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Does anyone know of the status of the Parson's Creek Road coming out of Cave Cove? How common is it to see bears and deer along that road?
What about the Heintooga-Round Bottom Road? Is it in good repair this year. How good are our chances of seeing bear and elk in that part of the park?
We're planning a mid-june trip and want to enjoy taking our JK topless into some of the back country. Any tips or hints would be appreciated.
I haven't been on Parson's Branch yet this year; but it is an extremely fun ride. Especially hitting the water crossings on a hot day :) I'll most likely take a trip up there this coming week. I'll post a report if I do.
Man I gotta get over this way. I live 20 minutes from the bottom of the smokies and have been across it a million times but never ventured off of the beaten path.
I've been here in the Smokies for the last 5 days and am headed back to MI Thursday. Parson's Creek Road is in good shape, just a few bumps. The creek crossing are running shallow, although the last one made a good splash. Don't believe you will see many deer or bears seeing the terrain is thick and steep. We did see bears both time in the Cades Cove loop, they say the bears are active this year. Rich Mt. road out of Cades Cove was fun also. On our trip in we came down 40 and took Waterville to Mount Sterling and then Forest Rd. 288 back to 40. Was a nail bitter for the wife seeing it's one lane track through the mountains, she was worried because you could not see if someone was coming. This is on the east end of the park. Had a great time in my Jeep driving through the park.
Going to hunt this one down soon, from what I read it's not a bad trail to drive on...will post pictures when I can.
Heading up in two weeks. Assuming the weather is nice we'll be exploring the roads around cades cove. I'll post up some pics.
Pics from Cades Cove trails
Here are the promised pics from this last weekend. The TJ is my fathers and the while LJ is mine..
The Trails were amazing! They were easy but lots of fun. We had a total of 5 jeeps with us just enjoying a wonderful weekend.
I think i'll need a click free. Please!
I love going through there. It is gorgeous! I also hike near that area too. I usually hike in from Abrams Creek and head up. When my jeep gets fixed I'm going there and taking that road. I can't wait.
It really is awesome! Just beautiful for hiking, photography, trail riding, camping. Even saw 4 bears that weekend.
Sry i know this is an old thread, but I was looking through here bc I live in Knoxville and just got another jk and was wondering what pay of Cades Cove this is
I believe it's Parson Branch Rd. which branches off from the Southwest end of Cades Cove. Mt. Sterling is a nice long trek through the mountains. It's located on the Northeast end of the park off Waterville Rd. (Exit 451 on 40).
ok I will check it out, thanks for the info!
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Bruce Ewing, a native of Suffern, NY, and a graduate of the Hartt School of Music, Hartford, CT, is presently appearing in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "PHANTOM: The Las Vegas Spectacular" at the Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. (Monsieur Reyer / Piangi u.s.). Before Phantom, Bruce appeared as Jinx in "Forever Plaid" at the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino, as well as 4 years as Jinx & Sparky in "Forever Plaid" at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino. For 14 years before Vegas, Bruce worked all over the county in musical theater, with credits including national tours of "Forever Plaid" (Jinx/Frankie Sparky), 'City of Angels' (Jimmy Powers), 'Grand Hotel' (Erik and understudy for the Baron), and 'Ziegfeld: A Night at the Follies' (production tenor). Bruce performs on 3 solo CDs, 'Tonight at Eight: Songs from Broadway,' and "Give Me Jesus", and 'Remembering To Dream' (His new Christmas Album). You can also hear Bruce on the 15th Anniversary CD of "Forever Plaid", singing the role of Jinx. Along with sister-in-law Kate Ewing, Bruce teaches voice lessons through their Las Vegas Studio, Ewing Vocal Associates. In recent years, besides singing, Bruce had opened a coffee shop/espresso bar with his "Forever Plaid" singing partner Greg Davis, and friends Fred Harmon & Andrew Conlu. Although they no longer own reJAVAnate Coffee Lounge, it remains a very special place to these friends! (And is Bruce's favorite hang-out!) Recent projects/jobs have included serving as Director of Development for Lutheran Social Services of Nevada, Minister of Membership Development and Outreach Ministries at Community Lutheran Church in Las Vegas, NV as well as teaching public school music in Las Vegas, NV as well as years ago in Tuxedo, NY and Manchester, CT. Bruce's greatest joy in life is being able to sing! JOEY SINGER - Whether in recording studios or the concert stage Joey Singer is equally at home. As longtime music director for Debbie Reynolds he has played and/or conducted for a host of others, including Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini, Dame Shirley Bassey, Toni Tenille, Metropolitan Opera Star Eileen Farrell and international recording artist Enrico Macias. With Ms. Reynolds, Joey has made numerous appearances on THE TONIGHT SHOW, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, and JERRY LEWIS' MDA TELETHON. He also conducted the national tour of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, performed at the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Sydney Opera House and with the Boston Pops in a nationally televised concert before a "live" audience of 500,000. For many years the popular daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" has been featuring Joey's creativity at the keyboard. Recently Joey was heard playing his original compositions on NBC's "ER", "The West Wing", and in the feature film MAD MONEY, starring Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah. John S. Wilson, music critic for the New York Times described Joey's playing as "impressive and provocative". An accomplished jazz musician, he has worked with many notable artists including Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Sonny Fortune, Pete Christlieb, Bill Watrous, Valerie Ponomarev, Mel Lewis, Bucky Pizzarelli, and the Bill Holman Orchestra. He has also performed with Rosemary Clooney, Cab Calloway, trumpet great Harry James and the legendary Mills Brothers. As guest conductor, Joey has directed many of the countries finest orchestras, among them the Atlanta Symphony, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and the Cincinnati Pops. Presently Joey continues to tour with Debbie Reynolds and when not "on the road" can be seen as assistant conductor of the International hit musical MAMMA MIA! At the Mandalay Bay Theatre in Las Vegas. Recently he played guitar in the Las Vegas production of JERSEY BOYS. His talents have brought him to England, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Greece, Turkey, and South America. A native Bostonian, Joey and his wife Mara are happy to call Las Vegas their home.
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Speaking of style, the Chronicle's own Style Editor and rapacious socialite Anne Harris played gracious host for the evening, opening her beautiful Hyde Park home to an eclectic menagerie of Austin music lovers. Harris' living room created an intimate performance space that allowed listeners to interact with the musicians on a personal level. As the John-Pauls' sonic tsunami washed over the audience, blowing back untethered hair and rippling facial skin in rhythmic, tear-streaked undulations, rose-cheeked, sweaty toddlers gyrated across the hardwood floor in a euphoric, trancelike daze that resembled either Club Foot, circa 1981, or an epileptic ward on angel dust. Hearts were broken. Memories were made.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A woman whose son was injured when a roller coaster derailed at Worlds of Fun is suing the amusement park's operators for negligence.
Barbara Jean Harris filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of her son, James Harris.
Harris struck his head and neck against a harness when the last two cars of the Orient Express derailed and were left dangling off a stretch of track about 50 feet above the ground Saturday night.
According to the lawsuit, Harris suffered head and facial injuries from the jolt of the derailment and mental and emotional damage from being stuck hanging sideways in a car for about 45 minutes.
Thirteen people were injured when the roller coaster derailed.
Harris' lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from Ohio-based Cedar Fair L.P. and two other companies that operate Worlds of Fun.
Among the allegations, it says Harris was told he never would be able to go to another theme park again if he sued.
Worlds of Fun marketing director Rick Rau declined to comment on most of the allegations in the lawsuit, but he said he doubted any company representative had threatened Harris.
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To better spot cardiovascular disease Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas began a new Heart & Vascular Wellness Program for women including a detailed heart health history, blood pressure check, HbA1C and C-reactive protein blood test, cholesterol and diabetes screenings, and one-on-one discussions with a medical provider
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Mari Katherine Raftopoulos: Just right
August 24, 2010
When I know something is right, I get a unique feeling in my stomach. Since my curly, frizzy-haired childhood days, I have been known to follow this feeling, this gut instinct.
I describe this feeling as a pinch that awakens you to the reality that stands right before you.
So, do you say yes, or no?
In my younger years, these decisions existed on a smaller scale. For example, whether to sneak out or not, whether to take the buzzer shot or to pass it on, whether to trust what I felt at that very moment or to deny it all together.
These previous decisions now seem miniscule compared to the instinctual choices I have found myself making lately.
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Now, my decisions are which house to sign a lease on, when to stay and when to go, which opportunities will prosper and which ones will lead me astray.
Although the circumstances are more life-changing now than in my childhood, the most important decision to make is when to say yes and when to say no.
As you get older, you realize more and more that your gut decisions don't just affect the moment, but many moments that follow thereafter. And most importantly, you realize that your these choices can greatly impact those around you.
Being the sole woman figure in the household has altered my gut instincts.
I have always had a motherly nature within me, and now with my mother gone, I never make a decision without considering my family first.
I am learning how to balance my decisions, how to balance when to say yes and no, because although I am not the mother, I still serve as a pillar of guidance for my family.
I have told you numerous times about my spontaneous character and, while I am quick to say yes, I never jump into anything without doing my research. My mom instilled in us to never go into a situation — whether it be a political debate, interview, basketball game, or even a blind date — without doing our homework.
She would say, "If you do your homework, your gut instincts will almost always be right."
With that being said, upon my move to Denver, I did my homework thoroughly, almost to the point where I could have written a case study on the Denver neighborhoods, their demographics and the cultures that resonate within them.
I would stroll through the streets of my favorite neighborhoods, a pen and pad in hand, and a camera in the other.
I recorded the pulse, vibes, feelings and stories that each one gave me. I dropped in on nearly every locally-owned business, introduced myself to the employees and essentially interviewed them on their thoughts of the area.
Let's just say I was seeking a small-town feeling like the one I feel at home, where around every corner is a familiar face and a warm hug.
Remember that gut instinct I was describing to you, that pinch and that awakening?
I felt this reassurance immediately upon entering the front door of my now new home. After all my homework, research and interviews, I knew, like my mother always told me, that this house was right.
I pulled out the very pen I used to take countless messy notes and signed the lease on the spot. Now, the key is on my key ring and every time I look at it I feel a sense of accomplishment and a sense of my mom.
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LONGVIEW (KYTX) - Two men are in the Gregg County Jail on $21,000 bond, charged with criminal trespass and copper theft.
Longview police arrested 44-year-old Steven Glenn Carter, of Longview, and 44-year-old Emett K. Monroe, of Diana, after finding the pair breaking into a vacant commercial structure Wednesday morning in the 1500 block of E. Marshall Avenue.
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Carol Reed, the political consultant, told another staff member here at the Dallas Observer that I was "a man without a country" because nobody I liked for mayor got into the runoff election.
I like it. Call me the "Flying Dutchman of Bryan Parkway."
It's because I made the horrible mistake before the recent mayoral election of saying in a column who was going to get my vote. So now I'm looking at a runoff election in which both candidates are 100 percent in favor of putting a big highway through the planned Trinity River park—the one idea I really hate.
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But that's not the worst part. I fear that my ill-advised opening of my mouth could be why my guy, Sam Coats, had bad luck at the polls. Long experience should have taught me by now that the Jim Schutze endorsement is like 1,000 broken mirrors.
I should have stuck with superstition. Normally I believe that if I say out loud which candidate I like even one little bit in an election, it won't be five minutes before the phone rings and somebody screams, "OH MY GOD, A PIANO JUST FELL ON THAT GUY!"
Coats should have done better. I blame myself for making it rain pianos that day. It's like Laura Miller endorsing somebody in southern Dallas. Just send the hearse while you're at it.
Now my choice is either Tom Leppert, whose platform is, "I had a single mother, now I'm rich, and I think we need a highway right through the park," or Ed Oakley, whose platform is, "I may be gay and a Democrat, but I'm still willing to bulldoze large apartment buildings full of poor people, and I think we need a highway right through the park."
Talk about a Hobson's choice. But I do have to choose, right? Because we all do. We can't just sit it out because of one issue. We've got to hike up our belts and place our bets based on everything else.
In the past week I have gone back into an Oakley issue that I wrote about before the election—his ownership of real estate in the area most immediately affected by the Trinity River project while he has been chairman of the city council's powerful Trinity River committee. I now have a better sense of his side of that story.
I don't necessarily buy it, but you might see it more his way than mine. First I need to correct a mistake I made in writing about this for the Dallas Observer blog, Unfair Park. I included as owned by Oakley some property owned by an entity called Trinity District Partners. Oakley did own that property, but he sold it to Trinity District Partners, which is not his company.
It's relevant, because Trinity District Partners is not named on his financial disclosure statement to the city. In fact Oakley does disclose all of the properties he does own and all of the entities in which he has an interest.
The issue here is this: Oakley has taken a very strong position on the most controversial element in the Trinity plan—the placement of a high-speed highway through the proposed park along the river, just outside the area where he himself owns real estate. So does he have a conflict? Has his position been warped by his ownership of property that might be adversely affected if the road were taken out of the park and placed closer to his holdings?
And did Oakley help shape zoning and planning policies for this area in a way that created value for his otherwise minimally valuable properties?
Oakley wouldn't talk to me, but David Marquis, his campaign manager whom I have known for a very long time, did talk. He said basically that Oakley has been involved in real estate in the area called the Trinity Design District for a long time. Marquis said Oakley has been diligent about using abstentions and even transfers of ownership to keep himself within the law and within reasonable ethical limits.
In 2002, when Mayor Laura Miller named Oakley chairman of the Trinity River committee, his ownership of real estate was raised as an issue by other council members. Marquis told me last week that Oakley assured the council in 2002 that he had sold or transferred all of the property that was of concern.
My issue would be this: He sold or transferred it into companies he owned or controlled himself.
Marquis told me Oakley did what city lawyers told him to do. He changed the way he owned the property in question. He declared all of those ownerships on his disclosure. He did not vote on zoning issues directly affecting those properties.
"I think the disclosure of it is the main factor," Marquis said. "He went in and talked to the attorneys and to everybody else to make sure. He felt like he did his due diligence."
I had also asked Marquis about Oakley's influence on zoning and planning for the area and about the effect the "Crow factor" might be having on his position on the proposed toll road alignment. Oakley's political contributions lists for the last several years have included many contributions at the legal maximum level from the Crow/Billingsley families.
Crow Holdings, a real estate company run by real estate magnate Harlan Crow, owns a lot of property near Oakley's holdings. Harlan Crow is adamantly opposed to taking the proposed highway out of the river park and putting it near his land. He recently helped fund paid "blockers" to discourage voters from signing a petition for a referendum on the road.
Marquis told me Oakley lived through the years-long debate on a route for the highway. Because Oakley is from Oak Cliff, across the river from downtown, Marquis said, he knows that any attempt to put the highway on that side will be met with cries of environmental racism. He thinks putting it on Industrial Boulevard will kill the redevelopment of that area. He believes the road has to go inside the levees along the river, and Harlan Crow happens to agree with him.
Marquis told me Oakley has been involved in zoning and planning for the area as a plan commission member and as a member of the city council but has never violated the city's rules on conflict of interest.
I'm sure you can smell my own bias here. I'm mad at Oakley for wanting to put that stupid highway through the park. I think his long involvement in real estate in the area right down by the river has given him an overly self-interested perspective. It irritates me that somebody like real estate broker Bob Darrouzet calls me up posturing as Oakley's disinterested defender and then I find out later he and Oakley have partnered on real estate deals.
I admit it: Oakley's relationships with people involved in that land are too cozy for my tastes. But Oakley has the right to say that I'm acting on my bias about the road and that I'm full of it.
He certainly has a right to own property. We want people on the council who have business experience. If I could show him breaking the law, I would have done so by now. What I see as conflict he has a right to view as involvement.
So what about Leppert? Leppert scares me for exactly the opposite reason. The guy comes out of absolutely nowhere. He's the Manchurian candidate, created from raw clay by Donna Halstead, president of the secretive Dallas Citizens Council. And he has all these prepackaged positions on things—like the toll road—from which he will not budge one inch.
But let's say I manage to pry myself loose from the Trinity thing for 30 seconds and listen to the rest of what they are saying. I did listen the other day when KERA broadcast back-to-back interviews with both runoffians.
Leppert was asked what he'll do about crime. He said, "Clearly from a long-term perspective, creating jobs and having a better educational system are very important. I think we need to be conscious of the next level, making sure that our rehabilitation programs and our re-entry programs for people returning from prison are as effective as they can be.
"But if you look across the country at every city that has successfully dealt with this issue, the first step has been that they put more officers on the street."
Leppert said we've gone for two decades without meeting a stated goal of three officers per 1,000 residents, spending money on everything else but never putting our money where our mouth is on this key issue.
They asked Oakley the same thing. He talked mainly about his scorched-earth approach to crime—bulldozing the apartment buildings where poor people live, a stratagem he calls "going at crime at its core."
"Pick any neighborhood," he said. "Go any place and take the area where crime-ridden multi-family exists, and the quality of life and the property values around this area are very low and the quality of living is low. And take out 1,000 or 2,000 of those units and replace them. You begin to get at crime at its core."
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What a vision. I see it now—tens of thousands of wretches with their suitcases piled on baby carriages and their grandparents in wheelbarrows trudging down Interstate 45 toward Houston where foolhardy local officials have promised them food and shelter. The Oakley solution.
And Oakley's the Democrat! Just like Laura Miller was the Democrat! Why even have Democrats, if they're all going to run for office on the ethnic cleansing platform?
I told a colleague that I found Leppert's answers on crime interesting and hopeful and Oakley's answers hateful and depressing. He suggested I mention all that in a column as a way of making sure Oakley gets elected.
Not this guy. I'm too smart to make that mistake again.


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56th Annual Christmas Tour of Homes
December 3, 2017
Location: Throughout Gulfport Area
Phone: (228) 424-5833
Time: 2pm-5pm
Price: $15 to tour all homes
View beautifully decorated houses for the holidays! Major fundraiser with all proceeds going back into the community to provide services for adults & children with special needs. Refreshments served following the tour. Sponsored by The Civic League of Gulfport. Homes to be determined.


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text: I was wondering if anyone else on this list was experiencing similar results: With FC2T3 on my laptop (HP Pavilion ze5200) I had several issues with the screen going blank (and the backlight turning off too) during boot. It seemed to happen at random places at different times during boot. The system would be locked as far as I could tell and I had to power off. I have since tried passing "vga=773" or "vga=normal" to the kernel at boot time and both seem to get me past the screen going blank. (I also pass "psmouse.proto=imps" so I can tap-click with my touchpad.) However, when I exit X - no matter what runlevel I am running in, the screen goes immediately blank, backlight is powered off, and as far as I can tell the laptop is locked up. This applies to "Log Out", "Reboot", and "Shutdown". I have found no related entries in my logs. I have also tried passing "acpi=off" to the kernel. Anyone else have issues like this? I think it is a 2.6 issue more than a FC2 issue. Thanks! Jed


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Back Stage: You were speaking with Michael Hoffman about this film long ago. How did the role finally become yours?
James McAvoy: There was a point when I wasn't certain the job was being offered to me—probably because nobody knew who I was. But he knew who I was, enough that he liked my work, I think. But the job still wasn't an offer. Anyway, he couldn't get the film made, and then by the time that it came back around, he could offer me the job.
Back Stage: Do you know why he was interested in you in particular?
McAvoy: I think he thought I was a good person at playing the lead role in something in which the lead character wasn't the focal point, and that was the case with "The Last King of Scotland"—playing that guy who carries you through the film, even though he's not the sort of über-figure in that film.
Back Stage: And you have a purity onscreen.
McAvoy: It's just something I think I've been able to do, that people have picked up on. And when you do something once, people kind of go, "Well, that's what you can do." It's a nice quality to portray, and I like that. But I can't lie: There will be a part of me that goes, "Ya, I want to play a bad guy; I want to play nasty people." And actually I've played quite a few egotistical people as well, and that's something that I'm quite interested in. Ego is something that I think is quite a fun thing to play.
Back Stage: Dame Helen says she was intimidated at first to work with Christopher Plummer. Were you intimidated?
McAvoy: I was a little bit, I have to confess, with her and with Christopher, and with Paul Giamatti as well. Paul is an actor I've admired for ages, so all three of them were intimidating. But within minutes that goes because all four of us are very similar types of actors: We all came up through theater, and we all had a theater training, and we all had the same vocabulary, so it was very easy to get my shorthand going quickly. And also the three of them are fun people to work with, so it was actually a really nice set to be on. There were no egos.
Back Stage: What, if anything, did you suggest to Hoffman in terms of your character?
McAvoy: Michael was a great guy to work with. I generally come with a lot of ideas. Some directors don't like that, and some directors really like that, and Michael was the kind of guy that was very collaborative and wanted your input. I felt the script was one of the cleanest I've read. Together we amplified what was already good, and that was the only thing. Michael empowers actors. He lets actors roll with it and go farther and do more and act through things, and he's very collaborative that way. I wanted to add to it and make it more, and he let me do that.
Back Stage: Give us a specific example of how you made something "more."
McAvoy: Well, for example, the sneezing was something that my character in real life had, and I wanted to make it not just a small thing. For me, the script had a Chekhovian sensibility and a Chekhovian sense of humor. And weirdly, as much as Chekhov always worked with Stanislavskian actors—it was all about the internal life—a lot of Chekhov's work was about showing things. Things weren't just internalized, and a character's lack of comfort or his awkwardness was exhibited in physical mannerisms. Like Yepikhodov in "The Cherry Orchard," who I was lucky enough to play when I was very young. He has squeaky shoes, and immediately you know who that guy is. He's the uncomfortable guy; he's never going to fit in. And I felt, as soon as I read the character [in "The Last Station"] who sneezes a lot, he's Yepikhodov. So I amplified that, and I wanted to make him as awkward as possible, and that's the main thing that I suppose Michael let me go with to the extreme.
Back Stage: In terms of being on camera, what was the hardest scene in this film for you?
McAvoy: Technically the love scenes are always really hard. But apart from that, probably the scenes where he is really going through his personal evolution, and he's maturing, because you're really showing how someone changes from the guy he is at the beginning, which is very definite, to the guy he is at the end, which is very, very different, I think. The scenes where he's sort of being Countess Sofya's advocate, and he's arguing for her, that's difficult for him to do, and it was hard to find that balance and not be too forthright, because he's a secretary and a hanger-on, and yet he's the advocate of this guy's wife, and it's hard to find that balance of stepping too far and not going far enough.
Back Stage: Can you point to a particular moment onscreen you're extremely happy with?
McAvoy: [I can point to] a moment I thought was terrible. There was the scene with Paul Giamatti where we blow up at each other, and I never felt that that scene was quite what it should be, we never went as far as it should have gone, and it felt physically uncomfortable because we were up against a schedule, and we had a setup in which we could act the scene, and I didn't want to be in the physical position that I was in, but I had to be because that's what the shot was, so I just kind of compromised, and I always felt artistically compromised in that scene. However, I think the scene's fine, actually, and it just makes you think, as an actor, sometimes you don't have to be striving for perfection all the time. You have to just bite the bullet and go, "Well, we need to get it done."
Back Stage: Aside from the sneezing, what characteristics did you want to bring to Valentin?
McAvoy: I wanted to make him somebody who agreed a lot; I wanted to make him somebody who affirmed what other people were saying, and that just manifested itself in a little bit. I just added the line "all right" or "of course," and that was something that I phased out from the second half of the movie, after he's kind of evolved and became a different person, and that was just one of the little things, and it's not something that anybody will even notice, but it was important to me.
-Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; his natural accent is heavily Scottish
-After many appearances on British television, broke out in "The Last King of Scotland," followed by "Atonement"
-His wife, actor Anne-Marie Duff, co-stars in "The Last Station" as the Tolstoys' daughter


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These whoopie pies got dressed up for Halloween with seasonally orange cookies and gross-out green (but still delicious) cream filling. The cookies even can be prepped a month ahead, covered tightly in plastic wrap and frozen. Make the filling just before using.
To turn these whoopie pies into pumpkins, use orange food coloring in the filling instead of green. Then pipe a small dollop of purchased green frosting on top of the assembled pie to create a "stem."
Goblin Pies
Start to finish: 1 hours (30 minutes active)
Servings: 8
For the cookies:
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg, room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup buttermilk
5 to 6 drops orange food coloring
For the filling:
1-1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
2-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt
5 cups marshmallow sandwich spread
2 tbsp. green food coloring
Heat the oven to 350 F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
To make the cookies, in a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the butter and brown sugar. Use an electric mixer on medium to beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
Add the pumpkin and mix to combine. Reduce the mixer to low, then add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately, beginning and ending with the flour. Add the orange food coloring, then beat until evenly blended.
Portion 16 mounds of batter ( cup each) onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between each.
Bake, rotating the sheets top to bottom and front to back halfway through, until light golden brown and a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean, about 10 to 12 minutes.
Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and cool completely.
When the cookies are cool, prepare the filling. In a large bowl, combine the butter and powdered sugar. Use an electric mixer on medium to beat until smooth (it will look crumbly at first). Beat in the vanilla and salt.
Add the marshmallow and beat until smooth, then add the green food coloring and beat until evenly colored.
To assemble, arrange 8 cookies on the counter, flat sides up. Divide the filling evenly between the cookies, about cup per cookie, and spread in an even layer. The filling also can be piped onto the cookies.
Place a second cookie, flat side down, over the filling on each. If you store the pies in the refrigerator, remove them about 1 hour before serving.
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Help Me Plan a Fun Vegetarian Birthday Menu for My One-Year-Old!
Q: My little boy is turning 1 on September 30th. We are throwing his party in the afternoon. It will be a mix of kids and 'foodie' vegetarian adults. I'm hoping for some input on what to serve at his party. I'd like to provide wholesome snacks and some kind of light vegetarian main coarse but I would also like the baby to be able to enjoy the food too.
Any menu/recipe ideas or suggestions?
Sent by Jane
Editor: I immediately thought of a cake we wrote about a few years back:
Readers, what are your ideas for birthday-worthy, toddler-friendly, vegetarian dishes?
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We never planted gourds, so I am really jealous. As a kid I had no idea what they were, or how amazingly beautiful they are! And such a variety of colors, sizes and designs....WOW!
And, you are still on the board! Yay!
Barb - These gourds inspired me so much that I know you can count on a few more autumn puzzles. After all - we can go through Thanksgiving with these colors, can't we? And return in the spring, why not!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
Mariasha - I know you are surrounded by as much of the season's beauty as I am. It is just such a beautiful time of year - my favorite! Thank you for liking this one so much. The gourds did it - not me!
This is definitely more difficult than some but so, so nice. I've always liked gourds. I used to plant them in our backyard garden when I was a kid. Thanks, Jan. At this moment 9:45 is good for #9.
Another wonderful autumn puzzle, Jan! Hoping you might have a couple more of these autumn beauties for us in the coming days/ :-)
Wow...it's constantly amazing to me how gorgeous stuff comes out when you kaleido it. These are really stunning, the colors, the shapes, the depth and texture! This is the epitome of autumnal beauty...thank you Jan!
In the center is an image of fall gourds. All of the surrounding kaleidoscopes were made from that image!


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If at first — or second — you don't succeed, try try again. That could be Keith Fimian's campaign motto in 2012.
After losing in 2008 and 2010, the Republican businessman from Oakton is mulling a third straight contest against Rep. Gerald Connolly (D) in Virginia's 11th congressional district.
Fimian, the wealthy founder of the home inspection firm U.S. Inspect, told the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call Thursday that he might enter the fray again, as long as the seat isn't made much safer for Connolly in the redistricting process.
"If it redistricts well, which I never thought it would, I will run again," Fimian told Roll Call. "But I'm not going to run in an uncompetitive seat."
The Virginia General Assembly will meet next month to draw new congressional lines based on the 2010 census. As The Washington Post has reported, lawmakers and operatives in both parties say the final map is likely to make Connolly's seat safer for the incumbent by moving portions of GOP-leaning Prince William County into Rep. Rob Wittman's (R) 1st district. Connolly would also absorb some slivers of Fairfax County, including Herndon, currently included in Rep. Frank Wolf's (R) 10th district.
Those changes would make another run difficult for Fimian. In 2008, with Barack Obama atop the ticket driving Democratic turnout, Connolly beat Fimian by 12 points in the contest to succeed retiring Rep. Tom Davis (R). But in 2010, a strong year for Republicans in Virginia and across the country, Connolly barely survived, besting Fimian by fewer than 1,000 votes.
Especially in 2010, Fimian ran on a strongly conservative platform, emphasizing the need to cut government spending almost to the exclusion of any other issue. Fimian told Roll Call that he believed that message was more relevant now than ever.
"Everything I've criticized Connolly for is more true today than it was last year," Fimian told the paper.
As of this posting, Fimian had not responded to a message left at his office requesting further comment on his plans. Connolly's campaign declined to comment.


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International Demand for Tourism in Nepal
A number of factors such a snowy mountains, beautiful landscape, and cultural monuments are the main attractions for visitors to Nepal. Tourism is one of the major contributors to foreign currency receipts in Nepal. Both the number of visitors and of hotel beds are increasing, however, the increase in the former is less than that of the latter. This paper is a study of demand determinants of Nepalese tourism. The tourist flow from 14 major sending countries is used in the study. The period examined is 1974-1991 and variables used include GDP per capita in constant 1985 US dollars, population of the sending countries, air distance between one of the major cities in each sending country and Kathmandu airport, airfare in US dollars from Kathmandu to each sending country's main airport, real exchange rates between sending country and Nepal, and the consumer price index in constant 1980 prices. The log linear model is selected for the study after a comparison with the linear model. The regression analysis is carried out using generalized least squares for panel data and the White covariance consistence matrix procedure for individual time series. A specific model for each individual country is examined. The results indicate that all the variables considered are important determinants of tourism demand in Nepal. Above all income variable is highly significant variable in cases of both India and overseas arrivals. Besides, relative exchange rates between India and Nepal is greatly important variable.
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Last summer the industry was expecting big things from Windows 8 and Windows RT, with Samsung touting a plan to bring its own Windows RT tablet to the US by October.
Well, October has come and gone, with Microsoft launching its Surface RT tablet to mostly unimpressed consumers around the world. As we've previously discussed, Redmond blames a poor distribution system for the unenthusiastic reception, while other partners continue to delay the launch of their own Windows RT tablets to see how the market ultimately shapes up.
Case in point? Samsung has now confirmed that its line of Ativ Windows RT tablets won't be coming to the US, with company exe Mike Abary stating that the company's Qualcomm-powered Windows RT tablet won't be sold in the US, due to what he described as poor consumer demand.
"When we did some tests and studies on how we could go to market with a Windows RT device, we determined there was a lot of heavy lifting we still needed to do to educate the customer on what Windows RT was," said Abary.
Abary also noted that Samsung was unable to achieve the price point it wanted to make its tablet a popular device on the hyper-competitive mobile market, saying: "We didn't necessarily attain the price point that we hoped to attain."
He also pointed out that Samsung would have been forced to reduce the amount of base memory to reach a reasonable price point. Nevertheless, the company is leaving the door open to bring its Windows RT tablets to the United States at a later date.
"It's still a viable option for us in the future, but now might not be the right time," Abary added.


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1. I am Professor of Environment and Society
at Lancaster University, a member of the Government's Agriculture
and Environment Biotechnology Commission, and Board Chair and
Trustee respectively of Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International.
In the period 1972-1988, I gained extensive hands-on experience
of existing UK arrangements for the handling of Large Infrastructure
Projects in the UK, whilst Assistant Secretary and Director (1981-1987)
of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE). Subsequently,
as co-founder and Director (1991-2001) of Lancaster University's
internationally-recognised social science research centre, the
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC), and, since
2000, as Professor of Environment and Society at that university,
1 have led relevant ESRC-funded social research programmes and
written extensively on such matters.
2. It is not hard to sympathise in principle
with the Government's wish to reform present arrangements for
authorising "major infrastructure projects". Particularly
when compared with equivalent processes in other European countries,
there have been several recent examples of "delays"
to such schemes, with public inquiry processes apparently a contributing
factor. However, the reform proposals in the Planning Green paper
and accompanying consultation document, "New Parliamentary
Procedures for Processing Major Infrastructure Projects",
give cause for serious concernas much for what they do
not say, as for what they do.
3. I comment below on:
(a) The concept of "major infrastructure
4. As used in the consultation paper, the
term "major infrastructure project" is loose and vague.
Yet it is envisaged as having potential statutory meaning (para
12). The illustrative list in Annex C offers a range of large
developments, including ports, power stations, motorways, chemical
plants, quarries, and many otherssome public, most private;
some national, others regional or sub-regional in significance;
some employing largely familiar technologies, others breaking
new ground. No attempt is made to distinguish projects which might
be judged truly essential to the maintenance of basic life in
modern societyparticular transport arteries, for examplefrom
those which may be in principle more optional. It is simply asserted
that all such projects, as defined by the Secretary of State,
are "essential to our economic future and bring benefits
through better services" (paragraph 4).
5. The corollary is that a new class of
projectsinfinitely expandable at a later date (if chemical
plants, why not electronics factories, supermarkets or major housing
developments?)would be created, to be treated quite differently
from all others handled within the existing development control
system. What is more, these are projects which of their nature
are likely to give rise to an extensive range of issues and concernsenvironmental,
social, economic, culturalin which national, regional
and local dimensions are inextricably intertwined.
6. Others will elaborate more expertly on
these difficulties of definition. But it is important for what
follows below that the central concept on which the consultation
is based is unclear in meaning, and likely to prove contentious
when attempts are made to give it precisionnot least because
of perceptions of the potential commercial advantages for individual
corporate promoters of such schemes.
7. Nevertheless, there is scope for re-examination
of the processes for handling nationally important schemes. Such
re-examination, however, should embrace a fuller appreciation
of relevant social and political realities than the consultation
paper displays.
(b) Relevant "delay" factors unacknowledged
in the consultation paper
8. The phenomenon of extended public inquiries
into large development proposals has a longer history than is
mentioned in the documents. In the 1970s and 1980s, a succession
of major projectsindividual nuclear power facilities (Thorp
at Windscale (now Sellafield), Sizewell B); reservoirs (Broad
Oak in Kent); motorways (M42, M40, etc); coal mines (Vale of Belvoir);
and the likebecame focal points for public discussion,
not only of the local environmental and social impacts of particular
schemes, but also of key framing assumptions on the basis
of which they were being promoted. There being no other politically
meaningful or accessible fora in which to engage with such wider
dimensions and/or alternatives, particular local authorities,
citizens organised as national and local NGOs, and other interests
focussed their efforts on the public inquiries triggered by the
9. The more recent lengthy inquiries referred
to by the Secretary or State (Annex A)Stansted Airport,
Heathrow Terminal 5, Manchester Airport Second Runway and the
East London River Crossingshould be seen as elaborations
of these earlier processes.
10. In seeking less cumbersome and (arguably)
legalistic procedures, both Government and Parliament need to
be aware of important positive dimensions of the ways in
which the present situation developed.
11. In a period of accelerating technological
change, underpinned by sometimes questionable assumptions concerning
the inevitability and beneficence of the resulting transformations,
the ability of citizens to participate in politically meaningful
discussion and evaluation of such processes is highly constrained.
In the 1970s and 1980s, environmental movements emerged in reaction
to some of their more tangible cumulative impacts. In the UK,
these movementsreflected politically in expanding public
support for environmental NGOsgravitated towards such openings
as appeared available within the law for exploring the resulting
trajectories and their implications.
12. Conventional parliamentary processes
were experienced as ill-adapted to, and the principal political
parties as largely unsympathetic towards, such endeavours. By
contrast, the public inquiry systemwith its statutorily-enforced
disposition towards conscientious evaluation of arguments, its
procedural fairness and good will towards citizens of all kinds,
and its groundedness in specific real developments on the groundcame
to exert a strong attraction. Individual schemes became focal
points for discussion and argument about broader policy assumptions
and commitments of which the schemes were expressions. In this
way, important issues unaddressed in other fora inside or outside
government came to be explored. One consequence was that inquiries
into certain kinds of developmentof the type with which
the present consultation is concernedbecame more protracted
than previously.
13. However, significant public benefits
14. At a time of mounting concern in Britain
about public anomie toward politics and public institutions, these
positive dimensions of processes presented in the consultation
paper as demanding simplification to the point of truncation need
respectful attention. But the paper makes no reference to them.
15. Why should this be so? Perhaps they
have been assessed and judged irrelevant by Ministers. If so,
this would sit oddly with the claims made repeatedly throughout
the consultation paper, that the measures will "safeguard
public consultation and involvement", and even "increase"
itwhen the truth is that they will reduce it.
16. A second possibility is that changes
over the past decade or so, both within Whitehall and in the ownership
structures of bodies promoting "large infrastructure projects",
have led such democratically healthy dimensions of previous public
involvement to be forgotten. The succession of civil service reforms
in the 1990swidespread devolution to new executive agencies,
contraction in numbers and roles of departmental officials, new
methodologies of audit and accountability aimed at enhanced efficiency,
and the recent ascription of planning and environmental protection
roles to different departments for the first time since 1970may
have led to contractions in "institutional memory".
And these effects may have been compounded by a loss of interest
in (or indeed memory of) now-relevant past experience, as a result
of the privatisations of the electricity, nuclear and water supply
industries, and the changed internal cultures and priorities these
have produced.
17. Whatever the explanation, if such neglect
is not corrected and adjustments made, the reforms risk being
counter-productive. Abolishing well-established expectations of
intelligent involvement, without creating appropriate equivalent
mechanisms for testing schemes in a fashion convincing to increasingly
educated and sceptical publics, will simply lead to frustration
and to other, less constructive forms of critique and objection.
In such circumstances, it is not hard to anticipate new patterns
of disquiet, delay and even disorder.
18. In the consultation paper, Parliament's
role is envisaged as the safeguard against this, through its consideration
of public "representations" and its approval of the
principle of individual projects. I consider now whether the conditions
necessary for Parliament to fulfil this role are in place.
(c) Parliament's role
19. Under the government's proposals, Parliament
would have just 60 days in which to consider both the principle
and the site location of an individual project designated by the
Secretary of State, and to approve (or reject) it by Affirmative
Resolution procedures. This would include a 42-day "consultation
period" -though Parliament would not necessarily receive
the putative developer's "Statement of the wider economic
and other benefits" until 21 of the 42 days had elapsed.
The ways in which Parliament would handle the proposals and any
associated "public representations" on them is left
to Parliament itselffor example, whether or not there should
be, within the 60 days, specially convened committee hearings.
At the end of the 60 days, assuming an Affirmative Resolution,
the scheme in question would be the subject of a conventional
local planning inquiry, limited to matters of detail only. In
this way, it is suggested, "the proposed new Parliamentary
procedures will help speed up the decision-making process on major
infrastructure projects by saving inquiry time later".
20. Such a formula seems unlikely to command
public confidence. Recent experiencewhether analysed by
specialist commentators, or derived from personal experiencepoints
to Parliament's present acute limitations. The 2001 report of
the Hansard Society, "The Challenge for Parliament: Making
Government Accountable" is unequivocal: Parliament "has
failed to adapt to the challenges it faces" at a time when
fresh forms of accountability from non-parliamentary institutionsNGOs
and pressure groups, regulators of privatised industries, the
media, etchave been gaining countervailing authority. "Levels
of confidence in politics are low and declining", and public
respect for Parliament specifically has been weakening. The continuing,
even intensifying, dominance of the executive in the control of
parliamentary business and decisions has been compounding this
21. Even Parliament's specialist tools for
holding government to accountnotably Select Committeesare
acknowledged by the Hansard Society and others to have serious
shortcomings, however conscientious and well-focused individual
inquiries may be. Their limitationsparticularly relevant
in the present contextinclude small staffs, acute variability
of coverage and of quality of scrutiny in particular fields, limits
of time and resources, and lack of independence from majority
party (ie executive) influence. My own personal experience, both
as an expert witness before House of Commons committees, and as
an occasional Specialist Adviser to House of Lords committees,
confirms that the quality of engagement and analytical sophistication
of parliamentary committees is highly variable.
22. In the likely circumstances of a controversial
"major infrastructure project", the role envisaged for
Parliament under the Government's proposals seems likely to strain
Parliament's capabilities to their limitsindeed probably
beyond them. Given the Government's apparent determination to
constrain active public involvement in issues of principle surrounding
individual schemes, the associated parliamentary procedures would
be seen as structurally biased towards the interests of developers
at the expense of those of citizens. In today's climate, against
the background of accumulated experience and expectations outlined
earlier in this submission, these limitations would be likely
to result in frustration and anger. History suggests that in such
circumstances, spectres of legal challenge (under common law or
the new human rights legislation), public protest, civil disobedience,
and the like will tend to present themselves.
23. In short, it seems unlikely that Parliament,
as at present constituted, would be able to command the authority
envisaged in the consultation paper for giving public legitimacy
to the principle or individual siting of schemes subject to the
new measures.
(d) Potentials for Institutional Innovation
24. The Government's proposals for new ways
of handling the principles and location of "large infrastructure
schemes" are radical. Alternatives to them may have to be
equally radical.
25. If well-established expectations of
public involvement within the public inquiry framework are to
be denied, then other ways of generating legitimacy for the principle
of such schemes, when and if these are appropriate, will have
to be created. This implies an urgent need to develop new mechanismsbeyond
the issuing of "national policy statements"for
authentic discussion and debate around the policy trajectories
of which such schemes are expressions, aimed at generating a greater
degree of consensus around the need, or otherwise, for individual
schemes. This has implications for Parliament as well as for the
26. What forms might such innovation take?
There may be clues in the current discussions surrounding contentious
issues of science and technology, precipitated by the succession
of crises of government authority on matters such as BSE and Genetically
Modified crops. The implications of these crises, and the need
for active new institutionalised forms of interaction between
"experts" and citizens on the ever-wider issues bearing
on future scientific and technological innovation, have been highlighted
in a number of recent studies, including the 21st Report of the
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, "Setting Environmental
Standards" (1998, Cm 4053) and the "Science and Society"
report (2000, HL Paper 38) of the House of Lords Science and Technology
27. An initial discussion of the range of
mechanisms now being explored for advancing such interactionsprogrammes
involving deliberative mechanisms such as consensus conferences,
citizens juries, standing panels, focus groups, and the likeexists
in the March 2001 report of the Parliamentary Office on Science
and Technology (POST), "Open Channels: Public Dialogue in
Science and Technology". Bodies as varied as the Foods Standards
Agency, the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission,
the Environment Agency, Nirex, local authorities, and a variety
of health trusts are now experimenting with these and other methods
in the development of their own policies and 'outside' relationshipsa
burgeoning body of experience now being monitored and documented
by social scientists and others. The Regional level of government
may well constitute a further (as yet largely untested) node for
such innovations.
28. Clearly, there are limitations as well
as strengths to these processes as they stand currently. But collectively
they constitute a fresh field of serious UK experiment and innovation
aimed at harnessing the perspectives and energies of citizens,
of potential relevance to the present proposals. Though unlikely
in themselves to provide substitutes for procedures and rights
underpinned by statute, such initiatives, properly considered,
may offer pointers to ways in which new forms of democratic involvement
and social intelligence might be nourished, to inform both departmental
and parliamentary thinking about issues and dilemmas of the kind
the present consultation paper is seeking to address.
29. The POST report has called for the establishment
of a "National Learning Resource" aimed at fostering
exchanges of experience in the use of such mechanisms, and energetic
reflection upon the implications of that experience. The establishment
of such a Resource, and the integration of its reflections with
parallel thinking by bodies such as the Hansard Society, the UCL
Constitution Unit, the Study of Parliament Group and others, should
be given a high priority by government. It could be developed
as a new piece of strategically useful machinery for Parliament.
And proposals to emerge from it could be designed to go with the
spirit of the parliamentary reforms now being fostered by the
Leader of the House. More specifically, they could also ensure
much-needed integration of the spirit of "sustainable development"
into Parliament's procedures for the handling of new infrastructure
30. To summarise, the potential challenges
implied by the Government's proposalsto Parliament's future
legitimacy, as much as to Ministers' capacity to be able to sustain
an adequate national infrastructureare such as to require
fresh thinking reaching well beyond the issues and options touched
on in the consultation paper.
31. The present proposals are unsatisfactory
as they stand, because:
32. The issues addressed in the consultation
paper constitute a call to creative institutional innovation.
This submission has sought to highlight some key issues which
that innovation should embrace.
March 2002


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2010/1/14 Jinjing Wang <email@example.com>

 Hyena is especially tuned for streaming and that's exactly what hack
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Isn't possible to stream an (almost) infinite bytestring trough hack?. I ever trough that the laziness of haskell is a great advantage in Web applications. This is very important because the size of the block transferred vary widely. In my applications I don´t care whether I have to stream a hello world page or a video. The first block of my application goes trough the internet as soon as my procedure start without concern about if the processing is composed of a complicated chain of steps or not. And with no especial coding; Neither my web server interface nor my user responsiveness requirements force me to code iterations everywhere in my code. I know the chuncked mode in web server but I think that just this mode of web streaming is the right mode for serving lazy haskell applications.

 My question is why whatever performance advantage the iteratee may have, can not be coded under the clean interface of a lazy bytestring or whatever lazy stream.

Well, for one thing, you'd need to use lazy IO to achieve your goal, which has some safety issues. As things get more and more complex, the requirements of lazy IO will continue to grow. This also has implications for number of open file handles and deterministic space usage. Given the fact that a lazy bytestring and easily be converted to an enumerator, I think it makes sense to start a new package using this approach.

As a side point, would anyone be interested in having a central location for web-specific Haskell development discussions? I know we have the mailing list, but it's never used. I'm thinking more of a place to post articles and links to packages. In particular, I think it would be great to have a site with multiple sections (model, view, controller, authentication, authorization, etc) and articles, forums and packages specific for each. Also a great place to post what the community is missing.

Michael

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Lt. John Finn was a survivor of the Japanese attack on Hawaii, a centenarian and the nation's oldest living Medal of Honor recipient. Now in the wake of his death last month, an influential group of admirers from San Diego wants to honor the beloved war hero by having a Navy ship christened with his name.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, has gathered signatures for a letter to the secretary of the Navy from the entire congressional delegation from San Diego County and several members of the House Armed Services Committee. In the request, which they plan to send today, they urge Secretary Ray Mabus to name "the next appropriate naval ship in honor of World War II Medal of Honor recipient John William Finn."
Hunter also expects to introduce a companion resolution on the issue to Congress this week. The declaration would say, "His legacy will continue inspiring us all while reminding countless Americans about the sacrifices and contributions of our nation's Greatest Generation."
On Dec. 7, 1941, Finn grabbed a .50-caliber machine gun and fired for more than two hours as Japanese planes strafed his Kaneohe Bay air station on their way to Pearl Harbor. He was hit 21 times by bullet and bomb fragments.
Hunter, a Marine combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, was one of many San Diegans who sat with the aging Finn and enjoyed his stories about World War II and his other adventures in life.
Any Medal of Honor recipient merits having a ship named after him because "there are so few of them and so few of them living," Hunter said. But San Diego County has special affection for Finn, who was a lifelong resident of the region, he added.
"He was a great old hard charger," Hunter said. The campaign to see a vessel named the U.S.S. Finn sailing one day, the congressman said, would show "we still respect and have a place in our heart for heroism and courage and all the things that make our military so great."
Rep. Susan Davis, D-San Diego, chairwoman of the military personnel subcommittee, said "John Finn's heroic record certainly speaks for itself. I'm sure the bravery of the ship and crew that may bear his name will no doubt match the bravery of John Finn."
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Mars One, a commercial space mission intended to put humans in a permanent Martian colony by 2023, has just announced its first science and education partner, University of Twente, a Dutch institution with an entrepreneurial edge.
The mission sounds like a crazy one at the outset: without the support of any governmental space agency, sending human beings to a faraway planet with no plans to ever bring them back to Earth. But founder Bas Lansdorp remains undeterred, following through on his dream with practical financial plans and the million baby steps between an idea and a launch.
Mars One started recruiting civilian astronauts early this year. The company got its first funding a month later and followed that up with its first federally approved contract for developing materials and equipment for the mission.
Today's baby step brings in the organization's intellectual partner for the mission. University of Twente will put its scientific research and educational weight behind the startup and its goals, helping Mars One to develop survival techniques for life on an alien world.
For starters, Mars One employees will be contributing to a new engineering college within the university. Called the ATLAS College, the program will launch this September and will encourage engineering students to focus on breadth of study to solve big societal, global problems.
The university's robotics and mechatronics departments, in turn, will be making contributions to Mars One's robotic vehicles, and behavioral scientists will be working with the mission's astronaut recruits on coping mechanisms for high-risk, low-certainty living situations.
"The Mars One mission shows a lot of courage and ambition, and the team clearly dares to think big," said University of Twente rector magnificus and professor Ed Brinksmain an emailed statement on the partnership.
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COMCAST SPORTSNET TO HOLD CONTESTANT CASTING CALL THIS WEEKEND FOR NEW CHICAGO BASEBALL TRIVIA TV GAME SHOW DEBUTING IN JULY White Sox and Cubs trivia experts urged to test their knowledge at KINCADES Bar & Grill (950 W. Armitage) this Friday at 6:00 PM & Saturday at 3:00 PM
Chicago, IL (May 16, 2012) -- Comcast SportsNet, the television home for the most games and most comprehensive coverage of the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, along with StarPilot Productions, will be holding an open casting call for a new Chicago baseball trivia game show, entitled The Batters Box, debuting on Comcast SportsNet this July.
The contestant search casting call will take place THIS WEEKEND on Friday, May 18 from 6:00-9:00 PM & Saturday, May 19 from 3:00-6:00 PM at KINCADES Bar & Grill (950 W. Armitage in Chicago, IL). Interested participants must 21 years or older.
Whether youre a life-long Cubs or White Sox fan who knows everything about your favorite team or a die-hard Chicago fan with a wealth of sports trivia knowledge, producers want to hear from you.
Contestants will take a quick quiz and go on camera for 30 seconds to state why they think they should be on the show. Comcast SportsNet and StarPilot Productions are looking for White Sox and Cubs fans with great personalities -- 16 will play; only 1 will win! If you think you know your Sox or Cubs, prove it!
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Io! (0:26)
Drive (6:26)
Skritha (0:31)
Slide (2:42)
Drifan (1:32)
Mandrel (2:55)
Skratte (3:53)
Irken (0:33)
Ions Collis (6:16)
Luh (4:10)
Luh Windan (2:52)
Dream Hole (4:23)
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Zoviet France make industrial music for the third world. Whereas Throbbing Gristle or EInsturzende Neubaten will place music atop the apex of mechanisation, echoing their live music with wails of machinery and steel, Zoviet France compose collages woven with wood, hessian, raw materials – and then they package their albums in them. 2014 was the recent peak for a trend of recording albums that imagine an alternative geography, usually a specific island. This covers a multitude of climates – look at Loscil's icy Sea Island, Mark Barrott's tropical Sketches From An Island and the exuberant Tayi Bebba by Clap! Clap! for examples of this phenomenon. Such albums are always an alluring listen but Zoviet France's experiments from the 1980s are not just ahead of their time, but much darker and sharper. The materials of recording are inescapable in their output. Instead of painting a wide canvas of an imaginary locale, their settings come in fits and spurts through obscure samples, often severely compressed. The recent set of 'island albums' are a credible attempt to eschew conventions of nationalism – particularly relevant given the posturing by Putin and ISIS – into a pan-global, semi-fictional music (though Loscil's album is more cold and survivalist, a reduction to essentials). Zoviet France concentrate on the frailty of the message, however, and it's a theme which is just as applicable now as it was in 1987. Playing A Flock Of Rotations means letting spikes of Orientalism pierce through your speakers that infer a general otherness, snatches of sound; market patter, bizarre tapes from markets, a muezzin's call.
The entire album is smothered by a cassette decay effect, and the template for the album, such as it is one, is an insistent, woody rhythm underpinning tortured samples of vaguely ethnic sounding instruments – what sounds like an 'oud here, a tabla there.
As with one of my previous entries in this series, Hot In The Airport, the opening track, 'IO!' is jarringly uncomfortable – a call to arms or a call for help, untranslatable in any case – and therefore the best preparation for what follows. 'Drive' is the longest track on the album and lays the foundations for motifs to be picked up later on. A veritable bazaar of sounds collaged together, it leans on the edge of plunging into pure noise but always retains some semblance of melody and rhythm. 'Slide' is the fourth track and provides the first opportunity to take a breath and get some respite from the onslaught, though it forebodes a tone of imminent dread that is qualified when the second half of the album begins. Before that is an indication of the album's emphasis on miscommunication across cultures as 'Drifan' is, in its title, a poorly echoed translation of 'Drive', completing the first of a handful of paired tracks which have names that exist in floating languages that cannot be coherently united. 'Mandrel' closes out the first side and gives the first example of something more populous on the second side; namely instruments that sound like instruments. The reversed melody matches the ironic theme of 'Drive' and driving – the promise of direction that is wholly incongruous. This is another facet of the album which makes it a good fit for our patronising perception of the Middle East in recent history, assuming it is progressing out of the Dark Ages that Europe abandoned in the 16th century. 'Skratte' sounds like the rantings of a psychotic prisoner, rocking back and forth in their stone cell. 'Ions Collis' is the most fear-inducing track on the album, an unbearably slow creeper at 6 minutes which steadily piles on echoic drum samples that hang around the stereo mix like chittering insects and invoke impending doom. 'Luh' arrives afterwards like a breath of fresh air, with (gasp) clean guitar playing, rather John Fahey-like, backed by initially pleasant reverb which is eventually dragged down into the oppressive dark ambient quagmire. 'Luh Windan' serves as a reprise from 'Drive' before the album closes with 'Dream Hole', which is like a soundtrack for the most horrifying film you've never seen. Given the ethnic flexibility the album possesses, it seems ironically apposite that it should end with a track based upon keyboard sample, the daddy of all instruments, the instrument capable of taking on any identity.
I can remember when I first listened to this album – it was an evening after having watched Egyptians mass in Tahrir Square during a free period at school with some friends. It instantly struck a chord as the album's impenetrable mystery, with its sourceless samples, predicted the collapse of the Arab Spring and emergence of civil strife which subverted the expectation of peaceful liberal uprising along the lines of Western tradition(™). A Flock Of Rotations lacks the polish of Zoviet France's later albums Shouting At The Ground and Look Into Me, but this is not an album about cleanness; it's about muddied communication. It puts the 'orient' into 'disorientation'.


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For a president who kicked off his reign with a world-wide apology tour, it sure took him long enough to show contrition to Poland. Maybe it's because he was the one who made the mistake this time:
President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland this week.
"In referring to `a Polish death camp' rather than `a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland,' I inadvertently used a phrase that has caused many Poles anguish over the years and that Poland has rightly campaigned to eliminate from public discourse around the world," Obama wrote. "I regret the error and agree that this moment is an opportunity to ensure that this and future generations know the truth."
If only he would write a similar letter about the missile shield he pulled out from under them.


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Joseph Kendall "Joe†Ross, 34 of Zanesville, passed away Saturday January 11, 2014 as a result of an auto accident. He was born in Zanesville on December 20, 1979, a son of Kendall Gail and Kathryn Lea Bolyard Ross of Crooksville. He was a 1998 graduate of Crooksville High School and worked as the Operations Manager for Kleenco/ Rex's Car Wash for 18 years. He was a loving husband, father and son, great friend to many, who enjoyed singing and playing the guitar.
In addition to his parents, Joe is survived by his loving wife Jennifer Hartman Ross whom he married June 11, 2012; 4 children Drew Murrey, Madison Ross, Cam Ross and Jackson Ross; two brothers Geoffrey (Michalyn) Ross of Akron and Jason (Leighann Whitley) Ross of Haymarket, VA; father and mother-in-law Kelly and Rhea Hartman of Nashport; brother-in-laws Chris (Pam) Hartman and Josh (Tori) Hartman both of Zanesville; 8 nieces and nephews Bryce, Hannah, Ella, Nash, Weston, Landon, Peyton and Grady; grandparents Sweaty and Madene Bolyard of Crooksville; wife's grandparents Ruth Hartman and Bonnie Mills both of Zanesville and special cousin Vanessa (Brandon) Frash of Crooksville.
He was preceded in death by grandparents Clarence and Hazel Ross and one uncle, Jack Ross.
Calling hours will be held 2-4 and 6-8 Wednesday January 15, 2014 at THE SNOUFFER FUNERAL HOME 1150 WEST MILITARY ROAD ZANESVILLE with a Rosary service at 5pm. Funeral services will be held at 1pm Thursday January 16, 2014 in the Snouffer Chapel with Marc Caton and Paul Ashbrook officiating. Burial will follow in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Crooksville.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Crooksville Athletic Department, 12400 Tunnel Hill Road, Crooksville, OH 43731.
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So, I do have a very supportive husband...as far as my fabric/crafting addiction goes. We were talking about our some-day retirement home and he said we would need three bedrooms - one for sewing, one for guests, one for us.
While I sat here in front of one of my regular home decorating shows this afternoon, I suddenly thought about switching the treadmill into my sewing space and moving my stuff into the spare bedroom that is currently a junk room...
I think I'll do some measuring. Currently I'm in a space that's about 7 x 10 under the eaves with a wall half way around most of it. (Used to be closet and eave space until we had some remodeling down years ago). Frankly, my stuff is just spilling out of there into the hallway and other rooms. The spare room is much bigger.
Not sure how to broach this subject with DH. Any suggestions?