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You do not plan to visit the emergency department. It just happens, and usually when you least expect it. At Russell County Medical Center, we practice a philosophy of emergency care called ER+, which helps further our goal that you will receive quality medical care as quickly and professionally as possible.
The Emergency Department at Russell County Medical Center is staffed with specially trained physicians, registered nurses and health care personnel 24-hours a day, year round, to provide diagnosis and treatment for illness and injuries.
Patients who come to the Emergency Department have access to:
In addition, RCMC has a heliport to accommodate patients who arrive at the hospital by helicopter or who must be transported outside the region for certain types of specialized care.
The staff of RCMC is very involved in the training of Emergency Medical Technicians, Cardiac Technicians and Paramedics in the region and sponsors local educational seminars for the rescue squads.
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"It was just a couple of years ago that Ottawa County got the grant to do the study," said Nate Lisenbee, spokesman for the Ottawa County Planning and Grants Department.
The study is to analyze potential routes for regional commuter transit service, and determine the feasibility of implementing and sustaining these routes.
"The purpose is to try and look at the need for commuter transit, such as regional services that would connect the regional employment areas," Lisenbee said.
The study's findings will include information about the existing local transit services and the demand for new regional routes.
"The consultant will look at different routes and see if it is feasible," Lisenbee said.
The findings will include the potential location of regional routes, stops, transfer stations, vehicle fleet requirements, ridership estimates and costs.
The public is welcome to stop by the open house anytime between 6 and 8 p.m. Aug. 20 at GVSU's Alumni House, 1 Campus Drive in Allendale.
For information, call the Ottawa County Planning Department at 616-738-4852 or e-mail at email@example.com.
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Binghamton among nation's best values
Binghamton University is once again among the best values in public colleges, according to the 2008 rankings from Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
The magazine considers Binghamton the second-best value in the country for out-of-state students and the eighth-best value for New York residents. The total cost after aid for New Yorkers was $10,973; it was $17,233 for out-of-state students.
"Binghamton University consistently ranks among the top public institutions in the nation," President Lois B. DeFleur said. "The rankings enhance our national and international reputation and help us to attract the best students from New York as well as from all corners of the world."
Kiplinger's highlights schools that combine top-flight academics with affordable costs. In its rankings, academic quality measurements account for about two-thirds of a campus' score. Factors include SAT scores; admission, retention and graduation rates; student-faculty ratios, total costs as well as average costs after aid and average debt.
Other schools in the top 10 include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia and the University of Florida.
"Despite rising tuition costs, there are still many first-rate institutions providing outstanding academics at an affordable price," says Fred Frailey, editor of Kiplinger's. "Schools like these prove graduates can enter the workforce with a great education — and without a huge cloud of debt looming."
Binghamton receives accolades from numerous college rankings and guide books. The 2008 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges once again calls Binghamton the "premier public university in the Northeast." The 2008 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report ranked Binghamton 37th among public universities and colleges and 82nd among all universities.
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DFSR D&I Branch Roles & Responsibilities:
Assigned States: Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
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- Joined FDA Division of Federal State Relations in December 2010
- Consumer Safety Officer: Manufactured Foods Regulatory Program Standards (MFRPS) Specialist-Development and Integration Branch.
- Office: Louisville, Kentucky. FDA Louisville Resident Post within the Cincinnati District.
- Provides regulatory program leadership support to state programs, federal partners and other stakeholders. Enhance federal-state communications and collaborations by facilitating state participation and conformance with the food regulatory standards. Encourages a fully integrated food safety system.
- Working in DFSR to further develop the MFRPS and outreach programs as part of FDA's mission and ongoing initiatives regarding federal-state integration.
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Retired in December 2010 from the Kentucky Department for Public Health with experiences as county retail food inspector, state food inspector, state food inspector supervisor, state food program administrator, state food program manager, assistant public health division director and director of the Division of Public Health Protection and Safety. The Division Director position included statewide program oversight of Food Safety, Milk Safety, Radiation Health, Environmental Management, Public Health and Safety branch programs and managing a direct staff of 78 professionals. Oversight also included the local health agency programs for retail food and environmental health programs encompassing 120 counties, 56 health jurisdictions and some 250 registered sanitarians-county retail food inspectors.
- Many on the job experiences including assembling and leading an EMAC team of 17 environmental strike team members to assist the state of Mississippi after hurricane Katrina.
- Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) Executive Board of Directors (term completed 2011).
- Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDOSS): President
- Kentucky Public Health Association: President
- Kentucky Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians: President
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The Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, has advocated the sharing of the functions of government on the exclusive list among the three tiers of government.
The Director-General of NISER, Prof. Olufemi Taiwo, stated this in an interview with Saturday PUNCH in Abuja during the institute's first annual policy dialogue on socio-economic development.
According to him, NISER is collaborating with UNICEF on how to protect the vulnerable groups in the society using constitutional means.
He said, "We are trying to work in the area of sharing the functions of government – the exclusive list for the Federal Government and the concurrent list between states and the FG.
"We believe that there should be an exclusive list for each tier of government so that each of them will now have their own core responsibilities and then there could still be the concurrent list. It is not only the FG that should be in the exclusive list.
"What we do is to collaborate, for instance, we are collaborating with UNICEF on child rights and social protection issues. We have participated in various workshops on this."
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But how do you define sentience? Modern cognitive science is increasingly demonstrating that sentience is a continuum, that many animals show a greater degree of self-awareness and cognitive complexity than we have recognized or been willing to admit. There's abundant evidence to demonstrate that great apes, dolphins, and maybe elephants are intelligent, self-aware beings, and yet our society still keeps them in zoos or circuses, and some keep baby chimps as pets. So even within our species, there's no consensus on what actually constitutes a level of sapience worthy of personhood. To a Q, humanity's ability to write books and build starships may be no more impressive than a chimp's ability to learn sign language or fish for termites with a stick is to the many humans who are aware of such skills but still dismiss the notion that anything nonhuman could be truly sapient.
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I installed a Debian distro (GRML) and when I mount an external hard disk all the files I have there appear with the names shortenned to 4 or 5 characters.
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"There will be a lot of external references and historical references, but for us it's a game against a decent outfit and we have to win to progress."
-- England goalkeeper David James on his team's round of 16 game against Germany on Sunday. (AP)
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Excitement is hotting up for this years Cheltenham Science Festival from Tuesday 3rd to Sunday 8th June 2014. BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Richard Bacon and wildlife expert and CBBC Deadly Pole to Pole presenter Steve Backshall have been named […]
The newly extended Wilson Art Gallery and Museum in Cheltenham was opened six months ago. The extra space has enable visitors to explore highlights from the museums collections that were previously locked away in vaults. The most exciting exhibition so […]
Hilden House is the perfect place to stay when you are attending any event at the Cheltenham Racecourse or at the Centaur Conference Centre.
Hilden House is only a 20 minute walk or a 5 minute drive away from Cheltenham Racecourse, so there is no need to wait for shuttle buses from the big race events such as the National Hunt Festival.
Please visit our What's On page for full details of upcoming events at the Racecourse.
At our luxury B&B we can arrange taxis or minibuses to and from the Racecourse. We offer a personalized service, an excellent cooked breakfast in the morning and bar snacks in the evening. Have a drink and relax in our fully licensed bar areas.
Hilden House provides excellent Racecourse accommodation whether you are attending one of the following horse racing events at Cheltenham's world famous Racecourse:
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Fashion and Gift Show
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December 2013 - TripAdvisor - "home from home"
My second stay at Hilden house. I stayed for two nights over new year (31st and 1st). As always a very warm welcome from Shelley and Aiden and thank you to you both for making my stay so memorable (I enjoyed the champagne on new years eve!).Ideally situated this very clean and cosy guest house is situated just a 5 minute walk into Cheltenham to do some shopping on arrival. The focus of my visit was the new years day race meeting. Thank you for the racing post waiting for me when I woke up which I studied over a very tasty breakfast. Although the weather was poor it did not deter me from enjoying Cheltenham racecourse which is just a 20 minute walk from Hilden house. Yet again a fabulous new years day meeting. I will always return to Hilden House, as I always have a great nights sleep and the hospitality is second to none!
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Chiodos tapped for Dirt Fest
May 25, 2012 by Bryne Yancey
Chiodos has announced reunion show with their original lineup featuring returning vocalist Craig Owens and drummer Derrick Frost. The band will perform at Dirt Fest in Birch Run, Michigan Aug. 11 alongside Clutch, Otherwise, Dead Sara, These Hearts and others.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos."
Obama spoke to reporters at the White House Tuesday in the midst of the eighth day of a partial government shutdown and a few hours after calling Boehner.
Obama says he urged Boehner to hold a vote immediately to reopen the government.
The White House says Obama also urged Boehner to hold a vote that would allow the government to borrow more money.
Senate Democrats are planning a vote this week to provide new borrowing, without new spending cuts Republicans want.
WTSP 10 News coverage of the Federal Government Shutdown:
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Congress: 3rd bill defeated; House spending plan fails to gain support
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Furloughed MacDill AFB workers return to work on 7th day of shutdown
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Defense contractor employee: "This is my forced vacation"
Bay area veterans' trip to war memorial in jeopardy
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Shutdown may idle non-federal workers next week
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NASA shuts down in funding impasse
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I saw this amazing sculpture by Josh Cohen at the Trouser House gallery in New Orleans recently. I could have stayed in that room all night sipping on wine.
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Officials: Man airlifted to hospital after trying to run ex-girlfriend off road
MARTIN COUNTY – A man was airlifted to the hospital after he allegedly tried to run his ex-girlfriend off the road Tuesday afternoon, according to officials.
The victim, who had a child in her vehicle, called 911 to report her ex-boyfriend was trying to run her off Southwest Kanner Highway near Southwest Jack James Drive at about 3:30 p.m., said Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Christine Christofek.
The man got out of his vehicle and was hit by another vehicle near the ramp to Interstate 95, said Fire Rescue spokesman Doug Killane. He was airlifted to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce with significant injuries, Killane said.
Traffic was backed up in the area of the scene for about an hour, Christofek said. Officials are working the case as an aggravated assault with road rage, she said.
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Weatherization Milestone Achieved
The Northwest Colorado Council of Governments Weatherization Program is pleased to announce that they are ringing in the New Year by celebrating a record number of households served! Tuesday, December 29, 2009, less than six months into the program year (which runs July through June) NWCCOG's efforts surpassed the previous program year's total of 200 homes served. This is an important milestone for a program with an ambitious goal of 450 homes served by June 30, 2010. NWCCOG is well on their way to more than doubling the previous year's production thanks to a boost in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus).
NWCCOG is part of a statewide effort managed by the Governor's Energy Office that has earned Colorado recognition for its production on a national level. Through the first quarter of the grant year Colorado was ranked 3rd in homes served. NWCCOG serves low-income households within a 13 county, 24,000 square mile region that spans from Salida north to Wyoming and Idaho Springs west to Utah. Residents of these counties can qualify for energy saving upgrades including insulation, energy efficient furnaces and more. The goal of the program has always been to save energy, reduce utility bills and create comfortable homes for clients. The Stimulus has broadened the program's impact by emphasizing job creation, technical training and support of local economies. NWCCOG would like to thank its partnering agencies, contractors and employees for achieving this objective.
For information on signing up for Weatherization please contact NWCCOG at 1-800-332-3669. For media inquiries contact Tony Bednar firstname.lastname@example.com. All other inquiries contact Steve Getz firstname.lastname@example.com. The NWCCOG Weatherization Program serves the following counties: Chaffee, Clear Creek, Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Lake, Moffat, Park, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt and Summit.


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To share some personal information with you, my Dad passed away six years ago. I last visited him on Father's Day 2005 and he passed away less than a month later. I did not know at the time that I was pregnant, so I never had a chance to tell him he was going to be a Grandfather. I like to think that he knew because my daughter was born on my Dad's Father's Birthday. Yes, my daughter shares a birthday with her Great-Grandfather.
My Granddad passed away at Easter in 2010. It was his favorite time of year. I was not able to go down for his funeral service, but the Russian Orthodox Church has a 40 day mourning time and I was able to visit for the memorial ceremony and be there for my Grandmother.
Now, my Grandmother passed away the other day. As life would have it, she is being buried on my Father's 63ed Birthday. It amazes me how our lives have come around and have interlaced by some higher power. I'm not a very religious person, but I've gotta believe that my Dad and his parents are reunited in Heaven and are going to enjoy a good 'ol Russian Toast with some good Vodka while I give a toast to them here.
"Za vashe zdrorvie!" Here's to health! And, "Here's to Parents!" However, don't clink your glasses together if they are no longer with you.
|Grandma snuggling with her Great-Granddaughter
|Me, my daughter, and Grandmother 2006
|The two Birthday "Kids"
In light of the recent events in my personal life, I am still going to draw a name for my giveaway, but it will be announced on Friday instead. I hope everyone understands about the delay. I'll be back next week with dry eyes and more sweets.
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The Nevada Test Site is a ghost town of the cold war. A little larger
than Rhode Island and about an hour's drive northwestof Las Vegas, it
lies among volcanic mountains and dry riverbeds, and is cordoned off by
miles of fence. Several years ago David Samuels paid a visit to the old
nuclear proving ground while writing an article for Harper's about "caging the dragon," the process of designing, triggering and
studying contained nuclear explosions. Samuels peered into the Sedan
Crater, which still radiates energy from the detonation of a 104-kiloton
nuclear bomb in 1962. He interviewed technicians who had readied and
triggered the bombs and fabricated the imaginary towns they obliterated.
He toured a complex of subterranean tunnels built beneath the desert as
a reusable home for nuclear tests. And he learned about the production
of plutonium and how scientists had devised a way to estimate the size
of a nuclear explosion by measuring the refraction of light in the
mantle of glass that blooms from rock in an explosion's blast furnace.
The site's terrain is mind-boggling, and Samuels manages to keep his
cool while exploring it. There's one thing that does shake him up,
though, which is learning that the 1,054 American nuclear tests
conducted at the site, and the countless hours and untold sums of money
spent designing and analyzing them with elaborate computer programs, in
the end yielded "less than a single second's worth of usable data." The
smallness of the accomplishment is staggering.
The accomplishments of Samuels's article about the test site, "Buried
Suns," and the new book in which he's gathered that piece and eighteen
others are also staggering, but in a much larger sense. In Only Love
Can Break Your Heart, Samuels examines what he calls the "process of
destruction and renewal by which American culture is made." What he
discovered as he crisscrossed the country for a decade, going from New
York City to Nevada to Oregon and many points in between, is the "shared
cosmic joke" of postwar American life -- that the national dream of
self-transformation and self-perfection is a recipe for delusional
thinking and self-destruction. Along the way Samuels encounters a few
folks who, thanks to a rare combination of chance, fortitude, delusion
and poise, have managed to beat highly unfavorable odds and dodge the
wrecking ball. There's Stevie Wonder: "Where Michael Jackson mutilated
his face and skin, Stevie Wonder was blessed by nature with a disability
that made him better able to understand and live with the deeper
fictions that support our national life." There's a freshly winged pilot
of the Goodyear blimp: "As a kid, I used to love watching Disney on
Sunday night -- a world that was just happy and peaceful -- even for an
hour," says John Conrad. "Well, that's exactly what it feels like up
here." And there's the DJ and hip-hop producer Prince Paul: his "records
are the sonic equivalents of the bits of found paper or plastic or candy
bar wrappers that a suburban Picasso might use to make a collage for his
fifth-grade class."
This small fraternity of "tender-hearted isolates" is outnumbered in
Samuels's America by an assortment of drifters, dead-enders, grumblers,
dark angels, parched souls, failures and frauds. The supernova of this
crew is James Hogue, a serial imposter whose most audacious con was
getting accepted to Princeton in 1988 under the alias Alexi
Indris-Santana, a self-educated cowboy and track star, and whose story
Samuels tells in another new book, The Runner. Hogue's scam was
discovered in 1991, and after being prosecuted for defrauding Princeton
Hogue pursued various small- and big-time cons, first at Harvard, where
he was nabbed stealing gems from a museum where he worked under a
pseudonym as a security guard, and then in Telluride, Colorado, where
over the course of several years he morphed through a menu of identities
(engineer, master carpenter, stunt skier, purveyor of custom-built
safes) as he preyed on wealthy ski bums and prosperous locals. (A
significant portion of The Runner first appeared in The New
Yorker in 2001, where Hogue was inducted into the tribe of artful
liars profiled there, including Joe Gould, by Joseph Mitchell in 1942
and '64, and Brett Kimberlin, by Mark Singer in 1992 and '96.) Like Only Love Can Break Your Heart, The Runner is filled with
people whose lives are "pervaded by the daily aftertaste of
inconceivable destructive power." They all are trying to survive the
fallout from their own Sedan Crater, and Samuels's dispatches about
their lives shimmer with the casual artistry of Prince Paul's sound
collages and the hardened luster of glass shards pried from Nevada blast
Samuels took up magazine writing in earnest the mid-1990s, when he
returned to the United States after covering the Balkan wars for
Harper's and found himself marooned in a land of Mini-Moos. "I
remember sitting at the counter of my local diner and being entranced by
the large number of gold-foil-covered creamers that came in a bowl along
with my coffee," he explains in the preface to Only Love Can Break
Your Heart. Samuels took the overabundance of Mini-Moos as a sign of
the ersatz prosperity of the Golden '90s, "a historical sweet spot so
creamy and rich and frosted with so many layers of delusional thinking
that dwelling on that moment for too long is guaranteed to induce an
immediate diabetic coma. Knit together by an invisible web of beneficent
new technologies like cell phones and e-mail, everyone in the world was
getting rich." But the cornucopia of shiny gadgets and virtual
connections couldn't dispel Samuels's yawning sense of existential
The stories that I shared with my peers, who grew up in the seventies,
were about working mothers and fathers who got angry, absented
themselves, or got divorced. We joined together in a generation-wide
regression to childhood where we could at last feel safe, because we
were now adults and were no longer living at home. We ate Kraft macaroni
and cheese for dinner and stayed up late and got high and watched
whatever crap was on television.
His peers did share something besides an appetite for stuff from a box.
Like Samuels, they searched "for a point where inner and outer
equilibrium could find a proper balance."
The distressed and deracinated soul-searching for a sense of grounding
is a recurring subject of modern literature and journalism, which is why
it seems shortsighted for Samuels's publisher and other reviewers to
compare him to Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Why is it that more than forty
years after the New Journalists broke into the game, and with a younger
generation of journalists like Ted Conover, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Kate
Boo and others working in fresh and innovative directions, the work of
Wolfe and Didion remains the only benchmark for narrative long-form
journalism? It's true that Samuels begins the preface to Only Love
Can Break Your Heart by echoing the most brazen observation from
Wolfe's preface to the 1973 anthology The New Journalism -- that
journalists, not novelists, are the authors of "the most important
literature being written in America today." Aside from that, and a few
other jolts of gonzo brio in his preface, Samuels has very little in
common with Wolfe. Samuels has written fiction; in his preface he
mentions the "desiccated corpse" of an abandoned novel, and he recently
told the New York Observer that he's writing a second novel. In
his journalism, though, he hasn't followed the example of Wolfe and
other novelists like Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, who tested the
boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. Nor does Samuels harbor any
anxiety over the literary status of journalism, which he serenely calls
"the mongrel art of writing literature on deadline." He may be working
on another novel, but he wraps up the preface to Only Love Can Break
Your Heart with the admission that writing for magazines is the only
kind of life he knows.
Like Wolfe, Samuels is keenly interested in examining prosperity and
social status. The Runner is, among other things, a study of how
Hogue managed to game the status anxieties of the American class system
and its elite institutions. But unlike Wolfe, Samuels isn't fixated on
social status, and in this light it's instructive to consider what kind
of material he leaves out of his work. "The Blind Man and the Elephant"
is a remarkable story about Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones and the
spectacle of Super Bowl XL in Detroit. The Stones played the halftime
show, and Stevie was added to the bill as the opening act after the
citizens of his hometown denounced the NFL for not having asked any of
Motown's many great black musicians to jam. Samuels concludes the piece
with some impressions of the postgame scene. His eyes sweeping across
the locker room of the winning team (the Pittsburgh Steelers), he notes
that "lithe blacks in bathrobes roam the locker room, bumping fists with
mountainous whites with purple legs and tiny jockstraps." That sentence
terminates a paragraph. Wolfe most likely would have extended the
description by rummaging through the clothes in the players' lockers to
pinpoint their social status; then he would have somehow converted all
those tiny jockstraps into props for an episode of testosterone
seizures. Samuels simply provides a modest glimpse of camaraderie.
When Samuels writes portraiture, he blends dialogue and observed detail
in a manner that is insightful and aesthetically pleasing. Here he is
describing an afternoon drive with Bill "the Spaceman" Lee, an all-star
relief pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox in the 1970s:
The Spaceman loves driving. He knows the roads of Vermont like the back
of his hand. "That's Mount Mansfield right through there," he says.
"That's the highest point in Vermont." On our way back from Montreal, he
calls out the name of every tree that he passes, oak, maple, birch,
lemon spruce, white pines, a Whitmanesque litany that leads him in turn
to naming the different types of rocks that make up a mountain, which
leads in turn to the deeper subject of geological time. Man is only a
speck in the universe, he observes, before returning back to earth.
"That's a sugar house," he says. When you find a moth in your syrup
bucket, he adds, that's when you know that maple syrup season is over.
The cadences of the declarative sentences, at first staccato, then
languid, create an enticing gentle rhythm. The image of the moth trapped
in syrup foreshadows the story's concluding scene, in which Lee's car
gets stuck in mud at the top of a Vermont mountain, a predicament that
symbolizes his difficulties with his family and baseball. A delicate
mosaic of an individual sensibility, Samuels's description of Lee is a
journalistic prose poem (least of all because it mentions Whitman). It's
also the antithesis of Wolfe's overwrought, clamorous prose.
In a 2005 appreciation of Joan Didion's career that appeared in The
New York Review of Books, John Leonard offers an EKG of her novels
and essays: "Didion has always juxtaposed the hardware and the soft:
hummingbirds and the FBI; nightmares of infant death and the light at
dawn for a Pacific bomb test.... Against the 'hydraulic imagery' of the
clandestine world, its conduits and pipelines and diversions, she
opposes a gravitational imagery of black holes and weightlessness." Like
Didion, Samuels investigates the vortex of American life, a feeling of
weightlessness and existential drift that can swallow people whole, but
he reports on it in an entirely different manner.
Didion has often reminded me of the character of Tod Hackett in
Nathanael West's novel The Day of the Locust: the sensitive
aesthete trying to break into Hollywood by remaining on the edge of the
crowd, nerves bruised into forming delicate observations about people
made savage and bitter by power, boredom and disappointment. While
Samuels keeps some critical distance between himself and his subjects,
he doesn't hesitate from lunging into the scrum. In "The Blind Man and
the Elephant," he mingles with the crowd outside the stadium gates and
hangs out with support crew in the stadium's bowels during the game.
(One imagines Didion observing the game from the NFL commissioner's
skybox or a network's satellite truck.) In "Bringing Down the House," a
fascinating account of the demolition of the Sands Hotel published in
1997, he divides his time between the drifters washing up in the bars
and parking lots of Las Vegas and the demo crew meticulously preparing
the Sands for implosion. The crew grows so fond of Samuels that they let
him throw the detonator switch for a test blast: "on the count of five I
flick the second and final silver switch, an act that is instantly
rewarded by a rush of pure adrenaline to my brain and a boom that
resonates in the center of my chest."
One virtue of such close-to-the-skin reporting is that it often
immunizes Samuels against condescension, especially the sort that has
periodically starched Didion's sentences with a crisp severity, as in
this late-'60s snapshot of Joan Baez: "So now the girl whose life is a
crystal teardrop has her own place, a place where the sun shines and the
ambiguities can be set aside a little while longer." Instead of studying
crystal teardrops, Samuels throws a spotlight on the "sucker's ballet"
of Americans struggling to make sly and small improvements on the
limitations of the given without being swallowed whole by their own or
someone else's imposture or fraud.
For the most part, his subjects aren't protagonists in a culture war or
political battles. Only Love Can Break Your Heart has just two
pieces on politics: a story about how the press was mostly hoodwinked by
the Pentagon's disinformation campaign in the early stages of the
invasion of Afghanistan and a piece about the dismal stagecraft of a
fundraiser for George W. Bush during the 2004 election. Samuels is drawn
to middle-class strivers and lower-class knockabouts stuck in pedestrian
struggles. In "400,000 Salesmen Can't Be Wrong!" he hangs out with Ed
Kustanovich, a middle-aged Russian immigrant and structural engineer
who, desperate to improve his station in life, is lured into a
get-rich-quick scheme operated by an outfit called ACN. The company
offers what it calls "the Opportunity," a chance for strivers like
Kustanovich to augment their income by selling a utilities package
promising low rates in newly deregulated energy and telecommunications
markets. But the Opportunity is a pyramid scheme: only the people at the
top make money, by investing the $499 joining fee collected from each
new sales rep. As an apostate ACN member tells Samuels, the Opportunity
is "a way of controlling people's minds by exploiting their capacity for
Samuels brushed against a similar Opportunity at Woodstock '99. There,
"the selfishness and irresponsibility of the promoters" -- old hippies
gone daft -- turned a three-day "prepackaged Information Age Happening"
attended by 225,000 concertgoers into an orgy of violence. That year
Samuels also visited Derby Lane Greyhound Park in St. Petersburg,
Florida. It's ten years after the introduction of a state lottery and
other forms of legalized gambling in Florida, which have cut deeply into
dog tracks' revenues. The track owners reacted by increasing their
percentage of the skim from the betting pool. As Samuels explains in the
title piece of Only Love Can Break Your Heart, that move created
such unfavorable odds that the purpose of the dog tracks essentially
became "the extraction of ready cash from the dwindling local population
of retirees, single mothers, deadbeats, scam artists, and liars." The
Opportunity is revealed to be naked desperation at the dog track, where,
Samuels writes, "America's belief in good luck goes to die."
Opportunities and sucker's ballets flourished during the age of the
Mini-Moos, but in reality neither is unique to the '90s. They're
primeval elements of American life, part of an existential vortex whose
origins can be traced back at least to the early decades of the
nineteenth century, as Samuels explained in a 1999 New Yorker
piece about Gilded Age confidence men (it is not included in the current
collection). "If the dream of self-invention was profoundly
democratic," he writes, "it was also an open invitation to fraud." One
reason Samuels is fascinated by James Hogue is that the long-distance
runner and con man, tricked out in an identity tailored to the
dimensions of his marks' credulity, is the American vortex incarnate.
"The record of James Hogue's life is marked by blank spaces, and by a
series of deliberate distortions and erasures," Samuels writes. He notes
that when the police arrived at Princeton to arrest Hogue, their suspect
was attending a geology lecture about "large-scale structural phenomena
such as faulting and folding that are associated with violent ruptures
in the surface of the earth."
The point is subtle and unmistakable. The American dream of
self-invention -- "I wanted to start all over again, without the burdens
of my past," Hogue told one of the booking officers -- is not only part of
the birthright of every American, according to Samuels, but also
inseparable from formidable forces of destruction. Around the time I
began reading The Runner and Only Love Can Break Your
Heart, the New York Times published a perky front-page item
about how high school students at Boston Latin are taught The Great
Gatsby as an inspirational story about striving for your dreams.
Samuels mentions that Hogue, too, had read Gatsby in his teens,
and his depiction of the dark sinews of Hogue's character squashes the
glorification of Gatsby like a gnat. The novelist who created Jay
Gatsby -- who in the book is the child of the imagination of the
hayseed-turned-bootlegger Jay Gatz -- would have understood.
Because The Runner is a book about con games and lies, Samuels
occasionally turns it into a meditation on the morally dubious aspects
of journalism. "The question of how writers come to appropriate the
lives of the people they write about is a tricky one," he says. "While
it is facile to equate journalism with lying, it is also true that both
actions share in common an unpleasantly instrumental approach to people
and to language that diminishes the common store of trust. The subject
has no power to alter a reporter's approach to his or her subject, or to
take back a single word that they said." Samuels's reservations recall
those expressed by Janet Malcolm in the famous opening sentences of
The Journalist and the Murderer: "Every journalist who is not too
stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what
he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying
on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and
betraying them without remorse." For Malcolm, Hogue would be the perfect
subject, a one-way mirror for endless self-scrutiny; for Samuels,
however, while remorseless acts of imposture and dissembling similar to
Hogue's are traps that can snare any journalist, they are not
unavoidable ones. If anything, Samuels's articles are a reminder that
Malcolm's charge about journalism always being "morally indefensible" is
something of an exaggeration. As Samuels explains in Only Love Can
Break Your Heart, the greatest threat to journalistic truth is not
necessarily a writer betraying a subject or a story being "filtered
through the individual sensibility of a writer." Rather, it's "the
self-enclosed space of 'news' reporting" that provides a buffet of
canned political opinions and heaping portions of calorie-free tidbits
about matters of great importance like a celebrity's most recent DWI or
the vapid musings of a vampish ex-blogger.
Where Malcolm sees a moral impasse, which she cultivates with
indefatigable reporting and fertilizes with pitiless irony, Samuels sees
moral ambiguity and relies on indefatigable reporting to try to surmount
it. Samuels followed Hogue's story for nearly fifteen years. His first
account of the con man appeared in the Washington Post in 1995.
His New Yorker piece about Hogue was published six years later,
and The Runner seven years after that. It's a story that took
Samuels to Princeton, Telluride and Hogue's hometown in Kansas, that led
him to public records and private papers and demanded that he clock many
hours with Hogue's childhood friends, Princeton classmates and Colorado
marks. All the stories in Only Love Can Break Your Heart were
written over the course of weeks and months instead of years, but they
are just as much the product of solid reporting. Even when Samuels
covers a short event like Woodstock '99, he manages to tell a story rich
with conversation, color and conflict; he immerses himself in a place
and characterizes its mood. This explains why one doesn't find anywhere
in his writing the false notes of intimacy that litter the pages of
magazines, those sentences in which a reporter drops the name of the hip
restaurant where an interview occurred over a lunch of Kobe beef and
wild mushroom martinis, or treats the contents of a handbag or an iPod
as a window into a subject's soul. Such sentences are written to make us
believe the writer to be a citizen of the subject's world, when in fact
all the writer has is a tourist visa or a lunch pass.
By blending extensive research with what Gay Talese has called "the fine
art of hanging out," Samuels often manages to connect meaningfully with
his subjects and depict their messy lives with sympathy, insight and
grace. He writes with a delicately modulated voice, one that, like the
lyrics on Neil Halstead's Sleeping on Roads (which Samuels notes
he once found addictive), "privileges tenderness over anger and
resignation over bite." Yet he is no fetishist of the fringe. When
Samuels visits the Derby Lane Greyhound Park, he spends a lot of time
hanging out with Jay Sizemore, the manager of the track and the lender
of last resort for regulars fighting a long streak of hard luck. At one
point Sizemore philosophizes about why the touts and valets make their
daily pilgrimage to the dingy Derby Lane, and his explanation of their
relationship to the track refers equally to the complicated bonds that
link Samuels to Sizemore and the other kindred spirits in these two
alluring books: "It's like a family.... You're supposed to learn from
experience in life, but life's too short to learn from your own
experiences.... So when I think about it, I guess I understand why
you're here."
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After taking on pedals now I will ask the question about computers.
I use one on the road bike but not on the mtb. Do you use one and if so, is it all positive?
What I mean by that is, have you ever found it a downside having one? I know that, in the past, I have ended up reading threads (mainly when I first started road biking) about people's avg speed, etc and found myself staring at the computer and concentrating purely on the figures rather than enjoying the ride.
I am over that now - but it got to the point where I nearly took the thing off!
Just thought I'd throw it out there for discussion.
All the time - to the point where I don't feel 'right' being without a computer, unless it is a purely local ride to the shops or something.
1. I like to log my miles and get a year total, and while I could estimate that would feel like cheating.
2. When I'm training I use a heart rate monitor and train to a program so I need the computer to display HR. I also like to keep an eye on cadence although that is one that can be done by feel.
3. On a group ride there are times when it is useful to know your speed, rather than wait for someone at the back to start blowing up or begging for the pace to come down.
posted by abudhabiChris [695 posts]
17th December 2011 - 12:40
I have a very basic one, just shows me speed, distance and avg speed. I use my phone to track my GPS, Mileage and lately my heart rate through a bluetooth heart rate monitor
posted by Gkam84 [9361 posts]
17th December 2011 - 12:48
i have a computer on both my road and MTB bikes, and sometimes the CX bike, if i want to fixate on the figures i look at it and worry about speed and distance and all that sort of stuff.
and handy when racing as you can see time/distance left to run.
if i want a nice ride i just don't look at it, simple, well maybe when i get home and see i've done x amount of miles and had fun doing it
posted by VecchioJo [808 posts]
17th December 2011 - 15:06
Santa is bringing me a Garmin 200 to play with !
I have only ever used the basic Cateye bike comp which gives speed, distance and time so playing with the 200 should be fun.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
posted by stumps [3235 posts]
17th December 2011 - 19:59
Sounds like my Cateye tbh. Then it did come as a freebie with the bike so can't complain.
posted by Super Domestique [1695 posts]
17th December 2011 - 20:05
I did my first big ride without a bike computer in ages today, just because I forgot to put it on charge. I quite enjoyed not having my speed and heart rate staring up at me.
In general, I like to know how my training is going, good or bad. I don't become a slave to it, though. If my speed is slower than normal on a particular day... so what? And if it's quicker, I don't necessarily get too excited. I use if more to gauge the general trends in my fitness.
posted by Mat Brett [2196 posts]
17th December 2011 - 20:22
I have a little Garmin 500 on my road bike and wouldn't be without it. But I do admit that I sometimes fall into the trap of just sitting there looking at the numbers, not good.
But the Garmin setup is so slick that when I'm in front of the computer I can look at rides I did a couple of years ago and try and look for evidence that I am improving. That's what makes it so useful.
Don't bother logging my time spent commuting. Its a short commute in any case but I think I'm more afraid of forgetting to take the computer off the bike when I park up!
posted by PeteH [159 posts]
17th December 2011 - 21:13
I like to know how I'm progressing.
Smart phone apps are great but a dedicated cycle computer
Is handy for the noob to expert.
It's not for everyone though.
What are your riding goals?
Having fun means you can junk your computer.
I like my bike but it needs a hidden 25cc motor
posted by Fish_n_Chips [380 posts]
18th December 2011 - 13:50
i've tried all sorts of different stuff - partly by dint of having to test it - but my favourite is probably a smartphone app. you can log your rides and look at your data, but for the ride itself the phone is in your pocket and you're not so distracted by it. like garmins too though
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Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created the circuit by exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity.
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Heritage Asks Obama Campaign to Pull Ad with Inaccurate Quote
The Heritage Foundation has sent a letter asking Barack Obama's campaign to pull an ad that falsely describes Heritage analysis of Barack Obama's tax plan. The ad claims Heritage analysis shows "the middle class would likely pay less under Mr. Obama's plan." In the letter, Heritage lawyer Alan P. Dye tells the Obama campaign that the source of the quote was not in fact any Heritage analysis, but rather a New York Sun article that erroneously summarized the views of Heritage analyst Rea Hederman.
That the reporter's summary is erroneous is evident from the actual quotes from Mr. Hederman presented in the article, which make it quite clear that Mr. Hederman believes your tax plan would be bad not only for the country, but for the middle class.
For a full analysis of the candidates tax plans, see "The Obama and McCain Tax Plans: How Do They Compare?" written by the staff of Heritage's Center for Data Analysis, including Rea Hederman. Here is the relevant analysis:
… many aspects of Senator Obama's tax plan generate little economic activity and could actually reduce economic incentives. Senator Obama raises the marginal tax rate on many low- and middle-income taxpayers. Senior citizens also bear a significantly higher tax burden when they declare more than $50,000 in annual income, so seniors are strongly encouraged to work less. Other tax credits, such as one for homeowners who do not itemize, only benefit existing homeowners and spark little additional economic activity.
Tax credits can boost short-term consumption and employment, but tax credits do not change basic incentives to work, save, or invest. Workers and investors are given no reason to work or invest more in response to the tax credits. Furthermore, tax credits complicate the tax code, making it less efficient.
Since over one-third of Senator Obama's tax plan consists of demand-side stimulus through tax credits, economic growth is not as strong as it would be under a similar size tax cut that changed work or savings incentives.
Senator Obama's plan increases economic growth compared to the baseline because his plan reduces the tax on capital below baseline forecasts and cuts the marginal tax rates for many workers. However, economic growth is also constrained by higher taxes for many individuals and small businesses. Tax credits do not produce the same economic growth as rate cuts or tax simplification.
Senator McCain's plan is substantially better at spurring economic growth than Senator Obama's. This is not surprising, since Senator McCain focuses on economic growth and job creation while Senator Obama focuses on the redistribution of income.


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Flowers play a big role in religious symbolism, worship services and ceremonial occasions of all kinds.
They can be seen in secular and religious occasions, especially joyful ones like weddings, and in churches, temples, synagogues and all places of worship throughout the world.
Flowers were used as a part of worship long before the Christian era.
Festivals of ancient gods were marked by the strewing of petals and flowers and the adorning of statues with wreaths.
25 Years Ago
A letter-writing campaign was launched to convince Food Lion to locate a multi-million-dollar distribution center here. Sponsored by the Roane County Chamber of Commerce, elementary school children were to provide 6,000 of 10,000 letters the Chamber hoped to deliver to Food Lion headquarters in North Carolina to tell them "we want them, we need them ... come on down," things that don't show up on technical and demographic studies of the area.
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Roane County farmers and ranchers are reminded that June 1 is the dealine to enroll in the USDA Farm Service Agency Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payment program.
Harriman Police Department is accepting applications for its upcoming Citizens Academy.
The academy will be at 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the next eight weeks. It will cover many aspects of law enforcement, including police procedure and policy, basic firearms, law, officer survival and a ride-along upon academy completion.
Applications are available at the police station at 130 Pansy Hill Road.
Call Karen Joseph at 882-3383 for details.
Rockwood Public Library's annual book sale will begin at 10 a.m. April 14 in the library at 117 N. Front Ave.
Hardbound and paperback books, magazines and videos will be offered for all ages.
The book sale will take place through the week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
Call the library at 354-1281 for details.
Last week during spring school break, Carolyn Clemmons' son Roy gave her a trip to the Isle of Palms near Charleston, S.C. Her hotel was on the beach, and it was so beautiful.
Carolyn and some friends toured the old plantations, took a horse carriage ride, went to the open-air markets and ate lots of seafood. This was a great vacation.
Another possum story I have to tell you: this 90-year-old lady grew up on a small farm in the community of Swan Pond, where possums were plentiful. Even some folks enjoyed hunting them for food.
Among them was a nearby neighbor who not only hunted them but also enjoyed the tasty meat!
He didn't know how to cook anything, let alone a possum, so he brings it over to our house and ask my Mama to cook it for him.
Rockwood 2000 is among the newest supporters of the Roane County Literacy Council with a donation of $250.
The council serves as an advisory board for the Roane State Community College/Roane County Adult Education Program in Rockwood.
The donation was presented to Paul Woodward, president of the Roane County Literacy Council and Melissa Browder, director of Adult Education, last week by Mary Kau, vice president of Rockwood 2000.
The Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge has treated more than 1,600 individuals in 4,500 individual visits during its first two years of operation, board members recently learned during a three-year strategic planning meeting.
The goal of the board is to continue the clinic's mission, "People Caring for People," and to increase services and hours at the clinic, which sees a number of patients from Roane County.
25 Years Ago
A 45-pound beaver was found dead by the side of the road. It was believed to be one of three beavers that constructed a 7-foot-high dam in Walnut Hill off Hwy. 27. Its tail was 12 inches long and 5 inches wide. Harriman taxidermist Johnny Newberry stuffed the beaver for permanent display in the Harriman Utility Board lobby. Because of its uniqueness, the dam drew so many visitors that officials built a walkway leading to and from the site.
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Discussion in 'Surveys, Polls and Questions' started by terri, Feb 18, 2011.
How can I send weed by Fed ex or mail without it being stinky. Can I wrap
it a special way, or ????
This thread made me cry a little.
Why would you take the risk of sending weed through the mail? It is terribly pointless, you could get yourself and the recipient in legal issues.
If you can't find a source in person, then just don't smoke.
I personally tell you it is not the best idea...
go to your nearest police station and ask for them to deliver it for u
Would've replied directly to that thread, but it's a couple weeks old. That's amazing, and smart that your friend reported one, most people would get greedy and take both, then get caught since no one reported it yet it was never delivered. I wonder how confused the guy was when he was caught with only half a pound, hah!
I would like to start off by saying i have just gotten my first QP from Cali yesterday.
Its the best weed i've ever smoked. & I got it via mail. So everyone on here saying that its too risky...your a pussy.
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text: Buy, Buy, Baby | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified. Buy, Buy, Baby Princess Theatre, (10/07/1926 - circa. 10/1926) First Preview: Total Previews: Opening Date: Oct 07, 1926 Closing Date: Oct 1926 Total Performances: 12 Category: Play, Farce, Original, Broadway Description: A play in three acts Setting: The Marvin living room in Bronxville Opening Night Credits Production Staff Produced by Bertram Harrison Written by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell; Based on a play by Francis R. Bellamy and Lawton Mackall Cast Shirley BoothBetty HamiltonMaurice BurkeHarold BolandMabel ColcordNorahLaura Hope CrewsJanice MarvinMalcolm DuncanCarteret FlottenThurston HallHenry MarvinCharles MatherA BurglarEdwin NicanderRonald BradfordAlison SkipworthEsmeralda PottleVerree TeasdalePauline Lunt © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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Wow, that is awesome!
Unsung, a World War I adventure in Wolfenstein 3D, lets you slog through the trenches in true pixelated FPS fashion.
In preparation for the upcoming release of Unsung, check out a quick teaser trailer and photos to see whats coming.
Posted by Nembo on Mar 27th, 2011
Some good news, the plan is to release the mod next month. In preparation a short trailer has been uploaded for everyone's enjoyment. In addition take a look through the images if you haven't already to see even more of what to expect from the full version of Unsung. Enjoy.
For those who are unaware of the basic premise of the mod, in Unsung you play as an allied soldier during WWI who goes behind German lines to infiltrate a German artillery bunker. Images below.


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Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee
Dr. Mukherjee is the Director of the Florida Space Grant Consortium, University of Central Florida.
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The Vortex are not always at war! Sometimes they need to rest, celebrate their victories and design new weapons. That's why the Negotiator's role is essential and is also highly lucrative of course. Izsobahd vowed that one day he'd become Kha'alif, the supreme Negotiator, instead of the Kha'alif...
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Don't underestimate your impact in this world. The slightest thing you do can change the course of many many lives.
About ten years ago I was working with a guy named Todd. Todd and I got along really well and had many interesting conversations, some deep, some shallow, most I don't even remember. One conversation we had was about fitness. I wanted to get in better shape, and I was uneducated on how to go about it.
Todd recommended a book, Body for Life, by Bill Phillips. It's a book for entry level fitness folks. If you know almost nothing, it's great. If you think you know a thing or two, you may be educated a bit. Some things in it may not be totally accurate, but it can and does give you diet guidelines, workout schedules and inspirational stories.
I read it and entered the "Body for Life Challenge" 1999. So did Deb. We made progress on our physical and mental selves and met an entire new online community, the Yahoo Body for Life group. That group got us involved in Wishlifts, which are weight lifting events to raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation. At one of those lifts we met Bob Doyle (from the movie The Secret – before the movie was even thought of) and we organized an event where he presented his Create Your Own Reality workshop. That was his first experience in that direction. His first workshop.
Then I took Bob's Six Figure Streams course a year later and we started down the path of having on-line internet careers.
The body for life also got Deb excited about fitness and she got certified as a trainer and eventually got a job at Body Zone, which introduced us to Jim and Toni Reece. Meeting them helped start the Get Inspired! Project.
All this from a brief conversation with a coworker on fitness.
We both have new careers and mindsets and have an expanded new group of friends.
Q What tiny thing have you said that has changed lives?
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Henry shuts investment companyFriday November 9th, 2012
John W. Henry & Co., the financial trading firm owned by the Red Sox owner, has informed clients it will stop managing their assets on Dec. 31.
The company managed more than $2.5 billion in 2006. That has fallen to less than $100 million according to the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal.
Henry has said in the past that the firm's dwindling assets have no effect on the Red Sox. Henry also has strongly denied several reports by Fox Business News that he is looking to sell the team.
Henry has kept a low profile with the Red Sox in recent weeks. He did not make himself available to reporters when Bobby Valentine was fired or when John Farrell was hired to replace him as manager. His last Twitter post was July 16.
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Rydges Hotel Wellington
4 Star/Superior Hotel - The Rydges Hotel Wellington (Formally the Holiday Inn Wellington) is your home away from home when you are in Wellington. Located downtown on Featherston Street, with a spectacular harbour outlook, this elegant property is close to Lambton Quay, Westpac Stadium, Victoria University and short 10 minute walk to Wellington railway station - the interchange for long distance bus and rail travel and Bluebridge Ferry Terminal. The Rydges Hotel Wellington offers 280 spacious guest rooms, all with kitchenettes and 19 suites with full kitchens. All these accommodation units are equipped with a range of modern amenities, to ensure you a truly pleasant stay.
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Ibis Hotel Wellington
The Ibis Hotel Wellington is a 3 Star Hotel in the heart of Wellington's central business district, 20 minutes walk from Wellington railway station - the interchange for long distance bus and rail travel, Bluebridge Ferry Terminal, close to Custom House Quay and most major business and Government offices. The Ibis Hotel Wellington is Accor's major 3-star brand, renowned internationally for its consistent standards and genuine value-for-money rates. Aimed principally at business travellers, Ibis hotel Wellington caters for both domestic and international leisure markets.
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Wellesley Boutique Hotel
This 4-star boutique hotel offering ensuite classical hotel rooms with free Wi-Fi and is located in the heart of Wellington, 10 minutes away from the Westpac Stadium, Queen's Wharf Event Center, Railway Station and the Lambton Harbour. The restaurant serves a rich buffet breakfast daily and international dishes prepared with fresh local produce are served for lunch and dinner. Wellington's parliament buildings are less than a 12-minute walk away. Guests are also situated within easy walking distance of shopping and restaurants.
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Kingsgate Hotel Wellington
Located in historic Thorndon, close to Parliament, within 20 minute walking distance to Wellington railway station - the interchange for long distance bus and rail travel, Bluebridge Ferry Terminal, and city centre, shops, restaurants, harbour and Westpac Stadium, the Kingsgate Hotel Wellington is a 3 Start hotel with 108 air conditioned ensuite rooms with TV/radio, DD phone, fridge, modem facility, mini bar, tea and coffee making facilities, 24 Hour Reception, room service, restaurant, bar, laundry/dry cleaning service, Conference facility, licenced restaurant and bar.
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Downtown Backpackers
Located in the central business District, is opposite Wellington railway station - the interchange for long distance bus and rail travel, the Bluebridge Ferry Terminal, 8-minute walk to TSB Arena, a 12-minute walk to Westpac Stadium and within walking distance to city centre, Downtown Backpackers features a 24-hour guest kitchen, self-service laundry facilities and a games room with pool tables. Formerly the historic Hotel Waterloo, which hosted Queen Elizabeth II's entourage on her 1953 Coronation Tour, the hostel features elegant staircases, high ceilings and a café in the old ballroom. Private and shared rooms are available. All rooms include heating and bed linen is provided. Each private room has a work desk and cable TV. Secure lockers are provided for all guests. Downtown Backpackers has 24-hour reception.


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Fox dumps James Frey's TV show
by Adam Finley, posted Mar 14th 2006 12:05PM
James Frey was going to have a TV show? Well, he was writing one anyway, but Fox has decided not to go with Frey's show, which would have been about a surfing detective. Frey sold the script to the network before Oprah and the rest of the world learned of the fabrications in his so-called memoir A Million Little Pieces. Fox claims its decision to pass on Frey's tale of a private dick named Donald "Insane" Tremaine had nothing to do with the maelstrom surrounding Frey and his book. My guess is that the show just wouldn't have been very good.


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The Galloping Hill dog, a custom dog on a custom bun, I enjoyed with mustard and hot relish, and it was dazzling. But nothing, to me, topped the fresh snap of the natural casing Sabrett dog at Dee's, served on a equally fresh bun, simply perfection. The Windmill was also quite good, nicely grilled footlong dog with very good chili, mustard and onions. Manny's is my current favorite chili dog, with a chili sauce that has hints of nutmeg and cinnamon--I thought I was in a Cincinnati chili parlor!---and a nicely grilled dog. Great service staff also, I must say. JImmy Buff's in East Hanover was the best version of the Italian hot dog that I've had in along while, just well sauteed onions, peppers and potatoes, great pizza bread and a very good tasty dog. But Bubba's was also great in its way; I had parts of a plain dog with mustard and relish, as well as a chili dog, and they were both superb. KIller fresh cut fries at Bubba's, too.
But in the end, its the people on a tour that you enjoy the most, and I've gotta say that this tour had some of the NICEST people you'd ever hope to meet; enthusiastic, eccentric, colorful and best of all, funny.
Truly a great day of fun in the hot dog subculture of New Jersey. I hope I can make it every year from now on.
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Tickets for college students ($19) are more affordable than ever at Richmond International Raceway
Between the books, the ball games, and the breaks for pizza, the funds for college students are in short supply. That's where Richmond International Raceway comes in to cure your entertainment craving in an affordable way. College students can take their weekend to the next level with a $19 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race ticket at America's Premier Short Track. Click here to find your seats.
New for 2014, RIR is proud to offer special pricing to all college students. For just $19, you can catch a night of old-school, short track racing "under the lights," for the TOYOTA OWNERS 400. That's right; you can feel the energy of Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, and all your favorite NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers zipping around at 150 mph for 400 laps of pure adrenaline.
It wouldn't be a race day without a little tailgating, and don't forget we have FREE parking. Gates open at 7 a.m., so be sure to get here early for NASCAR's biggest party. When race time nears, pack up your cooler with your favorite refreshments and head over to the grandstands, because we allow you to bring in your own food and beverage (some restrictions apply - click here for more details).
Be sure to enjoy the newest amenity for every fan - Track Takeover. From 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., ticket holders have FREE access to RIR's track surface, allowing you to get up close and personal with the track you love, just hours before the green flag waves. Join us for driver Q&A sessions and live music at the Start/Finish Line, educational and interactive components on the backstretch, and plenty of photo opportunities along the way!
Take advantage of this affordable opportunity and purchase today because there's no better place to be on Saturday, April 26, than at America's Premier Short Track for the TOYOTA OWNERS 400!
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I Am Bruce Lee
An uplifting look at the life of a cultural icon.
A documentary about cultural phenomenon, and the biggest martial arts movie star of all time, I am Bruce Lee aims to gather testimony from both those who know Lee during his tragically short life, and from figures in the sporting, martial arts, and other cultural arenas that have felt the influence of the man.
A standard talking-head set up, interspersed with sections of archive footage, the film initially feels almost too reverent, throwing any ideas of objectivity out of the window early on, with a fanboy enthusiasm for the life and work of a truly great movie star. Whilst this is initially a little jarring, the enthusiasm the filmmakers and interviewees clearly have for their subject is infectious, resulting in an effectively feel-good documentary that is difficult not to like.
As with any film of this type, there are naturally weak links. Some of the talking heads feel a little out of place, and whilst the intention is clearly to gain a wider cultural perspective of Lee's influence, you do get the feeling that you could live without Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas going into why he loves Bruce Lee. Others are similarly incongruous, but none are a total waste of time. Highlights of the bunch are certainly Gene Lebell and Ray "Boom-Boom" Mancini, two fellow fighters (from different disciplines) who speak with refreshing candour amongst the sentimentality that occasionally threatens to take over.
Some thrilling archive footage is wheeled out, and apart from the usual clips of Lee's movies, we are treated to some interesting screen test videos and revealing interviews from Lee's early life. The aim of this film certainly seems to be to get to know the man behind the legend, and a slight casualty of this is the philosophy that Lee embodied, with Jeet Kun Do a fascinating martial art that is rather skimmed over.
An enthusiastic, loving look at a truly inspirational figure, I am Bruce Lee is hard not to enjoy. A few weak links and an occasional lapse into hyperbole nag away, but this film remains an absolute must-see for Lee fans.


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SLC.edu / Graduate Catalogue / Dance / 2013-2014
Performance Project - Graduate
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The focus of this class is an ongoing awareness of the dancers' facility while experiencing and assimilating new ideas and qualities. We will concentrate on efficient, articulate sequences, musicality and phrasing, nuance and gesture, both with set material and improvisatory modalities. We aim to sharpen the viewing eye when looking at movement detail. As the course progresses we will focus on the creative process of choreography, developing new work along the way driven by our deepened physical experience. Throughout the semester we will continue to have a dialogue about dance, dance-making, and the dancing body.
MFA Dance Program courses
- African Dance
- Anatomy in Action
- Anatomy Seminar - Graduate
- Ballet - Graduate
- Composition
- Contact Improvisation - Graduate
- Dance and Camera - Graduate
- Dance History - Graduate
- Dance Making
- Dance Meeting
- Dance Training Conference
- Experimental Improvisation Ensemble
- Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement®
- Graduate Seminar I
- Graduate Seminar II
- Graduate Seminar III
- Improvisation
- Labanotation/Repertory - Graduate
- Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance
- Modern and Post-Modern Practice - Graduate
- Performance Project - Graduate
- Performance Project: Memories, Present Moments and Movements Merge
- Teaching Conference
- Yoga - Graduate