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Welcome to The Deep science and technology column where we cover topics from the deep sea to deep space and beyond.
After looking over some recent columns, I discovered that it's been a while since I dipped into the Weather/Global Warming file and I've recently stumbled across some news that's having an interesting effect on our own weather. More on that later.
It's summer in North America and that means that the North Pole has been in perpetual daylight since last June. I've done articles about the opening of the Northwest Passage and the rising ocean level. Of course, the melting ice in the North Pole hasn't been considered the problem that it presents at the South Pole because the ice at the North Pole is already in the water and shouldn't contribute much to the rise in sea level. Recent research says that may not be true.
The island of Greenland has probably the most inappropriate name for any location on Earth. Whiteland would have been a MUCH better name. But that's all changing. The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected, according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher.
The study conducted by Dr. Sebastian Mernild and colleagues from the United States, United Kingdom and Denmark, shows that the Greenland ice sheet may be responsible for nearly 25 percent of the global sea level rise over the past 13 years. Their study also shows that seas now are rising by more than an inch every four years. This is more than 50 percent faster than the average for the 20th century.
They discovered two things. First, it's not snowing as much over Greenland in the winter to replace the snow that's lost, and second that melting, evaporation and calving of icebergs from Greenland's flanks has increased. Since 1995, the ice sheet has lost 100 cubic MILES of ice each year. To wrap your mind around that, just imagine an ice cube 10 miles on each side.
Researchers have kept a close eye on Greenland as one of the major indicators of climate change. Major glacier calving events in 2000 and 2007, sent up to 44 square miles of ice into the sea at a time. Researchers are studying these major events as well as the less dramatic ongoing melting of the ice sheet through runoff and surface processes.
Ice melt from a warming Arctic has two major effects on the ocean. First, increased water contributes to global sea-level rise, which in turn affects coastlines across the globe. Second, fresh water from melting ice changes the salinity of the world's oceans, which can affect ocean ecosystems and deep water mixing.
Researchers are also afraid that the sudden influx of cold water into the northern Atlantic from Greenland and elsewhere in the Arctic could stop the Gulf Stream in its tracks causing profound climate change on the eastern coast of North America and in Europe.
Greenland could, indeed, become a 'green land' but at the risk of profound climate change for many of the world's inhabitants.
Melting water from a glacier in Greenland runs into the ocean. (Credit: Photo by Sebastian Mernild)
Although the events of the previous story are unlikely to affect us directly here on Guam, except for that pesky sea level rise in the World Ocean, the events described in the following story are already affecting us here.
Have you noticed all the thunderbumpers lately? Does it seem to you that there's a lot more thunder and lightning this year than there's been for a while? While the weather reminiscences of older folks are usually laughed at, in this case, they're probably right.
When I first came to Guam, more years ago than I care to remember, I taught first graders in Merizo. In the autumn of that long-ago year (OK, it was 1980), there was a lovely thunderstorm with lots of lightning. My six-year olds were absolutely terrified. When I began to question them, they told me they had NEVER heard noises like that or seen flashes of light like that in the sky.
I figured this was just a bid for attention from the kids, but when I talked to the teachers and other adults at the school, they assured me that the kids weren't just playing up. The thunderstorm was extremely unusual and in fact, the kids were young enough that they might never have heard thunder or seen lightning.
Then I did a little research. In order to create the charge differences that cause thunderstorms with lightning, you must have particulate matter in the air. Summer thunderstorms are common over continents because there's a lot of dust in the air. They're much less common in winter (although I have seen a lightning snowstorm, surely one of the most bizarre of weather spectacles) and much less common over the open ocean because typically, there's no dust in the air to cause the charge differences.
Windblown salt can cause the charge differences, which explains why thunderstorms were not completely unknown here, but I can say from personal experience that thunderstorms have certainly increased in frequency over the last 30 years. So . . . what changed? Read on!
Let's take a little trip to China, home to most of the world's human population. We'll stop at the thriving metropolis of Shenzen and visit two large brown buildings owned by a private company. They're the Longgang trash incinerators. They can be smelled a mile away and pour out so much dark smoke and hazardous chemicals that hundreds of local residents recently staged an all-day sit-in, demanding that the incinerators be cleaner and that a planned third incinerator not be built nearby.
If you think Guam has a landfill problem, you ain't seen nothin' yet. China has now surpassed the United States as the world's largest producer of household garbage and unlike our local legislators, China has embarked on a vast program to build incinerators as landfills run out of space. But the incinerators have become a growing source of toxic emissions, like dioxin and mercury, that don't do a human body good.
But here's the kicker. The pollutants emitted by the incinerators in China, particularly the long-lasting substances like dioxin and mercury, are dangerous not only in China. A growing body of atmospheric research based on satellite observations shows that air currents waft them out of China, across the Pacific (and over us) and beyond.
Chinese incinerators can be less polluting. At the other end of Shenzhen from Longgang, no smoke is visible from the towering smokestack of the Baoan incinerator, built by a company owned by the municipal government. Government tests show that it emits virtually no dioxin and other pollutants. Unfortunately, the Baoan incinerator cost 10 times as much as the Longgang incinerators to run.
The difference between the Baoan and Longgang incinerators lies at the center of a growing controversy in China. Incinerators are being built to wildly different standards across the country. For years, Chinese government regulators have discussed the need to impose tighter limits on emissions. But they have done nothing because of a bureaucratic turf war. (Hmmmm, does this sound familiar? Just how many sessions of the Guam legislature have done nothing about the dump?)
The Chinese government is struggling to cope with the rapidly rising mountains of trash generated as the world's most populated country has raced from poverty to rampant consumerism. Beijing officials warned in June that all of the city's landfills would run out of space within five years so the rush to build i
ncinerators is on.
The governments of several cities with especially affluent, well-educated citizens, including Beijing and Shanghai, are setting pollution standards as strict as Europe's but incinerators in China's interior are being built with virtually no pollution standards at all.
Recent scientific studies have estimated that a sixth of the mercury now falling on North American lakes comes from Asia, particularly China, mainly from coal-fired plants and smelters but also from incinerators. Pollution from incinerators also tends to be high in toxic metals like cadmium. Incinerators play the most important role in emissions of dioxin but little research has been done on dioxin crossing the Pacific. Analyses of similar chemicals have shown that they can travel very long distances.
Chinese agencies agree that tighter standards on dioxin emissions are needed. They just disagree on whether the environment ministry should have the power to stop incinerator projects that do not meet tighter standards. The planning agency wants to retain the power to decide which projects go ahead but other government officials oppose the idea. (Are you aware the Chinese invented bureaucracy?)
Yan Jianhua, the director of the solid waste treatment expert group in Zhejiang province, a center of incinerator equipment manufacturing in China, defended the industry's record on dioxin, saying that households that burn their trash outdoors emit far more dioxin.
"Open burning is a bigger problem according to our research," Professor Yan said, adding that what China really needs is better trash collection so that garbage can be disposed of more reliably.
Critics and admirers of incinerators alike call for more recycling and reduced use of packaging as ways to reduce the daily volume of municipal garbage. Even when not recycled, sorted trash is easier for incinerators to burn cleanly, because the temperature in the furnace can be adjusted more precisely to minimize the formation of dioxin.
Yet the Chinese public has shown little enthusiasm for recycling. As Mr. Zhong, the engineer at the Baoan incinerator, put it, "No one really cares."
Hmmmm. That sounds sort of familiar, too, doesn't it? Are you doing any recycling at all?
Yet, the Chinese failure to recycle is helping keep your children up at night and scaring your dog because there is absolutely no question that the increase of thunderstorms over your personal island is fueled by the dirty smokestacks in China. And the toxins coming out of those smokestacks could have a much longer effect on you and your children and your dog that the immediate trauma of bright lights and boomy noises.
The ocean level is rising because of melting half a world away and our weather is changing because of the activities of people who live thousands of miles away. It really is true that Earth is a global community and all of us must suffer the consequences of the fact that there are too many of us and "No one really cares".
Cruise on over to the Deep Website at www.thedeepradioshow.com to learn more about our global ecosystem and many other topics. Enjoy!
A worker shovels trash at the Baoan incinerator in Shenzhen, which also generates power.


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Twenty Orange County Sheriff's Explorers spent the second weekend in January in Chandler, Arizona, competing in the 2006 Law Enforcement Explorer Tactical Competition. Post Coordinator Deputy Dan Daniels (Community Services Division) and Post Advisors Deputy James W. Davis (Harbor Division), Deputy Ray Botta (Musick Jail), and Dispatch Supervisor Karen Daly (ECB), accompanied the Explorers on their journey. The Sheriff's team competed against over 800 explorers from Explorer Posts throughout the nation. Due to the excellent training from S.W.A.T. Deputies Chris Ledbetter, Dean Weckerle and Travis Unholz and Deputy Dave Hartman from the Tactical Training Center, Explorer Post 449 took a first place trophy in the Tubular Assault (Hijacking scenario on a real C-130 aircraft); the most sought after and prestigious trophy at the competition. Post 449 also took a third place trophy in the High Risk Warrant Entry (Warrant service on drug house with a meth lab inside). In the Male Obstacle Course event, Explorer Alex Sweredoski earned first place and Explorer Alan Cleveland took second, overall. Please join in congratulating the following Explorers, who proudly and very capably represented our department:
Explorer Post 449 would like to thank the following Sheriff's personnel for their assistance with the finances, training, travel arrangements and equipment necessary for this competition.
Explorer Post 449 would like to thank the Oakley Corporation for letting the Explorers train in their warehouse in Foothill Ranch. We would especially like to thank Vance Loman (Director of Legal/Security, Don Porter (Security Manager) and Adam Shuck (Security Lead) of Oakley for arranging the use of the facility.
Explorer Post 449 would also like to thank the 5.11 Company for donating the black tactical gear (Tactical pants, shirts and vests) for the Explorers to wear at the competition. Explorer Post 449 would like to give a special thank you to Explorer Francisco Aponte for arranging the generous donation from 5.11.

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After a year of significant changes at ShoreTel -- not least the company's big-bet acquisition of hosted VoIP player M5 Networks this past spring -- ShoreTel partners are applauding the scrappy UC company's ambition. But they caution ShoreTel that the real work is still to come: maintaining growth while aligning channel strategies to help partners attack both on-premise and hosted opportunities.
ShoreTel partners interviewed by CRN this week said that what they hope to hear from ShoreTel during its annual Champions partner conference, kicking off Tuesday in Orlando, is that it has the systems and strategies in place to preserve the momentum it's built over the past two years, which have been the most ambitious in the company's 16-year history.
"I think they have a good understanding of what it's going to take to bring products like that more aggressively to market," said Rick Hirsh, CEO of Transcend United Technologies, a Wayne, Pa.-based solution provider and one of ShoreTel's largest non-telco partners. "Our business is good, not great, but that's because the UC space is good, not great. ShoreTel can at least say they're up in volume and that they're keeping their eye on the ball."
[Related: ShoreTel: Backup Facility Wasn't Ready In Time For Cloud Outage]
"We're very bullish about the future of ShoreTel," said Don Gulling, president of Verteks Consulting, an Ocala, Fla.-based solution provider whose ShoreTel sales have increased 50 percent over the last calendar year. "Mobility has been a great add-on, and we're having success with contact center. There isn't much yet with [cloud services platform] ShoreTel Sky but we've gotten trained and had a couple of at-bats with it. It's clear there's a lot going on with product."
ShoreTel's big moves were both acquisitions: first Agito in 2010, to create ShoreTel Mobility, and then M5 this year.
Both have positioned the company well to seize opportunities in mobile UC and cloud-based communications and compete with bigger UC players like Cisco, Avaya, Microsoft and Siemens Enterprise Communications, all of which are aggressively pushing cloud and mobility strategies through UC partners.
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University Calendar Event Details
Career Speaker Webinar: "Linkedin Makeover"
- When
- Wed, March 6, 2013 @ 08:00 PM
- Location
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- Free to Millersville University students and alumni
Description: Millersville University's Office of Alumni Engagement, Alumni Association and Experiential Learning and Career Management have partnered with a national company to bring MU students and alumni a great career speaker series.
On March 6, the Career Speaker Webinar will feature Donna Serdula, who will present on the topic, "Linkedin Makeover." This webinar will be held from 8-9 p.m. EST.
About the Series: This series is designed to help students/alumni build a successful career and job search strategy. The nation's top career authors and experts will share tips, strategies and best practices in developing fantastic resumes, building a network that will work to get you a job, techniques to effectively use social media to build your brand and "thought leadership," as well as interviewing and job search techniques. This series is offered as a service to alumni and students and there is no charge to participate. The sessions are delivered right to your computer on the first Wednesday of the month from 8-9 p.m. You can join as many sessions as you like.
Click HERE to access the speaker series website, then click on the LIVE menu tab!
Ticket Information: This is a free online event that you can access from your computer (no sign-up or registration needed).


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The 4-H kids are getting slack about what they wear, said Jody Meyer, the Morgan County Fair Board secretary, during Tuesday's meeting of the Board of Morgan County Commissioners.
All livestock exhibitors will be required to wear "appropriate" clothing when competing, she said.
Entrants may not wear:
Tank tops.
Low-cut shirts.
Sheer blouses.
Attire that leaves a bare midriff
Flip flop shoes.
Shirts with inappropriate messages and/or logos.
Ball caps.
These items are not considered acceptable show attire and may not be worn during a show event, Meyer said.
The fair board recommends a long- or short-sleeved shirt or blouse with clean jeans or slacks with a belt for cattle competitions, she said.
Those competing with cows or steers should also wear hard-soled, closed-toed shoes or boots for safety, Meyer said.
Dairy cattle and dairy goat contestants should wear white shirts and pants.
Rabbit and poultry contestants should wear jeans or slacks, and long-sleeved shirts are preferred for safety, she said.
The dress code for horse exhibitors is found in the Colorado 4-H Horse Show Rule Book, Meyer said.
The board approved those changes, as well as a few more.
Under the new rules, the fair will accept 45 goats in the competition, the same numbers as for cattle, pigs and lambs, Meyer said. Goats are increasingly popular for the fair, especially among kids just getting started at the fair.
Dogs are not allowed at the fair anymore, unless they are service dogs, she said. That is because if a dog barks it can make a show animal kick, and that can set off a domino effect and people or livestock could be injured.
Also, poultry and rabbit contestants may only have one pen of animals weighed for competition now, Meyer said. Some were bringing in multiple cages of chickens or rabbits and deciding which to enter, but that made the process too hard.
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I have 3 Awards I am putting on this one post and I thank you for taking time out of your day to read. My apologies for taking time to do up this post.
If you do not accept awards and your Blog is on my list please know that I do understand as there is much "homework" to do. I only want you to know I enjoy your blog.
Creative Chaos Award
I would like to thank Geni at www.geniespeaks.wordpress.com for nominating my blog for the Creative Chaos Award. Geni has a spiritual and uplifting blog. Drop in and visit her blog.
This award has 4 tasks for me to do.
First Task: Three weird things I do: Okay. There are probably quite a few weird things I do, now to see if I can remember them. Ha ha
1. I do not like to leave my home until my bed is made. Now I know many that think that is anal and never make up their bed. My Hubby teases me and has asked me, "What do you think will happen if you don't make the bed? Do you think the 'bed police' will show up while you are out?"
2. I know some people think it is weird that I am at the GYM at 6 a.m. Oh well, I enjoy it and it makes me feel good and that is what really matters in the end. I know my Hubby is most proud of me.
3. Now this is "really weird" as I just asked my Husband what do I do that is weird. He can't think of any. I love it!!
Second Task: You must tell why you look at the "glass half full" scenario and ask "what? No coffee?"
I am a "half full" type of person. No one is perfect although throughout many ups and downs in my life when I sit down and relax I can 'always' find a 'positive' out of a 'negative'.
Third Task: You find yourself in a desolate place when your car breaks down. You have no cell phone service, no Wal-Mart, and only a candy bar for food. It is 150 miles to the closest town. What color are your under pants and why?
I just don't see myself getting into a situation like this at all. For the question on "what color of my under pants"? I just felt that was a private, personal question and I wish to not answer that one.
Fourth Task: Nominate 5 people who recently followed your blog.
1. www.currierose.wordpress.com A most kind hearted, inspiring Lady.
2. www.mypenandme.wordpress.com thank you Mary Ann.
3. www.worktomend.wordpress.com An amazing lady.
4. www.lifeyum.com Lisa you Rock! Busy, Yoga Mom.
5. www.mybeautfulthings.wordpress.com Sally is amazing on how she finds '3' beautiful things every single day.
I am putting the "Lovely Blog Award" and "Versatile Blog Award" on one post.
I am thrilled once again to receive all these awards. I would like to thank Andrew at www.influenceversuscontrol.wordpress.com for giving this Lovely Blog Award to my blog. I am very appreciative. If you haven't visited Andrew drop in and take a look around. I love when I see the words, "find happiness within" on Andrew's blog.
The "One Lovely Blog Award" has similar rules to many blogging awards.
- Give generous thanks to the blogger that nominated you
- Write Seven things about your self
- Make a list of 15 bloggers you admire and let them know how awesome they are! These folks are the next round of honorees for the "One Lovely Blog Award"
The Versatile Blogger Award
I would love to thank Marie at www.mariewetmore.com for nominating my blog for the Versatile Blogger Award. Marie is a Life Coach and I love to read her posts and learn new strategies of life.
The Versatile Blogger Award
Versatile Blogger Award Rules:
1) Thank the blogger who nominated you: Thanks Andrea Elliott!
2) Tell us 7 interesting things about you:
3) Nominate 15 Bloggers.
I do find it difficult to talk about myself as I am a rather private person. I always get nervous when I have to share about myself.
- I will be 60 soon and in some ways it bothers me, although I love to say I am not getting older I am getting "more mature".
- I am enjoying my Garden so much this year and just can't wait for everything to bloom more as I will be doing up a new "Garden Page" and taking pictures.
- I enjoy taking pictures.
- I am quite a homebody.
- My Blog is fun for me and wish the day gave me more hours so I could spend more time working on it.
- Humming Birds make me giddy. I get so excited when I see one at the window at its feeder. My Hubby says I need to calm down as I scare them away when I get so excited! Ha ha
- I really do wish I could "run". It is a learning curve for me to accept the fact that I have too much arthritis in my neck and lower back and just be grateful that I can 'power walk'.
I would love to nominate these 15 Bloggers for the "Lovely Blog Award" and the "Versatile Blogger Award." Some of them I have known for a wee while and some I have just met. They are all fabulous Blogs that I enjoy reading, if only I had more time. I wouldn't get any sleep, ha. Ha. I find everyone of these Blogs inspiring in their own unique way. Thank you.
- www.drbillwooten.com Inspiring Photos and quotes.
- www.memoriesproject.com Beautiful stories of her parents.
- www.christineevelynvance.wordpress.com Terrific posts. thanks Christine!
- www.lifeyum.com Inspiring Yoga Mom
- www.coachdougbowers.com Active Baby Boomer
- www.reflectionsinapuddle.wordpress.com Love the photos.
- www.cast-light.com Uplifting Lady.
- www.365daysofcourage.wordpress.com yes, many awesome stories of courage.
- www.believeanyway.wordpress.com Spiritual, uplifting.
- www.prytulka.wordpress.com Mary is so creative and love her photos
- www.martinechin.com Martine has a passion for Food.
- www.granbee.wordpress.com If you love Poetry, visit Rose. Magic with words!
- www.lscotthoughts.com Lauren writes poetry and creates magic with her words.
- www.poeticjourney251.com P.J. is a spiritual Lady.
- www.runningthriver.wordpress.com This Lady is strong! I admire her strength and her power to never give up.
I thank every one of you that takes the time or has the time to pop in and visit my Blog. Please forgive me if I ever forget to comment as it would not be intentional.
I wish all good things to come your way!


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i walked into river island, saw this dress, fell in love, checked the price tag, got my heart broken, decided to try it on anyway and went bankrupt.
but it's so friggin pretty!
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PITA seems likely given her rather obnoxious attitude. I rarely listen to her but on the occasions when I have, I´ve been disappointed in how she can play fast and loose with the truth.She bills herself as an info junkie, researching "tons of stuff" in order to validate her opinions but she often makes claims that either have no basis in fact or are, at best, half-truths. So either she´s not really doing the research or she´s incapable of understanding what she´s read or she´s just not very honest.Thank goodness Dennis Miller is on opposite her where I live. He´s much less pretentious, occasionally insightful, and I don´t think he intentionally misleads.
I like Dana, and I admire her willingness to stand up for conservative principles in the face of obnoxious liberals. They hate her for that exact reason. I am sorry to see this break in the Breitbart team, and hope it is not an indication of further turmoil within their group.
I´ve always liked her. This is unfortunate. I had noticed that John Nolte was doing most of the reporting on Big Journalism even though Loesch was supposedly the editor.The Bigs are not perfect, but they still do a pretty good job of ferreting out the truth. Andrew Breitbart is sorely missed, though.
Wouldn´t know her if she showed up at my door.That said, suing seems to be a self-defeating maneuver. Does anyone want to hire someone who is litigious? Was she that badly harmed?No market for divas.
I´m sorry, Dana... no sympathy from me. No harm and no foul. Breitbart gave you prominence and and a huge boost to your career. Thank them and move on with your life. I won´t be able to hear or read you now without thinking you´re a litigious self-promoter.
I like Dana. She had her own radio program before she became an editor at Breitbart. Andrew "discovered" her and liked her work. Sorry about this kerfuffle.I did not appreciate the negativity from some of the Breitbart writers before the election. I thought they undermined Republicans, which were our best hope to defeat O.Trolls will be jumping on this, as they do on so many articles these days.
Mike Flynn at Breitbart.com´s Big Government went and attacked Investor´s Business Daily for its poll which showed that Obama was winning. He actually claimed that IBD was conspiring to get Obama elected, triggering an avalanche of hate mail to the newspaper. Well, it turns out the poll was true. And Nate Silver of all people pointed out that it was the most accurate of all the polls, just as it has been in the last two elections. To my knowledge. Flynn has not apologized for his scurrilous claim. What was the point of that idiocy?
Still, if Loesch has a contract with Breitbart.com, she needs to honor that contract and then move on when the contract is over. No news organization lets its staff contributors work for rival organizations. I don´t see her logic here.
Earlier I read another on the same subject, and that article claimed that her contract had expired and Breitbart.com renewed it without her agreeing to the renewal. Don´t know how that happens - this article has a little different spin on it.I like Dana. She´s subbed for Glenn Beck a couple of times and I enjoyed her style...


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In attempting to find less white, mainstream examples of chick lit, I began to think that "alternative chick lit" is an oxymoron. After all, in a genre known for its light-heartedness and uncritical focus on sex, designer shoes, and Cosmopolitans, it can feel like a world that belongs only to the privileged. Many scholars and critics agree, calling chick lit "fun … without philosophical musings" or "apolitical," a genre "whose light-heartedness and optimism upstage social criticism."
Though avid fans might insist there's no harm in just having some fun (it's all girls wanna do, after all), I have to worry that these limited definitions of chick lit are inevitably exclusionary of any woman whose identity is other than white, cis, hetero, able-bodied, conventionally attractive, middle- or upper-class, and college-educated "chick." I find it hard to imagine that any woman floats entirely apolitically through life on strappy Jimmy Choos and sipping non-fat lattes; but when we talk about women who are marginalized, blissful ignorance to the politics of gender, race, ability, sexuality, economy, and education, seems impossible, and to insist on it can be deeply problematic. If chick-lit protagonists must be perpetually naïve and apolitical, can any marginalized woman comfortably exist within the genre?
Terry McMillan is often cited as the mother of chick lit for black women, but she abhors the term. She calls it a "cheap shot" and says that while women writers might write about "matters of the heart," she argues that these matters are about a lot more than sex and romance. And her writing often points to political issues affecting black American women.
In McMillan's How Stella Got Her Groove Back – about a 42-year-old single mother who falls in love with a younger man in Jamaica – is on the surface about sex, lying on the beach, and shopping. (more inside…)


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Soldier surprises little brother at baseball game
Posted: 08/09/12 at 6:55 pm Updated: 08/09/12 at 7:07 pm
Tags: Specialist Megan Mills Lunenburg Middle East
LUNENBURG, Mass. (WHDH) -- A soldier threw her brother a curveball when she returned home from a year-long deployment, and it was one sweet surprise.
The soldier showed up at her brother's baseball game and everybody in attendance witnessed their emotional reunion happen right on the field.
The little-leaguer thought his big sister was coming home on Saturday, but she showed up early.
Home video captured the moment the brother and sister will probably never forget.
"It made this whole year definitely worth it getting that hug," said Specialist Megan Mills.
Specialist Megan Mills gave her little brother 7-year-old A.J. quite the surprise.
"So I had to go there and hide behind the shack, you know where they do the announcements, and the snacks and stuff and wait until they announce me," said Specialist Mills.
Specialist Mills showed up at A.J.'s tournament after keeping her arrival a secret.
"I ran and jumped into her arms," A.J. said.
"I just told him I loved him and asked him if he was happy and he said, 'Mhm,' just crying," Specialist Mills said.
Specialist Mills has been the Middle East and hadn't had leave in about a year. Even with the 13-year age difference, Specialist Mills and A.J. say they're best friends.
"I miss seeing her, playing with her, swimming, hanging out with her," said A.J.
Specialist Mills got to throw the first pitch after their reunion to her brother.
"Not being able to come visit whenever I wanted to to see him, maybe play a baseball game was hard and finally getting to see him play after that was amazing," Specialist Mills said.
Specialist Mills will be home for a week.


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The award honors individuals who come from diverse backgrounds who have worked hard to achieve the American dream. Kitabwalla a native of Kenya who is now a naturalized U.S. citizen, has worked at Sodexo for 10 years. In his current role, he oversees the development of fast-casual restaurants at colleges, hospitals and B&I locations.
"Husein walks through life with a passion for what he does, confidently striving for success for the teams he leads and paving a way for those who will come after," Lorna Donatone, president of Sodexo School Services and NRA board member, said in a press release. "His life achievements can inspire all aspiring restaurant professionals as a living example of the American dream."
The finalists were to be recognized and the winner of the Dream Award announced on May 17 during the NRA Show in Chicago.


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Possessing one of the most distinctive voices in pop music and one of the most distressing résumés on the big screen, Madonna has proven that whatever the role -- screwball seductress, martyred Argentinian first lady, embittered single mom-cum-yoga instructrix -- her abilities as a performer will manage to undermine any production whose credits bear her name. Like Elvis before her, Madonna has proven that no matter how sterling a pop reputation an artist may have, success on the Billboard Top 100 does not translate into similar plaudits at the box office.
Born Madonna Ciccone in Bay City, MI, in 1958, Madonna was raised in a strict Roman Catholic household. She attended the University of Michigan as a dance student for a brief period before dropping out to move to New York City in 1977. There, she quickly became a habitué of various downtown gay discos; spurred on by her dance teacher and her deejay pals, she embarked on a singing career. Before releasing her debut album, however, she made a debut of another kind in an all-but-forgotten, micro-budgeted date-rape melodrama entitled A Certain Sacrifice (1979). In an omen of things to come, Madonna later tried to halt the theatrical release of the film after her musical career took off.
The artist's proper screen debut came courtesy of Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan. The 1985 release featured Madonna in a supporting role as a funky girl/object of desire around which the film's screwball plot revolved. Her rising star helped to make
a minor hit; aided by Seidelman, she was able to capitalize on her effervescent comic charm and her kooky, uber-Soho, Material Girl persona.
Unfortunately, Madonna's relationship with volatile young actor Sean Penn led her to accept a role opposite him, both in real life as well as onscreen in Shanghai Surprise (1986). The retro-styled, George Harrison-produced debacle endured a brief and mercilessly lambasted life at the box office; Madonna's marriage to Penn didn't last much longer. Next up for the indefatigable entertainer was Who's That Girl? (1987), a stillborn, flimsy imitation of the Melanie Griffith/Jeff Daniels vehicle Something Wild, released just one year prior. Notable only for its hit title track, the ostensible homage to Howard Hawks starred a pained Griffin Dunne opposite a bubbly, impetuous Madonna, apparently performing in the style of her semi-controversial "Open Your Heart" video. Needless to say, their chemistry did little to ignite box-office fireworks.
Madonna's next vehicle was undoubtedly her most high profile to date; cast opposite Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy (1990), she received lavish amounts of pre-film hype, particularly as she was involved at the time with long-in-the-tooth, alpha-stud Beatty. However, the much-anticipated feature failed to make good on the promise that surrounded its production, and Madonna herself came away with only a few choice Steven Sondheim production numbers to her credit. However, the "inspired by the motion picture" soundtrack album did help spark one of the singer's most enduring
cause celebres
-- "voguing."
It took director Alex Keshishian to (literally) strip some of the veneer from the Madonna mystique with his tell-all documentary Truth or Dare the following year. The feature's risqué subject matter -- including the songstress' unabashed fellating of an Evian bottle -- created a ratings stink with the MPAA and revealed some previously unexposed dimensions of Madonna's relationship with Beatty, such as his incessant ridicule of her.
Madonna next courted the best reviews of her film career to date playing a feisty baseball player in the 1992 A League of Their Own, in which she starred amongst a talented ensemble cast that included Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and offscreen gal-pal Rosie O'Donnell. Those favorable reviews were soon overshadowed, however, by the maelstrom of negative publicity just a few months later, when she formed a troika of artistic shame with her starring role in the pseudo-S&M thriller Body of Evidence (1993), her show-and-tell photo book Sex, and her subpar dance album Erotica.
Madonna kept a relatively low profile during the next three years, popping up occasionally for cameos in Blue in the Face and Four Rooms as well as a leading part in Abel Ferrera's barely-released Dangerous Game, co-starring Harvey Keitel. Instead, she spent much of her free time hounding director Alan Parker to cast her in the title role of the long-gestating film version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Evita. Madonna's efforts eventually paid off when she won the part in the Christmas 1996 release; although critics responded with mixed opinions, the singer/actress managed to garner a Golden Globe for her performance.
Just when it seemed the actress had written off Hollywood for good, fate came calling in the form of boy-toy gal pal Rupert Everett and his script idea titled The Next Best Thing. Billed as a romantic comedy, the John Schlesinger-helmed vehicle was in actuality an uneasy melange of The Object of My Affection, My Best Friend's Wedding, and, improbably, Kramer vs. Kramer. Critics responded to the film with primal screams of derision, many of which were aimed at Madonna's balsa wood-inspired and deeply schizophrenic performance. Around this time, insult was indeed added to injury when, in early 2000, the erstwhile thespian was dubbed the Worst Actress of the Century at the Razzie Awards, beating out such notables as Bo Derek, Pia Zadora, and Elizabeth Berkley.
The stage was set for another of the actress' many career reinventions, and it seemed as though she might do just that with her marriage to film director
Guy Ritchie
, the father of her second child, Rocco. Though she had not yet appeared in one of the Brit's testosterone-laden heist films (including 1998's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and 2000's Snatch) she did play a starring role in their lavish Scottish Highlands' nuptials in December of 2000.
It wouldn't be long before Madonna collaborated artistically with her new beau. Subscribing to the age-old Hollywood dictum that a couple can't truly be in love without an accompanying vanity project, the Material Girl and Ritchie dusted off Italian director Lina Wertmuller's 1974 post-feminist chestnut Swept Away... By an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August for a lavish remake, albeit one without the original film's rape scene and communist subtext. Though many reviewers pointed out Madonna's natural adeptness at portraying a spoiled, shrewish heiress who engages in dominant/submissive sex games with a lusty Italian seaman, they were less convinced of the positive emotional "transformation" her character underwent over the course of the film. True to form, audiences avoided Swept Away like the plague, as it struggled to crack seven digits at the box office, making it one of the least-profitable films of 2002. In March of 2003, the Razzie Awards responded in kind, showering Swept Away and its star with 5 wins including Worst Picture of the year. Unfortunately, Madonna had to share her award for Worst Actress with her acolyte, another pop star trying to segue into film, Britney Spears.
Madonna would continue to work in film, making her directorial debut 2008 with the indie film Filth and Wisdom and following this up with the period biopic W.E. in 2012. ~ Phineas Topollino, Rovi
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Saturday Night Live: Madonna
This 1985 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Madonna and features musical guest Simple Minds. ~ Skyler Miller, Rovi
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Madonna: Madonna
No one has ever argued that Madonna has taken advantage of the medium of the music video as few artists have before or since, and this home video release collects promo clips for four of her early hits. Songs featured are "Lucky Star," "Burning Up," "Borderline," and "Like a Virgin." ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Madonna: Like a Virgin
See the four videos that set Madonna on the road to stardom. Includes "Burning Up," "Borderline," "Lucky Star," and "Like a Virgin." ~ Rovi
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Pop icon Madonna returns to the director's seat for the first time since her 2008 feature debut, Filth and Wisdom, for this ambitious romance detailing one lonely woman's obsession with the relationship between King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy) and American divorcée Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough). To Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), no act of devotion in history is more romantic than King Edward VIII abdicating the throne to be with his one true love. But the deeper Wally dives into the background of this controversial love affair, the more apparent it becomes that their relationship was no bed of roses. Now, as each new discovery paints an increasingly dire picture for the once-happy couple, Wally begins to grow disillusioned about the prospect of true love. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Guy Ritchie, best known for the tough-guy crime comedies Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, goes for a change of pace with this remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 comedy-drama, with his wife Madonna in tow. Amber Leighton (Madonna) is the wife of Dr. Anthony Leighton (Bruce Greenwood), the wealthy and successful head of a pharmaceutical company. While Amber seemingly leads a charmed life, it doesn't appear to make her very happy, and she often inflicts her typically foul mood on those around her, especially the hired help. Anthony decides to surprise Amber with a cruise from Italy to Greece, with four of their friends in tow, but Amber doesn't much care for the notion. Amber feels the yacht they've hired is far beneath her standards, and she makes Giuseppe (Adriano Giannini), the first mate of the crew, the primary target of her dissatisfaction. Giuseppe, an ardent leftist, feels nothing but contempt for Amber, but for the sake of his job he can't say a word in response to her attacks. One day, Amber declines an invitation to go diving with her friends, but later changes her mind, demanding that Giuseppe take her to the underwater caves. Giuseppe warns Amber that a storm is brewing, and his prediction proves to be right on the money; soon, Amber and Giuseppe are stranded on a desert island, and suddenly they discover the tables are turned. Giuseppe, a trained fisherman and outdoorsman, knows how to survive on the island, while Amber is utterly helpless, and he forces her to cower under his commands in order to survive; before long, their mutual antagonism has begun to turn into something approaching unfettered lust. Adriano Giannini, who plays Giuseppe, is the son of Giancarlo Giannini, who played the equivalent role in Wertmuller's original film. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Madonna: What it Feels Like For a Girl
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This video single features the controversial video for Madonna's song "What It Feels Like for a Girl." Refused airplay by MTV for what they deemed excessive violence, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" was directed by Guy Ritchie, who helmed the hit action comedies Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (though he's nearly as well-known for being Madonna's husband). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Metallica: Metallimania
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The underground heavy metal phenomenon gets an official release after nearly a decade of bootlegging and trading by die-hard metalheads as Killing Time Productions and filmmaker Marc Paschke's team up to bring the most outrageous metal documentary ever produced to home video. This is drunken heavy metal debauchery at its absolute finest, with over 100 minutes of the best bands in the business and their biggest fans stumbling, slurring, and swearing their way through a series of hilarious clips and inebriated interviews. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Girl 6
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Spike Lee directed this comedy-drama about a woman who falls into a career in phone sex. An African-American woman (Theresa Randle) who aspires to a career as an actress endures a number of dispiriting jobs (handing out leaflets and working as a coat check girl) before reaching the end of her rope at an audition with Q.T. (Quentin Tarantino), a sleazy movie director. Q.T. claims that he wants to offer her a role in his next film -- but since the role requires nudity, she will have to show him her breasts first. After firing her agent, the actress is strapped for cash and is offered a job enacting sexual fantasies for men over the phone. Dubbed "Girl 6" by her employers, the actress is treated with respect by her boss (Jennifer Lewis) and is well-liked by her co-workers. However, she has a hard time emotionally distancing herself from her work, and she finds herself becoming infatuated with Bob (Peter Berg), one of her regular callers, going so far as to set up a meeting with him. As she deals in other people's fantasies for a living, Girl 6 begins retreating into her own world of make-believe, where she can be a sexy screen siren or a butt-kicking blaxploitation star. Meanwhile, her former fiancé (Isaiah Washington), who scrapes by as a shoplifter, desperately wants her to give him another chance, and her next door neighbor, a baseball card collector named Jimmy (Spike Lee), keeps pestering her that she ought to be doing something more positive with her life. Girl 6's supporting cast includes Madonna as one of Girl 6's supervisors, John Turturro as her agent, and Debi Mazar as one of the other phone-sex girls; the film also features an original song score by Prince. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Blue in the Face
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Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Paul Auster had enough storylines and characters left over from their charming comedy Smoke to make another film, so they shot Blue In The Face immediately after Smoke was completed. The film once again centers on the Brooklyn Cigar Store and manager Auggie (Harvey Keitel), although most of the other characters are different. The store owner's frustrated wife Dot (Roseanne) is one of them, and one of the plotlines follows her attempts to seduce Auggie. Madonna, Michael J. Fox, Lily Tomlin, and Lou Reed (as himself) also put in appearances. Blue In The Face was shot without a complete script and presents a unique combination of distinctive performances, oddball characters, improvisations, and raffish scenes. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
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Four Rooms
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Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven of witches are trying to summon the spirit of the goddess Diana; each of the witches must bring a different bodily fluid for their spell to work, but Eva (Ione Skye), who was supposed to bring semen, managed to lose her supplies, and needs Ted's help for a last-minute replacement. Another room, where Ted was supposed to deliver some ice, turns out to house an angry husband (David Proval), who is holding his bound-and-gagged wife (Jennifer Beals) at gunpoint. A third room is taken by a tough-talking gangster (Antonio Banderas), his doormat wife (Tamlyn Tomita), and their two children; the gangster demands that Ted watch over the kids, who turn out to be mischievous terrors beyond Ted's wildest imagination. And room number four is where an arrogant film actor (Quentin Tarantino) is holding a party. One of his guests makes a bet that he can get a Zippo lighter to light ten times in a row, with his finger at stake if he loses. Allison Anders directed the first segment, which also featured Madonna, Valeria Golino, and Lili Taylor. The second segment was directed by Alexandre Rockwell, husband of his frequent leading lady Jennifer Beals. Robert Rodriguez directed the third story, while the finale was directed by its star, Quentin Tarantino; the final segment also features Bruce Willis, who appeared unbilled. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Madonna: The Girlie Show - Live Down Under
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International superstar Madonna brings her traveling musical circus know as "The Girlie Show" to Australia for a live performance. Among the 17 songs presented in this two-hour video are "Erotica," "Fever," "Express Yourself," "Vogue" and her first big hit "Like A Virgin." ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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Dangerous Game
Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and seek the same kind of religious conversion she has experienced. Leaving behind his own wife Madlyn (Nancy Ferrara) and his young son, Eddie explains the impetus of his latest project in a series of behind-the-scenes interviews. Meanwhile, Sarah Jennings (Madonna), a TV actress, has taken the wife role in Eddie's film, and her first item of business on the set is to sleep with Francis Burns (James Russo), who is set to play her husband. Things go sour between the two players and their conflicts spill onto the set, adding even more tension to a shoot in which Eddie alternately bullies and cajoles his actors to elicit more authentic performances. Perhaps Eddie manipulates Sarah onscreen because he's ashamed of having bedded his "very L.A." star just minutes before his wife and son arrived early for a weekend visit. Eddie soon finds the existential dilemmas of his film seeping into his own life, forcing him to question the compulsive adultery he practices. One of the first movies overseen by the film arm of Maverick, the record label and media company Madonna founded in the early '90s, Dangerous Game was produced by the singer's longtime manager, Freddy de Mann, alongside Mary E. Kane, who produced several earlier Ferrara efforts. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Truth or Dare
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Truth or Dare is an outrageous, insightful, carefully controlled and (to non-fans) overlong documentary of singer Madonna's 1990 Blonde Ambition tour. Though much of the film is a paean to self-love and self-aggrandizement, we are permitted to see Madonna at her worst as well as her best. Just when the audience is on the verge of giving up the flamboyant vocalist as a bad job, she displays a sudden attack of sensitivity, such as her protective attitude towards a timid homosexual in her troupe. Among the many celebrities who poke their heads into the proceedings are Warren Beatty, Sandra Bernhard, and Kevin Costner, who makes the fatal error of coming backstage to tell Madonna that he thinks she's "neat." If you've had your fill of the Material Girl, take a look at the parody documentary starring MTV's Julie Brown, Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Vision Quest
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According to high school wrestler Matthew Modine, a spiritual "Vision Quest" is necessary for him to decide his future. Thus, Modine starts behaving in a manner that amazes even himself. The crowning achievement of Modine's new outlook on life is his romance with 21-year-old artist Linda Fiorentino. Somehow, all of this boils down to the standard "underdog makes good at crucial sports event" finale. Essentially Rocky and Breaking Away redux, Vision Quest is saved by the spirited performances of its young protagonists. Of historical value is the brief appearance by Madonna, whose voice is heard throughout on the film's music track. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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A Certain Sacrifice
In this extremely low-budget drama, a young transient finds her rapist, and with the help of her new boy friend, takes him underneath the Brooklyn Bridge and enacts a strange ritual sacrifice with his body. The film is most notorious for being the film debut of Madonna who was only 19-years-old and is said to have earned only $100 for her effort. Later, she tried to sue to keep the film from being released on video (it never did make it to theaters). Unfortunately for her, she lost the battle. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond finally wins his freedom, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job, but after Zao (Rick Yune), the North Korean operative who snared Bond, is discovered to be in cahoots with unscrupulous entrepreneur Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world. As Bond hops from England to Cuba to Korea to Iceland in pursuit of his quarry, he (as usual) makes the acquaintance of two beautiful and mysterious women, Jinx (Halle Berry) and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike). Judi Dench and John Cleese return in Die Another Day as, respectively, Bond's superior M and gadget-master Q; Madonna contributes the film's theme song and makes a cameo appearance as a fencing instructor. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Next Best Thing
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Best buddies Abbie (Madonna), a heterosexual yoga instructor, and Robert (Rupert Everett), a gay landscaper, cope with failed relationships, the approach of middle age, and the AIDS-related death of a mutual friend by sticking together as a "family of choice." Drunk one night, they have sex, and when Abbie turns up pregnant, they decide to move in together and raise the child as decidedly unconventional co-parents. Flash forward several years and Abbie begins dating Ben (Benjamin Bratt), an investment banker. The new relationship causes tension between Abbie and Robert that ultimately leads to betrayal, courtroom confrontation, and a sudden denouement. Everett, a sometime writer of trashy comic novels such as Hello Darling, Are You Working?, reportedly supplied the film's concept and even additional dialogue, although Tom Ropelewski is the credited screenwriter. This was pop diva Madonna's first film role since the hoopla of Evita; she supplied a highly edited hit cover of Don McLean's "American Pie" and one other song for the soundtrack, which was released on her own Maverick imprint. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Shadows and Fog
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Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death), who is awakened in the middle of the night by a vigilante group who want him to help capture a serial killer on the loose. Kleinman reluctantly agrees, but when he gets to the street, the vigilantes are gone and Kleinmen spends most of the film wandering the shadowy back alleys in search of the citizen's brigade. Meanwhile, a circus is in town. When sword-swallower Irmy (Mia Farrow) catches her creepy clown husband (John Malkovich) getting familiar with trapeze artist Marie (Madonna), she packs her bags and heads for town, where she meets up with Kleinman. This meeting sets up a number of plot lines that has Irmy befriending a trio of prostitutes (Jodie Foster, Lily Tomlin and Kathy Bates) at the local brothel and accepting $700 from a university student (John Cusack) who wants to sleep with her. She finally meets up with her husband, and they then find an abandoned baby which they decide to raise as their own. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Shanghai Surprise
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Madonna and Sean Penn, who were husband and wife at the time, starred in this notorious box-office bomb that one critic termed "Flop Suey." The film takes place in 1937, during the Japanese occupation of China. Drug runner Walter Faraday (Paul Freeman) is trying to leave the country with a large stash of opium but he is chased by armed guards and killed. A year passes and missionary Gloria Tatlock (Madonna) hires sleazy American con man Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) to help her find the missing opium. She wants to use the drugs to relieve the suffering of wounded Chinese soldiers -- as she puts it, "Guns cause pain. Opium eases pain." Glendon reluctantly agrees. But unfortunately for the two do-gooders, there are other, more notorious seekers of the opium shipment as well. George Harrison, one of the film's producers, wrote the songs and appears in a cameo role as a nightclub singer. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Desperately Seeking Susan
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A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Blum) grows stale. Her favorite classified ads trace the romance of Jim (Robert Joy), a struggling musician, and Susan (Madonna), a SoHo vamp who's just narrowly escaped being murdered alongside one of her other boyfriends -- a gangster who recently stole some Egyptian jewelry. Through a series of complicated missteps, Roberta ends up losing her memory and convincing both herself and a broodingly handsome young man named Dez (Aiden Quinn) that she's the elusive, adventurous Susan. Soon, Roberta finds herself being romanced by Dez and pursued separately by her husband, Jim, Susan, and by a murderous mobster who's looking for the stolen jewels. For her second feature outing, which was partially inspired by Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating, director Susan Seidelman filled her cast with hipster extras, downtown personalities, and New York thespians. Notable faces include comedian Steven Wright; future indie mainstay John Turturro; future TV stars Michael Badalucco and Laurie Metcalf; punk singer Richard Hell, who also starred in Seidelman's Smithereens; and performance artist Ann Magnunson, who would star in the director's Making Mr. Right. The big dance-club sequence was filmed at Danceteria, the disco that helped launch Madonna's career. The scene, and the film, helped propel "Into the Groove," one of the singer's all-time club classics, into the charts even though it was actually a b-side to the single "Angel." ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Arthur and the Invisibles
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On the heels of his first foray into romantic comedy, versatile French filmmaker Luc Besson breaks new ground yet again with this computer-animated, family-friendly adaptation of his own children's book Arthur and the Minimoys. Arthur is a wide-eyed ten-year-old whose vivid imagination is fueled by the colorful bedtime stories his grandmother reads to him each night. His dreams are filled with images of African tribes and the remarkable inventions detailed in the enigmatic book that his grandfather left behind after mysteriously disappearing four years ago. Arthur and his family are in danger of losing their home to an unscrupulous real-estate developer, but if there is any truth to the tales of a treasure hidden deep beneath their garden and the tiny, fairy-like creatures that his grandmother so frequently sketches, there may still be hope of saving their home before it's too late. Now, with nothing to guide him but the clues left behind by his grandfather, Arthur will set out to find the mythical world of Seven Kingdoms, where the Minimoys are said to dwell, and ensure that his troubled family always has a place to call home. An imaginative children's fantasy in the vein of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Arthur and the Invisibles features the voices of David Bowie, Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Mia Farrow, and Freddie Highmore. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
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Fifteen-year-old CIA operative Cody Banks (played by Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz) is back in action in this comedy adventure, which sends the youthful secret agent to Old Blighty. Banks returns to Kamp Woody, the CIA training center disguised as a summer camp, where he's given a new partner, the bumbling but sharp-witted Derek (Anthony Anderson), and a new assignment, to track down a sinister double-agent who has made off with an experimental mind-control machine. The villain has made his way to Great Britain, so Banks is enrolled in an upscale private school in England, where he's forced to join the school band despite his lack of musical talent and finds himself working alongside Emily (Hannah Spearritt), a fellow teenage espionage agent. Keith David, Daniel Roebuck, and Cynthia Stevenson all return from the first film, while British filmmaker Kevin Allen takes over as director. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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A teen learns that all the gadgets in the world can't help him overcome his awkwardness around the opposite sex in this big-budget family entertainment. In Agent Cody Banks, Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz plays a young man plucked from suburban obscurity to be trained as a CIA super-agent. His mission? Get friendly with his classmate Natalie (played by another teen TV star, Lizzie McGuire's Hilary Duff) so that he can uncover her father's diabolical scheme to create indestructible robots. To compound his problems, Cody also has to deal with the same stresses as any adolescent: nagging parents, insufferable classwork, and a fragile sense of self-esteem. Agent Cody Banks was produced by MGM, not coincidentally the studio responsible for another popular spy franchise, the venerable James Bond series. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
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Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes powerful feelings in her native Argentina. Throughout this film, as in the musical, the story is explained and commented on by a character known as "Che," played here by Antonio Banderas. The film begins with the news of Evita's death, and then turns to a much earlier scene at her father's funeral. Eva (Madonna) was an illegitimate child (one of many) of a rural landowner and her seamstress mother. Hers is not a wealthy childhood by any means, and she is constantly discriminated against because of her lowly birth. She is refused admission to her father's funeral for this reason. This scene is contrasted with her own funeral, a spectacular affair, not different from the funeral of a beloved head of state. Eva Peron leaves her village at age 15, in the arms her lover Agustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), a traveling singer. With his help, she goes to Buenos Aires and begins her campaign to become a performer, actress, and public figure. Many men help her during these years, and she is reported to have given her favors freely. That changes when she becomes involved with Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce). In 1944, when they meet, Peron is an ambitious young army officer, serving in the right-wing government of the time. When he falls afoul of the government and is imprisoned, Eva uses her position as a celebrity and radio performer to get him released. Peron marries his feisty mistress when he is freed from prison. Eva is a formidable supporter, and her help is crucial to his later becoming head of state. Once Juan Peron becomes the President of Argentina, Eva expects better treatment from Argentina's high society, but they snub her brutally. She, in response, diverts government money from society-led charities, and starts the Eva Peron Foundation. As its president, she works tirelessly to directly better the lot of Argentina's poor. For this work, and for having risen from poor origins to glory, she is beloved by huge masses of her fellow citizens, if not by those in high society. She also arranges for the enfranchisement of women in Argentina. Thus, her death of uterine cancer at age 33, while she was at the height of her power and influence, strikes the whole world as tragic. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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There is something for everyone at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Below is a list of our scheduled events classes, and exhibits. For details on any individual listing, just click on the event for more information. If you still have questions, feel free to call the garden at 413.298.3926. See you at the Garden!
December 2013 – February 2014
Holiday Marketplace
@ Berkshire Botanical Garden
Saturday @ 10:00 am – December 8, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
The Business of Gardening
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Harvey is the one about the amiable 39-year-old dipsomaniac Elwood P. Dowd and his best friend and constant companion Harvey, a white rabbit, standing tall at six feet three and a half inches, who, to the mortification of his family, is invisible to everyone but Elwood—or almost. The play by Mary Chase was a big hit in 1944 (inexplicably, it won an undeserved Pulitzer Prize) starring Frank Fay (Barbara Stanwyck's first husband) and the fabulously ditzy character actress Josephine Hull, who recreated her role in the critically acclaimed 1950 film, sharing the screen with a triumphant performance by James Stewart, whose wife, Gloria, said at the time, "You stay at the studio—send Harvey home to me."
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Lot of pleasure this is folks -- Tuskegee airmen were pioneering African American aviators who had to fight Germans overseas.
And racism here at home.
These unsung heroes are finally getting the big screen treatment they deserve an action packed film.
Red tails as colonel AJ Pollard alerted.
-- -- and stands up and -- young men who ultimately become the first all black slog of American fighter pilots.
Now we've done every low down dirty job you've handed us.
Hoping that we would just limp along and go away.
We will not go away.
We have a right to fight for our country the same as every other American.
So you shut us down.
Would you let -- plot.
We're joined now by Oscar nominated actor Terrence Howard Terry it's great to see -- this morning welcome.
Incredible movie or presents her -- -- you're part of a rare film where we all agree it's a movie we wanna go see that rarely happen yet obviously I hit it guys that gives a sports guy and and I like Uga gave -- -- -- -- guys.
Always like quarter two Q does it matter a lot.
What is it like to be involved in this project in what does it mean -- Personally I mean I think that the project should should have been -- the American red -- Because often times you know people see it -- -- hear them direct other thing about the black pilots.
But I mean these are American pilots had to be able to feel that page of history that's been torn out -- that has been skipped.
It's amazing feeling I mean right now.
-- amount of awareness for this film is so huge I mean and all the things I've ever been apart nothing has felt this important in this fashion -- -- -- easy for the Tuskegee -- it wasn't easy for George Lucas to get this thing made because.
Apparently no one wanted to put a hundred million dollars of his own money into this now though I know Nick Saban showed it to his team before the national title game.
The president screened it last night at the White House so.
How does that feel that is doing now this kind of reception.
But I like I said before I'm out of the fifty so films I've done in my life.
Nothing is a game this amount of attention.
And then I said before I'm George H bush a couple of days ago and we watched it together with Barbara -- crying at the end of itself.
I mean it's it literally feels so much bigger than what we expected it to be especially -- George being involved.
We thought it would just be a little nice film but I mean it is exploded on to the world say that is so special how did you get the part.
I bumped into George at an awards ceremony in 2006 George Lucas George Lucas yeah that was to Lucas.
And he told me about he was doing this project and -- wait six months and a hear anything from them.
That -- -- major 2007.
The end of 2008 it was 2009.
That it actually came in to -- -- today.
How important is it you know of for students of history who might not even be aware of the Tuskegee -- young kids watching this morning growing up.
How important is the Tuskegee airmen to the history of this country into world war two and our victory there.
Well one of things should be to keep in mind it was -- a -- or really the person I was basically depicting was Benjamin Al Davis he.
The moved towards desegregation.
Of the military.
Which led to the desegregation of the south which led to the desegregation.
Most of the businesses so we wouldn't have the equality that we have today without their accomplishments.
But the -- tells.
They were responsible for actually clearing that.
The beaches of Normandy so that troops to get on.
And actually.
You know indeed.
On a foggy morning when no one could see the ground and that's a remarkable thing about.
But the bombers and -- one of the good things about the Tuskegee airmen as they had about to -- two years of practice before they would.
Actually get into the -- into the fight most of the white -- it's only had three months.
And then they would be shipped out but because no one wanted them so by the time they became.
They got into the fight they were aces and they were so discipline and they would never leave the side of the bombers.
Which made the difference in the war and gave them gave the allies -- an opportunity to.
To be be confident about what they were about to accomplish.
From watching what -- -- reading was there a special bond within that now obviously -- you know you know he's always bonded but within this group there seems.
A different type of camaraderie well.
With with regard to the -- hotels they themselves knowing that they were fighting against two wars the war of racism and the war.
Against the fascism.
Ultimately then having to stand together and needing each other for the encouragement.
These are kids he's -- 1920.
Year old kids.
That's accomplishing so much more they never.
Get -- into the military to become pilots they went to school in order to become.
Doctors and lawyers but you have to have been go go on to college in order to be brought.
Into the Tuskegee program and then -- turned out to be incredible pilots.
Well the -- is read tells Terrence Howard thanks so much for telling us all about it we can't wait to see at a thanks for coming in with congratulations and opens Friday.
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With less than a month before the Dec. 3 runoff election between incumbent Dan Chisholm and Charlie Akin for the District 4 seat on the Social Circle Board of Education, some citizens are questioning whether Akin should have the ability to set school taxes for residents when he, himself, does not pay them.
As construction continues on Baxter International's $1 billion manufacturing plant, Georgia Power is working to provide power to the plant and surrounding area and is planning to build a 6.5-mile power line from the plant northeast through Social Circle.
After a three-way race for the District 4 seat of the Social Circle Board of Education, two candidates will be back on the ballot in December for a runoff election.
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The downtown revitalization project steering committee kicked off its first meeting by listening to professional planners' assessment for Social Circle's downtown area and adding a few ideas of their own.
o Denise Ann Boudreau, 44, 1409 Jersey Social Circle Road, Covington, March 3. Public drunkenness.
At least one local juvenile was identified as the alleged culprit behind an incidence of graffiti discovered March 4 in the Windsong subdivision in Social Circle, according to School Resource Officer and Gang Investigator Jason Stribling of the Social Circle Public Safety Department. The juvenile, a 16-year-old male from Social Circle, admitted to the incident when taken into custody, and he was released that same morning, said Stribling. The teen faces juvenile charges of damage to property and the commission ...
Social Circle officially annexed a 450-acre plot of land after allaying residents' concerns at Monday's public hearing, the fourth approved annexation petition in the last eight months.
MONROE, Ga. (AP) - The leaders of a multimillion dollar food charity under FBI investigation for possible financial misdeeds have reached an agreement to keep them from being barred from their Monroe headquarters. Attorneys in a lawsuit involving Angel Food Ministries reached an agreement Friday after a Walton County court hearing.
ATLANTA (AP) - For more than a decade, Angel Food Ministries seemed like a godsend for families who purchased its low-cost food boxes and the churches that shared millions in revenue for distributing the goods. It became an economic juggernaut in the faith community, employing hundreds, feeding thousands a month and pouring $19 million into its network of more than 5,000 host churches in 35 states.
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The Youth Exposure Club of Social Circle held a performance, "Remembering Our Past and Shaping Our Future," capping off Black History Month at the Social Circle Theater on Feb. 27. Students recited speeches and performed as iconic figures in black history, from inventor and educator Dr. George Washington Carver to Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut. Outside, exhibitors displayed educational materials.
A tractor trailer and a garbage truck crashed into each other on a rainy afternoon Friday on Ga. Highway 11 near the Newton County/Social Circle border, sending both drivers to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Social Circle Lion's Club will hold its annual musical gala at the Social Circle Theater Saturday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations. This year's show, like last, will be a Radio Show format, with music provided from the early to mid 1900s and local actors and singers who perform at the theater throughout the year. Entertainment will include a magician at 4 p.m. and then proceed ...
Two early morning raids conducted by Social Circle, Loganville and Monroe law enforcement agents produced four arrests, drugs, suspected drug money and a stolen firearm in Social Circle on Saturday.
 Social Circle Middle and High School students didn't have to travel far to view a special exhibit from Kennesaw State University. SCMHS was one of the few privileged to host the "Bunce Island: Linking the History of Europe, Africa, and the United States" traveling display, as part of Black History Month educational activities.
Danielle Marie Ezell, 19, 642 Johnson Road, Oxford, Feb. 17. Three counts financial transaction card fraud.
o Anthony Porter, 48, 376 Lakewood Dr., Social Circle, Feb. 10. Contempt of court, probation violation.
Social Circle received another annexation petition for a 450-acre plot of land of unincorporated Newton County -the fourth such petition it has seen in the last half year.


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The United States is shifting its major air operations center for the Middle East from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, the first step in what is likely to be a significant reduction of American forces in Saudi Arabia and a realignment of American military presence in the region, senior military officials said today.
The day-to-day responsibility for overseeing hundreds of air missions in Iraq and the Middle East will be transferred this week from Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a backup headquarters the United States built last year at Al Udeid Air base in Qatar, senior officials said.
A formal decision about whether to make this arrangement permanent has yet to be made by President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
But with the war in Iraq winding down and continued unease in Saudi Arabia about a large American military presence in the kingdom, American commanders believe that the time is right to see if the Qatar base can serve as the United States Central Command's air operations center of the future.


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Brooklyn resident David Siller, currently studying in Israel at Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah in Beit Shemesh, was awarded a trophy for finishing 3rd in his age group (14-18) in a 5-kilometer race for the benefit of the Benjamin Children's Library of Beit Shemesh.
Today is day six without a phone.
Besides for feeling slightly isolated, it's not too bad.
I've been doing things that I know I would not be doing if my phone was sitting next to me, shiny screen beckoning.
Is anyone else alarmed by the way extended warranties are sold on just about anything and everything? It means one of two things – either someone has found a great way of getting consumers to part with more of their hard earned dollars or manufacturers have no faith in their own products. Neither of those options is particularly heartwarming.
As I described Gaon in a review in June 2001 ("In Search of Ancestors, Sculpture by Simon Gaon" at Yeshiva University Museum), his Bukharian Jewish roots are deeply embedded on both sides of his family, echoed in his early yeshiva education.
Let me begin by congratulating my dear machatunim, Soraya and Jay Nimaroff, on being the recipients of the Community Service Award at the Sderot Hesder Institutions 18th annual anniversary dinner.
Think of your issues this way: due to those different backgrounds, you have a "shovel" to deal with difficulties while he has a "spoon".
Do you remember the good old days when kids were kids and there was never anything to worry about? Those days never really existed, but today there are issues kids worry about that weren't issues for some adults. They include fear of bullying, natural disasters, divorce, and violence.
In Part I talked about celebrating 30 years of Regesh Family and Child Services providing services to children, teens and families. I shared the agency's origin and the many lessons I have learned through this journey. As I mentioned, it is my hope that my experiences will add to your toolbox of life skills.
Unfortunately, a map of the Middle East with no mention of Israel is nothing new… It is surprising however, that the world's largest publisher of children's literature, Scholastic Books, has joined in this trend.
About six months ago my parents and I started discussing ideas for a mitzvah project in honor of my bat mitzvah. I wanted to do something unique that would be meaningful to me and also do something that my friends could participate in. Immediately I thought of an organization called Sharsheret.
"I'm disappointed that the agreement reached with Iran leaves our unfulfilled our ultimate objective: a complete dismantling of Iran's nuclear program and related activities.
Southern NCSY will be holding a leadership training Shabbaton at the Young Israel of Bal Harbour December 6 and December 7. Rabbi Steven Weil, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, will be the special guest speaker.
Is there a beginning and an end to the universe? What role can medical breakthroughs play in conception or genetic engineering? Can science help us pinpoint the end of human life? Does the soul emanate from the brain or vice-versa?
With 2013 marking half a century since Kennedy's fateful limousine ride in Dallas, the current revels are exceeding the revisionist frenzies of years past, with a seemingly endless parade of books, articles and television specials designed to assure us that, despite everything that has come to light about him since his death, JFK was a great president, or at least a very good president who would have been great had his life not been so cruelly cut short.
As someone who for the past fifteen years has been writing a column that largely focuses on the news media, I've read what is no doubt an altogether unhealthy number of books on the subject. Most of them were instantly forgettable while some created a brief buzz but failed to pass the test of time. And then there were those select few that merited a permanent spot on the bookshelf.
George W. Bush has been getting some positive media coverage lately, with recent polls showing him at least as popular as his successor, Barack Obama, and a big new book about the Bush presidency by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker (Days of Fire, Doubleday) portraying Bush as a much more hands-on chief executive than his detractors ever imagined.
Readers who've stuck with the Monitor over the years will forgive this rerun of sorts, but as we approach the fortieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War – and with the stench of presidential indecisiveness hanging so heavily over Washington these days – it seemed only appropriate to revisit Richard Nixon's role in enabling Israel to recover from the staggering setbacks it suffered in the first week of fighting.
Shakespeare had it right. The evil that men do indeed lives after them. Case in point: Nahum Goldmann, who served in a variety of Jewish and Zionist organizational leadership posts from the 1920s through the 1970s.
Oscar "Ossie" Schectman, who scored the first basket in the history of the league that evolved into the National Basketball Association, died last week at age 94.
It's certainly been a while, hasn't it? And yet it seems like the conversation was never really interrupted, as I've enjoyed, in the three and a half months since this column last appeared, many an interesting exchange, via e-mail and phone, with some very intelligent readers.
I was shamed into becoming a baseball fan by my mother, a Holocaust survivor who came to America in 1953 and who to this day doesn't know the difference between a home run and a strikeout.
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