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"I almost never get cranky, and there were things I did get cranky about." This is what Mick Garris tells me when I ask him how shooting went in Vancouver on the set of his fifth Stephen King film Riding the Bullet (opening in a limited theatrical release October 15th). It's hard to imagine Mick getting, um, "cranky." Furthermore, it's downright wrong. I'd like to say he's one mean bastard – it'd be a change from everything else you've ever heard about him. The man is the furthest thing from being a typical Hollywood visionary sonuvabitch. In the time that I've known him he's been nothing less than accommodating. A perfect guy to simply "talk about movies" with. Coincidentally, Mick was my very first interview for the web. Ever.
That was about four years back, and he was just about to set forth on adapting King's first e-book which told the tale of a young man who needed to hitchhike to the hospital to visit his ailing mother. Along his journey he faces an array of unusual characters including one Mr. George Staub who presents Alan with a decision he cannot easily turn his back on. This novella struck a deep nerve in Garris, and it turned out to be a story he couldn't ignore, one he had to bring to the screen. But like so many personal projects directors desperately pursue, the long road to completion was rocky for Garris.
He and I caught up with each other over the phone as he spoke from the production office of his next King endeavor, Desperation.
Ryan Rotten: What was your attraction to the Riding the Bullet story?
Mick Garris: I know a lot of the on-line people want to know that too. The people who have seen it have been very enthusiastic about it, some of them going, "Garris gets a little sentimental again…" [laughs] But mostly it's been really great stuff and I know that people are saying, "What's so personal about this story?" At the time I read it, when it came out, [my wife] Cynthia's mother had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I had lost my dad a year or two before, lost a brother several years before that. Mortality was very much on my mind so I read a lot more into this story than most people would. The whole idea of mortality and guilt and isolation, all those questions, seemed to present at least the tip of an iceberg that appealed to me. I immediately began thinking about how it could be a feature film and how it could be expanded without fattening it. I just wanted to go to King and say, "Look, I would really like to write a script based on this, are you okay with that?" Fortunately we have the kind of relationship where he said go ahead and give it a try, let me see it when it's done.
RR: Has he seen the film?
MG: He has not seen the finished movie, he has seen everything before it as an AVID output with a temporary mix [soundtrack] and temp effects. He was very enthusiastic.
RR: With everything King has been through himself you'd think the mortality issue that touched a chord with you would obviously resonate stronger for him now.
MG: Absolutely. There are a lot of personal elements to the story for him and it was surprising how personal it felt to me. The movie is much moreso. We were both brought up by our mothers after marriages ended at young ages – him younger than me – and in a very lower-middle class upbringing. So that was just the beginning of it. It's also why I set the movie in 1969 which was because, first of all, the whole hitchhiking idea and secondly I thought a life or death choice was emblematic of a time represented by the end of the '60s.
RR: The script has been sitting around for a few years, who generated the interest again to get it developed?
MG: It had gone to the studios – that was a very time-consuming process, you know, it wasn't a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When you go out with Stephen King project they want it to be a real balls-to-the-wall horror movie. And my whole point was to make it a combination of – you and I have talked about this – the two sides of Stephen King: the scary ghost story and yet the nostalgic drama too. The books all do it. Why don't the movies do it more often? I found out why. The studios don't want something that's intimate and personal, they want one or the other, they want something they can sell in one line. That's fair. They spend millions and millions to do that.
RR: I guess if you look at the cinematic track record of King stuff that has hit or miss speaks for itself too. The more somber, personal material like Dolores Claiborne didn't really fly.
MG: No, but the ones that did they hide his name on started with Stand By Me which was a huge success and great film based on a great novella.
RR: Ditto with Shawshank Redemption…
MG: Right, that wasn't a commercial success theatrically but now video made it a huge hit and now they're re-releasing it. But anyways, after I went through the studio thing I set it aside very discouraged and was thinking, "Well, that's the way it goes." I had never made a spec script even, though I think my spec work as a writer has been most of my best work. I think most screenwriters' best work is the stuff they do on spec and is never produced. And so everything came up when Joel Smith and I were making the Lost in Oz pilot, Joel was one of the producers on that. I gave it to him to read, he got excited about it and started to take it around. We got a lot of interest on the independent financing side, which is a side I'm not that used to. It can be a fairly shifty world. It looked like it was going to come together that way when Brad Krevoy called – he had tried to get Desperation and had come out to the set of The Shining to talk to me and King about it. Anyway, Brad eventually wanted to get a project going and asked what I was doing, I told him and he asked to see the script for Riding the Bullet. Within a day or two he said, "I can get you 'x' amount of dollars to do that." It was a little less than what we were looking for, but it was a bird in the hand. And it took about a year after making the deal with Brad to actually get it going. Then right before we started to make the movie – before we left for Vancouver to start prep – the bank cut thirty percent of our budget. It was tight circumstances and became "Do I make the movie under tighter circumstances or leave a bird in the hand?" You seldom get another bird to warm up that empty hand.
RR: Every director has a casting wish-list when they start a project, are you happy with who you ended up with?
MG: The first thing I'll say is Bullet is the best experience with a cast I've ever had. Usually there's at least one diva that's really difficult but their talent is worth it, sometimes it's not. In this case it all depended on who played the lead. I was not familiar with Jonathan Jackson's work but the character of Alan is virtually in every scene of the movie, sometimes twice, because he plays his own conscious. Someone then reminded me that he was the boyfriend in Insomnia where he's accused of murdering his girlfriend, a great scene with Al Pacino. We wound up meeting and we hit it off. The short version is I cannot imagine any actor doing this role better and more appropriately than him.
RR: How old is this kid?
MG: Twenty-one or twenty-two. Rarely does an actor of that age come in so thoughtfully and so prepared. Usually they don't know all their lines, young actors in particular are the least schooled. Plus he's a musician and really got into it. We were very lucky throughout. Having the tight independent budget we didn't have a whole lot to spend on the actors so we got a really great cast who responded to the screenplay and the roles. One reason was because we had to schedule the actors, other than Jonathan, in a tight window of time. The problem with that is, had we had to change the schedule for any reason and lengthened their period it would've cost us a lot. So, we didn't! We stuck to our schedule and were beat up by weather. It wasn't comfortable to shoot in but it makes the movie look great.
RR: From the pics I've seen David Arquette looks like a fish out of water compared to the usual films he's been in.
MG: Well, I had no idea there was a faction out there who are not David Arquette fans. But he's great. The first thing King said was, "Man, George Staub is terrific in this!" He's really good and menacing with a sense of humor at times. I wasn't aware of any kind of baggage from him. It's too bad because he's got quite a resume. If you only see Eight Legged Freaks and the three Scream movies it may not be the best way to judge a guy. He's got a great backlog of excellent work and he really rose to the occasion on this.
RR: On the cover page of the script the film is dubbed a "Halloween Ghost Story," can you talk about this a bit?
MG: That was not my idea. Just like The Babysitter Murders was the original title for Halloween and Irwin Yablans changed made that change of title suggestion to Carpenter. Brad told me if we could put [our movie] out at Halloween we could make more money. That was his motivation. But my motivation was suddenly, look, it's already a period movie and I love the idea of the magic of a road movie on Halloween where death is around every corner as a symbol or a reality. That added a level to it, we play it subtly. We don't point at Halloween all the way through the movie but there are little dashes of Halloween here and there. But when Alan has just seen the ghost of his father in the middle of this rainy highway and we flash to a shot of the Bullet and then a slow motion shot of a bus going by filled with children in Halloween masks it just gives you the goosebumps.
RR: The Sixth Sense and The Others aside, ghost stories are a rare commodity these days. Good ones, anyway…
MG: Yeah, and The Sixth Sense is just great. This is not really like The Sixth Sense, but it's a quieter horror movie like that. But that's not what the marketplace is looking for! [laughs] And I've always had trouble with the marketplace anyway, I don't know. All I can do is my best work, I can't sell…be a shoe salesman.
RR: That's a job for someone else, you do your job and let them do that stuff…
MG: If they let you. But, you know, this is the first time I've ever taken a "film by" credit in my career. As writer, producer and director it's really the first time it feels like it's my own even though it came from King's story – which is a huge element. But I've been able to turn it into something that feels like a piece of my life. That's not to say it's autobiographical in more than a handful of senses but in just an emotional level – it's me, for better or for worse. And for some horror fans it's probably going to be for worse! There are going to be people who are cynical about it because it is willing to play to the sentiment. It's goes to the heart.
RR: Well, depending on the material you need that balance. It can't be a hammer-to-the-skull every time.
MG: Yeah, but you know the movie does have a lot of horror elements. What I was surprised by is how many people who have read the script didn't get the movie. They read the script then saw the movie and went, "Oh, this is much better than I expected!" I mean, it's exactly like the script!
RR: Let's talk about some of the additions you made to the story to flesh it out. In particular this physical representation of Alan's consciousness or "inner voice."
MG: It was my attempt to do something cinematic with something literary. The difference between novels and films is that novels are internal and films are external. It was a way to externalize something that was internal, but do it in an entertaining and visual way. Some people who read the script thought it was the worst idea in the world. Until you see it you don't know if it works well or not. There were things like that that I added. The character of Alan and the choice he makes is really powerful in the short story, I thought I'd up the stakes a bit by making him an artist who was almost obsessed with the dark side. He's an art student and loves the imagery of death and darkness, the grim reaper, that sort've thing. He even attempts a suicide early on in the movie so when he's given choice of life and death, him or his mother, it has much more potency other than "Oh, you're mom's 48, she's had a stroke, she's not healthy anyway, so what's the big deal?" Now it's also, "You've cut your own wrist, you're willing to kill yourself, you love the dark side, it's so beautiful and romantic, so what's the big deal?" So hopefully it's about discovering the value of life…which is a little pretentious. [laughs]
RR: Another person who's absolutely no stranger to Stephen King is artist Berni Wrightson who I hear you brought in to do some artwork.
MG: Isn't that great? I met him for the first time on The Green Mile set and had always loved his Swamp Thing and everything else. We got to be pretty friendly after that. When it came time to find someone to do the [Alan's] artwork, he was the first guy I went to. I didn't think we could afford him on our budget. He read the script and said, "You know, this is my life." We were able to make it work and he came up to Vancouver and painted these wall-sized paintings, some of which come to life in animation. It was very exciting to have him around. When I came back I was planning on asking him to buy one of the paintings that we used and Frank Darabont bought it! Darabont had already bought it before I came home! So I still have to see Berni and find something else to buy.
RR: We've heard about your upcoming television series Masters of Horror – was this inspired by those dinners we've been hearing about where you and several other recognizable directors get together in downtown Hollywood?
MG: It did kind of come out of that. The purpose of those dinners was not to do work or network, but John Landis had been talking about doing something for a while. But this finally came together, I got new management last year and the company is a big production company and they're my producing partners on this. Once I told them the plan they were thrilled, my agent and the managers are going to work together with this DVD company who's going to finance the thirteen episodes entirely. We haven't even taken it to a network yet. I've got commitments from Carpenter, Hooper, Romero, Landis, Dante, Guillermo del Toro and maybe from some others.
RR: What are you guys looking to do with this series? You're edging in after Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, how's this show going to be different?
MG: Basically I want each of these to be a one-hour "film by." I want Carpenter to do a Carpenter movie, I want Dante to do a Dante movie, I want Romero to do a Romero movie. What they think of as their movies rather than what I think. As a producer I have to have my input, but these are their movies and I want this to be something they're excited about. I don't want this to be Tales from the Crypt, I don't want it to be the boobs 'n blood show and I don't want it to be the Twilight Zone. It doesn't have to be about a twist ending. As much as I love The Twilight Zone, they did that. I just want this to be an individual movie that stands on its own every week and not necessarily feel like the same series every week. I like these guys. The reason they're successful in their field is because they created their own individual imagery and style. So we're going to try and get people like Argento and Shimizu and make it international too. I'm just amazed everybody has agreed to do it, scripts are being written, it's in the works.
RR: You're in pre-production on Desperation. That's another King project you've been working on for quite a while, huh?
MG: Oh, about eight years. [laughs] We begin shooting November 2nd. I'm talking to you from the production office right now. KNB is going to be doing the effects, we're in the casting process. The director of photography is Christian Sebaldt who shot Feardotcom and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, so yeah, we're there.
RR: Is it still a two-parter?
MG: It's going to be one three-hour movie. The whole evening on ABC!
RR: Three hours of Desperation!
MG: Which means probably two hours and ten minutes.
RR: Three hours on DVD…
MG: Yeah, and I think Lions Gate is doing the DVD on that as they are on Riding the Bullet next year. They would've put it out theatrically but they didn't have any open slots. We're kind of doing it ourselves through MPCA.
RR: Where are you shooting Desperation?
MG: We're going to shoot in Arizona. We found an amazing location that not only has the open pit copper mine and the nearby ghost town strip of Desperation, but also right in the same neighborhood there's an old movie theater that has been closed since 1978 and not been kept up since then. You can't build sets like these and it's all in like a one-mile radius.


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Kara DioGuardi, Emmanuelle Chriqui & Others Go Naked For Allure
I'm not sure what the premise is for having these ladies go bare in Allure, but it was probably an after thought to the "let's get some celebs naked" idea anyway. So here's a little nude celebrity with your morning coffee.
Kara DioGuardi, who is almost as little as Victoria Beckham, said she was proud at her confidence to do the shoot, since she battled binge eating and depression in her early 20s. She used to be a size 6 or 8 and now she's a size 2, no longer using food to "anesthetize" herself. We're proud of you too, Kara, but the ribs are eeking me out a bit.
Emmanuel Chriqui looks as you would imagine, flawless. Inexplicably she can find something wrong. "Some women want bigger breasts," says the Entourage actress. "But [I wish] I could have had a dancer's body." Oh, and I wish I didn't have all these heavy hundred dollar bills.
Colbie Caillat brought herself some liquid courage in a wine bottle, but didn't end up using it. She wore flesh-tone underwear up until the last second. She was positioned and then "when we were sure nothing was showing, they snipped it off." That's probably what I would do too except I would also have a really long straw going to the wine bottle.


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Fully updated to include the most recent research and theoretical developments in the field, the third edition of Identity in Adolescence examines the two way interaction of individual and social context in the process of identity formation. Setting the developmental tradition in context, Jane…
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The concept of identity is one of the most important ideas the social sciences have investigated in recent years, yet no introductory textbooks are available to those who want to gain a sense of this burgeoning field. The first of its kind, this text provides an introduction to the scientific study…
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Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition presents the basic principles of classical (Pavlovian) and instrumental (Skinnerian) conditioning in a more coherent and expansive manner than is the case in other textbooks. Learning is defined as an adaptive process through which individuals acquire the…
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This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive 'recreational' drug…
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The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it highlights European perspectives and also provides unique coverage of the topic by…
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Jackson Rathbone, the "Twilight" actor that plays vampire Jasper Hale, has married his longtime girlfriend Sheila Hafsadi!
The 28-year-old actor tied the knot to the burlesque star in Malibu on Sunday in front of around 150 guests.
The wedding was small, consisting of just family and friends.
Jackson and Sheila, who are parents to an adorable son Monroe born in July of last year, took to Twitter to thank fans for their sweet well-wishes.
Jackson Rathbone tweeted, "Thank you ALL for the love & support! Sheila & I couldn't be happier to have such a beautiful, healthy baby boy, Monroe Jackson Rathbone VI. Feeling so blessed! What an amazing day! Love and respect, Bone Daddy."
Jackson met Sheila while he was touring with his band 100 Monkeys. He previously spoke about meeting his now-wife for the first time, seeing her at the venue next door to his former band's gig. He said, "It was one of those things. I always said I believed in love at first sight, but I never really had that feeling before."
Even before getting married, Rathbone discussed his strong commitment with Sheila. He told People magazine, "Honestly, at the end of the day, you don't need a piece of paper to say you are in love. We are dedicated completely to one another."
Jackson and Sheila have 15-month-old Monroe and hope to have more children.
He said of being a daddy, "One of the greatest things I could expect to be in life is a father".
Jackson, who plays a member of the Cullen family in the "Twilight" series, added that his own father has been a wonderful guide on parenting. He said, "I have one of the greatest dads in the world. He's been giving me great advice".
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interesting MySQL query/view query :s
I want to create a view of a list of members that haven't given us specific details yet, but I want a fake column to exist in the view that will change according to the value of one and/or two other columns to indicate where the problem lies.
The list of members among other things keeps track of a BOS and a UCAS number; the default for each is 0000 in case a member doesn't have either with them when they sign up.
If a member's UCAS is set to 0000 I want the field prob to be set to UCAS. If the member's BOS is set to 0000 I want the field prob to be set to BOS. And if both UCAS and BOS are set to 0000 then the prob field should be set to UCAS and BOS.
I want this to be MySQL specific if possible, cos I like to do a lot of stuff on the command line, and don't want to have to rely on PHP to find out what user has what problem.
Does anyone have any ideas?
that's pretty simple if i'm reading you right, just use a case statement to progress through different options... http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...statement.html
SELECT CASE WHEN ucas = '0000' THEN ucas WHEN bos = '0000' THEN bos ELSE 'something else' END AS newfield FROM ....
Perhaps this will explain a little better
I have a table:
What I want is to create a view that would output the following:
Does that help?
ok, so just modify what i gave you above then, with each outcome covered.
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Upright dense racemes of pure white, bell-shaped flowers appear in late spring. These are carried on stout stems and have a delicious fragrance.
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LECANTO — One hundred thousand Post-It Notes lined up end-to-end would form a line longer than the Gandy Bridge. Now, the same number of those sticky, colorful squares cover a huge billboard in New York's Grand Central Terminal.
Today, as part of Post-It Note's 30th anniversary celebration, 3M will unveil the behemoth installation, designed by two Citrus County students and built by a New York artist with 100,000 of the neon squares.
Lecanto School of Art rising seniors Ysanne Taylor, 16, of Hernando and Allison Hilgert, 17, of Crystal River submitted a design after 3M put out the contest in April based on the theme, "In 30 Years I Will."
"I thought, 'Okay, this will certainly be interesting. We've never quite made anything like this before,' " Taylor said Monday.
Taylor and Hilgert, who won $2,500 each and traveled to New York to attend the unveiling, said their design came from the knowledge that today's world is not their own.
"The generation before us created the world we're in now," Taylor said. "In the next 30 years, we don't know where we'll be, but it will be a world we created."
The billboard, which will be in place through Friday, shows a woman, whom the girls call "Mother Creativity," creating cities, wildlife and people from her outstretched finger.
"Our creativity will form our world," Hilgert sad. "So we expressed that through our medium."
That medium being Post-It Notes.
The artist who created the billboard has fitting credentials for the world's largest Post-It Note installation: Eric Daigh, a New York conceptual artist, holds the Guinness World Records title for "Largest Pushpin Mosaic."
The teens' creative process began when a family friend told Taylor about the contest. Taylor invited her best friend, Hilgert, and they began to plan.
They spent weeks discussing concepts, sketching ideas and examining materials — hundreds of Post-It Notes provided for free by 3M — before launching into their creation.
Early one May morning, Polly Fladmark-Hilgert, Allison's mother and an artist herself, found the floor of her Crystal River studio covered in Post-It Notes of all shapes, sizes and color.
"We were ripping and cutting and shaping, layering and building it up," Hilgert said. "A lot of it was experimentation."
The project's problems came from the Post-It Notes themselves, Taylor said.
"The colors were very bright, very fluorescent, and that can work against you," Taylor said. "We had to figure out how to make that work for us."
The other challenge? The adhesive, the part of Post-It Notes 3M has recently advertised with Super Sticky Notes, the brand's newest super-sticky product.
Taylor said the mural could be created using only the Post-It Note adhesive. No tape, no glue.
But after a day in the studio, the girls had a 3- by 5-foot poster rolled into a tube, ready to ship to 3M. The call came a month later.
Hilgert was helping her mother paint a room when her phone rang. Theirs was the winning entry.
"Oh, my gosh, this is insane, this is so crazy!" she kept saying.
Then she called Taylor.
Taylor had ignored a call to her own phone because she thought the caller was a telemarketer.
When not with the 3M creative team or the media in New York, the girls have been out on their own. They've spent most of their time wandering the streets of New York, eating food and visiting "lots of art museums."
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Exmouth Town head for Wells with nothing to lose and everything to gain!
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Exmouth Town head for Wells City on Saturday for a 2nd Qualifying Round FA Vase tie.
At stake is a home game in Round One when the opposition will be one of two more Toolstation league sides, Bridport or Sherborne Town.
Wells City began their season with a 3-1 opening day home defeat at the hands of Hallen and then lost 2-1 in a midweek visit to Bridport before making FA Cup progress with a last minute goal to beat Barnstaple Town by the odd goal in five on August 11th.
A week later they were thumped 4-1 at Melksham Town in a league game and lost the following week, knocked out of the FA Cup by South West Peninsula League side Bodmin Town.
September began with an amazing 6-0 home league win over Bitton and a week later they put four without reply past visiting Barnstaple Town.
On Wednesday night, whilst Town were beating Newton Abbot Spurs 3-2 at Southern Road, Wells were also in league action. They lost 4-2 at Cadbury Heath where both their goals were scored by this season's leading score in their ranks, those, his seventh and eighth goals of the season.
Town boss Richard Pears says: "Pound for pound they should beat us; they are a level above us and any side that puts six unanswered goals past any Bitton side has to be a tidy one. That said it's the cup, not just any cup either for at non-league level this is the biggest cup competition of them all. It's a one-off for us in as much as we have absolutely nothing to lose and can go there without any fear. If we get beat it'll be more a case of 'told you so', but, if the players rise to the occasion and spring a surprise then they will deservedly grab all the headlines. We have a clean bill of health and are being well supported up there with a large number of travelling Town supporters to whom we are very grateful. Let's hope we give them all something to be cheerful about on the journey home."


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Homegrown talent C.J. Wilson and the Chicago Bears continue their preseason tonight when they travel to Oakland to take on the Raiders at 10 o'clock tonight.
Wilson, a 2008 graduate of Lincolnton High, currently has six solo tackles in two preseason games as he tries to work his way onto the team's 53-man regular-season roster.
Wilson had four tackles in his professional debut at the Carolina Panthers, then added two more last week against the San Diego Chargers.
Wilson's six solo tackles are tied for the most on the team, and his six total tackles are tied for third.
BANDYS 4, LINCOLN CHARTER 1: At Bandys, the Eagles fell behind early and couldn't catch up in the non-conference match on Thursday.
Agusto Moron scored on an assist by Cory Martin in the final minute of the match. Lincoln Charter goalkeeper Isaiah Smith had three saves. The teams equaled each other in shots on goal with 13.
Heptzel Santos scored twice for the Trojans. (2-1).
The Eagles (1-1) host Christ the King on Tuesday.
BANDYS 1, LINCOLN CHARTER 1: At Bandys, the Eagles tied with the Trojans in a non-conference match. Josh Watson scored for Lincoln Charter (1-0-1).
WEST LINCOLN 8, HIGHLAND TECH 1: Singles –– 1. Olivia Godfrey (WL) d. Hannah Payne 8-0, 2. Skylar Greer (WL) d. Victoria Rule 8-2, 3. Lily Rollins (WL) d. Lily Lastinger 8-3, 4. Bryanna Powell (WL) d. Megan Yarbro 8-1, 5. Kylee Leonhardt (WL) d. Kaci McDaniel 8-0, 6. Brittany Heavner (WL) d. Katie Purello 8-0.
Doubles –– 1. Godfrey-Greer (WL) d. Payne-Rule 10-4, 2. Leonhardt-Weaver (WL) d. Lastinger-Yarbro 10-1, 3. Purello-Kayla Dearman (HT) d. Keltsey Walker-Taylor McCumber 10-6.
Records: WL 1-0, travel to E. Gaston on Thursday.
SOUTH IREDELL 3, NORTH LINCOLN 0: At North Lincoln, the Knights fell in their North Piedmont 3A/4A Conference opener. No other details were reported.
North Lincoln (2-1, 1-0) travels to Alexander Central on Tuesday.
MAIDEN 3, WEST LINCOLN 0: At West Lincoln, the Rebels fell in their Southern District 7 Athletic 2A Conference opener. No other details were reported.
West Lincoln (0-3, 0-1) travels to Lincolnton on Tuesday.
NEWTON-CONOVER 3, LINCOLNTON 0: At Newton-Conover, the Wolves fell in their SD-7 opener. No other details were reported.
Lincolnton (0-2, 0-1) hosts West Lincoln on Tuesday.
NORTH LINCOLN 3, WEST LINCOLN 0: At West Lincoln, the Knights won the non-conference game on Wednesday. Set scores were 25-10, 25-21 and 25-18.
Savannah Dishman had four kills and Olivia Loeffler had six kills. The Knights had 12 aces as a team. No details were reported by West Lincoln.
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Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League and student body Cosas must explain their "disparaging" comments about Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, the ruling party said oQn Monday.
"The secretary general of the ANC comrade Gwede Mantashe has therefore summoned the ANCYL and Cosas to explain their remarks on the public protector," African National Congress spokesman Jackson Mthembu said in a statement.
On Monday, Beeld reported that Congress of SA Students (Cosas) secretary general Tshiamo Tsotetsi labelled Madonsela "that woman with the big, ugly nose" at a gathering near Brits.
The crowd, consisting mainly of National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members and ANC Majakaneng, used vulgarities in expressing their anger at Madonsela on Sunday.
"F*** off Nkandla report, f*** off", and "F*** off Madonsela, f*** off", the crowd shouted, according to the newspaper.
On Thursday, the ANCYL said: "Madonsela must finish up with this Nkandla mess then go."
It further said she was poisoning the public against the ANC.
Madonsela came under fire last week after releasing her report on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's private Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal.
Mthembu said the disparaging comments about Madonsela by the youth league and Cosas was in contrast with the ANC's own views.
"The remarks made and the sentiments expressed do not reflect the views of the ANC and are in contrast with the manner in which we… would expect members of the organisation to conduct themselves in debate," he said.
"The ANC reaffirms its support and confidence in the institutions established by our Constitution to protect and strengthen our democratic order. The office of the public protector is an integral component of this machinery."
Mthembu called on citizens to question Madonsela's report before making a judgement.
"We once again call upon on all South Africans to subject the public protector's report, not the public protector, to objective assessment and scrutiny in order to reach informed judgement." - Sapa


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Just when you thought you'd seen every awesome sports mascot ever, allow us present the Deutsche Eishockey Liga mascot, "Sharky."
Sharky is the official mascot of the Kölner Haie (Cologne Sharks), and he just might be the best break-dancing giant shark we've ever seen...
With about two laps to go in the AdvoCare 500, NASCAR Driver Jeff Gordon crashed into fellow driver Clint Bowyer. The bump sent Bowyer into the wall and sparked one of the greatest NASCAR fights of all-time -- in the pits!
Last week, a Minnesota high school soccer match between Totino-Grace and Prairie Seeds Academy was supposed to decide who would move on in the State Class A tournament, but instead, the game was marred by an epic brawl.
We're pretty sure every NFL stadium has at least five fights during a game. The fights usually have little to do with what's going on on the field.
Normally, NFL tailgates include a mobile stripper pole but it appears that one Chicago Bears tailgate near Soldier Field feel it's the perfect pre-game pump up for fans of stripping, and possibly, football.
Calling all high school football referees! Let the above video be a lesson -- keep your eye on the ball at all times!
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Originally Posted by ShazzerAs the box falls down to the undefeated, ever chubbier Kororians, I think to myself that this might mark the first season of Survivor where people actually need Jenny Craig post show.
the Ulongians catch on that theyve been defeated again when the little plane continues to fly by, never slowing down even long enough to drop a fictitious, inflatable middle finger.
Jens answer: Sometimes, which in women-speak means, hell yes, you mo fo!
Jeff evilly baits the Ulongians by asking them how their fishing trip went, knowing full well they caught Nemo while the Kororians gorged on Jaws.
The Ulongians listen to their fatter opponents and look appropriately bitch slapped by the news. Jeff is the bitch behind the slap,
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Gerard Butler 'in good health'
Gerard Butler has "returned home and is in good health" following his visit to rehab.
The 42-year-old Scottish actor entered the Betty Ford Clinic in California three weeks ago.
It has been claimed the star decided to seek professional help after developing a problem with prescription medication.
Gerard has reportedly been released and has returned to vigour.
"Gerard has completed a successful course of treatment and has returned home in good health," Gerard's representative Rupert Fowler told Radar Online. "We will not be making any further comment at this time."
Gerard is not thought to be addicted to pain medication, but was reportedly worried things might escalate if he didn't take steps to stop using the pills.
Gerard has previously hinted he had a problem with alcohol. He used to drink a lot but now doesn't partake in any such beverages.
"I used to drink until I couldn't remember anything. I was just mad for it and on a death wish. It was madness," he told The Red Bulletin publication.
"One or two drinks was never enough for me. I was a foot-on-the-floor-all-the-way drinker, so it had to go. I don't miss it."
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Amritsar, July 9 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party had a two-day state level executive meet here to plan the strategy for the parliamentary elections due next year.
The presence of the national chief of the BJP Rajnath Singh and the Akali Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal during the discussions has given an indication that the BJP is planning to ensure victory in elections to the three Lok Sabha seats of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur, and also work in tandem with alliance partner SAD (B) in rest of the ten Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.
One of the primary concerns of the party is the removal of irritants within the SAD-BJP alliance on various issues.
Both party chiefs, Rajnath Singh and Prakash Singh Badal reiterated that there were no differences within the alliance. Rajnath Singh not only asked the party leaders and workers to spread out amongst the masses and take the party's policies and programs to the public, but stated that BJP leaders should not be bugged by the 'VIP culture'.
"Reach out to the people. The next elections are crucial and those would set the course of the history for country. We will emerge as largest party in the parliament," he stated.
He expressed confidence that new BJP team in state led by President Kamal Sharma and Vice President Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina would deliver the desired results. He said the party's rank and file must pull up their sleeve and work for the party's success in the next polls.
Rajnath Singh criticized the Congress-led UPA Government for corruption, misgovernance, inflation and downslide in the economy.
"This government in the Centre needs to be replaced and we will do so," he stated.
Rajnath Singh said that the Punjab BJP would, besides concentrating more on three seats it will contest as per the alliance arrangements, will also work hard for the alliance. "We will take every seat in the state seriously. We are in alliance and work equally hard for the seats to be fought by the SAD (B), said Kamal Sharma.
The present party MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, representing the Amritsar seat, has been staying away from the constituency for long periods, which has embarrassed the party leadership.
"He is our talented leader and we will use him where required," said Rajnath Singh.
The Amritsar seat which is largely composed of Sikh voters usually had BJP's Sikh face. Earlier, it was Daya Singh Sodhi, then Navjot Singh Sidhu. Some Sikh candidate would be seriously considered if Navjot Sidhu opts out to contest from somewhere else, says party sources.
Some reports in the media have indicated that Sidhu may not contest from Amritsar as he felt that he was being sidelined from the party affairs.
Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal reiterated the strong bonds between SAD and BJP, and said each would lend support to their partners in rural as well as urban areas of Punjab. By Ravinder Singh Robin (ANI)


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A lorry load of fodder donated by farmers in the Aberystwyth area has been sent to Somerset to feed livestock on a farm struck by the recent floods.The load of silage was delivered from a collection point at Aberystwyth livestock market directly to a farm more than 160 miles away at Stoke St Gregory, near Taunton. Donors Dafydd and Delyth Jones, of Brynceiro, Ponterwyd, also co-ordinated the deliveries from the other farmers including John Hughes, Pencwm, Penrhyncoch; Dafydd Jenkins, Tanrallt, Talybont; Glyn Rowlands, Creignant, Bontgoch; James Raw, Tyllwyd, Cwmystwyth; Emyr Davies, Llety Ifan Hen, Bontgoch; and Julian Fenwick, Llynlloedd, Machynlleth.
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Cefin Evans, of Cwmwythig Farm adjoining the collection point at Lovesgrove, loaded the bales on to the lorry generously donated by D J Thomas a'i Feibion, of Lampeter, and driven by Richie Richards, of Aberaeron.Farmers' Union of Wales Ceredigion county executive officer Caryl Wyn-Jones said: "We are working closely with the official co-ordinator for fodder in Somerset as the procedure has now changed. Instead of fodder going to Sedgemoor Market it is now being transported directly to the farms in need of fodder. "We have also set up a special fund to collect donations to help pay for diesel and haulage costs. If anybody wishes to make a contribution, cheques can be made out to 'Apêl FUW Somerset' and sent to any FUW office. "A total of five loads have gone to help farmers in Somerset from Ceredigion with another five loads currently being organised in south Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. All donations of fodder and money are greatly appreciated by us, and the farmers in Somerset struggling to feed their animals." Farmers able to donate fodder and hauliers able to provide transport to make deliveries to Somerset can contact FUW's Ceredigion county chairman Aled Rees on 01239 810379 / 07968 386039 or via email: firstname.lastname@example.com load from the Boncath area left this morning for a farm in Lanport and a load from Coedybryn, Llandysul, is due to be delivered tomorrow to a farm in Wells, with more loads going at the weekend.That makes six loads of fodder weighing a total of 145 tons from West Wales that Mr Rees has arranged for delivery.
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Regarding the Jan. 19 editorial "Revitalizing rural Japan": The depopulation of Japan is a cultural/social problem caused by the Japanese male. Let's face it, Japanese women don't want to marry a man who looks down on them, treats them with disrespect and tells them they should do only as they're told. I live in a very rural community and it's even worse here.
Many sons of Japanese farmers must go outside Japan and pay for a woman who will marry them. In many cases, these women are from China and the Philippines. The women are brought to Japan for the purpose of having a child for the family and working themselves to death on the farms. Life is a living hell for some, but it is better than where the women came from in most cases.
Japanese women want nothing to do with Japanese men who expect to be waited on at home, hand and foot, 24/7. In addition, they resent the man's lifestyle of staying out as he pleases, coming home drunk and not being engaged in raising the children.
If Japan wants to increase its population, then the male Japanese is going to have to change and accept women as equals. It's just that simple. Until this happens, many single Japanese men will have to live at home with their mothers taking care of them.
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PALS (Persons Affected by a Loved One's Suicide) will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday on the second floor of the Ruse Building, above the emergency room at Blanchard Valley Hospital.
The group is free and open to all those grieving the death of a loved one from suicide, and is professionally facilitated by Century Health.
Speakers and a small lending library are also available.
Upcoming sessions are scheduled for June 26 and July 24. For more information call Nancy Stephani at Century Health at 419-425-5050.


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We're not sure we've often seen a story reported in such close detail as the Inquirer's series of stories about the sting operation that targeted Philly Democrats with under-the-table cash payments, along with Attorney General Kathleen Kane's decision not to prosecute any cases resulting from that operation. While the framework has stayed the same, each story — drawn from case summaries and interviews — has added a new layer of detail.
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5) What is your age and gender?
6) What pace do you run your long runs?
7) What is your goal?
Worst case 3:59:59
Best case?
8) Caviats
I am a 6'-6" 225lb Clyde - a lot of mass to carry that far.
My gut feel is to pace 9:00 for the first 2-3 miles and then use HR to gauge a proper pace. Most of my training runs are by feel anyways. Last marathon I pace fixed to time (9:09) and noticed my HR was ~80% MaxHR most of the middle miles (3-18) and felt just about right.
I've always faded so I tend to go conservative on pace now to avoid blowing up rather than getting my absolute best possible time. There is too fine of a line for me. Drop dead worst case is sub 4:00:00 as I have been chasing that for years....but would love to hear what you think my conservative best case would be if I pushed it a little.


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For the second time in three nights, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band left a packed MetLife Stadium exhilarated. Once again, the Boss brought his fans to the brink of exhaustion, playing every selection with the intensity of a finale. Breaks were again mere breaths, and there was often more song left after the false ending — there's always a false ending — than there was before.
Yet there was much about Friday's show — the second of three scheduled for the Meadowlands, with another coming tomorrow — that differed from Wednesday's concert. This performance was shorter (although still long by anybody else's standard) and the pace was brisker. At the first show, Bruce Springsteen was often introspective, lost in emotion, haunted by those ghosts that he's talked so much about on the Wrecking Ball Tour. The second concert was lively from the start, and caught the Boss in jocular entertainer mode.
The show was also designed to delight the devoted — the Springsteen aficionados who've seen scores of concerts and are always thrilled to get something novel, or at least rare. The Boss opened the concert with "Living on the Edge of the World," a deep cut from the "Tracks" collection, and an alternate, upbeat version of the stark "Open All Night" from "Nebraska." He messed up the words, but he was straight out the chute like a cannonball, and no minor wobble could alter his trajectory or dampen his spirits. The band dug "Mary's Place" and "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" from deep in the repertoire, and delivered outstanding versions of both. Gary "U.S." Bonds, the vintage R&B singer whose career was revived in the '80s through E Street support, emerged from the shadows to sing "Jole Blon" — a sign request — and "This Little Girl." Springsteen made like a comedian during the breakdown section of "Talk To Me," mugged with Little Steven during an encore version of "Ramrod," and stomped his way through his most rousing rendition of the banker-capping "Death to My Hometown" yet.
Album tracks were played harder, faster, and wilder than their recorded versions. "No Surrender" was a fast-moving thunderhead; "This Depression," a rarely-aired cut from "Wrecking Ball," hit with force that put its somewhat listless recorded version to shame. "Lost in the Flood," one of Springsteen's first epics, climaxed in a magnificent, sabre-edged guitar solo by the Boss and dazzling piano filigree from Roy Bittan. Really, everybody in the band had a highlight tonight: backing vocalist Cindy Mizelle again fired the house up on "Shackled and Drawn," Charlie Giordano took an organ ride on "Hungry Heart" that felt like summer on Route 35; Everett Bradley was a dervish on the congas on "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd St," Max Weinberg leveled "Out in the Street." Another hero of these first two shows has been trumpeter Barry Danielian, an imaginative player with a tone as bright as a freshly minted penny. He's got a good sense of humor, too: he slyly tucked the riff from "Atlantic City" into "My City of Ruins."
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Although in recent years there has been an overall drop in noise complaints attributable to regional aviation traffic, Winchester City Council continues to work with Southampton International Airport to minimise noise pollution where possible. Council officers attend the airport's Technical Working Group, which meets three times per annum to consult on airport operational matters that may affect the local communities of Eastleigh, Southampton and Winchester. This group feeds into the airport's Consultative Committee, where operational issues, such as environmental noise, are tabled for discussion by the membership. The Committee consists of local political and community stakeholders, including Winchester City Council which holds two seats, one of which is currently allocated to Winchester Air Group (WAG).
The Agenda and Minutes for the Southampton Airport Consultative Committee can be found Eastleigh Borough Council's web pages as the host authority.
If you wish to make a complaint about aircraft noise, you can do so direct to Southampton International Airport through one of the following media:
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Scimitar Tank
Scimitar Tank
The Scimitar belongs to the family of full track chassis and lightweight armoured military vehicles. It was designed and built in order to fulfill a wide range of military roles and saw its first deployment to the Battlefield in 1970 primarily as an armoured reconnaissance tank.
The Scimitar can be operated by a crew of 3 men and it can reach a top speed of almost 90 km/h. The original vehicle was powered by the Jaguar gasoline engine and can be used in order to defeat small military vehicles and lightly armoured targets. The tank can be operated by the driver, the gunner and the commander.
Scimitar Tank Armament
The main Scimitar armament consists of a 30mm (L21 RARDEN) cannon. The cannon can fire a range of projectiles, which include: incendiary, high explosive and armour piercing projectiles. The cannon can reach a fire rate of 50 rounds per hour and over 165 rounds can be stored.The cannon can be fired in single shot or automatic modes when mounted together with the co-axial GPMG.
Its secondary armament consists of a7.62-mm coaxial machine gun(L94A1 Chain Gun), which provides a rapid fire rate of 125 rounds per minute. The vehicle can store over 2000 rounds of 7.62 ammunition. Smoke grenade launchers can be installed in order to lunch the necessary smoke screens.
Fire Control and Observation
The gunner and the commander will be provided with day sights. These day sights are improved with several magnifications of x1 and x10. But gunner will also be provided with the so-called passive night sight in order to increase the protection of its crew. He will be able to spot and identify the enemy target during nighttime without risking his life. The night sight can also be upgraded to the thermal sight by using the laser rangefinder.
Scimitar Tank Upgrades
The upgraded versions of the Scimitar were provided with the superior Cummins 5.9-liter diesel. This upgrade was included in the so-called life extension program in order for this vehicle to be improved. Scimitar was based on the same successful line of all the Scorpio chassis systems that are used for the operations performed by the British military forces and by some of the export countries. The latest Scimitar is armed with the 30mm gun in order to supplant the light observation and its reconnaissance role on every type of battlefield. The entire system of this vehicle is designed in order to provide the crew with increased agility and mobility on the battlefield. The treads are fit with the road wheels per side in order for the system to become more effective. A very small profile is guaranteed and the driver will sit right in the front left together with the commander and the vehicle's gunner.
Battlefield Deployment
This system was already used and has proven its efficiency in the Bosnian conflict when the troops were using the Scimitar when in combat.
Scimitar remains the main reconnaissance vehicle that can be used in order to provide its crew with an armoured protection. This vehicle can be used in order to provide accurate and timely information when it comes to the enemy fire and disposition. It can help the troops to find everything about the possible intentions and strengths of the enemy. The crew will be protected and provided with the necessary and safe environment in order to find and fix the possible problems on the battlefield. These impressive results can be achieved thanks to the light and armoured protection that can be provided by the Scimitar.
The aggressive use of this military vehicle is likely to be limited by its small firepower. This restriction is extremely helpful when dealing with difficult combat conditions. The key element when it comes to the Scimitar is its increased mobility on the battlefield. It has a very low ground pressure and its relatively small size can transform this vehicle into a highly useful military device that can be used in order to reach the most remote combat areas. Scimitar can be used in order to provide the necessary and additional firepower. It can also provide its crew with an armoured protection by leaving aside the standard logistic burden that is usually associated with the larger armoured vehicles.
Self Protection
Scimitar has provided its crew with an increased survivability rate because its armour is quite resistant when dealing with roadside bombs and mines. Its armoured protection has played its role quite well when on the trial periods. For instance, the operations in Iraq, Bosnia and Island have used these vehicles in operations that turned out to be a real success. The light armour is extremely effective when dealing with difficult combat conditions and the crew will be protected from shock waves. For instance, the armour of the Scimitar was designed and built in order to withstand the grenades and the small arms.
Additional protection comes from the crew's ability to make the best use of everything they know when it comes to tactical and skillful handling of this relatively small military vehicle. The crew will make the best use of the ground in order to protect theitr lives and the design of this vehicle will help them to achieve their combat goals. The current armoured protection is likely to be enhanced by adding and fitting the appliqué armour. This additional feature will increase the survivability and mobility of the crew. But this vehicle can also be equipped with the Battle group Thermal Imaging in order to boost its performance in the combat situations.
The suspension of the Scimitar belongs to the torsion bar type and it has 5 rubber coated wheels that can be used for road operations. The ground clearance of the Scimitar is of 0.35 m.
The design of this vehicle is also provided with the drive wheel and idler but the following upgrades are likely to include some modifications of this initial structure. For instance, the upgraded Scimitar will come along with a full package that will contain the auxiliary power unit, the secondary generator that will be used for the standby battery charging, the turret fume extractor, the new sight turrets, the automatic fire suppressions, the better engine cooling system, the laser rangefinder, the externally and highly effective mounted machine guns, the driver's new and passive night scope, the upgraded sensors, the larger storage bins and the upgraded communication equipments. All these upgrades will be optional ones but they will not modify the basic design of the Scimitar.
The general rule states that the UK armoured vehicles are provided with an effective forced air system. Therefore, the crew is able to lock down in the CBRN environment. This is the main reason why the armoured vehicles are fully equipped with the boiling vessel BV in order for the crew to be able to make hot drinks and to cook when isolated. The center of the commander's seat has a hole that can be used as a toilet for the emergency situations and the Scimitar is not an exception from this rule and design.
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