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Completion Date: March 3, 2012
Reason for Reading: Bess Crawford Read-Along
The daughter of a distinguished soldier' Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War' helping to deal with the many wounded. There' serving on a hospital ship' she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother' Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Mother′s sake. But it has to be set right." Later' when her ship is sunk by a mine and she′s sidelined by a broken arm' Bess returns home to England' determined to fulfill her promise.
It′s not so easy' however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brother′s plea. Oddly' neither Jonathan' his mother' nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that there′s another brother' incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid.
Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldier′s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything' she decides that she will investigate. It′s her own duty to the dead.I had never heard about this series, but Jen at Devourer of Books posted about a read-along that was being hosted by Book Club Girl. I am not a huge fan of mystery series, but I do have a few exceptions. The fact that this one was centred around a female nurse, Bess Crawford, during WWI immediately caught my attention. I am a huge fan of Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series, so I am always looking for series of that same nature. Plus, I don't read as many books set during WWI as WWII and that is something I really need to remedy. I actually missed the first discussion for the read-along because I was doing up my Titanic posts, but I am finally taking the time to talk about this book.
Here are the questions that were posted for the discussion I missed:
1) Was this the first book that you read by Charles Todd, or, the first book set in this time period? I first encountered WWI-era-England with Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series, and then, of course with the tv sensation Downton Abbey. If you have read more in this time period, what other books do you recommend?
- Yes, this was my first time reading Charles Todd. I have noticed his other series while browsing the second-hand bookstore, but I hadn't heard enough to pick anything up. I also have read Jacqueline Winspear's series. I have read other books centred around WWI, but not very many and none that immediately jump to mind. There are just more books centred around WWII...
2) What was your first impression of Bess Crawford? Were you surprised by the independence she enjoyed as a woman in this time, and that her parents afforded her so much freedom? Did your opinion of Bess change throughout the novel?
- I actually think as far as her independence goes, she is probably more realistic than Maisie Dobb's. Her parents are constantly checking up on Bess and there is Simon, a friend of the family, who is around the rest of the time. She still does move around a fair bit, but not without some restrictions. I also think that her being a nurse in WWI and the changes that brought for women opened up some of the freedom for her. As to my first impression, I wasn't sure what to make of Bess. I enjoy the setting and all that, but I am not so sure about Bess herself. I don't dislike her, but she is not my favourite literary character ever. There is just something about her that is keeping her at a distance (and I have read two books in the series at this point).
3) Bess has an interesting back story, growing up as she did in India. How did the authors use that part of her life to help define her character, and that of her parents and their relationship?
The India connection was interesting. I enjoyed learning about her life there and such, but unfortunately with everything else happening in the book the details haven't really stuck with me. I think I am going to skip this question...
4) Did you know that large ocean liners, such as the Brittanic, which was a sister ship to both the Titanic and the Olympic, were called into service as hospital ships during the war? Brittanic was indeed sunk as well, just as the Todds write it in the book. Did you know that so many of the men who died on the hospital ships were buried at sea? Of course it makes sense, but I hadn't realized the number and that those men's families were left with no grave at home to visit, as Bess reflects, "In the sea there were no markers for the dead. No place in the deep to mourn, no place to leave flowers."
-I have always been fascinated with the Titanic, but with that comes interest in the sister ships. The Olympic was also used as a hospital ship during the war and there is a historical picture of it docked at the Halifax Harbour. I think this might be the first fictional book, though, that contained the Britannic. That I have read anyway. How quickly the ship sank considering all the modifications that were made to it following the Titanic surprised me the most each time I read about it. It just goes to show there is no such think as an 'unsinkable' ship. I was not surprised about the bodies buried at sea. That was something that was just done even if it wasn't an incident during the war. It is just the naval way.
4) What did you think of Arthur's message? Do you think it was fair of him to ask Bess to deliver it? Why do you think she was so committed to not only delivering it, but to making sure it was followed by the Graham family?
-I was a little surprised by the message in the beginning. You find out about it early in the novel and I wasn't sure what to expect. We still didn't really know Bess, so it was hard to entirely say how she would handle things. I thought it was nice that she made sure the message was delivered, but I was a bit surprised by how obsessed she was about things. Obviously if she hadn't the book would be rather short, but I think it might be her need to get wrapped up in other people's affairs that is making her so hard to grow on me. I am not entirely sure if it is believable.
5) What did you think of Mrs. Graham and her sons? I was struck by how much Bess was at their mercy and whim while staying in their house. Do you think they abused her kind nature in asking her to care for Peregrine?
- I couldn't get over the Graham family. Arthur seemed so normal, but wow, when you get into things there is a lot going on there. I went back and forth on Mrs. Graham. I sometimes was very sympathetic about her, but then there were other times where I just didn't like her at all. Her sons were no different, but I think I knew more clearly how I felt about them when everything played out. And, yes, I was both surprised by how it was well Bess was staying with them and how they treated her in regards to Peregrine. Again, I was a bit hesitant to find it believable.
6) Did you guess who the real killer was before he was revealed? I confess I went back and forth a few times, wondering.
- I went back and forth, too. I would think I had it solved and then I wouldn't be so sure any more. I wasn't surprised by the ending, though. I do think the Todd's did a good job of keeping things mysterious.
7) What new word did you learn in A Duty to the Dead? For me it was "ratings," which refers to "a classification according to grade; specifically: a military or naval specialist classification, or more precisely: "chiefly British: a naval enlisted man." (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition).
-hm, I am sure there was something, but again, been a while since I read the book...
In conclusion, I do enjoy this series, but I have a few reservations about this book.
This read counts for the War Through the Generations and the Historical Fiction Reading Challenges.
Bess Crawford Series:
A Duty to the Dead
An Impartial Witness
A Bitter Truth
An Unmarked Grave
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A guest blogger reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By Nicole Trierweiler
I read a book with my mom about a man's big words. The man was Martin Luther King, Jr. He was killed because he standed up and said what you are doing is wrong. Although I don't want to get killed or put in jail, if someone told me I couldn't play with my friends because they were different from me I would be sad. I would say, "Why can't I play with my friends?"
I didn't understand why people couldn't drink from the same water fountain. I couldn't understand why the people couldn't ride on the same bus. I would still ride the bus if there was someone on the bus who was different from me. If everyone was just like me it wouldn't be fun. I would be bored and it would seem funny. After having read the book and going to a Community Dinner last weekend, I realize that God made all people different from me but they are also like me. I like it that way.
NICOLE TRIERWEILER is 6 years old and loves her pet bunny rabbit named Snowflake. She wrote this post after attending the Community Potluck Sunday Supper on Jan. 20 honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and celebrating the diversity of the community.

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Everyone is now reporting that the Tigers have traded slugger first baseman (and, didjaknow, baseball's reigning Iron Man?) Prince Fielder to the Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler.
Texas gets a proven, hard-swinging commodity in Fielder (career line .286/.389./.527, 2013 line .279/.362/.457) while Detroit clears a net of $76 million off its books while
pocketing sending along a reported $30 million in cash. The Tigers get what baseball writers euphemistically call "financial flexibility," but it really means that with limited funds, Detroit would probably make a fat offer to its reigning Cy Young winner, Max Scherzer, in the final year before his free agency, than keep paying Fielder what he's earning, even if he is indeed earning it.
Kinsler's no slouch — he hit 13 home runs and batted .277 last year — but he's not Fielder. The Rangers presumably don't mind paying extra for another slab of lumber in the middle of their lineup, not when they're dimming after losing two World Series, then losing the 2012 Wild Card game and, this season, just missing the playoffs.
In Detroit, two-time reigning American League MVP Miguel Cabrera's likely going to take Fielder's spot at first, to get Kinsler onto the field. Meanwhile Texas may just keep on wheeling. ESPN's David Schoenfield, for one, thinks this deal makes the Rangers the frontrunner to land Robinson Cano once the Yankees make it absolutely clear that even they don't have $300 million just lying around.
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A new report from a group working with the United Nations, GRID-Arendal, paints a dismal picture of the present and future of the great apes.
Among the reports conclusions:
- It is likely that as many as 22,218 wild great apes were lost between 2005 and 2011 related to the illegal trade, with chimpanzees comprising 64 percent of that number.
- The loss of natural great ape range in Africa and Asia helps drive the illegal trade, as it promotes contact and conflict between apes and humans.
- Projections suggest that great ape habitat is being lost at the rate of 2 to 5 percent annually, and that by 2030 less than 10 percent of their current range will remain unless challenged.
The remaining populations of some species of gorilla can be measured in the few hundreds.
According to the report, despite the losses of great apes attributable to poaching and hunting, just 27 arrests were made in Africa and Asia, and one-quarter of these arrests were not prosecuted.
Prices for great apes vary greatly. A poacher may sell a live chimpanzee for $50 to $100, whereas the middleman will resell that same chimpanzee at a mark-up of as much as 400 percent. Gorillas are worth more, sometimes considerably more.
All in all this seems a pretty poor way to treat our closest kin on the tree of life.
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The $50 genome in 2014?
John Hawks notes the MacArthur-Herper debate on the "$1,000 genome", and responds, Genomes too cheap to meter:
….In it, he notes the comments of several professionals that the $1,000 number itself is not an important fact, it is the availability of sequencing within that order of magnitude.
The inevitability of the $1000 genome has already made it irrelevant. We should expect a $1000 genome announcement this year. This will be hype, because the real $1000 genomes won't be here until…next year! Before the end of 2014, whole genome sequences at 4x coverage will cross the $100 mark. I think there's a good chance they will be less than $50 at that time.
Based on numbers I've seen, those numbers are around six months optimistic. Geneticists are already planning projects anticipating $100 genomes — some suggest that the next big project should be a "Million Genomes", because there isn't any sense bothering with a hundred thousand.
He concludes:
Put these things together, and personal genomics today is where personal computing was in 1973. We haven't yet had an Altair, much less an Apple 2. But it's almost in reach. Quasi-professional hobbyists can cobble together data using primitive tools, and carry out the same analyses as postdocs. Sequencing costs falling by an order of magnitude every other year. The state of the art in interpretation totally free for the trained, with applied genomics and synthetic biology as growing industries. Genomes may not be literally too cheap to meter, but they'll certainly be, as George Church has suggested, free with additional purchase.
Mind boggling. I've been writing about genes on the internet since 2002. It's been a crazy 8 1/2 years.
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Heck, I'm probably just crazy.
Sounds promising!
John, you're not crazy. It's Moore's Law all over again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law .
But there are companies currently that sell genome sequencing for humans at $200 (sometimes on sale for $100) or am I missing something?


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This will likely be the last post on Run Up The Score, and pursuant to Section 538.3 of the Bloggers' Code, I am required to give you the internet version of a teary goodbye.
Over the past three years, it's safe to say that I've dedicated thousands of hours to Run Up The Score. How awesomely sad is that? It's been a labor of love, as any blog always is. In return for the effort, I have built friendships and acquired points of view that I otherwise would never have discovered. This has been a wonderfully therapeutic (and necessary) creative outlet for me, and it would not have been possible without the constant feedback and participation of the 500,000+ visitors that have wandered through here since May, 2007 — and even more, going back to the old Blogspot site. As anybody who ever made a true attempt at blogging will tell you, it's very difficult to keep seeing "No Comments" next to posts during the first weeks and even months of running a blog. Every reader comment is a fractional but noticeable kick in the pants for a writer, especially in those blogging salad days, and there's really no substitute for knowing that you wrote something interesting enough to provoke even more interesting responses.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
A Tour of Ghost Town Farm
Novella recently published City Farm, a book about her foray into raising livestock and gardening in an urban environment. I anxiously waited weeks for it to come into print and devoured it as soon as it arrived. The story is a fascinating look at one woman's attempt to be closer to the source of her food while living in a blighted, urban ghetto. Her pioneering spirit pours forth from every page as she humorously recounts tales as outlandish as raising 2 full sized pigs for slaughter on nothing but compost bin leftovers from Oakland's Chinatown and Berkeley's chic restaurant district. I highly recommend this read, even if you have no interest in raising your own meat or eggs. As well as being a captivating narrative of a new kind of modern urban lifestyle, her enthusiasm for bringing food closer to home is infectious and relevant to our current societal woes of food security, environmental degradation, reliance on foreign oil, and alienation from basic survival skills.
So of course after reading her book and following her blog religiously, I have been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to visit this little patch of citified grange. Lucky me, as a part of Oakland's Eat Real festival, Ghost Town graciously opened its doors for an all day farm extravaganza, which included a chicken slaughter and goat milking demonstration. I would have LOVED to have stayed all day, meeting like-minded folks, sharing ideas, and learning new urban farm tricks (really got to learn how to milk those goats!), but alas it was scorching hot in the East Bay, there were a ton of people in attendance, which was awesome, but made it difficult to hear, and I had an overheated 5 year old at my side who was adamant to know why we needed to look at some lady's goats when we had two perfectly good ones at home. The overbearing midday sun had turned my brain to mush and I was rendered incapable of reasoning with the small set (let's face it, I struggle with that on a good day). So we skipped most of the "official" tour and opted for a self-guided version. The veggie beds that littered the vacant lot adjacent to the house were lush and enviable,
the baby goats were cute as can be as they gorged themselves on alfalfa directly IN the manger,
and Novella, the farm lady herself, was absolutely charming and personable (with great taste in eyeglasses!).
While she was signing books, I approached her with a small gift from Itty Bitty, a jar of lemon apple butter, kicking myself the entire time for not having brought my copy of her book to sign. We briefly talked about goats and I realized in that moment that I have been a bit desperate for community - you know, like personally knowing a couple other folks whom I can talk to about chicken and goat stuff. It took all of my willpower to refrain from ambushing Novella with a million and one question assault of all things related to backyard livestock. I'm hoping that she will have a workshop on goat husbandry in the near future, as I am particularly nervous about that "goats giving birth in my backyard" thing and could use a mentor.
Thank you Novella for your inspiring presence in this world. You are an amazing lady!
And BTW, if any of you out there know of someone who is raising chickens, goats, rabbits, etc. in the city, trying to grow more of their own food, or just interested in this kind of stuff, please send them my way. I'm lonely. Maybe we could have a potluck or something.
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What a GREAT read! And I don't think I'm saying that just because you are my daughter! Sorry, I can't discuss chickens and goats and our foray into rabbits wasn't the happiest of our pet ventures...so you are on your own to find like-minded to potluck with.ReplyDelete
Thanks mom!ReplyDelete
Greeeeeeeeeeeeeen acres is the place for me!ReplyDelete
You are so fun to read!
There ae many of us who feel like you. Farming can be quite solitary. For me it is comforting after a day at the office. My wife and I haa small plot in west Berkeley - the maritimes I call it. We have chickens and a small area for vegetables etc. (this area continues to grow every year).ReplyDelete
I would add to your resource list:
Carla Emery's Old Fashioned Recipe Book, an Encylopedia of Country Living, my copy was published in 1981 by Bantam Books.
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I've got two chickens, one raised bed and a crab apple tree in North Panhandle (SF); I'm starting small, keeping it manageable. Like you, I'm a fan of Novella Carpenter's, however I don't have goats but goat envy. How've your neighbors reacted to your goats?
i'm so lucky, the neighbors don't seem to have a problem with it - they're from china and el salvador. we also have a steep, downward sloping yard and the animals are all at the bottom in an enclosure. even the people living right next to us can't really see that they're there... except when they pop their heads over the fence :)ReplyDelete
maybe one of these days i can meet your chickens. feel free to stop by our farm anytime. we like visitors :)
We've got bees and veggies in east Oakland! We don't have enough of a fence for livestock, and don't want to take on more than we can handle. My sister has had chickens in Brooklyn NY for years.ReplyDelete
We just got this place six months ago, and it was a wreck when we started.


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Bernanke Says U.S. Job Market Weak Despite Gains
By Martin Crutsinger
WASHINGTON -- Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. job market remains weak despite three months of strong hiring and that the Federal Reserve's existing policies will help boost growth.
Further job gains will likely require more robust consumer and business demand, Bernanke said Monday during a speech at the National Association for Business Economics spring conference in Arlington, Va.
Bernanke's comments suggest the central bank is prepared to keep interest rates near zero for some time.
"Despite the recent improvement, the job market remains far from normal," Bernanke said. "The number of people working and total hours worked are still significantly below pre-crisis peaks."
Recent job gains have lifted hopes for the economy. Employers added an average of 245,000 jobs a month from December through February. The unemployment rate has fallen roughly a percentage point since summer, to 8.3 percent.
But the economy grew at an annual pace of just 3 percent in the October-December quarter. And economists believe growth has slowed in the January-March quarter to around 2 percent growth.
Bernanke said the combination of modest economic growth and rapid declines in unemployment is something of a puzzle. Normally, it takes growth of roughly 4 percent annual growth to lower the rate by that much over a year.
He offered some reasons for the unexpected decline in unemployment. Employers may be hiring rapidly because they cut too many jobs during the recession. He also said that government revisions may later show stronger growth over the past year.
But Bernanke cautioned that he doesn't expect the unemployment rate to keep falling at the current pace without much stronger economic growth. He also noted that the rate is still roughly 3 percentage points higher than its average over the 20 years preceding the recession.
His comments offer insight into the reasoning behind the Fed's plan to hold short-term interest rates near zero through 2014. The central bank has stuck with that timetable despite three months of strong job growth and other signs of economic improvement.
The Fed is concerned that the recovery could falter again as it did last year. Americans aren't seeing big pay increases, gas prices are rising, and Europe's debt crisis could weigh on the U.S. economy.
As long as inflation remains tame, analysts believe the Fed will likely hold interest rates down to give the economy more support.
Many economists believe that Fed officials will not make any changes in policy at their next meeting on April 25-26 and will only ease credit conditions if the economy slows further.
While the recent job market gains may continue, economists believe the record-low rates will continue as well, at least through much of this year.
One reason for that view: a pullback from the 2014 timetable could jolt investors and trigger a sudden rise in interest rates set by financial markets. That would slow the economy just as it is struggling to mount a sustainable recovery.
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"Panagis" Surname
Frequency of "Panagis" Surname in the US
2000 US Census
The surname "Panagis" is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
1990 US Census
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "Panagis" ranked #80,127 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census.
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Rusty Nail
This week I'm going to be mixing up a drink I've had on my mental list for a long time, the Rusty Nail. I'm a huge fan of scotch. Well, more correctly whiskey in general. Drambuie on the other hand, I have no idea what to expect. I've never tried it and actually haven't even looked it up to see what the flavor is. Should be a great experience! For this recipe, Regan recommends experimenting with the choice of scotch to change the flavor profile of the cocktail. Since I've got a reasonable selection of scotch this will be a very fun week.
Rusty Nail (Joy of Mixology)
2 1/2 oz Scotch 1/2 oz Drambuie
1) Combine ingredients in a mixing glass 2) Add ice and stir until well chilled 3) Strain into a chilled cocktail glass


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The day after Christmas - boxes still stacked in the corner, the refrigerator is full of leftovers because we overcooked as usual, and the dreaded task of taking down the Christmas decorations looms in the back of our mind. I always heard that it was bad luck to have the decorations up on New Year's Day, but the older I get, the slower those decorations come down.
In my younger years, I always tried to entertain on New Year's Day, and that was my motivation for taking down the Christmas decorations. I still have guests on New Year's, but now I convince myself that one of the guests who didn't see my Christmas decorations would really like to see them, so I should just leave them up.
Whether the Christmas tree is still around or not, I love New Year's Eve and Day.
There is something about an end and a new beginning that excites me.
I don't make resolutions - they are just for breaking - but I do like to ponder about what the New Year will bring. Maybe I'll get that cookbook written. Perhaps I won't work so many hours. I might linger a little later in the morning with Steve and the dogs and not rush out the door so fast. I'll try to take better care of myself, be a better wife, mother, friend and boss. And - I'm going to buy a lot of pretty pink dresses for my first granddaughter who will be joining her three brothers in May. Pondering, I remind you - not resolving.
For as long as I can remember, I have celebrated New Year's Eve with family and friends and for many years, I invited people back to my house for a candlelight breakfast after the stroke of midnight. These days I can't stay awake until midnight and since it's rather rude to fall asleep at a party, I tend to stay home.
With so much to look back on and so much to look forward to, New Year's is a great time to entertain. Everyone is cheerful, hopeful and no longer holiday weary.
Here are two of my favorite party recipes to help your New Year get started by enjoying good food and good drink. Happy New Year!
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I served this punch at an event I catered earlier this month alongside a beautiful buffet of delicious food, and all everyone could talk about was the punch. It is just as good with ginger ale as it is with champagne.
1/4 cup sugar
½ cup boiling water
2 cups cranberry juice
1 cup orange juice
1 bottle champagne or 3 cups ginger ale, chilled
Boil sugar in water until dissolved. Add cranberry and orange juice and chill. Just before serving, add champagne or ginger ale. Yields 6-7 cups.
I discovered this recipe in one of my Southern Living books at some point, and every time I serve it, the dish is wiped clean.
1 medium onion, diced
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 (1-lb.) package ground sausage
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
6 oz fresh baby spinach, coarsely chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 375°. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook onion, bell pepper and sausage for 8 to 10 minutes or until meat crumbles and is no longer pink. Drain. Stir in garlic and thyme; cook 1 minute. Stir in wine; cook 2 minutes or until liquid has almost completely evaporated. Add cream cheese and cook, stirring constantly, 2 minutes or until cream cheese is melted. Stir in spinach and salt, and cook, stirring constantly, 2 minutes or until spinach is wilted. Gently stir in beans. Pour mixture into a 2-quart baking dish; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with corn chip scoops, bell pepper strips or pretzel rods.


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HONG KONG -- Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain shot a 2-under 68 to share the third-round lead with New Zealand's Michael Campbell at the Hong Kong Open on Saturday.
Campbell, looking for his first win in seven years, made a 15-foot par putt on the last hole to complete a round of 69 that put him at 10-under 200. Jimenez is trying to win the event for a third time in nine years.
"I wouldn't say I played well today as it was a bit scrappy and really pretty average but then I managed to grind out a score and that's important when you are not playing all that well," Campbell said.
Campbell survived a scare during his round when he accidently knocked his ball off the tee at the par-4 10th hole while taking a practice swing. However, the 2005 U.S. Open champion avoided a two-stroke penalty after a ruling that he had not addressed the ball and therefore was not in breach of the rules.
"I've never ever done that before in 38 years of playing golf and knocking the ball off the tee in taking a practice swing," he said.
Campbell, ranked at No. 339th, has won 15 career titles but none since the 2005 HSBC World MatchPlay Championship in England.
"It would be very satisfying to be standing here tomorrow night as the ... winner, given what has happened in my life and with my career the last seven years," he said.
Matteo Manassero had a 64 that moved him into a share of third place at 9 under with 47-year old Lian-wei Zhang (69) of China.
"I played well throughout the whole round so everything came together for me," said Manassero, who won the Singapore Open last week. "After winning last week that has made me more relaxed on the golf course, and my position is certainly due to what happened last week as I've got more freedom."
Sweden's Fredrik Andersson Hed (70) was another shot back, and Denmark's Anders Hansen (70) and Ireland's Peter Lawrie (67) were tied for sixth at 7 under. American Matt Kuchar (66) was among five players in eighth, four shots off the lead.


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Cattle feeding margins declined $87 per head last week, but remain near $200. That's a tidy profit, especially considering feedyards were losing more than $41 per head at the same time last year. The decline in profit margins was due to a $5 per cwt. decline in fed prices last week, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker. Farrow to finish pork margins declined $16 per head to $61.74. Both beef and pork profit margins are calculated by John Nalivka, president, Sterling Marketing, Vale, Ore.
Cattle feeders' profits last week were a whopping $240 per head more than at the same time last year. Beef cutout values declined about $5 per cwt., and packer margins improved $2 per head last week to total $112 per head. Packer profits totaled $9 per head at the same time last year. Pork packers saw a $7 per head decline in profit margins to $7.23 per head.
Farrow-to-finish hog margins are about $50 per lower than they were a month ago, but significantly better than the $25 per head profits seen last year. Cash prices for fed cattle are nearly $31 per cwt. higher than last year, and negotiated hog prices are $10 per cwt. higher than last year.


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Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of his office, where he writes his bestsellers and records his radio shows. The futuristic 1950s TV show Flash Gordon jump-started his interest in science. Watching it as a kid, Kaku realized that it was the problem-solving scientist, not the chiseled crimefighter Flash, who was really the hero.


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Quinn Emanuel Loses Marvel Law Suit
A jury in Pennsylvania found that Marvell had infringed patents held by Carnegie Mellon University. Worse yet for Marvell, the jury found that the semiconductor company's conduct was willful, which could allow the judge in the case to impose damages that are three times the jury's verdict.
Marvell's stock closed regular trading down 85 cents, or 10 percent, to $7.40. Its shares were off another 21 cents, or 2.8 percent, in after-hours trading.
"We take special pride in this trial victory," said Peter J. Kalis, chairman of K&L Gates, the law firm that represented Carnegie Mellon.
Representatives for Marvell did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The patents at issue in the case covered technology used in hard-disk drives. The technology allows chips to more accurately read data stored on high-speed drives. The jury found that Marvell, which has its headquarters in Santa Clara but is legally based in Bermuda, had used the patented technology in billions of its chips without licensing it from Carnegie Mellon.
The case was heard in Pittsburgh's U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.


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The first Hopscotch release from the then husband/wife duo of wind player Assif Tsahar and drummer Susie Ibarra, lyrical and textural powerfully woven improvisation.
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Label: Hopscotch Records
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Released: 1998
Country: USA
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Recorded by Sascha Von Oertzen at the Knitting Factory on February 28, 1998. Dream Songs #1-8 recorded September 15, 1998 by Assif Tsahar and Susie Ibarra in their living room.
Susie Ibarra-drums, thumb piano, balafon, kulintang, vibes, djembe, tympani, toy gamelan, clay whistle
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1. Arrival/Salutations 7:22
2. Dream Song #1 0:39
3. Ambrosia 7:28
4. Dream Song #2 0:41
5. Liquid Time 6:29
6. Dream Song #3 1:23
7. At Dawn 7:52
8. Dream Song #4 1:28
9. Happy Disillusion 7:22
10. Dream Song #5 0:58
11. What Is Not 7:45
12. Dream Song #6 0:38
13. Prayer For The Unseen 4:37
14. Dream Song #7 0:20
15. The Wordless Song: Found Treasures 4:58
16. Dream Song #8 0:14
17. Muchaco Loco 7:45
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"The first issue on the home label of Susie Ibarra and her husband, reed/woodwind boss Assif Tashar, two of downtown NY's finest, and most in demand, players. The set was recorded in three hours and features the pair playing everything from their standard instruments, like a trap kit and a tenor saxophone, to African thumb piano, tympani and bells, bass clarinets, violins, etc.
The set opens with "Arrival/Salutations" for tenor and drums. It's along the lines of the Coltrane/Ali Interstellar Space recordings, but much more subtle, as Tashar is a true lyricist and Ibarra is much more interested in the subtleties of speed rather than in its more obvious function as power. From here the pair move into "Dream Song #1" (there are eight of them, and one has to wonder if they were named for the poems by John Berryman). The exploration of space and texture and the tonal interaction between the violin and the thump piano provide a fascinating backdrop of textural mode and timbre.
On "Dream Song #2," Ibarra employs the balafon against Tashar's talking drum; they meet each other head on and find a turning point to offer one another a few moments of individual expression before the onslaught of the sax/drum duet of "Liquid Time" puts everything that has come up so far into perspective. The phrases are long, the cadences fall down about the pair's ears as the improvisations sings with a multivalent form of tonal experientialism.
Finally, as the record goes on, and as the "Dream Songs" intersect with the freer improvisation a tapestry gets woven between the two players, to be sure, but also around the listener, who is allowed full entrance into this world, with no knowledge necessary of technique, breath, spatial dynamics, or intervallic architecture, only the desire to hear.
Perhaps these notions are best articulated in "Prayer for the Unseen" and "The Wordless Song," where the welcoming spirit of openness and vulnerability that comes from recording an album in three hours. On these two pieces, Tashar is literally singing across space to Ibarra's kit, which, in turn, bounds back his words to him, meaning added to with something from her own heart -- that is the crux of technique for both of these musicians, and perhaps that's why they're so awesome -- and staggers the beat in order to enfold his horn before they both soar off into the heart of song itself. Home Cookin' is a remarkable and auspicious debut for their label."-Thom Jurek, All Music
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Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was announced as the 44th President of the United States yesterday, claiming a wide-margin Electoral College victory of 364-163, with Missouri not yet reporting. President-Elect Obama managed to hang on to key states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Florida to secure his victory over Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Democrats also picked up 18 seats in the Senate, giving them a 57-40 lead. At this point, the Democrats have missed their opportunity at a 60-seat, "filibuster-proof" majority, yet still have a chance at picking up any of the four remaining seats not yet called in the states of Minnesota, Oregon, Alaska, and Georgia. ASLA is pleased to report that Honorary ASLA Member, Mark Udall of Colorado has won a Senate seat after relinquishing his position as Representative of Colorado's 2nd District. Other supporters of issues important to landscape architects and keeping their Senate seats include Honorary ASLA Member Senator Mary Landrieu (LA) and Senator Tom Harkin (IA).
Additionally, Democrats increased their majority in the House to 254-173 with 8 seats still undecided. Some of the re-elected members who have championed landscape architecture techniques in legislation include: Honorary ASLA Member Allyson Schwartz (PA), Honorary ASLA Member Earl Blumenauer (OR), Michael McCaul (TX), Ed Perlmutter (CO), Doris Matsui (CA), and Raul Grijalva (AZ).
Most exciting for the profession of landscape architecture is the election of Kathy Dahlkemper to Pennsylvania's Third District. Kathy and her husband Dan Dahlkemper, ASLA, are co-owners of Dahlkemper Landscape Architects & Contractors in Erie, PA. ASLA welcomes Congresswoman-elect Dahlkemper to Congress and looks forward to keeping her and her staff abreast of legislative issues important to the Society and the profession as a whole.
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text: I was given the Sept/Oct '09 issue of F&P Love of Quilting mag. It has the Country Sunflower on the front cover and according to the Contents, the pattern is on Pg. 62. But my magazine doesn't have page 62. In fact, it skips pages 59 - 66 all together. And then it has pages 67 through 74 in there twice. Anyway, it's all messed up and doesn't have the pattern for the "Country Sunflower". I was wondering if anyone else has a Sept/Oct '09 issue and are they all like that? I'd really like the Country Sunflower pattern. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.


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After years on Thinkpads running Linux, I decided to take the plunge on an Apple Mac Air. Macs have always had a premium price for the hardware, and I never considered the cost justified, since you're buying a lot of software with that money and I have all the software I need with Linux. But the deal with the Macs is they simply work, and the Air is a beautifully designed machine.
After searching for a quick data plotting application, I was frustrated to find I still couldn't find anything which beat the old tried-and-true: xgraph, written at Berkeley in the 1980's It produces nice plots, data sets clearly differentiated in nice colors against a neutral grey background, with a super-simple data format trivially processed with scripting. The code's beauty is its simplicity and it's excellent defaults: no widgets or pull-down menus to deal with. At work I can tell people think I'm a bit strange for using such ancient code, but I get the last laugh when I toss well-scaled plots up on my screen in a fraction of the time it would take them using their tools.
The primary competition is almost as venerable: gnuplot. Gnuplot is even better, but I've never wrapped my head around the syntax. So I stick with xgraph. For publication-ready stuff I still use xmgrace, descendent of xmgr, another very old code. I'd love to hear options which do a better job in less time than either xmgrace or xgraph.
Anyway, I had to compile the xgraph source in OS/X. This was especially important to me because I've done a few custom modifications to the C source for myself (in particular, providing a "-aspect" command line option which keeps sets the autoscale ranges of the x and y axes to the same span, and also changing the tick-labels to a "%g" format).
First issue was getting it to compile. "dialog.c" contains a procedure called "getline". This is in conflict with a procedure in the standard library, so I changed the two references in "getline" in dialog.c (the definition and call) to "getline_xgraph". Now it compiled.
But then I faced a tougher problem: I was getting a persistent segmentation fault when I ran it. gdb wasn't turning up the problem, either.
The clue was in the compiler warnings: xgraph plays fast and loose with casting between addresses and integers. Sometimes that works, sometimes... So in desperation I checked the gcc man page and started reading, looking for an option which treated all integers as longs. I didn't think this would work, because external libraries might not cooperate.
I didn't find it. But what I found instead was the "-m32" option to compile the code in 32-bit mode even on a 64-bit machine. Hmm... seemed promising. I added this to the head of the "CFLAGS" definition in Makefile (Makefile having been generated with "configure", so this isn't the best approach). I tried it and, ding-ding-ding-ding, the code ran. My little victory shout was probably out of place, since I was on Caltrain at the time...
So now it works.
There's still an issue that when the window is resized the plot can become corrupted. But that's quickly fixed by minimizing then restoring the window.
Here's a screen grab, comparing speed from a ride to smoothed speed as processed with my Ruby script:


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My son came home today with a scratch on his back. It wasn't anything major, big enough to need some peroxide and Bactine, and the peroxide bubbled a little bit, but not enough for much more than a Pacman bandaid and a kiss.
Had my son came home with that exact same scratch on his neck and had said it came from a boy, I would have been on the phone with the school and that boy's parents quicker than you can say helicopter parent (and with good reason, I think. See: choking at school; mugging at school) but since it was from a girl, and even better, a girl he and his frienemy have taken to calling Jim, I was totally unphased. Whatever. You'll heal. Stop calling girls you like Jim, you moron.
Because I am a hypocrite, and I have scratched my share of oh-em-gee-cute 13 year old boys, and gender issues are hard.
My son, this second one, has always brought the gender issues *cheer snap* When he wanted a Dora birthday party when he turned four, he got it. When he marched into preschool with his pink Dora backpack and I told him he was going to take crap for it, he said very calmly, "Mom, Dora is awesome. Anyone who doesn't think so is crazy." He changed his name to end with an i that year. He was super excited when he found out, the following year, that the baby in my tummy was going to be a girl, because he totally loved pink and figured now he could have a pink room, if he bunked with her. He wears bright blue shoes because bright blue is awesome. His cell phone case is bright yellow. He gets hot pink casts. We can hypothesize all we want about why he does these things, or what it means, but really I think the answer he that he is a very cool and interesting person. The end.
He is also now a goddamn Brony. NOT IRONICALLY. I think he just found my line.
It doesn't annoy me because My Little Pony is for girls, it annoys me the same way a 13 year old who newly-leaches on to any idea annoys anyone. HE CANNOT STOP TALKING ABOUT FLUTTERFUCKINGSHY. My 7 year old girl doesn't give as much of a shit about My Little Pony as this kid does, and I've heard all the 'it's so well written! and it just sucks you in! arguments, and they aren't working for me. He's completely fan girl over this crap and I have to be nice and supportive and interested while he talks to me about Pinkie Pie's most appealing character traits.
Pinkie Pie is a fictional horse. Who giggles. A LOT.
I am glad for him that he has a thing. I know it's important at that age (or any age, hell) to have something you really are just gonzo about. It's good that he has somewhere to focus his attention, something that he is so into that he learns it inside out and backwards, but honestly? I was pretty happy with the origami. I know how to talk to and with him about origami. I get origami. I really don't get pre-pubescent magical ponies.
Now this? This I get.
This makes me want to go to Bronycon myself and shake a FFF1987RETURNS' hand. This makes part of me think that if I ride this thing out, this god forbid I call it a phase, out long enough, it's going to turn into something epic and awesome. The rest of me, however? Most of the time, it kinda wants to disconnect the internet and lock him in a padded room with nothing but my complete Tick collection (complements of TwoBusy, winner of Best Gift Giving Blue Lobster, 2012). And I kind of hate myself for it.
Being a parent to human beings is hard. The end.


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The March jobs data showed that the U.S. economy created just 120,000 jobs in the month. This was markedly slower than the 250,000 average for the prior three months. Suddenly commentators began to worry about the strength of the recovery and wonder whether the unemployment rate would continue to dip in the months ahead.
In fact the March numbers should not have come as big surprise to anyone. The problem here is simply one of fickle forecasters who are too influenced by the most recent reports and repeatedly fail to put economic data in a larger context.
Most of the economic reports that were released in December, January, and February were reasonably strong. However it should have been evident that extraordinarily warm weather through much of the country was an important factor in boosting the economy during this period.
Ordinarily, there are a number of severe snowstorms and cold spells in the Northeast and Midwest during the winter months. These delay the start of construction projects and often cause ongoing projects to be shut for days or even weeks. Bad weather also discourages people from going shopping, especially for big ticket items like cars. They are also less likely to go out to eat at restaurants when the streets are covered with snow or the temperature is below zero. Sometimes factories even shut down when heavy snow prevents them from getting necessary parts.
The unusually good weather this winter meant that we did not see the falloff in employment and growth that we would ordinarily expect. As a result, the data looked unusually good.
However the seasonal effects work in both directions. If construction workers stayed on the job all through the winter, then they won't appear in the data as new hires in spring. The same applies to workers in retail stores, restaurants and all the other sectors of the economy that likely saw higher than normal employment through the winter months because of the weather. An unusually good winter, will mean a weaker-than-normal spring.
This is the story that must be kept in mind when looking at the March jobs data. Just as the winter months overstated the true rate of job growth, the March numbers almost certainly understated the rate of growth. The true rate will be somewhere in the middle.
This is hardly the first time that economic forecasters have been overly influenced by the most recent data releases. Last summer, several weak economic reports, most notably the less than 1.0 percent annual rate of GDP growth in the first half of 2011, led many economists to raise fears of a double-dip recession.
In fact, a closer inspection of the data showed that a double-dip was highly unlikely. Growth in the first half of 2011 had been badly depressed by the ending of President Obama's stimulus. Just as the onset of the stimulus had provided an important boost to growth in 2009 and the first half of 2010; its unwinding was a serious source of drag on growth.
The slowing of government expenditures directly reduced growth by more than 1.0 percentage point over the first half of 2011, with the indirect effect of lower transfer payments adding a further drag. However once the stimulus spending had largely ended, this source of drag disappeared, allowing the economy to resume a somewhat more respectable path of growth.
As it turned out, growth averaged 2.4 percent over the second half of 2011. This is not a very strong growth rate, especially considering the large amount of excess capacity in the economy that remains from the downturn; however it is far from the double-dip of which we were warned.
This is the basic story that we have seen ever since the recovery began in the summer of 2009. The economy has been growing and adding jobs, but the rate is extraordinarily weak given the severity of the downturn. The underlying rate of growth is likely in the range of 2.5-3.0 percent with the economy adding close to 200,000 jobs a month.
Most estimates put the economy at roughly 6.0 percentage points below its potential level of output. With potential output rising at a rate of close to 2.5 percent annually, a 3.0 percent annual rate of growth would imply 12 years until the economy returns to potential GDP.
Similarly, employment stands at close to 10 million below its pre-recession trend level. The economy needs to generate roughly 1 million jobs a year to keep up with the growth of the labor force. This means that if the economy is generating 200,000 jobs a month then it will take more than seven years to get back near full employment levels of output.
This is the story based on the underlying trends in the U.S. economy. It is not quite the disaster that would be implied by a double-dip recession, but it is hardly a picture of a robust recovery and a prosperous economy.
Unfortunately, because economic reporting in the United States is so dominated by short-term swings in data, there is little opportunity for discussion of the underlying trend. As a result, there is little reason to expect any policy changes that could lead to a stronger recovery.


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TrackingPoint software lets shooters aim around corners
A US firearms manufacturer is touting a system that would allow a shooter to aim and fire a device via a wearable headset such as Google Glass.
TrackingPoint said that its ShotView software could be used with wearable headsets, mobile phones, or tablets to provide a direct feed with video and data from its Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) networked scope.
A concept demonstration video posted by the company Wednesday demonstrates how the ShotView system would connect via Wi-Fi to a Glass headset to show a heads up display (HUD) with data from blind spots or around corners. The shooter could then utilize a video feed and aiming tools to select and hit targets from around corners or behind walls.
Such a system could allow soldiers to fire more accurately in combat situations without further exposing themselves to injury, the company said.
The ShotView apps also have possible applications in hunting, target shooting, and instructional uses. Equipped with a connected tablet or handset, a secondary spotter can use the video feed from the scope to view data more accurately and with greater detail. The PGF is said to allow for accurate shots on moving targets up to 1,200 yards away.
A TrackingPoint spokesman told The Reg that while the app can be downloaded and used on iOS and Android devices, the Glass software shown in the concept video is not yet available.
And regarding availability in general – those who are looking to get their hands on a ShotView system may have to sit tight for a while. The company said that due to overwhelming demand they are currently accepting orders by application only. ®


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Poor little neglected blog, it's been a while! Facebook has been going into overdrive and poor little blogger's not getting any action. Well, it's about time I posted the recipe for that delish and super easy ruffle cake I made a while back for the special morning tea I hosted for my sister.
Well, I'm no pro, and pro cake decorators out there that are reading this, please don't look too closely! But these ruffles are mighty easy to achieve if you have the right nozzle and the right consistency of butter cream icing. So, the cake! THE EASIEST and yummiest chocolate cake in the world (that I have come across so far). My 4 year old has been making it since he was 2.5! And here he is, demonstrating how super easy it is to make - only 5 minutes prep. Recipe from Annabel Langbein's "The Free Range Cook".....
Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celcius
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour
Makes one large or two small cakes
3 cups self-raising flour
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda, sifted
200g butter, softened or melted (I melt mine)
1 cup milk or unsweetened yoghurt
3 large eggs
1 cup boiling hot coffee
Chuck the above ingredients into a large bowl and mix with a spoon. Seriously. Put AWAY your egg beater. Here's Enosh demonstrating how it's done - that's ma boy!
For this cake I used two medium sized cake tins, bottom lined with baking paper. Easy peasy.
Bake at 160 degrees celcius for one hour or until cake springs back when pressed.
The other great thing about this cake is that it rises beautifully and doesn't end up with a 'dome' top - so it's perfect for layering up!
BUTTERCREAM ICING - the way I do it
400grams softened butter (yes I said 400grams)
1 kg icing sugar
Vanilla extract
A few tablespoons hot water
Few drops of food colouring/gel/powder
This cake with all the ruffles definitely requires this much icing! You may have your own buttercream version, but this is what I make and it pipes well, holds its form - as long as you get the consistency right.
Cream the butter using electric egg beater or cake mixer, slowly add icing sugar and keep on creaming, adding hot water only a tablespoon at a time just to help with the blending, and not too much as to make the mixture runny. Just keep beating and beating until it's a smooth creamy mixture. Test it by putting some through a piping bag, make a shape and wait a while to see if it holds its form.
I made three batches of colour - pale green, pale yellow, and PALER yellow.
Join the two cakes together by gluing them with some icing. Then cover the whole cake with the buttercream icing using a spatula/knife. This is the crumb layer, just to cover the cake and provide a good surface to pipe the ruffles onto, and needn't be flash.
To pipe the ruffles, well I'll leave that to someone who's actually recorded how to do it - very easy and the ruffles are very forgiving. And by joes you will need all of that icing! So, take a look at this video:
There! Now you're all ready to make something spectacular looking but super dooper easy for your next celebration or tea party :-)


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Rave Out is about books, films and music that we like. No time-wasting, just the good stuff!
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I loved Nina Paley's brilliant animated film Sita Sings the Blues. If you're reading this, stop right now—and watch the film here.
Paley has set the story of the Ramayana to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The epic tale is interwoven with Paley's account of her husband's move to India from where he dumps her by e-mail. The Ramayana is presented with the tagline: "The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
All of this should make us curious. But there are other reasons for admiring this film:
This new film is the latest remake of Devdas, but what is equally interesting is the fact that it is in conversation with films made in the West. Unlike Bhansali's more spectacular version of the older story, Anurag Kashyap's Dev.D is a genuine rewriting of Sarat Chandra's novel. Kashyap doesn't flinch from depicting the individual's downward spiral, but he also gives women their own strength. He has set out to right a wrong—or, at least, tell a more realistic, even redemptive, story. If these characters have lost some of the affective depth of the original creations, they have also gained the hard edges of modern lives.
Literate Indians should be familiar with Ashis Nandy's remark: "Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English." A Trinidadian Indian by the name of Chuck Ramkissoon, in Joseph O'Neill's superbly inflected novel "Netherland", is also fond of making bold pronouncements on the behalf of the game he wants to introduce to the U.S. "I'm saying that people, all people, Americans, whoever, are at their most civilized when they're playing cricket. What's the first thing that happens when Pakistan and India make peace? They play a cricket match…"
I could barely recognize Ben Foster in 3:10 to Yuma, but I was blown away just the same by him as in his star making turn from Hostage. What makes Foster so special in Yuma?
Pablo Bartholomew's beautiful photo-show "Outside In" opened in Manhattan a few evenings ago. The exhibition is being held at Bodhi Art in Chelsea. Black-and-white photographs from the seventies and the eighties—reflecting Bartholomew's engagement with people and places in Delhi, Bombay, and Calcutta.
These are not the pictures that made Bartholomew famous. The undying image of the father brushing the dust from the face of the child he is burying—that was the iconic photograph from the Bhopal tragedy in 1984. It also won for Bartholomew, still in his twenties, the World Press Photo's Picture of the Year Award.
I'm coming to the party late—last weekend, for the first but not the last time, I watched Manish Acharya's comedy, Loins of Punjab Presents. Behan____, what a film!
I will not rehearse the synopsis or plot, partly because of the lateness of the hour, but also because it is available here. Instead, let me note quickly that the comedy keeps ticking, and the attention to detail in all matters, from the plot to the casting, makes this film a pleasure to watch.
A couple of evenings ago, my cousin Debika and I were discussing how we'd react if we were told we had just a few months to live. She said she would try and do everything she liked in that time, and surround herself with her family. I said that I'd be inclined to save people I cared for the pain of watching me die—whatever that took. Ironically and unexpectedly, shortly after this conversation, we found ourselves watching François Ozon's remarkable film Time to Leave.
Over ten years ago, Suzanne Vega hit a terribly sexy groove with an album called Nine Objects of Desire that made me seek out every CD she has done since then. She's kept us waiting for six years for her new studio effort, but it's such vintage Vega that the reward is well worth the wait.
I'm writing this on August 15. It is our Independence Day. A young Kashmiri Muslim told me in Srinagar a few months ago that this is the day on which everyone there tries to stay indoors. This is not because the people support Pakistan, but because they are most suspect on August 15. You are questioned, searched, and locked. If any of the readers have had a chance to view Sanjay Kak's powerful documentary Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom) you'll see how Sanjay, coming in to Srinagar for a visit around Independence Day, is struck by the fact that the only people present for the ceremony are the cops and members of the armed forces. (That's Rave Out #1. For Jashn-e-Azadi.)
Once while eating dinner in Montreal, our friendly, intoxicated waitress plopped herself in my lap and proceeded to tell us about how obsessed she was with the CD that was playing - singing out the lyrics at an ungodly volume and flinging her arms about. Wow, I thought to myself, people who listen to Morcheeba sure seem to have a lot of fun, and promised to check them out.
Several CDs later, they are firmly one of my favorites. And their trip hop meditation, 2003's Charango remains one of my most played CDs.
A lot of people like batsmen who step out to the bowlers and hit huge sixes. I, for one, am highly entertained by batsmen who do the same but get caught in the deep. I love robust ambition constrained by mediocrity of execution – it's my type of entertainment.
Despite sharing Amit's fondness for Indian Idol 3, I love the potent mixture of tacky loopiness and bravura singing on Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007.
Anung Un Rama is the virtually indestructible creation of Beelzebub himself. He has red-skin, wears a goatee, a tiny ponytail and has blank yellow eyes. His head bears two sawed-off horns. He is the Beast of Apocalypse - his fate, to plunge the world into chaos. There is only one problem: Anung Un Rama - or Hellboy as he is readily known - doesn't seem to think much of this plan.
If the function of the poet is to push the limits of language, then few poets writing today do it as splendidly as Anne Carson. In her verse novels (Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband) and her collections of essays and verse (Men in the Off Hours, Plainwater) Carson consistently challenges the bounds of what we call poetry, blending the classical with the modern, the surreal with the mundane, creating a tough-minded oeuvre of rigorous yet revelatory power.
Bob Woodward's The Secret Man can be termed as the concluding part of the trilogy (Parts 1 & 2) on the Watergate scandal. Mark Felt, the No.2 man in the FBI was identified as Deep Throat in 2005. The book reveals the gory details of the author's trysts with Felt.
There is a Nigerian renaissance in writing, it seems. Helon Habila won the Caine Prize last year, and Helen Oyeyemi, 22, has written two novels about ghosts and spirits of the kind Wole Soyinka alludes to in "Ake". But to see how global African writing is, try Biyi Bandele's "Burma Boy."
Had the satirical Bengali writer Parashuram (1880-1960) been alive today, one can imagine him writing brilliant pieces about the attempt to prove Pratibha Patil worthy of the presidency, on our attitudes to foreigners revealed by matters like the Greg Chappell controversy, or the love of Indian housewives for saas-bahu serials. But as Parashuram cannot come to us, the only other option is for us to go to Parashuram, and this can be done by picking up the wonderful edition of his Selected Stories published last year by Penguin.
How little we know about the silent comedy of Hollywood becomes clear when we recall having seen only one or two Buster Keaton films and dimly remember the name Harold Lloyd. We know silent comedy because we know Chaplin.
If we remember the era as an era at all, it is because of James Agee's masterly tribute to silent comedy, published as 'Comedy's Greatest Era' in the September 5, 1949 issue of Life magazine. In it he says:
I have just finished reading Jonathan Raban's Surveillance. I recommend it highly not because it is a political novel (which it is), not because it is a smart novel (which it is), not also because as a political novel its smartness lies in throwing open the question of politics as well as representation (which it does, unlike say, Jay McInerney writing about 9/11). Not because here's a major writer who blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction (a line that reveals goosebumps if you touch it right). And not even because the protagonist has a bright, young daughter (which she does, and I'm all for bright daughters and the joy that they bring), but because, living as I do in a world that is marked not only by the war on terror but also by little, irritating stuff like readers' reviews on Amazon, I'm delighted to find that Raban has much to say about the former and also a little about the latter.
In American music today, no producer is bigger than Timbaland. He has charted numerous careers, recently propelling Justin Timberlake into the top drawer and putting Nelly Furtado's career back on the rails.
I've been massively enjoying his much awaited solo album - Shock Value. Despite the fact that through the course of the album you keep tripping through a list of marquee artists, it is very much a producer's album - full of delightful little sonic pleasures and brainy-rapper attitude.
One of the greatest cataclysms of my teenage years was the day I discovered that an army of termites, nibbling and burrowing away out of sight, had laid waste to the wooden bookshelf that housed all my cricket books. Some of the books themselves, having after all been wood in a past life, had also not survived the attack. Out of the ruined city of cricket literature I fished out my prized copy of Harsha Bhogle's Azhar, which I diligently read every year. I was not to know it then, but in a couple of years the reputation of the book's subject was to be similarly in tatters.
This Salman Khan deserves to be called a hero. Terrific educational videos. (Via Prashant.)
Elisabeth Rosenthal has some good Swine-Flu advice. (Via Griff.)
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This character's creator described him as "insufferable", and called him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?


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Murray Stuart McCully (born 19 February 1953 in Whangarei, Northland) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the National Party, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister for Sport and Recreation, and Minister for the Rugby World Cup.
McCully was educated at Arapohue Primary School, Dargaville High School, the University of Auckland, and Victoria University of Wellington. He has a LLB degree and is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor, working as a lawyer before entering politics. His former partner, Jane Clifton, works as a columnist for The New Zealand Listener and as a political journalist.
McCully first entered Parliament as MP for East Coast Bays on the North Shore of Auckland in the 1987 elections, and became MP for the new seat of Albany in the 1999 elections. In the 2002 elections he returned as MP for the reconstituted East Coast Bays seat.


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WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- Richard Clarke, the top counterterrorism official for the Bush administration, said he believes the former president, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld committed war crimes in the course of the Iraq war.
"I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes. Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have," Clarke told Democracy Now! in an interview that will air next week.
"But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing. And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration."
Clarke is not the first member of the Bush administration to accuse the former president of war crimes. In 2011 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said he'd be willing to testify against the former president, saying, "I'd be willing to testify, and I'd be willing to take any punishment I'm due."


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These deeds were reported as recorded by the office of Marion County register of deeds. Property addresses come from appraisal records. All are warranty deeds unless otherwise noted.
Rufus and Leola Unrau to De Vonne K. Abrahams, trustee, quitclaim deed; part of the NE/4 of Section 27, Lehigh Township; SW/4 SW/4 of Section 33, Lehigh Township; N/2 SE/4,NE/4 SW/4 and SE/4 NW/4 of Section 33, Lehigh Township.
Jeanetta E. Farr and Gary E. Farr, trustees, to Douglas G. and Terry G. Cusick, trustee's deed; S/2 SW/4 of Section 12, Wilson Township.
Jeanetta E. Farr and Gary E. Farr, trustees, to Bich J. Nguyen and Hien P. Nguyen, trustee's deed; E/2 SE/4 of Section 14, Center Township.
Cottonwood Valley Bank to Michelle L. Washington; 300 W. Main St., Lincolnville.
Gaylan W. Neal to Heather L. Spaich; 304 W. Main St., Lehigh.
Kenneth and Sunny Christensen to Kenneth and Sunny Christensen and John Stephen Millett; 21 Echo Lane, Marion.
Diane R. and Phillip A. Bostian to Douglas K. Schroeder, Rodney B. Schroeder, Randall D. Schroeder, quitclaim deed; 502 Sunflower Dr., Goessel.
Lavonne Hannaford Trust to Travis Hett, trustee's deed; 226 N. Locust St., Marion.
Lane E. and Clarissa M. Peterson to Alison and James V. Boese and Delaine J. and Robert Stolzle Jr.; 215 S. Church St., Goessel.
William David Mayfield and Sondra K. Mayfield to William David Mayfield, quit claim deed; 525 S. Cedar St., Marion.
William David Mayfield and Sondra K. Mayfield to Sondra K. Mayfield, quitclaim deed; 519 S. Cedar St., Marion.


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Short review: Forget the title of Girls Out West meaning Annie get your gun, that's not the case, even though it's Annie that does the shooting here. It's about Aussies that have the whim for being exhibitionists and the good taste to find a site for it to be shown on. Don't expect the utmost in quality here, but don't expect the worst either, because in my opinion it's better than average.
Content Amount: The numbers are large for the picture count and the videos. They quoted having 450 videos, but my count took it into the thousands for clips. They were on the money with the image total ranging in the area around 50,000 and you get some blog entries too.


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Federal Court Asked to Stop Obama Administration Delay of Obamacare Employer Mandate
"Defendants' delay of the mandate violates the Administration Procedures Act. It exceeds Defendants' statutory jurisdiction, authority, and limitations, is contrary to constitutional right, power, or privilege, and is otherwise not in accordance with law." – Kawa Orthodontics v. Jack Lew, Motion for Summary Judgment (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today…
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concerns on Friday about the worsening health of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli detention and demanded that they either be formally charged or released immediately.
Several dozen Palestinians on hunger strike, protesting Israel's use of administrative detention to keep them behind bars, have been taken to hospital.
"The Secretary-General is concerned about reports regarding the deteriorating health of Palestinian administrative detainees who have been on hunger strike for over a month," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
"He reiterates his long-standing position that administrative detainees should be charged or released without delay," he said.
Israel's Prisons Service said 65 Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners were in hospitals, though none was in critical condition and all were conscious. The Palestinians put the number of prisoners who had required hospital care at 78.
Reporting By Louis Charbonneau in New York and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Mohammad Zargham