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During the past 25 years, FBO and charter/management provider Key Air has grown from a single FBO and charter base in Oxford, Conn., to nationwide coverage and facilities in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Fort Pierce, Fla. With safety accreditation from the Air Charter Safety Foundation, IS-BAO registration, Wyvern approval and Argus Platinum status, Key Air also is participating in the FAA's safety management system pilot program. Earlier this year, the FBO was recapitalized, with an investment by Rizvi Traverse Management and Starwood Capital. "We are proud of Key Air having offered 25 years of service to our clients and of the outstanding, multifaceted company that Key Air has become," said president and CEO Bob Marinace.
Key Air celebrates 25 years of growth
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STATE COLLEGE, PA — So a soil guy, tillage radish developer and an organic grain craftsman meet at a conference. If you use your rural imagination a good joke might be in the offering. When it comes to discussing the attributes of healthy soils and fertility to a packed house of farmers, it's no laughing matter for the three Microbe-teers.
NRCS Conservation Agronomist Ray Archuleta from Greensboro, NC; cash crop/vegetable farmer and founder of Cover Crop Solutions, Steve Groff from Lancaster, PA and grain farmer and co-owner of Lakeview Organic Grain, Klaas Martens from Penn Yan, NY, led an all-day pre-conference track titled: Agroecology Principles & Biomimicry Strategies for Enhancing Soil Function at the 24th annual Farming for the Future PASA Conference. [Read more…]


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Jul 21, 2009 | 128 Pages | 3-7 years
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Profile: Brock's Way—Or Else
With his uncompromising approach to legal and auditing matters, Collier County Clerk of Court Dwight Brock often finds himself in the midst of controversy.
Erik Kellar
When it comes to dealing with Collier County's Clerk of Court Dwight Brock, don't go looking for middle ground or shades of gray. There's black, and there's white. There's right, and there's wrong. There's admiration, and there's disdain.
But there's not much in between, either from those who know Brock or from Brock himself. Brock has held the elected post since 1992, but he's the first to say he's not a politician, and baby-kissing, backslapping and kidding around are not in his skill set. "I'm a technician," Brock says, with a job that demands legal and accounting skills as well as auditing—the role that's had him under the hottest spotlight. (Although most recently he's been in the news for his legal battle over the fees he wants to charge a reporter for public records.)
"Dwight lives and breathes the law and the Constitution," says former State Attorney Joe D'Alessandro, who hired Brock straight out of law school as an assistant state attorney in Naples. "He's quiet, very straightforward. He can't tell a joke to save his life, but he knows the law."
Former state Sen. Burt Saunders of Naples has also known Brock for decades. He says Brock "constantly works to ensure things are done by the absolute letter of the law. There are no shortcuts with Dwight. He doesn't need his ego stroked, and he doesn't care whose feathers he ruffles if he thinks he's right."
Brock's unwavering belief that what he does is right is noted by friend and foe alike, sometimes favorably, other times not. Some refuse to talk about him, saying they worry about finding themselves under an auditor's microscope, or about other retaliation.
Brock, 61, pooh-poohs such notions. If they have nothing to hide, he says, why be concerned? An audit might be inconvenient or uncomfortable. But if the end result is a better way of doing business, what's so bad about that?
Even his friends hint that tact may not be Brock's strong suit. One Brock supporter, former Collier fiscal officer Harold Hall, is unwavering in his admiration for the clerk, yet acknowledges that Brock might benefit from being more "political"—not as in policy-making, but in seeking out compromises, occasionally using a little more honey and a bit less vinegar.
"He won't do it," Hall says. "What he cares about is following the letter of the law and the Constitution. He really does not care if the (newspaper) likes him or the commissioners like him. Things might be easier for him if he cared more. But he doesn't. What he does care about is making sure taxpayers' money is spent right."
It seems to work. After several elections without opposition, Brock faced a challenger in 2012. Brock won handily, 66 percent to 33 percent. Most politicians would proclaim that margin to the rooftops in the face of criticism. Not Brock. "I don't do what I do because of the political winds, or whether I think people will like it," he says. "I do it because it's the right thing to do. My parents were Southern Baptists, and that's the way they raised me."
Advancing by Degrees
Brock still speaks in the southern cadences of his Panhandle roots. He grew up in the tiny town of Vernon, north of Panama City, where his father was the postmaster and his mother a fifth-grade teacher.
They lived on the family farm, where they also raised sheep, cattle and some crops. But that wasn't the life he was expected to live. "Going to college was not an option," Brock says. "It was understood that was what we would do."
He got his bachelor's degree in business and accounting, then an MBA and a law degree, adding CPA credentials to his resume along the way.
His older brother Jerry was working for D'Alessandro as an assistant state attorney when Dwight graduated from law school. D'Alessandro hired the younger brother as well, and says they proved their worth early, in Southwest Florida's most notorious murder trial.
In the mid-1980s, Margaret Benson and her adopted son Scott were killed when two pipe bombs exploded under their car at their Quail Creek home. A daughter also in the car was burned and almost died while another son, Steven, watched from the house. Steven was charged and convicted of murder; the weeks-long trial drew intense national and international news coverage and was later detailed in books and movies.
People still ask D'Alessandro why he assigned such a high-profile case to young, less-known prosecutors. "They were my secret weapon," D'Alessandro says. "Jerry was a star in the courtroom, and Dwight was a bulldog on investigation and every detail of the law. And—I never told anybody this—I knew they came from a little town up in north Florida where they grew up in a hardworking family. I knew this would mean a lot to them; I knew they'd work to prove they could do it. And they did. They were magnificent."
Brock settled into his role with that office, handling mostly white-collar crime and investigatory work that kept him traveling through the five-county circuit.
By 1992, he was ready for a change. He'd just gotten married, and the travel was less appealing. The clerk of court was up for election. Brock considered his CPA and accounting background, his legal experience and community recognition from his trial work. "I certainly knew the judicial system," he says. "I thought clerk would be a good fit for me."
He won, and took a year or so to observe the office functions. One aspect that caught his eye was the clerk's fiduciary duty, the role of custodian over taxpayers' money. To Brock, that meant audits, and audits were not being done.
The county commission and top staff were changing at the same time. D'Alessandro dealt with commissioners in the circuit, and he predicted Collier's fireworks. "They got new commissioners, then Dwight wants to do audits that had never been done before," D'Alessandro says. "A lot of (officials) didn't want to be audited, and Dwight was shaking their trees. And once you get a reputation for shaking the trees, it's hard to shake that reputation."
The dispute turned into a lawsuit that lasted about seven years, with county commissioners fighting the clerk over auditing powers. It ended with a Florida Supreme Court ruling that upheld Brock's ability to audit. The financial costs were estimated around $4 million; the ensuing ill will is incalculable.
"My role is designed to ensure that what they are doing is right and legal," Brock says of the legal battle. "The pushback to that idea was remarkable at best. I'd call it stunning."
Former Collier County Commissioner Jim Colletta was on the board during those years. He says Brock was infringing on commissioners' responsibility to ensure expenditures are legal. "Dwight blows things out of proportion," Colletta says. "He's always looking for the smoking gun. … He runs the job like he's still a prosecutor. You might have a problem that's just the result of a misunderstanding or someone not knowing what's supposed to be done, and he acts like it's a major crime."
Brock, for his part, insists he simply follows the law. Few people ever hear about the good audits he does or positive findings, he says. It's the problems that always get attention, and few people like having their problems aired in public. "A lot of politicians just don't like having people take a look at what they're doing," he says.
Plenty of Controversy
Regardless, Brock continued. After defeating one opponent in 1996, he went 16 years without an election challenge. Other candidates, meanwhile, seek him out for help and guidance—which Brock finds curious, "since I don't consider myself to be a good politician"—but he doesn't endorse and treats all equally.
With one exception: Commissioner Georgia Hiller, now seeking re-election to her second term. Hiller, also a CPA and attorney, worked for Brock in the past, and he describes her as exceptionally well-qualified. "We don't always agree, but I still say she's brilliant," he says.
Hiller returns the compliment, also praising Brock's accounting expertise and legal knowledge. "He's a good person who's done a lot of great things, and I admire and respect him," she says. But she admits to some frustration at "his one-size-fits-all management style."
"Sometimes he thinks his way is the only way of doing things," she says. "Not everything has to be a fight with a sledgehammer. You don't have to treat somebody who just misunderstands something the same way you treat a criminal committing fraud."
Brock's most recent controversies involve HOME, a nonprofit formed in 2008 by several Collier business and community leaders to help provide affordable housing. The group uses private and public money, and the board includes John Barlow, who lost to Brock in 2012, and Gina Downs, who ran unsuccessfully against Hiller in 2010.
In January, Brock made a well-publicized critique of HOME's finances, alleging they misused government money and calling for law enforcement to step in. Critics say Brock was driven by political retribution; Brock says anyone who gets public money should expect oversight and inspection. Barlow and others involved with that case declined to comment for this story.
A few weeks later, a reporter who wrote stories critical of Brock asked for more records from his office, and was told the cost would be almost $560, higher than expected for public records. The reporter, Gina Edwards of Watchdog City Press, filed a lawsuit over the fees, saying the cost was retaliation for her stories, and exceeded costs allowed by law. Brock argued over the definition of "public records"; a judge in late March upheld the reporter. But less than a month later, Brock decided to appeal the ruling. A trial was scheduled for just prior to the publication date of this story. To add to the curiosity surrounding this case, soon all such records will be available in full online as ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. The legal fees for this case will dramatically dwarf the amount he would collect.
Brock still says he'll put his record in court up against anyone, that he's won more often than not. He doesn't fret over public reaction or charges that he's made the office "personal."
"I know it's hard for some people to believe, but I do not do things because I'm concerned whether somebody will like it or not," he says. "I do not have a political agenda. I take the law and I apply it the same way to everybody. I do the right thing. That's the way my parents taught me, and I've found over the years that's the easiest way to live your life."
If his health stays good, he'll run for re-election in 2016 and beyond. No other office interests him. Others, he says, are too political.
Dwight Brock
Hometown: Vernon, in Florida's Panhandle
Education: Business/accounting degree from Florida State University, 1975; MBA from Stetson University, 1979; law degree from Nova University, 1982
Career: Hired after law school as assistant state attorney in Southwest Florida's 20th Judicial Circuit, worked there until elected as Collier County Clerk of Court in 1992; re-elected since
Family: Married, one son at the University of Central Florida
Enjoys: Spending time on the Panhandle farm still owned by the family; hunting and fishing; woodworking; the family dogs—labs and a Brittany spaniel


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PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced the expansion of its Board of Directors and the appointment of Janice Durbin Chaffin to its Board. During the span of her impressive 30 year career, Ms. Chaffin has helped drive growth and innovation for two of the world's largest technology companies – Symantec and HP. Most recently, Ms. Chaffin served as group president of Symantec's $2.1B consumer business with broad ranging responsibilities including research and development, sales and marketing, and business development for the industry leading Norton™ global portfolio of products and services whose brand is synonymous with computer antivirus software. Under her leadership, Symantec's consumer business recorded 17 straight quarters of revenue growth with outstanding profitability, while maintaining Norton security market leadership and significantly expanding the product offerings. Previously, Ms. Chaffin served as Symantec's first ever Chief Marketing Officer during a period in which the company grew from $1B to $6B. In that role, Ms. Chaffin built a global marketing operation and integrated marketing teams from the VERITAS and Symantec merger creating an entirely new marketing infrastructure for the combined companies. "Janice Chaffin has an impressive track record of success in executive leadership, spearheading strategic transformation initiatives to drive consistent growth and profitability both at Symantec and previously at HP," said Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC. "Her wealth of experience and expertise in establishing market leadership will make her a strong asset to our board of directors. We are excited to welcome her and look forward to her contributions to PTC's board." Prior to her tenure at Symantec, Ms. Chaffin served in significant management and marketing leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). As a founding member of HP's Unix server (HP9000 UNIX™) business unit, she played a key role in building the multi-billion dollar business, achieving market leadership in various segments, and bringing the first mainframe class systems to the market.
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Six teens indicted in Metro platform stabbing death
Six teens now face murder and armed robbery charges in connection with the Nov. stabbing death of 18-year-old Olijawon Griffin at the Woodley Park Metro station.
Muquan Cawthorne, 16, of Mount Rainier; Isaiah Gant, 16, of Hyattsville; Gary Maye, 17, of Hyattsville; Deon Jefferson, 17, of Landover, and Immanuel Swann, 17, of Brentwood are all charged as adults in the case, police say.
Seventeen-year-old Chavez Myers was previously charged with first degree premeditated murder while armed.
The indictment alleges Myers stabbed Griffin after the group robbed him of his brand new, $400 jacket in Adams Morgan.
All six have been in custody since their arrests.
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LOUISVILLE — James McCann homered and Tyler Collins had three RBIs as Toledo defeated host Louisville 9-4 for its second straight victory.
Mud Hens starter Shawn Hill (7-6, 4.49 ERA) held the Bats to five hits over five innings. He gave up one earned run, walked one, and did not have a strikeout.
Kenny Faulk and Justin Miller each pitched two innings to finish off the eight-hitter.
The Mud Hens scored three runs in the top of the second inning to take a 3-1 lead. Daniel Fields had an RBI groundout, and Collins added a two-run single.
McCann hit his seventh home run of the season with one out in the third inning.
Toledo, which collected 13 hits, scored three runs in the sixth inning. Ben Guez doubled home two runs with one out, and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Collins.
Jon Moscot (1-1, 5.71 ERA) took the loss for Louisville. The right-hander gave up seven earned runs on seven hits over five innings.
Louisville has now allowed 1,390 hits this season, tying the franchise record for hits allowed, which was set in 1991. With the loss, the Bats have a home losing record for the third straight season, which is also a franchise record.
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Police arrested an Enola man following an investigation into allegations of sex abuse involving a 10-year-old.
On March 6 East Pennsboro police received word of possible sexual abuse involving a child. Following an extensive investigation, police obtained a search warrant for the residence of 63-year-old Steven Brungard, located in the first block of East Manor Avenue.
Brungard then admitted to police that he'd been involved in a sexual relationship with a 10-year-old girl.
He told authorities that he videotaped the encounters and paid her cash in exchange for sexual favors.
Brungard was placed under arrest. He now faces multiple charges, including sexual intercourse with a child, manufacturing child pornography, aggravated indecent assault of a child, promoting child prostitution and corruption of minors.
Bail was denied, and Brungard was remanded to the Cumberland County Prison.


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bramma's Review
Served this dish to a friend who turned out to hate fish -- but even she thought the sauce was wonderful. The rest of the family thought this was a very tasty recipe. I skinned the salmon filet myself, and put the salmon skin into the broth for additional flavor. Sides included asparagus tip salad, and the first really good corn and tomatoes of the season. A lovely summer feast.


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A cosmopolitan base in 'The Rising Emirate', the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Ras al Khaimah offers stylish accommodations in the city center business district, walking distance from shopping, RAK Exhibition Center and the Free Trade Zone. Enjoy the best views in the city on the hotel's rooftop, which features a sparkling swimming pool and live music at TreeTop Bar. A stunning venue for wedding or conference receptions, the rooftop area can also be reserved for up to 250 guests.
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Whistleblower claims of former medical examiner manager dismissed
Posted March 12, 2015
Raleigh, N.C. — A state judge on Thursday dismissed the claims of a former manager at the Office of the State Medical Examiner who said he was forced out because he told investigators that a state pathologist mishandled evidence in a homicide.
Kevin Gerity sued the state Department of Health and Human Services under the Whistleblower Act, seeking to regain his job and $400,000 in damages.
A former autopsy manager, Gerity was working with his boss, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Clay Nichols, in 2011 on the autopsy of Terrell Boykin, one of two people killed in a Fayetteville home on May 8, 2011. His homicide remains unsolved.
Nichols' autopsy report said no bullet was found, but Gerity claimed Nichols missed a bullet fragment and left it on the table. Gerity said he took the matter up the chain of command in the medical examiner's office after Nichols refused to change his report, but no action was taken.
Nichols was fired in November 2013 following a DHHS investigation. Gerity resigned after the investigation so that he wouldn't be fired, but he later argued that he was fired in retaliation for cooperating with a State Bureau of Investigation review of the case.
Senior Administrative Law Judge Fred Morrison Jr. ruled that Gerity's activities don't amount to a whistleblower claim because he never shared his concerns with authorities outside DHHS or the media. Further, the judge said, the discovery of a bullet fragment didn't necessarily mean Nichols' report was inaccurate and needed to be changed.
Morrison determined that Gerity voluntarily resigned and doesn't deserve any damages or reinstatement to his job.
Gerity has 30 days to appeal the ruling to the state Court of Appeals.


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Some Important Principles, Doctrines, and Events
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Moses saw God face to face upon an unknown mountain sometime after he spoke to the Lord in the burning bush but before he went to free the children of Israel from Egypt (see Moses 1:1–2, 17, 25–26, 42; see also Exodus 3:1–10).
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No one can endure God's presence unless the glory of God is upon him (see Moses 1:2, 11; see also D&C 67:11; 84:21–22).
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Moses was a son of God and was in the "similitude" (likeness) of Jesus Christ (Moses 1:4, 6–7; see also D&C 25:1). In his calling and ministry, Moses was also a "type" or likeness of Jesus Christ (see Moses 1:25–26; see also Deuteronomy 18:15; 3 Nephi 20:23; also compare Exodus 2:1–10and Matthew 2:11–23).
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All other beliefs, objects, or persons that people place above God in their lives are false gods (see Moses 1:6; see also Exodus 20:1–6; Romans 1:25; D&C 93:19).
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God knows all things (see Moses 1:6; see also 2 Nephi 9:20; Jacob 2:5; D&C 38:2).
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Man and his works cannot compare with the majesty and greatness of God (see Moses 1:9–10; see also Mosiah 2:23–25; Helaman 12:7–8).
Suggestions for Teaching
Overview of Moses 1. Moses Saw Jesus Christ and Satan
Discuss what it is like to walk into a dark room from a brightly lit room, or vice versa. What happens to one's eyesight? Compare what happened to Moses as he spoke to God (see Moses 1:1–9, 25–31) to Moses' confrontation with Satan (see vv. 12–24Moses 1:1–9, 25–31).
Media Suggestion. "God's Work and Glory"
Old Testament Videopresentation 3, "God's Work and Glory" (8:28), can be used as an introduction to help the students understand our worth as children of God (see Old Testament Video Guidefor teaching suggestions).
Moses 1:1–2. "An Exceedingly High Mountain"
Have students read Moses 1:1–2and explore the similar experiences of other prophets who were caught up to high mountains, including Ezekiel (see Ezekiel 40:1–4), John the Beloved (see Revelation 21:10), and Nephi (see 1 Nephi 11:1). The experiences of prophets who saw God "face to face" are recorded in Genesis 32:30; Exodus 33:11; Ether 12:38–39; Moses 7:2–4; Abraham 3:11; and Joseph Smith—History 1:15–17. Discuss how prophets today are like the prophets of old.
Moses 1:2, 9–11. "Man Is Nothing"
Have students carefully read Moses 1:2, 9–11to see what happened to Moses. Discuss what happened to Moses by referring to the commentary for Moses 1:2, 9–11in the student manual (p. 4). What did Moses learn about God and about himself? What did Moses mean when he said, "I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed"? (see also 2 Nephi 4:16–23; Mosiah 4:5, 11; Alma 26:12; Helaman 12:7–8).
Moses 1:3–6. "I Am"
Have students find the phrases in Moses 1:3–6that God used to describe Himself. Discuss the meanings of these phrases:
"The Lord God Almighty" (v. 3; see 1 Nephi 7:12; Mosiah 4:9; Ether 3:4; D&C 93:17).
"Endless is my name" (v. 3; see D&C 19:9–12; 20:17; Moses 7:35).
"All things are present with me" (v. 6; see D&C 38:1–2; 130:4–7). Also review the statement by Elder Neal A. Maxwell in the commentary for Moses 1:6in the student manual (p. 5).
"I know them all" (v. 6; see 2 Nephi 9:20; Alma 26:35; Moroni 7:22). Also read the statements by the Prophet Joseph Smith and Elder James E. Talmage in the commentary for Moses 1:6in the student manual (p. 5).
Moses 1:4, 6–7. Moses Was a Son of God
Ask students: Has anyone ever told you that they would be honored to have you as a son or a daughter? Have students mark "my son" in Moses 1:4, 6–7. Review the commentary for Moses 1:4–6in the student manual (p. 4). Invite students to share their thoughts on the significance of being called "sons and daughters of God."
Moses 1:6. "Thou Art in the Similitude"
Read Moses 1:6and tell students that "in the similitude" means "resembling another" or "to be in the form or image of another." In what ways was Moses' life similar to the life of Jesus Christ? What are some things we are asked to do as members of the Church that are similar to what Jesus Christ did? What can we accomplish in this life, and in the next life, because we know we are in the similitude of God? Testify of our divine parentage and potential.


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EADS has teamed with Russia's NPK Irkut and RSK MiG in a joint venture to convert Airbus A320 airliners into freighters. The new business–owned 50/50 between the European group and the Russian firms– is expected to generate $200 million in sales annually, based on around 20 A320F conversions. If successful, the partners will later undertake conversions of the larger A330 family.
The A320F project is a part of the offset agreement for Russia through which EADS hopes to finalize an anticipated order from flagcarrier Aeroflot for up to 30 A350s. It includes participation of the Russian manufacturers development and production of the A350, conversion of the A320 freighter and the right to be involved in developing any A320 successor.
"This is not a single-day action, but a long-term project on the order of billions of euros," Vadim Vlasov, general director of EADS' Russian subsidiary, told Aviation International News. If the A320F goes forward, it will take another two years to produce the conversion documentation package and build the tooling. These preparations are not due to start until 2009 with a view to executing the first commercial conversion in 2011.
In addition to conversion work, the EADS/Russian joint venture would also undertake D-checks due on A320 series aircraft after 12 years' service. The A320 D-check work is worth more than $1 million per aircraft.
Sound Business Plan
Irkut president Oleg Demchenko said the proposed joint venture with EADS is a sound business plan. The partners will buy used airliners from airlines, convert them into freighters and sell them to interested carriers. "The agreement with EADS calls for A320F business to be exclusive. No one else except for Dresden [the EADS factory in Germany] and Lukhovitsy [an RSK MiG site south of Moscow] will be doing the work," he stated. He further claimed that EADS is contractually committed to placing at least 20 conversions with Lukhovitsy, where about 500 staff are to be engaged in the program.
"MiG won the leading role in this project because of our tight cooperation with Irkut," explained RSK MiG deputy general director Sergei Tsivilyev. "We have perfected the system of logistics and parts acceptance procedure on MiG-29 fighter production. Irkut is already qualified by Airbus [to produce] parts for A320 airliners and will deliver the necessary parts to Lukhovitsy and Dresden."
Earlier this year, Irkut (Hall 1 Stand E8) won a second contract to manufacture A320 parts, including flap rails, tail structural members, gear stowage bays and floor sections. Combined with a deal made in 2004, this work is worth $340 million and deliveries are to take place over the next 10 years. The first parts, built for Airbus on a trial basis, have already been delivered.
Irkut has sold 10 percent of its stock to EADS (Hall 4 Stand G16) for about $70 million, and is now seeking to acquire a stake in the European group (perhaps with some Russian government financial support). Demchenko, however, denied interest in buying Airbus shares from BAE Systems.


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Saw this today and thought it was very clever…designed by Studio Frederik Roije for droog, this ring made of white porcelain is broken and worn by the couple as a symbol of their engagement. Its a great idea for couples who wish the guy could have a ring too. Only $120!
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Nice one here from the Tampa Trib. with reminiscences of the last time the Bucs and Colts met and the incredible finish. The two franchises went in different directions after that game.
A Collapse And A Comeback
By JOEY JOHNSTON The Tampa Tribune
Published: Oct 3, 2007
TAMPA - Randy Mariman, a Tampa money-management consultant and longtime Bucs season-ticket holder, had never left a game early.
But on Oct. 6, 2003 - after Mariman and four friends savored a pregame steak dinner, then the "Monday Night Football" festivities at Raymond James Stadium - he thought differently.
The Bucs had just taken a three-touchdown lead on the Indianapolis Colts with five minutes remaining. Now their top-ranked defense was preparing to tee off on Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.
"It was getting near midnight," Mariman said. "My buddies were all married with kids and they lived in Clearwater. They had to drop me off. I wanted to be a nice guy.
"So I turned to them and said, 'Look, you know I don't leave games early. But if you want to go, it's OK. This one is over.'"
By the time they reached the car, the Colts scored a touchdown.
While heading home on Interstate 275, they heard the Colts score again as an increasingly distraught Gene Deckerhoff described the action on radio.
Arriving at Mariman's Harbour Island condominium - with the Colts driving to force overtime - they hurried upstairs for a television.
They watched, largely in silent disbelief.
Final: Colts 38, Bucs 35 (OT).
One of the greatest comebacks - or most traumatic collapses - ever seen on a football field.
"We're sitting there, almost unable to move," Mariman said. "Nobody wanted to drive home. Everybody was mad. So my buddies called their wives - we're talking like 1:30 in the morning - and said the Bucs had lost, they were spending the night with me.
"Their wives had turned off the game and were already in bed. Some of them said, 'What are you talking about? Are you crazy? The Bucs didn't lose.'
"To say the least, that was a night none of us will ever forget."
Tale Of Two Franchises
Sunday at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, the Bucs (3-1) meet the Colts (4-0) for the first time since Oct. 6, 2003, perhaps the line of demarcation for both franchises.
The Colts learned how to win.
The Bucs' aura of invincibility was shattered.
"That was not a fun night," Bucs coach Jon Gruden said.
For the first time in NFL history, a team had won after trailing by 21 points with under four minutes to play.
Colts coach Tony Dungy, celebrating his 48th birthday, had an unforgettable homecoming against the franchise he led from 1996 to 2001.
The Bucs, defending Super Bowl champions, slipped to 2-2. In many ways, they were never the same that season and finished 7-9.
Early on against Dungy's Colts, though, the Bucs were dominant, rolling to a 21-0 halftime lead.
"When I played against them, the Indianapolis Colts were always known as a soft football team," said former Bucs receiver Keyshawn Johnson, now with ESPN. "Once you punch them and get them down, especially with a defense like we had in Tampa, the Colts would be completely out."
Johnson wore a microphone for ABC-TV that night, and unabashedly ridiculed the Colts, especially Indianapolis receiver Marvin Harrison. Eventually, those words would haunt Johnson.
But that hardly seemed a possibility with 5:09 remaining, when Bucs cornerback Ronde Barber intercepted Manning and returned it 29 yards for a score, increasing Tampa Bay's lead to 35-14.
On the Colts sideline, Dungy faced the reality. The Colts, already facing a short week with the Carolina Panthers ahead, were fighting a lost cause. Dungy turned to offensive coordinator Tom Moore: "Let's get Peyton and the starters out of there."
"In that situation, you have to win the game," Barber said. "What happened after that is pretty unprecedented. I'm still in a fog over what happened."
Said Al Michaels, then ABC's play-by-play man on Monday Night Football: "We had all these fantastic storylines and the game was a rout. There was no way the Colts could come back. No way. I mean, we were comparing the Bucs defense, justifiably so, to the Chicago Bears of 1985. Then, about 11:35 at night, the real game began."
In New Orleans, Archie and Olivia Manning, Peyton's parents, sat glumly in their family room.
"I never turn off the games with Peyton and Eli," Archie Manning said. "I had already accepted it. It was a bad one. Let's just play out the string.
"Then slowly, this thing comes to life. It's like, 'OK. Better. Score's not so bad. Hey, wait a minute. Hey, something's happening. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me?'
"Are you kidding me?"
Insurmountable Lead Unravels
After Barber's score, Brad Pyatt returned the ensuing kickoff 90 yards, immediately changing Dungy's strategy and setting up the Colts for a quick score. Bucs, 35-21. The Colts then recovered an onside kick and six plays later Manning hit Harrison on a 28-yard touchdown on fourth-and-6. Bucs, 35-28.
Tampa Bay covered the next onside kick attempt, but couldn't make a first down. And by then, Harrison was having his way with reserve cornerback Tim Wansley, playing for the injured Brian Kelly.
Wansley bit on a pump fake, and Harrison beat him for 52 yards. With 35 seconds remaining in regulation, Ricky Williams scored from the 1. Tied, 35-35.
The Colts won 38-35 when Mike Vanderjagt banked in a 29-yard second-chance field goal with 3:47 remaining in overtime. Manning finished 34 of 47 for 386 yards. Harrison caught 11 passes for 176 yards and two scores.
"That night, the fat lady was definitely not singing," Bucs safety Jermaine Phillips said. "After the game, I checked my messages. Just about all of them said, 'Great game! Congratulations!'
"I got a lot of apologies the next day from all those people who had gone to bed."
John Madden, the "Monday Night Football" analyst, still calls it the most unusual night of football he has ever witnessed.
"It taught me a lesson," Madden said. "I always felt great defense would beat great offense. Maybe even the Colts felt that way - until that night.
"In my mind, that night started their team. It probably gave them the belief they could come back against the Patriots [in last season's AFC Championship Game]. On the broadcast, I remember saying, 'Tonight, we're going to watch one of the greatest defenses of all time.' Then look what happened. Unbelievable."
As for Randy Mariman, the Tampa money-management consultant who still roots for the Bucs?
For four years - whether it's the Bucs, Lightning or Devil Rays - he never has left early. And no matter what happens Sunday, he's watching until the end.
"You never know," Mariman said. "I guess that's what we learned that night. You just never know."
Reporter Joey Johnston can be reached at (813) 259-7353 or email@example.com.


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A stunning 1986 performance as Sid Vicious announced a largely unknown Gary Oldman as an actor to watch. He made good on that promise with indelible, often volcanic work in movies like "Prick up your Ears," "State of Grace," "JFK," "Dracula," "True Romance," "The Professional," "Immortal Beloved" and "The Contender." In recent years, he became part of the "Harry Potter" and "Batman" series, reintroducing himself to audiences in sympathetic, likable parts.
In 2011, Oldman solidified his status of one of Hollywood's premiere chameleons with his portrayal of George Smiley in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Reprising a role made famous by Sir Alec Guinness in a 1979 BBC production of the spy novel, Oldman remains understated and quiet, but powerful nonetheless. The performance earned him a well-deserved Academy Award nomination.
We were thrilled to get Oldman in studio for nearly an hour to talk about "TTSS," his career and even a little sports. THE ENTIRE SHOW CAN BE HEARD HERE , and a breakdown is below with links to specific sections:
- (4:27): Oldman explains his initial terror at following in Guinness' footsteps for "TTSS." A week before shooting began, he debated backing out, but ultimately geared himself up to meet the challenge.Win McNamee/Getty Images
Oldman's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" performance is a remarkable achievement.
"I viewed it as a classical role that had been played before," Oldman said. "I imagined what it would be like to play Lear or Hamlet and then be measured against all those wonderful actors that had played the role before and that the comparisons would be inevitable... I sort of played a trick on my head. It's all in my head. Yes, Guinness gave this incredible performance. But the dragon, like all dragons, they're in your head and you have to slay them. So I kind of played a trick on myself to get me to walk through the fire."
- (5:30): Oldman explains the differences between playing a iconic character and a real-life icon like Sid Vicious, Beethoven or Joe Orton.
- (14:28): Oldman's "TTSS" role is the polar opposite of what he's spent the majority of a career playing. And that's not by accident. Over the last several years, Oldman's moved away from the eccentric, over-the-top parts that once defined him. In part, because he was concerned about increasingly limited options as a typecast actor. But also because he grew to find these characters dissatisfying on an artistic level, which killed his passion for the craft.
"I was bored," Oldman says. "I was just going through the motions and it just didn't interest me and I lost my love for it. I sort of lost my way a little. I lost my love for acting and did not look forward to it and that was the rut I was in. You deal with sports. There are great players and they're just pitching well or they're not hitting well. ... I found it quite debilitating and boring. I started to sort of hate the job. And I've never really felt [that]. I feel very privileged and very lucky that I do what I do, and it's never, ever really felt like I go into work. Let's face it. And so I went through a patch there."
-(21:05): Like many Brits, Oldman grew up obsessed with the sport known stateside as "soccer." As a youngster, he even drew the interest of a professional team who found him talented enough to perhaps make a career of it. Unfortunately, a growth spurt ruined his blend of speed and balance. (He can still juggle with the best of them.) In the meantime, living in America has created a serious love of baseball.Jennifer Stewart/US Presswire
Matt Kemp has earned the respect of Gary Oldman.
"I think the game of baseball is sort of perfect," Oldman said. "There's just something about it. I think it is miraculous that an individual can hit that ball coming at them at 97 miles an hour, or 102 miles an hour. That takes a special skill. I think when you see these players and they're getting up there, they've got home runs and they're now in the hundreds, that is herculean to me, because I've played baseball. I go to the batting cage with my kids. I mean 70 miles an hour, it literally is, you blink and you miss it. And the fact that that ball can travel that distance, which is as fast as you can blink, and they get time to actually swing and hit it. I'm just, I'm in awe of that."
In a 30+ year career, Oldman's never made a sports movie or a Western, and would love to add both to his filmography. With that in mind, we attempted to create a vehicle combining both genres. I don't picture a studio green-lighting these pitches anytime soon.
- (29:27): Despite being considered among the best actors of his generation by many critics and peers, this is actually Oldman's first Oscar nomination. He shares what the nod (which he deems "the big one") means to him, and what it would feel like to actually win. Being selected took Oldman by surprise to begin with, and he's determined to enjoy the ride, regardless of whether his name gets called.
- (35:30): Oldman may be the only Hollywood actor capable of going dialect-to-dialect with Meryl Streep. He's done everything from New York to Russian to Transylvanian, but as he explains, the hardest was playing Lee Harvey Oswald in "JFK." The man's voice -- a garble of New Orleans Bayou, Russian and peculiar cadence -- was just plain weird. The role required tons of work in general, but his effort reflects the film's meticulous attention to detail and faithful use of locations.
- (45:00): Oldman discusses the ultra-secrecy surrounding the "Batman" scripts. He also shares a hilarious story about Oliver Stone passing a fake script to Dallas city officials in order to film at Dealey Plaza.


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How to Get More Reading Done on Your Vacation
If you have not done much reading lately, now is always a good time to catch up. Or you can wait for your vacation to get to it. Grab that book you have been meaning to read but have not found the time to. Enjoy a pleasant break at home or in your travel destinations as you make the most of your vacation time. Here are some ideas on how to get you started on your goal to read more.
Make a list of the books you want to read
There is nothing like a goal written down to inspire action. For this reason, a reading checklist is a great way to motivate or remind you of all those books you have been thinking of reading. If you are going away on your vacation, you can add a book or two on your packing list. Or you can add a visit to the public library in your destination on your to-do list and do some reading there.
Keep a book handy
Whether you are planning a staycation or a trip somewhere, you need to make sure that you have some reading materials around you at all times. This makes it easier to get down to reading once you are done with the other things you need to do. It can be a stack of books if you are just staying home or e-books for your convenience when you are on the road.
Invest on an ebook reader
An e-book reader makes it easier for you to carry around several good reads while traveling. You can prepare your vacation reads by downloading all the books that are on your book list as well as some new titles that you would like to have your hands on. You can use the time spent waiting at airports or while in transit during your trips.
End your day with a bit of reading
Reading is a great way to end your day. Make use of the thirty minutes before your bedtime to catch up on some reading. You can practice this habit even while on vacation. You should be able to get more reading done if you keep it up every day.
Reward yourself for every book you finish
You get a sense of accomplishment when you finish a book especially if you are constantly busy. You can give yourself a pat in the back by giving yourself a reward or treat. This is one of the reasons why many readers prefer reading one book at a time. Completing one book at a time on your checklist can encourage you to read more.


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You might wonder what kids in college (or just out of college) do with their time. This one takes old electronics, amplifiers and everything in his kitchen to make it a synthesized musical instrument. This is pretty amazing.
(We skipped ahead to just before he tries out his experiment. All you're missing is some time lapse of him putting it together.)


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A 1-year-old boy drowned Wednesday in a bathtub in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, while his 19-year-old mother was at a night school and his two uncles and three aunts, aged 5 to 14, were in the same house, police said Thursday.
The 14-year-old aunt found the 79-cm boy unconscious in the half-full tub at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the police said. He was taken to a hospital where he was confirmed dead.
The boy bore no signs of injury and his clothing indicated there was no struggle, the police said, adding they concluded the death was accidental. The bathroom door was open, they said.
The boy was with the two uncles and three aunts in the same room but went to the bathroom by himself without anybody noticing, the police quoted the aunts and uncles as saying.
The bathtub measures 38 cm high from the floor but is 58 cm deep.
The boy's grandmother, 41, was out of the house at the time and his grandfather lives elsewhere.


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It's only gonna get worse. People are gonna jump on the booing bandwagon, they don't like to boo alone, seeing everyone else do it will give'em courage.
Booing is like democracy: it's the worst form of expressing your displeasure with the team, except for all of the others. What else do you want fans to do? They want a change, let'em boo.


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Picture: Take That perform live on the opening night of their UK tour at the NEC Arena Birmingham, England - 15.11.07
Many women have thought it for a while and now it has been confirmed by a magazine poll: Take That are the sexiest men in the world.
The comeback kings recently hit the number one spot in the UK album and singles chart and now they are at number one in New Woman magazine's survey.
Their former bandmate Robbie Williams who chose not to join them when they reformed trailed behind in ninth position.
Commenting on their success, New Woman magazine editor Helen Johnston said: "There's nothing like a dose of attractive maturity mixed with memories of first love. We've taken Take That back into our hearts and they're sexier than ever."
Also making it into the top ten are Daniel Craig (2nd), Johnny Depp (3rd) and Orlando Bloom (4th).
No surprises there then, but here's a shocker: both UK Conservative leader David Cameron and the chancellor Gordon Brown were named in the top 100.
Cameron first sneaked in to the list last year at number 92 and he has now risen to 87 while Brown has made a new entry at 97.
Ms Johnston added: "Power is undoubtedly an aphrodisiac, but we've seen a softer side to the Iron Chancellor recently and women definitely respond to a more human approach."
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From all parts of his beloved land they came to Toowoomba yesterday - more than 1200 family, friends and admirers, all counting themselves as mates, gathered to farewell Reginald Murray (RM) Williams, a great Australian who lived life long and on a grand scale.
As the acting Prime Minister, John Anderson, said, Williams epitomised through his grit and generosity the national character. "He exemplified so much that is good and right and positive. He was Australia at its best. He crammed more into his life than 10 lesser men."
Williams pruned roses, pulled teeth, stitched wounds, dug for gold. He was poet and tea-planter, swaggie and stonemason, grazier and goldminer, cobbler and, through his famous bush outfitters, corporate hero.
And, above all, he was a bushman: the iconic bushman whose pioneering spirit, whose "determination of granite and softness of spirit", came to personify an Australia which seems under threat, especially with the recent passing, too, of Slim Dusty and Cliff Young.
"Every century there are a few special people who have the vision, creativity and the courage to do something different," said Ken Cowley, chairman of RM Williams. "RM was such a person."
Not surprisingly, given that Williams was nearly as old as the nation when he died last week, aged 95, his state funeral was a joyous occasion, a time for celebration, of song, of storytelling. Of tales that may seem tall to present generations but were incredibly true.
So popular was Williams that the service was broadcast live on radio and television throughout his adopted state. And so numerous were his mates that no church could be found large enough to accommodate them. Or their horses. Or the flies that accompanied them.
Instead, they gathered - many informally but respectfully dressed in the hats, jeans and boots that brought Williams global fame - in the recreation centre at the local University of Southern Queensland campus. It can have witnessed nothing like this.
At the end of the service, a symbolic riderless horse, a grey mare called Doublet, was led into the centre, and the casket - bearing RM's saddle blanket, riding whip and favourite Akubra - was carried outside. There, it was placed on an antique Williams cart that was drawn by a single horse.
As befitted the final muster of a man whom even advanced old age could not keep out of the saddle, the cart was joined in procession to the private family service by four mounted police and more than 30 outriders from local trail-riding clubs, each carrying Australian flags.
"RM would have just loved this," said his daughter Diane Beer. "He was the consummate showman."
Williams, who had nine children, 48 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren, once denied having done anything special: "I've just poked along."
But from humble beginnings - he left school at 13, took off into the bush with little more than a blanket and a Bible and worked, early on, as a barefoot camel-minder - he built a life that became national legend.
As the Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, said: "When you pull on a pair of RM Williams boots you walk taller. It's not just in the size of the heel - it's also in the spirit of the man who made them in the first place."
Long ago, the old man had picked a stone on his Rockybar property, at Eidsveld, to be his grave marker and a line from the poem Abou Ben Adhem, by Englishman James Leigh Hunt, to provide his epitaph.
He might, appropriately, have chosen the salutation to Ben Adhem - "may his tribe increase!" - but he chose instead the response of the man when he wakes to find an angel in his room recording the names of those who love the lord.
"I pray thee, then, write me as one who loves his fellow men." And so Williams did, be they humble or high, indigenous or immigrant, rich or poor.
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Reagan girls blank top-ranked Mac
Crabbe's first-half goal, stingy defense boost No. 2 Rattlers.
Published 10:37 pm, Tuesday, February 15, 2011
A month into the season, the Reagan girls soccer team had four losses, an alarming development for a program that has gone two or three seasons before compiling that many setbacks.
Through it all, the Rattlers never lost sight of the bigger picture.
The losses against Katy Taylor, Humble Kingwood, Pflugerville Hendrickson and Austin Westlake, they figured, would do more good than harm.
"If anything, it helped us because they were really great competition," Reagan senior forward Sarah Van Horn said. "They were good games to play, whether we won, or tied, or lost. They helped us for what mattered, which is district."
Paced by strong defense and Ashley Crabbe's first-half goal, the No. 2 Rattlers were rewarded for their unwavering faith, blanking No. 1 MacArthur 1-0 Tuesday in a District 26-5A showdown at Comalander Stadium.
"We've always been rivals with them, so whenever we play them, it feels good to get a win," Van Horn said.
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Lately, the Rattlers (10-4-1, 3-0-0) have become well accustomed to that feeling. Tuesday's victory was their fifth straight against MacArthur (10-1-1, 2-1-1) dating to the 2009 season.
All five of the victories have been shutouts.
The trend continued as Reagan capitalized on one of the few true scoring chances by either team.
With 71/2 minutes remaining in the first half, Crabbe dashed into an opening in the penalty area and headed in Gaby Lio's corner kick for the game-winner.
"We wanted to score first to make sure we had the lead, so that we could control it," Van Horn said.
With the lead, Reagan's backline of Crabbe, Caitlin Owen, Christine Carrera and Kristin Arteaga took over, allowing MacArthur little, if any, space to operate.
Reagan goalkeeper Jacinda Reid, who saved both shots she faced despite playing with a cast on her broken right wrist, thwarted the few scoring opportunities the Brahmas mustered when they were able to find room.
"We played really good defense," said Owen, a sophomore. "We kept our composure. We were working very hard as a team. Once we got the goal, the momentum was high."


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But still, I had decided to see the dramatic shorts at the Indianapolis International Film Festival on Tuesday. I figured they were short enough that we would be starting the next one before the first one really had a chance to grab ahold of me.
Here's a quick rundown of the five movies in the "I Was Merely Acting/Dramatic Shorts", including Free Lunch, The Collector, Borderless, The Chef's Letter, and Weathered.
Free Lunch
The story of a privileged young man who decides to shake off the fetters of wealth and privilege to open his own lunch truck in Los Angeles. Walter was one of those optimistic young liberals who thinks he's down with the people because he lives in a 2-room apartment and can speak a little street Spanish.
Frankly, I found Walter really annoying. The acting was good, the story was actually kind of funny. But Walter as a person bugged the shit out of me. He had that youthful world-changing optimism that you find in a lot of youth pastors meeting their first group of inner city kids. He bugged me because I was that way. I saw a lot of myself 20 years ago in Walter.
The bigger problem is that Walter didn't know when to quit. When things were going bad, he kept going. When things got worse, he kept going. When things hit rock bottom, you and I would have wondered how we're going to find our next thing. Walter just looked like this was one more minor setback, no worse or better than running out of ham for his favorite customer.
The Collector
I watched these movies with a couple of friends I bumped into at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the consensus was The Collector was not our favorite. Most stories have a beginning, middle, and end; The Collector just had an end, with a bit of a middle in front of it. We weren't sure what happened at the end or what caused the end to come around. It threw all of us for a bit of a loop.
The story is about a boy who develops a love — an obsession, really — with collecting things. When he collects all of something, he finds something new. This behavior continues on until he's an old man, collecting memories along with items.
I love the sound effects in this movie. It's a weird thing to love, but the the solid clunking of the different collectibles was comforting and more vivid than even real life sounds.
If you're into imagery and metaphors and deep life lessons, then The Collector is right up your alley. If you're not, it will be a little tough to wrap your head around. See it more than once to get it to fit with your worldview.
I loved this movie. Elena Torres, a college student and illegal immigrant, and Jason Whitsell, a campus Republican, are the two characters in this great short about learning to trust and accepting help from new friends.
Elena washes dishes for 40 hours a week, sleeps in the library at night, and goes to campus events that provide food so she can eat; Jason is the son of a U.S. Congressman who's against illegal immigration. Elena has to learn that she either has to trust Jason or spend her days and nights alone.
The website, BorderlessMovie.com says this is a story about being who you are, even when you are afraid that who you are is not what other people would accept.
What was especially surprising was that this was done as a USC graduate thesis film. It was well-acted, well-shot, and in short a great movie. It was my second favorite of the whole series, and actually a tough call to make.
The Chef's Letter
Rob is a successful chef with a wife who loves him and a daughter who adores him. Everything is going great, but he falls in love with a male trainee, so he writes a letter on the trainee's last day, telling him how he feels.
I found myself pulling for the two characters who never made an appearance in the film, Rob's daughter and wife. I wanted Rob to follow his loyalty and family commitments, not follow his infatuation. I can imagine it was a hard decision for him, and I've known people who have faced this decision. Knowing Rob's dilemma made this a difficult film for me to "just watch." I became emotionally invested in the story, wondering and worrying about what would happen.
My favorite movie of the whole series. Weathered is a story about a woman, Weather, who lost her fiancée, Jules, in the 1990s, and has refused to move on in her grief and mourning. Her computer is a word processor, she uses an answering machine, and still listens to record albums.
As Jules' life came to an end, and all their friends faded out of their life, the doctors and nurses were the only human contact in Weather's life. So as a way to receive some human contact, Weather visits every kind of medical professional she can imagine, saving their little flyers, prescriptions, and sheets of paper they hand her.
It's only by accident that Weather's life gets shaken off center and we think she may finally move on a bit. Starring Nicole Parker of MadTV and Broadway's Wicked, and Tony Hale of Arrested Development, this film became my favorite of the entire slate.
I had a chance to meet Matt Barber, one of the writers who also played Jules, after the show, and talk to him for a little bit about script writing. Pretty cool, pretty cool.
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The 2017 CRWAD Meeting will be held December 3 – 5, at the Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will begin with a Special Keynote Presentation prior to the Researchers Reception and combined CRWAD and North American PRRS poster session, Sunday evening. Attendance is open to anyone that is interested in the latest research information on animal diseases.
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A dedicated booking website has been created for our CRWAD event. Guests will be able to make, modify and cancel their hotel reservations online, as well as take advantage of any room upgrades, amenities or other services offered by the hotel.
Attendees please note:
The custom links (below) will direct you to the on–line CRWAD custom room block at a Passkey system. The block will be closed off in the Passkey system 3 days before the meeting date. If you opt to call the hotel instead use these phone numbers (Toll–Free:1–877–303–0104 ; or 1–866–596–7456 for international calls).
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These days, Kelly Rutherford is turning her attention to the sweeter things in life: cookies! The Gossip Girl star recently partnered with New York's Eleni's bakery to create tasty treats ($28.50 for a box of eight) in the shapes of her newly launched QVC handbags. According to bakery owner Eleni Gianopulos, cookie designers worked with Rutherford to create miniature versions of her purses, using edible silver and sweet sugar to "make them as glamorous as her line," she told PEOPLE Tuesday night at the launch party. Rutherford, who frequents Eleni's Upper East Side outpost (how Lily van der Woodsen of her) says a lot of the inspiration for her real handbags comes in part from her on-screen alter ego. "I think the crossover with Lily and myself is that we both like really classic pieces," she said. "I wanted to make handbags that wouldn't go in and out of style so fast." Rutherford has even worn one of her creations — a black clutch — on screen, though she claims her style is much different than that of her character. "I always say that Lily just has a bigger budget," she explained. "If I had her budget, I'd probably be wearing a lot of the same things. But I'm more casual because I have little kids. When I come home, I have to be able to throw things in the wash!" —Lindsey Gilbert


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"Parenting Experts" are an interesting lot. Usually behavioral scientists or psychologists, they often give us a lot of psychobabble, and we often get the feeling that they base their findings on their clinical practices and on their treatment of other people's difficult children. That's why we have always preferred to be called "fellow strugglers" who might have an idea to share now and then.
What parents want most is just good, sound, practical advice for "normal" children in "normal" families. We want simple, practical ideas that work!
And as Mormon parents, we would also love it if there were some spiritual solutions — something higher and better than manipulative parenting techniques or psychological communication methods.
All parents with spiritual convictions, even those not of our faith, yearn for deeper, more spiritual solutions. Recently we asked a Muslim father in Indonesia what his goal was for his children. Unaware that he was stating an LDS cliché, he said, "I want them to be able to operate successfully in the world but not to be part of the world."
He wanted, just as we all do, for his kids to be able to live happily and successfully in the world but not be worldly.
He wanted his children to be well-adjusted and comfortable but to hold to higher, older values. As a parent, he wanted to apply spiritual solutions to worldly problems.
Don't we all! The difference is that Mormon parents, because of the Restoration, have the incalculably valuable advantage of a clear and complete spiritual perspective. We know through our doctrine who our children are and where they came from. We know they are our spiritual brothers and sisters and that we are mere stewards over them here and that their true Father, and ours, is God.
We know that they have been who they are for an eternity and that they come to us with pre-existing personalities, gifts and challenges. We know God as a personal spiritual Father, and we know something of his parenting methods.
We have in the church an extensive and remarkable support system that is designed for the purpose of helping us teach our children the values of eternity and the principles of the gospel. Youth leaders, bishops, Scoutmasters, home teachers, coaches, Sunday School teachers all surround us within a church that President Harold B. Lee called "the scaffolding" that helps us build eternal families.
And if all that were not enough, we have the very power of God with which we can bless our children and the true gift of the Holy Ghost to guide us as to what they need and how each can best be raised.
If you are a Mormon parent, let us know how interested you would be in "spiritual solutions to everyday parenting challenges." If you are reading from the print edition or online, send us a comment at firstname.lastname@example.com, and we will respond.
More and more, we would like this column to be a dialogue between parents with the same hopes and the same beliefs. We will suggest specific spiritual solutions to common parenting problems, and you can respond and give feedback. Together, we will create a Mormon parenting dialogue that will help us all (and, more importantly, help all of our children).


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For those who don't believe there are enough hours in the day, Sunday will provide you with an extra 60 minutes.
The clocks will "fall back" on Sunday at 2 a.m. with the end of Daylight Saving Time meaning everyone gets an extra hour of sleep that night. Remember to set your clock back before you go to sleep to avoid any alarm confusion in the morning.
The changing of the clocks means that it will now be dark when many people leave work — sunset will be at 4:48 p.m. on Monday — but the sun will rise before many people in the morning — 6:30 a.m. on Monday.


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Congratulations, recruit. Take a seat at one of Facebook's long, white desks and look at the piece of paper taped on your monitor: "Welcome to Facebook!"
Underneath, printed in big, bold, red letters, are slogans like: "We Hack Therefore We Are," or "Move Fast and Break Things." Within days, your software code will be in front of our almost 900 million users.
And so begins the six-week journey of a new employee class in Facebook's "Bootcamp," an experience shared by every engineering hire, whether they are a grizzled Silicon Valley veteran or a fresh-faced computer science grad.
Since 2008, hundreds of Facebook's engineers have passed through Bootcamp, which may lack the physical tests of military basic training but does provide the same kind of shared experience and cultural indoctrination into the world's largest social network.
Bootcamp is one part employee orientation, one part software training programme and one part fraternity/sorority rush.
When new engineering recruits are hired at Facebook, they typically do not know what job they will do. They choose their job assignment and product team at the culmination of Bootcamp, a programme that exemplifies Facebook's adherence to founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's "Hacker Way," an organisational culture that is supposed to be egalitarian, risk-taking, self-starting, irreverent, collaborative and creative.
Each new recruit needs to take a deep breath. Within a few days, all are expected to be pushing live software updates out to the better part of a billion users. If a Bootcamper crashes part of Facebook doing that, well, it won't be the first time.
"I would describe it as a way for us to educate our engineers not only on how we code and how we do our systems, but also how to culturally think about how to attack challenges and how to meet people," said Joel Seligstein, the head of the Bootcamp programme, who might be described as Facebook's answer to Yoda.
"We like to teach what's important very early on, on Day 1. I would say it's even more of a cultural programme than it is a teaching programme."
From "the HP Way" at Hewlett-Packard to Google's sense of what's "Googley," company culture is a mainstay of Silicon Valley life. With workplace perks like free gourmet food and other amenities, life at Facebook doesn't look much different on the surface from Google, Zynga, Twitter or many other young, fast-growing Internet companies.
But Facebook takes its zeal for culture one step further. It plasters the walls of its offices with slogans like "Code Wins Arguments" and "Move Fast and Break Things," Facebook's version of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book of quotations.
Rather than top-down commandments, however, employees are encouraged to tweak those messages or add their own opinions in chalk or paint, a ritual called "Hacking the Space."
Within the company, it is an article of faith that the culture of constant change embodied by those sayings differentiates Facebook from its competitors, and will allow the company to remain nimble even as it goes through a landmark initial public offering of stock this year.
"It's a quasi-religious iconoclasm," said David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect," a 2010 book about the rise of the social network. "Facebook takes its culture deadly seriously. They know the pace at which they arose and became dominant in their field was even faster than Mark Zuckerberg expected.
They also know that things on the Internet are constantly changing at an extremely rapid rate, and the only way any organization can stay alive is to be unbelievably dynamic."
Nothing encapsulates that culture better than Bootcamp, a program started in 2008 by Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a burly and gregarious Saratoga, California, native with a map of California tattooed on his forearm who was one of Zuckerberg's teaching assistants at Harvard.
One of the keepers of Facebook culture, Bosworth started Bootcamp when Facebook's engineering organisation passed 150 people, a threshold known as "Dunbar's number," the maximum number of people with whom humans are believed to be able to maintain stable social relationships.
Almost immediately after reporting for Bootcamp, new hires get assigned by Seligstein to work independently on a few real software bugs and problems, between lectures and other Bootcamp activities. The expectation is that some of their code should be ready to go live within days - one way Bootcamp tries to unlearn habits that don't fit with Facebook's urgent, ship-it-now culture.
Now that Facebook is growing so fast - about one-third of the company's roughly 3200 employees have been hired since the start of 2011 - Bootcamp has become a critical way to expose new hires to the company's values and culture.
Beyond all else, Facebook executives say, employees have not just the freedom, but the obligation, to try new things and fail, because "shipping code" - adding new software that runs the website - as quickly as possible is crucial to the company's success.
What other Silicon Valley companies "don't do is let their employees take risks, and have failure be OK," said Jocelyn Goldfein, a Facebook director of engineering. "I think that is part of the secret sauce at Facebook. I didn't understand this one until after I got here - that the tolerance for failure, that 'Move Fast and Break Things,' is actually what keeps us open to continue to innovate."
"Can you think of another site that routinely pisses off such a large percentage of their customers?" she asked, referring to the user outrage that greets every Facebook change. "But you can think of lots that had plenty of happy users, and eventually dwindled into irrelevance."
Even though she was a long-time manager at VMware and high-profile hire in 2010, Goldfein went through Bootcamp like everybody else. By her first week, she said, she had shipped more software code at Facebook than she did in her seven years at VMware.
And, as has happened before, a fellow Bootcamper, working on one of the software bugs that new recruits are typically assigned to fix, made a mistake that crashed part of Facebook.
"That was a really scary experience for him," Goldfein said. "But no one said, 'You idiot; you don't belong here.' They said, 'Hey, you tried, and here's what we're going to do to try to fix it, and this is what you've learned.' That experience of having people rally around you is really tremendous, and what it teaches you to do to is rally around other people."
Starting with Bootcamp, Facebook recruits are exposed to a series of slogans that are intended to encapsulate the company's values. Among the sayings posted on red-letter posters around any Facebook office are:
-Move Fast and Break Things
-What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?
-The Foolish Wait
-Our Work Is Never Over
-We Hack Therefore We Are
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China's onshore market slumped on Monday when trading resumed after the four-day Qingming festival, when stocks were hit by bird flu jitters and by fresh moves to curb Beijing's housing sector.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.26 per cent to 2,197.38, trading below the physiological 2,200 mark for the first time since December last year. The index only traded for the first three days of last week, closing on Thursday and Friday for the Qingming, or gravesweeping, festival.
Since the closure, more cases of H7N9 have been reported, bringing the total to 21, of which 10 were reported since last Thursday, intensifying fears that the country could face a deadly virus.
More short sellers joined the fray early on Monday, shorting airlines, poultry firms, which were seen as frontline casualties of any widespread outbreak of the new bird flu variant. So far, six people have died from H7N9.
Mainland carriers slumped, on speculation that tourism and business travel would fall in the affected region, including the nation's financial centre Shanghai. Air China lost 5.1 per cent to 5.06 yuan, while China Southern Airlines dropped 3.7 per cent to 3.4 yuan.
The disease also hit Taiwan, with the benchmark Taiex Index losing 2.25 per cent to 7,764.00 as of 11:15 am, marking its biggest decline since June 4 last year, and the biggest daily drop of major Asian markets in morning trade.
Taiwan carriers took an even bigger hit, with China Airlines off 6 per cent, EVA Airways Corporation down 6.8 per cent as of 11:15 am.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which tracks major mainland listed firms, was little changed after a 3.1 per cent decline last Friday.
China's biggest property player was also hit after the Beijing municipal government announced on Sunday that it would tighten the supply of public accumulation fund loans to second home buyers.
As a result of the tightening, individuals buying a second home, have to pay at least 70 per cent of the property value, up from previous 60 per cent previously.
China Vanke, the nation's biggest property developer by market value, lost 1.9 per cent to 10.99 yuan as of the lunch break.


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Azul Ventures Drops Findel Option
Azul Ventures Inc. (TSXV:AZL) announced that it is dropping the Findel option agreement, which includes the Hogar, Lolita, Santa Rosa and Santa Gertrudis mineral rights.
As quoted in the press release:
The Company regards the Findel Property as non-core and peripheral to the main mineralized zone on the La Higuera Property on which future exploration drilling and development will be planned. The focus of the Company's exploration at the La Higuera Property will be on the San Antonio, Mina Sol and La Sin Nombre mineral rights. Option payments on these properties, under renegotiated terms totaling US$114,000, were made earlier in December.
Azul's President and CEO, David O'Connor, said:
The mineral rights blocks within the remaining five agreements cover the core of the most prospective zone at La Higuera, on which two open pit mines are currently exploiting copper oxide ore and beneath which the Company believes there is substantial high grade copper sulphide mineralization.


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Customers of the Bosley Professional Strength brand for men and women can now find the collection's products at the ULTA Beauty and Beauty Brands salon-store chains across the United States.
"Hereditary hair loss affects millions of Americans, yet so many let their thinning hair go untreated," says Bosley Professional Strength president Eric McLemore. "With this expansion into the retail market, we are taking the brand one step further and bringing an entire collection of solution-oriented products directly into the hands of our consumers."
Bosley Professional Strength for thicker, fuller-looking hair launched in January 2010. The collection includes daily-use thickening products for color-treated and noncolor-treated hair, volumizing styling SKUs and healthy-hair treatments. It added five new products this year, including Healthy Hair Rebalancing & Finishing Treatment (see page 26, "Products for Thinning Hair," in the October issue of Beauty Store Business that's mailing soon) and Hair Thickening Fibers. Product prices at retail range from $14.95 to $48.95.


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Lee Alden Raines, born June 22, 1925 in Jackson County, went to his heavenly home to join his wife Marie, on April 11, 2014, at the Hubbard Hospice House following a long struggle with dementia.
During the last couple of years the love and support of his family and daughters helped ease the burden of his illness, especially daughter, Nancy and friend, Janet Pearson, who put their lives on hold to care for him.
The family also thanks the neighbors and other close friends in the Sissonville area for their help, members of Aldergate Church, who helped with food and water during the power outage and the neighbors who helped with home repair and yard work.
Welcoming Lee into heaven were his wife, Marie Stutler Raines; parents, Dallas and Ava Rhodes Raines; brother, Donald E. Raines; and a young sister, baby Lucille.
His family missing him on earth are daughters, Diane Light and husband, Thomas of Kenna and Nancy Raines of Seffner, Fla.; granddaughters, Tonya Gibson and Shelly Stowers; and great-granddaughters, Terra Waller and Leshia Waller, all of the Sissonville area. His passing is also mourned by his sisters, Carol McKemy and husband, Ervil of Kenna and Lorraine Stogdon of Jacksonville, Fla.
Special thanks are expressed to the Hubbard Hospice House and caregiver Kiteny Carson for their loving help and support during Lee's final month. As a tribute to Lee, the family asks that donations to Hubbard House or Aldergate Church in his honor be made in lieu of flowers.
A graveside service honoring the life of Lee Raines will be Monday, April 14, 2014 at 2 p.m. at the Fairplain Cemetery. There will be no visitation.
Waybright Funeral Home is honored to be serving the Raines family. Online condolences may be sent to www.waybrightfuneralhome.com.


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Cowboys still focused on keeping Dez Bryant on straight and narrow
Dez Bryant's development and maturation continues to hold a certain fascination for Cowboys fans.
To borrow a favorite phrase from owner Jerry Jones, the arrow points up on both of those counts. Does that mean the Dez Rules put in place two years ago are no longer needed?
"He doesn't need to drop his guard,'' Jones said. "But in some respect, none of us do.''
A security detail, curfew, no alcohol, requesting permission to go to nightclubs and mandatory counseling sessions were some of the Dez Rules outlined the last two regular seasons. The receiver has responded to that structure and shown significant signs of growth on and off the field.
"He is an established player,'' Jones said.
Now, he's entering the final year of a five-year, $11.8 million contract with a base salary of $1.78 million this season. Jones indicates the Cowboys have exchanged numbers with Bryant and his representative about an extension. But he stops short of confirming whether it's with Bryant or Tyron Smith, another young star who is part of the team's future.
The back issues that have plagued Bryant at times near the end of the past two seasons are not a concern.
"No,'' Jones said. "It's just not. That's the best way I can say it.
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The Army Corps of Engineers Little Rock District will host two workshops Thursday in Pine Bluff to discuss proposed changes to lock and dam policies for recreational boaters along the Arkansas River.
The Army Corps of Engineers Little Rock District will host two workshops Thursday in Pine Bluff to discuss proposed changes to lock and dam policies for recreational boaters along the Arkansas River.
Meetings will be held Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Delta Rivers Nature Center in Regional Park.
The workshop will allow residents to talk to Corps representatives about the proposed changes. Written comments will also be accepted.
The proposed recreation changes will reduce the number of swings on lock gates at facilities with high recreational boating traffic, thus reducing the wear on the gates.
�Currently, our two high recreational lockage facilities are Murray Lock and Dam in Little Rock and Terry Lock and Dam near Scott, Ark.,� the Little Rock District�s Chief of Operations Division John Balgavy said.
The Corps implemented a new program of daily preventive maintenance Oct. 1 at Trimble Lock, near Fort Smith and Ozark Lock at Ozark. Those locks close for a four-hour period daily to allow personnel to perform routine preventive and scheduled maintenance.
�We are looking into the benefits of expanding our preventive maintenance program to the remainder of our Arkansas locks,� Balgavy said.
The implementation of daily maintenance periods and limiting recreational boaters� lockage times is expected to increase the service life of the facilities and help to reduce unscheduled outages.
The policy will take into account special scheduled events including bass tournaments, flotillas, and civic celebrations, according to the Corps.
The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System has operated essentially without interruption except for routine scheduled maintenance for more than 40 years; however, the Corps is seeing trends of constrained budgets, increasing breakdowns and backlog of preventive maintenance.