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The Cartoon Network had its biggest ratings in the channel's history last week when it aired the live-action Ben 10: Race Against Time made for television movie. The show, about a 10-year-old kid who can transform into 10 different aliens using a device called the Omnitrix, pulled in almost four million viewers. It dominated both network and cable TV.
Inspired by Shazam, Ben 10 is about ten-year-old Ben Tennyson coming into accidental contact with a powerful alien device, The Omnitrix. Looking like a clunky wristwatch, it allows Ben to transform into one of the 10 aliens in his repertoire when he gives the dial a spin. The effects are short-lived, but each alien race has different powers that aid him in his quest to bust the alien baddies that come looking for the Omnitrix.
The show has been airing for the past year on the Cartoon Network, and its high ratings finally paid off: the channel greenlit a live-action adaptation with Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, Esquire from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) directing, and the Six Million Dollar Man himself, Lee Majors, playing Grandpa Max. With numbers this big, you can bet they'll order up a sequel. In the meantime, if you like campy animation with cool alien tech, then you can spend some time catching up. At the very least, you'll know what one of the must-have toys for kids will be this year.
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For the first time ever, you will get an inside glimpse into the ever changing landscape of community health care, gaining insight into life as a front line community practice doctor.
It is an invaluable practical module that grounds young doctors to some of the most essential and vulnerable parts of their local community. Furthermore, being absorbed in specialist community services such as sexual health, hospice, and general practice will help you decide your future career choices.
Community based attachment (CBA) is currently being phased in and is expected to be a popular choice among young doctors leading up to it becoming a compulsory attachment from 2020 onwards.
Introduced by the Medical Council of New Zealand last year, CBA is one of the eight 13-week attachments you have to complete in order to complete prevocational training. You can spend your community attachment in any primary health care field but we expect most RMOs will spend time in general practice.
The attachment can be undertaken during either postgraduate year one or two however we recommend you do it in PGY2 following general registration.
The district health board set the requisites for the attachment, which will be agreed with the hosting practice and signed off by Medical Council. The number one focus will be direct time spent with patients and therefore getting a feel for first contact healthcare.
During your community attachment, you will remain an employee of the DHB, however local supervision will be appointed.
Talk to your hospital RMO unit immediately if you would like to be considered for a CBA opportunity. Practices considering establishment of a Community Based Attachment may refer to the informational resources available from the Ministry of Health
If you finish the attachment and feel general practice is for you, sign up for the General Practice Education Programme (GPEP) or Division of Rural Hospital Medicine (DRHM) where the College will be waiting to welcome you.


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Within a matter of days, it has become cliche to make note of President Obama's new commitment to ending "income inequality" in America after returning from a vacation in Hawaii that costs taxpayers millions of dollars. And as my longtime friend Newt Gingrich has most articulately argued this week, the "war on poverty" has been an abject failure from the day Lyndon Johnson first uttered the declaration.
I recommend reading Gingrich's comments to receive an education on its long and costly failed effort.
In an effort to propose constructive policy, may I suggest that, rather than play at the margins of a failed concept of throwing dollars designed more to create a culture of dependence and social division for so many, the Obama Administration take a more targeted approach. Our government should take care of our most destitute and needy of citizens who live on our streets at home, even if it requires limiting resources to others in far-flung locations abroad.
The recent "Polar Vortex" has brought into full light in so many cities and towns, a world of old blankets and a collection of tattered belongings that can be found under bridges, in gleaming office towers and in just plain shanties ... all the "home" to the nation's disgracefully large contingent of homeless Americans.
The president is promising to target certain needy cities with new attempts at low housing and improved education, which taken at face value, seems laudable. But as Newt makes clear, these vague programs and broad promises have gotten us nowhere, as poverty levels have only increased over the years. To reverse the systemic issues the president wants to address would take new approaches which, based upon past history, seem unlikely to materialize.
But if President Obama wants to take a truly targeted approach to poverty, he could begin with the souls who fight to find warmth at night and wander the streets during daytime. Yes, I know that many homeless are there because of poor choices, addiction and other attributes which society frowns upon. But the fact is, they are still there.
It seems inconceivable that a nation capable of freeing countries from oppression, rushing aid to thousands in foreign lands after natural disasters and propping up international organizations of questionable efficiency cannot find a way to care for its own who have reached the lowest of low points.
As a lover of animals, I cringe when ads for neglected or abused animals appear on television. And, like so many, I try to give a bit of help to our helpless four-legged friends when I can.
But what about the man or woman who wanders about in a similarly helpless manner? We know that many good people and organizations do so very much to provide shelter and food to our homeless. But why should they be left trying to make do with insufficient resources, oftentimes paid for by private sources, with little or no coordination, while we have the great might of the United States caring for others in lands far away?
Many who are on the street are in dire need of medical care, both physically and in many cases, mentally. Some shy from help for fear that a past record of crime or a perceived one, will force them into prisons. Many have no proper identification to even qualify for programs or assistance.
But if we are to consider a "pathway" to citizenship for those who are illegally in our country but living a good life, have we no concept of how to create a "pathway to safety" for our own who truly live a life of "inequality"?
The president's focus on income inequality seems to many observers merely a more open effort to create a schism among segments of our society and to expand a political ideology that pledges not a chicken in every pot, but a cell phone in every hand.
What I would ask is how we as a nation expect to expand a welfare state without first looking into the eyes of our most needy. Conservatives would be wise to demand a war on homelessness and demand that if tax dollars are to be spent, they start where the need is so obvious and the results could be so marked.


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About the location: Central Park, Fifth Avenue Fashion, spectacular art, thriving culture, endless shopping, unbelievable dining and lively nightlife – this is Pure New York City. Amid the whirl of excitement you will find the GM Building, and located at its base the legendary FAO Schwarz store, a timeless beloved destination loved by adults and children alike.
How REA approached the design & video process: Our challenge was to create a customizable campaign that targeted individual world-class retailers, giving them the ability to envision their brands in the space. While touring the location, we noticed how the FAO Schwarz building exterior mimicked a showcase from the outside—like something you might find in a fine jewelry store. We also discovered that the location was truly unparalleled and a brand would be showcased here like no other. Thus the idea of "the perfect showcase" was born.


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Asus appears to be getting ready to release their first storage device, a PCIe storage card that will be a part of the Republic of Gamers line of products.
Based on dual LSI Sandforce SF-2281 controllers paired up with Toshiba's 19nm 16K page size MLC synchronous NAND flash chips, the new Asus Raidr will offer some impressive sequential read and write performance of up to 830MB/s and 810MB/s with 4K read and write both set at 100k IOPS. Since we are talking about PCIe-based SSD it of course features the PCI-Express 2.0 x2 interface.
The Raidr will be available in 120 and 240GB capacities for starters and while the 240GB one offers the aforementioned transfer speeds, the 120GB one is slightly "slower" at 765MB/s read and 775MB/s write. The Raidr comes with support for TRIM, has 128-bit AES data encryption support while the load and idle power consumption is at 16 and 7 Watts.
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Activity Summary
A fast-paced activity that allows participants to experience communicating with others when their words are limited.
- To figure out how to get a point across using only two words.
- To identify the challenges and opportunities of communicating with limited words.
Group Size
Minimum of 12 and a maximum of 18 persons.
Time Required
25 to 30 minutes.
- One (small to medium - sized) plastic bowl for each participant.
- A large container with at least six each of a variety of small items or toys, such as firemen, dice, paper clips, mini cars, poker chips, rubber bands, mini binder clips, or other items, several items for each participant.
- Small index cards with the names of items that are in the container, such as "paper clips, " printed on them — one card per participant.
- Copyright - free music and sound system.
Physical Setting
A room large enough for 12 to 18 people to walk around and connect with each of the remaining participants.
Facilitating Risk Rating
Low to Moderate.
1. Introduce the activity by explaining to the participants that they will be learning about leadership and communication by experiencing how effectively they can communicate with others, even when they can only use a few words and are under time pressure.
2. Distribute the small plastic bowls and randomly distribute all of the items from the large bowl. Place one index card face down beside each participant. Tell participants to not share with anyone what is written on their index cards.
3. State that they will have fifteen minutes to collect the items written on their index cards from all the other participants. Other participants can only show their own items one at a time. They must work individually, moving from one person to the next, but they may communicate by using only two words ( " cool " or " bummer " ) when others pick items from their own bowls to show them. "Cool" indicates that is what they need. "Bummer" means "that's not it." They may only touch items in their own bowls. After everyone understands the process, let them begin.
4. Monitor to ensure that the participants are only using the words "cool" and "bummer" and that they are not clustering into larger groups or showing each other more than one item at a time. Have music playing as background.
5. When thirteen minutes have passed, give the participants a two - minute warning before calling time.
(15 to 20 minutes.)
6. Ask the participants to return to their seats with their bowls. You will notice that most of them have only the items they were seeking, but some with still have a few of their original items besides the ones they sought.
7. Lead a total group discussion to debrief the exercise. Start by asking these questions:
- What did you experience while you worked on this task?
- How effective were you in communicating your needs?
- How difficult was it to communicate just using two words?
- What other tools and techniques did you use to communicate?
- What leadership skills did you observe from others?
- How does this relate to life in the workplace? What situations are similar to this activity?
- What leadership communication guidelines can you glean from what happened?
- How can you better communicate with your team, your peers, and your boss as a result of this activity?
(10 minutes.)
Nanci Appleman-Vassil is president and chief learning officer of APLS Group, a training, recruiting, and consulting firm that specializes in working with clients in developing core competencies to optimize performance. Nanci has recently contributed chapters for several books, including the e-book World's Best Public Speaking Secrets. She recently created the 18 Common Mistakes Small Business Owners Make workshop and is past president of the North Carolina RTA Chapter of ASTD.
Excerpted from The 2011 Pfeiffer Annual: Training. Copyright © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Pfeiffer, an Imprint of Wiley.


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Dr. Octo-mom could lose his license.
The fertility doctor who helped Nadya Suleman give birth to octuplets last year has been accused of "gross negligence" in a 13-page disciplinary complaint filed by the California Medical Board, according to reports.
Beverly Hills-based Dr. Michael Kamrava acted "beyond reasonable judgment" in helping Suleman conceive when he should have sent her to a mental health pro, according to the complaint, AFP reported.
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Suleman, 34, already had six little ones of her own when she sought out Kamrava's fertility services for a second time. She was dubbed "Octo-mom" by tabloids when she gave birth to eight pre-mature babies last January.
American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) guidelines state that a woman Suleman's age should have not had more than two embryos implanted, according to AFP.
Instead, Suleman has said that after going to see Kamrava she was implanted with six embryos for both of her pregnancies.
"I think it's safe to say he's been devastated by all this," Kamrava's lawyer Peter Osinoff told The Los Angeles Times of the latest developments. "It's a very traumatic thing for him to go through this very public episode and scrutiny, starting with the public opprobrium and culminating now in the state board action."
The ASRM's "guidelines" do not carry the same weight as law, Osinoff added.
Last September, the ASRM expelled Kamrava, though the public shunning has not affected his legal right to practice medicine. Kamrava now stands to have his medical license revoked or suspended.
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Show helps to uncover the mysteries of who we are and where we come from
Boston, MA – March 30, 2012 – The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is pleased to announce that it will be featured on the next episode of the new 10-part PBS series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. NEHGS and Senior Researcher Rhonda McClure will be featured on the next episode of the show scheduled to run on Sunday, April 1st at 8pm ET on PBS.
On this episode, McClure helps uncover the family mysteries of Geoffrey Canada, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Harlem Children's Zone. Geoffrey Canada has become recognized internationally for his ground-breaking work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform. In addition, television journalist and former co-host and chief correspondent of ABC News' "20/20" as well as current creator, co-owner, executive producer and co-host of "The View," Barbara Walters will learn and discover her fascinating ancestral background.
This season, Professor Gates examines the fascinating family histories of celebrities including Samuel L. Jackson, Harry Connick Jr., Condoleezza Rice, Kevin Bacon, Martha Stewart, Robert Downey Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, and many more.
"It is truly an honor and a privilege to have this opportunity to work closely with Professor Gates," says NEHGS President and CEO, D. Brenton Simons. "All of us at NEHGS are thrilled to be a part of such an incredible television series and we wish Professor Gates and the rest of the production team a most successful season!"
The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premiered nationally on Sunday, March 25th, and will continue to run through May 20th on PBS. Be sure to check out the next episode on Sunday, April 1st. Please check local listings for times.
About NEHGS
Founded in 1845, New England Historic Genealogical Society is the country's leading resource for family history research. We help family historians expand their knowledge, skill, and understanding of their family and its place in history. The NEHGS research center, located at 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, houses millions of books, journals, manuscripts, photographs, microfilms, documents, records, and other artifacts that date back more than four centuries. NEHGS staff includes some of the leading expert genealogists in the country, specializing in early American, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, Atlantic and French Canadian, African American, Native American, and Jewish genealogy. Our award-winning website, www.AmericanAncestors.org, provides access to more than 135 million searchable names in 3,000 collections.


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A VIDEO BY ROGER BALLEN I FINK U FREEKY by DIE ANTWOORD
Many of you may remember Roger Ballen here from his Boarding House essay, also published in Burn 01. Roger was also kind enough to interact with this audience. This is a very interesting example of a conceptual still photographer making a video. This video took 5 days of shooting, but was "years in conceptualizing", says Roger.
"We had really clear concepts of what we wanted to do in our heads. We started with my photographs for ideas, and then mimicked them in the sets." says Roger.
I have watched this a dozen times now, and see some new piece each time. Cannot get it out of my head.
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THE SPIDER TRUCES by TOM CONNOLLY
Chapter 1
It was Great-aunt Mafi who told him that spider blood is blue. When that revelation made him feel queasy, she said that spider blood is blue the way the sea is blue when the sun shines. He liked that.
"That's nice," Ellis said. "That doesn't give me the willies."
And Mafi told him that when a spider dies its blood flows out of its body into the seas and rivers and lakes and that's how the earth gets its water, but this only happens if a spider is allowed to die naturally, of old age.
Ellis's dad told him he was more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider, but this didn't have the desired effect.
"That's no good! That's just another thing for me to worry about! Champagne corks as well as spiders! You have to tell me something nicer, not something badder!"
His sister helped out too, reading from the encyclopaedia that spiders don't get caught in their own webs because they have oil on their legs, so Ellis took to rubbing oil over his body in secret, every morning. At primary school he was known as Mr Sheen, due to the shiny appearance of his arms and face, and at home the diminishing stocks of cooking oil in the larder baffled Ellis's dad as much as the discovery that soap could no longer form a lather on Ellis's skin.
But of all the many discoveries Ellis O'Rourke made during the truces, his favourite was the first, that spiders give us the seas and rivers and lakes as their dying gift. He still thinks of the sea that way.
And it was Great-aunt Mafi who said to him, "Any day you see the sea is a good day." This she said on the day she told him how his mum had died.
He sees the sea every day now. And he waits with a patience a young man should not yet possess.
Even here where it can be so bleak, the sea is often blood-blue, the sort of blue Ellis can fall into. From his rented house, he looks at the water. He loses focus and the water floods in; the image of blue fills his head and for a time that could be moments or hours he is nowhere. Free of thought. He barely exists. It is bliss. Like the mid-air moment of diving in.
The beach is a shingle peninsula. It heads to a point on the south-east corner. Ellis's house faces due south across the Channel. It is the last building before the lighthouse and after that there's the Point. Three hundred yards out to sea, on a sandbank, is the wreck of the Bessie Swan, a trawler that ran aground in June 1940, returning from Dunkirk with fifty men who waded to shore through waist-high water. You can't wade out to the Bessie Swan nowadays. The Channel currents have gouged out ravines in the silt that are deep and treacherous.
On his first night on the beach, in the pub close by the lifeboat station, the old men had looked on without mercy as the young seasonal fishermen challenged Ellis to swim to the Bessie Swan and back. They marched him across the shingle, led by a callous and bloated-looking man in a black woolly hat, called Towzer Temple.
"You swim towards the steeple on the Marsh. The currents take you to the Bessie Swan."
"If you swim straight for her, you'll be in France tomorrow."
"In a body bag ..."
"Do it now and by closing time you'll be back in the pub, a legend."
"We've all done it," said Towzer.
"It's tradition."
At the water's edge, Ellis stared into the blackness and somewhere amongst the fishermen's drunken voices, in which there was humour that Ellis was deaf to, he heard himself say, "But I'm only renting here ..."
These limp words returned the men indoors, where the evening seemed impoverished and Ellis felt out of place. He began to wonder if they had been telling the truth, that they had all swum the ravines at one time or another, and they really did know best when they said he would be the greater for doing it.
The unfamiliar ceiling above his unfamiliar bed spun a little that first night and every single sound on the beach was new. As he waited patiently for sleep, Ellis noticed the glow of a cigarette at the open window and behind it the face of Towzer Temple, reddened by a map of fissured blood vessels. The fisherman leant easily against the sill, his elbows annexing a portion of the cabin-like bedroom, and as a wide grin disfigured his looks still further, he said, "It'll bug you. You didn't do it because you're scared. And it's going to bug you and bug you. Goodnight, Mr Only Renting. Sweet dreams."
Money spiders populate the shingle and leave their egg sacs on the shore. Fishing boats line the beach and there's a lifeboat station beyond them. Ellis likes to go shrimping north of the lifeboat, in shallow tides which scuttle in and out across the wide mud flats of the bay. He made a frame up last year, four foot by two. He wades out against the incoming tide, sweeping his net, and the frame makes a noise like distant music on a small box radio as it cuts through the water. He catches plenty, but could probably catch more if he knew more about it and didn't get distracted by the faraway music.
Near the lifeboat station, the strip lights of the workers' café pulse cold blue through the windows. Ellis usually goes there three or four times a week. People greet him but still don't know his name.
At dusk, when the sky is angry, he heads out along the beach to the army ranges, then inland across the Backs where the shingle is carpeted with moss, and gorse surrounds the scattered lakes. A line of wooden posts betrays the route of a disused railway and beneath his feet he hears the thud of a sleeper encrusted in the ground like a dead bird. He imagines that he's in Montana or the Australian outback or some other place he's never been. He walks until his leg muscles burn. When darkness comes, a line of silver remains on the horizon and silhouettes the container ships, which turn to black. The winds rise up off the waves and tear across the peninsula and Ellis digs his feet into the shingle and allows the furious, thrilling gusts to pound against him like the souls of every man lost at sea. Furious souls or ecstatic souls, he is not sure which. Sometimes, he waits for hours. Patient. Devoted.
There is a line from a song his father once whispered to him and it plays in Ellis's head as he returns across the flatlands to his unlit home. We must not go astray in this loneliness.
He moved here on Good Friday, 1989. A mist settled over the Point for a fortnight and the fog signal on the lighthouse boomed across the bay. He opened every door and window in the house and gave the spiders a few hours to move on without being harmed. The rooms gave up their mustiness to the salt air and Ellis felt the same excitement he had felt when he was a child.
So this is where that feeling has been hiding, he thought to himself.
At first he kept up his job, assisting a photographer called Milek, driving two hours to London. Then he worked a little less. Then he asked for a couple of months off.
"To clear my head, Milek."
And that was a nearly a year ago.
This is another of those slow-motion mornings, Ellis tells himself. He wonders what time it is. He doesn't wear a watch. Any that have been given to him over the years are gathering dust and he couldn't tell you where. He thinks it through. He went out shrimping first thing and then he came back and the metal box was here on the dining table and then he's been daydreaming. So it is probably late morning. He's not idle and he's not simple. It's just a blissfully slow start to the day and he doesn't use a watch. But, yes, he was shrimping first thing, he remembers clearly.
He can always tell if his sister has visited, and even though they are no longer good friends he likes the sensation of knowing she has been in. It means that Chrissie either saw her brother out on the flats and decided to leave him be or forgot to look for his silhouette in the silver bay. Either way, he likes the thought of her leaving him be or forgetting to look.
It is Chrissie who has left the metal box on the dining table. The box was once black but the paintwork is faded now and speckled by a slow rust. Ellis leans closer and looks down on the rust until it looks to him like a landscape photographed from a plane.
He's in no hurry to open the box. He knows the contents exactly – he watched it being filled – and there's nothing there of great significance. But for Ellis, having the box is almost like having his father back in the room and to feel his father nearby is the reason he moved here. Chrissie's world doesn't work that way. Dead means dead, and the inconsequential objects inside the metal box are the sorts of things that cannot combine to mean much to her. She wishes they could and that's why it's taken her a year to give Ellis the box. That's why she has occasionally intimated that she might have lost it, an idea that gives Ellis butterflies because, although there is nothing particular in the box, all the pieces of nothing in particular belonged to Denny O'Rourke, and Denny O'Rourke was his dad.
If you rest your head against the metal box as if it is a pillow, and you close your eyes, and if your name is Ellis O'Rourke, then the crunching of shingle underfoot on the beach outside could be the sound of a spider perched on your shoulder eating a packet of crisps.
He opens his eyes and sees a woman walking. She puts down her bag, unfolds a stool and begins to sketch. A sparrowhawk hovers above the bushes where starlings and rabbits hide. Ellis listens to the wind piping around the lighthouse and watches as the woman with the sketch pad takes off her jacket. She is older than Ellis. Maybe twenty years older. He wants her to get into conversation with him, accept a cup of tea and sleep with him. He wants her to leave later that afternoon and there to be no talking. Only mute understanding. He would never tell anyone about her and would be able to get on with his life without the need for intimacy cropping up again for some weeks. He knows this is all wrong, but such thoughts are risk-free and a habit he's fallen into.
The phone rings, startling Ellis. It's Jed, his best friend.
"I have to tell you what I dreamt last night," Ellis says immediately.
"I'm fine, thanks for asking," Jed replies.
"Bear in mind," Ellis says, "that I was two years old when man landed on the moon."
"And that I am not a particularly complicated person."
"You are joking."
"So how is it that last night I dreamt I was in the living room of the house in Orpington where I was born and my dad is there and my mum, but I can't see her face, and we're all gathered round the TV even though I'm pretty sure they didn't have one, and my sister is just a pair of legs standing on the window sill holding the aerial up into the sky—"
"Wait! You're getting detailed and weird. Let me get comfortable."
Ellis waits as Jed lights a cigarette.
"I recognise some of the people in the room. There's a few of the guys you and me knew on the building sites, and my Great-aunt Mafi is there pouring gin for everyone.
Neat gin. The only historical inaccuracy is that it's not Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with Neil Armstrong but Simon Le Bon. And the whole dream is in black and white, not just the TV screen. I look and see that to the left of me on the sofa is a young, unshaven, dark-haired man sitting with his girlfriend. And I realise as I look at this bloke that it's that actor guy from Man About the House and Robin's Nest—"
"Richard O'Sullivan."
"Thank you. And I watch him in his studenty donkey jacket, smoking his cigarette and turning excitedly to his girlfriend, and I realise, My God! He doesn't know he's about to become the star of Man About the House and to be associated for ever with the greatest thing that ever ever happened on telly when we were kids, namely George and Mildred. He will be a part of that, and I know it and he doesn't. Look at him! He's just an aspiring actor watching the 1969 moon landing with his girlfriend and I know what's going to happen to him in life and he doesn't! I know he'll never do Shakespeare or really crack that big screen role and that he will in fact be a sort of good-looking, understated Sid James. And do you know what it made me think?"
"I pride myself on not knowing what or how you think."
"What else is there to dream? Being with my mum until I was four years old? How my dad was when she had gone? All the things that are somewhere in my head because I was actually there even though I was far too young to know it? It could crucify you! All this stuff locked away inside your head ready to appear in your sleep, it could bring your life to a standstill."
There's a long silence until Jed drags on his cigarette and says, "Your life is at a standstill."
They go quiet. Jed is the one person who isn't freaked out by Ellis going silent on the phone for minutes at a time. In fact, he considers such pauses a respite. Ellis lies back on the floor and wedges the telephone against his ear.
"You know why it's at a standstill?"
"I've one or two ideas. What's your version?"
"When I'm alone I dream of being with someone and when I'm with someone I wish I was anywhere else."
"Ah, well, I'm glad you've brought that up because I have some answers for you," Jed says kindly. "It's because you are what we, in the outside world, technically term 'an arsehole'. Private. Evasive. You're a daydreamer and you keep all your best thoughts to yourself. People like me and the women you occasionally sleep with get the fag ends of your thoughts. If you didn't make me feel so good about myself just by being you, there'd be nothing in this friendship for me. I am also willing to bet good money that when you are busy fucking the wrong people and wishing you were somewhere else, that somewhere else is wherever Tammy might be these days."
"Out of bounds."
"Why? What do you care if we talk about her?"
"I just don't want to ... except to say I was more committed to her than she was to me, before you slag me off."
"Oh yeah, that's right. I remember the evening you went away to America without telling her you were going. I remember that night thinking how 'committed' to her you were. Yeah, I reckon your decision not to even call her and say goodbye before fucking off to Iowa could easily have been misinterpreted as a proposal of marriage."
This is why Jed is Ellis's best friend.
"Fuck off."
"Up yours."
They each place the receiver down, gently.
Jed is right. When Ellis lies awake at night – in bed, or on the grass, or on the beach – he imagines that Tammy is lying beside him. He whispers sounds to her which are not quite words but are perfect for an imaginary love affair. He didn't call her before he went away because it might have mattered to her that he was going but it might not and he didn't want to risk finding out. And now two years have passed and he has left it too long.
He can't understand why he feels so lost today. Or why he feels as if time is short when he has the whole of his adult life before him. He opens the metal box and it releases the smell of cherrywood fires in the cottage he grew up in. He sifts through a pile of photographs taken in the fifties and sixties of elderly relations he never knew, moves to one side a prayer card from his mum's funeral in 1971, and picks up a passport-sized document which he remembers his dad showing him years ago.
Denny's name is written in ink on the faded cover and beneath it are the words: Continuous Certificate of Discharge – Ministry of War Transport /Merchant Navy. Inside are five entries which map Denny O'Rourke's career in the merchant navy, beginning in 1943, age sixteen, aboard the SS Papanui and ending in 1946 when his eyesight fell below acceptable standards for service. There's a loose page inside, a temporary shore pass for Colombo Port, dated 15 November 1946.
My dad was twenty then, Ellis thinks. Two years younger than me.
He half closes his eyes and imagines being propelled across the sea, hugging the curvature of the earth, and arriving at Colombo Port. He sits there a while, in the heat, his image of the place indistinct and blinded by the sun. A wave breaks and he finds himself back home, listening to the shingle being dragged by its fingertips into the sea. It is a sound softened by its journey across the beach to Ellis's house and it reminds him of the breeze that swept through the walnut trees on the morning his dad died. Joseph Reardon the farmer, who had been praying for Denny O'Rourke, told Ellis that the back door of the church flew open and a wind swept in at the exact time of Denny's passing. Ellis doesn't know what he thinks about that sort of thing but he does know that in the days and weeks that followed he and Chrissie received many letters and they sat shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee, silently passing them back and forth until their bodies came to rest against each other and he felt a surge of love for his sister which found no expression and would inevitably dissolve as the day wore on. Jed, whom Ellis had never seen hold a pen, wrote a letter; Ellis, your dad was one of life's good blokes. Not all of us can say that. Be happy. Jed. Ellis showed Jed's letter to Chrissie and she handed an envelope to him in return.
"Make sense of this," she said. "Got it yesterday."
It was a card from Dino, a Maltese guy Chrissie slept with on and off for six months when she was doing a journalism course in London. Dino had written: Dearest Spaghetti and Ellis, my condolences at your sad loss. Love Dino. And try as they might, Ellis and Chrissie could not begin to recall what cryptic, spaghetti-related episode or in-joke had occurred between them back then that Dino had clearly never forgotten.
"Did you ever tell him about the pasta spider webs?" Ellis asked.
"No. We just fucked."
"You must have done. There's no other possible explanation."
"I didn't. I tend not to chat about you and your weirdness when I'm having sex. Maybe he was just writing a shopping list at the same time as the card and got confused."
"Write back to him," Ellis said, "and tell him we were touched by his writing to us after dad had pasta-way."
They laughed until their stomachs hurt. Then they sat awhile in silence and thought their own thoughts and felt the taste of grief on their tongues and discovered that in the space of only a few days the taste had grown familiar and now it felt second-hand. Ellis shut his eyes and watched his father emerge from the bike shed at the cottage, carrying a bucket full of water. Denny swung the bucket round in wide circles above his head but none of the water fell out.
"I thought he was a magician when he did that," Ellis said. "Did you know how he did it or did you think he was a magician too?"
"You're doing that thing again," Chrissie said.
"What thing?"
"That thing of having a conversation in your head and then bringing me in on it late. You've always done it. You're so useless, Ellis. If you were the last man left on earth, you wouldn't notice it for weeks."
She kissed him and left him to the freefall of random memories in his head.
Another wave breaks. Ellis drops the Colombo Port shore pass back into the box and notices the dark scratched wood of a once familiar picture frame, in which is held a photograph of a lighthouse and a fishing boat run aground. He carries it outside and looks across the water to that same lighthouse and wreck. He watches the fishermen arrive at the huts in their battered trucks. Towzer Temple leans heavily against his boat and coughs himself awake. He takes a banana from his coat pocket and eats it.
He delves into the same pocket and pulls out an old crisp packet, which he seems surprised to have found. He makes a chute out of the packet and pours the crisps into his mouth, pulling a sour face as he tastes them. Lazily, he kicks the side of his boat, betraying their stale marriage, and pulls a bottle from the other coat pocket, and starts to drink.
A few hundred yards away, the tide snakes around the wreck of the Bessie Swan. Ellis watches it curiously, as if he's arranged to meet someone there but can't remember who.
Perhaps, he tells himself, if I swam out there ...
But he knows he will not do it.
If I walked out of the house and across the beach without stopping and dived in and swam there and back and ran straight home and dried myself in front of the fire, I'd have done something extraordinary. I'd have pushed myself. Kick-started my system. If I did it once, I could do it again the next day, and again, and I'd do it every day, it would become second nature and I'd be a different person, the sort of person who did that every day. My life would have changed.
But he's not able to change it. He's too busy. Too busy playing tunes on his shrimping net, watching his neighbour's washing loop the loop in the wind, seeking out pebbles with perfect holes, lying beneath the lighthouse and watching it sway. Too busy photographing clouds when the colour of crimson bleeds into them at dusk. Too busy waiting. Too busy keeping watch.
He takes from the metal box something unfamiliar. It looks like a blue plastic cigarette, and when he picks it up the plastic unravels and Ellis sees that it is the long, thin wrapper of a packet of dried spaghetti, the sort Denny used to buy when Ellis was a child and pasta was as long as your arm. As long as your dad's arm.


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Curt Ukasik named 2010 Goodguys Trendsetter
Hand crafting cars in the mountains of southeastern Pennsylvania, Ukasik has left his mark on the industry in both hot rod and muscle car fabrication. With a vision to build cutting edge cars that combine reliability, style and extreme performance, he has taken RPM Hot Rods to the forefront of the industry. He and his talented team turned out the Goodguys 2009 Gearstar Hot Rod of the Year (Bill Steele's Model A) as well as the Goodguys 2009 Detroit Speed Muscle Machine of the Year (Bryan Frank's '69 Pontiac Trans Am) before setting his sights on the 2010 Goodguys Grand Prize Giveaway Car - the BOSS SNAKE.
Starting with nothing more than a Dynacorn body, various parts from suppliers and a Jon Kaase BOSS 429 hemi, RPM Hot Rods hand built the majority of the car, including suspension, engine and body modifications turning it into a muscle car masterpiece to recreate the famed "Quarterhorse" cars from the 1970s. The original Quarterhorse Mustangs didn't allow room for a BOSS 429 shotgun hemi, necessitating a complete reconfiguration of the car's inner structures. Ukasik and his team made it look so seamless it appeared as though it rolled off an assembly line somewhere in Detroit. Ukasik is the 13th recipient of the prestigious award.
Past recipients of the Goodguys Trendsetter Award include; Chip Foose, Troy Trepanier, Alan Johnson, Eric Peratt, Tim Strange, Dave Lane, Zane Cullen, Dean Livermore, Jesse Greening, Troy Ladd, J.F. Launier and Phil and Jeremy Gerber.


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WWE DVD recap: Viva La Raza - The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero (Disc Three)
Nov 13, 2008 - 04:11 PM
-Rey Mysterio recalled Eddie Guerrero's happiness when he won the WWE Title for the first time. "Eddie enjoyed every single moment of it," Rey said. This led to a Mysterio vs. Eddie match from the March 13, 2004 Smackdown.
Powell's POV: Eddie was also very stressed out by the experience. He felt a lot of pressure to carry the company and really ate at him, but no one mentioned that.
-JBL said he still has heat with some fans in El Paso, Texas due to his feud with Eddie. He said he had to have a police escort to get out of the town once. "I have been in easier car wrecks and street fights than what Eddie Guerrero and I did to each other," JBL said. He said Eddie passed out backstage from losing so much blood during the match they had at Staples Center. He said he hit Eddie with a stiffer chairshot than he's ever given anyone, and he laughed when recalling how Eddie got him back several times. This led to JBL vs. Eddie from Judgment Day 2004.
-JBL said there was nothing like Eddie. "Wrestling Eddie Guerrero feels like a fantasy," he said. Next up is a cage match from the July 15, 2004 Smackdown between Eddie and JBL.
-Michael Cole discussed Eddie's infectious smile. He said it was hard not to like Eddie even when he was "the bad guy." Cole said the rivalry between Eddie and Kurt worked because they were such opposites. He said Kurt was the stuffed shirt type, while Eddie was loose and fun loving. "It was completely telegraphed and you could see it coming a mile away, but you still laughed at what he did. This led to Angle vs. Eddie from the Apr. 14, 2005 Smackdown.
-Mysterio commented on how Eddie carried himself well in and out of the ring. Mysterio said Eddie was born with charisma and was born to be a wrestler. "He was complete, man," he said. "He was one of those guys when you talked to him and you saw him you knew he had a good heart." This set up a cage match between Rey and Eddie from the Sept. 9, 2005 Smackdown.
-Batista said Eddie never passed judgement on anyone. "He never made you feel like a rookie," he said. Batista thought Eddie felt sorry for him and that's why he took a liking to him and showed him the ropes. Batista broke up as he recalled his wife telling him that Eddie died. He also recalled a phone message Eddie left him the night he died. This set up Batista vs. Eddie from the No Mercy 2005 pay-per-view.
Powell's POV: Touching comments from Batista, who referred to Eddie as the big brother he never had.
-Batista said he called Eddie back to the ring after the pay-per-view was over so that he could sing happy birthday to him. There was a montage of comments from various superstars including Jeff Hardy, John Cena, Mick Foley, Ric Flair, and Chavo Guerrero Sr..
-A sobbing Vickie recalled how much she missed Eddie's laugh.
Dean Malenko, Mysterio, Chris Jericho, and others spoke about how much they miss him. Jericho spoke about Eddie's religious beliefs and said he was the type of person who wouldn't push that on people.
-Vickie said Eddie's legacy will be a man of honesty, love, and compassion. Chavo Jr. said people will remember his generosity. Chavo Sr. said Eddie was a true Guerrero.
-The DVD concluded with a graphic that read, "In Memory - Eddie Guerrero - 1967-2005."
Special Features
-Jericho recalled the first time he met Eddie. He said Eddie was working for the AAA promotion while he was working for CMLL. Jericho said Eddie had already had a few drinks when Hector Guerrero introduced them. Eddie was in a surly mood and ripped into Jericho. The next morning, Eddie didn't remember what he said, but he knew it was wrong, so he apologized to Jericho.
-Eddie's final match with Mr. Kennedy from the Nov. 11, 2005 Smackdown his also available in its entirety.
Powell's Final Thoughts: A three-disc DVD on the career of Eddie Guerrero and not one mention of Chris Benoit. That's really a shame given how close they were. I could understand if that's a request that Vickie made, but my hunch is that this was a company decision. I hate the way WWE has erased Benoit from their history and you can't tell the true Eddie story without including Benoit.
The lack of a documentary is never a good thing for a WWE DVD release. The documentaries are what make their DVDs so strong. I realize they already had an Eddie documentary on a previous DVD release, but it's still frustrating, but it's still missed on this set. You won't learn anything new about Eddie from this DVD, but it was well done and included some fun stories from his friends and family members.
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LOVELAND — Calling a $300,000 proposed economic incentive package for Madwire Media an investment in Loveland, the City Council directed staff to move forward Tuesday with a proposal to help the homegrown marketing company stay and grow in the city.
Discussed for informational purposes only with no formal action taken, councilors were in agreement that the incentive request should return for formal consideration, and as soon as possible.
"There's a track record right in front of us, this isn't a start-up," councilor Daryle Klassen said. "This is something that's producing results."
Loveland has been home to Madwire Media since the company's inception in 2009 and officials say they've outgrown their two buildings at the south end of Lake Loveland. The company currently staffs 150 and are projected to have 165 employees at the end of this year, CEO and founder Joe Kellogg told the council.
By January 2014, they would like to move into 57,300-square-feet of space in Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology, the former Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies campus. Kellogg said the space, which would come with the option of growing into the entire 130,000-square-foot first floor of Building D, is ideal because of the size, openness and growth potential.
"I think we'd be probably hard-pressed to find another facility that would work for us inside of Loveland," Kellogg said.
Kellogg said the other option would be to expand to Austin, Texas, though he said the current 150 employees would remain in Loveland and the company would operate with two campuses.
"Our first choice is clearly Loveland," he said.
In a letter sent last month to City Manager Bill Cahill, Kellogg requested $300,000 in incentives from the city. The first payment — $150,000 — would come when Madwire signs a 10-year lease with Cumberland & Western, the company that owns the building.
The next payment would be when Madwire receives a temporary certificate of occupancy to start moving into the facility. That $100,000 comes with a stipulation that Madwire create 100 new full-time jobs over the next 24 months. If those jobs are not realized, the company's principals would have to pay the city back.
The incentive deal also proposes that the city not collect about $47,600 in taxes and fees. The Loveland Development Fund, a local nonprofit not connected to the city, has pledged $50,000 to help get Madwire into the facility. Total tenant finishing and moving costs are expected to top $800,000, Kellogg said.
Despite praise for the company and its potential, Mayor Cecil Gutierrez was among those who said he was concerned about a 'frontloaded' incentive request.
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Excess credit hours student policy
Arizona legislation was passed in the fall of 2006 to address the issue of providing state funding for undergraduate students exceeding certain credit hour thresholds. This legislation (detailed in Arizona Revised Statutes 15-1661) mandates the annual budget request submitted by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) shall not include funding for any undergraduate student who has earned credit hours in excess of the undergraduate credit hour threshold. The state authorizes each university to charge additional tuition and/or fees from these students in lieu of the state funding. This policy details the process that will be used to identify, notify and charge this population of students.
Students exceeding the credit hour threshold will be identified each semester by the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. These students will be notified of their status by the Registrar's Office. The student record will be marked with an identifier in LOUIE so that appropriate tuition/fees can be charged by Student and Departmental Account Services.
Students approaching the credit hour threshold (those who have already earned 130 credit hours and have enrolled in a subsequent semester) will be contacted by the Registrar's Office to inform them of this policy. Students will be encouraged to work with their advisor(s) to review remaining coursework required for graduation.
The undergraduate credit hour threshold will not apply to credits:
- Earned in the pursuit of up to two baccalaureate degrees.
- Earned in the pursuit of up to two state regulated licensures and certificates.
- Earned in the pursuit of teaching certification.
- Transferred from a private institution of higher education.
- Transferred from an institution of higher education in another state.
- Earned at another institution of higher education if those credits are not accepted as transfer credits at NAU. (At NAU, transfer credits that are not accepted are not included in the cumulative earned hours.).
- Earned by students who enroll at NAU more than twenty-four months after the end of that student's previous enrollment at a public institution of higher education in Arizona.
Students who feel they have been incorrectly identified as exceeding the credit hour threshold, or students who believe they qualify for one of the exemptions listed above, may file a Petition for Excess Credit Hours Review. This form is available on the Registrar's Office website. Details about how to complete and where to submit the petition are provided on the form.
Credit Hour Threshold (CHT): This is the maximum number of cumulative earned hours an undergraduate student may earn to be included in university budget requests. Undergraduate students exceeding the CHT will be responsible for paying additional tuition and/or fees, beginning Fall 2007. In 2006-2007, the undergraduate CHT is 155 hours. In 2007-2008, the undergraduate CHT is 150 hours. Beginning in Fall 2008, the undergraduate CHT is 145 hours.
State Regulated Licensures and Certificates: Credits earned in the pursuit of a program that results in a state regulated licensure or certificate do not apply toward the CHT. ABOR-facilitated discussions of the three universities led to agreement on the programs that result in state-regulated licensures and certificates. These include: Computer Science and Engineering (excluding Construction Management), Public Accounting, Dental Hygiene, Nursing, and Social Work.
Teacher Certification: Credits earned in the pursuit of a program that results in teacher certification do not apply toward the CHT. These programs include certifications for the Arizona Department of Education as well as programs resulting in a BSED degree (including but not limited to Elementary Education, Special Education, Secondary Education, Art Education, Heath Education, Music Education, Physical Education, Theatre Education, etc.).
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Q&A with Serhii Chrucky: Remembering Chicago's Past
As a founding member of Forgotten Chicago, Serhii Chrucky (pronounced SIR-he KROOTS-key) spends his available time (when he's in not in class at UIC) examining relics of Chicago's past. Forgotten Chicago is part photo album, historical repository, and architecture / infrastructure as art.
Schlitz Tied House, 21st and Rockwell. 2008. Photo: Serhii Chrucky.
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June 12th 2012
It is a warm beautiful spring morning. The temperature hovers around seventy-two degrees. There is a slight breeze blowing. I'm sitting on our wood and cast iron front porch swing. It's close to 11.00 a.m. as I look out into the neighborhood viewing the trees, the birds and houses on our street in Allen Park MI. I'm drinking my coffee and meditating by contemplating spiritual principles. This form of prayer while communing with nature and the divinity in everything that is, always brings peace to me.
As I reflect on the phrase I believe in God, a bird or two fly's by, occasionally one lands near me. A small white butterfly flutters by, taking me back to those summer days during my childhood when things were so peaceful, innocent and right. Reminiscing, I wonder if there are any Monarch butterfly's around. I haven't seen one yet. You see; I have been living here for only one month to date.
I dwell on the magnificent Monarch butterfly. After a few moments pass, I am consumed with the pure love and peace of God. It's not very often I experience enlightenment, but today for just these few moments I feel true bliss. Everything is absolutely wonderful and pure, charged with the HIS omnipresence, feeling God totally absorbed in my being and in everything that is.
Suddenly, from out of no-where, a Monarch butterfly appears, flying right in front of me. He circles around the front yard a few times. I watch him fly majestically, and proudly. He fly's off across the street bobbing up and down in the wind. My butterfly then slowly disappears into the trees. I know I am very very blessed.
I pick up my copy of THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY by Aldous Huxley I had placed on the bench earlier and read for about an hour and a half. When I've finished my reading, I gaze into the street again enjoying the view, the day and my most wonderful experience.
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The second FEMA trailer product-liability trial has been postponed due to talk of a settlement for thousands of claims from bankrupt defendant Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.
The Riverside, Calif.-based trailer manufacturer and its insurers are said to be negotiating a settlement even though a jury in September rejected a New Orleans' family's claim that a FEMA-supplied trailer built by Gulf Stream Coach Inc. exposed them to dangerous levels of carcinogenic formaldehyde, according to the Courthouse News Service.
Just days after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, FEMA awarded $170 million in contracts to Fleetwood to provide 7,500 travel trailers and 3,000 manufactured homes to refugees from the storm.
Fleetwood was one of several manufacturers to receive FEMA contracts, and was awarded the second-highest dollar amount; Gulf Stream Coach received the largest order.
FEMA is not a party to either lawsuit – neither the one that Gulf Stream fended off in September, nor the second one, against Fleetwood.
The second bellwether trial was slated to start next Monday.
Plaintiff Elisha Dubuclet claims that formaldehyde leaking from the FEMA trailer where her family lived for 18 months aggravated her daughter's eczema and increased her risk of cancer.
The complaint was taken from a batch of consolidated complaints. Class-action status was denied last year by presiding U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
The Wall Street Journal reported in December 2008 that plaintiffs' lawyers were disappointed, though "not surprised" by Engelhardt's rejection of class certification, considering the number and variety of cases alleging formaldehyde-related ailments.
Several thousand lawsuits have been filed and more are expected.
"We're looking forward to putting before a jury some good, instructive bellwether cases," attorney Gerald Meunier told the Journal. "We'll see what they do with those, and we'll know more about how to conclude all of the other litigation."
Fleetwood Enterprises filed for bankruptcy in March this year and sold its motorhome division to a private equity group.
A September article posted on rvbusiness.com paraphrased plaintiffs' attorney Tony Buzbee as saying that the court allowed the formaldehyde lawsuit against Fleetwood Enterprises to proceed despite its bankruptcy because insurance money is available to pay any potential settlement.
Fleetwood Enterprises is the lone defendant in the Dubuclet complaint.
The Washington Post reported in 2007 that a man in Slidell, La., "was found dead in his trailer on June 27, 2006, after complaining about the formaldehyde fumes. In a conference call about the death, 28 officials from six agencies recommended that the circumstances be investigated and trailer air quality be subjected to independent testing. But FEMA lawyers rejected the suggestions, with one… cautioning that further investigation not approved by lawyers 'could seriously undermine the Agency's position' in litigation."
Later, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., blasted FEMA's indifference to storm victims and said the situation was "sickening." He said the documents "expose an official policy of premeditated ignorance" and added that "senior officials in Washington didn't want to know what they already knew, because they didn't want the legal and moral responsibility to do what they knew had to be done," according to the Post.
FEMA blames trailer manufacturers for the formaldehyde in the trailers. Cheaper, substandard wood products used in trailers assembled in a rush to meet production targets increased emissions of the carcinogen, industry officials and analysts said.
Trailer manufacturers say that because federal guidelines were inconsistent, they relied on suppliers, who are responsible for any shoddy materials they provided.
Gulf Stream was cleared in September in the first bellwether trial; three other bellwether cases are set for trial, involving Keystone RV Co., Forest River Inc. and Recreation by Design Inc. The bellwether trials are meant to indicate likely outcomes for all plaintiffs, in turn fostering settlement talks between parties.
Many attorneys were not immediately available for comment.
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The memorial site offers various information facilities and tours, and visitors can explore the historical buildings, remnants and monuments as well as four permanent exhibitions: 'The Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937-1945', 'Means of Survival – Testimony – Artwork – Visual Memory' (art exhibition), 'Soviet Special Camp No. 2, Buchenwald 1945-1950' and 'The History of the Buchenwald Memorial'.
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Rosenberger expands by acquiring harness maker
Recently German connector solutions manufacturer, Rosengerger, took over 100% of Ötisheim-based harness maker Holocher & Bauer.
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Blackhawks need overtime to beat Wild
- Bryan Bickell scored in overtime on a two-on-one rush
- Minnesota goalie Niklas Backstrom was scratched because of a leg injury suffered in warm-ups
- Blackhawks overcome soft goal by Cal Clutterbuck
CHICAGO (AP) — Bryan Bickell scored in overtime on a two-on-one rush, and the Chicago Blackhawks started the playoffs on a winning note after dominating the regular season, beating the Minnesota Wild 2-1 Tuesday night.
Corey Crawford settled down after allowing a weak goal in the opening minutes. Marian Hossa also scored, and the Blackhawks took the early lead in this first-round series.
Game 2 is Friday at the United Center.
BOX SCORE:Blackhawks 2, Wild 1 (OT)
"We just needed to stay patient," Bickell said. "We were getting our opportunities. Not odd-man rushes like they were, but we got the one, and to capitalize on it is huge. With our speed, through the whole season a lot of teams were trying to shut us down and let us get frustrated."
The Blackhawks finally put this one away when Johnny Oduya chipped the puck off the boards up to Viktor Stalberg on the right side. Stalberg then dished it on the two-on-one rush to Bickell, who was all alone for the winning backhander at 16:35.
Big things are expected in Chicago after a spectacular regular season that included a record start and the team's first Presidents' Trophy since 1991.
The Blackhawks are eyeing a run to the Stanley Cup for the second time in four years. They have been eliminated in the first round the past two seasons after beating Philadelphia for the championship in 2010, and they realize that for all they accomplished thus far in 2013, they'll ultimately be judged by what happens in the playoffs.
They seemingly caught a break before the game when Minnesota goalie Niklas Backstrom was scratched because of a leg injury suffered while reaching for a puck in the pregame warm-ups.
Josh Harding replaced him and more than held his own after being limited to just five games following a multiple sclerosis diagnosis last summer. Harding made 35 saves.
"Phenomenal," coach Mike Yeo said. "It's hard to sit here and try to paint an accurate picture of what he's gone through, because I have no idea, we have no idea. He's a guy that, certainly, for many reasons you're rooting for."
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Yeo didn't have much of an update on Backstrom, although he did say, "It was a bit of a curveball to say the least."
The Wild, trying to match what the Los Angeles Kings did a year ago and win the Stanley Cup as an eight seed, took the lead just under five minutes into the game when Cal Clutterbuck fooled Crawford with a soft shot from the left circle.
The goal on Minnesota's first shot brought back some bad memories for Blackhawks fans who remember him allowing several soft goals in the playoffs against Phoenix a year ago.
Hossa tied it just over two minutes into the second period, streaking down the left side, getting behind Minnesota's Jonas Brodin and firing the puck between Harding's pads after taking a feed from Patrick Kane.
Harding made a big save with his right pad from point-blank range on Kane after he beat Marco Scandella in the opening minutes of the third period to preserve the 1-1 tie.
Chicago appeared to take the lead midway through the third. Minnesota's Jared Spurgeon fell on a loose puck just outside the crease, and the Blackhawks kept swatting at it. Jonathan Toews knocked it into the net, but the whistle had already blown.
Blackhawks fans responded with some nasty chants, but they were letting out big sighs of relief two minutes later when a wraparound shot by Minnesota's Jason Zucker slid across the crease.
After five of their six playoff games against Phoenix last year went to overtime, the Blackhawks found themselves in a familiar spot.
They almost won it in OT when Hossa skated toward the net and drew Harding to the ice, but the goalie barely deflected his backhanded shot. Crawford then had a big blocker save on Zach Parise.
"We were able to battle through a lot today," Crawford said. "We battled through that first goal, had a couple of PKs (penalty kills) in overtime, one in the third there. Our guys did a solid job. It was definitely a good test for us."
Notes: Kane is sporting a playoff mullet again. "I think it's fun," he said. "It's good for a good laugh or two. It's something that's been a little bit of a tradition." The youthful looking Kane gained national attention when he grew the mullet for the championship run in 2010 and he went with it again the following year. He went with a beard, instead, last year. But on Tuesday, he was all business up front and party in the back. ... Besides Emery, the Blackhawks were without Dave Bolland (lower body injury).


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CANBERRA, Australia -- With the Australian election campaign in full swing, all the attention is on the leaders of the two major parties. But scientists in Sydney, NSW, have found startling results from genetic extracts from the Prime Minister's and the Opposition leader's blood.
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Riding the Rays Rollercoast with no Seat Belts
Man, we are only two whole games into the 2010 Tampa Bay Rays 13th Major League Baseball season and I am already extremely tired from the massive rollercoaster journey we have taken just in the last two days. And believe me, I do not mind the twists, drops and even the unsuspecting high steeping emotional climbs, but I am still a bit wary of that stomach shifting towards the Adam's Apple intense drop that takes not only your breathe away, but does something to your overall mode of team confidence and inner soul that can not be repaired by just a few spotty wins.
Maybe I am getting myself in a serious state of heart break and toeing the edge of the jagged path on the high cliff to a possible let down of massive enthusiasm proportions, but then again, maybe I am going to do what I feel is the right thing for myself and this team and throw my caution to the wind and hope the monkey on the loose doesn't throw a steaming pile of poo at me from the Rightfield foul pole during the game.
But if you have been amongst the tidal waves of emotions surrounding Tropicana Field the last two night and really felt that pulse of energy cascading throughout the stadium with even the 15,000+ on Wednesday night, then you know that something special is happening in front of us again. And maybe since St. Petersburg is the "Lightning Capital of the World", it is about to strike hard for a second time in 2010. And maybe Rays fans like me are all riding that huge wave of off season pent-up emotions right now, but that is what fans do, they act and react and counter move to the ebb and flow of the rhythm of the game hoping that the last big wave of the night will produce that moment you remember for a long, long time and provide you with that rush of adrenaline we all seek as we drive home with smiles from ear-to-ear .
And that is what is happening right now. From Tuesday nights bottom of the ninth inning extravaganza when the longest tenured Ray, Carl Crawford provided the 90th Walk-off moment in Rays history, to the thunderous crack from the bat of Rays legend-in-the-making Evan Longoria, the last two nights have been sprinkled with classic Rays moments where a huge cloud of magical pixie dust has fallen from the rafters of Tropicana Field and coated all of us with amazement and wonder.
If you would have told me the Rays would win a game in Walk-off fashion in either of these nights, I could have believed you. But if you would have told me Longoria would make his first two blasts of the year pale in epic proportions by going into the TBT Deck/Beach/ way-the-heck-up-there, I might have taken that bet and thought it was a sucker bet by you. But more amazing was the shot last night into Section 149, which had a plastic poster hanging at the top of that same section of Tropicana field asking Longoria to hit it here with a massive Bulls-Eye of red and white.
Two games into the 2010 season and we already have a few moments that will be talked about even after the All-Star break, and maybe in the 2010 off season. Seriously here, I could imagine Carl Crawford lacing a ball for a 2-run double to produce a Walk-off win way before a blast 473 feet that just missing the Second slot on the Rays All-Time Home Run Distance list by a tiny foot compared to the Centerfield blast of Jonny Gomes that bounced like a golf ball on the roof of the Batter's Eye Restaurant. But the amazing fact might still be that Longoria has 4 RBI on his only 3 hits this season, and all three of them have been for extra bases.
I was extremely proud of the 15,000+ who were screaming and yelling for an appeal to the Third Base Umpire, and their fats reaction to booing and questioning the call immediately instead of looking around for an exclamation from someone wearing headphone listening to the game on the Rays Radio network in the stands. I actually had a nice photo of Crawford at that moment and he was hunched down in his stance and could not have even thrown out a half-hazard swing to fend off the ball if it was a true strike. But the pure fact this crowd has matured as a whole and gathered the mustard to question and show immediate recourse towards Danley reminds me a lot of the baseball savvy crowds you see in other MLB stadiums that have been around for over 100 years.
But I am also aware and poised to remember that these same Orioles have beaten us into the ground before when our guard has been down a bit, or the confidence level made a few Rays fan's heads rise an inch or two and not remember that a streaky Baltimore Second Baseman Brian Roberts can change the entire game all by himself with his legs and bat. But maybe his bad start to the season is our reward right now. To be 2-0, and maybe blossom to 3-0 before the Evil Empire valet parks their Deathstar at the Vinoy for the upcoming weekend series, it might be a nice emotional and confident momentary foundation before we partake in the renewed rivalry for the first time in 2010.
And some people have already brought out that attendance trump card after just two Rays games, but they also forget that these mid-week games have always been the Achilles' Heel of this Rays clubs attendance marks as far back as 1998. They are a work-in-progress, and with 15,000+ in the stands last night, that is a nice bump up from the last time the Orioles were in the Trop from September 29-October 1,2009 when an average of just over 10,492 fans packed the Trop for the season ending series of these same two teams.
5,000 extra bodies in the seats might not seem like much to those viewing the empty blue seats in other locales. But those same 5,000+ extra Rays bodies have also been sporting more of the home team's Columbia Blue or Rays Blue this season and that in its own small way might show the Tampa Bay community trickling in little by little to see if the Rays can renew that spirit and drive that possessed this region in 2008. And I guess I can revel in the fact that the "greatest game played on dirt" is living up to that moniker in the first two fun-filled energy-draining contests of 2010.
But you ain't seen nothing yet as the New York Yankees will be unpacking their equipment in the Rays Visitor's Clubhouse soon enough, then the first true test of 2010 is full on………Game on people….Game On!
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Game on indeed! Take off that seatbelt and feel the breeze!! The Yankees are coming my friend. Should be a gas-gas-gas in Ol St. Pete this weekend. Have fun!
mike BTB
This weekend is going to be big for not only the first Yankee and Rays match-up, but to set a little between the two teams before they meet again.
It will be the last three games of the Yankees road trip before they head home, plus the ending three before the Rays leave home for the first time this season.
That and a gallon of gasoline should put a fire under both teams…..maybe we can forget the gasoline?
Rays Renegade
I have to agree totally with you. Longoria has a great future in front of him, and the Rays got him to sign his 5 year, $ 17.5 million contract with less than 1 years service time ( much less 1 month service time).
It is a win-win for both Longo and the Rays. Throws out the stress and indecision of arbitration years, plus gives the Rays a payroll flexibility of knowing what they will have in regards to Longo for that 5 year period.
But it was a definite steal in terms of talent versus dollars amounts, but in the end if Longo gets another ring….It will be priceless in value to both parties.
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Sunday, July 27
Remembering Sher of What Did You Eat? Pasta with Arugula Pesto and Tomatoes
Last weekend, the food blogging community was saddened to learn that a dear food blogger and friend, Sher of What Did You Eat?, had suddenly passed away.
In her memory, bloggers are making and posting one of Sher's recipes today, and her close friend, Glenna from A Fridge Full of Food, is collecting the links at her site so that Sher's family can read all of the tributes.
My heartfelt sympathies are with Sher's family and friends during this difficult time. Sher will be missed.
I chose this pasta dish because it's indicative of the type of recipes Sher posted: it's simple to make and simply delicious.
Pasta with Arugula Pesto and Tomatoes
from Williams Sonoma Savoring Series, Savoring Italy
Serves 4-6
Print recipe only here.
6 oz. arugula, tough stems removed (about 4 cups)
1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
1/4 cup walnuts
1 garlic clove
1/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese, plus extra for garnish
salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved, or chopped large tomatoes
1 pound pasta
In a food processor, combine the arugula, parsley, walnuts and garlic. Process using short rapid on-off pulses until the mixture is finely chopped, 15 to 20 times. Add the grated cheese, salt and pepper. With the machine running, gradually add the olive oil in a steady stream and process until smooth. (Add additional water or olive if necessary.) Set aside.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot three-fourths full of water to a boil over high heat. Salt generously and add the pasta. Cook, stirring frequently, until al dente (tender but firm to the bite). Drain the pasta, reserving about 1/2 cup of the cooking water.
Place the pasta in a large warmed serving bowl along with the pesto. Toss well, adding the reserved pasta water as needed to thin the sauce. Add the tomatoes and toss again. Garnish with cheese and serve immediately.
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Beautifully done. My heart is with Sher's family.
xoxox Amy
- July 27, 2008 at 8:00 AM
- StickyGooeyCreamyChewy said...
That's a lovely dish, Susan. I remember when Sher first posted it. She will be missed!
- July 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM
A wonderful recipe to honor a wonderful fellow blogger. Looks lovely, Susan.
- July 27, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- chefectomy said...
Thanks Susan, what a nice tribute. very indicative of the food blogging community which I am new to. This recipe (and your blog) look wonderful.
- July 27, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A gorgeous dish! Very colorful and tasty! A nice tribute...
- July 27, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Manggy said...
Lovely tribute, Susan.. Reading all these new posts recently I wish I'd have met Sher.
- July 27, 2008 at 9:02 AM
- Jenny said...
Yes, it does look good, and the kind of thing Sher made regularly.
- July 27, 2008 at 9:05 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Whenever I think of Sher's posts, I think of her pasta dishes, so this is the perfect tribute to her.
- July 27, 2008 at 9:34 AM
- Kalyn said...
Yes, this is just the kind of dish that Sher loved. I hope she would be pleased at all the tributes to her today.
- July 27, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- katiez said...
You got it perfectly right: simple, colorful, easy.... but full of flavor... A lot like Sher (the full of flavor part)
- July 27, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Astrid, Kashim and Othello said...
this pasta was so much Sher! I loved her pasta recipes!
- July 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Karina said...
What a beautiful photo of a beautiful recipe from a beautiful blogger by a beautiful blogger!
- July 27, 2008 at 2:02 PM
- Mishmash ! said...
My heart goes to Sher's family...
- July 27, 2008 at 2:06 PM
- Andrea said...
This is perfect, and a nice memorial to Sher.
- July 28, 2008 at 7:51 AM
- Darius T. Williams said...
I just heard about Sherry - isn't this horrible?
I've just come on the scene and all I have are her memories. I'm saddened!
- July 28, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Susan, what a coincidence - I printed two recipes from Sher's blog, including this one. But ended up making the other (I'll post it this week).
My heart goes out to her family.
- July 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- Annie said...
What a sad day. I feel so bad for Sher's family and friends. Although I did not lean about her until recently, I can see how see will be missed. My sympathies are with her family and you all.
- July 28, 2008 at 5:15 PM
- Astra Libris said...
Such a beautiful culinary tribute... Your preparation of the pasta dish is a true work of art.
(I'm also in raptures over your peach and blueberry galette! Hooray for the peach and blueberry combo - I can't wait to try yours!)
- July 28, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Munchkins and Music said...
Looks good! I LOVE pasta. I'm going to try this one. Thanks!
- July 29, 2008 at 12:18 AM
- Dhanggit said...
a great tribute for a food blogger deeply loved and respected!
- July 29, 2008 at 4:21 AM
- Lori Lynn said...
A lovely tribute, Susan. Your post inspired me to go look at all of Sher's pasta recipes, I have been there for the past hour.
- July 29, 2008 at 8:36 AM
- Deborah said...
I'm sure Sher's family will be touched by the food blogging community paying such a wonderful tribute!
- July 29, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- RecipeGirl said...
Nice tribute, and a beautiful picture. She and her blog will be missed.
- July 29, 2008 at 8:59 AM
I was so sad to read this . . . Sherry will certainly be missed. I'm sure she'll be happy her recipes--like this one you captured so beautifully--continue to live on.
- July 29, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Cakespy said...
What a sweet celebration. I was so sad to hear about the loss. So sudden.
- July 29, 2008 at 7:43 PM
- Heather said...
I didn't know Sher but from the posts she sounds lovely. I'm sure her family will enjoy these posts.
- July 29, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
The dish you chose to honor Sher is wonderful - what a great combination of flavors.
- July 30, 2008 at 6:37 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thank you, everybody, for you kind and thoughtful sentiments.
- July 31, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- Glenna said...
That is a wonderful recipe--thank you so much for honoring Sher this way. It's lovely.
- August 2, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- Jeanne said...
What a lovely way of paying tribute to a fello-blogger. The dish looks like an exercise in perfect simplicity.
- August 4, 2008 at 8:17 AM
- Jaime said...
that's a nice tribute - simple and definitely delicious!
- August 10, 2008 at 9:41 PM


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