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Clint Eastwood
"I'm a lucky bastard"
Clint Eastwood
From action hero to legendary filmmaker: Hollywood star Clint Eastwood, 85, talks about the gratification he gets from his work, the downside of aging, his love of jazz, and pride in his children
Mr. Eastwood, Is it true that you said you need to keep reinventing yourself or you will die?
I'm not sure I said anything quite that drastic. We will all die eventually anyway. But you are quite right, I do want to continue to progress in life, still at my age. I don't want to stand still or go backwards. I've always liked learning.
Is that why you are still making movies at 85?
It's simple, really. They have not chased me away yet, they have not told me to finally hang up my hat. It's not easy making movies, but I still enjoy a good fight. I still enjoy getting things done. Maybe that will never change.
Do you have an easier time in Hollywood because your name is Clint Eastwood?
You would think they'd cut an old guy some slack, right? No, it's not easier. If you don't come back with a financial success you are in trouble in this business. But I don't care, I keep coming back anyway. Let some young punk chase me out of his office. I dare him (laughs).
Now you're starting to sound a little bit like Dirty Harry. Would you say that he is still part of you?
Of course he is. There is a little bit in me of all the characters I have played throughout my life.
Has Hollywood lost respect for the older generation?
That's a good question. I think in general, especially in America, which is such a youth driven society, old age doesn't count for much. Life experience, for that matter, doesn't count for much, either. Hollywood has always and probably will always be about the next big thing. And I am certainly no longer the next big thing (laughs).
You've always been a big music fan. How important is music in your life?
Very important. It carried me through the decades of my existence. I love music. It soothes me, it gives me peace. Music is a reflection of who you are.
You have always expressed your love for jazz, and a lot of your movies incorporate jazz. What fascinates you about the genre?
I love music, and I love jazz. It's the music that best expresses my personality. I love the vibe, the melancholic aspect.
What is your relationship to aging?
Am I aging? Well, you know a lot more when you're old, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. So actually, aging can be a fun process to some degree, but ask me a year or so from now and I'll try to give you the same answer.
How does it feel not to have to work for a living anymore, and just do what makes you happy?
Who says I don't have to work for a living anymore? I'm just kidding. Life's been good to me. I am not complaining. To answer your question, it feels good, very good. You've got other problems when you get older, health problems for example. Your body doesn't want to follow your orders anymore. But you cope. You have no other choice, really.
But you look very fit. What do you do to stay in shape?
I try to avoid Cuban cigars and walk across the golf course instead of riding
in a cart. I like being out in nature, and allow myself a daily nap. Sleep is the best thing I ever discovered.
You know a lot more when you're old, at least until you start forgetting it
Your fans say you are like a good wine, and get better with age, along with your films: "Unforgiven", "Million Dollar Baby", "Gran Torino". Now you are planning to make a film about Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a plane in the Hudson River in 2009, saving 155 lives. Do you approach your projects differently than ten or twenty years ago?
I think I have developed a better eye for nuances as I get older. That's important. You have to try to discover the little things that can make the difference in a very emotional situation. That can be a quick look, a breath, a short hesitation. Patience is a factor that a lot of filmmakers underestimate.
When younger Hollywood stars approach you for advice, what do you tell them?
Be realistic about where you are in life, and enjoy it!
Your son Scott is a member of this generation. He didn't just inherit your good looks, he's also got the same acting qualities. Does that make you proud?
Of course I'm proud of him. I am proud of all my children, which father isn't? Scott is on his own path, I am convinced of that. I always just wanted all my kids to find their own way, and it looks like they have. That makes me very happy.
Do you ever think about quitting the business altogether?
Every day (laughs). But why should I? I don't want to do projects that are happening because of me, and don't need to show my face on the screen anymore. I only do what I want to do and what I enjoy. Which 85-year-old can say that?
So would you say Clint Eastwood is a contented human being?
Definitely! I've enjoyed the journey to this stage so I intend to enjoy the rest of the journey, a long one I hope. I'm a lucky bastard.


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For nearly a month I worked as an intern for the Fairfield Foundation, a non-profit group focused on archeological research and preservation of the Fairfield Plantation, built in 1694 by the wealthy and influential Burwell family as a means to cement their status in early Virginia society.The manor house was destroyed by a fire in 1897, leaving only a few remaining fragments of walls and the foundation, including the original cellar. Today, the 60-acre plot includes excavations on the manor house, extensive formal gardens, slave quarters, and various other outbuildings necessary that supported the thriving plantation.
My first day at Fairfield was spent tediously using a teaspoon to remove dirt from between bricks in "brick field" created when the house burned. After four hours of finding only a handful of thickly rusted nails and a piece of blackened and warped window glass, I was getting rather frustrated. After lunch, I returned to my task with a fresh mind and renewed energy and minutes later, my trowel hit something very un-brick like.I hit it again. Definitely not a brick. A few inches of dirt later, a rounded metal point was exposed, eliciting excited yells from my area of the site. A fellow intern, Molly, said that I had unearthed a sword. Although it was obviously no sword, the name stuck, and it became the goal of my internship to free the "sword" from the layer of bricks that kept it trapped. Three weeks later, I was holding it in my hand: a broken plow blade!
This small piece of metal had provided me with the motivation I needed during days of pouring rain or grueling heat. Sometimes the smallest things are the greatest gifts you could hope for.
I originally decided to take part in the dig to expand my knowledge of an era I knew comparatively little about, as well as to learn new skills that would be useful as a history major. I am now quite expert on using a trowel to prepare an excavated unit for photo, and I know what different layers of debris are called. There were other important and surprising lessons: how to manage a non-profit organization in the midst of one of the worst economies in history (never turn away a volunteer, appreciate every donation whether it's $5 or $10,000); never take on more projects than you can finish.
I also learned that archaeologists are a close-knit group who can always be relied on to support each other. For instance, our group traveled to Thomas Jefferson's residence at Poplar Forest, where we were invited to dig with a friend of the Fairfield Foundation, University of Tennessee rprofessor Barbara Heath. She and her crew were excavating at Wingos, an overseer's cabin and the center of the plantation's slave community.
The rain made the thick Piedmont clay difficult going, but we made it fun, challenging each other to see who could make it up the dirt mound with a heavy mud-laden wheelbarrow. It's definitely not the exotic and exhilarating lifestyle of Hollywood's favorite archeologist, Indiana Jones, but we like to think that we are unearthing something just as interesting as the Lost Ark.
When the time came for us to depart, we had no sooner taken off our gloves when another visisting crew arrived to lend a hand. It was this kind of interdependency between different organizations that makes many of the preservation projects possible.

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LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Nominations
KDE, KWin, Konqueror, KMail and KOffice have been nominated for Desktop Environment, Window Manager, Browser, Mail Client and Office Suite of the Year at LinuxQuestions.org. You can see the Members Choice Announcement here or go right to the nomination awards.
Editor of the Year
nano? pico? Bluefish? Why not Kate or Quanta?
By Anonymous at Sat, 2003/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Editor of the Year
that was *exactly* what i thought when i saw that poll. had to go with VIM in lieu of Kate. =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Editor of the Year
Kate has been added to the Editor of the Year Award. Awards have also been added for Word Processor of the Year (KWord was nominated) and Spreadsheet of the Year (KSpread was nominated).
By linuxquestions at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Editor of the Year
That still leaves Quanta, obviously my tool of choice. I admit I think of it more as a web development platform and it currently plugs in Kate as an editor, though it may be fully pluggable in the future. I already know how popular Quanta is. I'd bet if anyone wanted to see what the most popular Linux web development tool is Quanta would easily come up first. So I'm not going to get excited over another web poll. However given that Bluefish is in there it seems incongruous. It would seem logical if that is how they structure the category that both Quanta and Screem would be there.
It's quite common for people to berate web polls for being arbitrary and inaccurate. In fact if you wanted to be more comprehensive it would seem a few other editors would be in there and it would be categorized for console, general purpose and special purpose editors. Anyway, if I can't vote honestly for Quanta (30,000 source downloads on a major revision is already a pretty good vote I think) then I can't see voting.
By Eric Laffoon at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
common sense
SIX release candidates and in proportion to its complexity as many bugs as the MS Windows environment. While KDE is infinitely better than GNOME ("but OK buttons are confusing, it says so in my research paper, I've a PhD in UI design you know!!"), I still think MS can relax on the Desktop while the state of the art is merely catch-up, of features both good and bad...
By Confucius at Sat, 2003/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: common sense
PhD? Whats that?
By Andreas Pietzowski at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: common sense
About the catch-up thingy:
About the bugs:
About the six release candidates:
By Dimitris Kameno... at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: common sense
many of the bugs in bugs.kde.org are old and/or not very helpful to the developers (e.g. don't have enough info to accurately address)
if you (and yes, i mean you in the sense that you can actually do this) were to go through and help go through the bugs and ask for more info where appropriate, try and duplicate the bugs locally, merge duplicate bugs, etc... we'd end up with fewer reports in the system. this would also increase the usefulness of the bugs system (which already very useful) as there would be less noise and more signal.
also remember that many of the reports in the bugs system are wishlist items.
of course, any more than 0 bugs is too many. and of course, we'll never have 0 bugs. KDE is too complex, too big and has too much new development for a zero bug count reality. the good news is that the developers are getting much more use out of the new bugs.kde.org than they did with the old one, judging from activity and raw report #s.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: common sense
I dunno, there is that walking-on-air-for-shaped-decos bug in AMOR that may be best left unfixed (seeing that's it hilarious and thus potentially a feature for the app) ;-)
By Sad Eagle at Mon, 2003/01/06 - 6:00am
Re: common sense
would be very useful!
By gunnar at Mon, 2003/01/06 - 6:00am
Re: common sense
Since you are talking in that order of magnitude you might also want to take a look at http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/ for a list of 19 known but still not patched vulnerabilities in Microsoft's core product Internet Explorer, the oldest one dating one year back. All of Microsoft service and bug fixes releases could fix those vulnerabilities, they should have the man power and the money to do so easily. On the other hand KDE has got one known vulnerability and that leads to a delay for a complete source review to get rid of it. I don't think you are bitching at the right place here.
By Datschge at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
If only they had release candidates for vote lists
I also was astounded to not find Kate listed under editors. The number of votes that KWin received are surprinsing, given that then I didn't expect KWin to be listed as a window manager, after Kate had been ignored.
KMail does the trick great for me. The only thing I have to regret is that I cannot connect to the addressbook we have in the company. It's Exchange stuff. I guess, I can have my calendar, my IMAP mail, but not the non-LDAP addressbook, right? Given the flamewars around KMail branches, I have the impression it's under quick development, despite already being good enough. That's great.
By Debian User at Sat, 2003/01/04 - 6:00am
Biased call for votes?
Will such article be posted to other sites too, like gnomedesktop.org, in order that Gnome has a chance to gain some votes too? :-)
By Anonymous at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
Perhaps GNOME people are busy fixing bugs instead of playing around getting votes in, lets face it, very badly organised polls! The choice of applications in each category are clearly an 'off the top of my head' list by someone rather than a considered nomination of projects released in the year?
By KArgonaut at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
> Perhaps GNOME people are busy fixing bugs instead of playing around getting votes in
I doubt that [email protected] who posted this story is a KDE developer.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2003/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
The story has indeed been posted at gnomedesktop.org, just took a little longer to show up. The polls are meant to be open to all projects - having a release during the year was not a prerequisite (atleast not this year). After looking at Kate it has been added to the Editor of the Year Award (it would have been added quicker had the suggestion been made in the poll itself). Furthur suggestions are welcome.
By linuxquestions at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
It wasn't posted by you though.
I posted it a day after I saw it on this site, and it was my submission that was posted. I doubt that they would have picked mine over yours (if indeed you did post one).
By IHateIain at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
I posted identical stories at identical times - why they did not post mine, then posted yours days later I do not know.
By linuxquestions at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
Apologies then
By IHateIain at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Biased call for votes?
> it would have been added quicker had the suggestion been made in the poll itself
Well I tried, but as a newly-registered member (I registered to vote) it wouldn't let me post...
By My Left Foot at Tue, 2003/01/07 - 6:00am
don't forget to vote here too!
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Post subject: South Africa Wineries
Someone has just recently told me about South African wines and wineries, about which I knew next to nothing. Has anyone of ever been there? What is it like? Are the wineries very much spread out, or is there such a thing as a South African Wine Valley?
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Now you're talking my language!! I am intimately acquainted with both South African wines and vineyards, having live there most of my life and having spent the better part of the last 10 years visiting the estates and tasting extensively. So read on...
South Africa has various well-defined wine routes (very much like the French Route du Vin), each within a defined wine producing area (like the French AC - only we call it "wine of origin"). These routes include the most famous, like the Stellenbosch, Paarl and Constantia wine routes, all within an hour or less of Cape Town as well as the more obscure ones such as Robertson and the Klein Karoo which are in the dry interior and would require you to stay overnight somewhere outside Cape Town. Some regions are better known for particular grapes or styles - the Constantia vineyards tend to make great Sauvignon Blancs while the Paarl vineyards excel at red Bordeaux-style blends. The Robertson area is known for its Colombards and the Klein Karoo for its sweet dessert wines and port-style wines.
If you are planning any sort of expedition, your first purchase should be John Platter's South African Wine Guide. This is the definitive, pocket-sized book on South African wines, containing hundreds of vineyards & thousands of wines with their tasting notes as well as extensive maps and info on accommodation and restaurants in the winelands. I suspect it is available on Amazon. If you want a little taster of what to expect in Platter, here is his website where you can register and obtain access to some of the 2004 edition free of charge (for more detail and older editions, you have to pay).
As far as the location of the various routes goes, here is a link to a clickable map of the wine regions, so you can see what is close to Cape Town and what is not:
99% of the vineyards are open to the public (some may be closed on Sunday - Platter will also give you this info) and are very well set up for both cellar tours and tastings. If you go to smaller boutique vineyards, you may get to meet the winemaker and get a personalised tour of the cellar, but in the big commercial concerns this is less likely, unless you are with a tour group. Some vineyards will charge you for tasting (usually a set price for 5 tastings) - these tend to be the "big name" vineyards in Constantia and Stellenbosch. My husband and I tend to avoid those though - and you can still taste PLENTY while avoiding the paid tastings. Some will check you out when you arrive and not charge for tastings if you appear to be a serious taster and not a drunk student (Stellenbosch is a unversity town and is full of drunk students who love to taste wine!!)
I can tell you loads more - just give me more specific questions and I'm off! For the record, some of my personal favourites are:
Fairview - they make cheese as well as a huge range of wine and you can taste both - and watch their herd of goats clamber about on the goat tower outside the tasting venue!!
Hamilton Russel - best known for their stunning Pinot Noirs, and the tasting venue is on a wooden deck overlooking a lake
Beaumont - a tiny boutique winery near the town of Hermanus where you meet the charming winemaker and are quite likely to get a cellar tour if you ask nicely
Delheim - on the slopes of a mountain with a stunning view down towards Cape Town and the ocean. They serve a fantastic lunch on their terrace in summer
Graham Beck - near Robertson - best known for their excellent sparkling wines, and their modern cellar and tasting venue has won design awards
Springfield - makers of my all-time favourite Cabernet Sauvignon (the 1996 vintage in particular) and Chardonnay (their Methode Ancienne is made with natural wild yeast and is unfiltered and unfined)
I could carry on - there are DOZENS - but I'll give it a rest so you can digest the info!! But feel free to ask anything else you'd like to know.
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The most beautiful end of the earth
Papua New Guinea, which lies north of Australia, is a natural paradise – one of the last in the world. Only 21 000 visitors traveled there last year. Our reporter flew into the jungle, where he met bush pilots, crocodile hunters and proud tribal warriors
As the sun sinks over the Sepik, the largest river in Papua New Guinea, 32-year-old Benny Sone is getting ready. He pulls the elastic strap of his headlamp over his bald head, shoulders his spears, scrambles down the embankment and climbs into the bow of his dugout canoe. His son, just seven years old, is already sitting in the back. Dad nods, and junior starts paddling. The canoe cuts silently through the black water. Sone is a genial man. He wants to hunt down a steak for me, the reporter from Germany – a crocodile steak. The Sepik, is 1126 kilometers long and simply teeming with the dangerous creatures, all competing for the abundant supply of fish. The most imposing of these are the saltwater crocodiles, which migrate between the Sepik and the open sea. The males of this species can grow to over six meters long. The hunter shines his light on the reed-lined riverbank. There! A pair of eyes glitters only a few meters away. The son paddles faster as the father leaps from the canoe, his broad shoulders a fleeting shadow. The second canoe carrying my photographer and me rocks violently. At the moment, it seems a moot point which one of us will end up as a steak.
Flashback to almost a week ago. I am sitting in a Beechcraft Baron as the small propeller plane rattles above the steaming jungle. I am on a journey to discover Papua New Guinea, a virtually unexplored, intact natural paradise north of Australia which saw only around 21 000 visitors last year. I am looking for the perfect adventure in a land that is variously seen as particularly dangerous, backward or inaccessible. On water, on foot and in the air, I want to meet people that can't be found in my native country of Germany. Crocodile hunters and island hoppers, bush doctors and tribal warriors. Below me, I can make out jagged limestone breaking through the carpet of greenery, and brown rivers meandering like sated pythons. Papua New Guinea is one third larger than Germany but only has just under 7.5 million inhabitants. Apart from the Highlands Highway, which in places looks more like a field than a highway, there are barely any overland roads.
But there are 500 airfields which have been carved out of the jungle, and they make up for this. Some runways are so steep they resemble ski jumps. My pilot, 75-year-old Bob Bates, knows all of their pitfalls like the back of his hand. The white-haired Australian with the mischievous expression and the red baseball cap has been flying here for half a century. "There's no better country in the world to fly in," he yells above the propeller noise. Almost as if to prove him right, an extinct volcano rises up ahead of us, cumulus clouds dancing around its peak like white dragons. "Mount Giluwe," Bates bellows. "4368 meters!" It's Papua New Guinea's second-highest mountain.
Bates turns the nose of his over 40-year-old Beechcraft slowly downwards. His sights are on a grass-green strip glimmering far below us out of a thicket. Bates has more than 10 000 flight hours under his belt – he knows what he's doing. Even so, my hands turn clammy as the treetops below me grow rapidly larger. Our landing is as soft as cotton, and as we roll to a halt, Bob tells us his story. He came to Papua New Guinea in the mid-1960s, a young engineer from Western Australia hired for state construction projects. At that time the country was still under Australian administration. It only gained independence in 1975.
Three years later, Bates opened his first hotel in the wilderness, Karawari Lodge, in the northeast of the country. We just landed on its airstrip. "Today I own six lodges and a cruise boat," he tells me proudly. Bates is now an airline boss, tour provider and tourist ambassador at the same time. For many people in Papua New Guinea, he is also a hero, revered because of his tireless battle to improve the country's poor reputation.
PNG has a problem with violence, and Port Moresby often ranks high on the lists of the world's most dangerous cities. At night the capital is a no-go area, as even the fearless experts of the backpackers' bible, Lonely Planet, report. Excesses of violence in other parts of the country have also made the world news. In 2013, a group of backpackers were waylaid on the picturesque Black Cat Trail. The attackers hacked two bearers to pieces with machetes and injured four tourists. In Papua New Guinea, paradise and hell are two ends of the same canoe.
Karawari Lodge is a supremely peaceful place with comfortable bungalows. The only risk you run here is of being overcome by a deep sense of humility as you gaze out over the jungle from your balcony. The main building, constructed from precious woods and in the style of a ghost house, towers one hundred meters above the river. The decks are six meters high, and below them are stacks of craftworks: ghostly figures with crocodiles creeping out of their mouths, masks with shell-inlaid bats perched on their colorful heads. The carvings from the local villages are world famous. But don't look too long, or you'll find nightmares crawling in under your mosquito net during the night.
The next day I am powering along the Karawari River in a speedboat. After all, I'm not here on holiday here, but on an adventure. This tributary of the mighty Sepik is around 300 kilometers long. Villages fly by to the left and right, their hut roofs covered with sago palm fronds. The sago plants provide the people here with building material and their most important staple food. The fibrous pulp of the sago plant is ground into flour to produce rich flatbread. Life is very simple here. Practically no division of labor exists. Everyone does everything. Hunting, fishing and cultivation are done solely for personal consumption. Most people here have never even seen the inside of a supermarket. Nature provides, and everything is naturally organic. I find myself suffused with envy for this simple lifestyle.
Over here, paradise and hell are two ends of the same canoe
In the village of Yimas, I meet 25-year-old Sagarias Kundi, who has the a sprinter's physique. Parallel rows of scars resembling crocodile scale bulge along his back. In an initiation ceremony marking their transition to manhood, boys are cut and the wounds sealed with mud. Some women also wear these scars with pride. Sagarias works as a medicine man for some 2000 people in the region. His training? "A workshop with an aid organization." His payment? "None." His biggest problem? "Malaria. Everyone here carries the virus." In his makeshift practice, a length of cardboard serves as an examination couch, boxes full of medication stand in the corner, and a small reliquary pays homage to the Mother of God.
Anyone struck down by a severe case of malaria has to go to the nearest hospital. "The journey takes two full days by boat," Sagarias informs me. "Many patients don't make it." In such cases, the the water ambulance becomes a death ship. I suddenly realise that I no longer envy the people here, and hastily add another layer of mosquito spray.
The few Western visitors who come to the Kalawari today are here to see one thing above all: birds of paradise. Thirty-nine species of these bizarre birds have already been discovered by scientists on New Guinea. Bird fans from the USA are especially hot on their heels, wielding telephoto lenses the size of rocket launchers. For them, the adventure is in the camera viewfinder.
During the crocodile hunt on the Sepik I hear the mating calls of birds in the undegrowth. Cheeping and peeping and cooing and singing, they sound like creatures from another planet. Then there's a squeal: Sone has caught a crocodile! The little fellow struggling in the strong arms of my hero, letting out heartrending cries, is around 1.40 meters long. "Tu'small," says Benny in Tok Pisin, the common pidgin language of PNG. He lets the scaly young reptile glide back into the black waters. No steak for me. No guilty conscience either. And also no trouble with a large and irate mother crocodile.
The next day I fly to Mount Hagen. The Western Highlands are alive with excitement. The town's population doubles to 50 000 for the Mount Hagen Show, an annual dance festival. Costumed "culture groups" come from all over the country to represent around 80 of the 1000 tribes in PNG. Few of them can afford hotel rooms, so the dancers sleep in tents and cardboard boxes by the side of the road.
The groups dance for the jury in a large field. "There isn't just one winner; in the end, everyone has to win." That's how 30-year-old Michael Noki explains the strange concept of the big Sing Sing to me. "Otherwise there'd be a fight – and no one would come again the next year. We are a very proud people, you understand?" I nod vigorously, since Noki really does look quite terrifying with his spear in hand and a brightly colored beret on his head, lavishly decorated with feathers. A flame-red band of makeup stretches across his eyes. The rest of his face is painted yellow, white and black.
Noki is a member of the Kulga tribe, and he and around 20 others are dancing for the fame and honor of his village, Polga. Today's performance very nearly had to be canceled because the red paint had been used up. "The paint is made from special river mud. Very rare, and very expensive!" One small pot of chima costs 100 kina, around 30 euros, which is a small fortune in PNG. The dance groups take it in turns to perform. Each group tries to outshine the others with their own specialty. The Elibali Sing Sing Group shake their hair and feathers as if they were at a heavy metal concert. The Almami Sing Sing Group beats out a drum rhythm that would do the terraces of Borussia Dortmund proud. And the Kava Paradise Singing Group belts out songs in an up-tempo style reminiscent of the young James Brown. Ethnologists have established that over 800 languages are spoken on Papua New Guinea, around 10 percent of all known languages in the world. It seems as thought the country's diversity is reflected in the words of its people.
I feel dizzy. Is it the malaria pills I've been taking for the past ten days? Or is the flood of impressions this country has showered on me overwhelming my mind? The rush of the rivers, the calls of the birds of paradise, the songs of the tribes at the Mount Hagen Show – all of this is spinning around in my head like an out-of-control roundabout. Yes, I have certainly experienced a real adventure. But at the same time this trip has been incredibly exhausting. Surely I could just pick up some crocodile steaks back home at my local supermarket?


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As if Katy Perry's sultry V magazine spread with Madonna wasn't enough, she just had to go ahead and pose for a shot with yet another pop icon: Adele! Be still, our hearts.
Taking a super cute selfie after the 'Dark Horse' singer's second London show, Perry and Adele posed together with matching pouty lips and some serious eyeliner that showed off their sparkling sets of eyes, which both appear dark blue in the shot.
Perry posted the sweet snap on her Instagram account, captioning the photo: "…And on the 2nd LDN show the Queen graced me with her presence," using the manicure emoji because of course.
The adorable pic is one of the first photos of Adele that we've seen in a while, largely remaining out of the public eye. But it looks like it won't be that way for long, as she recently took to Twitter to hint at her upcoming album, '25.'
Whether or not the record will have a collaboration with fellow vocal powerhouse Perry (hey, we can dream!), we're just super psyched that the two pop divas are hanging out together — and snapping an adorable selfie for the world to see. Plus, how cute does Adele look in her fedora?! Check out the snap above!


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hellow533 wrote:neuromanta wrote:To be honest, even a little knife can be very dangerous in close fight, if it's sharp, and used correctly. Once I've seen someone using a sharp edged coin as a weapon, and causing serious wounds. So it's not about size... if you see a knife in the hands of your enemy, it's better to run, believe me. Once my master said (who does wing tsun for 18 years now), that he has approx. 50% for survival, if he fights against an enemy with a knife, with bare hands... and he is practicing against knives very much.
Umm, no. Just no.
First of all, almost any martial arts fighter *including navy seals, army, any military* vs. a punk ass pot smoking druggy with a knife will be able to disarm him and win. Your master must be horrible, or extremely old and cannot fight anymore. American military personal are very well trained, and can probably kick any punk on the street with a knife's ass.
I guess you are watching too much movies.
Well, the Knight Industries Two Thousand is likely to disarm just anybody around with ease. Also, your ultrasoldier will never be able to win against a Chuck Norris (or several ones) with a knife (or even with a hot dog).
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The arrival of cool autumn weather brings truckloads of pumpkins. Their arrival to stores, farm stands, and front porches inspires the spirit of the season year after year. If you are looking for different ways to utilize this tasty gourd, consider picking up a smaller sugar pumpkin and making a delicious orange-colored risotto.
To make risotto, you will need to use the superfino variety of rice, which has the fattest and largest grains and absorbs more liquid than any other rice while still remaining firm. Superfino rice includes Arborio and carnaroli.
If you enjoy a more soupy risotto, use a semifino variety like vialone nano. This type will release less starch. Once you find a quality brand you like, stick with it for consistent results.
There are many myths about stirring the rice. At the CIA, we teach our students that you don't need to stir the rice constantly, especially during the first 10 minutes. Keep the rice wet at all times during the first stage of cooking, and gently stir every few minutes during the simmering to make sure it stays uniformly moist and doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
One of the keys to a successful risotto is using a high-quality broth. For the best results, it should be boiling hot when you add it to the rice in the pan.
"In Italy they say 'è' un peccato mortale' (it's a mortal sin) to use the wrong pot to cook risotto," says CIA Chef Gianni Scappin. "You need a deep stainless steel sautoir, which is a saucepan with straight sides, a heavy bottom, and a handle. Absolutely avoid using a sauté pan or skillet, because the liquid will evaporate too quickly before the rice has a chance to absorb it."
Chef Scappin adds that there is also strong sentiment in Italy regarding the proper way to both serve and eat risotto. Serving it in a bowl instead of on a flat plate is another "peccato mortale." Eat your risotto from the outside edge of the plate inward, so that the rice has time to cool slightly as you eat it, enabling you to really enjoy the flavor. The following recipe is from The Culinary Institute of America's Pasta cookbook (2013, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), available for purchase at bookstores nationwide or online.
For step-by-step demonstrations watch Chef Scappin prepare Risotto con Zucce e Parmigiano below.
Risotto con Zucca e Parmigiano
Serves 4–6
- One 3-pound pumpkin
- 1 quart chicken or vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion, minced
- 10 ounces (1 1/2 cups) carnaroli or vialone nano rice
- 4 ounces (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, cubed
- 3/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
- Kosher salt and coarsely ground black pepper, as needed
- Sage leaves as needed (optional)
- Crumbled amaretti cookies (optional)
- Cut the pumpkin in half and scoop out the seeds. Peel the pumpkin and dice the flesh. Set aside.
- Heat the broth over low heat; keep warm.
- Heat the oil in a large pot over low heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, until tender and translucent, about 4 minutes. Add the diced pumpkin and continue to cook, stirring to coat the pumpkin with the oil, until it is hot, about 2 minutes. Add the rice and toast lightly, stirring frequently, about 2 minutes.
- Add enough of the broth to come 1/2 inch above the rice, and cook, stirring frequently to be sure the rice doesn't stick to the bottom. As the rice absorbs the broth, keep adding more, 1/2 cup at a time.
- Once the rice has absorbed almost all the broth, and the grains are just tender (al dente), about 20 minutes total cooking time, remove the pot from the heat. Add the butter and cheese and stir vigorously until the risotto is creamy. (The pumpkin will start to fall apart; this is what should happen and gives the risotto a brilliant orange color and additional creaminess.) Season with salt and pepper if necessary and serve immediately on flat plates.
- Top the risotto with a few leaves of sage fried in butter and a sprinkling of crumbled amaretti cookies.
Chef's Note: Any type of winter squash or pumpkin will work in this recipe, including butternut, cheese, acorn, or hubbard squash. The color of this risotto will depend on the type of winter squash you use.
Nutrition analysis per 4-ounce serving: 150 calories, 3g protein, 13g carbohydrate, 10g fat, 3.5g saturated fat, 150mg sodium, 15mg cholesterol, less than 1g fiber.


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Officials at Terrebonne's juvenile detention center are trying to tackle the challenge of working with kids from troubled homes in a community where mental-health care is not widely available.
Officials at Terrebonne's Juvenile Detention Center are trying to tackle the challenge of working with kids from troubled homes in a community where mental-health care is not widely available.
Taking proactive measures in treating increasingly aggressive at-risk youths before detainment is needed would benefit the community in the long run, detention-center Director Jason Hutchinson said.
"We clearly are growing up in a culture where violence is the norm," Hutchinson said. "You listen to some of these kids' conversations when they let their guard down, and you get a good idea of where they're coming from. These kids are going a hundred miles an hour at a very young age. We are talking 11-, 12-, 13-year-olds — there is nothing they haven't done yet."
To offset this challenge, parish officials plan to use $7.3 million in federal money to build a new detention center in Gray with new programs and resources. It will be part of a complex housing assorted Terrebonne government offices. Construction is scheduled to start this year.
Terrebonne is lacking in resources for at-risk youths, said Lisa Schilling, executive director of South Central Louisiana Human Services in Houma. Bayou Oaks, a mental-health facility for youths run by Terrebonne General Medical Center, shut down in 2004 because of a lack of resources.
"When you begin to look at other resources in the area, you get a look at things that we do have lacking, in terms of developmental resources for children adolescence," Schilling said. "We have no — as in zero — child and adolescent in-patient beds in our seven-parish area."
Schilling said the child mentoring program, Le Cirque, which began in 2007 but fell victim to state budget cuts last year, will start back up next month in Houma to help children from low-income families.
Because of such losses, the Detention Center has learned to identify mental illness in its inmates, Hutchinson said.
The center, in Ashland on Grand Caillou Road next to the Terrebonne Parish jail, houses and teaches children of different ages and education levels. The children get a full curriculum like in other schools.
Youth offenders also attend life-skills classes to learn anger management and conflict-resolution techniques.
The new center will include an indoor-recreation facility, more private space for dorms settings and a kitchen where teens can learn cooking skills.
Teenage inmates who are well-behaved will be given the opportunity to work at the nearby animal shelter, which will be part of the new complex.
Studies show spending time with animals can be a soothing, therapeutic source of treatment, Hutchinson said.
There are many misconceptions about juvenile-detention centers, Hutchinson said.
"The world will tell you that all these kids need is a good butt-whooping," he said. "And that is an intuitive response to solving these problems, by giving kids more spankings. But the reality is that at this age, spankings are long past effective."
New inmates undergo an assessment profile designed to identify mental- health needs.
"It's a suicide-assessment profile," said Kathleen Timmons, a licensed counselor at the center. "It's based on an emotional status at the time. That way we can tell, when a child comes in, what they're feeling."
The standardized form asks questions such as if the child has had someone close to them die recently and if they feel like hurting themselves or others. The deputy who brings the child in is asked if the child gave any indication of self harm.
"Our main goal here is to make sure these children can't harm themselves or others and that they remain safe," Timmons said.
A lot of times a child won't outright say he or she wants to kill themselves, Timmons said. Instead, they act out.
"A lot of these children don't know how to express their feelings, so what they end up doing is causing problems," she said.
Timmons said she gets to know inmates and tries to help those with serious behavioral problems cope. Often, she calls parents to find out if their child needs medication or has been assessed for mental illness. She relates her assessment to Houma City Court where administrators can then work to find resources that fit the child's needs.
Sometimes having a child sent to the center can be a "blessing in disguise," Timmons said, because staff can identify a treatment plan .
The Detention Center can sometimes feel like a "dumping ground" for kids with mental-health issues because there are limited options for them, Hutchinson said.
The ideal scenario would be to have a psychiatrist on staff, Hutchinson said. However, "we have such a shortage right now in Terrebonne of psychiatrists to handle those kids who are bipolar, have (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) or oppositional-defined issues."
"We lost a lot of pediatric psychiatrists after (Hurricane) Katrina," Timmons added.
Hutchinson said the psychiatrists who remain typically have all the patients they can handle.
If these challenges continue, Hutchinson said he may need to look into hiring a psychiatrist on a stipend basis this year.
A "seamless treatment" of medication is what most teens need to get better, which would be easier to do with a psychiatrist, Hutchinson said.
Many stop taking their medication after their release from the center, "go out, they misbehave again, they re-offend, and they wind up back here," Hutchinson said.
The Detention Center's recidivism rate is about 60 percent, Hutchinson said, a figure that has remained steady since the facility opened 14 years ago.
The Detention Center has held about 12,000 inmates since it opened, and the average stay is about 14 days. Stays only exceed 90 days in unusual circumstances, Hutchinson said.
"I do not see this place as a jail. It is a treatment facility," Timmons said. "The majority of kids that walk through this door, they are not bad kids at all. They made wrong decisions, they have teenage brains, and they do dumb stuff.
"This is a holding place for kids to try and reorganize their thinking. And I see every employee in here trying to help them do that," she said.


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8-21-09 PNC Park
There was a long line to get in before the gates opened. It went back to Federal Street, and snaked left out of sight.
Luckily, I was the first one in line.
I ran in and found ball #1 laying against a concrete step in the bleacher area. I was shocked. Lately, there have been very few Easter Eggs, as ushers have been picking them up.
I would go on to catch ball #2 off the bat of Brian Bixler. He hit a line drive that bounced on the warning track, and right into my glove. The next batter, Jason Jaramillo, hit a home run that I caught on the fly. It was ball #3.
That was it for the Pirates portion of batting practice. I went under the bleachers, changed my clothes, and emerged in my Reds gear.
I decided to re-enter the bleacher area over by the bullpen. That way, it would be less noticeable if any Reds players had previously seen me standing in my customary spot.
Game: 6 balls (6 hit)
Season: 311 balls (161 hit, 91 thrown, 59 device)
Games: 64 games (7 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 4.86 balls per game
Career: 477 balls
Streak: 79 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 22,725


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R&B star Ne-Yo has reportedly been ordered to pay up for skipping a New Years Eve 2008 gig in Washington state.
A Maryland judge ruled the "Miss Independent" singer and his booking agent pay promoter Kenyohn Clark more than $156,000 in damages for having missed the Bellevue show, The Associated Press reported.
Ne-Yo, real name Shaffer Smith, testified at trial that in his "heart of hearts" a $95,000 deposit should have been returned to Clark, according to the AP.
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The promoter said he learned the day of the event via text message that Ne-Yo would not be there in time to perform as a result of his travels in Africa, the Baltimore Sun reported.
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If you have planned to go for South America Holidays along your family from Australia, then you must be thinking about places that would be best for your kids to visit. There are a lot of things that you will have to manage, but the most important would be the ones that you will do to make your kids feel happy excited as well as satisfied and calm. So make sure, you are well prepared for that drill.
Most of the South America tours packages are well equipped with all the possible guidelines and spots indicated that would be best to visit, but still there is a plenty of room available to make your own choices wisely. The most exciting places your kids will enjoy during the South America travel can be Tamrendo cost Rica, Machu Picchu Peru. Where, they will find the best of the Southern culture and the exciting beach to enjoy surfing or even seeing the surfers. You may also plan to go Cotopaxi national part Ecuador. There the kids can play and stay to refresh and rejoice in the fresh air.
While in contrast to the southern part, if you have got to go to the north pole or Antarctica and have booked your Antarctic tours through Antarctica cruises, you will also have to sum up things you should plan for your kids. There you will have to guide your kids more as there is no such population there and the only things they can enjoy is the habitat itself and the animals that are rare around the world otherwise. Like seeing the Penguins, the humpback whales, seals and the frozen lakes, the snow covered mountains and icebreaker ships. All these things are not commonly seen so that could be a unique experience for the kids.


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With fewer than three weeks until the start of the NBA's 41st season, we're previewing all 25 teams. Whatchu say? Twenty-five teams? Yup. We're looking at every franchise in addition to shining a light on the new Eastern Conference expansion Charlotte Hornets and Western Conference expansion Miami Heat. And if Charlotte's more East than Miami, I'll apparently be previewing the new United States map. From now until the start of the season, we're bringing you the 1988 Fantasy Team Previews, which will focus on each team in order to paint a clearer fantasy picture. Razzball's got all the ins-and-outs of the season covered. Who's new to each team, who's old (Kareem!), and how are you possibly going to compete with whoever takes Jordan with the first pick of your draft? Unless the first pick in your draft belongs to you, in which case, turn off your IBM PS/2, kick up your feet and put your fantasy roster on cruise control. Next up – The Seattle Supersonics (Heed Olden: Hoop it up!).
Gained – Michael Cage, John Lucas
Lost – Tom Chambers, Clemon Johnson, Danny Young
Probable position depth –
PG – Nate McMillan, Sedale Threatt, Avery Johnson
SG – Xavier McDaniel, John Lucas
SF – Dale Ellis, Jerry Reynolds
PF – Michael Cage, Derrick McKey, Russ Schoene
C – Alton Lister, Olden Polynice
Surprising Team Fact From Last Season – The Sonics led the league in personal fouls and,unsurprisingly, opponent free throws. Adding Cage and Lucas only barely increases the slap-happy number of fouls Tom Chambers levied onto the team.
Number of Top 20 Fantasy Players (par 0-1) – 1, Ellis
Number of Top 50 Fantasy Players (par 1-2) – 3, McDaniel, McMillan
Number of Top 75 Fantasy Players (par 2-3) – 4, Michael Cage
Number of Top 100 Fantasy Players (par 3-4) – 0
Number of Top 200 Fantasy Players (par 6-7) – 7, Lister, Polynice, McKey
3 Concerns Heading Into the Season
1. Can the Sonics recover from losing Chambers with the acquisition of Shaft? [SHUT YO MOUTH!] Just talkin' 'bout Michael Cage!
Who is that man / Who'd take a rise from the three-point land?/ Tom! / Can you dig it? Look, I know that joke is almost 20 years old, but it's still funny. You watch. People another 20 years from now will still appreciate it. I'm sure. T.C. is among the most athletic forwards this game has ever seen, and the Sonics aren't quite replacing that with Cage's 15 ppg. What they are replacing is a slightly better defender, with slightly younger legs, willing to get a little more bruised down in the block. Not to mention getting a player who'll play more minutes than Chambers because he's not in so much damn foul trouble.
2. McMillan underwhelms me. Will this team ever have a quality PG?
There are just some teams that just seem destined to play one type of game throughout their history. The Celtics will always be defensive dynamos. The Warriors will always play shoot-first individual basketball and there just won't ever be a truly premiere Seattle point guard. McMillan will provide an elite number of steals and assists, but he can't shoot. At all. You wouldn't ever see the Celtics or Lakers running around with point guards with terrible shots providing little offense, would you? McMillan is a fine second point guard, but if you're resting your entire fantasy roster around this guy, your fantasy roster is in trouble.
3. Could there have been a worse first-round draft pick than Olden Polynice last season?
No. I'm not really sure what the Sonics are doing with this team. Frankly, I'm convinced half the active roster could manage this team better than the executives. Heck, throw McMillan, or Lucas or, oh I dunno, Avery Johnson out there to call the shots. Couldn't do much worse, right? What's the worst that could happen, they draft 4/4/0 Polynice again!?
Rookie Review! – Free agent rookie Avery Johnson is Seattle's only acquisition new to the league. I don't like his height or any of his skills, but seeing as how Sedale is certainly no – ahem – threatt for any of McMillan's minutes, there's an outside chance this little guy breaks in, surprises everyone, shows that he can actually shoot the ball, and steals 15-25 minutes a game. I wouldn't bet on it though.
Fantasy Disappointment in '11 – Derrick McKey. Some people expect a huge leap this season, but dude's young development is totally gonna get Shafted.
Biggest Fantasy Contributor in '11 –Dale Ellis. 26/5/3 with a flattop fade that isn't likely to ever go out of style. The only problem here is, you'll almost certainly forget you drafted this guy immediately after doing so. Ellis is like that new McFerrin jam Don't Worry Be Happy: both undesirable, yet completely unavoidable.
Fantasy Sleeper – Olden Polynice. Polynice was ineffective last year, sure. But there's still time for him. He might not be a bust. This is the NBA. Anything can happen. Mark Eaton, Danny Ainge and Craig Ehlo were all chosen in the second round of their respective drafts and they're all important parts of their teams' offense now. Surely, someone like Ehlo will be remembered more for his sturdy play and excellent defense than any embarrassing incidents or defensive missteps, right? Why not a top 10 pick? I'd take a chance sometime after the first dozen rounds of your draft.


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Working out on the beach is fun and inspiring but also extrachallenging thanks to the sand; the unstable surface makes basic moves harder and more effective. But you are up to the challenge! Especially with quintessential beach babes Katrina and Karena of Tone It Up teaching you five of their favorite barre-inspired moves. Whether you're at the beach or your living room, these moves will work your entire body.


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Data Tools Platform:Release Engineering
This information is preliminary. While this system is available within CVS, it is not currently used to generate the DTP builds.
This page details the build system utilised by DTP.
This system was derived from the system used by WTP and STP (and probably others). The system performs the following tasks:
- Component builds
- builds plugins and features
- generates install ZIP
- generates update site JARs
- Component testing
- executes unit tests
- generates results files
- Update site generation
- generates html for download site
- incorporates build settings
- incorporates build results (e.g. warnings/errors)
- incorporates test results
- Download site generation
- Uploading build information
- publishes generated files to DTP web site
The build system is designed to organized as follows:
- distribution
- a group of one or more components
- component
- synonymous with feature; the input to the builder/assembler/packager
The system is comprised of custom Ant scripts which are used to initialize build properties, download dependencies, invoke the PDE builder for individual components, generate site files.
The head-less PDE builder is used to generate plugin JARs and ZIPs. The PDE builder executes a build using information in the feature and plugin manifests. This helps ensure the plugin build environment is similar to its execution environment.
The system is composed of two projects within CVS:
- org.eclipse.datatools.releng
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This project contains the following files:
- *.map files
- used by the PDE builder to locate and fetch source for the build. These files are used to specify the following information:
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He can't say he wasn't warned.
A diner at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas fell ill Saturday night while eating a three and a half pound Triple Bypass burger and had to be wheeled out on a stretcher, ABC News reported.
Laughing patrons thought the whole thing was a stunt—the restaurant is set up around an emergency room theme where waitresses in skimpy nurse uniforms serve such items as butterfat shakes and fries cooked in lard to diners donning surgical gowns. A sign outside the venue warns that "This establishment is bad for your health," and the website bills the food as "taste worth dying for."
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"We would never pull a stunt like that," he said.
But Basso told ABC that for a moment, even he doubted the veracity of the "nurses'" claims that a man was outside having a heart attack.
"No, he's really having an f-ing heart attack," an employee told Basso, who finally understood it wasn't a joke.
Paramedics arrived and brought the man, whose identity was not revealed, to a Las Vegas hospital where Basso said he is recovering.
Last year, the restaurant's 570-pound spokesman, Blair River, died of pneumonia at the age of 29 prompting a spate of criticism.
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Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind Smash Bros., is now the man behind Nintendo 3DS game Kid Icarus Uprising. Is it his first 3D game?
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Continuing Sakurai adds, "That's the nature of the way we get used to things as they become familiar." He says that the "problem" is going back to 2D after 3D makes it feel "flat".
"So in terms of game development I would think that going back to 2D after working on a 3D project may be very difficult for me."
Okay, so make the next Smash Bros. game in 3D. That should solve that issue!
News: 3DS makes it 'hard to go back to 2D' [Official Nintendo Magazine via GoNintendo]


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Tiger's own car collection is understandably glossed over here, although for once he is an integral part of the game, as opposed to merely turning up to flash his impossibly white teeth on the box. This integration comes about via the so-called Tiger Legacy Challenge, whereby you play out key moments of his golfing life, or as it says in-game, "Relive the storied career of Tiger Woods", which we initially read as "sordid career".
Unsurprisingly his antics with a waitress in a church car park are not part of this story, although it is a comprehensive affair, beginning with his TV debut as a precocious two-year-old. Progressing through the early years to the amateur years to the glory years, and even to a hypothetical future where he overhauls hero Jack Nicklaus's 18 majors, it's more than a token add-on, spanning four decades and providing an intriguing and frequently challenging insight into the eye of the Tiger.
Elsewhere it's the same old stuff, with 22 PGA Tour Golfers and a slew of accurately rendered courses. The kick in the teeth is that most of these courses have to be bought separately for extra cash on top of the fifty quid you've already shelled out for the game. It's this kind of practice that recently led to EA being voted the worst company in America - an outpouring of nerd-rage that arguably overlooked the bigger picture.
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Comments and questions about the plan can be submitted for inclusion in the public record by sending e-mail to email@example.com or by writing to: Edward Onyia, 347 N. Dunbridge Rd., Bowling Green, OH 43402.
Comments will be addressed at a later date.
The preferred plan calls for continuation of the ground water filtering system that's been in operation for several years. The plan also looks for "natural attenuation" of the existing contaminants in which pollutants would break down naturally over time.
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An Update From Voodoo Six
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Mike Fraser has started mixing the second half of the album, only 4 more songs and the album is finished!! It is sounding amazing, we can't wait to get out and start playing the new songs live. We are looking into booking some shows now, so all very exciting. Also a new website is being put together and will be up and running in a matter of weeks.
I liked Voodoo Six's last album quite a bit, and I am hopeful that new one lives up to the last.
The band replaced their long time singer, Henry Rundell with Luke Purdie from Reculver earlier this year.I wanted to see what I could find out about Like Purdie, and found the clip, "Runaway" below. Check it out!
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Adjusting to the new Angelo's Restaurant on the Woodstock Square will take time, Co-Owner Angelo Paloumbis says.
It's taking him time, along with his regular customers. But, he said, he's not regretting his decision to bring in Chef Robert Irvine as part of the Food Network's popular show, "Restaurant: Impossible."
And he'd do it again.
The "It's All Greek to Me" episode featuring Angelo's, at 117 E. Van Buren St., recently aired, and now can be seen as a repeat at various times on the Food Network. Through the show, Irvine is given $10,000 to turn around failing restaurants within two days.
At Angelo's, Irvine and his crew modernized the decor and scaled back the menu, offering new options, such as the popular lamb burger, stuffed pepper and pork tenderloin, as well as fresher ingredients.
"It was a good experience," Paloumbis said. "Would I go through it again? In a heartbeat, but without family involved."
He said he preferred not to go into details about how the undertaking impacted his family, but did say that the show failed to relay that it was his wife, Marianna, who actually invited in the television show through a letter.
"It was a Valentine's Day gift to me to make the business better and benefit everyone in the family," he said.
"The whole premise of the show was to help boost the business so we can make a little bit more money so I can actually pay for mine and Marianna's wedding as a religious ceremony, instead of a civil ceremony," he said. "There's been a snafu in that right now, at least for the time-being."
Since Irvine's vist, business is up, he said.
Through a quote on the Food Network's online site, Paloumbis said the restaurant is now making at least a 10-percent profit.
Though, he said Friday it's difficult to put a definite number on it.
"Some days are better than others," he said. "Right now, we're just digging out of debt little by little."
Reviews have been mixed on various social media sites, including those posted on the restaurant's Facebook page the Food Network's site.
Some have said they don't like the new decor, which has gone from more of a 1980s look to sort of retro modern with more earth tones. Sill, others approve of the changes.
"I personally like the look," Paloumbis said. "It's trendy. It has a little Victorian feel to it, but modern. The design team that was involved was phenomenal. It doesn't feel like a diner anymore, even though it is. We're slowing getting the place back together, hooking up music and TVs and stuff like that."
He said it is expected that not everyone will be as pleased with the changes, including those made to the food.
"Any time you have a change, everyone needs to get acclimated to it," he said. "We're still in the same place, the same people. You can still get anything you want, even if it's not on the menu. If we have the ingredients, we'll still make it for you."
Cutting back the options on the menu has helped the business cut costs, he said, and the food has become more focused.
With fresher ingredients, the restaurant's side items have improved, with patrons having the option to order fresh fruit with their entrees instead of fries, for instance, he said. The spaghetti, marinara and alfredo sauces are all homemade, he said.
And the Egglplant puree that comes along with items, such as the pork tenderloin and fried chicken, has been a hit, he said.
"Even our regular hamburgers, which now are all hand-packed are extremely popular," he said.
Now open for dinner, Angelo's offers all the breakfast, lunch and dinner items all day long. Prices did go up slightly, Paloumbis said, but only based on the market. Portion sizes did not decrease, he said.
"We are going to be bringing back some daily specials little by little," he said.
As for his time with Irvine, Paloumbis described the famous chef as "really down to earth off camera" and "extremely intelligent," saying he'd like to meet him again some time outside of the business.
"I have nothing but high praise for the man," he said.
"Honestly, it went a little better than I expected," he said of the way the "Restaurant: Impossible" episode featuring his business turned out. "I knew I was going to get the brunt of it. It was better than I expected. . . It was an interesting experience."