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Fillmore County Republican Chairman Doug Baker of Lanesboro is expressing frustration about the party's plea to endorse First District congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn, who won the primary election.
In an email sent to Republicans and local media, including this newspaper, Baker took issue with a request by First District Republican Chairwoman Carol Stevenson to endorse Hagedorn because Hagedorn went back on his pledge to abide by the First District convention endorsement earlier this year.
Hagedorn had originally agreed to abide by the endorsement process after First District delegates chose Aaron Miller as their candidate in April. However, six weeks later, he re-entered the race, saying Miller wasn't running an aggressive enough campaign.
He then won a spot on the ballot in the Aug. 12 primary election, defeating Miller to take on incumbent Tim Walz.
"Let me get this straight, we want to reward the guy who…wasted our time and money and widened the rift in the district, by wasting more time and money to give him the very thing he thought lowly enough to ignore four months ago," said Baker in the email.
Fillmore County Republicans favored Miller in the primary with 61.2 percent of the vote. However, Hagedorn won district-wide with 54 percent of the vote in what is considered an upset since it is rare for an endorsed congressional candidate to lose a primary election in the First District.
Baker noted that Republicans endorsed Miller in April so they would have an extra three months to run against Walz. Miller continued to focus on Walz while Hagedorn "exploited that by running a non-stop attack campaign" against Miller.
"This is an issue about principals," said Baker. "We are propping up bad behavior and rewarding it."
Baker also noted that it is about winning, too, as Democrats will exploit Hagdorn's flip-flopping on the endorsement process as well as what Baker claimed were issues about his personal behavior and inappropriate comments that could drag down the ticket when the party has a shot at the U.S. Senate and governor seats.
Other Republican Party officials in the First District appear to be united behind Hagedorn as Baker's are the only public comments on the endorsement request.
"As Republicans, we stand on principal and that is what I'm doing," said Baker. "Jim Haggedorn deserves no endorsement until he pays back every single delegate and alternate, the money and time that were wasted."


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Meteorites fall from the sky but seldom onto the heads of science dons in redbrick universities; yet this is what happens to Professor Pluckrose of Nestfield University. Inspector Appleby soon discovers that the meteorite was not fresh and that the professor's deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower - he already knew something of academic jealousies but he was to find out a great deal more.
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Pronunciation: ahb-see-kwee-ês • [url=obsequious.mp3]Hear it![/url]
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Fawning, servile, sycophantic, devoted to fulfilling the wishes of another or others.
Notes: The most widespread noun accompanying today's word is obsequiousness. If this word is too long for you, you may use the much shorter but rarer obsequy [ahb-sê-kwee], which can also mean "a funeral" in the plural: to attend the obsequies of someone. We also have at our disposal obsequiosity, which exudes a hint of facetiousness.
In Play: Almost any type of servile behavior qualifies as obsequy: "That obsequious Ben Dover comes in early every day and sits in the boss's chair before the boss himself arrives to warm the seat for him." But nefarious motives are not always behind obsequiousness: "There is nothing like an obsequious little puppy to relax you after being barked at all day at work."
Word History: Did you ever wonder why obsequious people follow us around? Today we find out. This Good Word comes from Latin obsequiosus "obsequious, compliant" from obsequium "compliance", a noun based on the verb obsequi "to comply". This verb comprises the prefix ob- "to, against" + sequi "to follow". Sequi underlies the sequitur in the phrase non sequitur "illogical, not following". It also underlies many other words implying following such as sequence, consequent, and subsequent. The same root gave Latin its socius "sharing; associate, ally", which we enjoy in our borrowed words society and social. (Today's Good Word comes to us from a very unobsequious social ally in the Alpha Agora, Gail Rallens.)


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Setting the stage:
The past week was pretty kind to the Timberwolves, who took out Phoenix and Sacramento on their way to returning to .500 ball on the season (29-29). The next two weeks includes a number of very winnable games and this is where the team just needs to get hot and stay hot, if they aren't already in that area. The Wolves have one more road game to finish up this road trip and then return to Target Center for a four game stand.
While I have written the playoffs off for this season, that doesn't mean I can't suggest a hot streak to bring them a little bit closer to that 8 seed. The Wolves remain 5 games behind Phoenix, but would also need to leapfrog Memphis, who has a 4 game advantage on our team. It is certainly going to be an uphill battle, all I ask is that they make it interesting.
Game 60: Monday, 3/3, 8pm – Timberpups @ Denver Nuggets (TV: FSN Plus)
Monday night in Denver will wrap up the five game road trip for the Pups and will give them an opportunity to go over .500. The team is 4-1 since the all-star break and will have Sunday off in order to rest up a bit for the Denver air. The Nuggets' season is a lost cause as they have lost 10 of their last 11 games. Hopefully that means the Wolves are catching them at the right time.
Opponent to watch:
Randy Foye – With Ty Lawson injured, I might be reaching here a bit. However, Foye is averaging 19.6ppg in his last five outings and is coming on for the Nuggets. As Wolves' fans have experienced, this may not necessarily be a good sign, but hey, it is what it is.
I would normally suggest the Wolves take one on the chin here, closing out a five game road trip in Denver. However, they had that huge break between games this past week and the Nuggets are looking abysmal of late. Final score: Timberwolves 109, Nuggets 102
Game 61: Wednesday, 3/5, 7pm – New York Knicks @ Timberpups (TV: FS North)
The Wolves took care of the Knicks at MSG very early on this season and I expect more of the same in this match-up. Going into Sunday's match-up with the Bulls, the Knicks have lost 11 of their last 13 games and the team is on the back page of the NY tabloids newspapers for all the wrong reasons.
Opponent to watch:
Carmelo Anthony – Melo is second in the league in scoring at 28.2ppg. His team is 17 games under .500 and I still believe there's a strong correlation here. Fair or unfair, I've never been a fan of Melo and feel like he has underachieved in his career. Despite outstanding statistical performances, he has yet to win much of anything.
While Corey Brewer will have his hands full, I expect the home team to have no problem here in their return to the Target Center. Final score: Timberwolves 108, Knicks 97
Game 62: Friday, 3/7, 7pm – Detroit Pistons @ Timberpups (TV: FS North)
The Pistons will host the Knicks and Bulls prior to Friday night's match-up in Minnesota, so they will be equally rested for this game. Heading into this week they are also on quite a losing streak, having dropped 7 of their last 8 games. Despite how awful the Eastern Conference playoff picture looks, the Pistons find themselves in the lottery right now, with a 23-36 record heading into the week.
Opponent to watch:
Brandon Jennings – Remember when Jennings made fun of Ricky Rubio several years ago before he was drafted? Yeah, I barely do too, as that feels about 12 years ago. Well, Jennings leads the Pistons with 16.8ppg and 7.9apg and you can see where that has gotten the team in the standings.
Why does Joe Dumars still have a job? Final score: Timberwolves 104, Pistons 95
Game 63: Sunday, 3/9, 6pm – Toronto Raptors @ Timberpups (TV: FSN Plus)
Maybe the most surprising team in the NBA this season (sans Portland?) the Raptors head into this week with a 32-26 record, which leads the Atlantic Division and puts the team in the 3 seed in the conference. Read that entire sentence again. Good grief. I have no idea how this team is doing it but it does make me a bit frustrated to think that Dwane Casey could have been the Wolves long-term coach.
Opponent to watch:
DeMar DeRozan – There were times when Wolves fans believed they could steal DeRozan from Toronto for twelve cents on the dollar. Those days are long gone as the SG is having a banner year with the team, averaging 22.7ppg, while also throwing in 4.5rpg and 3.9apg.
The Raptors took care of the Wolves back in January and this might be a tough one again. Toronto has a game later today but are then off until Friday against Sacramento, before heading to the Target Center. In other words, this team should be fresh. Final score: Raptors 99, Timberwolves 95
Taking three out of four this week will go a long way to making the rest of the season a little more interesting. The first three games this coming week should be W's for the team. If they drop any of them, the Pups will need to "steal" Sunday's game against the Raptors.
Let's go Wolves!


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Greetings from Barbecue University everyone! We have a really enterprising class this year. Here was yesterday's menu:
Grilled clams with Italian sausage and sambucca
Mini chicken, bread, and cheese spiedini
Peking duck buns with pineapple salsa
Tandoori lamb ribs with cilantro chutney
Spice rubbed baby backs with dark and stormy barbecue sauce
Brazilian rib roast with ember-charred salsa
Cajun grilled okra with smoky remoulade
Grilled pound cake with fruit salsa and tequila whipped cream
Today is Global Tailgate day. Wish you were here!


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University Park, Pa. (Nov. 15, 2011) - The National Center for the Victims of Crime estimates one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday. Recent events at Penn State have sparked national attention around this issue, which is typically shrouded in silence and often unreported. How can society recognize child sexual abuse? What can people do to prevent it? And what resources are available to victims and their families?
Penn State Public Broadcasting and host Patty Satalia will explore this issue with a panel of experts in a special, one-hour, interactive program called "Confronting Child Sexual Abuse."
The live call-in program will air at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, on WPSU-TV and WPSU-FM. It will be simulcast on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) and at http://wpsu.org/live [1] online.
Viewers and listeners are invited to join the conversation with questions or comments by calling 1-800-543-8242.
Also, volunteers from the Centre County Women's Resource Center will be available to talk one-on-one if parents or others have more immediate concerns about child sexual abuse. These volunteers can be reached by phone at 1-800-543-8242 during the program.
The panel consists of the following experts:
Lucy Johnston-Walsh, J.D., M.S.W. is the clinic supervising attorney for the Children's Advocacy Clinic, part of the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. A former state and federal lobbyist for a child advocacy organization and past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Children's Rights Committee, Johnston-Walsh directs the clinic's operations and supports its mission to serve children and advocate for legislative issues related to children in the welfare system.
David Finkelhor, Ph.D. is the director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. He's also the co-director of the Family Research Laboratory and a professor of sociology. He has been studying the problems of child victimization, child maltreatment and family violence since 1977.
Pamela G. McCloskey, M.Ed. is a licensed psychologist at McCloskey Counseling Center in Milesburg, Pa. Since 1980, she has provided therapy to children and adolescents who have been abused. She's received specialized training in the areas of forensic interviewing, sexual victimization issues and sexual acting-out behaviors.
Matt Bodenschatz is a survivor of child sexual abuse. A native of Cambria County, Pa., the 38-year-old is currently an adult learner at Penn State. He recently shared his experiences with the public through an open letter to the Centre Daily Times newspaper.
For more information on child sexual abuse, visit http://wpsu.org/confrontingabuse online.
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She's one of Ellen's good friends and favorite people -- WANDA SYKES is in the building! Whenever she's here, Wanda never fails to make Ellen roar with laughter. She's got an update on her two adorable children, and a story that's sure to make you laugh so hard you won't be able to breathe!
Then, from "Casino" to "L.A. Story" to "A Few Good Men" to "The Usual Suspects," it's hard to find a highly-acclaimed movie that KEVIN POLLAK wasn't in! The always funny and delightful actor is here for a catch-up with Ellen, discussing his life on the silver screen and his hilarious new book!
Plus, it's a daytime crossover! To celebrate the 1,000th episode of "The Price is Right," host DREW CAREY is bringing the show to Ellen! Don't miss the classic Price is Right game Ellen will be playing right on her very own show!
You'll be glad it's Friday today with Ellen!


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by Thomas M. McKenna
The American Colonial Administration of "Moros"
The remote causes of the Muslim separatist rebellion that engulfed much of the southern Philippines in the 1970s and continues in parts of the South today may be found in the policies and practices of the Philippine colonial and national states. Early American rule in the Muslim Philippines followed a pattern quite similar to American governance of the rest of the colony--pious paternalism punctuated by brutal pacification operations. In the Muslim South, however, pacification took longer to achieve, requiring even harsher methods, while paternalism was also more pronounced. By 1914, "Moroland", as it was most commonly termed by the Americans, was considered fully pacified and civilian colonial rule was finally inaugurated 13 years after its establishment in the rest of the colony. Moroland soon came under the primary administrative supervision of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes. Philippine Muslims were grouped together with tribal Filipinos for administration because both were thought to need special attention to advance to the level of civilization of Christian Filipinos.
There were at least two ways, however, in which Philippine Muslims were viewed as distinct from tribal groups by American colonial administrators. For one, although regarded as barbaric, Muslims were not considered savages as were tribal groups. This was due principally to their possession of both a world religion and an aristocracy. In line with the popular orientalism of the time and drawing on the experiences of earlier European colonizers in Muslim Southeast Asia, American colonizers often exhibited a certain respect for the "Mohammedanism" they found in the Philippines and did not encourage Christian proselytization among Philippine Muslims. Tribal groups on the other hand became a principal target for American Protestant missionaries. As one consequence of this attitude, American colonial administrators tended to conglomerate various Muslim ethnolinguistic groups under the single label "Moro" rather than focusing on the "tribal" divisions among them.
Secondly, unlike tribal Filipinos, Philippine Muslims were overwhelmingly lowlanders and were not exempted from the land registration and individual land ownership policies of the American colonial government. The Bureau of Lands conducted land surveys throughout Muslim areas and processed homestead applications. While there is some evidence to suggest that American colonial administrators believed that land registration would improve economic security for Muslim commoners, the actual application of American land policy led to the loss of traditional land rights for a great many Muslims (Thomas 1971).
With the establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935, government policy toward Philippine Muslims shifted significantly. The Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was abolished in 1936 and with it the presumption that Muslims should be governed any differently, or afforded more protections, than any other citizens of the Commonwealth. This change in attitude was accompanied by a new policy priority: the economic development of Mindanao for the benefit of the nation, especially by means of Christian migration into traditionally Muslim regions.
Philippine Muslims and the new Philippine Republic
In 1946, a severely war-damaged Philippines received its formal independence and the new Philippine Republic continued to pursue the primary policy goal of its predecessor in Mindanao with far greater vigor. Independence brought a tremendous expansion of government-sponsored Christian Filipino immigration from northern provinces to the Muslim South. Demographic data from a single municipality--Kapatagan-- in the province of Lanao del Norte in central Mindanao illustrate the scale of the post-war influx of Christian migrants. There were about 24 Christian settlers in the Kapatagan area in 1918. By 1941 their number had risen to 8,000 and by 1960 there were a total of 93,000 immigrants. By 1960, Christian immigrants vastly outnumbered the 7,000 indigenous Muslims still living in the area (Hausherr 1968/69 quoted in Thomas 1971:317). The demographic shift throughout Muslim Mindanao in the post-war years, while not as dramatic as in Kapatagan, was equally momentous. The population of Central Mindanao, the area which saw the highest overall Christian immigration, soared from 0.7 million persons in 1948 to an estimated 2.3 million persons in 1970; representing a growth rate of 229 per cent as compared with the national figure of just under 100 per cent (Burley 1973).
While the scale of Christian immigration to Muslim Mindanao caused inevitable dislocations, the manner of its occurrence also produced glaring disparities between Christian settlers and Muslim farmers. From 1935 onward, the successive administrations of the Philippine Commonwealth and Republic provided steadily more opportunities and assistance to settlers from the North. By contrast, the government services available to Muslims were not only meager compared to those obtained by immigrant Christians but were also fewer than they had received under the colonial regime. The land laws of the postcolonial government defined all unregistered lands in Mindanao to be public land or military reservations (Gowing 1979). Unfamiliar with the procedures or deterred by the years of uncertainty, the steep processing fees, and the requirement to pay taxes during the interim, many Muslims neither applied for the new lands opened up by government-funded road construction nor filed for legal title to the land they currently occupied (Thomas 1971). For their part, officials and employees of the Bureau of Lands (virtually all of them Christians) were at best inattentive to Muslims. By contrast, Christian settlers regularly obtained legal ownership of the best newly opened lands as well as crop loans and other forms of government assistance. The new Christian communities became linked to trade centers and to one another by networks of roads while Muslim communities remained relatively isolated.
Most rural Muslims found themselves peripheralized in place as a result of the maneuverings of Christian settlers and speculators. Others, however, were physically dispossessed of their lands. The Bureau of Lands recognized land rights on the basis of priority of claim filed, not priority of occupation. It was not unusual for individuals to obtain legal titles, either intentionally or unintentionally, to already-occupied lands. In such cases, the legal owners were mostly (but not always) Christians and the previous occupants ordinary Muslims. Poor Muslim "squatters" would usually be offered small amounts of money to vacate the land and would often accept it and leave. If the occupants refused to move and the titled owner was sufficiently wealthy or influential, he would gain possession of the land by use of armed might, most often supplied by local units of the Philippine Constabulary. A 1963 survey commissioned by the Philippine Senate Committee on National Minorities concluded that the prinicipal problem in Mindanao was land (Gowing 1979). By 1970, differential access to both land and government resources had produced a profound economic gap between Muslim and Christian communities throughout Mindanao. In 1971 the same Philippine Senate Committee reported that until that year there were no irrigation projects in any municipality in Mindanao where Muslims were a majority (Gowing 1979).
State Efforts at Integration and the Generation of Muslim Separatism
As early as 1954 the economic disparities between Philippine Muslims and Christians generated by Christian migration to the Muslim South were already becoming conspicuous. The Philippine Congress, prompted by an intensification of Muslim "banditry" in Mindanao and Sulu, appointed a Special Committee to investigate the causes of those disparities and their possible solutions. The committee adopted the colonial discourse of Muslim backwardness and guided integration in its report. The report acknowledged the poverty plaguing Philippine Muslims but ignored the evidence linking the relative impoverishment of Muslims to Christian in-migration and blamed only Muslim culture for Muslim poverty: "In their ignorance and in their trend toward religious fanaticism, the Muslims are sadly wanting in the advantages of normal health and social factors and functions" (Congress of the Philippines, House of Representatives, 1955 quoted in Glang 1969:35). The Special Committee recommended the creation of the CNI (above). By relying on the CNI's college scholarship program as the principal policy instrument to effect integration, the postcolonial Philippine government continued the practice first established during the American period of "developing" Philippine Muslims not by providing them the material resources of the West but by endeavoring to remove (by the selective provision of university educations) the cultural disabilities perceived to be impeding their advancement and, indirectly, that of the Philippine Nation.
It should not be surprising that such efforts at integration by means of removing alleged deficiencies were mostly failures. In the case of Muslim CNI scholars, those efforts actually appear to have backfired. To illustrate the perverse effects of the CNI scholarships we need look no further than the most famous of the CNI alumni, Nur Misuari, the founder of the MNLF and presently governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Misuari was not the only young Philippine Muslim politicized by his time spent as a university student on a CNI scholarship. The shared experiences of the more than 8,000 Muslim CNI scholars studying in Manila between 1958 and 1967 profoundly affected Muslim politics after 1968. Much of their political education was gained outside university lecture halls from observing and participating in campus political activism. They also experienced at first hand the magnitude of popular anti-Muslim bias in the national capital and, after the election of Ferdinand Marcos as President of the Republic in 1965, witnessed an increasing antagonism toward Muslims by the same Christian-dominated state that had provided them scholarships. By 1968, the CNI scholarship program had unintentionally created a group of young Muslim intellectuals schooled in political activism and able to articulate the frustrations both of Muslim students disaffected by their encounters with Christian cultural hegemony in Manila and of peripheralized Philippine Muslims in general. Their political efforts eventually led, in 1971, to the formation of the underground Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) headed by Nur Misuari. With the declaration of martial law by President Marcos in 1972 the MNLF began an armed separatist insurgency against the Philippine state.


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PRINCETON, N.J. - The University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team lost to Princeton, 3-0, on Saturday night at the Tigers' Roberts Stadium.
Penn fell to 2-13-0 overall, 0-6-0 in Ivy League play with the loss.
Princeton (7-6-2, 3-1-2 Ivy League) drew first blood in the 34th minute, when Thomas Sanner took a pass from Cameron Porter and put his shot just inside the left post to beat Penn goalkeeper Max Kurtzman.
The Tigers doubled their lead early in the second half. Myles McGinley hit a shot from the top right corner of the box that beat Kurtzman. Sanner was credited with an assist on the goal.
Princeton made it 3-0 at 75:44 when Mark Linnville headed home a corner kick from Joe Saitta.
Princeton outshot Penn in the match, 12-8, as Kurtzman made four saves. At the other end, Max Gallin made four stops.
Penn will close out the season next Saturday at Harvard. The Quakers and Crimson will kick off at7 p.m.at Rhodes Field.
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Suncus etruscus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Suncus etruscus
|Species Authority:
|(Savi, 1822)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Aulagnier, S., Hutterer, R., Jenkins, P., Bukhnikashvili, A., Kryštufek, B. & Kock, D.
|Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Cox, N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, it occurs in a number of protected areas, has a tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is widespread from Southern Europe and North Africa, through parts of the Near East and Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, South Asia and mainland Southeast Asia, to the island of Borneo in the east. In Europe, it is confined to the Mediterranean climate zone, occurring on the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas as well as on a number of Mediterranean islands. There is an established introduced population in the Canary Islands (Tenerife). In North Africa it is present in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. In the eastern Mediterranean it is present on the island of Cyprus, and is distributed in parts of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. In the Caucasus it is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia and possibly Armenia. The species has been recorded from Yemen, Oman, Iraq and possibly Iran. In Central Asia, it is present in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and possibly Uzbekistan. In South Asia, the species is known from much of Afghanistan and Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. In China it has only been recorded from Gengma County in southwestern Yunnan. In Southeast Asia, the species has been recorded from Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and Peninsular Malaysia, with some populations present on the island of Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak only). West and East African records (Guinea [not mapped here], Nigeria and Ethiopia [not mapped here]) are doubtful and need confirmation (Hutterer 2005). It occurs from sea level to altitudes of 3,000 m asl.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Bhutan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Cyprus; Egypt; Ethiopia; France; Georgia; Greece; Guinea; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Libya; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malaysia; Malta; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nepal; Nigeria; Oman; Pakistan; Portugal; Slovenia; Spain (Canary Is. - Introduced); Sri Lanka; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Thailand; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Viet Nam; Yemen
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|In Europe it tends to be less common than other shrews living in same area, as indicated by both trapping experiments and analyses of owl pellets (Libois and Fons 1999). Trapping is not so effective for catching this species because the shrew is too small (less than two grams); it is often more commonly seen in owl pellets (V. Vohralík pers. comm. 2006). The species is considered to be rare in Jordan. In Azerbaijan, the species is considered rare in semi-deserts and foothill and mountain steppes. It is included in the Red Data Book of Georgia (1982) as a rare or endangered species. In a preliminary status of the terrestrial mammals of Oman, the species was Data Deficient. In Southeast Asia it is never abundant in any given locality at any time.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|In the Mediterranean region it prefers abandoned olive groves, vineyards, and other cultivated areas overrun by Mediterranean shrubs, but occurs also in gardens, low maquis, scrub, and open forest of Mediterranean oaks and pines, provided that old dry stone walls are available as shelters. It avoids sand dunes, dense forests, and intensively cultivated land (Libois and Fons 1999, Palomo and Gisbert 2002). In Lebanon, it has been recorded living in both semi-arid and moist habitats, and has been collected on the edge of pine woods and in olive groves (Harrison and Bates 1991). In South Asia it can be found in both temperate and tropical forests, sometimes close to houses and other buildings (Molur et al. 2005). Southeast Asia, it is found in a wide variety of both pristine and degraded habitats. It is more active during night than day, with a peak at dawn. Anecdotal information suggests after a gestation period of 28 days, four to six young are born.
|Major Threat(s):
|There are no major threats to this species as a whole.
|Conservation Actions:
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A boisterous crowd of about 500 gathered in front of the Manitoba Legislative Building in near-freezing temperatures this evening to vent their frustration at the Selinger government's decision to raise the provincial sales tax.
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September 1, 2010 — 170 Washington Street, Dutchess County, NY
****Please Read****
Secrets Lurk at the Dutchess County Records Management Center
This Resolution is on the Dutchess County Legislature Committee Day Agenda for the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee.
The Committee is Scheduled to meet at 4 PM on Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010 in the Legislative Chambers-22 Market Street-6th Fl., Poughkeepsie
It is my understanding that if this Resolution passes out of Committee on Sept. 7, it will then come up for a discussion and a vote at the Regular Meeting of the Full Legislature on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 at 7 PM - same location.
Here is a short video clip on the subject: http://hudsonvalley.ynn.com/content/all_news/516147/examining-a-new-examiner-s-office/
This is an article from the Kingston Daily Freeman (Ulster Co. Newspaper). Nothing has been published in Dutchess County's Largest Newspaper (The Poughkeepsie Journal) to date that I am aware of.
Steinhaus Seeks New Home for Dutchess County Medical Examiner
For those of you who I may not have shared this with already, here is my Letter to the Editor on the subject which was submitted to several local newspapers. However, I am unaware it will be published prior to the meetings noticed above:
[As a prologue to this letter - it should be noted as you will see from the YNN video link above - The Press WAS allowed on the tour.]
Recently [Sept. 1, 2010] local historians were again denied access to the Dutchess County Records Management Facility at 170 Washington Street. These individuals were invited to a facility tour by a Legislator sitting on the Legislature's Public Works & Capital Projects Committee. A resolution being discussed in Committee involves purchasing the currently leased facility. The resolution would authorize $4.3 Million in bonding; total cost over $7 Million. A portion is for purchase; the balance for a Medical Examiners Office and Morgue addition.
With the County having no County Historian, no Archivist and no active Records Management Advisory Board, my historical records concerns and awareness of previous access denials prompted the tour invitation. Upon entering the facility on tour day, another historian and myself were immediately confronted by Betsy Brockway [A Co. Exec. Appointee in charge of Health and Human Services] and told the tour was for Legislators only. Rob Rolison, Legislature Chairman, soon joined in on the dismissal.
What evil lurks in the 170 Washington Street building must be great because this is not the first time access by representatives of the local historical community has been denied.
Legislature information provided by Roman Yasiejko [Dutchess Director Physical Facilities] stated the current building needs a roof "mid-term". It is reaching the end of "useful life". Bonding amounts do not include a new roof.
This fact combined with the denial of access to this facility housing the county's current and historical records demands the public and legislators shine high-beams on this resolution. Obtain facts. Utilize critical thinking. Ask tough questions. Demand answers. Taxpayers, elected officials' constituents, our records and our history deserve nothing less.
Virginia A. Buechele
Local Historian & Historical Awards Recipient
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Sept. 2, 2010 — Letter to My Dutchess County Legislator
To My Legislator:
Remember those water-stained boxes you saw yesterday - I think you said with Maps - Go to this link and pay special attention to Page 8 bottom of page - Page 11 of the PDF . http://www.ginnyflies.com/histrecs_needsassess2002.pdf Dutchess County Historical Needs Assessment - 2002
You and your colleagues are more than welcome to read this entire report/study. In fact I encourage you and all of them to do so but I do know how busy you all are and that your time is limited.
One has to wonder if the ALL the Maps stored in the Clerks Office were digitized then moved to the records center where the originals were water damaged. Or if some were never digitized and then ALL were just moved to 170 and then water damaged. I do know that they (meaning now the Current County Clerk and his predecessor before him) have digitized maps but I do not know if ALL of them were.
This study was done in 2002 - you will also note on the first page the preparer of the study saying that as part of the grant, she understood a Records Management Advisory Board had been formed and she looked forward to discussing the study/report with them. Well, as you know, the Records Management Program was established by Local Law No. 3 in 1986 - 16 years previously. http://www.ginnyflies.com/dclocallaw1986_3.html
Yes, sure when in 2006 Donald Miller admitted publicly at a legislature meeting that the Records Management Board had never met. You will note yesterday he did not argue this fact. His silences speaks volumes.
The grant for this study was obtained under false pretenses. This is why I said in my e-mail to the entire committee that the County obtains Grants under false pretenses. You should also note that on page 5 it notes the writer understood the Records Center would be moving to a new location in 2005. (Guess that never happened.) Page 5 of the report - Page 8 of the PDF file.
Quoting from the report/study - Page 14 Page 17 of the PDF:
The Value of Historic Records
"Dutchess County's historic records document the events that shaped the lives of its settlers and describe the development of it communities and businesses. History is important; it defines our existence, our rights and our obligations."
Recipient of the Dutchess County Historical Society Helen Wilkinson Reynolds Award - 2004 presented annually to a local historian who is a current example of the meticulous search for historical truth that embodied the life of its namesake.
Recipient National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Historic Preservation Award and Medal - 2006 awarded to a man or woman with a distinguished record in historic preservation. Criteria for issuance includes outstanding efforts in establishing an historic district or preserving a local landmark; restoration or preservation of objects of historic cultural significance; establishing or long-term participation in oral history projects; or youth leadership or education on the elementary, high school or college level as it pertains to historic preservation.
August 31, 2010 — 170 Washington Street, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY
[A letter to the Chairman of the Dutchess County Legislature Public Works and Capital Projects Committee.]
Dear Committee Chairman Hutchings and others:
SCARY STUFF I heard yesterday - We need to comply with Local Law. No. 3 of 1986 more than just on paper - especially when we apply for grants for our records which currently are obtained under false pretenses by presenting in grant applications that Dutchess County has a Records Management Adisory Board when in reality such a board only exists on paper - We Need an Active Records Management Advisory Board with a County Historian and an accredited County Archivist and we need it NOW.
Let us not neglect our records and our history for the sake of a Medical Examiners Office and a MORGUE at 170 Washington Street.
In 2006 Donald Miller our current Records Management Officer and Director of Purchasing publicly stated at a legislature meeting that the Records Management Advisory Board had never met - and I doubt to date it has either. Do not purchase a "Pig in a Poke" when this building has needed a roof for years and over the years the taxpayers of Dutchess County have paid for one via lease payments to the landlord for this currently leased property - but in the meantime our records are in jeopardy and we'll be paying for a roof in addition to the building down the road.
The medical examiner presented a convincing case for why she needs more space. In the opinion of this writer such may very well be the case but now is not the time for the county to purchase this property, for this purpose - let alone continue to house our records in it under current conditions and without an active records management advisory board with an eye to future needs for our records - current and historical. I've done my homework and still am. My request is that you all do the same. Facts reveal the County Exec. currently renewed the lease for 170 Washington Street for five years through April 30, 2015 - It's about time the landlord replaced the roof and DPW stopped putting band-aids on it after having leased this property for 15+ years already. Think about just who the County will really be enriching here.
Shine your light on this one by obtaining FACTS & with critical informed thinking and questions - your constituents, our records and our history deserve nothing less. Nick Johnson's answers to Chairman Hutchings questions yesterday were far too vague.
What I heard! Partial Abstract of VAB recording from Dutchess County Legislature Public Works and Capital Projects Committe Meeting August 30, 2010 - 4:30 PM To discuss a resolution: Public Works and Capital Projects Committee - Discuss a Bond Resolution . . . .Authorizing the issuance of $4,328,458 Serial Bonds of the County of Dutchess,... New York to pay a portion of the cost of Acquisition of a Parcel of Land and the building there on located at 170 Washington Street and construction of an Addition thereto, in and for said County. [This is where the County Records Management Center is and the County's historical records are - The addition is for a Medical Examiners Office and Yes a MORGUE.]
The Question and Answer period as it pertains to records held at the Records Center
Legislator Hutchings [Chairman of the Dutchess County Legislature Public Works and Capital Pojects] asks:
That building - the rest of the entire building is used for the records that are our records - - they take up that entire 18,000 sq. feet?
I believe this is Roman Yasiejko replying - speaker did not identify himself:
I don't know if all the rolling files are occupied with boxes. I know we have about 40,000 boxes in there.. When we designed it we had room for expansion - yes the entire building is intended to house records.
Leg. Hutchings Asks:
Are they paper records? Microfiche? Michael?
Michael [Michael who is speaking from the background] replys:
[Ginny thinks who the person Leg. Hutchings addresses as Michael is actually Charles Traver, Commissioner of Public works - Gerry must have been thinking of Charlie Traver as Michael Murphy, past DPW Commissioner .]
Paper records!
Leg. Hutchings:
Can they be reduced? Michael
[Ginny thinks who the person Leg. Hutchings addresses as Michael is actually Charles Traver, Dutchess County Commissioner of Public works and it is Charles Traver who replies - Gerry must have been thinking of Charlie Traver as Michael Murphy, past DPW Commissioner .]
The cost is prohibitive.
Leg. Hutchings:
How long do we have to keep those records?
Nicholas Johnson [Assistant to Donald Miller, our Dutchess Co. Records Mgmnt Office] takes to the microphone:
Records have to be kept for seven years after a person dies. So records can be kept for a long time. These are records from Social Services, DA' Office, from Probation and many other departments.
We have some 40,000 boxes - we have space for abt. 3 or 4,000 more - we throw away about a 1,000 to 1,500 boxes a year - end up with a plus of about a 1,000 boxes a year -we think we have space for about 3 more years - it depends on activity.
There is also records at that locations from various towns, old deeds and that stuff from the County Clerks that's being digitized. The rules of engagement for paper records is mandated by the state court system since they will not allow us to digitize. [You might want to ask the County Clerk just what is being digitized and what is not and what records -especially historical ones have never been even microfilmed, let alone digitized or planned to be digitized.]
On top of that - the cost of digitizing the records would be absolutely prohibitive.
As Johnny Carson would say - Just how prohibitive is it? and just what is the STUFF you throw away each year NICK?
Dutchess County Local Law No. 3 of 1986 - currently ignored and to the best of my knowledge has been since its inception:
I'd rather being doing research in and with the records instead of spending hours trying to make sure they are properly maintained and preserved but this is what happens when you live in a "Preserve America" County - http://www.preserveamerica.gov/communities.html - that doesn't really know what Preserving America means if you don't preserve correctly in order that researchers of today, tomorrow and of the future, can write the stories. Then again the powers that be may know but they don't really CARE! Laura Bush should have looked much deeper before she bestowed this honor on Dutchess County.
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September 7, 2010 — Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY
Just an Update - I attended the Legislature Committee Meeting this afternoon. There was some very interesting discussion.
The Meeting was about an hour long and the video is up on the County Website Now
Go to this Link http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CountyGov/Departments/Legislature/CLindex.htm
Go to "Click Here to view Meetings of the Legislature"
Then under "Arcives" , "Committee Meetings", Sept. 7, 2010 Click on the blue "Click Here for Adobe Flash Video"
The presentation, questions and discussion on the the Medical Examiner, Morgue and Records Center at 170 Washington Street begins at 9:35 minutes into the video.
This resolution was NOT voted out of committee and will NOT be on the Reg. Legislature Agenda for a vote on Sept. 13th but I am sure it will be back for an up or down vote in the not too distant future. The video will explain.
Pay special attention to the discusssion about the letter from the Dutchess County Comptroller (not sure if this could be a smokescreen???). The County Comptroller highly questions the numbers presented by the County Exec's Budget Officer and Charles Traver, Head of the Department of Public works.
Also pay close attention to what is said by Donald Miller - Records Management Officer & Director of Purchasing (not an archivist). I notice it appears not even once does Donald Miller Mention Historical Records or Local Law #3 of 1986
I will be scanning to PDF the letter from the County Comptroller so if anyone wants it they can e-mail me privately and I will send it to them as an attachment to a private e-mail. Stay Tuned - this isn't by any means over. I will post further updates as needed. Thank you to those who have written already and to those who haven't, think about sending a written message via e-mail or U S Mail as soon as possible addressing your concerns about Historical Records?
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If the new mayor is to have any hope of doing better than his/her predecessor, it will have to involve a change in federal policy
During the next year, the federal Conservative government will introduce a budget and face an election of its own. It is widely expected the Tories will move to lower taxes and introduce some new spending to pave the way to another majority government.
For the new mayor of Winnipeg, those decisions will determine how much federal support for infrastructure flows from federal coffers to the provinces and down to the municipalities. If federal funding stays at current rates -- about $5 billion per year -- then anyone with the misfortune of having won a mayoral election will find their lives very unpleasant indeed.
We already have a strong inkling that help will not be forthcoming.
Last week in Charlottetown, Canada's premiers gathered for the annual Council of the Federation meeting. Many things were discussed, but only one major theme emerged: The provinces are deep in deficit and debt and federal restraint on transfer payments and other funding arrangements looks as if it will make a bad situation worse.
Specifically, the premiers are deeply concerned about their ability to pay for health care and infrastructure.
The Conservative government in Ottawa has imposed funding formulas on both needs that involve billions of dollars of federal tax dollars. Unfortunately, the provinces -- most of which are deep in deficit -- have complained those billions of dollars fall billions of dollars short of what is needed to meet growing demand in both health and infrastructure. And in almost every regard, they are right.
Ottawa created a formula for health-care funding that's based on GDP growth and inflation. Unfortunately, given an aging population, neither of those two measurements has any relation to the increasing demand on the health system.
A similar disconnect afflicts the infrastructure file.
The Tories will celebrate their 10-year, $50-billion Building Canada infrastructure program as an act of gross generosity. In fact, $5 billion annually over a decade will, lamentably, leave Canada with worse overall infrastructure than when it was launched.
How can this be? As in many developed countries, Canada's aging infrastructure inventory was largely built from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. As a result, bridges, arenas, roads and sewage systems are all failing, all at the same time.
Even worse, since that building boom, our overall investment in infrastructure has been declining as a percentage of GDP, in large part because Ottawa has dramatically reduced its share of total infrastructure spending.
At the Council of the Federation, all the premiers -- from petroleum-rich provinces to those with little of the black gold -- were united in their view Ottawa needs to drastically change the funding of health services and infrastructure, or risk the fiscal collapse of the provinces and local governments.
This will be the issue for Winnipeg's next mayor. Although the mayor will have to respond to many different needs, infrastructure will be the most pressing. And if the new mayor is to have any hope of doing better than his/her predecessor, it will have to involve a change in federal policy.
Unfortunately for the new mayor, it is widely believed the federal Conservatives will use next spring's budget to announce two things: first, that the budget is balanced, if not in surplus; and second, a balanced budget is an opportunity to cut more taxes.
Although the fiscal equation is quite complicated, it is not unfair to say that every tax dollar we get back from that budget will be a dollar that cannot be spent on meeting provincial and local government infrastructure needs.
We should hold our next mayor to account for every decision he/she makes. However, it's also fair to remember the next mayor can only be as good as the resources he/she gets to meet our most pressing needs.
Right now, it looks like the next mayor is going to be dealt a pretty bad hand.


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Corsair Goes Big With Obsidian 900D; Updates Peripheral Linesby Dustin Sklavos on 1/10/2013 10:42 PM EST
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EzioAs - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkI know you'll probably do the standard objective review with the standard test setup but would you be willing to do a separate (maybe a follow up) review with some high end parts (like with eatx motherboard, some rads and watercooling stuff)? That review doesn't have to be objective, it's just more of a guide (and suggestions) to what you can do with such a high end chassis. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkActually I've been considering adding a third configuration to my ATX reviews and dubbing it either "the full fat" or "the whole hog" because I like alliteration, by adding at least one more GPU and more hard drives.
Installing rads/watercooling is excessive and too specific (and too time-consuming); an e-ATX board won't actually affect results. I'm working with reviewing performance, not really guides for assembly. Doing guides like that would eat up way too much time. Reply
EzioAs - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkGood to hear there's some change in the configuration. I always thought the current config seems a bit too...let's say easy, no...I think it's not stressing enough.
Adding a 2nd GPU and HDD (you never had hard drives in the current setup) should increase the overall temps and noise to better differentiate and increase the number gaps between each chassis. However, the drawback is that people might start to point out that the benchmark isn't realistic or exaggerate the difference between chassis. Reply
danjw - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkI couldn't agree more with this. I want to see how a higher end system fairs in these cases. Dual graphics and say a 2 hard drive RAID on top of an SSD boot drive would be an interesting configuration to see which cases are the also runs and which deserve consideration. Reply
zero2dash - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkAn mATX board in that case would be HILARIOUS. =D Reply


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Has anyone tried Panini on the grill?
I found the grill is better than any sandwich press machine. All you need is a cast iron griddle or a skillet. If your grill has 2 half grates, you can also use on of them as a press.
Here is my favorite Panini:
1 Large Loaf of round Italian bread
I Varity pack of Italian cold cuts (salami, pepperoni, proseiutto,...etc.)
3 slices of provolone cheese
4 Slices Mozzarella cheese-fresh
1 roasted red pepper
3 tbs olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh basil- several leaves
Pesto sauce or Steve's Three-herb Chimichurri sauce
Cut a circle (in a size of a pancake) of the top of the bread. Hollow out the bread. Drizzle the olive oil all over the bread. Arrange the meat, roasted peppers, cheeses and the basil inside the bread and top off with the pesto sauce (as much as you like). Be careful not to over stuff the bread, you don't want the stuff to spill out and cause a terrible mess.
Replace the bread cap on ant press to seal well.
Heat the grill to medium/ medium high, if you're using a cast iron griddle or skillet; place them on the grill to heat up as well. You may need two foil wrapped bricks if your griddle or skillet isn't heavy enough. Brush the outside of the bread with olive oil and place on the grill, then place the cast iron griddle on top of the bread and weigh it down with bricks. Grill until the bread is brown and crusty and the cheeses have melted. Let the sandwich rest for few minutes, and then divide into several triangle wedges.
Sometimes, I put pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and some topping inside the bread and follow the same process. Of course, the filling is only limited to ones imaginations and taste.


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Claudette Colbert, Unflappable Heroine of Screwball Comedies, Is Dead At 92 Part 1
Claudette Colbert, the versatile stage and film star whose flair for light comedy cheered audiences during the Depression and for decades afterward, died yesterday at Belle-rive, her home on the island of Barbados. She was 92 and also had a home in Manhattan.
Miss Colbert's wit, gaiety, cupid's-bow mouth and light touch took her from the Art Students League in New York to the height of stardom on Broadway and in Hollywood. She is best remembered for screwball comedies in which, no matter what situation befell her, she usually managed to keep her aplomb and good humor. Her greatest triumph was playing a runaway heiress opposite Clark Gable's cynical reporter in Frank Capra's film comedy "It Happened One Night," a performance that won her an Academy Award as best actress in 1934.
She could appear worldly and sophisticated yet down to earth, a quality that, combined with attention to camera angles, lighting and other technical details, helped her to sustain a remarkably durable career encompassing more than 60 films and many stage appearances.
In 1981, in her seventh decade in show business, the New York Times critic Frank Rich, praising her performance in the Broadway flop "A Talent for Murder," called her "a lady of piquant, irrepressible, ever-so-amusing common sense." He cited "her big Betty Boop eyes, curly light hair" and "her low, one-of-the-boys voice, effortlessly hurling asides like pool balls into every pocket of the house."
"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them," Miss Colbert told an interviewer in 1978. "If they want you, you want to do it. The feeling never dies."
From 'The Lady Lies' To the Milk of Asses
Miss Colbert had her first film success in 1929, as the heroine of the talkie "The Lady Lies." Her early notable films, all box-office hits, included "The Smiling Lieutenant" (1931), a wistful Ernst Lubitsch comedy; "The Sign of the Cross," a 1932 Cecil B. DeMille spectacular in which she played Nero's sensuous empress Poppaea, and the 1934 production of "Cleopatra," in which she played the title role.
"The Sign of the Cross" included a memorable scene with Miss Colbert bathing in what was described by the studio as asses' milk, a scene that became widely admired. The film historian David Thomson wrote six decades later that Miss Colbert had bathed not only in asses' milk but also in "the director's boyish lasciviousness."
Miss Colbert confided in a 1984 interview that the asses' milk was really made from a powdered product called Klim.
"That's 'milk' spelled backward," the star explained. "I was in the pool all day. The Klim was so warm my bangs came uncurled. When the electricians turned off all the hot lights for an hour it congealed and the Klim turned to cream cheese."
Besides DeMille, directors of her films included George Cukor, John Ford, Gregory LaCava, Mervyn LeRoy and Anatole Litvak. Among her leading men were Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Fredric March, Ray Milland, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne and Orson Welles.
Her early films were followed by such successes as "Imitation of Life" (1934); "The Gilded Lily" (1935); "Private Worlds" (1935), a drama of a mental institution; "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1938), another Lubitsch comedy; "Midnight" (1939); "The Palm Beach Story" (1942), a Preston Sturges caper, and "Since You Went Away" (1944), a drama of the American home front during World War II.
Her last artistically substantial movie role was as a married American woman in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in "Three Came Home" (1950). Her performance was warmly praised by the critics, but the film did not fare well at the box office.
Through much of her movie career she was under contract to Paramount, although she was on loan to Columbia when she made "It Happened One Night." After 1950 her movie roles were largely vignettes. She made her last feature film, "Parrish," in 1961 but went before the cameras again in 1986 for a television movie, "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles."
Miss Colbert's most noteworthy stage vehicles included "The Barker" (1927), a box-office hit in which she played an alluring snake charmer; Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," which was produced by the Theater Guild in 1929 and won her considerable prestige, although it was not a popular success, and the fluffy comedy "The Marriage-Go-Round," a smash hit that opened in 1958 co-starring Charles Boyer, with whom she had also appeared in such films as "Private Worlds" (1935) and "Tovarich" (1937).
An important ingredient in her early success in the theater was her skill asa speaker. When talking films took hold and many silent-film stars turned out to have inadequate voices, she was taken on by Paramount.
"Hollywood was not my dream, you know," she said in an interview in 1978. "I only left Broadway when the crash came. The Depression killed the theater, and the pictures were manna from heaven."
For many years, Miss Colbert was among the top-earning movie stars: some industry analysts calculated that she was the industry's best-paid star in 1938 and 1942. That made it even easier for her to clothe her 5-foot-4-inch frame ultra-fashionably, and for several years she was voted Hollywood's best-dressed woman.
Despite her long identification with Hollywood, Miss Colbert's dramatic skills were versatile enough that she was among the few major film stars who managed repeatedly to return to the stage to critical acclaim.
Triumphant Returns To the Theater
Her first return to Broadway, after more than a quarter-century and the cooling of her movie career, came in the spring of 1956, when she replaced Margaret Sullavan during the spring and summer in the comedy "Janus." Appearances in other Broadway productions followed, including "The Marriage-Go-Round," and in 1963 she announced that she was bidding farewell to Hollywood for good.
Miss Colbert was born in Paris on Sept. 13, 1903, and was brought to this country as a child by her parents, Georges and Jeanne Loew Chauchoin. Her name was originally Lily Claudette Chauchoin. But she took the name Claudette Colbert (pronounced coal-BEAR) for her first Broadway role, an opening that resulted from an introduction to the playwright Anne Morrison at a tea party in New York in 1923. Miss Colbert, who was studying at the Art Students League, jokingly suggested that Morrison give her a role in her next play. Morrison gave her a small one in "The Wild Westcotts."
"I just went right onstage, and I learned by watching," Miss Colbert said years later, noting that she had never taken acting lessons. "I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't."
Broadway fame came quickly. In 1927 the young Leland Hayward, who would become a celebrated theatrical producer, told the director Frank Capra that Miss Colbert was "a real headline maker, the finest young actress that's hit Broadway in years."
Mr. Capra was soon directing the silent movie "For the Love of Mike," with Mr. Hayward in overall charge of production and Miss Colbert in the leading female role.
The movie, nade on a shoestring, was a flop. In his 1971 book "The Name Above the Title," Mr. Capra wrote that Miss Colbert, "never easily pleased, said that for her it was a disaster, and vowed that it would be her first and last film."
Although she changed her mind, Miss Colbert was far from Mr. Capra's first choice for the female lead when he began preparing "It Happened One Night." First he approached Myrna Loy, who turned the part down. So did Margaret Sullavan. So did Miriam Hopkins. So did Constance Bennett.
Finally Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, suggested Miss Colbert, who grudgingly took on the role. When the movie was being made, Mr. Capra reported, Miss Colbert proved to be firm yet engaging. For one intimate scene, he said: "Claudette refused to even partially undress before the camera. She wanted to feature her acting, not her sex appeal."
By the same token, she refused at first to raise her skirt for the subsequently famous hitchhiking scene, in which the script called for her to demonstrate that a display of leg could stop a motorist.
And so, Mr. Capra recalled: "We waited until the casting director sent us a chorus girl with shapely underpinnings to 'double' for Colbert's. When she saw the double's leg, she said: 'Get her out of here. I'll do it. That's not my leg!' "


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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Accident investigators are looking into what role the work commute of the driver charged in the accident that injured comedian Tracy Morgan played in the fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Wal-Mart driver Kevin Roper, who pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges Wednesday, lived in Georgia, but his job was based in Delaware, NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said.
A criminal complaint alleges that the 35-year-old Roper, of Jonesboro, Georgia, hadn't slept for more than 24 hours before the accident when he allegedly swerved to avoid slowed traffic on the turnpike and plowed into Morgan's limo.
Wal-Mart has not explained what Roper's driving route was. The company has said it believes he was in compliance with federal safety regulations.
Roper's bail was kept at $50,000. Roper and his attorney, David Glassman, declined to speak with reporters after the brief hearing.
A conviction on a death by auto charge carries a five-to-10-year prison sentence. Each assault by auto charge is punishable by up to 18 months in prison.
The 45-year-old Morgan suffered a broken femur, a broken nose and several broken ribs. His friend and fellow comedian James McNair was killed, and two other passengers were seriously injured. Another passenger was treated and released from the hospital Saturday, and the limo driver and one more passenger weren't injured.
Morgan underwent surgery for his broken leg and remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday.
State police on Tuesday released audio recordings from three 911 calls made after the accident.
"It's a terrible accident," a woman tells the dispatcher in one of the calls. "The car flipped. It's on its side. It's two vehicles and a Wal-Mart truck."
Citing the criminal investigation, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman wouldn't say Tuesday where Roper's trip had originated or where he was headed at the time of the crash.
FX Networks issued a statement Tuesday saying Morgan's new TV series, a half-hour comedy scheduled to start filming in August for a January premiere on the FXX network, would be waiting for him once he's well.


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A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature", "The morality of the profession of letters", "Books which have influenced me", "A note on realism", "My first book: 'Treasure Island'", "The genesis of 'the master of Ballantrae'" & "Preface to 'the master of Ballantrae'".
These collection of essays is a must-have for writers. This book is a guide and motivation for those who are into essay writing. - Layce of http://www.aussiessay.com/
Language: English
Published in: 1905
Word count: 21,603 words (≈ about 1 hour)
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The number of women at every level of higher education in the US has been rising for decades. Last year, for the first time ever, women earned more doctoral degrees than men − but the number of women who achieved the distinction in business still lagged far behind.
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Special Ops.Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Less specific than general
the golden ones are chosen then crushed,
With the heart of a cane
they are then matched.
Rub salt in the wounds
of this refined group,
Then, most importantly,
recruit some fun guys to the troop.
After some time spent together in the presence of drink,
a partnership is formed and our needs met, we think.
You may now turn up the heat
to submit us to the test,
and we will arise as one,
to be the best!
What are we?
HintA hunger for excellence
AnswerRecipe for making bread
less specific than general = kernel (colonel)
golden,crushed = wheat flour
heart of the cane = sugar
salt added to "refined" sugar and flour
fun guys = yeast (fungi's)
presence of drink = water added
needs met = knead dough
heat = bake
rise = loaf rises
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