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She was the first "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," and now Noomi Rapace is the girl telling Sherlock Holmes' fortune.
Before the American incarnation of the bestselling novel rolled film, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace made her cinematic mark playing Lisbeth Salander in the original film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's bestselling "Millennium series" in their shared native country. She duly impressed Hollywood enough to land two coveted English-language roles in hotly anticipated films: Ridley Scott's sci-fi epic "Prometheus" and as a Gypsy ally of the master detective in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows."
"Sherlock" director Guy Ritchie says that for the returning players, the choice to cast Rapace in the sequel was, well, elementary. "I think we all saw 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' at about the same time, and there was sort of an unconscious collective agreement by the time we got on the phone about Noomi," Ritchie explains. "After a very short meeting with Noomi, our desires were confirmed, and we pretty much wanted Noomi from there on. She ticked all the boxes, and she took it pretty seriously."
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Seriously enough, in fact, to hold her own on screen opposite Robert Downey, Jr., and Jude Law. Rapace gives PopcornBiz the lowdown on entering modern Hollywood via Victorian London.
On landing the role:
"For most movies I'd done before, I've done a lot of preparation. I've known about them long before, and I've prepped and I've changed my body and I've done research, all things you can imagine before. But on this one, I met Robert and Susan Downey maybe six or seven weeks before we started to shoot. It was a good, quick meeting in L.A. We didn't really talk about Sherlock Holmes, but we talked about movies and dreams. I remember Robert asking me: How do you want to work, and what movies do you want to make? It was really super-intense, and I walked out of that meeting and called my manager. I was like, 'Wow, those two are amazing – I would love to work with them!' Then Warner Brothers wanted to send me over to London to meet Guy Ritchie. I was there for an hour, we talked and it was really also very intense. I came out of that meeting, and I was like, 'Whoa, I would love to work with those people,' but I didn't expect anything. I think it was like a week later, two weeks later, they wanted me to do this role. Then we started to shoot like three weeks later, so I just kind of jumped into it."
On finding her groove between Holmes, Watson and her director:
"I was really nervous before. It was my first English-speaking movie, and I didn't talk English; I didn't speak English three years ago, so I didn't really know how to deal with it and how it would be for me. They were all very open. It was very playful and easy and creative, so it felt like you embraced my ideas, and it felt like we kind of created this character together in a way. I was surprised the way they just opened their family for me and I became one of the boys, pretty much. And the way Guy works, I don't remember a single situation when I came on set and Guy said, 'Okay, this is what I want you to do – exactly.' He always asked me: 'How do you want to do this, Noomi? How do you see this? What do you think Simza would've done?' That's pretty much the way I love to work, in a very searching, creative, open way."
On hitting the accelerator on her Hollywood career:
"I think I'm really spoiled now… I've heard that you're waiting around, and you sit in your trailer and wait, then you go in and do something and then you go back to your trailer and wait. I don't remember that I was waiting at all. I was extremely happy, and then I went amazingly enough straight into Ridley Scott's film – I started to prep 'Prometheus' straight after, and I was in that movie for five or six months. So it was a really intense year, and now I'm here! I'm really grateful for those people that believed in me and gave me the chance and invited me to this journey."
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Hello, I'm Chris Sexton. I'm married (40 years in Dec) and live in far north east NSW. I'm a retired school teacher and was introduced to scrapping just before I retired about 5 years ago. I fell in love with the craft and have been creating ever since. I have made many albums for family and friends plus loads for myself about me, my family, my travels, my house and my garden. One of my biggest problems is storage, both for my albums and my stash. It's starting to take over my life (not to mention my bank account).
I don't have a set scrapbooking style except to say my layouts are usually clean and uncomplicated. The one thing I love is pattern paper. There are so many gorgeous papers around and I tend to buy impulsively. If I love it I have to have it and worry about how I'm going to use it later. I enjoy visiting blogs and leafing through magazines to get inspiration for my layouts. There are so many clever, creative scrappers out there. I have especially enjoyed entering the challenges on the ARTastic website, which I started doing at the end of last year. They have both inspired me and stretched me and I'm now prepared to take more risks and be a little more adventurous.
When I'm not scrapping, I love to read, take photos, paint with watercolours, work in my garden, look after my dear old mum, spend time with my precious family and travel with my husband. Retirement has opened up another world for me and I love that I can now indulge my passions.
I had breast cancer ten years ago when I was 50 and that was a big wake-up call . I now endeavour to make the most of every day and make more time for the people who are most important to me; my family and friends. I am grateful for the little things and feel that every day of the last ten years has been a special blessing. Life is GREAT!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to be a guest designer at ARTastic for August. You can see more of my work HERE.
I've included two more of my layouts ...
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"Timeless Beauty" - a layout of my paternal grandmother as a young teen
Welcome Chris. We are delighted to have you join us on ARTastic this month.
Remember you have until 11.55pm on August 31st to submit your entries. We'd love to see what you do.

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Switzerland says it is standing by as a potential negotiator to defuse the tensions between the United States and North Korea but so far no one has taken it up on the offer.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Carole Waelti told The Associated Press in an emailed statement Wednesday that Switzerland is willing to help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula and has offered to host meetings between the parties. It has been in contact with diplomats from the North Korean and South Korean embassies in Switzerland.
"Switzerland is willing to contribute to the relaxation of the Korean Peninsula and is always willing to help find a solution," she said. "The parties have so far made no such request."
For months, North Korea has appeared to be preparing for a showdown with the United States and South Korea, its wartime foes.
Switzerland helps monitor the demilitarized zone that was created after the Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula still technically at war.
The neutral Alpine nation, home to the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva, regularly hosts peace talks and mediates international conflicts. It also serves as the diplomatic go-between for the U.S. and Iran.
North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un is reported to have attended school in Switzerland, which also has a humanitarian aid office in North Korea.


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Inexorably linked to team accomplishments, individual awards in the SEC are taking shape without Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson or running back Knile Davis.
A month ago, their defections were unthinkable.
During the preseason, the All-SEC quarterback debate started with Wilson and Georgia�s Aaron Murray and the running back discussion began with Davis and South Carolina�s Marcus Lattimore, with room for Mike Gillislee if Florida was committed to running the ball.
Not entirely their fault, Wilson and Davis have put up numbers that are below average for them.
A 63 percent passer in 2011 with 24 touchdowns and six interceptions, Wilson is 50 percent in his last two games, including 6-of-19 in the fourth quarter at Texas A&M. Interim head coach John L. Smith said he thought about playing freshman Brandon Allen, but felt the final period was an opportunity for the first-team offense to record needed positives.
For the year, Wilson is even in touchdown passes and interceptions with four each. He is No. 1 in the SEC with yards per game passing, but No. 9 in pass efficiency.
Davis, who ran for 1,322 yards in 2010 and sat out last year, has yet to top 70 yards rushing in a game. Even if he was clicking off 100 yards per, his seven fumbles would be an indefensible black mark. Davis� average is 54.6 yards per game, not enough to make the top 15 in the SEC.
With Wilson and Davis out of the picture, the timing is right for the would-be All-SEC performers to make their case. Combined, Georgia at South Carolina on Saturday night and LSU at Florida that afternoon are a perfect platform.
At quarterback, Murray and the Gamecocks� Connor Shaw are the leaders. If, as usual, quarterback play is instrumental in the outcome of a big game, Saturday�s winner will go to the head of the class. There is an argument to be made for Alabama�s A.J. McCarron, No. 2 in pass efficiency between Murray and Shaw, but he is unlikely to get as many opportunities as his competition.
Arkansas fans would include Texas A&M�s Johnny Manziel in the talk, but the Razorback defense contributed to the record-setting performance of the redshirt freshman.
Murray has thrown 130 times and Shaw only 64, but Shaw sat out the East Carolina game and threw sparingly in two other games. Against Missouri and Kentucky the last two weeks, he was a combined 35-of-39. He also had 31 carries for 117 yards in those two games and ran for 92 in the season opener against Vanderbilt.
Before the season, Shaw was the pick to be the SEC quarterback with the break-out season and his team was the choice to win the Eastern Division because Georgia running back Isaiah Crowell had transferred. Since the emergence of freshman Todd Gurley, nobody has mentioned Crowell.
Gurley�s 107 yards per game is best in the SEC, but it is his 7.9 per try that is the magnet. Much of that average involves numbers compiled against Buffalo and Florida Atlantic and anything better than 4.0 vs. South Carolina would be a surprise. The Gamecocks are No. 2 in the SEC in rushing defense, allowing an average of 2.2 yards per play.
Meanwhile, Lattimore looks better every week.
No. 3 on the defense-against-the-rush list � everybody knows Alabama is No. 1 � is LSU, allowing 2.7 yards per try. Considering the play expected from Murray and Shaw vs. that of Florida quarterback Jeff Driskell, Gillislee is the running back with the heaviest load. A senior who carried only 145 times in three years and never more than 18 in each of the last three games, he may take a beating on Saturday.
By late Saturday, Shaw, Lattimore, and Gurley will be the leaders in the clubhouse.
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CLEVELAND: A federal judge is weighing the government�s request to require a suspect in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio to hire a private attorney.
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing last week that Sam Mullet Sr. recently received more than $2 million from gas and oil leases on his property.
Prosecutors say Mullet was able to obtain a public defender by being less than forthcoming about his financial situation.
Prosecutors also say Mullet should not be released on bond because of the possibility he could hole up on his 800-acre property in eastern Ohio and try to avoid attending his trial.
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Even by the sad standard set by newspapers across the country, The Baltimore Sun has had a rough go.
After the latest round of cuts, a newsroom that had more than 420 employees a decade ago now has just 140. At the beginning of the Bush administration, The Sun had 11 staffers in Washington. It has one today. Having previously shuttered bureaus in London, Beijing, and Moscow, the paper in the last few months closed local bureaus, including the one in Annapolis – Maryland's state capital.
In late April, a couple of Sun columnists went to Camden Yards to cover an Orioles game.
By the ninth inning, they'd both been laid off.
Company execs say they're shaping The Sun into a leaner, Internet-ready machine. "Basically, if you're looking to transform yourself, you really better stop looking at yourself as a newspaper company rather than as a digital media company," says Monty Cook, who took over as The Sun's editor earlier this year
But some of the paper's high-profile readers – and former employees – say that smaller is just smaller, and that a metropolitan daily once committed to investigating crime and corruption across the city and state now seems to be dying a fast death.
"When I read the Baltimore Sun," says Sen Ben Cardin (D-Md.), "it's somewhat painful."
Cardin said that the cutbacks and shuttering of news bureaus has had a significant effect on the breadth of coverage for which the Sun was once known. "It is disturbing to me," he said, adding that Sun readers – his constituents – are now "missing something" each morning.
Recently, Cardin jumped to the forefront of the national death-of-newspapers debate by introducing the Newspaper Revitalization Act, a bill that would allow some newspapers to operate as non-profits. And last week, Cardin testified before a Senate subcommittee hearing on "The Future of Journalism," alongside former Baltimore Sun reporter-turned-television producer David Simon.
Simon, who left The Sun in 1995, dramatized the paper's travails on "The Wire," the critically acclaimed HBO series. He said he's seen a steady decline in The Sun's coverage of Baltimore and central Maryland since the mid-1990s under the stewardship of two corporate owners: Times-Mirror and later The Tribune Company. But the recent layoffs of 61 staffers, he said, "are the last nails in the coffin."
At times, Simon said the paper can relive its former glory through serious investigative and beat reporting. But generally, he said the paper isn't covering the region and issues with "complexity, care and consistency." Most days, when it comes to assuming the government watchdog role, he said, the Sun "is no longer even pretending."
Understandably, the Sun's editor sees things differently.
In an interview, Cook said the Sun is preserving its "core values" amid the cutbacks — and that those values include a commitment to investigative and beat reporting as well as the "watchdog function." The Sun's breadth of state and local coverage hasn't changed since the late April cuts, Cook maintained, pointing to front-page reporting on the financial struggles of the Preakness Stakes, state tax issues and the indictment of Mayor Sheila Dixon.
Cook talks up reinvention of the Sun as a "platform-neutral" operation that no longer puts print above all else. The Sun, he said, has to own "quick-hit information" shot to mobile devices and laptops, while not forsaking the shoe-leather reporting on government and civic institutions.
Cook said the Sun will be generating just as much content as before because the most recent layoffs barely touched the reporting ranks. However, that's caused concerns over whether the Sun's standards will be maintained now that the editing staff has been thinned out, and content will move more quickly to the web.
And Cook's public statements haven't always assuaged staff fears that quality is no longer Job 1; at an appearance at Johns Hopkins recently, Cook declared that "the days of the six-part series are gone."
While bloggers and citizen journalists might pick up the slack in some areas, it's unlikely they'll take on lengthy investigations that papers like the Sun once did.
In 2006, Sun reporters Fred Schulte and June Arney spent months reporting a four-part series on "ground rents, a colonial law that allowed ownership of the ground under a house -- and a peculiar loophole that let such owners begin seizing properties during the real estate boom.
The series involved extensive reporting and database maintenance that no reporter churning out daily (or hourly) content would able to do.
"That was the kind of thing that only the Baltimore Sun could have done," said Schulte, who took a buyout last fall. But it's unclear if they still could do it: The four-person investigative team at the Sun when Schulte started in 2004 is now down to one reporter.
The "ground rents" series was a finalist for a Pulitzer, got a nod on "The Wire" and -- most important - prompted the government to take action. Martin O'Malley, in his first act as governor, signed a bill reforming the centuries-old law.
"Certainly, newspapers have played an important role in shining a spotlight on issues of injustice or inequity," an O'Malley spokesperson told POLITICO, "and to the extent that the future of this important industry is threatened, the governor believes strongly that the integrity of democracy itself is also at risk."
Cardin also talked about the effects on democracy, suggesting that the Sun will have trouble keeping Maryland residents informed about their representatives in Congress without more reporters based in Washington.
Tim Franklin, the Sun's previous editor, said that "Washington coverage is vital to the Baltimore Sun."
Franklin, who now runs the sports journalism program at Indiana University, can speak more freely about the Sun's owners now than he could back when he was the one being asked to make the cuts.
Although Franklin said he understands the economic arguments for cutting Sun staff in the capital and consolidating Tribune bureaus – a move that came just weeks before he shipped off to the Hoosier State – he believes there are stories missing for Baltimore readers.
Reporters from The Tribune Company will now provide the lion's share of the Sun's Washington coverage. But given the state's large defense and health-care industries, Franklin said dispatches from the Pentagon or NIH should be written with a Baltimore Sun reader in mind, rather than in a way that's suitable for Tribune papers in Connecticut or Florida.
Closer to home, the Sun's former editor is concerned about the paper being stretched too thin in covering Maryland.
"I think you get the best stories when you're in the communities, walking the beats, observing changes in the communities," Franklin said. "Those are where the best stories emanate. You can cover those areas from downtown [Baltimore], but I think the possibility of missing something goes up when you're not there."
Cook maintains that the paper is still well positioned to cover state and local government while also keeping an eye on the nation's capital about 40 miles away. Simply leasing buildings in the counties, he said, "does not equate commitment to coverage."


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Fashioning black identity: Africa and the African diaspora explores ways in which contemporary black African artists are using fashion, photography and portraiture to redefine personal and cultural identity. The exhibition brings together works by seven prominent artists from Africa and the African diaspora who use photography and different spatial, corporal and temporal reference points as devices to explore and unpack perceptions of race and being.
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Fujifilm Establishes a Subsidiary in Turkey with the Acquisition of a Distributor
FUJIFILM Dis Ticaret A.S., becomes a new subsidiary of the Fufijilm Group on June 1, 2012.
FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has commenced business operations of FUJIFILM Dis Ticaret A.S., a new subsidiary of the Fufijilm Group on June 1, 2012, after acquiring all shares of Filmat Dis Ticaret A.S. (hereinafter "Filmat"), a distributor in Turkey for digital cameras, photographic paper and other imaging products, medical products, and graphic products, through Fujifilm's European subsidiary, FUJIFILM Europe GmbH.
In recent years, Turkey registered an economic growth of over 8% per annum. The country's per capita GDP has grown over $10,000, a level believed to encourage willingness to purchase automobiles and household appliances. This shows the expansion of domestic demand is driving the economic growth of the country. In addition, the population is predicted to continue growing since more than 50% of the 75 million people of Turkey are under 30 years old. Turkey is drawing attention as a market with high rates of economic growth potential.
With the acquisition of Filmat and the establishment of the local subsidiary, Fujifilm will further and dynamically facilitate the development of the sales strategy in the Turkish market. The subsidiary will also enable Fujifilm to build a direct selling system for swiftly transforming market-orientated marketing activities and to enhance its capability of providing solutions and sales capacity for local customers. Fujifilm will expand business opportunities for imaging products such as digital cameras and photographic papers; medical products such as diagnostic imaging systems and medical imaging network system; and graphic arts products such as digital printing devices and environmentally-considerate plate materials.
Fujifilm will actively promote the delivery of products and solutions that meet market needs in the fast-growing Turkish market in its contribution to the development of industries and cultures in the country.
Overview of FUJIFILM Dis Ticaret A.S.
Business description Sales of and technical services for digital cameras and other imaging products, graphic products, and medical products
Paid-in capital 10,160,000 Turkish lira (approx. 450 million yen)
Location Istanbul, Turkey
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Alleluia Christ is risen – words which rang around the Minster on Easter morning. My thanks to everyone who contributed is any small or big way this year to Holy Week 2017. The weather on Palm Sunday was blue skies and sun, and the donkey behaved impeccably. The music throughout the week was performed to a high standard, both by the Minster Choir and Chamber choir, and with organ and brass on Easter Day. The stark building was adorned with flowers for the Easter Vigil, and whilst I carried the Paschal Candle into a darkened church followed by well over 100 people, a certain son of mine who had lit the fire, admitted afterwards to cooking marshmallows on the fire once we had disappeared from sight!
The joy of the resurrection faith is matched by the blossom on the cherry trees around the Minster, and the warm sun certainly improves all our vitamin D levels!
The month of May begins with an Organ recital on May Day 3pm by Dr Simon Lindley. On Sunday the 7th Canon Wendy Wilby will preach at the 10.30am Sung Eucharist, and at 4pm instead of Evensong, we have a one man drama of John's Gospel – do make the effort to attend this extraordinary reading of the Gospel during this Easter season. On Saturday 13thMay I shall be attending the re dedication of Holy Trinity Hull as Hull Minster, by the Archbishop of York in their Year of Capital of Culture. Sunday 14th we host the Loyal Georgian Society for their annual Evensong, with The Archdeacon's Visitation on Wednesday 17th, which this year we are hosting for the whole Episcopal Area and the Diocesan Bishop will give his Charge, as Church Wardens are all sworn into Office for the coming year. Saturday 20th we host West Yorkshire Police Band in a concert hosted by Holly Lynch our MP. Wednesday 24th The Friends have their trip to Liverpool, whilst the following Day is Ascension Day, and the Archdeacon of Halifax will preach at the Sung Eucharist in the evening.
This month there are also numerous Weddings and baptisms, and no doubt some Funerals too. At this time of the year the Minster gets busier and its all hands to the decks to keep this great ship afloat. Planning for the Minster Summer Festival 29th June – 9th July is in full swing, as the program will be announced shortly.
As I write at the end of April, we are about to have the Annual Meeting. This is an important occasion to give thanks to God for all the blessings we have received throughout the year, and to thank those who have played significant roles in the life of the Minster during the past year. This week the Halifax 900 Trust (the fundraising arm of the Minster) and The Friends Executive, and the Minster Finance Team, are have a joint meeting at which to try and plan more effectively the way forward for the Minster, taking the Quinquennial Inspection and the priorities from the Church Council residential weekend together. Hopefully God will bless us in the way he has done for some 900 years already, and we will be able to continue sharing that Easter Gospel for many years to come!


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The largest city in New England, Boston is known as one of the best college towns and home to many significant U.S. historic sights. One day exploring this charming city will reveal why Boston is one of the most popular destinations in the United States.
Visit Boston during March for the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the South Boston neighborhood. During the summertime, visit Fenway Park to watch a Boston Red Sox game, or stroll through the Boston Public Garden with the family when the temperature is around 70 F (20 C). In the fall, see the leaves change with a walk through the many beautiful college campuses in the Boston area, including Harvard University, Boston College and MIT.
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1983: Redskins Overcome Raiders in 37-35 Thriller
The Washington Redskins, defending NFL champions, were off to a 3-1 start in 1983 as they hosted the undefeated Los Angeles Raiders on October 2 at RFK Stadium. Washington, under third-year Head Coach Joe Gibbs, had an outstanding offense built around power-running RB John Riggins operating behind an excellent line and the passing of QB Joe Theismann (pictured at right) to wide receivers Charlie Brown, Art Monk, and Alvin Garrett.
The Raiders, in Head Coach Tom Flores' fifth season and the second year in LA, were led by 36-year-old QB Jim Plunkett, second-year RB Marcus Allen, and a tough veteran defense that included a colorful band of characters such as DE Lyle Alzado, linebackers Ted Hendricks and Matt Millen, and CB Lester Hayes. Combined with rising young stars like DE Howie Long and FS Vann McElroy, the Raiders defense had given up no more than 14 points in any of the first four games.
Sloppy play on the part of the Raiders offense, which was handicapped by not having Allen available due to a hip pointer, highlighted the first quarter. Plunkett tossed an interception in LA's first offensive series that the Redskins capitalized on as Riggins ran for a two-yard touchdown. The turnovers continued as the veteran quarterback was picked off a second time and RB Kenny King fumbled the ball away, but the score stood at 7-0 after the opening period as the normally-reliable Mark Moseley missed on a 36-yard field goal attempt for Washington.
Moseley was successful on his next field goal attempt, from 28 yards out early in the second quarter. The teams traded punts, and it appeared that the Redskins had the Raiders offense boxed in after a Jeff Hayes kick was downed on the one yard line. But Plunkett immediately went long to WR Cliff Branch, who gathered in the pass at his 44 yard line and proceeded to tie the league record with a 99-yard touchdown.
Despite all of the errors, the Raiders were down only 10-7, but Washington came back with an 80-yard, seven-play drive that ended with Theismann throwing a five-yard TD pass to RB Joe Washington. The first half ended with the Redskins ahead, 17-7.
The second half didn't start off any better for LA as the offense went three-and-out and Washington padded its lead with a 29-yard field goal by Moseley. But two possessions later, the passing game came alive as Plunkett connected with TE Todd Christensen for a 41-yard gain and, two plays later, tossed to WR Calvin Muhammad for a 35-yard touchdown.
After the Redskins were forced to punt, the Raiders drove to another score with Plunkett again throwing a TD pass to Muhammad, this time covering 22 yards. With the successful extra point, Los Angeles was now ahead by 21-20.
Riggins fumbled the ball away on the second play of Washington's ensuing possession, and ten plays later, now in the fourth quarter, Plunkett hit Christensen for a three-yard touchdown and 28-20 lead.
Theismann and the Redskins came out passing, with consecutive completions to Charlie Brown that covered 25 yards. However, the drive stalled at the Washington 43 and Jeff Hayes punted it away. His 54-yard kick was fielded by RB Greg Pruitt at his own three yard line, and he proceeded to return it 97 yards for a touchdown; the Raiders were up by 35-20.
Just as it seemed that the momentum had shifted overwhelmingly to LA, the Redskins fought back with a Theismann pass to Joe Washington that covered 67 yards and set up an 11-yard touchdown pass to Brown three plays later.
With 6:15 left to play and the Redskins down by two scores, the Raiders were watching for an onside kick. What they got was a low and hard kick by Hayes that made it through the front line, hit a player's foot, and spun wildly away. WR Dokie Williams initially fell on the ball for the Raiders but couldn't hold on and safety Greg Williams finally recovered it for Washington at the LA 32. Moseley kicked a 34-yard field goal five plays later to narrow the Raiders' lead to five points.
Hayes kicked deep for the Redskins with 4:28 remaining on the clock. Los Angeles went three-and-out and was forced to punt after a third-and-11 pass from Plunkett to Christensen gained nine yards. Starting at his own 31 and with just under two minutes to play in the game, Theismann completed three consecutive passes to Brown that covered a total of 63 yards. From the LA six yard line, Theismann found Washington in the end zone for a diving touchdown catch, and the Redskins ended up with a wild 37-35 win.
The statistics reflected the wildly shifting momentum of the game. Both teams accumulated over 400 yards, with the Redskins slightly ahead (as with the score) by 459 yards to 431. Washington also led in first downs (25 to 19) while the Raiders led in rushing yards (105 to 98) and sacks (six to five). However, LA also suffered six turnovers, to just one for the Redskins.
Joe Theismann passed for 417 yards as he completed 23 of 39 passes with three TDs and none intercepted. Charlie Brown caught 11 of those passes for 180 yards and a touchdown while Joe Washington (pictured above), seeing a great deal of action in the second half as the preferred running back in passing situations, grabbed 5 passes for 99 yards and the two TDs. John Riggins gained 91 yards rushing on 26 attempts with a score.
For the Raiders, after the shaky start Jim Plunkett ended up completing 16 of 29 passes for 372 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions. Calvin Muhammad caught 5 passes for 112 yards and two TDs while Todd Christensen added 70 more yards on his 5 catches. Cliff Branch gained 99 yards on his one long reception of the day. In place of Marcus Allen, RB Frank Hawkins led the team on the ground with 64 yards on 15 carries.
Afterward, Washington guard Mark May said "I wouldn't be surprised if we met them again in January." He proved to be a good prophet. The Redskins lost just one more game the rest of the way as they finished atop the NFC East with a 14-2 record. While they were at it, they set a new league team scoring record with 541 points (since broken). The Raiders topped the AFC West with a 12-4 tally. Both clubs won their respective conference championships and met in Super Bowl XVIII where the Raiders got the last laugh with a stunning 38-9 upset victory (Marcus Allen's presence was very much in evidence, as he gained 191 yards rushing and scored two touchdowns).
Joe Theismann ranked second in the NFL in passing (97.0 rating) and touchdown passes (29, tied with Danny White of the Cowboys) while throwing for 3714 yards. He received All-Pro honors and was selected to the Pro Bowl, along with Charlie Brown (pictured at left), who caught 78 passes for 1225 yards and 8 TDs.
John Riggins set a new record for touchdowns (24) while rushing for 1347 yards on 375 carries. Mark Moseley scored 161 points (at the time, the record for scoring by placekicking alone) while hitting on 33 of 47 field goal attempts.
Todd Christensen led the NFL in pass receptions with 92 while accumulating 1247 yards and 12 touchdowns. Jim Plunkett, in an up-and-down season, lost his starting job to Marc Wilson, regained it, and finished with 2935 yards, 20 TDs, and 18 interceptions; he was also sacked 42 times and was second in the league in yards lost due to sacks (363), but in the end was a championship quarterback for the second time.
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Okay, you can thank me right now for hooking up and listening to Lady M's phone-a-view fund raiser with the Women of Virginia who Obama on your behalf. Because for some reason it hasn't been posted on the Big White website yet.
Although we do have pictures there of Lady M and Jilly at their latest We the Military event:
This lovely frock hasn't been seen since February '10 when we were handing out Human Rights Awards. As you can see, we were having makeup issues that day:
Big Guy's that is, not Lady M's. That p'shopper was dismissed immediately and hasn't found work in this town since.
And the Big White Website is also featuring video of Lady M surprising visitors (pleasantly, by most accounts) to the Big White:
And I even managed to snag a grainy shot of the Wons' Valentine's Day dinner at Vermillion for you:
"What really struck me is that they looked like a very happy normal couple who were in love with one another," said Todd Stone, who snapped this crappy photo. Apparently Todd's eyesight is not that good.
Butt anyway, no pictures of Lady M on the nap couch while handling the Virginia Phone-a-View, so I'll have to file my report using all file photos:
The call was supposed to last an hour, butt Lady M had to cut it short after 30 minutes because she "had, ah, hungry children." (the wee Wons are always hungry, so I don't think that was it, butt somebody was hungry). You can probably tell by the babbling and all the dropped g's that Lady M's blood sugar was dangerously low. Additionally, it sounded like she caught a touch of Big Guy's non-fluencies. I told her to stock up on Tamiflu – butt does anyone around here ever listen to me? Noooo.
For the record, in case anyone besides me was wondering, I counted 666 "ahs"and "uhms" during the 30 minute conference call. That's a sure signal of dangerously low blood sugar.
Lady M opened the call with an 18 minute uninterrupted monologue (that's where most of the babbling took place). Here's my 30 second synopsis, paraphrased slightly:
All you schtrong women who love your babies (and Buh-rock) are really important to Buh-rock and me. We're doing all this for you and your babies and your families because Buh-rock is the only one who can save the world and make it into the
dystopianutopian paradise you all dream about for your children.
And remember: Buh-rock passed the Lilly Ledbetter bill so you all can make your fair share; and he passed ObamaCare so the evil R-words can no longer deny women coverage and adequate medical care – and deny coverage for your babies. And hey! - let's give it up for those two brilliant women that Buh-rock appointed to the Supremes! To make sure we interpret the Constitution with empathy from now on, ladies!
Then she took 3 1/2 questions (also paraphrased slightly):
- "How can we help, Lady M?" (badger your friends and family and register all the dead people you know, and volunteer to drive the homeless derelicts to the polling places…twice, if necessary)
- "What is Buh-rock going to do to achieve economic fairness?"(Haven't you been paying attention? Tax the 1% more and redistribute it. Fairly.)
- "How can we thank you for all of the support you give our military families?" (You're welcome, and thanks for bringing that up. Military families are the best, I can't believe the schtrength they have – where does it come from? And you're all so schtrong too: butt military families - they don't complain. They don't want a handout, they just want to know we've got their back. And that's why we - Buh-rock and I – need you to get out there, get us reelected and help us occupy the White House for 4 more years! So we can continue to have their backs.
And then, it was over - well, almost: Lady M went off to feed the hungry Wee Wons. At least it's a better excuse than the one Big Guy came up with when he blew off the $7500/head dinner guests at that Rhode Island payday awhile back: his excuse was he had to get home to "scoop the poop." That didn't quite pass the smell test with any of the people expecting to dine with the Won in the well appointed home of minor RI royalty.
And at least Lady M's conference call was, theoretically, "free" - although I've already had 2 follow-up calls on my G-mail phone number begging for a really big donation to WTF.
Butt you're probably wondering "what about the other 1/2 question, MOTUS?" Well, that would be the question that was asked, butt not answered. Luckily, Raj was able to capture it before it was lost forever in the Ethernet. Here's how it starts:
Lady M: "I think I've got time for one more question – I've got ah, hungry children…" (trust me people, you really don't want to miss this!) 3.5:
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties of an unidentified nature, I didn't get the answer, so I still don't know what to pack. BTW, I think Little Mo was right in making me use Raj's voice modulation transmogrifier to disguise my voice, because Axeman and Plouffe-Daddy were yelling and screaming "who was that interloping b-word," and "that question wasn't cleared!" They seem to be zeroing in on Granny R as the "interloping b-word," and there's nothing they can do to her anyway.
Anyway, h/t again to Barbara at Mommy Life for giving me a heads up on this. Since Lady M had no intention of being on camera during the call, she didn't even bother to notify me.
Butt this isn't fair: I've been spending too much time on Lady M while Big Guy has been out and about doing his fair share to WTF too.
He started with a live performance at the Master Lock factory in Wisconsin:
Big Guy does the chorus from "Unchained Melody" for the guys down at the plant
Master Lock manufactures padlocks:
Big Guy picked one up to use on his private stash – which seems to be disappearing much quicker than usual lately. He also talked to the CEO, to see if he had any tips on how to crack the combination for the ones installed on the Treasury's printing presses - just in case the Republicans ever get serious about cutting the deficit.
And then it was on to California to pick up the weekly receipt. Here he is landing in San Francisco where he was greeted by former disgraced mayor and now California Lt. Governor Gavin "Any Twosome" Newsome and another groupie:
"Mmm, mmm, mmm! If I wasn't married…"
He was not, and apparently will not be joined or gifted by San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell.
Susie is normally one of the Democratic Party's most generous and reliable
money-bags lapdogs benefactors, butt not any more: "I would just love to write my big check ... or have a high-dollar dinner here" on his behalf, she said. "I can't." Apparently stopping the Keystone XL pipeline and funding dozens of bankrupt green energy companies wasn't sufficient to convince Ms. Buell of Big Guy's commitment to the global warming. Looks like now we're going to have to stop all oil production in the lower 48 in order to meet our target fundraising goal.
All this makes Big Guy's 3 day West Coast bag tour even more crucial. The campaign coffers need serious replenishing if we're going to have a fair shot at WTF. So won't you please give your fair share today?


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In 1542, Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana returned from the New World with tales of bustling cities lining the banks of the Amazon River. "They have a great wealth of gold and silver," wrote his chronicler, "and great cities of white stone glistening in the sun." But when missionaries retraced Orellana's steps a century later, they found no sign of the settlements he'd described. Even the soil seemed to contradict his claims; it was yellowish and barren, apparently incapable of sustaining more than a few scattered bands of hunter-gatherers.
Lately, though, researchers have realized that Orellana might have been telling the truth. It turns out that the Amazon basin is dotted with patches of rich, black loam known as terra preta del Indio, or "Indian dark earth." Studies show that these soils, which Indian farmers created by mixing charcoal and fish bones into their fields, can be almost nine times more fertile than unaltered earth and could once have fed tens of millions of people. "There are hundreds of thousands of these patches," says William Woods, a University of Kansas geographer. "The implication is that there were a lot of people in pre-Colombian Amazonia sustainably producing food."
There might be a lesson here for modern farmers. The recipe for terra preta was lost long ago, but in theory, its effects could be replicated by sowing fields with biochar, a type of charcoal. By fixing nutrients in place and altering the soil's microbial balance, biochar could boost crop yields and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. The early signs are promising: Mingxin Guo, a soil scientist at Delaware State University, recently found that wheat grown in charcoal-spiked soil yielded 45 percent more biomass. "With a one-off addition, the soil quality appears to be permanently improved," he says.
The real payoff, though, is that farmers who use biochar could actually help combat global warming. All plants absorb carbon dioxide as they grow; ordinarily, that greenhouse gas is released when the plants decompose. But converting plants into charcoal can stabilize their carbon: While plants store carbon for months or years, biochar can trap it for hundreds or even thousands of years. According to Robert Brown, director of Iowa State University's Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, charring half the crop residues from one square mile of farmland would lock away enough carbon to offset the emissions from 330 automobiles. What's more, when plants are charred, they give off fumes that can be condensed into a carbon-negative bio-oil capable of powering an auto engine. A handful of companies are already producing fuel from this organic waste. Johannes Lehmann, a biochar specialist at Cornell University, calculates that by the end of the century, bio-oil and biochar production could sequester 9.5 billion metric tons of carbon a year—more than enough to offset all global fossil-fuel emissions today. That's especially exciting, Lehmann says, because unlike biodiesel and corn ethanol, biochar doesn't take land away from food production. "We can simply use material we don't need, like crop residues or waste products," he says. "This has humongous potential."
There's a downside, of course. Careless charcoal production can generate toxic waste, and the energy needed to produce, transport, and bury biochar could outweigh the carbon savings. Even biochar's fans admit it's a work in progress: Scientists don't know how much charcoal farmers should use, how they should apply it, or which feedstocks work best. "We just don't know enough about it yet," says recently retired USDA scientist John Kimble. "It's got potential, but it's going to take a lot more work."
The biggest barriers, though, are economic. With farmers reluctant to spread unproven products on their fields, the few companies manufacturing biochar have struggled to find buyers. Dynamotive, a Vancouver-based energy company, simply gives it away to farmers willing to try it. "The market for biochar is basically nonexistent," admits Desmond Radlein, one of the company's directors.
Analysts say that won't change until carbon markets are established, allowing farmers to earn credits for applying biochar to their fields. "People aren't going to invest until they can show they'll get a return on their investments," says Debbie Reed, coordinator of the International Biochar Initiative, a nonprofit working to promote the commercialization of the fertilizer. Still, lawmakers hope to jump-start the industry. The current Farm Bill contains several high-priority research programs for which $10 million per year is authorized for biochar studies, and the Senate is considering a $500 million grant program. "There's been a paradigm shift at the highest policy levels,"
Reed says. If that's true, it could just be a matter of time until the biochar industry hits pay dirt.
Story by Ben Whitford. This article originally appeared in Plenty in September 2008. It was added to MNN.com.


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A security troll is a specially-trained troll who guards certain places and objects in wizarding society. [1] Some wizards and witches make their living out of training security trolls. [2]
In 1993, Albus Dumbledore hired security trolls to guard the Fat Lady's portrait after Sirius Black attacked her in an attempt to get into Gryffindor Tower and Sir Cadogan was fired for letting him in while he was covering for the Fat Lady. These Trolls were placed in the North Wing and were evidently a different type of Troll than the mountain variety, since they seemed considerably more intelligent and less smelly. They spent all their time pacing the corridor in front of the Fat Lady's portrait, giving dirty looks to everyone who happened by and comparing the sizes of their clubs. They left at the end of the year, when Sirius led the Ministry into knowing that he fled out of the country.
In 1996, Dolores Umbridge apparently hired security trolls to guard Harry Potter's Firebolt. This was after Fred and George Weasley made their final departure from Hogwarts and had stolen their brooms back, Umbridge decided that it would be best to move Harry's broom to the Dungeons with the added security measure of security trolls. They were eventually dismissed when Umbridge left, and Harry got his Firebolt back.
Behind the ScenesEdit
- Despite not appearing in the films, the trolls are included in the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as well as the first LEGO video game.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, they appear wearing blue security hats. They would hit the ground causing giant waves blowing away anyone who hits a spell at them.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (Nintendo DS verison only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4


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Baylor committed 19 turnovers and never looked comfortable against Kansas State on Saturday night.
Angel Rodriguez scored 22 points and Shane Southwell added 18 on six 3-pointers to lead the No. 10 Wildcats to an 81-61 win over the Bears.
A.J. Walton scored 14 points for Baylor (16-9, 7-5 Big 12) and Isaiah Austin added 13.
The game remained fairly close in the first half, but the Wildcats (20-5, 9-3) took control in the second, outscoring the Bears 43-32 after the break.
"I thought that Kansas State showed why they're the 10th-ranked team in the nation," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "Really dominated and imposed their will."
"We've done a much better job taking care of the ball in the past couple games, and we have a veteran backcourt, and to force us into 19 turnovers, hats off to their defense," he added.
Drew called a timeout less than two minutes into the second half after the Wildcats bolted out of the break with three straight baskets. Jordan Henriquez drew a foul and converted on a free throw, Rodriguez finished a fast break layup and Henriquez scored in the paint.
Baylor's Brady Heslip turned the ball over right after the timeout, but he quickly redeemed himself with a pair of 3s. After Rico Gathers scored and Pierre Jackson hit a 3 of his own, Baylor trailed 43-41 with 12:51 remaining.
Before the Bears could creep any closer, Rodriguez drilled a 3, his third of the game from beyond the arc. After Walton scored, Southwell hit a 3 that ignited a 13-2 run by the Wildcats.
Martavious Irving sank a 3, and after another 3 from Southwell, the big men got going. Henriquez dunked and followed it up with a block on the other end, and Thomas Gipson converted in the paint the next time down.
With 7:48 to go, the Wildcats again had a double-digit lead, 59-45, leading Drew to call another timeout.
It was no use - the Bears never again got so close to Kansas State. Much of that was due to the Wildcats' 11 long-range shots, tied for the most they have made in a game all season.
"When you make a comeback and a team hits a 3, that's deflating," Heslip said, "and then they get a stop, we get a turnover, and it's just like, `What's going on?'"
Still, Baylor clawed within 59-49 on a pair of Jackson free throws and a bucket by Taurean Prince.
Omari Lawrence converted a three-point play, Henriquez scored down low, and after Isaiah Austin sank a pair of free throws, Rodriguez hit McGruder for an alley-oop.
A 3 by Austin brought the Bears within 12, but a three-point play by Rodriguez and a second-chance bucket by McGruder opened the gap to 71-54 with 4:03 to play.
Baylor did not get within single digits the rest of the game.
Early in the first half, Baylor dominated the paint, and Kansas State lived in 3-point range.
Rodney McGruder sparked the Wildcats by scoring their first two baskets after Baylor forward Cory Jefferson and Austin both made shots in the paint.
Rodriguez sank a 3, giving the Wildcats a 7-4 lead. After Jefferson again scored down low, Southwell drained his first 3, giving Kansas State a 10-6 lead four minutes into the game.
The Bears went on an 8-2 spurt powered by their big men. Jefferson, Austin and Gathers each took trips to the free throw line, where they went a combined 4-for-5, and then Gathers threw down a dunk. After Jackson scored his first points of the game, Baylor led 16-12 with 10:20 to go in the first half.
That domination of the paint did not continue as the Wildcats quickly neutralized Baylor's big men.
"They did a good job of pushing our bigs out, having them posting out farther than the block, like towards the free throw line," Jackson said. "That's not where we want to have our bigs posting up at, so Coach decided to go to something else."
After Baylor's short scoring spree, Kansas State ripped off a 15-3 run that began with three straight 3s. Rodriguez played an integral part in the scoring frenzy by swishing a 3, assisting on back-to-back 3s by Southwell and then converting a basket in the paint to give the Wildcats a 23-16 advantage with 6:33 remaining until halftime.
The deficit narrowed when Baylor's guards got involved. Heslip scored his first basket of the game, and after buckets by Spradling and Southwell, both Jackson and Walton scored, pulling the Bears to 27-24 with 3:41 left in the half.
Again, just when Baylor began to close the gap, the Kansas State offense hit its stride. A 3 by Spradling began a 10-0 run that also included free throws by McGruder, another 3 by Spradling and another layup by Rodriguez.
Walton scored the last two buckets of the first half for Baylor, which went to the locker room down 38-29.
Jackson had averaged 18.9 points going into the game, and the Wildcats held him to seven on 2-of-8 shooting.
"I feel like I played a horrible game," Jackson said. "Guys kind of lean on me a lot to do a lot of the heavy work, and I'm used to it. I've just got to help my team out more than I did tonight."


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PLEASANTON — Water officials have a solution for the onslaught of complaints about their tough drought restrictions: better PR!
Facing outrage over drought penalties for people who fail to slash water use, and swamped by complaint calls to its drought hotline, the City Council agreed Tuesday to pay a public relations contractor up to $200,000 to explain its program.
Other Tri-Valley water suppliers in Dublin and Livermore face the same pressure to get local residents and businesses to cut water use by 25 percent because of sharp reductions in state water shipments.
However, the others aren't planning to dish out anything near to what Pleasanton has agreed to pay outside public relations contractors to spread messages about penalties and conservation.
The contract doesn't sit well with all the city's water users.
"I think it's stupid for the city to spend $200,000 to hire contractors to tell people what they should already know,"said Pleasanton resident Jerry Dean. "We're in a drought and we need to save."
City officials said it's crucial to keep the city from running out of water, and to help people avoid the steep penalties for failing to cut water use by at least 25 percent.
"I think people are getting it, but we haven't quite turned the corner on getting everyone on board," said Daniel Smith, Pleasanton's director of operational services. "When we get into July and August (heat), it's going to be a lot harder for people to save."
In a unanimous vote, the council agreed to pay Carol H. Williams Advertising agency up to $200,000 in city water funds to develop and publicize drought education messages and advertising for radio, newspapers and other media.
"We may not spend all the $200,000," Smith said. 'We're only going to spend what we need."
Water managers in Pleasanton, Dublin and Livermore say they share a common message to explain that the Tri-Valley faces more acute water shortages than most other Bay Area places because of its heavy reliance on state water allocations — slashed 95 percent this year.
"We in the Tri-Valley are in same boat together. We need people to reduce outdoor water use," said Sue Stephenson, community affairs supervisor for Dublin San Ramon Services District, a supplier for Dublin and the Dougherty Valley in San Ramon.
Her agency is not spending money on an outside public relations contractor, but expects to spend some $90,000 on media advertising about conservation.
Livermore water officials figure to spend some $70,000 this year on media advertising, but only about $10,000 to $20,000 this year for a public relations contractor, said Dan McIntyre, the city's public works director.
Pleasanton has got more attention, criticism and questions in part because it took a different approach than other Tri-Valley suppliers: penalizing those who don't save enough.
While Livermore and the Dublin-San Ramon districts increased everyone's rates uniformly to encourage less use, Pleasanton decided to charge customers more only if they fail to cut use 25 percent.
But Pleasanton customers who fall short of the target face a double whammy; their per-gallon rate will rise and they also will pay penalties.
Nearly 3,000 Pleasanton residents have contacted the city about the penalties since their adoption in early May, and have kept city workers busy at a new drought hotline answering center.
The first bills with the penalties come out in early July, which customers can appeal to the city for relief from the charges — including those who are upset because they cut back last year but still have to meet the 25 percent target.
"We would like it if no one has to pay penalties," Smith said. "We will work with people."
Pleasanton residents reduced their total water use 27 percent in May and are on target for a 35 percent cut so far in June, Smith said.
Contact Denis Cuff at 925-943-8267. Follow him at Twitter.com/deniscuff.


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Rights groups: 3 teenage monks, 2 other Tibetans set fire to themselves over 2 days
BEIJING – Tibetan protests against Chinese rule intensified around the opening of a pivotal Communist Party congress as three teenage monks and two other Tibetans set themselves on fire over two days, activists reported Thursday.
Four of the self-immolations took place on Wednesday and were followed by a fifth involving a nomad in western Qinghai on Thursday. Since March 2011, dozens of ethnic Tibetans have self-immolated in ethnically Tibetan areas to protest what activists say is China's heavy-handed rule over the region. Such protests have become more frequent in recent weeks, apparently aimed at the party's weeklong conference to unveil the country's new leadership that opened Thursday.
"These protests are aimed at sending the next generation of China's unelected regime a clear signal that Tibetans will continue to fight for their freedom despite China's efforts to suppress and intimidate them," Free Tibet director Stephanie Brigden said in a statement.
Free Tibet also said that the three monks, at ages 15 and 16, were the youngest to self-immolate. They set fire to themselves Wednesday afternoon outside a police office in southwest Sichuan province calling for freedom for Tibet and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, the group said, adding it was the first documented case of a triple self-immolation.
The youngest monk, identified as 15-year-old Dorjee, died at the scene and his companions, Samdup and Dorjee Kyab, both 16, were taken to a hospital by security forces and their conditions were unknown, Free Tibet said.
Then in the evening a 23-year-old Tibetan nomadic woman, Tamdin Tso, died after self-immolating in another ethnically Tibetan area in western Qinghai province, it said. She took petrol from a motorbike and set fire to herself in the family's winter pasture near Tongren, a monastery town, and her body was taken back to her family's home whether people gathered to pray, it said. She had a 5-year-old son.
Tibetan nomad Jinpa Gyatso, who was from the same area, became the fifth in two days to set himself on fire, said Kate Saunders, spokeswoman for the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet. His death Thursday outside a monastery, as well as the woman's, prompted hundreds of Tibetans to gather and mourn, Saunders wrote in an email.
The pro-Tibet groups' accounts could not immediately be confirmed. The self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile reported one other self-immolation on Wednesday but provided few details.
A man at Qinghai provincial government's news office said he didn't know about the case and hung up. The Aba prefecture's communist party propaganda department referred queries to prefectural and provincial authorities, where calls rang unanswered.
Chinese authorities routinely deny Tibetan claims of repression and have accused supporters of the Dalai Lama of encouraging the self-immolations. The Dalai Lama and representatives of the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile in India say they oppose all violence.
Free Tibet said the three boys came from a village in Aba county, a region of high-altitude valleys grazed by yaks on the Tibetan plateau, and belonged to Ngoshul Monastery, which houses around 130 monks and is approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ngaba town where other self-immolations have taken place. Free Tibet said security forces had been deployed to the monastery and the nearby town of Gomang, and already heavy restrictions in Ngaba county had been intensified, with people unable to leave or enter Ngaba town.
Free Tibet says over two thirds of those who have self-immolated are younger than 25 and have grown up under Chinese rule. "Their protests belie China's propaganda that Tibetans are happy and thriving. Tibetans young and old, men and women from all walks of life across a vast area of Tibet are setting fire to themselves in protest at China's occupation," it said in a statement.
The Chinese government has poured money into the region for years to spur development and helping to raise living standards. But many Tibetans say China's tight control, including on religious observance, is draining them of their culture and identity.
Associated Press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report.


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TVO and Perimeter Institute partner to make science more accessible in Ontario
TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2011 - TVO and Ontario's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to announce a new five-year partnership, making TVO the exclusive presenting media partner for the Perimeter Institute's international science-themed events and popular public lecture series.
TVO and Perimeter Institute share a belief that building scientific literacy is fundamental to a sustainable and prosperous future.
Perimeter Institute brings together the brightest scientific minds in the world to share their ideas and TVO has the media toolkit to make those ideas more accessible," said Lisa de Wilde, Chief Executive Officer of TVO. "Working together we can open up new worlds in science for Ontarians of all ages."
The role of science is pivotal in advancing our world, and is why Perimeter Institute and TVO are intensifying efforts to share the joys of research, discovery and innovation," said Neil Turok, Perimeter's Director. "We are delighted to be working with the team at TVO, our like-minded and highly motivated partner in science communications."
The new partnership builds on a successful history of engaging TVO's on-air, online and on-location audiences with the top scientific minds that converge at Perimeter. The two Ontario-based organizations have successfully collaborated on the Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future science festival in 2009; Hawking at the Perimeter in 2010; and the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 in 2011. TVO also aired the award-winning Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird & Wired Future, from Perimeter Institute.
This new partnership kicks off with a special TVO broadcast from the Grand Opening of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute. Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas will air on TVO on Sunday September 18 at 8 p.m. ET. Program details include:
• A tribute to Professor Hawking
• Celebrations from the grand opening of the Hawking Centre
• A mini-documentary and a panel discussion scheduled to include: Neil Turok, leading cosmologist and Director of Perimeter Institute; Brian Green, string theorist, author and noted science communicator; Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Rebecca Saxe, cognitive neuroscientist
• Comments from Professor Hawking himself, and tributes about his inspirational life story from famous Canadians including Rick Hansen, David Foster and William Shatner
In tandem with the tribute to Professor Hawking and a public open house at Perimeter Institute, TVO.org will also live stream four special one-hour public lectures from Perimeter's "Theatre of Ideas" on Sunday, September 18 starting at 10:00 am. The speakers and topics include:
10 a.m. George Dyson, science historian and author, on the origins of the digital universe
12 p.m. Hod Lipson, Director of the Computational Synthesis Lab at Cornell University, on the rise of programmable matter and the future of "3D printers"
2 p.m. Natalia Toro, Faculty at Perimeter Institute, on the world's most ambitious scientific experiment, the Large Hadron Collider
4 p.m. Julie Payette, astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency, with perspectives from the International Space Station on scientific research and international diplomacy
TVOKids and TVOParents.com will also be part of Perimeter Institute's Physica Phantastica science exhibit during the grand opening on September 18th. In addition to Perimeter's family-friendly physics activities - including Memory Metal, the Hawking Radiation Playbook and Black Hole in a Bucket - kids will have the opportunity to try out TVOKids.com science games. And parents can learn from the TVOParents.com team members about the TVOKids Homework Zone and other resources that can help equip their children for success in science, math and literacy.
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CHICAGO WHITE SOX: I already mentioned catcher Kevan Smith a few days ago, so today I'll bring up lefty Blair Walters, drafted in the 11th round from the University of Hawaii. He went 9-0, 4.03 in the Pioneer League with a sharp 72/17 K/BB in 74 innings. He has a low-90s sinker and is tough on lefties, but was mostly a reliever in college and is still polishing his breaking ball and changeup. He could develop into a fourth starter or possibly a LOOGY.
BTW, here's the Kevan Smith mention:
Kevan Smith, C, White Sox: Seventh round pick in 2011 from University of Pittsburgh, annihilated short-season pitching at Bristol (Appy League, .396/.482/.740) and Great Falls (Pioneer League, .318/.417/.523). Drew 28 walks against just 30 strikeouts in 203 at-bats. Power bat and physical strength are well-respected, but he needs more polish with defense, and at age 23 he needs to show this wasn't just a fluke generated against younger competition.


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The woman entered Wild Birds Unlimited dressed in the uniform of the Armstrong Atlantic University Police and carrying a McDonald's Happy Meal Box. Since neither my co-worker Nicole nor I had ordered a Happy Meal, we curiously waited for the tale sure to follow.
"Someone found this in the middle of Abercorn Street, near the college, and called us," she began her story. "It doesn't seem to be injured. It tried to peck me."
Cautiously, we peered inside, expecting to see one of the many species of warblers that have had their migrations interrupted by collisions with cars or windows. The bird that peered up at us was much bigger than a warbler, and sat snugly nestled in its temporary home. "That's ketchup on the side of the box, not blood," the woman assured us.
I looked at the soft brown feathers, sturdy pointed beak, and wide lobed toes. It's a "pied-billed grebe," I announced with amazement. When Nicole gently picked up the bird to inspect it for possible injuries, it stretched its neck and attempted to peck her nose.
She noted that the bottoms of its feet looked a little scraped, but otherwise, the grebe seemed to be healthy. It felt solid and wasn't emaciated, although when Nicole weighed the bird, it weighed only about half what an adult grebe was supposed to weigh.
"It must have been migrating," I speculated, "and gotten confused. I've heard about loons landing on wet pavement, thinking that it was water."
Both loons and grebes are excellent swimmers. They spend their time diving and swimming underwater in pursuit of food. However, their legs are set so far back on their bodies that if they get stranded on land, they aren't able to take off again.
Nicole put the bird in a laundry basket lined with a soft towel, added a bowl of water, and a dish of live mealworms. She covered the basket so the bird wouldn't fly out and could rest. Then she called licensed rehabilitator Pat Wolters. Thirty minutes later, we peered into the basket and discovered that the mealworm dish was empty. We refilled the dish, and the grebe eagerly began plucking up the worms. This was good news, since now Pat wouldn't have to feed it with a tube.
I had just seen and photographed a pied-billed grebe at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge a few days before our close encounter. In the water, grebes are stubby, little brown birds that are commonly mistaken for ducks. They are "now you see 'em, now you don't" birds, since they disappear below the surface just as you get your binoculars pointed in the right direction. They swim and dive like ducks, but they don't have webbed feet.
While the occasional pied-billed grebe may spend the summer in coastal Georgia, most of them migrate further north to build nests in shallow water at the marshy edges of ponds, bays, or sloughs. They get their name — "pied-billed" — from the fact that during the breeding season, their chicken-like bills are black with a white stripe. Fine dining for a grebe includes aquatic insects, crayfish, leeches, frogs, tadpoles, small fish, and even spiders.
Oddly, grebes swallow many feathers and even feed feathers to their young. Scientists speculate that the feathers assist with pellet formation, and help the birds combat intestinal parasites. During post-mortem exams, pied-billed grebe stomachs contained as much as 52 percent feathers.
One of my favorite things about pied-billed grebes is their call. If you visit a wetland area in the spring, you might hear an eerie series of throaty whoops. How a small brown diving bird can sound like monkey is beyond me!
Pat took the lucky grebe out to Skidaway Island and released it in a lagoon. She called us to report that all had gone smoothly, but that the little bird looked small and alone in the middle of the water. Perhaps it was thinking longingly of the Happy Meal Box Hotel and all those room-service mealworms. Good birding!
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July 1 in 2011, e-iceblue upgraded Spire.Doc to version 4.0.3 which enables Spire.Doc support Silverlight platform. E-iceblue Co., Ltd. provides professional .NET components for .NET applications and Microsoft Visual Studio now also make his effort on Silverlight platform.
"Not only Spire.Doc, soon later, all products in e-iceblue store will add Silverlight platform for developers" said by e-iceblue CEO Jason. I guess next should be Spire.XLS. Although it's a large step, Spire.Doc still keeps its price there without any change. That's really good news for users. At present, only Pro edition supports Silverlight. Standard edition still only supports .NET platform and without conversion functions.
Now, Spire.Doc is a MS Word component which enables user to perform a wide range of Word document processing tasks directly, such as generate, read, write and modify Word document for .NET and Silverlight. With high quality, powerful functions and cheap price, Spire.Doc supports Word 97, Word 2003, Word 2007 and Word 2010.
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With just over 28 days until Friday Practice in Australia, is anyone excited, or at least curious, to see how the 2009 F1 season will shake out?
Huge rule changes, teams folding, teams starting (USF1!), new cars and all sorts of changes should make for an interesting season with lots to talk about.
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During this year's Festival, we announced the winners of our #6SECFILM Vine Competition, in which we challenged Vine users to tell stories with the new app in three categories: Genre, Animate, and Series, to be shortlisted by TFF's Programming Director Genna Terranova, and then whittled down to the best in each category by a jury of filmmakers - Penny Marshall, Adam Goldberg, and the team from 5 Second Films.
In honor of this week's release of Vine for Android - opening up the creative app to millions more creators, here are the runners-up of our competition, with notes from the jury about why they liked them so much. Watch, listen and learn!
Not That Lever Jon!, by Alex Labat
Adam Goldberg: "I laughed."
Penny Marshall: "Extremely creative concept!"
5 Second Films: "Relatable setup (for anyone who works with levers and/or buttons) and the ending had a great reversal."
All I Have Is Doritos!, by Jordan Burt
5 Second Films: "Performance was impeccable and provided the elusive punchline (when the robber takes his Doritos.)"
Zack Frost, This Moment
Penny Marshall: "Way to turn a corny joke into a comedic moment, simple and effective."
5 Second Films: "Tells a story and makes you laugh in a single, un-edited take. That's the golden fleece of micro cinema."
Adam Goldberg: "A somber haiku."
Meagan Cignoli, The Chair:
Adam Goldberg: "A lovely whimsical Vine."
Khoa: "Rawr Means 'I Love You' in Dinosaur"
5 Second Films: "The perfect blend of cute and morbid. Made everyone in the room laugh out loud."
Adam Goldberg: "Inventive shadowplay"
5 Second Films: "The animation is impeccable. We also appreciated watching a new phone film the destruction of an old phone."
Adam Goldberg: "Bizarro and lurid, as a Vine should be."
5 Second Films: "The story and shots were excellently composed. Plus the lighting and stylized visuals really stood out above the rest."
Congrats to these runners-up, and check out the short list for more Vine-spiration. Also, look for our new weekly wrap-up of the week's best Vines, coming tomorrow!


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Ark. motorists must change lanes for tow trucks
Move Over Law
In addition to changing lanes while approaching police cars, firetrucks and ambulances, Arkansas motorists will have to slow down or try to go around tow trucks and utility company vehicles.
Legislators this year said motorists must exercise caution around vehicles with blue, red, yellow, white or green lights. The law takes effect Aug. 15.
Highway Department Director Scott Bennett said his agency wanted to extend the law for highway workers but that it started hearing from utility companies and tow truck operators.
When possible, drivers will have to move into the farthest possible lane. Drivers must slow down if changing lanes isn't possible.
Violators can be fined up to $500 or sent to jail for 90 days. Community service or license suspensions can also be ordered.


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Fanø is in Denmark.
Fanø is one of the Danish Wadden Sea Islands.
Getting There[edit]
You get to the island by ferry from Esbjerg. Travel time is 12 minutes, and a return ticket for adults costs 40 DKK (~5 EUR). Schedules available at http://www.faergen.dk/ (select the route "Esbjerg - Fanø"). The ferry arrives at the city of Nordby.
Travelers arriving by train to Esbjerg can take the bus line #5 from the main station to the Fanø ferry port. The ride takes aprox. 10 minutes and costs 20 DKK (~3 EUR) for adults.
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The most convenient way to travel on the island is by car or bicycle. The island is connected by a main road from Nordby in the north and Sønderho in the south. The 2 km wide beach serves as a road year round connecting the beach town of Fanø Bad to Sønderho. There is a bus line going from Nordby to Sønderho. In the summer cars drive on the beach all the way to the shore.
Cycle paths on the island run along the main roads, and all other roads are safe to bike.
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The beach, the town of Nordby, the town of Sønderho.
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Griffin to get second opinion on elbow
HOUSTON -- A's right-hander A.J. Griffin, sidelined by a flexor strain for nearly six weeks, will get a second opinion on his pitching elbow in Houston next week.
The A's hoped rest would be the cure for Griffin's ongoing discomfort, which he first felt in the later stages of last season, but it was still there when he attempted to begin a throwing program this week.
"He's throwing a little bit and not feeling much better," manager Bob Melvin said Thursday.
Now there's concern that the issue, once believed to simply be a bout of tendinitis, could lead to surgery.
Griffin will meet with Houston-based Dr. Thomas Mehlhoff on Tuesday to decide if that's necessary. Mehlhoff performed Tommy John surgery on A's reliever Fernando Rodriguez on March 27, 2013, and Rodriguez is nearing the end of what's been a very successful rehab process.
Griffin, 26, was 14-10 with a 3.83 ERA in 32 starts in his first full season in the Majors last year, compiling a team-best 200 innings. But he was left off the American League Division Series roster because of elbow issues, which never went away. They only worsened with each start in Spring Training, and the A's opted to send him for tests with Dr. Doug Freedberg, who suggested Griffin undergo platelet-rich plasma therapy.
Griffin, penciled in as the club's No. 4 starter entering spring, did just that and was initially expected to return to the rotation in late May or early June -- an encouraging prognosis for a team that knew it would already be without righty Jarrod Parker, who succumbed to his second Tommy John surgery in late March.
Suddenly, Griffin could be facing the same fate, though the A's remain equipped with an enviable rotation that entered the day with an AL-best 2.80 ERA.