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Cypriot MPs are due to vote today on a raft of new measures they hope will qualify the country for a bailout package and avoid financial ruin next week. But officials in Brussels and Berlin gave no indication it would be enough.
Cyprus needs to find a way to raise the €5.8bn to qualify for €10bn in rescue loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
The plan needs approval from eurozone and IMF and that remained elusive. Eurozone officials said they had not seen all the details and would have to discuss whatever final plan Cyprus presents.
"The next few hours will determine the future of this country," said government spokesman Christos Stylianides.
Cyprus has had to come up with the new plan after lawmakers rejected a scheme that would have seized up to 10% of people's bank deposits.
The country needs to have the plan in place by Monday, when the European Central Bank has said it will cut off emergency support to the banks. That could trigger their collapse and devastate the economy, potentially pushing the country to leave the 17-country euro currency union.
"We are trying very hard," Averof Neophytou, deputy leader of the ruling Democratic Rally party, told reporters on the progress of talks. "We may have a result this day."
As part of the package being discussed Friday, lawmakers were considering restructuring the country's second largest lender, Laiki, which suffered big losses on Greek debt investments.
A large part of deposits in Laiki above the €100,000 that are insured could be confiscated. A banking official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the talks were ongoing, said seizures of 25-30 % were being discussed.
Banking officials estimate the restructuring will account for €3.6bn of the €5.8bn the country needs to raise.
Laiki bank's acting CEO, Takis Phidias, condemned the plan. "I'm certain that there will be chaos after these bills are approved."
Mr Phidias said the initial plan to seize deposits across all Cypriot accounts "would have more evenly shared the burden and certainly, it would have safeguarded both large banks. I'd like to believe that there's still time to carry out this negotiation."
A government official indicated that a tax on deposits in other banks was also still on the table.
The Bank of Cyprus, the country's largest lender, said it backed the idea of confiscating some percentage of all bank deposits over €100,000 because there were no immediate alternatives.
The bank warned Cypriots that "a potential collapse of the banking sector could lead to the total loss of all deposits above €100,000 and the immediate sale of all collateral accompanying non-performing loans."
Meanwhile, Cypriot efforts to clinch a contribution from Russia appeared to have failed for now. Russia is a key player in the crisis as Russian depositors have parked around €20bn in the country.
"We will only be ready to discuss various ways of support for that state only after the EU nations and Cyprus work out a final settlement," Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev told a news conference.
Russia's finance minister, Anton Siluanov, said the Cypriots were seeking investment from Russian companies in a Cypriot state-owned firm that will manage revenue from the island's newfound offshore gas. The Russian investors, however, were not interested.
Cyprus also offered stakes in some of its banks, but there were no takers in Moscow for that, either. Mr Siluanov also said they were not discussing providing a new loan to Cyprus as the EU has set a debt limit for Cyprus.
Back in Nicosia, worried Laiki employees gathered near parliament for a second day to protest at the bank's restructuring, which would break the lender in two. One side would take on the soured investments to allow the stronger side to survive.
"The bank is finished, we'll lose our jobs and I'm worried about my kids," Laiki employee Nikos Tsiangos said, standing behind barricades and a cordon of police that have blocked the way to Parliament. "They've brought us to the brink, the Europeans wanted to destroy our economy and they've done it."
The bills MPs were considering also included setting up an "Investment Solidarity Fund" to receive donations from the church and to pool revenue from other measures. They were also due to vote on restricting banking transactions in times of crisis.
A vote on the laws had been scheduled for this morning, but was pushed back as negotiations continued.
Separately, President Nicos Anastasiades announced there had been agreement for Greek subsidiaries of Cypriot banks to be sold, "with significant benefit for the Cypriot side," a statement from Anastasiades' office said.
Europe also turned up the pressure on Cyprus. Luxembourg's finance Minister Luc Frieden told Germany's Inforadio that Cyprus "certainly must change a very great deal in its financial sector ..... I see among some euro states little financial room for more concessions to Cyprus."


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West Indies, Bolt propel Caribbean into global spotlight
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — West Indies rescaled the pinnacle of world cricket for the first time in eight years while sprint superstar Usain Bolt laid claim to legend status by once again attaining the dizzying heights of global stardom, to headline a remarkable year in Caribbean sport in 2012.
The mercurial regional side captured the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka when they beat the hosts in a pulsating final, registering their first world title since they dramatically won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy in England, and adding to the back-to-back 50-over World Cup triumphs of the 1970s.
For a side that had lurched from one defeat to another in a turbulent period, the victory was a welcome boost for Caribbean cricket and a much needed lift for devoted, but success-starved fans.
Bolt, meanwhile, dominated the London Olympics, winning both the 100 and 200 metres to become the first ever athlete to successfully defend the titles at an Olympics.
The 26-year-old Jamaican entered the Games with his title defence shrouded in doubt following defeats at the National Championships in Kingston to training partner Yohan Blake, but delivered two spellbinding performances to write his name indelibly into the record books. His heroics earned him a second straight IAAF World Athlete-of-the-Year honour, and fourth overall.
Even prior to his meltdown at the National Championships, there had been widespread speculation over Bolt's form following lacklustre outings in the IAAF Diamond League.
So when he arrived in London in late July, for the first time since the 2008 Beijing Games, pundits were already writing off the Jamaican's chances of repeating as Olympic champion. He coasted through the preliminary rounds impressively, but saved his best for the night of August 5 when he produced yet another astonishing world-class display, storming to a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds to beat nemesis Blake into second place.
Four days later, Bolt was the toast of Olympic Stadium yet again, this time as he clinched the 200 metres in a world-leading and season-best 19.32 seconds, once more forcing Blake into second place. With the victory, the prodigious Bolt carved out yet another place in history. Previously, eight men had achieved the Olympic sprint double but none had successfully defended. He was quick to label himself a living legend, a title he said he would deserve once he was able to repeat as double sprint champion.
Even more outstanding for Jamaica was the fact the country swept the podium spots, as new boy Warren Weir, another member of Bolt's Racers Track Club, claimed bronze. Bolt was not yet finished, however. On the penultimate day of the Games, the long-striding genius covered himself in even more glory with his third gold medal, anchoring the sprint relay team of Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake to a new world record of 36.84 seconds. The performance marked the first time in history a team had ever dipped below 37 seconds.
Trinidad and Tobago's team of Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson picked up bronze behind the Americans, an effort that typified the twin-island republic's outstanding campaign in London that yielded a record four medals.
It was underscored by teenager Keshorn Walcott, who upset his more experienced field and stunned the world by winning gold in the javelin with a throw of 84.58 metres, also on the penultimate day of competition in mid-August. There was no sign of what was to come when he qualified 10th with a measurement of 81.75 metres, but once in the final, he took the lead with a special second round throw and no one could overhaul him.
With the victory, Walcott became the first athlete in 60 years from the Western Hemisphere to win gold in an Olympic javelin event and the first in 40 years to capture a medal. For Trinidad and Tobago, it was only their second ever Olympic gold medal behind the legendary Hasely Crawford, who won the 100m at the 1976 Montreal Games.
Little known Lalonde Gordon snatched bronze in the men's 400 metres and then joined the team of Jarrin Solomon, Ade Alleyne-Forte and Deon Lendore to also hand T&T bronze in the distance relay.
A distinct Caribbean flavour was left all over the 400 metres as World champion Kirani James delivered Grenada's first ever Olympic medal when he easily won the full lap. Entering the final as the strong favourite after former World and reigning Olympic champion American LaShawn Merritt pulled up with injury in the preliminary rounds, the 19-year-old James did not disappoint, clocking 43.94 seconds to dismiss his field. The time was not only a personal best but a new Caribbean record and it gave James the distinction of becoming the first non-American in the history of the event to break the 44-second barrier.
There was some disappointment on the women's side, however, as only Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce could find the top of the podium. The pint-sized 25-year-old clocked 10.75 seconds to successfully defend her 100 metres title and come away with the only gold medal for the Caribbean. In the process, she became the first non-American and first woman in 16 years to defend an Olympic 100 metres title.
She returned later in the Games to win silver in the 200 metres and also with the sprint relay team of Sherone Simpson, Veronica Campbell Brown and Kerron Stewart in a new national record of 41.41 seconds, as the Americans took gold.
The Games were not without controversy for the Caribbean, however. A sour note was struck before the showpiece had gotten underway properly when veteran St Kitts and Nevis sprinter Kim Collins and fellow national sprinter Tameka Williams were both expelled by their delegation.
While Collins was disciplined for breaking team rules, Williams was sent home after admitting to using a banned substance. Collins subsequently vowed never to compete for St Kitts again.
No such hullabaloo abounded at July's World Junior Championships in Barcelona, where young Caribbean athletes — including Walcott — represented the region with distinction to grab 16 medals overall.
Walcott, uninhibited by any thoughts of an Olympic medal quest, threw 78.64 to win gold in what proved to be a fairytale year for the 19-year-old. Delano Williams of the Turks and Caicos snatched the men's 200 metres and there were also triumphs for Jamaican Janieve Russell in the women's 400m hurdles and her compatriot Fedrick Dacres in the men's discus throw.
However, it was the exploits of Bahamian sprint queen Anthonique Strachan which set the Games alight. The loose-limbed 19-year-old pulled off the incredible sprint double of the 100 and 200 metres, becoming the first woman in 12 years to do so and announcing herself as the latest world-class talent to emerge from the region.
She clocked a world junior leading time of 11.20 seconds to win the 100 metres and returned in the 200 metres with a new championship record time of 22.53.
Only three months earlier in April, Strachan had supplied the region with a foretaste of what was to come, when she blazed to the sprint double at the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda. She registered a third gold of the meet, anchoring the Bahamian sprint relay team of Devynne Charlton, Carmiesha Cox and Rashan Brown to victory.
Russell, Dacres and Williams were also victorious in their respective events.
Jamaica again dominated the junior Games with 78 medals overall, but conceded precious territory to the quickly improving Bahamians, who won three of the four relays in the Under-20 category, including both sprints.
With the excitement from the Olympics abated, the Caribbean's return to the global spotlight was swift as West Indies came out of nowhere to win the Twenty20 World Cup in October.
Ironically, the triumph almost never was, as the regional side endured a luckless group stage before narrowly limping through to the second round. They piled up a competitive 191 in their opening game in Colombo, but lost to Australia on the Duckworth/Lewis Method after rain ended the contest prematurely. Two days later against Ireland, rain reduced the match to 19 overs and then ensured a wash-out before West Indies could chase their target of 130. Both teams finished on a single point, but the Windies advanced courtesy of a superior net run rate.
In the Super-Eight second round, West Indies continued to live a charmed life, defeating England, losing to Sri Lanka and then tying with New Zealand before emerging winners in a dramatic super over. They saved perhaps their best performance for the semi-finals, conjuring up a fabulous all-round performance to crush Australia by 74 runs and snatch a place in the final.
The final epitomised West Indies' run in the championship, as they hauled themselves back from the brink of defeat on more than one occasion to seal an emphatic victory. Winning the toss and batting, the innings was going nowhere until Marlon Samuels arrived to unleash a stunning 56-ball 78. Even when he was dismissed at the start of the 18th over, the total was still insignificant, but captain Darren Sammy flexed his muscles for an unbeaten 26 from 15 balls that got his side up to 137 for six.
Tillakaratne Dilshan fell cheaply in the second over but veterans Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene put the favoured Sri Lankans back on course for victory. Once they were separated, however, West Indies romped to a historic victory which breathed a new sense of purpose and direction into regional cricket.
West Indies Women were good enough to reach the semi-finals of the tournament, but a batting implosion saw them lose to Australia and miss out on a spot in the final.
The men's triumph in many ways confirmed a resurgence that had begun at home against Australia earlier in the year in March, when the hosts held Australia to a 2-2 result in the five-match One-Day International series. Brushed aside by 64 runs in the first match of a tripleheader at Arnos Vale, West Indies rebounded to win the second game by five wickets before a sensational tie in the third game left the series open, heading into St Lucia.
A rare Kieron Pollard century fired West Indies to a 42-run victory in the fourth ODI and a 2-1 lead in the series, but a 30-run defeat in the final game ended their hopes of a precious series win. The two sides subsequently split the two-match Twenty20 series, but the ensuing three-Test rubber proved a mountain too tall to climb for West Indies and they lost 0-2 despite playing well in patches.
The subsequent tour of England, beginning in May, was a wretched one as the Caribbean side failed to win a single match, and were undermined by miserable early spring weather which disrupted their preparation and deflated their confidence. It was hardly surprising, therefore, when they lost the opening Test at Lord's by five wickets and then crashed to a nine-wicket defeat inside four days in the second Test at Nottingham to concede the series. The third Test at Birmingham was ravaged by rain and finished in a tame draw.
The limited overs series was much of the same, with England winning the first two ODIs and rain accounting for the third without a ball bowled. West Indies also lost the lone T20 International.
Despite the gloomy weather and results, there was one bright spot as West Indies fans celebrated the return of the previously exiled Jamaican opener Chris Gayle, after a deal was brokered by St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, to end the player's 15-month standoff with the West Indies Cricket Board.
The 32-year-old Gayle had not played for West Indies since the 2011 World Cup and had been repeatedly overlooked for selection because of highly controversial comments he made following the Asian showpiece. Refusing to apologise as asked to by the WICB, Gayle opted to ply his trade on the international T20 circuit.
Just when the saga seemed set to drag on, Gonsalves pulled the two factions together in a skilful act of diplomacy at a high level June meeting in St Vincent, to negotiate an end to the imbroglio. Also present was Gayle and his representative Michael Hall, along with Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and WICB president Julian Hunte.
In the end, the way was paved for Gayle's return, and he celebrated it with a half-century in the second ODI at the Oval in June. He then turned his wrath on the touring New Zealanders in the Caribbean in July and August, plundering three half-centuries and a century in the first four innings of the limited overs phase of the tour.
His form inspired a sweep of the two-match T20 series in Lauderhill, Florida -- the first time matches in a West Indies bilateral series were played outside of the Caribbean -- and also allowed the hosts to win the first two games of the five-match ODI series.
West Indies completed an easy 4-1 series win and also proceeded to sweep the two Test matches, the first in Antigua by nine wickets and the second inside four days by five wickets in Kingston. The winning streak continued against Bangladesh in late November, as they beat the hosts in another two-Test series to record four consecutive wins on a trot in the game's longest version, for the first time in 19 years.
While they surrendered the five-match one-day series, 3-2, the defeat was not enough to take the gloss off what had been a successful run for a side which had grown manifestly unaccustomed to winning.
There was no such success for the Young West Indies as they finished sixth at the ICC Under-19 World Cup played in Australia in August. They sailed through the preliminary round unbeaten to top Group C, but fell to a bad defeat against New Zealand in the quarter-finals, to bow out of title contention. Another meltdown against England in the fifth place playoff left them without too much to boast about.
As usual, controversy was never far from regional cricket and it once again erupted in Guyana as the standoff between the government-run Interim Management Committee and the beleaguered Guyana Cricket Board intensified. In February, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang granted an injunction against the GCB executive members from functioning, following an application made by Attorney General Anil Nandlall.
Subsequently, key GCB executives had their homes and offices searched by court order, prompting the resignation of beleaguered president Ramsay Ali. The move was frowned upon by the WICB and cricket's world governing body, the International Cricket Council, both of whom condemned the action.
The WICB refused to recognise the IMC, led by legendary former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, and subsequently pulled all the scheduled first-class matches from the Government-owned National Stadium at Providence.
Despite the conflict surrounding their cricket, Guyana managed to finish fourth in the first-class championship, winning three matches and losing twice as they played all their games on the road. The effort secured them a spot in the semi-final where they were thrashed inside three days by eventual champions Jamaica.
Playing unbeaten throughout the tournament, the Jamaicans claimed an unprecedented fifth straight title by defeating Barbados by 139 runs in the final at Sabina Park in April, to make history. The triumph compensated for their disappointment in the Caribbean Twenty in January when they reached the final at Kensington Oval before going down to rampant Trinidad and Tobago by 63 runs.
While Jamaica suffered heartbreak again, for T&T the conquest was their second in a row and it stamped their authority as the best regional side in the game's shortest version. It also gave them another crack at the lucrative Champions League T20, but unlike the 2009 campaign when they reached the final, they failed to make it out of the qualification round when the tournament was staged in October in South Africa.
Hosts Barbados, meanwhile, emerged as kings of Under-19 cricket in August when they won the WICB three-day tournament with 45.5 points, ahead of second-placed Guyana, who accumulated 38 points. Windward Islands won the one-day title when they trounced Leeward Islands by six wickets in a dramatic final round of matches.
In July, Jamaica found more success this time in the WICB Under-17 Championship in Tobago, beating the Windwards by seven wickets in the final round to top the points standings with 29.5 points. Barbados captured the Under-15 edition in St Kitts with 63.5 points.
Jamaica also carried the inaugural Women's Twenty20 Championship before their home fans in Kingston, beating Trinidad and Tobago by 16 runs in the August final at Sabina Park.
Beyond the boundary, there were significant developments as the two most influential figures in West Indies cricket both departed office. In September, the plain-spoken WICB chief executive Ernest Hilaire, who had led the organisation since 2009, took up a diplomatic posting in London on the behalf of the St Lucia government.
Earlier in March, Dinanath Ramnarine resigned as president and CEO of the West Indies Players Association, citing a need to reinvigorate the organisation with new leadership. The Trinidadian had assumed the position in 2002.
Both Hilaire and Ramnarine were controversial figures who underscored a turbulent period in West Indies cricket, and their resignations marked the end of a distinct era of leadership of the modern game in the Caribbean. Former Test player and WIPA treasurer Wavell Hinds assumed the presidency of the players' union, while the WICB in September unveiled Jamaican management consultant Michael Muirhead as Hilaire's replacement.
In May, there was also a changing of the guard in Caribbean football as CONCACAF, the continental governing body for the sport in North, Central America and the Caribbean, elected Caymanian Jeffrey Webb to head the organisation.
The 48-year-old banker, who was unopposed for the position, replaced Trinidadian government minister Jack Warner, who resigned in 2011 at the height of the sordid cash-for-votes scandal that rocked Caribbean football. Webb moved immediately to restructure the organisation in an aim to achieve transparency and accountability.
Also in May, the Caribbean Football Union elected Antiguan banker Gordon Derrick as president, to also replace Warner.
On the field, Jamaica's Reggae Boyz experienced mixed fortunes, doing well in October to reach the final round of CONCACAF 2014 World Cup Qualifyiers, but then suffering the indignity of being knocked out of the Caribbean Cup in Antigua two months later.
They finished second on 10 points in Group A of the qualifiers, to qualify along with leaders United States whom they had beaten 2-1 at home in September. Antigua and Barbuda and Guyana missed out, however, when they finished bottom of Group A and Group B respectively with a single point.
Jamaica's luck disappeared at the Caribbean Cup in December, however, as they went winless in Group B to blow their chance of a place in the final four and a berth in the 2013 Gold Cup, after eight appearances in the biennial confederation championship. Cuba, meanwhile, lifted their first ever title when they beat former champions Trinidad and Tobago 1-0 in the final.
Jamaican jockey Rajiv Maragh and his Barbadian counterpart Patrick Husbands kept the Caribbean highly visible in horseracing internationally, with big wins in the United States and Canada.
In November, the 27-year-old Maragh scored twice in the prestigious multi-million dollar Breeders Cup at Santa Anita racetrack in California, winning the US$1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint with Groupie Doll and the US$500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint Stakes with Hightail.
Husbands, meanwhile, captured the CAN$500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes in July, carrying Dixie Strike to victory in the second jewel of the celebrated Canadian Triple Crown series, before also winning the October US$400,000 Darley Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland in Kentucky, with Spring in the Air.
Back in the region, the Bahamas toppled Trinidad and Tobago as Caribbean volleyball kings when they won a gripping five-setter to claim their first ever title in St Croix in July. T&T's women, however, maintained their dominance, securing their fourth straight crown and fifth overall when they easily brushed aside former champions Barbados in a lopsided final.
At the CARIFTA Swimming Championships staged in Nassau in April, Guadeloupe topped the points standings, with Trinidad and Tobago second and the hosts trailing in third.
Meanwhile, regional netball powerhouses Jamaica maintained their stranglehold on the sport when they played unbeaten to lift the Americas Federation of Netball Associations Championship, in Trinidad in July.
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Australia History and Genealogy Roadshow Day Seven
Today the Roadshow was in Sydney and not quite the same without Unlock The Past's efficient organiser Aimee staffing the registration desk. Sadly other commitments meant that she couldn't be with us for the last part of the Roadshow and we are missing her already. On a brighter note we do have long time colleague Carole Riley (of Carole's Canvas fame) helping us out.
Before I get into today's sessions, I really must confess to last night's activities. I wanted to visit Macquarie Park cemetery which is almost next door to where we are staying so I didn't go with the others last night for dinner. I wandered up the road and entered the cemetery by a side gate and happily wandered around for nearly an hour until I realised that it was getting quite dark and even a bit spooky. As I started to head back out I was a bit apprehensive to see a car approaching me with the lights flashing until the driver pointed out to me that the cemetery had closed twenty minutes earlier and I needed to leave. Only trouble was the gates I had entered by were locked and I had to walk to the other entrance to get out. Not sure how they even knew I was out there, and I can't help wondering what would have happened if I had been totally locked in for the night. I hadn't even told anyone where I was going. Think I might keep my cemetery activities to the daytime in future!
Now to today's sessions. I started off listening to Gail Davis from State Records New South Wales talking about Getting To Know State Records. She talked about the usual suspects and highlighted the various online indexes and how you need to read the explanatory information so that you know what is covered in each index. Gail also stressed the need to note your sources so that you can find a document again.
Also attended Jeremy Palmer's talk on The Parish Chest and he gave a detailed account of the history of parishes and the types of documents you can find. It was only towards the end of his talk that he started to give examples of how we could find information on parishes ourselves and that was a bit rushed. I would have liked to have seen that at the beginning or more time spent on it. He gave out a handout with both books and websites that could be followed up. I loved his photo of a real parish chest!
Dan Lynch, Elaine Collins and Louise St Denis continued to get new fans with their talks so don't forget to explore their respective websites for more information or see my earlier blogs. Rosemary Kopittke also did her talk on FindMyPast Australasia and I did two talks as usual and don't forget that the handout is on my website under the Resources page.
It was also good to meet some of my Twitter friends there today and to also meet people who are actually reading these daily blogs on the roadshow. Sometimes when writing a blog, you wonder if anyone ever reads it so it is good to know there are people out there actually reading this!
New exhibitors in Sydney include the Society of Australian Genealogists with their always tempting book sales table, Inside History were also there in person, State Records New South Wales had a display table with free info sheets, The Master Genealogist Sydney User Group had a table as did Anzestry.com staffed by Jeremy Palmer.
The North Ryde RSL Club is a great venue although the main room was a bit chilly today, but then all of Sydney seems a bit chilly for this time of year. I particularly like the fact that they have a yum cha restaurant so I was able to indulge that passion today, and last night's dinner, after my cemetery experience, was a 'to die for' Mediterranean grilled seafood plate at the lovely Italian restaurant next door to the hotel. For those wondering why I am finishing this blog with an account of my dining habits, I am responding to the feedback that there hasn't been much food in my last few blogs. They know who they are!
Hard to believe there is only one more day of the Australian part of the Roadshow and then we are off to New Zealand, sadly without Dan Lynch. Apparently Rosemary and I will be delivering his talks in New Zealand and I for one, am a tad nervous about filling those shoes! Until next time.
Enjoyed meeting you today and also had fun at the show. I think I'll dig out the winter woollies for the auditorium tomorrow.
YES Shauna, we do read your blog posts! And I for one (and others i'm sure) was glad to see your opening line because the event was missing Aimee's special touch (and her humor). Can't help but smile with some sarcasm as you and others prepare to dress for the 'cold' temps tomorrow. Especially as I'll head back to the northeastern USA in a couple days and likely be faced with daily temps half yours. But, there again, still warmer than what Louise will face in Toronto when she arrives home. So, I guess it's all relative (no genealogy pun intended). Looking forward to a great Saturday.
Glad i can fill Aimee's shoes at least in part! Keep up the blog and don't stay up too late doing it.
I'm reading your blogs, love yum cha so think I'm a bit jealous, c.u. soon
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I just got this game and really wanted to get it to 100%. Heard that this trophy had issuess but they were fixed. As of now June 2017 i cant get this trophy on my EU version of the game.
I did even attempts where i did not touched a single wall/object. Still no trophy.
Is it broken?If it is,is there any hope for fix?
And did anyone had similiar problem,who tried this recently?
I could really use some help coz im completely out of ideas what now.,..
To be absolutely sure i did:
-finished 1 mission without getting hit
-finished it again without touching anything-walls/flowers/carcases etc
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-finished first mission in rouge and arcade without getting hit
-deleted and redownloaded game,deleted saves and data and then finished a mission without getting hit in arcade and rogue
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-played on ps4 pro and ps4
All this have never ever given me this trophy. Is there anything else i could try?
Cant touch this is unobtainable again? EU version
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Between sessions of the 25th anniversary year of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture last week at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Lipscombsports.com was able to spend some time with former Lipscomb track and cross country athlete Willie Steele. It was the sixth time Steele, a long-time fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, had been a participant in the symposium and the fifth time that he had presented a paper. He also found time to praise the work of LU track and cross country coach Bill Taylor and also recalled his time at Lipscomb.
What sport did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
"I was at Lipscomb from 1991-95. I graduated in December of 1995. I had a double major in English and Speech Communication.
"I ran track for two years and they dropped the program. I ran cross country for five years with one of those years being a redshirt year.
"When I first got to Lipscomb my coach was Kent Johnson. After my third year coach Johnson stepped down and Lynn Griffith took over the program."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"First of all, I am the least athletic athlete ever interviewed for this feature. I guarantee you that.
"My senior year, in the district (cross country) championship, we had the perfect race planned. Training had gone well. Everything was great.
"I remember people coming up and asking us what they could do. We told them to come out and support us. I told them to pray that Willie Steele makes nationals. I thought it would be good to have that in my hip pocket. One of the guys who beat me out for nationals that year was from Christian Brothers University and his name was William Steele.
"I learned two lessons. One was God does answer prayers. And two, you better be really specific with your prayer request.
"That was in November of 1995. I would have to go back and check but I think I finished two spots out of qualifying for the nationals. I try to block it out of my memory. I couldn't have done anything differently in the race. Coach Griffith and I talked about it afterwards. You can't be upset when you do the best you can and let the chips fall where they may."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"Coach Johnson helped me understand the athletic side of things. Coach Griffith helped me understand why we did certain things that we did.
"I coached for 10 years. I was an assistant at Lipscomb for three years and coached at Cascade College for seven years.
"I realized it is not a one size fits all training philosophy. You have to work with people individually. Students and student-athletes come from different backgrounds and struggle with different things. You have to be able to have a personal relationship with students and athletes. Had it not been for coach Griffith and coach Johnson I don't know if I would have been able to do that.
"Coach Johnson gave me the chance to walk on my freshman year. He had the patience not to choke me and throw me out of the side of a van in the middle of nowhere.
"Coach Griffith gave me a chance to cut my teeth coaching under him for three years after I graduated. He actually helped me get my first coaching job out in Oregon. Without those two guys I don't know if I would have had the experiences I have had so far."
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"I know it is cliché because a lot of people say this, but it was the relationship with the guys on the team. We would hang out at Pizza Perfect and the Donut Den…just being an 18, 19 or 20-year-old kid.
"I remember a lot of times after Saturday morning workouts a bunch of us would head up to the Harpeth River and go fishing all afternoon. I loved that. I couldn't spend enough time out on the river fishing.
"There are a lot of good memories with those guys. Some of my best friends now are people I knew from cross country and from track."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"There were a lot of people who had patience with me. When you are 18-to-22 sometimes you think you know it all. And 20 years later you realize that you didn't.
"There were people who took time to work with me, support me and be really strong Christian mentors to me. I probably didn't realize it at the time, but looking back on it I realize a lot of those people helped shape who I am right now and have really helped me as I try to mentor students and student-athletes.
"I was the sports editor for "The Babbler". Lipscomb had lost a game to Belmont that they should have won at Memorial Gym. I remember afterwards that I didn't want to interview coach Don Meyer.
"But we were talking outside the locker room and I asked him what he would take away from a loss like this. He said that a lot of times you learn more from an `F' than you do an `A'. I was thinking, `what are you talking about?' He said when you get an `F' you have to go back and rethink what you have done and fix some things. A lot of times when you get an `A' you think you can just coast.
"He said we are going to go back to work and fix the things we didn't do right. That is something that as a coach and a professor now that I try to tell my students. You may not have done as well as you wanted to now, but that doesn't have to define you from here on. You can fix some things."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"I have three in the English department – Ed Edgin, Lin Garner and Dennis Lloyd. Dr. Edgin was the department chair and hired me to be an adjunct.
"I didn't take Denny Lloyd for a class until my senior year. He has a way of being able to take really complex issues and make them accessible to a lot of people. Denny and I have worked on some projects.
"Lin Garner still has the record for the longest exams ever. I had an exam that was so long that it caused me to miss cross country practice. I got an `A' on the test so she asked me what I was worried about. She and I have agreed to disagree on whether or not her tests were too long.
"Paul Prill sticks out in the communication department. I also went to Acklen Avenue where he was the minister at the time. He took a really strong interest in students, not just academically but personally. I have tried to model that.
"One thing I am really grateful for is the type of relationship I have had 20 years later with the faculty and staff. They still remember me and take an interest in what I am doing now.
"It is a lot of fun having a relationship with professors after graduating. You don't have to worry about grades. You realize they are people and they actually do take an interest in what you are doing beyond the classroom."
Where do you live now?
"Oklahoma City, Okla."
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"I work for Oklahoma Christian University. I am a professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature. I have an M. A. in English from Middle Tennessee State and A PH.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
"I have been there for four years. I just got tenure. I teach mostly American literature. I have a couple of specialty classes, one on Civil War literature and another on sports literature.
"My first book on W.P. Kinsella called "A Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W.P. Kinsella" came out in the fall of 2011. (Editor's note: W.P. Kinsella wrote the novel "Shoeless Joe" which was the basis of the movie "Field of Dreams".)
"Kinsella read a copy of it and had some really nice things to say about it. He emailed me back in November and asked if I would be interested in writing his biography. I am reading through his journals and private correspondence."
Tell us about your family.
"I married Heather Barker who is from Oklahoma City. I met her when I moved to Oregon. We got married in December 2000.
"We have two daughters. Molly Reagan will be seven in August. She told me the other day she wants to be in the Olympics as a gymnast and 10-K runner. She will be the first ever gymnast/10-K runner in the Olympics. We are looking forward to that.
"Marianne Elizabeth just turned five. She is going to be the first left-handed female pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. So we are equally excited for that. I am going to teach until they are able to help me retire."
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Between sessions of the 25th anniversary year of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture last week at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Lipscombsports.com was able to spend some time with former Lipscomb track and cross country athlete Willie Steele. It was the sixth time Steele, a long-time fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, had been a participant in the symposium and the fifth time that he had presented a paper. He also found time to praise the work of LU track and cross country coach Bill Taylor and also recalled his time at Lipscomb.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Ryan Howard and his teammates have heard critics say the window has closed for the Philadelphia Phillies.
They just don't believe it.
After a dominant run that included five straight NL East titles, two pennants and the 2008 World Series championship, the Phillies have missed the postseason two consecutive years. They have an aging core of players who've been declining.
Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins and Carlos Ruiz are the remaining regulars from the group that led Philadelphia to its best era of baseball from 2007-11 under former manager Charlie Manuel.
They're determined to make another run.
"We've had a bad couple years and had injuries and all that stuff, but I don't think it's over," Howard said. "People are entitled to their opinions and that's fine, but it's up to us to go out there and show them otherwise and go out and play our game and do what we do."
General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. refused to start the rebuilding process after the Phillies' first losing season since 2002. Instead, he re-signed Utley and Ruiz and added veteran outfielder Marlon Byrd and right-hander A.J. Burnett in free agency.
If the older players live up to their hefty contracts and younger guys like 2013 All-Star Domonic Brown, Cody Asche and Ben Revere continue to develop, the Phillies should be in contention.
"I think we're positive. We're expecting to win and plan on doing everything we can to ensure that," ace lefty Cliff Lee said.
Here are five things to know about the Phillies going into the season:
STRONG ROTATION: It was only three years ago when the Phillies' starting rotation featured four aces. Lee, Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt headlined a staff that helped the Phillies win a franchise record 102 games only to lose in the NL division series. Halladay and Oswalt have retired, but Lee and Hamels are joined by Burnett to form a formidable top three. Hamels had a shoulder problem in spring training, but expects to return in May. Newcomer Roberto Hernandez, formerly known as Fausto Carmona, and Kyle Kendrick add depth at the back end. If Hamels is fine, starting pitching will be the team's strength.
POWER STRUGGLE: Howard averaged 44 homers between 2006-11, but has a total of 25 in only 151 games over the past two seasons. He hasn't hit more than 33 since 2009. It's hard to believe in hitter-friendly Citizens Bank Park the Phillies only had one player hit more than 20 homers last year. Brown led the club with 27. Rollins, who once hit 30 as a leadoff hitter and averaged 19 over the previous seven seasons, had a career-low 6 homers. In 2009, the Phillies had four guys hit 30. If two guys do it this season, it'll be a major boost.
POSITIVE PAPELBON: Closer Jonathan Papelbon is coming off a tough season in which he blew seven of 36 save chances. The velocity on his fastball was down and he rarely dominated hitters the way he used to in Boston. Papelbon also was critical of teammates, management and didn't endear himself to fans. He's taking a different approach in 2014. "This year, I'm definitely trying to be a lot more of a positive influence and be more upbeat," he said.
STRESSING FUNDAMENTALS: Manager Ryne Sandberg, who replaced Manuel last August, has stressed fundamentals since the first day of spring training. The Phillies were sorely lacking in that department the past few seasons. From running the bases properly to hitting cutoff men on relay throws, Sandberg emphasized doing the little things. "I know the importance of fundamentals," Sandberg said. "We're going to stress them and we're going to do them daily. We're going to repeat them. That's going to be a routine set in spring training. We will do them throughout the season. It's really creating a routine so the players will adapt to it and get used to it."
J-ROLL VS. RYNO: Rollins, the 2006 NL MVP, was benched for three days in spring training by Sandberg, the Hall of Fame second baseman who wants everyone to play hard and be a positive influence. Rollins often drew the ire of fans and Manuel for failing to run hard on routine outs. He has a no-trade clause and has repeatedly said he won't accept a trade before he breaks Mike Schmidt's team record for hits. He needs 60 more. If Rollins' production continues declining, Sandberg may give Freddy Galvis more playing time at shortstop.


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San Clemente's Colt Ward has to be feeling good going into this weekend's Surfing America Prime contest at one of his local breaks, T-Street Beach.
He's coming off a National Scholastic Surfing Association contest last weekend that saw him surf a perfect heat – two 10-point scores. He did it during the quarterfinals at Huntington Beach, and the NSSA saluted his feat in its contest recap.
"I've never scored a perfect 10 in a contest," he was quoted as saying. "To get two 10s in one heat especially on barrels in Huntington, is just amazing."
It'll be tough for Ward or anyone to find a 10-point barrel at T-Street Saturday and Sunday with tiny surf in the forecast.
Ward, 15, goes in ranked No. 1 in boys under 16 years old in Surfing America's West Coast Prime series. San Clemente's Tia Blanco is No. 1 in girls under 16 and girls under 18. Eithan Osborne of Ventura is No. 1 in boys under 14. Nick Hernandez of Santa Cruz is No. 1 in boys under 18, with Ward ranked second.
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District 308 officials are cautiously optimistic about the district's financial future as recovery continues from the Nov. 17 tornado.
School Board members got their first look this month at the tentative 2014-2015 fiscal year budget. It shows an estimated $800,000 deficit in the education fund, which makes up the bulk of the budget.
Fund revenues are pegged at $12.1 million and expenses at $12.9 million, mainly because of reduced state aid.
"The deficit wasn't a surprise. We thought that would be the case before the tornado," said board member Tim Custis, who is a CPA and a member of the board's finance committee.
The gap could narrow by the time the budget is approved by the board in September and be closed even further after that.
The district's 2013-2014 fiscal year budget also had a projected $800,000 deficit in the education fund — $12 million in revenues and $12.8 million in expenses — but Assistant Superintendent Joe Sander said he expects the difference to end up in the $200,000 to $300,000 range.
The 2013-2014 fiscal year ends Monday.
A big reason for the guarded financial optimism is the district's pursuit of grants. Sander said nearly $200,000 in grants have been received in the past 1 ∏ years.
Plus, "everyone is seeing where we can reduce spending and pool our resources," he said.
That includes the Washington Community High School teaching staff.
Custis said teachers have shown a newfound determination to find grants since the tornado hit.
"They're paying close attention to where there may be opportunities for grants," he said.
A major financial concern is how much of a hit the city of Washington took in equalized assessed value because of the 1,108 homes destroyed or damaged by the tornado.
The district will feel the brunt of the property tax loss in the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
Custis said initial reports of as much as a 45 percent EAV drop have not come true, "but there will be a loss," perhaps in the 12 to 15 percent range.
Tazewell County is expected to provide a worst-case scenario snapshot in early July that will reveal tornado-related EAV losses but not factor in all the rebuilding efforts.
Custis said he'll recommend the School Board hold the line on the district's 2015-2016 fiscal year property tax levy.
"We don't want to slam taxpayers because of the EAV drop," he said. "The community has endured enough."
Two tornado-related changes in the district's 2013-2014 fiscal year budget were approved this month by the board.
An additional $24,000 was placed in the transportation fund, and $10,000 was added for gas and diesel for efforts to make sure the more than 120 displaced students made it to school and back from their temporary residences.
Families were reimbursed for their mileage for round trips to and from school, and district buses picked up students who were living in the Morton and Pekin areas.


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Thankful Thursday: Moore Cousins to the Rescue
George provided me with the transcript he has of the will of Bud Mathis Moore, brother of my great-great-grandfather William Spencer Moore. There were two items of particular interest, and they gave me the necessary clues to fill in information on the two daughters of Bud Mathis Moore on whom we have the least information, his two oldest children: Elizabeth Moore, his only child with Elizabeth Brashier, who died a couple of weeks after her daughter Elizabeth's birth, and Sarah Ann Moore, his oldest child with Martha Brown Coulter.
Up to this point, almost all that was known about Elizabeth Moore were a couple of items from a brief history of the Family of Bud Mathis Moore written by James Furman Moore: her date of birth (1827) and the fact that she had married a James Bayne. I tried to find her and James starting with the 1850 census in Greenville, South Carolina (she did not appear with Bud and Martha and would have been old enough to have been married), but could not find them, even trying various spellings of the name Bayne. I tried to find Elizabeth from her first name and age, but I believe that turned up too many hits. My guess was that they had moved out of Greenville and possibly out of South Carolina. Bud Mathis Moore's will mentioned daughter Elizabeth Bain and also gave "the land on which George Bain now lives" to one of Bud Mathis Moore's sons. To look for a Bain family with these two names in Greenville I checked the Bain GenForum and found them; George Bain would have been James' brother. The post also clued me in to the three censuses on which James and Elizabeth can be found; on the 1850 Greenville census their last name is given as Bains, and on the next two censuses they and their children are in Alabama. So from these three censuses I have something to start with.
George also pointed out that daughter Sarah Ann was not mentioned in Bud Mathis Moore's will. This was curious. In all the censuses (1850 through 1910) that Sarah Ann appears, she is always living with family members. J. Furman Moore's history indicates that she was married to a James Moon. Her name on her tombstone is Moon and on some censuses she is shown was Sarah Moon, widowed, and others she is Sarah Moore, single. My original assumption had been that Sarah had married James Moon early on and become a widow before the 1850 census, but the omission of her name from the will spurred me to look more closely at the census listings – Bud Mathis Moore died in 1856, and perhaps she was looked on as a single woman who would not be expected to be living on her own. My mistaken assumption, and the fact that the Moore and Moon names are often confused on the census, had kept me from carefully putting the census information together: from 1850 to 1880, she had been Sarah Moore, single, and from 1900 to 1910 she was Sarah Moon, widowed. She had married after 1880 and become a widow before 1900! Originally I had never thought of her marrying in middle age, but that could have explained her omission from the will. I looked for a James Moon on Findagrave that might fit the bill: born around the same time as Sarah, died after 1880 but before 1900, and possibly married before he married Sarah. Bingo – there was a James Moon born 1818, married a Mary Ashmore (who died right after the 1880 census was taken), and died in 1897. Of course, he's still just a "candidate" for Sarah's husband, but at least there is something to look into.
These two are the only children of Bud Mathis Moore for whom we had little information, so these developments have really given the research some momentum. So to my Moore cousins: thank you George and Mary!
(I hope that Thankful Thursday can be a (semi-)regular feature wherein I write about various advances in my research, but be forewarned, it's likely to be counterbalanced by some Moaning Mondays and Woeful Wednesdays.)
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Greta, I didn't know people posted "Thankful Thursday" but all day I thought I wanted to do a post tonight and call it "Thankful Thursday". :-) I didn't get it done and was happy to read all about your Thankful Thursday! We are so blessed when others help us in our research. In fact, we couldn't do much without others, could we!ReplyDelete
I love it! Thankful Thursdays sounds great. Moaning Mondays and Woeful Wednesdays sound hilarious, but I guess should try to be avoided :)ReplyDelete
I loved reading your story. How wonderful to connect with cousins, which in turn help to connect the dots. Keep us posted on your research. It helps me as a newbie to read how you work through your research. Thanks!
Hi Becky,ReplyDelete
I don't claim any originality for "Thankful Thursday," but it seems to be a natural among the alliterative series-type posts. When I saw that people were doing themes like Wordless Wednesday, etc., it seemed a good idea for inspiration and for tying posts together. Genea-bloggers seem to all naturally come up with same or similar ideas based on the nature of what we tend to post about most often.
Hi Laura,ReplyDelete
Yeah, I have to watch out about those Mondays and Wednesdays! I hope they'll mostly be smaller gripes rather than bigger ones. And I'm a relative newbie, too, not quite three and a half years.


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This homestand has become exactly what the Padres needed. Few predicted the team would win 2 of 3 from the powerful St Louis Cardinals, but they did. Some hoped they'd win 2 of 3 from the resurgent Washington Nationals, but they have. A quick series recap, in case you've been buried in barbeque this weekend:
- Friday, Clayton Richard gives up a 3-run HR to Josh Willingham which the Padres can't quite overcome. In the ninth, San Diego scores a run and loads the bases with no one out (down by two), but the rally fizzles.
- Saturday, Nationals second baseman Adam Kennedy can't quite pick up a ground ball in the hole off Adrian Gonzalez's bat. Chase Headley singles, and Nick Hundley homers to give the Padres an early 3-0 lead. They win 4-2.
- Sunday, the Padres survived two solo homers by budding Nationals star Ryan Zimmerman to take the game in extra innings. There another Kennedy error (again with two out, no less) let the Padres get the winning run to second, where rookie Lance Zawadzki singled him home.
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It is impossible to watch the highly touted new AMC drama "Low Winter Sun" without thinking of HBO's "The Wire."
I tried. But as I watched the first two episodes of the crime drama set and filmed in Detroit, I kept flashing back to "The Wire" — in a good way.
Based on a British miniseries, "Low Winter Sun," which premieres at 10 p.m. Sunday, tells the story of a Detroit police detective, Frank Agnew (Mark Strong), who with the help of his partner kills another detective in an act of vengeance. Agnew is then assigned to investigate the death of the man he just killed. It's one of many nice plot twists.
But that's the story. And while it is a good one, what elevates "Low Winter Sun" into the category of must-see-if-you-care-about-quality-TV-drama are its vision and sensibility, largely articulated through its depiction of Detroit.
Detroit holds a powerful place in the national psyche, thanks in large part to its 20th-century history as the birthplace of the assembly line and bastion of middle-class economic status for union workers on those lines. It was also a crucible of race and ethnicity with first- and second-generation European immigrants working alongside and vying for good-paying jobs with African-Americans who had come from the South — all looking for a piece of the American Dream.
Having worked as a reporter at the Detroit Free Press from 1976 to 1983, I can tell you that the city never recovered from the riots of the late 1960s. But despite too many corrupt public officials feeding at the trough the last four decades, there was still hope and determination among many of its residents — until the cosmic shift to a global economy took hold and sent Detroit on the road to urban wasteland.
It was made official last month when Detroit became the largest city in American history to declare bankruptcy. Its image on TV has been dominated by scenes of blight and decay — whole blocks of abandoned and falling-down single-family homes and the crumbling, rust-stained walls of vacant factories and warehouses, the detritus of Detroit's mid-20th-century industrial might.
"Low Winter Sun" captures that visually — and spiritually. That's the canvas on which creator Chris Mundy and his team of writers and producers paint. But they imbue it with an elegiac dignity, so that even as you are looking at graffiti-covered walls and alleys filled with trash, you feel the power of the vision on which this city was built.
That imagery and the way it is poetically presented are what first made me think of "The Wire." As I looked at block after block of abandoned single-family homes on screen, I wrote in my notebook, "Are these the iconic Baltimore rowhouses of 'The Wire'? Is Detroit the new Baltimore of quality TV drama?"
"Visually, Detroit's just a stunning backdrop in good ways and bad ways," says Mundy, a former Rolling Stone reporter and editor.
"Everybody [in 'Low Winter Sun] is trying to get a second chance in a way, and they're all pushing up against their limits of what they'll do for a second chance," he says. "So I wanted a backdrop that had that same feeling — a place that was looking for a second chance. And Detroit just seems perfect."
Mundy, who wrote for such TV series as "Criminal Minds" and "Cold Case," uses the word "complicated" to describe his reaction to critics who invoke "The Wire" in writing about his show.
"If anybody thought we were trying to steal their playbook, then we're doing a lousy job," he says. "But if anybody thinks, 'Maybe some day, if we keep doing a good job, then people will talk about us in the same light,' then it's the hugest compliment. … To me, 'The Wire' is pretty much the best show ever on television. But we're a different sort of show."
"Low Winter Sun" is a different sort of show in some ways — at least in its first two episodes. And none of this is to say it's in the Wire's league.
For one thing, it does not reach nearly as high as "The Wire," which not only showed the dysfunction in Baltimore, but also surgically explained who and what were responsible for it. It's hard to imagine any TV show ever matching "The Wire" in the anthropology of creator David Simon and some of the show's producers and writers like Ed Burns, a former Baltimore police detective and city schoolteacher.
"We're not trying to chart the civics of the city," Mundy says. "We're just trying to tell the stories of these people in this situation."
Since some of the core characters are cops, it's a cop drama — make no mistake about it. "The Wire" was always far more than that — though cop drama is good enough for me when it's done this well.
But like "The Wire," the AMC series is intensely concerned with matters of morality.
"On the surface, 'Low Winter Sun' is the story of Frank Agnew trying to undo this act [murder] and stay safe and get away with it," says Mundy. "But it's not a whodunit. You know who did it in the first minute. It's really this exploration of [Frank asking], 'What is wrong with me that I did this thing? And what's broken inside of me that I've come to this place?' "
"Folks talk like morality is black and white," Agnew's partner, Joe Geddes (Lennie James), says in the opening moments of the pilot. "You know what it's really like? A goddamn strobe. And all we can do is try to see straight enough to keep from getting our heads bashed in."
There are concrete connections between the Baltimore urban drama and "Low Winter Sun," like Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning director Ernest R. Dickerson. The two hours made available for screening were directed by Dickerson, who was also behind the camera for some of the finest episodes of "The Wire," such as "Mission Accomplished," the finale to Season 3.
The tone of the final sequence of that episode, with Bubbles (Andre Royo) teaching a younger addict how to survive on a post-apocalyptic urban landscape, permeates the first two episodes of "Low Winter Sun."
Another link between the two shows is Baltimore native James Ransone, who has a leading role as Damon Callis, an on-the-make gangster scheming to take down a Detroit crime lord. It's a good role, and Ransone does great things with it — just as he did with the character of "Ziggy" Sobotka in Season 2 of "The Wire."
After spending six months filming the pilot and first season there, Ransone feels that he's forged a connection to Detroit — much as he had to Baltimore, where he grew up. He sees the cities and the shows along a TV continuum — part of a continuing media meditation on big cities and the American Dream.
"In chronological terms of an emerging urban narrative, 'The Wire' was sort of like David's and Ed's requiem on the decay and bureaucratic institutionalization of the city," says Ransone, who attended Towson's Carver Center for Arts & Technology. "This ['Low Winter Sun'] starts from the hypothesis that we're way beyond ruin. Whereas David and Ed were really taking it apart and making you look at how the bureaucracy was failing, this starts from the position that it's already failed."
"Low Winter Sun" is set "on the other side of the American Dream," in Ransone's view.
"Because of the blight of Detroit and how it's decayed, I think it's very scary for some people to look at it. Now that it's bankrupt, they see it through this lens of, 'Oh, my God, it's broke,' " he says.
"Well, the whole American Dream is kind of broke. The question is: What do we do on the other side of the American Dream once we've given into the fact that it's dead? … Now, how do we live?"


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SQL PASS Summit is coming up again. Nov. 8 through 11 in Seattle, WA. It's the premier SQL Server event of the year and yours trully will be one of the presenters. If you're coming to the event drop by and say hello even if your not attending my session.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 introduced support for sysprep for a SQL Server installation. This is a big leap in manageability of virtualized SQL Server environments. Sysprep allows you to roll out a preconfigured base image for virtual servers that can be easily completed on roll-out of the image to a new virtual server. This session will demonstrate how to implement the new sysprep functionality in SQL Server 2008 R2 when partnered with Hyper-V virtual server. The session will also explore ways to automate the rollout of the process of completing the SQL Server installation as part of the rollout process.
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The film studios apparently should have spent as much time making sure their DVD new release DRM actually works with popular Blu-Ray players as they did on their new 28 day new release delay scheme. Avatar, which of course Netflix and Redbox users now won't be able to rent for a month, was released on DVD last Friday. While the title's hype and box office success easily translated to disc sales records, AdamR writes in to note that some customers were rewarded for their purchase by finding out the disc wouldn't play on many Blu-Ray players. While some users are able to fix the problem if they can manage to download new firmware that plays nice with the new Avatar DRM, new firmware for players like the Samsung BD-UP5000 doesn't (and may not ever) exist. It's almost as if the studios are trying to perfect the art of annoyance when it comes to Blu-Ray -- something that has helped contribute to the platform's less-than-anticipated adoption rates. While DVDs have always been loaded with unskippable crap (that ironically pirates don't have to deal with) newer Blu-Ray DVDs seem to enjoy taking this to an entirely new level -- with even more unskippable previews, promotions and warnings downloaded to your player via broadband. Somehow the studios continue to believe that layers of seemingly-endless annoyances (DRM, delaying new releases, unskippable "features" -- none of which pirates experience) are actually going to help keep piracy at bay and physical media relevant forever.


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- Long Hours: And while you don't have to have a passion for sports to work in sports PR, you probably won't like it if you don't, warns Adam Siepiola, assistant athletic director for media and external relations at Adelphi University, a Division II institution in New York. Sports PR includes long hours at games, and the ability to know what you're watching and writing about. "As a collegiate PR professional, we are required to travel with our teams regularly and to be at all home games," says Siepiola. "Your work day really starts after the game."
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Your child may be advanced for his or her age, but these recommendations are based on safety factors. If the item you're considering doesn't have an age recommendation on it, look at boxes for similar toys to gauge the appropriateness of the gift you're considering.
2.Does this gift require protective gear to go along with it?
If you can't resist this realm of toys, consider how far the projectile goes: if it goes a long distance, it can pack a serious punch. Look at the pictures on the box. Do the models have on protective gear? Is there any protective wear included? If the children on the box are wearing safety gear that's not included, consider buying it as a second gift.
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fairydandy wrote:YAFF wrote:Unlike you he knows to make a definitive statement like "there is no god" means the onus is on you to prove that claim.
That's plainly idiotic. See what I mean about your intelligence making no sense? If you didn't say there was a god, I would have no need to say there wasn't.
That's irrelevant. If you claim "there is no god" you need to prove it just like the one that says "there is a god". So next time you could say. "I don't believe there is a god. Can you prove it?"