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Character's Name: Jimmy Monkley
Release Date: January 3, 1936
Director: George Cukor
Studio: RKO Radio
Running Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Katharine Hepburn (Sylvia Scarlett), Cary Grant (Jimmy Monkley),
Brian Aherne (Michael Fane), Edmund Gwenn (Henry Scarlett), Natalie
Paley (Lily), Dennie Moore (Maudie Tilt)
- by Marsha
"Sylvia Scarlett" (even though it doesn't have
much in common with the very interesting novel it is based on) is a very good and
surprisingly dark movie.
The heroine, Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn), changes her sex
and becomes "Sylvester" when she and her improvident father relocate from France
to England. On the packet they meet Arthur (Cary Grant), a Cockney thief and con-man. It is
a very atypical role for Grant. There is nothing polished, high-class, urbane, or even
really charming about Arthur. He is a crook, unscrupulous and realistic. When her father
(not a very moral character himself) and Arthur join forces, Sylvia-Sylvester (Arthur
finds out about her sex), is forced to work with them. After a number of schemes (such as
begging money under the pretence of a lonely orphan), all of which fail either because of
lack of skill or Sylvia's scruples, Arthur, Sylvia (still in her male guise), Sylvia's
father and a chambermaid who becomes his mistress form a traveling theater group. During
one of their performances, they meet Michael, a young and fairly well-off young artist,
who wants "Sylvester" to pose for him. Sylvia falls in love with him, but he
doesn't take her seriously, even when he finds out she is a girl. Another complication is
Michael's beautiful, self-destructive and cruel fiancée. When after a break-up with
Michael, she tries to commit suicide and is fished out by Arthur and Sylvia, Sylvia
decides that her life won't be ruined the way Sylvia's was. (She just accepted a proposal
from Arthur, even though they don't love one another). The problem is, the fiancée runs
off with Arthur, and Michael and Sylvia set out to recover them. After an eventual journey
they catch up with the runaways, but each is strangely reluctant to confront them.
Michael thinks Sylvia wants Arthur back, and Sylvia thinks Michael wants his fiancée back.
However, they cannot bring themselves to go to the runaways (who are on the same train
with them), and realize they love one another. They jump off the train and you see them
kissing, while the camera shows Arthur looking at the scene out of the window and laughing
at the fiancée's assertion that Michael would love to have her back.
This movie is mainly Katharine Hepburn's. She portrays a
surprisingly engaging and wistful girl. Sometimes you almost hurt for her. But Cary Grant
(though this is one of the rare movies where he doesn't get the girl) is also very good in
a such unusual for him role. It is a surprisingly stark and realistic movie, rather grim.
The crime life is stripped of its glamour, and the pitifulness of the troupe's existence is
also exposed. And the scene where Sylvia's father realizes the chambermaid left him for a
richer lover is one of the most heart wrenching and chilling scenes I've ever seen. Yet,
the scene where Michael draws Sylvia's profile in jail is so purely tender. The movie
suffered from the expectations of the viewers' which expected something quite different
(even I was at first taken aback). It is not a screwball comedy, Cary Grant's character is
low class, and it is rather bleak, but it is a wonderful and moving film nevertheless.
VARIETY Film Review - January 15, 1936
- by "Land"
- submitted by Barry Martin
Despite good production values and some strong performances,
'Sylvia Scarlett' is not a reliable candidate for public
favor. The story is hard to get. It is puzzling in its
tangents and sudden jumps plus the almost poetic lines that are
given to Miss Hepburn. At moments the film skirts the border
of absurdity and considerable of its mid-section is downright
As an acting opportunity for the
star the name part is varied and colorful although frequently at
the expense of credulity. Mistake seems to have been in not
sticking to a broad vein of comedy. In the serious passages,
notably the half-crazy jealousy of the father (Edmund Gwenn) for
his young and helter-skelter wife (Dennie Moore) there is little
preparation in the audience's mind for anything so serious as a
Perhaps it is not valid to ask
whether anybody would really fail to suspect the true sex of such
a boy as Miss Hepburn looks and acts. But while carrying
this off well enough she shines brightest and is most likeable in
the transition into womanhood inspired by her meeting with an
artist (Brian Aherne).
Cary Grant, doing a petty English
crook with a Soho accent, practically steals the picture.
This is especially true in the earlier sequences. A scene in
an English mansion to which Miss Hepburn, Grant and Gwenn have
gone for purposes of robbery is dominated by Grant.
Throughout this interlude Miss Hepburn is in the background and
pretty silly pouring herself glass after glass of champagne while
tossing off free verse about the bubbles being pearls that should
be returned to the sea. In other sequences Grant also stands
out. Aherne enters late and never overcomes the
Picture also offers Edmund Gween.
English legit, and Natalie Paley, from Russia and a bona fide
princess, and Dennie More, soubrette from Broadway. Gwenn
will be very useful to casting directors in Hollywood. He
brings plenty of experience and versatility. It may not be
so easy for the princess. Her English isn't too good and
neither is her acting here. Miss Moore will be typed for
goofy dames and shows promise.
Half-whimsical, almost allegorical,
and with the last half having a dream-worldish element that's hard
to define, and equally hard to understand, 'Sylvia Scarlett' will
encounter a cross-drift of indifference to some of its basic plot
situations. Transition of a group of petty crooks into a
troupe of vagabond actors traveling in a two motor coach caravan
is especially harsh upon the credibility of the story.
NEW YORK TIMES Film Review - January
10, 1936
- by Andre Sennwald
- submitted by Barry Martin
Katharine Hepburn dons
trousers, dances gypsy-like on the English countryside and achieves what is
customarily if discouragingly referred to as a personal triumph in her new
film at the Radio City Music Hall. Probably it is unkind to say of
"Sylvia Scarlett" that it begins at 12 sharp and ends at 1:40, and
yet that is precisely its total effect. With what accuracy Compton
Mackenzie's novel has been transferred to the screen this deponent knoweth
not. But the film has a sprawling, confused and unaccented way of telling
its story that might easily be the result of too literal a dramatization of
just that sprawling kind of a book.
Since George Cukor and Pandro S.
Berman are responsible for the film, you can be sure that the
seeds of aspiration are in it. As the awkward, imaginative,
tremulously frustrated heroine of the tale, Miss Hepburn, is on
her home grounds, and she plays the part with a richness of
understanding that compares favorably with her performance in
"Alice Adams." Individual scenes of laughter and
heart-break come through cleanly, but the story and its people
seem purposeless and possess the blurred outlines of shapes that
are being projected through a veil.
In the main, "Sylvia Scarlett"
collects some odd characters and sets them on an odd sort of
vagabond odyssey. When Sylvia's father commits larceny and is
forced to flee France, Sylvia joins him and becomes a boy for the
occasion so as not to be a bother during their flight. They join
up with a raffish cockney, practice a bit of swindling in London,
and then take to the road with a Pierrot show that also includes a
daffy servant-girl whom they have picked up on their travels.
Sylvia's secret passion for a handsome artist finally causes her
to abandon her disguise and attempt to recapture her girlhood. It
is in the bitter-sweet indecisions of her romance with a man who
refuses to take her seriously that Miss Hepburn is at her best.
There are several excellent
performances under Mr. Cukor's management. Edmund Gwenn, of
course, is completely satisfying as the baffled and sanctimonious
father who finally goes mad and wanders on the heath like King
Lear in the overwrought scenes near the end. As the amiably daft
maid-servant, Dennie Moore plays with a freshness and a gift for
humor that should quickly gain her attention in Hollywood. Cary
Grant, whose previous work has too often been that of a charm
merchant, turns actor in the role of the unpleasant cockney and is
surprisingly good at it. As the Bohemian artist, Brian Aherne
assumes a studied carelessness and a heavy jocularity that are of
no vast assistance. There is a good bit by Natalie Paley as a kind
of Russian adventuress who is never quite clarified in the
writing. Something fresh, touching and funny seems to have gone
into "Sylvia Scarlett," but it got caught in the
- by Kathy Fox
This is Cary Grant's
first picture of four with Katharine Hepburn, and this is his 21st film.
At this point in his life, Grant is becoming disenchanted with Paramount
Pictures and in the autumn of 1936 he announces that he will become a
free-lance actor. This was unheard of in this day and age, and Cary
paved the way for other actors to do the same in years to come. He was
loaned out to RKO to do SYLVIA SCARLETT to teach Grant a lesson, but this
turned out to be a turning point in Grant's career. In May of 1937,
Grant signed his semi-exclusive contract with Columbia Pictures to do WHEN
YOU'RE IN LOVE, while at the same time he was offered a role in THE TOAST OF
NEW YORK by RKO. He would work at Columbia during the day and film at
RKO at night, while receiving the same salary he had made at Paramount.
SYLVIA SCARLETT, is a disjointed picture with loosely held plots about a
cockney Jimmy Monkley (Grant) a con-man who meets up with Sylvester (Sylvia)
Scarlett (Hepburn) playing a man, and her father Henry (Edmond Gwenn) who
are fleeing Marseilles after Henry has stolen money from the lace company
where he works. The three get together and form a con operation.
Hepburn poses as a boy until she finds out she has fallen for Michael Fane
(Brian Aherne) and exposes her real identity. Grant has fallen for
Fane's girl and Sylvia has fallen for Michael Fane. In the end, each
gets the person he/she desires. Grant's humble beginnings enables him
to play Monkley as if he were born for the part, which in a way, he was.
The film did not do that well, but paved the way for the Grant to become the
great actor that he was destined to become.
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- The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine Institute of Medicine: obesity round table action guide.
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The Reds are going with a dollar menu at Great American Ballpark this year:
It might seem just like a fast-food restaurant when you walk into Great American Ball Park for a Reds game this season.
The Cincinnati Reds' concessionaire is launching a value menu, offering a few food and drink items for a dollar.
"We realize the need to create more value," said Don Dierig, general manager for Sportservice at Great American.
Fans will be able to pay a buck for any of six items: hot dog, soda, peanuts, popcorn, ice cream or Redlegs Chew candy, Dierig said. The items are smaller than the standard that sell for $3.50 or so. For example, the hot dog is "one size smaller" than the standard dog, Dierig said. It's one-tenth of a pound, vs. the standard size that's one-sixth of a pound and sells for $4.50 at the stadium.
I've been beaten up around here in the past for screwing up on math, so tell me if I mess this up, but the way I figure it, the Reds will be charging 78% less than the original price for a hot dog that is 40% smaller than the typical size. That's a real deal, so unless they limit the number of Value Dogs per person, they may eliminate the market for their full priced dogs. If they do limit the number, however, it may create a Value Dog black market.
So I guess what I'm saying is, there will be uncontrolled chaos at Great American Ballpark this summer.
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Dusty sez: "Clog your arteries, not the bases."
"So I guess what I'm saying is, there will be uncontrolled chaos at Great American Ballpark this summer."
You sound like Dusty Baker talking about Wily Taveras. As a Reds fan, I think I just threw up in my mouth….
C'mon, Craig – Don't you remember "The Change Bank?"
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The slow-motion Japanese Fukushima reactor debacle has sent ripples worldwide, with Germany, Switzerland and Italy all now deciding to exit nuclear power.
The downturn in European interest in nuclear energy has now impacted Australia, the world's third largest exporter of uranium oxide after Canada and Kazakhstan.
There are currently five operating uranium mines in Australia producing roughly 10,000 tons of ore in 2010, worth over $1.6 billion.
Several uranium explorers listed on Australia's Stock Exchange watched their share price fall following the 13 June Italian referendum rejected nuclear power, with both Paladin Energy and Energy Resources of Australia losing market value, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Toro Energy, Extract Resources, Marathon Resources, Marengo Mining and Bannerman Resources also lost market share, with many of the companies seeing their market capitalization more than halve since the 11 March Fukushima disaster began to unfold.
Toro Energy managing director Greg Hall nevertheless remained upbeat despite the bad news from Rome, telling reporters about the Italian referendum, ''It has a high impact publicly, and on the short-term perceptions of the market … but it has very little impact on long-term uranium supply; in fact, virtually none.''
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Country: Germany
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Abteilung Gesundheitsökonomie, Universitat Ulm
Gesundheitswesen 61:13-9. 1999..However, the influence of sickness funds on the care process as well as the equity of care may be negatively affected...
- [Managed care in Germany: legal and economic aspects of its transferability]H H Konig
Universitat Ulm, Abteilung Gesundheitsökonomie
Gesundheitswesen 61:274-9. 1999..However, for a structural reform of the statutory health insurance system based on the principles of managed care, both the legal basis and the sociopolitical acceptance are still lacking...
- [Common effect measures in medical and health economics studies? Results of an exploratory survey of physicians]H H Konig
Abteilung Gesundheitsökonomie, Universitat Ulm
Med Klin (Munich) 94:665-72. 1999..This study investigates whether physicians accept the various methodological steps of the calculation of QALYs and whether effect measures that result from these steps are useful in clinical studies, too...
- [Cost effectiveness of mass orthoptic screening in kindergarten for early detection of developmental vision disorders]H H Konig
Abteilung Gesundheitsökonomie, Universitat Ulm
Gesundheitswesen 62:196-206. 2000..Orthoptic screening in the kindergarten is one option to improve early detection of amblyopia in children aged 3 years. The purpose of this study was to analyse the cost-effectiveness of such a screening programme in Germany...
- Economic evaluation of different methods of screening for amblyopia in kindergartenHans Helmut Konig
Department of Health Economics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Pediatrics 109:e59. 2002..6 (20/32); C) same as A, plus cover tests and examination of eye motility and head posture; D) same as C, but pass threshold > or =0.6 (20/32); and E) refractive screening without cycloplegia using the Nikon Retinomax autorefractor...
- Economic evaluation of orthoptic screening: results of a field study in 121 German kindergartensHans Helmut Konig
Department of Health Economics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 43:3209-15. 2002..The purpose of this study was to analyze the cost-effectiveness of an orthoptic screening program in kindergarten children...
- Validation of the EuroQol questionnaire in patients with inflammatory bowel diseaseHans Helmut Konig
Department of Health Economics, University of Ulm, Germany
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 14:1205-15. 2002..The purpose of the study was to analyse the construct validity, criterion validity, test-retest reliability and responsiveness of the EQ-5D in patients with inflammatory bowel disease...
- [Resource utilisation and cost of amblyopia treatment]Hans Helmut Konig
Abteilung Gesundheitsökonomie, Universitat Ulm
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Most Americans wouldn't be able to determine what Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan have in common.
They are, in fact, the four countries that are on the State Department's list of "state sponsors of terrorism." Not only does this designation of Cuba on the terrorist list affect our overall relationship with our island neighbor, it also affects our relationship with the Western Hemisphere, and the rest of the world, who do not see Cuba as a terrorist threat.
At the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, that took place on April 14-15, the rest of the Americas made it quite clear that without a change in our relationship with Cuba, another summit would not happen. If we are truly sincere about improving our relationship with Cuba, as President Barack Obama has maintained, the right place to start would be re-examining the designation of Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Cuba has been on this list since March 1, 1982. According to a 2005 Congressional Research Services report, at the time of Cuba's addition to the list "numerous U.S. government reports and statements under the Reagan Administration alleged Cuba's ties to international terrorism and its support for terrorist groups in Latin America."
Any rationale for keeping Cuba on this list has long-since disappeared, especially with Cuba now playing a principal role in facilitating and hosting the Colombia-FARC peace negotiations being held in Havana. If you take a look at the State Department's website, the few paragraphs that detail Cuba's designation on the list actually read more like reasons to take Cuba off.
By keeping Cuba on this list we are weakening the credibility of the entire list. In the past, other countries have been removed from the terrorist list. Why can't we remove Cuba? Cuba has ratified all 12 international counterterrorism conventions, and even offered to sign a bilateral agreement with the United States on counterterrorism. Cuba also collaborates with the United States in counter-drug efforts in the Caribbean, and this cooperation is one that the U.S. government acknowledges and praises.
Iraq was removed from the list in 1982 and again in 2004 (after having been reassigned to the list). Libya was removed in 2006. Even North Korea was removed in 2008 (well, that may have been a mistake).
The presence of Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism symbolizes everything that's wrong with our approach to Cuba. It's based on a myth (that Cuba sponsors terrorist groups) It reinforces Cold War-era prejudices (that Cuba is an "enemy" who we must isolate and oppose). It helps lock our foreign policy in stone. It prevents the United States from taking sensible steps toward normalizing relations with Cuba.
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In March of 2008 I found Big Monster Door, now archived. This was one of my favorite caches I have ever done. I have always told people this was a must do. So when I saw that it got archived I couldn't let this interesting Chicago treasure go. So I came back to the scene and placed a new cache so this place is not missed. The final hide is in a different location so don't try to brute force it, it won't work. But it is just as easy. The first stage is the main reason for the visit.
To find the cache, which is a magnetic keyholder you need to do a way point projection. You need to look for a sticker on the upper right hand side of an object seen from GZ that has 5 digits on it. Treat the number as ABCDE. You need to project a waypoint of BC degrees at a distance of B(B-E) feet.
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Lotus Announces First Leg of 2013 Tour, New Album Coming Soon
Electronic band Lotus announces the first leg of the 2013 national tour, the biggest outing the group has done to date (schedule below). The 5-piece will hit the road in support of the forthcoming album on SCI Fidelity Records. Details on the release will be announced in the coming weeks.
The first part of the trek finds them hitting the Northeast including two New York City shows: Manhattan's Best Buy Theater and Brooklyn's Knitting Factory. From there, Lotus heads to the Midwest for shows in Cleveland, Columbus, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and more. Then, it's time to conquer the South with multiple shows in Texas, Florida and North Carolina and a two night run at Atlanta's Terminal West. Brooklyn trio Moon Hooch will support on the first leg of the 2013 tour with the exception of the Knitting Factory show, and Keller Williams will share the bill with Lotus in Columbus.
Before 2012 comes to an end, Lotus plays two nights at Chicago's Riviera Theatre, Mr. Small's in Millvale, PA and two nights in Baltimore to ring in the New Year.
Lotus played select dates throughout the year in support of their previously released, self-titled album. In September, the group headlined Colorado's Red Rocks for the first time in front of a crowd of over 7,000 (pictured) and was the first to perform a major show in Philadelphia's FDR Park since Lollapalooza in 1994. They played in front of capacity crowds in Denver, Chicago, Austin, Athens, Grand Rapids, Richmond, Philadelphia and two nights in DC. Popular on the festival circuit, they also joined the line up at Camp Bisco, CounterPoint, Summer Set, All Good and more including festivals in Holland and Japan.
Lotus is composed of Mike Greenfield (Drums), Jesse Miller (Bass, Sampler), Luke Miller (Guitar, Keys), Mike Rempel (Guitar) and Chuck Morris (Percussion).
Lotus On Tour 2012
30- Philadelphia, PA- Electric Factory
27- Chicago, IL- Riviera Theatre
28- Chicago, IL- Riviera Theatre
29- Millvale, PA- Mr. Small's Theatre
30- Baltimore, MD- Rams Head Live
31- Baltimore, MD- Rams Head Live
Lotus on Tour 2013 with openers Moon Hooch
24- Burlington, VT- Higher Ground
25- Boston, MA- House of Blues
26- New York, NY- Best Buy Theater
27- Brooklyn, NY- Knitting Factory * without Moon Hooch
30- Syracuse, NY- The Westcott Theater
31- Cleveland, OH- Beachland Ballroom
1- Royal Oak, MI- Royal Oak Theatre
2- Columbus, OH- Newport Music Hall * co-bill with Keller Williams
5- Grand Rapids, MI- The Intersection
6- Bloomington, IN- Jake's
7- Milwaukee, WI- Turner Hall Ballroom
8- Madison, WI- Barrymore Theatre
9- Minneapolis, MN- Mill City Nights
12- Lincoln, NE- Bourbon Theatre
13- Fayetteville, AR- George's Majestic Lounge
14- Oklahoma City, OK- Diamond Ballroom
15- Dallas, TX- Trees
16- Austin, TX- Stubb's BBQ
19- Tallahassee, FL- The Moon
20-Tampa, FL- The Ritz Ybor
21- Orlando, FL- Beacham Theater
22- Ft. Lauderdale, FL- Culture Room
23- Jacksonville, FL- Freebird Live
26- Wilmington, NC- Brooklyn Performing Arts Center
27- Carrboro, NC- Cat's Cradle
28- Asheville, NC- Orange Peel
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The United States Holocaust Museum is a living memorial, a place where visitors go to confront hatred, learn the danger of prejudice and promote human dignity. Wednesday this most special place was the setting for a tragic lesson in the worst and best of human behavior. A gunman, seemingly motivated by a profound hate, entered the downtown museum and opened fire; he was stopped by security guards, one of whom sacrificed his life.
Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39, of Temple Hills, Md. Johns, who had worked at the museum for six years, died of gunshot wounds after Wednesday's confrontation with the gunman, identified as James W. von Brunn, 88. According to police, von Brunn, a man known to law enforcement authorities as a white supremacist with a hatred for Jews, walked into the Holocaust Museum and opened fire with a rifle. He was critically wounded when Johns and another guard returned fire. The museum is one of the capital's most-visited sites and so, if not for the actions of Johns and his colleague, the loss could have been far greater.
Several Holocaust visitors described the incident as "unbelievable" because it occurred in a place that, by memorializing the near-extinction of a people, is designed to prevent violence. One woman, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, said the shooting demonstrates that hatred and prejudice are never-ending. Given the vile beliefs that news accounts have ascribed to the suspect, that view is understandable. But the hope that was enshrined in the Holocaust Museum when it opened in 1993 is that exposing the horrors of hate and prejudice will move people to tolerance.
The museum was closed Thursday to honor Johns. Authorities must thoroughly investigate this incident to confirm that von Brunn acted alone, as was initially believed. Security procedures should be rechecked. And then the memorial should return to its mission. Given the sorrows and hatreds that persist throughout the world, no reminder was needed of the importance of that job. Yet such a reminder was delivered this week, in a most unexpected place.


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Writing about Trauma Can Produce Health Benefits
Writing about trauma seems to be most effective when the traumatic event is intense. In a study of college students, those who wrote about more severe traumas reported fewer physical symptoms afterward, compared with persons who described lower-severity traumas.
Another important finding suggests that it may not be the act of writing itself which produces the healthy benefit, but rather its ability to help people achieve potent and emotional (and yet still distanced and safe) connections with their traumatic memories. This is illustrated in a study where researchers encouraged one group of trauma victims to write only factual information about their experience, while another group was asked to record both factual and emotional detail. In this study, greater degrees of personalization and detail were associated with less depression and less anxiety.
If writing about trauma produces so many health benefits in the lab, can it be recommended as a general approach for any trauma sufferer to undertake? Unfortunately not, as people vary in their ability to cope with traumatic events. By definition, exposure to traumatic events is overwhelming and outside the range of normal experience. If the nature of the trauma is extreme enough, forcing someone to write about it when they are not ready to do so can be re-traumatizing and can make things worse. For this reason, it is best done in the context of easily accessible social and emotional support.
Warnings aside, the usefulness of writing about trauma to promote healing is based on a substantial background of evidence. When performed with limits on time and subject matter, and by a person who is ready to undertake the task and who has support, the method is cheap, allows the trauma to be confronted at a suitable (self-directed) speed, lets personal meanings and solutions be derived, and may be undertaken by people who would not be likely to enter therapy.
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The protests against the elections in Iran are occurring in many places and many ways. One way protesters in Iran are trying to get their messages out to the world is via the Internet, while those against the protesters are trying to shut this down. To bypass this, Iranians are using proxy servers around the world. Where around the world? Well…everywhere. The good folks at the Renesys Blog have put together this great post (The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy) that not only explains how this works, but gives you visualizations (such as the one I am linked to above) showing where Iranians are going to communicate. It's a great article, although it helps to be a "techie" to appreciate it.
It's visualizations like this that remind me that, while we live in the visible world, there is an invisible world of computer networks and radio waves and air traffic paths and other such constructs that we are only vaguely aware of and yet we are often highly dependent upon.


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So I tuned my lute and went adventuring into Burgundy. Despite the shivery stories that had circulated about madame's hearth on nights when the rain walked on the roof, there was not much promise in the quest. Flat fields succeeded one another in a monotonous march southward from Paris. Little squares of grain, little squares of garden truck, little squares of towns, little squares of toy woods, little square church spires all of a kind, little square trees mathematically spaced along the highways to the left and right, little square wheels ticking off the kilometers with a nerve-racking tattoo until even the most thorough-going troubadour might wish for a return of the days when this journey was to be accomplished only on horseback or by closely guarded carriage.
For nearly an hour the railroad skirts the Seine, plunging presently into a more heavily forested district and emerging upon a path of crimson poppies. There is something appropriate in the poppies. Many times in the days of the mailed knights of Burgundy this road from Paris to the south was reddened, and not with poppy petals. This is the highway of the ready sword, where a fight was to be had for the asking, and death often attended the dropping of a lace handkerchief. . . . There is consolation in the thought of the dead men who stand along this road patiently waiting for judgment day. They make good company for a troubadour. Even the scenic monotony that surrounds them, even the quaint antics of a thoroughly modern and totally disagreeable railroad train cannot make one forget their history.
At Montereau the road leaves the Seine and pursues an upward course through the valley of the Yonne. Here one begins to feel that the chroniclers have been wrong in attempting to prove Old Burgundy merely an artificial arrangement of colors on a map. There is a geological difference between Burgundy and the Isle of France that is readily discernible. As one ascends the Yonne the hills become more numerous and more abrupt, the forests more shaggy and more irregularly spaced. The smooth vistas of green fields are lacking, and in their place spread rugged terraces of staked vineyards with stretches of brown earth between them. Bare rock emerges from the slopes with increasing frequency as the way leads southward, and one senses that this is as characteristic of Burgundy as the wines by which the present incarnation of the ancient kingdom is known.
The little train staggers on up through narrower passes, plays hide-and-seek in tunnels, and breaks through rock walls to a valley where the horizons are higher and the hills rise from yellow green to mountain blue in the distance. Here, on a point of rock, still girt round with its ancient enceintes, sits Auxerre, northernmost sentry of the lost kingdom.
Auxerre was the capital of the Capetian dukes of Burgundy and remains an impressive monument to their memory, the only town distinctly theirs, perhaps, in all the central region of France. Viewed from the left bank of the river, Auxerre is two cities, one nestling in the sunlight on two hills, the other seemingly below the water as deep as sunken Lyonesse in the reflection on the smooth surface. Clean white buildings front on the river with a mass of greenery beyond them. Other buildings cling to the terraces in the farther distance, points of relief in a striking panorama of formal gardens. High above the highest of the red-tiled roofs rises the square tower of St.-Etienne.
Auxerre is a summer-time city. The hills beyond the old ramparts are squared with vineyards and gay with fields of wild poppies. Sunlight drenches the white streets save in the sequined shade of willowed arbors. The air is heavy with the scents of flowers and vines.
Center of the famous vineyard district that bears its name, the ancient Autissiodurum of Roman Gaul has acquired sufficient wealth to heal its medieval scars. Its towers are not the gaunt ruins of bare rock that one sees in the lower Rhone country. Instead they resemble the abbey remains of England, deep green with ivy and set in the midst of luxuriant foliage. It is only here and there that the remnants of the Capetian fortifications break through their covering of pastoral loveliness like gloves of mail beneath lace cuffs.
Two bridges lead across the Yonne into the town, one of them a bit of twelfth-century engineering, restored and reinforced for modern traffic. The older bridge strikes the quai of the Yonne at a spot once protected by thick walls. As in many another ancient fortress city come upon the ways of peace, the outer cincture has been used as a foundation for a broad circular boulevard. The bastions of the old ducal stronghold are thatched with roses. The moats in which many an assaulting lancer fell to his death are sunken gardens filled with acacia and vines. Streets, wider and whiter than one might expect in so old a place, curve through the site of the vanished citadel. The remains of the interior fortifications and buildings of state emerge unexpectedly from the commercial town that dances on the grave of the half-forgotten capital.
Just out of the Rue Fourier, near the market-place, the street wanders through a tower-flanked arch, one of the gates of the wall that encircled the city during the days of Philippe de Rouveres. This relic, the Tour de l'Horloge, is the only visible remnant of that portion of the enceinte. Over the arch is the great clock that gives the monument its name. It is usually wrong, but has run slow enough to take step with the correct time on hundreds of occasions during its centuries of service. Who could ask more of a tower clock?
Auxerre is rich in churches. Two of them at least have sat by the side of the Yonne serene and complacent as Burgundy changed from kingdom to fief, from fief to empire, and from empire to the empty echo of a name. No one can tell you how old the Cathedral of St. Etienne actually is. The present structure was begun in the thirteenth century and remodeled during the fifteenth. But there is plenty of evidence that a Romanesque church of indeterminate date was incorporatedin part, at leastin the Gothic structure that one sees today.
Lack of attention has cost St. Etienne many of its decorations, but the beauties of its ensemble are still sufficient to make it one of the most notable examples of ecclesiastical architecture in France. Inside and out it is elaborately ornamented and still possesses a fine set of rare old painted windows.
To the left of the altar is a statue in white marble to the memory of Jacques Aymot, translator of Plutarch, who was a native of Auxerre. The sculpture, which is very well executed, shows the old man kneeling at a prie-dieu as he was frequently seen in the ancient church during his life. Another statue of note is that of Nicolas Colbert, Bishop of Auxerre. The Colberts, descendants of a Scotch family that settled at Rheims in the thirteenth century, gave many remarkable men to France, among them this same Nicolas and his brother, Jean Baptiste Colbert, famous minister of state for foreign affairs under Louis XIV. Two other great men of Auxerre are represented in marble on the most remarkable tomb of the cathedral, the Marshal and the Admiral de Chastellaux. They are shown recumbent, side by side in full armor. A bas-relief on the side of the tomb represents the battle of Cravant, where, in 1423, the English and Burgundians raised the siege successfully started by Charles VII.
The church of St. Eusebe near the post-office was founded while the kings of the first dynasty were still reigning in Burgundy. It was rebuilt in 64o and has come down to the present generation with little change. Its architecture is a mixture of the Arabesque and Roman, a combination as pleasing as it is novel. Its stone spire is one of the striking features of the town's profile as seen from across the Yonne.
St. Germain, originally part of a royal abbey founded in 623, is another landmark that retains a quaint atmosphere of the early Burgundian civilization, despite numerous additions and restorations. The church itself is all that remains of the abbey. The greater part of the structure is new and was used for centuries as a hospice. The church is made remarkable not so much by what remains of it above groundfor its grandeurs have disappeared bit by bit during the centuriesbut by its subterranean extensions. It has two crypts, one above the other, both of them spacious and splendidly built. In these dim vaults one finds the history of the town carved in the epitaphs of the greatbishops, statesmen, warriors, dukes, counts, saints, and martyrs. St. Germain will muster a noble con-course when Gabriel sounds his trumpet.
A pleasant enough place this for an inquisitive troubadour. Water from a clear spring trickles down the hill under the old buttresses behind the cathedral. Red-headed babies play in the streets. Where the boulevard curves from the ancient wall to follow the river, cobalt glass in the shop doors makes a magic mirror in which the river is purple and the trees black. The street signs bring back the days of the Capetians: "Street of the Holy Pilgrims," "Street of the Housewives' Well," "Street of the Under Walls," "Street of the Arquebus," "Street of the Sign of the Sword." Gradually the atmosphere of the medieval town that was envelops one. . . . Auxerre is still the capital of Burgundy. . . . And then from the white buildings above the bridge comes the sharp tapping of a woodpecker, a steel woodpecker with an appetite for hot rivets. . . .
Auxerre is a manufacturing center nowadays. Close to the spot where once an armorer with a hand forge, a hammer, and an anvil battered out buckler, casque, sword, and other trade-arguments for the nobility of Burgundy, a factory now repeats his processes on a large scale in the manufacture of tools.
Near the Tower of the Horloge I came upon Pere Le Brun, a somewhat aged canal pilot, large-boned, heavy of feature, typically Burgundian, a modern of the moderns. He was just concluding a heated argument with one of the mill-workersconcluding it because his adversary had arisen from the table and was striding rapidly out of hearing.
"He is a new-corner to Auxerre," Monsieur Le Brun declared, addressing himself to me for want of better audience. "What should he know about the traditions of Auxerre who has lived all his life like a ground-hog making repairs in the Paris subway? . . . I was trying to tell him that the city came upon evil days because of the great famine of the tenth century and because of the curse of the wolf. It was because of the wolves and the evil stories of this plateau that the dukes moved their capital to Dijon. And you know how poorly Burgundy prospered with Dijon as its first city.
"The wolves used to bother us a great deal. It has always been so in the wine-growing districts. The wild animals learn to eat the food that is available, and so, hereabouts, we have had to guard the grapes against the wolves and dogs.
"There seems to be an exhilarating effect in ripe grapes. I suspect the stomach of the wolf is so constructed that the fermentation of the fruit juices proceeds rapidly after the animal has eaten the grapes. At any rate, intoxication is frequently the result.
"We don't see as much of that now as formerly. The wolves nearly all have been exterminated, but I can remember one occasion when they ran in a drunken pack right through this very street. Few who saw that sight will forget it.
"The wolves were all intoxicated. That was what caused them to come into the town in the first place, and it was also what saved the townsfolk after they had come in. They were too drunk to remember that they were wolves.
"They just lay down in the street, stupidly drunk. Then the townsfolk came out and killed them. That was the last wolf scare in these parts. The dogs still bother us. They are inveterate grape thieves. But unless there should be another famine sufficient to reduce the population of the district, these animals will never endanger our lives again."
The rocky, wine-growing regions of France were a frequent prey to famine in the none too paternal days of feudalism. The most prosperous wine cities of to-day are naturally located in rocky, sandy soil that is adapted to grape growing and of little use for any other sort of agriculture. The tradition of these famines has come down to the present generation with thrilling detail; and there are many well fed vintners not yet past the age for military service who can tell you all the harrowing details of the period immediately preceding the Truce of God.
Perhaps these stories of starvation have kept alive the legends of the wolves, for somehow in human imagination the two go togetherthe dim, terrible form of famine, driving before it the lean, hollow-eyed wolf. It was usually only at times of universal starvation that the wolves came out of their haunts to penetrate the towns.
Old Pere Le Brun seemed to be bearing all the weight of suffering of the entire community of those far-gone days as he recited tale after gruesome tale of cannibalism and death. One of his stories is interesting as demonstrating a possible source for one very wide-spread bit of folk-lore:
"Many people were missing from the towns hereabouts, monsieur. At first it was thought that they might have fallen dead of starvation in the woods and on the roads. But it was noticed that not only the weak were taken but the strong as well. It was a great mystery.
"During these sad days there was a man near Tonnerre who used to sell fresh pork at a high price. Inasmuch as many of those who disappeared had been last seen near Tonnerre, an investigation was directed towards this butcher shop. It was discovered that the proprietor had been dealing in human flesh. The skeletons of a dozen of his victims were found under the earthen floor of his cottage. Ah, monsieur, a man goes back to the animal immediately when he is hungry."
It is not difficult to see, in this and other more or less authentic accounts of the cannibalism to which the private wars of the iron chevaliers of feudalism had reduced the country-side, the germ of the werwolf legend. The connection between the human being who dealt in the flesh of his fellow-man and the human being turned wolf long enough to obtain a similar repast seems evident. It is not surprising that a region rich in the lore of grape-eating dogs, drunken wolves, and flesh markets should also cling to traditions of ghouls and their nauseous cousins.
A story in point is that of the Chevalier de Broussy, whose chateau stood near to that of the dukes of Burgundy in the region of Auxerre. He was a strong, stern man and well loved by Robert of Burgundy, his patron.
De Broussy had a beautiful wife whom he adored with all the ardor of an elemental nature. He protected her against the temptations of the dissolute feudal courts, gave her everything that a woman could desire, even to the point of impoverishing himself, and made her life a long honey-moon in a castle where the stairs were marble and fountains played in the courtyards. And yet he was never able to penetrate her reserve. She seemed to love him, but always there was a mystery behind her blue eyes, always a hint of fear in her fleeting smile.
He left her alone one day to go hunting in the woods with Hugh of Cravant, his close friend. It was a beautiful day in mid-spring, the sort of day when Burgundy is at its best; and he should have felt the exhilaration that such days always bring. But a moodiness was on him as he left the castle . . . a moodiness that seemed to increase as he rode onward.
Toward noon he came to an open space in the woods, near the rocky summit of a hill, and there found the realization of his forebodings. Lying on the greensward, surrounded by daisies, wild roses, and poppies, was the body of a child. Standing over it with bloody jowls was a wolf. The knights rushed upon the beast immediately, maneuvering so suddenly and so skilfully that the wolf was caught between a precipitous rock and two naked swords.
The wolf leaped at Hugh of Cravant first, cleared his guard, and caught him by the throat. He fell dying. De Broussy made a quick, cutting stroke and slashed the beast on the right foreleg. The wolf leaped once more and disappeared among the rocks of the hillside, leaving a paw lying on the ground beside the body of the knight.
De Broussy picked up this relic of the terrible affair, put it into his pocket, and proceeded home. He washed at the banks of the Yonne, lest his blood-stained clothes should alarm his wife, and he considered for a long time the story that he should tell to her to explain the death of his companion. Her eyes had told him of great unspoken sorrows in her life. He hoped he might be able to spare her the shock of this newest tragedy.
He heard some one weeping as he passed through the Salle des Chevaliers. Wondering men-at-arms stood at the foot of the winding staircase, gazing dumbly toward the upper floor, which their master's strict orders had forbidden them to penetrate. The evening had brought a bit of springtime chill, and the freshly lighted fires were casting an eery shadow-dance over the high vaults.
De Broussy dashed up the stairs. In her apartment sat his beautiful wife. She was huddled before the fireplace, weeping piteously. She looked up and shrank back in terror as her lord approached. Then he saw her right hand was missing at the wrist. The bleeding stump of her arm showed a cut as clean as that of a sharp sword.


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Holiday Inn Express brand expands in Germany
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These franchised hotels are part of a multiple development agreement (MDA) with IHG's long standing lessee partner Foremost Hospitality HIEX GmbH.
Holiday Inn Express Hamburg - City Hauptbahnhof will join its sister properties Holiday Inn Express Hamburg - City Centre and Holiday Inn Express Hamburg – St. Pauli Messe in one of Germany's most iconic cities. The 117- room, newly constructed property will be the first of the two to open next year. The hotel will be located close to Hamburg Central Station which links the city centre to the airport, neighbouring museums, the central square and new residential and office development HafenCity. The hotel is set to attract both leisure and business clientele.
Meanwhile the 120-room Holiday Inn Express Freiburg – City, due to open in 2015, will be the first Holiday Inn Express hotel in Freiburg. The city's accessible location close to the borders with France and Switzerland, coupled with its close proximity to Germany's Black Forest region, is expected to provide the hotel with a steady influx of leisure travellers.
Launched in 1991, Holiday Inn Express is one of the largest and fastest growing brands in the hotel industry. With over 2,200* hotels in 31 countries around the world; the brand is one of IHG's biggest growth engines. An average of two Holiday Inn Express hotels open every week, and there are 471* hotels in the global pipeline set to open over the next three to five years, with Germany and the UK identified as key growth areas for the brand.
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Community Foundation submits audit to county
October 10, 2001
By RYAN SHERIDAN
Daily Press writer
The Community Foundation of Northwest Colorado submitted a full audit of its finances to the Moffat County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. The finances were given a clear opinion by Jack Bonaker, of Bonaker and Associates, CPAS P.C.
Bonaker called the financial audit one of going concern. But, he said that the foundation was a viable financial organization for one year into the future. Accounting practices dictate that an accountant look at an organizations financial stability for one year into the future.
The Foundation will be able to make the minimum payment to cover the interest on the Gunfighter Collection debt in July of 2002. Because of that, it is a sound entity from an accounting point of view, Bonaker said.
Bonaker also said that the foundation's financial documents were in accordance to generally accepted accounting rules.
Because the Foundation's office has been closed and the position of executive director eliminated, the Foundation will have the assets available to cover the interest payment of $26,740 next year, Bonaker said.
Bonaker and Associates did not count deferred giving totals as an asset of the Foundation. There is no list or other verifiable accounting of these legacies, so they cannot be counted towards the organizations assets, he said.
The Commissioners agreed that to rely on the deferred giving is not a strong enough guarantee to protect the county taxpayers who financed the purchase of the Fun Fighter Collection.
Both the collection and the Foundation are valuable to the community, and those that want to donate to these causes should do so, said Moffat County Commissioner Marianna Raftopoulos, but the taxpayer debt must be resolved.
The fiduciary responsibility of the county necessitates a continued effort to pay off the debt alongside the promised legacies, said Moffat County Commissioner T. Wright Dickinson.
Lynn Villard, vice president of the Community Foundation of Northwest Colorado, said the Foundation still views the debt as paid, and is ready to move on to other projects and efforts.
County attorney Kathleen Taylor is working toward a reassessment of the original financial agreement with the Foundation. The reworked document would ensure that the legacies that come in are in fact channeled back to satisfy the debt, Taylor said.


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Possible Defense Nominee Faulted for Record on Gays
WASHINGTON Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska senator on President Obamas short list for defense secretary, came under fire again on Thursday, this time for his record on gay rights and remarks he made 14 years ago about an openly gay nominee for a diplomatic post.
Since Mr. Hagels name emerged as a candidate for the Pentagon last week, he has been sharply criticized for his record on Iran, Israel and militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as comments he made about pro-Israel lobbying groups in Washington. The new round of criticism is focused on comments Mr. Hagel made in an interview about James C. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist nominated by President Bill Clinton to be ambassador to Luxembourg in 1998.
Mr. Hagel, a Republican and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was approached by his fellow Nebraskan in the Senate, Bob Kerrey, on behalf of Mr. Hormel, whose nomination was being held up by conservative Republicans.
Mr. Hagel did not oppose the nomination when Mr. Hormel came before the panel. But he later spoke out against it, saying that an openly, aggressively gay man should not represent the United States.
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1. Without an out and out, direct, "I was wrong" apology this is a deal breaker
Imagine if Jimmy Carter had named a person who thought this about African Americans to his cabinet.
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2. I'm thinking the apology will come during
his confirmation hearings.
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Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. He has his own room in an apartment, a job in the police force that puts food on the table, and his good health. In Moscow in 1937, that's a lot more than most people have to be grateful for. But for the first time in a long time, Korolev is about to be truly happy: his son Yuri is coming to visit for an entire week.
Shortly after Yuri's arrival, however, Korolev receives an urgent call from his boss it seems an important man has been murdered, and Korolev is the only detective they're willing to assign to this sensitive case. In fact, Korolev realizes almost immediately that the layers of sensitivity and secrecy surrounding this case far exceed his paygrade. And the consequences of interfering with a case tied to State Security or the NKVD can be severe you might lose your job, if you're lucky. Your whole family might die if you're not. Korolev is suddenly faced with much more than just discovering a murderer's identity; he must decide how far he'll go to see justice served . . . and what he's willing to do to protect his family.
In The Twelfth Department, William Ryan's portrait of a Russian policeman struggling to survive in one of the most volatile and dangerous eras of modern history is mesmerizing.
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"Ryan's tense, tightly plotted whodunnits feel gloriously plausible, a function of the intimate link he forges between his readers and his characters, never mind that those characters are living through extraordinary times."—The Guardian
"Ryan's latest has a fine cast of characters, puzzling murders, interesting police work, and a strong sense of the terror that pervaded Stalin's Russia. But it is his eye for period detail (e.g., scheming apparatchiks who denounce a neighbor simply to move into a larger apartment) that makes this one special."—Booklist (starred review)
"The Twelfth Department is the third outing for William Ryan's increasingly impressive Captain Korolev series…There's an Orwellian influence to the manipulation of language and meaning…The geographical setting and political backdrop are compelling enough, but Korolev is a fascinating character in his own right, an army veteran of "the German War" who acknowledges the poisonous nature of the regime he serves even as he clings to the hope that its propaganda might some day chime with reality."—The Irish Times
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con: they're small. she didn't care about the end result, just my money. my gums are puffy like no other.
my teeth had gaps, and that's it. they were relatively straight, and my gums were NORMAL.
this woman rushes through my monthly checkups and she doesn't care about anything that i feel or about how i saw the results.
if i had a problem with something, she either says "well, that's how it is" or "why do you complain so much?"
i wish i actually did research and go to a more credible orthodontist.
honestly, if you wanna know what i liked about the whole thing, is that my teeth are straight. i absolutely HATE everything else, it was a living nightmare.


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Colin Farrell has said that his greatest success is seeing his son James achieve his successes.
The actor's eldest son James has Angelman Syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder.
Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show last night Farrell gushed about his 10-year-old son and said, "My greatest successes are watching him achieve his greatest successes."
He told Tubridy, "James, my 10-year-old, he's dynamite, he's just magic and his trials and tribulations, which were kind of laid out for him because of how he was born and what he was born with.
"Everyone in this room is individual and unique but he's a little bit more unique than most of us and to watch him face hurdles that were placed before him, not by any choice of his or behaviour of his, just because of the way he was born, like you know he's special, he's just an inspiration."
Farrell continued to list some proud moments over the last few years, "He took his first steps at four, he learned to take his socks off about six months ago, you know and he's 10, his life is one, hopefully, of consistent benchmarks.
"He learned to feed himself when he was about five and a year ago he decided that if he wanted a yogurt that he could just get up and waddle to the kitchen and open the fridge and get a yogurt which is just magic."


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Delaware Division of Corporations Publishes 2009 List of Void/Cancelled Entities
Every year the Delaware Division of Corporations publishes a list of Corporations, Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies and General Partnerships that have been proclaimed "Void" or "Cancelled" for non-payment of franchise tax.
The 2009 Void/Cancelled Proclamation is available to be viewed on the Division of Corporations website from October 23, 2009 until October 31, 2009. Here is the list of these entities as required for publishing in accordance with the Delaware Law.
Delaware Limited Liability Companies
The listing of Void/Cancelled Entities is also available on CD for a fee of $50.00. Please contact The Delaware Divison of Corporations Franchise Tax Department at 302/739-3073 and select option 3 to order.
- Delaware Business Weekly Round Up – October 16th, 2009
- Community Innovation Project (CIP)
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In general, our markets remain difficult for the remainder of 2011 and we don't expect significant opportunities until 2012.As stated in our last quarter call, we have segregated our dollar bid volume statistics into bids in house and outstanding and bids expected in the next 90 days to give a clearer picture of the future market situations. Bids in house and outstanding have increased from $2.6 billion in January this year to $3.0 billion at the end of March. Bids expected in the next 90 days stand at $3.3 billion, down from $3.9 billion last quarter, however still considered a good indicator of growing activity. The most active region continues to be Asia Pacific followed by the Middle East. Lastly, we have mobilized the G1200 to our first project and are laying pipe as we speak. The project is for Dubai Petroleum establishment and will utilize both our pipe lay capability and structural capability as the scope of work also includes the design, fabrication and installation of a small fixed structure. The G1201 remains on schedule and budget and will be delivered in the third quarter of 2011. Finally, we're also looking toward West Africa to develop future opportunities for these vessels, primarily in Angola, Ghana and equatorial Dubai. We are completing our market survey including onsite investigations and development of our strategy for market re-entry. With that, I'll turn it back over to Andy. Andy Smith Thanks John. As we noted in the last call, the company, in conjunctions with its transition from a regional operating structure to a more centralized approach, has begun to report its results in two new segments; construction and installation services and other offshore services. Construction and installation services captures project work performed on a fixed price or unit price basis where the company takes responsibility for managing a project scope, which may include material procurement, third party subcontractors and includes a substantial project management effort.
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LONDON – The release of radioactive materials into the Pacific from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is being closely monitored by scientists still observing the consequences of a similar incident in Britain more than 36 years ago.
The mid-1970s saw a sharp increase in radioactive matter enter the Irish Sea following problems at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility in northwest England.
Although the releases were authorized, they resulted in a rise of radioactive cesium-137 and iodine-131 in the Irish Sea and the after-effects are still being monitored in the area today.
Scientists claim inquiries have concluded there is no evidence the discharges have adversely affected the health of the local population, but critics of the nuclear industry have cast doubt on these assertions.
Experts in Britain are now turning their attention to the stricken Fukushima plant, which has, until early April, been leaking highly radioactive materials into the sea due to a crack in the structure. In addition, a large volume of low-level waste was deliberately dumped into the ocean to assist the cleanup process.
Bill Camplin, group manager for radiological and chemical risk at the Center for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), in Lowestoft, said the two incidents are "not grossly dissimilar" in terms of the concentrations reported in the water.
Although Sellafield has been releasing waste into the sea since 1952, the potency of the discharges shot up in the mid-1970s.
Spent fuel rods stored in cooling ponds started to corrode, leading to a significant spike in the radioactive waste flushed out to sea.
As Camplin explained in an interview, at its peak in 1975, Sellafield pumped out 5,000 terabecquerels of cesium-137. By contrast, current discharges are now around 10 terabecquerels per year.
The contamination resulted in seafood caught within 10 km of Sellafield containing "several thousand" becquerels per kilogram of cesium-137. The corresponding seawater concentration around Sellafield was 100 becquerels per liter of cesium-137.
The figures for Fukushima bear some similarities, with water concentrations at about 50 becquerels per liter for cesium-137, and 100 becquerels per liter for iodine-131 in an area 10 km from the release point, according to data supplied to Camplin via the International Atomic Energy Agency in the earlier stages of the crisis. However, the IAEA notes decreasing trends following the plugging of the leak at Fukushima.
Camplin and his team at Cefas agree with the Japanese government's advice not to consume seafood caught close to the Fukushima plant.
In Britain, the authorities would generally intervene when the concentration of cesium-137 reached 1,000 becquerels per kg of seafood and Camplin noted some of the measurements in shellfish caught off Fukushima have been much less than that threshold.
In the 1970s, the British authorities did not impose any restrictions on the consumption of seafood in the Irish Sea despite similar levels.
But, as John Hunt, a consultant to Cefas, explained, "The maximum dose to regular shellfish consumers around Sellafield peaked at 2 millisieverts per year during the mid-1970s. That is more than the current annual dose recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection of 1 millisievert, but back then the annual maximum dose was 5 millisieverts. And we are not aware of any health implications as a result of that."
After the spike in radiation, bosses at Sellafield worked hard to bring down the levels.
However, the effects are still present in the sea, particularly in relation to cesium-137, which takes a lot longer to decay than iodine and tends to find its way into the seabed and onto beaches.
Camplin said that if the Japanese authorities haven't done so already, they should be warning people not to spend much time on the beaches near to the plant, as there could be quite high levels of radiation there.
But the good news is the iodine-131 should start to dissipate from the ocean quite rapidly.
Camplin and Hunt both appeared to be satisfied with how the Japanese authorities are coping, but would like to see more marine data and are currently liaising with colleagues in Japan.
Camplin said, "I'm not saying that it hasn't been done, but I would like to see more continuous monitoring. It needs to take into account different radionuclides, marine material and cover a greater area.
"Various institutes are talking about having a collaborative research program into Fukushima. I will expect work to move on to how the ecosystem is reacting to these radioactive inputs."
A millisievert is a measure of the dose of radiation a person can receive. The becquerel is a unit that measures radioactivity and 1 terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.


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The Creative Arts Department offers student musicians and technicians a nationally acclaimed opportunity to participate in an array of music training and performance experiences. The department offers four technical programs which prepare students for technical careers in the music entertainment industry and in design communications. These programs include Commercial Music, Design Communication, Sound Technology, Live Sound and Video Production Technology.
Welcome back to school, everyone! We have a great semester planned!
LEVELLAND – South Plains College's Creative Arts department will host Fest Week May 2-5 in the Tom T. Hall Production Studio. Each night of the festival will showcase different music ensembles.
John is internationally renowned as a "teacher of teachers." He has trained hundreds of voice teachers through master classes and his online Voice Teacher Bootcamps.


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"It's up to the city to take care of this problem."
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Like Juan, Stevens's current partner also underwent a name change. He originally was called Dorus, a man's name in Holland. What the animal needed, the policeman figured, was a name that was cute, not ridiculous. "He's such a big, strong, scary dog." Stevens came up with Morris, a change the animal took in stride.
"His name is the only cute thing about Morris." Why Stevens would say that becomes obvious whenever you come within a few feet of the duo's patrol car. Within the metal-barred rear compartment, Morris explodes into a one-dog riot zone -- a frenzy of savage snarling and barking, flying spittle, and wild lunging. "He doesn't like anybody next to his car," the policeman says. Morris in fact looks intent upon smashing through the roof of the vehicle and ripping out the throats of any and all passersby. When he got Morris in June of 2004, Stevens says the dog never barked when in the car. But Stevens likes his dogs to be "car-protective," so he set himself to the task of turning Morris into the vehicular maniac he is today. He says he did that by having various people approach the car as he gave Morris the command warning him that a threat was close at hand. Morris then barked and growled, and Stevens praised him as the person approaching cowered and ran away. "The dog loves that. Do it three or four times, and before you know it, you've created a car-defensive dog. Part of what we want these dogs to do is to intimidate people."
Unlike regular patrol officers, the canine units respond to calls all over the city. It's not unheard of for a team to be in Rancho Bernardo one minute, then running down to San Ysidro the next; to zoom from somewhere in the East County over to the beach. But each canine team starts off its shift assigned to a geographical base. For Stevens and Morris this evening, that area would be City Heights and Southeast San Diego. "We'll listen for assaults, for anybody doing anything with a weapon, for robberies," Stevens explained. "Any call where there might be a need for nonlethal force."
As we headed to City Heights, I asked the officer how he and Morris made the adjustment to each other. It had required some patience, Stevens recalled. Morris had first been assigned to another canine cop who had decided he wanted to work on bomb-detection. Although Morris had the nose for that job and the necessary play drive, he lacked another important capacity. Bomb dogs are supposed to sit at attention when they find one of the odors they've been trained to discriminate, but "Morris isn't a mellow dog," Steven says. "He's a little high-strung." As Juan had just retired, Stevens agreed to take over handling Morris, who he knew had a reputation for being "hard" -- prone to challenging his handler for the dominant role in the relationship.
On the day of the handoff, Stevens had the other handler bring the dog to Stevens's back yard. "I wanted it to be a totally neutral territory, where I could introduce myself into the situation. I wasn't going to get real lovey-dovey with him at first, but I threw the ball. I hung out with the two of them for about an hour." After the other man finally left, "I put the dog in the kennel. And the dog whined and howled for hours and hours." He was lonely and confused, Stevens knew, "so I went out and talked to him and hung out with him for about another hour."
Stevens says for the next two weeks, he did nothing but bond with Dorus/Morris. "I didn't give him any commands. All I did was feed him and get him used to me. He wasn't seeing Randy anymore, so he was still confused. But he didn't see me as a threat. I petted him right away. That's part of the reason I was able to get such a quick bond with him." The dog never bit Stevens. "There were a couple incidents where I knew that he was loading up and it was going to happen, but I quelled the situation." Food and affection are only part of the bonding process, Stevens adds. "You have to make the dog realize that you can kick his ass -- even if you can't. You have to trick him into thinking you're tougher than he is. And you can't be afraid of him, even if you are. You can't act like you're even slightly intimidated, because he'll pick right up on that."
Almost a full year had passed since their pairing, and "I just now am feeling real comfortable with him," Stevens told me. Morris had become much friendlier during that time, and Stevens in turn seemed downright fond of his furry partner.
"Throughout the night, I'll go back and rub on him," the policeman said. He likes to dig his fingers into the thick fur around the dog's neck; to nuzzle his dark snout and kiss it. "He wasn't a real lovable dog when I first got him. He's become lovable."
Stevens says his wife, a 103-pound police sergeant, still feels nervous in the unchained presence of 105-pound Morris. "He wants to bond with her, but he wants her to know the pecking order. He'll push up against her. It's the dog's way of saying, 'Know your place.' As far as he's concerned, I'm number one. He's number two, and everyone else falls below us on the totem pole."
The cops say all the San Diego dogs are "alphas" -- naturally inclined to take the leadership role within whatever pack they happen to be living. "That's why we pick them," Stevens says. But "a lot of times, they just go spastic." Because of their potential for aggressive and unpredictable behavior, the dogs almost never live inside the houses of the officers to whom they're assigned. Instead most spend their off-duty hours in back-yard kennels, lounging around except when they're being exercised or groomed by their handlers. Morris's off-duty life sounds particularly idyllic. Stevens says the dog has the run of a half-acre area adjoining his home in Alpine. Confined by chain-link fencing that's more than six feet tall, he spends hours chasing squirrels and lizards. "He's really a funny dog to watch." Stevens has a 14-year-old female schnauzer who likes Morris, according to the policeman. "She comes up to the fence and wags her tail, but he's so big and rough that I've got to be careful. Because he'll want to run up and play with her, but he knocks her around." Morris knocks Stevens around too, but the policeman sounds nonchalant about the roughhousing. "He plays fetch real rough. He can pop a basketball with his jaws. I play rough with him, and he likes to play rough. I'll wrestle him down on the ground."


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So and myself happened to be in Bristol NH recently and hungry. We spotted "Ivy's spice of life" in the downtown and stopped in and we are so glad we did. First plus for us is that it is BYOB..As you all know the booze bill can really add up and very often is more than food bill. We simply walked around the corner and got some coronas Had we known we would have brought it from home and saved even more. Their was no corkage charge which was nice.
The food was outstanding! Started with the Reverend's Hellfire Chili.. well Amen brother!! Really good and I love it when it lives up to the name.... it really is spicy ..We also had stuffed Jalapenos and these are not the standard pre packaged ( BJ or Sams club ? ) you get elsewhere...these are fresh stuffed and fried. Delish. So had the brisket and reported it was moist and flavorful. After learning that they were also open for breakfast I asked if it was possible to get Huevos Rancheros and was accommodated. Yum..complex sauce, chorizo and eggs cooked as requested. I had an awesome slice of pecan pie and found out all the deserts are made in-house. Looking forward to returning and exploring the menu further.
The atmosphere is pretty much no frills but the food more than makes up for it and they have "all you can surf wifi" for free too.
Ivy' spice of life
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Criminal Law
Criminal Law Questions? Ask a Criminal Lawyer.
-Could you explain your situation a little more?Were the charges actually filed by the police?
Have the police contacted you?
Have you made any statements to the police?
Dear JACUSTOMER - All you can do at this point is plead not guilty and contest this on the basis that the act was unintentional. If you can't afford a lawyer the court should appoint counsel if there is any jail time associated with the offense. You should not make any further statements to anyone but an attorney. You can't help yourself by talking further with the police so you will have to get the case into the court system by pleading not guilty at your court appearance and if you can get a lawyer I would do so.
You can't simply get the charges dropped because you want them dropped and the prosecutor's job is to prosecute the case.
Many times an attorney can get something like this reduced to some really minor offense that will not go on a permanent record but unless you defend yourself it will not just happen.I don't know if there are any witnesses who will testify on your behalf but if there are you need to give their names to your attorney or, if you have no attorney talk to them prior to any trial that may occur.
Will the young man who pressed charges against me be in court when I plead not guilty? Also will he have to appear when I go back?


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Imagine taking incredible talent from various groups and forming a supergroup.
Its a dream come true for music fans. Cream was the first big supergroup,
uniting Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in 1966, followed by another
landmark supergroup two years later: Crosby, Stills, Nash (and then Young).
To make this supergroup list, you cant just be a great group like The Beatles
or Nirvana, whose members became famous together; the group must have been
conceived with already famous musicians formed from separate bands who then put
out an album. Superjams alone dont count.
Most times, the parts are much greater than the sum; sometimes theres too much
talent and ego cooking in the pot. But there are notable exceptions. Country
music recently had a major supergroup, The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Waylon
Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson), who recorded three albums
between 1985 and 1995. And in jazz, every one of Miles Daviss lineups would
qualify as a supergroup.
Lets take a look at six present-day (with one noticeable exception) lineups
wearing the big S on their uniforms and hope that they put out more great albums
and rock more arenas before they implode. Supergroups not to miss:
The New Pornographers
Can you be Canadian and still be a supergroup? Why, yes you can! The lineup: Dan
Bejar, Carl Newman, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Todd Fancey, Kurt
Dahle, Nora OConnor and Blaine Thurier. Maybe you dont know these artists or
their awesome group, but now is the time. Theyve produced four superlative
albums, including the latest, Challengers, just released in August.
What happens when you put key members of three very influential groups
togetherTrey Anastasio (Phish), Les Claypool (Primus) and Stewart Copeland
(Police)? This PPP combination equals Oysterhead. Formed for a one-off gig for a
New Orleans festival in 2000, they jammed well and released an album in 2001.
Little more was heard of Oysterhead until their performance at Bonnaroo in 2006.
When will they strike again?
Velvet Revolver
Planning their albums around drug rehab and court dates, the members of this
famously drug-addled supergroup are still going strong. Start with Slash, Duff
and Matt from the core of Guns N Roses, add a dash of Dave Kushner (Wasted
Youth) on second guitar, and a giant dose of the Stone Temple Pilots Scott
Weiland on vocals, and youve got Velvet Revolver. Provided that they keep
clean, they have a great future ahead. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The Raconteurs
Any lineup with guitar monster Jack White (The White Stripes) automatically
qualifies as a supergroup. This time he has lots more firepower with the
excellent writing talents of solo artist Brendan Benson (vocals, guitar and
keyboards) and the rhythm section of The Greenhornes, Patrick Keeler and Jack
Lawrence. Don't come a knockin if this joint is a rockin.
The Good, the Bad and the Queen
Having a few spare moments, Damon Albarn decided to start yet another band.
Besides being the frontman for Blur and Gorillaz, he teamed up with Fela Kutis
legendary drummer Tony Allen, Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Clash bassist Paul
Simonon to form one helluva eclectic supergroup. They released the eponymous
2007 album and toured to support it. More to come? Lets hope so.
Traveling Wilburys
George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan make up the
greatest collection of singer/songwriters (and just plain talent) ever
assembled. Even though they only released two albums, the last in 1990, they are
still being included in this list. I had to make an exception to the criteria of
listing only current acts because the Traveling Wilburys are the number one
supergroup of all time (plus, Rhino recently released The Traveling Wilburys
Collection, a must-have album).
The 11 Most Classic Movie Lines
Ever since Al Jolson uttered the ironic opening line in the first talkie, The
Jazz Singer (1927), "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you aint heard nothin yet!"
there have been countless memorable movie lines. But certain lines have risen
above the scrum to invade our modern-day vernacular and become part of
culturesayings that, you could say, define the movie. And that makes these
lines classics.
So, what are our picks for the top 11 most classic lines?
Lets start with an oldie familiar to everyone.
1-2. In The Wizard of Oz (1939), Dorothy (Judy Garland) brought us two for the
ages: "Toto, Ive a feeling were not in Kansas anymore," and "Theres no place
like home."
3-4. The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, sparked a line weve been hearing for
more than 40 years now, which is Bonds (Sean Connery) debonair greeting: "Bond.
James Bond." Another classic, often heard in the 007 series, was Bonds suave
guidelines for the preparation of his martini: "Shaken, not stirred."
5. The first Star Wars launched the series that conquered millions and gave us
the memorable line: "May the Force be with you."
6-7. Clint Eastwoods delivery is perfect for his masterful lines, but he has
too many to list, so Ill pluck two from his Dirty Harry character. "Youve got
to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" and "Go
ahead, make my day."
8. We cant leave out Tom Hanks as astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13: "Houston,
we have a problem."
9. Robert De Niro, a one-of-a-kind actor has many great lines, but the
topperand perhaps the greatest line everoccurs in Taxi Driver. His character,
staring at himself in the mirror, repeatedly and accusingly asks his reflection,
"Are you talking to me?"
10. And now for the master, Marlon Brando, whose career has included many
incredible roles and unforgettable lines. This one comes from the Godfather:
"Ill make him an offer he cant refuse."
11. Though the following line is not one that people say much, it is just too
good to ignore, so here it goes: Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) makes an absurd
war confession from the powerful antiwar movie, Apocalypse Now (1979): "I love
the smell of napalm in the morning."
And of course, we have to give a big nod to Casablanca, starring the
incomparable Humphrey Bogart, which probably rules the cinematic world of
classic lines, but alas, its just one generation too old. Just the same:
"Here's looking at you, kid."


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Obsessive Teen Name Loving(:
Hey, guys! This week I read a post from another teenager (I'm thirteen, almost fourteen, by the way) and it got me to wondering..exactly how many teens ARE there on this website?
Comment if you fit one of the following:
A) You are a teen on this website
B) You know a teenager with said obsession
C) You WERE one of these teenagers
Add (if you are currently between the ages of thirteen and eighteen--or, heck, anyone younger, too) your favorite current combos & names, or (if you are no longer a teen) the names you liked at that age--plus which you STILL like.
My top combos (always changing, of course): Cecily Beatrice & Theodore Edwin.
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Fact of life: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie really value their pal, 80s star Mindy Cohn.
Last week, Us Weekly broke the news of their secret friendship, reporting that the Facts of Life alum, 44, is godmother to two of the couple's six kids and that the power couple even gave her a "huge diamond ring to thank her."
Now, an insider tells UsMagazine.com the ring is utterly "unbelievable," describing it as "four or five carats."
Says the source, "She wears it on her right finger."
When the awe-struck source asked Cohn about the rock -- solitaire with diamonds all around in a white gold setting -- Cohn replied: "'Brad and Angelina gave it to me.'"
Brangelina's generosity doesn't end there.
"She said she visits [the Jolie-Pitts] wherever they go," the source tells Us. "They pay for her airline ticket."
So, how did they become BFFs anyway?
Cohn (who is pals with Jolie's brother James Haven) has "known Brad for years for years," the source tells Us. "They are very close."