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Stars in his eyes
How a self-made man became a Hollywood insider and a minor constellation himself.
DAVID HARTNELL: Made, not born.
In 1967, the one-time roller skating champion and Australia's first male in-store makeup artist sat in Sydney, pen and paper in hand, contemplating a new identity. "I was born with one name and it was shut off. My mother remarried, and I had no say, it was changed. I thought, `Well, why don't I change it to something I really want?' And that's what I did."
His homage to London fashion designer Norman Hartnell was also a feat of alliterative foresight. Hartnell's Hollywood rolled off the tongue onto the gossip pages and into our pop culture history.
The man became a brand. And now the brand has released a memoir.
Last week in suburban Auckland, 67-year-old Hartnell sipped coffee from a Metro Goldwyn Meyer mug, and sat under a swag of plastic orchids. His ridiculously bright red socks peeped through the punch-holed pattern of his slip-on house shoes. He invited us to flog his new book, but was easily distracted.
"I'll tell you about the royal wedding. I thought it was magnificent. She was every inch the princess. I thought the clergyman went on. If this was an amateur operatic society wedding, he would have been the wild, wacky, crazy one.
"And then, when Beatrice and Eugenie arrived, I thought, `This is perfect: the ugly sisters at Cinderella's wedding.' And I thought, `Good on them."'
Carole Middleton (mother of the bride) was his pick for best-dressed. He says Sarah Ferguson (mother of the ugly sisters) should have been invited. And nothing will dissuade him from believing Diana, Princess of Wales (mother of the groom) was murdered.
"I am absolutely and utterly convinced. I am convinced she was pregnant and definitely murdered. They couldn't get away with it on English soil... it's just like a bad soap opera."
Fact is frequently stranger than fiction. No one knows this better than a gossip columnist.
In its heyday, Hartnell's Hollywood was a women's magazine must-read. Our very own bearded, bespectacled, bow-tied man in Tinseltown brought us news from the stars and turned himself into a minor constellation.
There were the coups. Like the world first interview with Marc Christian, after his HIV-infected lover Rock Hudson died. There was the right-place-at-the-right-time flight to Los Angeles with Cybill Shepherd (and the autographed boarding pass to prove it). And there was the lunch with Sylvester Stallone's mother, Jackie, when she turned on a group of Middle Eastern diners and ordered her boyfriend to, "Go over and tell them I'm Sly's mother... my boy saved their country."
Twenty-nine chapters in all, from the man who says, "I've got an ego like everybody else, but I try to put it away. I've always thought, when the red light is on, you perform. When it's off, why waste your time?"
A star on a walk of fame is a lovely thing, "but you can't eat it". And anyway, says Hartnell, in Hollywood those hand prints are paid for – nearly $20,000 from a fan club pretty much guarantees immortality, he claims.
It was 1985 when Hartnell got his own Hollywood-style star. Greymouth was hosting the world premiere of the Princess Grace musical. Hartnell had a WTF moment on national television, and West Coasters turned it to their advantage, inviting him south for a red carpet and Swanndri welcome and asking him to press his prints in the concrete outside the theatre.
But fame is fickle. When the Star-Times called the theatre last week, manager Debbie Collings confessed the footpath had been retiled. Inquiries were underway to discover whether the handprints left by Hartnell, Billy T James and others subsequently inducted into the Greymouth Walk of Fame were dug up – or covered over.
It's possible Hartnell won't mind either way. Pull the Auckland Star archives, and two brown manila envelopes stuffed with clippings reveal a man who clearly believes any publicity was good publicity: "With the success has come the egotism of the self-made man," reported Yvonne van Dongen in 1986.
And today?
"When I started gossip 40-odd years ago, they said, `Oh, you'll never last.' And here I am. I don't know where the people are who rubbished me."
CHAPTER ONE: David Segetin was born in Sandringham, Auckland, and grew up in a state house in the neighbouring suburb of Mt Roskill. His parents separated before he turned four; his father's face subsequently cut out of every family photograph.
"My school years were a mixture of boredom and bullying," he writes. He left Avondale College, aged 15, with no formal qualifications. "Nobody has ever asked to see my School Certificate."
Hartnell is fond of telling reporters he never came out, "because I was never in". It's a single sound bite, oft-repeated, moving right along. But in his book, he reveals, "when you're young and gay, you can feel like there is no one else in the world like you".
At school, the only thing that mattered was sport, "and if you didn't join in you were labelled homo, faggot or queer". When he took up competitive roller skating, the bullying got worse. He says he considered suicide.
"It's the sort of thing, I guess, people go through. But no, I never would have had enough guts to do it anyway. And now I'm glad I didn't.
"This campaign in America, `It gets better' [a movement started by columnist Dan Savage following the reported suicides of a number of gay teens] – well, it does. It's just a matter of getting over that hurdle.
"Whether you're gay, whether you're straight, whether you're being bullied, it does get better, and I'm glad that a lot of stars have come out and said that."
For the past 18 years, Hartnell has shared his life with Somboon Khansuk, a Thai man he calls by his nickname "Ekk".
"It's an extraordinary relationship," says Hartnell. The pair met at a restaurant. Hartnell was planning a holiday in his now-partner's home country, and gave Ekk his house keys and dog-sitting responsibilities in his absence.
"Thailand. I love the people, I love the country, but people thought, `You go to Thailand and you bang your brains out'. That really annoys me, to this day."
He came home – and Ekk never left. "We do everything together. We're just lucky."
According to Hartnell, "the gay community have never been supportive of me".
"I know I'll get into trouble saying this. It's the tall-poppy syndrome. I've never been asked to speak at a gay function, to raise money at a gay function, all of which I would do, but they don't ask, so I think, `OK, fine."'
In 1996, he scored a spot on The Express Report, New Zealand's first gay news and lifestyle television show. "The worst experience of my TV career – and that's really saying something."
In a Star-Times interview before the show aired, Hartnell said he didn't support gay parenting, for fear children would be bullied (he has since softened his views). The television production team hauled him over the coals. "The whole show was nothing but a bitch-fest..." Hartnell was gone by season two.
The new memoir is peppered with photographs, but today he gets off the couch to fetch one that isn't in the book. It's a diptych of his Pop, a colour picture of a kindly looking man, and an older, sepia-toned print – the same photograph his mother kissed every night, when her father was "away".
In the mid-1960s, when sex between two men was still a jailable offence, Hartnell's Pop took him aside and asked him to be careful. And then he confessed that, during the war, he had been jailed as a conscientious objector.
As a gossip columnist, says Hartnell, "I've never outed anybody. I hate it when people do that".
Hartnell's early adult claims to fame came as a makeup artist. Sydney, London, New York, Los Angeles. He turned Phyllis Diller into a glamour-puss (and lifelong friend) when she visited Australia to entertain American troops on rest and relaxation breaks from the Vietnam War. He made over Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden and says, "Jean Alexander was one of the nicest people I've ever met". Every step of the way, he made sure the press was alerted.
He worked with country singer Glen Campbell. "He wanted me to make him look like an orange. He wanted this suntan. But we couldn't do his hands, because of the guitar. My god."
Hartnell was among the first makeup artists to use that Maybelline mascara – the pink and green-packaged best seller known now as "Great Lash" was, back then, called Fabulash.
"There were technical difficulties. They had terrible trouble with the fibres dropping on to women's eyes and cheeks. But we mastered it in the end."
Eventually, he got bored. Interviewing celebrities was always going to be more interesting than applying their mascara.
"I realised in the early days that Muhammad must go to the mountain. I must go to Hollywood. That's how I will make contacts."
They're all there, framed and mounted on the sideboards and walls of Hartnell's home. He says he had his photograph taken with celebrities because people refused to believe he had met them. Elizabeth Taylor needs dusting. Jenny Shipley rubs shoulders with Joan Collins. Michael Crawford is the spitting image of Don McGlashan.
BACK IN the conservatory, Hartnell offers more coffee, chooses a lemon tart over a chocolate friand, and wields an antique cake fork with delicate precision.
Has the gossip business changed?
"Some gossip columnists are really nasty. Some should be arrested for carrying their tongue around in a public place – let alone writing a column."
And the talent?
"We don't have stars now. Stars are the public on television and that's a shame."
In the United States, says Hartnell, social pages are a bible. "Here... same shit, different bucket, each week."
He likens the fame game to a "fabulous iceblock".
"They suck the colour out of it, and all they've got left is a stick and a piece of ice. They biff that and move on. There's no longevity. Will we be talking about Lady Gaga in 10 years' time? I don't know."
But he can guarantee we probably won't remember who won American Idol. Once, he says, celebrities had to work for fame.
"Gone is the glamour. Gone is the mystique ... You can twitter something and you can become a star, you can go on Facebook and be a star."
Hartnell doesn't even text. Ekk bought him a cellphone, but it's still in the box. When the landline rings, it really rings – an old-fashioned bell, blasting from the past.
"I don't have a thing about age. What you see is what you've got."
He doesn't believe in injectables, denies he's had plastic surgery and says he'll never reveal which stars routinely used tape and hat elastic to pull their faces back another decade.
Hartnell looks younger than his years. His beauty regime begins with tepid (not hot) water and finishes with moisturiser. He does not drink alcohol, smoke or take illegal drugs. He would never dye his hair.
"My skin colour respects my hair. If I dyed it black, it would be like a crash helmet. They'd say `Look at him, trying to grab on to youth."'
Memoirs of a Gossip Columnist by David Hartnell, Penguin NZ, $45.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to immediately review a lower court's decision regarding the constitutionality of the cross atop Mt. Soledad in La Jolla.
The 43-foot-tall monument and pedestal has been challenged in court for about 25 years. Opponents contend the cross is an endorsement of a particular religion, while supporters say it is a war memorial.
The federal government obtained the title to the cross and its surrounding property by eminent domain and declared it to be a national war memorial in 2006.
In 2011, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the cross violates the U.S. Constitution's establishment clause and ordered the case returned to district court for disposition. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns last December issued his order in response to that decision, stating the cross be removed in 90 days, but he issued a stay until appeals are exhausted.
Lawyers for the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association then filed a petition to send the long-running court battle directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, but in light of the stay, the Supreme Court chose to await the final decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote that a judicial review by the nation's highest court was not yet warranted because "no final judgment has been rendered and it remains unclear precisely what action the Federal Government will be required to take."
Supporters of the cross also unsuccessfully appealed to the Supreme Court in 2012.
Lawyer Charles LiMandri told reporters he was confident the Supreme Court would eventually hear the case after the appellate court issued a final decision, but that could take two to three years.
"The important thing is to remember, though, is the cross is not going anywhere -- not now, and we believe not ever," LiMandri said.
Lawyer James McElroy, who represents plaintiff Steve Trunk, who wants the cross removed, told City News Service he didn't think it was appropriate for the high court to take the case at this time. The justices might get another chance to take the case in the future, he said.
Until then, the case is back at the 9th Circuit, with briefings due to be filed over the next several months. After the appellate justices rule, the case could get appealed again to the Supreme Court, he said.
The attorney said it's hard to predict whether the nation's highest court will eventually take the case.
"On the one hand, you have the sheer statistics, which say that 98 percent of the cases that people ask the Supreme Court to take, they don't take," McElroy said. "Statistically, you would say no. On the other hand, this court has, on a couple of occasions, expressed an interest in this case."
Alito said the court might hear the case, but not now, according to McElroy.
The lawyer said conservatives don't think the establishment clause -- which prevents the government from creating a national religion or church -- is very clear and that its tests are not working very well.
"That is another reason that might change the percentages from just saying there's a 98 percent chance they're not going to take it," McElroy said.
Once the 9th Circuit rules, the case is either over or the Supreme Court will accept the case in its next term, he said. That could wrap the case up within two years, he said.
The case could also be settled out of court by having the cross moved or the Mt. Soledad land purchased by private interests, but there have been no such talks to this point, McElroy said.
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New Delhi: State-run transport engineering consultant RITES Ltd and construction company Ircon Ltd have decided to start arbitration proceedings against Mozambique over a railway project that was taken away from them by the African nation's government in an example of the political risks of doing business in countries prone to regulatory and regime changes.
RITES and Ircon were part of a joint venture known as Companhia Dos Caminhos De Ferro Da Beira, S.A.R.L., (CCFB) which won the $230 million Biera rail project in 2004 after outbidding Chinese rivals. The venture was responsible for running the Beira Rail corridor concession, which it was deprived of in December 2011.
RITES and Ircon, which come under the ministry of railways, had a 51% share in Companhia Dos Caminhos, and the balance was held by the Mozambique government. The Indian firms injected $30 million of equity into the project.
"We are going to do the arbitration. There is no other way as the land is already taken over by them," said Rajeev Mehrotra, chairman and managing director of RITES.
The decision to launch arbitration proceedings against Mozambique follows the Maldivian government's termination of GMR Group's contract to run the Male airport in November last year. Arbitration proceedings in Singapore over the Maldives' decision ended with a ruling in favour of the island's government in a case that illustrated potential setbacks investors face when regimes and regulations change.
"Political risk is something one should account for when one enters into such business agreements in international markets," said R. Sivadasan, former financial commissioner, ministry of railways. "The degree of political risks for the Indian companies doing business abroad is the same as that for foreign companies doing business in India."
An official in India's ministry of external affairs, on condition of anonymity, confirmed that RITES and Ircon were preparing the grounds for arbitration.
Queries emailed in the last week of January to spokespersons for the ministry of external affairs and the World Bank, Ircon, and the commercial counsellor at Mozambique's embassy in New Delhi were unanswered.
The rehabilitation of Mozambique's civil war-ravaged railway system was to be completed by September 2009, but the Indian partners managed to finish the project only in January 2011. The project was taken away from CCFB just as it had started collecting tariffs by running the rail network. The concession was for a period of 25 years.
"Now when the line was ready and the trains were run for couple of months then they realized that there was delay in construction and therefore terminated it," Mehrotra said. "This is illegal termination and we are going to protect our rights with the process in the contract which is international arbitration. This will be governed by ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) rules. They will appoint the seat of the arbitration. We are in the process of appointing our arbitrator," said Mehrotra.
Beira is one of the three rail corridors in Mozambique and is responsible for coal transportation to the port. It starts from Beira Port in Central Mozambique and has two railway links which connect to the railways of Zimbabwe (Machinpanda line) and Malawi (Sena line). The Sena link also connects the Moatize coal mines.
"The Beira Rail Concession involves investment of US$152 million of which US$104.50 million will be funded through credit provided by IDA (International Development Association), the soft loan arm of World Bank. The balance funding will be through the equity of shareholders and the commercial borrowings," according to a press statement dated 12 December 2004.
According to RITES, the project was delayed by around 14 months because of land mine explosions that led to the uprooting of the railway tracks.
"For such a big project in such a difficult area, a few months here and there was not really out of the (question)..," said Mehrotra.
RITES is no stranger to such setbacks. Mint reported on 14 July 2011 that RITES lost a contract to operate the newly constructed north-south railway system of the Saudi Railway Co. following differences over how to run the railroad network. In February 2010, the government of Tanzania revoked a contract the company won to refurbish and operate a significant portion of the African nation's rail network.
"Most of our PSUs (public sector undertakings) don't have the experience of working in a competitive environment overseas. This should be a wake-up call for them," said the foreign ministry official cited above.
The Tanzanian contract, awarded in September 2007, was for a 25-year period. RITES held a 51% stake in a venture with the Tanzania Railway Corp. Tanzanian Railway had cancelled the contract claiming that RITES could not get the rail network in working order. The two sides had concluded the final set of talks in January this year to chalk out the modalities of repatriating RITES' stake in the venture.
"The stakeholders did have some issues there but they have been amicably settled and we have exited from there...We took over the railways in 2007. There were some disputes amongst the shareholders which were commercial in nature and had impact on the viability of the operations. Since we found we were not going to get along we came to an amicable settlement. We have recovered our money of $8.32 million," said Mehrotra.
"Whatever packaging we did from here we have recovered our money. There is no loss to the company. We sold it to the government of Tanzania....The Tanzania story is amicably closed. We don't have any disputes with them," he said.
Since 2007, Indian companies have rapidly scaled up their global presence, investing at least $45 billion in companies in overseas entities.
"Our experience is that there must be adequate protection against termination of concessions because once you complete the project and then if there are illegal terminations, that has to be very well protected against such events," said Mehrotra.


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UK-based logistics company All Metal Services (AMS) has turned its attention to China and India as it expands its operation to supply metallic raw materials beyond its existing bases in the UK and France.
The company (Stand W332C) plans to open a new warehouse in Xi'an, China, by mid-2008 and an office in Bangalore, India, earlier in the year, as it pursues a philosophy of locating service centers strategically close to key customers. AMS' dedicated Airbus service center "lends itself to high levels of customer focus and continuous on time delivery performance," according to Martyn Brown, vice-president, procurement–materials, Airbus UK.


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The Lodi Flames varsity girls water polo team went 1-1 in the Central California Tournament on Friday in Clovis.
The Flames beat Sunnyside of Fresno 10-0 in the opener, getting four goals from Cierra Bertsch. Lauren Plunkett added three, Molly Bria had two and Liz Orgon added one. Karleigh Goss had seven saves in the net and Alisa Watts added three.


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Updated on Wednesday:
Something new happened in Calhoun County this past
The Historical Society presented the first Legends
and Lore tour at Heritage Village. It was well organized and directed by
Maricia Mlynek and Terry Snider Harris, but many other members helped
with all of the preparation. It was an hour in length, and then the
guests were invited to visit the village buildings.
There was no script, but the participants studied
notes about their character and delivered their own presentation. The
information was gathered from books at the Family History Center and
family collections. A few of the younger members had some acting
experience, but there was the usual anxiety, with questions of "Will
anyone come?" and "What if one of the cast is sick?" and "What if it
There were only three short rehearsals of about an
hour each, but this did not mean the tour was a haphazard undertaking.
The village structures were furnished with the props that were needed,
costumes were assembled, hay bales were lugged in for seats, horses and
riders were engaged, programs and flyers were printed and distributed,
and many more preparations were made.
Comments made by the audience warmed the hearts of
the Society members:
"My Dad attended the Stevens School."
"This was much better than I expected."
"I felt like I was in the home of the Stemple
sisters. They acted so frustrated and worried over living conditions."
"Shadrack Badgett (the story teller) made us feel
like we were really there."
"I didn't know that Nancy Hart had ever been in
Calhoun County."
"I didn't know that things like this took place in
Calhoun County."
"How did they exist without mail or government?"
"I would go again tomorrow, if we did not have to
be out of town."
"The clothing was so fitting for the time period."
"We were not taught about this when I was in school
(in the early '60s)."
"This information needs to be filmed."
"Hope they will do the tour again, maybe each
"Can we have a Christmas tour?"
Presenters showed their love of the characters they
represented: "My great-grandpa was born in this house." and "We felt
like we had gone back in time."
Thanks to the visitors. The Historical Society
enjoyed having you for the tour. Please come back soon.
The Family History Center on Main Street in
Grantsville is another project of the group that may be of interest. New
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Fisker Automotive filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. As part of a restructuring plan and to fund the sale, Hybrid Tech Holdings LLC will buy Fisker's assets with $8 million in debtor-in-possession financing. Fisker has been dormant since last year and industry watchers were waiting to see whether it would file bankruptcy following a […]+ Read More
This morning at 8 am Pacific time, Fisker Automotive laid off an additional 160 of its employees. This report comes trailing similar grim news that around 200 had been laid off – or as Fisker's PR team had phrased it, "furloughed" and bankruptcy was being considered Word has it a mere 53 employees remain out […]+ Read More


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June 10, 2013 BY Brendan Dunne
The Nike Air 180 goes all ACG on us this year via the "Terra Pack" that's planned for Holiday 2013. The first time we gave you a heads up regarding that set up all we had to show were some catalog scans, but this time we can finally give you a glance at the finished product. The all important speckles are there, as are the requisite bits of color pop needed to drive that All Conditions Gear-esque styling home. Stay with us through the click to get a more in depth look and stay tuned for more info on this Nike Air 180 release.
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- By Alicia P.Q. WittmeyerAlicia P.Q. Wittmeyer is the Europe editor at Foreign Policy. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Forbes, among other places. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and master's degrees from Peking University and the London School of Economics. The P.Q. stands for Ping-Quon.
For many Americans, there's a sense that the United States has not fared well in the comparisons inevitably invited by the attacks that occurred on the same day in elementary schools in Newtown, Connecticut and Guangshan, China. In Newtown, 20 children were killed. In Guangshan, 22 may have lost fingers, or ears, but they survived.
"That's the difference between a knife and a gun," wrote James Fallows in the Atlantic. Writing on Salon, Mei Fong asked "what good is freedom of speech and a democratic system, when these rights can't prevent the slaughter of innocents?"
But the societal soul-searching on the Chinese side has focused more on the aftermath of the tragic attacks, and many, including some state-owned media, have voiced admiration for the humanity and compassion displayed by U.S. public officials following the attacks, as well as the transparency with which the Sandy Hook shooting has been handled.
In a story headlined "Anger at attack response" published Monday, the typically nationalist Global Times newspaper reported that no local officials have visited the Guangshan hospital where many of the injured children have been treated, while a report from Xinhua, noting that no village officials could be located after the attack and that the only employee to be found was playing video games has prompted widespread disdain.
Xinhua also reported that news of the attack at Guangshan, in which a man knifed 22 children in central Henan Province, was initially deleted from the website of the local party committee, and that a news conference on the attack planned by the local government for Saturday was cancelled without explanation. The China-watching site Tea Leaf Nation notes that the names of the children injured in the attack have yet to be released.
Meanwhile, Chinese internet users have watched the aftereffects of the two tragedies play out with disapproval.
"We know much about the American killer, even his family and childhood, but know little about the Chinese suspect," wrote Weibo user and writer Zheng Yuanjie.
"In an instant, information about the deadly gun attack in an American school that claimed 28 victims blanketed Chinese media," wrote economist Han Zhiguo. "On the same day, there was a campus attack in Henan province's Guangshan county, in which 22 students were injured with lacerations….you could only find information about it on Weibo. Was mainstream media's difference attitudes [toward the two incidents ] because Chinese children's lives aren't valuable?"
The perspectives generated by these same-day tragedies on contrasting societal strengths and weaknesses may be interesting to note; still, it's worth remembering that neither society's grass is looking particularly green at the moment.
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Both players are first time visitors to Perth and have been taking in the sights before headlining the field in the $2million tournament at Lake Karrinyup Country Club, which is co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia.
On Monday night South African Schwartzel, who holds a helicopter pilot's licence, also took to the skies as a passenger in a helicopter to get another perspective of the West Australian coast.
"I was fortunate enough yesterday to get a bird's eye view of how Perth looks," said the 28 year old. "It's fantastic. We came right over the golf course. It looked so flat from the air, and then obviously we played today. It's a lot easier than what it looks from the top.
"But we had so much fun yesterday. It's my first time to Perth. I've played Melbourne and Sydney so it's nice to finally come to Perth. I've heard so many good things about it. I played nine holes on the golf course, and it looks good too."
The 2011 Masters Tournament champion defeated Rory McIlory and Lee Westwood before losing to Lee Westwood in the semi-final of Turkish Airlines World Golf Final, and he feels he is coming back into form after a difficult season to date so far.
"I built some good confidence last week playing against them (McIlroy and Woods) and I just showed that the game is still there somewhere," he said. "So I've got some good confidence last week and I'm really excited for this week.
"With weeks like last week you can maybe sometimes spark something, and all of a sudden feel like you actually are building some confidence. Something going your way can change things around very quickly."
Dufner returns to action for the first time since winning three points out of a possible four on his Ryder Cup debut at Medinah Country Club, and he admits he is keen to get playing again after the United States lost to Europe on a dramatic final day.
"It's been a tough couple weeks since The Ryder Cup for myself, and toughest thing about it is you've got to wait two years again until you can play again. That's a long time for us.
"Personally, if you have a bad event, or if you fall on your face on the last nine holes, you know that you have another event around the corner to kind of redeem yourself. But in that event, you have to wait two more years to have a chance to get back and win the thing.
"So there's a lot of different dynamics with The Ryder Cup and failing how we did as a team and losing the event. So it's been a tough couple weeks but I'm looking forward to playing golf again and getting over it and moving past it a little bit."
Dufner, who plays alongside Australian Greg Chalmers and Italian Edoardo Molinari in the first two rounds, is joined in the field by fellow US PGA Tour winner Bo Van Pelt and the 2011 US PGA Championship runner-up is looking forward to the challenge of taking on some of the leading European Tour players.
"It is a pretty strong field and you have a lot of guys that can play some good golf," said Dufner. "This is becoming a major event here in Australia and I think it's good for the Australian Tour and good for The European Tour. It's a pretty strong field for the first year and anybody can have a great week and play well."
Paul Casey and Edoardo Molinari are two other well credentialed Europeans in the field although neither has played particularly well of late. Casey did finish 3rd in Korea last week but overall he has been well below his best in 2012.
Bo Van Pelt brings further class to the event given his outstanding year in 2012. He was unlucky to miss out on a Ryder Cup spot and given what transpired in Chicago may well have been a better option for Davis Love. Twelve months ago he won in Malaysia and with eight top tens in PGA Tour events in 2012 including at his last two starts he desreves respect.
Molinari has recorded only one top ten in 2012 and is a long way from the player he was when such an intergral part of the European Ryder Cup side in 2010.
These players aside the field is hardly full of European stars, providing the opportunity for many Australians and lesser lights on the European Tour to take advantage of the weaker field to catch a piece of the large purse up for grabs.
The Perth International is jointly sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia and as such provides many Australasians the opportunity to play in a European Tour event and for US$2 million.
The leading ranked Australian and the second highest world ranke player in the field is Greg Chalmers who is looking to make it three wins from four starts in Australian events having won the Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship late in 2011.
Chalmers comes of a very good year in the US where he made it through to the penultimate FedEx Cup Final event. His 9th place finish at the Barclays was his only top ten of the year but he made 20 of 25 cuts.
Brett Rumford is the next highest ranked Australian in the field, the local coming off the back of several good finishes in Europe of late including when runner-up at the Johnnie Walker Championship in Scotland two months ago.
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The training camp for the Houston Texans sits opposite Kirby Drive from Reliant Arena, its driveway intersecting with Kirby directly in front of the main entrance. Saturdays during the summer the camp plays host to a children's football camp. At 8 a.m. Saturday, when parents dropped their kids off at camp, a small group of a few dozen GetEQUAL activists graced the main entrance. By the time parents returned to pick their kids up in the early afternoon there were hundreds of protestors.
GetEQUAL staged several mock funerals throughout the day to represent the more than 13,000 people killed in America because of anti-LGBT bias since 1980. The funerals were complete with coffins and a New Orleans-style street band. Daniel Cates, North Texas regional coordinator for GetEQUAL, says that the band was not originally planned to be part of the protest. "They were a local group who had come to Reliant to protest 'The Response,'" said Cates. "When they saw what we were doing, they wanted to help."
Between funerals the GetEQUAL protestors chanted and sang. Their rousing rendition of the civil rights era classic "We Shall Overcome" drew attendees of "The Response" out of the stadium to look down from the third floor mezzanine. Chants of "This is what democracy looks like" and "Pray away the hate" rang out all day, crescendo-ing as more and more protestors arrived. At one point the chant spontaneously morphed into "Show me what hypocrisy looks like" and the assembled protestors turned to point at Reliant Stadium and chant, "This is what hypocrisy looks like."
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So was this week's. And last week's. And the week before that. I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!Oooo... next week is the most shocking elimination yet.
So was this week's. And last week's. And the week before that. I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!Oooo... next week is the most shocking elimination yet.
"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."
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I can't believe how Sara skated through elimination again.
Garrett is a good second choice. Yeah, I really believed him when he said he would never hit anyone again. Yeah, a little bit of liquor and this guy is doing jailtime.
Keith, dresses and acts like 12 yr old. Please pull the pants up. Drools like a 3yrs old. Only redeeming quality is that he can cook. He needs to go to etiquette school, go on TLC's What Not To Wear and learn to speak English properly.
No goat killers on my island.
I have to say... 7/24 had some of the funniest moments in HK history...
1. Gordon to JP: "What... are you trying to lose your virginity" Priceless.
2. JP: paraphrasing... but it was something like "JP is going to have some beer tonight and chill out. JP has had ENOUGH!". That was so funny.
3. The "boob incident" at the pass. That was so beautiful. I laughed my butt off. First of all... I think that anyone with the nerve to interrupt the head chef at the pass at a busy restaurant asking when their food will be ready should be kicked out for that alone. But anyway... that was sooo funny.
He was being patient at first... and I was like... dude... aren't you going to insult her? Then he says "could you get your boobs off my hotplate please" HAHAHAHA!!! She did have particularly large breasts. Then she dumps that dish!!! THAT WAS PRICELESS!!!! Gordon was beside himself. I've never seen him take it back before!!!! He's always the one dishing it out... and he was truly speechless for a second there. OMG that was so funny. What a great exhange. And if you have it recorded... watch it again and look for the reactions of her friend. SOOOO FUNNY! First she seems embaressed by her... then she laughs outloud at the insult... then she's in shock when her friend dumps the food... and then she goes back to looking very amussed again as they are walking out. That was so great. I would have loved to hear their conversation in the car on the way home. I wonder if her friend kept laughing about it.
OK, a few things on the Garrett issue.
1) He was almost certainly the worst chef left, so I have no problem with him going.
2) For Heather to say what she did about feeling "uncomfortable" when Garrett is basically within 20 feet of her was insulting and smacked of entitlement. The guy was in jail at some point and did his time. Even with the editing, Garrett never looked overly threatening toward anyone. Heather freaked out when Garrett, trying to be supportive after Heather had lost it a bit in the kitchen, merely touched her shoulder (quickly). She has clearly been gunning for Garrett ever since the "have my dinner ready" comment, which IMO was just Heather not being able to handle the same stuff as she dishes out (the women had been gloating upon their return from reward at the time). Garrett may have been given the worst edit of all time.
3) Speaking of Garrett's edit, I see a lot of people mentioning what a "sore loser" Garrett is. Well, maybe...But that's not what I saw last night. Garrett has clearly gotten "screwed" in challenges to some extent. Keith admits as much when he CLEARLY STATES he will pick Garrett for reward if he wins. So what happens, he wins, and doesn't pick Garrett. There's really no excuse for this. Either you pick Garrett, or you don't promise to take him while mentioning how much he's been screwed over during the game. I was really starting to dig Keith until this. Garrett should have kept his mouth shut, but really, you could tell he was getting fed up with the treatment he was getting. Hell, I've seen FAR more bitter and mean-spirited eexpressions of anger and frustration on this message board than I did from Garrett last night. Something tells me that there's a lot of stuff that we didn't get to see with respect to Garrett's treatment. Just my opinion...
4) It seems to me that the producers took the "guy who used to have an anger problem" who has been in jail and continually pushed his buttons, trying to get an explosive response. If that's the case, then Garrett actually handled it pretty well considering how most people react when they're accidently skipped over at the deli counter.
All in all, Garrett seemed to try really hard but not quite have it. I wonder if they kept him around (like they have Sara) in the hopes of some tantrum of rage. Sara embraced the roll, while Garrett actually kept trying to help his team win (with little success unfortunately). Now people here think he's some kind of monster. I suppose he could be, but just because a guy spent some time in jail and gets angry when someone who is supposed to be a friend lies to his face, doesn't make me think that it's so.
No goat killers on my island.
Wow, what a cast....
Garreth - the poster boy Chef Rage
Heather - the poster girl for ridalen
Sara - the poster girl for swarmy smart asses
Kieth - the poster boy for wannabes
(Now he's getting a tattoo He's gettin' ink done He asked for a '13', but they drew a '31')
Best part of the show was when the 'lady' throws the food on the floor.
Ramsey's face was priceless. He looked like "How dare anyone throw a fit in MY kitchen but me"
This is a touchie subject, and I would never tell someone how they should feel about such a thing, but I hate to see editing villify someone in this manner. I mean, the guy went to prison, did his time, and is apparently trying to do something useful with his life. He's not all that bright and has a slight badass edge to him (though he's nowhere near the poser Keith is), but the effort (and IMO, the "team" mentality) was there.
In short, everyone has a point at which they must vent. I'll admit that Garrett would be better served to move his point back a bit further, but when he did vent, it wasn't violent or even that drawn out. It wasn't faked, which is to say that it wasn't done (as so many reality contestants do) to get his 15 minutes, to be a disturber, to weaken someone, to gain a strategic advantage, or to just be an [mod edit]. It was true emotion, and it's one we all have plenty of. I can only imagine how much sooner and more dramatically three of the four remaining contestents would have reacted if subjected to the same circumstances. Virginia vents through tears.
Now, I wouldn't go so far as to say it was constructive, but the only person it hurt by it was Garrett. He had a right to be angry, and Keith was waiting for the reaction from him...Then I'm sure he used it as an excuse in his own head to further twist the dagger into Garrett's back at nominations. While we're on Keith, how does someone say 10 seconds after thinking for over a minute before choosing Virginia, "man, I feel so bad...I screwed up."? He makes it sound as if he had taken 10 seconds longer to decide, he would have considered that he might "feel bad" for Garrett, and made the "right" choice. Stupid, but ok...However, THEN he says roguhly the same thing after he Garrett gets the boot. Entirly disingenuous. I know that woen tend to work differently, but guys, especially guys who act like Keith, are loyal and men of their word. Again, Garrett deserved to go, but Keith sold him out big time. What was the purpose of his promise to Garrett OTHER than to piss him off?
One thing that I didn't like about Garrett's tirade was the finality and the venom. I understand where it came from, but it's strategically poor and not a very logical response. If anything points to an inability to control his emotions, it's that.
Unless something major and dramatic happens, I clearly see Keith winning this. Sad but true... this pathetic, gansta-wannabe, imbicile who is emotionally stalled at the age of 14 has the best chance of winning. Gordon has clearly put him as the one to beat Just two examples are 1)taking him aside and saying "Keith, has anyone ever told you how really good you are?" and 2) choosing his veal dish for the menu last night.
I don't believe Keith has the ability to run that RedRock Casino restaurant any more than I believe the sun won't rise tomorrow. He doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell with true success as he is now. Can he be "groomed"? Sure. But so can Virginia... so can Heather. Sara on the other hand, is a different story. The only reason she's survived this far is because each week someone has been worse than her. Hopefully next week she'll go... but I've been saying that since this season's premier!
If Keith win's, the only real option is for Ramsay to offer him the same kind of "apprenticeship" he offered to Michael (season 1 winner). But I think Keith's ego (which, btw, rivals his monster-sized bottom) would prevent him from recognizing the apprenticeship would be better for him. Did you hear him last night? He wants to win so he can be in Vegas where he loves the action, nightlife, casinos, etc. He doesn't want to win so he can run a first class restaurant or be a better chef. If he thinks that by winning he'll have a normal 40 hr/wk job and have lots of free time for all that Las Vegas nightlife, it just proves him to be the doofus I believe he is.
reminds me of this season's American Idol runner-up... she wanted to win not so that she could be a singer, no, she wanted to win so she could use it as a launching pad to become a movie star.
Makes me feel cheated. Like the candidate who wins the mayoral race who does nothing for the city who elected him but instead spends every moment posturing and positioning himself for the Governor's seat.
I can't stand Keith and I'd love to see him voted out... right after Sara
Personally I find these humane mouse traps rather ineffective. Better to lay down some glue and when you hear the critter scream you take a shovel to his head.


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Winslow, Bucs agree on six-year, $36 million extension
Published: April 6th, 2009 | Tags: Kellen Winslow, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Recently acquired TE Kellen Winslow and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have agreed on a six-year contract extension, according to Buccaneers.com.
NFL.com's Steve Wyche reports that the deal is worth $36.1 million, with $20.1 million guaranteed. The deal could be worth up to $42.1 million with incentives.
The Bucs acquired Winslow from the Browns on Feb. 27 for a second-round pick in 2009 and a fifth-rounder in 2010.
New Bucs offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski told the team's website that he was impressed with what he saw after watching Winslow at voluntary workouts last week.
- "Kellen does some things with matchups I think that we can get that are really going to benefit us this year," Jagodzinski said.
- "We can put him in different spots and move him around to get the matchup that we want. He can get in and out of a cut like a receiver, now. He's good. He's really good. I'm really looking forward to working with him and he's been great. He's been great out at practice, asking a lot of questions. (Tight ends coach) Alfredo (Roberts) had him in Cleveland already so he's very familiar with him and how he works and how he needs to be coached. I'm excited about him. I came off the field and I said, 'Man, we've got something good with him.'"
It's been a busy offseason for the Bucs, who have a new coach (Raheem Morris) and a new GM (Mark Dominik), as well as roster additions RB Derrick Ward, LB Angelo Crowell and K Mike Nugent.


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|Reviews for A Thousand Ways To Be Alone
| Theia Pallas chapter 1 . 1/26/2013
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| mabidiso chapter 1 . 9/16/2012
LOVE how it's Naruto who breaks the ice and barriers just by being Naruto.
| disregard chapter 1 . 9/24/2010
i usually don't like threesomes, if only for the fact that i think three's a crowd in a relationship, and that if it were me i wouldn't wanna share, even if it means choosing...
Yet, i often find myself reeding threesome fics, trying to find a gd one. One that would actually convince me that it could happen and "why the hell not?"...And ur story did just that for me.
I thought it was a cute lil' piece with just enough emotion and the right amount of feeling. And i especially like the passage where u describe their respective ways of being alone.
I just reaaally like this story. Reaaaaally.
| Gaawa-wida-cookie chapter 1 . 9/2/2009
when i read the summery, i thought oh god is this gunna be the same smutty crap everyone else writes. but i gave it a try ... your writing style in this fic is brilliant i think the naruto fandom needs more writers like you and less of the mindless smut that normally goes with sasuxnaru pairing
i loved it so keep on writing
| Lady Nerd chapter 1 . 11/2/2008
hn... i like it a lot. it's sweet.
| Animeaddict666 chapter 1 . 2/10/2008
I adored this reflection and the way you painted Naruto's character. Not to quote you to yourself, but I adored this line, cause it really captured that moment in the manga: "And something small and animal and ancient in the back of his mind SCREAMED."
| Heaven Cobra chapter 1 . 9/28/2007
| Candelabra chapter 1 . 8/4/2007
I love this threesome now. :)
| maggiepyro101 chapter 1 . 7/26/2007
is thet the end? cuz it doesn't say complete and i just want to know if i should add it to my alert list of not
| darkenedmirrors.softfocus chapter 1 . 7/24/2007
Beautiful, just beautiful.
| shadow-of-a-demon chapter 1 . 5/19/2007
That was so beautifully written!
It was totally fricken, deadly awesome!
I loves it!
| Sryn-chan chapter 1 . 3/15/2007
| sesshomarousecretlove chapter 1 . 3/15/2007
i wanna give sasuke and naruto and neji and u a big hug!
| yue no rei chapter 1 . 7/19/2006
uwaa... i like this
| Paper Fans chapter 1 . 7/14/2006
I cant discribe the greatness of this fic, seriously. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I need more! Throw some Gaara in there! I havent seen any Gaara one shots, and he has so much one shot potential!


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Biggie X Kurt Cobain Photo Joke Goes Next LevelNirvana bassist Krist Novoselic weighs in on a Photoshopped picture that has everyone talking.
Courtney Love Admits To Using Heroin While Pregnant In New Kurt Cobain DocumentaryThis new family authorized documentary will be one deep story not to miss!
24 Films for the Music Fan at SundanceFilms starring musicians like Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky and Kathleen Hanna; docs looking at the lives of Kurt Cobain and Nina Simone; films that were scored by Brian Eno and a member of fun. And there's more than one that has Pharrell's stamp all over it.
'South Park' Holiday Episode Pokes Fun at Taylor Swift, Lorde, Iggy Azalea & Michael Jackson's HologramOn the latest holiday episode of 'South Park,' they went for broke, poking fun at bloated holiday specials, smug celebrities and especially holograms, including those of Kurt Cobain, Tupac, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.
Lana Del Rey Responds To Frances Bean Cobain's Criticism, Denies Romanticizing DeathIn an interview, Lana claimed she wishes she was dead, just like Kurt Cobain. His daughter took umbrage with the comment, tweeting yesterday (June 23) that Lana should "embrace life because you only get one."
Nirvana Rock Hall Induction Featured Joan Jett, Kim Gordon, St. Vincent & Lorde"They spoke the truth, and people listened," presenter Michael Stipe said. "This was not just pop music."
Francis Bean Cobain Calls Out Kendall Jenner On TwitterCobain had some biting words for Jenner, calling her a "self absorbed idiot."
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NCIS: LOS ANGELES is a drama about the high stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets. Special Agent "G" Callen (Chris O'Donnell) is a chameleon who transforms himself into whomever he needs to be to infiltrate the criminal underworld. His partner is Special Agent Sam Hanna (LL COOL J), a former U.S. Navy SEAL who has seen action in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and a surveillance expert who uses state of the art monitoring equipment to look out for those in the field and feed them crucial information. Assisting the team is Special Agent Blye (Daniela Ruah), the exceptionally bright daughter of a slain Marine who lives for the adrenalin rush that comes with undercover work, and Operational Psychologist Nate Getz (Peter Cambor), adept at getting into anybody's head, profiling the target and monitoring agents' states of mind before, during and after missions. Armed with the latest in high tech gear and sent regularly into life-threatening situations, this tight-knit team relies on each other to do what is necessary to protect national interests.
Love this show and all the characters
Please do not get rid of deeks and don't send
Him back to LAPD he's perfect for the show he makes it funny. The show wouldn't be the same without him
Congrats to Eric & Sarah on their impending journey into parenthood.
Theory: All season they have been hinting something will happen to Deeks and next season they are going to focus on him like they did with Sam this season, Kensi last season, and Callen the season before.
I think something is going to happen to Deeks, probably while protecting Sam's family.
Happy Birthday to the "Midnight Star"!!!
Both parts for the pilot were okay. There is only so much a writer can squeeze into a pilot episode when it comes to introducing the characters and the vibe of the show so I will wait to reserve my final judgement of the show if it gets picked up by the network.
You have no idea how that made my day, what with season-ending cliffhangers coming up.
Loved this episode. Dave Kalstein who wrote, and Larry Teng who directed, made an awesome team along with the cast, really brought this storyline to life.
I can't wait for this episode! I can't wait to see what exactly Hetty & Nate are posing as while undercover.
My thoughts exactly! Talk about not figuring out that Sam's wife was also a federal agent till the episode was more than halfway done. I think I may be a little slow on the uptake. This episode definitely kept me on the edge of my
Do we really need another spin-off? Look at what happened when CBS agreed to a spin-off of Criminal Minds. It didn't work. CBS got lucky when they spinned off NCIS from Jag, than spun NCIS LA off from NCIS. But something tells me this spin-off of NCIS LA wouldn't work. I thought Shane Brennan left NCIS to focus solely on NCIS LA. I hope NCIS LA doesn't suffer with this spin off.


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