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By Army Maj. Jason Billington
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BABIL, Iraq, May 25, 2011 – Suffering from a toothache in southern Iraq may land you in the chair of either of two brothers with an interesting story of adversity, perseverance, and the unique bond of identical twins.
Army Capts. (Drs.) Aleksandr and Dmitry Baron both serve in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment as dentists on separate bases in southern Iraq. Both are augmenting the unit from their home base of Fort Stewart, Ga. Aleksandr deployed to Contingency Operating Site Kalsu at the end of October to work with the Regimental Support Squadron, and Dmitry joined the regiment's 3rd Squadron at Contingency Operating Site Echo in April.
Both men volunteered for the deployments, but Dmitry's recent arrival to the same unit in Iraq was mere coincidence, the kind of common occurrence that has kept these twins together for most of their lives. The tight bond between them was forged when their parents, Vitaly and Emma Baron of Aberdeen, N.J., decided to take them from Russia to America when they were 6 years old.
"He just wanted a better life for his children," Aleksandr said, explaining why his father moved them from what is now the Ukraine to Brooklyn, N.Y.
"We did everything together. We got in trouble together. We'd be in the corner together. With a twin, that can be a lot of fun," Dmitry said.
The two recalled their assimilation to American culture as difficult, between learning a new language and being foreign kids in their New York neighborhood.
"Being in a country that is as far as the United States is from Russia, to have him next to me was the best thing God could give me," Aleksandr said. "He was a best friend. Trying to get cultured to America is hard. With him by my side, we were partners all the way."
They were not welcomed by their school-age peers, and both brothers recalled being in numerous fights during that time. This kind of adversity, they said, brought them closer together.
"That's probably why we're so close and much closer than a lot of twins. We've been through a lot," Aleksandr said.
Both attended Rutgers University for their undergraduate degrees and pursued their dental degrees at New York University College of Dentistry through the Health Professions Scholarship Program, offered by the Defense Department to medical and dental school students in exchange for a military service obligation.
"We had a …" "… just a drive for it," said the two, with Aleksandr finishing Dmitry's sentence in a way that seemed to be part of their normal communication pattern.
Even when Dmitry decided to take a separate path and become a pilot in the Air Force, he jokingly described how he took the test and "never heard back."
In their roles as combat dentists in Iraq, the two respond to dental emergencies, fill cavities and even perform cleanings to ensure soldiers remain healthy and mission-ready. Both men recounted how their jobs seemed to spill into other, more unexpected roles, as soldiers have come in with greater needs than their dental instruments can resolve.
"I have people come in here to see me just because they want to talk," Aleksandr said. "They sit in the chair, they talk to me about their divorce, about family issues back home, about finance problems. I want this place to be a place for people to get away and just feel comfortable."
"People are appreciative of us," Dmitry said, describing the fulfillment of his job as a dentist in this unique environment. "We're like combat stress [relievers]. We're leaders. It's a pretty big balance."
Aleksandr has performed yet another role as a triage doctor, making decisions on priority of care based upon the severity of soldiers' combat wounds.
"I never thought I would do something like that," he said. "I thought, 'You send me to a deployed environment, I'll take care of soldiers, I'll comfort them, listen to them, care for their teeth,' but I did not think I would be doing triage."
A recent visit by Dmitry to see his brother at Kalsu brought the twin dentists together, thousands of miles from their Georgia homes. Their nearly identical appearance turned several heads as they walked side by side on the base. For the brothers, it was a chance to catch up and be together again.
"He's here. It's unbelievable," Aleksandr said. "I'm praying to God that he just keeps following me."

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"The Clash of Arms" minicomic is quite possibly one of the most violent stories ever told within the Masters of the Universe series, and yet it is one of my favorites because of the action! The minicomic achieves a great deal by introducing a wealth of characters to the reader. One of the best fight scenes features Fisto fighting for his life against Clawful. Here I present one of the most brutal panels in the minicomic with Clawful slicing at Fisto, ripping his costume!
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calibration/profiles, D7000 Raws -> LR3
Posted 26 April 2011 - 02:26 AM
Tried selecting "camera neutral/camera vivid etc.." in LR camera profiles but never came close to the incamera jpeg, which on some shots looked a lot better.
1) any general recommendations for workflow/setup for raws out there? again I'm pretty noob when it comes to calibration/profiles...
2) also is it possible to fix photos already imported in lightroom? ie is there a way the camera profile function in LR3 works to be able to very closely approximate in camera D7000 jpeg? This way i can avoid resorting/cataloging/rating my last two d7000 trips etc...
i saw some similar earlier posts but didn't quite get a clear answer so apologies if its something obvious i'm missing here. Will definitely investigate more on my own but I figure with the appeal of D7000 perhaps some experienced users here have a concise suggestion?
Posted 30 April 2011 - 04:20 AM
You can then manipulate them in RAW in NX2 then transfer as JPEGs to LR.
Alternatively shoot JPEG and RAW. Then your JPEGs should look the same as in camra when you import into LR. The RAWS will not as they will not convert to equivalent settings from camera to LR
Posted 01 May 2011 - 04:32 AM
Is this typical behavior of Nikon users? One thought Merg, have you upgraded to the newest version of LR, which may have modified the D7000 settings?
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Posted 01 May 2011 - 05:15 AM
I was not implying that he should do it that way, just that it's an option. I see little point in worrying about camera settings if one is importing RAW. Might as well just import RAW and apply settings or presets in Lightroom. It's pretty well accepted amongst the Nikon afficionados like Versace, that NX2 is the RAW converor by which the others are judged. Also the best way to guarantee identical settings if one is using in camera picture settings. Occasionally I still import in NX2 if I find a colour problem in Aperture. No harm done to then import to Lightroom or Aperure as a database. If one is using picture settings in camera then one is asking the camera to effectively adjust the image in camera. My thought is that one is anticipating that the image is pretty much baked, so very little to lose importing a JPEG, particularly if you shoot and import RAW as well. I know it may sound sacreligious but i think there are many situations where a well captured JPEG is hardly distinguishable from what one gets from RAW.
Even though you may have found that Lightroom's camera settings were adequate for you, I think you would still have found them different from NX2 if you compared them. There's still a place for other software besides Lightroom or Aperture in my opinion.
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Posted 01 May 2011 - 05:42 AM
There's still a place for other software besides Lightroom or Aperture in my opinion.
Hey partner,
You're right of course, that other stuff is on my hard drive some place.
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These were posted on the Reality TV thread already AND on the Son Of Five And Fly thread
Nice but he would be way hotter with short hair.
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We already have a thread for him:
^ Well now he has his own thread.
What would you be getting, since that pic is easily found online? Is it just a printed version? I wonder if £0.99 is a good price for a hard copy version of the picture. Does anyone know?
And I first saw the David Haye pics on Nov. 13 here, soe the joegibizz thread was already a duplicate:
^ That's not a duplicate thread. That's some mega thread for black celebs. The one I linked to in the last post is just for David Haye.
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The pieces of the puzzle that have been the Lakers' confounding season so far are starting to fall into place.
Kobe Bryant engineered a second-half comeback, the defense stepped up, and host Los Angeles beat the New York Knicks, 100-94, Tuesday, extending its winning streak to five games.
''We're .500,'' a smiling Dwight Howard said. ''We did it on Christmas, too. I knew this day would come.''
Bryant scored 34 points in his NBA-record 15th Christmas Day game, and Metta World Peace added 20 points and 7 rebounds while defending Carmelo Anthony, whose 34 points led the Knicks. Anthony said he hyperextended his left knee, but he expects to play Wednesday in Phoenix.
Bryant, the league's leading scorer, has topped 30 or more points in nine straight games.
''If you're going to play on Christmas, it's always better to win. Makes it all worthwhile,'' said Bryant, who would soon hop a flight to Denver, getting there ahead of the Nuggets, who played the Clippers in the other half of the holiday doubleheader at Staples Center.
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World Peace credited his defense on Anthony to ''old-school basketball.''
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This wild rematch lived up to expectations.
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Matt Barnes added 20 points — one off his season high — as the bench outscored the Clippers starters, 64-48, in claiming the NBA's best record at 22-6.
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Distain is a very common misspelling of disdain. This should be unsurprising: there would be very little difference in pronunciation between the two for most English speakers, and English has very many more st combinations than sd ones. (The misspelling mistemeanor gets 7M putative ghits, though I'm getting skeptical of Google's numbers when they're high.) Repeated and showcased usages (as in the second example below) indicate that the spelling is standard for some.
Heckles prove supporters' distain. Booing is becoming more prevalent around the country's stadia,
[Title:] Distain ¶ Distain. Joe Biden holds me in distain. I understand that he was at a rally in Flat Rock, Michigan yesterday and said
in a world in which life-long marriage is too frequently distained, they continue to be faithful to the vows they made back in 1968.
There is of course an archaic word "distain" meaning to stain (away from the original color) or to bring dishonor. Some examples, e.g. the last cited above, could be that sort of meaning, or a blend of it with "disdain".
But when it occurs with the notion of despication (!) or looking down on a person, it is quite possible that people perceive the stem stain, with or without the prefix dis -, though the prefix is obviously there to be picked up if you wish. It also fits the word in with a number of others beginning with dist… and having related meanings: if a person is feeling disdained, he is likely to also have distinctly distasteful feelings of being distracted, distressed, distraught, disturbed , perhaps even distempered or distorted though probably not distended , and so forth.
(Why does distrusted feel like it doesn't fit in that list? I think I aspirate the t in pronouncing it much more than in the other cases, and am much more aware of dis – and trust as components of the word. Weird.)
Anyway, if a person perceives "stain" in the word "disdain", do we have an eggcorn? Or does the fact that he would have reproduced the dis-stain etymology of the historically different word make that an impossibility? Does it matter if the perpetrators ever knew Shakespeare and Spenser used a word distain ?
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I really like that one, Tocayo! Every word dripping with this stain … Aaaah! Shear cutting perfection.
Do we have other this<dis examples?
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Agreed. This one makes it to the level of poetry. There must be others of this sort out there.
my format is all this combobulated
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If I were a damsel in this dress and some helmeted hero turned up at my castle atop a rearing black steed, I'm sure I would have climbed onto the saddle with him.
this combobulated = combobulated in this way?
this functional = functional in this way?
Or are these both just alternate spellings of dis-, with writers still meaning "non-, warped away from (the norm)" ?
A damsel in this dress? What does her dress have to do with anything?
All the same, any of these would be eggcorns (by my lights), if the perps really mean "this" when they say or write them. And they are certainly good examples of some sort of substitution of this < dis-.
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
No, I think these are just mondegreens and not eggcorns.
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A damsel in this dress? What does her dress have to do with anything?
I think that one could be a true eggcorn. The writer/speaker may think of "this dress" as being a sexy one, so a damsel in "this dress" is one who looks alluring enough to attract a brave savior. If you look at most pictures of damsels in distress, you will in fact see that they're in "this dress" (often one which has been half torn off).
That's dis-dress , not this dress , isn't it?
(Which has often over the years been used as a joke; it may, as you say, have been an eggcorn as well, in some cases at least.)
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7 Lady Steer volleyball players earn all-district honors
The all-district honors for 5-3A volleyball were announced Tuesday and seven Big Spring players are represented on the list.As a key component defensively for the Lady Steers, libero Valerie Ross nabbed top defensive specialist in the district. Setter/middle blocker Cerbi Ritchey, middle blocker Taylor Seaton and outside hitter Desiree Anderson made first-team all-district. These three were go-to players for kills this season.Setter Clara Benavides, outside hitter Bridgette Tuitt and defensive specialist Carson Reibe round out the list for the Lady Steers on second-team all-district. Big Spring had a pretty good showing on the all-district honors list. Powerhouse Abilene Wylie had the most players on the list with 10, including the District MVP Bailey Wilson. Brownwood and Big Spring both had seven players on the list. Snyder and Sweetwater had three players apiece. The Lady Steers' season took off when district play started. They dropped matches to Wylie twice, but beat every other team twice for a second-place finish. Their season ended early though, with a bi-district playoff loss to Vernon. They only lose three seniors from this year's squad: Belle Feaster, Anderson and Ross.


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The 13th Cape Town Jazz Festival
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The 13th Cape Town Jazz Festival - Andre Petersen Quintet (SA) will be launching their debut album at the Rosies Stage. The Bassline Stage will present hip-hop band Atmosphere (USA), as well as South African born female MC Jean Grae (USA), Cape Town electronic duo Goodluck (SA), South African songbird Zamajobe (SA) and local rising soul star Zahara (SA).
Multi Grammy Award winner Ms. Lauryn Hill has been confirmed to perform at this year's Cape Town International Jazz Festival. Her performance will take place on Saturday 31 March 2012 at the famous Kippies stage. Hill established her reputation as a member of the sensational Fugees. In 1998 she launched her solo career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The recording earned Hill 5 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
Outline, a new release by The Jason Reolon Trio (SA), Alfredo Rodriguez (Cuba), Grammy award winning tenor saxophonist David Sanchez (Puerto Rico) and Lionel Loueke (Benin) is highlight. Afro jazz sounds will be present with The Moreira Project (Mozambique).
Additionally there will be a series of workshops taking place at various venues throughout the CBD and greater Cape Town area over an 8 day period. component explores various elements of the jazz world and includes Arts Journalism, Music Workshops, Music Business, Master Classes as well as many other workshops. The Duotone Photographic Exhibition will document the emergence and growth of jazz.
The Community Concert (free to all) will take place on Wednesday 28th March 2012 on Green Market Square, showcasing some of the international and local acts scheduled to perform at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Ticket prices are R400 for a single day pass. A two-day weekend pass is R550. There will be an extra fee of R30 per act for patrons wishing to attend concerts on the Rosies stage. Tickets are available at Computicket and Shoprite-Checkers stores.
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2012 sponsors are the Department of Arts and Culture, the Provincial Government of the Western Cape, The City of Cape Town, Oude Meerste, Hansa Pilsner, Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Cape Town Partnership, and the Western Cape Education Department. Official broadcast by Mzansi Magic.
Cape Town City supports this festival to promote the heritage of jazz.
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Sony Keynote Offers Hope For PlayStation 3 Fans 361
Jamil Moledina introduced Sony's Harrison, saying that this was a 'great year' for the conference. With all three console out and the tools in place, GDC is focused on 'taking control' and charting the future of gaming. With words about SCEA's future being linked to the developers here, Jamil hands the keynote off to Phil.
Opening with talk of 'audience participation' (ala the big soccer balls), Phil launches into a discussion of Games 3.0. The Time magazine 'person of the year' last year was referenced, as was the Web 2.0 philosophy. The reality is that the concepts are worthless without actual products. So, Sony is now moving in the direction of a new '3.0 philosophy'.
Games 1.0 = disconnected consoles. 2.0 games are connected, but with static content on the disc. 3.0 games are all about social interactions, community, customization, emergent entertainment, with the audience members at the center of the entertainment experience. Open standards are mentioned as a definite possibility.
PlayStation Home will be launching from Sony later this year. (video clip) There's just a new icon on the media bar, allowing access to the new content. Phil introduces Scott Walgerman, producer of the service to do a demo. The service begins with the words 'entering the online world'. When you enter the service, you are in the central lounge. Your avatar is customizable, and extremely detailed. These is *not* Miis, these are better than Second Life quality digital characters. A virtual PSP allows you to teleport around and customize your character. Clothes are added to your wardrobe by buying games. Heavenly Sword being played on the console means you have a Sword t-shirt in your bag.
Dynamic advertising is pushed into the space via banners around the world, and in billboards. HD-quality video is running on the billboards. Users are communicating around the demonstrator, with chat, voice, and emotes.
Other public spaces exist to allow opportunities for social interaction. There's a games lounge with easy games like pool, bowling, and arcade titles. The pool and bowling titles are physics based in the world. The arcade games are customizable, and ... perhaps this is the venue for indie games?
Every avatar has a private apartment, an opportunity to make a statement in the world and a place to hang out with friends. Everything is customizable, and more furniture/wallpaper is downloadable. Unsurprisingly, some will be for-purchase. More interestingly, everything is physics based. Picture frames can be pinned to the wall, and any content on the PS3 is postable up there. Phil demonstrates the ability to do 'user created content' by taking a photo of the crowd, slotting the memory stick into the PS3, and then loading the picture into the picture frame.
Moving to another apartment, which can be purchased and is quite a bit larger. Premium items like the pool tables, arcades, can be put into place. Video can be put into place as well via televisions. Scott demonstrates by putting the Casino Royale trailer onto the display.
We teleport again, to the Home Movie Theater. There's a trailer running in the foyer, and dynamic posters on the walls. The avatar moves up to 'user customized spaces', where they introduce grouper content. By walking into theaters, you can watch the content and chat with friends. Not only Sony brands and big named movies, then, but YouTube like user-created content in this world.
Porting again, we head out to locations based around game publishers. We zoom to a 'sports lounge' with information and views of minigames. Harrison says it's very simple to make these spaces, and thinks that many developers will be happy to make such areas.
The final area they go to, the hall of fame, shows off Trophies that you'll earn through play. You can place them in cases, completely 3d and physics based. It's also possible to show off defining moments from your gaming experience on video screens. The avatar then walks out onto a balcony, revealing a Star Wars senate hall style area with hundreds of other user spaces and displaying hundreds of other trophies.
The whole thing is free. There's a large-scale Beta trial beginning in April of this year, with the service launching in Fall of this year.
Phil then moves on to Singstar. Sold 7 million units on PS2, and they're now looking forward to taking it to the PlayStation Network. He demonstrates the online capabilities of the game, showing recent song additions and what your friends have been singing lately. The store is also very easy, adding songs to a cart with the push of a button. Songs download in the background, which Phil notes is a 'good feature'. If you want to, you can videotape your performance and share it with your friends. They can then be rated. That sounds ominous. May/June release in Europe for the game, with a release 'later' for the states.
The next announcement: PlayStation Edge. A set of core tools and technologies that they've used on first party titles, and will now be shared with PS3 devs. Later today they'll be talking about it in a session. One is a graphics tool, allowing best use of the chipset. The other is an optimization set, allowing 'best of breed' technology use. To be shared via the support network after GDC.
And another announcement. LittleBigPlanet. (video clip) It's the guys who did RagDoll KungFu.. Mark Healy and Alex Evans are brought out, and show off the title, which is all about 'creativity.' Alex beings by saying they'll show how easy it is to make stuff in the game world. With just a few controller elements, they make a block, add a gear, and then set it moving with physics. It looks exactly like the toolset from Second Life, only useable. Everything is very intuitive, and the avatars are adorable. Little brown felt creatures. They then begin adding images to the walls with 'stickers'. There's all sorts of weird little things, and everything is completely customizable. Content on the HDD is addable to your space as well. The two demonstrators collaborate by adding elements to each other's creations. They're even able to add elements to each other's avatars.
They then drop down to show a much more customized area, where Phil and another demonstrator join them. The new demonstrator has a really excellent dragon scarf that flows realistically in the wind behind the character as he leaps through the air. This space is a game. It's a platformer, entirely within the gameworld. They all collect little oranges, knock over blocks, and generally chaos their way from left to right. They can also collaborate to help each other across puzzles by manipulating physical objects. It's amazing. The audience is laughing, clapping, and talking amongst themselves, and the entire thing looks fantastic. There's dynamic lighting, intuitive gameplay ... as interesting as the Home stuff is, if these elements are for real, this is the reason to buy PlayStation 3. The demo gets a huge ovation, and there's a decent amount of cheering. It's just crazy. They then show a quick video showing the way your creations can be shared. It's debuting sometime this year via PSN, on Blu-Ray next year.
"The industry is on the threshold of a new era of communication and innovation." An opportunity for the industry to expand the horizons of gaming. He wraps it up with a wish for good GDC, and the audience response is very positive.


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Winning bid:US $615.00
Winning bid:US $615.00
The buyer or the price?
Those "kabuki" boxes seem to have a fairly large fan base;
no accounting for rationality when that happens.
Hey thanks, now I know how to call those... besides "junk"
Someone obviously did not think so....
That particular Pioneer has always captivated me... I'd love to give a pair a listen at some point. I have been told by those I trust that they sound much like they look, but I am still intrigued by them.
I have heard them. Up to a certain level they sound OK. Over that, they sound . And the JBL' has just start singing.
It's really all about music.
I knew a guy in college who had a pair, while I had my L100s. Everyone was impressed with the size of his package, but everyone preferred the way I could work mine right up the limit. Especially the ladies. Elaine, Pam, Rene, Jackie, Kathy, Cheyenne, and Edie, where are you now?
They were the biggest and baddest speakers Pioneer made at the time..the were the TOTL listed in my 1969 Lafayette radio catalog...!
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The Influence of Community on The Pluralist Generation and Its Music Consumption
In 2012, we at Gracie Management created a model to predict high music consumption among Millennials and what drives music consumption, which led to great conversation. Since then, we have conducted new research and analysis, this time among the next generation – The Pluralist Generation (Plurals). The Plurals, as coined by Magid Generational Strategies, are those born beginning in 1997 and defined as least likely to believe in the American Dream, affected blended gender roles, last generation with a Caucasian majority, etc.
You can read the Gracie Management full report on the influence of music-based communities on Plurals' music consumption habits – click here. For a quick take, here are the core findings and implications:


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ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) -- An explosion has destroyed a home in a suburb north of Detroit.
Police in Royal Oak are confirming the house exploded Wednesday afternoon on Cooper near Woodward and 13 Mile Road. No other details were available.
Detroit television stations showed planks of burning and smoking wood spread about the neighborhood. At least two nearby homes were damaged by the blast. Firefighters were working to put out the flames.
It was not immediately known if anyone was inside the house at the time of the explosion.
Kate Sikora lives on Cooper and says some windows in her home were blown out. Sikora tells WXYZ-TV that utility crews had been working along the street.
She called the explosion scary and says "this kind of stuff only happens in the movies."
Explosion Destroys Home North of Detroit
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Kerry campaign muzzles religion outreach director as New York Times columnist urges religion talk
David Brooks is supposedly The New York Times op-ed page's conservative columnist in a sea of more left-leaning writers. But in today's column, he notes, "Bush has had the worst year of any president since Nixon in 1973 or L.B.J. in 1968." So why isn't John Kerry dominating the polls?
"One big reason," says Brooks, is that Kerry's campaign is too secular:
Clinton seems to understand, as many Democrats do not, that a politician's faith isn't just about litmus test issues like abortion or gay marriage. Many people just want to know that their leader, like them, is in the fellowship of believers. Their president doesn't have to be a saint, but he does have to be a pilgrim. He does have to be engaged, as they are, in a personal voyage toward God. If Democrats are not seen as religious, they will be seen as secular Ivy League liberals, and they will lose. John Kerry doesn't seem to get this. Many of the people running the Democratic Party don't get it either.
Instead, he says, Democrats are busy shoring up their basethe secular left, which is united "more than anything else [by] a strong antipathy to pro-lifers and fundamentalists." The secularist ranks are growing, so it makes some political sense to do this, Brooks says. But "just as Republicans have to appeal to religious conservatives but move beyond them, Democrats have to appeal to the secular left but also build a bridge to religious moderates."
Brooks seems to have missed Friday's Washington Times story by Julia Duin, which reports that Kerry's advisersincluding Catholic priestsare telling him to stop talking about religion.
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The International Custom Rod Building Exposition featuring more than 100 display booths and 3,000 custom rod builders is set for Feb. 23-24 at the M.C. Benton Convention Center at Winston-Salem.
The International Custom Rod Building Exposition featuring more than 100 display booths and 3,000 custom rod builders is set for Feb. 23-24 at the M.C. Benton Convention Center at Winston-Salem.
The admission fee of $10 per day for all ages and $15 for two-day tickets entitles visitors to view the displays and attend the Saturday and Sunday seminars on all aspects of rod building.
Saturday's seminars include Complete Basic Rod Building with veteran custom rod builder Dennis Papike, Rod Blank Construction and Materials presented by St. Croix Rod Co. blank designer Jason Brunner, Making Presentation Grade Rod Cases with rod building expert Mark Crouse, and Wood Turning Projects for Rod Builders given by wood-turning craftsman Morris Schlesinger.
Sunday's seminars feature Offshore Rod Construction with abalone-construction specialist Kevin Knox, Saltwater Fly Rod Building given by rod-building expert Ken Preston, Long Distance Surf Rod Building with craftsman Ryan White, and Foam Core, Carbon Skinned Grips presented by grip-and-handle designer Capt. Mike Pedersen.
Other rod-building experts at the show are rod-blank innovator Gary Loomis, formerly of G. Loomis, Inc. and now of North Fork composites, thread-specialist Jim Upton, inventor of the Wonder Weaver Tool, and author Billy Vivona, expert on EVA grip inlays.
Show hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Aaron Harwood, who assisted Tony Furr with the Southern Championship Fishing Trail, said the SCFT has ceased operation for the upcoming season.
"We may conduct weigh-ins for some benefit and open tournaments, but the trail itself is not going to continue," said Harwood.
The SCFT experienced hard times and the economic pinch as soon as it started. Originally, the trail was designed to have divisions to hold tournaments at Lake Norman and at Raleigh's trio of lakes, Shearon Harris, Falls, and Jordan, but those divisions never got off the ground because of the low number of entrants.
The trail was reduced to the Yadkin Division and added a Yadkin Winter Trail. The Yadkin Winter Trail was short-lived because of poor winter bass fishing at most Yadkin lakes and the dwindling number of fishermen.
The Yadkin Division had a loyal following of 17 to 24 teams, but efforts to attract more teams failed, causing Furr to discontinue the trail.
Furr could not be reached for comment. Brett Collins of the Carolina Angler's Team Trail said Furr called him to see if Collins wanted to purchase any of Furr's tournament equipment since Furr no longer had any use for it.
"I have so many weigh-in scales and stuff like that, I don't know if I'm going to purchase any more equipment," said Collins.
In other tournament news, the Jan. 26 CATT event at Badin Lake was cancelled because of weather conditions.
On Jan. 21, an Asheboro angler with the alias "Tillerycat" caught a 58.8-pound blue catfish from Lake Tillery. The catch is posted on the N.C. Sportsman website.
Tillery is one of several waters in the area that offer excellent fishing for blue catfish during the winter. The others are Badin, Norman, Mt. Island, Kerr, and the lower reaches of the Pee Dee River below Blewett Falls.
Many blues weigh from 20 to 40 pounds with occasional fish in the 50-to 60-pound range. Unlike flathead catfish which prefer live bait, blues favor cut shad or white perch.
In cold weather, blues linger at depths from 20 to 25 feet near ledges and humps. With warmer temperatures, blues can be caught in less than 10 feet of water in pockets and coves. Heavy tackle is required to land these whiskered giants.
The current state-record blue of 89 pounds was caught from Badin Lake in 2006.
Cliff Kirby of Catawba and Rick Dunstan of Pinehurst won the Jan. 20 Carolina Coach & Marine tournament at Lake Norman with 13.7 pounds and received $2,000.
Kenny Seagle of Salisbury and Drew Montgomery of Denver ranked second weighing in 13.65 pounds for $600.
Scott Hamrick of Denver and Roger Hoover of Mooresville finished third with 13.60 pounds, winning $300.
Tony Garitta is a fishing columnist for The Dispatch.


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I don't really follow DC, so someone is going to explain to me why Supes is going commie. I was under the impression that our Earth and DC Earth were completely different entities with basically no parallels (unlike Marvel). So is DC USA being pompous like Real USA? Does USA even actually exist in DC, because I've yet to find Gotham, Metropolis, and Keystone City. I really just don't understand the decision unless its some weird DC political statement on current events on Real Earth.
I also wonder if this is going to be like the umpteen times Captain America stopped being Captain America because he got disillusioned. Costume Change and/or Replacement/Stand-In Supes, maybe?
Also: Isn't Clark an illegal alien? Like I said, I don't follow DC but I don't remember where he took his citizenship test ...
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I was hoping someone could help me with this. So I have an image that has a title then 4 categories: A, B, C, D. When you click on either A, B,C,D, I want a view to be displayed at the bottom which could display either an image/text or both. Can anyone help? I plan on incorporating this in a mobile iOS app possibly. I have heard you can do this with maybe javascript and css and using the tag. ANy help would be greatly appreciated
I have the coordinates if that helps:
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Statue of Liberty Screening Moved to Manhattan
Security screening for visitors to the Statue of Liberty will now be held in lower Manhattan instead of on Ellis Island when the site reopens this summer after cleanup from Superstorm Sandy.
The National Park Service had originally planned for visitors to board cruise ships in Manhattan or Liberty State Park, N.J. and stop at Ellis Island for security, but New York officials criticized the plan.
Sen. Charles Schumer and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had urged federal authorities to reverse its policy, saying it could leave visitors vulnerable.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the policy change on Monday, saying that establishing a temporary screening facility at Battery Park would address security concerns while they further review security procedures. The Statue of Liberty is set to reopen on July 4.


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Ed McCarthy, one of the most decorated Yale football players in recent years, added another accolade when he was named today to the Walter Camp Football Foundation I-AA All-America team.
McCarthy, a senior offensive tackle, was honored Tuesday night as a scholar-athlete and Draddy Award finalist at The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame's 49th Annual Awards Dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria.
McCarthy, who started 39 straight games and led Yale to a share of the 2006 Ivy League football championship, played every position on the offensive line and was honored by the Ivy League all four years. McCarthy was also named a 2006 American Football Coaches Association First-Team All-America after earning first-team All-Ivy status the last two years. This past fall, he led Yale to a share of the league championship with an 8-2 (6-1 Ivy) record while spearheading an offense that ranked No. 1 in rushing among Ivy teams, 15th in I-AA, with 200.80 yards per game.
2006 Walter Camp 1-AA All-America Team
WR David Ball*, New Hampshire Sr. 6-2 200 Orange, VT
WR Alex Watson, Northern Arizona Jr. 5-10 180 Inglewood, CA
TE Ben Patrick, Delaware Sr. 6-4 270 Savannah, GA
OL Corey Davis, James Madison Sr. 6-4 325 Hampton, VA
OL Matt Isenhour, Appalachian State Sr. 6-1 275 Maiden, NC
OL Brennan Carvalho, Portland State Jr. 6-1 310 Kapaa, Hawaii
OL Ed McCarthy, Yale Sr. 6-5 302 Fairfield, CT
C Ryan Jewell, Youngstown State Sr. 6-4 285 Warren, OH
QB Ricky Santos, % New Hampshire Jr. 6-2 215 Bellingham, MA
RB Marcus Mason, Youngstown State Sr. 5-9 215 Potomac, MD
RB Arkee Whitlock, Southern Illinois Sr. 5-10 195 Rock Hill, SC
PK Rob Zarrilli, Hofstra Jr. 6-0 193 Brooklyn, NY
DL Marques Murrell, Appalachian State Sr. 6-2 245 Fayetteville, NC
DL Matt King, Maine Sr. 6-3 242 Stoughton, MA
DL Bryan Smith, McNeese State Jr. 6-3 217 Newton, TX
DL Kroy Biermann, Montana Jr. 6-3 232 Hardin, MT
LB Akeem Jordan, James Madison Sr. 6-0 235 Harrisonburg, VA
LB Kyle Shotwell, Cal Poly Sr. 6-1 235 Goleta, CA
LB Cameron Siskowic, Illinois State Sr. 6-2 225 San Diego, CA
DB Dre Dokes, Northern Iowa Sr. 5-9 162 Springfield, MO
DB Jeremy Wiggins, Appalachian State Sr. 5-9 190 Macon, GA
DB James Ihedigbo, Massachusetts Sr. 6-1 202 Amherst, MA
DB Stacey Thomas, Texas Southern Sr. 6-0 200 New Orleans, LA
P David Simonhoff, SE Missouri State Sr. 6-2 200 Coral Gables, FL
KR Steven Whitehead, McNeese State Jr. 5-8 171 Slidell, LA
* - 2004 and 2005 Walter Camp Division I-AA All-America selection
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PHOTOPHILE- Wayback machines: Craftspeople ply trades at Monticello
Slavery isn't a taboo subject at Monticello. In fact, three times a year, the home of Thomas Jefferson celebrates the contribution Jefferson's workers made to running his estate. This fall's "Plantation Community Weekend" took place on a rainy Sunday, October 8.
Historic interpreters from Williamsburg came to Monticello to recreate the activities of Mulberry Row, where, during the third President's lifetime, enslaved workers made food, baskets, textiles, nails, and other items using traditional techniques.
The 30 interpreters told stories and educated visitors on what life was like for slaves during Jefferson's time, and taught the skills the slaves used to make everything the Monticello residents needed.
Visitors on Sunday learned that slaves worked six days a week, from sunup to sundown, for which they received a pound of fatback, cornmeal, and some fish. The rest of the food they needed they grew on their own during their "free" time.
Nailmaking was a source of income for Monticello. Using "nailrod" shipped over water from Philadelphia, up to 14 boys, ages 10 to 16, would make as many as 10,000 nails in a day.
Not everyone who worked on Mulberry Row was a slave. Jefferson regularly hired artisans to train the slaves.
Plantation Community Weekend is just one of several special events offered at Monticello during the year. See the Upcoming and Ongoing Calendar, page xx, for details of events.
Husband and wife Wayne and Marion Dobbins show visitors how to cook a chicken in a dutch oven.
Olivia Cleary, age 9, holds a nail made by the blacksmith.
Steve Mankowski heats coals to make nails.
Here's Steve's handiwork.
Storyteller Dylan Pritchett portrays Lewis, a joiner and cabinetmaker.
Robert Watson Jr. makes baskets.


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Quantico's Johanna Braddy on That Shocking Reveal: It Looks "Really Incriminating"
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Farmingdale State - 70, Mount Saint Mary - 68
Farmingdale, N.Y. – After taking the first
win in eight previous encounters from Mount Saint Mary College
(13-2, 7-1 Skyline) last year at home, 67-66, with a buzzer-beater,
senior forward Jasmine Sistrunk (Brooklyn, N.Y./South Shore)
decided history would repeat itself. Sistrunk took a pass from
sophomore guard Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) to the hoop
for a lay up as the clock struck zero today. The score put
Farmingdale State (11-3, 9-0 Skyline) up by two for a 70-68
victory, which gives them sole possession of first place in the
Skyline Conference.
The Blue Knights led by eight shortly before the half, but the Rams cut the lead to four before the break. The second half remained close with neither team leading by more than three.
The Farmingdale State offense was lead by sophomore guard Kimberly Blakney, who had a season-high 29 points and game-high seven steals. Miller added a double-double, 13 points, and a game-high 10 rebounds.
Mount Saint Mary had three players in double figures. Sophomore
forward Shannon Sangster (Syracuse, N.Y./Bishop Ludden) led with 19
points. Senior guard Vanessa Lawson (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston) added
12 points and Meredith Paggi (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Our Lady of
Lourdes) followed with 11 points and a team-high six boards.
The Rams will now host Mount Saint Vincent College on Saturday, January 26th at 1:00 p.m., for another Skyline Conference game. The men's team will host Mount Saint Vincent College as well, following the women at 3:00 p.m.


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ARLINGTON, Tex. - The UT Arlington Men's and Women's cross country teams will head to Austin Friday evening to compete in the Grass Routes Grand Prix, hosted by the University of Texas.
The women are set to run a 6k that will feature UT Arlington, Texas, Texas Tech, Houston, Texas A&M, UT-Pan American, Dallas Baptist and Midwestern State.
The men will compete in an 8k against Texas, Concordia, Dallas Baptist, Lamar, Midwestern State, Houston, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Texas.
Both the men's and women's teams are coming off a 3rd place finish at the Baylor Invitational on Sept. 17th.
Sophomore Emily Koenig leads the women's team with two fourth place finishes this season. David Rayo is off to a strong start for the men's team with a fifth place and 20th place finish.
The women's race begins at 7:30 p.m., and the men's race begins at 8:15 p.m. Both races will be held at the Morris Williams Golf Course in Austin, Texas.


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FORT BLISS, Texas - Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, are preparing to conduct decisive action operations against an adaptive opposing force during Network Integration Evaluation 13.2, which is scheduled to start this month.
Network Integration Evaluation, or NIE, 13.2 will continue the Army's goal of connecting the soldier to the network and will simulate the complexities of an armored brigade combat team conducting contingency operations in a forward deployed environment. Operational focus areas include extending the network to soldiers, enhancing the common operational picture and enabling collaborative decision making through mission command on the move.
NIE is the Army's most effective test and procurement system for networks and is critical to U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's drive toward the best battlefield equipment and systems.
Snap-linked to the training is the evaluation of various integrated tactical network capabilities and combat technologies such as the Nett Warrior and the Joint Battle Command --Platform.
"We must get a mission-command-on-the-move capability and soon," said Gen. Robert W. Cone, commanding general of TRADOC. "Mission command on the move is a central feature of any variety of contingencies we talk about. Our commanders and leaders must be able to seamlessly transition across the battlefield whether they are in a command post, platform or dismounted."
Lt. Col. Roman Cantu, battalion commander for 1-35 AR, said the training is paramount for him and his soldiers.
"During the course of NIE 13.2, we will train on three of the four major mission sets within decisive action -- offense, defense and stability operations," said Cantu. "As we conduct these missions, we'll provide candid feedback as to whether or not that piece of equipment facilitated mission execution."
"The NIE is not only about testing and evaluation, more importantly, it's an outstanding training venue that allows our brigade to get better on our core mission set while simultaneously providing valuable feedback on future force fieldings," said Cantu.
Cantu said the network's ability to support the warfighter will be put to the test throughout the exercise. This may include deliberate attacks or breaching a complex obstacle, which would require assured voice and digital communications among breach, assault and support by fire elements.
"As a battalion commander, the network must be able to facilitate my ability to make an informed decision," said Cantu. "Additionally, the network should contribute to my ability to redirect combat power quickly on the battlefield as a threat emerges."
"Our feedback helps out units that might actually use this [equipment]," said Sgt. Mittchell Connally, with 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment.
Army officials have stated that evaluating equipment or capabilities during the NIE alleviates potential "discovery learning" for soldiers who are forward-deployed conducting real-world operations, thus allowing them to focus on mission execution.
Connally said the last thing he wants to see is a fellow soldier stuck in a combat situation with a piece of junk.
"[Our feedback helps determine] whether or not it works, if it's durable or not for the terrain out there in hot [or cold] climate or if you're still going to be able to have signal to send messages," he said.
"Certain things that we've evaluated [in the past four NIEs] will actually be used in Afghanistan," said Connally.
Connally is referring to two deploying Army brigade combat teams from 10th Mountain Division that will receive equipment designed to give them enhanced situational awareness on the battlefield through a handheld device that identifies the position location of a dismounted soldier.
These brigades are scheduled to deploy and actively assist in the Army's drawdown in Afghanistan by conducting security forces advise and assist team missions.
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Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:31 am
Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:32 am
drjohncarpenter wrote:poormadpeter wrote:drjohncarpenter wrote:Tony.. wrote:Interesting and controversial article from 1960.
It's not controversial, rather it's an example of someone seeing the reality of how bad "G.I. Blues" really was, and caring enough (or having the balls) to write about it publicly. It would be great to read the rest of the piece, and one may see it's continued on page 4.
Do you have page 4?
Also, you do not identify the date or source of the article, but it must be from Disc magazine, perhaps the 11-26-1960 issue, where Jack Good anchored a weekly column for several years. We can see a bit of Elvis in his army hat underneath the article, too.
May we see that as well?
Jack Good was a pioneering UK and US TV producer, as well as a record producer, musician and actor. Among other things, he helped to create ABC-TV's "Shindig!"
George Harrison, Jack Good (producer), John Lennon - "Shindig" U.K. taping, Saturday, October 3, 1964
Jack Good (producer)
Good was always forthright, not just in that spot-on review of "G.I. Blues."
Case-in-point: it seems none of you are aware that Jack played a small role in "Clambake" as Hathaway, the front desk clerk.
Well, at the April 1967 film after-party, Good spoke to Presley in the same straightforward, almost desperately earnest manner that John Lennon had done two years earlier, when the Beatles visited 565 Perugia Way. The conversation was recalled in Jerry Hopkins' 1971 biography on Elvis:"Clambake" was one of the really, really awful ones. There was a party after the film was completed, with Lance LeGault's band playing. And Elvis wouldn't sing. Slowly, Lance got him into a blues thing, "Let It Roll" [sic]. And he was terrific. And I thought what a shame he doesn't do that sort of thing in the film. I said to Elvis, "Why do you keep making these rotten films? Why don't you do something exciting, like "King Creole"? He said he left all that to the Colonel, but that the Colonel promised something really exciting soon, real soon.
- Jack Good
Right on! Good gave a voice to what millions of fans were thinking: "why have you abandoned ship, Elvis?"
The song where Elvis joined Lance LeGault's band and rocked the house was Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me To Do," which Presley almost recorded in Nashville that August, and performed live for the NBC-TV cameras in June 1968 in stunning fashion.
Better late than never!
G I Blues was only "bad" if you view Elvis purely as a rock n roll performer ...
No, it was a poor film by any measure, and certainly a step down from his two previous films, for MGM (1957) and Paramount (1958), which is kind of the point of Jack Good's column in Disc.poormadpeter wrote:On another note, I have never been convinced about Elvis being distraught by the quality of the songs ... those comments that Elvis is supposed to have made are all heresay.
No, his problems with the soundtrack are fact.
Peter Guralnick's Careless Love offers in clear prose about Elvis' disenchantment with Leiber and Stoller's submissions being excluded for "business" reasons and how, in a phone conversation with Priscilla, the singer says he told Parker that half the songs in the film should be cut. When she asked what management said, Presley replied it was implicit that nothing could be done. "I'm locked in this thing," was his sad lament.
You should buy that biography and give it a read. Or borrow it from your local library. You'll be amazed.
Back on topic, Jack Good's article on "G.I. Blues" is angry because he senses it is part of management's grand scheme to make Elvis inoffensive and thus palatable to a mass audience, and portends the beginning of the end: a formulaic, assembly-line scheme of film musical/soundtrack album symbiosis.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:37 am
poormadpeter wrote:Jack Good was not a psychic.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:07 am
Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:12 am
poormadpeter wrote:Jack Good was not a psychic.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:29 am
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Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:21 pm
poormadpeter wrote:The whole intention of 1960 was to reinvent Elvis Presley and make him not just accepted by middle America but have his records bought by them. It was one of the Colonel's brilliantly executed plans from the rock n roll-lite of Stuck on You to the reworking of a neopolitan song as singles, from the pairing of Elvis with Sinatra and the placing of him in traditional musicals and westerns on screen, from the release of an album that never rocked as hard as his 50s records to the release of an album of gospel material. It was brilliantly planned and brilliantly executed. Much of the problem with that plan musically was that Elvis continually needed challenges to get him working to the best of his ability, and none would be presented to him and none would be sought by him for another six years when the How Great Thou Art sessions occured.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:43 pm
drjohncarpenter wrote:mysterytrainrideson wrote:Thanks Tony and The Doc for the info, interesting read. At least someone, at the time, saw it for what it was...
Even today, i still can not understand why Elvis let Hollywood and The Colonel destroy his career like they did.
You are welcome. Jack Good certainly wasn't a typical scribe, producer or actor.
At the time, it seems Elvis was OK to do "G.I. Blues" because better things were promised ... or implied.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:10 pm
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r&b wrote:DEH wrote:the "travelogues" made lots of money. its called the movie business for a reason.
So did A Hard Day's Night & Help! The powers that be wanted The Beatles to continue but they got out of it quickly. it's called integrity for a reason.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:10 pm
Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:11 pm
Joe Car wrote:Elvis wanted to be an actor...
Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:44 pm
rjm wrote:poormadpeter wrote:Jack Good was not a psychic.
Apparently, he was!
I just logged on for the first time today, and was slammed in the face by this in the first post of this topic.
And hang it on the wall.
This was a contemporaneous piece, and the guy saw it ALL. I don't see how anyone can do anything else but give him respect; you needn't agree with him, but you sure have to respect the guy's insight and courage! He did see the future, and there's no criticizing him for 20/20 hindsight; he had 20-/20 foresight! He actually saw it coming. You can talk about the future, or you can compare Elvis's future film career to that of others, but that is all irrelevant; this guy saw the spit hitting the fan, immediately. It wasn't an "echo" of what John Lennon would later do, or what Bob Dylan would later say, because Jack Good said it first. Jack Good saw it first. And Jack Good let it scream in headlines, as if issuing a dire warning:
Elvis wasn't paying attention. Boom, crash, bang. And what happened? This:
Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:19 pm
A. C. van Kuijk wrote:Joe Car wrote:Elvis wanted to be an actor...
If that was true he would have taken lessons and signed other contracts. Elvis wanted to be rich and wanted to avoid as much work as possible.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:57 pm
Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:40 pm
r&b wrote:DEH wrote:the "travelogues" made lots of money. its called the movie business for a reason.
So did A Hard Day's Night & Help! The powers that be wanted The Beatles to continue but they got out of it quickly. it's called integrity for a reason.
Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:35 pm
epf wrote:r&b wrote:DEH wrote:the "travelogues" made lots of money. its called the movie business for a reason.
So did A Hard Day's Night & Help! The powers that be wanted The Beatles to continue but they got out of it quickly. it's called integrity for a reason.
While i agree with your post we should not forget that there were 4 Beatles and 1 Elvis. Easier to deflate the pressure and easier to talk and easier to make big decisions.
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Commissioner's court takes care of business
The Hutchinson County Commissioners Court took care of business at its regular meeting Monday at the Hutchinson County Courthouse.At this meeting the commissioners discussed considering or approving the action regarding redistricting and a letter from Allison Bass & Associates L.L.P. concerning assessment of the existing political boundaries. The motion was made to leave existing boundaries as they are and to not move forward with redistricting and the motion followed through. Also approved was the West Texas Gas line crossing for County Road 13, Precinct 3. The commissioners accepted certificates of completion from elected or appointed officials Larry Coffman, Jerry Hefner, and S.T. Isbell for the County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas. Commissioners Coffman and Eddie Whittington submitted certificates of completion for a course in Panhandle County Judges and Commissioners training. Robin Stroud, district clerk, had completed a course in registry of the court. The commissioners approved the amendments for a grant received by the EOC. The grant was for $4,050 for equipment that was not budgeted. Also approved were a Sheriff's Department grant received for $2,460 for training, and a grant for $662 provided to the Constable from Precinct Number Two for training that also was not budgeted. Lastly, depository bids were opened from InterBank, Amarillo National Bank,and Happy State Bank of Borger. All banks had a cashier's check enclosed for a specific amount. Kathy Sargent, County Treasurer, made the suggestion to accept InterBank to be the depository for Hutchinson County. The commissioners agreed with Sargent and the motion to make InterBank to be the depository for Hutchinson County as approved.


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More bad news for The Secret World, Funcom's newly launched subscription MMO. The next content update, "Issue 2: Digging Deeper," has been delayed. Originally planned for an August 28th release, it has been pushed back to September 11th.
Oddly, Funcom has been upfront about the reason for the delay, noting that the company's recent downsizing has affected development. "As you may know, this week has been a challenging one for everyone at Funcom. We initiated a process of reducing costs after the launch of The Secret World and this has naturally affected the production schedule as we work on readjusting the team and our internal development processes," the company said in a statement.
Although Funcom says the layoffs are "temporary," it's clear that future updates will be affected by the downsizing. Still, the company insists that "we are working hard to get back on track as soon as possible... We will also continue to push out regular content like announced before."
"We appreciate your understanding and we apologize for the inconvenience," the company concluded.


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Trucks, supplies and more than a dozen workers from the DOT's Panama City office are hitting the road to clean up roads in south Florida.
"This is the second time we've deployed. Several weeks ago, they deployed for Hurricane Charley. They went down to Punta Gorda. They were down there for almost three weeks," said Mac Watters with the Florida Department of Transportation.
For some workers, like Clair Kriser, it's a way to give thanks for being spared a direct hit this hurricane season.
"They say they're without water and without any type of sewage, power, phones. We're hoping to go down and really help," said Kriser.
Rey McGraw's already been down south once. He helped with cleanup from Hurricane Charley.
"It's terrible. They had a lot of people that had to do without. A lot of people, their houses were gone, trailers. It was pretty sad," said McGraw.
The workers are heading down to Fort Pierce. Once there, they'll clear roads and help with other cleanup. Right now, they don't know how long they'll be away from home.
The 13 workers heading south make up right at half the staff of the DOT's Panama City office.


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Re: Hydro Plans for Grant Lake and Creek
Over the past 4 years I have watched as the initial HEA plans to create hydroelectric projects on 5 tributaries of the Kenai River has been cut back to one, being Grant Lake and Creek.
It is interesting to me, that the Board of Directors would look so seriously at projects that could, would impact the precious watersheds of the Kenai Peninsula's biggest economic engine, namely the Kenai River, yet there does not seem to be public concern about it.
In addition, these projects, every one of them, are located outside of the HEA service area. But of course, those folks are not members of HEA, and their voices have been ignored. What this has created is a polarization in the Kenai Peninsula, that is growing and pitting the eastern portion of the Peninsula against the west.
Being a Homer resident of long standing, I can recall other instances of the polarization, and fought it for so many years. Up until these projects were proposed, that polarization by and large was under control. But it is back, and I am so sorry to see that. It does not bode well for the Borough.
The Grant Lake/Creek project, and the others are not Bradley Lake, which was located within the HEA service area, and did not impact a major anadromous waterway. If the Grant Lake/Creek project is approved, it will set the precedent, and open the door for approval of all the projects. Folks, for those of you dependent on the Kenai River, I hope you will pay attention. HEA has already applied for a grant to build the project, even though they at this time do not have permission to build it. Obviously, they have confidence that they will.
For the BOD, I respectfully request you look at this project long and hard, and consider the damage that will be done, in relationships in the Borough, and damage to our precious Kenai River. HEA does not service the entire Borough, but it has a moral responsibility to act in the best interest of the entire Borough. I ask, please, withdraw these plans. There are other, better ways to generate electricity.


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RALEIGH, N.C. -- As a spectacle, this year's playoffs were nothing short of magnificent.
The games featured everything fans love about hockey -- speed, hitting, goaltending and tension. Rarely was a lead large enough to be considered safe, and to wrap up the season two excellent teams went toe to toe with the outcome in doubt until the final minute of Game 7.
But unfortunately, in today's National Hockey League, the off-ice developments are nowhere near as ideal as the off-ice developments.
It must be made clear that the two are not interdependent. An astonishing number of people who should know better seem to think the improved product on the ice was the creation of the lockout.
In fact, the rule changes that made today's game what it is were put forward in February 2004, long before the lockout. If anything, the lockout hindered the imposition of the new game. It certainly did nothing to bring it about -- other than put the players back on the ice.
And now, two Stanley Cup finalists who have great hopes for the future will find that it will be more difficult than ever to turn those hopes into reality.
Both the Edmonton Oilers and Carolina Hurricanes have nine potential unconditional free agents. And human nature being what it is, players who have had long playoff runs expect to get raises.
As a result, many of the key players on these two teams are up for auction. But neither team has given any indication it wants to come close to the mandated salary cap. So it seems safe to assume that the Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes are about to be broken up after one triumph. And the finalist Oilers can't be expected to fare much better.
In Carolina's case, key late acquisitions Doug Weight and Mark Recchi will be gone. Core players such as Matt Cullen, Frantisek Kaberle, Niclas Wallin and Aaron Ward can reasonably expect significant salary increases, so it seems reasonable to assume that some of them have played their last game as a Hurricane.
The Oilers are in a similar position. They also have nine potential free agents including Fernando Pisani, Mike Peca, Sergei Samsonov, Jaroslav Spacek and Dwayne Roloson.
Perhaps the Oilers will be able to renew some of those contracts but not all of them. And even the players who are retained will attain that status at the expense of someone else.
Don't be surprised if the Oilers trade Chris Pronger to free up some money. He has a whopping salary and the return could be significant.
But if that happens, or if some of the other Edmonton fan favourites are moved out so that the team can stay under the salary cap, then the Oilers will undergo the same kind of dismantling that will affect the Hurricanes.
But don't expect anyone in the league offices to worry the least bit about these developments. That's what they want.
One of the underlying purposes of the cap was to create what the people in the magazine business call a churn. Subscribers come. Subscribers go. Similarly, teams come; teams go.
With more and more free agents entering the market at an ever-younger age, team loyalty becomes a mere memory.
A team has a good year but can't keep what now are high-profile players. They slip back into the churn.
But somewhere else, another unexpected contender pops up and, suddenly, the spotlight moves.
One of the biggest drawbacks of a 30-team league is the infrequency of championships -- one every 30 years on average. So the last thing you want, if you run the NHL, is a dynasty which makes the average team's wait even longer.
So you create a system whereby a franchise can build a great team, but can't keep it intact. That's what we have now.


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From the dress and shoes to the 'pop of color' decor, we are in love with everything about Lara and David's NY Jewish Wedding. Modern, sleek and city-chic, the wedding was held at the Harold Pratt House in NYC, and the bride got ready at the Trump SoHo Hotel. The gorgeous photos were captured by Farnaz K Studio.
Lara and David took many Jewish Wedding Ceremony Customs and made them their own.
Ideas we love:
- The chuppah poles were made from trees and branches, and decorated with pink orchids for a sleek and modern effect.
- The couple incorporated tallit (Jewish Prayer Shawls) from their loved ones by draping a tallis over either side of the chuppah.
- Their gorgeous papercut ketubah was on display during the entire ceremony.
- The couple customized the kippot with their names and wedding date, and also personalized the text with a meaningful quote.
Not only do Lara & David have impecable taste and style, but this is a couple that's truly in love! Their expressions say it all.
Mazel Tov to Lara & David on your special day! Thanks so much to you and Farnaz K. Studio for sharing your amazing photos with us!
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Colors: Pink, Fuchsia, Gold, White
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Justices said four Brigham City, Utah, police officers were justified in going inside a home in 2000 after peeking through a window and seeing a fight between a teenager and adults.So the cops can barge into your house to break up a fight? Better stop fighting in front of open windows.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the unanimous court, said that officers had a reasonable basis for going inside to stop violence, even though they could not announce their arrival over loud noise of a party.
"The role of a peace officer includes preventing violence and restoring order, not simply rendering first aid to casualties; an officer is not like a boxing (or hockey) referee, poised to stop a bout only if it becomes too one-sided," Roberts wrote.
The trial judge had ruled that police had violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches by failing to knock before entering the house.
When the adults realized the officers were inside the house, they allegedly became abusive and were charged with disorderly conduct, intoxication and contributing to the delinquency of a minor - all misdemeanors.
But here's my question. It's a sports question. A sports and writing question. We're familiar with the way a referee in a boxing can stop a fight if it becomes too one-sided. Why throw in "(or hockey)"? It not only clutters the sentence, it makes the concept harder to grasp. I don't even know about hockey referees stopping one-sided games. Since Roberts is known for the high quality of his writing style, I've got to think that parenthetical really adds something. But what?
Is it that in hockey fights break out, and the refs don't stop them unless they're one-sided, and it's actually more like the police situation because the fighting isn't legitimate in the first place, but some people might think the police should ignore fights unless someone is outmatched? In that case, hockey is a more apt analogy in light of the argument that the search was unreasonable.
MORE: Here's the whole opinion. This is the analysis of why the search was reasonable:
The officers were responding, at 3 o'clock in the morning, to complaints about a loud party. As they approached the house, they could hear from within "an altercation occurring, some kind of a fight." "It was loud and it was tumultuous." The officers heard "thumping and crashing" and people yelling "stop, stop" and "get off me." As the trial court found, "it was obvious that … knocking on the front door" would have been futile. The noise seemed to be coming from the back of the house; after looking in the front window and seeing nothing, the officers proceeded around back to investigate further. They found two juveniles drinking beer in the backyard. From there, they could see that a fracas was taking place inside the kitchen. A juvenile, fists clenched, was being held back by several adults. As the officers watch, he breaks free and strikes one of the adults in the face, sending the adult to the sink spitting blood.(Usage buffs may discuss whether the sentence I've put in boldface should be in the present tense.)
In these circumstances, the officers had an objectively reasonable basis for believing both that the injured adult might need help and that the violence in the kitchen was just beginning.
UPDATE: Marty Lederman links to my post and says:
Althouse ... ponders why the Chief Justice all-of-a-sudden lapsed into a screenwriter's present tense in the final sentence of this paragraph... Are these the Chief's ways of giving we Court-watchers something to talk about on a light decision day?Well, Marty's giving us Court-watchers something else to talk about...


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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Metro-North restored all service on the New Haven Line and Harlem Line out of Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday afternoon after an explosion in Harlem had stopped the trains.
Limited service will be offered from Grand Central Terminal on both lines for the afternoon rush hour. Train riders headed to Fairfield County should expect delays and combined train service, Metro-North said.
Customers who use the Hudson Line should take the B, D or 4 subways to 161st Street and walk to Metro-North's Yankees - East 153rd Street station.
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched a go-team to investigate a gas explosion and subsequent fire in New York City, according to a release.
Pipeline Investigator Ravi Charter is leading the team as investigator-in-charge. Board Member Robert L. Sumwalt is accompanying the team and will serve as the principal spokesman during the on-scene phase of the investigation.
Metro-North's structural engineers verified the integrity of the Park Avenue elevated viaduct next to Wednesday morning's explosion scene, according to Metro-North. Two of the four tracks were cleared of debris, inspected for track and third rail integrity by Metro-North and the New York City Fire Department, and restored to service.
The level of train service will increase as more tracks are restored, Metro-North said. Train speeds may be reduced to protect nearby rail workers and to limit vibrations near the explosion site. Customers should expect crowding and delays due to track limitations, and some local and express trains will be combined.
The track configuration does not allow Hudson Line service to operate to and from Grand Central until more tracks are restored. Metro-North is urging customers to delay travel until later, if possible.
The New York City subway will honor Metro-North tickets, and employees will assist customers who have to walk from the B, D and 4 subway stations to the Yankees - East 153rd Street station. Metro-North's Port Jervis and Pascack Valley lines will cross-honor Hudson Line tickets.
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