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Dir.: Roman Hysek. Euro twinks, bareback, 39 min. complete. Debut of Peter Azur.
Currently listed in the Man�s Best catalog with Solos:
From the writer Dennis Cooper�s blog entry on Man�s Best:
This collection of shorts was the first official release from Mans Best to feature Peter Azur. His scene looks better in screengrabs than in it does motion. He doesn't yet display the goofy mugging that would become a key part of his performing arsenal. Here he seems game enough and does his part, but his face looks unashamedly disinterested.
Floppy haired Czech porn star Peter Azur was top dog in the stable of sub-twink performers for Prague-based company Man's Best over two or three years in the early 1990s. Facts are hard to come by, but the story goes that, like the majority of Man's Best actors, Azur was discovered while working Prague's celebrated hustler bar circuit. Combining more than passably teen idol looks, a slutty if laconic, depressurized demeanor in the sack, a willingness to mold himself to any model the company threw at him, man-sized equipment in the front, a butt so innocent looking but devouring it made sword swallowing seem more like nail biting, and a flair for physical comedy, Azur was as close to being a porn character actor -- think a gay, nymphomanical ... mm, John Candy in a slim 'heart throb's' body -- as the medium can contextualize without losing its focus.
He starred or co-starred in approximately a dozen films for the company before overfamiliarity hastened his retirement. In the mid-90s, Man's Best videos were discovered by American and European porn consumers, creating something of a sensation due to their videos' combination of youthful models and wildly unsafe sex. This was a few years before twink bareback porn became de rigeur on the market. The Man's Best video that caused the biggest sensation of all was 'Boy Crash,' one of Azur's earlier vehicles and a title that had gone out of print a couple of years before. Screengrabs from 'Boy Crash,' and Azur in particular, were so hotly traded and discussed online that Man's Best not only reissued 'Boy Crash' and every o.o.p. video in which Azur had appeared, they put out two collections of Azur's screen tests, shorts, and outtakes under the titles 'Azur Eyes 1 and 2.' They even brought Azur back to star in a new video. This new, mature Azur lacked the floppy haircut and baby fat filled face that had been so key to his appeal, and his fanbase took a quick glance then looked the other way, sending the title straight into the remainder bin and forcing Azur back into obscurity.
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Emmy-winning television host Jeff Corwin begins an exciting new junior explorer series for young readers. Siblings Benjamin and Lucy are nature enthusiasts who embark on a family trip to New York City. They soon discover that the city wildlife is just as fun and diverse as the animals back home in the Florida Everglades.
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looking pretty weak out there. The more south facing beaches should be picking up some waist high or so S wind swell peaks, but not looking like much for the more east facing beaches.
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this morning at 48th in o.c had some stomach sets roll through. couple looked to be chest at some points. overall fun!
I went out this morning on 86th, and it was beat shorebreak... the cams looked much better by the mid-town jetty. I can tell everyone that a lot of OC is trash because of the drop off at the shore... but thats summer. whatchagonnado???


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Dancing at Lughnasa arrives brightly wrapped. It's the screen version of one of the most acclaimed stage plays of the '90s. It stars the redoubtable Meryl Streep and a handful of fine British and Irish actors with Old Vic and West End acting credentials. But its story of the thwarted lives Irish society offered its women never comes to life, despite giving off the occasional spark. The film itself is thwarted by its theatrical origins and never comes to cinematic life.
The reasons for the film's failure are sadly familiar. The magic we crave from live performance -- the larger-than-life dialogue, the mythopoetic conceits -- generally curdles on the big screen. The transfer can work if the source material is dark enough, as in the case of Glengarry Glen Ross. But when the effect is actually supposed to be magical, as it is here, you've got a losing proposition.
The film has its moments when it stays close to the mean details of the life in the 1930s' Mundy household: five unmarried sisters, one of them a bit simple in the head, another a mother to a love child. Streep plays Kate, a queen bee whose only drones are her sisters. A teacher, she's the only Mundy who brings home a paycheck. Maybe that's why she's the haughtiest of the sisters, the one most likely to give or take offense. Streep does her usual fine work here, especially when Kate moves from strength to weakness, as when her teaching job is threatened by the inexplicably hostile priest who runs her school. But at other times her Kate seems pointlessly inconsistent. At one point she agrees with an aggrieved sister that she is a "righteous bitch." But a moment later she's back to scolding, as if she'd never had her revelation.
This might sound like Kate is simply a fully rounded, complicated character. But she isn't. The characters, including her, are all rather limited, even in their exuberant "dancing" moments, so Kate's flashes of warmth and self-awareness seem more like hiccups than emotional development.
The absence of context is part of the problem. The film doesn't explain why the sisters live such isolated lives, or why none of them married. I suppose it has to do with the Irish diaspora of that period and with all the eligible men being off in London, Boston or the monastery. But that is never explained or even hinted at. Frank McGuinness's screenplay (from Brian Friel's play) didn't cover enough of the characters' world.
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It certainly doesn't include many men, and the three who have prominent roles are problematic. I've already mentioned the fantastically mean priest apparently bent on destroying the sisters. Maybe he's annoyed by the presence of their brother Jack (Michael Gambon, television's Singing Detective), a priest who has just returned from 25 years among the African heathens. Only he's been converted by them, so he's more likely to hold a sacred fertility ceremony than to transubstantiate a communion host. His change might have been more powerful and threatening if Jack hadn't gone addle-minded in the process. But he's more a harmless old fool than a threat to decent Catholic society, which is apparently how the other priest sees him.
The film's other man isn't much help either. He's Gerry (Rhys Ifans), father to the love child. He's a rather generic charmer and gadabout, too busy dreaming of going to Spain to fight Franco to take care of his son, the almost characterless Michael.
That seems to be the nub of the problem. This resolutely ensemble film finally suffers from a lack of character development. Two of the sisters have no real function, and the men are weak or not credible. The women are so underdeveloped that they never seem to wonder what happened to Father/Brother Jack over in Africa, about how he came to lose his religion and most of his mind. Director Pat O'Connor wants instead to sweep us away with the pagan poetry of Africa and the back hills of Ireland. There's more than one reference to Lugh, "the ancient god of music and dance," whom a theatergoer might be happy to hear about, but not a movie patron. In the movies, you gotta give us the ancient god of music and dance himself. You can't just talk about him.
Dancing at Lughnasa.
Rated PG.
Directed by Pat O'Connor. With Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Thompson and Rhys Ifans.


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Emergent topological and dynamical properties of a real inter-municipal commuting network - perspectives for policy-making and planning
A variety of phenomena can be explained by means of a description of the features of their underlying network structure. In addition, a large number of scientists (see the reviews, eg. Barabasi, 2002; Watts, 2003) demonstrated the emergence of large-scale properties common to many different systems. These various results and studies led to what can be termed as the "new science of complex networks" and to emergence of the new "age of connectivity". In the realms of urban and environmental planning, spatial analysis and regional science, many scientists have shown in the past years an increasing interest for the research developments on complex networks. Their studies range from theoretical statements on the need to apply complex network analysis to spatial phenomena (Salingaros, 2001) to empirical studies on quantitative research about urban space syntax (Jiang and Claramunt, 2004). Concerning transportation systems analysis, interesting results have been recently obtained on subway networks (Latora and Marchiori, 2002; Gastner and Newman, 2004) and airports (Barrat et al, 2004). In this paper, we study the inter-municipal commuting network of Sardinia (Italy). In this complex weighted network, the nodes correspond to urban centres while the weight of the links between two municipalities represents the flow of individuals between them. Following the analysis developed by Barrat et al. (2004), we investigate the topological and dynamical properties of this complex weighted network. The topology of this network can be accurately described by a regular small-world network while the traffic structure is very rich and reveals highly complex traffic patterns. Finally, in the perspective of policy-making and planning, we compare the emerging network behaviors with the geographical, social and demographical aspects of the transportation system.
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Edna Gallery is located in the waterfront village of Eastsound on Orcas Island. Orcas is an Island in the San Juan archipelago in the Puget Sound.
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Most of the pieces on display in the gallery are photographs by Martin. A few of the pieces in the gallery are work by Samantha, the up and coming artist in the family. All of the art pieces in the gallery are beautiful images of Orcas Island in all it's many splendid variety. All of our prints and mounting techniques are archival quality. Our prints must be seen to fully appreciate.
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August 4th, 2004 (3:51 AM). Edited August 4th, 2004 by Theory.
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First off. I had no part of it. So why the **** would my AIM be posted? "Theroy (followed by the numbers) I suggest you remove it. I don't want a bunch of 6yr old kids knowing my AIM.
Second thing I want to get at here is how can god let so many stupid people roam this Earth? I swear to god I had more fun reading your idiocy that you call posts then I did with pokemon Blue Green Red Toquise ect....
I don't know if Pokemon fans are naturally breed retarded or if it's a result of the show either or this has to stop. Again, the only reason I'm posting is because some of your stupid members with no knowleded at all decieded it would be cool to post my contact info.
While I'm here lets point out a few things that I thought was some what entertaining.
and also many PM has dissapered (i had 18 this morning now i have 8 (and no i didn't delete any of them))
Holy ****!!! If this is the least of your worries you need A) life B) less Pokemon C) A brain D) kill yourself
better play it safe and go with D you incompitent bastard.
Master Blaze
I found there clan site in google.
He typed goat.cx clan in google. Now there's a goddamn genious for you I mean goat.cx wasn't at all a random site picked ment to disgust infact this was a well planned ploy for month and years of our life. I'd like to know the clan site you decieded to get these members to spam. So I can appologize and explain that "they" had no intentions of making retards go to there site and spam it with retardness. So in conclusion Master Blaze should get a ****ing intellgence Award.
hmm... blaze. dont worry. i WILL hack them. remember how i told u i could get ur ip and do bad things? now i have someone to use iton
Dude you can't even properly spell a ****ing sentence. Let alone hack anyone. You know Those secret doors that seem to pop up in animes well that dosen't happen in real life. Why don't you go do some bad things some where else? Before your mom gets home so she wont ground your *** for another week. Like sneak into your dads porno collection that I know he onbvioulsy has because there's no way in **** that some one as stupid as you was born naturally! or from a women with common sense. I can only hope that one day while you're "hacking" (aka shoving knives into light sockets) you kill yourself.
heh good luck lol this is just horrible and im not saying you should hack them imakuni but we should hunt them down i have some keywords we should put in search engines to find them
Another quote from the forums Einstine. I mean Typing keywords in google will defentaly find us with out a doubt. Why didn't I think of that. I sure got the CIA beat to hell I'll just type "osama bin laden" into google and with in hours I'll have exact location to his cave in Afganastan. Wait till the CIA finds out. You didn't patinate this idea did you? Psyduck how I envy your intellegence.
ha! double trouble! good to work with you again!
You guys make up the 1337 hacking crew!! Hey guys we might as well shut ourselves down I mean there's no way we can escape the grasp of these two.
i am working round the clock to hack that clan for what they did
lol, around the clock? You better get some sleep. It's offical lack of sleep makes you a retard. So does Pokemon A + B = you Wow.
I wanna get those Hackers! tell me thier site! *Gets DOS out ready to shut it down*
Do you know what Denial Of Service Attack is? Or did you use Mr. Einstines theory of type muk into google and then you can be smart? Because if you did... You maybe would come to realization to take out a site with a decent host you'd need maybe 150 people to do it together. And to take out Goat.cx you'd need 300? Nah you already knew that because I mean you're a haxxor.
they hacked through zapchu's account and destroyed it, we had no choice to delete it, she will be re-admined soon.
No choice at all! Removing the account from having admin powers then changing the password is unheard of! Good ****ing move.
Originally Posted by Link the Hero of Time
"Dark link you mean you e-mailed them something bad like SPAM,Out cussing them or something? "
Yup. Bingo!
I'm sure they learned there lesson.
They wont bother us again! I'm a good hacker! I hacked them! I did not hack this Forum! Someon alse did! I hacked the hacker!!!
You didn't do a very good job of it
Ugh, I can't belive it...I got a nice, rude PM from...no one? about a report I made in the firered/leafgreen section telling me to shut up...I guess it was worse for some people...
hacker dude 1:"Duhhhh, im bored lets go pick on some of those geeky pokemon freaks."
hacker dude 2:"Yeah, wouldn't it be funny to send them perverted stuff."
hacker dude 1:"errrrr, yeah that be sweet, first let me wack myself in the head with a hammer like i always do, errrr"
Hate to break this to you but this may a suprise to you as well. You're not funny so please for the love of god never try to be again
I got the website
How come every one and there dog think they have "their" site when they don't have one?
The Pretend Hackers Part Two
I think they hacked my computer too My dad will kill me
Never use a computer calculator or a hand held device ever again... You might hurt yourself.
This will only work if they don't have a firewall on. If they do, it'll only show the firewall's IP
The true words of a real hacker. by the way mind telling me how a firewall gets it's own Ip address?
Theroy123456789 if anyone wants one of their aims...god they are so annyoing...darn little racits.
Uhm, you used the word ****** more then I've ever seen in my life. I didn't make one racist comment and actually quite against racism. But the funny thing is I'm not black....
Man..... did you see thier site yet? they have porno video games! Sick! *spits*
What Site!!!? Never mind this is obviously a cleaver ploy to make you leave our site alone. Well there site because again I wasn't part of it.
AZ Supra T: NO, they hacked zapchu's account
imakuni575: oh!
PokePalaceNet: ummmm 3.0.3 is 3.0.x
imakuni575: yes
PokePalaceNet: zppy account.....
PokePalaceNet: prolly had a crackable password
imakuni575: probably is
imakuni575: I FIGURED OUT HOW THEY DID IT!!!!!!!!!
PokePalaceNet: how
imakuni575: theres a program called vBullmuk. You type in where the config.php is and it will list all the admin passwords and usernames.
PokePalaceNet: admin passwords aren't listed on config.php
PokePalaceNet: they're encrypted into the db
imakuni575: it gets into the db using the config.php
PokePalaceNet: how tho
imakuni575: the database variables i guess
This is the convorsation of the elite. After spending some time looking up a program vbullmuk it came off that such a program dosen't exsist I guess it's a metaphore for retards when they can't explain stuff. Passwords ARE encrypted in md5 in the ****ing database and to decrpyt them would take 5 days for a 5 letter password using md5 crack trust me that's not how it was done. Second the config does store the DB name and password but permissions on the server are there for a reason you moron. And I doubt you can access a database on localhost from a remote location anyways you ****ing stoop. Database variables do you even know what your saying sit down before you kill yourself.
Okay Here's The Solution To Your Mystery.
You should be thanking me I mean putting an end to the massive stupidity in one sentence. Here's how they did it........
Ask Zapchu what her password was before she changed it Enough said. Again I want my AIM removed from this site and an apology. And if I was envolved trust me you wouldn't be here right now.
Now I wait for the apology.
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quote:Originally posted by ayersianWJ, I know, I know..."sushi in CT" gets the same reaction from many of our friends. But Miya's really is a cut above, and they strive to push the boundaries of traditional sushi. I thought that sushi was RF as well, in certain parts of the country, but then Michael Stern himself (on the bus tour of the North Shore, MA) told me that it wasn't "exactly" Roadfood, speaking of sushi from our fine state... Chris
quote:Originally posted by wanderingjew I must respectfully disagree that Sushi is not road food- it definetely is, especially in Southern California where "roadfood style" teryiaki joints, noodle parlors and sushi bars abound- and of course where California Rolls were invented- if this isn't true LA Roadfood then I don't know what is. In fact the Stern's wrote about it in their Eat Your Way Across the USA book when they reviewed "Ichiban" in San Diego.
quote:Originally posted by Michael HoffmanSushi is bait.
quote:Originally posted by diveflGreat more tuna for me. Hoffman, you can run off and eat your raw ground beef. I'm looking for a difference there.
quote:Originally posted by wanderingjewWell Mr HoffmanWhen I go back to Southern California next year, I'm going to eat all the bait I can find and will submit restaurant reviews (not trip reports) for every "bait shop" I go to.


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A judge on Thursday denied William Beavers request to remain free on bond while his case is appealed.
Judge James Zagel ruled that Beavers had not shown a likelihood that he would prevail on his appeal and said that, despite the fact that Beavers may serve his 6 month sentence before his appeal is heard, that, in itself, does not justify his release.
Attorneys for former County Commissioner William Beavers filed a motion in federal court asking that Beavers be permitted to stay out of jail on bond while his appeal is heard.
"There can be no question that William Beavers is not a flight risk and he poses absolutely no danger to anyone," the attorneys wrote. "William Beavers has lived an upstanding life of public service, including as a Chicago Police Officer, an Alderman and Cook County Commissioner.
"Beavers is a public figure and he has incredibly tight knit and substantial connections to the area. Beavers poses no risk of flight if released on bond pending the resolution of his appeal. During the proceedings before this Court, Mr. Beavers was on bond. He appeared at every court date when his presence was required and has never been in violation of any Court order or term of release," the attorneys explained.
Beavers is scheduled to surrender Dec. 2 to begin serving his sentence. He was sentenced in September for tax evasion.


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Monongalia County commission approved a nearly $34 million budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year.
The budget includes $1.4 million from the coal severance fund, which is down nearly $500,000. In all the budget is down about $100,000 from last year.
The commission plans to revisit the budget in July to make any necessary adjustments.


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Tango Sky is finding life tough in handicaps and may do better at this level while Desert Icon has won in similar company but hasn't raced since 2011. This looks a good opportunity for DARK LANE as he scored over the minimum trip at Lingfield earlier this month and can make the most of today's favourable terms. Spic 'n Span is a course and distance winner but the vast majority of his all-weather wins were achieved at Southwell and the remainder are even harder to fancy.
Tango Sky (IRE) 12-1 (9-7) Raced near side, prominent, ridden and edged left over 1f out, no extra inside final furlong, 8th of 17, 5l behind Mission Impossible (8-13) at Thirsk 6f hcp 0-75 (5) gd.
Desert Icon (IRE) 5-4fav (8-0) Slowly away, behind, headway over 1f out, stayed on to go 2nd inside final furlong, no chance with winner, 2nd of 4, 3 1/2l behind Le Toreador (9-9) at Southwell 5f clm stks (6) fbs in Dec '11.
Dark Lane 14-1 (8-8) Chased leaders on inside, effort on inner over 2f out, ridden over 1f out, 3rd and one pace final furlong, 3rd of 10, 2 1/4l behind Valdaw (9-1) at Wolverhampton 6f app hcp 0-75 (5) pol.
Hawsies Dream 16-1 (8-9) Led, ridden over 2f out, headed over 1f out, kept on one pace, 4th of 6, 3l behind Admiralofthesea (9-6) at Kempton 6f 3yo stks 0-65 (6) pol.
Spic 'n Span 16-1 (9-6) Prominent, ridden and every chance 1f out, weakened inside fina furlong, 7th of 11, 6l behind Nafa (8-10) at Wolverhampton 5f hcp 0-60 (6) pol.
Dubai Rythm 40-1 (8-7) Chased leaders, ridden over 2f out, weakened final furlong, 6th of 10, 8l behind Point North (9-4) at Wolverhampton 6f hcp 0-65 (6) pol.


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Nice write up Lothar.
It's really something to see how far Linus distros have come in just two or three years especially in the shift to more and more GUI instructions vs the command line interface. This makes using Linux much more intuitive than ever before and should entice more folks to give the various Linux flavors a try and, after all, you can't beat the price of the software.


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Want to Know Where Home Prices Are Headed? Read the Papers
If policymakers had wanted to see signs of the housing bubble at the time it was inflating, perhaps they should have read local newspapers.
That's one take-away from research done by University of Michigan Ross School of Business assistant professor of finance, Cindy Soo. Ms. Soo used newspaper articles to measure the "animal spirits" in housing markets across the U.S.
"News media give a channel and voice to what's going on in the current market," Ms. Soo says. Local housing stories reflect what hometown realtors, builders and "people on the street" think about real-estate markets. When participants are enthusiastic about any market, their "animal spirits" can bid up prices above what fundamentals would suggest.
Using news gatherer Factiva (which like The Wall Street Journal is a unit of News Corp.), Ms. Soo collected housing-related newspaper articles published between 2000 and mid-2011 in the cities included in the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index. She then scored each article for the percentage of positive words related to housing and prices minus the share of negative words. A score above 0 meant the article was positive about housing.
The results created indexes that measured sentiment in the 20 local housing markets. For the U.S. as a whole, the turns in the index led the boom and bust in Case-Shiller home prices by about two years. Even after Ms. Soo added housing-fundamental variables such as mortgage rates and supply, the sentiment index still explained a larger share of the change in home prices.
"Expectations and animal spirits have a significant role in a boom and bust," she says.
Two years may seem like a long lead time, but housing transactions — from first deciding to buy or sell to finally closing on the deal — can take months to complete.
Ms. Soo is in the process of updating her research to include this year's data. Policymakers, in particular, could use sentiment indexes to track current housing trends not just nationally but also across regional markets.


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The EMV Migration Forum expects another 100 million EMV-enabled cards will be issued over the next year.
Digital Federal Credit Union has teamed up with SunPower Corp. in an agreement that could provide up to $100 million in loans for residential solar projects in the U.S.
Massachusetts credit union looks to go national as lead originator for 36 credit union partners in residential loan program.
The Smart Card Alliance, an industry group organized to promote wider use of cards enabled with computer chips, is starting a forum designed to facilitate the implementation of cards with chips in the U.S.
FINRA's proposed 25% increase in the fees that it collects from financial service firms may become a reality within the next few months.
New group to help chip card integration.
As the payment industry begins to move toward replacing magnetic stripe cards with cards that use embedded smart chips, credit unions and other card issuers will have to eventually decide whether they will issue cards that use personal identification numbers or signatures to validate transactions.
Accomplishments at credit unions recognized.
Two legislators have announced they will file a bipartisan bill in the House to repeal the Durbin amendment and remove its cap on debit card interchange.
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. . . that no flours be planted on my grave.
& that no man remember me.
To this I put my name.
Henchard continues to worry about what will become of him if Elizabeth-Jane marries. One day, while spying the spot where Elizabeth-Jane and Farfrae normally meet, he sees Newson through his telescope. When Elizabeth-Jane comes home, she has not yet met Newson, but she tells Henchard that she has received a letter from someone asking her to meet him that night at Farfrae's house. Much to her chagrin, Henchard tells her that he has decided to leave Casterbridge that very evening. Elizabeth-Jane believes that he is leaving because he disapproves of her impending marriage to Farfrae, but he assures her that such is not the case. Alone, Henchard departs town. He compares his fate to that of the biblical figure Cain but declares, "[M]y punishment is not greater than I can bear!"
That evening, at Farfrae's house, Elizabeth-Jane meets Newson and immediately understands the reason for Henchard's sudden departure. She is overjoyed at her reunion with the father she had believed dead, but she is upset when she learns of Henchard's deception. Newson and Farfrae begin to plan the wedding.
Meanwhile, Henchard makes his way through the countryside and eventually arrives at Weydon-Priors, the very spot where he sold his wife more than twenty-five years earlier. He reflects briefly upon those past events and then goes on, settling in a spot some fifty miles from Casterbridge and finding employment as a hay-trusser. One day, he speaks to some travelers who have come from Casterbridge and learns that the wedding between Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane is to take place on St. Martin's Day. He decides to go to Casterbridge for the wedding and sets off on his journey. On the night before the wedding, he stops in a nearby town and buys some proper clothes and a caged goldfinch as a present for Elizabeth-Jane.
When Henchard arrives at Farfrae's house in Casterbridge, the celebration is already underway. As he enters, he leaves the caged bird under a bush near the back of the house. He watches the dancing unseen, until Elizabeth-Jane's housekeeper informs her that she has a visitor. She comes in to see him and reprimands him for deceiving her about Newson. So coldly received, he decides to leave and promises never to trouble her again.
Several days after the wedding, Elizabeth-Jane discovers the birdcage with a bird—now dead from starvation—inside, and she wonders how it got there. About a month later, after speaking to one of her servants, Elizabeth-Jane figures that Henchard must have brought it as a gift, and she begins to regret the way she treated him. When Farfrae comes home, she asks him to help her find Henchard so that she can make her peace with him. They track Henchard to the cottage of Abel Whittle, who tells them that the man has just died. He gives them a piece of paper that Henchard left, which turns out to be his will. The will stipulates that Elizabeth-Jane not be told about his death, that he not be buried in consecrated ground, that no one mourn for him, and that no one remember him. Elizabeth-Jane regrets her harsh treatment of Henchard the last time they met, and she determines to carry out his dying wishes as best she can.
And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen. . . .
In these final chapters, Michael Henchard succumbs to the defeat he has courted throughout the novel. The plot of The Mayor of Casterbridge is essentially a series of incidents in which Henchard tries again and again to expunge the guilt he feels for his shameful behavior at the fair at Weydon-Priors. The depth of Henchard's guilt is apparent in many of his actions and emotions: his desperate need to divulge his secret to Farfrae, his determination to remarry a woman he never loved, his willingness to care for Elizabeth-Jane even after he learns that she is not his daughter. Above all, the burden that Henchard bears for his guilt manifests itself in his acceptance of the forces that seem bent upon his destruction.
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All of the characters (besides the troubled Henchard) are almost completely shallow and almost petty. Isn't it odd how Frafaer had no difficulty getting back together with Elizabeth-Jane after he hurt her so terribly by going for Lucetta? And how Lucetta practically refuses to own up to her own actions by claiming it was a misfortune she fell into? Although it is almost annoying how Henchard never learns from his mistakes, he truly does seem like the only "deep" character in this book.
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I didn't like most of the characters, but that does not imply that I disliked the book. The book was fantastic and the story was gripping. I was initially fond of Farfrae, but then I grew to dislike him. I despised Lucetta since the first time she was described, and my hatred kept increasing as the story progressed. Elizabeth-Jane was the only character I liked; whereas, my feelings towards Michael Henchard were those of confusion. I disliked him at times. Other times, I felt pangs of sympathy towards him, and anger towards how others treate
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The shadow of that one horrible sin committed at the fair chases Henchard all his life. Even after so much repentance, he knows there is no penance.
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I bought a juicer earlier this year to help with triathlon training/ performance. At first I figured it'd be a disgusting slime that I'd have to choke down. Little did I suspect that homemade juice can be delicious! I run a Breville juicer and stick with what I call "juice-able" fruits - oranges, apples, carrots, strawberries. It took some time to dial in a good, healthy recipe. Lately I've been rolling with this - 2 large carrots, 2 mandarin oranges, 1 apple, 3-5 strawberries.
Probably the most positive result of the juicing is a feeling of satisfaction that lasts several hours. No munchies, no hunger, just solid, steady energy!
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On Deck will be here all season to provide you with everything you need to know (and a few things you don't) about every Rangers series during the 2012 season.
The Opponent: The American League Championship Series rematch is too big to just be a three-game series. It's a supersized four games in Detroit for the Rangers, although there are some differences from the last time these teams met. Prince Fielder now mashes in the middle of the Tiger lineup, a big (in every way) addition to an already good team. Victor Martinez is out with a knee injury and let's hope the meterological whiz kids that rained out a game on a night without rain last October are also on the sidelines.
2011 Rewind: The Tigers won the Central last year behind Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander, who won the AL MVP and Cy Young Awards. They had a deep lineup, a deep rotation and a spotless regular season from closer Jose Valverde. They couldn't beat the Nelson Cruz Experience in the ALCS, though.
Pitching Matchups: Thursday - Yu Darvish (1-0, 4.76) vs. Adam Wilk (0-1, 3.60); Friday - Matt Harrison (2-0, 0.64) vs. Rick Porcello (1-0, 1.84); Saturday - Neftali Feliz (1-0, 2.25) vs. Verlander (1-1, 2.13); Sunday - Colby Lewis (2-0, 1.83) vs. Drew Smyly (0-0, 0.90)
What's Hot: Does just saying the Rangers suffice? Six straight wins, including a pair of beatdowns of the Red Sox in Fenway the last two days, have left the Rangers with the best winning percentage in the entire league. You can nit pick and find some flaws, but it isn't easy.
The Tigers aren't far behind. They've won nine of 12 to start the season and the Fielder/Cabrera pairing is working out exactly as planned. Austin Jackson's brilliant start has been a happy surprise for the team and if he keeps breaking out this will likely be one of the two or three best offenses in all of baseball.
Just look at those ERAs in the pitching matchups. This is going to be some seriously good baseball, boys and girls. Smyly and Wilk are new names, but each has hit the ground running and made the loss of Doug Fister less of a concern for the Tigers.
What's Not: Maybe a return to the scene of his heroics will be the thing to get Cruz's bat untracked this season. He's been one of the only Rangers not to break out of the gate with their hair on fire, which isn't particularly alarming given his streakiness. Given the upcoming schedule, it would be swell if he went on on tear.
It's shocking that Delmon Young is just 26 years old. This is his eighth season in the major leagues so it seems like he should be older. Or maybe that's just because he hasn't progressed one iota from the free swinging hacker he was when he entered the league.
The prospect of Valverde saving a game this weekend is high, which means we'll be forced to watch his gyrations on the mound after the final out. It's an April save, friend, not the cure for cancer.
Familiar Faces: Joaquin Benoit and Gerald Laird used to play in Texas, but, really, everyone's awfully familiar after last season. The exception is Fielder, of course. The first AL meeting with him is going to be interesting, especially for those who think the Rangers should have made a bigger play for the first baseman.


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The father of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and murdered backed legislation Tuesday to require marked driver's licenses for registered sex offenders in California.
The endorsement by Maurice "Moe" Dubois was the latest development in the push to overhaul the way California punishes and tracks sex offenders. It came more than a month after convicted sex offender John Albert Gardner pleaded guilty to murdering Escondido High freshman Amber Dubois and 17-year-old Chelsea King, a Poway teen whose body was found in a shallow grave in Early March.
Dubois announced his support at a news conference. His daughter Amber vanished while walking to school in the San Diego suburb of Escondido in February 2009. She was missing for 13 months before her remains were found.
"What can we do to prevent this from happening again? Try to monitor them, keep track of them, keep them in lockup in cages longer where they need to be," Dubois said. "These are predators who are gonna hurt our children."
Gardner, 31, was sentenced May 14 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
He had been required to register as a sex offender after a conviction in 2000 for molesting a 13-year-old girl.
Chelsea's parents, Brent and Kelly King, are leading a campaign for the proposed Chelsea's Law, which would allow life sentences for some convicted child molesters in California and lifetime electronic monitoring of others. The bill, which cleared its first legislative committee last month, also would ban sex offenders from parks.
The bill authored by Assemblymen Pedro Nava and Paul Cook and endorsed by Dubois would require sex offenders to carry the driver's license or a Department of Motor Vehicles identification card when they leave home. It could include a distinctive stripe or color. Nava said the marked licenses and ID cards will put law enforcement officers on alert when they stop and question people.
Nava, who is running for state attorney general in the June 8 Democratic primary, said he would be willing to impose the requirement only on those who committed the most serious and violent offenses instead of all registered offenders.
He said he was unaware of any opposition to the move but anticipated critics will consider it an encroachment on civil liberties.
"We believe it is going to enhance the chances for successful recovery of a child before they are killed or abused," he said. "I think that's a small price to a pay."
The measure is part of a series of bills by Nava and Cook, a Republican, that also call for a rapid response team in the state attorney general's office to handle reports of missing children and the creation of uniform guidelines on how law enforcement agencies should respond to such reports.
The murders of the San Diego County teens put California's parole system under the microscope. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a state board to review the system.


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By Craig Robinson
Earlier this week, I offered Republicans some advice on how to manage the difficult times in which we find ourselves. No matter what they say or what they do, the media seems to find fault regardless of the issue at hand. I believe that if Republicans focus on governing, the future will take care of itself. Now is the time to put politics aside and focus on advancing commonsense policies that most Americans support.
This is not just advice that Republicans should heed when times are tough. Republican leaders and lawmakers should always attempt to govern is a thoughtful and responsible way no matter which way the political winds may be blowing.
One area in which Republicans need to especially mindful of how they conduct themselves is Second Amendment issues. Those issues have become a top priority in Iowa and across the nation ever since Adam Lanza's unexplained rampage that killed kindergarten and elementary school students in Newtown, Connecticut, last month.
After the Newtown shooting, I wrote the following in an article that called on Republicans to do more than simply hide behind our constitutional right to own and use firearms.
I'm a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, but conservatives can't simply hide behind our constitutional right to own and use firearms. No political party has the high ground on this topic, but if conservatives don't engage in a thoughtful discussion, I fear we will once again be castigated by the media and liberal Democrats for being insensitive, backwards, and unreasonable.
Unfortunately, instead of participating in a serious debate about school safety, mental health, and gun rights, many on the right have chosen to talk tough when it comes to guns. There is nothing wrong with wanting to respond to comments like those made by Vice President Joe Biden or Iowa State Representative State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer, but the problem is how they chose to respond.
David Fisher, the newly elected co-chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, responded to the statement by Rep. Muhlbauer which indicated firearms should be confiscated from law-abiding Iowans.
Fisher stated:
Chilling statements like this show that Representative Dan Muhlbauer clearly doesn't understand the Constitutional protections of the second amendment or fourth amendment. His idea that the government should "start taking" our guns is especially troubling. The Republican Party is prepared to stand with the people of Iowa and fight for their constitutionally guaranteed right to defend themselves and their families. We also believe the fourth amendment guarantees us the right to be secure in our homes without unreasonable search and seizure.
Fisher's statement that was posted on the Iowa GOP's website wasn't over the top or insensitive in any way. Fisher would later send out a fundraising email titled, "We Need To Start Taking The Guns," that used Muhlbauer's statements to motivate people to donate to the Republican Party of Iowa to stop "Gun Grabbers" like him. That email might have crossed a line for some people.
Muhlbauer's statement received national media attention on Wednesday. His statements also make him a vulnerable Democrat in the 2014 election. Yet, by attempting to hype the story in an effort to raise money, Iowa Republicans are the ones now getting some bad press. Minutes after Fisher's fundraising email was sent, the Des Moines Register quickly published an article titled, "Iowa GOP using gun rights to raise campaign cash."
Keep in mind that while the Republican Party of Iowa is pushing out emails and multiple Facebook posts, another school shooting was taking place in California. Thankfully nobody was killed in that incident, but one student was critically wounded. It's also odd that the Register didn't feel compelled to report on Muhlbauer's statement, but instead chose to report on a fundraising appeal that mentioned those comments.
The wording of the Register's article about Fisher's email seems harmless enough, but it can also be easily viewed as the Republican Party raising money off of a very unfortunate situation. While Second Amendment advocates and Republican activists cheer Fisher and the Iowa GOP's strong stance, to many others, Iowa Republicans come off looking insensitive and out of touch.
As someone who is a strong supporter of our Second Amendment Rights, I wasn't offended by Fisher's statement or email. I don't think it was necessary to double down and use scare tactics to raise money, but to each their own.
The problem is that Fisher's email looks tame compared to the Facebook activity by some of our Republicans leaders and legislators. Less than 30 days have passed since the Newtown shooting, yet the term brazen might be the best way to describe some Republican legislators' Facebook activity.
Numerous Iowa Republican legislators have posted cartoons, funny videos, and photos of themselves or family members posing with guns in the wake of the Newtown shooting. One even posted a decorative plaque on which was inscribed something called, "The Shooter's Prayer." While this "prayer" is poorly named, it's something that most people would consider insensitive following what happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary School last month.
Below are screenshots of some of the Facebook activity that I'm talking about.
The Iowa GOP posted this picture following the Fisher email, which shows a woman holding a baby in one hand and a shotgun in the other.
Posts like the ones above are popular on Facebook, but this kind of chest thumping about our Second Amendment rights does nothing to protect those rights. In fact, I believe such behavior does more to threaten those rights than it does to reaffirm them.
Muhlbauer's remarks proved that Democrats are at risk of over-reaching when it comes to new, aggressive gun restrictions. On Wednesday not only was Muhlbauer dealing with a self created public relations problem, but the newspapers were speculating that little would be done in Iowa in terms of new gun regulations. In many ways, conservatives were winning on the issue. But as we saw with the Des Moines Register article, the tide can turn very quickly when conservatives try to push the envelope too far.
It's also frustrating that while talking tough on Facebook about guns is in vogue, stories like the one that aired on WHOTV 13 this week about a group of Norwalk Dads, known as the WATCH D.O.G.S (Dads Of Great Students) doesn't get any play on the social networking site. Instead of taking to the Internet to flex their muscles, these Dads voluntarily roam the halls at their kid's school to ensure safety. Parental involvement is also something that deserves to be talked about after the Newtown tragedy as well.
I know that some will be upset with me for writing this article. Some will argue that I'm not really a supporter of the Second Amendment, and how dare I criticize some of the most ardent supporters of the Second Amendment in the Iowa legislature. I do so because they need to understand that their actions on Facebook are harmful to the issue that they care so deeply about.
Instead of getting "likes" and attaboys on Facebook, it would be more helpful for these individuals to help advance serious solutions to help prevent tragedies like the one in Newtown. It's easy to beat chests and cry foul on any proposal that the left makes. The problem is that conservatives lose these battles far too often because they never truly engage, and they never actually offer solutions.
Maybe they are too busy updating their Facebook pages.
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The National Kitchen & Bath Assn. (NKBA) launched NKBA U Professional of the Year, a contest recognizing the most driven in the kitchen and bath industry. The contest is open to both NKBA members and non-members, and applications are being accepted now until August 26 at www.nkba.org/nkbaupro.
"The NKBA U Professional of the Year contest embodies the Association's spirit for professional development across the entire industry, setting a new industry standard for excellence," says NKBA CEO Bill Darcy. "NKBA U is a resource not only for kitchen and bath designers, but builders and remodelers, architects, dealers, manufacturers and representatives, as well as retailers. We've developed learning paths for multiple disciplines and brought the industry's best instructors onboard to teach the best content — all through the most engaging and convenient platforms."
In the spirit of NKBA U's focus on continuing education, the winner will receive an all-expense-paid trip for two to Almeria, Spain, to tour the headquarters and factory of Cosentino, the NKBA U Professional of the Year Platinum Sponsor. The runners-up will also receive all-expense-paid trips for two courtesy of the contest's Gold Sponsors, including Kohler Co., who will provide a tour of its headquarters and manufacturing facilities.
The NKBA U Professional of the Year Contest comprises three rounds and runs from July to January. Entrants can apply online now, sharing how they excel in one of the eight NKBA U learning paths and how these skills come to life day-to-day on the job.
Semifinalists will receive a customized NKBA U curriculum and submit a short video explaining how the courses will advance their career; the videos will then be posted to the contest landing page for public voting.
Four finalists, selected by popular vote and a panel of NKBA judges, will receive air, hotel accommodations and a VIP pass to KBIS 2015 in Las Vegas for the final competition: a presentation live from NKBA's Center Stage on what they learned from taking the NKBA U courses and how they are implementing the lessons to fuel their success.


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PITTSBURGH The Bruins dont look like theyll be in on the earth-shattering moves expected to go down over NHL draft weekend, but there may be a slight movement or two for Bs general manager Peter Chiarelli.
The Bs GM has a list of players hes hoping to select with the 24th pick in the first round, and recent mock drafts have had the vast majority of those defensemen prospects going well before Bostons pick.
The hope is that one of those prospects like Slater Koekkoek with a shoulder injury that knocked him out for most of the junior hockey season will drop right into Bostons lap.
I think there are a lot of defensemen in the draft class. Ive said that before, but there are a lot of good defensemen in this draft. If we dont get a defenseman well be fine because theres always good players, but were hoping that some will slip and because Ive never seen a number of NHL defensemen this large.
So I guess Im putting a spin on it. Sometimes its not bad to pick later on in the draft and see what happens. You just dont control your destiny as much. As far as the draft in general, I think its kind of going to go in different paths like after pick No. 15 or 16. Thats when guys slip, so there seems to be a drop-off at first glance. I think teams are going to go in different directions, so I think were going to get guys that we have fairly high on our list.
But theres a chance Koekkoek, Olli Maatta, Matt Finn, Hampus Lindholm and Brendan Gaunce will all picked much earlier than Bostons designated spot as the 24th team making a selection.
Standing pat was much easier when the steady flow of first round lottery picks were streaming in courtesy of the Phil Kessel deal, but now theres a possibility Boston will need to move up to get one of their targeted players.
Chiarelli said there were five players four defensemen and one forward that theyd specifically targeted and visited with, and a trade could be necessary if he feels that quintet of prospects is falling through his fingers.
We identify a cluster of players that we feel at least two or three of them will be there when we pick. Leading up to Friday, you try and figure it out. Its tough trading down to gauge where they player might fall, but at least you want to address the scenario, said Chiarelli. Leading up to that point, thats what well discuss. At the table well have five or six trade-down scenarios and five or six trade-up scenarios. Ill have tried to cue up or at least plant the seeds leading into Friday. On Friday, Ill flesh them out as the draft progresses.
The options will all be there for the Bruins when Chiarelli and Co. hit the war room draft table on Friday afternoon.
The smart money says theyll take the best available defenseman at their own spot, and then do a lot of waiting until their third round pick comes up 85th overall in the third round on Saturday afternoon.
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PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington State University police are investigating what appears to be a pellet gun shooting on campus early yesterday afternoon. College officials say there have been no injuries reported. The rear passenger window of a parked vehicle was damaged in the incident. Shortly before 2 p.m., the university issued an emergency alert to students, faculty and staff and lifted the warning about 15 minutes later.


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Wednesday, 2 February, 2000, 19:40 GMT
New openings for educational advisers
The government is looking for more private contractors to take over failing education services in England.
The announcement from the School Standards Minister, Estelle Morris, on the day that consultants are to be sent into three struggling authorities, suggests that more privatisations are anticipated.
Since the introduction of legislation allowing the government to take away the powers of failing authorities, there has been a series of high-profile interventions following critical inspection reports.
So far two authorities have had education services "outsourced". In the London Borough of Hackney, the school improvement service and ethnic minority achievement service have been contracted out to Nord Anglia.
And a more substantial privatisation has taken place in Islington - where the majority of services for schools, pupils and parents are now in the hands of the educational consultancy Cambridge Education Associates.
And there could still be another "outsourcing" of services in Southwark.
Approved list
Back in November, Ms Morris said in a speech to chief education officers that she expected 15 "major interventions" in failing LEAs.
There are 10 organisations or consortiums on the government's current list of those approved to bid for contracts to run services in local education authorities: Arthur Andersen/Birmingham LEA/APS Keele, Cambridge Education Associates, Nord Anglia, Hampshire LEA, The Education Partnership, Capita, CfBT, Essex LEA/Windsor & Co, Include and CEM Consortium.
"We now wish to expand the approved lists and we are therefore advertising nationally today for public and private sector organisations who wish to help with this work," Ms Morris said.
"The range and scope of work undertaken by consultants for LEAs will also be extended to include the provision of interim management in circumstances where an LEA is lacking senior management capacity.
"We also hope that LEAs will want to use consultants and providers on a voluntary basis to assist with the provision of their services rather than just in the event of intervention as a result of Ofsted inspection."
The deadline for consultants to express an interest in providing services is 10 March.
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" Brand: Grasshopper / Type: Porridge / Food quality: Organic food "
* Prices may differ from that shown
I spend quite a lot of time travelling between Essex and The Outer Hebrides, and due to this being a journey we can only just achieve by car with 16 solid hours of driving, we tend to break it up with an overnight stay.
Our preference for this is to use the Express by Holiday Inn group of hotels as they are always clean, comfortable, are dog friendly, and they provide an adequate breakfast in the price.
Sometimes however if I can get a cheap deal with Travelodge then I will book these, but as they do not provide a free breakfast we take our own. The problem with travelling for hours on end is that you can very quickly become what I describe as "stodged" or "breaded out" which means you rely on sandwiches and the like to keep going. This can actually be a bad thing when driving, as it can lead to lethargy on the road which is dangerous so we usually have something like porridge.
I saw these Grasshopper porridge pots in Waitrose and decided to try them as I thought they would be a quick way to make this in the room. Having tried other makes of these such as Flahavan's I had mixed feelings really, so was a little sceptical about my purchase. They are the brainchild of two sisters so are a family business for sure.
They are available in Waitrose and at www.goodnessdirect.co.uk and are £1.99 each which makes them a luxury product, but cheaper than the lodge breakfast.
They come in 3 versions, Cinnamon and Raisin, the subject of this review, Coconut and Date, and Chocolate.
They are an instant porridge made by adding boiling water to the mix and they are made with 100% organic ingredients. The Cinnamon and Raisin version contains oats which are the biggest ingredient, followed by skimmed milk powder, raisins, cane sugar and cinnamon.
To prepare you simply remove the lid add water to ¾ full, stir well, replace the lid, and wait for 5 minutes
Whilst this cooks it is good to mull over the fact that the pot is recyclable and the sleeve is made from corn starch. The ingredients are all natural too.
To the taste- well I have to say that first of all I was not impressed by the overwhelming taste of the skimmed milk powder which seemed to be the dominate flavour, and the sweetness struck me because I found it too much. There were plenty of raisins and a delicate hint of cinnamon, but other than that my other feeling was that after 5 minutes the porridge was not as hot as I would have liked it to be.
The breakfast sets you back just over 200 calories and is low gi so will keep you going for a few hours, and of course it is brilliant for keeping cholesterol levels in check.
I thought the portion size was generous enough and certainly I thought this was an ok porridge, but when you have driven all day and slept in a strange bed this would not be something I would take again as it just wasn't that nice. It was not worth the high cost, and I can obtain better results by simply pouring water onto oats in a bowl and leaving them to steam by covering them with an inverted plate. This way you can add the toppings you want and although the product isn't as hot as you would like neither is the Grasshopper version.
I can't see myself buying this again, except I have some of the other flavours which I intend to try first before I dismiss it altogether.
As regards value for money I think this product does not represent that at all. Yes it's a quick and easy pot of porridge, but it isn't that nice, and I actually preferred to decant it into a bowl, as it seemed to pick up the flavour of the pot which also didn't do it any favours.
It's a great idea, but I am going to make my own, as I always have done, as it seems to me this is convenience gone too far.


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Ginger Lee—a porn star, stripper and fan of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY9)—was ecstatic on March 13 2011:
Ginger Lee's tweet said: You know it's a good day when you wake up to a DM from @RepWeiner. (I'm a fangirl, y'all, he's my trifecta of win.)
[NOTE: DM is a Twitter abbreviation for Direct Message, in which a tweet is sent privately and only to the one recipient. To send a DM, the person you wish to message must be following you on Twitter. Ginger must have been following @RepWeiner for him to DM her. He would not necessarily have to have been following her to send the DM. However, a tweet was publicly broadcast by @patriotusa76 back on April 12 saying that Weiner only followed 91 people at that time, and it names "PORN star Ginger Lee" as one of them. PatriotUSA76 aka Dan Wolfe appears to have been on Weiner's trail for some time now and has been tweeting his curious finds to various blogs and conservative websites, apparently to no avail.]
Following Ginger's excited announcement of receiving a DM from Weiner, a few Ginger and/or Weiner fans piped up with questions:
@MilesLord asks @GingerLee: How do u DM people, and why the heck is Congressman Weiner DM-ing u??? To which @GingerLee replies: Because he is one of my heroes, & a DM from him is like a DM from Buddha.
And then there was this:
Ginger Lee tweeted to @starchild111: He thanked me for the shout-outs and said he likes my blog. (I died a little inside…in a good way.)
A couple months ago, around the time of this message, @Starchild111 was a high school girl who was trying to get Weiner to be her prom date. She was overjoyed when he followed her, upset when conservatives laughed that Weiner was trolling the school yard, and dismayed when he unfollowed her. Starchild has deleted her twitter account. I only just found her last night, so I have no knowledge of when she deleted it, but I have found tweets by her as recent as May 18.
Starchild is not the only teenage girl with a crush on Weiner that he has followed. There's another one that he has apparently had an on-again, off-again following involvement with for a couple months. And he's currently following her again now.
This pattern of behavior, following and DMing young women that apparently have no relation to his district or his work, fits in with the suspected behavior of him DMing a crotch shot to a college girl in Seattle. Weiner is claiming his Facebook account was hacked, which doesn't explain how the photo was uploaded to his yfrog account and then tweeted from his twitter account (that he was tweeting on around that time, including after the supposed hacking).
For more coverage on #Weinergate, see these excellent roundups:
- The Other McCain: MSM Starting to Cover 'WeinerGate' and Weiner's Wiener?
- Verum Serum: Rep. Weiner's Twitter Account Hacked by Horny Look-Alike
- Big Government: WeinerGate: MSM Ignores Trifecta of Sex, Politics, and a Rising Political Star
I have more that I have found. Still sorting through it to see if there's anything else to contribute to fleshing out the full extent of #Weinergate.
UPDATE [5/29/11 6:00pm]
Thanks to The Other McCain for the linkage. Welcome, TOMers.
Yukyuk: In a bit of irony, back in May 2004, Rep. Weiner introduced legislation to stop sexual harassment on college campuses:
"Institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to establish clear boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable conduct on campus," said Rep. Weiner. "That means putting students on notice from day one that sexual harassment of any kind will not be tolerated."
Perhaps Weiner's just been conducting online research for some new legislation?
UPDATE II: [5/29/11 6:30pm]
Thanks for the links from JustPaste.It and Uncoverage.net
UPDATE III: [5/29/11 7:15pm]
Thanks for the links, DaTechGuy and DailyCaller!
UPDATE IV: [5/29/11 7:25pm]
Oops…and not to forget, thanks to Velvet Hammer at Ironic Surrealism, Gateway Pundit and AceOfSpades.
Another yukyuk: The Wall Street Journal has posted a very short little AP story regarding Weinergate. Note the pronunciation key they give in the first sentence. When was the last time you read an AP story that had that?:
NEW YORK — A spokesman for New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nur) says a lewd photograph sent from the Democrat's Twitter account is just "a distraction" perpetrated by a hacker.
Weiner spokesman Dave Arnold told The Associated Press in an email Sunday the Twitter episode was "a distraction" from the congressman's "important work representing his constituents."
The photo showed a man's bulging underpants.
It first was reported Saturday by BigGovernment.com, a website run by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. The site said the photo was tweeted to a woman in Seattle.
The photo was quickly deleted.
Weiner later joked about it on Twitter, asking whether his kitchen blender would be next to "attack" him.
UPDATE: [5/30/11 9:00am]
Thanks for links from Doug Ross, The Pajamas Media Tatler, American Power and Verum Serum.
UPDATE: [6/1/11 1:30am]
Thanks to the following linkers (and welcome to their readers!)
Daily Beast
American Spectator
Plus, thanks to Socialite Life, Carolyn Castiglia, Newsvine, Just Barking Mad, Temple of Mut, Ragan's PR Daily, Conservative Blogs Central, and Texas Sparkle.
The Daily Caller has a new story in which Ginger Lee emailed them a nonresponse to all of their questions, except to say:
"I haven't met Rep Weiner. I follow him on twitter because I support him & what he stands for," Lee said in an email to TheDC. "I have been hounded by his political opponents but that hasn't changed my view of him and what he fights for."


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At 16.5 miles you will see the sign for Corn Creek Road. Start slowing down and get ready to make a right turn.
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text: 'Grill Out Wednesday' for the Last Time This Summer St. Thomas Newsroom August 9, 2010 Is summer almost over? Say it isn't so!It is for The Grill, which will hosts its final "Grill Out Wednesday" of the summer this week. The UST community is invited to enjoy the last burgers on the outside grill for the summer on Wednesday, Aug. 11.


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Mexican authorities say they have tracked down nine escaped prisoners at a drug cartel training camp.
The navy says in a statement that the inmates were sprung from prisons in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz last month so they could work for the Zetas drug cartel.
Tuesday's statement also said a series of raids last week resulted in the arrest of 18 local police officers who allegedly worked for the Zetas.
During the arrests, the officers discovered written information indicating the officers received payments of from 22,000 to 10,000 pesos ($144 to $718) per month from the cartel.
The police were employed in several Veracruz towns and cities. The state is the site of violent turf battles between the Zetas and other drug trafficking groups.


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KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! march today
HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to close University Hospital, Lewisham as a District General Hospital.
The demonstration is assembling at 11am outside All Saints Church, Blackheath, and marching along Belmont Hill to Lewisham Hospital via the High Street.
Under the A Picture of Health (APOH) plans for service reconfiguration in the Outer South East London (health) Service, only two of the four hospitals in the four boroughs would survive as District General Hospitals.
NHS London, the Strategic Health Authority for London, has asked the National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT) to carry out a review of service provision in South East London.
NCAT favours Option 3 in the planned service reconfiguration, under which Lewisham Hospital would lose A&E, maternity, paediatrics, 24-hour surgery and anaesthetics, intensive care and imaging, and effectively cease to function as a hospital.
John Collins, Secretary Lewisham Local Government Branch told News Line yesterday: Weve got this consultation document which is impossible to understand.
I never saw it as a consultation paper at all anyway, I just thought it was a dictat.
One of the so-called options is to close the A&E, which is a mad idea.
Of course people from across Lewisham, Greenwich and beyond are going to be affected.
Its common sense, we have to save this hospital and thats something that involves all the trade unions.
Todays march is backed by Lewisham Trades Council, the National Union of Teachers, Keep Our NHS Public and Greenwich and Lewisham Pensioners Forums.
A Picture of Health makes clear what its guiding principle is under the headline Money.
It claims: Together, the NHS in four boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham has been spending more than its budget.
The overspend at around £400,000 per week cannot be allowed to continue.
Todays demonstration follows a march through Bexley on 1st March, when more than 2,000 marchers said NO to the axing of Queen Marys Sidcup A&E and maternity units.
Lewisham Council has passed a motion opposing the APOH plans.
The motion warned: All the Picture of Health proposals are totally reliant on more emergency ambulances and a considerable increase in travel by patients and their families around the already congested south-east London area.
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Aidan O'Brien has described Camelot's victroy in the Qipco 2000 Guineas - the trainer's sixth win in the race - as "one of those unbelievable days".
Camelot got up in the dying strides under the trainer's son, Joseph, to maintain his unbeaten record, with French Fifteen second and Hermival third. No son of Montjeu had ever won a Classic race over a mile in Europe before.
O'Brien senior said: "It's one of those unbelievable days. We knew from the statistics that Camelot had a lot against him, we knew he had a lot to overcome but we always thought he was very special.
"I was worried about the race and I'm glad I didn't say anything to Joseph. I couldn't believe this would really happen.
"We knew he was a very brilliant horse and that he had a lot of speed, but I was worried about the ground and Joseph said not to worry if, at halfway, he was closer to the back than the front.
"I can't tell you how grateful and privileged I feel that Joseph has been allowed to ride him.
"I'm delighted for everybody and all those who work with him every day. We are very lucky to have such a horse and many special people who look after him.
"Obviously I learned a lot from running St Nicholas Abbey in the Guineas two years ago and it's only now he's getting the brilliance back he had at two."
Bookmakers reacted swiftly to the victory, slashing him to even money in places for the Derby. Camelot also earned a quote of 3/1 for the Triple Crown of Guineas, Derby and St Leger last won by Nijinsky in 1970.
On future plans, O'Brien said: "It's like it always is. We will go home and the lads (owners) will talk about it and make a decision. We have lots to look forward to and we'll take it one race at a time
"You would imagine looking at him (that) the Derby would be a very suitable race for him."


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Caleb's Posse will attempt to remain
unbeaten in New York when he competes at Aqueduct Racetrack in
Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap presented by Corona
Extra. The Tom Fool, a six-furlong dash on the inner
track, will be Caleb's Posse's first start since his dynamic victory in
November's Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs. In
2011, Caleb's Posse won five of 10 starts, including a four-length
score in the Grade 2 Amsterdam and a nose triumph over Uncle Mo in the
Grade 1 Foxwoods King's Bishop at Saratoga Race Course. Following the
Spa meet, Caleb's Posse finished third around two turns in the Grade 2
Indiana Derby in October at Hoosier Park, then unleashed a powerful
stretch run to take the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile by four lengths over
Shackleford when cutting back to one turn at Churchill Downs. Although
Caleb's Posse has been based at Oaklawn Park this winter, his trainer,
Donnie Von Hemel, elected to send the 4-year-old back to New York for
the Tom Fool, which is a steppingstone to the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter
Handicap at seven furlongs on the Big A main track April 7. "It's
perfect timing [for the Carter]," said Von Hemel, who trains Caleb's
Posse for McNeil Stables and Cheyenne Stables. "The [Tom Fool] is
situated where the Carter could remain our main goal, and this race
fits. It would have been better if the [Tom Fool] was on the main track,
but I suppose this will serve as prep for the process of getting to New
York. We'll go back home [to Oaklawn] after this race." Caleb's
Posse has won six of eight career starts around one turn, including his
past five. The son of Posse, however, hasn't competed at six furlongs
since winning a Keeneland allowance during his 2-year-old season. His
opponents have combined to win 15 races from 33 starts at six furlongs. "They'll
be tough to beat, no doubt," said Von Hemel. "There are a lot of
factors in their favor. We're happy with our horse, and it should be an
interesting race." Caleb's Posse, the 9-5 morning-line favorite and 122-pound highweight, will leave from post six with Rajiv Maragh aboard. One
of Caleb's Posse's opponents with proven success at six furlongs is
Calibrachoa, who has won eight of 15 starts at the distance. In
addition, he is unbeaten in four stakes starts, all in stakes, on the
inner track. Last year, Calibrachoa swept the Grade 3
Toboggan and Tom Fool on the inner track, and will look to accomplish
that feat again in 2012, having taken this year's Toboggan by 2 ¼
lengths on February 4. He entered the 2012 Toboggan off a third in the
Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga, a fifth in the Grade 1
Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont Park, and a victory in the Grade 3
Bold Ruler and a third in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile Handicap on Aqueduct's
main track. "We're happy the race is at Aqueduct on the
inner track," said trainer Todd Pletcher. "The thing we're concerned
about is how he tends to run really well every other race. This would be
the 'other' race. We haven't been able to alter that by giving him
extra time between races, so we figured we'd run here and look at the
Carter. If he doesn't run his top race here, maybe he will in the
Carter, but it seems like he's doing well and looks good." Calibrachoa,
assigned 118 pounds, will leave from post 5 as the 2-1 morning-line
second choice with Cornelio Velasquez in the irons.
Tom Fool will be the stakes debut for Godolphin Racing's Emcee, a
4-year-old who is unbeaten and untested in two starts. In September, the
son of Unbridled's Song debuted a 4 ½-length winner at Belmont, and in
his lone 2012 start dueled for the lead and drew clear under a drive to
take a Gulfstream Park allowance by six lengths on February 3. "It's
a big step up," admitted Art Magnuson, assistant to trainer Kiaran
McLaughlin. "He's a very nice horse. We might as well find out sooner
rather than later where he fits. We haven't accomplished anything yet,
so we got 114 pounds. He's very fast, and there's no time like the
present to take a shot. We think we belong. If we don't, we can adjust,
but he's as fast a horse as we've had in a long time." Eddie Castro has the call aboard Emcee, who drew post 4 and was installed at 5-2 on the morning line. Two
Foxwoods King's Bishop winners will be represented in the Tom Fool as
Caleb's Posse is joined by 2009 victor Capt. Candyman Can. Owned by
Rosemary A. Rauch and David Dell, the 6-year-old gelding seeks his first
victory in nearly a year and enters Saturday's race off a third in the
Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship on February 18. Capt. Candyman Can, 10-1 on the morning line, will carry 117 pounds, including Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado, from the rail. The
field also includes Royal Currier, a five-time stakes winner who was
third by three-quarters of a length in his most recent start, the
restricted Sunshine Millions on January 28 at Gulfstream; and Justin
Phillip, winner of the Grade 2 Woody Stephens presented by
VisitNassauCounty.com in 2011 who was last seen finishing sixth in the
Bold Ruler.
field for the $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap presented by Corona
Capt. Candyman Can
I R Wilkes
Royal Currier (FL)
R A Dominguez
P Farro
Justin Phillip (KY)
S M Asmussen
Emcee (KY)
J R Velazquez
K P McLaughlin
Calibrachoa (KY)
C H Velasquez
T A Pletcher
Caleb's Posse (KY)
R Maragh
D K Von Hemel
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With the Breeders' Cup over, you're not alone if s...
Multiple graded stakes winner Lucy N Ethel will ga...
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KELOWNA - The investigation into how the Spirit of Kelowna came to be partially underwater Sunday morning has begun, but authorities have so far been unable to determine exactly what happened.
West Kelowna Mayor Doug Findlater says that he became aware Sunday morning that the 66 foot, 75-passenger vessel had become free from its moorings and partially sank off Kalamoir Park in West Kelowna.
He says that members of RCMP, Regional Rescue and West Kelowna Fire Rescue attended the scene Sunday and determined that a small amount of fuel and oil was leaking.
"They looked at putting a containment barrier around the location but it was too rough to be effective," Findlater says. "The Ministry of the Environment has been notified and will be investigating."
The Spirit of Kelowna was launched in June 2012 in the hopes of becoming a tourist and charter vessel.
"We don't know who owns this boat currently," says Findlater. "It appeared some time last year but has been in contravention of the W1 zoning, which only grants a vessel Right of Passage."
RCMP Cst. Kris Clark says that the case was initially treated as 'suspicious' but have since turned the site over to the Ministry of Environment.
"It doesn't appear to be criminal in nature but that may change," says Clark.
According to a District of West Kelowna press release, a relative of the boat's owner has been contacted.
DWK spokesperson Kirsten Jones says that the vessel was refloated Monday afternoon and will remain moored in front of Kalamoir park Monday night. District Bylaw Enforcement expects the owners to move the vessel some time Tuesday.
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This story has been edited to include the refloating of the boat.


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The first in a series of expected departures of political appointees occurred on Monday when the chief executive officer (CEO) of GENCOs Holding Company Limited (GHCL), Naveed Ismail, was removed from his position with immediate effect.
The decision was taken by the head of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), Syed Raghab Abbas Shah. Wapda was given complete administrative control of the entire power sector by former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, after poor performance and electricity breakdowns had plunged the country into an energy crisis.
According to sources, Ismail was reportedly a close acquaintance of former water and power minister, Ahmad Mukhtar and was tasked to convert furnace oil-based power plants into coal-based plants to generate cheaper electricity. An official statement on the termination of Ismail's contract read that "on account of poor performance, the contract of CEO, GHCL has been terminated as per procedure on the direction of competent authority by Chairman Wapda with immediate effect. The charge of CEO GHCL has been assigned to Sultan Muhammad Zafar, CEO GENCO-III."Sources revealed that secretaries of other ministries have also planned to terminate the services of those heads of state-run companies who were appointed on political grounds.
The water and power ministry had issued the notification of Ismail's appointment on February 17, 2012. Contrary to normal practice, the position was neither advertised nor was the pay package and tenure decided at the time of appointment.
According to insiders, soon after Ismail's appointment, controversy erupted over his salary package which was revised from the initial demand of Rs4 million, which was refused by the board of directors of Gencos Holding, to Rs1.9 million per month package.
Despite various interventions by Ahmad Mukhtar, the revised package was not approved for more than six months, during which time Ismail kept on working on gratis basis. His arrears have now reached over Rs21 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2013.