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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon's generous gifts to the Commonwealth of Virginia include French, British sporting, and American paintings and sculpture on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as over a thousand prints and drawings. This exhibition of drawings and watercolors charts the history of works on paper in 19th and early 20th century France. It includes artists of the Romantic period, such great names as Delacroix, Gericault, and Ingres. The exhibition showcases a remarkable series of works by pre-Impressionist and Impressionist artists, including Boudin, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, and Pissarro demonstrating their facility as astute observers of modern life.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The entire body of an organism, exclusive of the germ cells.
- n. See cell body.
- n. The body of an individual as contrasted with the mind or psyche.
- n. An intoxicating or hallucinogenic beverage, used as an offering to the Hindu gods and consumed by participants in Vedic ritual sacrifices.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Body. specifically— In anatomy and zoöl, the entire axial part of the body of an animal; the corpus, minus the membra; the head, neck, trunk, and tail, without the limbs.
- n. In ancient India, a drink having intoxicating properties, expressed from the stems of a certain plant, and playing an important part in sacrifices, being offered especially to the god Indra. It was personified and deified, and worshiped as a god.
- n. An East Indian plant, the probable source of the beverage soma. It is believed to be of the milkweed family and of the species now classed as Sarcostemma brevistigma (the Asclepias acida of Roxburgh). This is a twining plant, with jointed woody stems of the size of a quill, and numerous succulent branches which are pendulous when unsupported. The flowers are small, greenishwhite, and fragrant, in elegant small umbel-like cymes at the ends of the branchlets. The plant yields a mild acidulous milky juice, which appears to have formed the basis of the drink called
soma (see def. 1). The juice of more than one species may have been thus used. The plant grows in dry rocky places in India and Burma. Also calledmoon-plant (from mythological associations) and swallowwort. - n. In later Hind. myth., the moon, or the deity of the moon.
- n. The body of a multicellular organism as contrasted with its germ-cells.
- n. anatomy The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
- n. cytology The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.
- n. A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and Persian cultures, dating to common Indo-Iranian period.
- n. by extension any kind of intoxicating drug
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
WordNet 3.0
- n. leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink
- n. personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual
- n. alternative names for the body of a human being
- From Sanskrit सोम (sóma). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin sōma, from Greek, body; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.Sanskrit somaḥ; akin to sunoti, he presses. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"SOMA (from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley) - Named after the food of the Hindu gods, soma is a narcotic, aphrodisiac and entheogen used in the ritual worship of Our (Henry) Ford."
"Next thing you know she'll be advocating some kind of Brave New World where the children are all reared at centers and adults are free to frolic in soma-induced hazes."
"In Aldous Huxley's futuristic classic of the 1930s, Brave New World, people constantly glide into a dreamy, cheery state caused by a drug called soma, which provides "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
"Is not the most natural hypothesis to suppose that things happen in this second case as in the first, and that the direct effect of the influence of the soma is a"
"In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World there is a hallucinogenic called soma which gives you a marvellous combination of a high, minus any hangover."
"In "Brave New World" the word for "hot" is "pneumatic," and "orgy-porgy" is a cheerful rallying cry for hedonists, stimulated by an Ecstasy-like drug called soma, to pile onto one another and party down."
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"He looks at the "soma," or whole person and examines the unconscious ways people hold their bodies, respond to stress situations, react to physical and verbal surprises, and through the way they move when under pressure."
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"soma" i.e. "Soma" is a male first name in Hungarian -
Huxley describes the effects of the drug as:
"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
Characters in the book use it to:
"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or an apology."
They frequently remind each other that:
"And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn." Jun 26, 2009 -
haoma. Jan 22, 2009
See also: -
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Also a Smashing Pumpkins song. -
'"Why don't you tke soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly."' Apr 27, 2008
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My short, new angling career has been a very interesting learning experience as well as a very humbling one. I now qualify to fish almost any tournament, having not been a paid crew member for more than 15 years. I've been able to be an angler on my 30-foot Grady-White and on other boats like Reel Tight, Pescadora and Lady Colombo, among others. After setting multiple IGFA records as a captain, and instructing numerous anglers to world-record catches over the years, you'd think that you would get used to working under pressure. But grabbing the rod with a blue marlin or a sailfish chasing the bait during a dead-bait trolling tournament still makes me nervous. And I'm not alone in that respect.
Seasoned tournament angler Rob Ruwitch of Sharky's Revenge fished the old Billfish Extreme Release League tournament series with ESPN cameras in his face and over his shoulder, as well as many other big tournaments. He says that he feels the pressure when it's his turn and the captain and crew are counting on him. I know that when I miss a fish, I feel a ton of pressure and a bruised ego on top of it. It is so much easier to shake off the mistakes or just plain misses when fun fishing.
What's Your Job?
What can you do to do your part? Start by doing what the mates do, and stay right by the rods all day. And help put out the baits — by free spooling each bait to its position, the angler gets acquainted with the rod and reels and becomes familiar with which bait is on what rod and where it should go in the spread. In the beginning, you may feel that you're a hindrance, but you'll get faster with practice, and everyone will appreciate the help. Let the mate attach the line to the rigger clip just in case you get a bite during this action. There's nothing worse than getting caught with the reel engaged while you have the line in your hands, and the rod is sitting in the rod holder. That's probably going to be a sancocho.
Reel in the baits when they need to be checked. This gets you used to moving the bait through the spread with the wind conditions of that day. If you're the one checking and changing out baits, when the fish comes up you will automatically know which rod is attached to the bait that the fish is on, and you'll be used to getting a single bait out through the spread. Sometimes you need to reel a bait in to get it to a fish, and this helps with that too.
Working the baits also allows you to become familiar with the position and the sensitivity of the drag lever and the balance of the rod and reel — important factors in becoming a good angler. Even being able to levelwind the reel without looking is very important. There is nothing worse than piling up the line in one spot and jamming up the spool with a fish just inches from release.
When our boat is not getting bites, and other boats around us are getting bites, that's when it's time to check the baits. Think about it. There are four or six baits out there all doing the same speed, maybe even all swimming, and now you start reeling in a single bait. It starts skipping and leaping out of the water. It starts making noise and acting like a baitfish would act if a billfish were chasing it in the wild. Watching showers of ballyhoo in the Keys will teach you a lot! That bait wants to get the heck out of there! This action could trigger a bite.
Checking the baits in this manner is akin to the "prospecting" that some sailfish experts deploy. Anglers prospect by dropping baits back in free-spool to make them look like dying baitfish, and that's easy pickings. By dropping back and reeling a single bait back up over and over, some teams claim that they get as much as 25 percent of their bites with this method. Prospecting will also teach you how to drop-back, because you really have to use little to no thumb pressure to let it sink properly. You want that line pouring off the rod tip straight into the water behind the boat. Once you can do that, and still detect the pickup, you've got a lot of guys beat.
The Chase Scene
Once, while fishing off Venezuela on the Hooker, I was up in the tower slow-trolling live baits around the bank when I saw a houndfish running for its life with another fish in hot pursuit. As I got closer, I could see that it was a blue marlin that was hot on the houndfish's tail, and an incredible chase scene developed right in front of me. Every time the marlin approached the houndfish, the houndfish would take flight, bounding away about 20 yards or so in the opposite direction. I felt very privileged to be watching the whole thing play out and saw about six to eight of these chase scenes before the marlin finally grabbed the houndfish.
It was at this point that it became really interesting. The marlin had the houndfish crosswise in its mouth, like a dog with a bone. As it swam along at about 3 knots, I turned the boat to follow it. The marlin swam about a hundred yards or so before I saw it stop, shake its head and then start swimming again. After the head shake, I could no longer see the color of the houndfish around the face of the marlin.
The one unique characteristic of ballyhoo and houndfish that I found in examining the contents of the stomachs of billfish many years ago is that you will find the bait in different directions and folded over. With most other baitfish (goggle-eyes, small bonito, etc.), the baits tend to lay headfirst in the stomach. When eating smaller baits, a billfish can do a quick head shake and turn it, so it is directed headfirst toward the gullet. And while the baitfish wiggles its tail to escape, it actually swims itself into the stomach. Guy Harvey has filmed a lot of this, and you can actually see it on film now. With a squirmy ballyhoo or houndfish, billfish have to force it down their throat after it's been squeezed to death. Even in a swordfish, you find a lot of the squid in one direction in their stomachs.
It was only a few years ago that we all used skipping ballyhoo, and then it seemed we all went to swimming baits. We got plenty of bites with those skipping baits, so why doesn't anyone use them now? I think a few boats do without knowing it. By trolling fast, they will get a few of their baits to jump and skip occasionally. Some crews also put too much weight under the bait's chin, which can hurt you on the drop-back if the bait sinks too fast. Sort of like a mullet with a big chin weight; it's a great-looking bait, but it's got a lousy hookup ratio. Maybe that's why we only use them for teasers nowadays
Billfish expect a live bait to take off when they get near it. That's why it's so important to be able to drop the bait in the fish's mouth when they stick their head up behind your trolling bait. You want to get that bait inside of the billfish's mouth. If you let the fish bite it, they try to squeeze the life out of the bait before swallowing it. They want to kill it so they don't have to chase it again. Then they release their grip enough to suck it down.
Unfortunately, if you don't wait until the fish swallows the bait and engage the reel while the fish is still squeezing the bait to death, the bait tears in half and you get to reel in the head. Another sancocho!


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Physics research and Physics teaching at Utrecht University cover a broad field. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is recognised as being among the best in the Netherlands and the world. Here, the best teachers, eminent researchers and active students come together to form a lively community, building on a long tradition of studying a wide range of physical phenomena.
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We used to read books for fun and instead of Google, we'd call the library's reference desk.
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I'm a southern gal who gathers, shells, and toasts her own pecans. This pecan pie recipe is right on and does Mississippi paper shells proud! I guess a Cally boy does know a thing or two about a thing or two!
I found the recipe very easy to follow and it had everything that my previous recipe had but I couldn't find it. Its in the oven right now so I'll let you know how it turns out but I'm not worried everything was in place or I would not have tried it. Thanks!!!! and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!
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Update from 12/23/12 - the Pecan Pie was fabulous. I got nothing but compliments from the recipients. I'll be storing this one for future use. -
By Socialthreat
on January 10, 2013
I've made a lot of Pecan Pie recipes while searching for just the right one. This is one that I'll be sticking with from here on out. The mix of chopped pecans and whole is really key. The absolute only change/addition I make is that I add 1-2 cap fulls of boubon to the mix. It's not enough to change the consistency or even to make it be like HELLO BOOZE, it's just enough to make you say "now what is that wonderful extra flavor?" As far as the crust, I would suggest weighting it when you pre-bake so that it doesn't get all bubbled up. I use parchment paper and beans for this. Works every time.
Great recipe! Add a tablespoon of molasses to take it over the top! I didn't pre bake the shell, if you do you need to tent it with foil or it will be really brown. Its not a bad idea to tent it the last 20 minutes anyway. Don't worry about a knife coming out clean, if it does its over baked. The pie will set as it cools. Make sure you let it cool completely before you slice it or the filling will run out. This is the best recipe i've found yet and i've baked alot of pecan pies. The brown sugar is much better than white sugar. Make sure you use real karo syrup the substitute has water in it, not good. Happy new year all!
By mlwegs
on December 29, 2012
By far the best pecan pie filling I've ever made. Love the toasted pecans both in the filling and on top of the pie, My only complaint? Why put this fabulous filling into a pre-made pie shell? Make one from scratch using unsalted butter. Simply amazing!
I was disappointed! The oven temp for this receipe is way to high! and it doesnt tell you to cover edges with foil. So my pecans burnt. And the receipe says to use toasted pecans. If i had pre toasted them it would be completely ruined. found another receipe which says to cook pecan pies at a low 350 so i am sorry this receipe doesnt tell you that
This was the first time I made Pecan Pie, I do not eat it. However, a co-worker friend wanted one for his birthday. I am from New Jersey, pecan pie was not a big thing when I was grewing up, but now I live in North Carolina and pecan pie is a BIG THING. Well, I baked Guy's pie and have had 3 requests from co-workers for Christmas to bake them a pecan pie. Well I figure if my southern friends loved it...IT MUST HAVE BEEN GOOD!
let me tell you this pie was AMAZING! Both my family and I gobbled it down like there was no tomorrow! Wonderful recipe, easy and delish!
By BigDogCGA
Quaker Hill, CT
on November 23, 2012
Made for Thanksgiving dinner. After making several other pies from various recipes, I have found the winner! Not overly sweet, which I prefer. Light corn syrup is the way to go. Can't miss recipe!
By tere104
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on November 23, 2012
Yummie pie and easy to make. Will become one of our family favorites and we are true southern:
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When I see your picture(Hookem Horns) of Oilers uni. I remember Bum was complaining about uni color. Sometime they get right color of Columbian Blue and sometime they get a little bit darker than original team color blue. Now, this picture seems to me a bit darker than an original team color.
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The piece's strength lies in its melancholy as much as its nagging question of why, punctuated by a percussive blast midstream that sounded like a gunshot. It's a powerful work that the TSO played with reverence. B. Holland, New York Times: Daniel Asia's Black Light... purveyed the new hedonism-a sensuous approach to sound and a generous exploitation of instruments--that makes orchestras want to schedule such music and listeners pay to hear it. on Black Light D. Drobatschewsky, The Arizona Republic: Daniel Asia's Black Light was the program opener that had patrons on the edge of their seats. on Gateways J. Gelfand, The Cincinnati Enquirer: The second half premiered Daniel Asia's Gateways, a brilliant fanfare with appealing character and colorful, Stravinsky-esque harmony and texture. Its superb orchestration is evidence of the craftsmanship of this composer. M. Bargreen, The Seattle Times: Schub's performance of the challenging but listener-friendly Piano Concerto is a tour de force. Sedares and the orchestra handle the complex and varied orchestration with an excellence that underscores the New Zealand Symphony's fine reputation....this recording should make a major step toward getting Asia the recognition he deserves. M. E. Hutton, The Cincinnati Post: Asia's celebratory "Gateways" caught the CSO full sail. Written in honor of the CSO's 100th anniversary, the title recalls Cincinnati's historic "gateway" role. Combining intricate rhythms and boisterous Midwestern braggadocio, it sounds like a mix of Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Brassy, robust "oompahs" alternate with quieter episodes, conveying an infectious, all-American optimism... In fact, if another "Fanfare for the Common Man" (by Aaron Copland, premiered by the CSO in 1943) is to come from this season's crop of centennial fanfares, Asia's "Gateways" may be it. on Piano Concerto J. Kaczmarczyk, The Grand Rapids Press: One of the most active orchestral composers working today,...Asia's work is a remarkable pastiche of colorful orchestration surrounding jazzy rhythms and dark romanticism with an internal depth, almost a brooding intensity, propelling it forward. A. Baer, Atlantic Monthly: Pianists have no shortage of concertos to choose from. Still, the appearance of a significant new one is no everyday affair. Daniel Asia's, commissioned by a consortium of six regional American orchestras,…aspires to a place in the grand tradition. Exposure by the box-office virtuosi with America's Big Five orchestras is overdue. on Then Something Happened D. Buckley, Tucson Citizen: A heavily syncopated piece..., the score percolated sonic bits around the orchestra nearly constantly to create shifting arrays of color and texture. Utmost accuracy and perfect fit were demanded of every player. Yet Hanson and his forces dotted every I and crossed every T of the mosaic patchwork. on Cello Concerto P. Kiraly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Asia's concerto is a work with plenty to offer to both audience and performers, and it was a pleasure to have Carter Brey, who participated in the commission, as its protagonist... The whole is a substantive work, 24 minutes long, characterful, and with engaging, often tonal melody; a listenable work I'd have liked to hear again, right away, to take in some more of its subtleties. T. Lindeman, News & Record: The three-movement work showed Asia to have an excellent grasp of the cello's expressive potential and a wonderful sense of orchestration. on Symphony No. 1 M. E. Hutton, Cincinnati Post: Asia's five-movement work shows astonishing skill in handling the orchestra. R. M. Campbell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Asia is adept at creating tone colors that are unexpected but once heard make immediate sense. 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Buckley, Tucson Citizen: There can be no denying that Asia's Symphony No. 3 is a work of daring textural sophistication that hums like a harmonious massage for ears and mind. K. LaFave, The Phoenix Gazette: Woodwinds and trumpets four deep, six horns and two harps and a large percussion battery sound individual 'filigreed' patterns against a backdrop of embracing strings, until the patterns break at the end....in many ways Asia's finest work to date. on Symphony No. 4 K. LaFave, The Phoenix Gazette : The Fourth's first three movements are each in their way lovely...This elegy (of the fourth movement) shares with its predecessors an honesty of expression. J. Reel, The Arizona Daily Star: With its open harmonies, thin textures, classical structures, reduction of metric complexities....this score lies on the page as tidily as a Haydn symphony. on B for J D. Hagen, Ear Magazine: B for J, conducted by the composer, Daniel Asia, featured sensitive, finely-wrought melodies. D. 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We're excited to announce the 1st annual Kitchener-Waterloo Anarchist Bookfair! Taking place Saturday, February 16th on Six Nations of the Grand River territory, the bookfair will welcome anarchists and non-anarchists alike- from seasoned organizers and activists, to those simply curious about anarchism for a day of workshops, presentations, film screenings, info tables, book sellers and social events. The bookfair will introduce anarchist ideas, histories and practices, as well as provide a space for more in-depth conversations around the ongoing relevance of anarchism, and its implications for on-the-ground organizing and everyday struggles.
Call for Workshops:
From the practical to the theoretical and everything in between, the Bookfair Collective is seeking workshop and presentation proposals. Acknowledging the importance of fighting where you stand, we are particularly interested in proposals that are grounded in, and relevant to local organizing efforts. We are looking for workshops that aim to foster a growing anarchist movement, contribute to critical dialogue, and facilitate strategic discussion. This can include (but is in no way limited to) presentations on topics such as: anarchist perspectives on indigenous solidarity work, gentrification, white supremacy and anti-racist organizing, class-consciousness and intersectionality, queering anarchism, radical parenting and family inclusivity, ecology, gender violence and community accountability, prison resistance and abolition, anarchist decision making-models and political organization.
We want to hear from you! Please send workshop proposals, including title and description (1 page or less) to firstname.lastname@example.com.
A central component of any anarchist bookfair, the event will host a room for infoshops, booksellers, activist groups and independent publishers to showcase, and distribute literature and goods.
There is no fee for tabling, however, we ask that 10% of sales is donated to the Bookfair Collective to help cover event costs.
If you're interested in tabling, please send a description of your group and a list of the materials you will be distributing to firstname.lastname@example.com.
In order to make the bookfair a success we need volunteers! If you're interested in getting involved, there are countless opportunities to help out with the event, both in the lead up to the bookfair and the day of. These include: participating in the organizing process, helping out with postering and general outreach, childcare, food preparation, and set-up and take-down. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for more details.
The Bookfair Collective is committed to making the event as accessible as possible. We realize that society is marked by structural barriers that exclude and marginalize people on a daily basis, and we strive to create an inclusive event that does not replicate such barriers. The bookfair will be held in a wheelchair accessible venue with gender-neutral washrooms, admission is free, lunch, childcare and family oriented programming will be offered, and ASL translation available upon request.
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Urinal-Based Captive Media Gets Funding
Well, thank goodness for that: urination-based digital out-of-home media got a vote of confidence with the announcement that Captive Media, a British startup that operates interactive displays linked to urinals in men's restrooms, has raised $700,000 of funding to help expand its network.
Captive Media delivers advertising along with games and quizzes to 12-inch LCD displays above urinals in the restrooms of nightlife venues, which can be controlled via infrared sensors that detect the direction of a customer's micturation (yes, that's a fancy word that means "urination"). The game screen automatically activates whenever an individual approaches the urinal; to play, the visitor just directs his urine stream to a sticker in the urinal which says "start." Other stickers, reading "left" and "right," allow the player to direct the game play; games include "shooting" targets, a digital skiing game, and quizzes.
Players who are proud of their high urinal game scores can share their scores with others on Facebook and Twitter via mobile devices; scores are also stored online so champion urinal games players can compete with each other at a national level.
While modest by online startup standards, this round of funding could actually go a long way towards bringing Europe to the forefront of pee-controlled games, since the technology is relatively inexpensive and doesn't require any major modifications to the urinals. According to Captive execs, the system has already been installed in the restrooms of eight venues across Europe, and has delivered over a million game impressions since it launched in late 2011. Captive is also hoping to introduce (non urine-based) versions of the digital displays near hand-dryers in women's bathrooms, to help pass the time while waiting in line
And although there are obviously many advertisers who will probably eschew this particular brand adjacency, it's a natural choice for beverage brands looking to (wait for it) make a splash. According to Captive, a number of brands have run campaigns on its network, including Heineken, Corona, and Pepsi, among others.
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Funny, for sure, but a pretty captive market, right? For brands trying to reach older males, I'm betting the dwell time at the urinal isn't bad. And, let's face it, this is much better than the urinal cake advertising where you are encouraging your target audience to target your brand. :)
Nice column, Erik. The Onion is calling on line 3.
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July 8: McCain, Durbin, Barbour
July 8, 2012 10:47 AM
The campaign heats up with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Tom Coburn, D-Ill., and Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss. Then, more on the campaign with Jan Crawford, John Dickerson and Norah O'Donnell. Plus, a baseball panel with Doris Kearns Goodwin, Frank Deford, Harold Reynolds and Jayson Stark.


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Honoring Ian McEwan
GAMBIER, Ohio (October 20, 2006) Ian McEwan, a British novelist whose work has earned him worldwide acclaim, has been named the winner of the 2006 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. McEwan, the author of Atonement, Amsterdam, and, most recently, Saturday, will receive the award at a gala dinner on November 9 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City."Ian McEwan's fiction is notable for its fierce ethical engagements and its exceptional artistry," said David H. Lynn, editor of the Review. "More than any other recent author, McEwan explores the unanticipated and often brutal collisions between the ordinary and the extraordinary."
Regarded as one of Britain's leading contemporary fiction writers, McEwan has won many awards for his work. Amsterdam received the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1998, and two other novels were shortlisted for that high-profile award. Atonement, widely seen as a masterpiece, won a number of prizes, including the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). A film version of Atonement is currently in production. Earlier this year, Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the United Kingdom's oldest literary award.
The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement was first presented in 2002 to novelist E.L. Doctorow, a 1952 graduate of Kenyon, who is known for such works as The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and Loon Lake and more recently for The March. In 2003 the recipient was novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wonderland, Do With Me What You Will, and We Were the Mulvaneys, among many other works. In 2004, Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, received the award. Last year the Review honored Roger Angell, the renowned baseball writer who has also been fiction editor of the New Yorker, and Umberto Eco, the Italian author of such best-selling novels as The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
Proceeds from the dinner, and from the live and silent auctions that accompany it, benefit the Kenyon Review's endowment fund, ensuring the legacy of one of America's most revered literary journals. The endowment also supports scholarships and fellowships to the Review's summer writing programs, the Writers Workshop for adults and the Young Writers program for high-school students. The magazine's literary outreach programs include the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, established in 2003, which attracts thousand of entries from across the globe to its online contest at www.KenyonReview.org.
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The Columbus Dispatch - October 23, 2012 12:49 PM
Details: ValcoBaby "Joey" booster toddler seats for strollers imported by Unique
Baby Products USA LLC, doing business as ValcoBaby, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; sold nationwide at various
juvenile product stores, websites and the firm's website valcobaby.com from June 2011 through June
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Court order for hazardous waste, air pollution violations.
The Mars rover Opportunity has set a pretty nice record.
The other day, the rover drove 263 feet, moving its odometer - which has
been ticking along since January 2004 - to 22.220 miles. No bad for a mission that was supposed to
last only 90 days! Really. So who owned the previous NASA driving record?
That would have been the Lunar Roving Vehicle driven by Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and
Harrison Schmitt. Those two, visiting the moon for three days in December 1972, drove
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As Washington struggles to find a solution to the federal budget cuts in the recent sequester, the U.S. Border Patrol has begun to cut back, and the numbers are already beginning show immigrants are taking advantage of it.
Border Patrol stats leaked to our newsroom show the RGV sector detained almost twice as many immigrants in February as they did in January.
While Border Patrol agents will likely lose overtime and face up to 14 furlough days, one south Texas rancher says he's going to lose too, security he depends on.
Just 4.5 miles north of the Falfurrias checkpoint, Mike and Linda Vickers live on a 1,000 acre ranch in Brooks County.
When Mike moved to the ranch in the 1980's he says he would see about two or three immigrants crossing his property each week.
Today he sees about 20 or 30 a day, tearing up his fences, breaking water pipes, some even breaking into his house.
"The fences are cut, the property's trashed out," Mike said. "We have traffic absolutely every day, big groups, small groups."
"At some point they will come out to the highway and get picked up north of the checkpoint," Mike said.
Most he said are heading to Houston.
Not only are crossings more abundant, Mike said those who trespass today are more violent.
"Rather than get caught they will fight with the border patrol," Mike said. "We have had a number of incidents where the Border Patrol have been assaulted by these people out here."
Now that the federal agency has to cut more than $750 million from its budget before October, Vickers said it will only get worse.
On Sunday February 24, Mike spotted six groups on his ranch.
"We went out and had found out where they came through, large numbers of track, big groups. They came through undetected because the border patrol was overwhelmed that day," Mike said.
It may surprise you were these immigrants come from.
"There are people from central America, India, Pakistan, all over the planet," Mike said.
Speaking with immigrants who he finds crossing his property, Vickers has learned more about how the immigrants travel.
Mike says well over half of those he meets are not Mexican, some coming from as far away as China, paying up to $50,000 for the journey.
"And the Indians are paying $20,000. Central Americans are paying between $6,000 to $7,500 hundred. So it's big money."
While many of their friends are moving north, Mike and Linda say they aren't going anywhere.
"We're not leaving. We going to stay and fight this thing. It's a battle, it's a war, there is no question," Mike said." We have no intention to leave but we have a lot of friends that are leaving and some have already lefttheir ranch because of the threat."
To help them protect their land they have a whole team of dogs.
The Vickers dogs caught 101 illegal immigrants on their property just in 2012 that Border Patrol apprehended.
Linda drives around the pasture near the home everyday to check for foot traffic.
She relies on the agents' swift response to keep her safe.
"I'm here by myself most of the time so I appreciate their promptness," Linda said. "When you are one female sitting with eight guys, and they are giving you the 'mal ojo,' it's kind of nerve racking."
But if too many hours are cut back, the wait time may increase.
"A couple of hours may be too late because a lot of these people do have criminal intent," Mike said.
Members of the Texas Border Volunteers, the Vickers say the agents have expressed a lot of frustration over the cuts.
(Texas Border Volunteers broke off from the Minute Men in 2006 and aligned themselves with law enforcement.)
"I'm told that the agents on the ground are really demoralized, they are really upset with what is happening," mike said.
It's not just pay the agents stand to lose but the resources they need to do their job.
"Other things will be cut back that enable them to maneuver on the sand on these private properties and this brush to make apprehensions," Mike said. "So we are concerned. It's going to get worse before it gets better."
While local Border Patrol officials cannot comment on the cuts directly, they tell Action 4 News their job will not change.
"As long as the Border Patrol is out there, we are going to continue to make arrests, we are going to continue to detain, and we will continue to hand folks over for removal operations and for removal from the country," RGV sector spokesman Henry Mendiola Jr. said.
If it weren't for Border Patrol, the Vickers say their way of life would not be possible.
"They deserve an increase in pay, not a deduction in pay," Vickers said. "These guys put their lives on the line out here. We appreciate everything they do. They deserve a pat on the back not a stab in the back."
Whether they can continue to respond as they have in the past or not, the Vickers will continue to call.
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Deputy spots car during copper wire theft attempt
Saturday, June 09, 2012 3:05 AM
By the Salina Journal
A Saline County sheriff's deputy followed a Pontiac Sunfire with an industrial-sized spool of copper wire on top into the Salina Municipal Golf Course early Friday and saw the vehicle's occupants take off running.
Retrieved was an estimated $4,700 worth of copper wire -- 3,000 feet of it on top of the car and more on smaller spools inside the vehicle -- stolen from Great Plains Manufacturing, 1525 E. North, said Lt. Scott Siemsen, criminal investigation commander with the Salina Police Department.
Siemsen said a forklift was required to remove the spool of wire from on top of the car.
The deputy had been driving west on Crawford Street when he encountered the 2000 red car driving east at 4:06 a.m., Siemsen said.
No arrests have been made and the theft remains under investigation, Siemsen said.


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Mr. Iain C. Conn has been the Chief Executive of Refining & Marketing at BP plc since June 1, 2007. Mr. Conn serves as the Chief executive of Refining and Marketing at BP Zambia plc. He serves as Head of Europe and Middle East Region at BP Solar International Inc. He served as Group Executive Officer of Strategic Resources at BP PLC since July 1, 2004 and was responsible for Europe, including the UK, together with Russia, the Middle East, the Caspian and Africa. He joined ...
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Ji Ping Zhou | Chairman of the Board and President PetroChina Co. Ltd. | CNY1.1M |
Christophe de Margerie | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Strategic Committee Total SA | €3.2M |
Tianpu Wang | Vice Chairman, President, Chairman of Strategy Committee and Member of Social Responsibility Management Committee China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. | CNY984.0K |
Alexey Borisovich Miller | Chairman of the Management Board, Deputy Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Management Committee Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom | -- |
Peter R. Voser | Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director Royal Dutch Shell plc | €4.9M | Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012. |
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