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Ethan Hawke got a chance to briefly meet Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, when they both attended the Silk Road Transatlantic Alliance Party at the Greenwich Hotel in Manhattan Sept. 24.
"I was very curious about him," Hawke told PEOPLE. "I've been doing a tremendous amount of research about that whole region during The Coast of Utopia (a play about the Russian Revolution) last year. And I'm going to be doing the (Russian play) Cherry Orchard with Sam Mendes. We're going to travel the world with it so I was curious to come here tonight. He's very impressive."
Saakashvili spoke at the event about his country's recent invasion by Russia. "Georgia came under a huge attack. It was difficult, challenging, but we've had a lot of support from people," said Saakashvili. "They see that this country can withstand anything. The people can be resilient."
The Georgian President also expressed surprise by the reaction of Americans. "I've seen a lot of solidarity among Americans just going around the streets in New York. I am very flattered and surprised, almost shocked that people would care so much."


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Album Rating: 5.0meh, not yet. maybe after a few more listens. last two tracks are absolutely massive
Digging: Future and Young Thug - Super Slimey
Album Rating: 5.0but those two are a step above everything else
Album Rating: 4.5This album is amazing but very depressing imo. I listened to this 2 winters ago when my dog got cancer and everytime I put this on I couldn't stop crying about my dog. The album just sounds like losing your best friend.
Digging: Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix
Album Rating: 5.0meh. i should probably listen to this more than the one play a month it gets
Album Rating: 5.0the last track is super happy
so so sad
Album Rating: 4.5Fucking depressing minus a couple songs, but it's all I can listen to when I'm feeling like that. It encapsulates a mood so perfectly, when you're in that mood, it's the best medicine. I don't even listen to folk and I've fallen in love with this album.
Album Rating: 5.0this is so depressing, but then the last song makes me feel better. bumped
Album Rating: 5.0heh, lakes. i knew you'd appreciate this
Lets fuck it up boys, make some noise
newest album was super lame
Album Rating: 4.5nah it was still really good
Album Rating: 3.5that opening monologue is so cringey
Album Rating: 4.5The part that kicks me in the face is later when he happily sings
"And they splashed into the deep blue sea!
Oh it was a wonderful splash"
just out of nowhere.
Dude, the opening monologue is pretty sweet
Album Rating: 3.5man this guy has a few gems nothing more....how do you sit through these albums....I just tried to
listen to this album yet again....Dinosaur Jr's You're Lving All Over Me should do the trick for this
wake and bake
Album Rating: 4.5nah
Album Rating: 4.5i'm makin' a deal with the devils of fate. let me walk away please
Album Rating: 4.5As pretentious as he may be, Oberst really is a fucking genius.
Album Rating: 4.0i see a lot of similarities in Oberst and Jeff Mangum, both geniuses
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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ESPN was going on and on about how the Cavs got crushed by 55 points last night. Has Byron Scott ever suffered a more embarrassing loss than this? Oh. . . wait a second. It's still not as bad as the 58 points that we lost by. . . in the playoffs. I don't care if Denver had their scrubs in or not. I want to beat Denver. . . BADLY, everytime we play them. Thank you Hornets, now let's go whoop some Magic ASS!
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Never heard of these guys. Your review has made me wanna check them out. Good stuff
Oh and pos
Album Rating: 4.0Can't wait to listen to this, so I won't wait.
Album Rating: 4.0yeah this rules :]
just downloaded this actually. love their self titled. cant wait to hear.
Album Rating: 4.0wonderful review for a wonderful album
no gracias
Sounds interesting.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThis is so good it's ridiculous
Jash just 5ing shit from all angles
This is really good, but the new Mount Fuji is better. Good review too.
disagree. after so many listens, couldn't get into the mount fuji. they're pretty different now imo. but thanks.
Gotta check Mt. Fuji out too.
Album Rating: 4.0I prefer this to Mt. Fuji
Album Rating: 3.5Great review, I really need this
listening to this right now and it's beautiful
good review man, the band is great
keep forgetting about these guys and mt fuji also, ill listen to both some time soon probably. nice review.
I prefer darkjazz ensemble to doomjazz corp but both are great anyway.
Album Rating: 4.0i have always enjoyed this band a lot more than mount fugi doomjazz corporation.... is this album as good or better than "here be dragons"?
Album Rating: 4.0It's just as good, which means it rules.
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2Bake 24 to 26 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
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Rhodia is celebrating their 75th anniversary and for the occasion they worked with Paul Smith to give their infamous notebooks a new look. The outcome are two sets of notebooks, each featuring 4 graphics by the British designer, as well as his signature pattern at the bottom. Look out for these to release soon. Via Selectism.
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Moderator Rev. Dr. John Vissers (centre) presents the video Why Reconciliation Matters to Me to Eugene Arcand (left) and Madeleine Basile (right), members of the TRC Indian Residential School Survivor Committee.
I began each day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event by visiting the sacred fire.
I'd sit on a dew-covered bleacher, fingers wrapped tightly around my first cup of coffee, watching the fire and the young men tasked with keeping it burning 24 hours a day for four days straight.
Each morning the elders arrived to visit the fire keepers, pass around trays from Tim Hortons and share a few laughs. Then the elders would enter their teepee and a quietness would fall over those of us present.
On the first day, after the sacred fire was lit and the elders had emerged from their teepee, we were invited to come forward and offer our prayers. One by one we approached the fire with a pinch of sacred tobacco in our hands. One by one we scattered it over the flames and prayed, each in our own way, then circled the pit clockwise and returned to our seats.
As I moved near the fire, I placed one hand over the other, guarding the dry tobacco flakes from the morning wind. As I bent over the fire the words of my prayer still hadn't fully formed in my mind. I watched the fire pop as it inhaled my offering. All I could think to say was, "Lord, help me listen."
And so began my time at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's national event in Saskatoon in June.
The TRC was formed in 2008 as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the culmination of a lawsuit filed against the federal government and churches involved in running residential schools.
Since the lawsuit was settled out of court, survivors were denied the chance to testify. As Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the TRC, explained, the TRC provides survivors with an "opportunity to come forward in a public and private way if they choose, to tell their experiences, to share their stories with each other, with the public and with their families about what occurred to them in the schools."
Pierre Papatie was the first survivor who shared his experience with me. We sat together the morning the sacred fire was lit. An elderly man from Quebec, he works to bring First Nations spiritual practices to prison inmates, promoting participation in sweat lodges, smudging and pipe ceremonies. The smoke of sacred medicine—sweetgrass, cedar, tobacco, or sage—is used to cleanse participants and prepare them for healing and sharing. During smudging, smoke is waved over parts of the body; during a pipe ceremony, a sacred pipe is passed in a circle, uniting participants in a time of prayer and preparing them to listen respectfully to what is shared. Papatie's deep respect for the traditional ways is evident as he speaks about his work and the healing it brings. He has a quiet and assuring presence, his solid frame unmoving. His words are carefully selected.
"I have learned to accept. Reconciliation? I don't know what that is. I accept what happened. I accept the people who did those things to us. That is the healing I know."
The Presbyterian Church operated two residential schools, one in Kenora, Ont., and another in Birtle, Man. The PCC, as one of the defendants, signed the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
"The Presbyterian Church in Canada is striving to acknowledge our role and our responsibility in running residential schools," said General Assembly Moderator Rev. Dr. John Vissers in the Circle of Reconciliation, which included representatives of the Anglican, Catholic, and United churches.
The moderator referenced the PCC's official apology, given in 1994: "[We have] confessed to God our denomination's complicity with the Government of Canada's assimilation policy; and confessed the cultural arrogance that underscored the terrible legacy of the Indian Residential School system."
To more intimately acknowledge and honour the stories of survivors, St. Andrew's, Saskatoon, hosted a luncheon and sharing circle. Local and national representatives of the church shared a meal with survivors, a number of whom went to the Presbyterian-run school in Birtle. After lunch we moved the tables aside and created a large circle of chairs. We sat in the circle for three hours, listening to each other's stories and reflections.
"I was taken away to residential school when I was just six years old," said Helen Isbister, an elderly Cree woman from Mistawasis, Sask.
"We were taken in a one-ton farmer's truck. We were in the back of the truck. They loaded us up. We were so innocent; we thought we were just going for a ride. We got in this truck with just the clothes we had on our backs. No luggage, no nothing, not realizing we would be driving in this truck for many miles." They drove from Mistawasis to Birtle, the nearest Presbyterian school.
"I asked my little sisters one time, 'What did they do when we wanted to go to the bathroom and we knocked on the window? When we were needing to go real bad?' I can't remember.
"We have all those memories and they're locked in this big book and it's so hard to open it. We want to forget them, but the book is starting to open. For me opening that book will help us in our healing journey.
"In the residential schools we had a minister. I couldn't understand how this minister could preach to us all day Sunday and talk about how Jesus loves you. And then when Monday came around we got the strap. I couldn't understand how he could beat me up so much and then say he loved me on Sunday. I couldn't get over that. I hated that. I hated that minister.
"It reminded me of being in jail. We always stood in a line. We always marched. They always carried a stick or a ruler or something. They built fear in your system. The fear stayed there. It's hard to get rid of that fear.
"I was in residential school for 12 years. I only got to see my parents for two months of only one of those years. You can lose your childhood overnight when they take you to residential schools.
"Healing is a nice magic word. But to do it from your heart—from your spirit—it's not so magic and it's not so easy."
As painful as it was to listen to Isbister's story, acknowledging the truth of her experience opened our hearts to her and each other.
"Reconciliation is not possible without knowing the truth," said Commissioner Sinclair on the first day. "Truth will lead to a greater opportunity to come to terms with the facts."
"I have always been a head person," said Vissers at the luncheon. "But my experience here has challenged me to know with my heart."
"What does truth and reconciliation really mean?" asked Delores Werchola, an outreach worker for the church, a survivor and one of the facilitators of the circle.
"The way I look at it, it's building relationships. Being truthful. Sharing the truth. Not only for us First Nations people, but for non-First Nations people as well. I believe we need to all open our hearts and share with one another and take time to understand each other and forgive."
"We are all treaty people," said Rev. Sandy Scott, minister at St. Paul's, Prince Albert, Sask. We are all affected by Canada's colonial history; by the agreements our government signed with First Nations peoples, he said.
Like Isbister's memories, our collective history is written in a book that is difficult to open. Hearing our history read to us brings tears to our eyes.
But we were reminded throughout the TRC that tears bring strength and healing. Tears are precious. There was always a TRC volunteer around to carefully give and gather tissues to a person who was crying.
"We want your tears," they would say.
Every day the tear-soaked tissues were burned in the sacred fire as a prayer offering to the Creator and a memorial to survivors who had passed away before they could tell their stories.
After Isbister finished telling her story she handed her tissues to a volunteer.
"Thank you for honouring us survivors. Our tears are not wasted here."
Strength in Tears
Moderator Rev. Dr. John Vissers (centre) presents the video Why Reconciliation Matters to Me to Eugene Arcand (left) and Madeleine Basile (right), members of the TRC Indian Residential School Survivor Committee.


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Part of the Black flight Edit
Drakkisath is a part of the black flight i think? CJ 08:38, 12 Jan 2006 (EST)
- He's a Dragonspawn of the black flight, yes. --Asherett 05:02, 12 Feb 2006 (EST)
Please no Fanfiction chars under noteworthy members.... Edit
Please remove Ashwing, for Fanfictions chars shouldn't be on pages such as this..., not even if marked as such...--Maibe 16:45, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
Forms Edit
Just to be clear. The Onyxia model has been used for two known females. the neferian model has been used only for nefarian and some dead black dragon in blade's edge.however the standard black dragon model (top left corner of the black dragonflight pic) is used for some known males, some known females (Furywing and Obsidia), and dragons whose gender is unknown (Blackscale, Hemathion, etc...). I'm changing the section accordingly.Warthok 12:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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What The Blackwing lair is actually a real home of black dragonflight ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Utahraptor (talk • contr).
Considering it seems Nefarian's death is legitimate it would seem blackwing lair has been cleansed of the black flight. But prior to his death it was probably the most prominent hold of the black dragonfligth that we know of.Warthok 19:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Evil? Edit
With Deathwing gone, wouldnt it be possible for some members of the 'flight to be sane and good?Torturer(OldStyle) 15:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- Black dragonflight's madness looks irreversible for the time being. Besides, Deathwing is still alive.Neltharion (talk) 02:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Volcano symbol Edit
In Night of the Dragon, chapter thirteen there really is said that "volcano is symbol of power of earth, and also black dragonflight, whose master created it." But, as I said, I have that as ebook, so I cannot write right page. Neutralion (talk) 13:01, August 17, 2010 (UTC)
- I've changed the wording abit, so if people look in the reference list, they'll see that we don't know the page. Aedror42 (talk) 11:11, July 13, 2010 (UTC)


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Hwang, Gyeong S. and Giapis, Konstantinos P. (1997) On the Origin of Charging Damage during Etching of Antenna Structures. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 144 (10). L285-L287. ISSN 0013-4651. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:HWAjes97a
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Monte Carlo simulations of charging and profile evolution in patterned antenna structures during etching in high-density plasmas reveal a rapid change in the potential of the lines at end point, which causes a surge in electron tunneling through thin gate oxides and possibly charging damage. The condition of the substrate (grounded vs. floating) determines the magnitude of the surge and whether it will be followed by a steady-state current until all lines of the pattern become disconnected. A reduction in damage is possible by controlling the substrate condition, which may be assessed through notching experiments.
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Portfolio Selection for Insurance Linked Securities: An Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making
The insurance linked securities (ILS) market is an increasingly important alternative asset class for which risk and return analysis differs from other asset classes. Measures of portfolio risk and return for an ILS portfolio are based on the expected losses and expected excess returns over the risk free rate. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) has found successful applications to many real world decision problems. This paper examines the application of two popular MCDM methods, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and ELECTRE III, to ILS portfolios. These methods are used to screen the securities before constructing portfolios using linear optimisation with constraints. The objective function is to minimise the portfolio expected loss for a given level of expected excess return. Upper and lower bounds are also placed on the investment in each individual ILS. The results demonstrate the benefits from applying MCDM to ILS portfolio selection.
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Still Naughty After All These Years
By CAROL VOGEL
Published: August 4, 2005
When Gilbert and George returned from the Venice Biennale in June, they found something mysterious in their mailbox: a brown cloth hood, the sort that a monk would wear. It was not the first time the artist duo returned home to a bizarre surprise. Four years ago they discovered a handwritten fax from the North Yorkshire police that began: ''Dear Gilbert and George, we would like to question you about a killing.''
The body of a student had been found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a ditch near the village of Askham Richard in North Yorkshire. She had been bound and gagged with two-inch-wide tape decorated with a pattern of men's faces on a blue background. The tape, purchased at the Tate gift shop, had been designed by Gilbert and George.
Soon after questioning, the police realized the artists had nothing to do with the murder. As for the hood, Gilbert and George have carefully hung it on a coat rack in the entrance of their home.
No. 12 Fournier Street in Spitalfields, a neighborhood in London's East End filled with George I houses built by French Huguenot immigrants, is an 18th-century paneled structure the artists bought and restored themselves 30 years ago. Their studio is reached through a small courtyard out back that features a 19th-century fountain with the inscription ''If a man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink.''
For more than three decades Gilbert and George have made a profession out of being naughty. Their art has dealt with politics of all types: economic, social, sexual. Combining photography with performance, they have embraced pornography, pandemic diseases like AIDS, vaudeville and scatology.
On a recent summer day, dressed in nearly identical suits and ties (in contrast to their early days, they are now careful never to dress totally alike), the artists managed to serve tea brewed in their kitchen: a space with no stove or refrigerator or sink, but enough antique china to serve 150 at a sit-down dinner.
Like Cher or Halston or Madonna, Gilbert and George dispensed with their surnames. This happened after they met at St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1967. (According to the Dictionary of Art, they are Gilbert Proesch, born in 1943 in the Dolomites in Italy, and George Passmore, born in 1942 in Devon, England.) Gilbert is the shorter and more loquacious of the two; George is taller, chain-smokes and tends to finish Gilbert's sentences.
Their studio is an immaculate space whose central room is filled with a large model: a maquette of the Tate Modern's galleries, where the artists are preparing for a retrospective scheduled to open in 2007.
In early June they were the toast of Venice, where the entire British pavilion was filled with a new series called ''Ginkgo Pictures.'' Using sophisticated digital editing techniques, Gilbert and George produced 25 pictures, each incorporating images of the leaves of a ginkgo tree, a symbol of life. Into the posterlike works, the artists incorporated themselves, as they have in the past, in a variety of poses making faces.
The exhibition was sold out. Institutions like the Tate snapped up the largest picture; Fran?s Pinault, the owner of Christie's, who is putting together a museum and foundation in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, was also a buyer.
Throughout Gilbert and George's career, their work has gone in and out of fashion. Now, it seems, they are having a moment, selling works that nobody touched for years.
They began their career as performance artists in London haunts like Frank's Sandwich Bar. When they were excluded from ''When Attitude Becomes Form,'' a show of new Conceptual art at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, they retaliated by painting their heads, donning their suits and standing motionless in the center of the gallery on opening night. They made such a spectacle that they were instantly offered a show at the D?ldorf Kunsthalle by Konrad Fischer, a German dealer.
The following year they gained notoriety with their ''Singing Sculpture,'' a performance in which they danced mechanically on a table wearing identical gray three-button suits, their faces decorated with bronze makeup, one holding a cane and the other a glove, as they mouthed the words to ''Underneath the Arches,'' a Depression-era song played on a tape recorder. They performed the piece elsewhere, sometimes in eight-hour marathons.
When ''Singing Sculpture'' was in Brussels, the legendary dealer Ileana Sonnabend went to see them and was captivated. Antonio Homem, director of the Sonnabend Gallery in Manhattan, was with her. ''We stood there for an hour totally mesmerized,'' he recalled. ''A year later they began making photographic pieces.''
So enamored were Ms. Sonnabend and Mr. Homem that they asked Gilbert and George to perform ''Singing Sculpture'' for the opening of their New York gallery in 1971. They have continued to work with the artists ever since.
Right now the two are focused on the Tate retrospective. Unlike most living British artists, whose London showcase is Tate Britain, Gilbert and George will be exhibiting at the five-year-old Tate Modern.
''Art is art,'' Gilbert said. ''You can't have the English on one side and the others on the rest.''


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I woke up about two hours ago, at 7 am. This happens now without an alarm on sunny days because the sun is just pouring into my cluttered little bedroom, which faces east. Also, someone further up in the house is periodically pouring coffee off the deck, or out a window, not sure why. I came home very late last night. I went to see Insidious with Nick, who just got back from China on a research trip for the Bodyguard remake he's writing. There is a place across from the Grove that has a good happy hour so we ate several pizzas and had a few drinks. I was shocked at how much I liked Insidious. Highly pleasing horror movie. I'd been told the first half was good and then it descends into silliness, but I liked the second half too, with the exception of two scenes (the "throwing everybody around the room" gas mask scene and the silly exposition scene). Then we saw Hanna, a loathsome and stupid movie, with Cate Blanchett's all-time worst, most embarrassing performance. Then I saw Fast Five, which was most pleasing and ridiculous, although it made me wistful for the days of the great R-rated action movies, which are now gone.
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Leaving for NY this weekend and early next week. Going to do an interview for a documentary about one of my favorite writers and go to the Paris Review Revel. Exhausted...
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Monday, April 04, 2011
Just paid my taxes, feel like I've been stabbed in the face. How is it possible I owe so much money to the government when I made so much less money in 2010 than I have in any other year since 2005, and I got refunds in all those years?*
I saw Win Win today, which I loved. Not my usual thing, but definitely the best movie I've seen this year. Sideways-level Giamatti, although slightly less corrosive. Loved it.
* yes, i understand how it's possible. i just hate it.
I saw Win Win today, which I loved. Not my usual thing, but definitely the best movie I've seen this year. Sideways-level Giamatti, although slightly less corrosive. Loved it.
* yes, i understand how it's possible. i just hate it.
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Another Washington Post review of one of my dad's concerts in D.C. Glowing marks. Congratulations to my dad and Lina Bahn and the rest of the Verge Ensemble for making strange art in a city of politics.
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Aaron Johnson might be my favorite young actor. He's even great, and fully committed, as a dancer -- as we see in this great music video for R.E.M.'s new single.
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Car won from casino still undelivered
Woman claims she was taxed $134,000 for Aston Martin she never got
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I was all excited to get down to brass tacks and do some serious craigslist spelunking after a day off (rippin' it up at the velodrome--support your local bike racers by hitting up Tuesday night races through October!). There will be so many new ads, I thought, such bounty! Wrong. Quiet days. I have had to dig and delve like some sort of mutant digging delver to unearth the secret treasures. Runner-Up earns the honorable mention for such a dynamic use of the 'CapsLock' key and for not putting pictures up--you'd think that would be a prerequisite to selling art, eh?
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Black SentrySafe Safe - $20 (Normal Heights)
Seems boring, but I really can't let this slip through the cracks. It's a real gem when you consider that how the safe "has good weight to it" is apparently its biggest selling point. I have a soft spot for such meaningful--however erroneous--gestures, assessments, and the like. I heard a story once where a customer told a welder, "nice welds" and the welder replied, "how can you tell?" because it's not like the guy could judge the strength of a molecular bond just by looking.
We all do it: what happens when the car breaks down? You open the hood and look at the motor. What are you looking for? Unless the engine is visibly puking fluids, the source of the problem is unlikely to present itself to you on cursory visible inspection. Yet, because we feel that we must, somehow, maintain a degree of agency and control in our lives, we all open up the hood and stare at the motor.
I realize that sounds a little desperate, as though I'm saying we all fear some sort of metaphorical impotence and must make empty gestures to maintain a semblance of control over the world as we perceive it. Perhaps I am saying that, I'll own such a prediction, but maybe it is not so desperate as it at first seems. I think, in a lot of ways, the act of judging, say, the heft of a safe as indicative of its qualifications qua securing precious items actually functions to make the use of the safe possible in the first place. Beyond the guarantees of the manufacturer--which could easily amount to little more than a sales tactic--there is no real, concrete way to know that a safe actually works. Giving it a lift and making the correlation between heft and functionality is the irrational, but tremendously important, gesture which allows the safe-owner to trust the safe enough to commit valuable documents to its protection. There is a lot of power in that action, in the bringing into being of a reality which allows you to function in the world.
Well, I get your point, but just to be argumentative.
When a person says, "Nice welds," he may be refering to how the welds appear to be neatly done which would imply good work, skill, craftsmanship. If this person had seen a number of bad welds, or was a welder him or herself, maybe s/he could judge just by looking at the welds that they were good quality welds.
The fact that the safe has weight signifies, well, weight. It isn't flimsy, it isn't something a robber could grab and go, it isn't something the kids are going to be able to drag around or break, not easily broken into, a serious safe, in other words.
Though I must say, I watch House Hunters on HGTV and it always interests me how potential buyers walking through a house do things like say slide out a drawer, as if that's going to tell them whether the roof is leaky or the foundation is cracked! And their favorite word, said in every room: "Nice."
It's been said that (because of the way we approach the world linguistically) our thinking is always metaphorical or metonymical. A combination of both factors is at play here, inasmuch as nothing is ever cut and dry, but this seems to be more of a metonymic line of thinking when some contiguous part (a pretty weld, a stunning medicine cabinet) is substituted for the greater whole (a solid molecular bond, a house built to last) which is either harder to understand than the simpler term, or quite inaccessible to begin with.
I'm in love. He says "delve" without any unnecessary prepositions attached :)
I'm a bit surprised you didn't go straight for my flagrant use of "qua." Good little neo-Lacanian that I am.... ;)
Apropos of nothing, that reminds me of these tv crime shows, where you have two hosts. One sitting host introduces the story of the crime in weighty tones, but who can't be associated that closely with the actual crime. So he then passes this sludge on to the 'walking' host, generally a woman who makes traditionally male, rhetorical, pointy, triangulated, reassuring and rational hand-holding gestures, but she must discuss the details of the story. It's a way of easing you into down into the filthy well-hole as gently as possible; then at the end of it all, right when you've forgotten there is an 'up' or outside to the story, you are led back to the omniscient 'seated' host again, sometimes seated before a screen like a mirror-scry, and it is like that respectable moment of Jerry Springer, with some kind of platitude or moral conclusion we should keep in mind, such as...'forensics will out!' or 'bad guys rot in prison!' :)
Pike philosophizes: "(because of the way we approach the world linguistically) our thinking is always metaphorical or metonymical...)
and obviously quite the little semiotician, which of course Pikey has to be, in order to make any sense of Lacan. Ever read Lacan on television?
I mentioned Lacan the other thread, didn't I? I love him, too--and all his 'quas.'
Pike, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt on this one, but know that you're harshing my Platonist mellow here. After all, it's the essence of the object that defines the object. Otherwise, I'm going to go see about that safe, and have take a hammer a drill and a crowbar with me, because if I can break into that sucker, then all bets are off.
Speaking of hand gestures, I'm quite comforted by the feminized, manicured hand floating next to the safe. It says..."Hello, treat yourself to a survey of the features of this fine, weighty object."
It is probably sweeping across the length of the inscrutable wall of surface with a gala-delighted cocktail gesture, like one of Bob Barker's beauties.
Dude, do not speak of essence here! Instead, speak about harshing mellows :)
But essence is the thing, SD (popping my last beer for the evening), I mean, how do you pimp a safe? The only real way to ensure that it works is to prove it would foil a would-be invader, otherwise one is left with only the essence to define such an object.
It would have made for one hell of a Monty Python skit, regardless.
Essence is yes "THE" thing, refried. I shall go smoke a cig, and return. Hopefully you will still be here to talk about the naivete of essence :)
refried mused: "otherwise one is left with only the essence to define such an object...It would have made for one hell of a Monty Python skit"
Surely, it has! We can think of one, Pike?
Y'all pull the night shift here, eh?
As far as Python goes, I've two words for you: "The LARCH"
WHEREIN, the same visual image/referent is paired with differing and purposefully absurd acoustic signs to the effect that the thing, its essence, and its signification breaks down in a puff of British humour. Of course, if refried is getting out the bombs and prybars, all talk of philosophy becomes swiftly irrelevant and we all become well-armed materialists.
Something here for everyone! (Baudrillard, refried, Carroll, Pike, Borges, SD)
At our core, we're still the little kid who wants to touch everything that catches his eye as his mom drags him down the aisle, telling him "don't touch!" Explains why people open up the glass door to look at the ice cream flavors. It's not real until you touch it.
Not sure of your point.
DO you agree or disagree on the matter of The LARCH, SD? I'm curious now!


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Last season on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the demonic Mayor of Sunnydale planned quite a world-ending, vampire-empowering, slayer-destroying "Ascension," but even if Buffy and her pals hadn't foiled his plan in the season finale, that "Ascension" couldn't hold a candle to the event of the same name that takes over the Swank Lounge's hip rumpus room every Wednesday night.
Yet another project from the mind of DJ/promoter/music channeler Andre Sam-Sin, better known in Houston club circles as the all-knowing, all-glowing DJ Sun, Ascension is a combination of live music and Sun's spun stuff. "I'm trying to create a collective of artists that are coming together," Sun says. "Very impromptu -- maybe there's one rehearsal -- but you get the real impact, the real artists working together on the spot. That's the scene, that's the element that I wanna create."
Guitarist/vocalist Wasi Townsend was "all game" for helping DJ Sun with the idea. He joined forces with drummer Dominick Hawkins and bassist Leslie Katsvin Abir Tamusa George (friends just call him "Kats") and formed the eclectic band HUE*MAN. Many other musicians, DJs, singers, rappers and general slaves to creativity have taken turns jamming on the Ascension stage with HUE*MAN and DJ Sun. "It's a mix of organic energy," Townsend says. "Poets, percussionists, violins, flutists, over on top of DJ mix, over on top of original sound."
The audience -- businessmen, working-class joes, rave kids, extremely flamboyant gay men -- feels the energy, too. They come, George says, "to hear someone create something in front of them and create their own scene and, naturally, create their own reality." But they come away with even more. "We want them to leave," says Hawkins, "with understanding and love in their heart. That's what we want them to leave with, that sense of joy."
Ascension, with DJ Sun, HUE'MAN and guests, occurs every Wednesday at 9 p.m., at the Swank Lounge, 910 Prairie, (713)227-0459. Admission is free, but donations are requested.
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It is so absolutely weird to be sitting out here at Estrella Vista in my little mud house, miles away from local friends and neighbors, and hundreds and even thousands of miles from family and close friends—connected to the outer world only by a phone/internet line—and yet feeling so close to the people in my life.
The Wandervogel Diary is becoming a social network in its own right. The traffic yesterday was terrific. This blogsite is becoming a touchstone for hundreds, if not thousands, of physically far-flung people who share coherent values. It is becoming a hub of new relationships and friendships.
I can never get used to the wonderful paradox of it—especially of being in love with people I've never actually met face-to-face (or even spoken to on the phone). All from out here "in the middle of nowhere."
Yesterday Paul Henry's mom sent me his latest school picture, and most of the day his eyes stared at me from the computer screen while I fielded e-mails and phone calls from old friends and wonderful strangers—now new friends—who are volunteering themselves, their networks of friends and contacts to help us protect Paul Henry's innocence (and maybe even his life).
In the evening, another youth justice advocate sent me these black-and-white pictures of Paul Henry, which provide insight to this child's personality. The person who sent them said "movie star." My take was along the lines of "teen idol."
This is a child who doesn't even know I exist, and yet it's strange to consider he's already a part of my life as if I actually knew him. In time I suppose I eventually will get to know the boy, but right now I am learning about him through the eyes of his parents and attorneys. Later I will get to know him through others who know him. All these new connections in the human web are fascinating.
Because northern Indiana is where I was born and raised, I am tapping into networks of people with whom I have had little contact for forty-five years. I am reconnecting with people who were my parents' friends, or are the children of my parents' friends, and who remember my ancestors.
I'm surrounded here in this isolated mud house with pictures of my parents and grandparents as children, and because of this work in Indiana, I have an uncanny sense of connection with them not only over space but through time. People are responding to me so positively, not so much because of me, but because of the family which brought be into the world and raised me. Their being remembered is making things happen in the here-and-now. It is almost as if they are still alive—and they are, I suppose, through me. Dormant connections awakened.
It's an interesting variation on the concept of "six degrees of separation," which is the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. In other words, friend-of-a-friend chains exist which link any two people on Earth in six steps or fewer. With technological advances in communications and travel, our human networks grow larger and span greater distances. Yet, as is so starkly apparent from here where I'm so ultra-aware of the great physical distances between individuals all over the world, the growing density of human networks is making the social distance between us far smaller.
Last week I connected with a couple guys I hadn't seen since we were children. It was such an odd experience, as sixty-something men, to have had long conversations reminiscing about the valued currency of our childhoods (like toy cars). Having long ago 'set aside childish things,' it was like sharing comfort food to have been picking them up again. Webs of memories and old enthusiasms.
It's gratifying to be putting all these connections to work for Paul Henry's benefit… in acknowledgment of the values our parents shared when they were alive… a living act of honoring our roots by investing in a boy who needs our help and who will live on, hopefully perpetuating our values, and extending the web of human connections over space and time.
A small part of the universal connectedness…
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Yes, Jill Kelly said. They're going to be an emotional mess this weekend. She recalls how it was early this year at the NFL Honors Awards, the night before the Super Bowl, when word came that Andre Reed had finally been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"We were all crying," Jill said, "me, Jim," Bruce Smith, "everyone. We were screaming, and when Andre came up on the stage that night, what a beautiful moment."
Six weeks later, the Kellys went from that soaring high to an unthinkable low: Jim's cancer had returned with a vengeance. And on the day the bad news hit, with Jill asking people to pray for a miracle, Ralph Wilson died. It was a double body blow to the Buffalo Bills community.
Kelly knew he was in for the fight of his life. He resolved to be "Kelly tough," to battle the disease with all he had. He knew one thing for certain. Come August, he would be there for Andre.
"I'm sure it was part of the motivation for Jim," Jill said. "Certainly, he's motivated by his faith, his girls and his family, the things he holds very close to him. But every time Andre went to visit Jim, they talked about that.
"Andre was at the hospital," she said. "He was at the house the day we flew to New York City. He came to New York and again when we got back. Every time Andre was there, Jim was down and out, struggling. But it was always the conversation. It was a given that Jim was going to be at the Hall of Fame."
So on Saturday, when Reed gets inducted into the Hall, his old quarterback will be there. Kelly will drive down with Jill and his daughter, Erin, today. He'll toss the coin for the start of the Bills-Giants game Sunday evening. On Monday, he'll come home to Buffalo.
Kelly couldn't come to the phone Tuesday. He was in the midst of an all-day session with the producers of ESPN's "30 For 30," who are doing a piece on the Super Bowl Bills.
"He's pushing it," Jill said. "Don't get me wrong. It's not as if he's all better and good to go. There's still the looming test in August, the not knowing if treatments worked, the fact that he's still on a feeding tube.
"His life is still in that place of uncertainty, not knowing really what's going to happen with all of this. So he's still beat down; he's still tired, he still gets sick quite a bit. But he would not miss this for the world."
Jill said Jim wanted to be there for Reed, first of all. He's also excited to get together with his teammates from the glory days. "And he wouldn't miss it for the City of Buffalo," Jill said. "It's that way for all of us. He felt the same way when he went in."
There's an emotional intimacy when a Bill goes into the Hall. The place becomes a sea of red and blue. Buffalo fans flock to northeast Ohio to rekindle fond memories of the Kelly years. ESPN's Chris Berman reminds us that no team circled the wagons like those Bills.
"It's amazing," said Dan Kelly, Jim's brother. "There will be 15,000 Bills fans there. I remember when Jim got inducted. They had always done the Hall of Fame on the steps. We met with the Hall of Fame and said, 'You don't understand. There are going to be thousands of people on these steps. There's no way it's going to hold them.'
"They moved it to the stadium and it's been there ever since."
"I remember getting up to the podium the year Jim went in," said Berman, master of ceremonies in Canton. "We'd never done one in the stadium before. I said 'testing one-two' or something and the whole place started cheering. I went in back and said, 'Oh, my God, this is a Buffalo home game!' "
There have been some great Buffalo moments in Canton over the years: Marv Levy in 2001; Kelly in '02; James Lofton and Joe DeLamielleure in '03; Thurman Thomas in 2007; Smith and Wilson in '09.
Now, Reed goes in on his eighth try and will likely be the last player from the Super Bowl teams to be enshrined. It's like the closing of a book on an era. With Wilson's passing and Kelly's illness weighing on people's minds, it should be the most emotional gathering of all.
"There's going to be a lot of emotions in there," Berman said. "It's like a perfect storm. It's a Buffalo weekend, there's no question. And I'll be thrilled to see how it goes and how many Bills jerseys I'll see from the podium."
The Bills have a way of rising to the occasion in Canton. Kelly spoke movingly of his son, Hunter. Thomas was witty and wise; Levy erudite and paternal, Smith humble and eloquent. I'm sure it will be emotional when Reed looks Kelly's way and thanks him for his friendship and pinpoint passing.
"If you worked hard and tried hard, Jim was in your corner," said Steve Tasker. "Andre responded to that. He was smart enough to know you run the route the way the quarterback wants you to run the route. That's why Andre was Jim's favorite guy. He'd do it the way Jim wanted it done, and Andre never failed him."
They were one of the top tandems in NFL history. Kelly to Reed. In a way, Kelly was the perfect quarterback for Reed, a brash gunslinger who pushed a proud, unsung kid who burned to prove he belonged in the NFL.
Reed went over the middle with abandon, giving up his body for his team and his QB. He was always there for Kelly, so was there ever any question that Kelly would be there for Andre this weekend, his body willing?
Kelly wouldn't let down his old teammates, either. Those teams were proud and egotistical, but they had a rare competitive bond. Kelly began having parties at his house after the Bickering Bills fiasco. He knew they needed to become more of a family.
That's what Hall of Fame weekends feel like when a Bill goes in, like a Buffalo family reunion. It reactivates old memories and ignites old passions and emotions.
"I know, I know," Jill Kelly said. "If you're a Bills fan and a die-hard and you were around for those days ... we're a mess of emotions! And rightfully so, because it's a lot."
Jill said the hoopla has been helpful because it forces Jim to stop and rest, literally for hours at times. He doesn't want to miss a thing.
"I know he'll go hard," she said, "because he's not going to miss any opportunity to be with his guys. I think he'll be on such an emotional high that it won't hit him until we get home. On the ride home, he'll be physically wiped out. I hope that's the case, because I want him to be able to take in every single bit of this."
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TOKYO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks rose on Tuesday for the first time in four days as investors bought recently battered stocks, and as China's fourth-quarter growth data met expectations.
The Nikkei share average rose 0.6 percent to 17,048.37 points, snapping a three-day losing streak.
China's economy grew 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, Tuesday's gross domestic product (GDP) data showed, the slowest growth since 2009. But there were no hints of a hard landing as some investors have feared.
The broader Topix added 0.2 percent to 1,390.41 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 advanced 0.2 percent to 12,524.07. (Reporting by Ayai Tomisawa; Editing by Kim Coghill)


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- What was Luther's objection to the Catholic Church?
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Teens growing up in a networked world face a lot of concerns, from maintaining privacy to asserting self image. Research presented in the book 'It's Complicated: the Social Lives of Networked Teens' provides the teen perspective.
Artist Nickolay Lamm is on his way to crowd funding a new line of dolls to take on the Barbie empire, inspired by average teen girls.
Rachel Canning wanted $650 in weekly child support, plus the payment of her tuition at Morris Catholic High School. But a New Jersey judge denied her initial request. "Are we going to open the gates for 12-year-olds to sue for an Xbox? For 13-year-olds to sue for an iPhone?" he asked.
Fast food is never the best option, but it is often the easiest, especially when wrestling a car seat.
Rachel Canning says her parents threw her out of the house at age 18. She is suing her parents to pay for her private high school tuition, her living and transportation costs. She also wants them to pay for college.
National Pancake Day is a way to enjoy one of the world's favorite breakfast foods and give back to the community. One mom remembers a special breakfast with her sons that provided not only pancakes, but also a hilarious memory to last a lifetime.
One mom is starting the anti-drug chat with her daughter – really early. Thinking a decade or so in advance, this mom tackles a parenting topic likely to shift a lot more in US culture before her daughter even hits her teens.
Valeria Lukyanova, a.k.a. 'Human Barbie,' is distraction from real news coming from Ukraine. Parents need to lead their kids through the clutter of the Internet to find, and understand, the important headlines.
In countries such as India, shifting traditional family models create a new need for a formalized foster care system that ensures all children a family atmosphere, regardless of family size.
The Walt Disney Company will cut funding to the Boy Scouts of America beginning in 2015 because of a policy that bans gay adult leaders in the organization.
Who you are now matters more than who you were in the past, and it is never too late to offer forgiveness to yourself, and ask forgiveness from others.
'House of Cards' star Kate Mara admits she talks with her sister, actress Rooney Mara, about everything, including acting roles. Sibling bonding is a powerful thing, offering siblings strength against lots of life's challenges.
A new study finds job losses, divorce, and home foreclosures have more than two million adult Californians returning to their childhood homes to live with their parents.
As President Obama gathers leaders to the table Thursday to discuss the new 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative to help keep minority boys in school and out of prison, one mom realizes that parents need to have a seat at the table to make it work.
Mayim Bialik is again defending attachment parenting and breastfeeding children. Mayim Bialik public defense comes as a government report published Tuesday says that breastfeeding babies could be a tool for fighting childhood obesity.
A man mistook another 5-year-old as his own great-grandson, took him to his car and drove him to his house. Now the school is trying to answer questions about child safety.
Infected rat: A 10-year-old boy in San Diego has died after reportedly being bitten by a pet rat. While it's not common for infected rats to make their way into homes as pets, it's time for a refresher with our kids on how to handle pets of all kinds.
Kevin Grow, a high school senior diagnosed with Down syndrome became an Internet sensation with his 3-point shooting. Now he's got a contract with the Harlem Globetrotters.
Attachment parenting as a movement has its supporters and its critics. No matter where you fall, caring for yourself is as important as caring for your baby.
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Both Winslow and Holbrook high schools took home state championship titles after taking part in the Arizona Interscholastic Association State Champion Spiritline Competition held Jan. 25 at Tim's Toyota Center in Prescott Valley.
WHS Support Forces racked up the overall highest score in the three areas of Co-Ed Cheer, Co-Ed Pom Squad and Partner Stunt Squad, earning the Overall Division II State Championship.
The HHS Spiritline took first in Co-Ed Pom Squad to win the Division II championship in that category. Members of the Spiritline also took first runner up in the Partner Stunt Squad category.
The coaches are Nicole Buonviri, Tessa Wadsworth and 22-year veteran Tamie Ramsey for the Winslow squad, and Nichole Lozano, Cheryl Carlson and Carey Kester for the Holbrook squad.
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Get Your Car Ready For The Road For as long as road trips have been a part of American culture, so has dirty driving. We all love to go the distance and see the country, but don't forget that your car is going to see a lot, too. Especially if you're traveling through multiple states, your car is going to be welcomed by a fury of new Read More
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"Restoring Harmony in the Klamath Basin" explains how this conflict developed and offers a solution—markets in water. Written by Roger Meiners and Lea-Rachel Kosnik, this paper persuasively argues that clarification of property rights to water is fundamental to ending the crisis.
Andrew Morriss, Bruce Yandle, Lea-Rachel Kosnik
This paper discusses a new form of regulation. Rather than issuing rules, some government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, have started to file lawsuits.
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Through the vitality and wisdom of his written words, Wallace Stegner remains an influential presence in the American West.


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A tricky way to turn the Government's prospective $2.9 billion deficit into a $1.7 billion surplus for fiscal 1949-50 was proposed by Arkansas' Wilbur D. Mills, a Democratic member of the House Ways & Means Committee. Mills introduced a bill which would require corporations to pay all their 1949 taxes before July 1, 1950, instead of in four quarterly pay-mentsthus adding an estimated $4.6 billion to tax receipts for the next fiscal year, which ordinarily would not have been paid until the following fiscal year. The Treasury took the idea under advisement, while G.O.P. lawmakers rightly complained that it...
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The 2015 Subaru Liberty has recently leaked all over the web ahead of its public debut scheduled for this week's 2014 Chicago Auto Show.
The new generation of the Subaru Liberty has leaked, in several images, ahead of its public debut, which has been scheduled for the 2014 Chicago Auto Show. The model in question is coming with a more modern design language and it has a sleeker roofline, a prominent front grille, rounded bumpers, familiar headlights and much more. The cabin of the vehicle has been completely modified and it's coming with an integrated touch screen, revised instrument cluster, new steering wheel and a lot of other items, which should make it quite popular.
The 2015 Subaru Liberty is believed to pack a 2.0 liter four-cylinder boxer engine under its hood, along with a larger 2.5 liter four-cylinder unit, which are being used currently in the Impreza and in the Forester. Chances are that the model in question will also receive a turbocharged four-cylinder boxer engine, similar to the one seen on the new WRX generation. Additional details on the 2015 Subaru Liberty are limited for the moment and will probably be announced during the 2014 Chicago Auto Show.
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NBA Draft 2011: Should the Kings Draft Kemba Walker or Brandon Knight?June 13, 2011
Suppose both Kemba Walker and Brandon Knight are available at the Sacramento Kings spot. Who do the Kings pick?
The Kings are full of youth. Tyreke Evans, DeMarcus Cousins and Marcus Thornton (assuming he re-signs) make a formidable youth movement. Adding Walker of Knight to the mix would make the Kings an up-and-coming team in the near future.
But does one fit the Kings better than the other?
Walker is a pure scorer. He doesn't have tons of range but can create on his own. Walker truly is a bad shooter but part of this can be attributed to being his team's only option up until the later part of the NCAA tournament when Jeremy Lamb emerged. Walker was able to distribute the ball and hold onto the ball better this past season, which should be seen as a sign of maturity considering he was faced with the other teams' top defender most nights.
Kemba single-handedly led the UConn Huskies to the 2011 National title. Going on a 13-game winning streak in two single elimination style tournaments is nothing to scoff at. He had his jersey retired while still an active student. That never happened before in UConn's history and they have had some greats including future Hall of Famer Ray Allen.
Brandon Knight is basically the same type of player is Walker except younger and more inexperienced. Knight can score and came to Kentucky expecting to be the lead dog. With a group of freshmen to lead Knight often tried forcing play and turned the ball over at a rate of 4.7 turnovers per game through his first seven games.
Knight can score and he learned to be more of a point guard towards the end of the year in the SEC and NCAA tournaments, but shot an abysmal 33 percent. This can be chalked up to youthful exuberance or maybe Knight, like Evans isn't a real point guard.
To be effective both will have to improve their shooting and will have to back off as a lead scorer especially on a team like the Kings who have two young scorers already.
Walker is probably a better fit short-term, if only because he understands the need to not carry a team on your own and learned to trust his teammates towards the end of the NCAA tournament where Knight did not do that as well.
Long-term, if Knight can continue to show improvement like he did throughout his first season at Kentucky, he may be able to put the pieces all together and follow Rajon Rondo as the next great Kentucky point guard.
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Monkeys torn from families on paradise isle and used to breed babies for UK lab tests
Cruelly dangled upside down by its tail and swung from side to side... a monkey is sickeningly tormented after being snatched from the wild.
With a high-pitched scream the animal is then thrown in a cage and forced to become a breeding machine – churning out babies to be sold across the globe for scientific tests. And thousands are sent to Britain, where the demand from pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies for animals to use in tests is soaring. Figures reveal the UK imported more than 2,000 monkeys from Mauritius in the past year – making snaring an animal from the jungle on the Indian Ocean isle a lucrative business for hunters. Today the Sunday Mirror exposes the cruel ways in which these monkeys are captured and condemned to a life of suffering.
Our disturbing pictures were obtained by campaigners from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which has been working under cover for a year investigating the trappers in Mauritius. A covert video shows huntsmen snaring long-tailed macaques – an endangered species – by laying traps baited with bananas and sugar cane around the forest where the creatures live.
The trappers are filmed cruelly swinging the animals by their tails – leaving many with injuries and broken limbs. After seeing the shocking footage, leading veterinarian Professor Nedim Buyukmihci, of the University of California, told the Sunday Mirror: "Catching and swinging monkeys by the tail is a cruel and inappropriate way to treat primates. "Handling could result in injury, including the separation of vertebrae in the tail, causing considerable pain."
In other scenes baby monkeys – some just weeks old – are ripped from their mothers to be exported to a life of misery. After being captured they are thrown in lorries and driven to breeding farms, where hundreds live in over-crowded cages producing babies. Disturbing footage obtained from inside one farm shows the distressed monkeys frantically trying to escape their hell as they let out high-pitched cries.
Every day, hundreds are rounded up and packed into wooden crates to be flown to laboratories across the globe, where they are used in agonising live tests by scientists who pay £260 for each monkey. However, cruel farm managers in Mauritius spend as little as 5p a day caring for them – making it a lucrative trade. And firms in the UK are among their biggest customers.
Although it is illegal to use monkeys caught from the wild in tests here, labs are allowed to import their offspring for experiments. Last year 2,257 monkeys were imported into Britain from Mauritius. Only the US bought more.
And during 2008/9 more than 5,000 live tests were carried out on monkeys – a rise of 16 per cent. Tests include horrific experiments where the animals are pumped with massive amounts of drugs to see how long they can survive. Three-quarters of the monkeys are used for toxicology tests on new drugs. The remainder are used in studies for conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and Aids. Animals rights charities are now calling on the Government to end the cruel trade. BUAV's director of special projects Sarah Kite said: "By allowing the importation of monkeys from Mauritius, the UK is fuelling the cruelty inflicted on thousands of animals.
"This trade is morally unacceptable. We call on the Government to ban the importing of these primates and stop perpetuating this appalling cruelty." For more information, go to http://www.stopthebabytrade.org
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I'm on the Atherton tablelands, in far north Queensland, to participate in a bit of reforestation. This is no ordinary tree-planting exercise. It is the beginning of a long-term reforestation experiment: a planting of 28,000 trees. The aim is to identify a cost-effective way to recreate rainforest biodiversity on once-forested grazing lands, while also maximising the carbon sequestration potential.
The rainforests of this region are home to many unique plants and animals, including the Lumholtz tree kangaroo and the large flightless cassowary. Epiphytic orchids seem to drip from the forests as mist materialises out of the canopies, and butterflies of every colour dance: all to the soundtrack of a cacophony of insect sounds.
We are here in the middle of the wet season. Typically, a day is hot and humid, with clouds building throughout the day, climaxing in heavy afternoon or evening rain. Not this week, though. It has been hot and dry, with barely a cloud since the first day of planting five days ago: not what we had hoped for with thousands of thirsty trees.
The planting team, a mix of backpackers, career planters and scientists new to the art of getting trees in holes quickly, is starting to tire. The combination of heat, digging and walking up and down very steep, ex-volcanic slopes is taking its toll. Clothes and skin are now a rich red, the colour of the fertile soil.
With 28,000 trees on this very rugged country, it is impossible to water manually. Even if some could be watered, the scientific design of the project would require every tree to be treated the same. All or none. So for us, it is to be none. Luckily the soil was wet when we started. Now on this last day of planting, many of the trees planted on the first day are looking very thirsty. We need some rain.
At last we finish. We sit in the shade at the top of the hill, relieved. This is one of the highest points on the tablelands and we look out beyond the valley we have just laboured in, to the rolling mosaic of green fields, farmhouses and small patches of remnant rainforest. In the far distance Bartle Frere, the highest peak in Queensland, looms with its heavily forested slopes, looking magnificent in the afternoon sun.
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I have a bunch of law firm website pages to write, and Jonathan is napping soundly upstairs, but, hey, I've got house fever. Won't you join me? Since everyone keeps asking, here's the latest in the Roberts buying/selling saga.
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has been on the market for two weeks now. We've had five showings, and the last couple to look (on Sunday) asked for utilities information on Monday. Good sign! Later that day our agent said she thinks they're preparing to make an offer. Squee!
…and then days go by with me palming my phone 24/7 lest I miss the all-important Offer Phone Call.
…and they don't call, and I go from high hopes to impatience to despair to acceptance. And, after all, it's only been two weeks. There are other fish in the sea.
…and then, today, our agent tells us they're lining up financing today. Squee! We're back in the game, baby. Which is fabulous, because I'm already tired of keeping the house in Show Shape.
Maryville houses
Most of the drama has been 20 miles south of here. Maryville is a smaller community, so there are fewer homes available in the first place. Once you narrow down our criteria (in the city limits because the city schools rock, at least three bedrooms but probably four because I need an office with a door that shuts, and, for Derek, a not-so-old house that has a lower heating bill…not that we don't love ya, KUB!), we're left with a pretty small number of homes.
So, we actually found The House quite a while ago. Actually, a guy in the congregation told us about it, having heard about it from a neighbor who is also in the congregation. We looked at it. The house has great bones and horrendous decor, but even putting money in to update, we'd still come out ahead because it's a buyer's market.
I can't explain the entire saga online just yet, but I will say we made a contingency offer on the house, went back and forth, and ultimately decided to go house-hunting this morning.
I picked out four houses to look at. Two of them had sold that week. I picked two more. One was already sold, and the other has renters in it who are "sick" today (the seller's agent strongly implied they were lying). We started to freak, because really, there aren't that many four-bedroom houses in Maryville, and these had been on the market for at least 6 months, and all of a sudden someone was buying them up like Monopoly properties!
We looked at two houses this morning and went back to The House. It's still the one. We made another offer today and measured a bunch of things and I'm trying not to redecorate the entire thing in my head yet until we know for sure.
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The festive season will officially begin in Bedford next week when the Christmas lights are officially switched on.
On Wednesday, November 21, crowds will gather along The Embankment for the event, and see see a special fireworks display.
The show starts at 7pm, and local shops and businesses will be offering special offers and promotions on the night.
And from November 28 shoppers in Bedford can pick up Christmas gifts until 8pm on Wednesdays.
Then on December 17, late night shopping in Bedford town centre will be extended to every weekday night up until December 21.
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Transglobe opens new oil well in Yemen
Transglobe recently announced the opening of a new oil well in the Republic of Yemen. The Tasour 6 well began production on Monday, December 10, with an initial pumping rate of 4,500 barrels per day (Bopd), thereby increasing the Tasour total field rate to approximately 11,600 Bopd, stated a company press release. The development well has been equipped and tied into the Tasour central production facility.
The drilling rig is currently being moved to an exploratory prospect at Asswairy 1 on the northwestern portion of the block. The Asswairy 1 test is targeting a pool with a potential recovery of 20 million barrels. It is expected that drilling will commence by mid-December. The Asswairy prospect is on trend with the non-owned discovery at Sharyoof on the adjacent Block 53.
Transglobe Energy Corporation is an international oil exploration and production company with its corporate office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. TransGlobe, through its wholly owned subsidiary, TG Holdings Yemen Inc., holds a working interest in two Production Sharing Agreements in the Republic of Yemen where it has participated in new oil discoveries.
The first of these discoveries, the Tasour field, was brought into production during 2000. TransGlobe also has producing properties in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. — (menareport.com)
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Costume completely made by myself in 1.5 weeks. Cheese kun is also made by myself. Completely made by myself in a frantic week and half of moving and sewing. Cheese kun is also made by me in a night. All fabrics and materials purchased from Hancock Fabrics. Patterns by myself, which took a long time. There is an invisible zipper in the front that zips down partway to be accurate, and a side separating zipper so I can slip in and out of the costume. The fabric type is some kind of black and maroon shiny thin non stretchy upholstery fabric I got for cheap at Hancock Fabrics, they're easy to sew and gives a nice subtle sheen. The Black Knights logo is handpainted with a mix of fabric and acrylic paint for thickness. I started out with a stencil that I labored over to be perfect, but it was a bit small and the paint smudged out of the edges, so I painted the logo a bit larger. The easiest part of this costume was probably sewing the long maroon strips for the belts on the hips and the armwarmers. Also cutting out the gold pleather pieces for the belts and gluing them on. Buying buttons and sewing those on were also very easy, but the button in the back likes to catch my wig, icl. Hard parts: Patterning (I'm a noob), pinning things took so long (but it all looks so good in the end), attaching the top "bib" part that was edged in gold bias tape to the outfit, sewing three belt loops to the back of the dress for the belts, figuring out the collar, and just in general sewing the whole thing. The wig is a moss green wig bought from eBay (not cosplaywig or cosworx, lol). Eyebrows done with green artist marker directly applied over the eyebrows. White shorts bought from a cheap clothing store. BOOTS: I get a lot of questions on these. They are white thigh high boots bought from Electricboutique.com. I didn't do anything to them, just painted the gold on the toes and the knees, which chips a bit. They have a 3.5 inch stiletto heel, and to save myself from pain I inserted gel soles, which really really help a lot. @_@;;; The gold bias tape was bought from Hancock, as well as the gold leather stuff (came in long strips that i cut up for the belts). The maroon belts are attached by hook and eyes in the front
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2 NATO troops, 2 Afghans killed in dispute
Published 5:38 pm, Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Kabul --
Afghan army soldiers exchanged fire with NATO service members after a heated dispute Wednesday on a base in the east of the country, leaving two Afghans and two foreigners dead, according to accounts by NATO and an Afghan official.
It appeared to be the latest in a series of insider attacks on foreign forces by Afghan allies or men wearing their uniforms.
The NATO-led force confirmed the deaths of its service members, saying they were killed by two men in Afghan uniforms. The coalition gave no further information, saying there would be an investigation.
A senior Afghan military official meanwhile said two Afghan army personnel were killed in the fight but had no further information, saying a joint NATO-Afghan team had been dispatched to investigate. He added that several other personnel were wounded in the incident in an Afghan base in the Pagab district of Kapisa province, east of Kabul.
Insider attacks in the past have been claimed by Taliban insurgents as proof they can infiltrate Afghanistan's Western-trained security forces. Other cases have involved personal quarrels between Afghan forces and their trainers.
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The releases ordered by Afghan President Hamid Karzai have been the subject of heated debate between the U.S.-led coalition and the president, who has lately been challenging his Western backers.
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