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Sept. 15, 2009
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The Schedule
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:30 pm
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (4-1-0) vs. Milwaukee Panthers (1-4-0)
at Engelmann Field
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10 am
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Wisconsin Badgers (1-2-0)
at Engelmann Field
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Wisconsin Or Bust!
Following a split of last week's two home contests, the Gauchos will head to Wisconsin this week for their final out-of-state road trip of the regular season. UCSB is slated to take on host Wisconsin-Milwaukee in its opening game of the 36th Annual Panther Invitational on Friday at 5:30 pm (PST). UCSB will also face Wisconsin at the tournament on Sunday at 10 a.m.
Trail Of The Milwaukee Panther
Wisconsin-Milwaukee enters this week with a 1-4-0 record. The Panthers paid a visit to Northridge, Calif. last weekend and took on two of three-consecutive Big West opponents. So far, the conference has prevailed over Milwaukee with both Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Northridge defeating the Panthers, 2-1. In fact, all of Milwaukee's games this season have been one-goal decisions. UCSB has posted a 2-0-0 all-time record against the Panthers with the last win coming on Sept. 7, 2007 via a 2-0 score.
Badgering Wisconsin
Wisconsin enters the weekend with a 1-2-1 record and also spent last weekend on the left coast, where the Badgers faced San Diego and San Diego State. They dropped their match against the former, 3-0 before falling, 3-2 in double overtime to the Aztecs. Sunday's pairing will be the first between the two programs.
It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times
The Gauchos shutout Rutgers on Friday evening by way of a 4-0 score in front of the Fox Soccer Channel cameras and a season-best crowd (3,925) to improve to 4-0-0 on the season, the best start to a season by the Gauchos since 2004. The win over Rutgers also marked the Gauchos' third-straight win over a Big East school. Unfortunately, the UCSB win streak was snapped on Sunday when Loyola Marymount defeated UCSB, 2-1, at Harder Stadium. The Lions' defense kept UCSB scoreless for 86 minutes, the longest UCSB has gone without a goal this season. With the split, the Gauchos enter the week with a 4-1-0 record.
A Tale Of Two Halves
Sunday's game appeared to be just that. During the first half, UCSB was outshot 9-7 and outscored 2-0. The second half saw the Gauchos outshoot the Lions, 11-2, and outscore the team 1-0. In fact, six of the nine Gaucho shots-on-goal were during the second half. The single goal is the least the Gauchos have scored in a match this season.
Senior Martin Hedevag provided the lone Gaucho goal on Sunday in the 86th minute on a header assisted by James Kiffe and Danny Barrera. It was his second goal of the weekend, third straight game with a goal and fourth overall this season. All of the senior's goals this season have been headers and the four goals mark a career-high. In addition to his two goals last weekend, Hedevag also assisted Michael Nonni's goal on Friday against Rutgers. He is currently second on the team - behind Nonni - with nine points and is tied with David Walker as the team's goals leader. He's currently ranks 37th among all Division I players for points per game (1.8) and ranks 24th for goals per game (0.80). Hedevag has gone 4-for-5 in his shot attempts for a team-leading .800 shot percentage.
Walker On The Mend
Senior forward David Walker injured his hand in the 13th minute of Sunday's game with Loyola Marymount. After successful surgery on Monday, Walker's prognosis is positive and he is expected to rejoin the team on the pitch within the next two weeks.
He May Be A Walker, But He Sure Can Run!
Speaking of David Walker, the senior scored his fourth goal of the season in the 18th minute of Friday's game to set a new career-high for goals. He is tied with Hedevag as the team's goals leader this season and is third on the team with eight total points. Walker ranks 24th nationally among Division I players with his average of 0.80 goals per game.
I Wanna Be Like Mike
Of the four goals scored in Friday's contest with the Scarlet Knights, Michael Tetteh had a direct role in three of them. The sophomore midfielder scored the second goal of the game in the 27th minute off a corner kick from Waid Ibrahim. It was his first goal of the season and the third of his career. Tetteh continued his offensive onslaught, assisting Martin Hedevag's goal in the 38th minute and Michael Nonni's in the 66th to end the game with four points.
Seventh Heaven
In the NCAA Division I stats that were released on Monday, UC Santa Barbara ranked seventh in the nation for scoring offense. The Gauchos have put away 14 goals this season for an average of 2.8 per game. That's almost a goal more per game than the 1.86 goals UCSB averaged in 2008.
Nonni Knows Goals (And Assists)
Freshman Michael Nonni has had an impressive start to his collegiate career. The forward currently leads the Gauchos with 10 points on the season and is third on the team with three goals. The rookie scored his third goal of the year in the second half against Rutgers on a header in the 66th minute. He also assisted David Walker's game-winner in the 18th minute. Nonni is tied first on the team with Danny Barrera with four assists on the year. He ranks 20th nationally for points per game (2.0) and 12th for assists per game (0.80) with Barrera.
The Firing Squad
UCSB has already outshot its opposition 74-35 this season with 33 (.446) shots on-goal. Three Gauchos lead the team with 11 shots apiece: David Walker, Michael Nonni and Danny Barrera. In fact, Barrera took a team and season-high five shots in the loss to LMU with three on-frame.
Pulse On The Polls
UCSB is currently ranked in five national polls. After hitting a season-high No. 4 ranking in last week's TopDrawerSoccer.com poll, the Gauchos dropped to No. 8 after Sunday's loss. The Gauchos are ranked ninth nationally by the NSCAA/adidas and third in the Far West region behind Cal and UCLA. UCSB has dropped four spots in the Soccer Times poll, to the No. 10 spot, but moved up one place in the College Soccer News poll to No. 13. The Gauchos biggest drop was from No. 7 to No. 19 in Soccer America.
I Am Sam
Junior Sam Hayden has played every minute in goal for the Gauchos and has posted 11 saves, including a season-best four in the loss to LMU. He has posted a save percentage of .647 and a goals against average of 1.17. He has also recorded a pair of shutouts against West Virginia and Rutgers.
Gauchos Picked First In Big West Preseason Poll
In a vote of the Big West men's soccer coaches in August, UCSB was predicted to win the league championship. The Gauchos garnered a total of 45 points in the poll and picked up four first-place votes. Defending conference champs UC Irvine claimed second-place in the poll with two first-place votes and 40 points. Cal Poly rounded out the top-three with 34 points. The Gauchos will begin their 2009 Big West schedule when they host UC Irvine on Sept. 27, which is the next UCSB home contest.
Vom Steeg On The Verge
In his 11th year leading the Gauchos, head coach Tim Vom Steeg is currently just four wins away from becoming the winningest coach in Big West history. Currently, Vom Steeg has recorded a 144-57-20 record at the helm of UCSB and a 118-40-19 record since the program rejoined the Big West in 2001. Jose Elgorriaga, formerly of Fresno State, holds the record with 126 wins with the Bulldogs.Vom Steeg is already the winningest coach in UCSB men's soccer history and has turned the Gauchos into an annual national title contender. The 2004 and 2006 NSCAA National Coach of the Year, Vom Steeg guided the Gauchos to the NCAA title in 2006 and the championship game in 2004. He has guided UCSB to five Big West titles in the past eight years and seven consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. He won Big West Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2004 and 2005 and has produced 15 All-Americans during his 10 years with the program.
UCSB Adds Exhibition With Under-17 Mexican National Team To 2009 Schedule
The Gauchos will host Mexico's U-17 National Team in an exhibition on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The Mexican team, which won the U-17 World Championship in 2005, has qualified along with the USA for the 2009 U-17 World Championship to be held in Nigeria on Oct. 24. Tickets can be purchased online by clicking here, via phone at 893-UCSB, in person at the UCSB Athletics Ticket Office and at the following in-store locations throughout the Santa Barbara and Central Coast area: Aggressive Soccer (Santa Barbara and Goleta), Extreme Soccer (Santa Barbara and Oxnard), Guadalajara Market (Santa Barbara), Planet Soccer (Lompoc) and Soccer World (Santa Maria).
Get Your Tickets!
To purchase tickets to UCSB soccer games, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.
The Golden Scarf: A New Tradition
To reward and recognize our loyal soccer supporters, we will present the "Golden Scarf" to fans who have donated and/or purchased season tickets for five consecutive seasons. The scarves will be presented during a special halftime ceremony during the October 2 game vs. Indiana.


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There are so many reasons to be leery of head coach Claude Julien's apparent decision to place Michael Ryder on Marc Savard's right wing as the star center makes his return to the Bruins' lineup after a Grade 2 concussion.
While nothing is written in stone with Julien's line formations, he skated Ryder next to Savard for two straight practices, including today, while swapping out Vladimir Sobotka for Daniel Paille on the left flank from one day to the next.
The Bruins signed Ryder in July 2008 with the initial attention of him providing the set-up sensation Savard with a perennial puck-burier. That didn't quite work out, so by putting those two back together to start the Eastern Conference semifinal series with Philadelphia, Julien is taking a bit of a risk.
Not only hasn't Ryder produced on Savard's wing in the brief stints the two have had together, Ryder has never even resembled the same player that was a 27-goal sniper last season next to David Krejci and bounced back from an awful regular season to register three points (two goals) in the six games against Buffalo last series skating next to Sobotka.
"I don't think I've got to change anything. I've just got to play the same way, keep skating, being physical and shooting the puck," Ryder told me after practice today for a feature I was writing for ESPNBoston.com. "I know Savvy's going to find me when he gets it. … I'm not sure what's going to happen (on the left side), but we're just getting used to each other in practice still. Me and Savvy played together a bit this year. Hopefully we can get some chemistry. Savvy's going to be excited to play and I've just got to make sure I feed off him."
Turning those words about not changing could prove tougher than uttering them for Ryder. After all, he talked numerous times over the course of his disappointing 18-goal campaign about bearing down, working hard and getting on some semblance of a role. That never happened until the intensity of the playoffs, and a spot next to the hard-hitting, relentless forechecker Sobotka finally gave Ryder enough of a jolt to get him going.
While Savard is no shrinking violet on the forecheck, he is not Sobotka. Plus he's still getting up to speed after two months out of action. Ryder cannot rely on his centerman creating as much havoc as Sobotka did to create turnovers and scoring chances. He's going to have to get his nose dirty regardless of what his linemates are doing.
Ryder spent less than a handful of games at Savard's side this season. Last year, they were together for the first six games of the year, and oddly enough Savard did the scoring (five goals) and Ryder was the disher (four assists). Then Ryder was bumped to Patrice Bergeron's line and finally, and most successfully, to David Krejci's trio.
There were a couple other problems the Savard-Ryder tandem had, and really it's going to be up to Ryder to correct them to make this combination work this time around. For a guy with a "great shot" (Savard's words) who's main task is to score, he tends to pick his stick up off the ice and not be ready to receive passes at time. He also has a tendency to be gun shy when he goes get the puck on his stick.
As Julien eases Savard back into the fray, the center is obviously going to be limited in his ability to affect all areas of the game. He's going to be on the ice mostly to create goals with his proficient passing. So if Ryder's not going to serve as a big-time finisher, he'll be rendering two players useless. Not to mention there's going to be an onus on Ryder to make sure that his defensive game is at peak performance because Savard might need some time to catch up to the pace on the backcheck and while battling in the Bruins' end. When he's not scoring, Ryder can let his play in the other zones lag. He has to make sure he's making a contribution somehow, regardless of how the bounces go on Boston's attack.
Ryder said he doesn't think that playing with a finesse center like Savard is going to change his game, but we know from watching Milan Lucic recently that sometimes guys can fall into a "skill" role and forget to do the other things that make them successful. When you play with a dazzling offensive talent, the tendency is to get really cute with the puck. But Ryder has to play as north-south as he can, even if Savard's trending east-west.
If Julien opts for an extremely responsible defensive player (Paille probably being the most qualified) to round out the line, that'll make it a bit easier on Savard and Ryder to create some chemistry with the puck. You just have to hope that Ryder doesn't revert to his regular-season form and waste Savard's energy, or if he does Julien, recognizes it and gets Ryder back with a more rugged center and Savard in a trio with someone that can add to his assist total (as few and far between as they are on the Bruins' roster).

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Skip to comments.Venezuela: Chavez hit by new, severe infection
Posted on 03/05/2013 6:42:16 AM PST by libstripper
CARACAS, Venezuela -- A severe new respiratory infection has hit cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez and his condition is "very delicate," Venezuela's government says.
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Probably a fly larvae infestation. It is common in corpses.
Yes, death would be a new serious infection, and being dead would be a delicate condition.
A good dose of formaldehyde will cure it!
When will the torture end?
Ours!, not his
Sulphur...do I smell sulphur?
Excuse me, Mr. Chavez. Does this rag smell like chloroform?
The way he was smooching every crucifix within arms reach the last year he knows he is not going to be around long.
I predict massive anti-biotics to fight the infection, followed by kidney failure- and he is dead within a month... good riddance
When the drs found my mother had inoperable cancer they referred to it as "gaurded". That mean't nothing could be done medically. I think "very delicate" might mean the same thing..................I hope.
"turd's circling the Devil's bowl"............good one.
Esta muerto, Jim.
Te estamos esperando, Don Hugo.
If he's as sick as they claim he is he'd been dead 2 year ago. Something stinks here.
Wasn't this dude reportedly dead? Wow this guy has more life than a Walker =)
I saw a dead squirrel by the side of the road a few minutes ago. I really feel sorry for the squirrel.
As for the communist with an ego bigger than Russia, who has caused suffering among his people and stolen property, I feel sorry for the earthworms who will soon be vomiting.
Not one member of this REGIME went to Chris Kyle's memorial but I bet they are planning for somebody to go to Venezuela for this pantload's funeral.
DIE! Mo'fo DIE!
Franco was a great man, as opposed to Hugo...Don't insult Franco's memory.
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Maryland Gov. O'Malley to keynote NH Dems' big fund-raising dinnerBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
September 18. 2013 4:19PM
MANCHESTER -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will be the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner/fund-raiser on Nov. 16.
More than 100 tickets have been sold, the party said, "putting the 2013 Jefferson Jackson Dinner well on its way to a record crowd." The event will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.
O'Malley's visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state will likely attract national political media attention. The two-term governor and former Baltimore mayor has been weighing a presidential bid and has also been mentioned in political circles as possible vice presidential material.
In a New Hampshire poll of potential presidential candidates for 2016, released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling of North Carolina, O'Malley received less than 1 percent, far behind Hillary Clinton's 57 percent and Vice President Joe Biden's 12 percent.
But O'Malley is well-known to local Democratic activists and has been coming to New Hampshire for 30 years, initially as a campaign volunteer for former U.S. Sen Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign and most recently as a surrogate for Gov. Maggie Hassan and President Barack Obama last fall, when he was chairman of the Democratic Governor Association. He is now the DGA's finance chairman
He also spoke at the 2012 NHDP state convention in Manchester.
O'Malley's New Hampshire stop is part of an "aggressive schedule this fall to help elect Democratic governors around the country," the state Democratic Party said.
State Republican Party Chair Jennifer Horn called O'Malley a "liberal, income tax supporting extremist," and said that by having him speak at their dinner state Democrats showed they are "out of step with New Hampshire's fiscally responsible values."


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Cleoda Marjorie "Margie" Jackson, 86, passed away Oct. 25, 2013. Margie was born Oct. 21, 1927, in Missouri to Odie and Cleo (Washburn) Edwards.
On July 21, 1946, she married Allen E. Jackson. A Cascade Locks resident for 60 years, Margie is survived by her husband of 67 years, Al; daughter Jackie; grandchildren Katie Randolph and Jacob Buroker-Jackson; and great-grandchildren Poppy, Ellis and Molly.
During Margie's life she was dedicated to and instrumental in helping and raising nieces, a nephew and others. As a girl Margie helped raise her three younger brothers (now deceased) while her parents worked in shipyards during World War II. In her later life, Margie's final charges were grand-nieces Bonnie and Armesha, whom she loved and reared from infancy.
Margie's life was one of serving and lifting up others. She was a dedicated wife, a loving and tender mother, faithful guardian, an excellent cook, seamstress, seeker of knowledge, avid reader and committed to helping others without ceasing.
Margie attained proficiency in engineering and road design; she worked planning and drafting many of the roads and byways in the Mt. Hood National Forest, where she was employed for 16 years with the U.S Forest Service.
Later, with the spotted owl controversies, there were no more roads to design; however, Margie's handiwork remains. Her designs and contributions to our beautiful forests will continue to be enjoyed by future generations.
Margie also enjoyed antiques and, for a time, participated in a shared business with her daughter, Jackie. Those years were special to Margie; helping with every aspect of the business with her most treasured role-helping to care for her then-young grandchildren.
Margie was in her home to the end with love, care and support provided by husband Al and daughter, Jackie. Margie lives on in the hearts of all who knew her well. She was the quiet but ever-present support to all. She will be missed and never forgotten.
A memorial service will be held at Cascade Locks Community Church on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m.
Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit andersonstributecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family.
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I am a Northman, one of the "Men of the Uplands". I have family in Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Constantinople and many, MANY other places. My wife, sons, and I have a small farm with some sheep. My wife brews mead. I do blacksmithing. My father sits on council. It is a hard life. We do not have much.
The Irish call us Gaill, "foreigners". Franks call us Normanni: "northmen". Germans refer to us as Ashmen. Spanish Arabs call us Majus, "heathens". Anglo-Saxons call us Danes. The Slavs and Byzantine Greeks call us Rus,' which later would become the word for "Russian".
My Webster's tells me Viking can be a noun or a verb. "Any of the Scandinavian pirates of the 8th to 10th centuries" it says. Another dictionary tells me it is "the act of raiding", giving us the phrase "To go a-viking." Another definition says, "a label given to a Scandinavian people of a certain era." My world history book says the original definition is "creek-men." My atlas finds no Viking land.
We have worked as mercenaries and private guards. When need for money is great, my brothers and I get out the boats and go raiding. WE GO A-VIKING! It is very profitable.
Lords and Ladies!
Charge your glasses and raise them high!
To Vikings, Northmen, or whatever you wish to call us. And if I may be so bold, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Drink well
Drink often
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Watch Postcards from Buster on PBS Kids GO!
FARID: Hi, Buster. How are you?
BUSTER: Great! Hey, is that a telescope?
FARID: Yeah. I'm trying it out. It's a new invention.
BUSTER: You actually made that yourself? Wow! What are you looking at?
FARID: I'm looking at Old Cairo from over here.
BUSTER: Could I look through it? Cairo sure has a lot of minarets. We hiked up one earlier today.
FARID: They used to call Cairo the city of the thousand minarets because it has more than 1,000 mosques.
BUSTER: I wonder how many you can count from here.
FARID: One, two, three, four, five... 997, 998, 999, 1,000. There, I counted them all.
BUSTER: What's that sound?
FARID: That's the call of the mosques for prayers. You hear now? The thousand minarets are calling. Very beautiful sound.
BUSTER: It really is. It's like you can hear Cairo talking.
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As the Democrats struggle to define a strategy for dealing with the Bush Administration, an intense debate has emerged between centrists and populists over the reasons for the party's loss of the White House in the 2000 election. At its heart lies the interpretation of the widespread rejection of Al Gore by white working-class voters, a rejection that reached landslide proportions among white working-class men. Despite Gore's assertion of "populist" themes and proposals, more than 60 percent of non-college educated and nonaffluent white men and a majority of similar working-class women gave their votes to George W. Bush. (Although white women workers rendered Bush a slim majority, had male workers voted as did female, Gore would have easily won the election. Attempts to understand the rejection of Gore, therefore, largely focus on the attitudes of white working-class men.) Although the centrists and populists reach substantially different conclusions, they do agree on two central points. First, Gore's positions on the major specific issues in the campaign–healthcare, education, tax policy and others–were substantially more popular with the voters than those of Bush. As Stanley Greenberg, Gore's pollster, noted in an analysis done for the Campaign for America's Future, "If the election were run on message alone, Al Gore would be President with a comfortable majority of the popular vote."
Second, the most important obstacles future progressive candidates will have to overcome relate to the moral and social "values" of American workers and to their distrust of Washington and "big government." While the 2000 election was influenced by other factors, such as the legacy of the Clinton Administration and Gore's performance as a candidate, the values of white workers and their distrust of government appear likely to have the greatest continuing influence on American politics.
What the postelection analyses do not do, however, is address the question of how a progressive candidate can overcome these obstacles. Although a large number of opinion polls and focus groups have examined the public's views on values and their hostility to government in recent years, they cannot effectively explain where individual issues fit within a person's overall worldview or how values and issues combine to influence the choice of a political candidate. There are, however, alternative approaches within the social sciences better suited to answering questions of this kind. In the 1950s and early 1960s, such research examined whether workers were becoming "middle class." When Governor George Wallace gained substantial support among white workers in the 1968 presidential election–and clashes between peace demonstrators and "hard hats" gave rise to a popular image of all workers as deeply reactionary "Archie Bunkers"–research responded by trying to look behind the stereotypes and understand the forces shaping workers' attitudes. Some of these studies, like Joseph Howell's Hard Living on Clay Street and E.E. LeMasters's Blue-Collar Aristocrats, were based on prolonged observation of life in working-class neighborhoods. Others, like Robert Botsch's We Shall Not Overcome: Populism and Southern Blue-Collar Workers, analyzed extended interviews with dozens of subjects.
Yet when working-class voters once again defected to the Republicans in 1980, giving rise to the category "Reagan Democrats," researchers still seemed baffled. There was not even a generally agreed-upon way of thinking about the group. Were they "blue collar," "working class," "middle class" or "middle American"? And what was the link between these labels and their political behavior?
The most coherent and systematic answer to these questions came in 1984, with sociologist David Halle's America's Working Man, a detailed, seven-year study of factory and community life in a large New Jersey chemical plant.


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The first details about this year's Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios were released at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. Look for scenes and personalities from the Silent Hill video games and films to be incorporated into one of the haunted-house mazes of the event, which begins Sept. 21.
"For the first time ever, we're tackling a video-game franchise and bringing it to life at Halloween Horror Nights," Jim Timon, senior vice president of entertainment at Universal Orlando, said in a video announcement available on YouTube.
Silent Hill environments and characters, including Pyramid Head, Fog World,...


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RAVENSWOOD - The mountains of West Virginia are an integral part of rural life and feed the mystique of growing up in a rural place, says award-winning musician Kathy Mattea.
"It's almost like the mountain in your backyard is part of your family," she said.
This and many other statements Kathy Mattea said in an interview on Oct. 1, really stuck in my mind for days afterward. A clearly homespun and gentle woman, Mattea represents the best of what West Virginia has to offer, speaking with that familiar accent and wise tone that make you feel right at home and as if you have known her all your life.
Mattea peppered the interview with great insight from her perspective as a West Virginian-gone-big. When asked what she thought of the negative stereotypes pinned to virtually everyone who originated in the state, she said, "it is truly heartbreaking." Yet, she said, it is actually amusing that she can be almost anywhere and someone will come up to her and ask what part of Virginia she is from.
"You will still find people today who don't recognize West Virginia as a state," she said.
Mattea does find, however, that there are places with similarities to West Virginia, including eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, but she also compares the Mountain State to Arkansas and some locations on the West Coast, saying people there do resemble the warm embrace you would receive as a guest in West Virginia.
She explained her reasoning for choosing coal mining to be the central focus of most of her newest works in the music industry.
"The deaths in the coal mines have had a huge emotional impact on me and the people around me," she said, but there is solace in the music.
"Music is healing," she said.
One purpose of her coal-inspired music was that she could reach out to those families who had lost members in mining disasters and take away some of their pain.
When asked whether her song-writing or her voice was her biggest strength, Mattea said she wholly believes her voice has made her who she is today. She said she received training in songwriting during her early years in Tennessee, but that her true talent showed in her high school choir days. She thinks that today's upcoming musicians become caught up in being famous. Instead, they should express their passions, hone in on their natural talent and follow their real dreams.
Being an independent filmmaker, I especially delighted in her extensive knowledge of the film industry. She was enthusiastic about the film "October Sky," based on the novel "Rocket Boys" by West Virginia author Homer Hickam. Mattea said she is always open for an invitation to contribute soundtrack music to a film, and remarked that it is very prestigious to have your own songs included in soundtracks. Her knowledge of how much goes on behind the scenes of films was impressive as her answer stretched to almost six minutes.
From humble beginnings in Cross Lanes, W.Va., to Grammy Award-winning stardom in adulthood, Mattea has led a very successful career, yet she still boasts the unbelievable politeness and homey personality you would expect of a West Virginian.
Mountains of West Virginia remain in Mattea's heart
RAVENSWOOD - The mountains of West Virginia are an integral part of rural life and feed the mystique of growing up in a rural place, says award-winning musician Kathy Mattea.


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Inviato: gio ago 07, 2008 13:19
Avete per caso ricevuto la mail di questi security fix ?
Loris ha scritto:Se avete ancora le mail me le girate ?
> Hi.
> Just to inform the security team that I did not receive
> the last pan and python security advisories.
> This is the first time it happens.
Well -- I've verified that your email is on the list still, and my own
account (last on the list) did get the mailings, but the maillog doesn't
show any attempt to mail them to your account.
That's very strange, but I can find no reason for it. If it happens
again let me know and I'll dig deeper if possible.
Sorry about that --
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The ever-dapper Tine Tempah has been on the press offensive this week after launching his own clothing line, the Disturbing London range, exclusively for Selfridges. A collaboration with streetwear label MH1, the GQ Best Dressed Man of 2012 will also be the face of the upcoming London Menswear Week in June. "At the end of the day, I'm a 23-year-old …
André Leon Talley and Alber Elbaz at the Met Costume Gala
It was quite a night for the men, John Galliano turned up in sheer tailoring, and Justin Timberlake was almost unrecognisable in glasses.
US GQ March 2009- Justin Timberlake
The latest issue of American GQ looks set to be an exciting issue. While not the most fashion-forward of magazines, GQ manages to provide consistent style advice and it usually has at least a few good features.
In this issue, we have Justin Timberlake posing in a variety of stylish albeit bland looks and one of the most interesting looking features looks set to be their 'Top 10 Most Stylish Men in America' feature. Check back soon for the entire list with pics!
Brandish Poll: JT in Frock Horror Scandal?
Being the face of a Givenchy fragrance pretty much cements you as a style star (not that I would know but one must work on assumption when speaking of Britney-dating, ex-N*Sync stars!) Well, I was bitterly disappointed in Justin Timberlake's outfit at the Fashion Rocks concert last week. JT wore a grey blazer from his new 'William Rast' range and a pair of hideous turn-up jeans with an odd silk tie- seemingly cut in half.
Is it just me who's shocked by this lack of style sense? Vote in our poll below!
Love The Look: Menswear Maestro Michael Bastian at Fashion Rocks
Condé Nast's fifth Fashion Rocks event was hardly devoid of well-dressed men: Valentino, Justin Timberlake (who's fashion-savvy has become a matter of debate…well, for me anyway,) Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford (who's rumoured to have scored an up-coming VMAN cover.) My point is that, for a menswear designer, Michael Bastian more than held his own in this pantheon of celebs.
Justin Timberlake's William Rast
From Catwalk Queen: The first trailers of Justin Timberlake's multimedia campaign for his label, William Rast, have surfaced. Starring Erin Wasson, who actually injured herself in the making of these short films, they depict JT as William Rast, a Texan on the run with his girlfriend 'Birdie' played by Wasson.
James Franco puts on a serious face for Gucci
After Ewan McGregor for Davidoff and Justin Timberlake for Givenchy James Franco joins the latest ranks of celebs advertising male scents.
Justin Timberlake will perform two shows at New York Fashion Week
Justin Timberlake is going to be busy this New York Fashion Week, as well a putting on a William Rast show the singer is performing at Fashion Rocks and at the Roseland Ballroom as models strut the catwalk for his A/W collection.
Givenchy persuades Justin Timberlake to wear fragrance
Justin Timberlake is abandoning his decade-old au naturel smell to become the face of new Givenchy scent 'Play'. The singer was reluctant to smell of anything other than eau de Justin until Givenchy persuaded him that he would enjoy wearing the fragrance.
Johan Lindeberg talks about William Rast
Having next to no interest in celebrity clothing lines, I paid no attention to Justin Timberlake's William Rast line. I'm slightly more interested after finding out that Johan and Marcella Lindeberg were the creative directors of the line. There's an interesting interview with Johan about the line on Sportswear international.


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Let's NOT get distracted by history. Let's turn the page....
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I started this blog because my friends told me stop emailing it to them. The name is from one of my father's phrases: he was a cynic. He gave his son and his bird dogs German names because German names can be heard at greater distances....


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IAGT March - Katerina's Wish
Katerina's Wish by Jeannie Mobley
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
Exciting News! Jeannie Mobley is a confirmed author for this year's Book Feast to be held on September 28, 2013! Jeannie will give a presentation about her first book, Katerina's Wish, a brilliant work of Colorado historical fiction. Grades 5 and up. Be sure to read it before her visit!
About It's A Girl Thing (IAGT) Mother - Daughter Book Club
IAGT is a free program, open to girls ages 10 to 12 and a woman partner like mom, grandma, friend or teacher. This book discussion group meets seasonally once a month and is facilitated by a member of the Youth Services staff. Book discussions meet from 5:30 to 7:00 pm on a Sunday, and each pair will be asked to contribute a dish to the group meal.
Register and pick up books at the Kids' Desk or call 879-0240 x313. Space is limited to 10 pairs per meeting.


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Blood, Gold, and Fire: Coloring Early German Woodcuts
August 13, 2012–February 17, 2013
Gallery 202A
During the 15th century, quickly painted woodcuts were the favorite art form of the masses. The woodblock's hardy constitution allowed thousands of impressions to be printed so that they were much more affordable than paintings or manuscript illuminations. Yet despite their initial numbers and popularity, very few sheets have survived—in some cases, only a single one.
This exhibition brings together a small group of brilliantly colored European woodcuts that show exactly how a largely illiterate public liked their devotional imagery: raw, emotional, and very bloody. Indeed, Christ's blood flows freely throughout the works gathered in this intimate exhibition—thickly painted onto his tortured body and symbolically transmuting from wine into blood at the Last Supper and later, miraculously, during the Eucharist. The Scourging of Christ woodcut particularly demonstrates a fascination with violence. While the print originally included no indication of blood, it was supplied in abundance in the hand-colored impression. As this print has never before been exhibited—and exposed to the harmful effects of light—its garish tones look the way they did when the color was first applied.
In fact, many of these rare early German woodcuts were vibrantly decorated with stencils and less stable media such as hand-coloring or gold-leaf illumination, which is why they have been infrequently displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago. To limit fading, hand-colored prints can be exposed to light for a maximum of three months every five years. Thus, four of the woodcuts in this exhibition will be exchanged halfway through the six-month installation, offering an unusual opportunity to see a total of eight of the museum's early hand-colored prints.
For even more early German woodcuts, leaf through the pages of our Devotional Scrapbook online, one selection from the Department of Prints and Drawings and the Ryerson and Burham Libraries Special Collections that has been digitized as part of Turning the Pages.


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Sugarfrost Scarf or Stole
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Knit in a soft, luxury yarn blend, this scarf or stole in multiple variations (infinity scarf, flat scarf, stole) is more of an atmosphere than a garment. A slightly fuzzy yarn will create a light-catching halo in the undulating stitch pattern, which is accented by tiny nupps and openwork panels of fagoting; feel free to substitute beads or plain purl sts for nupps. Here, the infinity scarf features a straight edge, while the flat scarf and stoles have pointelle edgings, but the effect is easily reversed to taste (see pattern notes).
Substituting yarn and/or needles may result in an overall variation in size and drape.
Shown here in Miss Babs Alpacacita Lace, exclusive club colorway, Winter Rose
Pattern includes instructions for infinity scarf, flat scarf with pointelle edging, and stole with pointelle edging


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By Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tax reform tempo is picking up in the Congress, with lawmakers meeting, task forces floating proposals and lobbyists scurrying to get in on the action - a small piece of which recently took place in an historic Capitol Hill meeting room.
There, officials from Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, and refiner Tesoro Corp met on March 14 for almost three hours with Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, as well as with Representative Mike Thompson, a California Democrat, and others.
"Good discussion. Candid, off the record, informal, which is what we want," Brady told Reuters after the meeting.
Brady is heading a study team from the tax-writing U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means.
Stephen Brown, vice president for government affairs for Tesoro in Washington, said the message to Brady and co-chair Thompson was that the company does not want to be singled out in tax reform.
"There is no justification for discrimination against the oil and gas sector, but in particular against independent domestic refiners," Brown said.
Meetings like the one Brady hosted are not unusual, but they are occurring with increasing frequency across Washington, according to lawmakers, lobbyists and congressional filing data.
What is behind the boost in activity? Some say a major cause is a ramp-up of tax research at the committee level by Dave Camp, the Republican chairman of Ways and Means, who has said he wants to pass tax reform legislation in the House this year.
Last month, he named lawmakers from his panel to 11 working groups assigned to study specific tax issues, ranging from financial products to real estate, and to report by April 15. Each group is led by one to two Republicans and a Democrat.
The odds seem to stack up against Camp achieving his goal of comprehensive legislation in 2013, most lobbyists and tax experts say. But all agree that he and his colleagues are laying important groundwork.
Democrats and Republicans still disagree about whether or not tax reform should raise new revenues. Many Democrats say it should; Republicans disagree. Many Democrats want to cut tax preferences for investment income; Republicans oppose this.
Overall, the Ways and Means study effort "helps Camp's cause, though I still think that getting tax reform this year is going to be a heavy lift," said Cathy Schultz, lobbyist for the National Foreign Trade Council. Her group's website says it represents companies such as heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc and Pfizer Inc, the largest U.S. drugmaker.
The Ways and Means international tax team met earlier this month with officials from Procter & Gamble. On the team's agenda is possibly changing the U.S. worldwide tax system, in which all corporate income is subject to tax, to a territorial regime that would exempt most foreign-earned profit from tax.
Jennifer Chelune, spokeswoman for P&G, the world's largest household products maker, said it is pushing for a lower tax rate and for moving to a territorial tax system.
Amid the buzz of activity around issues like these, the number of new tax lobbyists, already large, is rising again.
In February, 22 firms registered to lobby on tax issues, while in March, there were 25 new registrations in the first two weeks alone, according to data compiled from federal filings by the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan group that focuses on lobbying and fundraising in politics.
By comparison, only three new lobbying registrations for immigration issues and six for financial services were filed over the first two weeks of March. Each registration lists multiple individual lobbyists.
Roughly 1,700 companies and interest groups were registered in 2012 for tax lobbying.
Republican Representative Aaron Schock is co-chairing, with two other lawmakers, the Ways and Means financial products group, which is tackling controversial ideas floated last month by Camp, including taxing most derivatives at fair-market value.
"It has allowed the three of us in each of those working groups to kind of become the point people," said Schock, from Illinois, in an interview.
In the Senate, Camp's counterpart, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is holding private committee meetings weekly. But Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, has not appointed lawmakers to lead on specific tax topics. A rough list of potential tax reform ideas was circulated on Thursday among members of Baucus' panel.
An important backdrop to the renewed bustle over taxes in Congress is the range of clear tax reform positions put in place over the years by Democratic President Barack Obama.
For instance, Obama has called for preventing energy companies from using a manufacturing tax break. On another front, Tesoro would be hit by Obama's proposal to end "last in, first out accounting," known as LIFO.
This accounting method, widely used in the energy sector, helps companies keep their tax bills lower when their inventory costs are rising, compared to an alternative method. The White House says it is a way to understate taxable income.
Even if compromises on such issues remain out of reach, lawmakers and lobbyists praised the effort. Democrats and Republicans, who rarely socialize or even converse much in a sharply polarized Congress, may be finding common ground as they are thrown together on the teams.
"Opinions are going to be shaped during this process and once someone forms an opinion, it is more difficult to change their mind," said Mary Burke Baker, a former congressional staffer and now a lobbyist for major corporations at K&L Gates.
(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Jan Paschal)


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The Philadelphia Phillies outrighted 2B Harold Garcia off the 40-man roster.
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|Phillies | Nine cut
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:35:30 -0700
The Philadelphia Phillies reassigned SP Dave Bush, OF Tyson Gillies, P Austin Hyatt, P Pat Misch, P Juan Carlos Ramirez, P B.J. Rosenberg, C Sebastian Valle, 2B Harold Garcia and 2B Cesar Hernandez to minor league camp.
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|Phillies | Harold Garcia likely to miss entire year
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:19:19 -0800
Philadelphia Phillies INF Harold Garcia (knee) is likely to miss most of this season after undergoing microfracture surgery on his knee Monday, March 5. He will be out for four to six months to rehab. He played in just 12 games last season before tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament.
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Philadelphia Phillies IF Harold Garcia (knee) will miss the rest of the year at Class AA after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:56:15 -0800
The Philadelphia Phillies reassigned P Justin De Fratus, P Drew Naylor, P Juan Carlos Ramirez, 2B Harold Garcia, 2B Cesar Hernandez, SS Carlos Rivero, 1B Matthew Rizzotti, P Brian Bass, P Eddie Bonine, P Drew Carpenter, P Ryan Feierabend, 1B Tagg Bozied, 1B Robb Quinlan, OF Matt Miller, RP Michael Schwimer and C Joel Naughton to minor league camp, MLB.com's Todd Zolecki reports.
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The Philadelphia Phillies added P Justin De Fratus, SS Freddy Galvis, 2B Harold Garcia, 2B Cesar Hernandez and 1B Matthew Rizzotti to their 40-man roster Friday, Nov. 19, according to MLB.com's Todd Zolecki.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Summer Streets - NY
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I walked three miles up Park Avenue to Eric Kayser and then sat in the median, watching all the cyclists and pedestrians, while sampling brioche and le Paris-Brest. Pas mal! Vive NY!ReplyDeleteReplies
that is sooooo YOU Amy!Delete
Both my dd's just ate at Bryant park this summer and one saw an Audrey Hepburn movie..they had a great great time in your city..ReplyDelete
I am sporting a New York scarf..and a Magnolia Bakery cake cutter:) A beautiful rosary and holy water from St Patrick's cathedral.
They both enjoyed themselves with different friends..Had a ball.Replies
it was Harrison Frod in Raiders Of The Lost Ark last nite Monique.Delete
I hope you ate a New York Hot Dog while here!!
Fun! You should do a post just showing feet and make us guess if it's NY or Paris...ReplyDeleteReplies
WONDERFUL idea!!!Delete
love it
... been to NYC twice in my life - it was an amazing place - thanks for your wonderful post xReplyDelete
Wild, wonderful New York City!ReplyDelete
Love the blueberry boxes with their hairnets!
Truffle cheddar pretzel, you did not really eat it, did you? More calories than 3 dozen macarons, I'm sure. ;-)Replies
Oh tosh!Delete
Sometimes you must forget about calories!!
It's divine and worth it
Plus I don't eat the inside..what there is of it, just the crispy outter cheesy shell.
Practically calorie-free
New York! Where the blueberries wear hairnets and the runners wear Kangoo Jumps!ReplyDeleteReplies
Kangoo Jumps!Delete
Who knew..I must get out more
not up on NYC things at all...sigh
Stunning pictures of Bryant Park and Times Square. Both places are so much more civilized than they used to be...remember when they were sooooo sleazy and scary, even in the middle of the day ? It's spectacular to have them back!ReplyDelete
Like a lot of French people, I think Paris has nothing over New York. They are two of the world's greatest cities, fast-paced, fascinating and sometimes overwhelming. I personally LOVE New York, and would have gladly watched that outdoor movie with you at Bryant Park, where, if memory serves, the outdoor furniture was ordered chez Fermob, the famed French manufacturer (I have a similar bistro set on my deck at home.) Vive New York! Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
oh man girl....free perfume?!!!!! i bet nyc never smelled so nice!ReplyDelete
Oh thank you, thank you!!!ReplyDelete
We will be in NYC next week (my first time in decades) and I wouldn't have wanted to miss SIGMUNDS. (I am ignoring that comment about the calories in the Truffle Cheddar Pretzel)
The Sigmund cart is in front of the Met museum, certainly on the weekendsDelete
The Truffle is worth it - I don't eat the innards..just the outside
Very low calorie that way
Sitting here in Sydney Australia sighing over your beautiful images. I've been to New York several times, but the most memorable was on 4 July 1986 with my husband and (then) 3 young children. It was the centenary celebration of the Statue of Liberty and I don't think any of will ever forget it. Thanks for the memories.ReplyDelete
Just imagine the world if we all started to eat as we are told about on PB...we'd be so .... well, happy and satisfied anyway!ReplyDeleteReplies
Look at it this way.Delete
At least you wouldn't be eating any over-priced ice cream cones...
Ice Cream $4.95 a dip?? Whats it made out of.. Gold?? Yikes. Looks like lots of fun in August there tho.ReplyDelete
Looks like you had fun in NYC:)ReplyDelete
Can't say I share any of your food choices but enjoyed the trip round......
NYC seems so upbeat & fun. I remember the old days when it was to be feared...Thanks for showing Summer Car Free Streets. The way a city should be.The Kangoo Jumps are amazing...I looked up videos of them in action...I'd probably fall flat on my face, but they look like so much fun!ReplyDelete
Is a cheddar pretzel really that good to the taste as it looks and sound? I am so loving cheese right now. Pretzels and cheezy combo must be a match made in heaven. I'd love to try it!!ReplyDelete


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Explore Jordan and visit Petra, Amman and Wadi Rum
Visit Jordan and marvel at a fascinating mix of modernity and ancient wonders. Live it up in the cosmopolitan city of Amman, explore Jordan's mystic desert landscapes in Wadi Rum, visit the stunning ruins of Petra and trek to the remote hilltop village on this enriching and exciting tour of Jordan. With cultural gems, ancient artefacts and warm hospitality waiting around every corner, Jordan is an enthralling and magnetic land to visit.
Spend a whole day uncovering the majesty and mystery of the world wonder of Petra. The first glimpse of the Treasury from the narrow path of the Siq is unforgettable
Experience the best weightlessness this side of outer space with an effortless float in the super-salty waters of the Dead Sea
Hop in a jeep and experience the extraordinary desert scenery of Wadi Rum, a rugged moonscape of huge sandstone mountains
Meet Bedouin locals, learn about their ways, and sleep under the stars in a desert camp in the far-out destination of Wadi Rum
There is quite a bit of walking involved in visiting Jordan's historic sites, especially in Petra and Wadi Rum, so a reasonable level of fitness is required. Most of the time there is no shade so remember to bring a hat, sun protection, and sturdy, comfortable walking shoes.
Winters can get quite cool, so if you're visiting at this time, don't forget to pack some warmer layers too.
The desert camp in Wadi Rum is basic but incredibly memorable. There are tents and shared western bathroom facilities. Please be aware that while the desert may be very hot during the day, it will still be cool at night and warm clothes and a sleeping bag is highly recommended when travelling outside of the summer months.
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Explore Jordan is a great trip with a variety of activities and sights. The desert camp and hike in Wadi Rum was a highlight for me, together with Petra. Murad Arslan was an excellent tour leader, very knowledgeable and fun to travel with.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Federal Reserve policymakers this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as June — if the economy showed strong and sustained growth. But those officials appeared at odds over what evidence would demonstrate such gains.
Minutes of the Fed's April 30-May 1 meeting released Wednesday show "a number" of members expressed a willingness to scale back the $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds the Fed has been purchasing, perhaps as soon as next month, if the economy accelerates.
The Fed next meets on June 18-19.
Still, Chairman Ben Bernanke, the Fed's most important voice, signaled Wednesday in testimony to Congress that it is too soon for the Fed to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs.
The central bank has been buying $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds since September. That has helped lower long-term interest rates and encouraged more borrowing and spending.
After the April 30-May 1 meeting, the Fed said it could increase or decrease the pace depending on how the job market and inflation fare.
In recent months, the job market and the broader economy have made strides. The economy has added an average of 208,000 jobs a month since November. That's up from only 138,000 a month in the previous six months.
On Wednesday, Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee that the economy is growing moderately this year and unemployment has fallen to a four-year low of 7.5 percent. Still, unemployment remains well above levels consistent with healthy economies. And Bernanke said higher taxes and deep federal spending cuts are expected to slow economic growth this year.
Bernanke warned that reducing the Fed's efforts to keep borrowing rates low would "carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery."
When pressed by lawmakers, Bernanke said the pace of the bond purchases could be curtailed over the next few meetings, if the job market shows "real and sustainable progress." He wouldn't rule out curbing those purchases by Labor Day.
But Bernanke said that the Fed could just as quickly reverse course and pick up the pace if the economy falters.
The minutes also showed that there was a discussion over whether the central bank needs to update the strategy it will use to exit from the bond purchases and begin reducing the size of its $3 trillion-plus balance sheet.
The Fed published its exit strategy principles two years ago.
However, since an exit from the bond purchases is "well in the future," the minutes said it might be better to wait and acquire more information on how the markets are performing before releasing any revised plans.


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ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support Intel 2011-3 SOCKET
This motherboard supports Intel® Core™ i7 processors in the LGA2011-v3 package, with memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support 4-channel (8 DIMM) DDR4 memory and 40/28 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 lanes.
ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support chipset Intel x99
The Intel® X99 Express Chipset is a single-chipset design that supports socket LGA2011-v3 Intel® Core™ i7 processors. It provides improved performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, allowing increased bandwidth and stability. Additionally, X99 provides a maximum 6 USB 3.0 ports, 10 SATA 6Gbit/s ports for faster data retrieval.
ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support 4x PCIe x16 slots
The PCI Express x16 graphics interface / PCIe X16 IS high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards. PCIe has numerous improvements over the older standards, including higher maximum system bus throughput, lower I/O pin count and smaller physical footprint, better performance scaling for bus devices, a more detailed error detection and reporting mechanism (Advanced Error Reporting, AER), and native hot-plug functionality. More recent revisions of the PCIe standard provide hardware support for I/O virtualization. offers increased bandwidth and scalability over the previous AGP8X generation. PCI Express x16 allows up to 4 GB/s of peak bandwidth per direction, and up to 8 GB/s concurrent bandwidth.
ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support Onboard Storage M.2
Onboard M.2 is a specification for internally mounted computer expansion cards and associated connectors. It replaces the mSATA standard, which uses the PCI Express Mini Card physical card layout and connectors. M.2's more flexible physical specification allows different module widths and lengths, and, paired with the availability of more advanced interfacing featuresM.2 supports up to 32Gbit/s data-transfer speeds. It is the perfect choice for an operating system or application drive, making your whole PC or professional apps work as fast as possible.
ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support 1 port SATA Express
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ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support Intel® i218v Gaming chipset
Featuring the very latest Intel Ethernet (I219V) for faster, smoother gaming — always. Intel's LAN has the serious double advantage of reducing CPU overhead and offering exceptionally high TCP and UDP throughput. This significantly reduces the processor's workload, so there's more power for your game and your gameplay.More throughput, less CPU usage and great gaming experiences.
ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support Realtek® ALC1150 Codec
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ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support Nvidia SLI Technology
Upgrade your rig with a second NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU to enable SLI, the system turbocharger of choice for gamers, which enables everyone's favorite titles to be played at the highest screen resolutions with every setting maxed out. NVIDIA SLI supports the use of up to 4 GPUs, and thanks to FCAT, SLI is certified by independent press as fast, smooth and responsive
ASUS X99-PRO/USB 3.1 support AMD CROSSFIRE Technology
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RIM gets another Indian reprieve
Terrorists dash to their BlackBerrys for three-month free-for-all
India won't ban BlackBerrys until next year, allowing RIM another three months to arrange lawful intercept, though the decision is not the good news it sounds.
RIM's problem isn't time, it's the impossibility of providing a solution acceptable to politicians keen to be seen doing something, and enterprises reliant on RIM's impenetrable security model. RIM's only hope is to spend the time trying to convince the politicians that what they want just isn't possible, as it has managed in the United Arab Emirates. But the very fact that the ban has been postponed means that effort has so far failed.
RIM was originally required to provide Indian security forces access by the end of August, or face a ban. Days before the ban came into effect, RIM was given another 60 days. This has now been extended until January*, with the Indian government saying that it will ask network operators to block communication with BlackBerry devices unless RIM can arrange for lawful intercept of communications by that time.
RIM has apparently already offered access to instant messaging, and web browsing sessions, initially after the event but switching to real time in the next couple of months. That can be achieved by putting a RIM server in the country, and thus subject to local laws on lawful intercept. That was enough for the government of the United Arab Emirates, which has rescinded its own threatened block.
But India wants to be able to read email sent and received on BlackBerry handsets. RIM's security model encrypts the mail on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) using a key that is only shared between the BES and the handset, making that very difficult. If the BES is run by RIM then the company can intercept messages, but if the BES is run by an enterprise then RIM has no access to the keys and can't provide access to the messages.
Nokia has been quick to capitalise on the situation, citing Ovi Mail servers within India and promoting its compliance. The same solution will work for Hotmail, Google Mail and similar hosted services, but won't work for Skype or other peer-to-peer services that encrypt end to end, including RIM's BES mail.
So while an extension might seem like good news, it actually reflects the intransigence of both sides. It also extends the agony as RIM stands alone calling for industry unity, and the industry watches to see who is going to blink first - RIM or the Indian government.
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Primary Lessons
What do the results so far tell us about Clinton and Obama as general election candidates?
It's the political equivalent of "tastes great!" vs. "less filling!" among light-beer lovers: the Clinton-Obama battle over who will be a better general-election candidate based on the primary results. The Clinton campaign says she'd be the better fall candidate because she's stronger with her party's core of white working- and middle-class voters in Democratic states. The Obama campaign argues that he'd be better in the fall because he can attract independents, bring new younger voters to the polls, and compete in traditionally red states.
Who's right? Neither side. Why? Because they are both arguing from the false assumption that primary contests can provide a guide to the fall campaign. Look back across recent political history and you'll be hard-pressed to find such a link.
Some of the counterexamples are blatantly obvious: In 1988, the Rev. Jesse Jackson won Democratic primaries in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia. Did that reveal Jackson's potential strength in the South as a general-election candidate? Of course not; it demonstrated that legions of white Southerners had fled the party in those states, leaving blacks a powerful voting bloc in the primary but insufficient in numbers to carry the general election.
Or look at what happened in 1980 in the Michigan Republican primary. On May 20—well after Ronald Reagan had effectively clinched the GOP nomination—Michigan Republicans voted for George H.W. Bush in a landslide, 57.5 percent to 31.8 percent. Proof that Reagan would be weak in that state? That fall, he beat President Jimmy Carter there by six and a half points, a bigger margin than homeboy Gerald Ford had racked up against Carter four years earlier. Today, when journalists and campaigns set out to find "Reagan Democrats," they head straight for Macomb County, Mich. * There was no sign of enthusiasm for Reagan in the Republican primary of 1980 because Reagan Democrats weren't voting in the primary.
I offer this blindingly obvious point to suggest why it is mostly a fool's errand to find autumn portents in winter and spring primaries. To be even more blindingly obvious, the great majority of voters do not participate in the primaries. As of today, some 27 million people have votes in Democratic primaries and caucuses (counting Florida, where all the candidates were on the ballot, but not Michigan, where only Clinton and Chris Dodd were). In the 2004 general election, more than 122 million votes were cast. Any extrapolation about voting blocs based on primary results has to confront that elemental difference.
Moreover, exit poll results from primaries don't always tell us what we think they tell us. Consider the much-sought-after independent voter. Independents are permitted to participate in primaries and caucuses in such competitive states asOhio, Wisconsin, Iowa, and New Hampshire. But exit polls simply ask respondents to identify themselves, so a registered Democrat or Republican who considers herself an independent thinker might tell an exit pollster she's "independent." In addition, even those voters who don't formally register with a party often have strong leanings one way or the other; the number of genuine "swing" voters is comparatively small.
In the case of the current battle, we're divining, for example, whether Obama can draw white voters based on those who have decided to vote in Democratic primaries. We don't really know how this historic contest between a woman and an African-American is playing with white voters who are not part of the primary process. Maybe race and gender matter a lot less than they would have a few decades ago; maybe such voters are sitting this round out and will flock to the white guy in the fall. We are unlikely to get a persuasive answer to this question until the fall. Nor do we have any real clue about whether Clinton's showing among white working-class voters would mean much of anything should she be the Democrat to confront John McCain … or whether a campaign focused on the economy as opposed to national security would pull such voters to either Democrat. Can we guess? Sure. Can the primaries offer us actionable intelligence? Highly unlikely.
This is not to say that there are no clues at all to be gleaned from the primaries. Michael Barone—who is to political numbers what Bill James is to baseball statistics—offers this take on last week's Ohio primary: "In southeast Ohio, settled originally by Virginians and still Southern-accented today, Clinton carried all-white counties with 70 percent to 80 percent of the vote—more than she was carrying nearly all-white counties in central Texas. That raises doubts that Obama could run well in these counties, which provided critical votes in Bill Clinton's wins in Ohio in the 1990s and Jimmy Carter's narrow win there in 1976." Those findings have to give Obama backers pause.
If you're looking for better news for Obama, the measurable surge of younger voters in the primaries and caucuses suggests that the decadeslong wait for "the youth vote"—a wait that makes Godot look like the most punctual of men—may be over. After splitting their votes almost evenly between Gore and Bush in 2000, the 18- to 29-year-old cohort—some 20.5 million of them, by my exit poll arithmetic—produced a nine-point edge for John Kerry, or a boost of 2 million-plus votes. Greater numbers and a bigger margin for Obama in the fall could be decisive.
There's also one historical example that is heartbreakingly intriguing. When he won the 1968 Indiana primary, Robert Kennedy had the vote of a large number of conservative white working-class voters. (In 1970, two ex-Kennedy aides wrote a book debunking that claim; in his new book on the '68 race, The Last Campaign, historian Thurston Clarke debunks the debunkers.) There is anecdotal and statistical evidence suggesting that a chunk of the RFK primary voters wound up supporting George Wallace's third-party bid that November, when Democrat Hubert Humphrey ran against Nixon. We will never know whether Robert Kennedy could have kept those voters from defecting to Wallace—or whether the huge turnout of Hispanic and black voters for RFK in California that June would have occurred again in November and turned the tide in his favor in what was back then a Republican-tilting state.
Finally, there is one clear and consistent scenario in which primary contests provide telling clues about the fall: when an incumbent president faces a meaningful challenge for re-nomination within his own party. No president in modern times has ever survived such a challenge to win in the fall. Lyndon Johnson abdicated in 1968; Gerald Ford fended off Ronald Reagan in 1976 but lost that fall; Jimmy Carter beat Ted Kennedy but was swept away by Ronald Reagan four years later; and even George H.W. Bush, embarrassed in New Hampshire by Pat Buchanan, though never seriously threatened by him, had to invest so much time shoring up his base that the episode helped lead to his defeat in 1992.
But the main lesson is that in searching the primary terrain for general-election hints, tread very carefully. As a rule, what happens in the primaries stays in the primaries.
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HOUSTON --A Houston man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison in a prostitution case involving hotels and online advertisements.
A federal judge in Houston on Thursday sentenced 30-year-old Jerald Bland. Bland in January pleaded guilty to transportation of a woman for commercial sex.
Prosecutors say Bland in 2010 transported the woman to Beaumont and to Louisiana. Investigators used online ads and corresponding hotel records in several Louisiana cities, including New Orleans, Lake Charles, Lafayette and Baton Rouge.
Several hotel employees recognized Bland and the woman as guests.
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Sam Caplan has a solid interview with new EliteXC lightweight champ KJ Noons on his ProElite.com blog, where Noons discusses his training, a possible rematch with Nick Diaz, and his pro boxing ambitions. But the most telling quote comes right at the beginning:
Sam Caplan: After you beat Nick Diaz, how did you celebrate?
K.J. Noons: I showered up and we went out to a Fudrucker's [sic] that my buddy owns in Corpus Christi. I had about 40 friends and family down there that drove from Houston and he re-opened up his restaraunt and (there was) an open bar. Open bar and food. It was kind of like a private party. It was fun.
Okay, for all of you who have never been to a Fuddruckers before, when KJ says there was an "open bar," he's referring to Fuddruckers' famous Toppings Bar, where you can turn your hamburger into a "Burger Masterpiece" by dressing it with as much lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, peppers, cheese, seasonings and sauces as you want — and in any combination. It's what ensures that no two Fuddruckers burgers will ever be quite the same. And you don't have to be an MMA champion to use it!
Also, when he says that it was "kind of like a private party," he means that the last customers had gone home four hours ago, and except for the homeless drifter that sleeps outside of the women's restroom, they basically had the place to themselves.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Sidney Crosby's been down the road too many times during the NHL's seemingly interminable lockout to get too optimistic about the latest—and perhaps last—round of negotiations.
Yet the Pittsburgh Penguins star knows eventually his team will get back to work. If it's sometime later this month, the normal 82-game regular season would turn into a 48-game dash, one that would seem to favour clubs like the Penguins.
Pittsburgh did little to overhaul its roster during the off-season, believing the core that fell to Philadelphia in the opening round of last spring's playoffs remains strong enough to compete for a Stanley Cup.
Other than the addition of centre Brandon Sutter—acquired in a draft day trade that sent Jordan Staal to Carolina—the Penguins believe there will be little if any "getting to know you" time whenever the puck drops.
"We can look at that as a positive for sure," Crosby said. "Guys understand their roles and what they need to do and there's trust there. Maybe with some newer guys you have to develop that a little bit more but yeah I would say it can't hurt and it certainly helps a little bit to have that familiarity there."
While some Penguins, notably reigning MVP Evgeni Malkin, travelled overseas to cash a paycheque during the lockout, Crosby has been leading a handful of teammates onto the ice for drills four days a week. Thursday he lined up alongside normal linemates Chris Kunitz and Pascal Dupuis for a little 4-on-4, placing the puck on top of his head then dropping it to the ice for face-offs in place of a linesman.
The hour-long session didn't quite match the intensity of a game, but there are also few places in the league that have shown as much solidarity during the four-month-old lockout. The Penguins believe that can only pay off when things get going for real.
"I think that that's definitely an advantage," defenceman Ben Lovejoy said. "I think we're going to find out (when the lockout ends) which teams took it seriously the last couple months (and) who decided to go on vacation."
Something there's been very little of in Pittsburgh. Crosby has basically lost two years of his prime while dealing with concussion-like symptoms and now a work stoppage. He never really got back up to full speed last year, scoring only eight times in 29 regular-season games. He picked it up in the playoffs, notching three goals in a wild six-game series with the Flyers.
Now healthy—and with a new contract that will keep him in Pittsburgh until his late-30s—Crosby is eager to etch his legacy in stone. Having familiar faces to work with in what could be something akin to the 1994-95 season that was limited to just 48 games could help him get off to a quick start.
Crosby has talked with Pittsburgh player development coach Bill Guerin about what it takes to navigate such a busy schedule. Guerin was part of the New Jersey Devils team that hoisted the Cup in 1995 after a three-month sprint.
The lesson Guerin imparted was simple: don't mess around.
"You don't have time to drop a bunch of games, it's pretty hard to catch up," Crosby said. "I think you have to be ready to find a way as best you can. Every team is kind of in the same situation trying to get ready quick but you really have to be as close to your best right away. Usually you have a whole season to find your identity. I think you have to find it a little bit quicker in a shorter season."
It's something the Penguins believe they can do provided they stay healthy. If anything, the lockout has provided the players who stuck close to Pittsburgh pretty good at running their own practices.
Forward Joe Vitale joked there's no need for coach Dan Bylsma to show up once things return to normal.
"If he can keep doing what he's doing, that'd be great," Vitale said with a laugh.
He's kidding. The well-liked Bylsma is one of the main reasons the Penguins have been among the most stable franchises in a league that sometimes struggles to find its footing. That shouldn't be a problem in Pittsburgh, which hopes a quick start will lead to an even better finish.
"Playing with the same guys for the most part, there's a comfort zone," Vitale said. "You can read off each other well, so there's not really as many growing pains."
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Is This the Moment Where It Started Going Wrong for M. Night Shyamalan?
In 2004, the After Earth director commissioned a weird, revealing documentary about himself.
Ten years ago, M. Night Shyamalan was on top of the world, touted as "the next Spielberg" by Newsweek and fresh off a string of successes including the Oscar-nominated smash The Sixth Sense, the Bruce Willis superhero origin story Unbreakable, and the alien thriller Signs, which would be Mel Gibson's last studio hit. But things have changed: The filmmaker who could once open a movie on his moniker alone has a new film coming out today, the sci-fi story After Earth, where his name doesn't appear in the key marketing materials at all. It's only the latest setback for Shyamalan, whose career woes have been compounded by giddy press reports chronicling his fall from grace, including a memorable round of media attention in 2010 when audiences supposedly booed his title card in the trailer for the horror film Devil, which Shyamalan produced. Where did it all go wrong?
Cinematic historians trying to pinpoint the place where Shyamalan's hubris outgrew his oeuvre would be well advised to hit up YouTube; there, they'll find a weird, misbegotten 2004 Sci-Fi channel pseudo-documentary titled The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan that hints at the problems to come. Built to lead up to the heavily hyped release of Shyamalan's film The Village, this bizarre special follows documentarian Nathaniel Kahn as he begins to profile Shyamalan for what's ostensibly an authorized puff piece ... at least until Kahn begins poking around into the director's shrouded personal history, at which point Shyamalan appears to pull out of the proceedings in anger. Before Buried Secret aired, Shyamalan had been planting stories in the press that he was unhappy with the movie, which promised to reveal a secret that the filmmaker preferred to keep hidden; it didn't take long before the media figured out that the entire thing was a publicity stunt. Kahn and Shyamalan were in cahoots, carefully crafting an "unauthorized documentary" that was actually a burnishing of the Shyamalan brand.
It's a fascinating look into how Shyamalan wants to be perceived. Shyamalan's actual backstory is pretty interesting — born in Pondicherry, India, before moving to a suburb of Philadelphia, Manoj Shyamalan was a movie-obsessed kid who'd grow up to be one of the youngest Best Director nominees ever — but Shyamalan can't help but embellish those humble beginnings. Throughout Buried Secret, it's implied that some sort of childhood accident left him with a connection to the supernatural; his best-known characters, it seems, are just avatars for the possibly superheroic Shyamalan. At one point, Kahn ventures to Shyamalan's supposed alma mater — Ravenhill Academy for Gifted Children, which doesn't actually exist — where school administrators remember little Night as a bright boy who never came late to class and never had to call home with a fever. "You know," replies Kahn, "in his second movie, Unbreakable, the character has never been sick." It's a breathtaking bit of braggadocio, both for how it posits Shyamalan as an invulnerable god like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable and for how it wipes away the two smaller movies (Wide Awake and Praying With Anger) that Shyamalan had made without fanfare before The Sixth Sense.
In this version of his life, everyone is in awe of him. Throughout the doc, fans and friends of Shyamalan (most of whom are played by actors) speak of the filmmaker in the sort of hushed, reverent tones that suggest the whispery register inhabited by Shyamalan's own characters. Kahn comes calling on a childhood friend of Shyamalan's who bashfully admits, "I stopped trying to get in touch with him because I started getting nervous. I thought maybe I was starting to achieve stalker status." With shaky hands, an old woman hands Kahn a copy of Shyamalan's childhood films as though she were entrusting him with the Pelican Brief. When Kahn drives by the front gate of Shyamalan's mansion, he finds starstruck groupies loitering outside. "Everyone knows ... M. Night's connected to the other side," one says gravely.
And the movie isn't shy about suggesting Shyamalan's supernatural power. When Kahn first tries to film Shyamalan, the camera and sound begin malfunctioning as though Shyamalan is surrounded by a ghostly, tech-disrupting force field. (That must be hell on his boom mike operators.) Later, Kahn recruits one of Shyamalan's superfans to use a Ouija board with him; after Kahn murmurs, "Are there any spirits in the room with a connection to a man named Manoj?" the planchette flies across the board on its own accord. And the buried secret alluded to in the title? As a child, Shyamalan accidentally drowned, and when he was finally resuscitated after a half-hour spent dead, he returned to life with the Sixth Sense ability to speak to spirits. Take that, Spielberg!
What's also fascinating about Buried Secret, though, is how Shyamalan seems eager to portray himself as a prickly pear. Kahn says multiple times that the director is something of a recluse — which certainly wasn't true of the press-happy Shyamalan in 2004 — and indeed, Shyamalan flakes on his interviews with Kahn throughout, a detail that may have been intended to make Shyamalan look mysterious but instead comes across as diva behavior. His careful publicist lays down ground rules for dealing with the filmmaker, warning, "The most important thing is not to make eye contact with Night," and even Johnny Depp puts in a cameo where he complains about all the nondisclosure forms he has to sign to have a simple conversation with Shyamalan. If it's his attempt to be Terrence Malick, it's not a good look.
Buried Secret came and went that year, but you can see it as a pivot point for Shyamalan's career, the moment he reached a point of self-mythologizing usually reserved for rappers or pop stars. A few years later, he'd push his luck in two ways that seem presaged by Buried Secret. In his next film, Lady in the Water, Shyamalan cast himself as a writer with the power to change the world and influence presidents — the kind of tonal misstep you might make when you're already willing to hire actors to play your fawning fans in a documentary. And the year after, another self-mythologizing work commissioned by Shyamalan would see release: The Man Who Heard Voices, a book by author Michael Bamberger that detailed Shyamalan's creative process while working on Lady in the Water. Fawning though it was, Bamberger's book also plumbed that prickly-pear side of Shyamalan that he so eagerly sought to showcase in Buried Secret: Shyamalan burns his bridges with Disney executives when they express reservations about Lady in the Water, then continues to press ahead with what would become his first significant flop. The man might be able to hear voices, it seems, but he won't listen to naysayers.
Early on in Buried Secret, Shyamalan is asked, "What is it like to be so successful so young?" He replies sheepishly: "It feels like I can't just make a movie. It has to connect in some unusual fashion for it to be appropriate [for me]. Otherwise," he says, "it's just a movie." The irony is that though Shyamalan continues to make big-budget features, his movies now are just that: movies. Recent films like The Last Airbender and After Earth lack Shyamalan's personal touch, the style and feel he worked so hard to cultivate — and publicize. Still, don't count him out: As directors like Michael Bay and Quentin Tarantino have proven, Hollywood is willing to tolerate hubris as long as you can deliver the goods. And if you're trying to mount a critical comeback, who better to do that than the filmmaker who claims to have come back from the dead once before?


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Doesn't She Look Thrilled About LG's First DTV Devices For The US
Yes, your eyes are deceiving you, LG's not licensed the StarTAC design. Phew. That telescopic antenna doesn't just harp back to ye olden days though, it also receives a digital TV signal, one of the first US DTV devices.


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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have seized more than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of cocaine and heroin and arrested seven people.
The director of the Caribbean country's National Drug Control Agency says the drugs were found Friday aboard a speedboat from South America. Rolando Rosado said Saturday that four Dominicans and three Venezuelans were detained after they threw 30 of 47 drug packets into the sea.
He says agents seized more than 1,190 kilograms (2,623 pounds) of cocaine and seven kilograms (15 pounds) of heroin, along with 110 heroin capsules. Rosado says it is this year's second-largest seizure of drugs by Dominican authorities.
He says authorities have seized a total of more than 8 metric tons (9 tons) of cocaine this year, setting a record.


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Main Street Cafe & Books has scheduled an exhibition of Denise Natanson-Marcus' artwork through Feb. 1.
The show highlights Natanson-Marcus' landscapes of California and the West and includes paintings from her recent visit to Santa Fe and Sedona.
Natanson-Marcus, a 24-year Los Altos resident and painter for 40 years, presents a contemporary realist style that captures the beauty of the natural landscape surrounding urban lives. She strives to bring a sense of peace and beauty into the home through her art.
Main Street Cafe & Books is located at 134 Main St. Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sundays.
For more information, visit natanson-art.com.
Docent discusses work of Matisse
Fine-arts docent Ellen Harden is scheduled to discuss the "Matisse from SFMOMA" exhibition 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Program Room of the Los Altos main library, 13 S. San Antonio Road.
Henri Matisse, the French Impressionist and Neoimpressionist painter, is known for his use of color and influence on the evolution of modern art in the early 20th century.
The exhibition, which runs through Sept. 7 at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, is on loan from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art while it undergoes renovation.
For more information, call 948-7683 or visit sccl.org/losaltos.
Local artist showcases portraits of Jamestown
Gallery 9 has scheduled an exhibition of photographs, "Portraits of Jamestown, Ghana," by Los Altos artist Bill Scull. The display, which runs through Feb. 1, includes intimate portraits from Jamestown, a fishing village in the West African nation.
Gallery 9 is located at 143 Main St. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.
For more information, call 941-7969 or visit gallery9losaltos.com.