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Anthony Edwards, Radha Mitchell, Balthazar Getty & Henry Thomas Round Out The CastCould the Beat Generation be experiencing a resurgence of mainstream interest? We'll have to wait and see but it certainly won't be for a lack of trying from Hollywood. Last year, James Franco starred in the underwhelming "Howl" centering on Allen Ginsberg and the famous trial around the poem. While that film fizzled, a much more star studded affair is around the corner with Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's iconic "On The Road" starring Kristen Stewart, Garret Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss...Read More »
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With four awards from Cannes under their belts, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are veterans of the red carpet and they'll be returning once more to unveil their latest, "The Kid With The Bike." Yesterday, we got a look at a couple of images and a poster for the film and today, a full-length, French la...Read More »
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Kosair hospital dispute now about expectations for meeting between Norton, U of L
University of Louisville leaders believe business issues will be the most important items on the table as they head into a meeting with leaders from Louisville-based Norton Healthcare Inc.
Norton and U of L have clashed over operations of Kosair Children's Hospital in recent weeks. Norton owns and operates Kosair Children's Hospital, which is staffed by physicians from U of L's medical school on land Norton leases from the state.
Norton officials have alleged that the University of Louisville is seeking to evict Norton from Kosair Children's. Last week, it filed a legal complaint in Franklin Circuit Court that seeks to establish that the university has no legal right to do so.
U of L officials have said they never intended to try to evict Norton from Kosair but wrote in a legal letter that Norton could lose its claim to the hospital if it does not remedy its alleged defaults of a land lease and other agreements. The dispute arose after Norton announced plans to pursue a pediatrics partnership with University of Kentucky Healthcare, which operates Kentucky Children's Hospital in Lexington.
As Business First reported yesterday, Norton and U of L have agreed to meet. A statement from Norton said the meeting was "to discuss the legal issues, which Norton believes must be resolved before productive discussions can occur."
But on Wednesday, I spoke with University of Louisville vice president of health affairs Dr. David Dunn, who said core business issues related to their long-term partnership at Kosair have to be discussed first.
An additional $30 million in federal Medicaid and Medicare funds, which Dunn said Norton receives because Kosair is a designated teaching hospital, is an example of the type of business issue that needs to be resolved, Dunn said. He said the university gets a portion of that but alleged that most goes to Norton.
"If we can get through those (business issues), we'll gladly withdraw the demand letter," Dunn said. "These are all business issues."
Norton declined an interview on what leaders expect from the meeting.
I also asked Dunn about Norton's ownership of Kosair.
Dunn admitted Norton has put a lot of money into the hospital. (According to Norton's legal complaint, it has invested about $500 million in Kosair.) But Dunn believes that if Norton breaches the land-lease agreement cited in the demand letter, its ownership is in question.
That said, he reiterated previous statements that U of L has made no attempt to evict Norton from the hospital.
After U of L sent its demand letter, he said U of L leaders assumed Norton leaders would want to sit down and cure the breaches listed in the letter.
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Marcus Davis really is a little *****. He has all the athletic ability in the world, but rarely puts it to use. He is the smallest of *******. If you know of a tinier *****, please let us know. Really. We'd like to see what he's up against. Below is a compilation of just how little of a ***** he is against FSU. If you haven't, please sit back, grab a beer, and be ready to shake your head or scream (this video highlights him before each play, so be on the lookout). We bring you Marcus Davis, the Littlest *****. Fear not, Hokies, it has just come to our attention that Marcus Davis has been benched and will not start this weekend's game against BC. Instead, it will be Corey Fuller and Demitri Knowles lining up out wide when the game starts. Who woulda thought our coaches would actually take some accountability and do the right thing?!
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This 16-Piece Complete Bed Set by The Great Find has everything you need and more to decorate your bed. The set includes a set of sheets-fitted, flat and two pillow cases-in crisp, classic white with black edge piping, as well as two extra pillow cases. A black tailored bedskirt and black fleece throw complement the sheets and provide lovely finishing touches to the set. Two Euro pillows with black covers add extra layer of cushiony comfort to your bed.
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Interior LED/solid state lighting is a rapidly improving technology currently most applicable for down lights, track lights, task lighting, accenting, high ceiling, and high cost maintenance areas.
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Easy A's: Marcus Mariota's course load reportedly consists of golf & yoga
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How hard will Oregon Ducks starting quarterback Marcus Mariota be hitting the books in the fall semester?
Not very, it seems.
According to a tweet from ESPN's Ted Miller, Mariota's credited workload this fall will consist of the following:
1. Golf
2. Yoga
3. No, no No. 3. That's it: golf and yoga.
What kind of knowledge will the Heisman-hopeful glean this fall? Perhaps he'll perfect downward dog. Or finally master hitting from the sand trap.
Seriously, if this guy doesn't get straight A's next semester . . .
But hey, it's his prerogative; he already has his degree:
QBs Marcus Mariota and Dustin Haines walking the walk #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/LbNAHjhn67— Oregon Football (@WinTheDay) June 16, 2014
Ah, senioritis! It can get the best of us — maybe even graduated redshirt juniors.
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MEFISTOFELE, BATTLE HYMNS and More Set for The Collegiate Chorale's 2013-14 Season
The Collegiate Chorale announces its 2013-14 season of three important works: Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele at Carnegie Hall, followed by with Max Bruch's Moses at Carnegie Hall, and David Lang's battle hymns at Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. For more information and tickets, visit http://collegiatechorale.org/season-ticket/.
November 6, 2013 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall; tickets $15-$145
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Immediately prior to the concert will be The Collegiate Chorale's Annual Fall Gala; contact Mariane Lemieux, email@example.com, for more information.
Best known as the librettist for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, Boito was also a gifted composer who completed one monumental opera, Mefistofele, based on the legend of Faust. He titled it after the character that truly drives the action: Mefistopheles, the devil himself. Featuring bass-baritone Eric Owens in the title role, Arturo Chacón-Cruz as Faust, and soprano Julianna di Giacomo as Margarita and Helen of Troy, and with The Combined forces of The Collegiate Chorale and Manhattan Girls Chorus depicting sorcerers, witches, will-o-the-wisps, ancient Greek nymphs, penitents, and cherubim, this performance will provide both heavenly music and devilish good fun. Mefistofele has not been heard in New York since 2000. James Bagwell will conduct.
March 27, 2014 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall; tickets $25-$50
American Symphony Orchestra will feature the full strength of The Collegiate Chorale in their presentation of Max Bruch's choral masterpiece and biblical oratorio Moses this March. Max Bruch, best known for his Kol Nidre and famous violin concerto, was also a master of the oratorio. The ASO revived his setting of Homer's Odyssey in 1995, and now turns to his other choral masterpiece, a biblical oratorio that puts into music the dramatic story of the most enduring figure of the Old Testament. Picking up where Handel's Israel in Egypt leaves off,Moses takes us from the events at Mount Sinai, to Moses' conflict with the Israelites, to his death on the eve of his people's arrival in the promised land of Canaan. Leon Botstein will conduct.
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This week a new device passed through the FCC—codenamed GG1—and many have speculated that it's the next generation of the Google Glass hardware. While the Explorer Edition was anything but a runaway success, what some are calling the "Enterprise Edition" could very well be what Glass needs to take it mainstream into the office. When Microsoft launched their Surface Tables years ago I could see a lot more enterprise use from the device than simply moving photos around[...] read »
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Fascism in a soundbite
by Rageh Omaar Published
As with 7 July last year, I remember exactly where I was, what I was doing and how I felt, as a British Muslim, when I heard the news. On this occasion it was Thursday 10 August, just past 7am, when the calm, emotionless voice on the radio explained how the security forces had foiled a plan by British Muslims to blow up transatlantic flights.
The newsreader's words had an immediate and sobering impact. At first I willed the news to go away. "Please, God, don't let it be true," I muttered as I lay in bed listening.
I felt shame, bewilderment and anger at a very real hijacking of an entire people and faith by yet another group of nihilistic young men acting in its name. Then I began to imagine, with considerable dread, what the media reaction would be - frantic coverage of the lives of the accused, their neighbourhoods and families and the mosques in the area. A week or so later, the pages of newsprint and hours of footage and live coverage would all but disappear.
That, I suspect, was how most British Muslims reacted to the news. Many of us shared in the national shock and incomprehension that this could have happened, and the realisation that we are still far from finding an answer to the extremism swaying small, but increasing numbers of our young people.
Several hours later I heard words on the radio, again out of the blue, that shocked me. President George W Bush had walked down the steps from Air Force One to give his first public comments on the discovery of the plot.
In a soundbite that was to be replayed across the world, on the dozens of popular Arabic satellite channels that simultaneously were providing live footage of the bombardment of Lebanon, Bush spoke of Britain and the US fighting a "war against Islamic fascists".
I'd only ever read that phrase used by a small and predictable list of columnists who share an unyielding belief that it is impossible to be western and Muslim. But outside this absolutist-minded circle of neoconservatives and left-wing intellectuals, I had never heard it spoken by a prominent western politician.
I am no longer sure if Bush's successor, Democrat or Republican, would use different rhetoric about Muslims.
What is Bush's point? Does he believe that it is Islam which is fascist, and not simply the in dividuals who wanted to blow up thousands of people, including fellow Muslims?
I'm not sure that Bush's remark was unthinking. Remember the immediate aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when he described the war on terror as a "crusade". Yet, even though the outrage was fresh in the mind, those days seemed different. There appeared hope, even amid the bloodshed. The world with its different faiths and identities stood far more united back then, more optimistic about a common desire to overcome the forces behind such horror.
With each crisis since then - Iraq, Madrid, the London bombings, Afghanistan, the Danish cartoons of the Prophet, and now Lebanon - we grow more afraid of each other, feel more threatened by each other.
I have a profound and growing sense of pessimism. At this stage, I feel there is less of a future for people like myself, western Muslims who see no contradiction in such an identity. We can try to reassure ourselves that much of this is just down to a shared belief by Bush and Blair of a black-and-white global struggle between "good and evil", and that somehow when they leave office so will this vision, which they have sometimes expressed in pseudo-Messianic terms.
I am no longer sure. There has been too much damage, over too long a time, in too many places around the world, to ascribe this just to the beliefs and policies of two western politicians.
On 12 August, a number of Muslim politicians and figures published an open letter, essentially arguing that British foreign policy in Iraq, and the government's position over Lebanon, is fuelling the extremism and violence behind those British Muslims who want to attack the UK. The Home Secretary, John Reid, described the letter as a "dreadful misjudgement", arguing that no British government could allow men of violence to hold its policies to ransom.
How much longer will ministers deny that foreign policy is a factor in the motives of the bombers? It is quite clearly acting as a recruiting sergeant for extremist Islamist groups. Whether one gives in to such blackmail and changes one's policy is another question - but saying that what is being done in Britain's name in places such as Iraq and Lebanon does not motivate the bombers is a dereliction of public duty.


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Spanish Rice
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|Ground beef chuck
|1 Pound
|Bacon drippings
|2 Tablespoon
|1 Medium, chopped
|Diced green pepper
|3 Tablespoon
|Canned mushrooms
|3 1⁄2 Ounce (1 Can)
|Tomato sauce
|5 Ounce (1 Can)
|To Taste
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Instant rice
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
Brown the ground beef in the bacon drippings, then add the onion, green pepper, mushrooms, tomato sauce, salt and water.
Simmer for at least 2 hours or longer, adding water if needed.
Add the rice and cover.
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