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Libby Klaperman, author, writer and educator on Jewish history and religion, died Friday, after a long illness. She was 60 years old. The author of a number of children's books, including novels and books on religious subjects, Klaperman wrote a four volume history, "The Story of the Jewish People," published in collaboration with her husband, Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, a leader of the Rabbinical Council of America and its incoming president. Klaperman, who came to this country as a young child from her native Minsk, in Russia, was a former professor of religious studies at Stern College and a member of the humanities faculty at Far Rockaway High School. She was also active in American Mizrachi Women and served as national education chairman of the Women's Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America for more than 20 years.


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Uganda Moves Forward on Anti-Gay Bill
I did my senior project on this topic and I've been following this story for the last few years (still salty I got a B- on it and a C+ in the class but...Imma be aiite). In my paper I talked about cultural relativism and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and I think that makes this issue all the more compelling. An overwhelming majority (like 90%) of the citizens of Uganda believe homosexuality is wrong and they believe in it's criminalization. What's a country to do when it's citizens have spoken?
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Attention to questions of space and geography are integral to the discipline of history, which is fundamentally concerned with the contexts of human lived experience. Over the course of the twentieth century, the most common approach to contextualizing the spaces and areas of the past has involved designating and mobilizing teaching and research around particular fixed and clearly delineated areas, specifically those of nation-states, western vs. nonwestern civilizations, and cold war regions (Africa, MENA, Central Asia, South Asia, Latin America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central and Eastern Europe).
From inside the borders of these national, civilizational, and cold war regional areas, historians have explored a range of political, economic, social, and cultural questions and produced richly contextualized works that have greatly enhanced our understanding of the past.
In recent decades, it has become increasingly apparent that this approach to space, and with it all three kinds of areas, had certain limitations. Despite different challenges inherent in these new concepts, historians have nonetheless begun to work very productively with the notions of the global and the transnational. They have done so not to suggest an all-encompassing spatial unit of analysis or a homogenous scale of historical processes and human experience, but rather to re-focus and re-frame historical studies and courses on understanding connections among and comparisons between different places over time.
Importantly, this global approach has opened up some exciting possibilities for thinking about and through space in much more fluid, complicated, and contingent ways. Previously invisible (or at least ignored) dense patterns of interconnection have been studied, illuminating new historically-significant spatial formations and areas of historical activity. In the process, global historians have also highlighted the significance of scale and the need for thinking with and moving among multiple scales in the process of investigating historical questions; the value of inter-disciplinarity and methodological breadth; and the necessity of developing genuinely collaborative models of teaching and research.
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Personal Correspondence - To or From Fayette County Residents
Nannie Owen Cobb to Pearlie Griggs
Brooks Station, Ga.
March 31, 1899
Miss Pearlie Griggs, My Dear Neice
I received your kind and welcome letter; was so glad to hear from you and to hear you was all well. (I could not decipher several lines of this letter because the fold had worn away some of the words and the letter was also torn on the right side).
This leaves us all up but not well. I have been real sick on and off but I am better at this time. I began to think my time had come last Sunday
night; was a week ago I had to sit up all night. (There were several words here that I couldn't decipher as well). I had severe pains about
my heart. When the doctor got here, he said my lungs was causing the trouble. But thank God I am better now but not able to do anything yet.
Pearlie, you can't imagine how I enjoyed reading your letter. Alabama can't claim you for you are a true Georgian as the old man said warp and
filling. I know you can't enjoy yourself with those grinning girls out there. We have a few of that kind in Ga. but as a general rule, the most
of them are intelligent. I wish you was out here. I know you would enjoy yourself. There is so many girls around here and they are such good
company but as for the young men, they are scarce. There is sixteen girls in hollering distance of us and but two grown young men. But there
is several at Brooks and County line. All the girls seem to think alot of me. All Mr. Cobbs' nieces think more of me than they do of their own
aunts, or at least, they say they do and act like it. Pearlie if you could hear some of the folks talk around Mitchell Hill, I know you would
be real amused. They say cotch and fotch and sot. And when they are speaking of anything soft, they say saft. Sometimes I think it is wrong
to laugh at them but who can help it. They say yearth instead of earth but there isn't but a few that talk that way. If it is wrong to laugh at
them, I hope God will forgive me and the rest around here. How large is Nannie? I would be so glad to see you all. Has Nannie got blue eyes or
have they changed? You and Rhodum both had dark brown eyes when you was little, but your eyes was (The remainder of the letter is missing and uncomplete).
Note: I believe this letter to have been written by Nannie (Owen) Cobb who had married Jefferson Davis "Jeff" Cobb in 1883. Nannie (Owen) Cobb
was the half sister of Sarah Elizabeth Bowers. Sarah Elizabeth Bowers had married James Neil/Neal Griggs in Fayette County, Ga. in 1879. Sarah & James had moved westward into Alabama in 1888; the children mentioned in the above letter were their children. Rhodum Levi Griggs was 19, Bell Briggs died as an infant, Pearl May "Pearlie" Griggs was 15 and Nannie Griggs was 12 when this letter was written in 1899. Sarah Elizabeth Bowers' ancestors were of German descent and she had striking blue eyes which were evident even in the black & white pictures that were taken so many years ago.
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LONDON (May. 22)
Britain will maintain its mandate in Palestine until both Arab and Jewish interests are secured and thereafter will keep sufficient military forces on hand to protect British interests, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald said in the House of Commons today as the debate on the White Paper opened.
American Jewish investments will be protected, Richard A. Butler, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, stated.
"The United States Government has been fully informed of all proposals affecting the future status of Palestine," he said, "and will certainly be informed of any proposals which it may eventually be intended to put before the Council of the League for termination of the mandate."
"The Government's proposals," Mr. MacDonald continued, "are conceived in a spirit of absolute impartiality between Jews and Arabs. We must be satisfied that the interests of both majority and minority in Palestine are secured before we surrender completely our mandatory control. In our treaty with Palestine, there must be provision for maintaining sufficient military and air forces to secure our interests, provision for appropriate consultation on all military matters, and for mutual assistance in case of trouble.
"No doubt physically," the Colonial Secretary went on, "we could force on the Arabs of Palestine any kind of Jewish national home, but we could not do that with any moral justification. His Majesty's Government will use its utmost endeavor to see established a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. A national home for the Jewish people. What is the meaning of that novel, carefully chosen expression? The authors of the Balfour Declaration did not say a 'Jewish State.' They used a less definite expression. They had high hopes, but they felt the need of proceeding cautiously.
"It has sometimes been suggested that it meant definitely that Palestine should become a Jewish State. Certainly the possibility of a Jewish State was not excluded. But it was recognized that Jewish settlement in Palestine on a grand scale was an experiment, the extent whereof must depend upon certain then-incalculable factors."
The Colonial Secretary went on to admit that the British Government itself had adopted economic absorptivity as the sole criterion of Jewish immigration into Palestine. The application of this principle, he brought out, had sent Jewish population up from 80,000 in 1922 to 450,000 today. On the other hand, he said, as a result of social services established by Britain with Jewish collaboration, the Arab population had risen in the last 20 years from 600,000 to more than 1,000,000.
"We must keep our promises to the Jews, but we must also keep faith with the Arab world," Mr. MacDonald said. "The Government is disappointed that the Arabs have preferred liberty to the prospect of material progress. It is a question of forcing continued Jewish immigration on the Arabs. In the eyes of the Government, the political absorption of new elements is just as important as their economic absorption.
"This isn't a military problem, it is a political problem. If we don't do something to remove the unrest which the Arab feels, if we merely go back to a policy of unlimited immigration which would confirm and augment his fear of being dominated, then we are only sowing dragon's teeth which will one day spring up again as armed men.
"We propose that the influx of Jews should continue for another five years, even regardless of Arab wishes. We have decided on that largely because we believe Palestine could and should still make further substantial contribution towards relieving the tragedy of the Jewish refugees of Central Europe.
"It was said in a statement issued by the Jewish Agency that our proposal transferred authority over Palestine to the present Arab majority and put the Jewish population at the mercy of that majority. If that criticism were true, I agree that this proposal should be condemned. We cannot in honor put the Jewish national home at the mercy of a possibly hostile majority. But I do not believe the limit assigned to immigration could hurt the development of the Jewish community."
A federal solution of the Palestine problem, extending beyond the artificial frontiers created 20 years ago, was advocated today by members of the Royal Commission which in 1937 concluded there was an "irreconcilable conflict" in the Holy Land and recommended tripartition. Pending "fullest consideration" of such a solution, the commissioners, in a joint letter to the Times, counselled acceptance of federal principles as a provisional basis of agreement, declaring they believed this to be the "only honorable truce and just solution between Arabs and Jews."
If an independent state is to be unitary, the letter said, it was difficult to expect Jewish cooperation since the majority of Arab nationalists had not concealed their antagonism to a Jewish national home. An Arab majority in a unitary state, the commissioners contended, would mean Arab domination and cessation of Jewish immigration would doom the Jews to a permanent minority status.


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Coming up Wednesday, September 21 is the new Fox TV reality show, "The X-Factor". The show is a television franchise that started in the United Kingdom and has had so far, 53 winners around the world. And finally it comes to the U.S. Simon Cowell created this show and you'll remember the sparring we saw Cowell do with Paula Abdul when they were judges on "American Idol". What fun that was!
And Cowell tells "Redbook" magazine, "Probably my best friends in the world are the people I argue with the most, because they don't always say what you want to hear…From the minute I met Paula I was fascinated by her. She's a complex person, but–this is going to sound very American–she's got a great heart". Awwwww. "The X-Factor" website says the show differs from "Idol" in that each judge mentors finalists, aiding them in song selection and styling. Simon and Paula are both judges along with Nicole Scherzinger and Antonio "LA" Reid. Look out, I think it'll give "Idol" a run for the money.


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The folks over at HP are not sitting back waiting for Dell to play catch-up. Instead they are introducing a new gaming rig to compete against Dells XPS series of systems. The new HP Blackbird 002 will be released on the public on September 15, 2007. This new machine will have the following according to HP:
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San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District firefighters immediately began an offensive interior attack and were able to contain the fire by 2:35 am. Fire damage was limited to the garage and three of the front rooms.
One resident was home at the time of the fire. She escaped after being alerted by her smoke alarm. The fire was reported to 911 emergency dispatch by a neighbor. There were no injuries reported.
"The resident made a smart choice, she was sleeping with her door closed," said Fire Inspector Natalie Kurtz. "An ordinary bedroom door can keep smoke out of your bedroom for up to 20 minutes, which is the time you will need to escape."
A total of five engines, two trucks, one paramedic ambulance, one breathing support unit, three Chief Officers and one fire investigator were dispatched to the scene.
The cause has been determined as an electrical fire that began in the garage. The structure sustained about $100,000 in damage and $75,000 in content loss.
"Smoke Alarms save lives," said Fire Marshal Christina Jamison. "Install one on every level of your home, in hallways and in all bedrooms."
Fire Chief Richard Price said the house fires in the last several weeks are just a coincidence, that this is not fire season.
San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District also reminds residents to test your smoke alarms once a month and replace the batteries twice a year.
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After a messy divorce ended her first marriage, Roberta O'Key swore she would never marry again.
That was 18 weddings ago. Chris O'Key changed her mind.
The O'Keys remarry every year in a new place, globetrotting to Scotland, the Bahamas and Maui to name a few.
The idea blossomed out of their first honeymoon in San Francisco, when Roberta made an offhand comment wishing they could duplicate newlywed bliss every year.
"Why can't we?" Chris asked.
So they have.
Roberta, 52, anticipates the wedding each year, even though they do not stick to their actual Dec. 6 anniversary. Friday they will celebrate their 17th anniversary.
"It has been an incredible ride and incredible joy," Chris, 49, says. "Every time feels like the first time."
What began as romantic jet-setting in gown and tux became a source of hope for the future about 10 years ago when Roberta had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic, resulting in a damaged immune system, 30 different operations and minor memory loss.
They keep the ceremony small — just them, a pastor and the occasional photographer — but they do not skimp on wedding essentials. Roberta has picked 18 dresses and wears as many of the 18 rings as she can fit on her fingers every day. As they stand before a pastor, they share new, personal vows and read out of 1 Corinthians 13 to remind each other that "love is patient; love is kind."
Every year, they find a bouquet unique to the location and cut a miniature wedding cake with pineapple filling. If they can find one, they enjoy carriage rides to the post-ceremony dinner and usually take a photograph with the pastor before they leave.
But that's where predictability ends. They tell the stories together, Chris filling in when Roberta's memory falters, Roberta hauling dusty, framed photos from back rooms.
When Roberta and Chris met almost 20 years ago at The Maverick, in its original location at 22nd Street and Swan Road, both thought the other looked out of place.
Roberta, coming from a professional women's event with girlfriends, stood out in a sparkly dress. Chris, in work boots from Walmart, was lacking in country swag.
"He didn't even have on cowboy boots, so we came to the conclusion that he was a pilot from Davis-Monthan," Roberta says. "My girlfriends said, 'Go over there and ask him.'"
It turned out that Chris worked for Pima County, not the Air Force, as a systems analyst. But after surviving an interrogation by Roberta's girlfriends, the women deemed him acceptable.
"They left me there with him, and we closed down the bar," Roberta says, still a little indignant about her abandonment. "He gave me a ride home, which was very out of the ordinary for me to do anything like that, but there was something about him that was special."
About one year later, Roberta and Chris said "I do" at DeGrazia's Mission in the Sun. For both, it was a second marriage.
"We found out how not to do things," Chris says. "Now we're going to do things right."
For that first wedding, they celebrated in simplicity rather than extravagance. Friends pitched in, bringing extra chairs for the ceremony and helping Roberta cook for the at-home reception.
"They almost set the house on fire," Chris says, with a pointed look at his wife.
Roberta does not deny it, but she grins while telling the story. She treasures all of it.
"I wasn't really paying attention," she says. "All of the sudden the counter was on fire."
Despite the mishap, the newlyweds left their friends and family at the house to stay a night at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon before honeymooning in San Francisco.
They crashed a Christmas party at the resort and joined the dancing, still wearing their wedding attire. Everyone thought it was their party.
"And they were taking pictures of us, saying, 'What a wonderful wedding! What a wonderful ceremony,'" Chris says, laughing.
So they have one every year.
In the early years, the O'Keys did little budgeting for their weddings, relying on Roberta's successful career as an investment banker.
They married in a Scottish turret, serenaded by a personal bagpiper and dined in a private enclave on the beach in Maui.
For the fifth wedding, the O'Keys married in San Antonio, tacking the romantic getaway onto one of Roberta's business trips. They said "I do" again at the River Walk, in a closed off hotel courtyard, lit by candles. Later, they took a carriage ride to the Alamo.
"Some of the places we go to because I'd always wanted to go there..." Roberta says. "I wanted to go to San Antonio so if we ever fought, I could say, 'Remember the Alamo!'"
They pick other locations for the names, scoping out the best spot for a wedding after arriving. They have renewed their vows at Bridal Veil Falls in Telluride, Colo. and Love Beach in the Bahamas. In Sundance, Utah, after hopping off of a chairlift, they found a sign noting two ski trails: Maverick and Wedding Ring. They came back to the signs dressed as bride and groom.
On these anniversary trips, the O'Keys leave daily life at home. They decided early on not to talk about work or kids.
Roberta's sons, A.J. Stangl, 25, and Rezen Stangl-O'Key, 22, never went on the trips. They stayed home with Roberta's mother, which Rezen remembers as a treat.
"I didn't understand why they got to go to all these fun places and I got to stay behind, but when I got older, it was something unique." Rezen says. "I really like that my parents do that. It takes them away from the real world and takes them to a happier time."
Many of the weddings risked being canceled as the family wrestled with the spiraling effects of a damaged immune system on Roberta's health.
Chris took over as the wedding trip planner — a stressful task for a guy, he notes.
"Every step of the way I kept my fingers crossed that I didn't mess it up," he says.
During Roberta's first stays in the hospital, Chris spent many days huddled with a doctor, informed over and again that his wife would not live through the night.
She did every time, but her life changed.
"I've always identified myself through my work," Roberta says. "I even had my own Popsicle business when I was 9 years old. My whole world stopped, but my faith has been able to bring me through it. Hope is so important. It gives me hope that, 'Oh, we're going to have another wedding.' That helps when I'm down."
As Baptists, the O'Keys place significant emphasis on the officiant at their ceremonies, interviewing local pastors before traveling to the wedding destination.
Sickness has kept them Tucson-bound twice, allowing the husband of one of Roberta's longtime friends — one of her girlfriends that night at The Maverick — to marry them. Larry Munguia, the senior pastor of the S.O.B.E.R. Project where the O'Keys attended church at the time, remembers the simple wedding at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon as a "parking lot wedding."
"I just remember laughing a lot; it was fun," Munguia says. "It creates a new threshold to anticipate newness in their lives. It's not the same old yawning. … Everything they had gone through brought them to that place again."
Even when Roberta stopped working and the couple faced skyrocketing health costs, the O'Keys made the deliberate decision to continue their annual weddings.
The weddings have a more frugal spin these days. Roberta shops for her dresses with a price-wary eye — she found one at Savers, brand new with tags, for $17.
When they celebrate their 20th wedding in 2015, they will stay in Tucson to share it with friends and family for the first time since their initial walk down the aisle in 1996.
Much has changed since then, but some things remain constant.
"He is as romantic at heart as I am and a good man of faith," Roberta says. "That has helped me get through all of the adversity we have been through."
Chris finishes for her.
"You have to have something to look forward to, and she looks forward to these weddings," he says.
Roberta grins at him, waving both hands, rings stacked on every finger: "Look, I get rings every year."
Together, despite everything, they laugh.


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Tisha Deeghan Appointed Executive Director of Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board
July 29, 2014
At today's meeting, the Board of Supervisors appointed Tisha Deeghan as executive director of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB), the public agency for Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church that provides services for people with concerns related to mental health, substance use, and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"It is a great privilege to receive this appointment by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors," says Deeghan. "It is because the local leaders so deeply value the work of the Community Services Board that I am willing to leave a wonderful community and great recovery-oriented system of care in Genesee County, Michigan, to join Fairfax. I am excited for this opportunity and look forward to a smooth transition with the support of the Board of Supervisors, the CSB Board and staff, and the many others in the community who are working to improve the quality of life and health status of our residents."
Deeghan has worked in the field of mental health and substance use disorder treatment and prevention for 33 years, including the past 13 years as senior vice president/chief operating officer for Genesee Health System (GHS) in Michigan. With a budget of about $150 million and a contract network of some 250 providers, GHS manages specialty services and supports for individuals with serious mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use disorders and children with serious emotional disturbance. Deegan has led GHS's managed care operations, as well as integrated health and wellness programs to address the often poor health status of the nearly 17,000 people GHS serves each year. Under her direction, GHS opened its first clinic primarily serving people experiencing homelessness, setting the stage for a second clinic in public housing to open this summer.
Before coming to GHS, Deeghan worked for 18 years as an accreditation surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) , an independent, nonprofit accreditor of health and human services, and served as a national health care consultant in both public and private sectors.
Deeghan earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Master of Social Work from Michigan State University, and received her Master of Health Services Administration/Public Health from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She is licensed in Michigan as a social worker and as a marriage and family therapist. She will begin her new position on September 15 and will earn an annual salary of $160,000.


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Six Initiatives Receive Awards for their Contribution the Development of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
Montevideo, July 3rd.- Six projects that have made a significant contribution to the development of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean have been recognized by the Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean (FRIDA), announced Casa de Internet de Latinoamérica y el Caribe.
The winning projects are from Argentina, Peru, Colombia – one is regional in scope – and have been honored with the FRIDA 2013 Award (programafrida.net) for their contribution in the areas of Internet access, freedom, development and innovation in the region. Proposals from El Salvador, Colombia and Nicaragua also received special mentions.
Among the 63 projects that were submitted, this fourth edition of the FRIDA Award honored six initiatives which, over the past few years, have encouraged the use of Information Technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In addition, one out of four initiatives submitted for the FRIDA Award also presented proposals for scaling their projects. Each scaling proposal can receive up to USD 6000 to finance new activities relating to their project. The judging panel will notify winners regarding this last item on July 15th.
The FRIDA Awards are presented by the FRIDA Program (the Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean), an initiative of the Latin America and Caribbean Internet Address Registry (LACNIC), with the financial support of the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the Internet Society (ISOC), and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
In addition to a cash prize, winners will receive financial assistance to attend the Pre-Internet Governance Forum that will take place in Cordoba (Argentina) and the global Internet Governance Forum in Bali (Indonesia).
- Virtual Videobooks Using Sign Language, Argentina.
- http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/247
- Willay: Governance and Citizenship through ICTs in Rural Areas of Peru.
- http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/277
Given the excellent quality of the projects submitted in this category, the judging panel decided that the first prize would be shared among two projects:
- Portable Electrocardiograph for Mobile Devices.
- http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/239
- Early Warning System for Medellin and the Aburra Valley (Colombia).
- http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/283
- Chequeado.com. La Voz Pública Foundation for Checking Discourse (Argentina).
- http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/290
Most Voted, Most Creative Project:
- VotaloBotalo. FAVIM (Argentina).
- http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/262
The judging panel also awarded special mentions to the following projects: Matilti (Women's Group for Local Development) from El Salvador, Civil Society Virtual Center for Transparency and Accountability, a regional initiative, Training to Save Childhood, Virtual AIEPI from Colombia, and Surveillance System for the Prevention of Female Cancer from Nicaragua.
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ANCHORAGE - A Denver man and another man face assault charges after a confrontation with two guests at a tourist lodge in Southeast Alaska.
The Anchorage Daily News reports the two men, Michael York of Colorado and Devon Fernandez of Virginia, were being transferred Monday to the Anchorage jail. Neither man had an attorney listed in online court records.
Yakutat Police Chief Robert Baty says the two men became highly intoxicated Friday night at Icy Bay Lodge about 65 miles west of Yakutat. They confronted a couple from California over mining and its effects on Alaska. The pair had been exploring the area with the possibility of mining. Investigators say they were not drinking.
Baty says both men threatened the couple with firearms at one point before the lodge manager separated everyone. There were no injuries.


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It's hard to tell if Warren Beatty retired from filmmaking after 2001's disastrous box office bomb Town & Country, or if he simply retreated. Either way, he's back in action now, announcing two new projects. First up, a new untitled comedy from Paramount which… we know jack squat about. Dang it. Beatty also announced that he was working on a new Dick Tracy movie, although he was hazy with the details.
Deadline reported on the new comedy, Beatty's first directorial effort since the Oscar-nominated (and already impossibly dated) Bulworth. Although it has its fans, Bulworth never earned Beatty the acclaim of his previous directorial efforts, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director) and the stylish funnybook gangster movie Dick Tracy. Let's hope he brings back some of the Heaven Can Wait magic this time.
As for Dick Tracy, AintItCool announced that a little while ago, but Beatty didn't go into any detail regarding whether the new film was a sequel, remake, re-imagining, reboot or whatever. It's difficult to imagine Beatty returning as the title character, making us wonder who among the modern crop of movie stars has a jaw strong enough to wear the trademarked banana fedora. May we suggest Viggo Mortensen?
Crave Online will be back with more Warren Beatty, because Warren Beatty's back!


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Pouncey's thrilled for the other Pouncey
It doesn't seem that long ago that Mike and Maurkice Pouncey arrived on the Gator campus as highly-recruited freshman offensive linemen who occasionally still wore the same clothes when they went out.
The identical twin brothers from Lakeland are separated now. Maurkice is the starting center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mike is the Gators' starting center. (Maurkice left a year early for the NFL).
So you can imagine it was kind of strange for Mike to be sitting in front of his TV Monday night watching Maurkice play. It's the first time in their lives they haven't been on the same team, playing together.
But nobody is more proud of Maurkice than Mike.
"He did a great job,'' Mike Pouncey said. "He was going against a 13-year vet and he played good. He's just trying to settle that position and do whatever it takes to be the best player he can at the next level. He actually thought he was going to start at guard, and he's been working and battling at that position. He was kind of shocked at first when he got moved to center, but he said he's been doing great. He's been playing great the whole preseason.''
Now a captain on the Gators' team, Mike Pouncey is preparing to begin his final season in Gainesville on Saturday. So far, being without his brother has been strange, but he's adjusting just fine.
"It's weird,' he said. "I'm always used to having somebody to walk to class with because we took all the same classes. It's somebody that's been there with me my whole life (20 years). It's different, but we've become accustomed to it. We're going different ways in life. It was going to have to happen one day.
Pouncey said the close-knit bond he shares with his veteran offensive line has made adjusting to life without his brother much easier.
"We're here, we love each other,'' he said. "On the offensive line we're all like brothers. And we're here to do one thing, and one thing only, and that's make it to Atlanta.''
And he's already targeted somebody to take over the pregame ritual he used to share with Maurkice.
"We used to snap each other's pads on before the game,'' he said. "But I'll probably choose Marcus Gilbert this year to do it.''


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Lucky Boys Confusion guitarist, Joe Sell, passed away May 15th near the band's recording studio. Sell had been in the hospital months prior due to pancreatic problems. He was 33.
Lucky Boys Confusion released the following statement on their facebook:
We are saddened & devastated to hear the news of our bandmember, friend & brother Joe Sell's passing this morning. The five of us have toured, recorded & performed as one for the last fifteen years. More importantly, we've all grown up together. There simply are no words right now.
We send our truest condolences to the entire Sell family & ask on their behalf that everyone respects their privacy at this difficult time.
The band has no further statement at this time & we thank you for your kind thoughts.
Joe Sell was a self-taught guitarist who formed Lucky Boys Confusion with his friends in 1997 in Chicago, IL. The band rose to mainstream fame with hits such as "Hey Driver", "Bossman", and "Fred Astaire."
Our condolences go out to Joe's family and friends.


text: Erion or Corona? Hodgson's Future in the Air Henny Ray Abrams | December 16, 2008 BROOKLYN, NY, DEC. 16: Neil Hodgson could end up with either the Erion Honda or Corona Honda team in 2009, depending on the outcome of impending talks between American Honda and the two satellite teams. The only rider contracted to American Honda for 2009, Hodgson was left without a ride when the company pulled out of road racing on Friday night. But American Honda wants to place him on whichever satellite team gives him the best chance of winning the 2009 American Superbike title. "This week we're going to meet with Kevin (Erion) and Tim (Saunders)" of Corona Honda, American Honda road race boss Ron Heben said, to decide the best option for 2009. "The main focus is how can we give Neil the best support which can give him the best chance to win a championship?" Erion Honda will campaign 2008 Formula Xtreme champion Jake Zemke and Canadian Chris Peris in the Daytona SportBike class. Corona Honda has Jake Holden in American Superbike and the best out of industry sponsorship and marketing partnership in the paddock. Corona Honda might be a better fit, simply because they race the CBR1000RR, but Erion Honda has raced 1000's and has been more the successful race team. "Neil (Hodgson), I think, wants to race 1000's; I'm almost positive he does," Heben said. "So if you say, 'OK, Kevin (Erion), can you absorb this into your program and can you properly do this and do you want to do this? How are we going to make this work?' And the other is if you said to the Corona team, same situation. And then I think we just have to look at both elements and go, 'Which makes the most sense and which is going to be the best program to support Neil?' " We already have a commitment to support Erion in the 600 class and they obviously have done a great job with that in years past. Corona, even though they're racing the Superbike and it'll be a little bit easier this year, their program is a little bit different than the Erion program. So we just have to speak with both of those parties, look at the big picture, then see which of our resources we have in place and how we can properly use that to make the thing work. So when they go to Daytona they have a competitive package." American Honda vice president Ray Blank said the company "certainly would love to see (Hodgson) back out there, because he had a pretty good time at the tire test." Hodgson was the fastest of the three factory Superbike riders, though neither Suzuki nor Kawasaki took part. "What we're not going to do, though, is to be able to represent ourselves as Team Honda because of the additional expenses involved with that." Blank added that no one currently under contract to American Honda was going to lose his job. He said Honda was going "to hold true to all the commitments we made, to all the contracts that we made. We're not breaking any contracts. We're not going to say to anybody, 'Well, we're just going to leave you out there.'" Where they end up has yet to be determined. Heben said each team already had the infrastructure to run their race teams. "Until we really sit down in there and say, 'Do you have a crew chief to support Neil? OK. We have a guy here who can fit that bill and Neil knows him and he's comfortable with him.' The good thing is Neil's comfortable with all the guys he had. Even though there were no rules made, we had a team organization that was set up and established to go racing for next year. "Neil knows this would be the second year and Neil knows those guys and whether they worked with him last year or worked with Miguel (Duhamel), they're all quality guys. And I kind of look at it, I'm kind of optimistic that in August next year when these guys are still under contract, that American Honda looks at it and goes 'Let's continue to go racing in 2010,' because you still have a very good group of talented guys that can go forward, either in the same capacity that they're doing under a different team umbrella or bring it back in house. You don't know how that's going to work out. "The key part is, I would like to see that you wouldn't have to start up a whole new program. It would be more bringing the band back together. You know what they do and they know how to work together. And you know that they have the experience, that you might have been off for a little bit, but you start back up." The bottom line is that Heben wants to "make sure that not only at the first race does Neil have the support to be successful, but at the last race as well. Certainly we have a lot of confidence in our support programs that we have, that they're going to ensure that Neil gets the support throughout the entire season, because it takes an entire season to win a championship, not just one race."Henny Ray Abrams | Contributing EditorAbrams is the longest-serving contributor at Cycle News. Over the course of his 35-some years of writing and shooting photos, he's covered events from MotoGP to the Motocross World Championship - and everything in between. Comments


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First Night Activities To Focus on Fayetteville Street
Posted December 26, 2006
First Night activities traditionally have been spread across downtown, but organizers said more will be held within walking distance of Fayetteville Street on Sunday night.
"It seemed so spread out. You didn't get a feeling for the event. I think being back on Fayetteville Street brings connectors of all different places where First Night takes place," Downtown Raleigh Alliance President Nancy Hormann said.
This plaza where the old convention center used to stand has been the place where the acorn has dropped at midnight for most First Night celebrations. Now that the plaza has been removed to make way for construction of the new convention center, the acorn drop will be moved north one block into the middle of the intersection of Fayetteville and Davie streets.
This year's theme is a celebration of the '70s, '80s, '90s and today. Each block of Fayetteville Street will be turned into a different era, and events will spread onto the side streets.
Christ Hardwick of Raleigh, who holds the world record for solving the Rubik's cube, will be in the 1980s section, for example, showing off his skill on the multi-colored puzzle. Meanwhile, festival attendees can dance the macarena on the steps of the Wake County Courthouse.
"That's what First Night is about -- to program non traditional performance spaces," said Terri Dollar, program director for Artsplosure, which organizes the annual event. "I think it's great to go into a space where you normally bank and here a Latin band. People like that kind of unexpected surprise."
A big party in the center of downtown will recall bygone times, when Fayetteville Street used to be a gathering place, Dollar said.
"People look for that -- park your car and be able to walk to everything -- sort of that amusement park mentality," she said. "We hope families will start a new tradition and say we are going back to Fayetteville Street, we are going to First Night."


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Practice report: USF hopes to shine, not slip, on ESPN stage
Tuesday's practice report from Times correspondent Jeff Odom:
TAMPA -- USF coach Willie Taggart embraces the opportunity to have the national
spotlight on his team when it travels to American Athletic Conference opponent Houston
on Thursday night.
Taggart said it's a unique chance to show the country what his team can do, despite the
Bulls' winless record (0-9) on Thursday nights since a 51-10 win against Florida Atlantic in 2002.
USF is 2-14 all-time on ESPN, which is carrying the prime-time matchup.
"Guys have to want to show up and show out, that's what it is," Taggart said Tuesday.
"The spotlight does strange things to some people; it just does in football games. Some
people relish that moment and some people hide.
"We need a lot of people that want to go out there and make a name for themselves and
make a name for this university. That's what it takes, guys just fired up about going out
there and letting everyone know they can play football with the big boys."
LOW POINT: Monday marked exactly one month since USF's last offensive touchdown -- with two seconds remaining in a 49-21 loss against Miami.
"It's not like they're not trying, they're working hard," Taggart said. "They're trying, they just have to stay focused. They've got to stay mentally focused throughout the entire game and focus on doing their job."
AVOID MISTAKES: Defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan said he was impressed with
the way his unit kept Louisville QB Teddy Bridgewater under pressure Saturday, but is
disappointed with the amount of big plays given up.
The Bulls surrendered 485 yards in their 34-3 loss to the 20th-ranked Cardinals, but still
managed a season-high 11 tackles for loss and five sacks, best since last year's season-
opening win against Division I-AA Chattanooga.
"That's a frustrating deal, though," Bresnahan said. "We did get some pressure, we did
do some things that we wanted to do in the game. But then again, the explosive plays. It's
always offset. For every good one we had, we gave up a bad one and those things you can't
MEDICAL MATTERS: Taggart said senior HB Marcus Shaw (hamstring) will play on Thursday, barring any unexpected setbacks. Also, Taggart said OL Thor Jozwiak (irregular heartbeat) is out for the season after undergoing surgery last week. He is optimistic the redshirt sophomore will be healthy by spring workouts.


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San Jose Sharks at Dallas Stars
7:05 p.m. Saturday. FSSW, KTCK-AM (1310)
Key matchup: Joe Thornton vs. Jamie Benn
The Pacific Division is the home of the heavyweight centers. San Jose's "Jumbo Joe" Thornton, listed at 6-4, 225 pounds, tormented the Stars last season. He had two goals and 10 assists to go with a plus-7 rating in the six-game season series. Benn had two goals and two assists to go with a minus-2 rating.
Key stat: 53.6
Percent of faceoffs won by San Jose, entering Friday's play. The Sharks were tied with Detroit for the second-best faceoffs success rate in the league, behind Boston (57.4).
San Jose: C James Shepperd (lower body) is out.
Stars: G Kari Lehtonen (groin) and W Ray Whitney (foot) are out. D Trevor Daley (neck) is doubtful.
This is the last stop on a six-game trip for the Sharks, who played at Chicago on Friday night. It was San Jose's second game against the Blackhawks during the odd journey. … The Sharks began play against Chicago at 1-4-3 since opening the season with seven consecutive victories. … San Jose's power play has mirrored the change in record. In the 7-0 start, the power play was 12-for-39. Since then, the unit was only 2-for-35 going into the game at Chicago. … San Jose has earned 15 points in its last eight games against the Stars. … The Sharks are 1-1-1 for the second game of back-to-backs…. .San Jose's top line of Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski and Thornton went into the game at Chicago with 20 goals. … Old friend Adam Burish grinds away on the Sharks' fourth line. Burish, who had 14 goals in two seasons with the Stars, had not registered a point in 15 games entering play against Chicago.


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Raleigh, N.C. — By the middle of the month, the city will launch the final version of its open data website, Open Raleigh.
Members of the Technology and Communications Committee got a brief overview of the site last week.
Since last year, the site has been operating in beta and staff have been collecting and uploading city data for data geeks to download, analyze and visualize.
The website will be getting a bit of a makeover, but its most noticeable difference will be its mobile-responsive design. Users can now view the website more easily on their smartphones or tablets.
The new homepage is live for users to visit, but those wishing to work with the data will be brought back to the old site until March 15.
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When you examine what went wrong with the 2012 Philadelphia Union season, it was evident that the team would need to upgrade certain areas in order to return to a playoff team. These first two moves recently announced are a big step in the right direction, coming on the heels of the release of three players that allowed for some salary cap space.
In Sebastien Le Toux and Jeff Parke, you get two established MLS players.
Both players have had success in this league so there's no mystery in terms of what this duo can do. Contrast this with some of last year's Union signings, Gabriel Gomez, Porfirio Lopez and Lionard Pajoy. While each of those players has had success in previous stops, there was no sure way to tell if they could make it in MLS. The Union learned a lesson the hard way.
The trade to bring Le Toux back to Philadelphia tells you a lot about this organization. Whatever went wrong that forced the trade of Le Toux to Vancouver last year; all parties concerned knew it was a mistake that needed to be corrected. Some clubs would have said, "been there, done that "and let's move on," but not the Union.
The Union and Le Toux are a perfect fit, and it was good to see that Seba smile at Friday's re-introductory press conference that welcomed him back to Philadelphia. This was a player who bled blue and gold for two seasons. While his body was in Vancouver and later New York this past year, his heart was still in Philadelphia.
To those who might think this was a signing strictly for PR purposes, I would beg to differ. While there is no doubt that the Le Toux signing was a crowd pleaser, (Union CEO and operating partner Nick Sakiewicz even noted that the team did listen to its fans in bringing him back), the club would not have brought him back if they didn't believe he would make an impact on the field. The same impact he made when he registered 25 goals and 20 assists during the regular season in his two years with the Union.
Manager John Hackworth knows what Le Toux brings to the table besides the goals and the assists. Simply put, Sebastien brings an all-out 90-minute effort like no player I've seen in my years of covering MLS. The score of the game doesn't matter, nor does the time on the clock, or the stadium. Le Toux is a one man full court press, putting pressure on opponents who are trying to bring the ball upfield. He defends relentlessly, but with a purpose. When other players on the team see his effort, how can they not attempt to match it? Much of Le Toux' offensive numbers in those first two Union years were helped out by his defensive presence.
This past season was a rough one for Le Toux, playing for two teams in two countries, and his numbers reflected the turbulence. He knows he's a better player and will have that in his mind when he puts on the Union uniform again. It's great to see him back.
As for Jeff Parke, to me he is one of the more underrated central defenders in MLS. He's been a starter for three years on a very good Seattle team that has always made the playoffs. He's a player who will battle for every ball, on the ground or in the air, regardless of the opponent. Before his years in Seattle, he was in New York, as a starter for the MetroStars and then Red Bulls for five seasons. He's a player that opposing forwards don't like to play against.
At this point, who knows how the back four for the Union will look once the 2013 season kicks off, but for sure John Hackworth has added some depth to the team, while also giving himself some options. It's hard to envision Parke not starting for the Union so we'll have to see how this plays out. If he's in the starting 11, Union fans will have a solid central defender there. If he happens to be part of your bench that means your back four is exceptional.
Either way the Union can't lose.
Their first two off season signings are very impressive known commodities. However, those two signings alone surely don't mean the Union should start printing playoff tickets as there is more work to be done. More changes are coming for sure and as we wait for those changes, there is at least more reason these days for optimism.
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The FLA is working to fix these issues with reduced overtime, better compensation and elected employee representatives
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in the company's suppliers' factories in China, but Apple's voluntary submission to the Fair Labor Association's (FLA) rigorous inspections is beginning to turn the situation around.
The FLA recently investigated three different Foxconn factories in China where Apple products are made. After spending 3,000 staff hours watching 35,000 workers, the FLA found that there were indeed some violations that needed to be addressed. Among those violations were
overtime, pay and health-related issues
The FLA discovered that Foxconn employees were working beyond the Chinese legal limits of 40 hours per week and 36 hours maximum overtime per month over the last year. Many employees worked over 60 hours per week (especially during peak production periods), and worked more than seven days in a row without the 24 hours off that is required.
Both Apple and Foxconn have agreed to comply with the FLA's changes, which will be to decrease working hours to 49 per week (including overtime) and reducing monthly overtime hours from 80 to 36. Also, overtime payment, which is typically paid in 30-minute increments, will change for the better. Traditionally, a worker had to work 30 minutes for overtime, but if they worked 29 minutes, they wouldn't receive the overtime payment. IF they worked 59 minutes, they only received 30 minutes of overtime payment. Workers will now be compensated for the time they work, not just in 30-minute increments.
For those employees that depend on the income that came from extended overtime, Foxconn will offer a compensation package to prevent workers from losing income due to decreased overtime.
Aside from overtime, 64 percent of Foxconn workers said their general pay did not meet basic needs, such as the cost of living in their respective cities. The FLA is now investigating if that is the case.
The FLA also interviewed employees about their working conditions, and 43 percent said they have witnessed or experienced an accident. Accidents ranged from minor injuries to factory vehicle accidents, and safety issues like missing permits and blocked exits were taken care of during the investigation. The FLA also requires supervisors and workers to report all injuries now; not just those that end in a production stoppage.
In addition, the FLA found that workers were being represented strictly by management, but changed this by electing worker representatives to speak for the others.
"If implemented, these commitments will significantly improve the lives of more than 1.2 million Foxconn employees and set a new standard for Chinese factories," said Auret van Heerden, FLA president and CEO.
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Apple voluntarily joined the FLA
, following the negative
report that cited poor working conditions for Foxconn employees who made Apple products. Apple CEO
Tim Cook was outraged by the
, which accused his company of not caring about its supplier's employees overseas.
After joining the FLA, van Heerden initially reported in February that Apple's Foxconn plants were not so bad after all. In fact, he said
they were "first class,"
and that the workers were just bored with the monotony of their jobs, which led to the accidents in the factories. Now, it seems the opposite is true and the workers were in fact pushed to their limits.
However, Apple has made a valid effort to check out the situation in China. Just this week, Cook visited its
latest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, China
, where 120,000 employees work.
Apple and Foxconn agreed to meet FLA working standards/Chinese legal limits by July 2013.
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Natural gas for August delivery settled 6.3 cents, or 1.44%, lower at $4.311 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Futures pared gains made in the previous session on lower-than-expected Department of Energy weekly inventory data, but the benchmark contract still ended this week 1.9% higher.
"We've had a really decent bounce after testing support around the $4.20 level," said Matt Smith, commodity analyst with Summit Energy in Louisville, Ky.
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