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Tommy Lee Jones is a magnet on screen; he can't help it, we can't help it, and nobody should be made to feel bad about that. What's so remarkable about Jones isn't that a not-too-easy-on-the-eyes actor—his head often looks like a root vegetable that's been pulled before its time—made it so big, then stayed so elevated on the Hollywood A-list. What's remarkable is how long Jones had previously been relegated to Hollywood workman status, as late as 1992 taking second billing to the likes of Steven Seagal, and playing characters named Quint and Mitch and Eddie Mallard in nothing movies. It wasn't until he barked out, "What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and dog house in that area," and the paying audience for a nifty remake of the old TV show The Fugitive barked back, silently and in unison, "Yes, Sir!" that Jones went from being an actor to being a movie star. Like a lot of late bloomers—if you can call Al Gore's four-year college roommate, a starter on the Harvard football team, and an actor who, from about the age of 30, never went six months without work a "late bloomer"—Jones wears about him the grace of someone who reached maturity not knowing whether it would all work out. Plenty of actors can take a hit of Binaca, tilt their good side to the camera, and play at gravitas. Jones seems to actually possess it.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Sony Pictures Classics) represents Jones' debut—other than a cable TV throwaway—as a film director, and it is a mixed success. As both its star and its director, and with the bigger name to trade on, Jones will be the inevitable public face of the movie, but Three Burials owes as much of its unique character to its screenwriter, Guillermo Arriaga. Arriaga is best known for the scripts to Amores Perros and 21 Grams; and Three Burials is needlessly marred by the same out-of-sequence storytelling and heavy-handed silences that helped turn 21 Grams into a portentous mess. Certainly many movies have benefited from underexposition, but not every cinematic pause can be a pregnant one; and Jones—not only an actor-turned-director, but (uh-oh) an actor directing himself—frequently miscalculates the degree to which a performer can carry a story (or even a scene, or even an emotion) all on his or her own.
The slight narrative of Three Burials turns on the apparently senseless killing of a sweet Mexican vaquero named Melquiades. When the murder goes largely uninvestigated by the local police, Jones' Pete, a ranch hand, takes matters into his own hands. Jones inhabits Pete; he is his life's work, after all, what with that scrub-covered face, the growly, West Texas flute for a voice, the paunchy strut. As the movie makes plain, the one decent thing in Van Horn, Texas, is the easygoing friendship between Pete and Mel; it's a kind of crack in the border between El Norte and the poor country lying to the south, and by the pitiless logic of Three Burials, this means it is doomed. Mel shows Pete a picture of his Mexican wife and children, whom he has not seen for years, then obliges him with a promise: Should Mel die in the United States, Pete must return his body to Mexico to be properly buried. Do not bury me, he pleads, "among all the fucking billboards."
I, too, do not particularly like all the billboards, but herein lies one serious problem with Three Burials. Jones has said that the movie came about because he and Arriaga are "hunting buddies," and that "Arriaga likes to make movies about his country and its history; I want to make movies about my country and its history." Fair enough, but while we see Mexican history through the lens of Arriaga's pride, we too often see American history through the lens of casually condescending Hollywood groupthink. Mel's killer is an open secret: He is shot dead by a border patrol agent named Mike Norton who, as played by Barry Pepper, is all American History X, a kind of living embodiment of excessive force. He corrals some would-be illegals, batters them needlessly, then goes home and imposes sex on his wife (while she's stuffing a zucchini, no less!). Much of Van Horn, Texas, meanwhile, we see through Norton's wife's eyes. She has moved from Cincinnati only reluctantly, and for her the residents of Van Horn form a parade of overeating, underdressed grotesques. (January Jones is quite good, but speaking of billboards, could we make her look a little less like an American Apparel ad, please? I'd sooner believe she graduated from Choate Rosemary than the school of hard knocks.)
Three Burials is a movie drenched in the myth of The Crossing. It falls to a mean little place like Van Horn, Texas, after all, to defend some strict, prophylactic separation between the United States and Mexico; and it is Jones' and Arriaga's most intriguing observation that melting, blending, and miscegenation are the inevitable norm in such a place. Against that melting and blending, racism lashes back as a kind of desperate defense in favor of a stable self-image. Dwight Yoakam—who plays the town's sheriff, and who manages, with his little pencil 'stache, to look like a greasy ninth-grader, a heap of middle-aged ruin, and the sexiest man alive, all in one package—reestablishes the boundaries of his world with a single word: "wetback."
"No, I don't think about the myth of the West," Jones bridled recently at an interviewer. "It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time." I don't care much about Jones' image of himself as the living spirit of the American outdoors, but as someone who sits indoors for 121 minutes and watches a movie that bears his name, I do care about pacing, dialogue, ideas; and to believe the moral lesson of Three Burials, you have to go along with a couple of huge leaps. The first is that Norton's wife Lou Ann, so hopelessly bored by Van Horn, and coming under the influence of an older slattern, starts casually turning tricks, the first of whom is … Melquiades! The second is that, after being bitten by a rattlesnake, Mike can only be saved by the herbal ministrations of … one of the illegals he has beaten! For a movie about the policing of borders, couldn't this one have policed a firmer one, between credibility and incredibility? Between seriousness and self-seriousness?


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SANDY, Utah - Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando has done it again, winning his eighth Save of the Week award of the season for his magnificent double save in last Saturday's scoreless draw at the Portland Timbers.
Rimando won Save of the Week for an incredible double save in stoppage time of last Saturday's tie at JELD-WEN Field. The veteran 'keeper parried away a blistering free kick from former RSL man Will Johnson, then quickly recuperated to swat Sal Zizzo's follow-up header out of danger.
Rimando took nearly 45 percent of the vote to win the award, beating out LA's Jaime Penedo, Toronto's Stefan Frei, Chicago's Sean Johnson and San Jose's Jon Busch to take home the honors. The win is Rimando's eighth Save of the Week win of the season - second in the league behind Portland's Donovan Ricketts - and the 12th win for RSL this year.
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Matt Damon praises Promised Land co-writer
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- 14 December 2012
Matt Damon thought his 'Promised Land' co-writer and co-star John Krasinski was as much fun to work with as his best friend Ben Affleck
Matt Damon has compared his 'Promised Land' co-writer to Ben Affleck.
The 42-year-old actor thinks John Krasinski - who also stars in the eco-warrior drama alongside Matt - is "incredibly" clever and reminded him of working with his best friend and long-term collaborator Ben.
He said: "John has got this incredibly fast brain. So the writing would come quickly and we would laugh together. It reminded me of writing with Ben Affleck, a very similar feeling and above all else a lot of fun - I'd forgotten just how much."
'Promised Land', which has been hotly-tipped for the Oscars, is the story of a corporate representative (Matt) whose attempts to buy drilling rights are opposed by a community organizer (Krasinski).
Matt and 'The Office' star John discovered they had the same hard-working ethic and were determined to make the anti-'fracking' film a success, but still managed to have more fun together than Matt has ever had on a job.
He told FlicksandBits.com: "During the week, John and I would go back to our jobs and pore over what we'd written during our down-times, scribbling notes and ideas before reconvening on the weekend to revise and revise and revise.
"My wife said to me, 'You had such a great time that even if it never gets made, it was worth it because you remembered how much you love writing and you had this incredible creative experience with John'. It was a lot of fun writing with John."
The film is directed by Gus Van Sant and hits US cinemas in December and the UK in April 2013.
Meanwhile, childhood friends Ben and Matt are working on a new project about notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger.
It marks their first collaboration since 1997's 'Good Will Hunting', which earned them nine Academy Award nods and an Oscar for Best Screenplay.


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Price action in E-Mini S&P 500 futures this week was interesting to say the least. As the euphoria over the last minute Cyprus bailout deal faded throughout Monday's session we saw what could have been interpreted as the beginning of a long anticipated correction. Dutch Finance Minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, commented on the terms of the Cyprus bailout deal saying that it could become a template for further bailouts in the Eurozone. As these comments fueled fears of contagion, it appeared as if the market would not be able to find a bottom as the ES futures traded to a low of 1539.00. However, into Monday's close we saw something that we have seen many times this year, buyers on the dip. As Dijsselbloem backed off of his earlier comments the market reversed and closed nearly 10 points off of the lows. We saw similar action on Wednesday as markets sold-off amid uncertainty over the political situation in Italy. The market's concerns were reflected in an Italian bond auction where yields were pushed to the highest levels seen in the past six months. With uncertainty in Europe growing, could we see the market take a leg higher or is the long anticipated correction upon us?
The biggest thing the bulls have going for them right now is the start of the new quarter next week. With hedge funds massively underperforming the market this quarter we could see some aggressive buying on the start of the new quarter. European concerns aside, the start of earnings season could also serve as the catalyst the market needs to head higher. The one thing that can be said with certainty at this point is that the market is at a key level where the bulls and bears are going to fight for control. The question traders need to ask themselves is how they can most effectively trade their view of the current market, be it long or short.
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A joint initiative of the Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Spain. The Council of Parties is the organ of the Centre where the Parties to the agreement are represented, with the Holy See attending as Founding Observer. The Council convenes at least once a year. Its functions include the election of members of the Board of Directors and the appointment of the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General.


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William Hague has expressed deep concern at the ongoing violence in Egypt, urging authorities and opposition activists to show restraint as protests against president Mohamed Morsi raged.
Rocks, firebombs and sticks were used as weapons in fighting between supporters and opponents outside the presidential palace in Cairo.
Thousands of upporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist party, have flocked to the palace, responding to a call for them to demonstrate their solidarity.
Three presidential advisers have quit over Morsi's handling of the constitutional crisis, which began when he issued a declaration purporting to protect the assembly drafting the new Egyptian constitution from interference from judges. But in effect, the declaration makes him immune from any legal challenge
The health ministry said 211 people had been injured so far.
Foreign Secretary Hague said: "I am concerned by reports of violent clashes following earlier peaceful protests in Cairo. I urge all sides to show restraint.
"The UK remains committed to supporting Egypt's political transition and strengthening democracy.
"We are in close contact with both the Egyptian authorities and leaders of the opposition.
"We call on the Egyptian authorities to make progress on transition in an inclusive manner which allows for a constructive exchange of views.
"We urge all parties to resolve their differences through a process of dialogue which allows all voices to be heard."
According to Reuters, riot police have been deployed to try to contain the violence.
Vice President Mahmoud Mekky has attempted to offer a compromise over the controversial draft constitution which sparked the uprising, and offered that a written agreement between the two sides could be submitted to the next parliament, to be elected after a referendum on the constitution on Dec. 15.
Mursi had returned to his home after being forced to flee earlier this week as protesters surrounded the building.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the de-facto leader of the Egyptian opposition, tweeted as the violence raged:
According to a Reuters report, Morsi's supporters tore down tents erected by around 300 opposition activists, who had attempted to "occupy" the space with a tent city. They came armed with pellet guns.
The pro-Morsi group chanted "The people want to cleanse the square" and "Morsi has legitimacy", AFP reported.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a news conference in Brussels: "It needs to be a two-way dialogue ... among Egyptians themselves about the constitutional process and the substance of the constitution."


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Margaret Annala has lived 98 years in this world, and she's seen most of it.
She's lost count of how many countries she and husband Arvo, now deceased, visited over the years, but a Kaleidoscope feature from Sept. 1988 put the number — then — at 100, and included highlights from trips to Mongolia, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, China, Japan and Rome.
"I have travel in my blood," she said. "I don't think the Annalas had a bit, but Arvo loved it because he loved people. He enjoyed visiting with everybody, whether we spoke the language or not. The joy was meeting people in foreign countries, and the landscapes."
The Annalas captured their travels on film, producing slides (Margaret) and movies (Arvo). "I have a jillion slides of the whole world," Annala estimated. "Not of the earth, because I've flown a lot on my travels, but not up high enough for that.
"We used to have lots of fun," she said. "We'd gather anybody willing to listen to our trash and show them our movies and our slides. We loved to share what we'd seen with others."
Hood River has changed a lot since Annala was born. "I was born on the west end of May Street road in 1915, and there was probably three houses all the way to Frankton," she said. "Look at it now!"
She and twin sister Maybelle were the fifth and six children born to A.B. and Maud Cooper. Her father worked in the fruit industry, but carpentry was his real calling.
"While he paid for our living working for fruit, we'd move from one old ruined house to another," she said. "He loved making over old homes."
Because the family moved a lot, she attended numerous valley schools: Coe Primary, Frankton, Pine Grove, Barrett, and Hood River High School (now May Street Elementary).
The first time she left the valley for an extended period was after graduating from high school, when she attended Oregon State University for one year. She took the next year off to work, then returned to school and graduated from a business college in Salem — she forgets the name — and moved to Portland.
And that's when this self-proclaimed country girl learned about city living.
"Portland was horrible during the war; everyone was working at the shipyards and it was so crowded," she said. "I'm a country girl and I didn't like city life."
While her peers primarily worked at the shipyards, her career path was a little different.
"The first job I interviewed for was this job with the credit unit on one of the floors in the big Montgomery Ward store in Northeast Portland," she said. "We had 90 to 100 people on one floor. Before I knew it, I was a credit head, and I had a secretary to send my notes."
Her unit was in charge of the Seattle district, and "when somebody ordered and wanted to charge, it would come to me and I'd have to do a credit check on them, and either okay it or not okay it.
"I enjoyed my work there," she said. "It was a good place to work."
This was also when she married Arvo. The pair were married in Vancouver, with Arvo's brother and sister-in-law serving as witnesses. They honeymooned in Cannon Beach before returning to Portland.
And then something happened that would bring them back to the valley for good. In 1944, Arvo was drafted, but failed his entry physical because of a bad back.
"His sister and brother-in-law immediately called and said, 'Get back up here!'" Annala said. "The valley was stripped of all able-bodied men during the war. We were only too happy to be back up here."
The Annalas moved to Arvo's family ranch in Oak Grove, into a new little rental house located "just behind that grocery store," and began working 15 acres.
"They all greeted us with, 'You cannot make a living on 15 acres,'" Annala said. "What they didn't know is that Arvo had married a hired man. I spent lots of my time out in the orchard. I loved it. I enjoyed working outside."
Annala called herself a tomboy, and said she would much rather climb a tree than work in a packing house — although she did that, too. She worked in four of the valley's five packing houses in her time, just during packing season. Otherwise, she helped with tasks such as pruning and raking.
"To celebrate the end of pruning season, we'd have a big burn pile and roast wieners," she remembered. "We'd have wieners and marshmallows. That was our party of the year."
The Annalas had two daughters: Judy, who recently moved back to Hood River from California, and Janet, who lives in Washougal, Wash. The girls attended what is now called the Mid-Columbia Adventist Christian School because of the family's Seventh-day Adventist faith.
Annala joined the Oak Grove Home Extension group shortly after moving home. Home Extension embodied "everything involved in homemaking," she explained. "The valley had groups of Home Extension all over the valley. We'd visit in each other's homes, have potlucks and things. That type of living is a thing of the past now."
The women looked forward to "showing off our canning and sewing — and for me, photography," at the fair each year, she said.
Annala has been interested in photography most of her life. She got her first camera from her sister and brother-in-law as a high school graduation gift; they had picked it up for her in Japan. She has entered numerous photos in the Hood River County Fair, and has quite a few ribbons to show for it.
"I think I did enter this year, one or two, but when you get my age, you're in a group by yourself and there's not much to it," she said. She enjoys taking nature and close-up photographs the best, and she still grabs the camera to document what she sees.
She's also an active swimmer. Three days a week, she boards a CAT bus to the Hood River Aquatic Center for water aerobics, a class she discovered 15 years ago by reading an article in the Hood River News.
"About that time, I had knee surgery and I needed to get that knee exercised, and 15 years later, here I still am. We work our mouths as much as our bodies," she said.
Annala might be on the cusp of 99, but don't expect her to slow down any time soon.
"I'm going to be 99 years old pretty soon and I think I won't be going around the world anymore — but you never know," she laughed. "The way I feel right now, I could go tomorrow, but I don't think my girls would let me."
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Lauren Drain, 27, lives in the Hartford area and works as a nurse. She shares a simple apartment with her fiancee, web designer David Kagan, and their lively little puggle dog. It's an average life, but Drain appreciates every moment of the freedom she has to live it.
That freedom began more than five years ago, when Drain was kicked out of the Westboro Baptist Church. The extremist cult, based in Topeka, Kansas, is infamous for its fixation on homosexuality. WBC members regularly picket funerals, not just of gays but also soldiers and public figures, to harangue mourners with their belief that all Americans are going to hell because our culture tolerates same-sex relationships.
Drain had been a member ever since her parents converted when she was in high school, in July 2000. Steve and Luci Drain indoctrinated their daughter to believe that only WBC members were living by God's law, that life outside WBC was all evil and darkness. She loves her parents, but still couldn't stop asking questions about the church's beliefs. Those questions were the reason for her ouster.
At the time she was kicked out, Drain was heartbroken by her family's complicity and by the loss of all her friends, who now mocked her and called her a "whore" because she chatted with a young man online. As time went by, however, she became grateful for her ouster.
"I had lost my faith. ... I was wondering if I had wasted my life for seven years. It was just a total loss of identity," Drain said in an interview. "I ended up moving here because I had support. The mother of the guy I knew was very kind to me. She invited me into their home and helped me study. I discovered that it's not the Bible that's wrong. It's interpretations of it that make it a problem."
Drain has written a memoir, "Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church" (co-written with Lisa Pulitzer, Grand Central Publishing, 304 pp., $26.99). It hits stores on March 5.
A few weeks ago, her close friends from WBC — Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper, two granddaughters of church founder Fred Phelps — left the cult of their own choice. Drain didn't want to talk about them; she hopes to reconnect and doesn't want to speak for them. But she sat down for an interview to talk about herself: how her family got into WBC, life inside it and life since her ouster.
Q: How did you feel when the WBC threatened to picket Sandy Hook funerals?
A: I was really emotional the week that it happened. I got a flood of mail from people asking, "What should we do, should we counter-protest, we're so upset, we're trying to defend our town and our state, these grieving families; what should we do?" It was so close to home, the fact that it was here and that it was my family that was coming. The whole thing was bizarre and awful. I took the opportunity to make a little video. I posted it on YouTube, to explain, that as angry and upset as we all are, please don't give them the attention they're asking for. They don't deserve it. They don't deserve our time and energy. The families, if they want us there, deserve our compassion and support. Let's focus there, not on this. ... I had a couple media contact me, asking me, should we cover this story, should we not cover this story? I was like, I don't think you should. This is not a good time. ... Let's just let everyone grieve. Thankfully, I didn't see any big stories run. ... [The protest] ended up not happening. I was very, very relieved.
Q: Was your father always very controlling?
A: Yes. ... If someone was attracted to me at school and had a vested interest, he literally would pull me out of school. He pulled me out of high school twice, once in Florida and another time in Kansas. ... The church, that community, has an inordinate amount of control over their members.
Q: Do you think he was attracted to the church's theology, or the church as a method of control over you?
A: I know [the control] definitely helped, but I know he did latch onto the theology as well. ... He always had been trying to find a right theology anyway. ... He was searching, searching, searching for a right answer, some way to feel like he was right. I don't think his intentions were bad to begin with necessarily. ... I think he wanted to be a good Christian... and when I saw that change in him, what he wanted for his family, I thought, 'this is good.' I didn't understand the whole extent of what we were getting into.
Q: When you moved to Topeka from Florida, you immediately got into the lifestyle?
A: It was immediate. We had been studying the Bible and listening to [Phelps'] sermons online and stuff before we moved there, so we sort of had an idea what their theology was, but you were inundated once you got there. We had a home in what they called "the block." They bought a whole bunch of homes on one neighborhood block. ... They took down the fences in the backyards and it became a community backyard. Some people would call it a compound.
Q: When would you say the indoctrination began? As soon as you got there? Not just the activities, the picketing, but the actual beliefs?
A: Yes. Now we were attending the church services, getting a lot more information, we were doing picketing, we were getting sent to our houses newsletters about current events, what we should be picketing, why some thing were evil.
Q: Tell me what daily life is like in the church. Are there religious activities even during the week?
A: Yeah. That part I actually liked. I liked the sense of community and studying the Bible and raising the kids to know so-called right and wrong. I didn't like the judgmental streak we took with it, but I did like that we would sit down. ... It was a huge sense of community. I felt like everybody was my family. ... You were loved, you were special, you had a role.
Q: Even though your role was to picket?
A: Well, the political side was different.
Q: That's what they call it, the political side?
A: Yeah. In the beginning I thought I was doing something that was right. ... Our picketing was a lot less extreme when we first started. It was more just awareness. ... But once we took it to the extreme, starting condemning people and thanking God for tragedies, and that very horrible kind of perspective we took on, which happened after Sept. 11, that's when it started getting too much and I was really starting to question what we were doing.
Q: So you started questioning after Sept. 11? You'd only been a member for about a year.
A: Not a lot at first. I was still new, I was still learning the Bible, I thought I might not have a full concept of everything. I would ask my parents little questions here and there. "Why do we say this or that?" "Isn't there a better approach?" "Maybe we're missing something here?" ... And then ... I would bring it to other people. I would ask Shirley (Phelps-Roper), who was a big figure there, to ask the pastor questions. I would ask other elders about "what about this verse?" I remember one of the verses I was asking about was in Ezekiel 33. [Ezekiel 33:11: "'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked."] So here we are saying "Thank God for Sept. 11." Here we are saying "Thank God for dead soldiers." How are we able to say this? ... I got met with a lot of resistance, basically just saying 'oh, you're not understanding, if you're questioning us then maybe you're not a true believer, maybe you're not a true Christian." ... I remember the first time, a couple years before I got kicked out, we started picketing small children's funerals. That was a whole new step for me. I was like, what in the world, these are innocent children, and parents losing their children. I couldn't justify it in my mind. I was so upset. I couldn't understand why they didn't see that either. I remember wanting to hide my sign and my face in the sand. I thought, if anyone comes up to me, I'm afraid I'm going to start crying.
Q: Any other reactions from the elders?
A: In my book I talk about discussing some other verses, and they would say "oh, well, we don't know what that means right now so we're not going to talk about it." And I would think, I thought we were the know-all church that knows everything and knows who's going to heaven and hell. How can we not know what a verse means? I thought it was so sanctimonious and so arrogant.
Q: But you still participated in the pickets?
A: Yeah. It's kind of an all-or-nothing concept. I thought maybe I could do some good by questioning things. ... I didn't think I would be met with resistance or necessarily be kicked out until I started getting more strong vibes about that.
Q: When did you start getting more strong vibes that you'd be kicked out?
A: It was probably one month before, two months before, when I really realized. They would make a mountain out of a molehill. They would say "she's communicating with a guy online and we don't tolerate that," and they would call it fornication. It was ridiculous. I hadn't even met the guy in person. ... But really what the case was, I had been asking questions and ramping it up, and stripping away at their so-called doctrine or ideology at the time. And I think they saw that other people saw that and they wanted to make an example out of me.
Q: Most people wouldn't relate when you write how traumatized you were to be thrown out of that cult. Most people would think it was a mark in your favor.
A: What I tried to show [in the book] is that they are humans. As wrong as they can be about the things that they do, I developed personal relationships with these people and I saw their human side. I saw that they have the potential for human empathy and for being a good human beings.
Q: Fred Phelps is driven by an obsession with homosexuality, which is a sexual obsession. Didn't it ever occur to anybody that forming a philosphy around helping one guy promote his sexual obsession to the whole world was kind of skeevy?
A: No, no, no. Never. ... I describe in my book where I think his crusade came from. I never came to that conclusion with them, I came to it on my own. I was like, wait a minute, why was he so obsessed? And then when I heard the history about he was going to join the military and he made an about-face and now he's a religious crusader against sexual immorality, I thought, maybe there's something more here than we know. ... It Clearly something happpened. ... It was so strange because he never got nervous in interviews, except when someone would ask him, have you ever had a homosexual experience? If they got too personal with the homosexual questions, he would freak out. He would lose it. He would want to leave the room. He would say "get these crazy media out of here." ... If you ask any other question, he would still have his little attitude, "you're so stupid, let me tell you the answer," but it was that question that would just set him off. Why is that?
Q: What brought you to Connecticut? The guy you met online, who lived here?
A: Yes, but not at first. I was living for about six months on my own in Topeka. I wanted to make amends with my family. ... I didn't want to come back per se because of the lifestyle, but I had lost my mother and father, my siblings, I thought maybe I could make amends and come back and fix this. That wasn't the case at all. They weren't giving me any sign that I could see them. So I started making plans on my own to start my own life.


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Hi, I am trying to install PHP, a web server, MySQL and Wordpress. I have an OLPC Xo-1 with the latest updated operating system (as per December 2011).
I've seen there are some some tutorials floating about on the internet for installing Drupal on OLPC, but none for Wordpress. And even these are several years old.
I have tried following the Drupal tutorial to install PHP, Apache (or Lighttpd, tried it too) and MySQL, but I'm overwhelmed. The installations went fine, but the web server would not start, nor the other applications. Plus after restarting the computer some folders mysteriosly went missing and this led to errors being thrown out when I tried to start the server applications.
Also I was unable to create or copy documents into the folder which ws suposed to contain the web pages being served by the local server. think I needed to change permissions for the folder to allow for me in my non-root user state to be able to place files there. But as I'm not experinced in Linux command line, I was lost on that one too.
Could somone please give instructions for installing these applications on OLPC along wih suggestions for tackling the problems that seem to arise?


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Species Abstract
Marmota flaviventris is a species of ground squirrel found in certain higher elevation parts of western North America, occurring chiefly in meadows and open areas adjacent to woodlands. This species constructs a burrow for colonial living and enters hibernation near the onset of winter.
Native distribution includes portions of Western North America (Frase & Hoffman. 1980) from south-central British Columbia and southern Alberta in Canada to the southern Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of southern California, Nevada, southern Utah, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. M. flaviventris typically occurs higher than 2000 meters in elevation. Because this species is restricted to higher elevations, it is frequently absent from valleys intervening between montane habitats. Correspondingly many populations of M. flaviventris are isolated from each other. (Blumstein et al. 2006)
Marmota flaviventris is a small to medium-size rodent species, with yellowish tint to its fur on the undersides. The male has a body mass from 2.9 to 5.2 kilograms, with sexual dimorphism that features smaller females of body mass ranging from 1.6 to 3.6 kilograms. Adult body length ranges from 47 to 70 centimeters, with the females occupying the end of that range; adult tail length is typically 13 to 22 centimeters, again with females being on the lower end of the range. Each foot has five digits, an oval pad lying in the center of the sole of the hind foot; claws are abbreviated in length and somewhat curved with a rudimentary nail-bearing thumb.
This species exhibits a broad head that features a narrow interorbital region, with temporal ridges that join to create a low, short, sagittal crest. The posterior end of the palate lies obtusely; moreover, teeth of the upper jaw are positioned somewhat more anterior than those of the lower jaw. M. flaviventris exhibits smallish furry ears.
Habitat and behavior
Preferred habitat for this rodent includes high altitude meadows, especially at ecotones involving a forest edge or talus edge. The typical altitude range of this species is above 2000 meters above sea level. Burrows are usually constructed in soils that are below boulders or rock piles including talus edges; this technique is utilized in order to make the burrow less accessible to predators. Natural predators are coyote, wolf, badger, American eagle, black bear and fox; when M. flaviventris senses a predator or human nearby, it often vocalizes with a whistle sound, warning other members of its colony.
Colony sizes generally range from eight to 24 individuals, although some burrows are inhabited by only an adult pair, or in some cases even a sole individual. A typical colony includes one territorial male, one to four adult female mates and three to twenty juveniles. (Armitage. 2004) In some cases more than one adult male will be present in a single colony.
This marmot is an omnivore, and consumes a broad variety of forbs, grasses, insects and even bird eggs; among the forbs and shrubs, it may eat both leaves and berries.
Life cycle
M. flaviventris typically enters hibernation in an underground burrow prior to the onset of winter. It emerges from hibernation in the spring, with lower elevation populations emerging in the earlier parts of spring. Mating begins within several weeks of emergence from hibernation. Gestation is generally around thirty days, with the female producing a litter of three to eight offspring. Birthing occurs in the burrows, where the young remain for about another twenty to thirty days.
This taxon is designated as of Least Concern as a conservation risk by the IUCN owing to its relative abundance throughout much of its range. (Lindzey & Hammerson. 2008) There are no major threats to this species from a conservation standpoint.


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Dave's Rating:
Puppy love, but with lots of murder.
Who's In It: Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas
The Basics: A shy, bullied middle school boy in snowy Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1983, befriends a strange girl with some very weird habits--like going barefoot in frozen temperatures and only showing her face at night--and the two embark on a quietly disturbing almost-courtship that involves him discovering her true blood-drinking needs. Meanwhile, her naturally malevolent advice gives him the confidence he needs to start hitting back when the bullies come around to deliver atomic wedgies and attempted drownings. But don't call it a Twilight bandwagon jumper, it's just the American remake of the haunting 2008 Swedish arthouse hit Let The Right One In.
What's The Deal: There was no good reason for this movie to exist beyond a lazy American disinterest in subtitles. But having said that, it's pretty great on its own. The stuff that made the original Swedish version so spooky and special has been left intact. No one shoehorns in a heartfelt speech about friendship and the chilling finale is left alone with no softening tweaks to make it more palatable, either physically or psychologically. In fact, it may be the most unsentimental depiction of childhood isolation American movies have delivered in a long time. Its heart may be yearning but heartwarmth is (mostly, wisely) left alone.
Minor Annoyances: The original was more removed, much more eerily quiet, and it created an unease you could feel at all times. This is louder, with more crashing, slamming and banging, and many more music cues. The gruesome killings are front and center instead of 50 paces away from the lens, and the strangely sexual element has been toned down. Meanwhile, this victimized American boy is less obsessed with the idea of murder than his Swedish counterpart, and he's pointedly more lost and alone. It's small stuff, designed to give American audiences more of a hook into the weirdness, but I always get irritated by those little changes that always feel, to me, like the movie's decided you're not quite sophisticated enough and might need your hand held.
Children And Their Careers, Part One: When the actor and the role fit so well together, it can be hard to know where the work begins and ends, especially with most child actors. That's the thing with both of these kids. Their mutual presence here feels effortless, almost like they both really are these characters. It doesn't hurt that Kodi Smit-McPhee has already been the damaged, easily upset kid in The Road and Chloe Moretz was a freaky adultish Hit Girl in Kick-Ass and is also about to be Emily the Strange. In other words, their management should make sure they don't both get typecast and painted into an acting corner. It's still early, obviously, but it's never too late to branch out and take control like those Fanning kids.
Wow, comments? Cool!
I loved "Let the Right One In" and was very skeptical that this movie would be nearly as good.
I am SO glad they now have a comment feature. David tries hard to be a cynical person and fails miserably.
You CANNOT provide high ratings for a movie based on how well the movie compares as a remake - I went in to watch this movie, and would have tried to embrace it a bit not knowing the review ratings than knowing what it was and walking out rather disappointed. I didnt watch the original - and while I was OK with the movie putting the pieces together, I kept wonder what exactly the 4 stars was for.
Maybe don't read the reviews then.
I read the book, loved it! Had to drive an hour and a half away to the nearest theater that had it and even though the movie changed all the names, and the PLOT, still thought it was great.
I liked this...it's kinda like Romeo & Juliet meets Twilight meets Interview With The Vampire...in my humble opinion...I liked the reverse Twilight thing (mortal boy falls for girl vampire), and in the movie the lead boy reads Romeo & Juliet...and the girl was precocious like Claudia in IWTV. The two leads handled the material well, too. This was definitely not for the middle school set.
Swiss-made Let the Right One In has beautiful cinematography, wonderful pacing and imagination, unlike the USA-made Let Me In. Disgraceful remake. No taste or class.
This version is clearly different from the Swedish version, but in subtle ways. It's just as weird and haunting and frightening. It is a bit more Americanized with more explicit violence and a few questions more fully answered, but both of them were excellent.
LET ME IN is a modern masterpiece. I too have seen LTROI. LMI is absolutely incredible. It is a dark, haunting, romantic film that will stay with you forever. Absolutely beautiful film.
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For the four undefeated college football teams vying for this year's national title, winning for now was good enough.
It won't be like this in two or three weeks, when more microscopic analysis may be required to separate this year's winners and losers.
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We should determine, whether is the given object military base or Phil Cassidy`s private possession. I have not seen any references to military in Arms Shortage mission. In many pages here base instead written as Phil's Army Surplus business. Was it mentioned as a military base in missions of taxi driver/Vigilante/Fireman? If not, article should be renamed to 'Phil's Army Surplus' and should be cleared from all of references to military. JFFulcrum 10:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- Odd that I couldn't find any name for this area in the game files. I always have known this area as Phil's Army Surplus so I'm going to move it there.--Spaceeinstein 06:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, now I know where I remembered this name from. It's only mentioned once in the map that came with GTA III.--spaceeinstein 04:04, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
- I checked my manual earlier and it actually says Phil Cassidy's Army Surplus. The text on the page has already been changed to this, so I assume you'll want to change the title to this too. Christophee (talk) 19:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)


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Jester's Fate: Saturday, Sept. 28 at Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave. 7 p.m. 21 and up. $12. www.brickbybrick.com
Stylistically, singer Rebecca Jade's music covers a lot of ground, but her voice is all about soul. A member of such local favorites as The Jade Effect, Siren's Crush and The Soultones, this hard-working musician's backing combos may vary, but her vocals, warm and smooth, carry emotion that really sells the songs she sings. Appearing as a solo performer at the Kona Kai Resort lounge on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m., Jade's music includes standards but her original material like the seductive "Carried Away" is top notch and will especially appeal to jazz and R&B aficionados, as well anyone who likes their music with a soulful groove.
Rebecca Jade: Friday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. at the Kona Kai Resort Lounge, 1551 Shelter Island Drive. www.resortkonakai.com
Later next month, vocalist Allison Adams Tucker will head out on a tour of Japan, but first she'll present a special concert on Oct. 6, Jazz Voice of the 1960s: The Bossa Nova Boom, Betty Carter, Brubeck & Beyond at Dizzy's. The title of the show may be unwieldy, but it is descriptive and shows the broad range of Tucker's interpretive talents. With a backing group of world-class musicians, including pianist Danny Green, bassist Bob Magnusson, drummer Duncan Moore and saxophonist Tripp Sprague, as well as material from arguably the greatest decade for music, this is a show jazz vocal fans won't want to miss.
Allison Adams Tucker: Sunday, Oct. 6, at Dizzy's, 4275 Mission Bay Drive. 7 p.m. $15. www.dizzysjazz.com
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Get Back Loretta: Friday, Oct. 4 at The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd. 9 p.m. 21 and up. $10. www.thegriffinsd.com
Anyone looking for a nice way to wind down the weekend should consider jazz combo Sounds Like Four, who has a 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon residency at Café-Bar Europa. With a set list of classics like "Fever," it's a crowd pleasing way to spend a few hours. A good cup of coffee and smooth jazz tunes are a nice option for holding off the looming work week a bit longer, but the venue itself is appealing in that respect. The intimate, informal location is a great date option, as well as a good spot to just sit and soak in the music.
Sounds Like Four: Sundays at Café-Bar Europa, 873 Turqouise St. 4 p.m. 21 and up. www.theturquoise.com/wordpress
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The Sleepwalkers: Thursday, Oct. 3 at The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd. 8 p.m. 21 and up. $12. www.thegriffinsd.com


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Nicknamed the Pearl of Siberia, Lake Baikal holds about 20% of the world's fresh surface water - more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined.
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Bears, elk, lynx and other wildlife abound in the surrounding forests and mountains.
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What is pygame?
Pygame is a is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. It is written on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language. Pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system.
Compared to the 1.7.0 release, there is a whole bunch of bug fixes. Compared to the commonly used pygame 1.6.2 there are heaps of changes. A different version of SDL, a different compiler used for the windows version, and a rewrite of the sprite classes.
Lots of new people have begun to submit patches and test things out. Which is really nice. We also followed a release plan. Which was made necessary because of the multiple people working on the release compared to one person previously.
There is also a new website which allows people to register, and show people their projects using pygame. Along with the upcoming pyweek competition with over 150 entrants, pygame continues to live and grow.
What is there to do for the next release?
For me I want to improve what is already in pygame. I want to speed up some areas, and fix up any remaining bugs. For example pygame on linux requires X libraries. Where it should be able to just use the frame buffer.
One place that could do with speed improvements is the transform module. For things like scaling, rotation, flipping, and rotozooming.
I would like to make them quicker by improving the api, and by optimizing the C code, as well as doing asm versions.
However first we need benchmark programs for all of these features. Games can be used, as well as writing programs which stress test the features. For example a rotation benchmark which rotates 30 different images of different sizes, and then blits them to the screen. Another part of the test would be to rotate different same size images without blitting them.
Repeatable benchmarks are important to test the speed on different computers, and to compare between different versions of pygame. The benchmarks can also be used of examples on how to use that functionality.
How ASM(mmx, sse, 3dnow, altivec) optimizations will be done.
I am going to do the asm versions just like the SDL blitters are done. That is detect what cpu features are available and then register the fastest function with the processor features available. This way the same version of the code will run on different processors.
def rotate_C(...):
def rotate_mmx(...):
def rotate_sse(...):
if(has_mmx() and not has_sse()):
rotate = rotate_mmx
rotate = rotate_sse
rotate = rotate_C
Using vectorizing compilers to make first versions of optimized code.
To start with I am going to use vectorising compilers to make the first pass at the optimized ASM. gcc4. vectorC, msvcc, and icc are all ones which can do auto vectorization. Some compilers are better at vectorizing than others.
Once the first pass is done with those compilers I can see which ones were able to successfuly vectorize the code. Then run them through the benchmark to see which is faster.
Then I can see if changing the algorithm can speed them up at all.
The final pass at optimization would be to change the asm code itself for optimizations.
Rotation as an example of API optimization.
As an example of an api change that could improve the speed, I will describe the rotate api and a way that it can be improved.
The rotate function could be made to do its thing inplace. So instead of this:
newsurf = pygame.transform.rotate(surf, 90)
A new api that could do things 'in place' could be made. ie:
pygame.transform.rotate_ip(angle, src_surf, dest_surf, dest_rect)
Where the destination surface could be reused on each call to rotate. Therefore saving memory allocations, and reusing memory. The given api could even be used to rotate directly onto the screen. Ie a rotating blitter :)
One problem with this api is that a rotated image can use up more space than the original image. Therefore we need to make sure that the destination surface is large enough to hold the rotated image.
Therefore we may need a helper function to calculate the maximum size of a rotated image.
arect = pygame.transform.rotate_maxsize(src_surf, angle = None)
If an angle is given then we get the size of the image that will be created for that angle.
Such a rotation function is going to be quite complex to implement in a way which is easy for the user.


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Less is more is a phrase that applies very well to the latest Renault Clio, most specifically the models powered by the three-cylinder 899cc TCe petrol unit. While this might sound like not enough engine, the 90hp powerplant is characterful and will make better financial sense than the diesels for many.
In this country at least, we've almost become brainwashed into thinking that if we want to cut down on the costs of running a car, we need a diesel engine. You'll have seen the astronomical fuel consumption figures that seem to promise a whole week's driving before you need to fill the tank again, but as with many things that seem too good to be true, there are often holes in the story. And so it is with diesel engines, especially when they're fitted to small cars like the Renault Clio. The fact of the matter is that if you bought and ran a Clio for, say, three years, we'd be willing to wager that unless you covered huge mileages, you'd be far better off with an engine like the three-cylinder TCe 899cc unit that we're looking at here. The bonus? It makes the Clio even better fun to drive.
Driving Experience
Renault isn't alone in offering a downsized petrol engine. Many of its rivals are at it and you can get a sub-litre engine in the Peugeot 208 and the Ford Fiesta: very good they are too. Of the three though, it's hard to look past the Renault Clio Tce. For a start, it makes 90hp, which is way better than the base Peugeot 208 1.0's 68hp and also beats the base Ford Fiesta 1.0's 80hp power output. It's a fun engine to drive as well, due in no small part to the fact that it weighs so little. The front of the car is so eager to turn into a corner. You've just got to learn to trust the quick but slightly arcade game steering feel. The first three-cylinder powerplant ever produced by Renault, this turbocharged engine features an ultra low-inertia turbo that whistles into action from low engine speeds, developing 135Nm at just 2000rpm. In fact, fully 90 per cent of peak torque is available from 1,650rpm to 5,000rpm. It'll get to 62mph in just 12.2 seconds on the way to a top speed of 113mph but you'll need to work the gear stick to manage that.
Design and Build
Since there's still no three-door model, it's just as well that the five-door does a good impression of one, coupe-like styling emphasised by hidden rear door handles. Design-wise, this current version gets a smart nose, with an eye-catching full-LED lighting signature, including C-shaped daytime running lights in the case of certain versions. Inside, this Clio benefits from the use of finishing materials previously reserved for Renault's higher-end models. Out back, there's a decent sized 300-litre boot while at the wheel, we've yet another dash that's been sculpted in the shape of an aircraft wing on which is mounted an overtly confident chrome-surrounded instrument cluster dominated by the kind of digital speedo that not everyone will like. Equally eye-catching is the consumer electronic-fest that dominates the gloss black-trimmed centre console of all but base models in the form of a tablet-like display that is the 7-inch R-Link colour touchscreen.
Market and Model
The 0.9 TCe engine is offered with 'Play', 'Iconic' and 'GT Line' trim levels. Prices start at around £14,000, which undercuts several key rivals, despite the Clio being a larger car than many. As for equipment, virtually all models get alloy wheels, air conditioning and front foglights. And absolutely all of them get daytime running lights, cruise control with a speed limiter, a trip computer, a height-adjustable driver's seat, power front windows and mirrors, Bluetooth 'phone compatibility, a decent quality USB-compatible CD stereo with punchy Renault 'Bass Reflex' speakers and fingertip control, plus Hill Start Assist to stop you from drifting backwards on uphill junctions. To provide customers with a range of options, this Clio comes with three different connected multimedia systems, namely Media Nav Evolution, Renault R-Link Evolution and the new, smart R&GO system which is available on entry trim levels. This is also the first B-segment Renault to be available with a BOSE audio system. In addition to its reverse parking sensor, and depending on the version, this Clio offers a front parking sensor and a reverse parking camera. Available for higher-end versions, Handsfree Parking allows the driver to fully delegate the completion of parking manoeuvres. Four new body colours have been added and there's a more extensive personalisation programme.
Cost of Ownership
The TCe petrol engine makes some very interesting figures. This model will return 60.1mpg on the combined cycle and 105g/km of CO2, But what of the alternative dCi 90 diesel model? That gets 85.6mpg and 85g/km, so it has to be a better buy, right? Not necessarily. In order to recoup this diesel variant's higher asking price back in terms of fuel economy, you'd need to drive a heck of a long way. By our calculations, if you drove 10,000 miles per year - which is a lot for a supermini - you'd need to keep your Clio for over 7 years to make the more expensive diesel model pay for itself back. A driving style monitor (green, yellow or orange) and a Gear Change Indicator (GCI) on the dashboard help drivers improve their driving style to reduce their fuel consumption. The Driving eco2 app available through Renault R-Link provides drivers with information, helping them to analyse their driving style and take corrective measures in order to reduce their fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
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· deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
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August 5, 2004
Mr. Dale Hill
Education & Credentialing Specialist
North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services
2707 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-2707
Dear Mr. Hill:
This responds to your email of June 23, 2004, in which you asked whether the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) qualifies as an "accrediting organization" for purposes of 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(7), and whether this allows OEMS to review individual student records in connection with credentialing exams. This Office administers the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and provides technical assistance to educational agencies and institutions to ensure compliance with the statute and regulations set forth at 34 CFR Part 99.
You explained that OEMS is responsible under State law for regulating the delivery of emergency medical services (EMS) in North Carolina, which includes authority to "establish standards and criteria for the credentialing of EMS educational institution." N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-508(d)(4). An educational institution that seeks approval to provide EMS training is required to submit to OEMS an education plan, which the agency reviews for compliance with established criteria. As part of the credentialing process, OEMS also audits the delivery of EMS educational programs, which may involve review of individual student records. OEMS would also review a student's records in order to resolve any concerns regarding an individual's eligibility to sit for the credentialing exams.
As explained more fully below, educational agencies and institutions may provide personally identifiable information from education records to OEMS without prior written consent under 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(7) in connection with the credentialing process for an organization or program. However, a parent or eligible student must provide prior written consent before the agency or institution may disclose personally identifiable information from education records in connection with any concerns OEMS may have regarding an individual's eligibility to sit for credentialing exams.
FERPA protects the privacy interests of parents and students in a student's education records. It applies to an "educational agency or institution" that receives funds under any program administered by the U.S. Secretary of Education. An educational agency or institution subject to FERPA may not have a policy or practice of releasing personally identifiable information from education records without the prior written consent of the student's parent, except as specified by law. See 34 CFR § 99.30. (All FERPA rights transfer to a student who has reached 18 years of age or attends an institution of postsecondary education. See 34 CFR § 99.3, "Eligible student.")
One of the exceptions to the "prior written consent" rule in FERPA allows educational agencies and institutions to disclose information to "accrediting organizations to carry out their accrediting functions." The terms "accrediting organization" and "accrediting functions" are not defined in FERPA, but this Office follows a commonly accepted understanding of these terms to mean organizations that are legally authorized to evaluate and recognize the quality of the instruction or training provided by an educational agency, institution, or program. See, e.g., 34 CFR §§ 602.1(a) and 602.3, which describe accrediting agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
North Carolina law has established a comprehensive Statewide EMS system in the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes OEMS. See N.C. Gen. State § 143-507. This Department has responsibility for recognizing the credentials of EMS educational institutions in accordance with requirements of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission. N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 143-508(d)(4) and 143-509. Under this authority, OEMS has published "Credentialing Guidelines and Application Process" for institutions seeking credentials as an EMS educational institution, available at the OEMS website at http://facility-services.state.nc.us/EMS/credguid.pdf. Based on these facts, we conclude that OEMS constitutes an "accrediting organization" for purposes of 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(7), and that educational agencies and institutions may disclose personally identifiable information from student's education records without prior written consent in connection with OEMS' responsibilities for credentialing EMS institutions or programs.
However, there is no exception to the "prior written consent" rule in § 99.30 of the FERPA regulations that allows disclosure to OEMS in connection with any concerns it may have about a particular student's eligibility to sit for credentialing exams. See 34 CFR § 99.31 for a listing of exceptions to the requirements of § 99.30. In these circumstances, the educational agency or institution must obtain the parent's or eligible student's prior written consent in accordance with the requirements of section 99.30.
I trust that this information is helpful in explaining the scope of FERPA as it relates to your concerns.
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Summary: Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshif at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.
But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.
Review: What I love most about the world Patricia Briggs has created is that she lets each book focus on a specific paranormal aspect. Moon Called focused on the werewolves in Mercy's life, and Blood Bound focuses on the vampires. I like Stefan as a character so I was excited to read more about him, but you still get your fair share of wolves in this book as well. You meet other interesting characters like Wulfe, Andre, Lily, Estelle, and Marsilia. The seethe sounds like a terrifying place to be. This new vampire causes a lot a problems for Mercy, the wolves, and the vamps so naturally they want to stop him. Of course if things went smoothly then it wouldn't be a very interesting story. Some characters got hurt. Some characters died. I am very pleased with this book and I can't wait to finish catching up on the series.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
Summary: Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshif at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Summary: Mercy Thompson's sexy next-door neighbor is a werewolf.
She's tinkering with a VW bus at her mechanic shop that happens to belong to a vampire.
But then, Mercy Thompson is not exactly normal herself...and her connection to the world of things that go bump in the night is about to get her into a whole lot of trouble.
Review: I can't begin to express how excited I was to start this series over again. I read the first 3 books a couple of years ago, but I never got around to reading the rest as they came out. Now I have all the ones released so I can finally get to it. The characters are all wonderful. Mercy is strong, but kind and Adam is all kinds of hot. Sam? Oh yeah. Sam is pretty amazing too. My favorite character is probably Jesse, but Warren is a pretty close second. I think they're both pretty great considering how different they are compared to everyone else they surround themselves with.
The story was great. I like how you get introduced to the weres, vamps, and fae in this book, but the story mostly sticks with the wolves. I like the introduction of walkers as well. I've never heard of that, but I like the connection to Native American culture. I also like how a few characters die in this book. That probably sounds awful, but it shows that Patricia isn't going to hold back when she writes. You get introduced to some potentially great characters, but some of them die. It's sad, but great. I am so happy to be back in this world. I've missed it quite a lot. I recommend this book for any fan of Urban Fantasy.
5 howls
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Making the middle cup in a 10 cup beer pong set up. Originated from a student in whitewater with a Nickname of Omac that more often than not made the middle cup.
Oh man I hit the omac cup that's some hellen keller shit
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Race-Neutral Alternatives
In FY 2003, OCR began an initiative to provide technical assistance and public education regarding race-neutral approaches to achieving student body diversity. In order to enable students to exchange ideas with a wide variety of people from diverse geographic regions, socioeconomic backgrounds, cultural heritages and points of view, numerous educational institutions are grappling with ways to ensure that their student body comes from a wide variety of backgrounds. In the 2003 University of Michigan decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court held that institutions must undertake "serious good faith consideration of workable race-neutral alternatives" prior to adopting racial preferences.
The goal of OCR's initiative is to foster thinking about using race-neutral means to produce diversity in educational institutions and to help create a positive climate in which such race-neutral alternatives can be considered. OCR prepared a 40-page report entitled, "Race-Neutral Alternatives in Postsecondary Education: Innovative Approaches to Diversity," which was published by the Department on March 29, 2003. The Report catalogs many of the race-neutral approaches that states are implementing around the country. For example, many educational institutions are providing preferences on the basis of socioeconomic status. Colleges and universities are expanding their recruitment and outreach efforts by targeting students from schools that traditionally have not been "feeder schools" for those institutions. More importantly, states are also promoting advanced placement courses and skill development programs designed to improve educational achievement among students who attend traditionally low performing schools.
OCR also hosted a national conference in Miami, Florida, in April 2003 to present the concepts described in the Report to leading members of the postsecondary education community. Building on the Michigan decisions, OCR has more recently published an additional report that describes race-neutral programs being implemented across the country. The report, which is entitled "Achieving Diversity: Race-Neutral Alternatives In American Education," revises and expands the first edition and includes information on various race-neutral approaches used in K-12 schools, public and private colleges, and graduate and professional schools. Both reports are available at http://www.ed.gov/ocr. Additional reports, disseminating information regarding various aspects of this issue, will be issued in FY 2005 and FY 2006.


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Buffalo Bills WR Johnson upbeat with rookie coach Marrone's uptempo approach
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Buffalo Bills receiver Stevie Johnson is putting aside his initial apprehensions and beginning to buy into the team's offseason rebuilding plans.
Describing his faith in the team as being "sky high," Johnson was impressed by rookie coach Doug Marrone's upbeat approach and uptempo offense. And he's no longer wondering why the Bills elected against making any big splashes in free agency to address several holes.
Johnson's vote of confidence came after the Bills closed a three-day voluntary minicamp Thursday. It was the players' first chance to take the field with Marrone, the former Syracuse coach who replaced Chan Gailey in January.
Johnson was held out of all three practices because of a stiff back. He was still encouraged to see how fast-paced the individual and team sessions were.


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QuoteI know =P But that's no reason for me to not voice my own opinions.
QuoteThen I would ask that you show the same respect that Alexie has shown you when doing so.
Said By Hiten_MitsurugiGod is very complex, Jaego. It's very hard to understand the purpose of His dying for us at times. But being God He can be creative and accomplish the task at hand at the same time. Unlike us who if we were to try to be creative in accomplishing an important task we'd screw it up.
QuoteIf you want to hear about crazy ramblings, trying reading about Hinduism. That's some weird stuff. They even have their own [weird] beliefs about Jesus.
QuoteAnd by the way, when you become a Christian you stay a Christian. There's no was. Pardon me for saying this, but you are either a fallen Christian, or you never were a Christian. Salvation is forever.
QuoteAbout praying to Himself, God is omnipresent. That means He can be everywhere at once. It's hard to explain it, but it at least explains how He can pray to Himself. Also, he was setting an example for us.
QuoteBy the way, Artemis, media does not say all [people who call themselves] Christians
believe in the bible. The media says about fourty percent believe. But that does not mean the other sixty percent are Christians. They just claim they are (in most cases).
Said By ArtemisPantharmedia. A form of communication...you're using it in a different sense than I was, dear.
There's the problem =P You seem to stick to the belief that God is, at base, human-like. If there is a God, I doubt it would be human-like. Humans are flawed, so God wouldn't be remotely human. Wouldn't think like a human, wouldn't act liek a human. So, why would God make an intricate plan that is so obviously human? =P
Dude, stop bashing Hinduism, alright? Just because you're christian doesn't make you so high and mighty and you are in no place to jduge others. It's what your bible says =P look it up.


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It's June, the season of weddings. So I decided to see what people thought of the idea of 'tying the knot' in a cemetery. It turns out this may be a trend of the future!
According to The Mortician Journal http://www.morticianjournal.com/, out of a list of '25 Funeral Trends for 2011', #8 is "More and more funeral facilities will be used for other services (like weddings and birthdays.) Funeral homes and cemeteries are now starting to utilize their chapels and grounds for 'celebration events.'
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Research indicates that more and more couples, within the past five-year, have entertained the idea of, if not actually been married in cemetery and funeral home chapels. This interest has caught the attention of cemetery superintendents, sextons and funeral home directors, who are now viewing their sites as places to celebrate life as well as mourn the dead.
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Cemeteries weddings are also considered to be more 'green,' or environmentally friendly, than most regular wedding and reception sites. And, as an added bonus, the price is usually much less than traditional wedding venues.
During WW II, the Forest Lawn Cemeteries http://www.forestlawn.com/ in California buried during the day and married during the night. Today the cemetery group has eight chapels that are used for funerals and weddings.
And the interest in cemetery weddings is not just occurring in the U.S. Cemetery weddings have been reported this year in many parts of the world including Indonesia and China. The main reasons given overseas for having a cemetery wedding are the same - the beauty of the location, the meaningfulness of being married near ancestors, and the lower cost.
I asked readers of A Grave Interest, friends on my personal page, and members of A Graveyard Rabbit and Cemetery Explorers, all on Facebook, if any of them had been married in a cemetery and how they felt about cemetery weddings. The overwhelming response was very positive. While it was a novel idea to some, almost all felt it would be a very peaceful and beautiful location for a wedding. Here are some of the replies:
Katie Killian wrote: "I would do it in a heartbeat if there was one that I found pretty enough or interesting enough to do it in. There aren't any in Indy that I have any ties to, though."
Steve Kalland thought it was a "Great idea."
Save A Grave stated: "I think it's a cool place to have a wedding. You can find some great places that would be beautiful for a wedding. I don't know anyone who has done it."
Stewart Dashwood replied: "Sounds interesting! I like the idea but my fiancé (despite loving cemeteries) isn't quite sold on it."
Tricia Neal responded: "Had some pictures taken after the wedding with the old church cemetery in the background, but didn't actually get married IN the cemetery! (And the fact that the cemetery was in the background in the pictures was unintentional, although if I'd thought about it at the time, I would have made sure it happened that way!)
Cheryl Mason wrote: "A cemetery in Savannah…under oaks draped in Spanish moss…."
Only a few people were somewhat wary of the idea –
Allison Butt commented that she didn't "know of anyone doing it. I don't think I like the idea, although the setting would be peaceful!"
Beverly Ross Nance replied: "Hmmm, no. But my family used to picnic in them..."
Thanks to everyone who replied! So what do you think? Would you get married, or renew your vows in a cemetery? I definitely would! But then, how would you decide, between all of the beautiful cemeteries and chapel out there, which one? Something to ponder during the next wedding you attend.
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