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A NEW report suggests Newport City Council will have underspent by almost £2 million in its annual budget.
The forecast comes in a report for the 2013/14 revenue budget which will be put to cabinet on Monday, January 13.
As of the end of November 2013, the council budget forecasted an under spend of £1,935,000.
From this forecast, the report assumes there has been no use of the contingency budget to deal with overspending and that the council's restructured revenue budget has been fully utilised.
This forecast has improved over the last few months, with most areas managing the budget challenges.
According to the report, published by the assistant head of finance on January 3, if contingency budgets are not required during the year, the forecast becomes an under spend of £3,408,000.
Over the next four years, Newport council has to save £25 million.
The authority is currently consulting on more than 100 proposals, which include shutting public toilets and ending the budget for the Newport Medieval Ship.
Significant individual savings detailed in the report included £842,000 from corporate services department staffing and £645,000 from children's staffing in social services.
Elsewhere, in education, there was a £234,000 overspend on resource and planning. The report highlighted concerns over demand led budgets in this area, such as out of city placements, free school meals and home to school transport.
The report details progress on delivery of savings measures already underway. This includes a cut in music service funding from £292,000 to £5,000 and a complete cut in the £5,000 contribution to Duffryn Sports Centre.
Also among these savings is £49,000 from ceasing daytime services at the Active Living Centre in Bettws and £197,000 from 'library rationalisation'.
Meanwhile, social services and street scene reported overspends of £139,072 and £143,000, respectively.
The report welcomes the forecast but says there are still challenges the council will need to fund from one off sources, including the implementation of the new pay and grading scheme.
The consultation for next year's budget is now under way and closes at midnight on January 24. Public meetings will be held to discuss the budget on January 16 from noon to 2pm and 5pm and 7pm at Newport Centre.


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"Plattner and other SAP executives have had spectacular and long-term success with some of the world's largest companies, which have each invested at least many tens and often many hundreds of millions of dollars with SAP. And Plattner and SAP have every right to be enormously proud of those relationships and those outstanding achievements. But their myopic mistake has been to project the mindset of those top 100 accounts toward SAP across the wildly diverse universe of 90,000 SAP customers worldwide. Plattner said that at a conference with those top 100 customers, they all expressed nothing but unfettered joy and happiness at SAP's maintenance fees and quality. So SAP based its disastrous decision to announce significant maintenance hikes for all of its customers on the input from those 100. How could that happen? More important, how can SAP change the mindset and culture that allowed such narrow and amateurish thinking to prevail?"
That's the primary reason—but certainly supplemented by all the others I've mentioned and that are described in extensive detail in those two columns—why I'm scratching my head a bit over the HP board's decision. Let me turn that head-scratching into some specific questions:
I realize the guy hasn't even worked his first day yet, and that what I'm asking will require many months of work. But I also know that, over the past eight months, his replacements at SAP—McDermott and Snabe—have been leading and are continuing to lead a sweeping and end-to-end overhaul of how SAP develops products,how it interacts with customers, how it positions its products, how it defines and delivers value to its customers, and how it presents itself to the world.
We also know that if Apotheker leans on his history in shaping the future of HP, then HP will be moving aggressively into the field of applications. And that the twin forces of market demand and HP's expansive engineering prowess will lead HP to optimize the performance of its vast line of hardware products with those likely additions to HP's software roster.
And that means HP will be competing much more aggressively with its two primary rivals: its clear enemy, IBM, and its love-hate object, Oracle. You know—Larry Ellison and former HP CEO Mark Hurd.
So it's fitting that in one of the comments attributed to Apotheker in the HP press release announcing his appointment, Apotheker says this: "As we move forward, HP will continue to be a valued partner with our customers as well as a fierce competitor."
Truer words were never spoken, because the competition with Ellison and Hurd and IBM will bring new meaning to the word "fierce." But even before Apotheker fully commits himself to those wars without end, he will need to ensure himself, his colleagues, his customers and his partners that he's really got HP's house in order.
Because based on his previous tenure as CEO of SAP, Leo Apotheker has much to prove.
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My watercolor course started again a couple of weeks ago. These are some of the first demonstrations: how to use values for shape and how to render structure with different kinds of brushstrokes.
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LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles reached a $4.2 million settlement with a mother and daughter who were injured when police mistakenly opened fire on them while they were delivering newspapers during the manhunt for disgruntled ex-cop Christopher Dorner, officials said on Tuesday.
The money will be split evenly, with $2.1 million going to each woman, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney's office.
The agreement must still be approved by the Los Angeles City Council.
Margie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother, Emma Hernandez, were delivering papers around 5 a.m. on Feb. 7 when LAPD officers guarding the Torrance home of a target named in an online Dorner manifesto blasted at least 100 rounds at their pickup.
Hernandez was shot in the back and Carranza had minor injuries.
The settlement means they cannot pursue any future injury claims against the city.
Dorner had vowed warfare on Los Angeles Police Department officers and their families for what he called an unfair firing.
He killed four people, including two law enforcement officers, during his nearly one-week run from authorities.
Attorney Glen Jonas, who represents the women, called the settlement amount fair and said it spared the city from defending a case that involved eight police officers and would have likely cost millions of dollars.
"The only certainty was the litigation was going to cost everyone a lot of money and a lot of time," Jonas said.
Jonas sent a nine-page demand to the city more than a month ago that provided an opening to negotiations. He said he negotiated with City Attorney Carmen Trutanich for weeks before the deal was reached on Monday night.


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As you'll see a lot on the Gamasutra blogs, marketing and community outreach can be one of the hardest and scariest aspects of game development - and it doesn't even have anything to do with development! However, I thought I'd share my two cents on the subject while I'm in the middle of it all.
One thing I've found to be extremely helpful in this aspect of game development is starting early. This too is also something you'll commonly hear said on Gamasutra. The reason, its true!
Set up the twitter account, make a blog page, and just get it all ready now, don't wait until your game is complete! By starting during development, you can occassionally share progress updates, regardless of how meaningless. The cool thing is, even those small meaningless updates you can see at least little gains in your support network. And more importantly, those interested early, will likely be the people that act as proponents of your game when it finally comes out!
The blackhole for intellectual thought - my original name for Twitter. After finally overcoming my fear that its gravitational pull would draw me in, I've found Twitter actually isn't that bad! Not only will you meet a few supporters, there are also the self-promoters on there. These self-promotors may sound bad, but its actually great! You'll find sound engineers, indie reviewers, and much more, that are just eagerly looking for work, so they seek you out and follow you.
By starting up a twitter account early, even with minimal activity, you build a small community around your game. Even if they are all just self-promoting followers, its still followers attached to your account so when you actually prepare for release of your first title, you don't look like the new kid on the block anymore!
If you aren't sure what the tweet about, follow some other indie developers to see what they are doing! They appriciate it, and often will follow you back. On top of that, you can make a contact in the industry that will be interested in speaking directly with you to share their experiences and offer suggestions! It almost might be worthwhile to follow the hashtags #indie and #gamedev - these are a great place to find other developers to track, contact, and maybe even contract for complex projects.
Again, minimal activity during development is still better than no activity! By just recording a few updates during game development, you could again build a small audience for your game before it even comes out. Plus, blogging then gives you something to tweet about! Blogs can provide another added bonus in the fact if is a great way to organize your thoughts during development, and offers a great 'how-to' (or 'how-not-to') guide for your next project, so you can quickly look back and see what you did well (and what you might need to remember next improving next time).
If you can't think of blog content, again, check out other indie teams! I've found the indie development community to be very supportive, so feel free to reach out! If you show genuine interest in their projects, the feeling is often reciprocated!
Feel like your entire life is spent in front of the computer? Haha, why'd you get into game development the fool? 100hr work weeks at my computer - I know thats my life now, enjoy!
The reason I mention podcasts are they can feel like an escape from monotony of work at the computer. Just jump on your phone and record a message to yourself a few times. Eventually you may get good enough to piece together podcasts that can be posted as another way to get your name out there. We are all lazy at times - so reading the thoughts of the world can get tedious. Just sitting in your car, or at the computer playing someone else's podcast while developing requires listeners much less devoted time to your project - and if you are new, they may not want to devote much to begin with, so finding an efficient way to have your ideas reach an audience is key!
Put the content on your website for press / people passing through - they are more likely to click a play button than to read 3 pages of text. Plus, there are plenty of podcasts and radio shows out there looking for content - who knows, maybe one of us will be lucky enough to get picked up!
I don't claim to be a PR genius, not even close. But in my experience, and from everything I've read, getting your name out there is almost as important as having a quality product in the first place - so start early! There are a lot of other ways to get your name out there, including YouTube, Digg, Moddb, and much more - but unless you have someone strickly dedicated to PR, you probably won't have time to do it all just yet. I've found focusing on two or three is more efficient for building interest than just sprinkling info everywhere.
I hope this helps some others just starting out! Best of luck guys, can't wait to see the tweets of your development news!
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OK, so Dexia's behind us. The match that seemed to light the fuse of reform has now gone out and we are back to waiting for the next bank blowup before there is a resolution in Europe. That means we have to give up a lot of points until it happens, and it means that the shorts are lining up their target bank right now to cause the raid.
It feels like the short mafia is in some backroom at a French bar choosing its target and this time when it fails -- and it will fail -- we might get some coordinated action. It is the right time to strike now because the French government doesn't want to lose its prized AAA status, so the big three -- Paribas, SocGen and Agricole -- are most vulnerable. As the bookies would say, it is pick 'em.
Unfortunately the coordinated action won't come until Dow 11,000. Or lower.
Of course all of this would be easier if the Chinese were able to help. You would think they have the slowdown to justify it, especially with the amazing plunge in copper. Plus you have Jim Chanos saying they are now having the Great Depression, China-style. When is Roubini going to pile on there?
But Brent doesn't come down, so they are checkmated too. There's no sign that Brent will come down because the regulators seem to want futures position limits for all commodities ... except for oil.
The world is checkmated right now as we in this country have a president who I believe is struggling to meet the demands of the 5,000 people who are occupying various streets around the country. Or is it 10,000? 1,000? A division? All they want is forgiveness on student loans because they can't get jobs, and forgiveness on mortgages because their houses are underwater or are about to be foreclosed.
You get the picture.
At times like this I would say at my hedge fund, "OK, we dropped a couple of percent yesterday but we are still wildly overbought -- 7.5 on the oscillator -- so why not just take some shots at the high-growth stocks that ran, but deep-in-the-money puts on the worst of the worst? Hit the Oil Services HOLDRS (OIH) and the Financial SPDR (XLF) and the retailers (even though I like those stocks) and let's make some money."
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According to a report on EurekaAlert, speech perception is not based solely on hearing, but also on sight and even touch. All these senses blend together to enable us to perceive what others say.
We use clues from the movement of the lips, teeth, tongue and other facial features to help use to decipher speech. If you watch a video of someone articulating one sound, e.g. "ba", combined with a recording of them saying a different sound, e.g. "ka", you will probably perceive the sound they are articulating, rather than the one on the recording, or something in between the two sounds, such as "da". This is known as the McGurk Effect. This happens even if you know what sounds are different and concentrate on the audio.
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According to the research, the McGurk Effect is evidence that the senses are inextricably integrated, and that the brain perceives the acoustic and visual signals of speech as part of a single system. Other studies have found that this link is established even before young children are able to perceive individual phonemes.


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now, i don't think i'm some design genius. i've never been able to style a nightstand. i've made some serious lamp mistakes. but i definitely don't want someone walking into my house and hearing that awful "divine design" theme song in their head.
owning a house you don't intend to stay in long term is a style minefield. it's especially challenging in this house because it's already the most expensive house on the block. i want our house to be streamlined and modern but i also want to be able to sell it. resultantly, i've been pretty cautious about making changes that might be off-putting to buyers.
so i was going to paint the sunroom grey, which would have been a lovely, if obvious, choice. but that would have been a wuss move. most of the rooms in my house are white or grey. we're probably already at the point where people are going to complain that the house feels cold. someone will probably buy this house and repaint the dining room beige with a red accent wall. plus, i saw this house tour that was so awesome it inspired me to do something a little weird.
i painted the sunroom black.
it's benjamin moore black beauty. it may have been a stupid decision, since it's a sunroom and it already gets really freaking hot in there. but it's the brightest room in the house and i knew i could paint it black without it feeling like a mortuary. and i had already bought the white paint for the balcony and trim (not done, by the way, in case you were wondering why the windows looked so crappy), so much of the room will still be white. and i'm going to do the paneled wall upstairs light grey so that it doesn't feel like it's falling on top of you.
i really like it. it actually makes the rock wall look less awful. when ikea finally opens i'm going to buy a white ps cabinet and some karlstad chairs and, with the addition of a craigslist treadmill, the room will finally serve a purpose.
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Tomi Juric scored two stunning goals to clinch a hard-fought comeback for the Western Sydney Wanderers against Adelaide United on Friday night but coach Tony Popovic wasn't overly pleased with the young striker's performance.
The 22 year-old was decisive as the Wanderers came from a goal down to win 2-1 at home though despite his clinical finishing in front of goal, Popovic was not prepared to praise his striker's performance.
"I think he's still got a long way to go but you can see the boy can score, I wouldn't say he had a good game, I wouldn't say he had a good game, but he got two goals which is a good job," Popovic said.
Juric's double came at the expense of his former club Adelaide United and maintained his record of scoring important goals for his new club, with his debut strike being a late equaliser against the Mariners in round one. Despite his impressive finishing so early in his Wanderers career, Popovic did not talk up the young striker and said he still has a lot to learn.
"You can't change that overnight, the boy's enthusiasm, we love his enthusiasm," Popovic said. "It's not going to change overnight but that will happen with maturity but he's a quality player and it's up to us to try and get him through that, that part of his game."
Meanwhile, Adelaide United coach Josep Gombau was not willing to weigh in to the debate surrounding the performance of referee Jarred Gillett following a number of controversial challenges by Wanderers players.
Jerome Polenz and Juric were both lucky to escape with only yellow cards following vicious tackles on Awer Mabil and Isaias Sanches respectively. Though, Gombau was more concerned with his own team's performance particularly their ability to play a possession based style of play against the A-League premiers.
"I cannot speak about the referee, it's football and for me, it's not important," Gombau said. "I'm satisfied with the that work we did, we played good football, we're improving week by week."
Despite conceeding two goals and leaving Parramatta Stadium with nothing having taken the lead just after half time, Gombau was proud of the style of football his team maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Adelaide dominated possession with a 66 per cent share of the ball and doubled the amount of passes their opponents made.
"A lot. The thing you can see, which team in Australia play like this and we're just starting, we're just a baby now," Gombau said.


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Daily Show idea about relocating Occupy Oakland being debated by Mayor and City Council
After Oakland police raided the camp at Oscar Grant Plaza then proceeded to attack marchers in the street for hours on end later that evening, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show jokingly suggested the following day on October 26th that Occupy Oakland be offered space at Jack London Square or the Oakland Arena instead of the plaza in front of City Hall. It is now coming to light on November 7th that Mayor Jean Quan and various City Council Members have taken the suggestion to heart as they consider forcibly moving the occupation away from downtown to the Oakland Coliseum, Grand Lake, or other areas. If the the city follows through with these discussions remains to be seen. Law and order council members such as Larry Reid and Ignacio De La Fuente have been adamantly opposed to occupation encampments anywhere from the very start. Others council members representing wealthier districts such as Jane Brunner, Patricia Kernighan, and Libby Schaaf have not been overly friendly about Occupy Oakland to say the least. Councilperson Desley Brooks originally had a tent in the plaza but removed it after the first warning notice from the city of impending arrests was delivered on October 21st. Nancy Nadel appears to be open to a continued Occupy Oakland, in another location, based on information surfacing today.
"Zennie" at SFGate, who hates Indybay by the way but frequently references this website, claims to have received an email from a city insider who asked that the email not be forwarded. Zennie chose to publish the unattributed email anyway. Note that Zennie frequently gets ahead of stories publishing things that he later retracts. He once ran with a story about medical coroners having found drugs hidden in Oscar Grant's rectum, for instance.
Here's the supposed email:
Zennie, you have been doing a great job covering Occupy Oakland from different angles, and you understand what it's like for us in the Mayor's office to have to make decisions for the whole city. I thought you would want to see this. I am very frustrated with how we're communicating to the media and I think people need to know what is really going on, that we do a plan to fix the problem, and people need to be patient and help us. Mayor's possible sites for Occupy relocation. DO NOT FORWARD. D1: Not many parks in D1. Looking at Safeway on College parking lot. Brunner likes encampment's support for small businesses and proximity to BART. Finding out if asphalt will be issue – or if it will actually be safer with the rain. D2: Grand Lake – Space at Splash Pad. Pamela Drake from BID supports camp, Grand Lake Theater too. Plenty of space for campers, some protection from rain under freeway. On border with District 3 so may get support from Nadel. D3: Nadel offered to try to expand existing homeless camp in Clawson. May have some resistance from campers regarding this location. D4: Woodminster – plenty of space, away from neighbors, not used in winter. Transportation will be difficult, talking to Mary at AC Transit about shuttles. Schaaf supportive of encampment. D5-7: Several large parks or parcels in several neighborhoods and possibly Coliseum parking lot. Will be difficult to move camp here due to Councilmember resistance. Trying to move to D1-4. http://blog.sfgate.com/abraham/2011/11/07/oakland-news-mayors-office-plans-to-move-occupy-oakland/
For reference, here is a map of various Oakland councilperson districts: http://g.co/maps/nha8y
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Tuesday Nov 8th, 2011 12:59 PM
she claims to support the goals, just do it quietly without causing a ruckus and in the daytime only. in other words, march around in circles all you like and make no real difference. she's got some Richie Riches in Monclair to look after
An Open Letter to Occupy Oakland: I Support Your Movement but Stop Harming Our City (Community Voices)
Libby Schaaf Tue, 8 Nov at 9:10am
Just as we are asking banks and large corporations to act responsibly, Occupy Oakland must act responsibly as well. The camping and other late-night activities of Occupy Oakland have gotten to the point where they are doing more harm than good for the 99%-residents of Oakland.
Occupy Oakland is:
Driving business and business prospects from downtown Oakland (last week, three businesses pulled out of downtown lease negotiations, including one with 100 employees, while some restaurant receipts are down 50-60%);
Costing our cash-strapped city money it doesn't have (to date, more than $1million in extra services and supplies);
Causing threats to public health and safety that have gone unaddressed after multiple written warnings -- including failed fire and health inspections, possession of weapons, sexual assault and drug overdose -- while the camp adopts policies effectively prohibiting communication with officials;
Diverting Oakland's scarce city services and resources, especially police, away from neighborhoods that need them, including one night when 179 calls for police to 911 went without response; and
Providing cover and opportunity to anarchists who've trashed our beloved city -- destroying property and causing injury.
I support the goals of Occupy Wall Street to address income inequality, and appreciate that Occupy Oakland has been part of this critical national movement, which has given the 99% of citizens suffering from declining wealth some hope that together we can change things.
However, I'd like to see Occupy Oakland transform into a lawful, sustainable and broad-based movement that effects change, without harming our City or its residents. I hope to see Occupy Oakland:
- Allow Oakland and Alameda County to offer available social services and shelter to Occupy Oakland participants who need them;
- Remove the Ogawa encampment as soon as possible;
- End and disavow lawlessness, vandalism and violence; and
- Identify community venues where those interested in continuing the positive work of the Occupy Movement can continue to meet and work, preferably during daylight hours.
Many in the Occupy Wall St. movement will tell you it was the lessening of laws, the removal of government regulation, which allowed banks and corporations to unjustly prosper. Oakland needs to enforce the rule of law on banks and demonstrators alike.
We need to do this clearly and consistently, and move on to the business of cleaning up our downtown and getting on with being the wonderful, positive city we know we are.
About Libby Schaaf
Libby Schaff is the council member from District 4 (Allendale, Brookdale, Crestmont, Dimond, Estates Drive, High Street, Laurel, Maxwell Park, Melrose, Montclair, Oakmore, Piedmont Pines, Redwood Heights, Shepherd Canyon and Thornhill).


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Thousands of Nigerian women have been trying to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, a journey that is an important tradition in the Muslim faith.
But instead, that pilgrimage has been ruined by another tradition: Saudi Arabia's longstanding restrictions against women.
Saudi Arabia expelled over 1,000 Nigerian women Friday because they were traveling without male guardians, the Associated Press reported. The expulsion marks the first time that Saudi Arabia has turned away such a large group of women.
The government agency that oversees the pilgrimage said that the women violated Saudi law by traveling without a male relative. "Women aged under 45 must be accompanied on the journey by a 'mahramu,'" or a male with legal authority, the agency said in a statement to the AFP.
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Saudi Arabia went ahead with the deportations despite protests from the Nigerian government. Some women were deported even though they had traveled with their husbands. One husband decided to leave Saudi Arabia, too, as a form of protest, All Africa reported.
The deportations have been occurring throughout this past week. Before the Nigerian women were deported, they were detained, and complained of being kept in poor conditions. Bilkisu Nasidi, who traveled from the Nigerian city of Katsina, told the BBC that hundreds of women were detained without their belongings and with nowhere to sleep but the floor. She was part of a group of 512 women that was deported on Thursday.
A major problem seems to be that many of the female pilgrims have different names from their husbands. Muslim women in Nigeria often do not take their husband's name, according to the BBC.


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Nine Permanent Showrooms to Open at Forty One Madison
March 31, 2010,
NEW YORK-Nine new showrooms will bow at Forty One Madison during the New York Tabletop Show, scheduled for April 13-16.
"I think it's fair to say we are definitely seeing 'the end of that thing called 2009!'" said Laurie Burns, senior vice president and director of Forty One Madison.
The new showroom tenants are:
Auratic USA, 14th floor: Retailers can look forward to a dramatic presentation of high-end color bone china, produced by using the most advanced porcelain and bone china production and state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment from its Shenzhen, China, factory.
Eisch USA, 15th floor: Best known for its Sensisplus Glass that enhances the taste and enjoyment of wine, the company's high quality stemware is made from lead-free crystal and is distributed to gourmet stores, wine shops, hotels and restaurants.
Formation Brands, 16th floor: Clay Art, a long time Forty One Madison tenant and producer of hand-painted ceramic tableware and gifts, was acquired by Formation Brands in fall 2009. The newly configured space will showcase a new side to Clay Art with fresher, trendier designs.
Kinetic, 15th floor: Specializing in the design, development and marketing of high quality kitchen products, Kinetic draws on decades of experience by providing cooking tools that are durable, elegant and affordable.
Rogaska Crystal, 16th floor: Famed for its contemporary and traditional crystal designs, Rogaska Crystal will showcase gifts, stemware and specialty items including an introduction by Irish designer Louise Kennedy for Tipperary Crystal.
Signature Housewares, 15th floor: Returning to Forty One Madison, California-based Signature Housewares designs, imports and distributes fashion-forward ceramic tableware and kitchenware.
SJM Home, 6th floor: The new decorative glassware source specializes in mouth-blown, hand-painted, hand-cut and polished stemware and gift barware.
Tervis Tumbler, 15th floor: The company's permanently sealed, double-walled tumbler continues to evolve and is now available in a variety of sizes with popular licensed artwork, wraps and fashion colors.
Zwilling J.A. Henckels, 15th floor: The company will present a wide selection of its premium tabletop and gift items, consistent with the brands' reputation for excellence including flatware, cutlery, cooking tools, Staub cast iron and ceramic cook and serveware and Demeyere stainless-steel cookware.
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Dennis Rodman Checks Into Rehab
After his goodwill trip to North Korea went over like a lead balloon, former NBA player Dennis Rodman has checked into rehab.
Rodman, who has struggled with alcoholism for a long time, has entered an undisclosed treatment center, according to his agent.
"What was potentially a historic and monumental event turned into a nightmare for everyone concerned," Darren Prince told statement to People.
"Dennis Rodman came back from North Korea in pretty rough shape emotionally. The pressure that was put on him to be a combination 'super human' political figure and 'fixer' got the better of him.
"He is embarrassed, saddened and remorseful for the anger and hurt his words have caused."
Rodman recently made headlines for arguing with CNN's Chris Cuomo over the imprisonment of American Kenneth Bae, allegedly defending North Korea's reasons for handing him a 15-year sentence.
"People forget Dennis is just an entertainer and retired NBA star," Prince added. "The fact remains that a basketball game was played in North Korea live in front of 14,000 people and hundreds of millions around the world viewed clips of the game."


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In So Much a Part of You, her first collection of short stories, Polly Dugan's characters are the perpetual victims of bad timing; time either goes too fast or moves too slowly for their liking. But it doesn't stop them from trying to work against the clock, to manipulate time, even as they know it's impossible.
An American writer and graduate of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, Dugan received an honourable mention in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers in 2009. She is currently working on her second book, to be published next spring, and lives in Portland, Ore. with her husband, two sons and, according to her website, "an enormous black Labrador retriever and a yard sale cat."
So Much a Part of You moves through the Depression to present day, beginning with The Third Rail, the first of 10 interconnected stories. In it, John, a young boy, loses his friend to influenza. He consoles himself by tinkering with clocks, for all the good it does.
"It gives John great comfort to control and manipulate the tools that measure time, keep it, record its passing... He can dissect the clocks and put them back together again, but he can't influence them, can't skip through it."
In the aptly named A Matter of Time, Anna is plagued by her father's obsession that she not be late when he picks her up from her horseback-riding lesson. When Anna's trainer instructs her to walk the horse to cool it down, she knows there will be consequences, but is hopeful that somehow she can "suspend or dilute the perception of time enough so that her father won't notice."
Dugan's writing is semi-sweet, melancholy in its themes but peppered with pretty passages.
"Though Anna clenches her fists in her lap, she calms herself and measures the passing seconds by telling herself again and again -- like a mantra that will save her -- but the pony was cool, the pony was cool, the pony was cool until they arrived home."
Similarly, Dugan's writing skills come to the fore in the longest and perhaps most poignant of her stories, Paying the Piper. Caitlin learns that her college roommate, Anne, is pregnant. The father is Anne's boyfriend, Peter, whom Caitlin also dated briefly the year before, and who also got her pregnant. As Peter did not reciprocate her feelings, abortion seemed like her only option.
Caitlin recalls how following the procedure, she sought solace in the darkness of a movie theatre, at a matinee of the '80s blockbuster Against All Odds. Dugan's prose somehow perfectly captures both the cruel banality of the situation and the heart of a young woman's anguish:
"(T)hat Phil Collins song played forever -- Take a look at me now -- and Caitlin wept until she couldn't cry anymore. Later she imagined the audience was all just a bunch of girls who'd taken the day off to have an abortion."
Years later, in Legacies, Peter finds himself happily ensconced in a new relationship with Anna -- from the earlier story A Matter of Time. Though he floundered after his painful breakup with Anne, he learns that if we're lucky, life gives us another chance -- and more time -- to get things right, acknowledging that Anna's "almost identical name" signifies a kind of "redemption and do-over."
What follows in the last few stories are some novel surprises; Dugan even pulls off a curious plot twist that, surprisingly, works. She also brings the circle to a close, tying in connections with characters from previous stories.
The trials and personal disasters that take place throughout are set beside actual world events, devastating and far-reaching: terrorist attacks, the explosion of the space shuttle, 9/11.
One may argue that Dugan does so in order to downplay the everyday troubles, or to offer some perspective. Or perhaps she only means to say that our personal tragedies are no less earth-shattering to those that live through them.
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Two priests. Two inspiring ministries. A tale with two very different endings. Larry is a diocesan priest assigned to one of the most impoverished parishes in Chicago. Gun violence is epidemic in his neighborhood and the percentage of grandparents raising grandchildren in his census tract is among the highest in the country. To visit the rectory takes you through some of the more decimated areas of the city. Father Larry says Mass, counsels, and does all the ordinary things a priest does, and runs anti-violence programs, walks picket lines with school teachers, protests the closing of neighborhood schools, leads an organization of priests for immigration reform, and is trying to breathe life into a national organization of priests committed to the rights of workers. Sharing his front parlor on any given morning are people in need of food and shelter, activists trying to address issues in the neighborhood, and members of his parish helping to manage a school and a congregation.
Roy was a Maryknoll priest. He served as a missionary in Bolivia until being run out of the country under threat of death, led protests across the U.S. against our government's military aid to right wing groups in Central America, and organized the School of the Americas Watch which seeks to close training facilities for military governments from Latin America at Fort Benning, Georgia, now euphemistically called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Roy travels around the country inspiring Catholics and others with a message of peacemaking and justice. Roy has been imprisoned numerous times for acts of civil disobedience and public witness on behalf of poor people victimized by state sanctioned violence and torture.
Both Larry and Roy found their religious vocations as adults, Larry as an actuary, Roy as a naval officer. Both priests ground their ministry in the church's sacramental life and both embody in magnificent ways Catholic social teaching from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Larry's ministry is set in the vibrancy of a local parish. Roy's took place on a national stage. Neither has profited materially from his ministry and neither has climbed up the ecclesiastical ladder to receive high clerical office or rank – jut Father Larry and Father Roy.
Here, sadly, the two tales diverge. For Father Roy Bourgeois, unlike Father Larry, is no longer a priest. He was excommunicated, dismissed from his Order, and laicized by the church for participating in the irregular ordination of a woman to the priesthood in 2008. The news of the decision, four years in the making, broke last week, ironically a day after the conclusion of the annual witness for peace at Fort Benning which annually gathers thousands to protest American complicity in violence in Latin America. Official communiques from both the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and the Vatican had very little to say about his years of faithful and courageous ministry, only regret that he had declined to recant his support for the ordination of women. To be quite direct, he was defrocked for refusing to violate his conscience and agree to remain silent in obedience to his superiors.
Ecclesiastical disobedience, like civil disobedience, brings punitive consequences that should come as no real surprise, no matter how depressing. But it also has a way of exposing institutions as well. Father Roy is accused in Maryknoll's public statement of "ignoring the sensitivities of the faithful across the country." Few commentators have missed the opportunity to point out how the Vatican has shielded bishops and cardinals in the US over their role in the cover-up of clergy sexual abuse, and few have ignored the fact that excommunication, dismissal, and laicization were not imposed on a bishop in Kansas, City and a high ranking cleric in Philadelphia who were both convicted of crimes this year for their role in the abuse scandal. Whose sensitivities are being ignored?
I've gotten to know Father Larry as we've worked together on the board he chairs of a faith based organization working with low wage workers in Chicago and advocating for their right to organize for dignity in the work place. I got to know Father Roy when he came to CTS to receive an honorary degree and deliver last year's commencement address. How good it was to have our graduates hear his story of extraordinary service. And how good it would be for our students to experience Father's Larry's extraordinary ministry in an ordinary parish on the city's west side. Both remind us of what this calling can be at its best and, yes, of what it can mean to be Catholic. Like it or not, the Church has given us both priests, and I am grateful.
It would be tempting to invite Father Roy to become and member of the United Church of Christ. We'd no doubt honor his ordination and would be honored to have him as a member and minister, though I suspect he'd soon be exposing the log in our own eye that we fail to see for our preoccupation with the splinters in others eyes. But I won't, any more than I would ask Father Larry why he stays. Both are Catholic and, therefore, inextricably tied to the Church whether we might happen to love it or hate it on any given day. The Church needs Father Larry and it needs Roy, too, even if it doesn't know it.
Meanwhile, at this "very difficult and painful" time for Roy we can be grateful that he has emerged with his conscience and faith intact, gifts far more precious than any bestowed by the Church. He'll go on speaking out for justice for women and for the poor, just as Larry will go on working for a justice in the streets around St. Agatha's. Someday there will be women priests. Someday the west side of Chicago will be a flourishing, vibrant community for all. Larry and Roy will have been a part of that. Two priests. An extraordinary tale.
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Pittsburgh Pirates passion plays out in songs
Every time a Pittsburgh team reaches the playoffs, expect an avalanche of team fight songs to start assaulting local airwaves, Facebook feeds and email in-boxes.
With long-suffering Pirates fans, though, there's a slightly different attitude. There's a little less bravado in their songs, some relief, perhaps, and maybe even a bit of philosophical soul-searching about the passage of time and the nature of loyalty.
Ben Valasek & The Growlers' "We've Been Waiting 20 Years" is a rousing, accordion-driven acoustic number, with a sea chantey-like chorus — completely appropriate for a team called the Pirates.
It begins: "McCutchen probably had short hair the last time that we won."
The obvious pride and excitement are muted by a little bit of bitter humor:
"And now we finally have a team that makes us proud.
"We don't need family buck night anymore to draw a crowd."
"I didn't want to write a song about all the Pirates," Valasek says. "I wanted to write a song about the fans. That's where I think this song maybe hit home with people. I wanted to imagine everyone in the stadium singing the song as I wrote it. Not an anthem, not a 'We're the best in the world' song, but a song about us — we've been here (for a long time), and darn it, we're going to celebrate a good team."
Pirates fans can take a joke, it seems, even at their own expense:
"Who would have thought a single from some hitter no one knew,
"Would have caused a losing streak since 1992?"
Johnny Angel and the Halos' "Raise the Jolly Roger" takes Pirates announcer Greg Brown's catchphrase and runs with it. This isn't hard, since it's already caught on in a big way — emblazoned on T-shirts and flags throughout the city. Not coincidentally, some of the great slogans of past pennant runs have been attached to songs.
"There was the 'Beat 'em Bucs' song in the '60s. And in the '70s, it was 'We Are Family.' We wanted something like that," Angel says. "We wanted something that will really wrap up the season. Between the Zoltan and the Raise the Jolly Roger, I think that epitomized what the Pirates are about this season. We're hoping it catches on."
Some already have a template to work with. Benny Benack Jr.'s "Beat 'em Bucs — Again" rewrites his dad's anthem from the '60s for the present, without sacrificing its classic Dixieland jazz stylings.
Gene the Werewolf updates and rewrites the classic "We Are Family" — even leaving some disco flavor intact — with lyrics about Andrew McCutchen and Pedro Alvarez.
Of course, the team changes every year, so songs referencing specific players need to be updated every year or discarded.
Michael Lindner of the band 28 North — currently based in Los Angeles, where members just signed a record deal with Sony/Red River — grew up loving the Steelers' "Here We Go" song.
"I loved that you could interchange the lyrics every year," Lindner says.
He's hoping for a similar durability for his song "Bucco Fever." It's a way to feel connected with the band's hometown fans.
"It was definitely strategic, to get the hometown love while we're out here in the Wild West," Lindner says. "We can't be there now, but it's a great way to keep ourselves relevant in our hometown."
The mood out there in Dodger country is quite different, he says, but not entirely antagonistic. "They all think that they're going to take it," says Lindner of the World Series. "I don't see it. Everyone I meet is excited to see the Pirates do well. The Pirates are such a classic team. The rest of the guys in my band are from Cleveland, though. ... But they're not the biggest sports fans."
The Bucs themselves might have a different idea of what they want in a theme song, though.
"Ironically, the Pirates got ahold of me right away, and said they liked it," Valasek says of his song "We've Been Waiting 20 Years." "It wasn't something they were going to play in the stadium. They wanted something about today, more rah-rah-rah. They sort of wanted to forget about the last 20 years. Well, that's my take on it — they didn't actually say that. But you can't just wipe away that history."
Michael Machosky is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com or 412-320-7901.


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THE ACT Brumbies are perfectly positioned to break a Super Rugby finals hoodoo, but they had to survive a big scare and a second-half fade to keep their buffer in the Australian conference race.
THE ACT Brumbies are perfectly positioned to break a Super Rugby finals hoodoo, but they had to survive a big scare and a second-half fade to keep their buffer in the Australian conference race.
While the Brumbies restored their lead at the top of the table with the 28-17 win over the Western Force at nib Stadium last night, coach Jake White hopes the ''slack'' second half serves as the wake-up call his team needs to be a genuine title contender.
The Brumbies put on a first-half clinic and ran in four unanswered tries before enduring a nervous comeback as the Force threatened to derail their campaign. In the end they escaped with a bonus-point win and now need just six points from their remaining two games to make the finals for the first time since 2004.
White wanted his team to make a statement to the rest of the competition. The only problem was the statement lasted for just 40 minutes.
''I think we [were] slack, showed a bit of inexperience and probably thought we had done enough [to win the game],'' White said. ''It's a good lesson for us as a group, not only for this year but for every year.
''There's a lot of lessons there and things we should have done in the first half to make sure we never gave them a sniff. The one thing we're fortunate to have is that we can control our own destiny … it's do or die for us every weekend. We've got five weeks left and if we win every game, we win the championship.''
The Force went close to causing a major upset and blowing the Australian conference wide open as they attempted to send veteran Nathan Sharpe out as a winner in his last home game.
Force captain David Pocock lamented his side's slow start and admitted it cost his team the game.
''We gave them too much possession and territory in the first half - credit to the Brumbies on the way they started,'' Pocock said. ''But that was very disappointing from us. We shouldn't have let it get to that.''
Any thoughts the three-week international break would halt the Brumbies' momentum were dispelled in the first two minutes when Jesse Mogg sliced through the Force defence to score the first try.
Jake White's men had 80 per cent possession for the first 11 minutes and the Force defence cracked again when prop Ben Alexander barged over from close range.
Earlier, the Hurricanes beat the Crusaders 23-22 in Christchurch in one of the season's biggest upsets.
BRUMBIES 28 (Ben Alexander, Zack Holmes, Jesse Mogg, Henry Speight tries Holmes con 2 pens) bt WESTERN FORCE 17 (Nick Cummins 2, Toby Lynn tries David Harvey con) at nib Stadium. Referee: Ian Smith. Crowd: 13,571.


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Lit candle causes house fire in McKinleyville
MCKINLEYVILLE- There was a house fire in McKinleyville Thursday night. Officials said a lit candle may be to blame for a teen's second degree burns. Arcata fire said a woman and her teenage daughter fell asleep while leaving a candle burning next to a bedroom nightstand. The woman reportedly woke up to the sound of her fire alarm and noticed smoke in the house. Fire crews said the candle melted over and caught the nightstand on fire which then spread to the mattress and nearby walls.
When firefighters arrived they found the occupants trying to fight the fire themselves by using a garden hose and buckets of water. The teen sustained second-degree burns to her foot while her mother sustained a laceration to the hand.


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Cougar spotted near Nelson daycare
Nelson police have been unable to find a cougar spotted around Care to Learn Children's Centre and L.V. Rogers Secondary in Fairview this morning.
Sgt. Dino Falcone said they received a report around 8 a.m. from someone dropping their daughter off at the daycare. The medium-size cat vanished into the bush.
"We circled the whole area with three different units but weren't able to locate it," Falcone said. "We did alert as many people as we could. We're quite concerned."
Police also notified the high school and the conservation officer.
Nicola Forrester, senior supervisor at Care to Learn, said kids have since gone outside but remained in the yard and didn't go for a walk.
She said she wasn't especially worried: "Not really. I think everyone's aware we live in an area with cougars."
However, Falcone and Forrester both said it's the first cougar sighting they've heard of in Fairview this year.


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I had an accident while out wheeling one weekend with friends. I rear-ended another vehicle due to slick road conditions. This destroyed the A/C condenser, bumper, hood, grill and header panel of my pickup. One little slip while playing around offroad and there was over $3000 worth of damages. Bumper - $#!$, Hood - $$ , A/C Condenser - $$$, Grill- $$$$, and on it goes. In repairing my pickup I decided I wanted to upgrade the pickup with a bumper that would withstand future mishaps. This brought me to the following project.
What better place to find a TOUGH bumper than a company in Texas? Every thing is BIG in Texas right? Well we first ran across Tough Country Products several years ago at SEMA. They only had a couple bumpers at the time but have since greatly expanded the line-up. Tough Country makes a number of products for Dodge, Hummer, Toyota, Chevy, Nissan, Jeep, and Ford trucks. We not only wanted a bumper that would protect our truck but wanted it to fit cleanly.
We decided on the Tough Country Deluxe Front End Replacement bumper. This bumper is constructed starting with a heavy 4 inch pipe base with mounts that go directly to the frame for maximum front end protection. After that you have a number of options that you can choose to customize the bumper for your truck. Options include and expanded metal grill, flush or protruding receiver tube, d-ring tow loops, universal or mile marker winch box, custom fog light sleeves. You can also have it painted or powder coated a special color or even finished with a spray on liner finish. Standard finish is a high gloss black powder coat finish. have a body lift? Tough Country can even accommodate that.
We opted to have our new Deluxe bumper made with the flush mounted receiver tube, the d-ring loops, the fog light sleeves, and the universal winch box. We will be adding a winch in a future issue. For finish we stuck with the standard high gloss black powder coat. So in the order went and now we just had to wait for our new Tough Country bumper to arrive.
The bumper arrived a couple weeks later via truck. Yea, it is heavier than the brown truck can accommodate. Somewhere around 280 lbs. YES, now we will be able to play again.
It came with all hardware needed for installation including strengthing brackets for the factory mounts. The only tools needed for this were ¾ inch socket and end wrench, line up bar, and a lifting device.
Step one was to remove the factory bumper. All that is required is to remove four bolts and nuts and the retainer plates. Followed by removal of the factory installed tow hooks. If your truck has ever experienced any sort of front end damage like ours, some minor adjustments may need to be made to the bumper mounting plates in order for the new bumper bolt pattern to line up. The jigs were made on factory new trucks. Step two is to lift the new bumper into place and install the six supplied nuts, bolts and washers. The approximate weight of this product is 280 lbs. Be sure to have adequate help for installation. I used a chain hoist and one other person to help me line up the bumper. With the help of one other person, position the bumper so that it is level and does not have any unnecessary contact points such as fenders and grill. When you have the bumper where you want it, tighten all of the mounting bolts.
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Diana was a shy 20-year-old woman when she was thrust into the media spotlight. Through her marriage to Prince Charles, she joined one of the most famous families in the world and became an object of intense media interest. Diana's personal difficulties are well documented. However to appreciate the accomplishments of Princess Diana we should not focus on these human weakness, which without exception, are common to us all.
Diana had a sincere and genuine interest in other people. Her heart of sympathy extended to many people, in whatever situation they were in. She often spent time visiting the homeless, or terminally ill patients in various hospices. True these were often photographed, but this wasn't her motivation for seeing patients. It is said by some hospital staff that, Diana would sometimes visit in the evening, away from the glare of the media. When she did meet patients they responded very positively to her. Princess Diana had a great capacity to get on with people, whatever their social status. Friends and nurses tell how she had very positive life energy, which was infectious in its capacity to uplift people.
"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back if only they had the chance."
– Princess Diana
At times Princess Diana resented the intrusion of the media into her private life. But at other times, she realised the importance of the media, in highlighting important social issues. Diana played a significant role in de stigmatising people's perceptions about people who were HIV positive. At the time there was a lot of fear that HIV could be passed on through touch alone. Princess Diana allayed many of these prejudices, by being photographed, touching people who had the disease. Another campaign which Diana though incredibly important was the campaign to ban landmines. She supported a ban on landmines because they are responsible for so many post conflict deaths and injuries. Often it is young children who are most affected by the legacy of landmines. Princess Diana was the most high profile figure to support the ban on landmines. Pictures of her walking through an old landmine in Angola were displayed around the world. Her role is thought by many to be crucial in the passing of the Ottawa treaty banning the use of landmines.
Princess Diana was a unique royal; by engaging in her charity work on a deeply personal level she became a real people's princess. People from around the world could identify with her. In particular they appreciated her heart centred approach to life. She was not just appreciated in her home country the UK, but around the world. She captured the heart of America and received much support and encouragement even from American newspapers.
"After giving her time and property to charities and causes ranging from the treatment of AIDS to the abolition of landmines, her destiny is clear. She will never be the queen of England, but she will be the queen of our hearts."
from: Newsday July 7th 1997
Spiritual Teacher Sri Chinmoy wrote:
"Princess Diana
yours is a temple-heart of sympathy,
Self giving and oneness delight"
Related pages – Princess Diana
Diana: Princess of Wales by Mario Testino
- Diana: Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Amazon.com
- Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Amazon.co.uk
Princess Diana: Her Life Story, 1961-1997
- Princess Diana: Her Life Story, 1961-1997 at Amazon.com
- Princess Diana: Her Life Story, 1961-1997 at Amazon.co.uk


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A detailed account of the events that occurred during this game session will be written as soon as possible. Until that time, please refer to the Points of Interest above.
Out-Of-Character (OOC) Technical Notes for Game Session #3b
Playtime: 10:00 PM CST – 1:30 AM CST (3.5 Hours)
OOC Notes: This was a Side Quest run as a plot-filler for the story of Vaynard, and to progress the character a level so he would not be so far behind the rest of the party.


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"Jersey Shore" Accused Of Racketeering
Uh oh! The cast, crew, and producers of "Jersey Shore" may be in trouble with the law. As many infamous guidos who came before them, they are being accused of racketeering. A woman identified as J.P. is suing Viacom, 495 Productions, and the "Jersey Shore" cast for an incident which occurred during the filming of Episode 108. You may remember it better as the episode where Ronnie knocked some dude unconscious.Allegedly, the same evening that Ronnie knocked the living daylights out of Stephen Izzo, Snooki got in an argument with this J.P. and her friends. Before things got ugly, J.P. alleged that four "Jersey Shore" bodyguards pushed her to the ground gashing her chin and leaving her with a permanent scar. J.P. claims that all parties involved with "Jersey Shore" are engaged in criminal racketeering because they are making money off of advertising sales for a TV show that promotes criminal behavior. Nobody is fist-pumping now. [Daily Record]


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Director Bemberg can lay claim to being one of Argentina's original feminists and a persistent critic of the various military regimes which ran the country for most of the post-War period. After writing a number of highly militant screenplays in the mid 70s, she finally directed her first feature aged 58 and hasn't looked back. This has been praised as her best film to date and this may be because it's the first time she has adapted someone else's work and is consequently obliged to keep her own obsessions under a tight rein.
Not that there isn't a feminist subtext here. Set in a mythical Argentinian town in the 40s, it centres on the attempts of a snobbish widow (Brando) to prevent her daughter Charlotte (Podesta) from being acknowledged as a dwarf. In a magnificant act of psychotic despotism, she attacks her neighbours' garden gnomes and burns any book which so much as mentions dwarves to clear a sacred patch of ground for her daughter to bloom in. Charlotte is taught to play the piano and speak French, but Bemburg signals that these cultural accomplishments represent the stunting and pruning of an essential nature.
Sometimes rambling and stilted, this still manages to nail the connections between political manipulation and psycho-sexual engineering. When Charlotte is courted by an ageing rou (Mastroianni), her mother can hardly believe that his desire is genuine.
For all its faults, namely some rather hackneyed metaphors, this remains a charming and engaging tragi-comedy.


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All About You: family life
You might argue and bicker with the people you share a house with, but it seems you want to spend MORE time with members of your family.
That's what a huge survey Newsround organised says, with a third of you wanting more time with your family.
That's on top of the three hours a day that four out of five of you tell us you already spend with them.
Adam's been to visit one boy who can't get away from his family - he's got 10 brothers and sisters!
Joe lives in Blackpool with his mum, dad and 10 brothers and sisters, which means 13 people squeeze into the house.
It can get pretty busy at the best of times, especially first thing in the morning.
Find out more about Joe's family
Joe explained: "Everyone's running around finding their clothes and the little ones need help getting dressed for school. The queue for the bathroom is quite big because people take a long time brushing their teeth and washing their mouth out."
He added: "The good thing about being a big family is that we get to do stuff for mum and dad, and help them out. And they can help us.
"The bad things are other people talking about us and how big a family we've got."
Keeping quiet
Do you get enough family time?
Of course with all those people around noise can be a problem too, but there is one time of day when Joe's family do keep quiet.
"At mealtimes it's normally crazy because everyone's hungry. Everyone shoves food into their faces and it's normally quiet because they're all eating food!
"Sometimes I wish I had a smaller family when Conan, Phoebe and Angel annoy me!|"


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Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo writes about the Bigfoot body purported to be discovered in the woods in Northern Georgia. The guys who claim to have discovered it are holding a press conference in Palo Alto on Friday.
Is it real? It certainly looks like the real deal, and with a surprising variety of features.Georgia Gorilla: Bigfoot Body's First Photo! (Cryptomundo)
The hominoid (please note, not hominid) body, found in the Georgia woods, is now in a secure location, under armed guard, and set to be examined by a battery of academic scholars, skeptical scientists, Bigfoot researchers, and debunking writers.
Who is to say the discovery of Bigfoot won't happen this way?
With offers of millions of dollars, just for the photographs of the body, Loren Coleman and Cryptomundo was given one copy of the first image to share with you, our readers.
The body doesn't look exactly like people thought it would, because the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot has been the model in our minds. However, this looks as if it is an actual apelike primate. Indeed, the gorilla-like facial features, the robust lack of canines, and the grinding surfaces shown in the teeth suggest a bulky vegetarian with a mixture of higher primate characteristics.
Will further tests and the proposed live capture of others prove beyond a doubt that Bigfoot is a new species? Stay tuned.


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February 10, 2007
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- Dr. James Quigley, Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy, Bronx Community College, CUNY - New Power Authority's On the Road to Clean Transportation
- Mike Quincy, Auto Test Data Analyst, Consumer Reports - Nissan Altima Climbs to Top Reports' Ratings for Family Sedans
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[Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Paranormal Consensual BDSM Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, werewolves, fisting, flogging, whipping, sex toys, HEA] Werewolf shape-shifters Brody Dietrich and Roman Meyer "borrow" a gigantic yellow tractor-scraper to stop the SUV following their Alpha. Leonie Baum's father owns the vehicle, and she is not happy. But the board of directors say a woman's place is not in construction, so Leonie's career has come to a grinding halt anyway just like the construction vehicle. With the death of the Supreme Alpha of Europe, the werewolf packs are vying to take control. Roman and Brody just want to go home to Werewolf Castle in the mountains, but their Alpha loans them to the Alpha of Vienna. At least this means they have time to get to know Leonie a little better despite their dramatic first meeting. They invite her on a hot air balloon flight, which they all enjoy, but their erotic sessions stop dead when they arrive for their first day of work and learn who their supervisor will be. ** A Siren Erotic Romance
Series: Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting: Werewolf Castle
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 112
Published: 1st April 2014
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 22.86
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New Recorder Music 2016
Category A
- 1st prize
Mr. Karsadi Donny, Indonesia, 30 years
Silent prayer for alto recorder
- 2nd prize (ex-aequo)
Mr. Zafra Jacques, Mexico, 29 years
Für Altblockflöte
Mr. Arroyo Juan, Peru, 34 years
Arqa for amplified Paetzold recorder contrabass in C
- 3rd prize
Mr. Azizol Ainolnaim, Malaysia, 28 years
Nadi Bumi for amplified alto recorder
Catégorie B
Admitted to the final competition:
- 1st prize
Mr. Jaccottet Guy-Baptiste, Switzerland, 18 years
Chanson dans le sang for bass recorder and organ
- 2nd prize
Mr. Kesler Ivo, Romania, 15 ans
Milarepa for three tenor recorders
- 3rd prize
Mr. Köhring Linus, Austria, 16 years
Sonnenaufgang in einer Cognac-Flasche for alto recorder and viola
for category B and prize winner concert
Saturday 24.09. 2016, 8pm
Eglise Saint-Laurent de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Distribution of the prizes by the jury.
Concert recorded by the radio RTS Espace2
OPTIONS for the score
Solo piece for recorder (also Paetzold recorder), intended to be played by a professional recorder player, amplification accepted, no other form of electronics permitted.
For composers of Category A only.
Duet for recorder and another instrument, without electronics
For composers of Categories A and B.
Recorder ensemble, without electronics.
For composers of Categories A and B
All the pieces except the solo piece are intended to be played by children and young adults from 8 to 18 years of age. Therefore the challenge for the composers who write a duet or a recorder ensemble is to adapt the technical difficulty to the level of young players without neglecting the artistic standard of the composition.
Contemporary musical language is to be preferred, in order to allow the interpreters to discover and familiarise themselves with today's universe of new sounds.
- The winners also benefit from an professional recording of their piece.
- The jury will distribute the prizes after the winner's concert which will take place the 24th. of September 2016 in Lausanne (Switzerland).
- The jury may divide or not award a prize.
Wolfram SCHURIG, Austria, President
Carola BAUCKHOLT, Germany
Nadir VASSENA, Switzerland
Conrad STEINMANN, Switzerland
Antonio POLITANO, Italy
The jury is free in its decision making. All the decisions of the jury are final and no appeal against them is possible.
The organier reserves the right to find replacement jury members as seen necessary.
Competitors will send an envelope bearing a freely chosen 5-sign code. As the candidate must remain anonymous to the Jury, no name must be shown on the envelope.
The envelope must contain the following documents :
- Six scores, each one bearing the same 5-sign code, but no name
- A second envelope, sealed, bearing the 5-sign code, but no name.
This envelope will contain a brief biography, the sheet with personal information, two current photos and official proof of the candidate's age (photocopy of passport or identity card)
All documents are to be sent by 01.02.2016 (date of postal stamp) to the following address :
Association Flauto Dolce Lausanne
Case postale 137
CH – 1073 Savigny
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The fee must be paid by 01.02.2016 to the account :
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Registration becomes effective only after receipt of the fee.
- Scores will not be returned.
- The organiser assumes no responsibility for loss or damage to scores.
- The prize-winning composition remains the full property of its author.
- By virtue of participating in the competition, each competitor accepts all the conditions of the competition.
If you have any questions, please contact us!
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The Veldar was a Sugren-class heavy escort that saw service with the Cardassian Guard during the 24th century. During the Dominion War it was part of the 15th Tar'elk and was commanded by Gul Tharn. (The Dominion War Sourcebook: The Fires of Armageddon)
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|From: Sam TH (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 18 22:45:21 EDT 2009
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote: > While on an adventure to use typed-scheme I faced this issue: > #lang typed-scheme > > (: foo (case-lambda [-> Symbol] > [Symbol -> Symbol])) > (define foo > (case-lambda [() 'foo] > [(s) s])) > > I can't see what might be wrong here. Still I get in 4.1.4: > typecheck: untyped var: s in: s Unfortunately, doing something intelligent here with `case-lambda' is trickier, and that's why this doesn't work yet. Carl and Anthony's solutions are right, but can you file this as a bug so I remember to fix it in the future? Thanks, -- sam th samth at ccs.neu.edu
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War stories wanted; local, national efforts run on parallel track
A small news tip to the Journal led to a discovery: The American Legion wants veterans' war stories.
Legion Commander Ed Miller and member Larry Waters confirm that about a year ago, they started asking members to submit information about themselves and their service history.
Miller said one day after a funeral, it bothered him that the Legion has few details about some members, making it more difficult to honor their memory and service. Legion leadership agreed it would be great to have some of that information in a file.
Waters said at first submissions came slowly and not often. He thinks new membership efforts must have prompted more responses because recently he has received more than 100 submissions from local Legion members.
When he asked for the written histories to keep, he assured the members their information would only be used for the local post's purposes.
As it turns out, about two years ago the national organization began inviting any and all veterans to submit their stories online -- via the American Legion's national website -- under the program called In Your Own Words.
Legion webmaster Chris Bayliss said the organization began about two years ago asking veterans to submit their war stories. He said the stories are posted to the Legion site and will "live" there indefinitely.
Veterans of any age, era or military branch may submit their stories via the Legion's national website, where it will be posted after receipt. Veterans are encouraged to submit their stories online at the In Your Own Words portion of the website (link near the end of this story).
The local and national Legion representatives think the efforts parallel each other -- what veterans wrote for the local Legion could be submitted to the national site and vice versa.
Waters said he would be making members aware that they could send in their stories. The submissions he has received so far vary from a few lines about the veteran's military branch and years of deployment to many pages about their time spent at war.
Local man Ray Anderson summarized and submitted his war-experience story for the local Legion, "Ray Anderson's Eyewitness Account to WWII,:" then authorized it to be submitted to the national Legion for its website.
Click here to go to the Legion's national site: www.legion.org/yourwords
Anderson's full essay is also attached as a .pdf document.
Excerpts from "Ray Anderson's Eyewitness Account to WWII":
Many people recognize 90-year-old Ray Anderson from his former job as a UW-River Falls professor of political science, his letters to the editor, time on the Pierce County board, membership in the local American Legion or passionate environmental stewardship.
He responded to the local American Legion Post's request for information by telling the story of his wartime experiences that included five invasions in the South Pacific.
Anderson enlisted in the U.S. Navy during 1943, his senior year in college. His writing expresses disdain for the racial segregation practices used then in both the military service and in Texas, near one of his training bases.
Anderson said his ship joined a task force of 700 others that sailed from Pearl Harbor for 38 days, bound to invade the island of Yap. His story says the ship stopped to resupply then headed out in a different direction than Yap, without any of the crew knowing why.
"All over the ship," his story says, "the scuttlebutt was that our objective had been changed and that we would invade the Philippine Islands instead."
Their suspicions proved correct as they geared up to capture the island of Leyte. As he and other crew members worked in four-hour rotating ships, he said the only war news they could get was from the deceptive and demoralizing radio announcer Tokyo Rose, who spoke only of blistering Japanese victories.
A typhoon two days before Anderson's ship arrived had helped Rangers seize the land areas surrounding the Pacific Gulf entry. He describes seeing nearly constant bombardment and hearing "terrific" noise....


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Moonlighting with Insomniac #1 | Internships
Who's eligible for an internship? When do the internships start? What positions are available? Angela answers all this and more in the first episode of Moonlighting With Insomniac.
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Moonlighting with Insomniac is the twice-a-month show where we answer YOUR questions about recruitment and HR at Insomniac Games. We'd love to hear your questions. Leave a comment below!
- Spencer
Thanks for being so generous and taking the time to answer questions that many of us have 🙂
- Angela
You are very welcome. Hope it helps and we'd love to know if there are any specific questions that you have, that we can address in future episodes!
Thanks- Angela
- BlinkThingy
Hello Insomniac!
I'm sure you guys get hundreds of applications and can't reply back to everyone or even look at everyone's application. Sometimes I would never hear back from an application but the position I applied for is still open. It would be really cool if you gave us your perspective of the application process on your end. Thank you!
- Angela
I think that is a great topic. It lets one behind the curtain, and shows our side of recruiting. We'll keep this one on tap for sure!
Thanks – Angela
- Abulon Judy
I need clarification on an internship posted.
The internship says the students must be available 5 days a week for 40+ hours. Insomniac will work with the students regarding scheduling the hours, correct? If they are a full time student, is that taken into consideration when scheduling intern hours?
Seeking answers for my student,
- Angela
Happy to clarify. Interns would not be able to attend school during their internship with us. We are looking at students who either take the summer off for an internship or for their summer credits- take an internship. It's 40+ hours a week, MON- FRI, with schedules, deadlines and meetings. The interns are imbedded with the teams and have duties and responsibilities that would fill their weekdays.
Hope that helps
Thanks – Angela
- Abulon Judy
Thank you, Angela!
I will relay the info.
Happy Friday, and have an awesome weekend!
- Justin Breidenbach
I applied for the project management internship and it is exactly what I want to do in life for my career. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to increase my chances for landing an interview. The application also didn't ask for a cover letter nor did I see a place to upload one, did i somehow miss it.
Thank you for providing a forum like this!
- Angela
HI Justin –
The best thing you can do is have a great resume that demonstrates your skills in project management. Have you been a PM on a project for school? Tell us what you did. Make sure we know you have had some experience in this area. Best of luck!
- João Lucas Mendes
Hi Angela,
I have a very simple question, and I think you are the perfect person to answer it!
I was wondering if skills unrelated to your position, but related to game development have a place in your resumé or cover letter.
For example, I do a lot of illustration, animation and game design in my spare time, but usually apply for gameplay programming roles. My take is that, even if these skills are not useful for my job, I think they give me a better perspective of how my colleagues think and at very least makes it easier to communicate with them. That said, do you think such skills have a place in a resumé or cover letter? Or do you think they should focus exclusively on what you are applying for?
- Angela
HI Joao-
I think that if you put these skills in a "hobby" or "other interest space" – it works, but beyond that – it can get confusion on exactly what you want to do, and where your skills are.
- Tristan
Hi Angela,
I am really interested by your internships but I have a question regarding your offers. Indeed, to be eligible we need to go back to school in Fall 2017. But, in my case, I need to complete a 3 months mandatory internship to get my Master degree diploma. Once the internship completed, I wouldn't go back to school since I would have graduated. ANd a job is not accepted by my school, only an internship is.
Could I be eligible?
Thank you very much!
- Josh
Hello Insomniac,
It appears the project management internship is no longer listed. Has this position been filled already?
Thank you!
- Jhalyn Haynes-Haskins
Hello Insomniac,
I'm very excited just for the opportunity to work with guys. I mean, SPYRO THE DRAGON! That's gaming history! My question is what skill level would you like your Animation Interns to be at? I'm currently finishing up iAnimate Game Workshop 2. I would love to know so that I can be above your expectations and be a valuable teammate in the future.
Thank you,
Jhalyn Greene