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Australia's most successful state politician remains its most unlikely. Yet the erudite, gallery-loving, fastidious Bob Carr is set to become NSW's longest-serving premier. Deborah Snow looks at how he holds the top job.
The Illawarra morning was hot and humid. Inside the Premier's car, despite the air-conditioning, things were getting a trifle heated. In the 15-minute ride from the Bellambi neighbourhood centre to Wollongong airport, Bob Carr was trying to squeeze in three radio interviews. Things weren't going to plan.
There were the numbers for 2UE, 2WS and 2MMM , written on a yellow post-it note and stuck to the dashboard by his driver. Carr was intent on pushing his policy plum of the morning, the introduction of selective "academic extension" classes to all government high schools. Instead he was getting sticky questions about a story on the wires claiming he'd appealed to NSW voters not to use the state election to protest against war in Iraq.
Where was this stuff coming from, he demanded of his press secretary, Michael Salmon, wedged into the back with his bodyguard, Chris, and the Herald reporter. No idea. Carr peppers his Sydney office with calls, tracks the story to an interview he'd done the previous day with a reporter from AAP. "I made no such appeal," the Premier rumbles," I never made an appeal." He tries to call the reporter. No success. He calls the AAP day editor. (The Herald undertook not to reveal the content of that conversation; let's say the tone was polite, but decidedly firm.) Little success there. He orders staff in Sydney to demand an instant correction from any media outlet that runs the story. It will be stifled at birth. Carr the control freak was swinging into action. If there is anything this Premier deplores more than sloppiness, it's losing control of the agenda.
Col Allen, the former Daily Telegraph editor, was looking for some sport once during a quiet lunch he and other media heavies were having at Lucio's. Among them was John Lyons, then a Bulletin journalist, who'd angered the Premier by printing critical remarks Carr had made about Labor at a semi-private function. Called to the restaurant by a phone call from Allen, Carr arrived promptly to tear strips off Lyons in front of all present.
Carr often professes admiration for the sage detachment of the ancient Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Yet he more often resembles a gladiator as he springs into the Sydney media arena each dawn, intent on winning every skirmish.
Graham Richardson summed it up when he described how Carr reacted on the morning of the Waterfall train crash. "Carr goes down there as soon as it happens, gives a masterful performance but is also completely moved by it all, people believe what he says, he appoints [Justice] McInerney straightaway and by the time Brogden's gotten out of bed, it's over. Carr's just covered the ground."
Despite his comfortable margin of 17 seats, there is no complacency. The political veteran is as driven as ever. A third term will make him the state's longest-serving Premier, but he disclaims this as a motive. "Holding a record doesn't matter to me. Pigeons sit on statues."
Yet in no way does he seem inclined to relax the pace. "I like the idea of pushing yourself. It quickens your understanding of life ... You never, you haven't got time for introspection or boredom or discontentedness ... There's a book I've got called Never Stop Running."
What's it about? "I've never read it. I think its a US political biography. It's tied up with a love of public service as a way to invest a life with meaning, which is probably the theme which emerges from my essay on Marcus Aurelius."
The sentiments are lofty but Carr's fleeting reference to fear of boredom or discontent seems more revealing of a psychological truth. Pressed on what he might do after retirement, Carr admits: "Retirement rather frightens me. The honest answer is, I don't know. I don't know. But I've got to be honest and say I'd be a bit scared of the relative emptiness of a life where you're not being stretched and pummelled and challenged and argued with and given the opportunity to argue back."
One of his longtime political mates remarks: "I guess for Bob the logical thing after it's over is to become a professor somewhere and write a book. But how thrilling is that? Maybe for him staying in keeps him going."
It's no secret Carr once longed for another life as foreign minister in a federal Labor government. For many years his political efforts were bent towards this goal. The chance came tantalisingly close in 1978 when a party vacancy arose in the Senate. Carr, from the ruling Right faction, campaigned furiously for that spot but was thwarted by the party powerbrokers, a disappointment which triggered Carr's departure from the Labor Council to go to The Bulletin for six years as a journalist.
Later he won the state seat of Maroubra and became environment minister under Neville Wran. But still he coveted that future in Canberra. He set his sights on taking over then deputy prime minister Lionel Bowen's federal seat of Kingsford Smith when Bowen retired. The game plan blew up in his face when Bowen stayed on and NSW Labor, by then under Barrie Unsworth, went down in flames in the state election of 1988. Carr was ordered by the party machine to take over as leader of the State Opposition, a move he regarded at the time as professional suicide.
His old friend and one-time rival from the left, Rodney Cavalier, muses: "If [then prime minister] Bob Hawke hadn't prevailed on Lionel Bowen to stay, Carr would have transferred to the Federal Parliament before mid-1987 and by '93 would have become a minister. How different history would have been."
In early 1994 Richardson, then a federal minister, and Carr, still State Opposition leader, briefly toyed with the idea of a job swap. The Herald has also learnt that in the days after Kim Beazley's second federal election defeat, the feelers again went out to Carr.
Now whispers are starting that if things get desperate enough in the federal party, Carr might be recruited as a white knight to replace the beleaguered Simon Crean.
Challenged directly on this, Carr won't deny there have been soundings. "No one has talked to me seriously about it," he says. "I've been emphatic. I've said to people in the party, on quite a few occasions, your best bet is supporting Simon ... And I've said to them opposition is hard. ... The tyranny of three polls a month is almost unendurable, yet that's what we inflict on any federal leader. I challenge them to close in and support Simon."
Adding fuel to Canberra rumours are periodic suggestions Carr may be getting bored with the managerialist task of running the state after eight long years in the job.
A former journalistic colleague and one-time friend, John Russell was best man at Carr's wedding in 1973 though the pair grew apart as Carr's career took off. Russell accompanied Carr on his first ever overseas trip in 1970-71, to America, Honolulu, Fiji and Mexico - on the return leg of which Carr famously met his wife, Helena.
Russell believes Carr, whom he calls Robert ( "I don't recognise this person 'Bob'), has got "some delusions about himself ... I never thought he wanted to come back to Australia ever again, and I think he still doesn't want to be here. At some level, he's uncomfortable here. He was disappearing every summer overseas, he likes Vienna, the galleries. There's a quotient of boredom for him here."
Carr flatly refutes both this and suggestions that if Beazley had won the last election and offered him an ambassadorship, he would have grabbed it. "I don't think he had any intention of offering me the job. And I wouldn't have, for this reason: Helena is committed to building a [printing] business, and I wasn't going to trash her career. It's not unreasonable people might think that about me but here's the practical reason it wasn't going to happen.
"Every time I've come back to Australia, I've come back with more relish. I wouldn't mind the experience of living for a few months in an overseas capital. I love the stimulus of going into one of the world's great museums and saying 'I know this collection, I only want to see six paintings', or 'I want to see the Assyrian wing'.
"[But] when you've exhausted this concentrated self-education, where do you want to be? In the clear air, the sharp light, the breaking surf or the eucalypt forest."
Cavalier says: "I've never bought the line that he'd walk in the next parliament. Certain people in the Labor Party believe there'll be a vacancy in the leadership in 2005. In the unlikely event he does run out of challenges, he can alter the focus of the job."
Carr draws few close friends from politics. For weekends and trips away he seeks out people like Edmund Capon, the ultra-cosmopolitan NSW Art Gallery director and his wife Joanna, the leading HIV specialist, Professor Ron Penny, and his wife, and the TV and film reviewer Peter Thompson.
He, Helena and the Capons have done at least half a dozen trips together to the aesthetic centres of Europe - Vienna, Venice, Florence.
Says Capon: "We walk everywhere, see everything, go to every bookshop, on the planet. I think it's absolutely fantastic for a leading politician to have the extraordinary instinct for sustaining cultural values that he has."
Carr was thrilled when the leading American novelist and commentator, Gore Vidal, accepted his invitation to Australia. He name-drops shamelessly about his association with the likes of Henry Kissinger. In politics he favours the company of what one Labor insider calls the "odder people around the show" - those with a reputation for eccentricity.
He's drawn to those who share his appetite for practical japes, mimicry, and other forms of theatrical self-entertainment. When the former member for Balmain and fellow history buff, Peter Crawford, was still in Parliament, he and Carr would amuse themselves reciting snatches of obscure German speeches and poetry - "just rippling it off for the love of the language", says Crawford.
Carr's often acerbic humour is legendary. During his days at the Labor Council he dubbed the well-padded Graham Richardson "consumption man", and would answer the phone with the stock response, "I deny everything and I'm going to call a royal commission".
Debating the Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, at a recent Labor fundraiser, he lampooned Queensland's "halls full of Taiwanese koalas offered to dispirited Japanese honeymooners". Yet it's often said of him that outside his immediate circle he lacks warmth and fumbles to find the common touch.
It comes up in many contexts. The senior officer who's sat through 20 or more meetings with him, yet whom he never recognises when they're introduced at functions. The Muslim schoolchildren crowding around him with protest banners when he travelled to Bankstown recently to launch a communities policy. He pushed past them steely-faced. (He dismisses the protest as a "political stunt" organised by a rival political party.) The 14- and 15-year-old schoolchildren at South Sydney High last week, giggling nervously as he quoted Thomas Jefferson and the Bible at them in an effort to kick-start a dialogue.
Claims one-time best man John Russell: "I worked one floor below him in the Premier's Department for five years and he never once invited me up for a cup of tea. I don't think he is interested in other people. A large part of him is a cold, calculating careerist. In some ways, he's a human hologram."
Carr is stung by such criticisms. "How could I have lasted so long in politics? Seriously? It's impossible. You couldn't be a working, functioning politician if you didn't have the common touch. I grew up in a fibro house in Matraville, the son of a train driver; my political career is based on Labor Party branches full of blue-collar workers whose trust I had to win."
Cavalier harks back to the time immediately after Carr was made State Opposition leader in 1988. "We were walking along the main street of Bowral and in the opposite direction some ordinary people, punters, were coming. Carr was so terrified of meeting them that he crossed the road to avoid them. Yet after the '91 election [when Labor started rebounding], we were at the Bowral Bowling Club; he worked the entire bar with the aplomb of a Hawke. That was his enormous discipline, to master that self-doubt."
Self-discipline is fundamental to Carr. It comes out in the drive to master the media agenda every day, his constant obsession with his health and what he eats, his fastidiousness, the long walks after a big dinner no matter what the hour of night.
No one seriously believes he likes a meat pie (despite his success in making that a running gag of the campaign). The day the Herald spent with him, he spurned not only the lamingtons on offer but even the tea and coffee, taking only half a cup of hot water.
The flip side of all this is a too-conscious preoccupation with his own image, a constant fashioning and re-fashioning of his own myth. In an interview he edits himself constantly. He often speaks and sometimes writes about himself in the third person.
At the back of his recently released book, Thoughtlines, there's a small, revealing essay - the only piece he wrote specially for the collection. It's about his first ever attendance at a Labor Party meeting at the age of 15. The set-up could be from a movie script: "On a Monday night, sometime in the first half of 1963, a short, pudgy-faced 15-year-old boy walks through dark and lamplight from a fibro house in Matraville ... his stomach tight with tension."
It's partly about what Carr later calls his "adolescent crush" on the idea of becoming a politician. But it's also telling in its self-dramatisation.
Then there are the carefully vetted snippets from his diaries, dribbled out over the years, most famously, his agonised musings on getting shanghaied into the State Opposition leadership in 1988.
Carr now says of himself: "I am blessed or cursed with a very even temperament. Whatever the opposite of manic depressive is, I am it. I don't know what mood swings are."
So how much of that glimpse of his tormented soul was itself a cleverly manipulated artefact for public consumption? A mask behind the mask?
The diary extracts, he says now, were released for "the humour of it, the fun of it ... The tone I relate to more, it's in a phrase of Chekhov I love. He referred to the sad comicality of everyday life. And that's the tone I'm more in chime with."
Cavalier, also a diarist, says he and Carr often read extracts of their own work to each other. "I'm a chronicler, he's an impressionist. I wouldn't be too influenced by the carefully selected stuff he's released to the world so far."
One acquaintance had a revelation one day as he watched Carr declaiming Shakespeare from a rocky promontory at the end of a bush walk. "He suddenly started reciting these phrases in his loudest voice. And it struck me - what makes him a successful politician is that he sees the New South Wales population as the theatre crowd for his performances."
There are parts of his life that Carr still holds intensely private. For the first time in this campaign he has made his 30-year marriage to Helena a centrepiece. Is he confident the relationship can withstand the scrutiny this might invite? "Of course," Carr shoots back.
He won't, even now, be drawn on whether their childlessness was a conscious decision or just the way things panned out, even though this conceivably might give some insight into his strong opposition to an expanding population. "We don't have to explain or justify," he says.
He concedes not being close to his two younger sisters ("lack of time"), and was not close to his brother, Gregory, a Garden Island boilermaker who died tragically of a heroin overdose after lying in a coma for a year .
"I didn't know him that well ... I met someone at Clovelly Surf Club recently who said he'd worked with Gregory, said he was always skylarking, full of fun. But nothing which explained what had happened ... I just think he was a follower, easily led by his peers." It's somewhat startling when a moment later he whoops with laughter recalling a neighbour's story about Gregory coming off his motorbike in their yard one night.
He claims not to know where his wit, the theatricality come from - though he says "my uncle Bernard, my father were very sharp, very bright, but people who, as they say themselves, didn't like school". He says Andrew West, who is writing Carr's biography, has "reached the view that my father was a bit of a larrikin" - a view Carr oddly proffers instead of his own.
Carr, the lifelong self-improver, the self-mythologiser, is sensitive to how his record will ultimately stand up.
He rejects suggestions he's played it too safe in government and followed rather than led public opinion. He says he's taken risks - plunging into the population debate, workers' compensation reform, opening up Government House, premium property taxes, drug courts, championing stem cell research, striking the tortuous balance between forestry and conservation ("my dialogue with the future") and reforming the law of negligence.
He's far less convincing on a core service area like education, where, although he prides himself on being the education Premier who's brought new "rigour" to the curriculum, spending as a share of budget outlays has dropped from 28 per cent to 22 per cent over the past decade.
He bats that back with a flurry of competing statistics. "I think New South Wales during my period has enjoyed better governance than in any period I could recall."
Then being Bob Carr, he can't help adding: " Of course, you would expect me to say that."
On war with Iraq
"I think the Prime Minister has staked out a position which is seriously damaging to Australia's long-term interests. I'd much rather see us showing the caution of Canada, that is, an ally of the US but one that stays a step or two away from the high-risk adventure of a pre-emptive strike driven by a unilateral policy."
On the White House
"I've got less sympathy with this Administration in America than any I can remember, as much because of their profligate position on carbon use and their opposition to Kyoto as their position in Iraq. I'm bewildered by what their policy is in the wake of a clean sweep in a land war [on Iraq]. For example, what initiatives they have warehoused to get a just peace bringing security to Palestinians and Israelis?"
On engagement with Islam
"What concerns me is this notion of the clash of civilisations. If we move towards a clash of civilisations, and away from the notion of engagement, yes, we would be vulnerable because the world's most populous Islamic nation is a few steps away from us. And the prospect of Indonesia two elections from now ending up Islamist is very worrying."
On drug addiction
"Someone said to me, Robert, you've got to understand that there are a lot of people who just don't attach much value to life, it's not a prize, it's not a gift. And if you devalue it, you can take risks with it. That's the only way you can explain it, that life's not such a gift to them."
On the Labor leadership
"I'm proud of the fact that as a prominent state Labor leader I've never done anything to undermine the federal Labor leadership, either under Kim or Simon. I'm still enough of that idealistic kid who joined the Labor Party to have a bit of reverence for someone who's federal Labor leader. Two rules of leadership: the leader is always right, and second rule, if they're wrong, refer to rule one."
On former Labor leader Kim Beazley
"He's on a journey beyond the experience of leadership. I said to him, but for a fluke of a few votes in three seats [in 1995], I'd have had the same experience, you know, wasted years in Opposition. What I'm trying to say in a deferential way is that he's got to be allowed to make his own journey at his own pace. It may well lead back to a frontbench role, but that's got to be handled sensitively at this time."
On the Labor Party
"I've got a relationship with it that can survive a party conference where they shouted me down over electricity privatisation. They were like a great tawny beast in Town Hall, roaring and bellowing and scratching at their leader, but no hard feelings. I'm back the year after with a big election win in my pocket and I get a standing ovation."
On conservation
"I believe 50 to 100 years from now people will judge governments by what they did to save a natural world in retreat."
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A mother who openly carried a loaded handgun to her daughter's football game was shot dead along with her husband in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide.
Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain 33, were pronounced dead yesterday at their home in Lebanon, a small city about 80 miles west of Philadelphia, US.
The couple's three children – a 10-year-old boy and girls aged 2 and 6 – were home at the time but weren't hurt, police said. They were taken to stay with friends and relatives.
Some neighbours told the Lebanon Daily News they heard or saw the children running from the house and screaming "Daddy shot Mommy!" shortly before the emergency centre was alerted.
Autopsies on the Hains were to be conducted Thursday, said Lebanon County Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum, who did not immediately return a morning telephone call.
Details about the shootings and what prompted the violence remained unclear today.
Neighbour Mark Long said the Hains had been having marital problems for about a week.
He said Scott Hain had left home on Tuesday, and Meleanie Hain didn't know where he was, but that he returned yesterday.
Meleanie Hain made headlines after she attended her then 5-year-old daughter's soccer game in a park in September of last year with her 9mm Glock pistol in plain view holstered on her hip, upsetting other parents.
The county sheriff, Michael DeLeo, revoked her gun-carrying permit nine days later.
Hain successfully appealed the permit revocation, although the judge who restored the permit questioned her judgment and said she had "scared the devil" out of other people at the game.


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|A pivotal role for antigen-presenting cells overexpressing SOCS3 in controlling invariant NKT cell responses during collagen-induced arthritis
|Veenbergen, S. ; Bennink, M.B. ; Affandi, A.J. ; Bessis, N.; Biton, J.; Arntz, O.J. ; Berg, W.B. van den ; Loo, F.A. van de
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|Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 70, iss. 12, (2011), pp. 2167-2175
|Veenbergen, Sharon Bennink, Miranda B Affandi, Alsya J Bessis, Natacha Biton, Jerome Arntz, Onno J van den Berg, Wim B van de Loo, Fons A J England Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Dec;70(12):2167-75. Epub 2011 Aug 27.
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OBJECTIVE: Suppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS) proteins constitute a class of intracellular proteins that are key physiological regulators of immune cell function. It has previously been shown that antigen-presenting cells (APCs) overexpressing SOCS3 steer T helper immune responses and protect against experimental arthritis. A study was undertaken to investigate the contribution of SOCS3 in regulating invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cell responses during collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). METHODS: DBA/1 mice were immunised with type II collagen and adenoviruses encoding SOCS3 were administered intravenously before the clinical onset of arthritis. Murine APCs overexpressing SOCS3 were co-cultured with an iNKT cell hybridoma and interleukin 2 (IL-2) release was measured by Luminex multi-analyte technology. The frequency and activation of primary iNKT cells was assessed by flow cytometry. Murine APCs were analysed for cytokine and CD1d expression following viral SOCS3 gene transfer. RESULTS: Viral overexpression of SOCS3 in APCs resulted in reduced activation of the iNKT cell hybridoma. Importantly, during initiation of CIA, adenovirus-mediated overexpression of SOCS3 in hepatic and splenic APCs inhibited iNKT cell expansion in both organs. The iNKT cell population from SOCS3-treated mice showed low expression of the early activation marker CD69 and primary liver iNKT cells produced less interferon gamma and IL-4 upon alpha-galactosylceramide stimulation. No differences in CD1d surface expression were observed, but SOCS3-transduced APCs produced decreased levels of proinflammatory cytokines and increased levels of IL-10. CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate a critical role for SOCS3 in controlling the immunostimulatory capacities of APCs, which has direct implications for the effector function of iNKT cells during arthritis.


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Carbon: A Better Looking Twitter Interface
And now for something different, Carbon for Twitter is a new client on Android.
And now for something different, Carbon for Twitter is a new client on Android.
Twitter's big API changes have been causing all kinds of problems for third party Twitter clients, but they aren't the only ones affected by Twitter's new outlook on life. According to Buzzfeed, third party image hosts are in danger as well.
You have the Twitter, you say? And you're following all us Gizmodo tweeters religiously? If not, we're right over there on the left.
There've been some reports about an upcoming "Twitpocalypse" in which Twitter would finally crash and burn due to the limitations of a 32-bit signed integer. Allegedly, Twitter will collapse once the number of tweets passes 2,147,483,647.


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Thomas Jahn, marketing manager for Fertin Pharma, which produces its own private label energy gum, said at Vitafoods in Geneva earlier this week.
"Although it's been pulled back, you see a lot of energy products coming into the market and it's also that the energy drink category has become so big and everyone's trying to get a piece of the action. People are trying to diversify their products and chewing gum is a natural way to go on."
"I think it's just a matter of time before that market comes again. It's just a matter of making sure the product is morally acceptable so that it doesn't attract children."
'Almost same amount of caffeine as in Coke'
"There's almost the same amount of caffeine in a can of coke as there is in an energy chewing gum," he added.
A can of Coca-Cola has 32 mg of caffeine and a can of Diet Coke contains 42 mg.
Each piece of Wrigley's Alert gum contains 40 mg of caffeine, about half a cup of coffee's worth.
FDA: 400 mg daily - a safe limit
Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would investigate the safety of caffeine in food products amid concerns about the effect on children and adolescents.
- Czech-based firm Los Angeles Industries produces a 7-piece xylitol-sweetened gum called L.A.Fuel . Each piece carries 25mg taurine and 100mg of caffeine.
- US firm GumRunners produces a caffeinated gum called Jolt Gum . It claims two pieces contains the caffeine equivalent of one cup of coffee (about 80mg).
- Another US firm X8 Energy Gum has a product by the same name that contains 50mg of caffeine. The product is sugar-free and uses a patented dual layer compression technology to incorporate a blend of B-Vitamins.
- Fertin Pharma's energyGum contains 50mg of caffeine per piece.
- Wrigley's Alert Energy Caffeine gum has 40mg of caffeine per piece.
According to Mintel, teens and adults aged 18-24 are the biggest gum users in the US.
The FDA has suggested that 400 mg a day - about four or five cups of coffee - is a safe maximum amount, but it is conducting a review.
Gum halted to respect FDA
On Tuesday last week, Mars-owned Wrigley said it would halt production, sales and marketing of its Alert Energy Caffeine Gum, which had only been in store shelves for a matter of weeks.
Casey Keller, president of Wrigley North America, said in a statement that the company took great strides to ensure the product was marketed to over 25s, but said it took the action "out of respect for the FDA" to give it time to develop a regulatory framework for caffeine in food and drinks.
Mintel analyst Marcia Mongelonsky said at the time the gum was launched that it could prove to be a lawsuit hazard. See HERE.
Caffeine taste a plus
Wrigley had claimed that the gum left a caffeine after-taste that would put young people off.
Jahn of Fertin Pharma, said of his own company's energy gum: "There is a slight taste of caffeine, but what we get from consumer research is that consumers like to taste the caffeine so they know its there – because one of the big issues with chewing gum is that not all consumers believe you can get active ingredients into your system as you're not swallowing it."
Fertin Pharma's energyGum contains 50 mg of caffeine per piece.
Jahn said that with gum you get the caffeine effect within a few minutes, whereas it takes 30-40 minutes to kick in for coffee or an energy drink .
Market potential
Ferin Pharma says on a fact sheet for its energyGum: "Given the significant benefits that chewing gum as an energy delivery system has, especially compared to energy drink, the potential for taking a piece of the $100bn plus energy food and drink market is substantial."
It further contends that a 10-piece pack of energy gum is around the same as taking five energy drinks, meaning the consumer makes fewer purchases. It adds that gum also requires no refrigeration, unlike drinks.
Cesar de Ghouy, executive director of Los Angeles Industries, producer of L.A.Fuel gum, previously told this site that Wrigley entering the energy gum segment would raise awareness of the category – which he called a "rising star".


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A MAJOR donation and more successful fundraising means Salisbury District Hospital is able to have not just one new CT scanner, but two.
Last year, the people of Salisbury rallied round to raise an incredible £650,000 to buy a desperately needed second CT scanner, which will benefit 12,000 patients a year.
That scanner is set to arrive in the autumn and means that thousands of stroke, cancer, heart and emergency patients will be able to have potentially life-saving scans more quickly.
Now, thanks to a big anonymous donation from a local charitable trust and ongoing fundraising events for hospital charity the Stars Appeal, enough money has been raised to trade in the overworked original CT scanner and upgrade it to a new, state-of-the art machine.
This upgraded machine will be delivered in the summer and will be able to offer more detailed imaging to help doctors diagnose a wide range of illnesses and injuries more quickly.
With two of the latest CT scanners in the hospital's radiology department, waiting times will be reducing, meaning that patients can start treatment as soon as possible.
Some patients will have scans instead of minor operations and fewer people will have to travel to other hospitals for diagnostic procedures. And there will be an alternative machine available if the other one breaks down or needs servicing.
Dr Nick Marsden, chairman of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We are hugely grateful to these generous local supporters for their continued support of our charity, the Stars Appeal. "Their wonderful gift combined with those from the many other local people and organisations who have so brilliantly supported this campaign will mean that our patients will soon have access to some of the best CT diagnostics possible."
Consultant surgeon and chairman of the CT Scanner Campaign Helen Chave said: "When we set out to raise money for the second CT scanner we could never have dreamed that, less than a year on, we would be in a position to fund two brand new machines. "The news of this very significant and generous contribution really is the icing on the cake for us, and I would like to thank everybody who supports the Stars Appeal and has helped to make this wonderful outcome possible." When both new scanners are in place the Stars Appeal is planning a celebratory event at which donors and supporters can see the new technology in action. Anyone wishing to attend can email email@example.com to register their interest.


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Veterans benefit fair: 'It literally helped save my life'
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Nearly 1,000 veterans in the Lower Valley took advantage of the Stand Down benefit event Saturday.
Happening across the country, veterans were able to get help with everything from clothes to jobs.
Nate Dabney is one of many veterans looking for employment. He just completed his time with the Army. The pressure to find a job is on his shoulders to provide for his family.
"It sucks because of the back injury I can't really get a job," said Nate Dabney.
After back surgery in July, Dabney's body was partially paralyzed, limiting what he can do. He's tried to flood online jobsite with resumes.
"The websites are kind of, the E benefits websites and stuff are huge. I go on and I spend days in them but it just gets really confusing," said Dabney.
Venues and career coaches here are able to help Dabney expand his search. And counselors are able to help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which he also suffers.
"It literally helped save my life from some of the issues I was dealing with," Dabney told KIMA.
The Yakima Valley Veterans Coalition raised over $10 grand for the event. Free clothing, haircuts, housing opportunities, medical and dental exams are all free of charge.
Nearly 16,000 vets are in Yakima County. Organizers told KIMA they expect a larger turnout, 200 more people compared to last year.
"It's cool seeing so many veterans getting help," said Dabney.
Dabney remains hopeful as he networks and distributes his resume.
It's events like these that help remind our veterans they're not alone.
The Yakima Valley Veterans Coalition told KIMA, they hope to expand the event next year.


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You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
You post the link, the name of the site you're getting it from, and whomever wrote it.
It's certainly going to be a different-look roster this year.
I'm definitely dreading the inevitable rebuilding phase. Hopefully we can nab another championship before it comes to that.
If posting an article you need the author stated somewhere (at the beginning or the end) and a link to the site it came from.
Everything else is gravy.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Longtime Indianapolis Colts punter Hunter Smith will join the Washington Redskins next season, his agent said Thursday.
"Hunter has agreed to terms with the Redskins," Thomas Mills, Smith's agent, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Mills would not release financial details of the one-year deal at Smith's request.
KTEN-TV in Denison, Texas, first reported the move. Smith is from Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas, and was visiting there this week.
Smith has never missed a game in 10 years with the Colts, but he became a free agent after last season and the Colts didn't re-sign him. He played in 114 wins with Indianapolis. Only Peyton Manning has more wins among active Colts with 117.
Smith has averaged 43.4 yards per punt in his career. He averaged 44.2 yards last season, and his 38.8 net yards per punt last season was the highest total of his career.
The Redskins ranked last in the NFL in net punting average last season. Draft pick Durant Brooks won the job over incumbent Derrick Frost during training camp, then was cut and replaced by Ryan Plackemeier in October. Plackemeier was released in February.
The Redskins have signed two other punters this offseason, veteran Dirk Johnson and first-year player Zac Atterberry.
That is too bad, but I bet the skins overpayed nicely as they usually do. There will definitely be someone wanting to come punt for the blue and white.


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I can't find a supplier to make multigrain bread. I need a multigrain mix to add to dough. How can I do it myself?


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A seal pup which ended up in a Cornish garden at the height of the winter storms is ready to go back to the wild.
Rover was just eight weeks old when storms washed him so far inshore in early February, he ended up in a garden in Portreath, several hundred feet from the nearest beach.
Surprised homeowners John and Val wise found Rover wandering round their lawn.
They alerted coastguards who in turn called The Cornish Seal Sanctuary, who sent an animal care worker to collect the bemused and disorientated pup.
"He was a good healthy weight, but had taken a bit of battering to his lips and chin and had suffered a few cuts and bruises to his flippers from being tossed around by the heavy seas," said head seal care expert Tamara Cooper.
Rover spent ten days in the Sanctuary's indoor hospital and quickly earned a reputation for being one of the feistiest of the winter casualties.
"Staff learned to be extra careful when cleaning up near Rover, as he was completely fearless and apt to try and take a bite out of anyone getting too close," said Tamara.
"He has been completing his recovery in our convalescence pool and is now a hefty 30 kilos and healthy enough to return to the wild."
Rover will be released in early part of next week. Week commencing of June 2 at Gwithian Beach.


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O.K. sports fans, we know it sucks when your team is down, the game is in the final stretch, and a key player seems completely distracted. But we like to think there's one instance in which you can forgive a star player for having his mind on something other than the big game: When he's trying to score some digits from an unbelievably hot bikini model in the bleachers.


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Amanda Bynes Wasn't Nude At NYC Tanning Salon, But Is VERY Rich
Bynes tells Us Weekly that she's suing In Touch Weekly for a story that claimed the actress, 26, surprised customers as she was seen walking around a New York City tanning salon recently wearing nothing. She seemed to have forgotten to put on a robe as she searched for a pair of goggles.
Beach Bum Tanning CEO James Oliver also told Us Weekly that the story is untrue and that there is security footage to prove it. "Employee testimony and security footage have confirmed that Ms. Bynes was not acting inappropriately," he stated. "She is a long-time client and we stand by her account."
"I'm suing In Touch for printing a fake story," Byrnes told Us on Thursday. "I'm not 'troubled.' I don't get naked in public."
Bynes added some other pertinent details to her story.
She said, "I'm 26, a multi-millionaire, retired. Please respect my privacy."
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Bad news for the rest of Conference USA: Southern Mississippi has yet to play its best basketball. And the Golden Eagles are 14-2 and have won 10 straight, the school's longest winning streak since 1990-91, after Wednesday's 78-76 win over East Carolina. They also have won 13 of their last 14.
While their record would suggest otherwise, Southern Mississippi was inconsistent in the nonconference part of its season. And that inconsistency was evident on Wednesday night in the Conference USA opener. Of course, it's not really unexpected since coach Larry Eustachy has had to replace veteran scorers Larry Flowers and R.L. Horton.
The Golden Eagles hit the road for their second conference game on Saturday at Tulane. And the Green Wave won't be the pushover they were last season. In fact, Tulane is having one the biggest turnaround seasons so far in the country.
The Green Wave lost Wednesday night to UCF 60-53 in their conference opener. But they are still 12-3 on the season. Tulane's other two losses both came on the road, the first at Wofford and the second at No. 1 Syracuse.
The Golden Eagles will need to shut down Kendall Timmons (who leads the team in scoring) and Jordan Callahan (who scored 18 in the loss to CFU).
Southern Miss outrebounded East Carolina 15-5 on the offensive board in its win over the Pirates. Teams are going to win a lot of games with that much dominance on the glass.
The Golden Eagles made some mistakes down the stretch and didn't put the Pirates away when they led by 12 points in the second half. They also fired up too many 3-pointers (21 of their 55 field-goal attempts came outside the 3-point line).
But they made the plays they had to in order to win the game.
Eustachy was correct when he said his team "escaped" with a win over East Carolina. Hopefully they take that lesson with them when they had to Tulane on Saturday.
- Larry Eustachy got a phone call recently from an old friend. And the Southern Miss coach was quite flattered with what Eddie Sutton, who won over 800 games in his coaching career, had to say.
"He said, 'You're surprising everyone,'" Eustachy said. "'You lost good players and I saw you picked as low as ninth.' "
Suttons' comments only confirmed Eustachy's thoughts about his team.
"I said all along I like these guys," Eustachy said. "It's really just starting. The rubber hits the road with league play."
- Junior F Jonathan Mills continues to make bigger contributions as the season goes on. He had 19 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double in 27 minutes off the bench in an 80-49 victory over Alcorn State on Dec. 28.
Mills is in first year with Southern Miss after transferring from the College of Eastern Utah.
"I'm an energy-type guy," Mills said. "I'm the type of person, when I come off the bus, I have that spark. I provide something when the team doesn't have it. I feel like the teams feeds off me. If I come with energy, the team will have energy."
- Southern Miss is 13-2, but sophomore G Neil Watson believes the Golden Eagles would be 15-0 if senior G Darnell Dodson had been with the team all season. Dodson, a transfer from Kentucky, sat out the first 10 games as part of a university-imposed suspension for his part in an on-campus altercation.
"Dodson has been a blessing to this team," Watson said. "His offensive capability is truly amazing. Everybody is happy to have him here. If he was here for the two games we lost back at Denver and against Murray State, we'd be unbeaten."
Dodson is averaging 15.0 points and 7.2 rebounds in his first five games.
By The Numbers: 13-Wins for Southern Miss by the end of December, setting the school record.
Quote To Note: "I thought it was a beautiful game. I thought we played terrific." - Coach Larry Eustachy after Southern Miss' 65-56 victory at McNeese State on Dec. 31 in the Golden Eagles' final non-conference game.
This Week's Games:
- at Tulane, Jan. 7
Key Matchups: Southern Miss beat Tulane twice last season, winning 67-54 at home in the regular season and 63-47 in the Conference USA tournament. In the regular-season meeting, Bolden had 11 points for Southern Miss, and the Golden Eagles outrebounded Tulane 37-23. Jordan Callahan had 20 points, including six 3-pointers, for the Green Wave, and Kendall Timmons had 18 points before fouling out. In the conference tourney, LaShay Page had 12 points, and Southern Miss again dominated the glass, 35-23. Timmons had 15 points and five assists for Tulane, which shot just 34 percent.
Trending: Kids hear it all the time. Eat your vegetables and make your free throws. The Golden Eagles missed two front ends of one-and-one free throws in the final minute and that kept East Carolina in the game. Some offensive rebounds helped save them from blowing a game at the free-throw line.
But at this point, coach Larry Eustachy shouldn't be too worried. These young players will grow with experience and the confidence should only build with each pressure situation.
Another reason not to be alarmed? Southern Miss led the conference in free-throw shooting heading into the game and still made 21 of 28 attempts. This team can shoot the basketball and it should only get better as they make their way through the schedule.
Player Notes:
- Darnell Dodson came off the bench and gave the Black and Gold a nice lift in Wednesday's win. He finished with 17 points on 5 of 8 shooting from the field and made 7 of 8 free throws. Like several of the Golden Eagles, Dodson had tremendous upside and should improve as the season moves along.
- LaShay Page who led all players with 29 points on 6-of-9 3-point shooting in the Golden Eagles' win over McNeese State on Saturday, continues to have the hot hand. The junior guard made 6 of 11 3-pointers and finished with a team-high 20 points in the win over East Carolina. Teams are going to have start playing him tighter and he has the moves to go around defenders playing too tight.


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Includes photocopies of t.p. and two plates from To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servt. P.W. Tomkins.
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There's much to admire in Paul Nicholas's production of A Tale of Two Cities. (Incidentally, just me who always chuckles at the concept of "a musical version of A Tale of Two Cities"? Thankfully this one did not star Joey Tribbiani.) When I interviewed him a few weeks ago, he emphasised the need to keep the action moving and not to let it drag, and this is demonstrated beautifully by the running times of each act - one hour 15 for the first, one hour for the second.
He also hinted that he treats the material as a soap more than an epic. Certainly this works better than the sprawling version of the show seen on Broadway, when I lost track of who was who and what was happening despite knowing the story very well. Unfortunately this does mean that occasionally it veers into melodrama - when Lucie overhears her father talking about her husband's true identity, she gasps, "He's an Evremonde?!" and this concludes the scene.
Jennifer Hepburn, as Lucie, is beautiful and engaging, with an impressive voice and managing to wring some display of emotion out of this cynical reviewer. Jonathan Ansell, as Darnay, largely sings very well, but I wasn't convinced by his characterisation - I think Darnay needs a bit of wit as well as the solid goodness and nobility he's most known for.
Jemma Alexander, as the deranged Mme Defarge, is fantastic in her musical numbers - given a melody, she acts wonderfully and terrifyingly. I was also impressed by Craig Berry in his London debut as M Defarge - another great voice on show.
Michael Howe, as Sydney Carton, the dissipated hero of the piece, is a charismatic and convincing figure; and certainly, you can imagine Nicholas himself in the role, which he played in the show's previous incarnation. However, without wishing to veer into offence, I did have a little issue with the casting; good though Howe is, he is clearly significantly older than Ansell. Their wigs were, yes, similar, but they do not look similar enough even in passing for the central conceit of the plot to operate properly, particularly to those of us sitting near the stage.
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