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They came in their tens, dozens, scores and hundreds totaling over
two hundred thousand people from all walks of life, with the Lion flags
aflutter, a riot of colour and joy in the very air while they marched
from the Campbell Park Colombo to the Parliament grounds, Kotte but
among them, the heartrending sight of the war heroes who had lost limbs
joining the marching crowd with their crutches reminiscent of the
sacrifices of thousands of their valiant comrades in arms had made to
free this country held to ransom by a group of bloodthirsty terrorists
for nearly three decades.
Yesterday's mass rally to felicitate and express the gratitude of the
nation to the heroes of the hour, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defence
Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Commanders of the three Armed Forces Army
Commander General Sarath Fonseka, Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha
Karannagoda and Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshall Roshan
Gunatillake and all the members of the Armed Forces and Police who had
made it possible for the nation once again to enjoy the freedom won by
those among the living and dead members of the Armed Forces.
The crowd on their way to Parliament grounds. Picture by
Chaminda Hittetiyege
The day too stood solemn with heavy cloud in the skies with a rain
that was experienced earlier in the day the people and the valiant
soldiers braved the rain, men, women and children, the young and old,
but the intermittent rain cleared up by afternoon providing a shade to
the marching thousands as if the weather gods had had been kind to the
Sri Lankan nation that had suffered immeasurably under the threat of the
terrorists who had built their killer machine on lies, falsehoods and
The sight was heartrending when the crowds from all parts of the
country of all ages and sizes their faces lit up with the joy of freedom
going in one direction to the Parliament ground and songs, slogans and
chanting of religious prayers and invocations from the religious
dignitaries of the national religions that had come to give their
blessings to the nation.
After two minutes silence in memory of the fallen war heroes and
civilians who had sacrificed their lives the Chancellor of the
University of Kelaniya the Most Ven Welamitiyawe Kusaladhamma Nayake
Thera performed the Buddhist religious rites followed by Hindu rites by
Kurukkal, Swami K.L.Mohan, Islamic rites by Moulavi Mohammed Niyaz and
Christian rites by Rev Fr.G.Hettiarachchi.
After the religious rites, a number of well known artistes came on
stage and once again the song 'Ran malak lesa dev bambun dothing pidu ea
pin bime' was sung by Sunil Edirisinghe, the lyrics symbolic of the
occasion written by our journalist colleague Karunaratne Saputantri of
our sister newspaper Silumina who was killed with his colleagues when
the LTTE terrorists attacked the aircraft they were travelling in.
When President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at the meeting the
spontaneous applause was deafening and among the shouts heard was 'our
saviour' and the more enthusiastic and able bodied people were seen
jumping for joy to welcome the leader who followed in the footsteps of
the heroic leaders and kings of the past in liberating the country from
the ruthless terrorist group that had killed infants, pregnant women and
the old and the feeble without exception.
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|Chuck Connors
|Birth Name:
|Kevin Joseph Connors
|Birth Date:
|10 April 1921
|Birth Place:
|Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
|Death Place:
|Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|Death Cause:
|Lung cancer and pneumonia
|Resting Place:
|San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles
|6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m)
|Years Active:
|Actor, athlete
|Elizabeth Riddell (1948–61) (divorced)
Kamala Devi (1963–72) (divorced)
Faith Quabius (1977–80) (divorced)
|Michael (born 1950)
Jeffrey (1952–2014)
Steven (born 1953)
Kevin (1956–2005)
Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series The Rifleman (1958–63).
Connors was born Kevin Joseph Connors on April 10, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Marcella (Londrigan) and Alban Francis "Allan" Connors, a longshoreman, immigrants from the Dominion of Newfoundland (now part of Canada).[1] [2] Connors was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn. Connors had one sibling, a sister, Gloria.[3]
Connors did not like his first name and was seeking another one. He tried out "Lefty" and "Stretch" before settling on "Chuck", because while playing first base, he would always yell, "Chuck it to me, baby, chuck it to me!" to the pitcher. The rest of his teammates and fans soon caught on and the name stuck. He loved the Brooklyn Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1930s, and hoped to someday join the team himself. Connors' athletic abilities earned him scholarships to the Adelphi Academy (from which he graduated in 1939) and Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, which he left after two years.[3]
During World War II (1939–45), he enlisted in the Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and spent most of the war as a tank-warfare instructor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and later at West Point, New York.[3]
|Chuck Connors
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|Birth Date:
|10 April 1921
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|September 30
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During his Army service, Connors moonlighted as a professional basketball player, joining the Rochester Royals and helping to lead them to the 1946 National Basketball League championship.[4] Following his military discharge in 1946, he joined the newly formed Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America.
Connors left the team for spring training with Major League Baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for numerous minor league teams before joining the Dodgers in 1949, for whom he played in only one game. He joined the Chicago Cubs in 1951, playing in 66 games as a first baseman and occasional pinch hitter.[5] In 1952, he was sent to the minor leagues again to play for the Cubs' top farm team, the Los Angeles Angels.
He was drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears, but never suited up for the team. He is also credited as the first professional basketball player to break a backboard. During warmups in the first-ever Boston Celtics game on November 5, 1946 at Boston Arena, Connors took a shot that caught the front of the rim and shattered an improperly installed glass backboard.[6]
In 1966, Connors played an off-field role by helping to end the celebrated holdout by Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax when he acted as an intermediary during negotiations between the team and the players.[7] Connors can be seen in the Associated Press photo with Drysdale, Koufax and Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi announcing the pitchers' new contracts.[8]
Connors realized that he would not make a career in professional sports, so he decided to pursue an acting career. Playing baseball near Hollywood proved fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGM casting director and subsequently signed for the 1952 Tracy-Hepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1953, he starred opposite Burt Lancaster as a rebellious Marine private in the film South Sea Woman and Trouble Along the Way opposite John Wayne as a football coach.
Connors had a rare comedic role in a 1955 episode ("Flight to the North") of The Adventures of Superman. He portrayed Sylvester J. Superman, a lanky rustic yokel who shared the same name as the title character of the series.[9]
Connors was cast as Lou Brissie, a former professional baseball player wounded during World War II, in the 1956 episode "The Comeback" of the religion anthology series Crossroads. Don DeFore portrayed the Reverend C. E. "Stoney" Jackson, who offered the spiritual insight to assist Brissie's recovery so that he could return to the game. Grant Withers was cast as Coach Whitey Martin; Crossroads regular Robert Carson also played a coach in this episode. Edd Byrnes, Rhys Williams, and Robert Fuller played former soldiers. X Brands is cast as a baseball player.[10]
In 1957, Connors was cast in the Walt Disney film Old Yeller in the role of Burn Sanderson. That same year, he co-starred in The Hired Gun.[11]
Connors acted in feature films including The Big Country, Move Over Darling with Doris Day and James Garner, Soylent Green with Charlton Heston, and .[12]
He also became a lovable television character actor, guest-starring in dozens of shows. His guest-starring debut was on an episode of NBC's Dear Phoebe. He played in two episodes, one as the bandit Sam Bass, on Dale Robertson's NBC western Tales of Wells Fargo.
Other television appearances were on Hey, Jeannie!, The Loretta Young Show, Schlitz Playhouse, Screen Directors Playhouse, Four Star Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, Cavalcade of America, Gunsmoke, The Gale Storm Show, West Point, The Millionaire, General Electric Theater hosted by Ronald W. Reagan, Wagon Train, The Restless Gun, Murder, She Wrote, Date with the Angels, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Virginian, Night Gallery, Here's Lucy and many others.
See main article: The Rifleman. Connors beat 40 other actors for the lead on The Rifleman, portraying Lucas McCain, a widowed rancher known for his skill with a customized Winchester rifle. This ABC Western series, which aired from 1958 to 1963, was also the first show to feature a widowed father raising a young child.[11] Connors said in a 1959 interview with TV Guide that the producers of Four Star Television (Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino and David Niven) must have been looking at 40–50 thirty-something males. At the time, the producers offered a certain amount of money to do 39 episodes for the 1958–59 season. The offer turned out to be less than Connors was making doing freelance acting, so he turned it down. A few days later, the producers of The Rifleman took their own children to watch Old Yeller in which Connors played a strong father figure. After the producers watched him in the movie, they decided they should cast Connors in the role of Lucas McCain and make him a better offer, including a five-percent ownership of the show.
The Rifleman was an immediate hit, ranking No. 4 in the Nielsen ratings in 1958–59, behind three other Westerns – Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and Have Gun - Will Travel. Johnny Crawford, a former Mousketeer, baseball fan and Western buff, beat 40 other young stars to play the role of Lucas's son, Mark. Crawford remained on the series from 1958 until its cancellation in 1963. The Rifleman landed high in the Nielsen ratings until the last season in 1962–63, when it was opposite the highly rated return to television of Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show and ratings began to drop. The show was cancelled in 1963 after five seasons and 168 episodes.
Johnny Crawford said of his relationship with Connors: "I was very fond of Chuck, and we were very good friends right from the start. I admired him tremendously." Crawford also said about the same sport that Connors had played: "I was a big baseball fan when we started the show, and when I found out that Chuck had been a professional baseball player, I was especially in awe of him. I would bring my baseball and a bat and a couple of gloves whenever we went on location, and at lunchtime I would get a baseball game going, hoping that Chuck would join us. And he did, but after he came to bat, we would always have trouble finding the ball. It would be out in the brush somewhere or in a ravine, and so that would end the game."
Crawford stayed in touch with Connors until his death in 1992. "We remained friends throughout the rest of his life. He was always interested in what I was doing and ready with advice, and anxious to help in any way that he could ... He was a great guy, a lot of fun, great sense of humor, bigger than life, and he absolutely loved people. He was very gregarious and friendly, and not at all bashful ... I learned a great deal from him about acting, and he was a tremendous influence on me. He was just my hero." He and Connors reprised their roles as the McCains in a television western movie, .
There were three rifles made for the show. Two identical 44–40 Winchester model 1892 rifles, one that was used on the show and one for backup, and a Spanish version called an El Tigre used in the saddle holster.[13] The rifle levers were modified from the round type to a more "D" shaped in later episodes.[14]
Two rifles were made for Chuck Connors personally by Maurice "Moe" Hunt that were never used on the show. He was a fan of the show and gave them to Connors. Arnold Palmer, a friend and Honorary Chairman of the annual Chuck Connors charity golf event, was given one of the personal rifles[15] by Connors and it was on display at The World Golf Hall of Fame.[16]
The popularity of the show led to tie-in products, such as toy models of the Rifleman's rifle, with the twirl-around-the-trigger lever-action that made the customized rifle a match for any six-shooter hand-gun used by villains. Also a Milton Bradley board game, called "The Rifleman Game", had two players each competing to move their herd of cattle from a Start to a Finish, across a prairie landscape, with a river-crossing and other hazards. The cattle were represented by die-cut cardboard cattle-pieces mounted in plastic counters, red or blue for either player.
In 1963, Connors appeared in the film Flipper. He also appeared opposite James Garner and Doris Day in the comedy Move Over, Darling.
As Connors was strongly typecast for playing the firearmed rancher-turned-single-father, he then starred in several short-lived series, including: ABC's Arrest and Trial, featuring two young actors Ben Gazzara and Don Galloway, NBC's post-Civil War-era series Branded (1965–1966) and the 1967–1968 ABC series Cowboy in Africa, alongside British actor Ronald Howard and Tom Nardini. Connors guest-starred in a last-season episode of Night Gallery titled "The Ring With the Red Velvet Ropes". In 1973 and 1974 he hosted a television series called Thrill Seekers.
He had a key role against type as a slave owner in the 1977 miniseries Roots, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance.
Connors hosted a number of episodes of Family Theater on the Mutual Radio Network. This series was aimed at promoting prayer as a path to world peace and stronger families, with the motto, "The family which prays together stays together."
In 1983, Connors joined Sam Elliott and Cybill Shepherd in the short-lived NBC series The Yellow Rose, about a modern Texas ranching family. In 1985, he guest-starred as "King Powers" in the ABC TV series , starring Robert Urich. In 1987, he co-starred in the Fox series Werewolf, as drifter Janos Skorzeny. In 1988, he guest-starred as "Gideon" in the TV series Paradise, starring Lee Horsley.
In 1991, Connors was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Connors was married three times. He met his first wife, Elizabeth Jane Riddell Connors, at one of his baseball games, and married her on October 1, 1948. They had four sons, Michael (born 1950), Jeffrey (1952-2014),[17] Steven (born 1953), Kevin (1956–2005), but divorced in 1961.
Connors married Kamala Devi (1963) the year after co-starring with her in Geronimo. She also acted with Connors in Branded, Broken Sabre, and Cowboy in Africa. They were divorced in 1973.
Connors played in Soylent Green (1973), as Tab Fielding, and Faith Quabius played an attendant. They were married in 1977 and divorced in 1979.[18]
Connors was a supporter of the Republican Party and attended several fundraisers for campaigns for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Connors was introduced to Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev of the former Soviet Union at a party given by Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, in June 1973. Connors presented Brezhnev with a pair of Colt Single Action Army "Six-Shooters" (revolvers) which Brezhnev liked greatly. Upon boarding his airplane bound for Moscow, Brezhnev noticed Connors in the crowd and went back to him to shake hands, and jokingly jumped up into Connors' towering hug. The Rifleman was one of the few American shows allowed on Russian television at that time; that was because it was Brezhnev's favorite. Connors and Brezhnev got along so well that Connors traveled to the Soviet Union in December 1973. In 1982, Connors expressed an interest in traveling to the Soviet Union for Brezhnev's funeral, but the U.S. government would not allow him to be part of the official delegation. Coincidentally, Connors and Brezhnev died on the same day, ten years apart.
Connors hosted the annual Chuck Connors Charitable Invitational Golf Tournament, through the Chuck Connors Charitable Foundation, at the Canyon Country Club in Palm Springs, California. Proceeds went directly to the Angel View Crippled Children's Foundation and over $400,000.00 was raised.[19]
Connors had started smoking in 1940. For many years he smoked three packs of Camel cigarettes a day until he quit the habit in the mid-1970s, though he occasionally resumed smoking afterwards. He died on November 10, 1992 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 71 of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer. At the time of his death, his companion was Rose Mary Grumley. He was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles.[20]


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Pakistan's prime minister, weakened by weeks of opposition protests calling for him to resign, distanced himself from an army move to intervene in the crisis on Friday, saying he did not turn to the military for help to defuse the stand-off.
Nawaz Sharif's efforts to end the conflict have repeatedly failed in recent days, leaving Pakistan locked in a dangerous deadlock with thousands of protesters massing outside parliament for weeks in a country that has seen a string of military coups.
Opposition leaders Imran Khan and Tahir ul-Qadri announced late on Thursday they would directly negotiate with army chief General Raheel Sharif.
Both men later had talks with the general. Qadri has not commented on the discussions while Khan said the army would act as a guarantor on one of his key demands, for an investigation into his accusations of fraud in an election last year.
The army has not commented.
Prime Minister Sharif, who is not related to the army chief, emerged significantly weakened from the crisis. Turning to the army for help could be embarrassing for a prime minister who himself was toppled in a military coup in 1999 during his previous term in office.
Addressing parliament on Friday, Sharif said he had nothing to do with the army's decision to step into the conflict.
"The army did not ask to play the role of mediator, neither have we requested them to play such a role," he told the assembly where he enjoys a strong majority.
But Sharif said he had not objected to both Khan and Qadri meeting the army chief.
"If ... they want to meet the army chief then they should certainly meet," he said.
A nuclear-armed nation of 180 million, Pakistan has been ruled by the military for half of its entire history and has repeatedly oscillated between civilian and military rule.
Although the army's role is key to how the crisis unfolds, few believe the army is bent on seizing power again.
However, its public intervention has demonstrated just how fragile Pakistan's democracy still is more than a year since Sharif swept to office in the country's first democratic transition of power.
"This is the end of democracy, the constitution and supremacy of the parliament in the country," retired Justice Tariq Mehmood was quoted as saying by the respected Dawn daily.
Sharif has displeased the army by trying to strengthen civilian rule and improve relations with India and Afghanistan, and the latest conflict has given


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It's not everyday that you get interviewed...by yourself. But to commemorate having 2/3rds of a Marketing Mentor calendar under her belt, that's just what Colleen did. Listen to her burning questions (to herself) on how the calendar has worked and what her plans are for moving forward.
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Commentary by Pamela Roberts
With a little more than two weeks into 2014, I think we have all recovered from extravagant holiday parties and either ditched the New Year's resolutions or put some serious thought into how to realize them. It's time for 2014 to start and swimming-wise, this should be a good one.
This weekend it's back to the Arena Grand Prix series with the stop in Austin. Stars like Nathan Adrian, Katie Ledecky, Matt Grevers and Natalie Coughlin are expected, same as local swimmers like Jimmy Feigen and Michael McBroom. And, the Grand Prix series with further stops in Orlando (13-15 February), Mesa (24-26 April), Charlotte (15-18 May) and Santa Clara (19-22 June) are some of the hightlights of the year.
Between August 6 and 10, Irvine, California is host to this year's summer nationals, a meet where it will also be decided who is going to represent the United States at the 2014 Pan Pacs, the 2014 Short Course World Championships and the 2015 Long Course World Championships.
But just before that, Europe will have one of the big competitions this year. Glasgow, Scotland will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games between July 23 and August 3 and if the 2013 of the Duel in the Pool is any indicator, swimming is going to be a major event during the games. Glasgow is also set to host British Nationals between April 10 and 15 of 2014, so the International Swimming Center at Tollcross is going to be in heavy use.
Almost at the same time as the Commonwealth Games, between 27 July and 10 August, Montreal is going to open its doors for the FINA Masters World Championships. Probably not as star-studded as the other events, it is still a great opportunity to see some fast swims.
August continues to be a busy month for anyone who wants to watch some swimming. I'd say better try to get some time off work scheduled between August 13 and 24 and stock up on coffee, because those will be some busy days will little time to breathe.
Starting some eventful days is Berlin, Germany ,who is the host of the 2014 European Swimming Championships. With open water swimming, synchronized swimming and of course the best what Europe has to offer in terms of swimming, summer in Berlin will be exciting.
And, whoever thinks that's not enough action for the month of August, how about some Pan Pacs? During the last few days of the European Championships, between August 21 and 24, on the other end of the world at the Gold Coast in Australia, the Pan Pacs will feed your need for swimming. And, just an FYI, the time difference between Berlin and the City of Gold Coast is plus 11 hours.
Think we're done with August? Not yet. If you still find some time in your day, why not follow the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China? Swimming is already a popular sport during the "grown up" Olympics, so why should it be any different for the Juniors? And luckily for you, they are between August 16 and 28 and you're already away from work anyway, right? And another FYI, the time difference between Berlin and Nanjing is plus nine hours. And as added information, the time difference between Berlin and the US East Coast is minus six hours.
And because we still have very few days in August left, could I maybe interest you in some World Cup? The 2014 season of the FINA World Cup starts in Doha between the 27th and 28th of August and, to finish off the month right, the next World Cup stop in Dubai is set for August 31st and September 1st.
The FINA World Cup series will then make its way through Asia (Hong Kong on 29 and 30 September), do a short pit-stop in Europe (Eindhoven on 4 and 5 October and Moscow on 8 and 9 October – leaving Berlin out of the World Cup circuit) before heading back to Asia (Beijing on 24 and 25 October which still has to be confirmed, Tokyo on 28 and 29 October and Singapore on 1 and 2 November).
Another busy swimming week is then set for December with both USA Winter Nationals and the FINA Short Course World Championships in the same week between December 3 and 6 and December 3 and 7, respectively.
So I think it is safe to say that 2014 is going to be a good year for swim fans. I am personally looking forward to the European Championships coming to my hometown of Berlin, even though it is a little sad that Berlin has been denied a World Cup stop this year because of them.
I'm looking forward to seeing what swimmers will dominate this year. Is Michael Phelps going to officially come back? How and when will Ryan Lochte come out of his injury? After having an off-year in 2013, how will Allison Schmitt and Cullen Jones do in 2014? Can Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky swim to more world records? Is Chad Le Clos going to repeat his successes of the past year or will it be someone else. And who in Europe will fight Yannick Agnel, Daniel Gyurta and Katinka Hosszu?
It will be exciting to see the questions to these answers and be introduced to a new generation of swimmers so I say bring on 2014!


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When the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs works by Schubert, Boccherini and Barriere at Meany Hall on Tuesday, it will mark the group's fifth appearance at the UW World Series.
But for violist Richard O'Neill, who's also a regular at the Seattle Chamber Music Society's summer and winter festivals, the gig will mean a return to his boyhood turf. And in musical terms, he'll be coming full circle with Schubert's glorious String Quintet in C Major, D. 956.
O'Neill, 34, was born in Bellevue and moved to Sequim with his mother and grandparents in 1979 (the day his family first planned their move, the Hood Canal Bridge sank in a storm, temporarily scotching their plans). On the Peninsula, he studied violin from age 5 and was soon playing with the North Olympic Youth Symphony and Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra. By the time he was 12, he was coming into Seattle for weekly violin lessons. About the same time, he was introduced to chamber music at the Olympic Music Festival in Quilcene.
He took part in chamber-music studies there for three "life-changing" summers, he said in a phone interview. The third summer, he was late in applying, and they'd run out of violin positions.
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"But they said if I would learn the viola part in the Schubert Quintet, I could come and I'd get a scholarship," he recalls. "It was the first piece I had to learn on viola, and while maybe it's not the most technically challenging viola part, it's probably one of the greatest works of, not just chamber music, but all music."
The viola, it turned out, was a better physical fit for him than the smaller violin ("When I hit puberty, I became really gangly"). It also tapped into his developing interest in "inner harmonies and middle voices" in both orchestral and chamber music.
"I think I liked being in the inner workings," he says, "kind of buried in the middle."
Not long out of Juilliard, where he earned a master's degree, he was invited to join the main CMS roster at Lincoln Center — a boyhood dream of his. Now shuttling between New York, California and South Korea, he's a member of Los Angeles chamber group, Camerata Pacifica and director of South Korea's Ensemble DITTO.
In South Korea, in fact, O'Neill is quite the celebrity, thanks to news coverage of his efforts to locate his blood relations (his mother was a Korean War orphan who never knew her family). He has used that media attention to champion chamber music in a country that didn't have much audience for it when he first visited there in 2001. Able to draw 2,500 people to his solo viola recitals, he figured he could get some of those fans to attend chamber concerts if he steered them that way.
"I love solo viola repertoire," he says, "but chamber music for me is where the great viola repertoire lies."
The Schubert Quintet is his prime example: "What Schubert did in the last couple of years of his life is probably one of the great testaments in human creativity … The harmonic reaches he goes to — it's like going to Mars and back, sometimes, and not really even knowing it."
Boccherini's work is lighter in character, O'Neill says, yet also daring in its harmonic twists and turns, which sound most unusual for its late-18th-century time of composition. Rounding out the program is Barriere's Sonata for Two Cellos in G Major from the 1730s.
"Really, in a way, it's a cello show," O'Neill says, noting that the Schubert and Boccherini pieces both feature two cellos.
O'Neill played the Schubert only last month with Camerata Pacifica. How much will he have to shift gears when it comes to revisiting the quintet with his Lincoln Center colleagues Ani Kavafian, Yura Lee, Nicholas Canellakis
and Jakob Koranyi?
"Every group is so different," he explains. "One player can really change everything. But there's something about that piece. … No matter what configuration or what sort of people and strong personalities you have," he says with a smile in his voice, "Schubert ends up winning."
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I bought these for a friend for the holidays and she is really happy with them. She commutes on foot in the middle of winter months and so I wanted to get something that would keep her feet warm.
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Katie Holmes Was Reportedly Worried Tom Would Send Suri To Scientology's Sea Organization
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New details about Katie Holmes distrust of Scientology are starting to emerge, and many of the whispers center around one of the Churchs fundamentalists arms called Sea Organization. Children are reportedly often sent to the Scientology camp without their parents in order to learn the ins and outs of the religion, but several ex-members have spoken out negatively in recent years about what actually happens there.
According to TMZ, Tom is a big supporter of Sea Organization, and Katie was reportedly very fearful about their daughter Suri being sent to learn the Churchs teachings. The minimum age to attend is five-years-old, and seeing as how Suri is six, a decision of whether or not she would go was likely coming. Since Katie reportedly wanted no part of her daughter experiencing Sea Organization, she decided she needed to move quickly, hence blindsiding Tom with the divorce.
Obviously, all of these rumors are extremely shady and unverified, but if there is a grain of truth to them, it would seem to explain why things went south now and why the hammer dropped as quickly as it did. Even with the divorce coming, its entirely possible Tom will win at least partial custody and be allowed to send his daughter to Sea Organization, but we wont now whether that will happen for months until the divorce proceedings begin to play out. Well keep you updated.


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Thousands of civilian federal-government employees throughout Washington state, including as many as 10,000 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, were sent home with the shutdown of the federal government Tuesday.
Critical services will remain operating — for now — but a prolonged shutdown would eventually affect government operations from building maintenance to the courts, according to local officials.
Joe Piek, director of communications at JBLM, said his office of nine was working with a skeleton crew of three, including the harried editor of the base newspaper "trying to keep civilians and their families advised of what's happening."
He said all nonessential civilian employees were sent home Tuesday without pay, with no guarantee of when they'd be back to work or whether they would collect the lost money retroactively.
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Piek did not have a specific number but said there were roughly 16,000 civilian employees on the base and up to 10,000 of them were "susceptible" to the shutdown. The others are essential or contract employees.
The Washington State Military Department announced that it was furloughing 850 federal civilian workers.
"These employees do everything from maintaining our vehicles and aircraft to fighting cyber attackers," said Maj. General Bret Daugherty, commander of the Washington National Guard. Gov. Jay Inslee is still authorized to place Washington National Guard soldiers and airmen on active duty if there's an emergency.
Jarring "lesson in civics"
The shutdown affected more than just federal employees. In Pioneer Square Tuesday, Jenny and Rohan Brooks, of Australia, and Franz and Barbara Reich, of Germany, stood in front of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and read the closure sign taped to a window.
The Brookses walked to the museum from Pike Place Market because friends had told them it was excellent — they just didn't realize the shutdown would affect their vacation plans. They also were surprised the country was still locked in its budgetary stalemate, despite the dire consequences of its going on too long.
"The negative effects this could have — it just can't justify anything," said Jenny Brooks, 58. "There has to be a better way to resolve this."
The Klondike park is one of 401 national parks closed by the shutdown. At Mount Rainier National Park, all visitor facilities, park hotels and roads — except for Highway 410, Highway 123 and park thruways — are closed. Instead of welcoming its average visitor population of 130,000 for October, the park will lose about $2,000 in entrance fees each day of the shutdown, and the National Park Service overall will lose about $450,000 daily.
Mount Rainier National Park visitors in all overnight facilities have been given until 6 p.m. Thursday to leave the park. Mount Rainier's Paradise Inn, which until Monday was scheduled to end its 2013 season on Oct. 7, was notifying visitors to its reservations website that the inn is now closed until May.
A continued shutdown will also alter the field-trip plans of 35 eighth-grade students from Everett. After the St. Mary Magdalen School class spent 14 months planning every detail of a long-anticipated trip, they'll be flying to Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning with a much different itinerary.
The school principal, Bruce Stewart, said they have had to cancel a private tour of the Capitol they arranged 12 months ago, as well as trips to the Holocaust and Smithsonian museums.
"This was something they thought they could count on, and now they can't — what does that mean to them as American citizens?" Stewart said. "They've had a lesson in civics that they will not forget."
Base planning
Planning for the shutdown started on Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Piek said, when directors of every office on the base were "told to look at their mission and what their absolute essential requirements were."
Some offices have shut down entirely. Others, like his, remain open with skeleton staffs "focusing on the life, health and safety" of the soldiers and workers and ensuring that military training and deployments are not interrupted.
Army Col. David Johnson, the head of I Corps public affairs at JBLM, said all military personnel were being paid and were on the job. Regardless, he said, JBLM would be affected.
"We rely on our Department of Defense civilians for a lot of stuff," he said.
Like the military, the federal judiciary will stay open — at least for the time being. The U.S. courts, through a variety of fees and other cost-saving measures, have money to operate as usual for 10 business days, through Oct. 15.
"We will provide additional information if a shutdown continues beyond October 16, 2013. All court business will continue as scheduled, unless otherwise advised," according to a posting on the website for U.S. District Courts in Western Washington. The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Federal Defender's offices will remain open, but not without sacrifices.
U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan said her office has focused on the most pressing issues and cases — priorities that she said would change from day to day.
The real toll has been on the support staff, some of whom were sent home Tuesday until the shutdown ends.
"We have to focus on the work that protects public safety, life and property," she said.
According to a post on the Department of Justice website, criminal cases "will continue without interruption as an activity essential to the safety of human life and the protection of property."
Civil litigation "will be curtailed or postponed to the extent this can be done without compromising to a significant degree the safety of human life or the protection of property," the DOJ posting says.
Affected operations
Here is how the shutdown is affecting other operations:
• The park grounds at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard were closed at 4 p.m. Tuesday, and cyclists and walkers won't have access to or through the park until funding is restored.
Vessel navigation will remain available through the locks, but reduced staffing could cause longer locking times.
• Department of Social and Health Services clients will continue to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Basic Food benefits through the end of October. Medicare, Medicaid and child-support payments are not affected at this time.
• Federal food-assistance programs in Washington state will likely have funding through at least October, according to nonprofit Food Lifeline. Food stamps, free or reduced-price school lunches and monthly boxes of food for seniors through Commodity Supplemental Food Program will be funded through October, and WIC (Women, Infants & Children) has funding now but could be cut if the state runs out of federal money.
• The federal Passport Agency (including the Seattle office) is processing applications. The agency is supported by user fees — what you pay to get a U.S. passport — so can keep going despite the federal-budget shutdown.
• Funds from Pell Grants, student loans, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants and federal work-study programs will continue to be paid out during the shutdown, according to the University of Washington.
• Amtrak announced on its website that it would continue normal operation.
• Border checkpoints seemed to be operating at or near normal. At 11 a.m. Tuesday, traffic entering the United States at Blaine was backed up 30 minutes for I-5 alongside Peace Arch Park, and 20 minutes for Highway 543, the Pacific Crossing. There were no delays to enter the U.S. at Sumas, according to a British Columbia website. A Border Patrol spokesman in Seattle was off duty Tuesday due to the furlough.
• Air traffic controllers continue to work, but the FAA's Aviation Safety Organization, a department of approximately 7,000 nationwide, reduced its staff to 310 Tuesday. The FAA said that if the furlough extended more than a few days, it would begin to recall as many as 2,500 employees, including safety inspectors, engineers and technical support staff to meet safety needs.
Mike Lindblom and Kristin Jackson, Seattle Times staff reporters, contributed to this report.


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Skoda rolls out 'Rapid Ultima' at Rs 8.30-9.97 lakh
Mar 01 2014 , Mumbai
The new offerings, which comes both in petrol and diesel variants, will be available across all ŠKODA authorised dealerships from today for a limited period only, ŠKODA Auto India said in a release here.
The Rapid Ultima features ŠKODA's new logo and is ideal for the Indian streets with an attractive design, ample space, excellent safety equipment and modern proven technology, the release said.
The company sells six models- Superb, Octavia, Laura, Fabia, Yeti and Rapid-in the local market. It has a manufacturing facility in Shendra near Aurangabad district in Maharashtra.
SKODA Auto India has a network of 92 sales and 84 service outlets across the country, the company said.


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Forum Moderators: incrediBILL & lawman
Considering my knowledge about the general incompleteness of websites in English I did a search for Godel. And lo: Not only did Google find Gödel under that name. They also found him both under the correct spelling and under another misspelling: Goedel.
That may be a matter of definition. In Denmark we have lots of names that are pronounced exactly the same but are spelled differently. Some people with such names take pride in the correct spellings of their names:
I remember one young football player who at one of his very first confrontations with a bunch of sports journalists said: "BTW my name is Povlsen, with a v." He did not want to have his name confused with the more common Poulsen.
And in some cases different spellings may actually distinguish between two different families with very different origins: Vedel is a bourgeois family whose family name originally was created from the name of my own home town while Wedel is a noble family immigrated from Germany.
Tell me I'm not alone
Me: Mikel, It's 7:30
He: No, paint it in blue
Me: Good morning
He: Good nigth (that's the most habitual)
Me: Will you go to institute today?
He: Will the aliens invade us? There are questions that will never be answered.
After some tries, each morning I was able to make him get up. And then comes the breakfast. I don't speak too much about the lot of times I have found the cacao in the freezer and the milk in the closet, or the ones he has put the fruit juice in the microwave. The best part comes when he prepared his bag to go to class: Some books, a set of guitar strings, some CDs, magazines, and once even a teddy bear!. But it was not a problem: most of times he forgot the bag at home.
I'm different: I work well at the morning but never after sunset. I use to listen goblin armies comming to were I am and so on. <snip>
So don't worry about Netscafe. There is people around there that are worse than you.
PS:Shht! I've listened an orc ;)
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California Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills to promote the use of clean energy. AB 327, [1] signed October 7, 2013, allows the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to increase the state's renewables portfolio standard [2] (RPS), and also calls for revising the state's net metering [3] generation limits by 2017. SB 43 [4], signed September 11, 2013, creates the "Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program," which allows municipal, nonresidential, and end-use consumers to get credits on electricity bills for buying renewable energy.
Under AB 327, the CPUC may set RPS procurement [5] targets for investor-owned utilities in excess of the 33 percent target in 2020 required by SBX 1-2 [6]. The law also accounts for lost revenues from utility customers who switch to net-metered solar by giving the CPUC permission to apply a monthly fixed charge of up to $10 to support power grid maintenance, beginning January 1, 2015.
AB 327 also requires the CPUC to develop a new Net Energy Metering (NEM) program by July 1, 2015, in preparation for implementation on July 1, 2017. AB 327 specifies that the new NEM program abandon limitations that restrict customer-generation to one megawatt of capacity, and further permit net-metered customer generation exceeding one megawatt to establish interconnection with the distribution grid.
Under California's Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program, businesses, schools, and renters without access to net-metered renewable power now have an opportunity to voluntarily purchase renewable power from the state's investor-owned utilities. Ratepayers who opt-in to the pilot program may purchase renewable power from generating installations limited to 20 MW in capacity, with an overall cap on the program set at 600 MW. The law also requires the deployment of 100 MW of renewable power in disadvantaged residential communities.
For more information:
LA Times: AB 327 Story [7]
CleanTechnica: SB 43 Story [8]
CPUC: Net Energy Metering Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation [9]
[1] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB327
[2] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/policy-maps/renewable-energy-standards
[3] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/policy-maps/net-metering
[4] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB43
[5] http://www.c2es.org/node/9340
[6] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx1_2_bill_20110412_chaptered.html
[7] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-brown-energy-bills-20131008,0,6466305.story
[8] http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/12/california-passes-600mw-shared-renewables-program/
[9] http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/BD9EAD36-7648-430B-A692-8760FA186861/0/CPUCNEMDraftReport92613.pdf


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Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ph.D.. - Director [NCVC rotation]
Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. His primary research interests include measuring the prevalence of rape, other violent crimes, and other types of potentially traumatic events as well as assessing the mental health impact of such events. Dr. Kilpatrick and his colleagues at the NCVC have conducted several extramurally funded studies investigating these topics using national household probability samples of adults and adolescents. His research has been funded by a variety of federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Mental Health, national Institute on Drug abuse, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, and the National Institute of Justice. He has over 150 peer reviewed publications, over 60 book chapters and monographs, and over 450 presentations at scientific and professional meetings. Dr. Kilpatrick was a member of two Institute of Medicine Committees: the Committee on Incorporating Research into Psychiatry Residency Training and the Committee on Veterans Compensation for Posttraumatic stress Disorder. He has served the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies as a Board Member (1994-1997), Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress (1998-2005), and as President-Elect and President. He is now a Past President. Dr. Kilpatrick has provided invited testimony on the topics of rape, sexual harassment, and compensation for PTSD to committees of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was recently awarded (2007) the Allied Profession Award for promoting crime victims' rights, services, and needs in the mental health field by the Congressional Victim's Rights Caucus.
Research interests: epidemiological approaches towards understanding the scope and mental health impact of potentially traumatic events, including natural disaster, terrorism, and violent crime; gene * environment interaction models attempting to understand risk and resilience for PTSD and depression following exposure to potentially traumatic events; using research findings to improve clinical practice and public policy
Allied Profession Award - awarded by the Congressional Victim's Rights Caucus for promoting crime victims' rights, services, and needs in the mental health field, April 18, 2007.
Career Achievement Award - awarded by the Section on Clinical Emergencies and Crises of the Division of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association, August, 2002.
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Josh Berdine, Tal Lev-Ami, Roman Manevich, Ganesan Ramalingam, and Mooly Sagiv
March 2008
We present new algorithms for automatically verifying properties of programs with an unbounded number of threads. Our algorithms are based on a new abstract domain whose elements represent thread-quantified invariants: i.e., invariants satisfied by all threads.We exploit existing abstractions to represent the invariants. Thus, our technique lifts existing abstractions by wrapping universal quantification around elements of the base abstract domain.
Such abstractions are effective because they are thread-modular: e.g., they can capture correlations between the local variables of the same thread as well as correlations between the local variables of a thread and global variables, but forget correlations between the states of distinct threads. (The exact nature of the abstraction, of course, depends on the base abstraction lifted in this style.
We present techniques for computing sound transformers for the new abstraction by using transformers of the base abstract domain. We illustrate our technique in this paper by instantiating it to the Boolean Heap abstraction, producing a Quantified Boolean Heap abstraction. We have implemented an instantiation of our technique with Canonical Abstraction as the base abstraction and used it to successfully verify linearizability of data-structures in the presence of an unbounded number of threads.
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Josh Berdine, Tal Lev-Ami, Roman Manevich, Ganesan Ramalingam, and Mooly Sagiv. Thread Quantification for Concurrent Shape Analysis, Springer Verlag, 2008.


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This is that really hard plastic that my mom always called Styrene. I don't know if it's really that stuff, it just feels like it. The lid is a little fiddley it opens on tracks and it's kind of easy to pull off it's track. Now, that being said, they are the right size and shape to hold loads of cricut cartridges and booklets with overlays. They truly are just right. How well they hold up and how well the top works over time, we'll see. I'm glad I got them (I got three of different color lids) and will try to use them to their full extent.
I was disappointed in the quality of the case. The sides seem a little unsturdy when you try to snap the lid in place, and the lid doesn't seem to fit that well. I plan on using them in my home and do not plan on transporting them back and forth to a scrapbooking event.
Pricey for what you get. bought it for the black lid only and that the ink holders fit. Would have bought Scraponizers had they had an item that held inks and stickles.
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Contractions or not?
I am 27 weeks pregnant with my third child and I have been experiencing intermittent feelings of tightening in my uterus which can range from uncomfortable to somewhat painful.The first night it happened I drank a lot of water and laid down and they stopped.But, it also happens while walking and can be so uncomfortable that I have difficulty continuing; however, when I relax they stops.I also have "gas" pains so sharp that I am nearly brought to tears.My first son was delivered early due to high blood pressure so I never experienced labor.With my second son, who was born last year, one week before his due date I was sent to the hospital for monitoring and they found that I was having strong contractions every 4 to 6 minutes but I only felt a few of them. Our son was born with severe problems, which we had known about since 20 weeks, and he passed away that same night.Because of the differences in each pregnancy, I don't know if these are contractions or if I should call my doctor.
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this is my third pregnancy and i have few contractions. My doctor said it is common for women to notice them earlier with the more kids you have. As long as there not frequent and painful. I have them once in awhile. They last for maybe 10 seconds. then wont feel them again for maybe a couple weeks.posted 01/12/2010 by gospelgirl_cheryl
I am sorry for your lost as well but I can definately relate to your fears this time around. I am 29 wks now and last week I went to the hospital because I was experiencing contractions. I was before but they always went away this time they didn't. I was terrified, it's been 17rs since I had a baby I was in a panic. So I went in just to be sure and ensure the well being of my baby. They gave me a examine, the test were NEG and a shot to stop the contractions. My doctors assured me that coming in when in doubt is always the best thing. So if you have any doubt or you just want that peace of mind that you and the baby are fine go to the doctor! Be Well,posted 07/29/2008 by moneek36
It does sound like Braxton Hicks, however, for your own piece of mind call your doc. I went to the hosptial several times for pre-term labor. They told me "real" contractions will not stop no matter what you do. Time them. 5-1-1. If they are about 5 mins apart, 1 min long for an hour call your doctor. The are looking for consistancey in your contractions. No one will look down on you if you call your doc or go to labor and delivery.posted 05/08/2008 by Gabie/Jas' mom
Hey, I had my first child last year and I started having contractions at about 30 weeks. When I went to the doctor I asked how long I would have to go through the Braxton Hicks and my doctor told me that I was not having Braxton Hicks. That I was actually having labor pains. She said that it was not enough or changing fast enough to worry about but def. labor. I had contractions about 5 times an hour for a little over a month. At 35 weeks she put me out of work and at 38 weeks I went to the hospital. My doctor said I did most of the hard part at home. When I got to the doctor I was thinned out completely and dilated to a 3. I got there at 6:30am, got hooked up to the monitors and saw my doctor at 8:30 am. They gave me one bag of pitocin. By 12:00pm I was ready to push. And two pushes later I was holding my little girl. I think a lot of people have Braxton Hicks but sometimes I believe it is the real thing, that it just goes at a slower pace. Good luck to all, it is def. worth it.posted 08/25/2008 by alishakincaid
Harsh PAIN. It wakes me up in the night and hurts during the day quite often. I am 29 weeks and just saw my doctor. She didn't seem concerned at all and said that the Uterus gets irritated when the bladder is Full or empty and that the pain that has me curlled up in a ball on the edge of crying might actually get worse in the next ten weeks. SUCKY - but better than early labor. Glad I asked and brought it to her attention. The pain I am referring to is all along my lower belly and is severe cramping.posted 07/09/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
if they get stronger and closer together and wont go away with rest and water then they are real. remember, this is the time when your hormones are changing again and constipation/gas can be a problem again (like in the first trimenster) call your doctor to set your mind at ease.posted 05/13/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
My wife has been haveing REAL CONTRACTIONS since week 15. Many people suggest they are "Braxton-Hicks" contracitons - at the ultra sound last week they showed up as REAL CONTRACTIONS. I would recommending CALLING your doctor, err on the side of caution when it comes to your precious baby! Currently all has checked out great with mom and babies, no explanation on why or what for the contraction. Waiting to see specialist and praying. We are expecting twins as wellposted 03/05/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
I went to the Dr. last week and was told I was having contractions. When I feel them, if I feel them, they are just like Braxton hicks. I would definately tell your Dr. They can monitor you to determine what it is.posted 03/02/2008 by 2mommysboyz
iam 20wks pregnant and having awful pains this is my secound pregnancy , to me it feels like contractions, they hurt so bad i try to lay down on my back, side, the other side rub my belly , i just want to curl up in pain sometimes, when you women are feeling these pains are you having any sensations down there whereit hurts or feels like throbbing?? this has been going on with me for about 4 days on and off moslty from the hrs 2pm to about 8pm after that iam fine? what do you think?!!posted 10/13/2007 by CRYSTAL19826799
I think if you have to ask yourself whether or not you should call the doctor then you answered your own question, call. :-)posted 03/11/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
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There are two simple, almost foolproof ways to make your bike more fun: make it lighter and give it more power. That's exactly what Ducati has done with its update to the original Hypermotard 1100, the Hypermotard 1100 EVO.
Click to read: Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO owners reviews, Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO specs and see the Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO image gallery.
Let's get straight down to it. The Hypermotard 1100 EVO has shed a shed-load of weight. The more compact engine is 5.2kg lighter and the chassis loses 1.2kg. Ducati has also upped the compression ratio from 10.5:1 to 11.3:1. The result? A net gain of 5bhp from the same 1078cc capacity as the previous model. Torque remains the same.
Styling wise, Ducati's kept the silouhette almost exactly identical to the model they first previewed in 2005 and released in 2007. It's a strong design no-one else has copied. No big surprise then that Ducati hasn't felt the need to gamble on a new look. However, the switchgear and digital dash have been passed on directly from the Streetfighter and they're a welcome improvement. The display is clean and clutter-free, with rising revs tracking left to right. Speed and temperature are the only other display distractions. Other manufacturers please take note.
Climb on a Hypermotard and you feel quite exposed. It's just you, a narrow seat and some wide bars. You sit high up in an aggressive position, all elbows, no fairing in sight, giving a lithe Supermoto feel – all the better for it.
Heading out of pit-lane, the stomp from the motor starts the moment you let the clutch out. Despite a lighter flywheel from the 848, the Hypermotard retains its slightly slow and lazy build-up of revs – you expect it to rev far more freely. This makes a stark comparison to the more modern water-cooled engines, like the one in Ducati's Streetfighter – snappier than a hungry croc.
But the Hypermotard doesn't suffer too much from an air-cooled lump that plods rather than fizzes. Torque is available everywhere, from so low down the range. Once you build up confidence you don't need to wring every last drop of power by holding onto the revs, you can short-shift and dig your way out of a corner making fast progress disguised by that lack of urgency from the engine.
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Faith & Inspiration
I am curious about the random verses that suck people into the kingdom of God as they are minding their own business. I know they're out there, because one ambushed me a few decades ago.
I was walking down the street in Villars, Switzerland, with a friend. I was not a Christian, and he was. I confided to him a strange phenomenon of human behavior (or at least my behavior), thinking that I had observed something no one else had ever noticed before.
I told Bob that for years I had tried to lose a few pounds but was not successful. On the one hand, I was sure it was a form of servitude or bondage of the will, because I had never been able to overcome it. On the other hand, I also was sure that every time I picked up a morsel of food, it was an act of pure, unconditioned choice on my part. I found it quite a fascinating philosophical conundrum-how bondage and choice could both be true.
Bob immediately told me to look up Romans 7, which I did when I later went to the hotel. I was so amazed to find the exact description of my dilemma that I mark this epiphany as the beginning of my slow surrender to Christ.
I know a man named George, who is in a Michigan prison. He came to Christ when his cellie, in the course of a conversation, said the words "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything else shall be added to you." That did it for George. He never looked back. His former cellie tells me that guys come up to him in the exercise yard and ask him what's up; they tell him they see something different in him.
I know a man whose marriage was dead as a doornail. The house was sold, the lawyers were involved, and he had moved in with his adult daughter and her husband. Then he was reading the book of Hosea one day and it dawned on him that if Hosea, at God's urging, pursued his wife this persistently, God must want him to pursue his wife too. So he picked up the phone and called her. A dam of tears burst on her end, and she called off the lawyers. They have been back together for almost a year now.
Then there is my friend who was in a season of depression over the divorce of her son, and she was angry with God. On a Saturday night, just as she had decided that she would tell her husband in the morning that she was no longer going to church, he happened to come into the room and read her Isaiah 9:6, as it was near Christmas. When he got to the phrase "and the government will be upon his shoulders," her life changed. She understood with great relief that the government of things in life is on Christ's shoulders, not hers. She did not have to carry the world, or the destinies of her children.
I wonder if any of you out there have been ambushed by a verse in the Bible.