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As soon as I saw the 3D preview for Gatsby (when I went to go watch Oz the Great and Powerful, which I loved) I knew that it was a movie that I wanted to see. I went and saw it a couple of days ago at the Kabuki theater where I enjoyed the Gatsby Gimlet that they were serving at the bar. I got immersed into the movie and I've been mulling it over since. Was it the most amazing movie I've ever seen in my life? No, but I did like it a lot and there were many reasons why.
Here are ten things I liked about Gatsby:
1. Stunning 3D Effects
There were so many little details in the 3D effects that I loved. I'm a sucker for 3D movies. I'll like almost anything in 3D honestly. I just get wrapped right up into the beauty of the imagery. This movie in particular did some cool things with the way trees hung in the foreground, confetti and snow fell into the crowd, curtains billowing and words were written onto the front of the screen.
2. Gorgeous Fashions and Style
They did a great job of showing off modern couture interpretations of the fashions of the Jazz Age in a gorgeous way in this movie. It was a delight to just look at those fashions. The hairstyles, the accessories; all of the details were delightful in every scene in the movie.
3. Movie of Male Friendship
I thought it was a really interesting portrayal of the friendship between the two main male characters. We just don't see a lot of movies that are about that topic. The movie is about many different types of relationships and they're all interesting and important but that's a unique aspect that differs from most other love story movies.
4. Reveals Sad Truths About Human Relationships
There are so many things that the characters in the movie could have done differently to honor, cherish, celebrate and improve their relationships. But we are human and flawed and the different relationships displayed so many of the true ways in which we can be flawed in our relationships. It's sad, but it's touching.
5. Music Choices
The film is filled with music. What I loved was how there was this great combination of the influences from the jazz age in which the film is set with influences of totally contemporary 21st century rap and pop music. This could have turned out terribly if it wasn't done well but I thought it was done great.
6. Terrific Cinematography
Yes, this goes hand-in-hand a bit with point #1 about the great 3D effects but just in general I thought the photographic choices that were made were terrific. There were excellent choices made with the right lighting, the boldness of color in certain spots, the close-up details of faces in some places … It was a visually stunning movie to watch. There were certain times in the film when the Blockbuster Movie style storyline did start to get a little boring for me but the film itself didn't bore me because it was so pretty to watch.
7. Interconnectedness of the Characters
I loved the way that the stories of the different lives of the characters were woven together throughout the film. Some smart choices there in the storytelling.
8. Glimpse into the Jazz Age
My father is in love with the Jazz Age so I know a little bit about it from what he's shared. I know a little bit also from research I've done at various times. I'm the first to admit that I don't know a whole ton about it but it's definitely an interesting time period that I'll eventually delve into more. I don't know enough to say how accurately the movie represented New York in the Jazz Age but it seemed like it hit some of the key points in interesting ways, revealing the sensuality and fun of the time along with some of the darker influences that emerged then.
9. The Humor
Gatsby is not a funny movie. It's a drama, a romance … but there were certain humorous lines that caught me off guard and cracked me up. Humor is always nice.
10. Narrated Story
I've always loved movies that are narrated in part by one of the characters. It's a terrific storytelling technique that always endears a movie to me.
Have you seen Gatsby? Thoughts?


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About a year ago, in the salad days of my eager cub-scribe-y-ness, I wrote a little article about the 2005 National Professional Paintball Leaguer tournament. It wasn't anything exciting; just a wee bit o' sump'n sump'n about what a professional paintball tournament might look like to someone from the outside of the game. You know, the whole gun and ammo sales, the kids using their nifty war lingo, the casualty count, the lack of any normal social skills . . . stuff like that. And flattered as I might have been over the prospect of attending the tournament last year, it held no cigar to the overflowing love the 'ballers showed me on the Planet LAPCO blog. Blog admin Colin T posted my article first [Mon., April 4, 2005, 1:08 p.m. Subject: "Happiness Is a Warm Paintball Gun"]. The ensuing hour and eight minutes went a little something like this:
Ryan_Page [1:16 p.m.]: "now thats just great for paintball media. children wandering between the injured like children of war? blood like paint? crotch shots? blow your head clean off? yay!"
ColinT [1:25 p.m.]: "She was a bad reporter. Obviously her first piece on Paintball. She didn't approve. Tough—Keep your scatalogical thoughts to yourself—lady"
Ryan_Page [1:27 p.m.]: "was that second line to me or her?"
ColinT [1:40 p.m.]: "Are you a 'lady'?"
Ryan_Page [1:46 p.m.]: "well. ryan is a guy's and girl's name. i never knew who you were talking about."
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Thepaintedballer [1:53 p.m.]: "I never heard of a chick named ryan."
Gotin Drachenhart [2:01 p.m.]: "Colin, you are going to give me more gray hairs and high blood pressure with all these bad articles about our sport!!!!! oh, and ya I've never heard of a chick named Ryan."
Ryan_Page [2:16 p.m.]: "well, according to a full list of names, their origins, meanings, and the sex(s) they are for, ryan had male and female."
Well, there it is folks, the reason (or lack thereof) to go to this year's NPPL tournament at the Huntington Beach Pier, 417 Main St., Huntington Beach, (714) 536-9050; www.nppl.tv. Fri.-Sun. Call for times. Free.


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According to Muhammad's teaching, moderation in all religious matters is better than excessive piety, and a chapter in the Traditions is devoted to the subject. He is related to have said:-
"The best act in God's sight is that which is constantly attended to, although in a small degree."
"Do what you are able conveniently; because God will not be tired of rewarding as long as you are not tired of doing."
"You must continue at your prayers as long as it is agreeable to you, and when you are tired sit down,"
"Verily, religion is easy, therefore hold it firm" (See Mishkat, Babu 'l-Iqisad.)
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December 29th, 2012 03:53 PM #36
Yes, I've had the funny tastes for awhile, slightly better now but from maybe 6-10 weeks everything tasted vaguely metallic. Totally normal as far as I know!
New smell aversion today, can't handle the smell of oil heating on the stove.
That joins gasoline, sweet potatoes, and mascara (anyone else on that one? haha)
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I have had a bad taste in my throat for a few weeks now, too! It really is annoying and kind of gross. I feel like I need to brush my teeth all day long and always have a mint! My morning sickness has increased in intensity and it is pretty much all day long, getting worse in the evenings. Thankfully, I have not had vomiting, just the nausea. other than that, and the weird taste in my mouth, and being really tired all the time, I'm not having any other symptoms. My allergies usually are worse when pregnant too, so I have a lot more of the post-nasal drip/drainage which makes me want to gag!
I still don't have a doctor, waiting for a call back from the one who I'd love to get into. I'm almost 8 1/2 weeks so I'd really like to get in for an ultrasound soon! I'm always kind of anxious until I see the baby/hear the heartbeat, then I can get really excited.
I pretty much never want to eat anything, nothing ever sounds appetizing and I have to force myself to eat sometimes. My husband has been great, by cooking a lot of our meals, so I don't even have to think about it, just try to eat it. He is a good cook too!
We had a stomach virus and now I feel like I could be coming down with something else. Hoping it isn't the flu/influenza that's been going around!
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Welcome Diane and congrats on your twins!
Things taste funny to me too...we went out for a fancy new years dinner and everything just tasted kind off off. No throwing up but I do notice a mild nausea sometimes.
My HCG levels are not just doubling every 2 days...they are doubling every 1.5 days! And no, twins do not run in my family or H's.Baby girl K.A.
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@libby06 lol! I think we may be on the same wave link, I'm 7ish weeks and afraid to celebrate until my ultrasound next week. For some reason I feel like I might be that unlucky person who has something go wrong. I know 5 people who have announced all around 9-15 weeks.
I'm not hungry like ever but trying to eat and sooo tired it isn't funny. Really cutting into my time with my husband since he works 2:30pm till 10:30pm or with overtime 2:30am, I haven't really spent time with him in awhile =/
However not really sick besides the flu, just nauseous every couple of days.I'm Alix Louise
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January 3rd, 2013 01:18 PM #44
Sending lots of happy thoughts for all the first ultrasounds coming up--- we're going to have a lot of summer babies on this board!
I've made it to the second trimester...can't say the nausea has completely faded, but definitely feeling like I can eat a bit more and more variety. Not quite as painfully tired for the past week or so...still feel pretty useless before 9 am and after 9 pm though.
Hope you're feeling better and it's not the flu, libbyj!
Diane, twins for mothers day would be positively adorable and I love your son's name! Have you found out the sex(es) of your twins?


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From: Neil A Hofland <>
Subject: Transition - 8 - [250] - [258]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:36:58 +0000
Theodore C. Blegen's "Norwegian Migration to America, The American
Transition" is published with the kind permission of the
Norwegian-American Historical Association (NAHA), St. Olaf College, 1510
St. Olaf Avenue,
Northfield, MN 55057-1097. (email: ) This book is under
copyright and permission has been granted for educational purposes and is
not to be used in any way for any commercial purpose.
Hitherto there had been no open controversy on the question of
Norwegian-American support of the common school, but the stand taken at
the parochial school conference was promptly challenged. It was a
Danish-born schoolmaster at Scandinavia, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, who
cast down the gauntlet before the clergy in 1858 on the school question.
Rasmus Srensen had been trained in a Danish academy, and before he
became a leader of Danish immigration to America he had been active in
his native land in the fight for popular education and social reform in
the interest of the bender. {14} He now submitted a lengthy article to
Emigranten in which he defended the American public school system and
denounced the Norwegian-American clergy. {15} He praised American
lawmakers, who were advancing "education and enlightenment for the whole
people." Public education in Wisconsin, he said, was in its childhood and
needed to be watched and nurtured. All the immigrant children, in his
opinion, needed to be kept "regularly and diligently in attendance at our
American free schools." Instruction in English was essential to their
advancement in [250] "their real and true fatherland, America." If the
counsels of the Norwegian clergy were followed, the immigrant children
would be shaped and molded as "Norwegian Indians in America" and
ultimately would be treated as "outcasts and trash."
He called on the immigrants to give the Norwegian preachers "the answer
they deserve" for their hostility to the American district school system.
The inevitable result of such a reply, he believed, would be that the
children would become "true Americans, one nation, together with all
other Americans." As to the omission of religion from the American public
school, he pointed out that, while the common school did not bar the
reading of the Bible or the learning of Bible stories, it naturally could
give no place to the creeds and customs of particular sects. The subjects
it did teach were essential to one's lifework and citizenship in America.
He reserved his sharpest words for the clergy's general position on
parochial schools. He declared that the settlements had witnessed a
process of "pastoral Norwegianization." "Can Americanism grow and thrive
in the Norwegian settlements in America," he asked, "before it is planted
in the children and in the young people?" He urged that "God's Word"
should be read and expounded in the "American language," at any rate for
the rising generation, reserving Norwegian for the benefit of the elderly
and of newly arrived immigrants. If each one of the various national
groups established a district school system of its own, looking upon
English as a foreign language, he saw as the outcome nothing but national
and religious wars in America; and he closed by excoriating what he
called a "stupid imagined fear of everything American."
This was a frontal assault, indeed, and it was met by an answer from the
pen of the Reverend A. C. Preus, the president of the Norwegian Synod.
{16} As to the common school, [251] Preus said that he had no objection
to it if it enjoyed the services of a "competent, zealous, and
conscientious teacher," but after much observation of American district
schools in the West he had been forced to the conclusion that they were
"as bad as it is possible for them to be and still deserve the name of
schools." Neither laws nor buildings nor money could assure good schools,
he said, if they lacked good teachers; and in his opinion nine out of ten
teachers in the American common schools were so young, ignorant, and
lacking in experience that they were incapable of conducting a decent
school. To make matters worse, most teachers stayed on for only one term
--- from three to six months --- and hence the school derived no profit
from the experience that the teacher gained during that period. "Such a
thing as discipline in the school, or respect for the teacher," he
declared, "is rarely seen in the West." He had himself sent his own
children to the common schools, but the results had been discouraging.
His daughter, six years old, reported that her teacher addressed her
class as "Ladies and Gentlemen!" Preus said that he by no means opposed
the learning of the English language; in fact, his own children read
English and Norwegian almost equally well; nor did he have any wish that
the immigrant children should not become enlightened American citizens;
but he took the position that "a bad school is worse than no school at
all." As to the problem of parochial schools and the use of Norwegian,
until English actually supplanted Norwegian in the immigrant homes, the
Norwegian language necessarily must be used in the church and the
parochial schools. Religious teaching and preaching should employ the
language of the heart, which he defined as the language in which one
thinks and prays. English, for the Norwegian-speaking immigrants, was
obviously not their mother tongue; hence it must seem a foreign language.
{17} [252]
This exchange of opinion had many echoes in the press, but it did not
open up a controversy in full force. A satirical and humorous letter,
ostensibly supporting Srensen, was couched in the mixed
Norwegian-American, and in its way threw more realistic light upon the
problem of language than all the other contributions combined. {18}
"Peder Paars" offered, in heavy sarcasm, mock praise of Norwegian
teachers and schools. Preus returned to the attack by marshaling American
criticisms of the common schools to prove that the Americans themselves
were not blind to the shortcomings of their system; and Srensen
ventilated his views on the respective merits of American and
Scandinavian literature. {19} But perhaps the most significant outcome of
the discussion was a joint declaration, in the summer of 1859, by eleven
clergymen of the Norwegian Synod setting forth their general position "On
Schools and Language Conditions." This declaration, whose signers
included Professor Larsen, Koren, Ottesen, H. A. Stub, A. C. and H. A.
Preus, and Brandt, took the characteristic form of a series of theses.
The ministers began with a forthright statement that the Norwegians in
America needed a thorough knowledge of English and that it was their duty
to secure it so far as they were able to do so, that they might the
better fulfill their duties as citizens. Such a knowledge was necessary
not only from the point of view of their material well-being, but also in
order to be able to understand American writings and [253] judge the
various religious teachings in America. They went on to praise religious
freedom as one of the greatest advantages of the American system and to
pledge their purpose to retain, under this freedom, their Lutheran faith
and old Norwegian church order, and to bring up their children in this
faith. Since most of the Norwegian-American church members did not yet
sufficiently understand English, it was necessary to conduct church
services and to teach religion in Norwegian, "the language of home prayer
and devotions." They proposed to teach the Norwegian-American children
the Norwegian language and religion not only because of their natural
love for the old fatherland but also because, viewing religion as the
most essential of all knowledge, they looked upon the language in which
it was taught as "more significant to us than anything else." They
regarded it as perfectly possible both to study religion in Norwegian and
to learn English, but issued a warning against the use of the common
schools if they placed children in danger of being cut away from their
Lutheran faith. As to the common schools, they pointed out that they had
little discipline and that children should be sent to them only after
careful investigation, and they urged parents meanwhile to do all in
their power to improve them so that their children would not need to be
denied the important knowledge that such schools offered. If the district
schools were good, they concluded, children might safely be sent to them,
and they recommended an energetic patronage of them. Some attention was
given to the school question in the Synod meeting of the same year and it
was decided, among other things, not necessarily to exclude from the
church those who refused to give active support to the congregational
schools of religion. The local situation was to be the deciding factor.
The moderate tone of this ministerial declaration of 1859, coupled with
the Civil War, seems to have been responsible [254] for a postponement of
a thoroughgoing discussion and controversy on the school question, but
the Synod leaders were not inclined to let them rest permanently. After
the Civil War, in 1865, Pastor Koren and Professor Schmidt of Luther
College proposed to the Synod that a committee should undertake a study
of the religious schools and particularly of the prospects of including
additional subjects in their curricula so that the common schools could
be made superfluous for the Norwegian immigrants or at any rate that some
of the main difficulties in the way of the parochial schools might be
removed. This proposal led to an elaborate report by Pastor Brandt and
Professors Schmidt and Larsen, and this, in turn, placed before the Synod
for action at its meeting in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1866, set off the
larger controversy that had been brewing ever since the clergy began to
challenge the public school system. {22} The report and the Synod action
that followed it definitely steered the church in the direction of the
Missouri Synod system of parochial schools, not to supplement, but to
supplant the American public schools; and this tendency came into
conflict with the views of Norwegian-American laymen throughout the
The committee conceded that the common schools deserved praise and
support as a state institution, and it accepted without cavil the fact
that the state schools could not permit instruction in Christianity, that
an attempt to introduce such instruction would have the character of an
assault upon religious freedom. But it put forward the view that
Christian instruction would produce good citizens and that the state had
no cause for complaint if the church chose to send its children to its
own schools. In a word, it said that the state should not compel children
to go to the public schools. All this served as a preface to a series of
twenty-seven theses [255] that were placed before the Synod for
consideration and action. Of these only eight were acted upon, most of
them after changes of one kind or another, but these touched the heart of
the question.
The Synod began by accepting the dictum that" For Christians it must be
regarded as natural to employ only Christian schools for their
instruction." It then went on to declare that "In this country it must
therefore as a general rule be looked upon as desirable for Christians to
set up parochial schools that will permit the teaching of approximately
the same things which are taught in the so-called 'Common Schools' and
that the latter therefore will not need to be used." It recognized a
civic responsibility, however: "As citizens it is our duty to support
these common schools even if we do not utilize them for our own
children." But it asserted that the "greatest service of these
religionless schools" was for the non-Christian portion of the population
which "does not desire Christian instruction." The fifth thesis, modified
in the course of debate, finally read: "That religion is not taught in
these schools is a necessary result of the religious freedom which we
consider ourselves fortunate to enjoy under the present constitution of
the state." The question arose, however, whether Christian parents should
in all eases keep their children away from the public schools, and the
Synod was not prepared to take this position. It recognized that an
adequate system of parochial schools to supplant the common school could
not be attained in any near future, and it therefore urged its church
members to attempt to secure a large degree of influence in the
management of the district schools, particularly in the matter of the
appointment of teachers and the determination of the length of the school
terms. But where such influence cannot be gained "and the district school
is so conducted that it is a serious danger to the Christian faith or the
morality of the children, then it is the definite duty of Christian
parents to [256] keep their children away and to work so much more
actively for the development of the parochial school." The final thesis,
upon which no formal action seems to be recorded but which represented
the generally accepted view of the clergy, was a counsel to send the
children --- in the event that other arrangements were not practicable
--- to the public schools for instruction in English only after they had
been confirmed, that is, at about the age of thirteen. {23}
In a series of lectures held in Norway in 1867, President H. A. Preus of
the Synod explained that the central point in the opposition to the
American common schools was that they were "religionless." He declared
himself unwilling to turn over Norwegian Lutheran children to the
guidance of teachers who were, for example, Catholics, Methodists, or
atheists. He spoke of the lack of discipline in the district schools, the
steady shift of teachers, and, though conceding that pupils did learn to
read and write, he had little to say for the efficiency of the schools.
He realized that many Norwegians would be dissatisfied not to derive
advantage from an institution that they supported through taxation and
that they would have difficulties of their own in building and conducting
schools, but these considerations, to his mind, did not make the goal any
less desirable --- that of broadening the parochial schools and of making
the district schools unnecessary for the Norwegian church group. He
further was aware that the parochial schools themselves lacked good
teachers and were not too advanced --- a general point that the critics
of the Synod position were soon to hammer home relentlessly --- and that
the people in the congregations needed to be aroused to the general need
of good schools. {24}
Meanwhile, a storm of opposition to the Synod's stand on [257] the
school question was rising in the
Middle West. It found one of its most pertinacious spokesmen in Knud
Langeland, the doughty editor of the Chicago Skandinaven, launched in the
very year of the Synod's meeting at Manitowoc. He took sharp issue with
the theses adopted by the church body, declared that the clergy evidently
intended salvation to be the reward of "ignorance and superstition," and
called upon the common people to speak out on the issue. They had been
largely occupied with their pioneering and, in his opinion, were being
led into paths that would be genuinely injurious to their future. The
choice was between being overrun by the Missouri Synod spirit and
arousing the "free, patriotic Scandinavian element." The common school
was the road to enlightened participation by Norwegian Americans in the
life of their times, and the times demanded efficient and fruitful
teaching of the young. He saw no hope in parochial schools as a
substitute for public education, for they would surely be handicapped by
financial difficulties, a dearth of teachers who could handle the English
side in adequate fashion, and general inefficiency. As he warmed to his
theme he even hinted that it might be treasonable to reject the American
common school. {25}
As the controversy began to resound in the Norwegian-American press,
Langeland found himself emphatically supported by the young and
aggressive Rasmus B. Anderson, recently expelled from Luther College in
Decorah, Iowa, for leading a student revolt, and just launching his long
career as a teacher, writer, and public figure. {26} Anderson appeared as
a delegate at the Synod meeting of 1868 and called for a reconsideration
of the school question. He proposed that the congregations be asked to
take an active interest in their American common schools and, among other
things, to secure [258] the appointment of teachers who were competent in
both the English and the Norwegian languages. He believed that it might
prove possible to find a place, in the Norwegian communities, for the
study of Norwegian in the common schools, and he suggested the
advisability of petitioning the Wisconsin legislature to permit the
introduction of this language in its schools. He also was prepared to
point the way to reforms in teaching, and in particular he recommended
that students should study at Luther College in order to perfect their
Norwegian and at American institutions of higher learning to improve
their English. He believed too that some effort should be made to bring
about the appointment of Norwegian professors at certain American
colleges and universities. But he was unable to bring about a general
discussion in the Synod assembly, and his resolutions were quietly
referred to the synodical pastoral conference. {27}
<14> An interesting account of this remarkable Danish-American pioneer is
in Danske i Amerika, 1:337-346. In 1859-60 Srensen himself edited a
periodical entitled Organ for religion, landkonomie og politik.
<15> Emigranten, November 1 and 8, 1858.
<16> Emigranten, November 27, 1858.
<17> The documents of this debate appear with an excellent introduction
by Professors Paulson and Bjrk, in Studies and Records, 10:76-106. It is
of interest to note that Preus issued a Norwegian spelling book in 1857.
Emigranten, August 26, 1857.
<18> Emigranten, December 27, 1859; Studies and Records, 10: 100-106.
<19> The "Peder Paars," Preus, and Srensen items are in Emigranten,
February 1, 8, April 18, 1859. See also a sharp criticism of Srensen by
Aslak Halvorsen Houchum, in Emigranten, December 13, 1858; a contribution
on the other side by Joseph Larson of Goodyears Bar, California, April 4,
1859; and a general discussion entitled "Lidt om skolen," November 21,
<20> Kirkelig maanedstidende, 4:156, 157 (October, 1859). The document,
reported by Ottesen as secretary, also appeared in Emigranten, October
31, 1859. The signers included, in addition to those named above, P. M.
Brodahl, C. F. Clausen, N. E. Jensen, and C. F. Magelsen.
<21> Emigranten, October 22, 1859; Larson, Changing West, 121, 122.
<22> Kirkelig maanedstidende, 11:210-223 (May, 1866); Synodalberetning,
1866, p. 19--40.
<23> See the report of the Synod discussion and action in
Sunodalberetning, 1866, p. 32-40.
<24> Herman A. Preus, Syv foredrag over de kirkelige forholde blandt de
Norske i Amerika, 32-36 (Christiania, 1867).
<25> A general survey of the controversy is published as an editorial in
Skandihaven, May 26, 1869.
See also Larson, Changing West, 123-126.
<26> Anderson, Life Story of Rasmus B. Anderson, 47 ff., 71, 72, 98, 99
(Madison, Wisconsin, 1915).
<27> Synodalberetning, 1868, p. 51, 52; Skandinaven, July 22, 1868.
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Libreville - Human Rights Watch has criticised preparations for Sunday's presidential poll in Equatorial Guinea, saying there was "serious doubt" about its credibility.
"Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election," the New York-based HRW said in a statement.
"President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled the oil-rich west African country since seizing power in a coup in 1979, is widely expected to easily win the presidential vote scheduled for November 29 2009."
Five candidates, including Obiang Nguema, are standing for Sunday's vote in which 291 000 voters will be called to the ballot box. Campaigning is due to finish on Friday.
In the last presidential election of 2002, Obiang Nguema won with 97.1% of the vote, beating four other candidates, according to official results. He has promised to obtain a similar score next weekend.
HRW saw this pledge as a sign of Obiang Nguema's dictatorial hold over the small nation, which has since the 1990s become one of Africa's oil-rich states, though the wealth has yet to affect most of the population.
"No independent and impartial body exists in Equatorial Guinea to oversee the electoral process or consider election-related complaints, raising additional serious doubts about conditions for a genuinely free and fair vote. The National Election Commission is controlled by the ruling party and headed by Obiang's minister of the interior, a prominent member of his party," HRW said.
"Despite the government's earlier invitation to more than 100 international election observers to witness the election, it is unclear whether any independent foreign monitoring will take place. The terms and scope of the foreign observation missions have not been made public," the rights group added.


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The families of three people who participated in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony tearfully pleaded with a judge Friday to give the self-help author convicted in their deaths the maximum sentence.
James Arthur Ray was found guilty on three counts of negligent homicide and faces anything from probation to nine years in prison.
Kirby Brown's mother urged Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Warren Darrow to take Ray off the self-help market to ensure no one else is harmed.
The 38-year-old Brown, of Westtown, N.Y.; 40-year-old James Shore, of Milwaukee; and 49-year-old Liz Neuman of Prior Lake, Minn., were overcome by the heat in the sweat lodge more than two years ago.
Ray's supporters and defense team say probation is best for the man whose teachings have bettered people's lives.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
More than two years after an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony turned deadly, the charismatic self-help author convicted in the tragedy will learn his punishment.
James Arthur Ray was found guilty on three counts of negligent homicide. Authorities originally charged Ray with manslaughter, but jurors rejected arguments that he was reckless in his handling of the October 2009 ceremony.
Prosecutors are urging Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Warren Darrow to hand down the maximum sentence Friday to keep Ray off the self-help circuit and from harming others. Ray's attorneys say probation is best for a man who has shown remorse, lacks prior criminal history and is the sole caretaker for ailing parents.
Ray's motivational mantra drew dozens of people to a retreat nestled in the scrub forest near Sedona with a promise that the sweat lodge ceremony typically used by American Indians to cleanse the body would help them break through whatever was holding them back in life.
Participants began showing signs of distress about half way through the two-hour ceremony. By the time it was over, some were vomiting, struggling to breathe and lying lifeless on the ground. Two people - Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, N.Y., and., slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness. She died more than a week later at a Flagstaff hospital.
The trial was a mix of lengthy witness testimony and legal wrangling that lasted four months. Witnesses painted conflicting pictures of Ray, with some describing a man who was more like a coach encouraging participants to do their best to endure the heat but never forcing them to remain in the sweat lodge. Others said they learned through breathing exercises, a 36-hour fast, and a game in which Ray portrayed God that they dare not question him and lost the mental and physical ability to take care of themselves or others in the sweat lodge.
Prosecutors contended that Ray ignored pleas for help and watched as participants were dragged out of the sweat lodge. Ray's attorneys suggested that toxins or poisons contributed to the deaths, but jurors said that theory was not credible.
Ray's attorneys made at least nine requests for a retrial or mistrial based on what they say were errors by the prosecution. While Darrow ruled that prosecutors broke disclosure rules, he rejected each of the defense requests. The case is bound for appeal.


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Last Friday, Pusch Ridge Christian Academy held its first Mud Run fund raiser where students, teachers, faculty and sponsors were asked go through a 2-mile course around the school's campus. Along the course there were numerous obstacles for participants to overcome.
Explorer photographer Randy Metcalf takes us along on his run.


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STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) — After a long fight with colon cancer, Marcus Bush has passed away.
The current Strength and Conditioning Coach at UAB was 48 years old. He was the Blazers S&C Coach for the past 11 years.
Bush had a long and exceptional history in Starkville as a player and coach for the Bulldogs and SHS Yellow Jackets.
Before playing for Mississippi State, Bush led the Jackets to the school's first ever football State Championship in 1984. He was the starting running back for Starkville as they defeated Callaway to win the Class 5A State Title.
Bush was a four-year letter winner at fullback for Mississippi State, playing for coaches Emory Bellard ('85) and Rocky Felker ('86-'88). He also earned Bulldog academic honor roll recognition during four semesters at MSU.
The Starkville native spent his last 11 years as Strength and Conditioning Coach for the UAB football team. He was a grad assistant for the Bulldog athletic program before his time in Birmingham.
Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday at Calvary Baptist Church in Starkville.


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Hehehehe! It's nice to see that Mobile brands in the country are now following trends of using celebrities as their brand Ambassador. I am actually still looking forward to when bloggers will be signed as Ambassadors to brands knowing that Bloggers impact so much in the present world we live in.
One of Nigeria's Music Star, Dammy Krane, Just signed an endorsement deal with Tecno Mobile Nigeria as the brand's Ambassador. Reports has it that the deal is worth millions of Naira (The figures are usually in that digit range).
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"I don't get much downtime, that's for sure. We generally make three separate tours of Europe each year alone. Then there's Asia and other foreign countries as well as plenty of gigs in the U.S. My son books all my dates and he does a wonderful job, so I can't complain about my schedule."
"There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is jazz Latin. And there's a difference. Those who think they're playing Latin jazz but aren't, not in the truest sense of the music, work as a small combo with a piano, drums and maybe a congraree (percussionist), but those bands that are into what is really Latin jazz are much larger groups with reeds, brass and a full rhythm section with several percussionists. There will always be Latin jazz. My mission is to keep it alive."
"I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world."
"Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be."
"We'll be playing nothing but dance music and after you hear what we play, it's so danceable, you can't sit still. That the way it works wherever we go."


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The Robert Hickmott-trained C'est La Guerre has been scratched from the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington's Melbourne Cup Preview Day on Sunday.
Six-year-old Shinko King gelding C'est La Guerre, owned by Lloyd Williams, will instead run in the Group 3 Craven Plate (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday's Epsom Handicap Day.
The weight-for-age conditions and small seven-horse field of the 2010 Craven Plate was considered by connections as a better option for C'est La Guerre who had drawn poorly with barrier 18 in the Turnbull Stakes.
C'est La Guerre will jump from barrier six in the Craven Plate with star hoop Michael Rodd aboard.
Williams will still be represented in the Turnbull Stakes field on Sunday with nine-year-old Danehill gelding Zipping set to jump from barrier six, currently paying $11 to win through Sportsbet.
C'est La Guerre placed third in the 2008 Melbourne Cup and is vying for a spot in the 24-horse Melbourne Cup field again this year on Tuesday November 2.
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text: POLITICIO's Natalie Villacorta [behind a paywall: "Initial numbers from several corners of the country show that nearly a quarter of new enrollees have been between 18 and 35 years of age, the demographic bubble whose general vigor and well-being is crucial to the financial stability of Obamacare's new health exchanges. They're waiting through website error messages and wading through insurance plan details in places like California, Kentucky and Washington state as well as Washington, D.C. This early in the enrollment period, with most states not yet reporting, their response is hardly definitive. And there's no federal data broken down by age. But advocates say so far, so good. …"The headway to date could allay fears that the old and sick will be left treading water alone in health plan risk pools. Still, the Obama administration's goal is much higher than these early levels. It's aiming for 2.7 million of its 7 million March 31 enrollment goal – more than 38 percent – to be younger people. That tracks the bigger picture: Americans 18-35 comprise about 40 percent of the 41 million uninsured people eligible for coverage. By March, a national trend will be important psychologically, but what's really going to matter is the situation in individual states, since insurance is pooled at the state level. … The totals so far are 'surprisingly large,' said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation."


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ATLANTA Jason Schmidt gave up one hit in his longest start in more than two years, Andre Ethier hit a homer and drove in four runs and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 5-0 tonight.
Schmidt, Ramon Troncoso, George Sherrill and James McDonald combined on a three-hitter. McDonald retired the final six batters.
Ethier hit a three-run homer in the fifth off Tommy Hanson (5-2) and added a run-scoring double in the ninth.
Schmidt (2-1), who played for the Braves in 1995 and '96, walked five and struck out three in six innings, his longest start since going six innings for the Dodgers at San Diego on June 5, 2007. The right-hander made his third start of the season after missing 2008 following surgery on his right shoulder.
Sherrill, acquired from Baltimore on Wednesday, struck out the side in the seventh in his debut with the Dodgers.
After Troncoso gave up singles to Diory Hernandez and pinch-hitter Greg Norton, Sherrill struck out Nate McLouth and Kelly Johnson before walking Chipper Jones to load the bases. Sherrill got Brian McCann on a called third strike to end the inning.
Jones' third-inning single was the only hit off Schmidt.
Hanson gave up eight hits and four runs in six innings to lose his second straight start.
Russell Martin and Rafael Furcal reached on fifth-inning singles before scoring on Ethier's homer.
Ethier leads the Dodgers with his career-best 21 homers. He passed James Loney for the team lead with 65 RBIs.
Orlando Hudson walked and scored on Furcal's single in the seventh, pushing the lead to 4-0.
Manny Ramirez was 1 for 4 with two strikeouts on the one-year anniversary of his trade to Los Angeles from Boston.
NOTES: Braves manager Bobby Cox said OF Ryan Church (elbow) and SS Yunel Escobar (bruised right wrist) were unavailable. 2B Martin Prado (bruised left ankle) did not start and hit a deep fly ball to center in the ninth as a pinch-hitter.


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You're going to love Phoenix Photo Editor from the second you launch it. After a neat but not-too-long launch animation, you get straight into your photo library, with oversized thumbnails that let you actually see what the photos contains before choosing to load it. Confused about another "import" button down at the bottom of the screen? Tap it. It's for grabbing pictures from your i{hone albums, Instagram, Facebook or Flickr.
And it gets better from there.
Editing your photo is done by tapping the little blackboard (or canvas on an easel) icon and choosing your weapon. There's an "enhance" function, a bunch of photo filters (with preview), plus "art" filters (avoid these, they're pretty tacky), light effects (leaks), shapes (geometric or letter-shaped mask overlays), frames, stickers, text, blur, vignette, crop, sharpness, exposure, color temperature…. Whew. And there's more. You can resize images, and view/edit the location of your images just by tapping on a map.
It's pretty full featured.
The best part of this app is the interface. It's easy, fast and intuitive to use, with no instructions necessary. It also does pretty much everything you might like to do to an image, and it has a bunch of in-app purchases to extend the functions. Happily, these add to the freely available editing tools, so you can always get the basic job done. You can also preview the IAP filters and extras on the current image, so you know if it's worth it.
Finally, you can edit the order of the tools. I'll be putting the stickers and frames right at the bottom of the list.
Phoenix Photo Editor is free, and iPhone-only. You can buy the extras separately for $0.99 a set, or grab the whole lot in one go for $15.
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Scientists have found that drunk effect after drinking alcohol can be decreased by consumption of honey.
The scientists of The Royal Society of Chemistry said, natural sweetener such as honey is a great food to help body deal with drunk effect by breaking down the toxic compounds of alcohol.
Honey contains fructose compound with beneficial to break down alcohol toxic that enters the body. Alcohol is very harmful for the body because these drinks will be turn into acetaldehyde, a toxic compound for the body.
According to Dr John Emsley from The Royal Society of Chemistry, honey can helps acetaldehyde converted into acetic acid, an important compound of the carboxylic acids which is burned during metabolic processes in the body.
When people are drunk at night, it is suggests to eat bread with honey in the morning because they are source of potassium and sodium which are beneficial to help body against alcohol.
Alcoholic can trigger someone to urinate frequently and dehydrated. If you are dehydrated then the drunk effect will be more severe. That is why drinking alcohol is not good for the body because they contain toxic compounds and lead to dehydration which can be fatal.
According to Dr Emsley, besides honey, milk can also decrease the drunk effect of alcohol. Drink a glass of milk before drink alcohol will slow the alcohol absorption which means that incoming acetaldehyde compounds can be minimized.


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Does the average person consume four spiders per year in his sleep?
Dear Straight Dope:
I have heard from numerous sources (many of them seemingly credible) that the average human consumes an average of four spiders per year in his or her sleep. Is there any truth to this fact? And if so, why would the spiders go in our mouths?
SDStaff Doug replies:
Amazingly, I cannot find this one debunked in either the alt.folklore.urban or snopes urban legend archives. I know it's been debunked in the AFU newsgroup — I've been in on the debunking personally, but none of that comes up in a search on the AFU archive. So it's up to me to do what must be done.
One amazing thing about urban legends is that they never appear the same way twice. This statistic variously appears as 10 per year, 57 per year, 19 per year, and all sorts of other numbers. No one can ever tell you where the statistic came from originally, either.
Realistically, the average number of spiders swallowed at night per person per lifetime is probably less than one. After all, most people breathe while they sleep (at least I do) and spiders, like virtually all arthropods, flee from breath. After all, there are lots of vertebrates that EAT arthropods, and if you're an arthropod and something is breathing on you, it's not a good idea to stick around. Simple enough.
For a spider to get into your mouth while you're sleeping, (a) you must have your mouth OPEN, which is certainly not universal, so there's a big chunk of people who can never swallow anything; (b) there has to be a wandering spider in your immediate vicinity, also something which — for most people in the civilized world, at least — is a fairly rare occurrence; (c) the spider has to either jump or fall into your mouth from a long distance, because they won't go near your mouth otherwise (they're not suicidal), and the odds are pretty astronomical of a spider randomly dropping into your mouth from the ceiling.
Put it all together, and it would be a miracle for a spider to end up in anyone's mouth while they're sleeping, except for one rare circumstance — when a spider egg sac hatches indoors. At that point, you can have hundreds of microscopic spiders, a millimeter long or less, leaping into the air in a short time span (under an hour total) and trying to ride the air currents to freedom. This is as known as "ballooning"; you may remember it from Charlotte's Web. If you're in a house where a bunch of microscopic spiders are ballooning around, you MIGHT accidentally inhale about a dozen one night, IF the air were circulating sufficiently for them to get airborne and stay there long enough to drift in front of your face. The odds of such a thing are obviously quite small, but it surely happens to someone somewhere from time to time, and that will boost the average — but not enough that I would believe that the AVERAGE person inhales the contents of one egg sac in their lifetime.
The majority of people probably never swallow ANY spiders in their sleep, so the statistic will be composed of a fair number of people (still a tiny minority) that swallow one or two by accident, plus a vanishingly tiny handful of people who swallow a large number, due to a freak occurrence as above. Not enough to add up to much, especially when you consider that 99% of the spiders swallowed are almost too small to see, and you wouldn't feel them even if you swallowed them while awake. I know I won't lose any sleep over it.


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When it comes to wind energy, it is always best to go big, and this 50meter-tall hexagonal wind tower in Japan does exactly that.
In the harnessing of wind power, it is best to maximize the wind capturing area of the structure. The 50 meter-tall hexagonal tower is able to capture wind coming from all directions like a giant scoop, compressing and running the fast-flowing air through a series of power generators.
The wind capturing area of this revolutionary design dwarfs that of conventional wind turbines. The designs are still at its infant stage, and will include a desalination plant and on-site energy storage facilities which employ technologies relatively new to the industry.
While the design is still conceptual, if realized, it might just be our answer to the efficient harvest of wind-energy. Zena Systems, the Japan based company behind this ambitious project has picked a location in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan for the massive project.
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Public safety officials say six people were killed in just over 24 hours in another rash of traffic fatalities across the state.
The string of accidents began Friday afternoon, when a 54-year-old man driving on a two-lane highway in Houston County was hit head-on by a semi-trailer truck that crossed the center line. Later that night in central Minnesota near Gilman, a woman drove her SUV into an oncoming big rig.
On Saturday night, an alleged drunk driver struck and killed a 34-year-old woman near Cloquet, Minn.
Five of the six fatal crashes were on rural roads.
"People think they're safer out on the rural roads, and that tends to be where over 70 percent of our crashes occur," said Donna Berger, traffic safety director at the Department of Public Safety.
The accidents Friday and Saturday follow an even deadlier three-day period in early April, when a dozen people were killed on Minnesota roads.


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A MAN accused of herding children into a room while his co-accused brandished a gun in a violent home invasion will face a contested committal hearing.
Sekonaia Vave, of Robinvale, appeared at Mildura Magistrates' Court on Thursday last week facing charges including aggravated burglary and false imprisonment.
His co-accused, Peni Amato, who was allegedly armed with a sawn-off shot-gun during the home invasion, will face court in November when he is expected to enter a plea.
Police allege the men forced their way into a Fourteenth Street house and made demands for drugs and cash after knocking at the front door. Three children were in the house at the time.
Prosecutor Jennifer Taylor said while the prosecution did not allege Vave had the gun, he was "acting in concert" with Amato.
She said the children were herded down the end of the house into a room by the accused, the act in which the prosecution allege false imprisonment took place.
Defence counsel Peter Delorenzo said while Vave admitted the aggravated burglary, he denied any false imprisonment or that "herding" took place.
Deputy chief Magistrate Felicity Broughton allowed Mr Delorenzo's application to cross examine a victim at a pre-trial hearing, with questions confined to the issue of false imprisonment.
Vave will be back before the court on December 8.
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RHS speakers succeed at recent competitions
Rosemount High School speech team members have had success in some recent competitions.
Sophomore Nicole Hutchinson finished second in the storytelling category at the recent section tournament and will compete in the state tournament April 19. Senior Natalie Hillerson finished fourth in informative and senior Belle Allan finished sixth in prose. Junior Alekhya Tallapaka finished seventh in extemporaneous speaking.
Hutchinson finished first in storytelling at last weekend's tournament in Cannon Falls. Tallapaka was fourth in poetry, Hillerson was fifth in prose and Geeth Gutta was honorable mention in oratory.
The recent finisheds qualified Hutchinson, Tallapaka and Hillerson for all-conference recognition. Sophomore Sawyer Murray had previously qualified for all-conference honors in storytelling.


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Calls needed to MA Congress Members - Sign onto McGovern letter to protect SNAP
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend yesterday's Food SNAP Coalition meeting, also attended by former Commissioner Julia Kehoe in her new role at EOHHS; FNS Regional Administrator James Arena DeRosa and FNS staff, and Ellen Vollinger, FRAC Legal Director. Ellen gave an excellent presentation on the current battles before Congress and what we need to do next steps to protect safety net programs.
Now that the Super Committee has failed to reach an agreement on deficit reduction, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees will attempt to develop a free-standing Farm Bill (presumably under a little-known process known as "regular order"). Our Massachusetts anti-hunger champion, Congressman Jim McGovern, along with CT champion, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro are currently circulating a Dear Colleague letter urging the House Agriculture Committee to protect SNAP and other low-income nutrition programs as it considers options for reauthorizing the Farm Bill.
It is critically-important to demonstrate strong support for SNAP and other anti-hunger programs as we head into this next phase of Farm Bill reauthorization. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and House Agriculture Committee Chair Frank Lucas (R-OK) had been preparing to recommend to the Super Committee $23 billion/10 years in cuts to programs under their jurisdiction, including SNAP.
Please urge your Massachusetts House Member to support SNAP and other low-income nutrition programs by signing the letter by Friday, December 9, COB. Click here to view the letter. Jim McGovern and Mike Capuano are the first two members of our delegation on the letter. letter. Let's make it 100% of our state's delegation!!
Click here to view a recent letter signed by 127 House Members urging the Super Committee to protect SNAP and other low-income safety net programs from budget cuts. (See the last two pages for a typed list of signers.) All TEN of our MA Delegation members signed the October 13, 2011 letter to the Super Committee: McGovern, Capuano, Frank, Keating, Lynch, Markey, Neal, Olver, Tierney, Tsongas. Feel free to remind them of that , and thank them, when you call!
To reach your Congressperson, here's a link to the Massachusetts Delegation with DC office phone numbers and email, http://www.contactingthecongress.org/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc2011&st...
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Here's Why I'm Pissed That Desiree Hartsock Is The Next Bachelorette
Welp, Desiree Hartsock has been announced as the star of the next season of The Bachelorette, surprising exactly zero people but disappointing me extravagantly. Ever since she first set foot on the show and her job title flashed up under her picture, this moment was pretty much a done deal. I mean, the girl is a bridal stylist — a BRIDAL STYLIST. You're telling me that this beautiful single girl with shiny bangs spends all day helping other women into their wedding dresses with no glimpse of true love in sight for herself? Good lord, what a gold mine. They might as well have started filming her season in overlap with Sean Lowe's from that first day, that was how pre-ordained this moment was.
Think about it — Des has been quietly campaigning for this ever since the episode where she got kicked off. She was clinging to Sean, pleading with him, telling him he was making a mistake and making crying squeaks with her voice, but no crying tears were coming out of her eyes. I don't know how it is in your side of town, Des, but where I'm from, if you're really sad, your body knows it and makes salt water come out of you. If you're not sad and you're just trying to put on a show for the camera, you have time to apply an extra layer of lipgloss right before your big scene, and you have to keep turning away from the camera to fake wipe your eyes. I see you, Desiree, and you producers, too! Trying to make me feel sympathy for Des just because her brother called it like it is and she's pretending to be in love with Sean after, like, five weeks of filming? Nice try.
And another thing. How are we seriously doing another white Bachelorette? There hasn't been enough backlash yet, guys? You're totally comfortable with eighteen blindingly white seasons of reality television with just some token people of color thrown in to get eliminated in the first couple rounds? That's impressively ballsy, and not in a good way. If I worked for ABC, I would've been pushing hard for Sarah Herron to be the next star of the show. Considering the amount of pressure that the network is under for being discriminatory, casting a likable, beautiful, kind, genuine, emotional woman who also happens to be handicapped would've gone a long way in buying them some more time before they need to fully address their own bigotry. I just feel like Sarah is an incredibly real, passionate person, and I can't believe ABC didn't take advantage of the opportunity to mitigate their image problems. Plus, after everything that Sarah has said about not feeling good enough because of the way her relationships have ended in the past, wouldn't it have been rewarding to watch men compete for her affections and attentions for once? I think every woman can relate to the emotion that Sarah described of feeling 'great, but not good enough', and I would've loved to watch her overcome that. It would've been inspiring for so many reasons.
But instead we get to watch Desiree rearrange her face all season and try to squeeze some teardust out of it as she effuses, "I can't believe I'm falling in love with more than one person. This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do", while her hard-luck brother grills the guys in the background, trying to secure himself a spot on Bachelor Pad. Spare me. Just spare me.
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Bureau warns of looming deluge
Heavy rain which is expected to cause flash flooding in Tasmania's north and north-west is predicted to start later today.
The Bureau of Meteorology expects flash flooding over the next two days with rainfall exceeding several hundred millimetres in some areas.
The bureau has also issued a severe weather warning for damaging winds of up to 100 kilometres an hour north of a line from Strahan to Cradle Mountain.
A flood watch has been issued for all northern rivers.
Senior forecaster Paul Fox-Hughes says it will be wet throughout the state.
"With those sort of rainfall rates we could see flash flooding up in the north-west today, in some of the populated areas and then tomorrow in the north-east, mainly about higher areas," he said.
"The sort of place I'm thinking of is St Mary's for example which has a history of flash flooding and very heavy rain."
The weather bureau has reviewed the situation in Hobart and says there is a possibility of a flash flooding warning being issued.
Mr Fox-Hughes says there have been about 60 millimetres of rain on Mt Wellington.
"There's still the possibility over the next few days of some flash flooding but we haven't got a warning out currently," he said.
Police are urging motorists to drive to the conditions.
Inspector Mark Beech-Jones says motorists should slow down, pay attention to road warning signs and drive with their headlights on.
"The biggest risk for us is flash flooding and people attempt to drive through water," he said.
"It's always been the case that people will always try to venture through and that's what we're trying to warn people; don't drive through, wait until it subsides or find an alternative route."
SES workers are distributing flood preparedness kits to residents in flood-prone areas in the north.
They are doorknocking residents in Kings Meadows and Lilydale this afternoon but SES spokeswoman Mhairi Revie says it is just for precautionary purposes.
"We're not saying that those areas will experience flooding, we're just making sure that we've 'crossed all our T's and dotted all our I's' and that people are as prepared as possible and have as much advance warning as possible."
Phone plea
The SES is urging Tasmanians to refrain from calling the SES emergency number for information about the Queensland floods.
The service is getting a large number of calls to the 132500 number for an update on the floods.
That number should only be called if people need emergency assistance as a result of storm or flood damage in Tasmania.
Information on the situation in Queensland can be accessed through the Queensland Government's website.
Tasmanian volunteers have arrived in Queensland to help with the flood relief effort.
The 21 SES workers will stay in Brisbane and Toowoomba for the next five days, assisting with rescues and the flood clean up.
Volunteer Mark Dancer says it is important to give the Queensland SES crews a break.
"They've been going pretty hard prior to this so it'll be good for us to get over there and so what we can do," he said.
"We're just going to be assisting hopefully with sandbagging, moving furniture and making sure they're safe and happy."
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See the Best Excuses People Have Given to Get Out of Speeding Tickets!
A survey asked for the best stories of cops pulling people over, or being pulled over. Most police said honesty and politeness were the best strategy. Most drivers said defecating in their pants got them out of trouble. Here are our favorite stories from people:
1. There was a kid that was on his way home from work and going a little too fast down a residential road. I stopped him and when I got up to the window he was sweating bullets and squirming in his seat, he looked to be in bad shape. I asked if everything was OK? and then he proceeded to let out a huge… wet… fart… that just seemed to never end. He followed that up with, "No, I must of ate something at lunch… I need a washroom now!" I told him to pull in to the gas station down the street right away and then he left. Not sure if he made it.
2. My cousin was speeding one time and when she was pulled her, she told the officer that her tampon was falling out and she needed to fix it. He was a new officer and he bolted back to his car and she got away with it.
3."I got pulled over for cutting through a parking lot to avoid a stop light. I told the truth: I had to take a No. 2. I only got a written warning. As he was handing it to me he smirked and said, "You've been polite and I believe you, here's a written warning, no ticket. You can wipe your ass with it if you like. Don't do it again!"
4. I was on the interstate, doing about 5-10 miles over the speed limit. Cars were whizzing past me like they're trying to achieve warp speed. Lights flashed; I get pulled over. Officer said, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" My reply: "I was the only one driving slowly enough to catch?" The policeman laughed himself red in the face and told me I'm a smart ass and sent me on my way without a ticket.
5. My dad is an officer and he pulled over a group of older nuns for speeding.
My Dad" You were speeding.
Nuns: No we weren't.
This went on for some time; he eventually let them go because they were nuns and old.
6. I stopped a guy going 15-20 over the limit one time. I asked him why he was going so fast, and he told me he had been bitten by a spider. I thought we was full of crap until he showed me his leg. It was turning black and swelling up quickly, so I just let him go.
7. A friend of mine was driving home late at night going about 115 km in a 100 zone with a pair of baby twins sleeping in the back seat. Cops pulled them over for speeding. Before the cop get to the car he gave each of the twins a small pinch to wake them up and start them crying. When the officer made her way to the window my friend said, "Sorry I was speeding, I have to get these little guys home before they drive me crazy."
The officer just said, "Okay, but be safe and keep the speed down." And we were on our way! The kids fell asleep again in five minutes.
8. I got out of a speeding ticket once by saying I had just bought the car and it was much faster than my old one and I wasn't used to the extra power yet.
9. I once talked my way out of a speeding ticket by saying it was about to rain and my windshield wipers were broken. I was a good looking young man at the time and I smiled very fetchingly at the female police officer.
10. When I was younger, I bought this little stuffed monkey puppet from the toy store with my mom. It was adorable and inside there was a little button that made squeaky noises. One day I was playing with it in the front seat while my mom was driving home, and really getting into the part, making it dance all around and squeak for my mom while she laughed hysterically. Unfortunately, she picked the wrong time to not be watching her speed, and we got pulled over. A policewoman walked up as my mom rolled down the window, still giggling. "Do you know how fast you were going?" My mother, unable to help herself, said "I'm so sorry officer, the monkey made me do it!" At the same time, I slowly try to take my hand off the button, which results in a long, loud squeeeeak from the monkey toy I'm holding sheepishly in the passanger seat.
The policewoman cracked up, said it was one of the best excuses she's ever heard, and let us off with a warning.
11. Once an officer came up to the window and asked why I was speeding. I was going between 5-10 over. I told him that my older brother got home from Iraq today and I was excited to see him so I wasn't paying attention. He let me go and told me to thank my brother for him. It was a lie. I'm the oldest of by siblings. I'm still a bit ashamed of that one
12. I was hoping that maybe I just left my purse somewhere while I was out running errands, so I was speeding a bit while retracing my steps around town. I thought, "Oh, shit, I can't speed and get pulled over because I don't have my driver's license on me" just before I see flashing lights in my rear view. I was trying so hard to hold it together, but as soon as the cop came up to my window I started bawling like a little kid. I could barely form words, but I managed to explain that I believe my purse was stolen, with a bunch of cash in it and my new camera as well. The cop took pity on me, took a report for my purse, and sent me on my way.
The BEST (but not real) excuse of all time:
Cop: "Do you know why I pulled you over Sir?"
"My wife left me for a police officer last year, and I thought you were trying to give her back."


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Chain-saw sculptor salvages Sandy-struck colonial tree in Cortlandt
The Cortlandt Healthcare Center has brought in an artist to carve sculptures out of a centuries-old tree on its property felled by Hurricane Sandy.
Rick Pratt, who calls himself the "Chain-saw Artist," has created statues, such as bears, owls and other wildlife out of the tree.
"Bringing Rick in was a great decision to, I think, just kind of keep it alive," said Scott Wheeler, the executive director of the center, located in Cortlandt Manor.
During the superstorm, some 25 trees, some dating to the American Revolution, were downed. The one tree in particular that Pratt worked with, a 250-year-old oak, was planted the same time the Upper Van Cortlandt Manor House on the property was built, long before George Washington slept there.


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Sophia University is located in Yotsuya, literally in the heart of Tokyo. The area around the Yotsuya campus has long been at the center of the Japanese political, economic and cultural worlds. The Imperial Palace, the Parliament, the Geihinkan(State Guesthouse) for state guests from all over the world, and the National Diet Library as well as an array of offices of multinational enterprises are all within easy walking distance of the university. It is a place where you can feel the dynamism of the global city Tokyo.
This red brick building was built in 1932 and survived from World War II. There used to be the center of university with the president's office etc. Now it is a classroom building.
17 stories above ground and 3 below. Built in 2005. The center of research and education.
The Sophia University Central Library, which opened in 1984, holds approximately 1,100,000 books and 11,000 titles of periodicals on the two basement floors and the eight upper floors. The library has adopted an open stack system so that users can have direct access to the materials. It also accommodates various research institutes on the 4th to 8th floors so that it functions as a center of research activities.
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I always use MortPlayer to hear my Music (because of Folders). And often I can control it with Media-Control-Widget on my GG.
But there are 2 things I really dislike. First one is that I have to Pause/Stop playing to see the Name of the Track. And the second one is that I not see how late it is because there is no watch on the widget. That sucks.
Because of this I have some questions:
1.) Is there an alternative for Original Media-Control-Widget?
2.) Could I directly start MortPlayer with Media-Control-Widget? What I have to do?
3.) Is there someone who could rewrite this App/Widget to show clock and Trackname and rearange the volume-Buttons. If it is possible
I don't know anything about Android developing.
Thx forward.