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From Zaijian to Aloha and Back Again
I love the idea of having an R&R. It's brilliant. I work in a stressful job (okay, my job is minimally stressful, on the average day, but my location definitely can bring on the headaches) and as a "reward" for that, I get a plane ticket to either Sydney, Australia or anywhere in the US. Fantastic! (Side note from my previous life: teachers should all get a once-a-year R&R!)
Originally, I thought we'd opt for the koala bear option, but once I discovered how incredibly hard it is to get to hold one of these cuddly little creatures, I was less enamored with the idea. (Plus, out of KL, we'll be even closer to the land of the Vegemite sandwich, so we'll probably make that trek in 2015.And I *will* find a way to hold one. I will.) So, with no need to exclaim, "Crikey, mate!" we set our sights on another land of blue skies and sunshine- the Sandwich islands.
The sunshine I had been dreaming of met us at the airport when we touched down at 8AM, nearly an hour before we took off from Chengdu that morning. (Oh, the magic of international dateline time travel!) I couldn't wait to see everything the islands had to offer, but within hours my lungs rebelled against the clean air. After flying all night, we checked into the hotel, filled up on a giant plate of IHOP pancakes and then decided to take a nap for a few hours, rejuvenating our batteries after seventeen hours in airports and airplanes. In the space of that two hour nap, I went from healthy and full of energy to having a throat that felt like my pancakes had been made of porcupine. Not a good sign. By the end of the day, I had a full blown cold. I swear it is because my body is so used to a certain level of pollutants that it can no longer function correctly without at least triple PM2.5 digits.
While my cold was bad enough that had I been home, I probably would have called in sick to work for two days in a row, there is no calling in sick on vacation! I had sites to see, stores to hit up and a hair appointment that was not to be broken.
Luckily, we were able to wander around Honolulu for a few days before boarding our cruise ship, so I nursed the worst of the cold on solid ground. (Buying out the clearance rack at Old Navy was some great retail therapy that I am sure boosted the powers of my Target OTC cold medicine.)
Next up: cruise time!
With my purple flower lei draped haphazardly around my shoulders, Thad and I posed for what would be the first in a lovely series of cruise-forced photos. (Each time we got off the ship, there would be someone in a random costume, lining up guests for photos. One day it was a dolphin in a coconut bra, while another day it was a giant, squishy pineapple. These pictures were then developed and for sale on the ship for a mere $12 each. It's too bad they were so pricey, as Thad and I made ridiculous faces in each and every one. It would have made a fantastic photo album.)
For the next seven days, we cruised the Hawaiian Islands. From snorkeling at Molokini, where I spent an hour following my favorite fish, trading "favorites" each time I found one that was more awesome to watching whales breech and tail slap their way across the bay, our first outing was fantastic. I have the swimming skills of a house cat, which means I wasn't able to dive several feet below the surface of the ocean, but Thad said he could hear the songs of the humpback whales that we shared the area with that day. I did learn that snorkeling with a clinging cold can be a bit, well, gross. Put your entire nasal system inside a tight-fitting plastic mask and then float face down for an hour. Things drain. It just happens. But, I wasn't going to pass up a chance to float with the fish because of a bit of congestion. Ick. I know.
The cruise was filled with four-course meals (I had dessert every night!) and nightly shows heavy on the choreography and hits from a handful of decades ago. (Side note: there was a group of deaf vacationers on our cruise who attended these shows each night. I was mesmerized by their interrupter. She rocked out to musical hits through the decades and Polynesian war chants alike.)
Wandering through lava beds at Volcanoes National Park. Kayaking up a river to swim in the pool below a waterfall. Hopping through tide pools to visit sea turtles on Kona. Quietly walking the memorial at Pearl Harbor.
R&R is definitely full of rest and relaxation, but it wouldn't be a fantastic vacation without days full of activities and adventures. Really, I'm up for just about anything as long it is warm and there is sunshine involved. Blue skies, golden sunshine and a touch of color on my skin- that's what I needed after an already long winter in Chengdu. (As I write this, our AQI has been over 400 for more than twelve hours. And this is why my lungs didn't know what to do with fresh air.)
I do have to wonder though, will I want to R&R in Alaska once we move to Malaysia?
Accidentally Leaning Towards Judgement
Over the years, I've learned it is best not to be too judgmental of the decisions others make, as life takes us all in unexpected directions and it is hard to anticipate one's reaction to a given situation until the waves of change are crashing. There was a time when I would have put money on the fact that I would never have a tattoo. I now have three, and can't promise a fourth isn't waiting in the wings. At one point in my life, I would have rambled on about how a bad haircut isn't that big of a deal; it's just hair after all. It grows out. Then, I joined Peace Corps, moved to western China and had a hairstylist who swore he had worked on blonde hair before bleach my head a glowing white. I wasn't nearly as stoic about bad hair decisions as I had thought I would be.
But, over dinner at an outdoor café in Florence, Thad and I pinky swore that on our trip to Pisa the next day, there would be absolutely no "holding the tower up" shots. It's overdone. It's not unique. It's a bit ridiculous.
Apparently, we were the *only* ones who felt this way.
From the time we stepped foot on the piazza that holds the Church of Miracles and the Leaning Tower, we were surrounding by tourists, posing in the infamous "holding the tower up" shot. They lined the walkway leading to the tower. They surrounded the tower, some holding it up and other pushing it over. They even clamored over the chains, bypassing the signs that said "stay off the grass" to get their coveted shot. And while we weren't after the in-demand camera angle that was so desired, Thad did have a great time documenting the tourists-turned-architectural bulwarks.
And then came the moment that I swore would never come. I did the shot.
Now, before you chuckle and think me a hypocrite for giggling at everyone else, I must say that my circumstances were very different, not in the least because I am holding the tower up from the *inside.* You see, I have this terrible fear of heights, which only seems to worsen with age. (Is it the knowledge of my own mortality that pushes me farther into the world of acrophobia or merely my own wimpiness gaining ground?) The Leaning Tower of Pisa is tall (although not as tall as the Duomo in Florence, which I mostly scaled the day before) and once inside, the lean is felt much more prominently than I expected. As we curled up and around the inside walls of the tower, gaining height with each tilting step, my heart raced faster and faster. I quickly skittered by the cell-like windows that occasionally popped up along the wall, not needing a confirmation of my ever-growing distance from the ground below. Finally, we popped out on a platform, where I was happy to know I'd at least reached the pinnacle of my ascent, only to be told to keep moving by the guard, on what is apparently just an external landing, with the top of the tower still being several more flights of steps above. This last stretch of stairway was tighter than before and now that I had glimpsed the outside world, I was ready to be done. But, with just a few more stairs to go, I couldn't turn away and head back down, even though the voice in my head was screaming at me to do just that. While I wasn't quite ready to bail on the whole operation, I was definitely feeling the fear building, so when Thad, who was behind me and yielding the camera, told me to stop and turn for a photo, there was no way I could do that without something to hold on to, but with no handrails in sight, that meant using the wall to steady myself.
Which, as it turns out, looks exactly like I am doing the "hold up the tower" pose!
I'm not! I may have a few tattoos and care about my hair more than I had previously thought, but I did not, I repeat, DID NOT do the "holding up the tower" pose!
So, once again, it appears my jump to judgment betrays me yet another time. I didn't intend to do it. I swore I wouldn't do it. In the end, I kinda' did it.
*Photo credit: Most photos are courtesy of Thad Ross
Guest Blog– Notes from the Field: Chengdu, China
I've been MIA for the last week, hiding out in Idaho on a little vacation from Sichuan. But, I've not been totally unproductive when it comes to blogging.
Last week I submitted a guest blog to The New Diplomat's Wife.
Check out a few thoughts on Chengdu at: http://www.thenewdiplomatswife.com/2013/06/notes-from-field-chengdu-china.html
I May Become a Real Snorkeler Yet!
Growing up, my house was full of books, magazines and newspapers. I was surrounded by letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters and novels. Every opportunity to be an early reader was presented to me, but did I go for it? Nope. Why not? Because I also came from a house of teachers and I knew what their job was. It was to teach kids, at a school. So, why learn to read on my own when it was the teacher's job to pass that information along? I figured just like it was Mr. Roger's job to take me to the crayon and toilet bowl-making factories and it was the mailman's job to deliver music catalogs filled with buy 8, get one free deals (plus a million of those postage stamp-like stickers of all of the cassette tapes available that I could lick and stick to everything in the house), it was my first grade teacher's job to teach me to read. With this idea firmly planted in my head, my mom tied my shoes (I was a bit behind the curve on shoe-tying it would seem and Velcro had not yet hit the shoe scene), packed my Tupperware bowl of Lucky Charms in my Sesame Street lunchbox and delivered me to my first day at Van Buren Elementary School. Eight hours later, with straggling shoelaces, a milk-film lined plastic container nestled next to my Big Bird thermos, I walked out the side door of that same building literate. (Okay, literate in a first grade sense.) Yes, it took just one day for me to go from being a non-reader to a reader. Apparently, I had more book sense that I had let on, but I wasn't going to show it until the teacher had done her job. (Someone give that woman a raise!)
Jump ahead two decades.
After years of half-hearted attempts to learn to drive a manual transmission vehicle, I was in my early twenties and still couldn't get my husband's truck out of the driveway if there had been an emergency. Driving the back roads around Marsing, I could eventually jerk the truck into first gear, get it moving and finally find some rhythm as I shifted upwards to normal driving speeds. That was all well and good when it was just some coyotes and pheasants as spectators, but add in even a single other car and my little bit of stick-shift confidence went flying out the window of the stalled pickup. I'd basically given up ever driving a manual vehicle anywhere witness-able by human beings, when, in the market for a new car, I fell in love with one of the new VW Beetles. (I guess that dates me a bit, as the "new" Beetles have since had yet another make-over!) With no skills to speak of, I bought a stick shift car, which I couldn't drive home the twenty freeway miles to my house. Since we had gone car shopping in Thad's stick shift truck, he couldn't take the new car home either. With the pile of car sale papers adding up and my hand cramping from signing and initialing every detail known to man, I made a call to my sister, who drove an automatic, but could drive a manual, to come pick up my new car and deliver it to my house, with me following her in her car. With my shiny black Beetle safely in the driveway of my house, I had forced myself into a situation where I HAD to learn to drive it- for real. The next day, out I headed, across town to the court house for my license and registration, only killing the engine at every stop sign and railroad crossing, embarrassingly waving "so sorry" waves to the line of cars building behind me at each intersection and painfully lurching into parking spaces as I ran my new-car errands. But, by the time Thad got home from work that night, I was a near-master of the stick-shift. (Well, of my car's stick-shift. It didn't take me long to discover that his truck, the one I had frustratingly been learning on in fits and starts over the last few years, was one of the most persnickety transmissions I'd ever drive.)
And now jump ahead one more decade.
This last week was the Chinese New Year (happy year of the snake!), which means the Consulate was closed and it was time to get a little sunshine. For years I've seen pictures on the internet of huts perched on stilts above gorgeous, clear, blue seas. A little research said that many of these rooms could be found in the Maldives, and a bit more hunting turned up a direct flight from Chengdu to Male, meaning pollution-free skies, equatorial sunshine, silky soft sand beaches and a rainbow of tropical fish were a mere six hours away. There was only one problem with that plan though- I can't swim. (Okay, two problems, the second being that I am pasty white and genetically am never meant to live anywhere near the Equator, but that is a dilemma for another day…maybe bidding day.)
On a secluded island, fifty miles from the capital city and only reachable by seaplane, snorkeling is one of the top holiday activities. But, as I said, I am no swimmer. Bless their hearts, my parents did their duty in this realm. They enrolled me in summer after summer of Caldwell Recreation's swim classes at the public pool. With three kids and an always full summer schedule, we were always enrolled in the first course of the summer, starting in early June, and the first classes of the day. While this made sense from a parental-point of view, I have to say that for a reluctant swimmer, facing that early morning, not yet sun-warmed pool was no easy task. But, summer after summer I went to those classes for a few weeks and summer after summer I hated putting my head under the water, I hated jumping off the diving board and I hated flailing around in a pool that I'm pretty sure had more "p" than "ool." When it was clear I wasn't making much headway in the skills department, my parents took me to private lessons. This was better, in that it was in the afternoons and in a private backyard pool, and I am sure I made more progress in that summer than I did in my multitude of public sessions, but still, floating is the only water skill I really possess. In case of a water emergency, my plan has always been to float on my back or doggy paddle until help arrives. I think it is a solid plan.
But, when faced with a week-long vacation on the above mentioned tropical island, I figured it was probably time to pull out that stubborn streak that was the impetus behind waiting until day one of first grade to read or purchasing a car I couldn't actually drive to force me in to learning how to operate a manual transmission. Armed with flippers, goggles and a snorkel and a bungalow with a private staircase leading directly into the sea, it was time to swim.
I would like to claim that I bailed into the water, swam with the fishes (in a good way!) and could now be mistaken for a big white fish, but my first attempt at snorkeling was not quite that smooth. With Thad as my personal lifeguard, I flipper-ed and masked up and painstakingly crawled down to the ocean, step by step. Once I had eased into the water, I clung to the railing like a barnacle, sure I was going to be swept out to sea and never seen again. (All this before my hair was even wet!) Getting comfortable with the lack of touchable bottom, I put my goggled head under the water, only to instantly hyperventilate. While my brain logically knew air was coming through the tube that broke the surface, my lungs freaked out and I was pretty sure I was going to die, while still in barnacle-mode.
Slowly, but surely, over the next hour, I ventured away from my railing, floundering from hut to hut like someone who was raised far from any ocean. (Southern Idaho anyone?) As my confidence grew, we were able to eventually leave behind the security of the railings and head out into the coral, visiting fish in their own homes. It was a bit surreal, being inside the world's biggest aquarium! As I pulled myself waterlogged and sunburned self back up onto the deck of our bungalow (avoiding the two crabs who lived there all week as well), I wouldn't claim myself to be a snorkeling champion but I was comfortable and confident and ready to not only see new parts of the reef around our island, but I was already pondering possible snorkeling destinations for our next R&R.
Some may call it stubbornness or pigheadedness, but I'd rather put a positive spin on it and say that once I set my mind to something, I'll make it happen. That might mean making sure my first grade teacher gets a chance to do her job properly or that I don't learn to drive a stick-shift until it becomes necessary for the car I want, but once I see the purpose in learning something new, I'm all over it, just like those clingy barnacles!
Ringing in the Year of the Snake with Far from the Fireworks
All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go.
Thankfully, my bags aren't filled with the regret and longing of John Denver's. Rather, my packing list included much lighter items, like three swimsuits (a girl needs choices when she is willingly-marooned on a minuscule island, soaking up sunshine after a dreary Chengdu winter!) and an array of sundresses that haven't been out of the closet in nearly a year.
Now, as I gingerly type this post with drying nails (hot pink sandal-worthy toes and glittery, UV-activated red polish on my 8/10 fingers), I can almost feel the sunshine soaking into my skin (I'm already prepared for the possibility of nursing a sunburn the following week, but it is a price I am willing to pay), smell the salty breeze wafting off the ocean, taste the fruity, umbrella bedecked drinks and picture the turtles and manta rays swimming beneath my stilted hut.
Maldives, I'm ready for you!
I've got new books downloaded to my Nook and several magazines that I stashed away for this occasion while I was home in the States. (I downloaded this year's Newberry award-winning book, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate a few days ago, meaning to take it with me and read while lounging on my private deck, but made the mistake of starting it last night. Needless to say, I couldn't put it down and ended up finishing it this morning, before packing commenced. READ IT! I don't have time to write a review before heading out tomorrow, but this book is beautiful and should be read by all, young and old. Trust me.)
Bathing suits- check. Sundresses-check. Sunscreen-check. Reading materials-check. Now, it is just a matter of watching the clock slowly tick down the next twenty-four hours.
Needless to say, I will be totally (and contentedly) unplugged from the virtual world for the next week, so there will be no blog posts or Facebook updates. Until then, I leave you with this mental image of my time on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean :
(I found this picture online last month and saved it. I wish I had had the foresight to take note of the site where I stumbled across it. It is citation-less and this English teacher feels terrible about it!)
3 States + 3 Provinces / 12 Days = 0 Moose
The giant glowing ball in the sky is rising later and setting earlier. The swimming pool is closed. Cardigans are being sported over lightweight blouses. Sandals are giving way to closed-toe shoes. These are the unmistakable signs that summer is drawing to a close. What is a temporarily retired teacher to do with her fall when there are no lesson to plan, students to teach, papers to grade, or sporting events to attend? While there are an array of possible answers to that question (some better than others!), this temporarily retired teacher chose to go on a New England road trip with her permanently retired parents.
Since Thad is still busy toiling away at the business of learning Chinese (which currently consists of five hours of instructor-led time in the classroom, study time at FSI between courses and then several hours of homework each night) I figured I may as well use the time to see a bit of the Northeast rather than just the high rise apartment buildings that are Crystal City.
After meeting the parental units in Manchester, NH, (I much prefer my ninety minute puddle-hopper flight to their eight hour air-trek from Idaho) we embarked on a whirlwind tour of three states and three Canadian provinces. There were sights to be seen, attractions to behold, quirkiness to encounter and many, many places to get off the planned track for the day.
One of our first stops included a visit to Lenny, the life-sized chocolate moose found in Scarborough, Maine. Lenny was the first of innumerable moose we encountered on our trip. There were chocolate moose, of course, metal moose, stuffed moose, moose heads, moose prints, moose mugs, moose shirts, moose pencils, moose calendars, moose bags and nearly any other moose memorabilia one could ever possibly desire. From Maine on into Canada, anywhere that had a handful of trees and a marshy area filled its stores with moose-mobilia. They dotted their roadsides with bright yellow warning signs, designated crossing areas for the giant mammals and erected miles upon miles (or kilometers upon kilometers, depending on which side of the border the madness was on) of moose fences. Now, like most travelers, I figured that with so much build-up and hype, there had to be a real moose sighting in my future. I could not have been more wrong! After seeing both realistic and cartoon pictures of moose plastered on everything from afghans to yo-yos (nope, no "z" items!), I have come to the conclusion that moose are just a figment of the cold, northeastern imagination.
While the moose-lessness of the trip was a disappointment, all was not lost. Not lost all the time anyway. There may have been a few navigational mishaps at times. If a map says to take Route 2, and as the front-seat guide, I see a road that is labeled Route 2, I am going to suggest that we take it. As Dad followed said route into Halifax, I thought we were on the right track. The signs said "Route 2 Inbound" so I thought all was good. And it was, for a bit. Then, as we continued to follow the signs, it seemed as though we were making too many turns to the left. How many left turns before we are going back the way we came? Thinking little of it, I continued to excitedly point out the next sign, keeping us firmly on good ol' Route 2. Soon my wonderful signs were reading "Route 2 Outbound." Perfect! That means we have headed through the city are about to emerge on the far side, just as we had planned. The ridiculousness of the whole situation become entirely clear though, when as we drove down a rather narrow street, we recognized not only the Taco Bell/KFC combination store that we had earlier considered stopped at to get lunch, but also the cart-dwelling folks hanging around outside! Route 2 had taken us on a lovely loop tour of downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
After finally escaping the grasp of Route 2, our trip up the coast did garner us some great sightseeing. Peggy's Cove is a great little stop where the waves crash up over gigantic rocks. I was a bit concerned by the signs stating that tourists had died by getting too close to the massive waves, but then as I looked around at my fellow visitors, I realized for many of the tour bus groups, sudden heart failure or hip fractures were a more likely cause of concern for their octogenarian clientele.
Prince Edward Island was a beautiful place to spend a few days. It has been years since I imagined its landscape through the pages of Anne of Green Gables, but it every bit the storybook setting I had imagined. Not only was the island filled with verdant fields and idyllic villages, but the white-washed churches each seemed to be made for nothing but beautiful countryside weddings.
Once back in the US, Boston and the surrounding area was our destination. A visit to Salem was necessary, as The Crucible was read in my classroom on more than one occasion. I had to laugh at the disparity of what is happening in that town. The shops and museums all rely heavily on witch-themed tourism, so they give their visitors what they are looking for. We saw more than one person dressed in full witch-garb, a variety of shops offering palm readings, tarot card readings and aura pictures and every type of mystical medallion possible. On the other hand, a short walk across the main plaza, sits the National Park Service building, which is doing its utmost to show Salem as more than just the horrors of 1692. Their entire building is dedicated to the maritime and military history of the town. It is obvious that the town has a richer past than what it is known for, but try as the Park Service might, it is still the witches that lure in the tourists.
Rounding out our visit to the Northeast, Mom decided that she wanted to take a short jaunt out to Plymouth Rock. Edward family legend has it that several of our ancestors were on the Mayflower in 1620 when it docked on the shores of what would eventually become Massachusetts. While the Pilgrims' journey across the Atlantic Ocean lasted sixty-six days and was arduous to say the least, it isn't much hyperbole to say that our trek to the rock was only slightly less painful. I have to say that the Pilgrims may have faced unknown dangers at sea, but we faced a similarly difficult challenge- red lights! After setting the handy-dandy GPS for the famous chunk of stone, we embarked on this one last side trip. Our downfall was the GPS setting- never go with "shortest distance." Our route ended up taking us through small town after small town, each one with terribly timed street lights, meaning we hit nearly every red light from Salem to Plymouth! Seriously. While we did not have massive waves to contend with nor did we face the possibility of being thrown overboard and drowned, we did spend many a passing minute wondering if the small towns of Massachusetts had ever considered hiring a city planning engineer. What we thought would be a quick trip to see Plymouth Rock morphed into a journey of epic proportions that finally required the procurement of several Hostess cupcakes if we were going to complete it successfully.
With our trip time drawing to an end, it was time to make our way back to Manchester, our alpha and omega. Bags were repacked and dirty clothes shoved to the bottom in the hopes that TSA wouldn't decide to rifle through our carry-ons. How do I sum up a fall vacation that checked twelve days off of the calendar, spanned six states/provinces and ranged from picturesque landscapes of the Canadian countryside to downtown, modern Boston? Easily. No moose!


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The first book in an exciting new series reminiscent of The Bourne Identity and 24 Charlie West studies hard, stays focused and has just gotten the phone number of the prettiest girl in his class.
He is thinking about joining the air force after graduation.
He is a third degree black belt. He never gets in trouble. Until now. Charlie has woken up in a nightmare. He's strapped to a steel chair, and someone outside the door just ordered his death...Even worse - he can't remember a thing about how he got here.
By calling on his deepest reserves of strength and focus, Charlie manages a desperate escape...but his nightmare isn't ending.
There's a whole year of his life that he can't remember.
A year in which he was convicted of murdering his best friend and working with terrorists.
Charlie knows that can't be true. But what is? Staying alive long enough to figure out the answers may be the least of his worries...
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288 pages
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication Date: 02/04/2009
- Category: General

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• APTs lose letters, gain weight. There will be a dramatic change in how APTs are structured and operate:
o Kaspersky Lab expects to see a decreased emphasis on
'persistence', with a greater focus on memory-resident or fileless malware, reducing the traces left on an infected system and thereby avoiding detection.
o Rather than investing in bootkits, rootkits and custom malware that gets burned by research teams, Kaspersky Lab expects to see an increase in the repurposing of off-the-shelf malware. As the urge to demonstrate superior cyber-skills wears off, return on investment will rule much of the nation-state attacker's decision-making and nothing beats low initial investment for maximizing ROI.
• Thieves in the TV and/or crime in the coffee-maker. Ransomware will gain ground on banking Trojans and is expected to extend into new areas such as OS X devices, often owned by wealthier and therefore more lucrative targets, in addition to mobile and the Internet-of-Things.
• New ways to make you pay. Alternative payment systems such as ApplePay and AndroidPay, as well as stock exchanges will become growing targets for financial cyber-attack.
• A Leaked life. 2015 saw a rise in the number of DOXing, public shaming and extortion attacks, as everyone from Hactivists to nation-states embraced the strategic dumping of private pictures, information, customer lists, and code to shame their targets. Sadly, Kaspersky Lab expects this practice to continue to rise exponentially in 2016.
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Peter Fonda received a richly deserved Oscar nomination for his superb performance as Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson, a Florida beekeeper forced to put his splintered family back together. Ulee is a Vietnam veteran whose wife died several years ago, a blow he's still learning to live with. His son Jimmy (Tom Wood) is in prison, and his daughter-in-law Helen (Christine Dunford) ran away, leaving Ulee to raise their two daughters by himself. Ulee is a quiet man who has a hard time displaying warmth and does not always deal well with the rebellious children put in his care. But he possesses an intense inner strength and a firm sense of loyalty and responsibility. One day Ulee gets a call from Jimmy; he's received word that Helen has fallen in with a pair of drug dealers and is in sad shape. While he doesn't much care for the idea, Ulee heads out to rescue her, only to discover the men who have her were Jimmy's partners in the robbery that put him behind bars; they threaten Ulee by saying if they're not given the $100,000 Jimmy has stashed away, they'll come after his daughters. Meanwhile, Ulee is forced to deal with Helen's painful withdrawal from drugs; he gets some help from Connie (Patricia Richardson), a divorced nurse who has recently moved into the neighborhood and seems to understand Ulee's lonely stoicism. Written and directed with subtle intelligence by Victor Nuñez, Ulee's Gold is a moving story about the trials and responsibilities of family ties, with Peter Fonda leading a fine cast that delivers uniformly impressive work. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Estádio Urbano Caldeira (Vila Belmiro)
Capacity | 15 800 |
Country | Brazil |
City | Santos |
Clubs | Santos FC |
Floodlights | 1200 lux |
Inauguration | 22.10.1916 (Santos - Ypiranga, 2-1) |
Renovations | 1931, 1997 |
Record attendance | 32 989 (Santos - Corinthians, 20.09.1964) |
Description: Estádio Vila Belmiro
One of the oldest stadiums in Brazil was built in a very congested area, the main reason for its modest capacity compared to other famous grounds in the country. In 1916 Vila Belmiro was not even part of the city, it was a village in the suburbs. This was however the first venue owned by Santos FC to which the stadium was already third venue used.
To this day it's most commonly known as the Vila Belmiro stadium, bearing the nickname of "World's Most Famous Village". Official name is different however, since 1933 the ground's patron is Urbano Caldeira, great supporter of the club who helped build it in first decades. Also thanks to Caldeira Santos became one of the first sides in Brazilian football to have floodlights in the stadium already in 1931, while this feature became commons several decades later. New lights were installed in 1999, following a major revamp that saw the stadium get its fourth stand and becoming fully enclosed.
Though today it can take just over 15,000 people, in 1960's crowds were far larger. All-time high was reach in 1964 with almost 33,000 in attendance. This was during the club's golden era as Santos were champions five times in a row (1961-1965) and had Pele in their squad. The famous Brazilian played at Vila Belmiro for almost 20 years which is now proudly shown in the Santos museum just below on of the stands.


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Pet Shop Boys: Why They're Forefathers of EDM
Sometimes, you're better off dead. But sometimes, your music is the kind of synth-pop perfection that lives through the ages, and in the end, we're all a lot better off because you survived the '90s.
That's certainly the case with London's electronic forefathers Pet Shop Boys. They helped lay the foundation for the dance-crazed '80s and exerted a continuing influence on both the alternative scene of the '90s and today's massive dance revival.
With a career that boasts more than 30 years of experience and more than 50 million records sold worldwide, the Pet Shop Boys have hit the road, landing right here in Miami's dance mecca to play the Fillmore Miami Beach on Thursday, September 12.
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At a time when most bands were satisfied to muck around with basic guitar chords, the Pet Shop Boys assumed a decidedly non-rock 'n' roll stance. Instead, these London blokes chose synthetic melodies and textures for their soundscapes, and all this back when the technology was new, bulky and -- who could even imagine it -- analog.
On tour, they quickly built a reputation for the flashy, colorful, and theatrical. Hits including "West End Girls," "You're Always on My Mind," and "It's a Sin" took them to the top of the charts and solidified their place in history. But throughout the '90s, they continued to gain steam with Grammy nominations, Brit Awards, and record after record full of house-style beats infused with post-punk attitude.
As the 2000s emerged, they directly inspired acts including Hot Chip and Cut Copy, in turn helping to bring dance music back to the pop music mainstream. And now, with their twelfth studio album, Electric, garnering critical acclaim, the Pet Shop Boys find themselves more relevant than they've been in years, and they're happy to teach the kids a thing or two about how to make this electronic thing last.
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For the Night of 22 July 2010
North Korea: At the ASEAN Regional Forum meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, a North Korean spokesman said on Thursday that the joint South Korea-U.S. naval exercises and fresh sanctions against Pyongyang are major threats to peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and destroy the "mood" for dialogue.
The spokesman restated the North's willingness to return to Six Party nuclear talks but only on condition of acceptance as an equal, meaning with recognition that North Korea is a nuclear armed state.
The downturn in the "mood" is not sufficient to cause the North to break off military talks. The North agreed to attend the second round of colonel-level talks about the sinking of the South Korean corvette last March. Xinhua reported the talks began at 1000 Korea time at Panmunjom, during this Watch.
North Korea-Japan: For the record. The following is a report from Tokyo-based NHK World in English.
"North Korea's state-run media may have deliberately re-used part of a news story on the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, from last year to show that he is alive and well."
"The Korean Central Broadcasting Station and other state-run media reported on Tuesday (20 July) that Kim attended a performance by a chorus group formed mainly by workers from a Pyongyang cotton mill."
"Radio Press, a Tokyo-based news agency, that monitors broadcasts from North Korea, says the content of the story is similar to a piece about Kim's visit to a concert that ran on November 22nd last year."
"About 2 minutes of the current story featuring Kim's comments on workers and art was the same, word for word. Radio Press believes North Korean media re-used last year's news item."
Comment: This is a vintage propaganda tactic to hide the health condition of the dear leader. The North has been caught doing this previously by Japanese or South Korean media. The target of the deception is the North Korean population. It works against them.
China-North Korea: An unidentified Chinese official told South Korea's Yonhap News that China has acquired the rights to use a second port in northeastern North Korea., the port of Chongjin.
Since 2008, Chinese commercial companies have had access to the small port of Rajin, in far northeastern North Korea. This is part of the Chinese plan to rejuvenate and develop industrial centers in China's northeast. From China's Shenyang Province, use of North Korean ports on the Sea of Japan for export trade saves time and costs, compared to using Chinese ports on the Yellow Sea.
An official at the Tumen city government in northeast China said that a Chinese state company has now also obtained the right to use the port of Chongjin, about 70 kilometers south of Rajin and a major North Korean port and industrial center.
The Chinese official also said that North Korea and China also have agreed to allow Chinese companies to use North Korea's railways from Tumen to Chonjin. The series of agreements would "facilitate trade from Tumen." He said the Chinese company that struck the deal to use the port of Chongjin will use it to carry out shipping agreements with three Chinese companies.
Comment: In mid-July North Korea granted Chinese fishermen the right to harvest octopus off the northeast coast near Chongjin. The volume and value of the trade are difficult to determine because the North Korean economy has contracted. What is clear is that poor economic conditions have induced the leadership to license some of the North's resources -- the antithesis of the national ideology of self-reliance.
Pakistan: In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Gilani said, "in the best interest of the country, in my capacity as the prime minister I have decided to grant an extension to General Kayani for a period of three years starting from 29 November 2010 while adopting relaxation in the existing policy after holding consultations with President Asif Ali Zardari."
Comment: The only uncertainty was whether Kayani would be extended for two or three years. The other point worth noting is the Prime Minister granted the extension -- his first major military appointment since parliament restored the power of senior military appointments to the Prime Minister last year. During the Musharraf era until last year, the president alone had this authority.
Afghanistan-US: The U.S. Treasury Department announced it has designated three men for financing and acting on the behalf of the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network and supporting acts of terrorism. The men were added to the United Nations 1267 Consolidated List on 19 July for association with al Qaida, Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. They are Amir Abdullah, former treasurer to senior Taliban leader Mullah Berader; Gul Agha Ishakzai, head of the Taliban's financial commission; and Nasiruddin Haqqani, an emissary for the Haqqani network.
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International Court of Justice (ICJ)-Kosovo: The ICJ validated Kosovo's declaration of independence, prompting pledges from Russia and Serbia that they will never acknowledge Kosovo as an independent. The breakaway Georgian states put a different interpretation on the ruling.
Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh said the ruling that Kosovo's unilateral 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia did not violate international law confirms Abkhazia's and South Ossetia's right to self-determination, Interfax reported 22 July. Bagapsh also said Abkhazia and South Ossetia have "far more historical and legal grounds for independence than Kosovo does" and praised Russia for being the first country to recognize the two separatist regions as independent states.
Mali-Mauritania-al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb: Agence France-Presse reported Thursday that Mali authorized a raid by Mauritanian soldiers on elements of al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb along the Mauritania-Mali border, a Mauritanian military source said. Malian security sources confirmed the report.
Shots were fired during military action involving unidentified, most likely French, aircraft in the Kidal region of northern Mali near where al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is believed to be holding Michel Germaneau, a 78-year old French national, Reuters reported, citing Malian officials. An unidentified security source said the action was a military operation related to the hostage, but could not say what nations were involved or if it succeeded.
Spain's El Pais reported that French special forces killed six militants, but found no evidence of Germaneua.
Venezuela-Colombia: Venezuelan President Chavez broke diplomatic relations with Colombia, ordered the Colombian ambassador to leave the country in 72 hours and placed Venezuelan forces on highest alert.
He took the action moments after Colombian Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos presented to a meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington photos, videos, witness testimony and maps of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) camps inside Venezuela and challenged Venezuelan officials to let independent observers visit them.
Hoyos called for urgent measures to combat guerrillas in Venezuela and said Colombia had the right to ask Venezuela to prevent the FARC and ELN from planning attacks on Colombia from its territory. He said evidence of guerrilla activity in Venezuela had been presented before but was "met with insults and mocking" from Venezuelan authorities, El Espectador reported 22 July.
Chavez said he was forced to break off all relations because Colombian officials claim he has failed to move against leftist rebels who allegedly have taken shelter in Venezuelan territory. He said Colombian President Uribe could attempt to provoke a war. He did not respond to Colombia's challenge to let independent observers visit the camp sites, which Hoyos said hold up to 1,500 fighters.
Comment: Chavez obviously expected the Colombian presentation and was ready to respond. He appears to need an external threat to divert public opinion from his mismanagement.
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City | Castlefield, Manchester |
Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
Slogan | The Hits for the United Kingdom |
Frequency | Freeview: 711 |
First air date | 1 April 2003 |
Format | Contemporary pop music |
Audience share | 0.1% (March 2016, RAJAR) |
Owner | Bauer Radio |
Sister stations | Absolute Radio Heat Radio Kerrang Radio Kiss Magic Planet Rock |
Webcast | Radioplayer |
Website | The Hits |
The Hits is a CHR digital television platform owned and operated by Bauer Radio. It forms part of Bauer's National portfolio of radio brands.
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As of 19 January 2015 the platform's programme content forms the backbone of the locally branded Bauer City 3 network of radio stations in Northern England and Scotland.[1]
The Hits was withdrawn from DAB in London (replaced by Absolute 105.8) and Birmingham (replaced by Kisstory) from 5 January 2015.
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A fact sheet posted on the CPSC web site late Thursday says reports about drywall have come in mainly from Florida but also have arrived from Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, California, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, and Tennessee, plus the District of Columbia. Most of the complaints involved homes constructed in 2006 and 2007, CPSC said, and revolve around complaints that the homes smell like rotten eggs, residents are suffering health problems, and metal components inside the homes are becoming blackened and corroded.
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"By conducting chamber studies on multiple drywall samples subject to various environments, the scientists in [CPSC's Director for Health Sciences] are pursuing a testing plan that will determine exactly what gases are emanating from the drywall," Nord wrote. "This plan includes studies that will test both Chinese and American samples so that health effects that are directly and specifically related to the drywall can be assessed."
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