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I'm plain and simple the safety man, the guy who has to stop the play when the others don't, and that's the way I like it."
(Iowa)...6'3'', 200...Paul James Krause. . .Redskins' No. 2 draft pick, 1964. . . Outstanding rookie year, led league with 12 interceptions, named All-Pro. . .Retired as history's all-time interception leader with 81. . . Traded to Vikings for player and draft pick, 1968. . .Played in eight Pro Bowls. . .All-NFL four times. . .All-Eastern Conference 1964, 1965. . .All-NFC five times. . . Started at free safety in four Super Bowls, five NFL/NFC championship games. . .Born February 19, 1942, in Flint, Michigan.
Paul Krause, a 6-3, 200-pound free safety from the University of Iowa, became the leading pass intercepter of all time with 81 steals during a 16-season career with the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings from 1964 to 1979.
A two-way star at Iowa, he was the second-round draft pick of the Redskins in 1964. Although he intercepted 28 passes in his first four seasons, he was traded to the Minnesota Vikings for linebacker Marlin McKeever and a seventh-round draft choice in 1968. He went on to excel with the Vikings for 12 more seasons before retiring after the 1979 campaign.
Krause had the kind of a blue-ribbon rookie season in 1964 that few ever achieve. He led the NFL in interceptions with 12 and was named to the All-NFL first team. He was named to his first of eight Pro Bowls and was second only to teammate running back Charley Taylor for NFL Rookie of the Year acclaim. In his second Pro Bowl following the 1965 season, he intercepted two passes. Named All-NFL four different times, Krause was also selected All-Eastern Conference twice, and All-NFC five times.
Born on February 19, 1942, in Flint, Michigan, Paul was the starting free safety in Super Bowls IV, VIII, IX, and XI, in the 1969 NFL championship game and NFC title games in 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1977. He intercepted one pass in Super Bowl IV and recovered a fumble in Super Bowl IX.
During his landmark rookie season, Krause intercepted passes in seven straight games and he came near to matching that mark in 1968, when he had steals in six consecutive games. It took a three-interception season in his final 1979 campaign to surpass Emlen Tunnell, who had 79 steals, for the all-time record. The durable Krause missed only two games with injuries in 16 seasons.
Championship Games
Super Bowls
All-Pro: 1964 (AP*, UPI*, NEA*); 1965 (AP*, UPI*); 1971 (NEA); 1975 (AP, PFWA, PW)
All-Pro Second Team: 1968 (AP*); 1969 (AP*); 1972 (AP); 1975 (NEA)
All-NFC: 1964 (SN**); 1965 (SN**); 1970 (UPI); 1971 (UPI, SN, PW); 1972 (AP, UPI, SN); 1973 (AP, UPI, SN, PW); 1975 (AP, UPI, SN, PW)
*All-NFL **All-Conference (NFL Eastern Conference)
(8) - 1965, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
Most Interceptions, Career - 81
[Tied for 1st] - Most Touchdowns on Fumble Returns, Career - 3
[Tied for 1st] - Most Touchdowns on Opponents' Fumble Returns, Career - 3
[Tied for 2nd] - Most Consecutive Games with Interception - 7 (1964)
[3rd] Most Yards Gained on Interceptions, Career - 1,185
Post-Season Records
[Tied for 3rd] Most Opponents Fumbles Recovered, Career - 3
Vikings' records held by Krause at the time of his retirement following the 1979 season
Most Interceptions, Career - 53
Most Interceptions, Season - 10 (1975)
[2nd] Longest Interception Return - 81 yards (vs. San Diego, Nov. 23, 1975)
Redskins' records held by Krause
(Records through the 1967 season, Krause's last season with Washington)
[Tied for 2nd] Most Interceptions, Season - 12 (1964)
League Statistical Championships
Interception Titles: 1964
NFC Statistical Championships
Interception Titles: 1975
Team Statistical Championships
Interception Titles: 1964^, 1965^*, 1967^, 1968^^, 1972^^, 1975^^
^ Washington Redskins; ^^ Minnesota Vikings; * co-leader
Full Name: Paul James Krause
Birthdate: February 19, 1942
Birthplace: Flint, Michigan
High School: Bendle (Burton, MI)
Elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame: January 24, 1998
Enshrined into Pro Football Hall of Fame: August 1, 1998
Presenter: Jerry Burns, former Vikings coach and Krause's coach at Iowa
Other Members of Class of 1998: Tommy McDonald, Anthony Muñoz, Mike Singletary,
Dwight Stephenson
Pro Career: 16 seasons, 226 games
Drafted: 2nd round (18th overall) in 1964 by Washington Redskins.
Uniform Number: #26 with Redskins; #22 with Vikings
Transactions: Traded by Washington to Minnesota for linebacker Marlin McKeever and a 7th round draft choice, July 4, 1968.


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Beefy Au Gratin Potatoes
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Cook: 4 hours
Makes4-6 servings
- 1 package (5-1/4 ounces) au gratin potatoes or cheddar and bacon potatoes
- 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of potato soup, undiluted
- 1 cup water
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies, drained
- 1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained
- 1 jar (4 ounces) diced pimientos, drained
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- Set potato sauce mix aside. Place potatoes in a 3-qt. slow cooker; top with corn. In a bowl, combine soup, water, chilies, mushrooms, pimientos and reserved sauce mix; mix well. Pour a third of the mixture over corn. In a skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until the meat is no longer pink; drain. Transfer to slow cooker. Top with remaining sauce mixture. Do not stir. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or until potatoes are tender.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 358 calories, 12g fat (4g saturated fat), 54mg cholesterol, 1256mg sodium, 38g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 4g fiber), 20g protein.
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The recipe was simple to follow as most crock pot recipes are. The finished product was tasted (evryone, all five of us) and given a proper buriel down the garbage disposal. Most families do not have food, time, or money to waste and with this recipe you will be wasting all three. As a home cook I have researched, developed, and cooked thousands of meals. I have raised 24 children and now have 14 grandchildren. Not once have I ever had such a complete flop that in no way could be saved. That is until now. I wish the person who came up with this idea, albeit a great idea in concept, all the best. I am sure they could not possibly come up with anything worse. Best of luck.
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wow, do people really eat hamburger helper? real cooks dont even look at hambuger helper.
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Dear Maryko, I read your comment about beefy au gratin potatoes, and am interested in knowing how long ago your husband received his kidney. I, too, am a kidney recipient - received transplant April 1, 2003. Hope your husband is doing well!!Sincerely,
Nov 15, 2008
I made it very easy to make and I love recipes that call for slow cookers. It as a OK recipe family did eat it. But will not be making again..Hamburger Helper is better!
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I just can't bring myself to use boxed dehydrated potatoes with chemical ingredients. my husband is a diabetic, with a kidney transplant. He is on immuno surpresant drugs. I try to use as much as possible not use , chemical and other additives! In spite of the time involved (not much) I will make "HOMEMADE", Au Gratin.Mko SO Lwrence.
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Car etiquette in the wet
Flooded roads this morning; drizzle to rain; dark, and cold. Yet the number of vehicles driving along with no form of side-lights (at the least) was shocking. I mean I'm in a bright red car, but try to spot a grey/silver or black car through the side-window when turning or worse yet through a side-window at the side-mirror when changing lane with both are spattered with rain-droplets.
All you can hope for is to catch movement as any sign that a vehicle is there and, as one is supposed to, slow down and take things a little easier.
In the same vein - the number of cars that think that just because their side of the road is washed out they have right-of-way in yours and, from the other perspective, the number of cars that hug the middle line despite the lack of puddles on their side when you're trying to skirt a puddle while staying on your own side of the road.
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Art arrangement can be really tricky. I try to look at compositions that please me and figure out what that person with the great eye has done to make it all work so well. The secret is that even the best art curator/arranger does the thing where they shuffle and reshuffle the arrangements until they are just right. Here are four different approaches to try the next time you are doing some rearranging.
The somewhat orderly stack and prop. It seems appropriate that a photographer's agent has such a beautifully framed and arranged collection of photography. Over at Carol LeFlufy's Hollywood Hills home, mid-century style is revered as is art. This method of stacking photos on picture reails and shelves in a simpled layered pattern is quite easy to acheive. Onee reason the collection looks so harmonious is that they are all in black and white, and framed and matted in similar ways. This is probably my favorite house tour I've seen on Apartment Therapy.
The total mix method. Creating a great art wall does not require great art. On a shoestring budget, interior designer Vanessa De Vargas of Turquoise LA created this eat-in kitchen art wall at The Upward Bound House with thrift store and donated finds. She doesn't stray far from this style in her own home; her recent redecoration has another wall with a few items like a mirror in the mix in the same way:
One needn't get out the butcher block paper and masking tape for the full-on Martha Stewart wall arrangement craziness. Simply imagine a general outline of the items as one whole block and move items to fill to those edges.
The Galaxy Approach. Better Homes and Gardens has dubbed this the Galaxy or Center of the Universe Approach, and it's an easy one. Pick one dominant piece to be the center and orbit everything else around it like it's the sun. This works well with a larger piece of art, a mirror or a platter surrounded by plates. You can go exactly symmetrical on either side, but I prefer the looser implied symmetry they've accomplished here. It's more comfortable.
The Grid. You cannot go wrong with the grid. It works with everything from sweet antique pressed botanicals to nudes to Chagall lithographs to punk rock album covers. This one even has extra molding pieces that reinforce the grid and match the frames. Yes, this can be a bit of a bear to actually hang perfectly. via House to Home UK


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How much difference can a good monitor make to your PC? If you're into editing photos, a screen with flawless colour representation and sharpness is crucial. For gamers, add high native resolution and quick response time to that list.
Even the casual PC should be able to watch videos of zoo animals sneezing and strangers' infant children laughing in sparkling high definition. Will the Hanns G HL225 set your eyes alight with blinding, unbearable beauty?
No. But come on, it costs a hundred quid – give it a chance! It's one of many competing value-end 22-inch screens snapping for your £100 like rectangular black piranhas, alpha males of the pack being the Liyama Prolite E2208HD and Viewsonic's VX2239WM 22.
Like both these snappily named screens, Hanns G's offering supports 1920 x 1080p natively, and has a 1000:1 contrast ratio. No HDMI connector here though, which seems a bit stingy.
The colour quality isn't anything to get excited about either. Blacks get a bit muddy, whites get a bit washed out, and the 'X-Contrast' setting only seems to accentuate this.
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Brad Haskel, wine director of London Lennies Seafood Restaurant in Rego Park, used them to describe the vision of successful California winemaker, Peter Franus. Franus came to Queens to provide an informal education on the ways of wine to London Lennies staff on Thursday, September 17. It fits in with Haskel's philosophy that wine should be less intimidating and more fun for staff and patrons.
"A great glass of wine can make or break a customer's dining experience," Haskel said.
Franus, who grew up in Greenwhich, Connecticut, and attended U.C. Berkeley, visited wineries in Napa Valley and fell in love. He started his own label in 1987 and said that his mission is simple.
"If someone says this is delicious, I've achieved my goal," he said.
Franus brought along five wines from his portfolio, including Sauvignon Blanc Carneros 2008, Zinfandel Brandlin Vineyards 2006, Mourvedre Brandlin Vineyard 2005, Cabernet Franc Napa Valley 2005, Merlot Napa Valley 2006, and Red Wine Napa Valley 2005.
Each of the wines is popular in its own way, but the Zinfandel has achieved notoriety from an unlikely source.
Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek and most recently Professor X in X-Men, tasted the Zinfandel at a wine bar while working on Broadway and contacted Franus about where he could buy more of it. Stewart went as far as to approach a London winery about importing the Zinfandel, and Franus will be debuting it across the Atlantic in October.
Franus says that he wants his wines to represent the upper echelon of what wines can be, but with one important caveat.
"People are not willing to pay $70 to $80 for a bottle of wine anymore," he said. "The days of starting a winery and coming out with a $100 bottle of wine are over."
This is why his popular Zinfandel is $35 a bottle. His Merlot is $35 and his Mouvedre is $45. The most expensive bottle he brought along was the Red Wine Napa Valley 2005, which is priced at $65.
Franus shared his stories about getting into the wine business and about his philosophy when it comes to wine. He says he's not a science guy.
"I make the wine based on how I'm feeling and thinking," he said.
But the best story of the day wasn't told by Franus at all. His wife, Deanna, told of how she and her friend tasted the 1997 Carneros Sauvignon Blanc while out to dinner one night, and loved it so much that they went to visit the winery in Napa Valley. Franus gave them a tour and they were married soon thereafter.
"Do you see the responsibility you have when you recommend a wine?" Deanna said, punctuating the story amidst the rising laughs of staff members.


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Topics covered in the S-Rep Program include waste reduction and recycling, climate change and energy conservation, food and composting and more. S-Reps have training before the start of the academic year and meet biweekly throughout the semester to learn about selected topics and to discuss and plan activities for campus. S-Reps play a significant role in many campuswide sustainability events such as Skidmore Unplugged, Give+Go and the Big Green Scream. They have also organized activities such as local food tastings with items from the Saratoga Farmers Market, tours of the North Woods and even an educational program on fair-trade chocolate, discussing the environmental, social and economic impacts.
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Season's results | Drivers' Championship | Constructors' Championship
This was 1998 all over again: Mika Hakkinen versus Michael Schumacher. But then the German broke a leg and Hakkinen faced a new challenge from Eddie Irvine, one that raged all the way to the final round in Japan.
Little had changed for 1999, as McLaren and Ferrari had retained their driver line-ups and design teams. All cars had to race on tyres with an extra groove in them, but this failed to shuffle the order, with Jordan, Williams and Benetton still fighting to be best of the rest, and Arrows and Minardi fighting not to be last. The major novelty was the arrival of a new team: BAR. Jacques Villeneuve had moved from Williams to join his friend Craig Pollock, with Ricardo Zonta in the number two seat.
McLaren filled the front row at Melbourne, with Hakkinen 1.3s clear of Schumacher's best. Fortunately for Ferrari and the others, the new McLaren was fragile and both retired. Schumacher wasn't to benefit, as he'd failed to get away on the parade lap before the second start - the first having been aborted after both Stewarts caught fire - and had to start from the rear. And so team-mate Eddie Irvine came away with his first win, followed home by Jordan newboy Heinz-Harald Frentzen and the driver with whom he'd changed places, Ralf Schumacher, now of Williams.
Hakkinen overcame a gearbox problem to overhaul Schumacher for victory at Interlagos. Rubens Barrichello led in front of his home-town fans when Hakkinen slowed without gears. He was on a two-stop strategy, the others planning to stop just once, but it showed how the Stewart team was making progress. However, his engine failed, leaving Frentzen to finish on the podium for the second straight race.
It was an all-McLaren front row at Imola, but the Ferraris were right with them. This pressure paid in the race, when Hakkinen pressed too hard in his attempts to build up a lead, running over the kerbs out of the Traguardo chicane and clouting the wall. The crowd became even more excited when Schumacher outran David Coulthard to win. Ferrari's improving form was emphasised when Ferrari finished first and second at Monaco.
Lest Ferrari think they had taken the upper hand, McLaren meted out its traditional one-two in Spain, but with Schumacher just 11s down on Hakkinen in third after he'd been delayed by a fast-starting Villeneuve until his first pitstop. Still, though, BAR sought its first point.
If Hakkinen had slipped at Imola, then Schumacher did likewise at Montreal, sticking his Ferrari into the wall when leading. Hakkinen took maximum points, while Coulthard came away with nothing after tangling with Irvine when fighting for third.
The best race of the year came at Magny-Cours, with five drivers leading the race as rain affected play. At the end, it was Frentzen in front thanks to a clever refuelling tactic when the team put in sufficient fuel to see him through to the end. Hakkinen, who was ahead in the closing stages, had to pit for a second time with seven laps remaining. He thus fell to second, ahead of Barrichello who'd started on pole after a quick lap before the skies opened in qualifying and led for half of the race. With Schumacher only fifth behind his brother, Hakkinen was now eight points to the good.
The title battle was to change at Silverstone as Schumacher crashed on the first lap and broke his right leg. Hakkinen was unable to benefit as a wheel fell off his car and Coulthard came through to win from Irvine. However, Coulthard tipped Hakkinen into a spin on the first lap at the A1-Ring. Although Hakkinen fought back from last to third, he had every reason to be unhappy.
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There had been talk of Schumacher being ready to return at the Belgian GP, but he didn't fancy assisting Irvine to become the first Ferrari driver since 1979 to be World Champion. So he delayed his comeback until F1's first visit to Malaysia. And there he dutifully held back Hakkinen so that Irvine could win the first race at Sepang.
Arriving at Suzuka with a four-point deficit, Hakkinen knew that the best way of claiming his second title on the trot was to win. And this he did, leading all the way from Schumacher, with Irvine a distant third. Even if Irvine had been let through to second and ended the year equal on points, Hakkinen would have taken the title by having five wins to Irvine's four.
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When you step into a Maggie Moo's, you're walking into a wonderland of ice cream innovation, the birthplace of the ice cream pizza, the ice cream cupcake, and a whole host of other incredible frozen treats. This national chain boasts an amazing array of flavors at every location, along with scoops of extras that are quickly making Maggie Moo's one of the nation's favorite ice cream shops.
Every location features free waffle cones and unlimited mix-ins with every order, allowing you to create any taste combination you can imagine with dozens of candies, nuts, dried fruit, and more to choose from. The possibilities are endless, so come to a Maggie Moo's today and let your imagination run wild. You could discover the next great ice cream creation.
Many locations feature catering services, bringing the delicious fun to your office event, birthday party, or any other occasion, as well as take-out services perfect for groups of any size. For ice cream lovers, they also offer a rewards program that lets you earn free ice cream with any purchase, just in case you needed another reason to stop in.
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Kabul Polytechnic University holds first IT associate degree graduation
Kabul Polytechnic University holds first IT associate degree graduation
KABUL (Pajhwok): Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and Kabul Polytechnic University celebrated the graduation of the first 28 graduates, including eight females, obtaining an associate degree in Information Technology (IT) last week as part of a program supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
USAID launched the University Support and Workforce Development Program's IT Associate Degree (USWDP) in 2014 with support from the Central Georgia Technical College. The two-and-one-half year degree program addresses local market needs and meets international standards from community college education.
"This first cohort of graduates from the USWDP's IT Associate Degree program should be proud of their achievement and how hard they worked to earn that associates degree," a statement quoted USAID Mission Director Herbie Smith as saying.
"This graduation illustrates the linkage between universities and potential employers in the public and private sector, and the importance of this program to help educate more Afghan youth in the field of technology," he added.
During the ceremony, Prof. Abdul Tawab Balakarzai, deputy education minister, congratulated the graduates and wished them huge success.
Other speakers at the event included Mohammad Sayed Kakar, Chancellor of Kabul Polytechnic University, Dr. Wahid Omar, Chief of Party of USWDP, and Dr. Joseph Berger, Director of the Center for International Education at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Each expressed their gratitude to USAID and USWDP for their financial and technical assistance in developing the new degree program.
Graduates also thanked USAID and USWDP for their support.
"We are grateful for the establishment of this associate degree as it has given us the tools to enter the job market and be ready for it," said Sara Qaderi, one of those received the associate degree in IT.
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From CricketWorld
Bangladesh Feeling The Heat Ahead Of India Clash
15 March 2007
Bangladesh Feeling The Heat Ahead Of India Clash
Bangladesh is suddenly finding themselves at the centre point of the Cricket World Cup 2007. After their display in the second warm up match against New Zealand, they have attracted massive media attention and the world is eagerly waiting for their group tie against India on 17th March at the Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad and Tobago.
The Indian media is keenly following the Bangladesh team and analysing the weakness and strengths of Bangladesh team as compared to India. India, where cricket is a huge part of their culture and cricketers enjoy privileges over film stars, are cautiously optimistic of outshining Bangladesh.
When the original World Cup groups were drawn in 2005, no one though that Bangladesh could pose a threat to their sub-continental neighbours, India and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh has progressed in leaps and bounds since then.
The Bangladesh cricket team always created media headlines for the wrong reasons and was the subject of cheap shots from different quarters concerning their test status.
Bangladesh has now earned the media limelight after a consistent performance in 2006 which was equally followed so far in 2007. Now after attracting so much media attention, Bangladesh must be under pressure to perform in their opening match against India.
Tension is running high in both camps as Indian captain Rahul Dravid urged a professional performance from team mates to deny Bangladesh from producing any upset. On the other hand Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar and coach Dav Whatmore have expressed their satisfaction over the preparation and repeatedly effused optimism of progressing to the second round. According to Bashar, the morale of the team is very high and they are in a positive frame of mind ahead of their crucial world cup tie.
Now, Bangladesh will try to live up to their recent reputation and if they can do that, world cup cricket 2007 might witness the emergence of a cricket nation under the guidance of Dav Whatmore who led the Sri Lankan renaissance in the 1996 World Cup.
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An incoming call could be ignored, just pressing(touching?) a button when the phone is ringing. The GSM call is active, but you can use the apps in phone normaly.
Two different ignore-call buttons can be implemented. One that ignores the call immediately and terminated the ringing (which can be rude or offensive in a specific situation to the caller). Another (extra) implementation will ignore the call on the telephone but not to the network. In this latter way the caller will continue waiting and finally get to the network's voice mail.
Maybe an icon in the top panel area that allow you to pick up the call.
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When there is an active GSM call, you can't make a new one.
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Commissioner Roger Goodell laid the ground rules for NFL franchises considering relocating to Los Angeles on Friday, according to a memo obtained by NFL.com's Steve Wyche.
The five-point memo, sent to all 32 franchises, opens the door for more than one club to move to L.A., and as early as the 2013 season. Goodell stressed in the memo that the league's owners -- and not individual franchises -- would determine any relocation.
"Although substantial uncertainties remain, stadium development in Los Angeles has advanced to the point where the prospects for a new facility are better than they have been in many years," Goodell wrote in the memo. "At least two potential sites have well-developed plans, and both have moved forward to obtain necessary government approvals."
The league must receive a relocation application from a franchise between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15, 2013, in order to move for that season. The move would then be subject to approval by NFL owners.
According to other guidelines put forth in the memo, a new stadium in Los Angeles must fit two teams, but the league is not wedded to having the stadium downtown.
"Given that simultaneous league-wide investment in two stadiums in the same community is unlikely, we believe that the best approach will be a single site where an iconic facility could credibly both host two teams and provide ancillary entertainment and development opportunities," Goodell added.
Goodell also stated that no NFL franchise has exclusive rights to the Los Angeles market. Late Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis had once claimed to have held the rights to that market after the team moved back to Oakland.


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Pianist and scholar Robert Levin appeared with us last night in two concerts (a 7pm and a Night Shift) and today has been on a bit of a media blitz, appearing on Radio 4's Today programme and the World Service too. There's also something in the Evening Standard.
The reason? Well Robert has been talking about two things. Last night he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23 with us, and Robert's research strongly points to it being written for a pupil of his, Barbara Ployer, something previously unknown. One of the reasons he suspects this is that he found a coda written for the piece, which was intended for Barbara, and this coda hasn't been performed for at least 200 years. But alongside this, Robert has been talking about how we perform Mozart these days. Modern performance very much sticks to what is written on the page, with no deviation. But Robert argues that in Mozart's day there would have been a lot of free rein given to the soloist, to embellish the basic musical line, improvise around it etc. In fact, Robert, argues that his hero, Duke Ellington, is really like a modern-day Mozart.
Robert is performing the Concerto with us again on 4 October, as part of our very first The Works event. In the event he'll be joined by presenter Suzy Klein, and the first half of the concert will be given over to a 'guided tour' of the concerto. More on the event in this previous blog post.
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EDMONTON — Jojo Vivian's got the game written all over her.
On her knuckles is a simple tattooed creed: t-h-u-g l-i-f-e.
On her back: the name of her locked-up boyfriend.
And on her right arm, a barbed wire tattoo coils around her slender limb, underneath the image of a black widow spider.
Vivian lived the gangster's life. She joined Manitoba's Indian Posse when she was 18, and was sent to jail for fatally stabbing a man in the heart during a fight with fellow gang members.
She had a broken neck at the time.
"I used to roll around with them thinking I was bad," says the 27-year-old mother.
"I've done time, for killing somebody, for backing up a bro — and I did hard time for it."
Vivian's stint behind bars illustrates an emerging challenge for Canada's police and the country's penal system — how to keep gang problems out of jails as a record number of women are arrested for violent crimes.
"In the last four or five years I really noticed that the violence is escalating with, especially, young females in the city. And it's gang orientated for sure," says Winnipeg police Const. Phil Neyron, who works in that city's crime-ridden north end.
"The females are catching up to the male part of gangs."
Street gangs have long wreaked havoc inside Canada's male prison system, from running drugs and starting riots to targeting enemies behind bars.
Now, signs are emerging that some of the same gangs are starting to infiltrate female penitentiaries.
"More and more women are coming into prison associated with gangs," says Kevin Grabowsky, Prairie regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers.
"It starts to affect — or infect is maybe the better word — all facets of a prison."
Authorities report more women are joining street gangs today, especially young aboriginal women living on the Prairies.
"What we see is, particularly among First Nations gangs, women having a much bigger role," says RCMP Sgt. Shinder Kirk, a member of the gang and organized crime agency for B.C.
Internationally, there has been a surge in the prevalence of females in street gangs, says Deputy Chief Thomas Carrique with York Regional Police north of Toronto.
"If you have more females involved in street gangs, then you're going to have more females involved in street gang activities, which leads to acts of violence, drug trafficking and other such crimes, and that's the risk that you're going to run inside or outside a corrections facility," says Carrique, who until 2008 was the officer in charge of the organized crime bureau.
This trend is unfolding as the number of federally incarcerated women has climbed dramatically in Canada, shooting up by 40 per cent in the past decade.
The fastest-growing segment of the prison population is aboriginal women, who now represent roughly one in three federal inmates, more than 150 prisoners.
Since 2001, the number of aboriginal women going to prison has grown by a stunning 90 per cent.
In turn, criminal groups such as the Indian Posse and Red Alert are starting to surface in Canada's six female penitentiaries and provincial jails scattered across the country.
Aboriginal offenders tend to be younger than other inmates, serving time for violent crimes and are more likely to have gang affiliations, according to a 2009 report prepared for the Correctional Investigator of Canada.
A Correctional Service of Canada document from 2008 states one in 10 women now come into federal prison with gang ties, compared to one in six men.
The head of Canada's prison system admits it's becoming a problem.
"There's no question that, overall, the gang issue is becoming more challenging for us," says Don Head, commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada. "The number of women offenders who are coming in with gang affiliations is much higher than it was 10 or 15 years ago."
Women have also been linked to criminal organizations such as U.S.-based Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation in Toronto and the Independent Soldiers gang in B.C., police say.
In Canada's biggest city, police have started to realize in the past few years that women who hang around with gang members are likely involved in crime, Sgt. Mike Williams says.
"Females may be holding onto things or hiding things because they know we're not going to look. And we started looking," he says. "We're finally catching onto it."
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he wants to make sure there's enough "flexibility" in the women's system to deal with problem gang members, but said it's up to Correctional Service of Canada to make recommendations.
"I'm certainly aware that more women are involved in gang-related activities and that's bringing them into conflict with the law, and that some of these individuals are violent — and that has to be dealt with appropriately," the minister says.
Yet, those in charge of Canada's penal system believe female gang ties are not making women's prisons unsafe.
"It's still not something to signal huge concerns," says Kelley Blanchette, director general of the women's offender sector in the prison system.
"It's still, relative to men, not a great concern in the women population."
The entire issue has received little public attention to date, and it's unknown precisely how many female gang members there are in Canada or the scope of the problems they cause.
But guards like Grabowsky want a plan for women gangsters, before it's too late.
"It's on the rise, and it's something that CSC doesn't really want to recognize yet," he says.
Head says the prison service is starting to do some research into the issue.
"Our initial indications are that women seem to join gangs for some different reasons than men and we need to understand that some more," he said.
"At the end of the day, we'll end up coming out with an approach that will generally be more . . . specific to women as opposed to applying a strategy that we would apply to men."
Gangs are already "entrenched" in the men's system, says Jana Grekul, University of Alberta sociology professor and gang researcher.
In male prisons, gang members are sometimes segregated from their rivals or live on different schedules to ensure they do not run into each other during meals or recreation times.
"The daily routine of the institution is affected and determined by gangs and the fact that they can't get along," Grekul says.
In the 1990s, several new gangs — many with aboriginal leadership — began to show up inside the male institutions, including the Native Syndicate, which formed at Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba.
Inside men's prisons, gang rivalries are responsible for stabbings, assaults and drugs, says Jason Godin, Ontario regional president at the guards' union.
In 2010, for example, Indian Posse leader and convicted murderer Daniel Wolfe was killed at Saskatchewan Penitentiary when he was apparently trying to break up a fight among 10 inmates at the prison. Members of both Native Syndicate Killers and IP, the street gang Wolfe formed in Manitoba, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Godin warns that gang problems are going to get worse as the prison population grows because of Conservative tough-on-crime laws.
"They're having their own turf wars inside the institutions," he says. "It's pretty damn scary."
Toronto-based crime expert Michael Chettleburgh, who has written three books on street gangs, likens the situation in women's prisons to the burgeoning problem in men's jails.
"It is changing the female system like it did with the male system 15 years ago," says Chettleburgh, whose firm Astwood Strategy Corp. advises groups such as the RCMP and Ottawa Police Service.
And if gang-affiliated women are incarcerated in larger numbers, as it appears is happening, gang-related violence will likely be replicated on the female side, he cautions.
"You're going to have problems."
Tracey heard from the other inmates that her roommate in the Edmonton remand cell was a snitch.
An associate of the aboriginal gang Alberta Warriors, Tracey was back in provincial custody in 2007 for breaching her parole, after a year-and-a-half stint in federal prison for drug trafficking.
High on cocaine that day, the former prostitute decided to take her fellow inmate hostage.
"I couldn't just sit in jail with a rat," she says."I ended up hog-tying her, and tying a noose around her neck."
The attack earned Tracey, who does not want her real name used for fear of retribution because she has since left the gang, another four years of federal time, according to parole records.
After the jailhouse attack, Tracey was sent back to the secure unit at Edmonton Institution for Women, where she knew other girls from rival gangs such as Red Alert and Native Syndicate.
She says inmates weren't allowed to wear bandanas or any gang clothing, but the system did little to prevent gang members from joining forces.
"You have your little cliques, right, and they don't see it like that. They don't see it as gang related," recalls Tracey, who was finally released from prison in October 2009.
"I thought I was getting away from the people in the street, and here there's more people in there."
Although records show Tracey was known to frequent aboriginal gang safe houses and was forbidden from associating with known gang members while out on parole, prison life never strayed far from the violence and crime on the street.
She was placed in a secure unit for maximum-security inmates at the federal prison in Edmonton. Tracey claims that during her sentence, gang members assaulted guards, started riots, set the unit on fire and flooded it, causing lockdowns for other inmates.
Parole records point to Tracey's violent behaviour.
"While incarcerated you have been noted to flood your cell, spit on staff and be generally belligerent and angry," reads a 2008 parole record.
"You have used threats, intimidation and weapons to gain compliance from victims who had every reason to fear for their lives."
According to Correctional Service of Canada research, female gang members are often the most difficult inmates to manage.
They're more likely to have been violent as young offenders and as adults, according to a 2003 report about 37 female gang members who'd spent time behind bars.
"The results of this study portray female gang members as aggressive, anti-social women with poor education and employment experiences," says the report.
By 2008, the number of women entering a federal institution with gang connections was one in 10, or about 50 women, according to another document.
"The presence of gangs and drugs in correctional institutions means offenders are not safe to focus on their rehabilitation," says the federal report on managing gangs and drugs in prison.
"It also makes the jobs of correctional workers much more difficult and dangerous."
However, the warden at the Edmonton Institution for Women says there are few tangible problems tied to the presence of gang members at her institution.
"There are significant gang-related issues in most of the men's facilities, particularly in the Prairies," says warden Andrea Markowski. "It's not that we aren't impacted by that – some of the women have some gang affiliation – but it rarely carries over in a significant way into the institution."
She believes women are more "peripherally" involved in criminal organizations and the ties are not nearly as strong as with male gangsters.
Federal correctional investigator Howard Sapers says female offenders, like male convicts, are now starting to declare gang membership when first being admitted to prison.
While there hasn't been an explosion of gang activity in women's prisons, it's on his radar screen and at the prison authority, Sapers says.
"There's a heightened awareness and therefore a heightened concern."
With a matter-of-fact voice and a cold stare, a teenage girl clicks the roof of her mouth and talks about getting her "minutes," a short but brutal gang initiation.
Girls are beaten from the neck down to prove they're in with the crew.
"I got my jump in," says the 16-year-old baby-faced brunette.
"Why walk alone when you got some people that are going to be doing the same things as you and not criticizing you for it."
The young gang member says she was born while her mother was in jail. She grew up in foster care and spent years in and out of group homes.
Now, the pale teen in a grey sweatsuit claims to deal drugs and associate with aboriginal street gang Alberta Warriors in her north-end Edmonton neighbourhood.
She's been in and out of youth jail for the past few years, for offences such as assaulting her social worker.
Aboriginal justice expert Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, on leave as a Saskatchewan judge, says many new gangs developed in Western Canada out of the shared experience of troubled young aboriginal people inside the criminal justice system.
"They didn't spontaneously develop in a comfortable suburban home where there were nurturing, caring, loving parents," says Turpel-Lafond, who is also B.C.'s child advocate and served on the Royal Commission for Aboriginal Peoples.
"This was born out of deep adversity and deep disparity."
After joining gangs, women are rarely part of the power structure, but often involved in low-level crimes which lead to their arrest and incarceration, according to experts.
Grekul, the U of A sociologist, says most women are low in the gang hierarchy and considered "nothing but a mattress."
"The women don't make decisions. They're the drug runners, they're used for prostitution, sexual slavery, they're used to recruit, they're used to start fights.
"They're just used."
Vivian insists that during her time with IP, she wasn't used — but treated as equal to the men — particularly after the killing.
"I still talk to them," she says. "Those guys will always be my family. They ain't got no hate for me."
But these days, Vivian is more about Disney movies than daggers.
In her modest west-end Edmonton apartment, she tends to two toddler boys born while the father sits in prison. She works as a cleaner at a nearby hotel and wants to run her own coffee shop one day.
Vivian left the gang at 23 when she got pregnant with her first son. Now, she vows her boys will have a different life than the one that got her into group homes, gangs and finally prison.
"When I was young, man, I used to be so mean — like a lot of the guys," she says.
"I was raised here in the system. The system was my family. The system raised me. The gangs just claimed me."


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Eleanor Castro, 76, was taking a shower at her home in West, Texas, when a massive explosion a mile and half away spun her around and knocked out power in her house.
Investigators have located the spot where the horrific Central Texas fertilizer plant explosion occurred but do not yet know what triggered the deadly blast, town officials said Sunday.
West, Texas, fire officials said at a news briefing that there is no evidence of criminal activity in last Wednesday's massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co., and that there are no longer any fires burning at or around the decimated facility.
The blast rocked the town of West just before 8 p.m. local time Wednesday. At least 14 were killed, 200 injured, and scores of nearby homes and businesses damaged or destroyed in one of the worst American industrial accidents in years.
A fire official announced the city has identified the "seat" -- origin -- of the explosion, but did not specify the exact site.
"We do have a large crater," Assistant State Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner said.
Fire officials also announced plans for a memorial service at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., on Thursday, in honor of the volunteer firefighters who died in the explosion.
"It hits close to home for us all," said Joe Ondrasek, an executive board member of the Texas Line of Duty Task Force.
At Sunday's briefing, officials read statements by some of the families who lost loved ones.
Wendy Norris, director of the Texas line of duty death task force, read a statement on behalf of the family of brothers Doug and Robert Snokhous, recalling the volunteer firefighters' close bond. "They were always together, and we were comforted that they were together in the end," she said.
Five volunteer firefighters and four emergency services workers are among the dead, Sgt. Jason Reyes Reyes said on Friday.
Michael Ainsworth / The Dallas Morning News via AP
Workers stand amid debris Sunday, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. killed 14 people and injured 200 others.
NBC News' Marian Smith, Elizabeth Chuck and Becky Bratu contributed to this report.


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As the ancient proverb says, you can't tell the Herods apart without a scorecard. We get up to speed this week on all the different Herods mentioned in the Bible.
It's pretty well known that the Bible can be, to put it mildly, especially unkind to women. This week we take a brief look at one interesting response to that: biblical feminism.
We answer some great listener questions:
- Who was Nimrod, did he really hunt dinosaurs, and what does Bugs Bunny have to do with it?
- We seem to know when passages of the Bible were written. What are the ways we can find that information to begin with, and are some passages more accurately dated than others?
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PATTERNITY is the baby of art and interiors duo Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham. We joined forces with them at the London Design Festival and talked to Grace about the patterns that shape our homes, lives and listening habits.
You're something of a unique entity! Tell us a bit about how PATTERNITY came to be?
Anna and I set up PATTERNITY because pattern is everywhere, from the mundane to the magnificent. We're on a mission to inspire positive living through pattern research, design and experience.
What kind of influence can patterns have in shaping the rhythms of daily life at home?
There are so many unseen patterns that shape our daily lives that are so easy to overlook. So we've been looking at the power of rituals and simplification. There's a big shift for us towards 'design', and what this actually means beyond aesthetic and starting to consider our patterns of behaviour, or how we design our lives. When you reflect on the less visual patterns that shape life you really start to learn more about creativity which is a big part of what our event is for you is about.
The art of simplification played a big part in your workshop for us. How can the art of de-clutter bring joy in the home?
We're living in a complex, oversaturated world and we can feel totally overwhelmed by the amount of 'stuff' we have to deal with on a day to day basis. The home environment is an extension of our individuality so it's really important that you surround yourself with things that are authentic and pleasing to you. So be it through visual art, colours, smells and – of course – sound, curating your space to really nurture our senses.
What role does music play for you in all of this? Let's hear some of your inspirations?
I think music and sound is hugely important to our process and wider purpose – it has been since the beginning as it was how Anna and I first met – in the club!
We either commission soundtracks or work with sound artists for our events, it's an important part of crafting the space for tranquillity and creativity to flow. The soundtrack we commissioned for this event, starts off as a backdrop to the talk – an ambient collation of percussive sounds and gradually builds to a more rhythmical, industrial pace. The repetition of drums and beats can help focus and concentration and detach the analytical mind and reinstate the creative mind.
We listen to a real variety in the studio – it slightly depends on what we're all working on and the time of day. Generally the mood is relaxed and meditative, playing world music like Midori Takada, Ethiopiques or bird song.
Maybe something a little more jazzy in the afternoon like Dorothy Ashby, Alice Coltrane and Cinematic Orchestra. The mellow rhythms of Suzanne Kraft, CFCF and Project Pablo are great for focus, but calming when I'm designing. Music is one of the simplest ways to craft or change the mood at home or in the studio – and there is always space for a disco classic to shake it all out!


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A US lawyer has claimed that copyright is violated when courts pass legal submissions on to a commercial publisher. The lawyer claims that the US courts' behaviour undermines the hundreds of hours of work put into submissions.
An intellectual property law expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, said that an exemption in UK copyright law would be likely to protect such publication of writs over here.
Edmond Connor of California law firm Connor, Fletcher and Williams has written to California's Chief Justice Ronald George and its administrative director of courts, William Vickrey, to demand that they stop passing submissions to legal publishers LexisNexis and Westlaw.
"I am not exaggerating when I say that I was shocked to learn… that copies of all appellate briefs served on the Supreme Court were being routinely handed over to Westlaw and Lexis," he wrote in his letter. "Our firm was surprised to learn that a 143-page brief that had taken us hundreds of hours to prepare in an employment discrimination case that we were handling on behalf of an indigent client was being marketed and sold to other attorneys."
"To my knowledge the Supreme Court's practice of turning all appellate briefs over to Westlaw and Lexis has never been publicly disclosed and I believe that few, if any, attorneys in California know anything about this arrangement," wrote Connor. "The unrestricted distribution of briefs to Westlaw and Lexis directly aids them in infringing the copyrights held by the attorneys who authored those briefs."
Connor proposed a system which would allow lawyers to control whether or not their briefs were sent to the publishing companies and would enable them to share in earnings for those that were.
"If there are profits to be made in making appellate briefs available online, then the vendors of those briefs should share those profits with the authors of the briefs," he said.
Connor said that one of the lawyers at his firm researched whether or not copyright was infringed by the legal publishers and concluded that it was.
"The authors of briefs filed with the California Courts hold valid, enforceable copyrights in their briefs, and... Lexis and Westlaw have engaged in massive copyright infringement by copying and distributing those briefs for profit without seeking the copyright holders' consent," he wrote.
Iain Connor, an intellectual property specialist at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, said that publishers would be likely to be allowed to make such material available in the UK.
"Copyright exists in a writ or a court filing in the usual way because they are original works. However, the legislation contains a 'fair use' exemption for work done both for the purposes of judicial or parliamentary proceedings and the reporting of them," he said.
The exemption, at section 45 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, is for "anything done for the purposes of parliamentary or judicial proceedings". It also says that copyright is not infringed by anything done for the purposes of reporting proceedings, but that this does not authorise the copying of a work which is itself a published report of the proceedings.
"If a publisher like LexisNexis publishes a detailed analysis of a writ, it can argue that it is reporting the proceedings, but it will enjoy copyright protection in its own analysis," he said. "Further, the fair use exemption specifically says that it does not allow people to copy someone's report of the proceedings."
"So another person won't infringe copyright if their work is either for a court case or reporting on it but the writ and court filings retain their copyright protection in other contexts," he said.
Though it is most likely lawful for publications to publish filings as part of their reporting of judicial proceedings, then, it is less clear whether another lawyer's use of those filings for their own purposes would be lawful or not, he said.
"The law is ambiguous on whether someone else would infringe copyright if they copied your writ as a precedent for their own lawsuit," said Pinsent Masons' Connor. "The answer depends on whether or not the courts would see that as fair use being for the purpose of judicial proceedings and therefore exempt from copyright law or not."
The copyright in court judgments, as opposed to filings, is widely believed to belong to the Crown. The terms of Crown copyright notices generally state that judgments can be reproduced provided they are reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context and provided the source is identified and the copyright status acknowledged. Some judges have disputed the Crown's ownership of copyright in their judgments, though. A group of judges have claimed that they are not servants of the Crown and that their judgments are in the public domain.
A copy of Edmond Connor's letter can be read here.
A pdf of a submission by Professor Philip Leith to the Gowers Review on copyright in court judgments can be read here.
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Hong Kong: 5 free things for visitors to do
HONG KONG -- The former British colony of Hong Kong has become an increasingly popular destination for wealthy visitors from mainland China, many of whom come just to shop. In Hong Kong's main tourist districts, Louis Vuitton and Gucci boutiques have crowded out middle-of-the-road retailers to cater to the big spenders. Trendy, expensive restaurants and bars have replaced mom-and-pop shops. One could be forgiven for thinking there's nothing else to do in the Asian capital of commerce but spend money.
But Hong Kong still has a wealth of non-retail activities for visitors, and many are free.
With its bustling harbor and glittering, neon-drenched skyscrapers set against a backdrop of verdant, towering peaks, Hong Kong is one of the world's most scenic cities. Start at Tsim Sha Tsui on the tip of the Kowloon waterfront. Join other sightseers snapping shots of Hong Kong Island's legendary skyline.
While the views are free, the ferry to Hong Kong Island and a tram ride will cost you, but not much: Tickets at most are about 44 U.S. cents. Walk along the promenade toward the clock tower to reach the pier, where you can catch the cross-harbor Star Ferry, a Hong Kong icon that has been running for more than a century. Once on Hong Kong Island, take the footbridge to the tramway. Hop aboard the century-old tram system for an old-fashioned ride through neighborhoods along the island's northern edge. Grab an upper deck seat to watch streetscapes slide by, from the ultramodern financial district of Central to the crowded Causeway Bay shopping district to less glamorous neighborhoods. Some trams fork off to the Happy Valley horse racing track.
Martial arts legend Bruce Lee died in 1973 at age 32. Forty years later he arguably remains Hong Kong's most famous movie star, yet there are only a few landmarks for his fans. A bronze statue of the actor was erected in 2005 on the Kowloon waterfront promenade, showing Lee in one of his characteristic fighting stances: knees bent, leaning back on one leg, hands at chest level, ready to strike. The statue is on Hong Kong's Avenue of Stars, the city's version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where Lee and other Chinese stars are memorialized with plaques.
Fans have been pushing for Lee's childhood home in Kowloon Tong to be turned into a museum but talks with the businessman who owns the property, which has been used as an hourly love hotel, have dragged on for years. The intrepid can still pay a visit to the residence at 41 Cumberland Road. The truly devoted can hunt out even more obscure Bruce Lee sites by following walking tours developed by fans, like this one: http://orientalsweetlips.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/bruce-lees-hong-kong .
Hong Kong's hyper-urban highlights might not be everyone's cup of tea. But it's easy to get away from the crowds. Numerous parks offer hiking trails, many with scenic panoramas. One favorite is the Dragon's Back on eastern Hong Kong Island. The trail starts in a shady, quiet bamboo grove before emerging onto a hillside leading to the Dragon's Back, a winding ridge with sweeping views of the South China Sea.
Victoria Peak is a must, but don't stick just to the kitschy Peak Tram terminal and tourist complex. Instead, take the Hong Kong Trail that circles the mountaintop.
Look for signs pointing to the path, which follows Lugard and Harlech roads. The hour-long walk is gentle and flat, providing a bird's-eye view of upscale homes nestled amid the lush green flanks of the mountain and the city's skyscrapers beyond. Watch out for the occasional car trying to squeeze past to get to one of the posh homes along the route. Details at http://www.thepeak.com.hk/en/1_3.asp .
If you visit Hong Kong at any time except winter, you'll likely encounter sweltering weather. To cool down, head to the beach. Hong Kong Island has several, including Big Wave Bay in Shek O or the beach at tony Repulse Bay, but they do get crowded on weekends. You can escape the masses -- though you'll have to pay for transportation -- by taking the ferry to Mui Wo on Lantau Island and then bus or taxi to Cheung Sha beach. The stretch of broad white sand is one of Hong Kong's longest beaches. At one end, there's a public changing room, lifeguard station and two restaurants serving Thai and South African food. Watch out for feral cattle and water buffalo roaming rural and sparsely populated Lantau Island.
In the past decade, Hong Kong's art scene has mushroomed thanks to soaring numbers of wealthy mainland Chinese and other Asians who have developed a taste for collecting. Big names like London's White Cube and Larry Gagosian of the U.S. have opened local outposts of their art dealing empires while numerous lesser-known galleries have also sprouted up over the past decade. Many are located on or near Hollywood Road in the Mid-Levels neighborhood.
If you get tired of looking at art, you can also watch people spend lots of money buying it. Hong Kong has become one of the biggest auctions hubs worldwide and is one of the biggest markets for the Sotheby's and Christies auction houses. In spring and autumn, you can watch their twice-yearly sales of art as well as jewelry, watches, wine and furniture held in a cavernous exhibition center in Wan Chai. Dress nicely and the security guards may let you past the velvet rope to take a seat in the bidding room. Watch the British-accented auctioneer call out bids in both English and Chinese as nouveau riche mainland Chinese and others bid up prices of coveted works into the stratosphere.


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Realistically I don't see him staying in Pittsburgh and I'm fine with that, we have Sanders and Brown as starters and Cotchery as the new Hines Ward.
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Anne Rice hasn't written about vampires in almost a decade.
But for many fans, she remains the authority on the undead. So when she made an appearance at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, a gathering of comic, fantasy and science fiction aficionados earlier this month at McCormick Place, people had pressing questions.
For example: What happens if a vampire bites a zombie?
Zombies, which have challenged vampires as the monsters du jour, were on lots of people's minds.
Rice, petite and pretty in a black turtleneck and brown velvet jacket, and looking much younger than her 70 years, appeared thoughtful.
"It would be catastrophic," she concluded, because vampire blood would make a zombie much stronger. "But the vampire would just spit the zombie blood out."
Much has changed since Rice, in 1976, published "Interview with the Vampire," the first of 10 novels that would become "The Vampire Chronicles." Though her books eventually were game-changers in the vampire genre, gripping mainstream audiences with glamorous portrayals of lonely and gifted outcasts, most people initially "sneered and snickered" at her treatment of vampires as sympathetic souls, she said. "I got so much criticism and contempt and dismissal."
These days, you can't throw a wooden stake without hitting a sultry vampire series on the bestsellers list. And with "True Blood"returning to HBO for a fifth season in June, the final movie of the "Twilight" series due out in November, Johnny Depp starring in the upcoming film adaptation of the 1960s vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows," and horror heavyweights such as "Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del Toro contributing to the booming canon of vampire literature, the ongoing vampire craze, much like its fanged superstars, refuses to die.
"I think right now we're living in a golden age for fantasy writers, for speculative fiction, for paranormal romance," said Rice, whose new book, "The Wolf Gift," marks her return to the world of supernatural monsters after taking a decade off from the undead to focus on her Catholic faith (which she has since renounced).
Though she's currently enthralled by her werewolf character, Reuben — a strong superhero type who strives to use his powers for good — Rice said she might one day revisit her vampires, including her beloved Lestat.
"I wouldn't say no to anything at this point," Rice said. "I feel like someone who is returning from a vacation. I find I have new ideas and new attitudes."
Why consumers have latched onto fantasy fiction, and vampires in particular, has been the subject of some academic exploration.
A common theory is that, during times of great stress, it offers an escape, said Sue Schopf, associate dean at Harvard University Extension School, who teaches a course called The Vampire in Literature and Film, which she launched in 2010. Vampires, in particular, indulge our longing for eternal youth and the wish to cheat death, she said.
While zombies serve as a metaphors for epidemics and mankind devastating itself through technology, tapping into the real fears of today, Schopf said, vampires take us away from it (though stories of apocalyptic vampire viruses are often more zombie-like).
The ancient, deliberate, seductive nature of many vampires, even in the diabolical Dracula types, adds to their appeal. The vampire's mouth against a neck drips with sexual imagery, and the skulking bedside visits — often eagerly received with a heaving bosom — have long been a symbol for forbidden sexuality.
"It's about the erotic longings in human beings, the longing to be desired and nuzzled and sucked," Schopf said. The recent rise of the vampire bodice-ripper may be the ultimate manifestation of that desire.
Sometimes their appeal is more about power than sex.
Mae Panzica, 22, who picked up her first Anne Rice novel at a church book sale when she was a teenager, said the vampires made her feel strong during a challenging adolescence, as they represented that "you have to take the cards you're dealt and decide what you're going to do with them."
"I loved the idea that the vampires could still persevere, that they could choose to use their power to be good or evil," said Panzica, a graduate student at St. Louis University studying education and opera study.
For teens, who seem to have an insatiable appetite for this stuff, school vampires speak to struggles to fit in, not to mention the desire for a strong-yet-sensitive vampire boyfriend who texts you back when he says he will, said Mari Mancusi, author of the young adult "Blood Coven" series, which releases its eighth book in September.
In her books, vampirism is so coveted that people have to fill out an application to join the immortal club, and blood donors looking for some extra money offer up their veins for feedings.
For those who cringe at the mild vampires next door, rest assured that bloodthirsty killers are alive (if you will) and biting.
"I think that what makes vampires enduring is what makes them scary," said Scott Snyder, author of the "American Vampire" comic book series from Vertigo, which released its 26th issue this month. And what makes them scary, he said, is the notion that someone you trust could rise from the grave and terrorize you.
Sndyer's vampires, described as the first species born indigenous to America, are American icons — an outlaw from the frontier, a wannabe Hollywood starlet. They have rattlesnake fangs, long claws and are impervious to sunlight, though they become weak on a moonless night and are allergic to gold.
The beauty of vampires is that there are endless permutations of how they can look and what they can do, so the genre can keep diversifying without growing stale.
"Until the real vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game," said paranormal romance author Jeaniene Frost, whose "Night Huntress" series features a half-vampire heroine.
But though we may not bat an eye at werepanthers, Stephenie Meyer managed to hit a raw nerve when she decided to make her vampires sparkle in the "Twilight" series.
As he stood in a long, snaking line at the Chicago comic convention to get Rice's autograph, Thom Hooppaw, 44, echoed the sentiments of many fellow vampire fans when he scoffed at the idea that a vampire could glow gold in the sun.
"That 'Twilight' stuff is crap, it's too glittery," said Hooppaw, of Chicago, who, wearing a ruffled shirt and brocade vest, was dressed as Louis de Pointe du Lac, the regretful vampire at the center of Rice's "Interview with the Vampire."
Rice, for her part, says "Twilight" are books for "very young people" and reminiscent of a classic Jane Eyre romance of a young woman falling for a dangerous man. She is a much bigger fan of Charlaine Harris, author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries starring the telepathic Sookie Stackhouse, the basis for the sex- and blood-soaked HBO series "True Blood."
Vampires, as fans of Harris' work know, are supposed to have the best sex — though, in Rice's "The Wolf Gift," you discover werewolves aren't too shabby either.
So it wasn't so surprising when Rice was asked: Can you make a zombie sex scene?
"Yes," she smiled, "I think there's a way to do it."
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Steve Kornacki interviews Newt Gingrich, who demonstrates some awareness of the distorting effects of the GOP echo chamber, but then says this:
First, there was a belief in economic determinism, that you couldn't have that level of unemployment and have a president get re-elected. So people just sort of had a bias that as long as the economy stayed bad, he would lose. And of course they proved that in many ways identity politics beat economic politics, which I think is a considerable achievement [bold mine-DL].
Here we see Gingrich continuing to advance the common Republican misreading of the economy that created so many of their false expectations about the 2012 outcome. According to this view, the economic fundamentals pointed to a Republican win, but the truth all along was that the fundamentals consistently favored Obama. The assumption that the state of the economy would drive most voters' decision-making was not wrong. Republicans failed to take into account the actual state of the economy and minimized the importance of the slow, gradual improvement that had been happening in the previous three years.
It certainly didn't hurt Obama's chances that many Americans still held Bush responsible for the country's woes, which created a significant obstacle to Republican efforts to pin blame on the incumbent, but that wasn't the only problem. Republicans couldn't distinguish their economic agenda from Bush's economic record because there was little or no substantive difference between them, and the economic agenda that their nominee presented also happened to be irrelevant to most voters. The outcome wasn't proof that "identity politics beat economic politics." Republicans assumed from the beginning that they would prevail in a contest defined by economic politics when they had little or nothing of interest to say to the electorate. Gingrich later on acknowledges that "in the real world [Republicans] were kidding ourselves" and criticizes it as a failing, but it seems that when it comes to making sense of the role of the economy in the 2012 election Gingrich continues to do just that.


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Ladies and Gentlemen I would consider it an honor to introduce to you Mr. Walters or Pops to most of us that know him. Pops was born on May 1, 1930 and during his teen years in Alabama stoked coal for the local packing plant. He went on to actually graduate the 3rd grade before his father died and left he and his brother to work so their Momma could keep the house and dinner on the table and work two jobs of her own.
Pops worked many odd jobs but he always came back to and loved HVAC / R. He settled in with a local company doing residential installs and service for the better part of 20 years. When this and several other companies he worked for had used him up and dried his bones he took placement with a large Hotel chain near his home town. This is where I met Pops back in 1986 as I was running a crew to install a couple of new revolving ovens in their bakery. Pops would check us in everyday and make sure we had everything we needed. He would also bring us snacks and take us to lunch to be served by his long time friend and wife, Granny Walters or show us where all the best places to go at night before they rolled in the sidewalks at 8 PM sharp and closed the small town.
Granny ran the employee kitchen where Pops would get an earful each time one of her coolers didnt close right or her oven burned one of her state wide famous homemade pies. Although we stayed there a week installing the new ovens but it seemed only a few days and I wanted to stay longer and I knew I would miss Pops and Granny Walters down home charm and mouth watering cooking.
I stayed in touch with Pops and Granny and dropped by his trailer when ever I could when passing through and always found him in reasonable health and still wanting to talk all about the new refrigerant types and blends. For this reason (his love of) he took the HVAC-Talk site name of Retro and has been lurking here for a number of years faintly posting but when he did you knew there was a presence behind the screen. He celebrated his life with positive energy and kindness unsurpassed by any human I have ever known. You could always bet there would be a dollar bill for each of his grandkids in his pocket and a gleam in his eye with deep love in his heart.
Pops Retro Walters died last night from a massive heart attack. He leaves behind his friend and wife Granny, two grown children, 7 grand kids, and a slightly scratched gold watch from his Hotel retirement and his favorite old green fishing hat.
Pops, thank you for being you. I love you and will miss my old friend.
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Finally, I laughed when we submitted our taxes this year. I guess it's official: according to the IRS I am a professional Quilter. I wonder what the accountant thought on that one – probably doesn't see many of those. 🙂 Got to do something to keep those accountants entertained during tax season. What it should really say is "vacuumer-washer-chauffer-soccerfan-chef", but I guess there wasn't room.
Fabric + taxes + feeling dorky
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lisaApril 19, 2012 at 11:47 am
I'm so interested to see your solid-color quilt! I've always wanted to try one, but haven't been brave enough yet. For some reason it seems harder to pick solid colors that would look great together in a quilt!
Katy CameronApril 19, 2012 at 11:59 am
Oooh, have a fun weekend! Lol at the occupation :oD
LindaApril 19, 2012 at 12:07 pm
I so understand what you're saying! I also feel out of place at events like that. I won't go unless I can take someone along. Misery loves company!
Live a Colorful LifeApril 19, 2012 at 12:11 pm
So in love with solids right now.
Melissa CorryApril 19, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Have fun at your conference. Sounds like it will be super informative 🙂 Oh, and I will see you on the 5th, I am officially making a trip of it 🙂
Elizabeth DacksonApril 19, 2012 at 1:35 pm
LOL about your taxes, but I think you are going to have a lot of fun at the Snap conference! I hope you have a great time!! I love Kona Peacock, one of my favorite Konas, I can't wait to see what you're up to 🙂
Sew Create It - JaneApril 19, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I've just started a solids quilt in Kona Ash, Rich Red and Delft Blue. You can see it and the quilts that others are working on in a flickr group that I started (we are trying to support each other :o)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sewintosolids/
vintage greyApril 19, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Have fun at the SNAP conference!! Sounds great!! xo Heather
BeckyApril 19, 2012 at 3:20 pm
It will be fun to see your new quilt made from solids. Well, you really ARE a professional quilter, so can't think of a better title to fill in as your profession.
CitricSugarApril 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Hey, if it means you can write off fabric, thread, batting and sewing machine maintenance, being a quilter by occupation is AWESOME.

Have fun and remember that each and every one of us feels like a dork most of the time. 🙂
Jane S.April 19, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Beautiful solids! I'll be looking forward to seeing that quilt. 🙂
Lucy @ Charm About YouApril 19, 2012 at 5:02 pm
I love all solid quilts! Have fun and I totally get what you mean, I'm already nervous about the FQ retreat in June and trying not to think about it. Silly really.
I long to be called a quilter, that's awesome!
ScooquiltApril 19, 2012 at 6:17 pm
This is my first tax season as a Quilter, and it's scarey, isn't is? And I did them myself, we don't use an accountant. So far, so good. But talk about being out of your comfort zone!

I'm also working on a (commission) quilt that is almost all Kona solids. They are great to work with, all starched up and spiffy.
A.J. Dub.April 19, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Have fun at SNAP! It will be fun hearing about it on the blogs. :)
I like your fabric colors. Those are some favorites of mine. My wedding colors were yellow and blue, though not that shade of blue.
MicheleApril 19, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Enjoy the conference. I'd rather sew and watch reruns of Mash too over many other things.

And what would I put on my return if I made money from my sewing along with my normal work? I'm an accountant already!
randi--i have to sayApril 19, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Best wishes at your conference!

I LOVE that you are listed as a quilter for your profession! Fun!
Miz MagnificatApril 19, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Quilting, MASH and Downton Abbey… does it get any better than that? 😀
CynthiaApril 20, 2012 at 9:07 am
Congratulations on becoming a professional quilter!!! I love the colors you've chosen for your quilt. Am looking forward to seeing what you create.
sydthewydApril 20, 2012 at 10:21 am
It's so fun when unexpected things happen – like becoming a professional quilter in the eyes of the IRS 🙂
Memories By MeApril 20, 2012 at 9:28 pm
LOL on our taxes I list my occupation as a Domestic Homefront Coordinator !! hehehe Have fun at SNAP… im so jealous.:-)Can't wait to hear about it all!!!!
Ashley J @ MommyByDayCrafterByNightApril 22, 2012 at 11:04 am
I am so bummed… I just read this post and saw you were at SNAP and I had no idea! I would have loved to meet you! Bummer! Hope you had a great time:) love love love your blog!! xoxo
ThimbleannaApril 23, 2012 at 7:53 am
Hahaha — I love Quilter on the taxes! I've always wanted to put Gopher, but it's never happened. Can't wait to see that new quilt!
EstherApril 24, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Love those colors. Can't wait to see what you do with them! On my tax form, I'm "Happy Homemaker."
EstherApril 24, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Love those colors. Can't wait to see what you do with them! On my tax form, I'm "Happy Homemaker."