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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 11, 2013) - USA Volleyball has processed 185 international transfer certificates (126 female, 59 male) allowing United States citizens to compete in foreign professional volleyball leagues for the 2013-2014 season, as of Oct. 11, an increase of 74 transfers since the initial release on Sept. 30. Additional transfers are expected to be processed over the course of the next few months as professional leagues begin.
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On the women's side, 22 transfers have been processed for athletes playing in Germany, while another 18 transfers have been processed for athletes heading to compete in France. USA Volleyball has also processed 13 transfers for players going to play in Switzerland and 11 in Azerbaijan this season. As of Oct. 11, USA Volley has processed transfers for female athletes to 22 different countries.
Finland, France, Greece and Sweden have been the leading destinations for male athlete transfers with seven athletes processed to play in each country. All told, USA Volleyball has processed transfers for male athletes to 15 different countries.
In the lists below, '*' represents new transfers processed since the initial release on Sept. 30.
Women's Transfers
Name (Club, Country)
Acres, Pauline (CEP Poitiers St Benoit, France)
Adams, Rachael (MKS Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland)
Akinradewo, Foluke (Rabita Baku, Azerbaijan)
Ammerman, Sarah (TV Fischbek, Germany)
Angel, Jana (U.S. S.P. Albigeois V.B, France)
Banwarth, Kayla (Rabita Baku, Azerbaijan)
*Barfield, Lauren (Legionovia S.A., Poland)
Bartsch, Michelle (Rote Raben Vilsbiburg, Germany)
Bates, Kara (Amiens Longeau Metropole VB, France)
*Beck, Andrea (Woman Volley, Finland)
Beck, Carrie (Gislaved VBK, Sweden)
Bell, Lacey (CAM Epinal, France)
*Bergsma, Alaina (Minas Tenis Clube, Brazil)
Beyer, Ashley (VBC Val-de-Travers, Switzerland)
Blum, Tiffany (ZOK Nova Gradiska, Croatia)
Bradshaw, Kelly (Granite City, Scotland)
Brewster, Molly (VC Offenburg, Germany)
Brown, Lindsay (VC Tirol, Austria)
*Bruns, Taylor (PislaPloki, Finland)
Campbell, Norisha (Rote Raben Vilsbiburg, Germany)
*Carpenter, Kristin (Svedala VBK, Sweden)
Carter, Katie (VK Prostejov, Czech Republic)
*Chafeh, Mbebui Jane (Hapoel Kfar Saba, Israel)
Chan, Lena (VfL Nurnberg, Germany)
Cikra, Leslie (Istres Ouest Provence V.B., France)
Cleveland, Kendall (NawaRo Straubing (FTSV Straubing), Germany)
Cole, Shonda (UGSE Nantes Volley Feminin, France)
Cooper, Brittnee (Rabita Baku, Azerbaijan)
Crimes, Alexis (Lokomotiv Baku, Azerbaijan)
*Danielson, Kanani (Toyota Auto Body Queenseis, Japan)
Davis, Nicole (Clubul Sportiv Dinamo, Romania)
Deesing, Alesha (Beziers VB, France)
*DeGeest, Krista (Svedala VBK, Sweden)
D'Errico, Alyssa (Istres Ouest Provence V.B., France)
Doremus, Lisa (VST Lions Groot-Turnhout, Belgium)
Doris, Jennifer (PFU Blue Cats, Japan)
Dosty, Whitney (Lokomotiv Baku, Azerbaijan)
*Faucette, Juliann (Guangdong Evergrande Club, China)
*Fuller, Katelyn (Power Cats Volleyball Dudingen, Switzerland)
Ganzer, Meagan (Dresdner SC 1898, Germany)
Gates, Kathleen (SENS Olympique Club VB, France)
*Genslak, Ashley (WSV Eisenerz, Austria)
*Gerling, Rachel (ASKO Linz-Steg, Austria)
Gibbemeyer, Lauren (Lokomotiv Baku, Azerbaijan)
Glass, Alisha (Fenerbahce SK., Turkey)
Glass, Kimberly (Praia Clube, Brazil)
Gurnell, Carrie (VC Tirol, Austria)
Hagglund, Jenna (Rote Raben Vilsbiburg, Germany)
*Harmotto, Christa (Eczacibasi Istanbul, Turkey)
*Harrison, Deedee (C.V. Haro, Spain)
*Heckelman, Kasey (PislaPloki, Finland)
Hill, Kimberly (Atom Trefl Sopot, Poland)
*Hodge, Megan (Guangdong Evergrande Club, China)
Hood, Regan (Iller Bankasi, Turkey)
Hruska, Kathleen (SENS Olympique Club VB, France)
*Hurley, Hillary (Svedala VBK, Sweden)
*Jackson, Cursty (Rabita Baku, Azerbaijan)
*Jacob, Haley (Power Cats Volleyball Dudingen, Switzerland)
Jaeckel, Kristy (ASPTT Mulhouse VB, France)
*Jenkins, Benavia (Volley Koniz, Switzerland)
Jeter, Kayla (LP Kangasala, Finland)
Jones, Jessica (Azerrail Baku, Azerbaijan)
*Kaufman, Amber (Woman Volley, Finland)
Kearney, Lindsay (Geneve Volley, Switzerland)
*Kidd-Kadlubek, Courtney (Team Northumbria, England)
King, Allison (Gislaved VBK, Sweden)
King, Tara (Geneve Volley, Switzerland)
Kingsley, Faimie (PTPS Pila, Poland)
*Knight, Amy (SV Bad Laer, Germany)
Lamb, Dominique (Rote Raben Vilsbiburg, Germany)
Landwehr, Alison (Hainaut Volley, France)
Larson-Burbach, Jordan (Dinamo Kazan, Russia)
Leaser, Erin (Barbar D'X-Elles, Belgium)
Lee, Ashley (Sagres NUC, Switzerland)
*McNatt, Therese (Club Voleibol Ciutadella, Spain)
Mellinger, Tori (SCU Emlichheim, Germany)
Metcalf, Nancy (Ageo Medics, Japan)
Middleborn, Samantha (VC Kanti Schaffhausen, Switzerland)
*Miyashiro, Tamari (Rote Raben Vilsbiburg, Germany)
*Moffett, Sabel (Volley Koniz, Switzerland)
*Morrell, Katharine (Pollux, Netherlands)
*Mueller, Tara (Power Cats Volleyball Dudingen, Switzerland)
*Murray, Vanessa (A.D. La Curtidora, Spain)
*Neely, Roxanne (Hapoel Kfar Saba, Israel)
Nelson, Alicia (SCU Emlichheim, Germany)
*Neto, Kayla (Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen, Switzerland)
*Newcombe, Sonja (Tyumen Tyumen, Russia)
Olinyk, Rachel (NawaRo Straubing (FTSV Straubing), Germany)
Owens, Tiffany (Sagres NUC, Switzerland)
*Paige, Brieon (Clubul Sportiv Universitar Targu Mures, Romania)
*Paolini, Lauren (Hitachi Automotive Systems, Japan)
*Penney, Audra (Trabzon Idman Ocagi, Turkey)
Perry, Rebecca (Dresdner SC 1898, Germany)
*Plourde, Megan (Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen, Switzerland)
*Post, Kathleen (Pollux, Netherlands)
*Rand, Alexa (Engelholms VS, Sweden)
Rowland, Biance (VfB 91 Suhl, Germany)
Rozier, Kimika (CEP Poitiers St Benoit, France)
Rucker, Gwendolyn (Azerrail Baku, Azerbaijan)
Schatow, Tania (Hermes Volley Oostende, Belgium)
Schermerhorn, Sarah (Pays D'Aix Venelles VB, France)
Schmidt, Tanya (VC Offenburg, Germany)
*Scott, Jordanne (Post-Telekom-Sportverein Aachen e.V., Germany)
Scott-Arruda, Danielle (Brasilia Volei, Brazil)
Serra-Hsu, Elizabeth (VST Lions Groot-Turnhout, Belgium)
Speer, Christina (VfB 91 Suhl, Germany)
*Stalzer, Lindsay (Allianz Volley Stuttgart, Germany)
Thompson, Shannon (VC Tirol, Austria)
*Turner, Ariel (UGSE Nantes Volley Feminin, France)
Turner, Whitney (Orebro VBS, Sweden)
Usher, Ariel (Gislaved VBK, Sweden)
Valentine, Alyssa (TV Fischbek, Germany)
Varee, Jordan (Falkenberg VBK, Sweden)
*Ward, Colleen (PTPS Pila, Poland)
Warner, Nicole (Quimper Volley 29, France)
Weidner, Katherine (Maccabi Even Yehuda, Israel)
*Weston, Sundai (A.D. La Curtidora, Spain)
White, Meliame (NawaRo Straubing (FTSV Straubing), Germany)
Whitson, Allison (Terville Florange OC, France)
Wiker, Jennifer (Barbar D'X-Elles, Belgium)
Williams, Sherri (UGSE Nantes Volley Feminin, France)
Willoughby, Kim (Igtisadchi Baku, Azerbaijan)
Wilson, Arielle (Igtisadchi Baku, Azerbaijan)
Wilson, Makare (Impel Volleyball SA, Poland)
Young, Heather (Barbar D'X-Elles, Belgium)
*Young, Justine (Stod IL, Norway)
Men's Transfers
Name (Club, Country)
*Aguillard, Antwain (Lentopalloseura ETTA, Finland)
*Alexander, Daniel (Volley Nafels, Switzerland)
Amberg, Thomas (Asnieres Volley 92, France)
*Anderson, Matthew (Zenit Kazan, Russia)
Barry, Evan (Evivo Duren, Germany)
*Baughman, James (Hylte VBK, Sweden)
*Bittner II, Dean (Volley Nafels, Switzerland)
*Burik, Mark (Vingakers VK, Sweden)
Burrow, Ryan (VK Dukla Liberec, Czech Republic)
Castello, Nicholas (VK Ostrava, Czech Republic)
*Daliege, Eric (MAS Niki Aiginiou, Greece)
Davis, Dylan (Avignon VB, France)
Devany, Vincenzo (L0334 Maaseik, Belgium)
*Dye, Michael (Vingakers VK, Sweden)
*Friend, Kyle (VBK Tierp, Sweden)
*Frishman, Chase (TSV Jona, Switzerland)
Hein, Andrew (VT Hypo Tirol, Austria)
*Hemmerling, Brad (Hylte VBK, Sweden)
*Holmes, Russell (Istanbul BBSK, Turkey)
Jablonsky, Jayson (Tours Volley-Ball, France)
*Joyner, Brandon (VBK Tierp, Sweden)
*Kauliakamoa, Joseph Jr. (GS Robur Angelo Costa ssd a.r.l, Italy)
Kehoe, Steven (Waremme, Belgium)
Kellum, Daniel (VCA Amstetten Hypo Noe, Austria)
Klanac, John (Waremme, Belgium)
Klein, Joseph (Kokkolan Tiikerit, Finland)
*Lavaja, Russell (Lamia SC Lamia, Greece)
Lotman, Paul (Asseco Resovia SA, Poland)
*McCalmont, Aaron (Kifissia SC Athens, Greece)
*McElderry, Kyle (Perungan Pojat, Finland)
*McLachlin, Spencer (MAS Niki Aiginiou, Greece)
*McLean, Robert (RSR Walfer, Luxembourg)
Menzel, Jeffrey (L0334 Maaseik, Belgium)
*Moore, Jared (Panathinaikos SC Athens, Greece)
Muagututia, Garrett (Konak Belediye Spor, Turkey)
*Nadazdin, Srdjan (VBK Tierp, Sweden)
Nally, Andrew (Evivo Duren, Germany)
Overman, Grayson (Asul Lyon Volley, France)
Penolio, Jacob (UVC Graz, Austria)
*Penolio, Zachary (Panathinaikos SC Athens, Greece)
*Petty, Howard (Lamia SC Lamia, Greece)
*Pollock, Matthew (Perungan Pojat, Finland)
Price, William (Konak Belediye Spor, Turkey)
*Ptaschinski, Nick (Chenois Volleyball Club, Switzerland)
*Ratajczak, Jacek (VB0679 Euphony Asse-Lennik, Belgium)
*Riecks, Cory (Raision Loimu, Finland)
*Sangrey, Shawn (Raision Loimu, Finland)
Schmitz, Jeffrey (Pohjois-Karjalan Liiga-Riento, Finland)
Shoji, Erik (VT Hypo Tirol, Austria)
Shoji, Kawika (SCC Berlin, Germany)
Smith, David (Tours Volley-Ball, France)
*Sunder, Joseph (TV Buhl, Germany)
Suxho, David (Trentino Volley SPA s.s.d., Italy)
Tavana, Vaafuti (Toulouse O.A.C.-T.U.C., France)
Touzinsky, Scott (SCC Berlin, Germany)
Troy, Murphy (St. Nazaire V.B. Atlantique, France)
*Vogel, Nicholas (TV Buhl, Germany)
Watten, Dustin (Volei Brasil Centro de Excelencia, Brazil)
Wiens, Jacob (Landstede Volleyball/VCZ, Netherlands)


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An Indian politician known for championing the nation's poor once sent a jet to pick up a pair of her favorite sandals, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Mayawati, who uses only one name but is also known as the "Untouchables Queen," is described in the cables as a "first-rate egomaniac," obsessed with becoming prime minister. She is currently the governor of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
"When she needed new sandals, a jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand," according to a cable sent Oct. 23, 2008. "She constructed a private road from her residence to her office, which is cleaned immediately after her multiple vehicle convoy reaches its destination."
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Usually we don't really cover things like this, but since Kristen Stewart has issued an official statement(it has been verified as authentic) we are. Earlier today US Weekly published photos of Kristen Stewart in a compromising position with her married, Snow White and the Huntsman director(edited: as has he). The statement was given to People Magazine, which we believe is a sister company to US Weekly.
"I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected. This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry," Stewart said in a statement Wednesday. "


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Her relationship with Jon may have ended -- but Kate Gosselin's reality career is just getting started.
Gosselin will strut her stuff on "Dancing With the Stars" alongside celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger, Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek, "Bachelor" star Jake Pavelka and ESPN commentator Erin Andrews, ABC announced Monday night.
NFL player Chad Ochocinco, soap opera actor Aiden Turner, "Beverly Hills: 90210" star Shannen Doherty, diva Niecy Nash and moon-walker Buzz Aldrin will also vie for the title on the ABC reality hit, according to the network.
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On the women's side, Anderson is best known for her role as a "Baywatch" babe, while Andrews has made headlines over the past year for a stalking scandal that saw a man tape her through a peephole in her hotel room.
Gosselin, Nash and Pavelka shot to fame on reality TV, Gosselin as the controversial mom of sextuplets and twins on "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" and Nash as host on home-organizational show "Clean House."
Pavelka became a household name as the star of "The Bachelor," which ended Monday immediately before the "DWTS" cast was announced, as Pavelka gave the final rose -- and a proposal -- to Vienna Girardi.
Doherty also became a part of TV history as one of the stars on "Beverly Hills: 90210" and has since acted on TV shows like the witchy "Charmed."
Athletes on this year's show include the Cincinnati Bengals' Ochocinco and Olympic gold-medal figure skater Evan Lysacek, who took home his hardware at this year's Vancouver Games.
Scherzinger is the lone musician on this year's program, representing girl group the Pussycat Dolls.
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Twitter can be a great way to get the word out on events, write clever short-form jokes and announce your attraction to serial killers. Additionally, it helps make the world a much smaller place — even the most famous of celebrities are but an @ symbol away and getting messages to them is easy as pie. But why would you want to contact them? To ask a question? To tell them how you admire them? Of course not. Unless you're a total L7, you use Twitter to harass, insult and degrade them as much as you possibly can, perhaps forgetting, since these are the beautiful untouchables that live behind the screens and glossies, that you are contacting real human beings with real feelings.
Maybe seeing these sad famous people read cruel tweets about themselves aloud on Jimmy Kimmel Live will drive this point home.
Haha, JK. @zooeydeschanel smells like wieners.
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Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law
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8502. Authority to levy tax. The commission may impose, in addition to any other tax authorized by this division, a tax on the privilege of selling within the region, motor vehicle fuel, as defined by Section 7326. The tax shall not apply to motor vehicle fuel used to power aircraft. The tax shall be levied at a rate established by the commission, but not exceeding ten cents ($0.10) per gallon. Commencing on January 1 of the year following the election approving the tax, the tax may be imposed for a period not to exceed 20 years.
History.—Stats. 2000, Ch. 1053 (AB 2114), operative January 1, 2002, substituted "7326" for "7304" after "as defined by Section" in the first sentence.
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These meetings are either held at Force Headquarters or at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. The Commissioner and Chief Constable, Andy Cooke, discuss a wide variety of subjects relating to routine business.
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This is a "definition" type theme with no revealing entry or unifier. All of the theme clues are types of berries, but the answers are not.
17-Across. RASPBERRY : SOUND OF DERISION. Here's a quick lesson on how to get it just right. 1:49
43-Across. HUCKLEBERRY : TWAIN CHARACTER. The inimitable Finn.
56-Across. STRAWBERRY : REDDISH SKIN MARK. Also known as a "hemangioma," they usually appear at birth and often fade with time.
Two fifteens and two fourteens allow for some freedom in the fill. Some nice long down entries with A BIT SIMPLE and Dracula's WIDOW'S PEAK. Other nice shorter entries made this a pleasant diversion from the trials and tribulations of life...
1. "Find your own road" automaker : SAAB.
5. Bitter disagreement : STRIFE. If it escalates, it might become armed.
14. Minuscule lake plant : ALGA.
15. Wee hr. : FOUR AM. One or two AM? - too short. Three AM? - too long. FOUR AM - juuuust right!
16. Dude : BRO.
20. Vampire's bane : STAKE.
21. T-man, e.g. : FED.
22. Courageous : GUTSY.
23. Hermey of TV's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," e.g. : ELF. He wanted to be a dentist.
25. Take out : ERASE.
32. Newtonian elements? : FIGS. Fun misdirection. They now have STRAWBERRY and Triple BERRY Newtons, but I still like the Fig Newtons best.
33. Is ready for business : OPENS.
34. Big runners : EMUS. Early week puzzles would have some kind of reference to "down under."
35. Bustle : ADO.
36. Natural resource : ORE.
37. Educational org. : PTA.
38. Chloé fragrance maker : COTY.
40. Good-sized chamber ensemble : OCTET.
42. Baseball family name : ALOU. Even I, baseball-challenged as I am, remembered this family.
46. Goal line play : SNEAK. The quarterback sneak. The ball is snapped as usual, but instead of passing it off to another player, the QB himself dives for the goal line. Usually done on 4th down and short yardage. Bart Starr used one to win the game in the 1967 NFL Championship.
47. Kitchen tool : POT.
48. Like wasted milk in Westminster : SPILT. American English spells spilt "spilled."
49. Its HQ is named for George Bush : CIA. The George Bush Center for Intelligence.
52. Schisms and chasms : RIFTS.
59. __ kwon do : TAE.
60. Sherlock Holmes' instrument : VIOLIN.
61. Small case : ETUI.
62. Wanted-poster letters : AKA. Also Known As...
63. Use : EXPEND.
64. Percolate : SEEP.
1. Fresh answers, say : SASS. Nice misdirection.
2. Oodles : A LOT.
3. Lago contents : AGUA. Spanish lago = lake, agua = water.
4. Ones showing varying amounts of interest? : BANKERS.
5. Facility about 350 miles NW of LAX : SFO. San Francisco International Airport.
6. Beau Brummel, for one : TOFF. Derogatory British word for an aristocrat.
7. Brusque : RUDE.
8. Steamed : IRED.
9. Word with cry or out : FAR.
10. Future citizen, perhaps : EMIGRÉ. C.C. was an emigré from China, and got her U.S. citizenship on June 2nd, 2010.
11. Not particularly challenging : A BIT SIMPLE.
12. "Law & Order" figure : PROSECUTOR.
13. County fair mount : PONY.
18. Mark of rejection : DELE. Editor's rejection, that is.
19. Like James Bond : SUAVE.
24. Ubiquitous insurance spokeswoman : FLO. She annoys me.
25. To whom reporters report: Abbr. : EDs. Editors, who sometimes reject their entire story...
26. Dracula feature : WIDOW'S PEAK. Nice fill.
27. Brainstorming cry : I GOT AN IDEA. Nit: Technically, "got" is the past tense. You might say, "While we were brainstorming yesterday, I got an idea." But during the actual session, you should cry "I have an idea!" You could even use colloquial English and say "I've got an idea!" But I GOT is just poor English. Unless you're Spike Lee, and then you can say "He Got Game!"
28. Historical segment : EPOCH.
29. Simmons competitor : SERTA. Sealy also fit. Just sayin'...
30. Show contempt : SNEER.
31. Son of Isaac : ESAU.
32. Fundamental of science : FACT.
39. Harvest output : YIELD.
40. Spider-Man nemesis Doc __ : OCK.
41. Select : TAP. You can tap a friend for a loan. In that case, you probably should select one who is both generous and rich.
42. Occasionally : AT TIMES.
44. From around here : NATIVE.
45. Podiatrist's concern : CORN.
48. Mlle., in Monterrey : SRTA. Abbrs. for mademoiselle and señorita.
49. Recipe verb : CHOP.
50. Cruise destination : ISLE.
51. Related : AKIN.
53. You've got it coming : FATE. Do you believe in FATE? 54-Down. "No argument here" : TRUE.
55. Ignore : SKIP.
57. Pack quantity : SIX. Six pack. Beer or abs.
58. Senator Sanders of Vt., on ballots : IND.ependent.
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Grip It & Rip It has grown into premier event
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When the New Canaan football team hosted its first Grip It & Rip It 7 on 7 camp six years ago, there were four teams, one field and the set up time was measured in minutes.
Now, six years later, the event features 36 teams from Connecticut and New York playing on four fields, spans two days, requires dozens of volunteers and the planning begins in January.
"It's the biggest one in the northeast," said John Marinelli, who along with fellow New Canaan assistant coach Chris Silvestri is the co-executive camp director. "I think the more you are around the game, the most you invest yourself as a coach and player. We've always gone to 7 on 7 camps to try and get our kids together and work as a team. I'm surprised how this one has grown and become a marquee passing camp."
This year's Grip It & Rip It begins this afternoon, with each team playing four games in pool play for seeding on Saturday, when all entrants will take part in a double-elimination playoff.
"This is the first time we have made it a two-day event," said Marinelli, who is the Rams' offensive coordinator, and whose father, Lou, is the team's head coach. "We went to one last year in Alabama that was three days. Most of the best ones are about player safety. This gives all teams the chance to really play but also rest. We are different from every camp in the country. We are the only one that places all 36 teams."
Trumbull was the runner-up at the first camp, in 2008, then won the championship the following two years.
"This is the only one we do," said Bob Maffei, the Eagles' coach. "We do the St. Joseph passing league, but this is the only one where we compete. This one is a lot of fun. Different teams from different states."
The winning team will receive an automatic bid to the National Select 7 on 7 Championships in Hoover, Ala.
There will be 27 Connecticut schools participating, including 11 from the FCIAC. The nine New York teams features Shenendehowa High School, which is coming all the way from Clifton Park in the Saratoga area.
Though head coaches are not permitted to coach their teams, a number of the schools involved have compelling storylines. In a season with unparalleled coaching turnovers, arguably the two biggest moves involve John Murphy moving from Masuk, where he won three state titles, to New Milford, and Jack Cochran, a lightning rod for both success and controversy, taking over at Warren Harding.
Both New Milford and Harding will be competing in the camp.
"I'd have to say Grip It & Rip It is the best one around," said Greenwich coach Rich Albonizio. "They're very organized, they definitely get some good teams in there. It gets better and better every year."
The proliferation of spread offenses has been the catalyst for the growth of 7 on 7 events, which is an all passing game without the use of linemen. It is also a way for football to take a step toward other sports, like summer baseball and AAU basketball.
"There's nothing really for football but 7 on 7," Albonizio said. "It's great for the secondary and great for the offense to get the timing down."
Danbury went to the spread offense last season. It will be making its first appearance today at the New Canaan event.
"This is the second year running this offense and one thing we decided is we needed to practice," Hatters coach Dan Donovan said. "This 7 on 7, especially Grip It & Rip It, has taken on a life of its own. In two days you get a minimum of six games against excellent competition."
John Marinelli said the development of the camp has become a labor of love.
"This is all due to hours and hours of work by our staff," Marinelli said. "There's not better place, in our opinion, on the east coast to have this event. We have the facilities, an athletic director that supports us. It is an unbelievable thing for our staff. It is almost a bonding experience. My dad is trying to make this area better for football. It's not about New Canaan. And football is rising here, the competition is rising, and that is a tribute to the coaching in the FCIAC."
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Holistic program benefits area people
A group of local mothers said a holistic program — which their children recently attended — is greatly benefiting their children.
Darla Gossard, along with her husband, Stephen, founded the Northwest Ohio Conductive Education Program, in 1999, which is a holistic approach designed for children and adults with a neuromotor disorder.
Their son, Cory, now 25, has cerebral palsy.
Cory, along with others with neurological disorders, recently finished a four-week long Conductive Education program, with conductors from Hungary, at the Lima Missionary Baptist Church.
Conductive Education is a holistic approach to develop spontaneous and innovative problem solving skills in people with physical disabilities to assist their maximum integration into society. It is a unique system of teaching and learning for children with motor disorders such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida.
The program is designed to improve motor skills and increase independence of many aspects of common living.
Northwest Ohio Conductive Education Program, a local non-profit program in Auglaize County, operates through the help of local and state fund raisers. This year they brought in two conductors, Agnes and Laura, from Hungary, and they serviced eight clients, including Gossard's son, Cory, of Waynesfield, Andrea Martin, of St. Marys, and Amanda Grieshop, of Lima.
"I heard about this program on a documentary," Darla Gossard said.
This documentary was on conductive education, which helps people with neurological disorders learn everyday tasks in a holistic manner.
So she took her son to Canada for a conduction education program when he was 9, and she saw improvements as they worked on physical, occupational and speech therapy.
"It greatly benefited our son and several other children and adults with disabilities in the area," Darla Gossard said of the holistic approach.
Now, Cory attends the annual four-week program, which receives funding from the United Way of Auglaize County. Darla Gossard and her husband started the program in the area, so they can have a local spot for the conductive education, instead of traveling to Michigan or Canada for classes every year.
"The two conductors worked with them on physical, occupational and speech therapy," Darla Gossard said.
The goal of this program is for improvements in the students.
Darla Gossard sees improvement in her son each day.
"By the end of the first week, when we stood up to do a transfer, he was much stronger," Darla Gossard said.
During the program, the conductors also worked with the students with stretching on a mat and working on muscle toning.
"The older students have high muscle toning and they require more massaging," Darla Gossard said, of how the conductors determine the length of each age group's class time.
Andrea's mother, Dru Martin, said the conductors do some singing along during their days, which her daughter enjoys.
"They make learning fun," Dru Martin said of the conductors. "The music and singing make it fun for them."
During the four-week program with two conductors from Hungary, which ended on Friday, there were students from 3-years-old to 45-years-old that participated, and each were split up into age appropriate groups, and worked with the conductors for three to four hours a day.
"With Andrea, I see an increase in her strength and independence each year," Dru Martin said of her daughter. "She gains more and more strength."
She said that she saw Andrea improve every day during the conductive education program.
Not only does the program work on everyday skills, but it develops friendships.
"It develops a lot of camaraderie between the kids," Dru Martin said. "They develop special friendships and we do see a lot of improvements."
Client Amanda Grieshop said that the program helps with all daily activities.
"We work on different little steps to get us to all things in our daily lives," Grieshop said, while working with conductor Agnes during the Conductive Education class last week.
The program works on stretches, which include everyday movements they can practice at home including the motion to put on and take off clothes, tie shoes and bathe.
"They do hand lifting stretches — such as hand motions to take clothes off. We do exercising in class and they learn how to lift their hand and leg up, eating and speech," said Agnes, a conductor who traveled from Hungary to Lima to teach the four-week program.
She said she and the other conductor teaches the clients on controlling different movements.
"Amanda said she has been doing the program off and on for the last few years," Grieshop said. "I've seen a lot of good changes."


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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's official manufacturing purchasing managers' index rose to a seven-month high of 50.6 in November from 50.2 in October, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday.
The headline figure is in line with an economist poll by Reuters this week, and confirms a trend toward recovering growth in the world's second-largest economy.
A PMI reading below 50 suggests growth slowed, while a number above 50 indicates accelerating growth.
While growth accelerated for large firms for the third month in a row, medium and smaller companies saw a retrenchment, with the decline more pronounced for the smaller firms, the NBS said in an accompanying statement.
"The improving numbers are mostly because of government investment. From the second quarter the government has unleashed a lot of projects, and that has started to be felt in the economy, but it's not a very healthy recovery yet," said Dong Xian'an, economist with Peking First Advisory.
The HSBC China flash PMI - which gathers more data from smaller, privately-held firms that have a strong export focus - signaled that November growth in the manufacturing sector had quickened for the first time in 13 months with a reading of 50.4 when it was published last week, reflecting a steady uptick in the economy.
China's economic health has improved since September, with an array of indicators from factory output to retail sales and investment showing Beijing's pro-growth policies are starting to gain traction.
Analysts said the end of a destocking cycle and a greater pace of investment would keep driving up domestic demand, and extend the recovery trend into the final quarter of this year.
Smaller and private firms are still pleading for greater access to credit and investment incentives, which have gone disproportionately to the state sector, particularly since the financial crisis of 2008-2009.
China's annual economic growth dipped to 7.4 percent in the third quarter, slowing for seven quarters in a row and leaving the economy on course for its weakest showing since 1999.
Given the recent signs of recovery, many analysts expect the economy to snap out of its longest downward cycle since the global financial crisis, and start to trend upwards in the fourth quarter.
But economists also warn of downside risks from still cloudy external markets. The European debt crisis and listless U.S. economy continue to crimp demand from China's two largest trade partners.
China's central bank has moved cautiously in easing monetary policy to underpin economic growth, wary of reigniting inflation and fanning property prices which are still high.
It cut interest rates twice in June and July and lowered banks' reserve requirement ratio by 150 basis points in three stages since last November, but has refrained from further cuts since July. The authorities have opted to inject liquidity via open market operations to pump short-term cash into money markets.
The official PMI generally paints a rosier picture of the factory sector than the HSBC PMI because the official survey focuses on big, state-owned firms, while the HSBC PMI targets smaller, private companies. There are also differing approaches to seasonal adjustment between the two surveys.
This year's final HSBC PMI reading is due to be published at 0145 GMT on Monday.
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The Xoom will launch early Q1 for Verizon, and while the device has 4G LTE support, it only currently supports 3G. However, all current units will be upgraded to have 4G capabilities in Q2. Since the tablet can support 3G, it's likely that you'll see the tablet outside of the US soon, and though Motorola acknowledge that they are also looking at the international market, they don't yet have any dates confirmed.
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Global Power Project Part V: Banking on Influence With Goldman Sachs
Monday, 15 July 2013 09:18 By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com |
Anyone who has paid even minimal attention to the global economic and financial crises gripping the world since 2007 has heard the name Goldman Sachs.
One of the largest banks in the United States, Goldman Sachs was central to the process of creating the housing bubble that popped in 2007-8, which led to the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Matt Taibbi famously documented in Rolling Stone, Goldman has been involved in "every major market manipulation since the Great Depression," profiting along the way as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
Let's go back to a little history.
In 2006 and 2007, as Goldman was selling high risk securities on home mortgages worth $40 billion, it was simultaneously betting against the housing market, ensuring that as the housing market crashed, the bank would make a significant profit. Thus, "the nation's premier investment bank pass[ed] most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U.S. and global economies."
In late 2007, as the mortgage crisis was accelerating, executives at Goldman Sachs sent each other emails explaining that they would make "some serious money" betting against the housing market. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the bank helped the market crash harder and faster.
A U.S. Senate investigation into Goldman Sachs concluded that the bank "profited from the financial crisis [which it helped cause] by betting billions against the subprime mortgage market, then deceived investors and Congress about the firm's conduct," and referred the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the bank for criminal or civil action.
As Goldman's CEO Lloyd Blankfein himself stated: "We focused a lot of ourselves on trying to benefit from the crisis that happened... we were going to use that opportunity to make ourselves a better firm."
In 2012, however, President Obama's Justice Department announced that it would not pursue criminal charges against the bank. This, after the bank received over $12 billion in bailouts from the U.S. government to save the bank from the crisis that it created and profited from.
This, after Goldman Sachs helped create the Greek debt crisis for which entire populations of European countries are being punished into poverty while allowing the bank (among other banks) to continue to profit from the deepening depression and crisis in Europe.
This, after Goldman Sachs (along with other investment banks) helped create a global food crisis by speculating on food prices, sending the prices sky-high, then making immense profits while tens of millions of people around the world were pushed into hunger and starvation.
Obama's decision not to prosecute the bank, of course, had nothing to do with the fact that Goldman Sachs was one of the top contributors to the Obama campaign in 2008 and again to his re-election campaign in 2012.
CEO Blankfein turned more heads when he told CBS News in November of 2012: "You're going to have to undoubtedly do something to lower people's expectations – the entitlements and what people think that they're going to get, because it's not going to – they're not going to get it." Suggesting that benefits like social security, Medicare and Medicaid were providing too much "support" to everyday people, Blankfein explained that "entitlements have to be slowed down and contained... because we can't afford them."
Apparently, the fact that Goldman Sachs received more than $10 billion in government welfare in exchange for its role helping to create a national and global financial crisis did not strike Blankfein as hypocrisy. The lesson he imparted: there is plenty of money to support the bank but not old-age pensioners. Because as Blankfein lectured the public about its need to "lower expectations" and lose its social benefits, bonuses for Wall Street executives were going up, with Goldman Sachs's bonuses and salaries for 2012 topping $13 billion.
Goldman's Reach into Other Institutions
For the Global Power Project, we examined a total of 83 individuals at Goldman Sachs, including executives, the board of directors, and several advisory boards. The most highly represented institution was Harvard University, where 12 (or 14%) of the 83 individuals hold leadership positions.
Following Harvard was the Council on Foreign Relations, where 10 Goldman Sachs representatives are members. The University of Pennsylvania and the World Economic Forum each have five individuals sharing leadership positions with the bank; four individuals are affiliated with the Bilderberg Meetings, four with Columbia University; and three with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Brookings Institution, Rockefeller University, the Nature Conservancy, the Securities Industry Association, and the World Bank.
And the list goes on from there, as Goldman Sachs shares two individual leadership positions or affiliations with Tsinghua University, Cornell University, the Partnership for New York City, Wal-Mart, the Aspen Institute, New York University, Fannie Mae, Yale University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Credit Suisse, Oxford, Barnard College, Prudential, the Bank of England, EastWest Institute, the London School of Economics, the Trilateral Commission, DiamlerChrysler, the OECD, the Central Park Conservancy, the Museum of Modern Art, Caterpillar, the International Rescue Committee and the Asia Society. The bank also includes two former European Commissioners.
Goldman Sachs shares one leadership position – past or presently – with the following institutions: the Financial Services Forum, Catalyst, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Stanford, Investor AB, Stockholm School of Economics, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, George W. Bush's National Economic Council, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Honeywell International, Target, UnitedHealth Group, Perseus, EADS, PepsiCo, Royal Philips Electronics, Zurich Financial, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BP, Allianz, European Round Table of Industrialists, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Siemens, the Bank of Spain, IMF, the Group of Thirty, the Population Council, the European Central Bank, Princeton, Soros Fund Management, New York Stock Exchange, the Ford Foundation, Google, BHP Billiton, and the People's Bank of China, among many others.
Meeting the Elites
There are several individuals holding leadership positions with Goldman Sachs who represent what we refer to as the global ruling class – or global plutocracy – by virtue of their multiple positions on numerous boards and advisory groups, think tanks, educational institutions, and other important institutions of influence, giving them unparalleled access to policy-makers around the world.
Let's start with Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who has been chairman and CEO of the bank since 2006, and who is also a member of the Dean's Advisory Board of Harvard Law School, a member of the Dean's Council of Harvard University and is a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. Blankfein is also a member of the Board of Overseers of Weill Medical College at Cornell University, the board of directors of the Partnership for New York City, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is additionally a member of the board of Catalyst, Chairman of the Financial Services Forum and is a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Stephen Friedman is on the board of directors of Goldman Sachs and has been Chairman of Stone Point Capital since 2005. He was previously Chairman of President George W. Bush's Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008, and was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between 2008 and 2009. Friedman was also the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council in George W. Bush's White House from 2002 to 2004, and was previously the Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He is a Trustee of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a Trustee of Columbia University, a Trustee of the Aspen Institute, a former director of Wal-Mart and Fannie Mae, and is a member of the board of advisers of the Center for New American Security and the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
(Continued: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17563-global-power-project-part-v-banking-on-influence-with-goldman-sachs)
This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source. Andrew Gavin Marshall
Andrew Gavin Marshall is an independent researcher and writer based in Montreal, Canada, writing on a number of social, political, economic, and historical issues. He is also Project Manager of The People's Book Project. He also hosts a weekly podcast show, Empire, Power and People on BoilingFrogsPost.com.
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When members of Omega OPC in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, go door-to-door to meet neighbors in the surrounding community, they often discoverCoverwhelming needs. "Nearly everyone we come into contact with is poor," says deacon Michael Harer.
Poverty isn't the only problem. Harer says the neighborhood suffers from violence, drug use, and kids without parents to guide them. That dynamic poses a significant challenge for Omega's deacons. How can the young church plant offer the hope of lasting transformation instead of just meeting temporary needs?
Harer says the deacons start by asking a simple question: "What is the greatest need here?" They always arrive at the same answer: "The greatest need is for a relationship with Jesus Christ."
The same principle that drives Omega's diaconal work undergirded the teaching at the OPC's nationwide diaconal summit at Wheaton College June 7–9. Nearly 190 deacons, elders, and ministers from around the country gathered at Wheaton (during the General Assembly) to hear good teaching, enjoy rich fellowship, and consider the best ways to cultivate diaconal ministry that encourages deep relationships with Christ and the church.
The summit marked the second time that OPC deacons have gathered together. The Committee on Diaconal Ministries (CDM) conducted their inaugural summit at Wheaton two years ago, aiming to provide deacons with solid teaching and meaningful fellowship across the broader church.
This year's conference had a similar goal, but added a new feature. In addition to large-group meetings, the CDM also planned breakout sessions with training and discussion about the nuts-and-bolts issues that deacons face in their work of serving those in need.
As a new deacon, Harer was attending the summit for the first time, but other deacons from his church attended the first conference two years ago. That's where they heard Brian Fikkert discuss mercy ministries using material from his book When Helping Hurts.
"That brought a fundamental shift in the way our deacons were working," says Harer. The diaconate maintained its commitment to meeting material needs, but intensified its focus on addressing spiritual needs, with the goal of fostering long-term change by God's grace.
Now when the deacons encounter poverty, troubled youth, and other material needs, Harer says they ask: "Are we simply alleviating those things, or are we bringing Christ into every single one of those lives?"
In the large-group meetings, speaker Steve Corbett—coauthor of When Helping Hurts—addressed that question by expanding on the teaching that Fikkert offered during the conference two years ago.
Even though most Americans are rich by the developing world's standards, needs still run deep in our own communities. Corbett reported that the U.S. is experiencing its highest poverty rate in fifty years, but he noted that poverty isn't measured just by a person's bank balance.
As a broken sinner, every person is poor and needs the restoration that Christ alone can give. Corbett reminded the deacons that their work hinges on helping those in need pursue right relationships with God, themselves, and others.
The speaker also offered practical steps for improving diaconal ministry. He emphasized that much of good diaconal work involves saying no when helping in the short term could hurt in the long term by enabling poor decisions.
A series of small-group sessions offered workshops on how to put the principles into practice. A handful of deacons and ministers led seminars on three topics: how to handle short-term needs, how to manage long-term needs, and the importance of deacons and elders working together to provide ministry that addresses both material and spiritual needs.
Each workshop ended with the men meeting in groups of two or three to discuss case studies that presented a diaconal challenge and then reporting how they would handle it.
Doug Vos, who has served as a deacon for twenty years at Oakland Hills Community Church in Farmington Hills, Michigan, said the workshops were particularly helpful for thinking through complicated problems and hearing how deacons from other churches have handled similar situations. "Deacons really get discouraged when they don't know what to do next," he said. "That's where this education is really vital."
That education has already played a role in Vos's own church. He said that after the summit two years ago, their deacons developed written policies for the first time. Those policies have helped them navigate their work more effectively.
Carl Foley, a deacon at Amoskeag Presbyterian Church in Manchester, N.H., said his diaconate wrote policies after the first summit as well. He said the inaugural summit helped him rethink his own ministry. "I had never really considered when helping hurts," he said. "But it really can."
Foley said he valued this year's workshops and the practical counsel, adding that the interaction with other deacons was enormously helpful in improving his own work. Like many others at the conference, Foley also found the worship to be a rich experience: "The singing in the auditorium with all those men—it's really something special."
The deacons had opportunities to fellowship with the commissioners to the General Assembly during shared meals and during the CDM's report to the assembly on Friday evening. On Saturday morning, the fellowship continued at a joint meeting of the commissioners and deacons. The men prayed, sang, and listened to a stirring message about mercy ministry from Wheaton College president Philip Ryken.
Ryken underscored how each piece of Reformed theology informs mercy ministry. He encouraged the men to perform greater acts of service, following the example of the robust mercy ministries of John Calvin and Thomas Chalmers.
By the end of the summit, Chris Sudlow, a CDM member and deacon at Bethel Presbyterian Church in Wheaton, said the response had been overwhelmingly encouraging. "You begin to create a vision of the wider church and an awareness that it's not just our congregation," he said. "You realize that you're connected to something broad and deep. I think that's very, very rich."
The author is a member of Matthews OPC in Matthews, N.C., and news editor of World magazine. Photos by Doug Johnson and David Porter. New Horizons, Aug.–Sept. 2012.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
My sis got fever. =( I hope she gets better soon. She was told to quarantine herself for 6 freakin' days WTF?
Ugh this mask is making me uncomfortable.
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Me in my PJs. Lol.
Just now had lunch with my supervisor and a close colleague of hers. And we talked about the single guys in the department. Lol.
They wanted to introduced me to some random colleagues in my department, but er... Not my type. =x
I told them my requirements are quite high. Lol That's why I'm single.
Then damn they ask me, so is there any guy in the department that hit your requirement? I lol-ed and said no.
I lied. Lol.
But I did say that I like one of my colleagues out look. He has gorgeous eyes. <3 Like a girl's.
What is my type? He has to be tall, humourous, and looks cute. That's all.
How come my requirement so low yet I'm single?
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text: It's simple. It's short. Yet it's incredibly powerful. Proverbs 3:5-6 is one of the most familiar passages in the Bible–with good reason. It sets forth a life-changing truth that is worthy of our attention. Spend three minutes reading this article, and see if you agree. Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Let's break down this life-changing truth to make sure we understand it.


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It Ain't Rocket Science: It's Housing
One can hardly blame Albany for electing not to house its homeless, not to square up its 1999 obligations to the Bay Area Governments' Housing Needs Plan, and for spending $330,000 not on housing subsidies but on police, clearing vegetation and belongings, and inaccessible trailers for a few people for a few months who have lived for years at the Albany Bulb landfill. Why not? The city of Berkeley and the media are more than willing to describe it all as benign, humane, and just part of making the Bulb a nice park.
Berkeley's city-funded Food and Housing Project is offering "services" during the eviction period. Why would Berkeley support the wholesale eviction of the Bulb's poor, especially when the probability is strong they will end up in Berkeley's doorways, railway beds, and parks? Because it "works" in Berkeley.
There isn't a park in Berkeley that doesn't transform into an open air shelter late at night for those discrete enough with their belongings to manage not to telegraph their presence. There are alleyways and cul-de-sacs all over town which are understood to be a more acceptable option for people with no housing options than an Occupy tent, and tolerated as lodging until they're discovered, or until someone complains.
Whole families are chased from one place to another while trying to stay sane and out of the rain. People with severe injuries and disabilities are expected to navigate busy streets and keep track of severely limited hours to access "services." This is Berkeley's approach to poverty, homelessness, and housing after giving up even the paltry "inclusionary" housing approach which never honestly met the community's human needs in the first place.
The San Francisco Chronicle hosted an article by Mary L.G. Theroux after Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the inclusionary housing bill AB1229, claiming that Brown was drawing on his first-hand experience with such proposals: "As mayor of Oakland, I saw how difficult it can be to attract development to low and middle-income communities. Requiring developers to include below-market units in their projects can exacerbate these challenges…"
Well, of course. If you offer a roomful of developers the choice between making boatloads of money on a project for the well-off and a less lucrative project for low-income people, it ain't rocket science which they'll choose. But Berkeley has another choice; calling for Albany to be realistic in providing low-income or no-income people honest housing options rather than criminalizing the state of homelessness and joblessness, and setting an example.
If people in Berkeley are content to attend "Why Wine Matters" workshops while walking past homeless people on the streets, if the hypocrisy of Berkeley's approach to homelessness goes unchallenged, then look forward to the approximately 70 people, almost the exact number once housed by the still unreplaced 77 units in the arson-destroyed Berkeley Inn so many years ago, to greet you from a nearby doorway.


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Halfpenny leads Lions to Waratahs win
Wales fullback scores 30 points as tourists impress against serious opposition, but Roberts injury will concern management
Paul O'Connell of the Lions charges upfield against the NSW Waratahs at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images
Leigh Halfpenny of the Lions celebrates scoring a try against the Waratahs at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Waratahs 17 Lions 47: The Lions impressively maintained their unbeaten record on this tour with a record winning margin in 21 meetings with the Waratahs, running in five tries to two as a host of players appeared to nail down their test spots at a packed and vibrant Allianz Stadium.
But the win came at what appeared a very significant cost when Jamie Roberts walked off very gingerly with what looked very like a torn hamstring, thereby placing a cloud over his participation in the rest of the tour, not just in the first test in Brisbane next Saturday.
The Lions could, therefore, be denied three of their first choice three-quarter line in the shape of Roberts, Tommy Bowe and, possibly, the hamstrung Geoge North. Of minor consolation was the excellent performance of Jonathan Davies, but he Lions' midfield plans have been thoroughly disrupted.
Leigh Halfpenny scored 30 points, a record by a Lion in Australia, when augmenting his latest eight from eight haul with the boot with a brace of tries. He has now kicked 22 out of 23 on tour.
Who will be the wings is another question, as Simon Zebo hit the ground by providing strength in the air, pace, workrate and an X factor which Sean Maitland couldn't match.
Up front the lineout maul went well and Alun Wyn Jones's big game (nine carries, seven tackles and three lineouts) alongside the equally impressive Paul O'Connell, assuredly confirmed their test partnership as, most probably, did Tom Croft alongside Sam Warburton, excellent in his fringe defending, and Jamie Heaslip.
Tom Youngs was also excellent in the loose.
The Lions weren't without their flaws, scoring five but conceding two tries and making a dozen turnovers. At times their backline was a little too flat and Mike Phillips wasn't quite himself, though Jonny Sexton was outstanding, and they were counter-rucked a little too easily for comfort some times.
Blue flags having been commissioned free before the game, the vibrant mix of blue and red in a 40,805 Saturday night Sydney crowd underlined that this was not a place for neutrals any more than it was for faint hearts.
Warren Gatland would have relished the way the home players threw themselves into huge tackle after huge tackle almost as much as Michael Cheika did, although he might have had more than a few concerns about the way that some of them were clearly targeting Jonny Sexton.
Sexton was the master puppeteer in an electrifying start which emulated the opening salvos from the Reds a week before in Brisbane.
The Lions might have had a try in the first minute after Sexton worked a sweet right to left move in what had seemed a narrow channel to put Jonathan Davies into space and he in turn released Simon Zebo for a gallop up the touchline. His left boot, however, brushed the touchline moments before grounding the ball in a superb covering tackle by Drew Mitchell.
Mitchell would also save a try in the opposite corner but by then the Lions had deservedly drawn first blood, with Sexton instigator and finisher of a counter-attack around halfway, first passing wide to Zebo, who fed Jonathan Davies. The Welshman cleverly took out two men on the outside before passing inside for Sexton, who took a trademark trailer, to finish it off from the 22.
Halfpenny knocked over the touchline conversion, as he does, to augment an earlier penalty, but five minutes later the Lions were caught napping, admittedly as Sexton was being treated after a late hit by home lock Will Skelton.
After Zebo had been tackled into touch, from a quick throw Bernard Foley crosskicked for Peter Betham to gather and beat Sean Maitland on the outside, before passing inside for Tom Carter to score; Brendan McKibbin converting from the touchline.
Halfpenny quickly tagged on a couple of penalties either side of Mike Phillips denying Skelton a try from a quick throw and there ought to have been further reward after a wonderful take by Zebo from Phillips' box kick before the latter was blocked after chopping Cam Crawford.
Instead, the Lions messed up the attacking scrum, and McKibbin made it a one-score game again with a penalty before the Toulon-bound Mitchell, easily the 'Tahs' best player, released Crawford by beating Croft and offloading underarm, before a few phases later Croft won the relieving turnover penalty off Dave Dennis.
The Lions patiently went through the phases off a lineout maul, Alun Wyn Jones injecting go-forward by pumping legs and quick hands by O'Connell as first receiver enabling Sexton and Davies to put Halfpenny over.
Within four minutes of the restart the Lions generated a complete team try, again off a lineout maul, as the forwards punched onwards from close in before Sexton worked a clever midfield triangle with Roberts coming hard on to his beautifully delayed pass and offloading inside for Davies to then link with Halfpenny.
The fullback again converted his own score for a rapid-fire 14 point salvo in five minutes either side of half-time _ championship minutes.
Annoyingly for the tourists, Skelton peeled off a close-in lineout for Carter to score again with an unstoppable line which not even Sexton and Heaslip could deny, but Halfpenny landed another penalty before Davies picked off McKibbin's pass. From the recycle, good hands by Farrell, Maitland and Halfpenny saw Croft gallop home brilliantly with a hand-off.
Despite being down to 14 men after emptying the bench on the hour following Roberts's departure, the Lions had the final say through Davies when he was put away by Ben Youngs after the scrumhalf's own snipe and tidying up by O'Connell.
Scoring sequence: 4 mins Halfpenny pen 0-3; 6 mins Sexton try, Halfpenny con 0-10; 15 mins Carter try, McKibbin con 7-10; 19 mins Halfpenny pen 7-13; 26 mins Halfpenny pen 7-16; 40 mins Halfpenny try and con 10-23; (half-time 10-23); 44 mins Halfpenny try and con 10-30; 46 mins Carter try, McKibin con 17-30; 52 mins Halfpenny pen 17-33; 55 mins Croft try, Halfpenny con 17-40; 72 mins Davies try, Farrell con 17-47.
Waratahs: Drew Mitchell (Randwick); Cam Crawford (Northern Suburbs), Rob Horne (Southern Districts), Rob Horne (Southern Districts), Tom Carter (Sydney University), Peter Betham (Sydney University); Bernard Foley (Sydney University), Brendan McKibbin (Eastern Suburbs); Jeremy Tilse (Sydney University), John Ulugia (Eastern Suburbs), Paddy Ryan (Sydney University), Will Skelton (Sydney University), Ollie Atkins (Sydney University), Jed Holloway (Southern Districts), Pat McCutcheon (Sydney University), Dave Dennis (Sydney University, captain).
Replacements: Tom Kingston (Sydney University) for Carter (48 mins), Lopeti Timani (Southern Districts) for Holloway (50 mins), AJ Gilbert (Northern Suburbs), Matt Lucas (Manly) for McCutcheon (55 mins), Luke Holmes (Warringah) for Ulugia, Richard Aho (Randwick) for Tilse, Sam Talakai (Sydney University) for Ryan, Ben Volavola (Southern Districts) for Betham (all 73 mins).
British & Irish Lions: Leigh Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues/Wales), Sean Maitland (Glasgow Warriors/Scotland), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets/Wales), Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues/Wales), Simon Zebo (Munster/Ireland); Jonathan Sexton (Leinster/Ireland), Mike Phillips (Bayonne/Wales); Mako Vunipola (Saracens/England), Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers/England), Adam Jones (Ospreys/Wales), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys/Wales), Paul O'Connell (Munster/Ireland), Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers/England), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues/Wales, capt), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster/Ireland).
Replacements: Owen Farrell (Saracens/England) for Sexton (50 mins), Richard Hibbard (Ospreys/Wales) for T Youngs, Alex Corbisiero (London Irish/England) for Vunipola, Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers/England) for A Jones, Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers/England) for O'Connell, Dan Lydiate (Dragons/Wales) for Croft, Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers/England) for Phillips, Rob Kearney (Leinster/Ireland) for Halfpenny (all 60 mins).
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa).


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As day follows night, so the trailer comes hot on the heels of the poster.
The trailer for "The Hangover II" arrived under cover of night, with Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms all in mid-season form. And once again, poor Justin Bartha is on the sidelines.
The story is exactly the same as in the original, a group of guys get together for a wedding only to have things go wildly pear-shaped just before the blessed event. Only this time it's not the groom who's gone missing, but the bride's little brother, and instead of Vegas they're in Thailand (pronounced, at least according to Galifianakis' Alan, "Thigh-land").
U.S. & World
And the humor is essentially the same, as well, which is fine as far as we're concerned. If director Todd Phillips can keep cranking one of these out every two years and keep them consistently funny, we will consistently line up to watch.
"The Hangover II" opens May 26.


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ABC Interview Videos
Courtesy of TV Grapevine. These are the same videos (with bio page) I uploaded the other day for Macy et al, but different couples. I believe they are in the process of uploading all of them. I've included a few, below. The TV Grapevine site is kinda hard to figure out (for me anyway) so this link takes you to Natalie, but the others are listed on the left hand side. This LINK takes you to the list of celebs they have bios for so far – which doesn't seem to match the video list, even though the videos are also embedded there. Make sense? Yeah, me either. 🙂
ETA: I almost forgot to blow my own horn. 🙂 I was correct – the male pros are doing a pro dance on Monday night, the female pros a pro dance on Tuesday night – the reverse of when they dance with their partners. This is per Louis Van Amstel. Should be very interesting. 😉
Natalie and Alec
Mark And Lacey
Ashley and Edyta
Maybe it's just me, but Ashley and Natalie seem kinda…boring? Maybe it's Alec and Edyta? I dunno something seems strange there. Or maybe everyone suffers in comparison to Mark Dacascos and Lacey. 🙂


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Jamin Godfrey just wrapped up one of the finest careers in TSU football history, breaking the school's 42-year old scoring record. The Englewood, Tenn. native was 18-of-29 in field goal attempts and 43-for-45 in PATs as a senior for 97 points, giving Godfrey 317 for his career. He was the first Big Blue kicker to be named to the All-OVC Team, and he did it twice in 2012 and 2013.
Godfrey graduated from TSU with a bachelor's degree in Arts and Sciences this past May.
TSUTigers: Talk about your overall TSU experience.
A: It was a great experience that I will remember for the rest of my life. I grew up at TSU and learned how to face life.
TSUTigers: What do you love most about TSU?
A: The thing I love most about TSU is its location. I fell in love with Nashville and that played a big part in bringing me to TSU.
TSUTigers: What will you miss most about TSU?
A: The thing I will miss the most is definitely the road trips with my team and seeing new places that otherwise wouldn't have been possible.
TSUTigers: What is your most memorable football moment at TSU?
A: It's really a tie between two. The first would be the Tennessee Tech game my junior year where I kicked five field goals and the game winning extra point. That was by far the biggest game of my career. Second would be breaking the school's all-time leading scorer record against Butler my senior season.
TSUTigers: What is your most memorable non-football moment at TSU?
A: I would have to say graduating. That's what coming to college is all about.
TSUTigers: How do you feel social networking played a role in this season?
A: Social Networking is the key to fan support. I believe TSU did a very good job with making sure the fans know what is going on.
TSUTigers: Do you have a favorite TSU fan/supporter? If so, who?
A: Definitely my mom. She has been to almost every game possible. She's the reason why I play sports. When I was younger there wouldn't be a time of the year that I wasn't playing some type of sport whether it was soccer, basketball, baseball, or football.
TSUTigers: What advice would you give to incoming freshman?
A: Never give up on your goals and do not let anyone put you down. You control your outcome.
TSUTigers: What was your most challenging class at TSU?
A: It's a tie between French, and Abnormal Psychology
TSUTigers: Who was your favorite professor?
A: I really do not have a favorite because I developed very close relationships with many of my professors and I would hate to make a list and leave someone out.
TSUTigers: Who have been the most influential people to you at TSU?
A: My kicking coach Joe Davis. We literally spent countless hours together working on my kicking game but he was always there for me as a person as well. If we weren't talking about kicking were talking about life.
TSUTigers: Once you are an alumnus, how will you stay connected with TSU?
A: I'll be coming to as many games as possible
TSUTigers: What do you know now that you didn't know coming in as a freshman?
A: Life is hard, but it's not impossible.
TSUTigers: What have you learned at TSU that you will keep with you for the rest of your life?
A: Patience
TSUTigers: Is there anything else that you would like to say to the TSU family?
A: I would like to say thank you to everyone for supporting the athletics and university through all the years, and thank you for giving us student-athletes the opportunity to keep the legacy alive.


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For one week, June 1st through 6th, the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will screen over 20 "chosen" films from around the world. The LAJFFs goal to present films that preserve and celebrate the rich tapestry of Jewish heritage has been truly accomplished this year with an amazing group of films.
The star-studded line up of films touch on subjects that include many of America's most influential and controversial celebrities. Roman Polanski, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Arthur Hiller, Carl Reiner, Sid Cesar, Hal Kanter, Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason, Jerry Stiller and civil rights leader Medgar Evers all have a place in this year's film line up. Tickets and full screening information are available here.
The Red Carpet, Opening Night Gala is a "must attend" event held at the Writer's Guild Theater, Each year the opening night attracts top celebrities, industry VIP's and fans of the festival including: Joan Rivers, Elliott Gould, Theodore Bikel, Jon Voight, MamieVan Doren, Sally Kellerman, Shirley Jones, Arthur Hiller, Walter Koenig and many others. Arrivals begin at 7:30m followed by a Q&A, program with the filmmaker's and stars from the opening night film and a fabulous dessert reception.
This year the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival opens with the Los Angeles premiere for an award winning romantic comedy, "Putzel." http://www.putzelmovie.com/the-cast/
This laugh-out-loud film, directed by Jason Chaet, has everything a Jewish Film Festival could want: Lox and laughs and New York Jewish humor. "Putzel" stars Melanie Lynskey ("Two and a Half Men") Jack Carpenter ("The Good Wife") Susie Essman, ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") and John Pankow, (Episodes with Matt LeBlanc, Ira in "Mad About You") and Fran Kranz ("Cabin in the Woods/Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing"). Plus, writer/producer Rick Moore will attend the Q&A.
Here are highlighted films:
"My Father and the Man In Black"
This is the Los Angeles premiere for a revealing documentary about Johnny Cash's sometimes elevated sometimes down relationship with his Jewish manager, Saul Holiff. Jonathan Holiff, the son of Saul Holiff worked on the film for six years, driven by newly discovered audio diaries and telephone calls recorded by Holiff and Cash in the sixties and seventies, showing another side to Johnny Cash. This is not your typical "talking heads" documentary. TRAILER: http://youtu.be/jtovAxxPo2Q
LAJFF screens this film twice. Monday, 7 pm, June 3rd at the Muvico Theater in Thousand Oaks and screens again on Wednesday, June 5th at 7:30pm, at the Laemmle's Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills with a Q&A at both screenings attended by Jonathan Holiff, the filmmaker.
"Roman Polanski: A Memoir"
Directed by Laurent Bouzereau United Kingdom/90 mins/2012 Actor, director, Krakow Ghetto survivor, American fugitive -- filmmaker Roman Polanski addresses every aspect of his celebrated, tragic and scandalous life in this intimate documentary. Interviewed by a long-time friend, Polanski sets the record straight on the 1968 murder of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, by the Manson cult, and his 1977 sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl that led to his exile and, 30 years later, arrest in Switzerland. Clips from such Polanski classics as ROSEMARY'S BABY, CHINATOWN and THE PIANIST connect the Oscar-winner's anguished past with his artistic achievements, making for the definitive picture of this complex artist. Sunday, June 2, 7:00 pm Laemmle's Music Hall, Q&A with director Laurent Bouzereau moderated by Danielle Berrin, "Hollywood Jew" of the Jewish Journal.
"The Last White Knight, Is Reconciliation Possible" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85z_pYawYJM
This is the Los Angeles Premiere with a special Q&A session attended by the Director, Paul Saltzman .
This special program of the LAJFF is being held in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the murder of Medgar Evers and will examine the state of racism and race relations in the New South. The film looks at Saltzman's early life and a violent run-in with the Ku Klux Klan. As a Jewish civil rights activist he returns to Mississippi to understand his assailant. The film touches on that relationship with the assailant, Byron de la Beckwith Jr., (whose father, Byron de la Beckwith Sr. murdered NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers). This film screens: Tuesday, June 4, 7:30 pm at Laemmle's Music Hall, Beverly Hills and again, Wednesday, June 5 at 7:30 pm - Laemmle's Town Center, Encino- Q&A with director Paul Saltzman. Community Partner: Anti-Defamation League and the Urban League
"Lunch" Directed by Donna Kanter is the story of a group of writers and directors who have been meeting for lunch every other Wednesday for the past 40 years. The members are legends in writing for television, books and film. This documentary stars Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Monty Hall, Arthur Hiller, Rocky Kalish, Hal Kanter, Arthur Marx, Gary Owens, John Rappaport, Matty Simmons and Ben Starr. There is one screening as LAJFF serves up "Lunch" on Sunday, June 2 at 3 pm Laemmle's Music Hall, Beverly Hills with a Q&A including,: Donna Kanter, Arthur Hiller, Ben Starr, Rocky Kalish.
"When Comedy Went to School"
(World Premiere at LAJFF)
Directed by Ron Frank, Lawrence Richards and Mevlut Akkaya, this film focuses on the birth of modern stand-up comedy as it began in the Catskill mountains ( a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians). Narrated by Robert Klein the documentary stars Sid Caesar, Larry King, Jerry Lewis, Jerry Stiller, Mort Sahl and others. There will be a Q&A to follow with director Ron Frank, stand-up comedienne Judy Carter and special guest Larry King (he appears in the film). Thursday, June 6 at 7:30 pm at the Laemmle's Town Center Theater in Encino.
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The sporting spirit of fans and athletes during the Games threw a harsh light on the hostile environment common to many major English football fixtures as evidenced by Sunday's Charity Shield clash between Manchester City and Chelsea.
"In my opinion, the whole culture of football must change if the Olympics is going to be the guiding light," Owen told his Twitters followers on Wednesday.
"Football has lost touch with reality slightly but let's get it right, if you were playing at an away ground and went to hug the spectators like Usain Bolt did, you would struggle to get out alive.
"Not to mention the tirade of abuse every footballer gets once in ear shot of the crowd," added Owen, without a club since being released by Manchester United at the end of last season.
"We are talking about a totally different audience and, like it or not, a football ground isn't the most pleasant of places in the world. I certainly wouldn't take my kids to watch a match. All I would say is that it's not a very fair comparison."
However, Owen insisted the players were not solely to blame for football losing touch with its roots.
"It's easy to lambast footballers but they are normal people," said the former Liverpool forward.
"If they act like normal people and get treated like normal people then that would be a start.
"The ironic thing is, if you show your human side and celebrate with the fans you get a bollocking off the police and a yellow card off the ref!"
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, speaking on the eve of England's friendly away to Italy in Bern on Wednesday, stressed: "Football and the Olympics are different things.
"The atmosphere at football is different completely. I enjoyed going to the Olympics and feeling that atmosphere, but in football, we're all born with our allegiances," he added.
"It's almost a religion for the people who watch it, so we probably take ups and downs in different ways: the ups are great, the downs are different. That's the beauty of the game, to a point.
"It's just one of those things where the Olympics is top of the agenda at the moment. It's a case of learning from that, but in a few months' time it will be back to normal. But let's hope we can learn a few lessons at the same time."
Source: AFP
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Camping was an integral part of my childhood. We all loved the outdoors, we were never more at home than when we were in the middle of nowhere. There was one particular spot that we found when we were pretty young that became "our" spot. We always called it Cherry Lake.
That was the only year it really snowed while we were there. I remember pulling up to the campsite and hiding in the car while Alan, Mom and Dad set up the campsite. While we slept, snow fell across the campground and blanketed the world in white. This picture doesn't do it justice.
I remember waking up when we camped there. It was always so cold in the morning, so I'd be buried deep in my sleeping bag and listen to the rustling of the tent, the songbirds, the crackle of the fire. I could hear my parents hushed voices and the occasional laugh as they shared their morning coffee. If I close my eyes I feel myself transport back to those moments, when the world was perfect and at peace.
As we visited and grew older we wandered further and further away. The following picture is the "Rock Club," a place just far enough away from the campsite to make us feel independent. We would wander there daily, hang out on rocks and talk about life, or have adventures in between the cracks. We would climb to the top of the rocks, and look out, terrified of falling and thrilled at the prospects ahead of us.
We went there every year, sometimes twice a year. I remember being 9 years old, laying on a hot rock and contemplating the grandness of God. I remember learning to whittle sticks, and trampling through brush to find a "walking stick." I remember seeing a water snake for the first time in the lake down the hill.
It was always the most beautiful place on earth.
I climbed up this wall once, and got all the way to the top. On the way back down I felt myself losing my grip, but something pushed me back against the wall. I believed in angels before, but that experience pretty much cinched the deal.
The last time we visited Cherry Lake it was 2002 and right before we moved to Texas.
Ten years is a long time.
Since that time, my older sisters have tried in vain to find our old campsite. They've combed Stanislaus Forest and driven around for hours, all to no avail. When I visited in 2010 I tried to help them find it and we were yet again unsuccessful. I told them I'd see what I could do in the future for my next visit.
So I contacted the Stanislaus National Forest Office in Groveland, since that was closest to where we thought the campsite was. I spoke with a charming lady named Gail who was willing to listen to my story and my plea for help. She gave me her email address and I sent her a bunch of pictures, and a map of the grounds (as best I could remember). Then I waited.
She called me back just a short time ago and thanked me for giving her such a fun project. She said she had some of her park rangers act as detectives – print up the pictures and try to match up the pictures while they were out driving around. She thanked me for the map I had drawn, and said we had done a good job remembering.
An old ranger, one who had lived there forever, knew exactly where we were talking about when he saw the pictures. We had always called it Cherry Lake, but the park rangers knew it as Cherry Barrow. Gail told me if we drove to the Groveland Park Ranger station she would be able to show us exactly how to get there.
I cried when she told me.
I'm going back in just over a week – I'm flying to California Monday for Amy's wedding and after the wedding I'm heading to visit my sisters. We will go camping, hopefully at this spot, and I will once again drink in the beauty.
I can't wait.


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"The absolute best nonfiction book of the year . . . a work of journalistic art . . . history straight and true . . . should be required reading at the Columbia School of Journalism."—Chicago Tribune
"The best Bradlee biography we're likely to get."—The New York Times Book Review
"Surprising and compulsively readable . . . Himmelman's chapters on Watergate are especially masterful, untangling that web in a fresh and comprehensible way."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A sparkling, revealing, definitely controversial, and very readable book . . . highly amusing, particularly for any connoisseur of juicy modern American politics."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The bold brilliance of Jeff Himmelman's Yours in Truth comes through because it is not simply a biography of a quixotic figure who changed the timbre of American newspapers. Rather, it is also a riveting history lesson with fastidiously researched facts intertwined with first-person observations."—Charleston Post and Courier
"Embedded in Yours in Truth there are fundamental insights about journalism and the role of a dynamic press."—The Atlantic
"The biographer either sells his soul for the cozy dinners or bails for the truth. Himmelman chose the latter."—The Huffington Post
"[A] riveting new life of one of America's greatest editors."—The Daily Beast


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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Goldin and Budig Guide Daytime Emmys' Fashion Parade
Katy Perry Kisses a Girl
POLL: Best Drama Series Daytime Emmy Awards
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
POLL: Lead Actress Daytime Emmy Awards
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
POLL: Lead Actor Daytime Emmy Awards
SPOILERS: ATWT, B&B, Days, GL, Passions and Y&R
This Week:
• Sofie digs for information about Meg's past.
• Carly hides her pain when Lily and Holden share a close moment.
• Noah gets the wrong idea about Luke.
• Aaron gives Chris a piece of his mind.
• Susan protects her family.
This Week:
• Steffy snoops to find information on Marcus.
• Brooke learns Donna's secret.
• Katie professes her feelings to Nick.
• Ridge continues his witch hunt.
• A member of the Logan family is faced with some tough questions.
Next Week:
• Sami orders EJ out of the DiMera mansion.
• Morgan lays into John about what's happened to her father.
• Daniel and Chelsea enjoy a romantic first date.
• Nicole discloses that Sami and EJ's annulment is valid.
• Tony asks Anna to come work for him.
Thursday – Trent threatens Nicole to keep her mouth shut or he'll reveal her dirty little secret.
Friday – Ava offers to go with John to the lab to see what's on the encrypted disk.
This Week:
• Cyrus and Grady pay for their crimes.
• Reva comes to Daisy's aid.
• Cassie unleashes her anger at Tammy's killer.
• Dinah puts two and two together.
• Lizzie makes a big change.
Next Week:
Monday, June 23
• Gwen and Rebecca realize Theresa might be alive.
• Fancy has a showdown with Pretty.
• Esme gets Tabitha to confess that she's a witch.
Tuesday, June 24
• Gwen learns Gertrude's true identity.
• Pretty attacks Fancy.
• Esme helps Tabitha find Endora.
Wednesday, June 25
• Theresa fears she will be exposed.
• Pretty's lies come to light.
• Tabitha tries to tell Esme the truth about Viki.
This Week:
• Victor and Sabrina are shocked when Sabrina's scheming mother arrives on the eve of their wedding.
• Neil proposes to Karen.
• Colleen returns to Genoa City and makes a decision about her relationship with Adrian.
• David surprises Nikki with an expensive gift, but will his continuing lies bring an end to their marriage?
• Ashley arrives home and is stunned to find Gloria living at the Abbott Mansion.


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Penlee House Gallery and Cafe are open 10.00-5.00
Last admission 4.00
Acc.no: PEZPH : 1918.104.22.168
Item: Eggs
Name: Red-throated diver
Brief Description: Red-throated Diver egg collected at Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Part of a larger group collected by Major Lyster.
Production Date: undated
Category: Natural Science
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Principle photography on "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," is underway in Vancouver, Summit Entertainment said in a statement released today.
There will be a few new faces in this third installment of the popular vampire franchise.
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"Along with director David Slade, several new actors are joining the TWILIGHT family including Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria, Xavier Samuel as Riley, Catalina Sandino Moreno as Maria, Jack Huston as Royce King, Julia Jones as Leah, BooBoo Stewart as Seth, and Jodelle Ferland as Bree," Summit confirmed.
For the Twihards, the favorite original gang will also be returning.
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"Also continuing in the saga as The Cullen Family are Ashley Greene as Alice, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Kellan Lutz as Emmett, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, and Jackson Rathbone as Jasper. Billy Burke also returns as Charlie Swan."
"Eclipse" will be released theatrically in North America on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
'THE TWILIGHT SAGA': Full 'ECLIPSE' Cast List
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Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen
Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black
Cullen Family
Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen
Peter Facinelli as Dr. Carlisle
Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen
Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen
Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale
Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale
Wolf Pack
Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley
Bronson Pelletier as Jared
Alex Meraz as Paul
Kiowa Gordon as Embry Call
Tyson Houseman as Quil Ateara
Other Quileutes
Gil Birmingham as Billy Black
Tinsel Korey as Emily
Nomad Vampires
Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria
Cameron Bright as Alec
Charlie Bewley as Demetri
Daniel Cudmore as Felix
Dakota Fanning as Jane
Additional Returning Cast Members
Billy Burke as Charlie Swan
Sarah Clarke as Renee Dwyer
Anna Kendrick as Jessica
Michael Welch as Mike
Christian Serratos as Angela
Justin Chon as Eric
New Cast Members
Xavier Samuel as Riley
Catalina Sandino Moreno as Maria
Jack Huston as Royce King
Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater
BooBoo Stewart as Seth Clearwater
Jodelle Ferland as Bree
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