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Samuel Eto'o has been handed a 15-match ban by Cameroon for leading a players strike.
Eto'o, the skipper of the Indomitable Lions, and vice-captain Eyong Enoh were found guilty of encouraging team-mates not to travel to Algeria for a friendly in November.
"Samuel Eto'o, in his role as captain, incited his team-mates to refuse to travel to Algeria," the Cameroon football federation stated on its official website.
After already missing out on next year's African Nations Cup, the prolonged absence of the Anzhi Makhachkala striker will come as a huge blow to Cameroon's hopes of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup, with their first qualifier set to take place next June against the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is understood the Cameroon players were angered after the federation refused payment for their participation in a four-nation tournament in Morocco earlier in the year. Tottenham's Benoit Assou-Ekotto has since been fined one million CFA francs for refusing to appear at the tournament.
Eto'o, Enoh and Ekotto have been given 10 days to lodge an appeal.
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We live in the midst of a multiplicity of food uncertainties requiring in-depth analyses at many levels. The question of food security - concerned with the availability, access and utilization of food - is riddled with paradoxical challenges. For example, enough food is grown to feed the world's entire population, yet approximately 1 billion people go hungry each year. Malnutrition can manifest as both under-nutrition and, increasingly, obesity. Vast numbers of people migrate toward opportunity in urban centers only to experience unemployment, elevated cost of living, and exacerbated social unrest alongside unaffordable food staples.
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From the Wall Street Journal – April 5, 2011 http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/ It may seem like a laughable "only in New York" story that Manhattan mother, Nicole Imprescia, is suing her 4-year-old daughter's untraditional private preschool for failing to prepare her for a private school admissions exam. But her daughter's future and ours might be much brighter..read more →
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Kingaru Sleep Launches a High-End Mattress Online in Indonesia
Kingaru Sleep, a tech-startup in Jakarta will launch the Kingaru Mattress in less than 33 days. It's a luxury mattress sold exclusively online in Indonesia.
The three-part mattress features latex comfort layer available in a fixed firmness and a separate support layer of memory foam. The design, along with a free, 100-days home-try exchange program, makes it easy for customers to adapt to fit changes in their lifestyles at any time. Whether it's conveniently shipped in a box, or delivered with the optional white glove service, Kingaru has made mattress buying regret-free by making it easy to transform the feel of the mattress in week one or year ten.
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Giants use homers in 11th to top Braves
Atlanta, GA – Brandon Crawford and Gregor Blanco belted three-run homers off Chad Durbin in the 11th inning, boosting the Giants to a 9-4 win over the Atlanta Braves.
Melky Cabrera also went deep and knocked in two for the NL West leaders, who posted their season-high fifth straight win. They earned consecutive wins at Turner Field for the first time since Aug. 17-18, 2008. Wednesday's victory assured the Giants just their second regular season series win in 19 tries at Turner Field (2-14-3).
"We always seem to play exciting games. That one was up on the top for me," Crawford said.
The Braves, who lost 9-0, in the opener of this three-game set Tuesday, were down to their final out a night later, but Brian McCann extended the game with a two-run blast off Santiago Casilla (3-4) in the 10th inning.
Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones, who had a pair of errors in the game, homered in the 11th. It was the 1,596th RBI of his career, passing Mike Schmidt and tying George Brett for the most in major league history by a third baseman.
Anthony Varvaro (1-1) hit Eli Whiteside with a pitch to start the 11th and then walked Brandon Belt. Durbin fanned Joaquin Arias and then faced Crawford, who crouched down in obvious pain after fouling a ball off his right knee on the first pitch. He smashed the next offering over the wall in right field for his second homer of the year, and first in his last 249 at-bats.
"It was right below the kneecap," Crawford said referring to the foul ball.
It was unlikely for Crawford to come out, considering the Giants had no position players left on the bench.
"I was thinking about that a little bit when I was on the ground," Crawford added. "(Matt) Cain said he was warming up."
Later in the frame, Blanco, who spent the first two-plus seasons of his career in Atlanta, went deep, also to right with Justin Christian and Cabrera aboard. It was his first career homer at Turner Field.
Juan Francisco led off the bottom of the third with his seventh homer of the year, a blast to center. The Giants failed to score after loading the bases in the fifth, but Cabrera tied the game with a homer to left with two down in the sixth.
San Francisco escaped trouble in the ninth when Javier Lopez struck out Michael Bourn on the ninth pitch of a bases-loaded at-bat.
The Giants got the upperhand in the 10th. Arias tripled to right field and Crawford was intentionally walked. Christian then hit a bouncer to Jones, who was playing in at third. Jones barehanded the ball and tried a scoop throw to home, but the ball sailed several feet over the head of McCann.
The bases were full again when Ryan Theriot walked, and Crawford scored on Cabrera's bloop hit to left-center field. Pinch-hitter Emmanuel Burriss lined out to leave the bases loaded.
Casilla, though, suffered his fifth blown save in his last eight chances. Freddie Freeman doubled with two outs and McCann blasted a homer to left.
"It's definitely a tough one, especially when you give up a couple of runs late in the game and B-Mac gets that two-run homer to tie it," Braves reliever Kris Medlen said. "I think we had some momentum going and it just didn't work out for us."
Game Notes
The start of the game was delayed 76 minutes by rain...The Giants placed catcher Hector Sanchez on the 15-day disabled list with a left knee sprain. Whiteside was recalled from Triple-A Fresno...The Giants moved to 6-1 in extra inning games this year...The homer for McCann was the 150th of his career...This is the first time the Giants have scored at least six runs in an extra inning since Aug. 7, 2001 at Cincinnati...Giants catcher Buster Posey, who was born in Leesburg, GA, about three hours from Atlanta, went 3-for-4 and is 12-for-21 over his last six games...The Braves entered Wednesday with a season-best seven-game errorless streak.


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The Truth Sometimes Outs. Not That It Matters Anymore.
One of them was Bert Solivan, then the vice president for news information at Fox News Channel and general manager of Foxnews.com. He made two $240 donations to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2003. Others included Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto ($1000 to Republicans), and Griff Jenkins, Oliver North's producer ($2,000 to, um, Republicans).
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It turned out to be moot because Howard Kurtz came out with the same story while I was working on mine, and I dropped it. But I was always curious that he never mentioned Bert Solivan in his story, since Solivan was actually the highest-ranking apparent news executive who made political donations (higher-ups like NBC's Bob Wright give plenty, but that's less objectionable). He must have been convinced, I thought, by Fox's line that Solivan was just a techie with a grand-sounding title. He ended his piece with, "Many of the other media employees in the FEC records worked in business or technical jobs or are no longer employed by those outlets."
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Catrin Thomas was an ordinary girl from the Welsh valleys when she was swept into a steamy affair with sexy Murat, a desert sultan! But when she discovers his aides are brokering a marriage to a suitable virgin bride, she leaves, heartbroken.
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'You 're nothing but a rich man's whore!'
The words still burned in Catrin's ears and she couldn't seem to shift them, no matter how hard she tried. Hateful words made worse by the fact that they had been spoken by her own mother.
'What the hell do you think he's doing when he's out of the country?' Ursula Thomas had demanded. 'Going to bed early, with nothing but a book in his hand?'
Catrin had sat listening to the slurred words, feeling all her confidence drain away. But she couldn't deny that the accusations had touched a raw nerve and that was probably why she had reacted so defensively. Why her nails had dug into the palms of her hands so hard that it hurt and instead of telling her mother it was none of her business, she had stupidly tried to justify herself. Because that was pointless. Some people only ever saw the dark side of life and her mother was one of them.
She was not a whore.
And Murat was going to bed on his own.
Catrin let her thoughts stray to the exotic Sultan who had changed her world. She had never planned to be a 'kept woman' living in a fancy penthouse, but that was the way things had turned out. Just as she had never planned a relationship with a man who was larger than life-a man for whom the rules had to be broken. Only now she had broken the most dangerous rule of all and she didn't know what she was going to do about it.
Later, he would arrive here from Qurhah. He would take her in his arms and the undiluted pleasure of his kiss would quickly block out everything else. But she wondered for how long. How long before the niggling doubts returned-along with the growing certainty that she had done what she had vowed never to do?
She had fallen in love with him.
She loved Murat.
It was the worst of all possible scenarios.
She walked over to the window and stared out. How had that happened? Especially to someone who didn't 'do' love? Who had always claimed-with good reason-that she didn't know what love was. She wondered when that invisible switch had been flicked. The one which had changed everything and made her heart race whenever she thought of him. Was it logical to love a man who was never really there for her, who had never offered her anything but fabulous sex and pretty baubles?
But love wasn't logical, was it? It crept up on you whether you wanted it to or not. And that was dangerous. More to the point, it was futile. Because the only thing the Sultan had ever promised her was that he could never commit.
Her gaze moved to the distant treetops and the green canopy of leaves which were moving gently in the soft summer breeze. Sometimes it was hard to believe that this apartment was slap-bang in the centre of London-with a view dominated by a park so beautiful that sometimes it felt just like being in the countryside. Just as it was hard to believe that the sleek woman who stared back at her from the mirror every morning really was Catrin Thomas, the smalltown woman who had given herself so completely to the autocratic desert King of Qurhah.
Gone was the unruly tangle of shiny curls which had once defined her and in their place were waves of hair so glossy that someone in a shop had once stopped her and told her she should be in a shampoo commercial. Gone were the cheap clothes she used to buy on her very average salary and the cut-price make-up she used to pick up from the nearby supermarket. These days she looked expensive because she was expensive. A rich man's mistress. With a price tag to match.
The telephone began to ring and Catrin rushed to answer it as soon as she saw Murat's name flash up on the screen, because he hated to be kept waiting. But she accepted that, as she had accepted so much else about him. He was a sultan and a king. He ruled a vast and affluent desert region. He wasn't used to waiting. His time-as she knew only too well-was very precious.
'Hello?' she said, breathlessly, because a phone call meant that his private jet was already in the air and soon he would be landing at the small airfield just outside London. And she was nowhere near ready!
'Cat? Is that you?'
She sucked in an excited breath, because his deep, accented voice always had the same effect on her. It made her stomach twist into knots. It made her skin prickle with anticipation. Only now, of course, it also made her heart lurch with anxiety-because this was not just the 'friends with benefits' thing any more. This was-most inconveniently-that stupid thing called love and she must be careful not to show it.
'Of course it's me,' she said softly. 'Who else could it be?'
'It didn't sound like you.' There was a pause. 'For a minute I thought you might have gone away and left me.'
His voice had dipped in that indulgent way it always did when they hadn't seen each other in a while. A whole month had passed since Murat had last been in England. It had been the longest time they'd ever been apart, and Catrin had missed him. She'd missed him like crazy.
'I think we both know,' she said, trying not to let her voice tremble with emotion, 'that I'm not planning on going anywhere.'
'I'm very pleased to hear it.'
But something in his voice caused her to grow still, as a flicker of foreboding iced its way over her skin. She frowned. 'You sound a little weary, Murat.'
'I am-or rather, I was. But suddenly I discover that I am filled with energy at the thought of seeing you again, my beautiful, green-eyed little Cat.'
She could hear the sudden roughening of his voice and wished that he were here now and that he were kissing her. Kissing her and making all these stupid doubts disappear into thin air. 'Me, too,' she said.
'And I'm wondering,' he murmured, 'what you've been doing to make you sound so breathless?'
The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she didn't say them, even though part of her wondered what his reaction would be if she came out with the truth. Oh, you know. I was just getting over the shock of hearing my mother tell me that I'm nothing but a whore and implying that you're up to no good when you're not here.
But she had vowed to herself a long time ago that there was no point in objecting to things which couldn't be changed. She was trying to live in the moment. To enjoy what she had, instead of obsessing about what she didn't have, and could never have. Hadn't her own childhood taught her that was the only way to live?
'Not a lot,' she prevaricated. 'I was just wondering what time you're going to get here.'
'Soon, my beauty. Very soon. But I don't want to waste time talking about my schedule when there are so many more interesting things we could discuss. And there's only one thought on my mind right now after so many weeks of being away.' There was a pause. 'What are you wearing?'
Catrin's perfectly manicured nails tightened around the handset of the phone and she swallowed down the sudden lump which had risen in her throat. She knew what was expected of her and usually it was all too easy to play this game. Of course it was- because Murat had taught her the rules and, consequently, she had become very accomplished at it. And she liked it. She liked playing the sexy mistress who was up for it any time of the day or night.
But today the seeds of uncertainty had been sown in her mind. She felt like a tennis player who had walked out on court to find an enormous hole at the centre of her racquet.
So pull yourself together, she urged herself. Count your blessings and enjoy the life you've been given instead of the one you secretly crave.
She ran her hand over one hip, her fingertips encountering the rough texture of her denim jeans. But instead of describing an article of clothing which Murat despised, she injected a sultry note into her voice and pretended. Because wasn't fantasy everything to lovers? Hadn't he taught her that, too?
'I'm wearing silk,' she whispered.
'What kind of silk?'
That stupid lump was still sticking in her throat, but it didn't stop her from continuing with the game. Quite honestly, she couldn't imagine having a telephone conversation with Murat which wasn't erotic. The kind of conversation she'd never have been able to carry off when she'd just been that naive girl from Wales. But in spite of her background, she'd always been smart. She devoured books and was a fast learner-and learning to please a man was a skill just like any other, just like arranging flowers or making a cake rise.
'Soft silk,' she said. 'Butter soft.'
'Tell me more.'
She thought about the ribboned and crotchless purchase still lying in folds of soft tissue paper in the bedroom. The one she was planning to slide into as soon as she'd had her shower. The one which would probably be ripped apart by Murat's impatient fingers within minutes of his arriving here. 'They're midnight blue,' she said, almost conversationally.
'Excellent.' A pause. 'And are they tiny panties?'
'Oh, yes. So tiny you can barely see them. Honestly, it's almost a waste of time me wearing them- they're so flimsy.'
'I see.' Another pause-much longer this time. 'And you have on a matching bra, I hope?'
'Oh, yes.' She paused-trying to rid herself of the sudden feeling of guilt which settled on her skin like a cold mist. Telling herself that she had nothing to be guilty about. That Murat liked these games. And so did she.
And that her mother's words meant nothing.
'The bra is a bit on the small side,' she continued, allowing her voice to dip into a provocative note as her imagination took wings. 'But it's edged with lace, so at least my nipples aren't completely on show.'
He didn't answer. At least, not straight away.
'And stockings?' His eventual response was unsteady; his tone gratifyingly deep. She heard him swallow and that was gratifying too. 'Are you wearing stockings?'
'Mmm,' she agreed, closing her eyes to blot out the sight of her jeans. 'Of course I am. Black silk stockings all the way from France. Though they cling to my thighs terribly in this heat.'
'I'd like to see them do that,' came his husky response. 'And then I'd like to peel them off, very slowly.'
'Would you?'
'Mmm. And then I'd like to slide my tongue up between your thighs and lick you until you come. Would you like that, my beauty?'
But for some stupid reason the fantasy suddenly evaporated, like champagne which had been left in a glass too long. Catrin's eyes snapped open and in one instant, she felt completely flat. 'Of course I would. I'd like it very much. What time what time will you be getting here?'
'Soon,' he repeated. 'Very soon.'
Catrin was just about to say goodbye and hang up, when she heard the sound of a key being inserted into a lock and her head jerked up in surprise. She turned towards the sound and nearly dropped the phone when she saw who was standing there.
Her first thought was that it couldn't possibly be Murat because his timetable was always planned to the nearest second-and her next thought was that it couldn't be anyone else. Because there was no one in the world who could be mistaken for him. No man matched him, nor ever could.
Murat the Mighty, they called him in his country of Qurhah, but he was also known as Murat the Magnificent-and he looked nothing less than magnificent now.
His hair fell in rich, dark waves around the hard outlines of his face and the soft sensuality of his lips contrasted with the distinctive hawk-like nose and ebony glitter of his eyes. He had the body of a desert warrior-a fact which could never quite be disguised by the Italian suits he favoured when in the west. Catrin knew that back home in Qurhah he wore flowing robes and headdresses but she'd only ever seen him in this kind of clothes, except in photos. And sometimes when she looked at those photos, didn't it make her wistful that she only ever got a tiny part of him? That so much of his life was forbidden to her.
'Murat?' she said, her voice rising in surprise. 'I wasn't expecting you yet.'
'So I see,' he replied, shutting the door softly behind him. He began to walk towards her, a complicit smile lifting the corners of his lips as he cut the connection on his phone and slid it into the pocket of his trousers. But his gaze was thoughtful as he looked at her, as if her response wasn't what he had been expecting. 'Aren't you going to say hello to me properly, my beauty?'
'Hello,' she said, putting down her own phone with fingers which had started to tremble.
There was a pause as Murat let his gaze travel over her body, his eyes narrowing. Something about her was different and at first he couldn't work out what it was. Something which made his heart twist in a way which was unfamiliar. And then he realised what it was. She looked like the Cat he'd first met. The beautiful, country girl who had captivated him from the moment she'd turned those extraordinary green eyes in his direction and blinked at him, as if she couldn't quite believe what she had seen.
Dressed down and casual, her hair was dishevelled-almost wild. The dark cascade of waves tumbled down around her shoulders as if she'd been frantically running her fingers through it. And her clothes.
Her glorious legs were covered with jeans-a garment he despised on women and which she had tacitly agreed never to wear in his presence. And although her thin T-shirt outlined her breasts in a way which couldn't fail to please him-this wasn't what he had been anticipating.
He thought how much she had changed. How his rough diamond had become a smooth and polished gem. And if sometimes he missed the rather outspoken minx he had first seduced, he could not deny that she had grown into her role well. Almost too well
'You promised me stockings,' he said slowly.
Her fingers flew to her hair, as if she had suddenly become aware of its unruliness, and she stared down at her jeans before looking up at him, a faint look of guilt staining her face.
'I didn't realise you were so close,' she protested.
'I thought I'd surprise you.'
'You've certainly done that.'
Their eyes clashed. 'So. No welcoming kiss for your sultan?' He shrugged off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair. 'Not even a hug?'
She chewed on her lip as if she wanted to say something but didn't dare and for a moment Murat felt an unexpected twinge of conscience. Maybe it had been unfair of him not to warn her that he was on his way from the airport and that he had brought his schedule forward by several hours. But he had wanted to see her and he knew that there wouldn't be many more opportunities like this.
Because lately he had become increasingly aware that the clock was ticking on this relationship of theirs, and that some time soon he must sit down and talk to her seriously about the future. There were things he needed to tell about his life. Things she ought to know.
But not today.
His mouth flattened.
It was never today.
Today he just intended to make the most of these moments, which had never been intended to last.
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Stickler for the rules: You dont change the rules in the middle of the game. Period, said former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, The New Schools president, when asked if the delegates from the Florida and Michigan primaries should be represented at the Democratic National Convention in August. Scoopy ran into Kerrey on Sunday at Chelsea Piers, where Kerrey had taken his young son and a friend bowling. No new vote and no new caucuses, either. Just stick to the rules that they agreed to, Kerrey said firmly. The Democratic National Committee stripped both Florida and Michigan of all their delegates because, defying party rules, they held their primaries before Feb. 5. The candidates all agreed to abide by that decision and not campaign in those states. Barack Obama withdrew his name from the ballot in Michigan and didnt compete in Florida. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in both states and now says their delegates should be counted toward the total. Although Kerrey endorsed Clinton in December, he clearly doesnt endorse her position on the Michigan and Florida delegates.
A delegate situation: Clinton just cant catch a break lately, it seems. Speaking of delegates, following this months New York primary election, Obama and Clinton each will get three in Representative Jerrold Nadlers Eighth Congressional District (Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Soho, Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, Upper West Side and parts of Brooklyn). Clinton won the districts popular vote, with 49,586 votes to Obamas 37,442, or 57 percent to 43 percent, but it makes no difference in terms of delegates. There are 6 delegates. You would think that it would be 4 to 2, said longtime Chelsea politico Bob Trentlyon. It worked out to 3.42 for Clinton, and you cant round up. Obama got 2.58, which rounds up to 3. (Trentlyon, incidentally, is backing Obama, though his club, Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, went for Clinton. I wouldnt say Im persona non grata, but theyre disappointed in me, he said.) The delegates are selected based on who got the most votes, as well as alternating between males and females. On the Clinton side, the Eighth Districts delegates are State Senator Tom Duane, Assemblymember Deborah Glick and Borough President Scott Stringer. Obamas delegates are State Committeeman Arthur Schwartz, Monica Lion and Molly Lombardi. Howard Hemsley, who headed Obamas East Village and Lower East Side operation, didnt make the cut, but has been assured hell go to the convention as an at-large delegate. Hemsley has vowed to push for gay marriage. One of the things I want to do at the convention is to be part of a floor fight for a minority report from the platform committee which would call for gay marriage, Hemsley told us. After much hullabaloo and press coverage, we will lose. In losing, we will establish domestic partnership as not some radical idea, but a safe, comfortable, middle road. Then, next time, we take the next step. Meanwhile, Schwartz said, Obama volunteers nationwide are being asked to take a week off from work and flood Ohio and Texas before those states key March 4 contests.
Producer star produces stir: Villager photographer Elisabeth Robert tells us when she was voting at P.S. 41 earlier this month, she recognized Matthew Broderick also casting his ballot at the Greenwich Village poll site. Apparently, so did all the female poll workers, who Roberts tells us were excitedly whispering among each other, Thats Matthew Broderick!
Stirring the pot: Mario Batali wasnt the only celebrity restaurateur parent at the rally to save Pier 40 a few weeks ago. Danny Meyer was also there with his young, sports-playing son.
Sources unlimited: One of Scoopys all-time best sources, John Penley, was the subject of a terrific profile last week in The New York Times. The article about Penley being virtually a one-man East Village news bureau even ran in the Timess national edition. As a result, Penleys been getting phone calls from all over the country; but he suspects more than a few have been from members of the Tony Alamo religious group. Penley has criticized Alamo for plastering his East Village block with religious fliers and is calling for the authorities to intervene. If I disappear, youll know what happened, Penley joked.
Meanwhile, Clayton Patterson another perennial source for Scoopy items and Villager articles, almost on par with Penley has seen one of his recent Villager scoops go worldwide. On Jan. 9, we ran Pattersons photo of Billy Leroy of Billys Antiques on E. Houston St. with a sign saying Leroy now takes euros. Next to Pattersons photo, we also ran a photo by Nick Brooks of Bob Cho, owner of East Village Liquors, holding a handful of euros, which Cho accepts as payment. Starting a little more than a week ago, there was a flurry of articles about retailers accepting euros all inspired by the two photos that ran in The Villager in the Timess Travel section, Reuters and Crains New York Business. The Associated Press even called us making inquiries, but apparently didnt follow through. I told you it was a good story, Patterson said. It really does speak about the economy in a very simple, straightforward way.
Updated Eighth: The retail news on W. Eighth St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves. is very exciting, Honi Klein, executive director of the Village Alliance business improvement district, reports. Storefront vacancies on the block have dropped from 14 one year ago to six. Klein is personally most excited about Insomnia Cookies, a business started by and catering to college students, which caters to undergraduates late-night munchies. Insomnia, opening in a month, will operate from 8 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. and aiming to be the Dominos of double-chocolate chips will offer deliveries for a minimum order of six cookies at 90 cents per cookie. There will be two to five cookie delivery-truck drivers speeding around each night, according to a spokesperson. Obviously, theyre attracted here by N.Y.U. and all the schools, Klein said. Other new businesses recently opened or soon opening on the block include Littlewater Public House, a raw bar; Cho Cho, an Asian restaurant; Andys Chee Pees vintage clothes; Sushi Yawa; Elettaria, an American-style restaurant; da Bhang Cafe, offering desserts, coffee and tea; a State Farm insurance branch; the 8th Street Wine Cellar, a popular wine bar and tappas place; and, last but not least, Cachaca, a Brazilian jazz club drawing top performers. Its a whole different mix that I think appeals to a wider group, Klein said of the new businesses. Plus, Staples is coming in on Sixth Ave. in the old Sam Goodys space, Klein said.
Frank memories of Nathans: Again on Eighth St., but regarding a former, not a new, store, we received several e-mails about our Scoopy item a couple of weeks ago that referred to a Nathans coming into the spot in 1968 where Grays Papaya is currently located at the northeast corner of Eighth St. and Sixth Ave. In fact, were informed, the Nathans was where the Barnes & Noble bookstore is on the southeast corner. Thanks to Carol Feinman, Bruce Martin and Linda Breen for letting us know. I was at N.Y.U. during the early 1970s and remember Nathans, Feinman wrote. A Nathans hot dog and a movie up the street on Eighth St. was always a treat, although you did feel that you were taking your life in your hands when you went to Nathans. The guys who used to hang out in Nathans smelled pretty ripe, Feinman added, noted she wasnt exactly torn up when it closed.
P.S., we were walking by the B & N late one night last week and noticed a little mouse climbing up the Cosmo Kama Sutra in the special Valentines-themed window. We figured it was just a romantic rodent, but then noticed what was really attracting its little sniffing snout: a golden box of Godiva chocolates.
Architectural icon: David Beckham we get, but Daniel Libeskind? A photo of the architect of the winning design for rebuilding the World Trade Center site is posted among shots of the famed British footballer in a barbers stall at Astor Place Hair Designers. Apparently Libeskind, with his flattop haircut and chic, geometric eyeglasses, is a fashion icon, too. They like the cut, the barber shrugged.
Wrecking peace and quiet: Word from Sean Sweeney, the Soho Alliances director, is that sleepy Sullivan St. is being plagued by noise from an illegal nightclub being operated in a building owned by John Zaccaro, Geraldine Ferraros husband. The club is on the ground floor of a residential building, 73-75 Sullivan St., replacing a ravioli shop that was a neighborhood favorite. By day its a funky boutique, the Wreck Center, but by night its hosting a series of invite-only book signings, launch parties, art and music shows, even stand-up comedy, according to The New York Times. Sweeney pointedly noted that another Zaccaro tenant was The Falls on Lafayette St., a bouncer from which, Darryl Littlejohn, is accused of killing patron Imette St. Guillen, who was last seen alive at the notorious bar. At least the Wreck Center will be gone by months end, when the building is torn down for new construction, the Times reports.
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25-year-old Krul produced one of the Premier League's best-ever goalkeeping performances, with his 14 saves the most seen in a single top-flight match since the 2006-07 season.
Alan Pardew: "It was one of the best goalkeeping performance I have seen. Yeah, it was certainly one of them. Wow. I think he is the best goalie in Holland and I think he proved that today.
"His performance level has not needed to be high recently as we have not come under that sort of pressure too often, but we did today.
"Certainly in the second half Tottenham really turned up the heat and he answered almost everything. It was an unbelievable performance.
"We did similar to what we did when we won against Chelsea.
"I thought Remy had a great chance before he scored and I was a little bit surprised he did not take that because he really is in great form.
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"He has got a silkiness to the way he moves and a nice kind of gait, the way he runs and everything. He really is a classy-looking performer, which is great if you back it up with goals.
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To start of the Christmas season in style, I spend the first weekend of December exploring the Plaisirs d'Hiver, or Winter Wonders, in central Brussels. This celebration of the holiday season in the history center of the city consists of a Christmas Market (2km of shops), attractions (including an ice skating rink and Ferris Wheel), and light show at Grand Place.
Below, you can see a video of part of the 15-minute light show at Grand Place. This year's show is entitled "Magical History City" and uses light and music to depict the historic events that have taken place in Grand Place. This includes the medieval and baroque eras, 1695 bombing, reconstruction under the aegis of Charles Buls, and the entry into the twenty-first century.
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Edward Avila is the CEO of Manos Accelerator, a first-of-its kind accelerator targeting the development of Latino entrepreneurs. He is a native of San Jose and has worked in Silicon Valley over the last 20 years as a Human Resources Professional, Executive Coach and Entrepreneur. Edward graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory. He also earned a Master's Degree in Organization Development from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University. He is also proud to serve as an Advisory Board Member to Silicon Valley Latino as well as a SVL Cultura Ambassador.


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The former Go-Go's frontwoman Belinda Carlisle looks strikingly good for her age and has just recently admitted to some minor plastic surgery. But Makemeheal.com suspects that Belinda's plastic surgery may date back a few years.
52-year old Belinda Carlisle has very smooth skin, which Make Me Heal noted a while back, attributing her smooth skin to Botox injections, as well as a possible mini-facelift (See Make Me Heal's story on Belinda Carlisle's plastic surgery).
Recently, Belinda admitted to getting Botox tweaks, but denied any knifework:
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Belinda's recent birthday revived her old Playboy pictorial, which in turn revealed a possible breast augmentation.
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I am revisiting this tea this evening because a) It was so lovely yesterday and I wanted to experience that again today and b) the package containing what I had left of this tea was just sitting there, on the counter, as if to say "Hey! Drink me! Drink me!" Since I'm medicated and in pain and not wanting to stand around on my ankle, I decided to go with this tea mostly because it was conveniently there, waiting for me.
I am sad that this is the last that I have of this tea though, it is an excellent Gyokuro. Chado Tea House has a wonderful selection of Japanese Green teas, everyone! You should definitely give them a try if you're in the market for good Japanese teas. OH… and they're very nice too!
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For most users of cryptocurrencies it is not necessary to understand how the procedure functions in and of itself, but it is simply vital that you understand that there is a procedure for mining to create virtual currency. Unlike currencies as we know them now where Authorities and banks can just select to print endless quantities (I 'm not saying they are doing so, just one point), cryptocurrencies to be managed by users using a mining software, which solves the sophisticated algorithms to release blocks of currencies that can enter into circulation.
You've probably heard this many times where you frequently distribute the great word about crypto. "It is not erratic? What happens if the value crashes? " sofar, many POS devices offers free conversion of fiat, alleviating some concern, but before volatility cryptocurrencies is addressed, most people is going to be reluctant to hold any. We need to find a method to fight the volatility that's inherent in cryptocurrencies.
Many people prefer to use a currency deflation, notably those who desire to save. Despite the criticism and disbelief, a cryptocurrency coin may be better suited for some uses than others. Financial privacy, for example, is great for political activists, but more problematic when it comes to political campaign funding. We need a steady cryptocurrency for use in trade; should you be living pay check to pay check, it would happen included in your wealth, with the remainder reserved for other currencies.
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Entrepreneurs in the cryptocurrency movement may be wise to explore possibilities for making gigantic ammonts of cash with various types of online marketing.There could be a rich reward for anyone daring enough to endure the cryptocurrency markets.Bitcoin design provides an instructive example of how one might make a lot of money in the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin is an extraordinary intellectual and technical accomplishment, and it has created an avalanche of editorial coverage and venture capital investment opportunities. But very few people understand that and pass up on very profitable business models made available due to the growing use of blockchain technology.
It is definitely possible, but it must be able to recognize opportunities no matter marketplace behavior. The market moves in relation to cost BTC … So even if it's in a BTC trend down can make money by purchasing the altcoins which are altcoin oversold trading ratios-BTC. Sure, your purchasing power in DOLLARS may be lower, but as long as your purchasing power in BTC is still growing you will be alright.
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Just a fraction of bitcoins issued so far are available on the exchange markets. Bitcoin markets are competitive, meaning the price a bitcoin will rise or fall depending on supply and demand. A lot of people hoard them for long term savings and investment. This restricts the variety of bitcoins that are really circulating in the exchanges. Moreover, new bitcoins will continue to be issued for decades to come. Hence, even the most diligent buyer could not purchase all existing bitcoins. This situation is just not to suggest that markets aren't exposed to price manipulation, yet there exists no requirement for substantial amounts of money to move market prices up or down. The slightest occasions on earth market can change the price of Bitcoin, This can make Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency explosive.
Bitcoin is the main cryptocurrency of the internet: a digital money standard by which all other coins are compared to. Cryptocurrencies are distributed, international, and decentralized. Unlike conventional fiat currencies, there's no authorities, banks, or any other regulatory agencies. Therefore, it really is more immune to crazy inflation and tainted banks. The benefits of using cryptocurrencies as your method of transacting cash online outweigh the protection and privacy threats. Security and seclusion can readily be achieved by just being bright, and following some basic guidelines. You wouldn't set your whole bank ledger online for the word to see, but my nature, your cryptocurrency ledger is publicized. This can be secured by removing any identity of possession from the wallets and thereby keeping you anonymous.
Cryptocurrency is freeing people to transact money and do business on their terms. Each user can send and receive payments in a similar way, but in addition they be a part of more elaborate smart contracts. Multiple signatures enable a trade to be supported by the network, but where a certain number of a defined group of folks consent to sign the deal, blockchain technology makes this possible. This enables progressive dispute mediation services to be developed in the foreseeable future. These services could enable a third party to approve or reject a trade in the event of disagreement between the other parties without checking their money. Unlike cash and other payment procedures, the blockchain consistently leaves public proof that the transaction happened. This can be potentially used in an appeal against businesses with deceptive practices.
Since among the earliest forms of making money is in money financing, it's a fact that you can do this with cryptocurrency. Most of the giving websites now focus on Bitcoin, a few of these websites you're required fill in a captcha after a particular period of time and are rewarded with a small quantity of coins for seeing them. You are able to visit the www.cryptofunds.co web site to locate some lists of of these websites to tap into the currency of your choice. Unlike forex, stocks and options, etc., altcoin marketplaces have very different dynamics. New ones are always popping up which means they don't have lots of market data and historical view for you to backtest against. Most altcoins have fairly inferior liquidity as well and it is hard to come up with an acceptable investment strategy.
This mining task validates and records the transactions across the whole network. So if you're trying to do something illegal, it's not a good idea because everything is recorded in the public register for the rest of the world to see eternally.
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Mining cryptocurrencies is how new coins are put into circulation. Because there is no government control and crypto coins are digital, they cannot be printed or minted to produce more. The mining process is what creates more of the coin. It may be useful to think about the mining as joining a lottery group, the pros and cons are exactly the same. Mining crypto coins means you will get to keep the total benefits of your efforts, but this reduces your odds of being successful. Instead, joining a pool means that, overall, members will have a higher possibility of solving a block, but the benefit will be divided between all members of the pool, based on the amount of "shares" won.
If you are thinking about going it alone, it is worth noting that the software configuration for solo mining can be more complex than with a pool, and beginners would be probably better take the latter course. This option also creates a secure stream of earnings, even if each payment is small compared to totally block the benefit.
The sweetness of the cryptocurrencies is that scam was proved an impossibility: as a result of character of the process in which it's transacted. All purchases on a crypto-currency blockchain are permanent. When youare paid, you get paid. This is simply not anything temporary wherever your visitors may dispute or require a refunds, or employ unethical sleight of palm. In-practice, many investors will be a good idea to utilize a payment processor, due to the permanent character of crypto-currency dealings, you need to make sure that protection is hard. With any form of crypto-currency whether it be a bitcoin, ether, litecoin, or any of the numerous different altcoins, thieves and hackers could potentially access your individual keys and so take your cash. However, you probably will never get it back. It is quite crucial for you yourself to follow some great safe and sound routines when coping with any cryptocurrency. This can guard you from most of these bad events.
Here is the trendiest thing about cryptocurrencies; they usually do not physically exist anywhere, not even on a hard drive. When you examine a particular address for a wallet containing a cryptocurrency, there is absolutely no digital information held in it, like in the exact same way that the bank could hold dollars in a bank account. It is simply a representation of value, but there is no real tangible type of that value. Cryptocurrency wallets may not be confiscated or immobilized or audited by the banks and the law. They do not have spending limits and withdrawal restrictions imposed on them. No one but the owner of the crypto wallet can decide how their wealth will be managed.
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, LiteCoin, Ether, YOCoin, and many others happen to be designed as a non-fiat currency. To put it differently, its backers assert that there is "actual" worth, even through there is absolutely no physical representation of that worth. The worth increases due to computing power, that's, is the only way to create new coins distributed by allocating CPU electricity via computer programs called miners. Miners create a block after a time frame which is worth an ever decreasing amount of currency or some type of reward so that you can ensure the deficit. Each coin includes many smaller units. For Bitcoin, each component is called a satoshi. Operations that take place during mining are exactly to authenticate other transactions, such that both creates and authenticates itself, a simple and elegant alternative, which can be one of the appealing aspects of the coin. Once created, each Bitcoin (or 100 million satoshis) exists as a cipher, that is part of the block that gave rise to it. The person who has mined the coin holds the address, and transfers it into a value is provided by another address, which is a "wallet" file saved on a computer. The blockchain is where the public record of all transactions dwells. Most all cryptocurrencies function as Bitcoin does.
The fact that there is little evidence of any growth in the use of virtual money as a currency may be the reason there are minimal efforts to control it. The reason behind this could be merely that the market is too little for cryptocurrencies to justify any regulatory effort. Additionally it is possible the regulators just do not understand the technology and its implications, expecting any developments to act.


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Tamil actor Surya has a good following in Andhra Pradesh too after the stupendous success of Ghajini. Since then his Tamil films are regularly being dubbed into Telugu. His latest Tamil film, Vaaranam Aayiram, is also having its Telugu release, titled Surya S/0 Krishnan. Directed by Gowtham Menon, the film stars Sameera Reddy, Simran and Ramya as the female leads while Surya plays a double role.
Aaskar Ravichandran produces the movie which has music scored by Gowtham's favorite Haaris Jayaraj. Dil Raju has bought the exhibition rights for Nizam area for a whopping amount.
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Once upon a time, the wheel was invented. Then the engine and the proper method to mass produce vehicle. These days, however, mass-production is not a concept that some people appreciate. For this reason, they do everything they can to have the most unique of all vehicles. Sometimes, they end up with cars that will surely baffle the very people who have helped start the transportation revolution.Once upon a time, the wheel was invented. Then the engine and the proper method to mass produce vehicle. These days, however, mass-production is not a concept that some people appreciate. For this reason, they do everything they can to have the most unique of all vehicles.
1. Recycling
This is obviously a work in progress. So no hatin', y'all.
2. The Shovel Car
You never know when having this feature will come in handy for transporting something that will not soil the interior of your vehicle.
3. Airy
Apparently, the owner has never heard of rain.
4. I Drive a Green Car
Gives new meaning to the Earth-friendly driving.
5. Blinding Other Drivers
Barbie went all crazy at the bedazzling section of the craft store.
6. Reinforcing Phobia of Clowns
Extremo the Clown just wants to live up to his name.
7. Click!
The dream van of a certified stalker.
8. Boot-ay
The best part about this car is that it can be repainted to follow the prevailing shoe colors of the season.
9. Beware Optimus Prime
It will turn into a Decepticon in 3…2…
10. A DIY Revolution
Budget car modification at its finest.
11. Family Bug
The perfect family car, with enough space on the roof.
12. PETA Hates this Car
Looking at this photo gives me a sneezing fit.
13. London Moves!
Obviously, someone felt just a tad nostalgic about the summer he spent in London.
14. Bug-Eyed
Yes, those are mummy legs sticking out of the top bug.
15. Purrty Pink Car
This would be cool if the color weren't so objectionable.
16. Shoemobile
The Devil Drives Prada
17. Wannabe Firetruck
This bug has some serious ambitions. Let's forgive him because he looks cute.
18. Boom Vehicle
Cannons? Speakers? Either way, I will not want to be in the receiving end of those things.
19. Jet Ride
The own once been pulled over by state troopers to ask him what's going on. The jets probably look too real from a distance.
20. Calling Crazy Car Brigade
If you have an accident, calling 911 would no longer be a problem.
21. Grandma's Bones
This is the Mercedez Bonz, which is really a Volvo. Yes, I'm just as confused as you are.
22. Pink Overload
If you think that a pink poodle is cute, this will make you change your mind.
23. Lobster Beetle
Lady Gaga would approve.
24. Your Car Smells Like Feet
You can play ball with this thing. Or drive to the court to play ball.
25. Too Metal for the Road
Straight out of Giger's imagination to the highway.


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It was a changing America that Richard L. Strout found on his cross-country odyssey 40 years ago. What we now call the Sunbelt was experiencing the influx of wartime industry and its effect on local traditions and mores. Vast tracts of mobile homes sprouted near defense factories. Mechanization on America's farms was proceeding apace - a trend that would turn the United States into the world agricultural giant it is today. Yet another generation of Americans was coming face to face with Europe - with Britons training for war in the United States. The nation's young men were again having to cope with the issue of the draft.
In some cases, the changes were two-edged. While mechanization of agriculture fed the nation's people and industry more efficiently and inexpensively, it threw many farm laborers out of work. And the changes in America had yet to erase the images of poverty and dispare etched into the faces of many Americans by the depression and the dust bowl. Some of these economic refugees found their way to the new jobs opening around the country. Others were forced to wring out a living any way they could - wherever their job-bound autos ran out of gas. Last of three articles
You are standing beside the brick administration building at a Southern primary aviation school, and a line of men is drawn up smartly before you and the sun is sinking. Standing with you is the administrative officer, a reserve lieutenant who has been snatched from his law practice to give some idea of military discipline to potential American flyers. But these youngsters aren't Americans, they are Britishers, Englishmen, dropped suddenly into the lap of this commandant, who was educated in this town and who has never been out of the South, and whose passionate loyalty to the region surpasses that of clansmen to their clans.
This commandant is already a bit put out by the young men under him, there is hardly a Southerner in the batch. ''Foreigners'' they are to him, from outside the South. He lets slip a comment on ''Yankees'' and apologetically alters it and then shrugs and helplessly wonders if Northerners can even understand the Old South. One of the young British cadets landed at Montreal a week ago and as innocent of American concepts and outlook as a babe, advances to you.
He advances straight forward, halts, brings his black British boot to a grinding click, snatches his right hand back to a side-of-the-head British salute, and waits before you and the embarrassed American lawyer-officer. You suddenly see that he is only a lad and recall, with a queer feeling, that 30 weeks hence he will be flying in mortal combat over Britain in the cockpit of a screeching Spitfire.
The commandant says ''At ease'' and introduces you; and when it is over and he is dismissed, the boy unexpectedly says, ''Well - Carry on, Sir!'' and marches off under his own power. He leaves you and the American officer a little uncertain who is to do the carrying on. And so the commandant suddenly has not only ''foreigners'' to contend with but Britishers, too. And he makes up his mind, as a Southern gentleman should, to see the job through, as Jeb Stuart would have done, or Marse Robert (Robert E. Lee) himself. He hopes his Southern boys will get the same treatment wherever they are, and is pretty sure they will.
Meanwhile, the new draft act has gone into effect. This queer, half-formed, impromptu Army of America is just finding itself. It is an odd army. In 1917 there was a declared war, there were patriotic slogans, speeches, bands, bunting; everybody stood up in the movies for the National Anthem. It is oddly prosaic today without fanfare, let alone a declaration of war. Selectees were told it would only last a year, and then the period was increased. He gets $21 a month for the first four months and then $30. Many Americans, even now, are not convinced that a real emergency exists. Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, argues that there is now sufficient equipment for training purposes.
War industries have made acute housing shortages. At San Diego Mrs. Pauline Kensinger and Mrs. Elvira Eddy with their four children live in two medium-size two-wheel trailers. The government has sponsored the first experimental trailer community here at Consolidated Aircraft, with others to follow - 146 of these gray and silver affairs on one side of the park, comfortable ''San Diego Defense Dormitories'' for 680 single men on the other side - at $5 a week, or $3.50 if two share a room. The stiff palm leaves click overhead like porcupine quills.
''May I come in?'' I asked. They said I might. So many odd things had happened to them since they set up living in a government bus that the arrival of an out-of-town correspondent seemed comparatively trivial. They were young and merry. You could see it was a bit of a lark. Every once and while, Mrs. Elvira explained, she would catch her husband's eye and they would laugh for no good reason.
Where did the children sleep? In the other room.
The other room? Why yes . . . those closet doors came out and snapped together, dividing the diminutive apartment into two smaller sections. The kitchenette seats unfolded into a Pullman bed and the children slept there. The sofa came out into the other end of the trailer into a bed, too, for the grown-ups. There was a gasoline cooker, a sink, a small kerosene heater for winter and any spare space turned into ingenious drawers and closets. Outside the glorious California sky made all the outdoors your living room. Mrs. Elvira explained that her husband was a carpenter at Consolidated. Buddy was seven and Jerry would be six - tomorrow. There was one disappointment at the trailer though, she said. There wasn't enough electricity to ''pull'' a waffle iron though it would ''pull'' a toaster all right. . . .
I looked back as the screen door slammed behind me. Elvira Eddy's rubber-tired edifice sat under a palm tree which rustled in the breeze like a big feather duster. Outside it looked ridiculously small. . . . And yet, inside, it hadn't seemed so. I couldn't figure it out.
Two months before Pearl Harbor in 1941 America churned with preparedness, with shortages, and also with the poverty left over from the Great Depression and dust bowl. Eleven Mile Corner, Ariz.
The Reeds started out for California recently, but turned back. They burned out the carburetor of their 1932 Chevrolet and felt they couldn't risk the desert with a baby. Migratory farm labor averages about $1.50 a family at the cotton fields for a 14-hour day. Now they pause at the Farm Security Administration migratory labor camp here. Farm machinery has wiped out thousands of jobs. There are 1.5 million tractors in use in America now (six times as many as 1920) and nearly every one has pushed a family off a farm.
Any account of ''Inside America'' in this historic summer of 1941 must mention them, and migrants like the Reeds, and squatters' shacks, made of tins cans and plywood, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks.
''Hit was the droughts that finally dusted me, and after that I couldn't git a-holt,'' Ralph Neal tells me, a slim, quiet little man with a sun-baked neck. He looks like an etching by Thomas Benton. He married at 23 and has five children. As we talk we see a dingy old car plugging past, pulling a trailer filled with household goods, bedsteads, mattresses, a dog and other important matters, rolling along between the ranches, following the crop season. The temperature is 100 in the shade as you chop cotton in the San Joaquin Valley now , but the tops of the Sierra Nevadas are snow-capped. Ralph Neal tells me that the Bentonville, Ark., bank failed. He owned 50 acres and rented another 250. He lost the farm, sold most of his household goods, paid most of his debts, and had
''So I paid a feller $30 to git me to Arizony,'' he said. As I start to leave , he volunteers: ''There was a piece about me in a paper back East. Is there a paper called 'Life'? Yes, that's hit; I gis remembered the name. Five years ago come this fall.''
LLoyd Vye, assistant community manager at the government facility is surprised to learn that he has a celebrity in camp and says he will put a notice of it in the camp weekly. Junction, Ala.
Now we are waiting at a crossroads on a hot night in Alabama. There are 15 of us and we are silent and sullen. The Birmingham bus is an hour and 20 minutes late. . . . Saturday night traffic. This broken down sofa on which I sit, outside the one pump gasoline station, holds three men. The others look at it jealously. A girl inside sells soda pop.
Up the road, out of the dark, pushed by two Negroes, comes a battered Plymouth. They dig their toes in and when they reach the pump stand panting. We don't say anything. The girl comes out. There is a glass jar on top of the pump with an electric light on it and beetles zooming around. She pulls a lever back and forth slowly and the red rises in the jar. She fills it. Then the level slowly drops. One gallon. That's all. Twenty-one cents. No word is spoken; it might all be pantomime. Now it's time to start. One man sits inside and the other pushes. Now! There is a puff, an explosion. But it stops. A stage car could not hang fire so dramatically. Suddenly it begins to pop. The man swings in. It goes off, exploding noisly into the night, like a stuttering machine gun.
Nobody in our crowd laughs. Nobody comments. One-gallon customers are common. All Americans aren't prosperous, are they? Wonder when that bus will come? Shasta Dam, Redding, Calif.
I wish you could see this dam now. It may be completed in 1944. It is one of the breathtaking spectacles in America: set down in mountains, groined into bedrock amid manzanita bush, digger pine, and scrub oak. This is the old gold-rush country and you can still see men panning in the icy clear ripples further upstream. The gravel plant here has a gold-saving device.
Aluminum is probably, at this moment, more important than any other single metal in the world. After the war it will still be important. The agonizing race goes on between Hitler's armies and American engineers trying to get more electricity out of the waters. You can't have airplanes unless you have aluminum and you can't have aluminum unless you have power. There is a shortage of aluminum pots and pans at stores. There has been a collection of old aluminum all over the nation. Instead of a fancied annual requirement of 400 million pounds, the present goal is 1.4 million. This scarcity is an index of the rapid rate of expansion of the defense program, which seems to take the experts so by surprise. . . On board train, eastbound
I never knew a time when people would talk more willingly about public affairs. It reflects the national mood. America is making up its mind. You get the sense of it everywhere. It is like being in a room with a ticking parcel. America has seen its industrial life transformed, its sons taken to camp, its everyday life altered. . . . Silk stockings, and aluminum, and gasoline, and jobs. And now there is suspense. What will Roosevelt do? Will he take us in? It seems to be taken for granted that he can ''take us in.'' Not very much is said about Congress. Congress always tends to lose importance in national emergencies.
With Britain threatened, a good many Americans who scoffed at Wilson are now seriously wondering, for the first time, whether America can live apart from the rest of the world.
Could the United States, for example, watch Great Britain slowly strangled and without its fleet? It seems unlikely. So there the matter is. Maybe America will go on eating its cake.
Which side will win? That, I suspect, is the chief struggle that is going on now - Inside America.


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Jonathan Owens of Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce Honored as One of Utah Business's Twenty in Their 20s
SALT LAKE CITY—November 5, 2015—Jonathan Owens of Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce is being honored with Utah Business Magazine's inaugural Twenty in Their 20s award. This distinction is an annual award given to Utah's most ambitious, young professionals.
Owens started his career with Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce in 2009 as a retail specialist representing landlords and tenants in leasing transactions. His experience in development and leasing of regional and community shopping centers and equity projects, as well as stabilizing challenged properties, has made him a critical asset to the company's retail division.
"Jonathan is a tremendous leader and vital part of the Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce team," Trigger Reital, Market Leader of the Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce Salt Lake City office, said. "We look forward to his continued success by leveraging his resourceful approaches to creating world-class solutions for client needs."
Owens was born and raised in Utah, giving him a deep knowledge of the intricacies of the Utah market, specifically the retail landscape. His key clients include Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Auto Zone, Chase, and Epic Brewery, among others.
Owens earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Economics from the University of Utah. He is also an alumnus of the National Association of Collegiate Scholars.
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Recently passed Senate legislation would make sodomy and sex with animals legal under military law, ending long-standing prohibitions and triggering cries of perversion from conservative groups.
The bill, which the Senate passed 93-7 last week, would repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that states any person who engages in "unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy." Those found guilty of sodomy would be subject to court martial.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Thursday that the repeal was simply a legal change because it's no longer constitutional. A 2003 Supreme Court decision struck down a Texas ban on sodomy as an unconstitutional intrusion on privacy.
The committee said the changes in law were recommended by the Joint Services Committee on Military Justice and the secretary of defense.
Senate negotiators are working to reconcile their version of the bill with the House-passed measure and produce final legislation that sets policy for the Pentagon. House Republicans oppose the repeal and want to leave the provision intact.
A congressional aide close to the negotiations said late Thursday that it was unlikely the repeal would stand. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.
Conservative groups angered by the end this year to the ban on gays serving openly in the military were outraged by the proposed repeal of the sodomy provision.
"Now, in its rush to accommodate the left, Congress may have inadvertently opened the door to even more perversion," Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said in a statement. "As part of the defense authorization bill, liberals are pushing to make sodomy a legal activity under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In its haste to make gay sex an official part of military life, the left could be unintentionally repealing the ban on bestiality too."
In an interview, Perkins said he has been talking to House lawmakers involved in the defense negotiations as they push to leave the provision intact, including House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif.
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The last time I roasted marshmallows was at our SCYC yacht club event in Rosario in the San Juan Islands. It was cut short as we could hear and see a storm approaching. It started to pour. There was no time to sing "Cumbaya"!
Today it's Boxing Day. My husband has been cleaning the yard burning the downed branches and Christmas wrapping, keeping the fire stoked for later this evening. We are going to roast marshmallows tonight after supper and before our grandson goes to bed. The "Slivery" moon, as he calls it, and the stars are peaking through the clouds. It's still. It's quiet. The only sound is the fire crackling. Christmas lights from neighbouring homes are twinkling between the trees. I am waiting for the embers to be just right. No flame.
I do not like burning my marshmallows. They have to be evenly roasted all around – a soft brown for a perfect roast! I'm attentive not to leave it too long near the coals. When I see a small whiff of smoke, it's time to turn. I'm careful not to drop it off the stick. When done, they slide off nice and soft, all in one bite. Pop in your mouth and there you have it, the perfect roast. I like cooking them more than eating them. I love watching others cook marshmallows. They are quick, their marshmallows burn, they get charred! Some don't even bother cooking!
I love watching the flames of the fire dancing around. It's peaceful and mesmerizing at the same time. All of a sudden we just start singing. I love how that works. And later, smelling smoky hair, well that's just part of roasting marshmallows.


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