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VFW Women's Auxillary To Hold Huge Garage Sale
Sunday, September 7th is the date for a giant INDOOR garage sale at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Hall, next to Morvant's in Youngsville, starting at 7am.
'jeep jaunt' Jam 2014 [PHOTOS]
The 'jeep jaunt' JAM!! attracted hundreds of people and raised money for the American Lung Association.
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A 30-year-old Lafayette woman was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder for the New Year's Day morning stabbing on Roy Street.
New Year Will Bring Big Changes to Cajun Field
You may not actually see it now, but work is well underway for Phase I of the Athletics Department Master Plan for UL's Cajun Field and the new year will bring big changes to Cajun Field.
2013 NOLA Bowl Shirts Ready!!!!
Official 2013 R & L Carriers' New Orleans Bowl t-shirts and apparel are stocked and available for purchase as Ragin' Cajun fans prepare to Paint the Quarter Red for this year's big event. The match-up between the Cajuns and the Tulane Green Wave is set for Saturday, December 2…
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The Lafayette Police Department is searching for two armed robbery suspects involved in two separate incidents that happened minutes apart Saturday evening. Investigators are unsure at this time if the two incidents are related.
At about 6:45 Saturday evening, a suspect, described as a bald, black ma…
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Townsquare Media Presents Kidz Bop! Live in Lafayette
Attention kids and parents: Ever wish you could hear your favorite KIDZ BOP tunes live?? Now is your chance!! Friday September 6th, KIDZ BOP live is coming to the Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette!
With over 14 million albums sold, KIDZ BOP is a perennial best seller!
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With over 14 million albums sold, KIDZ BOP is a perennial best seller!
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The Best St. Patrick's Day Party In Lafayette – Patty In The Parc
Jameson Irish Whiskey and this station are proud to present Patty in the Parc on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at Parc International in Downtown Lafayette! Click through to find out who will be playing this year's event.
Much Of Acadiana Under Tornado Watch, Flood Warning Today
Horrible weather across Acadiana.
Mardi Gras Bead Art – Perfect For Your Wall
Every Mardi Gras it's the same thing - 'Let's see how many beads we can catch!', followed by 'what the heck do we do with all these beads?' Some creative artsy-types have found a great use for those colorful Mardi Gras trinkets, as a palette for their artistic endeavors…
Lafayette and Acadiana Mardi Gras Parade, Ball, Event Schedule for 2013
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What can we do to help you floss your teeth more often? What exactly is it that makes flossing intolerable? The pain, the mess, the bleeding, or all of the above? What if you found a floss that did not have these results? Would you floss more often? There are various flossing tools that can help you floss more often. Non-mess floss, minty floss, and overall a non painful experience. I try to floss every day since it is not painful nor messy for me. Check out the site, you may be surprised with what you find. The Plackers Micro Mint Dental Flossers are a great way to stay mess free and can easily reach all your hard to reach teeth and gums. I don't mind using regular floss at home where a sink is available. But on the go, these flossers are great for a quick toothpick or a full on flossing session. The flossers have a great minty flavor which is a must have for me. Being able to have a fresh breath after flossing is a necessity. Non-minty floss is like having a flavorless toothpaste. I need a minty aftertaste when I am done flossing and brushing my teeth. A floss without mint is not pleasant and you will need to clean up afterwards with water or a mouth rinse. I was able to reach all my wisdom teeth with the easy to hold handle. The handle also includes a fold away pick for those pesky food particles and plaque. I keep the flossers at my desk and in my car for when I need to remove visible plaque or food quickly. The floss is gentle and you have control when moving the floss between your teeth and gums. These are a great alternative to standard floss if you do not like to get down and dirty with regular floss. Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Freshen your breath while you floss with the Plackers Micro Mint Flosser. The Super Tuffloss is 7 times stronger than normal floss and does not shred. Slip the mint flosser between teeth to remove debris and plaque. Plus, the mint flavoring gets to the gumline for fresher breath. Healthier teeth and a cleaner breath are much easier with the Plackers Micro Mint Flosser.
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New Audials Charts with music and movies. Free software from Steganos. Unveiling the Music Universe. How to use Audials Anywhere.
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"If you enjoy the fresh flavors and satisfying crunch of a spring roll, wait until you see this recipe contest winner created by Roxanne Chan. This salad combines a variety of the fresh vegetables found inside spring rolls and dipping sauces served alongside and brings them into the salad bowl. The salad is light, fresh, colorful and tasty salad perfect for spring or summer!"
Inside out Spring Roll Salad
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READY IN:20mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 ounces bean thread mung bean noodles
- 3 cups shredded napa cabbage
- 1 cup torn watercress
- 1 carrot, cut into matchstick thin strips
- 1⁄2 cup seedless cucumber, cut into matchstick thin strips
- 1⁄2 cup red bell pepper, cut into matchstick thin strips
- 1 green onion, minced
- 1 cup chopped baby corn
- 2 tablespoons snipped cilantro
- 2 tablespoons snipped mint
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon minced gingerroot
- 1 large garlic clove, crushed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lime zest
- garnish- black sesame seed
- Soak the bean threads in warm water to cover for 10 minutes or till pliable. Drain, then cook in boiling water till the noodles expand and appear glasslike, 1-2 minutes. Drain, rinse with cold water and drain again. Cut into 4-inch lengths.
- Place in a large bowl along with the rest of the salad ingredients.
- In a small bowl whisk together the ingredients for the dressing till well combined; toss with the salad to evenly coat.
- Garnish with sesame seeds.
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These Things Happen(ened) in Toronto with G-Eazy [Review]
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — When Aaron Rodgers needs to rekindle the feelings that drove his rise from a junior college quarterback to Super Bowl MVP, he doesn't have to look too far.
Rodgers held on to the many rejection letters he received from marquee college programs as he was coming out of high school. Even today, he leaves a few of them sitting out at his house.
"I chose the couple that I thought were most demeaning to display in a space in my house that really nobody is able to see but myself," Rodgers said. "It's something that I think is important to keep fresh on your mind. Maybe not every day, but once a week your eyes might pan across it and you have a little laugh about the journey you've been on – at the same time, remembering that there still are people out there that you can prove something to."
Good luck finding those doubters now.
Rodgers is the 2011 Male Athlete of the Year, chosen by members of The Associated Press, after he turned in an MVP performance in the Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers and then went on to lead his team on a long unbeaten run this season.
Rodgers is one of three QBs to receive the honor in the past five years. The Saints' Drew Brees won in 2010 and the Patriots' Tom Brady won in 2007.
It has been a long and challenging journey out of obscurity for Rodgers. If his path to stardom had been smoother, he says he wouldn't be the player – or person – he is today.
"It's something that gives me perspective all the time, knowing that the road I took was difficult. But it did shape my character and it shaped my game as well," he said. "I try and keep that on my mind as a good perspective, but also as a motivator, knowing that it took a lot to get to where I am now and it's going to take a lot to stay where I'm at."


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This year marks 50 years since the Classes of 1967 graduated from UMS and JTW! Other honorary classes that will be celebrating their reunions this year include the classes of 1957, 1962, 1967,1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012. Our Alumni office is here to help you plan your reunion. We can give you planning ideas, mail out save the dates and invitations, accept payments online for reunion events, and help you connect with classmates via email, phone, etc. We encourage you and your planning committee to meet with us. If you are interested in planning or need more information, please contact our office. We are here to help!
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Planet Infowars
August 7, 2013
I departed from O'hare international airport for my vacation to Orlando Florida just the other week and my experience with the TSA was one that I will not forget. I decided to chronicle the events so that everyone in the world will know what people are put through when traveling to or from Chicago, so here we go.
After getting our tickets from a very difficult to use kiosk my girlfriend and I got in line at the TSA checkpoint. Although I was very excited for a very well deserved vacation this was something I had been dreading for weeks. We got in line behind about 100-150 people, the line was surrounded by TSA employees, and covered with cameras with a sign every few feet with the classic DHS catchphrase "If you see something, say something". I found it very funny that they post these signs everywhere, but if I was to point out the molestation and irradiating of human beings in front of the TSA, I probably wouldn't be making my flight.
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South Campus Hospital emergency room open
Health: Okotoks urgent care hasn't seen drop in patients
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 05:23 pm
The long-awaited South Health Campus emergency department opened Jan. 14.
The emergency room deals with some cases that can�t be handled at Okotoks Urgent Care Department, but patient numbers haven�t dropped at the Okotoks Health and Wellness Centre since the emergency room in Calgary opened.
The hospital is located in the south Calgary in Auburn Bay and is staffed to handle up to 200 patients a day, with 70 registered nurses and nine paramedics on staff. There are between one to five doctors in the emergency room throughout the day and a pediatrician on from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day.
The week before the south campus emergency department opened Okotoks urgent care saw between 65 and 107 patients daily and the following week there was little change as between 68 and 93 patients were treated.
The South Health Campus has seen more than 100 patients every day since it�s opening and has treated as many as 150 patients in one day.
The hospital is expected to get busier as more people become aware the emergency room is open.
Alberta Health officials said they do track where their patients come from, but said it is too early to say how many foothills residents have used the new emergency department in Calgary.
Alberta Health Services spokesperson Bruce Conway said it is still too early to tell how the new hospital will impact use of Okotoks urgent care and said there are no changes planned for the local care centre.
He said people living in the Okotoks area should still access the urgent care centre first, unless they feel their condition is life threatening.
�Its always recommended you go to the closest hospital for care,� Conway said.
Lori Anderson, vice-president of the South Health Campus, said the emergency department is equipped to deal with some injuries and illnesses that can�t be treated at Okotoks Urgent Care.
�Urgent care is for patients that don�t have life threatening injuries,� Anderson said. �We would see people with critical or severe illnesses.�
If an ambulance is called, paramedics decide where the patient is taken, based on their symptoms, Anderson said.
One of the benefits of the new emergency department is a shorter trip for people involved in serious motor vehicle collisions, or those with other serious illnesses, she said, although some cases will still be sent to other Calgary hospitals that have specialized departments. For example, people believed to be having a stroke are sent to Foothills Hospital.
The South Campus will be able to take on a larger variety of cases in the future as other departments in the hospital open in phases.
Some inpatient beds are slated to open this spring, along with operating rooms, an ICU and this fall a women�s health program will be up and running, allowing woman to deliver their babies at the new hospital. Anderson said they are expecting as many as 2,500 babies being born at the South Health Campus every year.
That could relieve pressure at the High River Hospital, where the number of deliveries has increased over the years. According to the High River and District Health Foundation 550 babies were born at the hospital last year.
It is also hoped the opening of the new emergency room will shorten wait times at all Calgary hospitals.
At the South Health Campus they have opened a unit to deal with emergency patients who may need a longer stay, called the rapid access unit.
The 20 beds are for people who need treatment and observation for up to 48 hours. The idea is those people who don�t need to be admitted to an inpatient bed will be moved out of emergency, freeing up a spot for someone else in the emergency department.
Terry Smith, South Health Campus emergency department manager, said the system is unique in the province and possibly in the whole country and said it is working well so far.
�Its an innovative wonder from an emergency standpoint,� Smith said.
The rapid access unit will go a long way in meeting Alberta Health�s goal of releasing short-term patients within four hours of attending a hospital, or having someone admitted within eight hours, he said.
Alberta Health Services posts Calgary emergency room wait times on its website at www.albertahealthservices.ca/4770.asp where a phone app with wait times can also be downloaded.


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The Good News of Dr Rick: Sermon 7
In a series of epistles, our very own sage of the South, Dr Rick Sanitorium, dimisses the unbelievers
Dear Dr Rick, Why is Eureka so anti-religion?
S. Hawking, Cambridge
Well, S, the Eureka staff frequently call on Our Lord's name, especially as deadlines approach. But while many scientists have been religious, most modern ones sold their souls to Satan for a couple of post-grads after their research grants were cut. The title "Eureka The Times" is an anagram of Atheism eke true — eke being the Old English for "is". So the answer to your question is that this magazine is committed to the rising of Hell. I recommend you buy a copy of my book Oh, For God's Sake, which explains why science is the tool of the Father of Lies and offers salvation at a very reasonable $10.99. Or buy two for…


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ARM and Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, have announced that they will bring the full Ubuntu Desktop operating system to the ARMv7 processor architecture to address demand from device manufacturers. They say that the addition of this new operating system will enable new netbooks and hybrid computers, targeting energy-efficient ARM technology-based SoCs, to deliver a rich, always-connected, mobile computing experience, without compromising battery life.
The combination of a commercially supported, optimized Ubuntu distribution for ARM, together with Canonical's ability to tailor solutions to specific ARM technology-based devices and OEM requirements, ensures that highly-optimized systems can be rapidly deployed into the fast growing mobile computing market. ARM's wide partnership with leading semiconductor and device manufacturers strengthens the mobile computing software ecosystem and extends the market reach for Ubuntu-based products.
This version of the Ubuntu Desktop operating system will target the ARMv7 architecture including ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor-based systems. Canonical's support of a full ARM distribution will strengthen the ARM Linux ecosystem and widen the opportunity to leverage ARM technology into fast-growing markets. This partnership further highlights both ARM and Canonical's support for open source initiatives and leverages contributions from key open source communities including Linux kernel, Debian, GNOME, and Mozilla communities. The Ubuntu ARM distribution for desktops and netbooks will be officially available from April 2009.


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The discount footwear chain Shoe Zone is looking to float with a valuation of roughly £100m.
The float will raise up to £50m for the family behind Shoe Zone, which has 554 stores, and employs roughly 4,100 people.
This is likely to irk some landlords who were left with empty shops when Shoe Zone closed 90 sites less than 18 months ago.
Shoe Zone closed the Stead & Simpson stores by winding up an operating company that held the leases, Tyler Ltd. This left landlords with lease agreements that were effectively worthless.
The company is owned by Shoe Zone Group limited, which is controlled by Anthony Smith, the retailer's chief executive, and Charles Smith, the chief operating officer.
The company began life in 1980 when the Smith family bought Benson Shoe. It began trading as Shoe Zone in 1996.
The family are looking to sell between 40pc and 50pc of the company in the IPO on the junior Aim market. No new shares will be issued.
Shoe Zone has hired Ian Filby, the chief executive of DFS, as chairman to assist with the float.
In the year to October 5, the company said it generated revenues of £194m and pre-tax profits of £9.3m, compared to £190m and £5.6m the previous year.
Anthony Smith said: "Shoe Zone has a strong market position as a leading UK specialist value footwear retailer and we believe we are well placed to benefit from any growth in the UK footwear market."


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BUENOS AIRES, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Peru's economy grew 1.76 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, the government said on Friday, underscoring the sharp slowdown in the Andean nation's economy caused by tumbling mineral exports.
The July-September growth figure mirrored the 1.72 percent expansion recorded in the previous quarter and was far below the 5.2 percent registered in the third quarter of 2013. (Reporting by Teresa Cespedes; Editing by Richard Lough and Chizu Nomiyama)


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Grand Theft Auto V Official Interactive Strategy Guide
By Dorling Kindersley
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
The Grand Theft Auto V Official Interactive Strategy Guide serves as your complete digital companion for everything in Los Santos and Blaine County.
Within the guide, you'll find high-resolution interactive versions of the map with selectable lists for tracking collectibles along with the complete strategy guide for the entire game including:
Main Story & Missions
We guide you through every mission, including the planning and execution of all of the major heists. Know exactly when to jump in and out of the lives of each of the three main characters and which weapons, tactics, and routes are most effective. Dive deeper into the story with tips for each mission and insight on every twist and turn; know when choices with consequences must be made, and achieve a Gold Medal every time.
Hobbies & Pastimes
There are all kinds of jobs and ambient activities to try, and each has specific things that you need to know to succeed. Hunting, Races, Arms Trafficking, Flight School, Property Management, Skydiving, Golf, Assassination Missions, Yoga, and more—we've got you covered.
Maps & Collectables
We have explored every square mile of land and sea of this immense world to locate and complete all Miscellaneous Activities. Maps and detailed descriptions for all Aerial Challenges, Stunt Jumps, Spaceship Parts, Submarine Pieces, Hidden Packages, and more.
100% Completion
There's a lot to do in the greater Los Santos area. A lot. We keep track of it all so you don't miss a thing. Each colorful character you'll need to meet, the activities you'll need to complete and everything to achieve 100% completion.
What's New in Version 1.2
This version includes coverage of GTA Online, Monkey Mosaics and Wildlife Photography.
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37 Jewelry Pieces to Add Sparkle to Your Winter Season
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The biggest fashion night of the year is behind us… The Academy Awards have come and gone. We've picked out the best dressed and the worst, ogled over the hottest guys on the red carpet and covered all the wardrobe malfunctions.
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While we know the ladies rocked some amazing gowns on the red carpet last night at the 2014 Academy Awards, they also donned seriously extravagant jewelry, too… Adding up to over $21 Million! … More »
Nothing makes an Oscar shine like a million dollars worth of jewelry. The annual Academy Awards are always studded with the most dazzling of designer jewels. From Harry Winston and Neil Lane to Tiffany & Co., celebrities certainly do not skimp on the sparkles. Anyone remember, Nicole Kidman's 2008 Oscar bling worth $7 million? Astonishingly enough, Kidman's… More »
Past years have seen many a diamond, sapphire or gold piece walk the red carpet from jewelers like Lorraine Schwartz, Fred Leighton and Harry Winston.
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The Real Housewives are no strangers to controversy and Adrienne Maloof is no exception. But since her very public divorce from Paul Nassif she's come out on top with a 90210-inspired jewelry line and she's looking toward the future.
"This is new beginnings for me… I'm happy, I'm in a good place in… More »
Nicole Kidman, Carly Rae Jepsen and Florence Welch's gowns weren't the only things sparkling on the red carpet at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Along with this year's more glamorous fashion came a whole lot of bling.
Though Carrie Underwood decked out her neckline in diamonds, necklaces were few and far between, with the… More »
Christina Applegate is known for her humor and talent on the big screen. But in 2008, Applegate announced she had breast cancer and ever since has been an advocate for breast cancer awareness.
The pregnant actress has teamed up with jewelry designer Alex Woo to create a necklace to raise money for… More »
Jennifer Lopez may or may not have an American Idol judging gig, but there's one thing she's definitely not lacking: Plenty of bling.
The "Jenny From the Block" singer took to her Twitter page on Thursday to share a picture of her jewelry collection with the world. The caption for the sparkly pic?
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They always will be remembered. We never shall forget their bravery, courage and fortitude. They are the heroes of 9/11.
To honor the many, living and dead, who contributed so much to America on that day, the U.S. Postal Service has released a new 45-cent semi-postal fund-raising stamp titled "The Heroes of 2001."
A semi-postal stamp is one that has an added amount for a specific purpose. Since first class mail is 34 cents at present, the additional value of 11 cents will go "to provide assistance to families of emergency relief personnel killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty in connection with terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," says the USPS.
Featured on the stamp is the famous photo of three firefighters as they raised the U.S. flag at Ground Zero in New York City.
The photographer was Thomas E. Franklin of the Bergen Evening Record of Bergen County, N.J.
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Princeton in the West Bank
Ariel hoped to be a major West Bank center, but today has an aging population and an uncertain future. The declared upgrade of its college to a 'university center' was supposed to offer a new lease on life to the campus and the town, but no one wants to move there.
An embarrassed smile crossed the face of Prof. Ester Fride as the conversation moved from her study on using cannabis in food supplements for infants, who are poor eaters, to the part-political, part-academic furor over the self-upgrading of the college in Ariel to a "university center" - where she teaches. As proof of the institution's high academic level, the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) professor in the fashionable cap, who heads the department of behavioral sciences, introduces me to two doctoral students who are interning in her laboratory. One of them, who was in the direct-doctorate track at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, recently moved to the West Bank town of Ariel.
The second student, a Ph.D. candidate in the behavioral sciences from Tel Aviv University, related that his fellow students expressed their discomfort over being matched up with the Ariel institution. Academically there is no problem, he says, but some of them object to the fact that it's in the territories. It's noteworthy that the new name, as provided to the Registrar of Associations, is no longer the "College of Judea and Samaria in Ariel," but "Ariel University Center of Samaria."
It is obvious that Prof. Fride would prefer to leave the dispute with Education Minister Yuli Tamir over the school's decision to upgrade itself to the politicians. That, after all, is why Yigal Cohen-Orgad, a former Likud Knesset member and finance minister, was appointed chairman of the university center's executive committee. Cohen-Orgad, sporting an orange plastic bracelet on his arm proclaiming "A Jew does not expel another Jew," recalls that it was the Council for Higher Education (CHE) that confirmed Fride's title as associate professor and then full professor at the college: not the CHE-JS (Judea and Samaria), but the CHE-Israel, which is chaired by the minister of education.
"The obvious question," Cohen-Orgad says, "is if Ariel's lecturers are good enough to supervise 38 doctoral students and 95 M.A. students from other universities in Israel, why doesn't the institution merit the university title?"
Neither the August heat nor his agee, 70, daunt Cohen-Orgad as he takes two stairs at a time and races down trails, leading the tour. From Fride's lab we move to the center for robotics research and applications. A large group of young people from the North to Sderot in the Negev - only one of whom lives in a settlement in the area - presents a new robot that they are developing for the army, to detect smugglers' tunnels. The students in the biochemistry lab say that they are scientists and have no interest in the debate the politicians are waging over the status of the institution.
One of the students, Ephraim, who comes from a single-parent family in Petah Tikva, will leave here next year with the title of electrical and electronics engineer and will be drafted into the Israel Air Force. He is part of the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) Atidim program, a kind of officer-candidate academic studies program geared to industry. Of the 404 participants in the program throughout the country, 57, or 13.8 percent, are students at Ariel. Ephraim is one of 178 students from Ethiopia who studied at Ariel last year - more than at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology combined (according to figures from the Immigrant Absorption Ministry).
Of Ariel's 9,500 students, 5 percent are Arabs from Israel. Cohen-Orgad does not deny that it's easier to be admitted to Ariel than to the Technion, but the curriculum and the examinations are no different than those at other public colleges that are recognized by the CHE.
For Einat Dayan, the university center's marketing director, who lives in a settlement in the northern West Bank, a key issue involves assisting Arab graduates to find employment. It's clear that people here prefer to focus the dispute over the college's conversion into a university on subjects such as the academic level, the quality of the teaching, the available facilities and the number of publications. The yield of the past three years - 68 books, 693 articles and 24 patents - is definitely impressive.
The vision of Ron Nachman, mayor of this town for the past 22 years, is that one day Ariel will be a university town like Princeton, New Jersey, in which life revolves around the campus and blossoms along with it. It's no accident that Nachman draws on the United States for his vision: He is a frequent participant in gatherings of the Christian right wing there and is known for his ability to raise funds from the Christian Zionists. In the meantime, he is realizing his vision in the form of welcoming posters that line the street from the entrance of the town to the commercial center. According to data of the university center, only 2,000 students and a few hundred more faculty and maintenance staff live in Ariel, constituting 15 percent of its population.
Even though it is located almost in the center of the country, Ariel evokes a drowsy, faded town from the American Midwest rather than the suburbs of the prestigious Princeton University. A wide highway less than 20 kilometers long separates Ariel from the Green Line (the pre-1967 border), near Rosh Ha'ayin and the Trans-Israel Highway. Despite its proximity to the center of Israel and its high governmental budgets, however, the biggest settlement in the depths of the northern West Bank is not taking off.
Bilingual town
To judge by the bookstore in the commercial center, Ariel is a bilingual town. The books, the saleswomen, the posters announcing specials - all speak two languages, Hebrew and Russian. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), 42.5 percent of Ariel's 16,500 residents immigrated there from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party received 34.6 percent of the votes there in the last elections, 10.5 percent more than the Likud (Kadima, the party of Ehud Olmert, received 12.4 percent; the National Union-National Religious Party, 8.5 percent; and Labor, 3.9 percent).
Despite mayor Nachman's success in luring thousands of new immigrants to Ariel, the town has for years suffered from negative migration (more people moving out than moving in) and from the aging of the population. According to the CBS, from 2003-2005 the number of residents grew by only 200. Given that the natural birthrate is 8.4 per 1,000 residents, it follows that the balance of migration is negative. The rate of population growth in 2005 as compared with the previous year stood at 0.6 percent, a third of the rate in Israel overall. By comparison, the population of Ma'aleh Adumim, the largest West Bank settlement, grew by 4.3 percent that year.
The percentage of 12th-grade students in Ariel who were eligible for a matriculation certificate in 2005 was 50.7, slightly below the national average of 53.8 percent, and well below the average for Ma'aleh Adumim (63.7 percent). That same year, 42.6 percent of the high-school graduates in Ariel met the threshold requirements for entering university, equal to the national average but less than Ma'aleh Adumim (59.1 percent). Strikingly, though, the government's participation in the budget for the Ariel Municipality was NIS 3,200 per capita, as compared to NIS 1,800 for Ma'aleh Adumim, and the national average of NIS 1,750.
Nachman blames Yitzhak Rabin, who declared Ariel a "political settlement" (as opposed to what he called "security settlements"), thus bringing about the annulment of tax benefits, grants for home purchasers and enlarged mortgages, in favor of the development of the Negev and the Galilee. In a letter Nachman sent to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a month ago, he wrote that because of the uncertainty about the town's future and the non-completion of the separation fence (Ariel is completely surrounded by a fence): "There is no marketing [of homes] in Ariel and we are stuck on a dead-end road ... Ariel is aging, as seen by the fact that we were compelled to close down eight of 30 kindergartens." Nachman says that for the town to become economically and socially viable, its population must grow to 24,000 within five years.
The mayor, once a member of the Likud Knesset faction along with Olmert, complains that the number of high-school students decreased from 1,200 to 900. Probably one of his town's four elementary schools will also close. Nachman attributes the departure of young people to the government's decision to cancel incentives that made it possible for the settlements to offer high-level education at relatively low cost.
In his memoirs, the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote that the government adopted a well-defined security policy regarding where it was or was not right to settle. In the Golan Heights, the Jordan Rift Valley, the Jerusalem area and the Etzion Bloc, and in the Rafah Salient - yes; in the northern West Bank - no. Israel, he wrote, must not thrust Jewish settlers into the "heart of the West Bank," which is densely populated by Arabs. That type of "dramatic" settlement would be akin to showing off and "provoking the Arabs and the United States," and would be unjustified from a security point of view.
Speaking in the Knesset on October 5, 1995, ahead of the approval of the interim agreement with the Palestinians (called Oslo II), Rabin listed the settlements that would be part of Israel in a final agreement: unified Jerusalem, which would include Ma'aleh Adumim and Givat Ze'ev, along with the Etzion Bloc, Efrat and Beitar. He omitted the settlements in the northern West Bank on purpose.
President Shimon Peres, in contrast, has had a long love affair with Ariel. Peres' name, as defense minister, is on the letter of March, 1977, authorizing the settlement's establishment. On the eve of the last elections, Peres accompanied the leaders of Kadima, headed by Olmert, on a visit to Ariel. Kadima very much wanted Nachman to add his name to the group of Likud and Labor mayors who had joined the new party in order to "decorate" the list with a representative from the settlements.
Flight of the young
Nachman remained loyal to the Likud, but chose to spend Tuesday of this week, when the party's primaries were held, on an outing with the municipality's employees in the northern part of the country. The booth of Benjamin Netanyahu supporters in Ariel, situated next to the polling station, was headed by Motti Lantziano, the leader of the opposition to Nachman on the municipal council. Between filing reports to national headquarters and huddling with party members who couldn't make up their minds between Netanyahu and Moshe Feiglin, his ultra-rightwing opponent, Lantziano suggested that the reasons for the flight of the young generation could be found in the office of the mayor. There we found the acting mayor , Emanuel Yaakov, a former Border Police officer and senior official of the Israel Prisons Service. He, too, is from the Likud.
Yaakov pins hopes on the new defense minister. "We feel that a new breeze is blowing from the bureau of [Ehud] Barak," he says. "It's not like in the period of Amir Peretz - neither he nor any of his aides visited here even once. [Barak's] assistant for settlement affairs, Eitan Broshi, has already visited and promised that his door will always be open to us. We understood that it is possible to build the new neighborhood that we have been planning for a long time."
Barak did not intervene in the matter of the Ariel college's upgrade, even though as defense minister he is the definitive authority in regard to all matters pertaining to settlements, including this one. Only a handful of left-wing activists have come to the institution's campus to demonstrate against the decision to change its status, holding posters that stated "Ariel University - enlightened occupation." As in the case of the introduction of the Green Line into textbooks, here, too, the left wing is barking and the settlers continue to thumb their noses at everyone.
On the solemn occasion of the declaration of the existence of the first university in the territories, Ariel extracted from the prime minister an important political statement, a ringing blow to Peres' current plan, according to which Ariel and its university center will become part of Palestine. After Education Minister Tamir told the media that "Olmert was led astray," the Prime Minister's Bureau sent a beeper message to journalists stating: "The prime minister views the upgrading of the college, as decided on by the CHE-JS, as an important reinforcement for the settlement blocs in the West Bank and for higher education as well."
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DETROIT - Rain is spitting on a cool, dark downtown. Yet, there's no feeling this morning of gloom as the calendar ticks through autumn and into winter.
The gloom is on Chicago's south side.
The Detroit Tigers have won the American League Central Division Championship and playoff baseball will be coming to a sold-out and electric Comerica Park.
"Welcome to the D shop," chimed a Tigers employee who greeted the five fans standing outside the park's team shop doors at 4:55 a.m.
Just hours after securing the division in Kansas City, Local 4 cameras were there as employees unpacked division champions t-shirts and hats.
By 4:58 a.m., Kathy Sovoda from Lincoln Park had the first championship t-shirt in hand. It's for her grandson to wear to school this morning and it's a surprise. "I'll tell him, this looks better than the shirt you have on, go Tigers," Sovoda said.
Fans this morning snapping up t-shirts and hats say this year's long, sometimes painful climb to the top makes the championship more satisfying.
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The playoff start at Comerica Park this weekend, but The D Shop will be selling Tigers playoffs gear all week long.
"Go Tigers! Tigers all the way to the World Series," cheered a man driving up to the shop shouted at the top of his lungs.
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BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY–MasterFit University presented by Rohner Sport Socks, the ski and snowboard industry's leading boot fit training program, has certified more than 350 boot technicians at more than 150 ski and snowboard shops in the U.S. and Canada for winter 2000,
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QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has cancelled all appointments made in the province from December 11 onwards and has directed his staff to inform all secretaries and officers to be present in the provincial assembly session, warning them of disciplinary action if they fail to do so. Speaking during Friday's assembly proceedings, Zehri said deputy commissioners should not meddle in recruitments. He said he knows how to run a government well, adding that it was his topmost priority to solve the issues of the masses.
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Speaking of cartoon mascots, this head-scratching take on Mr. Clean was concocted by Leo Burnett's Toronto office and directed by Pete Riski at Sons and Daughters. While the ad isn't noteworthy from either an animation or technical perspective, I'm oddly fascinated by how thoroughly creepy, stiff and unappealing they've managed to make this character. Perhaps that was the point.
I waited untill the end to see if he also broke General Zod's neck.
Chris Sobieniak
That would've been great!
the Gee
I dunno.
He'd have to be careful to not make a mess of things.
Awww man I REALLY wanted him to start erasing the equations off the chalkboard and scrub the pictographs off the stone! Mr Clean as an OCD nuisance!
Yoram Benz
I dunno, it looks intentional to me. Looking at the overall production value of the live action it seems they might have tried to keep Mr Clean close to the art on the products rather than translate him realistically. It does leave room for production misinterpretation.
[Comment removed by editors. Per our commenting guidelines, "Stay on-topic. Comments are not a place to post random thoughts or discuss ideas not directly related to the post." The topic of this post is Mr. Clean.]
Roberto Severino
I watched the commercial again and liked the message, but I still can't help to think that Mr. Clean sort of looks out of place. Other people in here have raised valid points.
The detail that bothered me was that there's no indication in the commercial that Mr. Clean was ever a sailor. Wasn't that the original concept of Mr. Clean: that he was the sailor who swabs the deck? And that was why he has the earring?
The original concept of Mr Clean is, well, Yul Brynner from The King and I. He was literally ripped off from that movie, which was very big at the time. (source: I worked for P&G marketing)
Why not have live actors do the character? Seems like redundant use of technology.
the Gee
"You'll believe a man can stay indoors, all day long, cleaning, and still maintain his tan"—if this were a tagline for a movie…
Amid always has and always will have His Moments. And, yeah, it would be nice to get some word on WHY and more info on the commercial. So an interview would be nice but you watched the piece. Tell me that is something you wouldn't want people to watch because of how weird it is.
Anyway, when he says the CG character is "creepy, stiff and unappealing", he's not wrong. If the entire commercial contained nothing but CG characters, it would have been more acceptable. Well, the chances are good it would not be as odd if that were the case.
But, for whatever the reason the mixed live action with the CG, it looks just *that much* odd and then other times it looks very odd. I'll agree with Brett Wharton (below) and with Yoram Benz (below) by saying you can't take your eyes off of the main character and that might may just be the point where it worked well for the agency and for the client.
It's a bizarre concept, one which you almost don't expect to have been conceived with seriousness in mind. So, for that reason alone, Amid probably felt compelled to share.
Since when has Mr. Clean not been creepy?
So THATS where the internet's Dancing Baby comes from!
God good, I saw this on television and I literally said "Ewww" out loud. I understand that there is a lot of unnecessary CG bashing on this site. However, that….Thing just looks horrifying. To me anyway.
If this was intentional…I don't really understand why. I mean, I thought the point of mascots were to make them appealing to the viewer not uncomfortable.
I'll be glad to get to the point when people talk about how they can't tell computer animated humans from real people. This really isn't all that uncanny, just corny.
Daniel J. Drazen
As soon as I saw him as a kid I was like "Wait, what?" It was almost like they kidnapped the young Cain from "Kung Fu" and spirited him away to suburbia.
BEAUTIFUL call there. Positioning Mr Clean as the clean up crew for superhero collateral damage should be the sequel to this ad.
the Gee
That would be good comic relief.
After a harsh fight scene, the camera stays on the shot, then suddenly this bald man furiously pushes a mop around while huffing and puffing, like a guy who mops up the court at a basketball game.
I'm usually the first the decry poor CG design and implementation in live action, but honestly I think this ad works perfectly. I'm not entire sure whether it wants to be a joke or utterly serious, and I LOVE that uncertainty. It's clearly a riff on Man Of Steel whilst having a tongue-in-cheek attitude towards itself. I think they're fully aware that they're making something silly, and I completely bought into it and loved it. It felt fun. The ONLY point about the animation I'd add is that when he leaves his parents, his face already looks around 50yrs old.
It surprises me that you're saying the ad isn't noteworthy in animation, as I found it's execution very well done indeed. The implementation and compositing was tight as well as self-aware, and the character animation itself was nicely restrained. While it may have lacked a little subtle nuance, I didn't see this hurting the visual at all. In fact, I find this ad really QUITE noteworthy in that it's trying a new tact – constantly reminding you that you're NOT seeing a real person appears to be the goal, and that is definitely an interesting objective in a world of ever-more-desperate CG implementation.
All in all, I think this is a very well executed, cleverly written ad, completely overshooting the uncanny valley because they didn't appear to be aiming for photo-realism, they wanted silly bizarre and nailed it. I personally would like to see more in this series, almost as a deconstruction of superhero origin stories and the whole nature of film franchises.
no need for cg here…coulda/shoulda been actors
Chris Powell
liked this!
I'm baffled as to why he's even animated. This ad would have been a hundred times funnier if they'd had real little bald kids running around in Mr. Clean outfits, rather than creepily animated ones.
And wow, they made him look OLD. He used to be a manly pirate sort of fellow, but now he's in his 60s? 70s?
I worked with P&G marketing when they decided to remove his earring to avoid any possible 'connotations'. Sigh.
This "new look" Mr. Clean codes gay with a vengeance. There's even one ad where he's in a biker bar drinking a "girly" drink with an umbrella and a straw. He's a sissy.
Back in the day, Mr. Clean was big, strong and tough. This new Mr. Clean is a skinny pushover. A dress is the next step for this loser.


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Dorothy Day: a saint with "something to offend everyone"
As someone who was never afraid to speak out for her beliefs, Dorothy Day would make a perfect patron saint of activists.
January 4, 2013
Thomas More, the statesman who would not compromise his faith at the behest of King Henry VIII, was elevated to sainthood during a time when Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini were rising to power. Now, as the United States seems to be locked in a red state/blue state quagmire, the Catholic Church may elevate to sainthood Dorothy Day, a servant of God who could not be pigeonholed as a liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, or libertarian, and chose to wear no other label than that of Christian.
Last month during their annual meeting, the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted to support Dorothy Day's cause for sainthood. To steal a line from Peter Kreeft about his heroes Jesus and Socrates, Dorothy Day certainly has something to offend everyone.
Founding the Catholic Worker movement during the Great Depression, Day and her colleague Peter Maurin farmed, fed the poor, and published a newspaper to protest wars and the unjust treatment of workers. Although Day is widely accepted by the religious left because of her antiwar stance, as well as her dedication to civil rights, workers' rights, and the poor, Day has met with a cool reception from many on the right. A host of conservatives, from Rush Limbaugh's callers to Glenn Beck, to writers and commenters at conservative websites and blogs, have opined that Day was a Communist who flouted Church teachings. These conservatives never provide proof, but only make statements to the effect that she was trying to push the Church in a Communist direction.
This is a shame, as Day's life has a lot to offer the orthodox Catholic. "Dorothy Day constantly lived her life according to a 'higher obedience' that was not subject to political instrumentalization," said Dr. Chad C. Pecknold, assistant professor of historic and systematic theology at the Catholic University of America, and author of Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History (Cascade, 2010). "Advancing her cause—especially in the wake of the recent presidential election in which the Catholic vote was divided by a political calculus that her life rejects—is providential for the Church in America."
Tom Cornell, a deacon assigned to St. Mary's Parish in Marlboro, New York and co-manager of Peter Maurin Farm, served with Day at the Catholic Worker when he was a young man. In fact, he calls Day his matchmaker, as he and his wife, Monica, literally met over a Catholic Worker soup pot. He agrees that the bishops' push for Day's canonization is providential. "Dorothy is a bridge between the so-called left and the so-called right in a polarized church." He adds, "I don't think the labels are very helpful."
Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books and editor of All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day, knew Day the last five years of her life, and agrees that she is a bridge figure. "She is a symbol of common ground whose witness could bring together people," he said.
"She didn't just communicate with Catholics," Ellsberg added. "She was in touch with Protestants, Jews, and unbelievers, and trying to seek common ground."
Day continues to be something of an enigma to many. One of the widespread legends about Day is that she was a Communist, a bit of "history" that simply isn't true. Around the time of her conversion, she worked for the Anti-Imperialist League, which was a Communist front organization. According to Cornell, Day felt a lot of unease about this and talked to her confessor about it.
"He told her, 'You have a daughter to support—until you can find something else, keep working there,'" he said.
Full Story: Dorothy Day: A Saint to Transcend Partisan Politics
Source: Catholic World Report
Bangladesh author writes rhyming Bible stories
Book is aimed at arousing young children's interest and give them better understanding of the Bible
Farmers struggle with severe drought in Timor-Leste
The country has suffered from long bouts of dry weather for about two years and has affected approximately 350,000 people
Deadly Philippine drug war wages on social media
Bishop, award-winning priest take on internet trolls in bid to combat killings in Duterte's narcotics campaign
Filipinos go red in solidarity with persecuted Christians
Red Wednesday campaign looks to raise awareness of suffering being experienced by millions of followers
Democratic govt should not be waiting for UN experts
Sri Lanka should ensure the upholding of rights, dignity and well-being of its citizens


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I've followed this app since 1.1. I spend about 1/2 an hour every night on LawBox reviewing for the morning. I love it.
Worthless because I can't create an account
Rulebook is better.
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Sami Andoura
Caen, 18 décembre 2015 - L'Europe face au changement climatique
Présider la Commission, gouverner l'UE
Bruxelles, 13 octobre 2015 - Plan Juncker : questions ouvertes
Après le psychodrame grec, quelles améliorations pour l'UEM?
Paris, 26 juin 2015 - L'espace Schengen face aux menaces : problème ou solution ?
Bruxelles, 14 mai 2014 - Politique énergétique européenne : réorientation en période de crise
Sami Andoura intervient sur le thème de la Politique énergétique européenne extérieure en période de crise dans le cadre du séminaire organisé par l'Institut Bruegel le 14 mai 2014 à Bruxelles.
European external energy policy - re-orientation in times of crisis
Energy and Climate Exchange
Date and Time: 14 May 2014, 12.00-14.00
Venue: Bruegel, Rue de la Charité 33, 1210 Brussels
Bruegel would like to invite you to the Energy and Climate Exchange "European external energy policy – re-orientation in times of crisis".
On EU external energy policy there has been a certain mismatch between ambition and instruments. On the one hand, there is a long-standing argument that the EU needs to develop 'one voice' towards foreign suppliers to improve its negotiation position and improve supply security (e.g., the proposal by Jacques Delors and Jerzy Buzek). On the other hand, the most tangible results of EU external energy policy were achieved by European initiatives such as the 'Energy Charter' and the 'Energy Community' that helped to gradually transform energy sectors in the European neighbourhood so as to make them more compatible with the EU energy market. With recent events in Ukraine, the discussion on re-orienting European external energy policy gained new momentum.
At this event we will discuss European external energy policy from three perspectives: Małgorzata Kałużyńska (Director EU Economic Department at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) will address the issue from the perspective of a member state; Dirk Buschle (Deputy Director Energy Community) will give a view from his international organisation and Vsveolod Chentsov (Director at the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine) will the provide the perspective of a partner country. The three short presentations will be commented by Frank Umbach (EUCERS) before the floor is opened for discussion. The event will be chaired by Sami Andoura (Senior Research Fellow at Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute and Chair of European Energy Policy at the College of Europe).


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Here is your chance to vote for Coke vs Pepsi at Race Aid Stations.
Visit Coke for an Upset Stomach to cast your vote.
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Screw that...gimme BEER (or ginger ale for an upset stomach)!
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She was not strong. She was valiant. Radiant. Brave and broken. The beauty she discovered in the aftermath was unparalleled to anything she had known before, because it had come at such a cost.
~ Unknown
Gee, I wonder which way you want the vote to go!
Gee, I wonder which way you want the vote to go!
Well, when I was growing up -- a coke came in many flavors. If you asked someone for a coke, they were likely to reply with "What kind"?
Which could imply:
Dr. Pepper
Mr. Pibb
You get the point. Coke was used interchangeably with Soda, Pop, etc...
But the article/poll does seem to show a bias.
And you can quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. Groucho Marx
Remember Simba?
That was my favorite--gone now.
Log Crusted Salt comics #203
I'm sorry to see this one fall off the consumer radar. i don't really care for the taste of it, but my favorite Aggie joke mentions it:
"Did you hear about the Aggie who drank so much Fresca that he snowed in his pants?"
It's funny if you have a drunk uncle who attended Texas A&M.


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Steve Peacocke Lands Hollywood Role in Hercules Movie
Steve Peacocke Lands His Big Hollywood Break
In the space of a few short years, Steve Peacocke has gone from unknown to Home and Away golden boy and Gold Logie nominee. Now he's following in the footsteps of his fellow Aussie soap stars to take on Hollywood — but Brax fans, don't worry, because he isn't leaving the show just yet. Steve has been cast in the supporting role of Stephanos in Hercules: The Thracian Wars, which will be directed by Brett Ratner and co-star Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell. In a statement Steve said, "This is an incredible opportunity for me to experience film on a massive scale, work with a world-class director, actors and two of the biggest studios in the world. I'm grateful [Channel] Seven is allowing me time out to get a taste of that world." In an interview with Yahoo7, Steve said he put down an audition tape for the role and met with the director, producers and writers over a weekend.
For more on Steve's big break, keep reading.
Steve's character Brax will be temporarily written out of the show for a few months while Steve films his part for Hercules. He told Yahoo7, "It signals the launch for a whole new story line that would not have come about if I did not get this film role. The writers came up with this awesome scenario, Brax leaves the story line and comes back. It's going to be exciting to come back to, I can't wait." Home and Away and Seven clearly aren't ready to let their golden boy go for good just yet, and it appears he'll get the best of both worlds for now — as will his dedicated fanbase, who helped him win the Logie for most popular actor.


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TR: A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions: Guy Noir, Private Eye.
GK: It was April, and I was in New York, working on the case of the Russian multibillionaire. Rumors had swept the Upper West Side that a man with an accent was in the market for an apartment with a view of Central Park, that he was a natural gas multibillionaire from Siberia and was willing to pay fifty or sixty million for the right place. So a man named Randolph Snelling was trying to sell his condo......
FN: Look. It's only a one-bedroom, but it's a big one-bedroom.
GK: How much you pay for this place?
FN: Four-hundred thousand.
GK: And you're asking how much?
FN: Eleven million.
GK: What????
FN: You got to aim high.
GK: Eleven million????
FN: You can't be afraid to ask.
GK: So you want me to find this Russian billionaire.....
FN: Multi-billionaire.
GK: And drag him to your apartment.
FN: I'll have the vodka on ice, and my sister-in-law will come in in her bikini and play the part of the next-door neighbor.
GK: Who's that?
FN: Next door neighbor but she's gone most of the day.
GK: Those walls are awfully thin. You are not going to have a happy buyer on your hands.
FN: I'll deal with her. Go find me that Russian. (BRIDGE)
GK: So I went around town listening for a Russian accent, and on a hunch I went in the New York Public Library to see if anybody had taken out Pushkin recently.
SS (RUSSIAN): Pushkin. Nobody reads Pushkin but Russian.
GK: Well, that's who I'm looking for,
SS (RUSSIAN): You look for Russian? Russian who?
GK: I just like to make new friends.
SS (RUSSIAN): Our Russian section is down in the sub-sub-sub basement, in the stacks. Igor will take you down. (FN HUNCHBACK OFF)
GK: Thanks. Excuse me, are you Russian?
SS (RUSSIAN): Am I Russian? Ha. Are bears in the woods Catholic?
GK: Right. (BRIDGE) So I followed Igor (TR MUTTERING) aboard an old elevator that went down deep (SFX) into the bowels of the library and he pointed me off to one corner (TR) and I followed him over there. And then I saw the forklift. (SFX) A guy in a hard hat was running it and it was scooping up stacks of books and putting them on a conveyor belt (SFX) that carried them off down a dark passageway. It was like a coal mine except they were mining books.
TR (IGOR): We are clearing out all the books. But here are the Pushkin over here.
GK: How can they clear out the books? It's a library.
TR (IGOR): Nobody reads old books. Only new books. Only on iPad and Kindle.
GK: But you've got millions of books down here.
TR (IGOR): Three million. Maybe four.
GK: This is a world-class library.
TR (IGOR): World-class warehouse.
GK: What are they going to do with the space?
TR (IGOR): It's valuable real estate. Parking ramp and condos.
GK: Where are the books going?
TR (IGOR): To Turtle Mountain in North Dakota.
GK: There are no mountains in North Dakota.
TR (IGOR): There will be when these books get out there.
GK: I looked at the Pushkin and in a big volume of his epic poem "Eugene Onegin" I found a bookmark, a sales slip for the Excelsior health club on the Upper West Side, so I headed up there. Past the street singers (PD: STREETS OF LONDON LINES, FADE) and past the street vendors (FN: Hey buddy, looky here. Got something I want to show you. Lookit this necktie. It's Newt Gingrich. See? And you pull on the tie and he waves bye-bye and disappears. Nice, huh? Got a backscratcher too. Gets all the way down to the itchy part.) and I went past the street comedians.
TR: Hey I used to be a banker but I lost interest. Okay? There is a hole in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. (BRIDGE)
GK: I found the Excelsior Health Club and I walked in and a woman sat behind the counter, weeping.
SS (WEEPING): Hello, what can I do for you? (SOBBING)
GK: I'm looking for a Russian guy who paid $157.58 for a three-month membership.
SS (WEEPING): I'm sorry. I'm not usually like this.
GK: What's the problem? Somebody die?
SS (WEEPING): It's my son, Anton, been six days since he called. Six days. No word.
GK: Where is he? Europe?
SS (WEEPING): Brooklyn. Why did he have to go to Brooklyn? I've got a spare bedroom. He could've lived with me, rent free, long as he wanted. I did everything for him. Everything.
GK: How old is he?
SS (WEEPING): "How old is he??" What does it matter how old he is?
GK: Is he under sixteen?
SS (WEEPING): He's thirty six.
GK: She gave me her son's phone number and I called and he picked right up.
TR (ON PHONE): Yeah?
GK: Anton?
TR: Yeah?
GK: How's it going?
TR: Who is this?
GK: My name is Aegisthus and I'm your mom's lover and we just murdered your father when he came home from the Trojan war trying to rescue Helen.
TR: The Trojan what? (BRIDGE)
GK: I went back to the front desk. The woman had calmed down a little.
SS: You talk to Anton?
GK: He's fine. He's coming right over. He'll be here soon.
SS: I'll believe it when I see it.
GK: Anyway, I'm looking for this Russian guy.
SS: What you want with him?
GK: Just want to find him.
SS: He's not here.
GK: Mind if I go around and look?
SS: I said he's not here.
GK: You know where he went?
SS: Who are you, a cop?
GK: Do I look like a cop to you?
SS: Well, some cops keep working past retirement.
GK: That was not a kind remark........
SS: I'm a manager, mister, I'm not your social worker.
GK: And right then I heard footsteps (SFX) and I could smell the perfume.
ED: Excuse me. Could I have another towel? Please? (BRIDGE)
GK: She had six towels wrapped around her neck and a lozenge in her mouth and she had a bottle of water, so I could see she was a singer. And I smelled her perfume and it was a French perfume called Le Madeleine and it was the same perfume used by a woman named Zuzu (SS FRENCH THROATY), a woman I used to know back in my younger days (SS GALLIC CHUCKLE, GK GALLIC CHUCKLE) when we used to play racquetball together at Le Club (RACQUETBALL HIT, BOUNCE, W GALLIC CHUCKLES, VOLLEY CONTINUES SLOWLY, DREAMLIKE) and I never could keep my eye on the ball, I only had eyes for her. Ah Zuzu. The smell of the perfume brought it all back. (SS FRENCH WHISPER)
ED: Are you all right? -----Should I call a doctor?
GK: You---- you're a singer, aren't you?
ED: (SINGS) Singing is my life, my calling, it is my reason for being. (ENDS SHARP)
GK: Oh. And you're an opera singer?
ED (SINGS, SHARP): Yes. I am singing at the Met-- Musetta in "La Boheme"------
GK: And is that coming up soon?
ED (SINGS, SHARP): Next week-----
GK: Do you live next to a man named Randolph Snelling in a building over on West End?
ED (SINGS): I believe I do. Yes, I think I met him once. (ENDS SHARP)
GK: Ma'am----- look ----- I don't usually offer advice to opera singers but you've got a little vocal problem.
ED (SINGS SHARP): I do????
GK: I think you may have a lozenge stuck in your throat.
ED (SINGS SHARP): Oh???????
GK: Excuse me for doing this but I'm going to whack you a good hard one on the back, okay? (HE SWINGS, THUMP. DING OF METAL DISH. ED BIG CLEAR NOTE) See? Cleared that right up for you.
ED: I can sing again! I can sing!
I sing quite well, much better than a baritone
And my costumes are thrilling
When I rise up, when I rise up and hit those high notes
I make all of the old men cry.
ED: Oh wow.
GK: You know him?
ED: No, but I think I'm about to.
GK: It sounds like he's in love with you.
ED: I don't know, but he wants to buy my apartment. For six million dollars.
GK: So you understand Russian?
ED: Six million dollars. I understand--
ED: Six million dollars. And I'm only subletting. Wow.
ED: This is my lucky day. How can I ever repay you, Mr. Noir?
GK: I'm thinking. (BRIDGE) I thought about repayment and then I inhaled her Le Madeleine perfume and suddenly I was in Paris (FRENCH POLICE SIREN) and French birds in the trees (SFX SMALL BIRDS) in the Tuileries ----- and a bottle of Dom Perignon (CORKSCREW, CORK POP) and a dozen oysters (SFX) in a cafe where poets read from their work (TR SOFT POETIC FRENCH) and a chanteuse sings in the corner -----
Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
GK: And you sit with your arm around a beautiful woman who laughs at your jokes (ED MUSICAL LAUGHTER) (GK GALLIC LAUGHTER), and when I opened my eyes, the singer was gone. Gone. And so was the Russian.
SS: Hey, what happened to you?
GK: I don't know. Where are they?
SS: They went to the bank.
GK: Which bank?
SS: How should I know? But you better get out of here.
GK: Why?
SS: My son, Anton. He's out of his mind. He's on his way over from Brooklyn to avenge the death of his father. What did you tell him? His father's not dead. His father's in New Jersey. Big difference. (STING)
GK: So I went down in the subway and waited for a downtown train (FN INCOMPREHENSIBLE P.A. ANNOUNCE), and a train came that was headed downtown (SFX, TRAIN BRAKES, DOOR OPEN), and I got on and there was the mayor.
TR (BLOOMBERG): Excuse me. I'm Mike Bloomberg. Would you like some cashews?
GK: I'm fine.
TR (BLOOMBERG): You haven't seen any big Russian financiers around here, have you? I understand there was one in the neighborhood.
GK: I think I saw him, yeah. He's with an opera star.
TR (BLOOMBERG): I'm trying to find him so maybe he could help us out. City could use more multibillionaires. Where can I find this guy?
GK: Just walk around and look for a beautiful woman whose perfume makes you think of Paris and birds in the trees and poetry and champagne and oysters.
TR (BLOOMBERG): If I go around town coming up close to beautiful women so I can smell their perfume, I'm gonna get my face slapped.
GK: Nothing comes free. There is a price to be paid for every pleasure, Mr. Mayor.
TR (BLOOMBERG): Hey, you're right. Thanks for the advice.
GK: You're welcome.
TR (ANNC): A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But on the 12th floor of the Acme building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions: Guy Noir, Private Eye.