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On Nov. 6, voters should take the opportunity to return a familiar face to the state Senate.
Martha Fuller Clark spent six years in the New Hampshire Senate, from 2005-2011. Now in 2012 she is a candidate in District 21 which, as a result of redistricting, represents Durham, Lee, Madbury, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket and Portsmouth.
Fuller Clark is viewed by the editorial board here at Foster's Daily Democrat as knowledgeable and dedicated.
Of particular note has been her fight against donor towns, which were created by a convoluted plan to address the Claremont decisions of the N.H. Supreme Court. It was these decisions that determined the state responsible for first-to-last-dollar funding of local education cost for students. This led to communities like Portsmouth having to send local tax dollars to other communities.
As a state senator, Fuller Clark also worked to find funding for the replacement of the Memorial Bridge, a vital link between Maine and New Hampshire. Thanks, in part, to her efforts the work is well under way.
Fuller Clark, a Democrat, has shown an ability to work across the aisle for the good of her constituents, regardless of party — something that can be seen in her bipartisan work on donor towns and the Memorial Bridge.
As she stated when she announced her bit to return to the Senate:
"I pledge to work in a bipartisan manner to create common-sense solutions to build New Hampshire's economy, promote jobs and protect New Hampshire's unique resources — its quality of life and its people."
In moving foward, our editorial board believes that Fuller Clark has much to offer a state Senate which must continue to make tough choices as the economy sputters along.
Part of what she offers is a lengthy and unmatched legislative resume when it comes to the District 21 race:
— Senate president pro tem 2008-2010;
— Chair, Senate Energy, Environment and Economic Development Committee; and
— Vice Chair, Senate Executive Departments and Administration.
She also served on the Senate Education Committee, the Senate Transportation Committee, and the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules as well as the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
And if that wasn't enough she put in stints on the NH Rail Authority and the LCHIP Board.
In closing, we would offer only once caveat. As readers are aware, the Republican heritage of Foster's Daily Democrat makes our editorial board very stingy with a tax dollar. It is our hope and advice that, should Fuller Clark return to Concord, she will recognize the need to keep a tight rein on state spending.
That said, we have faith that Fuller Clark is the right choice for voters of District 21.
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For the benefit of readers throughout the region, a list of redrawn Senate districts affecting the southeastern New Hampshire and the Seacoast can be found below. A map can be found at http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/images/SB201.jpeg
(Editor's note: These are the districts which include the broader readership area of Foster's Daily Democrat.)
District 3: Albany, Bartlett, Brookfield, Chatham, Conway, Eaton, Effingham, Freedom, Hale's Location, Hart's Location, Jackson, Madison, Middleton, Milton, Moultonborough, Ossipee, Sandwich, Tamworth, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, Waterville Valley, and Wolfeboro.
District 4: Barrington, Dover, Rollinsford, and Somersworth
District 6: Alton, Barnstead, Farmington, Gilmanton, New Durham, and Rochester.
District 17: Allenstown, Chichester, Deerfield, Epsom, Loudon, Northwood, Nottingham, Pembroke, Pittsfield, Raymond, and Strafford.
District 21: Durham, Lee, Madbury, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, and Portsmouth.
District 23: Brentwood, Chester, Danville, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Kingston, and Sandown.
District 24: Greenland, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, New Castle, Newton, North Hampton, Rye, Seabrook, South Hampton, and Stratham.
Martha Fuller Clark for District 21 Senate seat
On Nov. 6, voters should take the opportunity to return a familiar face to the state Senate.


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shmenguin wrote:Getting To My Game wrote:I still watch "The Sopranos" on HBO whenever I can catch it in re-runs, best TV show of all-time. All of these "complicated anti-hero" shows are only poor imitations of the show that mastered it.
The supporting cast is so one dimensional and goofy that it takes the show down a few pegs in my book. But Tony is still a hell of a character
Carmela, Christopher, and Paulie are all really great three-dimensional characters, but yeah, some can get annoying, especially AJ.

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This week is palindrome week—every date reads the same forwards and backwards. 4/12/14, 4/13/14, 4/14/14... you get the point. Just like words and phrases can be palindromes—mom, racecar, level, live not on evil—so too can numbers. The palindrome has a long history that goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks, who would inscribe palindromic phrases on fountains. One of the most popular fountain inscriptions was "wash the sin as well as the face." Although that phrase isn't a palindrome in English, it is one in Greek.
Palindrome week is only really celebrated in the United States, as it's the only country that uses the mm-dd-yyyy format when writing out dates. Most countries around the world use the dd-mm-yyyy style, although China and Japan are notable for using yyyy-mm-dd. In any case, Twitter has been abuzz with tweets about the week-long holiday. Some have taken to Twitter to celebrate the wordsmith holiday.
Happy Palindrome Week! Did you know every date this week reads the same forwards and backwards? Mind = blown! http://t.co/Cp10CvYXyY — Noodles & Company (@noodlescompany) April 15, 2014
U.S. & World
Taco cat backwards is Taco cat. I love a palindrome. pic.twitter.com/CGnEm3C3Oy — Dressed up Animals (@DressedAnimaIs) April 14, 2014
The days of this week are palindromes pic.twitter.com/bUD5hCT3Ys — Yashvir Dalaya (@Yashvir) April 15, 2014
41414: Happy palindrome week (if you're in the US or a country that formats dates in a similar fashion) ! — WayForward (@WayForward) April 14, 2014
In Spanish the palindrome number is called #CAPICÚA pic.twitter.com/bvNFzAxmd1 — JC (@drajcumes) April 15, 2014
Did you know that it's "hey, did you know that it's palindrome week" week? — Jeff Grubb (@JeffGrubb) April 15, 2014


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The last five decades of architectural debate are all characterized by the dramatic displacement of the role of the architect from the author of discrete built objects to one who conceptualizes his or her output in terms of the management of increasingly complex processes. The metaphoric operation is a lexicon of operations, a catalog of fictions used to imbue buildings with a sense of malleability and testify to them as indices of design as a managerial process; folding, carving, splicing, and etc. We will attempt to repurpose the underlying implications of eight architectural clichés through three strategic techniques: misuse (doing an operation badly), the mash-up (the combination of two disparate operations), and excessive faith (operation as if architecture's fictions were truths).
No other architectural typology captures the contemporary managerial paradigm quite like the mat building; it is a testing ground for operational strategies. Having defamiliarized an operation, students deposit it like a virus into the infinite system of the Mat exploiting these operational strategies and part-to-part relationships through the successive scale of the unit, the cluster, the edge and finally, the totality. The final task of the studio will be to design the shared headquarters of three disparate groups on an artificial island off Manhattan: IAUS, CIAM, and Team X. The proposals will attempt to reformulate your own given clichés as a way of articulating the diverse ambitions of each organization while simultaneously accommodating each of the individual programmatic functions. The mat structures will not only be asked to negotiate a diverse collection of programmatic elements, but will also have to function entirely schizophrenically, at times an autonomous rejection of the world outside of it, and at times instrumentally integrated.


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Retarding Dough How-To
I had great success with overnight retarding of my ciabatta dough. The flavor was sweet and nutty, the crust turned to a beautiful golden brown, and I got great big holes. I thought that trying an overnight stay in the fridge for my rustic bread would yield similar results. But I tried it this Saturday and my dough ended up with small uniform air pockets, and lacked in the rich develoepd taste of the ciabatta.
So I'm wondering what's the secret to overnight retarding of dough? How long does it need to warm back up? Should you knead once then put in the fridge, or knead twice and form? Should you use a poolish, as I did, or just mix all the ingredients and then retard the dough?
I think this method has a lot of promise, but I'm wondering how everyone else does it. Many thanks!


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WASHINGTON - The chairs of the Senate intelligence and armed services committees are looking into whether the CIA misled the makers of a movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden by telling them that "coercive interrogation" of suspected terrorists produced intelligence that led to the al-Qaida founder's hideout in Pakistan.
Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., were joined by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in writing letters last month to Acting CIA Director Michael Morell asking that he provide the intelligence panel with whatever information the CIA gave to the makers of the film "Zero Dark Thirty."
Releasing the letters on Thursday, the three said in a statement that they also are seeking clarification from Morell about a Dec. 21 message he sent to the CIA workforce in which he asserted that some of the intelligence that led to bin Laden "came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques."
Enhanced techniques was the term that the George W. Bush administration adopted for water-boarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other procedures - considered torture by many experts - that CIA and Defense Department interrogators used on suspected terrorists in secret U.S. detention centers.
Feinstein, Levin and McCain previously called the movie by director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal "grossly inaccurate," contending that scenes of brutal detainee interrogations by CIA officers perpetuate "the myth that torture" produced leads to bin Laden's whereabouts.
Feinstein is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, of which Levin is an ex officio member. Levin is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and McCain, a former Navy pilot who was tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp, is the senior Republican member.
Preston Golson, a CIA spokesman, said the CIA would cooperate with the request. "As we've said before, we take very seriously our responsibility to keep our oversight committees informed and value our relationship with Congress," he said in an email.
The Pentagon inspector general has been investigating whether a senior Defense Department official, Michael Vickers, provided restricted information to Bigelow and Boal. The Pentagon denies that he did so. McClatchy Newspapers reported last month that the inspector general's office referred the case to the Justice Department in September, but that the department has declined to launch a criminal prosecution.
Bin Laden was killed when U.S. Navy SEALs raided his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. The raid culminated a decade-long hunt for the founder of al-Qaida after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently adopted an exhaustive study of the CIA's interrogation and detention program that found detainees subjected to the brutal interrogation procedures did not provide information about the al-Qaida courier who the agency eventually tracked to bin Laden's hideout.
Moreover, the detainee "who provided the most accurate information about the courier provided the information prior to being subjected to coercive interrogation techniques," the three senators said in their statement.
In a Dec. 19 letter to Morell, the senators wrote that they were "concerned that the film's clear implication that information obtained during or after the use of the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques played a critical role in locating" bin Laden.
"While this information is incorrect, it is consistent with public statements" made by Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, and former CIA Director Michael Hayden, they wrote.
They noted that the intelligence panel's review of more than 6 million pages of CIA records had determined that enhanced interrogation played no role in discovering the existence or the identity of the courier.
"No CIA detainee reported on the courier's full name or specific whereabouts, and no detainee identified the compound in which (bin Laden) was hidden. Instead, the CIA learned of the existence of the courier, his true name, and location through means unrelated to the CIA detention and interrogation program," they wrote.
That information was "obtained from a wide variety of intelligence sources and methods. CIA officers and their colleagues throughout the Intelligence Community sifted through massive amounts of information, identified possible leads, tracked them down, and made considered judgments based on all of the available intelligence," the letter said.
"Given the discrepancy between the facts above and what is depicted in the film, previous misstatements by retired CIA officials, as well as what appears to be the CIA's unprecedented cooperation with the filmmakers, we request that you provide the (intelligence) committee with all information and documents provided to the filmmakers by CIA officials, former officials, or contractors, including talking points prepared for use in those meetings," the three wrote.
"What information was acquired from CIA detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques? When was this information provided: prior to, during, or after the detainee was subjected to the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques? If after, how long after? Please note whether such information corroborated information previously known to the CIA," they wrote.


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Google is almost ready to ship dev kits for Project Ara, the modular smartphone concept from the company's ATAP division, to hardware developers. Google hopes the modular smartphone concept will someday allow users to replace and upgrade hardware components about as easily as you can swap out a removable battery. An entire ecosystem of innovative boutique smartphone hardware manufacturers could result from Ara, providing a change from the handful of large companies that control the market today. Making this system a reality is a massive challenge, but it seems that Google is making progress and is now taking requests for the developer boards, with a plan to ship later this month.
No one outside of Google has ever actually seen Project Ara work. The closest we've come was at Google I/O last month, where a prototype device was able to show the Android boot screen and half of the lock screen before crashing. The developer boards aren't in a smartphone form factor, though—they look to be about the size of a small PC motherboard and are only meant for hardware development and testing.
One of the developer boards is pictured above, but there are actually three separate pieces of hardware. One is the application processor board (basically smartphone guts), which runs the horrifically old (and no longer supported) TI OMAP 4460, the same processor that's in the Galaxy Nexus and Google Glass. Since this is "the smartphone part," it will need to run software, which Google only identifies as "modified Linaro Android." Ara needs to run on a fork of Android that supports things like hot-swapping hardware components and additional drivers for the hardware ecosystem. We're going to guess this is the board pictured above, which is quite a bit bigger than the final concept, but it's good enough for testing.The second board is "a UniPro switch board representative of the network switching functionality of the Ara endoskeleton." Ara modules communicate with one another through the skeleton, and it's this board's job to help developers replicate that communication. "UniPro" is the protocol that the modules use to communicate. The last board is for "developer-unique functionality" that supports tunneling various I/O protocols over Ara's UniPro (if you're interested, the page lists "legacy DSI, I2C, I2S, SDIO, and GPIO").
This is just the first release of the hardware, and Google said that it plans to have a second hardware release with multiple application processors in the fall. Getting away from the Texas Instruments chip would be a good idea since the company is no longer in the SoC market and no longer supports its devices with updates.
Google doesn't mention any kind of cost for the boards (free?), and, unlike most Google-branded hardware, Ara seems to be open to most of the world. The signup sheet only says that Google can't ship to "Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria" and that shipping is subject to US export law. If you're a hardware developer, you can request to get the board here. Google says it will "prioritize requests based on technical experience and the strength of your module concept."
The first round of applications is due July 17, 2014, 11:59pm PDT, so if you're interested, you'd better start filling out the paperwork. Boards ship later this month to selected applicants.


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VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - July 30, 2014) - Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ) (TRQ) (TRQ.TO) (Turquoise Hill or the Company) today announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement with National United Resources Holdings Limited (the Purchaser), a Hong Kong-based public company listed on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK), providing for the sale to the Purchaser of a 29.95% stake in SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (SouthGobi), an integrated coal mining, development and exploration company operating in Mongolia.
Under the terms of the agreement, which was effected in accordance with and in reliance upon the "private agreement" exemption under the Canadian takeover bid regime, Turquoise Hill has agreed to sell 56,102,000 common shares that it owns in the capital of SouthGobi to the Purchaser at a price of CDN$0.455 per common share, following which Turquoise Hill would continue to hold 48,705,155 shares of SouthGobi, representing approximately a 26% stake in SouthGobi. Approximately CDN$12.8 million in cash will be received by the Company at closing and deferred consideration of approximately CDN$12.8 million will be payable one year after the closing of the transaction.
Closing is subject to certain closing conditions, including the SEHK approving the circular to be provided to the Purchaser's shareholders for the shareholder vote on the transaction and the Purchaser's shareholders approving the transaction. Closing is expected to occur no later than November 30, 2014.
CIBC World Markets Inc. acted as financial advisor and Norton Rose Fulbright acted as legal advisors to the Special Committee and the Turquoise Hill Board of Directors in respect of this transaction.
About Turquoise Hill Resources
Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ) (TRQ) (TRQ.TO) is an international mining company focused on copper- gold and coal mines in Mongolia. The Company's primary operation is its 66% interest in the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mine in southern Mongolia. Turquoise Hill also holds a 56% interest in Mongolian coal miner SouthGobi Resources (SGQ.TO) (1878.HK). Rio Tinto plc indirectly owns approximately a 50.8% interest in Turquoise Hill.
About National United Resources Holdings Limited
National United Resources Holdings Limited is listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 254) and is principally engaged in coking coal trading, natural resources related logistics business, outdoor media advertising and media related services. In relation to its outdoor media advertising and media related services, National United Resources Holdings aims to provide the best comprehensive advertising services for its national and international clients through the integration of high quality outdoor media resources in the People's Republic of China and an all-round networking management platform. National United Resources Holdings commenced its business of coking coal trading in 2013 and has already successfully sourced coking coal supplies in Mongolia on behalf of its customers located in different jurisdictions.
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Certain statements made herein, including statements relating to matters that are not historical facts and statements of the Company's beliefs, intentions and expectations about developments, results and events which will or may occur in the future, constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking information and statements relate to future events or future performance, reflect current expectations or beliefs regarding future events and are typically identified by words such as "anticipate", "could", "should", "expect", "seek", "may", "intend", "likely", "plan", "estimate", "will", "believe" and similar expressions suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. These include, but are not limited to, statements respecting anticipated business activities; planned expenditures; corporate strategies; and other statements that are not historical facts.
Forward-looking statements and information are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements or information. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including the price of copper, gold and silver, anticipated capital and operating costs, anticipated future production and cash flows, the ability to complete the disposition of certain of its non-core assets, the ability and timing to complete project financing and/or secure other financing on acceptable terms, and the evolution of discussions with the Government of Mongolia on a range of issues including the implementation of the Investment Agreement, project development costs, operating budgets, the payment of taxes and taxation matters, management fees and governance and the existence or filing of legal proceedings against the Company and its officers and directors. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements and information include, among others, copper, gold and silver price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operational and development risks, litigation risks, regulatory restrictions (including environmental regulatory restrictions and liability), activities or assessments by governmental authorities, currency fluctuations, the speculative nature of mineral exploration, the global economic climate, dilution, share price volatility, competition, loss of key employees, additional funding requirements, capital and operating costs for the construction and operation of the Oyu Tolgoi mine and defective title to mineral claims or property. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements and information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. All such forward-looking information and statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the Company's management in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances. These statements, however, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information or statements.
With respect to specific forward-looking information concerning the construction and development of the Oyu Tolgoi mine, the Company has based its assumptions and analyses on certain factors which are inherently uncertain. Uncertainties and assumptions include, among others: the timing and cost of the construction and expansion of mining and processing facilities; the impact of the decision announced by the Company to delay the funding and development of the Oyu Tolgoi underground mine pending resolution of outstanding issues with the Government of Mongolia associated with the development and operation of the Oyu Tolgoi mine and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the availability of Oyu Tolgoi Project Financing; the time required to complete the underground feasibility study for the Oyu Tolgoi Project and the approval of such study by Oyu Tolgoi's shareholders, the impact of changes in, changes in interpretation to or changes in enforcement of, laws, regulations and government practices in Mongolia; the availability and cost of skilled labour and transportation; the availability and cost of appropriate smelting and refining arrangements; the obtaining of (and the terms and timing of obtaining) necessary environmental and other government approvals, consents and permits; the availability of funding on reasonable terms; the timing and availability of a long-term power source for the Oyu Tolgoi mine; delays, and the costs which would result from delays, in the development of the underground mine (which could significantly exceed those projected in the 2013 Oyu Tolgoi Technical Report); projected copper, gold and silver prices and demand; and production estimates and the anticipated yearly production of copper, gold and silver at the Oyu Tolgoi mine.
The cost, timing and complexities of mine construction and development are increased by the remote location of a property such as the Oyu Tolgoi mine. It is common in new mining operations and in the development or expansion of existing facilities to experience unexpected problems and delays during development, construction and mine start-up. Additionally, although the Oyu Tolgoi mine has achieved commercial production, there is no assurance that future development activities will result in profitable mining operations. In addition, funding and development of the underground component of the Oyu Tolgoi mine have been delayed until matters with the Government of Mongolian can be resolved and a new timetable agreed. These delays can impact project economics.
The Company's MD&A also contains references to estimates of mineral reserves and mineral resources. The estimation of reserves and resources is inherently uncertain and involves subjective judgments about many relevant factors. The mineral resource estimates contained therein are inclusive of mineral reserves. Further, mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The accuracy of any such estimates is a function of the quantity and quality of available data, and of the assumptions made and judgments used in engineering and geological interpretation (including future production from the Oyu Tolgoi mine, the anticipated tonnages and grades that will be achieved or the indicated level of recovery that will be realized), which may prove to be unreliable. There can be no assurance that these estimates will be accurate or that such mineral reserves and mineral resources can be mined or processed profitably. See the discussion under the headings "Language Regarding Reserves and Resources" and "Note to United States Investors Concerning Estimates of Measured, Indicated and Inferred Resources" in the Company's MD&A filed on SEDAR and EDGAR.
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The calcareous soil and temperate micro-climate of Tuscany rewards the wine grape with unequaled fruitiness. Among the noble grape varieties that thrive here are Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Centine is a bright ruby-red youthful wine, intensely fruity with a lingering finish - a testament to its overall balance. It is an ideal companion to pasta, grilled or roasted red and white meats. Grape Varieties: 60% Sangiovese; 20% Cabernet Sauvignon; 20% Merlot.
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NASCAR chairman Brian France ends lawsuit against former wife
NASCAR chairman Brian France has ended his lawsuit against former wife Megan, a lawsuit that revealed some of his financial worth.
Although their divorce was final in 2007, France filed a lawsuit in September 2008 alleging that Megan broke the terms of their divorce when it came to visitation rights, the hiring of nannies and the confidentiality clause.
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Because he contended she broke the terms of the divorce, he had withheld $6 million in payments, according to court documents.
The lawsuit, filed in North Carolina District Court in Charlotte, was dismissed Sept. 26, according to the clerk of court docket database, although the actual order of dismissal wasn't immediately available from the clerk's office.
"The parties have voluntarily dismissed all pending litigation and amicably resolved all existing disputes on confidential terms that are consistent with the best interests of their children and their respective families," Brian France attorney Johnny Stephenson said in a statement. "There will be no further public comment about these private matters."
The case file showed the massive wealth of Brian France, who succeeded his father as Chairman and CEO of NASCAR in 2003. In 2005 at the time of their marriage -- the second between them -- Brian France listed assets of $554 million and loans of $26 million, according to documents in the case. He earned $9.05 million in 2004 as NASCAR chairman and CEO.
As part of the divorce, Megan France kept a $3.2 million Charlotte home and a $2 million vacant lot. Megan France argued in the case that Brian was not as involved in the life of their children as he should have been and had held back payments for some prep school fees for her daughter from a previous marriage.


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This year's World Cup has provided some incredible games along with some unbelievable moments including the bite felt around the world. There is one personality though who is winning the heart of soccer fans from every country – Miguel Herrera- coach of team Mexico. His wonderful reactions to his team's play during the World Cup and over the years are simply magical. We've picked out five of our favorite Herrera moments. (Some have been wonderfully enhanced.)
"I make them wait before I show joy!"
"The rain is my favorite weather in the world!"
"You want a hug?! You want a hug?! Hugs for everyone!"
Try to jump and pump your fists at the same time – it's not as easy
as you think- but Herrera does it with ease.
(Bonus points for the open mouth too.)
Pure. Magic. Who wants to do a movie with our hero CAPTAIN HERRERA?!
Related: Top 5 Thrilling Finishes in World Cup 2014 (So Far).


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PHOENIX -- Jim Joyce's timing could not have been better. In fact, it was lifesaving. The veteran Major League umpire performed CPR on Diamondbacks food service employee Jayne Powers prior to the D-backs-Marlins game on Monday night.
"[The doctors] are pretty confident that they got her to the hospital in a shape where they could treat her and get her well again," said Russ Amaral, a D-backs vice president in charge of facilities and event services.
Joyce, who was scheduled to work the game behind the plate, arrived at the ballpark around 5:15 p.m. MST. He was walking down a ramp that leads to the umpire's dressing room.
Nearby, a briefing to the Levy food service workers had just broken up, and Powers, who has worked for the D-backs since their inaugural season in 1998, was speaking with a co-worker. She suddenly grabbed her co-worker's arm, began to shake and then fell to the ground.
"I knew something was wrong," Joyce said. "And I knew if something wasn't done, this lady could actually die in front of me. It was more instinct than anything else."
Joyce began to perform CPR, something he learned in high school.
"I've always stayed up with it," Joyce said. "Everybody should know it. I truly mean that. Everybody should know it. Because if you only have to use it one time, it can, well ... you can see what happened."
Not long after, Marlins bullpen coordinator Jeffrey Urgelles arrived on the scene. Urgelles was a firefighter/paramedic in the Miami-Dade County area. He assisted Joyce and later also helped out the paramedics.
"Somebody called for a trainer," Urgelles said. "I saw one of the security guys sprinting up the stairs. I knew then something was up, and I started walking out of the cage to see what was happening. Ricky Nolasco screamed for me. He was saying, 'Urgy, Urgy, they need someone who knows CPR.'
"I ran down the hallway and the lady was down on the ground. When I got there, there was a lady down and two people there. One of the guys was doing compression. That man ended up being Jim Joyce, the umpire. I didn't know who he was until late last night."
A call had already been made to the D-backs' security control room to send help, and a first responder arrived on the scene within minutes with an automated external defibrillator (AED). Joyce continued with the CPR while the first responder worked with the AED.
Some 20 minutes later, Powers was transferred to an ambulance, which took her to Good Samaritan Hospital, where she finally regained consciousness.
Joyce, meanwhile, went to the umpire's room to get ready for the game. His fellow umpires offered to let him work third base, a less strenuous assignment rather than working the plate.
Joyce turned them down flat.
"I couldn't stand on third base and think about it all night," Joyce said. "And my job is to do my rotation in the crew, and nothing would have kept me from working the plate last night. Not only that I could get my mind off it because there's action on every pitch."
D-backs executive Roland Hemond called Joyce over to the screen behind home plate during the game to let him know that Powers had regained consciousness and looked like she was going to be OK.
"Obviously I wanted to know, unless it had been bad news," Joyce said. "My wife actually told everyone if it's bad news, you don't tell him. Because I wouldn't have been able to continue."
By Tuesday morning, Powers was doing better and doctors told D-backs officials that she might be able to go home later this week.
"The doctors have said, 'I'll tell you what -- if it wasn't for the first person who was on scene and the fact that you had those AEDs, there's a very fairly decent chance this would not have turned out well, and she might not have made it to the hospital at all,'" Amaral said.
The D-backs have AEDs at different locations throughout the ballpark and have trained various front-office and event-staff members on how to operate them.
Until Monday, though, they had never been used.
"You never know how people are going to respond until they have to use it," Amaral said. "Thank God we purchased these things."
Joyce and his wife, Kay, visited Powers on Tuesday, and when the umpire walked into the room, he was so overcome with emotion, he was unable to speak.
"Thank God my wife Kay was with me, because she interpreted," Joyce said.
While he was performing CPR, Joyce was singing the song "Stayin' Alive" as a way of keeping the compressions going at the right time.
Joyce asked Powers if she remembered him singing to her.
"She didn't remember that," Joyce said. "But she told my wife she remembered my voice. I was yelling for her to come back and everything. She said she recognized my voice, so that's really kind of cool."
A big league umpire for 24 seasons, Joyce gained notoriety in 2010 when his missed call at first base cost Detroit's Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
Certainly Powers and the entire D-backs' organization will now remember him for an entirely different reason. As he prepared to work Tuesday's game, Joyce was stopped by D-backs day of game employees and front-office personnel. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to thank him for what he had done.
"I'll be very honest with you," said Joyce, who teared up at times while being thanked. "The way I look at it is, somebody needed help and I was fortunate enough to know what to do. I just looked at helping someone who really needed it. She was in bad shape and needed help."
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Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who came out of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s to find both wide popularity and critical acclaim in dramatic and comic roles alike, from "The Defiant Ones" to "Some Like It Hot," died on Wednesday at his home in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas. He was 85.
The cause was cardiac arrest, the Clark County coroner said.
Mr. Curtis, one of the last survivors of Hollywood's golden age, became a respected dramatic actor, earning an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in "The Defiant Ones," a 1958 Stanley Kramer film. But he was equally adept in comedies; his public even seemed to prefer him in those roles, flocking to see him, for example, in the 1965 slapstick hit "The Great Race."
As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew on his startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair worn in a sculptural style later imitated by Elvis Presley and his plucked eyebrows framing pale blue eyes and full lips, Mr. Curtis embodied a new kind of feminized male beauty that came into vogue in the early '50s.
A vigorous heterosexual in his widely publicized (not least by himself) private life, he was often cast in roles that drew on a perceived ambiguity: his full-drag impersonation of a female jazz musician in "Some Like It Hot" (1959); a slave who attracts the interest of an aristocratic Roman general (Laurence Olivier) in Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1960); a man attracted to a mysterious blonde (Debbie Reynolds) who turns out to be the reincarnation of his male best friend in Vincente Minnelli's "Goodbye Charlie" (1964).
But behind the pretty-boy looks was a dramatically potent combination of naked ambition and deep vulnerability, both likely products of his Dickensian childhood in the Bronx. Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, to Helen and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Emanuel operated a tailor shop in a poor neighborhood, and the family occupied cramped quarters behind the store; the parents in one room and little Bernard sharing another with his two brothers, Julius and Robert. Helen Schwartz suffered from schizophrenia and frequently beat the three boys. (Robert was later found to have the same disease.)
In 1933, at the height of the Depression, his parents found they could not properly provide for their children, and Bernard and Julius were placed in a state institution. (Julius was hit by a truck and killed in 1938.) Returning to his old neighborhood, Bernard became caught up in gang warfare and the target of anti-Semitic hostility. As he recalled, he learned to dodge the stones and fists to protect his face, which he realized even then would be his ticket to greater things.
In search of stability, Bernard made his way to Seward Park High School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. During World War II he served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender U.S.S. Proteus. His ship was present in Tokyo Bay in 1945 for the formal surrender of Japan aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, which Signalman Schwartz watched through a pair of binoculars.
Back in New York, he enrolled in acting classes in the workshop headed by Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research, where one of his colleagues was another Seward alumnus, Walter Matthau. He began getting theater work in the Catskills and caught the eye of the casting agent Joyce Selznick, who helped him win a contract with Universal Pictures in 1948. After experimenting with James Curtis, he settled on Anthony Curtis as his stage name and began turning up in bit parts in films like Anthony Mann's "Winchester '73" alongside another Universal bit player, Rock Hudson.
Mr. Curtis's career advanced rapidly at first. He was promoted to supporting player, billed as Tony Curtis for the first time, in the 1950 western "Kansas Raiders," and became, he recalled, first prize in a Universal promotional contest, "Win a Weekend With Tony Curtis."
He received top billing in 1951 in the Technicolor Arabian Nights adventure "The Prince Who Was a Thief." His co-star was Piper Laurie, and they were paired in three subsequent films at Universal, including Douglas Sirk's "No Room for the Groom," a 1952 comedy that allowed Mr. Curtis to explore his comic gifts for the first time.
In 1951 Mr. Curtis married the ravishing MGM contract player Janet Leigh. Highly photogenic, the couple became a favorite of the fan magazines, and their first movie together, George Marshall's "Houdini" (1953), was Mr. Curtis's first substantial hit.
Perhaps the character of Houdini like Mr. Curtis, a handsome young man of Hungarian Jewish ancestry who reinvented himself through show business touched something in Mr. Curtis. In any case, it was in that film that his most consistent screen personality, the eager young outsider who draws on his charm and wiles to achieve success in the American mainstream, was born.
Mr. Curtis endured several more Universal costume pictures, including the infamous 1954 film "The Black Shield of Falworth," in which he starred with Ms. Leigh but did not utter the line, "Yondah lies da castle of my foddah," that legend has attributed to him. His career seemed stalled until Burt Lancaster, another actor who survived a difficult childhood in New York City, took him under his wing.
Lancaster cast Mr. Curtis as his protégé, a circus performer who becomes his romantic rival, in his company's 1956 production "Trapeze." But it was Mr. Curtis's next appearance with Lancaster as the hustling Broadway press agent Sidney Falco, desperately eager to ingratiate himself with Lancaster's sadistic Broadway columnist J. J. Hunsecker in "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957) that proved that Mr. Curtis could be an actor of genuine power and subtlety.
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The late '50s and early '60s were Mr. Curtis's heyday. Taking his career into his own hands, he formed a production company, Curtleigh Productions, and in partnership with Kirk Douglas assembled the 1958 independent feature "The Vikings," a rousing adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer. Later that year the producer-director Stanley Kramer cast Mr. Curtis in "The Defiant Ones" as a prisoner who escapes from a Southern chain gang while chained to a fellow convict, who happens to be black (Sidney Poitier).
"The Defiant Ones" may seem schematic and simplistic today, but at the time it spoke with hope to a nation in the violent first stages of the civil rights movement and was rewarded with nine Oscar nominations, including one for Mr. Curtis as best actor. It was the only acknowledgment he received from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in his career.
Mr. Curtis began a creatively rewarding relationship with the director Blake Edwards with a semi-autobiographical role as a hustler working a Wisconsin resort in "Mister Cory" (1957). That was followed by two hugely successful 1959 military comedies: "The Perfect Furlough" (with Ms. Leigh) and "Operation Petticoat," in which he played a submarine officer serving under a captain played by Cary Grant.
Under Billy Wilder's direction in "Some Like It Hot," another 1959 release, Mr. Curtis employed a spot-on imitation of Grant's mid-Atlantic accent when his character, posing as an oil heir, tries to seduce a voluptuous singer (Marilyn Monroe). His role in that film as a Chicago musician who, with his best friend (Jack Lemmon), witnesses the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flees to Florida in women's clothing as a member of an all-girl dance band remains Mr. Curtis's best-known performance.
Success in comedy kindled Mr. Curtis's ambitions as a dramatic actor. He appeared in Mr. Douglas's epic production of "Spartacus," directed by Stanley Kubrick, and reached unsuccessfully for another Oscar nomination in "The Outsider" (1961), directed by Delbert Mann, as Ira Hayes, a Native American who helped to raise the flag at Iwo Jima. In "The Great Impostor," directed by Robert Mulligan, he played a role closer to his established screen personality: an ambitious young man from the wrong side of the tracks who fakes his way through a series of professions, including a monk, a prison warden and a surgeon.
Mr. Curtis's popularity was damaged by his divorce from Ms. Leigh in 1962, following an affair with the 17-year-old German actress Christine Kaufmann, who was his co-star in the costume epic "Taras Bulba." He retreated into comedies, playing out his long association with Universal in a series of undistinguished efforts including "40 Pounds of Trouble" (1962), "Captain Newman, M.D." (1963) and the disastrous "Wild and Wonderful" (1964), in which he starred with Ms. Kaufmann, whom he married in 1963.
In "The Great Race," Blake Edwards's celebration of slapstick comedy, Mr. Curtis parodied himself as an impossibly handsome daredevil named the Great Leslie, and in 1967 he reunited with Alexander Mackendrick, director of "Sweet Smell of Success," for an enjoyable satire on California mores, "Don't Make Waves."
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Mr. Curtis made one final, ambitious attempt to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor with "The Boston Strangler" in 1968, putting on weight to play the suspected serial killer Albert DeSalvo. Again under Richard Fleischer's direction, he gave a rigorously deglamorized performance, but the film was dismissed as exploitative in many quarters and failed to reignite Mr. Curtis's career. That year, he divorced Ms. Kaufmann and married a 23-year-old model, Leslie Allen.
After two unsuccessful efforts to establish himself in series television "The Persuaders" (1971-72) and "McCoy" (1975-76) Mr. Curtis fell into a seemingly endless series of guest appearances on television (he had a recurring role on "Vegas" from 1978 to 1981) and supporting roles in ever more unfortunate movies, including Mae West's excruciating 1978 comeback attempt, "Sextette."
A stay at the Betty Ford Center he had struggled with drug and alcohol abuse followed his 1982 divorce from Ms. Allen, but Mr. Curtis never lost his work ethic. He continued to appear in low-budget movies and occasionally in independent films of quality. He took up painting, selling his boldly signed, Matisse-influenced canvases through galleries and stores.
After divorcing Ms. Allen, Mr. Curtis was married to the actress Andrea Savio (1984-92) and, briefly, to the lawyer Lisa Deutsch (1993-94). He married his sixth wife, the horse trainer Jill VandenBerg, in 1998, and with her operated a nonprofit refuge for abused and neglected horses.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Curtis's survivors include Kelly Lee Curtis and the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, his two daughters with Janet Leigh; Alexandra Curtis and Allegra Curtis, his two daughters with Christine Kaufmann; and a son, Benjamin, with Leslie Allen. A second son with Ms. Allen, Nicholas, died of a drug overdose in 1994.
He published "Tony Curtis: The Autobiography," written with Barry Paris, in 1994 and a second autobiography, "American Prince: A Memoir," written with Peter Golenbock, in 2008, and in it he described a romance with Marilyn Monroe in 1948, when both were young, relatively unknown performers who had recently arrived in Hollywood. The affair was only a memory when they worked together a decade later, both as major stars, in "Some Like It Hot."
"Somehow working with her on 'Some Like It Hot' had brought a sense of completion to my feelings for her," he wrote. "The more we talked, the more I realized that another love affair had bitten the dust."
In 2002 he toured in a musical adaptation of "Some Like It Hot," in which he played the role of the love-addled millionaire originated by Joe E. Brown in the film. This time, the curtain line was his: "Nobody's perfect."
His final screen appearance was in 2008, when he played a small role in "David & Fatima," an independent budget film about a romance between an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim. His character's name was Mr. Schwartz.


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Weight: 50g
Length: 185m ( 202 yrds )
Needles:3 – 3.5mm – US 2½ – 4
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Lakehouse Reflections - A little bit about the sacred ordinary
All About Bridesmaids: Facts + myths, and how to choose your bridesmaids
Media + Beauty- A rant about out our culture, photoshop + beauty.
Better or Worse I am Tethered to You - A series about marriage
Fitness for the Lazy? - A requested post about staying in shape
DIY Closet Sale- how to host a "closet sale" and make tons of cash off of old clothing!
Buying Second Hand Bags- All about buying expensive bags second hand as well as restoring leather bags.
Living on Less - A three part budget series for those of us who aren't rolling in dough
Craigslist 101 - On how to buy + sell with the best of them, yo.
High School: A Decade Later - Musings about an upcoming 10 year reunion
'there are more embarrassing things that could happen in first grade..." - a rather horrific post about "accidents" in school
A Dream Fulfilled - How the least-graceful girl became a ballerina, suckas!
Repurposing: A Love Story (2.10.12)- *THIS* is why I repurpose, people.
The (not so) Little Choices in Life (2.04.12) - On how the tiniest choices in life can make massive differences (Butterfly Effect, anyone?)
Photo Challenge + Interview (1.31.12) - Just a titch about me, yo.
My Husband the Photog (01.27.12) - Random photos from my sweet boy
Happy New Year! (01.01.12) -mhm. I dig you,
A Very 'la vie' Christmas (12.27.11) - It was Merry and Bright
To Walk In Your Steps: A(nother) Grandfather Remembered (12.22.11) - You will be missed, always.
The Serenity of Morning (12.13.11) - about how (sometimes) early mornings can be rewarding
Only at McDonald's? (my favorite blog! 11.10.11) - just read this, ok?
Traffic Jam: Ending Child Sex Slavery (9.1.11) - My hubs, the hero
Good Cake Gone Bad (08.23.11) - Yeah. I'm not cool.
I Will Think of You Each Time I See a Storm (2.26.11) - The funeral of my Grandfather
Love is Peanut Butter Ice Cream (03.23.10) - On how love is made up from the little things
Dear John (1.20.2010) - The only good "Dear John" letter you'll ever read ;)
Penelope (01.19.2010) - About my sweet, diabetic niece


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"Amazing Photos Of The Universe By Hubble Space Telescope"
by N. Morgan
"A wonderful collection of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. This collection is just breathtaking and the video maker included history,along with the photos, so you get a real in depth look into the universe and all of its natural wonders! Most of these photos were taken from NASA's official website, spacetelescope.org and National Geographic."
- http://beforeitsnews.com/


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Moroccan mushrooms with couscous
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
- kcal245
- fat4g
- saturates0g
- carbs44g
- sugars11g
- fibre6g
- protein11g
- salt0.51g
- 1 red onion, sliced
- 1 tsp olive oil
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Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 1 tsp ground cumin
An aromatic spice native to eastern Mediteranean countries and Upper Egypt. This warm,…
- 300g mushroom, quartered
The mushroom is a fungus which comes in a wide range of varieties that belong to two distinct…
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 410g can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 1 tsp clear honey
- 175g couscous
Consisting of many tiny granules made from steamed and dried durum wheat, couscous has become a…
- 50g soft dried apricots, diced
A relative of the peach, nectarine, plum and cherry, apricots are fragrant, with a soft, velvety…
- handful flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
Fry the onion in the oil for 6 mins until softened. Add the cinnamon and cumin and cook for 1 min, stirring. Add the mushrooms, cook for 2 mins, then stir in the tomatoes, chickpeas and honey. Season and simmer for 7-8 mins.
Meanwhile, mix the couscous with the dried apricots and some seasoning in a bowl. Pour over 250ml boiling water, stir to mix, then cover. Leave to stand for 7 mins or until softened. To serve, fluff up with a fork, stir in the parsley and top with the mushroom mixture. Great served with some green beans.


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We've all had to do this: incredible pressures are brought to bear upon you, forcing you to teach someone you barely know how to work a manual transmission. A great idea for a 24 Hours of LeMons penalty, we say!
It turns out that Assistant LeMons South Perpetrator and nice Southern girl Chantelle (you may remember her from the LeMons Moonshine Taste Test) has been working at race tracks for quite a while, yet never learned how to use the third pedal on the left. We resolved that we'd not only fix that problem, we'd ensure that she had her very first racin' experience at the same time! What could possibly go wrong?
So here's how the Teach Your Girlfriend's Little Sister To Drive A Stick Shift Penalty (from this point forward to be referred to as the TYGLSTDASSP) works: A manual-trans-equipped team that racks up a ridiculous quantity of black flags in a short period of time must take Chantelle to the edge of the paddock and get her up to speed on the intricacies of manual transmission operation, preferably without destroying the race car or killing anyone. After that, they must round up a complete set of fireproof racing gear to fit a slim 5' 11" racer and let her drive a full-on LeMons race session. If it turns out to take all day...well, the LeMons Supreme Court has all the time in the world! Oh yeah!
Chantelle turned out to be a fast learner, however, and the Purple People Eater RX-7 team had her ready to go in about 15 minutes. Recognize this former LeMons winner? Yes, she was driving the Mazda that won the first-ever LeMons South, and she did great!
Once the word got around that we had a genuine prodigy on our hands, the guys on the Dorifto Dogs E30 team- who also have a LeMons South overall win under their belts- figured it would be an honor to let Chantelle pilot their BMW for a while.
Thing is, the Dogs' clutch was a bit funky. Hey, no sweat-o; just give her 45 seconds of instruction and she'll be good to go!
While Chantelle certainly wasn't fast on her first race, she drove better than a pretty high percentage of experienced racers.


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SFA Online Library of Links -- Art & Architecture
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Another Emmy's in the books. While the viewing numbers will send a clear signal at how well execs will view the success of the show, PopcornBiz presents its own grade.
Opening number: A key element to any awards show, this star-studded hilarious skit was a total triumph. You knew Betty White
was going to be in it, and be hilarious. But this number took television absurdity to a new level, and amazingly reached new heights
with every televised moment. Kate Gosselin getting rejected from the "Glee" club! Jon Hamm dirty dancing for Betty White and then busting out onstage! Tina Fey camping it up! Jorge Garcia randomly joining the group! Did we mention that both Jon Hamm and Tina Fey were dancing absurdly onstage in front of millions of people? Absolutely amazing. I want to watch it again and again on TIVO. Grade: A+
Host: Jimmy Fallon deserves total props for leading the opening number, which was sublime, and a big part of the gig. It set the tone. Fallon then held down the fort admirably during the show. The audience guitar-singer-intro-thing never really entirely worked, but never got annoying. Grade: B
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
Clooney cameo: The entire "Modern Family" skit in the middle of the show was hilarious, but the George Clooney cameo made it a true standout. As brilliant as "Modern Family" itself, but with the fantastic Clooney playing the cherry on top. Grade: A
Social networking tie-ins: You know you want the young folks to take part in the show. But did the Twitter shout-outs from the podium during the show have to be, well, so lame, dude? If you're going to diminish the respectability of the awards show with this clear audience pandering (more suitable for the Viewer's Choice Awards than anything serious) at least make the comments funny or insightful. Twitter is the most inane social medium out there, but it does have moments of brilliance. Couldn't you find something close to that? Or at least slightly funny? Apparently not. Grade: F
John Hodgman's award intro: A great idea to give a personality and an edge to the normally mysterious voice and words said about the award winner during their trip to the stage. Most of the comments hit the mark, especially the joke about plastic surgery in Hollywood. A few fell flat. Grade: B+
Acceptance speeches: Surprisingly lame this year. It seemed like everyone was just waiting for the "wrap it up please" signal before saying anything significant and then came the boring laundry list. Even Al Pacino managed to underperform in this department which was especially painful because you never want to waste a Pacino moment. "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet's speech probably was the closest to the true poignant mark, but there wasn't a lot of heart after that. If you have to thank your agents people, do it quickly. But give the viewers some acceptance magic! There wasn't enough here. Grade C
Nominees video look-in: I liked the idea of giving some personality to the writer/director nominees with short little videos before their
awards. It didn't always work and sometimes the brief bits were hilarious. But it's better than just being strange names read to the
audience. A worthy effort. Grade: B.


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Michigan Lawyers Weekly is pleased to announce the names of the 20 attorneys selected as Up & Coming Lawyers for 2012.
Chosen from dozens of nominations, these honorees have spent less than a decade in practice, but display the ambition, drive, determination and accomplishments to set them apart among their peers.
The Michigan Lawyers Weekly panel chose them for their noteworthy cases, unique practice areas, and community and/or bar association efforts.
The Up & Coming Class of 2012 represents a broad spectrum of practice areas, from family law to intellectual property to construction litigation, and from appellate and class-action specialists to veterans' disability to oil and gas law.
And they come from all parts of Michigan — from Detroit to Traverse City, from Grand Rapids to Lansing and points in between.
The Up & Coming Class of 2012 will be recognized at a Dec. 6 luncheon at the Detroit Marriott Troy, and they will be profiled in a special section to be distributed at the event and in the Dec. 10 issue of MiLW.
Our honorees are:
Ryan Bewersdorf, Foley & Lardner LLP, Detroit
David Campbell, Bowman and Brooke LLP, Bloomfield Hills
Kristina Derro, Legal Help for Veterans PLLC, Northville
Timothy Diemer, Jacobs and Diemer PC, Detroit
Stephanie Douglas, Bush Seyferth & Paige PLLC, Troy
Kate (Fetkenhier) Barnaby, The Gallagher Law Firm PLC, Lansing
Leo Gibson, Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker PLLC, Detroit
Benjamin Hammond, Hilger Hammond PC, Grand Rapids
Danielle Hessell, Butzel Long, Bloomfield Hills
Andrew Kolozsvary, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Detroit
Brett Krueger, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Detroit
Matthew Nelson, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Grand Rapids
Lana Panagoulia, Lana Panagoulia Law PLLC, Ann Arbor
John Schuring, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Grand Rapids
Brian Schwartz, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC, Detroit
Daniel Victor, Victor & Victor PLLC, Bloomfield Hills
Sarah Weston, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC, Southfield
Paul Whiting, Whiting Law, Southfield
Corey Wiggins, Zirnhelt, Bowron & Wiggins PLC, Traverse City
Matthew Wikander, Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Grand Rapids


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Nintendo may not have had a traditional press conference at this year's E3, but it used a Nintendo Direct video presentation this morning to prove that the Wii U isn't shrinking away from new competition in the form of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The 45-minute-long presentation showed quite a variety of new and old franchises for the Wii U from both third-party developers and Nintendo itself. The only problem, as far as Wii U owners are concerned, is that some of the most interesting announcements won't become actual games until next year.
Want the first-ever HD Mario Kart game? You'll have to wait until the spring of 2014. Want to play as Mega Man in a new Smash Bros. game (I know I do)? It will happen… next year. The exclusive sequel to the stylish and fatal Bayonetta still exists after its long media silence, but it won't hit Wii U consoles until next year. A new open-world adventure franchise called X from the creators of Xenosaga looks intriguing, but you won't be playing it until… yup, 2014.
A system's second holiday season is usually when its game library really starts to mature and we get to see what that system can really do. Given that, it's a bad sign that some of Nintendo's biggest franchises won't be able to make the crucial holiday sales rush this year.
Not that Nintendo's lineup for the holidays will be empty. The company will have a Wii U update to the delightful isometric platformer Super Mario 3D Land called Super Mario 3D World in December. We won't get a new Zelda game for the Wii U any time in the fear future, but that HD update to The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, which comes with a few Wii U exclusive features, will be ready by October. A new Donkey Kong Country 2D side-scroller is coming this year, too, as well as a new Wii Fit that makes use of a "fit meter" and a new Wii Party game. And don't forget that exclusive Sonic game, Lost World.
Nintendo also stressed that the Wii U will be getting ports of some of the year's biggest third-party titles, showing them off in rapid succession during the video presentation. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Batman Arkham Origins, Disney Infinity, Just Dance 2014, Rayman Legends, Scribblenauts Unlimited: A DC Comics Adventure, Disney's Planes, Skylanders SWAP Force, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and Watch Dogs will all be appearing on the Wii U as well as other systems. While that's all well and good, there are still plenty of third-party games that are not getting Wii U ports, and there are precious few titles from outside developers that will be exclusive to the Wii U (save for the delightful-looking superhero adventure The Wonderful 101).
Nintendo's video presentation this morning succeeded in its job of making sure people don't forget that Nintendo's system still exists in the wake of Sony and Microsoft's marketing onslaught. But the overriding message was that Nintendo's slow trickle of games wouldn't be changing to a flood any time soon, and players will be forced to wait for some of the console's biggest and most expected franchises.


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Sharing Data Between Different Instances of the Same Module (DLL or EXE)
Memory-mapped files are a great way to share data between processes (see Zoran's
article Client/Server
Interprocess Communication Via Shared Memory). They're easy to create, and easy
to work with 'cause you just end up with a regular-old pointer to your data. But
despite the not-too-bad syntax...
CreateFileMapping(); // or OpenFileMapping() if you're a "client" pData = MapViewOfFile(); // do stuff with pData UnmapViewOfFile(); CloseHandle();
...there's an even EASIER way to share data between different instances of the same
application or DLL.
The Visual C++ compiler lets you name your own data segments. You can pass an option to the linker that tells it to share one of these custom data segments, in which case all instances of your module (DLL or EXE) will map to the same instance of your custom data segment.
Put this in the code module where you want the "process-global" variables:
#pragma data_seg(".SHARED") char pg_pszShared[256] = {0}; // variables MUST be initialized, // not sure why #pragma data_seg() #pragma comment(linker, "/section:.SHARED,RWS")
Note that the name ".SHARED" could be whatever you want. And you can
add almost any variables you want between the two "#pragma data_seg()" directives. I've encountered two restrictions so far:
pointers that point to data that's outside the shared segment don't work (for hopefully
obvious reasons), and variables for classes that do their own memory-management (like
MFC's CString) don't work.
The "data_seg" pragma tells the compiler to put all the variables following in the specified data segment (or rather, data section in Win32 speak). Calling it the second time with no argument tells it to go back to using the default data section.
The "comment" pragma passes an option to the linker that tells it to actually share the specified data section. You could put this in a .DEF file too.
So anyway, as far as I'm concerned, this is MUCH cleaner than creating a memory mapped file for every piece of data you want to share. You don't have to keep any handles around and worry about closing them. You just declare a variable in your shared section and, voila!
Rumor has it that doing this causes the compiler to generate code that actually DOES create a memory-mapped file behind the scenes. Whatever. I don't care. All I know is, it's a lot less to have to worry about.
Below is a little VCPP6 MFC program that demonstrates that this technique works. Run a couple instances of it, type some data in the first one, and hit "Refresh" on the second.
Download demo application - 4 KB
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LOS ANGELES — Radiohead raised more than $500,000 for Haiti earthquake relief at a special weekend concert that attracted celebrities and die-hard fans.
The band performed for more than two hours Sunday at the Henry Fonda Theatre. The star-studded crowd included Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Charlize Theron, Anna Paquin and Daniel Craig.
Attendees bid online for tickets, with proceeds going to Oxfam International, a group that works with developing countries. Prices went as high as $4,000 for a pair of tickets. The closing minimum bid was $475.
Lead singer Thom Yorke joked with the crowd about the ticket prices, saying, "What did you do to get a ticket? Get money from your dad? Or blackmail your boss?"
Timberlake took in the show from the floor in the general admission area, singing along with the band's hits, which included "Fake Plastic Trees," ''Paranoid Android," ''Lucky" and "The Bends."
"I love them for the same reason everyone loves Radiohead," Timberlake told The Associated Press. "I have been listening to them since I was 13."
At work on a new album, Radiohead took a break from the studio to put together the special one-time benefit show at the 1,300-seat theater, a relatively small venue for the band. Funds also were raised from the sale of limited-edition show posters, which went for $25 each. Oxfam volunteers collected cash donations dropped into green buckets at the theater's entrance.
Tickets were sold only in pairs, prompting fans to search for bidding partners online.
Shane Rivers of Sacramento, who says he's seen the band 15 times, found his plus-one on Craigslist.
"I drove seven hours to be here," said Rivers, who paid $600 for his ticket. "It was special to be in the room."
Rob Molt of San Diego said he feverishly bid for days to win his $475 ticket. He said he would have spent "whatever it took to see such a beautiful band do such a beautiful thing."
"I hope how special this night was translates," he said. "I was expecting to be the runt in a Hollywood crowd, but it was all real Radiohead fans."
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83.
"He was conscientious and really very smart and kind, and that's not always a combination that goes together," said W. Stephen Wilson, a close friend and math department colleague.
"He was department chairman for five years and no one has been chairman for five years since the 1980s to today," said Dr. Wilson. "That shows the respect they had for him and the department. He really had universal respect."
Jean-Pierre Gustave Meyer was born in Lyon, France. His father, Jules, was a shopkeeper, and his mother, Germaine, was a homemaker.
With the fall of France in 1940, after the German invasion, Dr. Meyer and his family, who were Jewish, remained for a while in Lyon. They moved to Paris and then to St. Georges, a small village in the French countryside, in an attempt to escape Nazi persecution.
"His father died while in the lengthy and difficult process of assembling the papers that would allow the family to leave France, pass through Spain and Portugal, and enter the United States," said a daughter, Susan Lynn Meyer, an author and English professor who teaches at Wellesley College.
"When he first put foot on American soil, at the age of 13, he was wearing only bedroom slippers," said Ms. Meyer. "He was a Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied France, and his only pair of shoes had been stolen during the voyage."
Dr. Meyer, his mother and sister, along with other Jewish refugees, were aboard the Carvalho Araujo, a Portuguese passenger liner that departed from Lisbon and landed in Baltimore on Nov. 2, 1942.
"It was one week before the Nazis occupied the whole of France," said Ms. Meyer, who lives in Sherborn, Mass.
The family immediately settled in New York City, where Dr. Meyer's mother supported her family while working in an office and as a seamstress.
The story of the family's escape inspired an award-winning children's novel, "Black Radishes," that was written by Ms. Meyer and published by Random House in 2010.
"The book was dedicated to him," she said.
Dr. Meyer, who was interested in math from an early age, was a 1946 graduate of Stuyvesant High School. He attended City College of New York for two years, before earning a bachelor's degree in 1950 from Cornell University, where he also received his doctorate in mathematics.
He served in the Army as a mathematician, doing ballistics calculations at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Discharged in 1956, he taught for a semester at Syracuse University, and then for a year at Brown University before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1957.
In 1958, he married the former Marilyn Pettit, a Hopkins graduate student in math; the couple had six children. The marriage ended in divorce.
Dr. Meyer's work in mathematics was in the field of algebraic topology, which employs abstract algebra in the study of topological spaces, family members said.
"He was a charming man and very European," said Dr. Gabrielle Martino, a consultant who had studied under Dr. Meyer as a graduate student in the 1980s. "He was a wonderful adviser and he was a very easy teacher to learn from."
From 1985 to 1990, Dr. Meyer was chairman of the math department. In 1988, Dr. Meyer and his colleague, Jun-Ichi Igusa, persuaded Hopkins to fund the Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute, or JAMI, whose purpose was to foster cooperation between the two countries in mathematical research.
Dr. Meyer was vice director and then served as the institute's director from 1990 to 2000. In 2006, JAMI won the Mathematical Society of Japan's Seki-Takakazu Prize, named for a 17th-century Japanese mathematical prodigy.
He retired in 2001.
Dr. Meyer and a son, Steven Meyer of Harding, N.J., established and endowed the Jean-Pierre and Steven Meyer scholarships, which are awarded annually to two outstanding Hopkins undergraduates, one in the math department in the School for Arts and Sciences, and one in the applied mathematics department of the Whiting School of Engineering.
In the 1990s, Dr. Meyer married the former Roselyne Fischer, a French citizen, and the couple enjoyed spending summers in France and visiting Japan. They also shared an interest in classical music and art.
Plans for a memorial service to be held at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus are incomplete.
In addition to his wife, son and daughter, Dr. Meyer is survived by two other sons, David Meyer of San Diego and Nick Meyer of Makanda, Ill.; two other daughters, Alison Meyer of New York City and Nadine Meyer of Gettysburg, Pa.; a sister, Eliane Norman of Maitland, Fla.; and nine grandchildren.


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The New Zealand Maori Council has been given leave to appeal to the Supreme Court over water rights.
At a three-day High Court hearing in Wellington last month, the council unsuccessfully argued that the Government should establish the extent of Maori ownership rights over freshwater and geothermal resources and make redress for them before the partial sale of Mighty River and other power companies under the Government's "mixed ownership model".
A Supreme Court judgment released this morning gave the council the right to appeal over whether the High Court was right to dismiss the application for review.
The respondents - the attorney-general, finance minister and state-owned enterprises minister have until 1pm on Friday to file their case.
The appellants, the council and the Waikato River and Dams Claim Trust have until January 18 to file their submissions.


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Introducing WikiBear, the Siri of stuffed animals
NEW YORK >> If Teddy Ruxpin and Siri had a stuffed animal baby, it would be the WikiBear.
The WikiBear is a know-it-all toy that can crack jokes, tell you the weather, update you on which team won last night's hockey game or remind you who the 15th President of the United States was. The bear is on display this week at the 2014 International American Toy Fair, and answers your questions by searching the web.
He has a personality, too. He'll remember names, share his interests (and his favorite color) and develop a relationship with the owner. The more you play with it, the more it gets to know your personality too.
12 WTF Things at the New York Toy Fair
The bear syncs to your mobile device via Bluetooth and a WikiBear app. The app searches the web for the answers to questions you ask. It uses filters to make sure questions and answers are kid-friendly.
The voice in the video above will get an update before its September launch, a spokesperson told Mashable. Developers are working on a more kid-friendly, less robotic voice. It will cost about $60.
This article originally appeared on Mashable.