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UPDATE 2009: This restaurant has closed.
A few weeks ago I met up with fellow blogger Food Hussy for a taste of Indonesia at Gajah Wong in Northside. I arrived just after their 5:30 p.m. opening time and walked into something of a time warp. The rustic dining room had a dusty wood-meets-Nag Champa incense smell that reminded me quite a bit of the hippy shop where I worked in college. The rattan chairs, goddess statues and miscellaneous, organic retail wares strengthened the groovy vibe.
We chose to dine outside in Gajah Wong's patio area; a surprising oasis, especially considering the restaurant abuts a busy gas station near the corner of Spring Grove and Hamilton Ave. White pebbles, potted herbs and mature, leafy trees are interspersed with stone statues and twinkling fairy lights to create a calm welcoming impression. The pleasant atmosphere is capped off by a fabulous tiki-bar serving up a nice assortment of cocktails.
I was delighted to see Pimms #1 Cup listed on their drinks menu – I love Pimms and usually keep a bottle on hand from May to September because I think it is the perfect summer cocktail. It's traditionally made with fizzy lemon, crushed mint, English cucumber, strawberries and slices of lemon and orange. The Pimms at Gajah Wong substituted Sprite for the fizzy lemon, but I'll let that slide since it is difficult to source Schweppes Bitter Lemon soda, although a better substitution would be ginger ale since the sweetness in Sprite is a little overpowering. Still, I give them kudos for offering it, and had I not been driving I'd had ordered seconds.
I'd never had Indonesian cuisine before but a look through their online menu listed tofu so I figured I'd be in good hands. Their appetizer menu lists two veggie options: Gado Salad, consisting of mixed steamed veggies, tofu and egg; and a Vegetarian Indo Roll filled with tofu, lettuce, vermicelli noodles, carrots, cucumber and cilantro, served with peanut sauce on a bed of shredded cabbage. I opted for the roll and was pleasantly surprised that it was served fresh and cold. I was expecting a deep-fried spring roll, so it was a nice change of pace and an excellent starter for a warm summer evening.
Gajah Wong's menu can be a little confusing for first timers. As someone unfamiliar with the food, I was unsure about choosing a sauce for the vegetarian option on the entrée list, and the server wasn't very forthcoming with descriptions and suggestions. The vegetarian option is fried tofu ($15.50) served with a choice of sauce - there is Gudeg (jackfruit cooked in coconut milk, palm sugar, bay leaves and spices), Jave Kare (an exotic mix of blended chilies, nuts, spices and herbs pureed and sautéed with coconut milk) or Sambal Goreng (a mild sauce of sator nut, galangal root and java spices). The menu also lists a non-vegetarian fourth sauce (Adhun), which includes shrimp paste.
Since I'd never tried any of them and wasn't getting any help from the server, I blindly chose the Jave Kare because it listed Java chilies - which the restaurant grows locally from imported Indonesian seeds - because I figured it would have a little bit of a kick to it.
How wrong could I be? Very. The dish wasn't the least bit spicy and tasted strongly of coconut milk. I found it disappointingly bland. The entrées come with several traditional Indonesian sambals (dips) on the side, and luckily one of them packed some heat. Unfortunately they only serve a small amount of each sambal selection, which wasn't enough to punch up the flavor of my dish to an acceptable level.
Each entrée comes with a side of yellow rice and a mixture of vegetables. My rice looked as though it had been compressed inside a cat food tin, but Food Hussy's rice was hidden beneath a cone-shaped banana leaf, and when the cone was lifted off the rice retained it's pointy, triangular shape. Fun!
Neither of us much cared for the vegetable mixture, which looked and tasted as though it had been cooked to the point of no return. I can't even identify what vegetables they were because it was all a bit of a mushy mess. Maybe that is the way they are supposed to be, but I wasn't impressed and left mine virtually untouched.
The restaurant offers a nice selection of desserts. Pictured is a slice of Kahlua Cake.
I thought the presentation of our dishes was more interesting than the actual food itself, but perhaps I chose unwisely. I'd like to revisit Gajah Wong and try something different before I completely write them off, but first impressions give the restaurant good marks for creativity and visual interest while the food is pricey and unremarkable.


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When people talk about how difficult it is to be in a long-distance relationship, they're often talking about the emotional toll of being apart from their significant other and all the baggage that comes with that. What often goes unmentioned is just how expensive a long-distance relationship can be. The dollars – both the cost of travel and the money spent on reunion dates together – can really add up if the couple isn't careful.
My boyfriend spends his school year in Philadelphia and I spend mine in Boston. Our two cities are pretty close to each other on a world map (about 300 miles apart), especially compared to other couples I know in long distance relationships. But the relatively proximity of Boston and Philly brings its own obstacles to the table. Since it's not that expensive or that time consuming (travel-wise) to visit one another, we tend to do it often — maybe once every two or three weeks. We take planes & trains & cars to visit each other. (Just like in "Hey There Delilah"!) …Except we don't have cars, so we take Megabus. Here is the extent of our options:
- Traveling by bus costs about $45 each way. It is definitely not ideal for a weekend visit because with normal traffic, the ride will take about eight hours.
- Amtrak trains are significantly more expensive than buses, costing anywhere from $89 – $250 each way, depending on time of day and how far in advance we buy the tickets. While the train has the benefit of avoiding traffic, it still takes over six hours in total travel time.
- A plane ride is obviously the quickest option to get to Boston/Philly: it takes about 1.5 hours and cost $300, round trip. When you factor in the time to get to and from the airport and time built in for security, the trip is probably three hours longer than that. There is also an additional $60 cab fee once I land in Philly to get to his apartment from the airport. Also, airplanes are more prone to weather delays than the other options, so flying from one East Coast city to another is kind of a gamble.
I didn't realize how much of a financial burden the relationship had become until the semester when I was traveling to Philly more frequently than my boyfriend was coming to me. He promised he would make up for the imbalance during the next semester, and he did, but I still felt a bit uneasy about it at the time. As he was preparing for one of his few visits that semester, he told me about how he had scored a great deal on plane tickets for his second trip in a row, saving him hundreds of dollars.
Instead of being happy for him, this news almost brought me to tears. My immature reaction surprised me, but it didn't seem fair that I was spending so much money on visits and he was finding all the great deals. So I made a conscious effort to change my spending habits going forward. Here are the rules I now try to follow when prepping for a visit:
- Plan the trips way in advance. If you're lucky enough to be in a stable relationship and don't really have to factor in a potential break-up down the line, take advantage of it. Figure out your schedules way ahead of time if possible and determine who is going to visit when, for how long, and how they're going to get there.
- Explore all travel options before committing. I was often so excited to plan my visit that I would buy the tickets quickly without seeing what the best deal was. Sometimes Amtrak costs more than a round-trip flight; sometimes a combination of bus one way and train back can save a lot of money. Maybe your friend with a car would want to come too, allowing you to road trip and save some money.
- Make sure everything's even. It's easy to feel taken advantage of if you're the partner doing most of the traveling. So make sure visits are balanced. Even if one partner has a more flexible travel schedule, try to share the financial burden as much as possible by alternating who pays for each visit.
- Plan cheap dates. Once you're finally together, it can be tempting to spend a lot of money to make up for lost time together. Even during a short visit, a trip to a museum and a few dinners and lunches out can really add up. Try to plan some fun and free things to do.
- Appreciate the effort. Traveling can be very expensive and time-consuming, and the host doesn't really have to lift a finger. So if your partner is making the trip, show your appreciation, starting by picking them up from the airport/bus station/whatever and escort them through unfamiliar public transportation to save on unnecessary cab fares.
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Although the Black Sheep don't have official guild meetings over the summer — we do have some upcoming activities planned.
Open BSKG Board Meeting
We will hold our annual open board meeting on Tuesday, June 7 at St. Columban's, 7:00 pm. If you are interested in the inner workings of the Guild, please attend.
Knitters Picnic
Wednesday June 8 at 5:30. Firefighters Park, 1800 W. Square Lake Rd, Troy. Bring a dish to pass (there will be plates/cups/plasticware), a chair to sit on, a project to work on, a finished project for show and share, and a sweater or jacket (it is in the shade, and got cold last year). This picnic is hosted by the Oakland Knitting Guild.
Worldwide Knit in Public Day
A loosely organized event — knitters promote the art by knitting in public places worldwide. Bring a chair and knitting to join us in Shain Park, Birmingham on June 11, at 1 p.m. Whoever shows up first, please pick a spot w/ both sun and shade (if possible).
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Keep checking the blog, we will be listing other events this summer. We are planning a picnic in August at a member's home, among other events.
Guild meets the second Tuesday of each month, September through May, from 7-9 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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Garrett is making his return in a new Thief, and just in case you forgot who he is and what he loves, a new trailer tells you that he loves to steal. Its a nice video, but again, don't expect any gameplay. You didn't want to see that any way, did you?
We get to hear more of the gravelly tones of Garrett's new voice actor, Stephen Russell, and a brief mention of some of the tools he will be using. Unfortunately there isn't too much new but pretty (dark) graphics and a backstory most of us are familiar with.
If you want more Thief, here is is. The game is coming to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sometime next year.
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Happy Birthday, Elle! Hope you celebrate your day in-style like the stellar model you are!
For years, Elle MacPherson graced the covers of Sports Illustrated as a red-hot, Australian swimsuit model — before starting a successful business career. In 1990, Elle launched her own lingerie line called Elle Macpherson Intimates, and became the host and executive producer of Britain's Next Top Model in 2010. Get all the details at Astrology.com!
Happy birthday, Elle MacPherson! As a pioneering and energetic Aries, you weren't content to simply be one of the most beautiful and sought-after models in the world. After securing your name among the supermodel elite in the 1980s, you buckled down and discovered a way to parlay your assets. Using your established name and the earthy good sense of your Taurus Moon, you built a multimillion dollar business by marketing your own line of lingerie and skin care products. Though your body could still help magazines fly off the stands, you appear more at home as the Creative Director of Elle MacPherson Intimates. While you once famously admitted to not finding yourself particularly beautiful, you'll not be far from the limelight … and we'll be watching as usual!
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Holly Michelle Stuart of Starkville and Thomas Clinton Campbell III of Starkville were married Dec. 12, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Macon, with the Rev. Bob Whiteside officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Stuart of Macon, and granddaughter of Mr and Mrs. Cecil T. Gibson of Artesia, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Stuart of Macon. She was given in marriage by her father. The bride wore a gown made of ivory and champagne taffeta. Beadwork adorned the champagne colored empire waist. Multi-pleated bodice and sweetheart neckline contrasted by an A-line skirt with side and back pleats. Hand beaded buttons down the back followed by a chapel train. She wore a elbow length veil and her grandmothers brooch on her bridal bouquet. Stephanie Stuart of Macon, sister of the bride, served as maid of honor. Kathryn M. Dyck of North Dakota, and Brittany J. Moses of Starkville, served as bridesmaids. The attendants wore chocolate floor length, strapless gown made of organza. Flower girls were Myah Varner and Alaina Thompson. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Campbell Jr. of Macon, and grandson of Mrs. Josey Shau and the late Harold Shaw of Macon, the late Thomas C. Campbell, and the late Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Lindley. Thomas C. Campbell Jr. served as best man. Jarrett Baker of Starkville, brother of the groom, Phillip Gardner of Starkville, Charles Kelly of Starkville, Eric King of North Carolina, and Charles Moses of Starkville, all served as groomsmen. The groom wore a black tux with champagne vest. After a wedding trip to Disney World, the couple resides in Starkville.
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Back East; New Images From Familiar Territory
Regular readers of this column know that Asia in general is a favorite place of mine. In fact, I cut my teeth in Asia: prior to being a travel and stock photographer, I was an editorial shooter, doing magazine stories and contributing images to books. I also did commercial, corporate, and annual report photography all over Asia.
Now I have a new venture in a familiar place. You'd think that my knowledge
of China would make the job easier, and in a way it does. But because China
is emerging so quickly, and at such a frantic pace, there's a lot about
it that's new and different to me. The one thing that hasn't changed--and
the thing that gives me a true advantage--is that I still have the same
passion, fascination, and love for Asia that I had 30 years ago.
Here's why that's so important:
After I finish writing this column I'm going to be picking up my camera
here in my Austin studio and going to work. I'll be shooting lifestyle
images of two gorgeous models for a commercial stock job. It'll be an
eight- to 10-hour shoot with the models in 10 different outfits posing on three
or four different studio sets. There's a full crew here, and they're
all just about ready for me. All I have to do is get into the zone. I've
got a shot list, I know what I need to get and I know how to get it, but I first
have to get in the mood. I call it a matter of my feelings catching up to my
If I'm not inspired, then I'm mechanical, not creative.
But put me in China and I'm immediately in the zone. I'm there
even before I get there--I'm excited on the plane, anticipating what
I'm going to do. After 30 years, you'd think I'd be at least
slightly jaded, that I'd be thinking, well, the pictures will be all the
same because I've seen all that this country can offer me. But it doesn't
work that way. Each time I return there's something new for me to see
and to photograph, simply because I love to be there.
There's another thing about shooting in China that's different for
me. I'm a very organized person; I definitely have my act together. I
go into a job with plans, contacts, itineraries, and shot lists; everything
is in place. But in China, or anywhere in Asia, I'm not quite so buttoned
down. My work is more intuitive, less planned, and I'm definitely more
relaxed. Frankly, I don't work as hard on the preplanning stages of the
shoot when I go to Asia. I'm more spontaneous and, I think, more confident.
In general I prefer locations to the studio. Although the studio environment
is more controlled, it's also more mechanical, more contrived. On location
the images seem to spring naturally from the locales; in the studio, it's
the locales--the sets, that is--that are created for the photographs.
The choices on location are more organic, more interesting, even though I don't
have the degree of control I have in the studio.
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As we watch the promos of Bittoo Boss doing the rounds of various music channels, the vibrant aura of the movie reminds us of Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma's Band Baaja Baaraat
While Anushka poses in a gorgeous Patiala salwar in the poster of Band Baaja Baaraat, actor Amita Pathak, daughter of producer Kumar Mangat, is seen wearing a simple short yellow kurti at the music launch event of Bittoo Boss. The outfits worn by the leads of the film may not be exactly alike, but the style sense is strikingly similar. The ethnic mojdis, sequin-laden ensembles and elaborately embroidered hems reflect the street smart appeal of a quintessential Punjabi chick. The hero Pulkit Samrat, on the other hand, is seen flaunting a waistcoat teamed with a checked shirt and torn denims. He may not be as garish and loud as Ranveer was in BBB, but again the way he's carrying himself spells out loud that he's somewhat akin to Ranveer's rustic character in the newer film. The similar wannabe clothes and the typical Delhi demeanor forebodes that, style-wise, this is going to be yet another 'brash guy chasing an arrogant gal' kinda story. Although we hope that we are proved wrong, we think even reaching the benchmark that BBB has set is a difficult task.
We aren't convinced if Pulkit and Amita can do that, we need to wait and see more of them, perhaps!


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Norwich - Two people suffered minor injuries following a rollover accident near Exit 80 on Interstate 395 South Saturday, according to state police.
The accident occurred around 1:30 p.m. and resulted in partial lane closures. Police extricated two people who were trapped in the car.
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text: Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonalds Life in a Day is an idea borne out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scotts Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated feature-length documentary shot on a single day - July 24 2010 - that enlisted the global community to capture a moment of their lives on camera. The world responded with more than 80 000 submissions over 4500 hours of deeply personal powerful films from contributors from Australia to Zambia from the heart of bustling major cities to the furthest and most remote reaches of the earth. Life in a Day brings together the most compelling footage into a 90 minute film crafted by Macdonald Executive Producer Ridley Scott Producer Liza Marshall and their team to offer a unique experience that shows in beautiful humourous and joyful honesty what its like to be alive on earth today.


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To be honest, as a newbie to the series I didn't expect the level of depth that Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder had to offer.
Don't expect much more than a cheesy hillbilly romp through the rural roads of America. But then again, what more could one want?
It just seemed that the game conspired to suck all the fun out of it.
Game InformerAfter the novelty fades, Truckers 2 starts to feel more like a job than a game, as you realize life on the road is just one repetitive haul after another. [Oct 2005, p.128]
Let's hope that if there's a "Big Mutha Truckers 3" coming in the future, Eutechnyx dumbs down the writing and pumps up the gameplay options.
If you like driving recklessly and crashing into things, you won't be disappointed. If you're just looking for a chance to actually drive a big rig truck, look towards Sega's Eighteen Wheeler game.
Much like the unsubtleties of its title, Big Mutha Truckers 2 shows far too much too soon, and prematurely shoots its load before reaching the much pursued destination of Real Satisfaction. Sigh. A truckin' shame? Truck yeah.
Pelaaja (Finland)It feels a bit blasphemous to compare this game to C64 classic "Elite," but there are so many similarities, that it feels justified. And, despite its repetitive nature, BMT 2 is quite fun to play. [August 2005, p.66]
While it could have been interesting with proper development, it is instead a forgettable title that is probably not even worth the cost of a Blockbuster rental.
Big Mutha Truckers 2 isn't horrible, but the game-play is merely average compared to other mission-based arcade racers. And while it tries to be funny with its racy dialogue and stereotypical characters, it fails more often than it succeeds.
Official U.S. Playstation MagazineA nice break from a day spent watching wood-chopping sports on ESPN 2. [Nov 2005, p.118]
PSM MagazineUnderneath the goofy, low-brow humor is a wide load of too-sedatedly paced driving and surprisingly thin gameplay. [Oct 2005, p.55]
THQ's low-budget truck driving game mixes tried-and-true arcade truck driving with a colorful cast of characters, country-flavored humor, and a whole lot of gigantic boobery. It's very light-hearted fun for a very short period of time.
With very little to laugh at in terms of good jokes and repetitive missions, gamers might want to skip this one altogether.
AceGamezIt's cheap. Not as cheap as chips - and not nearly as tasty either. No. But it might appeal to a few people, those people that enjoyed the first Mutha Trucker title for example.
Causing havoc behind the wheel of a big rig is fun but the novelty quickly wanes and the unsubtle gags often fail to amuse, especially when they are endlessly repeated.
Like "Burnout" on horse tranquillizers. Only marginally less interesting.
If the game wasn't so blatantly repetitive and restrictive, the humor so blandly childish and the control so poor, this could've had the potential to be a somewhat creative game.
So what did the developer do? It dumbed down the simulation aspects, made the driving portions even less fun and more repetitive, and threw in a gaggle of even stupider ethnic and sexual gags.
The actual gameplay follows a predictable pattern as you drive your big rig from point A to B while meeting specific requirements. There is very little if any originality or complexity present, so don't expect anything revolutionary.
The fact that the graphics are so impressive, and the road maps so brilliantly extensive, only adds to the disappointment of the overall experience.
Edge MagazineFor all its wit and swagger, Truckers is inescapably safety-conscious, rewarding the maintenance of a planned route and steady trajectory while more arresting notions - spontaneous risk, for example - fall from the back like poorly fastened cases of moonshine. [Sept 2005, p.99]
Joining the list of sequels that should not be, this racer prooves to be too simplistic and shallow to be any fun to anyone.
Problem is, it ain't nuthin' we ain't seen before. When not running from the cops a la "Driver," you're making deliveries like in "Crazy Taxi"—both of which would be a lot more fun if your rig wasn't slow and sluggish like Eminem with his medicine.
Play MagazineFoist this game on a hated enemy; it's surprising a bomb this big doesn't come ticking. [Oct 2005, p.70]
No bells, no whistles, just boring repetitive driving. So boring in fact that I actually nodded off twice while playing it one Sunday afternoon.


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pyglet includes a number of debug paths that can be enabled during or before application startup. These were primarily developed to aid in debugging pyglet itself, however some of them may also prove useful for understanding and debugging pyglet applications.
Each debug option is a key in the pyglet.options dictionary. Options can be set directly on the dictionary before any other modules are imported:
import pyglet
pyglet.options['debug_gl'] = False
They can also be set with environment variables before pyglet is imported.
The corresponding environment variable for each option is the string
prefixed to the uppercase option key. For example, the
environment variable for debug_gl
is PYGLET_DEBUG_GL
. Boolean options
are set or unset with 1
and 0
A summary of the debug environment variables appears in the table below.
Option Environment variable Type debug_font
bool debug_gl
bool debug_gl_trace
bool debug_gl_trace_args
bool debug_graphics_batch
bool debug_lib
bool debug_media
bool debug_trace
bool debug_trace_args
bool debug_trace_depth
int debug_win32
bool debug_x11
bool graphics_vbo
The debug_media
and debug_font
options are used to debug the
and pyglet.font
modules, respectively. Their behaviour
is platform-dependent and useful only for pyglet developers.
The remaining debug options are detailed below.
The graphics_vbo
option enables the use of vertex buffer objects in
pyglet.graphics (instead, only vertex arrays). This is useful when
debugging the graphics
module as well as isolating code for determining if
a video driver is faulty.
The debug_graphics_batch
option causes all Batch objects to dump their
rendering tree to standard output before drawing, after any change (so two
drawings of the same tree will only dump once). This is useful to debug
applications making use of Group and Batch rendering.
The debug_gl
option intercepts most OpenGL calls and calls glGetError
afterwards (it only does this where such a call would be legal). If an error
is reported, an exception is raised immediately.
This option is enabled by default unless the -O
flag (optimisation) is
given to Python, or the script is running from within a py2exe or py2app
The debug_gl_trace
option causes all OpenGL functions called to be dumped
to standard out. When combined with debug_gl_trace_args
, the arguments
given to each function are also printed (they are abbreviated if necessary to
avoid dumping large amounts of buffer data).
The debug_trace
option enables Python-wide function tracing. This causes
every function call to be printed to standard out. Due to the large number of
function calls required just to initialise pyglet, it is recommended to
redirect standard output to a file when using this option.
The debug_trace_args
option additionally prints the arguments to each
function call.
When debug_trace_depth
is greater than 1 the caller(s) of each function
(and their arguments, if debug_trace_args
is set) are also printed. Each
caller is indented beneath the callee. The default depth is 1, specifying
that no callers are printed.
The debug_lib
option causes the path of each loaded library to be printed
to standard out. This is performed by the undocumented pyglet.lib
which on Linux and Mac OS X must sometimes follow complex procedures to find
the correct library. On Windows not all libraries are loaded via this module,
so they will not be printed (however, loading Windows DLLs is sufficiently
simple that there is little need for this information).
X11 errors are caught by pyglet and suppressed, as there are plenty of X
servers in the wild that generate errors that can be safely ignored.
The debug_x11
option causes these errors to be dumped to standard out,
along with a traceback of the Python stack (this may or may not correspond to
the error, depending on whether or not it was reported asynchronously).
The debug_win32
option causes all library calls into user32.dll
and gdi32.dll
to be intercepted. Before each library
call SetLastError(0)
is called, and afterwards GetLastError()
called. Any errors discovered are written to a file named
. Note that an error is only valid if the function called
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TOKYO - A powerful typhoon is heading to Tokyo after injuring dozens of people, causing blackouts and paralyzing traffic in southern Japan.
Japan's Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Jelawat is expected to hit the Tokyo region Sunday evening. It warns of torrential rain and sudden wind gusts, urging Tokyo residents to stay indoors.
At noon Sunday, the storm was packing winds of up to 144 kilometers (90 miles) per hour.
The typhoon left more than 50 people with minor injuries on the southern island of Okinawa on Saturday. Thousands of homes were without electricity.
Dozens of trains were suspended Sunday in coastal areas around Tokyo, and some 300 domestic flights were to be grounded throughout the day.
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"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
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"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more."
General George S. Patton
"Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
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"Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies"
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"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."
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"[Ross defends his fast eating habits to Rachel] I grew up in a house with Monica, okay. If you didn't eat fast, you didn't eat."
David Schwimmer
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William Shakespeare
"Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves"
"The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"
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Trader At Heart Of Goldman Suit: I Sold Shoddy Mortgage Products To 'Widow And Orphans'
Tourre, along with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Daniel Sparks, a former head of the mortgages department, and a number of other Goldman executives are expected to testify tomorrow before Sen. Carl Levin's (D-MI) Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Blankfein is expected to deny betting against mortgages -- although emails released by Levin over the weekend appear to show that the investment bank knowingly made money betting against the mortgage market -- and mortgage securities that it was selling to investors.
Toure's email record doesn't look all that good either.
In a June 2007 email to his girlfriend, Tourre wrote:
Just made it to the country of your favorite clients!!! I'm managed to sell a few abacus bonds to widow and orphans that I ran into at the airport, apparently these Belgians adore synthetic abs cdo2.
Abacus is the name of the mortgage-related security at the heart of the SEC lawsuit. Last December, the New York Times reported that Tourre was "aggressive from the start in trying to make the assets in Abacus deals look better than they were."
And it seems that at least at times, Tourre didn't have much sympathy for those investing in Abacus. In March, Tourre had written this to his girlfriend:
According to Sparks, that business is totally dead, and the poor little subprime borrowers will not last so long!!!
However, in January, Tourre seemed to show a somewhat softer side -- or at least a more self-aware one.
Anyway, not feeling too guilty about this, the real purpose of my job is to make capital markets more efficient and ultimately provide the U.S. consumer with more efficient ways to leverage and finance himself, so there is a humble, noble and ethical reason for my job ;) amazing how good I am in convincing myself !!!
It does seem that Tourre was aware of the potentially disastrous effects these financial products might have. From a 2007 email to a friend:
It's bizarre I have the sensation of coming each day to work and re-living the same agony - a little like a bad dream that repeats itself. In sum, I'm trading a product which a month ago was worth $100 and which today is only worth $93 and which on average is losing 25 cents a day ...That doesn't seem like a lot but when you take into account that we buy and sell these things that have nominal amounts that are worth billions, well it adds up to a lot of money.
"When I think that I had some input into the creation of this product (which by the way is a product of pure intellectual masturbation, the type of thing which you invent telling yourself: "Well, what if we created a "thing", which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price?") it sickens the heart to see it shot down in mid-flight... It's a little like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor ;)"


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The Cathedral Green Wave football team won Friday's home conference game against Mount Olive by a score of 35-7.
Cathedral Green Wave (Natchez, MS) fans left the game content Friday as they saw their football team gain a win over the visiting Mount Olive Pirates (Mount Olive, MS), 35-7 in a league test.
With the triumph, Cathedral improves its record to 7-0 on the campaign. The Green Wave travel to Bogue Chitto (Bogue Chitto, MS) to battle the Bobcats in a 1A Region 4 test on Friday, October 14. The Bobcats come into the test with a record of 7-0. Bogue Chitto won 39-14 in their recent league test against Salem (Tylertown, MS)
With the loss, Mount Olive drops to 2-7 on the campaign. The Pirates host Resurrection Catholic (Pascagoula, MS) to battle the Eagles in a 1A Region 4 test on Friday, October 14. The Eagles come into the test with a record of 2-4. Resurrection Catholic won 39-7 in their recent league test against St. Aloysius (Vicksburg, MS)


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Three people were injured this afternoon when a house exploded in Wauseon.
The incident happened when a propane tank exploded in the basement of the home at 137 Clinton Street at about 4:39 p.m., Wauseon Police Chief Keith Torbet said.
The man who owns the home was in the basement at the time and suffered the most serious injuries, the chief said. The man was taken by helicopter to a hospital. Information on his condition was unavailable this evening.
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"That's the reason for his serious burns," the chief said. Four other people in the home at the time suffered lesser injuries, Chief Torbet said.
Two children who were in the home at the time of the explosion were taken to by ambulance to Fulton Medical Center to be checked out, Chief Torbet said. Two adults who were in the home refused medical care, he said.
Representatives from Ohio Gas inspected the damage and said the explosion was not the result of a gas leak, the chief said.
Police on the scene were waiting this evening for a fire marshal to inspect the home. The house was seriously damaged in the explosion. One neighboring structure, a Masonic lodge, suffered slight damage in the blast, mostly from debris.


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ZURICH (AP) — Eight NHL players have been included on Switzerland's roster for next month's Sochi Olympics, including Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Mark Streit and Anaheim Ducks goaltender Jonas Hiller. Hiller is one of two NHL goaltenders picked for the team, along with Reto Berra of the Calgary Flames. Tobias Stephan, who played just under a dozen games for the Dallas Stars in 2007-08 and 2008-09, is the third. Raphael Diaz of the Montreal Canadiens and Yannick Weber of the Vancouver Canucks are also part of the Swiss defense, along with Roman Josi of the Nashville Predators. Up front, Nino Niederreiter of the Minnesota Wild and Damien Brunner of the New Jersey Devils were the only NHL forwards picked. Missing was Sven Baertschi of the Flames, who could be an injury replacement. © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |


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Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music. Headed by singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and containing several of his family members and friends, the band was the first major American rock band to have an "integrated, multi-gender" lineup.
Brothers Sly Stone and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone combined their bands (Sly & the Stoners and Freddie & the Stone Souls) in 1967. Sly and Freddie Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Gregg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham completed the original lineup; Sly and Freddie's sister, singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, joined within a year. This collective recorded five Billboard Hot 100 hits which reached the top 10, and four ground-breaking albums, which greatly influenced the sound of American pop music, soul, R&B, funk, and hip hop music. In the preface of his 1998 book For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History, Joel Selvin sums up the importance of Sly and the Family Stone's influence on African American music by stating "there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone". The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
During the early 1970s, the band switched to a grittier funk sound, which was as influential on the music industry as their earlier work. The band began to fall apart during this period because of drug abuse and ego clashes; consequently, the fortunes and reliability of the band deteriorated, leading to its dissolution in 1975. Sly Stone continued to record albums and tour with a new rotating lineup under the "Sly and the Family Stone" name from 1975 to 1983. In 1987, Sly Stone was arrested and sentenced for cocaine use, after which he went into effective retirement.


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Run Stewart, Run… Rockies' knee holds up fine
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Any doubt about Ian Stewart's sprained right knee was erased Saturday. Bill and Ted have had less excellent adventures that he did on the basepaths.
The Rockies' third baseman was trapped in a pair of rundowns, advanced to second on a dirtball, scooted from first to third on a base hit and escaped injury when Dexter Fowler missed a sign on a squeeze bunt.
"I ran more in that game that I have in all my other games combined,'' Stewart said. "I have never been involved in any game like that.''
Stewart's knee was sore this morning, but didn't prevent him from playing against the Cubs in the Rockies' split-squad game. Once a candidate for the disabled list, Stewart has proven he's ready for the opening day roster.
"It's important for me to be there with my teammates," Stewart said.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - House Speaker Greg Stumbo has appointed five lawmakers to a special committee that will investigate sexual harassment complaints against one of their colleagues.
The appointees, named Friday, include three Democrats and two Republicans. Two are women. They will look into complaints against Democratic state Rep. John Arnold of Sturgis who is accused of sexually harassing three legislative workers.
Stumbo filed a petition with the House clerk on Thursday calling for the formation of the investigative committee that could recommend Arnold's censure or expulsion. Arnold didn't immediately return a phone call to his legislative office Friday.
The five appointees are Democrats Arnold Simpson of Covington, Rita Smart of Richmond and Jeff Donohue of Louisville. The Republicans are Julie Adams of Louisville and Robert Benvenuti of Lexington.
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Graham Birch's knee-high boots are caked with mud as he climbs onto his tractor. His two dairy and sheep farms in southwest England cover 3,658 acres, an area more than five times the size of the City, London's financial district, where Birch worked for the last quarter-century in shoes seldom covered in anything but a shine.
In his job at BlackRock (BBK), which is headquartered in New York, Birch oversaw $36 billion and ran five commodities-related funds. Worrying about other people's pensions all day became exhausting. "It's not the hours themselves—it's the responsibility," says Birch, 49, who headed BlackRock's natural resources team for 11 years. The BlackRock Gold & General Fund, which Birch managed from 1999 until last year, was the top performer among 858 U.K.-domiciled mutual funds over the last decade, rising almost 23% annually, according to Morningstar (MORN). "At the peak we had $40 billion of people's savings. That's like a weight that pushes down all the time. I couldn't do that forever."
Success in finance had made Birch wealthy, but not content. So he traded it in for a world he knew little about. "I had never driven a tractor," he says. That was the point: "I needed a complete change." Now he has 560 dairy cows, 1,000 pregnant sheep, and a storage tank filled with 4 million liters (about 1 million gallons) of manure used for fertilizer. He produces 3 million liters of milk a year, enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
Birch, who helped start and run a BlackRock hedge fund focused on agriculture, brings a money manager's sensibility to raising cows. "You can't be sentimental about it," he says. "These are adorable, but in a year we're going to sell them." With the guidance of Scott Bagwell, his 30-year-old farm manager who grew up a mile away as a son of a herdsman, Birch learned to drive a tractor. The farms have a total of six employees, and Birch sometimes helps with the afternoon milking. He makes his own cheddar cheese and sloe gin.
A sabbatical from BlackRock in April 2009 let Birch test the waters. He was supposed to return to the firm this year. In January he resigned instead. "I wanted to see whether I would miss the job and discovered I didn't miss it much at all," says Birch, who has a doctorate in mining geology from Imperial College London. "Fifteen years is long enough to do one thing. I've been to every Rio Tinto results presentation for, like, 25 years. I began to think I'm not learning anything new. If you stop learning new things, life becomes very, very boring."
His wife, Margaret Scribbins, 50, says the change has been good for the couple and their five children. They live in St. Albans, 126 miles from the farms in Dorset. Birch spends a few days a week at his farms—he has a cottage at the dairy farm. The family plans to stay in St. Albans until the youngest children, 13-year-old twins, finish school. Scribbins, an accountant by training, keeps the books. "He looks five years younger with the farm," she says of her husband, who has lost 14 pounds.
Birch hasn't completely abandoned his old life. He still holds some agricultural stocks, including Monsanto (MON), the world's largest seed maker, and follows the mining news from a computer in his spartan office on the farm. He joined London-based gold producer Petropavlovsk last month as a nonexecutive director. If he ever went back to managing money, it would have to be a much smaller place than BlackRock, "where I could make a real difference as an individual," he says. He has no plans to do that, though.
The money Birch has poured into his farm includes 400,000 pounds ($609,300) for a grain storage building, 150,000 pounds for a new harvester, 50,000 pounds for new barns. He takes no salary and hopes to turn a profit this year. It may be a tough slog. The number of British dairy farms has fallen 54% since 1995, according to the Dairy Farming Information Centre, a nonprofit funded by milk producers. Prices paid to farmers were down 5% last year from 1995, data from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show.
Birch predicts the market will turn. "As more of the farms get pushed out of the business, the farms that remain get the opportunity," he says. His larger one is 17 times the average size of farms in Britain. "As long as demand is there, which is the case for dairy products, then prices will go up. We've seen it in gold, copper. I think we're heading that way with agricultural business. That's why we got into agriculture. Prices have been too low for too long."
Rising prices for U.K. farmland have made Birch's gamble a good bet so far. Since he first bought in southwest England in October 2007, prices have risen 28%, according to London-based property adviser Knight Frank. That's all well and good, but Birch has a different focus at the moment. "Two thousand lambs are going to be born over the four weeks" starting in late March, he says. "It is going to be hectic."


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[The latest in a series in which we ask JD Supra contributors to address the perils, legal or otherwise, of online citizenship today, and all that entails. Stay tuned for additional articles on this wide-ranging subject.]
The Internet has been flooded lately with reports of individuals capitalizing on the anonymity of social media to torment others. There is no greater example than that of Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams. Within days of her father's death, faceless trolls took to Twitter and sent her messages blaming her for the death of her father. Not content to harass Zelda using only words, these trolls also posted pictures of her father altered to show bruises around his neck. Powerless to remove the trolls' messages herself, Zelda cancelled her account and begged Twitter to take corrective action.
But Zelda is not the only example; staffers at the popular Jezebel website also have been forced to monitor the website daily for a barrage of violent images. Both Twitter and Gawker Media (Jezebel's parent company) vow to take remedial action to prevent the posting of such inappropriate material. Yet both companies are also faced with the same fundamental problem: how do companies eliminate unacceptable content from their websites while still upholding freedom of speech principles? Employers are faced with a similar issue: what practices should be adopted to ensure a safe, legal online environment for their employees? In addition, employers also must consider how to protect themselves from the legal risks involved with employees taking to social media to express their views.
The best and most effective way an employer can combat social media-focused harassment is through education and training on what behavior the company will and will not find acceptable.
It is all too easy to imagine a scenario when harassment creeps into a workplace through social media. Social media-focused harassment can occur as quickly as when one employee posts an inappropriate remark about a personal photo or status update on a co-worker's site. The harassment could also entail sending an unwelcome sexual comment or picture or other comments directed toward a coworker's "protected characteristics." The best and most effective way an employer can combat social media-focused harassment is through education and training on what behavior the company will and will not find acceptable. This includes implementing a social media policy, providing training on the company's social media policy, offering informal forums to discuss any concerns regarding social media in the workplace, monitoring of his electronic equipment, and quickly disciplining all inappropriate behavior.
Social media and computer use policies are a key starting point. A well-written and comprehensive social media policy clearly communicates social media boundaries for employees, and establishing these boundaries can minimize future costs by placing employees on notice as to what content and behavior is acceptable in using social media. A detailed computer use policy should advise employees that the company's electronic equipment is subject to monitoring and that employees should not have an expectation of privacy while using company electronic equipment. Careful consideration must be given to the content of both policies to ensure that the company's position toward social media and electronic equipment use is appropriately communicated, as well as ensuring that the policies comply with the applicable state and federal laws.
Regardless of whether the company encourages employee use of social media or takes a more tepid view of employee social media use, the company should institute mandatory training for all employees. The training should describe social media and its uses, and outline which activities are subject to a company's social media policy. The training also should point out the permanency of social media and implications for social media use. To the extent employees will be using social media on behalf of the company, a company should provide examples of appropriate posts and discuss legal implications for posting confidential and proprietary information. Employees should be "refreshed" on this training on a regular basis.
Another avenue to properly educate employees on the use of social media and its impact on a company would be to create an open forum where social media issues are discussed. Employees are frequently confused about what constitutes appropriate communication concerning the company. This confusion is amplified by the relaxed standards of what behavior is considered "appropriate" in an anonymous online forum. Compounding the problem, many people may not appreciate the permanency of internet posts. The open forum format encourages an exchange of dialogue to clearly explain which practices the company will not tolerate. Taking the time to educate and discuss these issues can go a long way toward protecting the company.
A well-written and comprehensive social media policy clearly communicates social media boundaries for employees, and establishing these boundaries can minimize future costs by placing employees on notice as to what content and behavior is acceptable in using social media.
Provided that a company has a strong computer use policy, a company may monitor its equipment to ensure employees are complying with company policies and potentially discourage inappropriate social media content. This is especially important in defusing the empowerment many "trolls" feel in anonymously posting improper content. However, a company must comply with the applicable state and federal laws when monitoring employee use of electronic equipment.
In light of the many legal hurdles that must be overcome when using social media in the workplace, many companies would simply prefer to prohibit the use of social media altogether. However, a well drafted social media policy, adequate training and education of employees and ongoing monitoring will better equip a company's employees to understand the proper use of social media and its implications for the employer. Nonetheless, when an employer discovers inappropriate social media use, it is crucially important that the employer quickly investigate the extent of the improper conduct and issue suitable discipline. Quickly addressing inappropriate social media content not only creates a better and more productive working environment for the company's employees, it also is an essential step to insulate the company from legal liability.
[Lindsey Hogan is a member of Faegre Baker Daniels' labor and employment group that covers the spectrum of issues affecting employment relations, employee mobility, and compensation and benefits. She advises employers across the country and focuses her practice on employment litigation and counseling clients regarding proper employment practices and risk management. Lindsey provides clients with a wide variety of services, including serving as litigation counsel, policy and procedure implementation to avoid discrimination litigation, employee handbook review, and retaliatory claim avoidance policies.]
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quote:If the OT collectively owned a racehorse, what would we call it?
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text: Chicago Reporter Fired, Possibly For Dating A PlayerBarry Petchesky10/15/10 1:45pmFiled to: MediaChicago BlackhawksComcastNick BoyntonJen patterson78EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkJen Patterson was let go by Comcast SportsNet Chicago, a week after her relationship with Blackhawk Nick Boynton became public. That's a quick fall for one of CSN's "rising stars."AdvertisementPatterson was originally a producer for a sports talk radio show, but you can't keep a bubby blonde off camera for long. She joined the network doing some on-air work earlier this year, including a number of Blackhawks segments, where, apparently she became chummy with Boynton.(UPDATE: I'm informed that Patterson has not actually worked Blackhawks games. She has still done hockey segments for the network, however.)AdvertisementShe works fast. Boynton came over at the trade deadline last season, and only appeared in 7 games for the Hawks. But the two were spotted out and about almost immediately after Chicago won the cup, and it finally made the gossip pages last week.Then, yesterday, it was announced that Patterson is out at CSN. No explanation, just a boilerplate statement. "We wish her the best in future endeavors blah blah blah."No one's saying why she's out (Patterson's not talking), but we can pretty much assume it's got a lot to do with Boynton. Media members dating athletes has always been an icky subject. Derek Lowe and Carolyn Hughes carried on a relationship while both were married, leading to Hughes's suspension from FSN West and divorces for the both of them. And there's an added layer here: CSN Chicago is owned, in part, by the Blackhawks. So it's an office romance too.SponsoredConflict of interest for Patterson? Sure. Enough to push her out the door? Both are apparently willing participants, but in this day and age it's probably best to head off any potential issues before they arise.[h/t Disco Choo]Reply78 repliesLeave a reply


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WATERBURY, Conn. – Webster Bank has earned two "Best of Bristol" Readers Choice Awards from the Bristol (Conn.) Press. Webster was named "Best Bank" and "Best Mortgage."
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text: Several families in Greene County got an unpleasant wake up call early Tuesday morning. Evacuations of several area residents had to be made after a tractor trailer carrying blasting materials flipped over on Highway 58 near Snow Hill. Lawmen say the truck, carrying the materials for a mining company, blew a tire just before 5 a.m. Lawmen say the contents were kept stable and cleanup got underway.


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Doctor: | Seventh Doctor | |
Companion(s): | Benny | |
Main enemy: | Yssgaroth | |
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Publisher: | Virgin Books | |
Writer: | Neil Penswick | |
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Release number: | 12 | |
Release date: | 18 March 1993 | |
Format: | Paperback Book; 24 Chapters, 276 Pages | |
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The Pit was the twelfth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Neil Penswick, was released in 1993 and featured the Seventh Doctor and Bernice.
Publisher's summary Edit
For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and it's getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, Armageddon.
In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets — an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.
One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materialises, it becomes clear that the planet has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.
As riot and anarchy spread on the system's colonised worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed — a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lords' past.
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Characters Edit
- Seventh Doctor
- Bernice Summerfield
- General Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu
- William Blake
- Butler
- Swarf
- Chopra
- Archon
- Spike
- Major John Carlson
- Bulbir Singh Mann
- Academician Brown
- Jarak Romer
- Ell Romer
- Melanie Carlson
- The Fellowship
- Colonel Philips
- Yssgaroth
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Astronomical objects Edit
- The Seven Planets are in the Althosian system.
The Doctor Edit
- The most pious person the Doctor has ever met is a French Jesuit missionary in Africa.
Gallifrey Edit
- The Seal of Rassilon is an ancient symbol for warding off evil.
- Gallifrey translates to literally mean "they that walk in shadows".
Writers Edit
- Susan loved the works of William Blake.
- William Blake fell through a portal in 1811.
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Continuity Edit
- TV: State of Decay introduced the legend of the Time Lords' war against the Great Vampires. General Kopyion is revealed as Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu, the legendary Time Lord who led the war.
- Rassilon's experiments and the war with the Vampires are further outlined in PROSE: Interference - Book Two.
External links Edit
- Prelude to The Pit as published in DWM #197
- The Pit at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Pit at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: The Pit


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Join Team Running Buddies and run, walk, or cheerlead your way to a brighter future for
homeless dogs. Raise awareness and funding for enrichment programs and medical care for Stray Rescue dogs, all while being an essential part of a dynamic, caring community!
Race Weekend: April 5 & 6, 2014
The idea is simple but the rewards are huge. As part of Team Running Buddies, you commit to raising $500 as a participant in the GO! St. Louis 5k, Half Marathon, Marathon Relay, or Marathon. The money you raise will be used to strengthen enrichment programs and The Stracks Fund here at Stray Rescue, which are vital to the rehabilitation process and ensuring an ultimately healthy environment for the dogs. As part of Team Running Buddies, you will be a key member of a fun, energetic, and compassionate team that will enhance the lives of homeless companion animals and help more of them find loving homes!
New this year is the chance to be a Buddy Booster! This is a great way to be on Team Running Buddies if running isn't your thing. As a Buddy Booster, you will serve the important role of inspiring and cheering on those who are racing. You commit to raising $200 for Stray Rescue, and here is what you get in return!
So what do you get in return for being a lover of dogs and committing to help them as a runner/walker or Buddy Booster? Plenty! Stray Rescue will do the following for everyone who signs a commitment form...
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Sri Lanka Holds Rates to Support GDP Growth, Restrain Inflation
Rishaad Salamat and Anusha OndaatjieSri Lanka left interest rates unchanged for a third month in a bid to support economic growth while restraining consumer-price increases.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka kept its reverse repurchase rate at 9.5 percent and the repurchase rate at 7.5 percent, it said in a statement in Colombo today. Ten of 11 economists in a Bloomberg News survey predicted no change. One forecast a 0.25 percentage point reduction in both benchmarks.
Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said Feb. 21 he will refrain from cutting borrowing costs in the first half of this year, seeking to rein in an inflation rate of almost 10 percent, one of the highest in Asia. He also aims to revive economic growth in 2013, predicting a 7.5 percent expansion, up from an estimated 6.5 percent in 2012.
"Sri Lanka will need to lower interest rates to boost growth," Sarath Rajapakse, director of research at Capital Trust Securities Pvt. in Colombo, said before the release.
Consumer prices rose 9.8 percent in February from a year earlier, the fastest after India in a group of 17 Asia-Pacific economies tracked by Bloomberg.
Inflation will moderate from March onwards, the central bank said in the statement. Economic growth momentum is going to be "pretty strong" in the next few months, Cabraal said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today.
Sri Lanka's Treasury Secretary P.B. Jayasundera said last month he expects better agriculture supply to help slow the pace of price increases to about 8 percent this year.
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Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969 (CD)
Gram Parsons , The Flying Burrito Brothers
Amoeba Review
Chris Morris 11/06/2007
It's difficult to describe the full impact The Gilded Palace of Sin, the Flying Burrito Brothers' debut album, had on me in February 1969, when I came across a promotional copy of the A&M Records album as an 18-year-old college disc jockey.
Gram Parsons -- shaggy-haired and draped in a Western suit from Nudie's of Hollywood festooned with marijuana leaves, pills, and naked women -- squinted out coolly from the record's cover, looking glamorous, dangerous, and alien, a rock 'n' roller with attitude to burn in spangled country mufti. Inside was unprecedented music just as surprising as Parsons' image - an amalgam of rock 'n' roll, country, and soul as exciting and mysterious as anything heard on the Band's Music From Big Pink the previous year.
It would sell only an estimated 40,000 copies in its day, but for thoseof us who got tuned in early, The Gilded Palace of Sin was an event, and it remains so to this day. And it's one that has served as a beacon for a couple of musical generations to follow.
Gram Parsons With the Flying Burrito Brothers Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969, Amoeba Records' new two-disc set, is just as much of an event, to these ears. There have been numerous other live albums bearing the Burrito Brothers' name, but this is the one to get. It's the first legitimate issue of concert material - captured in two April nights at the titular venue -- by the group's original touring lineup (featuring Parsons and including bassist Chris Ethridge, who departed the Burritos before 1969 was over). And - besides Sierra Records' 1982 release of a Long Island radio performance by the Fallen Angels - it's the only available full-length document of Parsons on stage, and here he's in his prime. Additionally, the repertoire contains a brace of songs the Burritos never saw fit to cut in the studio, and includes a number of revelatory numbers.
The Avalon shows were the work of a very young band, little more than six months old. The Flying Burrito Brothers were formed by erstwhile Byrds bandmates Parsons and Chris Hillman after the latter left the Los Angeles group in September 1968. (Parsons had himself quit the Byrds earlier that year, ostensibly objecting to a tour of segregated South Africa, following the recording of the breakthrough country-rock album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, released that August.) Enlisting Ethridge and pedal steel guitarist Sneaky Pete Kleinow, the Burritos recorded their first album between November 1968 and January 1969 using several studio drummers. Former Byrds drummer Michael Clarke joined the band in time for its first road trip.
By the time they played the storied San Francisco rock ballroom, the Burritos were veterans of a chaotic first tour, romantically undertaken by train right after the release of Gilded Palace, and marred by messy drug-fueled shows in front of uncomprehending audiences and (anticipating the behavior of Parsons' hero George Jones) a no-show at a prestigious New York showcase date. The trek inspired "The Train Song," recorded as a single later in 1969 and possibly performed for the first time at the Avalon.
In San Francisco, the Burritos came to play, and they were lucky enough to open for the Grateful Dead, one of the Bay Area's most beloved acts, and received an audibly enthusiastic welcome. (The story of how the tapes of these shows were liberated from the Dead's vault for release by Amoeba is told elsewhere.) While the headlining act had always assimilated country and string-band roots into their trippy sound, it's instructive to play the Burrito Brothers' Avalon recordings back-to-back with Workingman's Dead, the Dead's first country-rock sortie, released 14 months later in June 1970. Listen to Jerry Garcia's vocal on "High Time," for instance: It's obvious that the guitarist had paid attention to Gram's similarly aching, vulnerable style.
Let me put it simply: Gram Parsons sings better on the Avalon recordings than he did on the majority of his studio sides. On both evenings, he hit his notes with bell-like clarity, and he sometimes took songs to their emotional limits. In particular, his versions of George Jones' devastating "She Once Lived Here" and Bobby Bare's dark "Long Black Limousine" - neither of which the Burritos cut in the studio -- raise the bar high. His voice retains the open, fragile quality that his fans adore, but he delivers with a focus and commitment he reached only on his supreme studio tracks.
As splendid as the front man's performances are, special praise must be reserved for Sneaky Pete Kleinow. It was apparent from his fuzzed-out solo on "Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)," the first track on Gilded Palace, that Kleinow - also well known as a "claymation" animator for Art Clokey's Gumby TV show - was rewriting the book for pedal steel guitar (as Amoeba's own steel guitar whiz Joe Goldmark would probably agree). His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as such innovators as Bob Dunn, the pioneering amplified steel maestro of Milton Brown's '30s Western swing band the Musical Brownies, and the futuristic '50s studio aces Speedy West and Alvino Rey. As the band's lead instrumentalist, Kleinow was able to segue effortlessly from sweet country-rooted comping to saber-toothed, aggressive distortion - check his antic playing on the Mel Tillis-penned "Mental Revenge," virtually unrecognizable in the Burritos' hands as Waylon Jennings' loping 1967 hit. The hot picking on Live at the Avalon serves as a fitting memorial for Kleinow, who passed away in early 2007.
The set lists for the Avalon shows lend a deeper understanding of what Parsons was shooting for with his "Cosmic American Music" than the studio albums The Gilded Palace of Sin and Burrito Deluxe do. To be sure, there are rocked-up versions of exemplary honky-tonkers by Jones, Bare, and Buck Owens ("Close Up the Honky Tonks"). Hank Williams, a country institution but not yet a rock love object, gets his due with "You Win Again." Fittingly, given their own gunslinging style, the band also shows a prophetic appreciation and understanding of country's outlaws-to-be, covering both Jennings and - on a medley of "Undo the Right" and "Somebody's Back in Town" - Willie Nelson, who at that point was still better known as a hit-making Nashville songwriter than as an artist in his own right and was years away from mass recognition and success.
But Parsons never envisioned himself as merely a straight-up country performer, and many of the other song choices bear out his intent. Essayed on separate evenings were "Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman," the Dan Penn-Chips Moman compositions - 1967 R&B chart entries for James Carr and Aretha Franklin, respectively - that anchored the first side of the Burritos' debut LP as a kind of country-soul medley. "Lucille" is an interesting choice: a 1957 R&B hit for Little Richard, performed in the countrified close-harmony arrangement recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1960 with Willie Nelson's pedal steel guitarist, "Mr. Country Soul," Jimmy Day.
On both nights, the Burritos played "We've Got to Get Ourselves Together," a song originated by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. Parsons knew the husband-and-wife team from the dives he haunted in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, where they performed with a band that included Leon Russell and other members of the so-called "Tulsa Mafia." The Bramletts were attempting to forge a synthetic style of music not unlike what the Burritos were aiming for, but coming at it from a Southern-soul slant and not from country, and the cover of "Get Ourselves Together" makes the connection between the musicians' objectives explicit.
In their short time - less than two years -- with Gram Parsons as their lead vocalist and theoretician, the Flying Burrito Brothers paved a path for others to follow; one of the earliest runs down that path can be heard brilliantly on Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969. I personally know many musicians who continue to be inspired by the Burritos and Parsons. For instance, every time I hear my gifted L.A. friend Mike Stinson play, I'm reminded that it was Gram's music that got Mike to hit the country-rock road. And when I see (can their handle be anything other than a homage?) the Hacienda Brothers -- a California/Arizona outfit that uses rockabilly guitar and pedal steel to hammer home songs by artists as varied as the Percy Sledge, Johnny Cash, Ivory Joe Hunter, the Box Tops, and Charlie Rich -- I know that the torchof Cosmic American Music continues to burn, brightly.
Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
Close Up The Honky Tonks
Gram Parsons | 02:38 |
Dark End Of The Street
Gram Parsons | 03:57 |
Medley: Undo The Right/ Somebody's Back In Town
Gram Parsons | 03:16 |
She Once Lived Here
Gram Parsons | 03:54 |
We've Got To Get Ourselves Together
Gram Parsons | 03:31 |
Gram Parsons | 02:38 |
Hot Burrito #1
Gram Parsons | 03:40 |
Hot Burrito #2
Gram Parsons | 04:05 |
Long Black Limousine
Gram Parsons | 03:38 |
Mental Revenge
Gram Parsons | 03:07 |
Sin City
Gram Parsons | 04:02 |
$1000 Wedding [Bonus Track]
Gram Parsons | 04:24 |
When Will I Be Loved [Bonus Track]
Gram Parsons | 02:16 |
Disc 2 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
Medley: Undo The Right/ Somebody's Back In Town
Gram Parsons | 03:16 |
She Once Lived Here
Gram Parsons | 04:06 |
Mental Revenge
Gram Parsons | 03:13 |
We've Got To Get Ourselves Together
Gram Parsons | 03:43 |
Gram Parsons | 02:39 |
Sin City
Gram Parsons | 04:08 |
You Win Again
Gram Parsons | 03:06 |
Hot Burrito #1
Gram Parsons | 03:53 |
Hot Burrito #2
Gram Parsons | 04:00 |
You're Still On My Mind
Gram Parsons | 02:34 |
Train Song
Gram Parsons | 03:43 |
Long Black Limousine
Gram Parsons | 03:15 |
Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
Gram Parsons | 03:18 |
Do Right Woman
Gram Parsons | 05:01 |