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Galerie m Bochum is showing from November 27th, 2015, until February 24th, 2016, recent paintings by
Marta Guisande
(born 1965 in Seville, lives and works in Cologne). Guisande takes an intuitive approach to painting, developing her images gradually. During the painting process, which can take weeks or months, she builds up the substance of the image from textures and translucent, often thin layers of paint, frequently leading to surprising twists and turns and multifaceted results. Visual rhythms evolve within the image itself, among the various works, and also in relation to the surrounding exhibition space.
The structure of each individual work is created by repeatedly applying layers of paint and then partially removing them again. The artist wipes the paint and scratches at the picture surface – a search for gestural brushwork would thus be futile. The result is a matte, open-pored surface from which the pigments seem to glow.
Guisande concocts this delicate fabric of color and structure layer by layer, without knowing where the painting process will ultimately take her. But the compression and dissolution is also the result of working the back of the canvas. With the outcome of each step uncertain, the status of the image must be repeatedly inspected to decide on the further procedure.
The works relate to one another in the exhibition through similarities in their composition or paint application. Diamond-shaped patterns overlay more or less subtly all the canvases that are part of the installation with its open hanging. In three black paintings, Guisande experiments with transparency and opaque stripes that let the gaze penetrate the surfaces to a greater or lesser degree. Three other paintings stand out due to their surface structure: the paint looks dry here, almost rough. And the image in turns appears particularly permeable – a property that Guisande strives for in all of her work. She speaks in this connection of "pictures that breathe."


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For the past six years, Elaine Tettemer Marshall, the fourth-richest woman in the U.S., has avoided the spotlight that ordinarily accompanies great wealth.
The 70-year-old Dallas resident controls almost 15 percent of Koch Industries Inc., the second-largest closely held company in the U.S. Her stake in the Wichita, Kansas-based industrial conglomerate, which generates annual sales of $110 billion, is worth more than $12.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which has expanded to 100 names. The only American women richer are Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) heiresses Alice and Christy Walton, and 71-year-old candy scion Jacqueline Mars.
Marshall, who gained control of the Koch stake following the death of her husband, E. Pierce Marshall, in 2006, has never appeared on an international wealth ranking, although her estate has been at the center of two U.S. Supreme Court cases involving her mother-in-law, Anna Nicole Smith.
"The Marshalls have never been a lightning rod, because they've never been in the public view financially," said Richard Lieb, a research professor of bankruptcy law at St. John's University School of Law in New York, who filed briefs to the Supreme Court with his students when the cases were being heard. "No one went after them to find out what their evil deeds were, if any."
Marshall's ability to stay out of the limelight stands in contrast to her father-in-law, J. Howard Marshall, who had been a Koch shareholder for more than two decades and created a spectacle with his 1994 marriage to Smith, then a 26-year-old Playboy model, whom he wed at age 89. Since then, the Marshall fortune has been in a near-constant state of turmoil.
Spousal Support
In April 1995, four months before Howard Marshall's death, Smith sued his son, Pierce, in Harris County, Texas, probate court, accusing him of interfering with his father's ability to provide her spousal support. The lawsuit was the first in a stream of legal cases that led to a 16-year battle between Smith and Pierce Marshall, the end of which neither would live to see. Marshall succumbed to an infection in 2006 at age 67; Smith died of a drug overdose at age 39 in a Florida hotel in 2007.
David Margulies, a spokesman for Marshall, said she declined to comment for this account. "Mrs. Marshall does not own any Koch stock in her name," he said in an e-mail. "The late E. Pierce Marshall and J. Howard Marshall II consistently stated that their family's assets were vastly overvalued."
Fredric Spar of Kekst & Co., a spokesman for Charles and David Koch, said the company's majority shareholders declined to comment. Each Koch brother has a net worth of $37.8 billion, according to the index, where Marshall ranks 69th. The collective net worth of the 100 richest people in the world is $1.9 trillion as of the market close Sept. 14.
'Crown Jewels'
The partnership between the Koch and Marshall families began in 1959, when Koch Industries founder Fred C. Koch acquired a 35 percent stake in Great Northern Oil Co., a Minnesota-based refinery co-founded by Howard Marshall, for about $5 million in cash. A decade later, Koch's second-oldest son, Charles, offered to swap the rest of Marshall's stake in Great Northern for Koch Industries shares.
"He took stock rather than cash — and held on to it," said Robert L. Bradley Jr., editor of Howard Marshall's autobiography, "Done in Oil," in an e-mail. "The stock appreciated into something very, very large."
In 1974, at the wedding reception of his oldest son, J. Howard Marshall III, the elder Marshall gave each of his two sons 4 percent of Koch Industries voting stock, telling them, "Boys, these are the Crown Jewels, take care of them," according to documents filed by the U.S. District Court for California's Central District in Santa Ana in 2002.
'Early Inheritance'
Those jewels played a crucial role in an attempted boardroom coup six years later, when two of Charles Koch's brothers tried to oust him as CEO. With some cousins and several allies, Bill Koch and Frederick Koch controlled about 48 percent of the votes, and turned to Howard Marshall's sons to gain the majority needed to displace Charles. Howard III sided with the dissident brothers; his younger brother, Pierce, rejected their plea.
His loyalty tied to Charles Koch, Howard Marshall thwarted the coup by buying back his oldest son's voting stock for $8 million. According to court documents, Marshall subsequently disinherited Howard III, considering the $8 million payment "an early inheritance."
Howard III contested his father's will in Harris County probate court in 1995. Pierce Marshall, who was left in charge of his father's estate following his death, countersued, claiming his older brother committed fraud when he sold his Koch Industries voting stock back to their father at an inflated price.
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The court sided with the estate. According to the verdict, rendered in 2001, Howard III had engaged in fraud by stating a claim to his father's inheritance, and was ordered to pay about $11 million to various Marshall family trusts. Howard Marshall III and his wife, Ilene, filed for bankruptcy in Los Angeles in 2002.
While dueling with his brother, Pierce Marshall was also fending off charges from Anna Nicole Smith, who filed for bankruptcy in 1996. During the bankruptcy proceedings, the former stripper — her given name was Vickie Lynn Hogan — claimed her late husband had intended to set up a trust in her benefit. The trust was to have contained a sum equal to half of the increased value of Marshall's assets during their marriage. Pierce Marshall, Smith claimed, illegally interfered with the trust's creation.
In 2000, the U.S. bankruptcy court for California's Central District in Los Angeles awarded Smith about $475 million in damages, determining that Pierce Marshall had "deprived her of her expectancy of a substantial inter vivos gift from her deceased husband J. Howard."
Valuation Methods
The court based the award on the testimony of Smith's expert witness, who offered three valuation methods for Howard Marshall's stake in Koch Industries. The court found that "the most appropriate measure" estimated the stake's value had grown from $741 million at the time of Smith and Marshall's marriage to more than $1.6 billion in 1999.
Pierce Marshall, who had long disputed that his shares in Koch Industries were worth billions of dollars, appealed the decision. In 2002, the District Court lowered the bankruptcy court's verdict to $89 million. This time the court considered four different valuation methodologies, and based its verdict on the book value gain of Howard Marshall's stake in Koch from 1994 to 1995, as recorded in two credit approval presentations to Texas Commerce Bank. The stake was worth $780 million at the end of 1995, according to the court.
Supreme Court
Smith never got a dollar. The Harris County probate court, where she had filed her first lawsuit against Pierce Marshall, ruled in 2001 that she had no valid claim to the estate.
In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Smith's case on the issue of federal jurisdiction over probate matters. The Court ruled in favor of the Smith estate and remanded the case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The 9th Circuit Court overturned the District Court in 2010, as it had in 2004.
Five years after its first ruling, the Supreme Court again took up Smith's case, this time on another jurisdiction question. In its decision, the court upheld the ruling from the 9th Circuit Court, which stated that the California-based bankruptcy court lacked the constitutional authority to award Smith a claim over the Texas-based Marshall estate.
After the first Supreme Court decision in 2006, Pierce Marshall transferred his Koch stake, held by a company called Trof Inc., into a Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) named Staurolite. Marshall owned all of Trof, according to the 2002 District Court ruling. Trof held 14.6 percent of Koch Industries, according to a 2001 application to the Federal Communications Commission, which was submitted by a company in which a Koch subsidiary held an interest.
Staurolite GRAT
Pierce Marshall was listed as Staurolite's grantor and Elaine as the trustee, according to the trust agreement. Pierce also created his will at that time, leaving the majority of his estate to Elaine and appointing her as executrix. In his will, Pierce Marshall directed that, upon his death, all of his interest in the Staurolite GRAT be transferred to the EPM Marital Income Trust, of which Elaine Marshall is the trustee. He died six weeks after signing his will.
In a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in March 2009, Howard K. Stern, the executor of the Anna Nicole Smith estate, accused the late Pierce Marshall of moving the family's most valuable asset — Koch Industries stock — outside of his estate. Elaine Marshall responded in a court declaration that the creation of the will and GRAT was the result of "18 months of planning, reparation and drafting," and "not caused by the Supreme Court's decision" that granted jurisdiction to the District Court in 2006 over Smith's claim.
'Amorphous Interest'
"The whole advantage of a GRAT is passing appreciated property to your family members without a gift tax," said Robert Willens, an independent tax adviser based in New York. "You can say with a straight face, if you're called on to disclose your assets, that you no longer own the stock that you've put into the trust. All you have is this amorphous annuity interest."
Elaine Marshall didn't list the GRAT as part of his estate, according to an inventory of Pierce Marshall's estate assets, submitted to the Supreme Court in 2009. The estate's most valuable asset listed in the inventory was Telomere LLC, which represented more than $115 million of the estate's reported $125 million value.
Marshall is one of nine Koch Industries board members. She donated $5,000 to the company's political action committee in December 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. She is credited with the family's Koch stake because of her control over the EPM Marital Income Trust.
IRS Summons
In December 2009, Harvey A. Malyn, an Austin-based tax attorney with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, summoned Edwin K. Hunter and T. Glynn Blazier, tax lawyers for the Pierce Marshall estate. Malyn requested Hunter and Blazier to produce a list of records and data to ascertain the "correctness" of Pierce Marshall's estate tax, according to IRS documents. Hunter had advised Pierce Marshall on the drafting of his will, and the establishment of the Staurolite GRAT, according to a March 2009 court declaration.
In response, Elaine Marshall filed a petition to quash the IRS summons. The IRS subsequently withdrew the summons to Hunter and Blazier, and Marshall dropped the petition in February 2010. Julianne Breitbeil, a spokeswoman for the IRS, couldn't comment on the matter because privacy laws prohibit her from discussing individual tax cases. Hunter and Blazier didn't respond to requests seeking comment.
'Bleak House'
A Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Treasury Department made by Bloomberg News for more of the correspondence between Elaine Marshall, Hunter and Blazier and the IRS was denied Aug. 16, 2012, because tax records are confidential.
"Going to court defeats the whole purpose of having these trusts, which are hidden from the public," said Will Hardee, senior vice president at Royal Bank of Canada's Wealth Management office in Houston.
The 16-year fight over the Marshall fortune led Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts to compare the case in his 2011 majority opinion to Charles Dickens's "Bleak House," the 19th century novel that describes a complex and longstanding family lawsuit involving a large inheritance.
"What's the most valuable thing you have and it's not money? It's time," said Hardee. "All the money in the world won't give them back lost time."

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Finish Line (NASDAQ:FINL) on Friday said its first-quarter earnings more than doubled, as sales continued to climb.
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The sports apparel retailer reported a profit of $12.4 million, or 25 cents a share, compared to $5.1 million, or 10 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings checked in at 28 cents a share.
Revenue improved 16% to $406.5 million. The results beat Wall Street estimates for earnings of 21 cents a share and revenue of $394.5 million.
Shares climbed 3.4% to $30.14 in recent trading. Finish Line has gained about 7.2% since the start of 2014.
Finish Line was able to combat declining sales of running shoes during the winter months by offering a wider selection of basketball gear. Other retailers widely saw a drop in sales, citing harsh winter weather that kept shoppers away.
In the period ended May 31, Finish Line's same-store sales were up 5%. Last month, rival Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) booked a 7.6% increase in first-quarter comparable sales. Both retailers benefited from growing demand for sneakers and sports gear, fueled by new products from Nike (NYSE:NKE) and other apparel companies.
"The integration of our store and digital operations is allowing us to deliver great product and service to consumers in a seamless fashion no matter what channel they choose to shop," Finish Line chairman and chief executive Glenn Lyon said in a statement.
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The Indianapolis-based company affirmed its outlook for the fiscal year. Finish Line expects comparable sales growth in the mid-single-digits on a percentage basis and earnings growth in the high-single-digits to low-double-digits.
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Thanksgiving Baking
Every year, we spend Thanksgiving in Palm Springs, California with my boyfriend's parents. The weather there is warm and there are many blue, cloudless days to enjoy. We decided to do an alternative Thanksgiving dinner this year without turkey, cranberries, pumpkin pie, or any of the usual fixings. Instead, we had a nice rib roast, which coasted to 120 degrees F slowly inside a 200 degree oven.
Instead of dinner rolls, I opted to make epis using Hamelman's baguettes with pate fermentee formula. The dough was divided into three 500 gram pieces, which resulted in three very fat baguettes, as they had to fit onto a half size sheet pan. While the kitchen is quite spacious, my boyfriend's parents aren't bakers, so I had to do without a bench scraper or a baking stone - in the grand scheme of things, only a minor inconvenience.
For dessert, I made some apple cinnamon rolls with Glezer's Baking Team USA Sweet Dough formula. Instead of spreading butter on the rolled out rectangle of dough, I used a thick layer of apple butter and sprinkled cinnamon sugar on top. The result tastes like apple pie in cinnamon roll form. I highly recommend it. Plus, you can justify eating more than one if you tell yourself that this is a lower-fat version that cuts down on the butter content.
Here are the almost-proofed rolls. It took almost seven hours to fully rise.
After coming out of the oven, they were drizzled with some maple glaze: a couple tablespoons of maple syrup, powdered sugar, and cream.
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Candidate countries conduct negotiations with the European Union (EU) in order to prepare themselves for accession. The accession negotiations cover the adoption and implementation of European legislation (acquis) and, more specifically, the priorities identified jointly by the Commission and the candidate countries in the analytical assessment (or 'screening') of the EU's political and legislative acquis. Each year, the Commission reviews the progress made by candidates and evaluates the efforts required before their accession. This monitoring is the subject of annual reports presented to the Council and the European Parliament.
Commission Report – [COM(2011) 666 final – SEC(2011) 1203 – Not published in the Official Journal].
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia received the status of candidate country for accession to the European Union (EU) in 2005. The Accession Partnership, adopted by the Council in 2008, supports the country's preparations for its future accession and the aligning of its legislation with the Community acquis. In 2008, negotiations for accession had not yet started since some progress still needed to be made with regard to the objectives and conditions defined within the framework of the Partnership.
The 2011 Report from the European Commission notes some progress on matters relating to the country's transport policy. However, the administrative capacities remain inadequate.
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EU transport legislation aims at improving the functioning of the internal market by promoting safe, efficient and environment- and user-friendly transport services. The transport acquis covers the sectors of road transport, railways, aviation, maritime transport and inland waterways. It covers technical and safety standards, social conditions, the monitoring of state aid and market liberalisation in the context of the internal transport market.
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In the area of transport policy, progress was noted in particular regarding use of tachographs. Remaining challenges are related in particular to the still insufficient administrative capacity of the regulatory and safety transport authorities. The safety certification procedures need to be introduced.
In the area of trans-European networks further progress was made. The country continues developing its transport, energy and telecommunications networks and participates actively in the South East Europe Transport Observatory and the Energy Community. The implementation of corridor X remains delayed as additional time was needed to establish the financial framework.
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In its 2010 Report, the Commission presents the progress made by the country to improve the functioning of the railway sector, and of the supervisory and administrative authorities responsible for the transport sector.
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NEWS- Taunting Tech: Is it okey-dokey to be anti-Hokie?
Since the first one in 1895, the annual gridiron match-up between the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech has emerged as one of college football's most heated rivalries.
"It's the state rivalry, so it's always a big deal," says Joe Gieck, who trained the Cavalier squad for 43 years.
But much of that animosity was put on hold in April after a Tech student shot and killed 32 people on the Blacksburg campus before turning his gun on himself. Quickly, UVA rushed to offer support to the reeling campus 140 miles down the road.
For weeks, students and faculty in Charlottesville donned the Tech maroon and orange, held candlelight vigils, raised money for a memorial fund, and even left the painted words "Hoos for Hokies" on Beta Bridge untouched for a record 50 days. It would have remained longer, but in June appeared a response in orange and blue, "Thanks Hoos. Love, The Hokies. See you Nov. 24th!" That's the day when the Cavaliers and Hokies will renew their rivalry in Charlottesville at Scott Stadium.
Now as the big game draws nigh, 222 days after the single deadliest episode of gun violence in American history, the pall of April's tragedy lingers. There will be a pre-game commemoration, and the two schools' marching bands will perform together at halftime (as well as at John Paul Jones Arena the evening before the game).
The game is also emotionally loaded for fans for another reason. The on-the-field stakes could not be much higher. Both nationally ranked (Tech is #8 and UVA #16), the two teams are tied atop the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference at 6-1 in the conference and 9-2 overall. That essentially makes Saturday's showdown a one-game playoff for entry into the ACC Championship game.
With wounds so fresh and the game so consequential, what's the proper way for UVA fans to root against Tech?
Already, the rivalry has been renewed on the Internet with a series of YouTube videos made by Boston-based comedian Dean Smollar, and his brother Reed, a UVA graduate. Smollar– a Fairfax native– got the idea to do a parody of the popular Mac vs. PC television ads featuring a UVA student gently pointing out UVA's superiority to a Tech student. Then the events of April 16 happened, and Smollar wasn't sure how to move forward.
"We weren't even talking about the videos at that point," he says. "I knew a lot of students down there, and so I was worried to death."
Ultimately, though, Smollar decided that by August it was again okay to make a little fun of Tech.
"I figured nothing preoccupies a student's mind like a rivalry, and so I felt like this would help take people's minds off [the massacre]."
Sure enough, the videos have been viewed thousands of times, were picked up by the popular CollegeHumor.com website, and Smollar says he hasn't received a complaint from anyone saying it's too soon to needle the Hokies.
"They usually just talk about their basketball team or make fun of me," he says. "They've taken it the way we hoped they would."
That hasn't always been the case with the Virginia Pep Band. Over the years, the band's questionable taste when it comes to making fun of opposing schools has resulted in the group being banned from performing in the state of Maryland, and it provoked the ire of the Governor of West Virginia after one too many hillbilly jokes at one halftime performance.
Barred from playing at any UVA sporting event in 2003, the Pep Band has carried on, playing in the parking lot before football games and continuing to poke their fingers at visiting fans. Given that memories of April are still fresh, Pep Band director and third-year Suzie Wright says her group will take extra care not to cross the line with Hokie fans.
"Obviously, what happened in the spring is not something that will be in our joke material," she says. "We won't take that lightly."
Still, Wright says that Tech can expect the same treatment that opposing fans have come to expect from the orange-vested crew.
"We'll definitely heckle. We're not going to go light on them," she says. "That would take all the fun out of it."
So where exactly is the line between good and bad taste?
"I hate to reference the obscenity rule," says Wright, "but we know it when we hear it. We'll talk about all of it beforehand, and if it makes us groan a little too much, maybe it's not the right time."
As for Gieck, who retired as the top UVA trainer in 2005, he found himself wearing orange and maroon in April.
Gieck has his own place in the history of the UVA-Tech rivalry. On the last play of the 1995 game, as Hokie Antonio Banks ran down the sideline with an interception to seal the win for his team, Gieck stuck his leg out conspicuously close to Banks' feet. The alleged trip/joke resulted in outrage from Hokie fans, national media attention, and Gieck's suspension from UVA's trip to the Peach Bowl.
To this day, Gieck insists he was only trying to "distract" Banks, and he says he anticipates "a spirit of camaraderie" November 24. But he adds that it won't take long for fans to get wrapped up in the game.
"It will be more respectful," he says, "but once the ball's kicked off, these two teams will want to show each other."
The Pep Band's Wright has her own way of knowing if the rivalry survives.
"As soon as a Hokie fan pulls out his keys and jingles them in my face to signify a 'key play,'" she says. "That's when it's gotten back to normal."
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So where is the video??
Keith, if you're referring to the last play of the 1995 game, I searched far and wide on YouTube and elsewhere for a camera angle that shows Gieck's conspicuous leg to no avail. However, if you skip ahead to the 1:58 mark of the link below, you can get a sense of how close Gieck (in the bright orange slacks) was to Banks. Blink and you'll miss it.
Thanks for reading.
Lindsay Barnes
ESPN's Colin Cowherd said UVa football, "is the softest bunch of cream-puff, bow-tie wearing, Brie cheese-eating, ascot-wearing wussies I've ever seen in my life. There's not a softer bunch of cookie dough eating weenies than the UVa football program. Those guys wear make-up to games."
If you guys want to be a**holes to each other why don't you skip the football and form a hockey team?
What happened in Blacksburg was awful, but please keep things in perspective if you are going to write about it. It was very far from being "the single deadliest episode of gun violence in American history." That sort of hype is completely unnecessary. I believe accuracy is both more respectful of the people whose lives were affected and well... accurate.
It took about 3 days for it to all unfold, but approximately 50,000 people died in the Battle of Gettysburg. That's a much deadlier episode of gun violence and the list could go on at length.


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Indra Kumar's adult comedy 'Grand Masti' mints Rs 67 crore at the box-office in the opening week. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted about the break-up, Friday 12.51 crore, Saturday 13.21 crore, Sunday 14.46 crore, Monday 7.75 crore, Tuesday 7.42 crore, Wednesday 6.25 crore and Thursday 5.40 crore, totaling 67 crore.
The film made a roaring business at the box-office with 26 crores in just 2 days and became the fourth highest opening of the year, 2013. Though the film was criticized by critics for its dark sex comedy, and double meaning dialogue, audience gave a grand welcome to 'Grand Masti'. There was 60-70 percent occupancy in theatres and the film has done exceptional business at the box-office. The film made an exceptional 40.50 crore in the opening weekend.
The film made 12.6 crores in the opening day occupying the fourth position after 'Çhennai Express', 'Ýeh Jawaani Hai Deewani', 'Race 2' The film continues to rule at the box-office in the weekend as well and on Saturday it made a total of 3.25 crore and on Sunday the film collected 15 crore nett totaling to 40.50 crores in the first weekend.
'Horror Story' and 'John Day' which was released on the same day lagged behind, 'Horror Story' can only made 70 lakhs and 'John Day' very less.
Made on budget of 35 crores, the film starts Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani and Riteish Deshmukh in the leading role with bunch of new actresses Sonalee Kulkarni, Kainaat Arora, Maryam Zakaria, Manjari Phadnis, Karishma Tanna and Bruna Abdullah opposite them.
Vivek is overwhelmed with the film response and he tweeted,
"Party! Milap. After a humungous start, Grand
Masti (earned) even better than Friday on Saturday with Rs 13.5
crore! Grand total is now Rs 26 crore in just two days!"," Vivek
posted on Twitter.
Vivek who is basking in the joy of 'Grand Masti' missed friend Riteish, who is busy shooting for Sajid Khan's Humshakals, which is being produced by Vashu Bhagnani.
"Missing @Riteishd my darling 'Masti-Khor', wish you were here to party and celebrate with us bhauuuuu! Incomplete without you man! Come back na! (sic)," Vivek tweeted.
Aftab too tweeted about the film's success, "Been such an eventful Friday and Saturday! Completely elated and overwhelmed by the response," he posted on the micro-blogging site.


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I can get so confused, trying not to judge the judgers. Trying so hard to remain out of the game in which we all strut around, pointing fingers and smirking.
I hate that game.
So on a whirly head kind of sleep-deprived day, the last thing I need to hear is that the Haiti that I love is being ridiculed by a Christian man, a man who blames the people of Haiti for a cracking earth and buried babies and children. He says it happened because of their choices.
It's ridiculous, no? I mean, why give his words weight? Why play the game? Why jump on the Twitter bandwagon, bashing his antics? Why?
This time I couldn't help it. I was just so angry.
I heard what he said and it was much the same as the sock in the gut this is so wrong feeling I get when I read bumper stickers from some extremist with what seems a heart of stone. The kind of finger-pointers with their snide sticky words to bumpers. I try to roll my eyes and make peace with it, somehow. I try. I try to read the words plastered there for every driver that has the misfortune of stopping at a red light behind them, and then I try to let it go.
Because I know so many Christians who are living something so opposite of a cliche, of a bumper sticker. They are down in the dirt and in the dirt and in the cardboard box. They are giving and giving and working hands to callous and serving to love for the sake of justice. They have no time for bumper stickers.
I try to stop there because otherwise I make it about me. How right I am. How wrong they are. How good I am, with my good and accepting and unconditional heart. How bad they are with their self-righteous arrogance on cars and righteous shaking heads.
If I don't stop at the fume, the eye roll and the deep breath, I end up staring off into space. I imagine them before God, getting a finger wagging with a you had no clue what this was all about, now did you? And then His voice booms and He shouts at them, you never knew me! You knew rules and lines and religion, but you never knew me! You didn't know me, or you would have loved my people, ALL my people!
And it's a problem if I imagine all of that because then next I see me, and it's my turn in line and God smiles and He hugs me and we high five...
You see? Probably a dangerous road to travel, the all about me, it's OK to judge the judgers road.
It's just not my job.
And also, when was the last time I was in the dirt and bone weary from service to the poor and hurting of this world when my head hit the pillow?
Here's the thing. I think I'm supposed to be angry about the bumper sticker words and the remarks, the blame, the extremes. I just don't always know what to do with the angry.
Sometimes "I write to find out what I'm thinking." (A writer said that, but I don't know which one.)
So I guess that's what I'm doing here, today. Because I didn't know what else to do. I was pacing and there was this big lump in my throat and I kept seeing Tara's face, knowing she's there, she's in Haiti and I know she's going to hurt when she hears what he said and I want to hug her.
During Cupcake last weekend I learned once again how much of a need I have to live a little more loudly, stop hiding behind my tendencies toward people pleasing just to play nice. How my feelings need more sleeve and less time under rocks. When they are under rocks they are not their inherent shape and then they eat at me and color me indifferent, apathetic. They move toward bumper sticker extremism when left unchecked.
Maybe that's what happened, so many people stifling their feelings until they're so insecure they have nothing left to do but finger-point and shout evil sinner! in some other direction then their guilty for apathy selves.
I don't know.
I want to be apathatic about as much as I want to be judgmental. And I can be, so I guess I'm doing some sleeve-wearing emotional stuff today because I hate it when I turn toward judgment.
And then I need to forgive somehow. Somehow.
All I can do right now is say please don't look at him. Please don't even spend your time there. Spend it here, with Christians who are not all about what people are doing wrong, but who are all about loving the hurting, the poor, the widow, the orphan. Look at them.
Take a moment. Roll your eyes at the bumper sticker kind of extreme remarks of a man and allow the anger to rise. It's there for a reason. Then take a deep breath and learn from Christians who are in the darkest place, so dark they don't even have time to pay Pat Robertson any mind. They are too busy being Christians, searching for survivors and then falling to their beds bone-tired and wanting nothing more than to do it again.
Look at them.
I want to be like them.
I woke up with a crying boy and my whirly head won't let me sleep until I say that my point is not a theological one, exactly. I've gotten emails and messages on Twitter defending Pat Robertson. I won't begrudge people their theological opinion, but I don't have to agree with it. And even if I did, I don't understand WHY the kinds of things PR said would even need to be said. Why kick someone in the gut in their pain?
My point was, what I was trying to say, is that maybe we shouldn't even have time to say such things. Maybe we shouldn't have time for bumper stickers and finger pointing. Maybe we should be more like my friends, simply living lives of love and service, the kind of full of grace lives that leave no time for extreme remarks.
And also, Elizabeth Esther said it better than I can and it's much shorter, which is nice.


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Breakers do it in overtime
IN THE end they didn't need him. No Abercrombie, no worries. Well, not too many.
BREAKERS 104 (Cedric Jackson 25, CJ Bruton 20, Daryl Corletto 16)
Tom Abercrombie and his dodgy ankle suited up but spent the entire match on the bench and had one of the best views of a game that was as dramatic as a grand-final clash should be.
The two teams couldn't be separated after normal time but the Breakers edged ahead in overtime to claim a crucial 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
It was a game of thrust and counter-thrust. Just as one team looked to have taken control, the other replied.
Many had predicted the series to be one of the all-time greats. If the first game was anything to go by, it will be.
"That's what finals basketball should be about," Breakers coach Andrej Lemanis said. "A showcase. The two best teams in the NBL going at it punch for punch. There were amazing momentum swings in the game. It was a hell of a game."
The Breakers now have the chance to wrap up back-to-back titles in Perth next Friday night - a third game will be played in Auckland if required - but Perth won't roll over.
They are a formidable outfit and proved that with their fighting performance last night, but they may feel they have missed an opportunity, with Abercrombie likely to feature in seven days' time.
"Right now it's a mental thing," Perth coach Rob Beveridge said. "It's about who wants it the most. Tonight it looked like New Zealand wanted it the most."
That came courtesy of a handful of wily veterans and an American import who played the biggest hand.
Dillon Boucher and CJ Bruton got the Breakers going after they started shockingly. Boucher chucked himself around the court like a stage diver at a rock concert and Bruton (20 points) nailed some big three-pointers.
Then Cedric Jackson took over. He's not known as a scorer but the point guard earned his coin when his team needed him most. Perth didn't help themselves by allowing him time and space to penetrate.
The American is at his best driving to the basket and dishing it off to a teammate, and he did it almost at will at times, but he also went to the rim himself a few times and led the Breakers with 25 points and eight assists.
He was the one who got the Breakers going initially with a strong drive after Perth opened out to an 11-0 lead before some of the sold-out crowd of 9125 at Vector Arena had even taken their seats.
It looked like the Breakers were suffering from stage fright as they made errors, missed shots and lost the dribble but they aren't a team to panic and scored 22 of the next 26 points, including five three-pointers, to claim a 28-24 first-quarter lead.
Their swagger - Beveridge calls it arrogance - returned as the Wildcats lost their range and they started to work the inside when the three-pointers inevitably dried up. By halftime, the Breakers led 50-35 and there seemed no path back for Perth.
Yet they found one. The Wildcats rattled off quick points to take an unlikely 53-52 lead inside five minutes and it was one they held for most of the rest of the match.
Things looked dire for the home side when they trailed by six with less than three minutes remaining but the Breakers found something else, again thanks to Boucher, Bruton and Jackson, before Mika Vukona stepped up in overtime with a couple of big plays to seal the win.
Boucher had the final say, literally, when he told delirious fans they hadn't finished yet. They haven't, but they have started well.


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"The Comeback Kid": Review of PBS' Clinton
PBS' new installment of The American Experience: the Presidents, a biography of 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, feels more like a drama than history. Clinton paints a picture of a highly improbable president, born famously into impoverished circumstances in Hope, Arkansas, with a father who died before his birth and an alcoholic stepfather who beat his mother in front of the children. Consequently, Clinton threw all of his efforts into his studies, laboring to redeem and rescue his family, and substituting a broken home life for an ersatz, popular persona at school. Such a stratagem recurs throughout Clinton's life: when situations become tough, Clinton pretends as though they are not happening.


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Review: 2013 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Edition Crew Cab 4X4
OH HONEY. Aren't you the big stud.
Can we delve into this "Longhorn Edition" thing? A Western/rancher-themed upholstery-and-trim package for the Ram 1500 truck, the Laramie Longhorn package takes personal obliviousness to new heights. Saddle-embroidered leather seats, saddlebaglike storage pouches in the back, unvarnished wood, the kind of filigreed metal engraving you find on my mother's .38 Colt revolver—you would have to be the emptiest Stetson on earth to actually buy one of these things. Do you insist people call you "Tex," even though you're from Connecticut? Are you the cowboy from the Village People? Explain yourself, man.
The analog to the Laramie Longhorn package is the Nudie suit, one of those bedazzling country-and-western costumes made by tailor-to-the-stars Nudie Cohn. Sitting in the Laramie Longhorn feels distinctly like having been devoured by Conway Twitty.


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1. Re: AS7: Construct for centralized securityMarcus Moyses Dec 16, 2010 2:32 PM (in response to Anil Saldanha)
We also need some sort of attribute value masking strategy that can be used by any subsystem in order to mask passwords and other sensitive data in the configuration files.
2. AS7: Construct for centralized securityDarran Lofthouse Mar 3, 2011 8:00 AM (in response to Anil Saldanha)
Do we have any indication as to what this will look like for some of the core AS services such as JBoss Web Configuration, JBossWS configurtion and for use by the LoginModules.
From the perspective of domain management it is looking likely that requirements are going to be very close to those already covered in the core AS i.e.
- We will need configuration to obtain the keystores / truststores for use by the exposed APIs
- We will need similar configuration for clients when establishing a connection to an exposed API, i.e. the keystore for the clients identity and a truststore to verify the other end of the connection.
- Then a Login process on the server side of the connection to authenticart the client based on their cert.
When I have worked with this in previous AS releases one issue that I did encounter was that the configuration of the JBoss Web connector was completely independent of the configuration for the BaseCertLoginModule to perform the authentication of the user it would definately help if this was brought to a point that a common keystore / truststore configuration could then be used.
3. AS7: Construct for centralized securityDarran Lofthouse Mar 3, 2011 9:02 AM (in response to Darran Lofthouse)
Actually looking back at your first post you also mention secure socket factories, that could also be very useful to consider so we can avoid the keystores and truststores as much as we can and focus on the ready configured socket factories.
4. AS7: Construct for centralized securityJean-Frederic Clere Mar 16, 2011 9:59 AM (in response to Darran Lofthouse)
While thinking to that for mod_cluster and web there was a discussion http://community.jboss.org/thread/154243


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Lloyd Carr-Harris String Quartet to Present Concert at Wabashby Karen Handley • October 13, 2005 Share:
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The Lloyd-Carr Harris String Quartet (Emmanuel Vukovich and Aya Ito, violins, Frederic Lambert, viola, and Christian Elliott, cello) was formed in 2002. Its members are all in the Bachelor of Music program at McGill University in Canada and are recipients of a scholarship from the Lloyd-Carr Harris Foundation, which supports string studies at McGill.
It is the first Canadian ensemble ever to win the grand prize at the prestigious Fischoff National and is perhaps the most respected young ensemble in Canada. The Quartet performs the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, but also has recorded the work of contemporary Canadian composers.
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I'm having a Tag Sale!
Where: National Storage, 110 Wellington Street, Collingwood.
When: 9am-4pm Friday 15th and 9am-2pm Saturday 16th of August.
As an interior designer you constantly find yourself holding on to bits and pieces over the years. Some may call it hoarding but I prefer collecting, preserving or being thrifty! I often hold on to vintage or imported pieces so that they can be that extra touch in a room one day. But I have been holding on to too much! I have too many storage units full of beautiful pieces and it's time for a spring clean of sorts. I've decided to hold a tag sale this week, starting tomorrow and finishing on Saturday.
All pieces are from my personal collection so you can expect a range of Chinoiserie, faux bamboo, Hollywood Regency style pieces and plenty of things in between. Most items have been brought in from America and there will be a range of mirrors, lamps, furniture, tables, fabric, rugs and accessories up for grabs.
I want absolutely everything gone and I'll be offering things below cost price. If anyone is in the neighbourhood they should come and say hello. It's very chilly in the units so bring a coat!
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Press Release
Updated Information About Prezista (Darunavir): Oral Suspension and Labeling Changes
December 20, 2011
On December 16, 2011, The Food and Drug Administration approved an oral suspension formulation of Prezista (darunavir). Prezista is now available as a 100 mg/mL oral suspension.
Additionally, the product labeling was updated to provide dosing recommendations for pediatric patients ages 3 to less than 6 years of age and for adult and pediatric patients greater than 6 years of age who can not swallow Prezista tablets.
For pediatric patients, dosing with oral suspension or tablets is based on weight. Please refer to full prescribing information for details. Do not use Prezista/ritonavir in pediatric patients below 3 years of age.
Section 6 Adverse Reactions (ADRs) was update to reflect clinical trial experience in pediatric patients from Study TMC1140C228 as follows:
ADRs to PREZISTA/ritonavir (all grades, greater than or equal to 3%), excluding laboratory abnormalities, were diarrhea (19%), vomiting (14%) and rash (10%).
There were no Grade 3 or 4 laboratory abnormalities considered as ADRs in this study.
Section 12.3 Pharmacokinetics was updated to provide population pharmacokinetic estimates of darunavir exposure in pediatric patients.
Section 14: Clinical Studies was updated to reflect the results from the pediatric trial as follows:
Study TMC114-C228
The 21 subjects had a median age of 4.4 years (range 3 to less than 6 years), and were 48% male, 57% Black, 29%, Caucasian and 14% other. The mean baseline plasma HIV-1 was 4.34 log10 copies/mL, the median baseline CD4+ cell count was 927 x 106 cells/l (range: 209 to 2,429 x 106 cells/l) and the median baseline CD4+ percentage was 27.7% (range: 15.6% to 51.1%). Overall, 24% of subjects had a baseline plasma HIV-1 RNA greater than or equal to 100,000 copies/mL. All subjects had used greater than or equal to 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), 62% of subjects had used greater than or equal to 1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI) and 76% had previously used at least one HIV protease inhibitor (PI).
Twenty subjects (95%) completed the 24 week period. One subject prematurely discontinued treatment due to vomiting assessed as related to ritonavir.
The proportion of subjects with HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/mL and less than 400 copies/mL was -57% and 81%, respectively. The mean change in CD4+ percentage from baseline was 4%. The mean change in CD4+ cell count from baseline was 109 x 106 cells/L.
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Funding Opportunity Announcements soliciting research grant applications for CER will provide $148 million for evidence generation. This includes $100 million for the Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness (CHOICE), a new, coordinated, national effort to establish a series of prospective pragmatic clinical comparative effectiveness studies that measure the benefits treatments produce in routine clinical practice and will include novel study designs focusing on real-world and under-represented populations (children, elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, and other understudied populations), and $48 million for the establishment or enhancement of national patient registries that can be used for researching the longitudinal effects of different interventions and collecting data on under-represented populations. Additional grant funding includes $29.5 million to support innovative translation and dissemination grants for CER, as well as $20 million to support training and career development in CER.
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Bowman goes to City Hall
It appears that, without any notice from Bowman Properties to the CHCA negotiating committee, Councilperson Donna Reed Miller, on Oct. 27, introduced three bills that provide for a six-story building at 8200 Germantown Ave.
Never mind that Bowman has submitted drawings of a five-story building. Never mind that Bowman Properties has made various vague assurances to the near neighbors regarding screening. Never mind that the negotiating committee has been working diligently with Bowman Properties to find ways, consistent with Bowman Properties' financial goals, to scale back Bowman's plans so that they will fit into the neighborhood.
The new bills will permit a six-story building 70 feet tall. They will apparently permit Bowman Properties to build without any screening from residential lot lines. And the new bills will permit Bowman Properties to build on Shawnee Avenue a solid wall of 5-story townhouses 50 feet tall, with no setbacks or yards.
A few weeks back, the Local printed a story decrying a small group of near-neighbors for hiring an attorney. It's true. We have hired an attorney and we welcome neighbors' support. For further information, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Community Bookstore dream not dead
Some weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the editor about the possibility of a local group creating a "book co-op" that would make a home in the vacant Borders building. Since then we have heard from nearly 50 Northwest Philadelphia citizens interested in exploring such an idea. We had a meeting back in October which was nicely covered in a lead article in the Chestnut Hill Local. I read the news last week that the site has been successfully leased to someone else. I hope that this proves to be beneficial to the new business as well as the community at large.
In spite of the sale, our interest in creating some kind of publicly supported bookstore continues. We have heard from a growing number of people interested in the idea and we have dreamt of a "commons" building large enough to house not only a bookstore but perhaps a movie screening room, a coffee shop, an art supply store, AND have room for community events such as live music, book discussion groups, poetry readings, community meetings, etc. We all have a common interest in creating a site that nurtures connections in ways that are not only good for business but good for the community at large.
We are still at the dreaming stage and invite others to join us at a meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. Martin in the Field at Willow Grove and St. Martin's Lane on Wednesday November 9. To RSVP, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Greg Williams
Walk a Crooked Mile Books
Excited by Fresh Market's coming
For years now, I have spent four months in Yorktown, Va. just south of Williamsburg. There are many supermarkets in the area but the best shopping for food is at Williamsburg's Fresh Market.
This year it outgrew its former size and opened a magnificent new store in Williamsburg. Judging from the sketches of the proposed new market in Chestnut Hill, the dimensions are pretty much the same. It is a large store with ample aisle space and is an attractive brick building, in keeping with the nearby historic edifices.
Shopping at Fresh Market is a delight, with exceptional meat and fish counters, often with tempting specials. The vegetable and fruit sections present fresh great varieties of produce and juices. The bakery area has wonderful breads, muffins, rolls and cake while the nearby cheese and dairy counters have great varieties. And the aisles of staple goods most always have what is needed, along with spice and nut presentations. (It also offers a fantastic and affordable display of wines and beers!)
Whenever possible, I drive the 20 minutes to Williamsburg to stock up at Fresh Market. While there, I usually meet many friends also doing their shopping, for it is such an attractive place with true quality and always excellent service. It should be an exciting prospect for Chestnut Hill as a quality market, drawing shoppers and presenting a unique store with such a fine reputation which caters to its clientele and the community.
Taking such a step with a large new building in the center of the Hill would balance equally large building at the bottom and top of the Avenue, and eventually a Fresh Market with the surrounding plans would become a comfortable and sharing addition to our current interesting shops.
The foresight shown by gaining the interest of one of the few Fresh Market stores in the Philadelphia area is exciting and my hope is that it will become a reality as something special to Chestnut Hill.
Caroline Hausermann
Chestnut Hill
Kudos to College and the CHBA
The Harry Potter Weekend events were wonderful and very impressive. All three generations of our family thoroughly enjoyed it all.
The creativity and cooperation exhibited by the steering committee and business community were above and beyond.
What fun it was to witness quidditch games, have butter beer and pastries at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, participate in the scavenger hunt, see Dumbledore and the sorting hat in operation, take pictures with Snape, see all the witches, wizards and owls roaming around and meet all the smiling faces on the Avenue both Saturday and Sunday.
It was a wonderful showcase for Chestnut Hill. Keep up the great work!!
Ken and Marcella Martin
Thanks for making Harry Potter weekend successful
On behalf of the Chestnut Hill Business Association, we would like to extend our sincere appreciation to all of the people who worked so diligently and creatively on our recent Harry Potter Weekend.
It was great fun to see the crowds of people enjoying our neighborhood, many of whom were visiting us for the first time. Children and adults alike caught the spirit and exuberance of Harry Potter and friends as, for a short while, Chestnut Hill became Hogsmeade Village.
Special thanks go to Mary Kate May, a local resident who volunteered to chair the project and then spent untold hours working to make it such a success. Without her Harry Potter expertise and her enthusiasm, the event would not have been half so successful.
Moreover, she recruited her husband, Brendan, to portray Dumbledore and his interaction with children on the Avenue was one of the highlights of the weekend.
One of the highlights for our office was the opportunity to work closely with Chestnut Hill Colleg, specifically, Kathy Spigelmyer, Lisa Mixon and Emily Schademan. Their hard work and imagination enhanced the weekend, and their hosting of the 2nd Annual Philadelphia Brotherly Love Quidditch Tournament at the College was the lynchpin of the entire weekend. In addition, students from the Mask and Foil theater troup were outstanding as Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Voldemort.
Our deepest appreciation also goes to Susan Mooers of Stagecrafters for her help and for the use of their wonderful facilities; to Paula Riley for her efforts in publicizing the weekend; to Jay Valinis for his design and printing expertise; to Eileen Reilly for stepping in to help wherever necessary, and to Carol Bates for photographing all the weekend activities. Also, we extend a great big thank you to Katie Longstreth Morino who chaired the Harry Potter Pub Crawl which was great fun for all.
Finally, to our sponsors: We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you to Bowman Properties; Gravers Lane Gallery; Reilly, Janiczek & McDevitt; Tavern on the Hill; Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District; McNally's Tavern; Bruno's Restaurant; H.D. Compton Insurance Agency; Stagecrafters Theater; Life on the Hill; Baker Street Bread Co.; Weavers Way Co-op; and the Chestnut Hill Bocce Club for their generosity and support.
To all our friends and neighbors who joined in the festivities, and to our businesses that transformed themselves into shops right off the pages of the Harry Potter books…hope you had as much fun as we did!
Peggy Miller
Peggy Hendrie
Kate O'Neill
Widen our circle of compassion
Regarding the City of Philadelphia's raccoon abatement bill that was recently introduced into City Council (which would require killing them), I would suggest a careful and calm approach to any perceived or real conflicts. Tragically, all too many unthinking, misinformed people react in knee-jerk fashion, which is unfair.
Raccoons are intelligent, curious animals whose presence enriches our neighborhoods by providing a small connection with nature. They have their own worth in the habitat they occupy which must be respected. Some understanding and knowledge of the animals' way of life would help us take a humane approach to peaceful coexistence.
Sadly, there appears to be a "who cares" attitude toward urban wildlife. Efforts must be ongoing to turn this negative attitude to a positive one for much needed change. Humane education is all-important beginning early here and now. It's been shown that those who are kind to animals treat people better. Albert Einstein once took us to task saying that we should widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.
All too often animals are scapegoated when it's the human animal who fails to take responsibility for his or her behavior. We humans can and should take steps to reduce the conflicts. Don't feed them. Use tight-fitting garbage and trash can lids. Prevent these cans from tipping over. Put garbage/trash out the morning of your scheduled pick up day and not the night before. Don't use plastic bags. Pet food should be outside only late in the morning or at midday, etc. Lethal control can never be justified without first applying humane techniques. It is rarely a long-term solution.
More progressive jurisdictions have encouraged understanding, patience, tolerance, kindness and compassion. Changes in human behavior and attitude, proper sanitation and education are key.
Bridget W. Irons
Chestnut Hill
Legislation is cruel to wildlife
Philadelphia City Council's Bill # 110565 (being voted on at 10 a.m., Nov. 3) to trap "nuisance" raccoons is costly, cruel and unnecessary legislation.
The public should be aware that when animals are trapped, the following 'vector species' must all, by Pennsylvania law, be killed: fox, raccoon, groundhog, skunk, coyote and bats. They are gassed, shot, electrocuted, drowned, clubbed or worse. So this raccoon legislation will wipe out countless healthy wild animals, many of which keep rodent populations under control.
Their young will die slow deaths. I study the family units of these animals and am touched by their devotion to one another.
City Councilperson Donna Reed Miller, whose district includes Chestnut Hill in the heart of Fairmount Park, said she doesn't want to live with wildlife. "I don't like those raccoons," she said. "I think they look terrible when you see them running down the street with their backs all hunched."
I thought about the irony of her prejudice, wondering how people shaped differently would feel if she said that about them, and testified that perhaps diversity training should include tolerance for wildlife.
The fear of rabies is grossly over-reported and sensationalized by the press. Other than one human death in 1984 in Danville, Pa., there is not one such documented death in Pennsylvania since 1949.
There are already state laws that deal with diseased raccoons. This proposed legislation will result in the death of thousands of innocent, healthy animals just trying, like us, to survive.
Wouldn't Philadelphians be better off teaching an appreciation of wildlife, as opposed to its cruel extermination?
Christina Kobland
Lafayette Hill


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She is sitting in her posh home in the North End with a scenic view of Boston Harbor, and Patricia Cornwell is at once ecstatic and still livid. One of her famed works of crime fiction would not have this much drama.
A federal court jury had just awarded her $50.9 million in damages, finding her former financial company cheated her, her wife, and her company out of tens of millions of dollars. A federal judge could increase the award, too.
And Cornwell is sitting, one leg crossing the other, just a couple of hours after the decision, lamenting the journey she had to go through in the first place, the type of challenges not even a hero in one of her novels should have to face.
"It's just, we have fought long and hard," she said, her Southern drawl deepening as she gets more heated while discussing the betrayal of her former finance manager, Evan Snapper, and his company, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP.
"It's just been harrowing, but we felt we needed to do the right thing, we needed to fight," she said, in an hour-long interview with the Globe.
For the last seven weeks, Boston has had an uncensored view of Cornwell's life as it has played out at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, after she sued Snapper and his company for negligence in the handling of her finances.
She has been forced to lay out her lavish lifestyle and her struggles with depression and bipolar disorder. With the words of a writer, she speaks of how she "has been eating arsenic for weeks," and how "a whole mountain of rocks has been lifted off me."
But by Tuesday afternoon the fight — an "autopsy" of her life, as she put it — had been worth it, she said. She had felt it was her responsibility to bring legal action, knowing there are people who would not have the resources to do it if they were in such a position, playing a leadership role as her heroine, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, would have.
"I tend to be outraged by injustices," said Cornwell, 56. "It's about as complicated as one of my novels; that's for sure."
Snapper, her villain, was clearly upset by the verdict and would say outside the courthouse Tuesday only that he was "very disappointed."
His company, Anchin, Block & Anchin, released a statement saying that it was also unhappy with the verdict and that it will review its legal options, including whether to appeal.
"For more than 90 years, the professionals at Anchin have built a reputation for honesty and integrity," the statement said. "The firm will endure despite today's outcome."
But one juror said that the company should take the jury's verdict as a call for more responsibility.
"I think at the end of the day, we came up with a fair decision, and hopefully Anchin will learn something," said John Martus, the foreman.
The case now moves into a technical, legal phase: US District Court Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. will decide whether Anchin violated consumer protection laws, which would allow him to perhaps even triple the jury's verdict. A hearing is expected Thursday.
But Cornwell, looking out at the harbor as she reflected on the case Tuesday, said she felt vindicated, regardless of the monetary award. A multimillionaire, she not only testified in the case but sat there each day of the trial, in the front row, she and her wife Staci Gruber bringing their own cushions to help pad the court's wooden benches as she listened to hours of testimony.
She knew that her personal life would be exposed, including the messages she had sent in confidence to others, never believing they would become public. Some of them had criticized friends, former employees. She regrets the messages now, the way she wrote them.
"I'm a writer; I tend to be expressive," she said. But she knows she may have hurt people, too, "and that's what's terrible."
She said she had no choice, not after finding the wrongdoing that she and Gruber discovered when reviewing her finances, after finding that her worth was far less than she had expected.
"We worked our own crime scene, so to speak," she said. "We knew from the very beginning there was something wrong with this case."
They never discovered how much money she lost, but Cornwell said she made more than $89 million in her four years with Anchin, only to find she was worth little more than what she had when the relationship began.
She said she knew something was awry when she was forced to subpoena her own bank records. And she said she remains horrified at the lack of accountability within the company: Checks had been voided, expenses were unaccounted for. One of the biggest stunners, she said, was when they found a $5,000 check that Snapper had written claiming it to be a bat mitzvah gift Cornwell had given to his daughter.
"There was a lot of money that went out, and we can find no documentation for it," she said.
Cornwell said she knew the case would be a challenge. Her lawyer, Joan Lukey, had warned that Boston is not Los Angeles: Jurors could have little sympathy for a woman who has helicopters and jets, who makes political donations, has a rare book collection, and claims to have lost documents for a Ferrari.
But "we knew we were telling the truth," Cornwell said, adding that she earned her money at a time when no one would publish her books. "Yes, I like beautiful cars, beautiful machines. We like nice places," she said, gesturing to the room around her. "I have never denied that.
"But it has been my history to never spend more than I make. We felt truth was on our side, and we needed to take this as far as it went."
Cornwell knew she was in a fight, she said, after she had filed the lawsuit.
First, Snapper offered to federal prosecutors that he had made illegal campaign contributions to high-profile figures such as Hillary Rodham Clinton on Cornwell's behalf. He ultimately pleaded guilty and is serving a probation sentence, though Cornwell was never charged. Still, she said it brought terror on her and her friends who were surprised to find FBI agents at their door.
"We didn't know a crime had been committed," she said. "We were clueless."
Cornwell said she will look into donating some of what she receives from the award, if she ever gets it, perhaps to benefit mental health research. Gruber is a neuroscientist, and Cornwell has struggled with her own mental illness.
But in the meantime, she will return to her next book in the Scarpetta series, "Dust."
Can she write a story like this?
"I might try," she said.Milton J. Valencia can be reached at MValencia@
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No matter Irene's path, North Carolina leads response
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Irene gathers strength in the Caribbean with a U.S. landfall likely over the weekend, North Carolina finds itself once again in the path of a storm, and in the position of first responder.
Whether the state gets a direct hit from Irene or not, North Carolina disaster managers have a lot of experience dealing with storms and their aftermath, and that could benefit residents not only in the state, but also in areas along the entire East Coast.
"We're prepared," Gov. Bev Perdue said. "We have the best system in America."
A series of major hurricanes, starting with Hugo in 1989, gave North Carolina plenty of practice at emergency response. Hurricanes Bertha and Fran struck twin blows in 1996, followed by Bonnie in 1998 and Floyd in 1999. Another storm, Isabel, struck in 2003.
"I'm more comfortable with our preparedness now than I was 15 years ago," said Ryan Boyles, the North Carolina state climatologist.
Should Irene smack into the mid-Atlantic or Northeast instead, North Carolina officials said the state would be ready to provide its expertise, and its hospital beds, even for patients from several states away.
"We operate on the assumption that any major calamity on the East Coast could affect us," said Dalton Sawyer, the director of emergency preparedness for the University of North Carolina Health Care system. "If we're needed, we can offer whatever assistance is available."
Julia Jarema, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management, said the state had sent emergency personnel nationwide this year to assist in other disasters, such as Western wildfires and Midwest floods.
"We've got some really good teams," she said.
Perdue said the Red Cross, the National Guard and the state Highway Patrol were ready for the storm. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has supply teams stationed in North Carolina with water, generators, tarps, food and baby formula. The Pentagon has designated Fort Bragg, N.C., as the base for FEMA's response to Irene.
As of midday Wednesday, Irene was moving northwest across the Bahamas with sustained winds of near 115 mph, making it a Category 3 storm. The National Hurricane Center in Miami forecast the storm to gather strength Thursday and become a Category 4, with sustained winds of more than 130 mph.
Though Irene's projected path has shifted east of coastal North Carolina, experts warned that the storm could produce damaging winds and flooding.
"If you were a betting person, it looks like it won't make landfall," said Chip Konrad, the director of the Southeast Regional Climate Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. "That's really good news in a sense. But even with that track off the coast, there will be strong winds."
Bill Read, the director of the National Hurricane Center, said the storm could bring tropical-force winds to the Outer Banks as early as Saturday.
FEMA director Craig Fugate said Irene threatened residents along the entire East Coast.
"Even though it's a Category 3 and referred to as a 'major hurricane,' I've never heard of a minor hurricane," he said. "Even tropical force winds can cause damages and power outages well away from the center of circulations."
Konrad said the storm could affect a wide swath.
"Right now, Irene is really intensifying," he said. "She is large, and the models predict her to get larger."
While officials on most of North Carolina's barrier islands were standing by Wednesday, the most vulnerable, Ocracoke, began evacuating tourists, with residents expected to follow Thursday. Ocracoke, which has 800 full-time inhabitants, is only accessible by ferry.
Perdue said officials didn't want to take any chances with the safety of residents and visitors, but also didn't want to evacuate coastal areas prematurely during the last 10 days of the summer tourist season.
"Evacuation is a local government decision," she said. "We don't force it on a state level."
Perdue urged residents to prepare themselves. She recommended a three-day supply of food and water, updated emergency kits and family evacuation plans.
"The best planning goes on at the household level," Boyles said. "The next 48 hours would be a great time to sit down and touch base with family members."
If the evacuation order comes, Sawyer said, people should heed it for their own safety and let emergency workers do their job.
"Rescue is dangerous by nature, but the last thing we want to do is put (first responders) in more danger," he said. "When people ignore evacuation orders, that's what they're doing."
James Lee Witt, who was the FEMA director under President Bill Clinton, said that most states in the storm's path knew what to expect.
"Because of 9/11, a lot of states and local governments are better prepared," he said.
But Irene could slam areas farther up the Atlantic coast that are unaccustomed to such storms.
The last major hurricane to strike New England was Bob in 1991. It packed sustained winds of 75 mph to 100 mph and storm surges of 10 feet to 15 feet from Connecticut to Massachusetts. It killed six people and caused $680 million in damage.
"This isn't something they're used to seeing," Boyles said.
When a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck parts of the East Coast on Tuesday, it revealed the limitations of communications networks and potential evacuation routes.
Witt said the approaching storm could further test systems put in place after 9/11.
"The whole East Coast needs to be prepared to respond," he said.
(Erika Bolstad contributed to this article.)
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