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Michael Fassbender and his package reunited with ex-girlfriend, Dante's Cove actress Leasi Andrews over the weekend. The pair apparently got very hot and heavy "in a chair by the bathroom" at the Writers Room in Los Angeles.
A source told The NY Daily News that after their PDA session, the couple grabbed a cab to the Sunset Marquis Hotel, where celebrity penis expert Fassbender had a villa. Andrews was spotted leaving the hotel after noon in slippers. Fassbender's agent did not respond to a request for comment and a rep for Andrews could not be reached.
What makes this all the more interesting is that in March of 2010, Andrews filed a motion in L.A. Superior Court asking for an order of protection against Fassbender and demanding that he move out of their Bel-Air home.
She claimed in court papers that in July 2009, Fassbender "threw [her] in a drunken fury and in November dragged her alongside their car, hurting her ankle and bursting an ovarian cyst." She withdrew the motion in April 2010 because she didn't want "to hurt" Fassbender's blossoming career.
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This is a beautiful camp. The hosts were friendly and helpful. Very impressed with cleanliness of grounds and facilities. Beautiful water views. Camp site was level; hookups were convenient and worked great. We had a 10 minute wait for the dump station. Can't wait to return. - RaptorSVT
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* Manages maintenance operations (employees involved in maintaining greens, fairways, tees, sand traps, bodies of water, roughs, maintenance shop, golf carts and clubhouse) by providing assistance in recruiting, selecting, training, scheduling, evaluating, supervising and correcting when necessary; assist Superintendent in executing safety meetings
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MOBERLY, MO – (November 23, 2013) The 2013-14 season got off to a great start for the Calvary Warrior women's basketball program as the team was able to beat Emmaus Bible College 63-30 on Saturday afternoon.
The Warriors jumped out to a 2-0 lead off of the tip and did not look back. Calvary would cause 19 Emmaus turnovers in the first half and dictated the tempo of the game with their defense. The Warriors would use that strong defensive pressure, hot shooting, and their height advantage to push the lead to 42-18 at the half.
With adjustments made in the locker room, the Warriors started the second half on another run, forcing the Eagles to call a timeout. Calvary continued to build the lead with good man-to-man defense that keyed numerous transition buckets.
Junior Lydia Chambers led all scorers with 22 points and pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds. Allie Riegel had a solid performance in her first contest as a Warrior, contributing 21 points and 6 steals, while Ashley Spicer chipped in with 10 points and 7 steals.
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Kevin's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan has slammed rumours that the 'Toxic' singer's estranged husband tried to sell a homemade X-rated film for up to $120 million, and insists the alleged adult footage of the couple does not exist.
Kaplan said: "This is endemic of countless false and inaccurate stories about Kevin, his marriage to Britney and the divorce proceedings. I want to put this issue to rest once and for all.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- It's that time of year where everyone lines up to test their will in a haunted house!
There are several in the central Arkansas area you can check out:
EMOBA'S Haunted Cathedral at 12th & Louisiana. Every Wednesday and Thursday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday night and Halloween night 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets $15, on Halloween night $20. Call (501)372-0018 for more.
12th annual Haunted Hotel: Located at 1919 Pratt Road in Little Rock. Tickets are $10 a person. It will be open Oct. 11 - 31 weekdays 7-10 p.m. and weekends opening at 7 p.m. Call (501) 804-8883 for more information.
The Torture Chamber: Located at 3805 Benton Parkway at Party Central two miles from I-30 down Alcoa Road. Open Oct. 18-21, 25-31 starting at 7 p.m. And Nov. 2 with proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Club. Tickets $15. Call (501) 315-8300 for more.
Garner Volunteer Fire Department is hosting a haunted house again this year. It will be at the fire department, 10 miles north of Beebe on Oct. 12-13, 19-20, 26-17, 29-31. Concessions will be available and is wheelchair accessible. Tickets $5 a person.
Check out the Old Haunted Warehouse at 3400 Brown Street in Little Rock (2 blocks west of the state fairgrounds behind the jail). It is open every weekend in October and Oct. 30-31 from 8:30 p.m. until the last group goes through. It costs $10 and $20 for a speed pass. For more info call 442-4971 or check them out on Facebook.com/oldhauntedwarehouse.
The Torture Chamber: Located at 3805 Benton Parkway at Party Central two miles from I-30 down Alcoa Road. Open Oct. 18-21, 25-31 starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $15. Call (501) 315-8300 for more or go online to www.torturechamberbenton.com.
Magic Screams in Hot Springs begins Oct. 6 and features an all-new scare house called Paradox along with two other houses with zombie apocalypse and clown themes. Magic Springs opens at 4 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday in October. Family events include pumpkin painting and a trick-or-treat trail and at dusk things get scary. Tickets are $29.99, call 624-0100 for more.
Millcreek Haunted House: Oct. 19-20, 21-27, 29-31. Times are Friday & Saturday 7- midnight and Sunday and Monday 7-10 p.m. at 211 Catlett Lane in Hot Springs. Tickets $10 per person. Take Highway 10 to Milcreek Road (next to Magic Springs on same side of street), go nine miles and take a right onto Catlett Lane.
The Haunted Barn: In Concord, Arkansas at 10194 Heber Springs Rd. Tickets are $7 open every Friday and Saturday night in October from 7-11 p.m. Not recommended for kids under 12-years-old and strobe lighting used. Call (501) 887-6543 for more. Tickets benefit The Sturge-Weber Foundation. More online at www.facebook.com/thehauntedbarnconcordarkansas.
Haunted Hayride in Hensley every Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. Tickets $8 a person and call (501) 416-9385 for groups. Located at Tri-County Arena approximately 20 miles south of Little Rock at 27605 Hwy. 365 in Hensley.
Haunted House of Conway: Oct. 18-21, 24-31. Located at 150 Hwy. 286 East. From 7 p.m. until last group goes through. Admission $9. Call (501) 472-2325 for more.
Trail of Fears: Oct. 18-20, 25-31 from 8-12 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 8-10 p.m. otherwise. Located at 21124 Whippoorwill Lane. A haunted trail through the dark woods of Bauxite, Ark. Admission is $10. 501-454-0657.
21st annual Boo at the Zoo! October 19-21 & 26-31* from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Boo at the Zoo is canceled Sat. Oct. 27 due to the Razorback game). $7 per person (general admission)/ $6 pre-sale, $15 all-inclusive armband/ $14 pre-sale. All-inclusive armband includes admission to Boo at the Zoo plus unlimited carnival rides and attractions. Click here to buy tickets online.
Slaughter House & Hell's Kitchen: Oct. 18th to Oct. 31st from 7:30pm to 12:00 am every night. located at 17314 MacArthur Dr. Admission is $12 per person. Call 501-563-4074 or go online at www.arslaughterhouse.com for more.
Fear Factory Hunted House: Located at 25120 Highway 107/W. Republican in Jacksonville next to Action Fireworks. Tickets are $10 and open every day until Halloween from 7 p.m. to midnight.
The Haunted River: Oct. 18-21, 25-31 at 107 Valley St. in Caddo Valley in the old Railway Salvage building. Call (870) 210-0003 for more information.
The Haunted Hallow haunted house: Oct.18-20, 25-31 opening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, kids under 10 are $5. Located at 2237 Bill Foster Highway in Cabot next to bowling alley. Call (501) 259-3628 for more.
Night Terrors 13: 5204 Crystal Hill Rd. in North Little Rock. Tickets $13. Open every night Oct. 18 - Nov. 3. Call 398-FEAR (3327) for more.
Land of a Thousand Screams: Haunted house fundraiser sponsored by Jacksonville Gymnastics, Dance and Cheer Parents Assn. Open every weekend in October and Oct. 29-31 from 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets $10. 1930 W. Main Street in Jacksonville. More online at www.facebook.com/landof1000screams.
Drifters 12th annual Free Haunted House Oct. 26-27. Donations are accepted to help buy Christmas gifts for residents of the Arkadelphia Human Development Center. Located at 3000 Vinson Rd. in Arkadelphia. www.DriftersofArkansas.com
Night Mare Maze: The Allen House on Main Street every Friday and Saturday night from 6:30 until the last scream. It is cost $7.50 for the tour.
Mr. Hatchets Haunted House in Hot Springs. Entrance fee is $8. Open every Friday and Saturday in October, plus Oct. 31. Hours are 8 pm - midnight. The address is 306 Chaucer St. in Hot Springs. More details at its facebook page.
Fear on Fourth St. (NLR): Oct. 19-20, 26-30 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Halloween night open 7 p.m. until the last scream. Proceeds benefit the NLR Police Athletic League. Located at 4th and Poplar next to the old CheckMates club. Tickets $8. Visit ArkansasPAL.com for more.
Bismarck Haunted House: 6486 Hwy 7 in Bismarck. October 19, 20, 26 and 27 - 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm, October 31 - 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. Admission $5.00 per person.
Floyd Asylum Haunted House being put on by the Floyd/Romance Volunteer Fire Dept on Highway 31 in Floyd at the Fire Dept. Open October 26, 27, 29-31 from 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Admission $5 a person.
House of Frightmares Terror in the Ville from October 25-31, 2012 from 7:00 P.M. to ??? at the Little Rock Expo Center in Jacksonville, the former Walmart building at the Air Force Base exit.. Call 501-786-2789 for more. Admission $10.00.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Investigators seeking the cause of a deadly Indianapolis house explosion say they aren't ruling out any causes yet.
But one expert says residents shouldn't be alarmed by a homeowner's suggestion that a faulty furnace could be to blame.
John Shirley says his daughter told him recently that the furnace had gone out in the house he co-owns with his ex-wife. The house was leveled in the blast.
But Scott Davis of explosion investigation firm GexCon US says most furnaces have safety switches that must be triggered before any gas is used. He says most of those safety features would have to fail for a furnace to cause the type of devastation seen in Indianapolis.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- A cool spring has spawned about a third fewer tornadoes so far this year in Illinois.
Weather officials say about a dozen twisters have touched down statewide, compared to the 19 that usually spin up through May.
Last year, Illinois had about 90 tornadoes heading into June on the way to a record 126 for the year.
Weather officials say a cold snap this March and April and lack of typical spring humidity has led to fewer twisters.
But Illinois isn't out of the woods yet because June and July can produce their share of powerful storms and tornadoes.
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Zimbabwe's finance minister revealed yesterday that his country has only $217 left in the government Treasury. Today President Obama said, "Stop bragging!"
Yesterday President Obama went to Las Vegas and spoke about his new immigration plan. Afterwards he was harshly criticized by the locals for speaking in English.
The Senate has overwhelmingly approved John Kerry as the next secretary of state. In his farewell speech today to the Senate, Kerry spoke for 51 minutes. So, apparently he does believe in torture.
John Kerry is the first white male to hold that job since 1997. So finally middle-aged white guys with gray hair are breaking through the glass ceiling.
The head coaches for the Super Bowl are two brothers, Jim and John Harbaugh. Their mother promises that whatever the outcome she is going to call the loser after the game and telling him he was adopted.
China is launching their own version of the TV show "Friends." Six attractive young people live together in an iPad factory. They get yelled at if they don't work fast enough.
A new study has found that leafy greens are the leading cause of food poisoning. In other words, Americans have nothing to worry about.
More trouble in the world of big-time athletics and steroid use. Turns out now that Alex Rodriguez may have been using performance-enhancing drugs for quite a long time. Calling Oprah!
This Sunday is the Harbaugh Bowl. You know about this? It's the Harbaugh brothers. You have Jim Harbaugh coaching the 49ers and you have John Harbaugh coaching the Baltimore Ravens. I mean, can you feel the electricity?
The Harbaugh brothers were very close in college. As a matter of fact, they dated imaginary twins.
We have a new secretary of state, John Kerry, former senator from Massachusetts. For four years Hillary Clinton served as the secretary of state, and in a moving ceremony today Hillary official turned over the pants suit.
A new show premiered tonight on the FX network called "The Americans." It's about Russian spies embedded in Washington, D.C., during the Cold War. They're Russian agents who look like us, talk like us, but all of their relationships are based on a big lie. These days that only happens to college football players.
Keri Russell stars in "The Americans." She plays what intelligence services call a "sleeper agent." That's the kind of spy I'd want to be, a sleeper agent. My skill — taking naps in five languages.
I don't think I'd make a good spy. All that lying, duplicity, pretending to be someone you're not. No, I prefer good old-fashioned honest Hollywood.
The first episode of this spy show was great. Their mission was to fake a drivers license for a young socialist Kenyan boy living in Hawaii.
We are four days away from the Super Bowl. Super Bowl parties are a lot of fun. It's also a really great way to give your friends all the flu at once.
On Sunday the San Francisco 49ers battle the Baltimore Ravens. A study conducted by a religious research institute says 27 percent of Americans believe God has a hand in determining which team wins. So if you're praying for a new kidney this Sunday, sorry, God has the Ravens and the 49ers.
Of course God cares about football. He created a girlfriend for Manti Te'o out of nothing.
If God really is influencing NFL games, that would mean he isn't in church on Sunday, so why should I go?
The Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens is this weekend. The big news today is that Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis may have used a performance-enhancing substance called deer antler extract. That explains how Lewis has been preparing for the game — staring into a set of headlights.
A zoo in California announced that its monkey has randomly picked the 49ers to win the Super Bowl. And not surprisingly, the zoo's deer picked Ray Lewis and the Ravens.
An employee of the U.S. Postal Service is retiring after 44 years without using any of her sick days. Friends describe her as "dedicated," while co-workers describe her as "that lady who gave me the flu."
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In the past I've had discussions online with people involved with homelessness in Australia. Last year I spent eight weeks getting direct contact with numerous American military dependent teens couch surfing. This Youtube video provides insight into what just one young person in the United Kingdom went through.
While tons of people backpat themselves as being 'American', I'm sorry to say but I've seen directly first hand...we provide our citizens less than most European countries.


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Bouchard's at Findlay Market, source of wonderful fresh, homemade pasta and sauces so delicious they make you want to eat them with a spoon, has opened a new location downtown at 825 Main St. (513-421-5838), where they're serving breakfast and lunch on weekdays. Actually, they're serving breakfast all day, which is good if you're craving pancakes at an untraditional hour, but according to owner Jenny Miller they also have a full range of soups, salads, paninis and wraps. Their most popular item is the Cuban Panini ($7), packed with sliced pork, ham, pickles and spicy mustard on crusty ciabatta. The new location is next to The Sports Page and close to the Hamilton County Courthouse. Check it out.
Opening just days from now is The Bonbonerie's new coffee shop at 2030 Madison Road. If that address sounds familiar, it's because that was always the beloved bakery's mailing address, although customers entered from the rear of the building. The expansion into the front of the O'Bryonville shop, next to Hemptations, marks an "opportunity to embrace coffee again," explains Bonbonerie co-owner Sharon Butler, "while the bakery stays as it always was."
The coffee shop will replace the tea room, although that space will remain open to be used for bridal cake selection and future classes in cake decoration and other domestic arts.
The new coffee shop will fill your morning java fix and continue to offer traditional afternoon tea, as well as expanded hours for dessert in the evening on Fridays and Saturdays and brunch on Sundays. The Bonbon crew will have more chances to show off their savory skills as well as their sweets, with sandwiches served on homemade caramelized onion rolls, pretzel bread or other creative options. Call 513-321-3399 or go to bonbonerie.com for the new hours. Or just go there and eat a pecan bar for me. Please.
Already open and getting good press from the downtown blogging crowd — we're looking at you, 5chw4r7z — is Mr. Sushi in the 580 Building (580 Walnut St.). Word is that the sushi is fresh and reasonably priced and the beer selection is better than average. What more could you ask for? Mr. Sushi is also a new venture from an established restaurateur, Jin Kim, whose Iron Chef Grill is out by Fields Ertel Road. Welcome downtown, Mr. Sushi!
Don't miss the new alt food venues that are starting to appear on the local scene. We've been to Café De Wheels, and while we loved the burger ($5) we got a little crazy with passion over the sweet potato fries ($3). Incredible that food so good could come from a truck! Since this is meals on wheels, you should check their Twitter feed (@burgerBgood) to see where they'll turn up next. I've had luck catching them by the Main Library Branch downtown at lunchtime.
I haven't found the taco trucks yet. If you have the scoop on them or the inside dope on other new dining venues, drop us a heads up.
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Change to HIPC Rules Will Help Zambia
A Letter to the Editor
By G. E. Gondwe
Director, African Department
International Monetary Fund
Financial Times
December 8, 2000
Mr. Kwesi Owusu's December 5 letter ("Zambia's health emergency leaves IMF directors unmoved") errs in its characterization of the IMF's treatment of Zambia. The IMF does recognize Zambia's enormous development needs, including a terrible AIDS crisis.
That is why the Executive Board on December 1 changed the rules governing IMF assistance under the initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) to permit the Fund to accelerate debt relief for Zambia. This action was taken to address a hump in the country's total debt service payments resulting from Zambia's clearance of IMF arrears in 1995. The IMF will effectively reduce Zambia's debt to the IMF by about two-thirds.
As a result of the IMF Board's decision, and coupled with decisions by other creditors under the HIPC framework, Zambia's debt service payments in each of the next three years will be lower than this year. In the absence of HIPC assistance, Zambia's debt service would have more than doubled next year. Once HIPC assistance is delivered, Zambia will see its total debt reduced by about 80 percent.
But debt relief is not the whole picture. Fresh donor assistance to Zambia is already several times more than debt service. We expect that net transfers to Zambia will rise by about $100 million next year to some 15 percent of GDP; the IMF too will be putting in more than it is taking out.
The combination of accelerated debt relief and increased aid will allow Zambia to raise social spending from $150 million this year to around $250 million in next year's budget. And that, more than the precise pattern of debt payments, is what matters most.


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The politics of moving from order taker to partner
The bad news first: Being a senior IT executive is stressful, no matter how you slice it. The good news: The stress can be fun stress, not the bad stress you're used to.
This was the message that Gartner analyst Tina Nunno offered in her presentation, "The Politics of Partnership," at the firm's Symposium ITXPO last week in Orlando. It was, without a doubt, the most constructive and inspiring presentation I've sat in on in more than 15 years of covering IT events.
Nunno's purpose was to teach IT executives in the room how to shift their status from order takers to partners, a journey that involves navigating a sticky labyrinth of corporate politics. CIOs need to know not only how to act as partners but also how to get their colleagues in the business units to act as partners. This journey is not without stresses of its own, she warned, but it is almost certainly necessary if you want to succeed in any large-scale IT implementation.
"I'm just a very big believer in `pick your poison.' I think you should actually have some control over the type of stress and the quality of stress that you take on," she said. "Your ability to [build partnerships] as a leader is one of the single biggest determinants as to whether or not you will be successful in large, complicated projects, which involve many stakeholders."
Nunno offered some fascinating perspectives on why there seem to be so many obstacles for IT in partnering effectively with the rest of the organization. Chances are, she said, some of your IT team members found their way into the job because they like binary code. That's a great quality for someone who writes software, but not so great for someone who needs to partner with the marketing department.
"In binary code, what's between zero and one?" she asked. "Nothing. It's clear. It's right or wrong. It works or it doesn't, right? There's a lot of clarity in that ... In real life, what's between zero and one? An infinite number of fractions."
Too often, IT departments try to manage their relationships with the rest of the business as binary relationships, delineating formal, rigid boundaries of responsibility and control. But drawing boundaries in business often means drawing battle lines, and those do not encourage partnering.
A major component of being viewed as a partner is learning how to give off signals of strength, Nunno advised. You do not want to give the impression that the IT team enjoys lower power or status than the business units. This is a tricky transformation for many IT groups, and in all likelihood, you will get pushback from the business units. After all, they're quite happy with the status quo, in which IT is merely an order taker.
The best part of Nunno's presentation, to me, was when she spelled out some concrete techniques for avoiding the impression of weakness. First, she advised, be sure your communication does not convey low status. Instead of using words like "yes" and "customers," use words like "no/maybe" or "colleagues." If you're working with customers, she pointed out, then they're the ones who are always right.
"'No' is a healthy, entertaining word to use," she said, eliciting laughter from the IT execs in the ballroom at the Walt Disney World Dolphin hotel. "If you don't ever say no, people will assume that it's because you don't have the power to. They won't assume you're just being helpful or just being nice."
Second, make sure that your colleagues in the business units give as well as take. IT has to be very conscious of reciprocity, she insisted. You need to focus on your own value propositions and figure out what your business colleagues have--time, money--that you want. If they aren't willing to provide what is needed, refuse their project.
"If you're going to play this game ... you actually have to be willing to dole out the consequences," she said, conceding that this is risky business. "This is not an easy or fun thing to do. But I will encourage you to think about this: You only need to do it once, and they learn. You don't necessarily need to do it all the time."
Next, if your department is rated on internal customer satisfaction, you must rate the rest of the organization on how well it works with IT. This sends a strong message about reciprocity and the inter-dependency required by large IT implementations. Finally, spell out the inter-dependencies--everything that is needed from the rest of the organization--in your IT strategy.
Although Nunno pointed out that her techniques entail risk and that IT leaders must carefully consider their current power level before applying them, I couldn't help wondering how many of you IT executives have a good chance of winning if you play their game. Being unempowered in a job is terribly stressful, true, but it's usually not as stressful as being without a job.
After all, it was a short time ago that IT was designed as a service organization, and that status remains deeply engrained in the culture at many organizations. Getting away with saying no, refusing projects or rating one's colleagues may require nothing short of a sea change in some organizations, and the ability to affect such sweeping change usually demands, at the outset, high power and status.
As we were all filing out of the ballroom after Nunno's presentation, I asked the first two IT executives I encountered about the likelihood that her approach could succeed for them. Could they take these words back to the office and apply them?
It turns out, Steve Manthei, CIO at the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, had already started applying them. He incorporated Nunno's advice in a few emails he sent out during the presentation. It's true that her approach entails real risk, he said, but having proximity to power can go a long way in making it work.
"If you have a seat at the big table, you can help with the cultural change throughout the business," he told me. "What I was pleased to learn today is that we're actually doing a pretty good job at this already." - Caron


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As defenses of the (apparently) indefensible goes, Adam Nayman's "Showgirls" book just got pushed into second place by the Guardian critic Tom Shone's apologia for Anthony Lane's much-derided New Yorker profile of Scarlett Johansson. If Lane's "Her Again" was a movie, its aggregate rating would be distinctly rotten. Try putting together a trailer with these notices:
"Salivates over ScarJo... refuses to treat her as a human subject, with qualities of mind!" -- Katy Waldman, Slate
"The worst profile I can remember reading in The New Yorker... 5000 words of empty slobbering!" -- Esther Breger, the New Republic
"A scopophilic guilty pleasure!" -- Bronwen Clune, the Guardian
"I wind up imagining Anthony Lane jerking off to his own poorly conceived metaphors about Scarlett Johansson's cheekbones!" -- Kristin Iverson, Brooklyn Magazine
"Pardon me, but this is gross!" -- Kay Steiger, Talking Points Memo
No wonder they didn't show it to critics first.
But Shone, in a post titled "Playing Hardball With the Male Gaze," argues that Lane's article lies in a long tradition of critical mash notes:
It's what happens when you send a critic to write a profile. "The first duty of a film critic -- the sole qualification, to be honest -- is to fall regularly, and pointlessly, in love with the people onscreen," wrote Lane in his review of "Before Sunrise." Send them to meet the people behind the people onscreen and the results tend toward controlled delirium.
As Farran Smith Nehme, herself no fan of Lane's piece, did in a Twitter conversation, Shone points to Kenneth Tynan's (in)famous profile of Greta Garbo, which begins, "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."
Objective? Of course not. Smitten? Almost certainly. Personal info? Almost none. By the standards of today's celebrity profiles, Tynan's piece is as much of a wash-out as Lane's.... Tynan gave us the woman on top, the triumphant exterior, the shining chassis, lovingly polished in a 3,000-word rhapsody to lay alongside James Agee's prose bouquet to Liz Taylor and Pauline Kael's to Cary Grant. "If it is true that no clothes seem meant for her, much less to fit her, that is because her real state is not in clothes at all… She implies a nakedness which is bodily as well as spiritual," he wrote, adding "I dwell on Garbo's physical attributes because I think the sensual side of acting is too often under-rated. Too much is written about how actors feel, a too little about how they look."
Today, most would call Tynan's profile "problematic," beginning with the presumptuous assertion of that telltale "one." But to accept that the true purpose of a celebrity profile is, in Waldman's oh-so-Second-Wave phrase, to "peel back the sex appeal... and show us the woman underneath," is to forsake any true insight before you've even begun. That Johansson's sex appeal is some sort of suit that she can peel off -- in a manner strangely resonant with the alien she plays in "Under the Skin" -- defies biology as well as common sense, and the idea that a journalist given several minutes or even several hours with her is like to accomplish that feat is a pipe dream at best. What makes a person, male or female, interesting to watch on screen has as much if not more to do with how they use their body in front of a lens and how light bounces off the planes of their faces as it does their difficult childhood or their views on settlements in the West Bank.
That's not to say that Lane's profile is a shining example of the form; even Shone demurs to press that point. (To be honest, my general antipathy to Lane's writing makes it difficult for me to read more than a few paragraphs at a time.) But there's a hint of puritanical denial in the anti-Lane jeremiads, as if the mere acknowledgement that an actress is possessed of a body at all is off limits, let alone any consideration of how a canny and intelligent woman might choose to use that body as an expressive weapon. Elle's Justine Harman wrote a post entitled "Seeing Scarlett Johansson Naked Make Me Uncomfortable," in which she describes feeling physical discomfort at the sight of Johansson, un-toned, un-made-up in "Under the Skin":
After "Under the Skin," I will never look at Scarlett Johansson the same way. Not because she plays a homicidal E.T. but because she lets us behind the curtain. She's not physically perfect. Her breasts are uneven. She has lower belly fat. And as a cog in the celebrity fan machine, I've been conditioned to catalog these changes.
Here's Shone, one more time:
We are probably more, not less, conflicted about the question of looks onscreen than we were in 1961. The level of beauty required from our actors and actresses is probably even higher than it was in the hey-day of the studio system -- just look at the winner's paddock at this year's Oscars -- but our denial that this is so is ten times greater, with performers fleeing any hint that their success is tied to their sexual availability as if the mere mention of it were career death.
Clearly, this should be the case with both genders: If Scarlett Johansson's body is a legitimate object of study, so is Chris Evans' or Matthew McConaughey's. (Let's start with how great McConaughey looked in his "True Detective" suits.) Actors often call their bodies their instruments. Why shouldn't we talk about how they play them?


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Mr. and Mrs. Mech
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Walter Mech of Nanticoke will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary July 11, 2014. They were married July 11, 1964, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Nanticoke, by the late Rev. A.J. Kozlowski.
Mr. Mech is the son of the late Walter and Lillian Mech, Nanticoke.
Mrs. Mech is the daughter of the late Edward and Eleanor Adamczyk of Nanticoke.
Maid of honor was Angelleta Yakavonis, sister of the bride. Bridesmaid was Camille Martinez, sister of the groom. Best man was Joseph Yakavonis and usher was Richard Brozena, cousin of the groom. Ring bearer was Bernard Adamczyk Jr., nephew of the bride.
The couple has two children, Gary and his wife, Michele, Lower Macgungie and Michele and her husband, Gerald Mullery, Alden.
The couple has five grandchildren, Matthew Mech and Leah, Lauren, Liam and Louden Mullery.
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Loom Woven Baby Sweater With Loom Knit Trim
Lion Brand® Superwash Merino Cashmere
Pattern Number: L10020 Weave this sweet baby sweater with the Martha Stewart Crafts Lion Brand Yarn Knit & Weave Loom Kit.
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate (Level 3)
SIZE: One Size
3-9 months Finished Chest 21 in. (53 cm), snapped closed Finished Length 11 in. (28 cm)
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SLEEVES (make 2)
Loom Configuration
Use the following pieces: (4) 6-hole pieces, (4) 12-hole pieces and (4) corner pieces
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Insert 23 small pegs along each side of assembled loom pieces - 92 working pegs placed.
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Loom Configuration
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Insert 3 small pegs into every hole anywhere along semi-circle piece - 3 working pegs placed.
Body Trim (make 1)
With one strand of B, cast on to every working peg.
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Repeat from * until Trim measures about 56 in.
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Bind off.
Sleeve Trim (make 2)
Work same as Body Trim until piece measures 7 1/2 in.
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Thread yarn needle provided with loom with a strand of A.
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Beginning at center back neck, sew Body Trim around outside edge of Sweater.
Sew Sleeve Trim to lower edge of each Sleeve.
With sewing needle and thread, sew snaps to Fronts.
Sew the first snap just below Front neck Trim and the second 1 1/2 in.
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Visa Limits Fuel Frustration in Efforts to Fill High-skill Jobs
Paul Kuttikadan, CS Solutions' COO, will have to hire four or five more recruiters this year because searching for candidates has become an extraordinarily time-consuming task. The IT labor shortage has pushed the company's recruiting and wage costs higher; Kuttikadan has been forced to renegotiate contracts with clients to cover the increase.
"I am frustrated," he says. "Our recruiters and account managers are frustrated. Our business is expanding rapidly, but we can't hire the people we need. Employee turnover is rising because our engineers are well aware of the power they wield in the marketplace. Clients are demanding that we push more work out to our offshore facility in Chennai, India."
When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. The current cap on the number of H-1B visas issued annually is 65,000, or about 1 percent of the total U.S. science and engineering workforce.
"The cap on H1-B visas has limited the high-tech industry's ability to attract and retain the best and the brightest workers," says Jack Krumholtz, managing director for federal government affairs at Microsoft. "This harms our ability to innovate and has negative consequences for U.S. global competitiveness. This challenge is only increasing. In 2005, the H-1B cap was reached two months before the fiscal year even began."
Legislation to raise the cap to 115,000 is part of a huge package of immigration law reforms now before Congress, but experts agree that there is no guarantee that the higher cap will pass. If Congress does not raise the cap substantially, recruiting sufficient numbers of skilled science and engineering workers will become impossible.
Looking in the Haystack
Steve Swanson recruits technology workers for the semiconductor industry as part of the Princeton Search Group, a search firm with 150 recruiters specializing in managerial and technical employees. Even with his years of recruiting experience and a database of 200,000 names, Swanson has 30 open positions.
"I could fill all of them tomorrow if I could get H-1B visas," Swanson says. On April 1, companies can begin the application process to obtain H-1B visas for the federal fiscal year beginning October 1, but Swanson and other experts believe that the supply will be exhausted by midsummer unless the cap is raised.
The visa cap has put Swanson under enormous pressure. "When a company can't fill a position with a H-1B employee, they tell me to go find the needle in the haystack," he says. "Without the ability to look abroad, a U.S. company that wants to fill a position in 30 days will have to settle for a less experienced worker or make a substantial increase in the starting offer." He notes that companies are facing dramatic labor cost increases because less experienced candidates may require six months of training.
Demand for H-1B candidates continues to climb. Eighty-five percent of the companies that used H-1B visas in 2005 plan to do so in 2006, according to salary survey firm Culpepper and Associates. Ten percent of companies that did not use H-1B visas in 2005 plan to use them this year.
The jobs that H-1B employees fill stretch far beyond IT positions. "Large U.S. companies often need H-1B employees to work with clients and customers based in other countries or to handle international logistics," says Kathleen M. Hanenburg, partner and chair of the immigration law group at Warner Norcross & Judd in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "The language skills and knowledge required for these jobs are in short supply among U.S. workers."
Her clients report that they are turning down contracts and offshoring more work to Asia because they can't fill positions here.
Killing the Feeder System
The difficulties recruiters face will only grow worse as the visa cap continues to damage the U.S. university feeder system for foreign talent. "We have foreign students educated here for semiconductor work who must then return home when their student visa expires," Swanson says. "I try to recruit that intellectual capital back here under H-1B visas, but then the cap kicks in and I can't. There is a finite international talent pool, and U.S. employers are at a disadvantage."
Microsoft is feeling the pinch. "While Microsoft actively recruits from top U.S. campuses, the reality is that the majority of advanced degrees awarded by U.S. universities in engineering, mathematics and computer sciences are to foreign nationals," the company's Krumholtz says. Current visa limits preclude Microsoft and other companies from hiring many of these graduates."
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has called on Congress to eliminate the H-1B caps entirely.
Foreign students account for 55 percent of all doctoral candidates and 41 percent of all master's degree candidates in U.S. engineering graduate schools, according to the National Science Foundation. For most of its history, the United States has not produced enough U.S.-born scientists and engineers to meet domestic demand.
"The H-1B visa caps are ill considered because they push U.S. companies to send work abroad and kill the feeder system," says Angelo A. Paparelli, a partner at Paparelli & Partners, a law firm specializing in immigration law. "The feeder system is interrupted from the start because foreign students who might have entered U.S. universities go elsewhere because of the uncertainty surrounding their ability to move from a U.S. student visa to a H-1B visa."
Although the common perception is that most H-1B visa holders are from India, that nation accounts for only 22 percent of the 387,000 H-1B employees now working at U.S. companies, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Americas account for 109,000, or 28 percent; Europe accounts for 112,000, including 32,000 from the United Kingdom.
Even when U.S. recruiters can secure an H-1B visa for a valuable foreign employee, extending the stay beyond the six-year visa limit is extremely difficult and the company often loses the employee. "The green card process takes so long now that foreign workers return home or leave for Europe or Australia," CS Solutions' Kuttikadan says.
Overcoming Opposition
"Because they can't get H-1B visas, U.S. employers are fit to be tied," Paparelli says. "My clients have been forced to suspend projects and turn away business because they can't hire the employees they need." He believes that employer attempts to raise the caps have been thwarted by disinformation from those who oppose immigration in general and from alliances of U.S. high-tech workers.
"The H-1B visa issue is an example of government by anecdote," Paparelli says. "Some U.S. workers who failed to maintain crucial skills were displaced by H-1B workers, and Congress seized on the issue, which is always popular in an election year."
Because bringing in an employee under an H-1B visa is expensive and time-consuming, many recruiters pursue H-1B employees only as a last resort. "Employers are bearing up under the burden of the H-1B process because they need these employees," Paparelli says.
Kuttikadan reports that CS Solutions turns to foreign workers only when it cannot find U.S. candidates. "To fill a position, we search our own database, look locally and then go to the job boards," he says. "It costs much more to bring in H-1B workers, and the risk is much higher."
In April, CS Solutions will file the paperwork to secure new H-1B visas, but it is likely to come up short unless the cap is raised. "Our other options are limited," Kuttikadan says. "We can try to use other types of visas, but these provide only a temporary solution, and our clients want a more long-term relationship."
At a minimum, the H-1B visa process adds $3,000-$5,000 to recruiting costs per candidate, according to Hanenburg at Warner Norcross & Judd. Costs are much higher if complex legal issues arise or relocation expenses are included. But with the domestic labor markets growing tighter and the number of U.S.-born science and engineering students declining, U.S. recruiters will run through the 65,000 H-1B visa quota quickly.
"If the cap is not raised, there is no real alternative for most U.S. companies," Hanenburg says. "Removing the cap will not happen until business mobilizes to a much higher degree. The problem is that Congress has not been able to distinguish between low-skill illegal immigrants and the highly skilled H-1B visa employees."
Kuttikadan believes that the shortage of highly skilled workers will last for at least three to five years, and companies will be forced to offshore more work. "The only lasting solution is for the U.S. government to recognize the problem in the educational system," he says. "In particular, it must recognize that people cannot afford the college education that they need to fill these jobs."
If U.S. trade policies for importing high-tech equipment mirrored immigration policies for high-tech labor, the U.S. economy would come to a screeching halt. "The U.S. must understand that globalization is a two-way street," Kuttikadan says. Unless Congress loosens the protectionist stranglehold, recruiters will be in for another extraordinarily tough year.


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2 cops, 3 others dead in Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS — Two suspects shot and killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday before fatally shooting a third person and killing themselves inside a nearby Wal-Mart, authorities said.
A man and woman walked into CiCi's Pizza and shot at point-blank range Officers Alyn Beck, 42, and Igor Soldo, 32, who were eating lunch, Las Vegas police officials said. One of the officers was able to fire back before he died, but it's unclear if the suspects were hit, Sheriff Doug Gillespie of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
The suspects then fled to the Wal-Mart across the street, where they fatally shot a person inside the front door and exchanged gunfire with officers before killing themselves in an apparent suicide pact, police said.
The female suspect shot the male suspect before killing herself, Mr. Gillespie said. The victim's identity hasn't been confirmed, and the suspects' names haven't been released. Both officers were taken to the hospital, but it was unclear if they died there or at the scene.
"It's a tragic day," Mr. Gillespie said. "We have a community to protect, we will do it with our heads held high."
One of the suspects yelled, "This is a revolution," but the motive for the shooting remains under investigation, Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield told The Associated Press. He added that "we don't know anything about the suspects yet."
"I am devastated by the news today of two officers and an innocent bystander who were murdered in an act of senseless violence," Gov. Brian Sandoval said in a statement. "My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families."
Clark County Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the male suspect yelled "everyone get out" before shooting at Walmart. The suspects then walked to the back of the store.
Wal-Mart employees and shoppers were taken to a nearby clothing store to be interviewed by police. The restaurant and Walmart remained closed as detectives processed evidence. McMahill said the investigation is "very complex" because it involves more than 1,000 witnesses.
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Back in 1991, when "Blood in the Face" -- the powerful documentary now available on YouTube -- had its H-Town premiere at the Rice University Media Center, I wrote this:
Early in the remarkable documentary Blood in the Face, one of the interview subjects calmly explains his game plan for a better, more wholesome, less mongrelized America: ''Basically, shooting on sight everyone we think isn't white.''
But the cleanup campaign won't stop there. No, not by a long shot. After the non-whites, the non-Christians will be the next to go. And, mind you, most of the people interviewed in Blood in the Face have established very rigorous criteria to decide just who is and who isn't a Christian.
''We would define Jerry Falwell as a Jew,'' says one disarmingly calm but stern-faced knight in shining polyester, ''because he believes in Israel.''
Welcome to America's dark side, where racists, Nazis, ultra-rightists and paranoid paramilitarists give full vent to their hateful rantings. (More.)
As you watch this extraordinary film, I invite you to consider: How do you think some of the folks interviewed by the filmmakers reacted to the 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections? Who do you think they are campaigning for these days?
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04/30/2012, Genoa Bay
We had good weekend over at Genoa Bay, crabbing, socializing with our club members and remembering what boating is all about! The weather turned out only so-so but it didn't matter in the end. It's still early for crabbing but we managed 4 keepers out of the 25 I caught. Nothing failed on the boat which does bode well, but we did run out of coffee. I set up our new 'African Queen' to keep off the odd drizzle. It's supposed to keep the sun from over heating the boat. Oh well, dual purpose.
Planning has started for our summer cruising. The boat has been hauled, painted and serviced. The next yacht club cruise to Port Browning is coming up shortly. We're watching the weather. Right now we're getting 14c daytime to 0c overnight. Brisk!
11/27/2011, Cortes Isl
Here's a shot of the lagoon rapids. When the tide is high again you can power your dinghy in and explore.
11/27/2011, Cortes Isl.
Squirrel Cove is a great sheltered harbour. Once you pass through the 60' wide entrance, the cove opens up to easily hold over a hundred anchored boats. We used to anchor and tie back over where the lagoon empties into the cove whenever the tide drops. Our kids enjoyed riding floaties down in the current. The condition of the bakery building was a suprise to see. We had heard that about 6 years ago, the baker had retired and no one had taked it over. His cinnamon buns were awsome! The baker lived in the house and had 3 propane stoves in his kitchen. The house was on floats but permantly beached. We bake our own now on cool days and the boat smells great!
11/27/2011, West Redonda Isl.
After a few nights in Teakerne, we pulled anchor and headed south to pick up supplies and fuel in Refuge Cove. Although quieter this year than past ones, the place is still a going concern! I don't remember ever being able to pull right up to the fuel wharf without being 5th or 6th in line in a hovering pattern. We had burgers ashore for lunch and bought supplies for the next few days (read wine and rum). After dropping off the garbage we crossed over to Squirrel Cove, found a sheltered spot and anchored in time for happy hour. We had a very unusual weather pattern the entire trip, breezy during the day but dead calm through the night. What a treat!
11/20/2011, Teakerne Arm
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Now, this morning, my phone crashed. Did a soft reboot, and it hung at the OS screen. Hard reset time. Copied a backup executable [2] to the phone's mini-SD card, ran it, told it to restore everything, and the phone was back up and running.
Moral of the story: Its really nice to have a backup system in place. Its also really nice to find that the backup system works when its needed.
[1]: dban.sourceforge.net -- Derik's Boot and Nuke. A great tool to run on machines to make sure nothing is on any of their hard disks before moving them to another department in a company.
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Heidi Klum happy with broodHeidi Klum thinks it's easier having four children than just one.
The supermodel raises Leni, six, Henry, four, Johan, three, and seven-month-old Lou with husband Seal and while her big brood might seem hard work she insists it's not that tough.
She said: "I have a lot of help. Seal does a lot of chores around the house and four kids are actually easier to manage than an only child. They keep each other busy and don't need grown-ups telling them what to do.
"Until recently we always took the children along on our travels, but we can only do that during their holidays now. So now I have to organize things even more meticulously because I'm tied up at home more than I used to be."
The German beauty admits she and singer Seal are both busy with their careers but try not to be away from each other and the children for too long.
She told Gala magazine: "I can't join him on tour and he can't join me as often as he used to anymore. But we try to keep periods of separation as short as possible. Whenever he or I come back home the kids decorate the house with festoons and 'Welcome Home' signs."
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PULLMAN, Wash. -- The Washington State women's soccer team (1-2-0 overall) meets its second straight top 25 opponent Friday, Sept. 12 as the Cougars host the Broncos of Santa Clara.
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Although Washington State has never beat the Broncos, the Cougars have had their share of competitive matches with one of the top soccer programs in the country.
A year ago, the Cougars battled host Santa Clara to a 1-1 draw at Buck Shaw Stadium, site of the 1996 NCAA Final Four. The Broncos advanced to the Final Four where they lost in the semifinals eventual national champion North Carolina 2-1.
The two meetings in Pullman have proved to be very entertaining contests. WSU suffered a 1-0 home loss during the 1995 season. In 1993, the Cougars took a quick 2-0 advantage before Santa Clara clawed back to escape with a 3-2 win.
Last week the Cougars dropped a pair of matches in Minneapolis, losing to the University of Detroit 4-0 and to 25th-ranked Minnesota 3-2. Junior forward Amy Chippendale scored both goals in the loss to the Golden Gophers in the second half.
Three Dot Notes - Last season the Cougars finished with a 2-2-1 record vs. ranked opponents with the draw coming at Santa Clara (1-1) and victories over California (1-0) and San Diego State (2-1...Amy Chippendale earned the second multiple-goal match of her career with two goals vs. No. 25 Minnesota...her first came in 1995 at Arizona...freshman Shannon Wilson ranks fifth among goalkeepers in the West region with 17 saves...the Cougars have used a different starting lineup in each of the first three matches.


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I wish to order organic music garlic seed, one lb, please.
Richard, Sadly, there was a crop failure with Music garlic in 2012. We recommend Purple Italian as a replacement this growing season. Here's a link to take you to our Seed Garlic selections where you can place an order if you like http://www.groworganic.com/seeds/seed-garlic.html
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are they defective, after all that no-thumbs (Dennis styled training) being instilled upon 'em?
I never owned a BLUE kite, maybe that's the missing component to beat you just one time sir?
I'd only be interested in the full sail real cheap, (no frame or bridle necessary) somehow, I burn thru those models faster than the other sail configurations
See ya' soon and good luck, I'll get the luggage (AGAIN!)