands this ain't. The term "penny dreadful" used to refer to potboiler fictions of earlier centuries which focused on the lurid, the sensational, the violent, the debauched. It's a badge that the five scribblers featured in "Penny Dreadfuls: Writers in Performance" wear with pride, and probably with more than a little glee.
And as the title suggests, the focus of the event, slated for 8 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at Modified, is a live, para-theatrical performance. It isn't a "reading" in the usual sense, but an evening of full-on recitals by the writers of memorized passages of their works, or works in progress.
On the bill is Los Angeles writer, community activist and self-described "professional troublemaker" Larry Fondation, author of the L.A.-set novel Angry Nights, winner of the 1994 FC2/Illinois State University National Fiction competition. The L.A. Times says the book "shimmers with real heat."
Also appearing is Bett Williams, whose Girl Walking Backwards, often described as an "anti-coming-of-age" novel, concerns a Southern California high school girl coming to terms with her sexuality, and with the miseries inflicted on her by her homophobic New Agey mother. The Santa Fe-based writer's debut work has been highly praised for its humor, and for its freewheeling disinterest in political correctness.
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President appeals to public officials to show moral and ethical values
President George Abela this evening appealed to public officials to respect their position and behave in line with the highest moral and ethical values.
In his Christmas message, the President spoke about the recent developments in the judiciary saying that like the rest of the nation, he had also been shocked and concerned at the allegations made but he did not lose confidence in the judiciary, as most of its members did their duty honestly and with integrity.
At the same time, he was comforted by the fact that the country had systems with which to ensure that no one was above the law. But although there could be a continuous debate about reforms, no reform could guarantee public officials with integrity.
It was only the appointees themselves who could guarantee this by behaving according to the highest moral and ethical values their position required.
Dr Abela hoped that the forthcoming electoral campaign would be cordial and one where reciprocal respect was shown by all parties with rational arguments being made without personal attacks.
The President's message in full can be read in the pdf link below.
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Goals: Brisbane: J Polkinghorne 3 T Banfield 3 T Rockliff 3 D Merrett 2 P Hanley 2 A McGrath J Adcock M Leuenberger S Sheldon. Melbourne: J Howe 2 J Magner 2 M Clark 2 A Davey B Green J Trengove J Watts S Martin.
Best: Brisbane: J Adcock S Black C Beams T Rockliff D Rich P Hanley B Hudson. Melbourne: J Trengove N Jones J Magner J Watts.
Umpires: Jeff Dalgleish, Stefan Grun, Matthew Leppard.
Official Crowd: 33,473 at MCG.
It was supposed to be an AFL game won on emotion.
Instead, Brisbane won it with football - an impressive third quarter burst destroying Melbourne and the Demons' hopes of honouring Jim Stynes' memory as the Lions ran out 41-point winners at the MCG on Saturday.
The Lions trounced Melbourne 17.17 (119) to 11.12 (78), with their tackling pressure, hardness and slick ball use features as a six goals to one third quarter provided the platform for a season-opening victory.
Brisbane's Jed Adcock, Simon Black and Claye Beams ran amok in the midfield, while coach Michael Voss' decision to deploy midfielder Tom Rockliff as a makeshift forward paid off handsomely with three goals.
Todd Banfield and James Polkinghorne also booted three goals each for the Lions.
In a game Melbourne seemed pre-destined to win after an emotional fortnight following the death of former playing great and club president Stynes, Brisbane were the far better side.
There was a minute's applause for Stynes before the match, and the Demons started well enough to get the best of a tight first quarter and lead by 11 points at the break.
That was as close as Melbourne got to the victory they craved, with the Lions kicking four of the first five goals of a second quarter which became an arm-wrestle.
The lead changed hands seven times in the second term - Brisbane eventually taking a four-point lead to halftime.
Then the Lions flicked the switch - Black and Beams unstoppable in the third term and Adcock and midfielder Daniel Rich gathering and using the ball ultra-efficiently.
Melbourne had no answers to a burst in which the Lions kicked the opening six goals of the term, before a junk-time goal to the otherwise quiet Brad Green reduced the three-quarter-time deficit to 35 points.
It was a disappointing head coaching debut for Melbourne's Mark Neeld, while ex-Brisbane player Mitch Clark was barely a factor against his old club.
Clark booted two late fourth quarter goals for the Demons with the match already lost.
Brisbane midfielder Black finished with 31 touches and 10 tackles, while Adcock was equally brilliant for the Lions with 29 possessions.


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Students in Victoria heading to Schoolies Week in Queensland need to be better educated on safety, acceptable levels of alcohol consumption and safe sex, Gold Coast councillors have said.
A review of Schoolies Week by Queenland's State Government is also needed to curb the increasing flow of revellers to the Gold Coast and to beef up the police presence, Surfers Paradise councillor Max Christmas has said.
According to another Gold Coast councillor and media spokeswoman for Schoolies Week, Jane Grew, better management in the form of student education programs that deal with safety issues also needed to come from the southern states.
"Students coming from New South Wales and Victoria need to recognise their rights and responsibilities," Cr Grew said. "I don't think that's happening."
She said she hoped a Government program in Queensland schools expanded to the southern states so students were properly educated on issues of sexual safety, safe alcohol use and general responsibility.
The assistant principal of Melbourne's Balwyn High School, Valerie Bourke, said such education was already happening in local schools. Summer safety programs that dealt with general issues of harm minimisation had been implemented "years ago", she said. The principal of Kew's Methodist Ladies' College, Rosa Storelli, said that of her final year's 300 students, as many as 50 per cent may take part in Schoolies Week.
"We get a lot of literature sent to us by Schoolies Week promoters, but we don't pass any of it on to our students," Ms Storelli said.
Figures released earlier in the week showed last year's event was the most violent on record, with reported assaults in the Surfers Paradise precinct in November and December totalling 131. Between 1996-2001, the average number of assaults over the same period was 94.
In their 15th year of providing Schoolies Week accommodation packages, Queensland's Break Free Holidays are the leading bookers in the business. Of the 50,000 school leavers who last year descended on Queensland, 31,500 booked through the company.
To minimise incidences of "gate-crashers" that general manager Matt Lloyd said had caused problems, organisers have implemented a photo ID system.
To enter the resorts, it must be shown to security staff who are on duty 24 hours a day.
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One generation and then another grew up with chubby as the happy harbinger of summer.
The scandal drove the company from the street business, but chubby acquired a truck of his own.
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Canada aboriginal movement poses new threat to miners
By Julie Gordon and Allison Martell
TORONTO (Reuters) - An aboriginal protest movement that's often compared with Occupy Wall Street has the potential to disrupt mining projects across Canada, threatening to undermine the country's coveted reputation for low-risk resource development.
Idle No More, a grass-roots movement with little centralized leadership, swept across Canada late last year with the help social media. Protesters blocked roads and rail lines, and staged big rallies in the country's largest cities to press a sweeping human rights and economic development agenda.
Mining companies are also in the movement's sights as aboriginal bands seek to renegotiate old agreements and seize more control over mining developments, whether they are on lands designated as native reserves or not.
"We've existed in this territory for millennia. We don't have a land claim - it's beyond that, actually. Our rights exist throughout all of our territories," Arlen Dumas, chief of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, said about the northern Manitoba land where HudBay Minerals Inc, a Toronto-based mid-tier miner, is building its Lalor project.
Protesters cut off access to the gold-copper-zinc mine for several hours in early March, demanding talks with the company on an ownership stake in the C$794 million ($773.84 million) project, which has started limited production.
HudBay, which has mined in northern Manitoba for nearly 85 years, made it clear it prefers not to negotiate directly with the community, which is about 125 km (78 miles) away from Lalor and is one of many First Nations bands in the region.
Instead, the company is participating in an inter-governmental mining committee, which deals with such things as how benefits are split among parties.
"We're kind of in the crossfire of that," said HudBay Chief Executive David Garofalo. "At the end of the day it's important that those governments talk to each other and establish a revenue-sharing model that sustains both governments - both the Canadian governments and the First Nation governments." Continued...


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More than 25 Soldiers assigned to the 725th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 63rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion received Air Force awards and certificates Nov. 14 for conducting range clearance operations in May.Air Force Commendation Medals were awarded to three Soldiers, Air Force Achievement Medals were awarded to 20 Soldiers and certificates of appreciation were presented to five Soldiers.Air Force Lt. Col. Alfred Toma-selli, Detachment 1 range commander with the 174th Operations Group, 174th Attack Wing, New York Air National Guard, presented the awards to the Soldiers. The Soldiers earned the awards for clearing more than 387 acres of unexploded ordnance on Range 48, which is an air-to-ground bombing range, during a 10-day operation.The portion of the range was cleared so it can be used by the Air Force for more than just a bombing range.The terrain the EOD Soldiers had to clear was very rough and unforgiving as well as the weather, which ranged from days of snow to days in the high 80s, Tomaselli said. There were anywhere from 10-20 Soldiers out on the range conducting the operation at any time.Hundreds of items were located and identified on the range."There were 17 items found on the range that still contained high explosives or full-up fuses and were disposed of on site," said 1st Lt. Jordan Pate, a team leader assigned to 725th EOD Company who served as officer in charge of the range clearance operation. After working together, the Air Force members and EOD Soldiers established a good relationship and continue to help and support each other whenever possible.


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No-fi footsoldiers Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls (two separate bands, not one bizarre meta-name) have toured together and are each constantly approaching and flirting with the the elusive and magical formula/alchemy of FM pop radio melodies shrouded in feedback and cassette hiss, so it only makes sense that they would collaborate on a heartfelt, albeit slightly morbid, Christmas jam for the fans. Enjoy!
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Cernobbio Residence, Cernobbio
- Free WiFi and free parking
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- 6 guestrooms
- Marina
- Outdoor pool
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- Air conditioning
- Free WiFi and free parking
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- Free cribs/infant beds
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- Heart of Cernobbio
- Villa Olmo (1.8 mi / 2.9 km)
- Volta Temple (2.4 mi / 3.9 km)
- Cathedral of Como (3 mi / 4.8 km)
- Villa Erba (0.3 mi / 0.4 km)
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- Check-in time 3 PM-6 PM
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- Pets allowed (dogs only)
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- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
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Benny Brown
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September 27, 1953
San Francisco, California
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Benny Brown (Benjamin Gene Brown; born September 27, 1953 San Francisco, California – February 1, 1996 Ontario, California) was an Olympic gold-medal winner in the 1976 4x400 Men's Relay running the second leg. He teamed with Herman Frazier, Fred Newhouse and Maxie Parks.[1]
Previously he had finished in 6th place at 440 yards in a very tight finish at the 1971 CIF California State Meet while running for the now closed Sunnyvale High School.[2] Next he attended UCLA, winning the 1975 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship at 440 yards,[3] before finishing fourth in the United States Olympic Trials (track and field) which qualified him to run on the relay team.[4]
He died in an automobile accident at the age of 42. He had continued to be an active participant in the U. S. Corporate Games while working for Hughes Aircraft Company.[5]
He was a part-time coach for Cal State Fullerton's track team.[6] Cal State Fullerton hosts the Ben Brown Invitational track and field meet every year in early March. It is the best track and field meet in southern California in March.[7][8][9]
- ^ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/benny-brown-1.html
- ^ "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
- ^ http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/track_outdoor_champs_records/2006/MD1.pdf
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Post columnist Knight slammed Democrats on immigration, omitted that McCain co-sponsored immigration bill with Kennedy
In a column about U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's potential presidential bid, The Denver Post's Al Knight criticized "liberal Democrats" like U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (MA) on immigration but failed to mention that U.S. Sen. John McCain (AZ), a possible Republican presidential candidate, co-authored immigration reform legislation with Kennedy.
In his January 17 Denver Post column [1] about the possible presidential aspirations of U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Al Knight pointed to "liberal Democrats like Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy" as politicians with whom President Bush often sides "on the immigration issue," but Knight failed to note that Republican Sen. John McCain (AZ) co-authored with Kennedy immigration reform legislation the Senate passed with Bush's support in May.
Knight's column (an online version appeared on January 16) was prompted by Tancredo's January 16 announcement that he would form an exploratory committee for a 2008 presidential campaign. In its article [2] about Tancredo's announcement, the Post noted the view of political analyst Norman Ornstein [3] of the conservative American Enterprise Institute [4] think tank, who said Tancredo's hard-line immigration stance would contrast with that of McCain. McCain has also formed an exploratory committee [5] and would likely compete with Tancredo for Republican votes at the January 2008 Iowa caucuses [6]:
Tancredo's presence in Iowa would put pressure on McCain, who would have a hard time appeasing the wing of the Republican Party that agrees with Tancredo on immigration, said Norman Ornstein, political analyst with American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.
An August 2005 article [7] in The Hill [8] -- a Washington, D.C., newspaper that covers national politics -- noted that McCain and Kennedy had introduced the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" the previous spring. As the Senate Republican Policy Committee noted [9] in a May 15, 2006, Legislative Notice, elements of that bill, S. 1033 [10], were later incorporated into S. 2611 [11], the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006":
S. 2611 includes language based on Title VII of S. 1033, a bill sponsored by Senators Kennedy and McCain, that would provide for eventual "green cards" and a path to citizenship for most of the 11-12 million illegal aliens currently estimated to be residing in the United States.
S. 2611 passed the Senate on May 25, 2006, by a vote [12] of 62-36. As Colorado Media Matters noted [13], the measure drew criticism from some Republicans, who focused on Kennedy's role in crafting the bill but did not mention McCain's. For instance, the 2006 Republican candidate for Colorado's 7th Congressional District seat, Rick O'Donnell, ran an ad [14] titled "Amnesty" during the campaign that condemned S. 2611 for provisions concerning illegal immigrants already in the United States. As Knight did in his column, the O'Donnell campaign named only Sen. Kennedy as responsible for the bill. In fact, Kennedy was the only Democrat to co-sponsor [15] the bill. Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (PA) sponsored the final version of the Senate bill, and McCain was one of five Republican co-sponsors. In a statement [16] immediately preceding the successful vote on final passage, McCain thanked his Senate colleagues and Bush for their efforts in support of the bill:
I want to first thank the President for his leadership on this issue. The President's speech to the Nation last week, which I thought was inspired, was greeted by 74 percent of the American people overnight favorably, including his absolute determination to see the Congress of the United States send him a bill which has a comprehensive approach to this issue which we as a Congress and a Federal Government have ignored for too long.
I also commend the Senate Leadership on both sides of the aisle for their efforts to ensure that the Senate addressed this important issue and gave us more than adequate time for a thorough debate. This is a proud moment for the United States Senate, as we have conducted good work and returned to orderly traditions of the legislative process as envisioned by our founding fathers.
I also want to again recognize Chairman Specter for his work in leading us to this point in the legislative process. He and all of the members of the Judiciary Committee deserve our appreciation for the considerable effort they have taken on this issue during this Congress.
And of course, I commend Senator Kennedy, who is perhaps the leading expert on this difficult issue. He and I spent many months working to develop a comprehensive, reasonable, workable legislative proposal, much of which is contained in the bill before us. I also want to thank Senators Brownback, Lieberman, Graham, Salazar, Martinez, Obama, and Dewine for their shared commitment to this issue, and working to ensure this bill moved successfully intact through the legislative process.
Knight also wrote that Tancredo undermined critics' portrayal of him as "a kind of a nut" by having "demonstrated the ability to thoughtfully articulate his views." As Colorado Media Matters has documented [17], Tancredo has frequently also demonstrated the opposite.
From Al Knight's column, "Tancredo for president in 2008? Well, why not?," in the January 17 edition of The Denver Post:
Colorado Republican congressman Tom Tancredo's decision to form an exploratory committee in a possible run for the presidency came on the same day that Illinois junior Sen. Barack Obama, a Democrat, took the same step.
It is clear from the beginning why Tancredo is a possible candidate. He wants to advance some campaign issues, principally involving illegal immigration, that he sincerely believes would be overlooked otherwise. What Obama stands for, what has motivated his decision and fueled his ambition, is largely unknown. There is no question that he has the ability to stir a crowd and generate enthusiasm, but it is not clear where he stands on the important issues of the time, except for a distinctly anti-war position.
To the degree that Tancredo can make the immigration issue a topic for frequent discussion, he could also affect Democratic plans for new immigration legislation.
The Colorado congressman has never been afraid to challenge the Democrats or those in his own party, including President Bush, who, more often than not, sides with liberal Democrats like Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy on the immigration issue.
In his announcement Tuesday, Tancredo made it clear he doesn't intend to be a one-trick pony. Obviously, however, his stand on immigration is what got him here and it is that stand that will help determine how far he can go politically.
His critics (and he has plenty both in Colorado and elsewhere) have tried for years to picture him as a kind of nut, obsessed with one topic to the exclusion of all others. That hasn't worked, primarily because he has demonstrated the ability to thoughtfully articulate his views.


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Big smiles from Ben because he has a new puppy, Max!
Years of happy memories yet to be made, Ronna! :))
Big smiles from Ben because he has a new puppy, Max!
Years of happy memories yet to be made, Ronna! :))
Boy does that bring back memories. The pose is exactly the same our son had. He was 7 when we got our Lucy that was with us for 15 1/2 years. Lucy has since passed and we are waiting for our 2nd sheltie to be born as I write this. He has grown up and moved away, but is excited for us to get another one. Feel the love in this pic……
Love Max!! And the boy too of course…LOL :)
Happiness radiating from that picture! A boy and his dog…. what could be better? I know Max will be a great service dog, in many ways for Ben. It's a win-win deal!
What can be better than a boy & his dog? They are a handsome pair!
They look very happy together. May they enjoy many, many years of love and friendship
These two cuties brightened my monday morning. What a perfect picture… You can feel the love. Every child should grow up with dog. The learning and rewards are endless. I am jealous of Ben. :) That's one beautiful sheltie puppy you've got there!!!
Adorable picture of both of them!! So very happy for them both & rest
of family!!! Looks like years of fun!! Enjoy every day!
Ben is my great nephew and suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Max will play an important role in his life – he is to be trained as Ben's service dog.
That is so wonderful. Shelties have great mind, soul, and body healing powers.
2 cute little guys! Have a very fun time together. Very sweet!!!
Your litlle pal Max is just beautiful Ben, and boy..are you two going to have many many years of lots of fun together..Love your picture, and you gave me another Ahhhh day…big time!..lol
Lots of fun and happy times are in store for those two. Shelties and kids are a match made in heaven!
OMG Ben, I think you have the BEST looking little Max in the whole world!! Make sure you send us lots of pics!! Have fun, fun, fun…….. =)
The utter JOY in Ben's beaming face warmed my heart ~and, Max's beauty made it melt! Their love story has only begun! What lucky, lucky boys!!!
we have two handsome males today! Thank you for sharing them with all of us. I hope that Max brings only wonderful memories and happiness to your family. He is darling.
Thank you Kelly. Max has made such a difference already with Ben. He is a well loved member of their family.
They look so content together. Max is a beauty! Enjoy!
WOW! Who's going to have more fun here? I already see the complete Sheltie package, Max is going to make one fine looking Adult and with he and Ben running close first and seconds, we have one handsome winning combination going on here. Watch out ladies, heartthrobs in the making!


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Drizzt Do'Urden has settled in the windswept towns of Icewind Dale. There, he encounters a young barbarian named Wulfgar, captured in a raid and made the ward of a grizzled dwarf name Bruenor. With Drizzt's help, Wulfgar will grow from a feral child to a man with the heart of a dwarf, the instincts of a savage, and the soul of a hero. But it will take even more than that to defeat the demonic power of Crenshininbon, the fabled Crystal Shard.
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"great book"
I listened to the first 3 Drizzt books, And now I am glad to find this new series that carries on his adventures with other heroic characters. I ignored these books back when I used to actually read scifi/fantasy, now I wish I hadn't, excellent yarns. And by far, Bevine is the best narrator for the genre, not a fault can be found -- clear, good tone, his voice adds enthusiasm and excitement during exciting scenes, he does enough voice imitation for different characters to make it clear who is talking, but not corny either. And of course, the story was very good, else I wouldn't give it 5 stars. Highly recommended!
"Another Epic Drizzt Saga"
I would definitely listen to this book again. Maybe two or more times. Why? Because the nonstop action and adventure. The way that Salvatore captures the world is profound and detailed and makes me feel like I'm beside the characters.
My favorite character in this book was Brunner. He is witty and stubborn and plays a good prank on drizzt. I couldn't help but laugh and smile whenever he was in the chapter.
Victor Bevine is an awesome narrator. He makes each character feel distinguished and gives each the charm and/or personality as if he were actually that character.
This book definitely made me laugh at several parts, as well as bite my nails or even feel disdain at others. Defiantly kept me at the edge of my chair.
"Great Intro to Drizzt"
Upper-middle tier.
Like most folks, I really connected with Drizzt. I think many of us have moments where we feel like singular bastions of decency in a world that needs fixing. He is unwaveringly loyal and has a strong moral compass - I can get behind a character like that!
I truly enjoyed Mr. Bevine's voice talents for the various characters, along with the ease applied to speaking unusual words and names that are frequent fare in the fantasy genre.
No, but that didn't make the story any less enjoyable.
I will be getting the balance of the Icewind Dale trilogy, so that says something :-)
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
"Had potential"
I read this book several years ago, just to see what all the fuss was about. At the time I thought it was a three star book. I got it on audible to see if listening to it gave me better perspective. It started out great as it introduced us to several compelling characters. Then about chapter seven it turns into a battle after battle book. The characters are never really developed and so seem fairly shallow. I plan to read some more Salvatore written later to see if he starts to develop his characters.
Would a Tyrant refer to himself as a Tyrant? You should be open minded and not judge Dark Elves, Humans, Halflings, or Dwarfs by their skin color or height, but it is okay to consider all Orcs, Giants, Frost Giants, Demons, Trolls, and goblins as bad.
The narrator uses the same voices for most monsters and that is not a very good one. He makes the Demon sound retarded.
I hope you get to read this before I am thrown to the back pages. Salvatore fans are very protective of their author and anyone who does not agree is angrily given an unhelpful vote. One reviewer has 0-14 for voicing his opinion, although I will agree he might have been a little harsh.
Actor/director/teacher. Split my time between Beijing and Seattle now. Listen to Audible on the subway and while driving or riding my bike.
"Flashback to old school fantasy"
There was a time when R.A.Salvatore was one of my favorite fantasy authors. I even had him autograph my copy of "Homeland," his introduction to the Drizzt character, which was riveting and original, set as it was in the Underdark where we were introduced to an entirely novel culture of shocking matriarchal cruelty and the Spider Queen goddess of the Drow elves.
Somehow I missed moving on to his second Drizzt trilogy, so I was looking forward to picking up the tale now after all these years. Unfortunately I found that the old school world of frost giants, dwarves, hobbits and barbarians suffers somewhat in comparison with the deluge of imagination and creativity to which we have been treated in the past thirty years. I wish I had read "Icewind Dale" when it first came out so that I could have enjoyed it without having to compare it to Sanderson and Abercrombie and Bujold and Lynch's Locke Lamora and, yes, R.R. Martin."
Still, I enjoyed traveling with the old companions again for a few hours. Though I find Victer Bevine's delivery to be a bit wide-eyed and labored, he does maintain the energy of the work and delineate the characters clearly. Though I will not follow the rest of the "Icewind" series, I'm glad I got reacquainted with Salvatore, and I may check out some of his more recent works to see how he has responded to the development of the fantasy genre.
"i love Drizzt"
verry happy with the reading. i thought it was well spoken and had emotions played out very well
"The original appearance of the almighty Drizzt"
My favorite book to date.
Drizzt is my favorite character and has been for over 20 years. I was thrilled to see these books finally hit audio.
Victor was fair to me. I an use to mark thompson from the star wars and he is my favorite preformer.
The honor in the character of Drizzt.
This is my favorite all time book and the original apperence of Drizzt. I am glad to finally see this book come to audio.
"Back to where it all started"
Masterful story telling, the adventure that started it all. I have to admit, I enjoyed this. tale the first time I read it, but after all this time, after so many years and countless adventures, this original tale of the Companions of the Hall was far better the second time around. It's a must read. And the stories only get better from here on out.
"great book"
this is one of my favorite books of all time. they nailed it with this one
"An epic war story of Icewind Dale"
The story is a compelling narrative around a conflict between barbarians, cities, and hordes of monsters in a frozen wasteland.
The narrative is well paced; slow and creeping descriptions when subtely is afoot, and racing descriptions of violence in the scenes of combat. It is a testament to Victor's understanding of situations in the book and takes a lot of skills to read, voice, and comprehend what lies beyond the text of the pages.
There are some descrepencies in the editing that seem to abruptly end the narrative or hang for such a period of time that I check my phone to see if it's still playing, though these are rare and stop after chapter 25. There was even a sentence completely cut off once... It was during a description of a scene, however, so not any loss in the story arc.
These were minor bumps on the road and should not deter anyone interested in the best trilogy following the legendary drow Drizzt Do'Urden.
"Re Discovering My Youth"
Possibly not everyone might be aware of this but these books were set in a Campaign World called the Forgotten Realms, a world created by Ed Greenwood back in the mid eighties for the game Dungeons & Dragons, then owned by TSR.
The D&D franchise was then bought by The Wizards of the Coast and 28 years on since this first book was written by R A Salvatore, yes contrary to what people have said the Crystal Shard Trilogy were the first books published, the D&D 5th edition game has eventually come full circle back to the Realms, one of the most loved settings for the game and it was because of this I decided to listen to this series again to reacquaint myself with the world and its magical appeal.
The book still stands up after all these years, I thoroughly enjoyed it and as my memory is pretty shocking it was as if I was reading them again for the first time.
Looking forward to the rest in the series and then I will move on to The Dark Elf Trilogy, a prequel to the Crystal Shard, there are also two other series called The Legacy of the Drow and Paths of Darkness.
With regards to the Narrators performance my only criticism is his intonation became too monotonous, he finishes every sentence with the same intonation that after a while started to drive me crazy, sorry but I have been spoiled with listening to Stephen Fry performing the Harry Potter books, and thats the difference, there are narrators who just read the books and there are those who actually perform them, unfortunately Victor Bevine isn't the latter.
"I do not want to live in a world without dragons..."
The quote is from the next book in the series but summed up the joy and magic if the series so well, I could not resist quoting it.
Brilliant story. Gruesome battles. True hearts.
"A fun tale from start to finish."
I am completely and utterly hooked on the tales of Drizzt. This chapter was another great ride. My only criticism of this book would be of the "by chance" ways in which our hero escapes certain death.
Other than that, this book is a must listen.
Absolutely brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed. This is my first book in this series and I will definitely be listening to more.
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"There are 270,000,000 civilian guns in the US (Karp, Aaron. 2007. Completing the Count: Civilian firearms. Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City, p. 67. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 27 August).
"With 9,000 firearms homicides in 2009 (Homicide in 207 Countries - United States. Global Study on Homicide 2011: Trends, Context, Data; Statistical Annex [with online datasets], pp. 103-125. Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 6 October), that means 99.9967% of civilian firearms were not used for murder.
"Ted Kennedy's car killed more people than my guns (Kathy Schaidle).
"Rational people focus on the killer, not the weapon unlawfully used to kill, whatever that weapon is, be it gun, blunt instrument, bread knife or passenger airliner."
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The Mighty Wondercam (Videosmith) Dual Classic Shoulder Pod updates the design of the original popular Classic Shoulder Pod by adding a second handgrip, thereby offering even more shoulder-mounted stability when you're operating with a normally handheld camcorder such as a Panasonic HVX200, a Sony HVR-V1U or Z1U, a Canon XH A1, or many other similarly sized camcorders.
The Dual Classic Shoulder Pod inherits its adjustable nature from its predecessor. Simply by loosening the aluminum Shoulder Pod's thumbscrews, you can tilt the shoulder brace, adjust the front-to-back orientation of the camcorder to achieve optimal balance, adjust the tilt of the handgrip assembly, and adjust the individual tilt of both grips.
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