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PHILADELPHIA -- If something didn't happen soon, Giants manager Bruce Bochy was trotting a position player out to the pitching rubber.
As it worked out, something happened.
Brandon Crawford hit a bases-clearing double to break a 14th-inning stalemate, and Tim Lincecum earned his first career save as the San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-6 on Tuesday night.
"It was huge," Bochy said of the hit. "George [Kontos] might have one more inning at that point."
Kontos (3-0) didn't have one more inning. The reliever got just one out before Lincecum, San Francisco's ninth pitcher, got the final two outs for the save. Had the game still been tied, Bochy was considering outfielder Tyler Colvin.
"I asked him if he had pitched before, and he mentioned high school," Bochy said.
Crawford snapped a 2-for-22 skid with his two-out hit off the wall in left-center field and finished with four RBIs. Buster Posey, who doubled and scored in the 14th, sent the game into extras with a solo homer in the ninth off Jonathan Papelbon, who blew his third save. Kontos (3-0) allowed one run in 2 1/3 innings for to earn the win for the second straight night.
"That's why you keep your arm in good shape," Kontos said. "We'll see how I feel tomorrow -- try to give them an inning or two."
Jeff Manship (1-2) surrendered four runs and lost.
The Giants (56-44) improved to 8-2 in extra-inning games and 6-0 on the road. The Phillies (43-57) fell to 6-7.
"It's tough right now," said Ryan Howard, who had two hits for Philadelphia. "It's just how it goes sometimes. It's just not going our way this year."
Posey had four hits, including two doubles, two runs and an RBI. Hunter Pence had three hits, including a fifth-inning homer. Pence is a lifetime .353 hitter with 14 homers in 34 games against Philadelphia.
Jimmy Rollins hit a two-run homer in the fifth, giving him five homers and 13 RBIs in his last 10 games. Marlon Byrd had a pair of RBIs on a double and a groundout and made a great leaping catch into the right-field wall to rob Gregor Blanco of extra bases in the sixth.
Yusmeiro Petit, making a spot start for injured Matt Cain, allowed seven hits across five innings, struck out five and walked two.
Roberto Hernandez limited San Francisco to three runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings, walked three and struck out one. Ken Giles allowed one run in the seventh after entering the game with a 14 2/3-innings scoreless streak.
"His command wasn't as good as it's been," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "But he hung in there."
Ben Revere had three hits and two stolen bases.
Game notes
Philadelphia is 6-7 in extra-inning games. ... Giants 2B Joe Panik was pulled in the second inning. He suffered a right ankle sprain while running out a grounder in the first inning and is considered day-to-day. ... Philadelphia placed outfielder John Mayberry Jr. on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with left wrist inflammation and recalled outfielder Darin Ruf from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. ... San Francisco OF Angel Pagan (back) took swings off a tee Monday, manager Bruce Bochy said. Pagan has not played since June 14. ... One day after returning from a two-month DL stint because of a strained left elbow, Phillies LHP Cliff Lee felt fine Tuesday. "Some ordinary soreness in his legs," manager Ryne Sandberg said. "Nothing with the arm at all." ... Giants 1B Brandon Belt (concussion) is progressing slowly and could start taking swings in a couple days, Bochy said. ... Wednesday night, Phillies RHP A.J. Burnett (6-9, 4.08) opposes Giants LHP Madison Bumgarner (11-7, 3.38) in the third game of this four-game set.
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Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, who had been out of the lineup with neck stiffness since Saturday, returned to the lineup Wednesday with a bang -- hitting a home run off James Paxton.
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When we last left Norah she was trying to forget a cheating lover in "Happy Pills." Now in her latest video for "Miriam," Norah is making his mistress pay.
Going back to the scene of the crime–a forest with a very deep lake–the usually levelheaded Ms. Jones tries to pull of the perfect murder.
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(CNN) -- There's an old Hollywood tale, and it goes like this: Open a female-led movie around Valentine's Day. Watch women go in droves and drive up box office numbers.
Then let Hollywood executives call it a fluke, since everyone knows that women don't go to movies.
Over the past few weeks, that tale has been told with a twist.
Two female-led movies have earned astronomically high box office numbers -- like "third best opening weekend" high -- on fall weekends typically dominated by blockbuster movies aimed at men. "New Moon," the second film in the "Twilight" vampire series, has grossed more than $230 million since its opening, while "The Blind Side," about a white family that takes in a homeless African-American boy, is already past the $100 million mark.
For both "Blind Side" and "New Moon," women have made up more than half the audience. And by the time these films complete their runs, they could gross nearly $500 million combined, said Gitesh Pandya, the editor of BoxOfficeGuru.com, because of a largely female audience packing theaters.
"There's no difference in movie-going by gender; women are just as likely to go to the movies as men," says Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.
If you give women movies reflecting their experience and interests, Lauzen says, they will go -- even on opening weekend. And yet the movie industry always seems surprised to find out that women go to the movies.
Just three years ago, "The Devil Wears Prada," starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, grossed $40 million at domestic box offices in the first five days of its opening. The total so surprised Fox's president of distribution that he remarked he "never thought it would be this big," since he'd never seen a "predominately female movie open quite that large."
Sarah Jessica Parker and her Manolo Blahniks grossed $57 million for "Sex and the City" during its opening weekend in 2008. The film made $152 million total at the box office. This was followed by the success of Streep's "Mamma Mia" and "Julie and Julia," and the Katherine Heigl-led romantic comedies like "27 Dresses" and "The Ugly Truth."
"Women are a dramatically underserved segment of the moviegoing population, and if the industry would produce films that are not, by the way, just about shoes and clothes, but really had multidimensional female characters doing interesting things, women will go to see these movies in droves," Lauzen says.
So, now that the truth is out, women in Hollywood are going to be very, very busy in the next few years right?
Not exactly.
"The performances of these films have been nothing short of extraordinary," Pandya said. "Having said that, studios are run by stubborn men, so it'll take more than this to make substantial changes."
Lauzen agreed, pointing out that Hollywood isn't the kind of town that embraces change readily.
In 2008, women comprised 9 percent of all directors, the same as in 1998, according to Lauzen's research. Moreover, according to Lauzen, in the early 2000s, females comprised 28 percent of all characters in Hollywood movies -- the same as in the 1970s.
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Fleming is hopeful that the increase in diversity on screen will carry over behind the scenes, too.
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Capturing God's Vision: Part 3, Conversations with myself
I have it from a reliable source it's okay for me to say the following sentence out loud (and actually mean it): "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate."
I've spent the better part of my life doing nearly everything I can to mask that reality, and to ensure you don't suspect it's hidden truth. I'm shocked at we human's incredible capacity to cover up, mask, and hide the subtleties of our inner selves. Broken marriage? Everything looks fine to the watching world. Doubts about God as a personal being? Try singing praise songs louder next week. You've been so hurt you can't trust anyone ever again? Present yourself as the independent type.
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Leonard Nimoy can wear pointy ears, Lou Ferrigno can paint his skin green and Andy Serkis can don a green unitard to play a bug-eyed Gollum without anyone getting upset. Put Tyler Perry or Martin Lawrence in a fat outfit as Madea or Big Momma and people just laugh. But pull out a can of shoe polish to revive the spirit of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer and you'd probably face criminal charges.
It's a problematic reality for Hollywood — a place that thrives on self-congratulation and politically correct double-speak — because representation lies at the heart of the narrative ideal: We tell the story of the "Other" to better understand ourselves, and so we grant actors permission to don the guise of an alternate identity in order to be our guide and signpost on the journey.
Yet, as the recent buzz over Johnny Depp's turn in The Lone Ranger proves, the rules regarding representation continue to change, and what was once considered perfectly appropriate for one generation starts to look outrageously offensive to the next.
Hollywood isn't the speediest student, but if we look back at some of the most egregious examples of where it went wrong, the folks in La-la-land seem to be learning something – albeit very slowly:
Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1926) — Considered the first Hollywood talkie, The Jazz Singer features Jolson as a Jew who sings in blackface, and becomes very famous doing so. Critics at the time didn't think there was anything offensive about the actor donning black pancake and noted the only problem was the lack of a love interest. Otherwise, Variety noted in its Dec. 31, 1926 review: "The Jazz Singer is undoubtedly the best thing Vitaphone has ever put on the screen."
Boris Karloff in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) — A true matinee feature, this story of an Egyptologist desperate to stop a Chinese power monger (Boris Karloff) from reaching the tomb of Genghis Khan plays on classic lines of good and evil, with the white European Karloff embodying the dastardly villain — complete with fake hooded eyes and faux moustache. Only the Chinese government got mad at the movie, feeling Fu Manchu's speech "kill the white man and take his women!" was inappropriate.
Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil (1958) — There's a scene in the movie Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp, in which Wood complains to Orson Welles about the studio forcing casting decisions down his throat. "Tell me about it!" says Welles (played by Vincent D'Onofrio). "I'm supposed to direct a thriller for Universal. They want Charlton Heston to play a Mexican!" Indeed, rumour has it that Welles would have preferred to cast Ricardo Montelban as the ace Mexican detective married to a white woman, but the studio didn't have any faith that mainstream America would embrace the mixed marriage or a non-white actor.
Ricardo Montelban as Nakamura in Sayonara (1957) — Montelban was Mexican, but wasn't allowed to play Mexican. However, he was allowed to play Japanese in this adaptation of James Michener's novel about U.S. occupying forces in post-war Japan. Montelban plays Nakamura, a truly fascinating character who does not exist in Michener's original, but tells leading man Marlon Brando that kabuki actors are adept at appropriating the identity of the other. "They are trained since childhood to have the grace of a woman yet the power of a man." Brando's U.S. soldier finds this deeply confusing, and responds only with "My word!"
Burt Reynolds in Navajo Joe (1966) — Joining the ranks of Victor Mature (Chief Crazy Horse), Henry Brandon (Chief Cicatriz in The Searchers) and others as a white actor in redface, this was Reynolds' second leading role, and it featured the stud as a vengeance obsessed brave eager to kill the bandits who massacred his tribe. Directed by Sergio Corbucci, the film didn't light a box office fire or even establish Reynolds as a leading man, but it did receive unanimously poor reviews.
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal (2001) — Though Peter and Bobby Farrelly were no doubt weighed down by good intentions, and the idea that our culture sees only the outside package, they still ran into a lot of flack for putting super-fit Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit for comic reasons, and then filling the set with breakaway chairs. "The (directors) claim to be pro-fat," said Rolling Stone's Pete Travers. "But the film is little more than a series of fat jokes."
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003) — Sure, she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and SAG trophy for her incredible portrayal of Aileen Wuornos in this movie from director Patty Jenkins, but Charlize Theron still found herself facing some barbs from critics who felt she still looked too pretty to play the lesbian serial killer.
Shawn and Marlon Wayans in White Chicks (2004) — Just because it turns the whole appropriation question on its keester, it's worth noting that even white people can be the butt of Hollywood's joke — as Marlon and Shawn Wayans proved by donning white prosthetic girl suits and playing ditzy girl cops in this Vancouver-shot dud.
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(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) is expected to announce this week that it will acquire a 49 stake in the YES Network from the New York Yankees baseball team and its partners, in a deal that would value the sports channel at $3 billion, a person with knowledge of the talks told Reuters.
The deal is structured to allow News Corp to eventually acquire control of the channel, which broadcasts Yankees baseball and Brooklyn Nets basketball games to 15 million subscribers, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced.
News Corp will share in the profits, according to the New York Times, which first reported details of the agreement. News Corp will have an option to increase its stake to 80 percent in three to five years, the newspaper said, citing unidentified sources.
Yankee Global Enterprises, the parent company of the Yankees, owns 34 percent of YES. Another 40 percent is owned by Goldman Sachs and Providence Equity, with the remainder owned by former owners of the Nets.
A News Corp spokeswoman declined to comment. YES representatives were not immediately available for comment.
The deal would allow YES to raise the $2.99 monthly fee per subscriber it currently charges cable and satellite operators to carry the channel, said the person. News Corp would negotiate on its behalf with the operators as part of a larger package of sports channels.
News Corp, the media company that owns Fox Broadcasting and The Wall Street Journal, owns or holds stakes in 20 regional sports networks, providing sports programming to more than 67 million subscribers.
Initially, the Fox sports channels are not expected to provide local or national sports programming to YES, or to manage the channel, the person said. (Reporting By Ronald Grover and Liana Baker; Editing by Chris Gallagher)


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Multimedia is one of the most important reasons Linux is used on Arm: mobile phones, tablets, digital TV stations and desktop all fundamentally require multimedia playback and recording. It is also one of the most complex and poorly-understood areas on Linux, stemming from the inherent challenges in providing high performance multimedia, IP restrictions on technology and content and the impressive rate at which new formats and capabilities have been developed to match increasing network and processing power.
Linaro's Multimedia Working Group is focused on addressing the major challenges silicon vendors and OEMs face when supporting multimedia functionality on Arm devices. During the 1105 cycle the MMWG ran a number of initial projects on different problem areas:
• Software codec optimization, in particular using NEON
• gstreamer-openmax and OpenMAX core consolidation
• Low-power audio, focusing on ALSA and pulseaudio
• Multimedia validation tools, allowing better understanding of dynamic system behavior
These initial efforts identified a number of deeper challenges in the area of multimedia. First, while OpenMAX IL has been advertised and adopted as a standard solution for hardware and software codec integration, it does not provide sufficient definition to allow implementation of an efficient multimedia stack, leading vendors to further extend the specification with platform-specific solutions. Second, while there is indeed much work happening in the software codec optimization area, this work is scattered across vendor repositories and vendor sites; there is no coordinated effort to bring together development in this area and allow the ecosystem to build a truly golden set of codecs. Finally, while pulseaudio itself turns out to be reasonably optimized for power consumption, the ALSA group has been developing a userspace API to allow higher-level control of a device's audio modes, known as ALSA Use Case Management, and adoption across Arm vendors has yet to pick up, leading to reduced functionality and increased fragmentation where vendors might implemented their own solution. More information on ALSA UCM has been published by Slimlogic at http://www.slimlogic.co.uk/2009/02/alsa-use-case-manager/http://www.slimlogic.co.uk/2009/02/alsa-use-case-manager/
In this cycle the Multimedia WG has started tackling those wider problems, starting with a mini-summit focused on establishing the current state of affairs, which was run in Austin, TX earlier in June. Present at the mini-summit were representatives from Linaro members, OpenMAX and NVidia and others. Kurt Taylor, MMWG Lead, produced a detailed set of minutes and actions out of the summit that are now available at http://tinyurl.com/austin-mmwg-minutes; this content is worth sharing within your organization to validate conclusions and indicate future directions of work.
One of the key findings out of the mini-summit was that, while there are indeed significant shortcomings in the specification, the OpenMAX group itself has been studying this area and is interested in a wider discussion around solutions. We have been invited to present our feedback formally to the group and will participate in the OpenMAX face-to-face meeting to run in Q3 2011. There was significant controversy around how much work Linaro would lead in this area, as it was perceived this could undermine the OpenMAX consortium's work; we have agreed to coordinate with Khronos on any design and development work we execute. Next steps in this area beyond the Khronos engagement are collecting feedback from Google on their plans for OpenMAX going forward, since up to now it has been the API through which vendors have provided access to their components.
On the software codec front, we have agreed to host a community around NEON optimization; this will initially consist of a mailing list and database of software codecs, recording authorship, license, source code location and subjective quality of implementation. Mans R., who has implemented a number of NEON versions of codec algorithms, was present and provided good input on what status certain implementations are in, and where other optimization work has been done. We also had the luck of counting with the participation of Darrell C., libjpeg-turbo author, and will work on integrating it in Android and Ubuntu, and furthering the NEON optimization work started in it.
During the mini-summit Rob Clark presented on the multimedia-related impact of work being run in the Linaro Unified Memory Management SIG; this has the potential to greatly simplify the software integration of codecs, camera and display, allowing for a native zero-copy implementation using standard kernel interfaces. ALSA UCM was also discussed, with both Slimlogic and Android representatives discussing current plans for integration in Stagefright and Pulseaudio; it is likely that a small library to support UCM functionality in the userspace frameworks would accelerate its adoption, and discussion of what that library would be (and what license it would be provided under) is also recorded. Linaro will also put effort into providing a set of standard UCM configurations for the devices which we directly support, allowing UCM to work out of the box on new hardware where the software stack has been prepared for it.
The MMWG's Public Plan Review session will be held during the second half of July; please invite your multimedia experts to analyze the roadmap and discuss solutions and related work happening elsewhere.


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Shark Conservation - the most important shark project in the world
Ian Campbell, the Program Manager for the WWF Global Shark Program, recently tweeted that Projects Abroad have "possibly the most important shark project in the world".
Since the Shark Conservation project started in January, 200 volunteers have signed up to assist the local scientists in Fiji. This huge success is due to the hard work of the conservation team in Fiji, headed by Ingrid Sprake. With their passion and dedication, they have raised awareness and developed educational workshops to truly inspire everyone who takes part.
'After a while you become more and more educated about the reality of these supposedly notorious predators, and realize that they are in fact not to be feared by us, but to be respected and protected,' explained Conservation volunteer, Ellen Mackenzie.
A study conducted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) concluded that a quarter of all ray and shark species are endangered. Overfishing is possibly the main culprit with a recent independent report estimating that up to 73 million sharks are killed for their fins each year.
However, in spite of these distressing figures, the Shark Conservation project in Fiji is a unique shark-focused program that gives hope and enables volunteers to contribute to the understanding of these animals.
In the words of Ian Campbell, "Projects Abroad is what volunteering should be all about."
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A day after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Gov. Rick Perry's request to declare the Central Texas town of West a major disaster area, the recriminations rumbled from D.C. to Austin.
Republicans denied that Perry's request for a disaster declaration was deficient, defective or incomplete.
"I believe that Gov. Perry's request met the thresholds to receive major disaster declaration and open up the benefits needed to aid in the recovery of West," said Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan Republican who represents West. "I will continue to work with the governor, as well as with the rest of the Texas congressional delegation, as we move forward with the process to get the declaration needed to provide the support that the community is entitled to under the Stafford Act."
The Obama administration continued to insist that the Texas governor's request did not meet the requirements to warrant a major disaster declaration. But Flores, Perry and other Republicans pointed to Obama's earlier pledge — made during a memorial service for the 12 fallen first responders and 3 other victims — that the feds would help West rebuild after the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.
"During the memorial service for the fallen first responders, President Obama himself said 'your country will remain ever ready to help you recover, and rebuild, and reclaim your community,'" Flores noted. "Following that service, Gov. Perry, Sen. Cruz and I met backstage with the president, and he again assured us that the federal government would help West rebuild. We must hold the president to his word to help the community of West."
Perry echoed those comments yesterday in his own response to the FEMA rejection.
"The day of the West memorial service, President Obama stood in front of a grieving community and told them they would not be forgotten," Perry declared in a statement released by his office. "He said his administration would stand with them, ready to help. We anticipate the president will hold true to his word and help us work with FEMA to ensure much-needed assistance reaches the community of West."


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Euphoria Now was initially created as the title poster for solo exhibition at von Bartha, Basel.
Background colors are based on the color scheme for the Swiss national banknotes.
In 2016 six paintings have been produced in this ongoing series, each in the color scheme of the notations of these currencies:
US Dollars, Euro, Chinese Yuan, Singapore Dollars, Pound Sterling and Austrailian Dollars. Each painting is thus named after the currency they represent ie Euphoria Now/Euro, Euphoria Now/US Dollars etc . The paintings are made using spray enamal and acrylics.
Design in collaboration with Rasmus Koch Studio.
Euphoria Now is a series of paintings based on colour schemes of global currencies. Starting with the seven colours of the euro notes, the paintings now exists in several editions to mark the many different currencies and economies that constitute our global market.
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Why is Granada incapable of seeing the emotional abuse Mistress Amanda wreaks on her? Why is she so resistant to the notion of her mother being a slave and to working for Polly when she arrives?
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I think Granada viewed the Mistress as a mother figure having been taken away from her own mother at infancy. She did not know or understand how a mother loves. Also, the clothes the Mistress gave her made her feel special, set her apart from the other slaves. She didn't realize that it was Sylvie, the cook, who truly loved her like a mother.
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Granada loved the attention. She thought she was special even when she was laughed at or regarded as a freak. I agree with the prior two postings. She didn't know what mother love was and sought out the attention of Mistress Amanda.
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I also agree with Lorettaf in that Granada longed for a Mother and also to be "special". If Granada can attract and keep the attention of the Mistress of the house then she can believe herself to be different than the other slaves, and perhaps destined for a better life. Her behavior is typical child like behavior-any attention is good- and felt this aspect of the book was partcularly well written
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Granada suffered from a "slave's mentality". She was under the impression that she was somehow special because all the other indicators in her life showed slaves were not "good" but for her to receive affection and attention and gifts to boot made her "feel" special.
I agree with all the other readers' comments that she was confused by the affections of Mistress Amanda, not knowing any better. And she was naive and loved attention.
Not to mention our innate need for human affection was in full affect with her, having been snatched from her own mother at such a young age.
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Granada thought the way she was treated was normal. It is all she ever knew so it was okay. Just as with modern day children who are abused emotionally and physically they, most of the time, do not want to be separated from their abuser because that is all they know. I have seen this many times personally in my past work with abused and neglected children. It is hard for most of us to understand because most of us have never been there and feel they would be happy away form that.
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I agree with Joyces. Emotionally abused children are drawn to their abusers and go back for more and more of the same. They are also groomed for the abuse. The clothing and attention were both things that led Granada to believe that she wanted more of the same, no matter what others said or how she may have felt.
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Granada's desire to be special and work in the house clouded her vision of reality. Working in the house also provided her with more comforts than living outside. At her young age, she didn't see Miss Amanda's mental illness, only that Miss Amanda was treating her in a special way.
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Granada so craved the special attention she received from Mistress Amanda that she could not see a bad side to it. She observed that the house slaves had a special status above the others and she was aware that the closer you were to the Master's family, the more special your position, as with Silas. Granada was devoted to Mistress Amanda because she had named her and saved her from being a "swamp slave" and had given her special status of being by her side on "Preaching Sundays".
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Granada had a great life! She had beautiful clothes to wear and a pseudo-family in the kitchen help. She didn't have to do the manual labor of the swamp slaves and was included in the Masters activities. She knew no other life and didn't realize she didn't belong.
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I sometimes forgot, as I was reading, that Granada was a very young girl. She reacted to her role as "daughter" to Mistress Amanda as any child in her deplorable situation would have. The emotional abuse was not recognizable to one so young and needy.
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That was all she knew, and I agree with cherylk, that as a reader, I would picture Granada as older, and it was only when a reference was made to her numerical age, that it reminded me how young she was.
Any type of emotionally abusive situation can be hard to recognize, particularly when that relationship has always been that way between the two individuals.
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Granada lives in a rarified atmosphere between three worlds on the plantation. She is treated as a dress-up doll by the mistress, used by the mistress, than put back in the 'closet' until the next chance to humiliate the master. In the kitchen she is treated as a necessary annoyance, but with some fondness, on the part of the cook. She learns that to be a swamp slave is the worst possible existence. She is literally taken from her mothers arms and raised in this conflicting situation without any real understanding of her true self. How could she possibly understand the abuse of the mistress? She is a child!! And all the house slaves conspire to keep the mistress happy by making Grenada available to the mistress. She wants to belong to something or someone and the mistress offers her the most beautiful things to look forward to. She emotionally attaches to what gives her the most pleasure. That she ever finds herself is the miracle. Bless Polly.
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What is that called when a victim gets attached to her kidnapper? Stockholm Syndrome? I think Granada's feelings for Mistress Amanda were a bit like that. I also think Granada felt pity for the way Mistress Amanda was disregarded by her neighbors and husband. She felt a kind of kinship with her in that way.
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joyces says it exactly in that as an abused child the attention received from the caregiver is always misconstrued as love when a child has known nothing different. Granada has no knowledge of her place in society. She is only responding to what she has known and experienced since she can remember and Mistress Amanda is the only "mother" figure she had known.
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I kept forgetting how young Granada really was. She was rasied in this environment from the time she was an infant so it was her idea of normal life. I don't think she saw herself as abused or made fun of -- all she saw was that she was getting attention and that was how she was brought up to see herself.
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Mistress Amanda gave Granada a chance to rise above her slave status, at least Granada believed she did. Granada was not able to see herself as a valuable human being. Therefore she accepted any abuse which she thought gave her status.
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I was never a typical college student. After high school I joined the military and once I completed my enlistment I decided to give college a try. With Northern Exposure reruns running through my mind, I was convinced Alaska was the place for me. However, my start was not the one of happy sitcoms – a lot of my classes did not hold my attention and I dreamed of my classes ending when I could hike out into the steep coastal mountains. This all changed the semester I began to take courses for my biology major – Animal Physiology, Invertebrate Zoology, and Ichthyology, these are the classes I had been waiting to take. After feeling lost and uninterested, here was my chance to study things I had actually wanted to know! Spending the day in the inter-tidal, ankle-deep in invertebrates was the chance to explore and learn without being tied to a desk. My studies at UAS culminated with a semester long study of Spot Shrimp for my marine physiology course. With the help of my professor (an accomplished research scientist), I researched a relevant question pertaining to Spot Shrimp molting physiology, developed a hypothesis and tested that hypothesis using techniques and technologies that are currently being used in this field.
Not only did the biology courses attract me, but they helped spur an interest in other subjects and helped me gain opportunities that I would not have had otherwise. It is now my third summer as a chemistry laboratory technician where I spend my days processing samples that have a direct effect on the conservation and management of Alaska's natural resources. My biology courses at UAS have taught me that my education can be as interesting as I want to make it - I chose to take part in classes that challenged my mind inside and outside of the classroom with professors who imparted knowledge that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.
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Patience tested for Connecticut residents who are still without power
With the state's two major electric utilities about to shift from damage assessment to a full fledged power restoration effort, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy urged those still without power to be patient.
"The power companies are working hard, but we know that some people might be losing their patience," Malloy told reporters Wednesday afternoon. "Know that we will hold them accountable. I get it."
Both Connecticut Light & Power and The United Illuminating Co. are expected to give broad timetables this morning for when they expect to restore the electricity of a majority of their customers.
Malloy's calls for patience may be a hard sell for those living in the hardest hit areas of the state in terms of power outages, like East Haven, where nearly 42 percent of UI's customers were without power early Wednesday evening.
"(This has been a) worse response than Irene," Joe Peterson of East Haven tweeted Wednesday. "Just saying I haven't seen one truck of Borrmann Road."
Some of that sentiment also was found in Hamden, where residents complained that out-of-state repair crews in bucket trucks were sitting for part of the day in the parking lot of the Hyde School of Health Sciences and Sports Medicine.
New Haven area residents frustrated at being without power got mixed news from Tony Marone, a senior vice president with UI.
"We will have information tomorrow on how long global restoration will take," Marone said, invoking a term that both utilities have used in reference to return electrical service to most of their customers. "But I know everyone is asking 'when will my power come back on,' and I'm afraid that more individualized information won't be available Thursday."
Residents of Wallingford already know the answer to the question of when power will be full restored. As of 4 p.m., the municipally owned utility had restored all but 300 of the 3,200 customers that were without power at the peak of the storm. The remaining customers, officials of the Wallingford Electric Division said, were expected to get their power back on by the end of the evening.
Even before going into full restoration mode, CL&P had already restored power to 350,000 customers in 149 towns. And with another 350 linemen and 200 tree trimming crews being added to the 5,000 that the Berlin, Conn., utility has in place, CL&P's senior vice president for emergency preparedness William Quinlan said Wednesday that the company expects to begin restoring large chunks of customers today and the days that follow.
But as a media tour of CL&P's restoration operations in East Lyme and surrounding communities showed Wednesday, CL&P still has a lot of work ahead of it.
Two days after the storm hit, a large tree that had taken down some wires was still blocking the northbound side of a two-lane stretch of Route 1 in the Flanders section of East Lyme. CL&P has stationed an around the clock team of workers to watch over the fallen tree and the wires until it can be removed.
"We continue to encounter a substantial amount of tree damage statewide," Quinlan told reporters in Hartford.
Elsewhere in East Lyme, the chilly fall air was filled with the sound of chain saws clearing heavily overgrown brush along a CL&P distribution line right of way that carries power to a residential subdivision. Once the underbrush was sufficiently trimmed, linemen riding in an all-terrain vehicle were being brought in to replace broken cross arms and fallen insulators on utility poles.
Along a commercial stretch of Flanders Road in East Lyme, utility wires dipped dangerously close to the ground while a line repair crew worked in a residential neighborhood a few miles away.
Bob DuBois, a CL&P supervisor out of the utility's New London area office, said that each work crew is given an area map that shows where the trouble spots are in a given town and what priorities each town has set for restoration. In this case, DuBois said the decision to work in the more residential area was based on the amount of manpower.
"To restore service there, we would have needed two add a second crew and close down a lane of traffic," he said.
As DuBois spoke, Tom Bongo, a CL&P lineman, used an insulated fiber glass pole to push pieces of broken tree limbs away from a fallen distribution line. Such care is necessary, said CL&P spokesman Mitch Gross, because wood can conduct electricity.
Nearby, utility workers from Kansas City, Mo.,-based Par Electrical Contractors were finishing lunch and preparing to go to work restoring a switching station in Old Lyme.
Par Electrical employees Chuck Gilmore, who is from central Illinois, and Nick Edwards of St. Louis, were in Connecticut for last year's storms. And Gilmore was in Louisiana about a month ago, restoring large scale power outages down there.
"Pretty much wherever you see bad weather and a lot of power outages, that's where we'll be," Gilmore said.
Contact Luther Turmelle at 203-789-5706. Follow him on Twitter @LutherTurmelle.


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Editor's note: Amy Bass, a professor of history at the College of New Rochelle, has written widely on the cultural history of sports, including the book "Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete." She is a veteran of eight Olympics as the supervisor of NBC's Olympic Research Room, for which she won an Emmy in 2012. Follow her on Twitter @bassab1.
(CNN) -- It was a beating, a thrashing, a rout, a waxing, a debacle. Sport is well-equipped with words to describe what took place in the semifinal match between Germany and Brazil on Tuesday, but none of them, at least not yet, can capture what really went down.
One of the oft-cited reasons Americans give for not embracing the most popular sport in the world is the low-scoring action that generally personifies the so-called beautiful game. Excuse me? In this semifinal's first half, Germany scored five goals in 18 minutes, goals that came so fast and so furious one could hardly keep track: minute 11, minute 23, minute 24, minute 26, minute 29.
The final score of 7-1, which propelled Germany into the final and Brazil into a game for third place, is historic in and of itself. And never before had five goals been scored in the first half of a World Cup match. Never before had four goals been scored in a six-minute stretch.
And that it took place in Brazil is no small matter. Despite the uproar over the money the nation spent building soccer cathedrals, most Brazilians were not only ready to celebrate victory, they expected it. Their national team had not lost an official game on home soil since 1975, making the dream of winning the country's sixth World Cup title seem not just obtainable, but a sure thing.
The most brutal (and funny) Germany vs. Brazil tweets
Without question, excuses can be made. Brazil played without its captain and central defender, Thiago Silva, who had been suspended after the match against Colombia for the accumulation of yellow cards. Without him, the Brazilian defense appeared powerless and confused against the likes of Thomas Mueller and company. Also missing, of course, was Brazil's star, forward Neymar, who had been kneed in the back by Colombian Juan Zuniga, fracturing a vertebra in his spine.
But it is unlikely even a healthy Neymar could have created balance against such offense. Germany was relentless perfection, taking advantage of every opportunity Brazil offered while simultaneously creating its own prospects.
Tears, puns and a Twitter record
Some now worry that the disenchantment on display before the tournament started -- the fury of protests against the billions Brazil spent on the tournament marked by "Go Home FIFA" signs throughout the country -- will reignite in force, now that the home team can only hope for a third-place finish at best. Indeed within seconds of the end, Twitter feeds wrongly assumed images of rioting Brazilians demonstrated postgame fury when, it turns out, people were posting older photos of the protests that had taken place throughout the spring.
And as the inevitable finger-pointing against coach Luiz Felipe Scolari and his players begins, we can hope that sanity will prevail, taking to heart Scolari's wisdom in his wrenching postgame press conference that "life goes on," rather than the criminal soccer passion that apparently led to the killing of Colombian Andres Escobar, who scored the own-goal that led to his team's loss against the United States in 1994.
There are signs to give hope that the love for the game in soccer-crazed Brazil, a country that truly epitomizes what it means to live and breathe a sport, will transcend the devastation of the historic 7-1 score. At the conclusion of the semifinal match, weeping Brazilians stood in tribute to the German team, which had just handed them their most humiliating moment since their loss in 1950 to Uruguay, considered by many to be one of the most shocking results in World Cup history.
5 things about the beat down in Brazil
Without question, this game, and on home turf, trumps that earlier one. But the act of respect shown to Germany by the Brazilian ovation in Belo Horizonte stadium demonstrates how sometimes it is more important to love the game than to win a game.
Because it's the beautiful game, indeed.
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It's the height of summer, which means that you're hopefully going to be spending some time out on the town. And when you do, you'll surely be taking your mobile device out with you, playing some portable video games.
It means that animals will be romping about in the sunshine—bears, bees, birds, and maybe some other things that begin with "B." And so, many of those animals turned up in our many gaming apps from the week. Well, the birds didn't so much factor, but Angry Birds maker Rovio has got a new game, so I've got birds on the brain.
Was that a circuitous enough route for you? Sorry, I'm filling in for Mike. He's much better at this than I am. I'd play some Final Fantasy Tactics on iPad to clear my head, but Jason has me up in arms about the price.
Oh, Square Enix. You app-store-overcharging rascals, you.
If you have a suggestion for an app for the iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows Phone 7 that you'd like to see highlighted, let us know.
You Should Try The New Game From the Angry Birds People
Do you like feeling smart? Do you like feeling lucky? Angry Birds lets you feel both at the same time. And so does Amazing Alex, the new game from Finnish Angry Birds studio Rovio.
This too is a physics game. More »
That Really Awesome, Really Loud PC Stealth Game Is On iTunes Now
We've already insisted that you play Dynamite Jack, because it's a truly fun and panicky stealth game with explosions.
But now I must insist you pick up the iOS version, because playing a game on my iPad has never taken me to the edge of my seat quite like Dynamite Jack has. More »
Touch A Single Firefly To Set Off a Soothing, Addictive Chain-Reaction
If you grew up in certain parts of the country, you've no doubt got some fond memories regarding fireflies. A cool summer's dusk, the stars just starting to be visible, the chirping of insects-and flashing lazily about, the lights of fireflies.
Fireflies! the game has an exclamation mark in... More »
It's Too Bad This Awesome Final Fantasy Is So Insanely Priced
I want to tell you right now to go play Final Fantasy Tactics for iPhone and/or iPad. I really do. It's a sublime game with addictive battles and a story as bloody and intricate as any HBO show. More »
It's Talking Ted, But It's Not a Game
Since I live outside the U.S., many Hollywood movies often take their sweet time getting a release here in Japan. Ted is from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and follows the adventures of a grown-man who deals with his boyhood teddy bear that's come to life. More »


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Yes, you should, but it's not completely necessary if you're trying to keep your first brew day simple. With an extract kit, as long as your volume measurements are accurate, your OG will be on target since all you're doing is dissolving a known quantity of sugars in a know quantity of water.
Ideally you want the reading taken at the calibrated temp of the hydrometer-usually 60FIf the reading is off which 1.10 is its because you got a poor mix of wort and top off water which is common.See above post: with extract its pretty impossible to miss the OG unless you really mess up the volumes:)


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Cherry Valley Lodge
Newark, Ohio 1 course · 9 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
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+2 votes Phil Tucker › August 25, 2013
thats right F-... i cant believe they havent donated the baskets to anyone else. the course runs around the parking lot so if your not careful you will be buying a windshield. also do not fall for the Coco Keys. two slides inside a warehouse does not make an indoor waterpark
+0 votes Matt Smith › April 28, 2012
Baskets are short, open, and overgrown. Play if staying at Coco Key water park, but don't drive there just for the course.
+0 votes Xelto G › June 21, 2015
Alongside a hotel and parking lot is not the place to put a course.


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Loyalsock Lancers at Montoursville Warriors November 22012 Battle for the Bridge
37 scores Montour's third
several fellow players hoist 37, center, after he scored Montoursville's third touchdown during the the third quarter
tight coverage by 22, left and 20, right denies Ott (center, 28,) a catch in the third.
35 & 45 key in on ball during a fumble in the third, Montour recovered.
28 being chased in the 3rd by 20
45, right, tackles 43 in the third
43 breaks out in the second
43, left and 2
43 breaks a tackle by 45 to score near the end of the 2nd.
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3 throwing, second quarter
44, right, chases 3 out of the pocket in the second quarter
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19 throws short to 21 as 77 and 7 close on him in the second.
22, right, scrambles as 54, left, hones in on him.