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America's Most Wanted: Skilled Workers
A highly skilled workforce is necessary to meet 21st century manufacturing needs.
Consider a manufacturing career amid media reports of shuttered factories, job losses and the worst economy since the Depression? Although certainly counter-intuitive, the answer to that question is a resounding yes! Despite the shaky economy, scores of American manufacturers are reporting a dire need for skilled labor.
Industry surveys reinforce this claim. According to the 2009 Manpower Talent Shortage Survey, among the most difficult jobs to fill in North America are those of the skilled manual trades, with electricians, carpenters/joiners and welders as the most in-demand employees.
In addition, an October 2009 report issued by the Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte and Oracle, cites that among companies involved in skilled production (whose employees are machinists, craft workers and technicians), 51 percent report shortages and see increased shortages ahead.
Although the U.S. has lost huge numbers of manufacturing jobs to countries like China, there still are well paying job opportunities for skilled workers in the manufacturing sector here. As more and more baby boomers retire, the problem is only expected to accelerate.
The looming skilled-worker shortage is an unwelcome threat to the nation's manufacturing base that needs to be addressed at multiple levels, from better educating the next generation of factory workers to improving the public's image of plant work.
There's no doubt manufacturing has an image problem – especially among today's youth. A national poll of teenagers underscored in a major way teens' disinterest in manufacturing and working with their hands, and how the educational system ignored this arena as a viable career option.
The poll, sponsored by Nuts Bolts & Thingamajigs, the Foundation of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, showed 52 percent of teens have little or no interest in a manufacturing career and another 21 percent are ambivalent. When asked why, a whopping 61 percent said they seek a professional career, far surpassing other issues such as pay (17 percent), career growth (15 percent) and physical work (14 percent).
A major reason kids don't pursue careers in the skilled trades is the simple fact they are not introduced to them anymore. In the past, high school students could take a shop class and get a feel for working with tools, but today most don't have that chance.
Also, factory conditions have changed dramatically – yet many of today's youth are unaware. The old stereotypes of backbreaking labor and grimy working conditions persist, yet it's far from the truth. Ask people today what they think of manufacturing and most will probably recite a perception of a dirty, dangerous place that requires little thinking or skill from its workers and offers minimal opportunity for personal growth or career advancement.
It's absolutely critical to change this mindset and show young people how manufacturers have modernized, embraced new technologies and involved workers in management and product development.
American adults, too, may be a root cause of disinterest among American youth to fill jobs in the industrial arena. Another NBT poll revealed that America has become a nation of "non-tinkerers," with 60 percent of adults avoiding major household repairs, opting to hire a handyman, enlist their spouse, ask a relative or contact a property manager. And, 57 percent state they have average or below average skills at fixing things around the house.
This means young people essentially have no role models when it comes to repairing things themselves or taking pride in building something useful. It's no wonder why so many teens today dismiss the idea of considering a career in manufacturing or one of the manual arts such as electrical, plumbing, carpentry or welding.
Yet the survey also offers some hope that parents could influence their children to think about manufacturing work. The poll reveals parents actually would support having a young factory worker in their family. More than half – 56 percent – would recommend their child pursue a career in manufacturing or another kind of industrial trade.
Knowing so many parents will back their children in this career path is truly welcome news. When America recovers from its economic downtown, it will be vital to inform the nation's youth about the available opportunities.
The manufacturing environment is changing in terms of needs, opportunities and the talents required. Most of the fastest growing manufacturing jobs today require advanced knowledge and skills, but many in the available workforce lack these proficiencies and the educational background.
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Nearly 5M sign up to support change of Myanmar's military-drafted constitution
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YANGON, Myanmar – The party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has collected nearly 5 million signatures in support of changing Myanmar's military-drafted constitution and challenging the military's dominance in parliament.
Suu Kyi's party has set a priority on changing an article in the 2008 constitution that requires a 75 percent parliamentary approval to amend major chapters of the charter. The military occupies 25 percent of the seats.
National League for Democracy party spokesman U Nyan Win said Wednesday the campaign for signatures was a success since it was done under pressure and intimidation by authorities.
The campaign was launched nationwide on May 27 and ended on July 19.
The party will submit the list of signatures to parliament where a committee can suggest changes.

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The table we published in last week's Rochester Times, detailing real estate activity in Strafford County for the eight-year period ending in December 2012 clearly shows the downward track of the property market roller-coaster, as measured by the number of deeds and mortgages recorded annually.
That same table also indicates that we have reached the bottom of dip and are beginning to head back up again — a journey to recovery, if the last major real estate debacle is a guide, that may take five years or so. That word "recovery," though, should be used with caution, for if house prices climb back up to the dizzying heights of the past, and once again outpace the increase in an average family's annual income, while financiers find new ways to lure the gullible to get in too deep, the unhappy consequences can be guessed.
The last big property bust, as real estate veteran Bill Cormier reminds us, occurred around 1988 and it was at least 1993 before home prices recovered to what they were — about a five year recovery period. Things were both better and worse, back then in the Seacoast area. What saved a lot of homeowners from foreclosure during that period was the large down payment that new home buyers were required to make ... around 20 percent of the value in many cases, so that even when property prices sagged, the value of the home was often still above the outstanding mortgage.
That was the good news. The bad news, for those who can't recall, is that several regional banks failed, Pease Air Force Base, which pumped money into the local economy, closed, and the unemployed rate soared as shoe factories moved offshore.
Now the situation is a little different. The greater Rochester economy is more diverse and arguably less vulnerable than it was 20 years ago, with the manufacturing sector no longer as dominant. Also, local and state banks are in good shape, for it was the leading national banks and Wall Street that bundled shoddy mortgages into toxic assets that lead to the financial crisis which erupted in 2008.
Back at our real estate activity table, the numbers show that 2012 was a marked improvement over 2011, except for the foreclosures column.
Last year, in Rochester, there were 129 foreclosures, compared to 118 the year before, and there have now been almost 700, from 2007 onwards. Apart from the personal misery for the families involved, and the strain then experienced by social service providers, these bank-owned properties are put on the market and sold at prices that hold back the rebound, and thus keep many other homeowners close to being "under water."
As long as repossessed homes, too, are being unloaded onto the property market in large numbers, it slows down a recovery in the construction sector of the economy, and this sector — although, statewide, it only employs between, 20,000 and 30,000 workers, depending on the time of year — has a ripple effect.
A healthy construction industry benefits wholesale suppliers and retail outlets, real estate agents, lawyers and appraisers, insurance brokers, landscapers and lawn care guys and a host of others.
Underpinning it all, though, is the ability of people — especially young people — to buy a home, and thus a healthy job market is of paramount importance.
Although the New Hampshire economy, as a whole, crept in the wrong direction in 2012, and counter to the national trend of slow improvement, we remain optimistic that in the greater Rochester area, at least, 2013 will be a watershed year — one of advancement.


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Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
The sleazy side of corporate business, corporate politics, and corporate athletics are exposed in this story that follows two extremely successful media moguls who compete for ownership of a football team. The football field is a backdrop for this gripping tale of greed, deception, and the relentless quest for power. An all star ensemble cast rounds out the movie and includes: Ben Kingsley, Gabriel Byrne, Illeana Douglas, Jason Lee, Jeffrey Tambor, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Paul Mazursky, R. Lee Ermey
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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros get chafing from this saddlesore William Hartnell story...
Westerns were still popular in the mid-sixties - they had been a staple of American cinema for decades and the fifties and early sixties had seen the genre make its way into glowing boxes in the corner of living rooms around the world. Programmes like The Virginian and The High Chaparral breathed new life into what was something of an ailing genre and by season three of Doctor Who, the production was eager to cash-in on this particular genre.
Following on immediately from the TARDIS crew's previous adventure, the Doctor (William Hartnell) has hurt his tooth on a piece of confectionary and is in urgent need of a dentist. Materialising in the town of Tombstone in America's Old West, the resident dentist is Doc Holliday, who happens to be embroiled in a feud with the Clanton family, and the mysterious Johnny Ringo is heading toward the town. Pretty soon, The Doctor, Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) find themselves caught up in the events that would culminate in the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
The Gunfighters is a frustrating story - as there is much humour that actually works, and William Hartnell seems to be genuinely enjoying the change of pace that this particular serial allowed, but there are so many negatives, including some of the ropiest American accents ever heard. To say that some of the accents heard in this story aren't particularly convincing would be an understatement, but they're nowhere near as bad as the one sported by Peter Purves as Morton Dill in the Dalek story, The Chase, which has to go down in televisual history as not only one of the worst accents ever heard on the small screen, but also one of the most toe-curling performances to go with it. There are one or two members of the cast who have accents that are so flat, that it almost sounds as though they haven't bothered and are playing characters who recently shipped in from Norfolk to seek their fortune.
As with a previous story, The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, much hangs upon a case of mistaken identity - in The Massacre, The Doctor bore a physical resemblance to a mysterious Abbott, here he simply happens to be be a doctor and is mistaken for Doc Holliday by the Clantons because he is known as "The Doctor".
There are numerous reasons as to why quite a large number of Doctor Who fans dislike this particular story and one of the main ones has got to be the dreadful song that plays frequently during the proceedings, The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon, as performed by Lynda Barron; this dirge was probably intended to underscore the action and have Barron as an unseen minstrel or Greek chorus, but it just serves to annoy an audience and astound them with just how many words rhythm with "saloon". The frequent appearance of this ballad is at its most irritating during episode three, where almost every dramatic incident has its own verse and everything seems to stop dead for the thing. At one point, even Peter Purves is forced to sing the song at gunpoint, and after the fourth time, he groans at being made to sing it again - he was possibly empathising with the audience...
As mentioned earlier, Hartnell is clearly having great fun in a story that doesn't involve some great evil and doesn't seem quite as grumpy as usual, providing several genuinely amusing comedic moments that became fewer and farther between as the end of his time on the show drew closer. At one point, a direct reference is made to the name "Doctor Who" - you can easily imagine a three-year-old Russell T Davies sitting in front of a small black and white television set in Swansea, bouncing up and down and clapping gleefully at such a thing. Hartnell's clothing in this story perfectly illustrates the initial concept behind The Doctor's clothing, in that it is dark, simple and sober, relfecting a bygone age where such clothing signified respect and authority, not to mention blending in easily with his surroundings - just sticking an appropriate hat on The Doctor in The Gunfighters sees him perfectly fitting into the environment. This concept carried on and started falter toward the end of the Tom Baker era - just don't get us started on the sartorial vomit that poor old Colin Baker was forced to wear.
Purves and Lane also appear to be having fun in this change-of-pace story, with the two of them hamming things up for the camera and giving them the chance to dress up in the sort of clothes that would have gotten them strung up in the Old West. Regardless of the historical accuracy of the clothing, Jackie Lane certainly looked cute in that cowgirl outfit...
Special mention must go to actor John Alderson, who plays Wyatt Earp - not only does he look the part, with his period moustache and world-weary expression, but he makes a pretty good fist of an American accent, along with a great dramatic performance that helps to anchor the story and avoid the thing slipping to the realm of parody.
Actor David Graham takes a break from providing Dalek voices to appear as Charlie, the ill-fated bartender in this story. Graham's forte really was voiceover work, but he's not too bad in this story, even if he overplays the stereotypical mannerisms associated with a nervous, shifty type and he has a couple of the vocal ticks that would forever be associated with the character of Brains in Thunderbirds.
Amidst the blatantly phoney accents, it was great to hear the distinctive (and genuine) American-esque tones of Shane Rimmer, one of the great unsung character actors of the late 20th century. Rimmer's face (and voice) will be familiar to many, having put appearances in many of the blockbusters of the seventies and eighties because he happened to be an Canadian actor residing in the UK and was often called upon to provide a what passed for a "real" US accent to films and television. Rimmer's almost-authentic tones only serve to draw attention to the fake ones, but he his appearance in The Gunfighters is still most welcome - it's just a pity that his appearance is fairly small, making you wish that he could have been cast in one of the meatier roles that were inhabited by actors who couldn't do accents.
As an interesting aside, future leading man Patrick Troughton was considered for the role of Johnny Ringo, but the production ultimately chose Laurence Payne; let's hear it for small mercies, as it would have been unlikely that Troughton would have been considered for the lead role when Hartnell bowed out, seeing as Troughton was the quintessential jobbing actor and probably wouldn't have wanted to have played two roles in the same programme. Oh, and Pat would have almost certainly been able to pull off a better American accent than the laughable one that Payne employs - it's so bad that it almost sounds as though he didnt' bother.
The production values in this story aren't particularly impressive; it has often been said that there are two things that can be put into a low budget production to make it seem grander in scale - helicopters and horses. Seeing as helicopters hadn't been invented back in the times of the Old West (though Da Vinci had been tinkering with the concept a little before then), the inclusion of a few old nags makes perfect sense and the opening of the first episodes sees cowboys on horseback and helps to get the story off to a rousing start. The story was shot in a small studio and some of the backdrops appear to be painted (the excellent restoration job makes this even more obvious) and there are a couple of instances of the dreaded wobbly sets (which was largely untrue on Doctor Who); there are one or two parallels that could be drawn between The Gunfighters and Edward D Wood's Plan Nine From Outer Space, in that both productions had big ambitions and wanted tell a grand story, but the finances simply weren't there, so both had to resort to shooting in small studios and use painted backdrops and some occasionally dodgy props and scenery - though in Wood's magnum opus, a tombstone happens to fall over in the cemetery set, but if a similar thing happened in The Gunfighters, then all of Tombstone would have fallen over...
The story climaxes with the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which shows the opposing forces of the Earps and the Clantons shooting it out. The depiction of it here isn't too bad, with what initially appears to be a slow-motion shoot-out, but the viewer eventually realises that it was just down to not particularly impressive choreography and stunt-work. This downbeat finale to the story is one that was inevitable given the story and is strikingly at odds with the light-hearted tone of the rest of The Gunfighters.
On a historic note for the series, The Gunfighters was the last story to feature individual titles for each episode; the following story, The Savages, would see the four instalments being numerically titled, robbing Doctor Who of a little of the quirkiness that it possessed in the early years.
We have to admit that we weren't expecting much from the transfer, as we had only caught a screening of this story when it was broadcast on UK Gold a good number of years ago and it looks truly ghastly. We were aware that it had been released on video in a remastered edition, but nothing could prepare us for how it would look on DVD, and in a word it can be summed up as...
The videotaped studio material looks absolutely stunning, allowing the viewer the closest possible experience to watching The Gunfighters as it was originally being broadcast. You might think that we're exaggerating, but we're not; off the top of our heads, we can't think of another sixties-era Doctor Who DVD release that looks as amazing as this does. The blacks are lovely and inky, the amount of image detail on display is most impressive and everything just has a "solid" feel to it - the Doctor Who Restoration Team have really outdone themselves with this one.
Sadly, The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon is still on the soundtrack and it's as naff as ever, but you at least have the ability to savour every single word in the thing this time around, as the clarity afforded it is certainly more than it deserves. The rest of the monaural audio is just fine, too.
Audio Commentary: Actors Peter Purves, Shane Rimmer, David Graham and Richard Beale, production assistant Tristan de Vere Cole and moderator Toby Hadoke. We gently criticised one of Mr Hadoke's other Doctor Who efforts recently, but we were impressed with how he fared during the audio commentary for The Gunfighters, as he keeps the speakers on-topic and also interjects some interesting little nuggets of information that causes the other participants to have sparks of remembrance that open up new avenues of discussion.
Peter Purves is his usual wonderful self, remembering much of the recording of the show, along with his usual gentle criticising of certain aspects of Doctor Who. He rattles off several amusing, and at times profoundly interesting, anecdotes about working with William Hartnell, along with his thoughts on what worked and what didn't work on The Gunfighters. In audio commentary terms for Doctor Who stories, Peter Purves is probably one of the closest things to "a safe pair of hands" that there is.
Shane Rimmer stays for the first couple of episodes and his laconic demeanour plays well against David "Brains" Graham, which is no surprise, really, as the two of them worked on Thunderbirds and have probably been bumping into each other at various conventions over the years.
At one point, Hadoke gets around to discussing "the elephant in the room" that is the issue of The Gunfighters being regarded as the worst Doctor Who story of all time; Hadoke goes on to explain why this came about (because of one or two reference books that hated it) and asks everyone else about their feelings on the subject, which just happens to be that most of the participants on the commentary track things that it's either not that bad, or it's pretty good. The REAL elephant in the room isn't touched upon until the third episode, when The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon is finally discussed, with most of them not being the greatest fans of that particular ditty, with Purves expressing a particular dislike at having to sing the thing several times during the story. This is a breezy, relaxed and very enjoyable audio commentary that makes you appreciate the effort that went into the making of The Gunfighters.
The End of the Line: Doctor Who had been on the air for two years and was already on its way to becoming a national institution, with The Doctor, the TARDIS and the Daleks having already reached iconic status. All three of the original actors playing the companions had left the show and producer Verity Lambert had similarly departed, but there were more to come during season three, which would test the hardiness of the production and this 45 minute documentary examines this transitional period that came early into Doctor Who's history.
The different eras of Doctor Who can be more easily accepted when looking back on the nearly three-decade run of the show, but when some of the original cast and crew started to leave only a year or two into production, it must have been pretty disconcerting and possibly a threat to the long-term continuation of the show. Hartnell's health was already noticeably declining and plans were afoot to replace him, whether he wanted to leave or not and this documentary also touches upon the reaction from Hartnell over the decision to replace him with a younger leading man. One would imagine that he really was heartbroken, as he had made the role his own after spending most of his career in supporting parts - no matter how good they might have been, Doctor Who was HIS show and at the time, it must have been nearly inconceivable to think of someone else taking over. Hartnell's real-life irascibility is covered, and several examples of how short-tempered he truly was are given, with Maureen O'Brien mentioning that she had the unenviable task of snapping Hartnell out of one of his hissy fits by making him laugh.
Speaking of Ms O'Brien, the decidely unprofessional circumstances her unceremonious departure from Doctor Who is discussed here - she wasn't happy with the show and was thinking about leaving, but didn't expect to return from the production break to be given only one script instead of a full season's worth.
This is absolutely wonderful stuff - the sort of thing that Doctor Who fans-turned-professionals do so well, bringing their wealth of knowledge and being able to charm and persuade (maybe even bribe...) former cast and crew members to appear in front of the cameras, including actors Maureen O'Brien, Anneke Wills and Peter Purves, along with script editor Donald Tosh and New-Who writer Gareth Roberts.
This documentary also has the participation of Ian Levine; though the press release for Earth Stories describes him as a "long time Doctor Who viewer", to hardened Who fans, he is much more than that, being one of the show's biggest champions and prevented numerous early episodes from certain destruction. Mr Levine recounts his memories of watching The Daleks Masterplan as a child and the horrifying effect that the Christmas episode, The Feast of Steven, had on him and his school-mates. If you've ever watched Loose Cannon's recon of this episode, you'll get a flavour of just how much of a televisual train-wreck it was.
This documentary is one of the most informative and ridiculously enjoyable ones that has ever been produced for a Doctor Who DVD release; it's well-paced, fabulously interesting and at times, very amusing - what more could you ask for?
Tomorrow's Times – The First Doctor: This is another in the semi-regular series that examines the newspaper coverage of Doctor Who is, as usual, presented by a Doctor Who actor from another era of the show, in this case the original Romana, Mary Tamm. This fourteen minute whistle-stop look at the Hartnell era is tremendous fun, with Ms Tamm seemingly doing her best (and pretty amusing) Anne Robinson impersonation as she introduces some pretty barbed comments from the press, including one decidedly dodgy quip about one of the Daleks from The Chase being "almost certainly queer". This cross between Points of View and What The Papers Say (can the Beeb please bring that show back? We used to love it) is possibly the best one yet, helping to show how the press looked upon - and mostly down upon - the Hartnell era. It's depressing to see that back in the sixties, the Daleks were perceived to be such a staple of the series that critics wrongly thought that either the show was using them too much or that it couldn't possibly function without them. Our only complaint would be that this was a little too short and could have easily been around ten minutes longer, but maybe the best thing to do is leave the audience wanting more...
Photo Gallery: production, design and publicity photos from the story, set to the entirety of The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon - aren't you lucky? Regardless of how you might feel about the accompanying music, there's a nice mix of publicity and production pictures, several of which seem to indicate that William Hartnell was indeed having a good time whilst The Gunfighters was being made.
Coming Soon Trailer: It's time to dive for cover as another story from Sylvester McCoy's debut season is released on DVD - Paradise Towers! Featuring more of John Nathan-Turner's gimmicky stunt-casting in the shape of Richard Briers, you can at least enjoy the entertaining trailer they were able to make from picking through the wreckage of this televisual train-crash.
Trivia Track: Once again, every scrap of existing information about the production of The Gunfighters has been collected, collated, sifted and analysed to bring it to you in a manner that won't have your head exploding, blip-vert fashion. This track is, as always, diligently researched (this time by Doctor Who historian David Brunt) and given the historical nature of the story, it helps to put The Gunfighters in context and also highlights the differences and inaccuracies between the this fictionalised version and the real events that led up to and surrounded the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As well as these somewhat weightier aspects, there are many moments along the way where some of the more lighter moments are highlighted, including a couple of on-screen fluffs being pointed out, particularly one where Jackie Lane tries not to laugh when one of her co-stars trips over his lines. Mr Brunt also has a dry sense of humour, especially when pointing out some of the mistakes that occur, such as a microphone apparently coming into shot in order to pay it's respects to a character who had just been gunned down on-screen. Great stuff - as always!
PDF Material: As usual, the Radio Times listing for each episode are presented here, along with a feature article (along with a couple of pictures) that was used to publicise the story in the RT, which tries plays on the apparent participation of The Doctor in the events that led up to the gunfight of the O.K. Corral; it's a fun little read that seems to indicate that although westerns were starting to wane a little by the time The Gunfighters was broadcast, the prospect of Doctor Who having a western-flavoured adventure was a prospect deemed worthy of publicising more than usual.
On a personal note, it's a pity that [i]The Gunfighters marks the last story featuring the character of Dodo to be released on DVD. Jackie Lane is the only living member of the TARDIS crew to have declined to participate in the supplementary features. It would have been nice for her to have appeared in the End of the Line documentary to allow her to talk about her departure from the show or, more preferably, a featurette about the enigmatic Lane and her career before, during and after Doctor Who. Lane apparently came very close to agreeing to be on the audio commentary for The Ark, but pulled out at the last minute; though Lane claims to have hardly any recollection of her time on Doctor Who, it would have been a fairly safe bet that Peter Purves would have been able to jog her memory.
The Gunfighters isn't a particularly terrible story, it's just marred by some dodgy accents, questionable set construction and that godawful ballad that comes and goes like a nasty case of genital herpes. William Hartnell is having a whale of a time (which was probably the last time during his tenure that he seemed to be enjoying himself) and his infectious demeanour really gives the whole thing a fair amount of buoyancy.
Whilst it would have been nice to have had a "making-of" (and such a thing is conspicuous by its absence), the End of the Line documentary more than makes up for it, providing what could be considered the definitive look at William Hartnell's last couple of seasons and the changes that took place that would ultimately ensure the show's future.
Other than Jackie Lane's non-participation, the only real quibble we have is that Lynda Barron wasn't put before the cameras to apologise profusely for her part in the monstrosity that is The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon. Speaking of which, we will end our review of The Gunfighters with a recently discovered unused verse from that particular song...
"When you watch this story, stand near a spittoon,
'Cos you'll need one for the ballad, of The Last Chance Saloon"
'Cos you'll need one for the ballad, of The Last Chance Saloon"
Review by Wilson Bros
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 20th June 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Audio Commentary, The End of the Line, Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor, Photo Gallery, Trivia Track, PDF Materials, Coming Soon Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Rex Tucker
Cast: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 98 minutes
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Danica Patrick says she'll skip Indy 500 and run in NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 again this year
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Danica Patrick says she does not plan to race in this year's Indianapolis 500 because she wants to concentrate on her first full-time season in NASCAR's Sprint Cup series.
Patrick also skipped the Indy 500 last year, instead running in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same day. She said Thursday that she will do the same in 2013.
Speaking on the opening day of testing of NASCAR's new "Gen 6" cars at Daytona International Speedway, Patrick said that her schedule also could include some Nationwide series events, although she has not yet signed a deal with a racing team or sponsor.


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Political Ideology and Social Welfare
Mimi Abramovitz
Political ideologies shape public policy debates as well as the social policy strategies developed to address "social problems." The clashes among long-standing political traditions—conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, and feminism—reflect fundamental and often irreconcilable differences regarding social, economic, and political life. The four political ideologies are compared for their varied perspectives on several core issues that underpin social welfare provision, including human nature, need, the general welfare, social problems, racial inequality, and the role of government. The resulting distinctions provide social workers with a framework to more effectively assess social welfare policy.
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Judith A. Davenport and Joseph Davenport, III
Rural social work, whose history stretches back a century, has been revitalized since the mid-1970s. Definitions, typologies, and characteristics of rurality are provided, which serve as a framework for rural practice, policy, and research concerns. A primary focus is on those concerns differentiating rural from urban social work. Social workers interested in additional information are given basic references, as well as material on the National Rural Social Work Caucus, the annual National Institute on Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas, the electronic journal, and the online listserv.


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One of the great stories of doomed love is given a new screen interpretation in this historical drama. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, King Donnchadh (David O'Hara) of Ireland has become the de facto ruler of England, but one of his underlings, Lord Marke (Rufus Sewell), dreams of uniting British forces with an eye toward self-rule. One of Marke's most valuable allies is Tristan (James Franco), Marke's protégé, who has become a brave warrior since he was rescued by the lord after his parents were murdered by Irish forces during a battle. While Marke and Tristan dream of banishing Ireland's presence in England, Tristan has a secret he's been hiding from Marke -- after suffering serious wounds during a hard-fought battle, he was rescued and nursed back to health by Isolde (Sophia Myles), King Donnchadh's daughter, and the two fell deeply in love. But the couple were separated after Tristan returned to England, and when Donnchadh attempts to quell the British uprising by staging a tournament among the nation's greatest warriors, an extreme and rather personal surprise is in store for Tristan. Tristan & Isolde was directed by Kevin Reynolds and produced in part by Ridley Scott, who attempted to bring the story to the screen back in the 1970s. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Sixty long years after the legal dispute began between Hindus and Muslims for a pieice of land in Ayodhya, the High Court (HC) recently pronounced its verdict – trifurcating the disputed land equally among the three litigants ( 2 Hindu & 1 Muslim organisation). Most Hindus have welcomed the verdict as they are seen to have gotten a better deal than the Muslims. Muslims, even though they are dissatisfied with only 1/3rd of the land being alloted to them, have reacted cautiously. Most disappointed are the political parties which are self appointed benefactors of Muslim community. They are the ones who are vociferous in egging the community on to go in for an appeal before Supreme Court (SC) so that 'justice' is done to them. The perils of going in for an appeal against this verdict are manifold and should be clearly understood by all. An appeal will keep the issue alive for decades more and still not settle it to everyone's satisfaction. In Ayodhya, there will be no justice without reconciliation.


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The crowd was 16,467 for the series finale, which started an hour and a half later. Bruce had a big hand in that one, too. He had a bases-loaded single to right field — just like the last one — that highlighted a five-run rally in the second inning off left-hander John Lannan (0-1), who was bothered by tendinitis in his left knee. "Obviously, it was good to get this sweep after having some breaks go against us," Bruce said. "Thats the name of the game. The mark of a good team is how you come back. Youve got to rise up and minimize the damage." Lannan said hes had tendinitis above his left knee, but it felt fine when he warmed up to start the game. It began bothering him in the first inning and got worse. Hell be examined on Thursday. "Im not going to go out there and do that again," Lannan said. Reds starter Mike Leake (1-2) drove in a run with his first career triple during Cincinnatis 10-batter second inning. The Reds had two singles, a double, a triple, Todd Fraziers homer, a walk and a hit-by-pitch during the rally. Leake, who leads all major league pitchers with 49 hits over the last four seasons, also had a pair of infield singles. The three hits matched his career high — he also did it in Philadelphiia in 2010. Nike Air Max 90 Herren Weiß. . Leake allowed three hits and didnt walk a batter in seven shutout innings. "I needed a good performance more than the three hits, but it helped," Leake said. The Phillies managed only four runs and 13 hits while getting swept in Cincinnati. They didnt even get to swing the bat during the conclusion of the suspended game. Aumont was warming up to face Zack Cozart for the bottom of the ninth inning when heavy rained moved in on Tuesday night. Eighteen hours later, Cozart finally got his at-bat and singled to start the winning rally. Bruce finished it with his first-pitch single. Left-hander Aroldis Chapman (2-0) got the win without even warming up on Wednesday — hed retired the last three batters before the rain came the previous night. A measure of Philadelphias offensive woes — it ended up with as many hits as there were renditions of the national anthem in the suspended game. The Phillies managed only two singles off Homer Bailey and Chapman. The Reds allowed fans who attended the game on Tuesday to come back for the finish. There were several hundred of them in the stands when clubhouse assistant Josh Stewart sang the national anthem — the second one of the game. The public address announcer went over the lineups again. Umpire Wally Bell was back behind the plate when the game resumed. It was the Phillies first suspended game since Game 5 of the 2008 World Series, when rain halted their matchup against Tampa Bay in the sixth inning. The only suspended game in World Series history wasnt resumed for two days, when the Phillies won it for the title. 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Local governments are availing themselves of new mobile speed cameras that resemble mailboxes as effective and profitable ways to slow drivers down.
Prince George's County has quadrupled its supply of speed cameras over the past year, The Examinerreports.
Prince George's County expects to bring in $8 million in 2012, with a whopping $28 million in 2012.
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You are here: Root > By Topic > Web Development > Web ServersView the dependency graph for this library
CL-HTTP is suite of an HTTP 1.1 compliant and SSL-capable tools for creating Web applications written in ANSI Common Lisp that includes: A Sophisticated Server, A Programatic Client, A Caching Proxy, A Reverse Proxy, A Constraint-Guided Web Walker. It comes with a variety of tools for Web development, including high-level, standards-adherent XHTML 1.0 & HTML 4.0.1 generation facilities as well as parsers for HTML & XML, a full text search system, and presentation-based interfaces.
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CL-HTTP provides a highly-abstracted, object-oriented architecture that offers great flexibility and extensibility together with superior efficiency. It is a good choice for advanced Lisp programmers and complex applications. Indeed, CL-HTTP tends to attract more sophisticated and experienced Lisp programmers for reasons that become apparent when it is compared to lesser imitations.
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The goal-scoring burden has been lifted from Fernando Torres, and now Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez must decide whether to give new striker Demba Ba another start on Wednesday against Swansea in the League Cup semifinals.
While Torres struggled to find the net after joining Chelsea two years ago, Ba marked his debut Saturday with two goals in the FA Cup win at Southampton.
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"The Bradford lads will give it everything they have got to try to turn us over ... it's always tough,'' Lambert said. "Bradford have got nothing to lose and everything to gain.''
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German-based blog AndroidNext.de got our week started off right with more information on the HTC One mini. This latest leak brings more photos of the device as well as meaty info about the device's specs. Since we've already seen plenty of photos, let's dig right into the details. The HTC One Mini will come with a 4.3-inch 1280 x 720 display, a Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 4MP Ultrapixel camera, 1.6MP front-facing camera and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with HTC's Sense 5 software.
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Britain's anti-European Union party made big gains in local elections Friday, taking votes from both the governing Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party and rattling rivals' nerves a year ahead of Britain's national election.
It's a strong performance for the U.K. Independence Party, which advocates pulling Britain out of the 28-nation EU and stopping the unfettered right of EU citizens to enter Britain.
With most results declared Friday from voting for more than 4,000 seats in 161 local authorities, UKIP had won about 150 seats, well over its predicted total of 80.
Labour won the largest share of seats, more than 1,700, gaining more than 250 and doing strongly in London as Britain's cosmopolitan capital defied the UKIP surge. The gains, however, were less than many Labour supporters had hoped for and not enough to make the party confident of winning next year's election.
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives lost almost 200 seats, while their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats lost even more — about a third of their total.
The BBC said if projected nationwide the result would give UKIP 17 percent of votes, compared to 31 percent for Labour and 29 percent for the Conservatives.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the result meant "we are serious players" in British politics. He said his party was confident it would elect its first lawmakers to Britain's parliament next year.
Cameron acknowledged that UKIP appealed to voters angry about austerity and worried about immigration had hit home.
"The economy is growing, we are creating jobs, but we have got to work harder and we have got to really deliver on issues that are frustrating people," Cameron said.
Britons also voted Thursday in European Parliament elections. Polls suggest UKIP could gain the largest share of that vote for Britain's 73 seats in that legislature. Those results will be announced Sunday along with tallies from 27 other EU countries.
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HAGERSTOWN — Fire officials say one of two soda-bottle bombs placed in a hotel parking lot exploded, but did not cause any injuries or damage.
It happened about 1:45 a.m. Monday at Spring Hill Suites hotel on Valley Mall Road near Hagerstown. The State Fire Marshal's Office says two devices were placed in the parking lot, but only one exploded.
Officials tell The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown that bottles contained a volatile mixture of tin foil and toilet-bowl cleaner and were extremely dangerous. The mixture causes the inside of the bottle to over-pressurize and explode. It includes hydrochloric acid and can cause blindness, skin burns and respiratory problems.
Detonating soda bottle bombs carries a punishment of up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. — The Associated Press


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BRADENTON, Fla.- The Crew began its 2013 preseason schedule with a 1-0 victory against MLS Eastern Conference rival D.C. United behind trialist Sercan Güvenisik's 66th minute penalty kick on Saturday. Justin Meram drew a foul on United defender Conor Shanosky in the area to set up the penalty for Güvenisik.
Early on in the match, both sides fought off offseason rust in their first exhibitions of 2013. Veteran Eddie Gaven nearly put the Crew ahead by putting a headed shot on target from a Tyson Wahl cross, but D.C. goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra was there to smother the attempt. It was Gaven again in the 26th minute causing havoc in the attack, nearly putting the Black & Gold in front with a well-paced shot on goal from 20 yards out, but Dykstra's diving save denied Gaven to force a corner kick. United's best chance came just before halftime when a deflected ball found the feet of an open Nick DeLeon in the box, but the winger fired wide to keep the match scoreless heading into the half.
Both Crew Head Coach Robert Warzycha and D.C. skipper Ben Olsen fielded entirely different lineups in the second half, giving the coaches a chance to observe the many trialists in each side's preseason camps. Güvenisik made the most of his opportunity, converting the Meram-drawn penalty to lead the Black & Gold to victory.
The Crew will be back in action Wednesday when it takes on the Chicago Fire at 11 a.m. at IMG Academy in Bradenton.
66' - Columbus Crew - Sercan Güvenisik (Penalty)
24' - D.C. United - Brandon McDonald (Caution)
44' - Columbus Crew - Tyson Wahl (Caution)
78' - Columbus Crew - Wil Trapp (Caution)
Columbus Crew (First half): Andy Gruenebaum; Chad Barson, Chad Marshall, Josh Williams, Tyson Wahl; Eddie Gaven, Kevan George, Tony Tchani, Ben Speas; Federico Higuaín, Ryan Finley.
Columbus Crew (Second half): Matt Lampson; Reed Matte*, Eric Gehrig, Drew Beckie*, Kyle Hyland^; Ethan Finlay, Wil Trapp, Krystian Witkowski^ (Shawn Sloan*, 85), Justin Meram; Sercan Güvenisik^ (Nate Bascom^, 85'), Aaron Schoenfeld (Blake Brettschneider^, 67).
*Unsigned draft pick
^Non-roster invitee
D.C. United (First half): Andrew Dykstra; Robbie Russell, Brandon McDonald, Daniel Woolard, Chris Korb; Nick DeLeon, Perry Kitchen, Marcelo Saragosa, John Thorrington, Ryan Richter^; Lionard Pajoy.
D.C. United (Second half): Matt VanOekel^; Demitrius Omphroy^, Ethan White, Kyle Altman^, Taylor Kemp (Lance Rozeboom, 74); Evan Raynr, Joseph Nane^, Conor Shanosky, Neven Markovic; Casey Townsend (Michael Seaton, 74), Rafael.


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"How long will it take my investment to double?" This is a common question many may have concerning their investments and think a calculator is needed to provide an answer. But a calculator may not be needed, after all. The tool to use is called the Rule of 72 and, best of all, it is simple and free. This is how it works: if an individual has an investment they think will grow at an assumed rate of return per year, then simply dividing that rate of return into 72 will provide a rough estimate of the number of years it will take for the investment to double in size.
For example, let's assume an investment is assumed to grow at an average rate of return of six percent each year. Simply divide six into 72 will give a rough estimate that it will take 12 years for this investment to double (72 ÷ 6 = 12). This formula assumes a fixed annual rate of return and the reinvestment of all earnings. Keep in mind that very few investments offer a guaranteed rate of return and that an investment's past performance does not guarantee future performance.
The rule of 72 may also be used to show the negative power of inflation. This may be an especially handy tool to those individuals in their retirement years and, also, for those approaching the retirement decision. Using this tool, an individual can estimate the number of years it will take for his or her cost of living to double. Or, put another way, how long before an individual's purchasing power is cut in half.
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We made it to the big time! http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2633
Sad, though, that the OED should have overlooked the crucial semantic dimension. We waited for the entry, now we wait for the correction.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Yes, the vagueness of the definition sure is puzzling—esp. given that Ben Zimmer used to be on the OUP staff. Couldn't they just have emailed him with the draft definition for old times' sake?
An attentive user of the dictionary might still end up with a decent understanding of the word. The fourth citation in the OED article spells out what the definition doesn't:
2010 K. DENHAM & A. LOBECK Linguistics for Everyone i. 13 Crucially, eggcorns make sense, often more than the original words.
Jan Freeman the recent OED inclusion of "eggcorn." In her article she surveys the territories claimed by eggcorns, mondegreens, malapropisms, and folk etymologies. The borders, she notes, are not "bright lines." Her perspective on the landscape is the same one that many of us have arrived at. And a timely reminder that the plats are drawn as much by what we think an eggcorn isn't as by what we think an eggcorn is.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Thanks for pointing to the article, Kem. My favorite part is the illustration at the top.
"Eggcorn" as an OED headword entry is step one. The next step is for the OED to use the word eggcorn in its definitions.
The OED may not have had the word "eggcorn" in its stable of descriptors before the twenty oughts, but it has always found some way to recognize eggcorn events. This week I read through entries in which we appealed to OED discussions and gleaned from them the various expressions that OED writers have used to describe eggcorns. Here is a cross-section of what I found: (Y is the acorn, X the similar-sounding eggcorn)
"X closely approaches in meaning the etymologically unrelated Y"
"the meaning of X appears to have arisen by confusion with Y"
"the word Y was corrupted to X"
"X was confused with Y"
"X makes some allusion to Y"
"X is an alteration of Y"
"X imports the meaning of Y"
"the association of X with Y has led to the substitution of X for Y"
"people were spelling Y as X"
"some Englishmen were led to the erroneous notion that X was the original and correct form of Y"
"X is probably after Y (? errroneous)"
"the unetymological spelling of X with [the letters of ] Y"
"X and Y have often been confused – when X has this meaning it has some affinity with Y when it has this meaning"
How long before the OED editors will deem the word "eggcorn" an acceptable substitute for some of these paraphrases? Longer, I suspect, than the six years it took for the newly minted word to appear as a dictionary headword. The journey from the time when a word is coined to the time when it can be used by slang-shy lexicographers to describe other words is measured in decades, not years. I looked through the words added by the OED in the 1990s, for example, and I didn't find any that I would expect current OED editors to use in their dictionary prose. We would be shocked, I think, to read in an OED etymology that a word was "a mixmastered Frankenword that should be rewilded to its original spelling," but chances are that words from the nineties will become acceptable editorial prose before a 2010 entry such as "eggcorn" loses its taint of slang.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
An interesting point. I suspect you're right, however—a neologistic taint will cling to "eggcorn" for decades to come. Hopefully the forum will still be around to celebrate on the day the OED actually uses the term in an etymology.
I made a list conceptually similar to yours a few years ago when I was looking for folk etymologies in the OED. I used reference books to find some of the best-known examples, and then looked at what terminology the OED used for those in the etymology entries. My list was a lot less exhaustive than yours, but usefully different:
popular etymology
folk etymology
by association with
etymologizing alteration/corruption/perversion/re-formation/spelling
That word "etymologizing" is really useful when you're looking for this stuff. The people writing etymologies for the OED loved the word "perversion," for instance, but it didn't always point to something eggcornical. But once you stick "etymologizing" in front of it, you almost always get something of interest to us.
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Cameron Niccum was deep into answering an essay question that would be a critical part of his application to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Though he can't remember the exact wording of the question, Cameron remembers being asked to explain why he believed, as a West Point cadet and a future leader in the United States Army, he could handle working in a very diverse environment.
"I started out writing about soccer," recalls Niccum, who just finished his first year at West Point, where he is a defender on the soccer team. "Because I grew up playing in Houston with so many Hispanic and African-American players. But when my mother started to read the essay she pointed out to me that something important was missing."
LaRhonda Niccum laughs when recounting the story.
"I was like, 'Cameron, hello? What about your brother?'"
Cameron's brother – LaRhonda and Eric Niccum's adopted son – is 18-year-old Vancouver Whitecaps forward Kekuta Manneh.
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In 2010, Kekuta came to the US from Gambia to join Cameron's club soccer team, Texas Rush. The Niccums (right; photo courtesy of LaRhonda Niccum), at first, were Kekuta's host family. But after two and a half years of getting to know him, and learning that his mother had passed away when he was 10 years old, they asked him if he'd like to be adopted by their family.
The rest is history, including the family's move to Austin when Eric took a new job, a switch in clubs from Rush to the PDL's Austin Aztex, to the MLS SuperDraft, where the Whitecaps took Kekuta with the fourth overall pick.
And, of course, the part about Cameron forgetting to mention Kekuta in his West Point essay.
"I said, 'Cameron, you do realize Kekuta is African, right?'" LaRhonda says, her Southern accent dripping with sarcasm. "'You might want to mention that in the essay.'"
Cameron can share a laugh with his mother. He has even told her she's soccer's version of Leigh Anne Tuohy, the adoptive mother of Baltimore Ravens tackle Michael Oher. You might remember her as the women played by Sandra Bullock in the movie The Blindside. Like Leigh Anne, LaRhonda is equal parts, loving, protecting, but also no-nonsense.
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"My mom was on top of everything Kekuta did," says Cameron. "From his schoolwork to his manners, to disciplining him just like me, my brother and my sister."
READ: Canadian Championship: Vancouver Whitecaps rookie Kekuta Manneh says "I can make a difference"
And on Mother's Day, Cameron would like his mother to know that the likely reason he didn't remember to mention Kekuta in that essay was, simply, because she did such an exceptional job of making a boy from Gambia feel just like any other brother to him.
LaRhonda was the team manager for Texas Rush. She handled all of the club's travel plans and administrative work. So she was more than aware of Manneh's immense talent on the field – "One 'wow' moment after another," she recalls – but she also wanted to make sure he understood there needed to be more than just soccer in his life.
"You can be injured and then it's over," LaRhonda says. "So we tried to balance things. I was a math teacher and I was really concerned with the educational aspect because he was so far behind. I wanted him to have stability. By the time we adopted him he was already used to us as a family, and we had already fallen in love with him."
A Christian family, the Niccums did not consider trying to convert Manneh, who is Muslim. Instead, LaRhonda said they encouraged him to embrace his faith while they tried to understand more about his culture and upbringing. There were instances, however, that Mom had to teach her adopted son that his way was not always all right.
"When my parents were disciplining him, maybe for staying out later than curfew, or not doing his chores, he wouldn't make eye contact," Cameron recalls. "He explained to me that, in his culture, it was considered disrespectful to make eye contact with someone when you are being disciplined. But, my parents were like, 'Look me in the eye,' the same way they'd be with me if I'd made a mistake that deserved punishment."
The scoldings were far outweighed by laughs and hugs, not to mention the movie nights, games of "Just Dance" and good-natured kidding about Kekuta's singing.
"He's just a really laid-back kid," LaRhonda says. "Everyone immediately loved him and he makes friends really easily and just takes the cue that this is where I'm supposed to be, and he goes in with a positive attitude where he goes. He loves chicken and rice, movies and TV shows, the Big Bang Theory. He is just part of the family."
"I can go to college while I'm playing or when I'm done," Kekuta says. "But I want to follow my dream. I think it's the right time for me to do that."There was a time when LaRhonda wanted Kekuta to go to college, but his talent, coupled with his desire to play professionally, won out in the end.
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Now, LaRhonda tries to make sure Kekuta understands finances and the importance of saving money, like any good mom. Meanwhile, she's also understanding that Kekuta holds a special place in his heart for his biological mother.
"He adores his mother and misses her so much," says LaRhonda. "Recently I saw a picture of her. It was the spitting image of Kekuta. So beautiful, just like her baby boy."
And while sometimes Kekuta has found it awkward to call the Niccums anything but "my host family," he is coming around, and is grateful for the love they've shared.
"I consider [the Niccums] my parents," he says. "They've done a lot for me."
Since Manneh's move to Vancouver, LaRhonda says she talks, texts or Skypes with him just about every day. She has also been able to attend three Whitecaps games so far.
"We keep an eye on him," says LaRhonda. "When we can't be at the games, we've got them on the TV or the computer. We are very proud of the man he's becoming."


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Topic: Anakin learns patience from Qui-Gon...
I noticed an interesting link between episodes I and III. In episode I, right after Qui-Gon fought Darth Maul for the first time, Anakin asks Qui-Gon, "What should we do?" Qui-Gon responds, "We must have patience."
Then as you may remember, in episode III, when Obi-Wan asks Anakin what they should do, he responds in the same way. "I say patience."
Interesting link, won't you say?