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The Hawaiian longline tuna fishery has managed to reduce seabird bycatch by 67% since 2001 by making alterations to their fishing gear and methods, a new scientific study shows. A combination of new bait technologies and fishing techniques have dramatically reduced seabird bycatch. More birdlife could be saved, however, if the rules were applied in a larger area and fishing effort reduced in certain seasons.
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"Thirteen out of nineteen species of albatross studied under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are in deep trouble" says Eric Gilman, Marine Science Advisor for the IUCN Global Marine Programme, "the results of this study are encouraging, but bird-friendly longlining techniques need to be applied more universally if we are to arrest the decline of albatrosses and other seabirds."
The season and location of fishing, as well as the timing of daily fishing operations, were also found to have significant effects on seabird catch rates. The study identifies which seabird bycatch reduction measures elicit the highest voluntary compliance in Hawaii, which in turn has implications for exporting effective and commercially viable methods to other fleets to maximize compliance when onboard observers are absent. A substantial proportion of seabird captures occurred south of the area where mitigation measures are required for the Hawaii fleet. This boundary has also been adopted by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. Moving this boundary further south would further reduce seabird catches in North Pacific pelagic longline fisheries.
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Bebe Rexha has come a long way since making her way to Hollywood. The "Meant to Be" songstress phoned into On Air With Ryan Seacrest on Monday, April 16, and recalled when she first started writing music and dished on her highly anticipated forthcoming album Expectations.
"I started first writing music seriously when I was like 17," Bebe shared with Ryan. "I got my first big hit with K-Pop in Japan and Korea … then I just never stopped. I didn't want to be a performer where you have to wait around for other songs and just look pretty, I wanted to say something and write my own music."
Bebe has written hit tracks for artists including Eminem and Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Iggy Azalea, Nick Jonas, Bella Thorne, Tinashe and more.
"I was 21, 22," she added of when she penned chart-topping hit "Monster" for Eminem and Rihanna. "I was selling perfume at a store for like rich women [at the time.] I actually wrote a song about this on my album and … then one day — it made up for everything — Rihanna walked in and … I couldn't breathe … I knew I had a dream about wanting to be in the music business but to have a song that she'd sing was just crazy. [My vocals are still] on the post hook."
Nowadays she's charting for singing her own hits, most recently "Meant to Be" with Florida Georgia Line. Her debut album Expectations drops on June 22 and she's excited for fans to finally hear it.
"I put a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears into this album," she concluded. "It's my first real release and I think everything I've done with G-Eazy, Eminem and all the collaborations and the writing it all makes sense as an artist … like this is who Bebe Rexha is."
Listen to the full interview above and catch Bebe on American Idol as well tonight on ABC at 8/7c.


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Katie first discussed several projects that she and her team have been involved in over the last years. Although the projects themselves were all interesting in their own right, it was the rubrics under which they were discussed that caught my attention. In terms of the classification that Knud Illeris makes in his book How we learn, they were all labels for specific kinds of learning environments:
- direct instruction environments, i.e. ordinary lecture theatre teaching enhanced with clickers or other 'learner catalysts'
- cooperative learning environments, enhanced by for instance websites or collaborative annotating suits
- environments for mastery learning, supported by for example interactive storyboards
- environments for (authentic) role play, such as case studies and Second Life
- environments for learning to think inductively, consisting of for instance mathematical simulation software and supported by dataverse software for publishing and sharing research data
- environments for exploratory learning, such as virtual and augmented reality environments, simulations, games
- environments for learning by doing, supported by facilities for peer tutoring, ePortfolios, etc.
- environments for inquiry learning, used to teach making inferences from data and working with the scientific method
Although not said so explicitly, the implicit message here is that technologies shape the environments in which we learn. The classification comes in handy to label what these technologies may achieve.
The second part of the talk was about the organisational aspects of putting together these environments, ensuring that faculty works with them and benefits of their use are disseminated. The problems encountered here sounded all very familiar, with the usual dilemmas. What is better, organise academic support at the level of faculties (colleges) or through a central service? Harvard has a central service, although it happens to spend most of its time with the science and arts people. What is better, to let faculty take the lead or should the initiative rest with the educational experts? In the former case innovations that are known from the literature, will be done anew, even innovations that have been shown not to work will be attempted again. In the second case, faculty will have no sense of ownership of their projects. Harvard has chosen for the former solution, prioritising sense of ownership over efficiency.
Finally, key to all that is done as a service to the Harvard academics is that it is seen as an opportunity to do research. This is perhaps most clear with the Harvard MOOC-experiments in edX. These have been set up as an opportunity to experiment on a large scale with direct, instruction-based, distance learning. Harvard has decades of experience with distance learning through its extension programme, so is unlikely to go at this with the naivety that some of the other xMOOCers do. Indeed, it is perhaps necessary to acknowledge that, though the dichotomy of xMOOCs and cMOOCs may still be valid, the xMOOC comes in two varieties: the for-profit ones, such as Udacity and Coursera, that are funded by venture capital; and the-not-for profit ones, that are funded through donations. edX exemplifies this second kind. Making the distinction is necessary when evaluating the value of these xMOOCs. I am anxious to learn how Harvard will evaluate their edX MOOC.
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With only $US200 in materials and 70-100 hours of labour, Jocke transformed pieces of wood and some electronics into this gorgeous piece of art/furniture. Not only does it have plenty of built-in storage for video games from any era, it also connects up to his NES, making it perfect for players that thought the original Xbox controller was a little on the small size.
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The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is twice the size of Texas; it's a collection of marine pollution, mostly people's plastic trash that is located within the North Pacific Gyre. It's one of many areas of concentrated debris in the world's oceans, drawn there by currents. Beth Terry of Oakland is a self-described plastic-free advocate. She became compelled a few years ago after seeing dead albatross.
"I looked at that photo and what I saw in there were things from my life; I mean it was bottle caps, toothbrushes, all kinds of everyday plastic things that were ending up thousands of miles from civilization," said Terry.
Back in Oakland, Terry has been trying to do something about it. She started a blog called http://fakeplasticfish.com/list/. She researches and writes about plastic-free alternatives and has been reducing her own consumption.
In 2009, she consumed 3.7 pounds -- that's about four percent of the national average of 88 pounds per person a year. She's on a start local spread global quest to help others take action by reducing, reusing and recycling plastics.
"I first started with plastic bags because plastic grocery bags are easy to give up, right off the bat, you know, bring your own bags to the store," said Terry.
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THERE ARE MANY WAYS to tell the story of modern Zimbabwe. The current production of Breakfast with Mugabe at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York is, of course, only one. By taking as its starting point a fictionalized account of a series of meetings in 2001 between Robert Mugabe, liberation hero and de-facto president-for-life of this former British colony, and a white psychiatrist, Breakfast could initially appear to be little more than a means to let an informed and compassionate Western protagonist (and presumably therefore stand-in for the audience) pass judgment on a brutal and paranoid African leader.
The play, however, eschews such fish-in-a-barrel simplicity and surprises and engages the audience as it carefully develops and explores the motivations and fears of all the characters.
The center of the storm is, unsurprisingly, Michael Rogers's Mugabe. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Rogers brings both a sense of immense power and volatile menace to Mugabe, while at the same time always avoiding any descent, even momentarily, into the hackneyed role of simple villain. The overlapping tensions within Mugabe are well displayed, and while never being sympathetic, the President's intense belief in what he sees as the correct path for the country he liberated drives the play forward.
It is important to recall that at the time of the former Rhodesia's independence from colonial rule, Mugabe was a figure of widespread admiration, both within his country and around the world. During his first several years in power, Mugabe was regarded as the equal to Nelson Mandela, his neighboring freedom fighter, if not held in slightly higher regard, since he had attained victory for his African countrymen, while success for Mandela and his supporters in South Africa was still some time to come.
Future historians, as well as those viewing Breakfast, will have to reconcile the two different "Robert Mugabes" that we have witnessed over the past 30 years, the revolutionary hero and the tyrant who took a prosperous country and brought it to its knees. Rogers, who followed the liberation struggles in Rhodesia as a boy and visited Zimbabwe in 1998, occupies the role of the mutangamiriri, or father of the nation, fully and with real gravitas. When we first see Mugabe, he is haunted by a ngozi, or ghost, of a departed comrade and is driven to the point of madness. Rogers's portrayal of a despot literally haunted by his past reveals the nature of Mugabe's buried conscience, hidden beneath the certainty and self-righteousness so vital to his early successes.
Mugabe is a member of the dominant Shona tribe, and chishona language and culture are diffused throughout the play. With the Shona beliefs that forms the basis for Mugabe's worldview seemingly unable to dispel the dark cloud raining down bad memories, the doctor Andrew Peric is brought from the psychiatric unit at Harare Central hospital into the State House in Harare to "cure" the President in time to lead his Zanu-PF party to victory in the upcoming elections.
Played with confidence by Ezra Barnes, Peric is forced to confront several difficult questions as he attempts to work with his unique and demanding patient. How do we know that modern medicine gives us any more access to truth than traditional beliefs? Is it actually possible in any meaningful sense to be "post-colonial?"
Peric defines himself very succinctly as "Third generation Zim, second generation farmer, first generation psychiatrist." However, neither Mugabe nor the other powerful Africans that Peric interacts with at State House allow him to maintain such a simplified view for long, even if they refer to him as cherimba, a respectful term for doctor. Apart from the action occurring on stage, yet very closely related to the themes and fears unfolding among the four characters, is Peric's beloved Two Trees farm, in the village of Concession, an hour's drive from the capital. War veterans are encamped at the gates, and the future of the 500 hectares of prime agricultural land in far from clear. Peric has to ask: how can we determine to everyone's satisfaction exactly who a piece of land, or a country, actually belongs to?
At its heart, Breakfast is about the great wheel of time that rotates through the lives of all of us. Success followed by failure, destitution followed by wealth. The wounds of colonialism in Africa, and by inference slavery in other parts of the world, are deep and go back very far into the lives of those impacted. All in Breakfast have suffered directly from either the pain of colonialization or the pain of de-colonialization, or both.
By demonstrating how each of the characters — including the security officer Gabriel (Che Ayende) and the President's second wife, Grace Mugabe (Rosalyn Coleman) — are compromised by the past in ways that may not be fully obvious even to them, the play takes the audience into novel territories. In a brief exchange between Peric and Gabriel, the farmer-psychiatrist quizzes the well-dressed Central Intelligence Organization officer about his life in the city and how frequently he returns to his village "upcountry." By attempting to establish more connection to the land than a black African, Peric fervently seeks to demonstrate as much, if not more, authenticity than Gabriel. Peric's need for legitimacy is well conveyed by Barnes, and his interactions with Gabriel and Grace give an opportunity for the character of Peric to unfold incrementally.
Even more impressive is Coleman's portrayal of the hard-willed Grace. Having lived the young girl's dream of marrying her way into the royal castle and gaining access to privilege and wealth, Grace must now deal with palace intrigue and her own fear that all could be taken away from her in an instant, either by falling out of favor with her powerful husband or being swept from power with him by angry and aggrieved Zimbabweans. Her husband is kupenga, or crazy, and this is putting the First Lady's world off-balance. Grace is desperate to remain in the life she has eagerly grown accustomed to, while at the same time recognizing that she is, in effect, trapped like a prisoner within State House by the whims and paranoias of her husband.
Rather than indulge in a shallow portrayal of Grace, as no more than one of the "Real Housewives of Harare," Coleman ably demonstrates again and again the twin problems that Grace faces — she needs to get her husband sane as quickly as possible and she needs him to stay in power to protect both her and the two sons she bore for him. These two goals are by no means aligned with each other and are quite possibly in direct conflict.
Breakfast is ultimately a political play about Africa that occurs in a very intimate setting. The scale of neither the African liberation struggle nor the immense suffering of the Zimbabwean people in recent years fits conveniently into the narrow confines of the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre. This raises some awkward questions that cannot be fully answered by the time the final curtain falls. Fraser Grace's play readily brings to mind several other portrayals of psychiatrist and patient, ranging from The Madness of George III to The Sopranos. In that regard, the framing device is highly effective. Although all four characters are in their own ways victims of past events, and all causes of future suffering, the white psychiatrist Peric is the play's main protagonist, upon whom the dramatic arc of the play depends. Thus the story centers on a white settler's perceptions and misconceptions about the postcolonial experience, rather than, for example, looking at these events from a black perspective. Nor does the play attempt to come to grips with the more recent violence, oppression, and uncertainty, all of which have escalated in Zimbabwe in the decade after the fictional events portrayed in Breakfast take place, up to and including the disputed results of the most recent election earlier this year that are allowing Mugabe to enjoy yet another presidential term in State House.
The only ready answer to this conundrum is that Breakfast provides powerful insights into the nature of power as it impacts individual lives — both in its presence and absence, and the way we come to the mistaken belief that we are protected from its arbitrary and vicious exercise, when in fact we only always realize far too late that we are indeed not actually protected in any meaningful way, and quite probably never were.
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George Bailey
George Bailey was one of the most renowned criminals of the 1940s. Convicted of misappropriation of funds, manipulation, and malfeasance, Mr. Bailey was issued a twenty-year prison sentence in the Pottersville Penitentiary, serving as an example to future executives such as Dennis Kozlowski and Martha Stewart. Mr. Bailey is also recognized as being the first court defendant to issue an insanity plea.
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Born in 1907 to parents Peter and Ma Bailey in the New York town of Bedford Falls, George Bailey always appeared to be a very honorable, likeable, approachable human being. He reportedly saved the life of his nine year-old brother Harry, who almost drowned after falling in a half-frozen lake in the middle of winter. However, future reports have also stated that George may have chided his brother to jump into the lake by teasing his brother, referring to him as a scare-baby. George lost all hearing in his left ear that day, for reasons that have been called into question.
Despite George Bailey's kind-hearted surface, the FBI began to target Mr. Bailey as a potential Communist in the days of the red scare; but the bureau was unable to produce any solid evidence against Mr. Bailey, as most of his clever tactics were extremely subtle.
For instance, George Bailey was suspected of being a strong opponent of capitalism. He reportedly passed on a trip to Europe, a fine college education, and a prosperous career in the Yukon for the sole purpose of attacking the innocent economical exploits of Henry F. Potter, the most successful capitalist in all of Bedford Falls. Clearly, such incredible devotion to a single ideological cause can only be the work of a political extremist.
Regardless, Mr. Bailey managed to escape from any legal charges throughout most of the 1930s. It was also during this decade that he married a very susceptible childhood friend, Mary Hatch, who had recently been convinced by George to break up a relationship with her sweetheart, Sam "Hee-Haw" Wainwright. The young couple, having foregone a honeymoon due to another of George's anti-capitalist exploits, moved into a broken-down house in the middle of the town, where they proceeded to rebuild the house into a mansion as Mary gave birth to four children -- Peter, Janie, Zuzu, and Tigger.
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Finally, on December 24, 1946, a bank examiner paid a surprise visit to Mr. Bailey's pro-socialist organization, the Bailey Bros. Building and Loan. Upon examination of the organization's financial records, a sum of $8,000 was discovered to be missing from the books. When the bank examiner attempted to question Mr. Bailey about the matter, George reportedly dogged the questions and left the building in a violent rage with his business partner, Uncle Billy.
Later that day, Mr. Bailey was said to have physically abused his Uncle Billy and verbally abused his wife and children when he returned to his home that night. When Mary Bailey was later pursued for interviews by the major news networks, she issued the following press statement before breaking out into tears:
- I didn't know what was wrong with him that day or what I should do about it. I asked him what was wrong, and he just yelled back at me, "Everything's wrong! Why do we have to have all these kids?" Before I could find out what was the matter, he was knocking over our furniture and throwing paper everywhere. During these events, Peter spontaneously combusted, Zuzu contracted the clap, and Tigger somehow wound up paralyzed from the waist down. He even made our daughter Janie cry, so I told him to leave. And he did. Next time I saw him, an officer was issuing him an arrest warrant. I didn't know what to do ...
Shortly after the aforementioned incident, George Bailey disappeared for several hours without a trace. It wasn't until early the next morning that witnesses saw George running down the streets of Bedford Falls, yelling "Merry Christmas" to various inanimate objects, including a movie theater, a local emporium, and a couple of parked cars.
George returned to his home, repeatedly shouted the name of his wife. He burst into the front door, only to be welcomed by the bank examiner, a police officer, and a set of reporters. The officer issued Mr. Bailey an arrest warrant and slapped handcuffs on the criminal just as Mary Bailey came running into the house. George was hauled away in a squad car as his family was left behind in tears. George was thrown in jail for a number of months before facing trial in the landmark case of State of New York v. George Bailey.
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George Bailey was brought to court on Wednesday, July 2, 1947. The state prosecutor, Terry Malloy, served as the plaintiff, even though this proved to be his first and last case for personal reasons. Mr. Bailey, unable to afford a professional attourney, was represented by long-time friend, professional police officer, amateur legal advisor, and championship bowler, Burt.
Mr. Bailey was charged with misappropriation of funds, manipulation, and malfeasance as it concerned his affairs at the Bailey Bros. Building and Loan. The first witness called to the stand was Mr. Martini, proprietor of a local tavern in Pottersville, formerly Bedford Falls. In his thick Italian accent, Mr. Martini testified against George:
- Mr. Bailey no was himself a that night. He drink a lot of whiskey at the bar and started a fist a fight with a man a name Welch. I try to help my friend and he juice ... a push a me aside. I not know he was robbing the people. Mr. Bailey was a once a my friend. Now he not my friend. He not a come a my place a no more.
Burt retaliated by calling to the stand Eustace, a former employee at the building and loan. Eustice defended George when he offered his testimony:
- I've known Mr. Bailey his whole life, and I know he would never commit such a crime as this. If any crime was committed, it was not by my friend George. If the money was missing, it was not his fault. It must have been an accident.
Prosecutor Malloy wasn't even scratched by this defense. Next, he called to the stand Violet Bick, once a close friend of George. Like Mr. Martini, Violet testified against Mr. Bailey:
- I used to be in love with George. I used to call him Georgie-Porgie. I was young and stupid. I gave up on him when he got married to Mary, but next thing I know, he tried hitting on me. I tried to avoid him like the plague, but he just wouldn't leave me alone. I guess he figured someone would find out, because he tried covering it up. On the same day as the money was missing, he gave me a $500 "loan" and tried to get me to move to New York. I was almost duped into it, but when I found out all that happened I decided I wasn't going. I changed my mind.
This was the testimony that practically sealed the verdict. Burt attempted to devise one more avenue escape when he formed the very first insanity plea in the history of the United States court system. He charged that his client, Mr. Bailey, in a period of mental illness, had claimed to have seen angels the night of the incident. Bailey himself testified before the court on this account. Burt even managed to produce several written testimonies of witnesses who saw George Bailey yelling "Merry Christmas" to a lamppost early on Christmas Day.
Fortunately, this ridiculous defense wasn't able to sway the opinion of the judge, and Mr. Bailey was consequently convicted of all charges and sentenced to twenty years in the Pottersville Penitentiary. Upon hearing the verdict, George Bailey replied by yelling, "Happy Independence Day weekend, judge!"
Is it really a wonderful life?
In 1968, one year after George Bailey was released from prison, a young Steven Spielberg directed a low-budget made-for-TV movie to serve as a biographical account of the life of Mr. Bailey. The movie was mistakenly titled It's a Wonderful Life, with Charlton Heston filling the role of George Bailey during his earlier years and Marlon Brando filling the role of George during his later years.
The movie was immediately panned by critics who noted major historical inaccuracies in the story. The movie portrayed George Bailey as a decent, innocent, hard-working American who was framed for the loss of the $8,000. The film even concluded with a typical Hollywood happy ending that portrayed Mr. Bailey as being cleared of all charges before he had even been forced from his home to serve time in prison.
The movie was a flop upon its release, and it lost a great amount of money at the box office. The movie was completely swept aside and forgotten until NBC managed to secure its rights in the early 1990s. The network began to air It's a Wonderful Life every year during the holiday season, and it quickly became an annual tradition to families who were unaware of the lies that the movie attempted to spread.
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Congratulations to Dr. Michel Dupuis of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who recently accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. As a member of this international board, Dupuis will consult with the board on questions about the journal's policy and future while continuing to referee manuscripts submitted to the journal.
Dupuis was selected for his more than 30 years of expertise in theoretical and computational chemistry, a field of research where he develops and applies theories, methods and computer algorithms to the study of chemical problems. His research deals with the electronic structure and reactivity of molecules, clusters, and materials involved in gas phase and condensed phase chemistry, catalysis, electrochemistry, and biochemistry.
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We wouldn't argue with the assertion that festivals should really take place in warm summer sunshine, but nevertheless there's one exception to this rule: Snowbombing.
The annual Alpine knees-up, which takes place this weekend, is a decade old. And in those ten years it has developed from being a minority interest dance festival into something a lot more important.
It all began a decade ago when a handful of British boarders - sick of the Sloaney, tepid apres-ski nightlife at most European resorts - dreamt up the idea of a week where you could board or ski by day and listen to good music in clubs by night.
Now, Snowbombing has expanded to take over pretty much every venue in the pretty Tyrolian town of Mayrhofen as it offers up DJs and bands over the course of four frosty days.
Scots noiseniks Biffy Clyro headline, with Flashguns, Red Light Company and Dizzee Rascal bringing up the rear.
It's not all a fug of testosterone, though: female singers are well represented in the form of, the Noisettes, Ladyhawke, soul diva Eliza Doolittle and rising electro priestess Charli XCX.
But the festival's held on to its dance roots too, with parties hosted by the likes of Horsemeat Disco, Bugged Out! and Last.fm. Festival favourites like 2ManyDJs (last-minute replacement for an ailing Fatboy Slim), Krafty Kuts, Grandmaster Flash, High Contrast, Kissy Sell Out, Bang Gang DJs and London Elektricity! all hit the decks in locations as varied as a forest clearing and a club crafted out of ice on the top of a mountain.
DiS will be in Austria to document the goings on and risk bodily injury on the snowboarding slopes as well. A full review will follow next week if no limbs get broken.
Snowbombing takes place Wednesday to Saturday in Mayrhofen, Austria. www.snowbombing.com


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Posted on: 13 April 2010
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PHYLLIS: We went into this together and we're coming out at the end together. It's straight down the line for both of us. Remember?
It's rare for an actor to fully embody their role, to seem so genuinely real that we mistake character for reality, as the roles blend too well. Billy Wilder's 1944 noir, Double Indemnity, owes much to the dirty duo of Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, bona fide Hollywood stars bold enough to take on the immorality tale of the decade. This is the film that launched an iconic twosome, and yet they had already met on screen four years prior. Many remain in the dark about Stanwyck and MacMurray's other screen pairings, perhaps partially due to the relative unavailability of these films either on VHS or DVD.
As a prelude to our screening of Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow at 92YTribeca on Saturday, April 17th, we'll be reviewing the four films starring Stanny and Fred; in each, one, if not both, are involved in illicit acts: 1940's Remember the Night, penned by Preston Sturges and directed by Mitchell Leisen; the pair's iconic turn in Double Indemnity, adapted from the novella by James M. Cain; The Moonlighter, a 3-D Western; and There's Always Tomorrow, touching on Sirk's persistent theme of suburban angst, but from a male point of view.
In a contemporary Hollywood era where the pairing of male and female stars often resembles a marketing campaign rather than a miracle of onscreen chemistry, Stanwyck and MacMurray are a marvelous respite. They don't merely charm one another—whether on the right or wrong side of the tracks, they also captivate their audience.
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Double Indemnity | 1944 |
The Moonlighter | 1953 |
By Cullen Gallagher, Leo Goldsmith, Jenny Jediny, and Brynn White ©2010 NotComing.com
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Euro 2012, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, kicks off on Friday June 9
Poland will play Greece in the tournament's opening match in Warsaw
A number of Euro 2012's star players will be sporting extravagant tattoos
Academic Ellis Cashmore believes footballers have tattoos to blend in with their colleagues
Euro 2012 is almost upon us and Europe's finest footballers will be marked men – in more ways than one.
The tournament will decide which is the continent's top football team, but it will also showcase a tapestry of tattoos – the body art that has become the chosen mode of self-expression for any self-respecting footballer.
"I don't think footballers are too different from other members of their generation – except, of course, they have a lot more money," says Ellis Cashmore, professor of Culture, Media and Sport at England's Staffordshire University.
"They're also people who have an awful lot of time on their hands. What do they do after training in the morning? Play on their PlayStations, shop for new cars? Or stop by the tattoo parlor and wile away a few hours?" he told CNN.
Footballers are on display to the world, with a global audience of millions expected to tune in for the June 8-July 1 tournament in Poland and Ukraine.
But rather than a desire to distinguish themselves from the crowd, Cashmore believes getting a tattoo is more footballers wanting to fit in with his peers.
"The majority of tattoo-wearers decorate their bodies because is it voguish, almost a membership to the Y-generation," said the academic, who is conducting research into how people view the future of Britain.
"It's less a desire to stand out, more an eagerness to blend in. As I said before, it functions as a permanent bodily membership card."
Cashmore says there is no one type of person who is more likely to get a tattoo than another, because different people have varying reasons for deciding to get ink done.
"There's no single impulse," he said. "I have a friend who approaches tattoos like a collector: one he had carved in LA, one from Tokyo, Stockholm and other points on the world map.
"Others commemorate the birth of children, weddings or other notable days. Or their affiliation: my gym is in West Bromwich and West Bromwich Albion tattoos are abundant.
"At my gym, there is hardly anyone under the age of 45 – and a few older – without some tribal marks on their arms."
Cashmore thinks the apparent rise in people getting tattoos is closely linked to the importance that modern society places on the body and personal grooming.
"We care and tend for our bodies now in a way that would have been regarded as obsessive as recently as 15 years ago," he said.
"Think about the rising number of cosmetic surgery procedures in the UK, the money we spend on grooming products (especially male), the time we spend in the hairdressers, at the gym, tanning salons.
"We depilate (the removal of hair), oil, and pierce our bodies – not for any specific function, but just because we are narcissists."


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ARIES (March 21-April 19): What I wish for you this week is that you won't be satisfied with mediocre truths; that you'll be a fussy perfectionist focused on cutting out waste, fraud and delusion; that you'll be itchy to know more about the unacknowledged games that are being played. Frustration, I hope, will be your holy fuel. Unsweetened lemonade, I trust, will be your rejuvenating drink. These are blessings, Aries, not curses! I pray that you'll pick one of your scabs until it bleeds so the healing process can start over—the right way this time. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What have you always wanted to yell from the pinnacle of the hill in the distance? This is the week to go there and yell it. What is that safe way of getting high that you've always wanted to try but never had the time for before? This is the week to try it. What is the alluring phenomenon that is always going on just outside the reach of your ordinary awareness—the seductive pull you have always somehow resisted? This is the time to dive in and explore it. (Thanks to John Averill for his inspiration in composing this horoscope. His tweets are at twitter.com/wiremesa.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you'd be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It's time to question the story you have been telling yourself about how your paradise got lost. Evidence you discover in the coming days just might suggest that everything you've believed is at least half-wrong—that your origins are different from what you imagine. And as for the forbidden fruit that supposedly led you astray: You may realize that it was actually a precious medicine. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The coming week will be prime time to perform minor miracles without trying too hard. You'll probably have maximum success if you refrain from hoping and worrying about achieving maximum success. The cosmic currents will be likely to bend and shape themselves to accommodate your deeper needs if you proceed on the assumption that they know, better than your little ego does, what's best for you. To get yourself in the proper frame of mind to do challenging tasks without expending strenuous effort, you might want to check out this photo spread of people practicing drunk yoga. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you familiar with the phenomenon known as a fire whirl? It happens on rare occasions when a fire produces a tornado-like vortex that rises up vertically, spinning madly. It's beautiful to behold but is not something you ever want to be close to. I bring this to your attention in the hope that you will not let yourself turn into the human equivalent of a fire whirl in the coming week. You're not yet close to being one, but there are signs you're headed that way. With just a modicum of adjustment, you can ensure that you'll be more like a blaze in a fireplace or a wild but controlled bonfire on a beach—not a fire whirl. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I was listening to a sports talk show on the radio. The host had recently discovered Twitter, and was pleased with how many fans he had already accumulated. But he was not at all happy with the words "Twitter" or "tweet." Too effeminate, he said. Not macho enough for a he-man like himself to use comfortably. In fact, he promised that he would never again refer to his Twitter messages as "tweets," but would hereafter call them "spurts." Instead of "Twitter," he would say "Twister." I encourage you to draw inspiration from his example, Virgo. You're in an astrological phase when you can and should reconfigure anything that doesn't suit your needs or accommodate your spirit, whether it's the language you use, the environments you hang out in or the processes you're working on. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Years ago, a TV sitcom called "The Andy Griffith Show" ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Andy Griffith, played a mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which he thrashed and pummeled his co-star. When he asked his psychiatrist about the meaning of this dream violence, the shrink speculated that he was trying to kill off his old image. I recommend that exact strategy to you now, Libra. Don't actually wreak any real-life mayhem. Rather, see if you can have a dream or two in which you destroy a symbol of the life you're ready to leave behind. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What life will you be living at noon on Sept. 1, 2014? Who will you be? How thoroughly will your dreams have come true? What kind of beauty and truth and love and justice will you be serving? Will you look back at the time between Aug. 27 and Sept. 21, 2009, and sigh, "If only I had initiated my Five Year Master Plan at that ripe astrological moment"? Or on Sept. 1, 2014, will you instead be able to crow, "I can truly say that in these past five years I have become the president of my own life"? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If at some future time you sell your life story to a filmmaker who makes it into a feature film, it may have a lot to do with adventures that kick into high gear in the coming weeks. The fun will start (I hope) when you decide not to merely lie back and be victimized by your signature pain any longer. This brave act will recalibrate the cosmic scales and shift the currents of destiny that flow through you. Soon you will be making progress in untangling a mystery that has eluded your insight for a long time. You will be able to uncover the guarded secrets of a source that has for some time been tweaking your personal power without your full awareness. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his book From Heaven to Earth: Spiritual Living in a Market-Oriented World, Aaron Zerah riffs on the Hebrew word nabal. It describes someone who's so staunchly concentrated on practical concerns that he becomes impractical. Please don't let this be your fate anytime soon, Capricorn. For the ultimate benefit of the bottom line, disregard the bottom line for a while. Fantasize like a teenage poet. Be as whimsical as a mystic clown. Be a sweet, fun-loving fool so you won't turn into a sour, workaholic fool. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A woman living in China's Jilin province got married in a wedding gown with a train that was 1.4 miles long. Lin Rong's dress was decorated with 9,999 red silk roses and took three months to sew. In the spirit of her record-breaking ritual, Aquarius I encourage you to be extravagant and imaginative as you celebrate a great union in the coming weeks. You have an astrological mandate to think big as you carry out a rite of passage that will lead to an upgrade in the role that collaboration and symbiosis play in your life. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Close your eyes and imagine you're in a meadow as rain falls. Inhale the aroma of the earth as the ground is soaked. Dwell in the midst of that scent for a while, allowing it to permeate your organs and nerves. Feel its life-giving energy circulating through you. Give yourself to the memories it evokes. In my astrological opinion, experiences like this are what you need most in the coming week. Can you think of some others that would speak directly to your animal intelligence? It's a perfect time to please and excite the part of you that is a soft, warm creature.


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As Homer heads into the 2013 tourist season, it appears visitors are reacting positively to an improving economy; local charters and lodging concerns are reporting increased and earlier bookings; and many are saying it could be the best summer in several years.
Meanwhile, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Commu-nity and Economic Development's tourism marketing program has been conducting a $5.7 million national TV ad blitz and investing heavily in magazine and online pitches.
The recession from which the national economy is slowly recovering altered the buying habits of travelers. Where previously visitors made Alaska plans in December, January and February, in recent years they've waited until early spring. But that appears to be changing, said Monte Davis, executive director of the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center.
"People with whom I've spoken say reservations are way up over last year," Davis said. "Will it be a record-setter? I don't know, but I think it could be a really good tourist season," he said.
That optimism is apparent among some in the lodging business.
Julie Parizek, owner of Crane's Rest B&B, a member of the Homer Bed & Breakfast Association, confirmed the increase in earlier booking, saying that the season was "starting out more robust than any year since 2009."
Don Cotogna, owner of Timber Bay B&B, is treasurer of the local association, the Alaska State Bed & Breakfast Association and the Homer Chamber of Commerce. He also owns a catering business.
"Things are looking good," he said. "Reservations are at least where they were this time last year, if not a bit more. And that's statewide, also."
Mike Dye, CEO of Land's End Acquisition Corp., also sees promise in the upcoming season.
"It's still a bit early to predict with certainty," he said, "but demand appears to be well-rounded with out-of-state travelers, groups and businesses (conventions, meetings, etc.). That's an indication of improvement in the economy."
It's the same in town. Adrienne Sweeney, owner, along with husband Alex, of EMS Investments, which operates the Driftwood Inn and A.J.'s Steakhouse, among other things, said bookings are up by at least 10 percent over this time last season and folks are booking earlier as well.
"We're completely booked for Memorial Day weekend, and we're booking up fast for Fourth of July, too," she said. "Last year, people were waiting for the last minute." She added that bookings were also up at their Driftwood Charters.
Kathy Rider, manager at Central Charters and Tours on the Homer Spit, agreed, saying, "It looks like it is going to be a good summer." The company's relatively new lodging operation is expecting its best summer yet, she added.
Greg Sutter, owner of Captain Greg's Charters, said his May bookings were a bit down, but he attributes that to the weather. "Some guys are complaining about June (bookings), but I think the summer is going to be good; maybe not a banner year, but good," he said.
Not all Homer's annual visitors target the Lower Peninsula. They aim instead for the Kenai/Soldotna area and a chance at Kenai River salmon. But many take in Homer as a side trip. In that way, Homer-area businesses benefit when fish are plentiful in the Kenai; when they aren't, it can "hurt us," Davis said.
Expecting a poor Kenai king run, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game earlier this month issued restrictions. How that might affect overall visitor numbers here is not clear, but other indicators, including increased airline bookings and "through the roof" recreational vehicle reservations around the state, continue to favor an optimistic outlook for Homer, Davis said.
The average visitor to Homer spends $102 a day, Davis noted citing state figures. Roughly 10,000 stopped at the Chamber's headquarters last year. If that many could be persuaded to spend one extra day in Homer, they'd pump an additional $1 million into the local economy over the course of a season.
One of the biggest draws is the Homer Spit Fishing Lagoon, which has been less productive lately, primarily for lack of dredging. City Manager Walt Wrede noted the city's commitment to the popular tourist land mark, which this year was dredged to its original depth thanks to city, state and grant funding. That should favor the survival of more stocked smolt and increase, over time, the number of returning salmon for eager anglers.
As for the tourist season in general, Wrede said that while he couldn't point to empirical data, what he's hearing anecdotally from members of the city council, private businesses, and the Chamber has him increasingly optimistic that the coming season will be bright.
Cruise Ship Head Tax funds from the state will help pay for continuation of a trail around the exterior of the harbor, and other money will complete the Spit Trail to Land's End and pave the city parking lot there. A spur trail to Coal Point Park will allow visitors to view activities at the busy Fish Dock in safety. Deepwater Dock improvements (where tour ships dock) will include sweeping equipment to remove the daily deluge of seagull poop, and a covered staging area and restroom where tourists can await buses. Four new bathrooms are planned, two downtown and two on the Spit, Wrede said.
More broadly, an Alaska's Division of Economic Development study of tourism's impact released in February covering the May 2011-April 2012 period shows improvement over a 2010 study. For instance, Alaska's visitor industry saw 37,800 full- and part-time jobs during the study period (up 1,600 jobs from the previous period), resulting in total labor income of $1.24 billion (up $100 million). Meanwhile, the industry generated $3.72 billion in spending, an increase of more than $310 million. Half that industry-related employment and 53 percent of that spending occurred in Southcentral Alaska, the study said.
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For all you other marine (and aquatic) tetrapod paleontologists (and biologists and anatomists) out there, the deadline for abstract submission for the 6th Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water has been extended to May 1st.
That means that any of you who were hesitant about submitting something because you didn't have time because your master's level comprehensive exams were scheduled for the same day as the abstract deadline (and you totally kicked comps in the ass like a boss, and got your abstract on marine vertebrate taphonomy submitted anyway) can go ahead and take a couple more weeks to think about what you're going to submit.
Seriously, it should be a totally awesome meeting; aside from having events at a totally awesome institution like the San Diego Natural History museum and being organized by a couple of really great paleontologists (Annalisa Berta, Tom Demere, and their postdoc Eric Ekdale), it's in San Diego.
San Diego. In June. San Diego in June.
It's like going to Mexico for spring break, except there's marine mammal fossils, other paleontologists, the San Diego Zoo, and you don't have to worry about getting beheaded by drug cartel members and someone finding your head in a cooler on the side of the road (although if you decide to take a side-trip to Tijuana that could be a possibility).
I strongly urge all marine tetrapod folks to seriously think about submitting something; there are still plenty of slots open for oral and poster presentations, and the email that Eric sent out indicates that you can submit abstracts for an oral and poster presentation.
If you have projects concerning any of the following, SUBMIT SOMETHING!
-Cetaceans & other aquatic cetartiodactyls
-Other semiaquatic basal tethytheres
-Polar bears
-semiaquatic rodents
-aquatic sloths
-Functional morphology of any of these critters
-Plesiosaurs & 'Pliosaurs'
-Other whacky sauropterygians
-Mosasauroids and other 'pythonomorphs'
-marine crocodylians
-Marine iguanas
-Auks and Puffins! (Alcidae)
-Flightless cormorants (and other diving birds)
-all sorts of nonmarine aquatic birds I've forgotten
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Brussels, Belgium — Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values.
"You saw what happened with the pope," said Patrick Gonman, 43, the owner of Raga, a funky wine bar in downtown Antwerp, 25 miles from here. "He said Islam is an aggressive religion. And the next day they kill a nun somewhere and make his point.
"Rationality is gone."
Mr. Gonman is hardly an extremist. In fact, he organized a protest last week in which 20 bars and restaurants closed on the night when a far-right party with an anti-Muslim message held a rally nearby.
His worry is shared by centrists across Europe angry at terror attacks in the name of religion on a continent that has largely abandoned it, and disturbed that any criticism of Islam or Muslim immigration provokes threats of violence.
For years those who raised their voices were mostly on the far right. Now those normally seen as moderates — ordinary people as well as politicians — are asking whether once unquestioned values of tolerance and multiculturalism should have limits.
Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain, a prominent Labor politician, seemed to sum up the moment when he wrote last week that he felt uncomfortable addressing women whose faces were covered with a veil. The veil, he wrote, is a "visible statement of separation and difference."
When Pope Benedict XVI made the speech last month that included a quotation calling aspects of Islam "evil and inhuman," it seemed to unleash such feelings. Muslims berated him for stigmatizing their culture, while non-Muslims applauded him for bravely speaking a hard truth.
The line between open criticism of another group or religion and bigotry can be a thin one, and many Muslims worry that it is being crossed more and more.
Whatever the motivations, "the reality is that views on both sides are becoming more extreme," said Imam Wahid Pedersen, a prominent Dane who is a convert to Islam. "It has become politically correct to attack Islam, and this is making it hard for moderates on both sides to remain reasonable." Mr. Pedersen fears that onetime moderates are baiting Muslims, the very people they say should integrate into Europe.
The worries about extremism are real. The Belgian far-right party, Vlaams Belang, took 20.5 percent of the vote in city elections last Sunday, five percentage points higher than in 2000. In Antwerp, its base, though, its performance improved barely, suggesting to some experts that its power might be peaking.
In Austria this month, right-wing parties also polled well, on a campaign promise that had rarely been made openly: that Austria should start to deport its immigrants. Vlaams Belang, too, has suggested "repatriation" for immigrants who do not made greater efforts to integrate.
The idea is unthinkable to mainstream leaders, but many Muslims still fear that the day — or at least a debate on the topic — may be a terror attack away.
"I think the time will come," said Amir Shafe, 34, a Pakistani who earns a good living selling clothes at a market in Antwerp. He deplores terrorism and said he himself did not sense hostility in Belgium. But he said, "We are now thinking of going back to our country, before that time comes."
Many experts note that there is a deep and troubled history between Islam and Europe, with the Crusaders and the Ottoman Empire jostling each other for centuries and bloodily defining the boundaries of Christianity and Islam. A sense of guilt over Europe's colonial past and then World War II, when intolerance exploded into mass murder, allowed a large migration to occur without any uncomfortable debates over the real differences between migrant and host.
Then the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jolted Europe into new awareness and worry.
The subsequent bombings in Madrid and London, and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Dutch-born Moroccan stand as examples of the extreme. But many Europeans — even those who generally support immigration — have begun talking more bluntly about cultural differences, specifically about Muslims' deep religious beliefs and social values, which are far more conservative than those of most Europeans on issues like women's rights and homosexuality.
"A lot of people, progressive ones — we are not talking about nationalists or the extreme right — are saying, 'Now we have this religion, it plays a role and it challenges our assumptions about what we learned in the 60's and 70's,' " said Joost Lagendik, a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Green Left Party, who is active on Muslim issues.
"So there is this fear," he said, "that we are being transported back in a time machine where we have to explain to our immigrants that there is equality between men and women, and gays should be treated properly. Now there is the idea we have to do it again."
Now Europeans are discussing the limits of tolerance, the right with increasing stridency and the left with trepidation.
Austrians in their recent election complained about public schools in Vienna being nearly full with Muslim students and blamed the successive governments that allowed it to happen.
Some Dutch Muslims have expressed support for insurgents in Iraq over Dutch peacekeepers there, on the theory that their prime loyalty is to a Muslim country under invasion.
So strong is the fear that Dutch values of tolerance are under siege that the government last winter introduced a primer on those values for prospective newcomers to Dutch life: a DVD briefly showing topless women and two men kissing. The film does not explicitly mention Muslims, but its target audience is as clear as its message: embrace our culture or leave.
Perhaps most wrenching has been the issue of free speech and expression, and the growing fear that any criticism of Islam could provoke violence.
In France last month, a high school teacher went into hiding after receiving death threats for writing an article calling the Prophet Muhammad "a merciless warlord, a looter, a mass murderer of Jews and a polygamist." In Germany a Mozart opera with a scene of Muhammad's severed head was canceled because of security fears.
With each incident, mainstream leaders are speaking more plainly. "Self-censorship does not help us against people who want to practice violence in the name of Islam," Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said in criticizing the opera's cancellation. "It makes no sense to retreat."
The backlash is revealing itself in other ways. Last month the British home secretary, John Reid, called on Muslim parents to keep a close watch on their children. "There's no nice way of saying this," he told a Muslim group in East London. "These fanatics are looking to groom and brainwash children, including your children, for suicide bombing, grooming them to kill themselves to murder others."
Many Muslims say this new mood is suddenly imposing expectations that never existed before that Muslims be exactly like their European hosts.
Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Lebanese-born activist here in Belgium, said that for years Europeans had emphasized "citizenship and human rights," the notion that Muslim immigrants had the responsibility to obey the law but could otherwise live with their traditions.
"Then someone comes and says it's different than that," said Mr. Jahjah, who opposes assimilation. "You have to dump your culture and religion. It's a different deal now."
Lianne Duinberke, 34, who works at a market in the racially mixed northern section of Antwerp, said: "Before I was very eager to tell people I was married to a Muslim. Now I hesitate." She has been with her husband, a Tunisian, for 12 years, and they have three children.
Many Europeans, she said, have not been accepting of Muslims, especially since 9/11. On the other hand, she said, Muslims truly are different culturally: No amount of explanation about free speech could convince her husband that the publication of cartoons lampooning Muhammad in a Danish newspaper was in any way justified.
When asked if she was optimistic or pessimistic about the future of Muslim immigration in Europe , she found it hard to answer. She finally gave a defeated smile. "I am trying to be optimistic," she said. "But if you see the global problems before the people, then you really can't be."


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"I Caught Him In Bed with Another Woman!"
I have been with my boyfriend for three years, and honestly can't picture my life without him. Last week, though, I came home and found him in our bed, passed out with a naked woman. I had been staying at my place while my mother was in town. He knew I was coming home early that morning. That was the day we were planning on leaving to go on a 7-day cruise together.
Let me start by saying he's not an idiot, because only an idiot or an uncaring dolt would have a girl spend the night when he knows his live-in girlfriend is coming home. He got intoxicated the night before, and I believe he is truly remorseful. But, I can't help but wonder….why? Drunkeness is no excuse. He can't remember the evening, so I made him call the woman to find out what happened. (Some back story: he met her at the gym and says she told him she was interested in him and he told her about me. He says they talked briefly every few nights over the phone.) He refused to call her in front of me, and called her when I wasn't around to find out what happened. He told me they had sex on the sofa and in our bed without a condom, but also said he couldn't finish, and passed out because he was so drunk. He has a drinking problem. Now, he swears he won't touch alcohol unless I'm around, he's moving to my house because I can't stand to be in his, and he's re-decorating his home.
I want to contact the woman, but I don't want to betray his trust, because I know he wouldn't want me to. I also know she likes him, and I probably can't trust what she says either. I know there are three versions to every story: his version, her version, and then the truth. But, in my case….I don't know that I'll ever get the truth, and I want it to move on. He swears he feels nothing for her and that he's the biggest idiot in the world. (I'm not arguing with that fact).
Where do I go from here? I want a life with him, but I don't want to hurt myself. I love him, I want to believe him, but I'm scared. — Cheated
Um. Okay. So … wow, where to start? First of all, your boyfriend's an idiot. I feel the need to point that out because you seem confused about whether he is or isn't (in the second paragraph you say he isn't, but in the next paragraph you admit that he is). You also seem confused about whether you live with the guy or not. You call yourself his live-in girlfriend but then you also mention that your boyfriend is moving to "your place" and that he's redecorating "his" home. But, really, none of this matters. What matters is that your boyfriend cheated on you (without a condom!), made up some cockamamie story about "not remembering" the details, blamed it on being drunk, promised never to touch alcohol unless "you're around," and you're actually going to let him move in with you after all that?! Darlin', if that's really the case, your boyfriend may not be the only idiot we're dealing with her.
Furthermore, what good would contacting the other woman do? Your boyfriend already told you that after talking with her on the phone for several days, he had sex with her (again, without a condom!) on his sofa and his bed, so what version of the truth could she share that would enlighten you further? What, exactly, do you suppose she could say that would make you any more or less willing to forgive your boyfriend and move on? I mean, if the version of the truth he shared isn't enough to make you dump his ass, what version of the truth would be? Would she have to tell you that he threw himself at her? Would she have to tell you this wasn't the first time they hooked up? Would you even believe her if she did?
Look, you caught them red-handed. You saw her in his bed naked. And you're still willing to let him move in with you?! You're willing to excuse his behavior because he said he was drunk (was he drunk when he exchanged numbers with her at the gym?)? You say you want to "believe him." But, believe what? That he doesn't remember what happened? That he doesn't have feelings for this woman? Is that seriously going to make it OK that he cheated on you with some gymbo all over his apartment? Come on! Have more self-respect than that. Give this guy the boot. Kick him to the curb. Tell him adios. If you don't want to get hurt further, it's really your only choice.
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Nintendo's latest console, the Switch, has been received quite favorably by us and others (having one of the best games ever on it helped) — but one recurring complaint concerned the Joy-Con L, or left controller, as everyone else calls it. Interruptions in the wireless signal were rare for me but more common for others, and Nintendo has finally acknowledged the problem as a hardware issue.
"A manufacturing variation has resulted in wireless interference with a small number of the left Joy-Con," read a statement issued by Nintendo of America. The problem has been "corrected at the factory level," so Switches going forward shouldn't have the issue.
In the meantime, if you're having trouble, you should be able to send your controller in to be fixed; it shouldn't take more than a week. You can call the number you see here (under physical damage) for help, or try going through the troubleshooting process here, at which point you should be provided with repair options.
Hardware launches are nearly always difficult, and some companies (looking at you, Samsung) have trouble taking responsibility for problems, so props to Nintendo for being relatively upfront about this.
Here's Nintendo's statement in full:
There is no design issue with the Joy-Con controllers, and no widespread proactive repair or replacement effort is underway. A manufacturing variation has resulted in wireless interference with a small number of the left Joy-Con. Moving forward this will not be an issue, as the manufacturing variation has been addressed and corrected at the factory level.
We have determined a simple fix can be made to any affected Joy-Con to improve connectivity.
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Jamaica Jamaica!
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Riddim Shack 5
- No Sleeping!
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Cutting and Running in the Zouglou Nation
- Zouglou, coupé-décalé and DJ culture in Côte d'Ivoire
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- Rave o'clock in Dominica
Fade 2 presents Riddim Shack! - The Reload
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Interzone Dub
- New album, now available on the Black Redemption label
Riddim Click!
- 90s / 00s dancehall versions
Groupe al-Redha
- Shocking out in Tangier's suburbs
Blue Bar Hotel
- A mix of funk, disco, highlife, soukous and suchlike
Everyday Hustle: Sat. 22 Dec. 2012
- Self-promotion
Gwoka Nation: Jocelyn Gabali and the Music of Guadeloupe
- Struggle, commercialization and why gwoka isn't a tradition
FADE 2 presents RIDDIM SHACK
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Mixes Part 1: Dub
- 70s roots, digi, UK steppas, dubstep and beyond
Ras Kush: Sound of Brooklyn
- Black Redemption and the New York sound system scene
Ten years of reggae and dub
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- a short mix from the Antilles and Africa
Wall of Sound
- Berlin Wall sound map
African Dancehall and Hip Hop Minimix
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Sofrito and the Antilles
- a musical voyage round the French Caribbean
1315 Broadway, 1988
- a first encounter with The Music Institute and Detroit techno
Empty Barrels Make The Most Noise
- soundboy killing with Stone Love
Gnawa: Music and the Black Diaspora in Morocco
- notes on the gnawa confraternity in Morocco, their history and identity, from the sixteenth century to the present day
Play the Music Stand Tall Man!
- dancehall session from the Stand Tall sound system in Paris, 1993
- the Italian cult of the tarantula, and its relation to music, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Shaka in Africa
- Jah Shaka's history lesson about the repatriation movement, from 1989
Hip Hop in Nouakchott
- a snapshot of the hip hop scene in Mauritania in 2005
Rih: Folk and Blues from Morocco
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Uganda's foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa could become President of the United Nations General Assembly in June unless the world comes to its senses.
As President, Mr. Kutesa would preside over important meetings including the General Assembly, when you and President Obama attend in the Fall.
As you are aware his boss and partner Gen. Yoweri Museveni has now presided over a repressive and brutal dictatorship in Uganda for 28 years.
Gen. Museveni's domestic repression in Uganda and multiple invasions of neighboring countries such as Rwanda, DR Congo, and South Sudan have caused the deaths of millions of innocent African civilians.
Congo has been turned into the "rape" capital of the world by the marauding militias he's trained and financed including M23.
Most recently Gen. Museveni on Feb. 24, 2014 defied the international community by signing a law that incites violence against Uganda's sexual minorities, the LGBT community, purely for political purposes as he's desperate to retain power in the 2016 elections.
Gen. Museveni knows rural voters who form the majority are conservative and not educated on issues of LGBT people — by demonizing them Gen. Museveni hopes to translate fears into votes. In the process he does not care about the consequences on the safety and lives of LGBT community and referred to them as "disgusting" in a CNN interview.
What's more Gen. Museveni's family and his ministers have embezzled so much public funds including monies designated for development assistance through the years that in 2012 the U.K. cut off all foreign aid.
Mr. Sam Kutesa, as foreign affairs minister, has been Gen. Museveni's top advisor and spokesperson. He is part and parcel of all these transgressions including the invasion of neighboring countries which is a violation of the United Nation's cardinal rule — the respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity. In 2005 the International Court of Justice found Uganda liable for what amounts to war crimes in Congo (massacres and plunder) as a result of the invasions and occupation of Congo. Uganda was ordered to pay $10 billion in reparations.
The Court found that "Uganda violated the principles of non-use of force in international relations and of non-intervention; that it violated its obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law; and that it violated other obligations owed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Mr. Kutesa is also reputed to be one of Uganda's most corrupt officials. His name was mentioned in a cable to the U.S. Department of State by former U.S. ambassador to Uganda Jerry Lanier in which he discussed officials who were alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes from foreign oil companies. The cables were published on Wikileaks.
Mr. Secretary, Mr. Kutesa could become the President of the UN General Assembly in a few weeks unless the international community stops this travesty. This would be a mockery of all the ideals that the UN is supposed to stand for.
Mr. Secretary the U.S. recently denied a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, Iran's designated Permanent Representative to the U.N., when it was discovered that he was one of the students who seized hostages at the American embassy in 1979.
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The British government has announced that the Cornish are joining the Irish, Scots, and Welsh as official members of the United Kingdom's Celtic minorities.
This decision comes after a long campaign by Cornish people wishing to protect their distinct language and culture and have it formally recognized. As a national minority group, under a European convention, this means that the Cornish people have the same rights of protection as their Celtic cousins.
Cornwall, the most southwesterly part of the United Kingdom, has been part of England for a millennium, but now, after 15 years of campaigning, the Cornish are officially recognized as a distinct minority.
Campaigners submitted two reports to Westminster and lobbied to achieve their goal. Dick Cole, leader of the Cornish nationalist party Mebyon Kernow, which campaigns for a separate national assembly, told the Independent, "We are absolutely elated. The fact that Cornish culture, language and identity is now formally a national minority on a par with the Welsh, Scots and Irish is fantastic. We shall savor the moment."
The 2011 Census found that 84,000 people declared themselves as Cornish and in a 2011 survey 41 percent of school pupils in the area identified themselves as Cornish.
In 2010 the Cornish language was classified as extinct by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. However, the language is now enjoying a robust revival. In March 2014, Nick Clegg the deputy Prime Minister of Britain pledge to invest $200,000 (£120,000) into the Cornish Language Partnership (MAGA) to promote and develop the language.
Mebyon Kernow is campaigning for Cornish self-government within the United Kingdom.
Cole told the Plymouth Herald, "We are going to continue our campaign for a Cornish assembly and I am sure we'll get local support."
Communities Minister Stephen Williams added, "The Cornish and Welsh are the oldest peoples on this island and as a proud Welshman I look forward to seeing Saint Piran's flag flying with extra Celtic pride on March 5 next year."
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COVER REVEAL: THE WANTED by Lauren Nicolle Taylor What would you be willing to sacrifice to get what you Wanted? Itâs the question facing both Rosa and Joseph as they are pushed and pulled in unimaginable directions. Itâs the question Superior Grant answered with a resounding, âAnything and everything.â The only thing they want is to be back in each otherâs arms. But what will it cost them to get there? Separated after a failed mission, they are caught in dual hells. Joseph, sinking as he struggles to face what he did to escape and who he had to leave behind. Rosa, straddling the divide between fighting the evil, calculating Superior Grant and trying her best to stay alive. When what they Wanted seems unreachable, can they find the strengthâthe willâto keep trying? To keep fighting? And find their way back to each other and to Orry? The Wanted is the stunning conclusion of The Woodlands Series. The Woodlands Series by Lauren Nicolle Taylor (Young Adult Mature- Dystopian Romance) Published by: Clean Teen Publishing When being unique puts you in danger and speaking your mind can be punishable by death, you might find yourself fighting to survive. Rosa lives in The Woodlands, one of eight enclosed cities where the lone survivors of a devastating war have been gathered. In these circular cities everyone must abide by the law or face harsh punishment. Rosa's inability to conform and obey the rules brands her a leper and no one wants to be within two feet of her, until she meets Joseph. He's blonde, fair skinned, blue eyed and the laid back, ever-grinning, complete opposite of Rosa. She's never met anyone quite like him, and she knows that spells danger. But differences weren't always a bad thing. People used to think being unique was one of the most treasured of traits to have. That was before the bitter race war decimated most of the planet, leaving the Russian wilderness as the only scrap of land habitable for survivors. Now, the Superiors, who ruthlessly control the concrete cities with an iron fist, are obsessed with creating a 'raceless' race. They are convinced this is the only way to avoid another war. Any anomalies must be destroyed. The Superiors are unstoppable and can do anything they want, after all, they are considered super heroes by the general public. But not everyone see's them this way. When they continue to abuse their power by collecting young girls for use in their secret, high-tech breeding program, they have no idea that one of those girls has somehow managed to make friends even she didn't know she had. And one man will stop at nothing to save her. She says it over and over. Itâs her plea, her prayer, her mantra. But life doesnât stop while heâs sleeping. Rosaâs been thrown into a new world, with new rules, and a philosophy that sounds too good to be true. Sheâs also sure they didnât rescue her out of the goodness of their hearts. The Survivors must want something from them⦠but what? The Wall finds Rosa eagerly entering a new life, yet struggling to keep the demons and ghosts of the past from dragging her backwards. Sheâs left so many people behind and isnât sure how to start over. Thereâs freedom in the Survivorsâ world, more than sheâd ever dreamed of, but thereâs also secrets. The darkest of which pulls Rosa headfirst into a trauma, forcing her to reevaluate her past and pushing her to make a choice that may destroy the tenuous, sewn-together family sheâs built on the outside. Will Rosa make the right choice⦠or will she lose everything she has fought so hard for? You think youâre in control, that you have your hands on the reins. But Iâm starting to think either someone else is driving or the reins are attached to nothing. Just flapping and snapping in the breeze. What could be simple, never is. Rosa doesnât want to get used to being separated from Joseph, from Orry. But now she must battle her way back to her family, her future, at the same time struggling to come to terms with her fatherâs past, his secrets and what he means to her now. With her best friend Rash by her side she feels blessed and cursed. He is her saving grace but will Joseph accept him, and will he forgive her for leaving? More importantly will she manage to return to him? Rosa must pull these threads together. Hold herself in as she hacks her way back to The Wall with the aid of new companions but not the one person sheâd planned on saving. Finding her way back is only the beginning. The biggest changes, the shocking outcomes are waiting. Hovering over the town like a menacing vapour. The Wounded have waited, nursed, and been dormant for too long and now theyâre coming, dragging the ghosts of their lost ones behind them. About Lauren Nicolle Taylor Lauren Nicolle Taylor is a 33-year-old mother living in the tiny, lush town of Bridgewater on the other side of the world in Australia. She married her high school sweetheart and has three very boisterous and individual children. She earned a Bachelors degree in Health Sciences with Honours in Obstetrics and Gynecology and majored in Psychology while minoring in Contemporary Australian Writing. After a disastrous attempt to build her dream house that left her family homeless, She found herself inexplicably drawn to the computer. She started writing, not really knowing where it may lead but ended up, eight weeks later, with the rough draft of The Woodlands. In 2013, Lauren Nicolle Taylor accepted a publishing contract with Clean Teen Publishing. Her first published novel, The Woodlands, was released on August 30, 2013 and followed shortly by The Wall and The Wounded. The Wantedâthe stunning conclusion to the seriesâ is scheduled for release in October of 2014. More from Clean Teen Publishing:12/16/2022 06:30:47 am
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