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R.I.P. Hilton Kramer
From The American Spectator:
Hilton Kramer, co-founder of The New Criterion, passed away this morning of heart failure. His death comes two days after his 84th birthday.
Kramer spent many years as an art critic first at The Nation and then at The New York Times. Unhappy with the left-wing dogma which prevaded arts and culture (and still does), Kramer left The Gray Lady in 1982 and founded The New Criterion along with pianist Samuel Lipman.
A lengthy obit can be found in The New York Times.
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Harrell Named Assistant Swim Coach
NEW ROCHELLE, NY – Iona College men's and women's swimming and diving head coach Nick Cavataro - entering his 31st season at the helm of the Gaels - has announced New Rochelle native Ryan Harrell will join the Maroon & Gold coaching staff as an assistant coach. Harrell joins Cavataro, Brian Hansbury and Rob Parrinelli on the Hynes Pool deck.
"We had a tremendous applicant group and, it was Ryan's unique combination of knowledge, background, energy and experience in sales that makes this a great fit," said Cavataro.
Ryan Harrell - a 2007 Towson University graduate with a degree in exercise science - was the school record holder in the 200-yard individual medley, 400-yard individual medley while also serving as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association record holding 800-yard freestyle relay.
Harrell was a CAA finalist in the 500-yard freestyle, 400-yard individual medley and champion in the 800-yard freestyle relay at the 2003 ECAC Championships. Harrell swam locally for Iona Prep and the nationally ranked USA swim program, the Badger Swim Club.
Harrell has an extensive background as a sales executive and commodities broker and has most recently coached with the Merritt Athletic Club, in Baltimore, MD.
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Galleries dedicated to most of the celebrities featured on this page can be found on Prawn Cufflinks, my celebrity pictures site.
Jordana Brewster - Kelly Clarkson
Angelina Jolie - Helen Flanagan
Martine McCutcheon - Suranne Jones
Avril Lavigne
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Emma Watson & the Harry Potter girls - Girls Aloud
Hyori - Gemma Atkinson - Shakira - Fearne Cotton
Kirsten Dunst - Marilyn Monroe - Kelly Reilly
Zac Efron
Hilary Duff
Ashley Tisdale & Vanessa Hudgens
Stacy Ferguson (Fergie) - Nelly Furtado
Chris Evans - Hayden Panettiere - Milo Ventimiglia
Cristiano Ronaldo
Kara Tointon
Amir Khan
A pair of wallpapers dedicated to my favourite dance band, Infernal, with Lina Rafn and Paw Lagermann.
Emma Griffiths
The gorgeous Kelly Brook
Angelina Jolie being her usual sexy self.
Some older wallpapers:
Stacy Keibler - Sarah Michelle Gellar - Scarlett Johannson - Resident Evil
Hilary Duff - Mariah Carey - Lucy Pinder & Michelle Marsh - Kristanna Loken
Kate Moss - Kate Beckinsale - Carmen Electra - Britney Spears
Avril Lavigne - Salma Hayek - Eva Longoria - Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque
Eva Green - Kate Lawler - Sugababes - Kate Winslet
Karima Adebibe as Lara Croft - I love this shoot, so this had to be done!
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LDWF is conducting another survey of Louisiana's waterfowl hunters asking for opinions on waterfowl hunting zones, season dates, youth hunting dates, and some questions on satisfaction with past zones/splits, satisfaction with the 2011/12 waterfowl season, and Catahoula Lake.
We put out a press release announcing the survey on Friday at:
The proposed zone boundaries for the new 3-zone options will affect hunters primarily in southeast Louisiana around Lake Pontchartrain, in the lower Atchafalaya basin, and in northwest Louisiana. But regardless of region of the state, I'd still like to get as much feedback as possible, and one goal will be to link the season date preferences with the region where the respondent primarily hunts. I was confused by past survey data on zones/splits options until I realized that about 80% of Louisiana waterfowl hunters only hunt in 1 zone. So things that are important to me, like increasing hunting opportunity and regulatory flexibility which come with additional zones, aren't very important to the vast majority of our hunters. Season dates within each zone is FAR more important.
Like the 2010 Hunter Opinion survey, we are mailing surveys to randomly-selected hunters, AND we have web-enabled the survey so every interested hunter can participate. If you weren't selected to receive the mail-out survey, you can take the web-enabled survey (it's the exact same survey) at:
At that link, you can not only find the survey, but there is also reference material that explains what we are proposing. There is a link to a power-point presentation that outlines the considerations in making decisions about zones, splits, and season dates, as well as results from past surveys. There is also a link to the maps of our current 2-zone system and 2 new 3-zone options along with precise descriptions of the zone boundaries and what we are trying to accomplish with those changes.
Agree or disagree with the proposals, I'd like to hear from you. I won't be collecting responses from website postings or e-mails this time like I did in July 2011. That was too overwhelming and time consuming. I still welcome any of your comments, but please participate with the mail-out (if selected) or on-line surveys so I can get some idea of predominant opinions in each region of the state.
Thanks very much,
Larry Reynolds
LDWF Waterfowl Study Leader


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I recently purchased a 2006 CRV SE AWD 5AT to accompany my 2004 CRV LX. (which the girlfriend drives)
I purchased this used with 69,000 miles and it is certified. I run mostly highway miles and, after racking up about 1500 miles, have added the #2429 K&N air filter. (I had an extra one lying around.) Through certification the V has had the trans. and differential fluids changed out and everything else is up to date for maintenance.
I am only able to get 21 to 23 MPG so far. This is both with the Honda air filter and the K&N filter. I believe that this V is, in the best conditions,
suppose to achieve 28 MPG as a top rating. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how I can improve the MPG's? I know that this is winter time but being that this V is used and I don't have a maintenance record of the previous owner, can I do anything further to help improve the results? Again I am placing mostly highway miles on this CRV and I feel I am not achieving a good enough MPG. I realistically think that 25 to 26 for winter highway driving should be average. (Maybe I am dreaming though)
Should I be using 87 octane from Shell or BP Amoco instead of the average gas station?
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Government, this year, will be scrambling to find solutions for the country's sugar industry as production fell to an embarrassing 23-year low in 2013.
Production at the eight estates in Berbice and Demerara closed on December 21, the last day of grinding, at a dismal 186,807 tonnes. This was below the 190,000-tonne figure that had been targeted and which had been revised again and again from the original 260,000 tonnes at the beginning of the year. The situation has now left the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) owing banks and suppliers in excess of $10.5B, union officials confirmed yesterday.
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|1,800 sq. ft.
|Property type
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to Eagle Rock Resort restrictions, all resort amenities are for use by Eagle Rock property owners only. Renting the home will allow access to the home, but not to the resort amenities.
Immerse yourself in Pennsylvania's year-round natural beauty when you stay at this fantastic Eagle Rock Resort vacation rental house! Offering a nice private setting in a pristine resort community, yet situated close to many area attractions, this home is the perfect relaxing getaway for all kinds of travelers.
With 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 1,800 square feet of nicely appointed living space, this delightful house is an ideal choice for a large family or group of close friends traveling together. As soon as you first arrive at the property, you'll simply fall in love with its picturesque surroundings, encircled by towering trees. A fire pit and picnic table on the lot, along with a basketball net in the driveway, are just beckoning you to put them to use! The home's interior is equally impressive, boasting soaring knotty pine cathedral ceilings in the open living area, a cozy wood burning fireplace with floor-to-ceiling stone chimney, and inviting sitting room connected to the rustic and spacious fully equipped kitchen. The sitting room opens up to a private 12-by-20-foot deck, bringing the outdoors inside.
In the mornings, you'll love sitting outside on the home's huge private deck while taking in the unobstructed views of the surrounding lush wooded lot. Relax on the deck and keep your eyes peeled for the large herds of deer that inhabit the area and frequently visit the home. Later, gather around the cozy dining table to enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal, or kick back on the new memory foam double recliner in the living room to watch your favorite shows on the large flat screen TV, equipped with cable and DVD player, one of 5 TVs throughout the residence.
Conveniently situated within Eagle Rock Resort, you won't have to venture far from this property to access the area's immense selection of outdoor activities! In the fall, the Bloomsburg Fair, one of the largest fairs in Pennsylvania, is less than 30 minutes from the property. In the winter, Eagle Rock owners can head to the on-site slopes for some outstanding skiing and tubing, visible from the deck and accessible via a short walk to the bottom of the ski hill.
The nearby softball field features an enormous covered picnic area, making it the perfect backdrop for family reunions and other gatherings. On days when the weather isn't on your side, check out the diverse selection of shopping and restaurants just 15 minutes away in West Hazleton. Or, check out all the options for guests in the binder of materials compiled by the homeowner, including gambling casinos and concert venues less than an hour away! If you don't feel like venturing far, try the clubhouse restaurant or pizza at the nearby ski lodge. The opportunities for adventure are endless here, but it all begins when you book this phenomenal Eagle Rock Resort vacation rental home!
Key Residence Features:
- Amenities include a fire pit and picnic table on the property, basketball net, knotty pine cathedral ceilings, wood burning fireplace, fully equipped kitchen, large dining table, 12'x20' deck with unobstructed views of the surrounding woods and ski slopes in winter, 5 TVs with cable and DVD playing capabilities, air conditioning, in-unit laundry machines, and much more
- Fantastic location! Situated within Eagle Rock Resort!
- Close proximity to ski slopes, golf, casinos, restaurants, shopping, and numerous other local attractions!
Bedroom Configuration:
- Master Bedroom: Queen-sized Bed
- Bedroom 2: Queen-sized Bed
- Bedroom 3: 2 Twin-sized Beds
Additional Sleeping:
- A Pullout Bed in the Living Room can accommodate 2 extra guests
- The Chair in Bedroom 3 can convert into a small mattress to accommodate 1 extra child if needed
- No smoking
- No pets allowed
- Must be at least 25 years old to book
- Eagle Rock Resort amenity use is only available to Eagle Rock property owners
- Additional fees and taxes may apply
Before we even arrived, Teresa and Larry 'welcomed' us into their charming home, by providing many details about our weekend visit with friends. The house is tastefully decorated and has a most homey feeling. Having linens and towels provided (and beds all made up!) was another plus as we only needed to bring out clothing, food and smiles ... We highly recommend this charmer for family and friends to get together.
Our stay here was great! Beginning with helpful communication from our host Teresa prior to our arrival, our experience was hassle free and everything was as advertised. My wife and I came up from the Baltimore area, and our daughter and her boyfriend traveled west from Brooklyn to meet us. We began to relax the moment we passed through the gate into Eagle Rock. A beautiful community set in quiet woods. We didn't do much except visit, eat and drink! A perfect weekend for us. The house was beautiful and well appointed. Great notes telling us about appliances and amenities. This house is perfect for someone who wants to relax and stay put. The back deck overlooking expansive woods full of docile deer, the fire pit and spaciousness of the home makes it easy to hang out and decompress. Expect to drive 30-60 minutes to get to to "Poconos". The surrounding area wants for much fine dining, but we had a great time at the Bottleneck Pub eating great bar fare and playing shuffle board! We will be back when we need to shake off city life again! Thanks for opening up your gorgeous home to visitors.
This home was comfortable and met our needs for a relaxing getaway. The owners were very thorough with information and responded very quickly to our inquiries leading up to and during our stay. They went above & beyond to make our stay enjoyable. While the wives enjoyed some sightseeing ant then some creative time on the deck, the men enjoyed a round of golf. This is a beautiful resort community with lots of wildlife.
Spent 5 days in this cozy home. Owners had everything we needed & they are very accommodating. All we needed was food. It was a bit chilly at night, very strange for July. However, the firepit was awesome! The deck was a great place to bbq, have dinner and just hang out at night. Spacious kitchen and den area. My family enjoyed their stay. Will definitely return.
The house was comfortable and had everything we needed for a great week-end. Eagle Rock Resort was beautiful. The wildlife was everywhere! What a great escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Lovely home with great kitchen. The house has a comfortable living room and a separate den, so our family could hang out in different spaces. We walked around the lake and enjoyed watching the deer in the woods around the house. We built fires in the fire place and played games at the dining room table. Very accommodating space and attentive owners.


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In years past, Browns players getting sent to NFL Europe was the brown-and-orange equivalent of being assigned to an outpost in Siberia. Even if players (Madre Hill, for example) excelled in the NFL's developmental league, there weren't many expectations that their success would carry over to success once training camp began.
That view of NFL Europe, however, may be changing.
Head Coach Butch Davis has gone out of his way to talk about players in NFL Europe a number of times during this off-season. Rather than the four-to-six players who had participated across the Atlantic in years past, the Browns this year sent eleven.
Davis views NFL Europe as a way for developing players to get game experience, which they simply can't get in other ways. It's a Catch-22, perhaps: Players can't get snaps in the NFL until they are able to develop additional skills the team requires, and can't develop those skills until they get the snaps. Davis now appears to see NFL Europe as a way out of this trap.
Defensive end Corey Jackson is the team's poster boy for Davis' approach to Europe. A basketball player at Nevada, Jackson tried his hand at football, playing sixteen snaps at tight end his Senior year. The Browns liked Jackson's size and potential, and viewed him a potential defensive lineman. After spending some time practicing with the Browns, NFL Europe provided Jackson with an opportunity to get playing time he would never get in Cleveland.
Jackson vindicated the team's scouting of him this year in NFL Europe, leading the league in sacks and twice being named Defensive Player of the Week.
This past weekend, the NFL Europe regular season came to a close. Here are some stats and comments about the eleven players the team sent to places like Amsterdam, Cologne, and Frankfurt.
Richard Alston, WR, Berlin Thunder
The Browns originally looked at Alston during training camp last season, and the quarterback-turned-receiver wasn't able to stick with the team. Given more opportunity in Europe, however, the speedy Alston managed to turn in some excellent numbers in multiple categories. Alston will be challenged to win a role in the Browns deep receiving corps.
Receiving: 28 catches, 481 yards, 17.2 yards per catch, 6 TDs (led NFL
Passing: 2 attempts, 2 completions, 58 yards, 1 TD
Punt Returns: 9 returns, 93 yards, 10.3 yards per return, 0 TD
Kickoff Returns: 5 returns, 131 yards, 26.2 yards per return, 0 TD
Felipe Claybrooks, DE, Cologne Centurions
Claybrooks has been with the Browns since 2002. He was overshadowed by Corey Jackson early in this year's NFL Europe campaign, but finished strong, and wound up with 8.5 sacks in 10 games. Claybrooks was named NFL Europe Defensive Player of the Week two weeks ago.
Final Stats: 28 tackles, 2 passes broken up, 3 forced fumbles, 8.5 sacks for 47 yards
Nate Hybl, QB, Scottish Claymores
Nate Hybl spent the 2003 season as the Browns third quarterback after Josh Booty was sent packing. Hybl wasn't able to distinguish himself in Europe, and faces a tough time winning a spot over rookie Luke McCown in 2004.
Final Stats: 131 attempts, 76 completions, 654 yards, 2 touchdowns, 3 interceptions, 66.8 QB rating
Corey Jackson, DE, Frankfurt Galaxy
Despite limited playing time prior to NFL Europe, Jackson exploded onto the Browns' radar with a league-leading 9.5 sacks and two Defensive Player of the Week awards during his ten weeks in Europe. Jackson will get an extended look in training camp.
Final Stats: 23 tackles, 1 forced fumble, 1 recovered fumble, 4 passes broken up, 9.5 sacks for 48 yards (led NFL Europe)
Chuck Klabo, OT, Rhein Fire
Klabo wound up the 2003 season on the Browns IR and, unfortunately, encountered much of the same during the NFL Europe season. Klabo started the first three games of the season, but missed the final seven due to an ankle injury. Klabo played left tackle for the Fire.
John Nix, DT, Amsterdam Admirals
Nix was originally signed by the Browns late in the 2003 season, although he
didn't see any game action. Drafting Amon Gordon and the re-signing of Michael Myers will create a challenge for Nix to win a roster spot.
Final Stats: 18 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 fumble recovery
Joffrey Reynolds, RB, Rhein Fire
Reynolds, who has pro experience with the Rams, signed with the Browns immediately after the end of the 2003 season and got an extended opportunity to run the ball in NFL Europe. He was primarily a kick returner with the Rams.
Final Stats (rushing): 121 carries, 471 yards, 3.4 yards per run, 4
Final Stats (receiving): 13 receptions, 84 yards, 6.5 yards per catch
Cedric Scott, DE, Scottish Claymores
Scott was originally signed by the Browns during the 2002 season, and go another look thanks to NFL Europe this season. Scott was not on the team in 2003.
Final Stats: 29 tackles, 3 sacks (16 yards), 2 passes broken up, 2
forced fumbles
Special Teams: 1 blocked punt
Derek Schorejs, PK, Cologne Centurions
Schorejs' chances of unseating incumbent kicker Phil Dawson are close to nil, but he performed well in NFL Europe. Schorejs made the most of his limited opportunities, converting six of seven field goals. The only field goal he missed as a 56-yard attempt.
Final Stats: 6-7 FG attempts, 1-1 PAT.
Rickey Sharpe, CB, Frankfurt Galaxy
Like several other NFLE players from Cleveland, Sharpe was a 2003 undrafted free agent who was re-signed by the team after the season and sent to NFL Europe for playing time. Sharpe was part of a Galaxy defense which made its way into the World Bowl.
Final Stats: 2 interceptions (42 yards), 7 passes broken up, 35 tackles
Mason Unck, LB, Frankfurt Galaxy
Unck was an undrafted free agent who signed with the Browns following the 2003 draft. Known as a special teams ace, NFL Europe provided Unck with the opportunity to play middle linebacker. Excellent special teams skills give Unck has a solid chance to stick with the Browns in 2003.
Final Stats: 64 tackles, 1 forced fumble, 1 pass broken up, 3
interceptions (12 yards).
Special Teams: 8 tackles, 1 forced fumble


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Osama bin Laden threatens French troops, France announces pullout from Afghanistan
France denies any connection between its decision to remove troops from Afghanistan in 2011 and Osama bin Laden's pledge to attack French troops. . . .
France has joined both the Netherlands and Canada in recent announcements of pullouts from Afghanistan.
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Osama "hearings", never sightings except by hearsay, continue regularly. Either bin Laden is alive, living in God knows where totally beyond America's vast spy apparatus, or this is an ongoing Orwellian ruse meant to rejuice us with fear and loathing every month or two. Meanwhile, there are many individuals who have claimed he is dead, including the late Benizir Bhutto.
Benizir Bhutto said this, but I believe to recall that another Pakistani official more recently said this; unless I'm thinking of another who said this in (I think) November or December 2001. Of if the official spoke more recently, then I think that he's one of the people who have argued that OBL would not have lived beyond 2001.
Plenty of western analysts, surely including Wayne Madsen, and probably including some former western intelligence officials or agents, have said that he died years ago and the most recent year for his death according to one or two of these people would be 2005; the others having said that he died earlier. Some people well argued that he would not have lived beyond 2001, but I believe most of the people who said that he died or had to have died said that it would've been pre-2005. It's vague in my memory right now, but I don't recall having read of more than one or two people who said that he would've died as late as in 2005.
Some videos of him speaking were reported, like in articles from the Alex Jones Network, f.e., that it was him, but from old, pre-2001 recordings that had been modified. One or two videos of supposedly him speaking clearly were not him and we didn't need to be intelligence agents to be able to see this for ourselves. And if we could easily and quickly see that it was not him, then the White House, et cetera, also knew that it was not him when they pretended the opposite.
And like you said, some jihadis just used his name when making threats or statements against the West's war on Islamic countries only because he was known around the world, whereas they were not. The latter people should not use his name in this way because it only keeps dodos believing that he's still alive and a continuing threat to the West, or to the US anyway; but some, seeming to be a few, jihadis can't let go of his name and/or ghost.
He's surely not alive. I think that if he was, then we would have most likely heard from him by now and with real proof that it was him. We haven't had this from him.
He also didn't threaten the US. He clearly denied responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and I think he did this twice. And if it was twice, then possibly both times were before the launch of the war on Afghanistan; nominally against the Taliban, but while clearly, enough anyway, being a war on Afghanistan and for complete control of the country. He evidently was not responsible in the 9/11 attacks, but Washington was.
There are two basic possibilities. Either this is another US-NATO act of fraud, a covert act to try to drive western populations into believing that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda still represent real threats to the West and that the West must, therefore, be supported in its continuing criminal wars on Afghanistan and Pakistan; or, we have some jihadis using his name when they should not be. The former possibility is probably the one to be most likely; and there are at least two reasons for believing this. It's strongly similar to the related M.O. of the U.S. for the past several years; often coming out with statements saying that OBL was threatening the US or West again when it provably never was him, it provably was a scam by the US. And the November elections are fast approaching. Election time is always a "good" time for games of deception.
And why would French troops be singled out when many countries are contributing troops to this war on Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Also, the Obama administration recently raised a false alert about there being terrorist strikes that'd soon be committed against Europe and this was promptly denounced as very seriously or extremely exaggerated by the Pakistani government and European intelligence agencies. And this false alert clearly was wittingly fabricated; clearly enough, anyway.
"Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain"
by Simon Tisdall and Richard Norton-Taylor, Oct. 7th, 2010
• Pakistani diplomat launches scathing attack on White House
• European intelligence claims raised terror alerts 'nonsensical'
OBL's a funny guy, because if it's really him who very recently threatened to attack French troops, then he's quite a lively ghost; for he most probably died some years ago, like several or more years ago, if not before the end of 2001. So some characters, jihadis or other opponents to the West's war(s), humorously want to keep the ghost of their hero alive; or some malevolant western leaders want to keep the ghost of their scapegoat alive.
It's like the so-called leader of the so-called Al Qaeda in Iraq and I think it was al-Zarqawi, who the US purportedly killed, but then he mysteriously resurrected, so the US purportedly killed him again, and he again resurrected; a few or more times. It's quite a lively ghost story.
And not all is lost for the U.S. even if France, Canada and the Netherlands all pull out of Afghanistan, which they most definitely should. But will they really withdraw their forces? I doubt Canada will. The Cdn government probably will again come up with excuses for prolonging the placement of Cdn forces in Afghanistan, and like in the US, there evidently is awfully little Cdns will be able to do about this.
The following article by Rick Rozoff oddly makes no mention of withdrawals by Canada, The Netherlands, and now France; but what it says about the number of countries contributing, militarily, to the war "effort", I guess that it's fair, say, to say that Canada, France and The Netherlands withdrawing surely couldn't affect the war "effort" much. I'll add a little more about their withdrawals beginning next year further below.
"Towards Military Escalation? U.S. And NATO Drag Asia Into Afghan Quagmire"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, RickRozoff.wordpress.com, Oct. 29, 2010
The US-lead forces for this war are evidently gaining or have gained militarily active partners from many Asian countries. He also says the US or US and NATO are apparently going to take the war into the province of Balochistan in Pakistan, widening the war in that country.
Check his author index linked at the end of the above article, if wanting to look for some of his articles about US-NATO "coalition of the willing" build-up in or for the war on Afghanistan and, I guess anyway, Pakistan.
I'm not expecting that the Cdn government will really withdraw, but perhaps The Netherlands will. While I won't wager either way about France, I'll be surprised if it withdraws its forces; perhaps, especially with Sarkozy still being the PM. But two articles, a little further below, provide strong reasons for not believing statements about withdrawals to begin next year.
Quoting from the CSMonitor.com article:
"There's a fixed date for NATO in the framework of its new strategy, that's the start of 2011, because in 2011 we're going to transfer a whole series of districts to the Afghans," said France's Defense Minister Herve Morin in an article by Agence France-Presse. "At that moment, there could be the first movements or first withdrawals of Allied forces from Afghanistan. In any case, that's the calendar set by Barack Obama, that in 2011 the first American troops could quit Afghanistan."
"U.S. And NATO To Wage War 15-Year War In Afghanistan And Pakistan"
by Rick Rozoff, Oct. 6th, 2010
On October 4 President Barack Obama and what the press characterized as his war council conducted a 30-minute video conference with Obama's Afghan opposite number, President Hamid Karzai, to discuss "a number of topics, including the strategic vision for long term US-Afghan relations, the recent Afghan parliamentary elections, and regional relations."
A statement issued by the White House later in the day added that "The two leaders agreed that they should continue routine engagements to refine a common vision and to align our efforts to support President Karzai's goal of completing transition to Afghan lead security responsibility by 2014." [1]
The conference also included Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington and commander of all U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus and American ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry from Kabul.
There are now at least 152,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, 120,000 under NATO command, and according to several recent statements by American and NATO officials most if not all them of them will remain there beyond the 2011 withdrawal date announced by the American administration last year.
If troops from all the major Western military powers in theater remain beyond New Year's Eve of 2014, they will be engaged in the fifteenth calendar year of the Pentagon's and NATO's war in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. The conflict has also allowed the expansion of American and Alliance military bases into Central Asia – Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – and the elaboration of networks for the transit of troops, military equipment and supplies and for combat training and bombing runs from Estonia and Latvia on the Baltic Sea to Georgia on the Black Sea and Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on the Caspian Sea as well as in several other nations from Eastern Europe to the so-called Broader Middle East including Pakistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Diego Garcia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Kazakhstan.
Excuse me, but the above definitely doesn't sound like any short-term planning is involved.
The fruitless pursuit of the ever more elusive Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar – as such remains the official rationale of the U.S. and the 50 military partners under NATO's umbrella in the Afghan war zone - ... - has not registered any progress in nine years, though thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis who had no contact with either of the evasive fugitives have been killed in overnight raids, checkpoint shootings, bombing runs and drone missile strikes. ...
And the Afghan resistance, Taliban and others, are not Al Qaeda or under its authority. Plus, the Taliban had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, as Bush himself said, and there are extremely few, if any, actual Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan, with relatively few, if any, real ones in Pakistan; in addition to Osama bin Laden most surely having died years ago.
In May U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Glenn Walters announced that military drones were being diverted from Africa Command, Pacific Command and Southern Command for Central Command, which covers the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Walters also said that the Pentagon's drone fleet had grown from 200 in 2001 to 6,500 at the beginning of this year and will expand to 8,000 by 2012, an increase of twenty times in slightly over a decade.
These criminals clearly plan for many more years of [their] wars. Some people might say that the HUGE increase in the number of war drones is mostly for profiting the MIC, but it's also much more profitable when the MIC's tech. is used so that it eventually needs to be replaced with new purchases; as I once read from some writer who saw or sees the whole War & MIC, Inc., picture.
Not only are American and NATO military forces not leaving Afghanistan in the foreseeable future, they are expanding their nine-year-old war into Pakistan.
Any officials of governments "contributing" to this war "effort" who speak of the withdrawal date for NATO commencing in 2011 are LYING.
And France doesn't seem to be really interested in winding down its involvement in the phony war on terrorism.
"Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War"
by Rick Rozoff, Oct. 25th, 2010
A quarter of the world's nuclear aircraft carriers will soon be in the Arabian Sea.
The Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the region on October 17 to join the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which in turn had arrived there on June 18 as part of a regular rotation.
The Charles de Gaulle, flagship of the French navy, the country's only aircraft carrier and the sole non-American nuclear carrier, will soon join its two U.S. counterparts. The U.S. possesses half the world's twenty-two aircraft carriers, all eleven supercarriers (those displacing over 70,000 tons) and eleven of twelve nuclear carriers.
(map of Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, ...)
In total, there are as many as 8-10,000 military personnel from NATO nations in Djibouti. The Pentagon has used Camp Lemonnier, the port of Djibouti and the country's international airport for attacks in Yemen and Somalia, and French troops in the country assisted Djibouti in its armed conflict with neighboring Eritrea in 2008. France uses the country to train its troops for the war in Afghanistan and the Pentagon used it to support the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in 2006.
Beforehand, shortly after entering the Mediterranean Sea in May, USS Truman engaged in joint interoperability exercises in Marseille with its French fellow nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. French warplanes landed on the Truman's deck and American ones on Charles de Gaulle's.
The French carrier was returned to port for repairs on the day it set sail for "a four-month mission to support the fight in Afghanistan," but "will recover lost time at sea and its itinerary is not likely to change."
Its new mission, the first since 2007, "is to take it to join the fight against piracy off Somalia in the Indian Ocean and the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
"The new mission of the ship is to join the fight against pirates that is taking place off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean [where a] NATO mission is ongoing." [4] Nuclear aircraft carriers are a curious choice for contending with piracy.
In May of 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened a military base in the United Arab Emirates, the first permanent French base in the Persian Gulf and the first overseas base in 50 years. Including a navy and air force base and a training camp, it was seen at the time as a show of force against Iran which contests the Abu Musa island in the Persian Gulf with the Emirates.
NATO forces also operate out of bases in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The North Atlantic Alliance has launched several helicopter gunship attacks inside Pakistan since late last month and on September 30 killed three Pakistani soldiers.
There are 120,000 troops from almost 50 nations serving under NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
This year NATO has airlifted Ugandan troops to Somalia for the armed conflict there.
The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier en route to the Arabian Sea to support the war in that country as well for operations off the coast of Somalia was commissioned in May of 2001. Seven months later it sailed to the Arabian Sea to support Operation Enduring Freedom and the war in Afghanistan. On December 19 of that year Super Étendard attack jets and Rafale Ms fighters took off from its deck to conduct bombing and reconnaissance missions, in all over 140.
The following March Super Étendard and Mirage warplanes assigned to Charles de Gaulle carried out air strikes before and during the U.S.-led Operation Anaconda.
When the French carrier arrives in the Arabian Sea this month it will be accompanied by two frigates, an attack submarine and a refuelling tanker, 3,000 sailors and 27 aircraft: Ten Rafale F3 fighters, 12 Super Étendard attack jets, two Hawkeye early warning planes and three helicopters.
According to the commander of the group, Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Kerignard, "the force would help allied navies fight piracy off the coast of Somalia and send jets to support NATO in the skies above Afghanistan."
"The ships will also train alongside allies from Saudi Arabia, India, Italy, Greece and the United Arab Emirates and make two stopovers at the French base in Djibouti before returning to France in February 2011." [6]
The West, America and its NATO allies, are escalating military operations across the area, from Asia to Africa to the Middle East. The theater of operations has recently broadened from South Asia to the Arabian Peninsula with drone and helicopter attacks in Pakistan and air and cruise missile strikes in Yemen.
A war that started at the beginning of the century is in its tenth year and gives every indication of being permanent.
It doesn't seem to me that the French leadership is really interested in respecting laws and peace. So why would it suddently change next year?


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Id suggest you start off with a basic step by step Metasploit tutorial first so you can see how to get it to work successfully, and then do a bit more research on how Metasploit works until you understand how it works on a basic level.
Also, just completely disable all iptables filtering when you are working with exploits (at least until you understand exactly what it does). There is no iptables filtering by default in BackTrack - so all ports are not filtered, which is not quite the same thing as saying they are open. Conequently, you only need to worry about this if you have configured iptables rules or you are using another Linux distro which has a firewall enabled by default.


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One Month In, before/after!
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I'm happy with the results so far. Still fiddling around with proteins and moisture and trying to see what works best.
First pic is how I wore my hair every single day for probably 15 years. Heat straightened and colored.
Second is what used to think a "curly day" was. UGH.
Third is maybe day 5 of CG, a couple days before my devacut
And Fourth and fifth is today! (with no makeup, eek!)
My camera is awful (webcam) so its hard to see since my hair is rather dark. Its still changing day by day depending on how I style it, i'm still trying to figure out what works best but my curl pattern has become very different. I used to have pretty small individual waves (kind of what you see in pic 2) but now there's more definition and its like they're getting... fatter and more spiraly.
Fine, Dense, med/high porosity, color treated
You look gorgeous! I too see a big difference in clumping, texture, and volume. Wow. Wait until next month. (I'm two months in now, I think. Started at the end of November.)
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Thank you! I think I got another pic with my crappy camera that shows it better. I was trying to take some outside hoping the light would help show the curls in my dark hair, but this one standing RIGHT under my light works well to show the difference.
I'm generally anywhere between 2B-3A depending on the day, but I dare say some of these clumps border on actual curl. GASP!
btw this is just No-poo, olive oil root stimulater DT, and deva light hold gel and diffusing. no plopping today.
coarse yet silky dusalocks? I wanna know how you accomplish that! I want that!
Looks good, your curls already look more defined.
Lovely curls!
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As for the coarseness well conditioner. Tres beaucoup conditioner. My hair eats it up. Probably because it's high porosity and very absorbent. Yours looks plenty silky already. Oh and I was trying to find a picture of my hair before I went CG to show the difference in definition and messiness but it is so difficult because I would always wear it straight or back or something or other to reduce the poof. I finally found one though that is not from too long ago. In it I'm not using any product except maybe some biosilk serum. Excuse the scary white out face and the really dark lighting. (It's a phone pic.) I also look sort of drunk in that picture and I undoubtedly was. It's the only explanation for how I could let my hair frizz up so much without putting it into a doggone ponytail! Yuck! Okay but the second picture is my second day 2cish hair today which I did not have to restyle at all. I left it alone because I woke up with it looking nice and beachy. So it just goes to show just how great CG is at whipping your curls and waves into a manageable and presentable state. Decent hair without heat, tails or buns! Who knew? :toothy8:
Beautiful hair, great shine! ^^
Dusalocks your hair is also very beautiful :O
Kibs, beautiful... beautiful... beautiful curls!... So shine and wonderful color... :sunny:
Dusalocks, I can see the difference of you hair after 02 months.. look so beautiful too!... :hello1:
Your hair looks so beautiful!!
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Tomorrow is my 1 month mark. So I figure why not post mine here too...I do tend to dye my hair pretty often, going to do my best not to for a while, hahaha.
I want to say I'm a 2B/2C depending on the day. Unsure about everything else, haha. Just going with the flow of CG.
First 2 are from Day 1, 3rd is Day 2, 4th is Day 23rd or so, and the 5th marks month one.
pixar I dye mine all the time too. I've had gray hair since I was a teenager and i'm constantly dying it. I'm surprised I still HAVE hair. :D
I shouldn't complain, but the only problem I really have with my curls getting curlier is the front curls in BIG curves toward my face, and its sort of a pain with them always wanting to be in my face. If I switch my part to the other side it curves away, but that feels weird cause i've parted my hair in the same place since I was 10.
Awe, kibs!
I want to see your bangs. :D I have a cow lick right where my bangs hang, rofl. I hate how my bangs tend to split and it leaves like a gap in between the rest of my hair. Maybe I'll find a decent pic to show you.
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First one was taken a few weeks back, and the second was taken today. And yes, I just realized I do wear that shirt a lot. Rofl!!! Bleh...
These pics don't show it too much, I try my best to hide it, haha.
Kibs and Pixar, you are both jaw droppingly gorgeous. I have the same problem where my hair wants to be in my face. I have to clip them back when they dry because otherwise it's like:
Doodoodoo, Dusa trying to make left hand turn and bam! Big fat chunky tendril eclipsing vision! Honestly, it's sort of a hazard. My hair around the front is especially clumpy for some reason. And my bangs want to naturally part. I don't mind their parting ways, but I sometimes change the part on the second day for more volume at the root. Anybody else do that? It's fun to flip it!
When I DO clip back that one piece it will stay out of my face, but its like one big root wave and almost looks like a 1920's flapper finger wave, but bigger. I kinda hate it, but maybe I just have to get used to it, cause when I try to make it stop doing that, i over-touch it and the curl will just fall right out.
you can kinda see in in the 4th pic on the original post. Not the front side facing the camera, but the opposite front side, you can see how high up and volumey that one front wave gets.
Oh, I love flapper waves. I've been meaning for ages to buy the pins so I can do that hairstyle. But I can understand how that one piece will drive you bonkers. The hair around my face a tendency to go east west if I don't put extra product so I know all about pinning things into place. Have you tried finger curling or I think it's called skipcurling that one piece? I've never been able to do the technique myself (my hair prefers scrunching) but some make it looks ridiculously easy. I think waterlily716 had a video on it about styling side bangs.
Ive experimented with it here and there, I think those after photos were the day I tried it. It makes me nervous though to do it because when my hair is wet if I pull on it too much the curl will fall right out. Its annoying because I HAVE the curls, but they're so freaking fragile wet. I think I skip curled a few and then re-scrunched and it worked, but I have it stuck in my head that skip curling will pull my curls down rather than coil them up.
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I have visited a lot of web sites and there are loads of pictures of pretty women/girls wearing all sorts of diapers and it just got me thinking. How many of these girls actually enjoy what they are doing and take there work home with them surly there must be a few. I can't accept that they are all just in it for the money. And one or two of them must enjoy peeing there diapers OK they do for the cash and our gratification but I bet there is some pleasure involved in it for them somewhere.


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State police say 53-year-old Aldus Baum was operating the Polaris UTV on private property along Bailey Hill Road when the vehicle rolled on top of him, causing the fatal injuries. A passing motorist discovered the crash scene.
Baum was later pronounced dead by Deputy Coroner Ken Wingo.
Police say Baum was not wearing a helmet.


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The difficulty this fall comes in a different passing game. The Gators leaned on the tight end position last season, watching Jordan Reed lead the team in receiving yards and becoming Driskel's go-to target.
"We took a big loss with Jordan because he was our leading pass reception guy last year," Pease said. "Things have to become more balanced out in throwing to the wide receivers."
The quarterbacks spent time watching film this offseason to see the running backs they missed out of the backfield. Pease expects that to change this year.
He also pointed out four receivers -- Quinton Dunbar, Ahmad Fulwood, Solomon Patton and Demarcus Robinson -- as the ones that he trusts to be involved downfield in the passing game. Dunbar has refined his game this offseason, but it's Robinson that is stealing the headlines.
"The kid's a phenomenal athlete," Pease said of the freshman. "I think he's got great hands. Size-wise, he's really what you want and his strength that he's got in his body. For a young kid that faces as much man coverage and have to get off of that and have the body to do it, you don't see it a lot. He can get knocked off at times on a reroute, but he has the ability to explode to go get a ball. He's got a lot of range.
"I always refer to a kid I had at Boise State, Austin Pettis, who plays for the Rams now. He had tremendous range in catching a ball. It wasn't just on his body, it could be outside the frame of his body, but Demarcus has that. He probably has a lot more speed and athleticism (than Pettis) to get that done. I'm not appointing him the greatest thing on Earth yet because he's got to play a game, but I know he's worked at his skill and I think he's understanding what his opportunity and his job is on each play."
Robinson will be a weaponThe Florida coaches have also complimented Fulwood, the 6-5 freshman with speed, for his ability to get open down the field. With Fulwood and Robinson living up to the expectations the coaches had coming into the season, they've been able to keep Loucheiz Purifoy mostly on defense during fall camp.
The injury bug has also crept up in the secondary, forcing Purifoy to spend most of his time there. Pease still expects him to have a role on offense this fall.
REDSHIRTING A FRESHMAN TAILBACK?: It sounds like the Gators would like to pick one freshman between Adam Lane and Kelvin Taylor to get carries this season and redshirt the other. Pease said on Tuesday that behind Matt Jones on the depth chart is Mack Brown, followed by Mark Herndon. He, like Will Muschamp on Monday, went on to talk about Valdez Showers before the freshmen.
Taylor is battling Lane for repsThe emphasis is pass protection and ball security, but the Gators might only need one of the freshmen to get touches this year.
"The young guys have got to continue to show their improvement in practice and consistency," Pease said. "We've got to find the spot that, at least with one of them, whichever we decide to play which I don't know the answer to that yet, is that we're going to get them some repetitions in the game."
SHOWERS ON OFFENSE: The coaches have talked about moving Showers to offense in recent years, but they wanted to see how the safety battle would play out after Matt Elam and Josh Evans departed following the 2012 season. With Showers seeming lost on the depth chart and freshmen proving capable there, Showers flipped to running back.The coaches are planning to use him in a similar role to the one Omarius Hines filled. He can line up at wide receiver or running back, where he can carry the ball or be used as a receiver out of the backfield.
"He's natural," Pease said. "He's got great speed and brings in kind of that scatback-type of runner – all of a sudden you have the pounding back who's running it downhill, then all the sudden, you spread him out and this guy's hitting creases.
"He's a little different than Omarius because he's probably got a lot more quickness and he's a little bit more elusive. Because of his size, Omarius was so strong and Omarius could even be a little bit of a tight end type body. Valdez isn't that type of guy, but he'll be filling some of those roles."


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Leadership University removes link to "Homosexuality and the Nazi Party" article
Dr. Warren ThrockmortonDr. Warren Throckmorton's Weblog
- 2009 Jul 01
Leadership University is a ministry affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ and exists as a "faculty outreach and training arm" of CCC. Until recently, LeaderU had Scott Lively's article Homosexuality and the Nazi Party available to readers (Scroll down and you can see the link here). Now if you click that link (http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/lively.html) you will not find the article.
This is the same article that Exodus International linked to but then removed in light of the Uganda ex-gay conference. Although Mr. Lively is an avid supporter of NARTH, that organization recently removed references to his work from their website.
For additional information and support for the LeaderU action see this series of posts and these Crosswalk articles:
Does homosexuality lead to fascism? and Eliminating homosexuality: Nazi Germany and Modern Uganda.


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Harry and I go way back. I can thank my mom
for that: in a catalogue, she'd spotted a new
three book series — Harry Potter. It was, supposedly,
magical. Though I had a stack of over
1000 pages lying on my bed, I wasn't very
excited to get started. To this day I still have
to be in the right mindset to delve into a new
world. Usually, I like to be comforted by old
a novel is not unlike the beginning of a friendship.
There's this kind of excitement and the
desire to get to know as much about the other
person as fast as possible.As a Harry Potter reader, it's easy for me to say
that its cultural significance is unparalleled to
any other narrative of our time. But consider
this: in the summer of 2005, my dad, my younger
brother and I went on vacation to Italy. On
the day of the worldwide release of Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince, the three of us
went to the local bookstore and bought a copy
each. Over the course of the next two days,
we barely spoke, save for asking each other
"What page are you on?" To think this same
book was keeping two and a half generations
awake into the night — that's rare. And yet,
this has been the case for a good decade now.
I've always taken pride in the fact that I'd read
Harry Potter before the hype started. When
the inevitable happened and Harry Potter got
turned into a movie, I was not impressed. The
Lord of the Rings was released around the
same time and, both being fantasy novel adaptations,
they were soon competing for fans
and box office receipts. This was the Team
Edward/Team Jacob question of the early
millennium. I ferociously vouched for Middle
Earth, to a large extent because I didn't want
the movies to destroy my images of Harry,
Hogwarts, and Hogsmeade. I was also
slightly appalled by the speed at which
the marketing machine had picked up
Harry Potter when The Lord of the Rings
had taken almost fifty years to make
it to the big screen. Not that The Lord
of the Rings wasn't milked for all it was
worth, but it was made thanks to Peter
Jackson's passion for the novel. In contrast,
Harry Potter was made to cash in on
the hype.As Harry grew up and had to deal with teen
angst, so did I. But amidst all the confusion
— "do I really want to be an auror when I
grow up?" — Harry Potter remains tame. In JK
Rowling's world, despite Voldemort and his
evil gang, innocence and idyll set the tone.
The halls of Hogwarts serve as a refuge from
the dangerous outside world and, unsurprisingly,
many decried the increasingly dark
turns Rowling took with the story as the series
progressed. Dumbledore's absence after
the 6th book and the setting away from Hogwarts
force Harry to grow up — and his readers
along with him. Rowling reminds us that
eventually Hogwarts will be replaced by
the real world.Meanwhile, in the real real world, Harry
Potter has become the best-selling
book ever. It's been translated into
70 languages, sold more than 450
million copies worldwide, and
been made into eight feature
films, which have grossed 6 billion
dollars worldwide thus
far. Rowling's latest coup?
Announcing the soon-to-come
website "pottermore.
com." With the eighth and
final movie coming out
this Friday, something was
needed to keep the machine rolling. For
now, there's no shortage of daily news updates
on Emma Watson's wardrobe, Daniel
Radcliffe's almost-drinking problem,
and Rupert Grint's, well, there's nothing
on him, actually. But in a few
weeks, when the box office numbers
are dying down, Harry Potter
fans will let out a sigh of relief — or
pain, knowing that it's still not over.
My relationship with Harry ended
with the last page of the seventh book. It
was the longest I've had so far — 10 years
of anticipation and excitement. Naturally,
I grew more critical of the series as I got
older, saw flaws and shed tears, but still,
whenever I need comfort and I want a
light read with head and heart, I turn
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The best moment in HoN... Well, there have been many, many of them but the warmest memories are from the beta. I remember getting the beta keys from with some of my friends, we logged in and decided to play our first game. We were all so pumped and excited to play the game after many weeks of waiting.
We played All pick and I didn't know any of the heroes so i picked blood hunter (He looked really badass, and the name...). I can remember buying really random items, probably i didnt even finish any of the items, just bought minor totems and 100 health potion kind of stuff.
First, i didnt know which lane to go, I died alot and didn't get any kills but still was good. Me and my friends decided to go (5 of us) on the same lane. We obviously lost the game, but that didnt stop us from playing.
When i look at the pictures of beta and early HoN i usually get a massive nostalgia feeling.
This is really the best moment i have had with my long HoN experience, the great feeling of playing beta first time, knowing nothing about hon and discovering everything (heroes, items etc.).
And HoN is the only game i have been playing since beta and not get tired of the game.
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In 1760, surviving daughter Mary Macpheadris Osborne married Portsmouth merchant Jonathan Warner, and the house experienced extensive renovations to reflect the refined tastes of the Portsmouth elite. Throughout the 19th century, the family descendants (Sherburnes, Penhallows, Whipples) maintained the house, and by the later half of the century, the family used the Warner House as a summer home. Those later occupants treated the house as a shrine to its ancestors, creating a private museum of sorts. Evelyn Sherburne, known as "Aunt Evvy," even offered tours of the house to certain known people. Shortly after her death, the Warner House Association saved the house from possible demolition by raising the necessary funds and purchasing the empty house in March of 1932. That summer, the newly-formed museum opened to the public. Over the years, much of the family furnishings have returned to the house—including family portraits and handsome, 18th-century, Portsmouth-made furniture.
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Film blog + Oscars 2013
Ben Affleck has previous experience of slipping into Lycra. But for the Oscar-winning director to do so again may prove a reinvention too many
• Ben Affleck is Batman: Twitter has a dark night
• Ben Affleck unveiled as new Batman
Margaret Morganroth Gullette: Enamoured as we are by Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning film, we're missing the dangerous social fallacies at its core
Open thread: with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler apparently out of the frame as hosts of next year's Oscars, who else would you like to see follow in Seth MacFarlane's footsteps?
Jeremy Kay: Oscar weekend means a quiet week at the box office – and a chance for independent movies to take some of the limelight
Harry J Enten: Nate Silver and others took their statistical analysis to the film industry, but predicting awards might be tougher than elections
Tom Shone: Ben Affleck's nifty Iranian caper will win best picture, and Day-Lewis best actor – and I'm predicting a big night for Michael Haneke
We're into the final reel of preparations before this year's Academy Awards. Here's a brief reading, watching and shopping list before you join us for live coverage from 11pm (6pm EST/3pm PST)
Rory Carroll: Irish industry bash sees Lincoln director make an appearance, Farrell receive an honour and Warren Beatty slip in amid the hubbub
The super-producer, who usually dominates awards season, has only one serious contender left in the Oscars race. Can some last-gasp remarketing of David O Russell's screwball romcom improve his chances, writes Catherine Shoard
Jeremy Kay: Of the three Hollywood heavyweights staging their comebacks in recent action films – The Last Stand, Bullet to the Head and Die Hard 5 – it seems only Willis has bankable brawn
Tom Shone: Acceptance speeches reveal the deepest recesses of the actor's mind. I love them – particularly when the hairdresser gets thanked
This year's bumper showing proves we're living in a golden age for animation – though three of five nominees hark backwards with stop-motion techniques, writes Ben Child
Tom Shone: Baftas cement what we already know about Argo's best picture momentum. But a few categories have some excitement left
Argo wins best film and Skyfall is named outstanding British picture
Tom Shone: The race between the auteur and the court jester gives the Academy a rare opportunity to make a statement about movie violence
Tom Shone: The Golden Globes and the guilds have thrown the prospect of a good old-fashioned Oscars sweep out the window
Tom Shone: While Oscar forecasters coo over the Argo-Lincoln wrestling match, Life of Pi is quietly plotting a campaign all its own
Jeremy Kay: Horror film about a couple who adopt two feral children dispatches Kathryn Bigelow's counter-terrorism thriller from No 1
Tom Shone: In the wake of the Golden Globes, it's obvious how much of a knot the Academy has tied itself in by not nominating Ben Affleck


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I Was Jack Mortimer
I Was Jack Mortimer
Book cover illustration for Alexander Lernet-Holenia's 'I Was Jack Mortimer'.
A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late.
Published for the first time in English, I Was Jack Mortimer (translated by Ignat Avsey) is a 1930s tale of misappropriated identity as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia Highsmith. Tense, tightly plotted and coolly styled, with a not-quite-innocent protagonist and a platinum-blonde femme fatale, it is brilliantly thrilling – but also a book that vividly evokes a Vienna in transition: from the glittering capital of the old aristocratic Austro-Hungarian empire, to a shadier, altogether more prosaically modern city.


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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:30pm
ESPNU has done Experts Shows for football and basketball, but they chose lacrosse to be their first non-revenue sport. I flew down to Charlotte to ESPNU's studios Thursday with analysts Matt Ward, Quint Kessenich, Eamon McAnaney, Dave Cottle, Jamie Munro and Paul Carcaterra to film the hour-long show Friday morning. It airs Sunday at 5 p.m., on ESPNU, with repeat airings Monday at 2 p.m., and Friday at 8 p.m. (Also, be sure to check out ESPNU's Lacrosse Preview Show Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., Sunday (2/20) at noon and Feb. 22 at 4:30 p.m.)
When I saw the lineup, I was just hoping I could hold my own in a group with some pretty illustrious accolades. But good work by the ESPNU crew to select an eclectic, passionate, knowledgeable and opinionated group.
We met up Thursday night at the Big View Diner, and after about three hours of lacrosse talk (with some college football and hoops mixed in for good measure), we determined that the cameras should have just shown up then. There's a reason these guys do what they do: they can really break down the game. Having ex-coaches in the mix is so helpful since Munro and Cottle basically have seen every current college player through the recruiting process and/or watching scouting film.
There was plenty of smack talk, as most of the pregame talk centered around who would talk more about their alma maters: Matt Ward (Virginia '06) or Paul Carcaterra (Syracuse '97). Cottle and Carc especially were having a good time going at each other, and both said after Friday's taping that it would be fun to work together on a game this spring. (I agree.) I think part of it is so Cottle can get some on-air revenge for Carc dropping five goals on his Loyola team in the playoffs.
Cottle said he'd love to do some analysis work for the U this season, and sitting next to the Chesapeake Bayhawks president and Marquette and MAAC consultant Friday, I couldn't help but think of ESPN hoops analyst Bobby Knight.
This was my first experience doing something like this, so I was definitely nervous going in. But it was a lot of fun, and really challenging to try to get your opinions in with so much going on. I don't think I did all that great next to those experts, but hopefully I didn't screw up too badly. I have a sinking feeling that I said Tommy Palasek instead of Tommy Palesky when I was trying to talk about the Army goalie. (I blame Carc since he mentioned Palasek's name like 20 times.) If I did say Palasek instead of Palesky, before you trash me in the comments for being an uneducated moron, I don't honestly think Tommy Palasek plays goalie for Army. (But hopefully I didn't screw it up at all.)
For anyone that cares, here's how the show works. ESPNU's Casey Carter and John Kettering set up a rough outline of topics (top teams, top players, breakout players, under/over-rated teams, MLL Draft impact, Final Four picks, etc.) and then we film each segment separately. McAnaney was the host and traffic cop, so he could intro each segment and throw it to one of us, who would then get the conversation going. Depending on how much we'd talk about each specific team or player, Carter would be in our ear either keeping us on that topic or pushing us along.
So there were times when I was prepared to talk about the current topic and then had to quickly jump to a different one. Not complaining; it was actually a legitimately enjoyable challenge. And made me really respect these guys even more for what they do on live TV.
We hit a lot of different stuff in the hour, and I think the conversations were really insightful. Hopefully the viewers agree. And hopefully we'll be able to do more of these. GREAT format for discussion and analysis.
Here's a couple more candid pics from Kettering. And, since I know I can nnever get enough of these, Quint getting his makeup done.


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Three-time grade I winner Flat Out has been retired, owner Art Preston confirmed. Stallion plans are pending.
The 7-year-old Florida-bred son of Flatter won the Cigar Mile Handicap (gr. I) for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott under regular rider Junior Alvarado Nov. 30 at Aqueduct Racetrack, wrapping up a well-traveled career with a 9-5-5 record from 29 starts and earnings of $3,645,383. In addition to the Cigar Mile, he took back-to-back editions of the TVG Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (gr. I) at Belmont Park in 2011 and 2012. He was third in the Gold Cup this year.


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Australia in shock loss to England
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Australia's Brett Lee reacts as England's captain Michael Vaughan runs during their ICC Champions Trophy semi-final.
Australia was beaten by England in a one-day cricket match for the first time in over five years today to be knocked out of the Champions Trophy.
England won the semi-final at Edgbaston by six wickets in a commanding display led by a 140-run stand between opener Marcus Trescothick and captain Michael Vaughan to reach 4-262 in 46.3 overs.
Despite never getting on top of the England bowlers, Australia cobbled together a challenging 9-259 off its 50 overs, Damien Martyn top scoring with 65 off 91 balls.
It was not enough as England's batsmen immediately had the edge on the Australian bowlers and the Champions Trophy remained out of Australia's reach.
Following his 2-42 with the ball, Vaughan's 86 was his highest score in one-day cricket to lead England into Saturday's final against either Pakistan or the West Indies.
After Trescothick was bowled by Andrew Symonds for 81 to take the score to 2-161, Vaughan and Andrew Strauss (52 not out) steered England toward its first one-day victory over Australia after 14 losses in a row.
Brett Lee was brought back into the side at the expense of Shane Watson as Australia went for a four-pronged pace attack but his first three overs went for 30 runs.
Vaughan attacked Lee's full length, hammering him for four fours through the covers in his 18-run third over and taking him for six boundaries in 13 balls.
Darren Lehmann's dismissal for 38 to end his 75-run stand with Martyn sparked a middle order collapse with Australia losing 3-21, including in-form Symonds for a duck.
The big-hitting Queenslander only lasted two balls when he was out-played by England quick Steve Harmison.
He dug a Harmison yorker off his toes, survived the lbw appeal but panicked into looking for a single which wasn't there and was easily run out by Vaughan who beat him in a chase back to his crease to whip off the bails to make it 5-198 in 40 overs.
Martyn fell 12 runs later to send Australia to 6-210 after 43 overs.
Lee hit 15 off 17 balls in a late flurry with Michael Clarke who was bowled by Andrew Flintoff in the final over after belting 42 off 34 balls.
Australia's first 50 came up in 61 balls after a quick 44-run stand from openers Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist but Hayden's departure for 17 signalled a drop in the run rate.


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Quote: I'll be honest, In my honest honest opinion, K-1 kickboxing is a cheap rip-off from MT, designed and modified in every way possible to prevent Thai boxers from gaining a clear edge, yet fails miserably when Thai boxers dominate most of their light divisions.But that's just my opinion.
Quote:And the lighter weight classes ... well honestly how prestigious are those classes? The heavy K1 classes in particular the heavy weight is the popular one people want to see. (How many Thai do you see there?)
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Hasham @ Hisam, Rosnani (2008) Optimization of processing parameters on the yield of oleoresin from zingiber zerumbet and its antibacterial activity. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering.
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Wednesday morning, , the first phone designed specifically with Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) in mind. Ice Cream Sandwich will, naturally, make its way to other handsets when it's released to the public sometime in November. As such, we're taking a look at the latest Google Android mobile operating system.
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