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Japanese bureaucrats, especially those in the mighty trade ministry METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), have long actively promoted what they consider key export industries, from cars to computers.
But for decades that did not include makers of film, TV shows and other content, who mostly were left to their own devices, and looked on with envy as their counterparts in Asia benefited from more lavish (if at times intrusive) government support.
But as a flurry of recent government-backed initiatives has made clear, the days of indifference are now officially over.
TV biz org ATP (Assn. of All Japan TV Program Production Cos.), with the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and other government bodies, held the first Tokyo TV Forum last year with the aim of promoting international co-production partnerships.
At a pitching session, 19 commissioning editors from 11 countries and regions heard pitches from 21 Japan-based producers. The second TTVF will be Dec. 10-12, with reps from the BBC, PBS and other leading foreign broadcasters skedded to attend.
In August, MIC announced the selection of 10 proposals from 107 submitted by regional broadcasters, production houses and other entities for shows to be co-produced with overseas partners, using government subsidies. The aim is to develop continuing cross-border relationships, not simply produce one-off shows.
With the support of MIC and METI, pubcaster NHK and leading commercial broadcasters will pitch 10 formats to prospective foreign partners at a joint event to be held at Mipcom.
Among the formats skedded for presentation are NHK's "Time Scoop Hunter" (Japanese title), a faux docu series featuring a time traveling journo, and Fuji TV's "Hoko Tate" (Spear and Shield), a variety show that stages real-world challenges mostly for laughs, such as pitting a team of 11-year-old boys against a team of 55-year-old men in physical contests.
MIC is pressing on with these and other initiatives, says Information and Communications Bureau deputy director Teruhiko Sato, despite sharp budget cuts.
"We had about $64 million annually (for content promotion) until about two years ago, but it's much less than that now. We're trying to be smarter with the money we have," says Sato.
For example, the $32,000 MIC gives to each of 10 selected regional co-prod projects may not sound like much, but "it gives the producers credibility and helps them raise funds elsewhere," he says.
Formats are one promising growth area, Sato says, since they are easier to sell in the lucrative U.S. and European markets, as well as having greater upside potential than international co-prods.
"Co-productions tend to be money losers for the (Japanese) networks," Sato notes, "but they can earn a lot of money from format royalties."
The same networks, he explains, also now see the benefit of banding together.
"They had been (selling formats) on their own, but not getting good results." The MIC-backed Mipcom pitch event, he believes, "will have more impact."
Another priority for MIC is not just selling Japanese TV content abroad, but localizing them for individual markets.
That means not only subbing and dubbing, but remaking shows with local staff and talent. "In Southeast Asia, content is relatively cheap," he explains. "If you have to use a Japanese director, costs are going to rise."
Piracy is yet another profit-draining problem that Japanese TV content face, especially in Asia. "When a Japanese animated show is broadcast in Japan, pirated versions are available on the Internet one hour later in Korea and China," Sato explains.
One solution is TV Tokyo's partnership with Chinese video portal Tudou, announced in November of last year, to simulcast subbed versions of 60 TV Tokyo toon shows, including such long-running hits as "Naruto" and "Bleach," to Chinese auds. Other barriers to contents export remain, such as strict copyright regs that have long made getting permissions for overseas use of shows a nightmare, but Sato insists that the ministry is in the contents promotion biz for the long haul.
"Korea started getting behind its contents industry after the Asian financial crisis more than a decade ago, and now they're seeing the results," he comments. "We need the same level of commitment in Japan."


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The Pajarito Brewpub and Grill next to Beall's in the Mari-Mac shopping center, is like a beacon in the night for those who want dinner after 8 p.m.
Despite what appears to be a very small space from outside, the owners have done a good job of using the space they have available. Not only do they have a bar in the establishment, but they also have a few booths and a decent amount of seating for diners.
Admittedly, the brewpub and grill was not the first choice on a recent Sunday afternoon, but alas, it was one of the only choices open after 2 p.m. A trip to another restaurant was attempted and despite the fact that the sign said they closed at 3 p.m. and it was only 2:36 p.m., the doors were locked. So a visit to the brewpub was in order.
The hostess was quick to seat the party and provide menus. The waiter was a bit slow in coming around, but that was OK, because the delay allowed the menus to be perused thoroughly. By the time he did come to take the drink orders, everyone was ready to order.
Three sodas, along with a fried pickle appetizer were ordered. Entrees ordered included the Reuben sandwich with fries, the mac and cheese and a burger with gouda cheese and bacon.
The pickles were brought with the meal, which is unfortunate. It's an appetizer, so one expects it to be delivered to the table before the food. A fancy presentation was attempted with this appetizer. A few deep fried pickle spears were spread out on a round, white plate and were topped with thin slices of tomato and accented with truffle oil.
Because the entrees and the pickles were being worked on at the same time, the pickles had a chance to sit in the oil, so the breading became drenched in it. When they were bitten into, all you could taste was the heavy flavor of the oil. Also, a couple of the ends of the pickles were withered and looked like they'd been left in the fryer too long.
The Reuben was another story. Served on toasted bread and piled high with house-made sauerkraut, it was a winner. The pastrami was flavorful and just peppery enough, but not overwhelmingly so. The melted cheese was a good addition and all the flavors melded perfectly. Served with crispy, perfectly cooked shoestring French fries, it was definitely a must-try.
The burger was equally satisfying. Served on a brioche bun, the bacon that topped the burger was crisp and the apple wood-smoke flavor was evident. The gouda was perfectly melted and accompanied by those same shoestring fries, mustard, lettuce and tomato, the burger couldn't have been better. Also, it was ordered well done and came out that way — not like a hockey puck. Oftentimes when burgers are ordered well done, they are cooked beyond perfection. This wasn't the case at the brewpub.
Unfortunately, the mac and cheese did not receive the same thumbs-up that the other two dishes did. It looked good when brought to the table. In fact, it was ordered topped with bacon, so it should have been a slam-dunk, but alas, the truffle oil made another appearance and altered the taste. Instead of accenting and bringing out the flavors of the cheese, it drowned them, so all one could taste was the oil. Plus, it made the dish smell awful by the end of the meal. Needless to say, that it was only half-eaten.
The waiter was presentable, dressed in a neat-looking black long sleeve, button-down shirt. He was attentive and didn't hover, but checked in regularly to make sure that glasses were filled and everything was in order. There was one gripe about him, however. He smelled of body odor, so each time he reached over to grab a glass or clear a plate, one had to turn away to try and avoid the smell. That is definitely not a pleasant experience when you've just taken a bite of food. In fact, this should never happen in a restaurant. It's a sure-fire way to keep customers away, no matter how good the food is.
The menu is extensive, offering pub fare like burgers and sandwiches, to salads and a few things New Mexicans probably haven't heard of before, for example, the pretzel banger. They also offer fish and chips, a variety of appetizers and more. Of course, there is also an extensive list of microbrew on tap, as well as wine and a full bar.
Overall, the experience was a bit of a mixed bag. Two of the three entrees were definitely worth another try. The fried pickles were just so-so because of the truffle oil and the fact that a couple were a bit overcooked. The waiter, while friendly and attentive, had a hygiene issue that was not at all appealing. The biggest plus is that the eatery is open later than anyone else in town.
Also, there are menu items for children, so one would assume that this is a family-friendly place, however, there were multiple flyers posted throughout the eatery, announcing their St. Patrick's Day party. The problem? There's a scantily-clad woman pictured on the flyer, which doesn't exactly scream family-oriented, unless one finds a woman in lingerie an acceptable image for their children to view. But then again, it is a brew pub and grill.
Another trip might be in order to try something else on the menu, but hopefully another waiter or waitress will be working that day.
Total for three with tax, before tip, came to $41.71.
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OVIEDO, Fla. - Oviedo police say they have yet to determine how a burglar managed to get around security and break into several stores at the Ovideo Mall on Monday.
Originally, it was believed that the burglar may have hid inside the mall overnight. Detectives have discovered that a service door to the mall was broken and left open, said Oviedo Police Lieutenant Mike Beavers.
Regardless of how the burglar got inside, the security lapse has shopper worried. With a burglar smart enough to find a way in undetected, shoppers have one thing on their minds.
"Security," said one shopper named Terry. "If he could find a place to hide in the mall and then break in without being caught, and they supposedly have security, then how good is security?"
Store security video shows the burglar crawl through a hole in a security gate and into a jewelry store. A large amount of jewelry was stolen from Precious Fine Jewelers, located near Dillard's, and Master Cuts and Modern Furniture store were also broken into with their registers ransacked, Oviedo police said.
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Police swarmed the mall, located off Red Bug Lake Road near State Road 417, around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, unsure if the burglar was still inside, but no arrest was made.
What they found baffled them; the burglar cut through the security gates to several stores, but police still don't know how he got inside the mall in the first place.
"That mall is pretty secure, because I see that the security car is always running around the parking lot," said Asal Balouchian, another shopper.
Oviedo police fear the burglar may have done it before. Investigators said they want to know if a similar crime in Kissimmee could be related.
Kissimmee detectives sent out an alert to area police about a jewelry store burglar there, fitting the same description as the man seen on Oviedo Mall security cameras, said Kissimmee police spokeswoman Stacie Miller.
Police reviewed surveillance video from the mall and said it shows the burglar wearing a mask, gloves and dark clothing. Police say the robber has a distinct walk.
Miller said KPD does not think the crimes are related, but police in Oviedo are checking every avenue.
"You never know (why someone would do this)," an Oviedo police officer said. "People come up with crazy ideas. With the economy the way it is right now, people are getting desperate, so we're trying to ascertain (the motive) at this time."
Sandra Leyba's family lives near the mall, she told Local 6, "At the Oviedo mall? No, maybe at the Altamonte."
Leyba said, "That is just like something out of a movie, maybe they watched a movie or something and got the idea from that."
Tuesday morning, Local 6 was there as the jewelry store got ready for business as if nothing happened.
"That is like maybe he needed a hair cut, he was going out and just needed some jewelry, I mean, that is like really, they thought it out really good," said Leyba.
Oviedo police continue to investigate. Police said stores were doing inventory to see how much was stolen.
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Winder Police are investigating gunshots fired from a vehicle Thursday night (April 7) at a residence near Jessie Street.
Officers responded to a report of gunshots at about 7:15 p.m. Witnesses told them two vehicles drove by erratically and that passengers inside the vehicle were laughing and shooting a gun out of the window.
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MEDC launches new Michigan Advanced Technician Training Program to train next generation of manufacturers
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MEDC vice president Amy Cell said that manufacturing jobs have been stigmatized as dirty or unreliable since the economic downturn. The new Michigan Advanced Technician Training Program aims to combat those stereotypes by offering a work-study program that harnesses companies' need for new manufacturing talent to fund interested students' education.
"It's based on a German model of dual education and employer commitment," Cell explained.
" A student applies for the program and then they interview with a potential employer. Once they're accepted and 'hired' they begin a three-year program where they will be paid to both go to school and work."
The students alternate six-week periods in which they work at the manufacturing centers and go to school at either Henry Ford Community College or Oakland Community College. During their work periods they are paid hourly starting at $18,000 per year and increasing each year.
The company pays for the students' education costs and they are also provided with a stipend during the weeks they're in school.
The pilot program will begin taking applicants through its website on Monday, Jan. 7 and is open to any high school senior in the state. The MEDC hopes to expand the curriculum to community colleges across the state as more employers sign on to participate.
The program currently has room for 30 students at six Southeast Michigan companies. Students who complete the program have a two year "buyback" period working for the company after they graduate from the program with an associate degree.
Ben Freed covers business for AnnArbor.com. You can sign up here to receive Business Review updates every week. Reach out to Ben at 734-623-2528 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on twitter @BFreedinA2
Mon, Jan 7, 2013 : 9:12 p.m.
I hope they aren't training people so they can go get a manufacturing job in another state where the manufacturers are opening factories. Any tax money spent on this needs to be paired with companies opening factories.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 7:41 a.m.
Ann English, You miss the point entirely and this has nothing to do with right to work.
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Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 12:33 a.m.
Tax money spent on this? With Right to Work here, tax money would be better spent on this than wasted by public sector unions for their own selfish power. I know, other states have been right-to-work longer than Michigan has, but hopefully our freedom from forced unionism will enable us to adjust as readily to good change as other states and their companies.
Mon, Jan 7, 2013 : 5:39 p.m.
This sort of system is necessary if industry wants properly trained and experienced personnel. It used to be called apprenticeship. Industry has the knowledge, tools, and foresight to know when tools and skills need to be reshaped or redirected. Government may but doesn't have the financial capability or technical capability to adjust to changing times rapidly
Mon, Jan 7, 2013 : 1:45 p.m.
The program is commendable but it may be impractical. Participating manufacturers will be paying salaries (or stipends) to employees while they are being non-productive as students. Also, the manufacturers must provide employment in lesser skilled jobs until each participant has completed training. However, companies who are experiencing a shortage in employees with special skills which can be acquired through this training program may ultimately benefit. Can MEDC estimate the number of unemployed and high school graduates who could be involved in this program? Also, like mr_annarbor who commented above, I wonder how many manufacturers want to participate in this training-for-employment opportunity at this time. Any names or is this still in the dream stage?
Mon, Jan 7, 2013 : 12:28 p.m.
This article fails to mention any which, if any, manufacturers are taking part in this program.


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for the second year running, the yarn group I belong to, Yarn Corner, has worked on a project to brighten the City of Melbourne. The trees in City Square, and along Swanston Street are covered with knitting and crochet for a few weeks. This is done in co operation with the City of Melbourne, and is always during the month they promote awareness of urban trees, thru their Urban Forest Strategy .
I love this particular project, we used the Colours of the Rainbow, with all the trees in the Square in Rainbow stripes, and the trees in the Street each in a colour of the Rainbow.
My Granddaughter, LJ, is on holidays in Melbourne in January, so she always comes along to help out too.
My piece this year was just 3m long, and I shared a tree with another knitter. The Group hires a couple of scissor lifts and it takes a whole day to install.
I start out on a small ladder.....
and LJ does the hard bit, kneeling down to sew the bottom 1m in place.
When all the trees in the square are completed it looks like this....
Isn't that just amazing?
There are 14 more trees in Swanston Street, and each one looked spectacular, here are a few photos LJ took of them.
I love my Yarn Bombing, and my Yarn Corner friends, we meet regularly to chat, knit, crochet and exchange patterns and ideas. Currently working on something HUGE for 2013 Royal Melbourne Show, and a lovely ongoing project with the Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Center at the Austin Hospital.
All our members also do a lot of charity knitting and crochet too, including baby blankets for KOGO.
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If you are in Melbourne before February 17th, pop down to City Square and have a look.
*most photos taken by LJ, others courtesy of members of the Yarn Corner


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Dracomax wrote:jolleychris wrote:So short of reading the last 200 or so pages, what have I missed here?
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Honey & Oat Blueberry Lemon Pancakes
Things have gotten a little out of hand this week.
Monday: Went to the gym and completed 9.2 miles. Awesome. Came home and drank a whole bottle of wine (it was a regular size bottle, no judging). Not awesome.
Tuesday: Realized at the end of the day that I wore my underwear inside out all.freaking.day. Not a big deal…except I went to the bathroom multiple times that day and never noticed.
Wednesday: Tried shaving my dog myself to save money and he came out looking like Chewbacca after a hurricane involving sharp knives. Paid $65 to cover up what I did.
Thursday: Wore a cover up and a swimsuit all day because I have not done laundry. …I don't even know how to make this sound less worse than it is.
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Recipe Note: I found the original recipe to be a little thin and added more flour. I included my change below, but if you feel you need even more flour, add another 1/4 of a cup.
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup old fashioned oats
3 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup fat free milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 egg, room temperature
zest of 1 large lemon
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup fresh blueberries (washed and dried)
Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
In a large food processor, add flour and oats and pulse until oats are ground. Then, add everything else except the blueberries and pulse until all ingredients are pureed and well combined.
Heat a non-stick skillet to medium heat. Using a 1/4 cup scoop, pour batter on to skillet and add 8-10 blueberries on top of each pancake. Once you start to see little bubbles form, flip and continue to cook until pancake is browned on each side. Place pancake on an oven safe dish and place in oven to keep warm. Continue until you have used all pancake batter.
To freeze: Allow to cool completely and then transfer to a ziploc bag and freeze – reheat in toaster oven or microwave.
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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual < 18 cm, ± green to gray-woolly
Leaves alternate or seeming whorled; base hard, yellowish; blade oblanceolate to ± round, entire
Inflorescence: heads disciform, sessile, 1many above (sometimes scattered below), leafy-bracted, < 5 mm; phyllaries 0; receptacle conic, ± acuminate, short-shiny-bristly; chaff scales phyllary-like, subtending flowers, flat to concave, persistent, rigid, outer acute, ± glabrous, inner obtuse, finely woolly inside
Pistillate flowers in 15 series, cylindric
Disk flowers staminate, 26(12), ± bilateral, 35-lobed
Fruit obovoid, compressed front-to-back, ± angled, smooth, dull, ± black-banded near base; pappus 0
Species in genus: 3 species: CA, s OR
Etymology: (Greek: western Evax )
Reference: [Morefield 1992 Syst Bot 17:293310]
Segregated from Evax ; closest to Ancistrocarphus. Evax multicaulis DC. and E. prolifera of AZ & NM not adequately documented from CA.
Stem 08 cm
Leaves ± crowded near stem tips, longest 432 mm, < 5 mm wide; petiole < 1.5 X blade
Inflorescence: head generally 1, 24 mm, 1.53.5 mm wide, sometimes in dense groups of 28, groups < 8 mm wide, subtended by generally 612 leaves; lower heads 0 or < upper; receptacle < 2 X longer than wide; chaff in spiral ranks, inner scales 1.63.2 mm, tip exserted, spreading over outer scales
Pistillate flowers in 25 series
Disk flowers 0.61 mm
Fruit 0.61.6 mm
Ecology: Sandy slopes, flats, sometimes burns
Elevation: 1001300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: to sw Oregon
Synonyms: Evax a. (Kellogg) Greene (1883); E. a. Greene (1894) misapplied
Varieties intergrade.


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WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad's forces have resorted to firing ballistic missiles at rebel fighters inside Syria, Obama administration officials said Wednesday, escalating a nearly two-year-old civil war as the government struggles to slow the momentum of a gaining insurgency.
Administration officials said that over the past week, Assad forces for the first time had fired at least six Soviet-designed Scud missiles in the latest bid to push back rebels who have consistently chipped away at the government's military superiority.
In a conflict that has already killed more than 40,000 Syrians, the government has been forced to shift from reliance on troops to artillery, to airpower and now to missiles as the rebels have taken over military bases and closed in on the capital, Damascus. The escalation has not changed Washington's decision to avoid military intervention in Syria — as long as chemical weapons are not used — but it did prompt a rebuke from Washington.
"As the regime becomes more and more desperate, we see it resorting to increased lethality and more vicious weapons moving forward, and we have in recent days seen missiles deployed," said Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman.
President Barack Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons would cross a "red line," implying that it might lead to a U.S. military response.
Assad's decision to fire Scuds — not known for their precision — inside his own country appears directly related to the rebel ability to take command of military bases and seize anti-aircraft weapons. The Scuds have been fired since Monday from the An Nasiriyah Air Base, north of Damascus, and are believed to have carried a low-explosive warhead, according to U.S. officials familiar with the classified intelligence reports about the attacks. The target was the Sheikh Suleiman base north of Aleppo that rebel forces had occupied.
The development may also represent a calculation by the Syrian leadership that it can resort to such lethal weapons without the fear of international intervention, partly because Washington had set its tolerance threshold at the use of chemical weapons.
Obama has never suggested that the United States would take action to stop attacks against Syrian rebels and civilians with conventional weapons, no matter how severe.
"This may be another example of the unintended consequence of the red line the administration has drawn with regard to chemical weapons," said Joseph Holliday, a former Army intelligence officer and a senior analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a nongovernmental research group. "Assad views every weapon short of chemicals as fair game."
The disclosure about the Scuds came as representatives of more than 100 nations gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for a conference intended to give a political boost to the Syrian opposition, which is formally known as the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. And it came amid an increase in violence in Syria, including reports of a new massacre of about 100 Alawites, Assad's sect, and a massive bombing in the capital.
Obama, in an interview Tuesday with ABC News, formally recognized the coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
William Burns, the deputy secretary of state who led the U.S. team to the Morocco gathering, said Wednesday that he had invited opposition leaders to Washington, including Sheik Admad Moaz al-Khatib, the coalition leader.


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ONE girl was "sold" to one of the gang shortly after her 11th birthday, the Old Bailey heard.
The man who bought her – defendant Mohammed Karrar – got her pregnant when she was 12 before beating her and making her have a home abortion, the jury heard.
Prosecutor Noel Lucas said: "He regarded her as his property. "He showed her no regard.
"He felt he was entitled to have sex with her when he wanted and in whatever manner he wanted.
"If she had the courage to resist, he beat her."
Mr Lucas said the girl – known as Girl 4 – was a carer for her parents before she fell into the abuse.
He said Karrar liked visiting her at her home because "he could get away with doing anything" there.
The girl claims the Karrar brothers raped and sold her for sex, from 2004 to 2009.
Both deny all the charges against them.
The girl was taken to High Wycombe by the eldest brother Mohammed where she was tied up, gagged, and gang raped by six men, the jury heard.
Mr Lucas said: "The men would swarm around her saying 'I want to have a go'."
She was also told to dress in short skirts and bikini tops and "treat" guests, the court heard.
By the end of the evening she would be expected to have been "sexually used" by all the men, the prosecutor said.
Mr Lucas said the girl was "tiny" for her age when Mohammed "Mo" Karrar bought her and groomed her for sex.
He first had sex with her around the time of her 12th birthday, the jury heard.
Mr Lucas said: "She believes she was targeted as she needed love and looked very young.
"She began to take lots of drugs to block everything out.'"
Mr Lucas said the girl described her relationship with Karrar as "weird". She would sometimes believe he cared for her but then felt like he was just making money off her.
The court heard the girl never got more than an occasional £20 note for having sex.
The girl became "very frightened" of Mohammed Karrar, and also saw both Karrar brothers with weapons, including guns, Mr Lucas said.
She described them as "sick sex monsters" who once raped her at the same time, Mr Lucas said.
He said: "They were always talking about sex and spoke about women in a vile manner."
Mohammed Karrar is also said to have sexually assaulted her with a baseball bat when she was 12 and injected her with heroin aged 13.
In January 2008 the girl told police a man called "Mo" had raped her.
DESPITE the abuse, Girl 4 believed Mohammed Karrar loved her and was going to marry her when she was 16, the jury heard.
Prosecutor Noel Lucas said the girl had spoken to friends about her relationship with the defendant and two of them would give evidence during the trial.
One friend will tell the jury how the Karrar brothers gave her and Girl 5 alcohol and cocaine as they liked the girls "completely out of it", the court heard.
Another will tell how Mohammed Karrar gave them alcohol, the court was told.
The jury was told the trial will also hear evidence from social workers who worked with Girl 4.
Mr Lucas said one social worker noticed the girl had begun stealing from her parents, wearing "provocative" clothes and going missing from home only to turn up looking "dishevelled".
Another social worker was threatened by Mohammed Karrar when he answered the girl's phone, the court heard.


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Annual Report 2004 of IGCP Project No. 499
Duration and status: 5 years (2004-2008); status: first year
1. Name: Dr. Peter Königshof
2. Name: Dr. Jurga Lazauskiene
3. Name: Dr. Eberhard Schindler
4. Name: PD Dr. Volker Wilde
5. Name: Prof. Dr. M. Namik Yalcin
1. Website address(es) related to the project
2. Summary of major past achievements of the project
2004, March 1-10: Introduction of the project in conjunction with the meeting of the international 'Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy' (SDS), Rabat and the Dra Valley. An introductory presentation of the new IGCP took place during the gathering of a good number of members of the international 'Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy' (SDS) at a meeting which was held in Rabat (Morocco) from March 1 to 10, 2004. The meeting "Devonian neritic–pelagic correlation and events" was organized by Ahmed El Hassani and his crew at the 'Institut Scientifique de l'Université Mohammed V, Agdal' and included an extended field trip to Devonian key sections in the Dra Valley (for link see: http://www.israbat.ac.ma/SemPub/SDS2004/2nd_Circular.htm). 24 oral presentations on Devonian matters including e.g., biostratigraphy, palaeontology, eventstratigraphy, and chemostratigryphy were given during the first two days of the meeting in Rabat. Additionally, 20 posters have been presented touching similar topics. 50 participants from various countries attended the technical part of the meeting. Ahmed El Hassani has put together a volume summarizing the abstracts of the oral presentations and posters on 87 pages (entitled: Devonian neritic–pelagic correlation and events). The 10 contributions to the sections of the fieldtrip (+ intruductory remarks and an overview article) that had been prepared as a pre-print guidebook for the trip have inbetween been published as a separate volume [El Hassani, A. (ed.): Devonian neritic-pelagic correlation and events in the Dra Valley. – Documents de l'Institut Scientifique, vol. 19.] (see references).
2004, October, 6: The first IGCP 499 business meeeting
On October 6, 2004 the first business meeting of IGCP 499 was held at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and was attended by about 40 colleagues from 9 countries. The meeting was embedded in the annual meeting of the German Paläontologische Gesellschaft which included a special session on Devonian topics. The business meeting substituted the originally planned meeting in conjunction with the Subcommission of Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS) this fall in Mashad (Iran) which had to be postponed due to organizational problems in Iran. Four of the five leaders of the IGCP 499 were present (only Jurga Lazauskiene was not able to attend) and a substantial number of regional coordinators from different countries contributed to the meeting (see 3.2).
Project announcements:
Especially in the first phase the project needed to be announced to the scientific public. Therefore, the project has been presented at the following congresses:
Meeting of the international 'Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy' (SDS), Rabat and the Dra Valley, March 1 – 10, 2004
3. Achievements of the project this year
The following list of countries involved in the IGCP 499 shows the 'state of the art' with respect to regional working groups:
Australia, Austria, Baltic countries, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iran, Italy , Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom,U.S.A.
3.2. General scientific achievements (including societal benefits)
(Meetings are not considered as scientific achievements, they should be listed under heading 3.3.)
March 2004: field work in Morocco: After the technical sessions of the SDS meeting, an extended fieldtrip to the marvellous Devonian of the Dra Valley in the Anti Atlas was attended by 30 participants. The trip was guided by two German groups, Thomas Becker and his crew from Muenster University, and the Senckenberg group from Frankfurt (Gerhard Plodowski and collaborators). The main focus of the trip was set on Lower to Middle Devonian siliciclastics, but minor parts of some sections even reached into the Upper Devonian. A very high grade of biostratigraphic resolution could be demonstrated using a number of taxa (e.g., brachiopods, goniatites, conodonts, tentaculitids, trilobites, ostracods). Other taxa, such as corals and crinoids, have been studied by attending specialists. Aspects of cyclic stratigraphy and detailed sedimentology and facies analyses have been intensely discussed.
In order to channel the work within IGCP Project 499 which covers a wide range of scientific disciplines we started to establish different working groups which will provide a better coordination with respect to forthcoming activities (e.g. field meetings, workshops) in the future. These working groups should either cover palaeoenvironmental settings or individual disciplines. However, in spite of such a technical subdivision, our aim is just the to encourage interrelated activities:
Terrestrial realm: coordinator: Volker Wilde, Frankfurt
Focus will be set on terrestrial settings (e.g., palaeosoils, fossil plants) as well as on the immediate transitional settings, such as coasts, lagoons, estuaries, etc. Major working fields/disciplines are: Palaeontology (palaeobotany, palynology, palaeozoology), palaeopedology, terrestrial sedimentology.
Transitional/shallow marine realm: coordinator: Eberhard Schindler, Frankfurt
Outer shelf/open marine realm: coordinator: Peter Koenigshof, Frankfurt
Turkey: For enhancing cooperation of the coordinators and stimulating research in Turkey Volker Wilde has visited IGCP 499 co-leader M.N. Yalcin at the University of Istanbul from April, 19-23. Inbetween, he has assembled a group of colleagues which are actively working in the Devonian of Turkey and will take part in the project. They are representing leading research institutions of the country like some universities, the National Geological Survey (MTA) and the National Oil Company (TPAO). An ad-hoc-meeting on April, 21, included a representative of the MTA and two scientists from TPAO. The discussion focussed on research potential for the Turkish Devonian and strategies for resarch programs and funding. The Devonian of Turkey is distributed in three major areas, NW Anatolia (Istanbul Terrane and NW Pontides), The Taurides (SW-Turkey), and SE-Anatolia. The representative specialists have been asked in a first step by M.N. Yalcin to collect the available information and literature for these areas. This became the starting point for a national initative improving the knowledge on the Turkish Devonian. It was agreed upon the fact that the work can only be done by including students which will do the field and laboratory projects. In the meantime as an integrative part of the IGCP 499, an application for a bilateral project has recently been submitted to the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) and the International Bureau of the BMBF at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. It is called "Devonian Ecosystems and climate of Turkey (DEVEC-TR)" and will initiate and stimulate an integrative resarch program on the different areas with Devonian sediments in Turkey with respect to the goals of IGCP 499.
Australia: The Australian Middle Palaeozoic workers together with colleagues from other countries focused on research of relevance to IGCP 499 can be grouped into three teams (most of these colleagues have been active in the successful forerunner project IGCP 421 and will continue this research).
1. Events team: John Talent, Ruth Mawson, Heidi Caldon, Anita Andrew, David Whitford, George Wilson, with Jiri Fryda (Prague) and Lennart Jeppsson (Lund).
Heidi Caldon is intensively investigating the sedimentation, algae, brachiopods, trilobites and other macrofauna through three sequences through the Lau Event (mid Ludlow) and one through the Klonk Event (across the Pridoli-Lochkovian boundary) in the Broken River region. Isotopic data from Anita Andrew and David Whitford are already available for the Klonk sequence and two of the Lau sequences. Statistical analysis of brachiopod faunas from 102 silicified horizons (George Wilson, John Talent and Ruth Mawson) across the late Pragian-early Lochkovian boundary (pesavis Event) has failed to show evidence of an event affecting benthic faunas, though some event seems to have affected conodonts, as suggested by Rich Lane and the late Willi Ziegler. The taxonomy of diverse silicified gastropod faunas (c. 80 taxa) through this interval, accumulated over the past 35 years by John Talent and Ruth Mawson, is being undertaken by Jiri Fryda (Prague). When this exercise is complete, a more embracing analysis of the impact of the pesavis Event will be possible. The Broken River region has numerous excellently exposed sequences through the supposed Choteè (earliest Eifelian) and Kaèak (late Eifelian) events in the various tracts of Chinaman Creek Limestone, and of the Taghanic Event (mid-Givetian) in the Spanner Limestone. A comparison of the Choteè and Kaèak events as expressed in the Czech and Broken River sequences is to be undertaken in conjunction with Jiri Fryda's group at the Czech Geological Survey.
2. Yarrol Team: Paul Blake, Alex Cook, Ruth Mawson, Matthew Ng and John Talent.
On the basis of geologic mapping by the Geological Survey of Queensland, especially in the last decade, major advances are being made in the biostratigraphy of previously poorly known mid-Palaeozoics of the Yarrol belt of east-central Queensland. Paul Blake, now has the Silurian–Late Devonian coral faunas of most units in an advanced state of documentation. Ruth Mawson and John Talent have a conodont-based paper (with Alex Taube) in press on repetition of the Mount Morgan Middle Devonian stratigraphy (and mineralisation) in the Dee Range, and have resumed conodont work (after a hiatus of about 12 years) on various other units, autochthonous and allochtonous, in the Yarrol tract, primarily to help underpin Paul Blake's coral work. Matthew Ng has been extracting and documenting elegantly preserved silicified brachiopods and molluscs from the previously poorly known Mt Etna limestone, north of Rockhampton. Conodonts from Matthew's samples all point to a Pragian age for this large and very prominent ?olistolith (or olistoliths).
3. The Southeastern Australia Team: Ruth Mawson, Zerina Johanson, David Mathieson, Peter Molloy, Andrew Simpson, John Talent and Gabor Foldvary.
Peter Molloy has been probing the extinction sequence in conodonts through the Ireviken Event as expressed in Boree Ck, NW of Orange. A paper by John Talent, Andrew Simpson and Peter Molloy is in press on conodonts from the Silurian limestones of the Wombat Creek Group and "Wibenduck Limestone" of eastern Victoria. Zerina Johanson (Australian Museum) is monographing the copious lacustrine fish remains from limestone nodules in the Fairy Formation (Pragian) in the Snowy River Volcanics west of Buchan, Victoria. The fauna also includes charophytes, ostracods, gastropods and conchostracans. Conodonts from minor limestones in the Bola Sandstone farther east in the Errinundra area indicate a Pragian age for some or all of that unit, more or less coeval with the Fairy Formation. The MUCEP group has completed a major study (for Eastern Star Petroleum) of Early Devonian conodont taxonomy as well as CAI data and Kübler Index data from outcrop and bore samples in the Darling Basin of far western New South Wales, as well as from shelf sequences flanking the Darling Basin to as far east as the Tullamore Syncline. Highlights of this have been monographing of tabulate corals from the Bogan Gate-Trundle area west of the Tullamore Syncline by Gabor Foldvary (Australian Museum), and David Mathieson's work on Pragian conodonts from several limestone occurrences in the Bourke-Cobar-Nymagee region. The most interesting unit in that area, the Booth Limestone at 'Manuka', has produced diverse macrofaunas including well-preserved silicified faunas.
The Macquarie University (MUCEP) palaeontology group has been relatively quiet as regards fish taxonomy (exclusively micro-remains) and biostratigraphy. Allison Basden, having completed her PhD on Early Devonian fish micro-remains, is now involved with contemporary plant communities, undertook identification of the sparse Lochkovian-Pragian fish micro-remains from acid-leaching bore and outcrop samples from the Darling Basin of western New South Wales. A major component of Karina Ojong`s Honours degree in Museum Studies involves preparation of an exhibition on previously undescribed associations of Middle Devonian fish micro-remains from the Broken River region of northern Queensland, for which a substantial exercise in taxonomy is necessary. All of the above faunas are well underpinned by conodont data. These and other linkages to IGCP 491 are being developed.
Australia (John Talent, Sydney)
There is a standing offer to start a group for South America in 2006.
The status of these working groups is very different. There may be formal working groups related to existing formal organisations (e.g., Spain, Russia). On the other hand, individual colleagues may act as personal coordinators who agree to set up the group and take care of the results (e.g., providing lists of activities and publication etc.).
3.3. List of meetings with approximate attendance and number of countries
SDS meeting: "Devonian neritic–pelagic correlation and events", Rabat (Morocco) from March 1 to 10, 2004. About 60 participants from 9 countries.
IGCP 499 bussines meeting in Göttingen, in conjunction with the German Paläontologische Gesellschaft. About 40 participants from 9 countries.
3.4. Educational, training or capacity building activities
The IGCP-National Committee started a press campaing where IGCP 499 has been presented to the general public together with additional information on IGCP projects (poster presentation) in which there are substantial contributions by German colleagues (colleagues acting as leaders and/or co-leaders). Furthermore, posters on other IGCP activities have been printed and were sent to 20 universities in Germany to improve the knowledge on IGCP projects.
A training course of one week for high school students and teachers was held in autumn dealing with fundamental aspects in geology, palaeontology and regional geology. This training course also included fieldwork and laboratory work. It is planned to organize this training course annually.
3.5. Participation of scientists from developing countries
In the meetings listed above scientists from developing countries participated: China, Iran, Russia, Morocco.
3.6. List of most important publications (including maps)
A list of all relevant publications may be found on the web-site (/igcp-499/), which will be updated on a regular base.
Articles / Books:
Aboussalam, Z.S., Becker, R.T., Bockwinkel, J. & Ebbighausen, V. 2004.:
Bakharev, N.K., Sennikov, N.V., Yolkin, E.A. & Izokh, N.G. 2004.:
Becker, R.T., Aboussalam, Z.S., Bockwinkel, J., Ebbighausen, V., El Hassani, A. & Nübel, H. 2004. :
Becker, R.T., Aboussalam, Z.S., Bockwinkel, J., Ebbighausen, V., El Hassani, A. & Nübel, H. 2004.:
Becker, R.T., Bockwinkel, J., Ebbighausen, V., Aboussalam, Z.S., El Hassani, A. & Nübel, H. 2004.:
Becker, R.T., Jansen, U., Plodowski, G., Schindler, E., Aboussalam, Z.S. & Weddige, K. 2004.:
Bond, D., Wignall, P.B. & Racki, G. 2004.:
Brocke, R., Fatka, O. & Wilde, V. (submitted):
Brocke, R.; Jansen, U.; Königshof, P.; Ribbert, K.-H.; Schindler, E.; Schindler, T.; Schmidt-Gündel, O.; Vogel, O.; Weddige, K. & Wintgen, C. 2004. :
Ebbighausen, V., Bockwinkel, J., Becker, R.T., Aboussalam, Z.S., Bultynck, P., El Hassani, A. & Nübel, H. 2004. :
El Hassani, A. [ed.] 2004. :
El Hassani, A. 2004. :
Ginter, M. & Piechota, A. 2004. :
Jansen, U., Becker, G., Plodowski, G., Schindler, E., Vogel, O., & Weddige, K. 2004. :
Jansen, U., Becker, G., Plodowski, G., Schindler, E., Vogel, O. & Weddige, K. 2004. :
Jansen, U.; Brocke, R.; Königshof, P.; Ribbert, K.-H.; Schindler, E.; Schindler, T.; Schmidt-Gündel, O. & Wintgen, C. 2004. :
Jansen, U., Plodowski, G., Schindler. E. & Weddige, K. 2004. :
Kaiser, S., Becker, R.T., Brice, D., Nicollin, J.P., Legrand-Blain, M., Aboussalam, El Hassani, A. & Nübel, H. 2004. :
Königshof, P. & Glaub, I. 2004. :
Murphy, M.A., Valenzuela-Rios, J.I. & Carls, P. 2004. :
Racki, G., Piechota, A., Bond, D. &Wignall, P.B. 2004.:
Racki, G. & Sobstel M. 2004.:
Wehrmann, A., Hertweck, G., Brocke, R., Jansen, U., Königshof, P., Plodowski, G., Schindler, E., Wilde, V., Blieck, A. & Schultka, S. (in press):
3.7. Activities involving other IGCP projects or the IUGS
During the IGCP meeting 503 (Early Paleozoic Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate) it was agreed upon a closer cooperation and coordination of activities between IGCP 503 and 499. It is planned to organize a joint meeting in conjunction with the International Palaeontological Congress (IPC) in Beijing, China in 2006 (see 4.2). Details will be discussed in spring 2005. A closer cooperation is also envisaged with the IGCP 497 (The Rheic ocean: its origin, evolution and correlatives).
4. Activities planned
4.1. General goals
According to the major goals of IGCP 499 the focus for the planned field meetings in the next year will be on terrestrial realms and transitional/shallow marine settings. With respect to this four meetings are planned for the next year.
4.2. Specific meetings and field trips (please indicate participation from developing countries)
Session at the North American Paleontological Convention in Halifax (Canada), June 19 – 26, 2005
During the upcoming North American Paleontological Convention in Halifax the regional coordinators for North America submitted a symposium on Devonian matters that will highlight the IGCP 499 project and its goals as well as the North American correlation history covering the Lower, Middle, and Upper Devonian. Various facies including comparison of different settings as well as correlation will be presented. There are excellent sequences covering a range from terrestrial to transitional, near-shore marine and offshore marine strata. The coordinating group tends to set a focus on the terrestrial facies. As IGCP Project 491 "Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biogeography, Palaeogeography and Climate" will also be presented at the meeting, a close interaction of the project members is possible.
Web-site: http://meguma.earthsciences.dal.ca/napc/napc.htm
Meeting in conjuction with the international 'Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy' (SDS) in Novosibirsk and Devonian areas in the Altai, Salair, and Kuznetsk Basin (Siberia), July/August 2005
A meeting with extended field-trips (two days of technical sessions and field trips of about two weeks) is scheduled for the summer of 2005. The working title for the meeting is "Devonian terrestrial and marine environments: From continent to shelf". It will be organised by the regional coordinators for Russia Zhenya Yolkin and Nadya Izokh hosted at the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) in Novosibirsk. Tentative dates are July 25 to August 10, 2005; a moderate price seems to be possible due to the support by the RAS. Field trips will lead to areas in the Altai, Salair, and the Kusnetsk Basin where settings from terrestrial to marine (including reefal) facies can be studied covering strata from Lower to Upper Devonian. Detailed discussions of the program took place at the business meeting of IGCP 499 in Goettingen. The First Circular will be sent out and posted on this website this year.
Contact: Project leaders at Frankfurt or via e-mail addresses of Nadya Izokh and Zhenya Yolkin.
6 th Baltic Stratigraphic Conference, in St. Petersburg (Russia), August 22 – 26, 2005
There will be a business meeting of IGCP 499 connected to the 6 th Baltic Stratigraphic Conference next year in St. Petersburg organized by Jurga Lazauskiene (Vilnius, Lithuania, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com ). More information will be available soon. As IGCP Project 491 "Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biogeography, Palaeogeography and Climate" (leaders are Min Zhu, Beijing and Gavin Young, Canberra) will strongly be involved in that conference, cooperation with this project will take place.
Contact: The e-mail addresses of the organizers of the meeting are: email@example.com (= Andrey Zhuravlev, St. Petersburg), email@example.com (= Alexander Ivanov, St. Petersburg) – the latter is especially involved in IGCP 491 matters.
2 nd International Palaeontological Congress in Beijing, June 17 – 23, 2006
A meeting of IGCP 499 (most probably as a joint meeting with other IGCP projects, e.g. 491, 497, 503, and the international Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy [SDS]) is planned for 2006 in conjunction with the 2 nd International Palaeontoloigcal Congress to be held in Beijing. Four excursions that may interest the "IGCP community" are planned. These include two pre-congress fieldtrips – A2: The marine Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of Guangxi, including the Guilin area and the Xiangzhou area (five days, guided by Ma Xueping form Peking University and Cen Daizhao from Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS), and excursion A7: Palaeontological and archeological sites in Ningxia, NW China (four days, guided by Zhu Min from IVPP, CAS), and two post-congress fieldtrips: – B3. Silurian - Devonian plant and fish fossils in Yunnan Province, Southwest China (five days, guided by De-Ming Wang from Peking University and Zhu Min from IVPP, CAS) and B4: Late Devonian sections with a new perspective of the Frasnian-Famenian extinction and subsequent recovery, and the geological records of the end-Permian mass extinction in the continental sequence of northern Xinjiang (five days, guided by Chen Xiuqin and Cao Changqun from NIGPAS, CAS). There will be more information as soon as detailed plans are available.
Information on further activities will be constantly updated on the project's website as soon as available.
5. Project funding requested
The IGCP 499 covers a wide range of scientific disciplines and during the first year with the help of many colleagues we have established working groups which will improve a better coordination with respect to the forthcomming activities. Because we want to involve more young scientists we would like to apply for "high funding" of our IGCP 499.
6. Request for extension, on-extended-term-status, or intention to propose successor project
7. Attach any information you may consider relevant
Relevant literature. List of project 499 announcements Examples on public relation activities (e.g., posters, newpaper articles)
IGCP 499 Project announcements
Königshof, P.; Lazauskiene, J.; Schindler, E.; Wilde, V. & Yalcin, M.N. 2004. :
Königshof, P.; Lazauskiene, J.; Schindler, E.; Wilde, V. & Yalcin, M.N. 2004. :
Köngishof, P., Lazauskiene, J., Schindler, E., Wilde, V. & Yalcin, N.M. 2004. :
Köngishof, P.; Lazauskiene, J.; Schindler, E.; Wilde, V. & Yalcin, N.M. 2004.:
Köngishof, P., Lazauskiene, J., Schindler, E., Wilde, V. & Yalcin, N.M. 2004. :
Köngishof, P., Lazauskiene, J., Schindler, E., Wilde, V. & Yalcin, N.M. 2004. :
Köngishof, P., Lazauskiene, J., Schindler, E., Wilde, V. & Yalcin, N.M. 2004. :
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I feel like this mind-set is what sets people apart from others- in everything, not just furniture building and home improvement projects, of course.
I also used to run into this problem a lot when I was a wedding planner - I would have a vision for something, like how the reception space should be set up. The event space coordinator would say things like, "We usually do it this way" or "Um... well, we have never done it that way" and they would get this really nervous look on their face like, "You're going to take me out of my comfort zone and make me actually think today, aren't you?" Yes. Yes, I am.


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Here's some great news from here in East Tennessee. The Russellville home that James Longstreet used as his headquarters during the winter of 1863-64 is now a museum, thanks to the efforts of people who cared enough to make it happen:
Today's event marks the fulfillment of the longtime dream of Lakeway Civil War Preservation Association, which organized in February 2006 to save the historic house and otherwise preserve Civil War heritage in the area.
The group's work began after "a developer went to the (Hamblen County) planning commission and asked to rezone the property, tear down the structure and build a small retail store," said Lakeway's vice president, Reece Sexton.
Three businesspeople got together, discussed the issue and "we were able to get a loan and buy it," said Sexton, editor and publisher of the Civil War Courier in nearby Morristown.
Good for them. This is how preservation happens, folks—it starts with putting our time, money, and effort where our mouths are.


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Constituent: "Are you saying you're not apologizing?"It's true that Tea Partiers are hobbits? You know, that's a real taunt. Let's say I call you a prick, and you say I should apologize, and I say, "Why should I apologize? It's true! You are a prick!" That's doubling down — a deliberate attempt to piss you off. And if you think that sounds as though I'm insinuating that McCain is a prick, I will not apologize. You know why?
McCain: "I don't know what to apologize for."
Heard in the back: "For calling tea partiers hobbits!"
McCain: "What I said was true."
Now, some people like to say hobbits were the good guys, so it wasn't even an insult in the first place. (Which makes me think of another answer to anyone who complains about my "prick" insult, above.) Anyway, yesterday, some guy called in to Rush Limbaugh's show to make the hobbits-are-good argument:
... I think conservatives should embrace being called hobbits by the establishment because in the movie the Lord of the Rings the hobbits are the heroes who succeed where the elites have failed in defeating a tyranny. The movie is about power. There's a ring of power, and all these elites are unable to give up the power. Whenever they get the ring, they're corrupted, but the hobbits are the only characters in the entire movie who resist the power and are willing to relinquish the power and defeat the tyranny. So, I mean it's... I mean, that's not what McCain was intending. He was intending to insult us, but actually hobbits are the heroes.Rush was not buying this own-the-insult gambit:
That's a long thought process to trying to feel positive. The bottom line is, people don't want to be insulted by losers! McCain is a loser!Rush said "Look, if you want to be called a hobbit, I mean, I'll be glad to call you a hobbit."
Frankly, sir, as a giant in the industry and in humanity, I could never be a hobbit and I could not be happy being a hobbit, but if you want to be one, and if you draw strength from it, have at it! I myself will remain a giant, happily so, and they know it. Don't call me a hobbit.Who had the better argument? Rush or the caller? Remember the attempt by Tea Partiers to get the upper hand by embracing the insult "tea bagger"?


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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans joins Miami as the most frequent host of the Super Bowl when it stages its 10th NFL title game on Sunday, but Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the city was already the big winner.
"We are aiming for a perfect 10," Landrieu told a media conference on Monday in an official welcome to Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens.
"(But) the story is much, much bigger than the Super Bowl ... This is a story about the resurrection and redemption of a great American city. A short time ago this city was 15 feet under water."
Hurricane Katrina, which pounded New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, caused more than 1,800 deaths and billions of dollars in property damage.
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Josh Brolin (Planet Terror) plays Llewelyn Moss, a mechanic and hunter who confiscates across $2 million in cash after stumbling across a drug deal gone bad nearby his west Texas hometown. After sending away his wife Carla Jean (Kelly MacDonald) to keep her safe, Llewelyn hides the money and attempts to divert the Mexican thugs hot on his trail. But he fails to anticipate the presence of Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a psychopath who sill stop at nothing to recover the money and mete out his own twisted brand of justice on Llewelyn. Meanwhile, a weary sheriff named Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) begins to investigate the case, but quickly becomes more interested in rescuing the fugitive from his pursuer than retrieving the cash. Before long, all three men are locked into a devastating cycle of violence that not only threatens to end lives but destroy what fragile hope remains among them for humanity's redemption.
The Coen brothers have a longstanding habit of humiliating or otherwise making fun of their characters; generally speaking, when more attention is paid to a character's pomade than his personality, it's not an overwhelming sign that the filmmakers want you to take him or her seriously. No Country, by comparison, is their least mannered film to date, featuring virtually no characters to deride or laugh at, much less a complete absence of that strange and wonderful lexicon that has lent such efforts as Raising Arizona and O Brother, Where Art Thou? their twangy poetry. This is due at least in part to author Cormac McCarthy's source material, but as well to the Coens' recognition that this story, unlike previous ones they've told, deserves a degree of seriousness and solemnity.
Unsurprisingly, the two brothers are strikingly adept at dealing with characters and situations without winking at them, in fact surpassing almost all prior efforts to evoke real or relatable drama. (The Texas accents feel like a necessary landscape of authenticity, not eccentricity, so those hoping for a hick version of Fargo will likely be disappointed by the cast's matter-of-fact line delivery.) Visually speaking, meanwhile, Joel and Ethan reduces Llewelyn's world to an unforgiving backdrop of desolate locations, derelict motels and hostile adversaries, slowing the storytelling pace to evoke a world not quite ready to keep up with the hustle of modern life. Although there are innumerable picturesque moments in the film - my favorite is Llewelyn running off towards a distant bolt of lightning as a pickup full of Mexicans close in on him in the middle of the night - the Coens always elect to choose according to the demands of the story, not just the opportunities provided by the location or set design.
Brolin, making an astonishing comeback this year in not one but three memorable roles (here, American Gangster and the aforementioned Grindhouse installment), gives a pitch-perfect performance as Llewelyn Moss. As mentioned above, his unpretentious, plain-spoken accent reminds one completely of small town simplicity, but never in a dim or slow-witted way. Meanwhile, Jones contributes yet another indelible turn as a lawman trying to discern between right and wrong, this time layering in a retiree's mounting disappointment that the two never seem as clearly defined as he would like. And Bardem is quite literally terrifying as Chigurh, a predator who must manufacture prey if it isn't immediately presented to him, and who ultimately follows a psychotic code of behavior primarily because he wouldn't know how to function without it.
I'm only 32, but I find myself relating to the "old men" in movies like this more than ever, because they value simplicity, honor, truth, and goodness, and the world quite frankly seems filled with less and less of it every day. Cinematically speaking, this translates to stories with emotional resonance, intellectual challenge, and patience enough to find the meeting point between the two. Surely there are new movies made with ultramodern technique that possess this substance, but they are as few and far between as the anachronisms like No Country that harken back to the days when cinema was believed to be primarily art, not commerce. Nowadays people are far more likely to settle for good, when interesting is almost always better.
This doesn't make old men or even self-proclaimed classicists like yours truly cynics or embittered onlookers watching the future move ahead with out us; it simply means we have a perspective that reaches further back than the beginning of whatever film we happen to be watching right now at this particular moment in time. Neither better nor worse, it's simply different, but it's a point of view that seems to be employed - as a moviegoer, much less as a critic - with decreasing frequency. This is the underlying message of No Country for Old Men
, if a film about the unpredictability and capriciousness of real life can have a "message:" tradition means something, history means something, and the opportunities we are missing are those which allow or encourage us to apply our past experiences to something new.
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It's hard not to assume that most audiences will look at the film and see only the simple mathematics of a fugitive and his two pursuers, and what little or lot they take away when the credits roll won't necessarily be right or wrong. But is there more being said, and more being asked within the wide open spaces of No Country for Old Men? Indisputably. One guesses that's where the old men and classicists have to turn that hard-won, long-established perspective back upon themselves: if they can examine and discover deeper truths in their favorite films, then surely they must assume at some point that so can subsequent generations.
And because the question remains whether they have the patience to wait for their younger counterparts to find it, No Country's greatest achievement may not be teaching the youth about their forebears' past, but showing those forebears a future that is actually worth the wait. After all, the Coens finally shaped up and made an adult movie, so there's no reason that kids won't be able to appreciate one just the same.
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A dress Coco Chanel would have loved. Classic black & off white 'secretary' style dress with accordion pleated skirt and peter pan collar. Very on trend for fall. Pair with lace stockings and vintage furs! here
This could would pair well with the dress above quite nicely. Early 60s houndstooth wool w/ big black buttons and fur trim. So warm and comfy! here
30s inspired color block knit maxi dress, via the 70s. Black, spiced apple, and metallic silver. Long poet/balloon sleeves. Soft fluid skirting. Very Rudi Gernreich! here
Exotic opulence. Late 60s metallic brocade romper w/ matching belt and gillet. Pristine condition with amazing trim. If you live in a warmer climate, this is perfect holiday wear. here
Also up for grabs > this 60s burgundy velvet mini, this 20s metallic dress, and this 60s baby doll mini w/ fringe trim. Plus plenty of the Sisters' own fabulous finds! Vintage velvets, furs, fringe, etc. More on the way soon : D.
xoxo, SJ