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Chennai: Virender Sehwag's brilliant knock of 155 put India in control on the second day of the second cricket Test against Australia at the M A Chidambaram Stadium today. Sehwag accounted for more than half the runs scored by the Indians on a bouncy track as the hosts closed the day at 291 for six in their first innings. Sehwag's knock put India in a comfortable position with a lead of 56 runs. Kaif, Patel hold fort Mohammad Kaif (34) and Parthiv Patel (27) were at the crease at stumps and the home team's quest for a series levelling victory could hinge on the contribution of the late order batsmen. After losing four middle order wickets for 55 runs, Kaif and Patel stemmed the slide by batting cautiously and putting on an unfinished 58-run seventh wicket partnership. Kaif gave a good account of himself on Test recall after three years while Patel once again proved to be a thorn in the opposition's skin with his cheeky innings. However, no one personified the fighting spirit of the team more than Sehwag who was solid in defence and destructive in attack. His knock came off 221 balls during 356-minute stay at the wicket and included 21 fours. Poor fielding display With a cloud cover adding to the humidity, the Aussies had a tough day at office although they did manage to peg back India to some extent. After being bundled out for 235, Australia bounced back into the game after a fine bowling spell by Michael Kasprowicz and Jason Gillespie. The visitors were on the defensive for most part but it was their catching, which was the biggest let down. However, Michael Kasprowicz struck after lunch, bowling Dravid for 26. Jason Gillespie then had skipper Sourav Ganguly caught behind by Adam Gilchrist for nine. Gillespie was back in action as he took the wicket of VVS Laxman in his next over for 4 as the Aussie bowlers threatened to expose the Indian tailenders. Skipper Sourav Ganguly got two 'lives' when he was caught off a no ball by Kasprowicz and then Gilchrist dropped a low catch off the same bowler but he failed to make most of those. Warnie's record Earlier, resuming at 28 for one, India made a sedate but determined start with Sehwag and Irfan Pathan keen to see off the opening spell of McGrath and Jason Gillespie. The first half hour saw only six runs being added to the total before the batsmen went after Shane Warne. Earlier, Warne became the highest wicket taker in test cricket when he dismissed overnight batsman Irfan Pathan this morning. Pathan, Warne's 533rd Test victim, was caught by Matthew Hayden for 14. Warne had equalled Sri Lankan off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's record on Thursday when he sent back Yuvraj Singh after the Aussies were bowled out for 235.
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There is no doubt that there is a new excitement and energy surrounding the Southern Methodist University Football team this fall.
With the arrival of June Jones, Mustang fans have reunited in support of the once proud program, local sports celebrities seem to be joining in with the excitement that has returned to the Hilltop.
Former Dallas Cowboy superstars Troy Aikman and Darryl Johnston were two of several special guests on hand for the Mustang's third practice of the fall session.
Coming out in shoulder pads for the first time seemed to provide a special spark for the two hour practice session.
"Any time you come out in any sort of pads the intensity automatically picks up," Jones said Wednesday. "This team is practicing hard, they did it all spring and we don't expect anything less of them."
Jones was asked if anyone was starting to develop or standout to the veteran coach after three days of practice.
"I don't pay a lot of attention to those things the first week or so," Jones said. "It's hard to evaluate players when they are thinking so much. This is a teaching time for us. We are spending a lot of time in the classroom explaining to the players what we expect of them this fall. Then we go out and go over live what we taught them in the classroom."
While the Mustangs were in shoulder pads today for the first time, the SMU coaching staff emphasized staying off the ground.
"We don't want to roll up a knee or anything," Jones said. "We get done what we need to get done out there."
Offensively speaking, Quarterback coach Dan Morrison is happy to see that all five quarterbacks are currently getting the same amount of work.
"Right now everyone is getting the same amount of reps and the same opportunity to perform," Morrison said. "By this time next week we may narrow it down to two to three guys, who then will get the majority of throws."
Morrison is pleased so far with the work of all five quarterbacks.
"They all did a great job of preparing for fall camp through their work during the summer," Morrison said. "They aren't feeling it too much right now, but their arms may get a little sore starting next week when we go to three hour practices or during two a days."
Morrison declined to give an evaluation on the race for the starting position.
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By Annie Proulx
From "Family Man"
The Mellowhorn Home was a rambling one-story log building identifying itself as western—the furniture upholstered in fabrics with geometric "Indian" designs, lampshades sporting buckskin fringe. On the walls hung Mr. Mellowhorn's mounted mule deer heads and a two-man crosscut saw.
It was the time of year when Berenice Pann became conscious of the earth's dark turning, not a good time, she thought, to be starting a job, especially one as depressing as caring for elderly ranch widows. But she took what she could get. There were not many men in the Mellowhorn Retirement Home, and those few were so set upon by the women that Berenice pitied them. She had believed the sex drive faded in the elderly, but these crones vied for the favors of palsied men with beef jerky arms. The men could take their pick of shapeless housecoats and flowery skeletons.
Three deceased and stuffed Mellowhorn dogs stood in strategic guard positions—near the front door, at the foot of the stairs, and beside the rustic bar made from old fence posts. Small signs, the product of the pyrographer's art, preserved their names: Joker, Bugs and Henry. At least, thought Berenice, patting Henry's head, the Home had a view of the enclosing mountains. It had rained all day and now, in the stiffening gloom, tufts of bunchgrass showed up like bleached hair. Down along an old irrigation ditch willows made a ragged line of somber maroon, and the stock pond at the bottom of the hill was as flat as zinc. She went to another window to look at coming weather. In the northwest a wedge of sky, milk-white and chill, herded the rain before it. An old man sat at the community room window staring out at the grey autumn. Berenice knew his name, knew all their names; Ray Forkenbrock.
"Get you something, Mr. Forkenbrock?" She made a point of prefacing the names of residents with the appropriate honorifics, something the rest of the staff did not do, slinging around first names as though they'd all grown up together. Deb Slaver was familiar to a fault, chumming up with "Sammy," and "Rita" and "Delia," punctuated with "Hon," "Sweetie" and "Babes."
"Yeah," he said. He spoke with long pauses between sentences, a slow unfurling of words that made Berenice want to jump in with word suggestions.
"Get me the hell out a here," he said.
"Get me a horse," he said.
"Get me seventy year back a ways," said Mr. Forkenbrock.
"I can't do that, but I can get you a nice cup of tea. And it'll be Social Hour in ten minutes," she said.
She couldn't quite meet his stare. He was something to look at, despite an ordinary face with infolded lips, a scrawny neck. It was the eyes. They were very large and wide open and of the palest, palest blue, the color of ice chipped with a pick, faint blue with crystalline rays. In photographs they appeared white like the eyes of Roman statues, saved from that blind stare only by the black dots of pupils. When he looked at you, thought Berenice, you could not understand a word he said for being fixed by those strange white eyes. She did not like him but pretended she did. Women had to pretend to like men and to admire the things they liked. Her own sister had married a man who was interested in rocks and now she had to drag around deserts and steep mountains with him.
At Social Hour the residents could have drinks and crackers smeared with cheese paste from the Super Wal-Mart where Cook shopped. They were all lushes, homing in on the whiskey bottle. Chauncey Mellowhorn, who had built the Mellowhorn Retirement Home and set all policy, believed that the last feeble years should be enjoyed, and promoted smoking, drinking, lascivious television programs and plenty of cheap food. Neither teetotalers nor bible thumpers signed up for the Mellowhorn Retirement Home.
Ray Forkenbrock said nothing. Berenice thought he looked sad and she wanted to cheer him up in some way.
"What did you used to do, Mr. Forkenbrock? Were you a rancher?"
The old man glared up at her. "No," he said. "I wasn't no goddamn rancher. I was a hand," he said.
"I worked for them sonsabitches. Cowboyed, ran wild horses, rodeoed, worked in the oil patch, sheared sheep, drove trucks, did whatever," he said. "Ended up broke.
"Now my granddaughter's husband pays the bills that keep me here in this nest of old women," he said. He often wished he had died out in the weather, alone and no trouble to anyone.
Berenice continued, making her voice cheery. "I had a lot a different jobs too since I graduated high school," she said. "Waitress, day care, housecleaning, Seven-Eleven store clerk, like that." She was engaged to Chad Grills; they were to be married in the spring and she planned to keep working only for a little while to supplement Chad's paycheck from Red Bank Power. But before the old man could say anything more Deb Slaver came pushing in, carrying a glass. Berenice could smell the dark whiskey. Deb's vigorous voice pumped out of her ample chest in jets.
"Here you go, honey-boy! A nice little drinkie for Ray!" she said. "Turn around from that dark old winder and have some fun!" She said, "Don't you want a watch Cops with Powder Face?" (Powder Face was Deb's nickname for a painted harridan with hazelnut knuckles and a set of tawny teeth.) "Or is it just one a them days when you want a look out the winder and feel blue? Think of some troubles? You retired folks don't know what trouble is, just setting here having a nice glass of whiskey and watching teevee," she said.
She punched the pillows on the settee. "We're the ones with troubles—bills, cheating husbands, sassy kids, tired feet," she said. "Trying to scrape up the money for winter tires! My husband says the witch with the green teeth is plaguing us," she said. "Come on, I'll set with you and Powder Face awhile," and she pulled Mr. Forkenbrock by his sweater, threw him onto the settee and sat beside him.
Berenice left the room and went to help in the kitchen, where the cook was smacking out turkey patties. A radio on the windowsill murmured.
"Looks like it is clearing up," Berenice said. She was a little afraid of the cook.
"Oh good, you're here. Get them French fry packages out of the freezer," she said. "Thought I was going to have to do everthing myself. Deb was supposed to help, but she rather tangle up with them old boys. She hopes they'll put her in their will. Some of them's got a little property or a mineral-rights check coming in," she said. "You ever meet her husband, Duck Slaver?" Now she was grating a cabbage into a stainless steel bowl.
Berenice knew only that Duck Slaver drove a tow truck for Ricochet Towing. The radio suddenly caught the cook's attention and she turned up the volume, hearing that it would be cloudy the next day with gradual clearing, the following day high winds and snow showers.
"We ought to be grateful for the rain in this drought. Know what Bench says?" Bench was the UPS driver, the source of Cook's information on everything from road conditions to family squabbles.
"Says we are in the beginning of turning into a desert. It's all going to blow away," she said.
When Berenice went to announce dinner—turkey patties, French fries (Mr. Mellowhorn still called them "freedom fries") with turkey patty gravy, cranberry relish, creamed corn and homemade rolls—she saw that Deb had worked Mr. Forkenbrock into the corner of the settee, and Powder Face was in the chair with the bad leg watching cops squash the faces of black men onto sidewalks. Mr. Forkenbrock was staring at the dark window, the coursing raindrops catching the blue television flicker. He gave off an aura of separateness. Deb and Powder Face might have been two more of Mellowhorn's stuffed dogs.
After dinner, on her way back to the kitchen to help the cook clean up, Berenice opened the door for a breath of fresh air. The eastern half of the sky was starry, the west a slab of basalt.
From FINE JUST THE WAY IT IS by Annie Proulx. Copyright © 2008 by Dead Line, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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DES MOINES Shares of money manager Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR) fell Friday as it was identified as a stock trader that sold off a large number of index futures contracts during last Thursday's market collapse.
The company's stock fell $1.81, or 5%, to $32.25, on a day when broader markets fell nearly 2%.
Waddell's sale of 75,000 e-mini futures contracts in a 20-minute span on May 6 drew the attention of regulators, Thomson Reuters reported.
E-minis are tied to the value of the S&P 500 index. They're traded electronically on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Overland Park, Kan.-based Waddell & Reed, which provides mutual funds and asset management services, said its trading of e-mini contracts was part of its normal operation to protect fund investors from market risk.
"The portfolio managers in those flexible portfolio funds often make hedging trades to attempt to protect shareholders from downside risk. And that's what was happening in that case," spokesman Roger Hoadley said.
Waddell & Reed said it was one of more than 250 companies that traded e-mini securities as the stock market plunged. The Dow Jones industrials lost nearly 1,000 points, nearly a tenth of their value in less than half an hour. It was the biggest drop ever in a trading day. The Dow recovered two-thirds of the loss before the closing bell, but the free fall prompted close scrutiny of that day's trading as regulators try to figure out what caused the sell-off.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said Tuesday in testimony before the House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets that her agency has yet to pinpoint the reason for the sell-off.
Six major U.S. securities exchanges on Monday agreed in principle to a uniform system of "circuit breakers," which could slow trading during sharp market swings. Most of the 50 U.S. exchanges regulate themselves and design their own tools for slowing or halting trading.
Schapiro and her fellow SEC commissioners will review the recommendations submitted by the exchanges for a marketwide system of circuit breakers, SEC spokesman John Nester said after the hearing.
Once the market started falling, automated computer trading intensified the downturn. The selling only led to more selling as prices plummeted and traders tried to limit their losses.
Waddell & Reed said it, like many other traders, was affected negatively by the market activity of May 6.
The CME and regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission declined to comment on Friday.
In congressional testimony this week Schapiro and Gary Gensler, head of the CFTC, said e-mini contract trading was believed to have lead to steep stock price declines.
Gensler testified that one trader took a large short position in the e-mini, selling "on the way down and (continuing) to do so even as the price level recovered." He didn't name the trader.
Waddell's spokesman said the company has not been contacted by regulators or the CME about the May 6 trading.
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The 'Interuniversity certificate/postgraduate studies in algology' is a joint initiative of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteit Gent, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Universite de Liege, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and KU Leuven. It is a 2-year course (40 ECTS credits) and consists of 5 course units:
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By JUDY GLASS
Published: July 26, 1987
''A CONTRACT is a contract, and she should have to live up to it.''
''The Sterns would make better parents.''
''If the court really cared about the best interests of the child, it would be given out for adoption by an anonymous third couple.''
''This is not a case of one woman acting as a mother for another woman. It's a case of a man hiring a woman to have a baby for him.''
Hofstra law students in Prof. Leon Friedman's second-year constitutional law class and his seminar course on constitutional torts responded with such emotion and conviction to his question, ''How many think the judge's decision in the Baby M case was right?'' Even this practicing attorney, who has been involved in numerous controversial and highly publicized cases, was surprised.
''Everyone had an opinion,'' he said. ''And no one was shy about offering it.''
Mr. Friedman, who had worked with Harold Cassidy, Mary Beth Whitehead's attorney, on another occasion, had just been asked to participate in preparing the appeal. He had already formed the opinion that the entire arrangement was unconstitutional on the basis of precedent in contract law, adoption law and public policy law, he said. But he did as he has with his other cases - he brought it into the classroom for his students' opinions.
In a protracted and often passionate first trial ever involving surrogacy, Bergen County (N.J.) Judge Harvey Sorkow, upheld the contract entered into by William Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead and awarded custody of Baby M to Mr. Stern and his wife, Elizabeth Stern. Ten days later the Supreme Court of New Jersey restored parental visitation rights to Mrs. Whitehead, who gave birth to the child in March of 1986.
The pregnancy had been arranged through an agency founded about five years ago by a Michigan lawyer, Noel P. Keane. The purpose of the agency is to match women willing to have babies with men wishing to be fathers. Mr. Stern had contracted with Mrs. Whitehead to have a child that would be given at birth to him and his wife, Elizabeth. The couple paid $25,000, of which $10,000 was to go to Mrs. Whitehead if she carried to full term and produced a healthy baby.
Unlike standard adoption practices, Mrs. Whitehead, her husband and family met with the Sterns prior to the birth and became involved in one another's lives.
When the baby was born, Mrs. Whitehead changed her mind and decided that she would rather keep the baby. In the past, contracting fathers at surrogate agencies have accepted the decision, Mr. Friedman said. Mr. Stern decided to fight it.
The case, which held national attention, raised profound issues of the rights of all parties and the best interests of the child. It scrutinized the personal, financial and social status of all parties and analyzed publicly for the first time this new development in contractual arrangements.
Mr. Friedman's class was no less interested than the rest of the nation. When the professor realized the level of interest, he asked his students how many would like to engage in research on the case - strictly as an extracurricular project without credit. Even though exams were only three weeks away, 40 students volunteered.
It was the kind of assignment that led to Professor Friedman's receiving the distinguished faculty service award from the law school at this year's graduation.
''His classes are exciting,'' said his research assistant, Sherri Rosenberg of Glen Head, ''because he handles exciting cases and brings his casework into the classroom. It's not often that you are exposed to how a case is actually approached and how the attorney thinks.''
Some of Mr. Friedman's most publicized cases include representation of the middleweight boxer Hurricane Carter in his appeal of a murder conviction and representation of Jean Harris and Foster Winans, who contested the Son of Sam law that prohibits criminals from profiting from the sale of books about their crimes.
''It takes a lot to impress me,'' said Lois Grossman of Rockville Centre, 37 years old. She said she was impressed by Professor Friedman but remained ''totally opposed to his views.''
''Mary Beth Whitehead, having had two children, knew what motherhood was about and should have honored her contract,'' she said. ''Some fathers are better parents than some mothers.''
The Baby M case and the issue of surrogate motherhood, as it has come to be called even though some say that as a natural mother, Mrs. Whitehead is not a surrogate (or substitute) anything, is a ''totally new wrinkle,'' said Professor Friedman.
''The technology of artificial insemination is not new,'' he said. One major difference in this case is that fertility centers have institutionalized the procedure. The other factor that sets this case apart is the participation of the natural father - unlike adoptions by total strangers.
Nevertheless, the students decided to study precedents that would undoubtedly be considered by the appellate courts in making a determination on the appeal, which was filed June 15.
''In the higher courts, where they read only a transcript and write law for the future, they want the right law to be applied across the board rather than bend it to apply to the specific case - they look to see how the case will be interpreted in other cases,'' said Steven Jannace of Hicksville, a student in the class who just graduated.


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Parking rates in North American central business districts (CBDs) held firm over the past twelve months, according to our recent Colliers International 10th Annual Parking Rate Survey, despite overall downward pressure on sale prices and leasing rates in other segments of the commercial real estate market.
The median monthly parking rate for the 44 U.S. CBDs surveyed increased by 1.1 percent from June 2009 to June 2010, reaching $161.56. The median monthly rate in the 12 Canadian cities surveyed increased by two percentage points in the past year to $224.10 CAD. The median daily rate for the U.S. decreased by 1.4 percent to $16.36 during the period, while the median daily rate in Canada climbed by two percent to $14.83 CAD.
With the economic recovery unfolding in slow-motion, parking rates are expected to show little change over the next 12 months, reports Colliers. Rates are expected to trend upward beginning in the second half of 2011, however.
Stabilizing office occupancies is one of the underlying reasons for the slight uptick in monthly parking rates. Supply and demand is another major factor in the stability of parking rates in North America, according to Ross J. Moore, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist for Colliers International in the U.S.
"Parking availability in only four of the 56 Central Business Districts surveyed were described as 'abundant' with the remainder being 'fair' or 'limited,'" said Moore. "That situation is not expected to change much, with only six new garages containing less than 4,000 spaces to be added in the next two years in the U.S. and 10 new garages with 1,800 spots to be added in Canada."
New York City's two CBDs again topped this year's list of the most expensive cities to park in the U.S., with Midtown Manhattan's monthly median price tag hitting $538 and Downtown not far behind at $529. Both were more than three times the national average. Following Manhattan's two CBDs was Boston at $425, San Francisco at $375, and Chicago at $320. The average monthly parking rate for a unreserved space in Downtown Houston is $146.00, below the national average of $161.56.
Canada's top five included (in Canadian dollars) Calgary at $453.38, Toronto at $336.25, Montreal at $280.62, Edmonton at $275.00, and Vancouver at $266.81.
All of these high-cost U.S. and Canadian cities seem like a relative bargain when compared to parking rates in cities in Europe, Asia and even Australia. Globally, London – City was the most expensive place in the world to park, with an astronomical $933 median price for a monthly spot. London's West End was close behind at $873.50 per month. In Asia, Hong Kong and Tokyo both topped New York's median monthly cost for a parking spot at $744.72 and $654.00, respectively. Sydney, Australia also topped the Big Apple with a median cost for a monthly spot at $591.28.
Among the U.S. cities with the lowest median monthly parking rates were Phoenix at $40, Reno, Nev. at $45, Walnut Creek/East Bay, Calif. At $47.50, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. at $53.00 and Bakersfield, Calif. at $55.00. Canada's bargain spots include Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario at $116.94 CAD per month and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at $147.00 CAD.
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Flyers slip past JetsNov 29, 2013 - 8:49 PM Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Scott Hartnell and Sean Couturier scored for the Philadelphia Flyers in a 2-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday.
Steve Mason stopped 25-of-26 shots for the Flyers, who snapped a two-game skid.
Michael Frolik scored the lone goal for the Jets, who had a brief two-game winning streak snapped. Ondrej Pavelec turned aside 32-of-34 shots.
Winnipeg, which went 0-for-6 on the power play, saw forward Evander Kane suffer a lower-body injury in the first period.
Hartnell lit the lamp just 48 seconds into the game. Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien tried to clear the puck around the boards and out of the zone, but the disc deflected off the skate of Blake Wheeler. The puck went to Hartnell in the slot for an easy goal.
After failing to score on a 5-on-3 power play early in the middle stanza, Philadelphia got a short-handed goal from Couturier. He stole the puck at his own blue line, skated in on a breakaway and beat Pavelec with a backhander at the 5:36 mark.
Mason made 12 saves in the second frame to preserve Philadelphia's 2-0 lead.
"We wanted to have a good start," Couturier said. "The last few games we didn't have a good first period, so we just wanted to put pucks deep, keep it simple, and get a good forecheck going early in the game. We did a good job."
Frolik got the Jets on the board at the 12:53 mark of the third period. A scramble for a loose puck in front of Mason ended with Frolik finding the back of the net.
"It was a scramble," Frolik said. "I think [Mark] Scheifele was bottom of the puck there with his feet and it was kind of like a bounce but I found the puck and tried to shoot it right away. And it went in."
Mason was strong in net the rest of the way, making a total of 11 saves in the final stanza.
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Winnipeg had won two straight against the Flyers ... Philadelphia forward Matt Read returned to the lineup after missing one game with a lower-body injury ... The Flyers went 0-for-4 on the power play ... Philadelphia has won five in a row at home.
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U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-08) a member of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus released the following statement in response to the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto:
"I am deeply disturbed by the shocking assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. My support and condolences go out to Ms Bhutto's family and the people of Pakistan who have suffered a vicious attack upon their efforts to achieve democracy. As a member of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus I have long felt that the people of Pakistan deserve lasting stability and legitimate democratic institutions that can survive the rule of any one individual.
"It is not nearly enough for the White House to condemn this assassination; it is time for this Administration to finally hold President Musharraf to account. Our lack of real action and strong support for democracy in Pakistan has destabilized the nation and crippled our ability to fight the extremists who thrive within the region. It has become clear that Taliban and Al Qaeda leadership is still thriving in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"Today's brutal assassination is not only a setback for democracy, but is an indication of the Bush Administration's failed strategy in the war on terror that has seemingly forgotten where the 9/11 attack truly originated."
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The senior was 20-for-31 for 243 yards, including two touchdown passes to Paul Turner, as Tech (2-1, 1-0 C-USA) never trailed North Texas (1-2, 0-1).
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to protect British troops in Iraq war from any instances of legal abuse, defending an eight-year occupation of the Arab country.
Addressing a meeting with senior British military commanders on Thursday, May said "every effort must be made" to prevent any abuse of the legal system against army forces, adding that she is determined to stop "vexatious" claims being brought against UK soldiers who fought in Iraq.
Backing UK's policy regarding conflicts in the world and the Middle East, the British premier said, "Our armed forces are the best in the world and with the biggest defense budget in Europe and the second biggest in NATO. We will continue to play our part on the world stage, protecting UK interests across the globe."
The remarks were made amid mounting criticism of the Iraq Historic Allegation Team (IHAT), which is set up to investigate allegations of murder, abuse and torture by British troops.
Reports said the soldiers, who were involved in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, claimed they had been hounded through the courts on unfounded claims.
Following the complaints, British soldiers had also called for the IHAT to be shut down.
The IHAT is currently examining about 2,000 allegations leveled against troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the cases before the investigating team involves the death of a 19-year old Iraqi boy in a waterway near the Iraqi southern city of Basra in May 2003.
Judicial investigations indicated that 15-year-old Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali had been forced by UK soldiers into the canal and left alone to drown and die.
"The soldiers, having detained him for looting, forced him to enter the canal and left him floundering," a report said, adding that the boy did not know how to swim and therefore, the British soldiers' failure to help before drowning was the "plain and certain" cause of his death.
A British court tried the soldiers for manslaughter but they were acquitted in 2006.
During the US-led invasion of the Arab country, former UK prime minister Tony Blair's government sent 120,000 members of the British armed forces and civilians to the country, proving its role as then US President George W. Bush's chief military ally.
The two allies said they invaded Iraq to eliminate its "weapons of mass destruction" but no such weapons were ever found.
The invasion plunged Iraq into chaos, resulting in years of deadly violence and the rise of terrorist groups like Daesh (ISIL).


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Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, the Indonesian domestic helper allegedly tortured by her employer, has finished helping police with their investigation and will leave the city tomorrow.
The Justice for Erwiana and All Migrant Domestic Workers Committee read out a statement by Erwiana yesterday, in which she said she hoped to make a quick recovery and thanked the city's migrant workers and Hongkongers for their support.
"I hope the support is not only given to me but also to all migrant workers so that justice is given to all," she said in the statement.
Erwiana's former employer, Law Wan-tung, 44, is to appear in court on April 29 to face charges of causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and four counts of criminal intimidation against three domestic helpers.
The committee said it was not known whether Erwiana would return for the hearing.
Police chief Andy Tsang Wai-hung said the force had finished its investigation of the case.
Law has also been charged under the Employment Ordinance with offences relating to unpaid wages and holidays owing. Tsang said these charges would be handled separately.
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UVX 300 Wins "Best of Sensors Expo"
Cleveland, Ohio, June 21, 2004 - The UVX 300 UV Sensor was named one of the top new products at the Sensors Expo, held in Detroit, June 8-10. The award recognizes products expected to impact the future of products, systems, and daily life.
"These awards highlight products that have the greatest potential to change the way people work and live," said Barbara G. Goode, Editorial Director for Sensors and Frontline Solutions Magazines. "Sensors are approaching ubiquity thanks to innovations such as the ones we recognize with the Best of Sensors Expo awards. Because these products work behind the scenes, most of us do not fully appreciate their impact, but that fact makes it no less real."


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The Cobra Typhoon Gunship is a light, non-rotor VTOL aircraft used in fast strikes and to transport personnel. It is manned by a single pilot, but it can accommodate two additional passengers in a rearward cabin compartment. Its primary offensive capabilities include a chin mounted cannon, two missile pods, and a small bomb ejector rack.
Aesthetically, the Typhoon Gunship shares more than a passing resemblance to the UD-4L Cheyenne dropship from the film, "Aliens".


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Hey again, everybody! So, this is the third edition of my book blog! In these blogs, I review and rate (on a scale of 1-10) books I read. And let me tell you, I'm excited about the prospects for 2012! There's quite a few series that I've immersed myself in these past couple of years, and so many of them have new installments coming out this year! Let's see... first and foremost, a new Mass Effect book at the end of the month! Also, the next book in the Emberverse series (Lord of Mountains, ETA 4 September), the next book in the Temeraire series (Crucible of Gold, ETA 6 March), the next book in The Lost Fleet series (Beyond the Frontier: Invincible, ETA 1 May), the next book in the Unincorporated series (The Unincorporated Future, ETA 21 August), and the next Gears of War book (The Slab, ETA 8 May) all come out in 2012! Probably also some others I don't even remember yet!
Anywho, time to get down to it. I've got a long ways to go if I want to keep my current trend going. I read 31 books in 2010 and 48 last year, so I need to break 50 if I'm gonna keep this trend up! No promises though. We'll just have to wait and see.
- The Unincorporated Woman, by Dani and Eytan Kollin - the third book in the Unincorporated series (the first two being The Unincorporated Man and The Unincorporated War). This book picks up soon after the second leaves off. The solar system is still embroiled in a viscous war between the Outer Alliance and the United Human Federation, and the iconic Justin Cord is nowhere to be found. The book is full of action, drama, unexpected twists and turns, and all sorts of other great stuff. The series seems to be drawing to a conclusion, and I can't wait to see how it ends. This book gets a 10!
- The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, by David Berlinski - this book is essentially a work challenging individuals such as Richard Dawkins who use science as a cudgel in their fight against religion, and who claim that science has somehow disproved or invalidated religion. The author, who himself is a secular Jew and an agnostic, examines a number of claims by prominent atheistic scientists, and proceeds to dismantle them. It's a good read, though a good deal dryer than I'd hoped for. Still, it's an enlightening, enjoyable and fairly quick read, so I'll give it an 8.


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The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.by Jonathan Lethem
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What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the "white elephant" role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he's written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelf's worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally strong light on himself.
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Editorial Reviews
The New York Times Book Review
"Begins with this idea of writer-as-magpie and takes it on a communitarian-artistic romp. . . . It's a grand performance. . . . And delivered with a wink." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Like almost everything Lethem has written, The Ecstasy of Influence is a reflection of, and a pixilated homage to, those whose work he fetishizes. If this book has a thesis, it's this: For an artist, influence is everything." —The New York Times
"[An] exuberant whiz-bang of an essay collection." —The Daily Beast
"Hefty and remarkable. . . . Dominating all is Lethem's prime concern always: the novel. . . . More exciting than any of his interesting-to-terrific fiction." —Robert Christgau, The New York Times Book Review
"[Lethem is] as sharp a critic as he is a novelist. This collection shows you why." —Austin American-Statesman
"Lethem takes a boldly different tack on the matter of mentors, gurus, fathers, shapers and sources. . . . He not only acknowledges his literary and psychological progenitors; he insists upon them, celebrates them, and invites the reader to join in an exhilarating if sometimes baffling deconstruction of the very idea of influence." —The Dallas Morning News
"Lethem's inspired miscellany is ardent and charming. . . . His essays are zippy and freewheeling."—Chicago Tribune
"Sharp and funny." —The Plain Dealer
"Frank and boisterous. . . . The Ecstasy of Influence is, more than anything, a record of Mr. Lethem's life as a public novelist, a role for which he is obviously well suited. . . . Mr. Lethem has such a gift, and The Ecstasy of Influence is evidence of it." —The New York Observer
"This impassioned, voluble book is illuminating about much more than its author."—The Independent (London)
"The Ecstasy of Influence is in part an attempt to discuss the things artists and writers rarely talk about—how much of their work is borrowed from other artists and how much they care about their critical reputations, among other things." —Salon
"Smart and rollicking. . . . Brilliantly dissect[s] the various sulks, funks, and paranoias of being a writer who moans about doing writerly things—not least among them writing itself." —The Millions
"A wide and wonderful series of subjects that are threaded together, mostly, as a kind of autobiography of a would-be writer becoming a struggling writer and then a successful writer while all the while remaining a voracious reader." —National Post (Canada)
"The author invites us into the ecstasy of intertextuality, to the intertwining of thousands of words with ourselves."—PopMatters
"The arguments implicit in his novels are not merely explicit here, but deliriously so, ecstatically so, as if the author is shaking you by the shoulders to show you what he loves, why he loves it and why you should love it, too." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Conceptual ambition, sense of purpose and a fan's evangelical devotion distinguish this collection from the typical novelist's gathering of nonfiction miscellany.
If this is a closet-clearing exercise by Lethem(Chronic City,2009, etc.), his is an impressively rich closet. In addition to being a writer who blurs the distinction between genre fiction (sci-fi, detective, western) and postmodern literature (a term he questions), Lethem writes with a commitment to sharing his enthusiasm for whatever obsesses him—underdog novelists such as Paula Fox and Thomas Berger, under-acknowledged rock bands such as the Go-Betweens, seminal inspirations such as Philip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard. "I began writing in order to arrive into the company of those whose company meant more to me than any other: the world of books I'd found on shelves and begun to assemble on my own, and the people who'd written them, and the readers who cares as much as I did," he writes toward the conclusion of this collection. While the results illuminate his formative influences and artistic development, they also cast considerable light on the culture at large, which is both reflected in Lethem's work and has profoundly shaped it. His personal pantheon extends from popular music (he writes at incisive length about both Bob Dylan and James Brown) to the international literary alchemy of the late Roberto Bolaño, enlisting the reader as an accomplice in his quest. Intensifying that intimacy, he shares his complicated relationships with two college buddies, Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt, who both achieved precocious literary success well before he did, and he recalls his bitter response to James Wood after the latter wrote a mixed review of Lethem's breakthrough,Motherless Brooklyn.
Inevitably a mixed bag, but with high ambitions and a strong sense of purpose.
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Postmodernism as Liberty Valance
Notes on a Ritual Killing
1. Spoiler alert. John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an allegorical Western that I am now going to totally pretzel into an allegory for something else entirely. Actually I'll reverse it: The original allegorizes the taming of the western frontier, the coming of modernity in the form of the lawbooks and the locomotive, and memorializes what was lost (a loss the film sees as inevitable). My version allegorizes the holding at bay, for the special province of literary fiction, of contemporary experience in all its dismaying or exhilarating particulars, as well as a weird persistent denial of a terrific number of artistic strategies for illuminating that experience. The avoidance, that's to say, of any forthright address of what's called postmodernity, and what's lost in avoiding it (a sacrifice I see as at best pointless, an empty rehearsal of anxieties, and at worst hugely detrimental for fiction).
2. The chewy center of TMWSLV is a gunfight. A man stands in the main street of a western town and (apparently) kills another man. The victim—for this is, technically, murder—represents chaos and anxiety and fear to all who know him, and has been regarded as unkillable, almost in the manner of a monster or zombie from another movie genre; his dispatch is regarded by the local population with astonished relief and gratitude, such that they will shower the killer with regard (he's destined to become his party's nominee for vice president of the United States). The secret the movie reveals: The killer was not the man in the street, but another.
3. The three persons in TMWSLV: James Stewart a.k.a. "Ransom Stoddard," the upstanding, even priggish young lawyer from the east, defined by his naïve sincerity and dedication to the rule of law; John Wayne a.k.a. "Tom Doniphon," cynical veteran of the frontier, who tends to an isolationist-libertarian approach toward civilization but is essentially lovable and will become heartbreaking by film's end; and Lee Marvin a.k.a. "Liberty Valance," a sadistic, amoral thug who delights in sowing chaos and exposing the fragility of social convention (by terrorizing family restaurants, newspaper offices, elections, etc.).
4. Stewart/Stoddard believes he's "the man who killed Liberty Valance" (he stood, after all, in the center of town, visible to all, with a gun in his hand). More important, the witnesses believe he's the one. In fact, it was Wayne/Doniphon who did the deed, while hidden in a shadowy alley, after having elaborately conspired to goad the helpless and pacifistic Stewart/Stoddard into his public role as a gun-toting defender of public peace against the savage anarchy of Marvin/Valance.
5. Liberty Valance, i.e., "Free Persuasion"—what an absurd, obvious, Pynchonian name! But then, the characters in Dickens and Henry James have odd names, too.
6. "Venturing back in time isn't the only option for novelists loath to address the mass media that most Americans marinate in. There are also those populations cut off from the mainstream for cultural reasons, such as recent immigrants and their families. And then there are those at the geographical margins . . . It's remarkable how many recent American literary novels and short stories are set on ranches . . . The American novelist is buffeted by two increasingly contradictory imperatives. The first comes as the directive to depict 'The Way We Live Now' . . . Cliché it may be, but the notion that no one is better suited to explain the dilemmas of contemporary life than the novelist persists . . . [The] other designated special province of the literary novelist: museum-quality depth. The further literature is driven to the outskirts of the culture, the more it is cherished as a sanctuary from everything coarse, shallow and meretricious in that culture. If these two missions seem incompatible, that's because they are. To encompass both . . . you must persuade your readers that you have given them what they want by presenting them with what they were trying to get away from when they came to you in the first place."
—Laura Miller, The Guardian
7. Let's wade into the unpleasantness around the term "postmodernism": Nobody agrees on its definition, but in literary conversations the word is often used as finger-pointing to a really vast number of things that might be seen as threatening to canonical culture: author-killing theories generated by French critics, collapsings of high and low cultural preserves into a value-neutral fog, excessive reference to various other media and/or mediums, especially electronic ones (ironically, even a Luddishly denunciatory take on certain media and/or mediums may be suspect merely for displaying an excess of familiarity with same), an enthusiasm for "metafiction" (a word that ought to be reserved for a specific thing that starts with Cervantes, but isn't), for antinarrative, for pop-culture references or generic forms, for overt (as opposed to politely passive) "intertextuality," for unreliable narration, for surrealism or magic realism or hysterical realism or some other brand of "opposed- to- realism" affiliation, for "irony" (another term that's been abused out of its effective contour and function, and its abusers have fewer excuses than do those of postmodernism), etc. etc. etc. Now, any writer espousing, let alone employing, all of the above things would be a gorgon-headed monster, surely deserving rapid assassination for the safety of the literary community in general. (Or maybe not, maybe they'd be splendid.) But—and I present this as axiomatic—such a person, and such writing, is impossible to consider seriously because all of the modes denounced under the banner of "postmodernist" are incompatible: You can't, just for instance, exalt disreputable genres like the crime story and also want to do away with narrative.
8. The reverse person, a literary person inclined toward or at least compelled by none of the above-named modes or gestures—and I present this not as axiomatic but as an obnoxious opinion—would be dull beyond belief. They basically would have declined the entire twentieth century (and interesting parts of several others). You've read our entire menu, sir? And nothing was of interest? Really, nothing?
9. " . . . as a phenomenon, postmodernism is either specifically aesthetic or more generally cultural; it is either revolutionary or reactionary; it is either the end of ideology or the inescapable conclusion of ideology . . . It is expressed in architecture, art, literature, the media, science, religion and fashion, and at the same time it is equivalent to none of these. It is both a continuation and intensification of what has gone before and a radical break with all traces of the past. It is, above all, simultaneously critical and complicit."
—Kathleen Fitzpatrick, The Anxiety of Obsolescence
"Critical debates about postmodernism constitute postmodernism itself."
—Stephen Connor, Postmodernist Culture
10. I suggested that abusers of the word "postmodernism" had excuses. I offer the above quotes as exculpatory evidence. The serious use of the term manifestly propagates bewilderment. But the quotes are also a reminder that the term has serious uses. It means more than "art I don't like."
11. What postmodernism really needs is a new name—or three of them.
12. The first "postmodernism" that requires a new name is our sense— I'm taking it for granted that you share it—that the world, as presently defined by the advent of global techno-capitalism, the McLuhanesque effects of electronic media, and the long historical postludes of the transformative theories, movements, and traumas of the twentieth century, isn't a coherent or congenial home for human psyches. Chuck Klosterman details this suspicion in his essay on the Unabomber, called "FAIL" (though it might as well be called "Sympathy for Theodore Kaczynski"). His conclusion, basically, is that in the teeth of contemporary reality we'd all be a little bit crazy not to sometimes wish to kill that sort of postmodernism. I speak here as one who's spent loads of his own good faith hurling tiny word-bombs at the rolling edifice of the triumphalist Now. This postmodernism we'll call Kaczynski's Bad Dream.
13. The second substitute term I'll offer is for the avowed, self-declared postmodernist school of U.S. fiction writers: Robert Coover, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Stanley Elkin, William Gass, John Hawkes, a few others, many of them one another's friends, and many of them influential teachers. A few non-teachers—Pynchon, of course (unless he was teaching high-school social studies or geometry somewhere). This clan, when Barth and Pynchon were scooping up major prizes, rode high enough that they seemed worth knocking down. This is the epoch John Gardner tilted against in On Moral Fiction. True, this tribe once had the effrontery to imagine itself the center of interest in U.S. fiction, but if you still hold that grudge your memory for effrontery is too long. To go on potshotting at these gentlemen is not so much shooting fish in a barrel as it is shooting novelists who rode a barrel over Niagara Falls twenty or thirty years ago. Or the equivalent of the Republican Party running its presidential candidates against the memory of George McGovern. (Of course, both are done, routinely.) We'll call these guys Those Guys.
14. Last, the "postmodernism" consisting simply of what aesthetic means and opportunities modernism and an ascendant popular culture left in their wake (or not their wake, since both, or at least popular culture, are still around). By "means and opportunities" I am alluding to the vastly expanded and recombinant toolbox of strategies, tones, traditions, genres, and forms that a legacy of modernist-style experimentation, as well as a general disintegration of boundaries (between traditions, tones, etc.), has made available to a writer, or to any kind of artist. Luc Menand made this very simple in an essay on how Donald Barthelme's stories go on stubbornly regenerating their uses and interest for new generations of readers; he suggested that postmodernism, as an artistic movement, represents the democratization of modernism's impulses and methods. We'll call this third principle, for the sake of my allegory, Liberty Valance.
15. I'd like to suggest that the killing of Liberty Valance in order to preserve safety and order in the literary town is a recurrent ritual, a ritual convulsion of literary-critical convention. The chastening of Those Guys, and the replacement of their irresponsible use of Free Power with a more modest and morally serious minimalist aesthetic sometime in the late '70s, was a kind of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a point of inception for the ritual. Who first played the role of Stewart/ Stoddard, the true-of-heart citizen shoved into the street to take on the menacing intruder? Was it Raymond Carver? I think Raymond Carver might have been the original Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Who's played the role recently? A few: Alice Munro, William Trevor, Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Franzen.
16. The worth, or the intentions, of the writer propped up on Main Street as the killer of postmodernism is not the point. The person (or book) in the street is a surrogate. The Wayne/Doniphon figure is the critic in the shadows, maneuvering the writer in question in a contest of the critic's devising (excepting, I suppose, the John Gardner or Tom Wolfe scenario of self- appointment, where both roles are played by the same actor). According to the critic's presentation the writer has, at last, killed Liberty Valance on behalf of the terrified populace. Yet the terrified populace is probably a straw man, too, a projection of the critic's own fear of disreputability or disorder.
17. The persistence of the ritual disproves the ostensible result: Liberty Valance is shot, but never dies. ("Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony."—Kafka.) Books don't kill other books, nor do literary stances or methods kill, or disqualify, differing sorts, and those— stances and methods—don't actually originate from moral positions per se. A given book elaborates its own terms, then succeeds or fails according to them, including on the level of morals. None of this ensures the accomplishment of any writer working in any methodology (whether consciously or in merry obliviousness to the range of options available). A book as full of misrule, as seemingly heedless to ethical consequence as Marvin/Valance in John Ford's film, might be as sacred as any other.
18. The reason postmodernism doesn't die isn't that the man in the shadows has a peashooter instead of a weapon. Critics do kill things: books frequently, careers from time to time (just ask Those Guys). The reason postmodernism doesn't die is that postmodernism isn't the figure in the black hat standing out in the street squaring off against the earnest and law-abiding "realist" novel against which it is being opposed. Postmodernism is the street. Postmodernism is the town. It's where we live, the result of the effects of Liberty Valance's stubborn versatility and appeal, and the fact of Kaczynski's Bad Dream.
19. Yet Liberty Valance and Kaczynski's Bad Dream aren't the same "postmodernism." The freedom and persuasiveness of the full array of contemporary stances and practices available to the literary artist aren't something to renounce even if the Full Now makes us anxious to the verge of nervous breakdown. At its best, one is a tool for surviving the other—the most advanced radiation suit yet devised for wandering into the toxic future.
20. Changing metaphors entirely at the last minute: Both Kabuki and Noh theater began as fluid popular forms, licensed to depict their own contemporary reality, before sealing themselves within sacralized pools of approved forms, metaphors, and references. And in the history of twentieth-century popular music there's a name for the school of jazz that glanced at the innovations of bebop and all the implications and possibilities of what lay beyond, but declined to respond. The name for that school is Dixieland.
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Ivan Bussens (June 3, 1960 - August 27, 2007) was a British sportsman who competed at water polo at the Gay Games. He was a driving figure in raising the profile of LGBT sport, having co-founded the Out for Sport organization representing gay clubs in London, represented London at the Federation of Gay Games, and served at other international sporting associations.
Bussens was born at Batu Gaja, Malaysia, and educated at Culford School. Having moved to London, he became a fashion buyer, events planner and interior designer. The latter brought prominence with photographers and television companies, and the house he shared with his partner Peter Unsworth featured in magazines and in scenes from ITV's Footballers Wives.
He then founded Out for Sport, an umbrella organization representing gay sports clubs in London, and promoted its first multi-sport competition. He served on the board of the International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) and represented London at the Federation of Gay Games. Before his illness he was forging links with the 2012 Olympics and the Mayor of London's office to ensure lesbian and gay inclusion. He persuaded the Out to Swim committee to sponsor a women-only session to encourage more participation, and saw the establishment via a lottery grant of a water polo team in 2000.
One of his most remarkable contributions, though, came at the IGLA championship in San Diego this month, where he staged a Princess of Wales memorial event. This involved our team forming a two-foot wide black Aids ribbon in the pool, to the soundtrack of Tavener's Song for Athene and a voiceover from Ivan.
A joyful funeral took place in Norfolk, where his parents Alan and Cyndie live, and where he is buried.
After fighting cancer during 2006, he suffered a relapse and died in hospital in summer 2007, aged 47. He is survived by his partner, Peter Unsworth and his parents.
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- Obituary in The Guardian
- Obituary in The Times
- Gay Games clip featuring Ivan Bussens
- Magazine profile of Ivan Bussens' home


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Liu Bolin is a creative artist who blend himself into scenes. He surprised the people with his art for the first time in 2007. He ans his two hardworking assistants blend his with the background with the use of color and pattern of the scene.
His story of becoming artist is interesting as his work is. Bolin started making him invisible he lost his job and status in society, When the Chinese government shut down his employment place, the Suojia Village Art Campus, and at the time his frustration led him to creativity.
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My resistance to the force of governments made me experience the life of people with no social status, no job, no family, no income and this was the emotional reason I began my series of works, In my work, the artist is hiding to restore his strength and to protect himself. I want my viewers to experience China as I know it, where the concept of artists as human beings was once neglected.