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I am having some UTF-8 problems with French locale for SPA-509/508/525 phones running 7.4.9C on UCXXX package 8.6. The directory sub menu and CME service sub menu on the phone display contains "@~C" instead of "é" everywhere. In all other menus in the phone the letters are displayed correctly.
Problem is present only in the cme services sub menu for SPA525
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I tried with fr_FR language pack 18.104.22.168, with fr_ca language pack 188.8.131.52. I tried removing "user-locale U4 FR LOAD…. " commands put by CCA and forcing "user-locale FR LOAD …." directly in cli. I tried forcing the spa50x_30x_v746 dictionary directly in cli as well. Nothing fixes this.
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If you've always wanted to garden with native plants, this book is for you. With entries for nearly 700 species of native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers from the northeastern quarter of the U.S. and eastern Canada, its comprehensive horticultural coverage is unsurpassed by any other single volume. The natural ranges of many of the plants discussed extend beyond the Northeast; the information on horticultural uses applies to any garden. Each plant description includes information about cultivation and propagation, ranges, and hardiness. An appendix recommends particular plants for difficult situations, as well as attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, and other wildlife. Illustrated throughout with color photographs.


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Longtime coach 'touched a lot of lives'
As a coach, Elmer Guckert showed high school athletes the meaning of success.
Through it all, "he touched a lot of lives," said his daughter Sarah Rizzitano.
"Certainly the players ... he really tried to keep them out of trouble and going in a good direction," she said. "(He) encouraged them."
Elmer Bernard Guckert of McCandless, an inductee into the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame, died on Thursday, June 6, 2013. He was 84.
A 1947 graduate of Oliver High School, Mr. Guckert lettered in basketball and baseball. He attended the University of Pittsburgh and majored in education, later earning a master's degree in education in 1957.
Mr. Guckert played baseball as a left-handed pitcher. He played with sandlot teams in Pittsburgh and in a farm league for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He worked at Shanksville-Stonycreek High School and the former Fifth Avenue and Brashear high schools where he taught physical education, driver's education and health and coached basketball, swimming, baseball and cross country.
Team triumphs included 10 city championship basketball teams, two state championship basketball teams and three city championship cross country teams.
"He liked to be around kids and to help kids and be a role model," Rizzitano said. "He was very involved with his kids that he taught and his basketball players and tried to help them."
Mr. Guckert also was a referee and an umpire, sometimes calling two baseball games a day.
"He played sports all his life. He played in high school, basketball and baseball and lettered," his daughter said. "He'd scream and yell at the TV, always coaching."
Mr. Guckert served two years in the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., beginning in 1953, and led athletics on the base.
An active member of Christ Episcopal Church, Mr. Guckert volunteered with Meals on Wheels and was a 50-year Mason and Shriner.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Gloria J. Guckert. In addition to his daughter Sarah Rizzitano, he is survived by his children, Kathy Allison, Karen Morris and Jim Guckert, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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If you prefer the cookie soft and chewy then use granulated white sugar in place of icing sugar.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 3⁄4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar, plus
- 1⁄3 cup powdered sugar
- 1⁄2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon maple extract (or use 2 teaspoons vanilla extract)
- 1⁄2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 1⁄4 cups milk chocolate chips
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) or 1⁄2 cup pecans (optional) or 1⁄2 cup peanuts (optional)
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- Set oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly grease a cookie sheet/s.
- In a medium bowl mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and kosher salt.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer Beat in powdered sugar, dark brown sugar, butter and maple or vanilla extract until well blended.
- add in peanut butter and oil; mix until well combined.
- Add in flour mixture and mix just until blended.
- Stir in milk chocolate chips and nuts (if using).
- Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet, spacing about 1-1/2-inches apart.
- Bake for about 12 minutes until puffed and golden brown.
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by Danielle Torrent
Gainesville FL (SPX) Feb 13, 2013
An international team of scientists including University of Florida researchers has generated the most comprehensive tree of life to date on placental mammals, which are those bearing live young, including bats, rodents, whales and humans.
Appearing in the journal Science, the study details how researchers used both genetic and physical traits to reconstruct the common ancestor of placental mammals, the creature that gave rise to many mammals alive today. The data show that contrary to a commonly held theory, the group diversified after the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The research may help scientists better understand how mammals survived past climate change and how they may be impacted by future environmental conditions.
UF researchers led the team that analyzed the anatomy of living and fossil primates, including lemurs, monkeys and humans, as well as their closest living relatives, flying lemurs and tree shrews. The multi-year collaborative project was funded by the National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life Program.
"With regards to evolution, it's critical to understand the relationships of living and fossil mammals before asking questions about 'how' and 'why,' " said co-author Jonathan Bloch, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus. "This gives us a new perspective of how major change can influence the history of life, like the extinction of the dinosaurs -- this was a major event in Earth's history that potentially then results in setting the framework for the entire ordinal diversification of mammals, including our own very distant ancestors."
Visual reconstruction of the placental ancestor -- a small, insect-eating animal - was made possible with the help of a powerful cloud-based and publicly accessible database called MorphoBank, www.morphobank.org. Unlike other reconstructions, the new study creates a clearer picture of the tree of life by combining two data types: Phenomic data includes observational traits such as anatomy and behavior, while genomic data is encoded by DNA.
"Discovering the tree of life is like piecing together a crime scene -- it is a story that happened in the past that you can't repeat," said lead author Maureen O'Leary, an associate professor in the department of anatomical sciences in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. "Just like with a crime scene, the new tools of DNA add important information, but so do other physical clues like a body or, in the scientific realm, fossils and anatomy. Combining all the evidence produces the most informed reconstruction of a past event."
Researchers recorded observational traits for 86 placental mammal species, including 40 fossil species. The resulting database contains more than 12,000 images that correspond to more than 4,500 traits detailing characteristics like the presence or absence of wings, teeth and certain bones, type of hair cover and brain structures. The dataset is about 10 times larger than information used in previous studies of mammal relationships.
"It was a great way to learn anatomy, in a nutshell," said co-author Zachary Randall, a UF biology graduate student and research associate at the Florida Museum. "While coding for humans, I could clearly see which anatomical features are unique, shared or not shared with other groups of mammals. This study is a great backbone for future work."
Bloch and Randall collaborated with study co-authors Mary Silcox of the University of Toronto Scarborough and Eric Sargis of Yale University to characterize humans, plus seven other living and one fossil species from the clade Euarchonta, which includes primates, tree shrews and flying lemurs.
"I think this database is amazing because it's being presented in such a way that it will be reproducible for the future generations," Bloch said. "It illustrates exactly what we did and leaves nothing to the imagination - you can actually go to the pictures and see it."
The evolutionary history of placental mammals has been interpreted in very different ways depending on the data analyzed. One leading analysis based on genomic data alone predicted that a number of placental mammal lineages existed in the Late Cretaceous and survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.
"It has been suggested that primates diverged from other mammals well before the extinction of the dinosaurs, but our work using direct evidence from the fossil record tells a different story," Bloch said.
The team reconstructed the anatomy of the placental common ancestor by mapping traits most strongly supported by the data to determine it had a two-horned uterus, a brain with a convoluted cerebral cortex, and a placenta in which maternal blood came in close contact with membranes surrounding the fetus, as in humans.
Canadian researcher helps put humans on the tree of life
The work is featured in this week's Science magazine.
Mary Silcox, assistant professor of anthropology at UTSC, is a co-author on the paper and the only Canadian member of the team. She was responsible for organizing the dental traits used in the analysis and contributed to the collection of the data that were used to classify primates, including humans.
"We were responsible for putting humans in the tree of life," she says, referring to her work with Drs. Jonathan Bloch of the Florida Museum of Natural History and Eric Sargis of Yale University.
The research team used the world's largest dataset combining genetic and physical traits to reconstruct the placental mammal tree of life. A major finding is that placental mammals diversified much later than previous theories had suggested, with all of the major groups alive today originating after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Genetic evidence alone had suggested that placental mammals were already a diverse group in the Late Cretaceous period, before the event that drove the dinosaurs and 70 percent of other then-existing species extinct.
But by adding evidence from fossils, the team concluded that placental mammals arose a few hundred thousand years after the extinction event.
To carry out the study, the researchers built a database that recorded physical - or phenomic - traits for 86 placental mammal species, including 40 species that are extinct and known only from fossils.
More than 4,500 traits, including the presence or absence of wings, teeth, and certain bone types, were recorded in the database and used to construct the tree of life, in combination with genetic data.
The phenomic dataset is 10 times larger than those that had previously been used to study mammal relationships, is publicly available online, and illustrated with over 12,000 images.
Silcox says that the work will serve as a model for future projects that will give us a better idea of how species evolved and are related to one another.
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From Satellite imagery & real-time UAV feeds to 3D modeling, TI features a key piece in the data visualization equation - the ability to share, collaborate & display content being produced in other tactical and analytical C2 applications.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 11, 2014
Technical Innovation (TI) is a proven solution provider of network based visualization solutions who has demonstrated the ability to merge AV with IT and deploy Mission Critical Systems into environments with the unique security requirements of the IC, SOF, DoD and DHS. The GEOINT Symposium, taking place April 14-17, 2014 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, is the nation's preeminent intelligence event of the year for these communities.
Using Planar's 84" Ultra HD 4K LED backlit LCD, Technical Innovation will be in Booth #1101 demonstrating SitScape, a proven and secure collaboration and web based data visualization solution. SitScape's intuitive GUI & advanced software provide real-time contextual collaboration from disparate sources, creating on-demand situational awareness and secure information sharing to the Enterprise and Mission/Remote Teams.
Attendees of the GEOINT symposium who are interested in discussing integration between their legacy AV systems are encouraged to visit the booth. Jason Jaworski, an expert in integrated visualization platforms in mission critical facilities, and Jonathan Reany, Director, TI Secure Federal Unit, will be available to introduce attendees to the most recent advancements in visualization solutions and to demonstrate how to include intelligent visualization into their command center, making it more intuitive, efficient and effective.
TI Secure Federal specializes in signal processing, secure unified communications, mission critical facilities and visualization environments within the intelligence and special ops community. In collaboration with TI's Enterprise Video and CriticalSpace Solutions units, they provide comprehensive design/build integration of tactical operation centers focused on increasing situational awareness and driving operational efficiencies. A trusted technology leader for over 75 years, TI is a cleared facility with cleared personnel who have experience working with multiple security classifications for military and INTEL agencies.


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|USTA Texas Section Family of the Year
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Feb. 5, 2005 - A Sulphur Springs family will be recognized tonight at The Woodlands for their contributions to family tennis in Texas.
Since 1975 the USTA (United States Tennis Association) Texas Section has honored a family for their contributions to Texas tennis. This year, the Family of the Year Award goes to Randy, Lisa, Cody and Tara Moore.
As in the past, this year's family's tennis credentials are impressive.
Randy, Lisa, Cody and Tara Moore have building, promoting, and supporting the development of tennis in Sulphur Springs.
Randy has diligently worked to promote the sport of tennis as a health benefit, a character builder, and a life-long sport. Randy along with Lisa accepted the challenge of establishing a community association then he graciously accepted the position of president of the Sulphur Springs Tennis Association.
In addition to his presidential duties, he assists other officers with their duties, helps edit an association newsletter, and coordinates a men's doubles league. Many evenings Randy can be found on the tennis courts playing with and encouraging members of the middle and high school tennis teams.
As an advocate for the welfare of children and the sport of tennis, Lisa promotes combining the two. Lisa and Randy organize and conduct Saturday morning tennis clinics for juniors in the area with plans to add adult clinics in the future. During the summer on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, Lisa can be found on Coleman Park's courts working with juniors frequently providing rackets, balls and refreshments for participants.
Through her relentless efforts she was able to persuade the school board and athletic director that middle school students should have the opportunity to play competitive tennis. On a daily basis she assists either at the high school or middle school as a volunteer coach, often scheduling duels with other schools. She functions as the tennis liaison between the school administration, coaches, parents, the local tennis association and the community. She is responsible for securing several grants to enhance tennis in Sulphur Springs.
Both Randy and Lisa find time to play in local doubles and mixed doubles leagues.
Cody and Tara both play competitively. They serve as junior representatives in the Sulphur Springs Tennis Association. They help manage the courts for the Thursday night mixed doubles league and work with their mom during the summer Tuesday and Thursday morning clinics.
The Moores have shown that through diligent work of tennis enthusiasts, small communities can have successful tennis programs.
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The prospect of former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani running for the U.S. Senate next year against present incumbent U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has emerged as a real possibility.
Considering that a recent Marist Poll showed Giuliani leading Gillibrand by 14 points before the race even begins, it certainly increases the chances he will enter the race. If Giuliani wins the Senate seat, it will give him foreign policy experience he lacked when he ran in the primaries for president in 2008.
If he has expectations of running for president again, it is almost imperative he obtain a statewide elective office of either governor or U.S. senator. Most of our elected presidents since 1900 have held one of these two offices before achieving the presidency.
Giuliani, however, has significant hurdles to overcome before he can achieve a Senate seat. There is the question of historical precedent from the standpoint that no New York City mayor has gone on to higher office such as governor or U.S. senator since the 1850s. Giuliani will be going against a precedent that has existed for over 150 years.
In addition, there is the matter of third party endorsements. When Giuliani ran for mayor and won in 1993 and 1997, he ran as a Republican with the endorsement of the state Liberal Party. He also ran on an independent line. Since then, the Liberal Party has disappeared from existence.
For Giuliani to maintain political momentum, it is essential he gain the endorsements of the Conservative and Independence parties. Presently, for a Republican to be elected to any New York office at the local, county or state level, in most cases third party endorsement is needed. Here in Queens during the most recent election, all three GOP-winning City Council candidates had Conservative and Independence endorsements.
Since 1989, when Giuliani first ran for mayor, and in the two elections in 1993 and 1997, he did not have a good working relationship with the Conservative Party. In recent years, however, the former mayor is generally perceived as having been more conservative than he was in the earlier years of his career and his popularity in the Conservative Party seems to have grown accordingly.
State Independence Party executive member and Queens representative Mike Niebauer indicated that Giuliani would be acceptable as a candidate of the Independence Party for statewide office.
Regarding the mayoral race this year, Conservative Party candidate Stephen Christopher received 2 percent of the vote. He did this without any extensive campaigning or fund-raising. He had no formal campaign organization.
Queens Conservative Party Chairman Tom Long indicated that had the party been able to put more resources into Christopher's campaign, Christopher might have reached 4 percent or 5 percent of the total final vote for mayor, thereby possibly causing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lose his bid for a third term, since Bloomberg only won by about 5 percent.
Long has big hopes for next year in the state Assembly races after his party's strong showing in Council races this year. Christopher seems to be interested in running for public office again, possibly for mayor in four years. Next time, he would begin his campaign much earlier.
The Queens Independence Party, led by County Chair Molly Honigsfeld, worked almost entirely on Bloomberg's campaign for re-election. She indicated that the Democrats were successful in using the term limits issue against Bloomberg.
Nevertheless, she believes the Independence Party did well in this past election by getting 13 percent of the mayor's vote and increased the party's votes significantly from the 2005 citywide election.
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By Sherry & Terry on July 5, 2009 at 7:45 PMThis year's veggie garden has been absolutely glorious. The mostly sunny and hot days have created ideal growing conditions for almost every variety of vegetable that we have planted. It feels like we are a month ahead of schedule from past years.
We are often asked what is our secret when friends and family set their eyes on our organic garden. We usually tell them we heavily mulch to keep the weeds down, do some watering and say the weather has been great. But that's not altogether the truth.
Like many seasoned gardeners, we started our earliest years of gardening by using conventional methods such as rototilling, a lot of watering and backbreaking weeding. As life got busier, we began looking for easier ways to make less work for ourselves. Learning about Ruth Stout's mulching method was a huge boon.
Almost like clockwork, every spring the little green inchworms would ravage the cherry tree leaves or later in the summer months, the starlings would feast on our juicy, plump blueberries. This enraged us. How dare they take our food, our treasures and munch their little hearts out! Up in the tree went the silver reflectors from my fisherman dad's trolling equipment. Surely this would frighten and distract those nasty, aggressive birds. Throw some seine boat netting over the blueberry bushes to save our precious bounty!
For a short time these deterrents helped, but sooner than later the insects and the birds would adapt and continue to feast to their heart's content. It was a sobering moment to see a bird strangling itself in the netting, but still I would find myself feeling frustrated and helpless for many a growing season.
Then one year, we decided to give it up. Give up thinking about how to prevent our foragers from getting what they wanted, give up putting too much energy into thinking about what we were losing or how much they were taking. It was hard, like weaning one's self from a bad addiction.
We noticed that even though a massive number of leaves on the cherry tree would be eaten by the inchworms each spring, once they were done, a new set of leaves would burst forth, leaving little sign of the tree's previous baldness. It seemed that the less attention we paid to the plants' visitors, the sooner they made their exit. Out of my mouth spouted new wisdoms. I began to see the bigger picture...that if we continued cutting down the life of these inchworms before they were able to complete whatever they were meant to do, they would just keep coming back.
Today we have no major problem with inchworms nor starlings. We have matured as gardeners who have come to appreciate that we don't know everything about how nature works, what the big picture is for us or the insects or wildlife that inhabit our garden. Some years, some plants grow better than others. We get aphids and watch the ladybugs do their work. We don't try to fix it or figure it out. We just go with the flow, share what we have and for reasons we cannot explain, we continually get a huge bounty of fresh, luscious abundance.
Okay, call us flakes, but we admit we love our plants. We are in awe of them! Just like the wonder we feel when the airplane we board miraculously gets off the ground, we feel that same excitement about the seeds that we sow. I whisper hello to them in the morning and goodnight to them in the evening. When I say that my plants are happy, one look at their size can prove that they really are.
The mantra we live by is the wisdom of Chief Seattle when he said, " Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
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Fat, deep-dwelling, clear-water smallies will fill the winning bag this week, so repeat this mantra as you set your roster for the St. Lawrence River in Bassmaster Fantasy Fishing — spin to win!
Spinning rods spooled with light line will be the winning tools of the trade this week, so set your line-ups accordingly. Sure, there's some largemouth in the St. Lawrence, but most guys are going to make the long run to the Thousand Islands area, which is one of the best places in the country to catch limits of huge smallmouth. One caveat: If five-day forecasts call for gale-force to blustery winds during the tournament, all bets are off. (Hear Bassmaster TV pundit Mark Zona and I discuss smallmouth fishing weather and handicap the field in my podcast, "Fantasy Fishing Insider." Additional guests are AOY leader Edwin Evers and Ott DeFoe.)
With only two tournaments remaining in the Fantasy Fishing season, you'll want to use strategy more than ever to achieve your goal, be it winning a league or just earning bragging rights over your fishing buddies.
If you're in the 90th percentiile or better in points, it might pay to play defense, making more safe picks than high-risk/high-reward picks. Consider balancing your roster 3-2 or even 4-1, conservative to ambitious. If you're in the 80th percentile in points, balance your roster 2-3, conservative to risky. If you're in the 70th percentile or worse, you've got nothing to lose, so make one conservative pick and throw four Hail Marys.
I've handicapped the buckets to highlight the best bets, safest picks and best dark-horse, high-risk/high-reward picks. I'll also tell you who I'm picking, and why (I sometimes don't follow my own advice!). Pick and choose from this menu as your strategy needs dictate, based on where you are in the Fantasy points race.
Bucket A
Kevin VanDam (31.5% ownership): Safest Bet
If you're protecting a lead, pick KVD. It's not only possible, but probable, that he will do well this week, as Deb Johnson explained in this article last week on Bassmaster.com.
Aaron Martens (16.3%): Best Bet
Few anglers anywhere are better than Aaron Martens with a spinning gear and light line. Both his reputation and résumé indicate he will place in the Top 12 this week. Consider his career highlights in similar tournaments — two Top 10s and two Top 20s in eight Top 50 finishes in New York tournaments (Lake Erie-Niagara River and Lake Champlain). I would pick him this week, if I didn't have a gut feeling that Skeet Reese will place just slightly higher than Martens.
Skeet Reese (6.6%): My Pick
With Edwin Evers, VanDam, Martens and Reese at the top of the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Race, they will all be extra motivated this week — Evers to protect his lead and the others to make up ground, should Evers falter. Although Evers told me that he's fishing to make a Top 10, it will be hard for him to not be conservative because all he has to do is avoid disaster and the AOY prize is his.
That's why I like Reese this week. His personality seems better geared to go for broke and try to win this one. And his career highlights on similar New York waters suggests he's more than capable: 13th on Erie/Niagara River in mid-July and second, seventh, 14th and 18th on Oneida, all in later summer tournaments. Among all Elite Series anglers, his average finish in New York state tournaments is third-best.
Gary Klein (0.3%): Dark Horse
Gary Klein is fishing better than ever and he's got eight Top 20s in New York, including two Top 10s in the past 13 years. And he's made three Top 20s on Lake St. Clair, another smallmouth factory, including a seventh and a fourth, all in late August.
See picks for buckets B, C, D and E on the next page.
Bucket B
Jonathon VanDam (17.5%): Safest Bet
I don't like to pick any angler with more than 10 percent ownership, and at 17.5 percent, Jonathon VanDam is a little overvalued. But if you're protecting a lead, pick him. He showed his deep-water smallie skills last season by winning on Green Bay, drop shotting. That's standard procedure in his home state of Michigan. And being Kevin VanDam's nephew, he likely benefits somewhat — pre-cutoff period — from the family information grapevine.
Still, his finishes in New York tournaments have not been stellar: 29th in late September on Oneida; 68th in late August on Oneida; 158th in late July on Champlain; and 143rd in late August on Champlain.
Takahiro Omori (2.9%): Best Bet
I like Takahiro Omori this week for two reasons: One, his career highlights on similar New York fisheries, and two, he's more likely than other anglers in this bucket to catch a Carhartt Big Bass and earn you 40 bonus Fantasy Fishing points.Omori has done well in New York tournaments in late summer, with three Top 20s on Oneida, three Top 20s on Champlain and two Top 30s on Erie.
John Murray (0.9%): Dark Horse & My Pick
Although John Murray has been uneven on Oneida (he's got a third place and a 92nd place), he's been great on Erie, which translates better to the St. Lawrence River — 10th in mid-August, fourth in early August and third in late July.
By picking high-risk/high reward anglers the last couple tournaments, I've battled back from the 73rd percentile in Fantasy points to the 93rd percentile, so I'm going to keep riding that lightning and go all in on the strategy.
Tommy Biffle (15.4%): Counterintuitive pick
If forecasts indicate the weather will be terrible, pick Tommy Biffle. Despite being known for flipping largemouth dirt shallow, Biffle has impressive career highlights on New York fisheries known for smallmouth. He won on Oneida once in a late summer tournament, and he's had four Top 20s there, too. On Champlain, he's had two Top 5s in July tournaments.
By winning in La Crosse, Biffle has qualified for the Classic, so there's no pressure for him to chase AOY points, so he can comfortably fish his style, come what may. And he won't have to share the shallow largemouth he's on, unless there's bad weather. Remember, he made a Top 12 last year on Green Bay, fishing for largemouth in the Fox River, rather than for smallies out in open water.
Bucket C
Mike Iaconelli (52.7%): Safest Bet & Best Bet
Hailing from New Jersey, Michael Iaconelli began his career cashing checks with a spinning rod and light line in New York tournaments. When you consider his career highlights on fisheries similar to the St. Lawrence River in late summer, you'll understand why everybody and his dog are picking him. He's got two Top 10s on Oneida, a Top 10 each on Erie, Cayuga and St. Lawrence, and three Top 20s on Champlain.
Brian Snowden (0.4%): Dark Horse & My Pick
An Ozarks native, Brian Snowden is no stranger to fishing in deep, clear water. His career highlights in New York led me to take a flyer on him as a dark horse this week: 14th in mid-July on Champlain; 15th in early August on Erie and 24th in late July on Erie.
Bucket D
Nate Wellman (14.5%): Safest Bet
Nate Wellman's Michigan roots and smallmouth experience make him a safe bet. Although he's perhaps slightly overvalued at 14.5 percent ownership, his career highlights in similar tournaments explains his popularity this week: seventh in late August on Oneida and 13th, 34th and 34th on Champlain.
Charlie Hartley (5.6%): Best Bet & My Pick
I like Charlie Hartley better than Wellman this week because his ownership percentage offers a better chance to gain ground on the competition and because these Northern, deep/clear-water smallie tournaments are Charlie Hartley's jam!
A likable guy who's easy to root for, it's often more difficult to put him on your Fantasy Fishing roster, as he makes fewer 50 cuts than many of his competitors. By his own admission, he sometimes gets so excited to catch fish — especially smallmouth — he "forgets" he's in a tournament and does not manage his fish well and/or tosses out tournament strategy.
Still, most of the best finishes in his career have come on the St. Lawrence River and water like it. He's got three Tops 10s on Champlain, two Tops 20s on the St. Lawrence, an 11th-place finish on Erie, and three Top 30s on Oneida.
No potential Dark Horse stood out to me in Bucket D this week.
Bucket E
Kotaro Kiriyama (2.1%): Safest Bet, Best Bet & My Pick
Pick Kotaro Kiriyama in Bucket E and don't even think twice about it. I'm not even considering anyone else, especially Brandon Palaniuk at a whopping 62.1 percent ownership percentage. Palaniuk is a great angler and a fun, friendly dude, but his swing-for-the-fences habit makes him a risky Fantasy pick for me. And with such a huge ownership percentage, it's like gambling $10 to win $5.
Kiriyama rarely makes my roster, either, except when deep, clear-water smallies are more than likely to win the tournament. You'll understand why when you check out his New York career highs. He's won on Erie before and has had two Top 20s there in late summer, and he's got five Top 30s to his credit on Champlain.
Chad Pipkens (3.3%): Dark Horse
Rookie Chad Pipkens owns the Detroit River/Lake St. Clair. Prior to making the Elites, he finished third there twice, and also fifth, ninth, 10th and 14th.


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Very IRRESPONSIBLE. I was referred to Dr. Reddy for Nerve Testing by spine specialist. Reddy's intake person said that they (Spine & Nerve Diagnostic Center) would be the primary treating physician for my work-related injuries (concussion, c-spine, left knee, right shoulder). From Day 1, I was left with new, young, inexperienced Physician Assistant which I was happy to be used as guinea pig in training her MISTAKENLY assuming that I would get to see Dr. Reddy but the PA was obviously overwhelmed and she would LITERALLY saw me for less than 10 mins and so 2 months into it, I realized that I was falling through cracks and tried to remedy the situation (of the PA forgetting to request for nerve testing while UTTERLY failing to properly diagnose and address my injuries) was met with RUDENESS from office staff. Obviously, the doctor himself didn't guide her what questions to ask me in evaluation. In her attempt to cover for her mistakes (forgetting to request nerve testing, etc.), the PA tried to make me look like I suffered from memory impairment and referred me to a neurologist. PA's master's degree was in Internal Medicine btw It turned out that in the referral to the neurologist, Dr. Reddy IRRESPONSIBLY used ONLY the information given by the PA leaving out the pain from concussion and neck injury. Lucky for me that the neurologist was super smart and I made sure he could pull facts out of misinformation. He was tough but I'm ok with it because he was not negligent.. So, this punjabi doc Dr. Reddy trained his punjabi PA at my expense. I am still processing this DELIBERATE negligence. Oh, the best thing happened to me was his discharging me AFTER I told his front desk staff to tell the gangster staff who tried to intimidate me that my sister is a doctor HERE (in Sacramento), i.e I was not going to put up with the way the staff was treating me to cover for the young PA's mistakes AT MY EXPENSE. Oh. the medical assistant did NOT even set up his voice mail box and so I couldn't even leave messages. So, I used email which takes more time. This doctor is running a fast food joint. I am not done yet. I will continue posting his DELIBERATE negligence for years to come.
Crappy front office as far as scheduling is concerned. Dr. Reddy is great and I have great pain relief after my procedure. The gals in scheduling don't return phone calls( Roseville and the phone is always asking you to leave a message or the "office is closed" when calling during business hours. What a joke. Is there an office manager? Who knows. Dr. Reddy is five star cant say that for his scheduling person.
I was referred to him by my primary doctor for low back pain for 7 years. Dr. Reddy and Patty McCarthy, RN took the time to explain my MRI. They are very good at explaining things! He saw that I was in a lot of pain. He booked or a spinal injection on the next day. I found out that he was booked for 6 weeks but he came in at 7:30 am to do my shot. I worked and gave me 85% relief. Good bless these doctors for caring about me!
Didn't spend the time that I wanted on my MRI. Explanations too fast or not in depth enough. Would have liked more time with him, and I will have to make another appointment. Didn't get all my questions answered. Felt hurried.
Hands down the best doctor and staff I have ever been to! I had back pain for 4 years. I was seen at Dr. Reddy's office. The initial evaluation was by his physician assistant J.C. She ordered an MRI. She went over the MRI. She sent me to Dr. Reddy for an EMG. He did the study and explained that my nerve was pinched. He did an injection and my pain improved by 90%. I went back to work 5 days after the injection after being off work for 4.5 months. Great staff. Skilled Doctor. Great P.A.
Dr. Vinay Reddy is a very good Doctor helped me find a spinal surgeon who repaired my two vertebra, after the first surgeon messed up the operation.
I have been seeing Dr Reddy and staff for about 5 years. They are very knowledgable, care about your pain and do everything they can to help. I mostly see his two Physician Assistants but have had 2 epidurals by him. He also did a nerve study to rule something out. Cannot more highly recommend them. They do not need to overly follow-up with you.
Really good doctor with really nice staff. He is a young doctor who is a throw back to what doctors used to be.
I had a lower back problem for several years. My Dr referred me to Dr Reddy who after a few months of P.T. gave me the injection in my lower back. After the meds wore off I could feel a differance right away. Pain is much less and now on to treat my hip thats causing the other pain I have. Wonderful staff and great results.
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(Host) One year ago, when Tropical Storm Irene hit, the destruction wrought along Vermont's rivers was tragic. But Lake Champlain Lakekeeper Louis Porter of the Conservation Law Foundation says some extraordinary and wonderful things happened as well - some of which have taken us some time to understand.
(Porter) All across our state the natural landscapes that Vermonters inherited and preserved in turn protected them from what would otherwise have been even more devastation from Tropical Storm Irene.
In places where rivers still had access to flood plains, the waters spread out and their force was dissipated. This kept many buildings, roads and bridges from being completely annihilated. And some places had culverts and bridges sized to accommodate the larger deluges. They survived, while neighboring older and smaller culverts and bridges were simply washed away.
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The Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines, is a women's group and the pioneer transgender human rights advocacy and support organization in Philippines. It was founded in December 2002 in response to the call for an organization that would address the issues, needs, and concerns of transpinays (transgender/transsexual Filipinas).
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STRAP holds regular activities such as: International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), Participation in the annual Pride March, the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia and a bi-annual General Assembly (GA) of members.
In 2010, STRAP launched the Sybil Awards as way to honor to honor individuals, organizations, establishments, activities, programs and other entities that, in their own way, combat intolerance based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), uphold gender equality and promote the empowerment of sex and gender diverse people.
The Sybil Awards is named after one incarnation of the Great Mother, a goddess whose worship dates back to the Stone Age. Known by different names, she was called Sybil in various cultures. The Great Mother Sybil was venerated by transgender priestesses in pre-communal, matrilineal societies who are considered precursors of modern transgender identity.
STRAP made history by being the first SOGI activist organization in the Philippines to pay tribute to those who help further its cause of promoting transgender equality, empowerment, acceptance and dignity.
STRAP welcomes all transgender/transsexual girls and women who are living or working in the Philippines. STRAP does not charge any membership fee but potential members undergo a rigorous screening process.
- TSPhilippines.com (Accessed on May 08, 2008)
- FilipinoLinks.com (Accessed on May 08, 2008)
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From today, classical music fans in 15 European countries will be able to buy music from Passionato, the online download store.
The company, which launched in the UK last September, already has 15,000 registered members here in Britain; now it's opening up its service to enthusiasts in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
Passionato provides users with access to the catalogues of the largest major classical labels as well as the key independent classical companies, and makes its DRM-free downloads available in a choice of lossless FLAC or 320kbps MP3.
In addition, users can download the free Passionato Player software, able to organise CD collections alongside downloads, offer extended information about downloads and rips, and also give enhanced searching of the companies catalogue.
It's also possible to search for live events and book tickets.
More after the break
To mark the expansion, the company's website has had a refresh, with content now including a free guide to classical music downloads.


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tiglath-pileser expressly says that he himself slew Pekah and appointed Hoshea.
Some identify it with Itibi'alu of an inscription of tiglath-pileser.
But tiglath-pileser gave the new dynasty no time to settle itself firmly on the throne.
Ahaz may have had this lesson impressed on his mind by his visit to tiglath-pileser.
When he invited the interposition of tiglath-pileser, all the other consequences of humiliation would naturally follow.
It was a proud day for Ahaz when he paid a visit to tiglath-pileser at Damascus.
His son, tiglath-pileser I., was one of the great conquerors of history.
Ere long, tiglath-pileser began his campaigns against them by attacking the Arameans, dwelling on the banks of the Tigris.
And tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
He is associated with Asshur in this capacity, and tiglath-pileser brackets them as those "who fulfil his desire."


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'There's still life in the High Street': Dragon Theo Paphitis on the state of Britain's shops
There's a framed photo of leisure entrepreneur Deborah Meaden behind a sofa, and a doll resembling Margaret Thatcher placed next to a gold bar. Accoutrements such as these say as much about their owners as the words that tumble from their lips.
The chairs in the office of this well-known businessman are fashioned out of a shopping trolley and they are about as uncomfortable as you would imagine.
'The idea is that you don't stay too long,' jokes Theo Paphitis, his instantly recognisable tone familiar to millions of viewers of the BBC's Dragon's Den.
Upbeat: Despite the demise of some big names, Theo Paphitis says the future is bright for retail
Born in Cyprus, the retail entrepreneur behind stationer Ryman has stayed true to his roots, visiting regularly and is devastated by its current woes.
'I have a home there and consider myself Cypriot,' he says.
'What is happening is horrible – it's catastrophic for businesses. I believe it is an EU experiment and if they can get away with doing this to Cyprus it will be applied to other countries as a solution to the whole euro problem – it's how they want to rebalance everything.'
Despite being what he calls 'foreign', he says he pays his taxes here and doesn't understand why American multi-nationals don't.
'I've got a Starbucks next to me,' he says. 'I have to pay full corporation tax, and these guys pay none, I get the hump. I'm foreign as well. But I still pay tax. My companies are all UK companies, there's no transfers.'
The business tycoon made his name building Ryman and women's underwear brand La Senza, which he sold at the top of the market, long before finding fame as a Dragon.
Having recently decided to step down from the show – leaving his children's inheritance intact – Paphitis will focus on his recent acquisition of ironmonger Robert Dyas and lingerie start-up Boux Avenue.
Year-end figures to April are expected to show Dyas will make a £4.5m profit for the year while Ryman will post flat earnings after strong sales in London and the south were offset by a slowdown in the north.
Paphitis may be forced to shut some stores in under-invested High Streets.
His retail empire spans some 348 stores and the tycoon, whose first job was assistant to the tea boy at a Lloyd's of London broker, is still hungry for a deal.
Paphitis eyed the broken empires of HMV, Blockbuster and Jessops, along with the rest of the retail world.
'My interest for HMV harks from an era that thinks, "What a great brand",' he says. 'My god what a brand, I mean it's a fab brand isn't it? It hasn't got any future in its present guise – its future is in smaller stores and its online presence.
'But its lost that first mover advantage and now you are competing with everybody online. In the past I have looked at things and thought is there something there?
'I've looked and looked, and I've ended up doing something because you see something, so you must never say never, because something sometimes hits you.'
While clearly harbouring desires for HMV, Paphitis thinks others with more specialist expertise will have a better chance at landing the 92-year-old music chain.
'I have a yearning for anything to do with retail,' he says.
'But I'm a realist and I know my limitations. I've enjoyed my brands, and I love the brands I've got. This is just property I'm looking at.
'I could put a Dyas or Ryman in some HMV stores, and I had been talking to the administrator of Jessops where I identified some shops, as well as Blockbuster.'
As a child Paphitis faced the upheaval of emigrating from Cyprus when he was six to move to Manchester, and then to North London.
His mother, a seamstress, split from his father and together with two siblings he attended Woodberry Down Comprehensive in Hackney. Paphitis left school with a single O-Level and after a short sojourn at Lloyd's of London whetted his appetite for retail at Watches of Switzerland. He then moved on to start his own property finance business aged 23.
Paphitis twists a silver cuff link attached to a custom-made shirt baring the initials TP.
We are sitting round a desk fashioned out of a metal aircraft wing. The glass top is cushioned by four red noses – Comic Relief is one of the charities Paphitis supports.
Death of big High Street names was no surprise
Retail defines him. He comes alive talking about the industry, its players, and the deals.
He is less downbeat about the state of the High Street and the demise of some of its big names than you would think.
'You say it's been unprecedented but I am a very positive person,' he says. 'Which one of those [failures] honestly was a surprise to you?
'Jessops was owned by a bank, they are not retailers and they are not very good at retail banking either to be honest. If it wasn't for the suppliers, Jessops would not have been here for the last 3 years – they have kept it going.
'I put JJB Sports down to management – purely bad management – nothing else. Comet was part management and part changing world, as I call it. Then you have HMV.'
With the failed music and DVD seller, Paphitis thinks former boss Simon Fox did a good job keeping the chain alive for as long as he did.
He remembers looking at HMV and WH Smith some years ago when they had the same market cap. He says Kate Swann, who is stepping down as chief executive of WH Smith, realised: 'Poo! We don't have a reason to exist at the moment. But she focused on it, she got a bit of stick, but drove sales down and profits up. If I put my cynical cap on would I buy shares now? No.
'She has my full admiration. I certainly wouldn't have bet on her. Proper shopkeeper. HMV, I think the management did an incredible job keeping it alive without moving it anywhere.'
The future for his business is more of the same. He has no plans to come to market after being burnt once before.
'That was an absolute disaster for me,' he says. 'I blame myself, no one else, but at the end of the day I could have blamed other factors, the City, the economy. I learnt I wasn't going to do this again, I want to run my own destiny. I never want to run a public company again.'
He says the key to retail is people. 'I am a terrible people watcher – I love it,' he says. 'You can't run shops by accountants – you can't run a retail business from a spreadsheet.
'It is about people – it's what you are going to get from people, what you can drive from people.'
And for someone who is clearly enthusiastic about his work, Paphitis mysteriously proclaims he has set his retirement date.
'It's when I die,' he says deadpan. 'I just love it too much'.
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NHL labor meeting again in NYC
Labor negotiations between the NHL and its Players Association will resume today at the league headquarters in Manhattan.
The current collective bargaining agreement expires in less than three weeks, and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said players will be locked out if a new deal is not in place by Sept. 15.
Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly are slated to attend the meeting today. The NHLPA is scheduled to be represented by executive director Don Fehr and his brother, and union No. 2, Steve.
The sides met for a less than three hours total over two sessions last week, and Bettman said negotiations remain stuck on "fundamental economic issues."
Bettman seeks a deal with a hockey-related revenue split closer to 50-50 than the current 57-43 split in the favor of players, Penguins NHLPA representative Craig Adams said.
The current split was agreed upon after the NHL locked out players for an entire season (2004-05). The league returned from that dispute with a salary cap and floor, both of which have increased annually because of near capacity league-wide attendance.
Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a vast majority of NHL revenue is generated from ticket sales. Bettman suggested last week that he did not anticipate fan support dwindling if there is another lockout.
The league and union have traded proposals, and many players expect the league to submit another plan at the meeting today. Many peripheral issues have been resolved, Adams said.
"I don't think you can get too emotionally involved or attached to any of these proposals or ideas," he said.
Adams downplayed a growing sentiment among players' agents that Bettman is less interested in fair deal as opposed to figuratively crushing the NHLPA with a CBA that totally favors owners.
"I hope that's not true," he said. "I don't think that's true, at least until I see evidence otherwise."
Rob Rossi is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-380-5635.


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Unlike with some blockbuster films, the sequel to a movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is better than the first. This latest movie features a deeper look at a fast moving jet of particles produced by a rapidly rotating neutron star, and may provide new insight into the nature of some of the densest matter in the universe.
The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star collapsed. The Vela pulsar is about 1,000 light-years from Earth, about 12 miles in diameter, and makes a complete rotation in 89 milliseconds, faster than a helicopter rotor.
As the pulsar whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles that race along the pulsar's rotation axis at about 70 percent of the speed of light. The new Chandra data, which were obtained from June to September 2010, suggest the pulsar may be slowly wobbling, or precessing, as it spins. The period of the precession, which is analogous to the slow wobble of a spinning top, is estimated to be about 120 days.
"We think the Vela pulsar is like a rotating garden sprinkler -- except with the water blasting out at over half the speed of light," said Martin Durant of the University of Toronto in Canada, who is the first author of the paper describing these results.
One possible cause of precession for a spinning neutron star is it has become slightly distorted and is no longer a perfect sphere. This distortion might be caused by the combined action of the fast rotation and "glitches," sudden increases of the pulsar's rotational speed due to the interaction of the superfluid core of the neutron star with its crust.
"The deviation from a perfect sphere may only be equivalent to about one part in 100 million," said co-author Oleg Kargaltsev of The George Washington University in Washington, who presented these results Monday at the 221st American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, Calif. "Neutron stars are so dense that even a tiny distortion like this would have a big effect."
If the evidence for precession of the Vela pulsar is confirmed, it would be the first time a neutron star has been found to be this way. The shape and the motion of the Vela jet look strikingly like a rotating helix, a shape that is naturally explained by precession.
Another possibility is the strong magnetic fields around the pulsar are influencing the shape of the jet. For example, if the jet develops a small bend caused by precession, the magnetic field's lines on the inside of the bend will become more closely spaced. This pushes particles toward the outside of the bend, increasing the effect.
"It's like having an unsecured fire hose and a flow of water at high pressure," said co-author George Pavlov, principal investigator of the Chandra proposal at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. "All you need is a small bend in the hose and violent motion can result."
This is the second Chandra movie of the Vela pulsar. The original was released in 2003 by Pavlov and co-authors. The first Vela movie contained shorter, unevenly spaced observations so that the changes in the jet were less pronounced and the researchers did not argue that precession was occurring. However, based on the same data, Avinash Deshpande of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, and the late Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, argued in a 2007 paper the Vela pulsar might be precessing.
Astronomers have returned to observing Vela because it offers an excellent chance to study how a pulsar and its jet work. The 0.7 light-year-long jet in Vela is similar to those produced by accreting supermassive black holes in other galaxies, but on a much smaller scale. Because Vela's jet changes dramatically over a period of months and is relatively close, it can be studied in great detail unlike jets from black holes that change over much longer timescales.
If precession is confirmed and the Vela pulsar is indeed a distorted neutron star, it should be a persistent source of gravitational waves, and would be a prime target for the next generation of gravitational wave detectors designed to test Einstein's theory of general relativity.
A paper describing these results will be published in Thursday's The Astrophysical Journal.. Other co-authors of the paper were Julia Kropotina and Kseniya Levenfish from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Oval, greatest batsman-ship this side of Bradman. Also Larwood's coming out party in English shirt.
Oval, greatest batsman-ship this side of Bradman. Also Larwood's coming out party in English shirt.
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
A big upset here - Joburg takes out Hobart by 1 vote! The first non-Australian match to get through.
Three Aussie tests for you to choose...
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5th Test: England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 11-13, 1902 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
1st Test: Australia v South Africa at Perth, Dec 17-21, 2008 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
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RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
RIP Hughesy 1988-2014
Perth for that epic Smith ton.
Perth. Magnificent chase
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The Oval. Jessop's test.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"I don't think that they'll come close to us to be honest."
- Steve Smith before the Ashes
What if all the switches get stuck on 'destroy'?
Perth. What a mammoth chase, not to forget the twists and turns that happened in the first 3 days as well.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
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Evan Rachel Wood
The provocative young
actress who impressed (and terrified) us in Thirteen
is moving her carreer along quite nicely.
by Bradford R. Pilcher
Evan Rachel Wood is the nightmare of every suburban American parent. Rather, she plays a suburban parental nightmare in most of her movies. From her breakout - and Golden Globe nominated - role in Thirteen, the Jewish North Carolina native found herself playing the perpetual bad girl.
There was 2005's Pretty Persuasion wherein Wood portrayed an evil, sexually-active high-schooler. Think Poison Ivy but smart and an indie flick. She followed that up with Down in the Valley, a film that found her character engaged in a sexual relationship with an older man posing as a cowboy.
This all from a girl who only just turned 19 and had to be home schooled because of bullying. Her educational adjustment helped her score a high school diploma by age 15 - she picked up a black belt in Tae Kwon Do in case she ever had to face bullies again - so it's safe to say she's mature for her age, but she swears she's not trying to be shocking with her choice of roles. Instead she hopes her roles spread awareness about the consequences of deviant behavior.
Her latest film isn't exactly a sex romp, either. Running With Scissors has her playing the eccentric daughter of an even more eccentric psychiatrist - Gwyneth Paltrow plays her sister. When, in the film's trailer, she asks the male lead, Are you ready to play doctor, you see the shades of her more seductive roles, but she ends up strapping him down for electro-shock therapy instead.
There are too many movies that are exactly the same, she once confessed to Interview magazine. People just don't really expect movies to be that good anymore.
We can't disagree, but in the case of Ms. Wood we fully expect her to continue bucking that trend.
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TO SOME he was the tough-talking former soldier who went to Iraq as a contractor to test himself fighting insurgents. He dabbled in local security work, including guarding the model Miranda Kerr and mine sites.
To others he was the deadline-obsessed successful builder, skilled at renovating upmarket colonial homes in Brisbane's inner suburbs or doing multimillion-dollar developments and project management.
But none could understand how Jonathon Andrew Stenberg could end up on the run in rugged bushland as the chief suspect in the bizarre beheading of a harmless recluse on the NSW North Coast.
Late yesterday dozens of heavily armed officers from the Northern Territory Police's Tactical Response Group were using dogs and helicopters to comb rugged bushland for the 46-year-old former combat engineer and war zone security contractor.
He is wanted on suspicion of killing Edward ''Ned'' Kelly, whose body was found with a hat perched where the head should be at his Broadwater home on June 21.
The pair had previously clashed and Kelly's tree-covered bush property shared a boundary with Mr Stenberg's 9000-square-metre property.
Five days after the discovery of Kelly's body, Mr Stenberg was sighted in the Northern Territory and police have been hunting for him ever since.
Yesterday a Brisbane resident, Paul Golle, who came to know Mr Stenberg through a Brisbane martial arts club, was shocked to learn of the killing and the manhunt.
He said Mr Stenberg had even done a brief stint as security for the model Miranda Kerr when she visited Queensland in 2010.
''I got John a security job looking after Miranda Kerr. I had a mate who had a security company and he contacted me and said could I swing some guys together,'' Mr Golle said.
''She was doing some promo work. John was on the outer perimeter but because the perimeter was so small they were within arm's length. Obviously she said g'day but there is a strict no contact policy.''
Queensland's register of security guards lists Mr Stenberg as having a licence to bodyguard. Kerr's managers, Chic Agency, declined to comment yesterday.
Mr Golle expressed concern that Mr Stenberg might want to confront NT police and could possess high-tech surveillance equipment from the United States military that had been obtained from Iraq.
''He may be trying to test himself,'' said Mr Golle, a former soldier. ''You are not dealing with someone who has gone nuts with a .22 [calibre rifle] because his wife left him.''
Mr Golle revealed that Mr Stenberg had brought back a sophisticated thermal imaging night vision device after going to Iraq as a contractor and had been trying to sell it. ''It was about the size of a box Brownie and it sat up on a tripod and you could see people by their body heat.''
He said Mr Stenberg had also raised the issue of buying some illegal pistols - something which another associate had immediately reported to the Australian Federal Police. ''I didn't have any more contact after that,'' he said.
The NT Police Commander, Richard Bryson, who is leading the hunt, said yesterday Mr Stenberg seemed to have come prepared for a long hide out in the bush. He said officers had found camping equipment, solar panels and long-life food as well as a rifle in Mr Stenberg's vehicle.