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E-Government – A Paradigm Shift Towards Responsive and Efficient Governments
The efficient governments of today are synonymous with information technology (IT) savvy organisations, leveraging on the increasing power of the Internet to herald a new age of E-Government excellence. Indeed, the power of increasingly robust info-comm infrastructure and persistent connectivity has enabled the world's governments to rethink the interaction possibilities with their citizens and businesses, opening up whole new ways and opportunities to better serve them.
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Singapore Public Service Infrastructure
In the vein of studying progressive nations with comprehensive, efficient E-Government implementations, one needs to look no further than Singapore. For 5 consecutive years, the prosperous city-state has topped the list of 55 countries in Waseda University's Annual International E-Government Ranking study. Singapore's present-day effectiveness in delivering value to citizens and businesses through citizen-centric E-Services did not happen by chance. The advent of internet technology back in year 2000 birthed countless possibilities in automated service delivery for citizens. Ecquaria's role as one of the E-Government pioneers was instrumental, leveraging on its thought leadership to conceptualise and subsequent implement the Singapore Public Service Infrastructure (PSI).
The PSI represents the end product of a standardised and unified approach in building a common platform for all E-Services to be rapidly deployed, triggering a revolutionary paradigm shift from physical counter services to online services across all government agencies. Home to 1700 E-Services and still counting, the PSI undoubtedly remains the foundation in shaping the Singapore E-Government landscape into the efficient eco-system it is today.
Qatar Service Platform
In 2008, Qatar's Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) partnered Ecquaria Technologies to launch the Qatar Service Platform (QSP), the flagship initiative under ictQATAR's integrated government program to develop and integrate government-wide E-Services in support of their charter to harness ICT in achieving public service innovation. The QSP provides the platform that hosts existing and future government E-Services. Designed with a common service gateway, the QSP allows agencies the flexibility to develop and host their E-Services centrally and reap efficiencies across agencies through sharing of common services such as user authentication and E-payment. The QSP helps to meet the objectives of ictQATAR to connect, enrich and inspire Qatar's citizens and businesses, transforming the way the government and businesses run and improving the lives of the people who live and work in Qatar.
The Bahamas E-Government
Ecquaria made its mark in the Caribbean Republic in a big way, being part of the Singapore E-Government expertise team in heralding a new approach for the public to do business with the Government. Jointly collaborating with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore International (IDA International), Ecquaria developed and officially launched the new E-Government Web Portal and E-Services in the Bahamas in 2011. Amongst the first batch of E-Services catered to citizens and businesses included the Renewal of Driver's Licence, Real Property Tax Payments, Service-Wide Customer Service and Vendor Inquiry. Leveraging on our deep domain and implementation expertise, Ecquaria helped kick-start E-Government efforts in The Bahamas by strengthening the ICT infrastructure and improving online service delivery.
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For an E-Government to deliver a set of convenient, empowering services that truly generates value to its key stakeholders, it is important to consider the implementation's relevance and speed of delivery. The means of delivery and ease of use of the E-Government's services should also be taken into account, not only for the public users but also for agency users and system administrators. Quick to deploy across a wide range of government functions on traditional infrastructure or agile virtualisations, the Ecquaria E-Gov Platform has seen global implementation in mission-critical verticals such as Business Licensing, E-Judiciary, E-Healthcare, Workforce Development, Education and more.
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I just wanted to report that a few weeks ago while I was fishing at the Juan, I remembered this thread and that video of Mr. Humphreys taking bow and arrow casting to a much higher level, and decided to give it a try.
Also, while I'm thinking of it, thanks to whoever posted that video of Mr. Humphreys.
Notes: I was using a Winston GVX 9 ft. 5 wt. (a medium fast rod).
I recommend that you gradually and incrementally increase the bend you put in your rod to avoid possible damage. I started at about half the rod length and worked up to nearly the full rod.
I tried this with the reel up only.
I got significantly better distance by first pointing my rod tip several inches above my target (the rod was angled with the reel lower than the tip), before putting any bend in the rod. The idea was to send the line on a slightly upward trajectory.
This also helped me aim. Once I had my aim figured out and the distance, I coiled the appropriate amount of line in my left hand, hung onto the line just above the reel with my right, and put a good bend in the rod. My left held about 8 or 9 foot long loops, with the fly hang a good ten inches below my fingers. I let go and voila, I made a 30 foot cast using the bow and arrow technique.
I have to say that I was shocked by the result (I really thought there had to be some trick to Mr. Humphreys' video that I had missed/forgotten), so much so, that I literally sat down in the river and just started laughing out loud. This probably went on for at least a good minute or two. Good thing it was only running at 220 cfs, or I'd had filled my waders with 45 degree water for sure. Those guffaws would have turned into hoots of discomfort in a hurry.
Which reminds me, if any of you were there and heard someone just cackling away for a minute, that was me, and sorry if I distracted you.
More notes: Look out for any rocks or wood directly below your rod tip. The tip will rebound and easily strike anything within a few inches below it.
Tie your knots as well as you know how.
And check your leader/tippet for frays. While experimenting with the cast I either didn't tie one of my knots well enough or I had a frayed leader just above the knot. Either way, when I released what was supposed to be a 40 foot cast, I watched my rig sail off to the right and land in the drink several yards from the end of my fly line.
Anyway, I just wanted to report that Mr. Humphrey isn't a magician, it's really as simple to make a 30 foot bow and arrow cast as his video shows.
Last note: The holding the tippet with the fly several inches below your hand thing really works. I watched the fly very carefully the first half dozen times I tried this out, and it never came close to hooking me.
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Deepak Chopra is the founder of the Company and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director since the Company's inception in May 1987. He has served as the Company's Chairman of the Board of Directors since February 1992. Mr. Chopra also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of several of the Company's subsidiaries. From 1976 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1987, Mr. Chopra held various positions with ILC, a publicly-held manufacturer of lighting products, including serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Operating Officer of its United Detector Technology division. Mr. Chopra has also held various positions with Intel Corporation, TRW Semiconductors, and RCA Semiconductors. Mr. Chopra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, Punjab, India and a Master of Science degree in semiconductor electronics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Alan Edrick is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Edrick joined the Company in this role in September 2006. Mr. Edrick has over 25 years of financial management and public accounting experience, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial planning and analysis, and regulatory compliance. Between 2004 and 2006, Mr. Edrick served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BioSource International, Inc., a biotechnology company, until its sale to Invitrogen Corporation. Between 1998 and 2004, Mr. Edrick served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of North American Scientific, Inc., a medical device and specialty pharmaceutical company. Between 1989 and 1998, Mr. Edrick was employed by Price Waterhouse LLP in various positions including Senior Manager, Capital Markets. Mr. Edrick received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ajay Mehra is Executive Vice President and President of OSI Solutions Business and a Director of the Company. Mr. Mehra joined the Company as Controller in 1989 and served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from November 1992 until November 2002, when he was named the Company's Executive Vice President. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Mehra held various financial positions with Thermador/Waste King, a household appliance company, Presto Food Products, Inc., and United Detector Technology. Mr. Mehra holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Business of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University.
Victor Sze is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Mr. Sze joined the Company as Vice President of Corporate Affairs and General Counsel in March 2002. In November 2002, Mr. Sze was appointed Secretary of the Company. In September 2004, Mr. Sze was appointed Executive Vice President. From 1999 through November 2001, Mr. Sze served as in-house counsel to Interplay Entertainment Corp., a developer and worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software, holding the title of Director of Corporate Affairs. Prior to joining Interplay Entertainment Corp., Mr. Sze practiced law with the firm of Wolf, Rifkin & Shapiro in Los Angeles. Mr. Sze holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School.
Pak Chin is President of the Company's Security Division. Mr. Chin joined the Company in May 2015 from Honeywell Inc. where he held a variety of leadership positions over 17 years including Vice President of the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Aerial Refueling Tanker program, Vice President of the Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Huntington Ingalls Defense & Space business segment, Vice President of Commercial Aerospace and Airlines Business segment in Asia Pacific and Chairman of the Board for the Honeywell Aerospace and TAECO Aerospace joint venture. Mr. Chin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Masters in international business from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Manoocher Mansouri is President of the Company's Optoelectronics and Manufacturing division. Mr. Mansouri joined the Company in 1982 and was named President of its Optoelectronics and Manufacturing division in June 2006. Mr. Mansouri has over 35 years of experience in the optoelectronics industry. Mr. Mansouri has served as President of the Company's OSI Optoelectronics, Inc. subsidiary since May 2000. Mr. Mansouri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles as well as an Executive Program in management certificate from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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There was, however, one incontrovertible and highly significant difference between the two baby photo calls.
There was incontrovertible toxicological evidence that Henri Paul was both drunk and on medication.
The central fact (perhaps the only incontrovertible fact) of modern India was change.
I ask if he believes that the evidence so far is incontrovertible that swimming slows down the aging process.
History, unless it is based on facts, incontrovertible facts, is worthless.
Nothing could be more just or incontrovertible than this claim.
The duration of the reigns in several dynasties is fairly well known from the incontrovertible evidence of contemporary monuments.
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An Automatic Totalisators Limited company document titled The PREMIER (JULIUS) AUTOMATIC TOTALISATOR has a low resolution copy of this image in it. It is titled FIG. 5 The Main Totalisator Building ("Premier" Equipment) at Longchamps, Paris.
Following are extracts from the company document mentioned above that appear close to this image. This extract is the third in sequence in these pages after the extract associated with the image of Gloucester Park Trotting Track. It relates to the punter runner total displays versus odds displays which were available with Julius Totes after 1927 when Automatic Totalisators Limited invented the world's first odds computer:
In almost every totalisator installation, the Government or the Race Club makes a percentage deduction on the total moneys invested on every race. If, as has been the practice in the past, the totalisator records merely the aggregate number of tickets sold on the race, and the number of tickets sold on each horse, the bettor, in order to determine what his dividend is likely to be, has first to deduct the Government or Club tax from the grand total investment. Next, if it is a "Place" machine, he has to divide up the remaining amount on a certain fixed percentage basis to determine the amount of the pool available for the backers of each of the placed horses. Finally, he must divide the number of numbers so obtained by the number of tickets sold on the particular horse in which he is interested. Whilst he is dong all this, the wheels of the machine are rapidly moving and only those bettors who are continually using the machine, and who thus may have become quick at approximating the result, can obtain anything other than a very approximate idea of the amount of the dividend that they have a chance of winning.
Realising this disability, and realising also that the use of the mechanical totalisator is now spreading into countries which for years past, have handled all betting transactions through bookmakers (who, when making the sale, definitely inform the investor of the dividend to be paid if the horse is successful) the inventor of the Premier machine has concentrated upon the production of equipment that will do the whole of these calculations automatically and instantaneously, so that the machine, instead of merely displaying the number of tickets sold, may give the investor the information that he is seeking, namely the amount of dividend that he would actually receive (at the moment he makes his bet) should his horse prove to be the winner. These efforts have been entirely successful and such equipment is now available, and can be installed on any racecourse.
It may be added that, although the mechanical operation involved in making such calculations appears to be very complicated, yet the continuous addition, the percentage deduction, the division of pool between placed horses, and the final division of this last result by the number of investment s on each horse, are in fact effected with very simple and positive mechanism. The Premier Machine available to-day, and which combines all these advantages, is very much simpler than the mechanism originally installed in Auckland in 1913, which latter only gave the total of the tickets sold on each horse, and left the whole of the remaining calculations to be done by the investor.
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New Career Resource Available to Spanish-Speaking Students
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CSTA Publishes Spanish Language Version of its Popular Computing Careers Brochure
New York, NY, November 7, 2007 – The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) is reaching out to Hispanic teachers and students with a Spanish-language edition of its popular brochure, "Imagine Your Future in Computing." Available in print and online, this colorful brochure encourages students to consider computing careers in a wide range of fields, including software development, mobile communications, medicine and the environment.
CSTA is a membership organization that works to support and promote the teaching of computer science at the K-12 level by providing opportunities for teachers and students to better understand computing disciplines. It was launched by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to ensure that teachers have the tools they need to get students interested in computer science careers.
"More than 10,000 English language copies of our computing careers brochure have been distributed across the country; we're eager to put this resource into the hands of Spanish-speaking students in a more accessible way," said Chris Stephenson, executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association.
The Hispanic community is severely underrepresented when it comes to computer science. Data from the 2007 AP Report to the Nation show that only 6.6 percent of Hispanic or Latino students completed an Advanced Placement (AP) computer science examination in 2006, compared to 57.8 percent of white students who took the exam. Overall, the total number of U.S. students enrolled in AP computer science has steadily declined from 23,459 students in 2002 to 19,601 in 2006. This trend has caused concern at the university level and beyond that there will not be enough employees to fill a growing forecast of future jobs available in computing and other technological fields.
According to CSTA equity chair Michelle Hutton, reaching students who are not traditionally attracted to computing is a primary goal for CSTA. "The demand for bright and talented young people trained in computing disciplines is increasing rapidly. Given the future workforce demands, it is critically important to eliminate the major racial and ethnic gaps that exist within the current computing pipeline. We need to demonstrate to all students the incredible breadth of computing career opportunities that are available for everyone," said Hutton.
Both the Spanish and English language versions of the brochure can be downloaded at http://csta.acm.org/Careers/sub/ClassroomCareersResources.html. Print versions are available by contacting CSTA at:
(800) 342-6626 or by e-mailing email@example.com.
Additional information for educators, including frequently asked questions, career profiles and an overview of computing curricula, is available at http://computingcareers.acm.org.
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About CSTA
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) is a membership organization that supports and promotes the teaching of computer science and the other computing disciplines by providing opportunities for K-12 teachers and students to better understand the computing disciplines and to more successfully prepare themselves to teach and to learn. http://csta.acm.org. CSTA provides its over 400 members with resources, research, and professional development opportunities. CSTA was launched by ACM in 2005.
About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery http://www.acm.org, is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development and professional networking opportunities.


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The last thing I ever want to do is sound like Rafa Benitez, but let's look at the facts.
England made it to the finals comfortably and impressively enough from a group containing an awkward closet skeleton in Croatia, but how many times did we play well enough for Fabio to now cite qualification form as a standard for doing well at this tournament?
A. Andorra (w) 2-0: Truly dreadful first-half display rescued by a half-time substitute named Joe Cole.
A. Croatia (w) 4-1: Memorable night garnished by Theo's searing pace – the night this team took shape not least because Heskey also had his best night – BUT the night Cole got injured, creating the gap to usher the injured Gerrard back into the team (fatally) on the left.
H. Kazakhstan (w) 5-1: Flattering scoreline, poor display against a team of rookies. Booed off at half-time. 0-0 after 52 mins, 2-1 after 68 thanks to a bog-standard header from a corner and an own goal - Ashley getting dog's abuse – 2 goals in last 4 mins.
A. Belarus (w) 3-1: Really good win, but earned after Gerrard switched from left at half-time to an advanced midfield role to occupy the Belarus playmaker Kulchy – remember his 1-2 with Rooney for his 2nd goal from a central role? Heskey's last good game (Oct '08!)
H. Ukraine (w) 2-1: The night Steve Bruce made Beckham man of the match for lifting a faltering display in the last half-hour (replacing a predictable Lennon). 1-1 with 5 minutes to go after James had saved one with his shoulder. JT's late goal squeezed us home.
A. Kazakhstan (w) 4-0: Kaz could have been 2 up before we got started. We got two goals in the last 5m of first-half (the 1st of those from an amusing goalkeeping error) eased us clear of modest opponents.
H Andorra (w) 6-0: Crouch preferred to Heskey, Theo's last contribution to qualification, Gerrard and Rooney rested in the second-half. Mismatch.
H. Croatia (w) 5-1: Qualification confirmed with the performance that became the justification for keeping faith with the team and shape Fabio brought to South Africa. Our last good first-half! Terrific display, but did Capello make best use of the 9 months between that night and Rustenburg to explore alternatives?
Perhaps, you need one approach to getting to the finals, and a different one towards winning the thing.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Just how well DID we qualify?"
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How to offend readers in one sentence....Why the dig at Rafa???ReplyDelete
However, your final sentence forms the most pertinent question mark against Fabio - what are the friendlies for if not to try different ideas/players?
Adam Johnson was given about 9 minutes against Mexico to book his S.A ticket for example.
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Innovator of Breakthrough Cryptography Technology Wins ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Garg Developed Technique to Protect Against Cyberattacks
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NEW YORK, May 8, 2014 – Sanjam Garg has won the 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Award presented by ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) for developing tools that enable the first secure solution to the problem of making computer program code "unintelligible" while preserving its functionality. This problem, known as software obfuscation, conceals the program's purpose or its logic in order to prevent tampering, deter reverse engineering, or as a challenge to readers of the source code. His approach makes it impossible to reverse-engineer the obfuscated software without solving mathematical problems that could take hundreds of years to work out on today's computers.
Garg, a Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, completed his dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, which nominated him. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he will receive the Doctoral Dissertation Award and its $20,000 prize at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 21, in San Francisco, CA. Financial sponsorship of the award is provided by Google Inc.
In his dissertation "Candidate Multilinear Maps," Garg described new mathematical tools that serve as key ingredients for transforming a program into a "jigsaw puzzle" of encrypted pieces. Corresponding to each input is a unique set of puzzle pieces that, when assembled, reveal the output of the program. Security of the obfuscated program hinges on the fact that illegitimate combinations of the puzzle pieces do not reveal anything.
Honorable Mention for the 2013 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award went to Grey Ballard of Sandia National Laboratories and Shayan Oveis Gharan of the University of California, Berkeley. They will share a $10,000 prize, with financial sponsorship provided by Google Inc.
Grey Ballard's dissertation, "Avoiding Communication in Dense Linear Algebra," explores fundamental computations within dense linear algebra, and whether significant improvement of the current algorithms for these computations is possible given the communication they require and their performance in practice. He received B.S. and M.A. degrees from Wake Forest University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories.
Shayan Oveis Gharan's dissertation, "New Rounding Techniques for the Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms," develops new approximation algorithms for two classical optimization problems, the Traveling Salesman and Graph Partitioning. He introduces new techniques for rounding a solution of a successive relaxation of these problems into near optimal integral solutions.
A graduate of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran with a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering, he received a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. He is a Postdoctoral Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and will join University of Washington's computer science department as an assistant professor in the winter of 2015.
About ACMACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.


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Review: Irreversible
In his 1991 film Carne, the story of a butcher with a handicapped child, Gaspar Noe showed the real butchering of a horse in unblinking detail as one of the first scenes.
In his new film, after a few minutes of excruciatingly disorienting camera movement through dark halls where men appear to doing sexual things to each other, he shows one man beating another man's brains out with a fire extinguisher. This takes place in a gay S&M club called Rectum, in strobing red light, so that we don't see anything very clearly. We see enough though, and we hear too much.
The sound of the attack is the stuff of nightmares. I felt like rushing out of the theatre, and many people did when the film was screened at midnight, in competition, at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Response to the film, as he no doubt expected and desired, was extreme. Noe,
an Argentinian-born resident of France was flayed in the French media. When the
film screened at one American festival, he was threatened with violence, which
is an ironic response to a film about the catastrophic effects of violence. The
British censors passed it uncut, as have the Australian censors - a surprise
given the fiasco last year over Ken Park.
So, is Noe a real filmmaker or just a very naughty boy, a French Damian Hirst, or a new Bunuel? Irreversible is meant to shock and it does, but its impact is much greater than that. It has a banal premise - time destroys everything - but it manages to dramatise it in a profound way.
The film is told in reverse, like Memento, but the title refers more to the nature of violent acts. In that sense, it's a kind of parable for troubled times. This is probably all the defence it needs - the argument that art should match the times in which it is born. For some time now, a couple of young French filmmakers have been making films that challenge audience expectations about the undepict-able. Catherine Breillat and others have brought explicit sex into serious cinema, reasoning that its absence was fake and disingenuous. Noe initially intended to make a film with explicit sex, the film that Tom and Nicole and Stanley failed to make with Eyes Wide Shut but the actors - Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci, a high-profile European star couple - baulked. Instead, they made Irreversible, which doesn't contain real sex but looks like it does.
The reversal of chronology disarms every rule of storytelling. At the start, we don't understand why Pierre (Albert Dupontel) and Marcus (Cassel) were in the gay club or what they did. Noe then shows us the 10 minutes before the arrival of the police, and so on, leading back to a scene hours before where the two men discover that Marcus's girlfriend Alex (Bellucci) has been raped and beaten up. The scene before that then plays out and we see Alex trapped in a dark railway tunnel by a pimp. He rapes her in a continuously shot scene that runs more than nine minutes. The camera is on the ground in front of her as this happens, so that we see her agony.
Once again, it's excruciating, but it changes the way we view the murder in the gay club and in a sense, it implicates us in what happened there. Noe makes us wish for vengeance, after he's made us sick at its depiction. He has also made a point about the ways narratives manipulates us.
The second half of the film is a relief after this, because the actors are whole, alive and unbloodied. Knowing what's to befall them turns the film into a tragedy. And as in any tragedy, Noe suggests that they carry the seeds of their own undoing within - or at least, the men do. (Alex's rape has no cause that she contributes to, beyond taking the wrong road home).
The film is a tough experience, but who said all movies have to be easy? It's not really a film you can like at the time of viewing, but nor is it a film that fades as soon as you leave the theatre. A lot of screen violence is sanitised and meaningless. Irreversible is its opposite, a film that sensitises us in a profound way to what we're watching.
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"Fifty and Fabulous" was the theme to Pat Thomasson's 50th birthday party held in The Warehouse at Beacon on March 1. The party turned into more than just a celebration of her birthday because on Thursday, Feb. 27 was named the 2014 Mississippi Business Woman of The Year by the Mississippi Business Journal.
The party took over a month to plan. Pat was allowed to look over the guest list but she was not allowed to know who would attend. Some things just need to be a surprise. There were 150 invitations given, with 108 in attendance that night. The turnout for the celebration was all we could have hoped for, organizers said.
Guests were instructed to RSVP to Pat's assistant Roxanna. Upon confirming their attendance they were told that instead of bringing gifts, to enter the party each guest had to "Bring a Bra!" Everyone would laugh when they were told the entrance procedure!
Many thought it was some type of joke to be played on Pat. Actually the truth of the matter was, Pat is a breast cancer survivor. Being nine years cancer free was yet another reason to celebrate. The guests were told for each 'used' bra there would be $1 donated to breast cancer research and for each 'new' bra $1 would be donated and the new bras would be given to a local shelter for battered women. Everyone brought a "gift" and some brought extras.
It made for a hilarious and fun filled beginning to the night's events.
The guest list included people from all over Mississippi and adjoining states including, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia.
The night before the party, a group met at the location to start decorating. The theme was hot pink, one of Pat's favorite colors, and zebra stripes. It was all about celebrating fun. Seating for 120 was brought into the warehouse. Roxanna McCarty, Leanna Lewis, Tena Reynolds, Brandon McCarty, Bryan Snow, Helen Thomasson, Pat's mother; and Linda Ruddy, a friend from Atlanta, Ga., spent hours hand-making over 100 paper flowers to decorate the building.
There were balloons, tea lights, and flowers all over the room. There was a special display case at the front with Pat's new award. There were posters on every wall available of different people and events in Pat's life from over the past 50 years: from a treasured baby picture over the cake table, a life size poster of Pat's mother Helen and her late father Hugh Thomasson holding hands and laughing, to Ole Miss football players and a giant collage of pictures from a zip-line trip through the forest she took last year. Everywhere you looked was a celebration of what Pat loves the most. Each table had its own lighted centerpiece as well as containers of chocolate covered peanuts from Hubb's Peanut Company.
There was a variety of chicken wraps catered by Bumper's Drive Inn. There were vegetable trays, Hawaiian meatballs, bacon wrapped sausages, and homemade chicken salad sandwiches.When It Really Matters - Custom Edible Art by Natali made cupcakes as well as the beautiful and delicious three tier birthday cake! No one left hungry from the party.
The band was essential to the party. It took weeks to make the decision. Tommy Lusk with Crescent Moon Entertainment in Nashville, Tenn. worked closely with Pat to make sure the musicians were exactly what she wanted. The final decision was made to use 'After Dark' a Motown/Funk band out of Memphis, Tenn. They were a complete hit. Playing classic Motown, pop, disco and rock they kept the dance floor moving all night. There were "dance offs" as well as line dancing. The saxophone player serenaded tables with his soulful sound as they took requests from the crowd. A special Happy Birthday song was played for Pat at midnight, marking the actual day of her birthday which is March 2.
Susan Webb had an interesting week, helping her daughter, Melanie Coggins, prepare for granddaughter Caprila's ninth birthday party.
It all started, Susan said, on Saturday, March 8 when Melanie called and asked Susan to put together a poster and gift bags for the party.
"It was for a Rainbow Party," she said. "She [Melanie] got the plans from Pinterest."
Susan first created a huge rainbow poster made of multicolored crape and tissue paper.
"It took me four night of staying up to 2 a..m. to complete," she said. "I could only get red and yellow crape paper so I had to cut, strip and bunch up tissue paper to make the rest."
Susan also made treat bags for the guests. They had little pots filled with gold, chocolate coins surrounded by rainbow mini-marshmallows and rainbow twizzlers.
Susan worked until late Wednesday.
On Thursday they held the party at Pump It Up in Jackson.
According to Susan, Caprila loved everything about it. They even had a rainbow cake for the party with different colored layers and topped with skittles.
"She [Caprila] even got her ears pierced and her nails painted in rainbow colors," Susan said. "She even loved the poster and plans to keep it in her room.
"It was a trip."
The Neshoba Central girls fast pitch softball team participated in the Gulf Shores Classic Tournament last week.
"They had a blast," said Amy Martin, the mother of player Meg Martin. They arrived on Saturday, March 8, and left Thursday, March 13.
The girls played eight games as part of the preliminary to the tournament and came out the winners every time.
"They were the number 1 seed," Martin said.
Outside of the tournament the 32-member team spent the week enjoying the sites. They stayed in a three-story, bright yellow house across the street from the beach called "The Lemonade Stand."
Staying with the girls were the three coaches and their spouses.
While there, the girls visited several restaurants, went to the outlet mall, rode go-karts at Adventure Island, played laser tag, went to the movies and the beach.
"They had a great time," Martin said.
The girls also had fun at the house. Martin said with a laugh that there were no problems keeping 32 girls in a single house together for a week.
"They fixed their hair and put on makeup and clothes," she said.
"There were no problems."
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The injury-hit Baltimore Ravens visit the Houston Texans in a battle between the AFC's top teams that, on the surface, should be in very different moods heading into one of the NFL's marquee Week Seven matchups.
Baltimore should be on a high having won their last four games, including last week's 31-29 win over the Dallas Cowboys that even Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco conceded was fortunate.
Houston, on the other hand, is coming off their first loss of the National Football League (NFL) season after a career-high six touchdown passes from quarterback Aaron Rodgers led the Green Bay Packers to an emphatic 42-24 win.
Baltimore prevailed the last time the two teams met, a 20-13 playoff win in January that put them into the American Football Conference (AFC) championship and improved their all-time record versus the Texans to 6-0.
But the Ravens' swagger is seriously tempered heading into the matchup of 5-1 teams given injuries to two key elements of their defence during the win over Dallas.
Ray Lewis, a 13-time Pro Bowl linebacker, tore his right triceps while Lardarius Webb, widely considered the Raven's top cornerback, tore his ACL and both are expected to miss the rest of the season.
Adding to the Ravens' concerns, outstanding safety Ed Reed revealed this week that he is playing through a labrum tear in his shoulder.
The Ravens defence has not been its usual self - ranked only 26th out of the NFL's 32 teams - and, without Webb and Lewis and possibly Reed, is a very different beast especially when coming up against a Houston team that includes outstanding receiver Andre Johnson and brilliant running back Arian Foster.
"With Ray and Lardarius out, to me it's about next man up - about just playing better, like last year when we played better when Ray was out," said Ravens defensive co-ordinator Dean Pees.
"I'm happy as I can be to be 5-1 but I also feel fortunate to be 5-1 the way we are playing on defense - let's be honest, we aren't playing well enough and to say it any other way would sound like political debate."
Texans head coach Gary Kubiak says that even though there is a long way to go in the regular season, the game has potential playoff significance.
"I know it's early in the season but a game carries a lot of weight down the road, so we know the importance of the game. We understand how big this game is," said Kubiak.
"They are an excellent football team and they are physical games when we play them and special teams are big in this one."
There is no tighter division than the AFC East where all four teams are 3-3 and two of them meet with the New York Jets travelling to the New England Patriots.
The Patriots have not been in Super Bowl form this season and are coming off a defeat to the Seattle Seahawks during which they squandered a 13-point fourth-quarter lead, a sign that there is a lot of work for coach Bill Belichick to do if his side are to be a threat in the playoffs.
But against the rival Jets, who are coming off a 35-9 rout of the Indianapolis Colts, Belichick expects few surprises.
"It really comes down to execution. I'd be surprised if this game is won by a team that comes out running something that's never been seen in the history of football before," he said.
One thing the Jets may try, given some injury problems in their backfield, is to utilise number two quarterback Tim Tebow as a running back.
"That's a possibility ... he knows all the positions, so can you plug him in at running back? Can you plug him in at tight-end? I think the answer is yes," added Belichick.
Another key divisional matchup comes in the NFC East where the Washington Redskins and rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III visit the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
The Arizona Cardinals (4-2) are at the Minnesota Vikings (4-2) while the only unbeaten team in the NFL, the Atlanta Falcons are on a bye week.
Dallas (2-3) at Carolina (1-4)
The Cowboys head to Carolina having lost three of their last four after an uplifting opening victory at the Giants. Dallas (2-3) had designs on taking charge of the NFC East, especially following the victory in the Meadowlands, but finds itself in last place in the division thanks to bad time management, critical dropped passes and a conference-high nine interceptions off Tony Romo.
"We need a victory, bad," fullback Lawrence Vickers said. "This is very critical to get this win."
Carolina (1-4) didn't have such high expectations, but the Panthers expected to build off Cam Newton's Offensive Rookie of the Year campaign and at least be in the mix in the NFC South. Instead — and even with New Orleans and Tampa Bay struggling — the Panthers are an also-ran, ranked 23rd in yards gained and 25th in points scored; in 2011 they finished seventh in total offence and fifth in points scored.Report Typo/Error


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TNA star Jesse Sorensen, who suffered a neck injury over a year ago, stated on his Twitter account that he is now working in the TNA offices as a marketing/production assistant.
This could indicate that his career as a wrestler is possibly over.
That's really sad, I really hope it's just temporary and he's just healing, reading this is just really unfortunate for Jessie, at least TNA gave a new job that's something.
I actually had a lot of hope for Sorenson. I thought he could possibly be the Face of TNA in the future. Him and Zema Ion couldve been the Styles/Daniels feud of the future.
Hopefully he can wrestle again once he recovers, If he recovers
Sorenson had talent, but his gimmick wasn't very good to be honest… The whole football thing wasn't very appealing.
He was still green, I'm pretty sure the football gimmick wasn't his real gimmick, more like a starting point for him like Triple H's Hunter Hearst Healmsly gimmick
Ehh! I never never saw that talent in either of them to be honest. Wrestlers like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels don't come around that often, which is what makes it more a shame to me the way TNA farted around with them for so long. I kid you not, when TNA first started it's national television deal with Spike, before the bloom was off the rose, the three people I always heard most talked about by fans who were new to TNA were: Samoa Joe, AJ Styles and Chris Daniels. Zema Ion is ok, and he might even be a pretty decent X division guy before it is over, and Jesse Sorrensen seemed to have a little but of talent, but was very green. Neither of them seem to be the type of guys who could transition that though into something bigger.
I've got to agree with you (although tbh, I don't want to). I do think that Ion could be a good talent at some point, but he's at least several years away.
Put simple, Robbie E. is a perennial mid-card door-mat and he's way ahead of Ion. Truth be told, though, Robbie E. should be rewarded for his work, but that's a different story…
This dude is going to be a cheerleader soon. What a wussy gimp, better he learned now … But saying he had a career is the over statement of the year so far.
……..Are You Insane or just really stupid & heartless? How is he a wussy? His C-1 Vertebrae was fractured and he still survived and only had temporary paralysis, for him to even walk is a miracle. But saying that would be the understatement of the year.
He wud break your neck u prat stop talking wet
I have no idea what you just said.
That is good tna gave him a job. Hope he can get better and wrestle again. Put him heel
He comes back as Ace's & Eights and blames Hogan & TNA for his Injury or something like that, I think that would be a good way for Jesse to return and he could win the X Title much easier with Ace's & Eight's help.
how do you think that from this story. if he has a new role in tna it most likely mean he done with wrestling or he taking time off. i highly doubt he will be with As & 8
It's a suggestion if he were to return to TNA nothing more than that.
just like when desmond wolfe got a new role with tna. this doesnt sound good for soresens wrestling career. this most likely mean it over. neck injuries are no joke
He reminded me of a young randy ortion
He's lucky to be walking again! That is a positive. I think if I were him, I would have walked out the door as soon as I could get out of the hospital bed. I quit wrestling after 2 stingers. For Brits who maybe don't know what that means (I'm not sure if its just American sports slang), it means when your spine gets briefly compressed from like getting dropped on your head as in my case and you temporarily lose feeling or have pins and needles (For like a few minutes or hours). It is just not worth it to me. Wrestling is short term, the rest of your life is not.
Apparently, people around here believe that the wrestlers are supposed to be willing to die in action to give us a couple of hours of quality TV every week… I don't get it either.
BTW – props to you for seeing the bigger picture and hanging it up.


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Where are Washington's K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders
by Jeff Reifman
A classroom in the Laotian school in Ban Na Muang. Credit: Rachel Flotard
In June, the Washington State Supreme Court ordered the Legislature to appear on September 3rd to explain why it hasn't found the revenue to fully fund the education reforms required by its McCleary ruling, reportedly as much as $7.83 billion through 2019.
There are a variety of reasons the state has a huge education budget gap. After the 2008 recession, the Legislature cut $4 billion from K-12 and higher education spending, which helped absorb the costs of continuing tax breaks for corporations. While most states have an income tax to smooth revenue through downturns, voters rejected the creation of a progressive income tax in 2010. Then, last November, the Legislature awarded Boeing $8.7 billion in new tax breaks.
Locally, Boeing often takes a lot of flak for its tax breaks, but Microsoft has also played a central role in lobbying for tax breaks that cripple state education spending.
Microsoft's Nevada Tax Dodge
Back in 1997, Microsoft realized it could save money on its fast-growing software licensing business by successfully lobbying the Legislature to cut Washington's royalty tax rate by 66 percent. Between 1997 and 1998, Microsoft's royalty tax bill went from $52.1 million to $22.9 million — and that was before the company's revenues really began to grow.
Shortly after, it acted to avoid the royalty tax altogether by opening an accounting office in Reno, Nevada; a state with no corporate income tax. As I reported in "Citizen Microsoft", a 2004 Seattle Weekly article, the company accounted for its software licensing sales through the new office to avoid paying taxes on them, even as the bulk of its facilities, software development and sales continued from Washington state.
Microsoft's Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith acknowledged this practice and discussed its impact on Washington tax revenues in an interview I did with him in 2004.
"Obviously the company did make a decision, I'm not remembering exactly how many years ago, to put Microsoft Licensing Incorporated in Nevada in part to recognize the lower tax rate that was in place there," he said. "And there have been times when people in state government have mentioned to us the issue of whether we might move that back to the state of Washington. The reality is that, in the scheme of things, the impact is not very significant either for the company or for the state. Either the state government or the state economy."


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Even as troika pressure for cutbacks at state organizations continues as part of a streamlining program, hundreds of staff are to be hired to public transport companies which have been left seriously understaffed by a wave of early retirements and dismissals.
Following a decision by the State Accounting Office last week, 450 employees are to be hired to bolster bus and trolley bus services and another 200 to the Athens metro, electric railway and tram services.
The recent extension of the capital's metro route has created additional pressure for recruitment. The biggest problem, however, has been the departure of hundreds of staff seeking to clinch early retirement before pensions are trimmed further and the forced dismissal of dozens more who were found to have secured their jobs in the state sector with fake qualifications.


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Have you noticed the increasing amount of nudity on the covers of African Movies? I must confess that this title is slightly misleading as in most of the cases I will present to you the trend is more towards scantily clad young women, some making crude gestures; as opposed to full on nakedness, however I have noticed many Africans use nude and naked to mean half dressed, hence the title of this post.
What I am wondering here on nollywoodforever.com is what is up with these covers in Nollywood? They were hardly masterpieces to begin with but now things have disintegrated to the point where I go and buy my stash and if someone that was not a very close friend wanted to see what I had bought I may well just refuse. Why would I refuse you may ask? Well let me tell you point blank; I am embarrassed. Movie covers nowadays are looking like soft porn.
As far as I can see the nudity of primarily young women featured on the front of African movies is not necessary to convey the essence of the movie contained within, neither is it artistic or beautifully shot. So why is it there? Well that is the question that I too am asking. When these covers are being designed what do they have in mind? Is it to shock? To titillate? Or is it as simple as the fact that SEX supposedly SELLS?
From my limited observations it would appear to me that Nollywood's primary consumers are FEMALE. I'm sure male addicts exist but all the Nollywood addicts that I know are females. All the people I know that buy movies en masse are females too. In fact all the males I know that watch Nollywood movies watch other people's copies or catch them on TV. Guys that do buy movies (I see them at the stall where I buy them) buy one or two and not a whole load like a lot of women do, so how does it make sense to target half naked images to women? We don't want to see that shit.
With that in mind I must ask again. What is the purpose of throwing all these naked and scantily clad young women and sometimes men (My Soul Mate and Strange Act) on the covers of African Movies? These images are not going to make women feel an impulse toward buying the movie so what is the marketing strategy behind this trend of late?
I can't answer the question. The most I can come up with is that certain marketers saw the controversy the sex in Ghanaian movies was causing and wanted to emulate that controversy? Outside that I am baffled. Maybe one of you can come up with another answer for me. Now let me show you some of the covers that I am referring to:
African Movies - Cover Analysis
Hot Tears is a Ghanaian movie. On the cover you can see Francesca Grey, smiling showing off her beautiful body in a pink bikini. This movie did in fact feature a lot of nudity but isn't it strange how on the cover the chick is wearing a pink two piece when in the actual movie she went to the beach in bra and panties. I even commented in my review how strange it was that they couldn't even go get her a bikini to wear. So what gives? The girl does not even smile in the movie. She is repeatedly brutally raped but they have her on the cover wearing sunglasses and pink bikini like she is taking a trip down to the Florida Keys. How does it relate?
Strange Act is a movie about spirits and a haunted house. You wouldn't think that from the cover would you? I feel sorry for Yemi and the actress that is posing for this cover with him because I'm sure they would not want their images used in this way. What is the point of this cover? It has nothing at all to do with the story. This image comes from a part at the beginning of the movie where Yemi is caught in bed with another woman by his wife. This is by no means a focal point of the story.
On the cover of Cruz we see Uche Ogbodo looking like a wanton woman, mouth ajar and grabbing her crotch. My first thought on seeing this was, WTF? Granted she was a wanton woman in the movie but what do we need to see her grabbing her crotch for?
Mansion Models repackaged as Fulton Mansion is the worst cover for me. Now wtf is going on here? We see Eve Esin legs akimbo, grabbing her breast and rubbing her crotch. Would you believe that this movie is about some girls training to compete in Miss Nigeria? Miss Nigeria? Can you imagine? Look at the state of them? More like Nigeria's Next Top Ashewo. The movie is in fact almost as smutty as the cover. There was lots of half naked perambulating with some lesbian clinching thrown into the mix. The movie is a hot mess. I was so surprised that Stephanie Okereke even agreed to be a part of this.
Mind Game repackaged as Sexy Game tried to get in on the whole sex thing by renaming the movie Sexy Game. What for now? Were there any sexy games in the movie? Which kind nonsense be this? Your husband is cheating on you with a man. Oooooh how sexy! Look at Omotola on the cover of the movie. There is not one part of the movie where she wore daisy dukes or exposed her midriff like so. So why put it on the cover like that? That plus calling the movie Sexy Game is blatantly fraudulent. Look closely and you will even see that Omotola's head has even been photoshopped onto another body. Shocking!
My Soul Mate was the last movie I watched in my latest stash. I left it until last because I was so put off by the movie cover that I kept avoiding watching it. I finally watched it and was surprised that I actually enjoyed the movie. It was alright. They chose images of Mercy, Van and Angela at the times in the movie when they have the least clothes on. You wouldn't think that the movie was about a mother who gave up her daughter for adoption who then years later sets out to find her would you? They have taken a picture of Mercy and Angela from separate unrelated swimming scenes in the movie and thrown them on the cover to give the illusion of a lot of nudity in the movie.
So there is my selection. What do you think about this influx of nudity on African movie covers? If you know of any more instances of gratuitous nudity on the covers of African Movies let me know and I'll add them here


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Jessica Chastain Dons Lingerie and Talks Zero Dark Thirty in British GQ
Posted on December 29, 2012
Leopard print lingerie and Osama Bin Laden have been connected for the first time thanks to British GQ. Actress Jessica Chastain dons leopard print lingerie in the January 2013 issue of British GQ. Jessica also discusses and promotes her film, Zero Dark Thirty, in the issue. The film is about the events that led to the capture of Bin Laden. You can see some of the cover shoot photographs here. The cover shoot was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth.
In the interview, Jessica tells GQ that Zero Dark Thirty will make news. Jessica says, "This film will make news. We all think we know how it ended. We don't. And this movie is about how it really ended. It is shocking. When I first read the script, I was blown away by this woman. The sacrifices she made and what she had to do. It's something I still get very emotional about. What happens when you live for this one goal? And then you achieve it."
The film has indeed made news. Senator John McCain says he was sickened by the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed torture scenes. He also doesn't believe techniques used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed led to accurate information. Also, Under Secretary of Defense Michael Vickers is reportedly under investigation for leaking information to the filmmakers.
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PMR Africa Diamond award for Badplaas!
27 November 2015. Badplaas received the PMR Africa Diamond Arrow (1st Overall) for holiday resorts in Mpumalanga - Badplaas, a Forever Resort, being the resort doing the most in the category for holiday resorts to stimulate economic growth and development in the Mpumalanga Province.
Johan Bezuidenhout (General Manager - Badplaas, a Forever Resort)
receiving the PMR Africa Diamond Arrow Award
The awards are indicators of a company, department or institution's competencies. PMR Africa encourages companies to utilise the award, not as a marketing tool only, but also to thank the personnel and staff for creating the perception and reality out there that this company, department or institution is an undisputed leader in its respective industry.
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The awards are the culmination of a research process whereby companies and institutions are rated based on respondents' perceptions with a strong focus on evaluating and measuring customer service and customer satisfaction.
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- Gold: 1st or 2nd overall and rated at least 3, 75 (excellent)
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2000 FINA World Cup IX: World Record For Krayzelburg -- February 10, 2000
Berlin, Germany - The question of the day was: will two time world champion Lenny Krayzelburg set the second world record on 200m back and will he get the prize car from the pool deck? But just a few minutes after the beginning of the meet the audience (more than 2500 spectators!) had a new hero. Australians Ian Thorpe set a new World Record on 200 m free – 1.41,10, having broke his own time of 1.42.54 (set at the beginning of the year in Sydney). In the morning heats he won easily with 1.45.92 and appeared in the final very motivated. "I didn't expect to set a world record today, - he considered – I found that this morning I wasn't concentrated. With regard to the Olympic Games I hope I'll be able to maintain this high level. But still I don't feel in the role of being invincible. I feel really great in this new swimming pool and I would like to stay longer in Berlin".


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Initially the player may just be staving off imminent disaster as Cyric and his friends move quickly against the player - several strong deities against a relatively weak one. I could imagine the player being forced to abandon the Throne of Bhaal and going on the run across the planes. The player's goal would be to gain followers (faith=power), usurp the divine portfolio of another god, and carve out a base of power in the wider multiverse.
…….It had been about 10 years since the BG games, which may have been too long for a direct sequel. I know we were planning a reboot of the series that could appeal to gamers unfamiliar with the franchise.


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February 13, 2004
NEW LONDON, CT - The eighth-ranked Amherst College men's basketball team crushed NESCAC host Connecticut College on Friday night, 103-68. The Jeffs placed five players in double figures led by senior tri-captain Tim Jones (Richmond, VA), who scored a career-high 21 points on 9-for-10 shooting and grabbed six boards. Amherst improved to 21-2 (6-2 NESCAC) and moved into a tie for second place in the conference with Trinity College.
Conn. College managed to keep the game close in the first half as junior guard Danny Melzer netted a pair of free throws to cut the Amherst lead to four, 36-32, with 5:09 remaining. However, the Jeffs closed the half with a 13-6 run to take a 49-38 advantage into the break, as Jones was a perfect 6-for-6 from the field with 15 points.
The Jeffs came out firing in the second frame and posted another 13-6 run to build the lead to 62-44 and they would never look back. Senior guard Adam Harper (Washington, DC) joined Jones in double figures with 17 points and a game-high eight rebounds, while junior Andrew Schiel (Wayne, PA) and senior John Donovan (Holmdel, NJ) netted 19 and 14 points, respectively. Sophomore guard John Bedford (Ridgewood, NJ) rounded out the Jeffs in double figures with 12 points and five boards.
First-year Zarrette Rogers led Conn. College with 19 points and six rebounds as the Camels fell to 5-16 (0-8 NESCAC) and remained at 10th place in the conference.
Amherst closes its regular season slate at NESCAC and Little Three rival Wesleyan University on Saturday at 2 p.m. No. 1-ranked Williams College clinched the top seed in the NESCAC Tournament with an 86-83 win at Bates College on Friday night.
The eight-team NESCAC Tournament tips off on Saturday, February 21. Teams seeded No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 will host first round games. Winning teams will then be re-bracketed, and the semifinal and final rounds will be held at the highest remaining seed.
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Volunteers annually host a Christmas party at the New Milford, Connecticut firehouse for 40 youngsters from a nearby school for children with special needs. One year, the party's organizer, Peggy King, got word the day before the event that 60 kids would be attending. Panicked because they only had 40 gifts with no more money in the budget, King needed a miracle.
As she recalled in Guideposts magazine, King and her husband, Jerry, arrived at the firehouse the next day, gloomy at the sudden turn of events. Simultaneously, another driver pulled up. He said he was looking for a polling place to vote. King told him there was no voting at the firehouse; just a party for special needs kids for which they didn't have enough presents.
The man asked how many toys they needed, then rushed off promising to return. He came back with armloads of presents. Where did he get them so quickly? It turns out the "lost" stranger was Major Tom Quigley, a leader of the local Marine Toys for Tots program. Or maybe you should just call him Santa Claus. The Lord whom you seek will suddenly come.
(Malachi 3:1)
Father, may we bring the miracle of joy into other's lives.


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Orlando, Fla., cornerback James Julius has given Pitt a verbal pledge that he will enroll next year, giving the Panthers 21 non-binding commitments among the Class of 2013.
Julius, 5-foot-10, 170 pounds, is rated a two-star prospect by rivals.com, and is Pitt's first 2013 recruit from Florida.
He plans to visit the Pitt campus Jan. 11 with his Evans High School teammate Dominic Walker, a three-star wide receiver.
Julius is the second defensive back in Pitt's class, joining Titus Howard of Clairton. He also has offers from Iowa State, Cincinnati and Boise State.


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Texas Ranger: Deadly Reunion(1994) VHS
Chuck Norris kicks ass in this feature-length
installment of his hit TV series. Texas Ranger
Walker tracks down a deadly assassin who targets
a presidential candidate. Sheree J. Wilson,
Clarence Gilyard and Jonathan Banks also star.
92 min.
Lee And Kung-Fu Mania VHS
The mastery of late martial arts expert Bruce
Lee is chronicled in this look at his and
others' Kung Fu classics. Witness the making of
"Fists of Fury," learn of his tragic
death, and see him battle Chuck Norris; also
includes segments from "The Three
Avengers," "Kung Fu Master" and
more. 85 min.
McQueen: Man On The Edge VHS
He went from reform schools to the top of the
Hollyood heap, rebellious all the way. Here's
the inside story of Steve McQueen, filled with
clips from his greatest films and comments from
his first wife, his children, Chuck Norris and
Karl Malden. 60 min.
in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)/
Braddock: Missing In Action III (1988) [DVD]
Chuck Norris returns as Army officer Jim
Braddock in an action-packed double bill. First,
follow Braddock and his crew's ordeal in a Viet
Cong P.O.W. camp. A daring escape through the
jungle is their only chance for freedom, but who
will survive? With Soon-Teck Oh, Steven
Williams. Next, the first time was for himself.
The second time was for his country. This time,
Chuck Norris returns to Vietnam to rescue the
family he left behind, and fights to save a
group of Amerasian children. With Ron Barker,
Aki Aleong. 198 min. Standard; Soundtracks:
English mono, English stereo Surround, French
mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish;
theatrical trailers.
Wrecking Crew(1968) VHS
The final "Matt Helm" film finds
sophisticated super-spy Dean Martin teaming up
with sexy sidekick Sharon Tate to track down the
criminal genius responsible for a billion-dollar
gold hijacking. With Nigel Green, Elke Sommer,
Nancy Kwan; look for Chuck Norris, in his
film debut, in a bar scene. 105 min.
The Dragon [DVD](1973) DVD
One of the biggest martial arts epics ever
filmed. Bruce Lee is a karate master hired by
government agents to infiltrate the island
fortress of a criminal mastermind, and finds
himself entered in a deadly competition. Lee's
final completed film (although released before
"Return of the Dragon") also stars Jim
Kelly, John Saxon, Shih Kien and Bolo Yeung. 99
min. Widescreen 16:9; Soundtracks: English 5.1;
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio
commentary; documentary; home movies; TV spots;
theatrical trailers; 1973 featurette; isolated
music score; scene access.
Of The Dragon(1974) VHS
Bruce Lee travels to Rome to help a friend whose
restaurant is being terrorized by gangsters.
Top-notch fights, climaxed by a battle in the
ruins of the Colosseum with future good-guy
Chuck Norris; directed by Lee. AKA: "Way of
the Dragon." 91 min.
Breaker!(1977) VHS
Breaker [DVD](1977) DVD
Actioner stars Chuck Norris as a trucker ready
and willing to kick a Texas town apart to pry
his kid brother from the clutches of the corrupt
local officials. 86 min. This tape is previously
viewed. Manufacturer: Embassy Home
Entertainment. Box condition: B. Tape
appearance: C.
Guys Wear Black(1978) VHS
Guys Wear Black [DVD](1978) DVD
The film that made Chuck Norris a star features
the martial arts expert as a Vietnam veteran who
discovers that his battalion's final,
"suicide" mission may have been a CIA
set-up and that a crooked politician is after
him. See Chuck go feet-first through a speeding
car's windshield! With Anne Archer, James
Franciscus, Dana Andrews. 96 min.
Of Death [DVD](1979) DVD
Of Death(1979) VHS
Completed and released six years after the death
of Bruce Lee, this martial arts classic casts
Lee as a Kung Fu star up against an evil
syndicate. Bone-crunching battles, including the
classic confrontation with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Chuck Norris, Gig Young. 100 min. Widescreen;
Soundtrack: English mono; theatrical trailer;
scene access.
Eye For An Eye [DVD](1981) DVD
Eye For An Eye(1981) VHS
Chuck Norris stars as a San Francisco cop who
quits the force after he's wounded and his
partner killed by drug smugglers. Chuck doesn't
need no stinking badge to deal a little
vengeance to the crooks, just his fists and
feet! With Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree,
Toru Tanaka. 103 min. Standard; Soundtrack:
English mono; Subtitles: French, Spanish;
theatrical trailer; scene access.
Rage [DVD](1982) DVD
Chuck Norris is a tough sheriff who faces a
supernatural horror that is terrifying the town.
Norris must call on his astonishing martial arts
skills to battle the culprit! 100 min.
Widescreen (Enhanced) and Standard; Soundtracks:
English mono, French; Subtitles: English,
Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean,
Thai; theatrical trailers; interactive menus;
scene access.
Wolf McQuade [DVD](1983) DVD
Wolf McQuade(1983) VHS
Meet Chuck Norris. He's the meanest man in the
world. Now he meets the toughest opponent
ever--"Kung Fu's" David Carradine. The
two battle it out in a way you've never seen
before! Barbara Carrera. 107 min. Widescreen
(Enhanced); Soundtracks: English mono, French,
Spanish; Subtitles: French, Spanish; theatrical
trailer; scene access.
In Action [DVD](1984) DVD
In Action(1984) VHS
Action ace Chuck Norris stars as a former
Vietnam War P.O.W. who returns to Southeast Asia
to rescue his comrades still being held in
captivity. M. Emmet Walsh, James Hong also star.
101 min. Side A: Widescreen; Side B: Standard;
Soundtrack: English mono, Subtitles: French,
Spanish; theatrical trailer; scene access.
When a Soviet-backed terrorist army attacks the
Southeast U.S., only one man stands between them
and victory: ex-CIA agent Chuck Norris. All-out
action hit that pits Chuck against overwhelming
odds. With Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet. 108
min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English
stereo, French; Subtitles: French, Spanish;
theatrical trailer; scene access.
Delta Force(1986) VHS
Intense action-thriller from the pages of
today's headlines, as Chuck Norris and Lee
Marvin head up an elite anti-terrorist squad.
When Arab guerrillas hijack a jetliner in the
Middle East and hold the passengers hostage,
only the Delta Force can save the day. With
George Kennedy, Hanna Schygulla, Shelley Winters
and Joey Bishop. 125 min.
Force 2 [DVD](1990) DVD
America's front line of defense against
terrorism is back, and once more Chuck Norris is
leading the way. Here Chuck and the Deltas take
on the fortress-like headquarters of a South
American drug ring. Billy Drago, Richard Jaeckel
and John P. Ryan also star. 110 min. Standard;
Soundtrack: English stereo; Subtitles: French,
Spanish; theatrical trailer; scene access.
And The Terror(1988) VHS
And The Terror [DVD](1988) DVD
Years ago, L.A. cop Chuck Norris captured a
monstrous serial killer called "the
Terror." Now he's escaped from jail, and
Norris must track him down again and put him
away for good...or die trying. With Steven
James, Brynn Thayer. 97 min. This tape is
previously viewed. Manufacturer: Media Home
Entertainment Inc. Box condition: B. Tape
appearance: B.
Hitman(1991) VHS
Chuck Norris plays a cop left to die by his
crooked partner in a gun battle who is rescued,
then resurfaces with a new identity, working
undercover for the Drug Enforcement Agency as a
hit man. Soon, he finds himself in the middle of
a war between the Mob, the Agency and Iranian
drug dealers. Michael Parks, Alberta Watson
co-star in this thrilling actioner. 94 min.
Lee: The Curse Of The Dragon(1993) VHS
The true story of legendary martial arts star
Bruce Lee, told with interviews from people who
knew him, rare footage and exciting film clips.
James Coburn, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Chuck
Norris are among Lee's pupils and friends
featured on this program that also delves into
"The Dragon's" mysterious death and
the fatal accident that killed his son, Brandon.
90 min.
He's kicked the stuffing out of all sorts of
screen villains, but Chuck Norris is up against
his deadliest and most inhuman foe ever in this
thriller, as Chicago cop Norris' probe of a
murder leads him into a confrontation with a
centuries-old Satanic disciple. With Sheree J.
Wilson, Calvin Levels. 95 min.
Warrior(1996) VHS
Chuck Norris is the titular character, a
mythical frontiersman named John McKenna who
helps a group of kids trying to stop
unscrupulous businessmen from destroying a
mountain and a beautiful forest. Action and
environmental themes mix in this wilderness
adventure. 98 min.
Lee: A Warrior's Journey [DVD](2000) DVD
Lee: A Warrior's Journey(2000) VHS
This exciting film from Bruce Lee expert John
Little concentrates on the half-hour's worth of
previously unseen footage that Lee shot for the
unfinished "Game of Death" before his
demise. Little edits this material according to
Lee's personal notes to create what would've
been his version of the film's finale. Also
included is a look at the master's life
featuring interviews and Lee home movies. 100
min. Standard; Soundtrack: English 5.1 Dolby
Digital; Subtitles: French, Portuguese, Spanish;
audio commentary; trailer; music video; more.
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|J. E. Pennybacker, Jr., OPR's Chief of Road Management, addresses the Southern Commercial Congress in Washington, DC, on "The Road Situation in the South."
|President Calvin Coolidge addresses the building of good roads in a message to Congress.
|Administrator Norbert Tiemann and UMTA Administrator Frank C. Herringer sign an agreement providing for an interagency program to meet evolving training needs in urban transportation. The program is designed to develop programs tailored to changing and expanding roles in the transportation field. During the first phase of the new program, needed training will be identified for transportation professionals who are responsible for those phases of systems planning and development that encompass transit as well as auto and truck transportation. The second phase provides for developing priority training and education programs to meet those needs.


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Berkeley, California (Thursday, June 19, 2008) - National Night Out is Tuesday, August 5. We are working to encourage neighborhoods to organize street parties. We are proud to be hosting this national event that is celebrated every year in communities across the country. Anyone can organize a National Night Out party—although we hope neighbors will organize against crime and for emergency preparedness, it's not a requirement.Everyone is invited!
Registration is easy. The Berkeley Police Department Community Services Bureau has this simple registration form. If you need more information or help with planning, call 981-5808.
For further information on how to organize your block party, to register or to ask if a group near you is participating, call CSO Subia at 981-5808 or email email@example.com Official National Night Out website
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By Alison Maxwell, USA TODAY
The six remaining Project Runway designers "made it work" at New York Fashion Week on Friday, but not all were vying for the top prize. Finalists will be announced Oct. 8 during the first half of a two-part finale (Bravo, 9 p.m. ET/PT). The winner is named Oct. 15. A foot injury sidelined expected guest judge Jennifer Lopez, so show mentor Tim Gunn will step in. USA TODAY recaps the collections shown at Bryant Park.
Jerell Scott
• The collection: Sequined metallic eveningwear, some of which had intentionally elongated sleeves covering the models' hands. A purple gown with a bejeweled waist, and a gold ball gown with a visible tulle underskirt, capped off the show. •He said: "Hopefully you guys enjoy what I've created for you as much as I've enjoyed creating it."
• The collection: A summery madras gown and silver-bodiced gown with a bright purple and blue tiered skirt kicked off the show. Also shown: a tie-dye sequin dress, and a wedding gown with a corseted top and a short lace skirt with a long train. •He said: "You guys are gonna see where I've taken linear to a new level. Suede's gonna rock it!"
Joe Faris
• The collection: Denim skirts, corseted tops, Western-inspired wear. Other looks: Skintight leather pants paired with a Chanel-esque jacket, a navy slip dress with oversized silver stars down the side, and a motorcycle-jacket-inspired corset paired with a red formal skirt. •He said: "I'd like to thank my wife, who is the sun in my solar system." His inspiration? Americana. "Western, motorcycle and rock 'n' roll."
Kenley Collins
• The collection: Vintage, feminine silhouettes in bright colors and prints. Each model sported trendy headgear — from Kenley's trademark feather clips to small rosettes. Among the looks: a black, long-sleeved cocktail dress accentuated at the neck by 5-inch-long black feathers pointing toward the face; a strapless wedding gown with cream feathers applied from the knee to the decolletage. •She said: "I was really inspired with painting and Alice in Wonderland. I made my dream wardrobe."
Korto Momolu
• The collection: Green, khaki and yellow halter dresses and evening wear. African-inspired jewelry made of stones and beading punctuate the looks. A short, printed, backless dress and a floor-length, rust-colored, one-shoulder dress seem to encapsulate the theme of the collection. •She said: "My collection is inspired by nature. The pleating detail is from my native land (Liberia). There's some hot jewelry I added because, you know, Korto is jewelry, too."
Leanne Marshall
• The collection: A minimalistic collection composed of crisp pieces in creams, teals, whites and combinations of the hues. Many designs use an elegant pleating technique that gives the dresses the illusion of movement. The crowd was wowed by a strapless wedding gown with this cascading pleating effect. •She said: "This is my beautiful collection that I've lost millions of hours of sleep over. And I'm in love with it."
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Robert Pattinson & Reese Witherspoon Get Fancy On Set (PHOTOS)
Robert Pattinson sure cleans up nice!
It looks like the 24-year-old actor has traded in his Depression-era clothes for some spiffier duds on the set of his new film, Water for Elephants.
RPattz and his co-star Reese Witherspoon were spotted looking glamorous in '30s evening-wear as they filmed scenes for their new film on Thursday. While the Eclipse hunk wore a tuxedo, his pretty co-star wore a red silk gown and could be seen walking around off-set with pins in her hair to give her that perfect Depression-era wave.
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Crosby's late magic goes for naught in 4-3 overtime loss to Bruins
BOSTON — Bruins coach Claude Julien said fans deserved an intense game between two of the Eastern Conference's best teams.
That's what they got even if the Penguins could have removed all of the drama in the first two periods of a 4-3 overtime loss in Boston.
And there was plenty of drama, with the Penguins looking stunned in their locker room following the contest, similar to how they looked in the same locker room after being swept for the Eastern Conference final six months ago.
"If we could have scored early," center Sidney Crosby said, "I think maybe it's different."
Instead, Crosby scored late — very late.
With the Penguins trailing 3-2 in the final seconds, Crosby banged home a pass from left wing Chris Kunitz with 0.3 seconds remaining.
The Bruins, however, seemingly weren't stunned and required only 34 seconds of overtime to beat the Penguins. Defenseman Torey Krug fired a slap shot past goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.
"We managed to regroup quickly," Julien said.
The Penguins weren't completely dissatisfied.
"It is a good point," said right wing James Neal, who scored twice to even the game and has scored four goals in his past two games.
"But at the same time, we've got to keep getting better here."
In what has become an undeniable theme to many Penguins losses this season, Bylsma's team dominated the opening period but was unable to score.
The Penguins fired 10 of the first 11 shots of the game at goaltender Tuukka Rask, and one that didn't reach Rask could have been a goal but Kunitz missed an empty net 15 seconds into the game.
Bylsma said he knows the Penguins might have cost themselves a point because of their inability to score early.
"Without question," he said. "The first 10 minutes, we had those opportunities. There were a couple of missed nets. Kunitz had a good opportunity."
There were plenty of other chances for the Penguins.
Center Evgeni Malkin skated around Boston captain Zdeno Chara later in the first but was robbed by Rask.
Kunitz saw another opportunity on the first shift only to be stoned by Rask's right-pad save. The Penguins entered the game having scored 16 goals in their past eight road games.
The Penguins made a number of mental blunders after not capitalizing despite controlling play.
Loui Eriksson took advantage of miscommunication between defenseman Brooks Orpik and Neal to score on a semi-breakaway against Fleury to make it 1-0.
Turnovers by defensemen Matt Niskanen and Deryk Engelland led to a Pascal Dupuis penalty, which led to Reilly Smith's power-play goal to make it 2-0.
"I didn't like the opportunities we gave them," Bylsma said.
Neal scored on two rockets to even the game, but Crosby accidentally deflected Chara's shot past Fleury late in the third.
"It was not a great play by me to go after it with my stick," Crosby said. "It's the last thing a goalie wants you to do. I shouldn't have done that."
Crosby made up for it with the dramatic goal with 0.3 seconds left, as he planted himself in front of the net and silenced the crowd.
"We battled hard," Crosby said. It would have been nice to get two points."
Josh Yohe is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @JoshYohe_Trib.