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The Best (And Worst) Fans in Brazil
Impressions on the Supporters for Each of the World Cup Teams
One of the great joys of covering the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is the opportunity to meet soccer fans from 32 different nations. And then, after they're gone, to talk about them behind their backs.
As much as this global event is a showcase for soccer brilliance and tactical innovation, it's also an incredible venue for measuring the differences between the various national fan cultures. So in advance of Sunday's final between Germany and Argentina, The Journal asked the members of its reporting team to send their honest impressions of the fan groups from all 32 countries. What follows is a completely unscientific survey of their findings.
Some countries, like Argentina, drew lengthy and colorful responses from the panel. Others, like Honduras, didn't leave much of an impression. And our reporting team couldn't think of anything to say about fans from Algeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here is their report:
The "most numerous" fans from any nation, apart from host Brazil, were "intent on giving their guys as close to a home-team advantage as possible." While they weren't always the best-behaved fans (the word "obnoxious" turned up), they also showed a sensitive side. "I've never seen as many men crying as when Argentina beat the Netherlands," one panelist said.
Despite a fast exit, Aussies were undaunted in their quest to "have a good time" and "drain Brazil's stocks of lager" while wearing "sunnies and singlets." They "traveled around Brazil quite a bit" and "were knowledgeable about their team, even though soccer is their fourth- or fifth-favorite sport."
Fans of the Red Devils were small in number but knew "how to impose themselves." At the U.S. match, "two Belgium fans were as loud as five Americans." They had "really cool costumes" and one of them even landed a modeling contract.
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Several observers said they were underwhelmed by the host fans, who were "very calm, relatively quiet and a little nervous about their team's prospects." One panelist even said Brazilians were "not as emotionally enthralled by soccer as the world is led to believe." When their team wasn't playing, they still "packed stadiums and picked sides" and "would cheer for every attack and boo whenever the ball was kicked back defensively."
These fans turned out to be incredibly good sports. "They seemed very happy and laughed together a lot." They could be seen "on the metro talking to Argentines" and making a friendly argument that Samuel Eto'o "is better than Lionel Messi." Sadly, the Portuguese word for their country, Camarões, "is also the plural for shrimp," which they were reminded of "100 times a day" after losing to Brazil.
While known for being quiet and laid back, Chileans "get extremely worked up" about soccer. A group of ticketless Chilean fans got global attention for trying to "bum-rush a stadium in Rio." Most were "very loud and a lot of fun." A lot of people "wanted them to shut up" after hearing their favorite chant "Chi Chi Chi, Le Le Le" for days, "well past midnight." But they also won creativity points: While most South American countries sing the same songs, "Chile at least added in some stuff about hating Argentina."
"Loud, colorful and seemed to be having the time of their lives." Drew lots of attention for wearing Carlos Valderrama-style wigs. One panelist assumed that the wigs are "issued to everyone who leaves the country." One observer noted that some Colombians "seemed inclined to fight," but that they made up for it by being "quite possibly the most insanely good-looking fan base in international sports."
Costa Rica
While the team excelled in Brazil, there "couldn't have been more than 75 in the whole stadium" in the last game the few that did show "didn't seem to expect much" and "ended up having a party in the corner."
"Maybe the easiest fans to pick out, barring the Dutch, because of their tablecloth-checkered jerseys." They were "nearly all men." One panelist reported seeing some Croatian fans trying to "sneak flares into the stadium."
These fans "just sort of quietly followed their team" and didn't make much of an impression. "They were sort of like every other South American country, but less colorful than Colombia, less passionate than Argentina and less fun than Chile." When they were eliminated by France, our panelists say, "they just sort of quietly accepted it and went back home."
Lived up to their lofty expectations for being "sophisticated football watchers" who are "self-deprecating," but also prone to "overdrinking and being just very loud."
Seemed "almost surprised their team did so well." Looked at home in Brasilia where "there wasn't much to do apart from sitting in restaurants sipping wine." They were "enthusiastic anthem singers" and "quick to break into the Marseillaise."
Fans are "very cool, calm and collected" and "restrained in victory." They don't get as loud as the English and won praise for bringing "German stadium culture" with them. They traveled with giant flags marking which parts of the country they were from and continued trying to hang them in stadiums even as stewards tore them down.
Fans earned praise for having "this great drum and horn band that played throughout the match." Our panelists report that they were "always smiling while the game went on," even when things went sour.
"Good-humored" and "just going with the flow," which was understandable given that few expected anything from their team. The Greeks clearly "came for the party."
Hondurans were hard to spot. In fact, "if you met a Honduran fan in Brazil, chances are they were Brazilian, or from Los Angeles." That said, the "Honduran-Americans were out in force" and their "small but passionate base made an effort to be seen and heard."
"Obsessed with taking selfies," these fans spent much of their time during a narrow loss to Argentina "wandering the aisles posing for pictures with the pitch in the background." They also showed an outsize disdain for soccer referees, "howling at every single decision that went against them." One of the most evenly split fan bases between men and women. One panelist said the Iranians did a brave job of communicating with locals despite "struggling with Portuguese pronunciations."
One of the biggest mysteries of the tournament. Fans of the Azzurri were "barely glimpsed," which isn't surprising given that "they officially sold 200 tickets for their opener against England." In fact, "the thinking was that a lot of the Italian fans were actually Brazilian and Argentine Italians."
Ivory Coast
One of the most elusive fan bases. Did, however, show "dedication to body paint," as one fan appeared at multiple matches "with what looked like every inch of his upper body covered in team colors."
The Japanese were "the cleanest of the World Cup fans" who "impressed the world" by tidying up after themselves at the stadiums. They were "very organized" in the stands, but "very excited, too." They also earned accolades for having the "craziest costumes" which "usually involved masks, face-painting and some sort of elaborate headgear" including "some dressed as sushi," which one panelist found "terrifying."
South Korea
Win or lose (it was actually lose or tie), Koreans made lots of noise as they "cheered incessantly" and "banged away on the inflatable bang sticks" as some "wore little battery-operated devil horns that lit up their sections as night fell." One panelist was impressed by a "group rendition of a strident part of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9."
Despite refusing "to rethink an offensive chant," Mexican fans were universally adored as "some of the nicest and most polite people" and the "loudest non-Brazilian fans encountered at the World Cup." They were "remarkably well coordinated in their chants and outfits" and one fan in particular was "so committed he was wearing a burro costume that made it look like he was riding it."
The Dutch were "my favorites—sophisticated, cool and fun. Plus they have their endearing 'Hup' chant." Dutch fans were "always easy to spot in their bright orange jerseys, hats, socks, sports coats, ties and, yes, underpants." At campsites, "the Heineken flowed "and the bitterballen (Dutch meatballs) were plentiful." Other panelists found them "astonishingly reserved during their team's matches" and not as thickly massed as usual.
Before playing France, a small group of Nigerians lacked tickets—but not confidence. "They said Nigeria would beat France and win the World Cup." One panelist said he met one Nigeria fan in a hotel elevator, "but he was from Manhattan."
Even though they "didn't travel in big numbers," the Portuguese got a huge cheering boost from "Brazilians of Portuguese descent" who were also "very mild-mannered." As a whole, "their team was unimpressive, and so were the fans."
In a relatively small number of encounters, our panelists described Russian fans as mostly "big men" who "looked like security guards" and were "unhappy."
After winning the 2010 World Cup, many Spanish fans were so optimistic, they didn't bother showing up for the group stage—which their team didn't survive. Some Spanish fans showed up at the Brazil-Germany semifinal, including "one poor soul with a Spanish flag" hidden in an "ocean of yellow jerseys."
While the Swiss fans were "pretty subdued and barely present in the host cities," some were spotted on shopping excursions in Manaus where they "smiled quietly and tried not to faint on the steamy streets."
"Ecstatic" after their win over England, they "spent about an hour after the match singing songs and jumping up and down" before heading out for "pizza and beer." After Luis Suárez was kicked out for biting, there was "mostly indignation," followed by an argument that "far worse things happen on football pitches." Some panelists found them to be the "most fanatical and jingoistic" fans in Brazil.
Clapped "for everything." Screams of USA! USA! made the stadium "as loud as Madison Square Garden" even when the team was down 2-0 to Belgium. These fans stuck to their "I believe that we will win" chant which one panelist called "typically American." Other panelists said they "reached a bit too far with chants" that haven't been developed "with decades of heartbreak."
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Will Connors, Matthew Cowley, Loretta Chao, Jeff Cullen, Will Davies, Matthew Futterman, Jason Gay,
Paul Kiernan, Patricia Kowsmann, Jeffrey Lewis, John Lyons,
Luciana Magalhaes, Joshua Robinson and Paulo Trevisani contributed to this article.
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Attired in their formal dress uniforms, cadets and midshipmen from the United States Military, Naval, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, and Air Force Academies, were presented in a grand march to their 350 guests at Soldiers and Sailors Hall in Oakland for the 10th anniversary of Western Pennsylvania's Annual All Service Academies Ball. Four-star admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command out of Norfolk, Va., was the ball's guest of honor and featured speaker. A Butler native, the 1975 graduate of the United States Naval Academy celebrated along with his former Naval Academy classmate and the evening's honorary chair, Michael Langley, CEO of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. Also in attendance was Mike Clark of WTAE-TV, who returned for his annual duties as toastmaster of the event. Photography by Megan WylieRead More
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I have a 1969 Z28 with the 302 motor, my plug on my oil pressuse switch is wore out, it is the original plug and I wanted to ask the crg members where I should look for a plug. I want to replace it with an original part.
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Hardware-level I/O isn't one of my areas of expertise, so I've shied away from discussing certain SAN-specific topics in the past. But recent experiences with SQL Server customers have led me to make the following observation: Contrary to popular belief, SANs aren't necessarily the best solution for a SQL Server system that must support high-end I/O on a budget.
It's true that SANs offer advanced features for I/O and storage management, and they can be configured to offer extremely high levels of availability and performance. But here's a dirty little secret: It's generally harder to configure a SAN correctly than it is to use DAS. And usually, the cost of a direct-attached I/O solution is much less than the cost of buying a SAN that has the same number of disks that offer comparable cache and performance levels.This means that you can often end up with more spindles for the same price by using DAS rather than a SAN.
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CRESTVIEW � It has been a busy summer for Greg Watson. Watson � named the Crestview High School boys basketball coach early last month � has spent the last five or six weeks getting to know his team and installing his system.
So far, so good for Watson and the players, as they wrapped up the summer program Thursday afternoon.
CRESTVIEW � It has been a busy summer for Greg Watson.
Watson � named the Crestview High School boys basketball coach early last month � has spent the last five or six weeks getting to know his team and installing his system.
So far, so good for Watson and the players, as they wrapped up the summer program Thursday afternoon.
"Right now, I think we are at a good spot," Watson said. "We at least are a little bit comfortable with each other now after the transition period. We've had a month to work out the kinks and learn some new stuff defensively and new stuff offensively.
"... It has been a good month. There is still a long ways to go, but it's definitely much better than it was ... whenever it was I started."
Players buying in
The players have quickly bought into Watson's program.
"Things are good," senior Ronnie Baylark said. "He's a really good coach. He's experienced.
"He's introduced some new things, and we are getting the hang of it. His plays are going to work. He's a nice guy and we really like him."
Josh Hinton, another senior, also thinks things are moving ahead nicely under Watson, despite the fact that veteran players must learn their third system in little more than a year.
"We basically get everything down out here, and it makes us better players, learning all these new plays," Hinton said. "We don't really get things confused. The biggest adjustment has been learning him, what he wants to do and how he wants things run.
"Other than that, things are pretty easy learning the plays. He's a good guy. He comes across very intelligent and he's a good teacher, basically."
Watson likes squad
One thing that pleases Watson is the number of quality players on the roster.
"I think we are going to be pretty deep this year," he said. "That's one thing I'm excited about. We've got nine or 10 guys that can play, and I don't have to worry about them being in there."
Baylark, Hinton, Jerry Aaron, Denzel Ware and Marcelle Moorer have impressed Watson.
"I heard Josh Hinton had some good stretches last year," Watson said. "He's a guy I'm going to lean on not only playing wise, but leadership wise.
"He's a good guy and a good kid. The guys respect him."
Moorer will join Baylark as an outside shooting threat while Aaron and Ware will handle the heavy lifting inside.
Making the grade
Asked how they would grade the first summer with a new coach, Baylark and Hinton gave an A.
Watson wasn't quite as generous, but he still gave an above-average grade.
"I'm never satisfied, but from where we started June 10, or whatever the date was, to right now, I'd say the grade was probably a B," Watson said. "And I would say that is a good spot ... we don't want to be higher than that right now because I think we have a lot of room to improve.
"But these guys have learned a third offense in three years and I'm throwing all kinds of stuff at them; a new offense, a new defense. They have worked hard and they have really responded mentally. Basketball is a game, I think, that you have to be able to play a little bit mentally, too, so they've tried very hard."
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are joining in a northern Idaho's woman appeal over the National Security Agency's collection of cellphone information.
Anna Smith of Coeur d'Alene sued the NSA last year, contending that the agency's collection of the data amounts to an illegal search and seizure, prohibited under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In June, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said Smith had the right to sue but that she wouldn't prevail under current court precedent. As a result, Winmill dismissed the lawsuit, but he also noted that the issue may end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Smith has appealed her case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The national ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho and the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced last week that they were joining in Smith's case. Both the ACLU and Electronic Frontier have been part of lawsuits over the same issue in other states.
"The call records program needlessly invades the privacy of millions of people," ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said in a prepared statement. "Even the President has acknowledged that the NSA does not need to collect information about every phone call in order to track the associations of suspected terrorists. Dragnet surveillance on this scale is both unconstitutional and unnecessary."
Smith, a nurse, is being represented by state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, and Smith's husband, Peter J. Smith IV. She assumed she was being monitored because she had a Verizon cellphone and because the calls of vast numbers of Americans were collected, Malek said earlier this year.
The NSA has said it collects the phone numbers of calls made and received and how long a call lasts, but the agency contends it does not monitor the contents of a call. Smith countered that her cellphone is her primary means of communication with family, friends, doctors and others, and that her phone calls are none of the government's business.


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In the last issue of Jazz Rag my old friend Kevin Henriques rightly took me to task for omitting Carol Kidd's name from a list of the best British female vocalists.
Kevin, I have no excuses. Put it down to a 'Senior Moment'. This is particularly inexplicable as Carol Kidd is my FAVOURITE singer. So apologies all round. Linn have now re-issued three of Carol's most impressive albums, two of which' Debut and All My Tomorrows, I gave rave reviews when they were first released. Nice Work is another release from the same period.
Here is what some other singers have to say about Carol Kidd: "Carol is the best kept secret of British jazz" (Frank Sinatra); "You should be world famous. Where've you been?" (Tony Bennett); "Her control is thrilling...she is world-class" (Cleo Laine). To which I can only add "Amen".
My advice is go out and buy all three records ... then go out again and buy everything else Carol has recorded. OK, Kevin?


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Close your eyes and you still might think it's Peyton Manning.
With four games to play in the 2012 season, Manning's franchise successor -- rookie No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Luck -- has already established enough of a knack for late-stage heroics to put his Indianapolis Colts on the verge of improbable playoff participation.
They'll be home to face a Week 8 victim -- the Tennessee Titans, whom they beat in overtime in Nashville -- with a hope more drama won't be needed at Lucas Oil Stadium, where they haven't lost since the season's first month.
The 8-4 Colts also downed Green Bay and Minnesota with last-minute regulation drives in September and October, but they took things up a notch last week in Detroit when a scoring toss from Luck to Donnie Avery provided a 35-33 win on the game's last play.
The Avery pass, in fact, was just the final act in a rally that began with Indianapolis down 12 points with 2:39 remaining. Ultimately, it lifted the Colts to 7-1 in games decided by eight or fewer points, and Luck's final numbers included 391 yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions.
"They don't know no better," veteran receiver Reggie Wayne said. "They just know to just keep playing. That's a credit just to the coaches. Just keeping the guys into it, keeping them to play toward the end, and guys just go out there and keep fighting and fighting till it's all over."
Old man Wayne, who's tied for third in the NFL with 88 receptions; and young man Luck are the signature elements of the remarkable turnaround for the Colts, who were an ugly 2-14 last year in Manning's final season on the roster as an injured observer.
In year one as the full-time signal-caller, the Stanford University product has six 300-yard games -- breaking Manning's rookie record -- and more wins as a QB drafted first overall than any of the 19 others since the 1970 merger. That list, incidentally, includes Terry Bradshaw, Jim Plunkett, Steve Bartkowski, John Elway, Vinny Testaverde, Troy Aikman, Jeff George, Drew Bledsoe, Manning, Tim Couch, Michael Vick, David Carr, Carson Palmer, Eli Manning, Alex Smith, JaMarcus Russell, Matthew Stafford, Sam Bradford and Cam Newton.
Two wins in the season's final four games -- along with a conference loss by their nearest wild card pursuers, either Cincinnati or Pittsburgh -- restarts an AFC playoff run for the Colts that had resulted in 11 berths in 13 seasons with a healthy Manning at the helm.
Their final three opponents include Houston, Kansas City and Houston again.
Indianapolis hasn't been left out of the playoffs for two straight years since 1997 and 1998 -- the last season with Jim Harbaugh as its starting QB, and the first with Manning.
"There's some really good football teams behind us and we just have to take care of our own business," interim coach Bruce Arians said.
In the initial 19-13 defeat of Tennessee on Oct. 28, Luck completed 26 of 38 passes for 297 yards, an interception and 16-yard TD to running back Vick Ballard in overtime. Another rookie, T.Y. Hilton, had five catches for 35 yards in that game but has become a much more significant factor since with three 100-yard efforts in the last five.
Against Detroit, he caught six balls for exactly 100 yards.
The Colts have more than doubled the Titans on the scoreboard in the last nine games in Indy, winning eight times - including a 27-13 triumph last Dec. 18 in which Donald Brown galloped for 161 yards and a touchdown.
Last year, it was the team's first win after an 0-13 start. This year, they face a Tennessee squad entering as the league's 31st-best scoring defense -- allowing a less-than-gaudy 29.9 points per game.
Things have gone little better on offense for the Titans in recent days, resulting in 29 combined points in losses to Jacksonville and Houston after a 37-point outburst in a win at Miami on Nov. 11.
Injuries haven't helped and won't going forward, especially a season-ending broken leg sustained by right tackle David Stewart last week, alongside a knee injury that'll keep right guard Steve Hutchinson on the shelf for what could be the rest of the schedule as well.
That spells trouble for quarterback Jake Locker, who was sacked six times against Houston in addition to three interceptions and two lost fumbles. In fact, in the last two games, the second-year man has been the source of seven of the Titans' eight turnovers.
Locker threw for 309 yards and a touchdown against the Texans, while Chris Johnson ran for 51 yards on 13 carries after averaging 122 yards in six previous games. In the initial matchup with Indianapolis this season, Johnson had 99 yards on 21 carries. In his last two games in Indiana, he's gone for 94 yards on 35 attempts.
"It seems like this is one of those years where what can go wrong is going wrong, and we're getting challenged in a lot of different ways," said second- year coach Mike Munchak, whose franchise hasn't seen the playoffs since 2008. "The goal is to be a lot better in four weeks than you are right now. I mean that's all you can work on."
The Colts lead the all-time series, 22-13, and have won 15 of the past 19 encounters. Interim coach Arians won his lone meeting with the Titans in October, while Munchak split two games with Indianapolis last season before dropping the third game this year.
For the love of Curtis Painter, the Colts have become the fifth most-prolific passing team in the league through 12 games -- racking up an average of 285.6 yards.
Contrarily, the Titans are 26th in the league against the aerial game, allowing 257.5 yards alongside a league-worst 69.5 opposition completion percentage and 24 touchdowns that are tied for second-worst.
Not surprisingly then, Luck may look down the field to find youngsters Hilton and LaVon Brazill in addition to veterans Wayne and Donnie Avery. Indianapolis blitzed the Lions last week for 16.3 yards per catch, a number they may approach indoors against a vulnerable foe.
The bounce-back from the ugly loss to New England was started with a tough win against Buffalo and continued with the thriller against Detroit last week. Now, with the playoffs firmly within grasp, expect Luck to continue the progression that's proven how special the Indianapolis brass thought he was to begin with.
Sports Network predicted outcome: Colts 28, Titans 17


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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney might not be campaigning in Illinois until Monday, but he's poised to saturate the state's airwaves during the final week before the Illinois primary.
The contender and a political action committee backing his candidacy have poured in another $1.35 million into Chicago's TV ad market, sources familiar with the buy said Tuesday.
All told, the former Massachusetts governor and his allies have spent $2.26 million on television commercials in Illinois, with more than $1.7 million of that coming from the Restore Our Future SuperPAC.
Restore Our Future is allowed to take and spend unlimited amounts of money to directly advance a candidate. Romney's SuperPAC has spent millions in earlier primary and caucus states to run negative ads against former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The latest buy, for ads beginning Wednesday through Illinois primary day next Tuesday, involve only the Chicago broadcast market and include $800,000 from Restore Our Future and another $550,000 from Romney's campaign, said sources familiar with TV ad buys who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The big spending follows a Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll published last weekend that found Romney with only a narrow lead over Santorum. Romney's 35 percent to 31 percent advantage was within the poll's 4-percentage-point margin of error.
Romney aides, including Illinois chairman and state Treasurer Dan Rutherford, said as of now there were no plans for Romney to visit the state in advance of a planned trip on Monday.
"This isn't just going to be an air game, it's going to be a good ground game," Rutherford told reporters on a conference call during which Illinois Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno of Lemont endorsed Romney, though at one point she flubbed his name and called him "Mittney."
So far, records show none of the other candidates or their allied SuperPACs have purchased television time in the state.
Appearing by phone Tuesday afternoon on WLS 890-AM, Romney said he expected that voters would choose him for his private sector experience. Romney said picking one of his Republican rivals would just be sending "the same people to Washington and put them in different chairs."
"I do believe that I'll become the nominee," Romney said. "My delegate lead is substantial. I think at some point other candidates will realize that I will become the nominee and hopefully we'll be able to rally around together and make sure we can present a strong and untied front to replace President Obama."
The Illinois campaign is set to heat up rapidly on Wednesday, when Gingrich has planned to visit the suburbs and Rutherford and former U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastertof Oswego launch a Downstate fly-around to push the election of Romney-backed national nominating delegates. The actual presidential primary vote is a beauty contest, with the 54 pledged delegate candidates that are up for grabs the contests that matter most.
Additionally, U.S. Rep. Ron Paulof Texas is set to visit the University of Illinois on Wednesday night for a rally and town hall event that includes Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson of Urbana. Johnson is one of four members of Congress who have endorsed Paul's presidential candidacy.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Nov 2012 22:11 UTC
"The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience - and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system." Like I said: something is happening here. No, not all problems will be solved overnight - but something is happening here, and you have to start somewhere. The fact that several gaming companies and NVIDIA are working together on this is a very clear sign that commitments have been made.
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Intel joined the GPU-game quite late [...]
Maybe not so... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740#History - Intel GPUs trace their lineage from well before 3DFX era (curiously, with connection to... Lockheed Martin, of all companies)
I don't think it was the case of Intel planning for FOSS, more a side effect of their GFX chips being quite simple, not supporting many advanced (needing to be licensed) techniques.


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Aerial patrols are flying over I-85 in Cherokee County today to deter speeding motorists.
Aerial patrols are flying over I-85 in Cherokee County today to deter speeding motorists.
S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Billy Elder said the effort is a partnership between the agency and the Department of Natural Resources. Cherokee County was chosen for the patrols because of a high number of fatalities along I-85 last year and a marked increase this year.
Nine traffic fatalities occurred on I-85 in Cherokee County in 2011, and four people have been killed in two crashes so far this year, he said.
Elder said DNR provided the plane and pilot and a Highway Patrol trooper is on-board to measure speeds of passing motorists. When a violator is detected, the trooper radios the location of the vehicle and a description to another trooper on the ground, who stops the vehicle.
The aerial patrols are another tool the Highway Patrol employs to help reduce the number of crashes and fatalities, Elder said.
The aerial patrols will be under way throughout the day and evening hours on Friday, and Elder said they will likely return soon to the county.
"We aren't trying to blindside anyone with this operation," Elder said. "We want people to be aware so they will pay attention, slow down and stop aggressive driving."


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ORGANIZER: Maasai Wilderness Conservation
EVENT: 2011 ING New York City Marathon - $1 Mil a Mile
EVENT DATE: Nov 06, 2011
Edward Norton wrote -
This year, for the 2011 NYC Marathon, I'm looking to recruit 10 official runners to join my team and fundraise for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. We're asking each official runner to raise $6,000 for the MWCT.
The 10 runners will each get a slot in the 2011 New York City Marathon and we'll all go to dinner in New York sometime before the race. You'll also be a part of the campaign which I'll be tweeting about throughout the next couple months. I'm not running this year but my goal is to raise a lot of money for the MWCT and I need your help to make it happen. If you want one of these slots please email firstname.lastname@example.com right away.
Please know the team is also open to every runner who already has a slot in the marathon and to everyone else who can join the team and help me fundraise. But, it's just the first 10 people who commit to raising $6k each who get the official slots and dinner.
The Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust is an organization I care about deeply. I've been involved with the MWCT for over 10 years. In 2009, 29 other runners and I ran the New York Marathon to raise money for the MWCT and the campaign was a success...we raised over $1.2 million. The money we raise is used to protect the legendary ecosystems and astounding biodiversity of East Africa through conservation that directly benefits local Maasai communities.
The world increasingly relies on many traditional communities like the Maasai to protect the ecological treasures that exist within the land that they own. But the incredible wilderness and wildlife of Africa's grasslands and the famous culture of the Maasai people both face daunting threats to their long-term survival. The fate of both rests with the Maasai themselves as they work to figure out how to benefit from their incredible natural resources while preserving them.
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Avs' O'Reilly scores OT thriller
Ryan O'Reilly scored two goals, including a short-handed tally 45 seconds into overtime, and the Avalanche earned a 4-3 NHL preseason victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night for Patrick Roy's first win as Colorado's coach.
The Avalanche rallied after Dwight King's power-play goal at 38 seconds of the third period made it 3-1.
Steve Downie lifted the puck over sprawled goalie Martin Jones for a power-play goal at 3:20. O'Reilly made it 3-3 at 9:37 when he put in his rebound after taking a pass from Matt Duchene, who had three assists.
In overtime, O'Reilly spun around a defender near the net before knocking in a backhander for the winner.
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This morning I read the president's tweet about the wildfires in California being due to gross forestry mismanagement and, like, there he goes again, running his big stupid mouth about something he is a reverse-expert in. There goes another tally mark in the column of offenses of our Dunning-Kruger president. And it's frustrating to know that he's so impervious to maturation or growth that at no point will he gain enough knowledge to begin to realize how ignorant and incompetent he is. And I assume he's going to whatever hell awaits us all after this life, but the thing is? He's already in hell, right now. In Mormon belief, being damned means you no longer progress. Part of what makes hell so terrifying is that you live for the rest of eternity never learning or changing or growing--and that's how he's chosen to live the only mortal life he gets. He's put himself in that prison voluntarily! It boggles the mind.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
that in the spring becomes the rose
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Friday, January 19, 2018
my wild Irish rose
This is the most beautiful, heartbreaking, wonderful book I have read in a long time. It's not sad though! I mean, it is sad, very sad, in many places, in the ordinary everyday ways that life is sad, but it's also hopeful. I found it at a used bookstore in town and thought I'd give it a try since I had a vague idea of it being famous. I'm so glad I did--I cried through the last few pages because I was so sad to see it end. Please, please read this book.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
da traten die junger zu jesu
Every week I get ready to write something about the new nadir our country has reached, but then I get interrupted by something else and by the time I get back to the computer darn if we haven't plumbed new depths.
A big problem I see is that even if Trump were impeached, it's garbage on down the line of succession until you get to where, exactly? I mean, I guess Orrin Hatch would be sort of okay because he probably wouldn't start a nuclear war and is maybe slightly less hostile to the LGBT community than the people ahead of him in line, but even that would be a nightmare. And I don't know how far you have to go before it's somebody who's an actually decent human being. Is there even anybody decent on there? I guess I can google it.
I was going to post pictures of what my house currently looks like, but my computer is on the verge of eating all my photos and I don't dare do anything to it. But the house is looking great and maybe it will even get painted before Thanksgiving, but don't hold your breath.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
siempre, siempre con las moscas
I read a thread yesterday discussing President U Bum, and it helped a few things crystallize in my mind, like why I've been so down and frustrated and hopeless. John and I see eye-to-eye on most things, with the marked difference that he believes most people are still basically good and decent, and I believe that most if not all people, myself included, are merely lacking the proper motivation to become monsters. He's a day person! So this last almost-year since the election has been a real picnic, as I read more and more awful and infuriating things and become more and more upset, and he goes to work with nice people who most of the time are trying to do the right thing.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
pursuance (live)
I bought a Thai cookbook at the library's book sale last week, and my family is going to be miserable I'm sure, but I'm going to cook my way through it, as soon as the summer food season is over. I don't want to give up a single meal of tomato sandwiches that I don't have to, so I'm thinking October maybe? I also bought "The I Hate to Cookbook" by Peg Bracken because I have heard she is very funny, so it's worth it just for the humorous essays. Also, even though I usually do not hate to cook, I do hate long ingredient lists and complicated cooking methods. I was suspicious about a recipe I saw that calls for canned carrots, yuck, but I think I can figure out substitutes without too much trouble.
Construction on the house has been mostly stalled for weeks, because the windows did not come when they were supposed to. We did get most of the insulation last week, and the sheetrock was delivered, but we can't move forward on any inside work until the windows get here and the inspector takes a look at them and I guess decides that they really are the windows they are supposed to be. But the shingles are going on today, which is very exciting for me, and I think I finally found the green paint that I've been looking for for months now and had concluded existed only in my imagination, and that is even more exciting. It will look like a real, no-fooling house here in a couple of weeks.
Often people, I've seen it especially in Mormondom because that's where I spend my time, blanch at having the federal government be in charge of health care or various other areas because, and this is the quote I hear frequently, "The government that has the power to grant all things has the power to take all things," or "the benevolent hand of government soon becomes the oppressive hand of government." I think that's pretty obviously true, I have no quarrel with these sentiments. And U.S. Mormons have a pretty deep-seated cultural distrust of the federal government, which is also at play here. But our government currently does grant favors and is benevolent--toward the already-rich and powerful. Why is that okay? And if it's not, why aren't people spending more energy trying to dismantle an unjust and immoral system, instead of blocking any attempt to balance the scales?
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Friday, September 1, 2017
there's a laddie weary and wanderin' free
I'm trying something new for my errand-running today--I'm headed out to buy some paint and I'm taking along the book I'm currently reading (Cannery Row) and I'll try reading that while I'm standing in the checkout line instead of reading the increasingly infuriating news.
I plan to wear a uniform wardrobe of caftans when I get to the right age--I'm not sure what that age is, but I am confident I will know when the time arrives. I hesitate to tell anyone because I don't want anyone to jack my style, but also I want to be a good citizen who gives to the world more than she takes away, so there you are.
Choosing a paint color for the siding has me completely flummoxed. I hate all the colors of green now, and none of them are quite right. I thought I had found one, but I think I must have bought it in the paint store equivalent of the Room of Requirement, because I haven't been able to find it since, and of course the sample jar is all mixed up with the scores of other sample jars. Today I started my search anew and bought a bunch of sample quarts and painted them right on the plywood on the side of the house, since the siding won't be here until next week. It's helpful to see the color in big swaths like that, with the natural light and shading that it will have in real life. I want to use a nice rich color that looks authentic to a nearly 100-year-old Craftsman, and that is a challenge.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017
you know you could have been some perfume
The house remodeling continues apace. The insulation is in the walls now and it's interesting what a difference it has already made in the noise level, even though the windows are still gaping holes to the outside, letting flies and wasps in all the time.
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John Green: The Next Eric Pfeiffer?
ICFF provides the opportunity to meet young designers who are at the very beginning of their careers, when anything is possible. Twenty-four-year-old John Green flew over from the UK to show his furniture, and although his tiny booth was tucked away in a remote corner of the hall, he already had a well developed collection in production, he'd begun talking to US distributors, and he was ridiculously cute and optimistic about his future.
When I told him his work reminded me of Eric Pfieffer — former VP of design at Offi — Green said, "Oh yeah, Offi's already come by to see me!" Pfieffer is best known for the bent ply pieces he created for Offi, including the Mag Table, Scandio Table, and Wave Desk. The most obvious Pfieffer reference comes from John Green's Embrace Table — a bent ply design made of two pieces that fit together into one multifunctional shelf, coffee table, or laptop desk. (Green actually says the Embrace was inspired by Egon Riss' Isokon Penguin Donkey, another famous dual-purpose design in birch ply.)
While the work is similar to Pfieffer's, Green has his own unique ability to find lots of different practical applications within a simple form. His Standard Coat Rack was created from a broom handle that he cut up and reconfigured with steel connectors, and his Stable Table (stable = stool + table) features an ingenious cutout notch and steel rod that can double as a footrest or a magazine rack.
While young, Green already has retail partners in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Greece, and he's shown his work at Maison&Objet in Paris, 100% Design in London, and MACEF in Milan. We're looking forward to seeing how his furniture takes hold in America.
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• 10 Designers on Big Breaks and Lessons Learned at ICFF
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Asher Monroe Talks 'Hush Hush' Music Video & Working with Chris Brown (JJ Interview!)
Check out Asher Monroe's brand new music video for his single "Hush Hush"!
The 24-year-old singer, signed to D Empire Entertainment, is gearing up to release his debut album later this year,, which will feature collaborations with Chris Brown, Akon, Sean Kingston, and more!
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"I originally wanted to go with a more fantasy abstract theme," Asher told JJ of the video, which was shot in Bosnia by director Danis Tanovic. "Once I had the pleasure of teaming up with Danis Tanovic, who won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, I was very interested in the concept he had in mind when he had first heard the song. We both collectively came together and went with a more literal theme in terms of 'dirty little secret.'"
Asher added, "Filming in Bosnia was an amazing experience that came about all thanks to Diana Jenkins, the mastermind entrepreneur and record label head who's propelled my solo career on every front. For the video shoot, so many different, wonderful locations were used. We had enough material at the end of the day that we could have made at least five music videos. Danis pulled in his top-notch team. The overall feel and energy on set was simply magic. Danis and I worked extremely well together and we are both super proud of the final product."
Watch Asher's video for "Hush Hush" below!
Asher Monroe – "Hush Hush"
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JustJared.com Interview – Asher Monroe
JJ: What can you tell us about the meaning behind the song "Hush Hush" and why you chose that as the single?
AM: Well to be honest, I was going back and forth with two different titles. One was "Dirty Little Secret" and one was "Hush Hush." I really didn't know which one I liked better. My friend Ryan Tedder gave me advice that maybe go with "Hush Hush" because there was already a song called "Dirty Little Secret" by The All-American Rejects. I chose it as a follow-up single because I wrote and produced it alongside Alon Levitan. I had an amazing video already shot. I felt it was time to release it to my fans. I had made them wait long enough.
JJ: What is it like working with Chris Brown and being in the studio with him?
AM: Chris Brown is an amazingly talented singer/performer. I always wanted to work with him. I liked that we were both from Virginia and that we were both around the same age. You never know what you'll get from Chris in the studio whether its a song, lyric, beat, impromptu dance, joke. He's got a great energy and I definitely think we captured that working together in the studio.
JJ: Did he give you any advice about your upcoming debut album and/or did you learn anything from him about being in the industry in general?
AM: Chris has great work ethic. I learned a lot just by being around him in the studio. He doesn't let much get to him. He takes out most of his feelings or emotions in his music. I know he's a big fan of my album. I always hear he's playing it for this famous person or that famous person. I think he is very proud of the work we did in the studio.
JJ: "Hush Hush" already has a very different vibe than some of your other songs. What can you tell us about the album and what kind of sound it will have?
AM: Wow. That's a hard question. My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre. I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music. My album has a little pop, r&b, dance, reggae. It features Chris Brown, Sean Kingston, Ryan Tedder, and of course a few more surprise guests. I've worked really hard on this album and I think the world is ready to hear what I'm made of.
JJ: It seems like a long time coming for you! What can you tell us about the whole recording experience and getting to work with such talented people?
AM: I have come a long way. I don't think a lot of people realize how long I've been doing this. I have paid my dues and I'm continuing to build my craft, and learn and grow as much, and as fast as I can. I can honestly say that I'm blessed and honored to have worked and continue to work with such talented, amazing people. I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.
You can get updates on Asher's music by following him @AsherMonroe!


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Following their initial announcement at Winter Namm back in January, audio hardware specialists ESI have released their compact audio recorder – Rekord-M.
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North Carolina and its fragile Outer Banks braced for a blow from Hurricane Arthur on Thursday as the storm gained strength, took aim and threatened to wash out Fourth of July plans farther north along the East Coast.
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At 2 p.m. ET, the storm packed winds of 90 mph and was churning about 70 miles off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters said it would probably be a Category 2 storm, meaning winds of greater than 95 mph, when it brushed the Outer Banks later in the day. Some parts of the islands were evacuated, and a tornado warning was posted around Wilmington, near the South Carolina line. Farther north, major cities in the Northeast expected heavy rain on Friday, and July Fourth plans were moved or shelved. Boston moved its holiday Pops concert up a day, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, rescheduled its fireworks display for Sunday.
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Mumbai, Dec 26: Director Umesh Shukla, whose debut film Oh My God earned rave reviews, says they have almost finalised the script of the sequel, which will have a completely fresh story.
"We have zeroed on a script but we still have to work on that. We will finalise the things in next three to four days," said Shukla.
"It will be a different story altogether. It will be a story that will talk about religion and other issues. It will be a spicy film but an eye-opener. However this will be a fresh film and not a continuation from Oh My God," he added.
Oh My God was co-produced by Ashvini Yardi, Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal, with the two actors playing prominent roles in the film.
Asked if Akshay Kumar will be part of the new project too, Mr Shukla said: "Yes, Akshay will be part of the sequel, in fact he is part of our team. We will have to see Akshay's dates but it's too early to think about that. In the first place we have to finalise the script."
Paresh Rawal too is in no hurry to encash on the success of the film.
"We have identified one or two ideas but let's see. We must look at the script. We are not in a hurry to encash the popularity or the success of it. I feel if I have to make a sequel then it should be like Lage Raho Munna Bhai," said the veteran actor.


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Karen S. Myers-Bowman, associate professor in family studies and human services, co-authored a groundbreaking article on family life education published in the October issue of "Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies."
The article sets forth a new model that defines family life education as unique yet collaborative among the way in which professionals serve families. Co-authors are from Purdue University, East Carolina University and Florida State University.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – In her first game dressed in a Lady Tornado uniform, pitcher Hannah Light tossed a no-hitter as part of a complete game win over the Emory & Henry Wasps. Light led King to victory in game one while Rachael Wilmoth owned the circle in game two, tossing a five-inning, complete-game shutout to complete the sweep on opening day of the 2012 softball season.
GAME ONE: Emory & Henry 1, King 2
King starting pitcher Hannah Light (Coeburn, Va.) toed the rubber in her first game as a Lady Tornado and impressed the crowd tightly gathered on the hillside of the King College Softball Complex with seven innings of no-hit softball against the Wasps. The sophomore retired 21 of the 23 batters she faced during the season-opening 2-1 win, striking out six and walking two. After allowing a third-inning walk to eight-hitter Nicole Holdaway, Light retired the next 13 E&H hitters in succession to close the game out. She struck out four of her six in the final four frames, three looking.
Emory and Henry College (Va.) earned the game's first run, capitalizing on an early King error in the field. Jenae Morrissey drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt on the following batter. After a 1-3 putout, Kendall Brabson (Bean Station, Tenn.) tried to catch Morrissey taking third base on the throw, but her toss across the diamond went errant and allowed the Wasps to take an early lead. From that point, it was all King.
King took their first and only lead of the opening game with a two-run third inning. Sophomore third baseman Cassie Ringstaff (Richlands, Va.) led the inning off by driving a deep shot over the center field fence for the team's first home run of the season, tying the game at one. Two batters later, Brabson started a two-out rally with a double to deep left field. A wild pitch by Jen True advanced Brabson to third and Christy Kooch's double to the right-center field gap plated her to give King the lead, 2-1.
Ringstaff led the Lady Tornado with two hits from the top spot in the lineup, ending the day 2-for-3 with a run scored and a run batted in. Light (1-0) earned the win, allowing only one unearned run on zero hits. The game was Light's first as a Lady Tornado after transferring from Mars Hill College prior to this season.
GAME TWO: Emory & Henry 0, King 12 (F/5)
King wasted no time getting the offense going in game two of Friday's doubleheader, plating eight in the second inning to take a commanding lead and earning them a five-inning win, 12-0, over the Wasps.
As to not be outdone by her teammate, Rachael Wilmoth (Morristown, Tenn.) also put up a stellar opening day start for the shortened complete game, shut out win. The sophomore kept the Wasps scoreless through her five innings of work and allowed only two hits, both in the opening inning, before she settled down and retired 14 of the next 15 E&H hitters. Wilmoth struck out three, two swinging, while walking only one.
King escaped a two-on, one-out situation in the first after surrendering a pair of singles to Sylvia Robbins and Jen True. Light continued to dazzle the leather, flagging down a line drive to record the second out of the inning before Wilmoth retired the side by sitting down Ashley Ebersole with a strike three call.
After taking a 1-0 first-inning lead when Kendall Brabson forced home a run on a grounder to the right side, King exploded for eight runs in the second frame. Fallon Thomas (Bristol, Va.) led off the inning with a walk before the next four King hitters tagged starting pitcher Katie Grimm with singles to add to the lead, 2-0. Freshman Christina Melcher (Orlando, Fla.) shot a hard grounder to Jenae Morrissey at short, who was coming home with the play all the way. Morrissey bobbled the ball on the attempt, where Light beat the throw at the plate to score and extend the inning.
On the follow at bat, Tiffany Harris (Tazewell, Va.) found a hole in the right-center field gap plating two on her double and adding to the King lead, 5-0. Brabson notched her second RBI of the game with a single through the right side of the infield while Christy Kooch (Knoxville, Tenn.) hit a line drive, RBI double into left-center field to make the game 7-0. After freshman Cora Milliken (Jacksonville, Fla.) put another run on the board with a ground out to second baseman Bethany Anderson, Kooch displayed some heads-up base running from third on a foul pop out down the first base side when she aggresively tagged up and score, giving King a 9-0 lead.
The Lady Tornado plated three more runs in the fourth inning on wild pitch by Jen True, a throwing error by right fielder Nicole Holdaway, and a walk that plated a runner all leading a to a 12-0 lead for King.
Wilmoth had more than enough run support from her team to fuel her through her five innings of work before the game was called due to run limits. She retired the last 11 batters she faced in the game and recorded two of her three strikeouts in the final two innings. Milliken flashed some leather on the final play of the game, robbing Jelisa McFadden of a hit through the 3-4 hole when she dove to her left and snagged a hard hit grounder and retired her for the final out of the game.
Three Lady Tornado recorded multiple hits in the second of two games, all from the middle of the order. Tiffany Harris and Kendall Brabson each had two hits and two RBI while Christy Kooch has two hits, one RBI, and two runs scored. Fallon Thomas also tallied two RBI.
King (2-0) will play at Mars Hill College (Mars Hills, N.C.) in a doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m. The Lions are 6-5 this season, 3-3 at home.


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Piotr Galitzine, chairman of Ipsco Tubulars Inc. and NS Group Inc., has another title prince. And like any nobleman worth his salt, Prince Galitzine can trace his family's history back more than six centuries.
Galitzine's clan, which originated in the city of Novgorod in northwest Russia, recently held its first global family reunion, including a celebration of 675 years as Russians and 600 years as Muscovites.
"We were a little bit forced to come to Moscow because Ivan the Terrible destroyed our army—so we become Muscovites unwillingly," Galitzine said. But no matter—any excuse to get the family together is a good one, he joked.
Galitzine's family is originally from Lithuania—"back when Lithuania was a big, important country"—and stretched from the North Sea to the Black Sea, he said. As part of the royal line in Lithuania, male heirs later became princes in Russia.
While Galitzine's family roots might be in Lithuania, he is firmly committed to philanthropic enterprises in his not-so-recently adopted homeland. As chairman of the board of trustees of the Village Church of Russia, Galitzine works to conserve provincial churches, many of which were destroyed during Soviet times.
"In post-Soviet Russia, the money that started to appear in the second half of the '90s, when it was invested in churches at all, was invested mostly in churches in cities and in places where that investment would have the necessary PR impact," he said. "The province always got the short end of the stick, so we work on churches exclusively in the province that are on the verge of falling apart."
The group has worked on approximately 44 churches. But the Soviets destroyed roughly 70,000 churches, "so we still have a way to go."
Restoration work generally starts with mountain climbers cutting trees and bushes out of cupolas. The organization then provides heavy equipment and scaffolding for structural work like restoring roofs. But local people generally provide the manpower for cleaning out the churches. In one church, they hauled away four tractor loads of cow bones. "It's not a top-down project, it's a bottom up, which gives it a very grassroots flavor," he said.
In many churches, the bell towers remained standing because people were afraid of pulling them down on top of themselves. And the oldest part of the church—the structure under the dome—often was left largely intact thanks to traditional masonry practices that involved using egg whites to make mortar. "The gluing effect is so strong, that basically you cannot tear those churches apart," Galitzine said.
With limited resources, the group's efforts focus mainly on making the churches weatherproof so that people can again pray in them protected from the elements. The cost for a new roof, windows and doors about $35,000 to $45,000 per church, he said. "We don't go in for golden domes, we don't go in for marble floors and we don't go in for stained glass windows. We just do what it takes to make the church weather-tight and usable again."
But on some occasions, the group does a full restoration, which can cost five times more than the typical project. For example, the Nikitskaya Church, in the Konakovo district of the Tver region, was fully restored. Its restoration was paid for by a friend of Galitzine whose son was killed in a traffic accident not far from the church and was buried in the church's cemetery "back when the church consisted of two and a half walls," he said. "He made a promise to his son that he would rebuild that church."
Funding for the projects come from local communities, personal donations from further afield and from groups like the Paul Klebnikov Fund. Klebnikov, the first editor of Forbes Russia, was gunned down in Moscow in 2004. The fund was set up by his widow to promote civil society, journalism and cultural heritage.
Galitzine also is involved in the Russian Women's Micro-Finance Network, which aims to lift women in the provinces out of poverty with small loans to help them start small businesses. The project is modeled on the work of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus. Similar projects have been applied successfully across the world, he said, noting that the group has loaned out about $100 million over the past 12 years. Many of the loans involve just $2,000 for three-month periods. Some of the women use the loans to buy sewing machines to start small businesses or open kiosks to sell flowers. And unlike men, women rarely fail to pay back the loans, he said, and less than 1 percent are late in meeting their terms.
Sweden's Svenskt Stal AB (SSAB) in March agreed to sell its North American Tubulars unit—Ipsco Tubulars Inc.—to Evraz Group SA in a deal valued at about $4.025 billion (AMM, March 14). At the same time, Russian steelmaker Evraz entered a deal to sell the U.S. portion of Ipsco's tubular and seamless business—including some assets of the former NS Group Inc.—to OAO TMK, Russia's largest tubular player, for approximately $1.2 billion. TMK also has an option, exercisable in 2009 for approximately $500 million, to buy the remaining 49 percent of NS Group from Evraz. MICHAEL COWDEN
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What began as a grassroots songwriters festival in January to benefit the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County, has now grown into one of the country�s most revered festivals. Talented songwriters and eager visitors travel to the beach into an otherwise quiet time of year to create the perfect symbiotic relationship between listener and artist in quaint venues along 30A.
In its fifth year, the festival, scheduled for Jan. 17-19, has some exciting elements in store for guests including a dedicated radio station, complimentary shuttles, VIP wine and music dinners, a CAA members-only concert and more than 150 performing artists including such esteemed artists as Kristian Bush (Sugarland), Loudon Wainwright III, Ani DiFranco, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Richard Thompson, Shawn Mullins, John Oates, Rusty Young (Poco), Jonathan Edwards, Craig Fuller (Pure Prairie League), John Gorka, Mary Gauthier, James McMurtry, Bob Schneider, Glenn Phillips Band, Matthew Sweet, Jeffrey Steele, Jim Lauderdale and Tinsley Ellis, with more to be announced in the coming weeks.
The 30A Songwriters Festivalis known throughout the music world as a destination where writers who perform their own music, and performers who write their own songs, come together for a weekend of soulful melodies, powerful vocals and compelling lyrics. Two VIP music dinners with guest chefs Stephen Satterfield from Miller Union and Joe Truex from Watershed (both in Atlanta) with wine pairings selected by wine expert Adam Caperton (former owner of The Larder on 30A) have been added to the 2014 schedule.
�There is a profound meeting of the minds with everyone involved in the festival,� says Russell Carter, co-producer/festival chair. �Musicians across the country have experienced � or heard about � the rewards of performing on 30A in unique venues in front of the best listening audiences possible. Meanwhile, music fans near and far have learned that 30A is the annual premier music destination for the third weekend of January.�
�The success of our festival from the start has resulted in part from the positive support of our local businesses and volunteers,� says Jennifer Steele, co-producer/executive director of the CAA. �Each year we add new venues and housing partners, renew our relationships with volunteers, and add corporate sponsors who are passionate about the arts in Walton County. As the stature of our event grows internationally, we remain thankful for the grassroots support of our South Walton community.�
The 30a Songwriters Festival is co-produced by the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) and Russell Carter Artist Management, and is presented by Visit South Walton. 100 percent of the net proceeds from the 30A Songwriters Festival benefit the CAA and help it to fulfill its mission to support the arts throughout Walton County. Members of the CAA receive an additional 10 percent off weekend passes and admission to an exclusive performance on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Fish Out of Water. Call (850) 622-5970 to become a member and take advantage of the discount.
Special housing packages can be found from lodging partners The Homeowners� Collection in Seaside,SunburstBeach Vacations, Ocean Reef Vacation Rentals, Beach Rentals of South Walton, Courtyard by Marriott Sandestin at Grand Boulevard and Resort Quest.
For more information on the 2014 30A Songwriters Festival, including a full list of artists, venues, maps and ticket purchase information, visit www.30asongwritersfestival.com
�The 30A Songwriters Festival is the Sundance of songwriter festivals,� said songwriter Joe Leathers.
Insider tips on getting the most out of the festival:
� Choose a favorite venue rather than artist and make that your hub for the night or weekend. (You�ll be surprised with discovering new favorite artists while enjoying your favorites as well.)
� Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to wait in lines based on popularity of the performer and size of the venue. If there is someone you really want to hear, get there early.
� Download the official 30A Songwriters Festival app for Android and iPhone to stay up to date with schedule changes, maps, shuttle locations and more essential info.
� Take the complimentary shuttle! If you must drive, account for drive time and choose your venues based on proximity to one another.
� Wear layers when going from indoor to outdoor performances. Official 30ASWF blankets, fleeces and jackets will be for sale at Festival headquarters and outdoor venue.
� Listen to the official online radio station to sample 2014 artists before planning your schedule: http://30aswf.gigdog.fm


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In addition to an extensive list of features, these phones are exceptionally fast. However, some simple tweaks make it possible to speed things up even more. One method is to change the animation settings.
To begin, tap the All Apps icon in the Favorites Tray, and slide to Settings.
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In Settings, scroll down to Developer options in the System section.
In the User Interface section of Developer options, there are two animation scales, Window animation scale, and Transition animation scale. To speed up transitions (and your phone's reaction time), either turn off animations, or reduce the scale. Here, we'll turn them off.
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Representative Spencer Bachus (R-6th, Alabama), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, today announced the following changes among subcommittee ranking members: • Rep. Judy Biggert (R- 13th, IL) will serve as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, filling the vacancy created by the untimely death of Rep. Paul Gillmor. • Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-2nd, WV) will serve as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, filling the vacancy created as Rep. Biggert assumes her new duties. Rep. Capito previously served as Deputy Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises. "I am grateful for the confidence my colleagues have placed in me, and I am pleased to accept a leadership role on this important subcommittee. It would be impossible to truly fill the large shoes left by my late friend, Paul Gillmor, but I hope to live up to his good example of hard work and bipartisan cooperation," said Rep. Biggert, who has served on the Financial Services Committee since 1999 and the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit since 2001. "I would like to commend Ranking Member Bachus for his leadership on the Financial Services Committee," stated Rep. Capito. "I look forward to the new challenges of serving as Ranking Member on the Housing Subcommittee and welcome this opportunity to highlight the housing needs of our nation, especially in rural communities." "The House Financial Services Committee continues to face a number of important issues during the 110th Congress," stated Rep. Bachus. "During my service on the Committee, I have gotten to know Representatives Biggert and Capito very well. Both colleagues are top-notch legislators who will perform their new duties with integrity, thoughtfulness, and energy. Ranking Member Gillmor was not only an outstanding legislator, he was a good man who was a friend to all on the Committee, and we will miss him deeply."
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