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The Love Queen of the Amazon
By Cecile Pineda
Little, Brown, 255 pages, $19.95
Bay of All Saints and
The Love Queen of the Amazon
By Cecile Pineda
Little, Brown, 255 pages, $19.95
Bay of All Saints and
Every Conceivable Sin
By Ana Miranda
Viking, 305 pages, $21
The passionate backdrop of South America has produced some of modern literature`s most remarkable female characters: Vargas Llosa`s tantalizing Aunt Julia, Garcia Marquez`s iron-willed Fermina Diaz and Jorge Amado`s sultry Dona Flor.
In her third novel, ``The Love Queen of the Amazon,`` Cecile Pineda enhances this roster with a brilliantly drawn portrait of a Peruvian bawd, Ana Magdalena Figueroa. She is one of the few great Latin heroines not created by the male imagination, and Ana Magdalena`s amorous history provides a unique vehicle for the U.S.-born Pineda to look with a satirically feminine eye at the manners, mores and literature of all the Americas, to which ``Love Queen`` is a noteworthy addition.
In the Amazonian backwater of Malyerba (``Weed``), back when ``Potholes had not been invented (and) ruts were in plentiful supply,`` a woman so dour she`s known as ``The Pickle`` delivers a daughter while asleep in her bathtub. This circumstance of birth comes into play when Ana`s innate aquatic skills
(young ladies were never taught to swim) result in her banishment from convent school: Ana had hurled herself into the river to save a friend from drowning but was expelled because she emerged from it naked.
Ana longs for the handsome boatman Sergio Ballado, but family finances force her betrothal to a celebrated but fatuous writer, Don Federico Orgaz y Orgaz. If nothing about the courtship goes well-the don`s present of flowers, including a Venus Flytrap Gigantea, attracts swarms of bees to the Figueroa house-their wedding is an antic disaster that culminates in Ana Magdalena`s kidnapping by the convicts her husband had hired as caterers. But, in the ribald tradition that dates to ``Fanny Hill,`` Ana saves her own day and escapes to La Nymphaea, a famous brothel run by her grandaunt Ofelia, and into the arms of Sergio, to whom she surrenders her pre-verified virginity.
With her husband locked in his upstairs room to endlessly work and rework his novel, for which his wife`s fast-changing life soon becomes grist, the sexually awakened Ana returns to La Nymphaea, where her true calling surfaces. Soon after, she turns her parlor into a house of her own. But after Don Federico interrupts the festivities by descending the staircase with manuscript in hand, Ana decides to build a majestic establishment called La Confiteria (the candy store) where ``inventive specialties for discriminating tastes`` are supplied to an elite clientele.
Eventually, everyone wants a share of Ana`s action-the local police chief, the dictator called El Magnifico, even the gringos` International Financial Fund (IFF), which purports to offer Ana economic aid but only hopes to pillage her profits. Such pressures are enough to force Ana to unload her Confiteria to Cardinal Catafalco, the papal nuncio, for five times its gross, plus an annulment from Don Federico and the beatification of her mother, who was found crystallized in the bee honey she`d been collecting to support herself. And Ana is off again, swimming in the fast currents of the river that runs through her extraordinary life.
It is to Pineda`s credit that ``The Love Queen`` can be read and enjoyed on many levels. It is an uproarious sex farce that looks without leering at the appetites and foibles of both genders. It is a feminist work, too, that uses the macho ethic of Latin America to dramatize the servility forced upon females in many lands. It is satirically anti-clerical as well, presenting an inept and self-serving Church that does little to help the impoverished people of poor lands. Finally, ``The Love Queen`` is a modern allegory that attacks the sin of vice in its two most rampant forms-those of greed and oppression, which are as often sexual as they are economic.
Brazilian novelist Ana Miranda takes a far different approach in looking at the violence and oppression that plague her homeland-ironically the only major South American nation that did not have to fight a bloody war of independence (a decree separated it from Portugal in 1822).
Miranda looks far back in history to search out the genesis of Brazil`s current dilemmas. ``Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable Sin`` is set in 1683 in the coastal city of Bahia (now officially Salvador). A brutal war with the Dutch was over, as was the worst of the Spanish Inquisition. Brazil, she writes, ``was the image of paradise. Yet demons prowled there, luring souls to hell.``


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Catherine Banks
Catherine Banks was inspired to begin writing plays after she saw a production of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs.
Plays by Catherine Banks have been performed across Canada and include: Miss N' Me; It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; and Bitter Rose, which aired on Bravo! Canada. Her work is poetic, darkly humorous, courageous, and beautifully theatrical, and her characters—Lud in Three Storey, Ocean View and Clarence in Bone Cage—have been described as Atlantic Gothic. Bone Cage premiered in 2007, and went on to win the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2008. It Is Solved By Walking won the Governor General's Literary Award in 2012, was translated into Catalan by Tant per Tant, and was one of three Canadian plays to tour Catalonia in 2012. Catherine received Nova Scotia's Established Artist Award for her body of work in 2008. Her newest play, Miss N' Me, (premiered Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg 2015) is about a small-town hairdresser who steals her husband's plumbing van to drive to New York to meet the American rapper Missy Elliot. Catherine is currently adapting Ernest Buckler's novel The Mountain and the Valley for the stage and writing two new plays Downed Hearts and The King of Days. Catherine holds the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary) from Mount St. Vincent University.
Catherine's work is represented by:
Catherine Knights
Catalyst TCM Inc.
312-100 Broadview Ave
Toronto, ON M4M 3H3
p. 416-645-0935
c. 647-460-8413
(Photo Credit: Heidi Hamilton)
|Governor General's Literary Award for Literature
|Drama (English Language)
|Bone Cage
|Nova Scotia's 'Established Artist Award'
|(Awarded for a Body of Work)
|Theatre B.C. National Playwriting Special Merit Award
|Bone Cage
|Silver Medal - du Maurier National Play Competition
|Three Storey, Ocean View (included in an anthology "Bitter Rose / Three Storey, Ocean View")
|Shortlisted for the Carol Bolt Award for Playwrights
|Governor General's Award for Literature
|Drama (English)
|It Is Solved by Walking
|Nova Scotia Master Works Award
|It Is Solved by Walking
|Carol Bolt Award
|It Is Solved by Walking


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I wanted to have an interview with Kate Brady as soon as the notions for this site hit my brain. Known in print as Catherine Brady, Kate was the instructor for one of my favorite classes in my last year at USF–a course on the teaching of writing.
Kate's enthusiasm for and seriousness about the teaching of writing made an irreversible impression on me. In her own words from later in this interview, while taking Kate's course I found "I was relieved to learn that I could still learn."
Kate's work outside the classroom includes a Flannery O'Connor Award, appearances in editions of "Best American Short Stories," and publication in Zyzzyva, The Kenyon Review, and Other Voices. So, luckily for me this was a case of a teacher and a doer.
As with all subjects of my interviews, I'm thankful she took the time to converse with me. I always learn something in the process of asking the questions, reading or listening to the responses, and even the final formatting for the web site. My conversation with Kate was no different. Hope you all enjoy…
You once said "rejection is the rule of the day" for writers. Do you think rejection is a good thing for the art or the business of writing? Or is it just something that you have to accept?
It's probably a good idea that there is some selectivity—that not everyone who writes can readily publish the work—but rejection also takes a real toll on writers.
The reasons for rejection are increasingly difficult to decipher when publishing has shifted to a mass-market mentality. In the "good old days,??? editors were proud to have "mid-list??? books on their list, books that didn't necessarily sell very well but that made the publisher proud because of their perceived literary value.
What has been harder, as the market for books has shrunk and as editors have had to consider more intently the marketing potential of the book, is that good writers are receiving rejections more often, and the reason may be that the work fails in some significant way but the reason may also be that the editor can't sell the marketing department on the idea or the manuscript didn't suit the taste of a young editorial assistant who happened to be its first reader, and so on. So it's harder to learn from rejection, and you face rejection more often, both of which make it difficult for a writer to persist.
When did writing become an important thing for you?
Let me see… this is a bit like answering the question, "When did breathing first become important to you???? I know that once I learned to read, I began to write.
I recall my father giving me a binder from his workplace so that I could write stories in it, and I must have been about seven at the time. I started to think of myself as a writer, sort of, in high school, and in college, I thought of myself as someone who wanted to write. Thanks to some great teachers, I began to see that I could actually be a writer.
Elliot Anderson, then the editor of Triquarterly, was a teacher of mine at Northwestern University, and in my senior year he drew me aside and asked me what I would do next. Um… be a secretary? I just didn't feel I had the personal authority to declare myself a writer, and I grew up in an immigrant Irish Catholic family, where the only respectable work for a woman was to be a secretary or a school teacher, of course just temporarily until she got married and had babies. Which made me very ready to be told by someone else what to do. Elliot Anderson told me to apply to several specific writing programs, and I got in to one of them.
I first went to graduate school at Hollins College, which is a wonderfully weird place to earn a degree in writing, and then I spent three years getting an MFA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. I think I really became a serious writer at UMass. My first semester there, I was living on almost no income, and I had to choose between buying a winter coat or buying a typewriter. I bought the typewriter.
There is some mysterious point at which you transition from being someone who writes because you need to unburden yourself or indulge yourself or earn praise and become someone who (while maybe still needing all those things) writes for a reader, is conscious of the work as artifact that will be in someone else's hands and must be crafted carefully, carefully, into something beautiful and sound. Or as close as you're capable of coming to that.
I was especially inspired by two very different teachers: George Cuomo helped me to see writing as a job, a set of tasks you worked to become competent at, and the late Tamas Aczel taught by example and his own gentleness what it meant to have art as one's vocation.From George I learned that a fiction writer has to take care of the business of narrative: Where's the plot? What's the arc of change? George was bluntly literal minded about this and had little patience for airy experimentalism, and at the time, about all I knew how to do was write sentences I thought were pretty. This will date me, but at the time, there was a commercial for a fast-food burger chain, in which a tiny little old lady inspects a huge hamburger bun that hides a burger the size of a quarter and complains, "Where's the beef???? George was always complaining in this way about student manuscripts: Where's the beef? And I remember that as I was completing my thesis, Tamas pointed to a page on which I'd broken out an important sentence as a paragraph on its own, and he said, Now you are writing. He helped me to pay acute attention to all the ways in which language supports plot and characterization.
When and how did you get into teaching?
As a graduate student at UMass, I was a TA, teaching freshman composition courses. I'd always been interested in teaching, aside from any Irish assumptions about the job. Much later, I began to work again as a teacher; like many MFA grads today, I couldn't find full time work after I first graduated, at least not in the urban areas where I wanted to live. I started out as a volunteer, teaching creative writing to school kids and to pregnant teens and teens in group foster care. Then I taught adults who'd gone back to college to earn a bachelor's degree, which led to my being offered more traditional undergraduate courses, in composition and in creative writing. I also ran a writing center and tutored students. I began teaching in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco about thirteen years ago. For many years, I worked part-time at two or more different universities.
The variety of my teaching experiences taught me a great deal. Whether I was working with a student in the writing center or advising a graduate student on a thesis, the problems of composition existed along a continuum, and they are very much grounded in psychology—what motivates people, what enables them to judge their own work more objectively, what helps them to become revisers? A good teacher has to be receptive, not prescriptive: rather than impose a certain process on a student, you have to "listen??? to what her process actually is and value it before you can help her to build on that in ways that will bring her closer to a successful piece of writing. And then, of course, how do you teach people to think? That's a fascinating mystery. But not much intellectual transmission will take place unless teaching accounts for the psychological and social dimensions of learning.
One of the dilemmas of being able to teach writing seems to be that you need to be able to conquer two battles: getting published and the age-old dichotomy of needing to have experience as a teacher and not being able to get experience because you can't get a job. Do you have advice or wisdom in working through this dilemma?
It's just a very hard academic job market for people graduating with an MFA degree. Roughly several thousand people graduate from these programs every year, and about three hundred full-time jobs are advertised every year. It's very important to publish your work in order to get a full-time job, or even a part-time job teaching creative writing, at least in an urban area.
I think that my advice is borne out by my own job trajectory. Be willing to volunteer to gain experience—and there are so many places, such as schools and prisons, where your presence will be greatly valued. People often overlook the many nonacademic settings in which you can teach writing, such as the Writing Salon in the Bay Area, and gain valuable experience. If you really want to teach, you'll hunt out opportunities like these. You should also be willing to work at any part-time teaching job even ultimately related to your goal of teaching creative writing. If you really like teaching and you really like people, you'll find a lot of satisfaction in teaching writing in any setting. Of course, all this presumes you will be able to live on next to nothing as you acquire the experience you need in order to qualify for a full-time job.
The question is, why do this at all? It's a privilege to teach creative writing. Teaching forces me to keep being a student, to keep reading carefully and thoughtfully, and it imposes the task of imparting love for this task to my students. Teaching is like writing in that you have to do it for love, not money. And I get excited about going to class, excited about what the students are going to say about this story or that, about how beautiful the form of the short story is, about what I might try out on the students and whether it will fly.
I tend to organize and organize, but I also try to counter that. On the day of class, I spend a few hours coming up with a new idea, something spontaneous but also something that I hope will be inventive, not just the standard, "Can you identify the significant images in this work???? Teaching is an art form, and any art form is fundamentally about serious play, so I try to think about that when I'm planning for class. I also feel that teaching grants me a chance to share in a community that is at heart idealistic: whatever hardships there are in publishing one's work, the experience of reading literature and writing honestly and as well as one can is idealistic, and it's a very fortunate thing to have a job where this is so.
There's a crotchety truism floating around that says you can't teach people to write. What's your response to that?
This criticism is often leveled at MFA programs, with the further criticism that whatever it is they DO teach their students, the outcome is a conformist, homogeneous product. I think that's a lot of hooey. No one expects artists in any form to be able to become competent practitioners without many years of training and persistent effort, so why should writers be any different? Does anyone really believe that so many individuals can be formed so forcefully by graduate school that they convert to writing that fits a preshaped mold? I think the issue is simply that more people are pursuing a degree and then attempting to publish their work—so there may be more manuscripts on the market, but probably the same small proportion of them are truly exceptional.
I'd also have to say that my direct personal experience of how much people can learn in a writing program not only counters this notion but does so in a moving, even an awe-inspiring way. Having watched many classes of students spend about three years in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco, I can attest to how much they've grown as writers in their time as students. Partly, one grows as a writer simply from the chance to participate in a community that values the endeavor–planting a seed in fertile soil rather than on barren rock. And partly, one grows as a writer because serious close reading of literature and consistent, committed feedback on one's own evolving manuscripts does lead to improvement.
You can't teach a person to have a singular vision of any depth–you can't make an artist from a do-it-yourself kit. But you can teach the tools of the craft to someone with artistic potential, who will devour whatever you have to offer. You can also help students to understand how technique is intimately bound up with vision. The visual artist Sue Coe once said, "Technique is the test of sincerity.???
You've mentioned in a prior interview that you've unsuccessfully attempted to quit writing a few times in the past. What keeps you coming back to writing?
Necessity. I think Robert Hass once spoke of the image as a means to capture experience and hold it still, when otherwise time just flows without stopping, washing away memories and sensations. Fundamentally for me, writing is about the image, and writing is about that effort to hold on to experience—to make it mean something, to defy time and forgetfulness. I don't quite know how else to feel that I'm actually alive, in the world, trying to make meaning. Though I'm sure there are alternatives, I just never took to them. Writing is also such a satisfyingly demanding intellectual task–it requires all you understand theoretically about your art form, a cultivated receptiveness to your own subconscious, the capacity to feel as well as to imagine. Even compared to other kinds of writing, creative writing uses far more of your whole self and your whole mind.
I've wanted to quit a number of times, mostly because for years I kept meeting with failure when I tried to publish my work, and I was tired of not being successful at something. Here are your peers from college, getting jobs and getting promotions and gaining credibility in their field, and here you are, holing up in your room and hunching over your desk when you could be making some kind of gain in the world instead. There's the feeling too that it's just not useful to be doing this.
When my kids were little, I took a course or two in a graduate program in psychology, thinking I might become a therapist. Then I got an idea for a novel and remembered how wonderfully, fully consuming writing was for me. Another time I tried to quit just because I couldn't take more rejection and it had really become painful to write. I didn't know what to do with myself, so I wrote a book for my daughter, thinking that didn't count. But it kept me writing, and I eventually started back up with my own work.
I still think about quitting. One of the hardest things about writing, for me, is that you're always haunted by disappointment. I've never written anything as well as I've intended to write it, and ironically, the impulse to quit stems from the same place as the impulse to persist—the feeling of having failed at a piece, and being tormented by that, so that you either have to throw in the towel or try again, in case you can get any closer to that beautiful thing you've envisioned.
For those of us who would love to teach but don't—or can't—do you recommend any ways to keep our minds strong and prepared for the main event when we do get up behind the podium?
Finding classes to take, or forming writing groups or book groups, is one way to sustain the discipline of seriously thinking about your craft. It really matters to continue in some way to have a world in which reading and writing continue to feel central.
Though I wrote nearly every day for my job, I didn't write a word of fiction for about eight months after completing the program at USF. Is there a typical after-the-MFA experience that you've encountered?
I think the let-down after you earn the degree is very common. You've achieved something when you complete a thesis, yet it's probably not yet a publishable work, and it's almost certainly not yet published. And now you are alone in the cold, hard world, absent the support you get from a community of people who think it matters that you write. It's really helpful to sustain a writing group with your cohorts from your graduate experience, if you can, but it's also important to be patient about fallow periods. Probably all writers have them. And the writers who sit down at their desk anyway, gnashing their teeth, insane with boredom and frustration, are the writers who'll write something again.
You usually work in short fiction, but you're currently writing a biography. How has working in nonfiction changed the way you write?
The biography is about molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, and it's also an attempt to describe the intellectual life of a research scientist and the social environment of a research lab. I brought a lot of ignorance to the project, and I was relieved to learn that I could still learn, trying to understand rudimentary concepts of molecular biology in order not just to describe experiments but to write them in a way that would convey the flavor of scientific opportunism and adventure.
A biography is a novel-like narrative: it requires a dramatic arc. One of the intriguing aspects of writing nonfiction was learning how to discern from a welter of facts what that dramatic arc might be and then how to write the book so it possessed this shapeliness. Fictional impulses take over, and you're constantly being tugged back by the immovability of the actual facts. Often, I'd think I saw a particular narrative arc or conflict and have to revise my notion in the face of the facts (and the living subject of the biography, who could contradict me). But the facts would, if given their due, lead me to a different or more complex notion of conflict and change than the one I had started out with. It's just like writing fiction in that way—you learn from the writing itself and revising is analogous to digging down through layer after layer of subtext and nuance. With revision, you become more able to suggest that richness beneath the surface. I think writing the biography taught me something about how to approach novel writing. It also left me ravenous for the freedom of fiction writing, and I began a novel soon after I finished the biography with a stronger sense of the through-line of plot than I think I've had before.


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Vatican City - The pope has approved a miracle attributed to Pope John Paul II's intercession and set May 1 as the date for the beloved pontiff to be beatified.Pope Benedict XVI declared in a decree on Friday that the cure of a French nun who suffered from Parkinson's disease was miraculous, the last step needed for the beatification.The May 1 ceremony is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Rome to celebrate one of the most popular popes of all time. A second miracle is needed for John Paul to be made a saint.Benedict put John Paul on the fast track to possible sainthood just weeks after he died in 2005, responding to the chants of "Santo Subito!" or "Sainthood immediately!" that erupted during his funeral.
oh please... I cannot believe that in this day and age people still cling to such utter rubbish... lets see him "cure" and amputee! Utter horse manure!
And I would dare to add that I'd like to follow this "cured" person's life after the event...
Interesting to note that many other "miracle cures" claims do not follow up on the patients. I've read about a cancer cure that claimed to heal all their patients, and yet most died within 3 years of their "treatment". The others within the following 5 years.
For all we know, the person in question was most probably undergoing medical treatment. If successful, then surely the doctors in question should be made the miracle workers, and not the bloke in robes who prayed over her?
POMP JOHN PAUL 11 ... Getting jiggy with lil boyz sin 400ad
Pete Tong's back!!
you betcha!
Maybe there is a God. These child rapists are strong evidence that Satan exists, so just maybe...?
Not bad for someone that sold Zyklon B Cyanide Gas to the Nazi's during WW II so that the Nazi's could gas innocent men, women and children. And this same man that knowingly sold this viscous material to the Germans had the audacity to enter into religion. Did his conscious bother him? No – he realised selling religion was more lucrative than selling chemicals. What a farce!
IG Farben Chemical Company.
In the early 1940s, that company employed a Polish chemist and salesman who sold cyanide gas, Zyklon B and Malathion to the Nazis for extermination of groups of people in Auschwitz.
After the war the salesman joined the Catholic church and was ordained a priest.
In 1958 he became Poland's youngest bishop and after Pope John Paul I's mysterious death, the ex-cyanide gas salesman Karol Wojtyla was elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II in October 1978.
In March 2000, he publicly apologized not for his war effort, but for the wickedness of the Christian religion. The plea for forgiveness also sought to pardon the use of 'violence in the service of truth' an often used fragile and treoubling referenece to the Inquisition.
The apology read by the Pope was the result of four years of work by a panel of 28 theologians and scholars and was by far the most sweeping act by a leader of a major religion.
On few occasions have ecclesiastical authorities ever acknowlegdegd the faults or abuses of which they themselves were guilty. There was concern that the apology was a major theological miscalculation that could undermine the Pope's weakening authority and the unanswered question posed by the international media was --
'In whose name was the Pope asking for forgiveness?'
They prayed to a man and got healed! That is idolatry!
They must go to hell!


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text: Hi all, I am about to purchase an '03 Sonic Blue Cobra coupe private party. It is mostly stock. The owner has some uninstalled items he will throw in with the deal (benefits of a Military to Military handshake and smile deal). The car is very clean and very well maintained and I will run a carfax on it when I get the VIN. I have searched the forums and have not found out some basic info on the '03 Cobra. What are the stock injector sizes? What is the stock gear ratio?3.55? What is the stock upper pulley size? Will any mustang 8.8 ring and pinion fit in a Cobra IRS diff? What can the stock fuel pump handle/what is its rating/are there one or two? What size is the stock MAF and does it need to be larger for upped boost/injectors?(personal experiences on this one) Will the stock computer safely let the car run more boost with an aftermarket exhaust or will it go lean? Is the Kenne Bell Boost a Pump a solid add on or a waste of time? Sorry for all the questions, thanks for any answers you all might be able to lend me. Thanks, Mac


text: I attended a Vanderkoi (sp) seminar a few years ago and we went around the room and each contractor shared their net profit on a per job basis. The average was 18 to 22% (again, per job). And that's about where we are with our hardscapes, sometimes 25%, sometimes 30%, but most of the time 18-22%. LOL - so this guy claiming "30%" is just hilarious!!!!! It would be cheaper for me to not do the work at all (which we're not) and take the guy golfing for a day. .


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The Accountant General (Accounts and Entitlement) in Bihar is build under the guideline of Comptroller and Auditor General of India CAG which had approval from Supreme Audit Instauration of India SAI. The AG department of Bihar is established through the articles of 149 and 151 as per the Constitution of India. The department is responsible to handle all kinds of accounting related works in all over state. AG Bihar is the organization which holds and maintain all transitions by the state government. The department has four parts in their body. Three with Deputy Accountant General Department for other bodies and one is for Internal Test Audit.
About Accountant General AG BiharThe Bihar is place where most of people belong from Angika, Bhojpur, Magadh and Mithiila Regions. The state is distributed in 9 parts which has the capital Patna along with the biggest city in state. 38 districts comes under the Bihar state governance where right now Mr. Nitish Kumar is Chief Minister from JDU party. Right now the literacy ratio is too down where total literacy ratio is 64% which stands in 28th place. In literacy 74% male and 54% females are giving their part also most of the population use here Hindi and Urdu Language.
More than 40% citizens are working here with state govt and AG Bihar department is providing finance related facilities to them. In the organizational chart the AG Bihar Department works in four parts of Accountant General as per following:
- Deputy Accountant General of Accounts & VLC
This department handles all kinds of works of Accounts Compilation, Finance and Appropriation Accounts, Treasury Inspection along with Works & Forest accounts for State govt of Bihar.
- Deputy Accountant General of Admin / Works / GE
This Department maintains all works of Administration, Cash related, Records for all Employees, POA, Legal Cell, and Confidential Cell. This departments also handle pension related work for retire employees.
- Deputy Accountant General Gazetted Entitlement
The Gazetted department is responsible to locate the work of issue of pay slips to their employees, making pre-audit bills and handling all residuary fund works for government of Bihar.
To maintain all these functions the department has made a website www.ag.bih.nic.in where you can check all information of ag Bihar and get the other works by website apart from these.
Works of Official Website www.ag.bih.nic.in Accountant General AG BiharThe official website plays an important role for state govt and for there employees. The government service worker who are working for various departments in Bihar are able to get various kinds of finance facilities by the finance department.
One of the part by Accountant General AG Bihar is to handle and maintain the General Provident Fund and Pension related works. The AG Bihar and the organization where right now the employee is working provides an employee ID and a password to check your General Provident fund. Apart from these the ag also works to monitor your gpf account and handle all kinds of transactions by your gpf account in state. The dept also works for those employees who got the retirement. The AG Bihar provides pension facilities to them through their same gpf account.
The Accountant General Bihar is responsible to take all the part of treasuries in state and provide their facilities to all departments working employees. Citizens who had completed their 1 year of service with state govt are able to apply for their gpf account and the ag department will provides you these all.
How to check GPF Account Status & Statement in Accountant General AG BiharHowever we already know now that the ag bihar had made website to handle all these works www.ag.bih.nic.in. The department has made a different part to check the GPF account information which has their own domain with the name of e-GPF and the website is e-gpf.bihar.gov.in. This website is designed by NIC and the accounts department of Bihar. Here we are providing you step by step process to check your GPF account status, credit, missing balance, debit and to statement.
=> First you need to check the page of e-GPF via the e-gpf.bihar.gov.in page where you will get the option of Login Section
=> Select the user type first from pull down menu here you will get two options User / Admin if you want to check GPF account select the option of User.
=> Now enter you ID and fill the password after that click to the login button and enter to your gpf page.
=> Now inside of your account you will get the option to check your balance click on that and check your balance of whole month.
=> In the gpf account online you can also get the information and can download the statement of your gpf transaction. The statement is available for your complete annual or can get the month wise as well.
=> Here you will also get the credit and debit transactions by you through the gpf account online in Bihar.
=> Also you can get the details of your missing fund which you hand deposited but didnt have yet.
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A typically wheezing effort from Jones, who is now averaging an abysmal 3.04 yards on his 107 carries this season. As has become the norm in the Chiefs backfield, Jones, Dexter McCluster and Jackie Battle were more-or-less used in a "hot hand" rotation today, with each receiving at least nine carries and never "taking over" for any prolonged stretch. Unless you're a McCluster owner in a deeper PPR format, it's a situation to avoid in fantasy leagues.


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Deputy Principal Chief Joe Crittenden and Tribal Councilors Lee Keener and Dick Lay join Principal Chief Bill John Baker and Tribal Councilor Cara Cowan Watts to honor veteran Brown (center).
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation honored two veterans with the Cherokee Medal of Patriotism during the September Tribal Council meeting.
William Brown, 57, of Tulsa, and Kelli Lynn Ross-Guy, 40, of Tahlequah, received a medal and plaque Sept. 16 from Principal Chief Bill John Baker and Deputy Chief Joe Crittenden, acknowledging their service to the country.
"It's a great honor to serve my country," Ross-Guy said. "Being awarded this medal is obviously a great demonstration of the tribe's support for military service members, and specifically our Natives, who are going out to serve our country."
Ross-Guy was born Aug. 17, 1973, to Robert Bruce Ross IV and Cecilia Bland in Tahlequah. Ross-Guy enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1993 and completed basic training in Parris Island, S.C. During her 20 years of service, she was stationed at several U.S. Marine Camps and deployed to Okinawa, Japan, and Al Taqaddum, Iraq. Ross-Guy retired with the rank of master sergeant in August. She received awards, including the Meritorious Service Medal and Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal.
Ross-Guy earned a bachelor's degree in business management and is currently employed by Oklahoma State University at the Cherokee County Cooperative Extension Office in Tahlequah. She has one son, Austin Ross Guy, who attends Tahlequah High School.
William Brown was born Oct. 25, 1955, to Margie White Brown and John Wesley Brown, Sr., in Claremore. Brown enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1973 and completed basic training in San Diego. He trained as an administrative clerk and unit diary clerk at Camp LeJeune, N.C. Brown received an honorable discharge in 1976. After he returned home, Brown earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern State University. He currently lives in Tulsa. Brown has two children.
Each month the Cherokee Nation recognizes Cherokee service men and women for their sacrifices and as a way to demonstrate the high regard in which all veterans are held by the tribe. Native Americans, including Cherokees, are thought to have more citizens serving per capita than any other ethnic group, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. To nominate a veteran who is a Cherokee Nation citizen, please call 918-453-5541 or 800-256-0671, ext. 5541.
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The inter-Korean military talks in February followed the predictable pattern of engagement with North Korea. The cycle that has played out countless times before has been:
1. North Korean provocation (e.g. threat, military attack, or being caught violating an agreement);
2. U.S. or South Korea threatens to respond with sanctions, isolation, or withholding of benefits;
3. North Korea blames others for its actions and escalates tensions by threatening retaliation;
4. China calls for restraint by all sides;
5. Pyongyang subsequently claims it is willing to return to negotiations or the status quo;
6. North Korea is praised for lowering the tensions that it previously raised;
7. Euphoric expectations that the resumption of dialogue will lead to breakthroughs;
8. Eventual collapse of negotiations generates post-meeting depression. North Korea, China, and progressives blame the failure on U.S. or South Korean "hardline" policy or lack of flexibility;
9. Relative calm until the next North Korean provocation.
The South-North Korean talks were driven in part by perceptions that the United States has become more willing to resume bilateral dialogue with North Korea. Seoul may either have felt direct pressure from Washington to resume its own dialogue with Pyongyang or assessed it was in South Korea's interest not to perceived as being left behind by Washington. Doing so would have created impressions of rifts in the alliance over North Korea policy.
North Korea Changes Tactics
Pyongyang used its annual New Year's Day joint editorial to initiate a new charm offensive. But as the inter-Korean military talks showed, even when North Korea is reaching out, its behavior is more offensive than charming. The shift in tactics is consistent with standard North Korean negotiating behavior of alternating between provocations and seemingly conciliatory behavior to attain its goals.
Pyongyang realizes it must lower tensions on the Korean Peninsula and appear to be a reasonable negotiating partner. In order to resume dialogue with Washington, Pyongyang understands it must fulfill one of the Obama administration's preconditions by first reaching out to South Korea. Other North Korean foreign policy objectives include: undermine new U.S. and South Korean efforts to impose additional sanctions for the attack on Yeonpyeong Island and revelation of the uranium facility at Yongbyon; weaken international resolve to maintain existing punitive measures; and gain diplomatic and economic benefits.
As the collapsed military talks showed, little progress is expected from renewed dialogue since:
1. North Korea shows no inclination to alter its behavior, address South Korean security concerns or implement its Six-Party Talks denuclearization commitments;
2. South Korea is unwilling to abandon its requirement that North Korean apologize for the two military attacks last year and provide evidence of willingness to make progress in nuclear negotiations;
3. Few experts in or outside of government believe North Korea is serious about making progress;
4. North Korea's provocations in 2009 even as the Obama administration was trying to initiate dialogue caused a belated epiphany that Pyongyang, and not U.S. policy under Bush, was to blame for the North Korean nuclear problem.
China Not a Factor
Contrary to depictions by the White House and some media, the mid-January U.S.-China summit did not induce the Koreas to announce their agreement to resume dialogue less than a day later. The initial kabuki dance preparations for military-to-military talks had been gestating since North Korea's New Year's editorial.
The joint summit statement was bland, with grueling negotiations required to forge even the minimalist paragraph on North Korea which eventually emerged. Certain aspects of the summit statement were overplayed, e.g. that China "expressed concern" about North Korea's HEU effort. In fact, Beijing maintained its value-neutral position, refusing to condemn Pyongyang or promise to take any tangible steps to redress the issue.
China has shown itself to be part of the problem rather than the solution. Beijing's actions have undermined international efforts to resolve the Korean crisis. China refused to accept clear, compelling, and comprehensive evidence about North Korea's unprovoked acts of war in 2010, obstructed efforts to penalize Pyongyang for yet another violation of UN resolutions, and criticized the U.S. and South Korea for taking steps to prevent further North Korean attacks.
Uncertain Path Ahead
It remains to be seen whether the collapse of the inter-Korean talks will deter Washington from reaching out to Pyongyang. The Obama administration increasingly sees the lack of any contact at all with North Korea to be a detriment. However, moving forward with U.S.-North Korean meetings prior to fulfilling South Korean preconditions is a path fraught with danger.
The Obama administration has painted itself into the same corner as the Bush administration in refraining from any engagement for so long that any dialogue will appear to be a major policy reversal. This could be managed with proper public diplomacy. The greater problem, however, is that it appears there is no U.S. strategy beyond simply believing that dialogue will prevent, or at least deter, North Korean provocations.
Bruce Klingner is a Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation.
First appeared in The Daily NK


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Q: why should u root my g note 2?
A: wireless tethering works now, also: 5 words: every app in multi window. you can have every app in multi window action with a deodexed Rom and you can back up every app with titanium backup.
Q: how do I root my phone
A: I'm not going to go into this since there are many options, ways and since it changes so rapidly. look in the android development section of our phone's forum for the best option for you. Just do an in-forum search for root.
Q:What is the difference between the firmwares/what does all this talk about LJ1/LJC/LK8/MA5/MA7/MC2 mean?
A: different firmware names are usually associated with updates to the stock system files. they are named after the modem (or radio software) and usually bring improvements or changes to the phone capabilities or bugs. there is usually different root methods for different firmware. this phone came stock with LJ1, got updated to LJC soon after to include multi-window and extended toggles support, and recently (as of the last time this post was edited) we got a leak of LK8 which brings minor stability and Bluetooth fixes. MA5's leak was a bit useless as nothing seemed to change. MA7 brought 4.2 and "Google wallet support" more on why it's in quotes in the wallet question. MC2 was supposed top bring bug fixes for many things including wallet but most can agree the wallet problem persists.
Q:My Wi-Fi turns on sporadically. how do I fix it?
A: Turn off connection optimizer under settings-wireless networks-more settings-mobile networks-connections optimizer
Q: How do I unlock the bootloader?
A: No need, only the Verizon one comes locked
Q: How do I draw on pictures?
A: In gallery go into the picture itself then press the menu button then tap on draw on image this flips over the image and you can draw on the back. for the front see the next question
Q: How do I draw on any app like in the commercial?
A: take a screenshot WITH THE PEN by holding the pen button and the screen for a few seconds it will take you to the screenshot to draw on it
Q: Is there any way to wireless tether?
A: now there is! go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1988735 and install that apk. it works with lj1 and ljc and on rooted and with busybox
Q: How do I get music controls on the lock screen?
A: you can't get them directly on the stock lock screen if you're not using security (it works with pin, patter, etc but not swipe), but it will let you pull down the notification bar to use the music controls that show up there. if you REALLY want it directly in the lock screen you'll need a lock screen replacement app that allows it
Q: My pen touches when coming into hovering range/it's too hard to click with it
A: there is two ways to fix this.
1. the crude more dangerous way is to smack it on a hard surface until it works for you (which I don't recommend)
2. the second is to adjust the potentiometer on the pen. pop the button off the pen and turn the screw closest to the tip clockwise for pens that touch while hovering and counterclockwise for pens that are too hard to tap with. trust me this is really easy.
Q: How do I turn on/off 4g? my old phone had a notification bar toggle!
A: go to "settings-wireless networks-more settings-mobile networks-network mode" and select "cdma" to turn off 4g, or select "cdma/lte" for 4g on
Q: does s-beam work with non-samsung phones that have nfc?
A: partially. if the file is small enough it will go through if not it takes the receiving device to a broken pay store link
Q: does Google wallet work?/why doesn't Google wallet work?
A: it's not officially supported before MA7 , but you can enable it, follow these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2037416. After MA7 it's supposed to work naively without hacking but a lot of people especially those rooted it's been nothing but pain. try using it straight from the market and if it doesn't work seek individualized support from the q&a section
Q: no flash on jelly bean?
A: YouTube and most up to date websites are updating to html5. if you still find websites that tell you you're not good enough for not having flash then download it from blapkmarket.com or aptoide
Q: How do I take screenshots?
A: there are three ways with this phone:
1. with the pen: hold the pen's button and the screen for about 3 seconds. only this one takes you straight to drawing on it.
2. with the buttons: hold the home and power button together for about 3 seconds.
3. with the touch screen: swipe your entire palm from left to right on the screen, like you're cleaning all of it off. it's a bit tricky but play around with it you'll get it right every time with practice. *this one needs to be enabled under motion settings*
Q: why does my phone get so hot while charging?
A: the phone will get hotter while charging on low battery from the stock charger because it will try to take as much current as it can and the stock charger can provide 2 amps other charges don't give as much power to the phone so it won't be as hot. but don't worry, the phone itself monitors the battery's temperature and will shut off completely if it gets too hot for its own (or your) safety.
Q: How do I root the latest update/update if I'm root?
A:LK8/MA5/MA7/MC2 needs stock firmware to update as of the last time this post was edited.
Q: how do I get more apps on multi window?
A: get on the latest deodexed Rom by getting a custom recovery then flash this mod (which works in MC2 even though it didn't say so) http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1982452 which initially dumps every app into multi window.
Q: How do i get pop up browser (or another browser) back?
A: go to settings> applications and select the browser that had the default url handling and clear it's defaults, once you do that you should get asked which browser you want every time
Q: How do I skip music tracks/pause without turning on my phone?
A: while you can't just hold the volume buttons like in other phones the end call button on the stock headphones can pause and skip tracks. just click I once to pause, twice rapidly to skip
Q: can i use my mhl adapter and usb otg at the same time?
A: not with simple accessories, but there are ways around this.
1. the dock can do this (but it's always out of stock)
2. use Bluetooth: set up your mhl adapter and have Bluetooth peripherals like ps3 controllers, mice and keyboards.
3. use the Wi-Fi to your advantage: set up your usb otg and stream with allshare, set up an ftp from your phone. or set up your mhl adapter and access your computer files through wifi ftp
4. you can get it done with some tricky wiring, soldering and maybe a bit of cunning. but if you are someone who could get this done with instructions you won't need instructions to figure it out. all you need to know is USB otg pin out that mhl needs power to the phone and the adapter and that diodes and resistors make your apparatus too heavy and ugly and you might as well just buy a dock
Q: how do I change what the physical buttons do?
A:to change the back and menu keys just change it's value on /system/usr/keylayout/generic.kl back is 158 menu is 139. to edit what the hard press buttons do you have to change them BOTH IN GENERIC.KL AND GPIO-KEYS.KL or else your phone will freeze every time you press these, home is 172 in both files, volume down is 114 in both files, volume up is 115 in both files and power is 116 in both files.
I found this specially useful in combination with the soft keys below to make home button a native search button
Q: How do I enable soft keys and/or disable hard and capacitance keys?
A: simple tweak:
to add soft (in the screen) keys follow this:
comment out lines on /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl, like so...
# key 158 BACK # key 139 MENU # key 172 HOME
# key 172 HOME WAKE
to revert disabled hardware keys take out the #s
Q: Can I flash an international or At&t ROM?
A: This may work one day, but it does NOT work now. If you flash another variant ROM right now you WILL lose data. If you flash radios from another variant you will lose your baseband. The fix for anyone not understanding this is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1997150
Again, if you don't know what you are doing, DO NOT TRY THIS OR ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
IF someone how knows what they are doing figures out a safe method to do this, they will post it, till then I would suggest DO NOT ROGUE FLASH OR ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO ROGUE FLASH.
A: the only method I have tried is this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=35672586
although I can't speak for its reliability as I have only tried it once out of curiosity.


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1Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne. The scroll had writing on both sides. The scroll was kept closed with seven seals. 2And I saw a powerful angel. The angel called in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" 3But there was no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth who could open the scroll or look inside it. 4I cried and cried because there was no one who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. 5But one of the elders said to me, "Don't cry! The Lion ˻(Christ)˼ from Judah's family group has won the victory. He is David's descendant. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." 6Then I saw a Lamb standing in the center of the throne with the four living things around it. The elders were also around the Lamb. The Lamb looked like it had been killed. It had seven horns and seven eyes. These are the seven spirits of God that were sent into all the world. 7The Lamb came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One sitting on the throne. 8After the Lamb took the scroll, the four living things and the 24 elders bowed down before the Lamb. Each one of them had a harp. Also they were holding golden bowls full of incense. These bowls of incense are the prayers of God's holy people. 9And they all sang a new song ˻to the Lamb˼: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were killed; and with your blood ˻(death)˼ you bought people for God from every tribe, language, race of people, and nation. 10You made these people to be a kingdom, and you made these people to be priests for our God. And they will rule on the earth." 11Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels. The angels were around the throne, the ˻four˼ living things, and the elders. There were thousands and thousands of angels—there were 10,000 times 10,000. 12The angels said with a loud voice: "˻All˼ power, wealth, wisdom and strength belong to the Lamb (Jesus) that was killed. He is worthy to receive honor, glory, and praise!" 13Then I heard every living thing that is in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. I heard every thing in all these places. I heard them all saying: "All praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever to the One that sits on the throne and to the Lamb!" 14The four living things said, "Amen!" And the elders bowed down and worshiped.
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The "Today" show reigns in the mornings. After celebrating their 16th year as the undisputed #1 morning show, they begin year 17 with another win. But compared to the same week last year all three shows were down in Total Viewers and only "Good Morning America" showed growth in A25-54 viewers. "Today" was down -11% and CBS' "Early Show" was down -15% in the crucial demo.
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Bi-Bi goes to the park. Beginning and end of story.
Bi-Bi, a vaguely clover-shaped, clownlike creature with clunky orange feet, goes to the park, where there are butterflies and squirrels and all sorts of things to do, but Bi-Bi doesn't really do much of anything within the static, one-dimensional landscape. The app presents more like a student design project or experiment in sound-effect creation than an actual storybook for the toddler set. It's simply illustrated and offers tappable action, but without any narration options, index or any learning component, simplicity for simplicity's sake isn't much of a reward. The most unfortunate part of this trip to the park is the complete lack of a storyline and the clunky narrative. The app begins: "Hello Bi-Bi! We are at the park! So many toys here....There's even a little snail with us!" and goes downhill. "It's funny slip down in the red trunk of the elephant!" will set readers to scratching their heads. Taps produce tepid animations and brief bursts of sound, but interactions do nothing to extend the nonstory.
Take your toddlers to Axel Scheffler's Farm instead. (iPad storybook app. 6 mos.-3)


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The second-generation FLIR One thermal camera is now available for iOS devices. Unlike the first-gen FLIR one which came as an iPhone 5/5s case, this standalone accessory attaches to your iPhone or iPad via a Lightning connector — and offers you 4x better resolution in the process.
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Poem of the Week by Carl Dennis
By Carl Dennis
Don't let the quarreling near the end
Convince you the breakup would have been predictable
From the beginning to somebody more insightful.
Remember that any suggestion back then
Of the actual outcome would have been swept aside
By the evidence that the joys you shared
With your beloved would prove enduring:
The joy on workdays of cooking supper together,
The joy on weekends of rambling the woods
With no agenda.
The silences weren't a sign of holding back,
They were calm and easy, your thoughts
Drifting away on a stream of association
And then returning with a sprig of woodland flowers.
Here, this is for you, each said, and meant it.
And remember the climb you loved, to the ridge,
The wide view of the valley that left you both
Feeling open to whatever the day might offer.
Don't diminish those moments now by wondering
What you could have done to make them last
Had you been attentive enough to cherish them.
You were happy back then, remember,
And knew you were happy.
What you need now isn't the work
Of regret but the work of gratitude.
And all it takes to be grateful is to feel grateful.
Go back to the beginning and embrace its bounty.
Beneath the story of cause and consequence
Another story is pointing another way.
CARL DENNIS will read from his new book of poems, "Another Reason" (Penguin Books), at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Butler Mansion, 672 Delaware Ave. (at North Street) as sponsored by the University at Buffalo English Department. A Buffalo resident and professor of English (now emeritus) at UB since 1966, he is the author of 12 full-length collections including "Signs and Wonders" (1979), "The Outskirts of Troy" (1988), "Ranking the Wishes" (1997) and "Practical Gods" (2001), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2002. In 2000, he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement in American poetry by the Poetry Foundation. This is the concluding poem of his new book.


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Gulf Islands National Seashore history is filled with stories of European exploration, Geronimo, wars, and people that came to the Gulf Coast to settle. Did you know that live oak trees were used to build the USS Constitution? Check out the links below and get lost in a good story!
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"Rut Hillarp was born 100 years ago this past Friday. She is one of the most unfairly marginalized authors in Swedish literary history. It's as if we refuse to allow ourselves to discover just how damned excellent a poet she is." — Bernur, February 23, 2014. "Her lyrical prose is fantastic: so beautiful, erotic, dark, perceptive and intense." — Swedish novelist Therese Bohman… Read more →
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When Readux Books publisher Amanda DeMarco told me about their upcoming onex series, I had to submit something. Ideally a forgotten or little known Swedish eroticist or a writer deeply engaging with sex and power. Someone like Else Jersualem, whose 1908 novel The Red House examines prostitution and moral hypocrisy in Vienna through the eyes of a woman who grew up in brothels. It was a… Read more →


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Union boss Mickey Kasparian responds to deposition specifics
Dorian Hargrove 1:30 p.m., Nov. 20
It's 7:15. Our annual Craig Noel Award ceremony begins in 15 minutes, and no one's seen Brian Mackey. He'll receive the "Actor of the Year" award - for a truly impressive body of work: Ion Theatre's Bash: The Latter Day Plays; Ion's The Woolgatherer; San Diego Rep's In the Next Room (the vibrator play); and Cygnet's The Glass Menagerie. And he's nowhere to be seen.
I used to be a teacher and one of the thrills of being a theater critic, similar to teaching, is watching actors develop. Brian hasn't just grown, he's sprouted: in depth, versatility, and nuance. His Gentleman Caller in Glass Menagerie was the best I've seen (among umpteen).
Now it's 7:20. Pam Kragen, indefatigable President of the Critics Circle, comes backstage, breathless. Still no Brian.
"He RSVP'd, right?" True, but he never signed in with Fred Tracey and Jessica Padilla at the front desk.
What to do? Find Claudio (Raygoza) or Glenn (Paris) - artistic and producing directors of Ion Theatre - and find out!
Several critics wend their way back through the incoming crowd - of 500 - headed toward their seats at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, in search of Raygoza and Paris.
It's 7:25. Carol Davis, who writes for examiner.com/san_diego and sdjewishworld.com (and who, in a longstanding tradition, helps load me into a tux every year), comes backstage: "Brian's home with the flu."
Oh great! A gaping hole in the centerpiece of the ceremony. Now what?
Have Claudio accept for Brian? And call him on a cell phone?
Well sure, um...(I mean, think about it: we have the most sophisticated theater audience in town, and we're ad libbing???)
Claudio (in an act of untold courage) phoned Brian from the podium. And put him on speaker. When Brian said "hello," the full house roared.
Stunned by the accolade and flogged with the flu, Brian gave an acceptance speech, broadcast through the house, that was humble, thankful, and knocked the socks off everyone.
Claudio Raygoza calling Brian Mackey
And the show - turning a potential glitch into the highlight of the evening - went on.
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Efficiency of transport infrastructure and ICT development
This study examines the impact of ICT growth on the productivity effects of transportation infrastructure. Using dynamic panel data of OECD member countries, the study finds econometrically meaningful results on examining the complementarity between ICT and transportation infrastructures. The network effect of growth of motorway infrastructure in advanced countries tends to accelerate when the ICT network grows beyond a certain threshold level.
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Today Newsweek.com published a story about the increasing dangers that gays face in Ethiopia, where sexual activity among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people has been criminalized. The only problem: The story is illustrated with photos taken not in Ethiopia, but in Uganda. The portraits of LGBT individuals were taken by Tadej Znidarcic in 2009... More ›


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Fox Sports agreement with Dish avoids blackout for WSU opener
Washington State's opener Thursday against Rutgers will be aired on Fox Sports 1 on Dish after the sides reached agreement.
Seattle Times staff reporter
An agreement has been reached between Fox Sports and Dish Network, removing a planned blackout of four college football games this weekend, including the Washington State-Rutgers game Thursday night at CenturyLink Field, a Pac-12 spokesman said Wednesday.
The sides had differed over a surcharge Fox sought to levy on some sports events, and which Dish had balked at picking up. Without an agreement, the blackout could have affected as many as 14 games involving Pac-12 teams on Fox Sports 1 this fall.
WSU's opener against Rutgers will be aired on Fox Sports 1 on Dish, the spokesman said, as well as other carriers. Also freed of the blackout is the Colorado-Colorado State game Friday night.
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Phantom Joe Kane has been prowling the cult and exploitation movie beat for the New York Daily News since Christmas 1984, and his new book, The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope is an offbeat stocking-stuffer for fans of offbeat movies that don't always make other critics' end-of-year lists not that they're all horror and sexploitation.
"Ironically, when I started reviewing, the marginal movies were mostly the gore and sexy stuff," he tells TV Guide Online. "Now it's often low-budget independents and foreign movies so many art house theaters have closed that I find myself chasing down movies that aren't necessarily exploitative, but can hardly get screen space."
His magazine, also called Videoscope, covers a wild mix of new-to-video titles, from sci-fi oddity Liquid Sky, "about miniature aliens who feed on orgasms and drug-induced endorphins," to Whity, "a very obscure spaghetti western by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Among his 2000 picks are documentary Beyond the Mat, "a surprisingly good look at pro wrestling," and Time Code, "which got great reviews but only played on a few screens. It uses four-way split screen, kind of a throwback to vintage stuff like Wicked, Wicked and early Brian De Palma, and on video you can rewind and really examine the tremendous juggling act Mike Figgis pulls off." And don't forget American Psycho, "featuring a great performance by Christian Bale," Joe Gould's Secret, Ghost Dog and Pups, "a kind of adolescent Dog Day Afternoon."
Kane family holiday movie traditions include watching the ghoulish Black Christmas on tape. "It was one of the first of the horror-themed Christmas movies, and a lot of people don't realize director Bob Clark also made the classic A Christmas Story. We also like the notorious Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, with eight-year-old Pia Zadora; Reckless, in which every Christmas brings Mia Farrow a new tragedy, and Don't Open Till Christmas. The original advertising copy was: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... they were all dead!' The movie doesn't quite live up to that, but what could?"
Not that Kane has anything against the holiday season, mind you. "After all, A Christmas Carol is pretty dark and twisted, isn't it?" he chuckles.


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LOL!! Good description Monica!! Thanks.
Ohhhhhh Rob their absolutely gorgeous! Their wings look like white feathered palm fronds! These are so cool thanks again, these are beautiful specimens of Herons!
Thanks Gene - just give them a few weeks!Thanks for commenting talia!
Ooooh, what original Herons. I never see such one. Thanks
Manny, Moe, and Jack over Curley, Moe and Larry????? Oh alright, they are in a Pep Boys pose, Tex :-)
Best word for these is ugly LOL they will become beautiful if they survive but now....UGLY ....LOL
Thanks Cathy - pleased you liked them!
Gangly is a good word for these! Thanks Robryan! Great puzzle.
They looks like gangly kids before they grow into their adult shape - thanks Gladstone!I have a photo of slightly older ones to post tomorrow so you can see how they change warbler. Thanks.LOL! Thanks tex!
My dad would say they're "green at the gills"! And Warbler, I like Manny, Moe & Jack (Pep Boys) better! They are precious, though. Thanks, RR.
Larry, Moe, and Curley? We have a pair that nest somewhere out behind my house by one of the beaver dams but I've never found the nest. But I've always looked in the trees, like a Great Blue Heron nest would be. These guys are on the ground in a nest. It looks like they have green skin. Very cool, Rob.
Look how long their wings are, Wow!
And with three to feed they'd be going non-stop I guess!! Thanks pg.
They are just in great shape for their age. Mom and dad are working their butts of trying to feed these chicks.
It's a bit hard to tell loveydear - I guess none of them are ever chubby chicks.
They look almost starved to death.
They sure do lyndee - thanks.A bit like the Ugly Ducklings - I think chookie :)) Thanks.
Ha, ha, they look funny half dressed, don't they?
Oh My.......they have a lot of changes to make to get as pretty as Mama!


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UPDATE: Young arsonists target Salmon Arm school
SALMON ARM — Salmon Arm's South Broadview school was the target of arsonists Sunday.
Police responded to an alarm at 1:30 p.m. to find a window had been smashed and burning material tossed inside. When firefighters arrived, flames were visible and bystanders were trying to extinguish the fire.
Fire crews say there was a significant amount of smoke inside the school and firefighters ventilated the building. It was contained to one corer of a classroom.
Police picked up three youths shortly after; aged 6, 8 and 10.
According to Cst. Kris Clark, the children cannot be charged under the criminal code, as they are all under the age of 12.
He said that there may be other consequences though, including civil liability for the parents and referral of the the case to the provincial government.


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PC Gaming Myths @ ExtremeTech
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Part of the problem of this article is the very thing its critical of - in console vs PC it complains of generalizing all console sales for games and then it makes its own conjectures of PC sales based on that.
I think it might be worthwhile to compare a few games to their console versions. Most games ported to PC or vice versa are only done to one console.
We've recently had sales figures on Bioshock and Oblivion. Does anyone have those handy?
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SoftBank CEO Critical of U.S. Wireless Market
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When it comes to consumer broadband service, at least in my area if you want a fast broadband connection you could only go with Time Warner for cable connection, or Verizon with DSL connection. You had the option of Earthlink internet service, but that was also through Time Warner. You know what is like to be paying $45 a month for a 15/1.5 broadband connection? On top of that, by next month Time Warner plans to up their fee to $57.99 a month. Speeds are not improving, is more congested than ever, and on top of that they want to charge more. Finally Verizon FiOS finished their installations last month in my area, so last week I switched right on time to save me from that increase. the problem is, who is going to stop Verizon from doing the s...
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Over the next 12 months Google will finish a product roll out that will define the company for the next decade. With advertising being a $60 billion dollar business in the USA alone and Google making up 50% of that revenue. Any change Google makes to their AdWords has a profound effect on their future growth.
The two products rollouts are Expanded Text Ads and a major overhaul of their AdWords platform interface. I won't go into detail on each change as you can follow the links above. Over ten years I've seen many changes with AdWords (and even Google Analytics). However, these two changes are a dramatic shift in how Google does business and a North star for the company to be more mobile focused.
If Google makes even a small misstep then that has an impact on their revenue and the moonshot projects they invest in. We are already starting to see early results roll in that Expanded Text Ads are underperforming compared to old AdWords ads. If Google can't get this under control in the next 3 months then I don't know if 2017 will be a brighter year for AdWords.