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Sony's `Takers' Leads U.S. Box Office With $20.5 Million in Ticket Sales
The crime drama "Takers" was the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, earning $20.5 million for Sony Corp.
The film moved into first place after final Sunday sales numbers were tallied, displacing "The Last Exorcism," researcher Hollywood.com Box Office said today in an e-mailed statement. "The Last Exorcism" took in $20.4 million.
"Takers" features singer Chris Brown and Hayden Christensen leading a group of bank robbers chased by a veteran detective played by Matt Dillon. "The Last Exorcism," along with "Takers," had an unexpectedly strong opening weekend for late August, said Gitesh Pandya, chief executive officer of Box Office Guru.com.
"The end of August is a dumping ground for weak movies that don't work," Pandya said. "It shows that there's still a lot of interest out there in moviegoers to see something different."
"The Last Exorcism," from Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., was filmed as a mock documentary and doesn't feature a Hollywood superstar. Rated PG-13, the movie depicts a camera crew assigned to follow a preacher performing his final exorcism before quitting the practice.
"The Expendables," also from Lions Gate, finished third with $9.5 million after two weeks at No. 1. The film, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, follows a group of mercenaries paid to overthrow a South American dictator. The cast includes Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham and Steve Austin. It has taken in $82 million since opening on Aug. 13.
'Eat Pray Love'
"Eat Pray Love," featuring Julia Roberts, dropped to fourth place from third in its third week of release with $6.8 million for Sony Corp. Roberts plays Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote a memoir detailing her divorce and world travels.
"The Other Guys" remained in fifth with $6.3 million. The buddy-cop spoof starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg has earned $99 million for Sony in four weeks.
"Vampires Suck" was sixth with $5.2 million for News Corp.'s Fox studio. The movie parodies the recent vampire phenomenon, specifically Summit Entertainment LLC's "Twilight" series.
The rereleased "Avatar" had $4 million in sales, finishing in 11th place. The take pushed the movie's domestic total to $753.8 million. The 3-D film from director James Cameron originally was released in December.
Next Week's Debuts
Three films debut next week, including the Wednesday opening of George Clooney's "The American" from NBC Universal's Focus Features. Warner Bros. will attempt to draw in romantic-comedy fans with "Going the Distance," starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long,, while Fox's "Machete" targets the adventure seekers.
Weekend sales for the top 12 films fell 8.5 percent to $100.4 million from $109.8 million a year earlier, Hollywood.com said. Year-to-date receipts total $7.53 billion, up 4.1 percent from $7.23 billion. Attendance has fallen 1.5 percent this year.
The following table has figures provided by studios to Los Angeles-based Hollywood.com. The amounts are based on actual ticket sales for Aug. 27-29.
Rev. Avg./ Pct. Total Movie (mln) Theaters Theater Chg. (mln) Wks ================================================================ 1 TAKERS 20.5 2,206 9,298 -- 20.5 1 2 THE LAST EXORCISM 20.4 2,874 7,087 -- 20.4 1 3 THE EXPENDABLES 9.5 3,398 2,804 -44 82.0 3 4 EAT PRAY LOVE 6.8 3,108 2,193 -44 60.5 3 5 THE OTHER GUYS 6.3 3,181 1,976 -38 99.0 4 6 VAMPIRES SUCK 5.2 3,233 1,615 -57 27.8 2 7 INCEPTION 4.9 2,070 2,356 -38 270.5 7 8 NANNY MCPHEE 4.7 2,798 1,685 -44 17.0 2 9 THE SWITCH 4.6 2,017 2,272 -46 14.8 2 10 PIRANHA 3D 4.3 2,491 1,727 -57 18.3 2 11 AVATAR: SPECIAL 4.0 812 4,936 -- 753.8 1 12 LOTTERY TICKET 3.9 1,973 1,954 -64 17.3 2 Top 12 Films Grosses This Week Year Ago Pct. (mln) (mln) Chg. =================================== $100.4 $109.8 -8.5 Year-to-date Revenue 2010 2009 YTD YTD Pct. (mln) (mln) Chg. =================================== $7,526 $7,230 +4.1 Year-to-date Attendance: -1.5% To contact the reporters on this story: Alex Sherman in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com; Courtney Dentch in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Kevin M. Burke, President and CEO, ACI-NA
Airports are more than gateways to travel. Airports are gateways to a more sustainable community. And while the calendar says today is Earth Day, airports are in the business of being stewards of the environment all year long. I am especially proud of the positive work North American airports undertake every day to be good neighbors, leading the way in establishing environmental best practices in local communities.
Earlier this week during our Airports@Work Conference in Austin, TX, ACI-NA recognized the airport industry's very best in environmental achievement. Each year, the ACI-NA Environmental Achievement Awards are presented to airports that strive persistently to preserve the environment. This year, we are proud to recognize Tampa International Airport, Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Vancouver Airport Authority, and Nashville International Airport for their continued leadership in protecting the environment, educating their community, and creating a more sustainable industry.
As they advance this important work, our member airports continue to impress in their ability to innovate and implement better and more sustainable strategies to protect and preserve the environment. Minimizing our industry's environmental footprint not only protects valuable natural resources, but it also makes great business sense because we know that sustainable business habits reduce operating costs.
North American airports are also demonstrating global leadership and becoming better partners in the aviation system by managing and reducing their carbon footprint. As North American airport participation in the Airport Carbon Accreditation program grows, ACI-NA applauds the significant steps airports are taking to be leaders in environmental stewardship.
ACI-NA joined Airport Carbon Accreditation and recognized Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as the first North American airport to attain certification in 2014. Since ACI-NA joined the program, 12 North American airports have joined more than 150 global airports in attaining certification, including Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Montréal – Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport, Portland International Airport, Portland Hillsboro Airport, Portland Troutdale Airport, Victoria International Airport, Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport, Denver International Airport, Honolulu International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, and Winnipeg Richardson International Airport.
Join me in congratulating San Francisco and Winnipeg as the newest members of the Airport Carbon Accreditation family. By achieving the ambitious goals of Airport Carbon Accreditation, these airports are setting our industry on a path toward continued success in innovation and sustainability.
These powerful results are not because of ACI-NA. This leadership in environmental stewardship comes directly from engaged industry through ACI-NA's Environmental Affairs Committee. ACI-NA's Environmental Affairs Committee – one of our largest and fastest growing committees – is responsible for the development and implementation of ACI-NA environmental policy positions on issues such as noise, air quality, water quality, waste management, wildlife, and environmental review processes. Over the last few years, this group has undertaken major industry projects to set our industry on a course for a more sustainable future, and their work is paying off on Earth Day and every day.

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Belize, and Ambergris Caye in particular, is one of the most laid-back and relaxing islands in the entire Caribbean. Join Nautilus Diving on this Belize group dive trip and treat yourself to some underwater exploration of the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world. Dive the famous Blue Hole, and check out Shark Ray Alley and Glover's Atoll. Don't leave your un-certified spouse and kids at home on this trip - Belize is a fantastic destination for all of the non-divers in your life.
DIVE TRIP QUICK FACTS:Expedition Dates:
April 07, 2018 - April 14, 2018Price: $2950CAD* per person, based on double occupancy. Deposit Required: $350 CAD Booking Status: Currently Taking Reservations Trip Hosted By: Nautilus Diving This is a partner trip! BOOK THIS ADVENTURE
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You'll be staying at the SunBreeze Hotel, the optimum hotel from which to explore the wonders of Belize. Whether it's diving, snorkeling, exploring the countless Mayan ruins, cave tubing, rainforest hiking, fishing or just enjoying the beach, most activities are only a short ride away.
SunBreeze Hotel is designed in a U shaped Spanish Architectural building with a touch of the Caribbean surrounded by tropical gardens overlooking the Caribbean Sea. They are centrally located at the immediate south side of the heart of the town with easy access to every means of entertainment; yet out of the hustle of the town.
What Is Included:
- Airfare from Vancouver to Belize City
- Flight from Belize City to San Pedro, Ambergris Caye
- 7 nights accommodation in a standard room (upgrades available) at SunBreeze Hotel
- Daily continental breakfast
- 4 days of 2-tank boat diving
- 1 night dive
- Tanks, weights & belt
- All taxes, service charges
Add an excursion to the famous Blue Hole for $440 CAD.
What Else You Need To Know:
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*Accepted forms of payment vary per trip. Please inquire within.
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Last night during the full moon I performed a healing spell for my husband. I reflected after I closed my circle, and then ate a little food which was recommended to me after my first two circles I have done left me restless and full of energy that I slept horrible!
Well, last night was no exception. I went to bed tired, then all of a sudden I was restless and freezing.. and I mean just didn't feel well, so I put on some long pants and grabbed a hematite to ground me and after a few minute I could feel the hematite slow me down a bit, and I did get warmer, however I did still sleep restless.
does this happen to anyone else? Am I doing something wrong, or perhaps something right??
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Good and Evil: The Bible As Graphic Novel
We distribute Good and Evil books to inmates upon request. Good and Evil is an award-winning graphic novel depicting the Bible stories from Genesis to Revelation, written by Michael Pearl and featuring spectacular full-color artwork by former Marvel Comic artist Danny Bulanadi. The graphic novel format is very popular and allows us to share the Gospel in a new and effective way. Bible references are found at the base of every page for readers to examine the Bible text. Inmates not only read and enjoy them, but pass them on to their children upon leaving the jail.
We offer these to inmates periodically when provided by donors. If interested in being a donor and receive a ministry discount, one must order 5 cases – 26 books per case. The cost is $695 for 5 cases. If you would like to donate 5 cases of Item #3760-99 – GOOD and EVIL – (English); send your check of $695.00 to: NO GREATER JOY MINISTRIES, 1000 PEARL RD, PLEASANTVILLE, TN 37033. Have cases shipped to: Forgotten Man Ministries, Genesee County Jail, 1002 S. Saginaw St., Flint, MI 48502. Inmates receive only one and may keep it with his property.
Bookcart Ministry
We are accepting donations of new and used books and magazines for the bookcart ministry in which we make wholesome and Christian literature available to inmates on a weekly basis.
The purpose of this ministry is to demonstrate God's love in a very practical way.
Literature Guidelines
Books (soft cover/paperbacks) needed:
- Any wholesome westerns, mysteries and novels.
Magazines needed
- Any (non-denominational) Christian
- National Geographic (any years)
- Reader's Digest (up to 5 years)
- All Sports (up to 1 year old)
- Women's (up to 2 years old)
- Time, Newsweek, etc (up to 1 year old)
- Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Handyman (any year)


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What does Cd mean?
Definitions for Cd
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Cd.
Princeton's WordNet
cadmium, Cd, atomic number 48(noun)
a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
candle, candela, cd, standard candle(noun)
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
certificate of deposit, CD(noun)
a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
compact disk, compact disc, CD(adj)
a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
four hundred, 400, cd(adj)
being one hundred more than three hundred
an acronym for compact disk, a disk-shaped recording of binary data that is smaller than a phonograph record, and is recorded and played back by a compact disk player, an electronic device containing a laser. The term is also used generically to refer to the medium as a data storage medium.
a type of giant elliptical galaxy
.cd is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was created in 1997 as a replacement for the .zr ccTLD, which was phased out and eventually deleted in 2001. Except for reserved names like .com.cd, .net.cd, .org.cd and others, any person in the world can register a .cd domain for a fee. The ccTLD is popular owing to it being an abbreviation for compact disc. Such unconventional uses of TLDs in domain names are known as domain hacks.
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Rank popularity for the word 'Cd' in Nouns Frequency: #2455
Anagrams for Cd »
DC, Dc, dc
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Cd in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Cd in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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A council has been applauded for defending its actions to take an Italian mother's baby into care after she was forced to undergo a Caesarean birth.
Essex County Council spoke out to clarify the procedures it followed after widespread criticism of its decision to put the baby up for adoption.
It said it acted purely out of concern for both the mother's and the baby's health.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Essex social services obtained a High Court order for the woman – who had bipolar disorder - to be sedated and her baby daughter to be taken from her womb and put up for adoption.
Now in a rare move, the council has explained the lengths it had gone to to try to avoid having to take the chlid into care - an initiative that has been praised as 'brave' by one senior social work consultant who said it was important to prevent social workers being 'villified' for their actions.
Defending its actions to take the baby into care, Essex council said it had 'exhausted all other options', such as liaising with the mother's extended family, before pursuing an adoption.
The council said an Essex health trust had been looking after the mother since 13 June 2012, when she was detained under the Mental Health Act.
In August, the health trust gained permission from the courts to deliver her unborn baby by Caesarean.
The council said social services had taken the baby into care because 'the mother was too unwell to care for her child'.
"Historically, the mother has two other children, who she is unable to care for due to orders made by the Italian authorities," the council said.
"In accordance with Essex County Council's Social Services practice, social workers liaised extensively with the extended family before and after the birth of the baby, to establish if anyone could care for the child."
The spokesman added: "The long term safety and well-being of children is always Essex County Council's priority.
"Adoption is never considered until we have exhausted all other options and is never pursued lightly."
The case illustrates the extraordinary challenges social workers face when dealing with such complex and emotive cases, and sometimes their reporting in the media can lead to social workers being 'villified', according to Joanna Nicolas, a social worker and child protection consultant.
In an article for the website Community Care about the Caesarean section case – and specifically the headline, 'Baby taken from womb by social services' - she wrote: "In the words of some spewing venom on social media sites: 'Social workers do the work of the devil'."
But she said to prevent this happening it was time for local authorities to be more open about explaining their decisions so that the public are aware of the full facts, not just the headlines.
She explained: "Those of us working in this field know there is always much more to a story than has been reported, but irresponsible reporting is not going to end.
"Therefore we need to be more robust in our response and not wait until we have been vilified to give a little reality to a situation.
"In this case, one would hope that now we know the mother has two other children she was unable to care for, and Italian courts ruled this child should remain in England, there might be a slightly different reaction to the case.
"It is time for local authorities to reconsider their position of not commenting on individual cases. Information such as Essex has given identifies no one but may increase understanding of how and why local authorities act.
"It is honourable that local authorities put the right of the service user to privacy first, but if that service user then speaks to the media they relinquish their right to complete privacy.
"If we really value our most vulnerable children and we want good people to come into child protection we need to protect those professionals too and speak out about what they do and why decisions are made.
"So, I commend Essex council for their braveness and hope that others will follow suit. Let us hear more often why local authorities and courts have made the decisions they have."
She concluded: "Generally, councils do not comment on individual cases. The predicament they have is that if they do not they are usually left looking as though their actions have been draconian, or lax."


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This cute petite girl is seen going to a playground, having some fun on the rides... We peek up her skirt, and watch her pull her breasts out of her purple top. She's got a cute bubble butt and babyface, and seems to have fun just horsing around. After the swings, she takes her panties off... then catches the attention of a few nearby and they proceed to videotape her as well! Going home, she uses a vibrator to masturbate on the bed... and she's a rather wild one when she's masturbating! After a nice, strong orgasm, she goes to the living room to play some Halo on the Xbox. Her cute clothes come off in no time, and she starts playing with herself again. This time using the Long Pink Toy, she fucks herself hard and fast, in every position imaginable until she wears herself out...


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June 4 2010 at 8:14 AM
Prodigy ft. Soul Cal & Noble
from IP address 184.108.40.206
Lil Wayne- Misunderstood
I dont know normal now, they wont me to act dumb
Im posed to act like the niggas Im tryna detach from-
Niggas lackin ack-shun, ones that act stunned
That they wrong bring a setback then back to act dumb, but Im
Jus a soul, whose intentions is good
Good lies from the leaders is why we misundastood, an look
The trance subsidin, shit crazy, lands dividin, an
The waters risin, A.I. babies, chips inside'em, but
The worlds issues, cant handle wit tissues, an tears
Cant handle it pissed, go mental fo' you get misused-
The shit is a ruse.. why they want you to lose
Why they want you to use, anger..its the root ah fools
The state ah mind we in....Money or nothin
Picture the place way back befo money was somethin
Kids mentally olda now, youngns is fuckin, havin mo
Some old heads still ignorant, but kids swear they know, but...
shit crazy the thinkers have rocks casted upon them for not being a doer
and the smart guys are categorized as losers
they stay speaking recession when that's just a state of mind
cause the checks rollin in twice as fat as last years i'm doin fine
making critical jugdements on those doin crimes
like that's stupid go to skool or join a branch and go dodge some bombs
these idiotic citizens say they wouldnt fight for this country
I shall kill em soon treat my nation like robbery no loyalty amongst thieves
but even I'm guilty of havin slung trees
and brought tacos to haters with slugs when i brung beef
my tattoos descibe my life telling of whats important
while many see the art of it thinking oh that's just gorgeous
can't believe I let these simple minded fools get the best of me
drugging my tension speedin my heart up like they estacy
sayin y'all monsters at rappin but I'll Rex you beasts..
Soul Cal:
Im in the temple of ah man, trying to implement ah plan
I make the simple understand, they resemblen my hands-
- trying to get grip but, I remember when
I was cold to the touch, too. Like December wind!!!
walkn round with the strong, the gorillas of the land
it didnt take long, contrabands in my pants!
Our par-ents, were all ways on to us
Cops patrol the hood, like hallway monitors!!!
but now its twenty ten, many men, is on that henny bent!!
Soul cal aint perfect neither , look at him he sin again
Government institutions, thank stubbornness is useless
They Coming up with solutions, republicans they knew this
Interpretation of a subject, subjects us to loose lips
We spend a billion a day, now budget that on loose chips!!
War in Arrack, there is foreign attack, friendly fire leaven four in your back
But its more than that he was lured in ah trap,
They wrote it mishaps,, thats not the truth nor the note thats attached!!
Wheres THE BULL AT, im seeing dung left behind dont pull that
Yawl only telling half of the truth, wheres the full facts!!
My big cuz in arrack nigga fighting for oil, so Im writing more
Despite being bored, on my knees when I pray, soul is writing the lord!!
Talking to theses young cats, I enlighten the boys
soul cals a calm warrior, ah Viking with poise
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"Guess who's out of the hospital!" Marti's voice rang out.
Chloe gasped and looked at Savannah, smacking her mother in the face with her blonde pigtails and earning a small laugh. "Mawti! Mommy, Mawti here!"
"I hear that, go get her," Savannah said with a laugh, helping her out of her lap.
Savannah called in to work today because Chloe was still sick. It had been three days since she'd thrown up at the hospital, but for some reason her flu was lasting longer than usual. Today was the first day she hadn't been throwing up. Thankfully, she just had a fever and runny nose. So today, even though it was Sunday and they usually went to church, Savannah decided to stay at home with the kids and stay in their jammies, which consisted of feeties for the kids and the sluttiest tank top and boyshorts underwear for Savannah you could think of. She and the kids had been in Seth's nursery all morning, playing and reading books, and Seth's violent puke fest.
"Let's go see Auntie, Bubs," Savannah said as she stood up, picking Seth up with her.
"Mom," Seth said.
"Yeah, I'm Mom," she said, walking out of the room. She walked into the living room and laughed a little at the sight of Marti on the couch, being smothered in kisses by Chloe. "Chloe, Honey, you've been sick. No kisses on the face."
"Aw, it's alright, Mom," Marti said. "I could go for being sick for a couple days in bed. Lay around with nothing to do. It'll be awesome."
"You just got out of the hospital from doing that."
Marti shrugged. "I could go longer."
"You're lazy."
"You look like a whore, gimme my boy," she said, holding her arms out.
"I do not look like a whore, don't use that language in front of my daughter," Savannah said, handing Seth to Marti. "Be careful, no airplane games. He puked his guts out earlier."
"You say worse than that in the bedroom, Savannah," Marti said, kissing Seth's cheek. "Huh, Seffers? Mommy says a lot worse in the bedroom. You know, the bedroom is the whole reason you and your sister were born."
"No, he and his sister were born being I wanted to prove the world wrong that I'd never have kids."
"Yeah, I kinda want to talk to you about that whole thing."
"Okay. Shoot."
"Well, the thing is, you're able to carry. You just have trouble getting pregnant."
"Yeah… And?"
"I had no problems getting pregnant. I just can't carry."
Savannah looked at Marti for a few seconds. "Okay… Still not getting it."
"Because I haven't asked it yet."
"Then ask it."
"Would you be willing to be a surrogate for me and Julian?"
Savannah's eyes widened a little and she stayed quiet for a few seconds. How the hell was she supposed to answer that? "Um…"
"If you don't want to, that's perfectly fine. I just wanted to ask before we went on some wild goose chase search," Marti said.
"No, no," Savannah said. "It's not that I don't want to, I just… That's something I need to talk to Dan about, so I can't give you a straight answer right now."
"I can take that. But seriously, if you don't feel comfortable about it, just tell me. It's not going to break my heart, I promise."
"Marti, whatever is going to get you guys that baby, I'll help with as best as I can."
"That really means a lot, Savannah."
"When Dan gets home I'll talk to him about it. I'll let you know what he says."
Savannah and Marti both looked at Seth when he let out a loud squeal.
"What is your problem, Mister?" Savannah asked.
Seth's hand went straight to his mouth and he held his other arm out to Savannah, earning a sigh. "I just fed you, dude," Savannah said, taking him from Marti.
"Good going, Seth, now I'm leaking," Marti said, pulling her shirt away from her chest.
"You wanna feed him, then? You're gonna be in pain in about ten minutes."
"Why am I gonna be in pain?"
"Because your tits are gonna be engorged and stretched out to the max."
"Well, fuck… Give him back, then. I hate this."
Savannah handed Seth to Marti and she looked over to Chloe. "Hey. Stop tearing the fuzzies off of the carpet. Your brother will find them and put them in his mouth. He'll choke."
"No he won't," Chloe said.
"Yes he will. Pick the fuzzies up and throw them away. Now."
"Ugh," Chloe scoffed. "Otayyy."
Savannah watched Chloe prance out of the room and she looked at Marti. "Did you see that? Did you hear that? She scoffed at me, and it's all because of you."
"You're welcome. Help me, Monroe, this kid isn't having it today," Marti said.
Savannah laughed and she leaned over the back of the couch, turning Seth's head towards Marti's breast, and she stood baack up once he latched on a few seconds later. "It's magic."
"Mommy magic. You're a genius."
"Yeah. It's a Monroe trait."
"I wish I was a Monroe."
"Don't they all?"
Savannah's jaw dropped. Dan had never been that blunt with her before. "Did you just tell me no?" she asked, crossing her arms, staring at him from across the room.
Dan raised an eyebrow and nodded. "Yeah. I said 'no'. You're not doing it."
"And, why not?"
"Because it's not our problem."
"She's your bestfriend. You should want to help her."
"Savannah, you're talking about carrying somebody else's baby. You're not doing it."
"First of all, Daniel, I did not ask you if I could do this. I told you I'm doing it," Savannah said, pulling her shirt up and over her head as she made her way to her dresser.
"No, you're not! You don't know how hard it's going to be to give that baby away!"
"It's not going to be our baby, Dan! It's theirs! I'm just carrying for them!"
"You're not doing it."
Savannah got into a drawer and pulled a shirt over her head, slamming the drawer shut. "I am. I'm doing this for a friend. She's my best friend. I'm doing it. I don't care what you say. I wasn't asking you if I could do it, I told you I'm doing it, and I am."
"If you do, we're getting a divorce."
Savannah turned around, her hair whipped to one side. "Are you threatening me?"
"I'm promising you, Savannah."
Savannah's eyes filled with tears and she stared at Dan for a few seconds. "I was in love with you until about two seconds ago," she said as her voice cracked.
"I've never been in love with you."
Savannah let out a sob and she walked out of the bedroom, slamming the door behind her. She sighed the second Seth started crying and she ran her hand through her hair, making her way to his nursery and taking him out of the crib.
"You're not leaving, Savannah," Dan said.
"Yeah. I am. You're a jerk. I don't know what the fuck I ever saw in you. I used to tell myself, I used to tell the world that you were the love of my life and that nothing would ever go wrong between us. It's absolutely ridiculous that the one thing tearing us apart is helping our friend finally achieve her dream of being a mother because she can't make that dream happen herself," Savannah said as she put Seth in his carseat.
"Where do you plan on going?"
"My mother's."
"She hates you, she won't let you go back home."
"No, you hate me. My mother loves me too much. I'd rather be overprotected and loved out of control than hated by my own husband."
"Don't worry about that anymore, because you're not my wife anymore."
Savannah looked up from feeding Seth and she looked at Layne, who was standing at the doorway. "Yeah?"
"Dan's on the phone," Layne said, wiggling the phone a little.
Savannah stared at the phone for a few seconds. "Fuck him. I came here to get away from him," she said.
Layne put the phone to her ear. "I'm sorry Dan, she's not feeling very well right now… Yes, I know that, but I'm not going to make her talk to someone she doesn't want to talk to… I will. Goodbye." Layne hung the phone up and she laid it on a side table before walking over to Savannah's bed and sitting down. "Since I didn't get an explanation through all the tears when you came over, can I have one now?"
Savannah stayed quiet for a few seconds. "…He wants a divorce."
"What? Why? Not that I'm not happy about it."
"Because Marti can't carry a baby, and I agreed to be a surrogate for her. He doesn't like it."
"That's an amazing thing to do for a friend."
"I know…"
"You're an amazing person, Savannah. I'm more proud of you than I express and show."
Layne nodded. "Savannah, you and your sister mean the world to me. I know I don't show it like I should. I'm sorry for that. But I try. I really do. I'm sorry that I wasn't there for Seth's birth. I'm sorry that I wasn't there for you when you got pregnant and through your pregnancies. I'm very sorry that I don't visit you like I should, even when I know I have the time."
Savannah looked at Seth for a few seconds before looking at Layne. "But you try. That's all that matters. You do your best, even if others can't see it. I know how you work, Mom. I know it's hard for you to express your feelings. I'm not mad at you for that. I used to be, but I'm older now. I understand."
"Don't ever think that I'm not proud of you or the kids. You and Charlotte, and Joseph, Chloe and Seth mean everything to me. I love all of you to death. Especially the kids. I know I haven't been the grandmother I should be to them, but that's going to change. I promise."
Savannah smiled. "Mom, you've always been a good grandmother."
"By buying them stuff to keep it fair? That's not fair at all."
"But, you spoil them. That's what grandmas are supposed to do. You do a damn good job of it, too."
"Savannah, I just want to apologize for my harsh behavior in the past. I know I've been an insensitive rhymes with witch, but–"
"You can say 'bitch', Mom. I'm not ten anymore."
"It's not a nice word."
"Neither are the words you use at night with Dad, but that doesn't stop you."
Layne looked at Savannah for a few seconds. "I have no clue what you're talking about, Savannah."
"I know you two still have sex, Charlotte told me."
"And why does she know this?"
"…Because she sleeps down the hall? Tell me, Mom; am I gonna be hearing your begs of mercy tonight? Maybe a few shout outs to God?" Savannah said with a grin.
"You stop that. I'm starting dinner. Be ready at seven."
"Yes, Ma'am."
Savannah watched Layne walk out of the room and she looked at Seth. "Grandma's getting luckyyy tonight."
"Savannah Ruth Monroe!"


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The Los Angeles Dodgers continue their World Series quest today in Atlanta where they will take on the Braves for game one of the National League Division Series playoffs.
The team roster will look different going into round one of the playoffs, as the Dodgers — plagued by injuries since day one of the 2013 season — shuffle players around to with deal with injuries to key players like center fielder Matt Kemp who will be forced to sit out postseason play due to an ankle injury.
An MRI administered Sunday showed Kemp has significant swelling and weakening in a bone in his left ankle. Fearing further damage, Dodgers team doctor Neal ElAttrache said the team decided Kemp—who wanted to continue playing—should sit out the rest of the season.
As of press time Wednesday, injured outfielder Andre Ethier was still questionable for the playoffs, with a game day decision expected today. Ethier has been practicing with the team but has avoided running bases in hopes of giving shin splits on his left leg time to mend.
Games one and two of the series against the Braves will be played today and Friday at Turner Field in Atlanta. Games three and four will be played Sunday and Monday at Chavez Ravine, with the deciding game 5 back in Atlanta if necessary.


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At about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, a 26-year-old man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct on Front Street. He was lodged at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center. Alcohol was involved.
Domestic dispute:
At about 10:20 p.m. Thursday, an 18-year-old woman was arrested and charged with domestic violence assault in the 400 block of Gastineau Avenue. She was lodged at the state prison.
Drunk driving:
At about 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Alan Davis, 48, was arrested and charged with drunk driving in the 8900 block of Birch Lane. Police report that his blood alcohol level was 0.355. Davis was lodged at the state prison and his vehicle was impounded.
At about 3 a.m. Saturday, Donald Filkin, 28, was arrested and charged with drunk driving on Glacier Highway. He was lodged at the state prison and the vehicle he was driving was impounded.
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At about 1:40 a.m. Friday, three teenagers ages 18 to 19 were cited and released on charges of minor consumption in the 3600 block of Amalga Street.
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Investment Banks' Kitchen-Sink Quarter
Investment banks made a fortune during the years of easy credit, which helped fund everything from mortgages to leveraged buyouts. Now investors are steeling themselves for a rough week as the major investment banks are expected to report their worst profits in years. It looks like a kitchen-sink quarter. With expectations at rock bottom, banks are likely to throw in every bit of bad news (BusinessWeek, 9/10/07) they can find in hopes of laying the groundwork for a strong recovery. The tone was set by E*Trade Financial (ETFC) on Sept. 17, when the discount broker slashed its profit forecasts and set aside $345 million for bad loans and writedowns.
All of the numbers are pointing south for the banks' third-quarter reports. Lehman Brothers (LEH) kicked off the season on Sept. 18, posting a 3% decline in net income, to $887 million. Morgan Stanley (MS) is forecast to report an 11% decline the next day. On Sept. 20, Bear Stearns (BSC), which saw two of its hedge funds blow up over the summer (BusinessWeek, 9/24/07), is expected to announce a 40% tumble. Goldman Sachs (GS), which also reports Sept. 20, is the one major investment bank expected to report an earnings increase—but it isn't because the bank's operations are stellar: Goldman's profit boost is from the sale of a power plant in New Jersey. The largest investment bank also will have to answer questions about losses at its Global Alpha hedge fund. Merrill Lynch (MER) isn't scheduled to report until October, but it announced on Friday that it is writing down the value of some of its investments.
The main question now: Is Wall Street facing just one kitchen-sink quarter, or are there more to come? To a great extent investment banks are at the mercy of the finance markets, which are struggling to shake off the current crisis. "Investment banks are in a tough situation," says Steven Persky, founder and managing partner at Dalton Investments, a hedge fund in Los Angeles. "They earned lots of fees from underwriting subprime mortgages, packing those loans as securities, and underwriting leveraged buyouts. And they staffed up to deal with robust lending environments. Now we're seeing pain on Wall Street, and that pain will continue if financing markets don't open up."
Watching the Fed
Whether those financing markets will open up or not is the subject of intense debate. Buyout firms and banks are making compromises to save existing deals, such as the buyouts of First Data (FDC) and Home Depot's (HD) HD Supply unit. The decline in the short-term debt market, known as asset-backed commercial paper, is slowing, too. In that market, companies with less-than-perfect credit ratings can borrow for periods of a few days or a few weeks as long as they put up collateral. The volume of asset-backed commercial paper has declined from about $1.2 trillion to less than $1 trillion. The rate of decline is slowing, according to the latest report from the Federal Reserve. The market declined by about $14 billion in value last week on a nonseasonally adjusted basis, a smaller drop than over the summer. "We have seen the pace of shrinkage in the asset-backed commercial paper market go down.… The market is trying to stabilize," said Sherif Hamid, a credit strategist at Lehman. But those are incremental steps along the path to recovery.
One key factor will be the outcome of the Federal Reserve meeting, scheduled to be announced the afternoon of Sept. 18. The Fed is expected to lower the federal funds rate (BusinessWeek, 9/6/07) by a quarter of a point or perhaps a half-point. That could boost economic activity and possibly give a break to consumers with adjustable-rate mortgages that are about to reset. It also could lower costs for banks that must carry loans they can't sell on their books. That could help investment banks, too. "Economic growth will trend higher as the credit issues eventually ease, and our bet is that the shift in Fed policy will go a long way toward making that happen," said Robert Doll, vice-chairman at money manager BlackRock (BLK).
The hope on Wall Street is that the current fiscal crisis will follow patterns established in 1998 and 2001, when the Fed lowered rates and paved the way for strong recoveries. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan noted that the market's behavior over the last few months reminds him of patterns in the financial crises of 1987 and 1998. "If that's right, then this is a big buying opportunity," said Ed Yardeni, an economist and market strategist in a Sept. 10 note to his clients. "In both financial crises, the Fed lowered the federal funds rate, the economy and profits continued to grow, and stock prices rose to new record highs once the financial panic subsided."
Tricky Balance
Some investors believe the Fed's strategy could backfire, however. They warn that a cut in short-term rates controlled by the Fed could lead to higher long-term rates. The concern is that international investors in countries such as China and Japan will lose confidence in the Fed's willingness to fight inflation and be less willing to buy U.S. debt. That would force the U.S. to boost the rates it pays on long-term debt to persuade investors to buy. Higher rates, of course, would boost costs for borrowers. And the value of the dollar would decline even further, making it more expensive for U.S. consumers and businesses to buy foreign-produced goods and services.
"I think the more the Fed cuts rates, the more painful it will ultimately be for the economy," said Nandu Narayanan, chief investment officer and founder of Trident Investment Management, a hedge fund with about $100 million in assets. Narayanan has profited from early calls (BusinessWeek, 8/27/07) on the troubled subprime mortgage market.
If 10-year Treasury rates rise from the current 4% range to the 6%-to-7% range, investment banks and other lenders could be in big trouble. Mortgage rates could rise in step, and the value of existing mortgages carried on lenders' balance sheets is pegged to the market for new loans. In other words, if the rates for new mortgages rise to 8% or 9%, the resale value of mortgages that carry interest rates of 7% declines, too. Banks must charge that loss to their earnings, in a process known as marking to market. If long-term rates rise, "banks could face huge losses," Narayanan said.
Investment banks may throw in everything plus the kitchen sink this quarter to account for their losses. But there may be still more bad news to add in the months ahead.
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The Art of Children's Books Exhibition
Saturday, September 9, 2017
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
700 Marion Avenue
Mansfield, OH 44906
Presented By: Mansfield Art Center
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo was all smiles as he entered the Capitol Red Room to meet with his cabinet for the first time.
"This is so exciting for me. I hope it is for you too. Its a great new beginning — at a time when the state desperately needs a great new beginning," said Cuomo.
It's unclear what was Gov. Cuomo and his cabinet members discussed as the video feed ended during his opening remarks.
Deputy Press Secretary Josh Vlasto briefed the media afterwards but also did not provide many details, suggesting the governor will lay out his agenda in his inauguration speech later this afternoon.
"The governor opened up with his vision to discuss not only what we're going to be doing in the next couple days but in the weeks ahead, months ahead, and over the course of his term, but he spoke in specifics about policy initiatives coming up as well as planning for the State of the State." said Vlasto.
Some members in attendance included Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy as well as Steve Cohen, Rich Bamberger, Paul Francis, Joe Percoco, Larry Schwartz, but notably absent was budget director Bob Megna. When asked why he wasn't there, Vlasto simply said, "I'll discuss that later."


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Another Thing Off My Bucket List Dec 14, 2014
We arrived at the park around 6:30am. The gate was open, but nobody was around to collect the parking fee ($11 per car). So, we just proceeded to the parking garage. There were a few other cars there, but we really didn't see anyone else around. There's no fee to enter the park...just the parking fee.
Walking up to the viewing area was bitterly cold as the heavy winds blew through our coats. The sun was just coming up, making for a beautiful sky. If it weren't so cold and we weren't on a time crunch, it would have been fun to to up to the top (I believe you can get to an area where you're looking out through an eye).
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AWESOME Oct 20, 2008
this was the most awesome trip ever.
we were in south dakota, literally, for 48 hours for a friends birthday.
I went to presidential park, crazy horse, mount Rushmore, bear country, a buffalo museum fully funded by Kevin Costner, the first house to have electricity and running water in south dakota in Deadwood, and much more.
i recommend going and seeing the sights in the rapid city, keystone area. there is so much to do, you would be surprised.
the entire weekend, including airfare, hotel, food, gas, car rental, and admission to park cost each party around 450 $. and most of the park admission was good for an entire year!
I stayed at the Quality Inn in Rapid City. It was clean, cheap, people were nice. IT was also located near a k mart and all sorts of restaurants and the downtown area. It was perfect for what we were there for. I would recommend the Firehouse brewing company (i think that was it's name). either way its in an old firehouse. Service was slow, but i'm from NY so I really am not a fair judge. I am still trying to locate chicken wings that are better then the wings i had at that firehouse brewing company for dinner. don't go to the TGI Fridays down the road from the quality inn. The waitress that served us had an obvious problem with the fact that we were out of towners, and made it clear by attempting to insult us. it was funny to say the least. all and all i liked south dakota.
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial hosts about three million visitors a year from across the nation and around the world. They come to marvel at the majestic beauty of the Black Hills and to learn about the ideals of democracy and freedom represented by the granite portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Over the years, Mount Rushmore has gained fame as a symbol of American freedom and democracy and a hope for people from all cultures and backgrounds.
Mount Rushmore was begun back in October 1927 and approximately 400 workers were involved in the carving process that took until October 1941 to complete. Not one worker lost his life during this extremely dangerous work.
Doane Robinson is known as the "Father of Mount Rushmore", and it was his idea for to carve the huge faces in the Black Hills. He wanted to create an attraction that would draw people from all over the country to his state. He contacted Gutzon Borglum, a well known sculptor, in August of 1924. Borglum accepted the offer and after a couple of meeting they found the site where the carvings would be completed. Funding was harder than the rock that was to be carved.
Today, the huge concrete parking structure, entry, gift shops, food courts and all hardly seem to be what was pictured when the attraction began.
Still, for all Americans this is a site to see.
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A few days before Hu Zhengsheng visited his master's bedside, he received a call many martial artists spend their lives hoping for: a Hong Kong producer offering him a lead role in a kung fu movie. It's easy to see why. Hu has a boyishly handsome face and projects a confidence won through years of physical and mental testing. Yet he isn't sure whether to accept the offer. He doesn't agree with how kung fu usually is portrayed in the movies—a mindless celebration of violence that ignores the discipline's key tenets of morality and respect for one's opponent. He is also concerned that Yang Guiwu's other disciples will lose respect for him if he becomes an entertainer. And he worries about the trappings of fame. His master had admonished him to remain humble, even as he surpassed the students around him. Humility defeats pride, Master Yang had preached. Pride defeats man.
On the other hand, the role would bring much needed publicity and money to Hu's small kung fu school. With the blessing of his master, he had founded the school eight years earlier in a few cinder-block buildings just outside Dengfeng. Unlike the big kung fu academies, which stress acrobatics and kickboxing, Hu teaches his 200 boys and a few girls the traditional Shaolin kung fu forms that Yang Guiwu passed on to him.
But fighting is not the most important lesson of kung fu, Hu explains. His focus is on honor. The skills he is passing on to his charges come with great responsibility. In each boy he looks for respectfulness and a willingness to "eat bitterness," learning to welcome hardship, using it to discipline the will and forge character.
At night his students sleep in unheated rooms. No matter the temperature, they train outside, often before sunrise. They jab tree trunks to toughen their hands and practice squatting with other students sitting on their shoulders to build leg strength. Within a month of arriving, new students are expected to be able to do full splits. During drills, coaches use bamboo staffs to swat the hamstrings of any boy whose form is not perfect or whose effort is deemed insufficient.
Asked if such harsh treatment could yield angry students, Hu smiles. "It is eating bitterness. They understand it makes them better."
Hu's problem has not been students leaving so much as getting enough new enrollees to keep up with the school's costs. Many of the boys come from poor families, and Hu charges them only for food. Unlike the big schools, he refuses to give kickbacks to taxi drivers who troll the Dengfeng bus station for newly arrived prospective students. Gradually, however, he has accepted the teaching trends and has begun offering a few courses in kickboxing and the acrobatic kung fu forms, hoping to attract new students and then sway them to the traditional forms.
From his own experience Hu knows that a boy's idea of kung fu can change as he matures. When he was young, he was obsessed with kung fu films, absorbing the performances of Bruce Lee and Jet Li and fantasizing about taking revenge on bullies in his village. At age 11 he managed to talk his way into the Shaolin Temple, where he became a servant to the coach of one of the performance troupes. Later the man introduced him to Yang Guiwu.
"When I met Shifu, I already had memorized many traditional forms," Hu says, "but he taught me the theory behind the moves. Why you must flex your arm a certain way. Why your weight must be on a certain part of your foot." He stands up to demonstrate. A fist strike, he explains, is delivered like a chess move, anticipating a range of possible countermoves. "No matter how my opponent responds, I am prepared to block and deliver a second, third, and fourth blow, with each aimed at a pressure point." He pantomimes the moves in slow motion. "A student can learn this in a year," he says. "But to do it like this"—his hands and elbows become a blur as he repeats the moves at full speed—"takes many years." The difference, he says, is making the moves instinctive and delivering each with precision and maximum power to the weakest points of an opponent's defenses.
"There are no high kicks or acrobatics," he says. Such moves create vulnerable openings. "Shaolin kung fu is designed for combat, not to entertain audiences. It is hard to convince boys to spend many years learning something that won't make them wealthy or famous." He seems drained by the thought. "I worry that is how the traditional styles will be lost."
A boy dressed in the school's dove gray robes and sneakers appears at the office door to report that a student has twisted an ankle. By the time Hu arrives to check on him, the injured pupil has resumed practice, gritting his teeth as he kicks a heavy bag. Hu nods with a teacher's satisfaction. "He is learning to eat bitterness."
News of Master Yang's impending death reached his most enigmatic student on an isolated mountaintop above the Shaolin Temple. There Shi Dejian, a 47-year-old Buddhist monk, had already endured a trying week. A television crew had trekked up the vertiginous series of switchbacks hacked into the granite mountainside to reach the monastery. They brought with them a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter, whom they planned to film testing his skills against the monks. (He went home bruised.) A neurology team from Hong Kong University had arrived to study the effect Dejian's rigorous meditation regimen has on his brain activity, and he had spent an exhausting night applying his chi techniques to ease the pain of an ill friend. Then there had been the Communist Party official from Suzhou who had barged through the gate and demanded a cure for his brother's diabetes. For a man who seeks solitude, Dejian finds himself inundated with people.
He owes this parade of strangers largely to Internet video clips that show him demonstrating traditional Shaolin kung fu forms, often while balancing atop needlelike precipices or on the sloping roof of his cliffside pagoda, one misstep from a fatal fall of several hundred feet. The clips, most taken by visitors over the years, have spread among sites devoted to kung fu and Chinese medicine and called attention to the philosophy that a healthy life turns on the principles of chan (Zen meditation), wu (martial arts), and yi (herbal medicine). These are the same three principles at the root of the Shaolin Temple's guiding philosophy, he tells me. And though he doesn't say it, these are the principles that the temple's many critics, both inside and outside China, say have been neglected in the pursuit of commercial deals and tourist dollars. The message of his death-defying performances seems to be one of authenticity: When you practice true Chan Wu Yi, this is what is possible.
Face-to-face, Dejian looks like a sort of mountain elf, standing a few inches over five feet tall with a thick, muscular build. He wears a long wool cape and a round, Mongolian-style hat to protect his shaved head from the cold mountain air and prefers to talk while in motion, replanting a young cedar tree or plucking dandelion leaves for a salad. His frequent laughter hints at an impish rather than a pious spirit.
His path to this Song peak began in 1982, when, as a 19-year-old kung fu prodigy, he left his family's home not far from the Mongolian border and made a pilgrimage to the Shaolin Temple. His search for kung fu teachers led him to Yang Guiwu, and he soon distinguished himself as the master's best student. The more he learned about kung fu, the more he became interested in its intersection with meditation and Chinese medicine, and he finally decided to take the monastic vows at the Shaolin Temple.
As the tourist crowds steadily grew in the early 1990s, Dejian increasingly sought seclusion, often camping near the ruins of a small temple on a nearby mountain peak. The oldest monks, disheartened by Shaolin's expanding commercial ventures, encouraged Dejian to establish the old temple as a retreat focused on Chan Wu Yi. He recruited local masons to quarry granite blocks out of the rock faces, and he and his disciples hauled bags of cement and roof tiles up to the site. Slowly they have transformed the crumbling temple into a complex of pagodas that appears to cling to the steep mountainside.
It is a setting that evokes a meditative calm. Pockets of thick fog get trapped along the ridgelines, magpies nest among the outcrops, and springs intermittently spray over the rocks. The only human sounds are the constant tink, tink, tink of the masons' chisels ringing in the chill air.
Dejian and his disciples tend small groves of bamboo and terraced plots of vegetables and herbs. They adhere to a vegetarian diet and harvest wildflowers, mosses, and roots to make medicines for everything from insect bites to liver problems. People come from all over China seeking advice for various ailments. Usually they want treatment only for symptoms, says Dejian, but "Chan Wu Yi treats the whole person. When the person is healthy, the symptoms disappear."
His habit is to rise at 3 a.m., first meditating, then practicing breathing techniques designed to strengthen the chi. There was a time when he would spend six hours or more practicing traditional kung fu forms every day, but now he is pulled by some of the same modern forces that are reshaping the Shaolin Temple. Responding to requests to lecture, raising money to finish the construction, training his disciples, and of course attending to the stream of visitors—all compete for his attention and energy.
"But I am always practicing kung fu," he says. He grabs my hand and puts it on one of his immense quadriceps. I can feel him pulsing the muscle. Then he moves my hand to a shot-put-like calf. More pulsing. "I do this all day," he says, explaining that he incorporates kung fu moves into all sorts of daily activities, from pulling weeds to climbing the mountain.
Isn't kung fu essentially about violence, I ask him, and doesn't that conflict with the nonviolent principles of Buddhism? No, in essence kung fu is about converting energy to force, he explains. Absent an adversary, the practice is a series of movements. The practitioner's own physical and mental weaknesses become his adversary. In effect, he goes to war with himself and emerges better than he was before. "In this way," says Dejian, "kung fu is nurturing."
Sometimes the adversary isn't absent. Not everyone who comes up the mountain is a friend, and Dejian has survived attempts on his life. A few years ago, as he was returning up the mountain path, four men jumped him, attempting to push him off a ledge. They possessed advanced kung fu skills, but he quickly fought them off. It is a subject he chooses not to discuss, but others confirmed the incident. "The Song Mountains are full of kung fu rivalries," a Dengfeng official told me, "just as they have been for centuries."
On the last morning I spend at his retreat, Dejian shows me his private quarters, a tiny stone cupola perched on the tip of a sheer cliff. He leads the way out to a terrace with a view of the deep, bowl-shaped valley carpeted with thick pine forests. A weather front is blowing in, and his thick wool cape flutters behind him.
Without warning he jumps up onto the low wall bordering the lip of the cliff, the wind filling his cape so that it flows out over the void. I suddenly feel guilty, that I somehow prodded him onto the ledge, like a morbid voyeur. I hadn't consciously considered it before, but of course that's why many people come up to see Shi Dejian, to watch him challenge death. Maybe this time death wins. But standing on the ledge, he smiles at me. "You are afraid?" he asks, seeing the look on my face. "Kung fu is not only training the body; it is also about controlling fear." He hops lightly from one foot to the other, lunging, punching, spinning, each step inches from a horrifying fall. His eyes widen as he concentrates. The cape billows and snaps in the cold wind.
"You cannot defeat death," he says, his voice rising over the wind. He kicks a foot out over the abyss, balancing on one of his tree-trunk legs. "But you can defeat your fear of death."
Soon after Hu Zhengsheng visited his bedside, Yang Guiwu passed into the afterlife. Dozens of former students gathered with his family and neighbors at the small house in Yanshi, which had been adorned with dozens of brightly colored paper wreaths. Shi Dejian arrived with two of his disciples. Some of Hu's students demonstrated kung fu routines.
The hiss and pop of fireworks filled the air, alerting the spirit world to the master's arrival. A trio of flute players led the funeral procession out of town to the family's wheat field, where the master would be buried beside his parents. The mourners filed carefully between the muddy rows of lustrous green wheat, careful not to trample the young crop.
As we walked behind the master's casket, Hu was still pondering whether to accept the role in the kung fu film. It would be disrespectful so close to the master's death. And yet he had discussed it with some of the older disciples, who had encouraged him to do it. It would mean that a piece of Yang Guiwu would live on through Hu's performance and, perhaps, inspire future students. After all, the disciples reminded him, it had been kung fu films that led Hu to the master in the first place.
Life's wheel had come full circle, the master would have said.


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Cannon - Home to 79 of our students, they have a short walk to Ade dining hall, the academic buildings and McLane Center.
Kruson - A traditional corridor-style building housing 83 students, Kruson is located on the South side of campus next to Brick Hall and within minutes of Herrick Memorial Library.
Openhym - Located on the south end of campus, Openhym is our largest residence hall, housing 150 students with two floors each of men and women. Openhym is adjacent to the Ford Street Apartments, and close to Herrick Library and the Powell Campus Center.
Pine Hill Suites - Lower Pine Hill includes Davis, Kenyon and Shults; Middle Pine Hill includes Crawford and Tredennick, and Upper Pine Hill includes Norwood and Phillips. Each building houses 58 students. There are ten suites per building, each with three bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchenette and a living room, with laundry facilities and a lounge at the lower level. The Suites are on an elevation and offer a great view of the village and hills of Alfred.
Moskowitz Hall - Also known as the 'Unity House' and renovated in 2017, 95 students occupy the three co-ed/non-gendered floors in Moskowitz. It features private baths throughout. Moskowitz Hall offers a nice view of campus and is closest to the Science Center, Ade Dining Hall, the Miller Performing Arts buildings, and McLane Center.
Tefft - Located next to Moskowitz Hall, Tefft has three co-ed floors and a community of 99 students. Tefft has new bathrooms with floor-to-ceiling showers and wood flooring throughout the hall.


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If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
By: Emily Dickinson
Evidence #1
In stanza 1 shows an idiom which is used as this stanza's figurative language, because a persons heart is not really breaking. The author is saying how you can't stop a persons from feeling bad, but you can kind of ease the pain, although it will still somehow still be there she can only try.
The poem written by Emily Dickinson titled ''If I Can Stop Heart From Breaking'' is about how you should not live only thinking about yourself and how you should help others.
Emily Dickinson
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
By: Emily Dickinson
This poem is mainly about how if you help other people or things, and not only think about yourself all the time, then you will not live a harsh, and careless life. Also you may not be able to everything or completely fix or stop something, but if you at least try it's almost worth the same thing. One example can be found in the paragraphs 1 and 2.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;"
(stanza 1)
Evidence #2
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,"
(stanza 1)
The author uses a metaphor to say that you also cant completely help a person who has hit a rough spot in their life and are just down, or depressed, or frustrated.
Poetry Terms
The poem "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking" by Emily Dickinson is about how a person can not stop all of the pain and sorrow someone has, but trying, and thinking about someone other than themselves is good enough.In the poem Dickinson talks about how in order to not be known as selfish or conceted you have to think about someone else and worry about someone else for once in your life.
Evidence can be found in paragraph lines 1 and 2. They state"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain". This line is an example of an idiom exaggerating how someone feels, without saying directly how someone is feeling like sad, or happy.This shows that she can't completely stop something.
Another example that supports the theme of the story is found in lines 5 and 6. "Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again," states that if someone has hit a rough part in their life they can only help them as much as they can and that they cant stop the pain or emotions that they are feeling they have to overcome it themselves. There is also repetition found in stanza's 2 and 7 which still shows that if they try to think about others then they won't live a bad life.
Idiom: Line 1
"If I can stop one heart from breaking"
Metaphor: Line 5 and 6
"Or help one fainting robin" "Unto his nest again"
Repetition: Lines 2 and 7
"I shall not live in vain"
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Leading the Leaders: E. Stanley Jones '07
Students who attend Asbury University get a front-row view of the determination, talents and potential of their fellow classmates and the alumni who have paved the way for their achievements. In this web series, we'd like to share that view with you! This is the first in an ongoing series about just a few of Asbury's world-impacting graduates.
Missionary, author, theologian. These three titles do little justice to E. Stanley Jones' life.
A 1907 graduate of Asbury University, Jones sailed to India that same year, at the age of 23, to serve as a missionary. His calling came in the midst of one of Asbury's well-known revivals in 1905, when classes were cancelled for three days as students knelt in confession and praise and, as he said, "every classroom turned into a prayer meeting."
While in India, Jones became a prolific writer and developed a friendship with the great Indian reformer Mahatma Gandhi. For more than 65 years, Jones ministered in India and around the world, evangelizing and bringing reconciliation to a wide variety of conflicts.
Jones received a number of high-profile plaudits for his efforts. Because of his work to promote peace in India and around the world, Jones was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize. And in 1938 Time Magazine called him "the world's greatest missionary evangelist." In 1963, Jones became the seventh recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award, joining the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and preceding Martin Luther King Jr.
Leading up to World War II, Jones was a strong proponent of peace. He became close to President Roosevelt during this time, and tried to stave off conflict between Japan and the U.S. before the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor. When Jones traveled to Japan after the War, he was hailed as an "Apostle of Peace."
Jones wrote 29 books during his lifetime, most notably Christ of the Indian Road and Gandhi: Portrayal of a Friend. These books have been printed in a variety of languages and have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.
One of these books had a tremendous, if indirect, impact on America in the 1960s. King, the great Civil Rights hero, said the book Jones wrote about Gandhi inspired him to champion non-violent resistance in fighting for Civil Rights. Without Jones, the outcome of the Civil Rights era may have been vastly different.
Before Jones had accomplished any of the work that gained him international acclaim and left such a profound mark on many parts of the world, he was a student at Asbury who met a great God. Jones was deeply impacted by, in his words, "the missionary revival that goes on at Asbury from September to June." It was the Spirit of God and the life-changing experience of Asbury that prepared Jones to be "the world's greatest missionary evangelist."
-- by Elijah Friedeman '15


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"Too often Russian gaiety unexpectedly turns to cruelty and tragedy. A man dances as though breaking his chains, then suddenly he frees a ferocious beast inside himself and, seized with frenzied anguish, hurls himself at everyone he sees, tearing, biting, destroying," observed Maxim Gorky.
Gorky's play Philistines is fuelled by two of the greatest historical and cultural events of the 20th century: the impending Russian revolution and the arrival of naturalism on the stage. Gorky knew his era from the inside. He was shaped by experience; effectively abandoned at the age of 10, he roamed the newly, crazily industrialising towns of the Volga, working in whatever capacity he could on the riverboats, in the restaurants. He was nightwatchman, shoemaker, baker, bird-catcher. He saw his society through a variety of perspectives, but always looking up from the depths. He had no formal education, but he wanted to learn. He knew well the overwhelming pressure building up in Russia, and his writing grapples with the vast, inchoate change that was pressing inevitably into his untenable society. His hard-won knowledge sheds an unexpected and painful light on the world he portrayed. Tolstoy said that he seemed "to have been born a grown-up".
Philistines, which I have just had the challenge of adapting for the National Theatre in a new production directed by Howard Davies, was Gorky's first play - though not by any stretch his first piece of writing. It is all raw material, and on the initial encounter seems like a backpack of experiences just unzipped and tipped on to the stage. It does not take long to sense an order, but this is not the order of a well-made playwright: structure and form, cogs and gears. Rather, it is the dramatic, organic order of a self-taught, self-made playwright.
When the play opened in 1902, there were riots in the theatre. Everyone could feel the fabric of their society tearing. They could hear it in every quarrel and they could see it between the generations Gorky had conjured.
Set in a rambling house that has been subdivided to allow for as many lodgers as possible, the play charts the disintegration of a family. The father, Vassilly, is a tyrant: still God-fearing (and tsar-fearing), he is a bigot and a monster. He lashes out at his children and his tenants, self-righteously shifting the goalposts more often than even a politician would dare. The characters all press on, however. They elbow through and gather round and drift apart and fight, fight, fight. No one wins. Everyone loses.
The play contains great colour and impressive range; masterfully deceptive shifts in mood and focus; irony, juxtaposition, hope and fear, all very discreetly put together. It is, in some ways, an examination of being trapped: ruts and patterns, ignorance clung to against all the evidence, hope and the failure of nerve when faced with the opportunity to change. It is written as though the action is happening next door, yet is resonant of the whole era: the same faltering, sputtering, infuriating dance that was being danced on every level of Russian society.
In 1902, naturalism was still an experimental, even radical form of theatre. Audiences had been storming out of Ibsen's plays for the past decade. A lot of it was to do with the content: syphilitic husbands and corrupt town councillors, unhappy wives and wild women with guns. The mainstream theatre of the day was broad, full of villains and heroes, simple characters who were driven by the action rather than the other way around. The great naturalistic playwrights inverted that formula. Their engine was character; the needs of the characters drove the flimsy plots (not always flimsy, in Ibsen's case). People, with all their failings, were centre stage. People made decisions that affected their environment and had ramifications from which great drama could be elaborated. And not only kings and queens, or heads of state; not only good people and bad people; but everyday, complicated people. People you might actually meet. Naturalism expressed the idea that all lives mattered, that what anyone did and felt mattered, that it could become drama and could, in fact, affect the world.
The factors contributing to this triumph of the everyday in literature are vast and complex: education, urbanisation, industrialisation, the apogee of the bourgeoisie, the decline of the church and so on. Nowhere were they massing more quickly and uncontrollably than in Russia at the turn of the century. The upshot was that while naturalism created a powerful night out at the theatre in liberal Europe, in autocratic Russia it was explosive. It upset people; it made them think. It asked questions about power, society, justice, humanity - not only through its content, but through its form. The people around whom these great dramatic emotions and situations swirled were you and me, the average Joes. We suddenly existed.
I say all this because naturalism nowadays is about as eye-opening and challenging, as formally interesting, as a school speech day. Then, however, it was a political decision to write these plays in this way - in Gorky's case in particular. He understood that what he was trying to say about his society was being said most effectively in that form. He puts the powerless on stage and asks: if we are all feeling this wrong about our world, why can't we do something about it?
The peculiar combination of naturalism and the impending revolution that Gorky's Philistines offers us is a vivid theatricalisation of anticipation. The dread. The hope. The waiting.
The dilemma for the young in the play is timely. We see them crushed by the seemingly immovable weight of their society, but also soon to assume responsibility for the disastrous decisions of their forebears. The future is threatening and the past made remote and unhelpful by older people, nostalgic and constricted by fear. The way these characters fall into and deal with their disrepair, their despair and their lethargy is all in their dialogue: the way they talk, avoid talk, try and amuse themselves, try and assert themselves, flounder and flail.
It is inevitable, in any discussion of naturalism, to mention Chekhov - the form, after all, belongs to him. But it is a mark of Gorky's achievement and strength of purpose that as much as he adored Chekhov - and he really did adore him - he didn't get caught up in the soulfulness of him, the spiritual crust that has encased and entombed the good doctor's reputation as a great comedian. They both got the joke and enjoyed it. There is an aching absurdity shared in their plays.
Another interesting link between them as correspondents - or, as Gorky would have it, as student and mentor - is an understanding of furniture. They both recognised the bland, deathly testament of Things. They realised that what we surround ourselves with says so much about us and is an inexplicable part of the problem. There is Gaev's address to the cupboard in The Cherry Orchard and Pyotr's in Philistines. It doesn't matter which came first - but it might be a moment of the student teaching the teacher.
Philistines is supercharged: charged with all the energy of a new theatrical form, with the energy of a writer breaking new ground, with the energy of a society on the brink of revolution.
· Philistines, a new version by Andrew Upton, opens at the National Theatre, London SE1, on Wednesday. Box office: 020-7452 3000


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I've got the best job in the whole world. I make bucketfulls of cash, I make my own hours and I can work from home. I love my job.
Do you like exhillarating and daredevilish activities? (amusement park stuff)
i guess skateboarding can be somewhat considered dare-devilish :lol if you look at the stunts that are done. I like doing that, but i'm no good.. but yeah it IS fun...and yes i like nearly ALL amusement park activities definitely... i'm there for the thrills :up
Do you dress well (neat/stylish) or do you dress to be comfortable?
I dress well
Do you exercise to try to get a ripped body?
Honestly, no! would i want one? sure... but am i willing to work out to get buff? no... too lazy :lol
Do you wax or gel your hair?
No, I don't like the way it feels!
Do you like to swim?
do you?
Oh yeah, I love being in the water swimming or floating!
Do you enjoy fast cars or motorcycles?
fast cars!! ...
Do you have a high-tech mobile phone? like an advanced one...recorder, picture taking, video recording ..etc etc
Do you play games on your phone?


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. is going through a major reorganization which one analyst says appears to signal a focus on hardware as the Internet powerhouse gears up for a battle with Apple Inc.
The shake-up continued Thursday with news that Jeff Huber, head of Google Maps and its commerce unit was stepping down to take on a new role.
A Google GOOG, -1.20% spokesperson said Huber is joining Google X. The unit led by co-founder Sergey Brin that is focused on groundbreaking initiatives such as the self-driving car and Google Glass, which is part of the tech giant's wearable computer initiative.
On Wednesday, Google Chief Larry Page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin, who has led Google's successful Android business, is leaving to assume a different position in the company.
The company isn't saying what he'll be doing. The Android business will be put under Sundar Pichai, who is also in charge of Chrome and Apps.
Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu said the consolidation makes sense, although he added, "Rubin not running it is somewhat curious."
But the chatter is that Rubin will also join the hardware side of the business.
"It's a fledging business for them," he said. "It's not that big yet."
Which could be the reason why Google is redeploying some of its best people to focus on that side of the business, seen as critical as it goes head-to-head with Apple AAPL, -0.35%
"The hardware business is definitely an area of emphasis as they pursue a vertically integrated strategy, similar to Apple," he added.
Apple has steadily built up its business on the hardware side, with its Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad products, and with software offerings anchored on iTunes and the Apple App Store.
"It makes sense that they're [Google] shifting their best resources, their brains to that area," Wu added.
Will the management changes also came news of changes in Google products in what Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for technical infrastructure called in a blog post "a second spring of cleaning."
The biggest change unveiled: Google Reader will be retired in July.
Wu said the move fits Google's style of experimenting with a host of different products, and then junking those that haven't really worked.
"They do a lot of things and see what sticks and those that don't stick they stop doing," he added.
Still, Google Reader's upcoming demise sparked some strong reactions, and even led to an online parody featuring Adolf Hitler.


text: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Todd Vierling wrote: > > libtool-base is 1.5.22 > > There's something wrong with libtool 1.5.22 on some platforms stemming > partly (but perhaps not completely) from some runtime config variables > changing value since 1.5.18. I have been investigating this weekend and > should have a report for tech-pkg tomorrow (Monday) with more detail. OK, so libtool 1.5.22 appears to be working, but it is exposing bugs in configure scripts that were previously ignored by libtool. I believe this falls into the same category. -- -- Todd Vierling <email@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com>


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The Juneau-Douglas High School junior varsity boys basketball team had little problem with visiting Ketchikan over the weekend.
The Crimson Bears upended the Kings 72-56 on Saturday and opened the series Friday with a 75-54 win.
On Saturday, JDHS exploded to a 43-26 halftime lead and refused to look back.
The Bears' Ryan Larson led all scorers with 18 points. Zach Heppner scored nine points while Shawn Ibesate and Billy Sarandria tallied eight points each.
Kyle Kahklen and Michael Jacobson scored seven points apiece. Dominique Brinson had five points. Sam Clark added four points, and Kyle Wales and Nick Andrews each hit two free throws for JDHS.
Albert Pahang led Ketchikan with 14 points.
Paul Manabat had 13 points while Lee Yonker and Trent Headley scored six points each for the Kings.
Juneau-Douglas started Friday's game hot, pulling out to a 30-9 lead in the first quarter en route to a 21-point win.
Heppner scored 17 points and Larson had 15 points to lead JDHS.
Ibesate, Brinson, Kahklen, Sarandria, Jake Hotch, Clark, Jacobson, Sean Bavard, Eric Gross, Nick Andrews, Geoff Craig and Alex Fagerstrom all scored in the win.
Jase Scudero led Ketchikan with 11 points. Gunnar Farstad had 10 points in the loss.
Juneau-Douglas' C team also swept Ketchikan on Friday and Saturday.
The Bears outscored the Kings 26-9 in the fourth quarter to pick up a 69-57 win on Saturday.
Kyle Wales led all players with 18 points as four different Crimson Bears scored in double-figures.
Hotch had 13 points, Bavard netted 12 points and Ben Weyhrauch scored 11 points in the win.
Craig chipped in with six points, Bryce Saviers had five points while Dakotah Smith and Nick Martin contributed two points each Saturday.
For Ketchikan, Farstad had 16 points and Scudero scored nine points.
Erik Pihl and Kevin Manabat racked up six points each in defeat.
On Friday, Hotch scored 20 points and knocked down four 3-pointers as JDHS edged Ketchikan 60-58.
Bavard and Wales scored 10 points each, Craig added eight points, Corey Mahar scored four points, Fagerstrom contributed three points while Weyhrauch and Matt Lehrbach each netted two points in the win.
Smith added a free throw to aid the Bears' effort.
Trenton Headley scored 11 points to pace a balanced Ketchikan attack.
Brian Lindgren, Cory White, Pihl, Scudero, Farstad, Eric Cessnun, Kevin Manabat, Keevin Craig and Simeon Schum all scored for the Kings on Friday.
Juneau-Douglas boys travel to Angoon next weekend.
The JDHS girls junior varsity also earned two wins over the weekend.
The Crimson Bears beat host Ketchikan 52-34 on Friday and completed the sweep 36-34 Saturday.
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