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(Phoenix, Ariz. – June 29, 2007) Assistant Attorneys General Theodore Campagnolo and Randall Howe were honored today during the 74th annual State Bar Association Convention at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale.
Campagnolo, Chief Counsel of the Arizona Attorney General's Criminal Prosecutions Section, was presented with the Special Merit award. This award is given to State Bar members who have provided outstanding service to the Bar by furthering public understanding of the legal system.
Campagnolo oversees all criminal prosecutions for the Attorney General's Office. The Criminal Prosecutions Section is composed of four units: Fraud and Public Corruption, Drug Prosecution, Medicaid Fraud Control and Tucson Criminal Trials. Campagnolo has 26 years of experience in both criminal prosecution and civil litigation. He also serves as vice-chair of the State Bar's Criminal Jury Instructions Committee and is a member of the Arizona Supreme Court's Committee on Examinations. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a law degree from Southern Methodist University in Texas.
Howe, Chief Counsel of the Arizona Attorney General's Criminal Appeals Section, was presented with the Distinguished Public Lawyer Award. This award is given to an Arizona lawyer who has had a distinguished career in public law and has performed other significant community service.
In 2006, Howe successfully defended a challenge to Arizona's insanity defense in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case marked the first major ruling by the Supreme Court on insanity defense laws since many states, including Arizona, made them more restrictive following John Hinckley's acquittal by reason of insanity in the 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan. The Arizona Legislature stiffened its law in 1993.
Howe has been with the Attorney General's Office for 18 years. He chaired the State Bar's Committee on Persons with Disabilities in the Legal Profession from 2005-2007 and is a member of the State Bar's Diversity Task Force. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Center for Disability Law and the Arizona Bridge to Independent Living. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a law degree from Arizona State University.


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by no means is this the worst australian team
if england are loosing 4-0 with a match to go in a five match series i think there should be a thread about how bad england are
by no means is this the worst australian team
if england are loosing 4-0 with a match to go in a five match series i think there should be a thread about how bad england are
Jesus brings life eternal
I can't believe the amount of people who have given serious responses to what is clearly not a serious thread to be honest.
Originally Posted by Prince EWS
It's pure quality. My original idea for a thread was entitled "Would England have won if Popeye and Superman were in the team" But then I thought that would be pushing my luck a bit too far.
I think Popeye's influence would greatly depend on if they decided to declare spinach a performance enhancing drug.Originally Posted by Lillian Thomson
silly thread!
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Originally Posted by bugssy
Come off it, it's not as if anyone has suggested that Australia lost on purpose because the current generation coming up to retirement wanted to add "regaining the Ashes" to their CV having previously never achieved that feat.
I think its quite clear to me that both Hayden and Langer are 2 players who would have struggled to average in the 30s had they played in an any era before the late 90s. The fact that both had mediocre records before that bears testiment to it. Even now against a quality attack on a pitch offering any sort of assistance you can see their deficiencies being exposed quite easily. For mine while this current Australian bowling attack is still looking quite strong(with Johnson presumably coming in) the batting largely revolves around Ponting and Hussey(and to a lesser extent Clarke) while the rest are either ordinary(Langer, Hayden), past it(Gilchrist), or just rubbish(Symonds).
Tendulkar = the most overated player EVER!!
Beckham = the most overated footballer EVER!!
Vassell = the biggest disgrace since rikki clarke!!
Sreesanth said, "Next ball he was beaten and I said, 'is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this impostor, moving around nervously? I should have kept my mouth shut for the next ball - mind you, it was a length ball - Lara just pulled it over the church beyond the boundary! He is a true legend."
Yes hayden must be vulnerable when the ball is seaming and bouncing....being one of only 2 batters to score good runs on a pitch that finally did something for bowlers in melbourne.
I think many of the people who responded seriously, including me, were being sarcastic. To counter attack a silly thread you need a sarcastic response.
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To paraphrase an old Lyle Lovett lyric: Instead of going to heaven, he went to Jacksonville.
It usually requires a concert at the wonderful Florida Theatre to lure me to the glimmering skyline of this historic landmark of the Old South. I even saw Lovett there once, where he performed the song with the Jacksonville lyric, pointing out that there was a city of that name in Texas, too.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2001 9:34 pm
Post subject: THE REASON I GET UP INTHE MORNING
I'm sure as most of you can all agree with me here, Mark Wahlberg is single handedly the most talented actor/singer/model out there who in the midst of all of this he still manages to look great. I've been through a lot lately and it makes me feel so much better just to flip on one of mark's movies. I know i sound terribly obsessed, but i would give my life to meet him and just talk to him or something. Planet of the Apes was a perfect movie for him, and he carried the role very well. Mark is one of the greatest role models out there and i look up to him as a truely inspiring person.
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I know EXACTLY what you mean. Mark Wahlberg is my idol. I respect him so much. He is an amazing talent and he greatly deserves all the good in the world. He is definately a major influence in my life.
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I've been following Mark's career since his Marky Mark days. He is my idol and always will be. Since I want to become an actress, I hope I'll get to be in a movie with him once my acting career gets going
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girl i know just how you feel. and its ok to be obsessed because i know damn well i am totally obsessed with that sexy man.i mean he has all i ever dreamed in a man. he is taller than me, he is hot, he has a sexy body, he has a great personality, and loves kids. what more can i ever want.
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sorry but thinknig about it, the chances are pretty slim of you MARRYING mark wahlberg. seriosuly, go volunteer or read or something...spend your time doing things that are worthwhile. you really think mark is gonna read these messages? heck no. if i were him, id find better things to do with my time. sure we all love and adore mark, but girl, i doubt you're gonna actually hook up with him, never mind having his kIDS. yeah i like to fantasize too, but its a waste of time, if i had to choose the perfect woman in hollywood for mark wahlberg it would be ANGELINA JOLIE. i dont think theres another more interesting actress, and shes absolutely beautiful, tooo bad she's married. hahaha im a hypocrite since ive just spent my time writing this sh*t up but whatever. im telling you, mark WILL TOTALLY end up with angelina jolie, if hes goiung for a gf in hollywood
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 10:48 pm
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what r u talking about?? marrying him?? who said nething about that?? and if sum1 did, you dont ahve to crash their dreams cuz i mean it's not liek its' hurting ne1 to have them think that. I don't think i'll ever meet him or have ne sort of contact with him but it is fun to look up to sum1 like that. I wouldn't post messages here cuz i thought he was gonna read em, but cuz i'm bored and i like sayin waht's on my mind to ppl who agree with me. who know's maybe he does read these things, and he's probably laughing at u so just if you have sumthin to say like that say it sumwhere else, k?
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Whoa, didn't I just post a message about being positive and having some tact when posting here?
jenyaznakedsmile you do have some good points about helping out and true it's highly unlikely any of us would be anything more than fans, but that post was kinda out of the blue.
I'm not sure how old you are, but I remember when I was a kid (around 11) and I was convince Donnie was the one for me. I got over it when I became older. Try to remember Mark's fan range from 0-100 years old.
BigS24 is right, a majority of us posters are here because it's a safe place to discuss Mark without the put downs many of us got (or still endure) from friends or even family.
The only thing we should be discouraging is hate and stalkers.
BTW, just noticed some joined after my rant. Just go to General discussions and go back a few pages and look for my post named 'Admin rant- stop the hating/fighting' to figure out what I'm talking about.
And for the love of my sanity read the FAQs. The link's in the topic list of every section, next to the little mailslot icon.
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goodness gracious, wanna guess how old i am?? take a guess, i SOOO dare you. guys, chill aiight that was just my opinion no need to attack me im sure ya'll arent APES. i was just checking to see just how much youd people POUNCE on me....NOT
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he so doesnt read them, maybe someone who does read them TELLS him about them but im pretty sure he doesnt read em, and if he does, looking on what someone else here said about me, id be flattered if he did laugh at anything i said, im guessing he definitely wont. im sure he'd much rather go visit his mother.
[hmm i wonder how many people are gonna bite me THIS time}
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I'm sorry, i don't wanna get on ne1's back in here, i mean mark wahlberg.com...now that's a HAPPY place, not one to yell at ppl at... so i'm sorry for creating ne type of difficulty. thanks
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omg...is anyone hungry?
quick question...does mark EVER like, go to the cape or the vineyard or nantucket
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Posted Nov 09, 2011 - 9:02 PM:
I've completed a first pass of the script for "The Vale of Glencoe". I'd like to give it one more pass, and then post it for comments. There are quite a few places where I could use some help.
What's the best way to go about this? Post a text file somewhere so people can download it? Post it here in the forum? If so, what, 5 minutes per post To make it easy for others to offer suggestions/corrections?
Sorry if this information is already here, but I can't find where any guidelines have already been posted.
(I hope nobody has done this script, already, I'll be seriously bummed.)
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 2:37 PM:
Nobody's done this one. There are no real guidelines. When you're ready, if you want, go ahead and post the whole thing in this thread and we can sort it out from there. Or if you want to do it in sections, that's okay, too.
Thanks for your help.
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 7:25 PM:
Okay. Here it is. That parts that I am unsure of are inside square brackets. Some, I am pretty sure of and I just need another pair of ears to confirm, but others I haven't a clue. Where possible, I included what the words sound like to me even if the words make no sense whatever.
I also added a time stamp for each set of square brackets to make it easier for others to comment.
And of course, there may be other mistakes that I don't know about. Any comments are welcome... even if just to say I've got it all wrong.
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 7:27 PM:
Quiet, Please script #97
"The Vale of Glencoe"
Written by: Wyllis Cooper
Broadcast: 1949-04-24, American Broadcasting Company
CHAPPELL: Quiet, Please... Quiet, Please.
NARRATOR: The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for today is called "The Vale of Glencoe".
ALAN: (NARRATING) You go right through Santa Barbara on the coast road, then 6 miles later, at Goleta, 150 branches off to the right, up through Gaviota Pass. Named for the seagull that Gaspar de Portolá shot there in 1769. The road leads up through the Santa Ynez Mountains, up to the old mission Santa Inés, that's been there since 1804. And they say the cactus in the garden there was planted by old Fray Estevan Tápis himself.
Now, the way from Goleta, up over the mountains, is a very pleasant way.
[1:33 - begin 44 seconds of very poor audio quality - all words approximate]
ALAN (REMEMBERING): And my mind's eye sees the gray-green sycamores along the ever-rising highway and the hills above me reach for the blue bowl of the sky, and the hills are pleasant when the winter comes and the rains lay their hands on them to turn them from brown to green.
I would remember the road in the late winter, in February-time; short afternoons. It's a good time to remember them, my friend.
It's a good time to remember them -- and the girl beside me as we ride along the groved highways to Santa Inés of an afternoon in February, in 1944. I'll have you remember that date. I found it very important.
ALAN (REMEMBERING): The girl beside me in the car along the road... the innocent hard-worn road that was first trod by the old Franciscan Friars more than two centuries ago... the winter green of the hills and the blue of the sky... and an uneasiness [hurt] in my heart... a premonition of darkness and haunted places half remembered... so that the girl felt the edges of my mood and fell silent.
And after a while, spoke. Spoke as the shadows of the grove of sycamores slid along the length of the car and we rode for a moment in the shade.
IONA: Tired, Alan?
ALAN: No... Not tired.
IONA: Sad about something?
ALAN: Eh, I don't know what it is, I... I feel depressed.
IONA: Been working too hard at the studio, maybe.
ALAN: Maybe.
IONA: (ENERGETICALLY) Relax!
ALAN: I don't... I don't seem to be able to relax.
IONA: Beautiful afternoon, no worries.
ALAN: I know.
IONA: None of my business, Alan, but... could I help? Maybe?
ALAN: I don't know what's the matter with me.
IONA: Lonesome for the war?
ALAN: Hardly.
IONA: I mean, maybe you feel strange being out of it after all that...
ALAN: Huh... No, I had all I wanted of that.
IONA: Want to talk about it? (PAUSE) How are the girls out in the South Pacific? Pretty?
ALAN: I didn't see any.
IONA: Well, tell me something. How did you get enough gas to take a trip like this with an 'A' card?
ALAN: I'm a wounded hero! I get gas.
IONA: I feel a little guilty riding around burning up gas like this.
ALAN: Well, if you'd seen all the gas wasted that I've seen, it wouldn't bother you.
IONA: Mmm. I'm sure.
ALAN: Am I getting you down?
IONA: (UNCONVINCINGLY) Oh, no.
ALAN: I'm sorry.
IONA: Don't mind me. (PAUSE) You have a good time at the Hollywood Canteen last night?
ALAN: I got stuck in the corner with a radio actress with [orchids].
IONA: Ung. I spent most of the evening with a little English sailor, but not English, Scottish. Royal Navy, though.
ALAN: Talk Scots with him?
IONA: About Scotland.
ALAN: You're Scots, aren't you? (PAUSE) That where you got that name?
IONA: My father and mother were born there.
ALAN: That name?
IONA: Oh, Iona? Yes, of course. Iona's a Campbell name.
ALAN: Island or something.
IONA: Mmm. An island. That's right. I remember my father used to tell me about an excursion boat that used to run up to the islands in the Firth of Clyde...
ALAN: Whatever that is.
IONA: ...and the name of the boat was Iona. And there was a Canadian on it who had a routine about buying the boat. When I was a little girl I used to go into hysterics when my father told me how his partner would ask him the boat's name and he'd say "Iona," and the straight man would say, "Well, keep 'er, but what's the boat's name?"
ALAN: (LAUGHS) Iona.
IONA: Sure. (PAUSE) The right name of "The Campbells Are Coming" is "Baile Ionaraora".
ALAN: What's that mean?
IONA: I haven't the slightest idea. Aren't you Scottish, too?
ALAN: MacDonald!
IONA: Oh. Of course.
ALAN: All I know about Scots, though, is I go into Lucy's and ask for Glenlivet, finest Scotch whiskey in town. Only place in Hollywood you can get it.
IONA: See! You're feeling better again!
ALAN: What?
IONA: I said you're feeling better again.
ALAN: (PAUSE) I'm sorry. I didn't hear what you said.
IONA: Come on, boy, wake up! Your name is Alan MacDonald, and you're driving a car along California 150, and we're going to see Santa Inés Mission.
ALAN: I'm sorry. I was thinking.
IONA: 'bout what?
ALAN: You said something about "The Campbells Are Coming".
IONA: The what?
ALAN: The pipe music.
IONA: Pipe? (PAUSE) Oh! Oh, bagpipes!
ALAN: Yes.
IONA: What about bagpipes?
ALAN: (SLOWLY) That's in the dream... too.
IONA: (YELLING) Look out, Alan! You're going off the road!
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) The words of the old man come back to me slowly. The old man in the dream, [inside of] kilts. Kilts? No. Feileadh-beags of blue and green and black - the ancient tartan of the Campbells. The sound of war pipes, ribbons fluttering from the great black drones of the war pipes, and the skirl of the chanters above the sobs of the women. The sound of men's voices singing above the wails of the women.
ALAN: (SINGING) The Great Argyle he goes before, He makes the cannons and guns to roar...
IONA: (CALLING) Alan? (PAUSE) Alan?
ALAN: I'm... all right. What happened?
IONA: Darling. (NERVOUS LAUGHTER) You drove right off the road.
ALAN: I did?
IONA: Look at your beautiful car.
IONA: Are you hurt?
ALAN: Me? (PAUSE) I'm all right.
IONA: You sure?
ALAN: Me? Yeah. You? You all right? Are you all right?
IONA: I just bumped my head.
ALAN: Let me see. (PAUSE) Gee.
IONA: But... look at your car.
ALAN: Smashed all to...
IONA: Now what?
ALAN: Gee, I'm sorry Iona. I... I don't know what happened.
IONA: You... just seemed to pass out, kinda.
ALAN: I... I don't know.
IONA: You got out of the hospital too soon, Alan.
ALAN: Huh. I guess I must have.
IONA: Well... sit down. There'll be another car along right away.
ALAN: I better...
IONA: Here...
ALAN: Thanks.
IONA: Okay.
ALAN: I'm awful sorry, Iona.
IONA: Think nothing of it.
ALAN: What'd I do? Just... just black out?
IONA: You just sat there with your eyes turned up. I never saw anything like it. I...
ALAN: I'm sorry.
IONA: And singing.
ALAN: Singing?
IONA: You said you didn't know anything about [Scotch things].
ALAN: Huh?
IONA: Where'd you learn the words to "The Campbells Are Coming"?
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) In the dream, the black rocks, the tortured black rocks and the high crags above, with the mist drifting down the glen and the waters descending and flowing [upon the] marshy beds where the ghillies dig the brown peat from the ground. The place where Man was not meant to exist. A place primeval and awful, death-haunted and grisly beyond my words. The very path, blood-soaked and horrible. [Clinging] back the light of day and the good yellow sunshine, seeming the very mouth of blackest hell itself.
Where shall I... waking... see such desolation? Such... such dismal horror?
MACIAIN: 'Tis the very gate of death.
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) The voice of the old man.
MACIAIN: Glencoe.
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) The tall old man with the white hair.
MACIAIN: Glencoe.
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) The old man, the old fox.
MACIAIN: MacDonald of Glencoe.
IONA: It's going to get dark before long, Alan.
ALAN: What time is it?
IONA: My... watch stopped.
ALAN: Somebody will be along.
IONA: I hope so. You cold? I am.
ALAN: Put on my coat.
IONA: No. No, you're the sick man.
ALAN: I'm not sick.
IONA: Well, you...
ALAN: I don't know what happened to me, Iona.
IONA: Head feel all right?
ALAN: Of course... My legs are getting stiff. Want to walk a little ways? Somebody will be along.
IONA: If you feel strong enough.
ALAN: Oh. I'm all right.
IONA: Help you up?
ALAN: Thanks.
IONA: Which way?
ALAN: Well, we were going this way. As a matter of fact, I think Las Cruces post office is up the road a piece. Not far.
IONA: I've never been up here.
ALAN: I have. Should be somebody there, anyway. We can sit down, maybe use a phone.
IONA: Wait for me.
ALAN: Come on! (PAUSE) Those are no shoes to go for a walk in, Iona.
IONA: (LAUGHS) I didn't expect to take a walk, [darling].
ALAN: Well, I'm so sorry.
IONA: Oh, forget it. Let's [step out a little], I'm freezing.
ALAN: Come on.
ALAN: Don't sing that!
IONA: Wh... why? What's the matter?
ALAN: I don't like it!
IONA: (ANNOYED) What!? (APOLOGIZES) Sorry.
ALAN: Thanks. (GROANS)
IONA: I'm worried about you, Alan.
ALAN: I'm all right.
IONA: I know, but...
ALAN: What?
IONA: (SURPRISED) You're a nice guy.
ALAN: You're a nice girl, Iona.
IONA: Thanks, Mac. (PAUSE) What about that dream?
ALAN: Dream?
IONA: Nightmare, hm?
ALAN: I... can't remember, Iona.
IONA: Can't?
ALAN: No.
IONA: Won't!
ALAN: Now, look little girl, I've been psyched by experts.
IONA: Not trying to psych you.
ALAN: Excuse me.
IONA: Ach.
ALAN: Little sensitive, I guess.
IONA: Oh, stop it.
ALAN: Well, a guy gets his head batted in. You know, all the [docs]. This guy okay for sound? You know.
IONA: You shouldn't have gone back to the studio so soon after getting out of the hospital.
ALAN: I know, but... but they need training films. And I'm the guy who knows how to be the big fat technical advisor. Only...
IONA: Only what?
ALAN: (SIGH) I don't like to have people looking at me, wondering if I've got all my buttons or not.
ALAN: Yeah, you can laugh.
IONA: Ah, you're all right, baby.
ALAN: All right? I go into a trance and drive off the road with my best girl alongside me.
IONA: What did you say?
ALAN: I said I go into a trance and...
IONA: No. The last part of it.
ALAN: Huh? Well...
IONA: About the "best girl", that part.
ALAN: Yeah. Well... huh?
IONA: Could be you meant that, Alan?
ALAN: You don't think I'm off my rocker, a little? Huh?
IONA: I sure don't! What do you mean?
ALAN: Well... If you don't think so, then I meant it.
IONA: Alan?
ALAN: What?
IONA: Would you have a kiss for your "best girl"?
ALAN (REMEMBERING): In the dream... the raw, red smell of fresh spilled blood... and the smell of smoke pouring from the burning houses. In the dream the blackness of early dawn reddened with the flames from the burning houses. In the dream, the cries of the dying, the women and all the men and the children. In the dream, the voice of the old one, the long-dead old one, the chief, the MacDonald of Glencoe.
MACIAIN: In the winter, and the snow, deep on the moors. Along came frae Edinburgh with the word that all the clans must sign the pledge of loyalty to William, before the winter was spent. And the word came to Glencoe after all the others, for they hated the MacDonalds. Aye, hoping the word would be too late, and we could not sign and the lowlanders would come and take us. I, mind ye... I, MacIain MacDonald of Glencoe, I braved all the winter snow, and I came to fort William, and said I would sign the paper. And they sent me away to the sheriff of Inveraray. And, again, through the snow I went, and I set my name to the paper, for the sake of all the MacDonalds of Glencoe that they might not forfeit their lives. Ah, and I was content, for they would live, and there will be peace among us all, highland and lowland alike. Aye, and the lums reeked in peace in the morning agin the high dred rock of the glen.
ALAN (REMEMBERING): The voice of the old man, the chief. The old fox in my dream. And in my dream...
...the wailing of the pipes, the MacDonald pipes, the lament for Glencoe.
IONA: Was that thunder? Alan, was that...
ALAN: I've never heard thunder in Southern California before.
IONA: It's going to storm. It's so dark. Oh, come on, Alan, let's run. I don't want to get caught in it.
ALAN: It is thunder, Iona.
IONA: What's the matter with you? You've [heard guns].
ALAN: I don't like it.
IONA: You scared? You scared, honey?
ALAN: Yeah, thunder and lightning always frightened me when I was a kid back East, I guess I never got over it.
IONA: You take hold of your best girl now, and she'll protect you.
ALAN: For that, I thank you.
IONA: I don't see any lightning, though.
ALAN: You never see lightning in California.
IONA: You California characters.
ALAN: We're all right.
IONA: You're all right.
IONA: Listen to that.
ALAN: Wish we had some place to get inside.
IONA: We should have stayed in the car.
ALAN: It's too far to start back there. Anyway, it would be just a little uncomfortable standing on a [name of automobile?] in the ditch.
IONA: Poor car.
ALAN: Poor you.
IONA: We ought to be getting to that country post office you said, Las Cruces, wasn't it?
ALAN: It seems to be farther than I thought.
IONA: Sure you know where you are?
ALAN: I've been up here a million times.
IONA: The road always as... bad as this?
ALAN: It's not so bad when you're driving.
IONA: Huh. Should have worn my moccasins.
ALAN: Why?
IONA: I keep falling into the ruts with these high heels.
ALAN: Maybe there'll be somebody at Las Cruces, we can... get a cup of coffee or something.
IONA: Matter? You cold, too?
ALAN: That breeze is fresh.
IONA: Wait till the rain starts. Get good and cold, then.
ALAN: We'll stop under a tree and build a fire.
IONA: (ANNOYED) What tree?
ALAN: Well... I see what you mean. (HESITANT LAUGHTER) Trees everywhere, except where we are. When it rains.
IONA: [STRUGGLING] Oh. Whew!
ALAN: What's the matter?
IONA: [HEAVY BREATHING] Well, I'm... not used to walking.
ALAN: Want to rest?
IONA: No. We'd better get along. The rain'll hit any minute.
ALAN: It's dark. Say, maybe it's night coming on.
IONA: No. It... It was two o'clock just as we came up the hill at Goleta. It must be about four, now. (GASPS) Ouch!
ALAN: What?
IONA: I stepped into another one of those darned ruts.
ALAN: Ruts?
IONA: I told you, my high heals.
ALAN: I heard you the first time. I thought you were kidding.
IONA: Kidding?
ALAN: There's no ruts in a concrete road.
IONA: Concrete? Where's concrete?
ALAN: Why... Hey!
IONA: Don't you know where you are?
ALAN: Where'd we get off the main road.
IONA: Isn't it...
ALAN: We must have got off it somewhere.
IONA: But this is a wagon road—a dirt road.
ALAN: Well, how do you like that? You and me we're lost.
IONA: (ALARMED) Oh, no, Alan!
ALAN: Baby, I've really fixed you up, today, haven't I?
IONA: Wait.
ALAN: What?
IONA: Listen!
IONA: I thought...
ALAN: Wait.
IONA: No.
ALAN: I guess not.
IONA AND ALAN TOGETHER: What did it sound like to you?
IONA: I thought it... was the sound of pipes.
ALAN: The sound of MacDonald coronach abune the braes.
IONA: Why, Alan. You sounded just like a real Scotsman when you said that.
ALAN (REMEMBERING): The coronach of my dreams. The old sorrowful wail of the pipes in the dim darkness echoing through the grim gate to the vale of Glencoe. Sorrowing for the MacDonalds who died. And the voice of the old leader, old MacIain, the old fox, as he told his dreadful tale in my dream...
MACIAIN: And I had set my name to the paper, as I said to ye, young MacDonald. And our people had, I thought, the protection of the crown. And we were to be left to dwell in peace, among the crags of [darkling] Glencoe. But there are, [aye, many] that hate the MacDonald, and would see us all dead in our graves, and they are the [aons] that took council among their selves to plot our doom and destruction. For I, MacIain, the old fox, I had out-foxed the enemies of the MacDonalds by signing their oath. And I'll say to ye that I meant to keep it, though all the MacDonalds have been liegemen to James and his line. But now, William, the Dutchman rules. Ach, and Jamie's fled. Thus there was one Dalrymple in Edinburgh. And when he examined the paper, it seems that the name of MacIain MacDonald of Glencoe had been expunged frae the paper, so that we were still held traitors. Though we knew it not. So, when the soldiers of the Duke of Argyle's regiment came to Glencoe, and Campbell of Glenlyon leading them, we welcomed them and took them into our homes and treated them as honored guests. (PIPE MUSIC STARTS) Aye, every man of them was a Campbell. And their pipes be forever roaring out the chant about the great Argyle.
And when the MacDonald pipes skirled, ach, it was only the old reels and the strathspeys. And the MacDonald pìobaireachd was never heard for the roaring of the Campbell war pipes in the glen. And the dismal black crags of the glen gave back their sound, the Baile Ionaraora and MacDonald [aires]...
IONA: Alan?
ALAN: Stay close to me, darling.
IONA: Lightning!
ALAN: I saw it.
IONA: Did you see... great, high, dismal black rocks, I saw Alan? Great, horrible, jagged crags and a stream splashing down among them. Oh, Alan!
ALAN: I saw it.
IONA: Alan, where are we?
ALAN: We're lost.
IONA: Alan. Listen. (PAUSE) I do hear it! I do hear the pipes. Alan?... Alan?
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) In the darkness. In the lightning-splashed darkness, and the rain and the mist, many things are revealed. The coronach of the MacDonalds. The sobbing, sorrowful music from the blackened crags. All is now clear to me. The dream returns to me. And it is morning of the February day two-and-a-half centuries ago in the vale of Glencoe. And I see the soldiers of the Campbells in the grey of the early dawn as they grope their several ways to the homes where they'd been honoured guests. And the glint of little lights on the naked claymore blades bodes ill for the MacDonalds.
A child laughs. And calls to the companion of yesterday. The claymore slashes down at him and a massacre has begun. The Campbells are everywhere slashing, burning, shooting down the helpless ones who yesterday bade them welcome at their firesides. "Put all to the sword that none may escape", the secret order said to them. And the Campbells did well their work. And this is the dream I could not remember, save for the old man, the old fox, [that] fell, the last of them all, beside his hearth that morning in Glencoe. In my dream I heard his dying words: "Cursed be ye all!" And the claymore of the Campbell struck him fair between the eyes. An unarmed man. But still in the dream, his voice went on: "You are a MacDonald. Never forget it. Never forget that the MacDonalds of Glencoe shall be revenged against the Campbells. Never shall one of the name of Campbell enter the dark, the blood-haunted vale of Glencoe. Never, never, never! And when ye hear the coronach of the MacDonalds...
... Remember!"
ALAN: Don't
ALAN: Don't cry, darling.
IONA: I'm afraid, Alan.
ALAN: We'll be all right.
IONA: Listen. (PAUSE) Listen, the pipes again.
ALAN: No.
IONA: Don't you hear it?
ALAN: I... I hear it.
IONA: Alan, hold me.
ALAN: There's somebody coming.
IONA: (SCARED) No!
ALAN: Yes.
IONA: Wh...
ALAN: See him? See him in the lightning flash?
IONA: Why, it... It's a man with a bagpipe. What in--?!
ALAN: Wait, Iona. (PAUSE)
ALAN: (CALLS OUT) Hey!
IONA: An old Scotsman that lives...
ALAN: Come on. Let's go talk to him. Maybe he...
IONA: Wait for me!
ALAN: (CALLS OUT) Hey friend.
ALAN: (TO IONA) Watch your step, Iona.
IONA: He scares me. Ask him where we are and... let's get out of here.
ALAN: Excuse me, sir. (WALKS CLOSER) Would you mind telling us where we are? I... smashed my car and we... I guess we got lost.
MACIAIN: You'd any ken where ye are, then, MacDonald?
ALAN: Why... How did you... I've heard that...
MACIAIN: Aye. Ye heard my voice. I am MacIain MacDonald.
ALAN: ...in my dream.
MACIAIN: Welcome, home, MacDonald. You're in the vale of Glencoe.
ALAN: Glencoe?
MACIAIN: Welcome home. You. And your lady.
IONA: Alan?
ALAN: Wait, Iona.
MACIAIN: (ANGRY) Iona!?
IONA: I am Iona Campbell.
ALAN: (REMEMBERING) On a February morning, in 1694, the Campbells marched away from Glencoe and Inverlochy, and not a MacDonald was left living... On a February day, two hundred and fifty years after, they found me sitting beside the body of Iona Campbell, under a sycamore tree, two miles from Las Cruces. There is no place, in all that mountain region, that remotely resembles the vale of Glencoe, where no Campbell may enter and live. Goodbye.
ANNOUNCER: The title of the Quiet, Please story you have just heard is "The Vale of Glencoe", which was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, and the man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell.
CHAPPELL: And J. Pat O'Malley was MacIain MacDonald, Helen Choate played Iona. Music for Quiet, Please, as usual, was by Albert Buhrman. The pipe music was by pipe major James Petrie. Now, for a word about next week, our writer-director, Wyllis Cooper.
COOPER: Thank you for listening to Quiet, Please. For next week, I have a story for you about black, or at least dark-grey, magic. It's called "As in a Glass, Darkly".
CHAPPELL: And so, until next week at this same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chappell.
Edited by sirdle on Nov 16, 2011 - 4:53 PM
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Posted Nov 11, 2011 - 12:27 AM:
Wow, great job.
I listened to the first half of the episode and here are my best guesses:
Fray Estevan Tápis
And my mind's eye sees the gray-green sycamores along the ever-rising highway and the hills above me reach for the blue bowl of the sky, and the hills are pleasant when the winter comes and the rains lay their hands on them to turn them from brown to green.
I would remember the road in the late winter, in February-time; short afternoons. It's a good time to remember them, my friend.
It's a good time to remember them -- and the girl beside me as we ride along the groved highways to Santa Inés of an afternoon in February, in 1944. I'll have you remember that date. I found it very important.
uneasiness hurt
[4:20 - I think this is "you'd" instead of "you've."]
... if you'd seen all the gas wasted ...
That's right.
[5:00 - I think this is "Oh" instead of "I..."]
Oh, Iona? Yes, of course.
skrill - (archaic) a screech or shrill sound; to cry in a high note
[9:24 - I think this is "Scotch things" instead of "Scots singing."]
Scotch things.
upon the
Such...such dismal horror?
'Tis the very gate of death.
The tall old man with the white hair.
docs - short for doctors
coronach - a dirge, sung or played on bagpipes
J. Pat O'Malley
I'll try to post more later.
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Posted Nov 12, 2011 - 2:54 PM:
Thanks! I made the corrections you suggested. They all made perfect sense to me. Your suggestion for the beginning with the really poor audio quality was inspired! Don't know how you figured that out.
And I was searching everywhere for "corronaught" (coronach), but I didn't try that spelling. I couldn't even tell if it was one word or a phrase.
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Posted Nov 12, 2011 - 11:11 PM:
I don't know how I figured that out, either!
Here are some more thoughts:
[4:12 "'A' card." --- yes; it's a type of wartime gas rationing card]
The old man in the dream, inside of kilts.
[In "The Low Road, another QP script about Scotland that drops a lot of Scots lingo and that was posted by Astro1 year ago, the term "feileadh-beags" is anglicized as both "philibeg" and "filibeg."]
[7:14 - I'm wrong about "skrill." It should be "skirl," which also turns up in "The Low Road."]
[9:26 "Huh?" --- yes]
[9:52 "ghillies" --- yes; they're manservants]
[10:05 "beyond my words" --- yes]
[10:11 "Clinging" --- sounds correct]
Let's step out a little. I'm freezing.
[16:10 "lum" - a chimney; "reek" - smoke]
Ah, and I was content, for they would live, and there will be peace among us all, highland and lowland alike. Aye, and the lums reeked in peace in the morning agin the high dred rock of the glen.
IONA: It's going to storm.
[17:22 "heard guns" --- yes]
Anyway, it'd be just a little uncomfortable standing on a [name of an automobile??]
IONA: Poor car.
[20:18 - More terms from "The Low Road."]
The sound of MacDonald coronach abune the braes.
[20:42 "gate" / "sorrowing" --- yes]
[21:09 "darkling" --- sounds correct]
[21:20 possibly "aon"? - Scots Gaelic for "one"]
...and they are the aons who took...
[21:36 "liegemen" - subject of a sovereign or feudal lord]
And I'll say to ye I meant to keep it, though all the MacDonalds have been liegemen to James and his line.
[21:48 "Thus" --- yes]
[23:02 "aires" - musical airs; It sounds to me like MacIain's voice might be faded too soon, before he can finish his sentence.]
...gave back their sound, the Baile Ionaraora and MacDonald aires...
[25:06 "that" instead of "who" - "hearth" instead of "house"]
...that fell, the last of them all, beside his hearth...
"Cursed be ye all!" [instead of "Cursed be all!"]
What in--?!
[27:10 "I've" instead of "I"]
I've heard that--
[27:16 "dream" instead of "dreams"]
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Posted Nov 16, 2011 - 4:58 PM:
Thanks so much for all the suggestions! I updated the script. It seems like it might be ready to post on the script page.
The only suggestion I didn't make was the anglicized spelling for feileadh-beag. Since that part of the tale takes place in 1694, I like the idea of using the old spelling... but if you feel strongly about it, I'll change it.
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Posted Nov 17, 2011 - 5:30 PM:
No, I like the old spelling, too.
It's terrific of you to do this, thank you. I'm going to have to clear some free time and tackle another one myself.
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Posted Dec 09, 2011 - 8:59 PM:
I notice that kingrr posted the script over at his website. He cleaned up many of the "stage directions" quite nicely... so they are more precise and descriptive.
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Rose Mary Sabo-Brown, Sabo's widow, and George Sabo, Sabo's brother, receive a framed picture and letter honoring Sabo as defense leaders posthumously induct the Vietnam-era soldier into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon.
DOD photo by Glenn Fawcett
By Amaani Lyle
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today lauded a war hero whose gallantry earned the Medal of Honor and whose life exemplified the 20th century.
Panetta spoke at the induction of Army Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr. into the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.
Sabo, a rifleman with the 101st Airborne Division, was killed in eastern Cambodia during the Vietnam War. His widow, Rose Mary Sabo-Brown, accepted his posthumous award of the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama yesterday in a White House ceremony.
"Specialist Les Sabo's life encompassed three continents and a sweeping arc of history," Panetta said. "His story was, in many ways, the story of the 20th century."
Sabo saved the lives of several fellow soldiers in Company B, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry, when his platoon was ambushed near the Se San River in eastern Cambodia on May 10, 1970. Immediately preceding his death, he shielded a comrade from an enemy grenade and silenced a machine-gun bunker.
"He was a remarkable soldier who displayed the kind of courage and bravery that few in history have been able to muster," Panetta said, adding gratitude for "his legacy of service and sacrifice that still burns brightly in the millions of men and women who serve [the] nation in uniform."
Sabo's story, the secretary said, represents the intersection of immigration and ambition that is a thread that runs through American history. Born in Austria right after World War II, Sabo was raised by parents who left Soviet-occupied Hungary to make their way to the United States.
"They joined millions of immigrants, including my own parents, who left Italy just a decade earlier, in pursuing a basic dream: the dream of giving their children a better life," Panetta said.
Sabo soon realized his "American dream" once the family settled into western Pennsylvania, surrounded by coal mines and steel mills. There, he became an avid athlete and met his wife. Sabo's ingrained values of service and sacrifice, Panetta said, would play out when his family's adopted country called him to serve in April 1969.
"He answered that call and put on the uniform of the United States Army," Panetta said. "In an instant, he went from average to exceptional." Sabo joined the storied 506th Infantry Regiment, the same unit that had led the way in liberating his native continent from the grip of fascism two decades earlier.
"Deploying to Vietnam, Les found himself in the thick of a tough fight," Panetta said. "And within five months, he had his encounter with destiny."
The secretary detailed Sabo's actions during the Mother's Day ambush that took his life and noted their importance to the soldiers he saved and their families. "Only the generations of people who will walk the Earth because of what Les did that day can fully convey the importance of his courage and bravery," he said.
Even as the Vietnam generation ages, Panetta said, the country's recognition of their service and sacrifice will not wane. He added that he plans to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during Memorial Day weekend in commemoration of the war's 50th anniversary.
"We will always remember and carry in our hearts the more than 58,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen whose names are inscribed on that wall for eternity," he said.
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Funding Rift Pits Active Army Against Reserves Minneapolis Star Tribune | Feb 03, 2014 National Guard armories could be shuttered and towns hit by tornadoes or floods couldnt count on a Guard soldier to stand watch. There may be fewer National Guard helicopters to help during forest fires. A widening -- and unusually polarized -- rift over funding is pitting the countrys active-duty military against its Guard and Reserve comrades in arms. After more than a decade of war in which the Guard and Reserves battled side by side with their active-duty colleagues, the fight over funding in a postwar environment is quickly getting ugly. Its over who will take more of a hit from cuts in troop size and funding and who provides more bang for the buck. It was made more intense recently when the Armys top general appeared to dismiss the role of the countrys Guard units, saying that Guard soldiers only train 39 days a year and that they were not interchangeable with the active Army, which he said maintains a higher level of readiness. The comments from Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno drew the ire of Congress, including Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., a retired command sergeant major of the Minnesota Guard. Walz and Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former Marine who still serves in the Marine Reserve, called Odiernos comments irresponsible. At its heart, the argument is about who will emerge victorious in a peacetime world. The active-duty Army now has about 540,000 soldiers and is scheduled to reduce its ranks to 490,00 by 2017. At the national level, the Guards current troop levels of 350,000 could be reduced by sequestration and other cuts to 315,00 by 2017. In Minnesota, that could mean the loss of about 1,000 positions in the National Guards 13,000-member force. Leaders of the Minnesota National Guard warn that the consequences could hit some of the most visible aspects of the Guards domestic mission. In addition, the active-duty Army has proposed assuming all tactical aviation functions, which translates to taking control of such things as the Apache attack helicopter, which is armed with machine guns and missiles. The threats involve the National Guards Apache units in 10 states, where the Army has suggested a plan to move the Apaches, the worlds most advanced attack helicopters, and Lakota light-utility helicopters from the Guard to active-duty forces. In Florida last week, Guard leaders also raised concerns about the loss of as many as 1,000 Guard members, 10 percent of its force. The Minnesota Guard does not have attack helicopters. If Guard units from other states are forced to give up theirs, though, its likely the Minnesota Guard will be forced turn over some of its helicopters, like its Blackhawks, to compensate for the loss. You might not see as many helicopters available to fight fires or floods, said Brigadier Gen. Neal Loidolt, commander of the Guards 34th Infantry Division. You might not see as many soldiers available to provide security at tornadoes or walk the dikes of the Red River Valley. It could also mean that areas in towns in our state where youve been accustomed to seeing soldiers in units, you might not see soldiers in units in those places anymore. Each state, the three U.S. territories and the District of Columbia has an Army National Guard. The units are sovereign organizations responding to state leadership. But they can be called up, or federalized, to active duty during wartime. In the past 10 years, they made up 28 percent of the 2.3 million servicemembers who deployed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Minnesota Guards 34th Infantry Divisions 1st Brigade was the longest-serving brigade combat team of any unit during the Iraq war, when it was activated for 22 months and spent a total of 16 months in Iraq. I suspect that would not have happened if it werent a comparable or more than comparable Army brigade combat team, Loidolt said. Big Army vs. locals Odiernos comments last month renewed a traditional schism between Big Army and the Guard and Reserve that many thought had disappeared. Forty minutes into a wide-ranging question-and-answer period at the National Press Club, Odierno said the Guard would not be capable of taking on more of the active-duty Armys responsibilities because the full-time force brings a higher level of readiness, which, he said, costs more money to maintain. Shortly afterward, the president of the National Guard Association of the United States, the Guards lobbying arm, called the remarks disrespectful and simply not true. Walz said in an interview Friday that Odierno has yet to respond to his letter. A spokesman for the Pentagon said Odierno was traveling and unavailable for comment. In the letter, Walz, a co-chairman of the House National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus, pointed to figures that he said show that the cost to maintain one active-duty component infantry brigade combat team is about twice that of a reserve component because Guard units dont require such things as subsidized base housing, they train less often, and they are called on only when needed. This is quantifiable, Walz said. When were making sure the first priority is this nations national security, but making sure it is in the most cost effective manner, you cant dispute the facts. To make the comment that they are not ready sets the wrong tone. Walz remembers a time when the Guard was regarded as nothing more than weekend warriors, left with aging equipment or sometimes no equipment at all. At one point after the first Gulf War, Walz said his Guard artillery unit had to conduct drills by taping the outline of a howitzer cannon on the gym floor and using toilet paper rolls as the powder charge. That was a horrible way to do business, it was a horrible way to do national security and it was very wasteful, Walz said. It should not be a pick-and-choose, but when it got tight it appears the Pentagon slipped back into its ways.
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New civil IDs will be issued for expatriates with visa 20, the document issued for domestic helpers and maids, said the Director General of the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) Musaad Al-Asousi here yesterday.
The new civil IDs will replace those that have already expired, said Al-Asousi in a press statement, adding that there was no need to renew the cards if they were still valid. Al-Asousi said that the new card will not include an electronic chip, indicating that to obtain the new civil ID, expatriates with visa 20 need to bring the same required documents in addition to a new photograph.
In regards to the working hours at PACI during Ramadan, the Director General said that work during daytime will be extended till 5:30 pm, noting that evening work hours will be from 9 pm till 12 am. Citizens and expatriates are advised to collect their civil IDs on time and as soon as possible to lessen load on the machines issuing the cards and facilitate procedures on PACI employees and clients, said Al-Asousi.
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london clojure dojo
(Last night I went to the London clojure dojo.)
-- quiche picture credit to @otfrom (used without permission ;))
(. javax.swing.JOptionPane (showMessageDialog nil
(reduce str ["Hello" "London" "Clojure" "Dojo"])))
This dojo was hosted by @otfrom and @rrees at the ThoughtWorks offices (many thanks to them). They put on a nice spread of quiche and sandwiches. Here's some of the quiche... which was nicer than it looks in this photo.) (
-- quiche picture credit to @otfrom (used without permission ;))
There was a github repo setup https://github.com/ldnclj/
footpad before the session with the code from previous weeks.
After grazing, and drinking of softdrinks - the night started with a mini talk on cake (the tasty build tool + enhanced repl(interpreter) + kitchen sink for clojure) by the co-organiser of the dojo (Robert Rees from ThoughtWorks).
A programmer from Deutsche bank was there recruiting clojure programmers, and getting involved in the dojo too. It kind of reminded me of python in the early days... where you could count the number of python jobs around on one hand (and two feet worth of toes). People were talking about how they got a chance to use clojure at their work for a small project, or how they were thinking of sneaking a little bit of clojure into their projects.
Anyone who's been to the London python dojo would be familiar with the format (@otfrom is involved in that one too).
We were split into teams of five, and then huddled around the keyboard... then began to scratch our heads. I'd only started learning clojure earlier that day (well I think I've read about it before, but not in depth) (so there was a lot to learn. Luckily a few of the people in my group had more experience with clojure.
During these sessions, it's great to see how other people work in their environments. It's also interesting to see how people think in clojure. Everyone in our group got a chance to type at the keyboard, and we almost got our task done. In our group we used some tests, map+reduce and doall functions as well as list, array and map data structures. We even used a few cake commands (autotest and killall).
At the end of an hour or so of coding each group did a mini presentation and demo of what they made. Each group got a fair way towards getting the task done, and we got to see how they coded things. It's fun seeing what others got up to, the approach they took and the challenges they faced.
... at the end we left through the dungeon below the building. Those who survived had a few drinks at the pub afterwards. )


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Effects of global economic slowdown will be felt in Switzerland too.
UBS's economists have revised their Swiss growth forecasts downwards in line with the current global economic outlook. They are now expecting growth of 1.6% in 2001. Activity should pick up again in 2002 in tandem with an improving international economy to reach 2.1% in 2002. UBS sees no threats on the inflation front for the time being. Its inflation forecasts are 1.4% for 2001 and 1.6% for 2002 respectively. Given the deterioration in the real economy and the absence of major inflationary pressures, the SNB is likely to take a relaxed stance on interest rates. UBS forecasts a CHF LIBOR target rate of around 2.75% in the third quarter of 2001.
The US economy has lost a great deal of momentum since Q3 2000. Positive growth was still in evidence in Q1 2001, but UBS Economic Research expects growth to turn negative in Q2. The Federal Reserve's substantial interest rate cuts should begin to bite in Q3, putting the US back on course for economic recovery. Overall US growth should come in at 1.4% for 2001 and 3.0% for 2002. Japan is still struggling with structural difficulties, and these are being compounded by the effects of the US slowdown. The country's election of a new government has done little to improve its negative outlook. The Japanese economy is expected to stagnate with growth of -0.1% for 2001, rising to a still very weak 0.7% in 2002. At the start of the year, hopes were still high that Europe would remain relatively unscathed by the economic downturn in the US. However, economic indicators published since then in Europe have dampened such positive expectations. Germany in particular has put in a surprisingly poor performance. UBS's economists have revised their European growth forecasts downwards; they now expect the EMU economies to grow by 2.0% in 2001 and 2.6% in 2002. Germany's growth is estimated at 1.3% for 2001, increasing to 2.4% next year.
After an exceptional year by historical standards in 2000, the Swiss economy cooled off noticeably in the first half of 2001. This was naturally due for the most part to the global economic situation, and in particular to the poor performance of the US and Germany. While goods exports rose markedly in Q1, exports of services - a more crucial factor for Switzerland - fell year-on-year. According to UBS economic research, Swiss growth will slow further in Q2 and Q3 2001, with no turnaround expected until the global economy starts to recover in Q4. From the 2000 figure of 3.4%, the growth rate is likely to fall sharply to about 1.6% in 2001. This will probably be followed by just over 2% growth in 2002. Switzerland's growth was broadly supported in 2000, and this should continue to be the case in 2001, although all GDP components can be expected to show slightly lower growth rates this year. Export growth, the main driving force behind the upswing of 1999 and 2000, is likely to show the sharpest fall-off, but growth in construction and equipment investments should also be lower.
The recent surge in growth has resulted in a much tighter Swiss labour market. From over 3% at the start of 1999, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to below 2% by the end of 2000. However, this downward trend seems to have been coming to a halt since the start of 2001, with the most recent seasonally adjusted monthly figures (for April and May) pointing slightly upwards again. The unemployment rate is expected to average 1.8% over the year as a whole in 2001 and 2.0% in 2002. Despite this tightness in the labour market, wage pressure has remained moderate and thus helped to keep core inflation stable. In addition, the oil price is stagnant compared to last year's levels, which means that its influence on inflation is set to diminish significantly in the coming months. In fact, it may well bring the overall inflation rate down. UBS economists are therefore forecasting moderate inflation of 1.4% in 2001 and 1.6% in 2002. These figures are well below the SNB's target level for price stability.
Against this backdrop, the SNB is expected to reduce its target rate for the CHF LIBOR by a further 25 basis points on Thursday. If this does not happen, the cut will nevertheless probably be made by the end of the third quarter, as we are likely to see more bad news on the growth front and lower inflation figures over the next few weeks. The more negative the outlook, the greater the likelihood that the SNB will carry out more interest rate cuts. Long-term rates can be expected to level out and maybe even start to ease slightly towards the end of the year, before heading upwards again in 2002 as the growth situation begins to improve. However, there is a chance that they will continue to fall if brighter growth prospects fail to materialize.
UBS is looking for a slight appreciation of the EUR versus the CHF within the next 12 months, with the single currency rising from its current level of CHF 1.52 to around CHF 1.56. This trend is principally attributed to the convergence of inflation rates between Switzerland and the rest of Europe. German inflation, for example, is expected to fall from the current 3.5% to less than 2% by the end of the year, while Swiss inflation will probably settle at 1.0% to 1.5%. Since a slight appreciation of the EUR versus the USD from USD 0.85 to USD 0.95 is forecast over the next 12 months, the CHF is likely to stand at around 1.64 to the dollar in a year's time.
Zurich / Basel, 13 June 2001


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Abigail Nims
In 2012-13 Abigail Nims debuts with the Baltimore Symphony as alto soloist inMessiah, with Adrian Symphony in Berlioz' Les Nuits d'ete, and Virginia Opera as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus. Abigail Nims' season 2011-12 engagements included her debut with Atlanta Opera as Veruca Salt in The Golden Ticket; singing as soloist in Messiah with the Masterwork Chorus under Andrew Megill; as Octavian in selections from Der Rosenkavalier in a return to Quad City Symphony Orchestra, and returning to the roster of New York City Opera.
Recent highlights included her debut with Wexford Festival Opera as Veruca Salt, a role which she created at the opera's workshop performances in New York City; appearing as Despina in Così fan tutte with Palm Beach Opera; with the San Francisco Symphony as soloist in Bach's Mass in B Minor; a return to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra to sing Haydn's Harmoniemesse; singing Mozart's Requiem with Quad City Symphony Orchestra; Handel's Messiah with the Providence Singers; and returning to the New York Philharmonic for its presentation of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen.
Other highlights include Lazuli in L'étoile in her New York City Opera debut; Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Crumb's Night of the Four Moons with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Messiah with New Choral Society; Zerlina in Don Giovanniwith Opera New Jersey; Despina in Così fan tutte with Opera Grand Rapids; Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Meg in Little Women, both with Opera Delaware; Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Princeton Festival; Zefka in Janáček's The Diary of One Who Disappeared with Gotham Chamber Opera; singing as soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile); and Mozart's Vespare solennes de confessore and Michael Haydn's Requiem with Masterwork Chorus.
Ms. Nims is particularly praised for her expressive interpretations and tonal beauty in the concert repertoire. Highlights of recent performances include Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Teatro Municipal (Chile); appearances as guest soloist in George Benjamin's Upon Silence and Vivaldi's Stabat Mater with the New England String Ensemble; Mozart's Requiem with the Quad City Symphony; Messiah with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra (Ohio); Ligeti'sSíppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel with the Yale Percussion Ensemble;Liebeslieder Walzer at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival; Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with Yale Philharmonia; and J.C.F. Bach's solo cantata, Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte with Westminster Kantorei. An engaging recitalist, deeply dedicated to this repertoire, Ms. Nims has recently presented recitals at Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City; Wexford Festival Opera; and as guest alumna at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Her recitals have included repertoire by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, Debussy, Berg, Bridge, Ives, Ginastera, Argento, and Harbison. Ms. Nims' discography includes her performances of Martin Bresnick's song cycle "Falling," featured on the composer's compilation album Every Thing Must Go (Albany Records, 2010), and the role of Veruca Salt in Peter Ash's The Golden Ticket (also Albany Records), fall 2012.


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The full IYA2009 UK Report is now available for download as a pdf (4.5Mb)
Disclaimer: The IYA2009 UK Report is an attempt to accurately document the range of activities that happened during 2009. By necessity we have focused on the bigger projects, and those for which we had lots of detail. It was not possible to include every event that happened, as there were over 6000 individual projects. However we do wish to include anything that you feel we have omitted and merits inclusion. Please send an email to
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Telescopes for Schools (.xls) (49kb)
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You may also be interested in looking at these IYA2009 UK Legacy Projects:
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BAA Blog
We Are Astronomers
The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) is over, and we are working to build upon its legacy. Many of the projects that ran during IYA2009 have come to an end, but the networks that developed and ran them – networks of amateur and professional astronomers, science communicators, educators – are still here, passionate about continuing to engage the public with astronomy.
One of the key duties of the IYA2009 UK Coordinator was to support and develop these networks, and it is that support that would be most sorely missed had IYA2009 just petered out at the end of last year. Fortunately that hasn't happened, and the three main IYA2009 project partners – the Royal Astronomical Society, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, and the Institute of Physics – have been joined by two others – the Society for Popular Astronomy and the British Astronomical Association – in Beyond IYA.
Beyond IYA aims to consolidate and build upon the networks and projects developed during IYA2009. We'll be running more TwitterMeteorwatches (10,000 people took part in last year's Perseid Twitter Meteorwatch), another Moonwatch (20,000 people attended over 300 events during last year's Spring and Autumn Moonwatches), and offering continued support to the 1000 schools that were given a free telescope as part of the SPA's Telescopes for Schools project.
Within the Beyond IYA project there is now a new BAA Outreach Coordinator, running the BAA's new weblog (http://www.britastro.com/blog) and Twitter account (http://twitter.com/britastro).
The next major Beyond IYA event is the Perseid Meteorwatch in mid-August.
As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 draws to a close, we'd like to hear from you: what was your favourite UK event or project during the year? Did you attend a local star party? Visit an observatory? See a stunning planetarium show? Attend a fascinating lecture? What was your highlight?


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Cholent is such a personal matter for many, but I thought I'd share my favorite formula.
1 small to medium onion, sliced
2-4 cloves fresh garlic, minced
½ lb (approx flanken or chuck meat)
½ cup barley
3-4 smallish potatoes, peeled and cubed
0 onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, salt, pepper
0 oil for frying
Boil water and pour over barley in a separate container. Put up a separate pot or kettle of water to boil while following the remaining directions.
(It is best to begin this part about an hour and a half before Shabbos) Sautee the onion and garlic in a small amount of oil.
Raise the flame and add meat in chunks.
Generously shake garlic powder, paprika, and onion powder over the meat. Sprinkle a dash of pepper and salt (less generously!) Turn to sear on all sides until brown. Shake spices over the other side as well.
When meat is browned all over, add barley and potato chunks. Sprinkle an additional 1-2 tsp salt (to taste) over the barley and potatoes. Pour boiling water over it to cover everything, but not much higher.
Cover pot and bring to boil. Lower flame to a low boil and let it bubble until it's almost Shabbos. Add more boiling water if the top of the barley/potatoes starts to stick out.
Transfer to blech or slow-cooker base at a low heat. The first few times you do this, leave extra time before Shabbos so you can adjust the heat until you are familiar with the right settings/placement. You want to see tiny bubbles rise every few seconds, but it should not be bubbling in a full boil
Let it continue to cook until Shabbos lunch time. If you follow the directions carefully for the low heat, it will retain enough liquid without being soupy.


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With open source competitors like MySQL gobbling up market share, companies that distribute proprietary database solutions have started to look for ways to increase interest in their products. According to Teo Wan Ping, an IBM executive in the Singapore information management division, IBM may resort to free DB2 licensing in order to stimulate interest in their high-performance, proprietary database product.
Although IBM already supports a free open source database engine called Derby which provides a migration path to DB2, IBM feels that a free starter edition of DB2 could attract developers that would otherwise use an open source solution. A free DB2 version could also possibly prevent potential IBM customers from adopting the proprietary database solutions distributed by IBM's chief competitors in the database market. Microsft and Oracle both offer their own free starter editions: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, and Oracle Database XE.
Distributed for free on the Internet and bundled with numerous Linux distributions, open source database platforms like MySQL and PostgreSQL are extremely popular, particularly with small to medium-sized businesses that utilize Linux. The latest version of MySQL has been downloaded over a million times since its release, according to News.com.
As proprietary UNIX distributions began to descend into extinction, IBM vigorously promoted DB2 on the open source Linux platform, where IBM claims that it provides the best price-to-performance ratio. In order to demonstrate the efficacy of DB2 on Linux, IBM has worked closely with major enterprise Linux distributors that have pursued DB2 certification. Most recently, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu has successfully completed the stringent DB2 certification process. Although Ubuntu was originally designed to be a desktop distribution, developers have produced a server edition that could potentially enable Ubuntu to compete directly with other enterprise Linux distributions like Novell and RedHat. On the subject of DB2 certification, Shuttleworth says:
Being Ready for DB2 UDB is a real step up for Ubuntu, and the whole project is moving into new and exciting areas. Our release last month included a server edition, which provides the perfect foundation for major database environments.
Although IBM's DB2 provides clear performance benefits, smaller businesses seem to prefer powerful and cost-effective open source alternatives. Will free DB2 licenses help IBM compete with open source software in the entry level database market? I doubt that their efforts will make a large dent in open source database adoption, but it will probably win them enough extra customers to make it worth their time. The marketing minds at IBM probably think that they can hook small companies on a free, scaled-down version of DB2 and then convince them to upgrade to the full version for a hefty sum at a later date. I think that IBM underestimates the scalability of open source database solutions. Large tech companies like Google and Yahoo have been using MySQL for several years now, and Sun Microsystems recently announced plans to distribute the open source PostgreSQL database with its Solaris operating system.


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Amanda Taraska's BORN, A BIRTHDAY CONCERT to Play Laurie Beechman, 2/10
"It's a concert! It's a birthday party!! It's gonna be a blast!!!" says Amanda. With her bright, sparkly, dulcet, sometimes belty tone, her unique, quirky girl-next-door-with-a-twist demeanor, and her background/training in musical theatre (NYUSteinhardt, national tours of Henry and Mudge & If This Hat Could Talk, directed by George Faison), Amanda will be performing mostly originals on guitar. Her music, which spans from theatrical to alternative--with stops in pop and rock in between--has been described as ebullient, brutally honest, poignant and catchy as hell. There will be a sprinkling of familiar tunes as wells.
The evening will feature her friend and musical collaborator Walter Thompson (Wicked) on piano, as well as special guests Jeremy Morse (Bloodsong of Love) and Lauren Marcus, who will provide additional vocals.For more about Amanda, visit www.amandataraska.com.
Producer Elvin Roytman is delighted to be working on this show presenting his best friend's talents to an audience again. A graduate of NYU's Steinhardt School, Elvin has balanced a life of performing, on stage and screen, with producing. He has produced across the gamut, from the entire Festival circuit to Off-Broadway ( recently Miss Kim at the 45th St Theatre) and Broadway productions. He recently delved into new media and most recently presented the premiere of Daisy Eagan: F*ck Off. I Love You. at Joe's Pub. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Friends & his shining star, DoorBird.
Amanda Taraska: BORN, a Birthday Concert will play Sunday, February 10 at 7:00pm - at The Laurie Beechman Theatre (below The West Bank Café) at 407 West 42nd Street. There is a $10 cover and a $15 food/drink minimum. www.westbankcafe.com
Photo Credit: Elvin Roytman


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Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson Engaged (Again)
Aug 12, 2014 9:29 AM EDT
Courtney Stodden and her estranged husband Doug Hutchinson have reconciled, her mother tells Fox News. "Courtney realized just how much love she really had for Doug," Krista Keller said. "They really love each other and wanted to… Read more