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Bullet-proof aft cockpit blue water cruising yacht from Ocean Yachts. One of only two 56.1's built exclusively for private usage and benefitting from a fantastic owner's layout. Displayed at Southampton Boat Show '06/'07. Professionally maintained throughout her life, with over £30k spent in recent seasons, this stunning high-spec yacht needs to be viewed to appreciate the true quality of build.
Ocean Yachts were launched seven years ago by brothers Emmanuel and Costas Anargyrou. After running a successful yard in Brazil building powerboats, the brothers returned to Greece and set up Ocean Yachts in premises just outside Athens. The company now build 14 yachts a year, many for the domestic charter market… Recently they have been looking at the owner market.
The building process is in stark contrast to the mechanized efficiency of the German or French mass production yards. There is a maximum of five boats in production at any one time - it takes 5,800 man hours to build a 51.2 Exclusive (smaller sistership to the 56.1). All boats are built to order, which means semi-custom requests can easily be accommodated.
The boats are laid up in a split mould allowing a large internal flange to be formed for the hull to deck join. The hulls are a solid laminate below the waterline with Coremat used above while the decks use balsa core. But laminated into the hulls while still in the mould is the most elaborate stiffening grid I've ever seen. It stretches from the forward watertight bulkhead to a metre or two short of the transom and is almost 2ft deep in places. Overkill? Maybe, but the hull is certainly stronger for it.
Words courtesy of Yachting World Review of Ocean Star 51.2 – May 2005
From first descending the wide, flat and solid companionway steps to seeing if I could make the interior doors rattle in their frames, I was impressed. Seriously impressed. Detail throughout is good, the general construction substantial and sturdy, the layout appealing and the finish attractive.
The saloon makes maximum use of the beam and the layout. Our test yacht had a large, fixed dining table to starboard, with wraparound seating, including a curved bench settee amidships, and comfortable upholstery. To port was a further seating area, with a bench settee and a smaller coffee table. The tables and midships settee are solidly fixed, providing useful and sturdy handholds when passing through the yacht while underway.
Drawers are all wood and in general the finish is excellent. Throughout the interior the detailing is fine.... The white deckhead panels and extraneous trim are screwed in rather than relying on velcro and the cherry ceiling strips add to the sense of class. Doorways are wide and the solid doors feature two top hinges for extra strength.
Perhaps most telling was the attitude of the Anargyrou brothers and technical manager Kostas Rendas to my visit. They asked repeatedly if I thought anything should be changed, particularly to the interior. Builders who are keen to seek the views of a third party, and willing to take on board criticisms and make changes, are a rare breed these days. And it's a testament to the interior's quality that I couldn't think of any significant alterations.
The deck layout is fairly standard, with a large cockpit dominated by the table (good for bracing) and a separate twin-wheel steering area. The coachroof moulding around the companion way features a moulded recess to take the cockpit canopy flush when stowed. The helm positions feature slightly contoured seats and foot stops for bracing, and primaries and windlass controls are within easy reach.
On the wind, she seemed comfortable at about 40° to the true wind, making a steady 7.6 knots to windward. Cracking off the sheets and pointing her down to a close reach, the speed quickly jumped to the low 8s and on a beam reach she charged along happily at over 9 knots. Moving around down below was easy on all points of sail and despite putting her through a series of manoeuvres - and some reasonable chop - there was not a crack, crash, squeak or groan. She really is solidly built below - she is solid, acceptably quick, smooth, seaworthy and should be comfortable on long offshore passages.
All Ocean Star yachts are hand-built and the laminates are generally 30 per cent thicker than the design drawings specify… Overall, the build, from surface finish to deep under the skin, looks top-quality, strong and reassuringly solid.
Yachting World – June 2003
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I am not sick, but I am interested in the principles of the Gerson Therapy for preventative health. Can I still follow the Gerson Therapy if I am not ill?
Preventative health is not our area of expertise, as our organization is solely devoted to education about the Gerson Therapy. The Gerson Therapy was specifically developed as a treatment for cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases. Following the full Gerson Therapy is not necessary or advisable for someone who is simply seeking to enhance their overall health. The diet could be too limited for someone using it strictly for prevention.
However, there are components of the Gerson Therapy that, when used judiciously, could be beneficial to anyone, sick or well. For example, juicing, eating an entirely organic diet, and using detoxification methods such as coffee enemas can certainly be used to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Based on Dr. Gerson's recommendations in Chapter III of A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, we have compiled our guidelines for general nutrition, which you can read at the link below. These guidelines are less stringent, and allow for approximately 25% more healthy foods to be incorporated into the diet. A naturopathic doctor could help tailor the diet to suit your individual constitution.


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Britney Spears Releases "Work B—-" Video
Is Britney back?
While the latest single from Britney Spears, "Work B—-" was released to mixed reviews to say the least, people seem pleasantly surprised with the song's video. Miss Britney Spears released the new video yesterday, and I have to say I was kind of impressed. She looks fantastic, it's not weird, it's very much a Britney Spears video in the style of years past. Check out the "Work B—-" video and let us know what you think! WARNING: The language in this video is uncensored and contains foul language!
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|Arburian Pelarota
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The Arburian Pelarota is a generally peaceful creature that is believed to be extinct after a massive tick-like insectoid, the Great One, destroyed their homeworld. Typically slow, clumsy, and awkward, the Pelarota's soft flesh is covered by several exo-plates that fit together to form a nearly invulnerable shell. There are two or three large plates on the back, two round or hexagon-shaped plates on the shoulders, one on each forearm, and one on each hip. The plates are outlined in black. There is also a black strip that connects the shoulder plates to the forearm plates and Their mouth is wide and consists of blacks lips and either human-like or piranha-like teeth. They also have four claw-like digits on their hands and three on each foot. When at play or when confronted by aggression, the Pelarota can roll up into a giant armadillo-like ball and with their tremendous mass ricochet at incredibly high speeds.
Female Arburian Pelarotas are similar to males, but have a slimmer torso and pelvis, smaller exo-plates on their bodies, feminine lips and feminine eyes.
When fully evolved, the Arburian Pelarota's skin color turns light blue and it now has the ability to extrude spikes from their shell. The exo-plates also change from yellow to metallic pale blue and have cylinder-like extensions that turn into spikes in sphere form. Being metal-like, the exo-plating is more durable and also more likely to cause damage to targets during impacts. Because they are presumed extinct, it will not be possible for this form to evolve naturally.
- They are often confused for the similar Vulpinic Tortugan, which is actually a species of the Arburian Pelarota that evolved when the species relocated to Vulpin after the Great One destroyed their homeworld.
- An Arburian Pelarota's spin attacks are based off the Godzilla Monster, Anguirus.
- The sphere form is also similar to Samus Aran's Morph Ball ability from the Metroid games.


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Nokia has acquired Dopplr, an online community of frequent travellers, giving an early payday for the site's large group of high-profile backers.
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The 2006 edition of New Zealand Cricket's Women's National Development Tournament starts at Lincoln Saturday 16 December.
All six Major Associations compete and provide opportunity for younger players to push for State League selection.
Five players will come directly from the NZCT Cup competition to the tournament, including Auckland's Katie Perkins, the Ina Lamason Trophy winner.
Defending champions Canterbury will defend their title at New Zealand Cricket's grounds at Lincoln, the first time the tournament has been held there.
State League coaches Clare Taylor (Otago) and Cliff Dickeson (ND) will lead their respective provinces, while Auckland is led by former World Cup-winning White Fern Katrina Keenan.
The teams will compete in round-robin 50-over matches ahead of the final on Friday 22 December.
All matches start at 10.00am
AUCKLAND: Sarah Hopkins (c), Katherine Spence (vc) , Sam Bariball , Penny Chapman,Heather Deane, Natasha Ewart, Kelly Fitzjames, Sandee Hui, Lily Mulivai, Katie Perkins, Shivani Siva, Kelly Sutherland, Katrina Keenan (coach), Diana Venter (manager)
CANTERBURY: Lisa Brown (c), Janet Brehaut, Erin Bermingham, Emma Campbell, Katherine Clarke, Caitlin Eves, Frances McKay, Michelle Mitchell, Amanda Murphy, Krista Neilson, Amy Rendel, Tabatha Waterreus, Angela Woolley, Sarah Helmore (coach), Mandie Goldiman (manager)
CENTRAL DISTRICTS: Andrea Stockwell (c), Kate Broadmore, Lisa Hayes, Anna Kissick, Laura Pascall, Kelly Rangi, Brooke Sim, Sharni Simpson, Sonya Thompson, Kelly Tunnicliffe, Sheree Wadsworth, Courtney Woodward, Graham Hall (coach), Sarah Norman (manager)
NORTHERN DISTRICTS: Emily Bailey, Natalie Dodd, Briar Dodds, Natalie Edwards, Tessa Hickson, Holly Huddleston, Morna Neilsen, Kirbie Samkin, Aimie Stowers, An'e Swart, Kerry Ann Tomlinson, Jeanette Ulyett, Cliff Dickeson (coach), Nicola Browne (manager)
OTAGO: Andrea Bell, Kylie Crowley, Tessa Hopkinson, Emily Hughes, Jenna Innes, Alana Kane, Shannon King, Abby Kitchin, Ida Lukacs, Tanya Morrison, Delia Stammers, Fay Tahere, Ariana Te Wake, Clare Taylor (coach), Suzie Bates (manager)
WELLINGTON: Lucy Doolan (c), Nicole James (vc), Hannah Bedford, Sarah Bradbury, Olivia Bupha-Intr, Melinda Hodgson, Emily Leslie, Penny Lewis, Charlotte Mizzi, Renee Moffit, Sian Ruck, Esther Scrimshaw, Laura Webster, Peter Devine (coach), Wainui Bedford (manager)


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Some of the worst compact cars Chevrolet have ever built started with the letter C. No, this isn't an exercise in learning your alphabet courtesy of "Sesame Street." This notion merely represents the long line of Chevettes, Cavaliers, Citations and Cobalts that seemed to prove the notion that American automakers couldn't possibly build a good small car. Despite sharing the first same letter in its name, the 2011 Chevy Cruze came and changed all that overnight.
In past years, Chevy compact cars were usually only chosen by people after they approached the Alamo or Hertz rental car counter, but the 2011 Chevy Cruze is so impressively built, stylish, economical and decent fun to drive that you may want to buy one with your own money. Yes, that stuff you keep in the Jonas Brothers piggy bank you claim belongs to your kids.
Without question, the 2011 Cruze is easily Chevrolet's best small car that they have ever built, but what truly surprises is that the car competes with the front runners in its class and not just the ones that hang in the mid-pack such as a 2011 Kia Forte or 2011 VW Jetta. Quite frankly, we think it belongs on your compact family sedan shortlist.
We like the 2011 Chevy Cruze so much that even though the 2012 Ford Focus, 2011 Hyundai Elantra and 2012 Honda Civic have all recently stolen a bit of its media thunder lately we would still highly recommend you buy one. Even though a fully loaded Cruze LTZ with every luxury item can reach $26,000, we are going to help you see how easy it is to be perfectly happy with a 2LT model that sticks closer to $22,000.
Thankfully, however, public awareness of this affordable, efficient, safe, luxurious feeling and unfailingly agile economy car (more on that later) is at an all-time high. Monthly sales figures have the 2011 Chevy Cruze demonstrating tremendous sales growth over the last generation Cobalt and are finally competing on a scale with the imports. So, is the 2011 Chevy Cruze the answer to your prayers of fuel efficiency and affordable monthly payments? It very well could be.


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"Couponing" for Authors
Every shopper likes a good deal; every writer likes a clever idea. Most of us see lots of great ideas, but forget most of them. That's why I "coupon" them.
Is "couponing" a real word?
One definition (found on The Free Dictionary) is the sending out or turning in coupons. That's not the meaning I want to focus on today. I want to target all the "guides to couponing" found on the WEB and in popular women's magazines.
Couponing ideas for writing:I substituted the word ideas for coupons in a composite guide for couponing. My examples will focus on the development of my two novels Coming Flu, a medical thriller published by Oak Tree Press in July 2012, and Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight, a medical mystery to be published in April 2013. They are the start of a medical mystery series set in the Southwest.
Look for ideas everywhere. Printed materials, TV, ads, etc.
I like to include bits of science in my novels to add authenticity. So when I read Science and other scientific journals weekly, I pull pages that look interesting. I save maps and postcards (with notes) when I travel. Now for the hard part.
Identify a use for ideas.
Write on each saved item an anticipated use when you clip it.
For example in April 2010, I read an article "The Microbes Made Me Eat It" (Science 328: 179-180) and labeled it, in my messy scrawl, "novel on obesity."
Focus your collection activities.
Random collections are difficult to use and bulky to store. That's one problem with computers, most of us save too much unsorted (or poorly sorted) fluff.
Throughout 2010, I looked for and found interesting articles in medical journals on how the trillion microorganisms in our guts influence us, including our weight control or lack of it. The result was Dr. Izzy Roth and Dr. Richard Varegos, the diet doctors in Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight. Of course, Izzy is killed in the first chapter of this medical mystery and Richard is suspected.
Keep a file of quotes.
Ads and students comments in classes often provide the best quotes.
Currently I'm trying to create a character to be described by this quote from Oscar Wilde. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Don't save stuff that is easily available on the Web.
To emphasize how difficult it is to lose weight, I set many scenes in Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight in popular restaurants in the Albuquerque area. I used the menus published on the web to give descriptions of food.
File ideas the day you get them.
This is a good idea, but I can't give an example because I'm not that organized.
Review ideas regularly and purge.
In 2006, I started saving articles on mutations in the flu virus, the development of vaccines, epidemics, and the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act with the intent of using them in a novel. Re-examining the file when it was a half-inch thick finally gave me the incentive to start writing Coming Flu. Yes, I did use this information to create a realistic (certainly not optimal, but not a worst case scenario either) of what could happen if a new and deadly mutation of the flu virus hit a community before vaccines to the new virus were available.
Are you ready now to start couponing your ideas?
JL Greger was a faculty member in the biological sciences for more than for 25 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also served as the associate dean in the graduate and medical medical school at UW and as VP of Research at the University of Connecticut. Now she enjoys putting tidbits of science into her fiction. She hopes her novels help to increase interest by women and minorities in careers in science.
Coming Flu (paperback and ebook versions) is available now on Amazon.
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Most Improved: Pacers or Bucks?
By: Jon Mladic Last Updated: 9/3/08 12:52 PM ET | 1719 times read
Adjust font size:It was a busy summer for the Bucks and Pacers, as both teams looked to improve on teams that failed to make the playoffs - or even finish .500 - last year. Both organizations made moves that shook the core of their rosters. Milwaukee's top headline came from trading Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons to the Nets in exchange for Richard Jefferson. Indiana, meanwhile, made news by trading away Jermaine O'Neal for T.J. Ford and Rasho Nesterovic. HOOPSWORLD takes a look at these two improved teams and makes the case for why each is more improved than the other.
The Bucks Improved More
When John Hammond came to the Bucks from the Pistons, fans in Milwaukee hoped he would shake things up. They have to be pleased with the results. In addition to dealing for Jefferson, the Bucks added two solid draft picks, signed free agents that other teams wanted and added role players they think will contribute regularly. Things are different, but how improved does that make this team? Is it more than the Pacers?
Milwaukee is more improved than the Pacers because they did more than change players. In one summer, the Bucks changed identities. They went from an organization with the loose principals of shooting, offensive-oriented team (but not necessarily the players to win with that philosophy) to a franchise that is based on controlling the game and playing defense, led by both a GM and Head
Coach with NBA success in the area.
They drafted two rookies (Joe Alexander and Luc Mbah a Moute) that fit this personality perfectly. They traded their scoring point guard, Mo Williams, and will replace him with players that turn the ball over less and focus on distributing the basketball (Ramon Sessions, Luke Ridnour and Tyronn Lue). They won't miss his points, though, because they also added Richard Jefferson, a move that also altered the team chemistry by moving Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons.
The Bucks also made sure they had some quality depth (Francisco Elson backing up Andrew Bogut comes to mind), and that even the players that would not see much playing time were going to give complete efforts when they step on the floor - Malik Allen and Adrian Griffin were known quantities to Coach Skiles because they played for him in Chicago.
While the Pacers took a chance on T.J. Ford being healthy, the Bucks eliminated as many questions as possible. They are clearly starting fresh, and know exactly what they have to work with in attempting to get back to the playoffs. They added talent AND leadership, and can depend on getting the most out of their roster.
The Pacers' Side
In terms of immediate success, the Milwaukee Bucks are probably going to see a bigger jump in wins this season, but the Indiana Pacers improved the long-term future of their organization this summer more than almost any other team in the entire NBA.
The last couple of seasons in Indianapolis have been dismal, unfortunately thanks largely to the injuries of starting point guards and former franchise player Jermaine O'Neal. Despite the emergence of Danny Granger and Mike Dunleavy, Jr., the Pacers have made absolutely zero noise in the playoffs, often finishing just poorly enough to miss the postseason or sneak into an eight seed, as well as just good enough to lose out on any real shot at a high lottery pick.
Rebuilding has not been easy, but this summer Indy finally got the ball rolling by making a couple of smart raft picks and one tremendous trade.
Finally bringing in a respectable franchise point guard in T.J. Ford allows the team to shop Jamaal Tinsley more aggressively, which they certainly have been doing. Not only that, but backup Jarret Jack (formerly of Portland) is another affable starter should Ford get hurt or need a spell during games.
Mid first-round pick Roy Hibbert may end up a starter by year's end, and if he plays defense and grabs rebounds as well as he did in college, he'll be a nice step up from an aging Jeff Foster. Even Rasho Nesterovic, who came over in the J.O. trade, will add much-needed depth to the frontlines.
Brandon Rush, clearly one of the most NBA-ready players in the 2008 draft, will add depth behind Dunleavy and Granger at either the two or the three, but Granger has done nothing but improve in his few years in the league, and some are suggesting he could be an All-Star talent as soon as this year.
When you factor in the development of Indy's young players and their new draft picks, as well as subtract some of the injury and personality issues they've been having in years past, it's hard to ignore the team's improvement, not only this year but for seasons and seasons into the future.
While the upcoming season, and perhaps even the next few years, will bear out which organization improved more, give both organizations credit for making moves to get better. Trades are not always easy to hammer out, and, when they involve players as closely associated with the organization as O'Neal had been and Yi was being marketed to become, the results of these days matter a great deal. In the end, these two organizations need this year to be different, and accepting the risk of these trades was the necessary cost for the hope of winning in the NBA.


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Jessica Simpson showed off her legs in khaki shorts Saturday while promoting her clothing line at a North Carolina mall.
Fans flocked to Simpson, 30, who Twittered that she was grateful for the warm response. "Just to let everyone know... I appreciate you... ALL of you!" she wrote. "Love me or Hate me... you are Loved and I'm Grateful! XO.'" See more photos of Jessica's gorgeous gams.
By her side: Her beau, former football player Eric Johnson, who recently celebrated his 31st birthday with the singer at NYC hot spot Lavo.


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I've attempted the plunge into the coding world for years now. I'd get my feet wet in something like Javascript, Python, or Ruby, but then throw it to the wayside in favor of higher priority projects. In retrospect, learning to code was a lower priority for me because I didn't have anything I actually wanted to build to give coding a sense of purpose. Well, no longer is that the case. With a project in mind, and a seemingly limitless amount of free resources on the Internet, I felt it was time to get serious with learning to code. Thus far, my overall experience seems to be progressing from fun to frustrating to fruitful.
In my opinion, learning a new language is incredibly fun. Codecademy is a blast. It feels good to write your first function that can process logic and spit out the answer you were looking for. Telling all of your tech-savvy friends that you're learning to code to make [insert cool idea here] is very gratifying as well. My first few weeks learning code was a blast, and I really enjoyed it.
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When Israeli baker Anat's (Waxman) husband walks out, her friends decide to cheer her up with a song. A few twists of fate later and their ditty is on course to be the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Celebrating and satirising Euro song contests while exposing their cynicism and kitsch, this brisk comedy follows five friends as they seek solutions to their domestic and romantic problems while representing Israel in Paris. Alternately slick and superficial, but undemanding fun.
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A/N: This came into existence via writing a different story, when I had an image stuck in my head that I really wanted to use, but couldn't make it fit into the frame work of the story. Thus, this series-of-vignettes-in-a-bigger-story was born. It's IMPORTANT you read the epigraph before tackling the main body text itself, or you might miss the premise behind the whole thing. If anyone finds any discrepancies in my brief explanation of quantum physics, please let me know. As always, reviews are very much appreciated and I hope you enjoy reading.
Schrödinger's Cat
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Padmé waits for the results of the pregnancy test while reality flickers and diverges around her.
In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger illustrated the quantum principle of superposition on an observable scale using the figurative cat in the box. Hidden from view, a cat is placed in a box with a vial of hydrocyanic acid, a hammer and a generator of random choice. There are two possible outcomes to the situation, dictated by random choice- the hammer drops on the vial and the cat is killed, or the hammer does not drop, the vial remains intact and the cat lives. The theory of superposition states that until observed, both possible outcomes exist simultaneously, that is, the cat is both dead and alive until the box is opened. Once the event is observed, stable reality reasserts itself as random selection determines the outcome.
A piece of chromaplas sat waiting innocuously on the vanity top.
To the woman perched anxiously on the edge of the bath, its presence seemed to mercilessly tug at the tenuous threads that held the security of her life together. She had deliberately placed it face down and all that showed was a sterile white surface that was mismatched horribly with the warmer cream tones of the polished marble bench top. The small rectangle of white clashed with everything in the décor perfect bathroom- towels, tiles, fittings. For the next thirty seconds the small piece of chromaplas would clash with her entire life, and then it could potentially throw everything sky high.
Or, it could not.
29. 28.
When she had rushed to the 'fresher with the small pharmaceutical package in hand, her thoughts had been in such a whirl that she had completely neglected to bring her chronopiece in with her. So, now she sat counting silently, lips following the movements of vowels and consonants, but never making a sound. In between the measured numerals her mind grabbed frantically at a million variations of the future. It took them all, infinite in number, and laid them out before her.
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A babe suckled at her breast, while the adoring eyes of its father looked on. She was seated in a comfortable chair that didn't belong in her Senatorial apartments- it was worn in that homely way and old fashioned in its design. Completely out of place in her Coruscant surroundings. The abundance of blue and green at the window gave away her location- the wide body of water and vast coverings of verdant foliage beyond the walls of her home could have only belonged on Naboo. These new and unfamiliar dreams of motherhood were always housed most comfortably on her home planet. The fast paced, driven atmosphere of Coruscant was no place to raise a child- certainly no child of hers.
23. 22. 21.
She saw herself heavily pregnant, standing before Palpatine's desk while the chancellor pieced her with a grave look. An assorted collection of fellow Nubian bureaucrats and political opponents was positioned around the room bearing expressions of contempt. She was fighting a losing battle against the conservatives who had called for her resignation as soon as the pregnancy had become too prominent to hide. It seemed that women would continue to suffer society's double standards- even Senator Amidala herself was not immune. With no father in sight, the traditionalists had denounced her as a loose woman and unfit to represent in the Senate. Her home electorate, who had always been most supportive of their Queen, had largely abandoned her after the media had dragged her very public profile through a scandalous quagmire. A sigh of defeat left her and she felt the smug ripple of victory filter through the haughty politicians at her rear. She had always known there was risk involved in allowing herself to love Anakin, but the sting of disappointment was no less blunt now that her career was awash in humiliation.
18. 17.
An electronic buzz.
The same blue-eyed child blinked sleepily at her as she passed the swaddled buddle over to Dormé. The buzz of the apartment doors repeated again. As far as visitors outside her husband and close-knit security circle were concerned, the child was the biological progeny of the faithful handmaiden. The father absent, perhaps dead in the Wars- any excuse, as long as it wasn't connected to herself or Anakin. Her heart railed against publicly denying the child its rightful parents, but deception and the practice of holding her secrets close to the chest was not a foreign one. While she could easily fall into the trap of believing it unfair that the world should demand such sacrifices, she reminded herself that the real injustice of their circumstance was not endured by either herself or her husband. It fell instead to the newborn resting against Dormé's shoulder, who, through no choice of their own, had been brought into the masked world of their parents' making. She thought of the various roles the child would one day be forced to perform to keep its parents' marriage safe and felt guilt twinge her gut.
She pushed the button that would allow the unknown guest entry.
13. 12. 11.
Visions of her husband before the council, doing something typically rash, renouncing his vows and the Order- or, perhaps, found out and expelled in disgrace. It was impossible to tell from the passive faces of the council members and she imagined Anakin's jaw would carry that same determined set regardless of the circumstances of his exiting the Order. He knelt before Master Kenobi in a final mark of respect as his former padawan and relinquished his lightsaber, a weapon that hadn't left his side since he had been old enough to handle one. Obi-wan had the graciousness to let the Jedi Master countenance drop for a moment, permitting an expression of regret to slip through before Anakin rose and resolutely walked from the hallowed halls of the Temple.
7. 6. 5.
A shaky hand (her own, she realised) pressed the entry plate to a pair of sliding grey doors as she slipped inside. A cold and sterile medical android awaited her near an equally cold and sterile appearing examination table and she shivered. Stepping behind the curtain to undress and don the white gown provided for her, she noted in a very detached manner that the floor was frigid. She wondered if the surgical implements would be cold too, like everything else about the clinical room. Cautiously, she came out from behind the curtain and the droid began to outline the procedure in its synthesised unvarying cadence. The clouds of doubt in her mind blocked the information from reaching her, and though neurons sparked as they filed away the facts into her memory bank, none of it penetrated her conscious thought. Lying on her back on the table, her vacant eyes stared at the ceiling. Metallic appendages were met by a millisecond of fleeting resistance before they pushed her knees open.
What in the galaxy was she doing?
As the vacuum that would suck the microscopic life out of her was slowly inserted between her legs all she could think of was the cold.
4. 3.
The images, both good and bad, evaporated from her thoughts as the countdown wound to a close. Whether she wanted it or not, in a matter of seconds the path of her life was going to come to a decisive fork in the road.
All determined by a tiny square of colour on a flimsy piece of chromaplas.
From the memories of her years of education echoed a long forgotten theory. Though it had fallen out of favour of the contemporary great thinkers, scientists had once been fascinated by the concept of multiple realities. For each and every quantum interaction, every toss of a coin, at each indeterminate choice the universe spilt to create every infinite combination of events possible. She wondered if perhaps, somewhere, each envisioned life would actually be lived, the joyous and the desperate courses unfolding along parallel lines.
Superposition: the simultaneous existence of two possible outcomes.
Random choice dictated the outcomes of each reality and she fervently prayed for luck. She stepped up to the bench, hand hovering while her stomach rose to her throat.
The universe swayed on its fine balance- she was running out of seconds to count.
Reality split before collapsing once again into stable existence, as Padmé turned the white rectangle.
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Toronto Film Review: 'Can a Song Save Your Life?'
With its cutesy title, John Carney's "Can a Song Save Your Life?" distracts from the real question looming large over the "Once" director's latest: Can Keira Knightley sing?
With its cutesy title, John Carney's "Can a Song Save Your Life?" distracts from the real question looming large over the "Once" director's latest: Can Keira Knightley sing?
Marking the first time Coldplay has recorded an original song for a movie, the group will release "Atlas" as the first track from the soundtrack album for Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"…
After their duet "Channing All Over Your Tatum" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" became a viral hit, Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx and Jimmy Kimmel have now unveiled the parody music video for the song. Like all…
Dolphin Digital Media has hired director Andy Tennant to helm young-adult Internet series "In Bloom" from actress-singer Ashley Tisdale, and unveiled plans for online soap "South Beach" set in…
AMPAS has declared 75 songs eligible for the original song Oscar at the next Academy Awards.
A total of 104 original scores have been sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the next Oscars.
The original song category at the Oscars will be assured of five nominees going forward, the result of a rules change instituted by the film academy's board of governors.
Ask Neil Diamond, who receives a star today on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the secret to his longevity and his answer is refreshingly simple: "Just work harder than everyone else."
The film academy's Board of Governors has instituted rules changes that affect the music, foreign language, makeup and visual effects categories for the Oscars.
Each of tuner's songrwiting teams limited to one tune in race
Critics say policies on adapted scores need tune-up


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Brown University is planning on accepting more applicants this year and will need more living spaces to house them. Integrating the design with a popular, and thriving urban neighborhood is among the greatest projects challenges and requires careful responses to street, scale and context.
Because Brown University students currently use this site as a throughway to the athletic facilities, the new dormitory building acts as a sliding mechanism allowing students to move through the building while allowing the rest of the public to move past the building and through the public plaza. The facade facing the street acts as an urban backdrop while the facade facing the protected plaza takes on an organic curve offering a hint of a different realm.
The circulation for the building interior looks out through a massive wall of glass over the public plaza below. The curved glass provides a visual cue inviting pedestrians into the plaza and allows each unit inside the building to be unique.
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DEATHTRAP, THE ENGLISH BRIDE and More Set for Centenary Stage's 2013-14 Season
Magic, mystery, laughter, and three New York premieres are the highlights of the 2013-2014 season at The Centenary Stage Company in their fourth year at the David and Carol Lackland Center. This year will feature eight diverse theatre events in the Lackland Center in addition to the New York premieres.
One of the most popular successes in Broadway history, a theatrical triumph with gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter, Deathtrap by Ira Levin, is a chilling murder-mystery running October 4- 20 in the Sitnik TheatrE. Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of flops and a shortage of funds. Suddenly help seems to come from out of nowhere when he receives a script in the mail from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college-a thriller Sidney recognizes as a potential Broadway hit. What happens next is the stuff of Deathtrap. Audiences will be held spellbound to the very end.
This season three plays from CSC seasons will make their debuts in New York City. The captivating drama Breakfast with Mugabe, by British playwright Fraser Grace, which was produced at CSC in the opening season of the Lackland Center, will be performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center Theatre from August 11 - October 6, as a co-production between CSC and Two Planks Productions. A dramatic look at Zimbabwe's despotic President Robert Mugabe, the play has been called "a modern-day Macbeth... depicting the struggle of wills between the African ruler who is haunted by his blood-stained fears, and Dr. Andrew Peric, a white Zimbabwean psychiatrist summoned to the presidential palace." Director David Shookhoff will once again lead the talented cast -Michael Rogers, Rosalyn Coleman, Che Ayende, and Ezra Barnes - on the NY stage.
The critically acclaimed 2013 CSC World Premiere production of The English Bride, developed through the CSC Women Playwrights Series and written by Yale Alum and New Jersey playwright Lucile Lichtblau, will also be moving to New York this fall as part of the 59E59 Theatre season, running Oct 21 - Nov 17.
Following a failed bombing attempt on an El Al flight out of London, the search for the truth becomes an elusive chase of a young Englishwoman and the Arab man she loves. This riveting tale of love and intrigue garnered such reviews as, "This superior, thought-provoking drama is beautifully acted, staged and written, in other words, a must-see-event," by Rick Busciglio of New Jersey Footlights.
Also developed in CSC's Women Playwrights Series, The Unfortunates by Aoise Stratford - a compelling glimpse into the lives of the women who walked the streets in the time of Jack the Ripper - will be part of the 2013 Fringe Festival in New York Aug 9-25, playing at Teatro LATEA inside the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center with actress Diana Cherkas reprising her tour de force performance as Mary Kelly.
CSC's third annual Black Box Festival once again provides an opportunity for audiences to explore the many genres of theatrical entertainment in an intimate and visceral way. This season's Festival has mind games, music, and laugh-out-loud comedy featuring a variety of talented performers. Held in the Edith Kutz Black Box Theatre of the Lackland Center, the festival will run November 7-24 with three different shows. Opening the festival is a musical revue entitled Bittersuite: Songs of More Experience November 7-10.
Composer Elliot Weiss and lyricist Mike Champagne (winners of the Eugene O'Neill Award for Musical Theatre) are at it again with a new song cycle, "In this newest version of Bittersuite, we have returned to explore the American Middle Class as we age. Have we changed; have we learned; who are we now," said Champagne.
Then, on November 14-17, audiences will be thrilled by a suspenseful experience with John B. Born's Miracles and Mindgames. Born has dedicated his life to the performance and advancement of the magical arts. He now travels the world as a full-time entertainer, lecturer, writer, and innovator in the magical arts. He has written two best-selling instructional books on magic and mentalism, and is featured on ten instructional DVDs filmed out of Las Vegas and Reno. Here is a chance to witness the close-up magic, miracles, and mind games of John B. Born in the intimate Kutz Theatre.
And rounding out the festival is a rollicking show, The Essence - A Yiddish Theatre Dim Sum, running November 21-24. "See what happens when you sin with a shiksa. Jam to Soviet Yiddish Rock. Hear Einstein's theory debated by imbeciles." The Essence is a fast-moving revue for people who couldn't care less about nostalgia, for people who know nothing about Yiddish and couldn't imagine attending a show with Yiddish in it. It's about the most expressive and theatrical language in the world, with scenes, sketches, songs, and oddball diversions that run the gamut from the most beautiful poetry to the most rancid melodrama. CSC audiences will enjoy the return of actor Allen Lewis Rickman to the Lackland Stage in this humorous evening.
Back by popular demand, this season's Family Holiday Spectacular is A Christmas Carol: The Musical opening the day after Thanksgiving, November 29, and running through December 15 in the grand Sitnik Theatre. The smash hit of 2011 returns to the CSC stage. "A tonic for children and adults...a transfixing journey...," raved the New York Times about the show that ran for ten years in Madison Square Garden. Charles Dickens' classic gets the full Broadway treatment by the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid,), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike Ockrent (Crazy For You, Me and My Girl). A Christmas Carol retains its emotional power and pure joy, thanks to the marvelously-told story by Ockrent and Ahrens, and the Menken/Ahrens score filled with beautiful melodies and emotional lyrics.
February 21 through March 9, CSC will bring this hilarious comedy adapted by David Ives to the Sitnik Theatre. Dorante is charming, handsome, and a pathological liar. When he arrives in Paris, his outlandish tales amaze and convince all who hear them, but for each problem his clever lying solves, it creates two new ones. He is head over heels in love with Clarice... or is it Lucrece? - but after lying his way into a world of trouble, can Dorante lie his way back out again?
Initiated in 1992, the Women Playwrights Reading Series (WPS) continues on April 9, 16, and 23, providing a working platform for the underserved voices of women writing for the theatre. CSC's WPS has now featured and helped to develop the new work of over 50 playwrights from around the country, and produced fifteen World Premieres in as many years, from works developed in the playwright series. After rehearsal with a professional cast and director, the plays are presented script-in-hand in staged readings for audiences, who become active creative collaborators with the authors as their work develops.
Renowned actor Randall Duk Kim returns to lead the popular The Great Authors Out Loud Series once again this season. Winner of the New York Obie Award for "Sustained Excellence in Performance", Kim has performed leading roles in the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Moliere, Ibsen and more at regional theatres throughout the country, including The New York Shakespeare Festival, the prestigious American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco, The American Place Theater (NY), and his own American Players Theatre, which he founded with colleagues Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright in 1979. Mr. Kim's TV and film work includes the BBC Special "Prisoner in Time", "Anna and the King," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Ninja Assassin," and more. He is most well known for his performances as the Key Master in the MATRIX RELOADED and in Dreamworks KUNG FU PANDA. He has also been seen on Broadway in the 2002 Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's FLOWER DRUM SONG. Duk will direct staged readings from four of the world's greatest playwrights. The plays include: Oedipus Rex, Great Authors' Tales of Terror, Three French Farces, and The Merchant of Venice. The Great Authors Out Loud Series will be performed on September 15th Oct 27, Feb 9 and April 6. Each event is free and will be held in the Kutz Black Box Theater.
Tickets for Centenary Stage Company productions range from $17.50-$29.50, and they may be purchased online at www.centenarystageco.org, or by calling the CSC Box office at 908-979-0900. The Box Office is also opened for ticket sales from 1-5 PM in the Lackland Center at 715 Grand Ave in Hackettstown and at a new Main Street ticket location. Several subscriptions options are available now, with flexible date options and savings of up to 45%. Tickets are available to the public as of July 1st. For patrons interested in dining before a performance, the popular Buffet Matinee Series for groups of 25 or more will be offered for CSC's matinee performances, served onsite in the Lackland Center. Reservations are required.
Opened in August 2010 THE CAROL AND DAVID LACKLAND CENTER has helped to make Hackettstown a "cultural destination" with one of the most sophisticated performing arts venues in northwest New Jersey. The center includes a state-of-the-art-seat theatre, a black box experimental theatre, a dance studio, scene shop, costume shop, green room and dressing rooms. In addition to housing the theatre, the 68K square foot Lackland Center is home to a variety of cultural activity, including WNTI, the College's listener-supported public radio station, and CCTV, Centenary's Comcast-licensed television studio.
Named in honor of Carol Burgess Lackland, a Centenary College graduate (Class of 1954) and her husband, David A. Lackland, a Centenary College Trustee, The David and Carol Lackland Center, has been designed to enrich student life and bring new cultural opportunities to northwest New Jersey
Pictured: The English Bride" photo credit Joyce Liao (Ezra Barnes as "Dov," Amy Griffin as "Eileen," and Michael Gabriel Goodfriend as "Ali".


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Wilson County Administrator of Elections Phillip Warren said potential candidates have until noon, Thursday, April 5, to file petitions at the Election Commission office in Lebanon for positions on the Aug. 2 county General Election and State Primary ballot.
Positions that are up for election in August are Zones 1, 3 and 5 of the Wilson County school board, one at-large board member for the Lebanon Special School District Board of Education, Wilson County Assessor of Property, and State Representative for District 57 and District 46.
District 57 State Rep. Linda Elam, R-Mt. Juliet, and District 46 State Rep. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, have picked up their petitions, but Elam has yet to file. No challengers have picked up petitions in Wilson County for those seats.
Warren noted that candidates for state offices must file their petitions within their home county. He noted candidates also have to file duplicate petitions in other counties they represent prior to the deadline.
Officials with the Cannon and DeKalb County Election Commissions told The Wilson Post that no petitions had been filed for the District 46 State Representative seat in their counties.
Due to district changes by the Tennessee General Assembly, District 57 is entirely within Wilson County and District 46 contains portions of Wilson, DeKalb and Cannon counties.
In the school board races, all three incumbents for the Wilson County board have picked up petitions, including another challenger who has yet to file. According to Warren, Wayne McNeese picked up a petition for Zone 1 of the county school board, a seat currently held by Vikki Adkins.
Adkins and Zone 5 board member Greg Lasater have filed their petitions with the Election Commission, but Weathers has yet to do so. No petitions have been picked up for Zone 5 to challenge Lasater.
No candidates have picked up petitions for the one at-large seat up for election to the LSSD board of education. If no candidate files for the position it will still appear on the Aug. 2 ballot, however it will show no candidates.
Under the office it will say that no candidate qualified. No one can be elected to that office in August so, a vacancy will be created when the election is over and the office will be treated as a vacancy and put on the November ballot, Warren said.
However, with still a week to go, Warren said it is unlikely that the position will receive no petitions for election.
Many candidates wait until the last days or even hours to file their petitions, he said.
Warren said all candidates have to get at least 25 signatures from voters that they represent in order to have a valid petition. For the state House seats, Warren said Pody, for example, could gather signatures from residents within his district in Wilson, Cannon or DeKalb County.
Wilson County Assessor of Property Jack Pratt has also filed his petition for re-election, however no challenger has picked up a petition for that position.
After the April 5 deadline, Warren said the Election Commission will qualify all petitions on April 17 to officially place the candidates on the Aug. 2 ballot. Potential candidates have until noon, Thursday, April 12, to withdraw their petitions.
Voters will want to remember the last day to register to vote in the Aug. 2 election is Tuesday, July 3, and registered voters may request absentee ballots from May 4 through May 26 for that election.
Also, early voting for the Aug. 2 election begins on Friday, July 13, and continues through Saturday, July 28. Warren encouraged as many voters as possible to visit the polls early.
Staff Writer Patrick Hall may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In Libya Intervention, No Use for the United States' Costly, Much-Touted F-22 Fighter Jet
As part of an allied military intervention in Libya, the United States has launched a number of air strikes targeting Qaddafi's ground forces and air defense centers, but one rather expensive aircraft is sitting out the action: the Air Force's much-touted F-22 fighter jet, produced by Lockheed Martin.
Though early reports said the F-22 would likely be used to set up the no-fly zone in Libya, Air Force Times reports that the jet was likely excluded because it lacks capabilities to communicate with other aircraft and has limited ability to hit ground targets:
U.S. Africa Command, which is running Operation Odyssey Dawn, confirmed the F-22 has not flown over Libya.
"I see no indication that F-22s were used as an escort for the B-2 nor do I see anything that indicates the Raptor will be used in future missions over Libya," said Air Force Maj. Eric Hilliard, a spokesman for Africa Command.
Had the F-22 been used, Libya would've been its first taste of combat. The $150-million aircraft has "not performed a single mission" in either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in 2008 that the jet was "principally for use against a near peer in a conflict"—a far more limited use than the plane's advocates suggest.
That's also what Gates said in 2009, when he was fighting to get Congress to end funding for the F-22. He called it a "niche" solution used specifically for sophisticated air-to-air combat.
"The F-22, to be blunt, does not make much sense anyplace else in the spectrum of conflict," Gates said. "Nonetheless, supporters of the F-22 lately have promoted its use for an ever expanding list of potential missions."
The Pentagon has spent more than $65 billion on the program, which suffered a number of complications, delays and cost overruns. Though the program produced far fewer than the number originally planned for, Gates has maintained that the current inventory of 182 F-22s jets is sufficient.
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"Gates has maintained that the current inventory of F-22s jets is sufficient."
That wrap-up left me laughing. Was it meant to be ironic? Can the Defence Secretary hear himself, in light of the costs and "potentional missions".
Then there is the positive side of the irony. 65 billion and it hasn't killed anyone, yet.
I still get the same feeling I got as a kid. I heard the government had spent 2k dollars per hammer. When trying to bring my thoughts on the matter to a conclusion I found a large void where the facts and reason could not meet. I am used to that void now, it is part of the American experience.
Well, just wait. A "near peer" is emerging rapidly. And an old peer is attempting a "comeback". China and Russia aren't exactly our "Pals". Neither are melting their fighters (or anything else) down into plowshares. Unfortunately the day may come when we will wish we had more F-22's…and anything else that would give us an "edge" against them!
The F-22 is the newest US Air Force fighter, probably the most effective air superiority fighter in the world, very expensive and, yes, we have not very many of them. Since our older aircraft could easily deal with a 3rd rate air force like Libya's, it would have been foolish to have risked an F-22 in an operation where its special characteristics could bring no special advantage.
The F-22 is a pure air-to-air fighter with no compromises for other missions, and if, god forbid, we find ourselves in a war with a technologically comparable opponent, the F-22 will prove to have been a huge bargain.
Great reporting, Ms. Wang!
To Mr. "R. Kessler" & his "...if, god forbid, we find ourselves in a war with a technologically comparable, opponent, the F-22 will prove to have been a huge bargin," as we say in Texas, I recon if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
By launching endless wars, the US is provoking fellow real or potential war mongers to make the argument that their nations MUST build super weapons to protect themselves from the U.S.—and very likely, the tragedy is, these folks would likely be correct.
By the way "R. Kessler" are you by chance an automated DOD sock puppet or just someone racking in big bucks in the war profiteering racket? Or are you merely deluded (too much Hollywood?) or deficient in critical thinking skills?
Love the circularity of the "argument": build F- 22s, to scare shit out of other countries, then act all surprised if in self-defense, they build defenses to our super weapons rather than let the peaceful US conquer them. It helps this game, that the US endlessly wages wars on all continents except Antarctica.
Actually, DOD gave the game away by putting into the open source literature its infamous "Full Spectrum Dominance " document in which it explained it would be satisfied with nothing less than permanent & total control of the land, sea, sky and space. Now that was could not fail to goose up foreign weapons profiteers into screaming for huge contracts to counter DOD. But, of course, that was the point.
To LC, CPA: Unless you are a DOD Sock Puppet, a war profiteer or a Hollywood movie addict, surely you jest. If any country dared publish something like DOD's "Full Spectrum Dominance" (see my response above) & implemented it with weapons that will bankrupt the U.S. far quicker than any country or combination of countries could possible harm us, then it's unlikely that any country anywhere would beat its weapons into plowshares and pruning hooks. Ah, thank all the gods that be for the double standard the demands that other countries act as we want, not as we force them to. Hell, when Gorby tried to call off the Cold War, Ronny Raygun want nuts to the point of invading the really scary island of Granada on the laughable pretext of saving US medical students from the evil Commies. Tragically US and foreign troops slaughtered each other thanks to Ronnie's hallucinations/madness/paranoid illness/senility/cowtowing to the war profiteers—take your pick. The med students were put on ice, till they learned to repeat their lines just as DOD had rehursed them. Of course this pure theatre required iron discipline, since the students were never in any danger except that one of their over zealous "saviors" would accidently blow them to kingdom come while "saving" them from their study hall.
Let me charitably assume that you are an amateur clown. Maybe you wrote this note between gigs entertaining the troops. Thanks for the laugh :-))).
sock puppet indeed
yah sock puppet face head, go love o rielly
This is absurd. The F-22 is an air-superiority fighter, not an attack aircraft. Making a case that the aircraft remains unused against an opponent with essentially no air-to-air capability is akin to saying that football pads are useless in a game of soccer.
they are too, have you ever tried that? extremely sweaty…
I agree with Mr. Rush's first sentence: "This is absurd". Alas,
neither Mr. Rush nor the U.S. Gov. headed by the anti-MLK, Pres. Obama, seems aware of the concept of opportunity cost, The $65 Billion squandered on the F-22 might have been provided us a measure of security. Instead the F-22 provides a rallying cry for building countermeasures able to shoot down the F-22s in countries we have not yet attacked such as Russia & China.
Unless they are as stupid & corrupt as the Pentagon and its jolly band of war profiteers, China & Russia realize that the era of the manned fighter is as obsolete as horse drawn artillery. We can assume that they are building an order of magnitude cheaper counter measure. Hint: it won't be manned or horse drawn.
Who wins? Bin Laden (if he exists). He bankrupted the old USSR. Now he is bankrupting the US by giving the billionaires a pretext for ordering up the waging of endless wars, occupations and the unthinking deployment of weapons like the F-22, So, having spent $1.170 Trillion (to invade & occupy Iraq & Afghanistan), and within 6 months, another $3 Billion to $8 Billion to "do" Libya, $65 Billion on the F-22, etc. we sink into insolvency.
One is reminded of the surreal farce at the Hitler bunker as the USSR was shelling Berlin. Then Hitler raved for non-existant divisions, now our ever cheery Obama steadily expends more & more non-existant dollars. "Oh, reason thou are fled to brutal beasts & men have lost their reason."
The F-22 is a Fifth-generation air-superiority fighter, not an attack aircraft, nor is it a bomber or ground-support aircraft. The F-22 flys faster, farther and more nimbly than any other fighter. Cockpit instruments give pilots computerized images of all potential threats within hundreds of miles, but the F-22 itself is designed to be invisible to radar. Other military planes have some of these capabilities, but none combines all of them in such a lethal package. It is intended to compete with the Russian Sukhoi design bureau's PAK-FA/T-50 project, which is their fifth-generation air superiority fighter. The Russian fourth-generation-Plus air superiority fighter, the he Sukhoi Su-35, which is now in production, will also be matched by the F-22. Putin took a flight in June, 2010 in the Russian fifth-generation T-50, which they plan to manufacture jointly with India and which will cost a third as much as an F-22 for export. Fighter performance experts have consisted predicted the new US single-engine F-35 could not match the performance of the foreign fifth-generation fighters all of which are twin-engine.
As the F-22. which has been in design and development since 1991 as the YF-22, represents a considerable sunk cost, and the decisions to cut back spread the development cost over fewer production planes, almost doubling the original estimated cost of the individual F-22. In addition to the cutbacks (from 750 to 183) for US use, the export (slight less-than top-rate) versions, which under exception to the Obey Amendment that bans the F-22's sale abroad would have eventually prevailed and exports of the aircraft to Japan, South Korea, Australia and others would have been the next shoe to drop. Our allies wanted to purchase 200 of these export-F-22's which would have produced a tidy profit for the USA, but none are now planned to be available for sale to allies.
F-22 cutbacks are also costly and false economy because of the effect on the now-technically-obsolescent F-15 Eagle, the US's former and present, but very aged air superiority fighter, which first was placed into service in 1976. This over-35-years-in-service fourth generation air superiority fighter, while still formidable, will require additional billions to keep additional F-15s in service (due to the smaller number of F-22 than planned for replacement), now estimated to be past 2025, at a much greater cost for the aging airplane, and much greater parts and maintenance costs. Exports of the F-15 have been sold to numerous nations, and the current US-varient is the F-15e Strike Eagle. The lack of sufficient F-22s for air superiority will cost billions to fund development and production of future variants of the F-15 beyond the F-15e, in an attempt to be competitive.
While many competitively would love to kill and/or reduce the F-22 program, in particular Boeing and EADS, there was also heavy political credit claimed for "cost-cutting" and fighting the "military-industrial complex" and "pentagon waste". The Russians and Chinese fear the F-22 and want to see their fifth-generation competition killed. The reality is probably closer that any savings in cutting back production of the F-22 will involve counterbalancing costs in pursuing other alternatives, and maybe even end up costing more for inferior weapons.
After the last F-22 cutback we plan to eventually purchase 183 @ $144 million a piece, and the first units came online in 2005 with production estimated of the last plane estimated for late 2011. The F-22 and its parts are directly responsible for 100,000 US jobs, which will end after 2011 and many, if not most will not be replaced with other production.
There is also consideration that with no F-22s for export sale, our allies (in addition to our enemies) will buy their fifth-generation fighters from the Russians, Europeans, and Chinese, who are rushing development and production of their own air superiority fighters all of whom plan export variants.
Now that Obama and the Democrat Congress have cancelled the F-22, we can watch other countries develop and build fifth-generation stealth fighters for air superiority, including:
PAK-FA (Russia)
J-20 (China)
Sukhoi/HAL FGFA (Russia/India)
Mikoyan LMFS (Russia)
J-XX, J-12, J-13, J-14 (China)
ATD-X Shinshin (Japan)
KF-X (South Korea/Indonesia)
Since WW II and the P-51 Mustang, the US has always been able to count on achieving air superiority. Hopefully, we will still be competitive in the future.
What a stupid article .... No use for the f-22 in Libya .. No kidding ... It wasn't BUILT to fight Qu" daffy " ... There's no use for a Neutron Bomb over there either , but i think they should drop several ... Idiot ...
All we need is some poison in the watering holes, and all the camels will get sick, and war over ...
Dear God, they will let anyobe write for these things, as long as they are Morons ....
Nuff Said.
Now, send in the troops, maybe i'll get called up, and i can once again gun down Moslems by the Hundreds… I LOVE the smell of Cordite in the morning ... Let's go Grab the oil !! ...
So , WHAT is the connection between the " Flash " that was shown, about " What is the amount of US involvement in Libya " , and this silly article.. Talk about your come- ons ....
Go Troops !! Kick Daffy's ass ! . Set those people free ! He has been killing his own for far too long….
Nuff said !
Ther is gold ' in them darn airplanes.'
If we could only tax the arms industry fairly… .
Isn't all this posturing about the relevance of the F22 and "fighter planes" banal and silly? UAVs are the way of the future in all air-superioroty roles. Sure, some useful tech might have come out of the F22 program, but it's (much cheaper) replacement will not carry a human payload.
The future ; you build planes, guns, cars, computers looking toward the future. The world is still a very unstable place; f" friends " today can easily become foes tomorrow. ( China )
KaDaffy's Air space could be controled with bi - planes ; be thankful we DON't have to deploy them there . Twenty years from now, I want the best plane in the sky too; As Sonny Coleone said " I don't want him coming out of that bathroom with nothing but a dick in his hands ! : This is why we have programs like the f-22. All Tech, all dollars . Research & development leads to the best ; unfortunately, R7D is n't free. It costs millions fo rthese companies to develop the technology to keep our men safe, and to give them every advantage on the field of battle.
Contrary to what many of you ACORNS believe out there, this is a democracy , and we are NOT Socialist . It s not all FREE. Companies spend Billions to develop weapons systems , only to be turned down by an ignorant , non - looking forward Congress. Remember when WWll broke out, the US was at least two years behind in weapons. Planes, ships, tanks, even troops. This cost untold American lives, as we tried to ' hold the fort ' till the new arms arrived. Korea - the same thing. We were so ill prepared for that war , We lost more troops to sickness, and cold, than we did to enemy arms.
Learn from the past . We , sadly , do NOT . Memories fade. Liberals take over , in the Good times, and the Armed Services suffer , till its time to fight again . AND, unfortunately, memories fade, and we allow yet another 2 - bit hoof to start killing yet agin ...
Manned aircraft will always exist . Real - time Actions , the demand for a real person to make a " illogical " decision will always be there . We send Probes into space, it seems, on a daily basis. Yet, we are always looking at sending real people to do the exploring. Because, there are real - time things that you need a person there for . There are , and will continue to de inmanned planes. they have their place, and certainly do save lives. but they are not the end all to save all. Far from it . There will always be a need for pilots; for you that have not been in battle, you probably, once again , will not understand. Those of you that have, you know from where I speak .
And, a Payload is is an amount of Ordinance you drop on an enemy . A payload can never fly a plane, Just like a Bullet is the thing that comes OUT of the barrel of a gun. A Cartridge is what goes INTO the gun. Also called a round… Speaking of which, go have another .........
Hey Miguel ~ If only you'd get a Job, and pay taxes, maybe we wouldn't NEED to tax the Defense Industry Too Mich , as we do now…
All the millions of your relatives, working illegally in the US, not paying taxes on the money they make " Under the table " all the free medical assistance, schooling, housing, food…. ACORN - Man , this stuff is NOT FREE , it all cost money , even though the Prez, Mr O'bomba ' says other w wise.
America is NOT the world's patsy , as much as you people like to think so . America is the home of the Free. Perhaps, with all your lack of use of the English language, you think it s ' America Home, and its Free ! "
Tragic for America that so many comments (unlike Wang's superb article) avoid the really urgent issues brought to mind by her article:
1) Is the hyper expensive, dysfunctional fleecing of taxpayers like the F-22 & Omaba's latest adventure in warmongering, the war against Libya, bankrupting America?
2) Why is Obama risking bankrupting of America and ignoring the lesson of the similar bankrupting of the no longer existing USSR?
3) Why is Obama's approach to the strategy ascribed to Bin Laden to bankrupt America a carbon copy of the the USSR?
4) Even though Obama is a flunky of US billionaires rather than Bin Laden, the result is the same: astronomical & completely unnecessary risk of bankruptcy of America.
5) This cliff that Obama's subservience to his billionaire patrons is driving the economy over —this is the real risk to America, not
the fanciful hypotheticals in which Russia & China wipe out the US with thousands of their own F-22 knock-offs.
Rather than jeopardize the continued growth of their economies by greasing the U.S. and its NATO dwarfs who are prime Russia-China customers and debtors, at most these gonzo capitalists will go with a cheap, effective UNmanned weapon to neutralize the F-22.
6) Ms. Wang: please do an article on why these fundamentals are not permitted to be discussed in polite society in the
US. Likely short answer: this discussion would upset Obama's billionaire weapon-making patrons who control mainstream discourse.
May I suggest, Ms. Wang, that you start your article with the quote from Manheim, the father of the sociology of knowledge: "the single most important question to ask is 'what questions are not permitted to be asked.'"
Well, another Moon - Bat has appeared .. Figures. Another Moron, with his head up his arse .. Good old Tom.. Thank God our troops are made of better material than you. Though , you'd make a good target .
I know , i'm not making any points, yak, yak , yak .. I never will , with a Lunatic like you . Perhaps, they should at least have an American write an article about America , not some immigrant wannabe ...
The US cannot be bankrupted , dummy ... They control the banks, and the printing Press… I get sooo very sick of hearing that the Country is being Bankrupted ,, Move on ! .
I don't know; I can't really make myself read the rest of what you wrote .. Another left Wing Diatribe that does nothing to help , means nothing to anyone but you and yoour Drinking buddies.. Of, that's right Teddie Died… Perhaps your Butt buddt , Barney Franks can take his place ..
So clueless, you people walk around in a Dream - World.. By God, the Matrix DOES exist , and you people Live it ...
Nuff Said ......
I know one question NOT asked .. Who let that Nut - Case Tom out of the Looney bin ???..
Another is , Is he getting his medications ?
For the record I served as a consultant to the National Defense University on research aimed at understanding how decision making can become tragically flawed and how folly can be averted. I delivered papers at venues such as DOD's Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics and have been a US citizen for c. 60 years. The main reason I'm alive today is that my volunteering to become a forward artillery observer was rejected by an officer who
acknowledged my top grades in my ROTC artillery unit but pointed to my deficiencies in boot polishing and marching—two skills vital to any forward artillery observer keen to die the first time through the wire.
The good major suggested I serve the US by getting a Ph.D. which I proceeded to do.
Many thanks to Steve & Stan for illustrating my point: really deep questions vital to our real national interest are rarely permitted to be discussed with rational discourse.
Instead, those who avoid the vital questions are more comfortable in spewing insults and unsupported speculations in the style of ad hominem remarks.
I feel the stakes are too high to rely on emotion rather than facts and logic to contend with issue so vital.
I speculate (and I emphasize "speculate") that if I got big bucks from the status quo, I'd really be upset if anyone challenged the status quo, however dangerous, particularly if the challenger resorted to reasoned discourse instead of insults.
If S & S etc. have anything to substantive to contribute, they might wish to change their mode of communication from insult to rational discourse. Doesn't even minimal patriotism require at least this much?
Finally, from the perspective of psychiatric epidemiology, one is struck by the insistance of S & S that folks who do not worship at the alter of conventional wisdom are insane. Would S. & S. enlighten us regarding the basis of rendering the diagnosis of insanity based on peoples' rejection of what is increasingly becoming a minority view. Should Sec. of Defense Gates me numbered among the insane off their meds for having lost enthusiasm for blunders such as the F-22?
Let me speculate S. & S. etc are former fighter pilots who are finding it difficult to come to terms with the passing of the manned fighter just as in an earlier time their counter parts never really accepted the obsolecene of horse drawn artillery or coal power battleships.
I wish S. & S. well. Perhaps they are haunted by the past…
Just as we all Figured , a liberal moon - bat ; amazing that you'd expose yourself so early….
You know, its so very easy for people to claim credintials .. Hell, was n't old Stan there head of the CIA once / I think so ...
Like I said, I would never begin a discussion, fight, or talk, However you want to word it . Because ,like you said, you can never have a sensible talk , with a Moon - bat . We all know that , and we are learning to use our vote to remove you parasites from office, and anywhere elae you have infiltrated ...
Argue as you will, you will never change a single mind. Argue as i will , and i will nevr change one either . At the end of the day , nothing has changed ...
I served in the Army, as a weapons officer on an apache Longbow. That is a Helicopter, I figure I should explain that to you .
In 1991 , I did some real good; I made a real difference . I did not sit on my hands, hiding behind paper , as the country of Kuwait was freed .
War : Old men start it,
Young men finish it,
Idiots babble about what they saw .....
just google up "Operation Pacific Vision." you'll find your answers there about the F-22
Glad to see my Great state ( Massachusetts ) is one of the staes involved.. It doesn't surprise me in the least , considering it is THE base for Liberal Moon Bats ... I'am like a Prisoner here….lol..
A prophet in the wastelands….


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THE wild side of Weymouth and Portland is being embraced by Olympic visitors.
Environmental organisations have been working hard to showcase the diverse natural beauty of the area in time for the Games.
The area has much to offer including urban wetlands, wonderful beaches and underwater marine habitats.
The focus of this weekend's activities will be Portland Bill Tourist Information Centre (TIC), the newly opened Dorset Wildlife Trust Chesil Centre and the RSPB's Wild Weymouth Discovery Centre – each easy to spot with their "natural" flags.
At Portland Bill TIC members of the partnership will be providing environmental information and children's activities.
At the Chesil Centre Dorset Wildlife Trust have a range fun materials on display including the litter free coast and sea windsurfing board and wave – made entirely out of marine and beach litter.
There will be activities for young people too including a fossil dig and Jurassic Coast cabinet of curiosity.
At the RSPB's Wild Weymouth Discover Centre at Radipole Lake in the heart of town family activities will include pond dipping, arts and crafts and, of course, birdwatching for everyone.
Tom Clarke, Wild about Weymouth and Portland project officer, said: "From the chalk Ridgeway in the north, through the urban wetlands, the wonderful sandy Weymouth Beach, underwater marine habitats, Chesil Beach, The Fleet, Portland quarries and all the way along the Weares to Portland Bill, Weymouth and Portland has so many different experiences to offer.
"I actually can't think of another place that has all this right on its doorstep."
"We really want the area to shine and to show people what a wonderful place this is.
"To do this we've improved many of the area's wildlife venues.
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase the very best of what the area has to offer."
The Natural Weymouth & Portland partnership includes Dorset Coast Forum, Dorset Wildlife Trust, Environment Agency, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site Partnership, Natural England, RSPB, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council , Wild About Weymouth & Portland and Dorset Countryside.


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The midfielder has lauded the former Barcelona manager's decision to go to the Allianz Arena next season, having won the Bundesliga and Champions League himself in Bavaria
Guardiola, who had been strongly linked with a move to either Chelsea or Manchester City, agreed a three-year deal with Bayern following his season-long sabbatical after leaving Barcelona.
Canadian-born Hargreaves garnered an impressive reputation throughout Europe for his dynamic performances in Bavaria, and believes the Spaniard's move is the right one to make.
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"Not many clubs have the stability and structure of Bayern. They are the Manchester United of Germany."
Hargreaves made almost 150 appearances during his spell in Germany, scoring five times before making the switch to Old Trafford for a reported fee of £17 million.
The 31-year-old's career was cut prematurely short following a spate of injuries during his time with the Red Devils.
Guardiola won 14 trophies during his time at the Camp Nou, including two Champions Leagues.


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Since it was announced last year, the US bishops have been pushing for expansion of the conscience protection under the regulation. They were disappointed when on Jan. 20 the Obama administration announced that conscience protections would not be expanded, but instead nonprofit organization would have an additional year to comply with the mandate. They were further disappointed when on Feb. 10 the president personally announced what he called "a compromise" which would require insurance companies to pay for the objectionable services but not employers with a religious objection.


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An Evening in Conversation with Yanni
The first event will be held at:
Yanni North American Tour Dates 2016~More Dates to Be Added
Yanni's World Tour continues to North America!
Visit http://www.Yanni.com/tour for tour dates!
**More dates to be added
Celebrate With Yanni During His Birthday Week!
During Yanni's birthday week, be sure to join Yanni's email list and include your birthday and we'll send you a special birthday greeting on YOUR big day! Click Here: http://www.yanni.com/email-updates
*By joining the email list or updating your subscription to include your birthdate, you will automatically be entered to win an amazing VIP package from the Yanni.com/store!
Yanni's World Tour 2014 Continues, New PBS Special, New Album, Behind The Scenes!
Yanni's World Tour has been a big hit and audiences have been loving his concerts.
Yanni is touring Europe right now and in August will begin touring North America.
Please visit http://www.Yanni.com/Tour to see when Yanni will be performing in your city.
Yanni recently released a new album Inspirato which is receiving rave reviews and has been listed on Billboard's Charts as #1 in the New Age category.
Coming soon to PBS, Yanni: World Without Borders Special will be airing.
Here is a sneak peek:
Please check http://www.pbs.org/tv_schedules/ to find the PBS station in your area and schedule information. If the special is not listed contact your local PBS station and ask them to air Yanni: World Without Borders.
The DVD (compatible with DVD players globally) will be available to the general public in September.
Plus see the behind the scenes (load in & load out) of the Yanni Concert in Chennai & Bangalore, India.
Video by: J DAVIS PROSOUND AND LIGHTING
Yanni on Ana Maria Braga's Top Rated TV Show Mais Voce in Brazil!
Video courtesy of Yanni Management
Check out the video of Yanni with Ana Maria Braga on her TV Show, Mais Voce. Yanni appeared on Ana's show which is one of the most top rated shows in Brazil.
Yanni talks about his current concert tour, shares with us a special Greek recipe which I have listed below.
Be sure to visit the tour schedule and see when Yanni will be coming to your city.
Meatballs Appetizer Felitsa (Yanni's mom)
Courtesy of Yanni
450 g lean ground beef
2 eggs
2 teaspoons (tsp) minced garlic
¼ cup of chopped onion
1 ½ tbsp (tablespoons) fresh mint, chopped
1 ½ teaspoon (tsp) oregano
1 teaspoon (tsp) kosher salt (or sea)
1 spoon of red wine vinegar
4 loaves of wholemeal sandwich, shelled into small slices
Vegetable oil for frying
Method of preparation
In a large bowl mix together 450g of ground beef with 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons (tsp) minced garlic, ¼ cup of chopped onion, 1 ½ tbsp (tablespoons) fresh mint, chopped 1 ½ teaspoon (tsp ) oregano, 1 teaspoon (tsp) kosher salt, 1 spoon of red wine vinegar. *Reserve
Soak the bread in warm water until soft. Then squeeze bread to remove excess water, and squeeze it to turn into a smooth paste. With your hands mix the bread to meat and *reserved spiced up, until all ingredients are well incorporated and the bread is no longer visible.
With hands make balls of an inch and fry with a little oil until brown. Serve at once.
Yanni First Time Performing in Warsaw, Poland
Video by Tetsujin1977
Yanni performing for the first time in Warsaw, Poland!
Be sure to check out tour dates at http://www.Yanni.com/Tour
Yanni: World Tour 2014
Yanni and the musicians are thoroughly enjoying this next leg of World Tour 2014! They just finished up concerts in Chennai & Bangalore, India. It was 17 years ago that Yanni performed in front of the Taj Mahal.
Enjoy some videos that fans in the audience captured and an interview done right before Yanni left for India. Yanni talks about his new album, Inspirato, a new PBS Special & the World Tour.


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Logica the dejected bridesmaid
Only 42 days ago the broadsheet headlines were that Logica's poor performance would lead to yet another takeover bid, well actually speculation about a speculative bid. Under our own headline of "Always the Bridesmaid never the Acquisition" we said that it would not happen. It has not. We refuted Logica's statements of slowdown's in the Nordics and Benelux and laid blame at the door of under-investment; failure of Logica's management to change with the markets; and highlighted the benefit Logica had for expansion due to smaller contracts in the market which tier one suppliers are not geared up to fight effectively.
This week, Logica announced the loss of at least 1,300 jobs, paring back on property assets, and taking write-downs on three major contracts of £39m – total £130m. It also dropped its growth estimates from 5% to 3% for 2011 as well as its expectations on achievable margins. The Financial Times headline of "Beginning or end of bad news?" is certainly the right one. What can we expect?
Well, the market's reaction suggests some doubt – the share price dropped 16%. This means Logica is half the price it was last year. This is worrying. Let's not start acquisition stories again, however if Logica falters again or some major project issue comes up then a predator would get a bargain.
Andy Green captured market sentiment when discussing his client experiences said "they have never been so unsure of the future". In our opinion Logica needs a marketing and sales management jolt to leverage an excellent brand and solid client relationships. Will executive and management be given the time before investors demand real change?
One Response to Logica the dejected bridesmaid
Sales and marketing have never been a strong point of Logica.
This is not unusual in organsiations that have very technical roots and that goes back to the origins of Logica in London's Newman Street.
Excellence in business software development / integration and telecommunications services with some business consulting were the formative core competences and the expansion into the delivery of outsourced managed services was a logical step.
However it was interesting working with clients to get Logica to submit truly commercial bids as their sales teams were often led by very technically competent staff but with limited awareness of what financial criteria mattered to the client's management / selection team.
That said, there were (and probably still are) some very astute commercially aware senior management who breathed life into otherwise good, technically sound, offerings.
However on many occasions that well crafted
commercial input was too late to save the bid from rejection in the early rounds of the selection process.
Let us hope that they are rescued by a knight in shining armour but I cannot see one on the horizon at present.


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Argeade Revival
Pitti Uomo is the most important trade show for the representation of Italian ready-to-wear mens collections, attracting a multitude of buyers from all over the world. The fair is rather chaotic and full of things to see: the strongest trends this year are those of vintage and craftsmanship.
Argeade Revival
The collections of Argeade Revival fully reflects the heritage trend at Pitti. The brand uses only certified GOTS fabrics.
Hard Graft
Italian vegetable tanned leather and 100% German felt is used for the range of products made by Hard Graft. Travel bags, wallets, iPhone and iPad cases, MacBook sleeves… all characterized by a very masculine style.
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Patricia Urquiola
The Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola who has lived in Milan for years, set up the area "The Slow Factory" by Bonotto. Under a ceiling from which hung one thousand pieces of cloth, she has impressively covered a variety of objects with colourful fabrics for this show.
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text: I got a call from the police around a month ago saying they had found a set of car keys and had traced them to my car. I've only owned the car for 3 months and still have both the keys it came with. The keys were in Edinburgh (it just so happened i had been in Edinburgh for a few weeks around the time they were handed in) which is a few hours from where i stay so they said they'd post them to me. I was baffled! I got them through today and as i expected they do not open my car, any ideas people??? I bought the car down in Cheshire where it had been living for the past 3 years, so i have no idea how a set of keys found in Edinburgh have been traced to my car! Its not even the two button type (open & close) which i already have for the S3, they also have a boot open button, like my dad has for his A4 avant.


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This husband and wife team has made a pass-time of "following the hood of the car" and "going where the propeller leads". They have traveled on three continents, by car, mountain bikes, light airplanes and even ultralights. The Long Road of Summer is their first journey on motorcycles. It begins as a gentle recovery jaunt from a heart attack and rolls on and on as the road ever beckoning takes them over the next hill ... from Ohio to the Rio Grande and to the Grand Canyon, then through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Idaho and through the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean. Finally they ride through Alaska, the Yukon, British Columbia and the Canadian Prairie.
An abundance of pictures take the reader into the action and the scenery. As the pages turn, the reader builds a genuine companionship with Julia and Pierre-Louis and feels sadness and loss when the last page is read.
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Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
200 Pages
- Publish Date Feb 26, 2010
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