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* WS-DVBTM2 Tevion USB-DVB-T Stick from Hofer/Aldi
* WS-DVBTM2 Tevion USB-DVB-T Stick from Hofer/Aldi
===DUTV009 SinoVideo 3420A-2===
===DUTV009 SinoVideo 3420A-2===
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An USB controller, that also contains an embedded DVB-T demodulator, produced by Tai-Hui and marketed under the brand name e3C Technologies.
This IC is used in many cheap DVB-T USB Sticks. Support is currently experimental under Linux.
EC168 Devices
Known USB IDs are 18b4:1689, 18b4:fffa, 18b4:fffb, 18b4:1001 and 18b4:1002 (for devices with a second tuner).
- DUTV002 Shen Zhen MinTV-DVB-T Stick 18b4:1001
- DUTV007B USB TNT Basic LIGHT from PC-Basic (Graphics) with MXL5003S tuner and has USB ID 18b4:1001.
- DUTV009 SinoVideo 3420A-2 with MXL5003S but no eeprom (has USB ID 18b4:1689/18b4:fffb)
- SKU08309 USB DVB-T TV Dongle with Remote from DealExtreme uses this chip and has USB ID 18b4:1689.
- MM002V2 Sweex MM002V2 Microtune MT2060 silicon tuner 18b4:1689
- SV3420D-V02 SinoVideo 3SV420D-V02 with MXL5003S. (USB ID 18b4:1689)
- Tvisto USB DVB-T with MXL5003S tuner 18b4:fffa
- ZAP DVB-T USB stick with MXL5003S tuner 18b4:1689 and no external eeprom
- WS-DVBTM2 Tevion USB-DVB-T Stick from Hofer/Aldi
DUTV009 SinoVideo 3420A-2
No eeprom in this one
SinoVideo SV3420D-V02
This one was sold to me as SV3420B but the PCB says SV3420D-V02. It is recognized as HID device by the kernel.
USB ID is the same as for most of these devices: 18b4:1689
Works with the driver from Antti's mercurial repository as described in [1]
SKU 08309 USB DVB-T Dongle
SKU 08309 USB DVB-T Dongle requires Firmware-File called EC168BDA.bin contained in Windows Driver TVGo_Genius.rar
DUTV007B USB TNT Basic LIGHT (GRTNTUSBV4)
Same USB descriptors as SinoVideo 3420A-2, but with another PID... IR is detected directly by the hidraw driver (usbhid)
The PC-Basic v4 USB Stick contains following chips :
- EC168 (USB 2.0 µ-controller, could be also a preprogrammed AVR or PIC)
- Maxlinear MXL5003S Tuner [2]
- EEPROM 24C02N I²C 0xA0 (256 Bytes) [3]
The windows driver also upload a 7109-bytes sized firmware (EC168BDA.bin) to get the device working...
WS-DVBTM2 Tevion USB-DVB-T
Cheap offer at Hofer (Aldi) in Austria. Has an EC168 and MXL5003s built in, which refers to the E3C reference design. Reffering to the link, the system only freezes after loading the dvb-usb-ec168.ko module under debian 5.0 unstable. All other modules load fine. Maybe other distros and/or hardware has better success. It's even impossible to load the firmware via dfu-ec168
Uploading Firmware to the device
- EC168 Direct Firmware Upload tool based on libusb by Tanguy Pruvot : dfu-ec168
Something interresting with this device : We can patch USB ID and descriptors included in the firmware and/or device memory...
Known USB requests
#define CMD_EC168_RAM 0x00 //RW- Read/Write RAM (Firmware go to addr 0-0x1EFF) #define CMD_EC168_GETSTATUS 0x01 //R-- ex: dfu_ctrl_get(device,0x01,0,1,buffer,1); // to know if firmware is ready #define CMD_EC168_STREAM 0x03 //R-X ex: dfu_ctrl(device,0x03,0/0x20,0xFF00); // disable/enable streaming #define CMD_EC168_SET_POWER 0x04 //R-X ex: ex: dfu_ctrl(device,0x04,0/1,index); dfu_ctrl_get(device,0x04,0,index,buffer,1); // disable/enable LED : index=8 // indexes seen in trace: 0x8,0x9,0xA,0xB,0x206,0x208 - Not a Binary Mask ! #define CMD_EC168_UNKNOWN 0x10 //--X ??? #define CMD_EC168_READ_BUF 0x20 //R-- ex: dfu_ctrl_get(device,0x20,0x0000,0x01A0,buffer,0x1A); // read eeprom ? #define CMD_EC168_WRITE_BUF 0x21 //-W- #define CMD_EC168_SET 0x30 //--X ex: dfu_ctrl(device, 0x30, 0x0709, 0x1A); // set IR Key ?
USB subsytem ID is: 18b4:1001
output of 'lsusb -vv -d 18b4:1001':
Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x18b4 idProduct 0x1001 bcdDevice 0.02 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 0 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 50 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 1 Keyboard iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.11 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 63 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 7 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 1 Device Status: 0x0001 Self Powered


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 24, 2004) - East Tennessee State men's tennis opened play in the 37th annual Southern Intercollegiate Championships Friday from the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
In Division I singles, sophomore Oscar Posada (Valencia, Valenzuela), ranked 105th nationally, advanced to the second round, defeating Mario Gil of Mercer, 7-5, 6-3. Posada then moved to the third round with a victory over Jaime Rodriguez of Georgia State by an identical 7-5, 6-3 score.
Also in Division I singles, senior Moises Serrano (Bucaramanga, Colombia) fell in the first round to Ricardo Gonzales of Georgia. Kai Schledorn of Middle Tennessee State then defeated Serrano in the consloation bracket, 6-2, 6-4.
Competing in Division II singles, sophomore Felix Insaurralde (Asuncion, Paraguay) defeated Nicolas Legros of Lander in the first round (3-6, 6-3, 6-1) in the first round, then advanced to the third round by defeating Ben Rogers of Tennessee, 6-1, 6-2.
Senior Fernando Fiuri (Villa Maria, Argentina) defeated Liram Kling of College of Charleston, 6-0, 6-2, in the first round of Division II singles. He then was defeated by Frank Green of Florida A&M, 4-6, 7-6, ret. in the second round.
In Division III singles, senior Federico Ochoa (Manizales, Colombia) fell to Arya Vafari of Mercer, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5. Ochoa then fell in the consolation bracket to William Maurasam of Florida A&M, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
East Tennessee State continues competition Saturday in the Southern Intercollegiate, with more singles action and the opening rounds of doubles play.

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PRINCETON – He's got the funk.
Newman's Brian Bahrs was in trouble, then he wasn't. One well-timed move, which he calls "The Funk," got him the only takedown of the 160-pound championship Saturday at the Princeton Invitational. Bahrs went on to a 3-1 win.
He was one of three locals to win titles at one of the premier small-school tournaments in the state, which included seven teams ranked in the top 11, according to Illinois Matmen. The others were his Newman teammate Jake Snow, who won the 126-pound title, and Rock Falls' Carlos Gutierrez, who won at 113.
Bahrs (25-1), a two-time state champion who is ranked No. 1 by Illinois Matmen, was leading second-ranked Wes Brown (26-3) of Plano 1-0 late in the second period, but was in a precarious situation when he made the move of the night.
With Brown on Bahrs' back, the Comet senior dived forward, rolled and wound up on Brown's back for a takedown.
"We call that move 'The Funk;' it's just a funky move," Bahrs said. "Whenever you're in trouble, you just jump on the mat and grab ankles. It messes the other kid up. They don't expect it. It's like a front flip, and then you grab the ankle. When I need it, I use it, but that's only a desperate move."
Snow (23-1), a 2011 state champ who is ranked No. 2 in Class 1A, avenged his lone loss of the season in his final, cruising to a 10-5 decision over IVC's Riley Beard, ranked sixth in 2A.
Snow took down Beard four times and scored a reversal. All of Beard's points came on giveway escapes that Snow intentionally allowed.
Both wrestlers wound up bloodied.
"I think I went in for a shot and his chin hit the back of my head," Snow said. "Now I've got to go get some stitches. I'm afraid of needles, so that should be fun."
Snow was happy to trim Beard this time.
"I wrestled him last week, and he beat me 14-9," Snow said. "I just wanted to take him down and let him up, and stay away from danger."
Gutierrez's title was historic.
"It's been like 15 years since we've had a [Princeton Invite] champion from Rock Falls," he said. "It was really nerve-racking."
Gutierrez, No. 2 in 1A, built an 8-3 lead that slipped away before pulling out a 10-8 overtime win over third-ranked Cameron Schwing of Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley-Fisher.
Leading 8-3 in the final moments, Gutierrez gave Schwing an escape. In the last few seconds of regulation, Schwing scored a takedown and near fall to make it 8-8 and send the match to overtime.
In the 1-minute extra period, Gutierrez gathered himself and scored a takedown with 23 seconds left.
"I guess you could say I'm kind of clutch in overtime," Gutierrez said. "I've never lost an overtime match."
Gutierrez's teammate Shawn Skinner was the 195-pound runner-up. The second-ranked Skinner dropped a 4-1 decision to unranked Jordan Ladd of IVC. It was the first loss of the season for Skinner (20-1). Ladd, a sophomore, improved to 24-1.
"I just choked," Skinner said. "I really underestimated him. It was a kid I never heard of before. I didn't really expect much out of him. It would have been great to have an undefeated season, but this loss really brought me down to earth. I believe I'm going to be a different wrestler after this."
Newman's Bryce Ivey was also a runner-up, taking second at 152. Ivey (18-4), who is ranked 10th, lost a 12-1 major decision to top-ranked Zach Nelson (23-0) of Mercer County.
"I didn't come out as hard as I should have," Ivey said. "Zach's a great wrestler. I'd rather lose to him than anyone else. I've got regionals and sectionals to see him again. I think it will be a different story come sectional time, or at least a lot closer."
Team-wise, Newman placed ninth with 114 points. Rock Falls was 14th with 88 points. Morrison scored 25 points to place 28th, and Dixon scored 23 points to finish 29th.
Dixon's best finish was Kylian Lally's fourth-place performance at 138. Morrison's Nolan Dykema took fourth at 152.
Local champions
• Carlos Gutierrez, Rock Falls, 113 pounds
• Jake Snow, Newman, 126
• Brian Bahrs, Newman, 160


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In 1970, Tom O'Brien and his wife Hope Riley O'Brien lived nearby and watched East Jefferson General Hospital built from the ground up. That started a life-long relationship with his community hospital.
Hope passed away of renal failure on March 1, 2010, after what Tom says was "60 of the most wonderful years" of his life. It was his gratefulness for the compassionate care given to him and his wife by Dr. Chuck Cucchiara, his belief in the mission of The Foundation, and his commitment to his community hospital that inspired him to make a generous donation to The Foundation in memory of Hope. The gift is designated for the building of the new Infusion Center.
Dr. Cucchiara has been their family physician for over 40 years. O'Brien says Cucchiara often went above and beyond the call of duty when caring for his family, especially when his wife was in end stage renal disease.
"Over the years my wife Hope and I received excellent care and treatment by many EJGH physicians," says O'Brien. "Dr. Cucchiara became more than just our doctor, he became our friend."
In addition to being a patient here, Tom has enjoyed years of serving as a volunteer and community activist. He volunteered for Elder Advantage (now known as Healthy Lifestyles) for 8 years and has been active with several AARP chapters that meet at EJGH. These AARP chapters are also generous donors to The Foundation and credit the hospital with giving them a place to gather and feel a sense of community. Mr. O'Brien says, "Most every one of the 450 plus members in the three AARP chapters that meet here refers to East Jefferson General Hospital as "Our Hospital".
Mr. O'Brien is certainly proud to be associated with EJGH. He points to the number of people that volunteer here – over 400 – as a true testament of its services to the community. "You don't get that kind of participation unless you're doing something right," he says.
These days, Tom occasionally passes by The Foundation Donor Wall in the lobby where a tile simply states: "In memory of Hope Riley O'Brien". He has brought his sons by to see it as well. When the Infusion Center celebrates its grand opening in the winter of 2013, Tom and his family will be there, eager to view his wife's memorial on the new donor wall. He takes great pride in knowing that this gift will not only honor her life and her legacy, but will also support what he believes is at heart of East Jefferson General Hospital – providing the highest quality, compassionate care to the patients and community it serves.


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John Wall probably never had a more discerning and decorated audience.
Magic Johnson, the best to ever play the point guard position and winner of five NBA championships, was seated next to Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis. Wall's former college coach, John Calipari of defending NCAA champion Kentucky, was a few seats down. And Jason Kidd, one of only five players in NBA history with 10,000 assists and a former NBA champion, was on the opposing team Wednesday night at Verizon Center.
Wall didn't disappoint, leading the Wizards to a 106-96 victory over the New York Knicks, scoring a team-high 21 points and handing out a game-high nine assists as his team improved to 8-7 since he returned from a stress injury in his left knee that left him sidelined for more than three months.
The highlight came during a sequence in which he blocked Carmelo Anthony from behind, darted up the court, spun around Kidd and made a scoop layup to complete a dizzying one-man fast break.
"He had the joy," said Calipari, who stays in regular contact with his former pupil, who is still working himself back into game shape. "You could see he was excited about playing. . . . And they are winning."
Johnson, Calipari and Kidd all agreed that the former No. 1 overall pick has a solid foundation but plenty of room for improvement as his career progresses.
"I see some of the quickness and getting steals and those seams," said Johnson, who was in town to discuss HIV awareness and overcoming stigmas at Howard University. "The only thing left for him is that pull-up shot. That's the only thing left. Once he gets consistent with that, he'll be an all-star every year."
Johnson was a career 52 percent shooter, but the 6-foot-9 Hall of Famer with the Los Angeles Lakers was able to score in a variety of ways without ever having to rely on a jumper — until he got upset that opposing teams didn't respect his shot.
"I was just telling Ted, 'You know what's funny: I was in the same position as John,' " Johnson said. "I could get in there, I could run the fast break but they used to double off of me. I used to really take that personal, them slacking back off of me into Kareem's lap," Johnson said, referring to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Hall of Fame center.
"So I decided to just work on my shot. He's got to put the work in and once he does that, it becomes automatic."
Wall spent last summer working on his jumper with Knicks shooting coach Dave Hopla, but his percentages from outside are only slightly better than last season — he is connecting on 38.2 percent (39 of 102) of his shots between five and 24 feet after making just 30.9 percent (143 of 462) last season. He is, however, more willing to take the shot and doesn't seem deterred when they aren't falling.
Before the game, Wall met with Calipari — in town for the National Prayer Breakfast — and the coach encouraged him to not be discouraged by misses and to only take pull-up jumpers when there are enough teammates under the basket for offensive rebounds.
"I missed a lot of them, but I feel confident," said Wall, who missed 10 of the 18 shots he took against the Knicks. "Some games I'm making them and some games I'm not, but I just got to keep defenses honest and instead of making a turnover and forcing something. I'm not going to stop."
Calipari said Wall isn't the first player who had to develop a shot when he entered the NBA, using Johnson and Kidd as examples. "Get in the gym," Calipari said he told him. "Because when you get that right, which he will, you're on a different level. You're on a different playing field because of all the other stuff."
Kidd has transformed from a speed demon whose jumper was so nonexistent early in his career that he was sometimes called "Ason," because he didn't have a "J." On the back end of a career that began when Wall was 3 years old, the 39-year-old Kidd has blossomed into a dangerous threat from beyond the three-point line. He stressed that Wall, 22, has time to discover a consistent shot and should focus on pace and tempo until it comes.
"When you have the strength of speed, it's your job to use it," said Kidd, who claimed he never possessed Wall's speed. "He can get it to sixth gear and he's as fast as anybody with the ball. If you don't trust [your shot], it takes time, trial and error. When you see the success, you start to understand it's not always about being in sixth gear. I think it's just a matter of knowing when to use the gears and knowing, 'I can be just as fast as anybody if I'm in fourth or fifth gear.' "
Wall believes that the time he spent observing from the bench the first 33 games helped him gain a better perspective about how he could influence the game and run the team.
"It's a development process for me. I learned how to change pace, when to attack, when not to attack and get my teammates involved," said Wall, who is averaging 14.6 points, 6.9 assists and 3.1 rebounds in just 27.8 minutes. "Not being fully in shape and being able to play right away and it was tough to not have my rhythm, but I'm having fun, man."
Calipari said Wall is clearly "playing with a chip on his shoulder" after becoming forgotten or dismissed while sitting out with injury and advised him to "just keep leading. Keep learning how to lead, how to move people, how to take responsibility."
Wall's injury perhaps denied him the opportunity to help take the Wizards to the playoffs and allowed other up-and-comers to grab the spotlight this season. But Johnson said Wall can't concern himself with what's behind him.
"That always happens, when you get hurt, you're out, people are going to forget," Johnson said. "Then there is somebody else new. So they pay attention to whoever it is, Kyrie [Irving], Jrue Holiday, all those guys now get the publicity, so what he's got to do is just get healthy. Don't worry about that. His game will take care of everything else.
"He has to help these guys understand, he's here to win," Johnson continued. "Make this franchise into a winner and I think John is ready for that. He has the talent. That's not the issue. We know he has the heart for it and he's a gym rat, so you have those things going for you."


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Galaxies in our universe seem to be achieving an impossible feat. They are rotating with such speed that the gravity generated by their observable matter could not possibly hold them together; they should have torn themselves apart long ago. The same is true of galaxies in clusters, which leads scientists to believe that something they cannot see is at work. They think something we have yet to detect directly is giving these galaxies extra mass, generating the extra gravity they need to stay intact. They call this mysterious stuff dark matter.
Unlike normal matter, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This means it does not absorb, reflect or emit light, making it extremely hard to spot. In fact, scientists have been able to infer the existence of dark matter only from the gravitational effect it seems to have on visible matter.
Dark matter seems to outweigh visible matter roughly five to one, making up more than 80% of all the matter in the universe. Scientists think that dark matter particles were some of the few types of particles created in the big bang that are stable enough to still be around today.
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may provide more direct clues about dark matter. Many theories say the dark matter particles would be light enough to be produced at the LHC. If they were created at the LHC, they would escape through the detectors unnoticed. However, they would carry away energy and momentum. Scientists could infer their existence from the amount of energy and momentum missing after a collision.
Dark matter candidates arise frequently in theories that suggest physics beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetry and extra dimensions. If one of these theories proved to be true, it could help scientists gain a better understanding of how our universe is composed and, in particular, how galaxies hold together.


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Another House Republican is raising eyebrows for suggesting that women who are raped are less likely to become pregnant — just weeks after Rep. Todd Akin (R-MS) sparked controversy for his "legitimate rape" remark.
Speaking at a town hall on Thursday, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), responded to a question about abortion by reiterating his longstanding opposition to the procedure in every case except for rape, incest, and if the life of the woman is in danger. But when an audience member pressed Bartlett on the rape exception, he suggested that few pregnancies result from rape:
"Oh, life of the mother — exception of life of the mother, rape and incest. Yeah, I've always — that's a mantra, you know, I've said it so often it just spills out," he said. "If you really — there are very few pregnancies as a result of rape, fortunately, and incest — — compared to the usual abortion, what is the percentage of abortions for rape? It is tiny. It is a tiny, tiny percentage." …. [I]n terms of the percentage of pregnancies, percentage of abortions for rape as compared to overall abortions, it's a tiny, tiny percentage," Bartlett said. […]
"Most abortions, most abortions are for what purpose? The just don't want to have a baby! The second reason for abortion is you'd like a boy and it's a girl, or vice versa. And I know a lot of people are opposed to abortion who are pro-choice," Bartlett said.
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Bartlett hasn't always supported the rape and incest exception. In 2001, the conservative congressman — who is in a tight re-election race — "co-sponsored a constitutional amendment that would ban abortions and would include an exception only to protect the life of the mother, not for rape or incest."
Multiple studies have also disproven Bartlett's theory that rape is less likely to lead to pregnancy. Research from 2003 "found that a single act of rape was more than twice as likely to result in pregnancy than an act of consensual sex." The scientists speculated that rapists are more attracted to fertile and ovulating women who not rebuke their advances.


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Water has meant transportation and communication - and in its control through irrigation, life itself - to the Chinese for millenniums. China's rivers and coast give the cruise passenger entree to the country through ancient gateways and, between cities, surround him with the vibrant life of water traffic: sampans, junks, long convoys of small, narrow boats towed like boxcars. It is a highway heavily redolent of the past.
Water is an important symbol of power for the Chinese, the water more commanding over time than stone. It is a concept of time that assumes continuity beyond the lifetime of the individual. The highly prized eroded rocks of classical gardens were often harvested by grandsons long after the death of the man who carefully selected and placed them in lake currents. It is not incidental to an experience of China to be in daily contact with a principle, an element, so integral to Chinese culture.
But the traveler on the Yao Hua (the Brilliant), a newly introduced cruise ship under the direction of Lindblad Travel, will be aware first of the beauty of China's waterways, beginning at the old southern capital of Nanjing (the former Nanking), on the Yangtze. The great legendary river, highway immemorial into the inaccessible interior, its presence laden with the images of centuries of trackers hauling junks upriver along towpaths against the deadly magnificent turbulence of its upper reaches.
At dawn it is a lovely pastel, light blue-gray, with a slight cast of yellow. Seen directly from above, the water seems to have an ocher boiling up in it, a delicate smoke, beautiful, impenetrable. Small accents intensify the monotone. A barge with blue sides and orange bits of structure passes loaded with even conical piles of fine black - coal. A line of junks floats by, their sails bright white in the first sun.
On another boat, a man eats a breakfast bowl of congee, his blue shirt centered against a green patch of cabin with a black rectangle for a door. But the dominant impression on the wide expanse of water is that of ocher: sampans with woven mats, planking, and long oars all the same uniform tone of the river silt. The river color becomes the whole world, obliterating the horizon, shading into an envelopment in blue.
Coming into Shanghai, the great ''city above the sea,'' takes hours, it is so immense. The surface of the water is covered. Huge cargo ships and rusting freighters slide heavily by; elegant junks maneuver gracefully among them; endless small open boats ply the shifting open spaces, carrying a miscellany from scrap metal to crated hogs. The banks of the Huangpu are coated solidly with the massive effluvia of shipping - docks and enormous ships and great cranes. The riverscape is an abstraction in metal, a long mobile sculpture in subtle tones of brown with an occasional plane of bright color. The Yao Hua, in brilliant naval whites with her rainbow of ribbons, becomes simply a part of the throbbing, infinitely varied life of one of the largest ports in the world.
The canals of Suzhou are linked to the Yangtze and to the sea by the Grand Canal, one of the major engineering feats of ancient China. But large modern ships cannot negotiate the shallow water.Thus Suzhou's canals retain a quiet loveliness. They reflect the patina of the old city (Soochow): the venerable white houses with heavy, uneven gray tile roofs, the aged stone walls at the banks. Facades are reflected in repeated verticals as they recede into the distance, and long strands of willow trail down into the water in a sinuous echo. Suzhou's waterways draw the visitor into a uniquely intact old urban interior.
Xiamen, in contrast, is of the sea. And it is on the sea, out from the old city (formerly Amoy), that one experiences the full visual romance of the junk. There are many, and they glide separately but in harmonious tandem against the flat muted mountains outlined on the horizon. Some have old patched sails that are patterns of gray and white; others, torn sails with a filigree of light at the center. The line of the junk in motion is a continuous, sweeping curve, the contour of the sail flowing into that of the hull. They move in an early morning Whistler wash of light dulling translucently through blue. And with them are the tiniest of sampans, the true sampan, the ''three planks,'' essentially one with the sea in total exposure to sun and wave.
The Yao Hua takes its passengers through a series of beautiful pailou, the ornamental gateways of old China - and in smooth ease and comfort, a fact not appreciated unless one realizes how strenuous travel in China can be with an accumulating succession of minor inconveniences. There are unpredictable plane departures, erratic elevators, a lack of porters, and inflexible bureaucratic regulations.
There are also two days of uninterrupted cruising to enjoy the traditional relaxations of a luxury ship. One can sun on deck. Or attend films on China and lectures by the resident Sinologist. Or take advantage of a truly unique opportunity to observe and to be with the Chinese.
The Yao Hua is a Chinese ship with a Chinese flag and an all-Chinese crew. And the crew is accessible. Young sailors are out washing the deck and raising the bunting at 5 a.m. There is a great freshness and innocence, a shy eagerness to communicate, a poise and self-assurance in the manner of the young women who work in the dining room. The crew lives on board a facsimile of their life in China. There is Tai Ji Quan on deck at 6 a.m., spontaneous, a part of the early morning ritual in Chinese cities. For the traveler to China to face the water and join in the slow graceful exercise is for him to experience a centering in self and with nature that is a powerful connection with the Chinese way.
Shipboard life is also a microcosm of the socialist state. Officers and crew eat without distinction in the same dining room. And the political commissar, an official on every Chinese vessel, equal in rank with the captain, holds weekly meetings for crew education. On the Yao Hua he stresses that the passengers are invited guests, that they are ''the people.'' Some of the incongruity of a luxury liner operating under the auspices of Marxist-Leninist socialism thus becomes comprehensible. It's using the past to meet the needs of the present. China needs foreign exchange and has an inviolable tradition of hospitality. But economics cannot explain the very human connections, the great courtesy.
''Even the poor person will take out the best things to receive his guest,'' I was told by a young man whose every nuance bespoke sincerity and graciousness. The Yao Hua passenger is privileged to live with the Chinese for a week, to be their invited guest. It is one of the great assets of the voyage.
On land, there is of course a greater complexity to life, and it immerses the traveler in the puzzle of shadow and reality that contemporary Chinese society is. An inextricable mixture of old and new. A civilization of 4,000 years significantly changed in 30. Constantly experiences prompt the question: What is past and what present?
The 16th-century Garden of the Mandarin Yu in Shanghai is a large, intricate complex of courtyards and pavilions. The architecture and the cut stone detail are magnificent. One of the entrance halls is surrounded by a delicate tracery exactly depicting a series of birds, a minor masterpiece, but amid so much splendor, it is merely a small piece of the whole.
Immediately behind the garden is the shell of an old temple, part of the same complex. It was gutted during the Cultural Revolution. When I walked into its courtyard in early evening, it was filled with boys playing soccer and surrounded by spectators riveted on the game from their rooms on the old encircling balcony. I watched a family group gathered under the balcony. In it was an old woman, her gray hair pulled back in a tight bun, her dress that of old China - black pants cut full above the ankle, a blouse of crisp white fastened up the side to a mandarin collar. She proudly superintended her grandchildren and matter-of-factly leaned over to pull up the white socks on her feet, tiny from being bound tightly in her youth. Suddenly her granddaughter, a little girl in blue, burst off her tricycle, ran through the boisterous soccer game, grabbed the twin pull rings on the doors of the temple, hoisted herself up and over in a flip of sheer joy - and ran back to her tricycle.
Glimpses burned into my memory.
A young man in his 20s sitting on a narrow sidewalk in sleeveless undershirt and tan shorts, sheets hanging to dry from the house wall behind him - involved in deep concentration over a game from the Tang dynasty. It was chess, one of the ''sublime pastimes.''
An old man and his grandson, taking morning tea from enameled metal mugs on a small rough table on a Suzhou sidewalk. For all the formality of manners, they could be using the thinnest of porcelain cups in a pavilion of the 12th-century Garden of the Master of the Nets nearby.
Again in Suzhou, an old man in his doorway in the stark shirt and pants that are the uniform of contemporary China - his visage and mien alone exuding a confidence that is the heritage of the oldest continuing civilization on earth. All dignity and reserve. A harmony between him and the decorous old buildings. In his hand a pleated black fan.
But the images most deeply engraved are from Xiamen.
There is the 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple of Nanputuo. Under the green glazed tiles of its pagoda roof and the heavy dark red beams inside, a woman prays before a large gold statue, lighting magenta sticks of incense. The muted light on the white folds of her blouse is totally different from the flat synthetic of white that glares from the mass of shirts in the streets. The beautiful light glows off the old stone floor incised with large simple abstract flowers - and reflects onto her bound feet.
In an inner enclosure behind red slatted gates, row upon row of young and old monks chant in black and saffron robes under long thin red banners falling from the dark high ceiling. The resonant chant, the intense young faces, the solemn grace of the kowtows, and the praying hands are powerfully moving in an officially atheist China. And at a window in the glare of full daylight, another face stares in - under an olive cap with a red star.
There are many such olive caps among the thousands of proudly owned bicycles that are pedaled past the lovely arcades and beautiful old facades of Xiamen's main streets, remnants of her days as an open port, ''open'' to Western commercial colonialism. A new China that has reclaimed her integrity - and made possible basic food and clothing for all her people, bicycles where once there was recurring famine.
A huge black jade bowl stands under a pavilion among ancient gnarled white pines on top of the Round Tower on Beihai Lake in Peking, just across a bridge from the Zhongnanhai, the private working quarters of the leadership of the People's Republic of China. It was given in tribute to Kublai Khan in the 13th century. The Chinese prized jade above all precious stones because it reveals an internal complexity through the smooth external surface. Variations in color are not defects; they are simply its experience with the earth.
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The HIS Radeon HD 7850 IceQ Turbo retails for about $250, and based on that price it is positioned to compete with the Nvidia Geforce GTX760. The HIS Radeon HD7950 IceQX2 will cost you about $40 more and is headed against the Geforce GTX 660 Ti:
The HIS Radeon HD 7850 4GB IceQ Turbo is actually a mainstream GPU armed with 4GB
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The card is based on AMD's Pitcairn Pro GPU, which features 16 Compute Units, 1024 Stream (shader) Processors, 64 texture units and 32 ROPs. HIS has pushed the GPU clock at 1 GHz, compared to the 860 MHz of the AMD reference card. Its memory is clocked at a 4800 MHz reference clock frequency and the card retains the 256-bit interface.
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My name is Long Ng, and I am looking for tennis partner(s) to play in Summer at Washington park in Alameda. I am available on weekends. Please let me know if you want to play.
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Hi Long,
My name is Lily. I am a 3.0 tennis player and the organizer for the Alameda tennis group to play tennis at Washington Park or Krusi Park. I play tennis with the group at Washington Park on Sundays from 6:00pm to 10:25pm, Mondays from 7:00pm to 10:25pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8:30pm to 10:25pm at Washington Park or Krusi Park, Fridays from 5:00pm to 10:25pm at Washington Park or Krusi Park. Please let me know if you're interested to meet me and my tennis group to play at those days and times during the week. I look forward to your response.
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Thank you, Lily , for hooking me up with Kelvin and his friends on Thursday night. I had very good tennis games. Hope to play again with them more often.
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Forget the paranormal stuff that keeps Eddie McClintock busy on "Warehouse 13," just take a look at his own Hollywood odyssey – the 42-year-old actor has seen more pilots go missing in action than the Bermuda Triangle.
"I've been on so many shows that just faded," McClintock said with a weary shake of his head. "This is my fifth series and 'Warehouse 13' was my tenth pilot. And I've been on shows I thought for sure were going to stay on the air and they just disappeared. So I'm enjoying every minute of this, but sometimes it doesn't feel real. But this one seems to be working out."
To say the least. Tonight, the whimsical "Warehouse 13" wraps up a magical first season after delivering record numbers for SyFy — formerly known as the Sci Fi Channel but perhaps worthy of the moniker Sigh Fi since "Warehouse" is pulling in the biggest female viewership numbers in the 17-year history of the cable outlet. The women are coming for the show's paranormal plots but also its flirty fun — think "Fringe" stirred to a light froth, or maybe "Moonlighting" with magical artifacts — as well as McClintock's rugged good looks and crooked smile.
The show stars McClintock as Pete Lattimer, an impulsive, rule-bending Secret Service agent who proudly trusts his gut instincts and has a personal life that's a bit of an ummade bed. That's the exact opposite of his new partner, Myka Bering (portrayed by Joanne Kelly), whose approach is cerebral and by-the-book. He's all smirk, she's all squint, and together they have been exiled to a strange new assignment in South Dakota where they guard a classified warehouse loaded up with mystical objects that are too dangerous to let out of the box — yes, it's a lot like that hushed, anonymous federal archive in the final scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
McClintock was ready to crate up his Hollywood career when "Warehouse" came along. With two children and a decade of only vagabond success, the native of Canton, Ohio, considered walking away from acting altogether. He had a nice four-episode run as a guest star on "Bones" in 2007 and memorable turns in "Friends," "Desperate Housewives" and "Felicity," but there was persistent disappointment when he stepped into the leading-man role.
"I was on a show called 'Stark Raving Mad' [in 1999] with Tony Shalhoub and Neil Patrick Harris," McClintock said. "The reviews were great. We won the People's Choice Award. I bought a Porsche, which is what one does. It was a 911, champagne-color with the Boxter red interior. It was the first year they changed the engine from air-cooled to water-cooled. Then the show got canceled and I lived out of my Porsche for three years."
There were plenty of other disappointments. "Holding the Baby" on Fox had the look of a winner. McClintock said he remembered a limo ride in New York where he found himself wondering, "How will I handle the fame from this?" With a wry wink, he adds: "It didn't turn out to be problem."
There were shows that, just in their titles, seem like reminders of a sparse and feckless career — such as "B.S." (no, it actually stands for "Boarding School"), "Crumbs" with Jane Curtin and Fred Savage, and "Say Uncle" with Teri Hatcher and Ken Olin. Some others McClintock has a hard time even remembering the names of, but, he notes, "[You] remember the rejection."
McClintock in some ways is an accidental actor. Growing up, film was a major bonding experience between him and his father, but the boy was more interested in sports and his artwork than he was in pursuing stardom. In college, he studied design but, like so many art students, he looked around and realized that he was good, not great, and that a career would be hardscrabble struggle. He ended up in Los Angeles selling insurance for an uncle — a life chapter which, showing the limitations of nepotism, ended with McClintock getting fired. By his 30s, his wandering had taken him into acting in beer commercials, soap operas and, eventually, prime-time television shows.
McClintock still pursues his art. "Warehouse 13" fans may be surprised to learn that McClintock did the album artwork for "V is for Vagina," the delicately titled Puscifer album. Puscifer is the latest heavy music venture for Maynard James Keenan, one of the more elusive personalities in all of rock and the frontman for the ferocious prog-rock outfit Tool and A Perfect Circle.
McClintock became pals with Keenan about 14 years ago, meeting through a mutual friend, Moon Zappa. The two found they had plenty in common — both grew up in Ohio, competed as wrestlers and felt like outsider souls in Los Angeles. The artwork for Puscifer took six months and it's clearly a source of pride for McClintock, who enjoys the artistic expression of illustration and the adrenaline clarity of competitive sports but still seems uneasy in Hollywood acting, which is a messy combination of both.
Keenan, interviewed via e-mail, said of his friend: "Heart and passion. Few have it and even fewer stay true to it. Eddie is one of those few. Visual artist, actor, friend, annoyingly loving father, arch nemesis. I've watched him tackle all challenges without pause for over a decade and his time has finally come. Congratulations are due."
McClintock may not enjoy winning so much as he just hates losing. Over an hourlong cheeseburger lunch at the downtown restaurant Pete's, McClintock talked more about his past near-misses than his current hit. He also talked about his intense anxiety about throwing out the opening pitch at recent game of the Tampa Bay Rays, especially after watching President Obama "throw out a pitch and short-hop to the plate — while wearing mom jeans." McClintock spent weeks preparing and, thankfully, didn't embarrass himself.
"I didn't disgrace my father and really, everything I do is to make him proud," the actor said of his dad, Theodore "Ted" McClintock. "I know that sounds silly…."
Family is important to the actor, who married Lynn Sanchez in 2005. The pair have two young sons. While McClintock can enjoy the leering imagery and hard thrash of music by his buddy James, he also is pleased that his own work is wholesome enough to be considered brainy family fare. The show is like "Torchwood" without the torchy sex, and that's just fine by McClintock; it's OK with SyFy executives, too, who have seen the show top the ratings of signature shows such as critically acclaimed "Battlestar Galactica."
"I love that it's a family show," he said. "We need family right now, with the economy being the way it is and everyone afraid with terrorism and the things going on in the world. So how nice is it to have everyone be able to sit and watch the same show, something scary and funny and thrilling and heartfelt. It's not gratuitously violent or overtly sexual. Kids can watch it and still get a little scared but not leave the show with post-traumatic stress syndrome. For me it's a dream job; I get to be silly and funny but my character is also smart and accomplished."
McClintock laughed and thought back to his youth: He used to watch "Happy Days" with his father, and the boy got so into the show that he got himself a leather jacket. "Maybe one car an hour would drive down my street in rural Ohio but I remember putting on my Fonzie jacket, slicking my hair back and standing out by the street just waiting for somebody to drive by so I could do my Fonzie. Silly, right? I actually got to meet Henry Winkler recently and tell him that story. That was so worth all the kicks to the groin I've gotten in this business for the last 12 years. That was magic."
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text: Set Fire to the Stars Premieres in New York 28 May 2015 On June 10, BAFTA Cymru will be co-hosting the New York premiere of Welsh film Set Fire to the Stars in a special event supported by Welsh Government, Visit Wales, The British Consulate-General New York, Strand Releasing, The St Davids Society of the State of New York, The Welsh Society of Philadelphia and Mad as Birds Films. Read more BAFTA Cymru celebrates 10 years of Doctor Who 6 May 2015 A special anniversary screening and Q&A to be hosted by BAFTA Cymru, Cardiff Business Council, BBC America, Welsh Government and BAFTA New York Read more Welsh school students to quiz actors at special Patagonia 150 event 9 April 2015 BAFTA Cymru launch series of celebratory film screenings across Wales Read more Patagonia 150 events series 23 March 2015 Following the success of our Doctor Who Monsters Archive screenings with talent, we are happy to announce a new series of events which will take place in 2015. Read more BAFTA Cymru in 2015 3 February 2015 As we look forward to an exciting 2015, BAFTA Cymru has set some ambitious goals and aspirations for the year ahead Read more BAFTA Cymru, BBC Cymru Wales and Film Hub Wales announce special Doctor Who events 22 October 2014 An exciting series of events which will offer new access to the Doctor Who series, featuring episodes that have been filmed in Wales throughout its 50 year history. Read more BAFTA Cymru and Pinewood launch partnership to support Welsh film and television industry 22 October 2014 BAFTA Cymru and the Pinewood Studios Group have joined forces in a strategic partnership to support Wales' television and film industry. Read more Look 'Who' it is... 6 January 2014 Members were treated to an unexpected visit from The Doctor when Peter Capaldi came to our preview screening of Sherlock (episode 2, series 3) f on Sunday 5 January, which took place in Chapter, Cardiff. Read more Welsh writer/director and BAFTA 'Brit to Watch' returns to old pastures 17 June 2013 This summer Welsh Writer/Director and BAFTA 'Brit to Watch' Brynach Day, will be returning from LA to his childhood home of Pembrokeshire to shoot his loss of innocence drama, Role Play. Read more Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 Share


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Freshman Andre Brown (Jamaica, NY/Waterford, West Indies) won the Division III NCAA Championship in the Long Jump competition with a leap of 23 feet 10 inches - 7.26 meters. Brown, who qualified for the NCAA's with a leap of 22' 11 ľ" (7.00m), was the first Farmingdale State student-athlete in history to qualify for the Division III NCAA's and now becomes the first student-athlete at Farmingdale to win a Division III National Championship.
In the preliminary round in the midst of 11 other long jumpers, Andre jumped 6.81 meters (22' 4 Ľ") on his first attempt. He fouled on the 2nd jump and then jumped 6.95 meters (22' 9 ľ") on his third attempt. The two jumps put him in fifth place with nine jumpers going into the finals.
In the Long Jump finals, Andre's first attempt measured 7.09 meters (23' 3 Ľ"), moving him into second place. His second jump, which would stand as the championship jump, measured at 7.26 meters (23' 10"), followed by a third jump of 7.10 meters (23' 3 ˝").
Brown edged out Tufts University sophomore Fred Jones, who saved his best for last at 7.24 meters (23' 9") in his final jump of the day.


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Local businessman Bill Randell is a longtime booster of Worcester Regional Airport, for reasons he can�t fully explain. Maybe he has a soft spot for aviation underdogs. Or perhaps quixotic quests are in his nature.
Wednesday, Randell was among the many smiley faces that would have warmed the heart of Harvey Ball as JetBlue touched down in Worcester and announced it would begin daily flights to Florida in the fall. The news was so welcome that our beaming city manager, speaking before a large crowd that packed the terminal, strongly implied that he was clad in blue boxers.
�I love the smell of JetBlue jet engines in the morning,� said Manager Michael O�Brien, and let�s hope the line burgled from �Apocalypse Now� is not a portend of the airport�s future. �Smells like victory.�
This development is so positive that I will refrain from any cracks about the Mach 10 grovel fest staged by city leaders, who haven�t been this happy since Police Chief Gary Gemme deactivated his Twitter account. The ceremony included a marching band, an arch of swords for the deplaned executives, and such enthusiastic hugging between O�Brien and JetBlue CEO Dave Barger that I was tempted to suggest they get a room.
Nor will I observe that everyone was so crazed at the ceremony, so delirious with joy that a successful business would actually come to Worcester and try to sell us something, that I wouldn�t have been surprised to see people tossing cash at Barger before they even booked a ticket.
Instead, I�m inspired to pen my own quasi-original love poem:
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue.
So is Our New Air Carrier.
Here�s another:
How Much Do We Need JetBlue?
Try to Leave, and We�ll Kill You.
Other carriers have abandoned us, but this feels different. JetBlue is an established and reliable low-fare airline, unlike, say, Direct Air, which boasted the aeronautical flair and expertise of a municipal parking garage. Randell and his wife have already booked promotional low-fare tickets to Fort Lauderdale through JetBlue, a pleasant experience despite the purpose of the trip: a visit with his mother-in-law.
�It was a good day for Worcester,� Randell said after the ceremony, and he even got a shout-out from the city manager. Randell sponsored a $2,000 contest for the best video to lure JetBlue to Worcester.
But while Randell was happy about the development, he had some important advice: let�s put our money where the momentum is.
�It�s time for people to start buying tickets and support JetBlue,� he said. �The time for contests is over. If we don�t support them, they won�t stay. There are no more excuses � just buy the tickets. There�s no reason we shouldn�t be able to make this a success.�
Well, this is Worcester, after all, where we never met a bargain we didn�t like. If the flights stay cheap, we�ll book them. And what about free airport parking? Worcesterites are so enamored of that perk that we�d park our cars at the airport, even if we weren�t flying anywhere.
There�s really no downside to the JetBlue development, which is unusual in a city whose perpetually peeved residents could find controversy in a litter of fluffy kittens. I tried hard to think of one and I asked Randell: what about noise pollution from the planes?
�That�s baloney,� he said.
Randell also believes that the Florida flights are simply a starting point.
�If we support those routes, other routes will come,� he said. �If we fill those planes, we�ll have more flights than we know what to do with. Then we can start talking about noise pollution.�
So suck it up, West Siders. After the years of silence that�s echoed from empty airport hill, the rumble of jet engines should be music to our ears.


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Treatment of addiction helps people to eliminate their use of euphoria producing or so-called "brain rewarding" drugs. The goal of treatment for addiction is long-term abstinence - no use of these euphoria producing drugs at all.
Detoxification, or "detox," is the first level of treatment. Detox involves a short, one to seven day inpatient or outpatient stay during which patients are detoxified from one or more substances. People need to detox if they cannot stop using or "get sober or straight" at all on their own.
Rehabilitation or "rehab" involves an inpatient stay on a residential unit for seven days to six weeks. Most rehab programs will take people with insurance who have finished the worst of their withdrawal. Some programs do accept people without insurance. While at rehab, people spend their time being educated about addiction, recovery, and Alcoholics Anonymous. This is done in group therapy, individual counseling, family counseling sessions, and doing reading and writing homework assignments.
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Because of costs and the limited insurance money available to pay for treatment, more and more programs are offering outpatient treatment. People go to these programs for "day treatment" or "evening treatment," but continue to live at home. People in outpatient treatment programs also have counseling and learn about addiction and recovery.
Self-Help Programs (AA, NA, CA, etc.)
The self-help programs, like AA or Alcoholics Anonymous, were developed in the 1930's and 1940's, and were the first successful approaches to recovery from chemical dependence., AA works as a group of people, all of whom have alcoholism or drug dependence, and all of whom meet regularly to act as support for each others efforts to live without drinking or drugging. Daily meetings, which take place in all communities, are free and are open to all people in need. AA is spiritual, but not religious, and mainly concentrates on how to live sober.
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Women in early recovery should try to attend at least some "women only closed" meetings. A "Women Only" meeting should be the person's "home group." It is important that women in early treatment use a person from the home group for a "sponsor." Men and women tend to socialize in treatment and self-help programs, and it is clearly not in the best interests of a woman's recovery to develop a relationship while in treatment. In fact, people who are having unstable romantic relationships are so much more likely to relapse (start using drugs or alcohol again), that it is recommended not to begin any new relationships for the first 12-18 months of sobriety. Click here for more information about women and addiction and recovery.
There are several resources available to help family and friends educate themselves about chemical dependence in the bibliography. There are self-help organizations also available for family members of people with chemical dependence problems, including ALANON, ALATEEN, Tough Love, and Families Anonymous. In addition, family members can benefit from individual counseling or family therapy when dealing with a loved one who has addiction problems.
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You likely have never heard of the five women who will star in VH1's "Mob Wives Chicago" – the spinoff to the successful New York-based "Mob Wives" – but people who are up on their local mob history may recognize the infamous men who raised each of them.
The reality TV show stars Nora Schweihs, daughter of alleged Mob enforcer Frank "The German" Schweihs, Pia Rizza, daughter of Vincent Rizza, a dirty cop who worked for the mob before testifying against them, Christina Scoleri, daughter of Raymond Janek, an alleged "fence" for the mob, Leah DeSimone, daughter of alleged mob associate William "Wolf" DeSimone and Renee Fecarotta Russo, who owns Eye Candy Optics in Ukrainian Village and was raised by her uncle and alleged hitman "Big John" Fecarotta.
"I was looking for 100 percent real authentic relationships and friendships," said show creator Jennifer Graziano over the phone from New York Tuesday. "That way we feel their pain and we feel their happiness. I was also looking for people with deep mob history. People who were right off the pages of the books.
"They all know each other and get along, but like any group of women you put together, they have issues."
Graziano, whose father is Anthony Graziano, former "consigliere" of the Bonanno crime family, said she knew Nora because their dads served time together in prison. She met other "Mob Wives Chicago" candidates through friends and family. Some of the bigger names gave her a "hard no," as she put it, while other women contacted her through Twitter and Facebook hoping to land a spot on the show.
"It's an interesting way of being able to tell your story," Graziano said of the show. "I know a few (cast members) were in the process of writing books. This is a way for them to express themselves and say 'Yeah, I may have been this person's daughter, but this is who I am and why I am who I am,' whether it's good or bad.
"And obviously, TV is appealing for the opportunities that can grow from there."
The controversial show has been shooting in Chicago since December and is expected to wrap in May. Camera crews have mostly filmed in the cast's homes and workplaces, but have also shot in Chicago clubs and restaurants, including The Newport Bar & Grill in Lakeview and The Fifty/50 and Bleeding Heart Bakery & Cafe in Ukrainian Village. Graziano said some locations refused to allow her show to film in their venues, but only about one out of every four or five.
"I would say what we were doing, and they would give a polite 'No,'" Graziano said. "I never took offense to it. I understand. And it never got to the point where we had nowhere to go."
As for whether she considered calling the show "Mob Daughters" because of the lack of actual mob wives in the cast, Graziano said "'Mob Wives' is about being married to a lifestyle and mind set, not literally being a wife. I would have called it 'Married to the Mob," but that's already the name of a (1988) movie."
"Mob Wives Chicago" is scheduled to premiere on VH1 in June and will join a handful of other reality TV shows that have filmed in the Chicago area, including MTV's "The Real World: Chicago," Bravo's "Top Chef Chicago," TLC's "Pawn Queens," Style's "Giuliana and Bill" and VH1's upcoming "House of Consignment."
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Before DJing professionally, in which he has been working for five years, Allan Natal also produced his own music since he was 16.
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Al Crotzer, who spent more than 24 years in prison for rapes he didn't commit, scolded police and Florida House lawmakers Tuesday for changing a bill designed to reform eyewitness identification.
"This is very personal to me. I spent more than half of my life wrongly convicted," Crotzer said.
Turning away from the microphone at the House Judiciary Committee, he glared at the uniformed law-enforcement officers and lobbyists representing police chiefs and sheriffs, who lobbied to remove some of the requirements in the legislation, HB 821
"You need some rules and regulations. You got it wrong. You've been getting it wrong for a long time," Crotzer said.
The 4-page bill called on law-enforcement agencies to use neutral officers to administer line-ups or photo-lineups so that potential witnesses aren't subtly led or pressured to identify the wrong suspect.
But law-enforcement officials – a far more powerful lobby in Tallahassee than Crotzer and justice-reform groups -- successfully argued against parts of the bill, specifically a provision that would call for an "independent admnistrator" to oversee lineups. If an independent administrator wasn't used, the original bill called on a state commission to craft a "carefully structured" process to ensure neutrality.
They law-enforcement lobby, though, said the Legislature shouldn't tell police how to do their jobs. They successfully pushed for replacement legislation that would require each law-enforcement agency to establish their own standards.
Jim Coats, the Pinellas County sheriff and head of the Florida Sheriff's Association, said the standards would still focus "on neutrality and impartiality in the line-up process."
"Law enforcement does not want to put innocent people in jail," Coats said. "Law enforcement does not want to arrest innocent people."
But it happens. And innocent people have been incarcerated, said former FBI agent Robert Cromwell, who testified Tuesday.
In Florida, he said, 10 of the 13 wrongfully incarcerated people were convicted due to witness misidentification. Nationwide, 75 percent of the 269 wrongfully incarcerated people were convicted largely due to witness misidentification.
"When you look at the time between the wrongfully convicted person and the time the ultimate suspect is arrested, there were over 20 homicides and 60 rapes by those people," he testified.
"When you convict somebody through misidentification, the investigation stops and the actual criminal is still on the street," Cromwell said.
The Florida Innocence Commission, a 24-member panel of lawmakers, judges and lawyers, recommended the legislation that Cromwell and Crotzer supported.
One commission member, Republican Rep. William Snyder of Stuart, chairs the Judiciary Committee. But he said the original legislation wouldn't have passed on the conservative-leaning committee.
So the bill sponsor, Rep. Perry Thurston, D-Plantation, agreed to change it. His fellow Democrats opposed the move – an irony considering that Thurston is set to lead House Democrats next year. Ultimately, nearly all of the Democrats joined Republicans in the 17-1 approval of the legislation.
Thurston said he hoped that the other commission member, Republican Sen. Joe Negron of Stuart, held firm to the original version of the bill. Senate President Mike Haridopolos is trying to make sure the Innocence Commission maintains its funding, and he's sponsoring legislation this spring to compensate yet another wrongfully convicted man, William Dillon.
Crotzer, who was awarded $1.25 million in 2008, said he understands the legislative process can be slow. But he doesn't appreciate it.
"I ain't a politician. I don't have a degree. I know what you're doing is wrong today. But you can make it right," he said.
"The person that committed this crime ain't come to justice yet. One of the people that was victimized – he was a double rapist by the way, a double rapist – was a 12-year-old female. They never solved that crime. I spent half of my life in jail for that. I want some justice now. You can give it to me."


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As many writers know, agents and editors won't give your work more than ten pages or so to make an impact. If you haven't got them hooked by then, it's a safe bet you won't be asked for more material. Make sure you've got the kind of opening they're looking for! In this invaluable weekend event, you'll get to work with an agent online to review and refine the first ten pages of your novel. You'll learn what keeps an agent reading, what are the most common mistakes that make them stop, and the steps you need to take to correct them. The best part is that you'll be working directly with an agent, who will provide feedback specific to your work.
It's all part of the recurring popular Agent One-on-One Boot Camp called "Your First 10 Pages." Sign up by the end of the day, May 15, 2015. It's taught by the agents at Talcott Notch Literary.
Here's how it works:
On Friday morning, May 15, you will gain access to a special 60-minute online tutorial presented by agent and editor Paula Munier. It will help you clarify what you should be looking for in your work. You will also be notified by email which agent you'll be working with on Friday. (All times noted are Eastern Time).
After listening to the presentation, you'll spend Friday evening revising your first ten pages as necessary, given the guidelines provided in the presentation, and you'll email those pages directly to Paula or one of four additional agents from Talcott Notch Literary, including Gina Panettieri, Rachael Dugas, and Jessica Negron, by Saturday morning at 10:00 AM (ET). They will spend all day Saturday reviewing their assigned pages and providing feedback as to what works and what doesn't. (Sign up for the boot camp here.)
All pages with notes will be returned to participants by 11:00 AM (ET) Sunday morning (May 17). You'll work to revise your pages based on the agent's specific feedback. From 1:00 to 4:00 PM on May 17, Paula, Gina, Rachael, and Saba will be available to answer questions and provide additional feedback via the Writer's Digest University message boards. Only registered students can access these boards. You'll also be able to ask question of your fellow students. Feel free to share your work and gain support from your peers.
By 10:00 PM (ET) Sunday night on May 17, you'll return your final revised pages to your assigned agent for review. They will spend the next week reading the revised submissions assigned to them, and will provide a final brief one-or-two sentence critique of your progress no later than May 28. Please note that any one of them may ask for additional pages if the initial submission shows serious promise.
*Please note that all attendees should have the first 10 pages of their novel finished and ready to submit to the agent prior to the beginning of the event. (Sign up for the boot camp here.)
In addition to feedback from Paula, Gina, Rachael, or Saba, attendees will also receive:
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Gina Panettieri is President of Talcott Notch Literary Services, and has worked as an agent for more than 20 years. She currently represents a full range of adult and children's fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis in fiction on YA, MG, mystery, fantasy, women's fiction, horror and paranormal. In nonfiction, she is particularly seeking memoir, business, cooking, health and fitness, pop science, medicine, true crime and current events. Some of her clients include Nancy Holzner, author of the new Deadtown urban fantasy series from Berkley/Ace Science Fiction, Annabella Bloom, author of the Wild and Wanton edition romance hybrid classics Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights (Adams Media), Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of the bestselling and multi-award winning adoption book, The Connected Child (McGraw-Hill), and author and media personality, Dr. Seth Meyers. She currently represents an eclectic range of writers, encompassing everyone from a former head of Security and Intelligence for NATO Europe, to CEOs of major corporations and Deans of major medical schools, to stay-at-home writer moms and amazingly talented teens. Gina speaks at many conferences and writing events throughout the country on the subjects of securing an agent and getting published. Her agency website is talcottnotch.net
Paula Munier, Senior Literary Agent & Content Strategist at Talcott Notch Literary, has broad experience creating and marketing exceptional content in all formats across all markets for such media giants as Disney, Gannett, Greenspun Media Group, and Quayside. She began her career as a journalist, and along the way added editor, acquisitions specialist, digital content manager, and publishing executive to her repertoire. Before joining Talcott Notch, she served as the Director of Innovation and Acquisitions for Adams Media, a division of F&W Media, where she headed up the acquisitions team responsible for creating, curating, and producing both fiction and nonfiction for print, ebook, eshort, and direct-to-ebook formats. (Sign up for the boot camp here.)
Although she represents all kinds of projects, right now she's looking for crime fiction, women's fiction, romance, New Adult, YA, and middle grade fiction, as well as nonfiction in the areas of pop culture, health & wellness, cooking, self-help, pop psych, New Age, inspirational, technology, science, and writing. As a new agent she's making her first deals now, including the New Adult trilogy, The Registry by Shannon Stoker, which sold for six figures to HarperCollins. She's also just sold mystery, thriller, and self-help. Paula is very involved with the mystery community, having served four terms as President of the New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America as well as on the MWA board. (She's currently VP of that organization.) She's also served as both co-chair and Agents and Editors chair on the New England Crime Bake committee for seven years and counting. And she's an active member of Sisters in Crime.
Saba Sulaiman is the newest member of Talcott Notch Literary Services. She joined the team after working as an editorial intern at Sourcebooks, where she worked primarily on their romance line. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago, where she studied modern Persian literature. She's looking primarily to build her Middle Grade and Young Adult lists, and is particularly interested in contemporary realistic stories. She's also actively seeking category romance (all subgenres except paranormal), literary, upmarket, and commercial fiction, tightly plotted, character-driven psychological thrillers, and cozy mysteries à la Agatha Christie.
Rachael Dugas joined Talcott Notch Literary in 2011. During her tenure as associate agent, Rachael has judged contests and attended conferences in New York and beyond, working with groups such as Writer's Digest, ASJA, YA Lit Chat, the National Publicity Summit, and the Hampton Roads Writers. Recent sales include titles in young adult and romance to imprints at Hachette, Perseus, and Month 9 Books. Rachael is a former Sourcebooks editorial intern and a proud Ithaca College graduate. She welcomes fiction submissions in the following categories: YA, MG, women's fiction, contemporary and historical romance, historical fiction, and general commercial fiction. Her non-fiction wishlist includes memoir with an amazing voice and cookbooks or performing arts-related books with outstanding platforms.
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