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Natalie Portman Vanity Fair
Is Natalie Portman in the wrong business? The 24-year-old Harvard grad's wonky behavor might raise the question, but no less an authority than Mike Nichols, who directed her in Closer, puts Portman on a very short list of truly talented Hollywood beauties. This most curious young star talks about her first glipse of cocaine (a month ago), her BS-detecting team, and playing a terrorist.
WHAT NATALIE KNOWS :: With her superfunctional family and Harvard degree, Natalie Portman is the anti-Lohan. As Portman stars in the Wachowski brothers' V for Vendetta, there's a lot going on behind the Goody Two-Shoes image. Continue reading Natalie Portman Vanity Fair April 2006 after the jump. More pictures in the gallery including official production stills of Natalie Portman hosting Saturday Night Live from March 4!
Natalie Portman
There are many Hollywood-star things you will never see Natalie Portman do. You will never see her pole-dancing with Kate Moss at Scores, or read obscenities she scrawled about Scarlett Johansson on a bathroom wall. You will never see her in a homemade porn video. And you will never see her slip into the ladies' room with pals and re-emerge distinctly re-invigorated.
"I saw cocaine for the first time a month ago in Spain," says Portman, her large, innocent, Audrey Hepburn eyes popping wide open as she curls her tiny body into an armchair. "I mean, for the first time in my life somebody was like. 'You want a line?' I was like, 'Oh. my God!'" she says, recalling the unbelievable moment.
Her only sniffing addiction is to handbags, to make sure they don't contain a trace of leather, as her strict vegetarianism extends to the materials she lets touch her skin. She wears sneakers every day (usually Converse), and for special events, like the Oscars or Golden Globes, a brand called Beyond Skin, vegan footwear that looks a lot like Easy Spirit. She doesn't wear diamonds to such events, but rather "conflict-free" earrings, such as $3 knockoffs from a place called Claire's that she swears look just the same. She drives a Prius. She had wanted it in black, but when they didn't have it in stock, she settled for lavender. She has no idea what kind of jeans she wears. "Citizen?" she asks hesitantly, about one pair that she got after a photo shoot. Most of her clothes are the same ones she has had since she was 14, when she stopped growing.
Her entire wardrobe fits into a normal-size closet, in a normal-size house, in a deeply normal part of suburban Long Island, 20 minutes from her parents'. She has a Mac computer, but only uses it to check e-mail and the news on the Web sites of The New York Times and Ha'aretz, the Israeli paper. She has a television, but doesn't actually watch any shows—except for the occasional David Chappelle or Ali G on DVD. Her taste in comedy is the only thing about her that veers toward stoner: the one movie she can watch over and over is The Big Lebowski. Her real weakness is for books, which are arranged neatly on massive shelves. (On her most recent film shoot, she took along 30 of them.) Her Harvard diploma, for "Natalie Hershlag" (her real last name), is displayed proudly in her bedroom, near a stuffed animal that belonged to her mother.
How can a young woman so levelheaded and brainy be such a hot Hollywood commodity, you wonder? Certainly, the tabloids have never found her interesting, except on two minor occasions, when she was sunbathing topless on vacation and when she was picking a wedgie. She puzzles, quite adorably, about her Goody Two-Shoes image, saying, "Granted, I'm not super-scandalous, but I've had drunken nights out, you know?" Yet she can't help bul acknowledge the reality. "I don't court it, I don't go out every night. I don't date famous people most of the time." (She has, however, been linked with actor Gael Garcia Bernal, something she will not comment on.)
Portman, however, is anything but a bore. Anyone who has spent real time with her invariably comes away mesmerized; first by her exquisite beauty, which she seems oblivious to, and then by the thing that sets her apart from almost every actor in Hollywood—a total, intelligent absorption in everything but herself. Her curiosity about the world knows no bounds. She will talk breathlessly about her old law professor Alan Dcrshowitz's ideas on justified torture, or about how the New Zealand Moriori tribe's philosophy of nonviolence doomed them to extinction, or how the two-party system is hampering American politics. She never sounds pompous, because it's all punctuated with "like"s, goofy laughs, and the word "super," which she frequently uses as a prefix to adjectives. "She's got a little bit of the spaz going on," says Peter Sarsgaard, who worked with her in 2004′s Garden State. Still, highly educated people often walk away from her questioning their own intelligence. "Sometimes when I'm talking to Natalie about a book or a film, it feels like I'm in grad school. And she's the professor," says Aleen Kcshishian, who, like Portman, went to Harvard and has been managing Portman's career since its start. As Dershowitz, one of her several prominent admirers, puts it, "She's not one of those Hollywood stars who plays on her stardom to have you listen to her on other issues. She's worth listening to because of her own inherent intelligence, experience, and background."
Besides all that, she exudes a warmth and an authenticity thai carry over onto the screen and have made her one of the most moving actresses working today. Mike Nichols, who directed her in 2004′s Closer and who has become her mentor, sees her on a very short list of all-time icons. "It confuses people to think that someone so completely beautiful could really be a first-rate actor too. It's hard to grasp, but it's happened. It's happened a few times before, with Garbo and Louise Brooks." Just the other night, at the 50th anniversary of New York's Public Theater, he was reminded of Portman's odd, transcendent power when the petite actress was onstage surrounded by many other actors. "I said to [the person] I was with, 'Look. Everybody, if they're near Natalie, they look like they're out of proportion.'" Given her thirst for probing complex questions, it's no surprise that she jumped at the chance to work on the controversial
film V for Vendetta, written by Andy and Larry Wachowski, the brothers who made the Matrix films, and produced by Joel Silver. Based on the 1989 graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, the film takes place in a post-World War III. totalitarian Britain. Its hero is V, a masked vigilante who blows up London landmarks, takes over the airwaves, and urges citizens to overthrow their tyrannical government. Although the original was written in response to Thatcher's England—with V an updated version of Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up Parliament in 1605—the film plays as a commentary on the Bush administration and its police-state tactics. It is one of the most genuinely subversive films to come out of Hollywood since the 70s.
"I started reading it out loud," says Portman, who plays a mild-mannered girl who is imprisoned by V before falling in love with him and, finally, carrying his torch of destruction. "That's always a sign to me that it's something I want to do." Throughout filming, Portman, Larry, Andy, and director James McTeigue plumbed notions of violence through a book-and-film circle, passing back and forth such works as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, White Nights, an autobiography by Menachem Begin, the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers, and a documentary about the Weather Underground Organization, the 1970s radical group.
"People are asking, 'Does this movie justify violence?'" says Portman. "I think it takes you to look at terrorism from a new perspective. It puts it in new shoes so that you can see reasons where the methods of terrorism might be justifiable…. I think when you make any kind of art you're trying to open a conversation—you're not trying Lo tell someone what to think." The seriousness with which she contemplated those issues is reflected in her performance, a subtle yet powerful transformation from good girl to revolutionary. As McTeigue explains. "Natalie transcends the actorly thing… She's not just drawing on past actor experience. She's drawing on autobiographical experience and fiction experience."
If you ask Portman, naturally, the autobiography is tedious. "I get really bored reading about myself," she says a little guiltily, and a little embarrassed. "Really nice, good parents. I grew up really well. Happy/' Indeed, the Hershlags—he is an Israeli doctor; she is an artist and homemakcr from Ohio—were Long Island's anti-Lohans, their household the epitome of safe, supportive, and wholesome. Natalie's idea of a crazy good time was watching Dirty Dancing, the ultimate Long Island Jewish girl movie, which she has seen countless times. "That was my movie growing up." It was Natalie who pushed the acting thing, and her parents resisted. When a Revlon scout approached the nine-year-old in a pizza parlor and asked if she wanted to get into modeling, the hammy little girl said, No, but I would like an agent. When, at age 11, she landed her first film, Luc Besson's The Professional, a love story of sorts between a hit man and the waif-like orphan he takes in, her father didn't hesitate to address his issues. "My dad had stipulations about how many drags on a cigarette I could take [in a scene], how many times I could curse. I wasn't actually allowed to inhale. My dad would have people standing behind me, blowing the smoke out."
Audiences found her enchanting, and, as much of her fan mail revealed, many dirty older men found her titillating. "I think I saw one [letter]," Portman recalls. "My parents didn't allow me to look at anything after that." She did. however, read the many editorials "about how my parents should be in trouble for allowing me to be in that movie. It was really upsetting. They kept saying 'Lolita-esque.' I had no idea what LoKta was." Ted Demme's 1996 film, Beautiful Girls, in which, as the self-confessed "old soul" on ice skates, she stole Timothy Hut-ton's heart, didn't do much to quell the unwanted attention. Finally, Portman's parents and her manager, Keshishian, decided that, moving forward, it would be best for young Natalie to keep a low profile and simply not engage. There would be no talking to fans and no signing of autographs, except for children. (Her aloofness at public appearances has occasionally led paparazzi to call her "cunt.") And when it came to choosing film roles, she steered clear of anything too erotic. She turned down the actual role of Lolita in Adrian Lync's 1997 film of the Nabokov novel, and she turned down The let' Storm (1997) because there nwas too much sexual content. She even turned down Havana Nights, the sequel to Dirty Dancing, which, naturally, was harder to resist.
Her performance in The Professional captured the attention of major directors—Woody Allen, Michael Mann, and Tim Burton, who cast her in small roles in, respectively Everyone Says I Love You, Heat, and Mars Attacks!—and she landed a starring role opposite Susan Sarandon in the charming but overlooked Anywhere but Here. While many teenage actors might have struck while the iron was hot and moved to Hollywood, Portman went to college. It was simply a given. The decision to go to Harvard, above Yale or Columbia, where she also applied, came from her grandfather— on his deathbed. "I was like, 'Where should I go?,' and he was like … 'Harvard.'" she recalls. laughing. "No explanation, nothing, and he died two weeks later."
Harvard freshmen tend to be an insecure, arrogant group, and nothing threatens them more than a person who's really good at something. "I felt like I had to prove myself more," says Portman, "and it made me nervous all the time because I felt that people always thought I was there because I was famous and not because I deserved to be there. And so it makes your stupid comment in class even stupider. Everyone's got a moment when they say something really lame. But me, I was like, Oh my God, I'm just confirming everyone's belief here—everyone thinks I'm the dumb actress."
But Alan Dcrshowitz, who taught her in a seminar on neurobiology and the law, says she was one of the most remarkable students he's had. He still cites a paper she wrote debunking a new method of lie-detector tests, well before this particular practice had come under question. "She was really on the cutting edge," says Der-showitz, who, for a time, had no idea that Natalie Hershlag was a Hollywood movie star. L'I think there were a lot of people in the class who really were taken with this new methodology. She just ripped it apart." Eventually she became his research assistant, and he encouraged her to go to graduate school in psychology.
Still, her self-consciousness about being an actress was apparent. Dershowitz recalls one evening when the students from the seminar came over for dinner. "She was embarrassed," he recalls, "saying, 'I hope you don't see this movie or that movie.'" To some classmates, she carne off as aloof or mistrustful. One student notes how, at the beginning of freshman year, she tried overly hard to pepper everyone around her with friendliness, but then withdrew from the masses, hanging out only with the jock types who were members of "final clubs." Another, who shared the laundry room with her, recalls the awkward time he held the door for her. "She looked at me as if I were a stalker," he says. Many classmates were stunned, says one student, when they saw her on David Letterman, being overly coy about where she was at college and sounding like a ditz. "It was a huge disconnect," this student says.
On either side of her college career, and over one summer during it, she completed three episodes of Star Wars, for which she was paid enough millions on the back end that she could have retired at age 18. (However, she now makes about half of what her comtemporaries like Kate Hudson and Lindsay Lohan make, due to her choices of smaller films.) At once she became a bankable, global household name, the face of a deity in the Star Wars pantheon, and, in the eyes of some important directors, a bit of a hack. She now admits that, for a time, Queen Amidala hampered her career. Episode I—The Phantom Menace was downright suffocating. One can see how Portman suffered—delivering lines like a robot and being crushed under the weight of a headdress the size of an armadillo, all the while trying to sell romantic chemistry with a nine-year-old. Although the next two episodes were improvements, they didn't exactly expand her acting horizons. (Sample dialogue- Anakin: "You're so beautiful." Amidala: "It's only because I'm so in love." Anakin: "No, it's because I'm so in love with you.") One reviewer called their romance "a love affair between a hothead [Hayden Christensen] and an ice bucket [Portman]." "After Star Wars," she admits, "people were really like, 'Uh, I don't know if she can really act.'"
But the dearth of interesting scripts coming her way opened her up to something special: Zach Braff's 2004 directorial debut, Garden State, the sort of film she wouldn't, at face value, take at this point in her career. "Now, I wouldn't be like, 'Let's work with the first-time director who's in a television show that I haven't seen.'" But the movie, whose budget was just $2.5 million, allowed her to do something she'd never quite done before: play someone utterly kooky. For Braff's part, he had landed someone who ultimately could get the film financed, as well as his dream actress. His only reservation was that she might be too pretty. "I said to her, 'I don't want you to wear makeup,'" recalls Braff. "Some people will laugh. 'Oh, it's Natalie Portman, so who gives a shit,' you know? But women, I think, in general are terrified about that. She wore the most minimal makeup I've ever seen any person on film ever wear." Sarsgaard was particularly impressed by her instinctual, non-intellectual approach to acting. "You think of someone who went to Harvard and is very well read and all of that," he says. "As far as I saw her, the camera rolls and she goes. She doesn't whittle the scene down into its finer elements." Around the same time, she stood out as the lonely, desperate Civil War widow in Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain.
Her biggest leap was undoubtedly in Closer, Nichols's 2004 film about the ugly ways four beautiful people treat one another. Portman took on the erotically charged role of a stripper. "I will not allow myself to be on a porn site, which happens," Portman says, explaining her modesty. "I don't want to be used by someone else for turning me into something I'm not." But for Closer she agreed to shoot a scene topless—only because she was working with Nichols, someone she'd come to trust since being directed by him in his Central Park production of Chekhov's The Seagull. "I was doing everything because I knew that Mike was going to get my permission about everything and show me everything and talk to me…. And he was like, 'That stuff's going to be burned if we don't use it.'" Indeed, it was destroyed.
Portman earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for her performance, but she never got puffed up over it. "She said such a Natalie thing after seeing Closer," recalls Nichols. "She said, 'I'm not awesome yet.'" In fact, she e-mailed Dershowitz and said, "Please don't watch Closer. It's embarrassing to have my teacher see me half-naked." ("It was embarrassing," Dershowitz admits.) While most Oscar nominees gleefully rifled through their gift bags, which are worth more than $100,000 these days, Portman, Keshishian recalls, showed zero interest. "I honestly don't know what she did with it. She probably gave it to her grandmother or a friend."
For Portman, the most important thing she got out of doing Closer was Nichols's devoted friendship and mentorship. "[Mike] will take me out to dinner and be like, This guy's not treating you right.' He'll take me out to dinner and be like, 'You need a new agent,'" she says, referring to her change from ICM to CAA. "You send him a book, he reads it the next day. You ask him for advice on a script, he reads it and gives you notes on it. I call him and I'm like, "I'm stuck with this character.' He'll spend three hours on the phone with me and give me his thoughts. And he doesn't have anything to do with it, you know? It's not his movie."
As for Nichols, who has had that sort of affinity only with Meryl Streep and his old Second City colleague Elaine May, he says, "I love her very much. I feel something akin to the way I feel about my kids." Since V for Vendetta, she has created yet another older, male admirer—this one more unlikely; Joel Silver. Known for his brashness and liberal use of obscenities, he becomes positively gentlemanly in her company, says one observer. "She is remarkable," Silver gushes. "She is this oddity—this beautiful, intelligent, warmhearted, fantastic person, you know?"
Following the accolades brought about by Closer, Portman did another very Natalie thing: she left Hollywood in the dust and went to Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, to study for six months, kicking back with spoken Arabic, spoken Hebrew, the history of Israel, the history of Islam, and the anthropology of violence—a course taught in Hebrew. And for the past few years she has thrown herself into her charitable work with the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), an organization she discovered through a meeting with Queen Rania of Jordan that provides micro-loans to poor women in developing countries who are starting small businesses. Between trips for FINCA to Uganda, Guatemala, and Ecuador, she has had one-on-one sit-downs with members of Congress, including Hillary Clinton and John McCain, to discuss the organization and its issues. "McCain really cared," she says. "Sincerely. I mean, I'm an actor so I can pick up on bullshit pretty quickly."
The only things calling her back to Hollywood are interesting projects—really interesting projects. Up next is Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts, a drama set against the Spanish Inquisition about Goya's relationship with two subjects. What she'd really love to do, somewhat surprisingly, is a romantic comedy. In Portman's opinion, comedy is the most socially valuable genre. "That's the movie we want to watch a thousand times. That's the movie that when you're sick you watch. When you're sad, it makes you forget." She only wishes that every female lead in every romantic comedy didn't have to work in fashion. "The girls are cither a model's agent or a photographer's assistant or a stylist or a fashion designer," she says, annoyed, "because they want to have cute clothes."
Hollywood—the ass-kissing, backstabbing, social-life aspect of it anyway—simply holds no interest for her. In fact, it gives her the creeps. "I always make sure that anytime I go to a Hollywood event I have five school friends with me, because they're like my monitors. They're like, That person's nice, that person's not. That person won't even look me in the eye or shake my hand to say hi: You sort of see how people are by how they relate to people around you. With me, everyone's like, 'Hey, how are you?' Like, super-over- exaggeratedly sweet."
But even the most obnoxious antics of the Nicole Richie-Paris Hilton-Lindsay Lohan set won't illicit any snottiness from this young woman. To start with, she barely knows who Paris and Nicole arc. As for Lindsay, she thinks she's a sweet girl and has a Long Island bond with her, starting with Lohan's signed head shot from The Parent Trap hanging at the local bagel shop. "You can't judge anyone else," says Porlman. "Every moment in my life I've always known my parents would go to the end of the earth for me. And when you have that kind of rock, you can't judge anyone who doesn't, and most people don't."
Still, she's had her moments of Hollywood craziness. With her dad, the doctor. Her wildest night in recent memory was in December in Madrid, white filming Goya's Ghosts. "We went to this club that had really fun music and we were dancing with people from the crew until five in the morning. It's the latest Istayed up the whole time I was there. I was with my dad. I was like, awesome."


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FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio won't be punished for allegedly racist comments
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The Italian Football Federation's Federal Prosecutor has confirmed no action will be taken against newly-elected president Carlo Tavecchio for allegedly racist comments.
The 71-year-old courted controversy during his election campaign when referring to a fictional foreign player as "eating bananas" before moving to Italy to play football.
Both FIFA and UEFA have opened investigations into the comments but the FIGC has already closed its enquiry.
In a statement published on figc.it, Federal Prosecutor Stefano Palazzi said his analysis of "comments uttered by the president of National Amateur Leagues during their assembly on July 25" had not revealed "any facts of disciplinary importance to charge the newly-elected FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio both in objective and subjective terms."
The campaign against Tavecchio's candidacy began when he made an allegedly racist comment when using a fictional example to try to make a point about the number of foreign players in the Italian leagues.
Quoted by newspaper La Repubblica, Tavecchio said: "England identifies the players coming in and, if they are professional, they are allowed to play.
"Here, on the other hand, let's say there's (fictional player) Opti Poba, who has come here, who previously was eating bananas and now is a first-team player for Lazio.
"In England, he has to demonstrate his CV and his pedigree."
Despite the controversy, he beat former AC Milan player Demetrio Albertini in the race to succeed Giancarlo Abete.
Upon learning of UEFA's investigation, he said in a statement: "I am calm and I respect UEFA's decision.
"It's something that had to be done, hence, we had foreseen it. I am certain that I will also be able to explain in UEFA's headquarters my mistake as well as my true intentions."


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South Jersey's coastline likely will see hundreds of millions of dollars invested in building up dunes and beaches in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
The sand barriers worked, but were eroded by the storm and need to be replenished. Their effectiveness at keeping oceanfront properties intact — or at least minimizing damage — also has prompted towns that don't have dunes or augment their beaches to reconsider the practice.
Exact sand-loss quantities and cost estimates for replenishment are now being calculated based on data collected by surveyors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Environmental Protection and Richard Stockton College's Coastal Research Center.
When Sandy's floodwaters receded, the research teams hit the beach to take stock of the erosion caused by the hurricane in all seven of the Army Corps' project areas on Long Beach Island and in Atlantic City, Brigantine and Ventnor, as well as Avalon, Stone Harbor, North Wildwood, North Wildwood, Cape May and Cape May Point.
Those tabulations will take another week to pull together, Coastal Research Center Director Stewart Farrell said.
As for actual work starting?
"That could take years," Atlantic City Office of Emergency Management Director Tom Foley said. "But when you have something like (Sandy) happen, it usually happens faster."
To deal with shoreline protection in the meantime, the Army Corps trucked in about 35,000 tons — about $1.2 million worth — of sand from offshore quarries to shore up dunes in Surf City, Harvey Cedars and Atlantic City this week.
"Everyone recognizes the urgency because the shoreline south of Sandy Hook got whacked hard …. and nor'easter season is here," Army Corps Coastal Planning Section Chief Jeff Gebert said.
Most of the emergency sand — about 30,000 tons, or $1 million worth — went to Surf City and Harvey Cedars. Sandy so badly decimated those communities and the rest of Long Beach Island that Gov. Chris Christie did not lift evacuation orders until Thursday.
Atlantic City's evacuation lasted half as long, but was still the longest-ever mandatory shutdown in history for the resort and its multibillion-dollar casino industry.
South of LBI, the emergency replenishment sand went only to Atlantic City — which got about 5,000 tons or $200,000 worth — to shore up dunes along 3.5 miles of oceanfront, Army Corps spokesman Stephen Rochette said.
The emergency dune restoration is separate from the Army Corps Flood Control & Coastal Emergency Program, which has seven project sites along the South Jersey coast.
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In Atlantic City, the sand mounds' performance during the storm so impressed the resort's vociferous anti-dune contingent that they say they've switched camps. Continuing efforts to compromise, however, have prompted the city to push for restoring dunes that are wider and lower than they were before the storm, City Planning & Development Director Keith Mills said.
"The dunes worked," Mills said.
To Gebert, that's "intuitively obvious."
"The bigger the pile of sand you have between you and the ocean, the less damage you'll have, all other things being equal," Gebert said. "With that and all the other work we'd done nourishing the beach, that made it less susceptible."
But some people in Atlantic city have argued that dunes block ocean views and breezes — and unnecessarily, because storm damage is more a function of the beaches' width and slope.
They've grown more vociferous since the onset 18 months ago of state laws aimed at boosting local tourism within five years by stripping the city of development authority in and around casinos. The legislation also prompted local gambling companies to form the Atlantic City Alliance and fund the nonprofit marketing group with the $30 million in annual revenue previously given to the horseracing industry.
Foley was not swayed.
"Dunes on Long Beach Island were 22 feet high — what did they do?" Foley said, referring to the devastation on the narrow island 30 miles north of Atlantic City. "To me, it's width and elevation of the beach. That's the key."
Foley's fellow anti-dune crusader Pinky Kravitz, a Press of Atlantic City columnist and local radio personality, agreed. His primary concern, however, is their effect on ocean views from The Boardwalk — so Mills' suggestion for lower, wider dunes seemed like it would satisfy him.
"We never said 'Take the dunes out.' We just said 'Lower them.' Just to 14 feet so everyone could see the ocean and the beach," Kravitz said.
In the South Inlet section of Atlantic City, a dilapidated section of the Boardwalk slated for demolition along the Absecon Inlet there was almost entirely removed by the storm.
"The Inlet frontage, that was wide-open and exposed long before the storm hit," Gebert said. "We have not and do not foresee the occasion where we'd put a beach replenishment on an inlet frontage ... because the constant ebb and flow of tides there is not consistent with building, let alone maintaining a beach fill."
The 3.75 miles along the ocean in Downbeach, however, remained intact behind the protection of dunes and recently replenished beaches.
"Probably about half of the dunes got breached by the storm, but they did their job. They held (the ocean) back for the most part," Ventnor Mayor Mike Bagnell said. "Our city workers are patching up (the dunes) as best as possible and we're waiting for the Army Corps to come back and rebuild them. We lost a lot of beach also."
Ventnor is part of the same Army Corps project area as Atlantic City. The 4.75-mile-long stretch of beach underwent an $18 million replenishment this year.
Neither Margate nor Longport at the south end of Absecon Island have participated in Army Corps replenishment projects in the past. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, however, that could change in the future, the towns' mayors said Thursday.
"We'll look at that at some point," Margate Mayor Mike Becker. "We'll be looking at everything. This was the storm of the century."
Each town has a dune that was constructed long ago and is tiny in comparison to the extensive networks to the north.
Longport's stretches between 32nd and 36th avenues. And along that stretch, Atlantic Avenue was spared the sand deposits as deep as a foot or two left elsewhere by the storm, Longport Mayor Nick Russo said.
"The dune did what it is supposed to do," Russo said.
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text: Ellucian Previews New Mobile Solution: An Ellucian XE Product Evolution Published Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - Denver, CO Ellucian is previewing a new mobile solution that demonstrates momentum toward delivering on its recently announced Ellucian Extensible Ecosystem vision. Ellucian Mobile evolves the company's previous mobile solutions into one that spans the three core administrative systems and unites the entire Ellucian customer community. Ellucian Mobile is being revealed to higher education technology leaders at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Denver.Ellucian mobile brings together the best of Ellucian Mobile Access and Ellucian Mobile Connection into a single new approach to help colleges and universities advance mobile initiatives faster and extend applications and services to a broad range of campus stakeholders. "Customers want to deliver mobile services that matter, but many are finding it difficult to get started or difficult to keep up with the changing environment," said John F. Speer III, president and CEO, Ellucian. "Ellucian Mobile will help customers leverage their existing investments and the power of their campus systems more quickly, cost-effectively, and consistently. We will also leverage the power of the community through our Shared Code Repository which will help our customers more easily share their mobile innovations across our community.Delivered as a platform that supports both native and web applications, Ellucian Mobile offers both deep integration with Ellucian solutions and flexible options to help customers extend the digital campus to include non-Ellucian applications. Institutions can choose to implement an easily configurable pre-set package of applications that can be fully launched in hours or opt to build, customize, and manage their own mobile environments. Either option affords deep integration with the data and services available in Ellucian's core administrative systems: Banner by Ellucian, Colleague by Ellucian, and PowerCampus by Ellucian. True to the Ellucian XE vision, Ellucian Mobile takes advantage of a deeper level of integration with critical information and systems than other solutions, allowing customers to surface capabilities unique to their institution. For institutions seeking a turnkey mobile solution for quick implementation across their campuses, Ellucian Mobile provides a new fast and affordable option. Through Ellucian's mobile cloud configuration system, institutions can launch a customized and branded solution in hours, without deep technical experience. With minimal effort, institutions can control important brand attributes, configure what information campus users see, and extend functionality through easy access to institutional web assets and data. End users simply select Ellucian Mobile from the app store of their choice (the application supports Apple and Android devices), confirm their institutional affiliation, and download a solution that fully represents that institution. The initial set of applications will include: course schedules, grades, rosters, events, directories, campus news, notifications, and more.For institutions that prefer a highly customizable mobile solution, Ellucian Mobile delivers direct access to the platform and code. With this option, institutions can extend Ellucian Mobile to include their own native and web-based applications while having a stand-alone institution branded application in each of the app stores. Ellucian Mobile will be available for purchase beginning January 1st, 2013 with general availability planned for March 2013. A special grant program will cover the full license fee for customer institutions that enroll by June 15th, 2013.


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Discussion in 'Mac Blog Discussion' started by MacRumors, Jul 23, 2003.
Jusy a mistake:
Most likely a mistake
I doubt Apple would only make a 33mhz speed jump. But you never know.
That product code (M8852LL/A) is for a 900MHz iBook isn't it?
just a mistake
no way they just messed it up with the ibook... no worries and whats the point in upgrading it 33 mghz?
if anything they just rounded up from 867. Is this even page 2 worthy?
Just checked, it's the product code for an iBook Applecare package...
it has to be a mistake because the model number is still the same, if it was a new powerbook it would say b.
that's the beauty of page 2.
anything is page 2 worthy
Total fake
If the product features aren't set in stone and the product isn't in production, they won't have a model number yet, and the model number is all wrong.
And yes they would make a 900MHz PowerBook G4 12".
As a low end config.
The high end is likely to be 1GHz.
Then if you want more, go for a 15" or 17".
Hmmm. The model number in the graphic, M8852LL/A, is not one of the ones found here:
EDIT: it's http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=M8852LL/A AppleCare for iBook.
EDIT: Wow, bunch of posts while I was typing!
So would MOSR qualify as Page 3 then?
hahaha, how much!?!?!
Re: Total fake
Let's do some speculating. A few days ago there was a rumor that the iBooks would be discontinued. So a 12" PB at 900MHz could be seen as an upgrade to the current 800MHz iBook. And then indeed 1GHz for the more expensive version. It could make sense.
Then again, it's very likely to be just a mistake.
major mistake unless it has a true 7457 , cooler more effecient 200ddr 400effective) capable fsb, 512-1MB l2 cache (l3 we not be needed) 64MB graphics and 1-2GB ram limit, firewire 800 usb 2
Stupid mistake. But the much larger, much more stupid mistake is that Apple has now taken nearly 7 months to update the embarrassingly slow, overpriced, upgrade crippled PB 12". Year of the laptop my a**! More like "year of the longest gap in several years before a laptop refresh" Since even the 7457 will not bring major speed boosts, they need to max out things on the PBs or sales are goig to continue to tank. Given that the hard drive in the 12" is virtually impossible to upgrade without great time, expense, and/or voiding the warranty, they should at least come with either the 80GB Hitachi HD or the 7200 RPM 60GB model standard, 128 MB VRAM with the fastest video cards available, and fer chrissakes L3 in the 12" and if they 7457 supports 4MBL3, just buck up and ship them with that much.
MOSR is Page 4. Page 3 is intentionally left blank.
They thought about going with that. But "Year of the Notebook" had a better ring to it.
Year Of The Craptop was already taken by yours truly. Steve asked me if he could use the phrase, but I had to turn him down.
"And now introducing the, 2.0GHz G5 dual processor desktop, and the 900MHz G4 12" Powerbook: The biggest, and smallest product updates in Apple history."
I can see the new ad campaign now.
Re: Total fake
Not with a system bus less than 200 MHz--which seems unlikely on the 12" even with a 7457.
Depends on how you define "several years". It took ten months, I believe, to update the 400/500 MHz TiBooks. That refresh was almost two years ago; IMHO, "several" is at least four.
All that and a half-hour battery life!!!
Seriously, the 12-incher's battery is pretty damn small. I highly doubt it could support all those features.
Or maybe it should be
2003! Where is the laptop??
Hey, and don't knock 33 extra mhz. Thats a whole extra 68030 we are talking about!
Or the power of 4. yes is said it correctly 4 more macintosh's se
Here's the bottom line.
Until there is a level three cache on the 12" Powerbook, not interested. Nor is anyone who does pro audio. As the 12' is part of Apples pro line (i.e. not a G3 i book) the ommission of this feature is significant. LIKE I've said before, one should be able to buy the portables according to the size of screen required, not features, which, should be standard across the line.
Saying all this, as Apples revenue is 46% derived from the portable line/products, I think it foolish to always bring out the towers (ala G5) before the portables. The portable division is the most inovative Hardware segment of Apple computer. With all which is said on these forums, there is NO reason why Apple could not bring out the G5 portable line now. I don't buy the arguments. Just my take.
Looking forward to SERIOUS upgrades to the powerbook line. Hope everyone has a great day and weekend.


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The Ames Florida Stork House, open to visitors throughout the year, chronicles the history of three of Rockford's most prominent families, beginning in the mid-1800s.
The house currently functions as a historic house museum, and offers visitor tours, collections of 19th- and 20th-century furnishings and textiles, and a vintage clothing collection. The website offers basic visitor information, a brief history of the home, and a virtual tour.


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|Human Cell lysate that Human ErbB2 / HER2 transfected / overexpressed for Western blot (WB) positive control. The whole cell lysate is provided in 1X Sample Buffer (1X modified RIPA buffer+1X SDS loading buffer).
|A DNA sequence encoding the extracellular domain (Met 1-Thr 652) of human ErbB2 (NP_004439.2) was fused with the Fc region of human IgG1 at the C-terminus.
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|Cell lysate was prepared by homogenization in ice-cold modified RIPA Lysis Buffer with cocktail of protease inhibitors (Sigma). Cell debris was removed by centrifugation. Protein concentration was determined by Bradford assay (Bio-Rad protein assay, Microplate Standard assay). The cell lysate was boiled for 5 min in 1 x SDS loading buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 12.5% glycerol, 1% sodium dodecylsulfate, 0.01% bromophenol blue) containing 5% b-mercaptoethanol, and lyophilized.
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Burlington was incorporated as a village in 1874 and was a town by 1906. It was originally located in Nelson Township in Halton County, Ontario. In 1962 it annexed the better part of Nelson Township and became a city. Halton County became the Regional Municipality of Halton in 1973.
The location of the Halton's original townships
The municipalities were renamed and reshaped in the reorganization of 1973
The map of Halton County circa 1951 from Ontario Archives locates the communities and physical features of the county. (Click at the bottom of the page to see the map enlarged.)
Before pioneer settlement in the 19th century, the area was covered by the primeval forest that stretched between the provincial capital of York and the town of Hamilton, and was home to various First Nations peoples. In 1792, John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, named the western end of Lake Ontario "Burlington Bay" after the town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The land beside the bay was deeded to Captain Joseph Brant at the turn of the nineteenth century, and by that time the name "Burlington" was already in common use. With the completion of the local survey after the War of 1812, the land was opened for settlement. Early farmers prospered in the Burlington area because of the fertile soil and moderate temperatures. Produce from the farms was shipped out via the bustling docks of the lakeside villages of Port Nelson and Wellington Square, as well as Brown's Wharf in the nearby village of Port Flamborough (which was to become Aldershot). Lumber taken from the surrounding forests also competed for space on the busy docks. However, in the latter half of the 19th century, the increased wheat production from Western Canada convinced local farmers to switch to fruit and vegetable production.
In 1874, Wellington Square and Port Nelson were incorporated into the Village of Burlington. However, the arrival of large steamships on the Great Lakes made the small docks of the local ports obsolete, and the increased use of railways to ship goods marked the end of the commercial wharves.
Farming still thrived, and the resultant growth resulted in continued prosperity. By 1906, the town boasted both its own newspaper—The Burlington Gazette—as well as a town library and a local rail line that connected Burlington to nearby Hamilton. In 1915, Burlington was incorporated into a town.
As more settlers arrived and cleared the land, cash crops replaced subsistence farming. Gradually, mixed farming and market gardens became the dominant form of agriculture, and in the early twentieth century the area was declared the "Garden of Canada". The first peaches grown in Canada were cultivated in the Grindstone Creek watershed, located in the south-west part of the city. the farming tradition has passed down through the generations. Today over forty percent of the Grindstone Creek watershed is still devoted to farms, orchards and nurseries.
Following the Second World War, cheap electricity from nearby Niagara Falls and better transportation access due to the Queen Elizabeth Way (an expressway opened 1939) encouraged both light industry and families to move to Burlington. The population sky-rocketed as new homes were built, encouraging developers to build even more new homes.
In 1962, Burlington annexed most of the Township of Nelson, as well as Aldershot, formerly a part of East Flamborough Township in Wentworth County. By 1967, the last cash crop farm within the city had been replaced by commercial enterprise.
Research Tips
The primary source for basic documents (vital statistics, land records, wills) for people who lived in the Province of Ontario is the Archives of Ontario, 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M7A 2C5.
Early Records
Civil registration did not begin in the province until 1869. Before then there may be church records of baptisms and burials. For the most part these are still held by the denomination who recorded them. Copies of marriage records made pre-1869 had to be sent by individual clergymen to the registrar of the county in which the marriage took place. These marriage records are available through Ontario Archives, on micorfilm through LDS libraries, and on paid and unpaid websites, but because they were copied at the registrars' offices, they cannot be considered a primary source.
Vital Records after 1869
Birth, marriage and death registrations are not open to the public until a specific number of years after the event occurred. Births to 1915 are now available [October 2014]; dates for marriages and deaths are later. Birth and death registration was not universally carried out in the early years after its adoption. Deaths were more apt to be reported than births for several years. The more rural the area, the less likely it would be that these happenings were reported to the authorities.
Land Records and Wills
Information on how to access land records and wills is best sought on the Archives of Ontario website. An ancestor's land holding might be found on Canadian County Atlas Digital Project if he was in occupancy circa 1878.
Association for the Preservation of Ontario Land Registry Office Documents (APOLROD). A list of Land Registry Offices for all Counties of Ontario.
The original censuses are in the hands of Library and Archives Canada, known to Canadians as "LAC". Copies of original microfilms are online at the LAC website for all censuses up to 1911. Each census database is preceded with an explanation of the geographical area covered, the amount of material retained (some census division material has been lost), the questions on the census form, and whether there is a name index. Census divisions were redrawn as the population increased and more land was inhabited. The 1921 census is only available through Ancestry.ca, but it is free-to-view.
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Serious crash:SH4 near Takiri Road, Aria
Serious crash:SH4 near Takiri Road, Aria
Monday, 7 July 2014 - 3:56pm
Waikato Police would like to advise of major delays on SH4 this afternoon.
There has been a serious truck crash near Takiri Road, Aria.
SH 4 is completely closed at this time.
The diversions are via Kopaki Road at the northern end and via Waimihia Road at southern end. Both of these roads lead to SH 30.
Heavy vehicles can use this diversion but care is needed and patience from all motorists would be appreciated.
It is anticipated that these diversions will be in place for a number of hours yet.


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Court won't allow DaimlerChrysler suit in California
The Supreme Court won't allow a lawsuit to move forward in California that accuses a foreign company of committing atrocities on foreign soil.
The high court on Tuesday refused to allow survivors and victims of Argentina's "dirty war" to sue the former DaimlerChrysler Corp. of Stuttgart, Germany, for alleged abuses in Argentina in California court.
Victims who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the Argentine government in the late 1970s and relatives of those who disappeared sued in California, alleging that a subsidiary, Mercedes-Benz, was complicit in the killing, torture or kidnapping by the military of unionized auto workers.
But the court said in an opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that the lawsuit against the company now known as Daimler did not belong in an American court.
(Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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If you feel like criticizing negatively the length of my profile, REMEMBER, no one MADE you read it.
And DO READ MY "Message me IF" downtown there, at the end, 3 miles down.
Oh, and DON'T message me if you have kids or dogs. I don't do kids or dogs. Or a big beard or more than 7 years age difference. That probably disqualifies 90% of the population, but so much the better.
Really Cool Woman, not the kind you are used to.
Pretty, smart, sexual, spiritual, psychonaut, diverse, musical, deviant, perverse, inquisitive, sapiosexual, unrelenting, exploring, passionate, intense, chased by funky demons and looking for angels (with a tail). Bohemian princess, luxurious neohippie, lover of life. Independent like the wind and dedicated till the end.
What do I want? To walk- and dance and rock it!- through life with a shining, awesome life partner at my side (who incidentally needs to be a long haired guitar player), where we're both free to evolve, while we nurture each other's evolution and freedom of expression.
Also, living in an intentional artistic eco-community with burners, or people relaxed about their body and their sexuality, in a green beautiful place, close to a bad-ass city sounds wonderful... :)
As of summer 2013 I'm also a Burner and not just that, I'm the regional contact for Burning Man in Greece, and yes, Greece now has a burn event, on water! Google "Greekburn".
I believe in THIS. If you wanna play house with me you'd better agree to some extend. It's not that I don't respect the existence of other world views, I just get SO bored with people walking miserably around acting like victims and sheep while in truth we're all lions and brilliant creators.
In a nutshell, I am a romantic, kinky slut, who is into sharing her evolving, not-very-conventional, rich sex-, travel- and music-filled life with a Really Cool Creative Man, who is perceptive, intelligent, driven, with similar views, Long Hair, a musician, and kinky in bed (mostly dominant, but a bit of a switch too).
Oh, and just for those males that read the word 'slut', saw a couple of sexy pics and think they can get in there easily, THINK AGAIN. I'm DAMN difficult, picky and demanding.
The kind of relating I'm interested in sounds like a balanced relationship with a Soulmate, which includes occasional sharing of multiple-people sexual experiences (yes, I do mean threesomes, foursomes, n-somes, etc.) with my partner, or ΜΑΥΒΕ (not sure yet I can emotionally support a poly relationship) each one doing his/her own separately once in a while, which would be years later, once our bond has been stabilized and we're solid. You gotta be kinky too. I'm mostly submissive in bed (ONLY In bed) though occasionally I like to switch. So if you're dominant 75% of the time, that would be ideal. If you're a jealous man who won't tolerate his woman being touched by another, please yu go avay nau. If, on the other hand, you are a man who is turned on by seeing (or might eventually see the beauty of it) his little bunny-rabbit luv being humped by a score of males, and proud that she can pull them all off, and at the end of the night can cuddle her like she's the only woman in the world, do message me directly. Long hair is a must -sorry, that's my main fetish, and being a musician is my second main fetish. Mind you, all the above will hold for me too.
All of the above is how I see it. I'm not a stickler though, so if something different sweeps me of my feet, I won't say no. What's most important is for me & the people around me to be true to our own soul and its freedom to be expressed in whatever way it sees fit, and that we get along harmoniously.
Since all the above may sound sufficiently fascinating, I should add the following:
Stay away from me if you're a regular smoker - I ABHOR cigarette smoke, if you have kids, if you have dogs, if you follow any organized (or unorganized) religion, if you're conservative or a prude, if you get very jealous, and if you expect me to cook you dinner just cause I got a vagina.
Only bother me if you're authentic,
if you speak your mind fearlessly, for good or bad,
if you don't play silly games and if you don't believe in victimhood.
If you do any of that, I'll know it within 30 seconds and you'll be outta here. I occasionally tend to shake people's worlds and make them ask questions about their selves, just by being my lovely spontaneous, inquisitive, perceptive, direct self.
If that bothers you or scares you, stay away. I am strong minded, INTENSE, not very diplomatic, ridiculously independent, and self sufficient. I will not be your 'stay at home wifey' and I'll not be your property (unless we're talking about sex play, in which case fuck yes, use me like your sex object and give me to your friends :D ). I can be piercingly perceptive and I can often be intrusive with my intensity, like, in your face. I can be very particular, and at times I want things in a specific way. It therefore helps if you're more zen and easy going about stuff than me. I can be a real bitch sometimes, I can be intellectually snobbish, and I get easily irritated and over-sensitive when I'm tired. I can occasionally be a drama queen when the darkness overtakes me. I get bored easily, especially with stupidity or lack of authenticity. I have a certain wanderlust and I need to travel every once in a while. If you physically tickle me I'll probably punch you. And don't ever, EVER wake me up suddenly or brutally (for sex or any other reason) when I'm sleeping and haven't had enough sleep (or most days, even when I've had enough).
Still interested? Then read on.
I'm really diverse. I mean really. How can I pin it down? Hm I can't. Just to give you some hints, I've been (in no particular order):
- a computer and a gaming geek
- an big aficionado of activities in nature: hiking, paragliding, rock climbing, mountaineering, scuba diving, horse riding, sailing etc.
- a meditator
- a mediator
- a party animal
- a kinky libertine
- a singer, guitar player, musically addicted, with her own band
- a priestess dancing ecstatically for the Goddess
- the sort of person that will call you at 3am and tell you "Let's leave NOW for a week long roadtrip!"
- a fetish performer
- a beekeeper
- a road tripper
- a hippy
- a dancer since the age of 5, from ballet to salsa and tango
- a world wide traveler
Let's just say, when my friends call me crazy, I take it as a compliment.
Ha! How self-involved does THAT list sound? Still, you're supposed to learn things about me in my profile, so there.
In my life I've followed my mind and followed my heart. I've taken somebody's everything and given my everything. I've felt totally alone and connected with everything. I've learned how to love. Faced my greatest fear. Felt the worst possible pain and indescribable joy. I have lost and found myself. I've walked through fire. I've wanted to die, I'm still here and NOW I'm enjoying it.
(Apparently I'm a bloody good drama queen too but by now it's mostly under control. :P)
Where would you like to go today?
Love, Freedom, Truth, Beauty, how everything is vibration, Spirituality, the workings of universal energy, law of attraction, adventures out there (the world) and in here (my mind), music, guitars, music,Burning Man, Nowhere, tantric sex, jamming, making music, singing, nature, doing things in nature, living in nature, being creative, long haired men, intimacy, libertinism, swinging, orgies,exhibitionism, kinkiness, fetishism, dominance, submission, extremism, long haired men, writing, poetry, new experiences, traveling by body or mind, being whimsical, new things every day, dancing, cats, long haired men, guitar players, open-minded, authentic, conscious people, people's secret lives, psychological voyerism, the great outdoors, long haired men, music, spirituality, evolution, cooking, cake decorating.
I'm soon starting a series of workshops on Aural sex, how to use the sexual energy body, the polyorgasmic man, and voluntary orgasms at will.
I'm an indigo turning crystal. I live in endless abundance.
I'm done with having 'problems' in my life. Fuck suffering!
Now it's just awesome, blissful, inspired creation of awesomeness EVERY DAY, shared with blissful, amazing people who live the same way.
Ok, I wish. It's not exactly that, but that's the intention and I totally believe in positive thinking.
I am a Burner (as in Burning Man).
I used to have a band and now I'm looking to form/be part of a new one. I write music, sing and play guitar. Music is a BIG thing in my life. I'll say that again: Music is BIG in my life. I fucking love it and cannot live without it.
My cd is on the way, and my rock opera is going to be done one day.
I used to be a web designer, but I'm done with it now.
I'm an artist. Lately I've started working on 3D art (physical not virtual). And the thought of designing and making big art to take to burns makes me cum.
I connect with people. I find connecting with people on any level extremely interesting, as long as it's real. The deeper, the better. Seriously, if you don't want somebody to see your soul, don't bother with me. Or at least don't go to bed with me. :D
I'm open to exceptional propositions.
Really, if you have a good idea, tell me.
[I have YET to receive a mail with a good idea. I MEAN it people.]
If not now, when will you live it?
Reading people like open books
Using my intuition
Writing song lines
Traveling extensively
Being cheeky
Being intense
Leaving people more kinky than I found them
Untieing knots
Doing magic
Aural sex
Knowing when you're bullshiting me
Foreign languages
Orgasms at will
Not being disciplined with my guitar practice (Man, when am I gonna make those licks work!?)
Being bitchy (usually with reason)
Being loyal (not sexually)
IQ tests
Giving my heart
The "Butterfly" technique
I'm pretty passionate about life and it shows.
I'm also pretty sexual and THAT shows. (When its awakened, because it has been known to fall into some very annoying hibernation periods occasionally)
I also usually have very red hair.
Shortbus, Before sunrise, Before sunset, Blade Runner, The secret, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, all Monty Pythons movies and Circus, Underground, Waking Life, Natural born killers, Clerks I & II, True Romance, Limitless, Thelma & Luise, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, Run Lola Run, Gran Torino, Fight Club, Into the wild, Underground, The Matrix, Secretary, The Princess Bride. And I can OF COURSE recite all three Star Wars movies by heart (the originals, cause the rest is crap).
Choosing movies is not an art. Watching them is.
Star Trek, Dexter, True Blood, House MD, Californication (as far as word-wit goes, you can't do much better than this), Heroes, Fringe, Lie to me
Aaaa, seriously!!! All of it?
Just to give you a clue (in no particular order):
The Doors, Johnny Cash, Avett Brothers, Hank Williams III, O.C.M.S., David Bowie, Metallica, Nick Cave, Sisters of Mercy, Type O-Negative, The Mission, Tiamat, Megadeth, Pearl Jam, Black Keys, Green Day, New Model Army, Deep Purple, Iggy Pop, Soundgarden, Mick Harvey, Pink Floyd, Rammstein, Paradise Lost, Savatage, Nightwish, John Frusciante, Eluveitie, Bjorn Berge, Seasick Steve, Robert Johnson, The Earthbound, Placebo, Dead can Dance, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Air, Linkin Park, Loreena McKennitt, lots of Greek shit, like entehna and classic rebetika, Bach, Motzart ;P
Oh and Britney Spears. Yeah, she's actually cool. Live with it.
Generally Rock, old Country, Metal, Heavy Metal, Classic Rock, the Blues, Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Indi, 60s, 80s, Swing, Acoustic, Ethnic, Irish, Salsa, Tango.
And the music I write.
Terry Pratchett, Tom Robbins, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Reimond Feist, Barbara Hambly, Bukowski, a bunch of crazy analysts like Froyd and Lacan, Poetry, I used to enjoy Castaneda, and lots of other stuff. Oh, Tolkien & R. Feist, of COURSE :P
Anything cooked with Love, Fruit juices, Fancy salads, Meats with sweet dark sauces, Sushi, Thai, Sweets, Beers, Wines and Espressos, Teas, Ethnic or Local. Ever trying new things.
I try to be mostly vegetarian, but I generally fail.
Long haired men
Good & Kinky Sex (with above)
NB: Good sex -even a 1 night stand- involves chemistry, some heart, some soul connection and nice cuddles afterwards.
Free expression
Burners & Burn events!
Rock and metal music
My guitar
My laptop and some wifi (ok I can live without it but I'd rather not)
Breaking rules and norms
Shit, how could I almost forget: CATS!!!
Burn events, Burners, Burning Man.
My next song
The meaning of life. I know there isn't one, it's only what I make of it so I think about what I want to make of it.
---UPDATE---: Not anymore. I got it :P
Long haired men :P``
How I shape my own reality (because I do so consciously or unconsciously), how to do it effectively the way I like, and to overcome my programming for misery/difficulties/problems, and also how to put this fact across to people who have not already got it (like, MOST of them).
The fifth dimension we're in after 2012 passed.
Energy (as in: 'everything is energy') and how it's shaped by our interactions.
How people feel, how they experience things, and how they relate to each other and to me, what energies they exchange and what are the true meanings of the words that they say. Every motion and word is an expression of something that is not always readily apparent, but is the root of that expression. And THAT interests me the most.
Psychological voyeurism.
It happens sometimes that I'm not, but I'm trying to cut down on that, it feels weird.
'Typical'. Bheh.
Ask an exhibitionist about their private things! This could probably be the longest text field in this profile. But I'll have pity on you :) I'll only list a FEW.
Sometimes I'm seriously scared of things.
I usually don't let it stop me doing them.
I'm extremely hard to tame.
But if you do, I'll be yours forever.
Otherwise, you'll have a blast with me before I fly away into the sunset. Or we become best friends and cook pancakes together every thursday evening. Whatever. :)
I often feel like saying "I love you" very quickly to someone. That "I love you" is unconditional and does not carry obligations.
I wrote this test.
I find some sort of perverse satisfaction in re-editing my profile every now and then. Oh, and I'm NOT embarassed I have one.
I'm a geek. I may not look like one but: 1st pc was Spectrum ZX, Tolkien high priestess, knowing Quenya & Sindarin, know the Star Wars movies by heart, PC RPGs for 18 hours straight, table RPGs for years (20sided dice ROCK, don't they? :P), had an Eldar army Warhammer 40k. Self taught professional web designer. Paintball and Laserquest...
And I've been a fetish model and a hot ass chick. How cool is THAT. ;D
I like knitting.
I ridiculously keep on believing in Soulmates.
Again, really.
-You have long hair.
-You have long hair and play guitar.
-You are into Tantric Sex.
-You have a proper PHOTO with FACE in your profile and you don't send a one-liner. They DON'T work.
Two-liners don't work either. Duh.
-You mention the word "sapiosexual" in the msg. AND show me in some other way that you've actually read [part of] my profile.
-You're in an intentional artistic, eco-community with poly people and there's space for more amazing people there. :)
NECESSARY things so I'm interested in you erotically:
-You have long hair and you're a musician (preferably a guitar player).
-You're INTELLIGENT and perceptive. And emotionally mature. And long haired.
-Don't be fat. Fat just doesn't do it for me. Or old, or bald, or grey-haired. Yes, I'm that shallow. Live with it.
-Don't have a [big] beard! I HATE BIG beards. I don't want to date an orthodox-priest-looking guy for christ's sake. It's disgusting. Who knows what lives in there! (Unshaven is ok, even sexy, and JUST SOMETIMES short beards are fine.) And you're long haired.
-You're driven, you want to accomplish your highest potential in this lifetime and be the shiniest you that you can be.
-You are high on sensuality and have SOME understanding of Tantric sex, or willingness to learn. And long hair.
-You're kinky and partially dominant in bed. I get bored with vanilla people. And you have long hair.
-You're open minded. REALLY open minded. And long haired.
-You're a happy, positive person. Miserable and whining doesn't do it for me. And you have long hair.
Optional things, but highly recommended: :)
-You KNOW (or at least you suspect) that you create your own reality, and that there are no victims out there. And you have long hair.
-You're a BURNER!!! :D (if you're not, google "Burning Man")
-You think that living with your partner in a house with a few other awesome, beautiful, sensual people sounds like a great idea.
-You're in a libertine/swinger couple/circle/network with beautiful, intelligent and deviant people - preferably with long hair. Yes I'm talking about people who like to have sex all together. Yum.
-You have long hair and you're a rock/metal/blues guitarist or bassist (that doesn't mean I'll be erotically interested in you, depends on our chemistry of course).
-You're a band member looking for a female singer/music writer/rhythm guitarist.


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The links between economic integration and remittances behaviour of migrants in the Netherlands
In a time of economic downturn and the recession in Europe, a migrants labour market position is even more precarious, and may influence their economic homeland engagement. Based on the IS Academy, Migration and Development A World in Motion Project survey data3, I focus on Afghan, Burundian, Ethiopian and Moroccan first generation migrants in the Netherlands, and explore how their economic integration is related to different aspects of their economic remittances behaviour. The main objectives of this paper can be summarized as follows 1 to describe migrants labour market performance; 2 to designate migrants economic remittances behaviour with a focus on propensity to remit, amount of remittances and reason for remitting; and 3 to discuss how labour market performance relates to migrants economic homeland engagement. In line with the resource dependent transnationalism argument, this paper concludes that economic integration is positively linked to propensity to remit and the amount of remittances sent. Moreover, I show that especially those with a secure employment status are more likely to remit, remit more and remit more for investment purposes rather thanconsumption. The paper starts out with a literature review on economic transnationalism and a description of the hypotheses. Next, the data and methods used are explained in detail. Subsequently, the descriptive and analytical results of the paper are presented, followed by a concluding section.
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Email marketing metrics 101: Clickthrough rate
During one of our recent webinars, more than a few people expressed surprise about how email marketing metrics are calculated, so it's a good time to step back and review. Today, we're looking at clickthrough rate (CTR).
Clickthrough rate would, on the surface, be the simplest of metrics to understand – how many people clicked on something in your email message? There are a few subtleties to it that are worth discussing, including two distinct versions of clickthrough rate, TCTR and UCTR.
We can help you increase CTR
TCTR is total clickthrough rate, or the total number of clicks that an email message's links received as a percentage of subscribers. This tells you how popular the content in your email message is. TCTR is subject to a certain amount of noise, however. Things that can influence TCTR include:
- People opening the email and clicking through on more than one device.
- People sharing a link socially from your email
- Search engines indexing the view-in-browser version of your email and auto-clicking through all the links
- Firewalls (especially for B2B subscribers) that automatically follow each link to verify that the email contains no spyware or malware
- People clicking on lots of links in your message repeatedly
UCTR is unique clickthrough rate, or the number of unique clicks an email message's links as a percentage of subscribers. If you opened an email on your phone, clicked a link, then opened it later on your desktop and clicked the same link, your contribution to the TCTR would be 2 but to the UCTR would be 1 because you're one unique individual. If you opened the email later and clicked on the same link 3 more times, your contribution to the TCTR would be 5 but to the UCTR would still be 1.
Which one is most important? Neither. They both have their uses. TCTR can give you a sense of how popular the links are in your content – if TCTR matches UCTR 1:1 it can sometimes mean that no one is coming back to your newsletter later to re-click on things or sharing your content links with others. UCTR gives you a clean number of how many unique clicks were attained without all the noise and confusion of TCTR, which is why many ESPs including WhatCounts use UCTR to calculate click to open rates.
The final computation that matters when it comes to clickthrough rates is CTOR – Click to Open Rate. When we talk about clickthrough rates, we're generally speaking about clicks as a percentage of all subscribers. This can be misleading, especially if there have been significant changes in the list's composition since previous sends. CTOR gives us a rate of how many clicks there were as a percentage of opens. Let's see how this helps us understand our content's actionable items better.
Let's say you have a list of 100,000 subscribers. You send them a message, and 10,000 subscribers open the message. Of that, 1,000 of the openers click on something. Your open rate is 10%. For simplicity's sake, we'll use UCTR for the clickthrough rate, which means that you have a UCTR of 1% (10% of 10%). Your CTOR is 10%. So far, so good.
Now let's say you blow up your list. You run a massive Google Adwords campaign and attract 50,000 people to your list in a month, but they're all barely-interested subscribers who were just subscribing for a coupon or a special offer or something. You send to your list and none of the new people bother opening your message, but your core of 10,000 from your original list keeps on opening. Your open rate now drops to 6.67%. Of those, the same 1,000 click on stuff in your message. Your UCTR is now an appallingly bad .667%. However, your CTOR remains the same – 10%.
If you just relied on open rate and UCTR, you might think your email marketing program is suddenly failing, losing 33% of its performance from one send to the next, when the reality is that the core of your list, your fans, are still behaving the same. Instead, you now know that your Adwords campaign was a colossal waste of money because those subscribers aren't doing anything, but the heart and soul of your email marketing is still strong. That's why it's important to examine all of your clickthrough rate metrics in context, as part of the bigger picture of your email marketing program.
The final piece of advice I'll leave you with is from our industry averages blog post: ignore industry averages. They're worthless. Instead, focus on improving your clickthrough rates and click to open rates in very email you send, so that your email marketing program is constantly improving. That's the only set of measurements that truly matter.
Tomorrow, we'll tackle the tricky subject of email conversion rates.
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With the announcement of Dreamweaver MX 2004, there has been a lot of talk about editors out there. Which editor(s) do you use, and why?
Me? Well, I use a few different editors. I use Dreamweaver sometimes as it's the most feature rich editor I have at my disposal. I like the simplicity and speed of TextPad for some things when I'm using my Windows machine, which isn't very often. And although I know it sounds strange, I probably use vim (VI Improved) more than anything. I'm the kind of person who likes to use one editor for everything, which makes vim perfect. Not only can I use it for all types of code, but I can use it everywhere, on any platform, even over an SSH connection, which is very important for me.
I'm guessing that vim is actually one of the least popular editors out there for ColdFusion and Java development, so what else are people using? Dreamweaver? TextPad? EditPlus? ColdFusion Studio? Homesite? jEdit? Eclipse? Emacs? Something I've never heard of? Make sure you mention what it is about your editor that you like.


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When Urban Meyer resigned as Florida's head football coach – both times – it sent shockwaves hurtling through the college football world. But the health factors were hidden from view. No one knew Meyer, in his 40s but looking even younger, was struggling with the constant demands of the job, eventually leading to burnout.
As he stepped away from the 24/7/365 lifestyle of an elite coach, everything else in Meyer's life took form and perspective emerged. His kids noticed a changed father, as did other family and friends. More weight, a fuller face, energy. It was all there. The stress completely disappeared with Meyer's work as an ESPN college football analyst. That's why one year later, when the Ohio State job opened, daughter Nicki famously drew up a contract on pink paper.
What transpired was an undefeated season. But it was so much more than that. Meyer was able to find a balance between his football life and his existence away from the corridors of the expansive Woody Hayes Athletic Center. He calls it center field, and it's something not many in the upper reaches of college football have discovered. During Meyer's year sabbatical, Mack Brown, Bob Stoops and other head-coaching peers spoke to him about achieving stability in all walks of life while still competing for national titles.
One year into a return to his home state, all is well in the Meyer household.
"I feel much better," Meyer said Tuesday at the Greater Columbus Sports Commission's annual Morning Sports Report. "What I really feel better about is my family being settled. It was a really difficult move for my wife and my son. That means more to me than the football team. They love Columbus. They're set and ready to go. Last year at this time was not very smooth."
Distractions – whether team or family oriented – are not welcome. Meyer said the former is what most concerns him as the Buckeyes enter a season in which they're picked by many to be a factor in the national championship race.
"I go back to when I was 18 years old, there are distractions everywhere," Meyer said. "Imagine people telling you how good you are. There's only one thing to do – educate them and the fear factor, 'Don't screw this up, you're not going to play.' That's my biggest concern when I have a high expectation team in the summer."
During his 11-year coaching career, Meyer has experienced the ups and downs of the sport. Every year presents a different set of obstacles. Expectations, whether good or bad, must be tempered by the coaching staff, which is what Meyer will do in the fall. He already displayed a cautious outlook following last season and again the spring.
In December 2006, Meyer's masterstroke was bulletin board material. He hung up media clips in the Florida football facility that trumpeted Ohio State's superiority. Meyer even made up some of the comments, attributing them to former Buckeye quarterback Kirk Herbstreit.
The game result is known, but nearly seven years later Meyer is now trying to downplay Herbstreit's comments. Speaking to a group of Ohio State supporters Tuesday, Herbstreit said fans should start calling travel agents in Pasadena because the Buckeyes will be there come January, whether it's the Rose Bowl or the national championship game.
"Make your reservations because we are going to Pasadena," Herbstreit said.
"Make your reservations because we are going to Pasadena."
When Meyer addressed the crowd less than a hour later, he joked about his close friend and former co-worker's comments.
"The biggest concern I have is distractions. Herbstreit is already firing off Pasadena to everyone," he said with a smile.
But a year after dealing with a bowl ban and piecing together a team that finished under .500 the season prior, Meyer welcomes the feel-good hope of being one of the best teams.
"I coached a team that was preseason 115 in America, too," he said. "My first year at Bowling Green when the rankings came out I posted it all over the wall. I didn't even know there were 115 teams. If someone had a choice to be ranked high preseason or be preseason 115, well, (they want to be coaching a good team). It's safe to say Bowling Green didn't finish 115th. They finished much higher than that."
Indeed. The 2001 Falcons were 8-3 after finishing 2-9 the previous season. The 2002 season ushered in Meyer's first Year 2, a time period that's been very nice to him. Asked if he wrote down the secrets to success for his second seasons, he responded in jest, "No, those are things I don't forget."
In reality, Meyer is right on track to continue what began with a 9-3 season at Bowling Green. An undefeated season was had during his second season at Utah, with a national championship being won at Florida. There was trepidation during the summer of 2012, but any semblance of anxiety has dissipated.
"In terms of the transition, everything is much faster," Meyer said. "The coaching staff knows the offense. That was something I was very concerned about. Everett Withers did not know the defense at this time last year, and he's our co-defensive coordinator. We're moving at a very rapid pace right now, which is what you'd expect."
At the moment, Meyer and his trusted assistants aren't permitted to have instruction or any contact that verges on coaching with players. All the authority lies with strength coach Mickey Marotti, who's putting the team, including a crop of freshmen, through his legendary workouts. There's also organized time on the field put together by the veterans.
"I've heard all positives," Meyer said. "I trust my strength coach, we've been together a long time, and I love my players. It's going really well.
"(I've heard) real positive things about the freshmen. We're fast, which is something I wanted to be. I wanted to get more speed on offense in particular. I'm hearing great things about them."
The only dose of bad news Meyer and the Buckeyes have been dealt is an injury to backup quarterback Kenny Guiton. The hero of last season's comeback against Purdue suffered a hand injury, according to Meyer.
"I don't know how serious it is," he said. "I'm going to find out. You just always worry (about injuries). You remember last year we lost Jordan Hall for six weeks.
"Injuries and attitudes – absolutely I keep tabs on it. Every coach in America does. You can't be there, but I'm there."
His eyes on special teams are Drew Basil's. During the spring, he doubled up as both the placekicker and punter. That decision came after verbal commitment Johnny Townsend signed with Florida instead of Ohio State. Basil's production level wasn't where Meyer and special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs thought was adequate.
When a scholarship came open after the departure of linebacker David Perkins, Meyer already knew what he wanted – and he acted quickly. Halfway across the world was an Australian punting phenom, and Meyer wanted him in scarlet and gray.
"I made the decision to get a punter," he said. "To find one of this caliber, it's hard to imagine that happening. But he hasn't punted in a game either."
Cameron Johnston has since become a YouTube sensation with his booming kicks, sometimes measuring 80 yards.
With 66 days remaining until Buffalo traverses to Ohio Stadium, the anticipation for greatness is palpable. Coaches, players and fans all have an expectancy of lingering success. But Meyer doesn't believe there is any burden resting on the team.
"I'm really excited," he said. "The chase isn't about the pressure. I want the guys to identify what they are chasing and make sure they have all the tools in place to help them, and that includes the job fair we had the other day. Our job is to give them every possible opportunity to fulfill their chase."
For fans, Aug. 31 marks the beginning of an occasion for fans to witness the prominence of Ohio State football.


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The reality TV star is expected to file for legal documents to adopt the new name later this week.
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt is in the process of legally changing his name into King Spencer Pratt. Explaining his name change, the 26-year-old entertainer says, "I've decided since there is a Queen of England and a Prince William that there should be a king of America. I nominate myself for that role." Pratt reportedly has not yet filed the legal papers to adopt the moniker, but plans to do so later this week.
Spencer Pratt is best known as one of the cast members of MTV's "The Hills". His wife, Heidi Montag, also stars in the reality series. They have been married since April 25, 2009.
Spencer and Heidi often become the target of tabloid mock due to their antics. Most recently, Pratt publicly told reporters that he considers Heidi "the new, modern-day, 2010 Michael Jackson". He then went on saying, "Michael Jackson's in heaven. The Holy Spirit now has extra Michael Jackson juice, so boom! For all we know, Heidi gets possessed with some of that Michael Jackson divine spirit."


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There is no housing available for this program. Students have to provide their own transportation to and from Siena College for the program. Transportation will be provided by Siena College for field trips and service trips.
Enrollment is limited and the program will fill up on a first come first served basis. Location of courses will be sent to you through e-mail at the end of June. No payment is required at this time, you will be billed for this Program in August.


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Originally Posted by Almaviva
Luci mie traditrice, Opera in due atti, premiered in 1998, sung in Italian (short prologue sung in French)
Music by Salvatore Sciarrino (1947- )
Libretto by Salvatore Sciarrino, after Il Tradimento per L'Onore, by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, 1664, and an eulogy by Claude Le Jeune, 1608
Studio recording, done in Vienna, November 14 and 15, 2000
Conductor: Beat Furrer
Originally Posted by Almaviva
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I continue to have trouble with Firefox and inserting images. Now I can do it, but they are small.
Anyway, let's focus on the DVD itself.
This was recorded live at the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen, in October of 2008.
Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducts the Concerto Copenhagen.
Inger Dam-Jensen is Partenope.
Andreas Scholl is Arsace
Christophe Dumaux is Armindo
Tuva Semmingsen is Rosmira (a.k.a.
Originally Posted by Almaviva
2008(LI) - Antonio Florio - Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini (period instruments)
Opera House: Teatro Municipale Valli di Reggio Emilia
Filippo Morace - Giangrazio - excellent
Maria Grazia Schiavo - Faustina - excellent
Maria Ercolano (trouser role) - Luigi/Ascanio (Alidoro) - excellent
Valentina Varriale - Zeza - good+
Originally Posted by Almaviva
1996 - William Christie - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Glyndebourne Chorus
Stellar cast of exquisite singers - Upshaw, Hunt, Daniels, Croft as principals, and minor roles also very good.
I'm a little puzzled - if I understood correctly, some of our members object to this production (probably mainly due to the updated staging).
I find it absolutely spectacular.
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My dear friend Natalie loves this, so, I approached it with high expectations.
2009(LC) - Nicholas McGegan - FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Admeto - Tim Mead
Alceste - Marie Arnet
Ercole - William Berger
Orlindo - Andrew Radley
Trasimede - David Bates
Antigona - Kirsten Blaise
Meraspe - Wold Matthias Friedrich
Mamu Dance Theater


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Turkey, UAE 'fastest growing' Middle East markets
Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are the fastest growingcinema markets in the Middle East region, according to a new report by DodonaResearch.Expansion in screen numbers in Turkey (by 179% to 945) andthe UAE (almost fourfold to 142) over the 1995 to 2003 period was the catalystfor rapid growth in admissions and box office. Both countries saw cinemaadmissions rise more than 160%.
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July 20, 2013
Moe Dixon knows how to entertain. The renowned Hood River troubadour, who never knew a song he didn't know, can fill a room, or a garden, or turn his attention to just one listener at a time. At Lavender Daze near Odell in July, when the photographer positioned himself under an arbor in back of Moe, for an "over the shoulder" shot, the singer suddenly turned and faced the camera for an unexpected angle.