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Dunne takes distinguished route to Hoylake
Some Hoylake challengers competed in the Scottish Open while others spent last week simply practising. But Paul Dunne was in Finland doing what elite amateurs do: competing for his country in the European Men's Amateur Team Championship.
Though Rory McIlroy and Alan Dunbar have been amateur competitors in recent years, the 21-year-old member of Greystones gained the rare distinction of actually qualifying for The Open against professional opponents. McIlroy made the field at Carnoustie in 2007 as a reward for victory in the International European Amateur, while Dunbar was at Royal Lytham two years ago as the reigning British Amateur champion.
Dunne took a very different route. Buoyed by the confidence gained from college golf with the University of Alabama, he entered Final Qualifying at Woburn on July 1. As it happened, his challenge almost ended before it began when he arrived on the 10th tee, his first, only a minute before his starting time.
Unruffled, he proceeded to card back-to-back 67s to lead the qualifiers on 10-under par. This came only a matter of days after he had played for the victorious European team in the Palmer Cup matches against the US at Walton Heath the previous weekend. Small wonder he described it as "an incredible couple of days."
The only comparable achievement by an Irish player in recent years was by Killarney's Danny Sugrue for the 2004 Open at Royal Troon. Pursuing his craft as a struggling, young professional on the European Challenge Tour where he won the princely sum of €817 for the whole of 2003, Sugrue proceeded to card rounds of 67 and 72 to lead the qualifiers at Glasgow Gailes.
It meant prize money of £1,750 and he received a further £2,000 for actually competing in The Open. In the event, he missed the cut after creditable rounds of 74, 74 had tied him with such notables as Sergio Garcia and John Daly. Dunbar also missed the cut after rounds of 75 and 71.
Dunne will leave his homeward-bound amateur colleagues in Stockholm today for a flight to Manchester. Then comes first sight of Hoylake in a practice round tomorrow with his father, Collie, on his bag for the week.
Interestingly, Joe Carr was leading amateur in The Open at Hoylake in 1956 and again at Royal Lytham in 1958. McIlroy has been the most successful in recent years, earning the silver medal in 2007 when rounds of 68, 76, 73 and 72 brought a share of 42nd place behind Pádraig Harrington.
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While GNYHA's Ken Rakse was speaking to the TU editorial board, Gov. Eliot Spitzer released a letter he has sent to 1,000 hospital trustees, urging them to side with him in the battle over the healthcare portion of his executive budget.
In the letter, Spitzer asserts that the "interest groups" – GNYHA and SEIU/1199 – that represent the trustees' hospitals have "spent millions of dollars attempting to distort what we are trying to do."
He then goes on to "set the record straight," noting that New York has the highest Medicaid and hospital spending per capita in the nation as well as the country's highest combined local and state tax burden along with 2.6 million uninsured residents and the nation's highest percentage of deaths from chronic disease.
"Anyway you look at it, New York's health care system is broken," Spitzer wrote. "New Yorkers pay far too much and get far too little in return. And yet the same politically-driven spending decisions that created this crisis in the first place are what GNYHA and 1199 seek to protect."
"The statewide effect of our budget actions on hospitals ($302 million) is a reduction of just 0.2% of our hospitals' operating revenue – the same hospitals that have enjoyed revenues of 6.9% on average every year for the past four years, and the same hospitals whose representative association, GNYHA, together with 1199, can afford to spend $22.5 million in campaign contributions since 1999, $12.7 million on lobbying since 2003 (more than the teacher's unions, public employees and trial lawyers combined), and millions more on television advertisements – all in the effort to make sure the health care system that is failing New Yorkers stays exactly the way it is."
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Meadowsweet has Salicyclic acid which is the same active metabolite in Aspirin, meaning meadowsweet drunk as a tea or taken by tincture form is excellent for headaches, migraines, and minor pain and inflammation.
Other herbs have similar effects for reducing pain and headaches such as Black Cohosh, Kava Kava, Valerian, Wood Betony, California Poppy, St. John's Wort, Ginger, Jaimaican Dogwood, Lobelia as a muscle relaxant, Willow Bark, Chamomile, and Arnica to be used in very small doses is anti-inflammatory and an analgesic helping to reduce pains and aches.
For fevers I would recommend using Feverfew, Prickly Ash, or Yarrow.
You can make your own herbal salve for headaches. They're easy enough to make with the right ingredients. Here is a list of herbal medicine for you:
Most common ones for headaches though are lavender and eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is used in most headache salves/balms.


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If command with && and ||
I would like to write an if command in bash but I have some syntax problems. I would like to write IF (a=1) and (b=1) or (c=1) or (d=1)....
I tried:
if [ a=1] && [b=1] || [c=1] || [d=1]
but it does not work.
Could you please help me???
Thank you in advance.
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it does not work
what are you trying to do ?
what's the exact error message?
- spaces are meaningful
- = is for lexical comparision
if test a -eq 1 && test b -eq 1 || test c -eq 1 || test d -eq 1 then : do something fi
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If it's syntactic then this won't help. What I'd like to do is point out that the way you have it coded may not be what you want or how the machine is interpreting the line.
Keep in mind that there are priorities in most logical and mathematical equations and that you force or ensure the correct interpretation by using parenthesis. You might try that to improve readability and actual interpretation.
For instance the term
if a & b or c
may be taken as a result of oring b and c, then anding it with a.
a + b * c will be evaluated as b*c then will add a to that product. Simply because multiplication has a higher priority. to get a + b * c you have to force the (a + b) * c to get a different result. Of course you may be lucky...
I'm just suggesting you use parens or brackets or whatever the interpreter uses to properly do what you want AND to let those reading it to understand that it doing something specific...
Just a thought.


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Being diagnosed with cancer is not a death sentence, says actress and cancer survivor Manisha Koirala, but adds that the fear of it coming back lurks at the back of your mind.
"I didn't care about my health before, but now I take a lot of care of my health. But there is always a fear whether the cancer will come back, so I now know how to deal with it," said the 43-year-old who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012. She successfully battled the disease.
"We have to go step by step," she told reporters Thursday at the unveiling of the 7th anniversary cover of Prevention, a health magazine.
"Many people tend to lose hope when they are diagnosed with cancer ... they tend to give up. There is a stigma attached to cancer but I would like to say cancer is not a death sentence, there is a hope," said the actress, who was seen in hits like "Dil Se" and "Bombay".
She praises the film fraternity for their support while she was undergoing treatment in New York.
"I couldn't attend the calls as I was undergoing treatment but I used to get calls from Tabu, Gulshan Grover, Shatrughan Sinha and they used to speak to my family about my health," said the actress who returned here in June last year after being cured.


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We kicked off the Eggs with Benedict mobility series of breakfast meetings yesterday in sweltering Paris, France. Strangely there were no eggs at my breakfast, only croissants, esspresso and fruit. We had an intimate group of attendees that were passionate about mobility and we explored some very interesting subjects related to the global challenges and demands on IT organizations for mobile solutions.
One CTO from a global cement manufacturer shared that he had just returned from Zambia where he met with his African IT organization and mobility was a central discussion point. The challenges they have are often basic infrastructure issues, like how to connect to the internet.
It was also interesting to learn that a global company was trying to figure out a way to connect with over half of their 78,000 employees who had no access to computers. They were looking at how mobility could solve this issue.
I also heard about how valuable SMS (texting) is to companies in many less developed countries. Basic mobile phones can support SMS, and many SMS solutions can provide incredible value. Banking, payments, notification of departure times for deliveries, etc., can all be done using SMS. One production text-based mobility solution discussed automatically notifying customers when their shipment left the depot. These were just a few of the many SMS based mobile solutions discussed over breakfast.
The discussion around SMS solutions helped me to better understand the value of Sybase's 365 offerings to the overall mobility picture. Many of us who focus the majority of our time in the Western economies often forget there is much value outside of just expensive smartphones and tablets. We have yet to fully tap the power of SMS, but need motivates ingenuity.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873285922620200649.post1448332972372705081..comments2013-06-11T06:11:58.360+03:00Comments on Ki Yachol Nuchal!: Follow your dreams.Ruti Mizrachihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873285922620200649.post-40663950043375391482012-02-01T12:41:35.198+02:002012-02-01T12:41:35.198+02:00Avi: <3Avi: <3rutimizrachihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873285922620200649.post-53192758631901524332012-02-01T12:26:32.416+02:002012-02-01T12:26:32.416+02:00Ema Ruti, Nice blog about some very special young ...Ema Ruti, Nice blog about some very special young men that I have had the pleasure to raise and coach. I am so very proud of all of them. Dovid is waiting for the weather to clear so he can jump from an airplane and earn his jump wings. Dani could be selected to play on the Israel National Tackle Football team. This team could be playing a college team from the US in May. And Aryeh continues to sing at the top of his lungs and protect us from the bad guys as he does his military service. Half the members on the Ravens Team in the video are in or will be in the miltary in the near future. I am proud of all of them. I am also very proud of you, Ruti, for your love and your firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873285922620200649.post-84245477653419619992012-01-30T06:27:15.601+02:002012-01-30T06:27:15.601+02:00I'd love to, Toby, but I'll be working. I...I'd love to, Toby, but I'll be working. I'll see them very soon, though. You'll have to tell me how you know them. I love this teeny, tiny, cozy Jewish world.rutimizrachihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873285922620200649.post-30302189938466321932012-01-30T01:20:57.777+02:002012-01-30T01:20:57.777+02:00How funny that you know Joani and Avrum - but it d...How funny that you know Joani and Avrum - but it does make so much sense... I'm hoping to meet them at the airport tomorrow - will I see you there?tobyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873285922620200649.post-28774500064179853602012-01-29T15:12:52.112+02:002012-01-29T15:12:52.112+02:00Susan: Number 27 was one of our stars -- and a gre...Susan: Number 27 was one of our stars -- and a great "extra kid" around here, too. Good football mom wisdom, there... and a nice reminder that our little country has plenty of room for more holy football players (and their parents).

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Shakila: Thanks for dropping by, and for your sweet words.

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One of the best SF writers of the 1970s and 80s, Barrington Bayley, who died in 2008, wrote tales of strange endeavours and mysterious, 'almost scientific' happenings, sometimes on cosmological scale. The Pillars of Eternity is one of his best achievements and combines a series of thought-provoking hypotheses on the nature of reality with a modicum of space opera and action/adventure. A highly successful short novel that packs a lot into very few pages and with a really superb ending.
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Rising senior Jacob Hawkins has been named the new editor-in-chief of The Rambler, the student newspaper of Transylvania University in production since 1915.
Hawkins, a Writing, Rhetoric and Communication (WRC) major, has worked on the newspaper staff since the start of his college career, first as staff writer, then as news editor and served this year as the paper's managing editor.
Serving with Hawkins is fellow rising senior and WRC major Molly Crain. Crain, who was the paper's news editor for most of this year, has also served as a columnist for the paper.
Both Hawkins and Crain were selected from a cross-departmental committee of faculty and staff. The committee included Publications Writer and Editor Bill Bowden, Instructor in WRC Martha Gehringer, Digital Recruitment Coordinator Laura Rudolph, and outgoing editor-in-chief and candidate for graduation Erin Brock.
Student Media Adviser Terri McLean facilitated the interviews, but did not have a voice in the final decision of The Rambler's top two positions.
"I am absolutely confident that Jake and Molly will carry on The Rambler tradition in great form," McLean said. "They had a great role model in Erin this year, plus they've both immersed themselves in every phase of production this year."
Hawkins and Crain worked together to set the editor staff for next year, interviewing dozens of candidates to select the final staff.
Rising junior Scarlett Blevins will lead the campus life page, rising senior Cory Collins will serve as sports editor, and rising junior Ameka Menes will serve as the editor of the Arts and Entertainment section.
Current designer for The Rambler and rising sophomore Rachel Smith has been promoted to design editor.
Finally, rising sophomore Emily Martin will be the opinion editor and will also serve alongside Hawkins and Crain in the paper's editorial board, the group of newspaper staff that guides the editorials and official stances of The Rambler.
"Of the positions we were able to fill, I am really confident," said Hawkins. "We've got a good mix of experience amongst the editors we picked, and we will all complement each other well."
The positions of news editor and photo editor, however, remain vacant and applications are still being accepted for those positions.
"These positions are paramount to the function of the paper, and I hope someone in the campus community can step up and apply," Hawkins added. "Without staff, the paper simply wouldn't be able to function."
Also vacant is the position of Student Media Adviser, after McLean announced her resignation to devote more time to her position of news editor of KYForward.com, the new web-only community newspaper in Lexington.
"I'm leaving with mixed feelings, but I know that Transy is committed to filling the position and further helping students strengthen their voice on campus," McLean said.


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In June 1989 Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview the star, as they had met once before and enjoyed a good rapport.
In the years that followed, Paul Du Noyer continued to meet, interview and work for Paul McCartney on a regular basis, producing magazine articles, tour programmes, album liner notes, press materials and website editorial. It's likely that Du Noyer has spent more hours in formal, recorded conversation with McCartney than any other writer.
Conversations with McCartney is the culmination of Du Noyer's long association with McCartney and his music. It draws from their interview sessions across 35 years, coupling McCartney's own candid thoughts with his observations and analysis.
©2015 Paul Du Noyer (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton
"One for fans only"
This series of conversations with Paul McCartney offers a little bit of insight into Paul McCartney's life. I found it to be a fairly interesting read, and one that all Beatles/McCartney fans should check out.
I must say that Paul Du Noyer's constant, cringeworthy, gushing praise of McCartney spoils it somewhat. And the voice acting of McCartney can grate a little.
"Real Insight Into The Man"
However much, like myself, you have read about or know about McCartney you'll still find out new things in this book
"A good chat-up with Sir Paul"
I didn't think I was going to like this book. The author, Paul Du Noyer, spent a slog telling us how he and Paul McCartney met and what the book was going to be about and why the Beatles' record needed to be re-balanced, giving Paul a prop to put him on level with the Great Lennon.
Anyway, once the argument fell away, Du Noyer let roll with an accumulation of McCartney anecdotes and interviews collected since 1979. Apparently, the NME journalist and the former Beatle hit it off and they had a lot to say to each other.
Which is a good thing because these interviews, interspersed with Du Noyer's narrative passages, feel like a great sit-down with a very engaging character. Like you've gone to a party you didn't want to go to and wound up in conversation with a good storyteller. McCartney certainly is that.
So what's in the book? Every period up to the release of McCartney's 2013 album NEW. Not in depth, mind you, but you get to hear McCartney riff on some favorite Beatles stories, his relationship with John, John's death, the Anthology, the movies, the early Avant-garde influences, Linda and family life.
You also get a serious yet lively discussion of McCartney's solo work, which is lacking from many (most?) McCartney biographies. You'll probably find yourself jotting down album and song names, if you don't already own the back catalog.
Sure, Du Noyer can sometimes try too hard in his narrative to make a case for McCartney's genius. I winced a little. But then I thought, you know what, the current dialogue is so biased in the other direction that this is probably a good leveler. I know I started to reconsider certain albums and phases.
At any rate, you can make up your own mind, and while you do, McCartney, your favorite dinner party chum, will entertain you.
I really enjoyed the conversational aspect. You can read all types of Macca books but this one is stuff *he* said.
"not your usual biography"
I've read a ton of books about Paul McCartney, but this one was almost completely in his own words. definitely a favorite!
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Arabian Automobiles, flagship company of AW Rostamani Group and the exclusive dealer for Nissan, Infiniti and Renault in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, has been awarded Importer of the Year by the committee of Dubai Trade during the 6th E-Services Excellence Awards (ESEA).
Organized by Dubai Trade under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the E-Services Excellence Awards, which took place at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in DIFC, Dubai, awarded Arabian Automobiles the highest level of recognition among the nine awards given. This annual award ceremony recognizes and rewards the top performers in e-Services adoption on the Dubai Trade portal. The main aim is to encourage the conversion to e-services and award the highest performers. This year, the award was focused on Business Growth, measuring the amount of transactions that took place throughout 2013.
Among the attendees was H.E. Abdulla Al Saleh, the Undersecretary for the Foreign Trade Sector at the UAE Ministry of Economy, Mr. Mohammed Al Muallem, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at DP World and Board Member of Dubai Trade, Eng. Mahmood Al Bastaki, CEO of Dubai Trade along with 400 influential business associates.
"We are proud to receive the award for Importer of Year and we appreciate that our high standard of business has been recognized," said Michel Ayat, CEO, Arabian Automobiles.
"This prestigious award has been a great ending to a successful 2013 for us. Achieving remarkable milestones has been an ongoing factor for Arabian Automobiles, not only did we join the highly prestigious Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame, we also gained a Guinness World Records title for the largest convoy of off-road vehicles as well as become Nissan's first distributor globally to win the WAPC award for Aftersales operational excellence for six consecutive years. We aim to continue to maintain this momentum and accomplish even higher standards for the year ahead and move towards our vision of becoming a world class organization," Michel concluded.
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Social media provides a platform of interaction between various virtual communities, organizations and individuals. The first such site that came to being was in 1994. Over the years, social media has been utilized by the business owners as a marketing tool and has helped them to reach out to their potential clients. There are various types of social media like social networks, bookmarking sites, media sharing, social news, forums and micro blogging are to name a few. Depending on the nature of their business, the owners chose the type that suits their enterprise. However, it is important to plan their strategies well in advance related to the use of these media.
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While using the social media, it is essential for the enterprises to update their content in regular intervals. It has been observed that businesses spend hefty amounts to monitor their social media presence. The major reason for using these sites is to boost the reach of the company among the readers. You can increase your bonding with the customers through these sires. For instance, if the page has the scope of leaving a comment on the page, the customers can do so, or if there are queries related to the product, a representative of the business can even answer that.
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A new Paul Marshall song, 'Light Of A New Day' can be heard in the Robin Williams movie, 'Man Of The Year', now available on DVD. 'Cowboy Jazz' soon to be released on a new recording by the fabulous Teresa James. 'The Blackboard In Bakersfield And The Palomino', and another Paul Marshall song, 'Closing Time' was recently heard in the popular FoxFX TV series, 'The Riches', starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. Bio and Credits: Paul Marshall was born and raised in Southern California. As a child, he loved listening to the classical and pop 78 rpm records of his grandmother, and later, the rock & roll and country music that came from the radio and television. He took up the guitar at age 13, and with two friends formed the band that would eventually be signed by Bob Keane and become a Mustang Records recording group, The Beauchemins, releasing 45 rpm singles while Paul was still in High School. After a couple of years at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Paul retuned to L.A. and joined the Strawberry Alarm Clock, touring, recording, and featuring an appearance in the movie, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Later, he began playing bass, and after learning 1 and 5 in a few keys, started working as a bass player, eventually leading to gigs with Hank Thompson, Johnny Tillotson, George Highfill, Mary Kay Place, and many others and recording for labels both major and indie. Paul has been writing songs since his first Mustang record release, and some of those who have recorded them include Patty Loveless, Juice Newton, Highway 101, Jill Sobule, and Boy Howdy. Paul's also been producing records for some time, including a 1970's re-recording by Jon and Sondra Steele of the self-penned classic, (and Elvis's very first recording) 'My Happiness'. Paul is currently the bass player for the critically acclaimed cosmic-country band, I See Hawks In L.A. Paul's CD, Weed and Water, includes songs about family, campfires, abject loss, and love triumphant. A REVIEW OF WEED AND WATER: Paul Marshall's warmth and simplicity a good match for his heartfelt lyrics By BLISS Pasadena Weekly L.A. club-goers familiar with local singer-songwriter Paul Marshall as the trusty bassist in Ronnie Mack's versatile Barn dance band are often surprised to learn that, once upon a time, he belonged to 1960s psychedelic pop group Strawberry Alarm Clock. Marshall's thoughtful, gentle demeanor tends to mask the fact that he has many interesting stories to tell - as well as his considerable credits. His songs have been recorded by higher-profile artists such as popster Jill Sobule, country star Patty Loveless, Highway 101 and Juice Newton. 'Weed and Water,' which he produced and recently released, is his first solo album. A truly fine harmony singer...the warmth and winning simplicity of his delivery is a good match for his heartfelt lyrics,particularly on the exceptional title tune, one of several on which he receives sympathetically nuanced harmony support from blues/R&B singer Teresa James and guitarist Billy Watts. The song is a choice example of Marshall's talent at distilling lived wisdom into deceptively simple lyrics ('If you want to reap the harvest/ You've got to weed and water too') and hummable melodies. Others, like 'Sifting Through the Ashes' and the Cajun-flavored 'Lucy Anna,' are pleasant enough dance numbers, but it's the ballads that shine, particularly 'Cowboy Jazz,' a drowsily jazzy, sensual co-write with Mel Harker, and 'Our Father,' a funeral farewell whose restrained instrumentation just skirts sentimentality. In live performance, it's a guaranteed tear-jerker. 'The Blackboard in Bakersfield and the Palomino' is particularly poignant, given the number of area nightclubs (country and rock) that have vanished over the past decade - including, most recently, Jack's Sugar Shack, which carried much of the spirit of the beloved Pal. 'Buck and Merle and young Emmylou/ Loretta and Kitty and Charley Pride too,' Marshall sings nostalgically, with an evocative assist from pianist Rick Solem and J.D. Maness' beautiful pedal steel. 'For five bucks and three beers you could see one fine show/ At the Blackboard in Bakersfield or the Palomino.' 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Miami Dolphins cornerback Sam Madison said Wednesday he'll miss the Pro Bowl on Feb. 9 because of a right shoulder injury.
San Diego cornerback Ryan McNeil will replace Madison, who hurt his shoulder in November and aggravated the injury in Sunday's playoff loss to Baltimore.
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A coalition of First Nations, environmentalists and lawyers have delivered a final rejection of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, promising a collective campaign to defeat the project should it receive federal government approval.
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Representatives of Coastal First Nations, Dogwood Initiative, Unifor, West Coast Environmental Law, Douglas Channel Watch and One Cowichan stood together Monday to confirm their intent to build democratic resistance to the project, using a citizens' initiative — the petition process that overturned the HST.
LetBCvote.ca has been in the works for months, prepared by members of the Dogwood Initiative in anticipation of the federal decision, expected after the close of stock markets Tuesday.
Executive director of Coastal First Nations, Art Sterritt, said Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs to listen to B.C.
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Cyndi Taylor Krier, vice president of government relations for USAA, is being afforded an honor that has been going to service members killed in Iraq: She is having a post office named after her.
The Washington Post reports that San Antonio Congressman Lamar Smith wants to name a post office after Krier, who is a lobbyist for USAA. She is also a former state senator and former Bexar County judge.
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@calgarybride2015 Yup, you can still get away with buying children's shoes. Works well for fun flats/runners like Toms, Keds and Vans, plus they're cheaper lol
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An amazing acrobatic act out of San Antonio – "spine-tingling to watch" were Piers Morgan's words – seems a sure bet to move on to the Final 16 of NBC's "America's Got Talent" tonight.
The Sandou Trio Russian Bar – starring Cassie Sandou, a lithe and lovely gymnast and Alamo City transplant — delivered a stunning performance Tuesday that capped the show's first live broadcast.
Sandou's breathtaking act –consisting of several twists and multiple somersaults many feet in the air before landing on a narrow bar — are daring enough.
To make it even more riveting – not to mention scary — she did them Tuesday above a bed of nails and flames of fire. Watch her performance here.
One slip of the foot above these threats, and the beauty — who left her home in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina and relocated with her family to S.A. — could have plunged to her death on national TV.
The act, which also includes her husband Constantin Sandou, whom she met while performing at a show in San Antonio and his brother Sergei, had all three judges and the L.A. studio audience jumping to their feet in a rousing standing ovation.
"Is it worth risking your life? You could die from this!" Howie Mandel said, before heaping praise upon the group.
"It's the most dangerous and exciting thing we've seen in a long time," added an adoring Piers.
"Just wow! So dangerous and beautiful to look at," was the assessment by Sharon Osbourne, before she declared: "I cannot wait for what's coming next!"
Neither can I. Of course, whether Cassie and her partners – who refreshingly announce their origin of San Antonio before every performance – advance is up to how the viewing audience voted Tuesday night.
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Seemingly the center of the political universe, Grand Rapids will be Donald Trump's last campaign stop before Election Day.
The Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, are scheduled to spend the final hours at a rally at DeVos Place. It is slated to begin at 11 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, and supporters can RSVP on the campaign's website.
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I knew the storm was hard upon us when the last rose of fall was broken.
I had retreated from the press of weather coverage on television, had snapped the radio to "off" and decided to forego the preparatory hysteria about the possibility of a hurricane. My own resolve couldn't stop the phone from ringing, though, and calls came in for two days or more before this last "hurricane that never happened" surged onto the beaches, high tides higher than ever, the full moon throwing its weight around, the trees bowing under the authority and whim of gravity and the shattering surf.
But I had done my time in meteorological high drama many times before, and I confess I have evolved into less than wholehearted patience with pre-storm fervor. I didn't go online to discover the virtual reality of actual catastrophe in New York and New Jersey or how the wind and waves were pummeling the coast all the way to Maine.
I mostly sat absolutely still in the eye of my own storm. I was trying to get my sea legs back after ankle surgery that had already leveled me, and I didn't need a hurricane or nor'easter to remind me how puny the physical form of a human is when contrasted with nature's way of working things out. In the cedar-shingled cottage where I was recuperating, nature had already whispered its superiority in a gentler but equally persuasive way by sending tendrils of ivy through the siding and the frame of the front door.
Coming and going, leaping or limping, you could not cross the threshold without being reminded that something else was ceding control of the property only briefly to allow you to linger for a while as though you belonged. But it was all pretense: You would never really have anything more than the illusion of the upper hand, while silent and unnoticed, the vines like jute and the leathery green leaves inched their way indoors through cracks in mortar and along corridors in insulation soft as spring soil. Other forces were at work, and little you knew of them, or noticed.
A lone rose bloomed, fully, at the apex of the little porch roof, a cluster of velvety crimson petals unfurling a bit each day, 'til they had opened to the size of a teacup and then a sauce dish, and finally a flattened circle the circumference of a butter plate. As the petals laid themselves open to the gusts gathering strength, they became small flags, then a snarl of tiny sails. And as the storm peaked, the whole boat of the blossom was rent apart by the winds and the vessel split into a suggestion of ruptured wood and a wrecker's dream.
I watched from indoors, safely, while the fury of the storm ran like a rage that began with a wail and seemed to never end. The "height" of the blast was always a few hours off, the front moving slowly and catastrophically along the coastline, heading north, incessantly just about to make landfall. In the end, I gave up on it altogether and went to bed, figuring that any real tragedy would rouse me.
I woke the next morning to stillness in the near landscape. Tatters of leaves, even ones the size of elephants' ears, were strewn across the yard. There was no real flooding, and the marsh seemed oddly to have been carried a bit farther off, rather than closer, by the battering surf. The sun made a feeble effort at rising before backsliding into a full day of misty rain, but it held on long enough to leave a rainbow arcing in the west over the bay.
A friend stopped by with muffins, pumpkin and blueberry, covering the preferences of both summer and autumn in one fell swoop. We sat, sipping coffee and swapping fictions about the storm: The yacht club had not lost a building to the surge, as had been rumored the night before. It was a boat house, it turned out, one built on pilings, that had already been in the water before the tide rose and positioned it, where it had always been, offshore.
One tree in the neighborhood had been snapped off about 10 feet up the trunk, but the toppling branches had missed the nearest house. A single rooftop had been damaged slightly as though it were the flap of an envelope someone had tried to pry open at one corner.
But mostly the community remained more or less unscathed, and as the day wore on, things returned to whatever it is that passes for normal on an ordinary day: A landscaping crew was on the job by 8 a.m., using leaf blowers to clear a yard. Down the road, someone was playing poor odds on the weather, pinning laundry on a clothesline stretched across an open view of the bay. A woman with a dog walked by, skirting the edges of scant traffic. In what was left of a canopy torn to bits, the birds started to sing.
It was over before it began, we told each other, while clouds of steaming coffee drifted in the morning air, the only fog to negotiate in the light of a new and settled day. The next wave of trouble — already on the horizon — seemed slight enough, an incursion of field mice in the cellar. That would be a longer storm, I knew, but like the one just passed, it too would recede in time.
By then, we would have endured snow and ice and troubles we couldn't prepare for or plan on. Life's small victories still seemed much larger than its lesser trials, a fair balance in the aftermath of a storm. We have survived.
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SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A man was flown to a local hospital after a shooting in Downtown Suffolk Wednesday evening.
The shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m. near the intersection of South 4th Street and East Washington Street, according to Diana Klink with Suffolk Police.
"The preliminary investigation indicates a male subject, approximately 30 years of age, was shot several times," Klink said.
The vicim was flown by Life Evac to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital for treatment, but the extent of his injuries is unknown at this time.
Anyone with information that could help investigators is asked to contact Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.


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Date: 02/04/2008 Category: Learning and Achievement
Napier Primary and Nursery School has been graded 'satisfactory' overall in its latest Ofsted inspection, but scored 'good' for its nursery provision and for the personal development and well-being of its pupils. You are invited to send a photographer and/or reporter to the school, on Napier Road, Gillingham, at 10am on Tuesday 22 April to meet the pupils and staff at work. There are 553 pupils aged 3 to 11 years old. The report describes the school as a happy one that pupils are proud to attend. It goes on to say that it is very well led by the Head Teacher Zerina Slade, ably supported by her assistant head teachers in developing the skills of other staff. Pupils' personal development was found to be good, and that they develop a good awareness of safe and healthy living, as well as fulfilling various responsibilities in the school community. Children get off to a good start in the Nursery and reception classes, inspectors found, and this prepares them well for the more formal structure of learning in other classes. Most parents are supportive of the school, which works hard to engage them in their children's learning. They value the approachability of staff, who are always willing to discuss their children's progress, the report states. One parent is quoted as saying: "Mrs Slade and her team should be praised highly for their obvious commitment to the school and children." Ofsted found examples of good and outstanding teaching in some classes, and that teachers work hard in the pupils' interests and care very much about their general welfare. Mrs Slade said: "I'm pleased with the outcome of this inspection as it recognises the many strengths of the school, including the enthusiasm of our pupils, our hard working staff and the good relations we have with parents and the local community." Medway Council's Portfolio Holder for Children's Services, Cllr Les Wicks, said: "Napier has achieved a great deal and has very strong roots in the community it serves. This will stand it in very good stead to go from strength to strength in the future." Director of Children's Services Rose Collinson added: "I'm pleased that this is a school that children are happy and proud to attend. This is a well-deserved outcome for the school, and a tribute to the headteacher's leadership and the teamwork in the school that supports achievement and ambition for pupils."
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Mounir Saada: Gaza – The Pain and Suffering and the Human Tragedy
Accumulated wounds generating human tragedies and the rigors of pain and sufferings has been aggravated.
Heart breaking and horrific scenes that overstep all human norms and limits.
Heads separated from the bodies.. charred corpses.. body parts scattered.. sand colored in red and the smell of blood devastates in everywhere.
The heavy black smoke floats in the sky of Gaza, flames rising from the rubbles of the destroyed houses, though, rockets and missiles whistling is still in the air.
Tragic real scenes of displaced children, the pain of casualties who the hospitals could not accommodate, no tombs to burry corpses, survivors looking for their families inside the rubbles and others sorrowful for the loss of their siblings, families, loved ones and even souvenirs!
These are the scenes of death, blood, destruction, devastation, pain, suffering, sorrow and in parallel some scenes of joy for those who survived this massacre.
It is the destruction and the killing machine that has overlooked everything and that alleviates its hate and injustice by avenging from people, trees and even stones, everything in Gaza is systematically targeted.
It is the hostility of a colonizer exerted on an unarmed nation that is already exhausted from the siege… Starvation and poverty spreading and are a part of a planned system of sieging and severe boundaries in the frontiers and borderlines to disallow the entry of all sources of a descent life, a planned system that deteriorates infrastructures, suspend water and electricity supply, and bans essential and medical elements from access. It is a well-sealed prison, it is rather a slow death swamp.
And the Zionist forces keep committing the same crimes and massacres against Palestinians before even that Palestinians wipe away their tears or hardly overcome the misery.
It is an existence of colonizer which is built upon legends, massacres, inimical wars, cities and villages destructions, scorched-earth policy and land confiscation respectively with the Zionist ideology that survives on blood and killing innocent people.
Massacres committed by Zionists against unarmed people in Gaza using fatal and internationally banned weapons in order to exterminate all the Palestinian nation disregarding that these massacres will not generate a victory, will not defeat the determination of a resistant or the resistance of a nation raised to fight for its rights, and Gaza gives us the illustration and the example that should be memorized in minds and in the history and also in the records of the enemy that are filled up with massacres and slaughters.
A fresh bleeding sequence renewed with each explosion in which all civil and innocent people experience agony and death and pain.
It is the holocaust that took the life of many martyrs and damaged cities and villages and camps and houses till they all became tombs of their inhabitants.
Each house in Gaza recites a story of pain and torture that none can even imagine whereas reality recites the misery differently.
Missiles and bombs demonstrate the racism of the colonizer and its wild blood-thirst, the colonizer did not only kill people and destroy houses but it further condoned bombing schools where civilians shelter from missiles and warplanes and bullets, it further bombs mosques and establishments and hospitals that are overcrowded by sick and wounded people, it even bombed cemeteries where only dead people lie.
It is a programmed violation that shows no respect to human rights and human international law, shows no mercy to children and bereaved whines and widows moans.
This is the issue of the Palestinian nation, a case that derives its legitimacy from the fact that this land belongs to us and taht we are victims exterminated by the name of the injustice of the colonizer, a case that derives its legitimacy upon the pillars of the international law that insists on the right of Palestinians of freedom and the end of the occupation of their land.
But unfortunately the silence of the international community and human rights organizations and associations gives the colonizer more space to execute more massacres and slaughters whereas only civilians remain in the front lines to face killing and slaughtering, this silence itself is the leader to all of this drama.
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Similar to Fight Dancing or Hardcore dancing, but you take you spin kick, take your gun out and start shooting people. Based on the behaviour of the Logan area, in QLD, Australia.
"Did you see on the news? Some hardcore gangsters had an altercation on the street, it started a Logan Throwdown!"
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The next bread on my Modern Baker Challenge line-up – Pecorino Pepper Biscuits. We are baking our way through Nick Malgieri's "The Modern Baker", not necessarily in the order that is given in the book. Check my sidebar to see which breads I've already made.
I love Pecorino, but it's not a staple in my house. Parmesan is… And as Malgieri offers to substitute Parmigiano-Reggiano for the Pecorino Romano, I opted for the Parmesan version.
The recipe says to combine the flours, baking powder, pepper (I decreased the pepper amount to 1/2 tsp as Malgieri suggests for the Parmesan version), and salt. Then you have to combine the grated cheese and butter in a food processor where you pulse it several times. To this you add the flour mixture and pulse again. Add some milk, and pulse some more. Problem: I don't have a food processor. So I was mixing and squishing everything with my hands. I mean, I'm pretty sure people already made biscuits like these before they had access to food processors, so using your hands can't be totally wrong, no?
I then pressed the dough into a rectangle about 1/2 inch thick (I think it was less than that because I got a lot more than 12 biscuits – 19 to be exact) and used a 2 1/2 inch dessert ring to cut out the biscuits. Malgieri says to press straight down with the cutter – twisting it as you cut prevents the biscuits from having straight, even sides when baked. I arranged the biscuits on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and baked them in the preheated oven at 400°F for 20 minutes until they were nicely golden.
My verdict: YUM!!!! I will make these again very soon – the whole process is really quick and easy and the result is delicious. I might add a little bit more Parmesan next time…
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"Goodness gracious me ! it's the Busy Bee!" the small hawk put out with some enthusiasm, looked at me a genuine smile. He stands there handing out flyer half the day, but no need really.
The Busy Bee Cafe has been around the block and then some, formerly known as the 'Hard Rock Cafe Pokhara back in 1990. It is usually filled up on given night depending on the season it could be more or less half foreigners. A place to get laid back, eat some good food, such as a Veg Enchilada or excellent Yak pizza listen to great live music and dance up a storm!
There pool in the back and fires in when the season gets cool at night. Tends to close early so get there early and enjoy nightly entertainment by local musicians. Funny how much they these guys really dig the old classics, Scorpions, Crosby stills and Nash, Rolling Stones and the old modern pop hits too. Something in classic Rock and metal really appeals to Nepali youth, perhaps some inner angst and rage against the system. Get 'Laxman' (the singer below (who also the local music teacher) to belt out some classic Queen and you -will be impressed, this guy really has a good voice and sounds like Freddy Mercury. The guitar player, Vishnu can crank out the some serious guitar licks too. Both these guys are stand up musicians and operate like a jukebox. Nepali Jimmy Page anyone?
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Giants Hope a Moral Victory Can Lead to a Real One
By JOE LAPOINTE; Barclay Walsh contributed research.
Published: February 3, 2008
The term moral victory is not exclusive to sports. It has been used to describe everything from Al Gore's disputed defeat in the presidential election of 2000 to the battle at the Alamo in 1836.
But the term is heard most often after athletic contests referring to the losing side of a close result against an opponent perceived as superior. The boxer Joe Frazier's reputation was enhanced in 1975 when he lost his heavyweight title bout to the champion Muhammad Ali in the Thrilla in Manila. The same sort of fame came to John McEnroe after Bjorn Borg beat him for the 1980 Wimbledon title.
Phil Simms, the former Giants quarterback who is now a CBS announcer, said the term moral victory was ''thrown out there probably way too much, like a lot of sports clich?'' But Simms said the Giants' 38-35 loss to New England in late December was a legitimate example.
''I would say yes, that was a moral victory,'' he said last week. ''It gave them confidence to play the best team in the N.F.L.''
The topic is relevant this weekend as the Giants and the undefeated Patriots prepare to meet again, in the Super Bowl, and because, sometimes, a moral victory is followed by a win in the rematch.
That was the case when McEnroe beat Borg in the 1981 Wimbledon final. Defensive lineman Richard Seymour of the Patriots recalled a similar situation in 2001, when New England lost to the St. Louis Rams, 24-17, during the regular season.
''When we walked away from that game, we said, 'Man, we would love to see those guys again,' '' Seymour said. After winning their next eight games, the Patriots faced the Rams again in the Super Bowl and beat them, 20-17. Therefore, Seymour concluded, ''We understand the mentality the Giants have.''
John Mara, the president and co-owner of the Giants, winced when he heard the term moral victory. But he recalled that the mood during and after the December defeat was uplifting for the Giants and their supporters.
''The players believed that they could play with anybody, and that game did so much to energize our fan base,'' Mara said. ''The stadium was as alive as it's ever been.''
When asked to define moral victory, he said, ''I guess it's if you feel good after a loss.''
Still, the term is often rejected by athletes and coaches, perhaps because it may be a misnomer. Moral as an adjective can be defined as relating to, dealing with or capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. In that sense, would the opposite of a moral victory in sports be an immoral victory, in which the winning team cheats?
Perhaps, in the context of a sports defeat, the more appropriate word might be morale, because performing well or nobly in defeat can boost the spirits of participants and their fans.
Grant Barrett, a lexicographer who is the host of the radio show ''A Way With Words,'' said moral as an adjective could also be defined as ''having psychological rather than tangible effects,'' as in moral support. This meaning would fit a moral victory in sports.
That was the impression of Steve Smith, a rookie receiver for the Giants, who said the loss to the Patriots raised the confidence of the players in quarterback Eli Manning, whose ability to rise to big moments had been questioned.
''After that game, we knew Eli could do it,'' Smith said. ''It was the biggest confidence game for us this whole season.''
Of course, the phrase confidence game also has a different meaning in another context, but that is a topic for another day.
In political discourse, moral victory has a long history that shows how the term can mean different things in different times. In 1858, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois used the term to support the rights of new states to decide whether or not they wanted slavery.
''The credit of this great moral victory is to be divided among a large number of men,'' Douglas said.
But President Bush used the expression in a different sense in 2002 after the United States invaded Afghanistan. He compared his plan to rebuild that nation to the rebuilding of Europe with the Marshall Plan.
''Marshall knew that our victory in World War II had to be followed by a moral victory that resulted in better lives for individual human beings,'' Bush said.
Patriots Coach Bill Belichick dismissed the notion that the Giants won a moral victory in December. ''I don't think so,'' he said. ''Talk to them about that.''
But when Nick Kaczur, a tackle for the Patriots, was asked whether there was such a thing as a moral victory, he replied: ''I'm sure there is. You can still get a lot of confidence out of a loss if you played very well, which they did.''
For his part, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin said: ''I told the players going into that game that everything that came out would be positive, and I didn't dwell on the negatives. We used it as a bridge to the playoffs.''
Yet Patriots receiver Randy Moss scoffed at the notion of a victorious defeat. ''I know there's a win and a loss column,'' Moss said. ''I don't know about a moral victory column.''
After adding that the Patriots still have a zero in the loss column, Moss said it was inappropriate to ask him about moral victories. ''I don't know how to answer that question,'' he said. ''That's actually a crazy question.''


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Like all good spin doctors, Dick Armey never lets the facts get in the way of his message. His most recent foray into revisionism came at The New Yorker Festival's Tea Party panel where Armey spun the history of the tea party movement not as the well-financed astro-turf campaign that it is, but as an authentic popular uprising that coincided with the end of the Bush administration.
According to Armey's version of history, the tea party movement was not a reaction against the Obama administration, but one that was born around October 2008 when the Bush administration passed TARP- the bank bailout otherwise known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Armey's narrative failed to reconcile with the actual chronology of the movement, including the first organized tea party protests that were inspired by the now-infamous rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli over the idea of bailing homeowners out of bad mortgages, not Wall Street out of shoddy investments. That on-air rant came just two days after President Obama signed into law the first stimulus bill, another fact noticeably absent from Armey's narrative.
The origins of the tea party movement weren't the only areas where Armey's spin was in full-effect. For a great recap of his efforts check here.
Armey's efforts, while not surprising, illustrate the deeply troubling nature of the tea party movement itself. It's a movement that preys on the vulnerabilities and insecurities of white Americans all the while actively lobbying for legislation that run completely counter to those interests. It's a movement funded and founded in cynicism and is not authentic and hardly American.
But Dick Armey will still sell it to you anyways.
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Drivers Robert Short, 24, of Gibson, Raymond Bourg, 21, of Houma, and passenger Lindsey Fontenot, 25, of Gray, were pronounced dead at the scene, said trooper Bryan Zeringue, a spokesman for State Police Troop C.
GRAY — Three people were killed this morning in a high-speed crash on La. 24 that sent two vehicles careening into trees and a house, according to State Police.
Drivers Robert Short, 24, of Gibson, Raymond Bourg, 21, of Houma, and passenger Lindsey Fontenot, 25, of Gray, were pronounced dead at the scene, said trooper Bryan Zeringue, a spokesman for State Police Troop C.
Short and Bourg collided just before 2:30 a.m. at La. 24 and the Rod Bridge. Witnesses told troopers Short was driving south in his 1998 Ford Expedition and tailing Bourg, who drove a 2007 Toyota Tacoma with Fontenot riding in the front passenger seat, Zeringue said.
The witnesses said both appeared to be driving faster than the area's 50 mph limit, he said.
Short tried to enter the right lane and then returned to the left lane, witnesses told troopers. Short clipped the rear passenger side of Bourg's truck, causing both vehicles to lose control and leave the road to the left.
Bourg hit two trees and came to rest on the southern side of the Rod Bridge, Zeringue said. Fontenot, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected.
Short's vehicle continued through a fence, hitting a tree and house before stopping, Zeringue said. The Expedition struck the house with such force that it left a hole in the brick exterior. It also damaged the house's eave, leaving debris from the car on the roof.
The occupants of the house left while troopers were investigating.
Both Short and Bourg wore seat belts, Zeringue said. Troopers are awaiting blood test results from the Terrebonne Parish Coroner's Office to determine whether the drivers were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Residents emerged from their homes after hearing the collision.
Keith Tucker, 19, found a bumper from one of the vehicles in his yard next to a tree. The collision had shorn the trunk of bark and sent debris onto his roof. One piece broke a window of his car, which was parked in the driveway.
"They had to be flying," Tucker said.
Tucker said a man stopped and yelled for him to call 911. The man smelled of alcohol and left as police arrived, he said.
Several residents thought the drivers had been drag racing. Leonard Bernard, whose home sits directly in front of where the crash occurred, said he frequently hears the speeding cars. He was preparing for bed when he heard a series of collisions outside.
"I knew someone had gotten hurt bad with all that noise," he said.
Zeringue said investigators have no information confirming that the drivers were racing.
Police don't yet know whether Bourg and Short knew each other, where they were coming from or where they were headed.
Staff Writer Matthew Pleasant can be reached at 857-2202 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This year on Dancing with the Stars: All Stars audiences can expect to see Kirstie Alley sweat through another ballroom dress, Shawn Johnson flouncing around like a leprechaun, and hope that Pamela Anderson has a wardrobe malfunction.
Stomaching these "all-stars" this season will be hard enough. Here are 8 celebrities that should never set foot on the DWTS dance floor.
1. June Shannon and Honey Boo Boo
No Earthquake in Los Angeles, just June Shannon taking the stage.
2. Vladmir Putin
Vladimir Putin to show softer side.
3. Peter Dinklage
Lil Dink should stick to the 'Throne'.
4. Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking looks to defy gravity, and good sense.
5. Prince Harry
Prince Harry reveals his "ginger snake dance."
6. Snoop Lion
Snoop Lion blows it.
7. Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson dances the Hora!
8. Mr. Hanky
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Review: Gangs of Wasseypur 2 is fantastic but too long
Raja Sen | August 08, 2012 15:03 IST
Anurag Kashyap shines once again in the concluding part of Gangs of Wasseypur even though the film is a tad too long, writes Raja Sen.
Sure, it is hours and hours of foreplay with an inevitable climax, but when done masterfully, there is much pleasure to be had in gambits and gulcharras, in, well, toying with one's food. The khilwaad before the maar is where Kashyap genuinely shines.
Part of this is because Kashyap, in pulling out all the stops, seems content here to let his madcap characters actually enjoy themselves a great deal, making for a far sillier -- and decidedly more joyous -- cinematic universe.
His badlands have now more puns than guns, and there is much ludicrousness on offer. Everyone's having a blast (often literally) and while these savage characters inexplicably decide, after a while, to hold off on the actual revenge angle of the saga, the digressions are often written, performed and shot with enough ingenuity and cinematic panache for the story not to matter. This one's a ride -- albeit not one for the queasy of stomach or the impatient of bladder.
Manoj Bajpai [Images], patriarch of the first film, is gunned down a la Sonny Corleone, his sudden death immediately turning his eldest son, Danish (a compellingly great Vineet Singh) into a slaphappy Sonny himself.
Younger brother Faizal, forever crafting a mix for his chillam, couldn't care less until events -- and a scornful mother -- jolt him out of stoned apathy. It is here that we see the uncaged intensity of Nawazuddin Siddiqui, alone reason enough for this film to be celebrated. With the ruthlessness of a pissed-off panther, Siddiqui's Faizal goes on the warpath, a natural despot softened only when rushing towards his voluptuous lady. When on the Three:Ten To Huma, so to speak.
The women are as important to the proceedings as the men, if not more, even if deprived of screentime. Huma Qureshi's Mohsina is a plucky stunner who fearlessly keeps Faizal on a leash, while the marvellous Richa Chaddha, the highlight of Part One, impressively evolves into a sunken-eyed but perenially confident matriarch. There is a visible Indira-ism to her look, just as there is a touch of Jayalalitha to her rival Reema Sen's [Images] visage: the wife and the mistress, the mothers presiding over the great, guttural divide.
The men have no such overarching narrative requirements. A schoolboy, slippery of tongue and morality, is named Perpendicular and fellates razorblades for fun, a character as memorable as can be. His bastard brother Definite -- played very well by the film's writer Zeishan Quadri -- is a fatally fearless opportunist and a Salman Khan [Images] devotee: a tribe who, as I've come to know over my years of messageboard feedback, are singularly frightening and most unpredictable.
Kashyap's film, in fact, is a lot about our cinema. Faizal fashions himself after Amitabh Bachchan [Images] but snaps when realising he might actually be Shashi Kapoor, Bachchan's frequent sidekick, instead. Despite his mercurial rise, he starts becoming less relevant at a time when Shah Rukh [Images] films dominate the world -- DDLJ plays in Wasseypur movie-houses even as Dil Toh Pagal Hai posters promise the future -- and when Definite, his hairdo-loving heir apparent, hears there might finally be a warrant to his name, he sings the Maine Pyaar Kiya lyric "Pehli pyaar ki pehli chitthi" in the hope that he might finally graduate with criminal dishonour.
Composer Sneha Khanwalkar's super original songs -- Kaala Re is this film's big, big winner -- is overshadowed by familiar songs from our past. Indeed, Tigmanshu Dhulia's geriatric godfather even claims the only reason he's outlived all his foes is because he doesn't watch movies.
We who do buy gladly into Kashyap's madness. Yet the film, eventually, starts to wheeze under the weight of its own winking. The first shot from Part One appears here, not as Part Two's climactic sequence, but somewhere after intermission and a long way from the end. It is thus not a circle but a spiral, this narrative, and concentric storytelling can be awfully repetitive. No matter how whimsically the tale is told.
Too much is unbearably cutesy -- "set right-va karo ji" goes a frequently repeated song exhorting the hero to fix it -- several chunks are entirely unnecessary, and the plotting can be almost moronically frustrating, as evidenced by a mildly amusing but mostly pointless sequence featuring vegetable shopping, dhoti-tying and incompetent assassins. With the film by now into its fifth hour, this fluff exhausts.
And yet, for all its folly -- and the fact that an hour could have been lopped off its running length, easy -- Gangs Of Wasseypur II provides enough cinematic memorabilia to single-handedly last us the summer.
Kashyap's visual flair has just grown with each film, and this one is not just cinematically self-assured but also highly nuanced: some of the touches -- like Mohsina's choice of paperback -- border almost on a Dibakarian immaculateness. Perpendicular Khan, meanwhile, like the Bob Biswas we met in Kahaani a few months ago, deserves his own graphic novel, pronto.
Like one of those unending strings of ladis, this is, then, a proper firecracker, even if far too long. Had Ramadhir Singh broken his coda and watched it, he'd have doubtless been gunned down mid-film, the length (and volume) allowing his foes more than enough celluloid cover to set up sniper-rifles, grenades and knifemen for the job. Sheer murder, surely.
Yet, like the inevitably doomed characters in this Kashyapverse, he'd have gotten to grin a few times before biting the dust.
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"A tooth (should have erupted at about 12 years old) fully embedded & fused with mandible. Didn't cause any problems for years, but has flared up and is extremely painful. Per general dentist, it lays directly under a good tooth, has absc..."
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