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Nick Celebrates!
Nick is certainly happy these days. Forget that his album just went gold with over 500,000 copies sold which is a huge improvement from his last album that sold less than 200k. I'm more excited to see how he deicded to celebrate - Nick got cozy in Cabo with Vanessa Minnillo. The two were rumored to be dating while shooting his music video but then she got back together with her man, Derek Jeter. Looks like her and Nick have decided to give it another chance. One thing is for sure, Nick has moved on and I think he is preferring the brunettes over the blondes these days.
Even People is reporting the couple are back together. They were also seen leaving the Borgata's Mixx nightclub this weekend at 4 am. People reports, "Finally, Lachey and Minnillo made their exit – he grinning, and she leading the way to the elevator. No word on what happened once the doors closed." From the look in the Cabo pics I bet they had a fun night in Atlantic City together.
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School Executive Leadership Academy
The School Executive Leadership Academy (SELA) is a partnership of the McColl School of Business, the Cato School of Education and Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools and surrounding districts, to accelerate the flow of qualified leaders for our schools. This program has been approved by the North Carolina State Board of Education. It is unique in several ways. It combines the expertise of the school of business in developing leaders with the school of education's and the school districts' expertise in education. Unlike traditional masters in school administration programs, the SELA curriculum will be highly experiential and relevant, placing participants in a variety of situations built around a simulated school, designed to replicate the real challenges a school principal faces. It will combine a rigorous selection process, an intensive summer cohort experience with the simulated school, and a residency year spent as a fulltime intern to a trained mentor principal. During the residency year and the first year on the job as a principal, we will continue to provide group and individual coaching sessions and classes to extend the support as the novice principal transitions into the job. Successful SELA participants can earn up to 18 credit hours that may apply toward a Master of Educational Leadership (online), Master of Business Administration, or Master of Science in Organization Development degree - all available at Queens University of Charlotte.
For more information about SELA, please contact Alison Hiltz, Director of SELA.
Key Features of the Program:
- Experiential learning - case studies, role plays, simulations and other exercises mirroring situations faced as school executives and residency year filled with on the job school executive experiences
- A cohort experience - creation of a learning community and support network for participants during the program and throughout their careers
- School administration license and graduate credit -eligibility to receive the NC school administration license and have waived Queens graduate credit hours towards a Master of School Administration, Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Organization Development, or Master of Science in Executive Coaching degree
- Highly selective admissions - 5 stages in competitive, rigorous recruitment and selection process: (1) Nomination by the district; (2) Application, transcripts and essays; (3) In-Depth Assessment Center with experiential exercises and trained assessors; (4) References and final selection; (5) Offer to join cohort
- Coaching and support throughout -mentor principal support, small-group coaching during the residency year.
Program Structure and Sequence:
- Late Winter/Early Spring: selection through a highly competitive process
- 1st Summer: classes 5 days a week for 5 weeks
- School Year: year-long residency in leadership roles and participation learning sessions
- 2nd Summer: preparation for leadership assignment

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Montclair, Virginia - 40th Anniversary
1969 - 2009
by Bill Riski and the Montclair History Committee
About the Book
Montclair is a wonderful community located in northern Virginia, just 25 miles south of the Washington Monument. Its heritage is distinctive in several respects, from Camp Fisher and the role the Confederate troops played in blockading the Potomac River during the Winter of 1861 to 1862, to being the first residential planned community in Prince William County.
The last 40 years have seen our community blossom into a highly desirable area of homes and neighbors. In 2009 we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the establishment of our property owners association.
Our book has 105 pages of stories about Montclair dating back to the 1800s and descriptions of over 150 pictures; most being published for the first time.
Features & Details
- Category History
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
106 Pages
- Publish Date Oct 14, 2009
- Tags Civil War, Prince William County, Montclair, Virginia
About the Creator
I'm a systems engineer, retired USAF officer, and currently work for a large consulting firm supporting national defense clients. That's my day job. By night I love reading and writing about my genealogy and hyper-local history on my Mac. I've been the chairman of our local property owners association history committee for several years. This is my first public book; I've done others for family purposes. I was motivated by our community's 40th Anniversary this year to try to capture something for posterity; and the feeling of time fleeting by.
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weemsbotts This book is so well-organized, detailed, and it beautifully shows through the community through many gorgeous photos. It truly helps to show community spirit and that a wonderful legacy is here. Well done!
gawinkworth Bill forgot to mention the myriad articles he's written for our community newsletter. I've always found them very entertaining, and was thrilled when I first heard about 'The Book.'
Having been one of the privileged few who got a chance to proof the book prior to its release, I got to read through it several times, with each experience just as enjoyable as the last.
My wife and I moved to Montclair in August 2005, so our historical scope has been limited to just the past few years. We knew about some of the grave sites, and of course passed by the historic markers daily, but by and large, we never gave any thought to the larger picture - until now.
This book was a fantastic, and even educational glimpse into our community's past. My thanks go out to Bill and the History Committee for giving Montclair such a wonderful gift on her 40th. Awesome job.


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Toshiba Thrive has been up for pre-order for several weeks now, and we are sure that some of you have already taken advantage of the offer. However, if you simply do not have the patience to wait until the 10-inch tablet is ready to leave the warehouse, your nearest BestBuy store may have the Thrive in stock already.
$50 more than what you would paid if you were to pre-order one instead - $479 and $579 for its 16- and 32-gigabyte versions respectively. Does that make BestBuy's offer any less tempting? Well, if you have your mind set on a Toshiba Thrive, perhaps it would be a better idea to put down your credit card as the tablet is expected to hit the market around July 10.
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Terrence Ross started this. He's having second thoughts.
"Everybody took it out of context and ran with it. But, whatever," the sophomore forward said Thursday, pinned up against a wall outside the Raptors' practice court after trying to slip away unnoticed.
A month ago, Ross – a goofy, borderline adorable presence on the team – did one of those Reddit chats that tend to catch famous people in a disastrously sharing mood.
"Who do you want as a first round matchup in the playoffs?" someone asked.
"I want Brooklyn, personally," Ross replied.
This caught the irritated attention of Nets forward Andray Blatche.
"You better be careful what tree you bark up," Blatche told the New York Daily News. "[I] don't think that's really what he meant or what he really, really wants."
Ross was anxious to defuse the cautious biliousness that's attaching itself to the looming Raptors-Nets series. Well, sort of.
"I said I wanted to have Brooklyn because of looking up to those guys when I was younger. Paul Pierce, KG [Kevin Garnett], Joe Johnson," Ross said, chin buried in his shoulder. "I guess I did kind of ask for it."
Yes, he did. Thank God someone did.
Over the last few days of the season, Brooklyn plainly blew its tanks in a race down the seeding depth chart designed to optimize playoff matchups. After going 34-17 in the calendar year, the Nets lost four of their last five games. On the final day of the season, they benched all five starters.
Though they could not have predicted exactly who they'd end up with, this was initially undertaken to avoid the Chicago Bulls, but was always likely to slot them with Toronto.
After their cynical bottoming out, the Nets made no effort to hide their pleasure.
"I like right where we are," Nets coach Jason Kidd said. "A good place."
Blatche was keeping his own counsel, or maybe just hoarding his mixed metaphors for future eruptions.
"I don't know [if they wanted us]. Everybody says that. It would tick me off if that was the case," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. "If they did, sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for."
The Nets wished for it. That was clear a month ago, after the last meeting between these teams (an aggressive Nets win), when Pierce said with evident relish, "This could be the team we meet in the first round."
There's no other way to take this than as an insult. Yet, no one was willing to directly confront the Nets' provocations.
"Good for them," GM Masai Ujiri said. "I haven't lost one second of sleep worrying about the Brooklyn Nets."
By Ujiri's urbane standards, that's a slap. Urbanity is a deflationary linguistic currency in the NBA.
(He did later fall back on one of his favourite requests of Toronto fans, asking them to turn the Air Canada Centre into "a living hell" on Saturday's Game 1. A quick thought on that: dynamite the bathrooms.)
"They can do what they want. [Ed. Note: They have] They can say what they want. [See earlier] At the end of the day, we have all the motivation – and that's to win games," said Kyle Lowry. Then he stared at the person who'd made the mistake of asking that question like he was trying to light them on fire with his mind.
Lowry at least seems in a brawling mood. Everyone else was anxious to keep their powder wet.
This is the point when you begin thinking about exploitable advantages. The Nets have all of them. With a roster padded out by experienced campaigners and future Hall of Famers, they'll get all the calls, all the benefits of the doubt. Three days rest between games will suit their creaky core.
The Raptors' only potential edge is in swagger.
The Nets finished strong, but only after stumbling into the season like a man in high heels. They've succumbed to the alluring tactical error of thinking a round ahead. Their entire raison d'être is cynical. They are not a team, in the organic sense. They are one monstrously rich dilettante's construction.
By contrast, Toronto exists in a moment. And what a moment for this city and this country. It is shot through with the potential to seismically alter the sports landscape.
They should come in to this angry and crowing. They should expect to win, because they have the luxury of not needing to in order to justify their existence.
The Toronto Raptors should feel affronted by the assumptions of the Brooklyn Nets. If they want the entire country behind them, they can speed the process by telling us that.
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The Palm Treo 800w is finally the ever first smart phone to offer integrated Wi-Fi and GPS navigation and it is also the first Sprint phone to come with Windows Mobile 6.1 and EV-Do Rev. A support. However, not only does the Palm Treo 800w have integrated features, but Palm has also designed the Treo 800w with an integrated look with a little of the new fresh look and the old traditional look. The old look of the Palm Treo 800w is the overall shapes which falls into the Treo lines, however the Treo 800w has been slimmed down for the modern look. The Palm Treo 800w only measures in at 4.4 inches by 2.2 inches by 0.7 inches and weighs only at 5 ounces, so the Treo 800w can be a snug fit in a pants' pocket. Another innovative feature is the touch screen the Palm Treo 800w comes with and a full QWERTY keyboard.
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text: Politics 9 October 2006 Going global against 4WD Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Last week was a milestone in the battle against gas guzzlers - the first ever international conference of anti-4×4 campaigners. Since the Alliance Against Urban 4×4s started two years ago, groups have been springing up in cities across Europe as the deadly 4WD trend has spread. We have been sharing ideas and artwork by email for a while and on Wednesday arranged a meeting, labelled it grandly 'a summit', and caught the early train to Brussels. There are differences between our campaigns, mainly due to our different cultures (while parking tickets are an issue in most countries, only in the UK do teachers in caps and gowns strike a chord). However, we are all facing the same challenge of the motor industry selling more and more 4×4s to freedom-craving mums and dads as urban family cars. First to present their 'story so far' were the hosts of the summit, Joeri and Jeroen from 4×4Info in Belgium. They are lucky to have the European Commission on their doorstep so can target the people responsible for setting (and we hope enforcing) Europe-wide targets for vehicle emissions. Joeri recently infiltrated a popular Belgian news show to embarrass Commission President José Manuel Barroso on live television, showing a photo of his gas-guzzling 4×4: the massive VW Touareg (an anagram of 'outrage' as a helpful supporter pointed out the other day). The group has also invaded the local motor show and, for car-free day last month, created 'the day of the living crash test dummies' to highlight the dangers of 4×4s. They have kindly lent us their excellent costumes and we are now wondering if we should chuck ourselves in front of Chris Martin's X5 or Jamie Oliver's Range Rover. Next up was the Swiss Stopoffroader group, represented by a pair of energetic Young Greens called Matthias and Marc. The main tools of their campaign have been stickers for the rear windscreens of 4×4s with surprisingly humorous slogans including, 'Ich bin auch ein Panzer,' 'Gib Kindern keine Chance' and 'Ich saufe fur drei' ('I drink for three' – the others are pretty obvious, even in German). Thanks to a court decision clearing them of breaking the law, they are getting away with this tactic, which is something for us to think about as we have always steered clear of producing stickers for the UK. Matthias and Marc also have the advantage of Switzerland's system of direct democracy. Collecting 100,000 signatures will earn them a national vote on a Volksdirectiv, a 'people's law' keeping cars that exceed emissions and weight limits out of cities. I expect they will succeed - their zeal has already gathered nearly 60,000 signatures in just a few months. The Finnish 4×4 campaigner Lauri Myllyvirta was unable come to Belgium after being hit by the door of a 4×4 while cycling (the irony was not lost on us all). Instead he sent his apologies and a powerpoint presentation showing how his JunttiAuto campaign has made an impact in Finland even receiving legal threats from Toyota for their adbusting efforts. The campaign has also added a new word to the Finnish language. 'Juntti' means a backwards or ignorant man and combined with 'auto' sums up the 4×4 craze perfectly. Sarah Connolly from the American organisation, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) was on an intercontinental mission to tell us about the progress of their Jumpstart Ford campaign, which has been targeting Ford's SUVs for several years as part of a call for zero-emission cars. They have done a huge amount to expose the madness of a situation where the top-selling Ford SUV has lower fuel efficiency than the original Model T. Helped by rising fuel prices, the campaign has been so successful it is temporarily on hold, with US car-makers (who rely almost wholly on SUVs for their profits) in turmoil after sales fell through the floor this year. RAN's 'Adopt a Dealer' programme - taken up by groups ranging from students to nuns - has morphed into 'Console a Dealer' as car salesmen across America wait for the conclusion of merger talks. As well as passing on their wisdom to groups in Europe, RAN is now trying to work out a nice way to say, "We told you so. Now make us the clean cars we deserve!" Charmingly calling 4×4s 'les quatre-quatres', French representative Stéphen Kerckhove, from green think-tank Agir pour l'Environment, told us how they set up anti4×4.net last year. He said that French citizens tend to expect government to deal with social problems like 4×4s and showed us their sticker and postcard campaign demanding eco-taxes for gas-guzzlers and calling on the mayors of large cities to bring in exclusion zones. French manufacturers have been notable in steering clear of 4×4s so far, but news that Renault will be launching an SUV in 2008 has made them the target of action this week by Stéphen's group. This event will also mark the launch of our new website: 4×4network.org, which includes the joint mission statement agreed on Wednesday and links to our campaign websites. After a lot of discussion, we resolved at the end of the meeting to link up and work for common aims in future. After all, with a globalised motor industry insisting that controls on car emissions should only be introduced on an international scale, it's about time we globalised our efforts too. › Ken vs the black snot Sian Berry lives in Kentish Town and was previously a principal speaker and campaigns co-ordinator for the Green Party. She was also their London mayoral candidate in 2008. She works as a writer and is a founder of the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Our union backed Brexit, but that doesn't mean scrapping freedom of movement We're racing towards another private debt crisis - so why did no one see it coming? The NS Podcast #230: It's (New) Party Time Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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Up to this point, you have displayed only literal strings. Now, you are ready to display stored strings. Using the name of the string in place of the string itself enables you to display stored strings. Here, as a quick reference, is the earlier stored string example:
string yell = "A dragon is coming";
To display the string, you use its name, which is yell, rather than the actual text:
cout << yell.c_str();
The preceding line does the same thing as the following one, which we used earlier in the section "Storing Strings":
cout << "A dragon is coming";
Don't worry about the .c_str() after the name of the string; it is just "magic" code that causes the string to display properly. We explain this magic code in Chapter 6, "Moving to Advanced Data Types."
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Grow Utah Ventures, which helps startup companies launch their businesses, is sponsoring a Mobile App "Concept to Company" contest for all Utah entrepreneurs and developers working on mobile software.
The contest will award the winner $7,500 and two second-place winners $3,750 each. It is co-sponsored by Northfront Business Resource Center and Weber State University/StartUp Ogden.
"Right now, it's much easier but also much more challenging in some regards to launch a mobile app business," T. Craig Bott, president and CEO of Grow Utah Ventures, said in a statement. "Design and code writing are often the easy part, but the user experience, marketing strategy, promotion, and of course the initial funding is what is more difficult. That's where this contest comes in, to help those get further down the road in achieving their dreams."


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Christmas may be next week but if you're like me you're also planning on what you'll make for New Year's Eve! I love making cute desserts that aren't extremely time consuming for parties. Something that will give people something to talk about, adn tehse cute rose-shaped pastries will do just that. You will loved these Apple Roses made by wrapping thin apple slices in a sweet and crispy puffed pastry.
You will for sure impress all of your guests. If you can keep yourself from eating them of course. If you figure out how to do that please let me know.
You're probably also thinking about how to decorate, and what to wear for your parties too. That's why today I'm hosting a Virtual New Year's Eve Party with these beautiful ladies! PLUS we are giving away a $200 gift card to the winner's choice of Sephora, Nordstrom, or Target!
What to Serve:
Champagne Punch Recipe / Carly at Lipgloss & Crayons
Spiced Cranberry Sangria / Taylor at Pink Heel Pink Truck
Spicy Mexican Bruschetta / Karly at A Simple Pantry
Pizza Bianca / Julie at Bread, Booze, Bacon
Peppermint Bark / Molly at Still Being Molly
What to Wear:
New Year's Eve Eye Makeup / Lauren at Lauren Mcbride Blog
New Year's Eve Day to Night Beauty / Jamie at Makeup, Life, Love
Three Ways to Style a Sequin Skirt / Sandy at Sandy a la Mode
Little Black Dress / Lynzy at Sparkling Footsteps
How to Decorate:
Free New Years Eve Printables / Jennifer at Busy Being Jennifer
Enter the giveaway, then get the recipe for my yummy Apple Roses in a Puffed Pastry below!
Apple Roses Puffed Pastry
Please Note: This recipe makes 6, if you want more be sure to purchase more apples. You should have enough of everything else.
- 1 frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
- 2 red apples
- half lemon, juice
- 1 Tbsp of flour, to sprinkle the counter
- 3 Tbsp of apricot preserve
- Cinnamon {optional}
- Powdered sugar for decorating {optional}
- Thaw the puff pastry. It should take about 20-30 minutes
- Preheat oven 375 degrees
- Combine the water and lemon juice in a bowl. Cut the apples in half, remove the core and cut the apples in paper thin slices. Seriously as thin as possible. Leave the peel so so your roses will have a red color. Immediately place slices in the lemon water so they don't brown
- Microwave the apples in the bowl, for about 3 minutes, or until softened so they can bend
- Unwrap the puff pastry over a clean and lightly floured counter. Using a rolling pin stretch the dough, keep the rectangular shape. Cut the dough in 6 strips, about 2″x9″
- In a bowl combine 3 Tbsp of apricot preserve with 2 Tbsp of water. Microwave for about one minute, so it's easy to spread. Spread the preserve on the dough then drain the apples
- Place the apples on the dough in a line along the top half of the dough, overlapping one another. Sprinkle with cinnamon
- Fold up the bottom part of the dough up
- Carefully roll, seal the edge, and place in a muffin cup. Repeat
- No need to grease the muffin mold if it's silicone. However, if it's not you must grease it!
- Bake at 375 degrees for about 40-45 minutes, until fully cooked
- If after about 30 minutes the apples look fully cooked, or beginning to singe, move the pan to a lower rack in the oven, and turn the heat down, to avoid undercooking the pastry
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy!
Aren't these the cutest? I got the idea from Cooking with Manuela


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Calling all entrepreneurial mavericks
Are you wilfully independent and ambitious and determined to achieve your goals? Do you want to know more about commercialising your electrical or electronic research? InnovUS is inviting all Electronic and Electrical Engineering undergraduates and postgraduates; researchers; Stellenbosch University staff; and entrepreneurs to its first Entrepreneurs' Evening on Tuesday 14 September.
"The event will raise awareness of how InnovUS, the Stellenbosch University Electrical Engineering Department and the engineering industry can offer assistance with the commercialisation of relevant ideas and research," says Philip Marais, part-time Business Developer at InnovUS.
The event will take place from 17:00 to 20:00 in the Reitz Hall at Stellenbosch University's Engineering Faculty and the programme includes talks by Philip, Gert-Jan van Rooyen (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), David Murray (Elprom) and Retief Gerber (NioCAD). There will also be ample time for questions and networking while refreshments are served.
InnovUS, Stellenbosch University's technology transfer company, supports innovation and the commercialisation of ideas. It helps inventors with grand ideas in making their way to the market and focuses specifically on patents, business plans, company formation, legal and tax issues and bridging the gap between research and the market by bringing together the experience of leaders in their respective fields. This event will give participants a better understanding of how to commercialise their ideas.
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This was the second part of the serial documentary that began on the 5th of July. The documentary explained similarities in nature from an evolutionist perspective. For instance, the program related that the fur of animals, living on the north and south poles respectively, had a similar structure despite the distance in between the poles, but proceeded to claim that they evolved under similar environmental conditions. Animal Planet did not produce a single piece of evidence that would explain how these fur designs could have evolved and yet, it was imposing its biased views on the viewer. Clearly, Animal Planet knows no limits when it comes to telling tales and the program states: each animal is a success story in the book of evolution.
The basis of Animal Planet"s story line in its documentaries is not scientific but philosophical. There is no mechanism in nature that would give furless animals the genetic make-up to grow fur. For example, if reptiles were to live in the poles for millions of years, they still would not have their skin grow fur. In the genes of reptiles, we find data for scales and in the genes of polar bears and
In short, the claims made by Animal Planet lack scientific substance and are biased views based on belief and it is evident that this belief is very incoherent. For instance, the air-conditioned tanks used in the World War II in
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It is much too early for any break in the heat. The summer rains have been spotty and my house has received little rain in the past few weeks. That means our summer chores continue. Keep the work session short and early in the day to minimize staying out in the unbearable heat.
August is a busy month for gardeners. If you want to add some new plants here are a few suggestions.
Brighten your beds with annual color using coleus, impatiens, kalanchoe, marigold, melampodium, ornamental pepper, portulaca, salvia, torenia, vinca, wax begonia or zinnia. If you're after something more permanent, try perennials such as African iris, salvias, butterfly weed, chrysanthemum, false dragon head, four o'clock, gaillardia, gloriosa daisy, jacobinia, pentas, ruellia or verbena.
There are also a few vegetables you can add now including pole beans, broccoli, celery, collards, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, pepper, pumpkin, Southern peas, turnips and watermelon.
Add flavor to your garden and cooking with basil, ginger, marjoram, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage and thyme.
The tomatoes in my raised bed gave out, but I am getting flowers on the ones planted in the Topsy Turvy Planter. We'll see if the fruit develops.
There are a few bulbs that perform well in the Florida garden and add some interest. Try aztec lily, butterfly lily, clivia, crinum, gladiolus, iris, moraea, society garlic, spider lily and walking iris.
The rain has been intermittent at best where I live, so remember if you add new plant materials, you'll have to make sure they have an adequate supply of water until well-established.
This is a great time to add organic matter to the soil. Grass clippings, manure, leaves and compost are excellent soil amendments. It's best to till the materials into the soil, but adding a top dressing (spreading the organic materials around your plants) is also helpful.
If you've had areas in your garden where soil-borne pests seem to be a problem, solarize that area now. Cover the area with plastic, and let the heat from the sun kill the pests. This is very helpful, especially if you plant a vegetable garden in the same area season after season.
Keep your annuals, perennials and flowering shrubs in top form by pinching or pruning off spent flowers. This encourages the production of more blooms.
If you have roses in your landscape, spray them for black spot disease. Symptoms of this disease are dark, round spots with yellow halos followed by dropping leaves. Remove infected leaves. Avoid wetting the foliage during irrigation. This will limit the problem. This is also a good time to groom your roses. Remove dead and dying twigs and reduce the length of excessively long canes. Neaten your plants, but do not do a major pruning. Watch out for mites also.
Fertilize outdoor potted plants. Soluble fertilizers diluted to half strength can be applied every week or two, or add a slow-release fertilizer once or twice during the summer.
Your lawn should be looking better by now. If not, bugs may be the problem. Mole crickets like Bahia, Bermuda and St. Augustine turf. Chinch bugs are probably active in St. Augustine. Watch all lawns for sod webworm chewing.
You might need to resort to a chemical control. If so, check the product carefully and make sure it is formulated for your type of lawn. And be sure to follow label directions.
Fungus is more prevalent this year, so you may need to treat for this. Fungicide for turf can be purchased in liquid or granular forms at the big box stores. If you are buying sod, make sure it is free of fungus.
This is a good time to transplant or plant palms. Palm roots grow best in warm, moist soils so the summer months encourage a strong root system to take shape. Applying magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) to palms at a rate of 1 to 5 pounds, depending on the size of the palm, will green them up.
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Black Mamba Bite: The Back Story
Posted by Richard Conniff on February 24, 2013
There's been a lot of buzz on the internet suggesting that photographer Mark Laita's image of a black mamba biting him on the calf is just a set-up, a bid to publicize his book Serpentine, due out next week. So I contacted him for further details and he quickly phoned me with the story.
"It looks like a set-up," he said, "because who the hell would stand there with a black mamba biting his leg and take a photo of it? The whole thing seems preposterous." But it has also become a distraction and an embarrassment, he said, because everybody is talking about the black mamba bite instead of the book. "The whole thing is stupid, and it makes me look like a reckless jackass, which I'm not."
It happened when he was photographing snakes at the home of a leading collector, he said. With other venomous snakes, he had taken all the usual precautions. Because the king cobra is aggressive and fast, for instance, he photographed that snake completely enclosed in a plexiglass box. With the spitting cobra, he wore a mask, long sleeves and gloves to keep off the venom.
But when it was time to photograph the black mamba, the collector "was handling him like you would a boa. He was a really calm, cool snake. An old snake, not a young, excitable one."
Laita said he wore shorts because the movement of pants legs might have startled the snake, and also because snake handlers told him "the worst thing is when it climbs up your pants leg." (O.K., I think we can all agree on that one.)
Laita proceeded to make the kind of photographs that appear in the book, on a black background, to reveal the texture and color and shape of the snake. Afterward, the mamba calmly started to circle around his foot and Laita asked the collector to take his studio camera and hand him a point-and-shoot. Then he began rattling off 20 or 30 photographs, at which point the collector reached in with the snake hook to draw the mamba away. Instead, the hook bumped into a red photographic cable that was hanging down.
That spooked the snake, which struck.
Laita said he felt nothing at first and wasn't looking through the viewfinder of the camera, so didn't actually see what had happened. But after a minute the collector said, "Dude, you got hit."
"The blood was gushing out" Laita recalled, and I said, 'Oh, fuck.' He said 'How do you feel?' It had been a minute and I felt fine. 'How's your heart? How's your breathing?' And I said, 'I'm not happy at getting bitten by the snake, but I'm fine.'" He still felt that way 20 minutes later. His sock was soaked and his sneaker was filled with blood.
""Both fangs hit an artery in my calf, like the snake knew what it was doing," said Laita.
They stopped the bleeding with a paper towel compress held down with a can of Red Bull, he said. There was a big welt around the fang marks. "It looked kind of like a mushroom was growing under my skin." He did not go to the doctor or the hospital, which the collector said is equipped with black mamba antivenom. Laita said that herpetologists have all told him since then that this was incredibly stupid, because even if you feel fine, "something can happen even seven hours later." It "hurt like hell that night. It was like being stuck with a couple of push pins." But that was it.
A reader of my previous post about the incident had suggested "The snake is likely venomoid which entails having the venom glands removed in a pointless surgery that hurts the snakes so that yahoos can have 'venomous snakes.'" But Laita said this snake had not had its venom glands removed. He figures that an older snake might "bite without injecting venom, to hold it for something it was going to eat, and it obviously wasn't going to eat me." Or maybe whatever trace of venom was in the bite got immediately flushed out by the rapid bleeding.
One reason people think the whole incident was a set up, Laita said, was that a British newspaper account incorrectly reported that he did not even noticed he'd been bitten till next day. What he actually told that reporter, Laita said, was that he did not know he had gotten a photograph of being bitten till he was reviewing photos that night. Then he blinked through the 10 or 20 photos of the snake slithering around his leg, and 10 or 20 more of the blood pouring down, and sure enough, right in the middle, "There it was."
When he got home and told his wife, "She wanted to hit me in the head with a frying pan," he said. His editor just laughed and said it would be great publicity. "But I just want it to go away and not talk about it any more," he said.
And I believe him. But I also pointed out that in this case, the old saying seems especially pertinent: "The only bad publicity is an obituary."
UPDATE: Here's a more recent story about doing dumb things with black mambas.
37 Responses to "Black Mamba Bite: The Back Story"
February 24, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Great follow-up Richard, thanks!
February 25, 2013 at 8:36 am
Richard, in looking at the photo and in consideration of mamba fang position, it is hard to see this as a dry bite. It seems rather more likely that the fortuitous presence of an artery actually served to conduct the venom away rather than in. The bullet doged by the victim, however, was in the mismanagement of the bite.
February 25, 2013 at 11:19 pm
Bites can be dry even with the fangs piercing the skin; in such cases, the snake simply doesn't inject venom. I know of one case of a cobra bite to a major arthery in which the outcome was very different, so it doesn't seem to be a good thing.
February 26, 2013 at 7:34 am
Take a careful look at the photograph. If you are deeply experienced with snakes my point will be understandable, all the moreso when one considers mamba dentition. Dry bites are always possible, but in this case it does not appear to be a defensive nip.
February 27, 2013 at 10:59 am
Bill: it sure looks like the snake is not in a playful mood 🙂 But it's hard to believe that any substantial quaintity of venom was injected in this case. Perhaps the snake already bit the hook a few times during pre-photo handling, or was milked before shooting?
- February 26, 2013 at 7:34 am
November 19, 2013 at 7:15 am
Too true Bill. The black mamba is considered by many to be the most dangerous snake in the world. They seldom dry bite, and will bite a half dozen times while the victim is thrashing around in panic. He is very lucky to be alive!
- February 25, 2013 at 11:19 pm
February 26, 2013 at 1:07 pm
[…] black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) biting Laita's calf. The photographer told Richard Conniff that he wore shorts as opposed to pants because the swishing of his pants might have startled the […]
March 4, 2013 at 6:40 am
Wow. Laita's stupidity in not going to the hospital is almost forgivable (I wouldn't have known any better, though maybe research is a good idea if you're going to do this kind of thing), but surely the handler has questions to answer? I'd suggest he should have absolutely insisted on hospital treatment.
March 4, 2013 at 8:08 am
Yes, the handler would have had serious questions to answer and maybe that's one reason he did not send Laita to the hospital. He should have realized that answering questions about a corpse would have been even more awkward.
- March 4, 2013 at 8:08 am
March 5, 2013 at 10:48 pm
Appalling lack of common sense all around. Lucky for all involved. Hope the book does well.
March 7, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Glad you are okay – Incredible pictures – please be more careful, I don't care to see pictures of snakes at the expense of your health.
March 8, 2013 at 12:51 pm
[…] venom allowing Mark to continue his work. Mark attributes the snake not releasing the venom "to hold it for something it was going to eat." Whatever the reason, we're thankful for the work he's done and can't wait to see […]
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December 21, 2013 at 2:37 am
This is a HOAX! First of all, research indicates that black mambas never strike and not envenomate. "Dry bites" among this species is basically non-existent. If that snake had its venom apparatus intact, this guy would have been in serious trouble. I don't believe the account as presented.
December 21, 2013 at 2:42 am
Black mambas don't hold back any venom when striking defensively. Their venom glands carry massive amounts of venom, and a "dry bite" among black mamba bites are unheard of.
December 21, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Never say never. If this is a hoax it is a jolly good one and evidence should be detectable by someone. While it is highly unusual, I have seen venomous snakes including an adult Indian cobra that, for one reason or another, were incapable of getting their act together in order to consistently deliver a venomous bite. The cobra frequently was incapable of killing a mouse, and that despite trying mightily. So, there are a number of variables at play.
- December 21, 2013 at 3:39 pm
February 19, 2014 at 4:28 pm
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July 17, 2014 at 1:20 am
From what i gathered from first hand experience of handling mamba the last thirty years,i doubt a few facts around this incident.
1. This mamba seems to be approximately 1.8 meters [ six foot ] long.Not older than two years.
2. The fact that it is not just a strike,but a definite bite demonstrating muscle action on the poison glands.
3. Bite by any poisonous snake directly into artery would cause death in less than twenty minutes.
4. From specific mamba encounters,heart / lung and neuro problems will start within ten to twenty minutes.
July 21, 2014 at 10:53 pm
I've read that there were previously no records of a black mamba delivering a dry bite. Therefore it was very foolish of this photographer to not immediately go to the hospital. They would not have administered antivenin until he started displaying symptoms, so the dry bite would have been more well-documented. It's doubtful he bled out the venom. It was almost certainly a previously unheard of dry bite. And left untreated, black mamba bites carry the highest mortality rate among humans of any snake, at 100%. Granted, the inland taipan mortality rate is undocumented, as no recorded bite has been left untreated (and thus there are no recorded deaths from that species). But even the Australian brown snake and coastal taipan carry a lower untreated mortality rate, despite having higher LD values and a comparable venom yield to the black mamba.
What he did right: Remaining calm and keeping his heart rate low.
What he did wrong: Refusing medical consultation and/or treatment.
Anyone who suffers any bite from a venomous snake should seek medical attention, for more than just the venom, even if they believe they may have received a dry bite. Some species have venom that causes tissue necrosis, which can lead to secondary infection. Some people are allergic to venom, and even a mild copperhead bite can induce anaphylactic shock. Not all venomous bites require antivenin treatment, but symptoms should still be monitored by medical professionals. "The most dangerous snake in the world is the one that just bit you." And remember, 80% of bites are 100% deserved.
August 9, 2014 at 9:16 am
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October 18, 2014 at 6:33 pm
BM just dont bite once and usually not at your foot. They are very aggressive and can deliver multiple bites in split second. They raise themselves up and bite upper part of your body. I think this whole story is a hoax.
June 7, 2015 at 9:01 am
I am only a venomous snake enthusiast, but I find this to be quite suspicious. Dry bites and black mambas? I have always read that they are not likely to do so. Also the other comments above seem quite pertinent. The most likely answer I read above (assuming that the photographer is telling the truth about the venom glass being in tact) is that the mamba had been milked. He never addressed that. AND let's face it.. NOONE would be in shorts for a shoot with a black mamba that had not been milked, and NO snake handler would not make him get medical attention….. This is a sham. Frankly, it makes for great reading, right up until the moment that you have been bamboozled. I don't know as much about snakes as most of you, but I know about PT Barnum who said, "There is a sucker born every minute."
June 7, 2015 at 9:04 am
A couple typos I did above LOL. Venom "glands" not glass. NO ONE and moment that you REALIZE that you have been bamboozled…
- June 7, 2015 at 9:04 am
October 1, 2015 at 10:49 pm
frankly this anecdote causes me NOT to purchase Laita's book although that's what I here to do.
The hot snake collector "handled the (momba) snake like a boa" ….nope.
as others, above, note: momba+dry bite….nope.
then the inexcusable, 'not going to the hospital for anti-vemon' ….no, no, no.
None of this happened in the real world, the world we all live in, because we don't do any of the above.
October 1, 2015 at 11:12 pm
sorry wrt the typos above: I did wish to purchase and obtain photographs from Laita's work. the photos may be beautiful but the bullsh!t overcomes the beauty.
anti-venom, n and m transposed.
imo: the 'leading collector' milked or surgically altered the snake OR both. if a 'leading collector' handled the mamba as he/she would a boa the collection would overtake collector's hubris. so be it.
May 28, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Granted, it is amazing that the photographer survived, captured a photo, and that Mark/snake handler did not admit or, if necessary, force Mark to medical care. Obviously irresponsible and pretty disappointing re: the lack of medical care, if not for the bite then the profuse bleeding. However, there is always a risk in dealing with venomous snakes, so neither Mark nor the handler deserve condemnation for the bite. I have read some very stupid comments related to this story I want to address:
1) How can anyone claim so matter-of-factly that ANY snake, no less one endemic to an area where epidemiology is always sketchy, does not deliver dry bites?!? A comprehensive study would have to include a wide range of snakes of all ages, sexes, varied conditions, environments, diets, genotyping and phenotypic data for a REAL biologist to even suppose that dry bites are as uncommon as all of you claim.
2) I love all animals, but my affinity for the grossly misunderstood and appallingly under-loved snakes of our amazing fauna has & will always remain. As such, I have to commend people like Mark who endeavor to change the public idiocy/ignorance & too often apathetic or malicious attitude towards snakes. People such as him, who not only do this work, but do so even at risk to themselves (and this work is done in so many ways and in so many forms, too numerous to list) deserve our admiration and accolades for spreading awareness or making even one more individual care about our precious and amazing, but too often-neglected animals.
3)I am cynical, but having read this story, I accept all the important facts at face value, despite the questionable behavior in the aftermath of the bite. Things are taken out of context so so easily and Mark has done several interviews and several responsible writers and respected publications carry the essence of this same story. The pertinent points are indeed real & true.
Mark, books like Serpentine were what I spent countless hours absorbed in as a child. Completly in awe of snakes' raw evolutionary mastery, beauty, diversity, and complex simplicity, I was beyond determined to somehow persuade others of their value. I am a molecular toxicologist and aspiring to harness and demonstrate the limitless potential for venoms and natural toxins to produce game-changing medicines.
**If only more people knew how important nature's molecular library is to our betterment, then the mass would be a lot more concerned about our seeming eagerness to destroy the treasure trove in which we live.*** Glad you're okay, Mark. Stay safe.
- May 28, 2016 at 3:11 pm
October 1, 2016 at 11:31 am
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October 1, 2016 at 12:04 pm
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October 1, 2016 at 12:34 pm
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October 1, 2016 at 1:52 pm
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Sunday 8 September 2013
Near the ExCeL Centre, which hosts the arms fair.
In 2011 people across the world took to the streets, from Greece to Spain, from Egypt and Bahrain to New York. These uprisings were the first glimpse of a global movement against political and economic injustice. In 2013 the movement continues and has spread to Turkey and Brazil where people face brutal state repression.
Many of the weapons being used against the people in these countries are made by British companies, and sold with the support of the UK government, in a trade subsidised by the taxpayer. All of this in the midst of devastating cuts.
This September international weapons companies will be meeting warmongers and human rights abusers at one of the world's largest arms fairs to make the deals that will send deadly weapons around the world to repress the 99%.
From the tear gas in Turkey, Egypt and Brazil to the weapons of the Syrian Assad Regime the DSEI Arms Fair is a global showroom of bloodshed and profit.
Come and create a mass action against the arms fair in solidarity with the international struggles for justice.
Where: Meet 12 noon at Prince Regent station, near the ExCeL Centre in East London.
What to bring: a tent, fun, food, music, banners and water!
Just some of the things happening on the day: Take part in creative resistance with speakers, music, workshops, art, poetry and theatre – and whatever you bring! Hear from the international solidarity groups resisting state repression in Bahrain, Turkey, Algeria and elsewhere; from Andrew Feinstein, arms trade author and campaigner against corruption and Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party in England and Wales; get the lowdown on teargas; watch five star theatre on drones fresh from the Edinburgh festival and enjoy comedy, choirs and more.
See the ExCeL Centre on googlemaps.
The ExCeL Centre is served by three stations on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) which runs along the Northern perimeter of the site (towards Beckton): We will be meeting at Prince Regent station near the Eastern entrance to the site.
Very unhelpfully, engineering works are planned on the DLR line serving ExCeL on the 8 September. Prince Regent station is three stops on the rail-replacement bus service from Canning Town instead but you may need to allow extra time for your journey.
From Central London, the Jubilee line is generally the quickest way to get to Canning Town.
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Prince Regent station is also served by bus routes 147, 300 and 473. Bus 147 is the best alternative to the rail replacement bus from Canning Town. Download a map (PDF) here.
ExCeL is located very close to the Superhighway route CS3 which runs from Barking to Tower Gateway. There is a Critical Mass cycle planned on the day, meeting at Bank Junction at 10am.
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In their excellent new book, "Dollarocracy," John Nichols and Robert McChesney remind us of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis told us a century ago, that "We can either have Democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
There is very good reason to believe that we are presently experiencing "great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few." One needs only to read the daily news, watch it on TV or listen to it on radio to understand that while we may not yet have actually lost our democracy, we are most certainly headed in this direction.
Unless we awaken to that fact, and begin to take Brandeis' warning seriously, our democracy will have slipped away. Getting it back will not be an easy matter.
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On Sunday, June 1, the winners of the 2008 MTV Movie Awards have been announced and the hit action movie 'Transformers' came out as the Best Movie of 2008.
Overshadowed by the massive nomination collection garnered by "Superbad", the blockbuster action movie "Transformers" came out triumphant at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. On Sunday, June 1, the Michael Bay-directed movie has been honored with a golden popcorn statuette when it nailed the Best Movie title.
The DreamWorks' tidbit got the kudo beating out other strong contenders "Juno", "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End", "I Am Legend", "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" and of course "Superbad". Despite winning the coveted Best Movie prize, "Transformers" didn't manage to bring awards for its two leading actors, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. LaBeouf has to give up the Best Male Performance title to "I Am Legend" star, Will Smith, while Fox ought to admit defeat from "Hairspray" heartthrob Zac Efron in the category of Breakthrough Performance.
Other notable winner at the special celebration night was Johnny Depp who came home with two awards on his hands, Best Comedic Performance and Best Villain. The acclaimed 44-year-old actor was praised for his works in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End" as the eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow and in "Sweeney Todd" as the vengeful barber Benjamin Barker.
Among the rest of the winners are Ellen Page who landed Best Female Performance for her portrayal of pregnant teenager in "Juno", Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman for Best Kiss scene in "Step Up 2 The Streets" and Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet for Best Fight act in "Never Back Down". The summer blockbuster movie "Iron Man" has also been hailed as the Best Summer Movie So Far.
The live-broadcast show was opened with a spoof of German film "Wings of Desire" by host Mike Myers at the Gibson Amphitheatre. In between his act, Myers managed to promote his upcoming film "The Love Guru". Some of the awards presented were given by Charlize Theron, Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Seth Rogen and James Franco.
List of 2008 MTV Movie Awards' Winners:
- Best Movie: "Transformers"
- Best Male Performance: Will Smith, "I Am Legend"
- Best Female Performance: Ellen Page, "Juno"
- Best Villain: Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd"
- Best Comedic Performance: Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End"
- Best Fight: Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet, "Never Back Down"
- Best Kiss: Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman, "Step Up 2 The Streets"
- Breakthrough Performance: Zac Efron, "Hairspray"
- Best Summer Movie So Far: "Iron Man"


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You're right, I promised another update last night and it never came. This would be especially disappointing if I had more news to pass along, but "Henrik Lundqvist to salary arbitration":http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070707/SPORTS01/707070373/1034/SPORTS proved to be the only real story of the day.
Still on the table is a new contract for Brendan Shanahan, but according "to one report":http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/rangers/2007/07/07/2007-07-07_blueshirts_play_it_safe_with_henrik.html, Glen Sather hasn't even returned a phone call to the player's agent, Rick Curran.
This could simply bea reflection of the Rangers boss being preoccupied with the Lundqvist situation, but I go back to my initial reaction that Shanahan's admission that he only wanted to play for the Rangers takes some of the urgency away from his re-signing.
In other news, I'll be out all day today pursuing my own version of athletic glory(i.e. a tennis tourney in which my older brother and I look to avoid being bounced in the first round), but the esteemed Josh Thomson will be monitoring things in my place.


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je lui titillerai bien le clito avec mon gland moi aussi
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Muscle atrophy complicates many diseases as well as aging, and its presence predicts both decreased quality of life and survival. Much work has been conducted to define the molecular mechanisms involved in maintaining protein homeostasis in muscle. To date, the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) has been shown to play an important role in mediating muscle wasting. In this review, we have collated the enzymes in the UPS whose roles in muscle wasting have been confirmed through loss-of-function studies. We have integrated information on their mechanisms of action to create a model of how they work together to produce muscle atrophy. These enzymes are involved in promoting myofibrillar disassembly and degradation, activation of autophagy, inhibition of myogenesis as well as in modulating the signaling pathways that control these processes. Many anabolic and catabolic signaling pathways are involved in regulating these UPS genes, but none appear to coordinately regulate a large number of these genes. A number of catabolic signaling pathways appear to instead function by inhibition of the insulin/IGF-I/protein kinase B anabolic pathway. This pathway is a critical determinant of muscle mass, since it can suppress key ubiquitin ligases and autophagy, activate protein synthesis, and promote myogenesis through its downstream mediators such as forkhead box O, mammalian target of rapamycin, and GSK3β, respectively. Although much progress has been made, a more complete inventory of the UPS genes involved in mediating muscle atrophy, their mechanisms of action, and their regulation will be useful for identifying novel therapeutic approaches to this important clinical problem.
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Daniel Garrahan reports from Athens on whether Sunday's poll will produce a leader that can keep the country in the euro.
Daniel Garrahan reports from Athens on whether Sunday's poll will produce a leader that can keep the country in the euro.
Why has Russia blocked tougher sanctions against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at the United Nations, laying itself open to accusations that it is propping up a dictator and thwarting efforts to stop the violence in Syria?
Communication is often not Moscow's strong point. But Alexei Pushkov, the smooth chairman of the Russian Duma's foreign affairs committee, gave a lengthy and combative answer to that question at a London briefing this week. Read more
Perhaps the blazing sun is affecting my mental faculties, but here in Athens I am forming the impression that people in other European capitals are misreading the political tide ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election in Greece.
There has been much loose talk, for instance, to the effect that the Greek armed forces, which seized power in a 1967 coup and ruled for seven years, might once again step in because of the failure of the nation's traditional political classes and the apparent radicalisation of the electorate.
Here is what one minister in Greece's interim government, formed after the inconclusive May 6 election, told me: "There is zero possibility of a military coup. The lesson was learnt from the military dictatorship." Read more
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FUKUOKA, Japan -Two-time defending champion Japan rallied to beat Brazil 5-3 on Saturday in its opening game of the World Baseball Classic.
Japan trailed 3-2 before adding three runs in the top of the eighth inning in front of a crowd of 28,181 at the Fukuoka Dome.
Hirokazu Ibata came off the bench to tie the game with a single to right that scored Seiichi Uchikawa from second.
Japan took a 4-3 lead when Ibata scored from third on a fielder's choice and added an insurance run on Nobuhiro Matsuda's single to center that scored Hisayoshi Chono.
"This was a very difficult game for us," Japan manager Koji Yamamoto said. "Brazil put up a very good fight. But we got some timely hits in the eighth and were able to make a comeback."
Brazil, managed by Hall of Famer Barry Larkin, looked ready to pull off an upset when the tournament debutantes took a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning on a double by Leonardo Reginatto that scored Paulo Orlando from second.
"These players love to compete," Larkin said.
"They love a challenge and this was a challenge similar to the qualifiers when we beat Panama. I'm extremely proud of the way my players performed in this game."
Japan is in Group A, which includes 2006 runner-up Cuba and China. Two teams from the group will advance to the March 8-12 second round at Tokyo Dome with a chance to move on to the March 17-19 championship round in San Francisco.
Japan pitcher Tadashi Settsu, who gave up one run on two hits over three innings of relief, picked up the win.
Oscar Nakaoshi took the loss after giving up two runs in the eighth.
Japanese home-run king Sadaharu Oh, who managed the Japan team that won the first WBC, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Japan took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Hayato Sakamoto that scored Ryoji Aikawa from third.
Brazil tied it 2-2 in the bottom of the fourth when Reginatto doubled and scored on a close play at the plate on a shot to center by Reinaldo Sato.
• Netherlands 5, South Korea 0: In Taipei, Taiwan, Andruw Jones got two hits and Diegomar Markwell and Orlando Yntema combined for seven innings of four-hit ball.
• Taiwan 4, Australia 1: In Taipei, Taiwan, Chien-Ming Wang threw six shutout innings to lead Taiwan.
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First-round, round-robin play
• Italy vs. Mexico, 1 p.m. at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick
• Canada vs. Italy, 12:30 p.m. at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick
• Mexico vs. USA, 7 p.m. at Chase Field
• Canada vs. Mexico, 12:30 p.m. at Chase Field
• USA vs. Italy, 7 p.m. at Chase Field
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Ryan Greer Jazz Group to Play Metropolitan Room, 9/22
In his return to The Metropolitan Room, vocalist Ryan Greer leads a remarkably pared-down and smooth combination of his own Ryan Greer Jazz Group with Neil Flink on guitar and Mark Verdino on bass. The intimate set, titled "Whisper Low," is a fresh take on the cool-jazz sound. Reinventing essential standards and post-bop classics from Harold Arlen to Eddie Harris, Duke Ellington to Chick Corea, the evening also features original Ryan Greer Jazz Group compositions. Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 9:30 p.m. Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street. $20 cover, 2-drink minimum. 212.206.0440.
Ryan Greer is a self-producing artist in New York City whose body of work spans theater, dance and music-all rooted in jazz. Known as "an expert director-choreographer" (The New Yorker), praised for "joyous, jazz-inflected dancing both crisp and sensual" (The Chicago Reader), Ryan's lifelong passion for music is manifest in his acclaimed work as a vocalist, composer and bandleader.
Neil Flink crafted jazz guitar on scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston with such greats as Joe Lovano, Mick Goodrick, George Garzone and Richie Hart. Mark Verdino is a prominent bass player in the Broadway and National Touring circuits with a Master's Degree in Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.
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Endogenous Growth: Valuable Advance, Substantive Misnomer
Endogenous growth theory has made many valuable contributions, perhaps most notably in providing the tools that permit more effective empirical investigation of the growth process. Its one shortcoming, which is stressed here, is its inability to live up to its name, for where it has failed is in describing the wheels, the balance springs, and the interactions of the various other critical components of the mechanism that drives the growth process. This is no criticism because that is not the legitimate task of macroeconomics, one of whose prime virtues lies in judicious suppression of such complicating details in order to permit a better grasp of the overall workings of the economic machine. Such details are the task of the microeconomist, whose work must supplement the macro insights so that, together, we will obtain a fuller understanding of the growth process and how it may be improved.
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A notable moment on Morning Joe today, as Joe Scarborough called out Mika Brzezinski on her double standard when it comes to criticizing politicians for their over-the-top remarks.
Setting Scarborough off was Brzezinski's defense of Joe Biden's allegation that crime, including rape, would increase if Republicans don't vote for President Obama's latest tax-raising stimulus plan. Joe claimed Mika would surely condemn a Republican, such as Michelle Bachmann, employing similar fear-mongering tactics. Video after the jump.
Be sure to check out Mika's priceless facial expressions at the end of the clip.
After rolling video of a supposedly-incensed Joe Biden doing his fear-mongering shtick . . .
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I still think it's fascinating, Mika, that if Michelle Bachmann had said something like that, that Barack Obama was contributing to a situation that would lead to increased rapes in America, you would be going crazy right now. The same with Herman Cain. And I'd be agreeing with you. But here you've got the Vice-President of the United States, who suggested before that Republicans were hostage-takers, and now this time has said pass a bill with a tax increase in it or you are contributing to the increase of rape and robbery across America, and you want to give him a free pass. It just doesn't--it's not consistent.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I think it's highly emotional, the way he presented it, but what he was saying, that the numbers will go up --
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The 'Liz and Dick' star reportedly plans to take a later flight to Washington, D.C. for the White House Correspondents' Dinner after she failed to board the 1 P.M. flight on Friday, April 27.
Despite missing her flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Friday, April 27 afternoon, Lindsay Lohan is still expected to come to the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. TMZ claimed that the 25-year-old starlet will catch a later flight, as her representative Steve Honig assured Mail Online, "She will be at the dinner."
When asked about the reason behind Lohan's no show at the LAX airport, Honig replied, "I don't know and who really cares?" The spokeman further stated that the actress, who has been set to portray Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime's "Liz & Dick", will be attending with her lawyer Shawn Holley, and added that "she will not be giving a speech."
Also asked to share her thought on report that Lohan missed her flight was Greta van Susteren, who invited the starlet to the annual dinner organized by the White House Correspondents' Association. The Fox News host and former lawyer expressed no worry as she told Politico on Friday, "The dinner isn't until tomorrow."
Per Mail Online, Lohan failed to board the flight to D.C. after enjoying a night of partying at the Chateau Marmont after filming a guest starring role on "Glee". The "Herbie: Fully Loaded" actress allegedly came to the Hollywood hotspot with a friend after midnight and stayed until the earlier hours.
Meanwhile, it was noted that on board of the flight Lohan missed was George Clooney. The leading man of "The Descendants" has also got an invitation to the White House dinner along with the likes of Kim Kardashian, Sofia Vergara, Charlize Theron, Josh Hutcherson and Reese Witherspoon.
van Susteren herself has been met with criticism for inviting Lohan to the high profile event. Meghan McCain, the daughter of John McCain, tweeted on Thursday, "Let me get this straight Greta Van Sustern is bringing Lindsay Lohan to the WHC Dinner but has a moral offense to Louie C.K.?"
Meghan was referring to van Susteren's call for boycott after learning that the comedian would headline the event. van Susteren wrote on her blog at the time, "A media association has hired the pig, Louis C.K., to be their headliner for the big media dinner? Really? I am not going. I refuse to go. Everyone in the media should join me in this boycott."


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World champion ice carver demos at festive event
Sculptor makes his mark at Madison tree lighting
By Andy Kozlowski
Posted December 5, 2012
MADISON HEIGHTS — At the tree lighting in Madison Heights Nov. 26, there were bright lights, hot cocoa, music, Santa, Mrs. Claus and a pair of real reindeer.
And across from them was another reindeer taking shape out of solid ice, sliced and diced by world-class ice carver Jim Bur.
"Ice is always changing," said Bur, a Macomb Township resident. "It's directly affected by all of the weather factors: temperature, wind, sun, rain — every one of those has a profound impact on how you can work the ice."
Too cold, and it's brittle and breaks. Too warm, and it's soft and won't freeze well. Direct sunlight causes splinters and cracks to show, and high wind evaporates the ice, losing detail. Ideally, he'd have 15 degrees, overcast and no wind, but that is rare. For the lighting ceremony, he said, it was too warm — even though everyone was freezing.
Still, after nearly 30 years of carving and many accolades and awards, Bur knows how to work the ice, skillfully shaping the block in great silvery sprays, wielding 14-inch electric chainsaws and different chisels and drill bits.
"I can wing a one-block display piece — you can tell me you need a widget, and I can come up with that in the ice pretty quickly," Bur said.
And so it was at the lighting ceremony: The powerful musculature of a reindeer's side profile soon emerged from the ice, followed by a lively face and jagged antlers.
Bur caught the carving bug from his brother-in-law, Ted Wakar, of Canton, owner/operator of Frozen Images. Wakar's business makes ice sculptures for events, including banquets, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and more.
Wakar is also a chef by trade. Ice carving started with chefs turning the ice blocks at lavish dinner parties into sculpted centerpieces. Now it's part of the culinary curriculum at colleges everywhere. Wakar even teaches it at Schoolcraft College.
Bur, meanwhile, has a degree in industrial design and works in marketing/licensing. Both men are artistically inclined — drawing, sculpting, painting — and together they form an ice-carving duo whose different skills serve them well.
So well, in fact, that they are the only non-Japanese team to ever win the two-man team world championship in Asahikawa, Japan. They won in 1996 and participated three times in all. The event is now in its 52nd year.
All told, they have won more than 20 team competitions together, and 30-plus individual competitions between the two of them. They took part in the Olympic Culture and Arts Festival at the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. They've also won events across Michigan, the U.S. and Canada.
For the world championship in Asahikawa, their winning entry was inspired by the Art Deco sculptures of the 1930s, in particular the works of sculptor Ferdinand Preiss.
The piece featured a delicate female dancer in a flamboyant dress, with a flowing skirt and open sleeves. Standing 9 feet 8 inches tall — one inch below the competition's height limit — the piece was full of kinetic energy, conveying movement as the woman appeared to gracefully dance between several free-form arches that created a sense of space with the ice available.
"When we carve, even if it's not a human figure, we still want to have an element of motion," Bur said. "Anyone can take a template and cut out a shape, but to bring that to the third dimension and add the feeling of motion — that's where you engage the viewer."
Another example is a piece they created in Alaska. Originally they had planned to do Cinderella's carriage, but when the ice turned out thinner than expected, Bur and Wakar did the next most logical thing — a praying mantis. Naturally.
The piece was composed of many parts, a number of them carved separately and lodged or frozen into place. The arms and claws, which appear to clench and unclench with barely restrained power, were slotted into notches on the torso in the main ice block; the antenna, meanwhile, were fitted into holes in the head.
"There's almost a natural, living property to ice, and we like to convey that," Wakar said. "Every piece is original. Even if two sculptors choose a similar theme, like a swan, each piece is unique to the sculptor. Even piece to piece, very seldom do I do anything exactly like the one before."
Bur and Wakar pay close attention to each piece from all four sides, all of which are fair game in competitive judging. They work on the top of the piece as well, since some judges will climb a ladder to get a view from above.
At the end of the day, the ice melts and turns back to water — an eventuality every ice carver must accept.
"My brother-in-law (Wakar) looks at it like a floral arrangement: beautiful when you put them together, and then they slowly wilt and change and reach a point where they're no longer functional, and you throw them away," Bur said. "My view is simpler: You can't keep them forever."
This has its advantages if you sell ice sculptures for a living, he said. Unlike a painting that is bought once and stuck on a wall forever, ice sculptures are disposable art that people will buy again and again.
Bur and Wakar believe ice carving is picking up traction as a competitive outdoor sport and gaining appreciation as an art form. In the last 25 years, more and more cities have been including ice carving in their winter activities to generate foot traffic in towns and help businesses after the Christmas rush.
"I think some places were looking to bring people back out of that cabin-fever state, to come out for hot chocolate and see the town," Wakar said.
It helps the carvers avoid cabin fever, themselves.
"It does require a certain level of fortitude to stay out in the cold for hours," Bur said, "but on the flip side, I love that cold, fresh air, and in the winter when people find themselves holed up at home, for me it's my completely unique way to get my hands dirty, express myself artistically, and be outside at the same time."
And though ice carving requires patience and practice to master, it's more accessible than one may think — and more rewarding.
"It creates a true icebreaker — pun intended — in conversing with people," Bur said, "and for any artists looking for a unique medium, it's a phenomenal extension."
For more information about Frozen Images, visit www.frozenimages.net.
About the author
Staff Writer Andy Kozlowski covers Madison Heights, Hazel Park, Madison District Public Schools, Lamphere Public Schools and Hazel Park Public Schools for the Madison-Park News.
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