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I've just been in one of my periodic slumps of not having much to say of a constructive/enlightening nature and as much as I like to rant, it really doesn't add much to the conversation.
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Large carnivores – bear, wolf and lynx – are an important component of Croatia's biodiversity and a natural wealth which needs to be preserved. Their conservation is a complex task for which Croatia is making intense efforts, in particular for the most challenging aspect – the relations with people. From the biological aspect, bear and wolf populations can be considered stable, while the lynx population is declining.
Estimates on the wolf population in Croatia are in a range from 162 to 234 individuals, i.e. an average of 200 divided into 50 packs. Considering the fact that a certain number of packs roam on either side of the border, or rather spend one part of the year in the country and the other part outside Croatia (in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina sharing a long border with Croatia), there are 24 border packs (48%) and 26 packs throughout nine Croatian counties. The lynx population is estimated in a range from 40 to 60 individuals, while the bear population is considered to range from 600 to 1,000 individuals.
Large carnivore management plans are documents which offer species conservation guidelines for a coexistence with people which is as harmonious as possible. The first management plans were adopted in 2004 and they have been revised every five years. These plans underline the formulation of action plans with specific activities and institutions in charge of their implementation. Two government bodies are responsible for large carnivore conservation, management and administration in Croatia. The Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection, Directorate for Protection of Nature is in charge of the wolf and lynx species, while the Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate for Hunting is in charge of the bear.
The State Institute for Nature Protection is centrally responsible for specialised nature protection activities, and is in charge of monitoring wolf and lynx populations in collaboration with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Zagreb. Apart from supporting telemetric studies of the wolf and the lynx, the Institute organizes snow tracking actions and processes results, collects data on livestock number in the wolf and lynx distribution area. It records and analyses damage caused by them and prepares population status annual reports. The Institute also organizes and implements donation programs for livestock guardian dogs and electric fences, and organizes professional improvement of court appointed experts and public education. Additionally, it coordinates formulation and revision of wolf and lynx management plans.
Habitat fragmentation and degradation are currently, apart from illegal killing, the major threat to large carnivores. Croatia shares large carnivore populations with its neighbouring countries, which makes cross-border cooperation in management and administration vitally important for ensuring the survival of these animals in the long term. Cooperation with Slovenia already exists, while cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina will be fostered in the future.
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How Do You Solve the Problem of Scalia?
The razor-thin line between obscenity and bad judgment.
Leave it to Justice Antonin Scalia to trigger a nationwide debate about the hermeneutics of chin flips.
But first, a brief glance at the procedural history: It's undisputed that a newspaper reporter approached Scalia as he left a special Red Mass for lawyers and politicians at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. It's also not disputed that when the reporter, Laurel Sweet, asked what Scalia had to say to critics who question his impartiality in light of his Roman Catholic beliefs, he offered a familiar hand gesture, adding, "You know what I say to those people?" and, evidently by way of explanation, "That's Sicilian."
Where the parties differ is regarding the meaning of the gesture in question. The Boston Herald initially characterized it as "obscene." Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg carefully described it, by contrast, as "a hand off the chin gesture that was meant to be dismissive," but not obscene.
The lower courts immediately issued conflicting opinions: Evidently in some jurisdictions, the chin flick "is a gesture of contempt, somewhat less rude than giving a person 'the finger.' When used in the United States, it usually means 'Bug off, I've had enough of you.' Not a polite gesture, but not a particularly hostile one, either," according to one blog. A concurrence by Wonkette (complete with an illustrated appendix) reached a similarly benign conclusion: "Justice Scalia's gesture wasn't a full-fledged flipping of the proverbial bird. But it still wasn't exactly the most polite of actions; in some quarters, it could be interpreted as pretty darn close to giving someone the middle finger." Dissenters disagreed, finding that the gesture, whether chin flip, finger, or otherwise, is improper. The "thought of flipping somebody off in church, minutes after receiving the Eucharist, is just, well, beyond shocking, insulting, infuriating."
The issue might have died there—with a largely amused nation in good-natured agreement that the equivocal gesture was par for the course for Scalia's usual belligerence and bombast—were it not for his interlocutory appeal, filed yesterday with the Boston Herald. In a surprising (though not unprecedented) letter to the editor, Scalia disputes the finding that the alleged gesture was "obscene." Dismissing the reporter as "an up-and-coming 'gotcha' star" (and inserting some trademark Scalia wordplay involving her name—"o-so-sweetly") the justice clarified that the gesture was limited to "fanning the fingers of my right hand under my chin."
Fanning. Not flipping. Please take note of the significant legal distinction.
Scalia goes on to cite Luigi Barzini's book The Italians (query whether this constitutes the citation of foreign law) and pleads that "The extended fingers of one hand moving slowly back and forth under the raised chin means: 'I couldn't care less. It's no business of mine. Count me out.' This is the gesture made in 1860 by the grandfather of Signor O.O. of Messina as an answer to Garibaldi."
Scalia goes on to accuse Sweet of leaping to ethnic-slur conclusions: "From watching too many episodes of the Sopranos, your staff seems to have acquired the belief that any Sicilian gesture is obscene—especially when made by an 'Italian jurist.' " This in turn led to the Herald's decision to empanel a grand jury of Sopranos actors in order to shed further light on the meaning of the hand flip in question. Again, however, unanimity was impossible to achieve: "It's an obscenity," Joseph Gannascoli, who plays capo Vito Spatafore, opined. "It's not like grabbing your crotch, not that bad an obscenity. … But it's an obscenity. It's something you would do after paying a bookie, to your bookie, but not something you would do in church."
Not so, said John Fiore, who played Sopranos capo Gigi Cestone. "It's not that bad, but I wouldn't do it to my mother. No way. Would I do it in church? These days, maybe. It depends if the priest was giving me the hairy eyeball." Black's Law Dictionary contains no definition of "the hairy eyeball," nor does Title 18 of the U.S. Code.
Concurring in Fiore's result, but offering a separate opinion, was Steve Schirripa, who plays Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri: "Ah, I think he meant 'to hell with ya.' " Frank Santorelli, who plays Bada Bing bartender Georgie, joined with the plurality: "It's kind of a light gesture … not a vicious one. It's not as bad as the (middle) finger."
The editors at the Boston Herald then tried to amend their pleading, styling the late filing as within their right to "get the last word." Obliquely referencing the Fiore dissent, the Herald conceded that the gesture at issue may not have been obscene, but added—in what is surely dicta—"Maybe so, but it's still not something you'd do to your mother." They appended to the record the photographic evidence of the gesture in question and the testimony of the photojournalist who snapped the shot, to wit: "The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, 'To my critics, I say, 'Vaffanculo.' " The Herald helpfully translates, "(expletive) you."
Some folks on the political right are already in raptures about Scalia's "rare clarity." His kiss-off is even being spun, amazingly, as a justified response to an insulting attack on his religious beliefs. Scalia is once again the victim, it seems, of cunning liberal attempts "to make him into news." He is being stalked and baited by the liberal media in the hopes that he will say something that will result in a demand for his recusal in future cases. My God, but we liberal journalists are cunning bastards. We just won't stop hitting poor Scalia's fist with our enormous, spiteful chins.


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What Wipro outlook means for IT industry
Wipro's weaker-than-expected quarterly sales forecast highlighted a gap in performance among India's four biggest IT exporters and a still shaky recovery in client demand.
Wipro, India's third-largest software services provider, joined No. 2 player Infosys in delivering tepid revenue guidance, citing a delay in the closure of deals. The forecasts contrast with a more bullish outlook issued by industry leader Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that had raised expectations IT spending by clients in the United States and Europe was improving.
"If Wipro had been able to make a recovery, then it would have told you that there is a rising demand tide that is lifting
most of the boats," said Kuldeep Koul, an analyst at ICICI Securities in Mumbai.
Wipro, whose customers include Apple Inc, projected fiscal first-quarter revenue for its IT services business in a range of $1.58 billion to $1.61 billion - a decline of 0.6 percent to a rise of 1.6 percent over the previous quarter. Analysts had expected a rise of 1 to 4 percent.
A more sanguine TCS, which does not issue specific revenue guidance, said it expects full-year revenue growth to beat the forecast issued by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).
Nasscom expects export growth in the fiscal year that started this month of 12 to 14 per cent, a figure widely used as a proxy for overall industry growth. In the just-completed year, export revenue in the $108 billion sector rose 10.2 per cent.
Further ratcheting up what is already a competitive sector, US-listed Cognizant Technology Solutions has been steadily gaining market share.
"Very clearly Cognizant and TCS are going in one direction - TCS is much ahead and then there's also HCL Technologies, and Mahindra Satyam if you look at their last few quarters," said Sudin Apte, CEO of Offshore Insights, an outsourcing advisory firm based near Mumbai.
"The bottom line is that things have changed dramatically, and what clients want, requirements, the account management, and expectations on capabilities have all changed. In the new environment some companies have adapted themselves and others have not yet," Apte said.
Delayed deals
Some of the deals that Wipro had expected to close in the March quarter had been delayed to the current quarter, Suresh Senapaty, Wipro's chief financial officer, told reporters.
"While we don't give a specific guidance and we're starting the year with a little weaker guidance ... our expectation would of course be that we'll do better in the current fiscal than what we did last year," he said.
In another sign that a robust recovery in demand remains elusive, US-based IBM, which employs roughly 100,000 people in India, missed earnings estimates as it struggled to close deals in the United States and Europe.
Last week, Infosys gave a full-year dollar-revenue growth forecast of 6-10 per cent. That dimmed investor hopes that it will soon benefit from a strategic revamp aimed at boosting revenue from software products and consultancy-led services. Its shares plunged 21 per cent.
On the other hand, TCS and HCL Technologies, ranked fourth in the industry by revenue, both reported strong results this week.
"The signals that are coming out from the results of different companies are very different from each other," said Gajendra Nagpal, CEO of Unicon Financial Intermediaries in New Delhi. "But there are pockets of encouragement as far as specific companies are concerned."
In its fourth quarter ended March 31, Wipro's consolidated net profit rose 17 per cent to 17.29 billion rupees ($320 million) from 14.81 billion rupees a year earlier, compared with the 17 billion rupee average of 19 brokerage estimates according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Shares of Wipro did not trade because Indian financial markets were closed for a public holiday.


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PUCON, Chile (AP) — The search for three European hikers on a snowy volcano in southern Chile now has high-tech help and a fresh group of volunteers, but heavy clouds are setting them back.
The hikers have been lost for more than a week now on the Villarica volcano.
Searchers are using a federal police helicopter as well as the private helicopter hired by Italian's family, and both are equipped with thermal imaging cameras that can see through the heavy snow that covered the hikers' tracks after they lost contact on Nov. 7.
Local university volunteers are now helping park rangers, police and army search teams and an expert Andean rescue squad in the search for Dmitry Sivenkov of Russia, Gillhem Bellon of France and Luca Ogliengo of Italy.


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At Bananas: A Modern American Diner the omelets come with a side of drag.
Every Sunday at the funky restaurant on Mills Avenue, a group of high-energy performers caked in make-up put on an uplifting, lip-synched show known as the Drag Gospel Brunch.
"We use the term 'gospel' loosely," said Danielle Hunter, who has hosted the show for almost three years. "We're not making fun of gospel. We just want you to feel better than you did before you got here. Kind of like church."
Hunter, who's originally from in Missouri, grew up in the Pentecostal church, she said. Twenty years ago, Hunter felt the need to "live as a girl." She began performing, and is now one of the most recognizable drag performers in Central Florida.
Besides hosting the Gospel Brunch, Hunter also performs a Broadway-style show on Tuesdays at the diner and a Las Vegas-style dinner-theater show at the Funky Monkey Wine Company at Pointe Orlando on International Drive.
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Nycticebus menagensis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Nycticebus menagensis Trouessart, 1893
Common Name(s):
Nycticebus bancanus Lyon, 1906
Nycticebus borneanus Lyon, 1906
Nycticebus coucang Trouessart, 1893 ssp. menagensis
Nycticebus philippinus Cabrera, 1908
|Taxonomic Notes:
|This taxon was formerly considered a subspecies of Nycticebus coucang, but was elevated to species level by Roos (2003) and Chen et al. (2006). See also Nekaris and Jaffe (2007). The smallest of the Indonesian slow lorises, it is not only distinguished genetically from the others, but also by its pale golden to red fur, virtual lack of markings on its head, and consistent absence of a second upper incisor (Groves 1971, 1998; Ravosa 1998; Chen et al. 2006; Nekaris and Jaffe 2007).
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|Nekaris, A. & Streicher, U.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
Listed as Vulnerable as there has probably been more than a 30% reduction in population over three generations (approximately 21-24 years) based on harvesting for the pet trade and extensive habitat loss.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is found in Brunei, Indonesia (Kalimantan Borneo, Belitung and Banka), Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak Borneo) and the Philippines (Tawi Tawi, Bongao, Sangasanga, and perhaps some other small islands in the Sulu Archipelago) (Fooden 1991; Timm and Birney 1992). Ethnographic survey records suggest local extinction in some islands in the Tawi Tawi group (Philippines), though the species is still likely to be found on smaller islands (Garcia pers. comm. 2006).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
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|Based on data collected from researchers in the field and old specimens from museum collections, Meijaard et al. (2005) claimed that this species is common throughout Borneo. However, loris "presence" is usually not determined first-hand (Chivers and Burton 1988; Indrawan and Rangkuti 2001), and it also cannot be presumed that lorises still occur in areas from where they were once collected. The species actually seems to be very uncommon throughout its range. It has a very limited distribution in the Philippines (Dagosto and Gebo 1995; Heaney et al. 1998). In Kalimantan, a 3-month survey in a protected peat swamp forest (Sabangau National Park) revealed very low densities of slow lorises, 0.21 - 0.38 animals/km (Nekaris et al. in review). When comparing this to other studies of Nycticebus, it seems clear that this species, when it does occur, is rare. Indeed, in 46,000 trapping nights in Kinabalu National Park, Wells et al. (2004) trapped this species only 3 times, and noted that in nocturnal walks over five years, it was rarely seen.
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|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species occurs in primary and secondary lowland forest, gardens, and plantations (Payne et al. 1985; Timm and Birney 1992), at elevations between 35-100 m. According to interviews with local people in the Philippines, the species tends to be sighted in citrus trees (calamansi) (Garcia pers. comm. 2006) and may be tolerant of a variety of habitats. It is nocturnal, and almost entirely arboreal. In Sabangau National Park, of four sightings of lorises, 50% contained two or more individuals, feeding together in the same tree (Callophylum hosei and Szygium cf. nigricans).
|Major Threat(s):
|Burning of habitat and conversion, especially to palm oil plantations, almost certainly represents a threat to this species. Although it is relatively adaptable to anthropogenic habitats, and so it might less affected by forest loss than some other primate species, forest loss has been so severe in the region that it is likely to have had some negative impacts. The species is collected locally for use as pets; subsequent uncontrolled release of pets in some areas is also a threat.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species is included in Appendix I of CITES and is protected by Indonesian law. Surveys to study the status of all populations, including those from the Philippines and other small Indonesian islands are required. Some forest fragments where the species occur remain protected. There is a particular need for field guides for this and other nocturnal Indonesian primate species, as they are often confused in rescue centers and elsewhere. The species occurs in a number of protected areas throughout its range, though its status there is uncertain (Nekaris et al. 2008).
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The surprise announcement that Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti is to resign is putting new stress on Europe's efforts to get control of its debt crisis.
Markets in the 17 European Union countries that use the euro had been calmer for three months — since the European Central Bank said it was willing to intervene in government bond markets and drive down borrowing costs for indebted countries.
Now investors wonder whether Italy, the third largest eurozone economy, will give up on reforming its economy and reducing its debt load. That is on top of fears Greece will continue to struggle, and suspense over whether Spain will ask for bailout money.
Analysts on Monday were not predicting a meltdown just yet — but it all hinges on Italy's new government.


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Aerial view of Colorado River in Boulder Canyon.
- Title
- Aerial view of Colorado River in Boulder Canyon.
- Digital Publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries
- Original Date
- 1931
- Description
- An aerial view of the Colorado River flowing through Black Canyon (not Boulder Canyon).
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- This file is derived from a high-resolution (300 dpi, 24-bit) uncompressed TIFF image that was scanned from the original using a HP Scanjet 4670 scanner with HP Scanning 2.3.1 scanning software, default color configuration. The TIFF files were converted into the JPEG2000 format.
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THE new Bishop of Durham challenged the church to leave behind a mindset of decline or maintaining the status quo and expect growth as he was enthroned this morning.
The Right Reverend Paul Butler told a packed Durham Cathedral: "We need to look to God to keep His promises that when the seed of the Kingdom is scattered, it will grow."
Re-stating his three priorities of tackling poverty, engaging with children and young people and growing the church, he urged his audience not to "underestimate the small", whether that meant a child, a project or a congregation.
Growth would not always mean more numbers in church, he said, but added: "Although it's more likely when we engage with communities than when we try to be a holy club."
Earlier, Bishop Butler had processed to the Cathedral from nearby Durham Castle, before, following tradition, knocking on the north door with a staff to request entry.
In a two-hour service which mixed centuries-old tradition and modern songs, the former Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham made a series of promises, was enthroned in his bishop's seat and was presented with the Bishop of Durham's pastoral staff.
Next week, he will hold three prayer days in the Durham Diocese's three archdeaconries: Durham, Auckland and Sunderland.


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Landlocked in the eastern Himalayas between India and China, Bhutan was in self-imposed isolation for centuries, only moving on a cautious plan of development with the launching of the first Five Year Plan (FYP) in 1961.
The country's development philosophy stresses the achievement of equitable and sustainable development over economic growth at any cost. From the beginning, particular emphasis was placed on human development. However, close to one-third of the population suffers from food insecurity and it depends on imports for 34 percent of its cereal needs.
Bhutan is also prone to natural disasters, especially during the rainy season and access roads to remote areas may be closed for up to half the year.
WFP focuses on improving rural, food-insecure households' access to education, health and agricultural services and enabling them to increase incomes and create assets. This is done through development project 10579.0 (Improving Rural Children's Access to Basic Education with a Focus on Primary Education).
This project addresses short-term hunger faced by children living far away from schools and reduces the financial burden on poor rural parents; it also assists in alleviating certain micronutrient deficiencies, while contributing to an overall improvement of school enrolment rates and attendance. Particular attention is given to reducing gender disparity in education.
The objectives of this operation are to:
The Government of Bhutan has been incrementally assuming responsibility of the school meals programme. This project reflects the transitional phase to full Government support. Therefore, the focus of WFP's operations in Bhutan through to 2012 will be on primary education and capacity building of government counterparts.


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Sheriff's deputies find missing Norwood woman
Lottie York reunited with family
Sheriff's deputies find missing Norwood woman
Lottie York reunited with family
A missing Norwood woman was found safe on Saturday morning by sheriff's deputies.
Norwood police said Lottie York, 73, was found while she ate breakfast at a restaurant on Ridge Road. Authorities said she stayed the night at a Days Inn and has been reunited with her family.
York was last seen about 9:30 a.m. Friday in the 5200 block of Rolston Avenue.
She was driving a green Nissan Sentra with the Ohio license plate No. BE51DQ. Police said she keeps three "pound dog" stuffed animals in the rear window.
Police said York suffers from emotional outbursts and has severe tremors in her hands and arms. She has not been taking her medication lately, police said.
Officers also said York has threatened suicide in the past.


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Lupita & Rihanna: the dream BFF team (and Jared Leto too)
Come ON!
Tell me we're the same and you have a raging erection over this too. I wondered yesterday in my Lupita Nyong'o post – click here for refresher -- whether or not she was heading out of LA to Paris for Miu Miu. Indeed she was. And she posted a photo of herself there with…Rihanna!
F-ck Ben and Matt, right? This is the dream BFF team right here. I want to see Lupita in Rihanna's next video. I want them Rihanna to tweet pictures of herself at Lupita's during a sleepover. I would watch a video of them eating popcorn while watching old Whitney Houston videos. And I would definitely blow my load if they ever went on a double date:
Rihanna with Drake and Lupita with… Jared Leto?
Jared Leto just happens to be in Paris after the Oscars too. And he showed up at Miu Miu. Coincidence or conspiracy?
But let's go back to Lupita, our beloved. She and Rihanna sat next to each other at the show in the front row. She took selfies with everyone who would let her…
…but only after introducing herself to everyone around her instead of expecting them to come to her to pay their respects. This girl is our life right now. There's no one else.


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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Union and Confederacy are meeting again at Gettysburg as re-enactors fired the opening volley from their muskets to begin the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the pivotal Civil War battle.
About 200,000 people are expected to visit the small, south-central Pennsylvania town for a 10-day period starting Friday. It's a momentous week for Civil War buffs — especially the thousands of men and women portraying soldiers, doctors and other personnel from the period.
The first of two re-enactments began Friday morning. The National Park Service's official ceremonies begin Sunday. The actual anniversary is July 1-3, 1863.
The events are years in the making after being jointly planned by the Park Service and a host of community organizers and volunteers. A visitors bureau spokeswoman says things are off to a good start so far.


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Saving Basic Research, Saving Future Cures
The effort to cure diseases like Parkinson's disease is on the minds of many people during this time of year. We are often traveling home to see loved ones where we learn about new diagnoses or new stages in the disease that they battle, or we are remembering those who bravely fought their battle with Parkinson's, yet lost. It is understandable, therefore, why there is a push to fund only research that is the closest to bringing about a cure, so-called translational research.


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Manchester United believe they can still land Crystal Palace youngster Wilfried Zaha ahead of Tottenham despite the north London club gaining a head start in the race for his signature, report the Daily Mail.
Tottenham appeared to have stolen a march on their rivals for Zaha, who is rated at around £20 million by his club, after they reportedly opened negotiations with Palace over the weekend.
However according to the Daily Mail, Manchester United remain convinced they can persuade Zaha to swap Selhurst Park for Old Trafford.
The paper reports that Manchester United have struggled to make contact with Palace co-chairman Steve Parish but will up their efforts to negotiate a move when David Gill returns from his holidays. Sir Alex Ferguson will also reportedly try and speak to Zaha personally in order to convince him of a move to Manchester United.
Bidding is expected to start at around £7 million and any deal with either Tottenham or Manchester United will hinge around either club's willingness to loan him back to the Eagles for the remainder of the season in order to help with their promotion push.
The Mail report that Tottenham are willing to do just that before a potential move to White Hart Lane over the summer. Although previously Arsenal and Chelsea had expressed an interest in Zaha, it now appears to be a straight fight between Spurs and the Red Devils for his services.
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"Right Turn"
Politics and diplomacy after Watergate. The Ford custodianship. The trials of Jimmy Carter. Iranian hostage crisis. The rise of the new American right: the Sunbelt and its politics, religious revivalism, tax revolt. The campaign of 1980. The Reagan revolution: supply-side economics, fiscal crisis, international relations, election of 1984. Waning of the Cold War. The Bush presidency; the Gulf War. G
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Chris Perondi wouldn't mind living a dog's life.
Chris Perondi wouldn't mind living a dog's life.
If he was lucky, he'd be having a real tail-wagging time. Like Action Jackson, Crazy Confetti and Flashy Ferrari are.
"They're a loyal kind of hero," said Perondi, whose acrobatic animals demonstrate their zeal in his Stunt Dog Experience show. "They're always there to lift you up when you're down. They listen to you and don't pass judgment.
"Sometimes you make mistakes. Dogs don't hold grudges. They're very forgiving. When I look at them, that's the type of person I wanna be."
Perondi and his personable performing pets - all adopted from animal shelters - will demonstrate their mutual joy and affection during two one-hour shows Sunday at Stockton's Bob Hope Theatre.
Though he and his canine "athletes" perform in theaters, at athletic events and during fairs and festivals nationwide, Perondi won't be traveling far this time.
Born and raised in Stockton, he lives with fiancee Suhey Velez in French Camp, where he boards and trains his nine dogs. Samantha Valle, who's shared shows with him since 2007, is bringing five of her dogs from Long Island, N.Y.
"You can even train a poodle to do certain things," said Perondi, 39, whose canine team includes cattle-herding and terrier breeds weighing between 20 and 70 pounds. "You don't want to force them to do anything they don't want to do. You'll see their tails wagging. They're having a great time."
On Sunday, that'll include as many as 50 tricks - Frisbee-catching, high-jumping, racing, jumping rope, doing backflips, walking on their front paws and "jumping 10 to 12 feet in the air over audience members."
Then there's the timed "golden bone showdown" that challenges the intelligence, speed, accuracy and leaping ability of Action Jackson, Crazy Confetti, Flashy Ferrari and their pals.
The "sort of stunt-dog triathlon" includes jumping over a bar (up to 60 inches high); navigating tunnels; pole-weaving; jumping through a wheel of fire; and catching a tennis ball in their mouths. All in 11 to 13 seconds.
"We actually give out a golden bone at the end of the show," Perondi said. "It's the bone every dog dreams of and drools over. It's cute."
It's a long leap from Stockton's Victory Park, where the youthful Perondi frolicked with his first dog, Pepper, an adopted Queensland border collie.
"I've always been a huge dog lover," said Perondi, the only child of Orlando and Donna Perondi, who owned three dogs. "I never trained him. I just wanted to get a dog to catch a Frisbee and throw a ball around. I didn't have any friends. I wanted him to be my best friend.
"I always had three or four dogs, one cat, rats and a lizard."
Perondi, a graduate of Brookside Christian High School who attended Delta College and Las Positas College in Livermore, initially worked as an Internet technician in Livermore (Triad Systems) and Lodi (Pacific Coast Producers).
Frisbee-dog competitions were relatively new when he began training Pepper seriously in 1996: "That's what fired me up. It was just awesome. I thought, 'Oh, I can teach my dog to do that.' "
At the end of 1999, he "sold my house, bought an RV, quit my job and went on the road." Originally named the Extreme Canine Stunt Dog Show, his first big gig was doing pre-game and halftime shows at San Francisco 49ers games in 1999 and 2000.
That's the year he and Pepper won the national Purina Incredible Dog Challenge in St. Louis. They were runners-up in 2001. He's a bit sheepish about it, though, because he's now sponsored by Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods, which provides the 120 pounds of chow his dogs consume each month.
He and his dogs toured regularly, spending summers at the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. (2004); Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Mo. (2005-07); Valley Fair in Shakopee, Minn. (2008); and Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo. (2010-11).
In 2008, Oprah Winfrey "found" him on the Internet. Perondi and his pets appeared on a Winfrey TV show devoted to exposing the cruelty of "puppy mills."
"Actually, that gave me an opportunity that I probably might never have had," Perondi said.
Managers of the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts in Hammond, La., contacted him, inquiring if Perondi could do an hourlong stage show: "I said, 'I could probably put something together.' "
He and his dogs also have appeared on Jay Leno's "The Tonight Show" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." They've performed at the San Joaquin County Fair and plan to return to Stockton's Asparagus Festival this year (April 26-28).
Of course, there are painful experiences, too. Four of Perondi's dogs - including Pepper, who was 16 - have died.
"It's always really hard," he said. "It's harder with some than with others. I don't know why. I love them all the same. Some just have that personality. It takes time, but the other dogs help me get through it. They've paved the path to these dogs. You can't get disheartened. You have to move on."
Contact reporter Tony Sauro at (209) 546-8267 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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With so many titles to choose from, Netflix Instant's library can be overwhelming. So we bring you this biweekly column as a tool to cut through the clutter by highlighting some now streaming titles that pair well with the latest theatrical releases.
Looking to Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hangover Part III, and Epic for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of Marvel Universe movies, romances from literature, and crowd-pleasing comedies with underrated stars.
Star Trek Into Darkness
Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew are back to face a new threat to Starfleet, a mysterious terrorist played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana co-star. J. J. Abrams directs.
If Abrams' rebooted Star Trek is making you nostalgic for the originals, you can spend the whole of your Memorial Day Weekend revisiting the original series and two of its most popular spin-off movies.
Star Trek (1966) Check out the series created by Gene Roddenberry that started it all! William Shatner stars as James T. Kirk, captain of a sprawling starship called Enterprise tasked with a five-year expedition into deep space, the final frontier. Accompanying him on his journey is the ever-logical first officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), the oft-frustrated Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and the beautiful and brilliant communications officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). All three seasons are now streaming.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) The first Star Trek movie was roundly scorned, which may explain why it's not streaming. But its far more popular sequel is! Made sixteen years after the series' premiere, this space adventure has Kirk promoted to Admiral, a cushy job that's boring him to death. But when an old enemy resurfaces, Kirk and his ex-Enterprise crew reconvene to save the day! William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Ricardo Montalban co-star. Nicholas Meyer directs.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Taking place shortly after Star Trek II, this sequel has Kirk and company spiraling from side effects of their treacherous brush with Khaaaaaaaaan! Kirk breaks Starfleet rules, faces off against pugilistic Kligons, and travels to an experimental Genesis Planet to save the sanity of one friend, and the life of another. William Shatner, George Takei and DeForest Kelley co-star; Leonard Nimoy directs.


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Robert Reese Friar, 35, the man accused of murdering 1 year old Tacari Briggs appeared in Circuit Court Monday, April 22.
According court documents, Friar's case has been continued until May 16, while they assign him a public defender. Friar, who plead not guilty to the charge of first degree murder, is currently being held without bond. Continue to read the Newport Independent for more information as it becomes available.


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By Geoff Langham
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Oklahoma's C.J. Cole is more than just a college basketball player. As the saying goes, "Student comes first," and for Cole, that is an understatement. He is the owner of a perfect 4.0 GPA as a chemical biosciences major with aspirations of becoming a medical doctor.
How does Cole handle being a pre-med student and a college basketball player at a major university? He said the answer is simple.
"I just have to manage my time," said Cole, a redshirt-freshman forward from the small town of Sperry, Okla., on the northern outskirts of Tulsa. "Just like anybody else, I have to decide what I want to spend my time doing, whether it's hanging out with friends, studying, or watching TV."
Cole credits his high school chemistry, anatomy and physiology teachers for getting him interested in science and a career in medicine.
"They introduced me to the subject and I realized I was good at it, and that helps," Cole said. "Through high school, it dawned on me that maybe I want to go pre-med and I just really love it."
Even though Cole wants to go to medical school, he hasn't quite decided what specialization he wants to pursue. Many students do not decide until later in their studies.
"I don't really want to be in a lab," Cole explained. "I want to be interacting with patients, so that's how it's narrowed down, which isn't much because there are many specializations. I haven't really decided."
In addition to staying busy with his demanding basketball and pre-med requirements, Cole is a member of OU's President's Leadership Class scholarship program and also took advantage of a unique educational opportunity last summer. Cole spent several weeks in Italy in one of OU's many study abroad programs. His group started at OU's campus in Arezzo and after a couple weeks there proceeded to Rome.
"I took a couple of semesters of Italian beforehand to try and learn the language but it was nowhere near the experience that I needed to communicate with people there," Cole said. "It was a cool experience just to see the different cultures and how life is in Europe."
He said the experience was eye-opening.
"It's completely different than how it is here," Cole said. "It's not nearly as fast, like the fast-food, I-need-it-now culture that we have here. It's completely different over there."
Aside from being a model student, Cole also makes his presence felt on the basketball court. Joining the OU team as a freshman prior to the 2012-13 season, Cole walked on and redshirted his first year. Prior to this season he was awarded a scholarship.
"It was nice," Cole said. "Coming from a small town, a lot of people didn't think I would be able to get a scholarship from a Division I school like this. It was just a great opportunity for me."
Cole said he also believes that playing basketball in college helps him prepare even more for life after college. One example he provided is having to complete all of his schoolwork even when he is tired from rigorous basketball practices.
"It has kind of prepared me in that way, knowing that I have to focus," Cole said. "If I have to study for this test and spend two or three hours at night doing it, I'll do it no matter how tired I am."
Along with being a force in the classroom, Cole is an integral part of the Sooner squad. At 6-6, he is undersized in the post, but makes up for it with his strength and intensity.
"He is one of the strongest guys on the team," said senior forward Tyler Neal. "Even though he is not very tall, he can really help the red (first) team and the other post guys when we're in there to kind of provide some resistance."
Cole has made great strides on the court this year after making the jump from a high school to a major university last season.
"Overall, he's more comfortable with the ball, more comfortable defensively, and he's rebounding the ball aggressively," said third-year OU head coach Lon Kruger, who offered Cole his athletic scholarship. "He's not getting many minutes in games but he's working and making progress in practice every day."
Even though Cole may not be seeing a lot of playing time at this point of his career, if he keeps working the way he does in all other facets of his life, those minutes will be here before he knows it.
"If he keeps working hard, at some point he is going to get those minutes and play those minutes well," Kruger said.
That wouldn't be surprising, considering that whatever endeavor Cole pursues he seems to experience major success.


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Section 1. For the purposes of this regulation, the term "hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade. The term "person" means any individual, partnership, association or corporation.
Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following:
(a) Such amount of gold as may be required for legitimate and customary use in industry, profession or art within a reasonable time, including gold prior to refining and stocks of gold in reasonable amounts for the usual trade requirements of owners mining and refining such gold.
(b) Gold coin and gold certificates in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100 belonging to any one person; and gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors of rare and unusual coins.
(c) Gold coin and bullion earmarked or held in trust for a recognized foreign Government or foreign central bank or the Bank for International Settlements.
(d) Gold coin and bullion licensed for other proper transactions (not involving hoarding) including gold coin and bullion imported for reexport or held pending action on applications for export licenses.
Section 3. Until otherwise ordered any person becoming the owner of any gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates after April 28, 1933, shall, within three days after receipt thereof, deliver the same in the manner prescribed in Section 2; unless such gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates are held for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) of Section 2; or unless such gold coin or gold bullion is held for purposes specified in paragraph (d) of Section 2 and the person holding it is, with respect to such gold coin or bullion, a licensee or applicant for license pending action thereon.
Section 4. Upon receipt of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates delivered to it in accordance with Sections 2 or 3, the Federal Reserve Bank or member bank will pay therefor an equivalent amount of any other form of coin or currency coined or issued under the laws of the United States.
Section 5. Member banks shall deliver all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates owned or received by them (other than as exempted under the provisions of Section 2) to the Federal Reserve Banks of their respective districts and receive credit or payment therefor.
Section 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, out of the sum made available to the President by Section 501 of the Act of March 9, 1933, will in all proper cases pay the reasonable costs of transportation of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates delivered to a member bank or Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Section 2, 3, or 5 hereof, including the cost of insurance, protection, and such other incidental costs as may be necessary, upon production of satisfactory evidence of such costs. Voucher forms for this purpose may be procured from Federal Reserve Banks.
Section 7. In cases where the delivery of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates by the owners thereof within the time set forth above will involve extraordinary hardship or difficulty, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend the time within which such delivery must be made. Applications for such extensions must be made in writing under oath, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury and filed with a Federal Reserve Bank. Each application must state the date to which the extension is desired, the amount and location of the gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates in respect of which such application is made and the facts showing extension to be necessary to avoid extraordinary hardship or difficulty.
Section 8. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered to issue such further regulations as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this order and to issue licenses thereunder, through such officers or agencies as he may designate, including licenses permitting the Federal Reserve Banks and member banks of the Federal Reserve System, in return for an equivalent amount of other coin, currency or credit, to deliver, earmark or hold in trust gold coin and bullion to or for persons showing the need for the same for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of Section 2 of these regulations.
Section 9. Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or of these regulations or of any rule, regulation or license issued thereunder may be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and any officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in any such violation may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.
This order and these regulations may be modified or revoked at any time.


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Folks React to the Carlos Zambrano Trade and Other Bullets
Obviously the big news of the day will be the continued discussion of last night's Carlos Zambrano trade, and I'll have more on Chris Volstad, as well as a farewell to Zambrano, later today. Until then, Bullets (which, yeah, touch on the trade) …
- The local media reactions to the trade are about what you'd expect. Dave Kaplan says the Cubs are vastly improved just by virtue of dumping Zambrano (Kap has a better view of the clubhouse than I, so he could well be right). Dave van Dyke chronicles Zambrano's sins and says he and Ozzie Guillen are a good match (will be fun to watch "from afar"). Gordon Wittenmyer lays out the case for the inevitability of this move (I agree). Phil Rogers speaks for the fans and says we're all thrilled to see Zambrano gone (not sure about that). Jon Greenberg offers an evenhanded take on the end of the Zambrano era, and chastises the Cubs for coddling him for so long (fair).
- An interesting question after the trade: are the Cubs done dealing with the Marlins now? Does this take the Marlins out of the market for, say, Matt Garza? Probably, and, if so, I'm certain the Cubs wouldn't have made this move until they'd exhausted talks about Garza with the Marlins (i.e., both sides agreed that it just wasn't going to happen). But, the mere adding of Zambrano (and subtraction of Volstad) does not necessarily close the door on a Garza trade – the Marlins could send a pitcher back the Cubs' way as part of the deal. I'm just saying: it's not impossible.
- Some folks are making way too much of Theo Esptein's comments about Bryan LaHair being the Cubs' starting first baseman in 2012. Sure, it might come to that. But LaHair is presently the only first baseman on the 40-man roster. Of course Epstein was going to say that "right now" Bryan LaHair is expected to be the Cubs' starting first baseman. There's no one else. The statement echoes what Epstein has said for months about giving LaHair a chance. It doesn't really mean much of anything. If the Cubs can land someone better, or at least younger, they will.
- Spring Training is now a reasonably approaching target that we can kind of start thinking about: pitchers and catchers report on February 18, and everyone else reports five days later. Individual tickets for Spring Training go on sale today at 10am CT.
- MLB is doing that Fan Cave thing again this year (you live in a room and watch every single baseball game all year). Applications are due by the end of this month if you're into it.
- I won't have too many more opportunities to use the photoshop picture up there, so I thought I should get it out there at least one last time. That's Zambrano breaking Tony Campana over his knee. I'm proud of my career choices.


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Reviewed by Yaquelin M (age 6)
This book is scary, because it's dark at night. My favorite part of the book is when they were walking up the hill, because they saw an owl on the hill. I like this book because of the part when the owl scared the Baby Bears, because I felt scared and surprised.
If you like scary books you might like "Bears in the Night." Find out what happens when the bears hear the owl in the scary woods. Go read the book today! You can get this book at your public library or the book store.


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I have started learning ancient greek two months ago, having already acquired quite a thorough understanding of Latin grammar and having practised both reading and composition.
I would like to pose, however, a simple question, hoping to clarify a rather simple affair, I imagine, concerning Greek accentuation.
I am, yet, acquainted only with the second declension and the first conjugation.
The rules for the accent re-positioning in the case of first conjugation verbs, are, I am afraid, not quite lucid from my limited perspective.
Whilst admitting the absence of a preliminary paradigm from which to deduce further, serving as reference, that is, how shall one come to postulate the accentuation of a long penult? For instance.
I may have brought poorly this question into being, and, however, would estime any sincere clarification.


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"City of Ghosts" (Minotaur), by Kelli Stanley
A love of San Francisco — its flaws, strengths and eccentricities — permeates Kelli Stanley's intriguing novels about private detective Miranda Corbie. Stanley's novels capture San Francisco — and the United States — in the years just before World War II.
War has been on Miranda's mind since she was a nurse in the Spanish Civil War. In "City of Ghosts," set during 1940, Miranda cautiously watches what's happening in London, especially when it appears that her long-lost mother may be living in England. The private detective has little hope that she could bring her mother back to the United States until James MacLeod, an agent with the State Department, enlists her help. He wants her to investigate Huntington Jasper, a chemistry professor suspected of being a spy for the Nazis. The U.S. won't acknowledge Miranda's assignment if she's caught, but the job comes with hefty pay and a ticket to England.
Miranda's case leads her to dealers specializing in artworks stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners. Complications arise when Miranda is implicated in a series of murders, including that of a wealthy client and an acquaintance.
Stanley keeps the novel on a brisk course as Miranda confronts her own city of ghosts, including a dysfunctional childhood, her stint as a prostitute for one of San Francisco's top madams and the people whose deaths still haunt her. Fiercely independent during a time when that wasn't in fashion, Miranda continues to be a true survivor.
Stanley's affection for San Francisco establishes a strong sense of place and time in "City of Ghosts." It is, Miranda muses, "A city made by dreamers who died paupers and paupers who lived like kings, dreams keeping them alive in the only way that mattered."
The author's clear-eyed view of San Francisco and of Miranda's character adds to the strength of the novel's engrossing historical fiction.


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Mar 17, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Beautiful Cat! Very luxurious Hit ya with a 5 Star!
May 2, 2007 at 1:38 pm
You just don't see any Renaults around here. The Roush Mustangs are pretty sweet... There are 3 stages with the first stage being just a body kit and the final stage 3 being supercharged and a whole Roush suspension... I'd love to have one of those but I just can't afford that. My next toy will be my dream Porsche!!
May 2, 2007 at 11:10 am
Thank you for the interesting facts on my car!!! Yes, my car is quite big and heavy--quite a bit more than the previous Mustangs. The nice thing is that it drives a lot smoother (longer wheelbase). Nice cars!


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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents say they will turn to targeting high-level drug traffickers in Puerto Rico with intelligence gained in a three-month blitz on criminal activity in the U.S. territory.
The new campaign is part of operation "Caribbean Resilience," which began in July 2012 and targets the smuggling of drugs, weapons, money and migrants.
The Department of Homeland Security says agents have so far seized some 53,000 pounds (24,000 kilograms) of drugs, confiscated more than 170 firearms and arrested more than 320 people who face prosecution at federal and local levels.


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At the end of this month (April) I will be travelling to Ethiopia for a two week stay. I intend to take with me a Crown Graphic and a few boxes of b&w sheet film (Adox 25). I will be flying from London Heathrow to Addis Ababa and during my stay taking three internal flights.
Having read various discussion threads online, I gather that there are two ways in which it all ends badly;
1. Customs and Immigration ask to see inside the 5x4 film boxes, and i'm unable to do anything about it.
2. Having been through 5 sets of hand luggage x-ray machines my film is destroyed
Has anyone go experience of travelling with LF gear and film in country such as this, and could give me some advice. I came across one thread where the advice given was to send the film in advance by special courier...but to Ethiopia I cannot see this being 1. affordable and 2. very easy.
I hate to ask the questions, as it's a little defeatist, but should I just forget the idea, accepting that the risk is far too high, and just take my Nikon FM2 and a bunch of safely sealed 35mm film?
I look forward to your responses.


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Is it May already? Where has the time gone?...
Monday, May 11, 2009
Back to Work...
Is it May already? Where has the time gone?...
34 comments:
- Meg said...
congrats on the work, and woohoo on more Zelenka! It just wouldn't be the same without you. Please do let us know when you have theatre things, as nearby fans could be convinced to come show their support. :) May you have a busy and prosperous summer.
- May 11, 2009 at 4:59 p.m.
Excellent! I'm so glad to hear that you've been getting work and keeping busy. And I'm extra happy to hear that there will be more Zelenka!
- May 11, 2009 at 5:01 p.m.
- Lapis said...
It never hurts to have work. Here's hoping you stay employed for a very long time. And it would be lovely to see you at ComicCon this summer!
- May 11, 2009 at 5:44 p.m.
- Heather said...
Work is a Good Thing, and more Zelenka is FANTASTIC! YAY!
- May 11, 2009 at 5:45 p.m.
- Chez said...
Good to hear that you've got a relatively full schedule of work! And glad to hear that Dr Z's getting pulled out of the attic too!
- May 11, 2009 at 6:13 p.m.
Great to hear you've been keeping busy. I might see you when you're visiting Australia in July.
http://fannishinquisition.com <--- For those interested in the details.
- May 11, 2009 at 6:41 p.m.
- Rosehawk said...
Hey, thanks for the lovely update! Love the pics! It's great to hear you've been keeping busy. And just one of these days we will actually get to see some of your work here in the States!
It just wouldn't be SGA without Zelenka so it's great that you are going to get some decent screentime!
Hope to see you in Toronto this summer...now if I can just get the details worked out......
- May 11, 2009 at 7:19 p.m.
Great to see you being busy. I hope your TV PSA ends up on YouTube so us U.S. folk can see it!
- May 11, 2009 at 7:28 p.m.
Work = good! You look scrumptious in period costume in those pics, and it's fabulous you have a director's gig coming up, too. Plus more Zelenka! \o/
- May 11, 2009 at 7:40 p.m.
- Erica said...
You've got staging descriptions for the Saturn V on....schematics for a wraith dart? Is that what that is? Did somebody just put random space-ish text there? :)
(Glad to hear you'll be in the next Atlantis movie!)
- May 11, 2009 at 8:01 p.m.
So glad to hear you're doing well and keeping so busy!
And knowing Dr.Z has a juicy part in the SGA movie is icing on the cake!
Take care!
- May 11, 2009 at 9:25 p.m.
- morjana said...
Hi, David!
Thank you so much for your update and for sharing your lovely photos.
I just saw Star Trek tonight and clapped when Paul was on the screen...
Looking forward to seeing MORE of you in Stargate Atlantis, on TV, in the movies, in a theater...
Best wishes!
- May 12, 2009 at 3:13 a.m.
- Falada said...
That is good to hear - even if it's unlikely for us Europeans to catch a glimpse of that stuff (probably until the SGA movie, whenever that will be).
Maybe "Voodoo" will be screened at some festivals over here?
Please keep us updated whenever you find the time - and have fun with the directing!
- May 12, 2009 at 3:35 a.m.
- Jinx said...
Thanks for the update & congratulations on the flurry of work!!
I'll change those summer drowning plans then...
- May 12, 2009 at 4:04 a.m.
- Cody Kimmel said...
No need to dispatch Gil Grissom to find you, then. Good - he wasn't returning my calls anyway.
Lost all interest in drowning after reading THE PERFECT STORM.
Thanks for resurfacing, pun intended.
- May 12, 2009 at 7:11 a.m.
- Michelle Lunsford said...
Good to hear you've been busy. Especially exciting about the directorial work for Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. Ah, if only I lived near Vancouver - I'd be there to see it.
Thanks for sharing the pictures too!
- May 12, 2009 at 7:50 a.m.
- D said...
I'm glad those slave drivers finally gave you a chance to catch up with your fans. I figured you must have been busy when there were no new posts. And I'm tickled to hear that Dr Z is coming back. Maybe then I can take a break from writing my own SGA episodes. TV just isn't the same without it.
- May 12, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
- Library-Gryffon said...
I was hoping that the lack of bloggage for the last month meant that you were super busy with real stuff, so I'm glad to hear that I was right! And more Zelenka!
I am now officially happy. 8)
Once they start filming SGA you must post photos. And photos from your other projects too of course - I live in Connecticut, so I won't get to Vancouver to see the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And random goats are quite acceptable too.
- May 12, 2009 at 10:15 a.m.
- Quincy said...
Good to hear that you've been busy. Madison is watching a lot of Atlantis reruns. She'll be happy that there is more Zalenka coming.
- May 12, 2009 at 10:52 a.m.
Sounds like you are going to have a busy summer.
Unfortunately I can't get to see your work in Vancouver, your appearance at Polaris in Toronto or Downunder in July. So if you have some free time why not pop in to Atlanta and Dragon*con? Just think about how much fun it was last year. : ) : )
Being Canadian, I will definitely keep a look out for your PSA.
- May 12, 2009 at 11:45 a.m.
- archersangel said...
congrats on the work!
looks like that piece is set in the '40s or '50s. cool!
- May 12, 2009 at 12:37 p.m.
Glad to see you will be in the new Atlantis movie! I love that SGA won so many awards! (and they cancelled it! Really???*sigh*)
It was great to see you at the Creation con! Got to shake your hand and talk to you for a sec in the lobby! You are such a truly nice person and are so gracious to fans...thank you for that! I hope you are still working on coming to DragonCon! Try to get David H. to come with you. I think he's afraid of that con! LOL
Hope to see you there!
- May 12, 2009 at 9:47 p.m.
- Carrie said...
Hoorah! Glad to hear some news on the Atlantis movie. Hope everything goes smoothly for you this summer.... and say those blueprints look suspiciously like a wraith dart.....
- May 12, 2009 at 9:56 p.m.
- Becky L said...
Good to hear you've got work to keep you busy! Wonderful pictures. If I can get my passport changed in time, perhaps I'll make a trip to see the play. I've wanted to visit the Vancouver area (and I know Chemainus is on the island) for years and had thought I was going to last year until my husband's sickness was discovered. We'll see. But the best of luck and much fun to you in directiing it.
- May 13, 2009 at 11:24 a.m.
- Library-Gryffon said...
Dare I ask what the second photo is? I can see the first and last just fine, but there's a content filter on the wifi I'm using at the moment, and it says it's blocked due to the category "nudism"(?).
- May 14, 2009 at 7:42 a.m.
- MightyMadi said...
Hooray for work and more Zelenka coming up!
I took an Atlantis personality test today and apparently I'm like Zelenka, which made my day :D
- May 15, 2009 at 6:31 p.m.
- Misty aka s_aurius said...
YAY I was just talking to someone today about Atlantis. I was really wondering if we'd see more! :)
Glad you've been busy working. I look forward to more Zelenka.
- May 18, 2009 at 11:22 a.m.
- Tai said...
I always look forward to read some new comments from you. Almost thought, you ran away to work somewhere off world! But now... finaly - new info, new pics (and new round glasses, as I can see)!
It´s so nice to know, you have so much to do again! (It´s good for you and even better for us! :-)
ZELENKA IS BACK?!! Yohooo!!! Yes! So this is the best news I heard this year! (And you say it just so! Just "What else?" somewere in the end.) It was unmistakable! Zelenka has to be in the movie - to safe Earth once again! Just hope, he´ll survive it!! Keep us posted!
About blockbusters... o yeah, I´m Trekkie in the first place and Paul´s "very short štěk" in Star Trek was refrigerant. And what about you? When will we see YOU in Star Trek? :)
Btw. did you seen yourself here? http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/746/30047550.jpg
David, good luck at everything you do!!
- May 18, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.
- Kirsten said...
I'm slow on the commenting uptake, but I blame the fact that I had to go check out the Chemainus website. A friend of mine has worked on several shows for that theatre so we'll be coming out to see "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". I'm really interested to see that adapted to a children's play format.
Glad to see you've been so busy, I haven't seen the PSA but perhaps it's slow in coming to the West Coast. Thanks for the update!
- May 20, 2009 at 12:49 p.m.
- Rosehawk said...
Hey way cool, you're doing another Zelenka audio book - Stargate Atlantis - Meltdown!
Zero Point was great! This sounds even better!
- May 22, 2009 at 7:15 p.m.
- D said...
I'm really glad to hear you're busy-especially with some Zelenka work. (He truly is one of my favorite characters.) And as always, I'm looking forward to your next post. - D
- June 3, 2009 at 3:33 p.m.
- MaggieMayDay said...
Work is good.
More Zelenka is good!
Not drowning is good. There's a reason I go camping in the desert.
- June 4, 2009 at 9:51 a.m.
- D said...
David, if you have time (I know it's sparce), there's something about you at http://thehiccuppinghomemaker.blogspot.com/. I hope you find it flattering, humourous, and a bit funny. Thanks.
- June 13, 2009 at 4:48 a.m.
- Adna said...
Looking forward to seeing Dr. Zelenka again. :)
- June 22, 2009 at 10:28 p.m.


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Alfie Boe: Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London Filmed live at the Royal Festival Hall in London, during Alfie Boe's sold-out tour, the star of Les Miserables and the much loved tenor showcases his mesmerising and outstanding voice in his very own show. Perhaps best known recently for his role as Jean Valjean in the 25th Anniversary stage show of Les Miserables, Alfie Boe's star status continues to soar. The special showcases Alfie's magnificent stage presence as he shares with the audience a selection of uniquely inspired renditions from some of the best-loved musicals of all time including Sunset Boulevard, Company, West Side Story and Les Miserables - with Alfie performing his own emotive interpretation of "Bring Him Home" accompanied by Claude Michel Schonberg, one of the original writers of the score. D
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Julie Kramer Thrills with Delivering Death
~book review by Amy Lignor
This is the next tale in the incredibly captivating Riley Spartz thriller series, and the suspense is even more chilling than ever.
For those who are unaware, Riley Spartz is one of those intelligent and intriguing characters all readers want to follow. As an investigative journalist and reporter who has definitely received her 'gold stars', Riley has made a name for herself by dealing with the most criminal aspects of Minneapolis. Here, she is once again about to embark on a ride that will put her skills to the ultimate test, beginning when an unknown person sends her an envelope containing a set of human teeth.
Jack Clemens is a white-collar criminal who is about to be incarcerated in a federal correctional institution for playing fast and loose with other people's money. Although Jack was once a part of the 'country club' lifestyle, he has to face a whole new world when placed into a prison that's a bit like Alcatraz. Doing all he can to survive his sentence, Jack pleads with a gang leader for protection in exchange for cash. But, unfortunately, he ends up dead at the hands of another inmate.
As the plot moves forward, Riley not only finds herself immersed in an unsavory crime, but she must also deal with the fact that a hideous murderer wants to use her home, the media, to publicize his talents.
A truly great story, as always when it comes to this character, the plot lines are so well-drawn that the reader will not be able to put the book down until the truth comes to light. A great deal of action comes from the newsroom and focuses on all the work a skilled journalist must do in order to run down leads, while at times causing aggravation in order to get their stories out to the public.
Riley Spartz is one character in suspense fiction that should be around for a good long time. Great job!
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another request night at irc.
- Zach pulling lucy like a pet
- Amaya writing LISTEN with blood
- PauloxPaulo
- A ring parody with mike and lucy
- Jessica and daisy dominatrix discussing while drinking thea. with mike and paulo used as chairs.
- AugustusxMolly
- Jasmine wearing a paulo fursuit and paulo wearing a jasmine fursuit
- Poker night at the McCain inventory