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Why We Can't Get Your Favorite eBook or Audiobook for Download
What do these publishers have in common?
Macmillan Publishing
Authors: Dana Stabenow, Kristin Hannah, Carola Dunn, Joan Hess, Jane Green and many more
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Authors: Harlan Coben, Lauren Willig, Karen White, Lisa Gardner, Stewart O'Nan, Eric Carle, Jan Brett and many more
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They refuse to sell or license eBooks and Audiobooks to libraries.
Libraries can't buy from Amazon or Barnes & Noble for e-content.
To provide digital rights management (the thing that keeps pirates from pirating the loaned file) we have to pay a third-party vendor. We don't receive discounts. Many times we aren't allowed to purchase new releases. With paper books, we receive discounts, get new releases the day they come out, and in a pinch we can buy from any store or vendor with books. Our purchasing power is diminishing quickly in the virtual world, meaning we either can't get titles for you at all, or we can't afford to buy all the titles we should have available.
Publishers tell us their concern is about pirating.
The vendor we pay for access creates digital rights management for our files to restrict pirating. These rights are no less restrictive than the copies you buy personally. There is no absolute way to prevent pirating on the Internet. Libraries are not part of the problem, we're part of the solution. Offer readers and listeners limited access to a file paid for by the library and the need for piracy is reduced.
Publishers have long recognized the benefit of having books in libraries.
Libraries are the gateway to new titles, authors and characters. We promote their authors for free. We buy their older stock as replacements. We buy multiple copies of hardcover books. Nothing about the format of the book changes what is mutually beneficial to publishers and libraries in our long relationship.
This impasse affects YOU - even if you don't ever download a single eBook or audiobook.
Taxpayers are affected by rising costs. It affects readers and listeners by severely limiting what we can offer. It affects our relationship with authors and their publishers. It affects our community when people can't afford to pay for access and they have no other means of getting it.
Power to the patron - contact them directly!
Register your opinion by calling or writing the publishers. Whether you buy it personally or as a taxpayer, you're the customer.
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American LaShawn Merritt eased to victory in the 400 metres as one of several newly-crowned world champions to shine at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting on Thursday.
Fresh from his success in Moscow earlier this month, Merritt (44.69 seconds) was slower by nearly a second than his time at the world championships but still won by more than half a second from Dominican Republic's Luguelin Santos.
Compatriot David Oliver, the 110 metres hurdles world champion, also triumphed in his event, while women's 800 metres runner Eunice Sum, women's 400 hurdler Zuzana Hejnova and shot putter Valerie Adams were other successful world champions.
Ethiopian women's 5,000m world and Olympic champion Meseret Defar stormed to victory in the 3,000m to win in 8:30.29, the world's fastest time this year.
"To be able to come and win just a few days after the world championships is good," Defar said on the website of the sport's governing body, the IAAF.
"I am so happy for this victory. I ran 14.50 (for the 5,000m) at the world championships, which is not fast for me, so I was able to run well tonight. I'm in good shape."
The women's high jump event featured eight of the top nine finalists from Moscow and once again Russia's Svetlana Shkolina came out on top to remain unbeaten this season.
Another world champion Russian, men's long jumper Aleksandr Menkov, leapt to victory on a chilly night in Stockholm.
Three women earned one-carat diamonds after setting Olympic Stadium records with Czech Republic's Hejnova running the 400 hurdles in 53.70 seconds, New Zealand's Adams throwing 20.30 metres in the shot put and Russia's Mariya Abakumova setting a mark of 68.59 metres in the javelin.
There was an upset in the men's 1,500m where Kenyan world champion Asbel Kiprop could only finish sixth as Djibouti's Ayanleh Souleiman took the victory in 3:33.59 in a race that was much faster than in Moscow.
Image: LaShawn Merritt
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Tony Abbott is shifting the Liberals towards George W Bush's brand of compassionate conservatism, while Labor has failed to live up to the responsible governments of the Hawke-Keating era.
That's the verdict of Mary Kissel, an editorial board member of the influential Wall Street Journal.
The New York-based columnist, who once worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs and is a keen observer of Australian politics, delivered the frank assessment of the Gillard Labor government and the coalition opposition during a speech at the National Press Club.
Kissel praised Australia's fiscal position, describing it as a "dream" compared with the United States, which was "effectively Greece now" under President Barack Obama.
But she described the Rudd-Gillard Labor government as a "throwback to the 70s and the Whitlam years", following three decades of "responsible government" under prime ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard.
"It was big spending, it was a re-emergence of labour unions, higher taxes, a green agenda," she told the press club in Canberra on Tuesday.
"There are parallels to the Obama administration and what we are seeing in Australia is an instinct or a reflex to move back towards the centre."
Kissel also singled out Treasurer Wayne Swan, saying she always enjoyed his "fact-free arguments".
But under the leadership of Tony Abbott, the Liberal party was shifting toward a position of "compassionate conservatism", she said.
"I see aspects of Tony Abbott that remind me very much of George W Bush, not in foreign policy but talking domestically where he would be very willing, for example, to have a tax increase to give new mums time off from work," Kissel said.
"This is a dangerous instinct for conservatives.
"He needs to speak to that small government, low-tax program that has been so successful for him during this odd era of Rudd-Gillard politics."
Kissel said Labor could not assume the "Howard battlers" who swung behind Kevin Rudd at the 2007 federal election, and some of whom backed the party in 2010, would remain loyal.
One of Labor's biggest failings was the "fundamental disloyalty" of Gillard's broken promise on the carbon tax, she said.
"It left room for the coalition to exploit that and take some of those battlers back," she said.
Kissel was impressed by Abbott's ability to turn something "abstract" like the carbon tax into a hip-pocket issue.
Asked about the American Tea Party movement - which Swan has described as "extremist" - Kissel described it as a "grass-roots movement".
"It's not an extremist movement, simply because you could not attract such disparate people to an extremist group, it wouldn't be so widespread and it wouldn't be so nationwide," she said.
"It was a cry for fairness and a push back against cronyism."
As for the 2013 federal election, Kissel says the fact Abbott has stayed at the helm of the Liberals for so long in a "rough and tumble" political environment showed he was a "very successful leader".


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Dating EHR vs Marriage
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
As most of you know, I'm very fond of relating EMR to other parts of life (see marriage and divorce, pregnancy, marriage for money, weight loss, and Katherine posted a Lady or the Tiger one that I enjoyed to name a few). I think we can learn a lot from the comparisons. Plus, it makes the lesson memorable when it's illustrated with a great analogy. Now you'll know why I loved the following LinkedIn comment from Danny Lieberman. It's in response to my post titled Hospital EHR Sales Not About Customer Satisfaction.
I remember from my days running a software development house, we had just finished a big installation at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. We had put our hearts into the implementation and post-installation support – the CIO and hospital GM were happy and that is saying a lot because the GM was one of toughest cookies we ever met.
In parallel, we were romancing another client and since were so focused on Hadassah, the attention they got was sub-optimal.
I will never forget the CIO telling me "Danny – if this the kind of attention you give me while we're dating, what will our relationship look like after we get married?"
This is key. Health IT vendors need to think long term and not just Obama first-term.
Remembering that the pre-sale phase is just a date or 2 or 3. After you make the sale – you have to live together, make ends meet, have a happy, successful and prosperous relationship.
It's a great concept to think about with an EHR vendor. You may treat me great when we're "EHR Dating", but how are you going to treat me once we're married?


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EMORY, Va. — The Washington and Lee baseball team scored 21 runs in the second game of a doubleheader at Emory & Henry on Saturday, but fell in the first to earn a split against the Wasps. In the opener, E&H (8-15, 3-7 ODAC) came from behind to secure a 3-2 win, while the Generals (13-11, 7-5 ODAC) cruised to a 21-5 victory in the second.
The Generals' explosion of 21 runs in game two was highlighted by a 12-run seventh inning. W&L headed into the frame with a 9-3 lead, and more than doubled its advantage by the start of the eighth.
Over the course of the inning, the Blue and White sent 16 batters to the plate, totaled 12 RBI and tallied nine hits on five singles, three doubles and a home run. Seven Generals recorded a RBI in the frame led by senior Joe Scalzo (Ridgefield, Conn./Brunswick) and sophomore Taylor Rowe (Charlotte, N.C./Myers Park). Scalzo hit a three-run home run in the rally, and Rowe ripped a three-run double to left center to cap the W&L scoring.
Junior Nate Plein (El Cajon, Calif./St. Augustine) secured his fifth victory in the contest, pitching 6.0 innings. He allowed three runs on seven hits while striking out eight. First-year Matthew McInaw (2-3) took the loss, after giving up eight runs (five earned) in 4.0 innings.
Senior Jonathan Stutts (Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte Country Day) went 4-for-6 in the contest with two runs and two RBI. Senior Will Salley (Augusta, Ga./Westside) was 3-for-5 with four runs and two RBI, and senior Alex Maragos (Chicago, Ill./Loyola Academy) totaled four RBI and one run, going 3-for-5.
The Generals held a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth inning in the opener. Starter Ian Shaw (Atlanta, Ga./Riverwood) walked the first batter and was lifted for senior Eric Wisotsky (West Windsor, N.J./Plainsboro North). Junior Jordan Woullard singled to put runners at first and second. Then junior Connor Wise cut the lead to 2-1 on a single to left with Woullard advancing to third.
Sophomore Bransen Christopher was intentionally walked to load the bases. Junior Jake Rudolph (Cordova, Tenn./Memphis University School) came on for Wisotsky and struck out the first batter he faced for the first out of the inning. First-year Andrew Stockstill then came to the plate and hit a two-run single to center, which gave the Wasps a 3-2 walk-off victory.
Wisotsky took the loss, after allowing two runs without recording an out. Shaw recorded a no decision, despite one of his best performances of the season. He went 8.0 innings and gave up one run on four hits. Senior Will Dingus (1-4) pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn the victory.
The Generals grabbed a 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Stutts in the top of the third. The Blue and White stretched the lead to 2-0 in the sixth, when junior Keegan Dolan (Bethesda, Md./Landon) came home on an error.
W&L next hosts Eastern Mennonite on Tuesday, April 2, at 4:00 pm.
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It was a Big game, with a big TV audience, and a big delay. Super Bowl XLVII, New Orleans Superdome right?
True. But as I watched the scene unfold yesterday and saw the CBS Sports team scramble to deal with a VERY unexpected occurrence, my mind flashed back to another championship game played in font of a big (not Super Bowl big, but still big) TV audience 21 years ago.
It was the 1992 South Dakota boys AA basketball championship game at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Arena in Rapid City, and I was the guy about to do the scrambling that night. I was courtside that night broadcasting on statewide TV, helping to call the action with a sportscaster from Rapid City.
The match-up that night was an intriguing one: Watertown, a team that hadn't won a state championship in boys basketball since 1959 - the favorite - with talented Jason Sutherland leading the way before he took his talents to the University of Missouri; and O'Gorman, the Sioux Falls Catholic high school, that was known as a 'football' school back then, having just won their fifth gridiron title in eight championship appearances in the previous 21 years. This was the first basketball championship appearance for the Knights.
The lack of big game experience for both schools was obvious in the first half, as the two teams combined for one of the sloppiest 16 minutes of basketball I have ever seen. Needless to say, we were looking forward to the second half, because, in all honesty, we knew it couldn't have been as bad as the first. The teams had just finished warming up after intermission when in a split second the night became memorable for far more than a basketball game.
As the teams returned to their benches for one final word from their coaches, I spotted the tournament director hurriedly walking across the floor to talk with the officials at the scorer's table. While my partner setup the third quarter for our TV audience, I peeled back the left ear of my headset to hear the words that would change everything:
We've had a bomb threat
My first reaction was actually not shock, but rather annoyance. Earlier that week the State of South Dakota had been experiencing a series of bomb threats, from the Empire Mall and Augustana College in Sioux Falls to the Rushmore Mall and now Rushmore Plaza in Rapid City. I knew I was just another hoax, but I knew they would have to take the threat seriously.
It was determined that before the game could continue the entire arena would have to be searched, and that meant one thing: everybody had to leave - players, fans, media members - everybody out, not just of the arena, but the entire Civic Center. That meant everyone was heading to the parking lot on a mid-March night in South Dakota.
Well almost everyone.
As we described the situation to the people watching on statewide TV, our camera focused on a very orderly evacuation of the building, even shots of the two teams, dressed only in their sweats boarding their school buses to wait out the delay. As fewer and fewer people remained in the arena and the police and bomb squad began to arrive, I knew it was only a matter of time before we'd be joining everyone outside. But that order never came.
We continued to broadcast live with one official after another walking right by our position courtside, and no one said a word to us. So we stayed. This was now becoming surreal, as this building which just moments earlier held 6,000 people was now essentially empty, and the search began for this bomb I knew (at least I hoped I knew) didn't exist. All the while we were broadcasting live to fans all over South Dakota.
The two moments that stand out most about the next 30 minutes or so was one of the police officers finding a rather innocent looking bag left behind in what had been one of the student sections, which elicited an excited "I think they've found something. Jeff" from my partner (exactly the kind of thing I wanted to make sure we DIDN'T say), and the realization that if there really was a bomb, I could very well be televising my own demise. At least the ratings would be good...
Obviously there was no bomb. Eventually, they did let everyone back in, Watertown did go on to win the game by 17, and the second half, thank goodness, was better than the first.


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MIAMI (AP) LeBron James' sitcom is closer to becoming reality.
Starz released the official trailer for ''Survivor's Remorse'' on Tuesday, not long before James and the Miami Heat took on the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
James is an executive producer of the show, which tells the story of a basketball phenom who turns pro, signs a big-money contract and deals with the challenge of having opportunistic family members with strong ties to their poor upbringing.
Other executive producers include Tom Werner, Mike O'Malley, Paul Wachter and James' longtime friend and manager Maverick Carter. The show debuts this fall.
James says he's proud of how the project has gone so far, and that it's exciting for him, his friends and his family.
Preview link: http://tinyurl.com/l8ph8q9


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Current FAA regulations offer two avenues for approval for UAV operations. First, operators can apply for an experimental airworthiness certificate for private-sector civil aircraft to do research and development, training and flight demonstrations.
The Federal Aviation Administration has not released specifics about the activities that will be allowed in the six test sites it will select for integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into the civilian airspace, nor has it specified procedures for operations. Although FAA is being quiet about the six test sites, it has listed some of the criteria for selection, which includes:
The second avenue requires operators to obtain a Certificate of Authorization (COA) for public aircraft, which are those that are owned by the U.S. government or a state. Routine operation of UAVs over densely populated areas is prohibited.
According to FAA documentation, most COAs require coordination with an air traffic control facility. Additionally the FAA may require an active transponder on the aircraft if it operates in certain types of airspace. Finally, an observer on the ground or in an accompanying chase plane must maintain visual contact with the UAV.
There were 327 COAs active as of Feb. 15, 2013. COAs issued by the FAA:
2009 146
2010 298
2011 313
2012 257
Many of the COAs issued to date have gone to federal, state and local government agencies, as well as to universities conducting research, FAA says. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, uses drones for border monitoring. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use them for atmospheric and other research.
Virginia Tech is using drones for mapping and study of agricultural diseases, and scientists from several universities are researching pygmy rabbit habitats in eastern and central Idaho.
Current work on developing and deploying sense-and-avoid technologies could lead to wider use of drones, though that will also depend on FAA regulations.
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Patrick Marshall is a freelance technology writer for GCN.
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This article leaves more questions than it answers: where is the line between UAV and radio-controlled toy aircraft? What regulations currently exist for commercial usage of UAV based upon altitude of operations?
This technology can be utilized in any # of operational conditions.People that are opposed to implementing this under circumstances including but limited to military , civil , private & research applications seem uninformed & should reserve comment untill full informed. Thank you for this medium for comment.
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If you like eggplant, this recipe is for you.
1 medium eggplant (1 pound),cut into 1/2-inch slices
Salt to taste
1 large tomato, sliced
1 medium onion, sliced
6 Tablespoons butter, melted, divided
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
4 slices mozzarella cheese,
2 Tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
To prepare the eggplant, slice and place into a colander over a plate. Lightly salt the eggplant pieces and leave to sit for 30 minutes then rinse the pieces and place them onto a plate lined with paper towels to absorb the moisture.
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Open the oven, remove the aluminum foil and sprinkle on the bread crumbs and parmesan, and place the mozarella cheese evenly on top.
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A new series of paintings by Angus Macpherson almost leaves a cool layer of mist on your bare skin. The hazy effect Macpherson achieves in this ephemeral, atmospheric work was inspired by his one-year stint in the Belgian city of Antwerp in the mid '90s, a region noted for having at least as much moisture in its air as it has in its lakes.
If you haven't had a chance to check out Macpherson's MoRo Gallery, located at 806 Mountain NW, this month's Artscrawl provides a prime opportunity. His Fog exhibit opens that evening, Friday, Aug. 20, with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. For details, call the gallery at 242-6272.
This month's Artscrawl gallery tour is citywide with over 20 galleries offering a host of cool events for Albuquerque art freaks. After you dawdle through Macpherson's show, you might as well hoof it over to the Harwood Art Center next door to browse through shows featuring work by the Digital Fine Art Society of New Mexico; abstract art by John Mulvany, Diana Ruth and Molly Geissman; and Virginia Baich's mixed-media pieces. 242-6367.
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Spring Breakers (UK - BD RB)
Spring break y'all! Chris checks out the BD release of Harmony Korine's feature
Childhood friends Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) are now in college and desperate to attend spring break. Unfortunately they're short of cash, so Brit and Candy resort to robbing a diner with Cotty acting as the getaway driver, an act that shocks the religious Faith. Even so, Faith travels with the other girls to Florida where they attend wild beach parties, drink, smoke and generally get up to all sorts of mischief until they are arrested and sent to jail. They are quite literally bailed out by local gangster and part-time rapper Alien (James Franco), who introduces the girls to his lurid lifestyle and grooms them to become part of his criminal gang.
I'll hold my hands up and admit to being almost entirely unfamiliar with Harmony Korine's previous work, save for Larry Clark's Kids (for which he wrote the screenplay). If what I've read on various message boards is any indicator his work is fairly divisive, often polarising audiences into 'love' and 'hate' camps. If that really is the case I'm an anomaly, because I neither loved nor hated Spring Breakers. It's perhaps because we don't really have an equivalent here in the UK - certainly when I was at school there were no mass exoduses to the seaside to get drunk and have sex with strangers (you had to go abroad for that) - but the events depicted in the film seemed as alien to me as James Franco's character. It doesn't help that the protagonists are so thinly drawn; the girls' actions seem to be driven largely by their desire to get 'fucked up', but their motivations for said debauchery are never fully explored; they're caricatures, engaging lawless behaviour seemingly just for the sake of doing so.
In spite of this I still found things to enjoy in Spring Breakers. Its visuals are undeniably striking and I liked the non sequitur, repetitious, dreamlike editing style employed by Korine, which appears designed to emulate the fractured memory that can accompany the use of certain drugs. I've never been a recreational drug user myself, but I've imbibed enough alcohol to know that non-linear recollection and even blackouts are not unheard of, so there was a certain resonance to the stylistic choices. I'll also admit to being shamelessly attracted to all four of the girls, particularly the magnificent Benson and Hudgens. Still, the absolute star of the show is James Franco, who turns in the most memorable characterisation of a white, goateed, cornrow-wearing, silver-toothed, gangster since Gary Oldman's Drexl Spivey. I've seen Franco in a bunch of stuff, from Spider-Man to This is the End by way of Pineapple Express and Your Highness, and this is perhaps his most memorable (and best) performance. I have to agree with Korine's assertion that he sees Franco as a character actor, because he's a lot more interesting and entertaining here than he is in the majority of his films ( Oz the Great and Powerful anyone?). He'd also make a pretty good Britney Spears tribute act if the acting work ever dries up.
While spotty (at best) with their catalogue titles, Universal's new releases almost always look the part. Spring Breakers is no different, delivering a strong 2.40:1 (1080/24p AVC) transfer that more than does justice to the film's bold aesthetic. The highly stylised palette mainly utilises warm colours for the exterior party sequences, reserving the cooler tones for the interior scenes at the beginning of the film. There is also plenty of neon to illuminate the darkness of the night. Contrast is intentionally pushed too far, resulting in blown whites and crushed blacks that help define the grittier aspects of Korine's world. Detail is consistently good throughout, although there are a number of handheld shots that obviously aren't up to the standard of the rest of the film. There are no obvious film or digital artefacts to spoil the party either, so all in all this is a visually impressive disc befitting of a recently released feature film.
I don't have to say too much about the film's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. It's generally well-balanced, with plenty of subtle discrete effects and centred dialogue that remains largely intelligible throughout. The Cliff Martinez/Skrillex soundtrack is full of appropriately hedonistic party cues - what I believe the young 'uns call 'dubstep' - which spread to the surrounds and elicit some terrific bass from the LFE channel, while the quieter tracks possess similar traits to the trippy visuals, complementing their dreamy qualities (and those of the film itself). Fidelity is excellent, dynamic range is wide and immersion is good despite the lack of showy effects. Basically it's a decent sound mix that provides a solid accompaniment to the visuals, even if it isn't 'top-tier' stuff.
Universal has assembled a respectable collection of bonus material for this release; one that offers an entertaining mixture of lightweight fluff and in-depth content across two discs, the second of which is a standard-definition DVD. We don't get everything from the US release, but it's not far off.
- Audio Commentary: Director Harmony Korine provides a fairly interesting solo track that covers a lot of the technical aspects, along with some of the anecdotal events (apparently the actors got really into the threesome scene). There's quite a lot of dead air, but when he does speak it's usually to say something worthwhile and I was pleasantly surprised by the track as a whole.
- Behind the Scenes: I wasn't sure that ninety-one seconds was really enough time to offer an insightful look behind the scenes of a film production. It turns out I was right.
- Harmony Korine Featurette: Featurette in name, ninety seconds of the director talking to cast and crew during pauses in filming by nature.
- AVPs: A short (sub-two minute) video reel of the girls' public appearances at various world premieres.
- The Girls: This runs for a little over a minute and shows the female cast larking around in their bikinis between scenes (purely for science of course).
- Making of: The only featurette of any real worth on the first disc, this piece runs for a little under twenty six minutes and features on-set interviews with the cast and crew. It's still not particularly good, but compared to the featurettes that came before...
- Theatrical Trailer: Um, the film's theatrical trailer. Hard to believe, right?
- Breaking it Down: Behind Spring Breakers: A three-part making of featurette that runs for a little over twenty-two minutes. Korine discusses his early ideas for the film, its aesthetic, characters and casting, and there is a fair amount of on-set/interview footage. It's not a hugely in-depth look at film production, but it's a step up from the usual promotional fluff.
- Deleted Scene: A very short scene in which the girls rob a chubby nerd at gunpoint.
- Outtakes: A little under eight minutes of various behind-the-scenes footage, showing the actors riffing on their lines, offering multiple readings and mugging for he camera.
- Harmony's Ear Candy: This feturette concentrates on the film's music and includes interview footage with Randall Poster and Cliff Martinez.
My wife and I walked of out of the theatrical screening of Spring Breakers with a 'what the hell did we just watch?' look on our faces. After a second viewing I'm still not entirely sure, but I think I kind of liked it. I'm still not convinced about every aspect of the picture, but it's one of the more memorable films I've seen this year and if nothing else it's a pretty stylish flick. If anything the film probably plays better to a younger crowd, rather than an older guy who wishes he was younger. Having said that, it was written and directed by a guy pushing forty, so perhaps it's really just a representation of what the older generation thinks the kids of today get up to... (Or even a projection of what the director himself wishes he'd been doing at that age.) Anyway, enough of my ramblings; if you're a fan the Blu-ray should more than satisfy you with its strong audio-visual presentation and reasonably entertaining selection of bonus material. I'd even go so far as to recommend it sight unseen if you're in the mood for something a little bit different.
* Note: The images below are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Chris Gould
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This one stuck with me somehow. I thought it was like a skinny white girl Boyz in the Hood or something. Basically it told me that skinny white girls are indestructible and could take over the world if they stick with it
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It's one of the more memorable films I've seen this year, but not one of the better ones. I don't buy the whole 'genius statement on the state of youth culture' thing either. Some of the dialogue is beyond terrible, as is Gucci Mane's acting. Franco plays slimy really well, but we're never given enough insight into the girls' motivations to explain their sociopathic behaviour - they just do bad s**t 'because'. If it wasn't for the trippy visuals and Martinez score I don't think I'd have found much to like about it, other than Hudgens and Benson, obviously.
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I think the lack of insight was intentional. Sort of makes them the mythic depictions of young girls and if they have certain traits they will be everlasting or something along those lines. It's very much a view of the culture from some one not in it I think. I agree though, not the best but certainly memorable.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 12th August 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS 5.1 Portuguese
Subtitles: English, Portuguese
Extras: Audio Commentary, Featurettes, Deleted Scene, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Harmony Korine
Cast: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens,Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Gucci Mane
Genre: Drama
Length: 94 minutes
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UN to Syria: Stop blocking aid convoys
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The General Assembly's human rights committee demanded Tuesday that Syria's government immediately allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to areas throughout the country that need it most and stop hampering distribution with "bureaucratic impediments and other obstacles."
The draft resolution sailed through the assembly's subcommittee by a vote of 123-13, with 46 abstentions, assuring that it will be adopted by the entire General Assembly later this year by a similar margin. Russia and China were among the countries voting against it.
With the Security Council divided between Syria's key ally Russia and China on one side, and the West and Arab states supporting the opposition on the other, it has been the General Assembly and U.N. agencies that have been most forthright and vocal in demanding relief in the Syrian crisis and an end to the war. However, General Assembly resolutions are not enforceable.
The resolution approved Tuesday also comes close to blaming the Syrian government and military for the deadly Aug. 21 nerve gas attack in a Damascus suburb held by the rebels.
It says that the report by U.N. inspectors filed in September "provides clear evidence that surface-to-surface rockets were fired on 21 August from Government-held territory into opposition areas, using professionally made munitions containing Sarin."
The independent watchdog group Human Rights Watch analyzed the trajectory of the rockets described in the inspectors' report and arrived at the same conclusion. The U.N. report itself was careful not to assign blame since it was mandated only to study the effects of the attack. The U.S. said more than 1,400 people were killed, including at least 400 children, though some organizations cited a significantly lower death toll. Assad's government blamed rebels for the attack.
With the United States and France threatening to retaliate for the chemical weapons attack, Damascus suddenly agreed in September to cooperate with dismantling its chemical weapons laborato4eries and stockpiles, a process that is supposed to be completed in mid-2014.
The resolution "stresses that the magnitude of the humanitarian tragedy caused by the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic requires immediate action to facilitate the safe and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance throughout the entire country."
It "demands that the Syrian authorities take immediate steps to facilitate the expansion of humanitarian relief operations and lift bureaucratic impediments and other obstacles, including through immediately facilitating safe and unimpeded access to people in need, through the most effective ways, including across conflict lines and across borders."
Last month U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government requires written approval for all staff missions and aid convoys, and processing is unpredictable. Some get only single-visit papers, and others are issued for short durations. Syria has also halted aid convoys at the borders and then required them to travel roundabout routes to reach civilians.
Assad's regime has systematically blocked aid from reaching rebel-held communities. U.N. figures show 6.8 million of Syria's 21.4 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
While much of the resolution is aimed at the Syrian government, it also "condemns all violence, irrespective of where it comes from, and calls upon all parties to immediately put an end to all forms of violence, including terrorist acts and acts of violence or intimidation that may foment sectarian tensions, and to comply strictly with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law."


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I'm sure these houses were build by the defunct Waldorf Stationary of Newton Mill, Ashton Road to house it's workers.. this company also left playing fields for the people of Hyde.
Waldorf Playing Fields were donated to the people of the Borough of Hyde in 1973 by Newton Mill Ltd. Since then, the land has been used by the residents of the Borough as a free space for Dog Walking, Horse Riding, Football, Flying Model Aircraft, etc. It is a safe place for children, situated well away from any roads. The fields occupy 9.5 acres, and the land is in a designated Green Belt area.
Taken on Waldorf playing fields
Alas the local Golf club and our no so much loved local council had other plans for this field.. and might yet still snatch it from under our feet. I would hate to see this beauty spot losts to the golf course.


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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Smoked Salmon Cheesecake
(printable recipe)
11 comments:
- A Feast for the Eyes said...
OMG! How savory and gorgeous this is! I hope that I find a chance to make this for a buffet. Lovely presentation, too.
- April 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Joanne said...
I love the idea of a savory cheesecake, especially one with salmon and capers! I just need someone to share it with otherwise I'd be in serious danger of eating the whole thing myself!
- April 13, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Siri said...
Are you kidding me with this? I want to go to there!
- April 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- grace said...
fancy-shmancy and oh-so-elegant! i'm not crazy about cheesecake for dessert, but a savory spread is a different story!
- April 13, 2010 at 2:03 PM
something new! mm savoury cheesecake.
looks good!
- April 13, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- Bellini Valli said...
This would be perfect party fare as you said served on something like bagel chips or crackers.
- April 14, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Gloria said...
I love this salmon cheesecake, look wonderful, lovely pics, gloria
- April 14, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- JoAnn Egan Neil said...
This is great. I'm making a Tart Milan for a post wedding brunch in a few weeks. This will be a perfect alternative for the vegetarian groom.
I do "Thursday recipes" on my site and just started checking out other recipe blogs. Yours is beautiful. Great photos, great food. I'll be back often.
- April 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Cynthia said...
Good gracious, this sounds heavenly.
- April 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Kevin said...
I like the sound of a smoked salmon cheesecake.
- April 20, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Valen said...
Wow, what a cool savory cheesecake! I love dessert cheesecake, I would probably love this as well!
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A patch is a very minor change to the product, while an upgrade is a larger enhancement to the product. Cisco Systems distributes incremental upgrades and patches to the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express system as necessary and makes them available on Cisco.com.
When you install an application upgrade or patch, the system moves the existing application files to a back up directory and installs the new application files in the current directory. This allows you to uninstall the upgrade or patch if you need to.
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Personal computing discussed
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PRIME1 wrote:I will be, in next month. I have a year sub... just need to activate.
XBL Gamertag = TBD
Current XBL Games = SW: KOTOR, Mech Warrior.
I will update this once I am online and I will be getting more games.
derFunkenstein wrote:Man, I didn't know that a site like that existed...I've resisted XBL because of the kiddies, but both playing with guys from TR and playing with actual adults could make it worthwhile...
Captain AMD wrote:XBL Gamertag = Pettytheft
Current XBL Games = ESPN Football/Basketball, SW: Battlefront, Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies, Rainbow 6, PGR2
I only play Star Wars and football right now as far as online goes. But I'm down to fire up other games if I know somebody.
Captain AMD wrote:First it's an arcade style flying game. M It really puts alot of emphasis on dogfighting. The single player is worth playing (A bit short however) but Multiplayer is where it shines. I had alot of fun with it, you can pick it up for $20 or less now days. It's definately worth the cash. Should be in everyones Xbox library.
the_silver_bullet24 wrote:I'm soo in.
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Games: Rainbow Six 3, Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow, CounterStrike, Ghost Recon Island Thunder...
Get ready for a spanking.
the_silver_bullet24 wrote:Sure is. It really shows who has skill and who doesn't. I'm not all up for the whole Star Wars thing.
yay! New status!
tanker27 wrote:Sorry been Busy this week. I will be on definately tomorrow. BTW I did manage to pick up Black Arrow. I must preface with, please go easy on me. I was a PC fps player, you know keyboard and mouse. It's hard to get both your thumbs to work together!
PRIME1 wrote:OK...I'm up and running as DeadBugs. It takes forever to type all of that info in. Every live game I have, I have not played yet. So I will practice off-line the next couple of days so I can sorta keep up. Which is the easiest to pick-up and play?
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October 24, 2011
Fall Foliage in Concord Mass | New England Fall Foliage Tour
When we moved to the Boston area, I was especially excited about the famed New England Fall Foliage display. Fall is my favorite season - hence all of the Autumnal themed posts lately. As you may recall from my Lilac Spring post, our little town of Concord, Mass. has beautiful homes, colonial buildings and charming streets that are the picture perfect setting to experience the bounty of Autumn.
Here are some photos of Mr. Darcy and I taking a stroll around town.
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It's strange to see pictures of the houses/stores on a blog that I see regularly in real life! Love Main Street cafe! I think you'll enjoy the area around Christmas time as well. Hopefully we won't get another 80" of snow this year like last year. Check out a new store above Priscilla Candy--it's called Jack & Toba. They used to be in Bedford and just relocated to Concord.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:28 PM
You have some nice views of Concord there. I used to work on the base so I'm familiar with the town and the Battle Road... If you haven't tried it you get on a bike and do either the whole thing or a portion (Mr. Darcy would like it too..)ReplyDelete
You might visit my Facebook fan page for views of New England by New England residents (or visitors) where we look for someones view of New England. http://www.facebook.com/NEPGuild
Thank you for sharing so many beautiful pictures! I have never been to Concord but I would love to visit. As a California native, we rarely get all four seasons. I can snowboard and surf, all in one day, where I live in Southern CA. It would be lovely to have Fall for more than a couple days.ReplyDelete


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The test, which took five hours on Feb. 6, successfully connected to about 74 percent of the registered telephone numbers, a high mark, said Jeffco sheriff's spokesman Mark Techmeyer.
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Back in 2010, shortly after Paramount Pictures' "Paranormal Activity" became a mega-hit on a micro-budget, executives at the studio decided to launch a label dedicated to making more movies of this kind.
InSurge, as it was known, would produce films for less than a million bucks -- much less, as the mil was earmarked for no fewer than 10 movies -- going high on concept and short on dough (and costly big stars).
Such ambitions proved more attractive in theory than in practice. The label has yielded few movies, though those it has produced (for example, 2012's horror flick "The Devil Inside") have been hits.
PHOTOS: Billion-dollar movie club
But unlike most Hollywood flavors of the moment, the notion has turned out to have some staying power. Low-budget horror under studio auspices seems to work more often than not. This past weekend we saw the latest, and perhaps most shocking, example. "The Purge," a futuristic horror thriller starring Ethan Hawke that was released by Universal Pictures, cost just $3 million to make. But its $36.4 million easily outpaced far starrier and better-funded rivals, most notably the Owen Wilson-Vince Vaughn extravaganza "The Internship," which had the cooperation of Google and seemed to run an ad in every third postseason TV sports minute.
As with many trends, some of the more successful executions come largely from one company: Jason Blum's Blumhouse, who is behind the "Paranormal" franchise, its spiritual heir "Insidious" and now "Purge" (more from him shortly). So it would be unfair to say that low-budget genre has swept Hollywood. Still, the fact that another studio has gotten in on the action is notable. Low-budget horror is a model that Lionsgate helped pioneer and that Paramount took to a new level and which has now spread around town to competitors like Universal, which has a first-look deal with Blumhouse.
Within Hollywood circles, much is made of the fact that these movies come cheap. They do (though not as cheap as they sound once marketing costs are factored in). But that's not primarily why they work. Moviegoers, generally, don't care how much a film costs.
Or do they?
In the cyclical world of Hollywood, sometimes the best thinking goes against the grain. And the grain in recent years has been to make big spectacles. Many of them, of course, become big hits. But it's also no surprise that there would be a backlash, or least that commercial audiences, peppered as they are with Hollywood sound-and-light shows, might like something with a hand-made quality once in a while too. (Of course, it still helps to make a satisfying movie. "The Purge" garnered a weak C CinemaScore, which will make for a tougher climb next weekend.)
It's been nearly 15 years since "The Blair Witch Project" became the first of the modern hand-made genre phenomena. We're a lot savvier about low-budget horror movies and found footage that often accompanies them. But the lessons of "Blair Witch" haven't gone anywhere: In this outsized era, movies that feel small just keep resonating.
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Chief of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Agency Speaks Out Amid National Debate
WASHINGTON – Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the nation's leading civil rights enforcement agency, today publicly called on the media and entertainment industry to make greater efforts to combat racism, in light of the dialogue spurred by Don Imus's remarks:
As I read the media coverage of the racist and sexist remarks made by radio jock Don Imus and his producer Bernard McGuirk, who collectively referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "rough," "hard-core hos," "nappy-headed hos," and "jigaboos," I shuddered and became outraged at the unfairness of the situation. As an African American woman giving leadership to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the nation's foremost civil rights agency charged with combating discrimination in the workplace, I cannot stand silent on this matter.
How dare these two men utilize the airwaves to assassinate the reputations and denigrate the accomplishments of these talented Black collegiate women who, against all odds, advanced to the NCAA championship and represented their university in stellar fashion. Given their academic and athletic achievements, these young ladies should have been celebrated and not castigated.
The popular ditty, "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me," is untrue. Names, especially racial and sexist slurs, can and do hurt! It is one of the reasons that the EEOC recently launched E-RACE -- Eradicating Racism And Colorism from Employment, a national campaign designed to hold businesses accountable for the discriminatory conduct of their officials, managers and employees.
Pursuant to this campaign, the EEOC intends to make clear that race and color discrimination in the workplace, whether verbal or behavioral, is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. The offensive remarks of Imus and McGuirk, the belated reaction of the networks and radio station, and Imus' defense of his comments by pointing to rap lyrics – as if two wrongs make a right -- indicate the need for a clear and unambiguous dialogue about racism in America. It also points to a need for a change in this particular corporate culture, namely entertainment. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Employers must become intolerant of racist and sexist behavior in the workplace and invoke a zero-tolerance stance towards such offensive conduct, and so must the media and entertainment industry. Just as employees must be encouraged to demonstrate respect towards others, so must entertainers. Offenders in the workplace and in entertainment should be swiftly and effectively disciplined even if, as Imus contends, they've done a good deed for the offended community.
Recently, such appropriate corporate action was taken by WSBG 93.5, a Pocono radio station, that immediately terminated Gary Smith, its on-air personality of 17 years, after he used the phrase, "I'm a nappy-headed ho" as the "Phrase that Pays" following the Imus incident. As Rick Musselman, executive vice president/chief operating officer for Nassau Mid-Atlantic, the parent of WSBG, stated in the Pocono Record: "Gary has done a tremendous amount of good for both African-Americans and whites, but we feel his comments crossed the line."
It's time for corporate America, especially the entertainment industry, to be more proactive in preventing and eliminating racist and sexist behavior in the workplace. No person should be judged by the irrational and irrelevant criteria of race or gender nor have their reputations assassinated by irresponsible pundits. During their diatribe, Imus and McGuirk mentioned Spike Lee's movie, "Do The Right Thing." That's my challenge to you all – do the right thing. Otherwise, you are part of the problem, and not the solution. Firing Imus does not address the real issues at hand. Instead of jokes, we need a serious dialogue about race in 21st century America.
According to the EEOC, racism remains the most frequent claim filed with the agency nationwide, accounting for more than a third of all private-sector charges. In Fiscal Year 2006, the EEOC received 27,238 charges alleging race-based discrimination. Additionally, the EEOC has also observed a substantial increase over the past 15 years in discrimination charge filings based on color, which have risen from 374 in FY 1992 to 1,241 in FY 2006.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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Bloody Disgusting ranks every installment in Konami's longstanding survival horror franchise, Silent Hill.
ive not played downpour, or the psp editions, but i almost agree with that order
Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Silent Hill: Origins better than Silent Hill IV!? What the hell.........
That game has way too much hate for no good reason. The only flaws I could have really pointed with the game was the lock-on mechanic and lack of enemy variety. That being said the enemy design, characters and premise was perfect for what it was. The "Hole World" itself was used as a visual representation of Henry Townshend's reclusive personality and ironically served the only way out even though it still happens with the confines of the room.
- The charge system improved combat over the previous installments with destructible weapons adding a nice touch in creating a more survival aspect.
- Limited inventory was finally added for the same reason as the above.
-Had the best antagonist in the series.
Ok. So it isn't a poll decided on facts. Just a guys idea of best to worst. Hmmm... Ok.
Then if it is just best by personal tastes, the room is the best. It was unique. A traditional horror story made in the style of Japanese horror movies. I loved it.
Downpour was more like Alice in wonderland than a silent hill game not to mention the story made NO sense.
Silent Hill 1,2,3 and 4 are the only Silent Hill games to me.
The other games are like fan fiction or something.
Silent Hill 4 get's a lot of slack and it does have its flaws (having to redo all the worlds twice) but it was still worthy of the Silent Hill name and I enjoyed it a lot.
I would say Silent Hill 1 was the scariest.
Silent Hill 2 had the best story.
Silent Hill 3 had the best graphics and voice acting.
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Last year during harvest, a passing observation by a friend prompted Macon County cotton producer Eddie Segrest to try something he'd never done before.
"A friend of ours from Pike county was helping us pick cotton last year," Segrest recalls, "and he said, 'Man, y'all ought to be growing peanuts in this dirt.'"
Segrest acted on the suggestion. Earlier this year, he hooked himself up with a buyer and took the plunge, planting more than 250 acres. Reflecting on his decision with more than 80 other producers at the recent East Alabama Cotton Tour, the veteran cotton producer admitted his introduction to peanuts was challenging.
"We've had plenty of help and advice on what we needed to do and when we needed to do it, and when all of that adds up, you don't know what's right and what's wrong," he observes with a chuckle.
As it turns out, Segrest is not the first producer outside the traditional Peanut Belt to develop an interest in the crop, and he's not likely to be the last. Peanuts, once associated almost entirely with the Wiregrass region in extreme southeastern Alabama, are making a tenuous debut in other parts of the state, including east Alabama.
It's a trend driven far more by crop production requirements than economics. For the last few years, Alabama cotton growers have been dealing with mounting problems caused by nematodes, soilborne pests that have seriously reduced yields throughout much of the state. Research conducted by Auburn University and other land-grant universities have shown that rotating peanuts with cotton can keep these troublesome pests at bay.
"One of the advantages of raising peanuts in rotation with cotton is that these two crops don't have the same nematodes and disease pests," says Austin Hagan, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System plant pathologist and Auburn University Alumni Professor of entomology and plant pathology.
That, he says, is the reason why peanuts are such "an excellent alternative" for cotton farmers who have to deal with nematodes and fusarium wilt in their cotton.
Rotation studies and on-farm sampling within the last few years have shown that cotton producers derive the biggest advantages from the standpoint of optimal yield and lower pesticide costs when they rotate from cotton to peanuts once every three years. The peanuts benefit, too. Hagan and other experts have discovered that peanuts raised behind at least two years of cotton, corn or summer pasture are not prone to the disease and nematode problems common to areas of the state where the crop has been grown continuously — early leafspot and peanut root-knot nematodes being prime examples. This enables growers to save money by avoiding costly chemical treatments.
"Usually, on fresh land, you get by with one or two fewer sprays than what you would need in land cropped every year to peanuts," Hagan says.
"I wouldn't expect to see any leafspot out here," he says, pointing to Segrest's field. "But if you come back and put peanuts out here again next year, you're going to have more leafspot problems.
The same holds true for tomato spotted wilt virus, a serious problem throughout the Wiregrass region, though of less concern in other parts of the state where peanuts are relative newcomers.
Whatever the case, Hagan believes there are plenty of reasons why cotton growers in east Alabama should consider adopting peanuts in rotation with cotton.
"It's an excellent alternative to cotton," he says. "We have lots of land in this area as well as along the Alabama River well-suited to peanut production."
While he's the first to extol the merits of peanuts within a cotton rotation system, Hagan says growers will still need to plant corn or some other crop to suppress peanut nematodes as well as nematodes and Fusarium wilt problems with cotton.
East Alabama isn't the only part of Alabama beyond the Wiregrass and Gulf Coast region where growers are gaining an interest in peanuts. Growers in the west-central county of Dallas, planted roughly 1,000 acres this year.


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O'Driscoll returns as boss of Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest have appointed Sean O'Driscoll as the club's new manager.
O'Driscoll, who had been on the Forest coaching staff for the second half of the 2011-12 season, leaves Crawley Town having only taken charge in May.
Steve Cotterill, sacked following the recent Kuwaiti takeover at the City Ground, had appointed O'Driscoll in January to act as first-team coach, but the former Doncaster and Bournemouth boss decided to return to management with Crawley.
However, with Cotterill's exit leaving the top job open, O'Driscoll accepted the chance to return to the Championship club.
Forest had seen expressions of interest from several big names, including former England managers Sven-Goran Eriksson and Glenn Hoddle, but majority shareholder Fawaz Al Hasawi told the club's official website: "We interviewed many well-known and high profile figures but none of them impressed us as much as Sean O'Driscoll.
"Sean's passion for Nottingham Forest, knowledge of the game and the Championship in particular, plus his work ethic, shone through in our conversations. He is hugely respected, not only by members of our current squad and staff at the club for his work in helping transform our fortunes last season, but also within the wider football community.
"We are delighted to welcome Sean back to the club. He has our total support and we are looking forward to a long and successful relationship."
Crawley, unhappy to have lost their new manager, have appointed director of football Steve Coppell and head coach Craig Brewster as caretakers.
Chief executive Alan Williams said: "The club is extremely disappointed to be losing Sean so soon after he came to Crawley Town, but our policy has never been to stand in the way of any employee who feels they would prefer to pursue a role at a different club and following lengthy and intensive negotiations we have been able to agree compensation with Nottingham Forest which will include a friendly before the 2013-14 season at the City Ground.
"We would like to thank Sean for his efforts during his time at the club and we wish him all the best for the future.
"Crawley Town will now began its search for a new manager, but in the meantime director of football Steve Coppell and head coach Craig Brewster will take over first-team management, starting with the friendly against Peterborough at the Broadfield Stadium on Saturday."


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Ben Silverman remembers going to the driving range with his dad, Howard, as a 10-year-old, but it wasn't until he was 14 that he really got hooked on golf.
During a visit with his grandparents in Vancouver one summer, he decided to try a one-week junior golf clinic.
"The first four days were all about putting, chipping and hitting balls, but then when we got out onto the golf course on the last day, I realized all the different intricacies of the game, how difficult it was and how many different aspects to it there were. That's what drew me to it," Silverman said.
Today, the 24-year-old is playing on the Golfslinger.com Tour, formerly the Minor League Golf Tour in Florida, a training ground for PGA hopefuls. At the Abaco April Open, Silverman finished tied for 13th after shooting a 71. He earned $155.84 (all figures US). The winner took home $1,000. At the April Lake Worth Open a week later, Silverman shot a 70 and tied for seventh, earning $201.25.
Most recently, Goflslinger.com reported, Silverman received a $1,000 bonus as the leading money winner over a two-week period in April, with $2,651.25. Most of it, $2,000, came from winning a 36-hole tournament at Fountains Country Club in Lake Worth. The bonus period also included four 18-hole events. He tied for seventh in a Golfslinger.com Tour event at the Evergreen Club.
Silverman knows there are no guarantees on his road to the PGA, but that isn't stopping him from pursuing his dream.
"It's just I've realized once you get to a really good level how long it takes to slowly climb the ladder and get better and better," Silverman said. "It takes a lot of time, because the guys at the top are really, really good.
"I feel I'm good enough, and I'm getting better each day. I'm just going to go for it full on and I'm not thinking about what might happen by the time I'm 30. I'm just all for right now."
When he was a youngster, golf was just another sport Silverman was good at. He played a lot of sports, but when he got back to Toronto from Vancouver, all he wanted to do was be on the course. He quit hockey – a sport he had played competitively – and when he was 16 he joined the Vaughan Secondary School golf team. By the time he was a senior in high school, Silverman, who had been named the school's athlete of the year, had quit the baseball and basketball teams so he could dedicate more time to golf.
His time on the course paid off. He was accepted to Florida Atlantic University, where he played on the schools' Division I golf team.
Making the jump to being a pro is another matter. It's not just his talent or the skills of his competitors that he has to worry about. Beyond playing well in tournaments, Silverman also has to earn enough money to be able to travel and pay tournament entry fees. The entry fee for a one-day tournament at the minor-league level is around $250. A two-day tournament costs $450. If he wants to compete at a higher level in the minor leagues, entry fees can run upward of $1,000. Silverman has to rely on caddying and private lessons as well as tournament winnings and some financial support from his parents to help pay his way.
"Some friends I know are lucky enough to meet an investor who wanted to set up a deal to try and give them money," he said. "That's the part of the minor league game – the money issue – that a lot of people don't know about, which makes it difficult to climb the ladder.
"If you don't have money, you pretty much just have to wait until the PGA Tour tryouts at the end of the year."
Silverman tried out for the PGA Tour for the first time last year. He made it through the pre-qualifying stage by finishing 15th in a three-day tournament, but he was eliminated in the first of three stages in the qualifying tournament.
Even though he was unable to take the next step at the PGA Tour tryouts, he isn't putting a timeline on his career, and he still has high hopes for his future in golf.
"I'm looking forward to trying out for the Canadian Open this summer. I'm coming home to Toronto to qualify for that. I'd also like to try out for the Canadian Tour, and tryouts for that are in California in about a month.
"I'm 24 now, and my goal is to be at least on the Nationwide Tour [which feeds players into the PGA Tour] in the next three years and hopefully on the PGA Tour by the time I'm 29 or 30."


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Now just 16 days away from Opening Night vs. the New England Revolution at Toyota Park, today we look at #16 Marco Pappa's first goal in a Fire shirt which came on Opening Day 2009.
Pappa of course joined the Fire on loan from Gutemalan side Muncipal in July 2008 but didn't make much of an impact as he adjusted to MLS in his first season.
With a new season ahead of him on this rainy and cold day at Toyota Park, Pappa warmed up Fire fans by taking advantage of Luke Sassano's misplayed header to first-time his volley off both posts before being ruled a goal in a 1-0 victory over New York.
Little did we know that the first goal of his Fire career would be a sign of things to come with his next 25...
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Man jokingly takes pregnancy test, finds out he has testicular cancer
A funny post on the popular social news site Reddit soon turned into a serious health issue regarding cancer – and may have saved one man's life, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
An anonymous user posted a story about his friend, who jokingly took a pregnancy test left by an ex-girlfriend and was surprised when the test came back positive. Thousands of Reddit users posted comments on the story, many telling the original user to have his friend get tested for testicular cancer.
Pregnancy tests detect the amount of the hormone beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in an individual's urine. While the hormone is produced by the developing placenta during pregnancy, it can also be associated with testicular cancer, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Eventually, the user posted a second post to Reddit, saying his unnamed friend went to the doctor and did indeed have a small testicular tumor. According to the user, the tumor is easily treatable since it was found early.
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Some see a spirituality in beauty of the Lowcountry Buddha taught others to care for Earth as home for humanity, all living beingsHindus revere nature, vegetation and life in general AME Church teaches 'thoughtful control' of the natural world Practice Christian faith by treading lightly on God's earthly creation Jews called to be stewards of environment, celebrate connection to land of Israel Charleston 'ground zero' for climate change.
EDITOR'S NOTE: As debate rages over climate change and other environmental issues, what do the world's major religions say about mankind's role in the natural world? We asked local believers to explain.
Spring's arrival beckons us out into a world of warming air, blooming flowers and flirtatious songbirds. But for the faithful, nature can mean far more than enjoying the Lowcountry's immense physical beauty.
Nature also plays a critical role in prayer, meditation and feeling connected to something larger than one's own life struggles.
Dr. Barbara Cole walks nature's path as often as possible. She first walked it long ago as a girl growing up on a Kansas farm, where her most precious companions included a stray dog and the earth that left dirt under her nails and yielded fresh vegetables she ate right in the fields.
"It became a part of me," she recalls.
Medical school and a demanding career in pediatric nephrology took her from those fields in Kansas to the halls of St. Louis hospitals and academia for many decades.
But when retirement came, she and her husband, Jack Quigley, moved to Charleston and created a new home in Mount Pleasant's I'On neighborhood. Jack, a minister and quadriplegic, could traverse its paths to glorious marsh views and maneuver down local beaches when the sand was firm enough to support his wheelchair.
With more time and access to nature, they deepened their spirituality.
"There's something about looking up at the live oak leaves when the stars are just right. It's like myriad lights — just miraculous," Cole said. "And all of that magnificence out in the ocean is just amazing to me."
Six years ago, Jack died due to complications from a stroke. In that circular pattern of life, Barbara returned to her beloved natural world, once again with a furry companion.
This time, she befriended Jack's service dog, Thumper.
"She taught me about unconditional love, about patience and about enjoying the moment," Cole said.
Barbara and Jack had joined Circular Congregational Church in downtown Charleston, a congregation known for its emphasis on conservation. There, Barbara joined a book group discussing the importance of nature in Celtic worship, both before and after its Christian advent.
"They saw God in the trees, in all of creation, in all living things on Earth and in themselves," Barbara said. "I really do believe that God is in and of everything. If one looks at the trees or mountains, there is something far greater than what we see on the surface."
Being in the natural world also reminds her that humanity is interconnected on this planet despite harsh divisions among cultures and faiths.
It reminds her that she is part of something larger than herself.
She notes that among many of the world's faiths there is congruity in the belief that some form of creator crafted the natural world, from the ocean's ceaseless energy to the solitude of a woodland trail.
"These things create a majesty that transports us out of ourselves and into a much greater existence," Cole said. "It's a mystery. We are part of a greater idea than any we could conjure ourselves."
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Ceiling Medallions in Kids' Rooms
We've featured some fun ceiling treatments for kids' rooms before, but have you even considered a ceiling medallion? With or without a chandelier, these decorative patterns or plaques can make an interesting textural statement.
Whether you buy them, DIY them, paint them or install them, we've found several fun ideas for medallions in kids' rooms.
1. Compass Ceiling Medallion at Thistlewood Farms
2. Kids' Ceiling Medallions by Marie Ricci
3. Butterfly Stencil Ceiling Medallion at The Weekend Homemaker
4. DIY Starburst Medallion at The Vintage Cabin
5. Golden Twig Ceiling Medallion at Neiman Marcus
Do you have textural or stenciled ceiling details in your nursery or kids' rooms? Let us know what you've done in the comments!
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Marc Anthony has done plenty of favors for other charities over the years, but now it's the salsa crooner who is asking for help for his own non-profit organization. Anthony and Chicago entreprenuer Henry Cardenas are raising money for the charity they created earlier this year, Maestro Cares Foundation, which benefits orphaned and disadvantaged children in Latin America. The charity's first Chicago fundraiser took place Aug. 20 at Sofitel Chicago Water Tower.
"Throughout the years, I've done so many favors for so many people and charities," Anthony said at the fundraiser, where he was joined by girlfriend Shannon De Lima. "When it's your own, you make phone calls and activate those relationships you've made. I'd never had to call anybody to say 'I've been there for you, this is important for me. We can make a difference.'
"My friends have really stepped up. The corporations I've worked with over the years have really stepped up. They've donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. ... I must have done something right."
One of those friends who is lending his support is Luis Guzman. The Hollywood character actor, who has appeared in "Boogie Nights" and "Traffic," was on hand at the Chicago fundraiser, which organizers said raised more than $100,000 dollars. He said he's not only a friend of Anthony's, but also a fan.
"I know Marc and came to see him (in concert Aug. 19 at the Allstate Arena)," Guzman said. "It was a sensational show." Asked if he ever dances to Anthony's music, Guzman responded "Yeah. How can you not?"
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