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Batman created by Bob Kane
"So, tell me Mister--" the doctor began.
"No. Stop right there. I don't even want you using my name. You don't understand the kind of enemies I have in my position. If any of them discovered my secret it would ruin me!" the man sternly interrupted.
"Very well. What shall I call you?" asked the doctor.
"Just... just call me B." answered the man.
"B? Look, I know who you are. When your aide setup this appointment, it was an odd request, even for a celebrity such as yourself."
"I know, but I haven't seen a psychiatrist in... well, years. I don't want people thinking I'm... you know."
"Crazy? There's nothing wrong with seeing a doctor, or letting out some stress. Especially for you, B, being so high up and in the spotlight."
The man chuckled, "You have no idea."
Part 1
"Master Bruce?" Alfred Pennyworth called, his voice echoing through Wayne Manor. "Master Bruce?!"
"Yes, Alfred?" a voice shouted back.
"If you don't hurry, sir, you shall be late for A Very Big Appointment." Alfred reminded.
A man appeared from the depths of the manor. A tall, well structured man, yet handsome and childlike in appearance. His hair was groomed, but his facial features molded easily to fit a range of emotions. This was a man who could go from bliss to misery in the shifting of his eyebrows, or in the turn of his grin to a grimace. Though, some in Gotham City might say that this was no ordinary man. For this man, was Bruce Wayne.
"A Very Big Appointment is bound to be a very big disappointment, Alfred. You know how I dislike the theater." Bruce stated, fiddling with the cufflinks on his suit.
"Nevertheless, you must attend. It provides an opportunity for you to become acquainted with a few key pieces on the chess board of Gotham. Remember, the play is the thing, wherein you'll catch the conscience of the king." quipped Alfred.
"A senator or CEO in my back pocket would certainly come in handy. Besides, I can always slip out at the end of intermission." Bruce schemed.
"A cunning plan, Lord Blackadder." Alfred joked. "I'll bring the car 'round."
The stage is set. The players are in position. And yet, one remains out of place. He adjusts his suit. Takes a deep breath, and puts on his best fake smile. Bruce Wayne steps into his private box at The Gotham Palace Theater. His guests politely stand up as he enters and each one stretches out their hand to greet his.
"Bruce Wayne as I live and breath! How are you, boy?" a portly fellow bellows. "I am--"
"Edward Yales: a top scientist at K.O.R.D. Inc." Bruce quickly spat out. "I am very interested in discussing the progress you've made in aerodynamics."
"Hello, Mr. Wayne." a young lady started, blushing.
"Ah, Ms. Havensham, hello. It is miss, isn't it?" Bruce flirted. "I hear you need a grant to start research and testing on that new metal cooling agent?" Ms. Havensham smiled and nodded her head, as Bruce turned to his last guest. "And you must be Brian Harding, former Mayor of Gotham, and possible future President of these United States. You're younger than I expected."
Brian laughed quietly, "And you, Bruce, are more theater going than I expected."
"Yes, I must say your invitation came as rather a surprise." Edward declared, as the four took their seats.
"Well, to be blunt, I think each of you has something I want, and I'm sure I have something you want in return. However, we will talk later. For now, on with the show." Bruce said, turning his attention towards the stage.
Intermission was always Bruce's favorite part of a play. It allowed time to talk about what you thought would happen next, and for him, it allowed time to leave.
"So, if you'll excuse me ladies and gentlemen, I have other matters to attend to." Bruce told his guests.
"You don't want to see how it ends?" Edward asked.
"Yes, it's quite good, Bruce. Don't you think?" Ms, Havensham chimed in.
"Oh, I know how it ends. If you read the program I think you'll find my name where it says 'Producer.'" laughed Bruce as he exited his metaphorical stage.
"What an odd man." Brian thought aloud.
Bruce Wayne had no time for idle chatting. His mission was accomplished, so he left for the next one. He briskly quit the theater and made for his car, which Alfred had waiting for him. Bruce entered the car, and breathed a sigh of severe relief.
"I think my acting was the best of the evening." he bragged.
"Shame, sir." Alfred shook his head.
"Now, where is my suit?" Bruce asked anxiously.
"Under the seat, as usual. Shall I wait up?"
Bruce did not answer. Instead, he quickly donned a cape and a cowl, for as some in Gotham City might say, he was no ordinary man. He was Batman! Alfred turned the car down and alley, and Bruce left the warm seats of the vehicle for the cold streets of the city...

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To say that actors are a superstitious lot is probably one of the understatements of the century, if not the millennium. That proclivity is nowhere better demonstrated than in the long, tortured history of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," a play not exactly filled with butterflies and fairies, but whose extracurricular history includes a virtually nonstop ledger of death, destruction and other mayhem that pretty much matches what occurs onstage. So it's little wonder then that actors insist that even mentioning the play's name will instantly breed bad luck. That's pretty much the setup for Never Say Macbeth, a slight if at times sweetly charming indie film that posits a science teacher nebbish on a quest to find his actress girlfriend, wherein he of course says the name of the "Scottish play" at a theater, wreaking havoc (at least for a while) on everyone concerned.
The film's press kit proclaims Never Say Macbeth as a cross between Waiting for Guffman and Beetlejuice, which may be more than a bit of wishful thinking. While Macbeth certainly has its charms, it has none of the scabrous and wacky Christopher Guest humor of Guffman, and certainly none of the manic energy and big budget special effects wizardry of Beetlejuice. That said, Macbeth offers an at times delightful, if never very hilarious, look at a community theater group attempting yet another "revisal" of Shakespeare's legendary tragedy.
Macbeth is largely a one man show, written, produced and starring Joe Tyler Gold, who portrays Danny, the hapless Ohio science teacher who treks to the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Los Angeles in search of his ex-girlfriend Ruth (Ilana Kira). Somehow he's discovered she's auditioning for a little theater company headed by an astrology obsessed director, Jason (Alexander Enberg, in one of the funnier performances in the film). Before Danny is able to track down Ruth, he's mentioned the unmentionable (namely Macbeth), refusing to believe the other actors' exhortations that he's brought doom and gloom to the proceedings, and then before he can dispel the curse (according to a well-known if ridiculous spell probably crafted by an out of work choreographer), he's hustled onstage to audition for Jason, despite his insistence that he's not an actor. Narcissistic directors are an easy target, there's no doubt, and Macbeth makes the most of this cliché, with Jason casting Danny improbably as Witch #1 for the mere fact that Danny is a Pisces and that will balance the cast, stargazing-wise.
There's also a subplot involving the theater's history, where a 1950s production of "Macbeth" ended in a tragic fire, killing most of the cast. Needless to say, Danny serves as the linchpin between the two eras as he slowly becomes more and more of a believer in things unseen. Playing out against all this mishegoss is his starcrossed love relationship with Ruth, which is hampered by her infatuation with a preening sitcom star (Mark Delkin), and his new nascent romance with another actress in the cast (Tania Getty).
If it sounds a little busy, it is, and that's probably what leads to some of the comedic entropy that undermines the subtle humor at times. Danny remains a likable, if oafish, character throughout, but there are so many tidbits dropped by the wayside (the sci-fi loving stage manager, the ghosts of productions past) that some of the energy of the piece is diluted. There are also some slightly questionable portrayals here (the catty "show queens," for example) that provide little comedy while simultaneously essaying stereotypes that are not particularly PC, let alone illuminating.
What Macbeth has going for it in spades is an understated charm and a cast that obviously is working overtime to show both the insanity and joy of live theater. Gold and Kira make very appealing leads and deserve work in bigger budget features with more demanding roles where they can really shine. The supporting cast is largely game, even when the dialogue (and especially some of the purported punchlines) are not especially well-crafted. Production values are reasonably high for a film that had next to no budget, with some appealing, if low-fi, special effects (though the climactic fire is largely ridiculous, undercutting some of the tension). The score has its ups and downs, the downs largely being the result of being cheesily synthesized and mixed too high, but one very appealing ethnic cue with vocals is outstanding.
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While airport and airline officials continue to gather information in the mystery of how a 9-year-old boy successfully evaded security and stowed away on a Minneapolis-to-Las Vegas Delta flight last week, new details about the young passenger are emerging.
The boy – who, because of his age, is not being identified by name – is no stranger to trouble, reports radio station KFGO AM, which says he's broken into a waterpark without buying a ticket.
Last week, says the station, he was arrested for driving on I-35 in a stolen car.
The station also says his mother works at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, and that Minnesota's Hennepin County child protection workers reportedly have investigated the boy's family four times since December 2012.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the boy went to the airport via light rail on Wednesday and Thursday last week.
On Wednesday, said the paper, he removed a bag off the luggage carousel, went through TSA security and had lunch at a restaurant in the area that leads to the concourses. He told restaurant staff that he needed a restroom, which required his going into one of the concourses.
Leaving the bag and his lunch bill behind, he never returned to the restaurant, said Pat Hogan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission. (The bag was eventually returned to its rightful owner, with its contents untouched.)
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Officials are still not saying how he slipped past security screeners and gate agents to board the flight, which was not full, reports the Associated Press. The flight crew later became suspicious and handed him over to authorities in Las Vegas.
The Transportation Security Administration says he was screened along with other passengers to ensure that he was not a threat.


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Fresh sounds coming to Tahoe Biltmore
March 20, 2013
If you go
What: Odesza, Emancipator and Little People
When: 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23
Where: Tahoe Biltmore Lounge
Tickets: $18 in advance, $21 day of the show
CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. — Less than a year into existence, electronic music duo Odesza is on its first big tour and learning as they go.
"We've been working about eight months on this music," Odesza's Harrison Mills said. "It's pretty new for us. We're learning stuff every day."
Odesza will be grooving at Tahoe Biltmore Lounge on Saturday, along with Emancipator and Little People.
Odesza is Mills and Clayton Knight, both from Washington state. They met through a mutual friend in Bellingham, Wash. Both had a passion for creating electronic music, which kindled a collaborative spark.
"One day I had all my stuff over, and I was hanging out with Clay's roommate," Mills said. "We got together and went downstairs and pumped out three songs. We were like, 'holy shit, this is really good chemistry, we should make an album.' So we spent the summer working on it."
Released in September as a free download, "Summers Gone" is described on the band's website as "a delicate balance between dreamy sun trickled melodies, glitched out vocals, crunchy drums and large sweeping basslines."
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Thus far, Mills has been pleased with the response to their debut record.
"It's been way more than we ever expected, really crazy," Mills said. "People have been really supportive. We've been surprised to see so much hometown love. We thought some blogs would catch on, that was all we really hoped for."
Trip-hop artist Emancipator invited Odesza on their first big tour, heading down the pacific coast and then to New Mexico and Colorado.
"We've been really spoiled so far by Emancipator," Mills said. "They've been really nice and let us live on their bus for this tour. Tour life is really interesting, you never really know what's going to happen, where you're going to sleep."
Mills and Knight are focused on developing their live show.
"The feel we go for is to get people's head nodding at the beginning, introduce our kind of music," Mills said. "Then about halfway through we try to really kick it up, get people dancing."
He mentioned that as an opening electronic dance band, it can be challenging to get the audience moving.
"It's kind of hard, because from where we're standing, we only see the first two or three rows," he said. "A lot of the time those people are there to see the headlining act, so they're the ones you have to win over."
Beyond the current tour, Odesza has some remixes ready for release, and is working on the next E.P.
"We've done a few remixes that are going to be released soon," Mills said. "We've been giving away free download cards, and just putting everything on our website. We are going to be talking to labels once we have something that we're proud to show.
If you go
What: Odesza, Emancipator and Little People
When: 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23
Where: Tahoe Biltmore Lounge
Tickets: $18 in advance, $21 day of the show


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I originally posted this in the Europe forum but I don't want to limit suggestions to just Europe.
I plan a "girl trip" every Oct/Nov as the hubbies are on their yearly golf trip to Myrtle Beach. Every year, the number of women going varies (from 8 to 2), and this year it looks like it may just be 2 of us (at most 4 but doubtful).
We have been to New Orleans, San Diego/Temecula, Scottsdale and surrounding area, Napa/Sonoma wine trip, Ireland twice (drove everywhere), Italy (florence, rome, sienna), Paris/Munich, Key West, Barbados....I have also been to parts of Spain/portugal/gibraltar/morocco, several islands in the caribbean, venice, vancouver, costa rica 5 times, ecuador/galapagos, vienna, and several areas in the US.
We will be leaving the last weekend in Oct thru first week of Nov. which is somewhat difficult due to weather in certain areas. We've always had great luck with the weather in Europe (ok, except for parts of the Ireland trip....expected) and we are not adverse to cooler temps as our summer was brutal. We can swing 10 days maximum. Here is the dilemma - I like to be fairly active on vacations, my friend does not. She has no problem walking as long as there is something to interest her (sites, shopping, etc). She is open, however, to travel just about anywhere. I have no problem repeating an area we have been to (she missed the paris/munich trip).
I've tossed around the idea of Argentina (maybe BA and then wine country), Guatemala (although I think la nina is giving central america a very rainy season), or somewhere in Europe as the Euro is still a bit better than usual. As far as Europe, had even considered a last minute river cruise if i could find one since she likes to cruise? If i did Paris again, not sure what to add on (Loire ?, amsterdam?, london?). I did love munich/garmisch area...saw very little of spain, would like to see more of eastern europe but too cold?? croatia? and of course who doesn't love italy! oh...and did consider Oaxaca because would be there for Day of the Dead but probably no availability and a little nervous about that area politically?
If anyone normally travels during this time of year, I am open to all suggestions - your advice and helping me narrow this down would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
Thank you!
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help! where to go in november??
I originally posted this in the Europe forum but I don't want to limit suggestions to just Europe.
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I think Mexico is a great idea. I most often go to Puerto Vallarta. The weather is good in November, but it's early enough it's still considered off-season for lower prices.
I thought things were stable in Oaxaca these days? Wasn't that quite a few years ago there was unrest in the area?
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Also Hawaii. I've been on Oahu in November and it was very nice. Definitely plenty (or nothing) to do available there.
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Wonder if Prince Edward Island is too cool that time of year?
Hawaii definitely pleasant at that time.
Amalfi coast?
Panama canal cruise?
Actually anywhere in France (Paris and south) or Italy would work for me! Spain?
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annw - you sound like me...that's my problem...i really could go anywhere lol. my friend has done the panama canal cruise and the hubbies want to go to amalfi, not that it is stopping us. i considered amalfi but read a lot of stuff closes in november?
suze - hey! i think you've responded to my stuff before in the central america forums/costa rica? anyway, i did cancun my first yr in college from what i remember..haha and i've been to cabo. got sick both times - not as careful 1st trip, extremely careful 2nd trip...i've heard oaxaca is great...my friend is more nervous about mexico than me b/c she read something about the President being from that area in mexico so some of the drug retaliation/activity has been around there? info may be wrong...and i don't usually pay attention to that stuff...also just saw one of their major airlines shut down too. hawaii is a long trip from east coast/philly area although argentina isn't a bargain either....hmm..
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Everyone has to make up their own mind about Mexico I guess. But I've been 21 times (and never been seriously ill from it yet) and would not hesitate to go get on a plane today to any of the mainstream tourist resort destinations or inland colonial cities. I would never try to talk anyone into it if they are uncomfortable but yes I think your friends "facts" aren't quite correct or current. The only place I for sure would not be hanging around these days is the US border towns.
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If you can swing it to 2 weeks, the South Island of New Zealand might actually be worth visiting, with reasonably good weather and low prices, and stunning, stunning scenery.. with loads of adventure thrown in, if you are so inclined.. not too sure abt the shopping bit, though..
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We were in Hawaii that time frame last year & it was really nice! My sister was on Kauai last week of Oct/1st week of Nov & my husband & I were on Oahu/Maui/Lanai. We all live on the east coast (NJ & SC).
Also, we loved Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur; might be an option.
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Peru is great, lots to see, hiking, shopping, sightseeing. Plus it is really cheap! Machu Pichau is unbelievable....you will really enjoy it. People are friendly, helpful and grateful for the tourist trade.
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Have you considered a trip to Nepal? It is a wonderful country that is getting back from several years of political difficulty. The Himalayan heights down to "sea-level" jungles with rhino and tiger - Nepal has it all. Charming people of diverse ethnic groups and a rich architectural culture in the Kathmandu Valley.
Consider looking at www.tigermountain.com for ideas.
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Tokyo, with a side trip to the North to see autumn leaves/colors. It's Off-season. Fall temps in 60's. Horrid humidity of summer long gone. Really no other choice and in your varied travels, Asia seems very notably missing, which is a shame.
I also agree with the earlier post that New Zealand...or Sydney...would be lovely in their Spring season November.
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As per i have some good experience and memories with that so i like to tell you that you should have to look at California because there are also nice locations and also some travel agencies are available that was used by me, So i like to suggest you that. That's Van Rental San Francisco service is really nice. After all decision is yours but i like to tell you about that. Site of that where i got service is given below,Thanks.
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I wouldn't try the South Island of New Zealand at the moment- they've just had a huge earthquake in Christchurch (largest city in the South Island) and are still getting strong aftershocks.
I'm actually heading to Spain/ London/ Paris for the last week Oct - through to mid Nov, so I'd recommend there
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mrs_pinchy - you've pretty much listed where i think i've narrowed it down too...i just can't swing all 3 places in 10 days so it's probably either paris and somewhere else in france, paris/london, paris/amsterdam, or spain...my girlfriend was just in australia last year and i don't think 10 days is enough time for that....i won't to do new zealand when i have more time as well.
as much as i want to go to asia, i feel like i would need a lot more time to do research??? because i have no familiarity??
jedmo68631 - peru is also on the short list w/ my husband..possibly our next trip...would it be worth it to go twice to machu picchu? that was my draw back b/c i did consider it...
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south africa is one of the most phenomenal places ive been...
have you been to greece or seen the pyramids in egypt?
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I, personally, am always up for trips to the UK. The last time we went in Oct & while it was a bit damp some days, we had umbrellas, hooded coats, & just enjoyed the cooler temps. The weather did very little to change our plans!
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So I narrowed it down to either a Guatemala itinerary or a Paris/London/Amsterdam combo (2 of the 3 cities letting her decide which 2) and she chose Guatemala for this year and wants to do the other next year...thanks for all the input and advice...greatly appreciated! I always love to hear where people have been or want to go...so now I'm going to head over to the Central America forums!
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In the final episode of "Breaking Bad," Walt (Bryan Cranston) gets Jesse (Aaron Paul) out of the clutches of the bad guys by creating an automatic swaying machine gun in the trunk of his car that blows them all away while he and Jesse lay protected on the floor.
In case you don't remember, this is how it looked:
The duo built the M60 machine gun featured in the scene with the same equipment used on the show. They also used the same material for the wall used in the show to shoot at (with some wooden cutouts behind it representing Walt and the bad guys) to see if the bullets from the gun would actually go through the car, the wall, and hit the cutouts.
"Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan was there to keep the setting authentic.
Though he commented "you might be one Nazi shy," referring the cutouts, he gave the setting his blessing.
With the M60 loaded with 200 live rounds of ammunition, the experiment began.
Looks like what went down in the scene was plausible.
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A passenger has been taken ill on a train, causing delays of up to 30 minutes in and out of London Bridge.
Commuters are also facing disruption due to flooding at Patcham Tunnel near Preston Park station.
Network Rail says the flooding has affected signalling equipment, causing major disruption on the Brighton Mainline south of Haywards Heath.
Referring to the Patcham problem, a spokesman for Network Rail said at about 9.30am today (Monday, February 17): "The water level in the borehole was still rising last night, albeit at a reduced rate, and is now at 48.14metres.
"It has to be 47metres to flood the line. The borehole is used to measure groundwater levels in the area, which provides us with an early warning."
A half hourly service is running between Hassocks and Haywards Heath, calling at Burgess Hill and Wivelsfield. Rail replacement buses are running from Brighton to Hassocks.
Passengers for London should change at Haywards Heath.
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Blaise Scerbo was the last Xaverian starter to pitch at St. John's last year, closing out a city championship victory for the Clippers. So it was fitting that the 6-foot-4 right-hander got the team's first start at Jack Kaiser Field this season.
"He's been here before," coach Lou Piccola said.
And Scerbo was just as good this time. The Seton Hall-bound ace tossed a complete-game three-hitter with seven strikeouts to lead top-seeded Xaverian to an 8-0 win over No. 8 All Hallows in both teams' CHSAA Class AA baseball double-elimination championship round opener Wednesday night in Queens. It was the first time Scerbo, who missed a large chunk of the season with a sore arm, was extended for seven innings all year.
"I felt good," he said. "I pitched the last game here, so it was nice to come back."
Scerbo said he got tired in the heat Saturday during a seeding-round game against Fordham Prep. Piccola took him out after four innings to keep him fresh for the championship round. Between starts, the coach said, Scerbo was diligent about his long tossing and running with the aim to go the whole seven.
"He's focused, he's disciplined," Piccola said. "He does his homework. He understands where we are."
Xaverian (19-1) found itself in a scoreless game in the fifth inning when Keith Moore led off with a walk, igniting a four-run inning off All Hallows starter Jose Pacheco. Boston College-bound shortstop Gabe Hernandez had an RBI single and first baseman Sal Taormina crushed a two-run double.
Moore led off the sixth and crushed a home run, his first of the year, down the left field line to spark another four-run frame. Lanfranco had the big hit in that one, a two-run single.
"We just kept scoring," Moore said with a laugh.
The Clippers hope to continue to do so Thursday night 6:30 p.m. against No. 4 Fordham Prep back at St. John's. All Hallows (11-9) will meet No. 5 St. Joseph by the Sea at the same time Thursday at Fordham University. The Gaels had to beat St. Francis Prep, 1-0, earlier Wednesday at Archbishop Molloy HS to earn the right to face Xaverian. As a result, they went with a combination of little-used Pacheco and Lance Montano, a slugging third baseman, on the mound.
Xaverian, meanwhile, is all set up with its pitching. John Pena will go Thursday as the Clippers attempt to remain in the winner's bracket, much like they did last year en route to the title.
"In a double elimination, the first game becomes a critical game," Piccola said. "If you lose, you're playing forever."
Scerbo said he could potentially come back Sunday to close and then, if everything goes Xaverian's way, he could start the final next week. There is still work to do before then, but the Clippers are a confident bunch.
"We thought if we get the first win, we can hopefully repeat what we did last year," Moore said.
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Ensures that the Kirtland cross country program conforms with the standards and requirements of the college, the Michigan Community College Athletic Association (MCCAA), and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).
Schedules, coordinates, and is present at all practice sessions.
Is present at all Kirtland Community College cross country meets.
In coordination with the athletic department and admissions director, recruits student athletes for the cross country team.
Assists in chauffeuring the cross country team to all away meets.
Responsible for overseeing the budget for the cross country team and recommending the purchase of all equipment and uniforms.
Directs and coordinates all cross country meets hosted by the college.
Responsible for the behavior of team members at events that fall within the purview of this position.
Performs other related tasks as required.
SUPERVISION – Works under the general supervision of the athletic director.
- Must possess a thorough understanding of the sport of cross country
- Minimum of one season experience as a coach of a college or high school cross country program, or a combination of education and experience commensurate with the requirements of the postion
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and maintain discipline with student athletes
- Ability to work effectively with others in an educational setting.
JOB DIMENSIONS -Attention to detail, oral communication, judgment, work standards, planning and organizing, initiative, sensitivity, informal communication, dependability, persuasiveness, teamwork, commitment to the college.
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I have a confession to make: I haven't stopped listening to the new Bat For Lashes (AKA Natasha Khan) album, Two Suns, since it arrived at the office a few weeks ago. While I liked parts of Khan's first LP, Fur and Gold, I just couldn't fully commit. I always felt like I was working too hard to enjoy something that just wasn't made for me -- kind of like the majority of the men I dated in my early 20s.
But Two Suns wormed its way into my ears and heart from the second I hit play. Pitchfork.com, which released the stunning cover art for Two Suns today, explains that the new album is "a conceptual affair that pits Khan against a blonde alter ego named Pearl and that the record features Scott Walker and Yeasayer." It reminds me of a cross between Kate Bush's The Sensual World, Sarah Mclachlan's Touch, and Lisa Germano's Lullaby For Liquid Pig. If none of that means anything to you imagine a drum machine pitter pattering away at a Renaissance fair (a real one from hundreds of years ago -- not the one serving up Turkey Legs and geeks in green tights that you went to last summer with cousin Ricky) -- it's epic, nostalgic, dreamy, and current all at once.
You can get acquainted with the new album by checking out the following film shot at Joshua Tree National Park featuring Khan frolicking while snippets from Two Suns play. And then get thee to a record store (or the nearest computer) to get purchase the LP when it becomes available on April 6.
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Hard-to-peg Huskies sitting on the bubble for NCAA invitation
One way or another, the Huskies will make history Sunday.
Seattle Times staff reporter
68-team men's NCAA tournament field announced, 3 p.m., Ch. 7
Bubble teamsESPN "Bracketology" expert Joe Lunardi predicts the Huskies will not get an NCAA invitation.
Last four teams in prediction
• Texas
• N.C. State
• Mississippi State
• Seton Hall
First four teams out prediction
• Washington
• Drexel
• Miami (Fla.)
• Marshall
Source: ESPN.com
Sitting on a podium in front of a room crowded with media, Lorenzo Romar pleaded his case for Washington to receive an invitation to the NCAA tournament.
It was as if the Huskies were on trial and he was speaking directly to the selection committee, the basketball jury that will decide their postseason fate.
"I know we haven't won as many games as we should have in nonconference as a league," he said following an 86-84 defeat in Thursday's Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals. "I would think the Pac 12 champion would be able to find a place in the NCAA tournament.
"We certainly didn't help ourselves ... but I would think we'd be able to find ourselves in there. I am not on the committee. The committee, they're meeting, and we're kind of at the mercy of their decision."
Minutes later in a Staples Center hallway, Romar said if Washington is left out of the NCAA tourney, then the Huskies would accept a request to play in the National Invitation Tournament.
Washington submitted paperwork and cleared dates to host as many as three games at Edmundson Pavilion.
"Just covering all of the bases," he said.
It doesn't mean the Huskies (21-10) aren't hopeful of making a fourth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, but their path to the Big Dance seemingly closed following their most recent losses to a pair of opponents (Oregon State and UCLA) outside the top 100 RPI.
ESPN bracket guru Joe Lunardi projects Washington is the first team outside the tournament. CBSsports.com college basketball analyst Jerry Palm predicts Pac-12 tournament winner Colorado (23-11) and California (24-9) will represent the conference in the NCAAs.
At issue is how much credit will the selection committee give Washington for winning the conference title and how much it will punish the Huskies for an unimpressive nonconference performance.
One way or another, the Huskies will make history Sunday.
No BCS conference winner has been excluded from the tournament in the modern era while no team with an RPI of 69 or higher has ever received an at-large berth.
In 1944, Washington was the last regular-season major-conference champion to not make it to the dance.
"We talk about it in games all the time, when you don't take care of your business and put your fate in other people's hands, you have nobody to blame but yourself," Romar said. "We didn't do what we needed to do, so now here it is. Now we wait."
On Selection Sunday, the committee will distribute 31 automatic bids. Thirty are given to conference-tournament champions while the remaining bid goes to the Ivy League regular-season champion.
The remaining 37 slots are filled by teams receiving at-large berths.
Romar participated in an NCAA tournament mock draft with selection committee members, and that experience tells him Washington is a longshot.
"The conference that you're in is irrelevant," Romar told KJR-AM during an interview Friday. "They look at our body of work. The only argument is we won our league, but there's other leagues that the winner wins the league with maybe 25 wins and they don't get invited to the big dance because the body of work of the entire league wasn't where it should be.
"The only part that may be in our favor is if they look and say there are not 68 teams out there that are better than this team."
Some have argued the NCAA tournament expanded last year to make room for bubble teams like Washington.
Perhaps the Huskies are destined for one of the four play-in games in Dayton, Ohio. USC was sent there last year and finished 19-15.
"I hear what everyone is saying, but for some reason I think there's room in the tournament for a team like Washington," FSN analyst Don MacLean said. "You set a terrible precedent if you don't take them.
"You're basically saying, we don't care about the 18-game (regular season) schedule and we put more value in three to four games one week at the end of the season. Not sure if the NCAA wants to open up that can of worms."
If an NCAA tournament berth eludes the Huskies, then they'll set their sights on the NIT.
Conference regular-season winners such as Washington are guaranteed a spot in the 32-team field.
The first three rounds of the tournament are played at home sites of the team with the highest seed, unless the higher-seeded team declines the right to host.
Quarterfinal winners advance to New York's Madison Square Garden for the semifinals on March 27 and championship on March 29.
Washington has made four NIT trips and posted a 1-4 record.
Romar was a starting point guard for the Huskies in 1980 when they lost 93-73 at UNLV in the opener.
Washington returned in 1982 and beat BYU 66-63 in the first round before falling 69-65 at home to Texas A&M.
In their last appearance, the Huskies lost 67-63 in the first round at Nebraska in 1997. A year earlier, they fell 64-50 in the NIT opener at Michigan State.
Former UW guard Donald Watts Jr., who made two trips to the NIT and NCAA tournament, said it's difficult to get motivated to play in the NIT.
"You're still dealing with the fact that you didn't get into the NCAAs," he said. "Nobody starts the year saying I want to play in the NIT.
"On the flip side, coaches see the value of playing in it and getting those extra practices. Plus they want to end the season on somewhat of a positive note."
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I used 2 cups of plain flour, 2 cups of ordinary table salt & 1 cup of water. This was enough to do 5 hand prints & a foot print so if you require less hand prints I would half the ingredients. Put the water, flour & salt all into a bowl & mix using a wooden spoon, once the dough starts to take shape ditch the spoon & knead with your hands(you might want to take any rings off). Once it is all kneaded well you can break off a ball & roll out onto a baking tray, carefully place your child's hand onto the dough taking care not to press too firmly or too lightly. Once you are happy with your print cut with a sharp Knife around the hand print leaving around 1cm. Make sure you create a hole at the top of the hand print so you are able to pass ribbon through once you have painted it. Put them in the oven for around 4 hours or till dry on gas mark 1/2 or 100c/200F
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Now that all the formal photos had been taken, it was time for our grand entrance into dinner. The bridal party was hidden toward the back of the property while our guests had just settled into their proper seats. I felt a huge sense of awkwardness heading my way, and I wasn't entirely sure how to handle it.
You see, I have always envisioned what our grand entrance would be like. I have seen numerous photos here on the 'Bee where the bride and groom waltz down a tunnel made of their friends. The bride and groom throw their hands up and everyone claps and all is jolly. However, I was concerned I would look like a total nerd if I tried to pull this off. I really didn't seen it happening the way I had always envisioned. Would we throw our hands up, bouquet held high in the air? Would we smile, kiss, and wave at everyone? Maybe we should break out in cartwheels and somersaults? I had no idea, but I didn't like that I didn't have a plan. Luckily I didn't have too much time to dwell on this, so my natural reaction would just have to do.
As James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is" began to play (which, by the way, is the perfect song for a wedding entrance) it was time for us to head on out and make our grand entrance. I am not entirely sure what came over me, maybe happiness and love took over in the driver's seat? Either way, I ended up doing a slight shimmy and then my bouquet and arms went up in the air and my smile lit up the pathway.
I have no clue where that came from, maybe from my old theater days? Who knows, but it all worked out and I don't think I looked too awkward. We walked through a tunnel of our bridal party and made our way over to our spot at the head table. Our guests clapped and cheered, and it was nothing but pure fun with a dash of shimmy thrown in for good measure.
There's something to be said about letting loose and just seeing what happens instead of trying to force a moment.
Are you planning a special entrance or are you just going to fly by the seat of your pants? What song did you choose for your entrance?
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Marling Lumber plans expansion
Marling HomeWorks showroom will open the lumberyard in October and plans to add new employees, said Scott Bowers, chief financial officer.
The lumberyard will make the location a one-stop destination for builders, he said. The lumberyard will have nearly everything offered at Marling's location on River Street.
Even with the economic downturn, the company wanted to invest in its future and make strategic changes, Bowers said.
The area has seen a remodeling boom despite a new construction slowdown, he said.
"We always feel like our best opportunities are in a down economy," Bowers said. "We weren't going to rest on our laurels and wait for the economy to turn around."
Marling Lumber opened its 17,000-square-foot HomeWorks showroom in July 2009 at 1123 Humes Road. The company, which was founded in 1904 in Madison, spent two years and $2 million transforming the former Wolohan Lumber operation into the showroom.
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The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Knox and Lincoln counties, as well as coastal areas of Waldo County, to go into effect 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, and continue to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22. The advisory also includes coastal Cumberland County; coastal and interior York County; and Sagadahoc County.
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Snow will develop over southern New Hampshire late Tuesday, then spread northeast along the Maine coast during the evening. Snow will continue through Wednesday morning, then let up around midday. Total snow accumulations are expected to range from 3 to 6 inches. Strong northerly winds will create considerable blowing and drifting snow, increasing the impact from this snowfall.
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Centreville Animal Hospital is a state of the art 7,000 square foot, full service veterinary hospital located in Centreville, VA. Owned by Drs. Crystal and Travis Taylor, Northern Virginia pet owners have benefited from the Centreville Animal Hospital team's knowledge of veterinary science, skill in healing pets, and overall compassion since 1971.
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A Camp Pendleton Marine was awarded the Silver Star Wednesday for saving the life of a critically-wounded Marine in Afghanistan by fending off a mass group of Taliban fighters so a medical helicopter could land and safely evacuate him.
The ceremony for Master Sgt. David Jarvis of Bremerton, Wash., took place on Camp Pendleton.
The Silver Star and Bronze Star with Combat V is the military's third-highest award for valor in combat.
When a Marine in his platoon was injured by an explosive device on Oct. 25, 2010, Jarvis took decisive action.
He exposed himself to a barrage of heavy machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades as he led Marines to hold their position in an hour-long firefight in Afghanistan's Upper Sangin River Valley.
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Anderson Cooper has put one Dallas newswoman on his nightly Ridiculist for reacting so negatively to Michael Sam's celebratory kiss with his boyfriend upon being drafted into the NFL, aired on ESPN.
Amy Kushnir, a cohost of the KTXD panel show The Broadcast, said Sam's kiss was "wrong" and that she didn't "want it in my face," then advised Sam and Vito Cammisano to "get a room" before she walked off the set.
Earlier this week she spoke with Glenn Beck and claimed that she has received death threats for the views she expressed, according to Broadcast & Cable.
"To Amy Kushnir's argument that nobody shows football players kissing their wives or girlfriends, that's simply not true, and I don't think she's being honest when she wouldn't want to see that either or she yells 'Get a room' whenever she sees that," Cooper said on his show Monday, illustrating Kushnir's hypocrisy. "If you're uncomfortable seeing some kind of affection ... why not just say that and leave the excuses about why you're uncomfortable where they belong: on 'The Ridiculist.'" Watch below.


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Pascal Leclaire was feeling cheeky yesterday.
The Senators goaltender was on the ice before the club's morning skate in full gear -- including a mask -- and faced shots for the first time since suffering a broken cheekbone Nov. 25, when he was struck by a puck on the team's bench.
It's an encouraging sign because Leclaire, who has missed eight games, is scheduled to be out for about a month.
GM Bryan Murray said the Senators will have a better idea today how much longer Leclaire will be out. The netminder was scheduled to have an X-ray last night.
"It's good that he was able to face shots. The next step is to get him back to the point where he's able to practise with the team," said Murray. "We're not going to rush him back.
"We're going to make sure everything is okay and we don't want him to risk the possibility of getting it injured again."
Leclaire skated while the Senators were on their recent five-game road trip, but his cheek had been too tender to put on a mask.


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Last week, the Town of Oro Valley approved a partnership with the Regional Transportation Authority to not only keep transit services operational, but also maintain the high level of quality service residents have come to expect over the years.
This contract caps off nearly a year of discussions and citizens pleading with the Town Council not to take away Coyote Run.
Coyote Run has come to be a reliable service for citizens who cannot get around otherwise. There is a group who rely on the service to get to multiple sclerosis support meetings, and families with children needing rides to get social interaction in Tucson pay for the reliable service.
When it comes to Coyote Run, riders have stressed that it's not just about catching a ride, but it's about quality, safety and trust. These riders know they are taken care of, they feel the drivers care about their wellbeing and many feared that care would be lost.
When many of these residents stood at a council meeting last year, pleading through tears and desperation to find a way to keep the transit system, many of the council members seemed stunned.
Too often, it's easy for council members to look at numbers, think only about the fiscal aspects of an issue, and forget about the impact it would have on residents.
At first, as the council planned the 2011-2012 fiscal year's budget, the plan was to stop Coyote Run and retroactively turn operations over to the RTA. For residents, that meant a loss of the drivers they had come to trust over the years. They knew it meant a step down instead of a step up.
At the time, town staff and council kept saying this was planned all along, that it shouldn't have been a surprise to residents, and to manage a budget, the cut was required.
However, it was through persistence of the members of the Friends of Coyote Run, and other riders that the council realized more discussions were needed.
Councilmen Barry Gillaspie and Bill Garner, along with these residents said Coyote Run and its drivers are much too valuable to just throw away, and eventually everyone else came on board.
One of the best things I have ever witnessed at a local level is when passionate citizens turn out to fight for something. They show passion, they show dedication to make a difference, and when they do, that's when we know the people are still the voice of democracy.
The council has a whole deserve credit. After all, it was all of them that voted to keep paying for Coyote Run until a solution could be found. It was them that held the meetings and started listening to the people. It was them that eventually found out the drivers of Coyote Run are there for much more than a paycheck.
The council formed a committee, consisting of councilmen Steve Solomon and Lou Waters. These two hit the streets, going to people's homes, heard first hand what the concerns with RTA were, and they delivered the messages to the RTA in order to make sure high quality services would remain intact.
That meant talking to the RTA and setting requirements, which eventually turned into an agreement that would still allow Coyote Run drivers to stay on the job, and maybe even a better service for residents.
Last Wednesday, instead of a line of residents standing up to beg the council not to take the planned action, residents who stood up agreed with the plan, and thanked the council for listening.
This turned out to be a good thing for Oro Valley and the region.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Investors and economists are facing a second consecutive week with the U.S. economic reports calendar disrupted by a national holiday.
Some reports will trickle in during the week.
-- Monday kicks off the week with the November report on pending home sales issued by the National Association of Realtors and the monthly manufacturing report of the Dallas Federal Reserve.
-- Tuesday's calendar includes the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index for October and two reports with data from December: the Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index released by MNI Deutche Borse Group and the Consumer Confidence report published by the Conference Board.
-- Wednesday's schedule will include the release of the December Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index survey from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.
-- Thursday brings HSBC's release of its closely watched monthly report on manufacturing in China; Markit Economics' report on British and eurozone manufacturing; the U.S. Labor Department's weekly first-time unemployment claims report; a U.S Census Bureau report on November's construction spending figures; and parallel reports on U.S. manufacturing from the Institute of Supply Management and Markit Economics.
-- Friday's releases include the Institute for Supply Management's New York manufacturing report and Autodata's report of December's vehicle sales numbers.


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Scale the Hollywood Sign, cross the Tar Pits, beat the 405 all over again—and all for a good cause. The 2013 Concrete Hero Urban Obstacle Challenge, taking place on July 14 at Los Angeles State Historic Park, is your chance to take on LA.
Obstacles like the "The Hollywood Sign Climb," "Carmageddon," and the "Tar-Pit Traverse" and a few more surprises will all be waiting for you to surmount them. The money raised through Concrete Hero will be put use through the AIDS Project Los Angeles to support such vital care programs as the Vance North Necessities of Life food pantries, which distribute more than 160,00 bags of groceries to people facing HIV/AIDS and hunger in LA. Another beneficiary is the APLA Dental Services, which provide over 21,000 free and low-cost, dental procedures to people living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County.
"Many of those living with HIV/AIDS are not able to afford basic life-essentials such as food, safe housing, and dental care because the costs for life-sustaining medical treatments are beyond their means," says Craig E. Thompson, executive director at APLA, which is the largest non-profit AIDS service organization in the United States. "The funds raised through Concrete Hero help power programs to ensure folks living with HIV/AIDS receive the vital care they need to live better lives, while also supporting prevention and education programs across Los Angeles County that target those at greatest risk, including youth along with men and women of color."
Just like Michael Douglass in Falling Down, why not take on The City of Angels and win?
The 2013 Concrete Hero Urban Obstacle Challenge will take place on July 14 at Los Angeles State Historic Park in Los Angeles, CA.


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If CIA Calls, Should Anthropology Answer?
Anthropologists have a long history of being uncertain about how close they should get to the U.S. government. Many anthropologists helped intelligence agencies in World War I and World War II, but from Vietnam on, most have resisted any such work. And for most of that time, the Pentagon and CIA have not exactly been calling anthropology departments looking for guidance.
But post-9/11, everything is different. New federal fellowships aim to provide government support for graduate work in anthropology (and other fields helpful for understanding global cultures) in return for pledges of working for the government. This year, the Central Intelligence Agency posted some job ads on the American Anthropological Association Web site, and when the CIA tried to have those ads appear in the association's journals, some took them and others turned them down -- amid considerable debate among members.
As a result of these discussions, the association has created a special committee that will try to figure out the ethical issues involved with working for national security agencies, with the possible goal of adding guidelines to the association's code of ethics. Anthropologists on the committee and those who track these issues say that they are extremely difficult for many scholars.
In a hypothetical situation where the Pentagon asks you for information about a tribe or group you have studied, the information provided could lead to good or harm -- and the decision not to provide information might lead the government to take a harmful action as well, said James L. Peacock, a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chair of the new committee. "That's the dilemma. If you abstain from providing information and something happens, is that ethical? But if you become implicated, is that ethical?"
Peacock, who studies Muslim groups in Indonesia, has never worked for the U.S. government, but the association's committee includes some scholars who have.
David Price, an anthropology professor at Saint Martin's University, in Washington State, and also a member of the committee, said that his main concern is secrecy. He said that he would be inclined to answer questions from an intelligence agency -- provided he had permission to post online everything he said once the meeting was over. The way to protect the interests of the people being studied is to keep everything in the open, he said.
Price has just finished writing Anthropology at War: American Anthropologists' Contributions to the Second World War, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Price said that professors did many things to help the U.S. government, such as advising officials on how to phrase leaflets encouraging Japanese soldiers to surrender and how to communicate with the Japanese public. When the war broke out, he said, anthropologists who had lived in remote Asian villages found themselves being asked questions -- and having to think through the ethics involved.
The central problem, he said, is one of informed consent. Anthropologists now feel that they have an obligation to tell those they study what they will do with their knowledge. If the CIA asks about research done a decade ago, "how can there be informed consent?" Price asked.
Hugh Gusterson, a professor of cultural studies at George Mason University, said informed consent is also his key issue. Gusterson has written in anthropology publications, warning of the dangers of working for intelligence agencies.
"My feeling is that anthropologists' primary ethical contract is with the people they study. Their loyalty to their government has to come after their ethical obligation to the people they study," he said.
Gusterson stressed that this isn't a matter of politics. For example, he studies nuclear scientists, most of whom work for governments. If anti-nuclear groups -- with whom Gusterson has sympathy -- came to him to ask questions such as what kinds of signs might really cause a nuclear scientist to reconsider the work being done in a lab, or who in a lab might be open to leaving, Gusterson said he would never tell. To do so would betray a trust, he said.
At the same time, Gusterson said that many of these issues are "in a gray zone." Many anthropologists who would never want to brief the CIA would be pleased to advise journalists or give a public lecture about a group they have studied that suddenly has become newsworthy. And many would think "that they could brief Donald Rumsfeld with a clean conscience," trying to explain to him why he shouldn't do something harmful to some group they had studied.
There are certain "clearly dirty areas to avoid," he said -- "if you study enemies of the United States and then give information that will be used to kill them." But he also said that there are plenty of situations where one might not know how information would be used -- and that still doesn't address the issues of informed consent.
Gusterson said he was very pleased to see the anthropology association creating the committee. He said he hoped for guidance, but said he was unsure that it would be possible to have precise rules for every situation. And he added that it was also important for academics to respect free speech. While Gusterson said he would never work for the CIA, he said it was wrong for some anthropology journals to reject their advertising.
Anthropologists who work for intelligence agencies could not be reached for this article. Peacock, the committee chair, said he believed there were very few of them, although he stressed that their actions could affect other scholars. If anthropologists working abroad are seen to be military spies, they could be endangered or lose the trust of those they study, he said.
Others, however, argue that the overriding issue should be the need to protect the United States. The Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program, which provides generous stipends in return for government service, is one of the efforts that has attracted scholars' attention. Peacock said that the anthropology association has fielded questions from professors about whether it is ethical to encourage their students to sign up. The program was created out of the belief that U.S. intelligence agencies have been weakened by lacking expertise in many foreign cultures and societies.
Writing last year in National Review, Stanley Kurtz said that U.S. troops depend on better foreign intelligence and he castigated "leftist professors" for not supporting the Roberts program. He also said that this was part of a pattern in which, "for decades, area studies professors have undermined scholarship programs designed to bring knowledgeable recruits into our defense and intelligence agencies."
Of course sometimes anthropologists have in fact sided with the U.S. government -- and later not been proud of the results. Franz Boas, one of the founders of American anthropology and one of the first presidents of the American Anthropological Association, was censured by it 1919 after he criticized scholars who served as spies during World War I. Writing in The Nation, Boas said that anthropologists need to preserve a distinction between spies and scholars, who must be dedicated to "the service of truth." The article so upset his fellow anthropologists that they voted to condemn him.
It was only last year that the association rescinded the censure.
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With one more win, either the United States or Panama will find themselves contesting the Gold Cup final in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday. But first, the duo meet on Wednesday at Houston's Reliant Field for a rematch of the second Group C game.
The Central American side shocked the Americans 2-1 in their first meeting on June 11, handing Bob Bradley's side the country's first-ever loss before the knockout round of the regional championship.
The US are eager to make amends for the slip up, pure and simple. They played their best match of the tournament last Sunday in a 2-0 quarterfinal win over Jamaica in a game was not as close as the score line indicated. Panama, on the other hand, eked out a victory over El Salvador in the second game at RFK Stadium on Sunday, and needed a stoppage-time goal and penalty kicks to defeat La Selecta.
For one team, the Rose Bowl awaits. For the other, it's a long trip home and a two-year wait for another chance at Gold Cup glory.
United States
After the quarterfinal victory, the US players paid lip service to the thought that they didn't care about their semifinal opponent. But while getting to the final is the goal, you better believe they relish the chance to knock Panama out along the way.
Two of the stars of the Jamaica game were midfielders Sacha Kljestan and Clint Dempsey, and have proven they should start together in the semifinal. The return of a rested Landon Donovan and the strong recent play of Alejandro Bedoya, however, could make for some question marks about the starting lineup.
"I think I was able to find those [passing] gaps," Kljestan said after the quarterfinal victory. "Clint was able to find those gaps tonight. We're a good passing team when we want to be."
If Kljestan and Dempsey are indeed the offensive catalysts again, they'll likely need to facilitate the attack without Jozy Altidore. The Americans' top scoring threat went down with a hamstring injury in the early going against the Reggae Boyz, and it's likely that New York Red Bulls teenager Juan Agudelo will get the start over San Jose's Chris Wondolowski as the team's lone man up top.
But Dempsey, Kljestan and Donovan should provide Agudelo with enough support, and don't forget the sporadic offense chops of Michael Bradley or even Jermaine Jones, who scored his first career US goal to kickstart the win over Jamaica.
Tim Howard will keep the US defensive corps sharp, with the usual suspects manning the back line: Steve Cherundolo, Clarence Goodson, Carlos Bocanegra and youngster Eric Lichaj, who played well enough against Jamaica to safely shift Bocanegra into the middle and leave New York's Tim Ream as an option off the bench.
But if the Americans hog the ball the way they did against Jamaica — they controlled nearly 65 percent of the possession and completed 87 percent of their passes — then perhaps the US defense won't have much to do, and that's welcome news.
"Teams have sat back on us and defensively, it's easy to go to sleep when you have so much of the ball," Howard said after the match against Jamaica. "My reminders to them were just that: We've got to talk and communicate and take care of the ball. We've got to be pessimistic in thinking that the next ball is going to break down, and how do we deal with that?"
The Central American side played their Super Bowl against El Salvador on Sunday. They looked done after Rodolfo Zelaya's 78th-minute goal, but fought back in front of an exceedingly hostile crowd and drew even on Luis Tejada's injury-time tally. During the scrum after the controversial goal, captain Blas Pérez was sent off (along with El Salvador's Luis Anaya), meaning he'll have to watch the semifinal from the stands.
After the defeat of La Selecta and the group stage win over the Americans, manager Julio Dely Valdés is hopeful lightning strikes for a third time within an 11-day span. The Panamanians have the advantage of knowing they can compete with — and beat — the US. But how much energy will they have after enduring 120 physically draining minutes and emotionally exhausting penalty kicks afterward?
Dely Valdés doesn't have a deep bench, so he will rely primarily on his starters from Sunday night's affair. It won't be an easy match, although a large part of the crowd could be rooting against the home team (don't forget that Mexico play Honduras in the nightcap). If Panama can tally a quick goal as they did in Tampa Bay, they may be able to hold off the US. Stranger things have happened.
Key Players
United States: Clint Dempsey
The Fulham midfielder and Texas native's goal to ice the quarterfinal victory was cathartic, as his intense, joyous celebration demonstrated.
"[It showed] the fact that I keep going, that I keep picking myself up after a bad situation happens," he said. "I'll rise above it."
He'll rise once more on the Houston field that's not far from his childhood home.
Panama: Luis Tejada
If the Panamanians score, it's going to come through the man who put them up the first time these two teams met. He has played a part in five of the country's tallies during the Gold Cup, and will have to do it again along with Luis Rentería, who will play for the absent Pérez.
United States Projected Starting Lineup
Tim Howard; Steve Cherundolo, Clarence Goodson, Carlos Bocanegra, Eric Lichaj, Landon Donovan, Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones, Sacha Kljestan, Clint Dempsey, Juan Agudelo
Panama Projected Starting Lineup
Jaime Penedo; Felipe Baloy, Luis Henríquez, Román Torres, Adolfo Machado, Gabriel Gómez, Nelson Barahona, Amilcar Henríquez, Armando Cooper, Luis Tejada, Luis Rentería


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This was made back in 2005ish when Ouran was relatively unknown. I never got a chance to wear it and thus is hung in my closet for years. An unexpected opportunity to attend AMA 2009 made me bring it out.
The jacket is nothing special. It's just a standard jacket, but it's made from what is called rodeo cotton. It is a pain to sew since it is thicker than it looks. The patch was purchased from Mandrake by a friend in Japan. The tie is a standard black silk tie in which I handsewed the purple ribbon to it. I did make the pants and they get swapped out for various costumes. The shirt is a regular button up polo, and the shoes are Mudd oxfords.
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The Internet creativity is just one of the effects of digital revolution. In the era of social participation and the new forms of communication, creativity is involved in a new process of participation and many forms of creative expression are developed. This process is made by the participation of Millennials and Digital Native generation and their facility to realize new concepts elaborating contents that still exist. The speed of the transmission and sharing of ideas makes this instrument a driving force for economy and business but also an instrument for imposing new forms of creativity carving out an important role in the field of protection of intellectual property and new forms of copyright out form the ordinary idea of copyright historically considered. The implications of this revolution in terms of protection of intellectual property are irreversible and it could change the approach of new generations to the respect of what is the result of other works and studies made by artists, scientists, inventors, firms, people who gave to the world their contribute investing minds, time, money and who need protection for their work. The Internet world needs education to protection of intellectual property but free possibility for creativity at the same time. The problem, in terms of violation of copyright, has an expansive propagation looking to percentage and activity of connections and without any form of deregulation or without an international Electronic Lex there will be not an universal solution, consequences are still unknown, with incredible negative copyright effects.
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"At just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing, in a release issued this morning. "The new 2GB model lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle."
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With his rough-hewn voice and laid-back Midwestern charm, Lee DeWyze won over millions of viewers as a contestant and eventual winner of the ninth season of American Idol. An accomplished singer, guitarist, and songwriter who had already built a following on the Chicago club scene by the time he auditioned for Idol, DeWyze displays his true nature as an artist on his major-label debut Live It Up. The title track captures the easy-going sprit of the album — a breezy blend of rootsy pop, rock, and folk, anchored by DeWyze's soulful, husky voice and bright-sounding acoustic guitar.
"I love guys like Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, Dave Matthews, and Ray LaMontagne," DeWyze says. "I'm a sucker for hard-edged vocals over pretty melodies and catchy grooves, so that's what I wanted to do on this album. It shows the flip-side of what I was able to present on Idol because it's 100 percent me. I'm so proud of it."
Working with top-notch collaborators such as Toby Gad (Alicia Keys, Fergie), John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow), David Hodges (Kelly Clarkson, Weezer) and Norwegian production team Espionage (Beyoncé, Train), DeWyze co-wrote nearly every song on Live It Up, which he recorded while on the road over the summer with the "American Idol Live" tour. "To see my name listed in the credits was really important to me because I'm a songwriter," DeWyze says. "I also loved working with such talented writers. They all brought so much to the table and really helped me flesh out my ideas."
An engaging raconteur, DeWyze tells a story on each song on Live It Up, while sketching out a compelling tale of a relationship, with all of its ups and downs, over the course of the album. After setting a free-wheeling tone on the irresistible first single "Sweet Serendipity," DeWyze explores themes of romantic uplift ("Weightless"), regret ("Stay Here" and "Dear Isabelle"), and expresses a passionate urgency on the piano-driven "Me & My Jealousy" and "Beautiful Like You." "The first line of 'Beautiful Like You' is 'Everybody wants to look into the mirror and feel a little better now.' Who hasn't been there before?" DeWyze says. "I want people to relate to these songs, that's why lyrics are important to me. I love stories in songs and always try to write from an honest place. It's about capturing emotion, so that when you listen, it takes you back to that place. My best memories are all connected to music and I want to create those moments for other people."
DeWyze created his own musical memories growing up with three siblings in Mount Prospect, Illinois, where his mother worked at a local hospital and his father was a postal carrier. "Sunday was my dad's day off, so that was when he'd put on records and we'd just listen to music all day long," DeWyze says. "I have such vivid recollections of that time. We listened to Simon & Garfunkel, Grand Funk Railroad, The Mamas & The Papas, and Cat Stevens. Tea for the Tillerman was my favorite album. I have the lyrics to 'Father and Son' tattooed on my arm." When DeWyze was 14, he hauled his dad's old guitar out of the closet and begged him to get it restrung so he could learn how to play. Working with a book of Beatles chords his father gave him, DeWyze began to teach himself basic progressions. "I'd play the chords and sing my own thing to them because I didn't know how to write music. So I'd sing my own lyrics along to 'Yellow Submarine,'" he recalls with a laugh.
As time went on, DeWyze's musicianship improved and he began writing his own songs. At age 17, he was discovered by the owners of a Chicago indie record label, which released two of his independent albums. In January 2010, DeWyze found himself, at the urging of his bandmates, standing in line at Chicago's United Center along with 12,000 aspiring singers waiting to try out for American Idol. "It was literally a question of 'Why the hell not?'" says DeWyze, who was the only male contestant never to wind up in the competition's bottom three.
In August 2010, DeWyze was back at Chicago's United Center, this time to headline the "American Idol Live" tour — a far cry from that first cattle call audition that sealed his future: putting out Live It Up on 19 Recordings/RCA Records. "Releasing an album on a major label is why I did the show," DeWyze says. "American Idol didn't teach me who I was an artist. I already knew who I was. The hard part was learning how to be on the show, avoiding cameras flying around, and surviving the judging panel. But my attitude was to go out there, sing the songs, have fun, and whatever happens, happens. Every week I was still there, I felt grateful. Even though I hadn't won, this is what I would be doing. I just want to make music that I love and that other people will love."
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Then, just a little bit ago, I received a text from him inquiring about the health of one of my family members. Why?!?!? It sent me into hysterical crying and refreshed my pain all over again. I kept saying out loud, "just leave me alone". All his actions clearly show me that I am no longer his concern and I've been doing as good as I possibly can at accepting that. Why send me a text out of the blue showing concern for one of my family members that he knows I love dearly???
My WH took me to see this family member over Christmas time as I know his health is failing and it probably was the last time I'll see him. Since dday, I've realized that even during this trip, WH was texting/sexting the OW (it's all clear to me now some of the little things that I found odd during that time...). Of course, his text to me today brought all this back and I triggered bad. I feel sick to my stomach.
Why, why, why in the hell did he have to reach out and ask me something that he knows I'm already upset about???? Why pretend to care when I know he doesn't??? What is the point???
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The healing process cycles; it's normal to have set-backs. And I am a firm believer that having the hurt come back is part of processing it and letting go. You think this means you aren't making as much progress as you hoped, but it's PART of the progress. You're getting there.
Crickets to that self-serving BS. ((((Left))))
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TDP national president and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today exuded confidence that the TDP-BJP combine would establish victory in the GHMC elections.
Speaking to the media at NTR Bhavan today, Chandrababu said victory of TDP-BJP combine in GHMC elections was indispensable as this alliance alone was capable of ensuring all-round development of GHMC areas. The people of Hyderabad have confidence in Telugu Desam party as Hyderabad city was developed during the previous TDP regime and boosted growth of IT and with the help of L & T, Hi-Tech city was developed and named the IT corridor as Cyberabad, he explained.
The TDP supremo said the credit for placing Hyderabad in the global investment map goes to his party with the help of Vajpayee government and no other party could stake claim. IT firms in the world moved to Cyberabad after Microsoft opened its office in Cyberabad during TDP rule, Naidu reminded and said Hyderabad look has changed when TDP government constructed 18 flyovers and widened roads for creating infrastructure. The credit for development of Buddha Purnima project and Lumbini park goes to TDP government alone and the Telangana State was getting revenue from Hyderabad.
The AP Chief Minister said he never worked against the interests of Telugu people. He was ready to go and fight for the justice of Telugu people if they faced problems. "Our government constructed and developed a greenfield airport in 5,000 acres at Shamshabad and I had visited various countries and sought investments in Hyderabad", Chandrababu Naidu said, adding that Hyderabad city economically strengthened and it became a tourist centre. Though some leaders changed their loyalties, but his party has a strong cadre in Hyderabad, Naidu asserted.
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In a ceremony at the State Department, President Bush on Monday signed a bill that will provide $15 billion over five years to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. The House and Senate last week agreed to final terms of the legislation, which earmarks one third of prevention funding for programs that teach abstinence as the preferred method to prevent HIV infections. Up to $1 billion a year will be donated to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The bill would direct 55% of U.S. international AIDS funds to treatment programs, 20% to prevention efforts, 15% to palliative care, and 10% to programs serving AIDS orphans. White House sources say Bush will use the new program as leverage to encourage other wealthy developed countries to fund international HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs when he attends a G8 summit meeting in Evian, France, June 1-3.
"We believe in the value and dignity of every human life," Bush said at the bill-signing ceremony. "We are the nation of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, and the Peace Corps, and now we are the nation of the emergency plan for AIDS relief. I will challenge our partners and our friends to follow our lead and to make a similar commitment made by the United States of America so we can save even more lives. I will remind them that time is not on our side."
Congress still must approve the bill's funding levels through the appropriations process, and it's not clear whether the recommended $3 billion in aid for fiscal 2004 will be available. Bush's current proposed budget recommends only $1.7 billion in funding, slightly more than half the amount called for under the international AIDS program. Lawmakers are expected to try to raise that amount, but it's unclear where the extra funds will come from given competing demands from rising military and Homeland Security costs, an expanding budget deficit, and the recently approved $350 billion tax cut measure. Also, the $1 billion annual U.S. contribution to the global fund is contingent upon other nations donating at least $2 billion to the group each year. The international AIDS bill says that U.S. contributions to the fund can account for no more than one third of the organization's overall yearly budget.


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