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When a half-dozen Minnesota and Wisconsin Indian tribes set out two years ago to sink a rival Indian casino proposal, they turned to some influential Washington insiders for help.
The tribes hired Patrick O'Connor, a lobbyist in Minneapolis and Washington who is a former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. O'Connor then arranged for tribal leaders to meet with an old friend, Donald L. Fowler, who was then the Democratic Party chairman.
The tribes that opposed the project were longtime Democratic supporters who ran their own lucrative gambling operations and wanted to prevent a potential new competitor -- three Chippewa tribes from Wisconsin -- from cutting into their profits. At a meeting here on April 28, 1995, Mr. Fowler promised to get in contact with the Interior Department and Harold M. Ickes, the deputy White House chief of staff, on the tribes' behalf.
What happened next is a bit murky, but the results are not, as Senators investigating campaign-finance abuses heard in testimony today. Less than three months after the meeting, the Interior Department killed the project, overruling the Minneapolis office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which had supported the plan.
The tribes that opposed the project, including the Oneida and St. Croix and some other Chippewas, were grateful. Four of the tribes donated $56,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1995, mainly in the weeks after the decision, and $225,000 in 1996. The tribes also contributed thousands of dollars to the Minnesota Democratic Party. Tribal leaders showed their appreciation.Continue reading the main story
''On behalf of the Ho-Chunk Nation, I want to thank you for your help in the successful effort to defeat the Hudson casino,'' JoAnn Jones, president of one of the tribes, in Black River Falls, Wis., said in a note to Mr. Fowler. ''You were particularly instrumental in helping the department understand the significance and importance of their decision.''
But the tribes that wanted to build a casino on a failing dog-racing track in Hudson, Wis., 20 miles east of Minneapolis, were not amused. They filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Madison, Wis., contending that improper political pressure had been used to kill the project.
The Interior Department denied that it had been pressured into the decision, citing the economic effects that a new casino would have had on the gambling operations of the nearby St. Croix tribe.
But in March, Judge Barbara B. Crabb of Federal District Court in Madison ruled that ''there is a distinct possibility that improper political influence affected'' the decision. The judge may allow the Wisconsin tribes to subpoena Clinton Administration officials to testify.
Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said at the hearing today, ''It's certainly the case that such actions as were taken undermine public confidence to have officials engaged in fund-raising, in my view to be advocating on behalf of contributors on matters before Government agencies.''
The Hudson casino episode was one of several that Republican senators sought to portray as examples of where Mr. Fowler promised favors in exchange for specific donations.
Mr. Fowler acknowledged making calls on behalf of the tribes who opposed the project but said he had not influenced the final decision. ''I called Mr. Ickes, explained to him the nature of the situation, and I called someone at the Department of Interior,'' Mr. Fowler said. ''I do not recall the name of the person with whom I talked at the Department of Interior. To my recollection, I did not suggest a result, did not ask for an outcome. I just asked that it be reviewed.''
But in a memorandum dated May 5, 1995, Mr. Fowler argued for Mr. Ickes to intervene on behalf of the Oneida and St. Croix, if nothing else than to thwart Republican supporters. ''The proposal to convert a dog track to a casino is being pushed by American Indian tribes who are supporters of Governor Thompson,'' the memorandum said, referring to the state's Governor, Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican.
Mr. Fowler had a difficult time explaining at least seven telephone conversations that Mr. O'Connor had with David Mercer, a senior fund-raising official at the Democratic National Committee, from April 28, the day of the meeting, to Aug. 21.
''Can you explain to me why a lobbyist for the tribes would have so much contact with the D.N.C. deputy finance director about the same time that the casino application was under consideration?'' Senator Collins asked.
Mr. Fowler replied: ''One could infer that the casino matter was discussed -- but I don't know that. Mr. O'Connor is also involved in various activities and various affairs of the Democratic Party.''
Senator Collins asked again whether Mr. Fowler had championed the cause of the tribes who opposed the project because he knew the Indians would give more money.
''If the implication of that question is did I perform or do something in response to a contribution, or did I do something under the condition of receiving a contribution, I categorically said or answered that, no,'' Mr. Fowler said. ''Whatever they contributed or didn't contribute had nothing to do with my actions in that regard.''Continue reading the main story


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Pilots assume in Britain, you need more beer
In July, Russian pilots Mikhail Danilstsev and Andrey Lyubimov were stopped by security from flying a 767 Aeroflot flight from Manchester, England, to Moscow. The security agent smelled alcohol on their breath, and tests confirmed that both were over the legal limit for pilots, which it is reasonable to hope is zero. The men were in court this week and gave the judge what they thought was a reasonable excuse: They were drinking British beer, so they assumed it was weak and that they could drink more. The judge fined them $3,900 each. They have already been fired.
Ex-con wants comp for missed work
Robert Aldrich, who has numerous burglary-related convictions, was cleared of the latest charges against him and released after spending months in a Massachusetts jail. Since he was not convicted this time, he filed for compensation for work he missed while in jail. "The defendant is a career (breaking and entering) man seeking compensation for burglaries he couldn't commit while locked up," Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney, told the Boston Globe. Aldrich says he missed out on home improvement work to the tune of $4,000 a month but could not support that figure. But that was just because he does that work under the table to avoid taxes, he said. The judge rejected the claim.
Sleepy judge may cause drug retrial
Rafael Cesan and Ruben Mas Rivadavia were found guilty of drug trafficking in Australia in 2004 and sentenced to 13 and 11 years behind bars. They are appealing the conviction on the basis that the judge slept through the case. Judge Ian Dodd appeared to sleep for periods of up to 20 minutes at a time, sometimes accompanied by snoring, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. It distracted, and sometimes amused, the jury. Court officials sometimes loudly dropped documents in an attempt to wake him up. Dodd retired in 2005 after being diagnosed with a sleep disorder.
Gasoline: It's still quite flammable
Austin Heckman of Wauzeka, Wis., has been charged with attempted theft and the negligent handling of burning material. The theft stems from a Sept. 27 incident in which Heckman, 23, is accused of siphoning gas out of a van in a parking lot, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The negligent handling charge comes from the fact that while he was doing the siphoning, he wasn't sure if the gas was coming out. So he checked. With a lighter. It was. Police reports did not mention if Heckman was injured. It is worth noting that Heckman is not the same guy who cleaned the cobwebs from his house with a blowtorch, which was reported on Friday.
Compiled from Times wire services and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster, who can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Paula Abdul dancing to the YMCA
Paula dances to the YMCA
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Paula dances to the YMCA
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Learning spanish is fun
i love her giggle <3 it's so cute!!
That's what I call having a good time.
Those dudes are freakin crazy. lmfao
she's so awesome she probably already knew that dance but it makes it even better
Bahahaha! I love it!
haha…i liked this dance… sporting guy…
still one of my favs
thats fake
sammygreen1231 thats facke
Aaww….she's sooo Adorable!! I love when she giggles lol
cosmetic surgery did wonders for her face.. she use to be AGLY
hahaha! lov it!
gosh she's so adorable when she dance!!
LMFAO. "Oh my god" Love Pawler. (:
She is too damn cute<3
Love her!
"Oh my god."
She mumbles it at the end..it's adoreable!
Haha she's really a GREAT dancer i wonder if anyone even else danced in group dances at her prom lol she prob. stole the show=D shes Hi-Larious at the end you can hear her yelling YMCA=D
hehehe YMCA!
I wanna dance along.
Wow she caught on SO FAST to the rest of the dancers. And she wasn't even winded at the end.
some people are just born to dance.
I love this video so awesome shes so cute
Omg thats so cute lol
Haha! Shes so adorable!!!
i would do anything to dance with paula! even if it is the YMCA! 😀
shes amazing and adorable! hehe love her!!


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LeahGoodwin and Alfredo posted some Kralik meteor vases a while back. Here's mine - I think! Like LeahGoodwin's cobalt example, but with cobalt legs too, and the taller, skinnier version. This one measures 9 1/2" tall and the iridescence is amazing.
Be gentle with me - I'm new and ignorant.


text: On 25-Mar-08, at 7:14 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Andreas Ehn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been reading through the archive and thought an introduction >> would be in place. I'm a long-time XMPP fanboy but have unfortunately >> spent far too little time tinkering with the technology. I'm an avid >> user, though. >> >> Currently I work for a (primarily) Stockholm, Sweden-based startup >> company (still in semi-stealth mode) that's building a >> peer-to-peer-backed music streaming service. We'd like to be as open >> as possible about interfacing with others and creating APIs that >> others can use to extend our service or build entirely new ones. > > As a beta tester, I can report that this semi-stealth service is > positively awesome! oooooOoOoOOOOhhhh ... need more beta testers? > >> Specifically, I'm thinking about using XMPP as a mechanism for >> distributing music-related attention data, sending notifications to >> interested third-party services rather than asking them to poll an >> web >> service. > > Perhaps I should poke the folks at Songbird again to see if they are > interested in joining the conversation. +1 !!! > >> I'm looking forward to the conversation! Thanks Peter and Harper for >> the initiative! > > We AIM to please! ;-) > >> Oh, and what is Dopplr up to with XMPP? > > Nothing yet as far as I know, but I've heard rumblings that they are > interested in perhaps using XMPP to help solve the HTTP polling > problem > that so many social sites are facing. I, too, was curious about this - and even pinged one of my contacts / friends @ dopplr to pick his brain ;-) I'd *heart* some Fire Eagle / Dopplr integration powered by XMPP! Fun stuff! -- James Walker :: http://walkah.net/ :: xmpp:walkah at walkah.net


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Glueing on Rifle Sights?
So I know it sounds like a bad thing to do, but I'm curious. I am a Student Gunsmith and i have been thinking about different ways to attach sights. I prefer using silver solder but I am wondering if there is a glue or epoxy that would be suitable. I know front sights are glued onto shotguns sometimes with Black Max, but could it hold up on a rifle? I have a sporterized 1917 Enfield in 30/06 that I like to use for experimenting. So does anyone have any input or suggestions?
Red Green uses duct tape. Why don't you try that?
But seriously, I am interested in what other might offer for advise.
you would have to have something that isnt heat sensitive. heat breaks down most glues and epoxies that are readily available. then you have the chemical problem when you start cleaning with solvents.
there is a reason sights are attached via dovetail type cuts or screwed in or are part of a barrel band or sight base assembly
The problem is over time it will break down. Then you add recoil to the mix and if you glue sights on a gun they will come off. Rear sights should be held on my screws and front sights should be held on with silver solder.
The issue is not simply recoil. but the high frequency vibrations that run thru a barrel when you fire. As they hit the glue, density of material changes. Speed of that wave is a function of density (denser, faster). Wave gets reflected back on reaching the lighter material, meets second wave coming out, starts breaking epoxy.
Will it work? Yeah. For a while. Then your sight falls off on the ground.
If you're looking to experiment, you could try jb weld.
I know it wasn't directly helpful, but indirectly it was. What I meant was, gluing will not work. Go some other more permanent route that others have suggested. It was pretty funny though.
I have been told that JB Weld could withstand the heat and vibrations of firing a rifle. Although I am uncertain what the cleaning solvents I use would do to it. No one seems to know exactly how long it will last, but a few optimists said it could last as long as the rifle if done right.
Try it with a really inexpensive sight. That way, when it falls off you haven't lost much.
I would advise against ever doing it on a customers gun though, on the assumption that as a gunsmith, you would like to have customers.
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RAY SUAREZ: The temperature kept rising on the Korean Peninsula today, at least judging from public pronouncements. The communist North declared its missile forces are ready to launch at American targets.
More than 100,000 North Koreans filled Pyongyang's main square today, shouting "Death to the U.S. imperialists." The mass rally coincided with a new threat. State television announced North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has decided the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S.
WOMAN: He has signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets, ordering them to be on standby for fire so that they are able to strike at any time the U.S. mainland and its military bases in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam and those in South Korea.
RAY SUAREZ: State media also released photographs of Kim and his senior generals during an emergency meeting late last night. They're seen looking at a map, purportedly showing U.S. cities that might be targeted by North Korean missiles. The White House responded through a spokesman traveling with President Obama today.
He said bellicose rhetoric only deepens North Korea's isolation. On Thursday, a more forceful demonstration: A pair of B-2 stealth bombers flew 6,500 miles to South Korea and back, as part of ongoing joint military exercises between the two nations.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Martin Dempsey, addressed the flight during a briefing with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman: Well, the reaction to the B-2 that we're most concerned about is not necessarily the reaction it might elicit in North Korea, but rather among our Japanese and Korean allies.
You know, those exercises are mostly to assure our allies that they can count on us to be prepared to and to help them deter conflict.
RAY SUAREZ: All of this began with North Korea's latest nuclear test in February. That prompted the United Nations Security Council to impose its latest round of sanctions against the North. And, in turn, the North began a barrage of threats and other steps, from canceling the armistice that ended the Korean War to cutting off various hot lines to the South.
Still, North Korea's closest ally, China, called today for restraint.
HONG LEI, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman: Upholding the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula, as well as Northeast Asia, serves the common interests of all parties and it's also their common responsibility. We hope that relevant parties will work together in pushing for a turnaround of the tense situation.
RAY SUAREZ: And for all the war talk, some economic cooperation has continued between North and South Korea. Workers and vehicles from the South are still being allowed to travel to a shared industrial park that generates millions of dollars for the North.
I'm joined by Joel Wit. During his 15-year career at the State Department, he focused on North Korea. He's now a visiting scholar at the U.S. Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also is the founder and co-editor of 38 North, a Web site devoted to North Korea analysis. Sung-Yoon Lee is an assistant professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School.
Joel Wit, are we closer to war today than we were even just a week ago, a real shooting war in Northeast Asia?
JOEL WIT, Johns Hopkins University: I think this is an extremely serious situation.
And I would say that we are one step away from a second Korean War. And I say that because, in this kind of tense situation, the danger of miscalculation or accidental conflict is very high. And so this is a very dangerous situation. And we need to be very careful.
RAY SUAREZ: Professor Lee, do agree? Are we really in more jeopardy than we were just a few weeks ago?
SUNG-YOON LEE, Tufts University: Well, we have seen a crescendo of bluster barrage.
I don't think we are on the brink of war, because we know the North Korean regime harbors no suicidal impulses. I don't necessarily want to paint the North Korean regime as all-knowing, omnipotent, brilliant military strategists. So, there is always the danger of miscalculation, yes.
But we have seen North Korea resort to periodic, deadly, but always limited, controlled attacks against the South and the United States forces in South Korea over the past 60 years. And I think the North Korean regime views this period, 2013, as a particularly appeasement-prone time.
And, hence, it's in North Korea's interest to raise the stakes, paint Washington and Seoul especially into a corner, with a view towards receiving more economic concessions in the future.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, Professor, having said that, when any country, North Korea or any country on the planet makes threats of the kind that were made in the past 24 hours, does the United States have to take them seriously?
SUNG-YOON LEE: This is North Korea's preferred strategy of graduated escalation.
It's psychological warfare. And the U.S. and the ROK, the Republic of Korea, the former name for South Korea, have also been engaging in some psychological warfare of their own. We should take the North Korean threat seriously because there's a high likelihood that North Korea will once again resort to a deadly attack against South Korea.
North Korea has shown a proclivity to launch such attacks and provocative acts on a holiday, major holiday. So perhaps even this Easter Sunday is an opportune time for another provocation in North Korean calculation.
RAY SUAREZ: Joel Wit, the targeting maps are said to show Honolulu, Washington D.C., Los Angeles. Do we have a very good idea of what North Korea is capable of and what it's not?
JOEL WIT: Yes, I think we have an excellent idea.
And we have that because we have observed their missile tests. And we know how far those missiles can go, even if they work. And the fact is, they haven't really worked very well. So they can't really reach the continental United States.
Secondly, I want to return to this point about whether we're close to a war or not. And I would say that the problem here is — and the professor has even predicted when a provocation might happen. The problem is that, if North Korea launches a provocation, the United States and South Korea, unlike in the past, are likely to respond.
And North Korea is not going to roll over and play dead, contrary to what a number of conservatives think.
RAY SUAREZ: But do you agree with the professor's conclusion that the country that's in real jeopardy is not the United States from these threats, but South Korea?
JOEL WIT: Absolutely.
South Korea is in great jeopardy here. And as a close ally of the United States, that's very important to us. And we also have to remember we have 28,000 troops on the peninsula and are committed to South Korea's defense. So if there is another Korean war, it's going to involve thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of American troops.
RAY SUAREZ: Professor, nations around the world have toolboxes, various mixtures of threats, persuasions, inducement that is part of how diplomacy gets carried on. Are the rules different for dealing with North Korea than almost any other country on Earth?
SUNG-YOON LEE: Well, in the case of North Korea, when you consider seeking better relations with other states and the international community at large, better relations for North Korea means what we have right now, creating a near crisis situation with a view towards returning to negotiations.
And over the past 20 years of nuclear diplomacy, that has always meant returning to talks with big blandishments, bigger rewards in tow. So, yes, we have dealt with North Korea in a way that has not been a spectacular success. It's time to put some real stick in that proverbial carrot-and-stick approach. And I would say it has been all blandishments and concessions so far.
RAY SUAREZ: Joel Wit?
JOEL WIT: Well, you know, I have experience actually working with North Koreans. I spent 15 years in the State Department working with them.
And I can say that it's not a record of failure. In fact, the agreement we reached in 1994 stopped North Korea from building as many as 100 nuclear weapons by 2000. So that agreement worked. There have been other agreements that haven't worked so well. It's been a very mixed record.
And I agree with the professor that we need to get tough with the North Koreans. But getting tough, in and of itself, is not a policy. You need to use diplomacy too to find escape routes for both parties.
RAY SUAREZ: But when you use diplomacy, do any of the standard tools of a diplomat, when dealing with another country, work with this country?
JOEL WIT: They do work.
I was part of an agreement, as I said, in 1994 that worked very well for eight years. Most people don't know that in the late 2000s, there was another agreement with North Korea, a moratorium on its long-range missile tests that lasted seven years. It worked very well.
So the record is not an unblemished record of failure. It's a record of mixed success and mixed failures. And so that means we still need to continue to try to work on a diplomatic track of this.
RAY SUAREZ: Professor, quickly, before we go, when statements like the kind that have come out of Pyongyang in the last couple of days are issued, is that paranoia as gesture, or is there a real belief among the leading cadre there that, in fact, the United States does want to take over, steamroll, immolate this country?
SUNG-YOON LEE: It's posturing.
I don't think the North Korean regime believes that the U.S. is on the verge of attacking North Korea. That is not in the best interest of the United States. We tend to take a patronizing view of the North Korean regime because they are so bizarre and unusual in so many ways.
But they are quite rational, careful. And self-preservation is of the utmost priority for the regime. I don't have any experience working in government or dealing with North Korea. But what I do know is that the Clinton administration paid North Korea almost $200 million worth of food aid for the empty privilege of inspecting an empty cave in the aftermath of North Korea firing a long-range missile over Japan on Aug. 31st, 1998.
The Bush administration has similar failed record in dealing with North Korea. It removed North Korea from the state-sponsored terrorism list in October of 2008, resumed food aid, negotiated with North Korea again. North Korea blew up the tired, old, out-of-date cooling tower in Yongbyon at the main facility and continued to enrich uranium.
RAY SUAREZ: Very quickly, I mean, that record is an actual record of things that really happened.
JOEL WIT: You know, I disagree with that characterization.
And I go back to the fact that, when I was in the U.S. government looking at intelligence estimates in the early 1990s, we were looking at a program that was enormous. And by the Bush administration, we had turned that off, and the North Koreans had moved to develop another kind of nuclear weapon.
RAY SUAREZ: Joel Wit, Professor Lee, gentlemen, thank you both.
SUNG-YOON LEE: Thank you.
JOEL WIT: Thank you.


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Saratoga High had won three singles matches in the final round of the Central Coast Section team tennis championships last Friday, and defending champion Menlo School had taken the three doubles contests.
So, with the team score tied 3-3, all eyes turned to the center court at Los Gatos' Courtside Club for the conclusion of the decisive No. 1 singles clash between friends and USTA doubles partners John Lamble of Saratoga and Jamin Ball of Menlo. The sensational seniors, who already have locked up tennis scholarships to Bay Area universities, were locked in a three-set thriller.
The Santa Clara-bound Lamble, who had beaten Ball in two previous meetings this spring, won the first set, 7-6, including an 8-6 tiebreaker. But Ball, who will play for Stanford next fall, bounced back to win 6-3 and force a decisive third set. Ball maintained the momentum and secured a 6-1 triumph in the finale, his first win over Lamble since their freshman season.
More importantly, the victory kept top-seeded Menlo's perfect season intact at 24-0 and wrapped up the Knights' ninth CCS team title, tying Gunn for the most ever in section history. For No. 2 seed Saratoga, which rolled through the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division with a 12-0 record, the loss in the CCS championship match dropped it to 22-3 overall.
All three of the losses for coach Tom Uyehara's Falcons were at the hands of the Knights, and the two teams could meet again at the CIF Northern California championships, May 21-22 at the Natomas Racquet Club in Sacramento.
Menlo first topped Saratoga 5-3 in the semifinals of the National High School All-American Boys Invitational, March 20-21 at Newport Beach. The two squads also met at Saratoga on April 29, Menlo again wining by a slim margin, 4-3.
In the match that counted most, last week's CCS championship round at Courtside, senior Michael McGinnis and juniors Nikhil Jayashankar and Deepak Sabada captured singles matches for the Falcons.
McGinnis beat Yale-bound Patrick Chase in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2, and Jayashankar topped freshman Richard Pham, 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3. Sabada lost the first set at No. 4 to Andrew Ball, 4-6, but recovered to take the next two sets 6-0 and 6-2.
Saratoga's doubles teams were stellar in CCS wins over Santa Cruz, 7-0, Stevenson of Pebble Beach, 6-1, and semifinal opponent Bellarmine, 7-0, but could not break into the win column in the title match against Menlo.
Sumant Sabada and Andrew Hsieh came the closest to winning a doubles match for Saratoga, forcing a third set. But Menlo's Jonathan Katzman and Brian Peltz stabilized in the final set and won 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
In No. 1 doubles, Falcons Eric Gast and Michael Chang were in tough against Andrew Carlisle and Justin Chan, whom Menlo coach Bill Shine calls the best doubles team in the nation. The Menlo duo won 6-2, 6-0.
Saratoga's No. 2 doubles team of Aditya Joshi and Roshan Sriram started strong against Daniel Morkovine and Kyle Sum, but lost a 7-5, 6-3 battle.
For Saratoga, which won CCS championships in 1987 and 2004, ending a six-year reign by Menlo in the latter, last week's defeat was the fourth time in five seasons that it finished second in the section tourney. The 2009 squad did not participate in the CCS tournament, serving a one-year suspension because the 2008 team was a no-show to the NorCal event.


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World Cup 1978 Italy vs Argentina – 2nd half
Italy-Argentina 1-0 (Bettega 67′) Italy: Zoff – Gentile, Cabrini, Benetti, Bellugi (6′ Cuccureddu), Scirea – Causio, Tardelli, P. Rossi, Antognoni (73′ Zaccarelli), Bettega. Ct: Bearzot. Argentina: Fillol – Olguin, Tarantini, Gallego, Luis Galvan, Passarella – Bertoni, Ardiles, Kempes, Valencia, Ortiz (72′ Houseman). Ct: Menotti. This was the last game of the first round. With both teams having secured places in the second round (2 victories each, over France and Hungary), the outcome was who would be first and thus stay in Buenos Aires. The game started cautiously for both sides, with more focus on collective play than individual tries to create scoring opportunities. Bellugi got injured within 2 minutes and Cuccureddu replaced him in the 6′ minute, making it 9 Juventus players on the field (Paolo Rossi and Antognoni were the only non-Juventini)! Passarella was the top man for the home country, creating real threat in the box on corners and free kicks with his powerful headers. Bettega, Causio and Paolo Rossi were quick and clever up-front for Italy, nicely supported by the solid Benetti, the surging Tardelli and the confident back trio of Scirea-Gentile-Cabrini. Antognoni was a bit lost and was again substituted by Zacccarelli as the game advanced. 0-0 at half time, the game was excitingly settled by the inspired attacking Italians in the 67′ minute, after a superb one-two Bettega-Rossi-Bettega. The Argentinians seemed incapable of forcing the draw. The Azzurri had …
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Broadway: Doctor Zhivago, The Last Ship, Soul Doctor. Off-Broadway: The 39 Steps. National Tour: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Regional: Goodspeed, Pioneer, Fulton. TV: "The Blacklist," "Person of Interest," "Unforgettable," "Zero Hour," "Flight of the Conchords." Film: Diverge, My Man Is A Loser. With wife and collaborator, SoHee Youn, wrote musical I Spy A Spy. www.jamiejackson.com.
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jiney17's review of Nature's Gate Colloidal Oatmeal Moisturizing Lotion
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Revealed: The 'magic DVD' which saved Iniesta and inspired Spain's World Cup triumph
As the final pieces of the qualifying jigsaw are put into place this coming week, the runners and riders for next year's World Cup spectacular in Rio are about to become apparent.
One side which can already be placed firmly in the 'favourites' category are the all-conquering defending champions Spain.
Not only did they lift football's greatest prize back in South Africa in 2010 but, having also won Euro 2008 and Euro 2012, created history by being the first side to win a hat-trick of consecutive major tournaments.
Scottish Mail on Sunday Euroview columnist GRAHAM HUNTER was with La Roja on every step of their incredible journey and, in his remarkable new book, reveals just what it took for the Spaniards to conquer Europe and the world. In this exclusive extract, he outlines the public and private traumas which Andres Iniesta, the man whose goal won the World Cup, suffered before destiny called one night in Soccer City...
Glory: Spain's Andres Iniesta scores the winner in 2010 World Cup final
As Captain Guillermo Gomez-Paratcha gets Spain's Airbus 340/600 airborne, destination Johannesburg, Andres Iniesta knows he is extremely fortunate to be on the flight to South Africa.
This has been the most soul-destroying year of his life. A thigh injury first sustained 13 months before the World Cup has since flared up on four further occasions. In the final third of Barcelona's league season, he has played approximately 30 minutes of football. With this track record, 99 per cent of footballers simply wouldn't have been selected for the tournament.
This part of his story is already a matter of record - and, in Spain, of public debate. The hidden story, which only a select few staff and players on the plane currently know, is that spiritually and psychologically Iniesta has been in pieces. While all of Spain has been praying he'll be fit in time, a darker question has long been tormenting Iniesta's mind: might he be fit in body, but shattered in spirit and bereft of self-belief?
In his carry-on luggage, Iniesta has a DVD which will turn out to be a thing of magic. This plastic disc will ultimately be what success or failure for Spain in the World Cup turns on. It's just that nobody knows it yet. The entire problem has its roots in Paris and the Champions League Final of 2006. Central to the plot are two Dutchmen, Frank Rijkaard and Mark van Bommel. Before the story is resolved, the latter will again inflict pain on Iniesta.
Matchwinner: Spain feared Iniesta would not be fit for the World Cup in South Africa in 2010
Rijkaard doesn't pick Iniesta for the Paris final against Arsenal, trusting the destructive Van Bommel ahead of the creative La Masia graduate. Barcelona win largely thanks to Iniesta's inspired performance, having come on at the break with the Cesc Fabregas-inspired Gunners leading 1-0.
Iniesta is champion of Europe, but describes the pain of not starting as 'the worst moment of my life'. Ten days before his next Champions League final, against Manchester United in Rome, he suffers a two-centimetre tear in his thigh while drawing 3-3 against Villarreal. Three years on from the pain of Paris, Iniesta will not, under any circumstances, contemplate missing a chance to play 90 minutes and take destiny in his own hands.
Iniesta is 60 per cent fit and his
thigh muscle so precariously held together by tiny fibres that club
medics order him not to shoot at goal in order to protect against more
serious damage. Iniesta is sublime that night, United are defeated 2-0
and the lingering soreness of Paris erased. But the agony of Rome is
quite different and much more dangerous.
Not only does he lose a huge part of season 2009/10 because of the same injury repeatedly returning, it corrodes his confidence.
Tribute: Iniesta celebrates scoring with the words 'Dani Jarque, always with us' written on his undershirt
Late in the summer of 2009, Iniesta is struck a devastating blow. His great friend Dani Jarque collapses and dies during Espanyol's pre-season training camp. The Barcelona genius and the Espanyol captain grew up together within the Spanish federation's categorías inferiores youth system and Jarque's sudden death precipitates a deep personal crisis. As he loses confidence in his body and ability as a footballer, now Iniesta is also examining questions of mortality and faith.
Andres Iniesta: 'I'd managed to create, let's say, an image of an Andres Iniesta who played at quite a good level and the fact that I suddenly couldn't perform like that really overshadowed my life. I got to the stage where I no longer had confidence in myself. I'd lost certainty that I could still do the things I'd always done - it was very tough. I'm pretty sure people outside the club didn't realise how bad it got.'
Twice between December 2009 and March 2010 he breaks down, but by
mid-April, he's training flat out. Then comes what feels like total
disaster. On Tuesday, April 13, seven days before the first leg of the
Champions League semi-final which Barcelona lose to Inter, and two
months before Spain's World Cup kick-off, Iniesta is completing a
shooting drill when his right thigh rips again. Even before momentum
takes him off the pitch, he's already in tears.
Tragic: Daniel Jarque died during Espanyol's per-season training camp in 2009
While the drill continues, he staggers towards to the corner of Barcelona's Joan Gamper training ground and the physios, trotting over, see his diminutive frame wracked with sobs.
'That day was a killer, soul-destroying,' he remembers. Iniesta misses all but four minutes of the remainder of the league season, his fragile confidence once again in tatters. There's now a firm chance he won't make the plane to South Africa.
Post World Cup, (Spain coach) Vicente del Bosque underlines how great the dilemma was. 'Muscular injuries can get right into your psyche,' he says. 'In theory, you're healed but, in your mind, you know whether you are right or not. If not, it can be confusing and damaging.'
Spain's doctor, Oscar Celadas, goes further: 'Before the squad list for the World Cup was made public, Andres was one of our guys who had had serious problems and there was a really big decision to be taken.'
Naming Iniesta in the provisional squad becomes a gamble based on medical projections, not current fitness, but del Bosque is certain that the midfielder's presence is going to be of transcendental importance. So Iniesta is on the flight.
Triumph: Iniesta lifts the World Cup trophy
The fact that he has once again aggravated his injury when del Bosque dared to play him in the World Cup warm-up win over Poland is not the only problem he has carried on board. Physically he is healing, psychologically he is not. After dozing for the first half hour of the flight, he unzips his hand luggage, reaches for his personal computer and tries to draw strength and inspiration from the DVD which has been put together to save his World Cup.
When Iniesta presses 'play' he sees the work of Emili Ricart. A physio at FC Barcelona, Ricart handles the recuperation and rehabilitation of that club's great stars post-injury.
Fortunately his is a holistic approach. He knows that repairing the muscle, however long it takes, isn't always sufficient. If the injury has done damage to confidence and psyche, then physical rehabilitation will not come close to completing the healing. 'Things had reached a stage where Andrés felt like this was a problem which was never going away - he was sinking,' Ricart recalls.
Inspiration: Iniesta was shown a video, including scenes from Fernando Alonso's recovery from serious injury
The first images Iniesta sees are of Manel Estiarte, Pep Guardiola's right-hand man at Barcelona for the previous two years. The footage is from his former existence, as the Lionel Messi of water polo, one of the greatest ever players in a sport hugely popular in Spain. The team he led failed to win gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, conceding a winning advantage over Italy in the final with nine seconds left, then losing in extra-time.
It was a crushing defeat for a Catalan superstar at his home town Olympics, provoking tears from a tough guy. The DVD jumps forward four years and Estiarte has fought back to win gold with Spain at the Atlanta Olympics.
Next, is footage of Fernando Alonso's 150mph crash at Interlagos in 2003, his car disintegrating and the Spaniard being stretchered off the track. But that cuts to the Spaniard driving to his first Formula 1 world title in 2005, becoming the youngest champion ever and celebrating madly on the podium in Brazil, the scene of his terrible crash two years previously.
Then there is Rafa Nadal beating Roger Federer to win a four-and-a-half-hour, five-set epic final at the 2009 Australian Open. The Spaniard's first hard court title leaves Federer in tears, unable to complete his loser's speech. The images flash forward to Federer fighting back to win the French Open later that year, becoming the sixth man to win grand slam titles on all three surfaces.
Emotional: Roger Federer (left) was in tears as he beat Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open in 2009
Finally there is Iniesta himself, down and out during that match against Villarreal in 2009, holding his thigh muscle, his face betraying the agony of the injury and the knowledge of its likely consequences.
The counterpoint? When he buries the ball into the top corner of the Chelsea net, stripping off his Barcelona top and running like crazy towards the corner flag.
Goal celebrations? Corner flags? Perhaps there is more of that to come.
July 11, 2010. Soccer City, Johannesburg. Holland v Spain. World Cup final
The climax of the story is near but now the chief protagonist comes close to leaving the stage.
Iniesta thought he wasn't going to make it to this tournament. Once here, injury very nearly robbed him of a chance to play. Now, it very nearly all slips away from him at the last moment, due to the most uncharacteristic loss of one of the most even tempers in football.
Van Bommel has fouled consistently and now goes over the ball to plant his studs on Iniesta's ankle. No foul is given. As the play moves away, Iniesta gets up and checks van Bommel, knee to thigh.
Hard man: Andres Iniesta (left) was repeatedly caught by Mark van Bommel during the World Cup final
Andres Iniesta: 'I was just being fouled for 80 minutes. Perhaps the referee, if he wanted to interpret it differently then maybe he could have sent me off. These things happen in football.'
Howard Webb speaks to Iniesta, but that is all. The decision - which makes sense in the context of what has been allowed to pass that night - changes Iniesta's life and football history.
With just over four minutes left in extra-time, Jesus Navas, in a right wing-back position, sets off with a skip and a hop down the touchline. His inside pass to Iniesta, centre pitch, is shuttled on to Fabregas, who supplies Fernando Torres out wide.
He sees the run Iniesta has made forward - the little midfielder is at the far right-hand edge of the box. However, Torres slightly underhits the crossfield ball. Rafael van der Vaart is filling in for Johnny Heitinga at centre-half. As he attempts to clear, he slips and the ball is available on the edge of Holland's penalty area.
Fabregas has anticipated and takes a touch before cushioning a pass to Iniesta. Van der Vaart should be in midfield, marking Iniesta. Instead he is in defence, covering for Heitinga, sent off for a foul on... Iniesta. There is one name cropping up again and again and again.
Champions: Spain celebrate winning the World Cup, beating Holland in the final in South Africa
Andres Iniesta: 'In that moment, we were alone, the ball and I. I could hear nothing. As far as I was concerned, the whole stadium had fallen silent. I waited for the Isaac Newton effect, for gravity to make the ball drop and the second I had it at my foot, I knew it was going in, I just knew it. It had all come down to this moment. I knew exactly how to control it and where to put it: as hard as I could across (Dutch goalkeeper Maarten) Stekelenburg, so that he had no time to react.'
Back in Fuentealbilla, where Iniesta was born, his dad José Antonio is watching at home, alone. His fear of flying is such that he took the train from Barcelona to Vienna for the Euro 2008 final and he often misses his son's biggest games. In such circumstances, he prefers to watch in peace and quiet.
When his son scores, Jose Antonio turns off the television immediately. He cannot bear the tension of the next couple of minutes.
Iniesta's mother, María Francisca Lujan, meantime, is equally stressed down at Bar Lujan, in the centre of town, where Grandad Iniesta was the landlord for 35 years. On retirement, he converted every newspaper cutting he saved about his grandson into an archive which covers every millimetre of wall space.
On the night of Iniesta's final, it is packed, like most bars in Spain, and María Francisca is so uptight that she goes outside to seek fresh air and is still out there when her son scores his historic goal.
Bond: Fernando Torres and Iniesta
She misses him racing away to the left-hand corner flag, just as he had done at Stamford Bridge - the footage he saw on the DVD as the aeroplane took him from Spain to South Africa. Now he is tearing off his Spain shirt so that the world can see his T-shirt: 'Dani Jarque, always with us.' Now he is submerged.
At the far end of the pitch, Iker Casillas sets off on a run, arms outstretched. As emotion over-rides adrenaline, he collapses to his knees and tears overtake him.
Del Bosque is standing motionless, alone. He is in the perspex dugout, like a guy waiting for a bus to take him home to Salamanca after a long day at work. This night has been so mad that not until Webb blows the whistle will he relax. He begins to urge everyone else to stop celebrating, calm down and pay attention!
Four minutes later, that whistle sounds.
Fireworks light up the sky above Fuentealbilla. Only then does Jose Antonio Iniesta know for sure that his son has won the World Cup for Spain.
At home, in Barcelona, Iniesta has a little treasure trove of golden memories from his career: medals, shirts, photos, boots, newspaper clippings. His most treasured memento will be the La Roja shirt in which he scored the World Cup-winning goal.
It is a while since he has sorted through his personal museum and as he archives this latest artifact, he chances upon another, from nine years ago.
Iniesta and Torres made their debut together in the categorías inferiores back in 2000 in a win over Belgium. The following summer they led the Rojita side sent to win the FIFA Under 17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. Already Under 16 European champions, they journeyed to the Caribbean with high hopes, but failed to qualify from a group containing Oman and Burkina Faso.
Parting at the end of a disastrous tournament, Iniesta and Torres swapped shirts, each signing one with a message for the other.
Now, returning as king of the world, having scored from a move which Torres initiates in Soccer City, Iniesta unfolds the No 9 shirt his friend signed for him all those years ago.
Torres' handwriting, even in magic marker, is clear to read: 'Don't worry. Our World Cup is still to come.'
It just has.
'Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble' by Graham Hunter is available now in hardback and as an ebook by BackPage Press
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Maybe it's just a southern thang, but I can't pass up a roadside vendor of boiled peanuts. And all my life I have enjoyed putting a healthy handful of unsalted peanuts in my colas. Call it a country boy's cocktail: a perfect pick-me-up combo of flavored fizzy sugar water and protein-packed peanuts.
Instead of being produced on trees, bushes, or vines, the way a sane person would expect, peanuts develop underground. Unlike true nuts, peanuts (Arachis hypogaea, also known as pinders, goober peas, ground peas, and ground nuts) are unusual members of the legume family, with the same pea- and beanlike ability to "fix" nitrogen from the air on root nodules (great for adding back to the garden soil or compost). Sturdy "pegs" snake out of the yellow flowers and into the soil, where the rough, seed-filled pods are formed (hypogaea means "under the earth").
Peanut seeds are among the world's wonders for healthful goodness. Peanuts contain more than 75 percent good unsaturated fat and more antioxidants than nearly any other more highly touted fruit or vegetable, and—vegetarians and vegans, rejoice!—higher amounts of vegetable protein than any true nut.
Although more than 3 million Americans are allergic to peanuts, the rest of us eat a lot of them. Forget the peanut oil, the snacks, and flavorful ingredients in our favorite dishes; last year, Americans spent almost $800 million on peanut butter alone. Even the hulls have value, finding use in products that range from wallboard to cat litter, fireplace logs, cosmetics, mulch, and cattle feed.
A bit of history: From their origins in ancient Peru, peanuts were spread by Portuguese traders to Africa, India, and China, where they quickly became staples before making their way to North America from Africa. Still, they took a couple of centuries to catch on as a food source in the United States.
In 1860, yearly peanut production in the United States amounted to roughly 150,000 bushels. During lean Civil War times, boiled peanuts, called goober peas, were used as an emergency ration by grateful soldiers. By 1895, when 8 million bushels were grown, mechanized planting and harvesting made peanuts easier to produce, and they began showing up as snack food in pubs, sports stadiums, circuses, and other "peanut galleries."
George Washington Carver, the celebrated researcher of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, championed peanuts in the early 20th century as an alternative crop for land depleted by cotton cultivation. He promoted more than 300 uses for the soil-improving legume, including industrial products, foods, and cosmetics.
Wartime shortages of vegetable oil and the growing popularity of roasted peanuts and peanut candies further increased demand for peanuts, and Elvis Presley's grilled peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches clinched their place in popular culture. Nowadays, more peanuts are eaten in the United States than walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts combined.
Navigating a Difficult Market
American farmers produce nearly all the peanuts we eat in the United States. Patrick Archer, president of the American Peanut Council, says there isn't a lot of foreign competition in our market. Though India and China together account for more than half of the world's production, about half of it is processed for cooking oil. Around 87 percent of U.S.-grown peanuts are processed for food, Archer says, with the remainder (usually peanuts of inferior quality) turned into peanut oil.
But hold on to your bread slices, peanut lovers. Organic peanut products may be scarce for the foreseeable future. Because of bad harvests in 2011 and difficulties in processing, the price for the raw beans is expected to go sky high—nearly triple what it was just a year ago—with more supply shortages predicted.
Malcolm Broome, executive director of the Mississippi Peanut Growers Association, explains that when the USDA dropped its strictly allotted acreage quotas, a lot of small farmers went out of business. Larger growers have taken up the slack, but few of them grow organically, because of the extra labor involved in keeping equipment clean and segregating organic products from nonorganic products. Small-scale farmers are having a hard time competing, even with higher prices for their product.
Jimmie Shearer, president of Sunland, a New Mexico–based shelling and marketing firm handling organic peanuts, emphasizes that not only was overall peanut production down in 2011, but it doesn't look good in the short run for organic peanuts. "Southwestern farmers are being pushed to the limit with heat, drought, water shortages, and the lure of higher prices for cotton and other traditional crops," says Shearer. "We can't get the organics we want. Not enough is available, even from overseas."
Jimmy Wedel, from Muleshoe, Texas, agrees, saying that his farm is in a situation where water is limited, so he has to choose his crops carefully. "All my peanuts are organic, but because of the serious drought, and higher prices for other organic and conventional crops, I will have to reduce my peanut planting in 2012."
This is a real problem, Shearer points out, noting the 3-year process for certifying fields as organic. "Even if they started again now, it would take at least 3 years to get recertified as organic...so nothing is going to change in the foreseeable future."
Trouble on the Horizon
To compound the dilemma, it is difficult to have organic peanuts certified for food on a large scale without possible contamination from shelling and other processing facilities. Jimmy Hayes, owner of Healthy Hollow farm near Savannah, Georgia, says that though researchers are finding ways to make light tilling and cover crops more efficient for organic growers, the biggest hurdle to growing food-grade organic peanuts profitably in the Southeast is the lack of a certified-organic sheller. Without that, he explains, he can't claim his crop is certified organic; he can claim only that it is organically grown. "Actually, I'm making more profit selling my excess to an organic dairy as cattle feed," Hayes says.
The USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service estimates that at current global levels of consumption, the amount of peanut oil used is 99 percent of the amount produced. But because food oils are increasingly being diverted to industrial and bio-energy uses, there is a real concern that the supply of all food-grade vegetable oils, including corn and peanut, will be sharply reduced in just a few years.
Research is being blindsided, as well. The National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Georgia, has experienced cuts in federal funding, and as a result it is seeing a reduction in research positions and a significant portion of its work halted.
However, the International Peanut Genome Initiative, a collaborative effort looking for improved quality, production, nutrition, and pest and disease resistance, is currently studying the peanut genome structure—the arrangement of genetic information in peanut cells. And, as anyone following agricultural-production issues knows, genomic research often leads to genetic engineering.
All this kinda makes you want to stock up, or try growing your own, eh? Luckily, growing peanuts is fun and easy anywhere you have at least 4 months (or better, 5) of warm weather. Peanuts put us in touch with our agricultural roots while helping to stretch a food budget like nothing else on—or under—the earth.
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Why is It Bad to Have Laser Treatments if You've Taken Accutane?
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Accutane and Laser treatments
Accutane affects sebaceous glands and the production of the oils in our skin. It also might affect collagen production, or the decreased sebaceous production may affect collagen production. Because this is the case, problems arise in the first 6 to 12 months after taking accutane if you have any sort of ablative procedure done (resurfacing, fractional resurfacing, micro-laser peels, TCA peels etc.) IPL procedures on the other hand are thought to be safe after about two months of discontinuing accutane.
Laser treatments and Accutane
Accutane is known to reduce the rate of wound healing from skin injuries such as a scrape. This is the basis for the caution. In the days of dermabrasion for acne scarring (before fractional lasers), the occurrence of unusual healing after Accutane was reported. I advise avoiding full resurfacing procedures for one year after Accutane but fractional lasers for acne scarring can be performed at 3 months after completing a course of Accutane.
Oil gland suppression
Accutane and other systemic retinoids have a direct, inhibiting effect on sebaceous (oil) glands. When the skin is wounded from laser, much of the healing comes from skin appendages, such as the epithelium lining the sebaceous glands. With the inhibition, you loose the major source of regenerating epithelium, and that leads to delayed healing and the potential for a scar.
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Friday, April 5, 2002 | 2:55 a.m.
No one will ever confuse the singing voices of Frankie Valli and Barry White.
But after Valli finished a show at The Orleans in Las Vegas about 18 months ago, some fans were less than satisfied with his performance, claiming he couldn't hit the high notes that made songs such as "Sherry" and "Let's Hang On" so distinctive.
After the show, Valli went on hiatus to re-examine his interest in show business, where he is among the elite who have had hugely successful careers spanning decades.
As a teenager Valli, a native of Newark, N.J., sang with The Varietones, who later changed their name to The Four Lovers. In 1956 singer Bob Gaudio joined the group, which became The Four Seasons. Rounding out The Seasons were singers Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi (who died in December 2000).
By 1975 The Four Seasons included only Valli and Guadio of the original group.
Valli is returning to The Orleans April 25-28 with a revamped show that he said, during a recent telephone interview from his home near Los Angeles, will decide his future.
Las Vegas Sun: Why did you feel the need to alter your show?
Frankie Valli: What happened was, we did a mixed show -- a mixed bag of a lot of our hits, and a lot of material that we didn't record. I took a year and a half off to re-evaluate as to whether I wanted to do this anymore.
If you want to hear that material, go see that artist. I can understand an artist with three or four hits having to fill his show with others' material. But when you went to see Elvis, he did his hits. That's all he did. Of all the shows out there, he probably was more successful than anybody.
Sun: What created this doubt about whether you wanted to continue performing?
FV: Because the traveling started to become a drag -- one-nighters, living out of a suitcase, having little kids at home and all that. But after about eight or nine months into this period of time that I wasn't doing anything, I started to get antsy. I thought, "Well, if I do go out, what should I do? How can I make it an interesting show?" You go out and do an hour and 20 (minutes) or an hour and a half and for the audience, that should seem like it was 20 minutes.
So, I decided to put a show togther that was nothing but hits by The Four Seasons.
Sun: Your list of hits is incredible.
FV: We've been very fortunate, actually. If we did just hits, or songs that were chart records, we could probably do close to three hours. I tried to pick some of the most important ones.
There's only one song I'm doing in the show that was not a hit. I took it from the "Who Loves You" album. It's a song called "Harmony." I use a piece of film with it. The film is based on various types of harmony -- astronauts from different countries touching hands in space, a barbershop quartet, marching majorettes. It's kind of a call out to the world that this is what we need. We need more harmony, more understanding of each other.
But for that, the show is built around nothing but hits. It is an evening of solid gold.
Sun: How many hits have you had?
FV: We had an accumulation, including everything that made the charts, of about 62 to 65 chart records. We sold over 100 million records in a period of time when albums didn't sell that much. And we own all our masters (recordings). I'm sure every artist would like to own their masters.
Sun: Is your upcoming performance at The Orleans the debut of your revamped show?
FV: I tried it out New Year's at the Riviera at a private party. And I recently did a private party in Denver. The show seems like it's only on 30 or 40 minutes. I have a whole bunch of new people. I hired four dancer- singers.
And there's a lot less chatter. Putting on a show is not just about having a rapport with the audience. Talking a lot can take up time. We just felt that the show should be straight ahead, just a lot of performing. If you go to Vegas to see a revue, you see there isn't a whole lot of chatter. It's all about seeing the show. And so far, I'm liking it. I'm liking it a lot.
Sun: What are your plans for the show?
FV: To do a summer tour. But if I do this, I don't want to do it on the ripping schedule that I've worked most of my life -- one-nighters where you're traveling on buses all night to get to a show the next day, or get up early in the morning after a show because you have to travel 2,000 miles. Even if it's by plane, I don't want to work that way.
Sun: How did you manage to keep from burning out sooner than you did a year and a half ago?
FV: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin did it much longer than I did. There's just something really wonderful about performing. I guess to some degree there's some sort of Gypsy in my soul. I do like being in different places, I just don't like getting on a plane and getting there, carrying bags across the county.
Sun: How has show business changed since you started?
FV: Today, if you get two hits you can make $50,000 a night. Everything is totally out of proportion. I like working in a more intimate setting. Stadiums are good now and again, but I like the intimacy of the nightclub. But the nightclub has almost totally disappeared. Even Vegas leaves so much to be desired. As large as some of those hotels are, (most) don't have an intimate 700-seat room to do radio acts of various forms, featuring recording artists.
Sun: Where is you summer tour going to take you?
FV: We're still negotiating.
Sun: What will the touring show be like?
FV: We will probably have four acts on the tour. I would like to start working that way again. It's something I really miss. What has happened, all these artists want to go out and grab all the money. I think it's about time people really got their money's worth.
Sun: Is this tour going to be a test of your degree of burnout? If you don't have a good feeling when it's over, are you going to retire?
FV: If I really like it, I'll plan on doing it again next summer. But I'm also doing some work for the Public Broadcast System. I co-hosted a show recently and I will do another after I finish the performance in Vegas. The PBS show is about recording artists from the '50s, '60s and '70s. These shows have been making more money for PBS than any other programming. So, I will be co-hosting a show with Frankie Avalon, Jerry Butler and Connie Francis.
Sun: But are you going to retire from touring if this new show doesn't work?
FV: If it gets to be too hectic and I'm not enjoying it ... I don't know, I may just pull the plug. I am playing around with other things. I'm recording a lot of standards, I have a studio here in my house. I'm doing a lot of music that I always wanted to do.
Also, we sold the rights to The Four Season's story (to a producer) for a Broadway show. That's in the works.
Sun: Why not make a film?
FV: I weighed this very carefully. I've been offered a movie-of-the-week deal, or a miniseries. But I looked at it carefully. The films are kind of one-shot things. If we can have a successful play that can run for six or seven years, we can send production companies out on the road. There's more longevity. In the end, that would probably be a wiser move. And we could always, later on, do a film based on the story.
Sun: Are you involved with any of the original members of The Four Seasons?
FV: Gaudio and I are still partners, after all these years. He mainly is writing and producing. He has a couple of plays in the works. He's writing music for a play based on the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married."
Sun: Which of your songs do you like the best?
FV: That's a hard question to answer. There's nothing that I've recorded that I would say I wish I didn't record. Songs like "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and "Silence is Golden" are among my favorites.
Sun: To what do you attribute your success?
FV: The fact that, with the biggest successes, we weren't trying to make music like anybody else. We were trying to make a sound that, when people turned the radio on, they would know that it was us. We were fortunate. It takes a lot of things. We had great, talented writers. We loved singing harmony.
Sun: Can you still hit the high notes, as you did in "Sherry?"
FV: I hit it pretty good. I may be a note or two off from where I was, but I don't seem to be having a whole lot of trouble. If you go to Vegas to see a revue, you see there isn't a whole lot of chatter. It's all about seeing the show. And so far, I'm liking it. I'm liking it a lot."


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Ajay Devgn talks about the most challenging part of working in 'Satyagraha'. Here's more
When Ajay Devgn walked out of Prakash Jha's 'Aarakshan' citing date problems, people weren't very surprised. It was quite known within the circles that Ajay was not happy with the way he had to play the second fiddle to Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal in 'Raajneeti'. Ajay who has teamed up with Prakash Jha a number of times to make hard-hitting films like 'Gangaajal', 'Apaharan' is back with 'Satyagraha' where he dons a number of shades for his character. As he sits for a quick chat, Ajay tells us why he chose to do another political drama and his role in the film.
Excerpts from the interview:
Why another political drama?
It is not exactly a political drama. Politics in the backdrop but it is fabulous story to tell about the characters where my character who is an entrepreneur believes that greed is most important and greed is progress and how we channelize this greed and progress to inspire the youth and bring about the change. They are the only power to change the country.
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In a recent interview, you had said that this film was quite challenging. What were the challenges?
It is a very different character to play as it has so many shades-from grey to positive to somewhere negative again and then back to positive. There are lots of ups and downs.
Which was the most challenging scene to portray?
Most of the scenes were challenging because Prakashji's dialogues were very difficult to remember. But it was fun. If you believe in the character, then it becomes lot more easily.
Is this film attempting to bring any kind of social awareness?
I really don't know. The idea is not to bring social awareness but to entertain the audiences and in that scenario if we can say something nice, then it is an added bonus
Every actor has a conform zone. Since we see you doing a variety of roles, what's yours?
That's what I prefer doing and I am grateful that the audiences have accepted me in different roles which lot of other actors strive to do so it helps me derive a satisfaction and keep the rotation from drama to action to comedy.
You have been loggerheads with the Yash Raj Studios over the distribution of screens but do you honestly think that two films shouldn't release in the same day?
As long as they are fair and they have a fair distribution in terms of theatres. Two big films have been releasing for years and have been very successful together but the whole system of eating away at the business by not allowing to give screens is a wrong system.
After doing numerous films, do you feel nervous on the first day of the shoot?
You are stressed every time you give a shot. There is an apprehension if you would be able to pull it off or not. I think that works because the moment you feel that everything is very easy, it is over and you stop looking.
Behind the scenes: Satyagraha
Have your reached that point in your career where you realize that you have done almost every kind of role?
I don't think that way. I hear scripts and I instantly like them or don't like them. I am enjoying what I am doing right now. There can't be lot of different roles and only once in a while you will get a role, which is completely different from anything you have done. For the other times, you have to make your roles different from what has already been done earlier and that is the most challenging part. If I do a 'Company' and then I hear the script of 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbai', both have me playing a don. So my challenge was how to make it completely different from each other.
Do you watch your earlier films?
Not much. Every time I watch my past films, even the once two years ago, I get embarrassed and I feel I can do it better.
Can you leave the actor out when you are watching a film?
Yes I can. I do that. But that actor stays also and you feel that this actor has done a brilliant job or I could've done better.
Who is your biggest critic?
My daughter. She is ten-year old and she knows everything. She watches film and she is very accurate. She will see the promo and she says it is not working.
Do we see you directing another film?
I need one and half off to even think about direction. I have scripts but I don't want to break my momentum.


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LOS ANGELES – Usher (search) collected a leading five nominations Tuesday for the annual Soul Train Music Awards. (search)
The R&B sensation received bids for best male R&B-soul album for "Confessions," (search) and best male R&B-soul single for "Confessions Part II." (search)
"My Boo," his duet with Alicia Keys, also earned him and the soul diva a nomination. Usher's work with rappers Ludacris & Lil Jon also got him nominations for best R&B-soul or rap music video and best R&B-soul or rap dance cut for the song "Yeah!"
Usher swept the American Music Awards with four honors and has eight nominations for the upcoming Grammys.
Sexy newcomer Ciara, who burst onto the charts last year with her album "Goodies," garnered four nominations, including best female R&B-soul album and best R&B-soul or rap by a new artist.
Keys' album "The Diary of Alicia Keys" was also up for best R&B-soul album by a female. Her song "If I Ain't Got You" received a best single nod in the female R&B-soul category.
Among other Soul Train nominees, Prince, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Jill Scott and New Edition had two nominations each.
The Soul Train Music Awards, started 18 years ago by the syndicated music show "Soul Train," celebrates artists in R&B, hip-hop, rap and gospel music. The awards will be presented during a ceremony Feb. 28 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.
The awards are determined by a group of radio station professionals, talent managers and performers.
Complete list of nominees:
R&B-soul single, female: "Naughty Girl," Beyonce; "Goodies," Ciara featuring Petey Pablo; "If I Ain't Got You," Alicia Keys; "Golden," Jill Scott.
R&B-soul single, male: "Charlene," Anthony Hamilton; "Let Me Love You," Mario; "Call My Name," Prince; "Confessions Part II," Usher.
R&B-soul single, group, band or duo: "Lose My Breath," Destiny's Child; "Hot 2Nite," New Edition; "My Boo," Usher and Alicia Keys; "The Closer I Get To You," Luther Vandross duet with Beyonce Knowles.
R&B-soul album, female: "Afrodisiac," Brandy; "Goodies," Ciara; "The Diary of Alicia Keys," Alicia Keys; "Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2," Jill Scott.
R&B-soul album, male: "Happy People/U Saved Me," R. Kelly; "Soulstar," Musiq; "Musicology," Prince; "Confessions," Usher.
R&B-soul album group, band or duo: "Hot & Wet," 112; "Throwback," Boyz II Men; "Destiny Fulfilled," Destiny's Child; "One Love," New Edition.
R&B-soul or rap new artist: "Goodies," Ciara featuring Petey Pablo; "I Believe," Fantasia; "Tipsy," J-Kwon; "Used To Love U," John Legend.
R&B-soul or rap music video: "99 Problems," Jay-Z; "Jesus Walks," Kanye West; "Roses," OutKast; "Yeah!" Usher featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon.
R&B-soul or rap dance cut: "Goodies," Ciara featuring Petey Pablo; "Headsprung," LL Cool J; "Drop It Like It's Hot," Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell and Charlie Wilson; "Yeah!" Usher featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon.
Gospel album: "The Heavens Are Telling," Karen Clark-Sheard; "Live From Another Level," Israel and New Breed; "The J Moss Project," J Moss; "I Owe You," Kierra "Kiki" Sheard.


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SUNDAY HOMILY: ˇViva Cristo Rey! Long Live Christ the King
By Fr. James Farfaglia
11/26/2012 (4 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
By Fr. James Farfaglia
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
11/26/2012 (4 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: Sunday homily, homily, homilies, father james farfaglia, Christ the King, Blessed Miguel Pro, Cristeros, Mexico
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - I have always been inspired by the example of Blessed Miguel Pro of Mexico who as a priest of the Society of Jesus, lived during a very trying time for the Mexican people. The Catholic Church was terribly persecuted.
A popular uprising of Catholic laymen called the Cristeros rose to the occasion to free the Church from the anti-clerical laws enforced by President Plutarco Calles.
Blessed Miguel Pro died as a martyr, executed on the firing squad by federal soldiers on November 23, 1927.
As he stood, waiting for the shots that would end his earthly life and begin a new life in the kingdom of heaven, he forgave his executioners, and spreading out his arms in the form of a cross he cried out ˇViva Cristo Rey! Long live Christ the King!
This is the kind of zeal and conviction that the kingdom needs from all of us. No true reforms will take place in the Church; no renewal will take place in our nation until Jesus Christ reigns in everyone's heart. ˇViva Cristo Rey! Long live Christ the King!
The Kingdom of God is the central teaching of Jesus throughout the Gospels. The word kingdom appears more than any other word throughout the four Gospels. Jesus begins his public ministry by preaching the kingdom. "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel (Mark 1:14).
By summarizing all of the teachings of the New Testament on the kingdom we can clearly see that the kingdom is a three dimensional reality: the life of grace within every individual who does the will of God, the Church here on earth, and eternal life in heaven.
The kingdom first establishes itself in our hearts through the sacrament of Baptism, thus allowing us to participate in God's inner life. We are elevated and transformed through sanctifying grace. This supernatural life of grace comes to fulfillment in the eternal life of heaven.
Referring to the Vatican II document Lumen Gentium, the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that the Church is the kingdom of Christ already present in mystery.
It is the mission of the Church to proclaim and establish the kingdom of Christ. This mission takes place between the first coming and the second coming of Christ. The Church will become perfected in the glory of heaven once the Second Coming takes place.
Meanwhile, the Church journeys here on earth through persecutions and consolations. She is in exile from the Lord and waits with joyful hope for the full coming of the kingdom.
Jesus makes it very clear that there are two kingdoms. The two kingdoms are constantly in battle with each other.
Jesus is the king of one kingdom, and Satan is the king of the other kingdom. The battle takes place in our hearts, and it displays itself with great drama in the world.
To ensure that Jesus is always the king of our hearts requires great commitment, sacrifice, conviction, hard work and a lot of prayer.
We must never be surprised that the spiritual life is a battle. A battle between the two kingdoms will always take place in our heart until the day the Lord calls us to the kingdom of heaven.
If you struggle, you will conquer. If you conquer, you will be given the crown of victory.
To maintain the state of sanctifying grace in our souls and to cultivate our spiritual life so that grace increases are the essential elements to the Christian way of life. However, this is not an easy enterprise.
Due to the effects of Original Sin, there are four areas that cause the greatest personal struggle. If we focus our attention to these obstacles to sanctifying grace, we live with immense interior freedom and intimacy with God. The four areas that I am referring to are lust, gluttony, avarice and sloth.
Since we live in a society consumed in sexual sins, we must be vigilant and never give in to the corruption of our times. Prayer, the sacraments and filial devotion to Mary are indispensable tools to preserve the life of grace. Let us remember to avoid the near occasions of sin.
In Fatima, Our Blessed Mother warned humanity that sexual sins cause more people to go to hell than any other offenses.
Gluttony is another battle for most Americans. We allow ourselves to be controlled by food.
Gluttony is defined as an inordinate love for the pleasures of food. This common vice makes our soul the slave of our body and causes us to act like an animal. We can acquire the virtue of temperance by eating proper foods and controlling the amounts of food that we consume. It is disgraceful the amount of food that people pile onto their plates.
Avarice is another common problem for many Americans. The inordinate love for money and material possessions is a real problem in today's society.
This vice can be uprooted from our souls by living within our means, keeping within a strict yearly budget, avoiding unnecessary credit card debt, and by practicing the Biblical principle of tithing. The sin of avarice is rooted in a deep mistrust in God who provides all that we need for our daily existence.
Along with the traditional means that I mentioned that are necessary for the preservation of the virtue of chastity, uprooting the sins of gluttony and avarice are very useful in the cultivation of purity.
If we can control our eating and spending habits, we can then have a greater ability to control our sexual desires.
Sloth is another terrible vice that controls many people. Sloth proceeds from an inordinate attachment to sensual pleasure and it causes us to avoid suffering and effort.
In the spiritual life, sloth presents the greatest obstacle to spiritual progress.
If we do not exert ourselves with a strong will and firm character, we are putting our own eternal salvation in jeopardy. There is no room for laziness and complacency in the kingdom of Christ!
My dear friends, the spiritual life will always be a continual battle, but if we really love Jesus and his kingdom, we will always be able to proclaim the inspirational words spoken by Saint Paul, one of the greatest members of the kingdom: "I have fought the good fight to the end; I have run the race to the finish; I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4: 8).
History is filled with the details of many famous battles. One of these confrontations took place at the Alamo. On March 5, 1836, Colonel William Travis assembled his men in the plaza of the Alamo and told them that there was no hope that they would receive any help.
He drew a line on the ground with a sword to be crossed by all who were committed to stay and fight. Everyone crossed the line except for one man by the name of Moses Rose, who escaped over one of the walls surrounding the Alamo.
Today, more than ever, the kingdom of Christ needs convinced Catholics who will fight heroically for their King.
The kingdom of Christ on earth has always been known as the Church militant, not a Church of cowards.
The conflict between good and evil reached its culmination during the passion of Christ the King. Betrayal, disloyalty, fear and hatred came to overshadow the fidelity of a few disciples and the Lord's loving Mother.
The Cross is an essential component for membership in the kingdom of Christ. Those who belong to the kingdom of Satan do not want a king who tells them that they have to suffer.
They want Jesus to come down from the Cross.
Father James Farfaglia is a contributing writer for Catholic Online and author of Get Serious! - A Survival Guide for Serious Catholics. You can visit him on the web at www.fatherjames.org and listen to the audio podcast of this Sunday homily.
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Once you've made it through our interactive movie themed experience, you'll get the chance to hear from industry experts on how they effectively structure and prioritise their creative projects.
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