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London celebrated the one-year countdown to the Summer Games on Wednesday with the first dive into the new Olympic pool, the presentation of the medals and a call to the world's athletes to come to the party in 2012 to compete in the country that "invented modern sport."
Exactly one year from Wednesday - on July 27, 2012 - London will be staging the opening ceremony of the Olympics, the first city to host the world's biggest sports festival for a third time after previous games in 1908 and 1948.
In a live televised ceremony in Trafalgar Square, IOC President Jacques Rogge formally invited 202 national Olympic committees from around the world to send their athletes to London a year from now.
"The athletes will be ready, so will London," Rogge said.
The ceremony took place in the same square where thousands of people celebrated on July 6, 2005, when Rogge opened a sealed envelope in Singapore and announced that London had won the right to host the Olympics, beating rival bids from Madrid, Paris, New York and Moscow.
"A dream was born when the IOC awarded the 2012 Games to London," Rogge said. "The world's finest athletes began dreaming of competing in this magnificent city, in packed state-of-the-art venues, and in front of passionate crowds.
"As in 1908 and 1948, they knew they would be coming to the nation that invented modern sport and the concept of fair play."
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the Olympics would showcase the nation at its best.
"This has the makings of a great British success story," he said at the ceremony. "With a year to go, it's on time, it's on budget. .... We must offer the greatest ever games in the world's greatest country."
The festivities started across town at the new, gleaming aquatics center in the Olympic Park in east London, where 2009 world champion Tom Daley performed the first dive into the pool, knifing cleanly into the water off the 10-meter board with an inward 1½ somersault pike.
"It was great - a bit cold actually," Daley said. "It's going to be awesome next year.'"
A few minutes later, several former British Olympic athletes - including javelin throwers Steve Backley and Tessa Sanderson and 400-meter runner Roger Black - took part in the first "race" in the pool. Olympic swimmer Mark Foster was the easy winner.
The ceremony also featured the unveiling of the Olympic medals by Princess Anne, an IOC member and former Olympic equestrian competitor. The medals are the biggest ever for a Summer Olympics - measuring 85 millimeters (3.35 inches) in diameter and weighing 375-400 grams (13.2-14.1 ounces).
Designed by British artist David Watkins, the medals feature Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, on one side. On the other is a complex image containing five symbolic elements, including the River Thames. During the games, 2,100 medals will be awarded at 302 medal ceremonies.
The show also included a performance of David Bowie's song "Heroes" by British pop group The Feeling and a typically bombastic speech by colorful London Mayor Boris Johnson.
"The streets will be ready," he said. "The trains will be ready. The taxis will be ready. The theaters will be ready. The buses will be ready. The hotels will be ready. The bicycles will be ready.
"The Olympic venues are already so ready that we might as well call a snap (early) Olympics tomorrow and catch the rest of the world napping. The people of London will be ready to welcome the world's finest athletes to the greatest games that have ever been held in the greatest city on earth."
In a quirky twist, the Olympic countdown clock in Trafalgar Square read 366 days to go. No, it wasn't a glitch - 2012 is a leap year.
Earlier Wednesday, the 269-million-pound ($442 million) swimming complex was officially opened, the last of the six main venues in the Olympic Park to be completed. The 80,000-seat main stadium, the velodrome, handball arena, basketball venue and international broadcast center were all finished earlier this year.
In central London, Cameron inspected preparations for a beach volleyball test event at Horse Guards Parade next to his Downing Street home.
A year from now, London will be welcoming 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries, 5,000 coaches and team officials, 20,000 media personnel and hundreds of thousands of visitors. The 17-day festival will feature athletes competing in 26 sports in 32 venues.
Ninety percent of the venue construction is complete, a record number of tickets have been sold and organizers remain within their 9.298 billion pound ($15 billion) budget.
"London is extremely well prepared," Rogge said. "I'm a happy man. I'm very optimistic for the remaining year to come. I think we'll have great games."
He said London is among the best prepared host cities a year out from the games.
"I think we can compare the operational readiness we have in London to the one we had in Sydney in 2000 and with Beijing in 2008," he said.
No one was busier Wednesday than London organizing committee chairman and former two-time Olympic 1,500-meter champion Sebastian Coe, who shuttled from event to event and spoke in countless interviews.
"It's enchanting," Coe told The Associated Press as he hustled through the swimming venue. "It really is. I'm just pinching myself that we are where we are."
Rogge was bowled over when he visited the aquatics center, with its signature sweeping wave-shaped roof that measures 160 meters (525 feet) long and 90 meters (295 feet) wide.
"I had a visual shock when I came in," Rogge said. "I've seen many great venues in my life, but this is something really special - the harmony, the quality, the innovation. Really, it's a masterpiece."
The complex, designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid, seats 17,500 for the Olympics - the second highest capacity of any of the games venues. A year from now, Michael Phelps, Ian Thorpe and Ryan Lochte will be among those competing for gold medals in the pool.
"The water looks good enough to drink," Johnson, the London Mayor, quipped.


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Ian Redmond urges ban, not regulation, on keeping the animals
The primate pet trade must be banned in the U.K. and elsewhere, not just regulated, to prevent the animals' needless suffering and imminent extinction, said renowned wildlife biologist Ian Redmond OBE.
"Keeping primate as pets in the U.K. not only causes unacceptable levels of suffering to the individual animals but also influences the fate of wild primate populations and hampers efforts to halt biodiversity loss," Redmond said.
"To stem the tide of live primates being removed from the wild, the market for such animals must be eliminated," he said.
Redmond is a noted primate and elephant conservationist who was taught by Dian Fossey and introduced naturalist and film maker Sir David Attenborough to apes.
He is chairman of Bristol-based Ape Alliance, which encourages conservation organisations to work together, and also serves as a council member for the Primate Society of Great Britain.
The 376 species of primates' range from humans and apes to monkeys and prosimians ("premonkeys"). The smallest is the pygmy mouse lemur, which fits in the palm of a hand. The largest – the gorilla – can weigh more than 400 pounds. Most primates live in warm climates and depend upon forests to survive.
It is estimated that for every infant captured alive, up to 10 other family members may be killed, often for bushmeat.
The illegal pet trade – along with logging, deforestation, transmission of disease and conversion of habitat as well as poaching for bushmeat – has resulted in the decline of almost half of the 630 recognised primate species and sub-species across equatorial Africa, Asia and Latin America.
"These threats will result in the extinction of many primate species across most of their range in the first quarter of the 21st century.
"These demands for bushmeat and live infants combine to drive devastating poaching and trafficking of these that also are losing habitat, thus driving them to the edge of extinction," Redmond said.
"The Code of Practice for the Welfare of Privately Kept Non-Human Primates guidelines provide standards for primate pets but suffering still occurs because enforcement is lacking.
"As long as primates are kept as pets, they will suffer in poor conditions and wild primates will be endangered," he said.
The loss of breeding adults and their offspring not only is catastrophic to the future of primate species but also to those species of plants and animals ecologically dependent upon them, Redmond said.
"Primates are keystone species in tropical forests that are essential to global climate stability," he said.
Redmond said stopping the removal of primates from the wild requires eliminating the markets for such live wild animals.
"A driving force for this international market is the legality of private ownership and sale of primates in the United Kingdom and other developed countries, which is well known throughout the world.
"Because icons of popular culture and wealthy individuals keep them as pets, primates are perceived as fashionable and constitute a status symbol," he said.
Another problem is the animals' portrayal in films, television and advertising, Redmond said. Infant and juvenile chimpanzees, orangutans, capuchin monkeys and macaques are depicted by the entertainment industry as docile, trainable, cute, humorous and good companions for humans, which just fuels the primate pet trade, he said.
About Ian Redmond:
Ian Redmond OBE received his bachelor's degree with honours in biology in 1976 from the University of Keele, was elected as a Scientific Fellow to the Zoological Society of London in 1979, and became a Chartered Biologist in 1986. He has served as a consultant for a variety of conservation and animal welfare organizations, including the Born Free Foundation, International Fund for Animal Welfare, International Primate Protection League, and World Society for the Protection of Animals. Redmond also has been a scientific advisor for and/or appeared in about 100 natural history documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic. He is a Patron of Wild Futures, which runs the Monkey Sanctuary near Looe, Cornwall, where rescued pet primates are given lifetime care in a suitable environment. Redmond has authored many books, scientific research papers for peer-reviewed journals, and hundreds of news reports and feature articles for wildlife magazines and newspapers, and has lectured around the world on the plight of various endangered species.

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Roma sink free-falling Juventus
ROME - John Arne Riise scored a last-gasp goal to earn AS Roma a 2-1 comeback win over free-falling Juventus in Serie A on Saturday and give Claudio Ranieri a sweet return to his former club.
The Norwegian nodded in a David Pizarro cross in stoppage time after a Francesco Totti penalty had cancelled out Alessandro Del Piero's fine opener for hosts Juve in the 51st minute.
The Turin side were down to 10 men when Roma scored the winner after goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was sent off in the 83rd minute for charging out of his area and fouling Riise.
The win saw Roma tighten their grip on third place with 38 points from 21 games, eight behind leaders Inter Milan, who face second-placed AC Milan in Sunday's high stakes derby.
Juve are five points further back in fifth after a sixth loss in eight league games deepened the troubles of coach Ciro Ferrara, who replaced Ranieri just before the end of last season.
"The victory was important because Juventus want to stay in the race for Champions League qualification and us winning puts them several points behind us. I'm not looking for revenge," Ranieri told Sky television.
The hosts had shown signs of recovering from recent woes, with Mohamed Sissoko's return from duty with Mali at the African Nations Cup strengthening their midfield.
They had the better of the first half but Amauri, Nicola Legrottaglie and Del Piero failed to nod home inviting balls into the area.
However, Del Piero did put them in front with a left-footed diagonal volley, after the ball ballooned off a defender, to score his first league goal of an injury-hampered campaign.
Totti, who replaced a limping Luca Toni in the fourth minute to make his first appearance following a month-long injury layoff, levelled after Fabio Grosso blocked Rodrigo Taddei in the area before Riise landed the killer blow.
"It's a difficult period, there's no use hiding it," Ferrara said. "Sometimes our defeats have been deserved, others not, but at this point we are a long way behind.
"I think the squad has the strength, character and personality to come out of this all together. In moments like these you have to be strong men and they are."
A section of Turin's Stadio Olimpico was closed during the match because of racist chanting by Juventus's ultra fans in an Italian Cup tie last week.
Earlier, strugglers Catania thumped Parma 3-0 at home to move up a place to stand third-from-bottom.
Giuseppe Mascara headed the Sicilians in front after 15 minutes shortly before missing a penalty and Jorge Martinez and Takayuki Morimoto then sealed victory with second-half goals.


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CLEVELAND (AP) -Justin Morneau wanted to make sure Cleveland's Fausto Carmona didn't get into a groove.
Morneau hit a 444-foot, two-run homer on his first swing after missing two games with a sore back, launching the Minnesota Twins to a 9-3 win over the Indians on Friday night.
``I felt good in batting practice, but then to come back against a guy like him is something different,' Morneau said. ``His sinker is not an easy pitch to hit. You hope he leaves one over the plate and can take advantage of it.
``You have to get the good pitchers early before they settle in.'
After Joe Mauer singled with two outs in the first, Morneau connected against Carmona (3-1).
``Mauer and Morny - what else is new?' Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said of Minnesota's two AL MVP winners.
Morneau said his soreness was unrelated to the stress fracture that kept him out of the final 20 games last season and the playoffs.
``It feels good now,' he said. ``Let's see how it is when I wake up tomorrow.'
Kevin Slowey (3-2), moved up in Minnesota's rotation, pitched five innings for the win. He filled in for Nick Blackburn, who was placed on the family medical emergency list.
Slowey is 4-0 in his last four starts against Cleveland. The right-hander allowed three runs and eight hits, striking out six without issuing a walk
Orlando Hudson's two-out, two-run single capped a three-run second for a 5-0 lead. With the bases loaded and one out, Carmona got Denard Span to hit a potential double-play grounder, but first baseman Matt LaPorta could not scoop the low throw from second baseman Luis Valbuena to turn two.
``I can't control that,' Carmona said. ``I wanted the double play.'
Hudson singled to open the fifth, stole second, and scored on Michael Cuddyer's two-out, broken-bat single to make it 6-0.
``Morneau set the pace and I got a couple hits, but I didn't like facing Carmona,' Hudson said. ``It was not fun. He throws 95 with that nasty sinker. We pretty much went up and prayed. We capitalized on a few pitches he left up. Good teams do that.'
Jhonny Peralta had three hits for Cleveland, which opened a nine-game homestand after going 3-6 on a nine-game trip that started with two losses in three games at Minnesota.
Grady Sizemore and Austin Kearns had RBI singles in the fifth and Travis Hafner a run-scoring double to get Cleveland within 6-3. Slowey got Peralta on a flyout with runners on second and third to end the rally on his 38th pitch of the inning.
``That was big right there,' Gardenhire said. ``Slowey had threw a lot of pitches in the inning, but got the big out.'
Mauer doubled home run in the seventh and another run scored on the play when Kearns bobbled the ball in left field, putting the Twins ahead 8-3.
``We didn't play clean baseball the whole night,' Indians manager Manny Acta said. ``When you're swinging the bat the way we're swinging it right now, you have to play perfect baseball and we didn't.'
Carmona gave up six runs and eight hits over six innings. The right-hander struck out two and walked two, dropping to 0-5 in his last six starts against Minnesota.
NOTES: After the game, Twins INF Luke Hughes was sent to Triple-A Rochester to make room for INF Nick Punto (hip injury), who is expected to be activated from the disabled list on Saturday. Hughes homered in his first career at-bat Thursday. ... Gardenhire said Blackburn could return when the Twins open a homestand Monday and that RHP Jeff Manship will be called up from Triple-A Rochester to start Saturday. ... Twins OF Denard Span was fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball for throwing his bat after being ejected by plate umpire Paul Emmel on Tuesday. ... Cleveland activated RHP Hector Ambriz and sent RHP Joe Smith to Triple-A Columbus. Ambriz, selected in the rule 5 draft from Arizona, opened the season on the disabled list with elbow tendinitis. He made his MLB debut in the eighth and the first batter he faced, Delmon Young, hit a drive to center that Sizemore caught with a leap against the wall. ... SS J.J. Hardy returned to the Twins lineup after missing one game with a toe injury. ... Indians RHP Anthony Reyes, began throwing from a mound at the team's training facility in Goodyear, Ariz. Reyes had Tommy John surgery last June. ... Cleveland went 9-13 for its third consecutive losing April.


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How The Procurator Tried To Save Judas Of Kiriath
The dread Antonia Tower
The AntoniaTower was already presented in Chapter 19, when Margarita reread fragments having neither a beginning nor an end of the master's fire-damaged typescript.
The Hasmonaean Palace
The Hasmonaean Palace was also described in Chapter 19.
Bald Skull
Golgotha, which Bulgakov calls Bald Skull here, was already described in the Chapters 2 and 16.
The palace of Herod the Great
Bulgakov's notes show that he took the architectural details of the palace of Herod the Great from The Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar (1831-1903). Farrar was a famous British preacher, born in Bombay (India). He was - among other things - minister in the famous Westminster Abbey and later Dean of Canterbury. His talent to mix historical details with biblical facts attracted masses of people to his sermons. The palace was situated at the west side of the Jerusalem city walls.
Frederic Farrar
The full text of The Life of Christ is available for download in the Archives section of the Master & Margarita website
The palace of Herod the Great
An oyster
Bulgakov may have found this detail in Le Procurateur de Judée (1892) by Anatole France (1844-1924), pseudonym for Jacques Anatole François Thibault. In his preparatory notes to the last edition of The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov has a note: «Could Pilate have eaten oysters?»
The excerpt of the text of Anatole France, which may have inspired Bulgakov for this question, sounds as follows: «...la table supportait des plats d'argent dans lesquels étaient préparés des becfigues au miel, des grives, des huîtres du Lucrin et des lamproies de Sicile» or, in English: «...on the table were silver plates in which were prepared becfigues with honey, oysters from Lucrinus and sea lampreys from Sicily».
The lake of Lucrinus, in Campania, northeast of Naples, had a connection to the sea, and was very famous for its oyster parks. In 1538 the lake disappeared as a result of an earthquake.
Anatole France
The full text of Le Procurateur de Judée is available for download in the Archives section of the Master & Margarita website
Falerno or Caecuba
Bulgakov originally thought that Falerno wine was red. When he learned that it was dark amber, he changed the wine to Caecuba. He wanted to use a wine with the colour of blood. Unfortunately, Bulgakov died before he was able to make this change throughout the novel. In this chapter he found a textual solution by inserting the change from Falerno to Caecuba into the dialogue between Pilate and Afranius, but in chapter 30, where the colour matters, the text hasn't been changed. In that chapter, Azazello says wrongly: «I beg you to note that it's the same wine the procurator of Judea drank. Falernian wine».
Some bottles of Falerno wine
For us, for thee, Caesar, father of the Romans, best and dearest of men!
According to some scholars this toast would be historically accurate, but I haven't found any confirmation. But he sounded very contemporary for the Soviet citizen in the Stalin era. Bulgakov displaced much of what was typically to Russian in the 1930's to the Pilate chapters: interrogation and beating, political double-dealing, spying, etc. Pilate's reflexive response to the mention of Caesar is part of this pattern.
The feast of the twelve gods
The twelve senior gods of the Roman pantheon were: Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, Diana, Ceres, Venus, Mars, Vesta, Mercury and Minerva.
The lares
Lar (plural lares) is a Latin word of Etruscan origing meaning lord or ruler. Lares were Roman deities - or rather ghosts - protecting the house and the family.
Another kind of household gods were the penates, they were honoured, together with the lares, in the house, where they were in charge of the daily necessities, the daily bread. They were the gods of the domestic storeroom.
This messiah
Messiah comes from the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ (mashiah), meaning the anointed one. The word exists in many religions like Judaism, christianity and islam, but in each religion it has got another meaning.
In Judaism a messiah is a leader who will herald a messianic period of peace and prosperity for the Jewish and other people, which will eventually lead to the end of the world. This person will be a descendant of King David (1005 BC-970 BC) and will rebuild the nation of Israel, bring world peace by restoring the Davidic Kingdom. The messiah is seen as an important prophet and king. Many times in history Jewish men have claimed the title of messiah, but none of them was ever accepted by Judaism so far.
Christianity believes that the Messiah came in the person of Jesus Christ. To christians the Messiah has both a divine and a human side. He is seen as the Son of God and as God himself, albeit in another way than the Father and the Holy Spirit with whom he exists in trinity. The Messiah plays an important role in christian eschatology or expectation of the end of the world. When he returns, Jesus Messiah will square up with everything which is hostile to God and then establish, from Jerusalem, the dominion over the earth.
According to the islam the messiah is Isa (Arab for Jesus), which means that he ascended into heaven and will return to finish the rest of his life and clear the earth from idolaters. The arrival of the prophet Ahmed or Mohammed (569-632) would have been announced during his life. According to the Islam the messiah will, somewhat like in christianity, herald the last days.
Were they given the drink before being hung on the posts?
Some bible scholars consider the offering of drinking to the condamned suffering at the cross as some legal kind of mercy - as Pilate means it here too, but in the Gospels it is rather presented as an ultimate mockery, which may explain why Jesus refuses it.
Matthew 27:34 - «There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it» and Mark 15:23 - «Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it»
Jesus is offered vinegar
Among human vices he considered cowardice one of the first
This saying is not found in the Gospels, though it is of great thematic importance for The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov himself, according to one of his friends, regarded cowardice as the worst of all vices, «because all the rest comes from it». And the Soviet authorities apparently felt tackled by this quotation, because all references to this «worst of vices» were removed from the original magazine publication of The Master and Margarita in 1966.
This character appears already in Chapter 2, but only now he's been given a name. Maybe because he is the head of Pilate's secret police.
His name could be inspired by Sextus Aphranius Burrus (1-62), a Roman with Gaul roots. Aphranius Burrus was a tribune, and later procurator and private guard of empress Livia Drusilla II (58 BC-29) - the widow of emperor Augustus (63 BC-19) - and later private guard of the emperors Tiberius (42 BC-37) and Claudius (10 BC-54). He helped Julia Agrippina the Younger (15-59) to get her son Nero (37-68) on the trone and became one of his advisors when Nero became emperor in 54 at the age of 16. The other advisor was the philosopher and writer Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65). The first 5 years of Nero's government - the quinquennium Neronis. - were generally described as «a school example of good governance», because Burrus and Seneca were determining the policy behind the scene.
When the apostle Paulus (3-67) was being arrested and put in the Mamertine prison at Capitoline Hill, Aphranius Burrus was responsible for him. There was said that he treated him very humanly.
Nero, however, had to tolerate that his mother Julia Agrippina the Younger (15-59) claimed an always more important role for herself. By mediation of Agripinna, Aphranius Burrus got control on the Praetorian Guards in the year 51. He had an excellent military reputation but he knew bloody well that he had to be grateful to Agrippina. He could prevent that Nero assassinated his mother a first time - although it later happened nevertheless. Sextus Aphranius Burrus himself died in the year 62.
Some oneliners coming from Aphranius Brutus are still known. He once said to the young emperor Nero: «When I have spoken once, do not question me again», and his last words, just before he died, were «Ego me bene habeo» or «With me everything's well».
I have just received information that he is going to be killed tonight
Pilate seems to have a double intention with this comment. On the one hand he wishes to somehow make up for the unjust execution of Yeshua, on the other he is making sure that Kaifa will have problems resulting from Judas' death.
He rubbed his hands briskly
This gesture of Pilate is probably the best known exploit of the historical Pontius Pilate: he washed his hands in innocence. Matthew 27:24 - «When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it».
Pilate washes his hands


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"To those politicians who would selfishly parade my family around: Stop." says Victim's mother
"My name is Annie," the video begins, "and our family had healed when insider politicians decided to reopen old wounds."
The ad is on Clawson's youtube page.
On Tuesday, Clawson's Republican opponents Lizbeth Benacquisto, Michael Dreikorn and Page Kreegel called a press conference for 4 p.m. today where they plan to "demand that Curt Clawson explain contradictory statements he made regarding his relationship with a known child rapist, Glen Borst."
The woman in the video is Annie, the mother of the young girl Borst abused. The child is a female relative.
The Lehigh Acres Gazette is not printing her last name to protect her and the child.
In 2006, Clawson gave a temporary power of attorney to Borst to handle a home sale in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Borst's wife was the real estate agent who handled the transaction.
Borst was also a temporary caretaker and tenant in the home, Clawson's campaign has said.
In 2004, Borst pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted sexual abuse of a child and served four months in jail on a plea agreement.
The short video addresses Clawson's opponents and says they "forced our family into the political fray."
"Curt Clawson had nothing to do with our private family ordeal," Annie says on the video. "To those politicians who would selfishly parade my family around: Stop."
The joint press conference with Benacquisto, Kreegel and Dreikorn was held at 4 p.m. at the old Lee County Courthouse, 2120 Main St. in Fort Myers.
The unprecedented event occurred in Southwest Florida politics. Three Republican rivalries form an alliance, less than two weeks before the District 19 Republican primary special election.
They are questioning an opponent's ties to a registered sex offender and his financial disclosures.
It was a bizarre news conference — that got even stranger at the end. Candidate Curt Clawson's opponents called the media together to question why a sex offender was living in his Utah rental property and Clawson's financial disclosures — then Clawson showed up.
"The most important thing we can do is ask for transparency and ask to answer questions," said candidate Lizbeth Benacquisto.
After his opponents teamed up to question his record, Clawson made a surprise appearance before the microphones.
"I believe the career politicians are keeping this story alive," he said.
A registered sex offender named Glen Borst listed Clawson's Utah property as his address, and Clawson granted Borst power of attorney in 2006 to handle the purchase.
His three opponents in the upcoming special Republican primary voiced concern.
"We were given conflicting stories, we were given evasion, we were given deception and in some cases outright lying," said candidate Dr. Paige Kreegel.
Benacquisto's campaign first tipped off reporters. She said there's more to the story.
"I'm here today to put aside politics and ask for the truth," Benacquisto said.
Clawson said he didn't know the man was a sex offender until last week.
"I knew him in junior high, but we lost track for decades and they approached me with investment idea," Clawson said.
Candidate Michael Dreikorn called for a pledge to change the nasty tone of the race.
"I'm calling for a complete stop to all negative campaigning in this race," he said.
While his opponents said they disapprove of the negativity — they stopped short of making any promises to end it.
"We can't be punching bag if they'll lay down gloves we will as well, and I think that's best for everybody," Clawson said.
Political experts call today's twist unprecedented — saying there's only one motivation.
"We're about two weeks outside of voting day. It's all political in the big scheme," said Dennis Pearlman, a campaign consultant.
Clawson said his accountant advised him to not disclose the Utah property on financial disclosure forms because that property and three others did not earn rent in the reporting period. He pointed out this has been extremely tough on the family of the sex offense victim.


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As I contemplated what to write about this week, it greatly amused me to realize that I wanted to share my experiences with Twitter. Up until recently, I didn't HAVE any experiences with Twitter, and was completely befuddled by this technology. However, I've come to find it helpful and can share my novice-level proficiency and how you can use Twitter to advance your career, even if you don't tweet.
The first thing you'll need to do is create a username and password. Since your username will be used to identify your profile and tweets (should you advance to tweeting!), make it professional and short. Then of course fill in your profile. I recommend using your LinkedIn photo for consistency (and ease of locating an appropriate picture). Your bio can only be 160 characters or fewer, so you'll have to be succinct. (You can always revise it.) You can also privacy protect your tweets.
If you are interested in working for a particular organization, see if they have a Twitter account- many do. (Use the search window on the top right-hand side of the screen.) When you find an organization in which you are interested, click on the 'Follow' button with a blue bird n it. This is a useful way to stay on top of what that organization deems important and can give you some insight into their corporate culture. This also is a quick way to research organizations prior to interviews. (Of course, this should not be your ONLY source of information.)
It is very flattering when someone you've met seeks you out on Twitter and requests to follow you. If you've connected well with someone at a networking event, see if he or she is on Twitter (in addition to LinkedIn) and request to follow him/ her. He or she will likely request to follow you as well. You can also seek out people on Twitter who you haven't met in person, but if their tweets are locked down (you'll see an image of a lock next to their Twitter name), you may not want to request to follow them since you might be viewed as a scammer or similar. Perhaps connect via LinkedIn where you can send a message or get introduced, or meet up with this person via a different method.
A lot of recruiting firms post jobs on Twitter. You never know what you'll find.
Twitter can also be a great way to catch a bunch of headlines from a variety of sources so you can keep current on world events, industry trends, and more in one spot. If you'd like to read the article, you can click on the included hyperlink, and if you don't you can just pass it by!
The immediacy of Twitter was intimidating for me, and I thought the technology was more complicated than it actually is. Now that I am using it, I find it no harder to use than Facebook or LinkedIn. Via tools like hootsuite, you can link all of your social media profiles together, schedule updates to go out, and more. For those intimidated by Twitter-lingo, you may be wondering where I hid the information about hashtags (#), the at symbol (@) and some other Twitter specifics. Here are some links that may be useful:
A Twitter Cheat Sheet by Josh Powers
The Social Media Guide's Twitter Cheat Sheet
Twitter itself also has a good help section (click the down arrow next to the image of a person on the top right-hand side of the screen). The above three references are very basic, and as you get more involved in the medium you can easily seek out more advanced advice to take your tweets to the next level. (I am not there yet!) But the best way to learn about something is to just get in and use it, so consider just setting up an account and getting comfortable. If you aren't tweeting, you really can't do much to get yourself in trouble, and if you hate it you can always delete your account. Hmm… now I am on to explore Google+… always something new to learn… Thanks for reading!


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Of possible interest. -Jodi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wic Office <email@example.com> Date: Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:16 PM Subject: [Dbworld] CFPs: IEEE-IS Brain Informatics To: firstname.lastname@example.com IEEE Intelligent Systems Call for Papers Special Issue on Brain Informatics Publication: September/October 2011 Submissions due for review: 24 February 2011 Brain informatics (BI) is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that focuses on studying the mechanisms underlying the human information processing system (HIPS). BI investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as multiperception, attention, memory, language, computation, heuristic search, reasoning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, discovery, and creativity. One goal of BI research is to develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to an integrated understanding of macroscopic- and microscopic-level working principles of the brain via experimental, computational, and cognitive neuroscience studies as well as using advanced Web intelligence centric information technologies. Another goal is to promote new forms of collaborative and interdisciplinary work. New kinds of BI methods and global research communities will emerge through infrastructure on the semantic/wisdom Web, knowledge grids, and cloud computing. This new infrastructure will enable high-speed, distributed, large-scale analysis and computation and radically new ways of data/knowledge sharing. This special issue will present some of the best work being done worldwide to deal with the new challenges of brain informatics, especially from intelligent systems perspectives. Submissions covering the following areas are welcome: - Human brain data collection, preprocessing, management, and analysis - Brain data modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data - Multimedia brain data mining and reasoning - Multiaspect analysis in functional magnetic resonance imagery, electroencephalography, and magneto-encephalography (fMRI/EEG/MEG) activations - Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals - Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation - Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging - Cognitive architectures and their relations to fMRI/EEG/MEG - HIPS meets complex systems - The cyber-individual meets BI - Eye-tracking meets fMRI/EEG for human-computer interaction and brain-computer interfaces - Modeling brain information-processing mechanisms - Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, and neurolinguistics - New cognitive and computational models for intelligent systems Submission Guidelines Submissions should be 3,000 to 5,400 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow IEEE Intelligent Systems style and presentation guidelines (computer.org/intelligent/author.htm). Submit all manuscripts online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/is-cs. We strongly encourage submissions that include real-world social media, data, and community content. Selected live social-media content and sites will be featured on the IEEE Computer Society Web site along with the accepted papers. Questions? For more information, contact the guest editors: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology and the International WIC Institute (Beijing University of Technology); zhong(at)maebashi-it.ac.jp Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition; jbradshaw(at)ihmc.us Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University and the International WIC Institute (Beijing University of Technology); jiming(at)comp.hkbu.edu.hk John G. Taylor, King's College London; john.g.taylor(at)kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworldReceived on Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:30:57 UTC
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These stylish coasters are a cinch to create and really will save your furniture from damage caused by hot cups and glasses. Make a set for yourself and while you're at it, whip some up for your friends too – they make great and very affordable gifts.
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15. Leigh Halfpenny: 6.5
In a game that the opposition dominated, Halfpenny's day was mainly spent fielding and returning kicks, which he did reasonably well. Sadly his game will always be remembered for the missed kick on the final whistle, but we must remember that even if he had struck it as sweetly as possible, it was probably just out of his range.
14. Tommy Bowe: 6
Nice to see him back in a Lions test match, but the territory-dominated game-plan meant we never got to see his partnership with North blossom as it did in the warm-up games. Chased down kicks well, but that was largely it – when the wingers make ten metres combined, it says a lot about the way you have played the game. Will hopefully be given more of a chance next week.
13. Brian O'Driscoll: 7
You can never question this man's commitment or work-rate. 12 tackles are a testament to an afternoon spent hacking down the opposition, who enjoyed far more territory and possession. Although it was his opposite man that score the decisive try, it was not O'Driscoll who was out of position.
12. Jonathan Davies: 4.5
Sadly, that unwanted accolade must go to Davies, who found himself somewhat in no-man's land as Ashley-Cooper burst through the defence and over the line for the winning try. With three missed tackles in total, he has not reproduced his fine midweek form in the test matches and will likely find himself out of the starting line-up next week.
11. George North: 6.5
Not the attacking force he was last week, but that was not his fault as the Lions tightened up and played a game dominated much more by the boot. Still provided the moment of the match when he picked up Israel Folau dump-truck-style… when he himself had the ball. The Lions need to make use of his talents better next week.
10. Johnny Sexton: 6.5
A mixed bag from Sexton, who looked comfortable but never really dominated his opposite number, who was having another off day, as he should have done. The plan was obviously to pin the Australians back, but his kicking from hand wasn't accurate enough to achieve this successfully.
9. Ben Youngs: 5.5
Like Sexton, a lot of his kicking was fairly aimless and allowed the Australians time and space to make decisions. Three carries for one metre made is not the Youngs we have come to know, and whether it was because of the game he was asked to play or otherwise, he has probably not done enough to keep the shirt for the final test.
1. Mako Vunipola: 6.5
A more topsy-turvy game from one player there has not been for quite some time. Made good inroads in the loose early on but was destroyed in the scrums, but then just as the cries for his substitution reached fever pitch he roared back at his opposite man and the Lions began to dominate at the set-piece. A bizarre game, out of which he emerged probably in credit.
2. Tom Youngs: 5
Unfortunately, it was not a good day for the Youngs brothers. Tom was far less obvious in the loose than last week, and although there was only one line-out lost on their own throw there were several that wobbled badly, not allowing the backs the platform they wanted and needed. Will be under fierce competition from Hibbard for second test.
3. Adam Jones: 7.5
A pillar in the scrums, even early on when the Lions were having issues it was never his side that struggled. Such is his value in these tight exchanges that it matters very little how anonymous he is with ball in hand.
4. Geoff Parling: 6.5
Superb work-rate from Parling, whose 14 tackles were the most of any player in red. The line-out, however – usually so solid when he is present – was not as accurate as it needed to be and along with Tom Youngs, he must take some of the blame.
5. Alun-Wyn Jones: 7
Seemed to become even more physical, if that is possible, in the absence of Paul O'Connell. Another who put himself about, making ten tackles, and his weight and power are invaluable in the scrums.
6. Dan Lydiate: 7
13 tackles show his usual willingness to be agressive in defence, and he must take a huge amount of credit for not allowing Genia the room to dominate as he did last week. Looks to have done enough to stave off the challenge of Croft and O'Brien for the final test.
7. Sam Warburton: 8.5
The game turned when the captain went off injured. He won three turnovers, was the sole source of quality ball at the line-out and tackled his heart out, but more than that he stepped up into the leadership void left by Paul O'Connell. Had Leali'ifano missed his kick or Halfpenny slotted his, Warburton would have been the man to lead the Lions to a winning series and it would have been no less than he deserved for these two performances.
8. Jamie Heaslip: 6
It was another quiet game from Heaslip. You sensed that he needed to do more with ball in hand give that his two back-row mates' skills lie much more in the defensive aspects of the game. The control at the base of the scrum was better than last week, but aside from one impressive carry there wasn't much to write home about.
Conor Murray stormed into contention for the final test with the type of performance that Mike Phillips was once renowned for. All 'budget', 'value' or 'basics' tags must now be retired, and there is a real chance he could become the third different scrum-half to start a test next week. Dan Cole was the other big winner, as he banished the scrum demons of last week and dominated the set-piece. Tom Croft and Sean O'Brien added pace to the back-row from the bench, but the latter was the only one who got a decent chance with ball in hand.
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Las Vegas appears to just get larger and larger every year. The biggest hotels and casino around the strip are replaced by even larger casino and hotels next time you visit. They are all valid reasons and require different approaches to choosing the best home water filtration system.
POU simply signifies that the water filter is mounted wherever is is needed. Yes, the Sands was till around then, although not for considerably longer after that. With such extensive home water filtration installed, our farmer's water has become absolutely safe to drink.
There is simply something in regards to the size and the smokiness which is nostalgic for despite the actual fact that I despise the give an impression of cigarette smoke in general. Yes, the Sands was till around then, although not for much longer after that. It is little smokier than some of the larger casinos making use of their massive air filtering systems, in order that is really a mark against it, but the casino harkens back to an earlier, smaller in time las Vegas history.
At one extreme where you've a highly contaminated water supply, you might need very expensive, costly and finished multi-stage reverse osmosis home water filtration. But for your typical urbanite, you could possibly get by with a relatively economical mixture of home water filters. This little nugget is approximately 4 stories with 200 or so rooms right between Bally's and the Flamingo and throughout the street from Caesars Palace and Bellagio. You should too.
The Venetian complex sits atop the hollowed ground that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and Sammy Davis consecrated night after night to a packed crowd at the Sands. Most of the menu is nice 'ol American fare, but they specialize in a few Chinese dishes as well and also the Kung Pou chicken was certainly one of the best I have ever had. They are all gone now Bellagio's lake and fountains sit in which the Dunes accustomed to be.
At one extreme where you have a highly contaminated water supply, you may need very expensive, costly and finished multi-stage reverse osmosis home water filtration. But for the typical urbanite, you will get by having a relatively economical mix of home water filters. The Victoria Room just isn't fancy, however the food there is very good for the price good steaks and even better Chinese food. You should too.


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McMansion trend likely to fade when people get tired of upkeep / Like Victorians, they'll suffer an inevitable fall from grace
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, December 9, 2006
According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the size of the average American house more than doubled between 1950 and 1999. From 1982 to 2004, the typical new single-family house grew about 40 percent larger, from 1,690 square feet to 2,366 square feet.
In the face of these increases, however, the size of the average American household has shrunk from 3.3 to 2.6 people. This seeming paradox betrays the trend toward ever-larger houses for what it is: a real estatefashion, and an irrational one at that.
And like all fashions, it's doomed to reverse eventually. If a huge house simply could be tossed out like an outmoded necktie, or even junked like an obsolete SUV, this wouldn't be much cause for concern. But buildings are a lot more permanent than neckties or gas-guzzlers. After the current taste for huge houses inevitably fades, our infrastructure will be burdened with untold thousands of residential white elephants for decades to come.
What's so awful about these big, bad houses?
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Here's the usual litany of answers: They use more building materials, wasting natural resources. They take more energy to heat and cool than a comparable small home, consuming more nonrenewable heating oil or natural gas and more electricity (most of which is also generated by fossil fuels, creating more pollution).
Big houses also cost more to buy -- a fact that often seems curiously overlooked -- so most people can only afford to buy one in a less expensive location, usually far from where they work, which requires longer commutes, which squander yet more fossil fuels, and ironically also absorb much of the free time people were hoping to spend in their big new house.
So much for appealing to conscience. In reality, moral arguments won't dissuade people from buying big houses, just as they haven't dissuaded them from buying sport utility vehicles.
Instead, big houses will be killed by the simple fact that people spend most of their time at home in just a couple of rooms. In a big house, that leaves an awful lot of space that needs to be paid for, heated, cleaned and maintained but that has little real function beyond bragging rights.
Hence, the big house will go when exasperation trumps ego. While we may not have gained this insight yet, our forebears did so long ago. After 1900, with efficiency-minded magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal leading the charge, overworked homemakers rebelled against the large, ornate and hard-to-maintain homes of the Victorian era.
Housing trends swung sharply back toward more modest houses, ushering in the phenomenally popular little houses we still call bungalows. As for those big old Victorians, they quickly came to be seen as the apex of vulgarity, and many were eventually carved up into rooming houses -- a common strategy to make use of all that burdensome space. The remaining numbers that escaped demolition continued to be held in contempt for 60 more years. Today's McMansions, with their overbearing scale and frenetic ornamentation, are a pretty close match for Victorian excess. And after their inevitable fall from grace, time won't treat them any better.
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A state worker was charged with petit larceny after Thruway authority investigators caught him stealing gas from state pumps, State Police said.
State Police were summoned to the Harriman Maintenance Yard in Orange County by the Thruway's audit investigators.
They told the troopers that Edward P. Eager, 51, of Washingtonville was under surveillance for siphoning gas from pumps at the state site, troopers said.
Eager was caught putting false information into the computerized gas pumps at the maintenance yard, troopers said. He then allegedly put two full gas cans into the trunk of his car.
The Thruway investigators took him into custody and held him until State Police arrived.
Eager was charged with petit larceny and first-degree falsifying business records.


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Thanksgiving, thanks and more thanks
Growing up we never lived close to my grandparents, but I felt their love all the same. Especially from my grandmother. As a small child, I sometimes wondered if my grandfather even knew my name, but somewhere in there, he started talking. He's never really stopped since. I know entire extended families rather well through the stories of my grandmother. My grandfather and I share a love of silly rhymes.
I wasn't sure how things would work after my mother died. Usually it had been my mother that kept us together.
My grandma called me on the phone. "I call my kids in order. All their numbers are on the wall. I'm too old to change from four to three. I'm putting you in at your mother's spot," she said.
She travelled up to meet my first baby. I travelled down with the other three when they arrived. She bought me diapers and tucked twenty dollar bills in my coat for gas. I sent pictures and letters I had never taken the time to write before. We weren't forgetting my mother. We were loving somebody else who loved her. Along the way, we found a lot of love and joy between us. My mother would like that.
My grandfather doesn't remember things now. He has cancer that he isn't treating. Many conversations, he can't follow. He joins in by telling jokes he thinks of.
This year we had an early Thanksgiving dinner together. My grandparents, my girls, and me. I brought one of our chickens. The girls drew turkey pictures and made place cards. We ate brownies for dessert and saved the pumpkin pie for the next day so we could properly enjoy it.
I went to bed afterwards thinking about books. How every chapter should be the best you can make it. Every sentence matters. But as good as it all is, if it's done right, the last chapter is the best. Everything comes together. The beautiful intensifies to a level you had no idea was even possible back when you were reading in the middle and enjoying every page.
I am struck with my grandfather's gentleness amidst confusion. His quiet trust in my grandmother is not a tenderness I could have imagined in him twenty years ago. He needs a lot of help navigating daily life. My grandmother learns what she needs to do, and does it. She does not spend her days grieving who my grandfather is not. She looks at the man who is present, figures out how to give him what he needs, and loves him as he is.
I have been reading the book of their lives for a long time now. So many different chapters. So much for me to learn. But this last chapter. It takes my words away and sits me down quiet with wonder. About love. And it never, ever being too late to become like the Velveteen rabbit. More real. More beautiful.


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A Spanish campaign for the right to be forgotten is gathering momentum.
More than 90 cases of people who want information deleted from the web, now have the backing of their government and it has ordered Google to stop indexing information about 90 citizens who filed formal complaints with its data protection agency.
The case is in court now, and apparently is being closely watched by the EU which is keen to see how much control its citizens will have over information they posted, or which was posted about them, on the web.
The European Union's justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, said she wanted to give privacy authorities greater power to tell Google to sling its hook.
She said that it was wrong that individuals have no say over their data once it has been launched into cyberspace.
But the privacy thing is set to cause a spat between the US and the EU. The US has its belief that you have the right to publish the truth, whereas the EU believes that people have the right to privacy.
European law balances the freedom of speech and the right to know against a person's right to privacy or dignity. It is all based on the way that information was collected and used against individuals under dictators like Franco and Hitler.
The US has yet to tell its government to sling its hook when it comes to the ability of people and governments to attack other people and beliefs using the "free press".
Google said that if the Spanish succeed in their beard singeing, it would have a have a profound, chilling effect on free expression without protecting people's privacy.
Spain's Data Protection Agency, created in the 1990s to protect individual rights, believes that search engines have altered the process by which most data ends up forgotten.
Deputy director of the agency, Jesus Rubi, told Associated Press that the Spanish government gazette, which used to publish every weekday, including bankruptcy auctions, official pardons, and who passed the civil service exams went online, making it possible for embarrassing information to be obtained easily.
If Google never deletes the data it could be with the person for the rest of their lives.


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The entire preseason and the first two weeks of the NBA regular season are gone and counting. According to the NBA owners, 22 of the 30 franchises are losing money. Lots of money in the aggregate: an average of $330 million in each of the last two seasons. Some owners reportedly say they would forfeit the season if necessary, in essence saying fewer games means fewer losses. The NBA's Commissioner calls the extent of the impasse a "gulf."
But the single biggest reason for a long, tortured negotiation is not so obvious to most of us. We say, "Why does it take so long to agree on how to split $4 billion? There's enough there for 415 players and 30 owners?" What we cannot read in the paper or see from a 30-second sound bite is that we have an increasingly sophisticated group of players who selected tall cotton representatives that matches the legal skill set of the owner and League. In major corporate transactions, highly sophisticated lawyers are trained to envision everything that could go wrong, and protect their client's interest if it does. The more thoughtful and imaginative the respective counsel, the more clauses the contract contains.
Now if everybody trusted everybody, there would be no need to cover every contingency by contract. They could do what Bo Schembechler and the University of Michigan did – put it on a napkin. But once you view the correspondence between the general counsel of the NFL and NFLPA, attached as Exhibits to the Brady or Eller lawsuits against the NFL, you readily see the trust factor was not Maize and Blue. We should expect nothing different during the NBA negotiations. In both cases, the players' counsel suspect the owners are not completely honest in their representations of profits and losses, and that the league discloses only incomplete books and records to intentionally obscure the whole truth. That battle alone is waged over years. The NFL collective bargaining agreement is over 400 pages. I have dealt with sophisticated corporate deals before, but nothing – nothing - was as complex as this.
The complexity is not really because of the lack of trust per se, or closing loopholes for contingencies. It has mostly to do, in my opinion, with the desire of owners to create exemptions and exceptions in their favor. For example, both the NFL and NBA know they are going to share revenue. The real battle is how they define the "revenue" that will be shared. The owners try to exclude items from the definition. The NFL agreement has a mind-boggling way of defining "All Revenue". It is on par with defining and calculating capital gains under the internal revenue code. After deductions and exclusions are considered, "All" does not mean "All". Yet that is what it is called.
The NFL owners knew that the more exclusions they create from All Revenue, the less they have to share because the item is no longer in the pot from which sharing occurs. The excluded items are retained by the NFL so they keep more of the total revenue. I am willing to bet my 401(k) that same process is a major part of the NBA negotiation right now.


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How many do you have?
...It's a question that most workaholic Mumbaiites are asking each other. We are referring to the public holidays that line up next week. The GUIDE makes planning this bonanza even easier, with cool options in every direction, depending on the time at hand. Start packing!
If you have 3 days >
From Mumbai: 546 km
Vengurla in Sindhudurg district is scenic and surrounded by hills as well as cashew, mango, coconut, and berry trees. Historically, Vengurla was a trade settlement for the Dutch.
Don't miss: Sateri temple, Rameshwar temple, Navadurga temple and Ravalnath temple. Sandy beaches, Sindhudurg and Padmagad forts, salt pans and Malvani cuisine.
Log on to: www.maharashtratourism.gov.in
From Mumbai: 246 km
The British discovered this hill station and made it their summer retreat. It's famous for its lush forest cover.
Don't miss: Sydney Point, Table Land (Asia's second longest mountain plateau), Parsi Point, Devil's Kitchen (the Pandavas are believed to have stayed here), Pandavgad Caves (built by the Pandavas, supposedly).
Log on to: www.maharashtratourism.gov.in
From Mumbai: 215 km
Located in Ratnagiri, it's called 'Mini Mahabaleshwar' for its cool climate. It is the birthplace of Lokmanya Tilak, Sane Guruji and Maharshi Karve.
Don't miss: Suvarnadurg fort, Panjalekaji caves, Unhavare hot water springs, Kadyavarcha Ganpati temple, Murud beach and Harnai fish market.
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If you have 5 days >
From Mumbai: 920 km
It's the best time of the year to spot the Royal Bengal Tiger in this national park, also dubbed the Jewel of Vidarbha. The dry deciduous cover is home to this elusive, protected cat as well as other wild cats, and the beautiful Nilgai. Tadoba gets its name from 'Taru' the local deity while the Andhari river means the one that winds its way through a forest.
Don't miss: Tiger, Leopard, Sloth bear, Wild dog, Jackal, Sambar, Indian Bison, Barking Deer, Spotted Deer, Chausingha, Ratel, Flying Squirrel, Wild Boar and Langur.
Log on to: www.maharashtra tourism. gov.in
From Mumbai: 696 km
This one-time sleepy temple town on Karnataka's coast is fast becoming a new escape for Goa-weary beachcombers. With its mix of virgin shorelines and spiritual wholesomeness, dotted with several places of religious importance, it makes for an ideal getaway.
Don't miss: Kudlee, Om, Half Moon and Paradise beaches, Bhandikeri Math, Shri Mahabaleshwar temple and Shri Mahaganapati temple,
Car Street in the main town.
Log on to: www.karnatakatourism.org
From Mumbai: 834 km
Home to nearly 300 lions, an envious bird life, and loads of other flora and fauna, including reptiles, the Gir National Park,that covers
1,412 sq kms is an animal lovers' paradise. With the harsh Indian summer already here, spotting wildlife is a sure shot for the adventure buff.
Don't miss: The Asiatic Lion, Sambar and spotted deer (Chital), blue bull (Nilgai), Chausingha (the world's only four-horned antelope), Chinkara (Indian gazelle) as well as the marsh crocodile.
Log on to: www.girnationalpark.co
If you have 2 days >
From Mumbai: 182 km
Located in Pune district, Mulshi is famous for its dam on the Mula river. Water from the dam is used to produce electricity and for irrigation. Its scenic hills, forests and forts including Dhangad and Koraigadh are popular too.
Don't miss: Picnic spots near the river, ancient Vanjai Mata temple, which passes through valleys and cliffs, Ashtdhara waterfalls and Valne Ghat. Sunset picnics at Mulshi or Hadashi's Sai temple.
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From Mumbai: 165 km
Bhandardara is located close to the river Pravara and is dotted with waterfalls and verdant hilly terrain. It's a great place to relax, explore the ghats and mingle with the tribals.
Don't miss: Wilson Dam and Arthur Lake. Sage Agasti is believed to have meditated in Bhandardara. The gods then blessed him with the Pravara River, which is a stream of the Ganges. Kalsubai, the state's highest peak, is also in Bhandardara.
Log on to: www.maharashtra tourism.gov.in
From Mumbai: 137 km
Located 65 km from Virar, the chickoo-land of Dahanu boasts of pristine beaches and picturesque chickoo orchards.
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Behind the scenes shot of Empire Strikes Back opening crawl
Describing something succinctly is "like a poem?" Apparently Twitter is the most poetic place on earth.
George is awfully proud of that exposition dump. In most movies it would be considered a sin, but because Star Wars did it in an iconic way we're going to forgive it I guess.
What always stabs me in the eye is the terrible spacing of the first line of the Empire crawl. I wouldn't want to hyphenate "Rebellion," but that degree of inter-word justification is jarringly awful and also messes with the perspective effect as it recedes. Surely George could have done a minor rewrite to avoid this crime against typography.
It's really interesting to see how they filmed the crawl. What's the source of the image? I didn't see it in the Wikipedia article.
I saw something where he was comparing what happened in the trilogy with something in Episode 1 and how they related to one another - "So they sort of rhyme, like poetry."
I don't think he knows what poetry is.
"you have to be careful that you're not using too many words that people don't understand" .
And thus was born Up-Goer 5.
Wasn't this one of the pictures that Peter Mayhew posted on his Twitter a few weeks back?
No words. No words to describe it. They should've sent a poet. No, really. Instead of Lucas, they should have sent a poet.
Yep, thanks.
Yes, thanks! Sorry, the source got dropped. Added it back.
Haha, this reminds me of a credits crawl a friend and I did. In 86 we were doing a video for our High School econ class and we made a crawl by writing the credits on saran wrap with liquid paper, put it against the green felt of the pool table, and taped pulling the wrap down. Good times.
I once had to shoot a no-edit film, just stop-start on the camera. I Really wanted credits though, so I just queued up Secret Agent man on an audio file (that was the name of the film, it was hilarious, especially the product placement) and had words scroll up my computer monitor. Worked out well actually.
The Red Letter Media review comes to mind.
Particularly in the first Star Wars, the crawl actually kind of neat because the exposition gave the sense that there was an ongoing series that you were just getting a glimpse of for the first time and that the exposition wasn't just lazy storytelling but the equivalent of those "Previously on..." intros on TV shows.
Yeah - I think they have the clip in one.
If you love Star Wars and have a dark sense of humor, one must watch the prequel reviews by Red Letter Media.
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Hall of Fame trainer says undefeated American is one of the most exciting fighters around and could be a 'surprise package'
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach has warned that Chris Algieri could be a "surprise package" when he faces Manny Pacquiao in November, saying the little-known American had earned his shot against the Filipino superstar.
Promoters Top Rank signed the undefeated 30-year-old Algieri to face the eight-division world champion in a surprise move, but Pacquiao's trainer said they were not expecting an easy victory at Macau's CotaiArena.
Roach, who is getting China's two-time gold medallist Zou Shiming in shape for this weekend's "Champions of Gold", said Algieri was one of the most exciting fighters in the world and would be "very difficult to fight" on November 23.
Algieri was an unknown last month until he grabbed Russian Ruslan Provodnikov's World Boxing Organisation (WBO) light welterweight title by a split decision in a massive upset.
"He fought Ruslan and won the title. Algieri is undefeated [20-0, 8 KOs] and he's got a good record.
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"Brandon Rios was more of a brawler. It's a new generation coming up and that includes Algieri. He will be trying to outbox us. Pacquiao's experience should take over. The height [advantage] we can take care of, but we have to come a lot closer," Roach said of Algieri's 1.8-metre frame.
"Algieri is doing well, but how good is he really? He's a little bit of a mystery.
"The thing is that he won his [title] fight, so he has the title. It was promised to him [by Top Rank] that he if won the title he would fight Pacquiao, so his dream has come true.
"You can' take that away from him. That doesn't happen by accident. It's a great achievement. He's a very good athlete so we'll see.
"We will begin the training camp after we go across to China to promote the fight, so we will be busy," said Roach, who added the bout would be at a catchweight of 144 pounds.
Meanwhile, Roach was confident Zou would win his fifth straight professional fight on Saturday night against Colombia's Luis De La Rosa and move a step closer to a possible world title bout in November.
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The Washington state senate budget does not include funding for Initiative 1401, although the House and governor's budget has set aside money for the program. This measure requires $418,000 over the next two years to hire officers and train 24 agents dedicated to ending animal trafficking. This initiative cannot go unfunded. By voting "yes," Washingtonians have legally mandated Initiative 1401 into effect.
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Last November, Washingtonians voted "yes" on Initiative 1401 — a measure that would protect endangered animals by prohibiting the trafficking of products made from their bodies, such as fur and ivory. Since the vote, Initiative 1401 has gone unfunded by the Senate, though the House and governor's budgets account for the costs necessary to launch. By voting "yes," Washingtonians have legally mandated Initiative 1401 into effect, and something must be done to save this project and the lives of animal populations across the world.
Poaching for "valuable" materials is a leading factor in animal endangerment and demand for items keeps poachers in business. Allowing this multi-billion dollar industry to continue is not sustainable for endangered animals. While federal agencies are partially responsible for curbing the traffic of animals and illegal items, specialized state organizations are better able to dig deeper, find the sources of trade and end them. The two dozen officers and agents Initiative 1401 seeks to employ will not only work to end the animal trafficking industry, but will show Washington state's commitment to making these issues a priority.
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- Alex Sheikman said...
I actually remember Ronald Reagon (I like your spelling better). Now a days everyone thinks the guy was the best president we ever had, but I remember trying to find a job back than and it was tough. He also ran up some serious debts...but I will say he had some awesome one liners.
- ljamal said...
I like to think I'm a decent speller, but for some reason I keep wanting to spell your name with an "O" instead of the final "A."
- Brian Churilla said...
Thanks guys. Jamal - It's a horrible last name. No worries. That happens all the time. Most times, folks just say Chur-ee-ah because of the two "ll's"
- ljamal said...
How is it pronounced? In my head it rhymes with gorilla. :D
- Brian Churilla said...
You've got it. Church+Gorilla=Churilla
- Thomas said...
Churro + Chinchilla also works!
I was wondering about that too after I heard some lady on the news pronounce it Kur-rilla. Thanks for clarifying.
- Bob Fingerman said...
Spilt isn't incorrect. It's just a bit old-fashioned.
- Brian Churilla said...
Tom- How did Churilla come up on the news?
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