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The tuning company Arden created the AJ14 Noble Cat out of a Jaguar XJ by adding a few tasteful highlights that transform the luxury sedan into a more aggressive machine. The use of lower lips and LED running lights accentuates the front end while the rear diffuser frames the Arden exhaust tips. However the most interesting feature is the specially designed leaper that gives the Noble Cat the classic Jaguar touch.
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Arden is expanding its exclusive range of accessories for the Jaguar XJ 358. From now on there is a modern front-end conversion and a sporty-elegant rear diffuser available.
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Day Three0 Reviews
Uh-oh, something's about to happen, something big.
Kim woke up early the next morning. She wasn't alone. Apparently, Ron was awake as well. There were footprints leading out of camp. Kim followed the prints, and found Ron, looking out over a ledge opposite of where they had come up the day before,
"We've got to get across that?" Kim asked, looking up, she caught her first glimpse of Dead Man's Gorge, the huge crevasse that had claimed the lives of several of the areas best climbers, the chasm was wide, and huge, it seemed to go on forever,
"Yep, if we want to make it to base camp two tonight, we got to." Ron said, pointing to a large ledge overlooking the chasm, Kim could barely make out a small tent on top of the ledge,
"Just don't go killing yourself, Ron, you know, Middleton Park Cemetary is filled with the bodies of climbers that thought they could beat the gorge." Kim said,
"Yeah, I know." Ron said, referring to the fall down the gorge, that most of the climbers in the area had nicknamed, 'The Express Elevator to Hell,' Ron himself had almost experienced that same ride four years ago, but midway down the fall, he had gotten his ice axes lodged into a glacier and was able to climb his way out of the gorge, thereby making it to the camp, but not without injury, he had dislocated his shoulder in the fall, and two other climbers in his party had died in the ensuing exodus over the side of the gorge, and that, more than anything, put a stop to going any further that year. And it was only two years ago, he had managed to successfully make the jump, crossing the gorge without a scratch, but the following morning, he had broken his leg, when his foot found an unmapped crevasse in the mountainside.
It was mid-afternoon when Kim and Ron reached the gorge, Kim watched, as Ron got out a large length of climbing rope, and pulled his ice axes out of his backpack, then, dropping his pack to the ground, he took a long run backwards, to give himself a head of steam when he made the jump. Apparently, he was going to hook the rope onto a tree on the other side, because he had lodged one end of the rope into the granite of the mountain, which would allow Kim the advantage of just going across by the rope, rather than risking the fall. Kim got out of the way just in time, Ron had begun his run, as he reached the edge of the gorge, he made a wild leap, Kim watched, horror struck, as Ron hung in midair, and then, began to fall, his arms flailing madly, but in a few seconds, it was over, Ron had made it across, but barely, Kim was stunned that he made it at all, but then she realized, the reason the other climbers didn't make it, they didn't drop their packs, and didn't have someone on the other side to bring it over for them.
It took nearly twenty minutes for Kim to get across the gorge, she didn't want to try any heroics, not at this height, but Ron's voice made her feel comfortable as she shimmied across the rope, when her feet touched solid ground again, she let out a sigh of relief,
"Thank God that's over with." Kim said,
"Oh, the fun's only started, K.P." Ron said, a slight grin on his face, Kim knew what he was saying, they would have to navigate the gorge during the decent, but something about his voice meant something entirely different,
"What do you mean?" she asked,
"Well, the weather, it's cold, and snowing out, that means there's bound to be hidden crevasses as we get higher." Ron said,
"Yeah," Kim replied, "not to mention, several covered holes dotted all over the mountain, if our feet come into contact with any of them, it's broken bone city."
"Got that right." Ron said, remembering his encounter with one of these covered holes a couple of years ago.
They had arrived at base camp two about five hours ahead of schedule, the first thing Ron did when they arrived, was to call the ranger's station, and ask for a weather report,
"Clear as a bell tonight, Ronnie," the ranger said, "so you're good to go to camp three."
"Roger that, Paulie." Ron replied, when he came out of the tent, he looked over at Kim, and motioned over to another large tent near the comm tent,
"Mess hall," he said, now leading Kim to the large tent, as soon as they went in, they found a small man inside, his blond hair was blindingly white, as though it were made of freshly fallen snow, his light blue eyes looked as though they were made from chips of sapphires, and his body was well built, if not a little pasty looking,
"Ack, Ron Stoppable, you made it, Paulie said you should be coming, so I had a meal prepared for you, and your party, how many?" the man asked, in a thick Scandavian accent,
"Just the two of us, Sven." Ron said, gesturing over at Kim, then, to himself,
"That is good, please, take a seat, your dinner vill be shortly." Sven said, now disappearing to the rear of the tent, Kim was looking at Ron, a question seemed to be forming in her head,
"How did they get a mess hall at two thousand feet up?" Ron asked, noticing Kim's puzzled look, Kim nodded, "They made it when they erected the camp." Ron said,
"What about Sven?" Kim asked,
"He's harmless, he's one of the search, and rescue workers that stays in a cabin located about a few hundred yards to the east of here, he's always the first to arrive at this camp, he cooks the meals, and keeps the camp in order, Joe works camp one, and Wayne works camp three." Ron said,
"How come we didn't see Joe at camp one?" Kim asked, but Ron didn't answer that question, instead, it was Sven,
"He vas sick, there vas no one vorking camp one." he said,
"Okay, sick with what?" Kim asked,
"Pneumonia." Sven replied,
"Wow, is he over it?" Ron asked,
"Ja, he is fine, now, my friend." Sven said, smiling, revealing dazzlingly bright teeth,
"That's good, tell him, Ron sends his best wishes." Ron said,
"Ja, that, I'll do." Sven said, still smiling.
Kim and Ron left camp two about two hours later, the sun was still up, and the temperature seemed to be holding for now, but in the north, little to Kim, and Ron's awareness, one of the worst blizzards to hit Middleton was starting, it had already buried Denver, and several other cities to the north, in more than two feet of snow, and stopped much of the air traffic in the area, passenger flights had been rerouted to other airports, and all flights in the areas had been grounded, and according to the forecast, if the storm maintained its current path, it would hit Middleton by tomorrow afternoon, unfortunately for Kim, and Ron, they had left the camp before Sven could give them the bad news.
Kim and Ron were going to make camp in a clearing about a quarter mile from camp two, there, they would dig in for the night,
"We're almost there, K.P." Ron said, but when he turned around, Kim was nowhere to be seen, he retraced his steps, and found a hole in the mountain, that he was sure wasn't there before, as he made the descent down the hole, he looked down, and saw Kim, lying at the bottom, she was holding onto her right leg, and shouting out in pain,
"Ron, get your ass down here!" she was yelling, Ron was suddenly nervous, Kim was injured, and this might stop his ascent up the mountain,
'Even if it did,' he thought to himself, 'it's the furthest I've gotten in five years, I can't complain about that.'
As Ron made it to the bottom of the hole, he noticed that Kim's right leg was folded underneath her, and a red substance was staining the snow around her. As he slowly moved Kim's leg straight, he realized what the red substance was, it was Kim's blood, it had stained the leg of her snowsuit, and he was pretty sure that Kim's leg was broken, he just didn't know how badly, but he didn't want to find out here, something was telling him to get out of the hole before nightfall, so he laced Kim's left arm over his shoulder, and around the back of his neck, then, attaching Kim to his climbing harness, (Kim was wearing her harness as well) he climbed out of the hole, and found a small, flat area where he could set up camp, and assess the damage that had been done to Kim's leg.
"Easy, K.P., I got you." Ron said, laying Kim on the floor of the tent, he was removing her snowsuit, and preparing to remove Kim's broken leg from the leg of the suit, as soon as Kim's right leg was free, Ron looked down, what he saw made him sick, the bone had broken the surface of the skin, ('No wonder there was so much blood on the ground.' Ron thought) and was showing itself clearly through the leg of Kim's pants, as Kim got up to look at the damage, Ron's hand came down swiftly on her shoulder,
"Lay back, Kim, you don't want to see this." he said, quickly covering the injury with a cloth, and pushing Kim into a laying position,
"So not the drama, Ron," Kim replied, "it's just a broken leg, how bad could it be?"
"How about an open wound." Ron said, not hiding it any longer, he knew that Kim would remove the cloth as soon as he was out of sight, so he took it off her leg, and showed it to her, resigning himself to the worst, if Kim were to see it, she would go into shock, and he would need to get them off the mountain within the hour, and if not, he would have three days before Gangrene set in,
"Holy shit!" Kim said, looking at her mangled right leg,
"I told you not to look." Ron said,
"That's not what's worrying me, Ron, do you know enough to sew it up, and get us off the mountain?" Kim asked,
"I hope." Ron said, there was a complete absence of confidence from his voice.
Ron had sewn up the wound as best as he could, and had set Kim's leg, when he had set the bone, Kim screamed, and shouted out a bunch of obscenities that he was sure, she didn't learn from anyone in her family, after that was done, he bound the leg in a splint, and fashioned a crutch for her to walk with, he had thought, if she were able to move under her own power, they would be able to make down the mountain faster, and get her to the hospital,
"I only hope this works." Ron said, looking over at Kim, her snowsuit had been returned to her, unfortunately, Ron couldn't get out the blood that stained it, so she would have to deal with it, he had also sewn up her pants, the tear in them had happened across one of the seams, so it made it easier to conceal the tear. Tomorrow, they would start the descent down the mountain.
That night, while Kim and Ron slept, the blizzard that had been threatening Middleton, hit with the force of a runaway freight train, thirty mile an hour winds, topped with heavily falling snow, had covered the valley in about two-and-a-half feet of snow in under an hour, all flights in, and around Middleton had been grounded, including, the search and rescue helicopters that the National Park Service used to patrol Mt. Middleton with. At the Possible home, Mrs. Dr. Possible woke with a start,
"What's wrong, honey." Mr. Dr. Possible asked, looking at his whey-faced wife,
"Something terrible's happened to Kimmie." she said,
"Ronald's up there with her, she'll be fine." Mr. Possible said,
"I hope you're right." Mrs. Possible said, laying back down, listening to the wind howling outside their house, but the worry over her daughter didn't die off, instead, it got worse, she quietly got out of bed, and walked into the kitchen, where she poured herself a cup of coffee, and sat down at the table.
'Please, God, let her be alright, let her come home to us, safe, and sound.' she thought. She went back to her room, and got back into bed, her dreams tormented by the fact that her only daughter was out there, in all that snow, and that terrible storm that was raging outside their home right this moment, and there was nothing she could do to stop it, for the first time in her life, she felt helpless, like there was nothing she could do to bring her daughter back home.
Up on the mountain, Ron remained awake, a protective arm around Kim, he was watching her closely, he knew it was a matter of time, he only had a small window to get Kim off the mountain, and to the hospital, otherwise, she could loose her leg to Gangrene, that was, of course, the worst case scenario, if all went well, she would be fine, the doctors would work their magic, and she would be back to her normal self in no time,
'But what if she did loose her leg?' Ron mentally asked himself, 'Would she blame me for it, would she never want to see me again, would I blame myself for it?'
These thoughts swirled around his head, as he drifted off into a fitful sleep, just as the winds began to pick up, and the snow began to fall.
A/N: Now, it's getting interesting, I thought I should add the parental instinct in there, it wouldn't be right if the elder Possible's didn't react in some way to Kim's injury, Kim's mother would be the one to worry the most.


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To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Review of Scottish Public Sector Procurement in Construction.
The Government welcomes Robin Crawford and Ken Lewandowski's excellent report which highlighted a number of areas where there is significant scope to improve the way in which the public sector and construction industry do business with each other. Importantly, the report challenges all parts of the public sector to make improvements, as well as industry itself.
I firmly believe that we must work together to address the issues which the report has brought into focus. The Scottish Government, working with the Scottish Futures Trust, is developing a programme to deliver the report's recommendations in partnership with other parts of the public sector and construction businesses as appropriate.
I am asking the cross-sector Public Procurement Reform Board, which I chair with support from John McClelland, to oversee this new programme of work. For now, therefore, I do not intend to pursue the appointment of a Chief Construction Adviser. I am, however, happy to accept all of the other recommendations of the report, and shall ask the reform board, as part of its detailed planning, to identify and prioritise those actions which will have the greatest impact.
The implementation of the report's recommendations will represent a major change programme across the public sector. I am committed to ensuring that the Scottish Government plays its full part in supporting this programme and I strongly encourage the leaders of other public bodies to proactively consider the report's recommendations, to determine what they can do to develop capability in relation to construction procurement in order to ensure greater efficiency and deliver better outcomes for Scotland.
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Obama is No Socialist Writes Oscar-Winning Director Milos Forman at the NYTimes.com in Comparing Marxism-Leninism in His Former Czechoslovakia
Oscar-winning Director Milos Forman ("Amadeus", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), who suffered from totalitarian socialism under the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia before immigrating to the United States in 1968, has some useful observations at the New York Times
Obama the Socialist? Not Even Close.
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At Winding Road | Driven: 2012 Tesla Model S we first read -- and are fascinated since -- by the fact that Tesla is headquartered in Silicon Valley.
We have visions of all the tech company execs setting a good example for the motorists of the future and driving this car "down the road", as it were.
We are, by the way, prepared and willing to do "prolonged" testing of this electric vehicle (EV) here in Europe -- the company can contact us at any time ;-)
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Peter Scheer, Executive Director of the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), shares his thoughts on the Obamacare decision and expresses some ideas on modernity and the future of the United States Supreme Court
Justice Roberts Saved the Supreme Court -- Here's What He Needs to Do Next.
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Loudon Cottage
Cottage | 2 bedrooms | sleeps 4
|Key Info
Loudon Cottage is a romantic Highland holiday retreat. Situated in the historic village of St Catherines on the shores of Loch Fyne, Argyll, this traditional cottage has been beautifully restored and stylishly and comfortably furnished. The cosy sitting room has a lovely open fire. The cottage sleeps four in two bedrooms (one double on the first floor and one small twin on the ground floor), but can be booked with adjacent McHugh Cottage to accommodate larger parties of up to eight.
It's a magical location. The cottage is set in 440 acres of natural woodland, which has heritage status. Behind the cottage is Tom Na Sgeulachd, which is covered in bluebells in the spring. A small burn runs down to the loch below the cottages. If you're after tranquillity and peace then this is the place to come. And it's only six miles from the main A83 trunk road from Glasgow.
|Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms
|Will consider
|Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)
|Car advised
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|Pets welcome, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Log fire, DVD player, Sea view
|Central heating, TV, CD player
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Single beds (2), Double beds (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided
|Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ
|Further details indoors
•Kitchen with automatic washing machine
•Electric cooker
•Fridge and freezer
•Cupboard with hanging space
•Ironing board
•Vacuum cleaner
•Duvets, bed linen and towels are provided
•Electricity, water and heating (total control electric heating) are included in the rate
•Initial supply of wood and coal
•Small charcoal BBQs are available
•Private parking and garden area
•Pets are welcome by arrangement
The Central Scotland/Strathclyde region
Argyll is everything you would imagine the west coast of Scotland to be – and more, making it the perfect place for your holiday. It's wild and remote, with hills, glens, rugged coast, white beaches, sea lochs, clear waters and ancient forests. Many of our properties are in the Cowal Peninsula, known as Argyll's Secret Coast because of its undiscovered charm. You won't find crowds of tourists here. What you will find is wildlife, tranquillity and stunning scenery. With all this on offer, your Argyll holiday will be one to remember.
Argyll is packed with places to visit and things to do. Sailors, walkers, cyclists and artists are all drawn to this area for its natural beauty. You'll find plenty of restaurants and pubs serving up locally sourced food, including Loch Fyne's world-famous seafood. And, of course, there's a great range of holiday accommodation, from contemporary apartments to traditional cottages.
Strachur is a lovely village on the north east shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll. There's plenty to see and do here. Play tennis, fish or boat on the loch, visit Glensluain Pottery, look around the Smiddy Museum or enjoy something to eat in the pubs and cafes. The world-famous Loch Fyne Oyster Bar is just down the road. There are loads of forest trails nearby to go walking or mountain biking and you might even find a ceilidh is on at the village hall. Strachur is well placed for exploring Argyll. Drive to Tighnabruaich via the scenic Kyles of Bute or visit Inveraray with its fairytale castle, bell tower and jail museum.
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Brandon Wood hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Kansas City Royals a 4-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday.
Wood, who hit 43 home runs in the minors in 2005, sent a one-out drive to the back of the left-field bullpen off Jake Brigham, the seventh Rangers pitcher.
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Trouba smiling after scary injury; could be out a month
WINNIPEG — Jets defenceman Jacob Trouba has at least two weeks ahead of him in a neck brace but his Friday night stay in hospital was short and he stood smiling and answered several minutes' worth of questions from reporters this morning at the MTS Iceplex.
The 19-year-old rookie went crashing into the boards face first early in the second period Friday against the St. Louis Blues. He was carried off on a stretcher with his neck immobilized but never lost consciousness during the episode.
He was released from hospital late Friday night after some X-rays and other tests.
He tweeted early Saturday morning: "If you were wondering, the boards are not edible. I'll be back soon."
Nobody was putting a time frame on his absence but it could well get to a month.
"I've got to wear this for a couple of weeks and then get re-evaluated," Trouba told reporters this morning. "That's where we're at right now."
On the play, during Winnipeg's 4-3 shootout win, he was going hard into the offensive zone after a puck. It was hard to tell if he was trying to get the puck or hit Blues defenceman Jordan Leopold.
"I don't know," he chuckled, like he hadn't thought about exactly what the plan had been. "I think I was trying kind of hit him with my hip and I just kind of, when I turned my right foot, caught his skate and didn't really get around. I didn't really have much time to react, kind of fell."
There was lots to think about during the long delay in the game.
"I think I was more scared than anything," Trouba said. "I went in pretty hard. My neck was sore so they didn't really want me to move it. I probably could have gotten up and skated off but they didn't want me to move. It's probably a good thing I didn't, just to be careful. That's why they're there."
The team is calling the injury a neck sprain. It has put Trouba on the injured reserve list and called up Adam Pardy from the AHL's St. John's IceCaps in time for Sunday's home start against the Nashville Predators.
Trouba said he was able to call his family on Friday night to tell them he was OK.
"I called my parents, my brothers," he said. "They were watching it, driving down to Miami of Ohio with my little brother for some games and they were watching on their phone so they didn't see it too clearly or know what happened. They were glad to hear from me."
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The Power of Being a Woman: Going Over His Head
- Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Standing in Need
Now, Hannah was a woman who knew her God. She knew that her barren womb was not something her husband could do anything about, so she went straight to the source. She poured out her soul to God. God heard her and opened her womb. She then gave that child up to God. After that, God honored Hannah's sacrifice and gave her several more children. That sounds simple enough, but it doesn't mean that Hannah didn't go through anything. She, also, was married to a man with an additional wife who seems to have no trouble having children. To make matters worse, this other wife provoked Hannah out of jealousy and sought to irritate her by teasing her about the fact that she was childless. Poor Hannah would get so upset that she would weep and couldn't eat. Couldn't eat! I'm sorry, but nothing stops me from eating. This woman, though, couldn't eat, and here her husband was truly in love with her, so much so that he gave her a double portion when they went to sacrifice before the Lord. This was why Peninnah, the other wife, was picking at Hannah in the first place. Though she had children, she knew she was playing second fiddle, and she wasn't about to allow Hannah to enjoy her most-loved position in peace. Now, Hannah's insightful husband, Elkanah, asked Hannah a very interesting question here. He said, "Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?"
That is deep! Hannah had a classic case of "One-Tree-Itis," a disease that hits us all. It causes us to overlook all the other trees from which we can eat of freely and instead long after the one tree we can't have. Our desire for that one thing will cause us to stop eating. We will stop eating life and all that it offers. "One-Tree-It is" paralyzes us. It shuts us down. We cease to sample all our other options. Hannah was not free to enjoy the gift that her husband truly loved her and would do anything to make her happy because she got stuck on her barrenness. Keep in mind here that she had some help concentrating on this blaring fact. Many of us would probably be alright if there weren't some friend or relative around to constantly rub salt in the wounds of our desires. But when they speak, pointing out our lack, the heat is on. The pressure is almost suffocating, and we feel we have to produce something just to silence the voices. And God says to us all, "Don't I mean more to you than ten of those? Don't you crave My purposes being fulfilled in your life more than that temporal thing that you so badly long for?" What's your answer?
When Hannah had had enough of everyone and their opinions, she got serious with God. She got so serious that she was praying and no sound was coming out. Have you ever prayed until you were speechless? Well, Hannah did. And God heard the cry of her heart. Not only did He Hear her, He had Eli, the high priest, tell her that her request had been granted. And because Hannah's confidence was in God, not in her husband, she went her way with a smile on her face. As a matter of fact, the first thing she did after that was to eat something. When you get a word from God concerning the things that lay heavy on your heart, you'll get freed up to partake of all He has put before you to enjoy in the meantime. Nothing affects a man like a woman with a downcast countenance. He never knows what to do with the information that you are sad, especially if it is a situation he can do nothing about. He will retreat out of his own sense of failure. So get a word from the Lord in order to restore the joy level in your surroundings. Hannah ate something, and her countenance wasn't downcast anymore. She went and worshiped the Lord because she had a promise with which she could run. She went back home, lay with her husband, and conceived.
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The stars of the series "Glee" haven't always been in the spotlight... one was a taxi driver, another a cafeteria cookie scooper... and one was a waitress at Hooters!
"Extra" found out what this musical group were doing before fame came calling.
The hit TV series "Glee" will honor the late Whitney Houston in an upcoming episode. One full performance from the show has been released.
Watch the cast sing an a cappella rendition of Houston's "How Will I Know," and watch the full episode Tuesday, April 24 on FOX.
Blonde hotness Chord Overstreet will return as Sam Evans in McKinley High on this season's "Glee."
Overstreet is confirmed to reunite with the glee club in December and has signed up with a multi-episode deal, reports TooFab.
Vogue magazine, under the creative direction of Trey Laird and the team at Laird+Partners, has collaborated with the cast and creators of "Glee" to create a special music video for the magazine's 2011 Fashion's Night Out, featuring David Bowie's song "Fashion."
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Vogue's 2011 Fashion's Night Out will take place September 8 in NYC, and "Glee" returns to FOX for a new season September 21!
"Extra" talked with the "Glee" gang at their sing-along event in Santa Monica - where they dished about what to expect this coming season on the hit FOX show.
Kevin McHale, who plays Artie Abrams, told "Extra" the first episode is "definitely an update of what the kids did over the summer."
"I'm kind of shocked we did some of the stuff we did," said Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel. "We had to have a lot of safety meetings, I'll say that," adding that it's mostly due to Jane Lynch's character, Sue Sylvester. "It's her fault!"
"Extra" correspondent Jerry Penacoli sat down with the cast of "Glee" to talk about their upcoming "Glee: The 3D Concert Movie" -- and the hoopla surrounding the reports that key cast members Lea Michele, Corey Monteith and Chris Colfer will be "graduating" from the show at the end Season 3.
The show's creator Ryan Murphy recently announced Michele, Monteith and Colfer would be leaving the show after the next season because their characters are seniors and would realistically be exiting high school. But during last week's FOX TCA tour, network executives clarified that it still an ongoing creative process and nothing concrete has been decided.
"Glee" star and newly anointed Emmy nominee Chris Colfer talked with "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli about his character, the colorful Kurt Hummel, leaving the show after next season, how he'd like Kurt to go out -- and what's next for the talented star.
Colfer said he was "surprised that an announcement was made" by co-creator Ryan Murphy about the cast shake-up, which also includes the ousting of co-stars Lea Michele and Cory Monteith, but Colfer understands.
"I think we all knew something like this was coming. Ryan's been very honest from the beginning, saying that the kids were going to eventually grow up and leave, because that's what happens, kids grow up and leave. We can't be in high school forever." The actor added, "Do I want to leave the show? Absolutely not. This is home for me. But I understand that there's time for a conclusion."
It looks like Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer are among the "Glee" cast members permanently graduating at the end of Season 3 in 2012.
The hit FOX show just earned a slew of Emmy nominations, including one for Colfer, who toasted his nod for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series with "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli, and confirmed that this coming season will be his last.
"Do I wanna leave the show? Absolutely not," said Colfer. "This is home for me, but I understand. It's time for a conclusion."
"Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy broke the news to the Hollywood Reporter. "You can keep them on the show for six years and people will criticize you for not being realistic, or you can be really true to life and say when they started the show they were very clearly sophomores and they should graduate at the end of their senior year."


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With Brady signing a very modest, favorable deal to finish off his career and give the team salary cap flexibility, does this perhaps encourage Romo to do the same, working to the Cowboys' front office's favor?
Nick: I don't think so. Don't forget that deal is guaranteed. Most players have money at the end of the deal that looks outrageous only to inflate the numbers. But they'll never see a dime of it. I think Romo will sign a deal that is fair to the Cowboys and to him, depending on the market value.
Rowan: Keep in mind that yes, Brady made a deal to help the Patriots' cap numbers, but a ton of that is guaranteed. It's not a simple three-year, cheap extension. The guaranteed money was what's important. That may also be the case for Romo, who would have probably already done what he could to help the Cowboys' cap. The Patriots were creative in making their deal for Brady, and I imagine the Cowboys will be similarly with Romo.
I haven't heard much about bringing back
Nick:I bet that is something that would only happen a little later into free agency, maybe even after the draft. He played OK, but nothing that would guarantee him returning. Let's not
forget he was on his couch until the Cowboys called.
Rowan: He's an unrestricted free agent right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if he got a deal and found himself competing for a starting spot in the preseason. He's a better fit in the 4-3, a scheme he's more accustomed to, and he did a decent job filling in after sitting in free agency for a while. His future may depend on the route the Cowboys go in the draft.


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The nation's health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report out Thursday.
How much is that? Including government and private money, health care spending in 2020 will average $13,710 for every man, woman and child, says Medicare's Office of the Actuary.
By comparison, U.S. health care spending this year is projected to top $2.7 trillion, or about $8,650 per capita, roughly $1 of $6 in the economy. Most of that spending is for care for the sickest people.
The report from Medicare economists and statisticians is an annual barometer of a trend that many experts say is unsustainable but doesn't seem to be slowing down. A political compromise over the nation's debt and deficits might succeed in tapping the brakes on health care, but polarized lawmakers have been unable to deliver a deal.
The analysis found that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul would only be a modest contributor to growing costs, even though an additional 30 million people who would be otherwise uninsured stand to gain coverage.
The main reasons that health care spending keeps growing faster than the economy are the high cost of medical innovations and an aging society that consumes increasing levels of service.
Many of the newly insured people under the health care law will be younger and healthier. As a result, they are expected to use more doctor visits and prescription drugs and relatively less of pricey hospital care. Health care spending will jump by 8 percent in 2014, when the law's coverage expansion kicks in. But over the 2010-2020 period covered by the estimate, the average yearly growth in health care spending will be only 0.1 percentage point higher than without Obama's overhaul.
Part of the reason for that optimistic prognosis is that cuts and cost controls in the health care law start to bite down late in the decade. However, the same nonpartisan Medicare experts who produced Thursday's estimate have previously questioned whether that austerity will be politically sustainable if hospitals and other providers start going out of business as a result. The actuary's office is responsible for long-range cost estimates.
The report found that health care spending in 2010 grew at a historically low rate of 3.9 percent, partly because of the sluggish economy. That will change as the economy shakes off the lingering effects of the recession.
Government, already the dominant player because of Medicare and Medicaid, will become even more important. By 2020, federal, state and local government health care spending will account for just under half the total tab, up from 45 percent currently. As the health care law's coverage expansion takes effect, "health care financing is anticipated to further shift toward governments," the report said.
Estimates from previous years had projected that the government share would already be at the 50 percent mark, but the actuary's office changed its method for making the complex calculations. Under the previous approach, some private payments such as worker's compensation insurance had been counted in the government column. Technical accuracy — not political pressure — was behind that change, said Stephen Heffler, one of the experts who work on the estimates.
Separately, another new report finds that the United States continues to spend far more on health care than other economically developed countries. The study by the Commonwealth Fund found that U.S. health care spending per person in 2008 was more than double the median — or midpoint— for other leading economies. Although survival rates for some cancers were higher in the U.S., the report found that quality of care overall was not markedly better.
The Medicare actuary's estimates for health care spending are published in the journal Health Affairs.
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3 Responses to "Ouch! Government health care costs will hit $4.6 trillion by 2020"
We might be looking at the new economic bubble here in healthcare. It's obvious these trends are not sustainable without government interference. Given that they would rather build kill toys than fix old people, I see big cuts in government medical assistance in the future. That will put the kibosh on the over the top medical fees.
We have the most expensive "health" care in the world, and yet we're the also the sickest. In fact, chances are once you're under a doctor's "care," the sicker you will get. Stay away from doctors, they have a tendency to treat people to death.
$250.00 equals five minutes with the Doc for a low ball diagnosis and the automatic referall to a $1,000.oo a minute specialist.
$350.00 equals a scrip for antidepressant psychotropics because the waiting room is overflowing with people that need to be convinced that their bloody urine or cancerous lesions are all in their heads, especially those without five star coverage..
Hippocrates is spinning..Hack..
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The following is an addendum to my latest TomDispatch article, "Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars and the New Arms Race" which offers a peek at futuristic new weaponry — from smart-bullets that follow their targets to a plane that transforms into a submarine — being developed by the Pentagon for the wars of 2020-2040. It will make a whole lot more sense if you read that piece first by clicking HERE:
Chicken Little: Who's Talking Up the Chinese Military Threat and Why
By Nick Turse
Recently FOX News contributor Thomas G. McInerney, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, played Chicken Little, writing that the U.S. is beginning to fall behind China in a new arms race and that Beijing is "investing heavily in military capabilities that will dominate Asia in the future," before ending his piece with this understated line: "Beware America, time is running out!" His solution was predictable: more defense spending.
Meanwhile Richard Fisher, an Asian military-affairs specialist with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told the Washington Times, "[W]e are seeing the erection of a new Chinese wall in the western Pacific, for which the Obama administration has offered almost nothing in defensive response." He continued, "Clearly, China's communist leadership is not impressed by the administration's ending of F-22 production, its retirement of the Navy's nuclear cruise missile, START Treaty reductions in U.S. missile warheads, and its refusal to consider U.S. space warfare capabilities. Such weakness is the surest way to invite military adventurism from China."
Weakness, eh? No defensive response? I guess neither the retro-fitting of F-15 fighter jets to act as "America's main countermeasure to China's new fighter for the next 20 years" nor the Navy's new electronic warfare efforts, both reported by David Axe at Wired's Danger Room, count. Nor that, as Loren Thompson of the Virginia-base think tank, the Lexington Institute, pointed out at Defence Professionals, "The Navy is currently investing in upgrades to its Aegis combat system and other defensive equipment aimed at dealing with maneuvering warheads such as the ["carrier killer" missile] would carry." Nor even that, as Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman of the Stimson Center, a global security think tank, note in the Washington Post, the U.S. is currently "diversifying [its] capabilities to strike China, including a new long-range bomber program, and modernizing [its] carrier fleet at a cost of about $10 billion per ship."
Even forgetting that the U.S. has surrounded China with military bases — close to 200 in Japan, South Korea and Central Asia alone — with 50,000 troops deployed in East Asia and the Pacific and more than 100,000 deployed in South Asia, these panicky pundits would do well to look at theDepartment of Defense's blue skies research branch, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – better known as DARPA — and think of how American military plans for weaponry in the coming decades look to the Chinese military leadership. It's just possible that China doesn't quite believe that DARPA's Long Range Anti-Ship Missile is meant to take out Somali pirates, that the Triple Target Terminator isn't geared to counter the al Qaeda air corps (which now seems to consist primarily of bomb-laced underwear or printers on commercial aircraft) and that the U.S. military really doesn't need Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munitions to fight the Taliban.
Could there be an ulterior motive for such panicked talk? Who's to say? Yet, it might be worth noting that in 2008, FOX News' McInerney was exposed by the New York Times as one of 75 retired military brass — most of them, like him, tied to defense contractors with a vested interest in big national security budgets — involved in a sophisticated Pentagon propaganda campaign which covertly disseminated official military "talking points" into the mainstream media.
If it was all in the past, we might well leave it there. But in his case, it's notable that McInerney is at the very same media outlet, FOX News. For its part, the Washington Times didn't even give Fisher's affiliation, let alone explain that the think tank he works for, which supports a "strong national defense posture," regularly does contract work for "various U.S. Congressional and Executive branch consumers" and the Department of Defense. Nor would readers be aware that it puts together studies on "East Asian security issues" for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Director of National Intelligence and analyzes Chinese military technology for the House Armed Services Committee. All of whom, I might add, depend on conflict, potential conflict, and the fear of conflict for their financial well-being — from a bigger slice of the budgetary pie for the Pentagon to defense contractor dollars for House hawks in their next reelection campaigns.
It does make you wonder…
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Quoting British artist Liam Gillick: "Art is a convenient term for a mid-space location where you don't need cultural permission to carry out certain corrective tasks in relation to society in general." As an artist known for his fences and screens, as well as public interventions, his work seems like a worthwhile point of departure for a high-art take on Edra Soto's magnificent iron porch-screen, "Graft," an outdoor re-creation at Oak Park's Terrain space of similar decorative security fences on porches throughout Soto's native Puerto Rico. The "corrective task" might be the integration of this semi-diverse neighborhood in a highly segregated region. And yet a fence, especially one that evokes a filigreed cage, clearly sends a message about boundaries. Thus the term "graft," probably intended horticulturally, resonates nicely in a town where corruption perpetuates inequity. Read the rest of this entry »
In what has turned out to be domestic art space He Said She Said's last exhibition, Sheila Pepe presents the ongoing project "Common Sense." In it Pepe exhibits an especially sensitive intervention into the living space. Her work suspends looping strands of crochet and shoelace from the living room, entryway and dining room. The low-hanging web physically connects the spaces with its languid gesture. In her recent projects, the artist has involved the participants in the creation of the work. For He Said She Said, part of the looping installation links up with a collection of playful art objects created by the child of the house.
Elsewhere, the shoelace and crochet intersect in connections that support, uphold and create the structure of the form. These connections are frequently tied in ways similar to shoes, where it is apparent that a single pull would release the tension and collapse the shape. As such, there is an air of contingency in the work, aside from its corporeal, weighted quality. Adding to this transient feeling, Pepe encourages participants at the end of each installation of "Common Sense" to unravel part of the work and take away the material for their own purposes.
Drawing significant inspiration from an artistic matrilineage that includes works like Faith Wilding's crocheted environments, Sheila Pepe's architectural intervention updates and extends their concerns. Here the notion of communal connectivity, of material poised sympathetically amongst spaces inhabited by living bodies, yet without the rising to the coercive force of solidified architecture, is posited as an ideal. What better way to celebrate (though perhaps unintentionally on the artist's part) the life of an exhibition and conversation space that was itself temporary, inhabited and bred new forms of connectivity across disciplinary boundaries. (Dan Gunn)
Through May 14 at He Said She Said, 216 North Harvey, Oak Park. Open by appointment.
The naked bathing woman, like the wine-and-bread still life, is one of those enduring standards of modern painting. Presumably it has been just a matter of multitasking necessity, as the artist likely consumes his subject after completing the painting. Naked bathers have shed their clothes in front of Picasso, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir and so many others. The bather got a major update in the sixties, in the hands of Tom Wesselmann, and now, as taken up by Carroll Dunham, the bather gets wet and nasty. Neither perverse not pornographic, Dunham presents the traditional bather subject as a straightforward, monumental picture of sex, undressed. Dunham's bathing woman is not Venus, nor weepy muse, nor Nature personified; she is all tit and cunt, like an animal. The genitals are tightly cropped, depicted with energetic strokes in pencil, watercolor and oil pastel on small sheets of paper. These are sketches for large paintings, concurrently hanging at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Here, fifty or so drawings hang in clusters on the living-room and dining-room walls of artist Pamela Fraser's home in Oak Park. It's almost impossible to disconnect the setting from the subject; a single-family home on this broad, tree-lined residential street houses rough and ripe depictions of sexuality. To encounter each is an entirely intimate matter. (Jason Foumberg)
Through November 14 at He Said-She Said, 216 N. Harvey, Oak Park, by appointment.
Guy Richards Smit's new videos are compelling to watch, even though nothing much happens during any of them. In "Urinal Girl," a very adult-looking "schoolgirl" looks on dreamily as a young man pees. Eyebrows cocked, he looks back at her, clearly getting off on being watched. Toward the end, she appears bored, and the guy wipes flop-sweat from his brow. In another video, a physician communicates bad news to a patient by donning a red clown nose and dancing a halfhearted jig, while a third depicts a painter, her elaborately costumed female model and a mysterious dominatrix-like figure surveying the proceedings. Read the rest of this entry »
He Said/She Said is a project space devoted to the exchange of ideas between art and daily life, so it's hard to imagine a better setting for Michael Stickrod's work. It's located in the Oak Park home of artists Pamela Fraser and Randall Szott, who take turns curating in a back-and-forth manner. Fraser gravitates toward contemporary art practice, while Szott pushes those boundaries by focusing on cultural phenomena that may fall outside the realm of art proper, such as found grocery list collections or lectures on eating locally. Stickrod represents a convergence of the two perspectives: he's a young artist who has shown at various galleries and at the New Museum, but his work focuses mostly on his personal life, often taking the form of vacation movies, family photographs, painted ceramic plates and other "amateur" practices that tend to be relegated to attics and basements. Read the rest of this entry »
Self-loathing and the sensual caress of hard against soft, flesh against flesh, are starkly juxtaposed in Shane Aslan Selzer's ultra-cryptic video installation titled "Here is Where it Is, Between Us," at The Suburban. Selzer's piece relies on a broken-down clothes rack as its main armature, a structure from which hangs a thing called a snaffle which is used as a taming bit, along with a scuffed-up gold strap, a knot of cheap jewelry, a pair of busted sunglasses, and three repellent strips of well-populated flypaper. A small gold foil-paneled screen creates a partially obscured space suggestive of a dressing room or stage wing. The stop-motion video depicts two hands, one small, female and white, the other larger, male and black, tossing objects (a paintbrush, a hammer, an open switchblade) that appear deceptively feather-light as they float downwards. Occasionally the hands brush against each other as the objects are exchanged.
Selzer's installation is an intuitive and self-reflective exercise in looking, seeing and, yes, in feeling, a soiled and vaguely sadomasochistic apparatus that encompasses the entire room, from the coiled electrical cord powering the projection to the cold, hard floor you're standing on. It's incredibly off-putting and intractable, a conceptual tease that refuses to deliver the goods. But if we quit trying to make it all add up and instead let the contradictory associations and affects it evokes wash over us, the piece becomes strangely liberating, too. It's in the combustive abrasion of expectation and experience that the "Where" of Selzer's title is found. (Claudine Isé)
Through March 12 at The Suburban, 125 North Harvey Avenue, Oak Park. By appointment.
Titled "Give the Past the Slip of La Mancha," Andrew Falkowski and Karl Erickson's collaborative project at The Suburban slices through masculine stereotypes, idealized historical myths and authoritative language systems with a keen eye for how time's passage reduces even the most hallowed cultural icons into figures of kitsch. The drawings and text-and-image collages that form the show's bulk feature nerd-mascot Booji Boy, cut-out knights in ornamental armor, and quotations drawn in billboard block or ransom-style lettering. And yet, despite the freewheeling mix of cultural references from DEVO to Don Quioxte to the Who, Falkowski and Erickson's collaboration lacks the visual pleasure and ironic punch that each delivers on his own or occasionally together, as in their series of competing Hogans Heroes and M*A*S*H portraits. Both artists use tropes of failed boomer idealism to make visually compelling and conceptually convincing works—Erickson's latch hook rug portraits and Falkowski's colorful hostage-note text paintings come foremost to mind—but their project here never quite transcends a stilted cut and paste aesthetic. It feels like the artists are working out ideas to be fleshed out later—and maybe separately. That think-tank aspect is fine, and appropriate for a space devoted to experimentation. But it may disappoint those expecting more from these provocative cultural ransackers. (Claudine Isé)
Through March 12 at The Suburban, 125 North Harvey Avenue, Oak Park. By appointment.
Many new and established art galleries function as gallery spaces and homes. Outside the clusters of galleries, these spaces, such as Pilsen's Antena, Oak Park's Suburban and Albany Park's Swimming Pool Project Space make room for art beside the furniture. Profit is not the motive; rather, it's all about exposure, for artists and viewers, and creative expression. "We have an art world that doesn't value artists," notes Michelle Grabner, co-owner of the nine-year-old Suburban gallery. "Dealers and curators are running the shots, artists really don't have the kind of control and decision making they once had."
Filling that void, art spaces such as Suburban and Antena allow artists free reign in terms of artistic and curatorial control. Antena, a new space that opened in March, is run out of founder Miguel Cortez's apartment. "Artists are allowed to repaint the walls, transform the space for a show," Cortez says, who shifted focus to his new space after running Pilsen's Polvo gallery for years. Polvo continues to publish a quarterly magazine with artist profiles.
Art openings at both Suburban and Antena provide a gathering spot for the arts community. At Suburban, openings now take place on Sunday afternoons in the yard of Grabner's house, with bratwurst and beer during the warm months, coffee and sweets during the winter. Antena's openings, which take place in Cortez's apartment, are equally informal. And through these events artists gain access to networks and visibility.
"We are neither a commercial nor a non-profit space," notes Grabner. And the same goes for Antena, which aims to be a forum for artists in need of a middle ground alternative space.
Swimming Pool Project Space, opened July 2008, appearing as a commercial storefront, provides a springboard for emerging contemporary artists from Chicago and abroad. Pool parties—openings that take place around the glossy blue wooden floor that resembles a swimming pool—provide a place for artists and community members to interact. "This where people meet, artists or not, it's public space where conversation occurs, not a bar but an art space," says co-owner Liz Nielsen. The next exhibition, "Video as Video: Rewind to Form," is curated by art critic Alicia Eler and artist Peregrine Honig, and opens September 20. (Marla Seidell)
Chicago's Danny Mansmith shines in a perplexing and strange light in this eclectic collection of four fabric artists. The initially endearing story of Mansmith's mom and grandmother teaching the young suburban boy to sew takes a darker tone when realization hits that this little boy wearing hand-sewn clothes was the ill-fated societal outcast. Though Mansmith's wall-hung pieces like "Sewnland" breathe love and warmth, his large yarn human form, "Dark Doll," is simply terrifying in a deliciously frightening and wonderful way. Also from Chicago, Deb Herman creates exceedingly intricate pieces—her tribute to 9/11 being the standout of her collection. Natividad Amador, famed Mexican fabricist, rarely shows north of the border so this could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see her colorful skills. The unusual fabric sculptures of Veronique Leriche Fischetti depict Haitian Vodou stories. Knowledgeable gallery founder Laurie Beasley can retell each of the extraordinary tales behind the baby doll and fabric sculptures. There isn't anything amiss among these four textile artists—a refreshing occurrence at a group show. (Rachel Turney)
"Fabrics and Fabricators" shows at Ridge Art, 21 Harrison Street, Oak Park, (708)848-4062, through September 14.
The Nerve Gallery sits in the original location of the first gallery to open in the Oak Park Arts District twelve years ago. Ten artists are part of the Nerve Gallery cooperative and "I Draw Pictures" features works from the members and the mixed media of eleven guest artists. The exhibit is extremely diverse, but there are a few standouts. Ann Pasteur, a local teacher and member of the cooperative, shows a collection of large watercolors depicting strong and beautiful imagery on women's issues, incorporating visions of the womb and fetus. Her pieces have all the power of a Frida Kahlo, but Pasteur uses muted colors and soft lines. Pasteur also sells small, single character paintings for an obtainable $25-$35. Bruce MacMartin uses the inner workings of mechanical devices such as phones and clocks to create unique sculpture pieces. MacMartin creates wall-hung pieces as well as freestanding sculptures in the likeness of humans. Steve Perkins, primarily a comic-book artist, shows a beautiful group of digitally arranged pieces. Sara Jones exhibits a collection of portraits of the victims of Jack the Ripper and Sarah McNeil uses punched paper to layer her pieces and create a distinctive textured look to her drawings. There are dozens of other drawings, paintings and sculptures on display at The Nerve Gallery, the best time to visit is the third Friday of every month when Oak Park hosts The Third Friday Gallery Walk. (Rachel Turney)
Through August 15 at The Nerve Gallery, 43 Harrison St., Oak Park. (708)383-0027.


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this blog is dedicated to the progression of music. most songs posted on here are brand new and fresh out of the minds of musics rising stars.
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heres a selection of tracks that i've been listening to recently:
a fantastic track this one, check out some of his older work as well, bassy glitchy breaks.
Lamb - Butterfly Effect (Aer & Weave remix)
competition entry for a remix to Lamb's 'Butterfly Effect', i know the guys that did this, fantastic producers, check out there other stuff.
quite an old one thats only got introduced to me recently. if you like submotion orchestra then you'll like this
Disclosure - Control ft. Ria Ritchie
really dancey one, only released recently but already insanely popular.
Trim - Confidence boost (harmonimix remix)
this ones been very difficult to find after james blake let it slip on a radio show about a year ago. its recently been released as a full track.@2 years ago
this mix pretty much lays out every noticeable tune of the last couple of months (and some cheeky extras).
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