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"A Vision in white." Central to the project Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse, based in Potsdam, was the demand of creating places that reflect the identity and character of the Savings Bank. The form and color of all AV components – from the desktop connection panel, the loudspeaker to the monitor in the table – all had to be subordinated to this design principle.
The most representative example is the room for the board of directors: The unique, large and light table was created by the architecture & design office KINZO, Berlin. It unobtrusively houses all the necessary media technology components – including the all-white 22x TECNIS monitors. Say: all media technology, such as monitor, microphone system, speakers, conference system, controller, connections (HDMI, USB Charger, Schuko, etc.) cable management, are built exclusively in the table system – with the exception of 98 "displays on the wall.
At the same time high-quality and representative, the table offers space for up to 40 people and ensures easy handling and user-friendliness for the perfect support of presentation and discussion of the participants. The special thanks goes to all those involved in planning and execution: Designfunktion, Berlin; Thierische Consult, Vienna; PIK, Berlin.


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I know we're all broken up about Hugh Laurie dropping out of "Robocop" but fear not my friends because Mr. Mom himself Michael Keaton has picked up the ball and run with it. He'll play Raymond Sellars, the main thorn in the side of our lovable half man half robot half cop. Do the math. It's going to be awesome.
"Oldboy" director and all around cuddly bear Park Chan-Wook has decided to keep his feet in the US and direct the a new Western titled "The Brigands of Rattleborge". The film tells the story of a sheriff and a doctor who set out to stop a band of robbers who terrorize a small town. Kind of sounds like "Back To the Future 3" but without the time travel. Or the funny parts. Or ZZ Top.
Wasn't there a "Wrong Turn" movie that just came out last week? I could have sworn. Well even if there was it looks like "Wrong Turn 5: Bloodbath" will hit the DVD shelves on October 23rd. I'm not going to bother talking about the plot for the film. People take a wrong turn and then they die. That's all you really need to know.
Yesterday we talked about how Sam-Raimi shot down a planned "Evil Dead" sequel titled "Evil Dead 4: Consequences", ruining the day for the folks over at Award Pictures. Well today we find out there's even more peepee in their Wheaties because apparently the folks over at Fox have also shut down their plans for a sequel to the 1986 John Carpenter classic "Big Trouble in Little China" tentatively titled "More Trouble In Little China". This has me a little worried about my plan to make "The Even Greater Outdoors".
Skin a cat, wear the tale, go to jail. At least in Arizona. Hippies.
If there's one thing I know about bears it's that they hate having their picture taken. They're like the Amish with giant teeth. This guy in Alaska knows this fun fact now too because after he snapped off some photos the bear he was getting all flashy with attacked and killed him. Well I guess he doesn't know the fact anymore, cause you know he's all dead. But for about 15 seconds he was well aware.

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Description of an Amtrak Assistant Conductor
Amtrak trains carry passengers on 21,000 miles of tracks crisscrossing the country through 46 states and the District of Columbia. Over 900,000 commuters also rely on Amtrak daily, according to the Amtrak website. Amtrak employs assistant conductors to aid conductors in keeping the lines moving smoothly.
Safety Duties
An Amtrak assistant conductor's main job duty is to assure that passengers and crew arrive safely at their destinations. Essentially, the assistant conductor position is a training role, as he performs all the same duties as the conductor, just under the supervision of a conductor. Amtrak expects its assistant conductors to move into a conductor role after a year working as an assistant, according to the Amtrak career website. The assistant conductor learns and applies all industry and government safety regulations and must follow Amtrak's protocols and procedures.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Before the shift starts, the assistant conductor goes over the track conditions and special instructions for that day's trips. He also picks up the traffic warrants, which are clearance documents that allow the train to travel on that particular track. The assistant conductor meets with the train engineer to make sure there are no mechanical problems and then welcomes passengers onto the train, taking their tickets.
Work Environment and Skills Needed
Skills important for an Amtrak assistant conductor include attention to detail and excellent communication skills to interact with passengers and crew members. Physical skills needed to perform the job duties of assistant conductor include hand-eye coordination, sense of balance, dexterity and being in good physical shape. An Amtrak assistant conductor works long hours and may be on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The job requires working evenings, weekends and holidays, as well as being away from home for weeks at a time.
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Restaurant news that doesn't deal with openings and closings often has a dark tone. Either a chef is cryptically leaving their position or everyone is suing each other or staff is staging mass walkouts. Today, though, there's a more touching story, courtesy of KHOU in Houston.
Brittany Mathis, a waitress at Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, has a brain tumor. The first sign Mathis had that anything was wrong the appearance of a rash on her leg. Doctors found evidence of clotting and ordered CAT and MRI scans, at which point they discovered the mass on her brain.
Sadly it isn't the first time the Mathis family has had to deal with these issues. When Brittany's dad died unexpectedly in 2000 the cause of death was identified as a brain tumor that no one knew about. Today, the medical bills are too much for the 19-year-old to handle. She is uninsured and can't even afford tests to see if the tumor is malignant or benign.
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Which is why Michael De Beyer, the owner of Kaiserhof, is selling his 6000-square-foot German restaurant. "Here's a family, they really work hard they have a lot of stuff against them in the past and they are not holding their hand open they didn't even ask anybody for help," De Beyer told KHOU.
De Beyer estimates that the restaurant is worth around $2 million. He's been running Kaiserhof for the past 17 years and was looking to sell it to spend more time with his own family.
Said Mathis: "I really think it's an amazing blessing and can't thank him enough and his family. Never thought that anybody would do that and he did and it makes me feel really good."


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These Guys are in the Sprint Cup Chase for a ReasonOctober 13, 2009
A buddy of mine and I have a fantasy league. It's just the two of us (actually, there's a third, but he's in it as a joke) and it's about as simple it can be– we just pick a driver, and at the end of the day, we get as many points as that driver did. We see where in the Sprint Cup series standings we would be with that many points.
After Atlanta, my driver, Ryan Newman, finished 8th, and I lost four spots in points. I lost four spots after a top-ten finish!
This is the nature of Sprint Cup racing this year.
Things are incredibly close– not necessarily because of any changes to the points system, but because drivers are all close.
Every week, most of the top ten drivers are Chase drivers. The reason Mark Martin, Jimmie Johnson, and Juan Pablo Montoya are so close is because they have yet to finish outside of the top-ten in the Chase.
You see, Jimmie Johnson has shown us in the past three Chase seasons that the key to winning is perfection. No one has been able to touch him because they haven't been as perfect.
Last season, Carl Edwards was seen as the only potential threat. They went to Talladega and Edwards made a drafting mistake that caused the "big one." It was his only blemish, but caused him to be less than perfect and give up the championship.
People talk about getting one "mulligan" in the Chase- one bad race. However, this is only true if everyone has a bad race. Last year, Jimmie had no mulligans and Carl had one (Kyle Busch wanted his entire Chase to be counted). I've already told you who won in the end.
But this is good!
The best team should win the Sprint Cup, and the best team is the one who has the least mistakes, if any mistakes at all.
I'm continually amazed by Johnson's Lowe's no. 48 team led by Chad Knaus. They tend to exemplify perfection– example: they changed their carburetor at Pocono without losing a lap. They practice and rehearse these things and when problems arise, they rise over them and end up on top.
This is why Superman wears Jimmie Johnson pajamas.
This year, all the teams have tried to emulate the Knausian model of perfection, especially during the chase. The only ones who have succeeded have been Martin and Montoya (though Vicker's crew gets props for changing a broken axle without losing a lap at Atlanta, something even Johnson's crew couldn't do).
This is why these guys are in the Chase– they have been perfect. This is why the Chase is so close. The team that wins the championship is the team that is the most perfect, or the team that is perfect.
Other NASCAR Notes
First, regarding the "phantom cautions" thrown this weekend at California.
Fans have been suspicious of NASCAR throwing fake cautions under the guise of debris simply to close up the field and reset things for years. Sunday was the first time one of the drivers, Kasey Kahne, has been as vocal about it on TV as he was.
Kasey's beef was that the field being bunched up caused a massive pile-up that ended his day. To introduce another common cliché, "cautions breed cautions."
Well, I've got news for you: cautions don't cause cautions; drivers cause cautions. How come no one wrecks like that on the start of the race? Because they're all being patient with each other. At the end of the race, every position matters, and drivers are more aggressive, but it's the drivers causing the cautions.
NASCAR has no responsibility as to what the drivers do on the track if the drivers are impatient and racing five wide three rows deep, someone's going to crash. Cautions don't cause cautions, drivers cause cautions.
But, in Kasey's defense, who knows what's really behind this caution.
Case in point:
I was at the Camping World Truck Series race at the Iowa Speedway, and it had been green for 80-some laps, and Mike Skinner was running away with it. Then, the caution comes out for "debris" on the front stretch.
My friend and I (the same friend with whom I have the fantasy league) watch the safety truck drive slowly down the front stretch and not seeing anything, drive back around the track slowly down the front stretch again, stopping in the middle to pick up what must have been an amoeba on the edge of the infield grass.
"It's a good thing they got that," I turned around and said. "I sure wouldn't want to be racing with that on the track."
Our conspiracy was that the safety truck put the debris there on the first trip around and picked it up on the second.
Who knows.
I do have to say though, with as much time, preparation, and fine-tuning that goes on with these cars and trucks and the detail of the pre-race checklist, I find it hard to believe things will just fall off the cars at the rate they seem to in the Sprint Cup Series.
Then again, I was watching truck qualifying from right up against the turn one infield fence at the Milwaukee Mile two years ago, when I saw a wrench fall off the back of Todd Bodine's truck. Now, that's debris I went up and told the NASCAR spotters.
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I thought it would be good fun to start a thread like this.
Find something that a member posted to be amusing or memorable ? Quote them here.
I'll get things started ...
PBP makes me a laugh a lot, he'd have a lot of good quotes.
Mine might be my Speed Bump fetish.
The only rule is that someone can't quote themselves or a non-member.
Anything else goes.
Whoever described F1 as automotive masturbation.
Haha, yah I definitely agree with dakian
"Pelt my ass with tangerines!"
Ok PBB just owns this thread.
"This looks like fun/death"
WTF is PBB?
PowerByBrower = PBB.
And this is a Brower
VW Thing Type 181, must be owned by a Brower.
I'm lost and calling the funny farm on all of you...
I totally own the Hall of Fame in my other forum.... hell yes!!!!
is the inside joke one in reference to Umberto?
CK that entire hall of fame is YOUR qoutes!!
hahahaha... think he meant "here"?
i think we can unpin this topic now.
Yeah you know the topic's gone downhill whenever I get a quote.
plugging time!!!
look at the last ~3 pages, hell look at it all!!!
Oh damn! My secret's out, I really do eat nutella plain with a spoon.
And, uh, Driv3r, I don't think those are Dieselstation posts. *wink*
that's exactly how dark windows SHOULD be tinted! so you can dig for gold in comfort!
Har har I got quoted. What are these forums coming to?
I said that!
I fixed it. I had to double quote.
I'm thinking of pinning this thread in Off Topic and renaming it to DS Forum Hall of Fame.
What do you guys think ?
Fine with me. Sounds like a good idea.
I like having my name in the title.
Fine. keke
Most viewed DS thread ever I think! Speaks for itself...
Oh, and his car. Shit, I don't think I've ever pissed my pants laughing that hard before....
Thanks for a double post, we still don't care.
That's not a quote, it doesn't count.
Ha, I got in!
Might want to put a little context with that one, Paulie.
Quote me dammit !
You need the rest of it Paulie!!
Why is this un-stickied??
the main contributor to the thread is AWOL.
Come back PBB...we miss yoooooooouuuuu
lol, the line is pretty funny
I forgot all about this thread...
I made it!!! Congrats to you too duke.
From Benny
"I don't think there's a market for a 230mph electric car. It's like writing a book about NASCAR."
-huge colin
i think this topic can be unpinned now.
i made it !
Referring to the street race thread:
Referring to Chinese manufacturer Chery, soon to be selling their vehicles in North America:
Referring to erotic Valentine's day chocolates:
I think paulie just loves the cock.
Yeah well I see a few knots in your board right now
hahahahahaha whoa.
(on the topic of getting his tongue pierced)
...heh. i got qouted. that's a first!
(on the topic of BAR_ZoNdA's pics of his girlfriend)
QUOTE (dondon @ Jun 3 2005, 10:43 PM)
My wife nagging me about the kitchen windows and fuk. Sleep?
No gonna go watch spice channel and wak off. May be do a crossword puzzle.
dondon's drunken rant post: http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=12309&st=0&#entry199687
^ Yay.. I got quoted. Thanks PHiX!
høgh said:
How did you do that, renningrad?
Funniest thing in a while:
wow! i was quoted twice! alllriiight.
Holy shit, I'm quoted!
^ You were Bizkit in a former life? News to me.
No, no, this one....
Dweezil mocking moe on his lack of pictures to back up his sighting claims...
I have never been quoted i must really suck
but i will learn to live with me.
Great, now he's quoted twice in the hall of fame.
Moe going pantless:
That's the only reason you made that thread, isn't it?
^ Nope. It's just a coincidence that the Confession thread is supplying a lot of good material for the Hall of Fame thread.
Liar!- Nonquoter!
After listening to Modest Mouse - Lounge
roflcakes, whats wrong with modest mouse?
Modest Mouse is worse than AIDS
On the topic of lines / tricks to score with chicks:
Paulie, you post way too much in this thread
Who posted in: DS Forum Hall of Fame
Poster Posts
White RSX 17
Mr b00st 12
clarkma5 9
Autovisie 5
Mellender17 5
DakianDelomast 4
BankieVR6 4
Cool . I got in .
From Moe's profile on an online dating site: http://www.meetmeinto.com/profile.asp?id=297092
Commenting on mogulmonster's new '05 Civic:
wait, so that's moe's girl? the world that i once knew has just been turned upside down.
no, he doesn't have a girl. that is one of his online 'buddies'. a.k.a. he's stalking her profile and/or she is a ficticious profile put on the site to securely hook folks who have just signed up... think about it. moe makes a profile, gets an email from this profile of a hot chick, he is definitely gonna pursue that, whether its just sending him back generic emails or not.
hahaha .. its like a 30yo guy hired to write "cutesie" love letters back to nerdy guys thinking they can get a date..
god damn. you guys are so lame.
ive been quoted 4 times in the course of like 2 weeks.
From the Babes Forum (thread featured babe pics from a Russian website):
^blame paulie. i didnt do it.
I nominate White RSX for the "DS Member with the most teenage angst" competition.
Erm? No? I haven't said anything angsty for ages, if at all really.
I just don't think that they're funny.
Judging by most of your posts, you're just a little too negative most of the time.
I used to be like that when I was younger, then I realized that it really serves no beneficial purpose to me.
I try to maintain a positive attitude most of the time now. Of course I get pissed on occasion but I don't let it overpower my good judgement. When I'm totally pissed off, I can't think rationally so I try to avoid getting myself into that situation.
Renesis is more negitive than I am. I honestly have no clue where you got any of that.
You guys are defecating in the sacred Hall of Fame.
In response to PHiX acknowledging that he eats pork and White RSX's reply insinuating that PHiX beats his meat as well:
[quote=McKhaos,Sep 13 2005, 04:40 PM] [quote=moe89,Sep 13 2005, 10:32 PM] [quote=midnightdorifto,Sep 13 2005, 04:15 PM] [quote=McKhaos,Sep 13 2005, 12:02 PM] [quote=moe89,Sep 13 2005, 09:48 PM] [quote=White RSX,Sep 13 2005, 03:05 PM] [quote=ZonDa,Sep 9 2005, 01:52 PM] [quote=BlackJack,Sep 9 2005, 09:49 PM] [quote=DZ302,Sep 9 2005, 05:47 PM] [quote=ZonDa,Sep 9 2005, 01:39 PM] [quote=dukenukem,Sep 9 2005, 09:37 PM] [quote=TrueSlideXL,Sep 9 2005, 04:28 PM] [quote=ZonDa,Sep 9 2005, 09:23 PM] [quote=midnightdorifto,Sep 7 2005, 03:02 AM] [quote=DZ302,Sep 6 2005, 06:40 PM] [quote=midnightdorifto,Sep 6 2005, 06:20 PM] [quote=DZ302,Sep 6 2005, 05:53 PM] [quote=porschedream,Sep 6 2005, 05:51 PM] [quote=DZ302,Sep 6 2005, 09:46 PM] [quote=porschedream,Sep 6 2005, 05:43 PM] [quote=DZ302,Sep 6 2005, 09:38 PM] [quote=porschedream,Sep 6 2005, 05:35 PM] Speaking of 1/4th mile this guy at a carshow i went to a few days ago said he saw a 69 Chevelle SS do 6 seconds in the 1/4th mile. I rightfully called BS on that because only dragstersare capable of doing that. Would it be possible for that car to pull that time?
yes it's possible, you idiot. top fuel dragsters run 4s, and there are plenty of streetable cars that run 6s. [/quote]
Wow, what the fuck crawled up your ass? [/quote]
well if you're gonna go around calling BS on everything when you obviously don't know what you are talking about, it's kind of stupid. [/quote]
I don't call BS on everything I see and hear but when I talk to some Joe Blow know it all at a carshow telling me how he saw a 69 Chevelle SS do 6 seconds, i find it very hard to believe unless I see it for myself, sure it's possible and it might even be true but thats the first thing he says to me when I walk up to his car "You like this one, that guy over at the circuit did 6 seconds quarter in one of these babies and I was there to see it for myself with my own eyes, he drives that thing like a maniac down the streets". And I don't think a car of that nature is street legal. [/quote]
yes it is likely BS, but to sit there and say "only dragsters can do that" is kind of ignorant, because i know by dragster you meant rail cars or funny cars. and that's simply not true. there are full steel bodied cars running in the 6 second range. [/quote]
Streetable? I'd bet you could count the number of street legal 6-second cars in the world on two hands. 8-second? Most definintely. But 6's are a bit more rare. [/quote]
i never said streetable. i have only seen two 6 second street cars that were actually driven around town and even for hour long drives. i'm simply talking about cars that still have the stock looking body. [/quote]
Then I concur 100%. [/quote]
quoted simply to see how big/small the quote box will go ^^ [/quote]
quit spamming [/quote]
seriously lets stop this, k? [/quote]
enough with the useless posts man [/quote]
yeah why cant we all just stop this shit huh? [/quote]
id also like to know that [/quote]
No. [/quote]
just because no one wants to do what i do [/quote]
Eeerrrr , something . [/quote]
Echo...echo...echo... [/quote]
but Admins have a one-up on mods though, right? [/quote]
CRAZY QUOTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/quote]
is this the largest quote-quotation on the face of the planet!
Quote war, love it!
maybe we should start another one of these?
^ Anyone who does will get a temporary suspension.
Stop this... now.
i know. i didnt mean to start another one. im just stating that i also agree with the temporary suspension thingy of what paulie said.
Heh, Paulie, why not jsut delete and generally clean up this entire thread?
BlackJack: Good man.
zOne: I like the comment about microwaving a hotpocket of whoop-ass.
Definately not quote worthy.
[Milhouse voice] My mom says I'm cool. [/Milhouse voice]
hahaha .. Jeremy Clarkson, you e-pimp you..
yeah i didnt think it was that funny either.
I found it quite hiliarious.
That's because you're Phix.
You laugh at things that aren't funny to normal people.
i'm pretty sure you would :-P
^ A cookie will be Fed Ex'ed to you.
Just for being picky, I retract my cookie offer.
Please stop polluting the hall of fame.
It sucks anyways.
Anyways, I vote RJ gets his avatar removed for originally being DZ's, and all of his posts from the Hall Of Fame be removed since they're worthless.
You never take anyone out of the HoF no matter what dude! NEVER!
The avatar, yea, I'm working on finding a good one. I just used this one as a qick-fix solution.
EDIT: There, I deleted my other posts.
nah, the hall of fame is mostly pretty crappy, particularly the most recent few pages...
That's because paulie keeps putting quotes up.
Easton in the Radical:
That is so calling for a smiley .... :Easton approves:
with all the gems of comedy i shell out, i finally get up on the HoF
it needs his face chopped in there.
In reponse to DZ saying he'd rather build up a DSM than a Skyline:
lol im just on fire lately.
I clicked on this thinking "great, now what has Paulie posted in his dumb thread?"
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Ryder assault accused appear in court
Two men charged with assaulting New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder were remanded on bail when they appeared in court today.cricket Updated: Apr 04, 2013, 13:17 IST
Two men charged with assaulting New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder were remanded on bail when they appeared in court on Thursday.
A 37-year-old man was charged with assault and a reckless disregard for Ryder's safety, while his nephew, aged 20, faced two charges of assault at Christchurch District Court.
Both were granted name suppression at their lawyer's request, though some New Zealand media outlets had previously named them. Police didn't oppose the continuation of bail and Judge Gary MacAskill remanded them to April 18.
The men's lawyer, Jonathan Eaton, said publication of the names or images of the men could jeopardize a fair trial. He said witness accounts already published by the media were "wildly inaccurate and misleading" and his case would hinge on "who is alleged to have done what."
Eaton said although police are not seeking anyone else in connection with the incident, their inquiries were continuing and the defense had not yet been able to study CCTV footage of the late-night incident outside a Christchurch bar.
He disputed media reports that Ryder suffered a fractured skull and a punctured lung in the assault and said Ryder had suffered concussion as result of falling to the ground after being punched once. The police summary of facts in the case described a fight and, a short time later, one punch.
Ryder was released from Christchurch hospital and returned to his home in Wellington on Wednesday, less than a week after an assault that initially left him with critical injuries and in an induced coma.
Police had previously told media that Ryder was involved in an altercation with two men outside a bar in the Christchurch suburb of Merivale and was assaulted a short time later after crossing the road to the carpark of a fast food restaurant. He suffered his injuries in the second incident.
Eaton said Ryder had shared drinks with the two men accused of assaulting him and the atmosphere had been "highly convivial" but that a dispute later arose.
Ryder had been socializing with members of his Wellington provincial team which had played a semifinal of New Zealand's domestic one-day competition. He was assaulted as he left the bar at about 12:30am on March 28.
The accused men turned themselves into police shortly afterwards. The older man was described in court documents as a builder and the young man as a carpet layer.
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The three Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia all received invitations to join the NATO alliance last week. They are also working toward joining the European Union in the next few years.
In the rich Lithuanian farming region of Marijampole, Jonas Kurtinaitis owns a pig farm, and also grows 130 hectares of beets, barley and wheat. By Lithuanian standards, this makes him a rather prosperous farmer. He was a solid supporter of NATO membership, but when it comes to membership in the European Union, he is worried.
Mr. Kurtinaitis says he doesn't understand why EU membership is such a high priority for the government. He says no one in the Marijampole believes life will improve if Lithuania joins the European Union.
Mr. Kurtinaitis and other farmers in the Baltics fear they won't be able to compete in a system they say protects farmers from big countries that have been in the European Union for a long time. He also fears ceding too much power to the European Union. He says choices about Lithuania and its economy should be made in Lithuania.
Lithuania's farmers are not the only ones with reservations about the European Union. In all three Baltic countries, many people are feeling apprehensive.
This past summer, the European Union surveyed people in candidate member countries to see how they felt about joining. Of the 13 candidate countries, most of them in Eastern or Central Europe, support in the three Baltic countries was the lowest.
Analysts say the survey shows Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, having so recently won their independence from the Soviet Union, were reluctant to cede it to the European Union.
The head of one of the leading polling companies in Latvia, Igars Freimanis, says less than half the people there support EU membership. "European Union is very complicated, and they request a lot of changes in our legislative system," he said. "And people are afraid that we are going to lose our independence."
That sentiment is shared in the smallest Baltic country, Estonia. One of the main critics of EU membership is lawyer and former politician Igor Grazin. He says, after being forced to be part of the Soviet Union for so many years, the idea of joining another kind of union does not have broad appeal. "We have been under Moscow for 50 years, why the hell do we have to go under Brussels? Whatever we get from the Brussels are stupid decisions, and it is the same planned economy," said Igor Grazin.
Mr. Grazin and other critics also say the Baltics have done amazingly well on their own, since they became independent a little more than a decade ago. Since their economic growth is already high, the critics say, there is no need to join the EU.
In response, proponents of EU membership say the Baltics already do a great deal of trade with EU countries. They argue the Baltics are better off inside the union, where they can hopefully influence decisions that affect them. The former foreign minister of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, pushed strongly for EU membership while in office. "Lying outside the European Union, but having your economy being completely dependent on exports to the European Union means that you, basically, have to follow all of the EU regulations anyway," he said.
Supporters of EU membership acknowledge that the union has a public relations problem. They say one of the biggest difficulties is that people simply don't understand the EU, don't understand why it's necessary, and so are against it. They say that for people in the Baltics, the case for joining NATO was much clearer.
As head of Estonia's European integration office, part of Henrik Hololei's job is to make it clear to his countrymen why EU membership is so important. Persuading people of the benefits of joining the European Union, he says, is much harder than making the case for NATO. "EU has so many goals and objects, and it's very difficult to be defined, compared to NATO, for example, where it is very easy, always, to cut it down to the military security and defense aspect," said Henrik Hololei.
Supporters of EU membership say they are trying to get out their message that EU membership is good, not bad for the Baltics. There has even been talk of changing how the word "union" is translated into local languages. So, for example, in Lithuania, they wouldn't be using the same word - sajunga - that in many people's minds is associated with the Soviet Union - not the European Union.
But on his Lithuanian farm, Jonas Kurtinaitis says the European Union by any name would be just as bad. He says if there were a referendum in Lithuania right now, he'd vote against membership.


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How The English "chemise" Evolved From French
When you think of a chemise you will often this of a classic smock type outfit that is worn underneath regular clothing to stop it from being damaged by oils and sweat emitted from the body throughout the day/evening. The chemise itself evolved from a mixture of French and Italian words.
The French word chemise stands for shirt but taking the word camisa from the Portuguese and mixing it with camicia from Italy the word chemise came to stand for much more than a shirt.
The chemise we know today slightly resembles the original shirts worn, however they are now made of more delicate materials such as satin and silk. They reveal a lot more than they originally did as women's lingerie became as sensual as practical. The modern day chemise is generally lose fitting, without sleeves and not fitted around the waist. The chemise traditionally doesn't have fastenings like other types of lingerie. It instead is stepped into or put over the head like a shirt without buttons. It's similar to the well-known 'babydoll' however the babydoll is usually a lot looser around the hips.
The first chemise which was created in the 1800s was not sleeveless. It had sleeves that came down to the elbows and was worn underneath corsets. It was first worn in Romania and known as a tunica and this is where the French inspiration is thought to have come from. Worn under the gowns of women men also wore a chemise under their clothing with their trousers and covered them up with robes.
The chemise was the only article of underwear worn by both men and women until the later part of the 18th century. Due to not having washing machines and other modern conveniences for drying clothing the chemise was the article of clothing that was most often washed as it was nearer to the skin than outerwear therefore became soiled a lot faster.
In the western world the chemise was worn not only as underwear but also on the outside as a lone standing outfit. It wasn't until the beginning of the 20th century that the chemise as underwear came back into fashion due to panties, slips, girdles and bras taking their place. The chemise worn by gentlemen became what we now know as the T shirt which some men still to this day wear as underwear. Through evolution the chemise also became the smock frock which labourers in England wore up until the 20th century. The name is still used to describe modern combat jackets in England, but in Belgium the term is used to describe the smoke vest.
Women of the house would usually create the chemise themselves at home from shapes cut from just one piece of cloth. This meant that very little of the cloth was wasted. The poorer women used rougher cloth to create theirs where as those more affluent could afford softer material including linen.
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The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 7.75 points, or 0.05 percent, at 14,848.24. It has not closed that high since June, 2015. (Reporting by Alastair Sharp; Editing by David Gregorio)
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World indoor 60m hurdles champion Nia Ali is returning to the heptathlon. It's a vow that Ali made after winning the 2011 NCAA 100m hurdles title during her last season at the University of Southern California.
Ali, 25, planned to focus on the 100m hurdles for her first post-collegiate season as her best channel to lure a steady sponsorship deal before going back to the heptathlon. Those plans are now on hold – at least until after the 2016 Olympics – after Ali's breakthrough over the barriers.
"That was the plan and as you can see it ended up being a little longer," Ali said with a laugh. "The heptathlon is always in the back of my mind. There is some unfinished business."
Validating world indoor title in IAAF Diamond League
Along with her world indoor triumph, success in the 2014 IAAF Diamond League is equally important. A strong showing will validate her victory in Sopot.
"World Championships are more of what you can do on this day," Ali said. "The Diamond League is more of a series of tests on different days. I want to be consistent and consistently faster."
Ali's outdoor season has been slowed by a hamstring injury in her right (lead leg) while warming up for her outdoor season opener at the Drake Relays in late April. Ali initially had a cramp in training in the weeks leading up to the competition.
"It turned out to be something bigger than I thought it was," said Ali. "I want to be 100 percent or close to 100 percent. I don't want it to be a reoccurring thing that keeps coming back."
She made her 2014 outdoor debut on Monday (2) in Bydgoszcz, but the whole experience was far from ideal. After travelling from LA to the east coast, she realised her passport was still at home and ended up arriving in Poland the night before the competition.
Cold weather and rain in Bydzgoszcz made for difficult hurdling conditions and the jetlagged Ali ended up crashing into a hurdle, bruising her heel in the process, and jogged over the line in fifth place in 13.76.
She is hoping that her IAAF Diamond League debut in Rome on Thursday (5) – where she will be up against world champion Brianna Rollins and Olympic champion Sally Pearson – will be an altogether better experience.
Despite not being able to toe the starting line at the Drake Relays, Ali watched intently as Kristi Castlin defeated Rollins to end the US record-holder's 19-race winning streak in the 100m hurdles which dated back to the 2012 US Olympic Trials final.
"To a lot of people, it came as a surprise," said Ali, a self-proclaimed student of the event who can rattle off the PBs of her competitors. "But if you have been following Kristi (Castlin) closely, she is in pretty good shape. I don't think it came as a surprise. The event is constantly evolving."
There has also been change for Ali during the indoor campaign.
She went from seven steps to eight to the first hurdle. Ali, who hadn't used an eight-step approach since high school, found herself running up on the first hurdle. So at the suggestion of 2004 Olympic champion Joanna Hayes, Ali pushed her blocks back so that she started nine inches behind the starting line.
"I thought this isn't going to work at first and a few times, I started winning races," said Ali. "I definitely got faster with eight steps and the rhythm and cadence of doing it correctly."
Winning combination with coach Ryan Wilson
It's also been a winning combination for Ali with 2013 US 110m hurdles champion and world silver medallist Ryan Wilson as her coach.
Last season, Ali lowered her PB in the 100m hurdles from 12.73 to 12.48 in her inaugural year coached by Wilson. During the indoor campaign, Ali moved to fifth on the US all-time list in the 60m hurdles with her 7.80 victories at the US Indoor Championships and the IAAF World Indoor Championships.
"The fact that he is an athlete kind of helps," said Ali. "He can cater to the fact that sometimes an athlete needs space sometimes and not to be bothered. As an athlete and coach, he has an understanding to be able to pick everything a little a part to find out what works for you."
Wilson has placed an emphasis on technique and strength. Ali has been running 250m and 300m intervals for conditioning and will run in 100m races throughout the year for speed training. Wilson estimates that Ali's training is two to three months ahead of where she was in 2013.
"She needs to be more consistent on a consistent basis," said Wilson. "She has to be focused on being a better hurdler. The only way to do that is to do better technically and iron out specific issues."
Ali and Wilson trained together for a year before Ali approached Wilson about coaching her. Wilson believes the previous experience as training partners helped foster the quick transition.
"Getting to know her as a training partner and a peer really helped me to work out what was going to be the most effective way to coach her," said Wilson. "I wasn't coming from square one."
Juggling their competition schedules was another matter. It was particularly harrowing when Ali and Wilson competed in their respective finals in back-to-back races at the 2013 US Championships. With Ali placing third and Wilson winning his first national title, both earned trips to the 2013 World Championships.
Wilson was more stunned with Ali's performance than his first national team appearance at age 32.
"Her progression in such a short amount of time is incredible," Wilson said. "Nia has a kinetic awareness of herself and picks up on concepts very well."
Wilson said he planned for eight days before the US Championships to map out the warm-up and racing regimen for Ali and himself. The World Championships were simpler with the women's and men's races run on separate days.
On a typical day, Wilson trains in the morning with his personal coach Darrell Smith at UCLA. Then it's a drive across town to USC to coach Ali and NCAA 400m hurdles champion Reggie Wyatt, followed by his responsibilities as USC hurdles coach.
"I am convinced he is a superhero the way he figures everything out," Ali said about Wilson.
Heptathlon success followed by personal tragedy
Ali won the South-Eastern Conference title in the heptathlon with 5490 points in her first attempt at the event at Tennessee in 2007 before transferring to USC the following year.
USC coach Caryl Smith Gilbert, who recruited Ali to Tennessee while an assistant coach at Tennessee, called Ali the greatest pure athlete that she's seen.
Ali placed fourth at the 2009 NCAA Championships with 5824 but her career came to a crossroads on the morning of 21 April 2009.
Her father Aleem Ali killed himself in a murder suicide in Philadelphia after shooting his mistress in front of her 11-year-old daughter and then turning the gun on himself. Her father had tried unsuccessfully to contact Ali in Los Angeles for two months before the shooting.
At the 2009 US Championships, Ali dropped out of the heptathlon after completing six out of seven events. It was the last heptathlon that Ali has competed in. In the 2010 season, Ali was declared academically ineligible and stopped training.
"I didn't even care at the end of that year (2009)," Ali said. "I was emotionally drained. That was the first time that I felt like I really needed to take a break from track. I knew that I was going to come back and reach what I want to do."
With the help of then USC assistant coach Tommie Lee White, a licensed psychologist and former 60m hurdles world record-holder, Ali returned in 2011 and enjoyed her best season ever, winning the NCAA and World University Games titles in the 100m hurdles and running under 13 seconds for the first time.
Memories of the heptathlon, though, still linger for Ali.
"I will always have a love for the heptathlon and my mind goes back and forth, but my focus is the hurdles," said Ali. "I feel like I have a lot more left in the tank in the event."
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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
It's been quite a year for middle-aged professors in identity crises. We've seen the Slacker Professor (Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Savages), the Grumpy Widowed Professor (Dennis Quaid in Smart People), the Inner He-Man Tom-Tom Professor (The Visitors' Richard Jenkins), and now for the grand finale, a proven favorite, the Horny Old Devil Professor — Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet's intelligent but weepy drama Elegy.
Busy Sir Ben, also currently on local screens in the thriller Transsiberian, turns in a meticulous performance as David Kepesh, a highly regarded and resolutely selfish author and professor of English lit whose main hobby, aside from holding court in an imaginary Manhattan (it was filmed in Vancouver), is harvesting his choice of the coeds in his university class. As dreamed up by novelist Philip Roth for his novella The Dying Animal and adapted for the screen by writer-filmmaker Nicholas Meyer (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Time After Time, etc.), the promiscuous David is riding for a fall.
His comeuppance takes the form of Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz), a shy but exquisite Cuban-American charmer thirty years his junior. The smitten David practically worships at the altar of her body, much to her bewilderment. Consuela's beauty is enough to make him reexamine his aesthetic rationale for lust. She embodies his dread of old age as well as his restless search for the magic elixir of youth. Woody Allen, please copy. All the while, the Greek chorus at David's side — old faithful bed-buddy Carolyn (wry Patricia Clarkson), poet and colleague George (a restrained and very effective Dennis Hopper), and David's disapproving son, a doctor named Kenny (Peter Sarsgaard) — is whispering insistently to him. Something about pride, hubris, and fate.
If we were to say we preferred Cruz' prim but sensual Consuela to her cartoonishly tempestuous painter Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, it would be less because of the latter's obvious stereotyping and more because Consuela's vulnerability itself is a turn-on, for the audience as much as for the opportunistic David. Cruz is steadily putting to rest the notion that her English-language performances — or at least the roles offered to her — fail to measure up to her Spanish-language work in such films as Volver, Todo sobre mi madre, and Abre los ojos.
Coixet, the Spanish international director of My Life Without Me, The Secret Life of Words, and a vignette in Paris Je T'aime, frames this circuitous love affair a bit somberly, as if to warn us that David and Consuela cannot linger forever in the garden. As their fates unfold and the gloom settles down on the protagonists, Coixet resists the temptation to gloat. Frailty builds character, after all. Not for David the eternal randiness of the literary satyr. He's too much of a liar to believe in salvation and too humanistic to embrace anything other than his selfhood. His delusions have the advantage of being his alone, and so they're perfect. One of the prolific Kingsley's best recent outings, David grazes freely on the duplicities of love while we observe and take note, free of indigestion.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (played by Rainn Wilson), likable-loser hero of the good naturedly lightweight comedy The Rocker, lets his middle-age craziness take him in a slightly different direction. Twenty years earlier in the mid-1980s, Fish was the drummer for the up-and-coming metal band Vesuvius, but he was fired backstage after a show, just as the band was making it big. That same night, his girlfriend dumped him and he was forced to move in with his sister and her family. Now, fortysomething Fish is working at a call center and living in the basement of a Chinese restaurant. Twenty years in Cleveland, what a sentence.
Suddenly, Fish catches a glimmer of hope. His pudgy nephew Matt (Josh Gad) and band mates Curtis (Teddy Geiger) and Amelia (Emma Stone) need a drummer to play a prom night gig at their high school, and they reluctantly give Uncle Fish a chance. Wilson, the befuddled everyman from The Office on TV and such films as Juno, Full Frontal, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, nails the fatuous hard-rock drummer thing perfectly, in a flurry of grimaces and hot-dog mannerisms Tommy Lee would be proud of. Their new band, ADD, is a hit, they sign a recording deal with a slimy A&R man (Jason Sudeikis from Saturday Night Live), and hit the road on tour. What happens next isn't so much a rerun of This Is Spinal Tap as a riff on the working-class fantasies of Detroit Rock City or The School of Rock, with more than a dab of Sacha Gervasi's hilarious indie doc Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
Rampant underdog-ism comes naturally to director Peter Cattaneo, maker of The Full Monty. He and a trio of writers cram the unbelievable Fish story with happy details until it's fit to bust: the Naked Drummer craze on YouTube and MySpace, Fish's sweaty bear hugs, the "pocket full of puke" routine, yellow Hummer limos ("a school bus for assholes"), Paul the rent-a-faceman-drummer ("It's like Abercrombie's making people now"), Vesuvius' fake English accents, etc. And he gets apt performances from Christina Applegate (as a mom! sob!), Jeff Garlin (as Fish's closet-rocker bro-in-law), and old codger Howard Hesseman, seen here as the driver of the tour bus. More fun than a fifth of Rebel Yell and a bag of Quaaludes.
But enough horsing around. Documentarian Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) has some bad news for us. Americans have been having way too much fun and now it's time to pay the tab. In his entertainingly alarming new doc I.O.U.S.A., Creadon enlists the likes of former US Comptroller General David Walker, former Secretaries of the Treasury Robert Rubin and Paul O'Neill, and Bob Bixby, head of the fiscal responsibility org Concord Coalition, heavyweights all, to explain why having a $10 trillion national debt (the projected figure for January 2009) and a $53 trillion federal obligation (for things like Medicare and Social Security) is a bad thing.
We've been hearing warnings about this for years, but now, with the mortgage crisis and accompanying meltdown, people are actually beginning to listen. We can't put it on our credit card anymore because there is no credit. Bottom line: The party's over. There's no such thing as a free lunch. America itself may be a bubble. O'Neill: "When you get to the point where you can't service your debt, you're finished." The remedy: Go back to cash and spend only what you can afford. As former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan puts it: "Without savings, there is no future." Gulp.
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Bucurescu, Adrian
Adrian Bucurescu is a Romanian ethnographer and a prolific article writer and also the author of Dacia Secreta and Dacia Magica. He identifies the Black Sea and what is now mainland Romania as the home of Atlantis. He locates the Pillars of Hercules at the Danube gorge at the mouth of S-W Romanian river Cerna (also known as Acheron, Charon, Geryon) and that the capital of Atlantis was the city of Tulcea (Tul=atlas+Cea=land) at the Danube Delta.
Furthermore, Bucurescu claims that Plato originally said 5,000 not 9,000 years had elapsed between the Atlantean war and Solon's visit to Egypt. He bases this idea on his claim that the works of the Greek philosophers were preserved in Arabic translations after the fall of Constantinople and that their numbers '5' and '9' were sufficiently similar to have led to a transcription error!(b)
*Bucurescu's ideas should be compared with those of Densusianu and the more recent book of Alexandra Furdui.*
However, a further contribution on Graham Hancock's website has him listing the ten kingdoms (of Atlantis) extending over a much larger region, including Poland, Egypt and Sumeria(a)!
(a) https://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,176280,176318
(b) https://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,176280,176305#msg-176305


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Suburban Gems: Merrylands
The Asal Sweet store in Merrylands is a satellite store to the hard-to-find Granville parent. It's been open for about nine months, and is a family business, building upon twenty-five years of pastry experience in Tehran, Iran.
Their well-stocked counter is full of traditional Iranian shirini khoshk (dry sweets) and French-influenced shirini tar (moist sweets). This particular store specialises in cookies and the shirini nargili (coconut cookies) are amazing!
They look like they're going to be quite hard, but you'll find they have moist centres. You'll also find almond, saffron and sultana versions, all priced at a buck apiece, but it's the coconut macaroon-style cookies that won me. Though if you're allergic to wheat, ask for naan berenji - they're a rice-based cookie, that's turned yellow with saffron (a typical Persian ingredient).
As with most sweet shops from this part of the world, because cookies are common gifts and served to visitors to your home, they're mostly bought by the kilo or half kilo ($24/kilo). You'll save money by purchasing this way too. Jump into a booth and try a few different cookies over one of their robust coffees to help you decide.
My Asal Sweet trial comes courtesy of Taste Food Tours, as this is the meeting point for their new From Afghanistan to Persia tour. What these tours are good for is giving you some back story into how products are used – which can be invaluable when visiting places like Pameer Supermarket.
"I'm a mad home cook, but because I live in a small town in the Hunter Valley, I come to Sydney two or three times a year to buy ingredients," said Nicole, a fellow tour attendee. She's a repeat Taste Food Tours customer, who uses the tours as a way to introduce herself to suburbs she doesn't know very well.
Nicole uses the opportunity of our Pameer Supermarket pit stop to load up her basket, and I do the same.
This Persian supermarket has a halal butcher and a great range of products. I pick up everything from carrot jam (a great cheese condiment) to garlic powder, tins of fried eggplant and a big tub of tahina and halawa.
The latter is a sweet treat that tastes like halva but is in long strands that look like dolly hair. I'm excited to buy torshi bandari - a sour and spicy Iranian mixed vegetable pickle that you can add to stews, hotpots and meat patties.
The rest of my haul includes mint water (I've been making summery drinks with it) and black cumin oil. The Prophet Muhammed is reported to have said: "In the black seed is healing for every disease except death." All health claims aside, this oil is delicious on baked pumpkin and spuds. And while they're not particularly exotic, this supermarket has some great specials on vegetables! We picked up a $7 box of tomatoes and made litres of tomato water, tomato sauce and pasta sauce.
NOTE: Read more of my Merrylands eating adventure HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE or book your own eating adventure HERE.
Asal Sweet
4 Memorial Drive, Merrylands
Ph: (02) 8810 7162
Pameer Supermarket
223-225 Merrylands Road, Merrylands
Ph: (0406) 311 111


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Detectives are appealing for witnesses following a shooting incident in the Castlemara Estate in Carrickfergus on Friday night.
It was reported that at around 7.30pm a man, aged in his 50s, was out walking close to Castlemara Shops when he was approached by three masked males.
They shot him in the leg and he was taken to hospital for treatment for a single gunshot wound to his calf.
It is believed the three males made off on foot.
Detectives are appealing for anyone who witnessed the shooting or anyone with any information relating to it to contact them in Larne on the non-emergency number 101.
Information can also be passed anonymously via the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty
Written on September 20, 2011
We (Narelle, friend Jane and I) watched this TED video last year, and somehow tonight's conversation came around to TED talks and this one in particular. It took a while to find it (we were searching for "malaria", "mosquito" and "nets" on the TED site without luck as we'd remembered the bit about mosquito nets).
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Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. Geshe-la, as he is affectionately known by his students, is primarily responsible for the worldwide revival of Kadampa Buddhism in our time.
From the age of eight Geshe-la studied extensively in the great monastic universities of Tibet earning the title 'Geshe', which literally means 'spiritual friend'. Under the guidance of Trijang Rinpoche, his Spiritual Guide, he then spent the next eighteen years in meditation retreats in the Himalayas.
In 1977 he accepted an invitation to teach at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in England, where he lived for many years. Geshe-la works tirelessly to spread Kadampa Buddhism throughout the world, and has published a series of renowned books on Buddhism and meditation. He has established over 1000 meditation centres globally, trained numerous qualified teachers (lay and ordained), and founded 'The International Temples Project' bringing authentic Buddhist temples to the world's major cities. Geshe-la also envisioned the 'Kadampa Schools Project' with the first school opening in Derbyshire, England, in 2012.
In his teachings, Geshe Kelsang emphasises the importance of meditation and how to apply it to daily modern life, also the need to be truly happy, and how to cultivate a good heart to help others. He demonstrates these qualities perfectly in his own life. This remarkable teacher successfully inspires countless people from many different countries because he teaches from example. He is a humble Buddhist monk dedicated to helping people throughout the world find genuine and lasting happiness.
Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong
Originally from Northern Ireland, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong is the General Spiritual Director of the NKT and the Resident Teacher at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, the Mother Center of Kadampa Buddhism.
Gen-la has studied and practiced Kadampa Buddhism for many years under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
As one of Venerable Geshe Kelsang's closest disciples, Gen-la Dekyong's teachings, humour and kindness exemplify the essence of the Buddhist way of life. She is a perfect example of a Kadampa Teacher.
Each year, Gen-la Dekyong teaches at the International Festivals, National Festivals, and Dharma Celebrations throughout the world.
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His trademark drawl and bumbling "everyman" style further endeared him to us.
Jimmy Stewart was born in 1908 to a family who ran a local hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was one of three children, interested in music, active in sports and yearbook at school. When he went to Princeton, the expectation was that he would return to help in the family business, but while there, he got bitten by the acting bug. He got off to a slow start on Broadway; the Depression was affecting the entertainment industry as well as every other aspect of life at that time.
He switched to Hollywood with better success. As his career took off, he was linked romantically with Ginger Rogers, Norma Shearer and Marlene Deitrich, but he kept his relationships out of the public eye and, a true gentleman, refused to talk about the women in his life.
He joined up for WWII and became a bomber pilot, the first major star to wear a military uniform in that war.
He returned to resume his career, making romantic comedies, westerns, dramas and suspense.
Jimmy Stewart was 41 when he married. He saw the rampant infidelity in Hollywood and it made him cautious. Then he met Gloria Hatrick Mclean, a model. He said "I could tell right off she was a thoroughbred. For me it had been love at first sight. She was the kind of girl I had always dreamed of." Gloria had been married previously and had two sons. When they married in 1949 he adopted her children and they went on to have twin girls as well.
They stayed married for 45 years. Gloria said, "I can honestly say that in all the years of our marriage Jimmy never once gave me cause for anxiety or jealousy."
Gloria died of lung cancer in 1994. Jimmy died in 1997 of cardiac arrest. He died with his family around him. His final words were, "I'm going to be with Gloria now."


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WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — Political elections are increasingly effected by social media use, and some groups are thriving more than others.
According to Pew Research studies from the past year, 69 percent of adult Americans who are online use social networks – up 37 percent from the same survey in late 2008. Thirty-eight percent of surveyed Americans said they "like" or promote materials about politicians or candidates that they support on these networks.
Younger, more liberal people tend to use social media more than others.
The 18-29 year-old age range reported back that 92 percent use social media websites. A reported 79 percent of all social media users classified themselves as "liberals," 70 percent identified as "moderates," and 63 percent said they were "conservatives."
Twitter users also appeared to exhibit "liberal" leanings. Twenty-five percent of Twitter users reported that they are "liberals," compared with 10 percent who identified as "conservatives." And the younger age group of 18-29 year olds is twice as likely to use Twitter as the next closest age group of people aged 30-49 years old.
Social media may also have unearthed political leanings that their friends never knew about beforehand.
Among users who reported their online friends post political content, 25 percent said they always agree or mostly agree with their friends' political postings. But 73 percent "only sometimes" agree, or never agree. Thirty-eight percent of those who use social networking said that they discovered their friends' political beliefs were different than previously believed because of social media.
Nine percent of social networking users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone because they posted something about politics or issues that they disagreed with or found offensive.
As a whole, the Internet continues to grow rapidly as a platform for campaign news, but it still is less popular than cable TV. Since 2000, the Internet has quadrupled from 9 percent to 36 percent of the share of US adults who use it for campaign news. Cable news has held steady near 40 percent of that share over the past decade.


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The Foam Roll
If you've never set foot in a gym or have never had to go through physical therapy, you may not have the slightest clue as to what a foam roller is.
A foam roll is a dense piece of foam in the shape of a cylinder that is usually between 5-6 inches in diameter and usually 1-3 feet in length. They are available in low, medium, and high densities and some newer options include rumble or grid patterns. You can also purchase massage roll sticks that are great for travel.
The foam roll is designed to help prevent and eliminate muscle knots as discussed in this article, but some people also include the roll in their exercise routines.
The average user would benefit from a medium to high density roll. Low density rolls are usually reserved for children (under medical supervision) or areas of the body being treated under rehabilitation therapy by a physical therapist due to injury. Higher density rolls are not always recommended for a beginner. Since the high density does not give as much when body weight is applied, more pressure gets applied to the muscle, and can, in turn, be a bit more painful. It is usually recommended that beginners start with a medium density and work up to a high density roller. Rollers with rumble or grid patterns are usually chosen by more experienced users, such as athletes or those who use them in exercise routines.
If you are new to foam rolling, you can find a large selection of video tutorials online, but the easiest way to get started is by selecting a foam roll that is sold with an instructional chart and DVD.
What Is Foam Rolling and Why Should You Do It?
Foam rolling is a form of self-acupressure and self-myofascial release. If you've never heard of either of those terms, then there's a good chance you've never had a massage (or simply didn't care to know because the massage felt so great on those sore muscles). It's basically some of the techniques that massage therapists use to give you that "ah" feeling. The feeling occurs because they are working the muscles to release tension and are breaking up the knots that are causing the soreness. Next to a trained and certified massage therapist, foam rolling can be the best way to prevent and eliminate muscle knots.
Aging, injury, prolonged inactivity, and over activity all have damaging effects on our muscles and can reduce flexibility and range of motion. Muscle adhesions, trigger points, or muscles knots, whatever you choose to call them, are quite common and start as harmless micro-tears in the muscle fibers. As the process of tearing the muscle and your body repairing it repeats, the damage in that spot increases until you develop a knot. This is when the pain, soreness and stiffness begins. Common areas where this can occur include: the front and back of your thighs, the outside of the thigh, called the IT Band, your hips, and your upper back.
You can increase your flexibility and range of motion by increasing the elasticity in the muscles. Foam rolling works by applying pressure using your own body weight to break up muscle knots. Breaking up the knots helps to increase blood flow and also increases muscle elasticity.
How To Foam Roll
Place your body on the roll while slowly rolling up and down the targeted muscle group. There are no time restrictions stating how long you should spend on each group nor are there restrictions on how often you can foam roll. It's more based on how it feels to you. Most people roll an area for 20-30 seconds, new rollers sometimes roll as little as 10-15 seconds, while regular and experienced rollers go as long as 60. If you have particularly sore spots, pause on that spot for a few extra seconds.
It is recommended to foam roll before and after your workouts, but you can also roll whenever you are experiencing soreness or stiffness in your muscles. Also, you should always stretch the area after the foam rolling session is complete.
Areas highly responsive to foam rolling are: the upper back, the hamstrings, the adductors (inside upper leg), the quadriceps, the illotibial band (IT band, outside of the thigh), the gluteal muscles, and the back, side, and front of the calves.
You should be aware that if you have a particularly tight muscle area or are new to foam rolling, some areas may borderline on feeling painful instead of feeling good. This should ease with more frequent use of the foam roll. You should never roll over a joint or boney area and foam rolling should never bruise.
If you are recovering from an injury you should seek approval from your doctor prior to foam rolling or seek assistance from a trained physical therapist. If you experience severe pain or bruising, discontinue use and contact your doctor.
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The word "innovative" has been completely overused the past past decade or more. Everyone says they're innovative. Every business and brand, every retailer, startup, consultancy, agency, author, blogger, musician and so on tells you they're innovative. Truth is most of us aren't innovative. We're just iterative–we do similar thing, but with a twist!
The good new is we can become more innovative with the right headset.
Peter Thiel, the genius investor who was an original investor in Facebook, as well as a co-founder of Paypal, wrote a compelling book called Zero to One. Anyone interested in building and leading a company in this digital age should read it. The gist of Zero to One is that Peter looks to invest in companies and ideas that have the potential to go from nothing to something–something that didn't exist before to something that becomes meaningful tomorrow. Uber is zero to one. Tesla is zero to one. AirBnB is zero to one. Instagram is zero to one. You get the point…
The other side of one is a sea of iteration. Lots of "ones" work to become two's, three's and four's. Companies and brands that make more of the same thing, extend its reach to other markets, develop synergistic branches of the same thing, or buy other companies that do the same stuff. ITERATION IS NOT INNOVATION. If you're a brand, retailer, startup, consultancy or whatever and you want to keep your head above water, you have to INNOVATE.
Ask yourself this question, what are you and/or your business working on today to solve for tomorrow that was like nothing you were remotely comfortable doing a year ago? Something I've learned as an entrepreneur and investor in companies like PreeLine is this, place your bets in the ideas that are crazy enough to be called nuts and/or teams who are smart and gritty enough to make stuff happen. That's likely to lead to a zero to one innovation.
If you're the leader of a brand or retailer, business, team or think tank, you need to pull your resources together right now and start to innovate. Here's the thing; if you're not looking for moonshots, you're not innovating. If people aren't telling you you're crazy, you're not thinking BIG enough. Challenge your teams to think big and generate ideas that are nuts. See what happens, put it to action, and don't squelch the momentum. Ignite ideas with execution.
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- There isn't any smoke without some kind of fire.
- Check it out, don't be afraid!
- One more thing, it is best to avoid people with a very complicated past.
- I mean you can test, but since you started dating as well as the pond is full of fish, why not try and go for the best kinds initial.
- Remember, any time something generally seems to excellent to be true, it probably isn't!
- It's not about getting someone to think you might be good enough for them.
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- Work in your gaydar.
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Sometimes Everyone Has Little Annoying Habits
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Top SaaS Insights of the Week
SaaS Growth
The SaaS Manifesto – How is the end around in football parallel to what many new SaaS companies are doing? Even if you aren't a sports fan, you'll find insights into how to "make forward progress by not having anyone in your way" in this video from Peter Levine of Andreesen Horowitz.
To help in your growth efforts, lob put together a list of 13 Useful Tools Every Startup Should Be Using. And we think Amity should be on that list too – maybe next time?
Customer Experience/Relationships/Success
Full of tips and actionable insights from some of the top experts in the industry – this 5 Minute Intro to Customer Success from Openview labs is one helpful guide! A sampling of what's inside: Jason Whitehead, CEO of Tri Tuns – "Until you know what it takes to achieve success from your customers' perspective you will just waste valuable time and money doing things that will have little long-term impact."
Although this is something we all should strive for "You need to wake up every day planning on how you will make a difference." Dmitry Shkliarevsky captures this under the first of 4 characteristics that every customer success manager should have – Fanatical Drive for Success.
"The majority of startups now don't have the luxury of having an initial user base of traditional tech early adopters that tend to be more patient and forgiving (i.e. remember all the Fail Whales?), understand the difficulties a new product may encounter, and thus, don't churn as quickly." Part growth, part customer success and part investment insights, Adam Besvinick's post of about The Consumer Internet Feedback Loop is an important read.
An entire multi-media experience in one post! There is a Q&A, a video, a webinar link and the post itself from MindTouch. And a quote of all quotes: "Companies that focus on customer success enjoy a high ROI for a simple reason: your product is only as good as your customers' ability to use it."
Interesting SaaS Stats and Data
PWC does a ranking of the Global 100 software leaders and it interesting to see the Service and SaaS trends. For some tried and true enterprise software companies, % of software revenue from SaaS revenues is quite significant – see for yourself:
"Of the 100 largest VC-backed tech exits since 2009, Sequoia Capital invested in a remarkable 22 of them. Benchmark Capital invested in the highest percentage at the early stage. " – research report from CB Insights.
Read the entire analysis: http://bit.ly/1joIVKe
Super SaaS Fundings of the Week:
Crittercism – Mobile App Performance Management – received $30M in Series C funding
Quora – Real-time Q&A – received $80M in Series C funding
Lithium – Social Customer Experience Management – received $86.5M in Venture Round funding
Wattpad – The World's Largest Community of Readers and Writers – received $46M in Series C funding
Newest SaaS 2.0 Services:
From Product Hunt – there is some very cool stuff out there and we are just scratching the surface. So visit or subscribe to Product Hunt to get a daily leaderboard of the best new products.
PayStand – Accept Payments with 0% Transaction Fees
SendInBlue – Free email marketing solution for entrepreneurs
Mailcloud – A New Way to Email
Pathwright – Create and sell online courses
Azendoo – Teamwork made easy
The SaaS 2.0 Hot or Not List:
There is so much interesting stuff in Mattermark, it's hard to decide on exactly what to bring you each week. These are the top Mattermark scores ("The Mattermark Score is an average of all weekly momentum scores, which are determined by the growth of 6 signals: web traffic, mobile downloads, inbound links, Twitter followers, Facebook page likes and LinkedIn followers.") for B2B SaaS Marketing companies in the US:
LeadPages Score = 1118
LeadPages provides HTML 5 templates for contact pages, webinar pages, sales lead and other types of landing pages to improve leads and get better conversions.
Sverve Score = 1028
Sverve connects businesses and the right social media influencers for online marketing.
ConvertMedia Score = 1025
Previously ContextIn, ConvertMedia is a revolutionary display media buying platform for performance driven marketers.
Since Lucrazon and NewsCred made the list again this week at a score of 976 and 975 respectively, we thought we'd include a couple notables with serious SaaS offerings:
OutBoundEngine Score = 923
OutboundEngine is a hands-free way for independent professionals to market and grow their business through email and social media.
Hatchbuck Score = 881
Hatchbuck is sales & marketing software that helps nurture prospects, reach new customers and retain existing ones by automating your sales and marketing activities.
Crunchinator Crunches:
Let's see what we can crunch this week! Courtesy of the Crunchinator, we took a look at Social Networking companies headquartered in California. From January 1992, 180 companies were categorized as social media, including the likes of Work4, Traackr, and Jobvite, and the trinity of – Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest with 461 investors – of which these are the top 5:
SV Angel – 11 investments
Ron Conway – 7 investments
Y Combinator – 6 investments
Andreesen Horowitz – 5 investments
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) – 5 investments
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Other Good Weekend Reads:
Caught in a never ending sales cycle? That's both a question and the name of this great post from Saurabh Mehta, influenced by none other than David Skok. "Any entrepreneur needs to answer two very important questions: How are you going to find your customer? And How are you going to sell your product or service to them?"
A key component of building a successful company, is successfully building a team. We find value in using 15Five in our organization and find their blog posts both entertaining and insightful – "Please Micromanage Me" Said No Employee, EVER. Doesn't the title itself just make you want to read it? It did for us and the content holds up the title very well.
And the latest from the Amity blog courtesy of guest contributor Paul Chilensky – The Role of Customer Success in New Product and Feature Design. Paul is Customer Success Industry Executive and former Vice President of Customer Success at OnShift.
Want something added to the SaaS 2.0 Tattler – let us know! And let us know your take on the SaaS 2.0 Tattler in general – we'd love your feedback.
Shout out to Jason Whitehead of Tri Tuns – thanks for sending us some good stuff!
Curated by the team at Amity using the outstanding tools provided by Mattermark, Product Hunt, Crunchbase and Crunchinator. We encourage sharing!
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The media have portrayed outgoing U.S. attorney Preet Bharara as a martyr of sorts after he refused to resign, forcing the Trump administration to terminate his employment.
While the media characterize the firing as evidence that Trump is wiping out his political opponents, the truth of the matter is, there's just nothing there. It's not newsworthy. As many have been pointing out, this happens with every changing administration.
When Obama did the same thing in 2009, it wasn't news. It's only news now, because it's Trump, and the media are forever embittered that Hillary Clinton didn't win. I'm convinced that that will still be the reason in four and possibly eight years. The media never forgets.
Former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr – famous for the Starr Report that alleged Bill Clinton had perjured himself regarding his affair with Monica – weighed in regarding Bharara in an interview with Fox News's Stuart Varney:
Trending: A Message for Obama – "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil."
STUART VARNEY: Is there a story here, or is it just political turmoil?
KENNETH STARR: The latter. It is a story, but it happens in every administration or virtually so. First of all, the U.S. Attorney serves – and no one disputes this – at the pleasure of the President. So, there is no right to remain in office. So, we have elections, elections have consequences, and that really is the beginning and the end of it. And there's a sense, 'Well, this could be interfering with an investigation.' My prediction is, whatever investigations may be underway will continue.
VARNEY: But we don't know that, do we? It was just a suggestion from Congressman [Elijah] Cummings. 'He was fired, because he was investigating the President.' We absolutely know nothing about that whatsoever.
STARR: It's an allegation. You're absolutely right. We don't have facts.
VARNEY: Is Preet Bharara grandstanding politically?
STARR: Absolutely. Any U.S. attorney knows that he or she can be fired. Period. Full stop. Most of the 46 I think went quietly off into the night. They might not have liked it, but that's just the way our system is.
VARNEY: It's amazing that you get this political turmoil throughout the entire weekend and stretching on into today for what you describe essentially as a non-story. That's astonishing to me.
STARR: It effectively is not a story in terms of our government. It's a story in terms of politics.
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Since the vast majority of my fiction intake is through audio, while I'm driving or doing dishes or picking up sticks or what-have-you, I have made little effort to keep up with graphic stories, even though I am a fan of the medium . Other than some classic X-Men and Spider-Man comics anyway.
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