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His friends depicted him as an addict who could never get enough heroin into his body to gain satisfaction. They said,despite his success and fame, there still remained the power and attraction of heroin for this man of many talents. Ordinarily, he took the heroin while alone, most probably listening to some favored musical pieces and drifted off into another world. One can only wonder what was the attraction of the other world. He was famous, his face known to hundreds of millions, his talents praised by those in his occupation. Some viewed him as a super performer, and none regarded his talents with scorn. He was a man destined to greatness in his profession, but, for some mysterious reason, heroin was a greater attraction than money or fame or awards.
Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a drug overdose. Today, hundreds, if not thousands in the world will die of a drug overdose. Their deaths will go unnoticed, no concern as to why they overdosed, the simple reality is they did overdose. It was a quiet death, most probably, Mr. Hoffman never even knew his last performance was Death in the Afternoon. Unfortunately, it is a play that should never again be performed.


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While our feelings towards the Samsung Galaxy S, may have been relatively lukewarm that hasn't stopped it from becoming a major success worldwide.
Hot on its heels then will be the Samsung Galaxy Q and detailed specifications, though no images, have now leaked.
The primary difference is that this will be a keyboard equipped model, in the style of a Blackberry Bold - good news for those who love Android but aren't sold on touch screens. This arrangement will explain the slightly unusual 720 x 480 resolution and despite the keyboard it will still support multi-touch. Quality should be impressive thanks to SuperAMOLED display tech.
Camera wise, it will better the Galaxy S with an 8-megapixel camera on the rear, complete with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front. 720p HD Video will also be on the cards.
We also like the sound of 16GB of on board memory, 802.11n WiFi, and a mini HDMI output. A 1GHz Hummingbird processor will keep things ticking over and a 1,500mAh battery should ensure it has some staying power.
It will be Android 2.2 Froyo out of the box which, with its improved Exchange support, should sit nicely with the Blackberry type crowd.
It's more an alternative to the Galaxy S rather than a quick-fire successor, but it looks like Samsung will have another winner on its hands whenever this arrives – more details when we get them.
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Chinese immigrants founded the country's first Chinatown in San Francisco and also brought to our shores the tradition of drinking tea with dim sum—literally, "a speck of heart"—small servings of snacks.
"The dim sum experience in San Francisco is special because of the city's place in the Chinese diaspora," says Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods. "Because the Chinese have been there so long [since the 1848 Gold Rush], Chinese food culture is now part of the mainstream."
Today San Francisco's Chinatown teems with tourist kitsch but remains a real working-class neighborhood, full of dim sum restaurants crowded with locals. San Francisco has also spawned a second Chinatown about five miles west in the city's Richmond District where dim sum parlors sit cheek by jowl with Russian delis and Mexican taquerias.
Servers at City View (662 Commercial St.) located on the edge of Chinatown in the Financial District, serenely wheel dim sum carts around an airy dining room hung with Chinese landscape paintings. The honey-glazed shrimp and walnuts, baked barbecue pork triangles, and lettuce wraps are solid crowd-pleasers. Both City View and Chinatown spot Great Eastern Restaurant (649 Jackson St.) produce toothsome and reliable selections—dan tat (egg custard tarts), chia siu bao (steamed barbecue pork buns), har gow (shrimp dumplings), and the trendy Little Shanghai dumplings (pouches of meat and broth). For an unusual dessert, order the subtly sweet water chestnut cake, served in jelly-like slabs.
The granddaddy of San Francisco dim sum, Yank Sing (101 Spear St.) is frequented by the buttoned-down crowd. The neighborhood's pricey real estate means that the dim sum is pricey, too, but also among the most creative in the city. Yank Sing's abundant menu includes meat-free options such as spinach dumplings and pancake pockets stuffed with tofu and chives. The fried green onion cakes dipped in peanut sauce are somehow both fall-apart flaky and deliciously gooey.
Even the vast dining room at Hong Kong Lounge (5322 Geary Blvd.) can't contain the mostly Chinese throngs that mob this eatery in the Richmond District. The kitchen cranks out one hearty, skillfully crafted dish after another, including the beef/shrimp/shitake mushroom sticky rice steamed inside a lotus leaf wrapper. You can also opt for the sugar rush of house specialties like the coffee-flavored spare ribs and taro dumplings. The creamy egg yolk custard toasted almond ball will render you utterly mute, which may be just as well given the noisy chatter of patrons.
Visit the May Flower restaurant (6255 Geary Blvd.) to expand your palate. The May Flower specializes in seafood dim sum, evidenced by the burbling fish tanks. On the plate, mini-octopus and seaweed form a bright magenta-and-green tableau served marinated in rice vinegar. The seaweed's crunchy texture is a perfect contrast to the chewy octopus. For a pungent, slightly fermented dish, sample the tender clams with black bean sauce.
For dim sum on the go, visit the aptly named Yummy Bakery in Chinatown (607 Jackson St.) or Lung Fung Bakery in Richmond (1823 Clement St.). Select from baked goods such as barbecue pork buns and pineapple buns, and for dessert try coconut buns or egg tarts warm from the oven.
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There's a difference between life as portrayed in a play and life as presented in Drama Land. In the former, there is richness, nuance and recognisable human behaviour. In the latter, nobody acts like anybody you've ever met. Instead of people with actual lived-in back-stories, there are characters who use a lot of words. For far too long in this unsteady new piece from Oliver Cotton, we're morosely abandoned in Drama Land.
Joe (Harry Shearer) and Elli (Maureen Lipman) are a 70-something couple who live a low-key life in Brooklyn and enjoy ballroom dancing. But low-key lives and heel turns do not a play make, hence the unexpected arrival of Billy (John Bowe), the brother Joe hasn't seen in 30 years. This being Drama Land, these siblings with three decades of estrangement hovering over them don't get down to the nitty-gritty of why Billy upped and off one day. Instead, they linger over the minutiae of a holiday Billy has recently taken and eat a Chinese takeaway. The pace of David Grindley's production, leaden to start with, becomes funereal.
What Billy has come back to say is something of great importance concerning their past life in the occupied Europe of the Second World War but it's very tough to pick out the true emotion amid the thickets of empty verbiage.
Cotton, an established actor himself, gives his cast so many exposition-heavy showcase speeches that they derail the dramatic momentum of this self-consciously stagey piece. Yet in the nick of time it's salvaged — to a degree, at least — by an elegant turn from Lipman as a dutiful wife with a secret or two of her own. It's a more tamped-down performance than we're used to from this actress but it works a treat.
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It's good to see Clinton Portis exercise his right of free speech regarding the incident last week involving a woman reporter and members of the New York Jets. But when the NFL finally schedules an educational and awareness session with Jets players and coaches, it should probably save a seat for the Washington Redskins running back.
Portis, a man who has seldom been known to make insightful comments, seemed to miss the news that the league doesn't condone mistreatment of reporters, regardless of sex, by players. And although Portis didn't know the details of what happened between Inez Sainz, a journalist for TV Azteca, and the Jets, he offered this perspective in an interview with a Washington radio station:
"You put a woman and you give her a choice of 53 athletes, somebody got to be appealing to her. You know, somebody got to spark her interest, or she's gonna want somebody. I don't know what kind of woman won't, if you get to go and look at 53 men's packages. And you're just sitting here, saying 'Oh, none of this is attractive to me.'"
In response to Portis' statements, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said: "The comments are clearly inappropriate, offensive, and have no place in the NFL. We have contacted the Redskins and they will discuss the matter directly with Mr. Portis."
Not surprisingly, Portis – undoubtedly at the insistence of his employers – offered an apology soon after the interview, saying, "I was wrong to make the comments I did, and I apologize. I respect the job that all reporters do. It is a tough job and we all have to work and act in a professional manner. I understand & support the team on these issues."
Jets owner Woody Johnson has already called Sainz to apologize for his players' behavior, which supposedly included catcalls in the locker room after practice. A coach reportedly also threw footballs in her direction so that players could get near her.
The league is investigating, and team lawyers interviewed a number of players Tuesday, presumably in case Sainz consider a sexual harassment complaint. In a statement, the Jets said they would work with league officials in order to "take any appropriate steps necessary to maintain a respectful environment for the media."
To their credit, the Redskins took prompt action with Portis. One can only hope he got the message.
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The Princesa Playa is splendidly situated in peaceful surroundings 400 metres from the sandy beach and coves of the Son Xoriguer coastline, and close to Cala'n Bosch harbour. The huge swimming pool here twinkles an invitation to cool off, whilst the spacious sunbathing terrace beckons sunlovers in need of some absolute chill-out time where they can. recline on a sunlounger as they doze off and enjoy the sunshine. Famed for its friendly staff, the complex offers a lively range of sporting diversions and entertainment making it a great choice for families. There's a full entertainment programme to keep you tapping your toes into the evening and great activities to keep you on the move including a kids' club and a play area with bouncy castle for the little ones. There's also plenty to do out and about too, with the marina and centre of Cala'n Bosch just one kilometre away.
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Recently the wrestling world is on a bit of a buzz with comments made by WWE Champion CM Punk in regards to the World Heavyweight Championship making the title holder second best, at best. Granted Raw is the more publicized, and hyped of the two shows that the WWE airs weekly here in the States. Smackdown is the competitor show, and some have called it the "B". Which as a fan I completely understand, and I know that this is what by in large most fans believe. However, I'm on the outside once again shaking my head.
Smackdown isn't the "B" show to me, it's simply the other show that isn't aired live televised weekly. At times I find myself watching more of Smackdown than Raw. I don't waste time wondering which one is the better show week in, and week out. Wrestling in general, especially in the WWE has been lacking a whole lot creatively, and is more of a reason why I watch more of NXT than either of the two shows. It's so bad on a larger scale that I have reduced myself to watching studio wrestling. lol.
In any case back to my original point here. If Cody Rhodes were champion right now instead of Sheamus, would Rhodes have done a better job at explaining the history behind the title? I ask this because when Cody isn't overacting, and actually talking about wrestling his true mic work comes out. We all know how Punk likes to cross the lines of kayfabe, but would he be prepared to go to battle over wrestling knowledge with Cody Rhodes? Now, you're probably laughing due to the fact that I actually questioned whether, or not Punk can hang with Rhodes. That makes sense, but this isn't just a mic battle, but a battle wrestling "wits" between two men who from what I understand have a very strong understanding of professional wrestling related things, like titles.
I mention Cody Rhodes because when he held the Intercontinental title I felt as though he made that title relevant again. There was a promo he cut a year, or less ago about the IC title history. After that promo I realized that Rhodes knew his wrestling, and he knew best how to get that point across. The best part was that he was "heel" during that time, but did something most "face" stars do, and that's put over a title. Say what you want about the level of credibility that Cody gave the Intercontinental Title, but I happen believe that he restored it's name for that time he held it.
Yes, that WHC isn't the same one Ric Flair debuted it on Valentines Day of 1986, but that doesn't mean that title isn't a famous "wrestling" title. It's synonymous with wrestling, and I think it holds more credibility than the WWE title. Again I realize that it's not the original Ric Flair NWA title. Based on just looks, and casuals longtime fans that title has prestige whether Punk wants to admit this, or not. The "Big Gold Belt" as they call it has plenty of history that I think Cody Rhodes would have blasted Punk for disrespecting it live on Raw. Cody seems like the perfect character that would have been able to justify the credibility of the "Big Gold Belt" with just as much conviction as Punk talking trash on the title.
Enter in a returning Ric Flair, and now you have a real story going. Let us not forget about the apparent Punk/Heyman alliance as well. Heyman, Punk, Flair, and Rhodes are all solid on the mic. Obviously, I would say Cody still has some time before he is in the league of the other 3 men, but he can hold his own. It's really the lisp, and the overacting that lessens his credibility on the mic. When he isn't overacting then it's just the tiny lisp that he has, which I can easily tune out, but both are just no good for him. However, with a "Nature Boy" alongside him, Cody could easily become more appealing live on Raw.
Say what you want about Flair, but he still gets "it". Wrestlers as talented as Cody know how to feed off of talent. When a team is winning the feeling can become contagious, and everyone plays on a greater level than they may have before. Others do nothing from a big time scenario, but I just can't see Cody live on Raw failing with Flair. The fact that a Rhodes is with a Flair, and it's not in a cage match is exciting. That alone is history, and it's more history than what Punk, and Heyman are worth. Heyman makes sense as well because he goes back to, and he remembers how Flair wouldn't put over talent, and he remembers the backstage politics of Cody Rhodes' father Dusty, or Stardust, or whatever the hell his name is. Paul has that type of nature that he would bring that sort of nasty out.
These four men if given the chance I think could really entertain the fans. Cody the new "Nature Boy"? I could fall for it only because Cody had that "Dashing" gimmick stick for some time, and for me those two characters have similarities. Just the mic work alone, and the emotion from Flair/Heyman would be amazing to see. I also think Punk vs Rhodes would be awesome because it's something we haven't had. I don't know that these two have ever had a sanctioned title match.
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Discovery has committed to produce and air a TV special and host town hall meetings, led by Discovery Education. Discovery Communications plans to invest more than $1 million to develop the special and host the town hall meetings, where the special will be screened. Additionally, David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications, has been named to My Brother's Keeper's National Convening Council, a body created to draw attention to and support the multi-sector work of the initiative, help facilitate communications and coordinate public-private partnerships.
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Coming up in the bottom of the eighth inning of a 1-1 game against Prairie on May 18, Riley Jornlin stayed focused and determined. The Wilson senior shortstop had been 0-for-3 to that point but delivered in the clutch, driving a walk-off single to score Julie Davis and punch the Rams' ticket to the state tournament on their way to winning the 3A district title the next day.
"I hadn't been hitting all game, and I finally got in my zone and did what I know how to do and it felt so good. It was crazy," Jornlin said. "I just needed to let the ball get deeper, and I knew I'd be right on it if I let it get deep."
Rams ace Janessa Flynn was entangled in a pitcher's duel with Falcons sophomore Jasmine Cox, with Wilson hitters making good contact much of the game only to be denied by a solid Prairie defense.
"We were hitting the ball all game," said Wilson head coach Ron Balmer. "They're making backhand plays down the line, catches in the outfield going away. They made every play, it was a great game…we finally got one to go down where we needed it to."
Flynn, meanwhile, escaped a couple jams, including striking out the Falcons' Amanda Martin with the bases loaded in the top of the fourth in a scoreless game.
"She has a great knack for controlling the game with pitches in and out," Balmer said. "When she gets in trouble she buckles down and hits her spots. That's what a senior pitcher should do."
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"She puts the ball in play," said Balmer of Jornlin. "All year long she's been really patient at the plate and hits it where it's pitched. I had a feeling she was going to do that right there."
Alex Flynn pitched the Rams to a 3-2 win over Peninsula in the semifinals on May 19, and Janessa Flynn capped the weekend in a 7-4 win over Camas for the district title and a number-one seed to state. The Rams open with a game against University High School on May 25 at 9 a.m. at the Regional Athletic Center in Lacey.
"There's six seniors, and it means the world to us," said Jornlin of the Rams' second-straight state berth. "We're going to do it big this year."
With the way games have been going lately for Bellarmine, head coach Craig Coovert has become confident in his girls' ability to make something happen late. That proved true again in the Lions' district opener on May 18, as senior Kelly McLaughlin's opposite-field single in the bottom of the sixth scored Rachel Sorensen to put them up 2-1, and Bellarmine added two more runs in the inning for a 4-1 win over Spanaway Lake.
"These girls, they keep putting pressure on you, keep finding ways to get on base and eventually they find a way to break through," Coovert said. "Kind of just par for the course for this team so far this year."
The Lions threatened early, getting runners on second and third in the bottom of the first, but Spanaway Lake starter Michele Kenner escaped the inning by striking out Alex DeStephano. Kenner then got three straight outs in the second after allowing the first two runners on in the second.
"She's a really good pitcher, a strong pitcher," said Coovert. "We were getting a lot of runners on base, but we just couldn't find that hit."
Haley Dusek gave Bellarmine a 1-0 lead in the third by driving an inside-the-park homer to right center, but the Sentinels quickly responded. After Bellarmine pitcher Courtney Schwan had retired the first 11 batters of the game, Kenner singled, advanced to second and scored on a single by Janae Haslett to tie the game. Those were the only hits Schwan allowed in the contest, as she retired 10 of the next 12 batters to give the Lions' offense a chance in the sixth.
Alexis Mendez was hit by a pitch with two outs in the inning and Sorenson, running for Mendez, scored when McLaughlin's single got away from the left fielder.
"It was amazing. The whole game I was really frustrated with myself, I was 0-for-3 at that point," McLaughlin said. "The whole time I was like, 'I really want to hit. I'm going to hit.' I just made contact and it felt really good."
McLaughlin and Ostrander scored on a throwing error by shortstop Raelin Goodwin two batters later, and Schwan shut down the Sentinels in the seventh for the win.
The Lions jumped all over Kentwood early in their second game, scoring six runs in the first three innings to cruise to a 7-1 win and punch their ticket to the state tournament. Schwan got the Lions started by booming a two-run homer to left center in the first, McLaughlin and Ostrander had RBIs in the second and Rebecca Sorenson added a run-scoring single in the third. Dusek added a run-scoring double in the sixth, and Schwan allowed just one run on four hits on the mound.
Coming back from a 6-0 deficit, the Lions rallied to beat Emerald Ridge 10-6 in the opener on May 19, and held a 5-3 lead late before falling in the finals to Rogers later in the day. Despite the loss in the final, the Lions carry a ton of momentum into the state tournament.
"The past four years I've played, this is the closest we've ever been," McLaughlin said. "Just being so close and being there for each other is what makes us come through, and makes us come together and really win these games for each other."
The Lions travel to Spokane and face an opening matchup against Bothell on May 25 at 10 a.m. at Merkel Field.


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The sweeping changes made by the NCAA Rules committee were the talk of the offseason. As fallball is under way and coaches and players are experiencing the rules first-hand in practice — and fans seeing them at tournaments — the effects of the rules are starting to take shape.
The rules have been a point of discussion within Inside Lacrosse's reporting and talks with coaches over the past few weeks. Here are some of the anecdotes and findings from IL reporters.
Riding and Clearing: Some teams have been ditching settled clears and have de-emphasized working on them in practices. The reasoning: There's no time for personnel switch-ups with the new rules, and unsettled clearing and riding situations will be the norm.
"With the restarts it's impossible to have those set up," coach Tim Boyle at Dowling said. "It's a lot more transitional and unsettled clears," he says, adding that the team has taken less time in practice with settled clearing situations but added more time for full-field scenarios with balls on the end-line and sidelines.
Personnel decisions: Players coaches recruited and have been working with might not be the right players under the new rules.
One top Division II coach said he is moving one of his hybrid attack/midfielders to attack full-time; he doesn't want that player stuck going up and down the field constantly. Also, there's a tendency to put those types of players on attack because there's uncertainty how easy it will be to get players on and off the field and teams want their big-time scorers on the field all the time.
In an interview at a Maryland practice (to be posted on ILTV next week), LSM Jesse Bernhardt described how his position will change: "I think it's a good thing and a bad thing. I think good because you can see more transition with LSMs staying on a little more and pushing it trying to keep their offensive middies on. But also those guys can get stuck on and you might not get an opportunity to get on the field. The larger box makes it easier to sub on and off the field, but I guess we'll have to wait until spring to wait and see."
Short-stick defensive midfielders could have time seeing the field. Some coaches said that last year it was crucial to have multiple d-middies or else they'd be gassed. Now, they're wondering how they will get them on the field.
Boyle says: "The chess game is still there, it's going to be a little bit faster and more chaotic."
"The teams that are built for it are going to be very successful. I don't know how many teams prepared for this in terms of their recruiting. A lot of teams will recruit high school attackmen to come in and play offensive middie in college. Are those guys necessarily going to be guys who can go both sides of the field?" he said.
Restarts impactful: At a Maryland practice I attended, the pace was boosted and restarts were a point of emphasis. If attackmen didn't immediately pick up the ball and start the play on a restart, the coaches yelled at them and told them to get moving.
Also at that practice, subbing on the fly was a point of emphasis and more than one player was scolded for not being on point with subs.
At the Colleluori Classic, the restarts had more of an effect on gameplay than any rule I saw. Marquette scored at least two goals against High Point off of quick restarts that had the Panthers' defensemen out of position. It helped when the offense was on the same side of the field as the coaches and Joe Amplo would yell "Beat the whistle!" after each shot.
A majority of coaches I've talked to have been disappointed with the 30-second countdown after the stall warning. Kevin Cassese's comments in our Colleluori Classic coverage echoed the sentiment: Why not just have a full shot clock instead of a half-measure?
It's worth pointing out that some of my colleagues have talked to coaches who fully support the new rules in regards to the stall. Also worth noting: It just so happens that the coaches I talked to are younger and have not been coaching at the college level as long. Is it a coincidence, or is there a generation gap about the view of the shot clock?
One thing is for certain: Coaches are assessing the rules, finding where their teams can use them to their advantage.
"As coaches you try to manipulate the rules and see where you can take advantage of them and where you're suspect," Merrimack coach Mike Morgan said in a phone interview last week. "It's going to change the game — especially the no horn rule — more than people know."
Importance of "End of Field:" One thing I noticed was the not-at-all-surprising attempt by coaches to influence refs to issue a stall warning and turn on the shot clock for opposing offenses. To me, this creates a pretty significant imbalance depending on which end of the field the offense is currently trying to score — is your bench in front of your defense, or your offense? While home/away stall splits will definitely be interesting, I'd be interested in a study of quarterly stall calls and at which end of the bench they occur.
Coaches learning the new rules: Talking to Virginia coach Dom Starsia after last Saturday's Play 4 Parkinson's event, he mentioned that when Towson violated on a face-off for the third time in the first half of their scrimmage, it didn't even occur to him that it was a penalty. He said assistant Marc Van Arsdale was on it right away, however (saying "Marc's the brains of the operation"), and noting that they actually scored on that man-up. Still, the point remains — for as much as it's been pointed out that refs need time and practice to get up to speed with the rules and the mechanics involved in enforcing them, so do the coaches. And that likely means more miscommunication, argument and flared tempers early next season.
Generational Divide? Speaking of Starsia, I spoke mostly to him an Princeton's Chris Bates about the rule changes Saturday, and they both seemed pleased with the outcome of the changes. Starsia said, "I think absolutely [the fast pace and high score vs. Princeton was a result of the rules]. What we've done with the rules is essentially take away the dead time. You can't play offense thinking that we're going to slow the ball down and take our time to get organized because you can put on a clock at any time." But talking to Matt Kinnear and reading about coaches' reactions other places, I agree that it seems the reaction wasn't all positive and there might have been some more gripes among younger coaches, specifically those that have played or been closely involved in MLL and want to see college lacrosse simply adopt the pro league's rules. As the rule changes are largely a product of the coaches' feelings, keeping an eye on who likes what is key toward figuring out what's likely to happen in the future.
Players most affected by shooting strings: At practice last Friday, Loyola attackman and returning Tewaaraton finalist Mike Sawyer addressed the new ways he's stringing his sticks saying, "For a few weeks, I just kept hitting [X attackman] Justin Ward with my shot behind the cage I was missing so bad." This makes sense given the feedback I've gotten in talking to players about their no-longer-there U strings. The comment has been that their hold isn't affected, but the release — especially on sidearm and underhand shots — is less reliable. As probably DI's best shooter for much of last season and a guy who shot mostly sidearm, expect Sawyer to be a guy most impacted by the loss of a U.
The preponderance of moto-grip: I thought it was totally apropo that the photo Kinnear used on the front page of InsideLacrosse.com this weekend was of a moto-grip face-off specialist who had won the ball forward for an apparent fastbreak, his stick still upside down with the ball in it. A stark reminder of the near-miss that might've removed that from the game.


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I am just starting some Montessori activities with my 2.5 year old son. What I am getting confused about is how to implement the boundaries (of doing a particular activity a particular way, staying on a rug as well as putting that up before getting something else out) while letting him - well - I don't know. I feel like I'm "putting him to work" and spoiling his childhood in a way. I don't even know if those Montessori supplies should be out all the time. Advice?
We do Montessori at home, but we don't try to be a full Montessori school at home. What that means, is that some things, like the rugs, I don't worry about. We have rugs, but rugs are mainly supposed to show the boundaries between one's work space and another's work space. In the home setting, the child has free reign of work space without having to worry about 20 other kids. :lol: It just wasn't a battle I wanted to fight. I do require they put one thing away before starting something else, and I usually have to keep modeling that for the girls.
As for the supplies being out all the time--we do have some work integrated into our main living areas. But, we also have a toddler in the house, and most Montessori things are very small. We have a special area that we use as our classroom so that all the small parts are confined to one area of the house (where I can watch the toddler closely). They're out all the time, but DD never goes down there alone, so it's not like she's using it all the time. We have worked in "school time" into our daily routine though.
As for doing things a certain way--I give a lesson on a work, and then observe as DD does it. If she doesn't do it the way it was intended to be, I don't correct it that day (Montessori believed that adults correcting a child's work de-motivates them to work, or changes their motivation from internal to external--instead of working for their own good, they work to please the adult). Instead, I just give the lesson again the next day, emphasizing the area that needed work from the day before.
Thanks again!
http://astore.amazon.com/monteblog-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=6 Here are quite a few of her books. I'd probably start with "The Montessori Method" before any other one.
Whenever you are introducing a household or classroom procedure to a child, try for a matter of fact attitude and model the procedure yourself, the child will eventually follow. It helps in the classroom to have all the other "little teachers" to reinforce the procedures. But this is what makes our community flow. So, you will likely have procedures that you will want to have in place at home as well to make your family life run smoothly, like hanging coats by the door.
It's best in the beginning not to turn it into a power struggle. Most of the time, we work parallel with the youngest children. We put the coat on the hook and encourage them to do it with us. Let them do part of the work. The child can take one sleeve off but needs help with the other sleeve. Then can carry the coat to the rack but cannot hook it. Eventually, the child takes over the entire procedure.
I would definitely keep your child's materials in their reach and accessible at all times for maximum potential.
Also, I like Montessori Method but also like to recommend "Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook" especially for folks working at home.
Yeah, you can find most of Maria Montessori's translated work online for free since they were written long enough ago that their copyrights are up. :D I also like The Science behind the Genius as a more modern book that analyzes Montessori's methods. And for toddlers, I love Teach Me to Do It Myself and How to Raise An Amazing Child, The Montessori Way.
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Kansas is home to approximately 40,000 nurses, and the State Board of Nursing probably processes that many applications and renewals almost yearly, Brown said, so a few years ago, the board reorganized the system. "We created individual file folders for each nurse, so as those applications or renewals came in, and the processing was done and their license was reissued, those were all individually filed in their appropriate file folders -- a very time-consuming process."
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W. Allen and Leslie Cargile of Lake Summit in Henderson County found dead in Texas
There are 21 comments on the www.blueridgenow.com story from Aug 24, 2012, titled W. Allen and Leslie Cargile of Lake Summit in Henderson County found dead in Texas. In it, www.blueridgenow.com reports that:
A missing Henderson County couple last seen in Alabama Sunday has been found dead in Texas, according to a news release from the Henderson County Sheriff's Office.
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#1 Aug 25, 2012
Has anyone considered they may have been involved in the zeek ponzi scheme that came on on 8/18?
#2 Aug 25, 2012
yeah I am sure they needed to rip people! It's not like they didn't have enough money of their own. How stupid!!!!
#3 Aug 25, 2012
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#4 Aug 25, 2012
Stop spreading rumors. No one said they were involved. It was posted as a question. was like just a coincidence in the zeet Ponzi scheme being shut down when they went missing.
#5 Aug 25, 2012
your question is what would start a rumor. You should have never even posted such a question! Why would you even wonder the worse at the expense of someone's tragedy?
#6 Aug 25, 2012
They cleared out their bank accounts so that is highly suspicious dont you think. they left the employees and patients high and dry. Something fishy was going on but yur right you cant speculate and just wait for the atopsy and drug tests.
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#7 Aug 26, 2012
The only ones reporting about the bank accounts is the McDowell News. They said that a couple in Old Fort had heard the bank accounts had been emptied. Nobody else said a word about the bank accounts besides that law enforcement put a freeze on the accounts. That was crappy of McDowell News to report that without a reliable source. As far as them shutting down, Dr. Cargile is the sole owner of the practice and by law they aren't allowed to run it without her.
#8 Aug 26, 2012
The crappy mcdowell news also made a huge deal about a lawsuit ack in 2006 for a patient dying with a heart attack. This has nothing to do with two people being dead in a hotel room- doctors have to have malpractice insurance because patients sue. That was settled a while back and would have been covered by their malpractice. yet the reporter made it the centerpiece of his poorly written story.
#9 Aug 26, 2012
Thank you for saying that!
#10 Aug 26, 2012
The actual North Carolina Medical Board letter is available online; it was a bit more than a malpractice suit. The malpractice suit is common, yes, but the state determined that Dr. Cargile did not properly supervise her Physician Assistant and they added what is the equivalent of a public notice to her license. If any other similar complaints arise, the previous suit can be considered in regards to her license.
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#11 Aug 26, 2012
I hadn't read that article until now that you mentioned it. Wow! It even says at the bottom that the malpractice payment was made to them in 2010 so I see no need for them to be reporting that now. McDowell News is really feeding the rumor mill with these articles.
#12 Aug 26, 2012
Neighbors of Dr. Leslie and William Cargile in Henderson County described the couple as "nice, normal, everyday kind of neighbors." The Cargiles were found dead in a Galveston, Texas hotel room Friday. They had been missing since Monday when "Leslie didn't show up to see patients at her Black Mountain medical clinic. Galveston investigators said Saturday there "did not appear to be any gunshot wounds or stab wounds" to either body, however, detectives wouldn't comment on reports of various types of medication found in their hotel. A spokesman for the Galveston Medical Examiner's Office said foul play is not suspected. One of the couple's sons at the family home Saturday declined to comment. Another son is said to be out of the country on a business trip. Preliminary autopsy results are expected to be released early next week."
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#13 Aug 28, 2012
The authorities froze the accounts so they could be alerted to anyone trying to draw funds. Nothing suspicious there. Just people trying to make more out of a tragedy than is really there.
#14 Aug 29, 2012
Dr Cargile was more caring and concerned for each patient than any doctor I've ever known. That in itself speaks to her character. She would never knowingly do something wrong. It would just be out of character.
#15 Aug 31, 2012
Dr. Cargile was an incredible person. Kind, warm, I wish we had more doctors like her. She will be missed.
#16 Aug 31, 2012
The why of it bothers me- what would lead anyone to such a drastic end? It seems (speculation here) strange that the NP left 6 weeks before, they had hired an office manager 2 weeks before, they had had a new doctor to start the week after and another to start in October. Patients who saw her in the weeks before describe her as older, tired. The office staff seemed to know something was going on because they started having patient sign for records so soon. Like they new something really final had happened. What they did was obviously planned. There's no way a doctor would go that far on a Sunday when she had patients at 8:00 monday morning.
Thoughts? anyone?
#17 Aug 31, 2012
"I live in the community where this doctor worked. I learned today from someone who knows a staff member at Cargile's office that when the staff arrived at the office on Monday morning following the weekend the Cargile's left home and headed to Mobile, that they discovered the doctor had CLEARED OUT ALL HER PERSONAL BELONGINGS. That was apparently what tipped off the staff that she was abandoning her practice and had no intention of coming back. That would explain why the practice was shut down so quickly. The person who shared this information with me did not know if the doctor's behavior in the weeks leading up to her disappearance had become strange, erratic, or in any way indicative that something was amiss. "
#18 Sep 2, 2012
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1."Saw my friend tonight who worked for the dr. for years. The staff didn't check the dr.'s private office until Tuesday and discovered that all of her personal belongings were gone. They also checked Mr. Cargile's office and discovered that his personal belongings were gone, too. When the police did a walk through of the couple's home, they discovered that the things from the offices were in their home. My friend says "no way" in regard to the doctor being terminally ill. She described the husband as being a good guy but a bit eccentric. The staff concluded that they had just taken off after not hearing from the dr. and given the fact that the personal belongings had been removed but had no idea why they would do such a thing because it would have been totally out of character for either of them."
2. In Allen's biography he calls himself an experienced financial analyst. 18% return on your investment, really. http://www.landexploration.com/index.php
3. Ponzi scheme
"Maybe they were involved in this. Maybe that is why they they left town the next day, because they knew they would be going to prison... Instead they commuted suicide!!!"
#19 Sep 2, 2012
definitely hope allen's businesses are investigated. Dr. Cargile was a bit nutty and difficult. Don't just take my word - for evidence look at the horrible retention for PAs/NP - no one stays for long. You can look up the list on the medical board web site. She also had hired a MD a few years back - Thomason or Thompson and she quickly left. Something funny was going on in that practice.
#20 Sep 5, 2012
FamilyCare Home, the former practice of Dr. Leslie Cargile will reopen in Black Mountain and Old Fort under Dr. Drew Schnyder, he said Tuesday.
The move to restart the former practices which served 25,000 to 30,000 patients over nearly 30 years was made in accordance to the wishes of the sons of Cargile and her late husband William Allen Jr., Schnyder said.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Movie Review
Jordan Belfort is feeling bullish about his future.
In 1987, the 22-year-old lands on Wall Street, hungry to reap the fortune he believes the stock market holds for him. But his tenure at the prestigious, old-school Rothschild brokerage has barely begun when Black Monday (Oct. 19, 1987) wipes a then-mindboggling 508 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average … and takes Belfort's nascent career right down the drain with it.
The Wolf of Wall Street, based on Jordan Belfort's real-life memoir of the same name, fleshes out (quite literally, as it turns out) what happens next.
Unemployed and feeling like he's been mauled by a bear, Belfort stumbles into a small-time penny-stock trading company on Long Island. Though the miniscule stock sales there represent only a small fraction of the money he'd been handling before, the margin—the percentage commission Belfort will actually be paid—is massive. As in 50%, compared to 1%.
So Belfort hatches a vision that will make him and the young predators he quickly recruits millionaires many times over: peddling profitable penny stocks to rich dupes, then raking in the commissions.
Belfort's appetite for riches knows no bounds. Soon, he and his right-hand man, Danny Azoff, as well as a cadre of swagger-filled, conscience-free young turks are literally rolling in cash—not to mention having sex on piles of it and snorting cocaine through it. Never mind that Belfort and Co.'s cunningly calculated efforts to bilk investors are utterly, totally and completely illegal. Never mind that Belfort's ravenous, cavernous greed torpedoes his first marriage and will ultimately crater his second. Never mind that Belfort is now on the take-down to-do list of straight-laced FBI agent Patrick Denham.
Never mind any of that.
Because the only thing that matters to Jordan Belfort is making one dollar more.
And then another.
And then another.
Positive Elements
Belfort's father serves as something of a (very) small voice of reason amid the carnage and obscenity. He's inexplicably brought into the brokerage to make sure things don't get too out of hand. He utterly fails, of course, but he does tell his son that eventually "the chickens will come home to roost." And so they do, as Belfort's second wife files for divorce and Agent Denham eventually nabs Belfort and sends him to prison for three years.
Before that happens, Belfort and Denham have a lengthy conversation during which the broker tries, ever so subtly, to bribe the FBI agent. Denham is as principled as Belfort is unscrupulous, however, resisting temptation even as Belfort demeans the hardworking and conscientious agent for making so little money. After Belfort is imprisoned, we see Denham riding the subway, with an expression on his face suggesting that integrity ultimately matters more than living a life of luxury.
Spiritual Content
We hear a conversation speculating about whether Buddhists and even the Amish are motivated by greed. When it looks as though Belfort's yacht is going to be swamped and that everyone aboard will die, Danny screams that he doesn't want to go to hell. Belfort later recognizes that perhaps God spared them, saying he's going to clean up his act and try to make a more honest living. Someone quips that nuns are all lesbians. We hear a version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," which includes the lines, "Heaven holds a place for those who pray" and "Jesus loves you more than you will know."
Sexual Content
By my count, there are 22 sex scenes in this movie. (But it's an admittedly difficult tally to be dogmatic about since sometimes it's hard to tell when one ends and another begins.)
Among many, many, many other things, oral sex is graphically merged with other sex acts involving a threesome. It is also given screen time in settings that are public, and within the confines of a moving vehicle (involving the driver). A multitude of sex acts with mostly naked prostitutes are also performed in public, as well as on an airplane. A post-orgy scene revels in the revelers' nudity. Sexual fondling becomes assault when it is done to an unconscious woman at one point. There are multiple scenes of full-frontal female nudity; an S&M sequence; an orgy composed entirely of gay male couples (in which we see explicit sexual movements); multiple heterosexual sex scenes (again with explicit movements and sounds), some of them mingling drugs and private body parts; and an office party that features yet another group of topless strippers and prostitutes. The film goes so far as fully showing a man's erect penis (a prosthesis, according to press reports).
We hear references to incest (Danny is married to a first cousin), the importance of masturbation as a stress reliever, jokes about men performing oral sex on other men, a conversation between Belfort and his father about women shaving their genitals, a reference to a pornographic magazine, a story about a woman in the office who performed oral sex on every male employee, and multiple comments about using prostitutes and having to get penicillin shots after contracting STDs. Dialogue also repeatedly references virtually every possible crude, vulgar and obscene slang word for the male and female sexual anatomy.
Belfort essentially rapes his wife. We see her physically resist, then see the couple having intercourse, still obviously against Naomi's wishes. Following that forced encounter …
Violent Content
… Belfort brutally hits her three times when she tells him she wants a divorce. He then grabs their preschool age daughter and attempts to run off with her before accidentally ramming his car into a wall. (The girl is unhurt; Belfort's head is bloodied.)
Belfort, badly impaired by Quaaludes, hits all sorts of obstacles with his Lamborghini. In a similarly sloppy state, he "successfully" crash-lands his helicopter in his back yard. He orders his yacht's captain into a horrific storm, which capsizes the boat. A plane explodes in midair after hitting a bird.
Danny nearly chokes to death while on Quaaludes. (Belfort eventually pounds on the man's chest until he spits out a mouthful of food.) Two guys in Belfort's posse beat up his gay housekeeper, bloodying the man's face before dangling him over a skyscraper railing. We see a picture of one of Belfort's employees who's apparently committed suicide by slitting his wrists in a bathtub.
Crude or Profane Language
All told, well more than 700 profanities, vulgarities and obscenities crowd every square inch of The Wolf of Wall Street. And a handful more than 525 are f-words, with some used sexually and others getting combined with "mother." (It's the most f-words Plugged In has ever counted in a movie, and is being reported as the most f-words in any mainstream non-documentary movie ever made.) Add to that 70-plus s-words, 35 to 40 misuses of God's name (10 or so paired with "d‑‑n"), nearly 25 abuses of Jesus' name, about 20 crude references to the male anatomy (including "c‑‑k," "c‑‑‑s‑‑‑er," "d‑‑k" and "p‑‑‑k"), three uses of the female-denigrating "c‑‑t" and two of "p‑‑‑y." There are also between 40 and 50 other vulgarities and slurs, including, "f-g," "f-ggot," "b‑‑ch," "b‑‑tard," "h‑‑‑," "p‑‑‑," "douche bag," "retard," "whore" and "jerk-off." We see perhaps half-a-dozen obscene hand gestures.
Drug and Alcohol Content
Scene after scene after scene show Belfort and his buds popping Quaaludes (about which we get a lengthy history lesson) and snorting lines of cocaine. Alcohol of all kinds is equally ubiquitous.
Belfort is repeatedly impaired by way of all those substances. He's so dedicated to getting himself thoroughly plastered, in fact, that before a planned bender on "vintage" Quaaludes one night, we see him giving himself an enema to make sure he doesn't soil himself. While high, a long, painful scene involves him trying to crawl to his car, a path that takes him painfully down a flight of stairs.
We hear Belfort talk about all the drugs he's addicted to, as well as all the drugs he has to take just to stay functional during the day. Other references are made to marijuana, Adderall, Xanax and morphine. There's talk of drug dealers.
Clean by film's end, Belfort tells Danny, "Being sober sucks. I wanna kill myself." A relapse proves his point.
Other Negative Elements
A pathetic and painful scene involves the guys at the brokerage tossing little people at a Velcro target. A lengthy scene later on finds Belfort and his friends contractually parsing how they can and cannot exploit the little people they're hired as entertainment.
Marriage is repeatedly demeaned as causing nothing but unhappiness for men trapped in it. Danny fires an employee who's cleaning his goldfish bowl … then eats the goldfish. A significant portion of the film deals with how Belfort and his cronies travel to Switzerland to set up an elaborate smuggling system.
Jordan Belfort blows the lid off just about every jar of horribleness a scriptwriter could ever conceive of. He does it in such an outrageously obscene way that he makes infamous greedmeister Gordon Gekko (from the 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street) look merely like a giggling greenhorn in comparison.
And he makes me honestly wonder why you're still reading this review.
Honestly, I wish I weren't still writing it, because there's just not much more I can say here.
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is among the most bludgeoning—if not the most bludgeoning—films ever to be granted an R rating. Indeed, much has been made of the fact that it barely escaped an NC-17.
It should not have.
There is—ostensibly, theoretically—a cautionary tale about the perils of lust and greed woven into Jordan Belfort's story. But since the film concludes with him getting paid to give motivational speeches sort of soils that suggestion. That, and the fact that all along the way we're invited to cheer for this ruthlessly greedy, sexually predatory, chemically dependent, foul-mouthed and narcissistic antihero. Invited to want him to somehow escape the judgment he should assuredly face.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort; Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna; Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia; Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff; Jon Bernthal as Brad; Spike Jonze as Dwayne; Jon Favreau as Manny Riskin; Rob Reiner as Max Belfort; Cristin Milioti as Teresa Petrillo; Joanna Lumley as Aunt Emma; Jake Hoffman as Steve Madden; Kyle Chandler as Patrick Denham
Martin Scorsese ( Silence, Hugo, Shutter Island, Shine a Light, The Departed, The Aviator, Gangs of New York)
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Where to place coax jacks
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I want to update a mid 60s apartment by surface mounting at least one RG6 jack in the bedrooms. I own the apartment and will resell it eventually. How many RG6 jacks would be typical for a bedroom like the one below if it were built today, and where's a good location for them? The cables will be coming in from the hallway and I think I should drill from the hallway into the bedroom closet (which I'm allowed to do) to install a jack on the wall opposite the entrance, but I'll definitely put a jack on the same wall as the entrance, so if one is enough I won't bother going through the closet.
Usual rule of thumb is where the most convenient location that a TV may be placed, or near the telephone jack. With flatscreen hdtv sets being mounted to walls, your best bet would be to place one low, and one high up where a mount would be, along with a Cat-5e or Cat-6 and power, just in case someone wants to mount their tv on the wall. If you do not want to mount said jacks up high, you can use a pass-through conduit, that would allow someone to pull everything up inside the wall, and drop the power cord down to plug into the outlet down below.
Figure in your wiring, Telephone that is using Cat-5e/Cat-6, a extra pull for ethernet, and a coax.
Not everyone will agree on where they should go. I would put them in the most convenient spot and they can always run a wire to where they want the tv. And as long as there are enough receptacles finding a place to plug in the tv should not be much of a problem.
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