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Despite once-most-popular celebrity, Jimmy Savile (q.v.), being accepted (especially posthumously) to have been a prolific paedophile, paedohysteria continued on its merry way, with an 83-yr-old ex-BBC executive on 24-hr suicide watch in a private mental home while awaiting trial on allegations from the 1970s, and with a British 21-yr-old detained in California awaiting a possibly very long imprisonment for a week of 'sexual contacts' (in a motel) with a 13-yr girl with whom he had established a relationship in a year of happy internet chatter.
After weeks of peecee repression from MSM, it began to trickle out that Delhi arrests for the savage rapes and murder of a 23-yr-old medical student, had been taking place in an area where people had jobs such as cobbler and cleaner – i.e. an area of 'Untouchables'/Dalits, a caste group famed for its high rape rate (though attacks were usually on fellow Dalits rather than nice middle class girls).
(By contrast, the sexual predations of middle class Indians consisted chiefly of groping on India's conveniently overcrowded buses.)
The Indian government was evidently going to have its work cut out to oblige the angry 'pink' protesters wanting Westernization/modernization/feminization since quite a few Dalit males took the view they had the right to rape any woman not fully covered and chaperoned – as happened frequently in Dalit areas where there were few lavatories so women had to make their toilet in the woods.
In the Delhi case, a private bus driver had gone out with drunken chums and persuaded the medical student and her boyfriend (28, computer engineer) to board his tinted-windowed vehicle where, as he drove around, the attacks could take place in secret till, after two hours, the broken victims were unceremoniously dumped naked back on the street.
As the seldom-discussed horrific perils from Indian low life were made so dramatically clear, hundreds of Indian women promptly made application for gun licences (Guardian, 2 i). {American disarmers, please note!}
Britain's po-faced peecee criminal 'justice' system, busy investigating complaints from 589 gold-diggers ooops wymmin who had made complaints against top TV personnel in the aftermath of the late Jimmy Savile (q.v) coming under a cloud for industrial-scale 'child abuse' (of teenagers) got the New Year off to a hilarious start by solemnly arresting leading British comedian, Jim Davidson, 59, for unspecified sexual offences dating back 25 years (Daily Mail, 3 i).
Davidson was married to the delightful 17-yr-younger honey-blonde Michelle Cotton (his fifth wife); the late-in-the-day complainants were wymmin of 50. Davidson was best known for 'courting controversy' with jokes about ethnic minorities, homosexuals and the disabled; he had recently said, "The Savile witch hunt is going a bit silly now." He had been about to appear on the 'reality TV' show 'Celebrity Big Brother.'
Rather than investigate burglaries and robberies, cops – including half-a-dozen plain-clothed detectives (doubtless on salaries of £80Kpa – spent five hours searching Davidson's £1M Georgian home in Hampshire and carting away boxes of 'evidence' in plastic bags and outsize brown envelopes. Other celebs arrested in connection with Operation Yewtree (into Savile) included 15-yr-hounded former pop star Gary Glitter, Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis, comedian Freddie Starr and top publicist Max Clifford.
{Yes, people in Russia and China had more freedom from frivolous and intrusive long-back-dated persecution – so long as they didn't directly criticize the government. Advertising Russia's liberty, President Putin offered Russian citizenship to famed French actor Gerard Depardieu, who he was sure would prefer Russia's flat tax rate of 13% compared to the 75% being introduced by batty French socialist President Hollande.}
The vast scale and heavy-handedness of cops' persecution ooops prosecution of celebrity paedophiles disturbed even the right-wing Daily Mail – not known for abjuring paedohysteria (Richard Littlejohn, 4 i).
That Britain was in denial about its bankruptcy (and still-mounting debt – despite Coalition promises) was shown as a ten-year jail sentence was lavished on an entirely worthy 35-yr-old teacher and ardent sports coach working at a £28Kpa Somerset school (Daily Mail, 5 i).
His crimes? He had had a few dozen sessions of mutual masturbation and oral sex over two years of being the confidant and inspiration of a 12-14-yr rugby-loving pupil who believed himself to be homosexual and couldn't get enough of the affectionate contact and 'physical tests' with his favourite master.
Harm done? To the youth, none that could be mentioned, let alone demonstrated. To the taxpayer, £1M (once special costs of protecting the 'nonce' from other cons were included), plus another £1M for the ruin of a career and another £1M for a likely post-jail lifetime of welfare dependency (perhaps including a new identity, relocation and plastic surgery).
Thirty years of growing paedohysteria had yielded literally no advance in knowledge about paedophilia – which remained unexplained and even poorly classified. Such was the conclusion of a helpful review by Jon Henley in the Guardian (4 i). The article began:
"In 1976 the National Council for Civil Liberties, the respectable (and responsible) pressure group now known as Liberty, made a submission to parliament's criminal law revision committee. It caused barely a ripple. "Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in with an adult," it read, "result in no identifiable damage … The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of paedophilia result in lasting damage."
How weird and wonderful that no-one, but no-one, drew that submission to my attention as I battled Edinburgh LUniversity through 1996-98! Amusingly, the NCCL of the 1970s was run by several figures who went on to be leading Labourites.


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Loved our cruise on the Pearl to Alaska: Norwegian Pearl Cruise Review by ken02802
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Loved our cruise on the Pearl to Alaska
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Seattle
This was my first ocean cruise. It was my wife's fourth cruise. We did not bring our sons.
We were traveling with a group of 51 square dancers from 8 states. We danced almost every day on the ship, sometimes in the conference rooms, sometimes in the main lounge (Spinnaker).
We arrived in Seattle on Friday; toured Seattle on Saturday; and boarded the Pearl on Sunday. Boarding was surprisingly simple. Even though we arrived with a bus load of square dancers, there was almost no line. We simply dropped off our luggage, went through security and registered. The entire process took less than 20 minutes. We waited until our group was called then boarded the ship with no problems. We dropped off our carry-on in our cabin then went to lunch in the MDR (Summer Palace). Before we finished eating, they announced over the PA that all rooms on our deck were ready and our luggage had been delivered.
The day in Glacier Bay was the highlight More our trip. Loved the scenery; loved the Park Ranger talks. Spent most of the day on the 13th and 14th decks. In the morning, they opened the (normally off-limits) bow area which gave us yet another viewpoint.
The Ports of Call were disappointing. The three cities in Alaska (Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan) were super touristy. The cruise ship passengers greatly outnumbered the locals. Almost every store either sold jewelry or t-shirts. If you seen one; you've seen them all. Our stay in Victoria was too short to accomplish much. We booked one excursion in each of the ports. We found them to be slightly overpriced and much less than anticipated.
Everyone on the crew was exceptional! Not only were they attentive and trying to please; but, they were also empowered. We never heard, "sorry, we can't do that." Instead, we heard "I'll take care of that." When things went wrong, as they always will, the crew made sure to correct or alleviate the problem immediately.
We mostly ate in the two MDRs (Summer Palace and Indigo). We found them both to be excellent. The decor and ambiance were exceptional. Always quiet and relaxing. Never had to wait more than 10 minutes to get a table for two. Usually there was no line at all. The food presentation rivaled that of the best restaurants. I don't know how they can do that when serving thousands of people a day. Wish I could say the same for the food quality. It always looked delicious but the taste didn't always live up to those expectations. I would rate it on a par with good mass-market restaurant chains.
We only ate at one specialty restaurant (Moderno). Ambiance was less than the MDR because it was located above the noisy Atrium. The food quantity was overwhelming. The food quality was reasonable. The staff was remarkable.
The 24-hour restaurant (Blue Lagoon) was disappointing. I would rate the food quality below McDonald's. Service was slow but good.
The buffets were always crowded and noisy but quick and easy. The food quality was surprisingly good. Better than almost any other buffet we've seen. Now that we're back home, my wife misses being able to pop up to the buffet for a quick bite!
We didn't attend many on-board events so I can't comment on those. The shows in the theater (Stardust) were always interesting and fun. Always able to find a seat even when arriving a few minutes before a show. There were many cruise-specific jokes. For example, "Who goes on a cruise where you have to wear a parka on the pool deck?"
We bought a spa pass for the week and visited it most days. It was always relaxing. The common area (men and women) was always crowded. Rarely could get a lounge chair. The men-only and the women-only sides were much less crowded. I really enjoyed relaxing in the sauna. It sits directly over the ship's bridge on the "bump-out" which afforded a 270-degree view.
Disembarkation was amazingly simple. We put our luggage in the hall the night before, as instructed. We had a leisurely breakfast on the MDR and then walked off when our "color" was called. We easily cleared immigration. Our luggage was already waiting for us. Our bus to the airport was also ready and waiting for us. The entire process took about 15 minutes.
I had mild sea-sickness throughout the trip. It didn't stop me but it was annoying. Went away completely when on shore and once at home.
All total, we loved the trip. I'd do it again except for the sea-sickness. Would wholeheartedly recommend it for anyone. Less
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Cabin review: 4553
Cabin worked well for us. The room was small, as expected, but had more than enough room to get around. The room was rated for a max of 4 occupants. I can't imagine trying to squeeze four people into that room!The two beds had been merged into one when we arrived. We put all three suitcases under one of the beds. (Under the other bed was a pull-out bed.) Plenty of room to store our clothes in the closet and drawers. There was a very-low but continuous rumble. Some nights we played white sound on my smart phone to cover the ship noises. We rarely heard any noise from surrounding cabins.I had brought a small nightlight which proved to be a good idea, since the cabin had neither windows nor dimmable lights. Some had suggested leaving the TV on with bow-cam channel. We found this to be too bright.We were able to briefly access our room upon arrival. While we had lunch, they announced over the PA that our room was ready. Our luggage was in the room when we returned. We emptied the fridge upon arrival and filled it with water bottles and soda which we had bought in Seattle and brought aboard as "checked" luggage.We had been concerned with booking an inside cabin for this trip but our fears did not materialize. We were rarely in our cabin except to sleep. The dark, quiet room made sleeping much easier. We had better views up on decks 13 and 14 than we would have had with a balcony.
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Annalie Vickers, 31, and Jeremy Lakin, 28, died in a taxi rank blast in Sharm al-Sheikh on 23 July.
Ms Vickers' mother Angela Corke said she was "confident and vivacious", and Mr Lakin's father Trevor described his son as being "such fun to be with".
At a two-day hearing in Chelmsford, a coroner found all 11 UK victims died as a result of a terrorist attack.
Three explosions
Eight Britons were killed in a blast at the Ghazala Gardens hotel, while Ms Vickers, from Eastbourne, in East Sussex, and Mr Lakin, from London, died in a second attack at a taxi rank.
The inquest also heard Keri Davies, 29, from Fareham, Hampshire, was killed alongside his American girlfriend, Kristina Miller, 26.
Although the couple were staying at the Ghazala Gardens, the inquest was told it was not clear where they were when the explosions happened.
The bombs followed an initial explosion at a market place in which no Britons died.
'Caring and considerate'
Ms Vickers' stepfather, John Corke and Mrs Corke read a lengthy tribute which was interrupted by tears on several occasions.
"We all watched her blossom into a confident, vivacious, fun-loving, intelligent and sophisticated young woman who had everything to live for," said Mrs Corke.
"She had so much potential and it is the loss of this potential that is so hard to bear."
Mr Lakin's father Trevor said his son was "caring and considerate" and "a man of action".
"Our lives have been made richer for being blessed with him. We love and miss him more than words can ever say."
Suspected bombers
Earlier, witnesses told the Essex hearing how a vehicle crashed into the hotel and, seconds later, there was a "massive fire blast".
Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded verdicts that the victims had been "killed in the course of an act of terrorism overseas".
The inquest was told the Egyptian authorities believed all of the suspected bombers had either been killed or arrested.
A British detective who travelled to the north African country reported 11 suspects had been killed and 37 arrested.
The Britons killed in the blast were:
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The ACC is numero uno because it possesses heavyweight contenders. Come March Madness, the league potentially has five teams that will be tough outs. North Carolina, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Duke and Maryland are all going to be difficult to play at tournament time.
You can't help but make the ACC No. 1. It has multiple teams who have a legitimate shot of winning it all and celebrating in a city — St. Louis — that gave us two of my favorite paisanos, Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola.
But the ACC is not alone out there with talent. The deepest conference for quality is the Big East, baby.
Commissioner Mike Tranghese should be smiling. Most people think of the conference being dominated by Syracuse and Connecticut. That is an easy assumption because they won the last two national titles. However, the conference is more than kids from Storrs and Jim Boeheim Country.
Despite its shocking loss to Bucknell at home and being upset by Georgetown, Pittsburgh again will be a factor in the Big East race.
Here is a trivia question. Name the school that has either shared or won the Big East the last three years.
Answer? You guessed it, baby. The Panthers.
And just think about the teams on the next level of the Big East. Notre Dame will always be dangerous as long as it has Chris Thomas. Providence has an all-Rolls-Roycer in Ryan Gomes. If you don't believe that Al Skinner's undefeated Boston College Eagles are legit, give a call to Jim Calhoun of UConn. They have one of the best secrets in the nation in Craig Smith.
Jordan Farmar, UCLA: Orchestra leader responsible for guiding the revitalization of the Bruins' fortunes. UCLA just upset Washington on Saturday.
Malik Hairston, Oregon: Multitalented. Hooks up with another diaper dandy in Bryce Taylor, the son of former Princeton All-American Brian Taylor, who played for the New Jersey Nets.
D.J. White, Indiana: Inside force for young Hoosiers. Can rebound and score in traffic.
Aaron Bruce, Baylor: Coming via Australia, he is a lethal three-point shooter who is putting up big numbers for Scott Drew 's Bears.
Marvin Williams, North Carolina: He has star written all over his chest. He could become a very special Tar Heel.
Most potential of any diaper dandy: LaMarcus Aldridge, 6-11, Texas, and Randolph Morris, 7-0, Kentucky. Look for both to make an impact now but watch for breakout seasons in 2005-06. Their potential is unlimited.
Top five performers this season (by position):
Honorary captain - Wayne Simien, Kansas. Out with injury but so good.
Center - Sean May, North Carolina. Dominating in the three-second area as a scorer and rebounder.
Forward - Hakim Warrick, Syracuse. A baseline beauty who attacks the glass and scores in bunches.
Forward - Ike Diogu, Arizona State. Excitement is brewing in Tempe, and the reason is this talented double-double guy. He is the best player in the Pacific-10.
Guard - Deron Williams, Illinois. Physical. Can defend and score. Part of one of the nation's best backcourts with Dee Brown.
Guard - Chris Paul, Wake Forest. What's not to like about this winner? Superb in every way. Class act. He is my MVP so far.
Second team F: Rashad McCants, North Carolina F: Francisco Garcia, Louisville C: Channing Frye, Arizona G: Raymond Felton, North Carolina G: Travis Diener, Marquette
Best coaching job - Bruce Weber, Illinois. The Illini were the best team during the preconference schedule. You had to be impressed with the performance against Wake Forest and Cincinnati.
Wait a minute. I haven't even mentioned West Virginia under John Beilein, a definite Rip Van Winkle coach. Yes, we know they were blown out by a good Villanova buzz saw, but I haven't forgotten the Mountaineers have early wins against nationally ranked North Carolina State and George Washington and a win in Baton Rouge against LSU.
And what about Villanova, guided by Jay Wright? The Wildcats are going to be tough to beat. Rutgers, with its perimeter combo of Quincy Douby and Ricky Shields, is always dangerous.
Hey, I'm not forgetting St. John's, Seton Hall or Georgetown.
Despite being in a rebuilding mode, St. John's gave a glimpse of the future when it laid an 18-point humbling on North Carolina State. The Red Storm had Madison Square Garden rocking like the school was back in the days of Lou Carnesecca.
Congratulations to John Thompson III of Georgetown. His papa must have been proud watching his son earning his first Big East victory with the upset "W" against Pittsburgh.
And if you think beating Seton Hall at the Meadowlands in New Jersey is going to be easy, I can only quote Tony Soprano —fuhgeddaboutit.
And just wait until next year when the conference takes in Louisville, Marquette, Cincinnati and DePaul.
But here is where college sports get wacky. I predict there will be a number of coaches getting fired. Not everyone can be in the upper echelon of these power conferences. And if you are mediocre, that is not going to make it. Man, if you are .500 and your secretary says the athletics director is on the phone, it is time to reach for the Maalox.
Bullet points
• In my 26 years working the microphone for ESPN, I have never seen a conference put together an array of point guards like the Atlantic Coast Conference. Raymond Felton, Chris Paul, John Gilchrist, Jarrett Jack, Daniel Ewing and the beat goes on. Wow. Can't wait for Wednesday night when Felton and Jack square off at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill, N.C. Then Felton heads to Winston-Salem, N.C., on Saturday for a battle against Paul and Wake Forest. The sad part is that because of expansion in the ACC, North Carolina and Wake will play only one time. That, my friends, is totally unacceptable.
• If I were king of college hoops, there would be several things that I would demand.
No. 1: If you do not play a minimum of three legit road games, excluding the preseason tournaments, you would be declared ineligible for the NCAA tournament.
No. 2: Move back the three-point line to 20 feet, 6 inches, as it is in international play. And widen the lane from 12 feet to the 16 feet that the NBA uses.
No. 3: Form a committee that would include top NBA executives such as Jerry West, Isiah Thomas, Mitch Kupchak, Rod Thorn and Larry Bird and allow them to designate five high school stars who would be legit lottery selections. If they decide to go to the NBA, then so be it. But then anyone who started college should not leave until their third year is completed. College baseball does this, and it works beautifully.
No. 4: Get rid of the alternate-possession rule and go back to the jump ball. Let the refs toss it up and allow coaches to develop jump ball strategy.
• No one is a bigger fan of the coaching fraternity than yours truly. My critics can attest to that. But let me tell you that any coach who agrees to a new deal should have the integrity to stick to it. You cannot accept a deal with piles of cash, country club membership and other goodies and then turn around and negotiate with another school. If you sign, you should honor your deal. After all, what does one's word really mean? A coach leaves and gets goodies. A player leaves and has to sit out a year. How fair is that?
• Tulsa, which has produced coaches such as Nolan Richardson, Bill Self and Tubby Smith, is searching for a replacement for John Phillips, who resigned last month. My recommendation would be Matt Doherty, the former Notre Dame and North Carolina leader. Doherty's work ethic and recruiting expertise would be a big plus for the Golden Hurricane. He revitalized the Fighting Irish and recruited the Big 3 —Sean May, Rashad McCants and Raymond Felton— at North Carolina.
• My friends, what a big win for Mike Davis' young Indiana squad as it upset Wisconsin 74-61. Now the Hoosiers must continue that momentum at Purdue and with home games against Michigan and Ohio State. Indiana (6-7, 1-1 in the Big Ten) really needed the Wisconsin win after getting blown out by 21 points against Northwestern.
ESPN and ABC analyst Dick Vitale writes regularly for USA TODAY during the college basketball season. He also writes for espn.com.


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Rising Sun Surf Inn hostel on the beach in Wai-ao, Yilan County. A perfect place to have fun, relax and enjoy the beautiful Northeast coast of Taiwan. Outside tables and umbrellas overlooking the ocean with great views of Turtle Island and the sunrise! International surf coaches and surfboard rentals available!
***Restaurant / Bar 1st Floor***
Our restaurant is open with bar and table seating we serve western and taiwanese breakfast, lunch and dinner along with beer and cocktails. Our founders have traveled around the world in search of beautiful places and strive to bring an international flavor to the beach culture in Taiwan. We have seating and umbrellas on the patio deck with great view of the surf!
***Hostel 2nd Floor***
Female Only Dorm: 6 beds, private seaview patio, private bathroom, AC
Male and Female Dorm: 6 beds, window, AC
***2nd House Beach Hostel***
Mixed 8-bed dorm: Ensuite bathroom, AC, Ocean front patio, there is no wifi in the room must use main lobby
Private room:This room has great ocean views, a comfortable common space & bathroom shared with two other private rooms.
Shared bathroom with hot shower and toiletries.
No Wi-Fi in the room (accessible only in our main lobby and patio)
Separate common area with Ocean and Island view
***Surfing Lessons and Surfboard Rentals***
International surfing coaches are on site to provide a great experience on the beautiful black sands of Wai-ao, Taiwan. Our staff has over 20 years of surfing experience around the world. We offer group and private lessons and always limit our student/instructor ratio to provide the best instructional quality possible. Surfboard rentals for the day are also offered on site. It's just a short walk to the beach!
***Other activities***
Paragliding off the mountain and land on the beach, famous hot spring village of jiaoxi, Luodong night market, waterfall and mountain hiking, turtle island and dolphin watching boat trips are just some of the other activities other than enjoying the beach and surf!
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Told, Shane: Webcke's honest approach a road less travelled
THE past few weeks have been horrible for Shane Webcke, but they have given us a beautiful insight into the unwritten footballer's code.
We all now know that Webcke broke the code and, gosh, he broke it badly. What is the code? Simple. Don't reveal your real opinion of your mates or the workings of a football club. Ever.
Webcke's book, Hard Road, contained his honest opinions. And he named people. Yes, he named footballers. And whether you're a footballer, retired or playing, no one is really into honesty that much.
Honesty is not cool. "Ah mate, I don't know," is cool. Saying nothing is cool in football land.
So when Webcke criticised the Brisbane Broncos for not standing down stars Darius Boyd, Sam Thaiday and Karmichael Hunt when police were investigating sex assault allegations against them last September, he committed a mortal football sin.
On Monday, Webcke announced his departure from the Broncos' coaching staff. It was a huge fall for the club great. One controversial chapter had halted the illustrious career of a veteran of 20 Test matches for Australia, 21 State of Origin games and more than 250 first-grade games for the Broncos.
"It would have been hypocritical to stay," Webcke said. What, if he had have kept his gig coaching the forwards one day a week, he would have been a hypocrite? That statement doesn't make sense in the real world. But in football land, it means: "I've spoken honestly about my mates in the mainstream media. I'm a bad bloke not fit for a football club. I am going to punish myself for being honest."
Webcke didn't just get into his old Broncos teammates. There was also a league great who copped it - Andrew Johns should never been included in the Team of the Century after his confessions of illicit drug use during his career, Webcke wrote.
Granted, that was a huge statement to make in public. Some had thought it, but not one modern-day footballer had said it.
Whether or not you agree with Webcke's words doesn't matter. Was it not just great to hear a footballer speaking from the heart with a strong, clear voice? A man that had played the game just a few years ago, who knows the players concerned, to hear what he really thought. Here he was, naming names. Not just "some clubs", "some footballers" or, "I'm worried about the young blokes these days."
While sport might provide us with unending drama, sports biographies are notorious for being boring (except Dean Jones's One Day Magic ). But if you had read Webcke's first book, Warhorse; Life, Football and Other Battles, you would have known he was just warming up. Webcke gave us hints, but no names.
Take this passage on drugs: "For a bloke who loves rugby league, this a is a bloody difficult issue to bring into the spotlight. There are things I know that I just can't talk about here in this book but if they ever saw the light of day, they would turn this game on its head, considering the people involved."
And: "I am aware of senior clubs that have [or have had] real drug issue problems."
Wonder who he was talking about?
However, both of those passages are outshone by Webcke's magnificent blow-up at Phil Gould's "dummy spit" at the conclusion of the 2004 Origin series. "Fair dinkum, that was just bullshit," Webcke wrote.
Within football clubs, going down "media street" is a sin. Players fine each another for appearing in the papers, with the money often pooled into the end-of-season trip fund. Offending articles are pinned up on dressing room walls. As if having thousands of people read about their every thought was not bad enough, teammates pick out their choicest quotes and rib them mercilessly.
But at the end of the day, as they like to say, we - the fans - really do want to know what footballers think about the big issues in their little world. More opinions are needed, and not just from former players.
Imagine if we knew what current footballers really thought.
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Prior to seeing Katzenjammer headline at London's Scala I was lucky enough to get some time with this amazing Norwegian 4 piece band. In attendance were Anne Marit Bergheim, Marianne Sveen and Turid Jørgensen.
How was Katzenjammer formed?
AM: It started in 2005. We all met in Oslo were we studied music and a friend of ours Mats Rybø. He had a few songs or a lot of songs actually just lying in a draw. They were all dusty and muddy and we asked him if we could form a band and start to play them. He said yeah sure, the songs kind of decided which instruments we had to collect and learn to play. That's how it developed into 15 instruments.
Last week you released lead single I Will Dance (When I Walk Away). But what made this song stand out from the rest?
T: I think that song is one of the 2 songs on that album that is maybe a little more poppy and easy listening. Everything is easy listening but we have a lot of different genres in our music. It's the most poppy and normally that's more easy to get on the radio. I guess it's therefore one of the singles.
How are you feeling about finally releasing A Kiss Before You Go in the UK this May?
M: It's always a bit exciting, it's very exciting but it's sort of scary as well because we haven't been playing much live here in England. We have been playing a lot live in other countries in Europe. So in the other countries we know that a lot of the people buying our album have seen us before, so they get the whole thing. They know what it's all about. But here we haven't that much to show for in live performances. It's kind of more naked, we don't have that much meat on the bones like we do in other countries. In that way I feel a bit more vulnerable in this country because we don't have that much live experience here. It's also kind of cool because people can listen to it without any presumptions or any ideas beforehand.
What is your favourite song to play live and why?
T: That's different from time to time. Right now my favourite is I think Land Of Confusion. We can feel everyone likes to play it very much. Also God's Greatest Storm, we have played that song from the beginning and we never get tired of that song.
AM: From the album I personally love to play Cocktails and Ruby Slippers. Coz then I can scream as ugly as I can and it's just cool when I do
You are known for playing many different instruments but what was your first musical instrument you learnt to play?
AM: I learnt to play the Piano first.
T: I think Guitar.
M: I think the Piano. I started to sing first but then I guess that's for everybody. The Piano was the first instrument.
T: Actually I'm lying it was the Flute because at school in Norway we had to learn the Flute. It sounds terrible that's why we never play it again when we grow up.
Are there any instruments you cannot play?
T: Oh yeah Fiddle. I would love to play it though.
M: That depends how you see it. I just bought myself a Contra Bass or Double Bass I mean, a Cello and a Violin. I can physically play them. It doesn't sound too good yet. Like I can physically manage how to play it. That's sort of our approach to our music as well. It's about daring and just really trying and not being afraid of making a fool of yourself.
Describe your music in 3 words?
T: Fun
AM: Chanderlis. If that's a word.
M: Unpredictable
Where do you get your inspiration from?
M: We get our inspiration from a lot of different stuff. Everything from movies to food. But we are first of all 4 different girls with very different tastes in music and different personalities. When we come together that's a big bang right there. I think mostly it's our own personal relationship to music that collides and makes our sound.
If you were to collaborate with anyone dead or alive who would it be and why?
T: Tom Waits is someone we would like to work with.
M: I would love to collaborate with the old 70's Led Zeppelin.
AM: I would have to say Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley.
Who is your favourite singer or band at the moment?
T: These days I'm listening to Ida Maria
M: I just got a complete hang up on Florence and the Machine. All the albums are just as good. My favourite song at the moment is What The Water Gave Me. Fantastic.
AM: My favourite is Gillian Welch and David Rawlings from Nashville, Tennessee. They're fantastic.
At the end of May you are coming back to the UK for a 6 date tour. What can people who haven't seen you perform live before expect from a Katzenjammer show?
T: You can expect to have fun, you can expect to go home with a smile on your face and you can expect to be touched in every aspect of your emotions.
The band are back on UK soil from 17th May (which is Norwegian National Day) and ends 23rd May.
May 17th Bristol – Academy 2
May 18th Manchester – Ruby Lounge
May 19th Glasgow – King Tut's
May 20th Birmingham – Academy 3
May 22nd Brighton – Concorde 2
May 23rd London – XOYO
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Britney escapes the madness in an underground party, and later steps out of her shelter to welcome the warm sunlight.
Britney Spears goes to the future, December 12, 2012 to be exact, in a brand new music video filmed to support her second single "Till the World Ends". Directed by Ray Kay, it is set in a time when the world falls apart and Britney leads people to escape the madness by throwing an underground party.
Britney reportedly will release not just one but two music videos for the single co-written by Ke$ha. According to Just Jared, the one which has more of an apocalyptic storyline will be a director's cut, and the other which features more of Britney's dance moves will be a choreography cut.
"Till the World Ends" comes from production hands of such acclaimed producers as Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Billboard. It's taken from Britney's newly-released album "Femme Fatale" and released as a follow-up to chart-topping single "Hold It Against Me".
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CNN's Sanchez: Public Option 'Could Make Health Insurance More Competitive and Cheaper'
CNN's Rick Sanchez often describes his Newsroom segment as a "national conversation." Increasingly, however, his program primarily consists of Sanchez mouthing current liberal talking points.
So it was today, as he excitedly asked viewers:
Do you want the public option that could make health insurance more competitive and cheaper, because it's looking like we may get it in some form at this point. Here's who else is going to be speaking in just a little bit, Senator Harry Reid is about to announce his position on this. I asked you this same question, by the way, a little while ago. How you felt about public option. You know, I've got to tell you, the numbers seem to show right now, it's about 61 percent in favor.
That 61 percent figure came from a recent CNN poll. He could have, but didn't, cite another poll, one mentioned recently in The Hill:
Polling experts, however, have documented that many people don't know what a public option is, and that small changes in language can cause poll results to vary widely. An August poll by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates showed that only 37 percent of those polled correctly identified the public option from a list of three choices.
So there's substantial confusion over a public option, which more accurately should be termed a government option. That's to be expected. Neither Obama nor his congressional Democrats seemingly have a clue about what "their" health reform will be, so why should the public?
But noting that confusion might put a crack in Sanchez's perceived momentum for the public option, and he wasn't about to do that:
And you, on Twitter, are in favor as well. Go to the Twitter board if you can, Zack. Look at the first one -- "Yes, it makes not sense why we can't have another public option.
Under that: "Absolutely, it is a must."
I have no idea what just happened that thing. But you know, sometimes technology gets the best of you, as it today. Let me go back here.
"Absolutely, it's a must."
Next one, here's something I want to know, "Would you like to see a public option? Yes, public option is the whole point."
Next one: "Yes, to the public option."
"I would love to see a public option, without the state opt out. Repeal the anti-trust laws, give real choices to us."
"One word: Yes."
Next one, "yes, but it should be for everyone, not just for a few. We should all be able to opt out from our current coverage if we want."
So, you get a sense there that there is starting to be -- a sense that Americans are embracing this idea of a public option in this country. And there are other people now who are getting involved and embracing it as well.
The reason viewers may have gotten "a sense that Americans are embracing this idea of a public option" is Sanchez didn't read a single tweet from anyone opposed to the idea. I know he received at least two, but they didn't fit into his storyline. So he simply pretended they don't exist.
Sanchez still wasn't done with peddling a major feature of ObamaCare. He had yet another card to play:
Nebraska's conservative Democrat Ben Nelson, is now saying that he -- this is interesting, remember what I just said, conservative Nebraska Democrat and Senator Ben Nelson, who hasn't been keen on the idea in the past, has over the last couple of days maybe possibly going through a shift in this. He's now saying he would not be opposed to the public option in some form.
Wow, even conservatives are jumping on the public option bandwagon. It's a landslide! Sanchez didn't tell his viewers exactly how "conservative" Nelson is.
According to interest group ratings compiled by Project Vote Smart, for 2008 the National Taxpayers Union gave him a rating of F. In 2007, Nelson scored a 5 with Americans for Tax Reform. The American Conservative Union assigned him a rating of 16 for 2008. Nelson received a 100 from the AFL-CIO for 2008 and an A for 2007-2008 from the National Education Association.
Ben Nelson may be many things. A conservative isn't one of them.
To contend, as Sanchez does, that a government option could make health insurance more competitive and cheaper flies in the face of all reality. What company could possibly compete against an entity with unlimited tax dollars at its disposal? And if Medicare, which is defrauded to the tune of $60 billion a year is any example, the public option will be staggeringly expensive even if all other waste is squeezed out of it, a highly unlikely occurrence.
Rick Sanchez may be many things. An objective journalist isn't one of them.


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The world's most impressive rugby convoy was probably the snake of camper vans following the Lions around New Zealand in 2005. Its pace was determined by the number of former front-row forwards, all seemingly from Coventry, in the lead vehicle. It never reached a speed beyond sedate.
Rather quicker was that other impressive formation, the stream that set out from Leicester in the spring of 2002, destination Cardiff and the final of the Heineken Cup against Munster. Cars flew down from the Midlands towards the junction with the M4, all streaming the colours of the Tigers behind them.
Gwent Police placed not one, but two speed detector vans on the stretch between Usk and Newport. Have six points. Welcome to Wales.
Travellers from Leicester are advised that, although the speed cameras are no longer as zealously wielded as they were back then, on big match days in Cardiff the opportunity to make some money out of the English may be too good to resist. Beware the southernmost stretch of the A449 today.
Six points divided Leicester and Munster at the Millennium Stadium later that afternoon. This was Leicester's back-to-back double in the Heineken Cup, Austin Healey's twin moments of sparkle – one in Paris in 2001, one in Cardiff 2002 – and the day when the hand of Neil Back knocked the ball out of the grasp of Peter Stringer at a scrum, with Munster poised for one last surge ... what a day it was for drama. Healey the hero and Back the panto villain.
Leicester return to the Millennium Stadium today, not for a game as grand yet as the final, but for a Heineken semi-final that might well prove to be just as charged. Their opponents could not have less distance to travel, mere feet from the Arms Park next door.
To beat the Blues, the Tigers will have to rely on their own formidable characters. Back has moved into coaching with Leeds Carnegie, and has just guided them scrupulously to promotion from National League One. Healey has danced off into television coaching and punditry.
If there is a notion of continuity between then and now it comes in the shape of Geordan Murphy, on the right wing in 2002 and now at full-back, Ben Kay in the second row, plus Harry Ellis and Lewis Moody on today's bench. Everyone else has changed, but strong characters have once again risen to give Leicester a surge at just the right time.
They finished the regular Premiership season in top spot, their last defeat – to Newcastle at the end of March – an isolated and fading memory. Sam Vesty, Leicester's utility stalwart down the years, was given the No10 shirt and suddenly the team was breaking out of the stubbornness that is branded on their soul and playing with zest. Vesty has become not the fill-in but the lead character and it represents something of a shock that he moves into the No12 shirt to accommodate Toby Flood at 10.
Aaron Mauger, the former All Black who had blossomed outside Vesty, is on the bench after recovering from injury, but the other player who helped release the Tigers, the scrum-half Julien Dupuy, is in the starting line-up ahead of Harry Ellis, a Frenchman before a Lion.
This represents an unsentimental selection policy by the new(-ish) head coach, Richard Cockerill. Anything used to be possible in the mind of one of life's more effervescent personalities and it was slightly distressing to hear the old hooker, who interrupted his long playing career at Leicester with a two-year stint with Montferrand, say that he had become a more sanguine person.
Dealing with the old Cockerill could be exhausting, like talking with a human pogo stick, but he was utterly refreshing and forthright. And here he was, not so long ago, saying that he was calmer now. The good news is that with thoughtfulness has come greater success for the team he now coaches. Naturally, Cockerill spreads the credit around, citing the work of Matt O'Connor, the backs coach, and the players themselves, but Cockerill must be in the running for coach of the year. Certainly for assistant coach over the past two years – he started last season and this as the No2, to Marcelo Loffreda and Heyneke Meyer respectively. Or maybe as for his role as an acting head coach as he stepped in for both.
Whichever. Cockerill has been exceptional, handling the club's militant changing room with modesty and imagination. Sure, as a former player and no mean barrack-room lawyer himself, he knows the side better than most, but he has coped not by turning inwards but by expanding the repertoire.
If he has taken a risk it is to select Tom Croft, one of the finds – or rediscoveries – of the season at blind-side wing forward. Croft is a rare athlete, supple and agile and extremely quick, but do Leicester think that the Cardiff Blues have the same lack of physical and mental power that has ruined their quest for honours in the past?
The Blues this season are a tough old lot, however much they like to play elegantly. They have some front-five players who have drawn strength from rearguard actions abroad and back-row options to drool over. To have Martyn Williams and Ma'ama Molitika between either Xavier Rush or Andy Powell is to have most bases covered.
Still, Cockerill is hardly likely to send out an underpowered pack. It would go against his genetic make-up. But this game might be decided by the finest of margins and the old firebrand will certainly be hoping that his new calmness has got this one right.
Decisions, decisions. Leave them to the coach, and the points to the scoreboard. Join the convoy and travel sedately into Wales.


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Few have access to the outside world, because the storm brought down virtually all telephone lines.
One of the first visitors to the devastated island was Trinidadian leader Patrick Manning.
He described the scene, telling the BBC's Caribbean service: "When dogs interfere with garbage bags and strew the contents all over the place - that's what Grenada looks like.
"Galvanised sheeting spread over the land, no trees have leaves, many houses are gone... to see a building with a roof is a very rare sight."
Russ Fielden, who owns a hotel on the island, described what it was like in the midst of the tempest.
"It was absolutely terrifying. The winds were gusting over 150mph (240km/h) and just tearing off roofs," he told the BBC World Service's World Today programme.
"It lifted a container close to our house and rolled it over and over and, fortunately, it didn't hit the house but came very close to it.
"The hospital roof blew off, the stadium blew over and it's a big concrete stadium and it actually blew over, on the ground, flattened.
"The airport control tower fell over, so the infrastructure of the island has totally collapsed. There's no water in the pipes, there's no food, there's nowhere to cook the food, there's no electricity - and we're very fortunate to have this telephone line. We're not quite sure why it's working, but there it is."
Howling gales
Associated Press correspondent Ian James in the capital, St George's, painted a similar picture, reporting that house after house appeared shredded by whipping winds.
He said the bare trees gave a brownish tinge to hills strewn with debris.
A local resident, 30-year-old housewife Dawn Brown, related her frightening experience of Hurricane Ivan's destructive power.
She told AP that at the height of the storm, she and her children had run from room to room as the winds ripped off sections of their roof.
Finally, she said, there was no roof left and the family resorted to hiding under a mattress amid howling gales.
"I stared death in the face," she said. "What could be more scary than that?"


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Shannon Noll is walking on his hands, Guy Sebastian is playing soccer with a water bottle, booting it across the rehearsal room floor.
A shoeless Robert Mills - who is no quieter or restrained than you'd expect of someone who talks about himself in the third person - is lurking around trying to land a cheap shot in Guy's groin. Or Shannon's, if that's easier.
Cle is gyrating around Rehearsal Room 63, in the bowels of the Opera House.
The other members of the Australian Idol Top 11 (it would have been a Top 12 if Cosima De Vito had not pulled out) are singing and moving too - each in a different key and direction.
The man charged with turning this mad reunion into a slick visual presentation for a live audience of 2000, and a television audience of millions, is Gavin Robins. And on the form of this session, it's a big task.
"This bit is about you," he says, in his best motivating voice, "The songs you've done so well during the competition."
As the team works through a medley, there's no doubting the power of the voices. But 22 heels are still being dragged.
"It is hard to motivate them," Robins later admits.
"These guys tend to muck around until they have to perform. It gets easier once we get into the Concert Hall and we've got the orchestra and they feel the heat of the camera."
Robins, who worked on the Olympics opening ceremony, was engaged as a "movement coach" to a group made up first and foremost of singers.
"[Movement] is something not actually looked at by a lot of performers until too late," he says, adding that Noll at first performed with a "lot of fist clenching, standing and delivering", in spite of moving off-stage with "great fluidity and athleticism".
By contrast, Guy Sebastian - the clear favourite for tonight [see right] - "has a natural rhythm, he's very musical, he's got an incredible ear for music and that transfers into his body".
Show judge Ian "Dicko" Dickson, who engaged Robins, says movement is becoming increasingly important in selling records. "It's such a visual industry these days. The eye plays such a big part of conveying how we perceive pop music. Gavin is doing an excellent job. And he's not even gay, imagine that."
The final Australian Idol concert, during which the results of 10 days' - and several million dollars' worth of - phone and SMS voting are announced, will be broadcast on Network Ten tonight from 7.30.
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Juicing for lunch?? Man this is delicious and healthy!
Today I almost decided to go spend money on a salad wrap which would of costed me time and about $5-$7 somewhere. Instead, I made me a healthy protein juice recipe which saved me half the time and price. Lunch was on point and yummy!!


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This funding opportunity is now CLOSED. The currently open 2015 Aquaculture competition is here
If you have questions, please respond to this email address email@example.com.
Depending on the availability of funds, NOAA Sea Grant expects to have up to $3,000,000 available for a national competition to fund new FY 2014 marine aquaculture research projects. This is part of the overall plan to support the development of environmentally and economically sustainable ocean, coastal, or Great Lakes aquaculture.
Topical priorities for this FY 2014 competition are, briefly (see detailed descriptions in the Federal Funding Opportunity):
Applicants must describe how their proposed work will rapidly and significantly advance U.S. marine aquaculture development in the short-term (1-2 years after project completion).
Budget requests will keep the following in mind: no more than $250,000 in federal funds will be awarded per year, totaling no more than $500,000 in federal funds for the entire project.
50% Non-federal matching funds are required.
To obtain the RFP, please visit Grants.gov, FFO number: NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987;
On 2/7/14, clarifications were made to the RFP was published on Grants.gov. Please visit that page and download the current version.
For a list of Sea Grant National Aquaculture research projects funded in previous cycles, please follow these links to find FY2010 and FY2012 projects. (Keep in mind that they also contain extension and technology transfer projects.) We have past projects funded in similar competitions (National Marine Aquaculture Initiative) on the National Marine Fisheries Service Aquaculture Funding Page (click here).
Please refer all questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
Questions and Responses about the 2014 NOAA Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Competition NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987
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Disclaimer: Please consult the official Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) Announcement available on http://grants.gov for official information on the requirements of this competition. (Search for Funding Opportunity number NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987.) The answers in this Q&A document are NOT official competition requirements.
Q: When are full proposals due?
A: Please refer to the Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) announcements for questions about submission requirements. The FFO announcement, and not this Q&A page, provides the official information for this competition. The announcement is available on http://grants.gov. Search for Funding Opportunity number NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987.
The FFO says that full proposals are due from applicants at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on May 5, 2014, regardless of where they are submitted.
Q: Where are proposals due?
A: Applicants in different locations have different instructions for submitting full proposals. Please refer first to the Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) announcement. The FFO announcement, and not this Q&A page, provides the official information for this competition. The announcement is available on http://grants.gov. Search for Funding Opportunity number NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987.
Q: I have a question about the matching requirements for the full proposals. Is this cash only or can in-kind forms of match be used?
A: In-kind contributions can count towards this matching requirement, but you should consult with your Sea Grant Program with all questions about matching funds. Determining the appropriateness of all matching funds (including in-kind contributions) is the responsibility of the university or organization submitting the award, and is subject to approval by NOAA Grants Management Division, in accordance with OMB Circulars. Applicants are bound by the percentage of matching funds in the grant award.
Q: Where do I send the pre-proposal?
A: Send pre-proposals to the National Sea Grant Office via email at firstname.lastname@example.com
Q: Are there specific forms that I need to get from Grants.gov for the pre-proposal stage?
A: Not for the pre-proposal stage. Aside from the format requirements, the pre-proposals can be PDF or a common word processing format, addressing the Pre-proposal Content Requirements listed in the Funding Announcement / RFP (pages 6-7)
Q: Are letters of support/references required at the pre-proposal stage?
A: Letters of support are not required at the pre-proposal stage. See the list of required Pre-proposal Content Requirements (a-k) in the Funding Announcement/RFP (pages 6-7). Although these are not required, if you feel it is important, you can include it in your 3-page proposal.
Q: What projects have been funded in previous cycles?
A: For a list of Sea Grant National Aquaculture research projects funded in cycles, please follow these links to find FY2010 and FY2012 projects. (Keep in mind that they also contain extension and technology transfer projects.) We have past projects funded in similar competitions (National Marine Aquaculture Initiative) on the National Marine Fisheries Service Aquaculture Funding Page for cycles before 2010 (click here).
Q. Is this a one-shot funding opportunity, or is it anticipated that there will be other calls annually under this initiative? Also, will there be an upcoming National Marine Aquaculture Initiative (NMAI) competition this fiscal year?
A. This will likely be NOAA's only aquaculture-specific competition for the remainder of this fiscal year (FY2014). Some applications selected in this competition may be funded next year, pending congressional appropriations.
Q. How tight do you expect the competition to be?
A. Past Sea Grant aquaculture research competitions have sometimes had nearly 10-20 times as many pre-proposals submitted as could be funded.
Eligibility questions:
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A: All those who submit complete and timely pre-proposals and meet all requirements are eligible to submit a full proposal. There is no "decision" made at this stage or "invitation" required to submit a full proposal. The pre-proposal step merely allows the applicant to make an informed decision on whether to submit a full proposal or not.
Q: I did not prepare a pre-proposal. Can I still submit a full proposal?
A: No. As stated in the FFO, only applicants who submitted a pre-proposal are eligible to submit a full proposal.
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A: Federal agencies and their personnel are not permitted to receive federal funding (e.g., salary, travel) under this competition; however, federal scientists can serve as uncompensated partners or co-Principal Investigators on research proposals. Also, note that any federal equipment or time you spend as a federal employee working on this cannot be counted towards the required non-federal matching funds.
Q: Can Sea Grant Directors apply? What about other management personnel?
A: Directors of the state Sea Grant Programs are not eligible to compete for funds under this announcement, although for administrative purposes, they will be considered to be the Principal Investigator for all awards made to their state programs. All other Sea Grant personnel are eligible.
Q: Are non-U.S. research institutions and individuals eligible to apply? The announcement doesn't seem to specifically prohibit this. Can project activities occur outside the U.S.?
A: Sea Grant funding is limited by legislation to activities that "…"increase the understanding, assessment, development, management, utilization, and conservation of the Nation's ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources…" Foreign entities are eligible to apply and project activities may occur outside of the U.S., as long as any proposed work is relevant to the RFP and directly impacts U.S. resources. If you choose to propose activities outside the U.S., applicants must clearly articulate how those activities support U.S. resources and should pay attention to the priorities for the competition.
Priorities for this competition:
Q: Do I need to address all three of this year's research topical areas listed in B.2.a-c (i.e., regulatory research, hatchery production, social science) to be competitive?
A: No. A proposal does not need to address all three of the research topical areas to be competitive.
Q: Is the second research topical area (B.2.b) limited to only some life stages? Is it limited to finfish only?
A: No. This research topic is intended to address production technology. It is intended to cover all species, not just finfish, and includes all production technology issues, not only those that limit the production of marine fingerlings. This includes, but is not limited to new production technologies that reduce mortality risk for aquaculture species and improve their nutritional value while reducing pressure on wild stocks.
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A: Your focused topic is eligible for submission, but please pay careful attention to the program topical priorities in the FFO announcement: 1) Research to inform pending, regulatory decisions on the local, state, or federal level leading to an information product-- such as a tool, technology, template, or model-- needed to make final decisions on a specific question regarding impacts of aquaculture; 2) Public-private research partnerships that address specific, current problems that limit a steady supply of marine or Great Lakes fingerlings; and 3) Social and/or economic research targeted to understand aquaculture issues in a larger context. Applicants must describe how their proposed work will rapidly and significantly advance U.S. marine aquaculture development in the short-term (1-2 years after project completion). Proposals that do not address the priorities have a reduced chance of success. Also, see Q&A answer for previous projects that have been funded for FY 2102, FY2010, and earlier.


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The better sort / by Henry James. – London : Methuen, 1903. – 312 p. ; 20 cm. — pages 228–312
The better sort / by Henry James. – New York : Scribner, 1903. – viii, 432 p. ; 20 cm. — pages 312–429
contents: Broken wings; The Beldonald Holbein; The two faces; The tone of time; The special type; Mrs Medwin; Flickerbridge; The story in it; The beast in the jungle; The birthplace; The papers
containing the first publication of this tale, which didn't appear in a magazine; the book was issued simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic on 1903-02-26 – 3500 copies for UK and colonies (priced at 6/‒) and, probably, a similar number in America (at $1·50)
The altar of the dead ; The beast in the jungle ; The birthplace ; [etc.] / by Henry James. – New York : Scribner ; London : Macmillan, 1909. – xxviii, 541 p. ; 22 cm. – (The novels and tales of Henry James : New York edition ; v. 17) — pages 61–127
contents: The altar of the dead; The beast in the jungle; The birthplace; The private life; Owen Wingrave; The friends of the friends; Sir Edmund Orme; The real right thing; The jolly corner; Julia Bride
James made minor revisions to the text and placed the tale in this rather 'ghostly' volume of his definitive edition, which was sold on subscription only: in America an initial 1000 copies of each volume were available at $2, $4 or $8 per volume (depending on the binding chosen); one hundred sets of the same sheets were bound in Britain for Macmillan's first, 8/6 per volume issue; this volume appeared early in 1909 and an unknown quantity of additional copies, in both territories, were produced later
for subsequent reprints of this tale see the
relevant page
of my index to Henry James's tales in collections
this is one of the most commented upon of James's tales: a search of the MLA Bibliography returns 18, 27, 21, 25+ references respectively for the decades from the 1970s to the 2000s (excluding dissertations); it is also a popular subject for discussion in books on James (some of which I might attempt to add here eventually)
in addition to the selected recent criticism listed below, this tale is discussed (in greater or lesser detail) in the general works on James's tales and fiction, which I have listed on a separate page; those works are annotated here only when I've tracked them down and they offer significant insights
'Preface' by Henry James
in : The altar of the dead ; etc. and other tales (New York edition), – see above;
reprinted in : The art of the novel : critical prefaces / by Henry James, with an introduction by Richard P. Blackmur. – New York ; London : Scribner, 1934. – xli, 348 p. ; 22 cm. — pages 241–266
text available on this website
'The cold world of London in The beast in the jungle'
by O. P. Jones
in : Studies in American fiction, vol. 6 (1978), pages 227–235
looks at the circumstances impinging on Marcher's consciousness, to counteract the overemphasis on point of view in James studies; sees London as the beast stalking Marcher and relates this to James's own reactions to London collected in English hours (1905)
(notes: [1] the MLA Bibliography database has the title wrong, citing 'cool' instead of the printed 'cold'; [2] the article as printed has two 'superscript-5's, the second of which, in reference to Raymond Williams, should read 'superscript-6'
'Naming and knowing in Henry James's The beast in the
jungle : the hermeneutics of a sacred text'
by Rachel Salmon
in : Orbis Litterarum, vol. 36 no. 4 (1981), pages 302–322
identifies two basic structures for a fictional text: profane, which interprets itself and invites ever more definitive interpretations, and sacred, which refuses to interpret itself, demanding simple repetition; finds that this tale dramatizes its own hermeneutical position and that James has superimposed a sacred text upon a profane one [quoting from the abstract]
'The beast in the closet : James and the writing of homosexual
panic' by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
in :
(1) Sex, politics, and science in the nineteenth century novel : selected papers from the English Institute / edited by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. – Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. – xii, 195 p. ; 21 cm. – (Selected papers from the English Institute : new ser. ; no. 10). – ISBN 0-8018-3059-1 — pages 147–186
(2) Speaking of gender / edited by Elaine Showalter. – New York : Routledge, 1989. – viii, 335 p. ; 23 cm. – ISBN 0-415-90026-3 (hbk); ISBN 0-415-90027-1 (pbk) — pages 243–268
chapter 4 in :
Epistemology of the closet / by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. – London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. – xi, 258 p. ; 24 cm. – ISBN 0-7450-0990-5 — pages 182–212
chapter 4 in :
Epistemology of the closet / by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. – London : Penguin, 1994. – xi, 258 p. ; 20 cm. – ISBN 0-14-023732-1 — pages 182–212
(4) Homosexual themes in literary studies / edited by Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson. – New York : Garland, 1992. – xxii, 389 p. ; H cm. – ISBN 0-8153-0553-2 — pages 300–338
in a German translation by Hans Dieter Gondek as
'Das Tier in der
Kammer : Henry James und das Schreiben homosexueller Angst'
in : Dekonstruktiver Feminismus : Literaturwissenschaft in Amerika / hrsg. von Barbara Vinken. – Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1992. – 483 p. ; 18 cm. – ISBN 3-518-11678-9 — pages 247–278
as one can tell by the number of reprints, and by the rare honour of a published translation, this is a celebrated and influential paper; in it Sedgwick uses the notion of late-nineteenth-century, Euro-American 'male homosexual panic', introduced in her book Between men (1985): this idea highlights the feelings of fear in a non-homosexual-declaring man caused by the tension between the absolute prohibition on homosexual behaviour and the close homosocial bonds necessary in the masculinity-defining spheres of school/university, business/work and sport
after analysing examples from Thackeray and Barrie, Sedgwick concentrates on the James tale, reading Marcher as a victim of this panic; note that this does not necessarily identify Marcher as a homosexual man himself, but as someone who is blighted by the problem, and the resolution to whose problems would be to find a way to work through his feelings; May Bartram sees the problem and attempts, unsuccessfully, to rescue him by offering a love interest: to have loved May would have been one of Marcher's escapes, but not the only possible one, he could for example have loved a man instead, but was unable to get past the panic in any way at all
'The beast in the jungle and The jungle
in : The pop world of Henry James : from fairy tales to science fiction / by Adeline R. Tintner. – Ann Arbor, MI; London : U.M.I. Research Press, 1989. – [xxv], 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. – (Studies in modern literature ; no. 89). – ISBN 0-8357-1855-7 — pages 251–252
as part of her chapter 6, 'The footprints of Kipling', Tintner finds the jungle metaphors in the tale, not just the beasts but the 'law of the jungle'
'Pragmatism and The beast in the jungle'
by Paul J. Lindholdt
in : Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 25 no. 3 (Spring 1989), pages 587–605
seeks sources for the tale in the work of William James, particularly The varieties of religious experience, and in a letter from Minny Temple (mis-)quoted by Henry James in Notes of a son and brother (1914)
'John Marcher's journey for knowledge :
the heroic background of The beast in the jungle'
by Bruce Fogelman
in : Henry James review, vol. 10 no. 1 (Winter 1989), pages 68–73
a short but stimulating intertextual study of the tale in comparison with the relationship of Dido and Æneas in Virgil's Æneid
'A possible lair : The tigers in India and The
beast in the jungle'
by H. Lewis Ulman
in : Henry James review, vol. 12 no. 1 (Winter 1991), pages 1–8
relates the tale to William James's earlier essay on two ways of knowing, the intuitive and the representative, which introduces a beast motif, identifying the two ways as characteristic of Marcher and Bartram
'The dramatics of the unspoken and unspeakable in James's
The beast in the jungle'
by Herbert Perluck
in : Henry James review, vol. 12 no. 3 (Fall 1991), pages 231–254
strikes out against the (previously) prevalent allegorical reading of the tale, and its emphasis only on the later scenes; claims that the tale 'confronts us with … an inevasible ambiguity that possibly inheres in all efforts to explain or close' (page 233): Marcher is 'wrong' all along
'Filtering Rimmon-Kenan, Chatman, Black, Freud, and James :
focalization and the divided self in The beast in the jungle'
by Barry Stampfl
in : Style, vol. 26 no. 3 (Fall 1992), pages 388–399
a meditation of the metaphor of the filter, using James's tale as a touchstone; invokes Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan's call for narratology to deal more with language (1988), Seymour Chatman's essay on characters and narrators (1986), Max Black's 'filters' (1962) and Freud on 'negation' (1925, "no" means "yes")
'Bodily movement as narrative strategy in The beast in the
by Ilana Bar'am
in : Henry James review, vol. 15 no. 2 (Spring 1994), pages 170–178
an unusual approach to a James's fiction, centred on nineteenth-century attitudes to the body, movement and the way they are represented in narrative discourse
'The double narrative of The beast in the jungle :
ethical plot, ironical plot, and the play of power'
by Michiel W. Heyns
chapter 6 in : Enacting history in Henry James : narrative, power, and ethics / edited by Gert Buelens. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – xv, 215 p. ; 24 cm. – ISBN 0-521-57089-1 (hbk); ISBN 978-0-521-12145-3 (pbk) — pages 109–125
follows the multiple stories in the tale, finding that '[t]he Beast in the Jungle is as much a creature of her story as an enactment of his story' (page 111), recognizing the power of May Bartram but without going so far as to give her 'control' of (parts of) the story as in the later lamia/sphinx readings of Izzo or Montgomery
'In possession of a secret : rhythms of mastery and surrender
in The beast in the jungle'
by Gert Buelens
in : Henry James review, vol. 19 no. 1 (Winter 1998), pages 17–35
in a reading attentive to Leo Bersani's phrase 'a rhythm of mastery and surrender in the human psyche', Buelens shows how 'both Marcher and May at times strive to master their environment by constructing a (secret) narrative that asserts their own heroism and power' (page 18)
'Henry James's inward aches'
by Kristin Boudreau
in : Henry James review, vol. 20 no. 1 (Winter 1999), pages 69–80
argues that in The beast in the jungle and A round of visits (1910) James dramatizes the difficulties of keeping the path open to human contact; the main discussion of The beast is on pages 72–75
'The silence of the sphinx : The beast in the
Epilogue 3 in : Portraying the lady : technologies of gender in the short stories of Henry James / Donatella Izzo. – Lincoln, NB ; London : University of Nebraska Press, 2001. – viii, 312 p. ; 24 cm. – ISBN 0-8032-2503-2 — pages 226–243
this 'concentrate[s] on those elements that relate The beast in the jungle to the issue of feminine silence and its narrative representation' (page 226); it includes discussion of the gender structure and stereotypes, the crucial part played by May's silence (placing May as a protagonist of Marcher's story too), the sphinx rôle (particularly in æstheticism, where the creature is questioned rather questioning); moves on to separate the effects of the narrative voice from those of Marcher and Bartram, explaining the ambiguity of the ending of the tale (contra even Sedgwick); concludes that 'catachresis, that is, a metaphoric expression that makes up for a lack in natural language … dominates the tale from its very title' (239)
'The lady is the tiger : looking at May Bartram in The beast
in the jungle from the "other
by Lomeda Montgomery
in : 'The finer thread, the tighter weave' : essays on the short fiction of Henry James / edited by Joseph Dewey and Brooke Horvath. – West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2001. – x, 291 p. ; 24 cm. – ISBN 1-55753-207-9 — pages 139–148
a stimulating reading of May Bartram as a lamia figure who, in effect, latches on to Marcher and sucks the life out of him; with close reading of the text, particularly of May's 'riddle of the sphinx'-style questioning, Montgomery makes a convincing case, which will change your view of the tale (only slightly marred by her citing Sedgwick's paper as 'The beast in the corner'!); from the publication dates this must have been written at the same time as Izzo's paper (immediately above) and the two form a useful pendant pair
'What May knew in The beast in the jungle'
by Eugene Goodheart
in : Sewanee review, vol. 111 no. 1 (Winter 2003), pages 116–127
starting from the observations that May's love for Marcher implies that he is not a blank character and that May is not merely a device to drive the narrative like Iago in Othello, Goodheart re-visions Marcher, as far as possible, from Bartram's point of view; formulating his position as 'May is in love with the story' (page 123) he concludes that, for Marcher, 'the artistic consciousness appropriates [the erotic] as a power' (126) rather than panicking at it; not, in my opinion, as useful on this topic as the slightly earlier Izzo and Montgomery
'Death and the reader : James's The beast in the
jungle' by Arthur A. Brown
in : Postmodern approaches to the short story / edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin … [et al.]. – Westport, CT : Praeger, 2003. – xi, 156 p. ; 24 cm. – (Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 118). – ISBN 0-313-32374-7 — pages 39–50
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'Baffling doom : dialogue, laughter, and comic perception in
Henry James'
by John Bruns
in : Texas studies in literature and language, vol. 47 no. 1 (Spring 2005), pages 1–30
uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of 'reduced laughter' (in Dostoevskiĭ) and the carnivalistic in novels, together with his analysis of dialogic interaction, to analyse aspects of the series of dialogues between John Marcher and May Bartram in the tale, showing how Marcher, the monologist, fails to achieve understanding; Bruns plots a new path through the tale, which leads to a fuller exposition of James's comic seriousness
'The It in the I : Patrice Leconte, Henry James, and analytic
by Leo Bersani
in : Henry James review, vol. 27 no. 3 (Fall 2006), pages 202–214
taking a psychoanalytic approach, with Freud's das Es now more correctly translated as 'the It', rather than James Strachey's 'the Id', Bersani reads the tale in parallel with Patrice Leconte's film Confidences trop intimes (2003, English title Intimate strangers): both are about a confidence intime; analyses the determinate and indeterminate references of the word 'it' in the tale
'Beastly vagueness in Charles Sanders Peirce and Henry James'
by Megan M. Quigley
in : Philosophy and literature, vol. 31 no. 2 (October 2007), pages 362–377
[not (yet) available to me]
'Lives unled in realist fiction'
by Andrew Miller
in : Representations, vol. 98 (Spring 2007), pages 118–134
[not (yet) available to me]
'Queer realism vs hardboiled modernism : Henry James's
The beast in the jungle and Ernest Hemingway's The
by Hideo Tsuji
in : Studies in English literature (Tokyo), vol. 49 (2008), pages 69–86
[not (yet) available to me]
'Illustrating the invisible : The beast in the jungle
as edition de luxe'
by Susan Bazargan
in : Henry James review, vol. 29 no. 1 (Winter 2008), pages 54–64
describes the 1963 fine-press edition of the tale by Lewis and Dorothy Allen of Kentfield, California, with illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, relating its content to the text of the tale
'Modern mnemosynes : female memory and the allegory of gender'
by John Lurz
in : Mosaic : a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, vol. 41 no. 4 (December 2008), pages 61–75
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Sewickley police investigating weekend vandalism
Sewickley police continue investigating who spray-painted nine vehicles in the borough over the weekend.
Police were dispatched Sunday to the 200 block of Henry Avenue for a report of a vehicle that had been spray-painted on the driver's side, according to a police report.
Upon checking the area, police found seven other vehicles on Henry Avenue and one on Thorn Street with similar damage.


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Princeton High School students Nate Hoffer, Isaiah Mayerchak, Kenny Cowles, Courtney Stith and Sophie Wagman are advancing to a state competition April 8 that tests a person's knowledge of economics.
Hoffer, Mayerchak and Cowles are seniors and Stith and Wagman are juniors.
The team advanced after its performance at the Heartland Economics Challenge at St. Cloud State University on March 22, where PHS also had two other teams.
About a dozen high schools had students in the competition. The contest had two divisions – an advanced placement (AP) or college division that posed the more difficult questions, and the high school division that was broken into small-school and large-school tiers.
The top two AP teams at the meet advanced to state and the PHS AP team placed second. Mayerchak came in second individually and Hoffer, third. Mayerchak received a $75 prize and medal and Hoffer receiving $50 and a medal.
The other AP team from PHS included Brandon Swanson, Tony Droogsma, Sam Glauvitz, Jack Sinkel and Kris Klein.
Only one team was allowed to advance from the high school divisions, and the team in the large-school part of that division from PHS included Dalton Mattson, Andrew Wesloh, Katie Gallentine and Bailey Thorson. It placed second among the large high schools in its division, falling shy of advancing to state.
Two PHS instructors of economics were at the event – Cindy Fitzhum (supporting the AP teams) and Brad Scherer (for the high school level team).
At the meet, each student took a written, multiple choice exam in each of the first two rounds. During the third round, each team took the written test together. The two top scorers from the first three rounds then squared off with each other in an economics quiz bowl, in which team members press a buzzer to gain the floor if they think they have the right answer.
The Minnesota State Economics Challenge will be at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. If a team performs well enough at the state meet, students can advance to a multistate competition, where they can vie to go to nationals, Fitzhum said.


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I got this from my aunt after my uncle past a couple years ago. Look new and doubt it's had over a box shot throught it. Gave $400 for it, didn't figure I got hurt on it but it helped my aunt out. From what I can find out it was only built for 3 years. It very smooth to shoot. My question is this considered in the 1911 family or a knock off?
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You did good and also best it stayed in the family in my opinion! I am a little sentimental in that area when it comes to family weapons and heirlooms. The S&W 645 was a good shooter. And a well built pistol. A little on the heavy side but nothing wrong with that. If there is nothing to compare it to one would never know! Man that is a fine Pistol! You enjoy and send us some Range Report Pictures!:)
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Nice pistol.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Helped your Aunt out? So what is the question?
It's more of a Beretta knock off.
It's got different safeties than a 1911, and
a different grip angle. I like the weight, but it's a
tad heavy. IMO it points better than a 1911.
But the trigger guard, DA/SA, and decocker, is very similar to a
92FS. If you had been thinking "I wish my Beretta 92 were a 45ACP",
This may be the gun for you.
I bought mine from a LGS for 400$ OTD in 2011, so I think you did OK,
It's my favorite 45.
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A bit of trivia on this gun is Don Johnson carried one on Miami Vice.
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May be my imagination, but I see JMB's influence all over that pistola. Grip angle resembles a 1911's. Also see some Hi Power elements.
Nice score, ya dun gud.
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Girl Talk: Do I Really Need To Know Why He Dumped Me?
I probably could have written the Modern Love essay, Exit Left, Wordlessly, in this past Sunday's New York Times. Not that I could have penned it better than writer Aimee Lee Ball, just that I have a story which is frighteningly similar. Ball's tale is about breaking up with a man only to have him resurface eight years later for round two. But instead of the happy ending that would ensue in Rom-Com Land, after a few months of "too good to be true" dating, the man disappeared from her life without explanation. "No message. No note," she says. I refer to this dating phenomenon as ghosting — when a man disappears without a trace.
"Ambiguous loss" as Ball calls it, is a particularly heinous and cruel way to have a relationship end because you're left without any indication of what might have gone wrong."[It's] unfinished business, without closure or understanding," Ball explains. When the man I was dating for the second time in one decade dematerialized without any warning signs, I was baffled. Then I was bitter. Then I just walked around with an open wound that I expected would never heal. I would try to tend to it, but I couldn't because I didn't even know what kind of bandages to use. Explanations from him, I assumed, would be the only thing to make the pain stop and the wound close. But I knew intellectually I would probably never get them.
"There's a cauterizing process following any breakup, " Ball says. "Hardly anyone gets through life without hearing, 'I've met somebody else' or 'This isn't going the way I'd hoped.' Couples come to the end of a road with each other for valid reasons or for no reason, but they find a way to say so. Absent any saying-so, I began a lapidary process, chipping away at our history in a search for enlightenment."
I went through my own search for enlightenment once the initial shock passed. I mined our time together for nuggets about what might have gone wrong. I came up with lots of theories. New theories all the time!
He got back together with his ex.
He relapsed on alcohol.
He didn't feel anything when he kissed me.
He didn't think he deserved me.
But the search for answers was a fruitless one, as I'd never really know anything for sure. Ball found balm for her "ambiguous loss" by watching "Mad Men." Don Draper's character reminded her of her ghoster — the man who only likes beginnings. I, on the other hand, poured over episodes of "Intervention" and read all the addiction memoirs I could get my hands on. My ghoster was an addict and coming from a family (and extended family) containing no addicts, I didn't understand the disease. Maybe if I had compassion for his illness, and understood his betrayal as a symptom, I would feel less enraged?
Not really. More than a year went by and I still craved closure. Every few months, I had dreams where he showed up and I asked him, "Why? Why would you make a grandiose entrance back into my life after years only to screw me over again? What kind of a cruel person are you?"
I fantasized about various scenarios of running into him in real life. Would I kick him in the balls, spit on him, wave and keep on walking? A few months back, I finally did run into him. And when it happened, I did absolutely nothing. I pretended not to see him, rendered dumb and mute. I let him pass me by again, wordlessly. After that I was forced to consider the possibility that maybe I didn't really want answers.
Have explanations ever made a breakup any less painful?
No. "Reasons why we're breaking up" are always bullshit. When you get down to it, the only reason anyone is breaking up with anyone is because two people are no longer right for each other. A reason is a carefully constructed consolation prize to help assuage the loss. Maybe I didn't want answers because if I got them, I'd have to go through the grieving process all over again.
If that day, my ghoster had explained that he accidentally slept with his ex, or that he was afraid I knew too much about him, or that the way I kissed turned him off, would it have changed anything?
Ball's moment of closure came when she considered the method by which her ghoster exited:
"This man's way of ending things, I realized, was as clear as an X-ray, not of bones but of character, and surgically clean of the platitudes, excuses and lies that often accompany a breakup. The epiphany was one I resisted because it was so convenient to censure him. But in revealing himself that way, the cad actually did me a favor."
She seemed to answer the final question that was lingering in my mind, the thing that would help me cauterize the wound for good. I don't really need to know why he disappeared, I only need to know how. And I do; there's nothing else to uncover, no more answers that will satisfy. His wordless exit is the one thing I know for sure.


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Neil Opfer, from the department of civil and environmental engineering and construction, has been named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) International. A selective and prestigious honor, the Fellow designation is in recognition of Mr. Opfer's professional attainment and significant accomplishment in cost management or cost engineering. He will be officially presented the award at AACE International's annual meeting this July.
An Associate Professor, Mr. Opfer's areas of expertise include construction management; estimating and cost analysis; construction methods and materials; mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems; and construction law and forensics.
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Russia will be even more difficult to break with economic sanctions because it is the eighth largest economy in the world.
economic sanctions rarely hurt a disfavored regime or its powerful supporters, at least in the short run.
Backed by NATO solidarity and economic sanctions with teeth, it just might isolate Putin enough that he backs off.
One of the benefits of the economic sanctions imposed on Iran is that the regime was too weak to risk a second rigged election.
It has bolstered trade relations with Russia, China, and India to offset the consequences of US-led economic sanctions.
Iranian poverty, caused by economic sanctions, might be better than World War III, for instance.
The resolution was really about Security Council unity, the key to economic sanctions and political consequences.
The decision to circumscribe the use of economic sanctions against off-base discrimination made sense.
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Enjoying the weekend runway displays, the stars were out in full force for the Jill Stuart Spring 2011 fashion show in New York City on Saturday (September 11).
Opting to delve into the Big Apple festivities, Dakota Fanning was among the many stars partaking in Fashion's Night Out in New York City on Friday evening (September 10).
The 16-year-old actress looked darling as she joined "Gossip Girl" actress Jessica Szohr at the Prada celebration of Fashion's Night Out at Prada 5th Avenue.
She's always been a fan of fashion and Jessica Szohr was spotted at the Rag & Bone Spring 2011 fashion show earlier today (September 10).
The "Gossip Girl" babe looked lovely as she strolled around the event as part of Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week. She also chatted with Jessica Stam.
With their on/off relationship back in full swing, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr were spotted enjoying a little time together in New York City on Thursday (September 2).
Showing the world that they're very much a couple again, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr were spotted canoodling at the US Open tennis tournament yesterday (September 1).
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Ahead of its August 20th release date, "Piranha 3D" held a big Los Angeles premiere screening last night (August 18).
The Mann Chinese 6 in Hollywood was hopping with stars like Jessica Szohr, Kelly Brook, Elisabeth Shue, Riley Steele, and Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn.
It's no secret that celebrities love getting awards, and last night (August 15) some of Tinseltown's brightest stars were spotted at the 2010 Breakthrough of the Year Awards.
"Modern Family" babes Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen both turned up at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood for the big event.
Taking care of some promotional duties, Jessica Szohr was spotted arriving at the CW Studios in New York City this morning (August 13).
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