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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1299 Tuesday, 27 June 2000.
Date: Tuesday, 27 Jun 2000 09:22:25 -0700
Subject: Shakespeare's Women
When it rains it pours. Yes, I am still behind in my reading, and I am
still reading Publisher's Weekly. The 5/15/00 number has the following
story, which I have edited to save some typing.
"Yet another short story collection recently made a... sale to...
Scribner for a trade paper original. But this one has a notable
gimmick: all the stories in the collection, titled Her Infinite Variety,
are about women who had some connection with Shakespeare, either as
women in his life - his mother, his sister, Queen Elizabeth, or as
characters in his dramas. The author is... Pamela Rachel Berkman."
This is for North American rights only.
Mike Jensen


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April 8, 2007
Clouds Over Conakry, 2007
Following a lively introductory performance by a traditional African griot, the 14th annual New York African Film Festival officially opened with the film, Clouds Over Conakry from Guinean filmmaker Cheick Fantamady Camara, a selection that seems ideally suited to the festival's commemoration of Africa's 50 years of independence and (indigenous) cinema - a humorous, lyrical, and engaging, yet thoughtful and impassioned cautionary tale on the intractable social dichotomies between tradition and modernity - the personal (and cultural) struggle to find moral balance between upholding indigenous customs and embracing progressive ideals - that continue to shape contemporary African society. At the heart of the conflict is a talented political cartoonist and artist, Bangali, affectionately known as BB (a homonymous nickname that alludes to the film's catalytic cultural collision, an out of wedlock baby) who pseudonymously signs his newspaper with a rudimentary glyph in order to conceal his life's vocation (and passion) from his father, a superstitious, and deeply old fashioned marabout. In love with his mentor and editor's beautiful daughter, Kesso, a web designer who, on a whim, entered the audition for the Miss Guinea pageant and now unexpectedly finds herself competing for the title, BB's hopes for a life together with his beloved Kesso and a professional career as an artist is soon dimmed when his father, having experienced a dream that he believes was guided by the spirit of their village ancestors, decides to bypass his religious, older son's wishes to study abroad and become an imam, and instead, chooses his visibly disinterested younger son, BB, to succeed him in their ancestral vocation. But when his father is summoned by a government official to lead a prayer service on a pre-appointed day and time to help end the city's unseasonable drought - a divine invocation that seems all too conveniently effective - BB begins to question the integrity of the often conflicting advice offered by well-intentioned people around him. Beyond the often explored territory of cultural contradiction, perhaps what makes Clouds Over Conakry particularly insightful is Camara's ability to capture the moral nuances and shades of grey that appropriately - and relevantly - capture the complexity of contemporary existence: the father's infusion of tribal fetishism with Islamic worship is confronted through the older son's orthodox scholarship of the Qur'an, and who, in turn, is confronted with the inhumanity intrinsic in his more fundamentalist views towards the (mis)treatment of women; a woman's reproductive rights paradoxically brings tragedy to both sides of the ideological debate; the idea of a free press is compromised by the editor's self-censorship approach to the reporting (and suppression) of information in order to avoid controversy and maintain the paper's access to influential leaders (and implicitly, uphold the status quo); the separation of church and state is blurred by the political cultivation of alliances with influential spiritual leaders in an attempt to rein in loyal, faith-based voters into their political campaigns.
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by Rick Broida, PC World - Say hello to my little friend. AutoHotkey is a small utility that can accomplish big things. It's one of the best ways I know to make your PC work exactly the way you want it to.
[ Must-have keyboard shortcut apps for Windows ]
Specifically, AutoHotkey (AHK for short) is a macro recorder, meaning it stores a sequence of keyboard, mouse, and/or joystick (remember those?) commands and then lets you play them back.
That may not sound like a big deal, but trust me, it's incredibly handy. For example, a simple AHK script can remap any key on your keyboard. Want to, say, turn your Caps Lock key into a Mute button? It's a 60-second job. Same goes for using the Insert key for something that's actually useful.
That's just a taste of what AHK can do. Your assignment for today is simply to download and install the 2MB utility (it's free). Then meet me back here tomorrow, and the rest of this week, for some killer AHK solutions.


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Watch a giant game of Tetris played on a skyscraper
This is what it looks like when you play the world's biggest game of Tetris on a 29-storey building
- TextThomas Gorton
No more messing around with Game Boys: to celebrate the opening of Philadelphia Tech Week, Tetris fans were able to play their favourite game on the side of a building. Using a joystick, players could direct Tetris blocks across the 29–storey Cira Centre, a skyscraper that normally displays colourful patterns during the night using the LEDs embedded in its glass exterior.
This isn't the first time that a classic videogame has been played on the Cira Centre. Last year, Frank Lee, the associate professor of game design at Drexel University, developed the world's largest game of architectural Pong on the skyscraper, and it was him that was responsible for overseeing the Tetris project too. Lee told the crowd that had gathered, "This project began as a personal love letter to the games that I loved when I was a child - Pong last year, Tetris this year. But it ended up as a way of uniting the city of Philadelphia." Although as yet unconfirmed, the performance looks set to break the world record for the largest ever game of Tetris.
Created by the Soviet computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, Tetris shows no signs of diminishing in popularity. At once a cult classic that represents the birth of video game culture and simultaneously a heralded brain training technique, Tetris has managed to maintain a consistent popularity over three decades. This year, it celebrates its 30th anniversary in June.
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I am looking at taking a long weekend (4-5 days) away with a friend at the end of November / early December and was considering Russia. But I have some questions, can anyone help?
1) Due to having 4-5 days only, should I go to St Petersburg or Moscow? What have people's experiences been of either city?
2) I would expect the weather to be extremely cold at this time of year, has anyone visited either of those cities in winter and was it do-able or very unpractical?
3) If the weather isn't an issue, any top things people would recommend doing in either city?
Many thanks


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Meeting of Minds
When: May 10, 2013, 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Where: UM-Flint
Since its inception in 1993, the annual Meeting of Minds Undergraduate Conference (MOM) has provided a forum for the publication and dissemination of undergraduate student research. As a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan-Flint, University of Michigan-Dearborn, and Oakland University, MOM showcases the results of student-faculty collaboration in research and creative activities from across all academic disciplines. Students who present at MOM have a unique opportunity not only to share the results of their work, but they also have the opportunity to publish their work in our annual Meeting of Minds Journal.
Info URL: http://www.umflint.edu/research/student_programs/MOM/home.htm
Department: CASL_Administration
Category: Conference, Day Event, Special Event, Presentation, Performance
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Jerusalem (Mar. 9)
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
An ordinance abolishing the duty on all goods exported from Palestine was issued today by High Commissioner Plumer.
The ordinance does not include tobacco and antiquities. Much importance is attached to this ordinance in Jewish circles as it is believed that it will facilitate the development of the Jewish industry in Palestine.
The recent closing of the Delphiner silk factory in Tel Aviv is believed to have been among the reasons which convinced the government of the necessity of immediate steps to facilitate and encourage industrial enterprises in the country.


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Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today on Treasury Secretary-designee Timothy Geithner:
"During my meeting with Treasury Secretary-designee Geithner, it quickly became clear why President-elect Obama designated him to be a key player in our fight to turn around our deeply troubled economy and to help working families. He demonstrated a deep overall understanding of our economy and was particularly knowledgeable about our financial markets, including what led to the problems we face today and what we need to do to address them.
"While I do not know Mr. Geithner well, I do understand honest mistakes. Since the mistakes in his tax filings came to his attention, Mr. Geithner has paid all taxes due, including all interest. I continue to believe he has the skills the President will need to confront the challenges of our nation's economic crisis and I will support his nomination."


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ESSEX-UK-L ArchivesArchiver > ESSEX-UK > 2000-04 > 0955597274
From: "C.O.Hurrell" <>
Subject: Re: Census lookups
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:41:14 +1200
References: <000101bfa4d6$0cf1e800$852f6ccb@Gordon>
ANNE MAJOR wrote:
> Further to the posting by John Henley of 12th April, there is a full
> census
> surname index on fiche for the whole of Essex for the 1851 census, the
> only
> one missing is Dunmow as the census for 1851 was destroyed by fire.
> These
> can be obtained from the Essex Record Office.
> Anne - Oz
I refer you to Helen's contribution -below- it is for real , as I my
HURRELLs were Felsted based for yonks and 1851 was the year my great
grandfather left to voyage to Canterbury ,NZ. The absence of this Census
held me up for a long time and I had to get round it circuitously(now
there is a word).
Good luck to all who have relied on the destroyed data.
Incidentally, the other hold up was a modern vicar at Great Leighs , who
would not let the Church registers from his hold for a long time.
The Grounded Kiwi
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Hi everybody! Someone wants me to find the most appropriate font for his logo ( the one from the image). Can you give me some font names that i can try ? Thanks!
47: http://www.behance.net/gallery/47-Free-Typeface/4233555
Airplane: http://www.losttype.com/font/?name=airplane
See this site for more: http://losttype.com/browse/
I'd go with a typeface that's a little elongated like a "technical" or "scientific" typeface. This would mimic the glasses and it just fits with the brain. Godserv nailed it on LostType, browse around there first…their fonts are pretty good (kerning, glyphs, etc).
For example:
(free) Venera
(premium) Vox
(premium) Primus
If you purchase a font from myfonts.com (as I usually end up doing) just check the license to make sure you can use it in a logo. Most of the big foundries with custom fonts don't allow it.
Try my font:
Linius FontThanks!
By the way i forgot to say that the company si a web development company
+1 to primus bold
Palatino Linotype


text: Ever wonder what's it really like to be a church planting pastor? Today we hear the confessions of one of the bright lights in the Evangelical world who's doing just that.I had the privilege of teaching and mentoring Dan Nichols through his years as a high school student where he led the school's worship efforts. It's been a delight to watch him grow, first as Student Body President at Baptist Bible College and now as he follows God's call to plant a fresh church with a team in Wilkes … [Read more...]


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Great Ports: Carnival Glory Cruise Review by Izlander
Overall Member Rating
Great Ports
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
The Glory is lovely and clean, well maintained with a subtle decor. I'm not sure I like the location of the burger bar it takes away quite a lot of seating. The burgers are very good! Carnival has really cut back on the food and its availability, there was only one buffet open and it was a 20 minute wait to get something to More eat, it also seamed rather limited, fish chicken or roast beef along with root veggies.
The Breakfast Buffet is pretty standard, with long lines that took up to half an hour to get through, some mornings they were out of bacon or sausage. We made sure we went extra early if we had an excursion to go on.
The Dessert buffet is lacking in choice, in the past there have been up to 20 items to choose from this time maybe 6-8. I think new cruisers will be amazed at the amount of food but for ones that have cruised for years you will notice the cutbacks.
The Chocolate Buffet was rather sad, last year on the Freedom it took up a whole buffet serving area this one took up the normal dessert buffet stand and a little middle section of the buffet area in front of it, they were still serving regular food either side of it.
If you were returning from an excursion after 2.30pm the only thing open for you to get something to eat was the burger bar or Pizza (which never had anything ready).
We ate dinner in the Golden dining room our waiters were great but the headwaiter who's name I won't mention tended to be a little over friendly and it made me uncomfortable, the chef does need to learn the meaning of "well done", everything I ordered came back medium ( I ate around the pink). The food was good and hot, the service was fast and efficient. If you want a drink with dinner I suggest you go get it yourself before hand because the bar service is terribly slow. They have cut back on bar staff and it seams there's only one or two for the whole restaurant. What I didn't like is they come around with Shot Glasses trying to get people to do shots while eating dinner, I thought that was rather tacky.
The Maitre D Caasba was fantastic, he was by far the best one we have ever encountered he visited EVERY table EVERY night. My Sister in Law has food allergies and he took care of it within minutes to where her food was specially prepared to avoid cross contamination. Something I noted that was strange, usually Carnival leaves an envelope in your cabin for tipping the Maitre D, there wasn't one this cruise and there was no mention of it either, we went and got one from guest services because this man seriously deserved tips!
Our Cabin was on the Lido Deck our steward Phillip was great, he was in and out of our cabin in a flash we would go to breakfast and our room was always done when we got back, he always had a smile on his face and was just a lovely guy.
One thing to note is they have changed their internet and if you need to check in online (southwest) you have to pay $35 for a day's internet. Plan to have someone take care of it for you at home. I ended up texting my daughter and having her do it for us.
We had a great time and did enjoy the ports, I am disappointed in the cutbacks Carnival has made particularly with the food, it totally sucked spending 20 -- 30 minutes in lines. As for entertainment ... what entertainment? They have cut back on the shows and play repeats through out the week. Seams all they want to do is push alcohol so they increase their profits. Less
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Arcadia Bluffs
By Senior
Writer Don VanderVeen
Photography by
Kevin Frisch
When Michigan Golf introduced
Michigan's Monsters in 2002, Doug
Hendershot, ratings manager for the Golf
Association of Michigan, said, "there
seems to be a tendency to build a course
that is harder and get a reputation that
a course is difficult."
Do you think!
The average yardage of the
2004 edition of Michigan Monsters is 7,141
yards from the championship tees. And par
is not likely for even the scratch golfer.
Three years
ago we showcased the state's
18 most demanding golf courses according to their
slope. Since that time, several new courses have
opened across both peninsulas and some have had
their courses re-rated. This time we chose to
rank our selections on course rating. There are
10 newcomers on the list.
The United States Golf
Association rates courses on both course rating
and course slope. The course
rating correlates to how the course plays to
a scratch golfer, those who play to par as a
rule. The course slope pertains more toward the
challenge for the average bogey golfer, compared
to the scratch player.
Some courses that have
a more difficult course rating may not have as
high of a slope. Or visa
The Chief at Sky Lodge, for instance,
ranks among the most challenging courses in Michigan
by virtue
of its slope (145), but does not make this Michigan
Monster's edition of toughest 18 courses
in the state. On the other hand, Hawk's
Eye, The Chief's sister course, is tame
by slope standards (140), but its length adds
an average of 2 strokes to par for scratch golfers,
and does make the top 18.
Our list is taken from
GAM rated courses – the
top 18 highest course ratings in the state.
Think you're good? Move back to the tips
on these monsters and see how you do.
The Bear,
Rating 76.8, Slope 146
When it comes to Michigan's most challenging
test of golf, The Bear is often a centerpiece
topic. Designer Jack Nicklaus once said that "it
takes a real man" to survive The Bear.
Playing just over 7,000 yards from the championship
tees, The Bear's deep bunkers, tall heather
grasses and challenging layout that meanders
throughout wetlands, woods and orchards make
every round an adventure.
"It's a second-shot golf course," says
Scott Hebert, who worked two years as an assistant
pro at the Grand Traverse Resort. "It's
not that hard off the tees, but you've
got to be real precise with your distance, and
you have to be pretty accurate as well because
there is so much trouble around the greens. If
you miss a green with a sand wedge, you can easily
make a double bogey."
Hebert should know.
He has won five Michigan Open titles at The Bear,
which annually shows
its teeth against the top club professionals
in Michigan.
"To define a tough golf
course, you have to have some good par 4's and difficult par 3's,
which it does," Hebert said. "You
hear a lot of horror stories about guys making
huge numbers on the par 3's at No. 4 or
No. 9, where there is an island green and water
all around."
Other holes of note include
No. 5, which requires a difficult tee shot and
another over the water
to the green. At No. 7, there are hazards on
both sides of the fairway. No. 10 is a classic
par-5 hole that even the best players can make
anywhere between 3 and 8, while No. 11 presents
difficulty off the tee.
"On the back side, there
are a number of holes that can derail a round," Hebert
said. "You
can get on a bogey string and make four or five
bogeys in a row."
^ back
to top
Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye at Hawk Hollow,
Rating 76.4, Slope 145
This new links-style gem designed
by Chris Lutzke of Pete Dye & Associates
has become a sought out golf destination in mid-Michigan
for its
challenging layout and outstanding old-world
features that include mounding, heathers, length,
water and wetlands.
Playing over 7,300 yards from
the back tees, its sheer length is a challenge.
Playing par-4's
at 440 or more yards can create problems even
for great players. Mix in 110 bunkers and it
becomes about 110 times more demanding.
The landing
areas on the par-3s require accuracy. At No.
5, bunkers or hazards surround the small
target green some 210 yards beyond the tee, while
hole 13 requires some length and accuracy out
of a chute of woods.
The course is kind of rolling and not really
level in places, so sometimes your feet may be
above or below the ball," says head professional
Kirk Sherman. "You have to think about
the shot or you might fade or hook it depending
on how your ball is positioned at your feet."
are several water hazards on the course, well,
more than several, including an island
green at No. 17 that is reminiscent of the No.
17 hole at TPC at Sawgrass.
The greens at Eagle
Eye are undulating and some are quite large compared
to a lot of courses,
which doesn't always leave an easy tap-in
for par.
"If you get on the wrong
side of the hole, it can become a difficult two-putt
in regulation," Sherman
said. "There could be a lot of three putts
in the round if you're not careful."
9 and No. 18 share a common teeing area and go
along opposite sides of a pond. Both offer
opportunities to get home in two, but make big
hitters think twice with the water waiting to
swallow up errant shots.
"What I love about the course
is that every hole has its own uniqueness and
its own character," added
Sherman. "There are good par and birdie
holes and some you have to really be on your
toes to make a par sometimes."
The Hills
Course at Boyne Highlands
Rating 76.4, Slope 144
Perhaps the
most challenging golf course of the eight that
are part of the Boyne properties,
The Hills Course was several years in the making.
Nine holes were completed before namesake designer
Arthur Hills went to work on his masterpiece
at Bay Harbor.
When the second nine finally opened,
it proved to be well worth the wait.
Special features
of the course that make it particularly challenging – along
with its intimidating length of 7,312 yards – include
the long angular hazards that challenge golfers
from the
Long bunkers create an early challenge
the first three holes. Marshlands at No. 6 continue
build the momentum. On No. 13, a deep ravine
to the left creates a long all-carry shot from
the tee box. On 15, a 75-yard bunker on the right
dogleg can jump up and bite, while water on the
double dogleg 18th hole provides twice the risk/reward.
"From the tips, the par-3's
are daunting, ample in length and have carefully
surfaces providing more than ample challenges," Hills
The No. 3 hole is a 550-yard par-5
with a 100-yard angular bunker off the tee, a
guarding the green and a buried elephant within
the green.
"My favorite hole is No.
10, which is a short par-4 with a pedestal green
falling off in all
directions," Hills said.
No. 12 features
the highest bunker ever created by Hills. It
reaches 18 to 20 feet high and is
reminiscent of the dogleg bunker on the No. 4
hole at Royal St. George in Sandwich, England.
tee at the par-5, No. 13 hole plays 100 feet
above the fairway and features a 15-mile long
panoramic view of Northern Michigan in all its
Tanglewood, South Lyon
Rating 76.2, Slope 139
This course is all you want to
tangle with.
While the mix of long par-5s,
par-4s and par-3s measure over 7,200 yards from
back tees,
the par-3s are what really jack
up the yardage.
are doglegs left and doglegs right, meaning golfers
must be able to effectively work the
ball both ways with draws and fades.
"There are definitely some
holes out here that can get you (in trouble)
in a hurry," head
professional Brad Stedry says. "A good
player has a chance to have a decent round for
sure, but there are plenty of opportunities to
make double bogeys real quick. You just have
to play steady."
Located just outside of
metro Detroit near Milford, Tanglewood features
27 holes of golf.
The signature "Michigan
Hole" features
a green shaped like the Lower Peninsula surrounded
by a big pond with a miniature replica of the
Mackinac Bridge that connects to the next tee
box. Despite the green's generous size,
shot placement is paramount.
"A lot of times, people
hear about it and see the contour of green and
request to play that
nine," Stedry says. "But if the hole
is located near Cheboygan, you definitely don't
want to be putting from Detroit."
features a generous mix of holes. The South is
tree lined, while water comes into
play in six of the nine holes on the West side.
The North course has more of a links-like feel
with fescue grasses, water and fewer trees.
"Depending on which nine
you play, there are a lot of carry shots required,
and on the West
you could go into the water on virtually every
hole," Stedry said.
Hollow, Clarkston
Rating 76.0, Slope 147
With a length of 7,236 yards,
Hollow is one of the longer and more demanding
courses on the east side of the state.
"Length is by far a huge
factor," head professional
Kevin Grostick said. "But there are other
factors that make it challenging."
speed of the greens or the U.S. Open rough?
"For a public facility,
our greens are on the quick side," Grostick
said. "The
speed of the greens and the undulation are a
big factor."
The water, bunkers and hidden
hazards places a premium on course management.
"A guy has to mentally get
himself around the course," Grostick said. "You have
to hit fairways off the tees and hit your putts.
That's the case just about anyplace, but
here it is really important.
"I try to give up a few
yards to be in the center of the fairway rather
than chance to go into
the rough."
Sugarbush, Davison
Rating 75.6, Slope 146
Measuring 7,285 yards from the tips, Sugarbush
is a very good, classical golf course. Sweet
maybe. But soft, no way.
"The golf course is pretty
traditional and everything is straight out in
front of you, but length becomes
a little bit of a factor from the back tees," says
head professional Tom Wojciechowski. "There's
really not a lot as far as it being tricked up
or having blind shots, but our green complexes
are slightly elevated and if you miss greens
it's a little severe to get up and down.
near Davison, the blend of holes at Sugarbush
are tree-lined with contoured fairways. Some
of the chutes are tighter than others, including
No. 13, which is cut right out of the woods.
There there's the par-5 that plays about
620 yards.
"There are some long holes, but the longer the
fairways play, the wider they get," Wojciechowski
said. "There is some good thought to what
is out there. The long par-4s are a little bigger
and more generous – as far as being flat – than
the shorter holes.
"There is a huge shot making element built into
Tanglewood," Wojciechowski said.
"You have to hit the center
of the greens. If you miss, it's hard getting
up and down because of the contour of the greens."
Monarch at Garland Resort, Lewiston
Rating 75.6, Slope 140
Of the variety of courses at Garland Resort,
The Monarch has the most bite for the buck: lots
of length (7,188 yards), water, bunkers and woods.
"From the tee box, the woods
don't penalize
you and you can take a good cut at it with your
driver, but there is always pressure on your
second shot," director of golf Todd Campbell
The greens provide a contrast
in size and shape. Some greens are quite small.
Others are
and narrow. Yet others are deep, albeit thin.
"It puts pressure on being
able to hit the tee ball and keep it in play,
and you will still
have a mid to long iron into a lot of the holes," Campbell
You want tough? The Monarch opens
with the number one handicap hole and gets arguably
"Starting off, you don't get much time to
exhale," Campbell said. "Then on
the back, you're playing back to the south
end of the property and some of the holes are
protected by large towering pines and also a
large open area with water. When you have the
wind howling back there, it tends to swirl around
those pine trees and club selection and guessing
what direction the wind is blowing becomes difficult."
"A lot of ladies (forward
tees 4,800 yards) enjoy playing their significant
others at The Monarch
because it gives them a good chance to whip their
husbands," Campbell said.
Trent Jones Course, Gaylord
Rating 75.5, Slope 144
Since it's opening in the
mid-1980s, the Robert Trent Jones, Sr. designed
at Treetops remains one of Michigan's most
revered and challenging tests of golf.
"It was built in the era
when big, bold and challenging was in vogue," Treetops director of golf
Scott Head said. "Any big name golf course
built at that time seems to be very difficult.
"He had a very dramatic
piece of property to work with and exploit and
stretch over 7,200 yards.
It's very long, even by today's standards.
I couldn't imagine playing it with a Persimmon
driver even back in 1986."
Much of the challenge
at the Jones Course lies within the lies. The
mountainous terrain creates
uneven lies, which make it difficult for the
casual golfer.
The elevated green complexes can
be severe at some points. The undulation adds
yet another
"The Jones Masterpiece epitomizes that you have
to hit it on the high side to get it to the flat
side by using the lines on the golf course or
you can get stuck with some awkward lies with
a long club," Head said. "It takes
a lot of testosterone, but we as golfers tend
to be masochistic by nature and that's
why we are drawn to the game. They want to get
a full test back there (the championship tees)."
"The key to this course
is getting off the tee," Head
said. "There are probably four or five
holes where driving areas get really narrow,
and you really have to drive the ball well and
position it off the tee, and if you're
playing the back tees, you have to play the driver.
It's a first-shot course and it doesn't
slow down."
Black Forest, Gaylord
Rating 75.3, Slope 145
Following the lead of Robert Trent Jones at nearby
Treetops, architect Tom Doak designed the Black
Forest to test the best.
"It was deliberately built
to be a challenge," Doak
said. "The other course on the site (Wilderness
Valley) is fairly easy and the client wanted
me to make sure that nobody said (the Black Forest)
was too easy."
Doak, who has international
acclaim with his spectacular courses worldwide,
was glad to oblige.
"It was built during a time
when difficult courses like The Bear and Treetops
were synonymous with
getting attention," Doak said. "We
set out to build something pretty hard and pretty
The woods at the Black Forest
are very thick, hence the name. And while the
fairways provide
fairly wide clearings, hitting a shot into the
woods is worse than jail.
The contoured greens
are not overly fast, but they do have some built-in
Tom Doak features.
"Like a lot of my courses,
there is always a side of the green you can't
miss on because of the slope of the green and
that doesn't
necessarily mean always behind the hole," Doak
said. "It could be to the right or the
left, but there is one side of the hole making
it difficult to get up and down."
To make
the Black Forest a memorable test, Doak said
he tried to make each hole through the woods
distinct with bunkering to create as much variety
as possible. As a result, nearly 100 bunkers
are scattered throughout the Black Forest.
people who score better at Black Forest are those
who play a little more conservatively," Doak
Arcadia Bluffs, Arcadia
Rating 75.1, Slope 143
While Arcadia Bluffs is undeniably
awe striking visually, playing it well comes
down to ball
striking. Literally.
Length is not an obstacle
at Arcadia Bluffs. It's the short shots
that make it tough.
"Tee to green, the fairways
are extremely wide and the rough is not overly
difficult because
we don't let it grow too much," says
Arcadia Bluffs general manager William Shriver. "The
difficulty here is really from about 50 yards
That's when golfers must deal
with sod wall bunkers and the contours of greens
average over 6,000 square feet and are groomed
so neatly that putts roll fast.
"It's the short game more than anything
here, because the greens are so difficult," Shriver
said. "You need to be very careful on your
lag putts or first putts.
"You have to have distance
control on the approach shot and determine where
you land the ball because
of the undulation of the greens here. There are
a lot of three and four putts."
With a pure
sand base, the bent grass fairways are firm and
trimmed tightly to less than a quarter
inch, so the ball doesn't set up like it
would on a bluegrass setting.
There are more than
100 bunkers – either
cross bunkers or sod walls — on the course
with some so big and expansive that it is hard
to tell where they stop.
"People usually aren't
prepared to deal with hitting a ball into fescue.
Most people
try to hit a miraculous shot instead of playing
out and going from there."
And then there
is the "X Factor." That
factor is the wind, which always creates havoc
on a classic links style courses.
"When you go to the links-style
course, it is not always as direct and right
in front of you.
It's a little different mind set at a links
course, and the fact that you are at Arcadia
Bluffs also adds to it, Shriver said.
" It's a lot about the difficulty of the
greens. It's not just a big deal to hit
the green; you have to hit the correct part of
the green and that's where experience comes
into play."
TimberStone, Iron Mountain
Rating 75.0, Slope 140
TimberStone, rated the 2004 golf
course of the year by the Michigan Golf Course
Owners Association,
is one of the Upper Peninsula's pre-imminent
tests of golf.
"One of the unique things
about TimberStone, in addition to elevation changes,
are the towering
evergreens that tend to mold each hole as it
carves its way through the woods," general
manager Susie Fox said. "It's more
visually intimidating than it actually is."
Jerry Matthews design plays just under 7,000
yards from the back, but the placement of bunkers,
water hazards and natural creek beds that run
throughout the property come into play throughout
a round of golf.
"There is a reason they
want to play the tips or they should be playing
the tips, and that
is because they are a better golfer than an average
golfer," Fox said.
Course management at
Timberstone is important for good scoring. That
may mean leaving the driver
in the bag for some holes and utilizing the information
provided on the scorecard and yardage books.
greens can be very large and pin placement is
Holes of note include No. 6, which
is a 413-yard par-4 from the tips that requires
two carries
over water and a peninsula landing to the green.
finishing hole – named "Double
Black Diamond" in reference to the difficult
ski runs throughout the country – descends
220 feet on a 625-yard par-5 with a tee shot
that appears to be blind. Two rock tiers provide
a natural hazard on the fairway before reaching
a double green that is shared with the No. 9
hole that is very wide, but not particularly
"We talk about the tips
a lot here, but we offer four sets of tees to
accommodate players of all
abilities," Fox said.
The Gailes at Lakewood
Shores Resort, Oscoda
Rating 75.0, Slope 138
What you may see is not always what you get when
trying to score at The Gailes.
"One of the biggest things
that faces the average golfer is the presence
of all the mounding on
both sides," says Lakewood Shores Resort
general manager and director of golf Craig Peters. "It
gives you the illusion that the fairways are
much smaller than they actually are. It gives
that you have to thread a needle and that intimidation
affects you mentally.
"And, as everybody knows,
golf is a mental game."
The bunkers at The
Gailes are sod faced and many of those are hidden.
Gailes is not an overly long of a course; it
plays 6,300 yards from the white tees and
6,958 from the tips.
"From that length, there
are a lot of birdie opportunities, but course
management is at a premium," Peters
said. "Some of the shorter holes are short
for a reason."
No. 10 is short par-4 with
a big mound on the inside with two landing areas.
Three sod wall
bunkers are out there lurking for anybody that
gets too greedy. No. 12 is a little par-3 with
a similar look to small "Postage Stamp" green
with similar mounding and bunkers around it.
first upscale links-style course can provide
many of the amenities of its forefathers
across "The Pond."
"When the wind is blowing
is when it is really fun to play," Peters
said. "You have
to control the height of the ball, and for the
better players especially, it's a lot of
fun. It gives you a look you're not going
to see at too many golf courses. You just have
to have your wits about you."
Rating 74.9, Slope 148
Tullymore, kitten or cat?
five sets of tees, golfers can choose an accommodating
length to fit their games. Or they
can pick their poison if they prefer.
"Playing it all the way
back, there is only one par-5 that is reachable
in two," claims
Kevin O'Brien, director of golf at St.
Ives & Tullymore Resort. "They are
not 'gimmie' birdie holes by any
Combined with three very challenging
par-4 holes that span over 450 yards – including
two that usually play into the wind – you
have the makings for a very long-and-strong test
golf that measures 7,150 yards.
Then there are
the par-3s, like No. 12, a 257-yarder reminiscent
of the "Dell Hole" at
Lahinch, where much of the green cannot be seen.
Architect Jim Engh calls it "the Dell Hole
on steroids."
No. 15 is 178 yards with strategic
bunkering surrounding it and a very challenging
green complex.
"When you take those five
par-3s with the distance and green complexes,
they can provide quite a
challenge," O'Brien said.
you can play the front nine even or one over
on the par-3s you are in good shape."
five sets of tees give a different look at each
stage, but the silver tees provide the longest
and strongest challenge.
"You need to hit solid shots
on the par-3's
for sure," O'Brien said. "If
you don't hit good shots on those holes,
you will probably wind up in a bunker or a hazard.
"The par-5s have generous
landing areas, but the green complexes get narrow
at certain spots.
Some of the green complexes have challenging
The Rock at Woodmoor, Drummond
Rating 74.9, Slope 142
Whether it's water, wasteland,
wetlands or Netherlands, forced carries are the
of The Rock.
"You've got to be able to carry the yardage," says
Chuck Hessel, director of golf and head professional
at The Rock.
It doesn't take long to get the message
across. No. 3 is a 230-yard carry shot to the
green. If the carries don't get you, the
woods may.
"It's basically target
golf," Hessel
said. "There is little relief. If you hit
it into the woods, you don't have a shot."
it plays a little over 6,800 yards from the back
tees, there are other factors that make
some holes long and strong.
"Once you're out there
on the course, the wind plays games with you," Hessel
The design began on the drawing
table of Robert Trent Jones before Harry Bowers
project. It features many Jones' trademarks,
including risk-and-reward opportunities.
"It tests you," Hessel said. "It's
a fair course, but you have to grind a little
bit and be patient. If you want to attack the
course, you may have to pay a price for it."
The finishing hole can play as
long as 600 yards, all uphill. The fairway is
wide and climbs upward
to a two-tiered, elevated green. It will leave
a lasting impression.
The par-3 at No. 11 seems
harmless enough, but two-tiered green and overworked
sand traps catch
many balls for those who misjudge the wind and
Boulder Pointe, Oxford
Rating 74.7, Slope 142
For sheer length, Boulder Pointe
requires sheer strength. Measuring just over
7,400 yards from
the back tees, the course can play long and strong.
the length of the course is definitely part of
the challenge, lots of heather and a
prevailing wind make it even tougher.
The course features split fairways, a lot of
bunkering and a good dose of world class heather
waiting to swallow up errant shots.
The fairways
are generous, but the edges are well guarded
by the heather grasses.
"You definitely want to be on the short grass," head
professional Glenn Busam says. "From the
back tees, it requires a lot of length and a
lot of accuracy.
"Bunkers are well placed
from the back tees. From the forward tees, they
tend to not come into
play as much for the better player."
greens are very large and undulating and very
well bunkered as well.
The defining collection
of holes at Boulder Pointe stretches from No.
3 through No. 7, a stretch
that consists of five consecutive par-4s that
Busam claims can rival any course in Michigan
when it comes to difficulty. Two of them can
play as long as 500 yards with the wind coming
into play on all them. The front nine can play
as long as 3,900 yards.
With five sets of tees,
Boulder Pointe can play anywhere from 5,000 yards
all the way to nearly
7,600 yards.
"It's a very good
test, and it can be real difficult from the back
tees, but it's
also a lot of fun from the forward tees," Busam
said. "When you catch it on a day when
the wind is up, it makes for a demanding day
and concentration is a must."
Eye, Bellaire
Rating 74.6, Slope 140
An outstanding complement to the
challenging Chief at Sky Lodge, Hawk's
Eye creates one of the most formidable double-play
in the state. Located in Bellaire, Hawk's
Eye overlooks neighboring Shanty Creek Resort.
comparisons and contrasts to The Chief are duly
While The Chief plays a little
over 6,600 yards and is a short course, Hawk's
Eye is more expansive at 7,011 yards.
While The
Chief features many severe doglegs,
Hawk's Eye is more of a straightforward
Both courses feature dramatic
views and elevation changes.
"With both courses, it's like beauty and
the beast," architect John Robinson says.
"They are two really different
Hawk's Eye plays over 7,000
yards with some interesting greens, including
what architect
John Robinson describes as a diabolical green
at No. 14 that features undulating undulations.
"It's a short par-4,
but very difficult to two-putt on that hole," Robinson
No. 15, meanwhile, is a long par-5
with a bunker between hitting areas. It leads
up to
No. 17,
which is a par-5 that plays over 600 yards descending
120-feet downhill from tee to the green, which
has a big roll in the middle of it.
The No. 18
hole is one of the few par-3 finishing holes
Robinson has created over his 37-plus years
in the business.
Hawk's Eye meanders through
a planned $18 million residential community,
while there is
little or no housing at The Chief.
Cedar Chase,
Cedar Springs
Rating 74.6, Slope 132
Making a surprise appearance as
a Michigan Monster is Cedar Chase, which just
may be one of the
best-kept secrets in the state.
Located just north
of Grand Rapids on a high ridge overlooking the
Rogue River Valley, Cedar
Chase sports a pseudo links look and stretches
out 7,115 yards from the back tees.
The Bruce
Matthews III design features 72 bunkers, many
forced carries, woods, elevation changes,
a good dose of wind and some superb putting surfaces.
"It's definitely tough
to golf with the factors of the tall grasses
and wind mixed in," Lynch
The No. 18 hole is an uphill par-4
that climbs 75 feet of elevation to a narrow
green into a shallow depth green that is usually
"Good course management
with some accuracy in mind will definitely make
the round more enjoyable," Lynch
The front nine – which begins
with a 90-degree dogleg into an amphitheater
green – is
fairly straightforward with the exception of
the second hole in which the green slopes away.
backside is when things heat up. No. 11 is a
long hole and tight as a rope.
The par-3 14th
hole plays 175 yards to a tricky double-tiered
green, while No. 17 is a par-3
that plays 241 yards from the tips and No. 18
features an uphill climb into the wind and sunset.
"You can grip it and rip,
or you can use a different club on every hole," Lynch
said. "It's
a straightforward layout if you're playing
The Moor at Boyne Highlands
Rating 74.6, Slope 135
One of Michigan's original
resort courses, The Moor has aged gracefully
and remains a very
solid tournament tested golf course.
But there
is more to The Moor than initially meets the
eye. Much more.
The Moor opened in the early 1970s
as the second course built at Boyne Highlands
after the Robert
Trent Jones' designed Heather.
the front nine is fairly benign for the most
part, the back becomes a stiff test
of golf. The course also features probably the
toughest collection of par-3's of any of
the eight Boyne courses.
The Moor is very marshy
with a lot of water hazards. The ponds and marshes
are located in strategic
No. 10 is a relatively long par-4
that plays into a prevailing wind with marsh
on both
left and right and a forced carry on the second
shot. Additional forced carries over marsh and/or
water also exist at No. 11, No. 12, No. 15, No.
16, No. 17 and No. 18.
The green complexes are
gently undulating, making it difficult to read
some of the breaks.
The tournament-tested course
has been host to the Michigan PGA, Mid-Am and
U.S. Amateur qualifier,
as well as state Pro-Ams.
"It's a good tournament
course," says
Bernie Freiderich said. "(Golf instruction
guru) Jim Flick rates it at the top of all the
courses we have."
Like most courses, accuracy
off the tee is a must. It is especially true
at The Moor.
"You have to get your driver
in play — it
is a must," Freiderich said. "And
you have to be aware of the greens that are very
fast. You have to putt the ball very well.
"It has stood the test of
time for some 30 years."


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By Associated Press - 7:05 AM EDT, June 15, 2010WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Employees of a North Carolina city that's home to one of the nation's largest tobacco companies will have to pay more for health insurance if they smoke.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported Tuesday that city employees will have to pay more beginning in January unless they take a test to prove they have no nicotine in their bodies.
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movie trailer (apple.com - quicktime)
The movie begins with a narative about an old lady refered to as Tooth Fairy because she gave away treats in exchange for children's baby teeth.
The children all loved her, *until* there was a fire which badly burned her. It scarred her face badly, and because of the scars, she could no longer go out in the light, and when she went out in the dark, she wore a porcelain mask so no one could see the scars. Townspeople didn't seem to mind until a couple of kids went missing. They strung her up. Just before though, she put a curse on the entire town. The kids turn up okay, she hadn't killed anyone. Her ghost has been haunting them ever since.
The Tooth Fairy appears when kids lose their last baby teeth and kills them in the dark.
Young Kyle survives one of these, but the ghost kills his mom.
12 years later:
Kyle (Chaney Kley), who's spent much of his life in a mental hospital, returns to town to help the younger brother of his former girlfriend, Caitlin (Emma Caulfield of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The Tooth Fairy is after the boy.
NOTE: This part of the spoiler was sent in by Babee Girl who says... "I got there half an hour in, but that's when it really started to pick up!"
We come in on a woman named Caitlin who is phoning her childhood friend, Kyle, to ask him for his assistance in helping her find out how to stop her younger brother, Michael's, night terrors.
Catie asks Kyle how he got over his terrors, camera pans over a wall in Kyle's apartment that has eerie pictures of a scary looking woman, then Michael quickly answers in a low tone: "I didn't". ::meaning he still fears the woman they call the tooth fairy:: Catie asks Kyle if he could come back to Darkness Falls to help her with her brother Michael, he declines and hangs up.
Pan to Kyle on a train, headed to Darkness Falls to help Catie, and Michael.
In the hospital, we find Michael crouched down on the floor hiding from something.
Michael sees Kyle and is afraid for some reason; Kyle must state that he comes in peace and that he is not going to hurt Michael. Kyle then gives Michael a flashlight, which Michael is probably going to use incessantly, now. Catie comes in shocked that he actually showed up.
A man is with Catie, he looks like he is a smug man, that thinks he is better than everyone else, so he takes Kyle out for drinks. While out, they decide to go to the local pub, where one man accuses Kyle of killing his mother (he didn't!) the man then pushes Kyle and dares him to hit back... Kyle doesn't. Kyle goes outside on the porch where there is light, thankfully, to smoke a cig. while standing there, he hears a noise, this puts him on edge immediately he looks around all cautiously, and out of nowhere, jumps this guy that pushed him before. He leaps on Kyle's back and they roll down hill where the man proceeds to repeatedly punch Kyle in the face while pinning him down. While Kyle is lying on his back, getting the crap kicked out of him, he sees something moving in the trees... Kyle regains strength and throws the man on his back and proceeds to beat him up, then takes the flashlight that had fallen out of his pocket and runs, knowing she's there. In a quick second, the drunken man that was telling Kyle to run and claiming that the woods they were in, belonged to him...was swooped up by a mysterious black creature, that closely resembled Voldemort in a black cape from the first Harry Potter film.
Kyle heads back to the hospital where he finds Catie watching over her sleeping brother, and sits down next to her. No more than 4 minutes later, cops roll in and say "Kyle Walsh, you're gonna have to come with us." It turns out that whatever swooped up the drunkard, killed him, and since Kyle was the last one to see him alive, they think he did it. Kyle looks at photos of the late drunkard and has a flash back of a woman looking that same way, killed in the same manor with the same marks on her, and everything, which we soon find out is his mother.
They lock up Kyle overnight and in the morning they say he is free on bail. We find that the same smug man is the one that bailed him out. The first place they go, is the sporting goods store, where Kyle picks up about 15 flashlights, the man at the store tries selling Kyle a pistol, the smug guy (I forgot his name, so lets call him "smuggy") tells him no. The guy at the store carelessly leaves the key in the glass case where the gun is kept, and Kyle steals it. After purchasing the flashlights and taking the gun, smuggy is supposed to drive Kyle back to the hospital, Instead, smuggy says that he has to protect Catie from him, so he takes him out of Darkness Falls. Kyle, who is not wearing his seatbelt, takes out the gun, points it at smuggy's head, and tells him that he must take him back to the hospital. A dark figure swoops across the windshield which blocks smuggys vision and makes him stop short...very short, and sends Kyle launching through the windshield, where he is safe in the headlights of the car. unfortunately smuggy is not so safe, he attempts to get out of the car, and is attacked by the tooth fairy, who carries him up into the trees, crying like a little girl screaming help.
Once the tooth fairy (whose real name is Matilda) is through with smuggy, she drops him...he is dead.
Kyle phones ahead to the hospital where he begs and pleads to speak with Catie...his last words before he hangs up are: "Tell them not to put Michael in the dark!" The secretary at the hospital is so freaked out, she calls the cops. We find them about to give Michael a cat scan which involves putting him on a little conveyer belt, into total darkness. Kyle gets there just as Michael's eyes are still in the light, and demands that they take him out. They do so, and he is safe. Once again the cops roll in and take Kyle away who angrily barks "Don't let them put him in the dark!!" Kyle once again must go to jail. Catie is also called in to be questioned. Michael is left alone with one lightbulb shining on his face, unfortunately, he moves in a certain position where his arm is hanging off the bed and -- Pan to Catie walking down the hall in the hospital, which at night is really quite eerie, hears someone pounding on a door repeating "Michael? Michael are you in there?" Catie breaks into run, knowing immediately that her little brother is in trouble.
We get to a locked door and Catie picks up a fire extinguisher and breaks the lock with it. We see Michael sitting behind a curtain, and there is blood on the curtain, when she picks up Michael she finds a deep gouge from Matilda on his left forearm/wrist.
Back at the prison, Kyle is being made fun of by police because he is afraid of the dark. Matilda shuts down the power, which cuts the lights so she can take some victims. The first to go, is the guy that keeps telling Kyle to shut up, when he repeatedly tells him to stay in the light. With this, Kyle is able to retrieve keys from the guard nearby who is deceased. Kyle takes the keys and frees himself from the cage he is in. he grabs the flashlight on the table, and runs for it.
Back at the hospital, lights are out there too. Catie and Michael both have flashlights. They hide under the bed for a form of protection, while in hiding, the see Matilda's black cloak glide past their vision. they keep quiet, hoping she wont notice them, matilda does, she pounds on the bed so it nearly crushes them then she makes the bed lift off the ground, and slam back down several times. They run the hell out of there and hide behind a corner where they can see her, they get a good look at her and she is really frightening, she has this phantom of the opera type mask on, and these black eyes ...
But then Michael finds a room for them to keep safe in--sort of. They lock her out, and keep walking backwards, trying to put distance between Matilda and themselves.
Eventually Catie, Michael, and Kyle end up in an elevator together with Matilda headed down the elevator shaft to cause destruction.
She rips through the top of the elevator car, and is chased away when Kyle lights one of those pink flares, but she still dwells above their heads, antagonizing them.
The elevator is no longer safe so Kyle pries open the doors where he can see that they are between floors, but still have a chance of escaping to the third floor. They all make it out safely. There is a nurse and a doctor with them that were already on the third floor, the doc. sees matilda and is puzzled.
They can't use the elevator any more, because Matilda made the cable snap, and the car plunge. The terrible part, was that Kyle didn't even remember to take his 15 flashlights with him, which he left in the elevator. They have to escape using the stairs, and unfortunately, the lights on the stairs are back up ones, which only last about 2 minutes before they begin to turn off. Michael and Catie are ahead of everyone else, and the nurse, the doctor, and Kyle were about 2 staircases behind them. The lights that were on the actual stairs had went out, so they would have to jump from one light to the next. On the very first jump the crew must make, Matilda gets the nurse, but on the second jump she doesn't get anyone. Their last light is about to fail, which encloses the doctor, Catie, Mike, and Kyle. Suddenly when the angel of death (otherwise known as Matilda) is about to swoop down on them, she is shooed off by bright lights, head lights. It is one of the police officers.
They all drive down to the lighthouse, and figure they will be safe there. Matilda gets the doctor while they are driving in the car. They all hurry into the lighthouse clutching lanterns and glowsticks.
They burn the oil or something like that to ensure that she can't get to the where they are keeping safe, the top of the lighthouse. Coincidentally, Matilda has tampered with the hose or wire that pumps the gas, and it is now leaking. The light in the light house goes out and stops rotating. The cop and Kyle go downstairs to fix the problem. The cop has the lantern and must lean far out to give light to Kyle who is trying to fix the problem with the gasoline. Since he is not in the light, he is taken away by Matilda and drops the lantern into the gasoline and sets the place on fire. The fire is so bright, so they are safe for now.
Kyle grabs Mike and tells him to flip the switch, he does so, and the Light in the light house turns back on. Matilda blows up and everyone is sitting around all tired, exhausted from all that work. Mike is resting in Catie's arms and Kyle is off doing something inside the lighthouse. Cate and Mike are below a window. From the cameras view, we can all clearly see Matilda dwelling by the window, making this irritating groaning noise, and then Catie slowly turns around but sees nothing. On the opposite side of where Catie and Mike are peeking, Matilda crashes through the window, and gets Kyle. She picks him up and is pretty much killing him, Kyle hits her in the face and her mask falls off to reveal a hideous beast...
When her mask was slapped off, it fell to the ground and shattered into little pieces. We see the teeth she had collected all those years ago, when she was a good tooth fairy, and wasn't looking for revenge for being lynched. (hung, and then burned). Matilda is dangling Kyle by his neck, and is about to kill him in the same way she killed his mom. Kyle kicks off the top of the light, a spark flies out, and the light sets on fire, Kyle puts his sleeve into the fire and since it is doused in gasoline from before, it lights and burns quickly. He slaps her upside the head with his fiery sleeve, she catches fire, and then blows up, with a more satisfactory boom, then before.
They all hug, and... The end.
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Focusing mostly on sidescrolling action, the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate has been characterized as a "MetroidVania" experience, much to the delight of gamers like, say... Chris Sims. In a new interview with Polygon, BAOB director Mark Pacini may have sweetened the pot even further for players as he likened the title to yet another classic gaming series. How does Batman with a Mega Man twist sound?


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As her family fled Vietnam across the South China Sea in 1982, two-year-old Alisha Fernando (nee Nguyen) slept on the deck in a plastic blanket for warmth. Now she is a project manager at ANZ in Docklands.
''It's not my best angle,'' Ms Fernando says with a smile of a photograph taken at the time. ''I think the captain thought I was dead.''
Ms Fernando's mother, Chi Hoang, knew it was time to leave Vietnam after she saw her own father in a labour camp weighing just 35 kilograms. When Saigon fell to the communists in 1975, Ms Hoang was expelled from university, the family's wealth was seized and they were bound for servitude in the New Economic Zone.
''We chose freedom,'' Ms Hoang, 58, said on Tuesday at the Vietnamese Cultural Heritage Centre in Sunshine North. In her arms is a treasured album of photos taken by the Dutch ship captain who disobeyed orders one night to pick up the family and about 50 other refugees, as they floated at sea.
''They told us, 'If you are Catholic or Buddhist, just pray','' said Ms Fernando's father, Nhan Nguyen. ''Suddenly there was a small light. It pointed to us and gradually came towards us.''
The captain ushered everyone aboard and then rammed their boat with his own, thus rendering the group shipwreck survivors who were eligible for rescue under international law. The Dutch commercial vessel took the group to a refugee camp in Malaysia.
Dozens of images from camps in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines during the 1970s and '80s will feature in an exhibition this weekend at the Sunshine North heritage centre to mark Refugee Week.
Between 1980 and 1983 Australia accepted about 20,000 refugees a year, most of them Indochinese. In his memoirs, then prime minister Malcolm Fraser wrote that he rejected the Immigration Department's suggestion of a compulsory detention centre for so-called ''queue jumpers'' as ''a piece of racist barbarism''.
Bon Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese Community in Victoria, said whenever Mr Fraser attended local events he was heralded ''like a second father''.
Ms Hoang and her husband were immediately accepted as refugees by Australia and travelled from Malaysia to Hobart with their daughter.
For its part, the heritage centre works hard to help new refugees adjust to a new way of life. ''We love to open our hearts to help,'' Ms Hoang said. ''We have the same story. We are in the same boat.''


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Robert Royal has an essay on culture over at The Catholic Thing that is worth a read. I mostly agree with Royal that any effort to generate culture without reference to the transcendent does not, in fact, generate culture, it generates consumer goods. Additionally, a society that becomes content with consumer goods instead of culture is a society that ends up with 70% of its gross domestic product coming from consumption - oops, that is the society we have, and it is not sustainable economically, environmentally, morally or culturally. Royal does not say, however, what must be said and what hurts to say, that too many religious people, by reducing religion to ethics, have unintentionally contributed to the decimation of culture, and that a faith that does not generate culture is a dead faith. To my mind, this is what the New Evangelization must be about, reclaiming the instransigent, historic claims our faith makes and placing them at the center of the Christian proposition again, creating the space in which people can encounter the Risen Christ, and allowing that encounter to transform our very selves. That is what has created Christian culture in the past and is the only way to create Christian culture today. I will note that these activities are all essentially passive, and so may seem ill-suited to the protean age in which we live. But, there it is - only a faith that starts with the gratuitousness of its claims can actually create anything recognizably Christian. It is in the fiat and the Magnificat of the Blessed Mother that we find our model. More on these themes as the year progresses.
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DEMAND for new commercial vehicles in October was down throughout the EU, compared with October sales last year, according to figures from ACEA – the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association.
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If you were watching the Dallas Cowboy game last night you may have caught a glimpse of George Strait in one of the suites at AT&T Stadium enjoying the game with his wife. But there was also another reason George was in Big D. Strait held a press conference at AT&T Stadium in Dallas this morning ((9/9) to announce the final dates of The Cowboy Rides Away tour for 2014. It starts January 9, in Bossier City, LA. George's final concert tour, will wrap up with a show at AT&T Stadium on a date yet to be determined.
George has recruited several superstars to join him on his final year of touring which include Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Ronnie Dunn, Eric Church and Merle Haggard, as his opening acts. They'll take turns throughout the tour along with Chris Young, Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Sheryl Crow, Little Big Town, Lee Ann Womack and more.
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1/9 — Bossier City, LA, CenturyLink
1/10 — Austin, TX, Frank Erwin Center
1/17 — Omaha, NE, CenturyLink Center
1/18 — Kansas City, MO, Sprint Center
1/30 — San Jose, CA, SAP Center
1/31 — San Diego, CA, Valley View Casino Center
2/1 — Las Vegas, NV, MGM Grand Arena
2/7 — Phoenix, AZ, US Airways Center
2/8 — Los Angeles, CA, Staples Center
2/14 — Auburn Hills, MI, The Palace of Auburn Hills
2/15 — Columbus, OH, Nationwide Arena
2/28 — Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo Arena
3/1 — Newark, NJ, Prudential Center
3/7 — Louisville, KY, KFC Yum! Arena
3/ 8 — Chicago, IL, Allstate Arena
3/21 — Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena
3/22 — Atlanta, GA, Phillips Arena
4/4 — Wichita, KS, Intrust Bank Arena
4/5 — Denver, CO, Pepsi Center
4/11 — Portland, OR, The Moda Center
4/12 — Tacoma, WA, Tacoma Dome
4/18 — Des Moines, IA, Wells Fargo Arena
4/19 — Tulsa, OK, BOK Arena
5/23 — Baton Rouge, LA, LSU Tiger Stadium Bayou Country Superfest
5/31 — Foxborough, MA, Gillette Stadium
TBD — Dallas, TX, AT&T Center
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Clear and Bright
With a Chance of Sunspots and Magnetic Storms
Because of our increasing reliance on satellite-driven technology and far-flung power grids, the Sun and its magnetism can wreak havoc on society in a matter of hours. New computer models and observing tools developed at NCAR are sharpening scientists' views of the vast forces shaping magnetism on and above the Sun's surface. These tools also help point the way toward prediction of solar storms, as well as the strength and timing of the Sun's 11-year cycle.
The case of the missing sunspots
It wasn't big news when sunspot activity diminished between roughly 1645 and 1715. Astronomers of the day took note of the spots that did occur, but the overall lack of activity didn't stand out until the discipline itself grew older. In the 1880s, German astronomer Gustav Spörer took a closer look at the 1645–1715 sunspot drought.
He concluded that it was more than just the result of a small number of observers in a still-young discipline. A few years later, E.W. Maunder carried out further study on the mysterious minimum. In 1976, NCAR scientist John Eddy labeled the period the Maunder Minimum and named an earlier minimum, from about 1420 to 1570, for Spörer. The two periods fall within a regional cooldown in Earth's climate known as the Little Ice Age. Today, researchers continue to explore and debate the extent to which variations in the Sun affect climate on Earth.
Atmospheric research in outer space
David Charbonneau (Harvard University) was in graduate school in the mid-1990s when astronomers announced the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system. "It was clear that extrasolar planets were going to be a big field of astronomy," he recalls. "I was very interested in developing new methods of finding them."
Charbonneau pursued his interest while completing his doctorate at Harvard by visiting NCAR and launching a fruitful collaboration with HAO's Timothy Brown. The two focused on detecting the dimming of light caused when a planet transits, or crosses in front of, its parent star. They broke new scientific ground in 2001 when they used the imaging spectrograph on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to detect the first atmosphere on an extrasolar planet. Charbonneau, Brown, and several colleagues recently set up the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, a network of small telescopes designed specifically to look for planets orbiting bright stars. In 2004, they detected a Jupiter-sized planet some 500 light years from Earth. Charbonneau expects TrES to lead to new insights into the formation and evolution of planets orbiting other stars by deploying tools such as NASA's newly launched Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope to determine temperatures, atmospheric compositions, and other properties. "We want to see if most stars like the Sun have systems of planets that are similar to ours," says Charbonneau.
A solar veteran's forecast: increasing progress
One of NCAR's most senior solar researchers, Thomas Holzer—who came to NCAR in 1973 to start a program investigating Earth's magnetosphere—believes we are on the verge of critical scientific breakthroughs because of increasingly powerful observing instruments and improvements in solar modeling.
"I have a feeling we're going to be making enormous strides over the next ten years," he says. In his role as senior scientist, Holzer is helping to oversee research into such issues as the origins of coronal mass ejections and the generation of magnetic fields. He is especially interested in solar prominences, which may provide insights into the types of coronal mass ejections that can affect Earth's atmosphere. "We're laying the basis for eventually decent space weather forecasting," he says. Meanwhile, several NCAR groups are collaborating on the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), which incorporates Sun-driven effects on Earth's upper atmosphere. The time may not be far off, Holzer adds, when scientists will be able to model the entire Sun-Earth system. "It would be my hope that we will eventually have a coupled model all the way from the solar interior to the surface of Earth," he says.
For centuries, the ebb and flow of weather has engaged the predictive efforts of soothsayers, folklorists, and—more recently—scientists. In the late 20th century, the notion of solar weather prediction joined its earthbound counterpart as a scientific goal. As the threats of solar activity to a burgeoning array of vulnerable technology became clear, solar weather prediction became both more critical and more plausible. So what features tell us most about when, where, and how powerfully the next solar storm will assail satellites, mobile phones, or electrical grids?
The vast solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, holds key clues. It's the launching pad for energized particles that can trigger geomagnetic storms in Earth's atmosphere. Research on the corona has been part of NCAR since 1961, when the new center absorbed the pioneering High Altitude Observatory (HAO).
There's now fresh momentum to HAO's work on solar processes in the corona and other promising regions. New computer models, observations, and a groundbreaking NCAR instrument may yield critical insights into the 11-year cycle of sunspots, the mechanisms that lead to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections, and the behavior of magnetic fields.
Will the next solar cycle be on time?
Scientists for generations have speculated about the mysterious mechanisms that drive sunspots. These regions of concentrated magnetic fields at the Sun's surface can cause powerful solar storms, known as coronal mass ejections, that sometimes buffet Earth's atmosphere. But why does sunspot activity tend to ebb and flow in cycles of about 11 years?
Equipped with a groundbreaking computer model, NCAR scientists and colleagues may be closing in on some important clues. The key to the 11-year cycle, they believe, has to do with a current of plasma, or electrified gas, that circulates between the Sun's equator and its poles.
If this proves to be the case, the finding could lead to better predictions of upcoming solar cycles. For example, the team forecasts that the next one, known as cycle 24, will begin in late 2007 or early 2008—or at least six months late—because of a deceleration of the plasma circulation.
Scientists for years have known about this current of plasma, or the meridional flow, which moves at a pace of around 72 kilometers per hour (45 miles per hour) near the surface. But they had not previously connected it to sunspot activity. The meridional flow appears to act as a sort of conveyor belt by slowly transporting remnant magnetic signatures of the sunspots of previous cycles from the Sun's surface to the interior. Inside the Sun, the remnants give rise to a new generation of magnetic fields that produce new sunspots at the surface.
"In our model, we can show how physical processes relate the surface signatures of solar magnetic fields from old cycles to that of the new cycle," explains NCAR's Mausumi Dikpati. The model results are consistent with observed solar features, she adds. Dikpati is working with HAO colleagues Giuliana de Toma, Peter Gilman, and Oran White; also on the team is Charles "Nick" Arge (U.S. Air Force).
The team is putting the model through a number of tests. It has already successfully reproduced abnormal elements of cycle 23, when the typical magnetic reversal of the Sun's north and south poles took place slowly. Now the researchers are working on making additional predictions for cycle 24, including when the peak will occur and how intense it will be.
Ten years from now, Dikpati hopes the model will be able to make some estimates of sunspot count for the next cycle. The model might also help society brace for an extended period of unusual solar activity, such as that during the Little Ice Age, when the number of sunspots dropped dramatically and temperatures cooled in some regions of the globe.
Forecasting mighty magnetic forces
Sunspots get attention in part because they may cause a far larger type of solar disturbance, one that can propagate all the way to Earth's atmosphere. About once a week when the Sun is relatively quiet and about two or three times a day at the peak of the 11-year solar cycle, a great bundle of plasma escapes from the Sun's surface. This coronal mass ejection, or CME, accelerates through the corona in only a few hours. If it's pointed at Earth, it can irradiate astronauts, disable the circuitry in satellites, knock out surface power grids, degrade the accuracy of the Global Positioning System, and paint the high-latitude skies with shimmering auroras.
Forecasts issued by NOAA shortly after a CME emerges from the Sun provide warnings from hours to several days in advance of a potential geomagnetic storm. But will we ever be able to predict one before it erupts? To give society such lead time, scientists will have to learn the precursors of CMEs. They'll need to illuminate the plasma contortions below the solar surface that give birth to a CME and the coronal magnetic fields that shape its evolution. Spotting a newborn CME is now routine, but viewing the magnetism that lies at its heart—and throughout the surrounding corona—isn't so easy.
Since 1998, NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer satellite (TRACE) has parted the curtains somewhat. With a tight focus on small regions, it measures how the magnetic field shapes coronal plasma from the photosphere up through the corona at an exceptionally fine horizontal resolution.
While intrigued by the TRACE images, coronal experts have been tantalized by what is still unseen. The arching structures uncovered by TRACE denote only a few of the corona's intricately nested magnetic field lines—arches within arches, as it were. To help see these multilayered structures, many coronal specialists have turned to animation. Technology is on their side: desktop computers and software packages are now powerful enough to produce useful animations in short order.
At HAO, Sarah Gibson is using visualization routines based on modeling by colleague Yuhong Fan to see how an idealized twisted tube of magnetic flux—a CME in the making—might appear in observations. She concentrates on a sigmoidal (S-shaped) portion of the twisted field. This zone is the interface between field lines that are firmly tethered to the dense solar surface and those that have a portion suspended in the atmosphere and thus move more freely. "This is the region where heating is likely to happen during an eruption," says Gibson.
Recent x-ray data show that hot coronal gas can take on a sigmoidal structure a few days to weeks before a CME emerges in the same area. While the relationship isn't guaranteed, and it currently has limited use as a forecasting tool, "the link is definitely intriguing from a scientific point of view," says Gibson. "If we can figure out the science behind the eruptions, we'll be in a much better position for making future forecasts."
A Sun-wide glimpse of coronal magnetism
Attempts to observe the solar corona have long been thwarted by the Sun's far-brighter surface, as if someone were trying to decipher a whisper amid a thunderstorm. Eclipses help muffle the visual noise of the solar disk, and filters can artificially block it, but each approach has its limitations.
In early 2004, a handful of NCAR researchers fulfilled a long-sought measurement dream. At the National Solar Observatory in New Mexico, they collected the first-ever data on magnetic fields across the entire solar limb (the slice of the Sun's corona perpendicular to Earth). Animations from their instrument, the Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP), reveal turbulent, high-velocity magnetic features spewing outward from the Sun's surface.
"People have measured coronal magnetism before," says HAO's Steven Tomczyk, "but we believe this is the first time it's being done in a time sequence like this, where you can see an evolving structure. I think we're making important steps and demonstrating that this technology works."
Near the Sun's surface—especially in the photosphere, the lowest part of the Sun's atmosphere—magnetism has been traced for over a decade by ground- and space-based instruments, such as NCAR's Advanced Stokes Polarimeter. These devices infer the magnetic field by measuring several components of visible radiation. The brightness of the polarized light is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field along the line of sight.
The HAO team also devised a way to measure two wavelength components simultaneously. Earth's atmosphere scatters a continuously varying amount of background light from the brighter disk into the coronal line of sight. The simultaneous measurements in CoMP allow the varying background signal to be accurately removed while preserving the faint coronal signal.
Using a separate instrument based on a somewhat different approach, a team led by HaoSheng Lin (University of Hawaii) began producing maps of the solar corona later in 2004. "There's a little bit of friendly competition," says Lin. However, both groups hope to pair their devices with a larger, yet-to-be-designed telescope on the order of a meter in diameter. "Ultimately," says Tomczyk, "you want to gather more light."


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EL DORADO HILLS — It didn't have the urgency of a section title game or atmosphere of Power Balance Pavilion but Oak Ridge's CIF NorCal home opener Wednesday was vastly more important in that the Lady Trojans had to win or call it a season.
With the stakes high for both Troy and Washington High, the game itself fell flat on the intensity meter. While the action was close early, Oak Ridge eventually pulled away for 51-24 victory to advance to Saturday's quarterfinals against Heritage who knocked out fifth-seeded Oakland Tech 53-46.
Scoring-wise, Jenna Klein and Jenn Hoffman each scored nine points while Lauren Sende, Haley Anderson, Nikki Dow and Michelle Barkley all chipped in with five points.
After the Eagles buried a three-pointer to open the third quarter, the Trojans utilized an early timeout to outscore Washington 28-10 the rest of the way.
"That was one of my intense moments when I tried to fire the team up and get them going," Oak Ridge coach Steve White said. "With the attendance down the energy in the building in general is deflated and you could see that in our team room too."
When play resumed, Anderson hit the offensive boards for a rebound and return banker and then took Klein's pass to rattle home a foul-line jumper. Klein then forced a shot and got the bounce to cap six quick points and the Eagles never recovered.
"I like working in the high post — getting good looks and working the high-low game," Anderson said. "It did feel like our energy level was down tonight. We have to bring our own because we can't control how many people come.
The Trojans had the height advantage on Washington and received a combined 19 rebounds off the bench from Jacki Bateman (four points) and Michelle Barkley. Oak Ridge had to feel good about facing the Eagles after an earlier 71-37 win over the San Francisco team at the West Coast Jamboree.
"Even though we beat them before we wanted to respect them because we'd beaten Kennedy and they got us back in the section final," Anderson said. "It was all about playing our game."
The Eagles started well in making three of their first four shots to lead 6-3 after Raelyn Cheung-Sutton took a long rebound and drove down on several Trojan defenders to score. Hoffman's three on Bateman's inbound pass gave Oak Ridge the lead for good at 9-8 toward the end of the first quarter.
Washington was able to break the Trojan press but faced with Troy's zone had no offensive answers. The Eagles trailed 12-10 after the first quarter but scored four, six and four points in quarters two, three and four. Defensively, Washington ran its zone after an exclusive man-to-man defense the first time the teams met.
"They played zone and sagged on us which wasn't totally unexpected," White said. "For a while it was catch and hold, catch and hold instead of quick passes against the zone."
White played all of his non-injured players. Lindsay Honaker's top of the key three-pointer with seconds left sent Oak Ridge to the fourth up 38-20.
Sende scored all five of her points in the final quarter as did Lauren Liebert who contributed the last four on a curl move across the lane and a side jumper.
Despite finishing as the Sac-Joaquin Section runner-up, Troy is seeded fourth which granted them Wednesday's home date with Washington and another should they prevail.
"That's respect for our division and the fact we've played some tough teams," White said. "Everything amps up from here. It's an elite eight but it's wide open with Berkeley probably the team to beat."
Berkeley is seeded No. 1. If Oak Ridge wins Saturday the two could meet next Tuesday in the semifinals.


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CLAREMONT - Jean Ferguson Platt, the founding first lady of Harvey Mudd College, died this week, college officials said.
Platt, 91, was the wife of founding president and physics professor Joseph Beaven Platt, who helped establish the college in the 1950s, officials said.
The Platts left Harvey Mudd College in 1976 and became president and first lady of Claremont Graduate University for five years, officials said.
Jean Platt stayed active in the Claremont community, including serving as one of Foothill Philharmonic's founding members, officials said.
Additionally, she was on the board of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and involved in retirement communities Pilgrim Place and Mt. San Antonio Gardens.
"Jean's love of HMC was an integral part of the college's early years, especially in the development of our students and alumni," Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe said.
"During her 20 years as HMC's first lady, she opened her home to host first-year dinners, arranged faculty teas and stood by Joe's side through the building of the college. In addition to her contributions to HMC, Jean was an energetic and faithful community volunteer."
Joe Platt preceded his wife in death on July 10, 2012.
They are survived by daughters Ann Platt Walker of La Jolla and Elizabeth Platt Garrow of Willowbrook as well as their husbands and four grandchildren.
Reach Wes at via email, call him at 909-483-8549, or find him on Twitter @ClaremontNow.


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We are located in Belarus, a country in the heart of Europe bordering on Russia, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. A former post-soviet Republic, Belarus established its independence in 1991 and over its two decades of sovereignty has managed to preserve its most prominent production and technological infrastructure, educational establishments and highly-qualified specialists and enhance its international presence through economic development. Today Belarus is a stable economy showing gradual yet steady growth.
Belarus is an ideal country for software development outsource for several reasons: first, salary rates are considerably lower than those in Europe; secondly, high educational level and prominent academic and technological basis have been inherited from the USSR where Belarus was a major research and development centre; finally, educational continuity and comparatively low IT brain drain to other countries, which allows to conduct successful offshore software development in Belarus.
Scand Ltd. is positioned in Minsk, the capital and high-tech core of Belarus. Minsk has long been a top-notch industrial and best technologically and economically developed city in Belarus. It is the host site for supreme Belarusian universities, including BSUIR - the leading Belarusian IT university. The most advanced IT work force and leading software development companies are also concentrated in Minsk.
The Svisloch River and the Trinity Suburb, Minsk
Our regular customers know that our company is located in convenient proximity to the city centre, an underground station and a number of amiable cafés. We are easily accessible by public transport, private cars and even bicycles. A number of major Minsk universities are located nearby, including the Belarusian State University.
Our employees are also happy with the company's central location and the adjacent transport network. We also provide our team members with comfortable working environment, high-end computers and servers, cozy and ergonomic office equipment. Spacious, air-conditioned and neat office rooms, a gym hall located in the same building, quiet city centre, cutting-edge equipment and favorable job climate - all these advantages contribute to the staff members' commitment to software development process and outstanding proficiency.
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