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Dec 6, 2013 - By Eric Blom, Staff WriterA Riverton man faces one count of burglary after two men apprehended him while he was breaking into their home Nov. 10. The charge against David Varney, 37, recently was bound over to District Court.
The burglary charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The home's resident, Jeffrey Cooper, said that on the morning of the alleged burglary, he heard a window opening and saw a flashlight being used in a bedroom of his home on the 2300 block of Sapphire Drive in Riverton, according to an affidavit in the case.
He woke up Jonathan Brines, who was at the residence, and the two started toward the bedroom.
The room's door started to open when Cooper fired a 9mm round at it. The bullet reportedly missed hitting the man in the bedroom, who was later identified as Varney.
Cooper and Brines told police that Varney was wearing a black mask, and they removed it before officers arrived.
Riverton Police Department officers responded to a 911 call and arrived at the scene at 1:30 a.m. Nov. 10.
When he entered the home's master bedroom, officer Ron Cunningham said he found Brines and Cooper holding down Varney.
Officers searched the area and found a duffel bag and backpack at the bottom of a ladder they think Varney used to enter the home. The duffel bag was empty, but the backpack contained duct tape, electrical tape, wire cutters and a spray police could not identify.
According to the report, Varney possessed binoculars and was wearing black cotton gloves over black latex gloves.
When police noticed his gloves, Varney reportedly said, "I've probably watched too much CSI."
During an interview with RPD Det. Jason Cox on Nov. 10, Varney said he entered the home without permission and did so because he was "messing" with a female occupant of the residence.
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Gardiner Expressway too busy? Take the Lake Shore. Or should you?
The much-used boulevard has been far from a safe bet for motorists in recent months. A crash Thursday morning that severed the arm of a motorist was the most recent in a long string of incidents that have blocked traffic and turned 2011 into a cursed year for the Lake Shore. Below, a sampling of the road closures over the past few months that have plagued this stretch of road; match the numbers to the map for exact locations.
On August 2, Lake Shore Boulevard was closed in both directions between Jameson Avenue and Ontario Drive until mid-afternoon for a police investigation into a shooting (1). Police discovered an abandoned bullet-riddled car with blood-splattered seats when they responded to a call at Lake Shore Boulevard near Exhibition Place around 4:30 a.m. The car's 19-year-old driver, Jerry Pham, escaped with a wound to his ear after at least eight bullets pierced his black Lexus sedan. The suspect fled the scene, and police are asking for the public's assistance with locating the driver of a white or grey vehicle who may have been involved in the shooting.
Emergency maintenance
Afternoon traffic on the Lake Shore, east of Bathurst Street, came to an abrupt halt when a 10-pound chunk of concrete fell from the Gardiner Expressway onto the road below (2). City staff closed the westbound lanes for a few hours on June 20, to clean up the debris and complete an initial inspection. The next day, two westbound lanes were again closed so that they could complete a more thorough inspection. Though falling concrete can be both inconvenient and worrisome, the damage caused paled in comparison to the 50-centimetre-deep sinkhole that swallowed a commuter's car in February 2008, reduced eastbound traffic to a single lane all day, and cost $5,000 to repair.
Routine maintenance
A water main running along the east end of the Lake Shore (3) is due to be replaced, and it's only going to take five months to do it. The project, which began in mid-July and continues until Nov. 30, will frustrate motorists with a two-lane closure on the eastbound side of Lake Shore Boulevard between Logan Avenue and Leslie Street. Not to worry though, the city is offering a slight reprieve, only one lane will be closed between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. For two nights in May, Lake Shore Boulevard was shut down between Windermere Avenue and Colborne Lodge Drive to complete scheduled road and bridge maintenance.
At the end of July, a stretch of the Lake Shore was taken over by The Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival – formally known as Caribana – annual parade, and the street party — and gunfire — that followed. Earlier in the week, the City of Toronto turned over a section of the Lake Shore to Hollywood for two days. Film crews working on a remake of Total Recall(4)– the 1990 sci-fi movie that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger – left the confines of the sound stage at Pinewood Studios in the Port Lands and the Torontonians who descended on the area reported sights of futuristic cop cars zooming up and down the road between Parliament and Jarvis streets. Earlier in the month, the Lake Shore shut down for 75 hours so that motorists of a more daring kind could traverse the roadway. The road was closed between British Columbia Drive and Strachan Avenue for the Toronto Honda Indy (5).
The morning of June 11, cyclists claimed a section of the Lake Shore, denying motorists access between Strachan and Windermere avenues during the Ride to Conquer Cancer (6). As well, parts of Lake Shore between Bathurst and Windermere were closed sporadically during the Toronto Goodlife Marathon in May (7).


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The White House is really getting specific when it comes to the unemployment rate.
Rather than 8.3% -- the rounded-up figure -- Obama economic adviser Alan Krueger writes on the White House website that the real jobless rate is 8.254%.
"The household survey showed that the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3% in July (or, more precisely, the rate rose from 8.217% in June to 8.254% in July)," wrote Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
He added: "Acting BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Commissioner John Galvin noted in his statement that the unemployment rate was 'essentially unchanged' from June to July."
We doubt that Republican Mitt Romney and his allies will draw that distinction.
"Today's increase in the unemployment rate is a hammer blow to struggling middle-class families," Romney said in a statement.
Other GOP members mocked Krueger for declaring the jobless rate at 8.254%.
Republican Party spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said, "23 million people struggling for work isn't a rounding error. And the White House's attempts to argue show just how out of touch they are."
Analysts said the (slightly) higher rate results from an increase in people re-entering the job market.
They also noted that the economy created 163,000 jobs in July, exceeding expectations.
"While there is more work that remains to be done, today's employment report provides further evidence that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression," Krueger wrote.
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Surging Franklin Regional boys soccer pushes past Norwin
The newcomer to Section 1-AAA is flying high, while one of the usual powers has started slow.
First-half goals by Danny McGrath and Brent Velasquez kept Franklin Regional undefeated and sent Norwin to its second section loss, 2-0, last Thursday in Murrysville.
The Panthers (5-0-1, 4-0-0) were six points clear of the nearest teams in the section entering this week, while Norwin (2-4-0, 1-2-0) has lost three of its last four since the opening weekend of the season.
"(The players) are fitting into a plan," first-year Panthers coach Ryan Montgomery said. "A lot of what we want to do is control the flow of the game. The players are really working hard. They're buying in to what we want to do, and we've got good chemistry right now."
While controlling the flow is a goal for FR, the Knights came out doing that in the first 10 minutes of their game.
Norwin kept good pressure in the Panthers' half of the field and forced a pair of early saves from FR sophomore goalkeeper Chris Ralph. But one of Franklin Regional's first good surges into Knights' territory quickly led to the opening goal of the game.
The Norwin defense cleared a counter-attack attempt out of play on the left side, but FR quickly took the throw-in. From that throw, the ball was played to the feet of Panthers' midfielder Ryan Watson, who swung a high cross toward the back post, where McGrath rushed in to head home the opening goal less than 12 minutes into the game.
"That's kind of been our thing," Montgomery said. "We know how to weather a storm, but what was nice about tonight, not only did we weather it, we responded well with that early goal."
"It seems like we've been dealing with trying to find that first goal the whole season," first-year Norwin coach Scott Schuchert said. "Confidence is a huge part of the game, and when we do find that spark, it's huge for the whole team. But a breakdown like that, it deflates the whole team."
Norwin continued to push forward as play evened out between the teams, but the Knights continued to create the better chances. Tyler Livingston and Zac Lakenan put shots straight to Ralph before Lakenan struck a blast from 30 yards away that had the top left corner of the goal picked out.
Ralph was equal to the shot, however, as he just got enough of a glove on the ball to tip in over the crossbar with a leaping save to keep the score at 1-0.
"He's really learning how to become a big-time goalkeeper and make those key saves," Montgomery said. "We're blessed to have such a good athlete and such a well-trained goalkeeper. He's really coming into his own."
From what appeared to be a sure goal for Lakenan, the game turned completely less than a minute later.
Velasquez worked his way into the left side of the penalty box and tried to turn the corner after pushing the ball past the defense, but he was met with contact from Norwin defender Jaison Victor, and a penalty kick was given.
The FR senior converted the kick with a shot low and to the right, giving his team a 2-0 lead after a half hour.
Play became more physical in the second half as the Knights became more desparate, and the Panthers fought to fend off Norwin's urgency.
Norwin settled for a number of long-range attempts, but two of the Knights' best chances came from dangerous play calls against the Panthers. The first resulted in a free kick by Matt Henry from the left side that skipped through the goal box but was untouched by either team.
On the second, Norwin was unlucky to not get a penalty kick instead, as the high boot from the FR player appeared to make contact with the attacking player. Henry again took the ensuing indirect kick, which bounced off a pair of Panthers' defenders before finally being cleared.
"This team has been able to overcome (falling behind), but tonight we couldn't find that last pass or that finish we needed," Schuchert said. "That's one thing we need to work on — the final ball or that final shot on goal."
The Panthers were scheduled for two tough road games this week against the two teams immediately behind them in the standings. Franklin Regional was to face Kiski Area on Tuesday and Hempfield on Wednesday, both after this edition's deadline, for its only two games of the week.
"We have a few steps to take, but (the players) are certainly getting better and certainly staying composed," Montgomery said.
"That will do a lot for us during this run the second time through these teams in the section."
Norwin, meanwhile, was to host Latrobe on Tuesday, after this edition's deadline. The Knights go on the road to face Connellsville at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and they host Penn-Trafford in a critical rivalry game at 7:15 p.m. Saturday.
"As far as the section, we're looking forward now to the challenge of almost having to win out to make the playoffs," Schuchert said.
"It's tough because you want to play the best teams like we have, but you also need to get that confidence by winning. I hoped we had done that by beating Hempfield, but now I'm eager for the next game."
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That day has come.
Billy Graham, who told the world everyone would be welcome in heaven if they just walked God's way, retired after his June crusade in New York.(USA TODAY archives: The gospel of Billy Graham | Audio photo gallery)
Now comes the controversial son, who never fails to say Jesus is the only way.
Franklin Graham also called Islam "a very evil and wicked religion" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He prayed "in Jesus' name" at President Bush's 2001 swearing-in ceremony. Both comments inspired a barrage of criticism, yet Franklin Graham never backed down.
Indeed, "don't back down" could be his second-favorite phrase after "Jesus saves."
"I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that," he says, holding up his gilt-edged black leather Bible during a long conversation on evangelism, politics and personality. "I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say."
He's preparing for one of his biggest U.S. preaching stages yet: a Celebration of Hope this Saturday and Sunday in the wounded city of New Orleans. Billy Graham, 87, may give Sunday's sermon if his frail health permits, but Franklin, 53, will be the headliner at the New Orleans Arena.
Like all his father's crusades, this Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event will be free, created at the request of local churches. The difference is that at the ministry's trademark citywide crusades, host churches share the cost; this time, Samaritan's Purse, the humanitarian aid group Franklin has led since 1979, will share the estimated $1.7 million tab with the ministry.
Today, Franklin, who has been to the Gulf Coast five times since Hurricane Katrina, including two trips to New Orleans, is scheduled to show his father the devastation in St. Bernard Parish. Thursday, they'll pray with local pastors, and Friday they'll meet with some beneficiaries of the $38 million in aid that Samaritan's Purse raised for churches and people in the region.
He's coming to preach because the pastors' "No. 1 request" was for him to "come down here and preach the Gospel. We need it. We need the hope that comes through Christ. We need it. There's spiritual warfare going on in this city."
Franklin Graham is armed and ready "for such a time as this," as the Bible says.
No 'gift of diplomacy'
Once a rambunctious youth with a heavy hand on the throttle of any motorcycle or plane, Franklin now is a disciplined CEO with a focus as intense as his love for speed and little respect for man-made obstacles. He may never be heralded, as his father is, in a coffee-table book titled God's Ambassador.
At the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Franklin Graham says he is:
As his sister, Anne Graham Lotz, says, "He didn't get Daddy's gift of diplomacy."
But he inherited the penetrating green eyes, square jaw, wide smile and rangy 6-foot build. He speaks with his father's perfect diction.
And yet he's also animated by the boldness of his mother, Ruth Bell Graham, daughter of medical missionaries to China, who once locked her incorrigible older boy in the car trunk for tormenting his three sisters. When her prodigal son, the fourth of five children, was ordained in 1982, she told the assembly at Grace Community Church in Tempe, Ariz.: "Nobody's hopeless. I mean it — nobody."
Franklin says: "I have more of my mom's personality, to my favor. She's strong. She doesn't back down an inch."
He'll joke, even dish a little, off the record. He has a crinkle-eyed smile, a Johnny Cash-like taste for black (his jeans, his jackets, his pickup), a 1958 cloth-winged Piper Cub stashed at his Alaskan getaway cabin, and a sly insistence on tweaking anything too sober.
Example: The Billy Graham Library, under construction adjacent to the ministry's headquarters in Charlotte, is designed to show a farm boy's journey to global evangelism by placing the multimedia exhibits in a mock-up dairy barn.
"You've got to have some fun," Franklin says, so he has called for a talking cow that will make wisecracks about young Billy's cold hands at milking time. There's nothing in the Good Book against charm.
But he's always going to steer the conversation right back to Christ.
Franklin objects to his media image as the "exclusive" counterpart to Billy's image of "inclusion," although the only way visitors will be able to enter the library is through doors cut into a three-story glass cross on the end of the building.
"You have to go through the cross," he says, again with that crinkle-eyed smile.
"I'm not purposely trying to offend anybody" when he preaches that Jesus is the only way to heaven. He wrote a book, The Name, responding to outcries that came after his ringing call to Christ at the 1999 civic memorial for victims of the Columbine school shooting and his prayer for Bush in 2001.
Americans of every faith — and none — were accustomed to Billy Graham, who used more inclusive language at civic events, such as Lord, God, Father, than he did at crusades intended for winning souls to Christ.
Religion historian Martin Marty says Billy "never left the integrity of the Gospel but never needed to be in your face about it."
Franklin, on the other hand, is the same wherever he stands, civic podium or church pulpit, because "I stand for nothing but this," he says, Bible aloft again. "That's just how I'm wired."
Started with a global charity
After studying both the Bible and business ("so I can know what I don't know"), he took over Samaritan's Purse, then a struggling California aid agency, in 1979, a year after the death of its founder. Now one of the USA's 50 largest charities, it brings medicine, shelter and food to places abroad destroyed by war, natural disaster, disease and shattering poverty, from Sarajevo to tsunami-devastated Indonesia.
In 1993, he created Operation Christmas Child, inviting families to fill shoe boxes with presents for distribution abroad. It reached 7.3 million children in 2005. All are delivered with the message that God sends his love and the promise of salvation through Christ.
This has prompted critics, including Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to say such religion-and-relief groups are "using their position of power to try to persuade people to leave their faith."
On calling Islam "a very evil and wicked religion": "I said this one time. It's not my message in life. The media keep bringing it up, not me. But I haven't backed down either, and I see it the way I see it."
On politicians: "I try to avoid them." That doesn't include his longtime friend Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a physician who has flown medical missions with Franklin Graham.
On HIV/AIDS: "Every human being has a soul and every soul is precious to God, and if God is concerned about HIV/AIDS, don't you think we should be?"
On growing older: "Am I ready to stand before a Holy God? What will it take? People say, 'Oh, if I'm good, God will take me (to heaven) or if I give to good causes, I'll go.' But that's not what the Bible teaches."
Franklin Graham says he is unabashedly seeking souls, but no one is ever denied services for turning away from the message.
With his focus overseas, he flew under the American religious radar for years. Few mused about "the next Billy Graham" while the original still roamed the globe, says William Martin, Rice University sociology professor and author of A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story.
But as his father began to feel the onslaught of age, bone-breaking falls and symptoms related to Parkinson's disease, Franklin Graham became more visible. In 1995, he published his autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, detailing his turning from smoking, drinking and youthful defiance to a life serving the Lord.
In 2000, he became CEO of his father's ministry, and, in 2002, its president. Last year, he uprooted the ministry from Minneapolis, where it was founded in 1950, to Charlotte, where Billy was born.
The new headquarters, styled like a massive stone and wood mountain lodge, is 90 miles from Boone, N.C, home base for the Samaritan's Purse offices. It's also near the log cabin in Montreat, where Franklin grew up and where his parents still live, and the 1865 frame house where Franklin and his wife, Jane Austin Cunningham Graham, reared their four children.
William Franklin IV, 31, is a pastor who, as his father once did, is starting to hold small city crusades. Roy, 29, works in operations at the ministry. Edward, 26, a West Point graduate and an Army Ranger, is an Iraq veteran about to ship out on another tour, destination undisclosed. Jane Austin, 19, nicknamed Cissie, studies at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
"I'm sure they've struggled with the Graham name, but they know how to stand their ground," he says. He didn't make peace with it himself until he was 22, on his knees in a Jerusalem hotel room one night, turning his life over to God.
The family prays at a country church near Boone, one of several Christian institutions and causes to which Franklin Graham tithes 10% of his gross income from two salaries and some minor royalties from his eight books. He donates more than $41,000 a year, says his spokesman, Jeremy Blume.
This year, he'll be paid $230,597 plus $75,000 for housing from Samaritan's Purse, which has a 2006 budget of $264 million. An additional $108,000 salary comes from the ministry's $110 million budget.
It has taken Franklin two years to align the two organizations' policies and procedures. Now, he says, "I want to do the same thing my father has done, but do it for more people than he did."
Already, Franklin says, "in 2004 and 2005, we saw more conversions than any time in the history of the organization, more than the last 60 years combined."
Franklin says the ministry accepted more than 3.2 million decisions for Christ. He has done it with a new model for crusades that he calls My Hope. Instead of his father's massive rallies in a stadium, auditorium or park, it's organized to reach people where they live.
New face of conversion
For My Hope India, the ministry trained 1.3 million believers — ordinary people willing to testify to their personal faith — then bought 150 hours of TV time over six days in 51 markets. They filmed local evangelists and entertainers in 14 languages and dubbed in a Billy Graham sermon for each market.
Then 800,000 of the volunteers each invited 10 friends home to watch the telecasts together, receive Gospel literature and fill out their "decisions cards" for Christ in their own language. So far: 1.9 million decision cards in India alone. My Hope crusades have run in 16 other countries.
"We're going places where they have never heard God loves them," Franklin says.
If people who follow other religions or call themselves spiritual or secular don't agree with his message or his methods, Franklin Graham is unconcerned. He sees sin as a blight without borders, beyond time. "Man's heart is the same everywhere. It's evil. It's wicked. The human soul is a putrid sore of greed, lust and pride."
That's not how people remember Daddy talking.
"Daddy's 87! He's like Santa Claus," Franklin says. "He's the nice, gentle, elder statesman."
Billy could be tough, too
People forget, he adds, that his father once had plenty of punch. Billy once decked a man who threatened the family on their doorstep. He criticized the British Labor Party so sharply that in the 1950s, some members of Parliament wanted to bar his entry.
Franklin recounts how his father was berated for hobnobbing with politicians and for failing to protest the Vietnam War.
What the son omits but others point out:
• His father moved away from fundamentalist doctrines decades ago. Some deeply conservative Christians still are outraged that Billy Graham welcomed Catholics and liberal Protestant churches to partner in crusades and that he didn't dish out hellfire to non-Christians, Martin says.
• When Billy was Franklin's age, he was hanging out with Richard Nixon after a prayer breakfast in 1972, saying, "Yes, sir" to the president's remarks about Jews having a dangerous "stranglehold" on the media. When the Nixon tapes were released in 2002, the aged evangelist did not recall his own words, but he apologized abundantly and quickly.
Martin calls the son "more progressive" than his father in social action and says Samaritan's Purse is one of the most impressive social service agencies in the world. He also notes that Franklin was first to push evangelicals to confront HIV and AIDS by organizing a national forum in 2002.
But, "theologically, Franklin is more conservative, more outspoken and, frankly, blunt," he says. "He'll say more provocative things and feels no need to apologize."
Franklin says he has mellowed. On temporal matters, "I back down all the time. ... I have a great reverse gear. I can go backward just about as fast as I can go forward. But I'll never back up on the Bible."


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Asked recently to give a talk about the Australian film industry, I mentioned that my wife had produced the Russian equivalent of The Block ( based in four neighbouring houses in a village), along with several other reality TV shows. The 100-strong audience cried out as one: "Shame, shame!"
Like that audience, I, too, had a strong aversion to reality TV - especially in a country with such cultural history as Russia. My moral indignation was solely based on a few dispiriting minutes of Big Brother.
To try to understand the Russian context, I began watching The Bachelor III when it screened recently on Channel Nine. Slowly I began to realise how presumptive I had been. Rather that lowering standards, as I had thought, it can be argued that a show such as The Bachelor can lift them: by humanising the drama.
There is little doubt that cinema, particularly American cinema, is not as good as it used to be. Filmmakers, by and large, have lost the ability to tell stories. Films may have occasional good scenes, but rarely do they convince over the full length.
As a result, audiences have become distanced from the action and no longer see films as believable or real. When a character is being sad, they don't react to a sad person; they react to an actor attempting to play sad. Nothing feels real.
Hollywood has recognised this inability to engage audiences on a human level and has opted for a radical strategy: making films so dumb that audience gratification comes from feeling superior to the film and filmmakers. "Oh, but I guessed what was going to happen at the 10-minute mark" has replaced "I was so moved that I cried" or "I was so terrified that I had to close my eyes."
For decades, television tried to be like cinema. But it has also largely lost the ability to tell convincing stories.
A new generation of gurus (Dutch rather than American) decided to jettison scripts and actors and revive the cinema verite form of documentary from the late 1960s. Allan King's A Married Couple (1969) helped pioneer a style where camera crews stayed around so long that subjects became oblivious to omnipresent lenses. Drama came from unexpected incidents of real life and the stated aim was for the filmmakers to interfere in that reality as little as possible.
In the modern television version, the unstated aim is to interfere as much as possible without being caught.
Instead of sending a camera crew to live with people in their house, you build a house with hidden cameras and choose the people to live in it. And you choose carefully, with hidden cameras and microphones recording every second of interaction in the weeks and months of auditions. That way you can be certain a Saxon will fall for a Jo (Big Brother), and determine if you need two gays to excite the dynamic (The Block). You can also ensure every woman renovator has prominent breasts.
Audiences sense the subterfuge at work, as can be seen from the number of letter writers and radio callers who pointed out how the women in The Block regularly turned on power tools but so rarely used them. However, as long as the subterfuge doesn't get in the way of the drama, audiences don't seem to care much about the storytelling ethics at play.
A key ingredient of reality TV is the casting of "ordinary people". No longer are audiences watching an actor pretend to be sad or happy. By and large, they are watching a real person be genuinely happy or sad. There is no performance to deconstruct. It is real.
At the end of each episode of The Bachelor III, each girl who will survive until the next show is handed a rose by Andrew, the millionaire bachelor. When Amber was not handed a rose by Andrew, the audience saw and experienced the rejection of a real person. Irrespective of how the show was set up, Amber was not acting. She hurt, and it touched us in the way actors so rarely do today.
The moment was made doubly poignant because Amber looked, at the beginning of the series, to be the perfect partner for Andrew. He felt the same, as later did his two best friends.
But Amber blew it by being awkward and cold on her one-on-one date (set at a table in the middle of an ice-rink).
Over the hour-long episode, the audience saw a 23-year-old woman collapse emotionally. It was heart-breaking to watch.
Cinema, due to its current inadequacies, has made us distant from and uncaring about characters. It has begun to desensitise us. We respond to tragedies in characters' lives with the same lack of concern as we do playing with animated figures in a video game (a point made by Olivier Assayas's Demonlover at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival).
Reality TV is bringing us back from that uncaring brink. Watching real people aspire to some goal, and then seeing all but one or two of them fail, sensitises us once again to the pains and pleasures of our fellow human beings.
Instead of rising in anger at all reality TV, one should applaud these positive effects.
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These socks are worked from the toe up. The gusset and heel flap technique used here is fairly easy. Some wrap-and-turn short rows are involved, but they're not too tedious, and the wraps are concealed all at once. The heel flap is "zipped up" one row at a time with the sides of the gusset.
This pattern is named after a character in Jane Austen's Emma:
"Jane Fairfax was elegant, remarkably elegant… Her height was pretty, just such as almost every body would think tall, and nobody could think very tall; her figure particularly graceful; her size a most becoming medium…"


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|Jeffs Tie Ninth at Williams Spring Opener
Jeffs Tie Ninth at Williams Spring Opener
April 22, 2006
Junior Sean Jules (Chicago, IL) and first-year Glenn Wong (Leverett, MA) followed Collins closely with matching rounds of 85, while sophomore Jesse Corradi (Cold Spring, NY) and senior co-captain David Litt (Bethesda, MD) rounded out the team play, firing an 87 and 88, respectively.
Skidmore College took the team title, edging host Williams by just three strokes with a round of 311. Trinity College's Alex MacColl brought home medalist honors with a low round of 73.
Amherst wraps up its spring slate on Wednesday at the Little Three Championships at Wesleyan University.
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A rare piece of Canada's history is certified as being of "outstanding significance and national importance"
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is proud to announce the acquisition of Fishing by Torch Light, an 1845 oil-on-paper sketch by Canadian artist Paul Kane (1810-1871). The work was recently certified by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board as being of "outstanding significance and national importance". The acquisition of this sketch demonstrates the ROM's commitment to the development of its incomparable Paul Kane collection and the preservation of his artistic legacy for Canadians.
The ROM has long held one of the finest collections relating to Canada's First Peoples, an important cultural asset conveying their rich and varied histories. Collection highlights include 373 of Paul Kane's field sketches and 100 studio oil paintings. Much of this collection—including the new acquisition—is displayed in the ROM's Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples.
Kane's contribution as an artist to the documentation of 19th century Canadian natural and cultural history is exceptional. No other artist – past, present, or future – has or will be in a position to accomplish the body of work produced by Paul Kane. The artist left behind not only his studio paintings, but his field sketches, many of which inspired the formal paintings he produced. The oil-on-canvas painting, Fishing by Torch Light (1849-1856), inspired by this newly acquired sketch, has been in the ROM's collection since 1912 as part of a donation from Sir Edmund Osler.
In 1946, 373 of Paul Kane's sketches were donated to the ROM by the great-grandson of Kane's major patron, The Honourable George William Allan (1822-1901). Now, more than 60 years later, the ROM is fortunate to add the sketch Fishing by Torch Light (1845) acquired from G.W. Allan's great-granddaughter, who is deeply aware of the long-standing relationship between Paul Kane, her family, and the Royal Ontario Museum.
Kenneth Lister, Assistant Curator of Anthropology in the ROM's World Cultures department, says, "Paul Kane created more than 80 oil-on-paper sketches. With most of these in the United States, and only a small number in Canada, we are grateful to our many donors generously contributing to preserving the Fishing by Torch Light sketch in this country. The ROM is also very pleased that this work has been recognized by the Canadian government. Now, as part of the Museum's holdings, the sketch is reunited with the Allan collection of sketches and, most significantly, it is back with the studio painting it inspired."
Paul Kane generally worked in three media on three supports: graphite, watercolour, and oil on paper, oil on canvas, and oil on board. Until the Fishing by Torch Light sketch came to the ROM earlier this year, the Museum's collection lacked a single example of an oil-on-paper sketch by the artist. While the ROM's holdings of Paul Kane works are internationally renowned, the collection was notably incomplete.
The acquisition of Fishing by Torch Light, Paul Kane's oil-on-paper sketch, was made possible with the generous support of the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust, Gretchen and Donald Ross, the Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples Acquisition Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Milstein, Friends of the Canadian Collections and contributions from Laura Adams, Gyrus Investment Management, Flavia Redelmeier, the Frank and Emily Riddell Memorial Fund, Mark Schmeer, the Elizabeth Walter Endowment Fund and Susan Witteveen.
The Fishing by Torch Light sketch has been certified by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act as being of "outstanding significance and national importance" for Canada's national heritage.
Paul Kane/the Artist/: Wilderness to Studio
Kenneth R. Lister is the author of Paul Kane/the Artist/: Wilderness to Studio in which the sketch Fishing by Torch Light is featured. Kenneth Lister holds curatorial responsibility for the ROM's Subarctic, Arctic, and Northwest Coast ethnographic collections of North America and its Paul Kane collection of sketches and oil paintings. Lister's areas of research include field studies relating to sites sketched by Paul Kane. Published in 2010 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Paul Kane's birth by Royal Ontario Museum Press, the book is available in the ROM Museum Store, bookstores, and online.
Since its publication, Paul Kane/the Artist/: Wilderness to Studio has received numerous citations, including:
Independent Publishers Book Awards (New York City)
Silver Medal in the Regional Category, Western Canada: Non-fiction
International Book Awards (Los Angeles)
Winner, Native American Studies
Winner, Art
Winner, History
Finalist, Best Cover Design
Finalist, Best Interior Design
International Design Awards (Los Angeles)
Finalist, Graphics Category
Paul Kane/the Artist/: Wilderness to Studio
Kenneth R. Lister
Royal Ontario Museum/ Hardcover/ December 2010/ ISBN 978-0-88854-480-3/
416 pages with 500+ images
The book is on sale in the ROM Museum Store for $60.00. Regular price: $75.00
ROM Members receive an additional 10 percent discount.
For more information on the book: email@example.com or 416.586.5582.


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At 13 Itachi became a captain in a special ANBU squad. Now what was his time in ANBU like before he became a captain? My opinion is that he was a part of root & took direct orders from Danzoo. Most likely targeted as a candidate at an early age around the time he passed the academy which would make him 7.
Itachi's father talked to Itachi about his plans to take over Konoha with the Uchiha. Confused on where his loyalty should lie Itachi asked advice from his closest friend Shisui. After a long conversation Itachi explained to Shisui that he decided to tell Konoha about the clans secret plans & asked Shisui to side with Konoha instead of the Uchiha. However Shisui's loyalty lied with the Uchiha & Shisui attacked Itachi. Itachi was forced to kill Shisui & cover it up to protect himself. Stating in the suicide note that Shisui could no longer live with himself & can't chose between the clan or Konoha. However the Uchiha saw this as a fisade & quickly sought to blame Itachi because of his connection to Danzoo.
Under orders from Danzoo, Itachi destroyed his clan. But why leave Sasuke alive? This is probably the biggest question of them all. My opinion on the matter is that it was in fact for Sasuke's eyes. Itachi's mission was to wipe out the Uchiha which in Itachi's mind includedMadara. Itachi would need PMS if he ever hoped to kill him.


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With it being new year's eve, I thought I'd color outside of the lines a bit and show some fashionable hair accessories that I came across recently in case you need a little party inspiration… Wanna see?
I have long hair but I feel like I either need a serious haircut or I should learn how to do things with all this madness. I'm a bit bored as I mostly curl it and with the exception of adding a bobby pin or clip now and then. I'm not as creative with hair accessories as I'd like to be. That's why I started searching online for some hair styling ideas and that search brought me to Old Soul New Heart where I found these gorgeous handmade hair accessories above.
Do you use girly extras in your hair like these pretty things? If so, I envy you! I need to put more time and effort into this because when I look at these gorgeous arrangements of clips and headbands I'm thinking it may be totally within my reach — how hard can it be? So lovely!
I hope you have a fun evening whatever you are up to — I'm told German new year's eve (called Silvester) is unlike anything I'd ever experienced back home and that street fests and fireworks are being shot from every direction — rooftops, sidewalks, streets… I can't wait to experience Silvester outside of my home country — this is my first time. What do you plan to do tonight? Anything exciting?
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This article was published 3/1/2013 (1662 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
POLICE are investigating an arson in Norway House that caused more than $1 million in damage.
Emergency officials responded to the blaze at the Kinosao Sipi Minisowin Agency at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
The CFS agency was inside the building, which was being expanded.
Police said they're treating the blaze as an arson.
There were no injuries, an RCMP news release said.
Officers from the RCMP Norway House detachment, members from the Thompson RCMP major-crime unit and the Manitoba North crime-reduction support team are investigating, RCMP said.
The Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner is also involved in the investigation.
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BBC Sport continue their partnership with Foyer Federation to bring you the best sports reports from budding young journalists around the country.
Tackling Skills is a project that gives Foyer residents the chance to work with BBC sports journalists to help develop their literacy and communication skills by using sport to inspire, motivate and re-engage them.
Here is a report from Crewe's 2-1 victory over Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road.
In the first half QPR were really trying to score.
They had the first corner and first free-kick and they were playing a beautiful game. Lovely passing, but couldn't finish it off with a goal.
Crewe scored the first after 39 minutes - a scrappy goal on a rebound from the QPR defence. Kenny Lunt saw the opportunity to put the ball in the back of the net.
But after numerous attempts from an impressive QPR, at half-time the score stood at 1-0 in the Railwaymen's favour.
The second half began and Crewe returned from the changing room with fresh steel, dominating the ball in this half and running iron rings around a shocked QPR defence.
If the first half was about QPR and their polished stainless but goalless performance, the second half seemed to be controlled by a new force, fresh from the British Rail hall of secrets.
Crewe were rewarded for their efforts 26 minutes into the second half following a scrappy free-kick from QPR which was deflected by a tight Crewe defence and controlled by an impressive David Vaughan, who ran the ball past a disorientated QPR, firing the ball like a cannon shot, past keeper Simon Royce and into the back of the net.
A much deserved goal, which was justified after the impressive second half ability of the Railwaymen.
At 90 minutes the score was 2-0 to Crewe but in the second minute of injury time QPR piled on the pressure and Ainsworth volleyed home a token goal from six yards, which was almost missed by the disappointed Rangers fans who were already leaving Loftus Road amidst boos and the prospect of another Saturday evening licking their wounds and dreaming of past glory.


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The dinner menu complements an extraordinary view with pasta paupiette (C$39.95), chicken breast cordon bleu (C$42.95), and filet mignon with a 9-ounce lobster tail (C$75.95). Admission to the ride-to-the-top attraction and the observation deck are complimentary with dinner.

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The spectacular sights don't stop during dinner. For more upscale environs, the glass-lined Revolving Dining Room—named for its once-hourly silent rotation above the Falls—treats palates to gourmet racks of lamb, seared sea scallops, and surf 'n' turf platters of filet mignon and lobster tail as diners take in the view, which only becomes more awe-inspiring as the sun sets and illuminates the water in shades of pink, blue, and yellow.
Away from the aromas of steak and seafood, the Skylon Family Fun Center entertains families with rides, interactive games, and carnival-inspired amusements. Afterward, groups can venture over to the 3-D theatre, where they slap on goggles and learn about the history of Niagara Falls, including the evolution of the Great Lakes Basin, the formation of the Falls, and the people who went over the edge in a barrel in order to search for their spouses' dropped wedding bands.


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Scourges, he says, "are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths."
"The sacred order of priests has lived, is living, and will live," replied Mentezufis.
We are here to initiate you into the mysteries of the sacred order of Hullabalooloo.
You have brought insult upon our sacred order, and have caused bold and impious defiance of our high prerogative.
It had no temples, and since it had no sacrifices it had no sacred order of priests.
In the English war, the first two classes availed not, and then came the turn of the sacred order.
This, only we who are admitted to the secret council of the gods themselves—we, the sacred order of priests—can declare.
The use of such liquor is inconsistent with the sacred order and discipline of the church.
Join hands all round, and swear eternal friendship, as brothers of the sacred order of the—of what.
The songs in vogue then were principally of the sacred order.


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Janet Van De Graaff (Andrea Chamberlain) kicks up her heels during a number in "The Drowsy Chaperone," currently playing at the State Fair Music Hall.
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'The Drowsy Chaperone': Broadway done right
Award-winning musical in Dallas through June 15
By TERRY MATHEWS, News-Telegram Arts Editor
June 9, 2008- When Broadway gets it right, there's nothing to compare to a musical comedy. When done right, a good musical transports the audience to a fantasy world where the girls are gorgeous, the boys are handsome, and bursting out with a toe-tapping tune seems like the natural thing to do.
In 2006, Broadway got it right with "The Drowsy Chaperone." The show won five Tony awards, including best music, best book (story) and best featured actress. The national tour is currently bringing the house down in Dallas at State Fair Music Hall.
"Chicago," "Sweet Charity" and "Wicked" are great shows, but "The Drowsy Chaperone" reminds us that musical comedy is supposed to be a lot of fun.
As the lights go down and before the curtain rises, we're drawn into the world of "Man in Chair" (Jonathan Crombie), a lonely isolated fellow who likes to cure his "blues" by listening to recordings - no iPod for this guy - of his favorite musicals. He is particularly fond of the double-album cast recording of the 1928 smash, "The Drowsy Chaperone." He insists that we join him in listening to the show's overture. The needle drops and voil, the characters come to life in his drab apartment.
The show-within-the-show centers on actress Janet Van De Graaff (Andrea Chamberlin) who has decided to marry handsome oil heir Robert Martin (Mark Ledbetter) and leave show business forever.
The wedding festivities are being held at the country estate of Mrs. Tottendale (Georgia Engel), whose late husband was a brute. Engel's scenes with Underling (Robert Dorfman), her butler, require precise timing and provide some of the show's biggest sight gags.
Janet's sudden departure poses a problem for Feldzieg (Cliff Bemis), her show's producer. Besides losing his lucrative gravy train, Feldzieg's biggest financial backer happens to be a dangerous mobster.
In order to protect his investment, the mobster sends two of the most inept strongmen in Costa Nostra history to stop the nuptials.
The pair shows up at the wedding disguised as bumbling bakers. Their shtick, including a dance number with machine guns hidden in flour sacks, is thigh-slapping hilarious.
Even though Playbill doesn't say so, Paul and Peter Riopelle, the actors who take on the roles of Gangster #1 and #2, must be twins, so perfectly matched are their movements and timing. They really are a joy to watch.
In order to keep bride and groom apart, Feldzieg hires a chaperone. Trouble is, the companion (Nancy Opel) tipples a bit. Well, more than a bit. She travels with a portable bar - the show is set during Prohibition - and loves the taste of champagne, even though it makes her doze off, hence the title.
Feldzieg knows he can't rely solely on the stumbling chaperone. He hires A-d-o-l-f-o (James Moye), a Latin lover to distract the bride.
Once the plot and its characters are laid out, the show really kicks into high gear and the hilarity begins.
There's not a weak link in this company. The singing, dancing and acting are just delightful. Of particular note is Nancy Opel, the wise, world-weary chaperone. Her big moment comes in "As We Stumble Along" and she milks it for all it's worth. She gives new meaning to "showstopper."
As Man in Chair, Crombie floats in and out of the action in his apartment. At first, he just sets up the scenes and explains plot lines. Then, as the show progresses and Man in Chair begins to consume adult beverages, he actually moves into the act, with some pretty hilarious results. Man in Chair is the ultimate theater geek and we love him for it.
Broadway got it right with "The Drowsy Chaperone." The show reminds us why we first fell in love with musical comedy. We love the singing. We love the dancing. And we love to laugh.
"The Drowsy Chaperone" runs through Sunday, June 15. There is no intermission. Tickets range from $18 - $64. For tickets, call 214-631-2787 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
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What's Age Got to Do with It? Keynotes Singles Extravaganza, Oct 13, 2012, Marriott San Francisco
Clothes have a language of their own. Did you know that your style transmits a certain message within the first thirty seconds of an encounter.
"Clothes talk," says Gwen Mazer. "When you are looking to date what is it you want to communicate with the way you are dressed? Your personal style creates a sense of your personality and character. It is not about having a flawless figure or physique or wearing the latest touted fashion trend. Feeling confident about your appearance puts you more at ease with yourself and others."
"Terrible style advice can be found everywhere", says Ms Mazer, "much of it from opinionated bloggers with no fashion background to inform their ideas about real style. The tasteless, Hollywood, celebrity style of the Kardashians with their own clothing collection may be fine for the lifestyle they live out for their fans. They provide bad style advice, hardly what you want to present as your personal style signature in the real world."
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The Brazilian earned two yellow cards in quick succession - for disputing a penalty he had conceded and then for another argument with the referee.
Ronaldinho converted the spot-kick to put Barca ahead but Ronaldo equalised when he chipped the ball home.
Barcelona had the better of the second half and Henrik Larsson missed two good chances but they could not score again.
The hosts had started the game well and Mark van Bommel and Samuel Eto'o both came close to giving them the lead before van Bommel went down under Carlos' challenge inside the area.
Carlos was then dismissed after angry words with the referee after he was penalised for a foul on Larsson and Real keeper Iker Casillas then prevented Eto'o from doubling the lead.
Real had been under pressure but they suddenly conjured an equaliser when Ronaldo ran on to Julio Baptista's pass and coolly lifted the ball over Victor Valdes for the equaliser.
Larsson failed to make the most of his second half chances to seal the points, with Casillas saving one of his efforts, while at the other end Ronaldo was booked for diving inside the penalty area.
The result leaves Barca 11 points clear of Real at the top of the Primera Liga with seven games remaining.


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For runners, completing a marathon is one of the highest achievements of their sport – it's the ultimate test of endurance and willpower and requires extensive, regimented training. There's a reason people display "26.2" stickers on the back windows of their cars and wear T-shirts commemorating past races – completing a marathon takes a lot of work.
Marathon training regimens vary and depend on the starting level of the runner. A runner competing in his or her first marathon, for example, would train differently than an experienced marathoner. But there are several cardinal rules that can help all runners avoid injury during training.
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David Price, MD, of Sports Medicine & Injury Care at Carolinas HealthCare System, is an expert on running injuries and frequently treats long-distance runners for common ailments, including patellofemoral stress syndrome, IT band syndrome, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, shin splints, stress fractures and muscle strains.
Dr. Price said one of the biggest issues he sees with long-distance runners is jumping into overly intensive training before their bodies are prepared. "Get your bodyvgf used to running by establishing a good base mileage," he said. "Add only 10 percent of total mileage per week, and make sure to follow a well-known training program. Most marathon programs will provide such a mileage build-up and also have a dip in total mileage every few weeks to allow your body to recover to prepare for the next increase in training. Cross-training is a great way to continue improving your cardiovascular fitness while decreasing the impact on your legs. Finally, you may want to check with your doctor to ensure you are healthy enough to train for a marathon."
The "10 Percent Rule" is a useful rule of thumb to make sure you're not pushing your body past its limits before you're acclimated to a rigorous training schedule. By simply limiting the total running distance added to no more than 10 percent per week (if you run a total of 10 miles in week one, run 11 miles in week two), you can help ensure your joints and muscles keep pace with your improving cardiovascular fitness levels.
While it may seem like a given, selecting the right shoes for your feet and gait can pay huge dividends to avoiding injury and maximizing your training. "Don't just use an off-the-shelf shoe," said Price. "Find a store that will properly fit you based on your running form and fit type."
Wearing shoes that don't fit properly can lead to muscular imbalances in the body, joint injuries, blisters, bunions and more. Buying your shoes from a specialty running store, instead of online or in a "big-box" store, means you're likely to have access to knowledgeable associates who can advise you on the fitting process. Many specialty stores also have tools to measure your arch and gait to help you find the perfect shoe.
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Dr. David Price is a sports medicine physician at Carolinas HealthCare System's Sports Medicine & Injury Care. An avid runner, Dr. Price is involved with a number of local running groups and is currently training for a marathon himself.
Let the experts at Sports Medicine & Injury Care help you get started on your marathon goal. To schedule an appointment with a board-certified physician at one of our eight locations, call 704-512-3994 or visit CarolinasHealthCare.org/SportsCare. Same-day appointment scheduling is available.


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Although Foot (hoof) and Mouth Disease is still a foreign animal disease, producers in the United States should be aware of the disease and its symptoms and do what they can to prevent it from entering the United States.
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) affects all cloven-hooved animals, including cattle, sheep, swine, deer, elk and goats. It does not affect horses or humans. Symptoms of the disease include blisters on the lips, in the mouth and on the feet. Sloughing of the skin then occurs, and the mouth becomes so tender that animals cannot eat. It can also cause lesions on the feet, some so severe that the hooves actually slough off (especially in swine). This becomes so painful to the animal that euthanasia is required, even in countries where FMD occurs consistently.
Consider these tips to protect against FMD. The same principles of caution apply whether you own a producer operation or you are taking your animals to a county fair.
- Control the access of people, animals and products to your animals and operation. The access of non-employees to animals can generally be controlled by fences, barriers and signs. Signs should instruct people not to enter unless authorized to do so, due to concerns for animal health.
- Verbally screen those people coming into your operation. Since two thirds of all countries carry the FMD virus, it is wise to ask everyone who comes into your operation if they have been out of the United States in the past two weeks. If not, they do not pose a threat to your operation. If they have been traveling internationally, find out what countries they have visited and when. The current concern is anyone who has travelled to the United Kingdom within the past 14 days. Other areas of concern are South America, Asia and Africa, as well as Columbia, which has three out of the seven strains of the disease. These areas have low levels of FMD that are always present.
- Do not handle livestock for five days after your return if you have travelled to a country with FMD. Be sure to shower, shampoo, use a disinfectant foot bath, wash all clothes and clean and disinfect shoes and boots. Preferably, shoes and boots used on a farm in another country should be left there and not brought home. Encourage anyone coming in contact with your animals who has travelled internationally to follow these procedures as well. The virus will not live on a person, their shoes or clothing for more than a few days. In spite of this, it is still wise to ask questions of anyone who is around your animals.
- Strictly follow the guidelines of customs or other agents if you travel internationally. Do not bring animal products into the country that are prohibited. Foreign meat and cheese products pose a special threat. The risk occurs when parts of the products are thrown into the garbage and are then fed to animals or put in a place where birds have access to them.
- Immediately begin a lock down program if there is ever an FMD outbreak in the United States. Do not let animals, people or products on your property or near your animals unless you are sure they are safe. Be sure they have gone through the disinfectant process mentioned above. Also be cautious of animal products, since they can pose as great a threat as a person or animal. Contact your veterinarian immediately if you suspect an outbreak of FMD in your own animals. Your veterinarian will then notify the state and/or federal veterinarians.
There are other diseases that look very much like FMD, and after collecting tissue samples, the veterinarians can have a diagnosis within 24 hours for you. During that time, you would be asked to put up signs to block entry and keep all people and animals off your operation until you have clearance from state or federal veterinarians.
There is no reason to panic about the possibility of an FMD outbreak in the United States, but anyone involved with animals should be aware of the disease and its prevention.
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There are also new enemies and new types of weapons, though the team is unwilling to unveil too many of them at the moment. There's the generator, though, which alternates between vulnerable and invulnerable states, and the mutator, which is weak enough on its own, but sweeps across the grid powering up other enemies into more powerfully evolved forms. And to help you overcome these new enemies, there's also a major new innovation in the shape of a drone, which accompanies you on your missions - similar to the options in Gradius.
At the start of each battle you can set the drone to a variety of behaviours and configurations, both defensive and offensive, and you can even set him to ignore the enemies and simply pick up Geoms, which are one of the other innovations in Galaxies. These are bursts of energy that are left behind by any destroyed enemies and they function as currency, which you can use to level up and upgrade your drone, or to buy new weapons and unlock new solar systems.
Of course, the other major difference is that you won't be able to use your Xbox 360 controller on the Wii and DS versions of the game. Clearly, the biggest question that any fan of Retro Evolved will have is how the fluid handling of the original will translate to Nintendo's wavy Wiimote and pointy stylus.
It's not something that can be answered yet, because Carpenter wasn't letting anybody point his Wiimote or stylus, but it certainly looks fluid enough. The way it works is that you point your Wiimote to control your direction of fire, while the analogue stick on the Nunchuk controls your movement. On the DS meanwhile, you control your direction of fire by moving your stylus around an icon on the touchscreen, and control your movement on the d-pad - or you can use the face buttons as a sort of d-pad to control your aim. And for any total idiots who might have problems getting to grips with the Wii controls, there are plans to add as many alternative configurations as is possible.
Apart from the apparently fluid control, though, one of the key facets of the original game's success was down to the sophisticated leaderboards laid on by Xbox Live. Nintendo's online software doesn't offer developers such sophistication, but the chaps at Kuju are definitely working on making sure the leaderboards stack up - even providing elite leaderboards to those gamers who shell out for both versions of the game. "We're pushing the leaderboards harder than they've ever been pushed before, because obviously the XBLA game was all about the leaderboards," says Carpenter. "And Galaxies is quite considerably bigger. So there are more leaderboards."
There's also more than just leaderboards to reward owners of both versions of the game, and Carpenter is keen to emphasise is the connectivity between the two. "It's on Wii and DS but the idea is that the product is seen as a whole Nintendo family of products. They link up in lots and lots of ways. More so than any other Nintendo product that we know of."
And that, in a nutshell, is Geometry Wars: Galaxies. It's the game that you know and love, but with a bit more to it. And, even at this early stage, it really does look like it's going to be brilliant, again.


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The U.S. Shale Oil Boom: Potential Impacts and Vulnerabilities of an Unconventional Energy Source
This policy brief is based on the discussion paper "The Shale Oil Boom: A U.S. Phenomenon" by Leonardo Maugeri, published by the Belfer Center in June 2013.
- Increased Shale Oil Production may Significantly Alter the U.S. Energy Outlook: The United States may produce five million barrels of shale oil per day by 2017 and may become the largest global oil producer with up to 16 million barrels of oil (shale, conventional, LNG, and biofuels) per day in just a few years.
- U.S. Shale Oil Production has Unique Characteristics: The nature of shale oil production makes it particularly suited for the United States' industrial, financial, demographic, and geologic landscape. These same characteristics make the expansion of the shale phenomenon to other parts of the world improbable – at least in the short term.
- Sustained Shale Oil Production Requires Dramatic Drilling Intensity: No other country in the world has ever experienced even a fraction of the overall U.S. drilling intensity for oil and gas. Shale oil wells exhibit their peak production rates during the first weeks of operation then dramatically decline. Oil companies intensively drill for new wells that offset the loss of production from older wells.
- Production will be Price Sensitive: There are two scenarios depending on oil prices: If the price of oil holds steady or slightly decreases, production could still reach 5mbd by 2017; if the oil price drops to below $65 per barrel, production could drop off substantially.
- The U.S. will Still Import Oil from the Middle East: Conventional wisdom says that if the United States drops its oil imports to 25 percent of demand, the oil will come from North American sources. This scenario is price dependent. If the marginal price of oil drops, the cheapest oil will be from the Middle East, and oil from Venezuela and Canada will be more expensive.
Increased Shale Oil Production may Significantly Alter the U.S. Energy Outlook
An analysis of more than 4,000 shale wells along with the activities of one hundred oil companies involved in shale oil exploitation suggests that the United States may become the largest global oil producer in just a few years. The large resource size – and the ability of the industry to develop it through steady improvements in technology and cost – may dwarf earlier forecasts. The largest U.S. shale oil formations seem capable of sustaining increased production, with a total capability of more than 100,000 producing wells versus around 10,000 of actual producing wells today. Improvements in knowledge of geology and drilling technology may prolong the productivity of shale formations well after 2030.
Shale Oil Production in the United States has Unique Characteristics
The United States is uniquely situated for shale oil development, with more than 60 percent of the global availability of drilling rigs. Ninety-five percent of U.S. drilling rigs can perform horizontal drilling that, together with hydraulic fracturing, is essential to liberate shale resources. No other country or area of the world has even a fraction of this drilling capacity and building up this power would require several years. There are other factors that will make the global replication of a U.S. style shale boom difficult, including an lack of private mineral rights in most countries, as well as the absence of the U.S. independent companies whose guerilla-style operational mindset has proven essential to the exploitation of shale formations that, unlike conventional oil and gas fields, require companies to move on a micro-scale, on multiple micro-objectives, and flexibly leverage short-term opportunities. The combination of vast geologic supply of shale oil and low population density in these areas allows for intense, sustained production unique to the United States.
Sustained Shale Oil Production Requires Dramatic Drilling Intensity
The dramatic drilling intensity of shale oil and gas will likely become the number one obstacle to expand shale activity in densely populated areas of the United States or the world. The U.S. shale oil boom requires bringing as many wells as possible on line, due to the dramatic decline in production that follows the early months of activity with each new well. For example, by December 2012 it took about ninety new producing wells per month just to maintain North Dakota's Bakken-Three Forks (the largest U.S. shale oil play) oil production of 770,000 barrels per day. In 2012, the United States completed 45,468 oil and gas wells and brought 28,354 of them online – compared to 3,921 wells completed in the rest of the world, excluding Canada. This drilling intensity will most likely be sensitive to a sudden dip in oil prices, resulting in a rapid downward shift in U.S. shale oil production.
Production will be Price Sensitive
Even if oil prices steadily decrease over the next few years – from $85 per barrel in 2013 to $65 per barrel in 2017 – the United States might reach a shale oil production of about 5mbd by 2017. More than 90 percent of this potential output will come from three big formations: Bakken-Three Forks in North Dakota, and Eagle Ford and the Permian Basin in Texas. It is comparatively easy to stop shale oil production as opposed to conventional oil – especially offshore. Conventional oil production requires a high upfront cost and wells have a long production life (30 years). Shale oil is quick and relatively cheap to start up and has continual costs and a short production life (1 year). New wells come on line all the time and can be brought off line if the price of oil falls.
The U.S. will Still Import Oil from the Middle East
he U.S. shale oil boom may have paradoxical consequences in terms of U.S. energy security by endangering traditionally safe sources of U.S. oil imports such as Canada and Venezuela. It will also affect the oil production of several African countries (Nigeria, Angola, Libya, Algeria) that, in turn, will have to find room for their production in other export markets. This will create additional strains within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), whose ability to manage an oil production capacity that is growing much faster than demand will rely almost exclusively on the will of Saudi Arabia to increase its unused production capacity. International sanctions against Iran, which impede the country's ability to export a significant part of its oil, are easing a situation that would otherwise create the conditions for a short-term drop in oil prices.
About the Author
Leonardo Maugeri is the Roy Family Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a former senior executive at Eni. He is affiliated with the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Geopolitics of Energy Project.
Statements and views expressed in this policy brief are solely those of the author and do not imply endorsement by Harvard University, the Harvard Kennedy School, or the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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They are accepted in most shops, you can often use them to get cashback when you make a purchase, you can use them online, and they are free to use.
Well, up to a point . . .
Debit cards might be free to use in the UK, but if you try to use one while you are abroad, you are likely to be stung with high charges, for both purchases and cash withdrawals.
Occasional usage is probably bearable for most people, but it won't take long for these charges to mount up if you use a card overseas regularly.
"Debit card charges for overseas transactions continue to be a major bugbear for consumers," said Andrew Hagger, a spokesman for Moneynet.co.uk
"While a debit card costs you nothing to use in the UK, in the majority of cases you will be charged for cash withdrawals and purchases transactions when abroad.
"Many customers choose their current accounts based on the credit or debit interest rates, yet for people who travel abroad, a fee-free debit card could save them far more over the course of a year."
A few providers, such as Metro Bank and Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, offer fee-free debit cards, but the vast majority of cards come with high foreign-usage charges (see table).
If you were charged a fee of 2.75pc and a withdrawal fee of 2pc, you would be stung for £4.75 for making a withdrawal of £100 in foreign currency. And don't forget that banks and building societies also impose their own exchange rates on you when they convert your transactions into sterling.
Mr Hagger said: "If you look at a scenario in which a family is on holiday for two weeks in the sun, and they make five cash withdrawals of the equivalent of £100 and eight debit card purchases worth £50, they could easily be faced with a total charges bill of £45 or £50."
People would never entertain the idea of using a cash card in the UK that charged us so much for withdrawing our own money, but we seem to be more accepting of it when it comes to overseas use.
Louise Holmes, a spokesman for Moneyfacts.co.uk, said planning was key for travellers who did not have fee-free cards.
"Many of us are used to free banking, so it can be easy to assume we won't be charged for using our debit cards overseas," she said.
"This can be a costly mistake, however, with charges applied both for taking money out of a cash machine and for making purchases in stores abroad.
"Minimum charges will apply when withdrawing cash abroad, so it may be worth planning a few days ahead based on your plans for the holiday.
"In the midst of having fun, it can be difficult to keep a close eye on spending and overseas charges can soon mount up."
Mr Hagger added: "It is better that you are aware of these charges before you jet off, rather than get a nasty shock when you get home, so contact your bank to find out what charges are applicable for both purchases and cash transactions when outside the UK.
"At least if you understand the overseas charges, you can adjust your spending pattern accordingly. For example, you don't want to be making cash withdrawals or purchases of £10 or £20 if you're going to be hit with charges of £1.50-plus each time."
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U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement after the Senate defeated his amendment ending fee diversion in the patent office. Dr. Coburn's amendment, which failed by a vote of 50 to 48, would have set up a new revolving fund at the Treasury in which user fees that are paid to the Patent and Trademark Office for a patent or a trademark go directly to the business of processing patents and trademarks. Dr. Coburn's amendment ending fee diversion had already passed the Senate by a margin of 95 to 5 and was passed by the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 32 to 3.
"It is immoral, and close to being criminal, for Congress to steal from job creators and use fees paid to process patents and trademarks for other purposes. I'm disappointed the Senate failed end fee diversion once and for all," Dr. Coburn said.
"Unfortunately, Congress has a terrible record of not keeping its word when it comes to fee diversion. Since 1992, Congress has stolen nearly $1 billion in user fees dedicated to the patent office. Fee diversion is one reason why we have nearly 750,000 patents waiting for a first review that, if approved, could help create jobs.
"Congress routinely raids funds large and small -- from Social Security to the patent fee -- to avoid making tough decisions and setting priorities. It's no wonder the American people don't trust us to address the challenges facing our nation," Dr. Coburn said.
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