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In Pictures: Who's who in 'Harry Potter'
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'Awake,' starring 'Harry Potter' actor Jason Isaacs, deftly handles themes of grief without going over-the-top.
By Kevin Yeoman, Screen Rant / March 2, 2012
The topic of loss can be something of a hard sell to audiences. In addition to the different feelings loss and mourning may evoke in all of us, it has the tendency to bog the viewer down with an ever-present cue to the frame of mind they should be in. Some dramas have handled the concept very well – albeit in small doses – while others ride the lowest common denominator all the way to ratings glory. The key, it seems, is to utilize the concept of death and loss, and from it build a convincing story that holds some value beyond reminding us of the eventuality we all face. Thankfully, NBC's newest drama, Awake, manages such a feat.


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Today will be breezy with gusts up to 25 mph. Winds out of the SW will warm temperatures to highs in the upper 80s and tomorrow to highs in the upper 90s. Don't' be surprised if some areas in the BC reach triple digits. Skies will stay clear at least until the weekend. The late Saturday night starts another round of rain chances that will continue until possibly Tuesday.
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Gina Walsh Beats Redditt Hudson in Senate District 13 Primary
Walsh moves on to challenge Jacquelyn Thomas in November.
Former Rep. Gina Walsh is one step closer to returning to state government. Walsh defeated Democratic challenger Redditt Hudson Tuesday night to head to the November general election. Walsh won with a commanding victory of 13,733 to 7,854 over Hudson, according to unofficial results Tuesday night. Walsh will face Republican challenger Jacquelyn Thomas in the November general election. The winner will succeed Sen. Tim Green.
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Just like to say the "volume calculator" is a great tool...It really allows the less technical amongst us to do a good comparison about what should be the approximate size to choose based on weight. Better still, being able to go through all the boards and work out the ideal size for each and comparing them is an added bonus....I played around with about 4 boards and it was pretty spot on...e.g when looking at the hellfire I worked out the ideal size was around 2" longer than the dominator and then read the blurb on the Hellfire and this is what is also recommended. Also, my Alternator is 4" longer than the Dominator which seems to also concur with the volume calculator.
IMHO this is a real bonus to Firewire and something terribly lacking with all other manufacturers to my knowledge. This is particularly useful for those of us carrying a few extra pounds to understand we can still ride smaller boards and fairly accurately estimate the ideal size for the weight.
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The fun of a three day weekend road trip? With each passing car guess what they have in mind. read more ≫
Have your family listen mornings at 7:15 for "Weekday Warmups" and exercise the muscles of your mind as you start your day! If there is one person in Seattle that loves a daily radio contest as much as you, it's our own Mark Christopher. Each day he creates a different contest of trivia, teases or tunes as a "Weekday Warmup".


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Local colleges are continuously working to enhance safety measures on their campuses to prevent tragedies like the three college campus shootings that have occurred this year .
LaGrange College, West Georgia Technical College and Point University have put into practice similar efforts to make a safe environment for their students and faculty.
LaGrange College set up a contract with Securitas Security Services in August 2010 to provide security on the campus at all times of the day. Securitas provides security officers and transportation for making campus patrol rounds, and they are responsible for securing buildings, issuing citations for illegally parked cars and providing escort services when requested along with other common police duties.
"This agreement has now been in place for two years, and the results have been very rewarding," said Marty Pirrman, vice president for finance and operation at LC. "The presence of security on campus is evident."
Aside from Securitas providing extensive security services, the faculty is also equipped and trained on how to handle sudden emergencies. The college's Emergency Preparedness Plan allows for employees to broadcast alerts to the campus, and call 911 so LaGrange police can respond as quickly as possible, in the event of a shooting.
The recent gun tragedies have been lessons for some of the colleges.
"Real or potential gun violence is a serious issue and Point University attempts to learn from past incidents and peer schools in an effort to improve safety," said Fred Berkeley, director of security for Point.
Last week, Point faculty received additional safety training. Though the campus does not have the Securitas service, they are equipped with, what Berkeley said is, an appropriately staffed Safety and Security Department, and they are also working to increase safety practices.
West Georgia Tech is also working to increase their safety practices.
"West Georgia Technical College values the safety of our community," said WGTC Police Sgt. Jarrett Allen. "Regular meetings about safety is an ongoing process."
In addition to more security planning, Allen said that certified police officers are throughout campus when the campus is open and that officers are fully compliant with the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council regulations. All officers have been trained in active shooter response in cases of an emergency, and like LC and Point, all faculty and staff have been distributed an emergency response plan and all staff has been trained on how to enact the plan.
LC is happy with their current safety protocols, they are also always looking for ways to improve and update. During the fall semester, the college introduced a building access policy designed to alert personnel about students in certain facilities after regular hours of operation. Pirrman said that the president's cabinet has discussed safety and security on campus and recently invited the campus community to an open forum to review current measures and asked for input on other actions that should be considered. They also implemented a policy where resident assistants in the dorms participate in training sessions at the beginning of each semester on how to respond in an emergency.
All of the colleges update their security plans as needed and holds occasional meetings on ways to improve.


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2010-03-28Blogs of Note: Daily Python-URL # 2010-01-01Guido van Rossum: #20yearsago I created Python. # 2009-08-11Steve Holden:
People Using Python
["The Python Software Foundation has embarked on a mission to find out more about Python users. We want to know as much about the organizations that use Python as possible. If you want to give us information about any Python usage at all (even organizations other than the one you work for) please fill out this form. We don't even need your details, and we'll filter for duplicates."] # 2009-05-27Guido van Rossum: So you want to learn Python? # 2009-03-29Andy Smith:
Beards of Python # 2009-03-28Andrew Dalke:
Python 0.9.1p1 # 2009-03-20Zed Shaw: One Laptop Battery Later And I'm A Django Fan
["One laptop battery later, and I've completed teh django tutorial. Man django is *very* nice."] # 2009-03-12Thomas Guest:
Longest common subsequence
["In this episode we'll discuss an elegant algorithm which solves our particular problem as a special case. On the way we'll visit dynamic programming, Python decorators, version control and genetics."] # 2009-02-16Steve Holden:
Help Publicize PyCon
["It's going to be difficult to get PyCon to exceed last year's numbers given the parlous state of the economy. One way you can help is to male yourself a part of its publicity campaign."] # 2009-01-28Simon Wittber:
Giant, Python Powered Robots.
["These are the robots I've been working on for the last 12 months. They each weigh about 11 tonnes and have a 17 meter reach. The control system is written in Python, with small sections of C which run in hard-real-time to guarantee safety."] # 2009-01-13Guido van Rossum:
The History of Python
["A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community."] # 2008-10-30Stani Michiels:
How to make money with free software...
["The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, ...) and artists were invited, including myself. The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of all with the honor: his design will be realized and will be a legal coin within the Netherlands."] # 2008-09-25Ask a Google engineer:
How would you sort 1 million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python?
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[see also] # 2008-09-22Eli Golovinsky:
Unicode and permalinks
["The idea of a permalink is to take the title (of a blog post or a test) and replace any characters that aren't numbers or letters with an underscore or a hyphen. Using this simple scheme, 'Unicode and permalinks' becomes 'unicode-and-permalinks', which is quite suitable for use in a URL. The implementation is a simple regular expression /.../ While this code works perfectly for the English language, it doesn't work at all if string is a Unicode string containing something in Hebrew, Russian or Polish - language that some of our customers use. And so, I set out to write code that will essentially behave like the regular expression above, but will work for letters and numbers in all the languages of the world."] # 2008-09-21Rob Hudson:
Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar
["The Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response. It is a small toolbar that, when activated, situates itself in the top-right location of the browser window. When particular panels are clicked, more details about that panel's content are displayed."] # 2008-09-20Ronald Loui: In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism
["But there is emerging consensus in
the scripting community that Python is the right choice for freshman
programming. Ruby would also be a defensible choice. Python and Ruby
have the enviable properties that almost no one dislikes them, and almost
everyone respects them. Both languages support a wide variety of
programming styles and paradigms and satisfy practitioners and
theoreticians equally. Both languages are carefully enough designed that
'correct' programming practices can be demonstrated and high standards of
code quality can be enforced. The fact that Google stands by Python is an
added motivation for undergraduate majors."] # 2008-09-19Mark Seaborn:
'Introducing CapPython
["/.../ Python has a convention for private attributes of objects which is widely used. Attributes that start with an underscore are private. /.../
CapPython proposes that we enforce this convention by defining a subset of Python to enforce it. The hope is that this subset could be an object-capability language. Hopefully we can do this in such a way that you can get encapsulation by default and still have fairly idiomatic Python code."] # 2008-09-18Jesse Noller:
The cost of (not) testing software
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I want a pony: Django Cheeseshop
["As primarily a Zope/Plone/Grok developer, I thought I'd share some of my experiences in working with the python packaging, dependencies and builds aspects. From my perspective, packaging and deploying Python applications are one of the areas of Python that could use the most improvement - there is a tonne of good and interesting work out there already, but the approachability of this ecosystem can be fairly challenging."] # Florent Aide:
TurboGears 1.0.7 released
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General InformationLocated in the Met's south lobby, the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met hosts works by some of the contemporary art world's most innovative and provocative figures. Created by General Manager Peter Gelb and curated by Dodie Kazanjian, the venue continues and reaffirms the Met's long history of groundbreaking relationships with major visual artists—such as Chagall and Hockney—while fostering new opportunities for collaboration. Admission to the Schwartz Gallery Met is free to ticket holders and the general public. An extraordinary $1 million gift from Marie Schwartz, an Advisory Director on the Met Board, has made this initiative possible, and in recognition the Met has named the gallery for her and her late husband, Arnold.HoursMonday – Friday, 6pm through the end of the last intermission Saturday, noon through the end of the last intermission of the evening performance Closed on SundaysCurrent ExhibitionGeorge Condo's Jesters, now on view, was inspired by the Met's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto, which opened in January. The show will be on display through the end of the opera season in May.Gallery Met HistoryGallery Met opened in September 2006 with an exhibition of works inspired by the 2006–07 season's new productions. The artists represented included Cecily Brown, John Currin, Barnaby Furnas, Makiko Kudo, Richard Prince, David Salle, Sophie von Hellerman, and others. During the summer and fall of 2007, the space was home to Opera by Design, an exhibition of set models for the new productions of the 2007–08 season, and Stage Fright, a collection of opera-inspired works by Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca.The beginning of the 2007–08 season saw works by a variety of artists from The New Yorker and the contemporary art scene, based on the Brothers Grimm story of Hansel and Gretel, which were on display during the run of the Met's new production of Humperdinck's fairy tale opera. This was followed by Chuck Close Philip Glass 40 Years, a selection of Close's more than 100 portraits of his composer friend, coinciding with the Met premiere of Glass's Satyagraha. The Sopranos, an exhibit featuring renowned Italian painter Francesco Clemente's series of portraits of eight Met divas in roles they performed during the 125th anniversary season, was on view during the summer of 2008.In the fall and winter of 2008, David Altmejd Doctor Atomic presented the Canadian artist's mirror sculpture The Eye, which was inspired by the Met premiere of John Adams's opera Doctor Atomic. From February 2009 through the end of the 2008–09 season, a selection of works by German artist Anselm Kiefer was on view in a collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and coinciding with the revival of Otto Schenk's production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Ten of Kiefer's Ring-inspired pieces were lent to the Met Opera by its museum counterpart for this show, which was entitled From the Met to the Met: Anselm Kiefer and Wagner's "Ring".The 2009–10 season began with Something About Mary, an exhibition tied to the new production of Tosca. A variety of artists took their inspiration from the first act of Puccini's opera, in which the painter Mario Cavaradossi is seen working on a portrait of Mary Magdalene. The show included new portraits of this biblical character by Paul Chan, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, and Francesco Vezzoli, among others, and was on view through January 2010. This was followed by a selection of new works by South-African artist William Kentridge, tied to the Met premiere production of Shostakovich's The Nose, which Kentridge designed and directed. Ad Hoc: Works for "The Nose" was seen through the end of the 2009–10 opera season.During the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, Gallery Met presented a four-part series of exhibitions tied to Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Ring cycle. These included Julie Mehretu's Notations after the "Ring," Elizabeth Peyton's Wagner, Peter Doig's Siegfried and Poster Project, and Dana Schutz's Götterdämmerung.The 2012–13 season began with Ariel and Other Spirits, a solo exhibition by David Salle inspired by the Met premiere production of Thomas Adès's The Tempest, seen in October/November.


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I was teaching a Leading At The Speed of Trust class last week…and lunchtime I did battle with a new credit card company. I am an online banking/paying person; I pay my card off each and every month. But something was wrong…I had a balance!!! So I was on their site and was disgusted as I thought they were scamming me….not showing me my whole balance…..just what they wanted me to see to earn more interest. My New York distrust and paranoia came to bear….
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What does it mean to be green? How does your worldview fit with that description?
For me the key tenants of greenness that most accurately fits with my worldview are stewardship, efficiency and gratitude.
Stewardship because God has placed man in charge of the earth's care.
Efficiency because God has given each man a purpose but not quite enough time to accomplish it.
Gratitude because as Jesus gave his life for mine I am compelled do the same for others (and this means a lot more than going to Africa with a Bible in hand)!
With that here are 3 great tips to embracing such a green-biblical lifestyle.
- Multi-task in ways which actually allow you to produce more with the same amount of time. Multitasking usually doesn't work. Writing a blog, writing programming code for work, and answering emails actually slows every task down when the overhead involved for your brain to switch tasks is accounted for. Finding tasks which can be done at the same time may not only save you time, but effort as well. And reduced effort/work/energy is a key tenant for greenness. For example: instead of driving to work, ride to work on the bus. While riding catch up on reading, email or if you get motion sick try getting to know your fellow passengers (or as a last resort be extremely rude and talk loudly on your cell phone).
- Plan ahead. Spur of the moment decisions are good when a.) running from bears b.) romancing a (wo)man. Although intuition sees things that reason often doesn't, when it comes to making the most of your life on earth forethought is required. With a little forethought and pre-planning not only will more be achieved through enhanced multitasking and work reduction but the end result will be increased available time and options (freedom!). Usually forethought produces the most elegant, efficient and useful solution...and that's really green!
- Use and ReUse, never waste. It is estimated that if no food were thrown away the reduction in CO2 emissions would be equivalent to taking every 5th car off the road (not to mention the number of hungry people it could feed)! For every new solar panel that's installed it takes 15 years to pay back it's cost. However for every piece of construction material picked up from the recycled materials yard the payback is nearly instant! Sadly, we live in a throw-away-culture[1] which thrives on replacing items and not repairing them...and so... nothing gets fully used. So start a trend, thank God for your blessings, use those things which you have been blessed with, and when you can use them no more pass them on to someone else who can!
- Compost! Okay I said 3 but seriously... you cannot be green unless you compost! Composting is God's way of helping us differentiate ourselves from pigs... we don't have to wallow in our own refuse and excrement!
- Rest! Okay 5 tips... If we take 2 steps forward and 1 step back, we'll always be moving 1 step forward. Is it any wonder then that on average we're awake 16 hours and asleep 8 (A ratio of 2:1 might I point out)? In green-biblical living the motto isn't "Work hard play hard" it should be "Work/Play hard, rest hard". Alright! Now get out there and take a nap, walk your dogs, read to your kids, drink some wine and cuddle with your spouse!
What do you think, what does it mean to be green? How does your worldview compel you to act?
- Does it not seem absurd to anyone else that we spend so much effort to get materials from the ground, shape them into something useful, use them once or twice, and then put them back into the ground? [↩]


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©2008 Georgette Heyer; (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
"The Governess's New Position"
This is my first experience with this author and narrator. They are impressive. This is a kind of fairy tale along the lines of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with the fiery Elizabeth crossing swords with Darcy. I also think of Jane Eyre as she is confronted with Thornfield and its moody master which should give an idea of the relationship between hero and heroine. There was obviously intensive period research into the time and setting of the story. While I wasn't looking for any false notes, I didn't detect any. Georgette Geyer writes as if she were a contemporary of Austen or Bronte. An author who can bring to life espionage, treason, murder to say nothing of a solid romance, all at a rather creepy mansion is an accomplished writer. Geyer writes with a kind of tongue in cheek amusement, a potential pitfall which Cornelius Garrett embraced as his own. His narration took the book seriously while allowing its innate humor full play. He shines! This is one of those books which I would never buy at say Books a Million. Can you imagine me, a rough, sixty year old man in jeans and work boots browsing in the women's section much less walking around with actual chick lit in my hands? I don't think so. Don't you just love the anonymous nature of audio books? Only Audible, the six people who actually read this review and myself will ever know.
"My Favorite Georgette Heyer book"
I've been waiting for this one to appear for download and I was over the moon when I saw it had been added. I love the opening interview, the hero's kid brother and his dog, and all the misunderstandings. I have the cassette version, which I had to order from the UK, so I'm thrilled to get the download version for my iPod. The narrator is great and I just want to give audible a great big THANK YOU for making it available.
"Very outdated novel, but delightfully read"
Georgette Heyer wrote about a period that had all the quaintness and charm of being a hundred years in the past. Anyone approaching a Heyer novel today has to recognize that Georgette herself is now almost a hundred years in OUR past, and must be willing to forgive her for political incorrectness that didn't exist in her day.
Heroines like Elinor Rochdale, who can drive her own phaeton and who doesn't hesitate to argue and snipe with a peer of the realm, would have seemed lively and modern to an English reader in the 1930s, though she seems ridiculously tame and even annoyingly dependent to us in the 21st century.
I give this audiobook four stars because despite the outdatedness of the material, Heyer's grasp of Regency language, her ability to build vivid characters entirely through sparkling dialog, and the lively, very G-rated, and mostly harmless romp she takes us on is a lot of fun.
What's more, Cornelius Garrett brings just the right degree of plummy upper-crust RP English (with some lovely regional dialect) to the story, and a nice blend of narration and acting. As another reviewer has said, his Francis Cheviot is absolute genius. The production itself is simple but entirely professional. It was nine hours of very enjoyable listening.
"An Enjoyable Audio Book!"
Thank You Audible for having recorded so many Georgette Heyer books. I have read all of them but I really look forward to listening to them. I hope you can keep on recording other books of hers to audio.Cornelius Garrett does a great job reading these books as do the other readers. I especially like him reading A Quiet Gentlemen. I look forward to seeing in audio format of Sylvester, Frederica, The Grand Sophy, and Simon the Cold Heart. Thank you again Audible for the great service you render.
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This is probably my favorite of Georgette Heyer's romances. It has suspense, humor, and romance. The narrator is very good. Voices are distinct but not weird except for the lisp of Mr Cheviot. I've read all of her books many times but somehow listening to them brings out points I've missed before.
More of the murder mysteries would be wonderful too!
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Garrett's portrayal of Francis Cheviot is one of the most entertaining interpretations I have ever heard. Garrett brings all his characters to vivid life. Well done.
"The Reluctant Widow"
I could sit down and listen to this one again and I just finished it. I laughed -- not only at the humor of Georgette Heyer, but at the wonderful vocal characterization.
You will enjoy this one.
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Funny & intelligent, somehow I had missed The Reluctant Widow in my exploration of Georgette Heyer. Perhaps not as perfect as The Grand Sophy or Cotillion, still a very pleasurable experience. The reader was excellent. Thank you, Audible, for finally making so many of Heyer's book availble. More please!
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I have listened to a few other Heyer books and have not thought that they stood up well in the audio format. Fortunately Cornelius Garrett does an excellent job on this title.
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TAMPA, Fla. — When news vans camped outside her stately home, a Florida socialite tied to the Gen. David Petraeus sex scandal fell back on her informal credentials as a social ambassador for Tampa society and top military brass: She asked police for diplomatic protection.
In the phone call to authorities, Jill Kelley, a party hostess and unofficial social liaison for leaders of the U.S. military's Central Command in Tampa, cited her status as an honorary consul general while complaining about news vans that had descended on her two-story brick home overlooking Tampa Bay.
"You know, I don't know if by any chance, because I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability, so they should not be able to cross my property. I don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well," she told the 911 dispatcher Monday.
Nearly all lines in the increasingly tangled sex scandal involving Petraeus lead back to Kelley, whose complaint about anonymous, threatening emails triggered the FBI investigation that led to the general's downfall as director of the CIA. And now Kelley is in the middle of an investigation of the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan over alleged "inappropriate communications" between the two.
Kelley's friendship with Petraeus and his wife began when the general arrived in Tampa about 2008. Kelley and her husband, Scott, a cancer surgeon, had moved to the area a few years earlier and threw a welcome party at their home, a short distance from Central Command headquarters, introducing the new Central Command chief and his wife Holly to Tampa's elite, according to staffers who served with Petraeus.
Such friendships among senior military commanders and prominent local community leaders are common at any base, a symbiotic relationship where the officers invite top locals to exclusive military events and functions, and the invitees respond by providing private funding to support troops with everything from morale-boosting "Welcome Home" parades to assistance for injured troops.
She also met Gen. John Allen while he was at Central Command, and now investigators are looking at 20,000-plus pages of documents and emails between Kelley and Allen, some of which have been described as "flirtatious." The general has denied any wrongdoing.
For her part, Kelley has taken a low profile since Petraeus' affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, became public. The Kelleys have retained high-powered Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell, who did not immediately return a call.
On Tuesday, Kelley could be seen through the large windows of her South Tampa home. In the driveway was a silver Mercedes with a license plate marked "Honorary Consul." Kelley's identical twin sister, Natalie Khawam, also lives there.
South Tampa is a conservative Southern community of big houses, big bank accounts, garden clubs and wives who pride themselves on volunteer work. A lot of the brass from MacDill Air Force Base, where Central Command is headquartered, live or socializes in South Tampa, and helping members of the military is a major volunteer activity. Continued...
Former Mayor Pam Iorio said she went to several parties to benefit the military at the Kelleys' home, and they drew MacDill's top brass, including Petraeus. But they were by far not the only parties held around the city for MacDill's officers.
"Our community's relationship with MacDill is just multi-faceted," said Iorio, who later invited the Petraeuses over to her own home for dinner. "It's something that is generational. People sincerely care about the military."
Petraeus aides said Kelley took it to another level, winning the title of "honorary ambassador" for her extensive entertaining. Petraeus even honored Kelley and her husband with an award in a special ceremony at the Pentagon.
The Kelleys invited then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to their home, but he never accepted. Instead, he had dinner with the Kelleys at a steakhouse in Tampa with Petraeus.
"Lovely people. I remember I had a nice dinner with she and her husband and the general and his wife," Crist said.
Ken Walters, a neighbor, said he went to a party the couple had to celebrate their first son's baptism. The Kelleys have two other children.
"Natalie and her sister, they're certainly not shrinking violets," Walters said. He recalled that when the sisters first entered the South Tampa social scene, they "rubbed people the wrong way. I think they probably stepped on a couple of toes."
Petraeus' affair with Broadwell was discovered after Kelley told an FBI agent friend she had received email warning her to stay away from Petraeus. The email turned out to be from Broadwell, who apparently regarded Kelley as a rival for Petraeus' affections. Kelley's family and Petraeus aides have said Petraeus and Kelley were just friends.
In another strange footnote to the scandal, long before the case involving Petraeus got under way, the FBI agent sent Kelley shirtless photos of himself, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Kelley's brother, David Khawam, told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on Monday night that the allegations have spilled out quickly. Continued...
"It's a shock. We're trying to figure out where the pieces are falling right now," he said in an interview at his law office in Westmont, N.J.
He said his family left Lebanon for suburban Philadelphia's Huntingdon Valley in the 1970s to escape the turmoil in their homeland. His parents opened a Middle Eastern restaurant in Voorhees, N.J., called Sahara.
"My family is very patriotic; we came from Lebanon at a young age," he said.
Kelley later married and moved to Florida with her husband, who works at a cancer clinic.
Jill and Scott Kelley have been involved in at least nine legal actions since arriving in Tampa, according to court records. Most involve real estate transactions, including one foreclosure and an $11,000 judgment against the couple in a Pennsylvania case.
In another twist in the scandal, court records indicate that Petraeus and Allen intervened two months ago in a messy custody dispute on behalf of Jill Kelley's sister. Both four-star generals wrote letters supporting Natalie Khawam.
The judge in the case awarded Khawam's ex-husband custody last year of their son. He also called Khawam, a lawyer, dishonest and lacking in integrity.
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While his relatives and friends cheered and applauded, the 18-year-old Saratoga Springs High School graduate rode Black Rhino to a fourth-place finish in the fourth race for trainer Wesley Ward. Davis was eighth on Ward's favored Fierce in the fifth race. Three other horses Davis had been named to ride, including one trained by his father, were scratched.
Robbie Davis was a prominent jockey, winning 3,382 races in 20 years until a knee injury forced him to retire in 2002. He and his wife Marguerite became full-time residents of the Saratoga Springs area several years ago. Jackie Davis decided to become a jockey, is a graduate of the North American Racing Academy and has been riding professionally since 2008.
Dylan, 18, the youngest of the Davis' six children, has been preparing for a riding career by working as an exercise rider. At 5-foot-2 and 104 pounds, the former wrestler has the ideal build to be a Thoroughbred jockey. He acknowledged that he was weary after riding two races in a row and found racing to be more taxing than getting on horses in the morning.
"It's definitely tougher," he said. "I've been galloping almost two years and this is nothing like it. It's a whole different game. I got tired."
Ward allowed Robbie Davis to give Dylan a leg up - to help him climb aboard - on Black Rhino in the paddock prior to his first race. Robbie Davis was clearly nervous and was fidgetingin the winner's circle while the first race was being run. He didn't realize that his son had Black Rhino battling for the lead early on. "Boy that was a little better than I was expecting," Robbie Davis said. "I didn't see him break out of the gate. I thought he was last and the next thing you know Tom Durkin is calling Black Rhino head and head down the backside. I was a little confused.
"When I saw him going around the turn I said, 'Wow, he really did come out of there running.' He told me was ready and he wasn't lying."
Robbie Davis didn't have any trouble describing his feelings. "I'm absolutely proud, just busting at the seams," he said.
Robbie Davis talked with his son for a moment before Dylan headed back to the jocks' room to get ready for the next race.
"To see the grin in his face was really exciting. He's pumped," Robbie Davis said. "I just wanted it to be a safe one. He kind of knows what he's up against a little bit now. I didn't expect him to be riding in back-to-back races. You kind of want to get your feet wet. He's in no shape or form ready to start races, but he needs to learn. He had gotten to a stage where - you can only learn so much in the morning - he needed to get in a field and see what it's like."
Robbie Davis said Dylan will probably ride a few more times during the Saratoga meet, get some more experience at Suffolk Downs in the fall and launch his apprentice career in earnest during the winter at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.


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Obviously, when school government dodges questions about its spending, it cannot credibly claim to be open, responsible government. Ironically, all seven members of the New Berlin School Board were endorsed by a political group that calls itself New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government.
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"Not long ago, the most famous Potter in fiction was the misanthropic banker in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But the name hasn't been the same since Harry Potter took it over in 1997. Each title in author J.K. Rowling's seven-book series about the boy wizard whose nemesis is evil itself has been turned into a film. The final book published in 2007 was actually turned into two films, the second of which, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows—Part 2' opens Friday."
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WWGD? What Would the Gipper Do? Well, Ronald Reagan would probably push Congress to raise the debt ceiling. After all, while he was president, this conservative icon president presided over 18 increases in the debt ceiling. Horrors! Apostacy! Said the ever-reasonable Reagan: "Congress consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility…..The United States has a special responsibility to itself and the world to meet its obligations." Well put---and still true today.
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by John Vodila
Hard to believe
The uninformed find all truth hard to believe, so the easy way out is to just call it a conspiracy theory.
I will say our times today are hard to believe but lets not give up on seeking the truth, are we supposed to live a lie?, I think not and that is not the American way.
Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, how can we achieve them without the truth?, and without the truth we are all living a conspiracy theory.
My hat goes off to all the truth seekers out there as few as they are, without them I may have never woken from my slumber, if it wasn't for them, all we would have is lies, and what little of America we have left would already be gone.
No it is not easy being a seeker of truth it is hard work and you will be ridiculed ,seeking the truth is like having another full time job or it can be, for me anyway it has become an obsession, but I don't feel blind anymore. Never forget the truth always comes out and today with the information highway it doesn't take 50 years anymore.
Because of greed and corruption it seems to me that a lot of the history of the world is nothing but a lot of rearranged lies, so this makes it even harder to figure out what the truth is, you really have to study and even read . Well if you are reading this that is one up for you because I think most adults think that reading is something you do in school. I know it is hard to find the time to read when it takes just about everything to just survive these days, and make no mistake about it, this is by design.
Our survival as a free Republic is dependent on We The People of the United States of America , do you remember those words?
Those words are the heading of our Constitution, and how are we to remain a free Republic if most do not even know this much.
We the people have been hoodwinked on all fronts and we can begin to get our rights and our nation back to being the greatest once again by seeking the truth and becoming informed about our hoodwinkers.I know there are some that will say I haven't been hoodwinked , if you are one of those you really need to study and become informed because this is not getting serious, it is serious.
I am not even going to go there on any of the issues (and oh there are so many) in this article. If you do not know something is wrong, then something is wrong.
It is all up to us now to make things right, it is obvious our government either cannot or will not make it right as has been proven throughout our history. I am not making this up study a little if you do not know what I am talking about, and then you will know what I am talking about. I am not going to hold your hand, I mean you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.
I am not saying get your guns I really do not think it has to come down to that, I believe if even half of our country even knew half of the truth we would scare the hell out of these evil doers, as at this time they are banking on our stupidity and I mean that literally. We have to unite remember the UNITED States?, and we will never unite without KNOWLEDGE !
Please if not for your countrymen and yourself do it for our children I am begging you Please get informed and seek the truth.


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Sisteron to Valberg
A cool crisp start with cloud hanging around the all sections of the 26km climb. The day got progressively hotter and clearer, the only respite being the cool breeze which came with altitude.
It was over the duration of today's ride that we made the noticable transition from the higher Alps to Provence. The architecture became less Alpine and more Med, the weather became less threatening, and I got a whiff of the distinctive lavender fields. The ride involved four 'big' Cols, all of them very different in character but equally testing.
High Points
The day started with a 26km climb through thick low clouds into an area of geological significance. Every so often we'd rise through the mists into an otherworldly, rocky landscape. Yet more spectacular were the descents, some were hairpin cascades down the sides of steep ravines, others gentle ribbons of perfect tarmac.
The arrival of the Lanterne Rouge caps (more on this later), a weight off my mind and nice surprise for those who've earned them so far.
More good coffee, this time presented by Ira just before the off. The man is pure class.
Low Points
This morning, from spotless bike to filthy in half an hour. Damn. Ira took a tumble on a clouded decent. I thought his superb 'cross skills would keep him on after being driven into a rocky verge but it wasn't enough. He's battered and his bike is a wreck, but as I type he's fixing up Phil's bike to ride tomorrow. Chapeau.
Forgetting to take my camera out on the final 14k climb to Valberg because I was so intent on chasing down David Arthur's break. A stunning climb, which you can see zig-zag up ahead for miles.
Dinner of make-your-own crêpes. …fabulous food, but I think I ate too much!
Tomorrow's stage looks brutal. 218km, a lot of Cols and climbs up to 13%, and some of it through Nice and urban areas (I feel spoilt with how quiet it's been the last few days), I'm looking forward to it.
The clouds were so heavy you'd leave each one covered in a thick layer of dew droplets.
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Here is, in essence, what I have responded to the DfE KS4 accountability consultation.
We urgently need to improve the situation for languages in schools and it is vital that the government takes into account specific issues which affect language learning in the national curriculum, in order to avoid creating further 'perverse incentives' with a negative effect on language take up.
The introduction of a foreign language into the KS2 curriculum creates 2 interrelated issues which affect the way in which languages can be used within the accountability framework at KS4. These are a) whether pupils will be able to continue with the same language when they move from KS2 to KS3, and b) the need to encourage a wider range of languages given that around 95% of language teaching in primary schools is in either French or Spanish.
I argue that schools cannot be held accountable unless starting points as well as finishing points are measured and that we need a new graded assessment system for languages in order to provide this.
Impact on lesser taught languages
The accountability arrangements proposed may have the effect of narrowing the range of languages studied.This is because a value added measure based on performance at GCSE in relation to prior performance in English and Maths at KS2 will not take into account the fact that some pupils will be starting a new language in Year 7 and others at the beginning of their GCSE course, while some pupils will have had 9 years' tuition in the same language. Lesser taught languages such as Arabic, Russian or Mandarin are often introduced only at KS4 but because they diverge more from English than Western European languages, they require more time to reach similar levels. A value-added measure based on English and Maths will not measure value added in a foreign language and there will inevitably be pressures on schools and students to avoid the risk of a poor grade by sticking to a language they have already learned rather than enriching or revitalising their language learning experience by starting a new one. German may also be affected since it is perceived as a 'hard' language at GCSE and there is very little German teaching in primary schools.
Shortcomings of GCSE languages as a tool for school accountability
I am concerned about the total reliance on GCSE results as a measure of performance. Teachers responding to the Language Trends survey are clear that the current assessment arrangements do not promote 'deep understanding' but rather reward superficial rote-learning. This means that the exam is not meaningful or credible to either learners or employers, but is seen merely as a box ticking exercise for school performance tables. Rather than preparing pupils for life in the global economy, this is creating a cycle of disenchantment with language learning.
Teachers also say that the GCSE exam advantages pupils who are generally high attaining, but is less accessible for lower ability pupils within the curriculum time available. Many schools have now made a language compulsory for their top sets, but lower attaining pupils are encouraged to take other subjects in which they will be more successful.
Teachers are also concerned about comparability between languages at GCSE, because more time is needed to acquire the same level in languages with non Roman scripts or those which have little vocabulary in common with English (particularly when these are only started in Year 10).
I do not believe therefore that the GCSE exam provides a suitable tool for measuring schools' performance in providing high quality, effective language teaching which enables pupils to progress in language learning.
There is an urgent need for an easily comprehensible but credible system of assessment which shows what competences learners have acquired and what they can do in the foreign language. GCSE does not provide this.
A graded system of language tests, similar to that used for music, based on the Common European Framework of Reference or on the Languages Ladder, would provide a much better tool for measuring both pupil progression in language learning and for holding schools accountable. And it would be likely to encourage more pupils to study a language at KS4 and to enable a wider range of languages to be taught.
Rather than setting a bar at a particular level like GCSE, such a system would provide flexibility in measuring progress, whether pupils continue with the same language from KS2, or pick up a new one in Year 7 or Year 10. It would also provide accreditation for those pupils who give up a language at the end of KS3 (whether to start a new one or to focus on other subjects) or who for a variety of reasons do not reach the high standard now being proposed for the new GCSE. It would also potentially provide the means of measuring progress between KS2 and KS4, for students who take the same language, encouraging schools to build on what has been learnt rather than 'starting from scratch' as so often happens.
Impact on less able students
The current system disadvantages less able pupils by being a test of short term memory rather than measuring genuine learning. Graded qualifications, mapped against internationally-recognised standards, would provide a more meaningful, relevant and motivating way of reflecting pupil performance. They would allow pupils from across the educational spectrum to gain a language qualification.
Additional measures the government should publish
The EBacc has had some effect on uptake for languages amongst high attaining pupils and should be retained.
However the government should also publish measures of foreign language performance based on assessment against internationally-recognised standards. This would recognise the achievement of:
a) less able pupils who might otherwise drop languages
b) pupils taking up a new foreign language at the beginning of KS4
c) pupils giving up a language at the end of KS3
It could also provide the means for schools to measure the extent to which they have contributed to the development of pupils' competences in languages they have contact with at home, since it has the potential to measure both 'before' and 'after'.
A reformed and upgraded GCSE could be retained, within this system, as a premium qualification for higher attaining pupils or those who have been able to carry on with the same language for 9 years.
Data warehouse
I do not believe this is a priority at this time, or that, based on the current structure of assessments, it would help the wider public to understand the extent to which schools are helping pupils to gain competence in a foreign language.
National sample tests
There is no need to develop national sample tests for languages, since the European Survey on Language Competences (developed by an English lead partner) already exists. The results of the first survey highlighted the failings of the GCSE exam as a reliable measure of language competence and the need to map assessment systems against more rigorous internationally accepted measures.
I strongly urge the government to participate in the next round of the European Survey, and meanwhile to reform assessment for languages as suggested in order to raise standards, improve pupil take up, and break the current cycle of disenchantment.


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