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array of talent is stunning. Ace guitarists Laurence Juber, Mark
Hanson, Doug Smith, Kenny Sultan, Al Petteway, Mike Dowling and many
others (including ukulele sensation Greg Hawkes) are joined this time
by the inimitable Tommy Emmanuel, all in the service of the songs of
Robert and Richard M. Sherman.
Now, before you ask "Who?" let me list a few of the songs the Sherman brothers have written:
Winnie the Pooh
A Spoonful of Sugar
You're Sixteen
Feed the Birds (Tuppence A Bag)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chim Chim Cher-ee
It's a Small World
... among many others. And these are just a few of the songs on the CD!
is even more reason to order your copy today. For this special CD,
Solid Air is offering a combination CD / DVD package for only $17.99
(in addition to the CD-only package for $15.99). This DVD is only
available "for a limited time" and I can tell you that you do not want
to miss it.
Entitled "Behind the Scenes", the DVD
contains extensive footage of Tommy Emmanuel recording his beautiful
version of Winnie the Pooh, with alternate takes and studio chatter
with his recording engineer - Laurence Juber! LJ gives a virtual master
class on arranging for the guitar in explaining his version of A
Spoonful of Sugar. And the "star" of the video has to be Richard M.
Sherman, who discusses writing the songs, working with Walt Disney,
hearing his music played on solo acoustic guitar, and even giving Tommy
Emmanuel feedback on his own songs. We even get to see Mr. Sherman hear
the first playback of Tommy's recording and his own thoughts on this
What a combination! The music from so many
Disney classics, Disneyland, and even a number one song for Ringo
Starr, arranged and played by stellar guitarists, along with a DVD of
behind the scenes footage. What more can I say?
Well I can tell you about the songs. Tommy Emmanuel's Winnie the Pooh
is a powerhouse start to the CD. Tommy pulls out all of the stops for
this song which is a favourite of his and his daughters. From the
opening mist of chordal harmonics ("nothing artificial about those" as
LJ points out!) to the subtly over-dubbed melody this one is a real
gem, a genuine mix of technical skill and musicality.
Not to be outdone, Laurence Juber provides a superb arrangement of A Spoonful of Sugar
complete with complex orchestral counterpoint thrown in to stay true to
the original as well as to delight your ears. The way this song grows
through subtle key changes and delightful transitions makes it a joy to
hear over and over.
Al Petteway slows the tempo a bit with his arrangement of Hushabye Mountain
from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Petteway does a great job with
this tender ballad, keeping the haunting melody front and center.
Kenny Sultan then livens up the proceedings with his skipping version of There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,
a popular tune from the Disney theme parks. Sultan spices up this happy
tune with some down-home blues fingerpickin' and string bending that
suits it to a "T".
Slipping out of the solo guitar realm for one tune, Greg Hawkes works his ukulele magic on You're Sixteen.
The song sounds as if it were written just for uke, or perhaps a whole
orchestra of them. If your foot is not tapping to this song, you may
not be breathing.
Getting back to the guitar, Doug Smith provides a wonderful version of Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag),
with both melodic delicacy and harmonic richness. The exquisite sound
of his guitar sounds like a baritone guitar in an open tuning to my
ears. Gorgeous!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
seems to sneak onto the sound stage. This playful version by Mark
Hanson has all of his trademark care and attention to detail in the
arrangement which keeps true to the atmosphere of the song as well as
its melody and scoring. All of this requires him to play all over the
neck of the guitar as well as to toss of some sparkling harmonic work,
seemingly effortlessly.
Pat Donohue provides a swinging version of Let's Get Together,
a song from the movie The Parent Trap (sung by Hayley Mills in the
movie). This funky fingerpicking number is another foot tapper and just
a lot of fun to listen to.
By now we might need a breather, and Jim Tozier provides it with a lovely performance of The Slipper and the Rose Waltz,
a song from the film The Slipper and the Rose and for which the Sherman
brothers received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
mellow mood continues into the next track by Eltjo Haselhoff, until
after almost a minute it suddenly blossoms into a boisterous version of
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. There is some great playing in a whole variety of styles in this one, and each is more fun than the last.
The Age of Not Believing
is another Academy Award nominated song, this time from the film
Bedknobs and Broomsticks. This lovely multi-guitar version by Eliot
Easton (double-tracked, I assume) is full and rich and a fun romp
through the melody.
The oddly-punctuated I Wan'na Be Like You
(sometimes also called "The Monkey Song") is from the film The Jungle
Book. Mike Dowling gives us an imaginative arrangement and a spirited
performance that gives this classic new life.
Of all those great songs from Mary Poppins, it was Chim Chim Cher-ee
that walked off with the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1964.
Nick Charles does the song proud with a fine arrangment of a classic
song that takes it through several changes of mood and tempo.
Stay Awake,
a lullaby from Mary Poppins, is given a sensitive reading by Tim
Pacheco, who is careful not to lose the sleepy-time feeling of the song
in the film. He captures the dreamy atmosphere very well indeed.
how can such an amazing CD end? Mark Hanson and Doug Smith provide a
superbly worthy finale in their incredible duo version of It's a Small World.
Theirs is a truly ear-opening rendition that will show you aspects and
avenues of this song that you may never have guessed existed. These two
great players combine to produce a wonderfully sublime musical
experience that is the perfect ending to a magnificent project.
Poppin' Guitars
(Solid Air Records) offers a delightful mix of styles, from gentle
ballads to Kenny Sultan's ragtime treatment of "There's a Great Big
Beautiful Tomorrow" to Greg Hawkes's ukulele version of "You're
Sixteen," a 1960 hit for Johnny Burnette and later for Ringo Starr.
Each arrangement takes a familiar song and gives it an unexpected
twist. Al Petteway, who contributed a beautiful version of "Hushabye
Mountain" from Mary Poppins, said he grew up with most of
those songs. "I loved hearing what all of the guitarists did with
them," Petteway says. "It made all of that music fresh again for me."
addition to the album, a limited-edition DVD provides a
behind-the-scenes view of Tommy Emmanuel recording "Winnie the Pooh" at
Laurence Juber's studio, along with discussions between Juber,
Emmanuel, coproducer James Jensen, and Richard Sherman, as well as
Juber performing his stunning version of "A Spoonful of Sugar." As the
opening track of the album, Emmanuel's arrangement sets the mood,
beginning gently with his trademark harmonics before evolving into a
playful and joyous romp through the Hundred Acre Wood.
surprisingly, arranging these tunes presented some challenges. "We were
always doing something to tell stories," Richard Sherman says. "These
are little bits of stories, not just a melody out of the blue." That
meant the guitarists had to tell these stories without words, but there
were other challenges as well. "There's a little extra pressure
involved when you know that one of the composers is going to hear your
treatment of his song," says Jim Tozier, who covered "The Slipper and
the Rose Waltz." But Sherman was enthusiastic about the results. "They
had to make something with melodic lines alone," Sherman says. "They
told their own stories. I'm thrilled because they made so many
wonderful individual statements within the material."
guitarists on the album didn't opt for simple arrangements of the
melodies, instead choosing to interpret the whole recording. Doug
Smith's beautiful arrangement of "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins
is a case in point. "The song is not only beautiful but has a real
sense of wonder," Smith says. "I wanted to convey that at the beginning
by repeating the first two chords of the chorus, C and Em, which sound
great in the C G D G B E tuning. I start with a bit of the chorus
because that's the first thing you hear when Mary Poppins
starts. I wanted to get the coda as close as I could to the movie
version, and I also tried to occasionally get a bit of what the
orchestra did into the arrangement."
Although some tracks on Poppin' Guitars
overdub a second guitar, the closing tune is the only full-fledged
duet. Mark Hanson and Smith's arrangement of "It's a Small World"
serves as a showcase of duet arranging techniques and also exemplifies
the personal connections many of the artists felt with these tunes.
"It's a Small World" was written for the 1964 New York World's Fair (it
later became part of a Disneyland ride), where Hanson first heard it.
"Having grown up a couple miles from Disneyland, I always think of the
ride and that façade that has a giant clock that's constantly ticking,
with it chiming on the quarter hour," Smith says. That clock is
prominently featured in their arrangement. "We love the intro—Big Ben
chiming—which is also echoed at the end," Hanson says. "The beauty of
the sound, my Big Ben harmonics over Doug's eighth-note harmonics
ostinato, really pulls the listener in."
From there, Smith and
Hanson pull out all the stops to keep the short and simple melody
interesting and varied, moving from a delicate music-box-like version
of the chorus, through several styles—mimicking the effect of moving
through different cultures on the ride. "Doug and I work out duets in a
variety of ways, and we used all of them in 'It's a Small World,'"
Hanson says. "Doug made up the intro, I wrote the uptempo fiddle-tune
craziness near the end, and we worked out much of the rest of it
together. The idea of playing the verse and the chorus melodies
simultaneously came from my wife, Greta Pedersen, who has used the
technique with her children's choruses."
guitarists were less familiar with the tunes they arranged. Tozier
began his arrangement of "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz" by tracking
down a copy of the movie and listening repeatedly, since he didn't know
the tune. Although the song's complex orchestration was difficult to
emulate, Tozier made a useful discovery. "Fortunately, the same melody
is also used for the vocal tune 'He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me,'
sung by Richard Chamberlain and Gemma Craven after the ballroom scene,
which made it easier to focus on the melody and the important chord
changes," Tozier says. The tune was a stylistic departure for Tozier.
"One of the neat things about the melody is that it builds up tension
through a series of half-step intervals, with the tension releasing in
the last few notes of each line," he says. "It was such a departure
from the Celtic tunes I'm used to arranging."
Poppin' Guitars
is clearly a labor of love by all involved, and if there's a common
theme, it's "fun," which is perhaps best represented by Mike Dowling's
quoting of Baloo the bear ("Get mad, baby!") from The Jungle Book
in his arrangement of "I Wan'na Be Like You." (For a transcription, see
the March 2010 issue page 80.) Sherman had a mirthful reaction to
Dowling's line. "I heard it and I giggled," Sherman says.
Doug Young is a contributing editor to Acoustic Guitar.
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Lady Antebellum, Carrie Underwood + Other Stars Line Up to Salute Our Troops
Country's biggest stars are teaming up to salute the troops! Lady Antebellum, Carrie Underwood and Florida Georgia Line are among the first performers announced for 'ACM Presents: An All-Star Salute to the Troops,' a special television event paying tribute to the United States armed forces.
The Band Perry, Merle Haggard and George Strait are also on deck to perform, with even more artists being added to the all-star lineup in the coming weeks.
America's favorite crooners will tape the special on April 7 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Just one day after the ACM Awards, it's sure to be an electric night. The all-star lineup will honor the men and women who have served our country in such incredible ways, and the evening will include stories of their remarkable bravery and integrity.
"We are so thankful for the men and women in our armed forces and proud to present this fantastic night of performances in their honor," says Bob Romeo, CEO of the ACM. "The special will be a remarkable moment in Academy history."
Proceeds from ticket sales for the show will benefit ACM Lifting Lives, the philanthropic arm of the ACM that is dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. ACM Lifting Lives partners with artists to develop and fund music-related therapy and education programs.
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The couple began courting last November, after a series of text messages and "very long Skype conversations." (Jill's father, Jim Bob, introduced the couple while Derick was working as a missionary in Nepal.) While it's not quite Internet dating, they fell in love before even meeting in person; Derick describes their IRL romance as "a huge blessing." "We have a large pool of chaperones," he explained, because the Duggar lifestyle mandates chaperones. "You have to come in armed with good jokes and I usually have Skittles as well." Skittles! The sugar high from a sensible mouthful is as crazy as it gets.
Theirs is a reasonably speedy engagement, but when Quiverful married life represents the only opportunity for alone time and contact of even a slightly romantic nature, you might as well move fast.
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Even with a roster devoid of major leaguers and a mere six months to prepare his club, Japan manager Koji Yamamoto still felt immense pressure to continue his country's dominance in the World Baseball Classic.
This time, under far different circumstances four years later, two-time reigning champion Japan couldn't pull off a remarkable three-peat.
Yamamoto took it personally. How could he not on a night Japan lost 3-1 to Puerto Rico after the tournament honored the WBC's two previous winning managers from his homeland?
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"Of course I have aimed for three consecutive winning championships, and I had some expectation that we would be able to do that," the 66-year-old skipper said. "But this is such a big international game, and it's been a while since I did the big international game. I did have pressure that I need to do this. However, this was a great experience being as old as I am. I was able to really feel the challenge of the match and being able to face this kind of challenge, it was really exciting."
Unlike the two previous WBC winners from Japan, this team lacked international star power without the likes of Ichiro Suzuki, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish.
"We were all domestic players from Nippon baseball," Yamamoto said. "It's challenging to get adjusted before the season, so as a team, despite the challenges, they really had the unity to fight the game."
Hirokazu Ibata drove in the team's lone run with an eighth-inning single against Randy Fontanez, but Japan missed a chance with a costly baserunning blunder — a botched double-steal attempt. It also had the tying run at the plate in the ninth but Fernando Cabrera closed out the win.
The surprising Puerto Ricans first eliminated the star-studded United States, then took care of two-time World Baseball Classic champion Japan two days later in the event's first semifinal.
Now, Puerto Rico needs one more win to be WBC champion. Then, the country can throw a serious fiesta.
"We totally showed we can be the new team, the champion nobody expected," said Angel Pagan, center fielder for the World Series champion San Francisco Giants. "It means a lot, but not everything, because we're still missing one more win."
Alex Rios hit a two-run homer, Mike Aviles singled twice and drove in the game's first run, and Puerto Rico reached its first WBC final with a big assist from the bullpen.
Relievers Jose De La Torre and Xavier Cedeno each worked out of jams while pitching key moments after winning pitcher Mario Santiago left in the fifth inning with a forearm injury.
Team Puerto Rico will play in Tuesday night's championship against either the Netherlands or the Dominican Republic. Those countries meet in the tournament's second semifinal Monday night at AT&T Park.
A Puerto Rico team that didn't even gather as a full squad for the first time until March 4 in Fort Myers, Fla., reached the championship round for the first time.
Aviles hit a two-out bloop single to center to put Puerto Rico on the board in the first and singled again to start the seventh before Rios hit a towering drive into the left-field seats.
A beaming Rios rounded the bases and reached home to a line of jubilant, jumping teammates eager to celebrate.
"It was a very emotional at-bat," Rios said. "We're very proud of what we've done. It means a lot for us and to our fans."
The Puerto Ricans — who eliminated the U.S. on Friday night — certainly could have been road weary after playing the previous two days in Miami and making a cross-country trip to the Bay Area late Saturday, but Edwin Rodriguez's club looked nothing of the sort in stunning the favored Japanese.
"We knew that we had something good going on after we got through the second round," Rodriguez said. "Coming here and winning and eliminating Team Japan, that means a lot. There are a lot of emotions. We know that a lot of people down in Puerto Rico are watching. This is a huge performance and a huge accomplishment for the people of Puerto Rico, not only for the players and youngsters but also for the people of Puerto Rico."
Aviles' first hit ended 10 scoreless innings in the WBC for Japan right-hander Kenta Maeda, and Santiago didn't allow a baserunner until Ibata's single up the middle with one out in the fourth.
Team Puerto Rico played sparkling defense. Second baseman Irving Falu made a diving stop to his left to steal a hit from Yoshio Itoi for the first out of the fifth, then made another gem to end the eighth. That came after Japan's uncharacteristic mental mistake in which Ibata broke for third, then retreated to the bag as Seiichi Uchikawa already had neared second. Catcher Yadier Molina ran him down for the tag.
De La Torre walked the first batter he saw before back-to-back strikeouts. That sparked Molina to jump and pump his fist in celebration.
The fans were equally into it on a festive night that even included an Irish jig.
Many in the animated, colorful crowd of 33,683 bounced in their seats while waving flags, blowing horns and pounding Thunderstix — and, of course, the usual cast of boats and kayaks packed McCovey Cove beyond the right-field fence.
Team Puerto Rico eliminated a U.S. team of All-Stars with a 4-3 victory Friday in Miami and then sent Japan home empty-handed for the first time in the event's short history.
After lining into a double play to end the second inning, Feliciano ran down Shinnosuke Abe's tough liner to left-center for the first out of the bottom half — with a noisy band playing just 20 feet behind him.
Maeda hadn't allowed a run over 10 innings while giving up two hits with 15 strikeouts in two wins in this Classic. He allowed four hits and one run in five innings.
The two former WBC-winning Japanese managers were in attendance — Sadaharu Oh (2006) and Tatsunori Hara ('09) — and each threw out a ceremonial first pitch, accompanied by Puerto Rican Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda.
Puerto Rico has beaten Japan in three of their four international meetings, including a 6-0 shutout on Oct. 8, 2011, in the World Cup at Panama when they last played.
Japan is 17-7 all time in the Classic. Chants of "Nippon! Nippon!" were appreciated.
"I really felt the warm support from the fans," Yamamoto said. "In this case, our opponent was really superior, both in pitching and hitting, and so we were cornered, in a sense."


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There is a lot of this going around lately, either by choice or by force. For better or for worse (hopefully better) I have moved from Daugherty to PSC. I am still consulting, but with a company that is more focused on the Microsoft technology stack. Stay tuned for new adventures.
Tonight was the first meeting of the Chicago Architecture Group. David Dickinson made a wonderful presentation on real life SOA. This was accompanied by a lively discussion with the 19 people in attendance.
Thanks to Carl Franklin, Stephan Rylander and Larry Clarkin for making this such a success.
We have a meeting planned for July 10th at the Microsoft Downers Grove office. Stay tuned for more information.
Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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The work of Inuit artists is a defining feature of CUAG's collecting and exhibition programmes. In 1992, Dr. Marion Jackson, a scholar of Inuit art, facilitated the generous gift to CUAG of the Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art. The collectors, both Americans, travelled extensively throughout Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland in the 1970s and 1980s, meeting artists and buying their work. Their passion for Inuit narratives resulted in the 1995 co-publication by the gallery and Carleton University Press of Lela Kiana Oman's The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told By My People. Their art collection ultimately comprised approximately 1275 works in all media, with a strong concentration of prints by artists from Qamanittuaq (Baker Lake), Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Ulukhaktok (Holman), Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), and Puvirnituq. Exhibitions drawn from the Tyler/Brooks collection are frequently on display in the gallery.
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The Tyler/Brooks donation has attracted other significant gifts of Inuit art to the collection. Major donations include the R.D. Bell Collection of Inuit Art of 57 sculptures, with several large and impressive works, particularly by Kinngait artists, and the Josephine Mitchell and Lowell Schoenfeld Collection of Inuit Art, comprised of 55 sculptures. Most recently, John Andrew and Carolle Anne Armour donated 91 sculptures and 170 works on paper, including 32 drawings by the acclaimed Kinngait artist Parr and 15 drawings by Luke Anguhadluq, a senior Qamanittuaq artist. A medical doctor, Armour was especially interested in the activities of the shaman or angikoq – the doctor and healer of Inuit society – and as such, a number of the sculptural works in the collection address shamanic themes.
Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks intended their collection to foster greater understanding of and appreciation for Inuit art, a goal achieved through exhibitions, research, and publications. Indeed, CUAG's collection of Inuit art is a rich resource for such activity, in particular by students. Many of the exhibitions have been curated by undergraduate and graduate art history students, who gain invaluable curatorial experience working with the collection in a professional setting.
The gallery has published several exhibition catalogues featuring their research, including Qiviuq: A Legend in Inuit Art (1996) by Jennifer Gibson, Making Art Work in Cape Dorset (1997) by Shannon Bagg, and The Arctic Lithograph (1998) by Jennifer Cartwright. In late 2009 we launched our first collections catalogue, Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection, a full-colour, richly-illustrated, 232-page hardcover book documenting the highlight's of CUAG's important Inuit art collection and featuring the work of 34 guest writers. This book was awarded first prize in catalogue design by the American Association of Museums publication design competition (2009) and "special recognition" in the category of art publication of the year by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (2010).


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This morning I wanted to avenge my terrible run yesterday. The run where I felt like this.
I wanted to do just a sh0rt run as I'm still waiting for B to get down my winter running wear from the garage that we put up in storage… and it's been BRRRRRRR cold in the morning. So I slowly got out of bed and wanted to snuggle right back in, but I was excited to listen to my new playlist that I loaded up last night for motivation.
I splashed cold water on my face, put on my shirt and finally took off. When I started, I wanted to just stop. It was so cold. I know, I know CA winters are nothing comparatively, but lately it's been like mid to high 40s in the morning and that is chilly for me. It took me just a bit to warm up my legs and once I started I felt much better than yesterday. I started feeling better throughout the whole run and felt pretty proud of myself for once while running.
Sometimes it's hard because I get down on myself for how slow I'm running or that I'm not feeling good or something, but this morning I just kept telling myself, I got out there, I'm getting it done and that is all that matters. It was one of the runs that got me going this morning and starts my day off feeling great. Yea, I didn't run any faster or farther than I did yesterday, but I did listen to great music, watch the sun rise and got my mileage done. Here's to not being so hard on myself and being happy with the mileage that is happening.
Winter training is tough, but keeping my eye on the finish line is what is going to motivate me through!


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Artist: Twain L. Tippetts (1917-2000)
Biography: Teacher, art historian, and photographer. Raised in southern Utah. Taught art at Southern Utah University and USU, promoting the art museum and special exhibits. Helped organize Alliance for the Varied Arts (Logan's community arts organization) in the late 1960's. Logan resident for most of his life. Tippetts Gallery, USU Chase Fine Arts Center, bears his name.
Notes: Donated by Tippetts in memory of Mayor Newel Daines' grandson.
Description: Photograph, 19x14, color, 1988
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How vacuous is intergalactic space?
The emptiness of space is explained in many articles... But, space does contain some matter due to these possible reasons:
During the explosion of supernovae, some elements are created. Not all supernovae nucleosynthesis are successful. So, there should be some scattering of matter into outer space.
Cosmic rays are coming from interstellar space (and even from sun) in all directions. Would all of the particles have enough efficiency to reach their destination (I mean, take earth or any other interstellar object)?. Some protons or neutrons could be scattered into space.
Even the gaseous molecules in atmosphere of celestial bodies have possibility to reach escape velocity and go into space.
Are my assumptions correct? If so, then space must contain elements up to some extent. Isn't it? Or is it due to the infiniteness of space, that these scattered particles are ignored?


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Good Afternoon in my time zone.
I am using the JavaMail api , and theres is a method in the Folder class called "search" that sometimes take too long to execute. What i want is to execute this method over a maximum period of time( say for example 15 seconds in maximum) , that way i am sure that this method will not run up more than 15 seconds.
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messages = maximumMethod(Folder.search(),15);
Do i have to create a thread just to execute this methos and in the main thead use the wait method ?
Thanks Very Much


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Rosita Sweetman is a writer and journalist. She has published three books, On Our Knees, a look at Ireland in the 1970s, Fathers Come First, a novel, and On Our Backs, a look at sexual attitudes in 1980s Ireland.
Rosita's daughter, Chupi Sweetman-Pell, is a food writer and fashion designer, author of What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything: The Complete Allergy Cookbook. She sells her main fashion line, Chupi, through Topshop and at the The Loft Market.
What's the first record you ever bought?
Rosita: The Beatles, 'Love, Love me Do'
Chupi: The Streets of Philadelphia, the single, on cassette – for my Mum
What's your favourite smell?
R: Coffee
C: Fresh Basil leaves and tomato plants.
Have you ever had a nickname?
R: My dear bro, Roger, nick-named me Zebo, which turned into Zibb 🙂
C: No. No need!
What is your favourite room in your house?
R: The kitchen – with family, friends, food.
C: The kitchen! Where else can you eat?
What are your guilty pleasures?
R: Sorry, can't divulge, too guilty.
C: Cheese, chocolate, all food related things.
What would people be surprised to know about you?
R: That I'm a closet exhibitionist?
C: I'm not actually a nice person 🙂
Who is your closest female friend?
R: Ooooooo that's a hard one. If I choose one the others will be horribly hurt. Love all my female friends dearly.
C: Lydia.
Do you have any tattoos or piercings?
R: Ears. Done millennia ago in boarding school, with safety-pin, (the Child of Mary medal pin was too blunt).
C: Got navel pierced at 16 but took it out at 21 (it had reached its sell by date).
Where would you most like to live?
R: In a yellow submarine.
C: Don't think the where is very important, it's more the who with.
Who was your first kiss and where did it happen?
R: With MG, in the orchard. Hot and salty – we'd been swimming.
C: A guy called Ciaran. In Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow. (He's since emigrated :))
What's the most unusual question you've ever been asked?
R: Does that hurt?
C: The last one!
What's the best present you've ever received?
R: My children, Chupi and Luke. Nothing Compares to Them x
C: Yardi, my corgi, when I was ten.
What is your favourite word?
R: It was really Luke Kelly's favourite word: Un-be-fucking-lievable. Kind of suits the times that are in it…
C: F**k!
Who was your first love?
R: Michael G. We were 10 and knew everything (little horrors that we were).
C: Brian 🙂
If you weren't doing what you do, what might you have become?
R: A ballerina. No, that's a joke. How about a member of the Arts Council so I could torture penniless writers?
C: Someone who does cooking and eating and writing – full time.
Is there a book you've bought several times as a gift for someone?
R: Edna O Brien's barely known but absolutely wonderful biography of James Joyce. Everyone I've bought it for, including artist Barrie Cooke, adores it.
C: I've mostly given cookbooks; lots of my own, What To Eat When You Can't Eat Anything, and Yotam Ottolenghi's vegetarian cookbook, Plenty.
What happens after we die?
R: It's the Big Secret, isn't it?
C: The people who love us remember us.
What female historical figure do you admire most?
R: Grainne Uaile was pretty cool. I love the story of her marching, bare breasted, into Queen Elizabeth 1st's court. Attitude is everything.
C: None that I can think of.
Sum yourself up in three words:
R: Female. Mum. Hungry!
C: Impatient. Demanding. Enthusiastic. (and Hungry!)
And finally…What are you anti? What are you pro?
R: Pro the young, the old and the in-betweeners. Anti bullshite in all its myriad forms; particularly my own.
C: Oh God, how much time have you got? Anti ignorance – where education has been an option, and laziness, and religion. Am pro eating, love and friends 🙂


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Morning Five: 07.03.13 EditionPosted by rtmsf on July 3rd, 2013
- It's conference realignment absolution week around the land, with the ACC, Big East and AAC all welcoming new members in their own imitable ways. The ACC did so with considerable hoopla, unveiling Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame as new members at the NASDAQ headquarters in lower Manhattan on Monday. Everyone is toeing the party line at this point, of course, ("best basketball conference of all-time," etc.) but the sticking point is going to eventually hit some of the old-timers in this league when the ACC Tournament is no longer always held/incarcerated in the friendly confines of the Tar Heel State. The new Big East just hired a commissioner last week, and was last seen traipsing through midtown Manhattan trying to find some office space. Regardless, Butler, Xavier and Creighton are now on board with the Catholic Seven, and at least one mammal is ready for the transition. In the meantime, here's the top five storylines facing the basketball-centric league as it sets out on its own path. The AAC is a little further along, even if the conference has not yet changed the sign on the door in Providence or has a crystal clear notion of its ultimate direction in both the BCS and college basketball. Dan Wolken writes that the league's advantage is that it is finally able to move forward with a "clean slate," even if it is mocked at "Conference USA 2.0" for a while. This is the world we now live in; we may as well get used to it.
- One of the new Big East schools, Creighton, received some great news on Tuesday when guard Grant Gibbs was given a sixth season of eligibility by the NCAA (his reaction to the news in this video is priceless). Gibbs applied for the sixth season based on the fact that he missed his true freshman season with an injury and his transfer season for a different injury. Next season will give him a full fourth year of action, and with teammate Doug McDermott's return in lieu of heading to the NBA Draft, the Bluejays again look like a serious contender on the conference and national levels next season. And as for where the scholarship for next year will come from? Doug's dad, of course. Head coach Greg McDermott will pony up the $38,000 tuition plus expenses for his future millionaire son next season, surely a small price to pay for a team with a reasonable shot at crashing the Final Four party in Arlington next April.
- One of the former Big East and new ACC schools (confused yet?), Syracuse, put one more piece of the Bernie Fine saga to bed yesterday with the news that the former Orange assistant was dropping his defamation suit against ESPN. You recall that Fine was investigated but never charged by federal authorities in response to allegations that he molested two former ball boys some time ago. He was fired regardless, and later brought suit against ESPN for airing the allegations that included a secret tape made of his wife, Laurie Fine, discussing the allegations with an accuser a decade ago. His wife still has a defamation suit pending over the release of that tape. ESPN says that no settlement was reached, so the elephant in the room question is why would Fine — who has maintained his innocence throughout — drop the case? The only reasonable explanation is that it simply wasn't winnable on the merits, and in fact, could expose him to further embarrassment and/or damage to his reputation, right?
- This is an odd story, but let's not make a federal case of it. The FAA is apparently investigating the practice of leasing the state of Michigan's four passenger jets to Michigan State's head football and basketball coaches for the purpose of recruiting visits. Of course, that means Spartan head coach Tom Izzo and his 55 recruiting trips in the last five years are also under scrutiny. The current reports are unclear on what the organization is looking for, specifically, but "it is known that the billing documents and receipts for many of these trips are being sought-out by investigators to determine whether the use of the planes violated any laws or incurs any cost to the common taxpayer." MSU, like many major players in the college athletics world, pays for such costs from a self-sufficient fund separate from taxpayer dollars, so we're not really sure what the objective is here. But it's worth following at this point.
- This came out last week, but as we're heading into the heart of the summer recruiting circuit, it's worth mentioning here now. The Rivals150 recruiting rankings for the Class of 2014 have been updated, and Chicago center Jahlil Okafor remains at the top of the list. He and Rivals' #2 prospect, Minneapolis' Tyus Jones, are allegedly looking to become a package deal, which would make one of the group of Arizona, Baylor, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan State or Ohio State very, very happy. It appears to be a very strong year for the Midwest, with six of the top 11 players in the nation playing in the Big Ten footprint. For the complete list, check it out here.


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La collection Bridal 2015 de Essie est composée de 6 teintes en édition limitée, quatre naturelles, un rose et un rouge.
Essie Bridal Collection 2015 consists of 6 colors in limited edition, four naturals, a pink and a red.
Regarding the colors of these four small I think they were designed to match the different skin colors. Thus, choosing the right color for her skin tone is obtained the most natural effect.
Tying the knotie : translucent candy pink ; it is that which is best for my white skin.
Hubby for dessert : translucent pale purple ; for very pale skin.
Worth the wait : translucent apricot with a slight bluish shimmer ; for matte skin.
Brides to be : translucent beige / caramel ; for darker skin.
Entendons nous bien, l'attribution aux différentes carnations c'est mon avis personnel, pour vous guider dans votre choix, mais rien de tel que de tester en magasin si vous en avez la possibilité pour voir ce qui vous correspond le mieux.
Pour ma peau Tying the knotie est parfait, les autres me vont aussi mais donnent un effet beaucoup moins naturel.
For my skin Tying the knotie is perfect, the others are also pretty on me but the effect is a lot less natural.
For colors we are in the frank and the showy ! This collection is in total duality between the discrete and intense, ultimately each may find her way ^^.
Happy wife, happy life: a clear and powerful orange red. I hate this kind of red, really ^^. It does not fit my complexion, just like orange. By cons my mother welcomed it with emotion in her eyes : it is the very embodiment of her ideal red. Each her taste. (You can see it worn here)
Now you know what this collection is made of ^^. Note that these polishes will be available until the end of May I think.
What are your thoughts on this collection ? For or against nailart on the hands of the bride ?


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LONDOM Moedim meeting
WHERE: All Souls Clubhouse , 141 Cleveland street, LONDON W1T 6QG (When you arrive at the front door, phone 07702 616420 or 07885 941848 and we will come down and let you in - or go down next road to the right of venue - and enter side gate, where you will see spiral staircase leading right up to the upper room where we will be)
WHEN: Friday NOVEMBER 1ST 6:30pm-9:30pm (come when you can and go when you want)
COST: Free (though donations welcome towards cost of room)
"I do hope this email finds you both well. Just to say a small thank you for the monthly moed at All Souls. I have missed a couple, plus arrived very late on Friday evening; yet the teachings I managed to hear were superb and was thoroughly thrilled to have Richard recite the priestly blessing upon me. Thank you.
My church sister Elizabeth who I sat next too upon my late arrival was totally in awe of the meeting and said it was 'Excellent!". I was so glad to hear her say that, for she has become my witness as she recalls the moed event to other members of our church. A few had shown interest in attending but then backed out. Elizabeth has told them and others how good the moed is, so as always we trust in Adonai. Richard had asked for a testimony that evening but one can feel too self conscious to stand in front of an audience. However, here is my testimony; that since my first attendance and due to your prayers, my spiritual insights and understanding of the biblical scriptures has grown.
The messianic jewish/hebraic teachings that you offer has been spiritually uplifting and engaging, plus the addition of Steve's good humour and literature.
The gift of Saltshakers biblical outreach is a God send to myself and no doubt all in attendance."
"Thank you so much for stepping out in faith and organising the Moedim at All Souls clubhouse on 16th March. I was very inspired by the teaching and have noticed a break through in openings to talk about the Jewish roots of our Christian faith since then"
"We were really blessed by last Friday's meeting"
"The Moedim monthly Meeting in Central London is exactly what I'd longed for, as it offers a wonderful opportunity of further learning and to share ones faith in an understanding environment."
There is currently a growing thirst among Christians to feed from the ancient roots of the faith, without being strangled by them. Yet this can be a confusing search, with often many detours, some leading to strange places. Where can one go to find out more? We believe that Moedim is such a place.
Why? Because you can trust us. This is an initiative of the Saltshakers Web Community (www.saltshakers.com) and is led by Paul Luckraft and Steve Maltz, who together have decades of experience of leading sincere Christians into valid Hebraic expressions of their faith.
WHAT IS IT? As a group of believers, we want to gather at the beginning of each month to set ourselves apart, celebrate Jesus and enjoy all the good things He has done. BUT also to seek Him for all the things that He is going to do in the coming month.
HOW? Each evening will provide a time to think seriously about your function in the Body of Christ. There will be prayer, there will be worship, there will be teaching. But there will be more, there will be opportunities for expression and freedom, all in a friendly collaborative atmosphere. In other words, Church …. But NOT as you know it!
AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? Why is this night different from all other nights? The first difference is hinted at by our title, Moedim, Hebrew for 'appointed times'. We will be meeting according to the Hebrew, lunar, calendar, the Biblical calendar, so we will meet at the beginning of the lunar (Hebrew) month rather than the solar (secular) month. Is this a big deal? No. It's really as simple as saying, our calendar is fine – but there's also an arguably more Biblical calendar. What would God think if we enjoyed Him at key dates in this calendar instead? There must be a reason why God told the people of the Bible to obey these dates in certain ways. The other difference is that our evenings will follow the Hebraic, rather than the Greek, tradition …. What does that mean? Well, you'll just have to come and find out … For more information: Steve Maltz 07885 941848 email@example.com


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Connor Fields didn't leave anything to chance with his Olympic dreams.
The 19-year-old Fields won the U.S. men's BMX trials on Saturday in Chula Vista, Calif., earning an automatic spot on the three-man team for the London Games. He held off Corben Sharrah, Mike Day and Barry Nobles to win the final contested over a replica of the Olympic course.
"It's like a lifetime accumulation of hard work and dedication, a genuine love of what I do," Fields said. "I came in knowing that I just had to win one lap and I would be in."
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He ended up winning the one lap that mattered most, edging Sharrah at the finish line.
"I've been competing against Corben since we were 8. He was the man and I've been chasing him," Fields said. "We pushed each other so hard, and arguably we are the two best riders today."
Fields will be joined by David Herman, who earned his spot on the team by leading USA Cycling's power rankings, and a discretionary pick to be announced later Saturday night.
Arielle Martin and a discretionary selection will compete in the women's race in London.
Fields has been arguably the best rider this season, becoming the first to win three straight World Cup finals from the end of last year through the beginning of this year.
The ultra-confident Fields had been leading the power rankings until a disappointing result at last month's world championships. That gave Herman the first spot on the Olympic team and left Fields to contest the trials, even though he assumed that he would make the team anyway.
"It was an advantage knowing that I was a shoe-in for the coaches' selection, and I even considered not racing this race and just rolling out," he said, "but I thought about it for a few days. That's not who I am. I'm a race driver and enjoy it, and it was an advantage not having the pressure the other guys had. I was able to relax up there and didn't need to win this to go."
That almost cavalier attitude stands in stark contrast to where Fields was 18 months ago.
He had achieved tremendous success as a junior, making three podiums at major events and showing signs of future stardom. But his right knee had been causing pain, and reached the point where he could no longer ride without feeling as though his kneecap was grinding against bone.
He was diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome, which is a relatively common condition among athletes. Cartilage in the knee thins and softens, creating painful rubbing in the joint.
Fields elected to have surgery in March 2011 called a lateral release, which alleviated some of the pain but also knocked him off the track until midway through last season.
Once he got back on the track, he got up to speed in a hurry.
First came in the strong results at the end of last season, including a World Cup victory over the course in Chula Vista, and then two more wins to start this season. That string of success, along with a couple of other impressive showings this spring, stamped Fields as one of a handful of riders who are considered the Olympic favorites.
Of course, he had to qualify for the Olympics first.
Fields rode well during the opening series of heat races Saturday just outside of San Diego, which whittled the field of eight riders down to four. When the gate dropped for the final, Fields went straight to the front and made sure to wrap up his spot in London.
"I was relaxed all day, having a good time," Fields said. "We have been racing the top riders the last four years and we raced them two weeks ago at the world championships, and three weeks before that in Holland. We know what we are getting into."


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Niko Bellic (Serbian: Нико Белић, Niko Belić) is the main protagonist of Grand Theft Auto IV. He is 30 years old and grew up in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe, where he fought in the Yugoslav Wars.
Early life and family
It is suggested that Niko was born in Yugoslavia and grew up in a small town in modern-day Serbia, close to his cousin, Roman Bellic. His father was an abusive alcoholic, whom Niko despised; his mother, Milica Bellic, was a long-suffering woman, unhappy that her son grew up in such a harsh place. He also had a brother. In a conversation with Kate McReary, Niko says that he found out his aunt (Roman's mother) was raped and murdered, some time after Roman's departure to the United States; knowing Roman would be even more devastated if he knew the true circumstances of his mother's death, Niko covered up what happened, telling him that she died in a house fire.
Bosnian Wars
Niko grew up in the harsh environment of the Bosnian Wars, and became a soldier himself as a teenager. He served as a helicopter pilot and an infantryman during the war, and during the mission Easy Fare, Roman alludes to him driving a tank (although given Roman's lack of first-hand experience, this is not necessarily true).
During the war, Niko both witnessed and committed numerous atrocities, which led to his cynical perspective on life, and a certain degree of regret, depression, and emotional detachment. Eventually, Niko's unit of fifteen men (most of them friends from his home town) were ambushed by enemy forces, and all but three were killed: Darko Brevic, Florian Cravic, and Niko himself. Niko concluded that either Florian or Darko had sold the group out, and he vowed to uncover and kill the culprit, not only to gain revenge, but also to hopefully 'close the book' on the incident, and move on with his life.
Post-war life
Work was hard to come by following the war. Niko's cousin, Roman, had already moved to America to start a new life in Liberty City; Niko spent the next decade working in the European criminal underworld, leading to a brief period of incarceration. After being released from prison, he began working for a human trafficking ring led by Ray Bulgarin; when a boat involved in the operation sank in the Adriatic during a smuggling run into Italy, Niko swam to safety, but everything and everyone else was lost. Bulgarin believed that Niko had intentionally scuttled the ship and stole his money; the gangster's reach was too great within Europe, so Niko joined the merchant navy to escape Bulgarin's influence.
Life in Liberty City
Niko spent seven months with the cargo ship Platypus, which eventually headed for Liberty City.
Niko parted ways with the Platypus crew there, partly to reunite with his cousin, and partly to track down Florian Cravic, who had moved to Liberty City after the war. Roman had been boasting of great success in Liberty City, but in truth his assets amounted to a small taxi depot and rundown apartment, and he was saddled with heavy debts due to his gambling habit. Niko would assist Roman in his taxi business, and protect his cousin from the loan sharks who were harassing him. Roman's connections eventually led to Niko taking work with the Russian Mafia, setting in motion the events of the game.
At the end of the game, a Weazel News report states that Niko is wanted for questioning by the police (although not as a suspect), for the events at his cousin's wedding.
Niko's immigrant status is uncertain, and arouses the suspicion of the LCPD and FIB. Although Niko often protests while fleeing police that he "has [his] papers", Roman says that Niko does not have a visa.
Niko is very protective of his family and loved ones, particularly his cousin Roman, despite Roman's indiscreet nature frequently getting the pair into trouble. He is withdrawn among strangers, but has good manners, and shows a softer side with love interests like Kate McReary and Michelle; that said, the horrors of war, both witnessed and perpetrated by Niko, have given him a great sense of guilt, and an ambivalence about the value of human life — he warns away pursuers and expresses regret over his past violence, but also feels that killing is all that he can do, readily taking on jobs which necessarily involve murder. He has an explosive temper when he is lied to, manipulated, or his loyalty is questioned, but he is also quick to help the defenseless and unfortunate, even those he merely meets in passing; he apparently possesses a sense of idealism which was wounded by his wartime experiences. Unfortunately, such a split attitude leads to hypocrisy — Niko, for example, appears to genuinely sympathize with the McRearys' grief over the demise of one of their brothers, despite having secretly committed that murder himself.
Niko's bitterness at the murder of his friends during the war has consumed him, and he is unable to let it go, taking on several highly dangerous jobs merely to enable his quest for vengeance. He is urged by several of his friends, most notably Roman, to find a new reason to live, but it is only after Niko finally has the opportunity for revenge that the player may choose for him to take it, or let it go.
Niko's businesslike manner usually leads him to behave more maturely and cautiously than his acquaintances, although with acquaintances like Brucie Kibbutz, Bernie Crane and Roman, this is no surprise. He has an apparent distaste for illicit drugs, turning down Little Jacob's offer of marijuana and warning against Packie's cocaine habit; he also finds it distasteful to traffic in cocaine and particularly heroin, although this may be due to the heavy jail sentences they attract as much as any moral qualms. He is skeptical of American mainstream culture, which he sees as shallow, hypocritical and debauched, and has trouble relating to Roman's fascination with the country.
Niko always refuses alcohol when being invited and asks for water in the mission Ivan The Not So Terrible, except for the mission The Holland Play where Playboy X pours him a glass but immediately before taking a sip, Niko changes his mind and puts the glass on a table. There is a scene where Niko does drink a glass of Vodka (on the rocks) in the mission One Last Thing while talking to Jimmy Pegorino.
Heinous crimes committed
- The bombing of Kenny Petrovic's garage in Bohan.
- The murder of Tom Goldberg
- The assassination of police commissioner Francis McReary(Optional)
- The robbery of The Bank of Liberty.
- Assisting the arrival of an illegal immigrant from North Korea.
- The abduction of Gracie Ancelotti.
- The ambush of a prison convoy in Booth Tunnel and the prison break of Aiden O'Malley, whom he killed later anyway.
Naming and language errors
The surname "Bellic" would not exist in the Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian languages, as these do not allow consecutive consonants (ie, the double-L in "Bellic"); "Bellic" is also pronounced with a hard 'c' ("bel-lik") throughout the game — Niko himself uses the incorrect pronunciation when introducing himself to the receptionist at Goldberg, Ligner and Shyster in the mission Final Interview. A proper pronunciation would use a hard 'ch' (as used in-game with the names "Darko Brevic" and "Florian Cravic"); a more authentic rendering of Niko's surname would be Belić. At one point, Florian, speaking in his native Serbian, pronounces the name correctly; "Bellic" may simply be an Anglicized version of "Belić".
The first name "Niko" is distinctively Croatian, rather than Serbian — the Serbian equivalent would be "Nikola". In the mission Final Interview, Tom Goldberg refers to Niko as "Nikolai", although this is an assumption on his part — he begins their interview by saying, "Hello Niko; what's that short for? Nikolai?" Niko does not respond and no one else calls him "Nikolai" in the game.
Niko's voice actor, Michael Hollick, is American, and the accent he assumes for Niko is not a Serbian one; Niko's spoken Serbian is frequently mispronounced or wrongly emphasized.
Mission appearances
- The Lost and Damned
- The Ballad of Gay Tony
LCPD Database record
Surname:cBellic First Name: Niko Age: 30 Place of Birth: Unknown Affiliations: Linked to Russian and West Indian Criminals in Broker Criminal Record: 2008 - Grand Theft Auto Notes:
- Recent immigrant to Liberty City from Eastern Europe
- Appears to be avoiding allegiance to one particular criminal organization.
- Niko may be visually inspired by Sasha from the movie Behind Enemy Lines (2001); Sasha's clothes are even available to buy in the Russian Shop.
- Niko's appearance in Alderney during the mission Clean and Serene in The Lost and Damned contradicts GTA IV; at the time of the mission, Niko is restricted to the boroughs of Bohan, Broker and Dukes.
- Niko has a scar on his left eyebrow.
- In artwork and earlier screenshots, Niko is often seen wearing fingerless gloves. However, there are no gloves in the actual game. The reason why they were removed from the final version of the game is unknown.
- In early beta versions of GTA IV Niko had slightly thicker hair and sometimes he can be seen with a buzzcut, which doesn't appear in the final GTA IV, but still exists in the game files.
- Niko has accrued the highest body-count of any protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto series.
- Niko, along with Patrick McReary, can be fought and killed in The Ballad Of Gay Tony mission Ladies Half Price. Niko and Packie have a colossal amount of health. [1].
- Niko says in the place he grew up, they didn't have electricity until he was twelve. This can be heard if you hang out with Dwayne Forge.
- "Niko" means "Nobody" in the Serbian and Bosnian language.
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Can airliners really fly upside down?
By Thom Patterson, CNN • Updated 10th January 2013
The pilot turned his airliner upside down. On purpose. And it saved nearly a hundred lives.
That's the idea behind one of the most intense movie moments of the holiday season: the core scene of "Flight," starring Denzel Washington as pilot Whip Whitaker. Hollywood sure likes Washington's performance. The role earned him an
Oscar nomination
Thursday on the heels of a Golden Globe nod in December. The film also received a nod for best original screenplay.
Spinning movie sets combine with CGI to make the scene "more than gut-wrenching,"
wrote CNN's Tom Charity.
Hitflix ranks it
among the "most harrowing plane crashes ever seen."
(By the way, no spoilers here.)
Thanks to masterful editing, we see a series of jerky, split-second glimpses
of an "engine failure" panel light and then an uncontrolled dive and a plunging altimeter. In a stunning command decision, Washington's character rolls the plane over on its back. We see tumbling passengers and tossed luggage and finally a smoky crash landing in an empty field.
The scene stands as a breathtaking masterpiece of Hollywood's dream machine, but it pales in comparison with
United Flight 232,
a deadly
real-life airline disaster
that -- like the movie --- could have been much worse if not for remarkable efforts by heroic crew members.
But first, is it possible to fly a commercial airliner upside down? Would excessive G-forces destroy it? That
debate is raging right now
on aviation Twitter feeds and
Denzel Washington and John Goodman star in a drama that asks us to question what it means to be a hero. Take a look!
In her first American TV appearance she talks about being toe to toe with the Oscar winner.
CNN's Fredricka Whitfield talks with Denzel Washington about his involvement with The Boys and Girls Club of America
In the film, the pilot rolls the plane over to keep it flying longer. He avoids crashing into a neighborhood, saving countless lives.
"Flight" director Robert Zemeckis, creator of the "Back to the Future" series, enjoyed a bit of artistic license here, said Larry Goodrich, the film's pilot consultant.
Goodrich, a 32-year pilot -- first with the Air Force, then with Delta Air Lines -- trained pilots to fly MD-88s, which the movie's plane most resembles.
During production, Goodrich said he reminded Zemeckis and Washington that "you can turn an airplane like this over, but it's not going to fly like this very long. It's gonna go down."
"He looked at me and he said, 'Can it fly upside down for a little bit?' I said, 'Yeah a little bit, but eventually you're gonna lose lift in the wings and you won't have the power to keep the airplane up.'"
"It's hard to do and the planes aren't built for it," said another veteran commercial airline pilot. "But when you're in that situation you'll do anything you can to save the airplane," said the pilot, who asked not to be named because he's not authorized by his airline to speak with the news media.
When asked about flying upside down, Boeing, which inherited the MD-80 series after its 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas, issued a no-nonsense statement.
"The MD-80 cannot sustain inverted flight," the statement said. "The MD-80, as with all commercial airliners, was designed to fly upright. Commercial airliners are only tested and certified for upright flight."
Another thing that didn't ring true with Goodrich was the pilot leaving the cockpit during an emergency, as Washington's character did. Goodrich said he advised Zemeckis this scenario wasn't likely.
The interaction between Washington's character and the co-pilot rubbed commercial airline pilot and
blogger Patrick Smith
the wrong way.
"Washington's character is arrogant and flip and condescending and his co-pilot's character is meek and weak and at times even scared and clueless," said Smith. "This isn't how pilots behave. It reinforces the myth that the co-pilot is some sort of apprentice pilot."
The real deal
But as we all know, there's Hollywood -- and then there's the real deal.
As one commenter on airspacemag.com put it,
"Hollywood could learn a lot from true life, i.e., United 232." That's because when it comes to a real life loss of airliner flight control, situations don't get much worse than Flight 232.
Al Haynes commanded the DC-10 that hot July day in 1989. The plane was about 75 miles north of Sioux City, Iowa, en route from Denver to Chicago with 11 crew and 285 passengers, when one of the plane's three engines failed. "There was a loud BANG," Haynes said. The bang, he said, "was followed by a large vibration lasting a few seconds."
The noise was the sound of a cracked engine fan disk shooting out of the tail engine and freakishly hitting in the worst possible spot. The disk severed all the plane's hydraulic lines, virtually cutting off all steering and speed control.
Read federal investigators' report on the crash (PDF)
For the next 45 minutes, Haynes, First Officer Bill Records, engineer Dudley Dvorak and instructor Dennis Fitch would need all their strength and good ideas to re-invent how to fly the DC-10.
But unlike the movie, flying upside down was not the solution to escaping this emergency.
"When the engine failed, the airplane started to turn to the right and started to roll," said Haynes. "If we had not stopped that and it had rolled over on its back, I'm sure the nose falling down would have increased the airspeed so fast that there's no way we could have controlled it."
"If we had gotten upside down, the party was over."
They learned how to steer the plane by adjusting the power in the aircraft's two remaining engines. It was like trying to drive a car without power steering, said Haynes, only harder.
The captain and Records struggled with the control wheel circling it steadily in right turn circles toward Sioux City airport. "It was very tiring," Haynes said. At the same time, Fitch struggled on his knees as he was forced to use both hands to muscle the plane's throttle levers, which also had become hard to move.
"I'll tell you what, we'll have a beer when this is all done," Fitch told Haynes,
according to the flight recorder transcript.
"Well, I don't drink," the captain replied, "but I'll sure as hell have one."
In the cabin,
flight attendants worked to calm passengers
and prepare them for a crash landing. "One passenger thought she was having a heart attack and the flight attendants calmed her down, and it turned out she wasn't having a heart attack, she was just very nervous," Haynes said.
As the plane neared the ground at a much-too-fast speed, passengers were warned to brace for impact. Video of the DC-10's fiery cartwheel landing was plastered across TV news channels for months after the disaster.
"The minute we hit the ground, I was knocked out," Haynes recalls. "I woke up in the cockpit talking to Dudley, I only remember bits and pieces of the conversation. I remember when the rescuers found us, someone asked, 'Are there really four of you in there?'"
One-hundred-ten passengers and one crew member -- flight attendant Rene Le Beau -- died in the crash. One-hundred-eighty-five passengers and crew survived.
In the months after the disaster, authorities recreated the emergency in flight simulators. But the simulator pilots were unable to maintain control of the plane all the way through to landing.
Sometimes life produces real events that rival Hollywood's wildest imaginations. That's what happened in 1989, when the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 achieved the nearly impossible.
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Upcoming Games
Here is some fresh news for those of you who can't live without video games. These are the three games that I am looking forward to plying myself, I hope you find this information helpful and it will help you choose your new games.
Sniper: Ghost warrior.
The shooter is going to come out later than planned – In October. The gaming company Namco Bandai announced that the game is going to be ready to come out only on August 21, and it is not going to be in stores until October 9. The reasons of the delay are unknown.


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I am using /etc/host to map localhost to a web domain. I would like a fast way of doing this rather than searching and replacing every time. I put this in my .bashrc file.
alias hostchange='
cd /etc;
mv hosts hoststempname;
mv hostssecondary hosts;
mv hoststempname hostssecondary;
cd $nowdir'
I am getting this error and it won't progress regardless y or n.
mv: rename hosts to hoststempname: Permission denied
override rw-r--r-- root/wheel for hosts? (y/n [n])
I got it to work by adding sudo.
alias hostchange='
cd /etc;
sudo mv hosts hoststempname;
sudo mv hostssecondary hosts;
sudo mv hoststempname hostssecondary;
cd $nowdir'
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Bilateral cooperation between Egypt and China is reportedly expanding at leaps and bounds, according to Nomaan Galal, Egypt's ambassador to China.
Recently, the two countries celebrated the 45th anniversary of the countries' diplomatic exchanges. During the event, Galal stated that as both countries played major roles in their respective regions, increased cooperation between was not only desirable, but could also contribute to the maintenance of world peace and stability.
In recent years, political exchanges have also intensified, with President Hosni Mubarak so far having visited China seven times. All Chinese premiers and presidents have visited Egypt, as well.
Currently, petroleum is one of the chief components of Egyptian-Chinese trade, with rising oil demand in China resulting in a 200 percent boost in Egyptian export, from $34 million worth of oil exported in 1999 to $102 million during the year 2000.
Egypt also exports cosmetics merchandise and perfumes to China, while Chinese products entering Egypt include shoes, leather products, pencils, pens, toys and industrial and food products. ― (MENA Report)
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High Court rejects Māori Council water rights case
New Zealand Māori Council v Attorney-General
11 December 2012
The High Court declined the New Zealand Māori Council's application for judicial review of decisions relating to the proposed partial privatisation of the State-owned Enterprise Mighty River Power. The Supreme Court will hear the Council's appeal from that decision at the end of January 2013.
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Personal Counselors are here to help students identify and accomplish their academic and career goals, enhance personal development, meet life's challenges, and improve interpersonal relationships.
- We offer FREE brief therapy sessions to individuals and couples who are matriculated students of San José State University.
You do not need to be in significant distress to seek counseling. Sometimes our beliefs or expectations of ourselves or of counseling results in a delay in seeking help until situations become serious, or we are already in crisis. While no issue is too big or small, many people tell us that they wish they had come to counseling sooner. Start a new journey and seek counseling earlier rather than later!
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Gain understanding in a safe environment
A counselor provides a friendly ear for you to put your thoughts and feeling into words. By talking to a counselor, you will gain some understanding and possibly a different perspective on various life circumstances.
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Counseling is more than talking to a friend; it is your time only, and you can choose to talk about what is important to you.
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Many people seek counseling for everyday issues (e.g., relationship difficulties, death of a loved one, stress) as well as significant life struggles (e.g., depression, eating disorders, etc.). Coming to counseling does not mean that you are crazy, but just that you have decided to explore new ways of dealing with life.
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A counselor will listen without criticism, and will keep what you say confidential, with a few exceptions. For more information about confidentiality of your records, please visist our site on confidentiality. All personal counselors at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) subscribe to the Code of Ethics of the American Psychological Association and are required by the State of California to maintain strict client confidentiality.
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First visit
*If you would like to be seen, please call 408-924-5910 to schedule an appointment. Your initial appointment will be 15-20 minutes.
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For both the initial appointment and the crisis drop-in, the counselor will meet with the student for approximately 15-20 minutes, evaluate the nature and severity of the student's difficulties, and discuss with the student a recommended course of action such as a few problem solving sessions, individual or couples counseling, educational counseling, group therapy, or referral to another university or community resource.
Length of time of on-going individual counseling
Besides the brief drop-in/initial session, a typical personal counseling session lasts 50 minutes.
At times, one counseling session is all that is required. Often, students find counseling so helpful that they come weekly and for several sessions. Sometimes, you and your counselor may decide that you only need to come in once every couple of weeks or once per month. This is something that is agreed upon between you and the counselor. The frequency of sessions depends on many factors, including the types of issues that are discussed and your schedules as well as the appointment time the counselor has available.
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Individual experiences are different for everyone, however most people find counseling beneficial. In fact, nine out of ten Americans surveyed by Consumer Reports said that psychotherapy (personal counseling) had helped them.
Here are a few factors that can help make your counseling experience a better one.
- For many students, counseling is unfamiliar and a risky step to take. It is helpful to discuss with the counselor any concerns you may have.
- Counselors are there to facilitate your skills and to help you gain perspective so that you can improve your quality of life outside of the counseling sessions. Therefore, be prepared to continue your work and growth in between counseling sessions. This may come in the form of "homework" or reflection when you will think about the conversations between you and your counseling. You may be asked to act on ideas or decisions between those counseling sessions. Your actions will favor even more growth.
- The relationship between you and the counselor is an important factor. If you feel that the relationship with your counselor is preventing you from speaking freely for any reason, try to talk about this with the counselor. This may be a good time to practice your interpersonal communication skills. Otherwise, you may also request a change to a different counselor.
Come to CAPS in Student Wellness Center, third floor, room 300B, to vent, gain different perspectives, and to learn more about yourself. If your academics are negatively impacted, we also have educational counselors who may help with your educational performance, time management skills, etc. Please call 408-924-5910 for more information or to make an appointment with an educational counselor.


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Peace and development at stake in Ghanaian voteDec 7, 2012
Ghanaians will vote for a president and members of parliament on December 7 in an important test for the country's long democratic tradition.
Building on twenty years of uninterrupted growth, Ghana, now a middle-income country, is also known for its expert management of elections. The country's last elections in 2008 for instance, led to a peaceful transfer of power despite a less than 0.5% margin of victory in a highly politicized environment.
In a sign of democratic maturity, the death of President Atta Mills in July 2012 saw his successor, John Mahama, assume the presidency smoothly and without controversy.
Speaking of the upcoming elections, Ms. Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Ghana, said "it matters less which party wins". "Once the elections are peaceful, everyone wins," she added.
In 2012, UNDP supported the electoral process with a USD 2.2 million programme focusing on increased participation, gender equality and conflict prevention.
UNDP helped Ghana's Electoral Commission to register 14 million Ghanaian voters, working with the commission to develop a text messaging system that allowed an estimated 700,000 voters to check their registration details from their cell phones.
UNDP also helped train 40 female parliamentary candidates and political leaders, almost a third of the number of women running for election. Training sessions covered public speaking, fund raising, campaign management, debating, policy analysis and communication with constituents and the media.
In addition, electoral staff, police officials and religious and community leaders were trained in mediation, conflict management and analysis.
In a novel initiative that aims to reduce the likelihood of contested results, UNDP – in partnership with the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), a regional organization operating in ECOWAS countries, – has established a monitoring initiative involving five political parties. Through this initiative, they will use mediation to resolve any differences in polling station results obtained from their respective agents.
The UN system lent support to the electoral process through cooperative interagency initiatives that promoted gender equality, social issues, youth and women participation and peace.


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Excerpt from daily reference values and reference daily intakes listed by the FDA (USA) and Gerolsteiner regular analysis.
Daily requirement of an adult:
|Calcium (Ca2+)
|1300 mg*
|Magnesium (Mg2+)
|420 mg*
|Bicarbonate (HCO3-)
|Potassium (K+)
|4.700 mg*
|Sodium (Na+)
|2.300 mg*
|Chloride (Cl-)
|2.300 mg*
|Sulfate (SO42-)
* U.S. Food and Drug Administration Regulations at 21 C.F.R 101.9 - Reference Daily Intakes and Daily Recommended Values; percentages are based on mineral content per liter.
For the calculation of the recommended daily mineral amount you can choose between EU (European Union) and DGE (German Society for Nutrition) recommendations and the recommendations stipulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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The EXPLORA Science Centre in Frankfurt specialises in visual phenomena and optical illusions that will fool the eye and trick the brain. It's a place for children aged five and upwards to learn by doing and experiment, play and discover.
Man is a curious being. Children never stop asking questions and grown-ups, too, try to expand their knowledge by reading books. Many a mystery of science and technology is finally explained at the EXPLORA in Frankfurt. This hands-on museum focuses on perception and illusion, art, language, maths and physics, and our five senses. In this unique exploratorium, which delivers plenty of 'aha' moments, interactive exhibits encourage children to learn and understand through the medium of play. Its 3D art trains the eyes and tricks the senses: wearing special 3D glasses, you can immerse yourself in a world of 3D, optical illusion and interactive works of art. Prepare to be amazed by science, technology and art as you've never seen them before!
Experiment and find things out for yourself, indulge your curiosity and experience a world of visual phenomena at the EXPLORA Science Centre in Frankfurt. Holograms, 3D art, anaglyphs, anamorphoses, trick pictures, stereoscopic art, light polarisation, optical illusions, impossible objects, inverted sculptures, mirror tunnels, zoetropes, DNA spirals, Rott's pendulum, optical art, an Ames room, two-way pictures, a theremin, sniff boxes, vectogrammes, triple vision, mathematical tangram and puzzle tables. Each station has to be thought about long and hard before its lesson is revealed. All these intriguing and astounding exhibits call on visitors of every generation to experiment, find things out for themselves and learn by doing. Play yourself smart is the slogan at the EXPLORA Science Centre!
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The USB3AAEXT5M, 5-meter Active USB 3.0 Extension Cable, offers one USB type-A (male) connector and one USB type-A (female) connector, and provides an active extension of USB 3.0 devices of up to 5-meters (16-feet).
An all in one cable for overcoming distance restrictions as well as power source limitations; the active USB 3.0 extension cable incorporates bus powered active circuitry to ensure performance beyond the length limits of standard USB cables. Up to 4 of these cables can be daisy-chained together, allowing the connection to be extended a total of 20-meters. If necessary, the USB device can be powered from a wall outlet using the Universal AC power adapter provided with the cable.
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CARSON, Calif. -- A day after defeating Chivas USA 4-0 in the SuperClásico, the LA Galaxy spent much of Monday in the clouds as part of a marathon travel day en route to Columbus for Wednesday's match against the Columbus Crew.
Above is a photo that I snapped on the plane during the club's final approach into Columbus.
For more coverage of Sunday's match, be sure to consult my "First XI" stories as well as my "Three Points" to LA's SuperClásico victory.


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I just spent $140 for 3 oil filters and 4 gallons of Honda Marine oil for my 2 outboards and 12.5Kw Westerbeke. The outboards manual says to use oil with API Service Category of SG or SH. At Wal-Mart, the only API Service Category I could find was SN. Im not sure the difference between the API ratings, so I bit the bullet and just bought the Honda Marine Oil for $25 a gallon. I was surprised to find out this stuff isnt even synthetic! Crazy thing is, I could do a Mobile 1 full synthetic change for the same price, but it would be the SN API and not the SG or SH.
Whats the difference between these API Categories and would it really matter if I used the Honda stuff or the Mobile 1 synthetic?
Most of you have marinized auto motors in your boats. Do your motors also call out a special API rated oil?