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By Karen Talbot
Feb. 12, 2020: Kudos to Chef/Owner David Dibari on having two of his three restaurants - - The Cookery in Dobbs Ferry and Eugene's Diner and Bar in Portchester - - awarded the "Michelin Bib Gourmands."
According to Michelin, the award is given to "restaurants offering exceptional food at moderate prices or $40 for two courses or small plates plus a glass of wine or dessert (tax and tip not included).
The Cookery is an Italian Gastro Pub with its focus on pasta and appetizers. Its motto is "Eat Serious Have Fun."
The outstanding Chef, Sajin Renae, is very talented, using creative combinations to satisfy the palate!
For Starters, we had a Crostino of fresh ricotta, truffle honey, thyme, and olive oil and Lamb Liverwurst served with cranberry & smoked cabbage marmalata with charred bread.
Pasta choices were: Spaghetti with pork and clam sausage, garlic, chili and lemon, and White Lasagna with besciamella, ricotta, fontina, and mozzarella (you can add truffle oil for an additional charge).
Both were over the top in flavor. They also offer a vegetarian choice of Ravioli Cauliflower with lemon brown butter, garlic, chili, and Parmigiano.
From Mains, I suggest having Branzino en Croute with caviar butter, pickled fennel & watercress. I have never seen Branzino served this way as it is usually just served simply with lemon. The Pork Osso Bucco looked awesome served with creamy white polenta, apple mostarda, and vincotto.
You must indulge in Dessert here! One of the best and decadent desserts that I have ever had is the chef's Chocolate Chip Cookie Tray for two (it could serve four people). Picture this, a warm chocolate chip cookie on the bottom with two scoops of vanilla ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce. We also enjoyed a potato donut covered with chocolate sauce and sprinkles and Vanilla Panna Cotta with Stella D'Oro cookie crumble.
The Cookery is hip and casual in feeling. It has a large bar with two TV's and high-top tables and a separate eating area. It is small and intimate, and it can get noisy.
We had a reservation but had to wait for a half-hour at the bar as there were no tables available. When a table became available, we were seated in the back next to a very noisy party, before finally being moved to a choice table up front.
Periodically, The Cookery has Whole Suckling Pig dinners, which are very popular and cost $85/person. There are specials every day, and your bill also includes a 3% surcharge on the food portion for "the kitchen crew," which is a fairly new concept, and very understandable.
Happy Hour is every Tues. – Fri. from 5 to 7 pm, and you can order beer, wine or cocktails, a few starters, and a few spaghetti dishes at a reduced price. David DiBari also owns The Parlor at 14 Cedar Street in Dobbs Ferry.
The Cookery is located at 39 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 914-305-2336.
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Nutmeg, readily convenient on Main Street in Tuckahoe, serves delicious scones, muffins, tea and short breads, pies, cakes, cookies and a host of savory items. Come into their cheery store, grab a goodie and enjoy a cup of really good coffee or tea. Nutmeg also provides their food items to local caterers and restaurants
64 Main Street. Tuckahoe
Bxv Food Fine Catering
Bxv Food Fine Catering caters for sit-down dinners, luncheons, cocktail parties or buffets. bxvFood can provide unique food, excellent service and inviting ambiance, attending to all of the details, leaving you free to enjoy your guests. bxvFood serves Southern Westchester, Southwestern Conn. and New York city with 80% of his catering done right here in Bronxville's square mile. Two to three weeks advance notice is preferred for booking a date. Their specialty and most rewarding meal is a seven-course, seasonal sit-down dinner served in your home for 6-12 guests.
Corner Stone Caterers of Rye
544 Milton Road Rye, New York www.cornerstonecaterers.com 914-967-0035
Eastchester Fish Gourmet Catering To Go
Glorious Food of New York
504 East 74th Street New York, New York www.gloriousfood.com 212-628-2320
Le Moulin Event Planning & Catering, Ltd.
Le Moulin caters the "Simplest To The Most Elegant Affair," and brings comprehensive event planning experience and attention to every detail which includes Events, Weddings, Corporate Events, Special Affairs and Event Venues. The food is always of high quality, colorful and artistically presented. Corporate clients include leaders in a variety of industries, political associations, the arts and a host of other business and private patrons
Libby Coverly Cooke Catering And Event Planning
49 Brownhouse Road Stamford, CT 06902 www.libbycookecatering.com 203-406-9664
Two Carrot Catering is a full-service caterer providing creative cuisine combined with personalized service. From an elaborate wedding to an intimate dinner party or casual buffet luncheon, we can attend to every detail of your affair. For many years, Two Carrot Catering has formed trusting relationships with their clients, both corporate and private.
Ladle of Love
Ladle of Love dishes out delicious soups, sandwiches, salads, wraps, hand crafted meals and rotating daily specials. They also have a Meal Plan Program that is personalized for individuals or families, offering daily or weekly meals which can be customized to dietary preferences and needs.
18 Palmer Avenue, Bronxville
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Dobbs & Bishop Fine Cheese
Owned by Bronxville's own Ruth Walter and Kevin McNeill, Dobbs & Bishop Fine Cheese carries traditional varieties of cheese such as manchego, camembert and Irish Cheddar as well as other varieties from a half dozen countries. They also sell specialty breads, baguettes, scones, croissants, olive rye batard and other varieties provided by French baker, Balthazar. Gift baskets and party platters are available to order. It is also a go to destination for lunch for the school children offering the mac and cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches on white or multi-grain bread and yummy lemonade.
107 Pondfield RoadBronxville, New York 10708914-361-1770
Blue Hill at Stone Barns
630 Bedford Road Pocantico Hills, New York 914-366-9600 www.bluehillfarm.com
Dolphin Restaurant, Bar and Lounge has maximum waterfront dining on the Hudson River. They have a delicious summer menu and speciality drinks. Their more casual sister restaurant, Hudson Cafe, is also next door.
1 van Der Donck StreetYonkers, New York 914-751-8170www.dolphinrbl.com
Eastchester Fish Gourmet
Eastchester Fish Gourmet is an acclaimed restaurant and fish market located in Scarsdale, New York. Founded by Rick Ross in 1981, Eastchester Fish is a Scarsdale landmark, having served the community for over 30 years.
837 White Plains Road Scarsdale, New York 10583 914-725-3450 www.eastchesterfish.com
Pete's Park Place Tavern
This comfy veteran tavern has been serving beers, burgers & other pub fare since 1937.
18-20 Park Pl, Bronxville, NY 10708
(914) 337-9887
American 265 Glenville Road Greenwich, CT 203-532-9270
The Melting Pot
30 Mamaroneck Avenue (Next to CVS) White Plains, NY 10601 www.meltingpot.com
Underhill's Crossing
Underhills Crossing Restaurant is a great place to meet family or friends for a lite bite, an incredible raw bar & shellfish tower assortment, or a full meal offering seasonal farm fresh ingredients. The Chef's 3-course prix-fixe tasting menu offers new choices each Thursday. Fine wines, craft beers and a specially created cocktail menu compliment the menu chef's grill selection, pasta, meat and market-fresh fish dishes.
Underhills Crossing Restaurant is also happy to cater your special event in our house or yours.
Menus: www.underhillscrossing.com/menu/ 74 ½ Pondfield Road Bronxville, New York 10708 914-337-1200 www.underhillscrossing.com
Asiana Café
Pan Asian 140 East Putnam Avenue Greenwich, Connecticut 203-622-6833
Pan Asian 56 Pondfield Road Bronxville, New York 10708 914-337-5601
Wild Ginger
Pan Asian 10 Park Place Bronxville, New York 10708 914-337-2198
Lange's of Bronxville
Lange's of Bronxville is a homestyle delicatessen nestled in Bronxville. For over 3 decades, Lange's has proudly offered an authentic deli and catering experience, serving freshly prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner favorites that keep our customers coming back for more.
La Pantiere
French 530 Milton Road Rye, New York 914-967-8140
French 141 Chatsworth Avenue Larchmont, New York 914-834-6685
Opa Opa Fresh Greek.
New casual and friendly Greek restaurant serving fresh homemade specialties in a light and airy setting. Order for Take-Out…call 914-600-8129 for delivery on Uber Eats or Door Dash.
116 Pondfield RoadBronxville, NY 10708 firstname.lastname@example.com
5-7 Albanese Place Eastchester, NY 914-779-4646
Harvest on Hudson
Harvest on Hudson's menu is based on the traditional cuisine of Italy. Chef David Amorelli incorporates the freshest ingredients from the Hudson Valley with our very own vegetable and herb garden into contemporary and creative Italian dishes.
1 River Street • Hastings, NY 10706
(914) 478-2800
Il Bacio Trattoria
Pizzas, pastas & homemade gelato draw crowds to this no-frills, family-friendly Italian eatery.
1 Park Place, Bronxville, NY 10708 914-337-4100
Menu : www.lusardis.com 1885 Palmer Avenue Larchmont, New York 914-834-5555 www.lusardis.com
Rosie's Bistro Italiano
10 Palmer Avenue Bronxville, New York 914-793-2000
Sapori of Scarsdale
A handsome new restaurant serving unique and interesting authentic flavors of Italy, with a new lunch, bar and children's menu that has both indoor and outdoor café dining.
2 Chase Road
Scarsdale, New York 10583 914-874-5316www.saporiofscarsdale.com
Scalini Osteria
Scalini's mission is "to serve delicious, regionally-inspired Italian food that highlights both the simplicity and new age complexity of the country."
Menu: http://www.scaliniosteria.com/menu/65 Pondfield Road Bronxville, New York 914-337-4935 www.scaliniosteria.com
Terra Ristorante Italiano
156 Greenwich Avenue 203-628-5222 http://www.zhospitalitygroup.com/terra/
Tredici Social
Tredici Social serves contemporary Italian food with a modern flair
Menu: https://tredicisocial.com/#menu104 Kraft Avenue Bronxville, New York 914-793-1313www.tredicisocial.com
Blue Moon Mexican Cafe
97 Lake Avenue, Tuckahoe
5 John R. Albanese Place, Eastchester
131 Parkway Road, Bronxville
Il Bacio Trattoria
1 Park Place, Bronxville
Gino's Pizzeria & Restaurant
50 Pondfield Rd W, Bronxville
102 Fisher Avenue, Eastchester
Roma Restaurant
29 Columbus Avenue, Tuckahoe
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An energy watchdog group is alarmed by a government decision this week to exempt two major BC Hydro transmission projects from review by the B.C. Utilities Commission.
One project involves upgrades to a 500-kilovolt line that runs across the province from Prince George to Terrace – a distance of 574 kilometres. The other is a new 93-kilometre 287 kilovolt line in the northwest that will extend Hydro's grid from Bob Quinn Lake to Tatogga Lake south of Iskut. The government is promising to complete the 287 kilovolt line by 2014, the larger line by 2018.
No information on the cost of the projects has been released, nor whether or not they will go out for public tender.
The projects are needed to ensure timely availability of electricity for mining and liquefied natural gas projects in northwest B.C. according to a statement dated March 26 on the B.C. energy ministry's website.
As a result, they won't have to wait for BCUC reviews that would normally be required to determine if they are necessary or that their construction costs have been properly assessed.
"The upgrades will ensure that reliable, cost effective power is available for industrial project, like liquefied natural gas (LNG) and mining as soon as it is needed," the energy ministry states.
The Christy Clark Liberals have already been criticized for exempting Hydro's $8.9 billion Site C dam megaproject and $1 billion smart meter program from review by the utilities commission, Thomas Hackney, a policy analyst with BC Sustainable Energy Association said in an email this week to The Vancouver Sun after learning of the government's decision.
Groups representing old age pensioners and Hydro's major industrial customers have repeatedly voiced objections to the government's decision to grant exemptions.
"We don't even know exactly what is being proposed or what it would cost," Hackney wrote.
"Political fallout around the smart meters shows the down side of not following an appropriate public review process.
"I am getting alarmed at the apparent trend to relocate BC Hydro's planning and decision-making to the minister's office or the cabinet table; to deprive us all of the competent and expert review one would get with a Utilities Commission proceeding; and to shut out the public and interested parties from the ability to scrutinize what is happening and express informed opinions."
In an interview, Hackney noted that Hydro's proposal for the Prince George-Terrace line was supposed to be included in an 'Integrated Resource Plan' scheduled for release in August 2013 — following a series of government-imposed delays that commenced in December 2011.
"I think BC Hydro does a pretty good job but the whole purpose of a due diligence review is precisely to look at a big, expensive project from a number of different angles and see whether you have blindness when coming in and looking at it from just one angle," Hackney said.
According to the government's statement, the agreements "will provide greater certainty" during ongoing negotiations with mining and LNG companies about the volume and timing of industrial electricity supply requirements."

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Rain, leeches, mosquitoes and a night of fear for lost mum
JULIE Carrington was a lone voice calling out in drenched bushland with wildlife drowning around her.
As night fell, the diminutive 49-year-old woman, lost and fearful, settled herself on top of a mossy, sawn-off tree trunk.
That was the only place she could find away from the leeches lurking in the knee-high, soggy undergrowth.
As intense rain pummelled her body, she tucked the edge of her jeans around her rubber thongs and filled them with leaves.
Then, sitting upright on the trunk, she looped her umbrella handle through the belt holding up her jeans so she could fold her arms up inside her thin, cotton T-shirt and keep them covered from marauding mosquitoes.
The leaf shoes protected her feet from the mozzies, but her back - protected only by a T-shirt - soon became their number one target, turning her flesh red, itchy and lumpy.
Julie found herself lost in Pomona's Yurol Forest, in the northern Sunshine Coast hinterland, as fast-flowing floodwaters forced her to abandon her car on Monday afternoon.
The mother-of-three grabbed her two bags of groceries and decided she would simply walk the rest of the way to her rural Pomona home.
The sign that usually warned of road closure was not in place.
So she followed the regular path, crossing two flooded areas before she decided conditions were too dangerous to attempt making the third crossing.
Julie, who has lived in the area for 24 years, said yesterday she had felt confident as she headed through the forest.
She also knew that the relatively small area was completely surrounded by roads.
"I had often bushwalked the area and ridden my horse through there and I didn't want to worry my family who were waiting at home for me," she said yesterday.
But once she was surrounded by the forest, Julie found the flooding rains had made usually familiar areas unrecognisable and she quickly lost her bearings.
"The rain had changed everything. It was all distorted," she said. "I became disoriented and panicked. I think I began to walk in circles."
The bags - filled with bread, milk, eggs and other groceries - became increasingly heavy.
"I was really struggling, so I decided to drop them," Julie said. But she had the presence of mind to leave a Hansel-and-Gretel-style trail of items as signs for her would-be rescuers.
"But later on, I wish I'd just kept one apple to eat," Julie said yesterday.
Realising she was destined to spend the night in the forest, Julie put herself into fight mode and stopped herself shedding tears.
"It was terrifying and I thought if I saw a snake I would lose it," Julie said.
"But I told myself that it was panic that got me into this position and (panic) wasn't going to get me out."
At first light, she decided she would not be spending another night in the forest.
She set out several times, but still unsure of her bearings, she returned to the only place she knew: the tree trunk. Finally, she began her four-hour walk home.


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The term "beauty" has become more flexible—but that's just a first step
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The day after Trump is sworn in, thousands of women will march on Washington. They're in good company
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Iceland comes out of a new report on the gender gap very well. Four women from, or based in, the country share their thoughts
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England will play the country in a World Cup Qualifier on Saturday
Jessica Abrahams / October 4, 2016
A recent BBC incident has got us in a muddle again
Jessica Abrahams / September 9, 2016
A "childless politicians" list responding to Nicola Sturgeon's miscarriage featured only women
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The Mayor of Cannes was wrong to ban the "burkini"
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Most in the country wanted Britain to "Remain" in the EU


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Justice Served
100% Synch Optional Missions
- Free the bear without killing or alerting the guards.
- Stay undetected in the fort.
The mission begins while explaining that the guard dogs can disrupt your cloak by barking near you. To stop their yapping, kill them. Continue down the hill and into the bush. Bait will already be out for you to lay it down. The guard dog will get a whiff and head towards it. Get out of the red zone and become anonymous to continue.
You can use your Wolf Pack at any time to kill guards. This will not raise an alarm towards you. Stay far away from the guard dogs as possible and you won't have any trouble reaching the yellow area marked on your map. Once inside, use your eagle vision to look for your target, Israel Putnam.
Your target will be near the center of this area. Be on the lookout for the Lucid Memory Artifact that sits in the area he is. Putnam will disembark on a trip to get meet Arnold by himself. You'll have to trail him the whole time without being detected.
First, Israel will walk down by the river and grab himself a horse. He will cross this river and make his way across the river bank. To stay out of his view and avoid using up your Wolf Cloak, swim in the middle of the river adjacent to him. You'll eventually come to an area with a Bluecoat and a guard dog. Bait the dog and kill it. Get rid of the Bluecoat with your cloaking or your Wolf Pack. Cloak your way past the guard sitting atop their horses and stay off the road. You'll come across an area with a bunch of Bluecoats. Avoid them by clocking and continuing toward Israel. You'll eventually trigger a new cutscene.
You'll need to create a distraction by releasing the bear in the cage near the camp. You'll also need to do this without killing or alerting the guards for an optional objective. The easiest way to perform this is by getting close to the guards and sick the wolves on them. The wolves do kill the guards but that doesn't mark against you. You may also sneak behind the guards and open the cage without them knowing. Climb the tree in front of Connor and parkour your way to the guards. Drop down behind them and either sick the wolves or sneak behind the, Free the bear and retreat to a safe distance before it attacks you. Guards will exit the fort and block the entrance. Use Wolf Cloak to sneak past them. Careful not to touch them or you will be detected and forced into combat.
You must now locate and assassinate Benedict Arnold. As an optional objective, remain hidden while inside the fort to grant you 100% synch for the entire quest line. Staying undetected is simple with the Wolf Cloak. Active the cloaking and pass the guards at the entrance. Run up the hill and to the right is a bush. Hide there to heal up. Using your cloaking again, run up the path before you and up to where the two guards are blocking an entrance. There is a bush next to them you can hide in to heal again. Benedict Arnold is just beyond this point and pacing around a tree (You'll be able to see him from the bush). Wait for the opportune moment to run out and attack while cloaked. The final cutscene of Episode 1: The Infamy will begin.
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Press Release
Drunk Snow Machine Driver Patrick Tickett Gets Lengthy Sentence in Snow Machine Death of Anchorage Doctor
May 20, 2011
Kotzebue, Alaska - In February, a Kotzebue jury convicted Ambler resident Patrick Tickett, 22, of manslaughter, first degree assault and drunk driving after slamming his snow machine into Dr. Roger Gollub and Tracey Shaeffer while Gollub and Shaeffer were dog sledding on the ice outside Kotzebue in November 2008. Schaeffer had taken the popular doctor mushing when the crash occurred on a trail outside the Northwest Alaska town. Tickett, after consuming dope and alcohol, was traveling an estimated 60 mph. Superior Court Judge Ben Esch sentenced Tickett to serve fifteen years in jail and gave him four more years of suspended time. Tickett will be on probation for another eight years when he is released from jail. In imposing the lengthy sentence, Judge Esch emphasized community condemnation, reaffirmation of societal norms and deterrence of Tickett and others in the community.
In a separate case, Judge Michael Jeffery sentenced Tickett to fifteen years with ten years suspended and ten years' probation for a 2008 act of sexual abuse of an Ambler minor. Tickett's sentence for the sex abuse offense runs consecutively to the sentence handed down by Judge Esch in the manslaughter, assault, and DUI case.
For questions, please contact Assistant Attorney General and case prosecutor Gregg Olson of the Department of Law Rural Prosecution Unit, (907) 269-6037.
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Archaeology has meant many things to me – Archaeological musings in Bahrain circa 1986 (aged 4);
Archaeogical digs in Colchester; Archaeology BA from Southampton 2000; Archaeological reconstruction Scottish Crannog Centre crazy Iron Age Woman 2003; UCL MSc Archaeology and Human Evolution 2005; Archaeological reflection St Kilda 2006; Archaeological Consultancy 2007: Archaeological Administrator 2008-present…as I enjoy day 1,383 in the Institute of Archaeology house I can reflect on my time here, which has flown by (thanks to my tremendous colleagues and the most splendid of students!!!) and my Admin Archaeological work…
A typical day:
8.27am arrive…drink coffee
9am commence work – emails / tours / forms / UCAS / meetings / external meetings / student meetings
11am more coffee under the auspicious gazes of Wheeler, Grimes, Childe and Kenyon in the Staff room…
12pm sometimes desk cover for the reception – lots of waving at people (should a receptionist wave?)
1pm – ham, salad cream and rocket on rye – hearty lunch of archaeological champions
2pm – 5.30pm – forms / liaise / meetings / sort / web / social networking (for work!) etc and so forth.
As far as an admin job goes this particular one rocks – it's the best of both Archaeological worlds – I still get the chance to dig / attend some lectures / talk to archaeological folk / do some archaeological outreach but I get an office, with a fan, a musical boombox and a computer – less problematic for my tired archaeological knees. I also get to administer the applications of the new generation of Archaeologists.
This year has been our 75th Anniversary – the anniversary of Mortimer's dream coming to fruition and his wife, Tessa Wheeler, securing the money for the IoA in Regents Park (St John's Lodge) – super photos from the 1950s onwards.
We have had the following events in the IoA this year:
1 Alumni Party (IoA Director Prof Stephen Shennan's speech)
…and 1 Massive World Experimental Archaeology Day in Gordon Square – Pics here!
Working at the IoA is a joy – every day is different…and for me it provides the perfect balance of admin and Archaeology – plus it is really close to the British Museum for all the best outings!
So…to plug the IoA once again – you can follow us on Facebook there are pics and news about the workings of an Archaeological Institution (thanks to the Guardian and the student survey – the UKs number one Archaeology Department! Thank you graduands!)
Charlotte Frearson – Undergraduate Programmes Administrator / Museums Placement Organiser / Fieldwork Administrator / Social Networker / Moodler…


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Swimmer Diana Nyad is back on track and 'doing well' after a night of storms and jellyfish stings roughed up her bid for a record swim from Cuba to Florida.
Ms Nyad, who turns 63 on Wednesday, is making her third attempt since last summer to become the first person to swim across the Straits of Florida without a shark cage. She also made a failed try with a cage in 1978.
Her team tweeted that she was "swimming strong" in calm seas at 50 strokes per minute. She had covered almost 34 statute miles after leaving Havana on Saturday for the Florida Keys.
She is accompanied by a support team in boats. They tweeted on Sunday night that a storm blew her off course temporarily and that "all hell broke loose" in the squall. She also suffered jellyfish stings.
Australian Susie Maroney successfully swam the Straits in 1997, but she used a cage. This June another Australian, Penny Palfrey, made it 79 miles toward Florida without a cage before strong currents forced her to abandon the attempt.
Ms Nyad has already endured jellyfish stings on the current attempt. Stings forced her to cut short her second of two attempts last year as toxins built up in her system.
A kayak-borne apparatus shadowing Nyad helps keep sharks at bay by generating a faint electric field that is not noticeable to humans. A team of handlers is always on alert to dive in and distract any sharks that make it through.
Ms Nyad has been training for three years and is in peak shape, according to friend and trainer Bonnie Stoll.
The team expects that she will take at least 60 hours to complete the swim, meaning she is scheduled to arrive in the Florida Keys sometime on Tuesday.


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Breaking News
18 Fresh Human Heads Held By US Customs At Chicago' O'Hare Airport
Jan 15, 2013 – 18 Fresh Human Heads Held By US Customs At Chicago O'Hare Airport
The 18 human heads that arrived at O'Hare International Airport just before Christmas — and remained there until this week — now appear to be on the last leg of their final journey.
The medical specimens had been in limbo since just before Christmas, when they arrived on a flight from Rome and were held up because of improper paperwork, said Mary Paleologos, a spokeswoman with the Cook County medical examiner's office, whose office took custody of the heads this week.
Late Tuesday morning, a Schiller Park crematorium came to claim them, Paleologos said. But the specimens won't be released until federal authorities confirm the paperwork, she said.
"The medical examiner's office will photograph and X-ray each of the heads," she said.
The heads were shipped from the United States to Rome for medical research, and they were then shipped back again to be cremated, Paleologos said. She said she didn't know the name of the cremation service or where the heads began their journey in the United States.
Although initially there appeared to be a greater issue with the crematorium, it turned out to be only a paperwork snafu, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The heads were shipped from Rome as cargo on a Lufthansa Airlines flight, arriving at O'Hare about one week before Christmas.
"They were properly preserved and tagged as human specimens," said Tony Brucci, chief investigator for the medical examiner's office.
Brucci said U.S. Customs officials at O'Hare initially held up the shipment when they found the paperwork to be "a little confusing." Then the containers were X-rayed, and that's when officials discovered what was inside, Brucci said.
Brian Bell, a spokesman with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said earlier Tuesday that the specimens appeared to be legitimate medical samples.
"There's no issue with the transportation of body parts for medical purposes," Bell said. "There's nothing against the law that says you cannot ship them, provided you have the right documentation."
While Bell said he had never fielded questions about a large package of human body parts, but such shipments are not without precedent, he noted.
"Everybody here is 'Oh my gosh, you got a box of heads' and everybody thinks that it's unheard of," Bell said. "It is a potentially legitimate medical shipment. We've seen it at various ports in the nation."
[Source: Chicago Sun Times]
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Is barbaric
They must creat sumtin 2 defend themselvs. Hmmm
na so na dey must usetin to defend themselvs.
There is something fishy…they are terrible people.
The proper investigation must be carried out,cos there is skeleton in this cupboard with hidden agenda,May God safe us mystery.
This a very worrisome attitude of many government officials allowing unruly behaviours to continue. The people concerned should have been arrested for proper investigation and legal actions taking against them. This is human beings we are talking about, not animals.


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Sexual reproduction may be nearly as old as animal life itself, according to researchers who discovered a new species of organism that lived 540 million years ago.
The tube-like creatures called Funisia dorothea anchored themselves in abundant flocks onto the shallow, sandy seabed of what is now the Australian outback.
Nothing appears to have evolved yet to eat them, so they lived peaceful lives, reproducing sexually at times and by asexual methods such as budding at other times, Mary Droser of the University of California Riverside and colleagues reported in the journal Science.
They behaved very much like modern corals, sponges and other multicellular animals, Droser said in a telephone interview.
"They would have been hitting you mid-calf as you walked in these very dense clusters," she said. "Almost always, organisms that do this do it as a result of sexual reproduction."
Dense clusters allow eggs and sperm floated in the water to meet up safely.
The fossilized remains also show the creatures formed buds that grew into full-sized animals, something that coral and sponges do today.
"They were complicated enough to have different modes of reproduction and a fairly complex ecosystem in general," Droser said.
They lived in dense groups of similar size and aged animals, like mussels and oysters do. "It is common modern ecological strategy, and these guys were doing it in the earliest animal ecosystems on this planet," she said.
"We think of these strategies as having been in response to competition and in response to predation."
But there is no evidence of predators. Nothing had yet evolved with teeth or even bones.
Multicellular animal life is believed to have arisen around 600 million years ago.
Funisia dorothea's name comes from the word for rope in Latin and dorothea after Dorothy, Droser's mother.
"She's come with me on digs and done all the cooking and taken care of the kids," Droser said. "It seemed the right thing to do."
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Mint.com launched last year as a free Web-based service that brings a breath of fresh air to financial management. With a focus on security, users can tie their bank accounts and credit cards into the site, monitor and automatically categorize transactions, and receive alerts when bills are due, fees are charged, or unusual spending happens. Now, Mint is gearing up to add investment tracking to its portfolio of services, but the site's utility as a financial management service isn't quite where it needs to be yet.
In its current from, Mint works with over 5,000 banks and credit card agencies. Instead of running a desktop application like Quicken to download and track finances, users sign up with nothing more than a valid e-mail address, password, and zip code, then enter login credentials for supported financial institutions. Mint doesn't store any of these credentials, working instead with Yodlee, a third-party financial aggregation service provider that's provides similar services for "top" US financial institutions and "one of the leading" desktop personal finance products for the last decade. Mint uses 128-bit SSL encryption to communicate with Yodlee and pull your transaction data.
Transactions are fetched from your accounts periodically, then automatically categorized and tagged (to the best of Mint's ability) to help ease some of the heavy organization lifting. You of course can manually recategorize these transactions if Mint misses something.
To provide all this for free, Mint partners with financial institutions to (anonymously) provide deals that are intended to save you money. If your APR is a bit high on one credit card, for example, Mint may offer you a low APR promotion that another card is running—on the remote chance that you haven't already received the offer in the mail three times this week. Besides credit cards, however, Mint claims it also presents offers for other services like cable, home phone, and Internet service. In our experience with the site, however, we haven't seen anything but credit card offers yet.
Moving beyond personal finances, however, Mint's plan to introduce investment tracking (brokerage, IRA, 401k, and 529 assets for now), first reported by TechCrunch, certainly increases the product's usefulness. A supposed 2,381 investment firms and other agencies are said to be joining Mint's fold soon, sending the total financial institutions that are compatible with the service to over 6,500.
That said, Mint's isn't quite in the position to be considered a financial management service just yet. While Mint allows you to visualize your spending and build budgets, as well as receive alerts for pending payments, service fees, and strange spending, robust management features have yet to appear. There is no ability to, for example, move money from one account to another or pay a credit card bill directly from the site. Mint's CEO Aaron Patzer says bill payments are next on the company's to-do list, but one can't help but wonder if this essential element of financial management should have been a priority earlier in Mint's cycle, if not from the beginning.


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Kivio is designed to run on KDE 3.5.8 but you still can run it on Gnome. It's almost the same like VISIO in Windows. The main different that I like is ………it's free.
Kivio is a flowcharting program that offers basic flowcharting abilities, but with a twist. Objects are scriptable, and a backend plugin system offers the ability to make objects do just about anything.
This application is part of the KDE Office Suite.
How to install it?
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install kivio
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Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
kivio is already the newest version.
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Several week ago a large number of mostly service area listings started receiving the dreaded "We currently do not support the location" message. At the time Google noted that "your listing may have been dropped due to a technical issue that we cannot yet resolve. We hope to have a resolution soon for this issue, at which point we will be in touch with next steps to help you return your business to Google Maps".
Last week Michael Borgelt sent me a copy of this email that Google had started sending to those inappropriately affected by the "We do not support" message on their listing (bold mine) :
Thanks for your patience in waiting for an update on your Google Maps listing. If you're still receiving the "We currently do not support the location" error message, then your listing was affected by a technical issue and there are a couple of things you can do to help restore it to Google Maps.
First, review our quality guidelines. If your location doesn't meet these guidelines, it may have been removed from Maps. Especially check out this article about service-area businesses, and hiding your address in case your business is at a residential location:http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177103
If you're confident that your business fits within our guidelines, then search for your business at mapmaker.google.com and see if it has been marked as removed. If you're able to find it, attempt to undo the removal and reinstate your listing on Maps. It may take a couple of days for your reinstatement to be processed.
If you're unable to reinstate your page this way, then please remove your listing from your Google Places dashboard by clicking "Delete" then "Remove my listing from my Google Places account," then recreate the listing. You will need to undergo PIN verification again if that was your original verification process, but doing so may cause your listing to surface cleanly on Maps once you input your new PIN.
Thanks for your patience and understanding with this process, and we hope to continue to improve your experience in Google Local and on Google Maps.
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This response qualifies as not just the worst customer service response ever from Google, but perhaps the worst customer service response ever. It is as if the printed Yellow Pages didn't print your listing due to their error and then told you that you needed to go down to their office and enter it yourself on their arcane typesetting machine. Hello?
Some notes:
Every time I think that "We currently do not support the location" is a bug, I discover that it is instead an intentional message. If you receive it at the beginning of the listing cycle it means: We have not had time to process your listing. If you receive it after your listing has been active for a while it means: Dude, either we or one of our MapMaker volunteers has pulled your listing down for violation of some rule stated or not.
In this particular case, it seems that Google realized that they pulled a few too many down and they are expecting those suffering the fate in error to fix the problem themselves.
Now that is chutzpah.
What you should do:
It appears from everything that I can gather from these emails and this post is that this pull down affected listings that Google suspected of not being in compliance with the requirement to hide your address. Some listings, as you can see from this forum post may have also been tagged due to MM rules.
Regardless, if your listing deserves to be in the index, then you have no choice but to follow the advice given above. It essentially means that one way or another your listing will be vetted yet once again, either by a MM moderator or the Places verification system. Your choice.Google's Worst Customer Service Response EVER by Mike Blumenthal


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Massive premiere in London today – the final, final, FINAL carpet for the Harry Potter series in the motherland. There will be a premiere in New York on Monday but ... Harry is English, England is the heart of it. And here they almost all are to say goodbye and thank you. No, thank YOU.
F-ck me I am crying again.
It's just...
You'll know when you see the movie. Especially the three of them together, always the three of them together. Because, as Jo has always said, her story is about Love. Not the Romeo & Juliet kind, but the kind that exists between friends, friends for life, friends who live, literally for each other. And a friend who loves even when that love is not returned.
As you know, of all the different ways we can love that are illustrated in Harry Potter, Snape's love, for me, is the purest. He loved in silence and sacrifice, without promise or hope.
Oh Snape. Oh ... Snape.
And Snape showed up. I am attaching Alan Rickman first on purpose because he's the one.
And then JK Rowling and the kids. All four of them for the very last time at Leicester Square. SOB!!!
They did.
They cried tonight – did you watch the live feed? They hugged and cried and laughed and hugged and cried some more! I'm hugging and crying too! By myself! NERD!!!!!!!!!!
(No, I don't like Jo's dress either.)
As for Emma's dress – so on the one hand I hate it because it's so extra and the figure skating situation in the chest area and it's just not all that original this Oscar de la Renta but at the same time, this IS the final, final, final London premiere for Potter EVER and she's Hermione here for the final, final, final time in London EVER and, you know, if there's any occasion to go balls out, it would be this one, right?
Love Bonnie Wright's styling above the waist. Below the waist is a mess.
Oh and there's Bellatrix and Molly and Dumbledore and the list is long and we love them all and it's a week tomorrow – a week tonight actually – and you're ready for this week ahead right? Harry Harry Harry. Please don't go!
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Episcopal Church, Church of Sweden gather to explore "Sustaining hope in the face of climate change"
The Episcopal Church and the Church of Sweden are sponsoring a two-day environmental event, "Sustaining hope in the face of climate change" in Washington DC on May 1 and 2.
The public is invited to attend the Wednesday evening and Thursday afternoon events held at St John's Lafayette Square for no charge. Pre-registration is suggested; contact http://sustaininghope-eorg.eventbrite.com/
On Wednesday evening at 7 pm, Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori will present opening remarks and then the keynote address will be presented by Mary Evelyn Tucker,
a Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. This will be followed with remarks by Dr. Kevin Noone, the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a research scientist in atmospheric chemistry and physics at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Following a Q and A session, Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd will conclude with a closing statement.
Thursday afternoon begins at 2 pm and features two roundtable discussions, both facilitated by David Crabtree, anchorman of WRAL-TV, North Carolina. The first, "Envisioning hope: a faith-based, international response to climate change" will feature Bishop Julio Murray of the Diocese of Panama; Dr. Willis Jenkins, the Margaret Farley Associate Professor of Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School and author of the prize-winning Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology;
and Mary Minnete, Director of Environmental Education and Advocacy for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Washington Office and the North American representative to the ACT Alliance Climate Change Advisory Group and the current chair of the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Working Group.
The second, Responding in Hope: the local church's response to climate change" will be discussed by the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullit-Jonas, Priest Associate of Grace Church, Amherst, Massachusetts and Co-Chair of Religious Witness for the Earth; the Rev. Henrik Grape, an ordained priest in the Church of Sweden who coordinates the Church's environmental network and a member of the Climate group of Christian Council of Sweden; and Cassandra Carmichael, director of the National Council of Churches Washington Office and the NCC's eco-justice program director.
A joint statement on climate change will be released by Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori and Archbishop Wejryd.
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After screwing around for the last two posts, I'm actually going to try to tackle this question now. Actually, I can't really say what makes an RPG "great", but I can at least define what I like about RPGs. Which is almost like answering the question. Sort of.
This list is going to be very subjective. Opinions will vary. Lots of great answers were already given by readers in the previous post, and I can see that some people like things about RPGs which "ruin" the game for me. This only reinforces the idea that "RPG" is a term applied carelessly to many different games, some of which have opposing or conflicting goals.
1. I know I bring this up a lot, but RPG games should be self-balancing. Having foes "scale" to the player's level is an abomination that defeats the entire purpose of leveling up in the first place. The same goes for arranging the game so that all players will have about the same relative strength at any given point in the game.
Let the player farm XP if they want to. Let them fight low level foes without penalty if they want to. This is not cheating. This is simply another way to play the game. Maybe the player is new to RPGs and needs the help. Maybe they would rather move more slowly and steamroll over foes instead of moving more quickly and occasionally dying or running away. It's their character. Let them play it on their own terms.
2. There should be many choices, and they should be interesting. And by "interesting" I don't mean you earn "good" or "evil" points.
Stupid: You meet a woman on the road who needs your help. Will you help, or murder her and steal her shoes?
Better: You meet a woman on the road who needs your help. If you help her you might anger the baron, which could lead to headaches down the road. However, NOT helping her will aid the baron, and he's not a very nice guy.
Best: You meet a woman on the road who needs your help, but you sense she isn't giving you the whole story. You're not sure if you believe her, or the baron. You're going to have to talk to some people and investigate a bit if you want to know what's really going on. Both sides are likely full of flaws, and choosing a side should reveal something about the values or preferences of the player, or their character.
3. Randomized worlds are very good. If you can't have random scenery, then at least the loot should be randomized. Having the exact same items in the exact same locations every time though the game just kills the replay value.
4. Interesting characters. Villains with no agenda outside of being evil jerks are tiresome and banal. Good characters without some quirks or flaws are usually pretty flat.
5. Skill-based leveling system. This Rampant Coyote post talks about skill-based vs. class-based systems. I'm a big fan of classless systems for sure. For me the ideal system was the one used in Fallout. It was deep, fun, and did a good job of portraying personal growth in the real world. In a good skill-based system you gain "knowledge", not "intelligence". You get better at using weapons, not more dexterous. This makes a lot more sense to me.
6. I want to play a character, not a gang. I prefer games where I'm alone. (I'm really put off by games where there IS no central character.) If I have to have some NPC's with me, they had better be really interesting folks and should not break immersion. They should also manage themselves. I'm busy controlling my character, and I don't have time to tell them what to do in a fight.
7. I want a good story. No, I don't want to go on yet another epic quest to collect some stupid sword or bauble.
8. I'm really burned out on Fantasy settings. There's nothing wrong with magic, wizards, dragons and treasure chests, but we've been there and done that a few times now.
9. I like large freeform worlds. I dislike when the "being on rails" metaphor extends to movement within the game world. If I can only go forward or back, then I'm going to get bored. Quickly.
10. "Character customization" does not mean deciding what hat I want to wear. I want to start by choosing age & gender, and end with deciding how I want to shape the bridge of my avatar's nose.
These are not set in stone, and I'm willing to give up some if they go for broke on the others. For example, Jade Empire had a simplistic leveling system of little consequence, a one-dimensional path through the world, static scenery and loot, and no character customization to speak of. But Bioware hit gold with the story and characters, and so Jade Empire stands as one of my favorites.
Of course one person suggested that the game should just be as much like Fallout as possible. That's a pretty good answer too.
Here is the follow-up post at Rampant Coyote.
Mr. Halbert has more thoughts on this as well.
Also I'd like to clarify my point #3. When I asked for "random loot", I'm suggesting thatstuff in containers be nominally randomized at the start of the game. I agree with the comments below that totally random drops just kill versimilitude. An orc wielding an axe should not drop a bow when he dies, and a rat should not drop a longsword.
A video discussing Megatexture technology. Why we needed it, what it was supposed to do, and why it maybe didn't totally work.
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Scenes from Half-Life 2:Episode 2, showing Gordon Freeman being a jerk.
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Joker's Last Laugh
Did you anticipate the big plot twist of Batman: Arkham City? Here's all the ways the game hid that secret from you while also rubbing your nose in it.
Please Help I Can't Stop Playing Cities: Skylines
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Facing a serious budget deficit, some state lawmakers in New Jersey are wondering if the windfall coming to businesses thanks to the Republican tax overhaul could help fill the hole.
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, says the tax cuts will save corporations based in New Jersey about $2.9 billion this year. On Tuesday, Sweeney proposed a 3 percent surcharge on companies that earn more than $1 million a year as part of an effort to "recapture" some of that increased profit. According to NJ.com, there are about 2,375 corporations that large in the state, and they'll pay roughly $2 billion in taxes to Trenton in 2018. Sweeney said the surcharge would raise an additional $657 million.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is also looking for a new source of revenues and has proposed a temporary millionaire's tax that would raise about the same amount of money. Sweeney supported that plan last fall, but shifted his focus to corporations once it became clear that some wealthy taxpayers in New Jersey could end up paying more to the IRS due to new restrictions on state and local tax deductions.


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Starting and Stopping Karaf
This chapter describes how to start and stop Apache Karaf and the various options that are available.
Starting Karaf
On Windows
From a console window, change to the installation directory and run Karaf. For the binary distribution, go to
cd [karaf_install_dir]
where karaf_install_dir is the directory in which Karaf was installed, e.g., c:\Program Files\apache-karaf-x.y.
Then type:
On Unix
From a command shell, change to the installation directory and run Karaf. For the binary distribution, go to
cd [karaf_install_dir]
where karaf_install_dir is the directory in which Karaf was installed, e.g., /usr/local/apache-karaf-x.y.
Then type:
Do NOT close the console or shell in which Karaf was started, as that will terminate Karaf (unless Karaf was started with nohup).
Starting Karaf without console
Karaf can be started without the console if you don't intend to use it (one can always connect using the remote ssh access) using the following command:
bin\karaf.bat server
or, on Unix:
bin\karaf server
Starting Karaf in the background
Karaf can be easily started as a background process using the following command:
or, on Unix:
Starting Karaf from clean
Karaf can be reset to a clean state by simply deleting the [karaf_install_dir]/data folder.
For convenience, a parameter on the karaf and start scripts is available:
bin/start clean
Stopping Karaf
For both Windows and Unix installations, you can perform a clean shutdown of Karaf by using the following command when inside a Karaf console:
or simply:
The shutdown command asks you to confirm that you really want to shutdown. If you are sure about the shutdown and avoid the confirmation message, you can use the -f or --force option:
osgi:shutdown -f
It's also possible to delay the shutdown using the time argument. The time argument can have different formats. First, it can be an absolute time in the format hh:mm, in which hh is the hour (1 or 2 digits) and mm is the minute of the hour (in two digits). Second, it can be in the format +m, in which m is the number of minutes to wait. The work now is an alias for +0.
The following command will shutdown Karaf at 10:35am:
osgi:shutdown 10:35
The following command will shutdown Karaf in 10 minutes:
osgi:shutdown +10
If you're running from the main console, exiting the shell using logout or Ctrl+D will also terminate the Karaf instance.
From a command shell, you can run the following command:
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The uprising that swept Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power in February was national in scope. But Tahrir Square in Cairo was its beating heart.
Devout Muslims, committed socialists, and hordes of formerly apathetic young people made common cause there against Mr. Mubarak and his security forces, insisting they'd found a unity that would change Egypt forever.
Ramy Essam was one of them. When the uprising began, the aspiring singer was drawn to Tahrir from his hometown of Mansoura, about 70 miles northeast of Cairo. When government thugs tried to sweep protesters from the square, Mr. Essam was in the thick of the scrum, fighting back at the barricades.
When the violence subsided, the movie-star-handsome 23-year-old strummed his guitar. A call-and-response song he wrote incorporating anti-Mubarak chants became a Tahrir Square anthem.
"I'd always ignored politics – I thought it was all rigged," he told me on Feb. 12, the evening after he and his comrades pushed Mubarak from power. "But this was a chance to do something for my country, to help change things. I couldn't stay away."
But even as he spoke of unity and hope, of his conviction that democracy was assured and his desire to get back to his music career, the complicated business of creating post-Mubarak Egypt was just getting under way.
Essam's experiences in the months since that day are a product of powerful forces inside Egyptian society – and much of the region – that mean the promises of the Arab Spring are far from fulfilled. While the bloody crackdowns against democracy activists by Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Libya's Muammar Qaddafi are getting most of the attention, Egypt is struggling to shed the everyday kinds of intimidation and thugishness that dictators use to secure their rule.
On March 9, during a protest to keep pressure on the military rulers now controlling the country, Essam was rounded up with fellow demonstrators at Tahrir and taken to the Egyptian Museum, which the Army had been using as a makeshift jail. He was beaten and given electric shocks as punishment for taking part in the protest. Dozens of other activists have been tortured since Mubarak's fall as well. Female protesters have been forced to take so-called virginity tests and military courts have been used to silence critics.
In Egypt, Tunisia, the hard work begins
These incidents are a reminder that the authoritarian habits of decades aren't going to vanish on their own.
In Egypt and Tunisia, there are still security states reliant on torture and coercion that need dismantling, and allies of Mubarak and Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali still fight rear-guard actions.
Qaddafi and Assad, meanwhile, have taken the lessons of Egypt and Tunisia to heart – and plunged their countries into bloody civil wars. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's preeminent financial and authoritarian power, is using its money and troops to make sure the spark of democracy doesn't ignite in fellow monarchies.
The House of Saud participated in the bloody crackdown on activists in Bahrain, where 1,500 of its troops helped sweep protesters from the street. The Bahraini monarchy then destroyed Pearl Roundabout, a focal point of protests. "No Tahrir Squares here," was the message.
At home, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has promised vast new payouts to citizens and reempowered some of the most reactionary elements of the religious establishment to lash out at any liberalizing influences. (For more on Saudi Arabia's efforts to slow political change read The House of Saud strikes back).
"We know that Arabs want democracy, and they're willing to fight for it and die for it," says Shadi Hamid, who studies democratic reform in the Middle East at the Brookings Doha Center. "The short, rapid nature of the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions was something of a fluke. It's usually not that easy … [regional leaders] saw the mistakes Mubarak and Ben Ali made, and are determined not to make them."
Mr. Assad isn't taking any chances. At least 1,600 Syrians have been killed in a crackdown on democracy protests in Syria, which has involved torturing to death regime critics as young as 15. Troops have been sent into towns to contain protests before they start, and the situation has increasingly veered toward civil war.
Assad, who watched as Mr. Ben Ali and Mubarak offered tepid concessions while a populace fed up with dictatorship grew braver, has chosen the route of state terror – which has been an effective tool of social control for his family in the past. In 1982, his father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad, had tens of thousands killed in the city of Hama after it backed an Islamist uprising against his rule.
Sadly, brutality has worked: Assad held power for 30 years, with his son becoming president in 2000 after Hafez's death. (Editor's note: The original version misstated the length of Bashar al-Assad's rule.)
But even when dictators do fall, the hard work of fundamental reform remains. Egypt is now negotiating its way toward a true political transition under the shaky guidance of a military junta.
Politicking and ideology were absent from Tahrir Square in the euphoria just before Mubarak's fall. That was what allowed Coptic Christians, Islamists, and liberals to strive for the common goal of removing Mubarak. When he was gone, however, politics quickly reentered the fray.
The moment when politics reemerged
The day after crowds in Egypt learned they had toppled one of the world's longest-standing dictators, Essam returned to his stage for another performance. A string of women in head scarves quietly made their way toward him, followed by a group of young men who roughly and forcefully segregated the crowd by gender.
A woman in a head scarf jumped on stage, grabbed the microphone, and began an accusatory religious harangue about the sanctity of prayer time and the importance of being a good Muslim. She resisted efforts to get her to desist, and furiously denounced the boos that started to pour from sections of the crowd.
Essam, in his ponytail and jeans, looked on bemused. After half an hour, the woman gave up and the show went on – though with a segregated crowd watching.
In the following months, the politics have ramped up. The Muslim Brotherhood, the once-banned Islamist group that operated in the background of the revolution, is pushing for more power in a country where they've been ruthlessly hounded for generations. Despite that, they have the best political organization of any group vying for power.
How they perform in this fall's elections – and what they do with any power they get – will be eagerly watched for signs of how political Islam evolves in the region when allowed to compete openly.
Marc Lynch, a political science professor at George Washington University, says that he's "cautiously optimistic" about Egypt's transition and says fears of an Islamic state emerging in Egypt any time soon are off the mark.
"There's a really broad consensus in the country for democratic elections and some form of representative government," says Mr. Lynch, who recently returned from a research trip to Cairo. "It's hard to believe anybody could openly take a position against that at this point."
The Brotherhood is "extremely cognizant of another Algeria or a Gaza. They are hyperaware of what happened in those cases," he says. In Algeria, when Islamists won a free election in 1991, the country's military plunged the country into a bloody civil war. When Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006, a brief civil war led to the splintering of the Palestinian territories.
In the case of Egypt, Brotherhood leaders have promised not to contest more than 49 percent of the seats available in upcoming elections, guaranteeing they won't have an outright majority.
"They don't want to provoke the international community. They don't want people to freak out," says Mr. Hamid. "The last thing Islamists want is to abort this opportunity that not only they have, but Egypt has."


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Samsung might be holding their Galaxy S III from next month's Mobile World Congress show, but that doesn't mean this will be a quiet show for them. Thanks to a little digging around I did during CES and some other recent news, I now believe I know what Samsung will introduce in its place. Read on for the full rumor report.
The Rumor
Samsung will announce the next-generation of the Galaxy Tab at Mobile World Congress. It will feature a dual-core 2 GHz Exynos 5250 processor and feature a display larger than 10 inches with a WXQGA (2560×1600) resolution. The device will run the latest Android 4.0.x.
The Source
For once, I am the source of my own rumor report. I visited with Samsung System LSI during CES to discuss their upcoming Exynos processors and I saw one of their prototype tablets which was powered by Exynos 5250 and already running Android 4.0. I actually took pictures of the device (not really knowing what it was), but I was politely asked to delete them from my camera after the briefing was over.
One Android Insider's take on the rumor
Last year at Mobile World Congress, Samsung unpacked the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1. Many of us were focused on the Galaxy S III for this year's show, but Samsung is still weighing their options and it's not likely to be announced. However, that leaves open the possibility of them showing the next-generation Galaxy Tab.
Samsung already announced their dual-core 2 GHz Exynos 5250 processor last November, which is their first mobile processor to feature ARM's latest Cortex-A15 CPU core. The chip is built on Samsung's new 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HK/MG) low-power process and it also includes ARM's next GPU, the Mali-T604.
Many competitors are also working on Cortex-A15 parts, but they were not expected to be widely available in products until late 2012 or early 2013 (see TI's OMAP5). However, Samsung has been sampling their A15 part for quite some time and they just announced it will go into mass production in Q2.
I can't say for sure how Samsung was able to deliver their A15 part so far ahead of the competition, but it could be because they chose the more mature 32nm process while others are using a 28nm process that is rumored to be having yield issues.
For those of you just joining us, I suggest heading over to ARM's site and reading up on Cortex-A15 and Mali-T604 if you want to know why this is such a big deal. Basically we should see twice the compute power, insane memory bandwidth(12.8 GB/s), 5x the graphics horsepower, and all day battery life.
Even though Samsung's Exynos 5250 will not hit mass production till next quarter, they still have enough of the chips laying around to pop them into some demo devices and put them on display at Mobile World Congress. The fact that Samsung already has Android 4.0 up and running on the Exynos 5250 shows me how serious they are about being first to market with an A15 part.
I realize there's a chance I could be wrong about this rumor, but if Samsung was showing off this next-generation tablet behind closed doors at CES, then it should definitely be ready for show time at MWC. Given the fact that the Galaxy S III will be absent, it makes perfect sense that this tablet will be the star of the show for Samsung.
Update: As someone pointed out, my description is very similar to a device that Jonathan Geller of BGR reported on back in December. I guess this is confirmation that he was correct, since I saw a similar product with my own eyes.
Update 2: German site TabTech.de is reporting that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Tab 11.6 at MWC. Their mockup is included below.
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Contemporary Reviews of Georgia Douglas Johnson
William Stanley Braithwaite
The poems in this book are intensely feminine and for me this means more than anything else that they are deeply human. We are yet scarcely aware, in spite of our boasted twentieth-century progress, of what lies deeply hidden, of mystery and passion, of domestic love and joy and sorrow, of romantic visions and practical ambitions, in the heart of a woman. The emancipation of woman is yet to be wholly accomplished; though woman has stamped her image on every age of the world's history, and in the heart of almost every man since time began, it is only a little over half of a century since she has either spoken or acted with a sense of freedom. During this time she has made little more than a start to catch up with man in the wonderful things he has to his credit; and yet all that man has to his credit would scarcely have been achieved except for the devotion and love and inspiring comradeship of woman.
Here, then, is lifted the veil, in these poignant songs and lyrics. To look upon what is revealed is to give one a sense of infinite sympathy; to make one kneel in spirit to the marvelous patience, the wonderful endurance, the persistent faith, which are hidden in this nature.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
sings the poet. And
The songs of the singer
Are tones that repeat
The cry of the heart
Till it ceases to beat.
This verse just quoted is from "The Dreams of the Dreamer," and with the previous quotation tells us that this woman's heart is keyed in the plaintive, knows the sorrowful agents of life and experience which knock and enter at the door of dreams. But women have made the saddest songs of the world, Sappho no less than Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ruth the Moabite no less than Amy Levy, the Jewess who broke her heart against the London pavements; and no less does sadness echo its tender and appealing sigh in these songs and lyrics of Georgia Douglas Johnson. But sadness is a kind of felicity with woman, paradoxical as it may seem; and it is so because through this inexplicable felicity they touched, intuitionally caress, reality.
So here engaging life at its most reserved sources, whether the form or substance through which it articulates be nature, or the seasons, touch of hands or lips, love, desire, or any of the emotional abstractions which sweep like fire or wind or cooling water through the blood, Mrs. Johnson creates just the reality of woman's heart and experience with astonishing raptures. It is a kind of privilege to know so much about the secrets of woman's nature, a privilege all the more to be cherished when given, as in these poems, with such exquisite utterance, with such a lyric sensibility.
William Stanley Braithwaite, "Introduction," The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson (Boston: Cornhill Co., 1918), pp. vii-ix
J. R. Fauset
In these days of vers libre and the deliberate straining for poetic effect these lyrics of Mrs. Johnson bring with them a certain sense of relief and freshness. Also the utter absence of the material theme makes appeal. We are all very wary of the war note and are glad to return to the softer pipings of old time themeslove, friendship, longing, despairall of which are set forth in The Heart of a Woman.
The book has artistry, but it is its sincerity which gives it its value. Here are the little sharp experiences of life mirrored poignantly, sometimes feverishly, always truly. Each lyric is an instantaneous photograph of one of the many moments in existence which affect one briefly perhaps, but indelibly. Mr. Braithwaite says in his introduction that this author engages "life at its most reserved sources whether the form or substance through which it articulates be nature, or the seasons, touch of hands or lips, love, desire or any of the emotional abstractions which sweep like fire or wind or cooling water through the blood." The ability to give a faithful and recognizable portrayal of these sources, is Mrs. Johnson's distinction.
In this work, Mrs. Johnson, although a woman of color, is dealing with life as it is regardless of the part that she may play in the great drama. Here she is a woman of that imagination that characterizes any literary person choosing this field as a means of directing the thought of the world. Several of her poems bearing on the Negro race have appeared in the Crisis. In these efforts she manifests the radical tendencies characteristic of every thinking Negro of a developed mind and sings beautifully not in the tone of the lamentations of the prophets of old but, while portraying the trials and tribulations besetting a despised and rejected people, she sings the song of hope. In reading her works the inevitable impression is that it does not yet appear what she will be. Adhering to her task with the devotion hitherto manifested, there is no reason why she should not in the near future take rank among the best writers of the world.
J. R. Fauset, [Review of The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems], Journal of Negro History 4, No.4 (October 1919): 467-68
W. E. B. Du Bois
Those who know what it means to be a colored woman in 1922and know it not so much in fact as in feeling, apprehension, unrest and delicate yet stem thoughtmust read Georgia Douglas Johnson's Bronze. Much of it will not touch this reader and that, and some of it will mystify and puzzle them as a sort of reiteration and over-emphasis. But none can fail to be caught here and there by a worda phrasea period that tells a life history or even paints the history of a generation. Can you not see that marching of the mantled with
Voices strange to ecstasy ?
Have you ever looked on the "twilight faces" of their throngs, or seen the black mother with her son when
Her heart is sandaling his feet?
Or can you not conceive that infinite sorrow of a dark child wandering the world:
Seeking the breast of an unknown face!
I hope Mrs. Johnson will have wide reading. Her word is simple, sometimes trite, but it is singularly sincere and true, and as a revelation of the soul struggle of the women of a race it is invaluable.
W. E. B. Du Bois, "Foreword," Bronze: A Book of Verse by Georgia Douglas Johnson (Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1922), p. 7
Alain Leroy Locke
In Bronze, Mrs. Johnson has at last come to her ownif not also in a peculiar way, into her own. A certain maturity that is to be expected of a third volume of verse, is here, but it is the homecoming of the mind and heart to intimately racial thought and experience which is to be especially noted and commended. We can say of this that it is timely both for the author and her readers: for her, it represents the fruition of a premeditated plan not to speak racially until she has learned to speak and attract attention in the universal key; for her readers, of many classes and sections of opinion, it represents more perhaps an occasion of seeing the "color problem" at the heart, as it affects the inner life. Even if it were not very readable poetry, it would, from this latter point of view, be important as human documentation of a much needed sort. "Not wholly this or that""Frail children of sorrow, determined by a hue""Shall I say, 'My son, you're branded in this country's pageantry'"the phrase Du Bois has singled out, "With voices strange to ecstasy""This spirit-choking atmosphere""My every fibre fierce rebels, against this servile role"or
Don't knock at my door, little child
I cannot let you in;
You know not what a world this is
there are volumes in these phrases. After this), the race question becomes, as it must to all intelligent observers, a human problem, a common problem.
One of Mrs. Johnson's literary virtues is condensation. She often distills the trite and commonplace into an elixir. Following the old-fashioned lyric strain and the sentimentalist cult of the common emotions, she succeeds because by sincerity and condensation, her poetry escapes to a large extent its own limitations. Here in the subject of these verses, there is however a double pitfall; avoiding sentimentality is to come dangerously close to propaganda. This is also deftly avoidedmore by instinct than by calculation. Mrs. Johnson's silences and periods are eloquent, she stops short of the preachy and prosaic and is always lyrical and human. Almost before one has shaped his life to "Oh! the pity of it, a certain fresh breeze of faith and courage blows over the heart, and the mind revives to a healthy, humanistic optimist. Mrs. Johnson seems to me to hear a message, a message that gains through being softly but intensely insinuated between the lines of her poems"Let the traditional instincts of women heal the world that travails under the accumulated woes of the uncompensated instincts of men", or to speak more in her way, "May the saving grace of the mother-heart save humanity."
Alain Leroy Locke, [Review of Bronze: A Book of Verse], Crisis 25, No.4 (February 1923): 161
Effie Lee Newsome
It is well-nigh impossible to think of this vital product from the pen of Georgia Douglas Johnson without having communicated to one some of the intense conviction that WROUGHT it into being. It has been stated that authors can convince only to the extent of their persuasion: Georgia Douglas Johnson has molded with the very pulsations of her heart.
Her heartfor this is the potent factor in her creative forcehas molded a "Bronze" that challenges not altogether with the sharp angles of accusation, but as well with the graceliness of heart's call to heart for sympathy in the problems of race; as in "The Octoroon;" as also in the ever-recurring light and shadow theme of colored woman's motherhood:
The infant eyes look out amazed upon the frowning earth,
A stranger, in a land now strange, child of the mantled birth;
Waxing, he wonders mote and more; the scowling grows apace,
A world, behind its barring doors, reviles his ebon face!
And we must quote, further, the two lines that conclude if not solve the problem of the poem:
Yet from this maelstrom issues forth a God-like entity,
That loves a world all loveless, and smiles on Calvary!
In ending this finesse of workmanship Mrs. Johnsonor still shall we say, "her heart?"polishes the bronze with the glory and rich lustre that bronze alone can know. There are inspiring paeans at the end of the work:
Into the very star-shine, lo! they come
Wearing the bays of victory complete!
to quote in connection with closing tributes to black achievers, the last two verses from the sonnet that opens this book, burnished, in spite of all, now here, now there, with a brave "Optimism" that can glow thus:
We man our parts within life's tragic play.
Effie Lee Newsome, [Review of Bronze: A Book of Verse], Opportunity 1, No. 12 (December 1923): 337
Alain Locke
Voicing (the) yearning of woman for candid self-expression, Mrs. Johnson invades the province where convention has been most tyrannous and inveterate,the experiences of love. And here she succeeds where others have failed; for they in over-sophistication, in terror of platitudes and the commonplace, have stressed the bizarre, the exceptional, in one way or another have over-intellectualized their message and overleapt the common elemental experience they would nevertheless express. Mrs. Johnson, on the contrary, in a simple declarative style, engages with ingenuous directness the moods and emotions of her themes.
Through you I entered Heaven and Hell
Knew rapture and despair.
Here is the requisite touch, certainly for the experiences of the heart. Greater sophistication would spoil the message. Fortunately, to the gift of a lyric style, delicate touch, rhapsodic in tone, authentic in timbre, there has been added a temperamental endowment of ardent sincerity of emotion, ingenuous candor of expression, and, happiest of all for the particular task, a naive and unsophisticated spirit.
By way of a substantive message, Mrs. Johnson's philosophy of life is simple, unpretentious, but wholesome and spiritually invigorating. On the one hand, she belongs with those who, under the leadership of Sara Teasdale, have been rediscovering the Sapphic cult of love as the ecstasy of life, that cult of enthusiasm which leaps over the dilemma of optimism and pessimism, and accepting the paradoxes, pulses in the immediacies of life and rejoices openly in the glory of experience. In a deeper and somewhat more individual message, upon which she only verges, and which we believe will later be her most mature and original contribution, Mrs. Johnson probes under the experiences of love to the underlying forces of natural instinct which so fatalistically control our lives. [Especially is this evident in her suggestion of the tragic poignancy of Motherhood, where the consummation of love seems also the expiation of passion, and where, between the antagonisms of the dual role of Mother and Lover, we may suspect the real dilemma of womanhood to lie.]
Whatever the philosophical yield, however, we are grateful for the prospect of such lyricism. Seeking a pure lyric gold, Mrs. Johnson has gone straight to the mine of the heart. She has dug patiently in the veins of her own subjective experience. What she has gleaned has been treasured for the joy of the search and for its own intrinsic worth, and not exploited for the values of show and applause. Above all, her material has been expressed with a candor that shows that she brings to the poetic field what it lacks most,the gift of the elemental touch. Few will deny that, with all its other excellences, the poetry of the generation needs just this touch to make it more vitally human and more spontaneously effective.
Alain Locke, "Foreword," An Autumn Love Cycle by Georgia Douglas Johnson (New York: Harold Vinal, 1928), pp. xvii-xix
Anne Spencer
Within the last ten years, Georgia Douglas Johnson has, through her publishers, brought out three volumes of lyrics, most of which employnext to foodthe oldest theme in the world, and would exquisitely complement a musical setting, here, too, in this united estate of America, where it is decidedly against the lawDred Scott, Monroe Doctrine, or, maybe, some unwritten cartel of Marque and Reprisal,for any person of color to write of love without hypothecating atavistic jungle tones: the rumble of tom-tom, voodoo ebo, fetish of sagebrush and high spliced palm treeall the primal universal passions often solely associated with Africa,
Pardon, I did intend writing about Mrs. Johnson's latest book, An Autumn Love Cycle, but any digression is logical in an atmosphere where even an offering on the shrine of Parnassus must meet the agony of challenge: Aha! It is white. . . . How important! Lo, it is black! Alas! But Life, the book of poetry, cannot relate itself to unrelated persons. Silk purses are no more made of sows' ears than of rayon. The artificial has nothing to offer but surfaces. In these poems the author has come to terms with life, signed the valiant compromise, the Medean alternative, delivering her awareness over to pain. Her sentience speeds to its martyrdom crying,
And the torture-chamber,
With the last maddening turn of the screw
As one who believes the admixture of what we call human nature to be changeless, I can recall no better for any seasonal lovers than this newest idealization of the emotions:
Oh night of love, your groves of strange content
Project a thralldom over coming days;
Exalted, derelict, and blind I went
Unmindfully along Life's misty ways.
If with us the practice of a book of verses underneath the bough, or, better still, before the fire, has grown into sneering disrepute, it threatens the obsequies of the finest art, the gentle art of love-making. Lovers are the only persons left to us of any elegance at all. The last of the aristocrats, the Great Lover moves among his menials with a soul all prinked out in plumes, knee-buckles, and diamant shoon. Whatever his age, his past experiences, or physical characteristics, the true lover becomes an abstract creature, as shriven and innocent as at the day of his birthor death . . .
Consider me a melody
That serves its simple turn,
Or but the residue of fire
That settles in the urn . . .
You will know that such snatches of song are unfair to the singer, but this, and more, Mrs. Johnson has poignantly lineated and set down for whatever God blessed folk remain in this hard-boiled day.
Anne Spencer, [Review of An Autumn Love Cycle], Crisis 36, No.3 (March 1929): 87
Marita Odette Bonner
It will have to be the old figure, I guess. It will have to be the figure of fire.Love is fire.But surely it is a fire.Love must be a fire, lit in the beginning to warm us, to light us, to circle us in completely from the iciness of the Struggleduring our Night-of-passage. In Youth, love is a flame mad and consuming, licking out to eat up Ideas and Ideals, true and false alike.
In Autumn, love is a smoldering fire. A yellow flame burning thinly here, a blue flame pouring steadily there, a red glow everywhere underneath the coals. A red glow smoldering under the coals, that must soon be covered with ashes from the Night.
In Autumna smoldering fire. Afire smoldering with yellow and blue jets. Yellow jets. Reflections of other flames. Yellow jets:
Oh night of love,
Your rapt ecstatic hours were mine.
Blue, steady, and a red glow all through:
Would I might mend
the fabric of my youth
For I would go a further while with you
And drain the cup of Joy.
It is all there. The ashes of experiences burnt through, scorched through and become New "Welt," "Illusion," "Parody," "Delusion," Steadily
And all through the Autumn Love Cycle you feel there glows before you, a life that has leapt eagerly to embrace all living, all loving. There is no forced pretences at flights of emotion hereno sycophant, sexual, blue wailings. (. . .)
Truly it is a fire that has burned steadily, bravely, unflinchingly. Surely here is a life lived steadily, a life lived whole.
Sticklers with their noses lowered to root out flaws might fail to see the steadiness, the wholeness sometimes when everything seems to sink suddenly laden with the heavy ornateness of the good old language of the nineteenth century. But there will always be rooters for flaws and sticklers for words and seekers for form-divorced-from content. And there will always be contentLife and Love whether it marches proudly and aristocratically in flawless formwhether it labors and heaves under a tangle of rocks and weeds.
And the Autumn Love Cycle swings completelyswings fullyglows with a reality that burns off any slight dross, any shade of imperfection and makes you draw deep scorching breath and say,
Is this what it is to be
if you are young.
If you are oldand if you are oldI guess you know that the fire of love even burns ashes.
Marita Odette Bonner, [Review of An Autumn Love Cycle], Opportunity 7, No.4 (April 1929): l30
Benjamin Brawley
Georgia Douglas was a teacher in Atlanta before becoming, in 1903, the wife of Henry Lincoln Johnson, later recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia. She is the author of three small volumes, The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), and An Autumn Love Cycle (1928). While much of her work transcends the bounds of race, her second booklet was dominated by the striving of the Negro; and her sympathy may also be seen in such a later poem as "Old Black Men."
They have dreamed as young men dream
Of glory, love and power;
They have hoped as youth will hope
Of life's sun-minted hour.
They have seen as others saw
Their bubbles burst in air,
And they have learned to live it down
As though they did not care.
In her earlier work Mrs. Johnson cultivated especially the poignant, sharply chiselled lyric that became so popular with Sara Teasdale and some other writers a decade or two ago. Later, however, there came into bet verse a deeper, a more mellow note, as in "I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night."
I closed my shutters fast last night,
Reluctantly and slow,
So pleading was the purple sky
With all the lights hung low;
I left my lagging heart outside
Within the dark alone,
I heard it singing through the gloom
A wordless, anguished tone.
Upon my sleepless couch I lay
Until the tranquil morn
Came through the silver silences
To bring my heart forlorn,
Restoring it with calm caress
Unto its sheltered bower,
While whispering, "Await, await
Your golden, perfect hour."
Benjamin Brawley, The Negro Genius (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937), pp. 219-20
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お名前: Dana Elaine Owens aka Queen Latifah
お仕事: singer
お誕生日: march 18, 1970
First female rapper to be nominated for an Academy Award. Ranked #72 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll. She won a Grammy in 1994 for Best Solo Rap Performance for "U.N.I.T.Y." She was nicknamed "Latifah" (Arabic for delicate and sensitive) by a cousin while she was in her teens. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [January 4, 2006].