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Preparations for the Junior Ryder Cup in Blairgowrie continued to gather pace this week.
New signs welcoming September's coveted competition to East Perthshire were officially unveiled by Perth and Kinross Provost Liz Grant on Monday.
The signs are visible on the main access roads into Blairgowrie and Rattray and flag-up the fact top golfers from Europe and the USA will do battle at Blairgowrie Golf Club on September 22 and 23.
Provost Grant was joined by Stuart Wilson, who will captain Team Europe — which could include Blairgowrie's Bradley Neil — during the biennial duel.
Blairgowrie Golf Club managing secretary Douglas Cleeton said: "We're delighted the signs have gone up. The excitement and momentum is building. Every day is busy now, but that's as we thought it would be and it has been the case since January.
"Everything's under control and we're all looking forward to it. There are so many great events at the club this year but the Junior Ryder Cup is the pinnacle."
Provost Grant, who is also a local councillor for the area, declared: "I'm delighted to have unveiled the first of these new signs, which celebrate the pride Blairgowrie and Rattray takes in hosting the vibrant junior event. As well as bringing visitors, the Junior Ryder Cup is a successful partnership with Club Golf, allowing thousands of young people a unique insight into the game."
Mr Cleeton was one of 35 people who attended a 'business breakfast' at the club on Tuesday.
The event was billed as a chance for local entrepreneurs to find out how they could benefit from the sporting showpiece descending on East Perthshire.
Mr Cleeton continued: "It was a very informative event which featured good presentations from both Ryder Cup Europe and Perth and Kinross Council.
"It's important the whole of the local area gets involved with the Junior Ryder Cup and the unique opportunities it will bring."
Meanwhile, former Scotland footballer Alan Hansen, one of several celebrity ambassadors for the senior Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, helped launch a Ryder Cup Practice Day Programme with golfers from Prestonfield Golf Club in Edinburgh on Monday.
Fans are urged to wear some tartan to welcome the Ryder Cup players on 'Tartan Tuesday', on September 23.
Hansen said: "For someone that grew up on the other side of the hill in Clackmannanshire it's so exiting that the Ryder Cup is at Gleneagles.
"I went for lessons at Gleneagles in 1963/64. Coming from Sauchie and going to Gleneagles, it was like a different world.
"You come through the gates and looked at this thing, it was a summer's night and it was a magical place to be."


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It's no secret Justin Bieber is performing at the Grammy's this Sunday, but we may be surprised with a couple special guests. So far we know that Usher and Jaden Smith will be joining Bieber on stage, but who else?
Justin Bieber teases his Grammy performance by saying, "We got some other performers that are going to be there with me, Jaden and Usher, so I'm really excited about it". Who do you think the special guests will be? I'm hoping for Gucci Mane.

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AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has gushed with praise for David Beckham as his loan extension from LA Galaxy is about to be rubberstamped.
Although the official deal has not been confirmed yet, the Rossoneri look set to keep Becks until the end of the season on loan thanks to his £2m pay cut.
He'll return to LA Galaxy in July and then play the MLS campaign until November, when he can become a free agent due to a clause in his contract.
"Beckham is one of the few players who show their affection for a club in a tangible manner," continued Galliani on Milan Channel.
"Everyone is happy to say such things, but few actually give up a mountain of money to wear the Rossoneri jersey. Beckham is one of them."


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Rockland foodies meet to swap creations
Food aficionados from experienced chefs to traditional home cooks gathered Tuesday evening in Piermont to trade homemade burnt aillade sauce, made of garlic and walnuts, for pickled nectarines and to swap babka for sherry peppers.
Thirteen epicures braved the cold and rain to attend Rockland County's first food swap, a growing phenomenon in Brooklyn and elsewhere imported to the Lower Hudson Valley by personal chefs Rachel Mack of and Phyllis Segura, who met through Facebook even though they live in neighboring villages, Grandview and Piermont respectively.
"This area has a lot of creative personalities interested in good food," said Mack. "Food swaps are all over the country. I was surprised they were not already here. Rockland County has a good personality for a food swap."
Held at the Piermont Reformed Church, which was founded in 1839 and overlooks the Sparkill Creek, the swap helped lift spirits in a community where Hurricane Sandy remains topical.
"My own personal mission is to come together as a community to encourage economic development, and a food swap is a good way to start," Mack said.
Inside the church meeting room, participants carefully displayed their meticulously packaged handcrafted foods on wooden folding tables. All signed a release stating they were aware of the risks in acquiring and eating foods not prepared in licensed kitchens or factories.
Over the next 90 minutes or so, amid conversation that turned from food and cooking to spouses and work, swappers made rounds and placed written bids for items, listing what food they were offering in exchange. Trades can be declined.
Many of the items were labor-intensive. Tamika Adjermian, author of Belle Jar Canning blog, spent three days preparing her membrillo paste, a Spanish jam made of quince. "It takes a lot of work to make. Twelve hours total of stirring. I made it after Hurricane Sandy, when I had no electricity but gas on the stove," Adjermian said.
Philip Denlinger from Monsey, who pickled peppers, and Ted Alexander of Pomona, who made spiced pecans, were the two men in the group.
Dara Erck, a recent Nyack transplant from Brooklyn, brought Greek spanakopita packaged and tied with ribbon and tags artfully inked by her Spanish au pair. "The Brooklyn swaps have younger people. More hipsters," Erck said. "Next time I'll bring some of my friends."
At the end of the swap, personal chef Janice Van Buskirk gathered the bag of goodies she got in exchange for her aillade sauce and gluten-free chestnut cake. "It feels like Christmas," she said.
But the proudest swapper of the evening was 81-year-old Adele Mack, who traveled from Amherst, Mass., to support her daughter Rachel's first food swap. The elder Mack brought banana bread. She, too, was all traded out.
The next Rockland Food Swap is scheduled for Feb. 26 at the Piermont Reformed Church, which will again donate the space. For more information, go to Rockland NY Food Swappers website.
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All Raphael Clemente wants is to not risk his life every time he hits the streets. He's been screamed at and spit upon. He's been pelted with coins, McDonald's milkshakes, and full bottles of water. He's been punched, knocked into the dirt, and run off the road. He's been hassled by cops and threatened by folks who don't cotton to him or his ilk.
You see, Clemente is a bicyclist.
"I ride with the assumption that I'm invisible," says the athletic 36-year-old senior planner for Palm Beach County's Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), responsible for coordinating the region's bicycle/pedestrian pathways and its system of greenways. Statistically, South Florida is one of the most dangerous places in the nation to ride a bike. For years, safety watchdog groups like the Surface Transportation Policy Project have rated Palm Beach County one of the toughest places to be a bicyclist.
Says Clemente, "I've ridden all over the world -- South and Central America, Europe -- and I've been harassed here more than anywhere else."
The incidents Cle-mente describes are not unique to him. Fatal bike/car collisions are all too common along county roadways, especially along A1A, which has become ground zero in South Florida's bike-lane debate. It's a national issue as well. In 2003, disc jockeys at Clear Channel radio stations across the country came under fire for inciting listeners to mow down cyclists.
The Lake Worth bicycle activist -- some would say vigilante -- estimates he rides his bike to work four days a week. "The vast majority of motorists see someone on a bike and think, 'I gotta get over.' Then you've got people who are just oblivious. And then you've got this very small slice of the population who are just raging idiots, who see a person on a bicycle as prey. As a toy."
Unfortunately, Clemente has come into contact with more than his share of idiots.
In 1990, he says, while riding on A1A in Boca Raton, he was struck from behind and sent flying. Witnesses got the plate number of the Cadillac that hit him, and its drunken driver was quickly arrested.
The following year, he was on A1A in Juno Beach with other cyclists. "A car came by, swerved at us," he recalls. The driver started hurling a few choice epithets at the riders. "A few of the guys went up alongside his car and yelled back. And he winds up reaching in the glove box, pulling a gun out, and putting it up against his window."
Clemente and the other bikers rode to the fire station and called police. Within minutes, a Juno Beach squad car had the driver pulled over. He turned out to be a Lake County cop who said he felt threatened by the angry pack of cyclists. "Everything got smoothed over then," Clemente laments, "and they sent him on his way."
That wasn't the last time law enforcement didn't work in his favor, he claims, something that "offends me to my core." On December 4, 1993, Clemente was riding along the beach in Lake Worth. Two men who worked on a nearby drift boat drove by and started heckling him. When Clemente told them to beat it, he says, they forced him off the road, then pulled him off his bike. As they pummeled him, one smashed a bottle over his head, and his nose was broken. He also suffered a cracked rib. Witnesses signed statements with Lake Worth police, and the two men were arrested. It was only 10 o'clock in the morning, Clemente remembers, "and I smelled alcohol on their breath. They were just a couple of rednecks."
But court records show that the charges against the pair were dropped a few days later. "They said I had intimidated them," he fumes. "Those guys beat the shit out of me and walked."
Furious, Clemente fantasized about street justice: "I had a police report with their names and addresses on it, and I struggled with not going over there with a baseball bat. I was so pissed."
Instead, he bought a can of pepper spray to keep in his jersey pocket when he rode. A few months later, he got the chance to use it.
"I was on A1A in Gulfstream when a Ford van came up alongside of me," he recalls. "The guy in the passenger seat said, 'How's it going?' and I said, 'It's going fine. '" The van slowly merged into Clemente's lane and knocked him into the grass. The men laughed, hit the gas, and vanished.
Infuriated, Clemente jumped back on his bike. "They didn't bargain that I can go 28 or 30 mph for a pretty good stretch," says the former professional racer. He spotted the van on Woolbright Road, first in a line of cars stuck at a drawbridge. "My adrenaline started flowing," Clemente says. "I pulled out the pepper spray and rolled up on the driver's side of the van."
Smoking a cigarette with the window down, the driver had no time to react when he heard Clemente's foot pop out of his toe clip, so he got hosed squarely in the face. The man yowled in pain and scrambled to climb in the back of the van. His passenger desperately tried to unbuckle his seat belt and run, but Clemente sprayed him too. Clemente got back on his bike and rode home as fast as he could. "At the moment, I felt great that I'd got those guys," he says, "but ten minutes later, I was like, 'What is this coming to?'"
Accustomed to logging 400 or more miles a week on Palm Beach County roads, Clemente almost quit riding his bike after that. Which would have been a shame, because he went on to become an Olympics contender in 1996. He had a shot at going to race in Atlanta that summer. "I did my best," he explains, "and placed 12th."
But while in training, he was faced with more trials. One April afternoon in 1996, Clemente and a group of friends were cruising down A1A when they rode through the town of South Palm Beach. Dan LaDuke, a police officer from the small municipality, drove past, got on his loudspeaker, and commanded the cyclists to ride single file. Clemente yelled back that they were, in fact, riding single file. "'You're wrong,' I told him," Clemente explains. LaDuke stopped the entire pack -- and wrote Clemente a ticket for obstructing traffic.
A week later, Clemente was riding through the same area with another pack of cyclists when LaDuke rolled up. Clemente insists he greeted the policeman with a pleasant, "Good morning, Officer LaDuke." In his report, however, the cop wrote that Clemente said, "Fuck you, Officer LaDuke." As the other riders protested, Clemente was handed another ticket for obstructing traffic.
He challenged the citations in court. "Officer LaDuke showed up with witnesses who were never there, with a completely concocted story," Clemente alleges, "and lied under oath." Both tickets were dismissed. "The judge saw through the whole thing," Clemente says with a triumphant smile.
In April of 2003, Clemente got his chance to act as a defender of the cycling public when he was hired by the MPO as its bicycle coordinator. "I saw it as a fantastic opportunity to improve the conditions on the road," he explains. He admits he started the job with an agenda but adds, "Whether it's anger or frustration, I use those motivations to try to do positive things."
One of his first self-appointed missions was to act as an outspoken proponent of lanes on the Delray Beach stretch of A1A. "Raphael is the best thing that has ever happened to Palm Beach County as far as pedestrians and cyclists are concerned," says Jim Smith, a Delray retiree who has made a career of petitioning, pleading, and politicizing in an effort to get local officials to improve safety along the beachfront road.
Yet Clemente still has obstacles to dodge. Just a month after he landed his new job, he attended a Florida Department of Transportation-sponsored "Civic Awareness Meeting" in Delray Beach. Galvanized by the events of his past, he took the podium to speak about the need for bike lanes but kept his emotions in check. "I just used facts," he insists. A Delray resident in her 60s later took the microphone to vehemently oppose the plan.
"As she was going back to her seat," Clemente says, "she told me that I'd better watch out. She said, 'If there's a bike lane on that road, I might just use it as a passing lane. '"
A few bystanders heard her threat. "That was the explosion that sent the meeting over the top!" Smith recalls.
Clemente admits that he became over-zealous as the issue became more and more contentious, until his MPO bosses had to reel him in. "When it reached its peak, I was probably pushing harder than I should have. I was told to calm down."
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Now that a compromise has been hashed out between bike-lane opponents and hard-core cyclists, Clemente has steered clear of Smith's A1A petition drive or efforts contrary to the resolution. But that doesn't mean he hasn't made enemies.
"I got an e-mail one time from Raphael Clemente," Delray Beach Vice Mayor Jon Levinson says. "It was very derogatory toward me. It was an inappropriate e-mail. Had he been my employee, he would have been fired on the spot for writing to anyone like that, let alone an elected official."
Clemente insists his memo was nothing less than professional but admits some may perceive him as walking (or riding) around with a chip on his shoulder. He says he's working to change that and has even mellowed out when he's pedaling around town.
"There was definitely a time when I was not calm. I was quick with the finger and the insults. Now people say whatever they want, and I just wave."


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National ABA light-middleweight champion Scott Fitzgerald makes his international bow tomorrow.
The Larches and Savick ABC boxer will catch a flight to Scandinavia tonight as part of the England team which takes on Sweden in an international match.
Fitzgerald is due to face Nurbo Bozan – a fighter who can boast a 100% record against English boxers this year.
In two earlier shows between the two countries in February and March, Bozan won points decisions against Basingstoke's Jimmy Randall and Wellington's Louis Cunningham.
However, the fact that Bozan is unbeaten against Englishmen this year does not faze Fitzgerald.
He can point towards his own unanimous points victory over Cunningham on his way to winning the National ABA title.
And having watched a DVD of his opponent's victory over Cunningham, Fitzgerald is confident his style will cause the Swede problems.
Fitzgerald said: "Bozan beat Cunningham in the last show between England and Sweden.
"But I watched the DVD of that fight before my ABA semi-final against Cunningham.
"To be honest, I would have given the fight to Cunningham, but Bozan got the decision. But I'll be looking to back him right up and then slot some shots in."
The proud Preston fighter admits it is a dream come true to represent his country and he cannot wait to pull on the England vest.
Fitzgerald said: "To represent your country at anything is a great thing, but this is what I want to do and hopefully I will go there and produce the goods."
His dad Dave, who also acts as his trainer, believes tomorrow will be an important fight for his son.
"It's an important fight for Scott as the ABA champion, but I think he will win, with a bit of luck.
"This lad's style suits Scott's style. It's one last big effort for him and then he can have a rest and go on holiday."


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Dwight Howard protested a goaltending call. He and his coach, Stan Van Gundy, were bothered by a charging call, too. Perhaps what really irked the pair was that their Orlando Magic were barely beating the woeful Washington Wizards.
In the end, Howard's 18 points, 13 rebounds and career-high seven assists, and Orlando's depth were more than undermanned Washington could handle, as the Magic held on to win 112-103 Friday night for their sixth victory in seven games.
This one did not come as easily as one might have thought. Consider: The Magic already clinched a playoff spot and entered the day leading the Southeast Division by 10 1/2 games. The worst-in-the-East Wizards, meanwhile, came in 15-50 and 0-13 against the division.
Plus, the Magic had won each of the teams' three previous meetings this season, by an average score of 100-84.
But Nick Young's fallaway jumper with a little under 7 minutes left pulled Washington within 91-90. And it was still only a two-point game, the Magic up 99-97, with 3 1/2 minutes to go, before Rashard Lewis' 3-pointer gave the visitors a bit of a cushion.
Mickael Pietrus had 21 points and 11 rebounds for Orlando, while Lewis scored 19 and Rafer Alston added 18.
Antawn Jamison scored a season-high 36 points for the Wizards, while second-year guard Young added 20.
As if the Wizards didn't already have enough problems – what with Gilbert Arenas, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson sidelined by injuries – two-time All-Star Caron Butler sat out the second half with a tight hamstring. And reserve forward Andray Blatche left in the second half with an injury that wasn't announced.
Butler, who missed three games earlier this month because of that muscle, had five points on 1-for-7 shooting in 19 minutes during the first half.
Even without him, even though it trailed by as many as 14 points, Washington wouldn't go quietly.
Howard was called three times for goaltending in a 2 1/2-minute span of the fourth quarter, and after the final one, he complained enough to draw a technical foul. It was his 13th tech of the season, the third-highest total in the NBA.
Young made that free throw to trim Orlando's lead to 87-86 with just under 9 minutes remaining.
About 4 1/2 minutes later, Howard was whistled for charging into JaVale McGee, a call that left Howard shaking his head and brought Van Gundy onto the court, clapping and laughing sarcastically in an official's direction.
But Orlando ended the game on a 13-6 run.
Orlando clinched a playoff spot earlier in the week and now is vying for positioning. Overtaking the reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics for the No. 2 seeding in the Eastern Conference is a definite possibility – and there's an even an outside chance of catching the Cleveland Cavaliers for the top spot.
The Wizards, meanwhile, are playing out the string on a disappointing season, one that will end their streak of four consecutive playoff appearances and could close with the worst record in team history.
The franchise never has finished a season with fewer than 18 victories – even in the lockout-shortened, 50-game 1998-99 season.
Notes:@ Magic F Hedo Turkoglu missed a second consecutive game with an injured left foot. ... Friday was Butler's 29th birthday. ... Orlando has won 11 of its past 15 games against Washington.


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The Narrow Strategic Thinking of pro-Ahmadinejad Israelis
This week's stupidest remark was that Ahmadinejad was the candidate Israel wanted to win the Iran election.
The prize for this week's most stupid remark has to go to the officials, officers and experts who described Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the candidate Israel prefers to win the election in Iran, and were even happy he did. It is hard to think of a more blatant manifestation of the narrow horizons of Israeli strategic thinking.
The claim of pro-Ahmadinejad Israelis goes like this: The president in Iran is a puppet of the real powers - the religious leaders, led by Ayatollah Khamenei. Iran's nuclear plans have advanced and will continue no matter who is president and what that person's positions are. Therefore, it is better for us that Iran's most prominent spokesperson to be a Holocaust-denier who threatens to destroy Israel; that way it will be easier to garner support from around the world for pressure on Iran.
To understand how baseless this approach is, it is enough to look at what has happened over the four years of Ahmadinejad's rule. The Iranian nuclear project has crossed the "technological threshold" and reached the capability to independently manufacture enriched uranium without really being bothered from abroad except for hollow sanctions. During this period, Israel enjoyed a loving relationship with the Bush administration and a reasonable relationship with Europe, yet did not manage to get the international community on board to stop the centrifuges in Natanz. Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran's allies, armed themselves uninterrupted.
Israeli PR ostensibly had an easy job. All it had to do was distribute Ahmadinejad's hate-filled speeches and harvest the fruit. But it achieved nothing. The bizarre initiative, which enjoyed Benjamin Netanyahu's support, of putting Iran's president on trial in The Hague for incitement to genocide, got no attention. No one in the world accepted the argument that Iran is Nazi Germany and Israel is Czechoslovakia, and the year is 1938. Bush, the friendly president who gave Israel a green light in Lebanon and Gaza and to bomb Syria, did not allow Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
Barack Obama is specifically demanding that Israel does not attack, and that it does not spring any surprises on the United States. The presentation of Ahmadinejad as Hitler and Iran as a police state a la "1984" ignores the internal pressure in Iran for greater democracy and openness. Those who see Iran only through its centrifuges will also find it hard to understand and accept the Obama approach, which seeks dialogue with Tehran's rulers and smiles at the Muslim world. To the Israeli establishment this amounts to kowtowing to the neighborhood bully.
Less than two weeks after his Cairo speech, Obama has reasons to smile: Hezbollah lost the election in Lebanon and in Tehran, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to protest election fraud and support the reformist Mousavi. The demonstrations forced the Guardian Council, headed by Khamenei, to announce an investigation and a recount of some of the ballot boxes; that is, to sacrifice Ahmadinejad in an attempt to save themselves from the irate masses. It is difficult to imagine such an outcome in Hitler's Germany.
Obama was right not to intervene. He did not accept the results of the election but he did not publicly declare support for the protesters. Thus he gave the reformists room, without seeming to be pulling the strings from afar. It is too early to tell how events will pan out in Tehran, if the regime will really mellow, but the demonstrations offer a chance of change in Iran for the first time in 30 years.
It is also clear that "the world" has come to terms with Iran being a "nuclear-bomb threshold" power which possesses the technology but not the actual bomb. The world may will also come to terms with an Iranian bomb. Israel will have difficulty bombing Iran with Obama against it, and may even be too late. Under such circumstances, it would be best for Israel if there were people in the Iranian leadership who could calm things down in the region, not stir up strife.
Netanyahu has internalized the strategic change that Obama generated. He quickly responded to the Cairo speech with agreement to a Palestinian state, and also changed his public position on Iran: Instead of threatening war and talking about the Holocaust, he returned to Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert's approach that the problem is international and not only Israel's. Perhaps after meeting Obama, Netanyahu understands the reality better than his officers and his officials.
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Donald Baechler has been searching since 1989 for ways to transport the elegantly awkward protagonists of his paintings and drawings into three dimensions. His sculptural endeavors have evolved quietly from the charming to the gawkily heroic. Initially, the artist labored to depict trees, vegetables and flowers, venturing occasionally into the realm of the human figure. Around 2003, he found his muse, so to speak, in one of his drawings of a charming young lady.
His "Walking Figure," first constructed as a papier-mâché model, is a richly textured female form in mid-stride, whose spindly arms and legs jut out from her diamond-shaped body. Her expression betrays contented determination-like a young woman scurrying toward a rendezvous with a new boyfriend or darting off to a vacation spot. After casting 10-foot bronze versions that found homes on sidewalks and at shopping centers, Baechler was commissioned about five years ago by New York real estate developer Rechler Equity Partners, the developer of an industrial park at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., to create a 30-foot, 5,000-pound aluminum version. It now adorns a traffic circle at the airport. Since Baechler's work has almost always been shaped in some form by his travels to distant ports, one can't help but feel the sculpture's location to be poetically appropriate.
The "Walking Figure" was installed in early June and gave rise to some grousing from local residents. "I'm not a connoisseur of art, so what can I say?" Mayor Conrad Teller told Newsday. "I have a lot of people who have seen it and don't think it belongs [at] an airport." Local businessman Tony Intravaia told the New York Observer, "It is art. But does art look good? No." The limelight's glare faded soon enough, but the sun will continue to shine on Baechler's colossal lady for decades to come.
The artist spoke recently with A.i.A. at his studio in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood while on a break from preparations for a September show at Galerie Forsblum in Helsinki.
DAVID GREENBERG A drawing you made in 1986 that was included in your 2001 book York House Suite seems to have served as the genesis for the "Walking Figure." When you were making those small drawings, did you ever imagine one of them evolving into something so enormous?
DONALD BAECHLER I had no idea. "Walking Figure" comes directly from a drawing in that series. They were really twee little things. Yet, something about them resonated with me when I was looking for a way to connect the iconographic program of my sculptures with the one in my paintings and works on paper. So I started pulling images directly from the drawings, seeing how they would work three-dimensionally. And that one just really clicked. It was the first one I did working with the [New York-based] fabricator Aga Ousseinov. He's a classically trained sculpture enlarger from Georgia.
GREENBERG A few years after making those drawings you took a trip to Egypt. Does "Walking Figure" have any Egyptian resonance for you?
BAECHLER That's something I noticed after the fact. It could easily be linked to Egyptian temple paintings or incised walking figures, but more often people mention, a bit dismayingly, Olive Oyl. I love Popeye, but I just don't see it. I was more interested in Giacometti. There's a 10-foot-tall version of the same sculpture on a sidewalk on Olive Street in the business section of St. Louis, Mo. The locals call it "Olive on Olive." They seem to love it. In that case, the coincidence of the street name reinforced the connection.
GREENBERG What did you make of the mini-controversy around the work when it was installed?
BAECHLER Was anyone really outraged? It got a remarkable amount of attention right away. The Huffington Post had a story the day after I was out there overseeing the installation. But I think it will be liked when people get used to it-and when it's in context with the landscaping around it. Right now, it's this weird thing that appeared at a construction site. The developer, Mitchell Rechler, is a Long Island local-a major collector and a wonderful guy. He realized he didn't need permission from anyone except the FAA. If anyone was mad, maybe it's because the town wasn't informed. But it's not like somebody wakes up and has to look at this thing. You see it as you drive by.
GREENBERG Was it cast in aluminum instead of bronze for aesthetic, technical or cost reasons?
BAECHLER All of the above. Bronze is a kind of soft metal. It would've needed some extra support. There's a lot of wind there. Inside there's an aluminum substructure. So even in a hurricane it would stay standing. In an exposed environment like that, we thought aluminum would have fewer problems. Plus, the salt air will make the surface richer. It will darken over time.


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If you have seen the trailer for It's Complicated, you have probably been corrupted beyond all redemption. For, you see, there is a scene in that very green-band trailer that has been deemed so offensive by the MPAA that the movie must be R-rated, for the sake of the children. Wondering what on earth could be so controversial in a movie by Nancy freakin' Meyers? Why, the marijuana use, of course!
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It's the final week of auditions …
It's the final week of X Factor UK season 9 auditions. This weekend we can expect more footage from all audition cities. Gary Barlow, Tulisa and Louis Walsh will be joined by guest judges: Mel B appeared as a guest judge in Manchester, Geri Halliwell in Liverpool, Anastacia in Glasgow and Rita Ora and Leona Lewis in London. Nicole Scherzinger guest judged the last day of London auditions and then later appeared as a permanent judge in Newcastle and Cardiff.
Digital Spy has pictures from tonight's episode.
According to TV Guide, tonight's show airs at 8:10pm BST (3:10pm EDT, 12:10pm PDT) on ITV1 (60min). The Xtra Factor airs at 9:10pm BST (60min) on ITV2.
Where to watch the show? If you are in the UK or can get UK IP, watch on ITV.com. Possible alternatives: TV Nutters, TVPC.com.
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Nick Buss' audition – Buddy Holly's Maybe Baby – The X Factor UK 2012
Nick Buss (70) is a big fan of Buddy Holly. He sings "Maybe Baby" for the judges and ultimately fails to advance to the bootcamp. It's all TULISIA's fault!
Jade Ellis' audition – Maverick Sabre's Something Good – The X Factor UK 2012
Single mum Jade Ellis (25) sings Maverick Dabre's "Something Good" for the judges. Jade performed in musical theater before she had her daughter.
Bianca Gascoigne's audition – Mary J Blige's I'm Going Down – The X Factor UK 2012
Bianca (25) has a famous father – football legend Paul Gascoigne. She has grown up in the public eye and wants to shed her "party girl" image.
Lauren Smith's audition – Kanye West & Estelle's American Boy – The X Factor UK 2012
Lauren (17) is a white girl with guitar, singing a folksy version of Kanye West and Estelle's hit. Louis doesn't think she right for the show. In the end, Lauren gets 4 yeses.
Jade Collins' audition – Beyonce's Sweet Dreams – The X Factor UK 2012
SOB STORY AHEAD! Jade Collins (17) has a supportive mother, but her father was never there for Jade and her siblings. Why? Because he is in and out jail. Jade sings Beyonce's "Sweet Dreams" and sounds awful. But, surprise, surprise, she gets through.
Tammy Cartwright's audition – Jennifer Hudson's One Night Only – The X Factor UK 2012
I don't know who is more entertaining, Tammy (35) or her crazy nan May. Tammy's nan says her granddaughter is "bloody brilliant".
Pensioner Nick Buss erupts into shocking foul mouthed rant as he blames Tulisa for poor X Factor audition
Proving that the X Factor is not just a show for the youth, 70-year-old Nick Buss took to the stage to audition.
However, the silver haired singer also proved that he had a foul mouth to rival any of his younger contenders as he blamed 'f******' Tulisa for his downfall.
Confessing that he was a fan of Louis Walsh and Gary Barlow, he said that his idol was Buddy Holly.
Read more: The Daily Mail
'You should be a lot better than that': Gary Barlow slams Bianca Gascoigne's vocal talent as Gazza's stepdaughter fails to score on X Factor
Hoping to become a celebrity for a bona fide talent rather than just her famous name, Bianca Gascoigne auditioned for the X Factor.
The step-daughter of football legend Bianca Gascoigne tried her luck on yet another reality TV show, having made her name on flop programme Celebrity Love Island.
Unfortunately Gary Barlow slammed her vocal ability as being not 'good enough'.
Read more: The Daily Mail
'My daddy is in and out of jail': X Factor's Jade Collins makes Sweet Dreams come true as she battles through heartache of absent father
Hoping that winning the X Factor would help her family, Jade Collins broke down in tears before she had even taken to the stage.
The 17-year-old from Belfast, confessed that her father was not a present figure in her life.
She said: 'I don't really live with my daddy at the minute, he's like in and out of my life.
Read more: The Daily Mail
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Karl Ness and Qhuram Awan were convicted at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday of a string of serious offences following a five-week trial.
Ness, 26, from Dudley, North Tyneside, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 40 years and Awan, 23, from Blyth, Northumberland, was given life with a minimum of 20 years.
Earlier, the police officer left blinded by Moat wept as the details of his injuries were outlined to judge Mr Justice McCombe.
Moat was out for revenge when he heard that his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart was seeing a new man.
He asked his friend Ness to spy on her while he was still in prison and the day after his release, the pair went looking for her new lover.
Moat shot Ms Stobbart, 22, and calmly executed her boyfriend, Chris Brown, 29, before he fled.
The steroid abuser was convinced Mr Brown was a policeman and 24 hours later he rang Northumbria Police to say he was ''hunting for officers''.
Awan was driving the other two men around in his black Nexus car when they chanced upon a parked police patrol car.
Inside was Pc David Rathband, a 43-year-old father-of-two.
Awan stopped and Moat crept up on the unarmed officer before shooting him twice. He survived but was left blind.
Ness and Awan later helped Moat set up a woodland camp near Rothbury, Northumberland, and went shopping for supplies for him.
Although they claimed to have been held hostage, neither man alerted the authorities during these trips away from Moat.
In CCTV images shown to the jury, both defendants could be seen calmly browsing the aisles for food or clothes.
Ness was convicted of murdering Mr Brown and a firearms offence. Both men were convicted of conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and robbing a chip shop that Moat held up the day after he shot Pc Rathband.
The men were arrested by armed police who threw stun-grenades at them as they walked down a country road.
Moat gave officers the slip and remained at large for another three days until he was cornered by armed police.
He shot himself in the head following a lengthy stand-off.
Pc Rathband wept in the public gallery when Robert Smith QC, prosecuting, outlined details of the case today.
The judge was shown a photo of the officer's injuries as he lay in a hospital bed, where medics were struggling to save him.
Mr Smith said: ''The injuries rendered him blind for life.
''Pc Rathband is still a serving police officer with Northumbria Police.''
The judge replied: ''Long may he continue to be so.''
Paul Sloan QC, defending Ness, said: ''Had it not been for Moat, none of these offences would have been committed.''
Jeremy Carter-Manning, defending Awan, also referred to the missing killer, saying: ''This trial is Hamlet without the Prince.''
He said psychiatric tests showed his client was ''easily led''.
Awan remained ''horrified'' by the officer's shooting, he added.
There was no reaction from Ness as he was sentenced.
Awan smiled ruefully to his father in the public gallery as he was led away.
Mr Justice McCombe said: "Here we have a case where three men formulated a plan to murder policemen indiscriminately, and then, persuant to the plan, attempted (to within the thinnest thread of human life) to kill one officer, with appalling consequences."
The judge went on: "The roles played by these two defendants cannot be minimised.
"While the offences may not have been committed without Moat, it is difficult to see that they could have been committed in the manner they were without Ness and Awan respectively.
"This too can be said to be a crime 'meriting punishment of the utmost severity', even though these defendants did not fire the gun."
The judge ruled that Ness and Awan were a danger to the public.
"Each defendant willingly joined in a plan to commit random murders of police officers, knowing precisely what Moat had already done to Mr Brown and Miss Stobbart," he said.
"The plan resulted in an offence that nearly achieved the aim."
Outside court, Detective Superintendent Jim Napier, of Northumbria Police, said: "We welcome these sentences, which reflect the severity of the crimes Karl Ness and Qhuram Awan were involved in.
"Both men now have a long time in which to reflect on their cowardly actions, which left one man dead, two people seriously injured and countless others traumatised.
"Throughout that week last July, both men had numerous opportunities to stop these unfolding events and prevent people being killed and injured. However neither took any responsibility for their actions.
"Our thoughts remain with the families of all those who have been killed or injured as a result of the actions of these men."


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At the heart of the recent Gourmet spring/summer 2013 preview we showed you on Tuesday were two pairs of The 35 crafted in zig-zagging woven textiles a la Converse's collabos with Missoni. The delicious brand also has new pairs ready to go for the serious part of the holiday season, as two new Gourmet 35 midtops arrive in animal-printed earthy suedes. Olive opts for a tiger-style stripe while the golden brown edition features leopard-like rosettes, and both are available now from select retailers like Foot Patrol.
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Three floors, 16,150 square feet and an array of fine art. The spacious Louis Vuitton Maison is no ordinary store and, even in the exclusive cadre that is branded luxury retailing, the new London flagship is like nothing else.
For a start, the price alone should lead shoppers to expect something different. Believed to have cost more than $43 million, this could be the most expensive luxury store ever opened in terms of cost per square foot. There's also the location: New Bond Street. As one of the U.K. capital's most exclusive addresses, this is where luxury brands fall over themselves to take space, and therefore this is nothing so vulgar as a "store."
Instead, welcome to the "Maison," a luxury retail space with a high-end, semi-domestic feel where, as you walk around, you pass artwork by the likes of Damien Hurst, Gilbert & George and Jeff Koons, all casually placed throughout like visual merchandising props. Louis Vuitton calls the concept a meeting point for art, culture and retail and this is only the second store of its kind. The original is at home in Paris on the Champs Élysées and based on the size of these stores, shoppers can expect a greater product assortment, as well as a few extras including a gallery-cum-bookshop on the top floor.
The London store was designed by Peter Marino, the New York-based architect who specializes in luxury retail interiors for such brands as Dior, Barneys New York, Chanel and DKNY, among others. Marino began working for Louis Vuitton in 1995 and the new store, he says, is five times larger than the first space he worked on 15 years ago. Visiting the store, Marino commented: "We did all of the architecture on the outside and inside, the tables, chairs, rugs, all of the cabinets – kind of everything."
The outcome is a remarkable interior by the standards of luxury brands. A more typical Louis Vuitton store, as displayed just a few miles west at Westfield London, features polished, open-fronted wardrobes around the perimeter, all beautifully finished, but hardly radical in terms of design. In the Maison, the wall treatment appears the same; however, thanks to concealed motors, sliding doors on the wall are constantly opening and closing to reveal different handbags. It's a bit like a kinetic Chinese puzzle and visitors to the store seemed to spend as much time looking at the mechanics of this wall as at the bags on display.
Worth noting too is the visual merchandising. There's the military-looking group of mannequins on the first floor with handbags over their heads, while in a corner of the stairwell, a metal installation made of scrap material whirrs, clicks and rings as a small motor turns its many cogs and wheels. This piece by artist Michael Landy rises up from the basement to the first floor and serves no function other than to say, "look at me."
Also not to be overlooked are Maison's window displays, one of which features an array of creatures that have been created by the artful arrangement of various pieces of Louis Vuitton merchandise. The effect is startling, particularly in view of their setting: studded blue velvet set within a Louis Vuitton packing case.
In moving from its former, smaller Bond Street location to this new, grand Maison, the luxury brand has put itself and London on the map as a global destination.


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OverviewKalmiopsis Wilderness . Bald Mountain is one of the best known and most visited summits because it is located along the Illinois River Trail that connects the Illinois Valley on the east with Agness on the west side of the wilderness. The Kalmiopsis Wilderness is administered by the Rogue Siskiyou Wilderness National Forest. The entire Kalmiopsis Wilderness was burned in the 2002 Biscuit Fire.
The Illinois River Trail system parallels the north side of the Illinois River from Briggs Creek on the east, through the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, and then it meets the Rogue River in Agness, Oregon in the west. The Illinois River has been designated as a National Wild and Scenic River and is famous for its salmon and steelhead fishing along with white water rafting. Bald Mountain is roughly in the middle of this trail. The trail climbs over Bald Mountain because the Illinois River Canyon is so steep, remote, and remarkably untouched by man's activities.
Bald Mountain is an impressive obstacle on the Illinois River Trail with the trial climbing from Pine Flat (elevation 680 ft) on the southeast side to the summit (elevation 3,975 ft) and then back down to 279 ft elevation at Silver Creek in the west. This trail is steep on both sides gaining about 3,000 ft in 3 miles from either direction. Bald Mountain was somewhat spared from the Biscuit Fire. There are still some Old Growth fir trees near the summit. There are still several camping spots near the summit that look inviting.
Bald Mountain is not a technical climb, but it is a long day hike on trails. Elk are in this area and if you are lucky you may catch a glimpse of one. From the summit of Bailey Mountain the views are limited because all the trees are not burned off. There are good views to the west and ok views to the north. There are great views on the trails hiking up to the summit in all directions.
Getting There
Option 1: Briggs Creek Trailhead. Access is from Highway 199 (Redwood Highway) in Selma. This is about milepost 18.8 from Grants Pass and about 10 miles north of Cave Junction. Turn west on Illinois River Road at the blinking yellow light at the main and only intersection in Selma. Zero your odometer here. It will take about an hour to get to the trailhead.. The road is paved for quite a ways. At mile 1.4 you pass the Deer Creek Ranch and the pavement narrows, at 6.1 miles the pavement ends, at 6.4 miles the pavement begins again, stay left at 6.7, at 7.7 pass the Six Mile picnic area, at 8.8 pass Store Gulch, at 10.7 stay right. A left here will take you across the Illinois River and to Pearsoll Peak. The pavement ends for good here, at 15.5 pass Miami Bar, at 16.3 you will see private property on both sides of the road (don't disturb the residents), at 16.8 the road turns sharply to the right and goes up steeply, at 17.3 go left down into a logged over area, at 17.9 you reach the Briggs Creek Trailhead with picnic tables and a nice vault toilet. 2WD is ok on this road, but there are potholes that need to be avoided. Refer to the Briggs Creek Route for trail info.
Option 2: Silver Creek Trailhead. To find the trailhead from Interstate 5 take the Merlin exit, exit number 61, about 4 miles north of Grants Pass. Take this exit into Merlin that is located about 3.5 miles from I-5. Continue straight through Merlin towards Galice. Enjoy the views of the Rogue River and the famous Hellgate Canyon. About 8.5 miles past Merlin is a road that has various names, but predominantly it is the Briggs Canyon Road that goes up Taylor Creek. This is the paved one lane forest road 25. It is a one lane road, but it is wide enough for two cars to pass in most places. Turn left and follow the road up the canyon. You will pass several campgrounds and trailheads. About 1.0 mile past Big Pine Campground or 13.0 miles from the Merlin/Galice Road turn right on road 2512 towards Sam Brown campground. The single lane road is still paved but turns to gravel just past the Sam Brown campground. Stay on this main road as it climbs up to Chrome Ridge. This road is easy 2WD, but may have snow at times on the roadway. Soon you will notice remnants of the 500,000 acre Biscuit Fire of 2002. Continue up the road, but watch for falling snags and rocks that periodically roll down the road cuts onto the roadway. At about 8.2 miles from road 25 there is a bit of an intersection. Road 090 goes to the right, the main road continues straight ahead and drops down along Silver Creek, and an unmarked road to the left goes to York Butte. Take the center road down Silver Creek. The first couple of miles of this road aren't bad, but it quickly deteriorates. I've seen trees across the road and large rocks from the road cut blocking the road. You should be able to get about 3.0 miles down the road and if you are lucky you can get down about 5.5 miles before the road has been intentionally blocked by a large berm. Refer to the Silver Creek Route for trail info.
Option 3: Oak Flat Trailhead. From Highway 101 in Gold Beach, Oregon, take Jerry's Flat Road (County road 595 which turns into Forest Service road 33) up the south side of the Rogue River almost to Agness. Turn right on Oak Flat Road (County road 450) just after crossing the bridge over the Illinois River and follow to trailhead (left side) on the backside of Oak Flat Campground.
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National Forest Campgrounds are listed here, some of them in the Wild Rivers Ranger District are quite a ways from the trailhead.
There are several places to camp while back packing along the trail including at the summit. There is no water available at the summit, but you cross many year round streams on all the trails leading to the summit except the one that starts near the Silver Creek Trailhead.


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Financial services group ING has repaid a further €750m of the €10bn in state support it received during the 2008 crisis year.
Including fines and interest, the bank paid €1.125bn to the treasury and still owes €2.25bn.
A week ago, the European Commission said it had given ING more time to divest its insurance and other activities and pay back state support.
ING now has until December 2018 to split off its insurance arm, while the forced sale of mortgage bank WestlandUtrecht will be replaced by a merger with the banking operations of Nationale Nederlanden. WestlandUtrecht has proved impossible to sell as a stand-alone entity.
The remaining state support and fine is to be paid back over the next three years as four payments.
Finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem welcomed Monday's repayment. 'In 2008, the Dutch government intervened in order to guarantee the stability of the financial sector,' he said in a statement. 'The taxpayer is now being rewarded for that support.'


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- Oh yea, that's one of my favorite approaches.
Though technically not meditation, another approach
I'm appreciating these days is yoga nidra - deep
relaxation, or what is also translated as 'yogic
sleep', a hypnogogic state of mind. I have always
gravitated towards meditation lying down, but had
been told this was not advisable: "you'll fall asleep"
(lol, I thought they were right, because in a sense
I WAS falling asleep!), "your spine has to be upright",
etc. Then one day, I stumbled across a name for what
I had been doing all along by intuitive preference -
yoga nidra. Well, it's been nice to compare with what
others are doing. There is plenty of info and even some
CDs for sale on the web - simply google 'yoga nidra'.
I've been teaching a couple of 'deep relaxation / yoga
nidra' classes for a while now. People love it. I love
leading them. I talk them through several foci/techniques,
then give them something to focus on internally (such as
mental alternate nostril breathing, counted) and then
shut up and let them 'take over'. We usually end class with
15 or so minutes of seated meditation. People tell me they
are much more able to sit in meditation after yoga nidra
and they are amazed by how deeply rested/refreshed they feel.
It is amazing how such a simple practice can radically reset
a person physically, mentally and emotionally. Overall, a
very satisfying way to spend a few hours of my week...
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> Vipassana meditation, while based in Buddhism,
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> to how we see ourselves and how our minds move
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Kelsey Marie Tweeten and Jeff LaRay Hagen exchanged wedding vows on October 3, 2009 at Zion Lutheran Church in Alexandria. Pastor Finnern officiated.
The bride chose Katie Lehn as matron of honor and Krystal Tweeten as maid of honor. Both are sisters of the bride. Bridesmaid was Jamie Maaninga, friend of the bride.
Josh Hagen, cousin of the groom was best man. Groomsmen were Dan Hagen, cousin of the groom and Phil Seibel, friend of the groom. Junior attendants were McKenzie Hagen and John Stewart, cousins of the groom. Flower girl was Madison Thun, cousin of the bride, and honorary flower girl was Savannah Hermanson, daughter of the groom. Ring bearers were Jordan Stewart and Tyler Hagen, cousins of the groom. Ushers were Chris Lehn, brother-in-law of the bride and Scott Schulz, brother of the groom.
Personal attendant was Kathleen Hubbing, friend of the bride. Host and hostesses were Bruce and Stacy Thun, aunt and uncle of the bride and Scott and Kim Persoon, brother-in-law and sister of the groom.
Pianist was Lynette Finnern and soloist was Pastor Rob Jarvis, friend of the groom. Parents are Pam and Brian Mckenna of Nevis, Neal Tweeten of Cosmos and Sheila and Lynn Schulz of Morris. Grandparents arc Orville and Wanda Thun of Alexandria, Lois Tweeten of Hutchinson, Betty Hagen of Hoffman, Shirley Henrichs of Donnelly and Dolores Schulz of Parkers Prairie. After a wedding trip to the north shore area, the couple resides in Alexandria.


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MATERA, Italy, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Italian police allege a man they arrested had pretended to be a gynecologist to con women into sending revealing pictures of themselves to him.
The suspect, who was not identified, counseled nine women on the phone and convinced them to send him intimate pictures of themselves via email, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Wednesday. He sought out the women in online chat rooms and conned them by using the names of real doctors in Bologna.
The man was already on house arrest for an unrelated sex crime, ANSA said. Investigators said there may be other victims.


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Fans of the Grand Cherokee SRT will be pleased to learn there is now a new variant of Jeep's popular 4x4 that mixes sporty looks without compromising fuel economy.
The new Grand Cherokee S-Limited features styling cues from the range-topping SRT variant, but in place of the full-fat 461bhp 6.4-litre V8 petrol is a 237bhp 3.0-litre V6 CRD diesel engine.
The S-limited is somewhat off the performance levels of the SRT, which can get from 0-60mph in just five seconds and goes onto a top speed of 160mph. The S-Limited is claimed to get from 0-60mph in 8.2 seconds and has a top speed of 126mph.
Although slower, economy is far more respectable at 34mpg (combined) and 218g/km in CO2 emissions. This compares against the SRT's frightful 20mpg figure (combined) and 328g/km CO2 emissions.
For the S-Limited's £44,595 asking price, buyers get air-lift suspension, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring, gloss black 20-inch alloys and front grille, tinted rear lights and a power tailgate.
Occupants will also be delighted to hear of the 825-watt Harman-Kardon sound system, which features no less than 19 speakers and three sub-woofers.
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The Spurs enter Friday's game against New Jersey with at least a 5 1/2 game lead over every contender for homecourt advantage in the playoffs with 25 games remaining.
Despite that cushion, Gregg Popovich said he won't be considering any immediate rest for his team — at least in the forseeable future.
"Absolutely not," Popovich said. "It's way too early to think in those terms."
Popovich's decision might have immediate ramifications for Manu Ginobili, who has been mired in a miserable shooting slump during most of February. Ginobili is on pace to play more than 2,500 minutes this season if he continues his current pace. He has never played more than 2,300 minutes in a season.
Tony Parker is on pace to hit more than 2,679 minutes, which would be the most since his fourth season in the NBA.


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Four people were hurt after a two-car crash on the A17 near the Ship Inn, Fosdyke.
A Skoda Octavia and Volkswagen Golf collided in Washway Road, near Fosdyke Bridge, at about 5.40pm yesterday.
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Osaka, Yamagata, Tokyo, Kyoto. 7 or 14 days JR pass ?
Hi guys
We are currently planning our trip to Japan and are not sure if it is worth purchasing the 14 days pass or not. Our preliminary itinerary is as follows:
23.11. --> Early arrival in Osaka - train to Yamagata
The itinerary is not set at all. I am visiting a friend in Yamagata (he's studying there), not quite sure yet what we'll do there.
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Hi Mari!
Thank you so much for your help. Wonderful.
Well, actually we are arriving at 13.15 pm at Kansai. Do you think it's doable to catch a train at 14.16 to Shin-Osaka and from there to Tokyo and then onwards to Yamagata? Is it necessary to book the trains or can we just go there and hop on after we've exchanged our JR Pass?
Thanks for the tip of the Nikka Whiskey distillery.. we will for sure check that one out!
And thanks again for helping us in advance. You are the best.
Hi there!
Here's a valid itinerary for the trip from Kansai Airport to Yamagata. The transfers look nice and lengthy (35 mins at both Shin-Osaka and Tokyo, enough to pick up some refreshments like a Bento) so I think it will be do-able in theory. Note that the trip is fairly long, at nearly 8 hours. The Shinkansen you'll use will be much more comfy and spacious than the plane you'll have arrived on, but you may have had enough of travel by then!
If you do do the trip, then I recommend using the shower service at Kansai Airport to spruce up before you embark on your journey. There is a similar train to Yamagata leaving at 15:16 that will give you time to do this if you'd like (it does get into Yamagata later however...)
Hope this helps!
Hi Mari!
We arrive from Taipei only, so we won't shower. But pretty cool service...
Thanks a lot for your help. Do we have to book the trains or can we just hop on? I am a bit afraid, that there will be a flight delay and we can't catch the 14.16 connection....
Thank you so much for your help.
Hi Karin,
If you're coming from Taipei then yep, you should be fine to get straight on the trains. Non of the trains you are using require a reservation so you can just hop on when you get there, but you can make seat reservations just before you leave. Christmas isn't such a big thing in Japan, so I don't expect you to have any problems finding seats on these trains.
You can reserve seats online from Tokyo - Yamagata but will need to pick the reserved tickets up a day in advance so it won't be useful to you this time.
Hope this helps!
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With the Eylure Lashes, I can put some great lashes in my sisters stocking, who enjoys wearing those dramatic lashes when she goes out with friends. Then with the Hard Candy sets and individual eye shadows, I can have a great selection of makeups, to put in stockings that are both very adorable and chic, as well as a very affordable stocking stuffer option! Making the products from Hard Candy and Eylure a great selection of gifts to give this holiday season!
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The actor, who died following a cardiac arrest at his Nevada home on Wednesday, had made more than 140 films over 60 years.
However, he was almost as well known for his colourful private life - during which he married six times and battled an addiction to cocaine and alcohol.
He once described himself as "the best-looking kid in town" adding "it's not what you have but what you do with it that counts".
Curtis took on both dramatic and comedic roles and was Oscar-nominated for his part in The Defiant Ones alongside Sydney Poitier.
He also appeared in Spartacus with Kirk Douglas and his Hollywood peers included Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
Sir Roger Moore, who starred alongside Curtis in The Persuaders, led tributes to him saying: "He was a fine actor. I shall miss him.
"We had a lot of laughs together for about 15 months, working together every day. He was great fun to work with, a great sense of humour and wonderful ad libs."
Meanwhile Sir Michael Parkinson, who had interviewed Curtis several times, described him as a "an extraordinary man".
He said: "Hollywood tried to make him into a sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s but he was his own man. Some Like It Hot is one of the greatest comedies of all time."
The Hollywood star had been in failing health for some years and in July he was hospitalised after being taken ill in Las Vegas with an asthma attack.
He underwent heart bypass surgery in 1994 and nearly died following a bout of pneumonia in 2006.
In his later years Curtis began a second career as a successful artist and once claimed: "Painting is more meaningful to me than any performance I've ever given."
His daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, by the actress Janet Leigh, said: "My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages. He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in laws who were devoted to him. He also leaves behind fans all over the world. He will be greatly missed."
Curtis had two daughters with Leigh, his first wife, before divorcing her in in 1962 to marry Christine Kaufmann, the 17-year-old German co-star of Taras Bulba.
He had two children (boys) with Kaufmann and two more (girls) by his third wife Leslie Allen.
His sixth wife was Jill Vandenberg Curtis whom he married in 1998 and who is 45 years his junior.
Apparently proud of his success with women he once remarked: "I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife".
When asked in an interview in 2008 what he would like on his gravestone he replied, "Nobody's perfect", quoting a line from the comedy Some Like It Hot.
The 1959 film is one for which he is best remembered and co-starred Monroe and Jack Lemmon.
Curtis and Lemmon played struggling musicians who disguised himself as a woman to escape Chicago mobsters on a train bound for Florida.
The actor was born Bernard Schwartz to Hungarian immigrant parents in the Bronx, New York in 1925.
He left school to join the Navy in World War Two and served on a submarine tender. He pursued acting after his discharge and a contract with Universal Pictures took him to Hollywood, where he made his debut in 1948's "Criss Cross."
In recent years he and his wife operated the Shiloh Horse Rescue and Sanctuary, a refuge for horses that were abandoned or abused, on the California-Nevada border.


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Ageing in East Asia: challenges and policies for the twenty‐first century – Edited by Tsung‐his Fu and Rhidian Hughes
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January 7, 2016
Siddharth Bose, Eric McKeown
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") recently settled charges that a company's security practices unfairly exposed the payment card information of hundreds of thousands of companies' consumers to hackers in three separate data breaches. The settlement resolved a case brought by the FTC under Section 5 of the FTC Act, alleging that the data security practices in place at the company and its franchisee hotels were "unfair" and that the company's privacy policy statements regarding those practices were "deceptive." While data breaches themselves have become commonplace, this settlement provides valuable insight into what the FTC might consider as demonstrating adequate data security practices. Companies seeking to comply with the FTC's regulation of data security now have additional guidance, building upon the principles set forth in the FTC's June 2015 publication, Start with Security: A Guide for Business.
Comprehensive Information Security Program. To begin, a company should adopt a comprehensive information security program that is reasonably designed to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of data. As part of this program, employees must be specifically identified to coordinate and be accountable for the program. Companies should consider establishing an Information Security Office ("ISO") that is primarily responsible for the operation, implementation, and functioning of the information security program.
Risk Assessments. The program should also implement risk assessments that evaluate and assess the company's risks in four key areas: 1) employee training and management; 2) information systems architecture, including storage, processing, transmission, and disposal of data; 3) risks from operation partners (e.g. vendors); 4) and, prevention, detection, and response to threats and systems failures. The risk assessment must then be followed by the design and implementation of safeguards to help address the identified risks.
Third-Party Safeguards. The settlement also suggests an onus on companies working with third-party service providers, to ensure that the third-party service providers have appropriate data security safeguards as well. Companies should perform the due diligence when assessing third-party partnership and must subsequently contract for adequate safeguards when working with third-parties.
Independent Audits. Companies should also consider annual audits by an independent auditor to certify that its information security program conforms to industry standards. For example, a retailer must conform to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ("PCI-DSS"). A proper audit requires a qualified information security professional who is objective and independent, and uses generally accepted procedures and standards.
Compliance Program. Lastly, companies should also consider implementing a compliance program that ensures that the company, as well as any third-party vendors, affiliates, or other partners, are adhering to the information security program. The compliance program should ensure that the company maintains its security certifications (e.g. PCI-DSS) and undertakes all other applicable information security procedures.
While the applicability of the settlement provisions will depend on a variety of factors, companies subject to FTC jurisdiction should use this settlement as guidance to evaluate the gaps in their own data security and privacy postures. The settlement underscores many industry best practices that companies should consider in designing their own data security policies.
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Field & Stream's May cover features something quite unexpected from the title: A woman. Eva Shockey, co-star of the Outdoor Channel's Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures, is the first solo female to appear on the cover of Field & Stream since 1976.
Shockey is also only the second woman to grace the cover of Field & Stream in its 119-year history. The first? Why Queen Elizabeth, of course.
In January of 1976, the Queen and her hunting dogs appeared on the cover of the magazine. Feel free to use this bit of trivia to either wow or annoy your friends.


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The New Collaborative Workspace Environment
This paper looks at the powerful combination of mobile smartphones and tablets, innovative software applications delivered through the Internet, and the flexibility of on-premises versus cloud-based ownership models is bringing an end to supremacy of the PC. The information technology industry is undergoing one of the most significant periods of transformation in the last 20 years. This period of change is directed by a series of trends such as the explosive growth of powerful smartphones, the consumerization of technology purchasing, and the move toward cloud-based software application delivery.
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Legal Question in Employment Law in Texas
Working off the clock/ no pay
I work for a major Telephone Company. I recently contacted the DOL to complaint that we work off the clock and wanted to file a complaint. Every day we are expected to come in at least 20 to 30 min early to log on to computer applications before we are allowed to clock in and start taking customer calls. This has been going on for over 3 years. We are not paid for those 20 or 30 min. When we contacted the DOL they seem to indicate it was okay till we mention that our elected Rep. had directed us to them and wanted to be kept inform. At which time the DOL person very rudely said they would send a complaint form to me. Now am afraid the DOL may turn us in to the company and get us fired. Can they do that?
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I would not expect the Department of Labor to "turn you in." I am surprised they are not more interested in investigating, as it appears you and your fellow employees have a strong case for overtime pay. You may wish to contact a lawyer to explore your rights and to assist you with your claims.


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Mikael Tam has left hospital but it remains uncertain how long the Quebec Remparts defenceman will be out of action after a nasty hit to the head from Rouyn-Noranda Huskies centre Patrice Cormier.
Remparts spokesman Nicole Bouchard said Tuesday that Tam was released from hospital in Rouyn-Noranda on Monday night. He is due to arrive in Quebec City on Tuesday afternoon, but will make no comment to the media.
The team plans to hold a news conference with Tam on Friday in Quebec City, she said.
She said it is certain that Tam will not play again this week, and doctors are not sure when he will be able to return.
Cormier, who served as captain of Canada's team at the world junior championship, has been suspended indefinitely by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and is awaiting word on further discipline.
The league denied a report that its decision may be delayed because commissioner Gilles Courteau is attending the Top Prospects game in Windsor, Ont.
In overtime of Quebec's 3-2 shootout win in Rouyn-Noranda on Sunday afternoon, Cormier crossed the ice to drop Tam with an elbow to the face while the Quebec rearguard was skating through the neutral zone.
The 18-year-old went into convulsions before he was wheeled off the ice on a stretcher and taken to hospital. He was treated for brain trauma and several damaged teeth.
Quebec provincial police in Rouyn-Noranda are investigating whether there are grounds for criminal charges against the 19-year-old Cormier.
At the Montreal Canadiens training facility in Brossard, Que., enforcer Georges Laraque called it one of the worst hits he's seen in hockey.
"But one thing I can say about (QMJHL commissioner) Gilles Courteau is that he's always been good about giving suspensions and it doesn't matter the name on the back (of the player's jersey),"' said Laraque. "I'm pretty sure he'll be fair with that suspension.
"I'd be surprised if that kid played another game this year. When you look at kids that young, they're not even in the NHL yet and they have their whole future ahead of them and they're shaking on the ice like that. That's pretty scary. It's important to send a message to the youth coming up."Report Typo/Error
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St Hallett was one of the first champions of the Barossa to emerge on to the international wine market. Its Old Block Shiraz from old vines has been much admired and a magnum of the 1992 was tasting pretty good, and still rather youthful recently. Now that the firm is no longer a private concern but owned by one of the bigger players in Australian wine it is playing the promotion game with the big retailers. This may be a rather dreary way to sell wine but it is possible to make it work for you by seizing on the best bargains and refusing to be lured into spending lots of money on everything else in the store (the overarching aim of the supermarkets).
At Tesco 16-29 October St Hallett is offering a half-price promotion on its South Australian Chardonnay 2001 and South Australian Shiraz 2001, each usually £5.99. I wouldn't pay £5.99 for either of them, I must say. In fact I wouldn't pay anything for the Shiraz, but the big, broad, very competently made Chardonnay is a very fair buy at this special offer price which works out at less than £2.99 per bottle. And what a welcome novelty to find a bottle of Australian wine at this price which comes from somewhere (slightly) more specific than 'South Eastern Australia'.


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Don Bergman showed the intensity in his face as he was about to play the first game of the day Saturday morning as part of the sixth annual Southern Slam Quad Rugby Tournament.
The veteran of the game wears the sport gloves to help mobilize his rugby-ready wheelchair that had plenty of battle scars from countless collisions with competitors. For Bergman, the co-captain of the Jacksonville Brooks Bandits, quad rugby is very serious.
"It's absolutely full-chair contact, a lot of Road Warrior; think bumper cars on steroids," Bergman said with a sly grin. "The competition is extreme because every one of these athletes that are out here have a history of athletics in their lives either prior to injury or post injury."
Quad rugby is essentially rugby for quadriplegics in wheelchairs. The chairs themselves are complicated, beefed up and ironized to withstand the constant collisions in the sport that pits four players from each team on a court essentially with the same parameters of a basketball court.
A ball, similar to a volleyball, is passed from one player to another who tries to cross a goal line with both wheels of the chair. One goal equals one point.
In one game Saturday morning at the Jacksonville Ice and Sportsplex facility on Philips Highway, the Houston Texans defeated the Dallas Cowboys quad rugby team 57-36 in a game that consists of four 8-minute quarters.
The invitational tournament in Jacksonville that started Friday and wraps up Sunday drew a dozen teams from across the United States. The tournament itself plays no role in the competition for the national championship later this year in the U.S. Quad Rugby Association. But the tournament does help notch up the number of required competitive games prior to post-season play.
James DuBose, the captain of the Houston squad, said the teams that travel with a roster of seven to eight players can't get enough of the heavy competition.
"It's just part of building the team experience," DuBose said shortly after his victory over Dallas Saturday. "The most intense thing is in the first few minutes. You have to get the butterflies out."
But once in the zone, the game has a natural flow, DuBose said. "We might take some big hits. But we don't feel those hits the way some of them sound or look."
Most of the quad rugby teams at Jacksonville's tournament this year have been here before. But the quad squad known as the Milwaukee Iron came to the First Coast for the first time.
"Do you know what the temperatures are like in Milwaukee right now?" Iron player Rob Bayerl said with a laugh. "This is a good tournament and there's a lot of teams. It's got some good competition."
There are actually two Jacksonville teams, but both are called Brooks Bandits, indicating their inception from the Brooks Rehabilitation Sports and Recreation program services. They also get support from the East Arlington Rotary Club, which provides assistance with the specially adapted chairs and travel expenses.
Alice Krauss is the manager of the Brooks sports programs who handles nearly a dozen sports ranging from tennis to soccer to basketball to rowing and others. She said all the programs are intense, but the rugby adherents are among the most zealous.
"It's a really big deal for the participants. This is really a very addictive sport for not only the individuals dealing with the disability, but also for their family and friends," said Krauss, an occupational therapist who has worked for Brooks since 1983.
Ultimately, the rugby competition is just as therapeutic to the players as any rehabilitation for their disabilities, Krauss said. Many of the players are victims of car accidents or motorcycle wrecks. Some have suffered from a fall and there are some who are victims of gun violence and a few who perpetrated violence and were shot. Few were born with their disabilities.
"I think it gives them an opportunity to enjoy physical activity, competition, success, setting goals, all the things the rest of us get to enjoy every day," Krauss said. "These folks are athletes first and they just happen to be living with a disability."
Bergman said the Bandits have made it as far as the Southeast United States Regional competition in previous years. But he said this year the team wants to break out and get a shot at the national title.
"This is not fluffy-bunny time," Bergman said. "There have been hits. People do [fall] over. There has been blood on the court."
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Socialism vs Communism
Quoting NWP:
Socialism and capitalism are economic systems
Communism and Democracy are government systems
you stated it so much better than I was trying to....wish I had read your reply first LOL
Communism is the brain child of karl Marx, a russian or german philosopher. Communism is ideally a perfect state devoid of inequality created by classism and poverty.
in a Communist state, the wealth created by all peoples' is to be distributed equally. this ideally, is supposed to mean the irradication of poverty -but also the eradiction of gross wealth for the individual- and thus, the elimination of classism because there is no financial distinction between people.
In communism, everyone's work is to have equal value, and everyone's work is to be equally distributed among the people, via the governing body, or, "the state".
The goal is to make the state, and thereby, where you live and work, prosperous so that everyone is supposed to benefit.
of course, this system is corruptible as any and so history tells us very emphatically that this ideal state of being, a harmoniously prosperous people absent of classism, is not how communism has ever played out in real life
Socialism is where the people don't work 'for' the state, per se, albeit their taxes or earnings will be in some form contributory to society at large, and not directly voluntary although people in some instances can have some political persuasions about the laws. A person is afforded more individuality in socialism than in communism but there is still an emphasis that everyone must contribute to the greater good.
Socialism isn't aimed at eliminating classism. It only aims at distributing wealth to temper poverty. That is, everyone should have healthcare, i.e.
Socialism and communism are more like each other, in theory, than not. You might've heard of a communist dictatorship or a socialist regime. Republican democracy is much different and easier to tell apart. For one thing, socialism and communism both want larger government and a society that would acquiesce to it, or to it's causes. A design is set in place for people to fit within, and that design should hopefully bring about a general prosperity to the country. A republic such as ours' , we allow near absolute freedom, private ownership and rugged individuality so that the people themselves will be prosperous, and from there, the nation will be also.
Because socialism goes against human nature in every way. The more people rebel, the more power the government's central planners will take to force conformity, and absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
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Quoting Carpy:
Communism is the end result of socialism
How so? Is socialism the end result of democracy?
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The lines are blurred in china. There is a great amount of capitalism. They have as system that is a blend but the problems of 1 billion people are very different that problems we have. Yet almost all people have similar problems and it is no easy answer.