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Dale Jarrett and track owner Bruton Smith among the 5 new nominees for NASCAR Hall of Fame
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – NASCAR champion Dale Jarrett headlined the 25 nominees announced Wednesday for next year's Hall of Fame class — a list that finally includes track magnate Bruton Smith.
Only five nominees are new to the list, with the other 20 carrying over from last year. Joining Jarrett and Smith as the new nominees were engine builder Maurice Petty, five-time NASCAR weekly series national champion Larry Phillips and 1960 NASCAR champion Rex White. Five people will be selected for induction into the fifth Hall of Fame Class in May 22 voting by a 54-member panel.
The panel will finally get to consider Smith, who many believed had been snubbed by not being among the nominees the last four years. Smith promoted his first race at 18 years old, and later ran the National Stock Car Racing Association, which was seen as an early competitor to NASCAR.
He built Charlotte Motor Speedway, the anchor property in a portfolio that now includes eight tracks hosting 12 Sprint Cup races, the All-Star race and several high-profile motorsports activities. Speedway Motorsports Inc. went public in 1995 and became the first motorsports company to be traded at the New York Stock Exchange. Smith's Sonic Automotive includes several hundred auto dealerships across the country.
Jarrett was NASCAR's 1999 champion and his 32 wins rank 21st all-time. Among those victories include three Daytona 500s, two Brickyard 400s and the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Jarrett also won at least one race a year in 11 consecutive seasons from 1993 through 2003, and followed his father, Ned, into broadcasting after his 2008 retirement.
Ned and Dale Jarrett joined Hall of Famers Lee and Richard Petty as the second father-son combination to win NASCAR championships, and Jarrett will now try to join his father in the Hall of Fame. Ned Jarrett was in the second class.
Maurice Petty is trying to become the third Petty in the Hall of Fame. His brother, Richard, was a member of the inaugural class and father, Lee, was elected the next year. Dale Inman, his cousin, was also the first crew chief inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Maurice Petty will be judged on the seven championships won during his tenure as chief engine builder for Petty Enterprises. Known as "Chief," he supplied the horsepower that propelled Richard Petty to most of his 200 NASCAR wins.
Phillips, meanwhile, was a five-time weekly champion but nobody knows for sure how many wins he collected. The Missouri native raced anywhere he could whenever he had the chance, and record keeping wasn't always the priority.
He's the only driver to win five NASCAR Weekly Series national championships, and did it during an 11-year span from 1989 through 1996. He won 220 of 289 NASCAR-sanctioned races during that time for a 76 percent winning percentage.
White won 28 races during his career, including the 1960 championship when he was the car owner and driver. His hallmark was consistency: He finished among the top five in nearly half of his 233 races.
He was considered a short-track specialist, with only two of his wins coming at tracks longer than a mile in length. White won six times during his 1960 championship season, and he had 35 top-10 finishes in 40 starts. He finished in the top 10 in the standings in six of his nine years in the series, and was runner-up in 1961.


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AUBURN —A Dudley man was arrested for alleged drunken driving Wednesday night after the car he was driving smashed into a house at 161 Auburn Street.
Police got several calls reporting the crash about 9:30 p.m.. When police arrived at the house, they found an abandoned 2009 Toyota. Witnesses told police they estimated the car was traveling between 50 to 70 mph. in a 30 mph speed zone when it crashed.
Witnesses said the driver of the car fled the scene on foot.
The crash happened after the driver lost control at Auburn and Wethered streets.
Auburn police Sgt. John Kelleher searched the area and found the driver hiding in a nearby yard.
Jeffrey D. Crockett, 23, of 14 Fairfield Drive, Dudley was charged speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving to endanger, a marked lanes violation and leaving the scene of an accident. Police said he was given an alcohol breath test on which he had a .19 reading, more than twice the legal limit.

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Ferrari 250 SWB GT Berlinetta CompetizioneS/N 2129GT1960
Vintage 1961 Le Mans Handbill / Flyer.
These flyers were handed out at the race to spectators to show them around the track.
Very scarce as most of them were tossed away after the race or disappeared into the mists of time.
The cover matches the image of the 1961 race poster which is after a color illustration which was part of the so-called "Major Illustrators" era in Le Mans posters which lasted from 1954 - 1963 and in which the cream of the crop of French motorsport illustrators such as Geo Ham, Jeudon and Michel Beligond were hired for the design of the race posters.
The poster shows a fantastic image, by Michel Beligond, of the # 12 Ferrari 250 TRI/60 powering its way out of the Esses and heading towards Tertre Rouge during the previous edition in 1960.
The combination of warm colors represents the arrival of dusk, highlighting the red Ferrari in the center of the poster. This year, 1961, the race was part of the Sports Car World Championship.
Mint condition.
It measures 5.4 x 8.4 inches and unfolds to 21.6 x 8.4 inches.
The race was won by Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien in their Ferrari 250 TRI/61 (S/N 0794TR) with a total of 333 laps to their name.
For the full results of this race, please see 24 Heures du Mans results 1961.
Vintage Original 1961 Le Mans Flyer
Ferrari 250 SWB GT Berlinetta Competizione S/N 2129GT 1960
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1. Money can't buy you sleep.
With more than 40 million people—roughly a third of working Americans—not getting enough shut-eye, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's no wonder that industries ranging from furniture makers to pharmaceutical companies are making big money by offering to help people get the recommended seven to nine hours a night. The sleep-aid industry encompasses everything from specialty mattresses and high-tech pillows to new medications and at-home tests that promise to help the sleep-deprived measure and improve their z's. And many bleary-eyed Americans are taking the bait, ponying up not only for these products but also noise machines, scented candles and more. "It's a lot easier to buy something than it is to develop good sleep habits," says Kit Yarrow, chair of the psychology department at Golden Gate University and a speaker on consumer psychology.
But specialists say not all the products designed to improve sleep actually work. A 2012 Consumer Reports study that reviewed several drugs commonly used to treat insomnia found that while such sleeping pills generally help people fall asleep faster, it is not clear how well they help people stay asleep.
Experts also caution against relying too much on natural supplements. Melatonin, which the body produces at night to induce sleep, can help people reset their body clocks after travel, doctors say. And some botanical extracts may help people unwind at night. But some studies show melatonin may not be more effective than a placebo, according to the National Sleep Foundation. And if you have a medical reason for not sleeping, some of these herbal supplements may not be as effective, says Duffy MacKay, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a dietary supplement trade group.
While some of these supplements, along with pillows, noise machines and measuring devices can be helpful, doctors say some of the most effective techniques for improving sleep — such as exercising, not eating before bed, limiting screen time at night and getting natural light in the morning — are free. The Consumer Reports analysis also recommended behavioral therapy, including relaxation techniques and limiting time in bed, for people with chronic insomnia. "The best solution is to make sure that you follow the rules of biology," says Dr. Larry Kline, medical director for the Viterbi Family Sleep Center at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego. And those rules, he says, "were not made up by the pharmaceutical industry or someone making a pillow."


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Dec 2013 11:32 UTC
Ina Fried has just confirmed the Nokia Android phone - and even argues that Microsoft might go ahead with actually releasing it.
According to a Nokia source, the software has a look more similar to Windows Phone than to the "squircle" icons used on the Asha. Normandy would also serve as a way to deliver Microsoft services such as Bing and Skype.
That is seen by some at Microsoft as a more palatable alternative than seeing more of those first-time smartphone buyers sign up not just for Android but also for Google's array of services.
Makes sense. It does raise another question, though: wouldn't this be yet another operating system Microsoft would need to develop and support?


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February 29, 2012
Lemon Mousse Meringue Tart | Spring Desserts
Back in January, you might recall that I made a creamy, fresh lemon mousse. I couldn't get it out of my mind! I needed another reason to make it again so I recreated it in the form of a tart complete with graham cracker crust and swiss meringue.
It is tart, sweet, tangy, and... now it is beautiful enough to serve for a special occasion.
If you have never tried piping with an icing bag, this is a great one to start on. Don't be scared! It is so simple - the big tip will make any attempt look good. If you are not into it, you can top it with whipped cream instead!
Lemon Mousse Meringue Tart
with a graham cracker crust
1 recipe of Lemon Mousse
8 graham crackers
4 tablespoons of butter
1 recipe of Swiss Meringue (recipe below)
Prepare the crust by breaking the graham crackers into crumbs by hand or in a food processor. Melt butter and stir into graham crumbles with a fork. Pack the mixture into a tart pan packing it all the way up the sides. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Let it cool completely.
Prepare the lemon mousse as the crust cools. Pour it into the crust. Chill while you prepare the meringue. It is best to do this shortly before serving, as meringue does not do great in the refrigerator.
Pipe on the meringue using a large starburst tip & pastry bag.
Swiss Meringue
4 egg whites
1 cup of sugar
1 pinch of cream of tarter
In the top bowl of a double boiler (glass bowl sitting on a sauce pan with simmering water), whisk together egg whites, sugar and cream of tarter. Cook mixture in the double boiler over medium low heat for 3-5 minutes, or until sugar has dissolved. If you rub the mixture between your fingers, you should be able to tell if the sugar has dissolved.
Transfer the mixture to your kitchen aid fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk on high for 7-10 minutes. The mixture will cool and froth into a thick meringue as it whips.
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1968 Topps #280 Mickey Mantle - PSA MINT 9
Starting Bid - $300, Sold For - $823
Graded MINT 9 by PSA. Pack-fresh gem with a perfect image, no chipping whatsoever to the "grain" borders, a flawless reverse, and four razor-sharp corners! 1968 Topps Mantles are rarely seen this sharp. A quick look at the PSA population report shows that an almost incredible 5,021 examples of this card have been graded to date. Of these, however, only 116 have graded PSA MINT 9, with only eight PSA 10 examples ever graded. 1968 Topps cards typically suffer from a variety of condition problems, including print defects and a tendency to easily wear along the borders, which make Mint examples particularly difficult to find. This is a world-class example of one of Mantle's most classic cards, far exceeding the expectations for 1968 Topps. SMR value is $1,000. Reserve $300. Estimate $500/$1,000. SOLD FOR $823
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|Sean Egan on Gaim's Future
|By Eugenia Loli on 2005-11-12 05:21:50
|Yesterday we reported on the issue that surfaced between the project leaders of Gaim and Gaim-vv and we linked to the blog of the Gaim-vv developer. We now host a Q&A with the other side, Gaim's project leader and Google employee Sean Egan, who clears up a few things for us.
1. Peter Lawler claims that some of gaim-vv's patches were removed from the CVS and instead an audio-only solution compatible with GoogleTalk was inserted. Is this true?
Sean Egan: Well, that's not quite what he said. What he said---which is true---is that I created a small bit of voice-specific code and added it to Gaim. The gaim-vv approach had been to abstract voice chats, webcams, video conferencing all as the same thing, where I chose to handle them separately. I'm not sure yet which approach is better, which is why I committed the code as early as I could so that it could be openly reviewed and discussed.
2. If true, what about video and other, non-GoogleTalk, IM voice support? Will the rest of gaim-vv code left in your CVS will be enough or can be modified to support these A/V protocols?
Sean Egan: Nothing I did precludes supporting other protocols' voice or video, and indeed I'd like to see as many protocols supported as possible. The issue is just the approach I took to reach this goal. The most significant change is that I decided to use Linphone's mediastreamer library in lieu of GStreamer, which gaim-vv was using. Tim and Pete had code to do Yahoo! webcam with GStreamer, which may be a pain to port to use mediastreamer, but once GStreamer matures enough to be the better alternative, we'll switch back to that. GStreamer and Mediastreamer share very similar architectures, so it shouldn't take too much effort to switch between the two.
3. How deep is Google's participation in the Gaim project? Do they influense new features or the architecture?
Sean Egan: I don't typically comment about my work with Google, but I assure you that Google has no influence in Gaim development. My work on Gaim now is no different that it was before I started here. You can quote an offiical statement from a Google spokesperson here.
4. Which feature of the upcoming Gaim 2.0 makes you particular happy or proud?
Sean Egan: I'm a huge fan of the UI improvements that have been made, both obvious and subtle. The annoying "Disconnected" "Login," and "Connecting" windows that everyone hated are removed. New messages now "smooth scroll" up from the bottom of the window. The big useless toolbars on the bottom of the buddy list and conversation windows have been killed. Message background colors affect the entire width of the window, rather than just where there's text. The preferences dialog is vastly simplified. There are a whole bunch of other tiny changes that I think make a huge impact. I'm really excited about it.
I'm also a fan of the embedded mono and perl interpreters which should make cross-platform plugin distribution much easier, our three new protocols (Bonjour (nee Rendezvous), SIP/SIMPLE, and Sametime), and the hugely improved AIM and ICQ file transfer support.
5. Do you have plans to also support the SIP and h323 protocols and have Gaim work as a front-end to, let's say, the Gizmo network?
Sean Egan: I, personally, have no plans to do this. Gaim 2.0.0 adds a SIP/SIMPLE that someone may be interested in adding voice signalling to. Personally, I'm more interested in supporting the voice and video protocols of the popular IM services than turning Gaim into a general-purpose VoIP client.
6. Gaim is a GTK+ application, but not necesserily a Gnome one. What is your opinion of the Gnome project, its architecture and also the way it operates?
Sean Egan: I'm a GNOME user and a member of the GNOME Foundation. I really like GNOME, and I think Gaim does a pretty good job integrating with the GNOME desktop. We try to obey the GNOME HIG, we respect GNOME's web browser settings, and in CVS I'm currently experimenting with respecting its proxy settings.


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Maintenance, construction and fabrication businesses on Thompson Road in Houma are concerned about losing business because silt in the adjacent channel that connects to the Gulf isn't being removed quickly enough.
Maintenance, construction and fabrication businesses on Thompson Road in Houma are concerned about losing business because silt in the adjacent channel that connects to the Gulf isn't being removed quickly enough.
"It's been happening since the channel was built. It's not something new. The (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) has been able to react, but it's like pulling teeth," said Roger White, an employee for Edison Chouest Offshore Group. "It's important that the community understands how vital that channel is. It's a very important lifeline for what we are doing."
Officials of some of these companies talk about how they sometimes lose millions of dollars in contracts. The corps said the problem has to do with federal budget cuts.
The corps usually dredges the channel annually to the best of its budget, said Donald Schneider, corps operations manager for the waterway.
"We have had a lot of cutbacks," Schneider said. "Dredging costs have changed, often going up. We are not able to fully dredge the canal as we have been in the past."
Schneider said the corps' dredging budget for coastal Louisiana is $990,000. But a full dredging project can cost $2 million to $7.5 million, he said.
The corps tries to stretch its dollars by sharing dredging costs with local companies, he added.
"Hopefully they need maintenance around the same time so we could split up dredging cost," he said. "We are still not doing what we need to do to clear the channel. We are lowering areas that are closing the channel. But we do what we can to get the biggest bang for our buck with the money that we have."
Edison Chouest and other companies such as Gulf Island Fabrication chose to build along Thompson Road because of its location. They saw an advantage in using the Houma Navigation Canal with its proximity to the Gulf and oil activity.
"There are no overhead restrictions. When we build these large vessels, we don't have to worry about bridges, power lines or train tracks," said Roy Francis, Gulf Island's vice president of marketing.
The 15-foot channel periodically fills with sediment, making it hard for large vessels to navigate to and from the Gulf, Francis said.
The sediment builds up through natural causes such as storm surges and tides, he added.
"The corps has a system where they map this channel. They know themselves the channel silts up. It's just helping them get the funding to get it dug out that's causing the most problem," White said.
Dredging the channel usually takes place every year to a year and a half, Francis said.
But in the meantime, some of these companies lose business or have to pay extra expenses to ship their product out because of the buildup, White said,
For Edison Chouest's LaShip shipyard, it is hugely costly and time consuming to use a lot of manpower and equipment to build and ship out these large deepwater vessels.
"I would say it approximately costs $3 million to get a vessel out. That's not including the cost for production," he said. "It has a ripple impact, and if we can't get these vessels out, it could impact thousands of workers. It's not just our team but all the little businesses that participate in the process," White said.
Francis said Gulf Island has had vessels grounded, had to delay jobs and lost a job because the company seeking its services felt it would not be able to deliver.
"If the job is a large (vessel), we can't bid on it. We lose work because of the channel," Francis said. "When we can't build it here, that means one of our competitors will have a better opportunity."
Francis said it is difficult to tell the exact amount of money that could be lost on one of these projects because each is different. He said projects like these could range from $50 million to $80 million, not to mention the loss local outside vendors would feel.
He said sometimes these companies have to make multiple trips in smaller vessels to move cargo, which costs more, and they have to use barges to ship out large vessels that can't get through the channel.
"One of the solutions they (the corps) have been looking at is to deepen the channel. It will allow the passage of bigger boats," Francis said.
A corps and state Department of Transportation and Development study of deepening the channel from 15 to 20 feet has been going on for about 10 years, said David Rabalais, executive director of the Terrebonne Port Commission
The study relies on a lock being put in place for the Morganza-to-the Gulf levee project, which has no future timetable.
"We have recently been in a logjam for couple of years," Rabalais said.
The Port Commission has hired consultants, who were under contract with the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, to do part of the work for the corps as a way to help along the process, but there is still a standstill, Rabalais said.
"There are some things the corps has to do that the consultants can't by law, and we are still waiting on the memorandum of understanding. It's just a document the corps and DOTD have to sign saying DOTD is going to have to pay the corps to do the study," he said.
Rabalais said all parties have agreed to the cost to do the work, but the memorandum of understanding is going on its 14th month of not being signed by DOTD.
"We have to go through their process just to get it signed by a state agency and the federal government. For the money to change from the state to the corps, you have to have a cooperative endeavor. It has to go through so many departments — all the way to Washington and back," Rabalais said. "We don't know when the study is going to be complete."
DOTD spokeswoman Bambi Hall said her agency is waiting on information from the corps.
"The request to the assistant secretary of the Army to allow the corps to assist the state is in D.C. and should be approved by the end of the month," Hall said.
Hall said the whole study process will still take a few more months.
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February 13, 2013
Chesterbrook Chinese teachers Peggy Leung and Beesha Hung show students how to make Chinese New Year ornaments.
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Unique RV Condo Space Selling Out Quickly
September 14, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Unique RV Condo Space Selling Out Quickly
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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 18, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MediciNova Inc, a biopharmaceutical company traded on the NASDAQ Global Market (Nasdaq:MNOV) and the Jasdaq Market of the Osaka Securities Exchange (Code Number: 4875), today announced that it has received Notices of Allowance from the European Patent Office (EPO) for two pending patent applications. One covers the use of ibudilast (MN-166) in drug addiction and the other provides for ibudilast use to enhance opioid analgesia in acute pain settings. MN-166 is the company's lead drug development candidate for certain neurological conditions, including progressive multiple sclerosis, drug addiction, and pain.
"Along with our recent EPO allowance for the use of ibudilast in progressive multiple sclerosis, these drug addiction and pain patent allowances solidify our exclusivity in that region for all the core development areas of the MN-166 program," noted Kirk Johnson, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and co-inventor.
A patent maturing from the allowed application for drug addiction is expected to expire no earlier than 2026 and is a counterpart of an issued U.S. patent expiring no earlier than 2030. The patent application related to the use of ibudilast in acute pain conditions resulted from collaborative pre-clinical studies with renown pain researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, including Linda R. Watkins, PhD, Professor of Psychology and the Center for Neuroscience. It includes claims covering the use of ibudilast or phosphodiesterase (PDE) - 4 inhibitors to treat or prevent acute pain in combination with opioids like morphine or oxycodone and expires no earlier than 2028.
"We are very pleased with this advancement in our patent portfolio and its contribution to our European-focused development and overall business plan for MN-166," noted Yuichi Iwaki, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of MediciNova.
About Ibudilast
Ibudilast has been used in asthma and post-stroke disorders in Japan for around 20 years. MediciNova has demonstrated the potential utility of ibudilast in the treatment of neurological disorders at higher doses with encouraging outcomes in company-sponsored clinical trials in multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuropathic pain. MediciNova's priorities include pursuing Phase 2 proof-of-concept trials of ibudilast for the treatment of progressive MS and/or neuropathic pain through non-dilutive funding. Additionally, MediciNova's collaborative clinical development is proceeding well with drug addiction investigators at organizations like Columbia/NYSPI and UCLA and the funding of Phase 2 trials via the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for the use of ibudilast to treat both opioid and methamphetamine addiction. A Phase 2a investigator-sponsored trial of ibudilast in the treatment of chronic medication overuse headache (MOH) pain is also ongoing in Australia.
About MediciNova
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Read Macbeth's Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow soliloquy below with modern English translation & analysis
Spoken by Macbeth, Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
"Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow" Soliloquy Translation:
How the days stretched out – each one the same as the one before, and they would continue to do so, tediously, until the end of history. And every day we have lived has been the last day of some other fool's life, each day a dot of candle-light showing him the way to his death-bed. Blow the short candle out: life was no more than a walking shadow – a poor actor – who goes through all the emotions in one hour on the stage and then bows out. It was a story told by an idiot, full of noise and passion, but meaningless.
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Garp says:
Amazing! So many people professing to understand the meaning and then immediately bothering to write out long replies on the subject. Fools + sound + fury.
Dr J Mehrishi, PhD (Cantab), FRCPath says:
Not to be pompous please!
Hearing John Gielgud speaking (almost sort of singing in his beautiful inimitable way) and Ian McKellen recently on YouTube is quite a delight.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
but then. dann nicht meh Vernommen wird" and " Voller Klang und wut
Das nichts bedeutet" have different punch from
"full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing" and quite a variation in
C'est tune conte qu'un ganache parle
Brutant et furieux
Qui signife rien'
NOT QUITE how/what one feels hearing-
"full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing"
leaving the hearer/watcher of the play- really enthralled though wrung out?
This is not dissimilar to Richard Burton- on the stage in New York, unexpectedly – for the benefit of the German parents of the girl, Elizabeth Taylor wanted to adopt, and wishing Richard to make a good impression- suddenly opening with
Sein oder nicht sein daß ist die Frage-…..
I wish that I had the whole speech by Burton.
J. Gholdston says:
Translations generally miss the mark wide in attempts to match meter and phrasing. New Year's Eve, 1974 I took some coworkers to see Gone With the Wind in Frankfurt am Main. I had built up the significance of Rhett cursing at Scarlett when she asked him what was to become of her. In English, the powerful retort was, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." In German it became, " Ehrlich gesagt, es ist mir Egal." Honestly, I don't care. Something, as they say, was lost in translation.
Winston Lee says:
Maybe if they had used "scheißegal". 😉
Caleb Howarth says:
Practicing the monologue in preparation for a voicemail message for an old friend, I found myself uncertain of the use of the word "fools". This despite my education and training experiences in Shakespeare which would I think be fairly characterized as considerable, if not extensive. Accordingly, I jumped online and found this interesting discussion. First, based on what I can with reasonable comfort assert to possess fidelity to original intentions, the "translation" is, I'm sincerely sorry to state, awful. Not only painfully inartful, it more importantly omits thematic elements critical to understanding its meaning.
Nevertheless, I throw in, for whatever for it, my support for the effort in principle, so long as it is understood to be, and employed as, a stepping stone to personal ownership of the original text. And here I must take issue with an opinion shared in an earlier post. This passage is not possessed of whatever meaning a reader might ascribe to or derive from it. I would only be guessing to say, but shall write anyway, that such an assertion is understandable as an extension of an otherwise praiseworthy definition of "art." Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and it is perfectly legitimate for many such words to coalesce around differing, even conflicting ideas of impression and interpretation of the same painting or sculpture. But it is unduly generous to allow that literally any opinion as to the meaning of this or that piece of art enjoys an equality with any other opinion. Defend, with vigor, literally any experience of art – any emotional wellspring engendered, any reaction expressed, and you are on very firm ground. Defending as equal all opinions as to a works' meaning, however, consigns foremost the written word to and undeserved and indefensible relativism corrosively and unnaturally hastening a juttered evolution of the language.
If it appeals to think that I overstate my case, please consider one word I myself used in the previous paragraph. The word "literally" has recently suffered the addition of a second meaning, and this in refererence sources even including the OED. In consequence, it is no longer certain whether the word employed (to use the OED's example) in the sentence "I have received literally thousands of letters…" means the writer has received, at minimum, 2000 individual pieces of mail, or, as the new meaning would have it, has received a large volume of mail, where "large" is relative and left to the reader's calculus. This is a deplorable consequence, and while we may feel a tendancy to dismiss this position as just a geezerly warning of slippery slopes, such unaddressed erosions spread with perfect equality an inarticulacy already undermining one of society's critical foundations: mutual understanding.
Tom says:
I have been saying this soliloquy over and over for many weeks and I could pretty much understand the meaning, but at least this "modern" person made an effort to say what he or she thought it meant. The only thing is, if someone wrote a "modern" soliloquy that was written like the interpretation, no one would even read it twice, but Shakespeare's has been going through people's mouths for four centurys, and enjoying the experience.
Dan McDonald says:
'T' is a pompous jackanape. Shakespeare didn't only write
for people as clever as "T' believes himself to be. He wrote for
all of us, including the illiterates in the galleries. The glory of
Shakespeare is that you see something new the eighth time
you read it, and even more the ninth time.
Dr J Mehrishi, PhD (Cantab), FRCPath says:
Do view the video clips, if you have not already, of John Gielgud, Mckellan and others- it is almost impossible to get the same feeling/'tingle quotient'/zing form a certain phrase in one language translated into another as I have stated above. One could think of many others.
Re- (lighted- guided-) 'fools'- probably means exactly that or unperceptive? lack of 'common sense'?
see below for an appeal to all- prompts me to remind the less than suitable comments (I ma sure, hope an exception) : These are interesting supposed to be civilised discussions- There is no need to be offensive- 'x' calling Tom…….. I don't even wsh to repeat…
Claire says:
Yes, maybe the translation is telling the same thing just in other words.
Yes, maybe the original version is clear enough.
Yes, maybe it is senseless.
But there are still people really grateful for this "translation", for example me: a young exchange student with English as a second language, getting thrown into the cold water with reading these (actually awesome) plays, that are still hard to understand.
Thank you!
David Hinds says:
I think that it's a great site hated the bickering but loved to see that so many people are still nuts about my favourite speech/play it's one that I have loved since the first time it was read to me the reader was good and delivered it well it had been lodged in side my head ever since though I hadn't actually heard it since I was in school in my English lit class many moons ago I thought of it tonight as an appropriate reply to a comment I had earlyer to reply to and so I googled it up from it's dusty grave and reread it for the first time in so many years then I read it again and again and again out load (thin walls I think I heard my neighbours saying he thinks that I am Mad for talking to myself?) using deeper and lesser expression upon the words for different effects which pleased me and found it difficult to stop(perhaps I am mad) it's just so nice you guy's all seem to be a little more privileged than that in having heard it more regularly. I like the life is a stage version because that is how I find it and in growing up my Sunday school classes used to teach as much in fact I believe that most religions teach that life is a test leading to the impression that we are in an arena being watched by a hidden crowd of beings living life upon a stage in a science laboratory of some highly evolved Alien species this concept makes me think of the way the Greek Gods played with Jason in the movie Jason and the argonauts one of my favorite movies of old. I Enjoyed reading your comments and the comments of many who perhaps have been more highly educated than myself and I gracefully bow to the many different investigative concepts and avenues used to revue this text it has been intresting and a pleasure thank you all and good morning.
Chuck Grove says:
It has been over fifty years since I read Macbeth, and that famous soliloquy remains with me unchanged. I guess I have to say, it is a powerful statement as lt was written!
Robert Gertz says:
This passage is clear and heartbreakingly beautifully despite being uttered by a human monster. Still, no reason to despise those who want to see it broken down if it helps them understand it better. The key thing is getting people to read the original work and honestly, it's worth doing. There's a great Signet edition of the works that I recommend. You can order it cheap from Amazon. It comes with fine annotations and essays on each play.
Esme says:
To address the "dumbing down of America" comment; You DO realize that it now takes someone with higher education to understand middle English, right? I hope most of you realized that languages change quite fast, often only needing 200-300 years for it to sound completely different. Try reading Old English! That definitely needs a translation for the language evolved so much that it's a completely new one! When I read middle English, I feel as of I'm reading French. And I say that because I'm familiar with some words, some I've never seen and others are spelled exactly like English but have completely different meanings.
You know, when you translate a language, you're saying the same thing with different words, right Maddie?
H says:
Come now, all of you – your comments are more foul than fair! While I agree that the 'translation' is weak, the thing with this passage (for me at least) is it's range of meaning. Shakespeare, I think, was a man who enjoyed tantalising his audiences with the wonder and mystery of life. He was simply ahead of his time. Many modern writers know the power of the reader's/audience's humanity – that is, their hope, faith, anger, vulnerability, ambition etc – and use it to connect them to character. In short, Shakespeare was a Modernist, four hundred years before Modernism.
Nate says:
Shakespeare IS Modern English not Middle English. It is Elizabethan English, which is considered early modern. Middle English is much more difficult to decipher than Shakespeare.
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As of the writing of this column, it has claimed the lives of 48 New Yorkers. Greater than 110 homes in Breezy Point burnt down. Flooding dominated. The Manhattan skyline went dim. Countless people across communities not only lost power, but became homeless. Historic fixtures such as the Rockaway Beach, Long Beach, and Atlantic City boardwalks blew away.
These are only a few of the tragedies the hurricane cast. One characteristic that has not perished, however, is our good-natured spirit as felt on the streets of Forest Hills and other communities. When times seem bleakest, the greater potential of humanity is realized as good deeds are carried out and miracles shed light.
To assist communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy, the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce approached a number of its local business members last week. The chamber proposed the idea of shop owners establishing collection points, where the public can deliver non-perishable food, water, clothing, and supplies.
On a daily basis, neighborhood residents are fulfilling great deeds by compiling possessions from their homes and purchasing supplies, and businesses are taking their donations to facilities offering those items to communities in dire need.
"We are proud to participate in this cause," said David Broderick, whose wife Ingrid owns Emily Sugar Shop at 72-01 Austin St.
The shop also distributed over $5,000 worth of candy on Halloween, when emotions were overshadowed by the hurricane.
Michael Shtadtlender, a Forest Hills resident for the last eight years, and his wife delivered bags consisting of canned foods, toiletries, and clothes.
"It's good to help our neighbors," he said. "I hope families will be comforted through these tough times."
Throughout the afternoon, Thank Heaven, a children's boutique at 72-18 Austin Street, was enriched by locals delivering donations, which led to an exchange of heartwarming community-based stories with owner Ariena Thomsen.
In response to her Facebook page posting, she witnessed at least 200 people delivering donations in the initial three days.
"I packed my minivan a few times, and I am bringing the donations to a veterans center in Beach Channel and a drop-off center on 125th Street in Rockaway," she said. "I named my shop Thank Heaven eight years ago, since I am thankful for my life and my kids. I learned we live in a beautiful world, where most people are trying to do the right thing, and this renews my confidence in humanity."
A two-year Forest Hills resident named Kimberly contributed three bags of cleaning supplies and a blanket.
"Forest Hills has been fortunate to have electricity, but now I can finally help all those in desperate need of assistance," she said.
Mrs. Spariosu of Ridgewood explained,
"A lot of Americans are on anti-depressants, but just seeing America's generosity is a pill of happiness," said Mrs. Spariosu of Ridgewood. "This month is Thanksgiving, and we need to be thankful for what we have."
"I emptied out my drawers and closets with t-shirts, blouses, suits, and dresses, and now I will donate boots and baby clothes," said Kristine Quattrone, a 14-year resident of Forest Hills and owner of Café Quattrone in Long Island City. "This is a good reason to go through my apartment, and donate to our communities as much as possible."
Thank Heaven is accepting donations from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
Across the street, patrons of the 52-year-old Irish Cottage at 108-07 72nd Avenue were conversing at the bar about hurricane relief. Twenty-year Forest Hills resident Christopher Fox had lunch with his friend Paddy Smyth of Rockaway. Smyth explained how Rockaway endured a lot.
"Rockaway lost a lot of firefighters on 9/11, and then American Airlines Flight 587 crashed on top of homes two months later," he said. In response to Hurricane Sandy, he stated, "I am grateful other communities are assisting us, and even political parties are being put aside."
"America is full of communities, and we tend to forget that," Fox added.
Not in affiliation with the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce, the Irish Cottage's McNulty family is accepting donations of items including clothes, blankets, canned foods, and gift cards for Target and Home Depot.
Organizations dispersing these donations include the Knights of Columbus and Jewish War Veterans. Patrons admired how firefighters have assisted them in the transport of goods.
Native Forest Hills resident Amee Lettich, owner of Aimee Salon at 71-62 Austin Street, circulated mass emails and posted to Facebook soliciting donations. On Saturday afternoon, her window display was stacked with neatly labeled bags containing coats, sweaters, blankets, canned food, baby formula and food, diapers, and water.
"Some of my friends lost everything, and I am trying my best to help those hit harder than we were," Lettich stated. "For items received between last night and today, I made a few trips with my truck to Long Beach and Island Park, and tomorrow I am driving to Staten Island. I will continue as long as people donate."
Venturing away from Austin Street, Forest Hills Jewish Center at 106-06 Queens Boulevard is accepting donations, as well as The Church-In-The-Gardens at 50 Ascan Avenue, and Minuteman Press at 102-07 Queens Boulevard.
Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz established the Councilmember Koslowitz Storm Relief Collection, which operates Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public can submit non-perishable food, water, batteries, blankets, and clothing and coats in good condition to her 17th floor office at 118-35 Queens Boulevard.
As businesses are accepting donations, friends and family are opening their homes to accommodate those in need. Tara Passik of Rockaway mentioned the kindness of her Forest Hills friends.
"Seven members of my family have been staying in a one-bedroom apartment since Friday," she said. In Rockaway, her family saw looters, dark stairwells, and feared being attacked.
"I called FEMA twice and they hung up, but today we filed a claim," she said. "Who knows if we are going to have assistance and a home to come back to? It felt like a third world country where we lost our sense of security, but our family banded together closer than ever."
More homes, businesses, and organizations will follow in the footsteps of this donation initiative, which will contribute a lasting impression upon greatly affected communities. Times change and potentially weather patterns, but "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" never withers.


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North Carolina has stayed the course on school improvement efforts since
1995 when the ABCs of Public Education was first approved, and this year,
the pay-off was the highest ever.
The percentage of students performing at the proficient level, also
considered grade level, is the highest in state history. Achievement
gaps among different racial groups narrowed significantly and across
all groups.
The state's 2002-03 ABCs accountability results were approved
by the State Board of Education today and reported at a news conference
at Wakefield High School in Wake County.
Black students and American Indian students gained approximately 10
percentage points each between 2001-02 and 2002-03, the school year reflected
in the information provided today.
While the achievement gap between white and black students remains the
largest gap among ethnic groups, the gap has been reduced to 21.9 points,
down from 34.3 points in 1996-97, the first year of the ABCs.
"These gains prove that our commitment
to protecting our investments in education is paying off," said Gov.
Mike Easley. "Even
in tough economic times our students and our schools are making dramatic
progress." (Governor's Press Release, pdf, 88k)
Nearly three-fourths of all schools – 72.9 percent — met
the standards for high growth in 2002-03. Nearly every school in the
state — 94.3 percent – met expected growth or better. Only
5.6 percent of schools, 124, had growth in student achievement that was
less than expected. This was a large decrease from 2001-02, when 25.1
percent of all schools fell short of their goals for student achievement
Sixty-one percent of all schools, or 1,359, earned recognition in 2002-03
as either Schools of Distinction or Schools of Excellence, the two highest
performance categories under the state's accountability model.
In order to earn recognition as a School of Distinction, schools must
have met at least expected growth and have 80-89 percent of their student
test scores at grade level or above. To be a School of Excellence, a
school must meet or exceed its growth goals and have 90 percent or more
of its student scores at grade level or above.
"North Carolina has seen steady improvements over the past seven
years. This year's positive results did not come overnight or without
tremendous effort by students, teachers and principals. The excellent
news we are receiving today is the result of focused efforts at every
level to help every student reach proficiency," said State Board
of Education Chairman Howard Lee. "The General Assembly has provided
unparalleled support for our schools, and schools have done what's
right. They've studied the data, put resources where they're
needed, celebrated success, and the results are clear. This is great
news for our state."
State Superintendent Mike Ward, in announcing the ABCs results, said
that the results were very rewarding for anyone who cares about public
schools. "Students made significant gains in 2002-03. Achievement
is up for all students and performance gaps have narrowed. We owe a great
deal of thanks to the teachers and principals in our schools. While these
improvements are the result of many people's efforts, the teachers
in the classroom and principals in each school have done the heavy lifting
that has led to this success. The business community is providing unprecedented
support for our schools, and parents are more engaged in their children's
The reduction of in achievement gaps was especially welcome news to
state educators who have been focusing attention on this issue for the
past several years. Although some groups' scores continue to be
lower than they should be, the gaps are closing more quickly than at
any other time. At the same time, overall achievement for the state and
for the top groups continued to rise as well.
A total of 88.8 percent of white students scored at or above grade level
in both reading and mathematics in grades three through eight, up from
84.4 percent in 2001-02. The percentage for black students was 66.9 percent,
up from 56.6 percent in the previous year. The percentage at grade level
for the state overall was 80.8, up from 74.7 percent.
For Hispanic students, 70.2 percent performed at or above grade level
in 2002-03, up from 62.1 percent in 2001-02. For American Indian students,
72.3 percent performed at or above grade level in reading and math in
2002-03, up from 62.7 percent in the prior year.
For Asian students, 87.4 percent were at or above grade level on the
end-of-grade tests, up from 82.1 percent. For multiracial students, 83.9
percent performed at or above grade level on the tests, an improvement
from 77.6 percent.
In addition to achievement gap information,
summary information regarding the state's performance under the
federal No Child Left Behind law was available for the first time. This
showed that North Carolina
schools overall met 90.5 percent, 33,419, of the 36,917 targets that
schools had to meet. Most schools, about 68 percent, met more than 90
percent of their targets. Because schools that miss even one target are
not considered to have made Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal
definition, 46.9 percent of schools made AYP. NCLB requires that schools
meet specific performance targets each year for every group of students,
culminating in 100 percent proficiency by 2013-14.
Over the past several years, significant state and local efforts have
been targeted toward improving student achievement. Together, all of
these efforts have helped to drive improvements in learning and school
performance. North Carolina legislators have supported efforts to help
low-performing schools and students by providing additional financial
resources for high priority schools and students not yet at grade level.
North Carolina has been a leader in the area of closing achievement gaps
by sharing best practices, by adding a closing the gap requirement to
the ABCs and by focusing local efforts on helping all students grow academically.
Many schools have implemented intervention programs for students below
grade level, including additional instructional time, tutoring options
and other supplements. Also there has been a very strong effort to align
classroom instruction to the state's Standard Course of Study and
to ensure that student time is spent on instructional activities.
This year, only six schools statewide met the criteria of low-performing
schools. The State Board of Education approved the assignment of State
Assistance Teams to three of the low-performing schools. The other three
low-performing schools are charter schools. Assistance teams of experienced
educators have been assigned to some low-performing schools each year
since the ABCs began to help these schools improve academic performance.
Voluntary assistance is provided to other schools upon request and as
resources allow.
The ABCs results for 2002-03 that were released today provide school-by-school
performance results for all of the state's 2,219 schools that were
assigned an ABCs status. North Carolina's accountability model
was implemented in 1996-97 in K-8 schools, and then in high schools in
1997-98. The model focuses on schools meeting growth expectations for
student achievement as well as on the overall percentage of students
who scored at grade level or better. Schools are recognized in several
categories. In addition to the Schools of Excellence and Schools of Distinction
categories, Schools of Progress are schools that have 60-79 percent of
their students' scores at grade level or better and that meet their
growth goals. Priority schools are those with less than 60 percent of
students at grade level or better, but are not low performing. Low-performing
schools are identified if they do not make expected growth and have less
than 50 percent of student scores at grade level or better.
The ABCs of Public Education emphasizes accountability at the school
level and instruction in basic, core subjects. The model uses end-of-grade
tests in reading and mathematics to measure student achievement in grades
3-8 and prediction formulas for end-of-course tests for growth. It uses
end-of-grade tests in grades 3-8 in reading, mathematics and computer
skills for the performance composite at the elementary and middle school
levels and end-of-course tests at the high school level.
At the high school level, the accountability measures are more numerous
and include student performance on the 10 mandatory end-of-course tests.
These are: Algebra I; Algebra II; Biology; Chemistry; Economics, Legal
and Political Systems; English I; Geometry; Physical Science; Physics;
and U.S. History. Other measures include the percentage of students completing
College/University Prep or College Tech Prep courses of study, change
in the competency passing rate between grades 8 and 10, and the ABCs
dropout rate.
For more information about the ABCs report, please contact Lou Fabrizio,
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If you're headed all the way down the peninsula of Florida for Monday's BCS National Championship Game between the Crimson Tide and Fighting Irish, you don't have to know your way around the most heavily populated metropolitan area in the Southeastern U.S., as long as you stick with the University of Alabama's National Alumni Association.
So you know about South Beach, and Little Havana, and the Keys just a short drive away, and um ... "Miami Vice."
If you're headed all the way down the peninsula of Florida for Monday's BCS National Championship Game between the Crimson Tide and Fighting Irish, you don't have to know your way around the most heavily populated metropolitan area in the Southeastern U.S., as long as you stick with the University of Alabama's National Alumni Association.
For away games, the group helps traveling fans float in seas of crimson.
"Alabama fans are always looking for places to gather," said Ashley Clayton, tour coordinator and planner for the Alumni Association. "It's not like in Tuscaloosa, where everyone knows about the Quad.
"I think we're similar to Ole Miss in that we're an anomaly in tailgating: No one is pulling up in a truck and actually putting down the tailgate."
Miami and Fort Lauderdale alumni chapters help plan a couple of weekend events, and the actual tailgating party was down to what's allowed by the Sun Life/Orange Bowl.
From 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, there's a happy hour event at the Clevelander, a recently renovated South Beach icon, centered in the Art Deco District, 1020 Ocean Drive. From 5-6 p.m., there'll be a pep rally outside on Ocean Drive, from Sixth to Ninth Streets, with the Million Dollar Band, cheerleaders, Big Al, UA celebrities, live music, interactive games, championship trophy photo-ops and more.
At 6 p.m. Sunday, the Broward County alumni chapter will hold a meet-up at the Quarterdeck Restaurant, 2933 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale.
Monday the tailgate party will be 5:30 up until kickoff at 7:30 (8:30 p.m. Eastern Time), on the 100 level of the Sun Life Stadium. There will be a tailgate buffet, cash bar, door prizes and more. Any Bama fans, not just alumni, are welcome to contact the association at www.alumni.ua.edu or 205-348-5963 for travel tips.
Fans at alumni events come from all walks, all ages, Clayton said, from the kids barely out of college looking to reconnect with friends to young families to retirees.
"We try to be as inclusive as possible," she said.
Inclusive would be one way to describe the multicultural panorama of the Miami/Keys/Fort Lauderdale area. It's the kind of place you can't see all of in even a long weekend, and let's face it, most folks are down for game time. But here are a few options for exploration, suggested by Time Out Miami and Miami.com.
Alabama Jacks: 58000 Card Sound Road, Key Largo. Call 305-248-8741. This laidback restaurant-bar just north of the Keys, open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, is akin to a biker bar, but you can also order baskets of shrimp, conch fritters or ceviche.
Boat tour of Star Island: Departs from Bayside Marketplace, 401 Biscayne Blvd. Miami. Call 305-379-5119 or visit www.islandqueencruises.com. There are 10 departures daily, 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., of the 90-minute tours, past the Miami port, Fisher Island, Miami Beach marina and celebrity homes — including those of Gloria Estefan, Paulina Rubio and Sean "Diddy" Combs, and former residences of Liz Taylor and Sylvester Stallone — on Star Island. Tickets $26 adults, $18 for children 4 to 12, free for children younger than 3.
Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant: 11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Call 305-673-0365 or visit www.joesstonecrab.com. On the list of 1,000 things to do before you die, this eatery does not accept reservations; first-come, first-served only. Open for lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m., dinner 5-11 p.m. Saturday, 5-10 p.m. Sunday and Monday.
Miami Design Preservation League/Art Deco Welcome Center: 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach. Call 305-672-2014 or visit www.mdpl.org. This is where you can find tours of the Art Deco district, or films, exhibits, books, posters and more on the historical architecture of the area. Guided walking tours begin at 10:30 a.m., for $20 each, $15 for seniors and students. A self-guided audio tour is also available, for $15 or $10.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens: 3251 S. Miami Ave., Miami. Call 305-250-9133 or visit www.vizcayamuseum.org Italian Renaissance-inspired villa and gardens on Biscayne Bay: For fans of the bizarre, this was built by agricultural industrialist James Deering as winter quarters in the early 20th century. It's a National Historic Landmark, filled with art and furnishings, and 10 acres of bayfront gardens. Open 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. Admission for adults is $15, admission for children 6 to 12 is $6, and children younger than 5 admitted free.
The Forge Restaurant and Wine Bar: 432 41st St., Miami Beach. Call 305-538-8533 or visit www.theforge.com. Another iconic restaurant, but very upscale, with a 19th-century Parisian facade and rococo interior. It's the kind of steak and fish place you might have once seen Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra or Richard Nixon wining and dining. Among its decadent wine selection is an 1822 Ch�teau Lafite Rothschild, asking price $150,000.


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Martina Navratilova says only a "big ego'' could have driven Lance Armstrong to lie about doping for so many years, and she thinks he should never be allowed to compete in any sport again.
The 18-time Grand Slam singles champion said she didn't watch Armstrong's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, during which he admitted to doping while winning seven Tour de France titles, because she'd already made up her mind about him.
"There is no justification for what he did,'' Navratilova said. "Lying about it with such conviction for so many years, suing people and winning and just denying it so many times. I mean, it takes some serious ego to be able to do that. Clearly, he has a big ego.
"He should never be able to compete anywhere at any level. If it was just a one-time deal, OK, but every year he raced, he was cheating. It's unimaginable.''
Navratilova is in Melbourne to play in the Australian Open legends doubles event. She's confident tennis is a clean sport, but thinks anti-doping authorities should be giving players blood tests on a more consistent basis.
When told that men's No. 1 Novak Djokovic said he hadn't received a blood test in six months, Navratilova said: "He shouldn't be slipping through the cracks that much.''
"Some people may be tested once a month and then some get tested maybe once or twice a year,'' she said. Anti-doping authorities "need to figure that out a little bit better, but overall I think tennis is in pretty good hands.''
Navratilova is teaming with that other famous Martina, five-time major winner Martina Hingis, in the legends doubles event.
The Martinas beat Lindsay Davenport and Cara Black in a single set 7-6 (4) on Monday.


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Simple question (hopefully), is the hand part of the bat? I had a person who is one of the leaders of the youth baseball league that my daughter plays in tell me that the other day. She told me if a pitched ball hits a batters hand, it's a foul ball, all the time. I looked in the rule book and I didn't see it that way. From what I gather, if a pitched ball hits the batter anywhere, he is awarded first base unless he is attempting to swing at the pitch. Does anyone have a good answer?
EDIT: I did a little more digging. I missed one. If the pitch hits the batter in the srtike zone, it's also a foul ball. It appears to really have nothing to do with the batters hands. The lady is just flat wrong.


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The two major Syrian Kurdish political factions have put aside their differences and called for rebels to leave this city, where they've been battling troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad for the past week.
Both the Kurdish United Democratic Party, known by its initials as the PYD, and the Kurdish National Council, the other main Kurdish political party in Syria, fear that the arrival of rebels in Kurdish areas will bring destruction to Syria's relatively quiet northeast.
"Every place the Free Syrian Army controls has been destroyed," Suleiman Ismail, a Kurdish National Council representative in Dar Bassiyeh, a predominantly Kurdish city about 30 miles east of Ras al Ayn, said, referring to the rebels by one of the umbrella names they use. "We have asked them not to come here and negotiated with them, but so far they have not agreed to stay out."
Syrian air force jets struck Ras al Ayn for a third day Wednesday but failed to dislodge the rebels, who attacked last Thursday and swiftly drove the Syrian military out of much of the city. But the army remained in some neighborhoods, and rebels said the government was sending reinforcements and rocket batteries to the city from a military base to the south.
Most of the city's 50,000 residents, a mix of ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Armenians, have fled, many of them to the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar just across the border.
On Tuesday, a drive across Ras al Ayn provided a vista of a battered and empty downtown, with closed metal shop shutters torn open by the force of explosions. In addition to the rebels, Kurdish United Democratic Party militia members had set up checkpoints on the eastern side of the city.
The rebels fighting the Syrian government are, for the most part, ethnic Arabs, while Ras al Ayn and other nearby cities have large populations of ethnic Kurds. The request by the Kurdish groups suggests that Kurds may be unwilling to allow the rebels to enter Kurdish areas.
At Dar Bassiyeh, the tensions were on display Wednesday after Kurdish United Democratic Party militiamen shot at a truck carrying three armed men headed toward the city after it failed to stop at a checkpoint. The militiamen then closed the road, and dozens of young men could be seen racing to the PYD's office there, preparing to defend the city from a rebel advance.
As it turned out, the three men were Syrian army defectors fleeing the fighting in Ras al Ayn.
Still, it seems likely that the Kurds and the rebels are headed for a clash as the fighting in Ras al Ayn, where Kurds made up 40 percent of the population, rages. Kurds in the area said the rebels have demanded that the PYD remove its party flag from checkpoints, and while some checkpoints have complied, others have not.
According to the Turkish government, more than 8,000 people fled Ras al Ayn to Turkey on Friday, the largest single movement of refugees out of Syria on a single day. Others residents of the city have decamped for other parts of Hasaka province, where most of Syria's Kurdish population resides.
Kurds make up about 10 percent of Syria's population and have long sought autonomy from Syria's Arab government. As the civil war has progressed, the Kurdish United Democratic Party has taken over a number towns and cities in Hasaka province, apparently with the passive acceptance of the Assad regime.
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A Savannah man Wednesday was sentenced to life plus six years in prison for his June conviction in the 2009 rape and robbery of a woman.
Maurice Anthony Gordon Jr., now 20, was convicted in Chatham County Superior Court June 15 on charges of rape, aggravated sodomy, armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, false imprisonment, influencing witnesses and misdemeanor cruelty to a child.
At Gordon's sentencing Wednesday, Chief Judge Michael Karpf ordered Gordon to prison for life on the rape and added five years for possession of a firearm to be served consecutively. He also added 12 months consecutive on the child cruelty charge.
Karpf added concurrent terms on the aggravated sodomy, armed robbery, false imprisonment and influencing a witness charges.
Assistant District Attorney Frank Pennington II presented evidence at trial that Gordon forced his way into the back door of the victim's home on Aug. 20, 2009, pistol whipped the victim, then sexually assaulted her in the presence of her 4-year-old child.
He then stole the victim's cell phone, took her license and threatened to return and shoot her if she told anyone, evidence showed.
Pennington introduced the defendant's DNA at the victim's home, the victim's testimony and injuries she sustained in getting the conviction.


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"Oldest house," panted Robert Chavez, steering his pedicab past a 17th century adobe.
"Oldest church," he added a moment later, nodding left toward the 17th century San Miguel Mission Church.
Santa Fe — rich, tan, relentlessly artsy and frequently artificial — is really old, by American standards. The city turned 400 this year.
When I visited recently, my mission wasn't really to chase after old buildings, odd galleries and new restaurants. I wanted a look at Santa Fe's newest downtown neighborhood, a once-blighted railroad zone whose revival is nearly complete. But in the middle of such history and atmosphere, a tourist gets distracted.
Before long, I was seated in Chavez's pedicab, hurtling down a historic alley near the ditch that carried the city's original water supply.
And then I was in front of a jewelry shop on San Francisco Street, where a cowboy guitarist named Wily Jim yodeled like a coyote who'd put in a semester at Juilliard. A few blocks over on Marcy Avenue, the Mira! Boutique was offering a stylish patio chair, crafted in Togo from an old oil barrel — only $250. In the front yard of a gallery on Canyon Road, a woman with a blue scarf daubed white spots on a painting of a dancing pig.
From LAX, Southwest and United offer nonstop service, and US Airways, Delta, Frontier, Southwest and United offer connecting service (change of planes) to Albuquerque, which is about 60 miles from Santa Fe. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $218. Since late 2009 American Eagle has been offering one daily nonstop flight between LAX and Santa Fe Municipal Airport. The flight takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The jet, an Embraer ERJ-140, seats 44 passengers. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $210.
"I'm just putting dots on her panties while the artist goes and gets a cigarette," explained Deborah A. Higgs, director of All My Relations gallery. A moment later, artist Robert Anderson returned, took back the brush and regarded the pig anew.
"She represents to me a sort of welcoming, motherly femininity," Anderson said.
So goes the good life in Santa Fe, and much of it is conducted among the city's beloved earth-toned adobe and faux-adobe buildings (because the real adobes can melt like mocha ice cream in the rain). At their roof lines, carefully carved wood vigas — the ceiling beams — protrude, and red-pepper ristras dangle. The handsome blue doors and window frames look nice too, but their first purpose (so the folk wisdom goes) is to repel evil spirits.
If only there were a color that tourists could wear to repel high prices. But because there isn't, be grateful that fall is here and room rates are falling.
If you visit in October — when the aspens and cottonwoods put on golden displays of fall foliage — you'll probably pay 15% less for your room than the August hordes (who paid $144 nightly on average last year). In November, you might pay 30% less, but you will need a heavier jacket; Santa Fe is about 7,000 feet above sea level, and the average November high/low is 52/26.
No matter when you arrive, you'll want to check out the dozens of galleries along Canyon Road, where landscapes, portraits, American pottery and Australian aboriginal abstracts abound, at price points of $100 to $10,000. You'll also want to pay respects at the Palace of the Governors, the long, low structure that faces the plaza, where the Native American merchants lay out their wares along the shaded walkway.
It's not only the oldest building in town (and a genuine adobe that requires careful maintenance), but it's also billed as the oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States. Inside, you can browse historical exhibits. Just behind the palace stands the New Mexico History Museum, which opened last year.
The palace has been tweaked and renovated over the years, but this is where the Spanish set up headquarters when they showed up around 1610. When Native Americans rose up and chased the Spanish out of town in 1680, this building was here. When the Spanish retook the town in 1693, it was still here.
And in the late 1870s, when New Mexico territorial governor Lew Wallace turned away from his day job to scribble, of all things, a novel about a chariot-racing Jewish slave/prince named Ben-Hur, this is where he did it. (Long before the Charlton Heston movie, "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" was a 19th century bestseller.)
The St. Francis Cathedral Basilica two blocks away will demand your attention as well. It's a massive stone structure that was put up by 19th century Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, who came from France and didn't care much for the adobe look. (Locals persuaded him to leave standing a part of the old adobe church, which is now connected to the cathedral.) In front stands a sleek sculpture of a native maiden, added in 2002, whose beauty might distract you from noticing that the cathedral builders never got around to putting up spires.
Still, of all the handsome old buildings in Santa Fe, the one that stands out for me is the New Mexico Museum of Art, even though, as I've just learned from a $1 museum pamphlet, it's a copy of a knockoff of a facsimile.
It stands just across Lincoln Avenue from the Palace of the Governors, its walls bulging like muscles, vigas jutting smartly, shadows collecting in the courtyard, the works inside telling the story of Santa Fe's growth as an art colony in the last century or so.
Its inspiration was San Esteban del Rey church at Acoma Pueblo (about 125 miles southwest of Santa Fe), which state historians say was built in the 1630s. But the line that connects them zigs to Colorado, then zags to San Diego.
The zig came in 1908, when Colorado businessman C.M. Schenk hired I.H. and William M. Rapp, a sibling team of architects, to use the Acoma church design as a model for a commercial building in Morley, Colo.
They did it, a group of New Mexico boosters saw the result (which has since been demolished), and soon the brothers were hired to adapt Acoma again, this time as a "cathedral of the desert" to represent New Mexico at the 1915 Panama- California Exposition in San Diego.
Again they did it, to great acclaim. Next came Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, an organizer of the San Diego exposition who was also director of Santa Fe's fledgling museum. Hewett hired the Rapps to deliver yet another variation on the Acoma theme. So they did in 1917, and that, bolstered with expansions over the years, is the building I've been gawking at. (The inside is good too; during my visit, it included a witty exhibit on cowboy boots in popular culture.)
Meanwhile, the original church remains at Acoma, and the San Diego version survives as well (in Balboa Park, though it's been changed dramatically). But my guess is the Santa Fe art museum building gets the most visitors, inside and out. When I hear somebody say "pueblo revival" or "Santa Fe style," it's what I see.
It was tempting to do my eating at the tried-and-true Santa Fe institutions — lunch at the courtyard of the Shed, for instance, or breakfast amid the bustle of Café Pasqual's. And it would have been another sort of fun to tangle with the fragrance police at Trattoria Nostrani (which has been serving upscale Italian cuisine and banning perfume and cologne for several years). But I was most interested in how Santa Fe renews itself, so I focused instead on new places.
At the Hotel St. Francis, whose small rooms and spacious lobby were renovated in 2009, the new Tabla de Los Santos restaurant served me a spicy Pastel de Los Santos (poached eggs, spinach, corn and chile). At Vinaigrette, a salad-based bistro with a pun-intensive menu and metal chairs of fire-engine red, I had a great lunch salad with pears, pecans, bacon and blue cheese.
I had three excellent dinners. The first was pork striploin at Restaurant Martín, in a low-key bungalow with high-end food, placed just far enough from the plaza to feel more local and less touristy. The second was a farmers market sampler from Max's, another high-end restaurant with a smaller, and even more casual, dining room. Then there was La Boca (which has been around since 2006), where I sat at the bar in back and tucked into a few tapas and a dessert of fresas de Barcelona (strawberries and liqueur).
Now it was time to see about that neighborhood rebirth along the tracks.
To reach the Railyard District, you head a few blocks west from the plaza on San Francisco, then a few blocks south on Guadalupe, passing such nightlife hot spots as the Cowgirl BBQ and the Corazon nightclub. Then look for the tracks, and the buildings that aren't adobe.
After decades of civic hand-wringing over the area, the Trust of Public Land stepped up in 1995 to help the city buy the land. Now the nonprofit Santa Fe Railyard Community Corp. manages 50 city-owned acres, having attracted 10 art galleries, four restaurants, one big REI store, several nonprofit arts organizations and the city's main farmers market. A wood-barrel water tower stands in the middle of it all, a long, shaded walkway slices past, and 13 acres of landscaped open space will eventually connect with a citywide trail network.
Most of those spaces opened in 2008, as did the Railrunner commuter rail service, which connects Santa Fe and Albuquerque, charging just $7 an adult for a 70-mile, 90-minute ride. (If you're flying into Albuquerque, you can catch a free shuttle from the airport to a rail stop and continue by Railrunner train to Santa Fe.)
The Railyard is also home to the Santa Fe Southern Railway, a tourist train that offers round-trip sightseeing excursions Wednesdays through Sundays on a spur between Santa Fe and Lamy, about 20 miles south.
The idea is to preserve the Railyard's old grit but also to bring in plenty of free-spending locals and visitors. And clearly the project isn't done yet: Plans for a Railyard cinema multiplex have stalled for lack of financing, and the tiny old depot building could use some sprucing up.
But on Saturdays, the farmers market draws as many as 7,000 shoppers. And on the last Friday of every month, year-round, the Railyard galleries open for "art walks."
"This is where contemporary art is really happening in Santa Fe," said Fiona MacConnell of the Charlotte Jackson Gallery, which recently moved from the plaza area to the Railyard.
With that in mind, I spent a few hours browsing galleries and SITE Santa Fe, a nonprofit exhibition space whose biennial exhibitions since 1995 have won international respect in the art world. The current show, up through Jan. 2, is called "The Dissolve," and it's all about the joining of high technology with homespun techniques from the early days of animation. In other words: looking back while looking forward.
Of about 25 mostly video artworks in the show, half a dozen grabbed my attention. That's a good batting average for me and contemporary art. As I reemerged into the bright light of the afternoon, a few preyed on my mind, especially the miniature drama of Oscar Muñoz's endless efforts to complete a portrait in water on a fast-drying surface.
While the video camera rolled, the artist would add a new line to the water portrait, but as he did, an old one would evaporate. Then he'd add another new detail, as another evaporated. The watery face was forever evolving, like a slow-motion cartoon, or an old city in subtle but perpetual renewal.


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3. Select desired distance units and earth model, and click on the "COMPUTE" box.
4. If the calculation does not complete: Click the "RESET" button, re-enter the lat/longs, then click "COMPUTE" again.
1. Conversion factors used (exact figures, by international definition):
International Nautical Mile = 1852m; Statute Mile = 5280ft; 2.54cm = 1 inch = 1/12 ft.
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Calculation program: by Ed Williams. Calculations use the Vicenty Algorithm (Source: Direct and Inverse Solutions of Geodesics on the Ellipsoid with Application of Nested Equations, Survey Review, XXII, 176 (1975)). See also the Aviation Formulary (http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm), also by Ed Williams.
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Secretary Rokita Welcomes Dr. Adam Herbert to IU
Contact: Cam Savage
Following is the speech given by Secretary of State Todd Rokita during inauguration ceremonies for Dr. Adam Herbert on April 15, 2004 at Indiana University.
Thank you. On behalf of the citizens of Indiana and our state elected officials; I want to say what a great honor it is to be with you today to celebrate the inauguration of Dr. Adam Herbert as the 17th President of Indiana University.
Dr. Herbert has distinguished himself in academia, in government service and as the leader of the nation's second-largest university system. Here at Indiana University, Dr. Herbert has taken the helm of a great institution in a great state, facing many great challenges.
Just a few months after arriving at Indiana University, Dr. Herbert spoke to a group of his colleagues from universities around the nation. In that address he clearly identified the challenges that face Indiana and the Indiana University system and laid down a bold framework for the mission of Indiana University in the 21st Century.
Dr. Herbert told his peers, "We must participate in efforts to transform our society as it evolves in the face of rapidly changing economic and social realities, increasingly generated by significant changes at a global level. The intellectual capital within our institutions certainly must be focused on our core missions of teaching, scholarly activity and service. But that deep reservoir of intellectual capital can also be used in so many creative ways to assist in efforts that enhance the quality of life in this nation and throughout the world."
As an alumnus I'm proud of the vision Dr. Herbert is setting for Indiana University. And on behalf of the citizens of the State of Indiana, I look forward to working with him, and everyone at Indiana University, to develop that "intellectual capital" in a way that not only prepares students for a life beyond these walls, but also fulfills our shared vision for Indiana and our nation. Thank you.


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Yes, that's my real age
Would have preferred some more notice. Is it possible to put a licence expiry calendar on the site, as it would help me to plan my viewing.
Still grieving the loss of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
and hoping for a renewed licence of Code Geaus with the full series.
You can run! but you can't GLIDE! *Ray Gun Firing*
sa405 wrote:
Would have preferred some more notice. Is it possible to put a licence expiry calendar on the site, as it would help me to plan my viewing.
^^ This. It would be nice if there was some type of earlier advanced warning. I think Hulu has something like that if you add it to your queue. Why hasn't Crunchy added a feature like that? Luckily, Steel Angel Kurumi has shorter episodes, so I can squeeze it in in time before it gets taken down, but it can be so hard to figure out what to prioritize when you have people like me with massive backlogs.
My backlog...
Tsubasa_Lover_4Ever wrote:
lol won't have time cause of Gundam Wing even if I did probably would have never watched this anyways. xD
I hope there won't be anymore until after new years loosing Gundam really makes me sad and I would hate if another title I liked or wanted to watch were to be removed on the same date December 31st what a sad day New Years will be for Gundam fans. Dx
Same here. I'm vaguely curious about this series because I remember the fansubs coming out when I was in College (I watched about half of the first episode on my roommate's computer and then lost interest because I was addicted to Counterstrike) but honestly, after I finish up with Zeta Gundam, Wing is next so I most likely won't have time for this.
Wow, it's a shame that so many awesome titles are expiring so fast. I hope CR can get the licenses back soon. If anything, these expirations are increasing both visibility and demand for these series. So if they were re-acquired and the re-acquisitions were announced visibly, then demand / viewership would probably increase a lot.
I'm not the kind of guy that's always into the latest (and sometimes greatest) stuff, catalog titles mean a lot to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.
I miss that show
Trying to figure out what oldie to watch next.
Have the old boxset collection. Had been thinking of rewatching it. The melody that plays at the DVD title screen has always been a favorite. Wish I could find out what it's name is.
great more anime to rush to finish, lucky semester ended and im have all the time i need to finish a few anime b4 the 31st
This series came to mind recently.
I was Idly wondering what shows CR have had in their library for the longest time (just from memory-not looking at a list) and these seemed like a possibility. I remember it as being one of the first back library titles I watched in late 2009.
I'm glad I could watch it on CR, it was a lovely story... I miss Kurumi already! (╥﹏╥)
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Would be nice to see a movie about this story, to better understand what happens between the prequel and season 1 (when the real enemy comes, I wonder if they can change the future).
I didn't even know crunchyroll had these...
I, the supreme god, am omniscient and omnipotent. Bow down to me, peons.
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Would have preferred some more notice. Is it possible to put a licence expiry calendar on the site, as it would help me to plan my viewing.
This is an excellent idea and I really hope the CR people get to it sometime.. so many shows were suddenly not in my Queue anymore and I never knew that they were gonna disappear =(
Good thing I saw this article, was looking for a show to watch anyway and I've had this in my Queue for a long time now. Yay marathon time ^^
If it doesnt challenge you, it doesnt change you~
It pays to peruse the full alphabetical list of anime once in a while.
Yes, that's my real age
Huh... I think I met my quota for supporting that series when I got the DVDs. Not that I don't appreciate the announcement. If anything else is expiring at the end of the year, I'd expect it to be announced by now.
this series is allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllways soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute. sooooooooooooooooooooooo sad ppl do not watch.