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Tornto Film Festival Sets 281 Films For 1997 Event
by Eugene Hernandez
An overwhelming 281 films from will screen at the 1997 Toronto Film
Festival, which runs September 4-13. A twenty five page fax with the
complete lineup jammed indieWIRE's FAX machine yesterday; the list is a
who's who of contemporary filmmakers from around the world, including:
John Sayles, Wayne Wang, Atom Egoyan, Marleen Gorris, Spike Lee,
Agnieszka Holland, Alan Rudolph, Abel Ferrara, Antonia Bird, Takeshi
Kitano, Errol Morris, Hal Hartley, Wong Kar-Wai, Michael Apted, Noah
Baumbach, Mike Figgis, Sally Potter, James Toback, Jim Jarmusch, Zhang
Yimou, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, Alain Berliner, and Olivier
At the very least, the Toronto Film Festival is widely considered among
the top four film festivals in the world, alongside Cannes, Berlin and
Venice (it was rated number one in an LA TIMES industry poll). The
event, which will host 350 sales and acquisitions executives, lures $7.5
million in tourism and packs a $30 million economic wallop for its host
The world premiere of Jean-Jacques Annaud's new film, "Seven Years in Tibet", will be the capper to ten days of screenings, at the 1997 Toronto
Film Festival, the event's Director Piers Handling revealed yesterday.
The film stars Brad Pitt and features David Thewlis ("Naked"). Among the
world premieres in the Festival's "Gala" section are: "The Assignment",
directed by Christian Duguay and starring Donald Sutherland, Ben
Kingsley and Aidan Quinn; "Gattaca", directed by Andrew Niccol, and
starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke; and "Artemisia", directed by Agnes
Merlet. North American premieres in the section include: "Chinese Box",
directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li and Maggie
Cheung; "The Wings of the Dove", directed by Iain Softley, and starring
Helena Bonham Carter and Linus Roache.
Seven world premieres are also have been added to the festival's
"Special Presentations," program, they are: "Le Bassin de Jw", directed by
Joao Cesar Monteiro; "The Apostle", produced, directed by, written by and
starring Robert Duvall; "The Spanish Prisoner", written and directed by
David Mamet and starring Campbell Scott and Steve Martin; "Afterglow",
directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara
Flynn Boyle and Jonny Lee Miller; Hal Hartley's new film, "Henry Fool";
the debut work from Peter O'Fallon, entitled "Suicide Kings", starring
Christopher Walken; and James Toback's "Two Girls and a Guy", starring
Robert Downey, Jr.
A new festival program, entitled "The Masters," showcases the latest
work from what organizers call, "some of the world's most celebrated
auteurs. Among the filmmakers included in the section are: Zhang Yimou
("Keep Cool"); Michael Haneke ("Funny Games", "The Castle"); Jaime Humberto
Hermosillo ("Esmeralda Comes by Night"); Mani Ratham ("The Duo"); Alexandr
Sokurov ("Mother and Son"); Krzystof Kieslowski ("The Scar"); Manoel de
Oliviera ("Journey to the Beginning of the World"); and Claude Jutra ("Mon Oncle Antoine").
The Contemporary World Cinema section includes films from throughout the
world, among them:"Keep the Aspidistra Flying" (UK), directed by Robert
Bieman and starring Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter; "Love and Death on Long Island" (USA), directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring
John Hurt; "Happy Together" (Taiwan), directed by Wong Kar-Wai; "Delirium"
(Philippines), directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes; "Suzaku" (Japan),
directed by Namoi Kawase; "Nettoyage a Sec" (France), directed by Anne
Fontaine; "Obsession" (Germany), directed by Peter Sehr; "Insomnia"
(Norway), directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg; "Sue" (United States), directed
by Amos Kollek; "Gummo" (United States), directed by Harmony Korine.
Among other sections set for this year's festival are: Balkan Cinema:
Home Truths; Director's Spotlight; Real to Reel; Discovery; Dialogues:
Talking with Pictures; Perspective Canada; Planet Africa; and Symposium
'97, a wide array of panel discussions.
[For the complete lineup, visit the Festival's website]


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A London couple loved the garden but not the house—so they built a new home out back
In one of the world's most expensive housing markets, Mary Martin and Carl Turner pulled off the seemingly impossible: They live in a brand-new, light-filled modern house that cost them about $950,000.
Their journey took five years, a little luck and a lot of creativity. It also didn't hurt that Mr. Turner, 46, is an architect and Ms. Martin, a 49-year-old head of art production at an international advertising agency, had very clear ideas about her ideal home.
"I wanted space and light and something bespoke, and I wanted something very flexible," she said. "For me, having clean, empty spaces is perfect, because I am very easily distracted by things."
Their problem was that while London is a city embarrassingly rich in historic buildings, high-quality contemporary architecture is hard to find—in part due to strict planning laws aimed at protecting the capital's heritage and in part due to a plain lack of building space.
The solution to this conundrum was both creative and cost-effective.
In 2006, the couple spent $752,000 for an ordinary-looking three-bedroom, 1930s-era house in Brixton, a recently gentrified south London neighborhood around 5 miles from the West End. It wasn't the home itself that caught their eye—it was the long and skinny garden behind it. And at the end of the garden, a ramshackle brick garage faced out onto an adjacent street, a fairly common layout for homes built at a time when car ownership was becoming mainstream.
So the couple proceeded to hive off a slice of the rear section of the garden and used this space to build the home they really wanted. The profit they subsequently made on selling the original house meant they effectively got the land free.
Their modular modern home has space for Mr. Turner's studio, the living space the couple desired and a roof garden from which they can survey miles of London's skyline.
The first phase in the project was to renovate the 1930s house, which was in a "horrendous" state, said Mr. Turner, having been lived in by an elderly invalid for several years. It was damp, filthy and lacked a serviceable kitchen. The couple spent their first few months in situ camping upstairs and barbecuing in the back garden.
Mr. Turner renovated the house at a cost of around $63,000, adding an extension to enlarge the ground floor.
Simultaneously, he drew up plans for a second house to be built at the end of the garden, which measured about 20 feet across and 115 feet long. He created an "upside down" three-story house with a garden on the roof, the main living space on the top floor and bedrooms and a studio for Mr. Turner's practice below.
The house is cantilevered at the front, overhanging the ground floor—in profile, the property looks rather like a stack of teetering building blocks.
The exterior is clad in glass panels; the windows are floor-to-ceiling, and the roof garden is guarded by a high glass balustrade. Lit up at night, the couple's house resembles an art installation more than a suburban home.
In 2008—and somewhat to their surprise, since London's planning authorities can be somewhat conservative—the couple were granted the necessary building permits by the local council to execute their building plan.
In January 2009, they sold the 1930s house for over $831,000, despite the fact that they had retained a 65-foot-deep strip of its garden.
"We basically got a building plot free, which is almost unheard of in London," said Mr. Turner.
They wanted to start building immediately, but their plans coincided with the start of the credit crunch. After a series of mortgage applications were turned down, the couple were forced to move into a rented apartment and bide their time.
Finally, in 2011, they were granted a mortgage, and work began on the 14-month project. While the foundations were being dug, a steel-and-timber-framed shell of the house was built off-site.
But there were more challenges ahead. Their road is a typically narrow London street laid out in the Edwardian era, which meant that they had to apply for permission from the local council to have the road closed off to traffic more than 10 times to allow their prefab house—including concrete staircases which weighed 4½ tons each—to be craned into position. Each permit to close the road cost around $1,600.
The couple were finally able to move into the roughly 2,000-square-foot house in September.
Four months later, they have created a home that is a study in understatement. Visitors are admitted through an electric gate into a patio garden and then into the main house.
Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.
The floors throughout are a polished gray concrete and the walls are white, while light floods in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
The first floor contains two bedrooms and a bathroom, with stained-birch wardrobes and cupboards built in to eliminate clutter. The same material—economical but pleasingly textured—has also been used to build the beds and bedside tables.
In the living room, the minimalist theme continues. The sofa is a dove gray, while the kitchen, built from more stained birch, seems to disappear into the white walls. Huge floor-to-ceiling cupboards hide anything as pedestrian as a kettle or toaster, and the oversize table has a monumental feel.
"People do comment on our tidiness, but I find it fascinating that they find it fascinating," said Ms. Martin. "If you have a thing of beauty, like a piece of architecture, and then you fill it up with things, then you somehow diminish it and you cannot really appreciate the space you live in.
"We have exposed the things we really love, like the photography and the books," she added. "But I don't really want to have to look at the fridge and the washing-up liquid."
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Mary Martin and Carl Turner's home is about 2,000 square feet. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said it was 640 square feet. Also, the couple placed their living area on the second floor, with the kitchen, after moving into the home. The architectural drawing accompanying this article places the living area on the third floor, which was Mr. Turner's initial intention.


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Miranda Lambert Wins Big At ACM Awards 2013
April 08, 2013 05:49 AM by Donna W. Martin
Last night was one of country music's most-anticipated nights of the year, the ACM Awards 2013. And veteran winner, Miranda Lambert racked up again winning three awards. Which awards did the former Voice mentor walk away with? Take the jump to find out!
According to the Los Angeles Times, Lambert won three awards including Single Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Female Vocalist of the Year.
Lambert won Single Record and Song of the Year awards for "Over You," a song co-written by her and fellow country music singer and husband Blake Shelton about a personal experience he had as a teenager when his older brother was killed in a car wreck. Winning the awards meant a lot to Lambert and it was obvious in her acceptance speech. "Having your song lyrics recognized by your peers is about as good as it gets. Thank you for accepting me as a songwriter and not just a singer, that means the world to me," an overjoyed Lambert said during her acceptance speech for single record.
Shelton took the stage with Lambert during the Song of the Year acceptance saying he had learned so much from his wife and a lot of things about himself. "I used to think I was a decent songwriter until I started working with her, and this is proof of it…blows me away. She really taught me how to write a good song," he said.
This was Lambert's fourth consecutive win for Female Vocalist of the Year.
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April 8th, 2013 at 6:07 am
I thought the ACM's were ok. Too much artist performing, unfortunately with sound problems, at the beginning. They waited too long to give an award away, and some of the matching up of artists just didn't click.
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April 8th, 2013 at 6:23 am
I have to say that I was a very big fan of country music – but last night at CMA show I did not like any of the songs – they were loud and noisy and to me not the way country music used to be. The show got good when Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and the utterly amazing guitar playing of Keith Urbgan took stage. They were the best thing of the whole show. The others that came after them were also very good too.
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Citigroup Turns To Mr. Fix It
Vikram Pandit had long turned to Michael Corbat as a repair man. Now the repair man is running the show.
Corbat, the new CEO of Citigroup, takes the corner office less than a year after taking over Citi's international operations of Europe, Middle East and Africa.
His choice as CEO is not entirely surprising, he'd long been viewed a candidate and a strong manager at the bank, but the timing has certainly caught the world by surprise.
Corbat, who goes by Mike, made his name handling Citi Holdings, the so-called bad bank that Citigroup stuck all its toxic and unwanted parts into as it tried to recover from the financial crisis that crippled it.
The work he did there was largely praised as Citi Holdings has been wound down faster than expected and has helped strengthen Citi's overall position.
In its press release, the bank says Corbat oversaw the divestiture of more than 40 businesses, including the IPO and sale of Citi's remaining stake in insurer Primerica.
The release also says Corbat also "successfully restructured Citi's consumer finance and retail partner cards businesses and divested more than $500 billion assets, reducing risk on the company's balance sheet and freeing up capital to invest in Citi's core banking business."
His previous roles included head of global wealth management, an operation Citi is currently paring with its sale of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley. And he had previously run the global corporatate bank and global commercial bank and once ran global emerging markets debt.
Corbat's experience, therefore, means he has touched nearly every part of the key Citi businesses, both lending and investment banking both in the U.S. and abroad.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — U.S. Rep. Don Young has voted with the majority to approve a provision that would block the federal government from interfering with states that allow use of medical marijuana.
The Alaska Republican was a co-sponsor to the amendment, offered as part of a larger spending bill that passed the House.
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The Originals Spoilers: Sneak Peek Photos For Season 1, Episode 13
Remember that little secret that Rebekah and Marcel have been hiding? Well, from the sound of things, it's finally going to come back to haunt them in an all-new episode of The Originals.
When our favorite supernatural spin-off returns for Episode 13 (airing Tuesday, February 4), someone from their past reappears, threatening to expose all their deep and dirty secrets. Elsewhere, Father Kieran has his own run-in from the past when a witch shows up causing a serious amount of trouble. Meanwhile, it sounds like there's going to be some trouble in paradise for Hayley and Elijah, as the Original vamp is forced to make a choice between his family and the lady he loves.
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The Originals Synopsis for Season 1, Episode 13: "Crescent City"
At the re-opening of St. Anne's Church, Father Kieran finds himself in a great deal of trouble after a run-in with a witch from his past. Marcel and Rebekah grow concerned when the reemergence of someone they once knew threatens to expose secrets they've kept buried for nearly a century. Elsewhere, Sophie is shocked when a discovery is made at the cemetery, but she soon realizes things may not be as they seem. With the full moon looming, Hayley lets Rebekah in on her plan to throw a party for her werewolf clan, but things take a dangerous turn when uninvited guests arrive. Meanwhile, Cami is conflicted when she makes a difficult decision involving the safety of Father Kieran, and Elijah finds himself facing his own dilemma when he has to choose between Hayley and his siblings. Finally, when one of his plans fails, Klaus takes drastic measures in the Cauldron, resulting in dangerous repercussions that affect everyone involved.
Air Date: Tuesday, February 4 at 8 p.m. on the CW!
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The updated tables, issued today after President Obama signed the changes into law, show the new rates in effect for 2013 and supersede the tables issued on December 31, 2012. The newly revised version of Notice 1036 contains the percentage method income-tax withholding tables and related information that employers need to implement these changes.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [3] signed by President Obama in March made a bunch of major changes to health care in America and one of them was to flexible spending accounts. Starting in 2011, over-the-counter products will not be eligible for flexible spending accounts. In fact, they will not be reimbursable under FSAs, health savings accounts (HSA), or health reimbursement arrangements (HRA) unless they are prescribed by a physician. There is only one exception and that's for insulin.
This means that the days of loading up on band-aids, Tylenol and Advil, and other products you pick up in the drug section of your supermarket are no longer eligible unless your doctor prescribes it. While the rules on what is necessary documentation for reimbursement have yet to be introduced, this might start introducing additional paperwork at the doctor's office. Advising to take two aspirin and calling it a day might have to come with a prescription.
Also, annual contribution limits to your FSA will be limited to $2,500 a year.
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Yaakov Amitai serves letter of credence to Egyptian Military Ruler Tantawi, says he hopes to 'deepen understanding, strengthen cooperation between Egypt and Israel'
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Israel's new Ambassador to Egypt
Yaakov Amitai served his letter of credence to Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi on Monday.
"I'll do my very best to deepen the understanding and strengthen the cooperation between Egypt and Israel,"
Amitai said.
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The diplomat took part in an official ceremony, during which he and 13 other nations' ambassadors submitted their letters.
Last month, Amitai was temporarily recalled
from Cairo due to concerns for his safety during the one-year anniversary to the Egyptian uprising.
Amitai, who has previously served as a diplomat Cairo, recently replaced former Ambassador to Egypt Yitzahk Levanon.
His previous roles include an ambassadorship to Ethiopia. He has also held a variety of research positions and is considered an expert on Arab affairs.
The Israeli-Egyptian ties have suffered setbacks in recent months, after a popular revolt unseated Egypt's then-President Hosni Mubarak.
In September, protesters angered by Israel's killing of Egyptian policemen on the border raided the Israeli embassy in Cairo, bringing to the evacuation of the mission's staff and their families.


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Chapter on the bread of Sayyidina Rasulullah Sallallahu'Alayhi Wasallam
The type of bread that Sayyidina Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam ate is mentioned here. Eight ahaadith are mentioned in this chapter.
(135) Hadith Number 1.
'Aayeshah Radiyallahu 'Anha says: "Till the demise of Rasulullah sallallahu'Alayhi Wasallam, his family never ate a full stomach of bread made of barley for two consecutive days".
(136) Hadith Number 2.
Abu Umaamah Al-Baahili Radiyallahu 'Anhu says: "Bread made of barley was never left over in the house of Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam".
(137) Hadith Number 3.
lbn 'Abbaas Radiyallahu 'Anhu reports that: "Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam and his family spent many consecutive nights without food, because there would be no supper. The bread of Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam was mostly made of barley". (Sometimes bread made of wheat was also available).
(138) Hadith Number 4.
asked Sahl bin Sa'd Radiyallahu 'Anhu "Did Rasulullah Sallailahu
'Alayhi Wasallam ever eat bread made of white (fine) flour?" He replied:
White flour may not have come before Rasulullah Sallailahu 'Alayhi Wasallam
till his last days". The questioner then asked: "Did you people
use sieved flour in the time of Rasulullah Sallailahu 'Alayhi Wasallam?"
(139) Hadith Number 5.
Anas Radiyallahu 'Anhu reports that.. "Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam never ate food from a table, nor from small plates, nor was chapaati (a type of thin bread) ever made for him. Yunus Radiyallahu 'Anhu says, I asked Qataadah: 'Then on what did Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam put and eat his food'?'. He replied: on this leather dastarkhaan"'.
(140) Hadith Number 6.
Masruq says. "I went to 'Aayeshah (Radiyallahu 'Anha). She ordered' food for me and began saying 'I never eat a stomachful but feel like crying, then I do cry'. Masruq asked: 'Why do you feel like crying?'. She replied: 'I remember that condition of Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam on which he left us for the next world. I swear by Allah that, he never filled his stomach twice in one day with meat or bread"'.
(141) Hadith Number 7.
'Aayeshah Radiyallahu 'Anha says: "Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam never filled his stomach with bread made of barley for two consecutive days till he passed away".
(142) Hadith Number 8.
Anas Radiyallahu 'Anhu says: "Till the end of his life Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam never ate on a table and never ate a chapaati".
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] btl/openib: get_ib_dev_distance doesn't see processes as bound if the job has been launched by srun
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-17 09:42:37
I took a closer look at this, and I think we're getting ourselves confused
by the rather large differences between what is on the trunk vs the 1.5
branch. The trunk is doing the "am I bound" calculation correctly - it gets
the cpubind bitmask and compares it to the allowed/available cpus.
The 1.5 branch has a problem. Jeff and I discussed it a little more, and
agreed that I will create a minimal patch to address the issue of
direct-launched procs. We definitely don't want to back-port the logic from
the trunk.
Will try to have something next week.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:16 AM, nadia.derbey_at_[hidden] wrote:
> > Could you please move it to v1.5 (do I need to fill a CMR)?
> Just to clarify - you're asking for the patch to set WHOLE_SYSTEM when we
> load the hwloc topology, right?
> If so, please file a CMR. Note that there's some differences between how
> hwloc is used between the trunk and the v1.5 branch; the same commit may
> not apply exactly from the trunk to v1.5.
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India's sugar production for the 2013/14 season is set to fall below consumption for the first time in four years as a water shortage trims acreage in three key states.
The drop could boost global sugar prices as the world's top sugar consumer imports raw sugar to maintain stocks and to take advantage of lower prices in Brazil.
"Farmers in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are switching to other crops. If we look at prices, cane is attractive, but water is not available," said a Mumbai-based official with a global trading firm, who declined to be named.
Figures from the Indian Sugar Mills Association show that the western state of Maharashtra and southern Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are likely to produce 12.2 million tonnes, or more than half of India's total production, in the 2012/13 season, which ends on Sept. 30.
India, the world's biggest sugar producer after Brazil, is likely to produce a total of 24.3 million tonnes of sugar in the current year, compared with demand of about 23 million tonnes.
It would then need imports over the following season to maintain opening stock levels for the year starting Oct. 1, 2014, dealers said.
Though the country is likely to start the year starting October 2013 with stocks of 7.5 million tonnes, it would want to maintain these levels going into the next year.
After the 2009 drought sugar production fell sharply, forcing India to make big purchases from overseas markets, which pushed the price of raw sugar futures to 30-year highs.
"It is difficult to estimate sugar output for next year. It depends on the diversion of cane for fodder, monsoon rains and recovery rate," said the trading firm official, who declined to be named. "Right now, we can say around 20-21 million tonnes can be produced."
In 2012 state governments bought cane to offer cheaply or free as fodder when alternative supplies were short because of lack of rain. Cattle become the main source of income for farmers during drought years.
The fodder shortage is likely to rise between March and June this year, raising demand for mature cane as fodder.
"Total cane area in Maharashtra and Karnataka will be down 20 to 25 percent for next season," said Narendra Murkumbi, managing director of Shree Renuka Sugars, the country's biggest sugar refiner.
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When Yuna Kim fell short of defending her figure skating crown at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, an entire nation was outraged by the results. In fact, an online petition [1] titled "Open Investigation into Judging Decisions of Women's Figure Skating and Demand Rejudgment at the Sochi Olympics" was created to bring justice to her name.
In the midst of all the anger, some people pointed out that Yuna Kim is far from a loser. After all, winning a silver medal in the Olympics is an amazing achievement. In fact, Kim even shared her sentiments on the ordeal.
"I did everything I could, so I'm satisfied," Kim told Korean TV network SBS. "I didn't make any mistakes, but I wasn't as perfect as I was during practice. So I finished second, but as I said, the gold medal was never important. I did all I could, so I'm happy."
Many South Korean netizens point out that she is still a winner in their eyes. Now, we've found yet another reason she's a winner in our book.
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The Lee County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of a 2004 Boston Red Sox World Series ring and a gold World Series trophy from Major League Baseball pitcher Derek Lowe's Fort Myers residence.
A housekeeper told investigators on Friday someone had broken into the residence and stole the ring, trophy, necklaces, and women's shoes and purses.
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The "Modern Family" star says gay athletes eventually won't feel they need to keep their sexuality a secret. The two-time Emmy winner's comments follow announcements by Michael Sam and Jason Collins.
Sam came out as gay before this year's NFL draft. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams. Collins, who played basketball for the Brooklyn Nets last season, is the first openly gay athlete to play in a professional league in North America.
Stonestreet plays Cameron Tucker, a gay man, on the popular ABC show. In a nod to same sex marriage, Cameron marries his partner in the season finale.


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I've built a small application which has User Management, a frontend console to enter data and a backend console to control parts of the frontend. The frontend adds rows to a MySQL database which are timestamped. The backend needs to be able to select rows from the database between X and Y dates.
Everything works so far, except the date part which I'm really struggling with.
The frontend SQL input looks like this (simplified with spurious code removed):
$date = time();
$top_level_category = $_POST['top_level_category'];
$sub_level_category = $_POST['sub_level_category'];
$company = $_POST['company'];
$agent_name = $_POST['agent_name'];
$ticket_id = $_POST['ticket_id'];
$sql = "INSERT INTO dacc_data ("
. "id, top_level_category, sub_level_category, "
. "agent_name, date, ticket_id, company"
. "NULL, '$top_level_category', '$sub_level_category', "
. "'$agent_name', FROM_UNIXTIME('$date'), '$ticket_id', '$company'"
. ")"
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());
That seems to work ok, the timestamp is being picked up and added to a DATETIME column in my table. It displays as dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss within the database.
So ... my first question is - is this the right way to do it?
The second question being, what sort of SQL statement would I need to pull out an array of rows between X and Y date.
Apologies if this is rambling a bit, hope it's clear but if you need more information let me know.


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Mark Robson is the author of several fantasy novels for young adults and is fast becoming one of the most popular writers in the genre. His Darkweaver Legacy series was a self-published success story before he signed a major deal with Simon & Schuster for the Imperial sequence of books. His latest novels form the Dragon Orb series.
Mark first made his name through legendary book signings up and down the M4 corridor. Here was an unknown author, self-published at that, who was shifting more books at his events than many of the big names. It was at one of these events that I first met him, although I will leave it to Mark to tell you about that in the following interview.
SP: We first met in the Windsor branch of WH Smith. Care to explain what you were doing there?
MR: 'Flogging my wares' is the honest answer! The Windsor branch of WH Smith is one of those stores which has virtually no frontage, but goes back into the depths of forever. The manager there had never met me before that day. Not knowing what I was like, she had stuck me and my books out of the way towards the back of the store, where I'm sure she expected me to remain until I got bored and went away. However, I'm never backwards in coming forwards – and I proved this quite literally on that particular day.
I was: walking to the front of the store, grabbing some poor unsuspecting customer, dragging them to the back of the store, selling them a book and then going back to the front to find the next victim … um, I mean lucky person! I distinctly remember the figures from that day – 123 books in total. A great result, but boy did I have to work for it!
SP: In those days you were a self-published author but now have two major series published by Simon & Schuster. How did you manage the seemingly impossible transition from one to the other?
MR: It's fair to say the transition began with accosting you by chance that day and convincing you to take a look at my sales figures. I remember we discussed your recent discovery of G.P. Taylor and you agreed to take a look at my sales stats when you returned to work. From what I could tell, you were a little surprised to find that I'd sold around 1000 books through just three Waterstones stores.
Your introduction to my (now) Literary Agent resulted in my work being pitched properly to the publishers for the first time. I don't think the team at Simon & Schusters believed my claims of averaging sales of over 100 book sales at each event I attended, so they sent one of their senior editors out to watch me at an event before committing to an offer on my freshly completed book, Imperial Spy. It seems they were impressed enough by my 'one man sales army' approach (and I hope, to some degree, my potential as a writer) to make an offer on my Imperial books.
I guess it's not the typical way into the business, but it worked.
SP: But you decided to keep the Darkweaver books under your own imprint, why was that?
MR: To be honest, I make a lot more money from those titles than I do from the mainstream titles (about 5 to 8 times as much per copy, depending on the supply chain). It is also instant money in the bank every time a copy sells. In the early days of going full time this helped the cash flow situation. The Darkweaver series had sold about 20 000 units at the time I sold the Imperial titles to S & S. The series has now sold well over 50 000 units and it's still ticking over nicely. It would have taken a significant offer to convince me to let them go.
SP: What are the key differences between being self-published and having books with a major publisher?
MR: On a personal level, working with an experienced editor has improved my writing no end. I look back now at my early books and can see why they were rejected. The Darkweaver books would have needed a lot of work to become acceptable. I'm not saying the stories were bad – far from it. I'm still very proud of them and they continue to draw five star reader reviews all over the place. I can see now, though, that they were over-written.
The second benefit is the international exposure. The chances of securing translation deals when self published were almost non-existent. Since signing with S & S, I've gained deals with excellent publishers in six other territories including France, Germany and Italy.
Working with a mainstream publisher has meant giving up some control over how my stories are presented, but I've come to trust the judgement of the team I've been working with. I made some classic mistakes when I worked alone as 'Sword Publishing'. I've come to appreciate the experience and professionalism of the rest of the team, and I have felt my own experience has been valued through their inclusion of my 'Jack of All Trades' input into many areas of the publishing business that most authors do not venture.
SP: Before you were a full-time author you had a slightly different career did you not?
MR: I'd love to be able to say I was an entrepreneur, or a businessman, but the truth is I had no experience of retail or business (or writing!). I was a pilot in the RAF for 21 years.
SP: How to dragons compare to aircraft?
MR: Well, my dragons probably wouldn't fare too well if pitted against modern fighters, but they are tougher than most would imagine. In my latest series of stories they inadvertently become involved in the air war over WWI France. Needless to say their involvement in the war was kept a closely guarded secret by the military leaders. In a flat out dive one of my dragons could reach speeds of 140 to 150 miles per hour and can cruise along at about the same speed as an average little piston aircraft.
SP: What are you working on at the moment?
MR: My current project is the Dragon Orb series – a quartet of dragon stories beginning with Firestorm, which launched last month. I've completed books two and three, which are due to launch in January and April, and am working on the final book, which is planned to release in the summer of next year.
If I were to describe the plot in one line, I'd say it was 'Biggles meets dragons'. This is closer to the truth than I first realised, as I recently discovered that my main pilot character, Jack Miller, was inspired by the same real person who inspired the character of Biggles – Captain Albert Ball. Albert was a total eccentric, and a gifted fighter pilot – the perfect combination to generate stories.
SP: And if someone is new to your books do you have a favourite you would suggest they try first?
MR: Definitely try Dragon Orb - Firestorm. Don't be put off by the fact it's about dragons. I shudder every time a reviewer mentions Eragon in the same breath as Firestorm. The only comparison is that they both contain dragons. Until I wrote this I always argued that dragons had been overdone and there was nothing fresh that could be done with them. As far as I was concerned Anne McCaffrey owned dragons and I would never go there. It was only when I felt I had something very new to offer that I attempted this story. I'm pleased to say that the reviews to date bear out my decision.
The characters are colourful (the heroine of this first book suffers several severe phobias as well as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and are probably one of the most disparate (and I hope, believable) groups of youngsters ever assembled for this sort of fantasy. I feel like I'm really hitting my stride with this series.
Mark's books get a thumbs up from Ethan who has particularly enjoyed the Dragon Orb proof he read earlier in the year. The author's website also comes highly recommended. It is a great resource for fans and newcomers to his work. It also has a cool game to play. Although his work is clearly aimed at teenagers the books appeal to slightly younger readers and grown ups as well. Certainly if you need to find something to encourage a younger male reader in the house to read more books then Mark's novels will almost certainly do the trick.


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A frenzied Manhattan mogul went on a bizarre shopping spree at the New York International Gift Fair, The New York Post reports, ordering $20 million worth of swank bric-a-brac before ending up in a mental hospital.
No, it wasn't Arthur, and it wasn't Brewster. It was one of New York's actual richest men, multi-millionaire Ed Bazinet, proprietor of "porcelain Snow-baby figurines" and other ceramic collectibles, who had a bipolar episode at the Fair, "the premier gift and decorative accessories market in the United States."
Bazinet (purportedly worth $100 million and owner of a $28 million, 10,000 square foot TriBeca apartment) went from booth to booth in the Javits Center two weeks ago, placing orders with shocked vendors worth $200,000 to $2 million.
From The Post:
"He'd just say, 'Give me 1,000 of this and 1,000 of that!" recalled designer Nima Oberoi.
Bazinet forked over a credit card to buy more than $200,000 worth of Oberoi's cake platters and serving items before she cut him off.
"My antenna went up -- he wasn't looking at prices, and he was giving insane unit numbers. He didn't ask questions about the products," said Oberoi.
"I feel awful for him; there was clearly something going on."
At elizabethW, maker of swank bath, body and home goods, Bazinet ordered $1.6 million of soap, sachets and clothes hanger covers, said President Michael Lindsay.
Another vendor called Bazinet to confirm a large order when an assistant told her the order was cancelled.
"We called to get his credit card information," the vendor told Gawker "and his assistant told us that he had ordered $20 million worth of merchandise. She said he was having a bipolar incident, and had been hospitalized. They're canceling all the orders. Hopefully all the other vendors called ahead to check like we did."


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CEI Today: Internet sales tax, Exxon-Mobil's carbon tax, and the anti-immigration sentiment [1]
The Washington Times: Internet sales taxes attack states' rights [2]
Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren't your average tax increases, but grim blueprints for government's future relationship with the online world. Long after we've either swerved at the last minute or gone off the "fiscal cliff" a la "Thelma and Louise," we'll have to live with the harmful consequences of expanding government to every corner of the Internet. >
Globalwarming.org: Say It Isn't So! Exxon Supports a Carbon Tax [3]
Big Oil is coming out of the closet. Exxon Mobil confirmed earlier this month in a Bloomberg Businessweek article that they support a carbon tax. Shell and BP have signed a Climate Price Communiqué that was distributed on 29th November at the eighteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is meeting in Doha, Qatar, this week and next.
The most obvious reason why big oil and gas companies would support a huge new tax on their own products is that it would kill coal first.
Openmarket.org: Anti-Immigrant? Or Just Anti-People? [4]
This Friday, Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) demonstrated exactly this contempt for the most basic fact of the market when he responded to a CEI press release that opposed a bill to reduce immigration. Mehlman scoffs at the notion that "without massive infusions of foreign STEM workers our most vital industries would wither and die." We never argued such a thing — rather, we argued new foreign workers would expand (almost by definition) America's industries, increasing Americans' wealth.


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i am in utah i my fine is paid my propbation will be up in febuary
A plea in abeyance is an agreement whereby,if you comply with certain conditions given by the court, the criminalcase against you will be dismissed. Once the case isdismissed, you will normally be eligible to have the matter expunged after 30 days.The benefits of having your plea held in abeyance offer are substantial. But there are risks as well.As part of the plea in abeyance agreement, you must plead guilty (orsometimes a no contest plea). That plea is not "entered" as a conviction. Instead, if you follow through with what the court orders, the case is dismissed. But if you do not follow through with what the court has ordered, that plea can be entered and become a conviction, and you can be sentenced to jail or prison.
You should tell the judge that you appreciate the opportunity to keep your record clean. You should further indicate that you have completed all of the terms of the bench probation set by the judge, including the payment of fines/costs. You should also ask that the matter be expunged.
You should REALLY emphasize that you have LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON from this matter and that you will never be in front of the judge again for any criminal matter.
Again, you should THANK the judge for his/her kindness and his/her confidence in you and you did not let the judge down.
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