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Victoria & Albert: Art & Love
Release date: Thursday, 15 October 2009
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
19 March – 31 October 2010
This exhibition is the first ever to focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's shared enthusiasm for art. Bringing together more than 400 items from the Royal Collection, it celebrates the royal couple's mutual delight in collecting and displaying works of art, from the time of their engagement in 1839 to the Prince's untimely death in 1861. The exhibition also challenges the popular image of Victoria – the melancholy widow of 40 years – and reveals her as a passionate and open-minded young woman.
For Victoria and Albert, art was an important part of everyday life and a way they expressed their love for each other. Around a third of the objects in the exhibition were exchanged as gifts between the couple to mark special occasions. They range from the simple and sentimental, such as a set of jewellery in the form of orange blossom, to superb examples of early Italian painting, including Bernardo Daddi's The Marriage of the Virgin and Perugino's Saint Jerome in Penitence, both given by the Queen to the Prince for his birthday in 1846.
Prince Albert's taste was influenced by his German ancestry and his experience as a student in Florence and Rome. He led a revival of interest in early German and Italian painting at a time when 'the Primitives' were largely ignored. Among his acquisitions were Duccio's Triptych, the first acknowledged work by the artist to enter an English collection, and Apollo and Diana by Lucas Cranach. Albert was also interested in how paintings were displayed, and several of the pictures in the exhibition are shown in the frames he commissioned for them. The Queen's tastes were more mainstream than those of her husband. She appreciated the narrative qualities of pictures such as Ramsgate Sands: 'Life at the Seaside' by William Powell Frith. Her fondness for portraiture is shown through paintings and drawings of her family, and her own sketches of her children.
The royal couple were regular visitors to the annual Royal Academy exhibition and frequently made purchases. In 1855 Victoria bought Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession by Frederic Leighton, the first work by the artist to be shown at the Academy. Other paintings, such as John Martin's The Eve of the Deluge, were acquired during visits to artists' studios, while George Cruikshank's The Disturber Detected was bought in an unfinished state when it was sent on approval to Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert's profound admiration for the work of Raphael and the 'Raphaelesque' in contemporary art can be seen in The Madonna and Child by William Dyce and the drawing Religion Glorified by the Fine Arts by Johann Friedrich Overbeck.
The artist Edwin Landseer's skilful depiction of animals greatly appealed to Victoria and Albert, who surrounded themselves with a large assortment of pets. In Landseer's charming portrait of Eos, Prince Albert's favourite greyhound, the dog stands poised and alert, guarding her master's possessions. The German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter received by far the greatest number of royal commissions. Over two decades of patronage, he produced numerous formal portraits, such as The Royal Family in 1846 (described as 'sensual and fleshy' by one contemporary critic) and The First of May 1851. He was also entrusted with more private work. In 1843 Victoria commissioned 'the secret picture' from Winterhalter as a surprise for her husband's 24th birthday. The artist presents the Queen in an intimate pose, leaning against a red cushion with her hair half unravelled from its fashionable knot.
Victoria and Albert were important patrons and collectors of the new art of photography, and lent their support to the Photographic Society, which was established in 1853. They commissioned hundreds of photographs of their family, friends and Household, and used the medium to record places they had visited together–a counterpart to their Souvenir Albums of watercolours and drawings. The exhibition includes work by the photographers Roger Fenton, William Edward Kilburn, Francis Bedford, William Bambridge, Gustave le Gray and the Comte de Montizon.
Queen Victoria was the first monarch to live at Buckingham Palace. Under the direction of the Prince's artistic adviser, Ludwig Gruner, the Palace's State Rooms were expanded and decorated in colourful neo-Renaissance style. In the new Ballroom, Victoria and Albert enjoyed private performances of favourite operas and hosted costumed balls. Guests were encouraged to commission elaborate fancy dress in support of the declining Spitalfields silk industry. The exhibition includes the most sumptuous of Queen Victoria's surviving dresses, designed by Eugène Lami for the 1851 Stuart Ball.
Music played an important part in Victoria and Albert's life. The day after her proposal to Albert, the Queen wrote in her Journal, '…he sang to me some of his own compositions, which are beautiful, & he has a very fine voice. I also sang to him.' The couple were accomplished musicians and played four-handed arrangements of orchestral and operatic work. A beautifully decorated Erard piano, commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1856, is shown in the exhibition. They particularly admired the work of Mendelssohn, who visited the Palace on several occasions. Shortly before his death in 1847, the composer presented Prince Albert with the manuscript of Song Without Words as a Piano Duet. Albert also composed music from an early age. The exhibition includes his song with piano accompaniment, Dem Fernen (To the Distant One), annotated by Victoria: 'Composed by dear Albert at Windsor Castle & sent to me by him Jan. 5. 1840.'
In 1845 Queen Victoria purchased Osborne House on the Isle of Wight as a private family retreat from London. Osborne's views of the Solent reminded Prince Albert of the Bay of Naples and inspired his plans to replace the existing house with an Italianate villa. The new building, the result of the close collaboration between the Prince and the architect Thomas Cubitt, was designed to display art, particularly Victoria and Albert's unrivalled collection of contemporary sculpture. The royal couple commissioned a large number of pieces from young sculptors working in the classical style, among them William Gibson, Emil Wolff, Richard James Wyatt and William Theed.
Queen Victoria's love of Scotland stemmed from the novels of Walter Scott that she had read as a child, and the Highland landscape reminded Albert of his native Franconia. The couple's deep interest in Scottish customs and traditions found full expression at Balmoral Castle, which Albert helped design and was completed in 1856. The all-encompassing Highland style of the interiors can be seen in watercolours by James Roberts. Among a number of objects from Balmoral is a set of candelabra in the form of Highlanders holding trophies, a collaboration between Landseer and two leading manufacturers, Minton of Stoke-on-Trent and Winfield of Birmingham. Even at Osborne there were reminders of life in Scotland, including Carl Haag's Morning in the Highlands and Evening at Balmoral, and an extraordinary suite of stag-horn furniture.
Prince Albert's abiding interest was the marriage of good design with new manufacturing techniques. In 1850 a royal commission was established, with the Prince as its chairman, to organise an international exhibition celebrating technological and artistic accomplishments. Housed in Sir Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park, 'The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851' was perhaps Albert's greatest achievement. The royal couple lent many pieces to the Exhibition, and the Queen spent some £4,000 on works of art. Among her purchases were porcelain by Sèvres and Minton, sculpture and furniture, including an extraordinary carved writing table of Swiss manufacture. The Directors of the East India Company presented Victoria with a dazzling selection of jewels from the Indian section of the Exhibition. Among them were the 352.5-carat Timur Ruby and three spinels, which the Queen had set into a necklace by Garrards.
Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
19 March – 31 October 2010.
Open daily 10:00-17:30 (last admission 16:30)
The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, edited by Jonathan Marsden (Royal Collection Publications, hardback, special exhibition price £29.95) and Passionate Patrons: Victoria & Albert and the Arts by Leah Kharibian (Royal Collection Publications, paperback, price £9.95).
Visitor information
Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
19 March – 31 October 2010. Open daily 10:00 – 17:30 (last admission 16:30). Closed 2 April.
Advance tickets from www.royalcollection.org.uk
or (+44) (0)20 7766 7301.
Press information and photographs Public Relations and Marketing, the Royal Collection, (+44) (0)20 7839 1377, [email protected]. A selection of images is also available to download from the Royal Collection's folder in the 'Companies Available' section on PA's Picselect website at www.picselect.com
Notes to editors
Admission to The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace is managed by the Royal Collection Trust, a charity registered in England and Wales (1016972) and in Scotland (SCO39772)


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November 3, 2010 (RIA Novosti). NATO does not rule out proposing cooperation in missile defense with Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said during a RIA Novosti news conference in Moscow, according to RIA Novosti. "The invitation will be open to our Euro-Atlantic partners. The invitation will also be open to Ukraine if Ukraine wishes. We don`t exclude that possibility," Rasmussen said.
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Japan's military seeks big boost in defense budget
Japan needs to boost its military spending to counter the potential threat from China's increasingly powerful armed forces and North Korea's long-range missiles, its defense minister said Tuesday.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Japan cannot afford to be complacent over what he said are significant security issues in the region. His ministry announced last week it is seeking a 3 percent increase in defense spending for the coming year, the biggest increase it has requested in 22 years.
Onodera said the increase reflects growing concern in Japan that it must move to counter a more assertive Chinese military amid territorial disputes over uninhabited southern islands. He also noted that North Korea has the ability to strike targets within Japan - including U.S. bases where about 50,000 American troops are stationed - and said Japan's military must be fully prepared to respond with its allies to any contingency with the North.
"There are various tensions ongoing in Asia, and in some cases, there are countries that even use threats," he said.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been a strong advocate of strengthening Japan's military despite the country's other economic pressures, including the massive costs of reconstruction and decontamination following the nuclear disaster triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan's northern shoreline in 2011. Japan's defense spending has been declining steadily for 11 years, although it increased slightly this year.
Abe has also sought to spark a debate about revising the nation's postwar constitution, which restricts the activities of the military to national defense, so that it would be able to participate more freely in international peacekeeping operations and joint missions with its allies, particularly the United States, a position that Washington backs.
One of the top priorities for Japan is to step up surveillance around the southern islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and it hopes to do so by adding drones to its forces and basing more troops in the area, though not on the uninhabited islands themselves.
The government is considering acquiring the Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft that can fly like a helicopter or a conventional fixed-wing airplane, along with the unarmed Global Hawk drone, which is one of the most advanced in the world and would provide Japan with the capability of carrying out longer missions than its manned counterparts.
Japan also will be introducing into its air force the F-35 fighter jet, another showcase aircraft that is superior to fighters used by China or Russia and would bring its air defenses more in sync with those of the United States.
Last month, Japan unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyer that has raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier. China recently began operations with its first aircraft carrier and is reportedly planning to build more.
The Japanese ship, which has a flight deck that is nearly 250 meters (820 feet) long, is designed to carry up to 14 helicopters. Japanese officials say it will be used in national defense - particularly in anti-submarine warfare and border-area surveillance missions - and to bolster the nation's ability to transport personnel and supplies in response to large-scale natural disasters, like the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Though defense outlay increases generally face criticism from Japan's neighbors, who harbor bitter memories of Japan's militarist adventurism during World War II, and a skeptical public, officials have tried to soften the move by stressing - as they did with the warship - that having better-equipped troops will improve the nation's ability to respond to domestic natural disasters.
Japan's military played an unprecedentedly large role in disaster assistance after the tsunami, and its public support levels soared afterward.


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Well, Game 1 is tonight in Cleveland, as our little heroes, the Dallas Mavericks attempt to slowly and surely recover from the biggest disaster in NBA Playoff History. It will begin on ESPN at 7pm, and expect all season long that when the Mavericks appear on a Network broadcast, 2-3 hours of doubting and questions that will not be answered until the spring time.
There is nothing you can do, and there is nothing the team can do. If you depend on the national announcers to build your team up to make you feel better (and most of you are like this) then prepare for many nights where you will be angry. The Mavericks are no longer everyone's darling – of course, where did that get them when they were? The Mavericks are a national punch-line until further notice.
So, what will be different this season? Quite possibly, nothing. As I feared that night in Miami in June of 2006, when Game 3 had just been choked away, the best chance for this team to ever have their One Shining Moment likely has already happened.
Now, the West is looking as dangerous as ever. But, for some reason, I have as big a love affair with these guys as I do any team in this city. I freaking love the Mavericks. I am a homer for these boys. And I am prepared to unwrap this 2007-08 season and begin the long march to the playoffs.
This is how you find out if you are a die-hard fan. Because the so-so fans will hop on in April. Are you in for Game #2 in Atlanta on Friday?
Dirk is ready to get going again …
Nowitzki, 29, seems relaxed and ready for his 10th NBA season, crediting a two-month summer stretch during which he didn't touch a basketball.
Dirk's Excellent Adventure included several weeks of backpacking through Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. He entered clean-shaven and "fed up with basketball" and emerged with a monk-like beard and cleansed mind.
It was his first extended break from the sport since he was selected ninth in the 1998 NBA draft, five days after his 20th birthday.
He packed a towel for his first trip to Dallas because he wasn't sure one would be provided during his stay at then-Mavericks coach Don Nelson's home.
At the time, he earned about $1,100 a month from his club team in Würzburg and drove a Volkswagen. He earned $1.47 million during his rookie NBA year, but because it was a lockout-shortened season, common sense told him to rent a car, a Plymouth.
"Every time I pulled up, the boys [teammates] would be killing me, 'Get a car!' " he laughed.
His father owned a Mercedes, so one of his few ambitions was to get one. He indulged
with an E-class in his second season and now drives a new two-door CL63.
Though he could afford a fleet with his $16.3 million salary, his only other ride is the Denali he gets for doing commercials for a local dealership.
"Other than that, I don't buy fancy watches or rings," he said. "I don't need all of that. Obviously, it's awesome to know that I don't have to worry about it ever in my life again. I can do whatever I want, really, and my family will be fine."
Though he is entering the final season of a six-year, $79 million contract, he already has signed a three-year, $59 million extension that kicks in next year.
But while some pro athletes have sizable entourages, the tightness and makeup of Nowitzki's inner circle has changed little during the last decade.
Just when you thought the Mavericks were short a spare, they sign Juwan Howard again …
The Dallas Mavericks are welcoming back a familiar face. Forward Juwan Howard is ready to sign a one-year contract, giving the team valuable depth on the front line.
The two sides have agreed in principle to the deal that cannot become official until today, when Howard clears waivers. He and the Minnesota Timberwolves agreed to a buyout of his contract on Monday.
"Juwan is a consumate professional and a winner through and through," president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said. "It's an honor to have him back. It's going to be good fit for us, and he's a Maverick alum – he knows the Maverick way."
Howard, 34, was solid for Houston last season, averaging 9.7 points and 5.9 rebounds in 80 games (38 starts). His 26.5 minutes per game were a career low, but he was effective.
To create a roster spot for Howard, the Mavericks waived D.J. Mbenga, ending a three-year run in which the athletic, 7-0 center never earned enough playing time to blossom.
Complicating matters for Mbenga was an anterior cruciate ligament injury in February.
He didn't play again until the preseason finale last week.
Nelson said Mbenga is expected to clear waivers and play in Europe this season.
"We have nothing but love and respect for that young man," Nelson said. "We think he has a very bright future. We're hopeful that future will be with the Mavericks. This is the toughest part of the business."
Althought the Mavericks are ridiculed, here is a funny video from San Antonio ….
Tony Romo appears to be rich now …The bar just raised for the kid…I hope he is up to the pressure that lies ahead…
Tony Romo was in the midst of playing every sport for every season, and he was the best player in his high school, but he wasn't really trying as hard as he could. Mostly because he didn't have to.
"God gave you something," Ramiro told his then-teenage son. "If you don't want to take it any further, that's fine. We're going to love you no matter what. But take that gift you still have and work at it. We're not going to tell you to do this. And we're not going to make you do it."
Tony did the rest. On Tuesday, that paid off big time for Romo, as well as Jerry Jones and the Cowboys.
After searching high and low, and spending a lot of millions in between, Jones committed himself to the future of the Cowboys at quarterback and officially made Romo the heir to Troy Aikman.
The unlikeliest candidate when the Cowboys signed him as undrafted rookie out of Division I-AA Eastern Illinois in 2003, Romo agreed to a six-year, $67.5 million extension Tuesday.
After going through Tony Banks, Quincy Carter, Ryan Leaf, Clint Stoerner, Anthony Wright, Chad Hutchinson, Drew Henson, Vinny Testaverde and Drew Bledsoe, Jones could say his search is over. Mostly because Romo's play told him he no longer needs to look.
"We tried very hard to be very prudent on how we'd make this kind of commitment," Jones said. "It's no secret, but it's hard to put it together and get where the Cowboys must strive for without excellence at the quarterback position."
Through more than a season's worth of starts, Romo has demonstrated he is worth more than 15 minutes of fame. He is a Pro Bowl quarterback with a 12-5 record as a starter, and is among the NFL leaders with a 95.6 passer rating. His team is tied for the best record in the NFC at 6-1, and the Cowboys are in the enviable position of having a stable quarterback position.
"When we had it, we won Super Bowls," Jones said. "When we didn't have it, we didn't get close."
But Romo doesn't view his new contract as an end. He knows he still hasn't won a playoff game.
"I don't think I've made it," Romo said. "Were my goals to make a bunch of money? If that's the case, I've accomplished something. That was never the intent. The best part is these guys really believe in me."
The belief was born, however unlikely, when the Cowboys originally signed him to a rookie free-agent contract May 1, 2003, with a $10,000 signing bonus. Since then, he steadily moved past the "big-time" prospects such as Hutchinson and Henson, and outlasted the established veterans such as Testaverde and Bledsoe.
Here is the Todd Archer breakdown …
Tony Romo signed a six-year, $67.5 million deal that included $30 million guaranteed and an $11.5 million signing bonus.
Where does the rest of the money come in? There are no roster or option bonuses to the deal. The other guarantees come in Romo's base salaries the next two years.
Here are the yearly base salaries:
2007 - $6 million (the Cowboys added $4.5 million to his $1.5 million base this year)
2008 - $6.5 million (fully guaranteed)
2009 - $7 million ($6 million guaranteed)
2010 - $8.5 million
2011 - $9 million
2012 - $9 million
2013 - $11.5 million
Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Phil Sheridan attempts to rile up the natives …
At the risk of committing football blasphemy, it must be said that it's better for Eagles fans when the Dallas Cowboys are good.
It just doesn't feel right when Chan Gailey or Dave Campo is on the sideline for some 6-10 season. If you're honest with yourself, you enjoy it a lot more when the 'Boys are riding high and the Eagles take them down. That's what rivalries are all about. The nastier the villain, the harder you root for the hero.
When the Cowboys are good, as they are going into Sunday's game at Lincoln Financial Field, there is no meaner villain in the eyes of Philadelphia sports fans.
This goes back to the early 1970s, when the pre-Dick Vermeil Eagles were terrible and the Tom Landry Cowboys carried themselves like the rich kids from the nicer side of town. They had their fancy stadium with the hole in the roof, their cheerleader posters, the whole America's Team conceit. It was hard not to hate them.
Fittingly, when the Eagles finally reached their first Super Bowl, they did it by beating Dallas at Veterans Stadium.
It was a mixed blessing. That NFC championship game was the high-water mark of an entire Eagles era. But if you ask Ron Jaworski or Bill Bergey or any of those Eagles, they'll tell you that beating Dallas left the team emotionally drained for the Super Bowl itself. In a roundabout way, even in defeat the Cowboys haunted the Eagles.
When Buddy Ryan got to Philadelphia in 1986, he picked up on the fans' loathing of the Cowboys and saw an opportunity. Ryan made no secret of his disdain for Landry. After his first win over the fedora-wearing legend, Ryan opened his news conference by saying that the Eagles really hadn't played all that well.
"Isn't that what Landry says?" Ryan sneered.
During the 1987 players strike, Landry's team - most of his regulars - trounced Ryan's very irregular replacement squad at Texas Stadium. Two weeks later, with the strike over, the real Eagles were beating the Cowboys, 30-20, as time was running out.
Randall Cunningham took a snap, started to kneel to run out the clock, then heaved a pass downfield to Mike Quick. Dallas was called for a pass-interference penalty, and the Eagles punched the ball into the end zone for a grudge score. As Ryan ran up the tunnel toward the locker room, laughing, he shouted something unprintable about Landry.
Dallas week was like some kind of festival in those years. Linebacker Seth Joyner would stand at his locker and talk with real passion about wanting to beat the Cowboys. For guys like Joyner, Wes Hopkins and Andre Waters, there was something personal about the rivalry that you just don't see in the current players.
Ryan's time in Philadelphia coincided with Landry's decline, and the Eagles beat them nine times in 10 tries through 1992. By then, Rich Kotite was coaching against Jimmy Johnson and a budding young team with Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin.
That year, the Cowboys zoomed past the Eagles again. Another era ended with Reggie White's final game as an Eagle, a 34-10 playoff loss at Texas Stadium. The Cowboys won the first of their three Super Bowls in the '90s. The Eagles lost White, then Joyner and Keith Jackson and Clyde Simmons.
The rivalry lost some luster, but there were still some memorable games: stuffing Emmitt Smith twice on fourth and 1, the botched chip-shot field goal that cost the Eagles one win, James Willis' end-zone interception off Aikman and lateral to Troy Vincent for a combined 104-yard touchdown return.
If the '90s belonged to the Cowboys, this decade has been all Eagles. In 2000, Andy Reid's team declared itself with that 41-14 opening-day victory in triple-digit heat, then went on to win five of six NFC East titles.
And maybe this is why the Cowboys continue to loom so large in these parts. When the Cowboys have been on top, they've won Super Bowls. When the Eagles have had the upper hand, they've fallen short.
Now the Cowboys appear to be surging again. In Tony Romo, they have a quarterback worthy of your most irrational dislike. He seems like a good guy. He dates singers and actresses. He was seen hanging out with Britney Spears in L.A. last week.
There's Roy Williams, the safety whose penchant for injuring opponents forced the NFL to outlaw the horse-collar tackle. There's DeMarcus Ware, the playmaking outside pass rusher. There's that wide receiver who played briefly in Philadelphia - what's his name again?
The Cowboys are 6-1. Dallas week feels like a big deal, so an Eagles win would feel that much better. That's all you can ask for from any rivalry.
I just about made this today's lead story. Because it is my lead story. Today is a wonderful day for me. The NHL Network is Now on Directv!!!!…Channel 215!!!! I am watching it as I blog!
Oh, how I love my hockey highlights. I no longer care that Sportscenter wants to give me 20 seconds of hockey. Screw them! I have 24 hour hockey!!! Hurrah!
Patrick Kane, #1 pick of 2007 draft, in town tonight with the Wirtz-less Blackhawks …
Crosby with another 10 game scoring streak …
Top to bottom, the Penguins nailed it, getting goals from the players who are supposed to score, getting a solid game from backup goaltender Dany Sabourin, staring down a Wild team that lives off a stifling defense -- all the while taking care of its own end.
It started at the top, with center Sidney Crosby collecting a goal on a pretty breakaway and three assists. His left winger, Evgeni Malkin, had two goals and an assist. Their right winger, Ryan Malone, had two assists.
"Crosby's line was on fire," coach Michel Therrien said. "They were skating very well, creating some good opportunities, but being cautious about the defensive game as well."
Twice, Minnesota erased a one-goal Penguins lead.
The Penguins regained the lead for good, 3-2, when Petr Sykora's wrist shot from the slot beat goaltender Josh Harding at 10:05 of the third period on the Penguins' only power play. They iced it 4:24 later when defenseman Sergei Gonchar's eyes got big as he got the puck, after Malkin blocked a shot, and saw Crosby streaking out of his own end.
"The only thing I was worried about was if it might jump off my blade," Gonchar said with a small laugh.
The pass was crisp, and Crosby soared from near the center red line on a breakaway to beat Harding with a forehand shot that slid under the goaltender.
Sabourin stopped 28 of 30 shots by the Wild, whose scoring chances seemed to come in flurries.
The Penguins seemed to start slow, but it was more a case of being patient, setting things up in their own end.
"We knew if we went [flying] down against them we'd be in trouble," Whitney said.
Things opened up in the second period just enough for the teams to take advantage of some offensive chances.
"We had to be patient," Crosby said. "They play a strong system and they're disciplined. We really made an effort to skate and create chances. I don't think we sat back, and that can be easy to do against a team like this."
Malkin found a minuscule space between Harding's left skate and the goal post for a wraparound goal at 3:30 of the second period to break the ice.
Crosby, at the far side of the net, partially whiffed on a pass behind the net to Malkin, but it was just enough for the puck to trickle to the winger.
Stephane Veilleux tied it from the left circle at 6:14 when he pounced on the long, wide rebound of a Branko Radivojevic slap shot from the opposite circle that left Sabourin scrambling side-to-side in the net.
Fifteen seconds later, Malkin restored the lead for the Penguins. He dove in the right circle to deposit a rebound from a Malone shot that bounced off Crosby in front of the crease.
"Our first line played unreal," Sykora said. "They created most of the chances, and they turned the game around in the second period with those two big goals."
Minnesota came back again when Brian Rolston deposited a feed from Mikko Koivu to tie it, 2-2, at 6:26 of the third period. With Brent Burns off for tripping Penguins center Maxime Talbot, Sykora made it 3-2 at 10:05 of the third period for what turned out to be the winner.
Then it was up to Crosby, who moved into the team lead with 17 points and has a 10-game point streak, to seal it. Which is about what would be expected of the team captain who led the NHL in scoring last season.
Matt Ryan Spews on National TV – We should all be this lucky
Amazing Race is back on Sunday …Do love this show…
With the 12th edition of Amazing Race arriving at 8 p.m., Sunday on CBS, some big things have changed, while many things have stayed exactly the same.
CBS was ready to begin airing AR in January, but the stinkage of Viva Laughlin was so bad that it was required to pull our dear Phil Keoghan out of the drawer and dust him off early.
No worries here. We'll take a disappointing season of AR over just about anything that's on TV. Right?
- Two fewer episodes in the season.
- Elimination of the non-elimination Pit Stops (yea!)
- Five countries we've never visited, including Ireland, Lithuania, and Croatia
- No young all-male teams (or, as we like to call them, the winners).
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- "Toni, I've been dying for this party. Just like my guests."
- ―Donald Love
Morgue Party Resurrection is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories given to protagonist Toni Cipriani by Donald Love from a flophouse in Pike Creek, Shoreside Vale, Liberty City.
Donald is now jubilant, knowing that his deal with Panlantic will make him rich once again. To celebrate, he wants to hold a new morgue party, but needs the corpses of Avery Carrington and Ned Burner if he is to dine. He and Toni leave the flophouse to collect one of the corpses and upon collecting one, takes it to Donald's hangar at the airport. Toni then leaves to collect the other, returning before the airport authorities realize that they have entered the airport. Ned's corpse is in a hearse at the church in Bedford Point, Staunton Island, whilst Avery's is on the way to the pathology labs in an ambulance on Shoreside Vale.
Post mission phone call
Donald Love: Toni? Donald here. If the Panlantic deal is to come to fruition we're going to need to, um... how can I put this delicately... 'clear' a small section of land in Fort Staunton.
Toni Cipriani: When you say 'we', you mean 'me', right?
Donald Love: Toni, you see through me. Go and see 8-Ball. I'm sure he can provide us with the necessary hardware.
The reward for completing the mission is $2,000 and the No Money, Mo' Problems mission is unlocked.
- As indicated above, Toni can pick up Avery and Ned's corpses in any order.
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In late October, early November of 2008, we headed to Southwest Wisconsin for a wedding. We'd never thought much of that area, let alone actually been there. Captain America's job was really stressing him out, so we were looking forward to our weekend getaway. We'd heard Southeast Minnesota was really beautiful, but as we headed south of the Twin Cities for Rochester, I wondered what these people were thinking. More flat farmland! Nothing wrong with it, just not any different than what we were used to seeing. Only minus the pretty lakes.
Then as we approached the area, we started the descent through the river bluffs. Wow. That was kind of pretty. Then we crossed the Mississippi. And also the Black River. Apparently 7 rivers met there. Who knew?
We checked into our cutesy northwoods style hotel, and when we opened the curtains, we could see a field, with river bluffs behind it. A few deer were frolicking in the field. I'm not kidding. We had the evening free, so we drove around a bit and had dinner. We joked about moving there. "Look at our new Barnes and Noble!" "Let's walk around our new mall!" It was just sort of nice to pretend. We had a lovely weekend, and we went home.
The following spring, it was clear Captain America needed a new job. We started looking around. Didn't see anything in our area. We looked at cities closer to where we were. One day we sort of off the cuff said, "Let's just throw Wisconsin in the mix." We didn't think anything would come of it.
Captain America wasn't having much luck. Then he found a job description at a place in the town we'd visited. It seemed ideal for him, but he didn't want to get his hopes up. After a couple of phone interviews, we were driving back through those bluffs. This time for an interview. We had to change our tourist point of view and try to figure out if it was a place we were willing to live.
Apparently all it takes for me to feel at home is a hilly descent overlooking a body of water. I've had that in the only three towns I've ever lived in, and that drive always feels like I'm being told, "Welcome back...we missed you..."
After a lot of discussion and prayer, it seemed like a good fit. It's been almost two years, and it's still a good fit.
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25. The Cyclist (Makhmalbaf, Iran, 1987)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's incredible film centers on Nasim, an Afghan immigrant living in Tehran who is virtually forced to perform a circus sideshow-like endurance test in order to pay for his wife's medical bills: he agrees to the scheme of a shady promoter to attempt to ride a bicycle continuously for a week. As Nasim rides in circles in the same town square night and day, a crowd of spectators mounts (including politicians, gamblers and the media), all of whom attempt to manipulate the poor man's plight for their own benefit. This powerful allegory is not unlike Bresson's Au Hasard, Balthazar in that a holy fool character serves as a blank slate upon which the sins of mankind are imprinted.
24. The Shining (Kubrick, USA/UK, 1980)
23. Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East? (Bae, S. Korea, 1989)
22. The Asthenic Syndrome (Muratova, Russia, 1989)
21. The Green Ray (Rohmer, France, 1986)
20. Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica, Yugoslavia, 1988)
19. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies, UK, 1988)
18. Sans Soleil (Marker, France, 1983)
17. The Road Warrior (Miller, Austraila, 1981)
George Miller's 1981 action-movie masterpiece is the best and most influential of the post-apocalyptic Eighties trend. Even more impressive is the fact that he did it all on a relatively meager budget of $2,000,000 — with old-fashioned (i.e., "real") stunts and exceedingly clever production design in which an assortment of 20th century detritus is reconfigured in surprising ways (e.g., punk rock fashions and S&M gear happily co-exist with pieces of athletic uniforms). The film is set in the future, when gasoline is an even more precious resource than it is today, and concerns a former cop (Mel Gibson, reprising his role from the non-post-apocalyptic Mad Max) helping a gasoline-rich colony fend off attacks by a gang of marauding bandits. The climactic action set-piece, a long chase involving many different types of vehicles barreling through the barren Australian outback, takes up most of the second-half and ranks as one of the most exhilarating such scenes ever captured on celluloid.
16. Blue Velvet (Lynch, USA, 1986)
15. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, USA, 1984)
14. Blade Runner (Scott, USA, 1982)
13. Hail Mary (Godard, France, 1985)
12. A Nos Amours (Pialat, France, 1983)
11. Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Resnais, France, 1980)
10. A City of Sadness (Hou, Taiwan, 1989)
9. Love Streams (Cassavetes, USA, 1984)
8. Vagabond (Varda, France, 1985)
7. Brightness (Cisse, Mali, 1987)
Perhaps my favorite African movie ever is Yeelen, a hypnotic, deliberately paced art film that has all of the deceptive simplicity, power and beauty of a primeval myth. Niankoro is a boy living in rural West Africa who must undergo various rites of passage in order to become a man, which culminates in challenging his evil sorcerer father in a duel to the death. Western critics are fond of invoking Oedipus Rex when reviewing writer/director Souleymane Cissé's masterpiece but all of this film's potent and elaborate symbolism is apparently based on local folklore and not influenced by outside sources.
6. Raging Bull (Scorsese, USA, 1980)
5. Come and See (Klimov, Russia, 1985)
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, Germany, 1980)
3. The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura, Japan, 1983)
2. The Decalogue (Kieslowski, Poland, 1988)
My opinion of Krzysztof Kieslowski's monumental achievement — 10 one-hour movies that correspond to the 10 commandments, originally broadcast on Polish television — is inextricably bound to the circumstances under which I first saw it. I watched all 10 hours projected in 35mm, exhibited in two-hour installments a piece, while standing in the back of a movie theater that had sold out all of its screenings. As Stanley Kubrick noted, what may be most impressive about The Decalogue is the way Kieslowski and his collaborators were able to successfully dramatize ideas. It's fun to think about how the individual episodes relate to the commandments: the first episode is a literal adaptation (a man puts his faith in the "false God" of technology — with tragic results) while others are more oblique (the "thou shall not commit adultery" episode is a tale of romantic obsession and voyeurism in which none of the characters are married). Kieslowski went on to even greater fame by subsequently making arthouse blockbusters in France (The Double Life of Veronique, the "Three Colors" trilogy) but The Decalogue easily remains my favorite of his movies.
1. L'argent (Bresson, France, 1983)
Robert Bresson's swan song, as tight and compressed as a Ramones song, is a masterful update of Tolstoy's short story The Forged Note. Bresson's ingenious narrative follows a counterfeit bill, initially passed off in a shop as a schoolboy prank, which sets off a chain of events (an "avalanche of evil" in the director's own indelible words) that ends with a young man murdering an entire family with an axe. This vital, rigorous movie, made when the director was 82 but seeming like the work of a much younger man, is the ultimate artistic statement about the destructive power of money.


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As Competition Heightens in Social, Stateside Users Still Stuck to Facebook
We may not be as thrilled to use Facebook as we once were. But apparently that isn't stopping us from logging on to the world's preeminent social network.
Time spent on Facebook among U.S. desktop and mobile users continues to climb, according to a recent research note from J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth. Stateside users spent upward of 123.2 billion minutes on Facebook during May alone, according to recent comScore data. That's an uptick of 31 percent year on year (94.2 billion in May of 2012), and an acceleration of growth from the two months prior (119.5 billion and 119.3 billion in March and April, respectively).
That's despite the rise of a number of competing apps and sites over the past year, including the incredibly popular messaging application WhatsApp, ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, and, of course, the microblogging service Twitter. All three networks together have made significant gains in both users and engagement, though they only account for a little more than 2.3 percent of total U.S. Internet minutes spent, compared to Facebook's 15.7 percent, according to the data.
Granted, WhatsApp and Snapchat don't offer desktop versions of their services like Facebook does, which means fewer opportunities for users to access the apps. Also, a great deal of WhatsApp's growth has been in international markets, which is not measured in the comScore data Anmuth based his analysis on.
Still, more use is a hopeful sign for Facebook, especially as users continue to flee the desktop in droves and move to mobile devices. And this shift to mobile may actually help Facebook over the coming summer months, which often see downturns in desktop engagement, due to seasonal changes. In other words, while everyone flocks outside and away from their computers, they'll be looking to their phones to log on to Facebook instead.
Engagement is important, and Facebook's continued hold on U.S. users' attention is admirable. But a big factor to worry about here is something that isn't being measured in this comScore data: International usage rates.
In essence, international markets are where Facebook really needs to push for gains in growth and engagement.
After all, the U.S. only has so many people — once Facebook tops out its market penetration, it needs to start finding users somewhere else.


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Rookie Murphy, Betances lead Yankees past Angels
NEW YORK >> John Ryan Murphy spent a while in the minors catching Dellin Betances, hoping they could someday contribute on a higher level.
On Saturday, they teamed up in a major way.
Murphy hit his first big league homer and drove in three runs, Betances earned his first win in the majors and the New York Yankees bounced back to beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 Saturday.
"I don't think it can get any better," Murphy said.
David Robertson posted his first save since coming off the disabled list. Mike Trout singled with one out and stole second, setting up a nervy ninth inning.
Albert Pujols followed with a foul pop, and first baseman Mark Teixeira drifted near the stands. But when he reached into the seats trying to catch it, two Yankees fans reached up and deflected it away.
"I understand it. People want baseballs," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "It's not what you want to see at your home ballpark."
But Robertson regrouped to retire Pujols on a routine fly and struck out Howie Kendrick to end it.
A day after the Angels homered four times in a 13-1 romp, they started strong when Trout hit a solo shot on the seventh pitch of the afternoon.
Murphy lined a two-out, two-run single in the second that gave the Yankees a 3-1 lead. The backup catcher homered on the first pitch in the fifth, tagging Hector Santiago (0-4) for a 4-3 lead.
"We had reports on him," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He did a good job on a changeup with guys on second and third early. It was up and he just stayed with it to right field. And he got a first-pitch fastball over the middle of the plate and he hit it out of the park. So, those are two mistakes."
Murphy made his big league debut last season and began the day 6 for 36 with one RBI in his career. He played two weeks shy of his 23rd birthday while All-Star Brian McCann got a day off.
"The more time you're out there, the easier it becomes," Murphy said.
Last year, Murphy enjoyed a special moment, catching the final pitches of Mariano Rivera's career. Called up this month when Francisco Cervelli was hurt, Murphy made his own memory on this day.
"He'll never forget it," Girardi said.
Especially because the fan in left field who wound up with Murphy's home-run ball gave it back to him. Murphy said the souvenir was going to his mom.
"I'm so happy for him," Betances said.
Betances said he hadn't yet tracked down any mementoes from the game. No problem, the 26-year-old righty left with something more memorable.
"It was good to get the first win," he said.
Betances (1-0) took over in the fifth for shaky starter Vidal Nuno and pitched two scoreless innings. The 6-foot-8 reliever struck out three, and has fanned 19 in 11 2-3 innings this season.
"Happy for the kid, he's been through a lot," Girardi said. "He's had to change roles, he had to fight to get here."
Said Murphy: "When he's in the strike zone, he's unhittable."
Reliever Shawn Kelley got Pujols in a key spot in the seventh and Matt Thornton got pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez on a lineout with two runners on to finish the eighth.
Robertson got his third save. He was activated from the DL on Tuesday after being out because of a strained left groin.
Both teams started a 26-year-old lefty, and each lasted only 4 1-3 innings. Nuno pitched in place of Ivan Nova, who's set for Tommy John surgery next week.
Trout hit his sixth home run, sending a solo shot into the right-center field seats. The New Jersey native got a cheer from his parents in the stands.
The Yankees loaded the bases in the second, and a balk scored the tying run before Murphy singled.
A clean, hard slide by Kendrick helped the Angels make it 3-all in the fourth. He knocked down Yankees second baseman Brian Roberts, whose throw on a potential double-play relay sailed into the dugout and let a run score. Chris Iannetta added a tying double.
Yankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury made a diving catch with runners at the corners to end the inning.
NOTES: Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka (3-0, 2.15) starts against RHP Garrett Richards (2-0, 2.52) on Sunday night. ... Santiago's teams have lost the last nine times he's started. He pitched for the White Sox last year. ... Yankees LF Brett Gardner was hit in the left foot by a pitch from Ernesto Frieri in the eighth. Gardner was examined by a trainer, hobbled to first and stayed in the game.


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Hartford man sentenced to 55 years in prison for two killings
HARTFORD >> A 34-year-old Hartford man who killed his estranged wife and her friend in 2011 has been sentenced to 55 years in prison.
WFSB-TV reports that Rocky Williams was sentenced Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court for the Dec. 15, 2011, shooting deaths of 26-year-old Alyceson Archer-Williams and 31-year-old Dean Samuels. He pleaded guilty to murder and first-degree manslaughter.
Court records show that Archer-Williams had filed for divorce in May 2011. She and Samuels were killed four days before a scheduled hearing in the divorce case.
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If you're not watching Spike TV's military pseudo-science show — which pits combatants from different eras against each other using recreations, weapons experts, and computers — then next Tuesday's the time to tune in: it's vamp-daddy against strategy-daddy!
The show shouldn't be as much fun as it is: Basically, it takes two "classes" of combatants and imagines what it'd be like if they fought. To do this imagining, Deadliest Warrior enlists devotees of whatever martial styles each combatant would favor — kung fu masters, modern-day maori warriors, tomahawk experts, etc — and lets them loose on a series of dummies and human-body proxies, with a doctor on-hand to examine the "wounds." Then, a dude at a computer crunches the numbers — attack time, strike force, soft-tissue damage, and so on — and runs a bunch of simulations. Finally, taking into account intangible modifiers like tales of ferocity, spiritual motivation, and innate toughness, Deadliest Warrior declare the deadliest warrior.
It's like CSI meets D&D. The show's a little less fun when it strays from classic archetypes like Samurai vs. Viking, Pirate vs. Knight, and William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu and pits modern classes against each other. Maybe it's me, but it's not as much fun with IRA vs. Taliban or Somali Pirate vs. Medellin Drug Cartel — but I'm hoping that Vlad vs. Sun will bring it back home.


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Ministry apologizes for gay 'cure' program, closes
- Group claims 270 local affiliates worldwide
- Board of directors says a new generation of Christians wants a change
- Group%27s president says gay %27reparative%27 therapy can be harmful
Exodus International, a 37-year-old Christian ministry focused on faith and homosexuality, closed its doors Thursday, one day after its president apologized for causing "undue suffering and judgment" with its programs aimed at "curing" gay people through prayer and therapy.
"Exodus is an institution in the conservative Christian world, but we've ceased to be a living, breathing organism," said Alan Chambers, president of Exodus. "For quite some time we've been imprisoned in a worldview that's neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical."
Chambers, who left the gay life as a teenager, said in a blunt statement on the group's website Wednesday that he wanted to apologize "to the gay community for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization and the church as a whole."
He said the group would create a new ministry that would would work with other churches to create "safe, welcoming and mutually transforming communities."
Tom Moore, a member of the board of directors that voted on Thursday to shut down the Orlando-based ministry, said, "We're not negating the ways God used Exodus to positively affect thousands of people, but a new generation of Christians is looking for change – and they want to be heard."
The organization, founded in 1976, claims 270 local ministries worldwide with a stated mission: "Mobilizing the body of Christ to minister grace and truth to a world impacted by homosexuality."
In 2011, it drew sharp criticism for an app billed as a "useful resource" in its ministry that promoted the idea that homosexuality can be cured. Apple later removed the app from the Apple Store.
Chambers said the local affiliated ministries have always been autonomous and will continue, but that Exodus International will shut down.
Chambers, who is married and has two adopted children, indicated that the apology was particularly personal because "I conveniently omitted my ongoing same-sex attractions."
"I was afraid to share them as readily and easily as I do today," he wrote. "They brought me tremendous shame and I hid them in the hopes they would go away. Looking back, it seems so odd that I thought I could do something to make them stop. Today, however, I accept these feelings as parts of my life that will likely always be there. The days of feeling shame over being human in that way are long over, and I feel free simply accepting myself as my wife and family does. As my friends do. As God does."
Chambers said he began to change his views three years ago after he and his wife Leslie discussed their deeply held views with Lisa Ling on Our America, which is broadcast by the Oprah Winfrey Network.
In 2012, Chambers opened a rift in the religious community by telling The New York Times that there was no cure for homosexuality and that "reparative therapy" offered false hopes to gays and could even be harmful.
He said he called Ling a few months ago asking if he could appear on the program against to offer his public apology. It will be broadcast as part of a program God & Gays Thursday night broadcast on OWN.


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If you already have Docker containers that you'd like to launch and load balance, Kubernetes is the best way to run them.
These docs are the best place to learn how to install, run and use Kubernetes on CoreOS. Anyone can submit changes to these docs via GitHub. For more in-depth support, jumping into #coreos on IRC, emailing the dev list or filing a bug are recommended.
For commercial support, Tectonic delivers self-driving Kubernetes for the enterprise, and is available in a free tier for small clusters.
CoreOS runs on most cloud providers, virtualization platforms and bare metal servers. Running a local VM on your laptop is a great dev environment. Following the Quick Start guide is the fastest way to get set up.
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PEORIA HEIGHTS — After 40 years of designing schools, libraries and correctional facilities, Ron Budzinski is now putting together a TV show.
The retired Peoria architect wants to produce "Homemade in the Heartland," a cooking show for WTVP-TV Channel 47, the area's public television outlet.
But Budzinski isn't just whipping up a central Illinois version of "Chopped" or "Cupcake Wars."
"I'm looking for the ideal 30-minute show that promotes family interaction at meal time," he said.
Citing his models as the book, "The Family Dinner" by Laurie David, and the familydinnerproject.org website, Budzinski believes in the importance of a family that sits down together to eat — or stands up and prepares the meal first.
Budzinski said he's learned from the first program he produced for Channel 47 last year with host Hugh Higgins, proprietor of the Hearth restaurant in Peoria Heights.
"Now I know more about what's needed," he said of the "Homemade" show, noting that he conferred with WTVP station manager Chet Tomczyk to review matters after the first show.
"I know the show has to move more quickly," said Budzinski, flipping open a three-ring binder containing production notes and a neatly drawn outline of how the 30-minute show would.
Three eight-minute segments are planned, the first featuring a local celebrity preparing a Sunday supper followed by a quick-and-easy segment with multiple short recipes. The last segment would feature cooking with others, especially kids.
"We're trying to answer the question, how do you get kids involved in cooking?" said Budzinski.
While his crash course in television production is progressing, Budzinski knows the challenges involved. He knows that, after all the planning, it comes down to people.
He's looking for telegenic performers who know their way around the kitchen — or at least the set he uses at Hampton's Kitchen & Appliance store, 7605 N. University St.
"I'm looking for kids, for families. We'd have them come on the set and have that exchange right in front of the cameras," said Budzinski, aware of the fierce competition he faces from TV's growing culinary corner.
But he's shopping locally for his food stories. "We had Mary Ardapple (owner of Apple's Bakery) talking about making apple pies with her mother on the first show," he said.
Other guest cooks on that program included Alice Price, Amanda Pyle and Mary Ann Fahey-Darling.
George Stelluto, music director of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, a man who grew up in an Italian restaurant in New York and loves to cook, is the kind of guest chef that Budzinski thinks would make interesting viewing.
But it's not just entertainment that's important on "Homemade." Budzinski wants to provide an incentive for family get-togethers.
"There's strong evidence that when families eat together there are significant benefits to child development, improved communication, appreciation of family roots and the overall well-being of the family," he said.
Budzinski also thinks his concept could play well outside of central Illinois. "I can see a 'Homemade in Cajun Country' set in New Orleans, using that area's great cooking talent," he said.
Knowing the importance of a good foundation, Budzinski happily seeks the input of others through his homemadeintheheartland.com website.
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Florida teen rejects plea deal in controversial same-sex case
Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt, charged with a crime for having sex with a 14-year-old girl, rejected a deal Friday that would have required her to plead guilty to child abuse, according to Hunt's attorney.
Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery after the parents of the 14-year-old went to authorities. Hunt's family says their relationship was consensual, but in Florida a person under the age of 16 is not legally able to give consent to sex.
If Hunt is convicted, she could go to prison for 15 years -- a reality that touched off a maelstrom of controversy across the country this past week. The case became widely known when Hunt's family began an online campaign in defense of their daughter.
The plea deal from the Indian River County prosecutor's office would have required Hunt to plead no contest to child abuse, spend two years "on community control," which usually involves strict supervision, followed by one year of probation.
According to the plea deal document, during her probation, Hunt would have had to agree to stay away from the 14-year-old, and to provide her probation officer with immediate access to her Internet and telephone communication.
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In a statement saying that Hunt was rejecting the plea deal, her attorney, Julia Graves, wrote:
"This is a situation of two teenagers who happen to be of the same sex involved in a relationship. If this case involved a boy and girl, there would be no media attention to this case.
"Our client is a model citizen. She has been placed in an environment of school with her classmates where they go to school together, have lunch together, and play on the same team and are allowed to have communication and contact without barriers. Then when something develops between the two as a result of this environment created by the state, it leads to criminal prosecution."
"If this incident occurred 108 days earlier when she was 17, we wouldn't even be here," the attorney wrote.
The parents of the young girl Friday evening said they are prepared to go forward with the case.
His daughter's innocence was taken away, Jim Smith told CNN affiliate WPEC. "There deserves some type of punishment for that."
The office of State Attorney Bruce Colton said it tendered an "extremely lenient plea offer in this case which would have ensured that the defendant avoided any term of incarceration and the stigma of being labeled a sex offender.
"In fact, in all probability the defendant would have avoided being a convicted felon," the statement continued. Colton will prepare for a mid-July trial.
Earlier this week, Hunt cried in front of news crews.
"I'm scared of losing my life, the rest of my life," she said, "not being able to go to college or be around kids, be around my sisters and my family."
In response, Charles Sullivan Jr., the attorney for the 14-year-old girl's family, said they had been hoping the case would be resolved by now.
Now the 14-year-old girl may have to take the witness stand if the case goes to court, Sullivan said.
"No parent wants their child to have to testify in court, but unfortunately the reality of our system is we have a system where a defendant has the right to have all the witnesses present. It's just the aspect of our law," Sullivan said. "It's a difficult process but it's a necessary process in our system of justice."
A case catches fire on Facebook
The case has been a lightning rod for controversy after Hunt's family went public on Facebook, describing their daughter's case and essentially accusing the victim's family of going after their daughter because she is gay.
The victim's family said that isn't true; they are only trying to protect their 14-year-old.
The American Civil Liberties Union has spoken out in defense of Hunt and an online petition by Change.org had attracted some 279,000 signatures by Friday evening. They say the punishment does not equal the crime.
Despite the online furor, a case like this isn't all that unusual, said David LaBahn, president of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, a national professional group.
"Prosecutors get these kinds of cases all the time, and it's almost always parents who come to them saying that something like this has happened," said LaBahn, who worked as a trial attorney in California for 10 years and focused on prosecuting sex crimes for four years.
The amount of difference between the alleged perpetrator's age and the victim's age weighs heavily in whether a prosecutor moves forward on a case, he said.
"If you had an 18- and 17-year-old, there may be some investigation," he said.
"If the 17-year-old says it was consensual, that would probably be the end of it and you wouldn't have charges."
But in this case, 18 and 14 is a wide gap, he said. "According to law in Florida, this is a crime."
It doesn't matter -- and shouldn't matter -- what people in an online community who don't have the investigative details of a case believe, he said.
He drew a comparison to the Jodi Arias case currently under way in Arizona. Many people -- even those on the jury -- said they couldn't conceive how a petite woman who claimed she'd been the victim of domestic violence could repeatedly stab her boyfriend, as she admits doing.
"As a prosecutor you cannot be influenced by anything other than the facts," he said.
While some have suggested this case is being handled differently because it involves two females, Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar said that has nothing to do with it.
"If this was an 18-year-old male and that was a 14-year-old girl, it would have been prosecuted the same way," he said.
Parents of girl, 14, say they are protecting her
At trial, the prosecutor is likely to try to put on witnesses who can show that the 14-year-old was damaged psychologically by engaging in sex at such a young age, and that she wouldn't have normally done such a thing.
In an earlier interview with CNN affiliate WPEC, Jim and Laurie Smith insisted that the girls' gender has nothing to do with the case. They are concerned about ages.
"Our daughter was 14, and this girl was 18," said Jim Smith.
According to the Smiths, they twice warned Hunt to stop.
"I had another adult, who is a mother, she came to me and said, 'Ms. Smith, you need to know this.' She said, 'We told Ms. Hunt to leave your daughter alone but they are in a relationship. And, she's 18.'"
Laurie Smith said she was shocked. Her daughter was just too young, she thought.
The 14-year-old began to act out, the Smiths told WPEC.
Then one weekend morning the Smiths went to their daughter's bedroom and discovered she was missing.
They panicked, thinking someone took their daughter or that she was hurt. "Her running away was the furthest thing from our mind," said Jim Smith. "We thought ... you hear about kids getting abducted from their homes."
But they later learned that Hunt had picked their daughter up, they told WPEC.
"We had no other alternative but to turn to the law, use it basically as a last resort," Jim Smith said.
Bloggers have called Laurie Smith a gay basher and accused her of being abusive to her daughter. Numerous news reports have asked whether the Smiths went after the teen because of her sexual orientation.
But Smith says her goal is to protect her 14-year-old, and she will not relent.
"I will be an advocate of what she needs," the mother told WPEC. "The stories that people are saying ... I love my daughter. ... I'm willing to do whatever to protect her."
"This whole story about you blaming Kate for making your daughter gay ... where did that come from?" a reporter asked the parents.
"I don't know. It didn't come from us. That's not how we feel," Jim Smith answered.
Still, Hunt's supporters say she is being prosecuted because she was in a sexual relationship with someone of the same sex. A Facebook support page the Hunt family set up called "Free Kate" has gathered more than 47,000 names.
Not everyone who is posting online might have the facts of the case. A glance at postings on Facebook and Twitter show that some people are getting the ages of the girls wrong. Others have posted erroneously that Hunt is being prosecuted for numerous other charges.
Regardless, everyone seems upset about the effect a felony child abuse conviction would have on Hunt, if she agreed to the plea deal.
LaBahn told CNN that a felony child abuse conviction would mean that Hunt would have to disclose her felony conviction on employment applications and she could never serve on a jury. She would be prohibited from voting for a period of time, though each state has different time frames for that rule, the attorney said. She may not be able to secure student loans either, he said, and she might not be allowed to adopt or obtain a childcare license.
Graves, Hunt's attorney, had earlier asked that the charges be reduced to a misdemeanor.
"This is a life sentence for behavior that is all too common, whether male, female, gay, straight," Graves said at a Wednesday news conference.
"High school relationships may be fleeting," she said, "but felony convictions are forever." CNN


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Metal Tiger Plc
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Warrant Exercise
The Board of Metal Tiger plc (LON: MTR) the London Stock Exchange AIM listed investor in strategic natural resource projects is pleased to announce that it received a binding signed warrant conversion notice for the following amount on 27 June 2016:
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|Price (£)
|Pound value (£)
|New ordinary shares to be issued
The Board is pleased to confirm that it has raised £1,577,500 from warrant conversions since March 16 2016.
The 55,555 new ordinary shares are expected to be admitted to trading on or around 5 July 2016. Following the issue of the new ordinary shares, the number of ordinary shares in issue in the Company will increase to 570,023,219. For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), the issued ordinary share capital of Metal Tiger following this allotment consists 570,023,219 ordinary shares with voting rights attached (one vote per share). There are no shares held in treasury. This total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Metal Tiger under the DTRs.
For further information on the Company, visit: www.metaltigerplc.com:
|Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer)
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|Terry Grammer (Non- Executive Chairman)
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|Sean Wyndham-Quin
Neil Baldwin
Nick Emerson
Andy Thacker
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SI Capital
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Metal Tiger plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM Market ("AIM") with the trading code MTR and invests in high potential mineral projects with a precious and strategic metals focus.
The Company's target is to deliver a very high return for shareholders by investing in significantly undervalued and/or high potential opportunities in the mineral exploration and development sector timed to coincide, where possible, with a cyclical recovery in the exploration and mining markets. The Company's key strategic objective is to ensure the distribution to shareholders of major returns achieved from disposals.
Metal Tiger's Metal Projects Division is focused on the development of its key project interests in Botswana, Spain and Thailand. In Botswana Metal Tiger has a growing interest in the large and highly prospective Kalahari copper/silver belt. In Spain Metal Tiger the Company has tungsten and gold interests in the highly mineralised Extremadura region. In Thailand Metal Tiger has expanding interests over licences, applications and critical historical data covering antimony, copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc opportunities.
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I once read an article where the author admonished bloggers for blogging faux pas. Too many photos. Lack of photos. Too much text. Not enough bullets. The author's list was pretty extensive. Well, readers, I've broken one of that author's rules and I'm about to break another — 1) posting infrequently or on an unpredictable schedule and 2) apologizing for infrequent posting.
So, dear readers, I apologize. I've been gone for a very long time. Eight months, if not more. There was only one other time when I fell silent — from February 2012 until a few posts in March 2013 about a trip to Raleigh, N.C.
Both then and now have very similar themes — I lost a dear loved one and needed a break from activities and responsibilities that did not need my energy or attention. I guess you can call it a time of reflection and evaluation. I needed to focus on living without the worry of additional responsibilities. Blogging was certainly not a necessity. It's a hobby. It doesn't pay the bills. It doesn't help with my education or research. So it took a back seat. I set it aside.
The first extended blog hiatus occurred soon after my grandfather passed away. I grieved for several months and it took a long time before I felt like writing again. Looking back over the blog, I realized how much I enjoyed it and turned back to snapping photos and writing. I enjoy creating and traveling and sharing those experiences with you.
This time, our sweet puppy, Sydney, passed away last May. She was nearly 15 and had been struggling with illness for the past year. Chris and I made the difficult decision of letting her go. She had continued to lose weight at a rapid pace, and she had been on lots of antibiotics for the last month of her life.
Imaging showed she was losing bone mass in a back leg; the same one that had been swollen and painful for months. We never discovered the cause of the infection or the reason for her weight or bone loss. It was time and we didn't want to expose her to more poking and prodding than she'd already experienced for the past several months.
So, I took a break for blogging again. Only, this time, I debated whether or not to even continue the blog. I would still leave the site up, but I didn't, and still don't know, if I would continue writing. Sydney has been a central part of Chris and my life, as you can certainly see from the many trips posted under the Small Travels and Musings section where she is spotlighted in many photos. It will seem odd to travel without our furry "dog"her.
I'll continue to think about this and may continue to post from once in awhile. Bear with me, dear readers, as I decide what I'm going to do.


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Snap: Balloon landing in Best Buy lot
Hook contributor Wick Hunt snapped this image of a hot-air balloon making a pinpoint landing in the Best Buy parking lot as the balloon owner took a son on a training flight over a becalmed Charlottesville.
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Perhaps if The brief photo Caption had Featured random capitalization, then TJB would have Been more Satisfied.
One of the joys of living in Charlottesville, walking early in the morning and seeing these beautiful flying machines gliding effortlessly over the landscape of Charlottesville, with the Blue Ridge Mountains as a backdrop.
hawes, a ballon trip is quite a thrill.
But ski-flying is much more exciting!
This video is absoluely amazing!!!
Thank you, Mr. Hunt, for this snap o the day and the following story. OH SNAP!
Exactly the reason I question the wisdom of operating these primitive things around heavily populated areas, airports, and powerlines.
So? Where's the story HOOK? Was this a Planned or Unplanned event? Was anybody injured? was Property Damaged? Where and What is the story here? Very Poor Reporting, In Fact I can't even call it Reporting.
What's up with the moderating?
I would have thought that most people could figure out that this was at best case scenario a borderline emergency landing. Especially since it's only 50 yards from a major and heavily traveled intersection.


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Reported in the Fly Tipping category anonymously at 13:39, Sat 13 April 2019
Sent to Stevenage Borough Council less than a minute later
Rubbish has been left here for at least 3 days. We were notified by the authorities that there has been a problem with rats in this area. This litter bin is used constantly by the general public and usually contains waste food and packaging which if left for too much longer will attract vermin. We know that the general public also use this bin for disposing of dog poo - another health hazard!!
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