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It all began in a restaurant for the producer of Guillaume Canet's Cannes title Blood Ties. Alain Attal tells Melanie Goodfellow about his US debut.
French producer Alain Attal will feel a double sense of satisfaction when he walks up the Cannes red carpet for the premiere of Guillaume Canet's English-language debut Blood Ties on May 20.
Not only does Canet's Brooklyn-shot picture — starring Clive Owen and Billy Crudup as rival brothers, one a police officer, the other a gangster — mark Paris-based Attal's first foray into shooting in the US, it is also a production that nearly got away.
"This is the craziest, riskiest adventure in my producing career… I wasn't even supposed to make the film," says Attal, sitting behind a script-covered desk in his Les Productions du Trésor film company in Paris's hip Marais quarter.
Attal first met Canet in the late 1990s through a restaurant he owned around the corner. "My early attempts to make films hadn't come to much and I had to make a living somehow, so with a friend I opened a restaurant called Le Trésor. All the serving staff were aspiring actors or directors," recounts Attal.
Alongside Canet, who would "help out from time to time", directors Philippe Lefebvre and Patrick Mille were waiters; comedian Franck Dubosc would do stand-up sets and actor Gilles Lellouche was a regular at the bar.
"Those years laid the foundations for Les Productions du Trésor," Attal says. "It was during this period I started producing short films for the likes of Guillaume… my office was between the crates of Coca-Cola and the fridge."
A decade later, Les Productions du Trésor has some 20 titles in its catalogue including Canet's Whatever You Say, Tell No One and Little White Lies, Radu Mihaileanu's Golden Globe-nominated The Concert, Maïwenn's Cannes 2011 Jury Prize winner Polisse and Régis Roinsard's Populaire, which The Weinstein Company is opening in the US on September 6.
Canet hit on the idea for Blood Ties — an English-language remake of Jacques Maillot's 2008 Les Liens Du Sang — while co-starring in the original film opposite Francois Cluzet. "It was impossible for me to be involved. Production house LGM, which made the original and held the rights, and French distributor StudioCanal wanted to do the remake," Attal remembers.
A year later, however, Canet had a script, co-written with James Gray (The Yards, We Own The Night), but no cast or US financing in place, so he approached Attal for help. "I'm not sure why it wasn't working. I think part of it was that Guillaume found it difficult to work with a different set up from here. I told Guillaume that I would only board the project if I had all the keys to the shop and then set about negotiating with LGM and StudioCanal," explains Attal. "They, with a touch of class, handed them over."
Attal and Canet started assembling the cast, comprising European and US actors — Owen, Crudup, Canet's wife Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana and Matthias Schoenaerts — so the production could tap into financing systems on both sides of the Atlantic.
John Lesher of Le Grisbi Productions helped out in Los Angeles, above all with the cast, taking a producer credit. "John gave us credibility in Los Angeles, handling negotiations with CAA's Jimmy Darmody who was the agent for Owen, Crudup and Kunis," says Attal.
Concurrently, Attal set about financing the film like a classic French production, securing the backing of Wild Bunch, French distributor Mars Distribution and broadcasters Canal Plus, Ciné Plus, France 2 and M6. "Wild Bunch and Mars were the film's biggest supporters. Wild Bunch loved the film from the start and put in $6m upfront on the basis of sales estimates, giving the project real credibility," says Attal.
The production started to roll in Brooklyn last May but there was still a hole in the $25m budget. The solution came through Wild Bunch sales chief, Vincent Maraval, who introduced Attal to US-based Worldview Entertainment, producers of James Gray's Palme d'Or contender The Immigrant, which Maraval is selling. After a meeting last Cannes, Worldview invested, taking US and Canadian rights as a guarantee.
Undeterred by the twists and turns in the making of Blood Ties, Attal hopes the picture will be the first of many transatlantic productions and to this end has opened the US-based Trésor Company.
"The idea is we will produce one English-language film a year," says the producer, who has two English-language projects in development. He will also produce Canet's next film — to be announced — and is developing Lellouche's second film as director, an adaptation of Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK?, among others.


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Fire Roasted Tomato Basil Soup
We recently went to dinner at Carrabba's with some friends and I had their Tomato and Basil soup. I am usually not a huge fan of tomato soups…but this one is different. It is packed with flavor and has a great consistency! Jorge loved this soup and ate an entire bowl (along with that sandwich you see next to it)! Another plus is this soup was very easy to throw together and does not have to sit on the stove simmering for a long time either. And if you have a ton of tomatoes growing in your garden like I do, you can also make your own Fire Roasted Tomatoes by following these instructions.
Fire Roasted Tomato Basil Soup
3 (14 ounce) cans of hunt's fire roasted tomatoes
6 garlic cloves (chopped)
1 yellow onion (diced)
2 cups chicken stock (or vegetable stock for vegetarian)
1/2 cup half and half
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
2 ounces olive oil
20 fresh basil leaves (rolled and cut into a chiffonade)
In a heavy pot on medium high heat, pour in the olive oil and saute onion until translucent. Add the chopped garlic (except for 1 clove) and heat with the onion for about four minutes. Next, add the cans of fire roasted tomatoes including the juice to the pan and cover for about 15 minutes, stirring every few minutes.
With the lid off the pan, add the chicken broth and half & half and bring the pot to a simmer. The mixture should start to thicken as it reduces. This should take about 10 minutes. You want the soup to be somewhat thick. If your soup is a bit thin, let it simmer a bit longer while occasionally stirring. When it comes to the right consistency, add the remaining chopped garlic clove and fresh basil (reserve some for a garnish) and season to taste with salt and pepper. Lower your heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes more.
Now it's time to get out your blender. With a ladel, place the soup mixture in the blender and puree until smooth. You can do this in batches as well. Please use caution when handling the mixture and blender as it could burn your hand as you press down on the lid. Or just use your immersion blender like I do! Blend mixture until all the big chunks are gone, but do not blend until it is very smooth like a bisque.
Serve with a small sprinkle of the reserved basil as a garnish.
Adapted from: Recipezaar

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Can nesting be applied to Iterators?
How would that work? I don't understand what you are trying to do.
If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.
If you have a List of Lists I guess it is possible.
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text: {-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-} module Number.ResidueClass.Check where import qualified Number.ResidueClass as Res import qualified Algebra.PrincipalIdealDomain as PID import qualified Algebra.IntegralDomain as Integral import qualified Algebra.Field as Field import qualified Algebra.Ring as Ring import qualified Algebra.Additive as Additive import qualified Algebra.ZeroTestable as ZeroTestable import Algebra.ZeroTestable(isZero) import PreludeBase import NumericPrelude (Int, Integer, mod, ) import Data.Maybe.HT (toMaybe, ) import Text.Show.HT (showsInfixPrec, ) import Text.Read.HT (readsInfixPrec, ) infix 7 /:, `Cons` {- | The best solution seems to let 'modulus' be part of the type. This could happen with a phantom type for modulus and a @run@ function like 'Control.Monad.ST.runST'. Then operations with non-matching moduli could be detected at compile time and 'zero' and 'one' could be generated with the correct modulus. An alternative trial can be found in module ResidueClassMaybe. -} data T a = Cons {modulus :: !a ,representative :: !a } factorPrec :: Int factorPrec = read "7" instance (Show a) => Show (T a) where showsPrec prec (Cons m r) = showsInfixPrec "/:" factorPrec prec r m instance (Read a, Integral.C a) => Read (T a) where readsPrec prec = readsInfixPrec "/:" factorPrec prec (/:) -- | @r \/: m@ is the residue class containing @r@ with respect to the modulus @m@ (/:) :: (Integral.C a) => a -> a -> T a (/:) r m = Cons m (mod r m) -- | Check if two residue classes share the same modulus isCompatible :: (Eq a) => T a -> T a -> Bool isCompatible x y = modulus x == modulus y maybeCompatible :: (Eq a) => T a -> T a -> Maybe a maybeCompatible x y = let mx = modulus x my = modulus y in toMaybe (mx==my) mx fromRepresentative :: (Integral.C a) => a -> a -> T a fromRepresentative m x = Cons m (mod x m) lift1 :: (Eq a) => (a -> a -> a) -> T a -> T a lift1 f x = let m = modulus x in Cons m (f m (representative x)) lift2 :: (Eq a) => (a -> a -> a -> a) -> T a -> T a -> T a lift2 f x y = maybe (errIncompat) (\m -> Cons m (f (modulus x) (representative x) (representative y))) (maybeCompatible x y) errIncompat :: a errIncompat = error "Residue class: Incompatible operands" zero :: (Additive.C a) => a -> T a zero m = Cons m Additive.zero one :: (Ring.C a) => a -> T a one m = Cons m Ring.one fromInteger :: (Integral.C a) => a -> Integer -> T a fromInteger m x = fromRepresentative m (Ring.fromInteger x) instance (Eq a) => Eq (T a) where (==) x y = maybe errIncompat (const (representative x == representative y)) (maybeCompatible x y) instance (ZeroTestable.C a) => ZeroTestable.C (T a) where isZero (Cons _ r) = isZero r instance (Eq a, Integral.C a) => Additive.C (T a) where zero = error "no generic zero in a residue class, use ResidueClass.zero" (+) = lift2 Res.add (-) = lift2 Res.sub negate = lift1 Res.neg instance (Eq a, Integral.C a) => Ring.C (T a) where one = error "no generic one in a residue class, use ResidueClass.one" (*) = lift2 Res.mul fromInteger = error "no generic integer in a residue class, use ResidueClass.fromInteger" instance (Eq a, PID.C a) => Field.C (T a) where (/) = lift2 Res.divide recip = lift1 (flip Res.divide Ring.one) fromRational' = error "no conversion from rational to residue class"


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Ongoing Oxygen Icons Usability Survey: k3b
Every two weeks Nuno Pinheiro and the KDE Oxygen Icons team will be publishing a new usability survey online to get feedback from users on the look and feel of icons. In particular, the Oxygen team is looking for feedback from individuals that have had no exposure to KDE, so if you're at home or at work, poke your friends and family and have them complete the survey, or simply take the survey yourself. The current survey is on icons for the KDE 4 port of K3b which is currently underway. So if you have a moment, grab someone and complete the K3b Icons Survey now.
nice survey
Such a neat survey...
Although it kind of misses the situation when no icon that suits the case is found. That is, there should be some option of "not sure" or these 2 could do it and maybe a text to add some comment like "that eraser is too close to the CD and hard to distinguish (or needs some more contrast)"
Anyway, good job and hope to see more of these!
By mootchie at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 8:39pm
I agree, sometime no icon
I agree, sometime no icon really matches the description.
And the ability to add comments would be great.
By Ikipou at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 9:14pm
No Icon
if you think absolutely no icon fits the profile move along and click next...
Apliki People did a awesome job in providing valuable meaningful automatic data out of the simple test.
The test is short because we don't want to be annoying to people taking the test, it should be simple and fun to do.
By pinheiro at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 9:43pm
Great idea to record the time
Great idea to record the time taken to make the choice.
It should be explicit that you can choose "no icon" by pressing next.
By Ikipou at Mon, 2009/07/13 - 7:54am
Re: No Icon
I also think it should be stated more clearly that you can simply press »Next« if you think that no icon fits…
By klickverbot at Wed, 2009/07/15 - 2:48pm
I think the same
Yep you are right.
By Daniel at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 11:40pm
I wish they do an usability for window decoration
... because oxygen window decoration is soooooo bad for usability.... rounded icons... small icons... no colored window bar... it's ugly... so baaaaad!
By Andre Goddard Rosa at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 10:07pm
Use another one
Its not like there are no other decorations around...
By pinheiro at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 10:19pm
The idea is to have a good one as default...
... as most of users do not change it.
By Andre Goddard Rosa at Tue, 2009/07/14 - 12:02am
Actually, Ozone is the
Actually, Ozone is the default, and:
If YOU don't find it an attractive window decoration, I think it's safe to say that you are one of a minority - in fact, many Gnome advocates even state the attractiveness of KDE 4 being it's only true benefit (usually in the means of, "it's all looks and no stability" or some-such rubbish).
By madman at Tue, 2009/07/14 - 1:07am
Did I forget to mention that
Did I forget to mention that Gnome, XFCE, Windows, Mac OS and hell, even Fluxbox all feature round corners by default? What exactly IS user-friendly by your standard?
By madman at Tue, 2009/07/14 - 1:09am
What "my" standard dictates
It states that the window decoration of Windows XP and Vista (the most used operating systems in the world) are user friendly and passes on "my" usability standard.
As someone already said, I use plastik, even thought it's not that great either nowadays, when comparing with XP/Vista.
Anyway, it's not a matter of if you can change it or not, it's a matter of PROVIDING GOOD DEFAULTS, as Linus would say...
By Andre Goddard Rosa at Wed, 2009/07/15 - 2:40am
Both Windows XP and Windows
Both Windows XP and Windows Vista use round corners. KDE has round corners.
The window decorations of Windows Vista blend into other Microsoft Windows applications. KDE's window decorations blend into KDE (and Qt) applications.
I fail to see how KDE is doing it wrong when it's doing nothing not already done in your two examples.
By madman at Wed, 2009/07/15 - 2:32pm
I'd like to see the survey results visually (with icons)
It would be nice if the results can be made like:
By Andre Goddard Rosa at Sun, 2009/07/12 - 10:12pm
Preview of results
For those of you interested in the way the results are being computed and displayed, just take a look here: http://www.usability-methods.com/en/howdoesitwork (The results are Step 3). This is just a small demo-study (not the actual k3b Icon Test), but it should give you an impression about how detailed the information is, that is being generated by the test.
We probably cannot make this link publicly available for the results of the k3b Test, as with that many people looking at the results our servers are most likely to break - because the results are at the moment calculated live. But I guess Nuno will communicate the actual results in some form :)
By Björn Balazs at Mon, 2009/07/13 - 8:52am
Thanks, it`s very nice!
By Andre Goddard Rosa at Tue, 2009/07/14 - 12:01am
Nice to take part!
I like surveys. As a user, it makes you feel part of the process instead of the "take it or leave it" attitude that is far too common.
By tryfan at Mon, 2009/07/13 - 10:03am


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What's in a name? Well, world peace in one case.
Los Angeles Laker forward Ron Artest officially changed his name to Metta World peace today, in a move signed off on by a judge. The 31-year-old player, who in 2004 drew an 86-game suspension after attacking a fan he incorrectly thought had thrown a drink on him, says he wants kids to know he's a tranquil dude.
"You can call me Ron today and then it's over. It's a wrap," Artest told Yahoo! sports. "It's about love, world peace. Everybody can relate to that, whether it's in the same community or the same state or the same country or whether it's a country going to war.
U.S. & World
"It's about world peace. You know what I mean? The kids need to know that, and they know that now."
He'll also change his number from 15 to 70, which he believes has "something to do with the universe."
The 6-foot-7, 250-pound Artest, who grew up in Queens and played for St. John's, won the NBA's J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award earlier this year and has been an advocate for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and various mental health charities.
Artest's move is reminiscent of another onetime NBA star, Lloyd B. Free. In 1981, he had his name legally Changed to World, making him World B. Free.


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Follow Friday - 2 Apr 2010
My recommendations this week. As usual, these are not in any particular order, I normally pick a good post from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better! ;-)
I doesn't matter to me that this one is nearly a year old... I love photos of folks at work. This is the Weller Hardware, through the years. Very neat!! Thanks, Dave! We got to this one from the neat photo of Dave's grandfather on Wordless Wednesday... ;-)
Finding Josephine has been a joy to follow, especially the journey with Tempy Burton. If you haven't read the story, please take the time to follow it...
Ancestry Magazine website has a wide variety of useful articles and archives that may be of interest. Check it out.
Families are Forever! ;-)


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The gusty winds of late are expected to ease through the first part of the Estes Park week and the Halloween holiday on Wednesday. Wednesday evening's forecast calls for mild temperatures just above freezing. The National Weather Service forecast for the area through Wednesday calls for:
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. West wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
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Sexual health is an integral component of women's psychological and overall physical health. Clinicians often perceive the treatment of female sexual health as a quality of life issue and low health priority; furthermore, they often do not believe they possess the knowledge and experience to diagnose and manage HSDD. Even though HSDD significantly impairs their overall sense of well-being, sexual satisfaction, and the quality of their relationships, many patients do not bring up sexual health, due to embarrassment and lack of education on sexual health. Physicians often feel inadequately trained to directly address sexual health and unable to focus on patient concerns due to time-constraints. There is a clear need for education to help clinicians proactively speak to patients about sexual health concerns that patients may consider difficult to discuss, and to facilitate collaboration between specialists in various disciplines that manage women's health.
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Ashley Relf is a San Francisco based coach and athlete. She started her athletic career as a successful gymnast and was training six hours a day already as a 12-year-old. Unfortunately a neck injury ended her career at age 13 and she shifted her focus to volleyball, soccer, basketball, and diving. At college she played soccer and ran track.
Post college Ashley played soccer semi-professionally for a year but soon became an avid runner and triathlete.
"Currently I am a mother of a 6 1/2 month old son, Joaquin and an elite runner training to chase after the Olympic Trials Qualifying time in the marathon," she says.
In addition to being a top athlete Ashley also holds a degree in Sport psychology, and a Certificate in Exercise & Sport Performance. She coaches individual clients as well as high school, club, college, corporate and professional level teams in both mental strength training and athletic performance in running, triathlon and strength training.
"My strengths as a coach are that I understand the rigors of training to reach higher levels of performance and the psychological challenges of working through the extreme demands of competition," she says.
"I help my clients find the right steps to take to enhance their performance and reach a better understanding of her or his strengths and weaknesses and what needs to be done to move forward."
Ashley Relf's workout, The Speedy Finish Long Run, is great for those who want a workout to help simulate pushing through mental and physical race fatigue towards the later stages of a race.
"This exercise will help you finish a race strong and fast even when your body and mind are trying to get you to stop or slow down," she says.
The Speedy Finish Long Run is aimed at competitive runners who already have built a solid foundation with their base mileage.
Note: Adjust the heart rates (HR) in the sample workout based on your own HR zones.
Step 1
"Run the first 10 miles at your normal conversational pace."
Distance: 10 miles (15 km)
Target HR: 70%–80% of your max HR
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"For the next 3 miles start running at your tempo pace (about a minute/mile faster than your normal conversational pace)."
Distance: 3 miles (5 km)
Target HR: 81%–93% of your max HR
Step 3
"Run the next mile at your 5k race pace or an effort that you would not want to talk with your running buddy at."
Distance: 1 mile (1,5 km)
Target HR: 94%–100% of your max HR
Step 4
"Run the last 2–3 miles at your normal conversational pace."
Distance: 2–3 miles (3–5 km)
Target HR: 70%–80% of your max HR
"The goal of this workout is to gain confidence from your speedy finish long runs to push through the mental and physical challenges and keep increasing the effort," coach Relf says.
For more info about Ashley Relf and her coaching go to www.traincompetegetfaster.com


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In re Robert Edward Forchion, Jr., 2011 WL 3834929, (Cal.App. 2 Dist. August 31, 2011)
A long time marijuana activist (who now self-identifies as a "marijuana capitalist") asked a California court to legally change his name to match the domain name of his website — njweedman.com. The court denied the request.
The court gave three reasons why it would not allow the name change:
- A name change would last indefinitely, but a domain name could expire or be lost. Therafter, people might be confused.
- The name change would associate the petitioner's legal name with a website that advocates illegal activities, and that should not be allowed.
- The petitioner tried to change his name in New Jersey back in 2001 but failed. The California court, looking to principles of "comity," went along with the New Jersey Court.
At least we know Sunshine Megatron is not as controversial.


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When Barbara Kingsolver is not writing, she may be shearing sheep, or harvesting vegetables. Most recently, peppers, tomatillos and cardoons. Cardoons?
"They're like celery on steroids, about 4 feet tall," she said. "You cook and eat the roots of the leaves, like artichokes."
Kingsolver, whose seventh novel, "The Lacuna," comes out next week, described farming as "wonderful for the body and spirit. It gets me outside every day, and unlike the gym, you can't blow it off." So each weekday at 7:30 a.m. she pulls on her mud boots and first walks her daughter Lily to the school bus, a half-mile down the lane from her Appalachian farm in the southwestern corner of Virginia between Roanoke and Knoxville, Tenn.
"If I didn't have a family and a farm, I would write every minute of every day. So it's just as well that I do have these other things in my life to keep me healthy," she said.
In the two years since Kingsolver's last book, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," a bestselling first-person paean to being a locavore, the eating locally movement has taken off.
"It was the crest of a wave, which astonished us. I've never been trendy in my life. Instead, I sit at my desk and dream up the next crazy idea."
"The Lacuna," Kingsolver's first novel in nine years, is her next big conversation starter. As always, she writes about the ways that cultures clash, but also the ways that people connect and find commonality, or at least empathy. Whether her stories are set in the American South or Southwest, Africa, Mexico or Central America, her characters' personal lives play out against the broader conflicts of history. Through it all, a primary theme emerges: the continuous human struggle to determine not only what belongs to individuals vs. the community, but to what and whom we all belong.
This time, an American boy named Harrison Shepherd grows up in Mexico in the 1920s with his man-hopping mother. Harrison winds up working for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, meeting Leon Trotsky and witnessing social revolution both in Mexico City and back home in the States, where he eventually becomes a celebrated writer. But he is caught up in a McCarthy-foreshadowing scandal fomented and distorted by rabid media (symbolized early on by howler monkeys), and the most widely printed words he ever writes wind up being: "Most of us never choose to believe in our country, we just come up short on better ideas."
Kingsolver, who spent time as a journalist covering striking miners in Arizona, has never before directly taken on the press in her novels. But it isn't just today's media climate that spurred her to do so in "The Lacuna." She doesn't believe that "the talkers rising above the thinkers," as Harrison puts it, is a new phenomenon.
"The speed of the Internet has ramped up the energy, but the howling is not a new tendency," she said. "It was the same in the radio of the late '40s. It's not just media irresponsibility; it's the eagerness of people to believe terrible things, to believe the worst."
No liberties taken
Some writers dream up characters first, then create stories around them. Not Kingsolver, who always begins with a theme.
"I work out what I want to talk about, then decide the best approach," she said. "Once I set up the landscape of a novel, everything has to look like it belongs. With this one, I spent years more time researching, reading through old newspaper archives and visiting museums."
"The Lacuna" was seven years in the making, though Kingsolver also published three nonfiction books in that time. The inclusion of real-life historical characters -- and excerpts of actual newspaper accounts -- made this book the most complicated she's ever written, she said: "I did not take liberties with their lives. I felt an obligation to be true to the people they were and the things they did, so if a newspaper account had Rivera being in a certain place on a certain day, so did I."
The theme for "The Lacuna" sprang from Kingsolver's reaction to "the fierce position of 'Don't mess with our country, it's a perfect finished product and this is no time for criticism.' ... Anyone who criticizes the way we do things gets called un-American. Where is it coming from? Why are we so frightened? This country was invented by rebels bent on stirring things up. So what happened? Also, during World War II, people were so eager to give things up and sacrifice comfort for the greater good. Where did that go and why?
"I never know where my books are going to land regarding the concerns of the day. Most of the time I was writing this one was during the Bush administration. I was thinking so much about censorship and infringement of rights and government bearing down on people, and how close we have come to repeating stomping on anyone critical of it. Then we had this election and change. And now, Obama is dealing with the howlers."
Promises to keep
Kingsolver grew up in eastern Kentucky, in a house surrounded by alfalfa fields.
"I grew up in a place and time where people didn't have delusions," she said. "No one I knew was ever going to be a writer."
Her father, a public-health doctor, moved them to the Congo for a year when she was 8 -- also the time when she first began to feel a drive to write it all down.
"On a typical day we got up, found a cobra, ate lunch, read a book and went to bed," she said. "It felt like life was a river rushing by and writing about it every day was a way to keep it from spilling over the banks."
Despite her youthful obsession with keeping journals, she took only one writing class as a college science major, "but my chemistry textbooks are full of poems scribbled in the margins," she said. Later, while she was working for the University of Arizona as a biologist, she audited a fiction workshop taught by Francine Prose.
"She taught me that the rule for a short story was: Your first sentence should make a promise the rest of the story can keep. My corollary rule is that for a novel, it can be the whole first paragraph."
A force for good
In the world of arts and letters, Kingsolver is viewed as an activist as much as she is a writer, with dual aims similar to those of author and social critic John Steinbeck. History and folklore professor Bill Ferris, who chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2000 when the organization recognized Kingsolver, describes the author as a "modest, gentle person" whose writing he sees as "a force for social action. She connects her work with public issues as a force for good. Most writers write for themselves, and I don't argue with that, but Barbara feels that as an artist if she can't improve on life around her, then her craft is for naught."
Julie Schumacher, who teaches fiction for the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program, calls Kingsolver "a highly skilled literary writer with a vibrant social and political conscience. Sometimes one portion of her brain dominates, sometimes the other. When both are working at full velocity, you get 'The Poisonwood Bible.'" That book, about a misguided minister bent on saving souls in the Congo who drags his wife and four daughters along, is perhaps Kingsolver's most highly regarded work to date.
Kingsolver is known for crafting breathtakingly beautiful passages, especially about nature. But she says her approach to writing is practical, even occasionally scientific.
"People ask me what my rituals are to get in the mood to write," she said. "I don't know -- putting my kid on the bus? I've never had time for that, or writer's block. When I get to sit down at my desk, I feel like a racehorse at the gate, so ready to let out all the sentences and paragraphs I've written in my brain and held onto."
She also relishes the part of the job most writers hate: "I revise everything 70 times. I love revision. To me that feels like art pulling the thread of your ending all the way back to the beginning, to work on the grace and fluidity and architecture of a story, that is your real art. Slogging through a first draft is like hoeing a row of corn. You're just happy when you get to the end."
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Randomly enough, the HBO series "Game of Thrones" are gearing up for a hip-hop mixtape, "Catch the Throne."
Two weeks back, while speaking to Revolt TV, Big Boi made mention of his love for the TV show "Game of Thrones", and revealed he had a mixtape on the way inspired by the show. The details were scarce at the time, but now we've received more information on the project, and as it turns out, this project is actually helmed by the TV show itself, as they attempt to reach a larger demographic.
"Game of Thrones" will be dropping a rap mixtape titled Catch the Throne. There will be no Jay Z nor Kanye West appearance on the tape, but as Big Boi initially mentioned, he'll be on it alongside Wale and Common, as well as Daddy Yankee, Snow Tha Product, Bodega Bamz and more.
Common spoke on the pairing of rap + "Game of Thrones", which may seem odd at first, "Game of Thrones centers around battles for power and rap is definitely a battle for power," Common said.
Lucinda Martinez, the SVP of Multicultural Marketing at HBO told VIBE, "Helping people catch up was the genesis of the idea. We know that hip-hop impacts all audiences and realized there were a lot of artists who were fans of the show. We thought this could be a great opportunity to have them sing or rap or whatever their artistic interpretation of the show was to help us create stunts that we could share through music."
The mixtape will arrive just in time for season four of the series to kick off on April 6th, although an exact date has not been specified.
Who keeps up with "Game of Thrones"? Are you excited for their mixtape endeavor?
[UPDATE: Tracklist & Release Date Revealed]
As we reported yesterday, TV show "Game of Thrones" are gearing up for a Catch the Throne mixtape, which will feature various rap artists, and, as leaks indicate, all with a "Game of Thrones" theme.
Last night we were treated to the first leak from Big Boi, "Mother of Dragons", and today we got another from Wale "King Slayer." The tracklist and release date for the tape was also revealed today. It'll arrive on March 11th, slightly less than a month before the fourth season kicks off.
Check out the 10-song tracklisting below.
1. Big Boi - "Mother of Dragons"
2. Magazeen - "Iron Throne"
3. Bodega Bamz - "Win or Die"
4. Kilo Kish - "Magical Reality"
5. Daddy Yankee - "Born to Rule"
6. Dominik Omega - "Arya's Prayer"
7. Snow - "Fire"
8. Dee Goodz - "The Parallel"
9. Common - "Interlude/The Ladder"
10. Wale - "King Slayer"


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RALEIGH, N.C. - A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Disease Control to complete a new, comprehensive report on the health effects of toxic tap water at the Camp Lejeune Marine base.
The lawmakers also want the agency to investigate whether people were exposed to airborne toxins inside buildings after contaminated wells at the North Carolina base were closed in 1985. And they asked the agency to look into the feasibility of a "cancer incidence study" for Lejeune.
The four senators and two representatives were reacting to news that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, or ATSDR, a division of the CDC, intends to issue a less comprehensive report than the one it released in 1997. The original public health assessment was withdrawn four years ago because of incomplete data.
They said they also are concerned the agency will ignore "the potential for harmful exposures via inhalation" in the decade and a half after contaminated wells at the coastal North Carolina base were taken off line.
"Public Health Assessments are essential and critical to ensuring full and complete information about exposures to hazardous substances is available to the public," the six legislators - U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan of North Carolina; Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson of Florida; and U.S. Reps. Dennis Ross of Florida and John Dingell of Michigan - wrote to CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden on Aug. 9.
"This is especially necessary in the instance of Camp Lejeune, where hundreds of thousands of unwitting military service members and their families were exposed to extremely high levels of known human carcinogens over a span of more than three decades." Burr, Rubio and Ross are Republicans; Dingell, Nelson and Hagan are Democrats.
The lawmakers included the request for a cancer study in a follow-up letter Friday.
Officials from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry have not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press.
In a website notification dated January 2011, the agency said it had withdrawn the 1997 report because "additional information has emerged" and affected communities "were exposed to contaminated water for a longer period than we used in the 1997 evaluation."
The notification also said the original report had neglected to include certain information that it has since deemed necessary.
"The full extent of the exposure is still being determined. Thus, the 1997 Assessment may be misleading because the information upon which it was based was incomplete," the agency wrote.
Retired drill instructor Jerry Ensminger, who believes the toxic water caused the leukemia that killed his 9-year-old daughter, puts it a different way.
The 1997 health assessment contained "so many omissions, so many lies, so many errors and obfuscations that the public has never received a full picture of what they were exposed to and what they might expect from being exposed," Ensminger said.
He said anything short of a comprehensive reassessment is unacceptable.
"It's like pulling damn teeth to get them to do their job," he said of the agency. "Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. Somebody."
As many as 1 million Marines, dependents and civilian workers are believed to have been exposed to trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), benzene and other toxic chemicals that leeched into ground water from a poorly maintained fuel depot, dumping and an off-base dry cleaner. Last year, President Barack Obama signed a law providing medical care and screening for those exposed between 1957 and 1987. But Ensminger and others fear that cutoff date is too early.
In April 1999, workers in Building 1101 - which housed the Information Management Division, the base communications center and Marine Corps Community Service warehouse - began complaining of a strong petroleum odor. In early December, several workers reported headaches, nausea, and eye and respiratory irritation; two visited the base's Occupational Health Clinic.
When technicians sampled the air, they reported "breakthrough" - meaning the charcoal inside the collection tubes was "completely saturated with gasoline vapor."
Several buildings were evacuated and later demolished.
In a March 1982 report, chemist Wallace Eakes described a visit to the base. Among the sites tested was Building 71 - built as a storage and mixing facility for DDT and other dangerous insecticides, but later used as a day care center.
Eakes said the findings were "a shock to all concerned." He said a preventive medicine officer took air and soil samples in the area "under the guise of a normal health survey," and that the air samples were then analyzed in Norfolk.
Two months later, technicians from the Naval Regional Medical Center collected samples and submitted them to the Navy Environmental Health Center for analysis.
A May 1988 feasibility study recommended that Lejeune monitor ambient air for buildings located near contamination "hot spots."
Nine years later, in June 1997, an engineering firm issued a report on leaking underground storage tanks at the Hadnot Point Fuel Farm. The firm noted that several buildings were in the affected area, and that the trenches around them might spread contamination.
When ATSDR released its health assessment two months later, vapor intrusion was not listed as a risk for those working in the Hadnot Point area.
Tina Forrester, acting director of the agency's Division of Community Health Investigations, told members of the Lejeune community assistance panel last month that the agency was reviewing the vapor intrusion issue, but that it did not yet have enough data to assess exposures.
In the past, the Marine Corps has cited regulations that it only maintain certain records for five years. Ensminger notes that the base was declared a Superfund site in 1989, meaning all records should have been preserved.
"Now, where the hell are the analytical results?" he asked.
To solve the problem of missing or incomplete data on well contamination, the agency performed complex water modeling to estimate toxin levels back to the 1940s. The legislators suggested something similar could be accomplished with the data on vapor intrusion.
"If ATSDR does not have the records of vapor intrusion and air quality sampling from the (Navy), we request you provide us with an alternate scientific process to reconstruct and analyze this particular aspect of potential exposure," they wrote.
Forrester told the Lejeune panel that the Agency for Toxic Substance intended to issue an "addendum" to the health assessment - called a health consultation - that would include the water modeling and other data not available the first time. She suggested that waiting for another comprehensive public health assessment would take too long.
"I think the problem is that this is uncharted territory," epidemiologist Richard Clapp, who also is a member of the community assistance panel, said in an email to The Associated Press.
"On its face, it seems that the new information about vapor intrusion, plus the newly modeled benzene exposure estimates would require substantial effort by the staff to do even an update" to the assessment.
The lawmakers indicated that a simple addendum to the agency's original report would not be sufficient, however.
"We expect you will ensure ATSDR continues to fulfill its Congressional mandate to 'expand the knowledge base about health effects from exposure to hazardous substances,'" they noted, "and that you will do so by re-issuing a Public Health Assessment" as required by law.


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Brandt Snedeker had the club in his hand even as his caddie stood next to him on the tee going through his yardage book. Moments later, Snedeker took a quick waggle with his 8-iron, set his feet and launched a shot that plopped down 3 feet next to the cup.
It was his first birdie at Spyglass Hill on Friday, and by the end of the day, Snedeker was tied for the lead with Ted Potter Jr. in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
The scene at the par-3 12th hole was vintage Snedeker.
He is committed to what he's doing. And he doesn't waste any time.
About the only thing that hasn't come quickly for Snedeker this year is winning, through it's not for a lack of trying. It is rare, especially this early in the PGA Tour season, for a player to lead the FedEx Cup without having won.
But in four tournaments this year, Snedeker finished third at Kapalua and was runner-up the last two weeks. He finished four shots behind Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines, and then finished four shots behind Phil Mickelson at the Phoenix Open.
"Keep running into guys who are or who are going to be in the Hall of Fame," Snedeker said during a CBS Sports reception earlier in the week.
The good news is that he's still playing well. Better yet, golf's two biggest stars are not in his way - at least not yet.
Woods isn't at Pebble Beach this year. Mickelson was in the group of Snedeker at Spyglass Hill and was poised to stay relatively close to the leaders until three bogeys during a four-hole stretch along the ocean that dropped him six shots out of the lead.
Both will be at Pebble Beach on Saturday, so while Mickelson is hopeful of making up ground on what is forecast to be a gorgeous day, Snedeker will be right there with him.
"Any time you can get a win at Pebble Beach, it would be pretty special," Snedeker said after his bogey-free round of 4-under 68 at Spyglass, the toughest of the three courses in the rotation.
Considering the start of his year, the timing would be ideal. That's not to suggest Snedeker already is pressing.
"I take nothing but positives away from the way I've played the weekend the last couple events," he said. "I know I'll have a lot of fun this weekend, so just try to recreate that. That's how you win out here. You keep putting yourself in position, and the more times you do that, the more success you're going to have. I realize I'm playing really well. ... Be patient and keep doing the small stuff I did last week really well.
"It's real promising this week the way I've taken that momentum from last week into this one."
Potter three-putted his final hole at Monterey Peninsula for a 67, joining Snedeker at 8-under 134. Potter will go to Spyglass on Saturday.
Hunter Mahan was among those one shot behind. With one more round before everyone has played all three courses in the rotation, the leaderboard was a big traffic jam. Three dozen players were within five shots of the lead.
Snedeker made it look easy at Spyglass, even though the day began in rugged conditions with a light rain and temperatures in the low 40s. He hit a towering 8-iron on the downhill, par-3 12th hole that plopped 3 feet next to the cup for his first birdie. He added a pair of simple up-and-down birdies on the par 5s and then closed out a solid day with an 8-iron to 5 feet on the eighth hole.
His goal for the last two days?
"Not do anything stupid," he said. "Unfortunately, I don't do it very often."
Potter remains somewhat of a mystery. He won last year in his rookie season at The Greenbrier Classic to claim a peculiar footnote in history - the only player to win a PGA Tour event in which Woods and Mickelson missed the cut. Still, his performance has been spotty. Potter missed nine out of the 12 cuts going into The Greenbrier, and then missed four out of nine cuts after his win.
"It's just a funny game like that," Potter said. "Some weeks you play really well and you get the right kicks and everything goes well. And then there are weeks you can still hit the ball well and get the bad kicks."
Fredrik Jacobson had the low round of the day, a 66 at Pebble Beach that put him in the group at 7 under with Mahan, John Merrick and Patrick Reed.
Saturday's forecast is for more sunshine, giving those in the Northeast who are snowed in some pretty pictures on television. Snedeker is part of the celebrity rotation, meaning he will join the circus - Bill Murray, Ray Romano and the rest of their Hollywood crew, along with star power from other sports such as Tony Romo, Matt Cain and even San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh.
Five days after a Super Bowl loss, Harbaugh had reason to smile. He was leading the pro-am portion of the tournament. Harbaugh is playing with Jason Day of Australia, who made a late string of birdies for a 68 at Spyglass Hill and was two shots behind.
Mahan lost a stroke on the spongy greens. He went to knock in a short bogey putt on the par-3 seventh hole when the ball moved on him.
"It just rolled over in like a heel print or something," Mahan said. "I didn't feel like I moved it. I didn't feel like I had anything much to do with it moving. It's just a rub of the green, so had to go back and take a penalty. That was frustrating, because I was hitting it so good."
Mickelson was equally frustrated by throwing away some careless shots. While he was tied for 39th, Mickelson didn't feel out of contention.
"I love Pebble Beach. I've played well there and I'm only one good round away," he said. "If I can shoot something in the mid-60s, I'll be right there for Sunday's round, which is what I care about."
Mickelson was six shots behind going into the final round last year when he won. That was against Charlie Wi, still searching for his first tour win. At the top now is Snedeker, the second-highest ranked American behind Woods who is averaging 66.5 in his last eight rounds.


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The Missing Miss California and Miss New York? Author:Anonymous[Edit] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date Posted: 13:09:44 06/30/06 Fri--------------------------------------------------------------------------------On June 8, someone photographed a group of Americans in an airport in Kuwait. Outside the airport, 7 identical SUV's were lined up. Speculation is that these were teams competing in 'The Amazing Race.'The photos are online at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekuwaiti/163485019/in/set-72157594160327811/Check out the photo below - could that be our Miss NY and Miss California, neither of whom are at their respective state pageants this week?
Here's her sister. Hard to say, even taking hair color into account. My money goes on a fellow beauty queen.
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What's up friends? Today, I decided to show you how to wear Black and White without looking plain and boring. Welcome to class. Lol.
Black and White are the go-to colors that would come to mind for a formal event. This is even more true for guys. Lol. For my ladies, however, if you're like me, you will never ever wear a plain White shirt with a plain Black skirt. Ever.
Jacket: Dynamite | Dress: Sirens | Shoes: JustFab
My #1 tip is color! To add dimension and interest to this outfit, I played around with color. Instead of going for the usual Black, White and Red, I paired a Turquoise snake print sandal with the outfit. I also added a splash of Orange with a belt to define my waistline. I usually like to do a bright red lip color too.
My blazer and dress are of two different materials and prints: Chiffon & Jacquard. This helps to add texture to the look, which makes the outfit look more fun and stylish. So you can mix prints, or pair a bold color with a Black and White print.
However, if you would still like to go for a more minimalist but chic look, you can do a well structured skirt with a different texture than usual (leather pencil skirt, Scuba midi skirt, Black skater midi skirt, high waist wide leg pants, a leather mini skirt). For a blouse, try different sleeve lengths, materials, cuts, etc).
And the simplest tip of all, it doesn't always have to be White on top, you can turn it around!
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Students learn about soul band Booker T. and the M.G.'s and explore what it meant to be a racially integrated group in a time of segregation.
Students learn about soul band Booker T. and the M.G.'s and explore what it meant to be a racially integrated group in a time of segregation.
Students learn about the vibrant culture and diversity of Jewish life in Europe before the war and antisemitism's role in diminishing this richness.
Students contemplate the role of music in social movements by learning about The Staple Singers and analyzing the messages in one of their songs.
Students broaden their understanding of resistance by exploring examples of music as spiritual and physical defiance to Nazi oppression.
Students create a "toolbox" of the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to respond to and prevent hatred from taking hold in their communities.
Students are introduced to the history of ideas, events, and decisions that shaped the world of Schindler's List.
Students prepare for their study of Schindler's List by creating a contract establishing a thoughtful, respectful, and caring classroom community.
Students explore the concept of respect through the lyrics of Otis Redding's "Respect" and The Staple Singers' "Respect Yourself."
Students draw on personal experiences with music to reflect on its ability to provide inspiration, comfort, and fight against injustice.
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DURHAM — Students showcase their work in musical theatre, dance and aerial dance, April 30, May 1 and May 7 at UNH. All proceeds benefit theatre and dance scholarships.
Tuesday, April 30 at 7 p.m., students studying Musical Theatre will present songs and numbers from popular Broadway musicals in the Hennessy Theatre. These will include solos and ensemble song and dance pieces. Minimal costumes and props help to place focus on each student, as he or she performs personal favorites. Tickets are $3.50.
Wednesday, May 1 at 7 p.m., students studying the aerial arts will spin and twirl, showcasing their athleticism, grace and fearlessness high above the Newman Dance Studio on fabric, trapezes, and the lyra, a circular hoop that looks like a hula hoop. If you have never been to a Cirque De Soleil production, this is a great way to see this dance form in an intimate setting. UNH is the only university in the nation offering aerial dance as part of a liberal arts degree program. Tickets are $3.50.
Monday, May 6 at 7 p.m., students studying Dance will have the opportunity to select their own music, costuming and dance partners in an evening of jazz, tap, ballet and theatre dance in the Johnson Theatre. Solos, trios, ensembles, and a couple of large cast numbers will be featured, as dancers select and perform material that has special meaning to each of them. Tickets are $5.
For tickets, contact the PCAC Ticket Office (Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at (603) 862-7222. You may also purchase tickets online with no additional fees at www.unharts.com. Tickets are $3.50-$5 for general admission, seniors and UNH ID holders. The PCAC Ticket Office opens one hour prior to curtain in the lobby at the Paul Creative Arts Center. For more information, and show times, call the Theatre and Dance office at (603) 862-2919, or visit www.unh.edu/theatre-dance.


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Windham police search for deputy impersonator
Victim drove suspect to ATM
Windham police are looking for a man who claimed to be an undercover Cumberland County sheriff's deputy.
Investigators said a Windham resident said a man came to his home claiming to be a deputy.
The impersonator told the man he wouldn't arrest him if he gave him money.
"We believe the victim was specifically targeted. It was not a random thing. They knew what they were doing, and it is the only incident we had," said Detective Ray Williams.
Police said the man drove the culprit to a bank, withdrew some money, and dropped the man off at Lampron's Mini-Mart on Route 115 in Windham.
Police are not releasing the victim's name but said he may know the cop impersonator.
"The victim believes he knows him from a previous encounter but could not remember his name from months ago," said Williams.
If you have any information or know who the man is seen in the picture attached to this story, please call Windham police at 207-415-0403.


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The Creation Of The Universe
Miracles in Our Bodies
The Blood's Journey Through
In previous chapters we referred to a gigantic network of nerves running right through our bodies. There is another such miraculous network. This consists of blood vessels. Like the network of nerves, blood vessels, too, circulate through the body. They are so long that their total length would be about 100,000 kilometres (62,000 miles) if they were spread over a flat surface. In fact, it is not hard at all to understand that there are blood vessels all around our body. Even a small scrape on any part of our body would start to bleed immediately. This proves that blood circulates all through our body. It is vital that we have blood vessels at every point because, as mentioned in the previous chapter, the nourishment required by the body cells is conveyed through the blood vessels. Oxygen that cells need for proper functioning is also carried to cells by the blood flowing through our veins.
Transportation of the nourishment in the blood vessels may be compared to transporting freight by ship. Prior to shipment, first of all goods are placed upon the ship at the port. Goods should be properly packaged and placed. After all are loaded, the ship sets out and heads for the port of its destination. When it arrives at the port, all packages are unloaded and distributed to the concerned sections. In the blood vessels, nourishment is similarly transported to cells, just as ships transport cargo across the ocean. Oxygen, fats and amino acids flow in the bloodstream in packages and are unloaded at the target cells. This transportation schedule never fails. Proper amounts of required substances are conveyed to relevant cells just on time. Otherwise, for instance, if a cell that needed oxygen received fats instead, this cell would die. It should be noted that even the slightest mistake in this system could result in serious harm. Such mistakes never happen except in unusual cases, however, because none of these came into existence by chance. Allah, the Creator, created this system perfectly for our service.
As blood circulates all through the body, it fulfills many tasks. Now let's have a brief look at these tasks.
We have already explained that all the kinds of substances that our body needs are conveyed to the concerned organs by blood. In the meantime, blood cells collect waste matters, like carbon dioxide, and make sure that they are discharged from the body. In a way, blood acts like a garbage grinder. Stopping by each of 100 trillion cells again and again throughout the day, it leaves the cells what they require and at the same time collect what is not needed.
There are different types of cells in the blood, each of which performs a different task. As seen in the picture above, some of these cells carry food while some others defend the body like soldiers.
Blood, which is merely a fluid, can faultlessly perform a task demanding such attention and responsibility. It knows each of the substances it carries, what it will be used for and to where it should be delivered. For instance, it does not mistakenly convey to a cell the carbon dioxide it has taken from another cell as a waste product. It always supplies cells with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide. Blood performs this task with no mistakes or fatigue, because it is a part of the perfect plan that Allah created in the human body. As they unconditionally surrender to the system created by our Lord, all blood cells perform their tasks without making any mistakes.
As seen in this picture, bacteria or microbes entering the body are seized , engulfed, and thus inactivated by warrior cells called macrophages.
I. Macrophage, II. Bacteria, III. Blood cell, IV. Blood vessel
Everyday our bodies struggle against many bacteria, viruses and microbes. Some are prevented from entering the body, while some manage to enter. But there are special defence cells in our bodies to fight against them that are called immune cells. These cells, which are like soldiers fighting against the enemy and protecting our bodies from dangers, move in the bloodstream. Whenever there is an enemy attack, they can reach the related part of the body through the blood vessels and easily fight against the enemy. Immune cells have not learnt their missions on their own. They have known them since they came into being. They start performing their duty and protecting the body the minute a baby born. This is an excellent detail in Allah's creation. Our Lord has taught cells which cannot be seen with the naked eye very important knowledge and placed them at our service.
Blood also serves as a means of communication in the body. There are messengers in the blood taking messages from one part of the body to another. These messengers, known as hormones, transport messages to the relevant organs like a postman delivering mails. Many significant processes, including the growth of the body, thirst, perspiration and control of blood sugar levels are thanks to such precisely delivered messages.
As seen in the picture above, hormones travel through the bloodstream with the messages they carry and deliver these messages to the relevant organs.
I. Hormone receptor, II. Hormone, III. Cell membrane, IV. Blood capillary, V. Cell nucleus, VI. Hormone receptor, VII. Blood capillary, VIII. Hormone
I. Macrophage, II. Bacteria, III. Blood cell, IV. Blood vessel
You must have observed that a slight skin wound stops bleeding spontaneously after a little while. This, in fact, is quite thought provoking since, under normal conditions, a liquid flowing from a hole cannot possibly stop flowing of its own accord.
To have a better understanding of this fact, suppose that you have a balloon filled with water. If you make a little hole in this balloon using a needle, water will leak out of the balloon. Will it stop leaking after a while with no intervention of yours? Of course not. All the water will keep leaking until the balloon runs out of water. This applies to all liquids in closed spaces.
Blood moves through a closed circuit of veins and leaks out in case of even a slight cut. However, it is of great importance for our health to stop its flow. You may have heard of people who die of excessive blood loss in accidents or operations. Well then, what causes blood to stop flowing a little while after a wound starts to bleed?
This is called blood clotting, which is one of the automatic security systems in our bodies. Some substances existing in the blood stop and close the wound. Thanks to the clotting ability of blood, excessive bleeding is prevented. As shown in the illustration on the right, some cells in the blood are informed of the damaged vein and head for that site at once. First they align themselves along the wound and obstruct the flow of blood by weaving a web. This web stiffens in time and forms what we call a scar.
Now let's think together. Can this planned series of actions take place by chance? How is it that some blood cells are informed of damage somewhere in the blood vessels, which is like a gigantic world in relation to their size? Why do they strive to prevent the flow of blood? How do they know that they should close the wound in order to stop loss of blood? Who taught these cells that they should close the wound?
Blood leaks through the wound..
Blood surrounding the wound coagulates.
Cells close up the wound like a plug.
A cut on your hand or a wound on your knee heals in a short time. The pictures below show some of what happens in your blood vessels during this healing process.
Cells could neither have learnt all these things by chance nor could they have accomplished them on their own. Even human beings, who have intelligence, cannot possibly originate such a detailed system and teach cells what to do. Certainly, the intelligence demonstrated by these cells does not belong to them. Allah inspires them and they act according to a perfect plan.
Allah informs us of the excellence in His creation as follows:
He created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again—do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted! (Surat al-Mulk: 3-4)
In the picture above, you can see the red blood cells stuck among the fibers of a blood clot. It is thanks to the clotting ability of blood that it stops flowing soon after you are injured.
A Miraculous Fluid with No Reproducible Equals: Blood
Scientists have conducted many studies in order to produce a fluid similar to blood. However, having failed to do so, they gave up trying to imitate blood and focused on research in other fields.
Scientists cannot imitate blood because blood samples withdrawn from a blood vessel clot at once and the structure of the blood becomes unfit for examination. It does not work to preserve the samples in glass test tubes either, because blood cells do not completely survive in tubes. Therefore, scientists had to separate cells in the blood and examine them individually. Undoubtedly, it is one of the most unreasonable and illogical explanations in the world to claim that such a perfect substance, which cannot even be imitated with all the information human beings have gathered for years, came into existence spontaneously and by chance. Allah created blood as a matchless substance. A blood cell that has many amazing abilities is merely one of the manifestations of Allah's infinite wisdom in the human body.
Have you ever thought how litres of blood circulate unceasingly through our body up and down? Every object needs a motor for continuous motion. Cars, aeroplanes, motorboats and even your remote-controlled toy cars move by means of motors. Likewise, blood circulating through our body needs a motor too. The motor that propels our blood night and day, for months and even for years is our heart.
Place your fingers on your wrist and wait for a while. You will feel the beating of your heart. Your heart beats 70 times in a minute, and pumps some 152 million litres (40 million gallons) of blood throughout your life. That much blood is an approximate equivalent of the amount 10,000 oil tankers will hold. These figures are astonishing, aren't they? Now suppose that you have to bail a cup of water from one bucket to the other, 70 times a minute. In the end your arm and hand muscles would ache and you would need to rest. However, your heart carries out this task all through out your life and it never takes any rest.
The Most Perfect Pump
The most perfectly structured pump in the world is now beating on the left side of your chest. With its marvellous design and unceasing contractions, your heart makes the entire blood in your body complete 1,000 full cycles in a day.
The heart is a pump made of flesh, which is approximately as big as one's fist. Nevertheless, it is clearly the strongest, the most durable and the most efficient engine in the world with respect to its capacity. We have many reasons to express the strength of the heart in this way. Most important, the heart uses a great deal of energy when it beats. With the energy used by the heart, blood can be raised up to 3 metres high. It may be helpful to give an example in order to make it easier to comprehend the heart's capacity. In an hour the heart can produce an amount of energy that is enough to lift an average car approximately one metre above the ground.
Your heart is an astonishingly strong muscle. It beats about 70 times in a minute, and pumps 59 cubic centimeters (3.6 cubic inches) of blood at each beat. A heart which beats 2,500,000 times in 70 years pumps some 152,000,000 liters (40 million gallons) of blood during this time. That much blood is the approximate equivalent of the amount pumped into the fuel tanks of 10 Boeing 747 jumbo jets every year.
The fuel tank of a jumbo jet will hold 217,000 liters (71,000 gallons) of fuel when full.
The heart, which is a muscular organ of about the size of one's fist, consists of two halves. There are two pumps in these sections. The left pump, which is stronger, drives oxygen-rich blood to all parts of the body. The right pump is weaker than the former and pumps oxygen-poor blood to the lungs. This transport from the heart to the lungs is over a short distance and is, therefore, called the "small circulation". The former is called the "large circulation".
Blood circulates through the entire body, from the brain to the lungs, thanks to the heart..
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Each of these halves of the heart is divided into two further sections. Blood between them passes to the other section through heart valves. These pumps operate unceasingly with a great amount of energy, thanks to which blood circulates through our bodies 1,000 times a day.
Machinery needs routine maintenance. It may be necessary to maintain some machine parts or to replace those that are worn out. Machines need to be treated with oil after a certain period of operation, so as to lessen wearing down by friction.
Like machinery, the heart, which keeps operating all the time, requires maintenance too. However, the heart carries out its maintenance itself; it lubricates itself.
How do you think a heart lubricates itself? The answer to this question is hidden in the creation of the heart. The outer surface of heart is covered by a sac consisting of two membranes. Between these membranes is a greasy fluid. This fluid acts like motor oil and facilitates easy operation of the heart. This self-protective structure in the heart reveals once again how perfect and complete is Allah's artistry in creation.


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Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park did not stay open for simulcasting Monday and Tuesday night after a single kennel operator pulled his greyhounds out Sunday, leading to fewer races and less betting.
Raynham Park was closed Tuesday evening.
Just two weeks after voters approved a ballot to abolish greyhound racing, the darkened track was the first sign that the track, the dogs and the jobs might be phased out long before a Jan. 1, 2010 closure deadline.
Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park did not stay open for simulcasting Monday and Tuesday night after a single kennel operator pulled his greyhounds out Sunday, leading to fewer races and less betting.
"They're trying to stay open on high-volume days," said Christopher Roberts, who has worked as a pari-mutuel track announcer at Raynham for 11 years.
If other kennel owners follow suit, the track could be closed by next spring, employees fear.
"Please help us. Our hours are being cut," said Cheryl Bonaparte, one of six Raynham residents who urged selectmen Tuesday to try to extend the deadline by two years.
Question 3, which was approved by 56 percent of the voters on Nov. 4, will eliminate about 1,000 jobs at the state's two dog tracks, including 650 jobs in Raynham and an estimated 300 jobs at Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere.
Ballot proponents said the 14-month phase out period would provide enough time to retrain workers and adopt out the dogs.
But track employees say kennel operators are already looking for out-of-state racing venues.
"With the economy the way it is, it doesn't seem fair that a business can be voted out," Karen Burke, a 24-year employee at Raynham-Taunton, said.
Burke said the workers have contacted the governor's office for help and "it seems we're making some kind of impact."
Roberts said they were trying to reach enough people at the State House to amend the Greyhound Protection Act. "We truly believe what happened was not right," he said.
Of equal concern to them is the fate of the 900 dogs that routinely race in Raynham.
Employees said most voters thought the dogs were going to be adopted. Instead, they will continue to race on the national greyhound circuit, they said.
Dog racing is legal in about a dozen other states, including New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Florida."They have not saved a dog, not one," Roberts said.
Selectmen voted to send a letter to Gov. Deval Patrick and local representatives urging then to extend the deadline to 2012.
Selectman Donald McKinnon said Massachusetts' voters would be surprised to learn of the treatment the dogs face in other states.
"That is the tragedy of those involved in championing this," he said. "There was an injustice performed and not only to the employees."
Selectman Marie Smith said, "It's not just unjust – it's completely unjust."
"You have three friends on this board," said Selectmen Chairman Joseph Pacheco. "But we can only go so far because it's up to the powers that be on Beacon Hill."
"Any help you can give us to keep those jobs would be great," Brenda Clemmey, who has worked at the track for 26 years, said.
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TNA's primetime debut on Thursday night was a great couple hours of TV, and could have been a new beginning for the company. Unfortunately, Sunday night's Genesis pay-per-view, marred by illogical booking and occasionally sloppy in-ring work, wasn't able to deliver, and as far as any momentum goes, the company was close to throwing it all away.
The first main event saw Sting putting up his NWA Heavyweight Championship for the first time against the monster Abyss. Before the introductions could begin, Sting would attack Abyss, and the two began brawling on the floor for an extended period. Abyss used a chair and tried to introduce barbed wire into the mix, but Sting was able to foxtrot his way out of danger and bring the action back into the ring. There, he hit a Stinger Splash, but couldn't keep the big man down for the count. A Black Hole Slam nearly saw Abyss as the new champion, but not quite. The ref took a bump, and then both men went for weapons. Sting hit Abyss with his bat, then took a page out of the big man's book and poured thumbtacks into the ring. This nearly caused his misfortune, though, as he was the one who got chokeslammed into the tacks. He Stinged up before the three count could be made, slammed Abyss into the tacks, then clamped on a Scorpion Death Lock. Abyss tapped, but the ref was distracted by James Mitchell and didn't see it. In a major waste of time, Sting went outside, and tied Abyss' ankles to a rope connected to a pulley system, hanging him upside down and slamming him like a pi�ata with a chair. This was a debacle -- Sting tired out trying to lift up Abyss' dead weight, and it just looked silly. Sting continued his attack, and in a loss of temper, clotheslined the referee before throwing Abyss off the rampway onto a barbed wire board.
The ref disqualified Sting for the clothesline. As a result, thanks to TNA's little-cited stipulation which, to my knowledge, has never been used before in TNA, he lost the title, since it can change hands on a disqualification. Sting and the fans were stranded in a land of confusion as the announcement was made.
As strange as that finish was, perhaps even stranger was the one of the one TNA billed as the "Dream Match of the Decade" between Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle.
The crowd was really hot for this one, even starting a "This is Awesome" chant for the first lockup. The match went to the floor early, and Joe got a quick advantage by swinging Angle against the ring barrier by his legs, then squashing him with a flying dive from the ring, and busting open the Olympian. In the ring, Joe continued the beating with several slams, and mocked his opponent by wearing Angle's blood like warpaint. Angle fought back with a big DDT and a pair of German suplexes, nearly dumping the big man on his head on the second attempt. Joe recovered and a Muscle Buster nearly earned him a victory. Nice exchange here, as Joe tried to lock on the Kokina Klutch, and Angle escaped and hit the Olympic Slam and then an ankle lock. Joe escaped, and clamped on the Klutch, but Angle managed to grab his ankle again, wrenching it hard until Joe tapped out. Joe acknowledged that Angle was the better man, and asked for a rematch. Joe extended the hand of respect, but Angle refused, much to Joe's chagrin.
This was really questionable booking. This was the first meeting between the two, and they had a clean finish by the good guy. It seems really underwhelming to have Joe lose his first match in over a year in their first encounter, particularly if the feud is only going to go on. This was meaningless, and really lacked the impact that it should have had.
Overall, the Genesis pay-per-view was a poorer-than-usual for TNA. It's too bad, since Thursday night's offering on free TV was much stronger. Hopefully, with respect to the good that they did a few days ago, they can turn it on again.
Other Results
During the pre-show, as Christy Hemme was interviewing fans, LAX came out, only to be taken away by TNA security.
Eric Young came out to make the big announcement that he tried to make on Thursday. Before he could get it out, he was interrupted by Robert Roode and Miss Brooks, who announced an open challenge to anyone in the building. Spotting Eric in the crowd, Roode decided that Young would be his opponent, punctuating the challenge with a microphone shot to the head, and dragging the paranoid one into the ring.
Preview Match: Robert Roode w/ Miss Brooks vs. Eric Young
A back and forth affair between the two former Team Canada teammates. With the crowd solidly behind him, Eric nearly wins with some quick rollups, but soon falls prey to the power of Roode. Miss Brooks distracts Young, and Roode takes advantage to get the pin. The crowd protests, noting that Roode had his feet on the ropes, so the referee restarts the match. Within seconds, Young turns the tables, using the ropes to help him pin Roode, and this time the pinfall stands. Roode yells at Brooks after the match.
Next up is a promo for what is being billed as the Dream Match of the Decade, Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle.
LAX bully Christy again in the locker room, cut a promo against their opponents America's Most Wanted, Petey Wililams for betraying them, and then threaten to burn the American flag, much to the chagrin of Mike Tenay.
Christian Cage comes out to whine about having to fight AJ Styles later tonight -- AJ comes out to confront him.
A series of promos and interviews before the show, including a lengthy video.
Match One: Kazarian, Bentley and Johnny Devine vs. Voodoo Kin Mafia
The new movement of TNA use their quickness and their numbers advantage to beat down the former James Gang. BG gets beat down for a little while before making the hot tag to Kip who cleans house, ultimately getting the pin on Johnny Devine. The crowd seems to be into them, but putting VKM over the youngsters seems an illogical move to me. After the match, VKM promise the ground war will begin against Vince McMahon and DX, telling them to watch Impact on Thursday for the first skirmish. This whole concept seems a bit suspect to me, as you know that WWE will never respond -- so where's the payoff to the angle?
Winner: VKM
Match Rating: 3/10
Kazarian and Bentley bring Devine back to the ring with a hood covering his head. A Rayden-clad Raven blasts Devine with a Singapore cane, presumably his penance for losing the match.
Backstage, Shane Douglas mocks Team 3-D for losing to The Naturals on Thursday, and vows that his team will continue their winning ways.
Match Two: Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal vs. The Naturals w/ Shane Douglas
Dutt and Lethal do some high-flying early, landing simultaneous planchas onto the Naturals on the floor. Beyond that, it's a pretty standard tag team match. Andy Douglas tries for one too many moves off the top and gets caught, and Sonjay catches on fire. Sloppiness galore in this match, including the finishing move; notwithstanding one Natural kicking the other off the top rope, they get the pinfall victory.
Winner: The Naturals
Match Rating: 4/10
LAX with another anti-American rant, and more threats to burn the American flag. It's revealed that Jim Cornette will be in the building, presumably to admonish them for their recent behaviour.
Christopher Daniels promises to teach a lesson about respect to Chris Sabin.
Match Three: "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels vs Chris Sabin
For the TNA X-Division Championship
Nice quick action, as should be expected from these two. Solid and crisp moves. Sabin ties up Daniels into the tree of woe, but before he can use a chair on the Fallen Angel, AJ Styles comes into the ring to prevent such chicanery. Sabin confronts AJ on the floor, only to get hit by Air Daniels, who flies from the top turnbuckle to the floor with a beautiful flying body press. Lots of near-falls, including a very close one after Daniels hits a DVD followed by a BME. Daniels gets a quick roll-up out of nowhere for the pin. After the match, Jerry Lynn asks Sabin to shake Daniels' hand as a show of sportsmanship, but Sabin hits him with a Cradle Shock instead.
Winner and still X-Division Champion: Christopher Daniels
Match Rating: 7/10
In a pre-taped segment, Kevin Nash tries to motivate Alex Shelley and Austin Starr.
Match Four: Ron Killings and Lance Hoyt vs. Austin Starr and Alex Shelley
Kevin Nash helps out on commentary on this one, and they play up his claims that he's an X-Division star. This one starts off slow, and doesn't ever become interesting. The match goes on too long with no direction. Shelley tells Starr to move the camera to capture him getting the win, but that plan is foiled by Hoyt who rolls up Shelley for the pin. Nash berates his team for their loss.
Winner: Lance Hoyt and Ron Killings
Backstage, Christian Cage says he will beat AJ and then go on to beat the winner of tonight's title match between Abyss and Sting.
Match Five: Christian Cage vs. AJ Styles
Winner: Christian Cage
Backstage, AMW and Gail Kim stand up for their country with a patriotic speech against LAX and giving them notice that it will be no fun being an illegal alien.
America's Most Wanted w/ Gail Kim vs. LAX w/ Konnan
For the NWA Tag Team Champions
AMW starts off hot, and the crowd is solidly behind them. They draw first blood by heaving Homicide over the top rope, dumping him onto Hernandez. But the dirty tactics of LAX soon gives them the upper hand. A bit of a fuster-cluck, with all four men in the ring more often than not, and nothing going really smoothly. With the referee's back turned, LAX use the blackjack to get the win. After the match, LAX are going to destroy Gail Kim until Petey Williams makes the save.
Winners and still NWA Tag Team Champions: LAX
Match Rating: 5/10
Jim Cornette hits the ring, and tells LAX that as a result of their deplorable behaviour, they have been stripped of their titles. They have until Thursday to return the belts or they will be fired from TNA. This is a lame angle, as it makes the heels the sympathetic characters. Even the crowd was dumping on this, so whatever they were trying to accomplish seemed to backfire.
In an undisclosed dark area, Jim Mitchell warns Sting that Abyss is coming for his belt.
Winner and new NWA Heavyweight Champion: Abyss
Match Seven: Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle
Winner: Kurt Angle
Overall rating: 5/10
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