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Rainfall and zero fire growth has prompted government officials to lift a pre-evacuation notice for 146 homes that were threatened earlier this week by a 500-acre wildfire southwest of Durango.
Dozens of firefighters were called off the fire, which was 75 percent contained as of Tuesday evening, said Pam Wilson, spokeswoman for the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center. Officials are estimating they will achieve 100 percent containment by 7 p.m. Thursday.
The fire put up virtually no smoke Tuesday. A burnout operation, in which firefighters set fire to a hillside to reduce fuels, was canceled as a result of increased precipitation.
As many as 150 fire personnel were working the fire, but only about 70 remained on scene Tuesday. Others were placed on standby in case of new startups.
Were demobilizing people very fast right now, Wilson said. Things are winding down fast.
Several small lightning-sparked wildfires were reported Tuesday afternoon after an electrical storm passed through the Durango area.
Firefighters who stayed on scene helped build fire lines in key areas to keep the fire from spreading, Wilson said. All air tankers were called off, Wilson said.
If we get a good rain, theyre thinking this could be pretty well done with, Wilson said. Its pretty quiet out there.
The cost of the fire as of Monday evening was $225,000.
The lightning-caused fire started Sunday south of Lake Nighthorse and spread to 400 acres in one afternoon.
The fire had burned 499 acres as of Tuesday evening, including 405 acres of Southern Ute Indian land and 94 acres of Bureau of Reclamation land.
Authorities placed 146 homes on a pre-evacuation notice Sunday evening, meaning those residents were told they might need to evacuate at a moments notice. The notice was lifted at 9:30 p.m. Monday because of the rain, said Butch Knowlton, director of La Plata Countys Office of Emergency Preparedness.
Two hot-shot crews and a fire safety officer planned to work the fire today, Wilson said.
Control of the fire is expected to be passed to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe at 5 p.m. today.

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Review-o-matic is an infrastructure feature. Aim is making an application which gets up as a service and can also be set up locally.
The aim of the project includes the creation of a application that would review the packages as per the Package Review Guidelines and generate a report. It will also include automating all common steps which every reviewer performs for each review and building guideline checks for all Package guidelines which can be automated.
- Name: Rakesh Pandit
- Name: Debarshi Ray
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- Percentage of completion: 15%
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Review-o-matic would be an application which takes a spec or srpm or just rpms through its feeder and does a review and posts its report via its reporter interface. Feeder will have different interfaces to get input e.g bugzilla, local host m/c (as files) or web interface or service. Reports will also be provided to different interfaces depending upon needs e.g Bugzilla, local m/c (as file) or web service. Our process also includes(very much obviously) running rpmlint on input files. We plan to push all guidelines checks to upstream rpmlint. But there are some hybrid checks which:
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Source: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Rom1.dia
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quote:Originally posted by Clattsquote:Originally posted by adminGuys, as always thanks for the great contribution, but the topic is "why do we continue to support our Leafs" not let's talk about all the problems they have. Let's keep it on topic. Feel free to start a new topic or post these thoughts in the existing ones as applicable. Thanks!Is it really that important to stay in topic, are we only aloud to discuss the topic as it was first stated? Let the topic take on a life of it's own please
quote:Originally posted by adminGuys, as always thanks for the great contribution, but the topic is "why do we continue to support our Leafs" not let's talk about all the problems they have. Let's keep it on topic. Feel free to start a new topic or post these thoughts in the existing ones as applicable. Thanks!
quote:Originally posted by slozoI don't want Burke gone. Neither does Lee Marshall. Where is this majority you speak of that wants Burke gone? Give me some actual concrete examples please. You say most have called for Burke's head . . . I call bulls***.
quote:Originally posted by Clattsquote:Originally posted by Lee MarshallThe leafs need a first line centre. They also need a big, strong and talented top 6 power forward. They need a shut down defenceman and most of all they need a reliable goalie. THEN they would have a chance of being competitive and would be in a position to advance into the hunt.First of all i wasn't speaking to one particular person but the entire forum, most have called for Burkes head. I was using your quote to point out the Sens argument.Second Lee okay you've pointed out some deficiencies, You get to play GM for a day. How would you go about addressing those issues!? Are you going to be able to keep all you picks in tact and get a 1st line centre? Shut down defence men don't come cheep, nor do top 6 power forwards. And goaltending? So go on tell me how you would do it"Most of the guys that wear them are Europeans and French Guys."Don Cherry on Visors
quote:Originally posted by Lee MarshallThe leafs need a first line centre. They also need a big, strong and talented top 6 power forward. They need a shut down defenceman and most of all they need a reliable goalie. THEN they would have a chance of being competitive and would be in a position to advance into the hunt.
quote:Originally posted by Open_IceYou're right, Rask was a good pick. The others have done well for their ranking but why aren't the early round picks working out? When the first/second rounders pan out is when you get top-end talent. Could be player development or drafting or a combination that isn't really working for the Leafs.
quote:Originally posted by Guest7110Back on topic:I've sat by and listened to Leafs-fan friends blame the coaches, management, goaltending, goaltending, forwards, defense, goaltending, coaches, goaltending.... well you get the point.In a way when you continue to have shortcomings in all areas that's a fault of management, but there is one other thing missing in the Leafs formula. Drafting. The teams that draft well are the teams that are always at the top of the standings (It's really the only way to stay there, see Detroit). I don't even remember the last Leafs pick that has panned out and it's not Kadri/Schenn.
quote:Originally posted by ClattsYou mention the Sens turning it around in one season? What moves did they make? They haven't done anything except for get decent goaltending (Which Rhimer could do next year) and wait for Karlsson to produce (Lots of young guys who could step up in T.O.)
quote:Originally posted by Lee MarshallBurke's losing his cool thread is one below this one...currently. Leaf fans will continue to cheer regardless of who the GM is. Ottawa turned it around in 1 year. Florida has come a long way with Dale Talon in a year...or 2. St. Louis turned their fortunes around how many games into THIS season.Hope is one thing. Results quite another. Burke, so far, has only provided one of those...and it's quickly dissipating. It ain't just Leaf fans or the organization who would, at some point, say enough is enough. In every sport/every league there is a time limit. Burke called his. 5 years. He's NO closer to achieving his goals today than he was 3 1/2 years ago. The clock is ticking.Maybe he can win at the press conferences. But THAT doesn't win games or cups. HIS agenda is not to be a short tempered, rude, sonofabeach. It's to WIN. That'll energize the fan base and MOVE product. It'll also sell playoff tickets and bring in LOADS more dough. Brian's failure is costing us time and MLSE money.1 more year...max.Who the cap fits...Let them wear it.
quote:Originally posted by Lee MarshallHe's being paid HUGE dollars and he's spending them in order to get "there". Trying is wonderful but ut isn't everything. He's got 1 more year to get in on track. Right now...he's all bark and no bite. Not good enough for ANY team.
quote:Originally posted by ClattsI don't understand how everyone hates on Burke so much, seems like he's done pretty good putting a team together with the very few resources he inherited. The leafs are probably just few pieces away from a playoff spot. Patience is the key here, Toronto being under the spot light I think they feel they need to be good right now, they should put a 3 or 5 year plan together and stop firing everyone that dosn't give them the holy grail in there first year"Most of the guys that wear them are Europeans and French Guys."Don Cherry on Visors
quote:Originally posted by Porkchop73Wow guest 9830! Thats all I got is WOW.Did I screw that up so bad that know one got the point I was making. Simply enough the point was, you can cheer for whatever team you want for whatever reason you want. By the way I do not live in the Centre of the Universe.
quote:Originally posted by Guest9830Typical Toronto arrogance displayed by Porkchop in making the comment about trying to find a team with Edmonton-born players to cheer for! I'm pretty sure Edmonton produces more NHL talent on a per capita basis than Toronto. 23 current NHLers were born in Edmonton, and if you add in Ft. Saskatchewan, this number increases to 26. Not bad for a city with only one million people.In fact, no NHL city comes close to Edmonton's success in delivering NHL talent. It's been this way for years!Since this is a Leafs thread, can someone from Toronto show me how Toronto produces more NHL talent on a per capita basis? If you annex everywhere outside of Toronto and consider the entire province of Ontario as being part of Toronto, you may have a chance. (Center of the universe expanded per se.)It is this kind of ignorance (and arrogance) which causes people outside of Toronto to shake their heads in wonderment.Now if by chance, Porkchop does not reside in Toronto (doubtful but possible), my apologies. But clearly the comment about Edmonton's lack of NHL talent is an example of myopic thinking.
quote:Originally posted by Guest6786quote:Originally posted by Clattsthe Kessel deal if he had not made it would not have brought them closer to the playoffs, they would be better in the long run but would have ended up in a worse position this year for sure. this is a great point Clatts, and one in which most Leaf "fans" don't understand (the fans I'm referring to are the ones who expect to win the Cup every year). a true re-build is something that I beleive cannot be done in Toronto, simply because the fans and media don't have the patience to go through 5 years of completely sucking. this is only Burke's 3rd full season as GM and everyone's already calling for his head, or saying that he's on a very short leash because he hasn't made the playoffs yet. if he went about this the "right way" and re-built through the draft, the Leafs would be in a much worse position then they are right now.now before i get jumped on with that comment, i should also say that I 100% understand and agree with the fact that we'd probably have guys like Tavares, Seguin, or Hall (just to name a few) on our roster, which would indeed be great for our future. but we'd still be a bottom feeder RIGHT NOW. eg.) the Islanders drafted Tavares three years ago, and they've showed very little improvement since then.SO.......yes Burke could have had (in theory) Tavares, Seguin/Hall, and Nugent-Hopkins in our line up right now. but would that have put us in a playoff spot RIGHT NOW? my guess would be no. look at the young guns that Edmonton has. and they're still in a lottery pick position (sorry Beans).my guess is the Leafs would still be sucking and building for the future. and in Toronto, if you go that long without at least a post-season birth, then you'd be an automatic target and your job would be on the line. no matter what kind of young talent you have.my point? after 3 full seasons in Toronto, with no playoffs, in either scenario, i think fans would be calling for Burke to be fired, and the media would be speculating that his job is in jeopardy.in closing, before i get jumped on even more, i should also say that if i had a choice between the Leafs current situation, or one in which we completely suck for 5 years and as a result draft names like Tavares, Seguin/Hall, and Nugent-Hopkins, I'd choose the latter. but that's just one fans opinion....
quote:Originally posted by Clattsthe Kessel deal if he had not made it would not have brought them closer to the playoffs, they would be better in the long run but would have ended up in a worse position this year for sure.
quote:Originally posted by Guest4227Slozo I had a quick look around on the forums today and found that you have commented on topics for just about EVERY team. I am sure if I looked hard enough I would find your comments associated with every team. I can understand your frustration with all the comments. I would be upset too if people ripped on my team all the time. I mean it was only yesterday that you made the playoffs. All the Leaf haters were doomed when Burke took over, it was only going to be a matter of time before they were competing for the Cup. Next year as soon as they get Parise, Getzlaf, Ryan they will be set. Wait they need a goalie. How about Reimer, Franson, Kadri for Lundqvist maybe have to throw in a 2nd as well. Slozo if you don't want other fans posting on your teams threads I would suggest you do the same.
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Hey joonjoons,
I'm just gonna go right out and say it: I hate when guys don't eat. I know some of you are probably reading that last sentence, confused… don't eat? How is that even possible? But unfortunately, its true: there is a small percentage of the male population who can't finish their damn plate.
I've stopped dating two guys because they barely ate anything.
My experiences involve a series of incidents with two guys where we went out to eat… and about halfway through their plate, they put their hand on their "food baby" and said, "Ahh I'm so full." What?!?! THAT'S IT?! One guy ordered a SALAD with steak… and took the rest of it home.
Not a big deal? Sure. But when they can't finish the damn one scoop of ice cream… THAT'S where I draw the line. Didn't your mama ever teach you to finish your plate? There are starving children in third world countries and you're going to toss out the rest of your ice cream? Are you fucking kidding me?
I won't deny it. I LOVE to eat… especially if I'm at a nice restaurant that serves delicious food… I would like to FINISH my plate. How can I do that when my date khodesho naz mikone (acts like a pussy) and refuses to take just one last bite. Do I have to spoon feed you and pretend like the spoon is an airplane just to get your ass to open your damn mouth and take one last bite?
Worried about your girlish figure? Well order something healthy. Don't have a big appetite? Well … that's your problem. Pick a place that only serves salads (although, I'd probably judge you for that too) or pick something to do OTHER than going out to eat.
I'm not saying you should go overboard and eat like a monster:
But what the fuck is going on?!!?! I like it when my man can finish his damn cheeseburger and still has room to finish whatever is left on my plate. This doesn't mean I like fatties…
Maybe its a dominance thing. I really hate when I have to be the "man" in the relationship whether it has to do with the fact that they CRY, or if they can't stand up to me. So when it comes to eating: the one thing that men are usually good at, and they can't do it? Well, its a turnoff. If I'm finishing MY plate and you're not finishing yours? I'll probably never want to eat with you again.
I really can't explain what it is. Its just weird to me having grown up around these boys that eat everything in sight… and then actually being a GROWN-UP and being surrounded "MEN" who can't even finish their damn salad. I'm sorry but, when you don't eat… it makes me feel self conscious that I am finishing MY steak (and would probably be down to finish yours too). Guys hate on US when we order salad or just get a small appetizer at dinner, but sadly, they're now becoming the "starving child" in the relationship.
I'll just leave you with this:
Real men finish their food and finish YOURS if you can't.
So here's to finishing our entire plate of fessenjoon… and dating real men ;)


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Celtic Woman delivers a polished pop product
It isn't hard to find a fine Irish song in Western New York. Plenty of bars, social halls and neighborhoods cater to those among us who, whether by blood, marriage or camaraderie, have owned the pride of those green hills.
Buffalo's infectious Irish pride helped give the Celtic Woman tour, which came through Shea's Saturday night, an eager, genuine, homegrown welcome. The theatrical concert tour, which has been wowing PBS audiences and easy listeners for nearly 10 years, did not disappoint their anticipation.
While Celtic Woman is an anomaly in the long-standing tradition of Irish music, it is as standard as any pop group gets. The act's schticky formula is what christened us with the likes of 'NSync, Backstreet Boys and Destiny's Child – popular, hummable music; a handpicked, personality-defined ensemble; teasing, demure sex appeal; light choreographic movement; and a producer at the helm of it all, crafting the perfect proportions of the above to sell tickets, albums and merchandise.
And more power to them. The group's concert specials might have landed on public television, and their albums on Barnes & Noble overhead play, with no small thanks to that proven pop engine, but their product is no less impressive. What producers Sharon Browne and David Downes – Downes, a former musical director for Celtic Woman's dance predecessor, Riverdance – have assembled is a tribute to a nation's legacy, a celebration of a people's pride; and yes, a big, shiny, beautiful product.
Saturday night's show spread its wings over all of these territories, giving each of the three female leads their own spotlights – along with energetic fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt, a four-person choir and a six-man band. The three vocalists – Chloe Agnew, Lisa Lambe and Susan McFadden – have beautiful voices, each suitable for center stage but capable of proper ensemble work too.
Blending, especially in this genre, is elemental to that harmonious sheen heard in so many of its songs. This particular Celtic Woman lineup is strong and tight, as is their fine band.
Performance styles aside, though, there's still plenty of gimmick in this routine. The opening number, "Awakening," a contemporary pop track with traditional textures and instrumentations, kicks the show off with a fanciful display of finger pointing and side winks. Their choreographic routine, which better resembled a strategic walking pattern than a spirited expression of something guttural, gave a sour first impression. It wasn't just that it was corny, it's that it wasn't genuine to the heart of this kind of act. It was as if they had to re-sell us our own tickets.
That feeling thankfully didn't last. The second number, led by Lambe, was a return back to land. The Celtic-language traditional tune was enchanting, inviting, captivating. It felt Irish, even if what kind of Irish whatever wasn't immediately understood. (The song is about seaweed, so turns out the foreign-language lyrics weren't a barrier after all.)
Nesbitt, who might appear as being less technically a "Celtic Woman," simply because she plays fiddle and doesn't sing, is an odd force in this ensemble. Nesbitt exudes the most potent sex appeal of the group (though they all turn theirs out, in appropriate and adequate doses), and does it while dancing up and down, and side to side – with a fiddle under her neck, no less. Her moves during "Coast of Galicia" and "Granuaile's Dance" are the kind that would stop a dance floor of even stringless dancers, kicking and head-banging, twirling and leaping, flustered and yet seamless. It's a bit much, but I guess as there's not much to compare it to, it's pretty wonderful.
McFadden, the newest addition to the lineup, sings what is one of the few quiet hybrids of the night, "Caledonia," a 1970s Scottish folk ballad that with these world-pop arrangements sounds heartwarmingly traditional. McFadden, the least aggressive of these performers, landed the song beautifully.
When the four women perform together, though, that's when the pop gears are in full effect. Consider Enya's uber-popular "Orinoco Flow," which always sounded like the irregular heartbeat of a belching whale. The heavily synthesized track, infectious as any boy band chart-topper, gets a thunderous performance here, from the soaring lights, to the overzealous percussion, to the twirling green dresses, to those exquisitely blended voices.
It's a sound, much like the rest of Celtic Woman's catalogue, that you want to hear more of, sing along to, dance an Irish jig to, and even more alluring, own a little piece of. Looks like the next decade of performances, albums, T-shirts and television specials will make sure that hope becomes a reality, no matter who is at the microphone.


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The act of filling the top reservoir of someones toilet with liquid feces. Preferably, after the mass consumption of spicy foods such as vindaloo or chili.
Oh my god, an Upper Decker Demolator! I keep flushing and it keeps coming back!! Ok, you keep flushing, I'm going for more bleach. And some mints, in case you have to siphon it out...
by dissy614 January 23, 2009
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Every time I listen to this song, I think about Russell Wilson and his preparation. He's always up early working and studying film, and constantly using his #NoTime2Sleep catchphrase. Lots of lines in his verses are accurate depictions of him.
Lupe Fiasco - Go To Sleep
"Insomniac since way back, see this is what I been like
Baking eggs and pancakes, eating that at midnight
Getting up and going hard, I don't need no Enzyte
Come across as very calm: mental state is Zen-like
Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type
Never will I drop a dime, never been the 10 type
My girlfriend is very fine, yes she is a ten right
Mink is draggin' on the flo', fire in my windpipe
You should come and clean up after the riots that I incite
Things get off the handle, left behind a landfill
Traffic at a standstill, stadium is fan-filled
Fill this b**** up with fans you still won't blow my candle... out"
What other tunes are out there that's got you thinking about the Hawks?


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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Greenville College collected seven hits, but Panthers fell 16-2 to Albion in Florida on Wednesday. Tim Osborne was hot from the plate for Greenville College. Osborne went 1-3, drove in one and scored one run. He homered in the first inning.
Craig Conway recorded the win for Albion. He allowed two runs over 7 1/3 innings. He struck out three, walked two and surrendered seven hits.
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Creating and Photographing Shaped Bokeh for the Holidays: Hanukkah, Christmas and more…
One my favorite things about taking pictures during the holiday season is all of the pretty lights that always seem to be in the background of everything I shoot. "Bokeh" can be defined as the aesthetic quality of blur, or the way a lens renders points of light that are out of focus. Everyone goes crazy for pretty bokeh, so I would like to teach you guys how to manipulate your bokeh a bit. In honor of Hanukkah, I am going to make some Star of David shaped bokeh and will walk you through how to do it, step-by-step. You can create any shape you desired, not just stars. Practice shooting Christmas lights and other lighting using this technique and various shapes. If you are not handy, or lack time, you can buy this Bokeh Kit which does the hard work for you. Here are a few more examples: Christmas lights outdoors and from a light fixture.
No photoshop is required to create the unique shapes because this is all camera work. But of course you can make your lights more colorful using Photoshop actions from MCP.
Step 1: First I need to create a homemade lens hood with the Star of David cut out of it. For this we need some black construction paper, scissors, and tape.
The resulting image will be best with your widest aperture lens, so choose that lens for this step. I will be using my 85mm 1.8 for this project. Trace the lens cap of that lens.
Step 2: Cut out the disc you just traced. Make sure to cut slightly larger than what you traced, as it's better to have some paper hanging over the edges than not to have the disc be big enough.
Step 3: We need to make the Star of David shape. This would be much easier if I had a scrapbooking punch, but I knew that flowchart template I had from college Fortran class would come in handy sometime. LOL! Two triangles inverted over each other: ta-da!
Step 4: Cut out your star. This does not need to be perfect. As you can see I could use a kindergarten refresher course in cutting straight lines, but this will still work fine for our purposes.
Step 5: Cut a strip of black paper long enough to wrap around your lens. Tape that strip into a cylinder, and then tape your Star of David disc on top.
Step 6: Slide your new homemade lens hood onto your lens and attach the lens to your camera.
Step 7: Find the scene you want to shoot. You can do this anywhere that you have holiday lights. I happen to have a black couch which I think will add to the effect and really make my bokeh pop, so I will simply lay my holiday lights against the black couch. Here is a pull back so you can see my setup, extension cord and all.
Step 8: You are ready to take your shot. Make sure to open your lens to its widest possible aperture. For this shot I closed the window blinds to make the room darker and let the holiday lights stand out more in the background. I then used a bounced on-camera flash to properly expose the menorah.
So play around a bit. It's fun! I would love to see what you guys come up with. Link it up in the comments section if you try your own fancy bokeh shot. And Happy Hanukkah to all!
Jessica Gwozdz is a Certified Professional Photographer in Chicago specializing in studio portraiture of infants, children, and families. See more of Jes and her images at jessicagwozdz.com.


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Welcome to a new week of Delicious Dish Tuesday, where we share our recipes and ask you to share YOUR awesome recipes with us! Last week we had some delicious looking recipes shared, I love finding all these new recipes to add to my "to-do" list. This past week my favorite recipe was shared by Linda @ Kleinworth & Co.
Don't forget to check out Alesha @ Full Time Mama's features this week too!
Now let's get to partying! Grab the button below & link up those recipes
**don't forget only recipes with our button or a link back can be featured!
You may enjoy my recipe for Red Velvet OREO Truffles.


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karatechamp needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 57 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
This is a project for a top-notch design of a single un-coded website template for an e-commerce site that sells educational supplies to teachers and parents. The project deliverable will be a single layered PSD file and any associated fonts. Only need the homepage for this contest, but the winning designer will likely get hired to design additional content sub-pages and product display pages.
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Please see the design details here:


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Northland's Swedish subsidiary has filed for reconstruction. Work continues towards securing long-term financing
Luxembourg, February 8, 2013 – Northland Resources S.A. (TSX: NAU, OSE: NAUR, Frankfurt: NPK, First North/Nasdaq: NAURo – "Northland" or the "Company") announces that the board of the Company's Swedish subsidiary, Northland Resources AB (publ), has today filed for reconstruction with the Luleå District Court. The decision is based on a shortage of liquidity and deemed to be a necessary step to give the Company the time needed to finalize negotiations for a long-term financial solution.
As previously announced in the press release dated February 5, 2013, Northland has withdrawn its earlier offers regarding an equity issue and bond issue in favor of deeper discussions with a number of potential investors to develop a solution for the Company's long-term funding. The financing will be used for investment and operational costs for the Kaunisvaara Project, the logistics chain associated with it, as well as ongoing business operations (including the Hannukainen Project).
At the end of December 2012, Northland had invested more than USD 900 million in the Kaunisvaara project (including prospecting, geological and financial studies and the project build-up). To ensure that the value of these investments is preserved, the Company is holding constructive discussions with the bondholders in the outstanding bonds to reach a solution that will secure the continued operations in Kaunisvaara and the shipping of iron ore concentrate via Narvik during the reconstruction period.
With the goal of obtaining the time to conclude these negotiations, the Company, in consultation with its main creditors, has decided to seek reconstruction of its Swedish subsidiary Northland Resources AB (publ). To support the reconstruction the Company is seeking support from bondholders and stakeholders for about USD 12 million. This would enable the Company to continue full operation until March 4, 2013, by which time the Company aims to have agreed a solution for its long term funding.
The reconstruction framework will include full salaries to employees of Northland Resources AB and operations will continue according to earlier established plans. Northland's deliveries to customers will be fulfilled according to previous announcements. During the reconstruction period, no payments can be made to suppliers for services or goods relating to the period prior to the date of filing for reconstruction. Suppliers will be paid for services and goods provided during the reconstruction period. Reconstruction would not entail any changes to the management of the Company who will continue to be responsible for its operation.
Northland Logistics AB and Northland Logistics AS (Norway) will be indirectly affected by the reconstruction since they form part of the Kaunisvaara project and as such are partly funded by the outstanding bond. Other companies within the group are not affected by today's decision.
"Karl-Axel Waplan"
President & CEO, Northland Resources S.A.
For more information, please contact:
Karl-Axel Waplan, President and CEO: +46 705 104 239
Peder Zetterberg, Acting CFO, +46 708 652 120
Anders Antonsson, Vice President – Investor Relations: +46 709 994 970
website: www.northland.eu
Northland is a producer of iron ore concentrate, with a portfolio of production, development and exploration mines and projects in northern Sweden and Finland. The first construction phase of the Kaunisvaara project is complete and production ramp-up started in November 2012. The Company expects to produce high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate in Kaunisvaara, Sweden, where the Company expects to exploit two magnetite iron ore deposits, Tapuli and Sahavaara. Northland has entered into off-take contracts with three partners for the entire production from the Kaunisvaara project over the next seven to ten years. The Company is also preparing a Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") for its Hannukainen Iron Oxide Copper Gold ("IOCG") project in Kolari, northern Finland and for the Pellivuoma deposit, which is located 15 km from the Kaunisvaara processing plant.


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Monday, October 12, 2009
Animal Rights Extremists Are At It Again (Updated again)
I just received an email from the David Jentsch PhD, of the organization Pro-Test. Apparently some animal rights extremist web sites have noticed the petition that, if you have yet to sign, you should absolutely sign now. While they do not publicize your personal information, your name does appear and some extremists are now doing searches for information on signatories and harassing us.
Yesterday, a few websites hosted by animal rights activists have encouraged their readerships to visit the list of Pro-Test signatories in order to find names and to contact those persons to express their opposition to animal research. While your email addresses on the RaisingVoices.net website are secure and not publicly listed, the animal rights groups encourage people to use the wide array of Internet tools to find contact information and to use it.
I just got a response to a request for the specific sites involved; The websites "Negotiation Is Over" and "Thomas Paines Corner," have simulposted a piece entitled; "Pro-Test Was Kind Enough to Provide a Directory of Vivisectors." Please be warned that these are extremist hate sites.
David Jentsch was one of the growing ranks of scientists who happen to do research that involves animals, to be attacked by these terrorists, in March of this year. Unlike many of the victims of these attacks - ten on UCLA professors in the past three years, Dr. Jentsch decided that enough was enough and taking the cue from colleagues in the UK, Pro-Test came to the U.S.
As many of you know, I am an ardent opponent of terrorism, regardless of the cause they claim to support. Over the last several months I have tangled with animal rights extremists online, on several occasions. They sometimes pay lip service to opposing these terrorist fucking bastards, but it is more than a little obvious that they have a great deal of sympathy and some have outright appreciation for their actions. I have been vaguely threatened by a couple of these assholes and expect to be in the future.
Terrorism is - always is inexcusable. I have denounced terrorism in the name of environmental issues, losing friends in the process. I have denounced terrorism among the Palestinians - again, losing friends in the process. And I have denounced terrorism for animal rights - and refused to join protests at OHSU, yet again, losing friends in the process. I was told by some of those same animal rights extremist friends, that I am evil. That I am disgusting and my support of animal testing is little different than offering my children for experimentation. I was told that karma would come back on me for being such a horrible fucking person.
Makes me wish there was such a thing as karma, because I am pretty sure that some scumbag who firebombed someone's car, terrorized someone else's family, blowing up labs and generally terrorizing people - intimidating people to get them to do what the want - they would have some serious repercussions for that. And now these people are out to intimidate some more - over the internets no less. Well, good on them for letting us know that our efforts - small as they may be on the parts of many of us, are not in vain. It is nice to know that they are displeased and feel the need to try to stop us from apposing their extremist and often terrorist agenda.
So please, if you have not signed, now is the time to lend your support. Let these vile cretins know that you support science, you support medicine, you support a better understanding of disease, you support new medicines and improving old ones.
Let them know you support a better future for your parents, your children, your grandchildren, your friends - yourself. Let them know you support the scientists who are helping make that better future and will not tolerate violence against them.
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- Stephanie Zvan said...
They're more than welcome to my information. If they start harassing people for the radical act of signing a petition, I think they'll quickly discover that they've found the best way yet to promote signing the thing. They'll definitely find out how quickly they can lose any sympathy pictures of cute animals might gain them.
It's one thing (in the eyes of the general public), to threaten the people who actually kill the animals. It's quite another to threaten anyone who disagrees with you.
- October 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm in. I don't respond well to threats. Thank you for the heads up.
Christ Davis
- October 12, 2009 at 11:43 PM
- Jason Thibeault said...
Hell yeah. I'm in too. Soon as I can throw together a post promoting this, at least.
- October 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
while i am against animal experimentation and animal rights extremism , you have to commend what the latter do , it seems to me that doing nothing solves nothing , the vivisectors just carry on abusing animals , but if you blow them to bits they can't abuse animals , problem solved.
- October 13, 2009 at 9:12 AM
- Jason Thibeault said...
You can't commend blowing people up any more than you can condemn them for acts that don't happen any more and haven't happened in at least twenty years. If your illogic leads you to the conclusion that human animals are less worthy of life than the humanely tested laboratory animals in question, then perhaps the human animal that needs blowing-up is you. I don't actually advocate blowing up anti-science advocates, but that sure would solve the problem wouldn't it?
... And the answer is no. Violence begets violence. Do not go down that road, please.
- October 13, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- DuWayne Brayton said...
Anon -
First - post some sort of identifier, or your comments get deleted.
I find it very amusing that you don't support animal rights extremism, yet you support blowing up people who engage in testing on animals. Nothing like consistency.
- October 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- Jason Thibeault said...
Bloody fucking morons wouldn't know consistency if it was strapped up to electrodes and being vivisected without anesthetic.
- October 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Dan J said...
They're like Islamic Jihadists: If you express an opinion that differs from theirs (i.e. signing the petition), then you are an infidel who deserves death, though theirs is a peaceful religion (just ask them, they'll tell you).
[captcha is "chednest"... Not sure what to make of that]
- October 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- DuWayne Brayton said...
Like I said jackasses who can't fucking read - post some sort of name to your comment or I will delete it.
- October 14, 2009 at 6:38 AM
- DuWayne Brayton said...
DanJ -
See my redux post and comments. They are very much the religious radicals - just without the religion.
I am going to write more on this idea later, but keep in mind that one of the defining elements of post modern extremism is conflict with science.
- October 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM
- claudia.sawyer said...
- October 14, 2009 at 10:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
There's actually an Encyclopedia Dramatica article on the eejit who writes drivel at the first site.
Apparently she's some crazy fuckwad who starved her mother to death.
- October 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- Samia said...
Hi Duwayne, you said:
First are the activists - people who engage in peaceful protest and sometimes in peaceful civil disobedience. They belong in the very reasonable category of activist, even though I believe they are wrong.
There are all sorts of individual viewpoints held by animal rights activists. I disagree with other activists about certain issues-- often vehemently (though respectfully, as I don't know any who wish harm upon others). So...we're all "wrong?" On all issues? Just a few? I think if you're going to make a statement like this, it could stand to be a little more nuanced (for the sake of clarity, anyway). Also, one of your subsequent posts once again confuses animal rights in general with terrorism.
I appreciate the passion and sincerity in your posts, and please believe I share your horror and anger at criminals who hurt other people and spread lies in the name of "love." It's...a special kind of evil, and I have a lot of feelings about the kind of people who engage in this brand of terrorism. But your broad language is leaving me cold because it makes me feel like you consider me a fool. And I'd feel better about that if I'd shown I deserve the label. :)
I think there is potential for cooperation between peaceful animal rights activists and concerned community members who do not identify as such (possibly because I am so engaged on my campus). So I am loathe to draw what I see as superfluous divisions between people, and I feel a little overlooked by your disclaimer.
Hoping you've been well.
- November 3, 2009 at 10:11 PM


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The Art of Simple, a fixture in Seaside's Ruskin Place since 2004, has moved up front to the town's main street, Quincy Circle next to Modica Market.
The move almost doubles the square footage � from 700 to 1,300 � of the store and allowed for expansion of product lines offered and more variety as well as visibility.
The Art of Simple is now what owner Michael Granberry describes as "arts, antiques, and apothecary," or, "curiosities and necessities," he says with a chuckle.
More specifically, expect to find bath and beauty soaps, candles, body oils, bath salts, note cards, some artwork, and yes, antiques.
The store's artwork is by artists from Memphis, Birmingham, Nashville, Atlanta, and New Orleans, as well as the work of local artists Justin Lyons and Cheryl Troxel.
"It's an interesting mix," said Granberry. "We envision it as a place people can come to buy gifts."
The Granberrys intend to keep The Art of Simple stocked with unique and specialty items and talks are in motion to join forces with Modica Market in offering specialty gift baskets that could contain food and wine from the market, and gift items from The Art of Simple.
"It would be a marriage of both store's offerings," said Granberry.
Michael and Laura Granberry moved to South Walton in 2002 and first opened The Art of Simple in Grayton in 2003, then moved it to Seagrove. When they purchased a townhome in Ruskin Place in 2004, they reopened the store on the first floor of their home.
The Granberrys will reopen the space in Ruskin Place under the name "Art Only" and revert back to its roots as an art gallery which will fit with the artist colony atmosphere of the space.
"We plan to carry 10 artists full time as a staple of the gallery, and carry others occasionally," he said. "In addition to hanging art, the gallery will also feature artisan sculpture pieces, one of a kind items, artisan chocolates, and leather. It's what Ruskin Place is all about."
The Art of Simple is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. In the off season. During busy season, you can find it open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.


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The Dissolution Will Be Televised
…unless Jon Gosselin has something to say about it, that is. After spending years in the spotlight, the reality-TV dad turned tabloid heel is headed for divorce court—and fighting for his family's privacy in the most public way possible. Alex Pappademas spent a few days with the most hated man on television to see how he's holding up. (Status update: It's complicated)
yes, ladies, yes, this is Jon Gosselin, as seen on TV, yes he's walking to lunch on Third Avenue in Murray Hill, much like yourselves, and yes, if you do it quickly, you can take a picture of him with your mobile device, but no, you can't take a picture with him. Because the Internet, that's why.
Mike Heller, who has been Gosselin's manager for about six weeks, explains all this, and then one of the two women snaps her consolation-prize.jpg, but you can tell she's just being polite.
Because, come on: a photo of you and your best work friend with Jon Gosselin, previously semiknown as the henpecked dad from the TLC reality series Jon Kate Plus 8, now much better known for splitting with his wife, Kate Gosselin, squiring a 22-year-old around while attired in resplendently sparkly T-shirts, and generally jackassing it up like a man living out his own tabloid-hounded remake of Old School, a stock-footage midlife crisis that seemed as much like a failure of the imagination as a failure of character? That's something to show off at happy hour.
A picture of Jon Gosselin alone, behaving himself, though? Waste of pils.
"We were going to make up a story," one of the girls teases as she walks away.
well, yes. Well, exactly. That's why Jon Gosselin and his team—Heller and Matt Kirschner, who works for Mike—agreed to this interview. For months, when everyone was talking about Jon Gosselin except Gosselin himself, nearly everyone made up a story, extrapolated from what other people's pictures seemed to say about him.
Gosselin's team doesn't deny that Gosselin has acted like a jerk. They don't deny that he was in the hot tub with the babysitter, at Michael Lohan's house with the Star reporter, on the yacht with the Ed Hardy guy—everywhere but in the conservatory with the candlestick. They're here to acknowledge these facts—or most of them—in order to characterize and contextualize what happened, and to advance the notion that at some point Jon Gosselin awoke from his jerk-fugue, looked in the mirror, and didn't like the person he saw there.
So Heller and Kirschner and the new, contrite Jon Gosselin and I have lunch at an organic-food restaurant, and for the first ten minutes Gosselin sits quietly and blinks while Mike Heller, speaking on Gosselin's behalf, addresses some of the misconceptions that developed when Gosselin was unable to speak on his own behalf.
Heller is 33, gravel-voiced and handsome. A former entertainment lawyer and "nightclub marketer," he now owns Talent Resources, which—among other things—brokers outside-the-box endorsement deals for famous people. They helped CariDee English, America's Next Top Model winner and psoriasis sufferer, become a "patient ambassador" in Europe for Raptiva, a psoriasis drug that has since been pulled from the U.S. market, and arranged for Lindsay Lohan to be photographed carrying around packages of Ariva, a dissolvable tobacco substitute, which hasn't.
Heller met Gosselin through Michael Lohan, Lindsay's father. Their relationship began with Heller looking into getting Gosselin compensated for wearing a certain designer's T-shirts or swigging a certain company's water—things Gosselin was already doing, in public and on television, for free—but these days he occupies a broader role in Gosselin's affairs: part publicist, part wartime consigliere, part surrogate brother. (Heller's father, Mark, is now Gosselin's divorce attorney; Gosselin refers to him as "like, my pseudo-father" and to the Hellers as his "Jewish family.")
Gosselin and his people are used to spinning at TMZ speed. It's September, and by the end of the month the story will have changed—TLC will announce plans to relaunch_ Jon Kate Plus 8_ as simply Kate Plus 8, and Gosselin will go on Larry King Live and tell Larry that he wants to pull his kids off the show—and everything they're saying now will seem a little beside the point.
That said: Heller tells me that Gosselin regrets going on Good Morning America and referring to the mother of his children as "someone&that I despise."
Heller wants me to know that Gosselin didn't cheat on his wife with Deanna Hummel, the schoolteacher he was snapped with this spring. Heller wants me to know that most of what happened this year happened because Gosselin lacked the sophistication to recognize when he was being used by people like Kate Major, the Star reporter who announced that she'd met and fallen in love with Jon and could not in good conscience continue to work as a journalist while covering his story, a development that seemed to indicate that this story was driving everyone who came near it insane.
Major, Heller says, was trying to exploit a brief (and, Gosselin says, nonsexual) relationship with Jon because she's an opportunist, much like the French designer Christian Audigier, who invited Gosselin and his new girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, the 22-year-old daughter of the plastic surgeon who gave Kate Gosselin a tummy-tuck a few years ago, to hang out on his yacht in the South of France in July, stoking rumors that Gosselin, who wore clothes from Audigier's garishly jewel-encrusted Ed Hardy collection almost exclusively during his jackass phase, was partnering with the designer on a clothing line.
There was never a clothing line, Heller wants me to know.
"He liked the shirts," Heller says, "and Christian kept on sending them to him."
Gosselin looks up from his shrimp. "Actually," he says looking sheepish, "I bought most of them."
"Oh, did you?" Heller says, laughing. "God—I thought he was giving them to you for free. That's even worse."
while the dissolution of the Gosselin marriage and Jon's bad-idea bender played out in the tabloids, TLC kept rerunning the old shows, in no particular order. You could tune in and watch things go from good to bad to good to worse; it was like (500) Days of Summer in sweatpants and mom jeans.
In some kind of order: Jon and Kate get married in 1999, when Gosselin's 22. She's diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, which can make pregnancy difficult or impossible, but prayer and fertility-drug injections bring them the twins, Mady and Cara, in 2000. When Kate decides she wants another baby three years later, she has to talk Jon into it. From Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets, the 2008 best-seller that lists Jon and Kate as co-authors but is said to have been dictated to someone named Beth Carson: "He was softening. He knew only one thing in this world would fill the aching void I felt, and that one thing was downy soft, sweet smelling (most of the time), and had the power to light up the whole room with one toothless grin."
What happens, of course, is that instead of one baby, God gives them Alexis and Aaden and Collin and Leah and Joel and Hannah. The Gosselins are broke, unemployed, terrified. So when a documentary-film company approaches them, on behalf of the Discovery Health channel, about a TV special called Surviving Sextuplets Twins, they don't hesitate.
The special gets ratings, spawns a sequel, Sextuplets Twins: One Year Later. It plays like a time capsule expressly created for Gosselinologists of the future to unpack. It's about Jon and Kate, struggling with the demands of octoparenthood, but it's also about them getting stuff for free. Dr. Glassman has offered to give Kate, whose stomach looks like a Shar-Pei post-sextuplets, that free tummy tuck. We watch her prepare fifteen heat-'n'-serve meals for the family before going in for surgery; Jon doesn't cook, she explains. She tells the cameras that her family eats as organically as they can afford to. She talks about hiding vegetables in the meat loaf.
The surgery itself is so graphic—it's like watching somebody fillet a shark stuffed with Domino's pizza—that the episode carries a viewer-discretion warning. (Discovery Health, after all, are the medi-ghouls who gave us Mystery Diagnosis and I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant.) But Kate recovers in time to get what passes for a glam makeover when the Discovery Channel is picking up the tab, including a trip to a salon called Bruno's, where a colorist says to her, "We're going to give you a little bit more attitude&a lot more pizzazz." She is, maybe, creating a monster—the situation on top of Kate Gosselin's head right now looks like what a hairstylist gives you when you ask for attitude and fucking pizzazz, goddammit.
The whole hour is a supermom fantasy that removes personal sacrifice from the equation—you can have your prepregnancy body, your dream makeover, your vegetable-laced meat loaf, you don't have to choose —and it's a template for what the show becomes. Jon Kate wouldn't have caught on without Jon—people like watching a husband and wife approach parenthood as a series of logistical challenges to be managed through teamwork, good humor, and realistic, endearing bickering. But it isn't a show aimed at men; there's never a question as to who is the foil and who is the star.
Even before it becomes a tabloid meta-trainwreck, Jon Kate Plus 8 ceases to be about a family just trying to get by and becomes about a family enjoying the perks of being on TV. The Gosselins are reportedly paid $22,500 an episode. The kids meet Emeril and the Harlem Globetrotters and appear on Oprah, twice. Jon gets hair plugs. Web sites like Gosselins Without Pity spring up, chronicling the freebies they've accepted, slamming Jon and Kate for exploiting their brood. The Gosselins buy a $1.1 million house on a twenty-four-acre Berks County farm. Gosselin quits his job as an IT analyst in the Pennsylvania governor's office. He stays with the kids while Kate goes on book tours, speaks in megachurches, starts empire-building.
They've stopped seeing eye to eye on a lot of things, including whether or not they should keep doing the show. Their bickering gets less adorable, shows up on The Soup way more. (Back then everyone thinks Kate's the one who's gone diva-mental. Everyone feels bad for Jon. The show becomes a slow-motion nightmare about waking up next to a woman you no longer recognize. I didn't sign up for this.)
"I always said to Kate, if we would've worked on the relationship, the TV stuff would have just come," Gosselin says.
Instead, things go south in 2008. They renew their vows in August, on Maui. It's supposed to be a vacation; gradually, Gosselin says, TLC whittles the family's days away from the cameras down to zero. By the time the Maui episode airs, the marriage is effectively over.
Near the end of the tummy-tuck special, Jon and Kate fold laundry while Kate talks about how her surgery has brought them closer together, "like a painful second honeymoon." Cut to a wider shot; suddenly you can see that they're surrounded by kliegs and booms and bounces. All that reality-capturing equipment looms at the edge of the frame, like the pincers of a robot army, like predatory trees in a fairy-tale forest, like everything that's waiting.
"another thing—and sorry to keep interrupting; I'm leaving soon—is that some people seek to be reality stars," Heller says. "What happened [to Jon] was, he was approached with an opportunity to better his life, and his children's life, and his wife's life. He wasn't thinking, Oh, I'm gonna become a superstar. And now he can't go back. People say, like&"
"Get a job at Home Depot," Gosselin says. "It doesn't work that way."
"He is famous," Heller says, "so he has to find the next opportunity that has to do with the entertainment business."
If Team Jon's argument about Gosselin's Summer of Douche hinges on the notion that Gosselin's a simple country boy from rural Pennsylvania who chose his friends, his words, and his shirts poorly during a time of painful and confusing life transition, their argument about what Jon Gosselin needs to do hinges on this Home Depot thing. Sometimes they mention him not being able to go back to his actual old job, but otherwise it's always Home Depot.
And okay, granted, it would be problematic, not to mention weird, if Gosselin did take a job at Home Depot. But the real reason he's not going to do that is that he doesn't want to, any more than Brad Pitt wants to become a coal miner. Gosselin's painted into a corner, but it's a pretty nice corner. For three-plus years, he was paid to show up in his own kitchen and act like Jon Gosselin, and he's convinced that if he can defuse his present infamy he'll be able to get another job that's at least kind of like that one.
In the Jon Kate Plus 8 episode that ends season four, Jon tells the camera: "I can't be 'Jon,' I have to be 'Jon Kate Plus 8,' which is a real hard thing for me. I still haven't come to grips with it."
He still wants to be in the "entertainment business," even now. It's as if he came to grips with his identity crisis and the crisis won. Ex-reality-TV people are the weirdest American tribe going; they're like people who've been hit by lightning, zombies of the Zeitgeist, attention-hungry ghosts. They all seem to forget how to live any way except performatively, as if they've internalized the genre's drama-cultivating mandate. (Think of Balloon Boy's dad—how the whole nonsensical Falcon incident snapped into focus when it turned out the Heenes had been on Wife Swap. Twice!)
"He doesn't want to do reality anymore," Heller tells me a few weeks later, when I ask him what the future might hold. "He'd still like to be in entertainment, maybe as a reporter. He likes extreme sports. Maybe he'll be the host of an extreme-sports show."
Michael Lohan has also been talking up Gosselin's involvement in a new reality show called Divorced Dads' Club, but apparently the first rule of Divorced Dads' Club is that you don't talk about it, because no one mentions it until weeks later, when I ask Gosselin about it directly. "Michael Lohan's out there and linking me to Divorced Dads' Club," he tells me, "and I've never said yes or no to [it]. I knew him for six days. That's it. Let him ride my coattails, I don't care." (Gosselin says this to me on October 1. On October 11, Michael Lohan is photographed visiting Gosselin at his home in Wernersville. He tells the press that he was there to ask Gosselin to fight in a Celebrity Boxing Federation match, an offer Gosselin turned down. When asked about Divorced Dads' Club, Lohan says, "It looks good." Set your TiVos!)
He's also started a charity, the Jon Gosselin Children's Foundation, in memory of his late father, a dentist who worked on poor kids' teeth for free. It has the usual nebulous goals. It'll help kids in need get medical care; it'll raise money, and also "awareness."
Gosselin knows how it's going to look—like he's working the cancer-kid circuit to launder his rep. He doesn't care.
"Actions speak louder than words," he says. "Whether it's image rebuilding or not—so what? I could save, like, a hundred lives. And the media can say whatever they want. But I can say, 'Look, I saved a hundred lives. What have you done?' "
When lunch is over, we walk back to the Talent Resources office. It's a converted town house with a war-room vibe; everybody works at laptops around a big dining-room table. Gosselin takes a phone call in the kitchen. I sit in the front room, looking at the giant autographed picture of Lindsay Lohan ("I love U forever, thanks for being my fabulous big brother") behind the couch. After a while, Gosselin comes back in to find his cigarettes, looking worried, and then he sends someone upstairs to look for Heller and disappears again. Eventually, Matt Kirschner tells me we're going to have to pick things up another time.
When I get back to work, I find out what came up: Stephanie Santoro, the Gosselins' ex-nanny, talked to In Touch, and the story's just hit the Web. She says she and Gosselin had sex nine times when he was supposedly seeing Hailey. "At one point," she says, "he said, 'Whatever you do, don't fall in love with me, because it's going to be impossible for me not to fall in love with you.'"
we reschedule for September 29, but that turns out to be the day Gosselin gets dropped from the show. Gosselin flies to Los Angeles, checks in to the Beverly Hills Hotel under the name Bruce Lee, and starts telling anyone with a working microphone that he believes it's wrong for his kids to appear on television. When people point out that this looks like an I'll-take-my-ball-and-go-home move, he alleges that if anybody's guilty of suspicious timing, it's the people at TLC, who made their Kate Plus 8 announcement on September 29 in order to bigfoot his appearance on Larry King Live, during which this exchange takes place:
gosselin: Our life is our show, and our show is our life. I want it to stop. I want it to stop completely.
king: You think maybe you shouldn't have started it?
gosselin: Probably.
king: I mean, you made a lot of money.
gosselin: Yeah&
king: In retrospect&
gosselin: In retrospect, yeah&
king: &we shouldn't have known about you.
By the time I get to L.A., Kate is making the talk-show rounds, tearfully accusing her husband of draining hundreds of thousands of dollars from the family's corporate account. The morning before we meet, Gosselin goes on The Insider, insists he took no money he wasn't entitled to, and gets knocked around like a cat toy by guest panelist Nancy Grace, a ringer so obvious you almost feel bad for him. He stammers some canned lines about trying to be a better man; Grace shoots back, "Why is this always about you?" (A week or so later, a court orders him to pay back $180,000.)
Later that day: Gosselin's crossing his hotel lobby, barking into his cell phone.
"Hail. Hail. Hail! It was three married women with kids," he says, then steps into the elevator.
(Hailey saw something on the Internet, he explains later, about him talking to women at the Chateau Marmont, and got mad. He'd been there for a meeting and to see the building, "because I love architecture," and the women were fans of the show.)
All the Hellers are here—Mike, apologizing, saying Gosselin needs a few minutes, and Mark, a more compact version of his son, in a shiny blue suit, and Mark's wife, Deborah. It's a weird parody of a family vacation: _Here we are in the Larry King greenroom. Here we are under siege at the Ivy. _Deborah can't get over the attention: "We were in St-Tropez with Avril Lavigne, and there was a little bit, but not like this. I had no idea he was so popular!"
Up in "Bruce Lee's" room, Gosselin sits behind a desk strewn with papers and TV people's business cards, smoking cigarettes, toying with his fancy sunglasses.
"I'm the most photographed person on the planet right now," he says. "I got sixty-five paparazzi following me and twelve at the bottom of the driveway. I have a bounty on my head. They're waitin' for me to mess up. It's not gonna happen, because I don't leave the hotel. I've been livin' in here."
He's trying on a tough-guy act. The dad you love to hate. He's heard from an informant—he actually says that, "an informant"—that paparazzi were planning to send hookers to his room the other night, shoot him answering the door as if he'd ordered them up himself.
I ask about Santoro. He says he never slept with her, that they were in the Jacuzzi together, which was a mistake, but that she lied to In Touch when she claimed they'd had sex nine times. (Through a representative, Santoro says she stands by the_ In Touch_ story.)
I ask about the money. He says, "I have nothing to hide, Alex," and shows me a rod page with two Susquehanna Bank ATM receipts on it. Two transactions, dated 9/29/09: $22,000 withdrawn from one account and deposited in another. It proves the money moved. It doesn't indicate if he took out other amounts of money that same day, or on different days, or whether that money was his to take. He says that he's entitled to draw a "paycheck" from the money TLC paid his family for doing the show.
He has documents for everything. Smoking guns. None of it seems to definitively prove anything; the e-mails from TLC's publicity person and the president of the network concerning their objections to his Larry King appearance, which he pulls up on his BlackBerry for me to examine, don't convince me that TLC is the repressive corporate behemoth he says it is, a machine onto whose gears Gosselin was morally obligated to throw his body in order to save his children. For someone who believes that he was thoroughly misrepresented by a reality-TV show about him and his wife feeding their kids breakfast, Gosselin seems to have an almost touching faith in objective truth; either that or he's been advised to cloud the public record with noise. When he says, "I'm done with reality," he's talking about the TV genre, but he sounds almost like a philosopher.
Mark Heller's at the door.
"He's famous now, too," Gosselin says, "so he needs to hide from the paps."
Heller declines a drink from the minibar, starts digging in the other fridge, the one with the snacks in it. "What, you want to eat my candy?" Gosselin says. To me: "Comes to my room, eats out of my minibar. That's a Jewish attorney for you."
As Mark Heller tears into a bag of caramel corn, I ask him if he's used to being pulled into the media frenzy.
"When I was about 30, I had the most famous case in America," he says. "The Son of Sam. David Berkowitz. That was my first experience with the media frenzy."
Which side were you on?
"The side of justice!" Heller booms. (This means he defended Berkowitz. Like all great attorneys, Heller has a touch of the mountebank about him. Earlier I watched him explaining to a segment producer from Entertainment Tonight that his being barred from practicing law in New York between 1994 and 1999 was what happens to all the great attorneys: "You've heard," he said to her, "of F. Lee Bailey?")
You've got a real family feeling on this trip, I say to Heller. Your son, your wife.
"We really do love this guy," Heller says. "He's like a brother to my son. How can you not be here to support him? That man sitting opposite you has changed 25,000 diapers. How bad a guy can he be? And I'm not criticizing her for doing it—but when his wife went out on a book tour all over America, he stayed home. He was the original Mr. Mom. He stopped working and did what it took. And he didn't do it begrudgingly. He did it lovingly. Because it gave him an experience with his kids that he can never replace. You know the most famous musician in the world, John Lennon—John Lennon was a stay-at-home dad. His son Sean is a friend of my son Michael. And the first couple of years of that kid's life, he had a Mr. Mom, and it was John Lennon. And thank God for that boy, that he knows what a father was, because he lost him later on. This man's children"—he points to Gosselin—"will always have that to hold on to."
A breeze from the open window picks up the piece of paper with the ATM receipts on it, sends it fluttering to the floor.
"I was home," Gosselin says, "and it was never filmed. She was promoted as this supermom. She can do it all. She does the laundry, cooks, cleans, goes on a book tour. Well, where was I?"
I say that the show seemed dedicated to that idea from the start. I mention the surgery episode, Kate cooking all those meals.
"Yeah," Gosselin says, "but who do you think took care of her during surgery? Who do you think emptied her drain, which is the blood crap that comes out from that? Who do you think was the single parent"—he's getting angry—"when she was on bed rest in Hershey? Who brought her coffee in the morning, for ten years?"
There's all the gossip-panopticon stuff, and then there's this: Dad who stayed home while Mom built a life that didn't require him. In the course of the conversations I've had with him, Gosselin has seemed bummed out and pissy, but this is the first time he seems hurt.
Maybe it's a performance. Maybe trying to stop the show is, too—maybe all he wants is to sink the boat he knows he's missed.
After all, it's possible that—as Kate's been saying—the Gosselin kids cry about missing the TLC crews now that they're gone. And it's also possible that being followed around by cameras, even in this moment of traumatic upheaval, won't have any lasting negative effect on them. But would you take that chance? Especially if you were about to get divorced? If you were Jon Gosselin and you didn't have to look any further than your own life for proof that this kind of attention poisons everything it touches? If there was anything you could do to restore some degree of normalcy to your kids' lives, would you be able to not do it?
Gosselin is terrible at being a celebrity. He may be worse at it than anyone else who's been thrust into the role in recent memory. As the act of a celebrity, his move against TLC seems like yet more bullshit. But it makes perfect sense as the act of a father—which is one thing no one's ever accused Gosselin of being bad at.
it's actually something he's really good at, is the thing. Or at least it's a world he knows, the way an IT guy knows how to repair your hard drive. A couple of weeks before I met Gosselin, my wife and I found out we were having a baby; today, when Gosselin asks me if I have any other questions, I tell him what's happening. It's not every day you get to talk to somebody who's had their hard drive repartitioned by parenthood the way Gosselin has; I figure I should ask the man who's changed 25,000 diapers if he has any advice for me.
"You want hints?" he says. "You're only having one baby, so I don't know what that's like. But first of all, go to every ultrasound. Go to every pediatrician appointment. Be a part of it. Talk to your child through her belly. I know it sounds weird, but it's true. That baby has to know your voice. Make sure you give your baby the first bath. Because your wife has already bonded with that baby, and you haven't. She has a connection to that baby. In terms of maintenance, it's gonna be six feedings a day, so make sure you do at least three of them, if you can. The other thing is—"
"It's amazing, huh?" Mark Heller crows.
It is amazing. Gosselin's whole demeanor has changed. He's just rattling this stuff off. It's the first time I've heard him sound this confident, this unrehearsed. He's finally talking about something he understands.
"—if you want to simplify your life, make all your bottles that day. Don't make 'em per bottle. Use Drop-Ins. You can go to Target and buy the generic brand. You drop 'em in the hollow bottles—that way you don't have to do dishes. You just throw the Drop-Ins away. You just throw the bottles in the top rack, put the nipples in a container. And y'know, help out your wife as much as possible. Because no matter what, your job is no way harder than her job."
"That," Heller says, grinning, "tells you who Jon Gosselin is."
Gosselin ignores him, keeps talking:
"Learn to change a diaper before you have your kid. Just get a doll. It all sounds dumb, but, like, prove to your wife that you're committed. Because that child is your legacy. I mean, that child will be the image of you in your life."
Then this, more quietly: "You just gotta do the best you can. As long as you love that child and you love your wife—it'll work."
Long pause. I feel sort of obligated to break the tension. I say, "And keep 'em off the TV, right?"
Heller laughs. Gosselin says, "Huh?" He was somewhere else for a minute. "Yeah. Probably a good idea," he says, but he doesn't laugh. Another pause.
"So," I say, "Drop-Ins, huh?"
"Yeah. It's just a plastic liner for the bottle. Oh—and then, when they get to six months, they can have cereal. Buy the cereal bottles. You mix rice with formula. They start getting adjusted to solid foods, and then they start sleeping through the night. Because I'm telling you now—you will not sleep when that baby's born."
He's up out of his chair now, standing over by the TV; Heller's smiling beatifically, laying it on with a trowel. "I just wish my son could have heard that," he says.
"Make sure she breast-feeds," Gosselin says, almost to himself. "Baby needs the antibodies. And there's always plastic surgery, so you don't have to worry.
"Call me," he says. "I'll come babysit. I just walk around the city all day anyway."
He's holding an invisible baby on his shoulder now, like a little air guitar.
"Rock that baby, take that baby for a walk," he says. "Do everything you can."
He asks how far along we are. I tell him about the first ultrasound, how I was disappointed. "It didn't look like anything," I say. "Just a spot on the map."
"Nah," Gosselin says. "It looks like a hurricane."
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|2009-07-15, 17:02
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Aki Sora
This thread is for the discussion of the shounen/seinen manga Aki Sora by Itosugi Masahiro.
Aki Sora
The manga is serialized in the shounen manga magazine Champion Red Ichigo.
Currently there are 2 volume released of the manga.
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|2009-07-15, 18:48
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I wonder if this manga is made by the same guy that did a hentai i read a while back. the plot and art is Almost identical to it, the only difference is the twin factor. Does anyone get the vibe that there is something going on between the "mom" and the female twin.
|2009-07-15, 20:27
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And yes. The artist also draw hentai manga.
|2009-07-15, 20:44
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What made it much more disturbing was the fact that she decided to lose her virginity in an orgy. It would be bad enough if she was'nt a virgin and wanted to try an orgy, but to actually want to lose her virginity in one? That's one scary chick who I would avoid because she might turn into a psycho.
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|2009-09-10, 13:37
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I found this manga by accident but the story between the two siblings while was kinda icky but sweet. I gotta had it to Masahiro story & her drawing style(Yes the artist is a She!),
The manga was kinda a sweet, innocent forbidden love story....until chapter 6 came. What a way to ruin the mood.
I notice there hasn't been any new scans of this manga since i learn the WAIFU group translator quit or something.
If anyone's is interested to do a translations of this manga, i can PM you a DL links for Vol 1 & 2 of the manga.
|2009-09-10, 14:09
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|2009-09-10, 19:47
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Excuse the angry nature of this post
Im really confused over the the whole complaints over chapter 6. Whats wrong with it? IT'S AN ORGY! Big deal. There has been sex in every chapter, this was no different.
The whole theme of that chapter even was to question whether free sexuality is right or wrong.
Im surprised no one seems to be more concerned by the fact Sora has had sex with his older sister, his sister's friend, a nymphomaniac, been raped by his twin sister... Oh wait, it's a manga that is entirely BASED on sexual exploration, SO THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY CONCERN!
To cement it all, it was infact the first chapter of the series I read (only one I could find at the time)
People all over mangaupdates have been screaming over the chapter saying that it's taking the series in a new direction. IT'S ONE DAMN CHAPTER OUT OF THE FIRST 13, THERE IS NO NEW DIRECTION! GROW UP
Cue flamewar
|2009-09-10, 20:41
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You are misunderstanding this, what we are "angry" about or more like disgusted with is the fact this messed up girl dragged him along too an orgy were he was basically getting raped lol. Well its was also obvious that she really didint want too loose her virginity this way and I think there is a bigger darker reason behind it, but for some reason did it anyways, but why drag him along? because she didint have the guts to go alone?
Anyways its also or perhaps mostly because there hasent bin another chapter in a long time and it left people with a bad taste in there mouth since the manga started great with a beautiful sister and the brother making his dream come true and having her as his lover then his messed up girl who gets some strange thrill of exploiting herself in a strange sexual way or something and did a very messed up thing in chapter 6.
|2009-09-10, 21:28
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What got me the most was she lost her virginity to some anonymous guy. Like Wargumm said, she didn't want to but did it anyway. I understand her reasoning and why he had to watch her and all, but yeah. Some people may not care about something like that, but I do.. so yeah. It also bothered me that she did sucker him into it and although he probably enjoyed it by the time it was over, he was against it at the beginning.
|2009-09-17, 21:29
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And I breezed through the RAW chapter 6... and they it is fairly important (from what I can, I can't read Japanese so what do I know) to the loose story line. Why do they skip it? Bah.
Although chapter flipped the off switch, the rest of the manga is entertaining. I hope someone continues to scanlate it.
|2009-09-18, 11:07
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Actually where u read it ???
chapter 6, 8 and 11 already scanlated...
but they skip 7, 9 and 10...
Ha ha ha chapter 6 really mindfuck but chapter 8 really damn FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF...
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Holy shit, and I mean holy shit, Chapter 7-8 was like........ WHAT?????
Spoiler for Chapter 7:
But godamm chapter 7 was okei not so messed up as chapter 8...
Spoiler for Chapter 8:
Yeah thats about it and Im now really curious about chapter 9 now, and my thoughts about chapter 7-8 well I know that alot of people are upset about chapter 6, but godamm chapter 7-8 was like worse.
Spoiler for what chapter 7-8 is basically about:
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