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Bobcats Sports & Entertainment announced Tuesday that the Charlotte Bobcats will return to UNC Asheville's Kimmel Arena for their training camps in 2013 and 2014 and also play an NBA preseason game in Asheville for the first time.
This year's training camp, which is less than two weeks away, begins on Tuesday, Oct. 1. A week later, the Bobcats will take on the Atlanta Hawks in preseason action on Oct. 8 at Asheville's U.S. Cellular Center. Tickets start at $15 and are available now at the U.S. Cellular Center and Time Warner Cable Arena box offices and online at bobcats.com or via Ticketmaster.
Prior to training camp, the team will hold Media Day on Monday, Sept. 30, at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte.
"We had great success with our training camp at UNC Asheville last year," said Bobcats President of Basketball Operations Rod Higgins. "As we anticipated, it was a perfect venue for us, and we are excited to have the opportunity to go back to Kimmel Arena this season and next season."
Kimmel Arena, which opened in November 2011, is home to the UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's and women's basketball teams. The arena is located in the Wilma M. Sherrill Center and has a capacity of more than 3,200 fans for basketball. The multipurpose facility has hosted more than 100,000 guests since its opening.
"We are delighted to once again welcome the Charlotte Bobcats to the campus of UNC Asheville for their training camp in the Wilma M. Sherrill Center," said UNC Asheville Director of Athletics Janet Cone. "We had a great experience hosting them last year and look forward to working with their new coach Steve Clifford and his staff in October.
"Our university has, once again, partnered with the city, county, sports commission, chamber of commerce, corporate partners and the many passionate basketball fans in our region to help position Western North Carolina as the premier showcase for all levels of basketball. In addition, we look forward to welcoming the team, coaches, support staff and fans to our campus and the Greater Asheville area for a week of great sport and enjoyment."
This will mark the second straight season the Bobcats have held training camp at UNC Asheville and the seventh time in the past nine years that they have done so away from Charlotte.
"The fans of Asheville could not have been more welcoming to us last year and we are pleased to be returning this season," said Bobcats Sports & Entertainment President & COO Fred Whitfield. "We are also excited that we are not just holding our training camp but also playing a preseason game in Asheville for the first time."
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Bobcats Sports & Entertainment announced Tuesday that the Charlotte Bobcats will return to UNC Asheville's Kimmel Arena for their training camps in 2013 and 2014 and also play an NBA preseason game in Asheville for the first time.


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Do you want some perennials in your garden which bloom all year? You will definitely wish that. Year round blooming perennials produce year round flowers and beautify your garden. These specialized plants do not need to be replanted every year. Here is a list of some such perennials.
This perennial ground cover has glossy and dark green leaves. This is a hardy perennial that can grow well in either sun or shade. Wedelia produces yellow flowers which are quite similar to daisies in appearance. While growing wedelia, you should be very careful because being a ground cover; it spreads very quickly and is also considered invasive.
African Daisy
This perennial plant can grow up to 1 foot tall. Having a round shape, African daisy grows in full sun and requires well-drained soil. It produces showy flowers in pink, orange, red, white and yellow color all year.
African Iris
African iris is a perennial which can grow up to four feet tall. You should grow an African iris in full sun or shade in a well-drained soil. This plant has an upright shape and produces white flowers all year round.
Lantana can grow 3 to 6 feet wide and attracts butterflies. This round shaped plant requires full sun and well-drained soil to grow. Lantana produces clusters of small flowers throughout the year. These aromatic flowers come in different colors including yellow, white, pink, purple, red and orange.
Peace Lily
Peace lily can grow up to 6 feet tall and has an encircling shape. Having an average growth rate, this perennial likes part sun or shade to grow well. Growing in well-drained soil, Peace lily produces white flowers.
This perennial produces flowers in shades of white and blue. In cooler climates, it can be grown in full sun but it will require partial shade in areas where summers are too hot.
Red Hot Poker
Red hot poker is a tall plant and can grow up to 5 feet high. It produces multi-colored spikes of flowers in colors ranging from ivory to bright red. Red hot poker requires full sun to grow. Moreover it also requires ample space as a full-grown plant may be three feet wide.
This is my list of those perennials which can be grown to have flowers all year round. You can grow any or all of these to have beautiful blooms throughout year.

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One of my favorite games as a kid was the game of Concentration! At least I called it Concentration, everyone else seems to call it the Memory game. So I'm calling it Memory Bank, you know it sounds more computer like. Here's a quick preview of my version of Concentration.
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ray, extremely flat-bodied cartilaginous marine fish, related to the shark. The pectoral fins of most rays are developed into broad, flat, winglike appendages, attached all along the sides of the head; the animal swims by rippling movements of these wings. Most rays have slender whiplike tails. The eyes and spiracles are located on top of the head, the mouth and the gill slits on the underside. Many rays are bottom dwellers, lying like rugs on the seafloor; others inhabit the upper waters. Bottom-dwelling rays breathe by taking in water through the spiracles, rather than through the mouth as most fishes do, and passing it out through the gills. Rays feed on a variety of smaller animals; the heavy, rounded teeth of most species are adapted to crushing the shells of snails and clams.
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Sarah Palin may be the first woman to serve as vice president, and she would now have to be considered the most likely candidate to be America's first woman president. But she won't be the first woman to receive an electoral vote. That title goes to — anyone, anyone? That's right — everyone knows that the first woman to receive an electoral vote was Geraldine Ferraro, running mate of Walter Mondale in 1984.
But no. Everyone is wrong. The actual first woman to receive an electoral vote was Tonie Nathan, the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 1976. Nathan was a radio/television producer in Eugene, Oregon, when she attended the first presidential nominating convention of the Libertarian Party in 1972. She was selected to run for vice president with presidential candidate John Hospers, chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Southern California. Although the ticket received only 3,671 official votes, Virginia elector Roger L. MacBride chose to vote for Hospers and Nathan rather than Nixon and Agnew.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has been briefed by his top national security aides on the government's preparedness ahead of the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The White House said Monday the president and his advisers discussed specific measures the administration was taking to prevent 9/11-related attacks. They also discussed steps that were being taken to protect Americans abroad and U.S. forces serving in combat zones.
The White House did not detail any of the measures being taken, noting only that Obama instructed government agencies to do everything possible to protect the American people both at home and abroad.
It will be 11 years on Tuesday since the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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Area school districts have released their tentative budgets and millage rates for the 2013-14 school year.
Area school districts have released their tentative budgets and millage rates for the 2013-14 school year.
Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties will see their overall millage rates increase slightly if the school boards pass their final budgets in September without any changes.
Millage rates are built around a county�s property assessments. One mill equals $1 for every $1,000 of taxable property value.
In Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties, the school boards have not changed their millage rates from last year, but the required amount set by the state has increased.
�None of it in our control changed,� said Rita Scallan, the chief financial officer for Okaloosa County schools.
The fiscal year for school districts begin July 1, but they do not have to approve their budgets until September.
Okaloosa property owners will see a 0.075-mill increase on their property taxes this year. For someone who owns a $200,000 home with a $25,000 homestead exemption, the yearly tax rate would increase by $13.13.
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In Santa Rosa the total millage rate will increase by 0.080 mills. A person with a $200,000 home and the exemption would pay about $14 more in 2013-14.
�We�ve had millage increases over the years, but this time it�s actually going to cause a tax increase,� said Susan McCole, the assistant superintendent of finance for the Santa Rosa County School District.
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In Walton County, the millage rate set by the state actually decreased, but the district opted to increase the levy it controls, according to chief financial officer Mary Hobbs.
Read Walton school district's tentative budget. >>
The School Board increased its capital millage rate from 0.9 to 1.393 mills to pay for new schools needed to meet growing enrollment, she said.
The tax rate will increase by 0.646 mills overall.
The board technically could have raised the capital millage as high as 1.5 mills under state law, but did not in order to keep an agreement made with voters in 2003. That year, residents voted to let the district take 0.5 mills from its capital fund and use the money in the general fund as long as the district didn�t try to levy that amount twice.
With the increase in place, homeowners with a $200,000 house can expect to see an annual tax increase of $113.
If the school boards approve their tax rates as proposed, Okaloosa will charge 7.551 mills, Santa Rosa will levy 7.748 mills and Walton will charge 5.659 mills.
Okaloosa County�s budget for fiscal 2013-14 will be about $352.9 million. Santa Rosa�s budget will be $261.3 million and Walton�s will be $109.4 million.
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The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Estonia on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Introducing the report, Margus Sarapuu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, said that the 2011 amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code expedited judicial proceedings, while the Guidelines for the Development of Criminal Policy until 2018 adopted by Parliament provided for expedited pre-trial procedures in criminal matters regarding minors. Further amendments of the Code of Misdemeanour Procedure would be implemented in order to increase its expedition and efficiency, lessen bureaucracy and enhance the fundamental rights of persons. The revision of the Penal Code was currently being undertaken and a section on domestic violence was added in the draft. Trafficking in human beings had been criminalized in April 2012 and its definition was fully aligned to the United Nations Palermo Protocol. Committee Experts commended Estonia for the measures it had taken to reduce the length of criminal proceedings and address prison overcrowding, domestic violence and trafficking in persons. They inquired about the amendment of the Penal Code and the progress in aligning the definition of torture with the Convention against Torture, the ratification of the Optional Protocol and establishment of the national preventive mechanism, and about the investigation of past crimes of torture and ill treatment and holding perpetrators accountable. Other issues included detainee complaints received by the Chancellor of Justice and how those and complaints about poor conditions in punishment cells in prisons and in the immigrants expulsion centres were addressed, treatment of asylum seekers, penalties meted out to those convicted of human trafficking and help provided to their victims. Responding to the questions and comments raised by the Committee members yesterday, 22 May and today, the delegation said that the ongoing revision of the Penal Code would bring the definition of torture in line with article 1 of the Convention against Torture; this draft law, together with the revised Code of Misdemeanour Procedures, aimed at making the procedure more clear, and the new Child Protection Act criminalizing all forms of corporal punishment against children would be presented to Parliament by the end of the year. Screening procedures for asylum applicants were conducted under the international protection procedure regulated by the Act on Granting International Protection to Aliens; the requirements for the determination of refugee status set in the legislation met those of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Dublin regulations. Estonia still did not have an accredited national human rights institution, but those functions were performed by the Chancellor of Justice.The delegation of Estonia consisted of representatives from the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of the Interior and the Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations Office at Geneva.The next public meeting of the Committee will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, 31 May, when it will adopt its concluding observations and recommendations on the country reports considered during the session, and then conclude the session.
Report of EstoniaThe fifth periodic report of Estonia can be read via the following link (CAT/C/EST/5). Presentation of the Report of EstoniaMARGUS SARAPUU, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, introducing the report of Estonia, said that the 2011 amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code had expedited judicial proceedings and enhanced the protection of minors, and had established the authority of courts to terminate criminal proceedings in cases where a criminal matter could not be adjudicated within a reasonable time and the rights of the accused to a hearing within a reasonable period of time could not be respected. The Guidelines for the Development of the Criminal Policy until 2018, adopted by Parliament in 2010, obliged the Prosecutor's Office and the police to ensure that pre-trial procedures in criminal matters regarding minors were expedited. Further amendments of the Code of Misdemeanour Procedure would be implemented in order to increase its expedition and efficiency, lessen bureaucracy and enhance the fundamental rights of persons. Measures to reduce overcrowding in prisons had resulted in a decrease in the prison population by 26 per cent from 4,600 in 2003 to 3,400 in 2013 and the Ministry of Justice was moving steadily to its target of 2,700 prisoners by 2020. Steps were being taken to improve conditions in prisons and detention centres, including the opening of new facilities and the renovation of existing ones. Concerning the prevention of domestic violence, Mr. Sarapuu noted the ongoing revision of the Penal Code and said that a preliminary section on domestic violence was added in the draft. Under the umbrella of the Development Plan for Reducing Violence 2010-2014, training seminars on domestic, family and sexual violence were provided to police officers, judges and prosecutors specialized in domestic violence, and prison guards. Victims of violence against women received various forms of support from women's shelters, while the nation-wide free helpline was continuously operating. Trafficking in human beings had been criminalized in April 2012 and its definition fully corresponded to the United Nations Palermo Protocol. Additional elements of human trafficking offences had been regulated with the amendments and this had improved and extended the fight against trafficking in human beings, including for example in regard to forced labour and begging. At the moment, new procedural guidelines on cooperation between different stakeholders were being developed, while the National Development Plan for Reducing Violence 2010-2014 included several activities to prevent trafficking in human beings. A national helpline for the prevention of human trafficking run by a non-governmental organization had been established in 2008, and had provided assistance to 671 persons in 2012. In 2013-2015 Estonia would implement a programme to tackle gender-based violence and provide support to victims of trafficking, which, in addition to improving the quality of services provided to the victims, would also include studies to map the trafficking phenomenon and provide analysis for future actions. Questions from Committee ExpertsFELICE GAER, Committee Expert and Rapporteur for the Report of Estonia, commended Estonia for its timely reporting to the Committee and for the measures it had taken to reduce the length of criminal proceedings and address prison overcrowding, domestic violence and trafficking in persons. She asked the delegation about the planned amendment to address the issue of minor demeanours; the further changes in the definition of torture in the legislation naming it as a crime and bringing it in line with the definition as contained in article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and the State action in cases of torture between citizens, which was criminalized in Estonia. The Chancellor of Justice carried out the functions of the Ombudsman in the country; were there further efforts to contact the National Coordination Committee of national human rights institutions in this regard? What terms governed the use of electronic guards and what were the results of their use? Estonia did not have a list of countries to which it would not be possible to return an asylum seeker, but rather each would be considered on a case-by-case basis. There were no safeguards on border points and the concern was that border guards were not trained to conduct interviews and receive demands for international protection. The delegation was asked to comment on this and on the number of asylum seekers depositing their claims on border crossings and the number of demands refused. Ms. Gaer noted the lack of a law on domestic violence and asked about the ongoing debate on the issue and what was being done to promote legislation on domestic violence and violence against women and empower the police to undertake the investigation of the perpetrators of domestic violence. How was domestic violence investigated, prosecuted and punished; what measures were taken to sensitize law enforcement officers to the subject; and was the new regulation on registration of cases and treatment of victims already being implemented? The Country Rapporteur also asked the delegation to expand on the situation of stateless persons in Estonia the efforts to provide them with protection and to end statelessness; harassment and reprisals against legal information centres and non-governmental organizations; measures to investigate past crimes of torture and ill treatment and hold perpetrators accountable, and to provide redress to victims; and the data collection system in the country.XUEXIAN WANG, Committee Expert and Co-Rapporteur for the Report of Estonia, said that the Committee had previously suggested the establishment of a mechanism to evaluate training activities and asked why it had not yet been established. Why did some complainants need to go to the European Court of Human Rights to obtain justice and could the delegation comment on the judgements of this court? In 2010, 266 victims of crimes had received compensation from the State; how many of those included redress to victims of torture and ill-treatment? Other issues raised by the Country Co-Rapporteur included measures to address detainee complaints received by the Chancellor of Justice and how those complaints were investigated, establishment of an independent torture monitoring mechanism, complaints about poor conditions in punishment cells in prisons and in the immigrants expulsion centres, treatment of asylum seekers, penalties meted out to those convicted of human trafficking and the help provided to their victims. Mr. Wang further noted that most of those requesting citizenship were children and, while commending Estonia for granting the majority of those demands, inquired about the citizenship status of their parents. Did Estonia have a Paris Principles-based national human rights institution? A Committee Expert took up the issue of the amendment of the Penal Code and the bringing of the definition of torture in line with the Convention against Torture and asked about progress made on this issue. How were training programmes evaluated? What were the measures that Estonia had undertaken which made it one of the few countries which had succeeded in reducing its prison population and improving prison conditions?An Expert raised a number of issues including the intended use of tasors in the police, the regulation of the language proficiency tests among prison guards, and the possibility of post-sentence detention. An Expert inquired about progress made to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism, how Estonia implemented the European regulations concerning asylum seekers, and about the setting up and functions of the Office for Gender Equality. Other Experts asked the delegation about the situation concerning corporal punishment; training on the Istanbul Protocol as a manual to detect and document torture for medical personnel, lawyers, judges and persons working with asylum seekers, and the provisions regulating access to a lawyer for detainees. Experts requested an explanation of the regulations concerning administrative detention and administrative arrests, how the guarantees of non-torture and ill-treatment were put in place and how causes of death in custody had been established and whether a judicial review had been used.FELICE GAER, Committee Expert and Rapporteur for the Report of Estonia, asked the delegation to comment on the excessive use of force by its law enforcement officers and inform the Committee about steps taken to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators. One of the most common complaints concerned documentation in places of detention and the Rapporteur asked for more information about the detainee registration system in place and whether anyone failing to use them correctly had been punished. XUEXIAN WANG, Committee Expert and Co-Rapporteur for the Report of Estonia, asked about the situation of stateless children and whether Estonia intended to ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.Responses by the DelegationIn response to these questions and comments and others, the delegation of Estonia said the Ministry of Justice was currently reviewing the Penal Code and would address the definition of torture to bring it in line with article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The draft law should be submitted to Parliament by the end of this year. Estonia had reformed its penal law in 2002 and the previous system which divided punishable offences into administrative offences and crimes had been replaced with a new and modern system, under which offences included criminal offences and misdemeanours. A misdemeanour was an offence for which the prescribed punishment was a fine or detention up to 30 days. Misdemeanours were regulated by the Code of Misdemeanour Procedures and not the Penal Code, which was applied by competent administrative authorities but with appeal available to the court; detention was not possible longer than 48 hours. The rights of the suspect were equal to the rights of a suspect in criminal proceedings. The Code was being revised to make the procedure more clear and the draft law would be submitted to Parliament by the end of the year.Every suspect had a right to a lawyer who could be present during interrogations and could participate in criminal proceedings from the moment when a person acquired the status of a suspect in the proceedings. The participation of a lawyer was mandatory in a certain number of cases, including when the person was a minor at the time of the commission of the criminal offence; if the person was unable to defend him or herself due to mental or physical disability; and in cases of criminal offences for which life imprisonment might be imposed. Estonia was taking steps to shorten the pre-trial phase of the criminal proceedings in general and this would also affect the length of pre-trial detention. The police had a duty to ensure that the pre-trial procedure in criminal matters involving minors would not last for more than a month.Regarding the referral to the provisions of the Convention against Torture, provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, it was important to say that judges in Estonia remained independent and referred to different instruments where relevant. The European Convention on Human Rights was directly applicable and the judgements delivered against Estonia were of a binding nature. With the application of the International Sanctions Act, Estonia ensured the national imposition of international sanctions and the correct implementation thereof without delay in order to perform the obligations arising from international law and the European Union.Screening procedures for asylum applicants were conducted under the international protection procedure regulated by the Act on Granting International Protection to Aliens. The Police and Border Guard Board had the obligation to determine whether the applicant met the requirements of the refugee status or the subsidiary protection. The requirements set in the legislation met those of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Dublin regulations. A justified need for protection would not be rejected and an asylum seeker became a refugee in case of a positive decision; applications were examined and decisions taken individually, objectively and impartially. There was no automatically provided list of safe countries. Pursuant to article 122 of the Estonian Criminal Act, a total of 70 crimes of torture and ill treatment had been registered in 2011 for which 42 persons had been convicted; in 2012, 105 such crimes had been registered and so far 24 persons had been convicted. The maximum punishment for acts of torture was up to five years imprisonment; public officials were convicted under articles of the Penal Code and in 2011, a total of 60 complaints for acts of torture committed by police and prison officials had been received and three persons had been convicted; in 2012, 77 such cases had been registered and so far there had been no convictions.The Estonian Academy for Security Sciences was the main educational institution for law enforcement officials, including prison, police, tax and custom officials and officials from different law enforcement agencies. Their study programmes were evaluated by the Quality Assessment Council and had international accreditation for seven years; effectiveness and quality of the study programmes was also assessed internally through research, quality assessment of teachers, study results and other methods. Istanbul Protocol principles were incorporated into training programmes for health professionals in Tartu University and other medical colleges, as well as into training programmes for health care providers during professional courses on ethics.Estonia still did not have an accredited national human rights institution and was analyzing the best possibilities for having such an institution. The work of the Chancellor of Justice corresponded to the Paris Principles and the performed functions of a national human rights institution. The Gender Equality and Equal Treatment Commissioner was an impartial expert who acted independently and monitored compliance with the requirements of the Gender Equality Act and Equal Treatment Act. The Commissioner received applications from persons and provided opinions concerning possible cases of discrimination.The Estonian Penal Code did not include domestic violence as a separate crime, but such a section was being added under the ongoing revision of the law. Women victims of violence received information on their rights and available remedies, as well as support services through several sources such as law enforcement officials, national victim support officials, social workers, women's shelters and others. Activities related to reducing and preventing domestic violence were carried out under the umbrella of the Development Plan for Reducing Violence 2010-2014, while police activities in this regard were regulated by a 2012 decree. The issue of corporal punishment was continually debated in the society; as per the Penal Code, physical abuse of any person including children was unlawful. The Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs was currently preparing the new Child Protection Act which would formally prohibit all forms of corporal punishment of children. This law would be presented to Parliament at the end of the year. Since April 2012, trafficking in human beings had been criminalized as a distinct provision in the Penal Code. In 2012, a total of 32 cases of trafficking had been registered and 31 persons had been convicted. The sanctions provided by the new law were up to 15 years of imprisonment. The helpline for the prevention of human trafficking and counselling was run by the non-governmental organization Living for Tomorrow and was financed by the Ministry of Social Welfare; the helpline provided support to 671 persons in 2012. The Victim Support Act governed the State's compensation to victims of crime, which was paid to victims or their dependants in case of crimes committed in the territory of Estonia. Any person victim of crime or violence had the right to receive compensation. Because of the system of data collection, there was no information on how many of the crime victims who had received compensation were victims of torture or mistreatment. In 2012, a total of 207 crime victims had received compensation from the State in the total sum of 227,614 Euros. Concerning the 2007 riot events in Tallinn and the subsequent complaints submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, namely case Korobov and others v. Estonia, the delegation stressed that the application had been declared partly inadmissible and the Court had also declared that the complaints of three of the applicants based on article 3 on prohibition of torture had been clearly unsubstantiated both procedurally and substantively. The Court had concluded that there had been an excessive use of force concerning one applicant and a procedural deficiency had been established in four cases. It was important to the Estonian State that the foreign nationals living in the country would want to link their future to Estonia and to obtain citizenship. The provision of the Citizenship Act provided for a simplified procedure for applying for Estonian citizenship for minors (aged under 15), but not all parents were aware of their rights and opportunities. The first Integration Programme was in force until the end of this year and the second programme would cover the period 2014-2020; the central vector of this programme was language proficiency to allow for a full participation in the social and political life of the country. In 20 years, the proportion of those with undetermined citizenship had fallen from 32 per cent to 6.9 per cent and it continued to decline.Estonia was not aware of a single war criminal living in Estonia who would have been subjected to prosecution if available evidence was sufficient. The responsible authorities had looked into those matters regardless of the perpetrator being Nazi or communist and in that context numerous criminals had been brought to court during the last decade. Estonia had made and would make every effort to prosecute crimes against humanity and had proved this with results and convictions by courts.In terms of conditions in detention facilities and prisons, the recommendations and problems pointed out by the Chancellor of Justice were used as a basis for development and investment plans. A number of changes had been made in police detention facilities, including closing of old and opening of new cells, renovation of buildings to improve ventilation, lightning and heating systems, and changes in the documentation. The Expulsion Centre had 80 places, 40 for women and families and 40 for men; men and women stayed separately. Handcuffs were used for the prevention of escape of a person to be expelled and as a means of restraint to prevent a possible attack. There was no solitary confinement in prisons in Estonia.Follow up Questions and Comments by the Committee ExpertsFELICE GAER, Committee Expert and Rapporteur for the Report of Estonia, asked for additional clarification on the right to access to a lawyer and the right to notify family and the next of kin. There was a lot of attention in the media in Estonia last year concerning a case on human trafficking and the Rapporteur asked for additional information on the matter. Concerning the judgements of the European Court for Human Rights, Ms. Gaer asked the delegation what violations they addressed and how they were dealt with by Estonia.XUEXIAN WANG, Committee Expert and Co-Rapporteur for the Report of Estonia, said concerning compensation for victims of torture that Estonia needed to make a distinction between victims of torture and victims of other crimes in its statistics, and also to consider that victim support was not only about compensation, but about rehabilitation and redress as well.Other Experts asked about methodology used to deal with unaccompanied minors and how the age of such asylum seekers was established; the status of undetermined citizens and whether there was an agreement in place with Russia for the treatment of such persons who saw themselves as Russians; trends in use of restraints and forced medication; and whether Roma children were indeed sent to psychiatric hospitals and if this was true, what was being done to correct this situation. The Committee also wished to hear more about the timeframe for the ongoing amendment of the Penal Code and the alignment of the definition of torture, as well as penalties and sanctions prescribed for this crime.Responses by the DelegationThe use of handcuffs in expulsion centres was sometimes necessary and was only used to stop a person acting aggressively. Access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings was mandatory in some cases and always guaranteed by the State. The Government spent about four million Euros a year on legal aid; of this about 88 per cent was spent on legal aid in criminal proceedings and the rest on legal aid in civil and administrative cases. The profound revision of the Penal Code which was currently going on slowed the process but would provide for the removal of inconsistencies and illogical connections from the law; the draft law was scheduled for official public consultation in June 2013 and would be submitted to Parliament at the latest by December this year. Rape was illegal in Estonia, also if conducted by a husband against his wife. Many complaints made to the European Court of Human Rights had been found inadmissible; nevertheless, following the judgment concerning the 2007 events, Estonia had undertaken a change in police procedure and had increased the training of police officers. Medical examination and age determination of asylum seekers was not an easy task. Concerning the establishment of a national human rights institution, the delegation stressed that in a small country it always made more sense to strengthen an existing well established institution rather than set up a new one; coordination between various institutions was a challenge as well.
Closing RemarksMARGUS SARAPUU, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, thanked the Committee Experts and said that Estonia eagerly waited for their recommendations which would be carefully read and hopefully, during the next examination of Estonia, many of the issues raised would have become history. ESSADIA BELMIR, Committee Vice-Chairperson, said that there was a good exchange of ideas during this dialogue and Estonia had done a lot to improve on the situation in the country. The human rights area was the key area where progress should be made and all aspired to achieve more.__________
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In which men travel the long hard road from purgatory to hell
Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
The Wages of Fear (aka Le Salaire de la Peur, 1953). Directed by Henri-George Clouzot. Screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jerome Geronomi, from the novel by Georges Arnaud. Starring Yves Montand and Charles Vanel. 131 minutes. ****
Sorcerer (1977). Directed by William Friedkin. Written by Walon Green, from the novel by Georges Arnaud. Starring Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer. 121 minutes. *** 1/2
Other Known Versions: Unseen by us, The Violent Road (1957), directed by Howard W. Koch. Written by Richard H. Landau and Don Martin, from the novel by Georges Arnaud. Starring Brian Keith. 86 minutes.
Your life has not gone well. You have made every catastrophic decision you possibly could, found your options eliminated one by one, and in the bleak fullness of time found that your foolishness has exiled you to an existence that might as well be considered a cage. Now you're a penniless man without future or hope, eking out a hardscrabble existence in a filthy, poverty-stricken town on the wrong side of nowhere. Staying amounts to a living death. Leaving would cost more money than you could ever possibly make here.
You are not just stuck. You define stuck.
Then one day word arrives of a job opportunity that only a man condemned to these circumstances could possibly consider a godsend. There has been an accident at an oil well, a couple of hundred miles away. The well is burning out of control, and explosives are desperately needed to put the fire out. But the only available explosives are at a storage facility near you, and they're so dangerously unstable that the slightest vibration could set them off. They're too unstable to fly in. Somebody's going to have to get behind the wheel of a truck and drive them to where they need to be, across roads that nobody would ever travel, if they didn't have to; single-lane roads of the sort common in countries limited by their poverty, that are rutted with potholes, washed out along sheer cliffs, flooded in low places, blocked by debris in others, marked by visibly unreliable bridges and switchbacks, and in every conceivable way a series of deathtraps even for vehicles in danger of blowing up at the first rough bump in the road.
Two trucks will be sent, each manned by two drivers working in shifts. The two vehicles will leave half an hour apart in case one blows up on the way. Which is more likely than not.
The job is virtual suicide. But in this town, you have nothing to live for anyway. If you die, chances are that you'll never know it. And if you do manage to defy the odds and deliver the explosives with your skin intact, the payment will be enough money to provide you with the fresh start you need, anywhere in the world but here.
This is the premise of two existential thrillers, made a quarter of a century apart (and that third version produced in the interim, which is not within our power to describe). The first is widely considered a classic. So is the second, though it was critically reviled and commercially ignored upon its release and the laudatory verdict is held by a much smaller group of film fanatics who express their admiration in what amounts to open defiance of its undeniable historical status as a major bomb. (You can count this essayist, though – spoiler – emphatically not his wife, as among those who subscribe to the "near-masterpiece" camp.) Both films are harrowing and both follow the same essential plot structure, sharing a number of sequences in common.
But as similar as the two versions are, they're also very different films, that place their emphases on very different (but equally valid) forms of storytelling. One is the two is all about character interaction, the other is all about the iconography of desperation.
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Though I'd seen both of these movies before, circumstances surrounding our efforts to watch them again for this essay led us to view Wages of Fear after Sorcerer, instead of before, which had a strange effect on the impact of the (very well made) original film: to wit, the opening circumstances of protagonist Mario (Montand) and his best friend Jo (Charles Vanel) are really not all that bad by comparison.
To be sure, both men are stuck in a tiny South American town where they live in poverty and work only intermittently, where it is next to impossible to earn the money they need to leave, but otherwise, they're living lives. Mario has congenial conversations, friends, a bar he can sometimes trick into extending credit, a sexy local woman who adores him and comes to him on hands and knees despite the contempt he shows her in return; and days that may be boring but are otherwise not all that unpleasant. The town is no tourist heaven, but neither is it the hellhole William Friedkin depicted a quarter-century later. It's almost clean. Life seems bearable, if a little poor of options.
The main focus of the backstory is therefore not how awful the lives of these transient men have become, but on how men treat each other in general. When Jo arrives in town, a prosperous-looking individual with a criminal past who had to flee his prior home with little more than the clothes on his back, his big-shot demeanor and veneer of toughness immediately makes him a kind of father figure to Mario, who places their nascent friendship above the other local connections he's forged. Jo is not above acting like a possessive and bullying wife to make Mario feel like spending time with anybody other than him – like his woman Linda (Vera Clouzot) or prior best friend Luigi (Folco Lulli) — like a betrayal. And Mario falls for it. The tug of war between his prior best friend and current best friend reaches such heights of petulance that it comes to resemble a clash between wife and mistress, a pattern the movie recognizes and exploits for comic effect.
(Incidentally, the tragic/comic italian Luigi resembles a certain well-known video game character. It's a damn good thing for the current impact of the film that he and Mario never work together as plumbers.)
The simmering conflict approaches violence in a tense barroom showdown between Jo and Luigi, which Jo is able to win because he's used to being a big shot back home and can still carry off the gravitas necessary to intimidate other men into backing down. Were it not for the approaching intervention of fate, this is a power he would eventually lose, whether by increments as the others around him came to realize that he was fueled with nothing more than hot air, or suddenly, the first time he came up against someone his attitude failed to intimidate. As it is, the emptiness of his tough veneer is exposed after the oil fire begins and he finagles a position as one of the four drivers – soon exposing a cowardice that rapidly shatters the admiration Mario feels for him.
The result is a French Treasure of The Sierra Madre, contrasting the desperation of the mission the four drivers undertake with the disintegration of the one character who seemed to be the toughest. As a thriller, it's entirely character-based. The driving sequences are tense, especially one involving a difficult switchback turn that, when I saw it in a theatre many years ago, caused hysterics in the audience when the entire crowd found itself gasping and hoarding breath in unison. But it's still the rapid deterioration of the relationship of Mario and Jo – a deeply tragic male love story, ending in tears – that drives the story, and the hopeless, arbitrary twists of fate that make the story resonate. The remake, as we shall see, jettisons all of this. Its characters barely know one another and are not subject to feelings of affection, or hero-worship, or betrayal. They just want the payday.
Of the two movies, The Wages of Fear also possesses the superior sense of humor. In both, the drivers find the road ahead completely blocked by an object too heavy to be moved – a fallen boulder in this film, a massive fallen log in the remake. In both they feel utterly defeated by the obstacle, and are ready to give up until one of them realizes that they are, after all, carrying explosives. (Duh.) In both films, they improvise a bomb out of available materials and blow the barrier to smithereens. But there the similarity ends. In The Wages of Fear, the utter disintegration of the boulder is not just triumphant but hilarious; and the reaction of the men to the blackened scorch-mark on the ground is pretty much in line with what men in this situation would just naturally want to do after bending the landscape to their will. They rush up and, in unison, unzip their flies to pee on it. It's a party, of sorts (to which Jo is not invited). These men are not beyond the urge to celebrate their little victories. By contrast, the men in Sorcerer greet the clear evidence of their cargo's destructive power with unnerved silence. Maybe they're thinking that a similar explosion can just as easily obliterate them. Or maybe they've already left such concepts as joy and celebration behind.
There is another key moment which is superior in this film to its equivalent in the remake: the explosion that claims one of the trucks. In Sorcerer, we see the tire blowout that forces one of the vehicles off the road, setting off the unstable dynamite. In The Wages of Fear, the drivers of one truck just hear a distant rumble, and see the plume of smoke in the distance. No explanation is ever provided. It's just something that happened, that might have been set off by nothing at all. It's profoundly anticlimactic…and for just that reason, profoundly terrifying.
The Commercial Failure of Sorcerer (1977)
Sorcerer seemed to have everything going for it, notably the involvement of a director whose most recent films, The French Connection and The Exorcist, were critical and box-office sensations in their respective years. (Both are still considered classics.) There was also a storyline that had worked spectacularly at least once before, a star then on the rise, and a budget that allowed filming on three continents. But it was damned by the historical moment, elliptical publicity, and a crappy title.
Why was it called Sorcerer, anyway? Well, that happened to be translation of the name painted on one of the trucks. And there was a thematic reason as well. William Friedkin explained, "The Sorcerer is an evil wizard and in this case the evil wizard is fate. The fact that somebody can walk out of their front door and a hurricane can take them away, an earthquake or something falling through the roof. And the idea that we don't really have control over our own fates, neither our births nor our deaths, it's something that has haunted me since I was intelligent enough to contemplate something like it." All of this is defensible in an artistic sense, but questionable when it leads audiences to a complete misunderstanding of what the film is about. (Nor was that the last time in his career Friedkin pulled something like this; see the widespread belief that his subsequent movie Bug was about icky monsters, when it was actually a literate, and stage-bound, psychological thriller about a lonely woman whose lover gradually infects her with his delusionally paranoid world-view.The terrifying but intelligent thriller turned off audiences who went to see the nonexistent mutant bugs and kept away those who might have appreciated the story it actually had.)
In Sorcerer's case, the prominent reminders of The Exorcist in the ads, combined with a title and ad campaign that offered audiences little clue regarding what the film was about, led to a general misapprehension that this was another venture into the uncanny. So many people who wanted that walked out upset that they hadn't seen magic, just a bunch of disreputable men at hard labor, that the newspaper ads soon started including the risible and ill-advised line, "Not a Film About The Supernatural," which is less a come-on than a desperate disclaimer. Of those who saw it, few were in the mood to endorse its grimy subject matter, its despairing tone, and its downbeat ending.
Remakes were also less common, then, than they are now, and the general thinking among many critics was that they were inherently suspect when based on great films. I recall actual reviews from the time from critics who venerated The Wages of Fear enough to excoriate Friedkin for his hubris. This was expressed as an entirely separate sentiment than any judgments of the actual movie. In some reviews I saw, back then, he was assaulted for even trying, even before the movie was discussed.
(Not so incidentally, a number of critics also established with their reviews that once they were actually in the theatre, watching, they didn't bother paying much attention to the action on screen. I recall one major critic for a major publication complaining that the hiring of truck drivers made no sense, as it would be so much easier to just fly the explosives in by helicopter. He must have been dozing or in the bathroom during the scene that makes a point of explaining at length – seriously, at length – that a helicopter would not be suitable, as the unstable dynamite would certainly be set off by the pounding of the rotors. Seriously. It's perfectly acceptable to criticize a movie for its plot holes, less so to invent plot holes which have already been carefully plugged.)
Then there was the timing. Sorcerer had the terrible misfortune to come out at the same time as Star Wars, which took its spot as The ONE! MOVIE! THAT! EVERYBODY! NEEDED! TO! SEE! MULTIPLE TIMES! and immediately obliterated everything in its path. You can love Star Wars and its sequels, though emphatically not the prequels, as I do, and still believe that this was not a good thing. Even those of us who like Star Wars well enough have to agree that its impact on the state of moviemaking in our country was an artistic disaster. Together with Jaws and Rocky, Star Wars pretty much ended the era of grownup subject matter, complex characterizations and artistic experimentation that made the early 1970s a second golden age of American moviemaking, and turned the attention of the studios to a time of feel-good stories and so-called rollercoaster rides that gradually weaned the generations that followed away from anything at all challenging or uncompromising, to the point that many find actual mental participation in the movies they're watching more than should be required of them. Screenwriter Josh Olson, an Academy Award nominee for A History Of Violence, spoke for many lovers of great movies when he recently sighed about this turning point, wishing that Star Wars had failed (or at least been a smaller hit) and that Sorcerer had been the hit it might have been only a couple of years previously. In an alternate world, he said, that might have led to decades of challenging grownup movies that in our plane of existence either died in development hell or were, worse yet, never even conceived.
He's not wrong about that. In a very real sense, Sorcerer was the last major film of the artistically-ambitious 1970s, and Star Wars the film that ushered in the high-concept 1980s.
Which is not to say that Sorcerer doesn't have problems, some of which are inextricably linked to its strengths.
A Talent For Filth
Unlike The Wages Of Fear, which centers on the friendship of two men and derives much of its dramatic spine from the deterioration of their relationship, Sorcerer is about four drivers who barely know one another. A couple of them have shared a civil conversation or two but they are, for the most part, strangers cocooned by the past crimes that have brought them to this time and place. They are entirely separate nations, forced into alliance by shared circumstances. The result can seem remote in dramatic terms, especially since, prior to their embarkation on their deadly road trip, the film replaces any substantive interaction between them with squalor: lots and lots of squalor, establishing with a wealth of local visual detail that this village where they find themselves is the armpit of the world, and a living death for all of them.
Their circumstances are really far worse than in The Wages of Fear, where the men were able to interact as friends and Mario was able to enjoy – or at least, resentfully tolerate – the company of an ardent, beautiful local woman. In Sorcerer, the only local woman is a weather-beaten hag. And when Scheider wakes up in a flophouse also occupied by a dozen other unwashed men, and shuffles to the sink where his morning hygiene consists of taking a mouthful of water and then spitting it out, you know everything you need to know about why this guy who once wore a presentable suit and was never more than a full day from a shower would now seize the opportunity to get behind the wheel of a truck bearing a cargo of unstable explosives. There's a lot of this, from clothing soaked with sweat to dirty faces that go without soap for days or weeks on end. Truly, you'd have to pick a movie like the original Flight of the Phoenix or even Quest For Fire to find a movie whose protagonists are probably more odiferous than these. It's enough to make the sensitive viewer grateful that Smellorama never caught on.
And that palpable stench extends to the entire town around them, a muddy and ramshackle purgatory where people trudge about, ankle-deep in crap. There's also local corruption, in the form of cops who hassle illegal-alien Scheider and demand one-third of his pitiful earnings in perpetuity. He will never escape this trap. Now, I personally think the squalor tells us everything we really need to know about the motivations of everybody involved – just as we can probably guess the backstory of the pretty young bride in the New Jersey section of the prologue, who stands at the altar before all her friends and family sporting a sizeable black eye. (It's a splendid example of a throwaway character who sustains the premise that even the people we see in passing have lives we cannot know). I feel that we're given more than enough information. But your mileage may vary. And if you don't feel that the images communicate everything they should, if you wish we got to know the inner lives of these desperate men through dialogue and character interaction, then you're going to prefer The Wages of Fear and have trouble giving a damn about anything that happens in this one.
Another problem linked to one of the film's strengths is the long series of opening vignettes establishing the criminal pasts of the drivers: the disgraced businessman from Paris, the terrorist from Jerusalem, the holdup man played by Scheider who gets on the wrong side of the Jersey mob. This very well-made combination of prologues makes extensive use of location filming – and no doubt ate up much of its budget. But it takes up fully a fourth of the film, and diffuses its focus, telling us little we would not be able to figure out for ourselves, namely that these men are stuck in this craphole town and have no means of moving on. Again, the sequences are defensible, even masterful. And again, they're also distancing. Critics and audiences largely hated them.
Among the things that are clearly better in this film? The explanation for the instability of the explosives does make a hell of a lot more sense here. In The Wages Of Fear, the oil company just happens to have a supply of liquid nitroglycerin which it just happens to store far from the well, with no contingency in place for transporting it anywhere useful. Nobody even finds this odd. In Sorcerer, the explosives are sticks of dynamite, which is perfectly safe when maintained properly and which sweats nitro when not. (This is a lesson a future generation of viewers would re-learn watching the sad fate of Dr. Arzt on Lost.) So Sorcerer has an explanation that actually goes along with the ramshackle nature of the entire enterprise. The dynamite was stored in a central location, by a company that saw no reason why it couldn't be transported if needed. But somebody screwed up and failed to maintain it properly. Now these poor bastards have to live with it (or not).
The actual journey is even more nerve-wracking here than in The Wages Of Fear, for a number of reasons. Among them: the trucks here are not the well-maintained vehicles of the original, but ambulatory wrecks, salvaged for the occasion, and marked with rusted-out craters big enough to see daylight through. Also, the trucks cross rickety bridges that start to crumble under their weight, and (at the action high point), thanks to a wrong turn find themselves faced with the absolute last river crossing you ever want to encounter with or without a cargo of high explosives.
What follows is one of the most exciting sequences of the decade, a tour-de-force that is one of the greatest achievements of Friedkin's career and that, all by itself, eclipses anything in the classic original film. I hate to bring up Star Wars again, but, really, this sequence impresses me more than any of the heroic deeds of Luke Skywalker.
The Weighing Station
Wages of Fear, a superior drama and a classic of world cinema. Sorcerer, ditto, another take on the same basic story from a worthwhile different angle, that deserved to be recognized in its time. The Wages Of Fear has the edge, but both are deeply recommended.
And now, the wife pokes her head out of the sleeper cab…
Commentary by Judi B. Castro
The Wages of Fear (aka Le Salaire de la Peur, 1953). Directed by Henri-George Clouzot. Screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jerome Geronomi, from the novel by Georges Arnaud. Starring Yves Montand and Charles Vanel. 131 minutes. ***
Sorcerer (1977). Directed by William Friedkin. Written by Walon Green, from the novel by Georges Arnaud. Starring Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer. 121 minutes. *1/2
Other Known Versions: Unseen by us, The Violent Road (1957), directed by Howard W. Koch. Written by Richard H. Landau and Don Martin, from the novel by Georges Arnaud. Starring Brian Keith, 86 minutes.
Okay, folks, so what we have here are two versions of desperate men in trucks. Isn't this a current reality series?
Sorcerer is the newer, grittier (by grit I imply filth), American language version of the two films. I'm hoping that the fact that the novel was translated from French is the sole reason for this piss poor excuse of a film. You have all the elements for greatness packaged here; great director , who can handle both action and dialogue; a leading man, with charisma, screen presence and skills; landscapes both evocative and eerie; and a story that can be universally understood. Why then did this turn out to be such a downer?
I'll Tell you why. They forgot that the story was about human beings. Men trying to survive despite the conditions forced on them and the fallibilities of their own souls. Friedkin focused on the dirt and fear and totally forgot that these were living men with pasts, trying for futures. These men existed in a cocoon of self loathing, that made this film more than just uncomfortable, but outright unbearable to watch.
However, on viewing the earlier French film, I actually breathed a sigh of relief. Here we have all the elements once again, but this time the human element was actually preserved.
While I don't agree with the characters, I at least can see that they are not cardboard cutouts just waiting for the next event to blow up. These are flesh and blood people, with wants and desires, desperate to return to a semblance of the lives they once knew. They make the best of the meager subsistence they have achieved and try to enjoy the little they have. What happened to that in the 70's version?
To wrap all this up: I recently watched a few minutes of Ice Road Truckers:Most Dangerous Roads, andcouldn't help but be amazed by the bravery and bravado of these men and women. They are doing a dangerous and often thankless job, under often nasty conditions, but I keep asking myself why? Some for the money, but many do it for the adrenaline rush. Surviving the impossible is sexy. Is this part of what people remember when claiming that these films are classics? Not me.
I won't be re-watching either of these films again. Neither film hit my "wow" button, but at least the 1953 version had characters that were close to real human beings.


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In A Christmas Carol, three spirits take Ebenezer Scrooge on tours of his past to show him where he went wrong, of the present to introduce him to the joy of the holiday season, and of the future to warn him of what may happen unless he changes. Scrooge learns his lesson well and is transformed into a man with a conscience.
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge terrorizes his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and reluctantly grants the poor man a day off. Impatient with those who waste their time on any pursuit other than making money, Scrooge angrily dismisses two gentlemen collecting for the poor and repulses his nephew, Fred, who invites him to Christmas dinner. At home that evening, Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him against purely materialistic pursuits and tells him that he will be visited in the night by three spirits.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, gives Scrooge a series of visions of his childhood and early manhood. Scrooge sees himself as a neglected child at school, then as an apprentice of Mr. Fezziwig, enjoying warm festivities on Christmas Eve, and finally as a prospering entrepreneur whose fiancée breaks their engagement because Scrooge loves money more than he loves her. He must suffer the agony of the vision of her with another husband and their children.
The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge out onto the streets on Christmas morning to see many happy families and, in particular, the love and warmth of Bob Cratchit's home. Although they have barely enough to live on, the members of the Cratchit family share a devotion to one another that the old man recognizes as absent in his own life. The mild-mannered Cratchit is adored by his wife and children. Scrooge is concerned about their crippled child, Tiny Tim, and is informed that Tim will not live to see another Christmas unless circumstances change. Finally, the spirit deposits Scrooge into Fred's home, where a jolly evening of games is taking place. Scrooge sees good friends enjoying one another's company and is reluctant to depart when the ghost tells him it is time to move on.
The final spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, is shrouded in black, with only a hand showing. It first takes Scrooge to the stock exchange, where he hears his business associates speaking of a recent death, but Scrooge does not know whose. He then witnesses a scene in a junk shop as two women and a man bring in objects plundered from the dead man's house, even from the death bed, while his body was still there. The spirit then shows Scrooge his stripped bed, with his own body upon it, in his empty house. Upon asking whether anyone will feel emotion at his death, he sees a couple who owe him money; they are relieved and hope that their debt will be transferred to a less relentless creditor. Scrooge has another glimpse of the future: It is the Cratchit home, with Bob Cratchit as a broken man because of the death of Tiny Tim.
As Scrooge has one final glimpse of the future—that of his own grave—he pleads with the ghost to assure him that the visions are of what may be, not what will be. He desperately grasps the hand of the spirit and sees it turn into his bedpost: He is in his own bed, alive, and is a new man delighted with the opportunity to change his life. He begins his transformation immediately by sending an enormous turkey to the Cratchits and then goes through the streets wishing all a Merry Christmas. In the afternoon, he astounds Fred by showing up for Christmas dinner. The next morning at the office, when Bob Cratchit comes in late, Scrooge makes the clerk think that he is about to be fired, then announces that he will receive a raise. Scrooge provides the help needed so that Tiny Tim will not die. The new Scrooge becomes as good a man, as good a friend, as good a master as London ever knew, because he has learned how to keep Christmas.
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Power Bagels
Would anyone be kind enough to photograph one of Einsteins Power Bagels, please? The whole idea of these sound wonderful - i have a list of the contents and have made a batch (having a guess as to what they may look like) but being here in NZ, I have no idea what I am aiming for. How would you describe the texture? They looked and tasted great but maybe I should give them another name as I was unable to find all the ingredients listed.


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New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messages of an unnamed television personality.
A detailed investigation by the New York Times has reignited a controversy News International officials have long sought to quench. Under scrutiny was the extent of illegal wiretapping of the mobile phones of public figures at the paper at the time it was edited by Andy Coulson, prime minister David Cameron's director of communications.
Coulson edited the tabloid during a time when Clive Goodman, the paper's disgraced royal editor, and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire conspired to intercept voicemail messages of public figures and celebrities in order to extract news leads. The duo were convicted of tapping into the voicemail of members of the royal household and jailed back in 2007.
Coulson resigned editorship of the paper over the scandal, which News International has consistently blamed on a rogue journalist who acted without the knowledge or approval of his bosses.
Last year it emerged that News International had made a series of payouts to public figures including football players' union boss Gordon Taylor. A series of investigative pieces by the Guardian provided evidence that the use of mobile phone hacking tactics was widespread at the paper.
The articles prompted the re-opening of a Press Complaints Commission inquiry and an investigation by the House of Commons select committee.
There is also increasing pressure on the Metropolitan police to either reopen their wider investigation, or at least explain why it was dropped so quickly.
The New York Times cites former editors at the paper who said Coulson attended meetings where phone hacking was openly discussed, reopening allegations that the practice was endemic at the time he edited the paper. The NYT further alleges that police investigators failed to act on evidence that phone hacking was widespread at the paper, instead focusing their investigation on Goodman and Mulcaire. According to the paper it's only now, four years after the police investigated the case, that many of the victims are finally being notified.
Many of the hacks carried out relied simply on knowing a target's mobile phone number and hoping that they had not changed the default PIN code used by carriers, though other more sophisticated techniques were also allegedly used.
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Unless you were locked inside a closet with no access to media over the weekend, you probably heard that the admirable and affable George Clooney was arrested on Friday afternoon.
Clooney's arrest is big news in the world of celebrity gossip, but also an important story for those following the humanitarian emergency in Sudan.
The Hollywood superstar and his father were part of a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., demanding that the U.S. government "engage China on stopping a humanitarian crisis in northern Africa," according to the Associated Press.
Why is this a Mommy Files story? Clooney called his mother from jail. The press was speculating that he made that one and only call to his girlfriend Stacy Keibler. Others assumed he called his lawyer or publicist. It seems like we all got it wrong.
TMZ caught the 50-year-old actor on camera and asked who he called from jail.
"My Mother," Clooney said. "Some things never change."
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CHENEY, Wash. (AP) Quarterback Brian Bell ran for two touchdowns and threw for another and Sam Houston State raced to a 35-0 halftime lead but barely held on to beat second-seeded Eastern Washington 45-42 Saturday afternoon, earning a trip to the Football Championship Subdivision championship game.
The Bearkats (11-3) face top-seeded North Dakota State, which won last year's matchup 17-16, Jan. 5 in Frisco, Texas.
The win over Eastern Washington (11-3) was the Bearkats' third straight over a Big Sky Conference team in the playoffs this year and fifth straight in the past two years.
After the Bearkats dominated the first half, backup quarterback Vernon Adams tied a school record with six touchdown passes to pull the Eagles within a field goal with 3:02 to play.
However, behind Tim Flanders, who rushed for 219 yards, Sam Houston State was able to run out the clock.


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'Duets' Recap: Jennifer Nettles Scores Big on Series Premiere
"I'm not coming into this hoping for 1st runner-up," said a confident Jennifer Nettles right before taking the stage for the first time as a 'Duets' celebrity mentor. The Sugarland lead singer, along with superstar singers Kelly Clarkson, Robin Thicke and John Legend, scoured the country to find the best voices in America for the new ABC reality singing competition. And exactly does the big-voiced Georgia native look for in the perfect duet partner?
"To be able to perform on stage, you have to know they have your back. And you have their back," said the singer. "It's a mutual exchange." Nettles certainly knows the importance of a give-and-take nature in a dynamic duo, considering her main gig as one-half of the hugely successful country duo Sugarland with pal Kristian Bush.
Nettles took the stage first with the soulful J Rome to perform Sugarland's seductive hit, 'Tonight,' which served as the third single from their 'The Incredible Machine' album. The young singer first wowed Nettles during a private audition at New York City's famous club the Bitter End.
"He's got the soul, he's got the voice and he's got the emotion," said Nettles of J Rome's impressive talent. The two earned universal praise from the remaining three judges, giving them an early first place finish that they were able to maintain throughout the entire eight performances.
J Rome later admitted he was still recovering from complications after a tonsillectomy. "I couldn't talk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything," J Rome revealed when asked about the painful ordeal. With his stellar performance, he seems to be making a full recovery.
Later in the evening, Nettles commanded the stage with hometown hopeful John Glosson for a duet on Sugarland's Grammy Award-winning tune, 'Stay,' which was also unanimously praised by the show's judges. "You're like an angel — you sounded so pretty," a zealous Clarkson proclaimed immediately following the performance. Legend shared Clarkson's enthusiasm, saying, "It sounded crystal clear! You blended with Jennifer so well."
Remaining judge Thicke was also full of praise, telling Glosson, "You're singing with a beast over here," said the soul singer. "When I told my mom I was doing this with Jennifer Nettles, she said, 'Now that's a real singer.'"
Glosson first impressed his 'Duets' mentor after a private audition performing the hymn 'How Great Thou Art,' which moved Nettles to tears. The famous singer decided to revisit members of her old singing crew Clovers and Company during a trip home to accept the award for Alumni of the Year at a local 4H ceremony. Nettles and Glosson share the hometown of Douglas, Ga.
"Music comes through my soul, through my heart," Glosson said in a clip just before taking the stage. "I try to mean every word of it."
After all eight performances were finished, Nettles placed impressively, with J Rome at the top spot, and Glosson landing at No. 4. It seems as though Nettles has a considerable lead over the competition -- and one young hopeful will get eliminated during next week's episode.
"It was super stressful and hard. There's a wealth of talent in this country," admitted Nettles on her task of finding America's best talent. What did you think of Nettles' top two choices? Let us know what you think!


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You are an atheist but you name your children after gods or prophets or heroes and heroines of the religious scriptures. Why don't you stop doing it?
Why is it necessary to have a family name ?
Having a first name related to religion and a surname related to father or husband's surname proves that you are a victim of the misogynistic patriarchal religious system and you do not denounce the system rather you try to keep the system intact.
I have no family name. Nasreen is not derived from my father or my grandfather or my husband nor is it derived from my mother or my grandmother. Nasreen is a Persian word which means a wild rose. I feel good for not having a patriarchal family name. I feel good for not having a given name that comes from the Koran or the Hadith. I am grateful to my parents for not having named me after Prophet Muhammad's mother or daughter or wives.
We can live our lives happily without having a family name, but many people think that the things will be totally messed up without it. Iceland is not a messed up country. Icelandic names differ from Western family name systems. For example, a man named Gunnar Svensson has a son named Eric and a daughter named Björk. Eric's last name will not be Svensson like his father's; it will become Gunnarsson, literally indicating that Eric is the son of Gunnar (Gunnars + son). Björk also would not have the last name Svensson; she would have the name Gunnarsdóttir. Again, the name says that Björk is "Gunnar's daughter" (Gunnars + dóttir). Not everybody's surname carries father's name, many choose to have matronymic names, instead of father's name they pick mother's name. For example, Eric and Björk's mother's name is Anika Stefánsdóttir. If parents decide or Eric and Björk want to pick their mother's name for their last names, Eric's last name will be Anikasson, and Björk's last name will be Anikasdóttir. Iceland is not alone, some other countries also have a different family name system or no family name system. Who doesn't want to be a separate human being!
I love names that come from nature. Let me translate some common names of Bengali people: Rose, Jasmine, Sky, Moon, Sun, Earth, River, Sea, Forest, Love, Wind, Soil, Flower, Peace, Beauty, Happy, Orange, Apple, Bird, Music, Poem, Strength, Rain, Smile etc. I call them true secular names.
Let's be 100% secular.


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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 / Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin)
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