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I'll never forget the day I read about public whippings in Israel. I was in England and reading a London newspaper; there was a short article on how people were henceforth going to be whipped in public in Israel for a new offense: smoking.
I didn't bother to search a correction or retraction in the following days: the damage was done. How many people read that article? A million? Two? I couldn't go up to each of them and explain that the article was a complete fabrication: there are no public whippings in Israel (nor any whippings at all). That smoking is legal in Israel. That it's just not that sort of place. (Unlike some other Middle East regimes where public whippings are the norm.)
This sort of defamation of the Jewish state is increasingly common. Like many people around the world, I've read repeatedly that Israel is an apartheid state. (For the record, it's not: both Jews and non-Jews are citizens, have the vote and equal rights, serve in all branches of government, go to college, live, shop and interact with none of the restrictions that characterize an apartheid system.)
I've also read that Israel is worse than an apartheid state. (What's worse?) I've read that Israel engages in genocide and ethnic cleansing (I guess that's worse.) I've read that Israel is the greatest menace to world peace. (More than North Korea and Pakistan, who have peddled nuclear bombs to the highest bidder?)
After years of slander against Israel I wasn't surprised when a British public opinion poll ranked Israel the world's "ugliest country."
After years of reading slander after slander against Israel (Including: They shoot little children on the beach!) I wasn't surprised when a British public opinion poll ranked Israel the world's "ugliest country." After all, if a country is so warped – what with the public whippings and ethnic cleansing and apartheid – its scenery must be rotten too. Once you paint a picture of a country as awful and cruel, it becomes progressively easier to believe it is ever more awful and ever more malicious.
Now a study in Ireland finds that the Irish population has such a poor impression of Israel that over 22% would deny Irish citizenship to Israelis, and less than half of all Irish people would be willing to welcome an individual Israeli into their family.
This bias reflects a climate in which it is becoming possible to say almost anything about the Jewish state. In 2009, a Swedish newspaper accused Israelis of killing people in order to harvest their body parts. That set the stage the following year for the accusation that the life-saving Israeli field hospital in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake was actually a facility for harvesting organs. What begins as a fringe position one year becomes slightly more mainstream the next.
The America-Israel Axis
Through the second half of the 20th century, most Jews around the world felt that their Jewish identity was closely tied up with the fate of Israel. Putting coins in the JNF pushka, to enable the planting of trees in Israel, was a popular Hebrew school activity. When Israel won the 1967 Six Day War, it touched off a massive reawakening of the long-dormant Jewish identity and pride for millions of Soviet Jews. And the raid at Entebbe on July 4, 1976, achieved the nearly-impossible feat of stealing the media spotlight from America's bicentennial celebration.
But today things are different. Polls show that Jewish American youth are largely apathetic about Israel. On college campuses, anti-Israel activities are met with resistance by only a tiny percentage of Jewish students. And one recent poll of American Jews showed that only 50% of respondents under age 35 would "consider it a personal tragedy" if the State of Israel were to be annihilated.
All this is a tragic mistake. Accusations that are originally targeted against Israelis soon migrate to become views of Jews in general.
Thus, in the Irish survey mentioned above, the negative feelings toward Israel seem to spill over: 11.5% would deny Irish citizenship to all Jews. And 40% of Irish people (the younger demographic was even worse) would refuse to welcome a Jew – any Jew – into their family.
These negative feelings do not derive from personal experience. Out of 4.5 million people in Ireland, there are fewer than 2,000 Jews. Rather, the poisonous atmosphere – in which no allegation against Israel is too outlandish and no accusation too bizarre – is having its logical effect. Hatred toward Israelis is spilling over into hatred against all Jews.
This is born out by studies. One 2009 survey asked Europeans whether their view of Jews was colored by Israel: nearly a quarter said yes. Large majorities (including three quarters of respondents in Spain and two thirds of British respondents) said their views of Jews had become worse because of Israel.
As goes Israel, so goes the Jews.
What can you and I do about it? Here are a few small things, and if we all do it, they add up and make a real difference:
Visit Israel and get your family and friends to visit. Nothing can match seeing Israel firsthand etc…And today with social networks and Twitter, share your trip with the world. Blog about it, capture what you're experiencing and lets friends experience it vicariously. And once you go home, share what you've learned about the amazing people and the land, break down misconceptions and inspire others with the truly amazing story of the Israeli people.
Get informed. Subscribe to websites like Honesterporting.com and Camera, Aish.com and Stand With Us – share articles and videos that convey the real story going on in Israel.
Speak up. Don't let others say misinformation about Israel. Correct them and follow up with an article. If you read something negative in the press, write a letter to the editor, blog about it, don't remain silent.
Imagine someone was spreading lies about your children, disparaging your home with a smear campaign. Would you remain silent? Could you remain silent? Israel is our home, her people are our brothers and sisters. By making the effort to connect to Israel and her people, we will care more and be far more active in standing up for our homeland.


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Phoeniciafĭnē´shə [key], ancient territory occupied by Phoenicians. The name Phoenicia also appears as Phenice and Phenicia. These people were Canaanites (see Canaan), and in the 9th cent. BC the Greeks gave the new appellation Phoenicians to those Canaanites who lived on the seacoast and traded with the Greeks.
The geographic boundaries of the territory are vague, and the name Phoenicia may be applied to all those places on the shores of the E Mediterranean where the Phoenicians established colonies. More often it refers to the heart of the territory where the great Phoenician cities, notably Tyre and Sidon , stood (corresponding roughly to the coast of present-day Lebanon).
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Wine Life is our family, our life, our vines and our wines. Wine Life is our tradition, our history our land and the wine terroir. Wine Life is you and all the moments that you share with one of our wines with the people you love. A moment of Life, Wine Life. Pala.
The Azienda Agricola Pala (or Pala estate) was founded in Sardinia, Italy, in 1950.
Mario Pala is now the third generation of the family taking care of the vines of his family with the help of his wife Rita and the fourth generation of the family represented by his sons Massimiliano, Elisabetta and Mariantonietta.
From father to son since 1950 there's the most important ingredients that the Pala family has always added to terroir, tradition, respect fro the environment: the passion to make wines that are able to express the family character and the terroir of this extraordinary island.
Pala vineyards are divided in eight different single ones. Some of them are really close to the cellar, some other one are far. Different terroirs, the best exposure, and the best soil type are adapted to the different grape varieties. Form the town of Serdiana, where Pala has its cellar and where the limestone in a rolling hill area is common to the municipalities of Ussana and Senorbì with again limeston and marnes. The farest ones are in the municipalities of Uras, Terralba and San Nicolò d'Arcidano in the central western coast of the island, this vineyards are planted in white sands..Learn More
In the Ussana municipality...a limestone hill three hundred meters above sea level. From the top a great view of the Cagliari gulf and bay area.
planted in white sands the old Bovale vines at the footstep of Monte Arci and in front of the Oristano gulf.
our grand cru is in the municipality of Serdiana, not far from the cellar. This is one of the oldest vineyard of the family.
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"Norma Winstone is one of the great jazz vocalists not simply because she is so obviously accomplished in what she does, but the sheer range of her singing embraces everything the jazz vocalist can be called upon to do. Yet no single aspect of jazz singing can be said to be central to her style; she is an interpreter of the American Popular Song par excellence, but she is not a standards singer; she can scat masterfully but she is not a scat singer and she is a brilliantly imaginative free jazz singer but she is not a free jazz musician. Her sight-reading skills have frequently been harnessed to provide a wordless tone color in both small groups and large ensembles; she has explored vocalese; she has worked with electronics and she has explored abstraction and collective improvisation with singers Urzula Dudziak and Jay Clayton (and later Michele Hendricks) in Vocal Summit. She has sung with unusual combinations of instruments and she has sung with orchestras and big bands and she has sung a cappella. Whatever the context, her performances have been both distinguished and distinctive.
Much has been written about the voice-as-an-instrument, but in Norma Winstone's case, it is fair to say she is a brilliantly imaginative jazz musician whose instrument is her voice. Her style represents one of the first independent developments of jazz vocal technique beyond the borders of the
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- Stuart Nicholson for Jazz.com
"Norma Winstone's voice is one of the great glories of contemporary Jazz."
- The Jazz Journal
Had it not been for a mate in
's response to my request for information about recordings featuring a version of England Dave Brubeck's In Your Own Sweet Way, I might never have known about Norma Winstone.
What a real tragedy that would have been. As it was, I had over thirty plus years of catching up to do, but mercifully, Norma has her own website – www.normawinstone.com – and the details of her Jazz journey are all laid out there for others to follow.
And to add to my blessings, not only did this internet friend point out that Norma had sung – sung, mind you! – an adaptation of
Dave's Jazz classic In Your Own Sweet Way, he generously sent me a copy of the long since out-of-print album that this music appeared on – Norma Winstone in Concert With John Taylor [ ENO 1].
Recorded in performance before a musically discerning audience at the Guildhall School of Music in August, 1988, the album is an incredible tour de force by both artists.
"She has her own way with a song;" "she is a song stylist;" "she is in the traditional of the great, female Jazz vocalists:" somehow none of these descriptive phrases seem apt when applied to Norma.
Perhaps a better way to state it would be that Norma is an excellent musician who just happens to express herself with voice as her instrument.
Excellence as a musician is not unique to Norma, Carmen [McCrae], Sassy [Sarah Vaughan] and Blossom [Dearie], among others, were all first-rate pianists as well as vocalists.
But Norma's singing doesn't come from the piano, it seems to reflect all of the major elements of music: melody, harmony, rhythm and texture with a primary emphasis on the latter.
Norma uses the human voice to bring a variety of sonorities to her Jazz vocals.
She sings as thought she was an arranger: one minute bringing the timbre of the brass section into play and, with the next phrase, emphasizing the sounds that reeds and woodwinds might make.
Norma reconstructs a song by altering the "feel" of the tune through her use of multifarious sounds.
"One of the things that makes Winstone so exceptional as a singer is her equal confidence with pure abstraction as with the most straight-forward vocal line. … Like Karin Krog in
, she is a fine musician in her own right, a sensitive lyricist as well as an imaginative standards singer." [Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Ed.]. Norway
To afford you an opportunity to listen to this "magisterial singer" with pianist John Taylor's thoughtful accompaniment, the editorial staff at JazzProfiles developed the following video tribute to Norma on which, you may not be surprised to learn, she and John perform
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What's racist in Obama's America
Duane Lester, whose main blogging home is All American Blogger, has come up with a brilliant idea. He's set up a site that simply lists all the things that are "racist" in Barack Obama's America. Here's a snippet from Now Racist in the U.S.:
Any Political Opposition to President Obama • "Articulate" • Asking Attorney General Eric Holder about Fast & Furious • Asking President Obama to Postpone a Speech • Asking to See President Obama's College Transcripts • Avoiding Dangerous Neighborhoods • "Black Clouds" • "Black Friday" • "Black Hole" • "Black Sheep of the Family" • "Blah" • "Break" • "Brother" • Calling President Obama the "Entertainer-in-Chief" • Calling Juan Williams "Juan" • Calling President Obama a "Professor" • Colorblind Societies • "Community organizer"
Go check out the list and, if you remember something he hasn't found yet, contact Duane at Tips -at- NowRacistInThe.US.


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Stunning time-lapse brings Antarctic ice breaking adventure to life
By Sheena McKenzie, CNN • Updated 30th May 2013
Can you imagine a world where the sun never sets?
For scientists cruising Antarctica in a mammoth 94-meter ship, that's exactly the surreal realm they encountered.
Now their remarkable two-month expedition has been condensed into a haunting time-lapse video, following the floating laboratory as it plowed its way through some of the most brutal conditions on the planet.
"We arrived in summer, mid-February, when there was 24-hour sunlight," Stanford University Ph.D student,
Cassandra Brooks
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The paying members of team clipper face months of grueling training to prepare them for months of ocean racing.
"The sun would move from high in the sky to very low, but would never completely disappear. I didn't get tired until 1.am -- it was very energizing."
'Touching infinity'
Brooks, who is studying international ocean policy, was one of 30 U.S. scientists monitoring Antarctica's unique eco-system, as part of a
National Science Foundation
research cruise.
The ship wound its way along the stunning Ross Sea -- believed to be the last untouched marine eco-system on the planet -- providing scientists with an important insight into one of our few remaining healthy waterways.
During the summer months, Antarctica -- the southern most tip of the globe -- is transformed into a bewitching "Land of the Midnight Sun," where the sun never dips below the horizon, instead continuously moving in circles.
After more than a week of this extraordinary phenomenon, the team finally saw their first sunset at 1.am -- an experience Brooks described as "like touching infinity."
"Brilliant orange light streamed through the portholes on the starboard side of the ship. I peeled myself away from my microscope, dashed across the room and peered outside to catch the sun blazing down on the horizon," the 33-year-old said.
"The sight took my breath away -- the sky was on fire, turning the ocean a deep purple red. Gusts of wind collided with the wide rolling swells, driving an arc of brilliant pink spray 10 feet into the air."
Life and death
Despite the breathtaking beauty of this icy underworld, conditions could also be brutal with winds of 110 kilometers per hour and temperatures plunging to -40C.
On these extreme days, scientists weren't allowed outside on the deck covered in a slippery -- and dangerous --layer of ice.
"If you fell overboard you'd be dead within minutes because the water is below freezing," said Brooks.
"Yet it's an environment that's also teeming with animals such as emperor penguins and Weddell seals."
Read: Arctic vagabonds -- Family living on polar yacht
Sometimes tightly packed ice up to 10 ft deep threatened to trap the ship -- Brooks admitted on previous expeditions it had been stuck for weeks -- and it was forced to spend hours reversing and ramming its way through.
Scientist Cassandra Brooks.
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The adventure was caught on film after Brooks attached a video camera to the bow of the boat -- capturing everything from blazing sunshine to fierce storms.
'Forget Friday night'
For more than two months, the team cruised Antarctica's wild Ross Sea -- more than 5,000 kilometers from the closest country; New Zealand.
Their ship, the Nathaniel B Palmer, became a floating island in itself, equipped with a helicopter hanger, gym, industrial kitchen, library, conference room and laboratory.
Brooks was part of a team measuring plankton in the water and would usually start her experiments at 7.am, working until 8.pm.
Read: Luxury superyacht doubles as science lab
During the summer months, Antarctica's green plankton bloom grows so large it can be seen from outer space.
"We were there to test what happens to all that phytoplankton, which provides a vital source of carbon -- or food -- to the system," Brooks explained.
"Does it sink out to the bottom? Get eaten over the summer? Does it get transported out of the system? Many think that this large source of phytoplankton is the reason why the Ross Sea has such large populations of predators.
"Some people would still be up sampling water until 4.am," she added. "The idea of weekends and normal Friday nights completely disappears."
Spiritual science
For Brooks, the journey was more than just a science expedition -- it was a spiritual experience which gave her a renewed appreciation for mighty mother nature.
"It just grabbed me in a very visceral way," said Brooks.
"It's such an obviously beautiful place but also surreal -- the conditions are so extreme so you're seeing a whole other world you've never seen before."
Many scientists now believe the Ross Sea is the last untouched marine ecosystem in the world.
If Brooks' stunning video is anything to go by, it's also one worth protecting.
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The timeless design of d-Bodhi's Fissure collection seamlessly pairs smooth and textured wood surfaces. Crafted from thick wooden beams of old Javanese houses, raw brushed planks alternate with smoothly-finished ones to provide a stunning contrast.
Its minimalism and simplicity allows this collection to blend easily into any interior.
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Louis Lucas: Originally from the Central Valley of California, Louis Lucas is one of California's premier grape growers. A proud graduate of Notre Dame, his partnership in the 1970's in Tepusquet Vineyards marked his name in the history books as one of the first commercial grape growers in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. His vast knowledge and viticultural expertise span over four decades making him a sought after speaker, consultant, and advisor.
Royce Lewellen: Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Royce Lewellen graduated from the University of Missouri and U.C. Berkeley's Boalt School of Law. A retired Superior Court Judge, businessman and community leader in Santa Barbara County, the courthouse complex in Santa Maria, CA was officially named the The Lewellen Justice Center in his honor. "The Judge" embarked on his latest venture in 1996 with renowned wine grape grower Louis Lucas. With their long time love of wine, Royce and Louis have set out to produce the finest wines in Santa Barbara County.
Megan McGrath Gates: Megan was appointed winemaker for Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards in 2007. Having graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Soil Sciences, she earned her Certificate in Winemaking at U.C. Davis before working as an enologist for Flowers Vineyard & Winery on the Sonoma Coast, crafting Burgundy-style Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. As winemaker for Cahill Winery in Sebastopol, she had the opportunity to work with Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa Valley grapes, specializing in small lot Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Bourdeaux varietals, and Syrah.
Michael Lewellen: Royce Lewellen's son Mike Lewellen became a minority owner of the company in 1999 and joined the company full-time in 2009. As a Managing Partner, Mike works with all departments; Marketing & Sales, Finance, Tasting Room and, of course, the winery.


text: Part of the $13-million expansion of the Freeman Athletic Center completed in January, 2005, Silloway Gymnasium was named in May, 2006 for alumnus and benefactor Stuart Silloway '29, the first of three generations of Stuart Silloways to attend Wesleyan (Stuart Silloway Jr. '59 and Stuart Silloway III '91 comprising the other two). It has seating for 1,200 spectators, three basket supports at each end and an outstanding scoreboard which provides for player details and a message center. The wooden surface is lined in black for one main basketball court, two side basketball courts lined in yellow and two volleyball courts lined in red.


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In Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives — and a Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up — to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories — and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly — and unwillingly — caught up in the changing times.
Sample F.I.L.M. Curriculum Questions:
– What are Skeeter's expectations for her future? What are the expectations that her friends and family have for her? How do the different expectations for Skeeter's future conflict with one another and cause unrest for Skeeter?
– Have you witnessed unequal treatment of people around you? Who is being treated differently? Why do you think people treat this person or this group of people differently?
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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
The recent U.S. military moves in the Pacific -- many in response to Chinese territorial policies -- could lead to greater oversight, especially by Congress, according to a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report.
Chinese territorial claims in the region have caused many to fear possible military actions in the Pacific, especially with other Asian countries and U.S. allies, which could lead to greater tension between the two global giants.
Recent basing and deployment decisions by the Pentagon meant to better anchor U.S. presence and influence in the region could exacerbate those tensions.
"Another issue for Congress concerns the implications of maritime territorial disputes involving China in the South China Sea (SCS) and East China Sea (ECS) for the stationing and operations of U.S. military forces in the region, and for U.S. military procurement programs," CRS says.
China lays claim to a 200-nm maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
As part of the U.S. strategic rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific announced in January, CRS notes, U.S. Marines have begun conducting rotational training deployments to Darwin, on Australia's northern coast.
In addition, CRS points out, the U.S. Navy will station up to four Navy Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) at Singapore, at the southern end of the SCS, with the first LCS scheduled to deploy there in 2013 for an initial trial deployment.
The Navy says the LCS design for coastal missions make them an ideal vessel for the region. LCSs displace about 3,000 tons, making them the size of a corvette, light frigate, or Coast Guard cutter, CRS says, and can be equipped to counter small boats, mines or submarines.
CRS also says other U.S. Navy ships, including attack submarines, "have begun to make more frequent port calls at Philippine ports."
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NISE Network announces new 2012 Mini-Grants for partners - due November 1, 2011
What's a Mini-Grant?
The NISE Network is making available a limited number of small, one-time awards to support initiatives by NISE Net partners to engage their local audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology topics. Requests can be made for an award up to $3,000 dollars to fund a small project or be put towards a larger endeavor.
Program Overview
The Program Overview gives basic program info as well as examples of applicable projects.
How do I apply?
Similar to our NanoDays application, we welcome you to use our simple online application through Survey Gizmo to apply:
Attached is a PDF copy of the online application.
Applications must be submitted online through Survey Gizmo by November 1, 2011.
Twenty of these applications will be selected for funding.
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In April we wrote about Lonely Lilly, a meerkat without a mate. To aid in her quest for love, the owners of the park she lives in created a website called Meerkat Match. It was through the website that Lilly met the meerkat of her dreams, Mr. Darcy.
It must have been love at first sight because Lilly is now the proud mother of four!


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I can't put into words with any eloquence how excited I was when Import/Export slipping through my letterbox. For a year I've waited for it, ever since it was announced that Miss Black America would go their separate ways (for the time being, at least). So, how does the solo venture from Seymour Glass (Open Mouth) fare?
'The Quietist' starts the record off magnificently. Seriously, if I could I'd quote you the lyrics to whole song, I would – such is his talent with the spoken word. Whereas Miss Black America lyrics were convoluted and riddled with hidden meanings, these are direct and to the point, the result of the transitional epoch leading up to the record's release._ "I will hold my tongue no more,"_ he sings, and the album's all the better for it.
A cursory glance at the cover of Import/Export suggests that the album is political – and in part, you'd be right. 'Other Voices Other Worlds' is the most strikingly obvious of the 12 compositions, with lyrics disillusionment with the impoverished state of British politics: "how can you talk civil liberty when I can't come to you, and you can't come to me". And that moment sums up _Import/Export _– this is an album of built upon the culmination of everything he's wanted to say over the past few years, be it politics, religion or love.
Import/Export isn't just a bold statement lyrically, it holds its own musically too. Seymour's voice subverts the expectations of a vocalist who under the dreaded singer songwriter title, something that those with a discerning taste in 'acoustic' music will be pleased to hear. His guitar playing – which, y'know, plays a major part when there's only that and his voice and concerned – shifts from embossed melodic tones to shoegaze-influenced electric seamlessly at numerous positions during the record. It's the direction that Miss Black America hinted at on Terminal, but one that couldn't be continued under the moniker's aesthetic ideals.
Miss Black America fans will revere this record, but it's not exclusive to them. If you're going to invest in any album by a 'singer songwriter' this year, then make it Import/Export – it's a marvellous record, and I can't recommend it enough.
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Detained Aussie lawyer arrives home
Australian lawyer Sarah Armstrong has touched down in Sydney after being barred from leaving Mongolia for two months.
The 32-year-old was stopped at Ulan Bator airport in mid-October because authorities wanted to question her over corruption allegations centred on the former chief of Mongolia's mining authority.
Ms Armstrong is a lawyer for Rio Tinto mining subsidiary SouthGobi Resources.
On Christmas Eve, a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman confirmed Ms Armstrong had boarded a flight out of Mongolia.
She landed at Sydney Airport on Tuesday afternoon and was due to get a connecting flight to Tasmania to be reunited with her parents.
SouthGobi Resources on Monday said Mongolia's Independent Authority Against Corruption (IAAC) had ended its questioning of the lawyer.
The IAAC informed SouthGobi that the 32-year-old "is no longer a suspect in their investigations", the coal firm said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange where it is listed.
It is understood that Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Friday contacted the Mongolian ambassador to Australia about Ms Armstrong's case.
Senator Carr said in a statement on Monday that Ms Armstrong being allowed to leave was "great news" and good timing so she could see her family for Christmas.
Mongolian officials said Ms Armstrong was questioned over an investigation into the former chief of Mongolia's mining authority, who is suspected of illegally handling mining licences, according to Dow Jones Newswires.
Her mother Yvonne Armstrong told AAP on Monday that her daughter's release was a Christmas miracle and the detention had taken its toll on her daughter, who had been travelling to Mongolia for years.
An attache at the Mongolian Embassy in Canberra, Hantulga Galaazagraa, told the ABC the investigation had been finalised and it was nothing against Ms Armstrong personally.
He said she had been asked not to leave the country because she might have useful information about the investigation for the anti-corruption agency.
It was believed SouthGobi Resources had a tax avoidance issue, Mr Galaazagraa said.
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OTTAWA — Measha Brueggergosman knows her numbers.
There's the number of days a month that she spends away from her new home in Ottawa as a shining star on the international opera circuit and judge on CityTV's Canada's Got Talent: 18.
Then there's 180 — the number of pounds she lost a few years ago to build stamina for her gruelling tour dates. She also remembers 260/180, her out-of-control blood pressure reading in 2009 — when she was just 31.
And her favourite number of all? That would be 13, or the percentage of people who actually survive what she experienced on a June day three years ago, when her blood pressure grew so intense, it actually ripped a hole through the wall of her aorta, the heart's main artery.
"Usually they find that you've had an aortic tear in the autopsy; it has an 87-per-cent mortality rate," says Brueggergosman, now 34. "So I'm in the lucky 13 per cent."
It's not a statistic she takes lightly. As spokesperson for the Becel/Heart and Stroke Foundation's The Heart Truth campaign, the soprano not only ''knows her numbers" such as cholesterol levels, weight and blood pressure, she's urging other women to learn theirs too.
According to Statistics Canada, heart disease is the leading killer of women, causing roughly seven times more deaths than breast cancer and five to six more deaths than lung disease.
"Many women think cancer is the leading cause of death, particularly breast cancer," says Dr. Andrew Pipe, director of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute's prevention and rehabilitation unit. "But the leading cause of death while being treated for breast cancer is heart attack. Women have as much heart disease as men, and once they reach menopause, their rate increases significantly."
Then there are the unseen risk factors, such as stress and putting others first. "Women take on more responsibility, but they neglect themselves more and more in the process," Brueggergosman observes. "Heart health is not something you can neglect. That's why I tell people that taking care of your health is like making sure you put your oxygen mask on first in an airplane emergency. If you can't take care of your health, you can't take care of others."
Ironically, it took a near-death experience to make Brueggergosman realize that putting other things first, like her career, was endangering her life. Despite having a strong family history of cardiovascular disease — her athletic, hockey-playing father had a heart attack at 38 (and later a quadruple bypass) and her grandparents plus two aunts succumbed before they were 50 — she led a hectic, stressful and weight-gaining lifestyle as a rising young star of Canadian opera.
"I was, for the most part, active as a kid growing up in Fredericton," she says. "I speed-skated and played rugby. But once I started university, I started gaining more and more weight. It was neglect and a lack of education. I was naïve enough to think I had to be 40 to have a heart attack."
Nothing could be further from the truth. While awaiting a table at a trendy Toronto restaurant in summer 2009, she "started to feel numbness in my fingers. It was blood being redirected as my aorta was splitting."
Initially diagnosed with high blood pressure in the emergency room, she was back at the hospital the next day, complaining of chest pain. She immediately underwent open-heart surgery to repair the tear.
"We were in Nova Scotia when we got the call and were in Toronto the next afternoon," remembers her mother Ann Gosman, who has joined her daughter in the Becel campaign. "At that point, she'd lost weight, got into exercising and was taking care of herself. Her dad kept reminding her to watch her blood work. We thought 'she's doing lifestyle changes and she should be OK.' But that was not the case."
Since then, Brueggergosman has made the kinds of changes that gladden the hearts of cardiac experts. Influenced by her mother, who says "women don't think heart disease is an issue ... but you mention breast cancer and they're on it," she gets regular checkups and blood work. And while she says that "sometimes, you lose the medical lottery" due to bad genes, "I do everything I can to put me on the winning side."
Already a Bikram yoga devotee, Brueggergosman became an instructor and now guest teaches wherever she goes. She watches her diet, eats "salad and meat or salad and fish," avoids "any food that makes me tired," drinks "tons of water" and takes blood pressure medication. And when not on the road, she relaxes at home with her husband Markus, who is studying at Algonquin College to become a paramedic.
"My husband is way more of a homebody, so we need that balance. I really enjoy Ottawa. I like hockey and skating on the Rideau Canal, so it's a no-brainer," says Brueggergosman, who will sing the national anthem at the Ottawa Senators' game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 24. (While living in Toronto, she says, she cheered both the Sens and the Leafs, but admits to a deep admiration for Leafs' defenceman Jeff Gardiner's elegant skating. "It's a thing of beauty. And yes, I'm free for coffee, Mr. Gardiner.")
But perhaps most importantly, she says, "what I've learned is that by stepping back from the action, I have a sense of what I like, what stresses me out, and it's ultimately my family who will benefit. I wasn't necessarily thinking 'kids' before I almost died. It wasn't like I was avoiding having kids, but it hadn't become a priority. I grew up without grandparents, but I see my parents as grandparents and I think, 'My kids could have that. I could have that.' "
Heart disease by the numbers
■ One in three Canadian women die of heart disease and stroke.
■ High blood cholesterol is a key risk factor, yet 70 per cent of Canadians don't know their cholesterol number.
■ While LDL cholesterol is a significant risk factor, HDL cholesterol is protective. Moderately intense physical exercise "is a very powerful stimulant of HDL," says Dr. Andrew Pipe, director of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute's prevention and rehabilitation unit.
■ Knowing your body mass index (BMI) is important, but "fitness is more important than fatness," says Pipe. "We very much encourage someone who is overweight to focus on waist management instead of weight management. If a woman's waist is greater than 88 centimetres, she should lose 10 per cent of her weight within six months."
■ If you smoke, quit. If you don't exercise, do. "The two most important doctors for many of us are our left and right legs," Pipe says.
■ Ask your doctor to calculate your Framingham Risk Score. For example, a 53-year-old female smoker with total cholesterol of 6.3 and systolic blood pressure of 157 has a 27.5-per-cent chance of having a cardiovascular event within 10 years. "That's a high risk," says Pipe. "So we'd want to treat her for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking cessation."


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Dugway Proving Ground • In a traditionally formal ritual, Col. Ronald F. Fizer on Monday replaced Col. Allen Scott Estes as commander of the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah's West Desert.
The proving ground is part of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) with a primary mission of testing chemical and biological defense systems of the United States and its allies. It also tests nuclear-, biological- and chemical-contamination survivability of defense materiel in state-of-the-art laboratories, chambers and extensive field grid tests, according to the event program.
It's also a highly secret facility dedicated to chemical and biological development, testing and training, said Maj. Gen. Genaro J. Dellarocco, who commands the ATEC.
"Dugway is a well-run operation, including leaders, followers and professionals," Dellarocco said. "We could talk about [Estes] so much, but then I'd have to shoot [him]," he joked.
Estes, a career officer, has been the proving grounds since 2011. He said his reassignment "wraps up the fastest two years of my life." His next assignment is as a student of the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Estes thanked his wife, Donna, saying "you got your wish. I'm fired."
The next several days will be spent in the cab of a pickup truck, he told her, "just you, me and a panting, grunting Labrador Retriever" named Rocky.
Fizer previously was assigned to the Joint Staff , serving in the J5 Strategic Plans and Policy section as the chief of the Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction Division.
"A patriot is someone who stands for something important," he said. "Dugway is like that. [People] wearing uniforms, ties and just showing up to get the job done."


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When tax season comes around, there is already a great deal of stress on people's minds, especially when they receive a communication of any form from the Internal Revenue Service, but the internet – while adding a great deal of convenience – has opened up a whole new world or risk as online criminals try to hook victims with phishing tactics at this time of year. These criminals prey on their victims by using the fear that is high at this time of year to obtain information that these individuals…Read More
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Markel Insurance Co. has launched a new line of insurance coverage for health care providers. The new coverage provides protections against cybercrime and hacking. The Affordable Care Act requires that an individual's medical and insurance information be stored electronically as part of a state-run insurance exchange. The exchange system is designed to give consumers access to affordable insurance coverage, but their information may be the target of hackers eager to test the defenses of the new system. U.S. companies became acutely aware of the dangers inherent in the digital world…Read More
TD Insurance enables customers with identity theft-busting tools
TD Insurance Inc. has announced that it is taking steps to make it simpler for its customers to monitor their own accounts so that they have added protection against identity theft. The insurer, which is among the top 10 bank-owned insurance agency and brokerage firms in the country, as well as TD Bank, "America's Most Convenient Bank", are offering their customers the use of the ITAC Sentinel Plus program. Its features include the following: • Daily surveillance of debit and credit card accounts over the internet, with additional monitoring of…Read More
Identity theft protection now available to Allstate customers in California
Allstate Insurance Company has unveiled its latest offering to residents of California, which consists of identity theft expenses coverage, that will help to minimize the cost and the time needed by victims who need to salvage their identities. Every year, approximately 9 million people in the United States fall victim to identity theft, resulting in millions of dollars and hours spent for the recovery of the stolen identities. According to Assistant Field Vice President Phil Telgenhoff from Allstate, the victims of some of the more challenging cases of identity theft…Read More


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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal
"The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne/Burned on the water." So begins Shakespeare's greatest evocation of erotic arousal, Enobarbus' celebrated account in Antony and Cleopatra of the way the Egyptian queen's appearance on the river Cydnus first "pursed up" the heart of the Roman general. For Niklaus Largier it would come as no surprise that Shakespeare has Cleopatra's seductive tableau include a playful, fleeting image of flagellation:
The oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. (2.2.200–203)*
Largier's splendid, five-hundred-page In Praise of the Whip shows in stunning detail the rich history of such scenes, for the most part carefully crafted to captivate the beholder's fantasy and to awaken the senses.
Brief as it is, Shakespeare's image contains many of the elements that endlessly resurface in this history: blows delivered by whips or (as here) rods, the rhythmic keeping of time, the accompanying music, the mounting excitement that at once feeds upon and plays off against the steady repetition of the "strokes" (a word poised between blows and caresses), the ambiguous intertwining of pain and desire.
Shakespeare does not quite call the experience love. The cunning little word "as" in the phrase "As amorous of their strokes" calls attention to metaphor or imagination, the realm of "as if." On the shifting sands of this realm, according to Largier, flagellation's palace is built, and here too Shakespeare seems uncannily alert to a long history. Cleopatra's appeal is linked far less to what she actually is—if one could ever determine that—than to the fantasies that she excites. What she offers has nothing to do with the attributes that Shakespeare and his contemporaries routinely associated with "normal" feminine allure: blond curls, fair, unblemished skin, the blush of youth, and a chaste, meek, and silent disposition. "Think on me," she muses, figuring her dark complexion as the consequence of delicious sexual violence at the hands of the sun god, "That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,/And wrinkled deep in time" (1.5.27–29). On her barge she creates an elaborate spectacle not so much for Antony's eyes as for his fantasy to feast upon. The glimpse of the water agitated by the strokes is meant as an example for him to follow, a promise of the particular kind of pleasure that he will receive.
The "serpent of old Nile," as Antony calls her, is the master-mistress of the scourge and the whip, time-honored aids to flagging sexual desire. "See where he is," she instructs an attendant, "who's with him, what he does."
I did not send you. If you find him sad,
Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report
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The United States is one of the few Western democratic countries that permit independent militias.
Their rapid growth coincides with a sharp rise in partisan rhetoric as the November U.S. congressional elections draw nearer. Depending on your perspective, they are either patriots or paranoid. Experts in law enforcement and academia are divided as to how big an actual threat they may pose. But they all agree on one thing: the groups are very well armed.
"Most (militia groups) are merely in the rhetorical and defensive stage," said Brian Levin, professor of criminal justice at California State University and an expert on militias and domestic terrorism. "But we don't know which groups are going to be benign and which are going to be small incubators for radicalism."
This reminds me of an uncle of mine who imagined himself a human guinea pig. He had no scientific background or backing from the government to conduct the kind of tests he carried out on himself. When the swine flue scare was at its height he tested on himself if the whole panic was the creation of some multinational company or not. So he injected some benign and some flue virus on himself.
When his family cried that he would be knocked out by flu he laughed it off saying,' My rational mind says the benign virus will neutralise the harmful. My body will be left unaffected'.
Everything went according to his calculations. Only that he sneezed once and it was so hard that his whole inside( all squashed up by the struggle between the good and bad germs)came out. There was nothing worth salvaging in it.
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I've been on Netflix for a few months now and I gotta admit, I kinda like it. I've gotten to see quite a few movies(though nothing spectacular). I've watched quite a few shows while on a treadmill at the gym or at home at night.
Lately, it's been House Of Cards. I'm 7 episodes into the newly released second season already. Had it no tbeen for work I'd have plowed through all of them by now.
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Steven Beitashour remembers walking through the cement-laden passageways of Spartan Stadium, watching players navigate the narrow pitch while fans hovered from above with a buzz of excitement.
He was once a member of that mob, leaning over rails and cheering wildly, the whole time wishing he could play on the hallowed grounds shared by stars like Eric Wynalda, John Doyle and Landon Donovan.
Beitashour (pronounced BAY-ta-sure) won't be playing in Spartan anytime soon since the Quakes moved to Buck Shaw Stadium and Donovan is no longer with the franchise. However, the right back is wearing the jersey of a team he passionately supported from the earliest days of Major League Soccer.
"A couple of my friends still hold bitter grudges against Landon Donovan. He was our favorite player before he left," Beitashour said. "I think it would be great to get in a good tackle on him. Nothing dirty, just a good clean, tackle."
Beitashour, a product of Leland High School (San Jose) and San Diego State, slots in somewhere behind Chris Leitch at right back on the depth chart. After signing a developmental contract with the Quakes, the 23-year-old hopes to display the versatility that made him a second-round selection at the 2010 MLS SuperDraft.
"I'm excited to have him. The young guys coming in have a bit to learn about the pro game but the signs are good that he could be a solid player in the MLS," said San Jose head coach Frank Yallop.
[inline_node:3612]Beitashour was back in street clothes for the Quakes season opener against Real Salt Lake, watching from seats opposite San Jose's bench with teammates Omar Jassey and Justin Morrow. The trio missed the cut for the 18-man game-day roster, but Beitashour could find himself on the field in two weeks when the Quakes travel to Chicago. Leitch received a red card in Saturday's 3-0 loss, resulting in a one-game suspension.
Beitashour's strengths include deft footwork and the ability to maneuver through tight spaces. Like Leitch, Beitashour has shown willingness to get forward on attacks with overlapping runs down the sideline. Like any young player, Beitashour will need to adjust to a new level of physicality and a new pace.
Although he might not see many appearances in 2010, Beitashour hopes to make contributions both on and off the pitch. True to his roots, the 23-year-old homegrown talent plans to reach out to a Persian community that is 80,000 strong in the Bay Area.
"Persians love soccer," Beitashour said. "People are calling and emailing my parents saying, 'We love your son and we can't wait to see him play.' I think it's great to have others looking up to me now and being a role model for the community that I grew up in both on and off the field."
If you caught Beitashour enthusiastically signing autographs after the Quakes first home match on Saturday, you know that he is as true-blue as they come, an original throwback from San Jose's MLS experience.
Beitashour a Hometown Hero
Steven Beitashour remembers walking through the cement-laden passageways of Spartan Stadium, watching players navigate the narrow pitch while fans hovered from above with a buzz of excitement.


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"The Internet shows how creativity can flourish when government governs least. The Web allows permissionless innovation, where no one needs an operating license or other authorization. This doesn't leave much of a role for multinational groups like the U.N., even if some governments are plotting otherwise."
- The Wall Street Journal
- Updated May 6, 2012, 8:11 p.m. ET
The U.N. Wants to Run the Internet
Authoritarian regimes want to prohibit anonymity on the Web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents.
By L. GORDON CROVITZ
Here's a wake-up call for the world's two billion Web users, who take for granted the light regulation of the Internet: A group of 193 countries will meet in December to reregulate the Internet. Every country, including China, Russia and Iran, gets a vote. Can a majority of countries be trusted to keep their hands off the Web?
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a low-profile United Nations organization, is overseeing this yearlong review of the Web. Its process is so secretive that proposals by member countries are confidential. The Obama administration has yet to nominate a negotiator for the U.S. side, even though Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last year that his goal was "international control over the Internet."
Word of a few proposals has leaked out. Several authoritarian regimes want to prohibit people from being anonymous on the Web, which would make it easier to find and arrest dissidents.
Another proposal would replace Icann, the private domain system under contract to the U.S. Commerce Department, with a system run by the U.N. Yet another idea is a new fee, payable whenever users access the Web "internationally"—whatever that means for a global Web, especially as servers increasingly are in the cloud, nowhere and everywhere—which would restore payments governments lost when international telephone charges fell. This would undermine the seamless nature of the Web.
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The ITU has long regulated long-distance fixed telephone calls and helps keep satellites in assigned orbits. But unlike phones and satellites, which need an international regulator to maintain order, the Web does not have fixed locations. Still, the ITU is the regulator of choice for countries aiming to control the Web.
"When an invention becomes used by billions across the world, it no longer remains the sole property of one nation, however powerful that nation might be," Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the ITU, says in "World War 3.0," an article in the May issue of Vanity Fair.
Mr. Toure, a native of Mali who was educated in Leningrad and Moscow during the Soviet era, adds: "There should be a mechanism where many countries have an opportunity to have a say. I think that's democratic. Do you think that's democratic?"
This argument against an open Web echoes the "new world information and communication order" movement of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union tried to legitimize censorship. Unesco was the U.N. agency used for these arguments, with the U.S. and Britain withdrawing from the U.N. agency in the 1980s.
"The idea of a conference among nation states to decide the future of the Internet is itself not in keeping with the spirit of the times," Rebecca MacKinnon told me last week. Her recent book, "Consent of the Networked," describes how important it's been for the Internet to develop outside of multinational organizations, with technology companies, engineering associations and civil society groups having as much influence as governments. As Ms. MacKinnon notes, "this is especially true since a large percentage of governments do not reflect the consent of the governed."
At a planning meeting last month on proposed regulations, Mr. Toure said that the agenda for the December meeting, which will be held in Dubai, would not include ITU "governance" of the Web. But he refused to have this reassurance written into the record, which is further evidence of a power grab.
In her book, Ms. MacKinnon, a former CNN bureau chief in Beijing, cites how in 2005 the U.N. had the bad judgment to choose Tunisia under President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for a conference that China used to lobby for more U.N. power over the Internet. Tunisia was the first government overthrown during the Arab Spring. A follow-up U.N. meeting was held in 2009 in Egypt under Hosni Mubarak, also later removed from power.
"In the physical world, mechanisms of democratic politics and constitutional law have worked" to protect rights, Ms. MacKinnon wrote. "These mechanisms are no longer adequate for people whose physical lives now depend on what they can or cannot do (and what others can do to them) in the new digital spaces where sovereignty and power are ill-defined and highly contested."
Her suggestion is that multinational organizations continue with limited power over the Internet, while the technologists who maintain the plumbing of the Web share authority with human rights and other stakeholder groups interested in keeping the Web open. Applying the political-science notion of a social contract to the Web for "consent of the networked" is a novel approach. It recognizes that the Web is global, with an inherent ideology in favor of more transparency and greater access to information.
The Internet shows how creativity can flourish when government governs least. The Web allows permissionless innovation, where no one needs an operating license or other authorization. This doesn't leave much of a role for multinational groups like the U.N., even if some governments are plotting otherwise.
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ALTOONA – The 25th annual African-American Read-In Chain will be celebrated at Penn State Altoona on Feb. 23–24. This year's theme, Lift Every Voice, recognizes the close relationship between the musical and literary arts.
Events begin Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. in the Port-Sky Café with a community gathering featuring music, literature, and food. It is free and open to the public. You are invited to share a short reading from a work by an African-American author or just listen and enjoy. Advanced reservations are required. RSVP to email@example.com or at 814-949-5280.
The Read-In Chain continues Feb. 24 with "Monday Marathon," an Open Mic Read-In in the Slep Student Center. From 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., various dance, theatre and musical performances will take place to celebrate African-American authors and artists. Special sessions on black women writers, African American spirituals, and a tribute to the late poet and playwrite Amiri Baraka will be held. From 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. the keynote presentation "Jazz, Hip Hop, and Poetry," by Ronnie Burrage will take place. At 5:30 p.m., Yona Harvey, featured author of the 2014 African American Read-In at Penn State Altoona will give a reading of her works.
Harvey is the author of the poetry collection Hemming the Water (Four Way Books 2013). Her poems can be found in jubilat, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, West Branch, and various journals and anthologies, including A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation. Harvey teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
A book signing will immediately follow the presentation, where the Harvey's book will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Penn State Altoona English Program's Writers & Speakers Series.
If you'd like to sign up to read or have questions about the Monday Marathon, contact Robin Reese at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The 2013 African American Read-In at Penn State Altoona events are sponsored by Dr. Lori J. Bechtel-Wherry, chancellor and dean, The Letters Arts and Sciences Program, The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity and International Student Services, The Division of Arts and Humanities, The Division of Education, Human Development, and Social Sciences, The Altoona College Honors Program and the Blair County NAACP.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 1, 2013) – Three U.S. men's beach volleyball teams went 5-1 in main draw pool play on Wednesday at the FIVB Shanghai Grand Slam, part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
Meanwhile, two U.S. women's beach volleyball teams – Emily Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) along with Jennifer Fopma (Bellflower, Calif.) and Brooke Sweat (Fort Myers, Fla.) – qualified for the main draw in Shanghai.
In the men's bracket, the U.S. team of Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.), seeded No. 2, won both of their matches in Pool B on Wednesday. They opened with a 21-13, 21-12 (30 minutes) win over China's No. 31 Lizeng Zhang and Zhuoxin Li. They had a much tougher time in the afternoon, playing the longest match of the day in beating No. 18 Julius Brink and Sebastian Fuchs of Germany, 21-18, 20-22, 15-10 (1:01). Brink won the men's beach volleyball gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with former partner Jonas Reckermann.
The third set was tied at 4-4 before the U.S. pair staged a 6-0 fueled by Dalhausser attacks, including a turn-around kill.
"I feel pretty good about our match," Dalhausser said in an FIVB press release. "A tough match, in tough conditions, against a good team like that, I am happy we came out with the win.
"Yeah, we had a nice run, we took advantage of the good side and I really served hard into the wind and the wind pushed the ball down."
On Thursday, Rosenthal and Dalhausser will complete pool play against Austria's 15th-seeded Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst. The first round of single elimination play will begin on Friday.
The U.S. team of Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Casey Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.), seeded ninth, went 2-0 in Pool H on Wednesday. The U.S. team opened with a 19-21, 21-15, 15-13 (:56) victory over Brazil's No. 24 Vitor Felipe and Evandro Júnior. In the afternoon, Gibb and Patterson topped Austria's No. 25 Alexander Huber and Robin Seidl, the team that eliminated the U.S. pair from the Fuzhou Open in the second round last week, 19-21, 21-19, 15-9 (:53).
On Thursday, Gibb and Patterson will close out pool play against China's eighth-seeded Linyin Xu and Peng Gao.
Nick Lucena (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.), who are seeded 14th and making their competitive debut in Shanghai, went 1-1 in Pool C. In the morning, they beat Netherlands' No. 19 Daan Spijkers and Steven van de Velde, 21-17, 21-19 (:41). In the afternoon, they fell to Germany's No. 17 Mischa Urbatzka and Markus Bockermann, 21-13, 21-18 (:34). On Thursday, they will finish pool play against Brazil's No. 3 Pedro Salgado and Bruno Schmidt.
In women's qualifying on Wednesday, Fopma and Sweat, seeded No. 13 in the qualifying bracket, opened with a 21-15, 21-15 (:34) victory over No. 20 Ieva Dumbauskaite and Monika Povilaityte of Lithuania. In the second round, the U.S. pair beat No. 4 Miller Elwin and Henriette Iatika of Vanuatu, 21-12, 16-21, 17-15 (:46).
Day and Hochevar, seeded No. 14 in qualifying, beat No. 19 Cindy Treland and Janne Pedersen of Norway in the first round, 21-17, 21-14 (:34). In the second round, the U.S. pair topped Canada's No. 3 Heather Bansley and Elizabeth Maloney, 22-20, 21-18 (:39).
Women's pool play will begin on Thursday.
The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Jennifer Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), seeded No. 4 in Pool D, will open against Fopma and Sweat, who are seeded No. 29 in the main draw. In the afternoon, Ross and Kessy will play No. 20 Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy of Australia while Fopma and Sweat will face No. 13 Liliane Maestrini and Barbara De Freitas of Brazil.
On Friday, Ross and Kessy will face Maestrini and Freitas while Fopma and Sweat will play Bawden and Clancy.
The U.S. women's team of Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Ind.) and Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) is seeded No. 22 and will play in Pool F. They will play Spain's No. 11 Liliana Steiner and Elsa McMillan on Thursday morning and then face Czech Republic's No. 6 Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova in the afternoon. On Friday, Fendrick and Branagh will close pool play against Poland's No. 27 Kinga Kolosinska and Monika Brzostek.
Day and Hochevar are seeded No. 30 and will play in Pool C. They will open Thursday against Italy's No. 3 Greta Cicolari and Marta Menegatti. In the afternoon, they will face Germany's No. 14 Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst. On Friday, Day and Hochevar will finish pool play against Austria's No. 19 Doris Schwaiger and Stefanie Schwaiger.
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With temperatures hovering near 'Holy cow!' and 'You've got to be kidding me!' Michiganders' thoughts this time of year often fast forward to summer. And for many, those lazy daydreams of summer usually involve camping and RVing.
The timing of winter RV shows - including the upcoming 47th annual Detroit Camper & RV Show - couldn't be better.
The Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds is sponsoring the 47th annual show Feb. 6 through 10 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. All types of new 2013 recreation vehicles including more than 275 units and 50 brands, will be displayed. Folding campers, motor homes, travel trailers, truck campers, fifth wheel travel trailers and toy haulers are among the models visitors will see.
'There's nothing like going to an RV show to cure your cabin fever,' MARVAC executive director Bill Sheffer said. 'Where else can you get the opportunity to walk around and see, in the case of the Detroit show, 275 new RVs? You're not just looking at picture of them on the Internet.
'An RV show is also the place to talk to campground owners. We're finding more and more people are literally making their camping reservations with campgrounds owners who have a booth at the show.'
In addition to the Detroit-area show, MARVAC will host RV exhibitions in Battle Creek (March 7-10 at Kellogg Arena), Flint (March 14-17 at the Perani Arena & Event Center) and Traverse City (March 22-24 at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center). The 24th annual Detroit Fall Camper & RV Show is Oct. 2 through 6, also at the Suburban Collection Showplace.
At all the RV shows, you'll see folding campers from $4,999, trailers from $8,999 and motor homes from $49,999. There are discounts on 2012 models, plus manufacturer rebates on select RVs. Booths featuring parts and accessories, campground information, on-site RV financing and RV rentals make the winter shows a complete RV show experience.
Typically, people who go to RV shows fall into one of three categories: Those looking to buy their first RV, current RV owners looking to buy a new one or current RV owners who are simply out to enjoy the latest makes and models.
If you're in the market, there's no better place to kick the tires than an RV show. Nowhere else will you be able to personally inspect as many different RVs as you will at the winter shows. By narrowing down your list of needs and wants in an RV, you can make an informed choice. Getting the right options that fit your budget will ensure that your new RV purchase is one that you and your family will enjoy for years.
Whether you're a would-be or a seasoned RVer, the reasons to buy are endless: Family bonding, affordable getaways or spontaneous road trips, to name a few. Here are some of the top reasons why there's never been a better time to buy:
• In today's economy, there are great deals available on new RV models.
• Financing is readily available for qualified borrowers.
• You may qualify for a tax deduction because the interest on your RV loan is generally deductible as second-home mortgage interest.
• RVs are more fuel efficient than ever.
• Even when fuel costs are up, RVers can enjoy the same experience closer to home to save on fuel.
• The sooner you buy, the sooner you can enjoy years of savings and adventures.
The 47th annual Detroit Camper & RV Show at the Suburban Collection Showplace and is open 2 to 9 p.m. weekdays, 11. a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Adult admission (ages 13 and older) is $9, senior admission is $8 and children ages 12 and younger are admitted free. Admission coupons are available at marvac.org, Big Boy restaurants and in area newspapers. Visit one of the 20 metro Detroit NAPA Auto Parts Stores for a discount admission coupon good for $1 off any adult or senior admission.
The new '2013 RV & Campsite' magazine, a guide to camping and RV dealers in Michigan, also includes coupons.
Rick Kessler is the author of the Gr8LakesCamper blog on RVing and camping. Visit gr8lakescamper.blogspot.com for more information.
FYI The first 20 emails received after 12:01 a.m., Monday, Jan. 28 at firstname.lastname@example.com will receive a pair of free tickets to the 47th Annual Detroit Camper & RV Show. Emails must include name and mailing address.
SIDEBAR Shopping for the perfect RV?
• Finances: Knowing your price range is a great way to start your RV research. Deciding on whether to finance or pay cash will help you determine how much you can afford to spend on your new RV. Keep in mind that options and extras will increase the price, so leave yourself a cushion for items you think you may want to add.
• Family size: Consider how many family members, including pets, will be traveling in your new RV. Make sure you'll have enough beds and seating to accommodate everyone and room for items that each family member may bring.
• Storage: Not enough storage can leave everyone feeling cramped and uncomfortable. Determine how much cabinet and storage space you'll need to accommodate items such as bicycles, grills, toolboxes, camp chairs, etc. Many RVs have exterior 'basement' storage areas for bulky or oversized items to leave the inside free for clothes, toiletries, housewares and other items you'll need to access more quickly.
• Usage: Decide how often you will use your RV. Will you be a full-time RVer or just a summer vacation RVer? Full-time RVers may want all the luxuries of home, such as full kitchens and baths, large bedrooms and living areas, while weekend-only RVers may find that using campground baths and cooking over a fire will suit them just fine.
• Driving and towing: Consider whether you want to drive or tow an RV. Motorized RVs such as motorhomes are ideal for those who want the ease of a vehicle and camper in one unit. Many motorized RVs also can tow a single car or truck, allowing you to park the RV and use the smaller vehicle for short driving trips. Towable RVs include travel trailers, fifth-wheels, truck campers, pop-up campers and toy haulers. Before purchasing any towable RV or camper, be sure it can be towed by your vehicle.
FYI: 47th annual Detroit Camper & RV Show
Feb. 6-10 Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi
MARVAC Battle Creek Camper & RV Show
March 7-10 Kellogg Arena 36th annual Flint Camper & RV Show
March 14-17 Perani Arena & Event Center
21st annual Northwest Michigan Camper & RV Show
March 22-24 Grand Traverse County Civic Center, Traverse City
24rd annual Detroit Fall Camper & RV Show
Oct. 2-6 Suburban Collection Showplace


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There is no shortage of oddities on Craigslist these days. Sometimes you find the deal of the century and other times you find a ThunderStang, or is it a MustaBird? Either way, the owner says:
What we have here is a 1966 Mustang.. sort of. The body and doors have been shortened by about 20″, and made to resemble an early T-Bird. The car was originally 'modified' 20+ years ago, then was 'rebuilt' after that. It now sits with NO ENGINE nor TRANS! The shortened drive shaft is still there. Needs total restoration. Was a 2-time World of Wheels winner in a previous life. I found it with thoughts of restoring it. I've decided to sell it instead. Hood is fiberglass. You will be buying a shell.
For 12 Benjamins, I can't say that this is a bad deal. I mean where else are you going to find a BirdStang for less? I'll tell you, you won't. Somebody needs to snatch this thing up, drop a 429 in it and love life. Will that person be you?
Here is the Craigslist Listing
Special Thanks to Joe L. for spotting this little gem… and I do mean little.