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10.27.10 - Milla on Good Morning LA and Chelsea Lately yesterday:
10.26.10 - Reminder: Milla will be on Chelsea Lately promoting Stone tonight!
Milla received the Hollywood Spotlight Award for her work in Stone at last night's 14th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA:
10.24.10 - Milla will be on Chelsea Lately promoting Stone on Tuesday, October 26. From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich):
- Now I'm flying home 2 LA 4 one day 2 do "Chelsea Lately" w my girl @chelseahandler n go 2 the hollywood film festival 2 receive an award 4 my performence in my new movie (out now!) "Stone"!
- I can't wait 2 get home and c my mom and my dogs! But I hve 2 start at 530 am tomorrow n do "good morning LA" then phone interviews, meet a director in the afternoon, then go 2 "chelsea" and after that get ready 4 the award ceremony! Then get on a plane the nxt morning (w mom in tow this time!) And fly back 2 germany 2 finish shooting "3 musketeers"! Whirlwind but amazing! I am so blessed! What a crazy year!
10.23.10 - From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich) from the set of The Three Musketeers:
- Milady's hat and cane in the carriage. I am abt 2 be hoisted 50 ft in the air in my carriage, will post pic!
- Woohoo!!! Another day at work! Lololol! How is that 4 cool! I'm FLYING!!!
- 2 give sum perspective, here is what the view is on the ground. On the left is my amazing make up artist christina smith and on the right is genius photographer(and my daughters godmother) donata wenders!
Stone will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 25, 2011 [ Pre-order: Amazon (DVD) / Amazon (Blu-ray) ]
Interview from Philly.com:
On choosing her film roles: "I'm just as gung-ho to work with a first-time director as I am to work with people who've made lots of movies. The first thing for me is the character. Is it something that attracts me, repels me, makes me feel nervous, is it just fun, or something that I've never done before? Character is always very exciting because that's where I'm going to come in and create something and live through something in this process and learn something for myself. Second to that is the overall script and where does my character fit in. Everything else comes after. If the character's amazing and the script is compelling, I would do it with anybody as long as I'm convinced that they know what they're doing."
[ Philly.com ]
10.17.10 - From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich) from the set of The Three Musketeers:
- A pic of our lovely hair n makeup trailer! Its a bit quiet this time of morning!
- Walking by a costume store in berlin n I almost pulled my guns out cause I thought they were undead! Lol! WTF?
- My beautiful breakfast! What the heck is it?! And my hairdresser, lou shepperd in the pic!
- Oh the glamour!I've been fished out of the sea 4 a scene 2day n had 2 take a break from sopping skirts!Ah tea!
- Lol! My poor soaked dress. It looks like its dying! Well gotta put it on again and finish this scene! Aargh!
- Lol! So this is what is being done 2 me now! Wig being put on, not so pretty, but hell this IS the process!
Milla addresses writing an autobiography (Brisbane Times):
[ Full article from Brisbane Times ]
10.08.10 - Stone opens in limited release today!
Stone interviews with Milla from Hollywood.com, MTV.com, The Onion A.V. Club, PopEater.com, plus an interview with director John Curran from MovieWeb.com.
I definitely was really happy to get the script. Since having my baby, I've felt very much more open to just going out, performing, writing and being an artist in general, and feeling like this newfound confidence as a mom and a newfound confidence in myself. Part of that bled over into my film career in the sense that I really wanted to go out and audition for things, really keep on my toes. I was really just into the whole process of being a performer again, just going out and reading for a lot of different stuff. When this came up, of course I just jumped on it ... I compelled by these sort of flawed personalities and these grey areas and the fact the script didn't really put everything in a neat little package for people. It's very rare that you get scripts that don't sort of shove an opinion down your throat, and this is one of them. So I was very interested in the subject matter and very interested in the characters and of course, working with Edward and Bob was unbelievably attractive. What actor wouldn't want to work with such amazing artists?
You also recently talked about doing a fifth Resident Evil film. How long do you think you can keeping doing these movies? It has to be exhausting for you.
Well, it's a lot of fun. I've definitely said, "Let's go RE:5," but I didn't say, "We are doing another one," just that I would love to. Of course for me, I would love to do another movie Ali (Larter) and Sienna (Guillory) ... I love the franchise. I mean, we built the franchise from its baby stages into what it's turned into today. It's wonderful to see a four-film franchise with a woman in the lead having so much success and it's definitely our little baby in a sense. So I love it, and I have a lot of fun doing it. I love doing the stunts, I love doing the training for it; it's something that's always been attractive for me. I grew up watching the Thundercats and She-Ra and stuff, so I always had this feeling as a kid that I wanted to be this sort of magical, powerful woman who could fly and do crazy stunts and sort of be a superhero.
[ Complete article at Hollywood.com ]
My first take on her was that she's kind of like this light in the script - very joyous and fun and tactile and wild and free - in comparison to the other personalities surrounding her, who are all sort of caged in their worlds. I was very attracted to that freedom she has. If you feel like you're helping someone else, it helps you feel more in control of your world. She's one of those people who needs to save people, whether it be Stone, who depends on her and who's her lifeline, or Jack, who is also in a sense in his own prison. It gives her validation. She is a girl who with a bit of education and TLC could be an amazing personality. But because of the situation she finds herself in - where she lives and who she ends up being - she can't break out of that rut. What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
Your part in this film is a girlfriend role without really being a girlfriend role.
[Laughs.] What attracted me to A Perfect Getaway was that I sorta played a girlfriend role for, you know, 85 percent of the film. That was really interesting to me, because I'd never really played a girlfriend before. But I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
And you've finally done a comedy, Dirty Girl. When folks think of you doing comedy, they generally go back to Dazed And Confused..
Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!
To what extent do you leverage your success in action films to take on indie roles?
As much as I enjoy doing Resident Evil - and I'm so grateful that this movie, fourth in the franchise, has done better than any of the ones before - the fact that I can get movies made that I wanna make...it gives me the opportunity to do things like Dirty Girl. And I did a film [about a con-artist mom and son] called Bringing Up Bobby that Famke Janssen wrote and directed. No one's gonna hire me for their [big-budget] romantic comedy, so it's up to me to look out for great indie comedies and show people a different side of myself - even if it's for three people outside of my family. [Laughs.] Whatever. It builds a body of work. At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.
[ Complete article at The Onion A.V. Club ]
Discussing her character Lucetta in Stone: "It was like, 'How do I bring something other than that [sexuality] to the character?'. There's always something about everybody -- something to love. It dawned on me she was a burst of light in those people's lives. She has this joyous energy because she's such an animal. She's like a wolf, a shark -- she's always flowing, always going with this rhythm about her, which is very exciting for these people who are kind of repressed. She's not the kind of girl I would bring into my own home. It was difficult, it was hard, to have to play something you don't really agree with, and I had my daughter on the set. As an actress, there was this weird paradox of having to respect this character and love her and then sort of hate myself at the end of the day. It got very confusing."
[ Complete article at PopEater.com ]
There is no light at the end of any tunnel in the script and that was one thing I loved about it, was the fact that it leaves so many questions for the audience. It's not wrapping it up in a nice little box and giving you all the answers and spoon-feeding you information. But she did bring something uplifting to the script with the personality and that kind of childlike joy and freedom that she possessed. Everyone is living in these cages -- she's the proverbial bird flying around which I really loved. In a sense she gets put into a cage in the end. It's interesting because this movie is so much about living in this hypocrisy of daily habits and pretending to be something on the outside that they're not feeling on the inside. People can spend a lifetime living a lie. At the end of the day it also really touched on the fact that no matter what, this house will burn down whether it's literally or figuratively. People have to change and people have to be honest and at some point it's going to blow up in your face and that's something that really compelled me about the movie.
SheKnows: You have such great chemistry obviously in very different ways with De Niro and Norton. What was it like working with each of them?
Milla Jovovich: Edward is such a generous person in general as a human being and as an artist he's very intelligent and works a lot on the script. Actually, he and Bob and John really spent almost two years re-writing the script and taking it to another level, because I think the script that they read was a film noire thriller type-thing and both Edward and John aren't really interested in making those kinds of black and white movies. They tried to take the material and bring something else to it that was much more real and much more interesting for actors. I was just very inspired to work with Edward because he brings so much to every project that he's a part of and he's such an amazing actor and such a well of experience and knowledge. He's consistently just such a nice person, very supportive. It was good because with Bob you saw him on another level in a sense. His career precedes him when he walks into a room, a lot of times you don't see Bob, you see every movie he's done.
SheKnows: And working with Robert De Niro had to be inspiring for you, but was it also nerve-wracking?
Milla Jovovich: Of course, it can throw you and any actor. What I loved is that Edward was so good because they worked together before and he said, "No matter what, you've got to keep your process intact because you're amazing and we hired you for a reason. So don't let Bob throw you off because he has his process and we respect that. And you have your process and I have my process and don't let anyone throw you from that." Because you're never really going to get what you expect from Bob because he is such a truth seeker in that sense he really doesn't lie.
[ Complete article at SheKnows.com ]
John Curran: I wouldn't have expected it. I love Milla's past work but I wouldn't have put her past performances with this character. She read for it and just hands down nailed it like no one else did because it's really a wide spectrum of stuff that you need from one actress for that role. She just got the whole nuance of humor, sexiness, danger, naivete and insecurity. All those things she just sort of embodied. Both Edward and Bob like me knew that she was the one. She was fantastic and its really kind of a watershed performance for Milla. It shows a side of her that a lot of people haven't seen before.
[ Complete article at MovieWeb.com ]
Stone interview from Reel Rave:
Milla has donated a Jovovich-Hawk dress for auction help raise money for the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign. Bidding opens October 21 and closes October 31:
Featured in the Jovovich-Hawk Spring 2008 ready-to-wear collection and shown in the likes of Elle magazine, this dress is the essence of ethereal style. It is a cotton and silk blend with full silk lining and features a scoop neckline accented with a sweet flowing silk overlay. The dress ties behind the neck and is curve hugging over the hips, flowing out gracefully at the bottom for a super-feminine silhouette.
10.05.10 - From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich):
- Hey every1! On my way 2 the "stone" premiere! So exciting! Its on a limited release, only in LA n NY 4 the moment, but I hope u all luv it!
- Well, that as we say is that! All done w the premiere of my new film "stone" and on a flight back 2 munich right now. I'm so glad I went...
- We'll all say good luck 2 "stone". a very special movie that makes u think n discuss. Not 1 that spoon feeds ppl info, but breeds debate.
- only ny n la as a springboard we don't hve much chance of expanding 4 every1 2 c it, but good luck 2 @edwardnorton, bob de niro n i!
From the Stone premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City tonight:
Milla chatted live with fans today about Stone at the Los Angeles Times website:
Milla_Jovovich: working w edward was so incredible. he is one of the most generous, friendly, intelligent and well spoken people! he gave me a few great tips on working w bob de niro as well! lol!
whats it like working with robert de niro?
Milla_Jovovich: working with de niro was such an amazing experience because he is always searching for the truth in his character. no matter what the script says he should do, he needs to find the honesty of his actions. so being on the other side of that process made it kind of like a dance. i had to be aware of him and what he needed from me in the moment, or else the scene wouldn't move forward.
Milla, how do you select the roles you eventually take?
Milla_Jovovich: i select the roles i end up playing in lot's of different ways. sometimes its based on what character interests me, what haven't i done yet... i like that my films have a lot of diversity in the characters. especially now that RE has become such a franchise, its important to do show parts of my personality that i haven't shown yet.
what was your first thought when you got the call that you would be working
with DeNiro and Norton?
Milla_Jovovich: to say i was happy to work w norton and de niro is a bit of an understatement! i actually started to cry! lol!
Interview about Stone from ARTIST direct:
Milla: [Laughs] That's a new one! Thank you. I've never heard anybody say that yet! For me, I wasn't looking at Lucetta as a femme fatale in any way, shape or form. For me, she's a bit of an ignorant girl who's got a lot of chutzpah, freedom and light around her. She's brought a feeling of joy to the movie that I think it really needed. These people are living lives that are steeped in hypocrisy and habit, so they're projecting one personality to a community and a world where there's something totally different beneath it. In a way, she's innocent through all of that. She's very much like an animal. She doesn't see the forest for the trees. She's like a bird or a lion, just walking through and she might destroy everything in her path [Laughs]. There's still this joyousness to her that involves living in the moment and having no regrets. I love that about Lucetta. At the same time, it's a script full of flawed personalities. I don't agree with the decisions she makes. However, I had to respect them and give her love. I had to believe in her no matter what her mistakes were. Through that, it ended up being what it is. More than anything, I think there's a truthfulness to her that's compelling. All of the actors did a beautiful job of bringing really layered performances that don't give you all the answers. She's got a mystery about her. When you say "Femme Fatale," that's what you're referring to. She's very sexual and mysterious in that sense, but on the other hand, she's like an open book. That paradox is what I love about her. You never really know what to expect from any of these people.
There's an interesting rhythm to Lucetta's movements. Was that deliberate? She slinks around in a controlling fashion.
Milla: It's funny that you mention that! I just wanted Lucetta to flow. Costume and movement are so important. She has to be like a fish in water - more appropriately a shark! I keep going back to these animal metaphors. I wanted to make sure the clothes were a big contrast to that slinky flow. When you look at Lucetta and the way she dresses, she's very much a normal Midwestern girl. She's sexy but nothing special. It's not like she's got some amazing sense of style or she's very unique in some way. She's very much a product of where she comes from, and that normal look could attract someone like Jack because, from the outside, she's just a nice girl. However, there's this underlying sexuality about her that's very dangerous. That's very attractive too. It's not like she dresses like a slut [Laughs]. There's a reason why Jack goes for her, and it's that "normal" factor. Even though she's kooky and there's a freedom about her, I don't think Jack is the kind of guy who would go for a stripper. There are certain components that had to come together when we were thinking about the character. It would've taken it over the edge if I wore little short-shorts and a crop top. I wanted there to be another kind of hypocrisy that contrasts her nature, which is these nice glowing colors, pastels and little cargo skirts. She's like the girl who works in the 7-11 down the street from you.
[ Full interview from ARTIST direct ]
10.04.10 - From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich): Its very exciting Stone will b premiering at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC tomorrow night!I hope u all go c the movie when it comes out!
Milla will be chatting live with fans about Stone at the Los Angeles Times website tomorrow at 11am PST.
Milla was on German TV show Wetten, dass..? with Katy Perry on Saturday night. From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich): Going on the german show "wetten dass" w katy perry tonite! Its gonna b awesome!
10.01.10 - From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich) from the set of The Three Musketeers:
September 30, 2010:
- Its so dark this early in the morning u feel like u shld speak in whispers.After hair n makeup we take a ferry across the lake 2 the castle.
- here is the castle! Divine. Did sum climbing the castle walls in corsets! N another grt scene w cristoph waltz
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'Butt slasher' Johnny Pimentel sentenced to seven years
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WJLA) The man who pleaded guilty to attacking women in Fairfax County by cutting their backsides was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday in Fairfax County.
Through an interpreter, Johnny Pimente, 42, told the judge he was remorseful for what he did and asked for leniency.
Pimentel, a former day laborer who assaulted numerous women in 2011, pleaded guilty June 17 to two counts each of malicious wounding and unlawful wounding.
Pimentel's attacks were carried out between February and July of 2011 at a handful of Fairfax County shopping centers, including Tysons Corner Center, Fair Oaks Mall and several others.
In each attack, Pimentel snuck up behind a woman in her 20s and cut their backsides with a razor blade or box cutter. Prosecutors nor Pimentel's attorneys have ever given a motive for his attacks, but called the case a "bizarre and terrible" one.
Pimentel gained national notoriety as the "butt slasher" during the assaults.
"I can't explain to anybody because he was normal," said Euclides Paredes, Pimentel's family friend.{ }
Paredes describes his friend as a hard working family man who never showed any odd behavior.{ }
After the attacks, Pimentel fled to his home country of Peru, where he was eventually tracked down and arrested in Jan. 2012.

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Winnipeg Jets
Game on.
After several months — some might even argue 15 years — of build-up leading up to the monumental moment, the Winnipeg Jets are ready to take centre stage.
As the Montreal Canadiens come to town on Sunday for the first NHL regular season game since the Jets became the Phoenix Coyotes, the entire hockey world will be watching the launch of the franchise.
And that suits these Jets just fine.
"It's going to be a historic game and it's going to be fun to be part of," said Jets captain Andrew Ladd. "This was the date everyone marked on their calendar when they made the (relocation) announcement. We've been thinking about it the whole summer, ever since we moved, that this game was going to be pretty epic and trying to imagine what it's going to be like, with the energy in this building. I still don't think we know it's going to be like. To be there and to feel it is going to be great. We have to use the energy in this building the right way."
"It's going to be big for me, just to be part of it," added Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec. "People have been waiting for this moment for 15 years and I could feel that the first day I got here. Everybody's talking about it and for fans, it's going to be a big night. For me, I try to just focus on my play and try to stay away from it, but of course, I'm going to feel it.
"It's going to be huge and the people are going to go crazy. That's what we want and that's why you play hockey."
Having the Canadiens in town to mark the beginning of the new era seems fitting as well.
"When I got drafted by Boston, I felt lucky to be drafted by an Original Six team and I think it's an important thing," said Jets defenceman Mark Stuart. "Guys hold pride in that and for this game, it couldn't be any better. It's an Original Six team and a Canadian team. It's perfect.
"We won't be dwelling on it (Sunday), but you realize that you're part of something really special and you know how much people care about it around here. It's pretty cool."
Jets centre Jim Slater is the longest-serving member of the Atlanta Thrashers franchise and he's fully aware of the significance of the moment.
"This is definitely going to be a memorable night for many people — it's going to be fantastic," said Slater. "We're ready to start another season and we want to make this city proud of who we are and how we play hockey.
"It's been great so far and it's been wonderful being part of this organization. To say you played for the Winnipeg Jets on opening night in their first season (back), there are only 23 people who can say that."
Sunday's game also marks the first chance for the Jets to work on establishing a winning culture.
"When I was in Boston, we built that up over a couple years, having that attitude of being a winning team," said Stuart. "It is an attitude, a mindset. But I think we're on the right track and once you get that, it's contagious. It gets around the room. Guys hate to lose and it doesn't feel right when you lose. You're not going to accept it.
"When you win, you're going to be happy but it's just going to be part of the process."
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Through West Indian Eyes
By Leslie Garis.By Leslie Garis; Leslie Garis often writes on the arts.
Published: October 7, 1990
''When I was a child I liked to read. I loved 'Jane Eyre' especially and read it over and over. I didn't know anyone else who liked to read except my mother, and it got me in a lot of trouble because it made me into a thief and a liar. I stole books, and I stole money to buy them. . . . Books brought me the greatest satisfaction. Just to be alone, reading, under the house, with lizards and spiders running around. . . .'' - Jamaica Kincaid, in an interview, Aug. 19, 1990.
In 1966, at the age of 17, with no money, no connections and no practical training, Elaine Potter Richardson left the West Indian island of Antigua, bound for New York and a job as an au pair. She did not return until she was 36. By then she was Jamaica Kincaid, a respected author of fiction and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine whose prose is studied in universities and widely anthologized.
This month Farrar Straus & Giroux will publish ''Lucy,'' Kincaid's fourth book, a novel about a West Indian girl who arrives in New York City to work as an au pair, never having seen anything beyond her tropical island - a person to whom bathrooms, elevators and winters are completely unknown.
''Lucy'' continues the narrative of Kincaid's extraordinary personal history. In 1983, ''At the Bottom of the River,'' her first book, made her an instant literary celebrity. A collection of short fiction, it is a dreamlike exploration of the physicality, provincialism, superstition and despair of a West Indian childhood. ''Annie John,'' a novel that was one of the three finalists for the 1985 international Ritz Paris Hemingway Award, concerns the narrator's fierce emotional struggles with her mother. At the end of ''Annie John,'' the girl - barely out of adolescence - leaves home to begin her exile. ''A Small Place,'' published in 1988, is an enraged essay about racism and corruption in Antigua. (Her sole nonfiction book, it was the only one not previously published in The New Yorker.) Perhaps the single most consistent and striking quality in her work is what the critic Susan Sontag refers to as its ''emotional truthfulness.''
''It's poignant, but it's poignant because it's so truthful and it's so complicated,'' Sontag says. ''She doesn't treat these things in a sentimental or facile way.'' Sontag has been an admirer of Kincaid's work since her first stories were published. ''She is one of the few writers writing in English now that I would always want to read.''
It is a sunny mid-August New England day, and I am sitting in Kincaid's kitchen - a room that she tells me is larger than the entire house she grew up in. She lives in Vermont with her husband, Allen Shawn, the son of the former editor of The New Yorker, and their two children. On the wall over the table is a place-mat-size pink paper map of Antigua. It is a child's kind of map, very simple and unofficial looking.
''Where I come from,'' Kincaid says, ''essentially everyone has the personality of an artist, the self-absorption and the inability to disguise it. They're always on display in one way or another. Yet they don't produce any objective work of art. I mean my mother would say something, and I'd think, God, that's profound. But it would never occur to her to go outside of it and observe it, which is what an artist would do. That's when it becomes art.''
Her accent is not only British West Indian but special to her. The pacing is stately, the tone feminine, and the rhythm lilting. She sounds like a genteel Englishwoman with a mysterious background that put music in her speech.
''What do you think is needed in an environment to create an artist?'' I ask.
''You need. . . .'' She thinks for a long time. ''You certainly need a moment where you're silent and you listen. Which is not possible in Antigua. Everything is too intense. Everything crowds in. It's small. It's smaller than small, so it's larger than large.''
''And yet you've written that when you left you'd only seen part of your island. That seems incredible. What prevented you from exploring?''
''Absolutely nothing!'' she cries out. ''Just culture. People are not interested in each other, they're not interested in what the other person is doing. There is no part of Antigua I went to when I was a child just for the sheer joy of it, just for the sheer anything of it. You only do that if it has a personal interest for you. You can't believe the self-absorption of a place like that. It's so distorted.''
She is sitting with her long, long legs crossed, her feet tucked under her chair, one hand loosely curved around her coffee cup, the other resting on the table. She is 5 feet 11 inches tall, straight-waisted, narrow-hipped. Her body is that of an elongated adolescent, but her face is mature, round, intelligent, a little sad. Her mind seems both distant and attentive. ''You grow up in a street and it's a tiny street,'' she continues. ''The street might not be as big as this yard out there, but it becomes your world, and it's the only thing you know, and you know it unbelievably well, with this thickness, this heaviness, and you have no interest in anything else. It would not occur to you that there might be something else.'' She leans forward intently. ''When I left home I never wanted to know another Antiguan. Of course I thought about Antigua all the time. But I did not know any Antiguans. I did not know any West Indians. I just wanted to. . . .'' She hesitates, absolutely still. ''To be something other. I didn't want to be somebody important, I just wanted not to have that thing choking me all the time.


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Raleigh Little TheatreÂ's BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER Opens This Friday
Raleigh Little Theatre's production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever opens this Friday, November 2, 2012 running through Sunday, November 18.
The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, cheat, and love to give clonks on the head. Even worse, this year they are performing the annual Christmas pageant. Everyone is convinced that it will be a disaster. At best, it will be unusual. No one is prepared for it being the best one ever.
During the run of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Raleigh Little Theatre will support The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina with a holiday food drive. Help a family in need by bringing a non-perishable food donation to the show. A list of most needed items is here.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office (919)821-3111, M-F, noon-5pm, or by visiting the theatre's website at: www.raleighlittletheatre.org. Performance dates are October 12-28, Thurs-Sat. 8pm; Sun. 3pm. Tickets are $13 for adults and teens, and $9 for children 12 and under.
Raleigh Little Theatre is located at 301 Pogue St., Raleigh, N.C. 27607, adjacent to the Raleigh Rose Garden.


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NEW YORK (Jun. 18)
A series of resolutions demanding full economic, political and cultural equality for the Jews of Poland after the war was adopted here today at the 35th annual convention of the American Federation of Polish Jews, at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The convention, which is being attended by 400 delegates, will conclude tomorrow.
The resolutions demand: 1) Right of Jews to participate in all economic activities and professions and to secure government employment; 2) Cultural autonomy for Jews, to be secured by the formation of an autonomous federation of Jewish communities which will have the authority to regulate the internal affairs of Jewish life; 3) Cancellation by the Polish Government of all confiscations or transfers of Jewish property which occurred during the German occupation. Property belonging to murdered Jews who left no heirs shall be turned over to a central Jewish relief organization; 4) Full implementation of legislation restoring Polish citizenship to those Jews deprived of it prior to the war; and 5) Legislation making anti-Semitism a crime against the State. The resolution also decried any suggestions for evacuation of Jews from Poland after the war and asked Jewish representation on the commission set up to try war criminals.
At the opening session last night, the delegates heard a message of greetings from President Roosevelt. The President said: "The problems which confront you in the noble work of rehabilitation of the Polish Jewry provide a challenge, the poignancy of which fills men's hearts with a determination so deep and strong that despite all odds the efforts will continue until the liberation of these innocent people is achieved." Early today the delegates attended funeral services for Benjamin Winter, president of the federation, who died suddenly on Friday.


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Natalie Ruppertsberger '11 earned fifth place in the women's 15K Classic and as part of the 3x5 Free relay team at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. (Photo by Lincoln Benedict '09)
STOWE, Vt. - In the final day of racing at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, the men's and women's Nordic teams competed in the 3x5K Free relays. The formidable combination of junior Natalie Ruppertsberger (Plainfield, N.H.), senior Abby Samuelson (Freeport, Maine) and sophomore Beth Taylor (Norwich, Vt.) combined for a fifth place finish out of 22 teams in the free relay. The second women's team of junior Kristen Gill (Jackson, N.H.), sophomore Kelsey Dion (Truckee, Calif.) and first-year Gretchen Sellegren (Bozeman, Mont.) placed 12th, with a combined time of 49:13.6.
The top three finishers for the men's team in yesterday's 20K Classic teamed up for the 3x5 Free relay today. Seniors Harry Poole (Yarmouth, Maine) and Brandon Cooper (Aspen, Colo.), along with first-year Lucas Milliken (North Yarmouth, Maine), took 13th place out of 19 teams, with a combined time of 42:19.3. Finishing 16th in the relay was the other Bates trio, comprised of first-years Dan Kuzio (Moretown, Vt.), Corey Hill (Keene, N.H.) and Jim Burnham (Carlisle, Mass).
The Bobcats Nordic and alpine teams finished in seventh place out of 13 teams with 528.5 points. The Bobcats finished ahead of Colby College (493.5) and just behind St. Lawrence University (541).
The Bobcats next compete at the Williams Winter Carnival on February 19th and 20th.
Friday Recap
Ruppertsberger (Plainfield, N.H.) continued her dominant skiing with another top-ten finish, this time it was fifth place in the women's 15K Classic.
While Ruppertsberger has been staking her claim in the top-ten this season, she has had a tremendously talented supporting cast skiing along with her. Samuelson has shined thus far this season as well. Samuelson took 17th place out of 68 skiers, with a time of 51:32.7. Sellegren kept pace with her teammates with a 21st place finish (51:46.1). On Sellegren's heels was Taylor in 22nd place, with a time of 51:47.6.
On the men's side, the Bobcats stuck together for a successful start of the Dartmouth Carnival. Milliken continued to make a name for himself earning 22nd place out of 63 racers in the men's 20K Classic . Cooper nearly caught his teammate, crossing the finish line twenty seconds behind Milliken for 23rd place. Rounding out the top three racers for the men was Kuzio in 29th place, with a time of 1:02:13.6.


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Mamma Mia!, the ultimate feel-good show is an ABBA musical that made its third West End move when it transferred to the Novello Theatre from 6 September 2012. It is a captivating story that takes place on a Greek island paradise and shows how a daughter, on the eve of her marriage, endeavours to find out the identity of her father by bringing three men from her mother's past back to the island that they last visited 20 years ago. It is a musical tale of love, laughter and friendship that has some beautiful ABBA songs such as Souper Trouper; Dancing Queen; Knowing me, Knowing You; and Thank You for the Music. More than 10 million people from all over the world have fallen in love with the story, the music and the characters of this extremely successful musical.
The musical is directed by Phyllida Lloyd and the insanely catchy songs of ABBA have been converted into a musical due to the bold initiative of Judy Craymer. This effort has brought rich dividends in every sense with box office figures for Mama Mia! breaking all records. The current cast has been chosen more for their singing talents than their acting abilities. The deficiencies in acting have been more than compensated by the purest of pop, the songs, a solid story and a Greek island setting which is perfect. It provides all that you can ask for and it is difficult for anyone not to fall for the twinkling charm of Mamma Mia!
The extremely successful musical hit was written by Catherine Johnson and composed by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. It opened in the West End at the Prince Edward Theatre in April 1999 before it was transferred to the Prince of Wales in June 2004. Previously, it was booked until 20 October 2012 at the Prince of Wales but the final performance there was on 1 September 2012. The show has grossed over $2 billion worldwide and its film version was made in 2008 starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth. The musical has become a global phenomenon with 11 productions playing around the world simultaneously, in places like Broadway, Las Vegas, Shanghai and an international tour. More than 50 million people have seen it in over 300 countries. It has been translated into 14 languages.


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Where should I look to fix this? ACPI or APM settings? Somewhere else? Are there logs I should be looking at?
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Fielder drives in 4, but Tigers lose to Rangers
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Yu Darvish is feeling right at home in Texas, where he's already done something only one other major league pitcher has accomplished in the past half-century.
The Japanese standout has won his first seven career home starts after the Rangers' 7-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. Overall, he matched the American League lead with his 10th victory less than halfway through his first season in the majors.
Darvish (10-4) struck out 10 in seven innings for his fourth double-digit strikeout game. After giving up two runs the first four innings, he settled down and got into a nice groove — something he has already done a few times with the Rangers after sluggish starts.
"It seemed like the longer the game went, the better he got," manager Ron Washington said. "He was trying to get rhythm again those first few innings. They put some runs on the board, but we came back and answered, and he continued to pound the strike zone. All of a sudden his fastball was crisper, his breaking ball was crisper."
The Rangers said, according to Elias, the only other pitcher in the past 50 years to win his first seven career home starts was Carlos Perez for the Montreal Expos — eight in 1995. Kenny Rogers is the only other pitcher to win seven consecutive starts at Rangers Ballpark at any point.
The only walk Darvish allowed was Austin Jackson's to start the game, though the big right-hander hit Miguel Cabrera in the left earflap of his helmet with a 92-mph fastball before Prince Fielder's double quickly put the Tigers up 2-0.
Darvish threw 113 pitches on a night when the game-time temperature was 103 degrees, and finished strong. He retired the last seven batters he faced, striking out the last two.
"That's one of the top high-level lineups in the league and I was looking forward to facing these hitters," said Darvish, who didn't feel overwhelmed by the heat either. "My teammates still tell me it's not as hot as it's going to get. … Even though it was hot, I didn't feel too uncomfortable."
The AL West-leading Rangers went ahead to stay with a four-run fourth. They were up 5-3 after consecutive RBI singles by Yorvit Torrealba and Brandon Snyder — the Nos. 8 and 9 batters in the lineup.
Josh Hamilton later homered for the second night in a row, his leadoff shot in the seventh was his 24th of the season to match Toronto's Jose Bautista for the major league lead. Hamilton has a majors-best 67 RBIs.
Prince Fielder drove in four runs for the Tigers, including a two-run double in the first. Three innings later, when the temperature was still in triple digits, Fielder hit his 12th homer to make it 3-1.
"We did a decent job against Darvish. If you can get five runs off him you're doing pretty well," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "He has good secondary pitches. He looks like a breaking-ball pitcher."
Drew Smyly (2-3) was activated from the disabled list to start after being out since June 11 with a blister on his left middle finger. The lefty struck out three while allowing six runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings.
Ian Kinsler led off the Texas first with his first homer since June 8.
Adrian Beltre had a one-out infield single in the fourth and scored on Michael Young's triple to left-center. Nelson Cruz followed with an RBI single and then stole second base before Torreabla's hit. Cruz scored the tiebreaking run when he slid around catcher Alex Avila's swiping tag attempt and a bat to reach out and touch the plate.
Joe Nathan worked a perfect ninth for his 17th save in 18 chances. Mike Adams escaped trouble in the eighth, when the first two batters reached before deep fly balls by Cabrera and Delmon Young sandwiched an RBI grounder by Fielder.
Darvish joined teammate Matt Harrison and Tampa Bay left-hander David Price as the American League's only 10-game winners. It was Darvish's last start before the All-Star rosters will be announced Sunday.
"A job of a starting pitcher is quality starts and keeping the team in the game," Darvish said. "It's been iffy at times, but I just think overall being able to do that, the result is that I got those wins. Overall as a starting pitcher, I think I am doing my role, that job."
But Darvish had a bit of a rough start, even though Detroit scored three fewer first-inning runs than the previous night.
Cabrera dropped to the ground and was sprawled out in a sitting position when he looked toward the mound after getting hit in the head. A trainer came out and checked on Cabrera, who appeared a bit dazed as he got up and walked toward first base. He then scored from first on Fielder's drive into the left-center gap.
"He has a good fastball, and he's sneaky with his delivery. He has a plethora of different pitches," said Quintin Berry, who had an RBI single for the Tigers. "We got a couple of runs early and felt good about it."
NOTES: Beltre is hitting .500 (22 of 44) in his past 12 games. … Avila was back in the Tigers lineup after missing the series opener with tendinitis in his left knee. He had a double in the fifth and scored on Berry's single. … Tigers closer Jose Valverde, who hadn't pitched since June 15 because of a sprained right wrist, pitched a perfect eighth. … Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey is the only other pitcher in the majors with four 10-strikeout games. … During a kiss-cam segment between innings, Rangers president Nolan Ryan and his wife Ruth were shown on the video board with a message wishing them a Happy 45th anniversary. Also shown was a picture of the couple on their wedding day.


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TAMPA — Celine Dion is not the vulnerable type. When she launches into a supposedly sensitive song like All By Myself, she approaches it with all the subtlety of a runaway beer truck, squinting her eyes shut as she holds a high note at an ear-piercing volume. But there's still something endearing about the French-Canadian diva, and it probably has to do with her weirdly awkward stage persona, all those chest-thumping, fist-pumping, finger-pointing, air guitar-strumming gestures that keep comedians in business. Dion's fans love her dorkiness.
She brought her Taking Chances tour to the St. Pete Times Forum on Wednesday night, kicking things off by climbing on top of a piano to belt out I Drove All Night, the old Cyndi Lauper (and Roy Orbison) hit, to a thudding dance beat.
As a piece of theater, the show is state of the art arena pop, directed by Jamie King, also responsible for staging tours of Madonna, Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne. Dion performs in the round from a vast square stage, with three backup singers and a seven-piece band. There are video screens everywhere, including a large cubic screen hung over the stage that dominates the production. From time to time, the singer would stride up a catwalk that extended into the audience to be bathed in light from all the flash cameras.
Dion, who turns 41 in March, has eight dancers, and they would come on to give her a chance to make a costume changes. The most effective was when the dancers did a flamenco number, then Dion emerged on an elevator from a hole at center stage to sing Eyes on Me in an outfit with a long white train, billowing behind her like a parachute. In a "fashion victim" segment, she sported a black and silver bell-bottomed Abba-style getup for Shadow of Love.
Dion's tour has been going on for a year, and was the second-best-selling show in 2008 with sales of $237 million, ranking behind another stainless steel diva, Madonna. The St. Pete Times Forum was virtually full Wednesday, with attendance of 18,550.
She was bubbling with homey stage patter, chatting about the Super Bowl, having her 81-year-old mother on the tour and how great the audience was. "I'm a talker, I can't help it," she said.
Basically, the tour is a blown-up version of Dion's Las Vegas show, which closed an almost five-year run in 2007. There are a half-dozen songs from the Taking Chances album, and a healthy selection of the greatest hits, all sounding the same after a while. She did some oddball covers, like James Brown's It's a Man's Man's Man's World, Aretha Franklin's Respect and Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High. Soulful, Dion is not.
Naturally, the finale included clips from Titanic, with candelabra descending from the lighting rig, the tune of an Irish pennywhistle and the inevitable My Heart Will Go On.


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A Chance to Be Mourned
By EMILY BRADY
Published: November 12, 2006
THE trouble began on the subway.
At first he was just another homeless man taking refuge from the bitter New York winter. Then he collapsed. He was unconscious when paramedics pulled him out of the subway car. He died a few hours later at Brooklyn Hospital Center in Downtown Brooklyn of an inflamed pancreas and a weakened heart. It was two days before Christmas 2003. He was 48.
In life he was a stocky man with gentle eyes, a short beard and a wide smile. His name was Lewis Haggins Jr., though everyone called him Lou. As it turned out, he had a large circle of friends in the homeless community, along with family in New Jersey. But like many who teeter on the city's edge, this man carried no ID. For weeks, his body lay unclaimed in the city morgue.
Two months after that final subway ride, Mr. Haggins's body was placed in a pine coffin and sent to Potter's Field on Hart Island, east of the Bronx, the city's cemetery for the poor, the unknown and the unclaimed. Over the past 137 years, an estimated 800,000 people have been buried there. On Feb. 25, 2004, Mr. Haggins was placed in a common grave with 149 others.
There, Mr. Haggins joined the thousands of New York's lost and abandoned, the people whose burial there underscores the powerlessness they bore in life.
But Mr. Haggins's burial represented a turning point.
Nine months after his death, the New York police matched the man buried in Potter's Field with a man who had been arrested for trespassing: Mr. Haggins. The police notified his parents of his death and told them where he was buried. His family in turn contacted Picture the Homeless, an advocacy group of which Mr. Haggins was a founder.
Hart Island, members of the group soon learned, was closed to the general public. Only immediate family members were allowed to visit Mr. Haggins's grave, and even they had to navigate a labyrinth of city bureaucracy.
His friends within the homeless community rallied. They wanted to hold a memorial service. They wanted to lay flowers on his grave. More than anything, they wanted Mr. Haggins to know he wasn't forgotten.
What happened next grew into a movement that included religious leaders from around the city. For most of the past year, for the first time in the island's history, memorial services were held there every two months. The organization that Mr. Haggins helped to found during his life allowed him and many anonymous others to be memorialized after their death.
The video image is slightly fuzzy, as if someone forgot to wipe off the camera lens. It shows a small group of men standing on a ferry dock and speaking with a pair of middle-aged women. ''We're looking to go over and pay our respects,'' one man says. ''So far the city bureaucracy hasn't seen fit to let us.''
The men are members of Picture the Homeless who traveled to City Island with a video camera last spring in the hope of joining a Catholic group from the Bronx that was headed to Potter's Field for its yearly Ascension Thursday Mass. The two women they are talking to journeyed from the Midwest to visit a relative long buried.
Bruce Little, a member of Picture the Homeless, is seen peering out across the water. Many of his friends lie underground in the cemetery on the other side. ''I just want to let them know I'm still there for them,'' he says. When the ferry arrives to shuttle the group across the water, the members of Picture the Homeless are not allowed aboard. They didn't have advance approval from the city's Department of Correction.
Mr. Little, 42, first met Mr. Haggins in the late 1990s. At the time, they were both homeless, hanging out near Penn Station. Mr. Little remembers Mr. Haggins as a light within the homeless community. ''If you had issues,'' he said, ''you could speak to him about it. If you had a struggle, he wanted to help you with it.''
Lewis Haggins Jr. was born in Princeton, N.J., and raised in a middle-class home there. His parents, Lewis Sr. and Geraldine, declined to be interviewed about their son, saying the subject stirred too many emotions, but a short biography they helped write after his death noted that after high school Mr. Haggins had held various jobs at New Jersey universities.
Just why he became homeless is unclear. After a brief marriage, he moved to Harlem, where he played keyboards and worked odd jobs. His younger brother, Brock, remembers that he ended up at a homeless shelter after a fire destroyed his apartment. ''We all said you can come back and live with us,'' said Brock Haggins.
But Lou Haggins never took his family up on the offer. And some who knew him suggest that alcohol may have contributed to his problems. ''I know he liked to drink,'' Brock Haggins said. ''I don't know the extent of it.''
Whatever the exact circumstances of his situation, Mr. Haggins did not let it prevent him from working on behalf of other homeless people. He co-founded Picture the Homeless in 1999, after a woman was assaulted with a brick in Midtown. The man accused of attacking her, it turned out, was identified as homeless, and the case was well publicized. Mr. Haggins and a friend named Anthony Williams, whom he had met in the Bellevue Men's Shelter, decided they wanted to do something to change the public perception of the homeless. Picture the Homeless, made up of homeless and formerly homeless people, was the result.


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Sabbatical Diary: Starting from a Strong Foundation
Last month, I kicked off what will be a year-long series on life during a sabbatical. In today's post, I hope to generate some discussion about what you can do before a sabbatical begins so you start off smoothly and easily. I spent a couple of months before mine started this month doing a few things I will outline below, and I hope readers will contribute more suggestions in the comments.
- Decide What Projects You Will Work on and When. When you applied for your sabbatical, you probably had to outline your research plans for your time away from campus. Most people I have talked with focused their application on one large project, but they often had other projects they intended to work on as well. My proposal focused on a book project, which I intend to pursue actively, but I have several projects that I also want to finish and a few I might start. There are two articles I intend to finish this summer. In the fall, I plan to conduct intensive archival research, but I also have one article I want to finish before the end of the year. I like having two or three things to work on at once because I like engaging with different parts of the writing process at the same time. While I'm in the planning stages of one project, I will also be revising another. Few people can write all day. I certainly can't. But a couple of hours of writing followed by a couple of hours of revising followed by a couple of hours of research and notetaking would be a very productive day. Of course, you should give yourself some flexibility. You may hit a wall with one project or break through one with another, which could alter your plans. These decisions should not be seen as constraints but as concrete starting points. This is why I have not decided what I will do during the spring or next summer. I will wait to see where I am in December and go from there.
- Collect Previous Research and Notes. We all have projects we either fully intend to pursue or might pursue at some point, and many of us collect articles and make notes whenever the opportunity arises. A friend mentions an article in a hallway conversation or a presentation at a conference gets you thinking on how to conclude that essay you started three years ago. Once you know when your sabbatical begins, spending the weeks or months before its official start going through these materials to see what you have and what you still need to do. I had some articles bookmarked online and others photocopied and sitting in various spots at home and on campus. I also had notes on index cards and scraps of paper that are older than I care to admit. I created digital and analog folders to bring all of these things together. Doing so showed me that I already had some pretty good ideas written down, and I already had copies of articles I thought I had to get. And now that I am in the sabbatical, it's great to read an article and know that I already have a copy of one or two of its key citations.
- Find Out What Kinds of Approval You Need to Start or Finish Projects. If you need IRB approval, get it sooner than later, especially since more and more universities require applicants to complete an online or face-to-face workshop before even being allowed to apply. And you may need to get IRB approval from multiple places if you will be holding fellowships or other positions at different universities during your sabbatical. If you know you are going to be working with archives, find out what you need to do to gain access to them. Also, find out what you have to do to quote from the materials you find there, if possible. Are there forms to fill out or estates to contact? Will they allow you to take photographs or can you only take notes? Will it cost you anything to make photocopies or to publish particular images? As one example, I know how much one archive will ask me to pay if I publish one of its photographs. Since the cost is more than I can afford, I know now that I have to take time to describe it in detail in whatever I write and will not be able to simply say, "Refer to Figure One." I think it is better to know that now. I also might be able to apply for funds to publish such images.
Do you have anything to add? My list focuses on research sabbaticals. If you are on sabbatical because you plan to teach somewhere abroad or closer to home, you will need to do different things, and I hope those of you with such experiences will discuss them in the comments. Also, let me know if you have any questions or topics I can cover in future posts on the subject of sabbaticals.
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ASIA'S DEADLY WAVES: AFTERMATH; Pledges Grow, Hurdles Loom In Relief Effort
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: January 5, 2005
Fresh infusions of aid on Tuesday gave yet more push to the global relief effort for Asia as it confronted monsoon rains, logistical breakdowns and the urgent need for everything from earthmoving equipment to trucks in the struggle to reach the survivors in the most remote areas.
Jan Egeland, the United Nations' emergency coordinator, acknowledged the many obstacles but called the global response ''phenomenal.'' He spoke on a day when expectations rose that pledges could far exceed $2 billion before a meeting here on Thursday of donor nations that will discuss how to coordinate the aid.
With television broadcasts showing American servicemen delivering aid to victims of the last week's tsunami, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell candidly acknowledged the hope that the United States' military help and its $350 million contribution might improve America's image in the Islamic world. Indonesia, home of two-thirds of the estimated 150,000 people who have died, is the world's most populous Muslim country.
''We'd be doing it regardless of religion,'' Mr. Powell said here on the second day of his tour through the region with Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida. ''But I think it does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action.''
''America is not an anti-Islam, anti-Muslim nation,'' Mr. Powell added in his remarks to reporters alongside the Indonesian foreign minister, Hassan Wirajuda. ''America is a diverse society where we respect all religions. And I hope that as a result of our efforts, as a result of our helicopter pilots being seen by the citizens of Indonesia helping them, that value system of ours will be reinforced.''
For his part, Mr. Wirajuda, a Harvard Law School graduate, went out of his way to praise the performance of the American military in the aid effort. ''We particularly appreciate the crucial role that the United States armed forces play in providing helicopters for relief assistance for victims and survivors at the remote and isolated areas,'' he said.
The American forces sent so far, which include a crew of nearly 6,000 on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, proved essential in launching rescue helicopters on Tuesday after a cargo plane reportedly struck a water buffalo at the airport in Banda Aceh, at the chaotic center of Indonesia's hardest-hit area on the island of Sumatra.
The accident closed the runway for much of the day and exposed the vulnerable logistics of what relief and military officials have called the largest aid operation ever.
''We are making extraordinary progress in reaching the majority of people affected in the majority of the areas,'' said Mr. Egeland, the United Nations coordinator. ''We are also experiencing extraordinary obstacles in many, many areas.''
Reuters, citing a government source, reported that Germany was expected to increase its aid contribution to $680 million, from $27 million, which would make the country the biggest single contributor to relief funds. Chancellor Gerhard Schr? promised to announce ''a significant sum'' on Wednesday, the news agency reported.
Even as contributions mounted, the United Nations office overseeing relief from Geneva appealed for generators, water purification equipment, some 250 trucks and cargo planes able to land on short runways, which it said only the United States and Britain could provide, according to Reuters.
With each day, the relief efforts amounted to a race against time for perhaps tens of thousands among the estimated 400,000 people left injured or without shelter since the earthquake erupted on Dec. 26 and sent wave after wave crashing into Sumatra's western shore.
The World Health Organization warned that pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and many infections, including gangrenous wounds left untended in the tropical heat, were taking an increasing toll in Aceh, Sumatra's most afflicted province. The region around the coastal town of Meulaboh, still inaccessible except by air, remained a particular concern.
''The casualty rates in Meulaboh defy imagination,'' Aitor Lacomba, the Indonesia director of the International Rescue Committee, an aid group, told Reuters. ''Tens of thousands need immediate assistance there.''
Rescue workers were reportedly preparing to use small boats and motorbikes in the hunt for more survivors and to deliver assistance, as helicopters shuttled workers from the international aid group Doctors Without Borders into isolated areas. They reported casualty rates of 70 to 80 percent in some places.
''The people who survive have done that under very difficult circumstances, often surviving on coconuts alone,'' an official of the group, Erwin Vantland, told BBC World TV. ''The picture becomes grimmer and grimmer the more we learn.''
The full scale of the devastation came into sharper focus in other regions as well. Indian officials raised the number of those believed missing on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to more than 6,000. They also came under increasing pressure from international aid groups to allow outside relief workers to tend to more than 21,000 people now sheltered in camps on the islands, which have been closed to protect endangered aboriginal tribes.
In Sri Lanka, health officials warned that relentless seasonal rains were slowing the delivery of aid and threatening to spread water-borne disease.


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SAIC Awarded $65M Contract by Defense Department
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) announced today it was awarded a prime contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide manufacturing, systems engineering and integration support services. The single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract has a one-year base period of performance, four one-year options and a total contract value of $65 million, if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Columbia, Md.
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July 30th, 2014 01:24 AM #1
College classes
Hello, berries.
This is for a story, by the way, set in the northeastern US. in a fictional university (which is Catholic, if that will make a difference). I'm just wondering what the deal is with classes in college? For a philosophy major or possibly an English major, what would some classes be? And how many classes do you usually take at a time?
If possible, could I have it for year by year?
At the beginning of the story the main character is a freshman.
I am quite clueless about this--thanks in advance!
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July 30th, 2014 06:48 AM #3
What country are we talking about? University requirements differ from place to place.~Boys~
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Erm, yeah this might not apply to your country, but at the university I most recently graduated from full-time postgraduate study was defined as 60 credits per academic year, generally 30 credits per semester. So it depends how many credits the modules are worth, because they weren't all the same. E.g. some semesters I took e.g. 2 10-credit modules and 2 5-credit modules, some semesters I took 3 10-credit modules. So I was generally taking 3 or 4 modules per semester, and I studied a humanities subject (not philosophy, though). The credit system might be different where you are, though (e.g. might be more courses that are worth fewer credits, might be a larger/smaller credits-per-semester requirement). I don't really remember how many credits I was taking per semester back in the UK for undergrad/postgrad, but it was the same, about 3-4 modules per semester.
What you should do is go on the website for a university in the area you are interested in and look for information on the degree programmes on offer (there should be something like a 'course catalogue' - that's what we call it at the University of Iceland but it could have a different name). It should show you exactly the credit requirements, including the specific mandatory and elective courses that a student must/can take in order to obtain the degree. If the information is hard to find, just pick another university with a better website - eventually you ought to find a good framework for what the structure of a philosophy degree in your country will generally look like. E.g. the first US university I thought of: http://www.philosophy.ucla.edu/major.html (this looks very different to what I'm familiar with).Freyja Elísabet - June 2015
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July 30th, 2014 09:34 AM #7
I think the year of your character also matters greatly. A freshman, regardless of major, would have very general requirements, whereas someone in their final year would have courses greatly specified to the major.
Jackal did a good job explaining the way credits work and how it can vary greatly. I will say that from my experience I have taken as few as five courses a semester and as many as seven, as my school has a 30 credit a year set up for a total of 120 come graduation. This also might be directly related to the year, as I find that as a senior I have fewer requirements left so I'm no longer taking seven classes in order to get ahead.
I go to school in the Northeast US, for reference.
July 30th, 2014 03:53 PM #9
@jess0044 has a pretty good idea for American schools. Generally, you take 30 credits a year, for a 4-year degree. Courses can vary between 1 credit to 4 or 5 credits (usually one credit per hour you're in class--many classes meet three times a week, for one hour each class, and are 3 credits). B.A. degrees usually have much more varied Gen.Ed. requirements (including more artsy subjects, and I've heard that only B.A. students are required to have foreign language courses, but not B.S. degrees). I could go fairly in-depth into my major, which was Professional Writing (but I was also enrolled in Library Science and Theology and Psychology programs at various points in college--I changed my mind a lot!--so I have a little experience with all three. Generally you can find a PDF document of the courses required for each major, and the suggested courseload for each semester. I went with my sister to meetings this afternoon at her university where she was given such a document--it's just a matter of finding it. I really have no idea about a philosophy degree, though--I don't think I've ever even had a philosophy course--just religion and psychology/sociology ones.
For reference, I've gone to college in both the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic region (think Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, etc.).


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Nelson 5 Barnoldswick Town 0
New signings Scott Byrom and Bryn Potter made their debuts as Town suffered their fourth-successive North West Counties League Premier Division defeat on Tuesday night.
The result leaves the Victory Park club second from bottom with just three goals for and 16 against.
Nelson started well and Ed Hall had to fist a cross clear under pressure from a Nelson forward in the fourth minute.
The ball fell to Ben Hoskin on the edge of the Town penalty area but he pulled his shot wide.
Hall had to be alert again to tip a Peter Wright free-kick over his crossbar just four minutes later.
Town's first chance came after 20 minutes when Aaron Hollindrake fed Joel Melia. He crossed to the far post, where Chris Simpson grazed a post with a header.
Melia had a shot tipped round the post by Nelson keeper Ben Woodhead as the visitors attacked again.
It was slightly against the run of play that Nelson took the lead. Hall made another good save from Wright to concede a corner.
Danny Mahoney floated the ball into the six-yard box where Hoskin headed powerfully past Hall.
Town then committed the cardinal sin of not clearing their lines. Hall's attempted clearance hit a Nelson player and fell into the path of Hoskin who made no mistake to put Nelson two up.
It was all Nelson up to half-time with Hall having to make further good saves from Jonny Hession and Ged Morris.
Nelson started the better again in the second half, and Hoskin and Jake Lloyd had shots blocked inside the Town penalty area after a Mahoney free-kick on the edge of the penalty area.
Town gradually fought their way back into the game. Aaron Hollindrake had the misfortune to see his shot rebound off a post.
Hollindrake also went close minutes later. His shot from Potter's cross looped up towards goal, but grounded goalkeeper Woodhead was relieved to see the ball drop into his arms.
Nelson had a real chance to go 3-0 up on the hour mark. Mahoney crossed from the Town left and Liam Roswell, sliding in at the near post, could only send the ball the wrong side of the post.
A promising Town move was halted by an offside decision and then the visitors felt they were denied a penalty.
Martin Broderick slipped Simpson through the Nelson defence into the penalty area where he was brought down. The officials ruled the offence was committed outside the box and awarded a fee kick.
Town made a double substitution after 67 minutes with Hollindrake and Simpson making way for Mark Threlfall and Liam Hoyle.
It was encouraging that Town continued to press and Melia teased the defence with a jinking run which resulted in a corner.
From the set piece, Byrom's cross found Shaun Airey's head at the far post but he could only direct his header wide of the Nelson post from a good position.
With Town pressing for the goal that would bring them back into the match they left gaps at the back and it was no surprise when Nelson added three more goals through Edward O'Neill (80), Wright (85) and Liam Boswell (89).
The scoreline looks poor but the Town performance didn't deserve it. For large sections of this match they were the equal of Nelson and with a little more luck they could easily have scored a couple of goals.


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Thanks Kate, I just shared with friends who are headed to Portland!
If you're looking to make a short jaunt and get outta town for a few days, Portland is a great place to do it. A five hour drive from Vancouver, it's far enough away that it feels like a vacation, but not too far that you can't fit it into a weekend. Plus, Seattle makes a great pit stop on the way.
Here are my favourite things to do in Portland.
After only two days, I felt like if I ate another thing I'd burst! But the culinary adventure that is Portland just keeps on giving. My personal favourites – indulging in pub grub at a local brewery and a little southern home style cooking.
2337, East Burnside Street
Recommended to us by a friend of a friend, The Screen Door is outside of downtown, in a friendly little neighbourhood and was buzzing with activity. A 20 minute walk from our hotel, we waited 30 minutes for a table and got one outside on the patio. The host was cool and calm in front of the hungry crowd, the bartender comp'd one of our drinks, just because, and the wait staff were super friendly. As you can seen from the below pictures, the food was ammmmazing and the portion sizes were generous. Mmmm… corn bread!
210 NW 11th Ave
Now, from what we heard, we could have walked into any of the fine breweries in Portland and had an excellent experience enjoying craft beer and pub eats. We happened to stumble upon Deschutes one afternoon for a snack. It was happy hour, appies were cheap and feature beers were too! The place was extremely busy as locals had just finished work and headed for the bar. Deschutes has some picnic bench tables outside, which is what first caught our attention, but after hearing the wait, we opted for something inside and available. I would definitely recommend their Brewery Pretzel, which is served with gooey white cheese and spicy mustard for dipping. The Thai Wings were pretty great too.
Tons of great shopping and no sales tax make a girl happy! My favourite area to browse was the Pearl District. The Pearl area of town is full of funky antique shops, home design and decor stores and clothing boutiques. My definite favourite find was a store called…
225 NW 11th
There's a trend here.. first, the Screen Door, now the Porch Light… there's something about porches in Portland…
Anyways, Porch Light was a super cool find. The shop has an eclectic mix of new and old, with new, vintage inspired paper, stationary and books sitting atop rustic ,reclaimed antique furniture. Their collection of coffee table books could have entertained me for hours. I fell in love with their sweet little succulents – would have bought them if vegetation as allowed over the border.. I walked away from this store with many ideas and inspiration for our home.
Although we had the car with us, we did a ton of walking while in Portland. For a leisurely, quiet stroll we headed to the waterfront and the Riverplace Marina. There's a three mile boardwalk/walking path between the two bridges that is dotted with cafes, restaurants and shopping. It was a gorgeous day when we visited, and people were out enjoying the sunshine along the water.
830 East Burnside
We stayed at the Jupiter Hotel on Burnside – a once motel converted into funky retro-inspired boutique accomodations. Jupiter delivered on expectations, but what we didn't expect was that right next door, at Doug Fir, there were great bands EVERY night. We ate in Doug Fir's restaurant each morning, loved the 50's mod log cabin vibe, so decided to give the lounge a try at night. Cover was cheap, the music was excellent and it was a great crowd of people who filtered into the basement for a weeknight show. Bonus: our room was staggering distance away!
Thanks Kate, I just shared with friends who are headed to Portland!


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A dispute between two Republican state Senate candidates over campaign signs landed before an administrative law judge today.
Bruce Schwichtenberg of Carver filed a complaint against incumbent Sen. Julianne Ortman, R-Chanhassen, over her use of signs that include the words "Republican for Minnesota Senate." Schwichtenberg, who is challenging Ortman in the GOP primary in Senate District 47 next week, contends the signs violate state campaign rules, since Ortman did not receive the party endorsement. Carver County Republicans decided back in May not to endorse either candidate.
Administrative Law Judge Richard Luis held a probable cause hearing on the complaint via conference call. During the call, Schwichtenberg suggested the signs are harming his campaign.
"The county convention went through the process of doing the endorsement," Schwichtenberg said. "If being able to put the Republican word on that without a disclaimer, to me, undermines the action of that county convention."
But Ortman disputed the allegations in the complaint.
"It is a Republican primary in a partisan race. Voters have to ask for a Republican ballot in order to vote in the election," Ortman said. "It was never my intention to imply an endorsement that I do not have."
Judge Luis took the complaint under advisement. He will soon decide whether to dismiss the complaint, or to rule that there is probable cause and schedule further proceedings.


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Following in his father's footsteps at the prestigious law firm Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, Theodore "Ted" Cranston embarked on a legal career that earned him national recognition in the field of estate planning and accolades as a leader in community service to San Diego.
Mr. Cranston died Tuesday evening after a struggle with cancer. He was 72.
He served as a trusted adviser to many leading families in San Diego throughout his career and acted as a mentor to many of the attorneys currently managing the law firm, now DLA Piper, one of the largest business law firms in the world. He remained a partner at the firm with a reduced workload until his death.
Mr. Cranston graduated from San Diego High School, Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), and Stanford Law School (Order of the Coif, Law Review). He joined Gray Cary in 1964.
Similar to his father, Jack Cranston, who had been the presiding partner of Gray Cary, Cranston rose in his practice to become the managing partner from 1989 through 1992, and served for years on the firm's executive board.
"They worked together at Gray Cary for almost 30 years and shared an association that each treasured dearly," said Hal Cranston, Ted's brother. "Not surprisingly, they shared many common traits such as honesty, integrity, trust and community service."
He was a nationally known expert in trusts and estates, was a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and served on the California State Bar's Executive Committee for Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law Section.
"Ted played a critical role in the growth of the firm, yet always kept in sharp focus the importance of giving back to the community," said Jay Rains, global co-chair of DLA Piper's Corporate and Finance practice.
One of Mr. Cranston's protégés, firm partner Ellen Whelan, said he stood behind her and was a champion of her career.
"I was probably not an easy associate to bring along. I'm a quadriplegic in a wheelchair," Whelan said. "If you work hard, commit yourself to being as best a lawyer as you can be and commit yourself to the community, Ted will champion you."
She recalled that about five years ago, when she was among a group of lawyers struggling to come up with a new way to handle a problem, he suggested a novel approach.
"Ted recommended we all go to a movie, and off we went," she laughed. "The next day, we were brilliant. It's become an annual tradition."
Mr. Cranston filled much of his down time with pro bono work and community involvement.
"He was a pillar of our community who dedicated himself to enhancing San Diego and the lives of others," said Ward Gill, CEO of the San Diego Symphony.
Mr. Cranston was president of the La Jolla Playhouse Board and co-chaired its capital/endowment campaign. He believed strongly in the work of the Salk Institute and committed himself to its board. He also served on boards and committees at Girl Scouts of San Diego, San Diego Center for Children, San Diego Symphony, Stanford Law School, San Diego Foundation, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Legal Aid Society, San Diego and La Jolla Rotary clubs, School of Theology at Claremont, and National Conference of Christians and Jews.
"For those of us who had the privilege to work closely with him, Ted was a consistent champion of principled decision-making, and someone who cared deeply," said Terry O'Malley, co-chair of DLA Piper in the Americas. "He was a champion of the underdog, and he was someone you could trust absolutely to do the right thing in even the most difficult circumstances. His acts of kindness are too numerous to catalog, and we are all better for having had him in our lives."
Mr. Cranston was born in San Diego on Oct. 27, 1939. He is survived by his wife, Warrine; his brother, Hal Cranston; his sister, Jackie Wischmeyer; his two daughters, Julie and Jodi Cranston; and his four grandchildren, Phoebe Van Duinen, Emily Van Duinen, Samuel Cranston and Camille Pearl Cranston.
Services will be at 1 p.m. on Feb. 25 at the La Jolla Presbyterian Church, with a reception following. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the San Diego Center for Children or the John M. Cranston Scholarship Fund at Stanford Law School for Student Fellowships (Fund KAXMM).


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Command Sgt. Maj. Antoine Overstreet and Col. Scott Spellmon presented Mari Meyer a commemorative plaque Sept. 12 at Fort Hood during a ceremony in which retired Maj. Gen. Stewart C. Meyer was inducted posthumously as the 34th member of the U.S. Operational Test Command's Hall of Fame.
Meyer led the command under two of its former names from August 1974 to November 1977 after serving in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
After he retired from the Army in 1979, Meyer remained in Central Texas and was elected Harker Heights mayor in 1993.


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The Society for Psychological Anthropology Business Meeting will be on Friday, November 22 at 6:15 p.m. It will include presentations for this year's winners of the Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology, Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology, and Stirling Prize for Best Published Article in Psychological Anthropology. This year's Lemelson student fellows will also tell us about their research. The new Early Career International Scholar Travel Grant Program will be unveiled as well. A reception will begin at 7:30 p.m. A limited number of drink tickets will be provided to graduate students. See you there!
Finally, SPA-sponsored panels at the AAAs can be viewed here.


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Don't yet consider a suit to be the dopest daywear option going? Don't worry, after this edit is done with you, you'll be suited, booted and signed up. If the fact that tasty two-pieces were on pretty much every AW14 catwalk going isn't enough to float your boat, then the up to 70% off price tag should be.
Dive into the whole of the ASOS sale (now with new lines added) right here.


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Baby on board!
Rachel Uchitel and hubby Matt Hahn are expecting their first child! On Wednesday, the 36-year-old nightclub manager confirmed her good news on Twitter. "Expecting big things for 2012," she wrote. "Five down, four months to go."
Uchitel, whose claim to fame was her multiple affairs with golfer Tiger Woods and actor David Boreanaz, tied the knot with Hahn in October.
"We are really happy and feel extremely fortunate to have one another," she told Us Weekly in a statement.
Prior to her relationship with Hahn, Uchitel had been engaged to investment banker James Andrew O'Grady, who was killed on September 11, 2001 during the World Trade Center attacks; she spoke frequently of O'Grady's death during her 2010-2011 appearance on VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
Uchitel, a University of New Hampshire graduate, wed Wall Street trader and childhood friend Steven Ehrenkranz in 2004. Their union lasted just four months.


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Grecianern is having twins, and Tintri may be as wellTara, proud mama to a Honey Badger
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All the twins are making me so nervous...I have this feeling we are going to have multiples at some point (runs on both sides of the family in multiple generations, including triplets on hubby's side and a great grandma who had 3 sets of twins!) and we only had one baby the first time around...ahhh! It seems so cute when it's someone else, but I don't know if I could handle two babies and a toddler! Are you soon to be twin moms freaked out?!Kennedi
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July 11th, 2013 02:15 PM #200
I never thought I would join this thread (we only started trying June 21st), but here I am with baby #1´s ETA March 16
If been reading all you're posts just now and happy to read I'm not the only one who anxiously wants to know what's going on in there. My first appointment is on August 5 (which feels like forever from now) and I have very little symptoms. The fast of Ramadan started yesterday (no food/water for 18 hrs/day) and still I feel totally fine, actually better than previous years. No reason to complain I know but still in the back of my mind I wonder if my hormone levels are rising fast enough.
My husband is still in shock/not comprehending the BFP, cute, but it would be nice to share the excitement with him. Thank God for all the berries (the TTC thread was awsome, I'm happy to see some of the former TTC berries on here!)Living a happy life with my #1 husband, my #1 cat and my #1 baby Aïcha, born March 2014
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Don't worry too much about triplets, at least... science points to twins being up to the woman's family history, due to hyper ovulation (which can be hereditary). Well, that and certain fertility treatments I'm with you, twins on someone else are amazing, but I'm terrified of them for me. I have a hard time managing my one little busybody. My grandmother was a twin and I have a couple cousins (her grandchildren) on that side with twins as well.Tara, proud mama to a Honey Badger
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@tintri, I just had my early ultrasound (I have a history of ectopic pregnancy so they always do an early one for me) at 7 weeks 2 days. We were able to see and hear the heartbeat loud and clear with an abdominal ultrasound. She told me the same thing others have said -- they'll try abdominal first and then do vaginal if they can't see/hear. My doc always says to come with a full bladder because it helps push your uterus up.
Congrats to the new additions on this thread! Lots of babyberries (and several sets of twins!) on the way in 2014!Mom to Alexander Patrick (11), Madelyn Esther (8), Genevieve Susan (3), and Theodore James (stillborn at 37 weeks on February 3, 2014). Expecting #5 (a girl) in May 2015 -- Penelope Bridget.
Boys: Everett, Sebastian, Augustus, Samuel, Julian, Nicholas, Desmond, Jasper, Ezekiel, Malcolm
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Renewable energy:
Renewable energy portfolio standard: Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 19.285.010 to 19.285.903
Energy conservation
Utility conservation: RCW 19.285.010
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See national section for basic information and federal regulations.
• Rules. To date, the federal government's involvement in renewable energy programs has been limited to voluntary programs and providing financial incentives for renewable energy generation. However, Washington state legislation has established a renewable energy portfolio standard and conservation standards.
• Administration and enforcement. The Washington Department of Commerce administers and enforces the renewable energy and energy conservation requirements in Washington.
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
RCW 19.285.010 to 19.285.903
Washington has passed renewable portfolio standard statutes that require each utility that serves more than 25,000 customers in the state of Washington to use eligible renewable resources or acquire equivalent renewable energy credits, or a combination of both, to meet the following annual targets:
Eligible renewable resources. Renewable resources include the following:


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What can you do with a Human Resources Emphasis?
The following list represents just a few of the kinds of career titles for those emphasizing in HR. Use it as an idea list, and remember that it represents some, but certainly not all, of the careers you might consider in Management.
Human Resource Assistant, Personnel Manager, Benefits Specialist, Compensation Manager, Wellness Officer, Training Director, Development Officer, HR Generalist, HR Consultant, HR Business Partner, Workforce Analyst, Labor Market Analyst, HR Advisor...
The following list represents a few of the kinds of businesses and institutions that employ those emphasizing in Management:
Small and medium-sized businesses, Manufacturing firms, Hospitals, Service firms, Financial institutions, Hotels, Motels, and Hospitality organizations, Government agencies, Retail & Wholesale Trade, Restaurants, Advertising & Marketing, Computer Technology, Communications, Non-Profit Organizations, Insurance & Real Estate, Publishing, Entertainment & Recreation, Construction...
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