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Talented and good looking actor Gautam Rode is all set with his upcoming and much talked about show Mahakumbh (Arvind Babbal) on Life OK, which will go on air from 15 December.
In the show Gautam is essaying the role of Rudra, a rough and tough guy, who possesses certain powers.
Gautam got all candid during the interaction session and talked about his new show.
How did you bag the role?
Well, initially Arvind ji (Babbal) approached me with this project one and a half year ago. But at that time I was busy with Saraswatichandra so could not take it up. As soon as I completed Saraswatichandra Arvind ji again asked me and I could not say no to him.
Tell us more about your character...
My character Rudra is not a superhero; he is a common man who stands out from the crowd. He parted from his father in Mahakumbh mela and has been brought up by Maii-Muii (Seema Biswas), his foster mother. Brought up in the cremation ground and ghats of Varanasi, he is very rough and rugged. He has spent his childhood in a rough circumstance for which he has developed an animal instinct.
How you prepared yourself for this role?
This role needed both physical and mental preparation. Just after I completed my previous show Saraswatichandra I went for a holiday for three days. That holiday was just for mental preparation that I needed to do this role. During that time I got tanned so that my skin tone compliments my look. Then during all the meetings with Arvind ji I use to take notes about my character. Then I had to lose weight for the role and also learnt swimming and I also worked on my body.
How was your experience shooting in Varanasi?
A major portion of the show was shot in Varanasi. It was very hectic and difficult. We use to wake up early around 4 in the morning and hit the shooting floors and used to come back around 8.30 in the night. Then I use to hit the gym. I had to be careful about my physique. Moreover the temperature during that time was around 44 degree centigrade. But due to this shooting I visited almost all the ghats of Varanasi and also went to BHU campus.
Do you think looks are important for a role?
For any role an actors look should compliment his character, but I believe performance is equally important. I believe that the intensity that was needed for my character can never be portrayed properly only with the looks. If physical aspect is about 20% of the role then remaining 80% is about performance.
How was your experience working with National Award winning actress Seema Biswas?
Working with her was definitely a wonderful experience. She was never satisfied with her performance. After every shot she used to feel that it was not up to the mark and used to ask us how her performance was. For the first few time we thought she was joking with us as we found her to be too good. Then gradually we realized that it was her natural craving to deliver a better performance.
How was your relation with Sidhharth Nigam?
Oh my god, he is simply excellent. The best part about him is that though he is a National level gymnast he is very much grounded and for this behavior of him I will credit his parents. I never realized what he can actually do until I saw his video and after watching that I was left speechless.
Does TRPs matter to you?
I am not very much concerned about TRPs to be honest. But, I will definitely admit that good TRPs give a kick to an actor. Once I see that my serial is doing well then I feel encouraged and try to do even better. For me TRPs are restricted to that only.
Lastly, how far your character Rudra is similar or different from you?
Rudra and Gautam are absolutely opposite in nature. Rudra is very much rough, rugged and quite, while I am very much fun loving and mastikhor in personal life. So, you can say that they are polar opposites.
We wish Gautam all the best for his upcoming show.


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ZENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An 3.5 magnitude earthquake that struck near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo trigged a gas explosion causing two tunnels to cave in trapping 34 miners about 600 meters (1,968.5 feet) underground .
Esad Civic, manager at the Raspotocje mine in Zenica said 56 miners were in that mine and 22 made it back to the surface, adding, "We are communicating with them. They are doing well and have enough clean air to wait for the arrival of rescue teams."
Two miners were hurt in the blast and taken to the hospital.
The regional prime minister, Nermin Niksic said "The rescuers are deploying superhuman efforts to save their comrades. We have just spoken with them. They confirmed they are all together and doing well."
No other major damage was reported in the quake.

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Let's face it, we're not all getting married in a house of worship. So, how do you make your ceremony location stand out in a unique way? Flowers are the old standby. Now, brides, stylists and planners are scouring for fun and unique ways for the altar to pop. Through color, textiles and found objects, the mission is accomplished.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres via Green Wedding Shoes
Having an evening warehouse / loft wedding? Hang strands of light from the ceiling for a simple yet dramatic look (with the added detail of ambient lighting).
Focus Photography via Green Wedding Shoes
Your grandfather loved clocks? Honor him with an eclectic collection of vintage clocks as your backdrop. Not only is this quirky and fun, but it's a nod to your beloved family member.
The Nichols via Style Me Pretty
Jason + Anna Photography via Style Me Pretty
Having an outdoor ceremony? Add streamers to the trees to create a colorful backdrop, and a dramatic element when the wind blows. Or, use found objects, like Allison did with these old doors, and string a fun phrase to frame the shot.
Paige Newton Photography via 100 Layer Cake
Want to add a pop of color? Aim for something dramatic using colorful textiles and votives, hanging them against a muted wall, from a tree or wherever the color will shine.
Jenny Jimenez via Style Me Pretty
Are you a teacher, or just a lover of chalkboards? Create this backdrop using design cues from your stationer. Not only does it make a fun ceremony backdrop, but it also is the perfect background for your photobooth.
Your ceremony backdrop is the perfect opportunity to add a little flair and personality. How did you (or will you) spruce up your ceremony spot?


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Texas Supreme Court reinstates judge who beat disabled daughter
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the suspension of an Aransas County judge who was caught on video beating his 16-year-old disabled daughter.
Judge William Adams was suspended with pay last year while the State Commission on Judicial Conduct investigated the allegations against him. In September, the commission issued a public warning, stating that Adams conduct discredited the judiciary because he had regularly presided over child custody, child abuse, and family violence cases. He will no longer preside over some cases brought by the Texas Department of Family and Protective services.
The Corpus Christi Caller Times noted it is typical for judicial suspensions to be lift after the commission issues a censure, unless that censure calls for the judge to be removed from the bench.
Adam's disabled daughter, Hillary, uploaded the video to YouTube last year, claiming the recording from 2004 showed only a snippet of the abuse she had endured from her father.
In the video, Adams is seen repeatedly whipping his daughter with a belt while shouting expletive-filled threats at her. Hillary explained that her father had become upset because she illegally downloaded games and music to her computer. She was born with ataxic cerebral palsy.
Adams' ex-wife and Hillary's mother, Hallie Adams, told the Associated Press she was extremely disappointed with the decision to reinstate Adams.
"Hillary and I are both really sad today," she said. "I had really hoped the judicial review process would work. I had really wanted to see the public protected."
Numerous law enforcement agencies opened investigations on Adams, but no charges were filed because of statute of limitations.


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Shortly after collecting just over $200 dollars for his efforts on the course, Ken King says hello to a family of members leaving the patio at Willow Park Golf Club.
After doing a double-take, a young pregnant woman in the group realizes the low voice she hears is indeed that of the Flames president she's known for years.
One of countless people who have been shocked to realize the man in front of them has shed 55 lb. from his considerably sturdy frame over the last year, King responds with a witty one-liner about her weight going up while his keeps going down.
"Some of my closest associates have walked right by me," said King later of the dramatic transformation that has everyone who sees him nowadays talking. "That's over 20% of your body, gone."
Taking a stand last year on added pounds he simply decided were no longer acceptable, King turned his diet -- and, in many ways, his life -- around.
And while golf had nothing to do with his reasons to adopt a healthier lifestyle, the increased fluidity in his swing speaks to the physical improvements he's made.
"Your body obviously has a lot to do with your swing -- my handicap is the same (16) but I'm swinging and playing better," said King, a Willow Park member dating back to his days as a publisher at both local daily newspapers.
"The most improved part of my game is my attitude. I was a headcase in the past but not now. If I play well, great. If I don't, that's fine, too. I see too many people pissed off. I come here to have fun."
He seemed to have plenty of fun yesterday as he racked up endless skins and matches in a foursome that included Flames co-owner Alvin Libin and his son Bobby Libin.
An average hitter who puts a slight draw on most shots, King's downfall yesterday came in the form of five or six missed putts inside four ft. However, with an iron game that helped guide him through one of the city's tightest tracks, he pieced together an 86 that earned him enough to buy dinner and then some.
King never played golf while growing up in Saskatchewan (hometown Hanley) but picked it up at age 30 as he entered the newspaper game.
"I love the competition," said King who wouldn't hear of golfing without a full compliment of wagers on the line.
"I used to consider myself not fanatical but passionate. I'm not as much any more. I do enjoy it, though."
What has taken him down to an average of 20 to 30 rounds a year has been the half-dozen horses he's accumulated over the last handful of years to help fulfil his dreams of becoming a cowboy of sorts.
"Horses or golf on a Saturday morning -- it's a real coin toss," said King, who travels to his cabin on the outskirts of town to feed and care for his horses every morning.
"I'm not a great horseman but I'm very game and I want to learn. I've learned as much about things through horses than anything else, including hard lessons like breaking bones and being on the ground on your back after falling off one."
Always quick to help look for a ball, help with a read or interject some of his quick wit into a situation, the slimmer version of the man who helped turn the Flames around seems a more relaxed sort these days.
"I pay for this entertainment," said Alvin Libin of his semi-regular golf partner.
"Playing with him is like buying a ticket to a show."
A very costly show yesterday.
Handicap: 16
Best score: 79
Years played: since age 30
In his bag: Taylor Made rac irons, Big Bertha driver
Avg. rounds a year: 30
Favourite course: Willow Park (member)
Golf highlight: Shooting 35 (par) on the back nine at Willow
When the beer cart pulls up, I'll have a: water
Golf wisdom: "Two ways you can tell someone's true personality -- when they're drunk or when they're golfing."


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All four South Florida Blue Martini locations have ladies' night on Wednesday.
The Wynwood and Las Olas locations have late-night happy hours from 11 p.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, when drinks are $4 to $6.
Stout has a rotating lineup of 60 craft beers, all half-off during happy hour.
There are over 20 specialty martinis to choose from, so drink up.


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"Himiko is brave and bold. I love her!" --Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author
Himiko shouldn't have a care in the world. As the only daughter of the most powerful man in the Matsu clan, she has her every need catered to. But Himiko isn't like other girls. She would much rather follow her brothers' path and become a hunter--something clan tradition and her strict father will never allow. And Himiko has a secret: she can commune with the spirit world. The… (more)
It's only been a week since I finished reading the book and already my memories of the details fade. Never a good sign. C
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (April 24, 2012)
Format: EPUB
Page count: 464 pages
File size: 3.3 MB
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How do stimulants affect the brain and body?
Stimulants, such as dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine and Adderall) and methylphenidate (Ritalin and Concerta), act in the brain similarly to a family of key brain neurotransmitters called monoamines, which include norepinephrine and dopamine. Stimulants enhance the effects of these chemicals in the brain. The associated increase in dopamine can induce a feeling of euphoria when stimulants are taken nonmedically. Stimulants also increase blood pressure and heart rate, constrict blood vessels, increase blood glucose, and open up breathing passages.
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Today, we have an interesting take on a style shoot. This concept is based on the bride alone, and how she should relax and get focused before her wedding. I'm loving the colorful details and carefree feeling evoked. Read below for the full vision behind this shoot!
From the Designer:
The vision behind the shoot was first inspired by an article I read about how to relax before your wedding. We wanted to take a single bride and capture these moments. The advice included things like: get outside, be alone, pray/meditate, journal, drink herbal tea, and just let go. To keep the flow of the relaxing theme of the shoot, I decided head to toe chiffon and basically bare feet seemed to be the perfect choice, so you will see Kayla in a beautiful 2 piece, one-shoulder chiffon wedding gown and a chiffon and vintage lace bridal cap (an amazing alternative to the traditional veil). Both will be available in my 2014 design collections which I am so excited about. 🙂
The venue was the property of an English artist. She agreed to let us use it if she could have permission to spy on the shoot, proving there are still a few awesome people in the world. 🙂 We were much obliged! It was magical. There were hills of fruit trees including apple, pear, and plum. There was a bridge and a bench and so many things that just made it a rustic dream all on its own… We felt very blessed to be accepted so warmly.
As for the styling, Michelle (AKM Events), and I (Christina)-27 Dresses Designs, have collaborated on quite a few shoots this year. With this particular shoot, she decided we should utilize our own resources since we had access to so many beautiful things that really complimented the boho theme we were going for. We used a lot of pieces of our own/family and friends. Many of the beautiful pieces came from basement shopping trips Michelle took to her sister-in-law's house. Her SIL was so excited to see us use her things, and was even a good sport when Mother Nature decided to rain on her REAL SILVER pieces right in the middle of the session! Aaaahhhhh! Don't worry…We wiped everything down right away and it is fine. 🙂 We also used an antique secretary's desk that was passed down to me from my grandmother. It has a great history…It first belonged to Marshall Field! (Yes the store owner). My great aunt and uncle, Dr. Bertash, moved into his old Chicago home back in the day, and it was one of the things he had left in the house.
Our little gypsy angel of a model, Kayla, is maybe one of the most naturally beautiful girls I know (inside and out btw). She was such a trooper during this shoot, walking over rocks and sticks in her bare feet with a smile on her face the whole time. She has been told numerous times that she should go pro, but claims she is "too shy" for that. This summer she was even approached by Carson Daly while on vacation in Vegas and ended up in a Billboard Music Awards commercial that day! The funniest part was she didn't even know who Carson was…her mom had to tell her.
We all had an amazing day together shooting this and I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed lending our talents to make it beautiful!
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12:26 pm on February 20th, 2014
So happy to be featured! Thanks to everyone involved and thank you Landlocked Bride. 🙂
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Capital Markets: Supply Chain Technology
Moving the Supply Chain into the 21st Century
Imagine an electronic world where information in the physical and financial supply chains is automated and merged into one transparent system. It would lead to shorter trade cycles, faster cash flow, lower operational costs, and higher profitability for everyone involved.
For decades, the industry has recognized the potential benefits this kind of world would bring, but finding the technologies to build it has remained an unmet challenge—until now. To make it a reality, three of Intel's latest processor families are helping merge the physical and financial supply chains:
- Intel® Xeon® processors: Accelerate the performance of physical and financial supply chain applications.
- Intel® CoreTM i5 vProTM processors: Reduce total cost of ownership with advanced security and management capabilities.
- Intel® AtomTM processors: Enable a range of mobile devices embedded in the supply chain for logistics and transport.
Understanding today's supply chain
With fewer paper-based purchase orders, receipts of shipment, notices, and invoices, we can now automate them electronically using a multitude of devices. From moving goods to financial transactions, online systems can monitor progress and inject a new level of efficiency into slow, centuries-old practices that cost world trade trillions of dollars each year.
Technologies like RFID chips and sensors track goods in transit, creating data that can be matched with trade documentation and streamline supply-chain functions such as payments, working capital, lending, and certification. At any time in the process, absolutely anyone along the supply chain, from financial service providers to their customers, can immediately and securely see all relevant information—and identify exceptions that demand attention to avoid costly delays.
Supplying the power behind all these innovations is the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors, which provide the energy-efficient, reliable performance the 21st century supply chain demands.
Intel® AtomTM processors: enabling a mobile fleet
Merging the physical and financial supply chains will be much more efficient with mobile technology that manages and displays data on the move. With a compact design, Intel® AtomTM processors enable a broad range of devices, including netbooks, tablets, handhelds, and smartphones, as well as logistics and transport devices embedded in the supply chain.
Learn more about the Intel® AtomTM processor family>
Intel® Xeon® processor family: accelerated performance and throughput
With its many built-in features, the Intel® Xeon® processor family offers the reliability, availability, and serviceability you need to accelerate both performance and throughput.
Scalability: The Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family can scale to handle vast volumes of trade data and provide mainframe-class computing with industry-standard benefits. This is ideal for ports, freight forwarders, and countless service providers in the chain.
Performance: The entire Intel Xeon processor family offers a host of features that accelerate performance and throughput of financial and physical supply-chain applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Best of all, it does all this while reducing the cost of power and cooling. Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)1 can also enhance the performance of ERP systems to help make the most of widely distributed server resources.
Learn more about the Intel Xeon processor family >
Intel® CoreTM i5 vProTM processor: advanced security and management
Intel's newest processor for PCs, the Intel® CoreTM i5 vProTM processor2 offers advanced security and management capabilities3 that can reduce total cost of ownership with enhanced security for all functions across the physical and financial supply chain. Features include:
Intel® Anti-Theft Technology 2.04: Allows laptops to be remotely disabled if they are lost or stolen—a real threat in the non-office environments of world trade.
Intel® AES New Instructions: Acceleration encryption and decryption of business-critical data.
Remote management capabilities3: Helps cut the cost of PC maintenance by allowing IT managers to remotely diagnose and repair machines from anywhere in the world.
Learn more about the Intel® CoreTM i5 vProTM processor >
Moving forward
In today's world of social media and mobility, the business processes of world trade are under more scrutiny than ever before. Business and regulatory pressures are leading both buyers and suppliers to demand a more efficient and transparent system. Merging the physical and financial supply chains is the obvious solution, and with the powerful new Intel technologies, it's happening today.
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2. Intel® vPro™ technology is sophisticated and requires setup and activation. Availability of features and results will depend upon the setup and configuration of your hardware, software, and IT environments. To learn more visit: https://www.intel.co.za/content/www/za/en/architecture-and-technology/vpro/vpro-platform-general.html.
3. Requires activation and a system with a corporate network connection, an Intel® AMT-enabled chipset, network hardware, and software. For notebooks, Intel AMT may be unavailable or limited over a host OS-based VPN, when connecting wirelessly, on battery power, sleeping, hibernating, or powered off. Results dependent upon hardware, setup, and configuration. For more information, visit www.intel.com/technology/vpro/index.htm.
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Dopey wrote:Combining yesterday and the day before, I asked 9 different women, either on the street or simply outside,would they liked to go"with me to New Orleans".As the various conversations then ensued I then told the various women I was looking for either"a hot chick" or some "hot chicks" to go with me to New Orleans.Anyone brave enough to speculate on the kind of reactions I got from those9 different women?
Also the assault against Christians being bigots is just a red herring. Many of us know and work with people who are gay and we are not out slaughtering them (verbally and physically) like Muslims do to Christians. They are sinners like everyone else who are in need of salvation from the wrath of God.


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Ottawa police are thanking the public for their help finding a teenaged girl who didn't come home after school on Thursday.
Police said the 14-year-old was last seen at her downtown Ottawa high school around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, around the time the school day ended.
They said she had been found and is safe just before 9 a.m. Friday.


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I'd like for there to be an option to show all Sublime Edit 2 tabs as a list on the left-hand side of the Window. This would be better for managing the program with 10, 20 or 30 tabs open at a time. A longer file name would be visible. I also believe that this list should be sortable by access time, alphabetically, etc. or by folder hierarchy.
I frequently work with about 20 tabs open at once, and the small tabs make it difficult to differentiate between them.
Oh my god.
Unlike tabs, though, you can't drag them into new windows...
Yes. I think there could be more done to the sidebar. I think more options could be added to the right-click context menu for items in the sidebar.
Options such as: "Open in new window", and "Open file location".
Interestingly you can open file location by first opening the file and then right-clicking on the view instead... I'm not sure why.
I think a better solution would be to do what Eclipse does... it shows only a maximum number of tabs that will be legible and usable given the space available. If more open files exist than the number of tabs that can fit, it puts the additional tabs in a menu on the right side of the tab bar. Files that are inactive (not been edited in a while) end up in the menu, but will return to the tab bar when you select them. Not only is this a good UI, but it's also something that A LOT of developers already know from using Eclipse.
I agree... the tab bar in Sublime Text 2 is terrible after you get too many open files. I also typically have 20-30 open files, and if there's one thing I would fix, it would be this!!!


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Fox has officially set Roland Emmerich's "Independence Day 2", the follow-up to his 1996 sci-fi hit "Independence Day", to unfurl against the real Independence Day on July 3rd, 2015.
Emmerich has been talking up the sequels (yes, I said sequels) to "ID4" pretty much every time he's out there promoting a new movie. With his actioner "White House Down" set for release soon, Fox has decided to back up the man this time and given the sequel an actual release date, which indicates the studio is moving forward with the sequels (or at least, the first one).
The big question is: will Will Smith return as Captain Steven Hiller?
Now I'm as big a fan of Jeff Goldblum's nerdy character or Bill
Paxton's Pullman's heroic Prez as much as the next guy, but let's face it, an "Independence Day" sequel without Will Smith is, well, kinda like a "Men in Black" sequel without Will Smith. Sure, you could do it, but why would you want to?
And no, pointing to Smith's "After Earth", which is still struggling mightily to recoup its $130 million production (plus promotions) budget doesn't count. "After Earth" was a bad move — putting Will Smith in a sci-fi movie, but then keeping him confined to a crashed ship with busted legs? That's just dumb.
Emmerich has previously said that "Independence Day 2" would take place 20 years after the first movie (which would fit in with the real-world timeline) and find a new wave of aliens coming through a wormhole, since it took them that long to received a distress beacon sent by their defeated comrades back on Earth. In the years since the invasion, humanity has begun to incorporate alien tech into our everyday life, so when the alien fleet returns for a second invasion, humans now have a better fighting chance. The sequel will include all the same characters, along with their children … like their sons. (Hey, Jaden, here's another movie starring role for ya, buddy!)
I'm guessing Emmerich will stick to that premise, because it actually sounds pretty decent, though given the results of "After Earth", they may want to rethink that whole "next generation" bit.
Here's a look back at "Independence Day" in case you've forgotten. It has been almost 20 years, after all.


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The widely acclaimed and hugely successful crime novelist Elmore Leonard died at home Tuesday of complications from a stroke. He was 87. Leonard's prose changed how the crime genre was perceived by readers and writers alike:
His early Western novels "Hombre" and "Valdez is Coming" carried all the hallmarks of his later crime fiction and reimagined the traditional idea of heroes and bad guys and how they interacted. A run of movies based on his Westerns and early crime novels kept his name out there, but it wasn't until he turned his focus from Detroit to South Florida that his fortunes began to match his talent.
The run of novels from 1983's Edgar Award-winning "La Brava" to 1996's "Out of Sight" not only transformed the crime novel, it transformed how they were perceived. Instead of attracting fringe actors, his books "Get Shorty," ''Rum Punch" and "Out of Sight," among others, drew A-list stars such as Samuel L. Jackson, George Clooney and John Travolta. Top directors like Quentin Tarantino and Barry Sonnenfeld wanted in. And TV eventually came calling about a number of ideas, including "Justified," which brought a favorite character, Marshall Raylan Givens, to a wide and adoring audience.
It was an incredible run that not only put Leonard permanently on the best-seller lists but transformed other writers and their writing.
For more on Leonard's death, watch the Associated Press broadcast below.
Imitating Leonard's style, Neely Tucker describes his friendship with the novelist:
You'd meet him, and you'd never know what he did for a living. He was that modest, that humble. He never robbed a bank or shot anybody, at least that I heard about, but he wrote the best bank-robber, guy-about-to-shoot-somebody dialogue ever.
Elmore, you say? How does an old guy named Elmore get the street vibe, the hip black Detroit crook, the charming Miami Mafioso, the cop who ain't that good but ain't that dumb, that smart chick who's got a good-looking leg up on all these dudes — how does he do that?
I never figured it out, and I profiled Elmore "Dutch" Leonard twice. Went through all his notes, his little boxes in the basement with his files on each book, interviewed him at length, and we were friends, besides. Sure, he had a researcher, Gregg Sutter, who was great at getting him the details, the forms a cop would fill out after a robbery, the traffic flow at rush hour in Palm Beach, Fla. But if it was that simple, a lot of writers would have hired researchers as good as Gregg, and then they'd all have been as good as Dutch. Except that nobody was.
You know how smart guys are always saying that talent, like water, finds its own level? Dutch found his, brother, and the water was high.
After an itinerant childhood and service in World War II, Leonard taught himself to write:
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was born in New Orleans on Oct. 11, 1925. His father, a dealership scout for General Motors, moved the family from city to city before settling in Detroit. The young Elmore was nicknamed "Dutch" after a Washington Senators knuckleball pitcher with the same surname.
Mr. Leonard went on to serve in World War II. His bad eyesight consigned him to a job as a store manager for the Seabees, doling out beer for the troops.
After graduating from the University of Detroit in 1950, Mr. Leonard married his college sweetheart, Beverly Cline, and took a job with a local advertising agency. He nurtured his fiction habit in private. He woke at 5 a.m. every morning and churned out pulp westerns for two hours before heading to work.
"I'd come down in the dark into the living room — that Michigan cold — and I wouldn't even let myself heat the coffee water until I'd started writing," he told People magazine. "I'd write in longhand, one word after the other in pencil on a yellow pad, then rewrite on the typewriter. I'm so damned glad I did it. I studied hard, I worked hard, I learned what I could and couldn't do. I can't do description well, so now I don't do it at all."
In 1951, he published his first short story in Argosy magazine for $1,000. His first novel, "The Bounty Hunters," came out in 1954. Two of his early stories became popular western movies, "The Tall T" with Randolph Scott, and "3:10 to Yuma" with Glenn Ford (both in 1957), and the latter was remade in 2007 with Russell Crowe.
By the end of the 1950s, the western market was saturated, so to support his wife and five children, Mr. Leonard turned to writing scripts for educational films.
Then, in 1967, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to his novel "Hombre" for $10,000. The resulting film, starring [Paul] Newman as a white man raised by American Indians, was only a moderate box office success, but it gave Mr. Leonard the financial cushion he needed to reboot his fiction.
His next book, "The Big Bounce," the story of an ex-con falling into the clutches of a psychotic young seductress, was rejected 84 times before finding a publisher. It found devoted readers, though, and it placed Mr. Leonard for the first time in his natural milieu — the modern American underworld — while planting the seeds for the outstanding work of the 1970s and early 1980s, including "City Primeval," "Split Images," "Stick" and "52 Pick-Up."
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A baby has the latest case of measles reported in the Edmonton area.
That brings the number of cases in the city to five, with 20 cases having been reported across Alberta.
The infant, who is less than a year old, would have been too young to be immunized.
Health officials say the case stems from a flight from Vancouver that arrived in Edmonton on April 9.
Dr. Marcia Johnson says complications can occur more frequently in infants, though there is no word on whether this baby has suffered complications.
Johnson says the majority of the people who have come down with the illness were not immunized.


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Despite the challenging conditions of recent markets, the Wasatch Global Opportunities Fund (WAGOX) has returned 10.00 percent in the period since it launched on November 17, 2008, through March 31, 2009.
That is about 12 percentage points ahead of the MSCI AC World Small Cap Index and more than 16 points ahead of the MSCI AC World Index (all-cap), the company says.
"I'm not a top-down investor, and I don't know if we are close to the market bottom, but down the road I believe we will look back and see that this was a pretty good time to invest," says portfolio manager Robert Gardiner, CFA.
This "go anywhere" fund is about 46-percent invested in the United States and 54-percent invested outside the U.S.


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The Battle for Bahrain and the Future of the Middle East
A massive geopolitical earthquake is shaking the Middle East. For more than six decades, Saudi Arabia has bound itself to America for security. But a series of strategic blunders and missteps in the region has broken Saudi confidence in the United States. Consequently, the Saudis are striking out on their own—cobbling together their own alliance to face off against Iran. That may not sound like such bad news, but it is actually a signal that time is running out for America, Britain, and the tiny nation of Israel.
According to the Washington Post, a split has taken place between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. A string of missteps by America since September 11, its abrupt abandonment of its long-time allies, its "refusal" to completely crack down on Israel, and a new unwillingness to confront Iran, have all conspired to drive America's special relationship with Saudi Arabia to a new low, says the paper. In short, "Washington has shown itself in recent months to be an unwilling and unreliable partner."
"U.S.-Saudi relations have soured over the past decade," confirms the Wall Street Journal. And there is "increasing friction with the Obama administration" (May 27).
In essence, Saudi officials feel that America has proven to be at best an incompetent ally, and at worst, incapable of conducting a coherent foreign policy. The list of grievances includes America's removal of Saddam Hussein—which not only eliminated the biggest bulwark against Iran, but also turned one of the world's largest oil exporters into a virtual Iranian vassal state. If that wasn't bad enough, President Obama compounded President Bush's error by doing the same thing in Egypt by driving longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak from power. In Libya, America's interference has encouraged dissatisfied elements in Saudi Arabia to stir up trouble. Plus, if Qadhafi hangs on, he has threatened to join the Iran alliance. On the other hand, the nato-backed Libyan rebels are most well known for their radicalism—and would also be dangerously susceptible to Iranian Influence. Conversely, in Syria (Iran's most important ally), America is doing little to support the "democratic" uprising.
More recently, America's heavy criticism of Saudi Arabia's intervention in Bahrain may have been the last straw.
Although Western media have largely missed it, there is a gigantic power struggle going on in the Middle East—and the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain is ground zero.
There, the 200-year-old monarchy is fighting for its survival. Massive protests have swept the little kingdom since the Tunisia uprising. About 70 percent of the populace is Shiite, while the ruling monarchy is Sunni—like the majority of Saudis.
Historically, Bahrain has at times been part of the Iranian empire, and Iran has never formally given up its claims to the kingdom. Even this year, high-level Iranian officials have made statements about retaining control of the country. This is something that Saudi Arabia cannot permit if it hopes to survive.
Although Bahrain is not a major oil exporter, almost all of Saudi Arabia's major oil fields are located in areas close to the Bahrain border—and all these regions are majority Shiite. Saudi Arabia fears—and with good reason—that a revolution in Bahrain could easily spread to its own oil-producing regions, which are its primary source both of revenue and, more importantly, of geopolitical power. Iran knows this reality and is doing all it can to topple the Bahraini monarchy and replace it with an Iran-friendly Shiite "democracy."
The fear of Iran, and lack of trust in America, is now so great in Saudi Arabia that it is taking action. "Saudi Arabia is rallying Muslim nations across the Middle East and Asia to join an informal Arab alliance," writes the Wall Street Journal. The battle for Bahrain "has become a symbol of Arab defiance against Iran."
In what Saudi Arabia said "was a message to Iran not to meddle in other nations' affairs," Gulf Cooperation Council (gcc) members joined Saudi Arabia in sending troops to Bahrain to counteract Iran's push.
The Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, seems to be an alliance whose primary purpose of late is to counteract Iran. "The six-nation bloc is trying to bolster its defense," says Middle East economist Ayesha Sabavala.
And Saudi Arabia is seeking to expand the alliance. In a sign of just how worried Saudi Arabia is, this month it reached out to Jordan to join. Jordan has twice applied for membership (most recently in 1996), but was denied both times, probably due to its more moderate approach to Israel. "There is greater uncertainty in the region and a lot of shifting alliances," says Taufiq Rahim, a visiting fellow at the Dubai School of Government. "The nature of the Arab League is changing."
"Greater Gulf Cooperation Council integration will lead to a more united front in terms of foreign policy in the region," he added.
The Middle East is increasingly dividing into two opposing and distinct camps.
The first is centered around Iran and currently includes Iraq and Syria. Evidence indicates that it now also increasingly includes Egypt and may shortly incorporate Libya and the Ethiopia/Horn of Africa region too.
The second camp is the Arab alliance being assembled by Saudi Arabia.
This is exactly what is prophesied in the Bible. Psalm 83 gives us an insight into what is coming in the very near future.
This Psalm contains a prophecy of a group of nations that ally themselves together with the purpose of destroying Israel and the modern-day descendants of ancient Israel, which include America and Britain (for proof, read The United States and Britain in Prophecy by Herbert W. Armstrong). The Psalm 83 nations are distinct from a more powerful region-wide dominating power (the Iran-led camp). This prophecy is fulfilled after a German-led European power conquers Iran and its allies (Daniel 11:40-43).
Psalm 83:5-8 list who is in this non-Iranian alliance that readily allies itself with the invading Europeans. "For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur [Assyria or Germany] also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah." Here are the modern names of these nations, as taught at Ambassador College under Herbert W. Armstrong: Edom—Turkey; Ishmaelites—Saudi Arabia; Moab—Jordan; Hagarenes—anciently dwelt in the land known as Syria today; Gebal and Tyre—Lebanon; Ammon—also Jordan. This is not extremely precise, but it gives a good general idea of where these nations are today. The small Arab nations on the Arabian Peninsula making up the gcc would biblically speaking be considered part of Saudi Arabia because of their Ishmaelitish origin. Now Jordan appears to be lining up in their camp.
The reason Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia are missing from the Psalm 83 list is that they are allied with Iran when it is conquered by a German-led Europe (Daniel 11:42-43).
As we see Saudi Arabia and the other gcc member states seek to incorporate more allies to protect themselves from Iran, also watch for them to begin reaching out to Germany and the Europeans for protection.
Additionally, watch for a change in Syrian politics. Bible prophecy indicates that at the time of the Daniel 11 European invasion, Syria and Lebanon will not be allied with Iran. Since in many ways Lebanon is controlled by Syria, watch for it to abandon Iran, too.
Radical events are on the move in the Middle East. America is shrinking in influence. Iran is becoming the undisputed king of the region, and Saudi Arabia is banding together with new allies for protection. Prophecy is being fulfilled, and despite the troubles ahead, it is all leading to the best news ever: the return of Jesus Christ.
For more information on the Psalm 83 alliance, read "A Mysterious Prophecy" by Gerald Flurry.


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"Anyone would like this as an appetizer. Pretty, fast and easy to make. Recipe from my mother."
Fresh and Dried Mushroom Pesto
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- 1 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 8 ounces white button mushrooms, quartered
- 1⁄2 cup walnuts, toasted
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 1⁄2 cups fresh Italian parsley
- 3⁄4 cup olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 36 slices baguette (1/2-inch-thick)
- Place the porcini mushrooms in a bowl of hot water; press to submerge.
- Let stand until the mushrooms are tender, about 15 minutes.
- Scoop out mushrooms, being carefully not to stir any dirt that may have sunk to the bottom of the water.
- Discard mushroom water.
- Combine the porcini mushrooms, button mushrooms, walnuts, garlic, and parsley in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped.
- With the machine running, gradually add 1/2 cup of the oil, blending just until the mushrooms are finely chopped.
- Transfer the mushroom mixture to a medium bowl.
- Stir in the Parmesan.
- Season the pesto with salt and pepper, to taste.
- If not using mushroom pesto right away, cover tightly with plastic wrap to prevent possible discoloration of mushrooms.
- Preheat a grill pan to medium-high heat.
- Arrange the bread slices on pan, cut-side down.
- Brush the remaining 1/4 cup of oil over the bread slices.
- Cook until pale golden and crisp, about 5 minutes.
- Alternatively, you can toast the bread in the oven.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Arrange the bread slices on 2 heavy large baking sheet.
- Brush the remaining 1/4 cup of oil over the bread slices.
- Bake until pale golden and crisp, about 15 minutes.
- Spread the mushroom pesto over the crostini.
- Arrange the crostini on a platter and serve.
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NEW YORK — Dwane Casey used the words "terrible" and "pathetic" in describing the Raptors defence a night earlier against Denver.
And that was in a win.
So it really shouldn't have come as a surprise that the high-flying Raptors took a backseat to the defence-first, lock-down-your-man and look-to-help-your-teammate Raps Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.
The plan only worked to perfection as the Raps closed out the pre All-Star game portion of the schedule with a 92-88 win over the Knicks to extend their winning streak to four games.
They sit six games out of the eighth and final playoff position in the East with both Philadelphia and Milwaukee to get past.
"It was quite a bit improved," Casey said after his defence held Carmelo Anthony to 12 points on 5-of-24 shooting and the usually high-scoring Knicks to just 88 points.
"I thought we closed out on the ball, contained the ball better and I don't know who many points in the paint they had (32) but it was a lot less than 70 (which Denver scored) and that was our biggest challenge."
And as well as the Raptors contained Anthony, the Knicks did a similar top- notch job on Rudy Gay, holding Toronto's anointed closer to just 11 points on 4-of-21 shooting.
Gay had no problem at all pinpointing the key to the night's win.
"When you're trying to be a good team you need to get them no matter how it is and today was defensive," Gay said. "It's been offensive a lot but today it was defensive."
Casey showed his hand just before game time when he took Amir Johnson out of the lineup and put a smaller but perhaps more familiar (to the New York game plan) Landry Fields in to start on Anthony at the power forward position.
"Landry did a heck of a job," Casey said. "He knows that team as well as anyone. He knows their movement, he knows what they are trying to do and he gave it to us on the defensive end."
The Raptors were forced to play the final 15 minutes of the game without starting point guard Kyle Lowry, who was ejected with three minutes to go in the third quarter for his second technical.
With just John Lucas to man the point, the odds appeared stacked against Toronto. But that didn't turn out to be the case.
Alan Anderson continued his own personal three-point party and Lucas chipped in with a couple of his own while the defensive intensity remained consistent.
Offensively with Gay out of sorts, the load fell to Anderson, who has relocated his three-point stroke and wound up with 26 points, just one shy of his career high.
Anderson joked he would have thrown up one more three-ball if he had known he was so close to setting a new mark but seemed quite happy with the 6-of-8 that did find the bottom of the well.
"I stayed aggressive, stayed in attack mode on offence and defence," Anderson said. "I tried to be assertive any way that I could and when the shot was there, I took it."
But this night wasn't about offence. It was about Casey getting his team to play some defence again.
"It's getting down in a stance, getting to the help early on all five guys," he said before the game. "We can't take a step back defensively. We're scoring easier with Rudy in but we can't have a let's-outscore-everybody mentality. You can't win in the NBA with that mentality."
But Casey wasn't done. He knows how easy his team could fall into that mode and it was almost like he was making a preventative strike to keep it from happening.
"You just look at the history of the NBA," Casey said. "If they (offence-first teams) do make the playoffs they don't go very far and I thought the turning points we had in Seattle and in Dallas came when we committed to the defensive end. That has been my history as a coach and I can't change. There's going to be an emphasis on defence.
"I love our offence. I love the way we are moving the ball and scoring with ease, but we have to do a better job on the defensive end."
A few hours later Casey got his wish and it should make his all-star break that much better because of it.


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No, no of course not.
No, no of course not.
I hate every single one of these people.
I have to give mucho credit to the girls for actually being able to follow a split vote plan two times in a row.
No goat killers on my island.
Only because everybody is stupid.
Who is Leif? I have no clue. Does anyone know? I hate to say it because it is so cliche but he was the ultimate under the radar player, next to Christina.
No goat killers on my island.
I'm not sure what Tarzan is thinking.
I find it hard to believe that a plastic surgeon is worried about $500 for car repairs.
Kim & Co. must have done some fancy talking to make Christina and Alicia feel safe within their alliance. I mean, Troyzan pretty much laid it all out there, complete with the simple math.
I'm beginning to wonder if all the women have been promised an F3 deal. And if so, Katy bar the door if they all start comparing notes.
This isnt the Sound of freaking Music were watching.......sdl


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The Saturday evening concert would feature two prominent virtuosos of the guitar in performance for the convention audience. The first act was a solo venture with new-comer Ben Lacy, a guitarist who seemingly has redefined the two-handed contapuntal solo style of guitar performance which Stanley Jordan and Tuck Andress brought to attention almost two decades earlier. This was a fitting introduction to the World Sinfonia group because Al Di Meola produced the first release of the highly innovative Jordan, which shows his flair for not only performing but producing great music as well. Lacy bedazzled the audience with full band arrangements of Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" and "Sir Duke," along with "Tax Man" by the Beatles, original compositions and a rousing encore of the eastern laced "Kasmir" of Led Zeppelin. The screaming crowd was very warm after witnessing such a powerful musician and really enjoyed the choice of material he performed. Somehow, I got the feeling he would be back later in the evening.
Al Di Meola's World Sinfonia entered the stage with loud applause as they performed fire-breathing versions of their latest release 'Flesh On Flesh' and a number of beautiful melodic ballads. The world music flair was exotic and powerful as Al Di weaved legato melodies with punctuated burst of rhythmic interplay that contrasted well throughout the evening. "Libertango," a composition of Astor Piazolla would introduce the band to us as a tempo pushing introduction. The world-class band comprised of veteran members Mario Parmisano of Argentina on piano and keyboards along with Gumbi Ortiz of the Bronx on congas and percussion. Newer members included the legendary Ernie Watts of Milwaukee on drums and dumbek, Alejandro Santos on various flutes and pan flute with another Alejandro on bass, both Al's from Argentina as well. The Sinfonia unit was very tight and performed exciting solo and background sections.
The percussion of Ortiz and the spirited drumming of Watts was very impressive as the interplay of rhythm would be the catalyst for Di Meola's "Mutola" improvising exploits and interaction with the percussion section. Watts pushed the group and kept immaculate time and showed why his inventive drum style has been used with Ramsey Lewis among others for decades.
One of the highlights of any Di Meola performance is the rhythmic duel between Gumbi Ortiz and Di Meola together as a duet. Gumbi Ortiz is a veteran of the first World Sinfonia and has Cuban / Puerto Rican roots which are evident in his animated rhythmic style. Ortiz is a master of congas, cajone, bird whistle and anything he contacts with his hands! Resembling a cat and mouse game of a rhythmic throw down, the two compliment eachother with their fiery playing and ability to push on another to a higher level of rhythmic performance every night. This break is a hallmark of a Di Meola show and shows the plethora of different arrangements in the World Sinfonia program.
The music from "Flesh On Flesh" was very melodic, romantic and programmatically festive. Perhaps, this feel is because the collection was done "live" in the studio, so interplay and visual communication are at a creative and improvisational peek. Di Meola is happy about the CD and his Sinfonia groups performance on the new project as he explains, "I think the energy and excitement is several notches up, and the fact that I'm playing electric (mixed with acoustic) is a real plus. That element, along with the driving rhythms and drums, is very exciting." Al Di also utilized his midi setup that let him go from ethnic instruments, woodwinds and acoustic / electric mixes with ease. Di Meola dazzled the audience with his never ending palette of tonal colors and melodies that kept coming from his streaming guitars. In true Al Di fashion, he also fired up some incredible unisons and solo burst that kept the audience on the edge of their seats and screaming for more!
"Innamorata," "Zona Desperata," "Saffire Soleil," and "Fugata" were among the new compositions performed. "Flesh On Flesh," featured spirited acoustic tones, searing electric tones and beautiful flute phrasing with driving percussion from the title cut. The Egberto Gismonti piece, "Meninas" was a subdued piece that resulted in the sensitive performance of an acoustic Di Meola and Parmisano on piano, the sublime background and austere melody was a tender moment and showed the great depth of the program. Di Meola said he always wanted to perform a Gismonti piece and this song reminds him of his two daughter's when he is touring. Al explains, "Meninas," in Portuguese is the word for "girls." It is one of my all-time favorite Gismonti compositions. I felt the urge to call Egberto in Brazil and ask him for the chart, especially for this recording. When hearing this incredible melody on long trips, I had always gotten an intense feeling, missing my two beautiful daughters, Oriana and Valentina."
The piano and keyboard performances of long time music collaborator Mario Parmisano, are nothing short of surreal and beautifully orchestrated as his "touch" is perfect for the music at all times. Mario's use of space and touch are complemented by his ability to fire off intense unisons and pushing velocity in his solos yet, maintaining a romantic flair from his Argentinean roots. For the long term Di Meola fan, some of the music is reminiscent of his Cielo E Terra (1985) which was esoteric and classically inspired with a touch of Ralph Towner, Gismonti and Keith Jarrett essence to boot. "I felt I had to make that record," Di Meola explained. After selling millions of records and countless tours, Al felt he had to write music that reached deeper into his creativity. " The best writing is done when you're not bothered with things and you really are able to woodshed- no phones, nobody around." Di Meola has always followed his instincts which has always worked well based on the success he has had with his varied projects.
'The Grande Passion' utilized orchestra, the electric projects offer power and tonal colors and the Acoustic Super Trio and the Rite of Strings offer full acoustic tones. 'Flesh On Flesh' offers the best of both worlds as Al Di dances between acoustic and electric realms with ease and no lack of compositional genius! "You need to advance your creativity, if you don't, all that's left is(Las)Vegas." Di Meola explains what inspired the energy on 'Flesh' -"We tracked 'Flesh On Flesh' mostly live, and we really kicked some butt." "We captured that certain magic you can only get when everyone is playing together in one space and all the sounds blend together and bleed into the microphones. Sadly, it seems unusual for guys to play together in the studio these days - at least judging by the records I'm hearing." To the crowds joy, the World Sinfonia would perform Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy as an encore with electric tones searing like the fusion hey day Al Di helped trailblaze with Chick Corea's Grammy - winning group, Return To Forever in the 70's. The screaming audience wouldn't leave with out another piece of "flesh" from Al Di and an encore was eminent.
Al Di and the World Sinfonia performed pieces from Piazolla, Gismonti, Chick Corea and Al's very intuitive compositional pen. The beautiful, exotic flute textures and melodies by Alejandro Santos was a special touch to the brilliant soul searching compositions throughout the evening. With the various duets and band timbres throughout the show, a listener was treated to a whole cornucopia of soundscapes through the evening. For everyone in attendance another encore was eminent.
For a final encore Di Meola announced that he was going to do something he hadn't planned to do - a duet with Ben Lacy. The duo would perform an impromptu version of 'Spain' which was a staple of the Return To Forever set list. Di Meola joked that, "With Ben's (Lacy's) 3 parts and my part, we should make a pretty good quartet!" The crowd roared even before Lacy's amp was plugged up and ready to go. Starting with a percussive rhythm pulse and chordal sequences, Lacy set the tune up for Al to play the head and the duo exchanged soloing back and fourth using rhythmic burst and legato melodies, chock full of searing breakneck shred soloing which complimented each other very well. The melodic output of Di Meola is as incredible as his chops and guitar playing expertise. Al's ability to combine lush chords, rapid right hand picking with long-flowing legato lines, is a treat for the senses. The audience response was fever pitched and the two dragons showed the conventioneers and the others in the audience why the Sheldon picked such fiery, unique artist for the Guitar show. After the fret burning fireworks, a reception was given upstairs where Al was signing his CD Al Di was gracious and very interested in the fans comments about the performance and the new music. While Al greeted fans, a harp guitarist named Tom Shinness from Nashville performed for the gathering. A great wind down to a great show at the midnight hour. For sound bites of Al Di Meola's 'Flesh On Flesh' and to sign up for an auto graphed copy of the latest Telarc disk, check out The days events were full of excitement and energy. Thanks to the Sheldon and the artistry of Al Di Meola and Ben Lacy, the Saturday night in St. Louis was a night to remember for a long time to come! Bravo! Fine.
The Sheldon Concert Hall is synonymous with superlative musical performance - and a historical treasure to St. Louis as a performance hall for world-class artists and as a cultural, educational sanctuary for the public. Designed by the same architect that transformed St. Louis for the 1904 Worlds Fair, the oak wood trim and stained glass windows give the feel of a church sanctuary. The resonant nature of the room is what attracts jazz artists such as; Al Di Meola, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Diana Krall, John McLaughlin and Dee Dee Bridgewater just to mention a few. There is always a great art exhibit as well. I was able to catch the photo gallery which featured Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era collection. When in the St. Louis area check out the art and music at the Sheldon Concert Hall, if you have a music taste that ranges from blues, jazz, eclectic folk, classical and choral . you wont be denied at the Sheldon!


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Withdrawing from a Course
During the first week of the Fall and Spring terms, students may add or drop courses. After the first week of classes, students are expected to complete the courses for which they are enrolled.
A student who finds it necessary to drop a course after the first week of classes must withdraw officially from the course by (a) consulting with his or her faculty advisor or the Office of Advising and obtaining an appropriate signature (freshmen must meet with a faculty advisor), and (b) completing an Add/Drop form and following the procedures in the Office of Registration and Records.
For a course officially dropped on or before two-thirds of its completion, a W (withdrawal) will be entered on a student's permanent record. A request to withdraw from a course after the 10th week of classes in the Fall and Spring terms will not be accepted unless this action is approved by the instructor and the registrar. A student who does not follow these procedures will receive an F for the course(s) not completed.
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Dylan Armstrong won the shot put event at the Donovan Bailey Invitational track and field meet, which was hardly a surprise. But how he won – with a toss of 21.02 metres was unexpected, even for him.
Locked in a heavy training schedule, the 31-year-old Kamloops native topped an eight-man field Saturday that included Americans Ryan Whiting and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Christian Cantwell. With his final throw at Foote Field, Armstrong unleashed his best effort of the afternoon before raising his right arm in triumph.
"I'm really surprised to throw that far," Armstrong said. "That's really good for me, training hard through this with sore muscles. I'm extremely happy with that performance."
Armstrong has been a consistent top-three finisher in the prestigious Diamond League circuit so far and thrown for a seasonal best 21.50 metres. His personal best is 22.21 as he looks to make up for his disappointment at the 2008 Olympics. In Beijing, he missed the podium by one centimetre.
"I've got Calgary [the site of the 2012 Canadian nationals later this month] and then a training camp afterward," explained Armstrong. "I'm throwing and lifting twice a day. You've got to train smart."
Armstrong has already made the Olympic qualifying standard but will use the Nationals to work on his technique.
"I'd like a big throw at the Nationals. But you have to keep in mind the goal is always London," he added.
Whiting finished second here at the Donovan Bailey while Canadian Justin Rodhe was third.
The women's 100-metre hurdles provided a final tune-up for the Nationals. Five women - Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Phylicia George, Nikkita Holder, Angela Whyte and Perdita Felicien – will be vying for three tickets to London. All five competed here and it was Lopes-Schliep who finished first in a time of 12.64 seconds.
Whyte was third, George was fourth, Holder fifth and Felicien sixth. All five Canadian women have run under 13 seconds.
"It definitely felt good to come out and win today – my first win as a mom," said Lopes-Schliep, who missed last season due to the birth to her daughter Nataliya. "There are just a few things to touch up for the Nationals and then hopefully it's on to London."
Lopes-Schliep won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics and is eager to see other Canadians do well this summer.
"The hurdles field is definitely growing," she said of her Canadian counterparts. "Hopefully it'll transfer over to other events."
The men's 100 metres closed the meet. It featured three Jamaicans, including 2011 world champion Yohan Blake, the youngest sprinter to win gold at a worlds. He ran 10.05 here to edge American Trell Kimmons (10.11) and fellow Jamaican Lerone Clarke (10.13). Canadian Justyn Warner was fifth at 10.32.


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I had a 3-day weekend a few weeks back on account of local elections! So, I decided to finish something on the knitting front for a change. If you've been following my blog, you would've noticed that it's been a few months since I posted about a finished yarny object! ;-) So, without much ado, I will present my bright and vibrant clapotis here! My ravelry notes for this project says that I started it on Feb 26,2009 and I completed it on Nov 24th,2009. I knit one half of it in the 3-day weekend. So technically, I should've knit this in 6 days whereas I took 9 months to complete it! Gaahh!!
It is a mindless pattern..very logical.. appeals to the geek in me! ;-) It was my go-to project between complex lace projects! Its perfect for watching a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. or a Grey's Anatomy marathon! I will not say I enjoyed knitting it as much as I enjoy the finished wrap! I've been knitting it on and off for the past 9 months! I sincerely admire people who have knit their 'umpteenth' clapotis! They can give Socrates a lesson in patience!
I thought the yarn was DK-weight when I started the wrap.Along the way, I realized that its worsted weight.I am still a yarn-illiterate! The yarn is soft for a acrylic/wool blend and provides instant warmth when wrapped in it. The color is bright and delicious! It reminds me of ripe papaya!
I used 4 skeins of the yarn: 1 skein for the set-up rows, 2 for the 'straight' rows and 1 for the decrease rows. The wrap is knit on a bias, by increasing from point to the desired width, then keeping the stitch count constant by increasing on one end and decreasing on the other end in alternate rows, and finally, decreasing after the desired length is reached. A very logical pattern but, mega tedious!
This wrap makes for an interesting subject for a photo-op! I kinda went camera-crazy and clicked quite a few snaps! I love the play of light through the dropped stitches! Unfortunately, I am hard-pressed for space in my balcony and I don't have any natural props to take better pictures! SO, I had to made do with my clothesline in the balcony! See.. this is what I mean..
I used the only 4mm circular knitting needle I had for this wrap and it was completely monopolized for 9 whole months. Everytime I needed the 4mm needle, I will knit a few rows on this urging the wrap to near completion soon. I know that if I put the unfinished wrap on a stitch-holder, it will never see completion in this life.. ;-) The only thing that kept me going on with this project was the look of the finished object!
The yarn has a light fuzz about it which makes dropping the stitches a pain! some day, when I forget just how tedious it is to make a clapotis, I will make this again with a silky yarn! The wrap curls a lot and the edge is not properly defined giving it a rustic look. I wanted to do a crochet edging with beads to add drape to the wrap but unfortunately, I didn't have enough yarn. I had exactly 2 inches of yarn left after I knit the last stitch. Nothing like yarn-shortage to make this otherwise-boring wrap an exciting and exhilarating project!! ;-) Oh yeah! I like living dangerously!! ;-)
Here are the stats of this project:
Pattern: Clapotis by Kate Gilbert
Yarn: J.Sagar Wash n Wear blended wool
Needle: 4mm circ RAKed by Helena aka ignorantbliss
Started: Feb 26, 2009
Completed: Nov 24, 2009
Here it is all folded up, waiting to go into my denim tote to travel with me on cold days!
I must say that the weather in Hyderabad is pretty cold these days warranting the use of a wrap or a cardigan and this wrap came about just in time for this winter! Its finding good use in my office where the AC is always on high! Someday, I will tell the SOB story of my attempts at knitting/crocheting an adult-sized cardigan. But, that's for another day.
Hope you all are having a lovely holiday season!
Seasons' greetings to all my blog readers!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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I've made two of these - one in a silk/wool mixture and one in a cashmere sock yarn. Both are favorites. I love the color of yours. It is so vibrant. I think you'll love it. How about a pic of you in it?ReplyDelete
love the color! thanks for your project notes too... it will be useful when i finally make it. its been on my mind for a whileReplyDelete
Mmm papaya!! I have to agree that the Clapotis is one project that requires a ton of patience even the first time around! Great job on yours and it's such a lovely, vibrant color!ReplyDelete
The Clapotis - everyone seems to have made one and yours is so pretty! The color is amazing. Looks so cuddly!ReplyDelete
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WWE Fan Describes Experience as a Raw "Seat Filler"
Craig Hlavaty of the Houston Press has published an article describing his experience as a "seat filler" for the 20th anniversary edition of Raw. WWE typically moves people around on the hard camera side an arena so that viewers will not see any empty seats on TV. The following is an excerpt from the article:
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How to beat Harvard's endowment performance
The compelling simplicity of a 60/40 stock-bond strategy is hard to dispute, says investment adviser
The New York TimesNew York Times News Service
For years, America's largest, richest and most prestigious universities have been the envy of investors. They churned out double-digit returns over the last two decades, even with steep losses during the financial crisis.
Harvard's endowment is more than $30 billion and has generated annualized returns of 12.5 percent over the last 20 years.
Their investing success along with their vaunted academic reputations led many financial experts to conclude that Harvard and its peers at the pinnacle of higher education had solved an age-old conundrum: how to generate higher returns with lower risk.
An investment stampede ensued as other universities, giant pension funds and even individuals slavishly copied their strategy, which stressed diversification along with high-cost, often illiquid alternative investments like hedge funds, venture capital and private equity funds.
Today, it's hard to find a college or university that stuck with the older and far simpler allocation between stocks and bonds. Hedge funds alone have what is estimated at over $2 trillion in assets, much of it from large institutions.
College and university endowment returns for the most recent fiscal year, which ended June 30, are starting to roll in. And in many cases, they warrant a grade of "C" at best, and in some cases, an "F."
Harvard reported a 0.05 percent loss and a drop in its endowment of over $1 billion in the same period, even as a simple Standard & Poor's 500 index fund gained about 5.5 percent.
Even more startling, data compiled by the National Association of College and University Business Officers for the 2011 fiscal year (the most recent available) show that large, medium and small endowments all underperformed a simple mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds over one-, three- and five-year periods.
The 91 percent of endowments with less than $1 billion in assets underperformed in every time period since records have been maintained.
Given the weak results being reported this year, that underperformance is likely to be even more pronounced when the fiscal year 2012 results are included.
The impact is significant. Universities depend on returns on their endowments to finance operations, pay faculty and administrative salaries, provide scholarships and pay for building projects.
"The compelling simplicity of a 60/40 strategy is very hard to beat," said Timothy Keating, president of Keating Investments in Greenwood Village, Colo., and author of two reports on endowment performance. "Many investors would be much better served with a simple 60/40 strategy, or at least a core where you have low-cost index funds. When you understand the role of transaction fees, it's a very high mountain to scale."
Those fees for so-called alternative investments can be enormous. Managers of hedge-fund and private-equity funds typically keep 20 percent or more of the gains, which is known as carried interest, and a percentage of assets under management.
Private-equity, real-estate and natural-resources partnerships may also impose an array of transaction fees on top of performance fees.
Simon Lack, a founder of SL Advisors in Westfield, N.J., and a hedge-fund insider, caused a stir earlier this year with his book, "The Hedge Fund Mirage," in which he calculated that the hedge-fund industry as a whole lost more money in one year (2008) than it had made in the previous 10 years.
"If all the money that's ever been invested in hedge funds had been put in Treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as good," he asserted. And he maintained that nearly all the hedge funds' gains had gone to hedge-fund managers rather than clients.
"If you look at the data, hedge funds have underperformed a simple 60/40 stock/bond mix every year for the past 10 years," said Lack. "They did well in the downturn of 2000-2. But that's when assets under management were less than half what they are now. There's no disputing that as assets have grown, performance has declined."
Not surprisingly, Lack's analysis has come under attack by a vast industry that depends on steering clients into alternative investments, among them the London-based Alternative Investment Management Association, a lobbying group that issued a detailed rebuttal. But Lack said he stood by his methodology, and pointed out that many of his critics had a financial stake in maintaining the status quo.
Keating, who doesn't advise endowments or pension funds, said he agreed with Lack. "He's very controversial, but I found his analysis persuasive."
Among those raising questions about the Ivy League model and its heavy dependence on alternative investments is Vanguard, the giant mutual-fund company that has long promoted a radically simpler approach based on low-cost index and mutual funds.
"I feel that there was endowment envy, or maybe emulation is a better word," said Francis Kinniry Jr., a principal in Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group. "Everybody wanted to look like the Yales and Harvards of the world. But they were early. They were doing these techniques in the mid-1990s and late 1990s when equities looked overvalued, and alternative strategies could capture market imperfections.
"That's no longer true. Those universities were forward-looking and deserve a lot of credit. But emulating that process three, five or seven years later is very problematic."
Even David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, who is widely viewed as the godfather of what has become known as the Yale model, has cautioned that few could expect to replicate Yale's results, because Yale had access to top managers whose doors were closed to all but a favored few.
Kinniry agreed. "Because of their size and relationships, and the ability to commit to a continuing investment cycle, Harvard, Yale, MIT and Notre Dame have unique access."


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Adli Law Group P.C. Stands Firm in Film Plagiarism Suit as Angelina Jolie Presses Dismissal Motion
Author James J. Braddock states that the star's 2011 directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, was drawn from his novel, The Soul Shattering
Mar 13, 2013, 13:56 ET from Adli Law Group P.C.
LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a new motion for dismissal, Adli Law Group P.C. president and noted litigation attorney Dr. Dariush Adli and Adli Law partner Rasheed McWilliams are pressing on with a lawsuit involving superstar actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie. The suit alleges that the plot of a 2011 drama directed by Ms. Jolie was taken from a novel by Croatian author and journalist James J. Braddock, who is also known as Josip Knezevic. The book, entitled Slamanjue Duse in Croatian and The Soul Shattering in English, is drawn from the true account of a Bosnian woman who was subjected to horrifying brutality and sexual violence in a Serbian concentration camp during the 1990s war. The film is also set in one of the notorious prisons and, it is alleged, features many of the same incidents. Mr. Braddock holds that he actually met with producer Edin Sarkic to discuss a film version of the book. Jolie, on the other hand, claims that the two works are "worlds apart." The case against Ms. Jolie is currently in the middle of the discovery process and a forensic analysis being spearheaded by Dr. Adli and Mr. McWilliams.
Even if taking on the enormously popular, Academy Award-winning star of numerous successful dramas and action films is seen as a daunting legal undertaking, the case is being met with the seriousness any outstanding business attorney should be ready to devote to a case. Indeed, Adli Law Group is a noted innovator respected throughout the field of intellectual property (IP) law. Regarded by observers as the place to find an outstanding intellectual property, entertainment, or patent attorney, Adli Law Group P.C. has been praised by legal authorities around the world. Although the case has been pending for some time, a change of venue motion delayed the case and moved the trial from Illinois to California. The dispute is scheduled to go to trial on January 29, 2014.
With offices in the strategic locations of London, Tokyo, and Taipei, Adli Law Group has a track record of successful litigation that has attracted attention throughout the world of international IP law. Dr. Adli has presented cases at the International Trade Commission (ITC) and in such locales as Munich and Paris as well as at the high court of Dusseldorf, Germany. The firm has also been involved in jury and judge trials before the International Trade Commission (ITC). Many Adli Law cases have been responsible for setting precedent. Countless clients in the United States and around the world have received their due credit and compensation for important technological advances and creative efforts because of the efforts of Adli Law.
For further details please call 213-623-6546 or visit the Adli Law Group's at www.adlilaw.com.
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Team of the Week
|David James
Nemanja Vidic
|William Gallas
|Young-Pyo Lee
|Michael Carrick
|Xabi Alonso
|Andres D'Alessandro
Wayne Rooney
|Zoltan Gera
|Craig Bellamy
|Didier Drogba
|Sir Alex Ferguson
David James was outstanding for Manchester City in their defeat at White Hart Lane on Saturday lunch-time.
James made a shaky start to the game and conceded twice in a 2-1 defeat, but he was at his athletic best in a performance that surely proved why he should be Paul Robinson's back-up for England at the World Cup.
Young-Pyo Lee has made the Spurs left-back position his own since his move from PSV on transfer deadline day in August 2005.
The South Korean international is one of the slightest players in the Premiership, but City struggled to come to terms with his pace and incredible work-rate in a typically-dynamic performance.
Nemanja Vidic now seems to be coming to terms with the Premiership tempo, and was excellent for Manchester United in their 2-0 win over Arsenal at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Victory was crucial for United in their pursuit of Chelsea, the leaders having romped to a 4-1 home thrashing of West Ham United earlier in the day.
French centre-back William Gallas hit the crossbar in the build-up to John Terry's goal, and netted the fourth himself as the champions fought back from a goal down and the first-half dismissal of Maniche.
At the other end of the table, Portsmouth showed great spirit to battle to a point against Blackburn as they bid to stave off relegation.
Loan signing Andres D'Alessandro was at the heart of all their best attacking moves at Fratton Park on Sunday, and showed grit and determination to add to his undoubted skills with the ball.
Fellow strugglers West Brom kept alive their own hopes of escaping the drop by holding out for a goalless draw in a local derby against Aston Villa on Sunday.
Zoltan Gera stood out in the Baggies midfield, and almost got on the scoresheet with a stunning 30-yard volley that had to be tipped over the crossbar by Villa keeper Thomas Sorensen.
Meanwhile, Michael Carrick pulled the strings from the centre of the Tottenham midfield and snatched the winner with a close-range volley, while Xabi Alonso was at his elegant best as Liverpool edged out Bolton.
Craig Bellamy scored two excellent goals for Blackburn in the draw with Pompey; the first a stunning left-foot shot after a powerful run from the halfway line, and the second a turn-and-volley reminiscent of his manager, Mark Hughes, in his prime.
Sunday newspapers printed allegations of an enormous gambling debt run up by United superstar Wayne Rooney, but the brilliant youngster didn't seem to let the attention distract him as he led the Reds to victory, scoring one and setting up the second for Ji-Sung Park.
Didier Drogba completes the line-up after a powerful, determined, goal-scoring display in Chelsea's romp at Stamford Bridge, earning special praise from his 'Special' manager.
Our manager of the week is Sir Alex Ferguson, for leading his United side to their ninth successive league victory, breathing life in to the title race in the process.


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Fabulous Fall Backpacks
For those of you looking for a stylish and functional backpack as you (or your kids) head back to school, here are a few terrific recommendations...
Louis Vuitton's monogrammed all leather Montsouris Backpack is gorgeous. Not a lot of books will fit in here, but it's pretty nonetheless. It has drawstring closure and a buckled flap for extra safety. There is also a zippered outside pocket for easy access to your cell, blackberry, etc...Buy it here for $975.
Buy Prada Women's Backpack in Nero here. Bonus! It's on sale from $450 to $249. This sporty but very chic pack is made out of a special fabric called Vela which is a super strong and shiny type of Nylon. It has padded shoulder straps and the flap has a buckle closure and a magnetic snap.
For a few sportier and more practical picks,
This Jansport Bag got me through all of High School and College (the same one), it's extremely durable and perfect for the student or mom on the go! It's available in a variety of colors including Red, Green, Black and Blue. It sells for $39.90, here
Target's Xhilaration Backpack 3 Pocket Backpack sells for $16.99. It's available in black and red online or in stores. The three snap and zip pockets make this a very practical bag for everyday use. It is made from 100% cotton canvas and the lining is polyester.
and finally, I just had to include this one because it's pink! It's the OGIO Shifter and it sells for $53.99, Available here. Looks like the perfect school bag to me!


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A large contingent from the Newmarket Joggers took on the challenge of the Wibbly Wobbly Log Jog five-mile trail run in Brandon Country Park on Friday.
First over the line for the club, and 10th overall, was Kevin Connolly in a time of 35 minutes 17 seconds.
Next was Justin Long in 38.32 (32nd) with first lady for the club Nicky Chapman following in 39.38 (41st).
Other results: Lisa Redman (41.46, 60th); Michelle Barnes (46.28, 103rd); Chris Aylmer (47.28, 105th); Lynda McCormack (48.09, 112th) Mary Marsh (49.25, 124th & 2nd Fv60).
n Ramsey Road Runners hosted their annual Abbey 10k over a one-lap multi-terrain course on Sunday.
Martyn Taylor was the top Jogger, finishing in 39.45 and 24th overall.
Next home was Alex Cairns in 42.28 for 40th with Clive Purbrook the third Jogger over the line in 45.43 for 70th.
David Peck finished in 66.04 for 252nd and Isabel Vincente, the only woman representing the club, crossed the line in 67.07 for 254th.
n Members of the Junior Joggers have been out in force in recent weeks.
Jessica Norman, 12, won her 300m and 1,500m at Bottisham Village College, while Alex Swarbrick, 10, competed at the Cambridgeshire Open Development Meeting in St Ives and finished sixth in under-11 B-string 80m in a time of 13.54 then was third in the under-11 B-string 600m in 2.03.25.
Also on the podium at her school sports day was Ruby Davis, nine, who stole the show by finishing first in a quartet of events, including the 50m, 100m and 200m before going on to win the 50m hurdles


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According to GracieMag.com, Ricardo Almeida will be returning to the UFC after nearly a five-year absence.
According to the report, Almeida has signed a six-fight contract with the UFC and his first fight could be in early-2008:
On first hand for GRACIEMAG.com, Ricardo Almeida revealed that he has just signed a six fights contract with UFC. Cachorrao is considered one of the most talented fighters today. The comeback of Renzo Gracie's black belt to MMA was scheduled to happen early this month at Cage Fury Fighting Championship, but the event never came through. Therefore, Cachorrao negotiated a deal with Dana White.
Before signing, Almeida looked into five different offers. His first bout should be scheduled for the beginning of 2008. "The final goal of my return was to get to the UFC, so I thought why not go straight there at once," said Cachorrao to GRACIEMAG.com.
Almeida had been scheduled to make his comeback during last week's Cage Fury Fighting Championships card in Atlanta City but his return was put on hold after the event was canceled two weeks ago.
Almeida received his black belt in Jiu-Jitsu from Renzo Gracie and was a top MMA fighter before walking away from the sport at the top of his game in 2004. In addition to having competed for the UFC, Almeida has fought for both Pancrase and PRIDE.
He left the sport with an impressive 8-2 record that was built up with notable wins over such fighters as Ikuhisa Minowa, Kazuo Misaki, Nathan Marquardt, and Ryo Chonan.
If the report at GracieMag.com is true then this has to be considered the best piece of news that the UFC has offered fans in recent weeks. Almeida's comeback is not only an intriguing story but he could be a tremendous asset to the promotion's middleweight division.