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MRS. Bruce, and every member of her family, were exceedingly kind to me. I was thankful for the blessings of my lot, yet I could not always wear a cheerful countenance. I was doing harm to no one; on the contrary, I was doing all the good I could in my small way; yet I could never go out to breathe God's free air without trepidation at my heart. This seemed hard; and I could not think it was a right state of things in any civilized country.
From time to time I received news from my good old grandmother. She could not write; but she employed others to write for her. The following is an extract from one of her last letters:--
I remembered how he had defrauded my grandmother of the hard earnings she had loaned; how he had tried to cheat her out of the freedom her mistress had promised her, and how he had persecuted her children; and I thought to myself that she was a better Christian than I was, if she could entirely forgive him. I cannot say, with truth, that the news of my old master's death softened my feelings towards him. There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. The man was odious to me while he lived, and his memory is odious now.
His departure from this world did not diminish my danger. He had threatened my grandmother that his heirs should hold me in slavery after he was gone; that I never should be free so long as a child of his survived. As for Mrs. Flint, I had seen her in deeper afflictions than I supposed the loss of her husband would be, for she had buried several children; yet I never saw any signs of softening in her heart. The doctor had died in embarrassed circumstances, and had little to will to his heirs, except such property as he was unable to grasp. I was well aware what I had to expect from the family of Flints; and my fears were confirmed by a letter from the south, warning me to be on my guard, because Mrs. Flint openly declared that her daughter could not afford to lose so valuable a slave as I was.
I kept close watch of the newspapers for arrivals; but one Saturday night, being much occupied, I forgot to examine the Evening Express as usual. I went down into the parlor for it, early in the morning, and found the boy about to kindle a fire with it. I took it from him and examined the list of arrivals. Reader, if you have never been a slave, you cannot imagine the acute sensation of suffering at my heart, when I read the names of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, at a hotel in Courtland Street. It was a third-rate hotel, and that circumstance convinced me of the truth of what I had heard, that they were short of funds and had need of my value, as they valued me; and that was by dollars and cents. I hastened with the paper to Mrs. Bruce. Her heart and hand were always open to every one in distress, and she always warmly sympathized with mine. It was impossible to tell how near the enemy was. He might have passed and repassed the house while we were sleeping. He might at that moment be waiting to pounce upon me if I ventured out of doors. I had never seen the husband of my young mistress, and therefore I could not distinguish him from any other stranger. A carriage was hastily ordered; and, closely veiled, I followed Mrs. Bruce, taking the baby again with me into exile. After various turnings and crossings, and returnings, the carriage stopped at the house of one of Mrs. Bruce's friends, where I was kindly received. Mrs. Bruce returned immediately, to instruct the domestics what to say if any one came to inquire for me.
It was lucky for me that the evening paper was not burned up before I had a chance to examine the list of arrivals. It was not long after Mrs. Bruce's return to her house, before several people came to inquire for me. One inquired for me, another asked for my daughter Ellen, and another said he had a letter from my grandmother, which he was requested to deliver in person.
They were told, "She has lived here, but she has left."
"How long ago?"
"I don't know, sir."
"Do you know where she went?"
"I do not, sir. " And the door was closed.
This Mr. Dodge, who claimed me as his property, was originally a Yankee pedler in the south; then he became a merchant, and finally a slaveholder. He managed to get introduced into what was called the first society, and married Miss Emily Flint. A quarrel arose between him and her brother, and the brother cowhided him. This led to a family feud, and he proposed to remove to Virginia. Dr. Flint left him no property, and his own means had become circumscribed, while a wife and children depended upon him for support. Under these circumstances, it was very natural that he should make an effort to put me into his pocket.
I had a colored friend, a man from my native place, in whom I had the most implicit confidence. I sent for him, and told him that Mr. and Mrs. Dodge had arrived in New York. I proposed that he should call upon them to make inquiries about his friends at the south, with whom Dr. Flint's family were well acquainted. He thought there was no impropriety in his doing so, and he consented. He went to the hotel, and knocked at the door of Mr. Dodge's room, which was opened by the gentleman himself, who gruffly inquired, "What brought you here? How came you to know I was in the city?"
"Your arrival was published in the evening papers, sir; and I called to ask Mrs. Dodge about my friends at home. I didn't suppose it would give any offence."
"Where's that negro girl, that belongs to my wife?"
"What girl, sir?"
"You know well enough. I mean Linda, that ran away from Dr. Flint's plantation, some years ago. I dare say you've seen her, and know where she is."
"Yes, sir, I've seen her, and know where she is. She is out of your reach, sir."
"Tell me where she is, or bring her to me, and I will give her a chance to buy her freedom."
"I don't think it would be of any use, sir. I have heard her say she would go to the ends of the earth, rather than pay any man or woman for her freedom, because she thinks she has a right to it. Besides, she couldn't do it, if she would, for she has spent her earnings to educate her children."
This made Mr. Dodge very angry, and some high words passed between them. My friend was afraid to come where I was; but in the course of the day I received a note from him. I supposed they had not come from the south, in the winter, for a pleasure excursion; and now the nature of their business was very plain.
Mrs. Bruce came to me and entreated me to leave the city the next morning. She said her house was watched, and it was possible that some clew [clue] to me might be obtained. I refused to take her advice. She pleaded with an earnest tenderness, that ought to have moved me; but I was in a bitter, disheartened mood. I was weary of flying from pillar to post. I had been chased during half my life, and it seemed as if the chase was never to end. There I sat, in that great city, guiltless of crime, yet not daring to worship God in any of the churches. I heard the bells ringing for afternoon service, and, with contemptuous sarcasm, I said, "Will the preachers take for their text, 'Proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that are bound'? or will they preach from the text, 'Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you'?" Oppressed Poles and Hungarians could find a safe refuge in that city; John Mitchell was free to proclaim in the City Hall his desire for "a plantation well stocked with slaves;" but there I sat, an oppressed American, not daring to show my face. God forgive the black and bitter thoughts I indulged on that Sabbath day! The Scripture says, "Oppression makes even a wise man mad;" and I was not wise.
I had been told that Mr. Dodge said his wife had never signed away her right to my children, and if he could not get me, he would take them. This it was, more than any thing else, that roused such a tempest in my soul. Benjamin was with his uncle William in California, but my innocent young daughter had come to spend a vacation with me. I thought of what I had suffered in slavery at her age, and my heart was like a tiger's when a hunter tries to seize her young.
Dear Mrs. Bruce! I seem to see the expression of her face, as she turned away discouraged by my obstinate mood. Finding her expostulations unavailing, she sent Ellen to entreat me. When ten o'clock in the evening arrived and Ellen had not returned, this watchful and unwearied friend became anxious. She came to us in a carriage, bringing a well-filled trunk for my journey--trusting that by this time I would listen to reason. I yielded to her, as I ought to have done before.
The next day, baby and I set out in a heavy snow storm, bound for New England again. I received letters from the City of Iniquity, addressed to me under an assumed name. In a few days one came from Mrs. Bruce, informing me that my new master was still searching for me, and that she intended to put an end to this persecution by buying my freedom. I felt grateful for the kindness that prompted this offer, but the idea was not so pleasant to me as might have been expected. The more my mind had become enlightened, the more difficult it was for me to consider myself an article of property; and to pay money to those who had so grievously oppressed me seemed like taking from my sufferings the glory of triumph. I wrote to Mrs. Bruce, thanking her, but saying that being sold from one owner to another seemed too much like slavery; that such a great obligation could not be easily cancelled; and that I preferred to go to my brother in California.
Without my knowledge, Mrs. Bruce employed a gentleman in New York to enter into negotiations with Mr. Dodge. He proposed to pay three hundred dollars down, if Mr. Dodge would sell me, and enter into obligations to relinquish all claim to me or my children forever after. He who called himself my master said he scorned so small an offer for such a valuable servant. The gentleman replied, "You can do as you choose, sir. If you reject this offer you will never get any thing; for the woman has friends who will convey her and her children out of the country."
Mr. Dodge concluded that "half a loaf was better than no bread," and he agreed to the proffered terms. By the next mail I received this brief letter from Mrs. Bruce: "I am rejoiced to tell you that the money for your freedom has been paid to Mr. Dodge. Come home to-morrow. I long to see you and my sweet babe."
My brain reeled as I read these lines. A gentleman near me said, "It's true; I have seen the bill of sale." "The bill of sale!" Those words struck me like a blow. So I was sold at last! A human being sold in the free city of New York! The bill of sale is on record, and future generations will learn from it that women were articles of traffic in New York, late in the nineteenth century of the Christian religion. It may hereafter prove a useful document to antiquaries, who are seeking to measure the progress of civilization in the United States. I well know the value of that bit of paper; but much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it. I am deeply grateful to the generous friend who procured it, but I despise the miscreant who demanded payment for what never rightfully belonged to him or his.
I had objected to having my freedom bought, yet I must confess that when it was done I felt as if a heavy load had been lifted from my weary shoulders. When I rode home in the cars I was no longer afraid to unveil my face and look at people as they passed. I should have been glad to have met Daniel Dodge himself; to have had him seen me and known me, that he might have mourned over the untoward circumstances which compelled him to sell me for three hundred dollars.
When I reached home, the arms of my benefactress were thrown round me, and our tears mingled. As soon as she could speak, she said, "O Linda, I'm so glad it's all over! You wrote to me as if you thought you were going to be transferred from one owner to another. But I did not buy you for your services. I should have done just the same, if you had been going to sail for California to-morrow. I should, at least, have the satisfaction of knowing that you left me a free woman."
My heart was exceedingly full. I remembered how my poor father had tried to buy me, when I was a small child, and how he had been disappointed. I hoped his spirit was rejoicing over me now. I remembered how my good old grandmother had laid up her earnings to purchase me in later years, and how often her plans had been frustrated. How that faithful, loving old heart would leap for joy, if she could look on me and my children now that we were free! My relatives had been foiled in all their efforts, but God had raised me up a friend among strangers, who had bestowed on me the precious, long-desired boon. Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling; but when I speak of Mrs. Bruce as my friend, the word is sacred.
My grandmother lived to rejoice in my freedom; but not long after, a letter came with a black seal. She had gone "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."
Time passed on, and a paper came to me from the south, containing an obituary notice of my uncle Phillip. It was the only case I ever knew of such an honor conferred upon a colored person. It was written by one of his friends, and contained these words: "Now that death has laid him low, they call him a good man and a useful citizen; but what are eulogies to the black man, when the world has faded from his vision? It does not require man's praise to obtain rest in God's kingdom." So they called a colored man a citizen! Strange words to be uttered in that region!
Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! We are as free from the power of slaveholders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own. I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep me with my friend Mrs. Bruce. Love, duty, gratitude, also bind me to her side. It is a privilege to serve her who pities my oppressed people, and who has bestowed the inestimable boon of freedom on me and my children.
It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with those gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light, fleecy clouds floating over a dark and troubled sea.


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California is, of course, a solid blue state. But it's got plenty of red patches, as we know, sometimes in close proximity to blue. On election day, I drove from one color to another, and the contrasts were so striking, I felt like an interplanetary explorer.
My first stop was at the Republican Party headquarters on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, where campaign workers were managing last-ditch efforts to get out the vote.
My next stop was at Tolliver's Barber Shop on West Florence Avenue in South Los Angeles, where proprietor Lawrence Tolliver had created an amphitheater for customers to watch the televised coverage of the presidential campaign.
One location had a framed Time magazine cover of anti-tax rebel Howard Jarvis shaking a fist, the other had a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. At one location, the TV was tuned to Fox News, at the other it was MSNBC.

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Discussion about the worst director in the history of history. Best movie (which is still bad), worst movie, and the like.
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Worst director? That would have to be me. No thing in the cosmos is quite as horrifyingly bad at directing as I am. My films would ooze so much suck muckage that the president of the United States would declare it a national emergency, and FEMA would not let anyone help out. Then it would get so bad that the United Nations would insist on lending a hand. And then it would be the Interstellar Community of Species. And then the Intergalactic Cooperation of Empires. And then the disaster would require the assistance of a new ad-hoc pact: the Trans-Dimensional Web of Gods. Yeah, I am so bad at directing, I have never even attempted it. Who's Uwe Boll?
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I'd have to watch more of his stuff to judge, and I'm not willing. Guy sucks Zankou's prepubescent balls.
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Uwe Boll is the most atrocious and bad director of all time. He has ruined my passion, which is video games. He takes great games like House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark and completely screws them over and makes them cheesy and horrible. He also ruins the careers of otherwise great actors and actresses like Kristanna Loken. Unfortunately watching really bad movies is my thing, so I've seen most of his abominations that he likes to call "movies."
Please, everyone, sign the cease and desist petition.
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His better movie is Postal that reach the "funny B movie" status ! His worst are all the others.
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The Razzies, awarded every year for the absolute worst film performances, directing, and writing of the year, has given its 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award to Uwe Boll.
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Biden: Never been a day 'I haven't been proud' to be VP
BELOIT, Wis. – Vice President Joe Biden made clear Friday that he enjoys his job and expects to do it for four more years.
"There's never been a day in the last four years when I haven't been proud to be his vice president. Not one single day," he said at a rally here. Some critics didn't hear the "haven't" on the video stream, but from the room -- and the context -- it was clear he said it.
Later on, getting lunch at West Side Family Restaurant here, Biden was asked if he going to run for president "this time." It wasn't clear whether the man was referring to the election just days away or 2016, but Biden responded: "Oh no, I'm gonna stick as vice president. I'm gonna stick – y'all hear that, press?"


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Slavery: prohibited by constitution Vol I (Article I, pg. 26-28, 102 of the State constitution, 1862); not allowed in California, Vol I , (Article I, pg. 459-460, "Fugitives from Labor" ; 3177 of the State constitution, 1862). Mulattoes: marriages between whites and mulattoes void, Vol II, (Paragraph 4462, pg. 650-651; "Marriages"; section 3). Negroes: marriages between whites and Negroes void, Vol II, (Paragraph 6733, pg. 986-1001; "Schools"; section 68).
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The US state department's former chief policy planner urges the West to threaten the use of force against the Assad regime. She also tells DW why she worries about President Obama's drone program and his family policy.
DW: Your article 'Why Women Still Can't Have It All' caused quite a stir in the US and also internationally last year. It was probably the first coming out for a female, high-power professional to say that, despite all your best efforts to combine a high-profile job with a family life with kids, it simply didn't work. After Barack Obama's inauguration speech, you followed up with another piece that basically said Obama still doesn't get the issue. So has nothing changed at all since you wrote your first piece last summer?
Anne-Marie Slaughter: I actually think a lot has changed. And I just would like to clarify that some women are obviously managing to do it all. So I don't want to say that nobody can do it. But I do want to say that it is extraordinarily hard, and far too many women actually end up having to make choices for their families that disadvantages them in their careers. I could now be in the second Obama administration - at least, I hope I would be a candidate - but I have to take myself out because my children are of an age that it just doesn't work.
But the conversation has continued dramatically. In the United States, I hear from people every single week. But we still have a long way to go, and what I was saying about the inauguration was that Obama and the Democrats in this campaign have been focusing on equal pay for equal work, which is enormously important, and I am strongly supportive. But it misses the fact that fundamentally what is going on is that the caregivers - male or female, but they are mostly female - are being disadvantaged. And that is true up and down the chain. The people who are poorest in our society are single mothers. And at the top, you have far fewer women leaders because women end up having to defer promotion. So that's the issue.
Obama talked about love when he talked about gay rights, and he said the love you bear each other must be recognized. But what I was saying was: Yes, but what about the love we all bear our children and our parents and all our family members? And love is just as important a part of that conversation as it is of gay rights.
You are an Ivy League professor, a leading intellectual and were a top government official. What does it tell you that the one thing you are most noted around the world for isn't your work with the Princeton Project or with strengthening the non-military focus of US foreign policy via the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), but with your personal account about the impossibility to combine career and family for a magazine article?
It really says that foreign policy is a small community. Everybody in the foreign policy community still knows who I am. But fundamentally you realize that the world is infinitely bigger than our small community. Two million people have downloaded this article, and when you get to that level, there are far more people who know me because they have read that article and who would never read anything else I said.
I think this is a very important subject. I am writing a book about it, and I am talking about it. But I am definitely still a foreign policy person. And if you would ask me, 'Who are you?', I would tell you I am a foreign policy person before I would tell you that I am a women's rights - but more importantly - a work-family advocate.
If you could wave a magic wand to do something meaningful about work-life balance for women, what would you do concretely?
If I could wave a magic wand, I would make every workplace focus on results rather than time put in. I would make every workplace something where workers could say together with their manager: All right, these are the things I have to get done by this time, but everything else is on your own.
And I would let people themselves fit together work and life. I think that is the future of work because work is going to be wherever computers are. Siemens, for instance, has a whole new way of working that basically means you have a computer, and you can go into a cubicle in whatever city you are, but you don't have a fixed office. Women and men are tremendously creative if they are committed to their work and committed to their children. They will make it fit. But they can't make it fit if you make one part of that completely rigid.
As I mentioned earlier, you advocated non-military means of US foreign policy during your tenure in the State Department. The Pentagon's use of military drones to kill enemies of the US has skyrocketed during the first Obama administration, and now the US is expanding its drone program in Africa. Isn't that contradictory - because you can kill terrorists that way, but, in the long run, it doesn't help you solve the problems you want to address?
I wrote a piece for the 'Security Times' on drones. I certainly understand the value of them. In the first place, they kill far fewer than bombs or missiles or certainly troops would, but I am very worried that the United States, in using them unilaterally without any kind of agreed framework, is sowing a harvest we do not want to reap - when multiple countries have them, and many countries do already. Imagine that in Mexico they decided to use drones to combat their drug problem, and drug traffickers fleeing across the border into Texas suddenly were being taken out by drones. Suddenly the American people would be up in arms.
Death in the skies without any legal framework, any sense of who is being targeted and why they are being targeted, and some checks against making mistakes, is, I think, a very dangerous path to go down. I truly hope that President Obama, who is a constitutional lawyer, is not going to leave office having expanded presidential power to basically include the execution of individuals without due process of law.
The crisis is in Syria seems to get worse every day. More than 60,000 people are now estimated dead, and there is no solution on the horizon whatsoever. Do you see anything that could be done?
I see a number of possible things that could change the game, so that we might be on a path to a solution. And the first is - if by a miracle you could convince the Russians to join in a Security Council that essentially said Assad had to go. I think that could change the domestic balance of power such that people around Assad might decide we have to get rid of him, but we can stay in the transitional government. I do not see Russia doing that anytime soon, but that could change matters.
A second thing that could change matters would be to deliver massive amounts of aid not through the Syrian government, but directly across the border to the Syrian people. And note that delivering that aid directly across the border means violating the Syrian government's sovereignty, it means recognizing - as the United States has done - other organizations as the legitimate representation of the Syrian people. But fundamentally, we must be able to help the Syrians on the ground. Right now we are pouring in money, but it is going through the government, and it is not reaching the people who need it. That, I think, would at least help people on the ground in the sense that aid is coming, and the West is doing something.
But fundamentally, I think you have to credibly threaten force. And to credibly threaten force means you have to be ready to use it. Last night (at the Munich Security Conference, the ed.), Khatib, who is the head of the Syrian Coalition, said: If all else fails, you need to take out Assad's air force and heavy weapons, so he can no longer kill us the way he is killing us. And there are American experts who have said that is a very limited strike, and it is not a buffer zone. But at least it would say to Assad: You can't be doing this. We will not stand by and kill 100,000 or 200,000 of your people. And frankly, almost a million people are refugees. Many of them are in peril as well. I think Assad is perfectly capable of using chemical weapons. So nothing is going to happen unless the West finds the will to either convince Russia or to act independently.
Europeans are always very concerned with the state of the transatlantic relationship and especially since the Obama administration's so-called pivot to Asia. What's your take on transatlantic ties at the moment, and what should Europeans expect from the second Obama term?
One thing I will take back from the Munich Security Conference is that we are back together. We may have been temporarily estranged, but Vice President Biden's speech left no doubt when he said that the US turns to Europe first, and you are our best ally. He couldn't have made it any clearer that, if there is any pivot to Asia, it is the US and Europe together. I think this is very significant because I think this administration came to office much more focused on Asia than on Europe. I think the euro crisis got Americans to think that this is the largest economy in the world and if we take it for granted and it doesn't prosper, we are in trouble.
The relationship is quite strong and Vice President Biden said this, the United States will do everything to get a transatlantic free trade agreement, whether that is US-EU or broader remains to be seen, but at least US-EU. That is significant, because then you are knitting together the area of the world that is responsible for fifty percent of global GDP. That has all sorts of implications, not just for the US and Europe, but also for Latin America and Africa, because you are talking about the Atlantic. Our trade flows are increasingly north-south, Europe's trade flows are increasingly north-south - you put that together with trade across the Atlantic, and you have the Atlantic basin. So I think things are good.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and one of the leading foreign policy experts in the US. From 2009 to 2011, she served as director of policy planning in the US State Department, becoming the first woman to hold that position.
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Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon warns of increasing Islamist forces in Syria, in an interview with DW. He also believes the new Israeli goverment will try to bring the Palestinians to the table. (07.02.2013)
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Martti Ahtisaari blames the lack of progress in Syria on the divided UN Security Council. He tells DW that he sees elections - not an interim government - as the best option. (05.02.2013)


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Music + Movies—Sol Arts is accepting submissions from musicians and bands for a film/music performance concept. Chosen bands will perform live in Sol Arts' backyard while their film is projected for an assembled "drive-in" audience. Films may be shorts, features or favorite excerpts. You can submit your concept via e-mail to email@example.com. Be sure to include the following: name and contact number, information about your music and a description of the film including length. Performances will take place over four nights in July. Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 22.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Surfer rides high in slapstick superhero flick
If you're going to put the word "fantastic" right there in your title—be it a book, a film, a record or whatever—you should probably produce something fantastic. Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up for some serious criticism. Elton John's "Captain Fantastic and the Dirt Brown Band" album? Hey, fantastic! Fantastic Voyage? It had Raquel Welch in a skintight wet suit, what more can you say? The Fantasticks? It ran for 17,162 performances Off-Broadway—fantastic in anybody's book.
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$1.99 local phone calls? Now that's scary.
Not a lot of people are familiar with S.B. 619, a bill rushed through the California state legislature in the early '80s and signed into law by then governor Jerry Brown. The law stated simply that each and every short story or novel penned by Stephen King must be turned into a movie before the author's death. Hollywood has done its best to abide by this tough law, producing something north of 100 features, short films, miniseries and television shows based on his original material. The problem is that King just keeps writing, making it harder and harder for the movie industry to keep up.
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Surf or Die
"John from Cincinnati" on HBO
Have you ever liked something simply because you were so confused by it that you felt like not liking it would expose you as a dumb person? "John from Cincinnati" isn't quite like that. But it might as well be. I've reserved judgment on the new Sunday night HBO drama for at least the first couple episodes, trying to get a handle on it. I'm fairly confident now that I won't ever get a sold grip on this thing. But I'm thinking I might like it. Even if I'm not quite sure why.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
"Live from Abbey Road" (Sundance Channel 8 p.m.) Think of it as "Austin City Limits" but with less Shiner Bock backstage. Performing in tonight's debut show: John Mayer and Norah Jones.


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The Chicago Bears will hire Marc Trestman to be their new head coach, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Trestman, the coach of the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes, was selected over Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians and Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, the Tribune's Brad Biggs reported via Twitter early Wednesday.
The Bears interviewed more than a dozen candidates in an exhaustive search to replace Lovie Smith, who was fired the Monday after the end of the regular season.
With Smith at the helm, the Bears went 10-6 this season, but they started 7-1 before finishing 3-5 in their final eight games and narrowly missed the playoffs.
Trestman has experience as an NFL offensive coordinator, but he is best known for his five-year stint with the Alouettes, in which Montreal won two Grey Cups, while Trestman went 64-34 (including the playoffs). He began his coaching career in 1981 as a volunteer coach with the University of Miami.
Trestman has a reputation as a respected quarterbacks coach. The Bears will be counting on him to get the most out of Jay Cutler, who has struggled the past two years. In addition to missing seven games due to injury, Cutler has thrown just 32 touchdowns against 21 interceptions in 25 games.
Trestman, who turned 57 on Tuesday, will be the 14th coach in team history, the Tribune noted.
With the Bears filling their vacancy, there are just three head coach openings (Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles) left in the NFL.


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Marathon man heads for town
ADVENTURER and ultra distance runner Richard Bowles has experienced snowstorms, a swollen Murray River, strained muscles and angry bulls in tackling the treacherous terrain of Australia's rugged Bicentennial National Trail.
He is now running through Queensland, his fourth state, on his marathon 5330km run to support SANE Australia's work for people with a mental illness.
Run BNT team hit Kilkivan this afternoon before heading off to Maryborough, where they are expected to arrive on Monday.
The Bicentennial National Trail follows old coach roads, stock routes, brumby tracks, rivers and fire trails along the length of the Great Dividing Range.
It's the world's longest marked trail, traversing remote bush in national parks and crossing mountains, rivers, rainforest and dry plains.
It was conceived by RM Williams in 1972 and officially opened in 1988.
"In the years since it was launched not many people have completed the trail in its entirety, yet alone run it," Richard said.
"I'm hoping to highlight the importance of mental and physical health on this journey of a lifetime."


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You had to be there.
You had to be there.
Leo Adkins was. He came all the way from Hesperia.
You couldn't miss him.
He was wearing a plush turkey hat, complete with two drumsticks.
"This is cool, and it helps the food bank," he said.
The hat?
"That keeps my head warm," said Adkins, who with his wife was here to spend the holiday with the grandkids and family.
He and more than 4,000 others, some of them also in various stages of turkey dress, turned out in downtown Stockton on a beautiful Thanksgiving morning to run. Or walk.
It was the eighth year that the Stockton Run & Walk Against Hunger took place, and it seemed everyone was there.
The John Muir Elementary School running club was in matching T-shirts.
"I am just a teeny-weeny bit nervous," Kristine Villalpando, 8, said of the 5K event she and her club were running in. "I think it's pretty cool, though."
Her friend Marissa Gonzales, 11, was ready to hit the starting line.
"I think afterwards I'm going to want to drink lots of water," she said. "And maybe take my inhaler."
The event, a fundraiser for the local emergency food bank, has a feel good atmosphere and shows off the city's best side - the sparkling waterfront.
It included a kids quarter-mile run, a 5K run and walk, as well as a 10K for the overachievers.
And there are selfish reasons for participating.
"Well, we are burning off some calories before we add some," Adkins said, alluding to the big feasts families had planned for later in the day. "Right?"
Organizers said it was a perfect day.
"I'm just amazed at the spirit of our community in San Joaquin County," said Tony Vice, owner of Fleet Feet Stockton and one of the many volunteers who help coordinate the event. "Again, the crowds have come out to support the Emergency Food Bank & Family Services, with donations of turkeys, nonperishables and making the eighth annual Run & Walk Against Hunger the biggest event ever."
Vice said more than 4,000 people had signed up as of Wednesday afternoon and more came out Thursday morning for last-minute registration.
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LOS ANGELES - August 21, 2012 --ABC says it's moving "Jimmy Kimmel Live" into the thick of the late-night fight against Jay Leno and David Letterman.
The network said Tuesday that starting in January, Kimmel's talk show will take over the 11:35 p.m. time slot long held by the news magazine "Nightline."
"Nightline" will move to the 12:35 a.m. slot and will get a new weekly prime-time slot.
ABC says the move takes advantage of ratings growth by Kimmel's show and the potential for greater ad revenue.
Kimmel's show will move to 11:35 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 8, with "Nightline" starting an hour later on the next night, Jan. 9, and debuting in prime time on March 1.
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aflatune.com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 127 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
We need a fun and colorful logo and business card design for a new online music portal "aflatune.com". Think music portal for the hip and trendy Indian web 2.0 generation.
Logo is for "aflatune.com - online music, evolved!". This web 2.0 site presents a large Indian pop music library that can be accessed as ad sponsored on-demand-streaming, ad sponsored mp3 downloads or by purchasing mp3s.
What is "aflatune"? In India, the word loosely means "amazing". Typically spelled "aflatoon", we spell it as "aflaTUNE" to indicate that we are about music. So aflatune = amazing music. The logo can subtly highlight the "tune" part of the word.
The core audience is Indian 20-somethings who prefer the western culture so we DO NOT want an overly Indian looking logo. We would love to see subtle/fun Indian touches (see for example http://aflatune.com/images/sample/d.png or http://aflatune.com/images/sample/s.png) - but that is not a must.
Be creative, this can be an out-of-the-box kind of design! See if the tagline "online music, evolved!" fits in.
Having a mascot in the logo would be great. One mascot idea is a cute elephant cartoon.. That would be subtly Indian and an
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like throwing colored water from its trunk for Holi festival; the elephant can
be dressed up differently for different parts of our site like pop
music and classical music, etc.
- Cool, web 2.0 style, trendy
- Very recognizable
- Great if it has a mascot
- Simple enough to adapt later to various themes (like google does with their logo)
- layered/vector PSD or similar.
- Overly traditional Indian theme (like taj mahal, flag, indian-script-like-font, etc)
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Archive - Dec 2010
December 17th
Fab Melo waits for lower leg injury to heal
December 16th
All about the SEC: Sidney's start
Q-and-A with Tyshawn Taylor
Duke: Kyrie Irving will miss 'a long time'
Kansas G Mario Little arrested, suspended
The Pick Distribution on the 3 Team Trade
December 14th
Pac Ten Blog
Player of the Week
EJ Singler
Oregon sophomore EJ Singler had an efficient and effective week recording impressive statistical games against Willamette and Jacksonville State. Singler finished the week averaging 16 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and a block and a half per contest. His shot was also in good form, scoring his points on 78.6 percent shooting from the floor, 50 percent from behind the three point line and a perfect 7-7 from the charity stripe. The Ducks increased their record to 7-3 and are out performing expectations in large part to the play of Singer and senior Joevan Catron. Singler has notched two double-doubles this season including a monster game last Saturday against Willamette, where he scored 18 points and grabbed 17 boards. He's scored in double figures in all but one game this season and is shooting above 50 percent for the season from the field and from three.


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The third film in the "Women and Gender Studies Primavera Film Festival: An International Look at Gender Issues," will be presented Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Bullock Hall 216. Admission is free of charge and open to the public.
"Yo, La Peor de Todas," (I, the Worst of All) is the story of the 17th-century Mexican writer and poet, Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, and her close relationship with a Viceroy's wife who tried to warn her that "knowledge is always a transgression." The film, in Spanish with English subtitles, is based on the novel "The Traps of Faith" by Octavio Paz. Dr. Jose Cardona-Lopez, assistant professor of Spanish, will provide introduction and commentary for the film.
Next in the series is "Raise the Red Lantern," Thursday, March 29. It will also be presented at 7:30 p.m. in Bullock Hall room 101.
A1991 Chinese film based on the novel "Wives and Concubines" by Su Tong, it is not rated, but contains mature themes. It will be presented in Mandarin with English subtitles. Introduction and commentary for the film will be provided by Dr. Xiaoming Zhang, assistant professor of history.
The four-part film series is being presented as part of the University's celebration of Women's History Month and is coordinated by the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
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John McDonnell has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web his website with the electronic text, including scanned images, of the anonymous London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations apparently by a "Mr. Jones," which the London firm Stanley Rivers & Co. published in 1871. Brackets indicate explanatory material, such as interpretations of contemporary slang, by Mr. McDonnell. > — George P. Landow.]
t is not to be supposed indeed that utter strangers would go and live together without some strong inducements; and these inducements are generally money on the one side and society on the other. The people who want the money---through having "larger houses than they require," or other causes, of which any number may be found with great facility---are less to be pitied than the people who want the society, for the latter must be dismally reduced in this respect before they can be brought to take it on chance. In a "cheerful family, musically inclined," part of the compact of course is that the incomer shall be cheerful, if not musical and companionable, at any rate. The requisition sounds awful, but it is one to which hundreds of harmless persons in this metropolis submit rather than be left alone. Many, of course, are induced by considerations of economy; and of those still more unfortunate than the ordinary class, are those of the more helpless, who do not accept a "home," upon independent terms, but obtain it either gratuitously or for some very small payment upon condition of being useful or helping to make things pleasant. Of these there are large numbers, to judge by the advertisements; and I suspect that they are rather worse off than those who "go out" regularly as governesses and companions, for the latter have at least a chance of lighting upon rich and generous patrons. And here I may mention that a great deal of nonsense is written about governesses---more perhaps than about most other things. Their trade is a bad one, no doubt, because the market is overstocked. But that is no fault of the employers, who cannot be expected to fill their houses with young ladies of varying tastes and tempers, on account of their presumably "superior" education and intelligence. Nor is it to be taken for granted that every governess is of the "superior" kind, and all the people who engage their services, vulgar wretches who delight in inflicting mortification upon their betters. Who has not heard of families of the best breeding and refinement being tortured beyond all endurance by governesses of conspicuous inability to teach, who have let their pupils run wild, and concentrated their attention upon the men of the house, and whose insolent and overbearing ways have made the work of getting rid of them one of no common difficulty? Our novelists have not given us many illustrations of this side of the picture; but you may depend upon it that Becky Sharpes [from Thackeray's Vanity Fair] are at least as plentiful as Jane Eyres in real life.
A favorite resort of the homeless are boarding-houses. Of these establishments there are hundreds in London---from those devoted to the entertainment of minor City clerks, rigorously "engaged during the day," to those which---one is almost led to suppose---nobody under the rank of a baronet is received, and even then not without a reference as to respectability on the part of a peer. But most of these houses have one or two features in common. There is always a large admixture of people who go there for the sake of society; and of this number a considerable proportion is sure to consist of widows or spinsters of extremely marriageable tendencies. The result is that, unless the residents be very numerous, individual freedom is lost, and, instead of living an independent life as at an hotel, the members of a "circle" find themselves surrounded by such amenities as may be supposed to belong a rather large and singularly disunited family.
A great many marriages, however, are made in these establishments, and it is not on record that they turn out otherwise then well. It must be admitted, too, that men go there to find wives as well as women to find husbands, so that the arrangement thus far is fair on both sides. But I have been informed by men who are not among the latter number, that it is found difficult sometimes to get the fact generally understood. The consequent mistakes of course lead to confusion, and the result is the occassional retirement of determined bachelors into more private life.
There are "homes" in London where there is not much mention of marriage, except as a reminiscence, and few of their members have the chance even of this melancholy enjoyment. I allude to houses in which, through the exertions principally of benevolent ladies, other ladies, who would probably be equally benevolent were they not less fortunate, have a residence assigned to them upon advantageous terms. That is to say, they live in an establishment where all their wants are supplied upon the payment, by themselves or their friends, of a small contribution towards the necessary outlay, the remainder being covered by subscriptions of a strictly private character. The recipients of this assistance are all gentlewomen---as is necessary to the state of social equality in which they live---and their admittance is obtained by favour of the benevolent ladies in question. These ladies are influenced, I suppose, by the introductions brought by the candidates, and considerations of their previous position---which has in every case been a great deal superior to their present position, as may be supposed. The said "homes" are very few in number; so far as I know, they have no connection with one another, and they are entirely private in their arrangements. The neighbours may happen to know that a certain house in which they find so many ladies living together is not a boarding house in the ordinary acceptation of the term; but there is nothing to proclaim the fact, and the inmates live in an apparent state of independence equal to that of anybody about them. And they live as contented, I believe, as can be in the case of persons who are not of such social importance as they were, and who have plenty of leisure to talk over the fact. They are all gentlewomen, as I have said, and upon terms of social equality; but it may be supposed that there are differences between them, as there are between people generally in society. You may depend upon it, that the lady who is related to an earl is of opinion that she is a preferable object of consideration to the lady who is related only to a baronet, while the claims of the other ladies to their several degrees of precedence are not unadjusted for want of accurate investigation. A few very likely "give themselves airs" upon this score, while some pride themselves upon their beauty when young---(none of the ladies are quite young now)---and others establish a superiority upon account of their mental gifts. All this imparts a pleasant variety to the conversation which would otherwise be in danger of falling into monotony. Such at least, I suppose, to be the case, for I am dealing in generalities, and cannot claim to a knowledge of any one in particular of these ladies' homes. For the rest, the occupants are said to pass an easy, agreeable life, more especially those who are not without friends whom they can go to visit---in which case they are free to have as much amusement as if they lived in houses of their own.
I said something about boarding-houses just now. A great many of the homeless who have not tried these establishments---or having tried them are unwilling to renew the experiment---live in furnished lodgings. On the Continent they would probably put up at hotels: but hotels in this country are not adapted for modest requirements, and furnished lodgings take a place which they have not yet learned to occupy. The mode of life is anomalous. It is neither public nor private. You may be independent in an hotel; you may be independent in your own house; in lodgings you can be independent by no possibility. If you spend rather more money than you would either in an hotel or your own house, you obtain comfort and attention; but the object of most persons who take lodgings is to be rather economical than otherwise, so that the reservation is of very little avail. Lodgings are of two classes---those that profess to be so, and those that solemnly declare they are not. The former are decidedly preferable, apart from the immorality of encouraging a sham. In the former case, if you occupy---say as a bachelor---only a couple of rooms in town, and the rest of the house is let to other people, you will obtain but precarious attendance from the solitary servant, and the chances are that you will never be able to get a decently-cooked meal. The food that they waste in such places by their barbarous mode of dealing with it is sad to think upon. Your only resource is to live out of doors as much as possible, and consider your rooms only as a refuge---the logical consequence of which is that it is best to abandon them altogether.
But you are better placed even under these conditions than if you go to a house in one of the suburbs---a pretty villa-looking place---knowing nothing about it beyond the information offered by the bill in the window. A not very clean servant opens the door, and does not impress you favourably at first glance. You are hesitating, under some discouragement, when the mistress of the house---presenting in her decorated exterior a considerable contrast to the servant---appears upon the scene and reproves the domestic sternly for her neglected appearance, sends her away to restore it, and meantime proceeds to transact business upon her own account. You ask her if she lets apartments. She gives a reproving look, and says "No," ignoring the announcement made by the bill. You mention that you knocked in consequence of seeing that intimation in the window; upon which the lady says---
"Oh, is it up? I was not aware. The fact is, I wish to receive a gentleman to occupy part of the house, as it is too large for us"---the old story---"and my husband being a great deal out, I find it rather lonely. But my husband is very proud and objects to having strange company."
You remark that you need not have applied in that case, and will go elsewhere. This brings the lady to the point.
"Oh, I did not mean to say that you could not have any apartments here. I intend to have my own way in that matter"---this is said in a playful, fluttery manner, with a running laugh. "If you will step in I will show you the accommodation we have. All I meant to say was, that we are not accustomed to let lodgings."
Rather amused than annoyed, you submit to be shown the rooms. They are pretty rooms---light and cheerful, and ornamental to a fault---and the garden at the back is alone a relief from the pent-up place you have been occupying in town. So, after a few preliminary negotiations---conducted on the lady's side in the same playful manner---you agree to take the place, say for three months. The lady is evidently pleased at your decision, and avails herself of the opportunity for renewing her assurance that the house is not a lodging-house, and that you may expect all the comforts of a domestic life.
"There are no other lodgers," she added; then, as if suddenly recollecting, she corrects herself: "That is to say, there is a commercial gentleman who is a great deal away, sleeping here for a night or two---a friend of my husband's---and yes, let me see, a medical gentleman to whom we have allowed the partial use of a bedroom to oblige a neighbour just for the present, but I do not count either of them as lodgers."
A commercial gentleman sleeping for a night or two, while he is a great deal away, does not seem an ordinary lodger at any rate; and from the distinction drawn in the case of the medical gentleman who is only allowed the partial use of a bedroom, you are inclined to think that he is permitted to lie down but not go to sleep. However, you make no objection to these anomalies, and take possession of your new abode.
There never was such an imposter, as you find out only next day. The bagman and the medical student---as those gentlemen must be described, if the naked truth be respected---turn out to be regular lodgers, and as thorough nuisances as a couple of noisy men addicted to late hours and exaggerated conviviality can well be. And the woman never mentioned a discharged policeman---her father, I believe---to whom she affords a temporary asylum in the kitchen, in return for intermittent attentions in the way of blacking boots and cleaning knives---when he happens to be sober. For the rest, there is nobody in the house who can cook even such a simple matter as a mutton chop without spoiling it; and there seems to be everybody in the house who is determined that your private stores shall not be allowed to spoil for want of eating and drinking. Nothing is safe from the enemy, who combines forces against you, and they take care that you shall have no protection, for not a lock which can give shelter to any portable article will act after you have been two days in the house. As for your personal effects, they are in equal danger. The average amount of loss in wearing apparel is one shirt and two handkerchiefs a week; and miscellaneous articles are sure to go if they are in the least degree pretty or curious. And the coolest part of the proceeding is, that the mildest complaint on your part brings down a storm upon your devoted head, such as you could not have expected from the playful and fluttering person who had given you such pleasant assurances when you took the rooms. She claims to be Caesar's wife in point of immunity from suspicion, and asserts the same privilege for everybody in the house. "No gentleman was ever robbed there," she says; and she plainly hints that no gentleman would say he was, even though he said the fact.
This is no exaggerated picture of many suburban lodgings to which outsiders of society are led to resort for want of better accommodation; and a large number of persons who are not outsiders in the sense in which I have employed the term, but who are simply not settled in the metropolis, are exposed to a similar fate. For those who are prepared for an ordeal of another nature, the "cleerful family, musically inclined," offers, one would think, a far preferable alternative. But it is not everybody who is prepared to have society thrust upon him, either in this quiet domestic way or in a large boarding-house, and there ought to be better provision than there is for the floating mass of casual residents in London. In Paris not only are there hotels suited to the requirements of all classes of persons, but the maisons meubles [furnished lodgings] are places where they may live almost as independently as in their own houses. In London, the only realization of the luxury short of an entire house is in what we call "chambers;" and a man's chambers are most certainly his castle, whatever his house may be. That the want is being appreciated, is evident from the rapid extension of the "chambers" system, in the way of the independent suites of rooms known as "flats." But the flats, as now provided in Victoria Street, and elsewhere, cost as much as entire houses, while the latest additions, the Belgrave and Grosvenor mansions, are even more costly, and beyond the reach of the classes to whom I have been referring. The latter would be deeply grateful for accommodation of the kind on a more moderate scale, and the investment of capital in such an object could not fail to be profitable. Besides the desolate people into whose sorrows I have entered, there are in London, it must be remembered, many hundreds of outsiders of society of a different kind, who are outsiders only from that conventional society in which it takes so much money to "move," and who ought to command greater comfort than they do while they are working their way in professional pursuits. For those actually in want of companionship, I suppose they will always incline to the hotel, or the boarding-house, or the "cheerful family, musically inclined."
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A suspected gang member who has eluded police for the past five months now faces an attempted murder charge stemming from a suspected gang-related shooting March 27 outside a Medford apartment complex.
Jose Manuel Macias already has given police the slip at least once since he allegedly fired at least one shot outside a Crater Lake Avenue apartment during what police described as a beef between rival Sureños and Norteños gang members.
A Jackson County grand jury on Wednesday indicted the 21-year-old Macias on charges of attempted murder, first-degree attempted assault, felon in possession of a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon, menacing and reckless endangering.
No one was injured in the 4:30 p.m. incident, in which police responded to a report of shots fired but found no victim or suspect. A shell casing found at the scene indicated that at least one shot was fired, police said.
Police later determined that the alleged victim was a man named Toby Martinez, Medford police Lt. Mike Budreau said.
Several of the involved parties were uncooperative with the investigators, police said.
"We've run into quite a few road blocks in this case," Budreau said.
After Wednesday's secret indictment, "we were hoping we could get him rounded up but we weren't successful," Budreau said.
Investigators Monday evening changed tactics and went public with the indictment, hoping to receive tips on his whereabouts, Budreau said. It was unknown whether he remained in the area.
"We have full extradition on these warrants because of the seriousness of the case," Budreau said.
Macias is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds and having multiple tattoos visible on his neck. He should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.
Police on Monday also located and arrested Brandon Glen Bigham, 21. Budreau said Bigham was "definitely involved" in the shooting but Macias was the alleged shooter.
Bigham was taken into custody and held on an unrelated warrant, Budreau said. He has not been charged in this case, Budreau said.
Shortly after the shooting, Medford police quickly identified Marcias and Bigham as persons of interest and began looking for them. At that time, Macias had a warrant for his arrest for violating the conditions of his parole on a previous robbery charge and Bigham had a warrant for violating the conditions of his probation from a previous drug conviction.
A Jackson County sheriff's deputy spotted Macias in early July riding a nonstreet-legal motorcyle on Avenue C in White City, but he gave officers the slip after a short pursuit that ended in a trailer park.
Medford police asks those with information on Macias' whereabouts to call their local police department.
Medford police can be reached at 541-770-4784.
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A suspected gang member who has eluded police for the past five months now faces an attempted murder charge stemming from a suspected gang-related shooting March 27 outside a Medford apartment complex.


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ROUYN-NORANDA, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Dec. 27, 2012) - Radisson Mining Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RDS) ("Radisson") is pleased to announce that it closed a $200,000 private placement for development of the O'Brien/Kewagama project on December 27, 2012.
In connection with this placement, Radisson issued 1,925,000 common shares at a price of $0.08 per share and 460,000 flow-through shares at a price of $0.10 per share. No cash compensation was paid in connection with this placement. The shares issued are subject to a hold period of four months and one day.
As part of this private placement, Radisson's new President and Director, Mario Bouchard, purchased 625,000 common shares for a total price of $50,000. Mr. Bouchard therefore holds 6.5% of outstanding shares. This transaction constitutes a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (MI 61-101). However, the operation is exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 (sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1) (a)). A material change report in respect of this transaction was not filed at least 21 days in advance of the closing because it had not been finalized.
Radisson is a Quebec-based mineral exploration company. Radisson's main asset, the O'Brien/Kewagama project is located on the Cadillac Break, 5 km west of the Lapa gold mine and approximately 4 km southeast of the La Ronde mine, both owned by Agnico-Eagle.
The project hosts the O'Brien Mine, which is considered the highest grade gold producer of the Abitibi greenstone belt (production of 1,302,000 tons at 0.448 oz/t from 1932 to 1955).
Previous exploration by the Company on the project confirmed the presence of 218,540 ounces of gold (indicated resource) (based on an indicated resource of 270,000 tons at an uncut grade of 0.56 oz/ton and an inferred resource of 182,000 tons at an uncut grade of 0.37 ounces) as defined in the Scott Wilson RPA NI 43-101 report of May 2007. These resources, all outlined above the 650-metre level, are located about 800 metres east of the old O'Brien mine workings, and represent a new discovery of high grade mineralization of the same type mined and produced at the O'Brien gold mine. These resources are contained within a gold zone referred to as Zone 36.
In 2011 and 2012, the Company carried out two diamond drilling programs, resulting in new discoveries in the largely unexplored eastern portion of the project (Kewagama) and further definition of the eastern extension of Zone 36 mineralisation.
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The religion known as "Christianity" was invented by God himself to repair in part the wreck and ruin that had resulted from the Devil's work.Take the Devil from the scheme of salvation -- from the atonement -- from the dogma of eternal pain -- and the foundation is gone.The Devil is the keystone of the arch.He inflicted the wounds that Christ came to heal. He corrupted the human race.The question now is: Does the Old Testament teach the existence of the Devil?If the Old Testament teaches anything, it does teach the existence of the Devil, of Satan, of the Serpent, of the enemy of God and man, the deceiver of men and women.Those who believe the Scriptures are compelled to say that this Devil was created by God, and that God knew when he created him just what he would do -- the exact measure of his success; knew that he would be a successful rival; knew that he would deceive and corrupt the children of men; knew that, by reason of this Devil, countless millions of human beings would suffer eternal torment in the prison of pain. And this God also knew when he created the Devil, that he, God, would be compelled to leave his throne, to be born a babe in Palestine, and to suffer a cruel death. All this he knew when he created the Devil. Why did he create him?
Also, Satan became merged with the pagan god Pan in the Middle Ages, which is where he got the horns, tail and cloven feet. Not very biblical or serpent-like, but lots of ancient Greek pandemonium, and what a panic! Get it?BTW, I would be dissing the spirit of my late comic-obsessed nerd brother if I didn't correct Lex Luthor.
The question then might be, "If the Devil Should Die Can God Credibly Make Another?"
That would be a good thread - Plagiarism in the Bible - Deja Vu History.Are you going to start it?


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Marilla Town Board to hold hearings on 4 topics
The Marilla Town Board will hold four public hearings today, but it is expected to act on only two of them.
Action is expected on the amended zoning law that will allow property owners who have been granted a zoning change extended time to build as long as they prove they are working on the property in good faith.
Supervisor George Gertz said the amended law is a good one. If no work is performed on a rezoned piece of property in a year, the zoning will revert back to its original status.
The board will vote on the car show permit and a resolution to close Two Rod Road for the one-day event July 27.
A pubic hearing on a lot on East Blood Road will not be acted on by the board until the town hears from the county. The same goes for a rezoning request for a parcel on Clinton Street owned by Leon Berner.
The town has to hear from the county and the state Department of Environmental Conservation regarding wetlands on the site. This has to be done every five years, said Gertz.
Warren Handley told the board it has been brought to his attention that half the geranium plants purchased by the town have been removed from the Evergreen Cemetery. He said the town put them in pots on the graves of veterans on Memorial Day, with the intention of moving them to other town sites in three days.
But somebody took them before they could be moved. They cost the town $1,000.
The other two cemeteries in town have plenty of shade, but the Evergreen Cemetery has lots of sun, and there is no way to water the plants, so they always have been moved to prevent them from going to waste.
Highway Superintendent Ron Unverdorben said his crew will pour a sidewalk on each side of the flag pole at the Veterans Memorial so people don't step in the mud. He is also building an archway to show medallions of all five armed services.
The board reviewed prices for a computer-generated message sign for the front of the Community Center at 1840 Two Rod Road. Protek's price is $15,475 for a 42-inch-by-61-inch sign.
The board received a letter from a Stolle Road resident who purchased his home one year ago and is complaining of water problems that he would like the town to pay to have fixed. He wants the town to dig a ditch of 100 feet uphill toward Elma.
But the town cannot spend money on a private property.
Gertz and Unverdorben said the house is not in danger, the water runs through the yard and was there when he bought the property.
The owner said the water runs through his land from farm fields and is polluting a pond.
The board directed the town attorney to write a letter to the owner explaining the town's situation.


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NEW YORK – League veteran Arturo Alvarez is on his way out of Real Salt Lake and the New York Red Bulls lost their final link to their days as the MetroStars thanks to Stage 1 of the MLS Re-Entry Draft on Monday.
Alvarez and defenders Carlos Mendes and Danleigh Borman were the only players taken in the draft on Monday. Alvarez was selected by Chivas USA, while Borman will join the New England Revolution and Mendes heads from New York to the Columbus Crew.
While Mendes joins the Crew roster immediately because the club has picked up his option, Alvarez and Borman have been offered bona fide contract offers by their prospective new clubs after their options were recently declined by their former ones.
All other teams in the draft passed on the respective selections, perhaps with eyes fixed on Stage 2 of the process next Monday, Dec. 12, when teams can select remaining available players and begin negotiating with them on a contract for 2012.
Alvarez, 26, joins Chivas USA after just one season with RSL. He joined the club via a trade with the Portland Timbers after he was taken in the Expansion Draft from San Jose. He started eight games for head coach Jason Kreis, but he was held to just one assist on the year.
He also played a role off the bench during the team's run in the CONCACAF Champions League, and helped set up a goal for Javier Morales in the first leg of the tournament final against Mexican side and eventual champions Monterrey.
Chivas USA are the fourth team of a nine-year career for Alvarez, who enjoyed two different stints with San Jose and one with FC Dallas before he joined RSL last year.
Mendes, who turns 32 later this month, has spent his entire six-year career in New York. He debuted in 2005 when the club was still known as the MetroStars, and he's held on longer than any other player remaining from those days for the franchise.
Prior to his selection on Monday, Mendes was seventh among active players in games played for only one club in their careers, and last season he passed Seth Stammler to boast the most appearances in club history among players who have only played for New York.
At times a very valuable part of the Red Bulls central defense each of the past two seasons, Mendes started 16 games for New York in 2011 and 20 the year before. He enjoyed a career high 31 starts during his second season in 2006 but more recently has battled for his spot against club newcomers Tim Ream and Stephen Keel as a go-to central defender with the club.
Borman, 25, is set to join his third team since in a calendar year. He started 18 games for Toronto FC last season after he was shipped to the Reds from New York as part of the Dwayne De Rosario deal in April. His combined 19 starts last between New York and TFC marked a career high.


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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
[SWTOR] Chat Box
Now, this is a hobbyhorse of mine, so maybe I'm overstating the impact. Especially since every recent MMO has made the same mistake, in my view. Heck, maybe it's a sign that I'm wrong.
By default, system messages are sent to the general chat box. And there are a ton of system messages. When you hit level 25 and unlock your Legacy (shared XP pool and last name between your characters on a server), you start getting a Legacy XP message every time you earn normal XP. That's two lines in your chat box for every XP event. Which is every time you kill a mob. And the default pull is pack of three to four mobs.
Basically, the spam of system chat messages makes your chat box useless for its primary purpose. SWTOR is an extraordinarily quiet game, which is surprising for such a new game, and one that gets quieter as you increase in levels. This is very unfortunate, because you need the chat to organize groups to take on the heroics.
Go into the game, and turn off system messages in the general tab of your chat box. Turn it on in the Other tab (may actually happen automatically). All of a sudden, the general chat becomes usable once again, and you still have the Other tab if you need to recall a system message.
Of all the changes Bioware could make in their next patch, I strongly urge them to turn off system messages in the default chat box. I think it would make a world of a difference community-wise.
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The problem with turning off System Messages is that a number of other things are classified as System Messages that you wouldn't expect to be: Companion commentary, crew mission reports, and a few other things I can't recall right now but was upset to see were blocked when I filtered that out.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:37 AM, January 05, 2012
I wonder how much of the "quietness" comes from people using it as basically a single player game?ReplyDelete
I think it's important to have the option to turn off system messages and to keep them so people can do what their personal preference is.ReplyDelete
- Torkane12:01 AM, January 08, 2012
No MMO to date has had a "good" chatbox by default, unfortunately. For SW:ToR, I've found myself manually making three separate windows: One for general chat/trade, one for party/guild/say, and one for system messages. They're all in different locations on the screen, so I can keep track of them individually. I've also shrunk the text size in some of them, so I can fit more info on the screen.ReplyDelete
Too bad the default settings make the chatbox spammy and near-useless. :(


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Glendale's most famous resident – at least, its most well-known erstwhile ursine citizen – will be the highlight of the city's entry into the Tournament of Roses Parade come New Year's Day.
Meatball, the beloved bear who marauded through foothill neighborhoods last year, is going to be featured on the Glendale Rose Parade float, the Glendale City Council unanimously voted Tuesday night.
The float design is dubbed "Let's Be Neighbors," which will showcase Meatball popping out of a garbage can, as seen in the rendering below.
Meatball was twice tranquilized and taken deep into the Angeles National Forest after being found eating from area homes – once nabbing his namesake treat from a refrigerator in a garage.
On his third foray into populated areas -- in La Canada Flintridge -- the bear was lured with a trail of french fries, tranquilized and taken to Lions Tigers & Bears, an animal sanctuary in San Diego County. He lives there today.
Meanwhile, Meatball had spawned a Twitter account and a following that seemed to appreciate encounters between wildlife and humans in foothill areas.
On Tuesday, the Twitter account named GlenBearian/Meatball tweeted," Told ya I'd be back ..."
The design for the $155,000 float will mark Glendale's 100th entry in the Rose Parade, which itself will mark its 125th anniversary on Jan. 1, 2014.
The float will feature other "noted native inhabitants," according to a city staff report, including a coyote, mule deer, red-tailed hawk, raccoon, skunk and more.
The city abuts the Verdugo Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains, where such wildlife reside.
The theme of the 2014 Rose Prade, held in Glendale's neighboring city of Pasadena, is "Dreams Come True."
"The float dreams of the day when all the area's residents – people and wildlife alike – can call get along together," said the Glendale staff report.
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Wilder, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, 1867–1957, American author of the classic Little House series of children's books, b. Pepin, Wisc. She and her pioneer family traveled (1869–79) throughout the Midwest by covered wagon, settling (1880) in the Dakota Territory. She became a rural schoolteacher at 15, married (1885) Almanzo Wilder, and moved (1894) with him to a farm in the Missouri Ozarks. Beginning to write in her forties, she recorded fictionalized tales of her childhood. These novels, lively accounts of a loving, challenging, hardscrabble pioneer life, began with Little House in the Big Woods (1932), published when she was 65. Extremely popular, the series came to include Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), The Long Winter (1940), Little Town on the Prairie (1941), These Happy Golden Years (1943), and The First Four Years (1971). In creating these novels, Ingalls was aided by her daughter, the journalist and writer
Rose Wilder Lane, 1886–1968, who rewrote and edited the original works, adding dramatic structure to her mother's manuscripts. The degree of Lane's participation, which varied from book to book, has been disputed by several biographers. Ingalls' novels were also the basis of a U.S. television series (1974–82).
See W. Anderson, ed., A Little House Sampler (1988) and A Little House Reader (1998) biographies of Ingalls by W. Anderson, (1992), G. Wadsworth (1996), J. E. Miller (1998), and P. S. Hill (2007), of Ingalls and Lane by J. E. Miller (2008), and of Lane by W. Holtz (1995) studies by J. Spaeth (1987), J. E. Miller (1994), V. L. Wolf (1996), A. Romines (1997), D. M. Miller, ed. (2002), and A. C. Fellman (2008).
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Men's Basketball Signing Class Considered Among Nation's Best
TUCSON, Ariz. – Head coach Sean Miller and the Arizona men's basketball staff took a major step in building for the future of A Player's Program over the last week, signing a nationally-ranked recruiting class that will arrive on campus for the 2014-15 season.
Kadeem Allen, Parker Jackson-Cartwright, Stanley Johnson and Craig Victor comprise a class that is ranked No. 3 nationally by Scout, No. 4 by 247 Sports and No. 8 by ESPN. UA is one of two programs nationally that has ranked in the top-10 of ESPN's recruiting class rankings in each of the last three seasons, and will look to make it four-consecutive years when the final rankings come out next spring.
"A while back, we recognized as a staff that this was a very important class to solidify our future," Miller said. "I believe that this group of four certainly does that. We've added four hard-working, determined, well-coached competitors who will come in and add to the overall strength of our program from day one."
Arizona's 2013 Signing ClassKadeem Allen – G // 6-3 // 180 // Wilmington, N.C. // Hutchinson CCParker Jackson-Cartwright – G // 5-8 // 150 // Los Angeles, Calif. // LoyolaStanley Johnson – F // 6-7 // 220 // Santa Ana, Calif. // Mater DeiCraig Victor – F // 6-8 // 220 // New Orleans, La. // Findlay Prep
Kadeem AllenA breakout star in the junior college ranks last season, Allen was named a first-team NJCAA All-American after averaging 17.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game to lead Hutchinson to an NJCAA Tournament appearance. Allen is a combo guard with length and athleticism who led the Jayhawk Conference in steals last season with an average of 2.5 per game.
"Kadeem Allen has a chance to win a junior college national championship this year," Miller said. "He's a guard who can play multiple positions. He's an excellent defender. One of the striking things about Kadeem is his length and his 6-9 wing span.
"When you look at him defensively, he can really guard a variety of players and pressure the basketball. On offense, he has a great feel for how to play the game. With that feel and his ability to defend, Kadeem is going to be able to contribute in a lot of ways and play with endless combinations of players."
- Named the 2014 NJCAA Preseason Player of the Year by the Sporting News
- Named a first-team NJCAA All-American and a first-team NABC All-American in 2013 after averaging 17.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists as a freshman at Hutchinson
- Also picked up Jayhawk Western Division Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors, as well as first-team all-conference and all-region accolades, while helping lead Hutch to the 2013 Region VI title and an NJCAA Tournament berth
- Scored 571 points in 2012-13 to rank sixth on Hutch's freshman chart, and ranked fifth among all-time Hutch freshmen with a scoring average of 17.3 points per game
- Led the Jayhawk Conference in steals with an average of 2.5 per game and ranked third in the league with an average of 3.9 assists per contest
Parker Jackson-CartwrightJackson-Cartwright is a prototypical point guard who averaged 15 points and eight assists per game with an 8-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio as a junior at Loyola. The 2013 MaxPreps Junior All-American has excellent court vision and thrives in the transition game.
"We identified Parker a long time ago as a priority for us," Miller said. "The point guard position, in particular, is a real key in programs sustaining excellence over a long period of time. Parker is the consummate point guard. He sees the floor as well as any young player I've ever watched, he thrives in transition and his style on offense is a great fit for our style as a program.
"Parker plays in an excellent high school program that has a chance to win a California state championship this year. I look forward to him having an outstanding career at Arizona as our future point guard."
- Rated as a four-star prospect, and ranked as the No. 50 overall recruit and No. 12 point guard in his class by Scout
- Given a four-star rating, and ranked as the No. 60 overall prospect, No. 12 point guard and No. 5 player in California in his class by ESPN
- Given a four-star ranking and rated as the No. 57 overall recruit in his class by Rivals
- Given four stars, and ranked as the No. 59 overall prospect and the No. 14 point guard in his class by 247 Sports
- An NBPA Top 100 Camp, CP3 Elite Guard Camp, LeBron James Skills Academy and Nike Global Challenge invitee
- An honorable mention MaxPreps Junior All-American in 2013
- Earned Cal-Hi Sports all-state junior second-team and All-CIF Southern Section honors in 2013
- Averaged 15 points and eight assists per game with an 8-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio as a junior at Loyola
- A third-team Cal-Hi Sports all-state selection and first-team All-Sophomore honoree in 2012; also a first-team All-CIF Southern Section performer as a sophomore
- Earned first-team All-CIF Southern Section and California Freshman of the Year accolades in 2011
Stanley JohnsonOne of the elite talents in this year's graduating class, Johnson is a punishing wing who has won a pair of gold medals with USA Basketball and earned MVP honors at numerous high-level basketball events. The consensus top-10 recruit and 2013 MaxPreps National Junior of the Year has a rare blend of size, skill and intelligence that makes him a matchup nightmare on the court.
"I haven't seen many players with Stanley's combination of skill level and physical attributes," Miller said. "His physicality and athleticism speak for themselves, but you very seldom see that type of player really know how to play the game, be that smart and that skilled of a player. It's that combination of skill and intelligence matched with that physicality that makes him an exceptional talent.
"Stanley comes from Mater Dei High School, where he's already won three state championships, and I think that speaks for itself. He's the ultimate winner. Two prominent players from Mater Dei to play at Arizona before my time here were Reggie Geary and Miles Simon, both of whom went to the Final Four and one of whom won a national championship, so we're excited to rekindle that relationship with Mater Dei."
- Rated with five stars and ranked the No. 2 overall recruit and the top prospect both at his position and from the state of California in his class by 247 Sports
- Tabbed a five-star recruit and rated the No. 3 overall prospect, No. 1 small forward and No. 1 player from California in the Class of 2014 by Rivals.com
- Named a five-star recruit and ranked the No. 7 overall prospect, No. 2 small forward and No. 1 player in California in his graduating class by Scout.com
- Rated a five-star recruit and ranked the No. 9 overall prospect, No. 2 small forward and No. 1 player in the state of California in his class by ESPN
- Helped lead Team USA to gold at the 2012 FIBA U17 World Championship in Lithuania
- Member of the 2011 U.S. U16 National Team that captured the FIBA Americas championship
- Garnered co-MVP honors at the 2013 Under Armour Elite 24 Game
- Captured MOP accolades at the 2013 Pangos All-American Camp
- Collected co-MVP honors at the Nike Global Games after leading USA West to the championship with 23 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in the final
- Posted a double-double at the 2013 adidas Nations with 17 points and 11 rebounds for USA 2014 Red against USA 2014 Blue
- Has led Mater Dei to state titles in each of his first three high school seasons, posting 26 points and 12 rebounds in the 2013 title game
- Named National Junior of the Year and a first-team All-American by MaxPreps following a 2012-13 season in which he averaged 19.4 points and 8.7 rebounds per game
- Named CIF Division I State Player of the Year and State Junior of the Year, CIF Division I-AA co-Player of the Year and Orange County Register Player of the Year in 2013
- Won the Wooden Award for Division I schools within the CIF Southern Section as a junior
- Earned first-team Cal-Hi Sports all-state accolades as a junior
- A first-team All-CIF pick and the Cal-Hi Sophomore of the Year in 2012 after averaging 16.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game
- A MaxPreps honorable mention Freshman All-American in 2011
Craig VictorOne of the most versatile players in this year's class, Victor averaged a double-double as a junior last season at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans before transferring to Findlay Prep over the summer. The 2013 MaxPreps Junior All-American has a relentless motor on the floor and his combination of skill and size allows him to play either forward position.
"Craig Victor is a forward with tremendous versatility," Miller said. "So often, the word 'motor' is used when describing players, especially forwards. Craig Victor has a high motor. He has the intangibles of a winner and he does a lot of things on the court. We look for players whose style of play is a good fit for our style of play at Arizona, and Craig's versatility caught our eye. He has the ability to step away from the basket, he has the ability to score in the post, he can pass and he runs the floor in transition. Defensively, he can guard a variety of players. I believe he'll be able to come in here and contribute in a multitude of ways and have an excellent career with us.
"Playing at Findlay Prep, Craig has a chance to win a national high school championship this season. Findlay has an excellent basketball program, and having already coached Findlay alums Nick Johnson and Brandon Ashley, we know what type of competitor we're getting in Craig Victor."
- Rated with five stars and ranked the No. 17 overall prospect and No. 4 power forward in his class by Scout
- Given a four-star ranking and rated as the No. 28 overall recruit in his class by Rivals
- Given a four-star rating, and ranked as the No. 29 overall prospect, No. 6 power forward and No. 1 player from Louisiana in his class by ESPN
- Tabbed a four-star recruit and the No. 29 overall prospect and No. 5 power forward in his class by 247 Sports
- An NBPA Top 100 Camp, Pangos All-American Camp, adidas Nations and adidas VIP Exclusive Run invitee in 2013
- An honorable mention MaxPreps Junior All-American in 2013
- Named the 2013 NOLA.com Large School Player of the Year
- Ranked No. 1 on the 2013 NOLA.com Super 16
- Earned first-team all-state honors from both the Louisiana Sports Writers Association and USA Today in 2013
- Averaged 14.1 points, 11.3 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game, while shooting 60 percent from the field, as a junior at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans
- An honorable mention all-state selection by the LSWA as a sophomore in 2012
- Led St. Augustine to a state title as a freshman and a state runner-up showing as a sophomore
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That's right all. I'm here. Yay. Yes, you don't know me most likely. So....I'll just stand over here in the mysterious new people corner.....*looks around* Or...... *creates one* There we go.
I have....no useful skills? That's why I'm here...to learn more and offset my lack of usefulness. So...I'll likely be quiet unless I have a question or until I know something. KBYE O_O