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Officers begin to mourn the loss of fallen deputy
"It's hard when you lose a brother like that."
A day after Sebastian County Deputy Terry Johnson's fatal accident, close friends and family are beginning to mourn his death.
In southern Sebastian County, police departments and the sheriff's deputies work very closely.
They all patrol on the same radio frequency and back each other up on high priority calls.
"It's hard when you lose a brother like that. You know, especially someone like Terry," said Greenwood Police Sgt. Eric Pippin.
The sheriff said Cpl. Johnson was an outstanding member of his team.
"The way he treated people-- He treated people with courtesy, kindness, he was fair. Gentle giant," said Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck.
That same sentiment is felt all around the entire law enforcement community.
"He always made everybody feel comfortable when he'd back you up. He had a genuine care about everybody involved. He wanted the best outcome possible for everybody. He was just a really good guy and cared about everybody," said Pippin.
"We will grieve and we will take care of each other and we will move forward and continue with our mission," said Hollenbeck.
An Arkansas fatal crash report said the corporal wasn't wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident.
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PROSPECTIVE secondary school pupils are being urged to go along to an open day at the Deanes School with staff keen to remind families it is still in business.
Despite the Thundersley school being threatened with closure, its staff remain determined to keep it running and are holding the open day tonight for youngsters to see what it is like for themselves.
Visitors will be able to quiz teachers and current pupils on what to expect at the school, take a tour of the building and see demonstrations and performances as well as find out more about what subjects they offer.
Staff will also be on hand to answer any questions or concerns about Essex County Council's consultation process.
The event will take place from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at the school, in Daws Heath Road.
For more information, visit www.deanesschool.co.uk

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Essential Film Performances - 2010 Edition Part Two
PopMatters follows up last year's hugely popular 100 Essential Female and Male Performances feature with 50 additions to the essentials list. We'll unveil a batch each day this week alongside an exclusive interview with one of the actresses on that day's list.
Naturally, after last year's 100 Essential Female and Male Performances lists, we felt the need to further explore the performances by those great male and female actors that did not initially make our epic lists. Whether through the helpful suggestions in the comments section, grueling grad genre studies or just good old-fashioned movie watching, I have been made aware of some truly great performances over the past year that I think deserve a similar treatment, deserve to have the spotlight shined on them.
Though our initial lists of 100 were divided into "Male" and "Female", further updates will merge the gender barriers for equality's sake, queuing the honorees in alphabetical order, 25 men, 25 women. Some of the people on the list already transgress the boundaries of what is male and what is female: to categorize a performance like Volker Spengler as Elvira in Rainer Werner Fassbiner's In a Year of 13 Moons by solely by gender makes little sense. In addition to taking the gender division out of list for this round, we are keeping the categories from the first list (Life Support, The Dark Side, Classics You Should Have Seen By Now, From Page to Screen and Under the Radar), though we are no longer ordering our lists bycategory.
Life Support
Robert Downey Jr.
Less Than Zero
(Marek Kanievska, 1987)
In written form, Less Than Zero is a thing of brusque cruelty. Its cinematic counterpart is icier, but its frenzied sentimentality is maybe a little more human. The book's characters are faceless blurs, captured in stark, clear, English. Their screen personae, however, are clearly frail and fractured. The film depicts real youth with unreal privilege. It's a neon flood of gauche fashion and loud music, almost unbearably rooted to its time. However, it continues to be relevant: it's visually startling and undercut with trauma. The story deals with the tension between extreme and grave events and the null interior lives to whom these events happen. This performance by Downey Jr., as the troubled Julian, succeeds because he captures how important these events seem to be to young lives. He's sometimes zany, juvenile, jovial, but he's set in a deep gloom. The film tracks Julian's descent from grinning boyhood into gurning, sweating, addiction and prostitution until his redemption in death.
In the film's opening scene, at his high school graduation, he's all charm: a nostalgic smile at his father, a genial, audacious, kiss on Clay's mother's cheek. However, the change in Julian is evident in Clay's flashbacks, where he is brasher, garrulously-clad, talking about "high IQ pussy". By his appearance at the 'Fuckmas' party, he's volatile and nervous and his eyes are wider, wilder. Downey Jr. punctuates Julian's terrible scenario with sincere gestures of dented worry, mirroring his own addiction. A tragic success.
Max Feldman
From Page to Screen
Gloria Grahame
Human Desire
(Fritz Lang, 1954)
The key to Grahame's performance in Lang's Human Desire, and really, to the film itself, resides in her ability to keep us just on the edge of sympathy for her mysterious, possibly victimized, possibly devious housewife Vicki Buckley all while letting on that we, much like all of the men unfortunate enough to cross paths with her, should never quite trust her. When we see Glenn Ford's characteristically decent Korean War veteran Jeff Warren becoming ensnared in her trap, its downright tragic -- the degree that she is even a little bit responsible for the murder of a man from her past at the hands of her loutish husband Carl (Broderick Crawford) is debatable, but it is certain that no good can come from Ford's involvement in the Buckley's twisted, abusive back-and-forth deceptions. It is the kind of quintessential femme fatale character that Grahame frequently excelled at, having collaborated with both Lang and Ford a year earlier on the more popular The Big Heat, that brooding mix of vulnerability, sultriness and danger that is every bit as indispensable to the mood and texture of film noir as fedoras, seedy back alleys and black and white. "I can't tell anymore whether you're lying or not, and I don't care", Ford eventually snaps at her after the umpteenth twist, though the real truth is that he remains as helplessly fascinated by her as ever. And so do we.''
Jer Fairall
From Page to Screen
Pam Grier
Jackie Brown
(Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
Long-synonymous with mid-'70s blaxploitation cinema, Grier returned to the big screen with a true bang that befitted her legend in 1997, playing the title role in Tarantino's Jackie Brown. Far more nuanced than in her Foxy Brown films, Grier's performance as a struggling stewardess who sees an opportunity to change her fortune with a risky double-cross surprised her fan base and critics alike (and earned her Golden Globe and Screen Actor's Guild nominations). Beneath it's grit-crime exterior, Jackie Brown isn't an exploitation film at all; rather a lovingly-detailed homage and a sweet, unconsummated love story between kindred spirits Jackie and her bail-bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster), both of whom are equally world-weary and world-wise.
The ease with which Grier switches gears between emotional vulnerability in her scenes with Forster and poker-faced bravado during interrogations with cops and gangsters alike is often as subtle as the raise of an eyebrow. Under the direction of a notably-restrained Tarantino, the combination of cool as ice Grier's brick house swagger and her plaintive desperation to escape a dead-end fate make this a complex character study of a struggling, aging black woman who has been dealt a few unlucky breaks. The resourceful Jackie both outsmarts the bad guys and outmaneuvers her own presumably presupposed destiny. To play a woman with such depth and reserve, who better to ask than one of the most under appreciated actresses of her generation as Grier? No one else could have been such a perfect Jackie.
Daynah Burnett
The Classics You Should Have Seen by Now
Gene Hackman
The Conversation
(Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Harry Caul is a man less concerned with the answers to uneasy questions than the questions themselves. He is a well-regarded surveillance specialist; a self-employed spy who builds his own equipment and attracts high profile clients who will pay top dollar for his services. He claims not to care about the inner feelings of others, yet goes to great lengths to keep anyone from gleaning his personal thoughts. As such, he is a human coil of simmering tension, all nervous energy and restraint. It seems as though an urgent dialogue is endlessly unspooling in his mind. Or, he has several urgent dialogues simultaneously distracting him. Or, he is ceaselessly trying to suppress these urgent, distracting dialogues. That he is unsuccessful is obvious: his discomfort around others reveals the obsessions and idealizations simmering deeply beneath his austere facade. Ultimately, Hackman exposes a man who struggles so fervently to avoid telling anyone anything he inexorably shows everyone everything.
"I don't have anything personal, nothing of value," Caul insists at one point, and we know he means it. Or, we understand he thinks he means it. Or we realize, by the end, that he very much wants to mean it. The comprehension that he is involved in an event that might have appalling consequences unnerves him; the realization that he abetted people he would not knowingly have worked for devastates him. He trusts no one and thinks the worst of people, which is his personal tragedy. The larger tragedy is that on the few occasions he lets his guard down, or trusted his own instincts, he is proven spectacularly wrong for having done so.
In the closing scene, Caul plays his saxophone amidst the wreckage of his apartment, which he has ransacked to find a hidden microphone. Hackman, that most expressive and gregarious of actors, might achieve his finest moment portraying a lonely man's quiet disintegration. All of his (apparently dispensable) possessions destroyed, he must finally face the music -- while the sound of an unaccompanied horn cries out his sad song.
Sean Murphy
Life Support
Philip Baker Hall
(Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Proving that his elegantly restrained leading man turn in PTA's Hard Eight three years before was no fluke, consummate character actor Hall once again breathes life into an ostensibly stoic, quiet character under the direction of Anderson in Magnolia. As Jimmy Gator, Hall plays a beloved host of the long-running game show "What Do Kids Know?" as he reels from a diagnosis of terminal bone cancer. With two months to live, he endeavors to reconnect with his estranged daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she accused him of molesting her as a child. Hall's performance simply embodies denial-laced regret: his posture slumped, his eyes glassy, and even the bags under his eyes seem darker and heavy with guilt, yet all the while his face betrays nothing.
As he suffers a alcohol-fueled breakdown during a live taping of his show, cameras rolling and audience watching, a moment that could have been sweaty, neurotic melodrama instead turns sympathetic, human. As he stammers through his cue-cards of questions and answers, his unwillingness to face what kids do know literally looms overhead. Ultimately, Hall plays Jimmy as a man at complete odds with himself, choosing self-delusion rather than to face his shameful past. Clinging to ignorance, he protests, all velvety-voiced to his wife, "I don't know what I've done." If only for a moment, Baker Hall makes you believe it as Jimmy Gator only wishes he could.
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I recall very rough memories about a TV show where a man could transform into animals, which you might help me identify. I watched it a long time ago and it should be a US-show from the 80s or very early 90s.
I don't remember why he did that or why he could do it, I only remember him being able to morph into certain animals, a puma and a hawk, I think. I have a feeling he was some kind of doctor, maybe a psychiatrist. And regarding his looks I remember him looking similar to the faceman from the A-team, at least his haircut (well, who didn't have such a haircut at that time?).


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While the improvements to Mac OS X Leopard desktop are said to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, the enhancements to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server are impressive and include features ordinarily reserved for large enterprises.
Leopard Server, which is expected to ship Friday, is the networking component of Mac OS X Leopard. It uses a 64-bit Unix kernel and ships with a new version of Open Directory, which supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol proxy services, authorization across domains and RADIUS authentication, among other features.
Leopard Server uses the same kernel as Mac OS X Leopard desktop. Because it is 64-bit enabled it has access to the same amounts of memory as Intel 64-bit processors.
Leopard can also be integrated with Microsoft's Active Directory and includes clustering, e-mail and calendaring servers.
The calendar server, which is licensed on a per server basis, has been aptly called Darwin -- it lets users share their calendars with other users across the organization. Calendars are stored in a central location and synchronized between user desktops. The Darwin Calendar Server uses the CalDAV protocol, which allows access to calendar events via WebDAV, and thus supports Microsoft Outlook and Leopard's iCal. It also includes a Podcast Producer, which allows the encoding, publishing and distribution of podcasts, and a Wiki server, which allows users to collaborate with other users and build and edit wiki pages.
For developers, Leopard Servers also supports the Web application framework Ruby of Rails and ships with Mongrel, a lightweight HTTP library and Web server.
The Leopard Server is also expected to ship with a new wizard called the Server Assistant, which simplifies configuration and setup. A new Server Preferences program makes it easy to create users and groups, configure firewalls and monitor utilization.
From a storage standpoint, Leopard supports the Unix/Linux Network File System and clustering with the Apple Xsan array.
Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard is US$499 for a 10-client license and US$999 for an unlimited client edition. It is included with Apple's Xserve server at no additional charge.


text: Toyota Announces TRD Pro Series at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show February 6, 2014 10:00 AM MEDIA INFORMATION Contact: Mark Bilek Director of Communications and Technology Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6082 Cell: (847) 652-0632 Email: email@example.com Contact: Jennifer Morand Senior Public Relations and Social Media Manager Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6084 Cell: (630) 391-1986 Email: email@example.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO (February 6, 2014) – Toyota announced the Toyota Racing Development (TRD) Pro Series during the Media Preview of the 2014 Chicago Auto Show. The latest chapter in the TRD Pro Series includes the Toyota Tundra, Tacoma and 4Runner. All three are designed with enthusiasts and off-roaders in mind. "We were challenged us to create something exciting. We want to talk about fun; these [vehicles] are the ultimate in Toyota off-road excitement," said Jack Hollis, vice president of Toyota Marketing. "The TRD Pro Series is the most recent chapter to be added to the series since 1998." The 2014 Toyota TRD Pro Series features a rugged exterior, redesigned shocks, rear wheel reservoirs, durable aluminum skid plate, dual exhaust and an iconic front grill. The vehicles are also designed with premium interior and new detailed styling. The TRD Pro Series of all three vehicles will be available in classic black, super white and the new inferno orange color. The TRD Pro Series is expected to go on sale in the fall of 2014. While it is too early to announce pricing, all three vehicles will have impressive capabilities and will be customizable to fit the needs and budget of consumers. Also announced today was the Super Off Road™: TRD Pro Edition Presented by Toyota, an app designed to simulate what it would be like to drive one of these vehicles. To watch complete coverage of the 2014 Chicago Auto Show Media Preview press conferences, please visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chicago-auto-show-2011. The manufacturer press conferences are also available at www.youtube.com/chicagoautoshow. For more information about the Chicago Auto Show, please visit www.chicagoautoshow.com. ### About the Chicago Auto Show The Chicago Auto Show is the largest on the continent, spanning more than 1 million square feet of production, concept, and exotic vehicle exhibit space. In addition to hosting multiple world and North American vehicle debuts, the Chicago Auto Show's First Look for Charity raises more than $2 million annually for 18 worthy Chicago organizations in a single night. The 2014 public show will be February 8-17. For more information, visit ChicagoAutoShow.com or Facebook.com/ChicagoAutoShow. Media can register for the Chicago Auto Show Media Preview at chicagoautoshow.com/media/. About The Chicago Automobile Trade Association Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is the nation's oldest and largest metropolitan dealer organization. It is comprised of more than 400 franchised new-car dealers and an additional 150 allied members. The group's dealer members employ nearly 20,000 people in the metropolitan area. The association has produced the Chicago Auto Show since 1935. For more information, visit CATA.info. Back to News


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ADDENDUM: Two Filipinos will be fighting in another Martial Combat event tomorrow, August 19, 2010 in Singapore. It will be Ole 'Iron Fist' Laursen versus Nicolas Leconte of the USA in the 70kg Division, and then Sabah 'Persian Warrior' Fadai against Doo Jae Jung 'Dragonball' of South Korea.
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It was yet another year with new surroundings for Dave Darland in 2013. "The People's Champ," as he has become affectionately known, came off a six-win runner-up season with Jeff Walker Racing in 2012 and had to find a new home.
That came in the form of Phillips Motorsports, with owners Steve & Carla Phillips still looking for their first USAC win. After nearly delivering that win in the first race of the season in Ocala, Florida after a frenzied battle with Bryan Clauson, the collaboration celebrated in victory lane at Bloomington (IN) Speedway's "Larry Rice Classic" in May with their first victory.
They picked up steam as the season progressed, trading blows with Clauson and his Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing team as the championship hung in the balance. Although Darland and the #71P fell short of the title, they picked up six more wins, including some of the biggest on the schedule in the Kokomo (IN) "Sprint Car Smackdown" and the year-ending "Oval Nationals" in Perris, California.
"It was an incredible yearthat makes us look back and say 'Wow, did we really do that?' Our goal at the start of the year was to win a race and keep ourselves in the top-10. To win like that and take such big events, it was just a lot of fun. We better enjoy this, because it's hard to have a season like that and who knows if it will happen again," Steve Phillips said.
Not only did the combination finish as the AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship runner-up, both sides received other accolades. Steve Phillips garnered the "Crew Chief of the Year" award while Darland was named the first winner of the "Jason Leffler Award," an honor bestowed on the Lincoln, Indiana native for his appreciation of the sport's history and his representation of the sport, much in the same way as Leffler.
"Jason was a great race car driver and a great person, so it was really meaningful to be the first recipient of that award. I enjoy open-wheel racing and try to do the best I can. He was younger than me, but we grew up together in a way, racing on the same teams and whatnot. It feels good to have so many friends and fans and have people think of me like that," Darland said, adding, "Last year was a lot of fun and a great accomplishment for us to do so well. Nobody expected that, probably not even us. It's rewarding to have a season like that with our little team."
Seven wins in 2013 have elevated Darland into rarified air, now sitting second all-time in National Sprint Car wins. The 47-year-old is just five behind leader Tom Bigelow, and has leapt two ahead of Tracy Hines as the two vie for the top of the charts. Darland also looks to make 2014 the 22nd consecutive year with a USAC National win, which would break a tie with A.J. Foyt and Mel Kenyon for the longest streak all-time.
"That's never been the kind of thing I dwell on, but it's cool to hear things like that when people talk about it. I've had a lot of great teams like the Phillips family that have helped me along the way. I'm looking forward to racing with them again and trying to win some more. We have a lot of fun and hopefully we can have some of the good luck we had last year," Darland said.
Phillips Motorsports navigated last season's schedule despite a lack of major sponsorship, and they continue to seek backing for the upcoming season. Steve Stroud of Racer's Advantage Store in Phoenix returns to assist the team, as well as Frank Daigh, Surf-N-Sprint, Jockish Flowers, Ealey Trucking, BT Miller Farms, Maaco of Lafayette Road, Fatheadz Eyewear, Pallet Builders, Lucas Oil, Super Shox, Greene's Truck & Auto, and Rod End Supply. They continue to use DRC Chassis and Foxco Engines.
"There were so many good things that happened to us last year – I never dreamed of winning "Crew Chief of the Year" and we finished second and won big races – the good thing is we left something on the table that we want. Now we can try harder to go after the championship this season. We have more drive than ever. There are lofty goals there, and we still just need to line up the funding to get us to the end. Carla and Brenda (Darland's wife), especially, have worked really hard at that, and we just have to come up with some more help," Steve Phillips said.
After a practice night on February 19th, the AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship runs three consecutive nights at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Florida February 20-21-22. Advance tickets are available at BubbaRacewayPark.com and additional information concerning the event will be forthcoming at USACracing.com.


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ElcomSoft: Nvidia Tesla K20 Beats a Dual GPU Configuration in Password Cracking
When Nvidia announced the 7+ billion transistor part codenamed GK110 as the chip behind the Tesla K20 and upcoming high-end Quadro and GeForce boards, a lot of questions were asked just how much compute power was taken out of GK104 chips, which now power the majority of Nvidia's lineup (GeForce GTX 660 Ti/670/680/690, Quadro K3000/K4000/K5000, Tesla K10).
Thanks to ElcomSoft, we now know the answer to that question. The GK110 chip is available as Tesla K20 (2496-core) and K20X (2688-cores) with either 5 or 6GB GDDR5 memory connected to the 320-bit or 384-bit bus. The well-known security firm just updated its applications with support for Nvidia Tesla K20 and achieved quite the interesting results. The updated software in question is the Advanced Office Password Recovery and Distributed Password Recovery, well-known applications to security forces around the world. The company also makes that software available to private individuals and business organizations, which is a change from few years ago, when practically the only way to get a hold of this software was wearing a badge.
According to ElcomSoft, "Advanced Office Password Recovery removes document restrictions and recovers passwords protecting Microsoft Office documents", while "Distributed Password Recovery can quickly break a wide range of passwords on multiple workstations with near zero scalability overhead."
The company compared the Tesla K20 5GB to the dual-GK104 board, the GeForce GTX 690 4GB, and discovered that 2496 cores inside the K20 were more than a match for 3072 cores on the GTX 690, even though those cores were clocked much higher than ones on the K20.
According to the slide above, you can see that going with the K20 instead of GTX 690 yields a 50% performance improvement over the dual-GPU configuration. Truth to be told, the difference in price is much higher but if you need rock solid performance on day-by-day basis, it is something you need to consider.
If we look at Wireless Security Auditor, ElcomSoft's most popular tool the situation changes slightly, as a single K20 delivers 85,000 passwords per second, compared to the 65,000 on the GTX 690. Then again, Nvidia still lags behind AMD, as the three year old Radeon HD 5970 handles 103,000 passwords per second, and HD 6990 increased that to 129,000. In that aspect, not even the K20 can reach performance achieved by a single consumer AMD card. This is also the reason why a sea of secy agencies went forward and acquired AMD Radeon HD 5990 and HD 6990 cards, instead of going professional with the Tesla and FirePro cards. AMD now has a dual-GPU card for professionals and we were told the results blew the competition out of the water and are one of major reasons why AMD never released the consumer version of the card.
Original Author: Theo Valich
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The Apple Tree Blossoms in the Fall - a New Read for Christmas
17 Dec, 2012, 07:00 GMT
NEW YORK, December 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- stories of a young Armenian woman and her journey through life
- unique insights into Iran, Islam and Armenian culture
- a memoir, a history lesson, a love story
Author Armineh Ohanian grew up as a young Armenian woman in Iran. Now she draws on her experiences in a new novel, The Apple Tree Blossoms in the Fall, which follows the story of Carineh who confronts a series of struggles taking her from Iran to Europe and to the US.
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As she faces the upheaval of leaving her homeland and the many trials of marriage, Carineh discovers that impossible situations can resolve themselves in the most unexpected of ways: including apple trees that miraculously blossom out of season to provide food for her starving family.
Carineh's journey begins as she spends her first eleven years in a small, strict Islamic town in Iran where her father runs his thriving export business in a busy bazaar and entertains guests extensively, including a young mullah called Khomeini. It moves swiftly through short interconnected episodes spiced by the unfolding events of the night when Carineh finds her one true love.
As life unfurls, Carineh discovers that husband Caro has deceived her about his true identity; her family tumbles from comfort to poverty when her Father dies following baptism in freezing Hamadan waters; her reluctance to wear the veil convinces her to leave Iran at the onset of the Islamic revolution, and, as a young mother she and her two teenage children desperately seek to board the last Pan Am flight out of Tehran.
With resilience and humor, Carineh travels the four corners of the world with her husband and children, finally finding herself settled on the shores of Westhampton Beach, New York. Each episode is engagingly narrated with warm affection in rich, Armenian storytelling tradition.
Comments Armineh Ohanian, "For some reason, writing this book was much harder than writing Nine Years to Freedom. Probably, because the theme was about the life experiences of an Armenian woman like myself. However, I enjoyed the work, it reminded me of my own life back in Iran, both as a child and a young girl. At some point during my writing, I laughed like mad, and I cried bitterly while composing certain other chapters. I am happy that the book is already appealing to women internationally."
Armineh Ohanian will be participating in Oxfam's International Women's Day on March 8, 2013, reading extracts from her novel at the invitation of Oxford University.
Extract: Shattered Hopes...
To me, Caro was perfect and the best fiancé one could ask for. I found him to be gallant, charming, handsome, sexy, adventurous, outspoken, open-minded, and fun. Like me, he loved music and going to cinemas and parties. What's more, he accepted my family as his own because he had no brothers or sisters. Before meeting me, he would spend most of his time at the movies or at his Armenian and Russian friends' houses. Every day he came directly to our house after work. Now and then he even slept at our place during Iranian weekends, which began on Thursday afternoons and ended on Friday nights.
Unfortunately, my happiness and hopes tumbled down the day after our engagement party...
Reviewers have commented:
"This true story is recounted through the eyes of a truly international woman. She opened my heart and mind to the culture and geography of a part of the world that dominates our politics today. It broadens its scope as this courageous and charming woman lives her life as a mother, wife and working woman"
"Armineh brings a lovely, graphic and rather innocent description of life in a part of the world that is now totally different"
"Her story-telling is wonderfully interwoven with acute observations and an endearing sense of humour throughout"
Published by Lazy Day Publishing, The AppleTree Blossoms in the Fall is available from Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/AppleTreeKindle; http://tinyurl.com/AppleTreePaperback . For a complimentary taste of the novel, please click here for Chapters 25 and 35 http://tinyurl.com/AppleTreePreview.
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Born in Iran, from Armenian origin, Armineh Ohanian has lived in Europe and the United States since 1962. She published her first storybook for children in Tehran at the age of fifteen. In August 21, 2012, Armineh published her first novel "Dreaming of America", now known as "Nine Years to Freedom". She has since published two volumes of children's story books from her "The Talking Animals" series. Recently, she has completed volume three - co-authored with her thirteen year‐old grandson, Alec Ohanian. She is now busy writing a memoir called "Letters from Abu Dhabi." Armineh lives in Westhampton with her husband and three cats - her writing companions. She is passionate about writing, reading novels and playing tennis.
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A warning letterwritten by the Food & Drug Administration last week to ten companies that produce pre-workout supplements with the ingredient dimethylamyamine (DMAA) has sent shockwaves through the industry, not only for the producers of the products but to consumers who have taken them.
The FDA said in the letter that the companies had failed to demonstrate that DMAA was safe and, perhaps more significantly, failed to even prove that DMAA was in fact a dietary supplement. The FDA has given the companies 15 days to answer the organization's questions about the ingredient.
But the move has already prompted one major retailer, Amazon, to stop carrying the DMAA products.
And shares of the top vendors that market and sell products with DMAA in it, including OxyElite Pro, Jack3d (pronounced "Jacked"), Muscle Warfare Napalm and Hemo Rage Black, dropped on Monday. Shares of GNC closed down 4.7 percent, while Vitamin Shoppe fell 3.7 percent as investors speculated on the potential damage should products with the ingredient be pulled from the market entirely.
In order for that to happen, the FDA doesn't even have to prove that DMAA is unsafe. All it has to prove is that DMAA isn't derived from a plant, mineral, vitamin or herb. That would mean that DMAA in fact is not defined as a dietary supplement and therefore, as a drug, needs pre-market approval by the FDA.