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When the [artist id="2088128"]Jonas Brothers[/artist] hit the multiplex in February, fans will get to hear something that they've never heard before from the guys. MTV News has learned that the movie will include a brand-new, exclusive song, called "Love Is on Its Way."
"It's one of those songs that starts out [upbeat], and then halfway through it hits a downbeat," said Art Repola, a producer of "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience."
The Jonas Brothers shot the video for the song in New York's Central Park back in August, and despite the amount of attention the boys get from screaming girls, Repola said it was easy to shoot in such public spaces. "It was [crazy], but we had a lot of security," he said. "There was not a problem, surprisingly. [But] wherever they go, throngs follow."
The guys play characters in the video, as they did in the clip for "Burnin' Up." Nick is a horse-drawn carriage driver, Joe is a cop and Kevin is a hot-dog vendor — roles that Repola said the guys were excited to take on.
"I think the idea to do this was [director Bruce Hendricks']. I don't remember how we decided [who would do what]," he said. "But they sure had a lot of fun. They were completely open. We set out from the beginning to capture a day in the life. We had a lot of access to everything."
Of course, this isn't all the Jonas Brothers news we have. Check back Friday to see exclusive pictures and more scoop on the upcoming movie.
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I think about her every day:
when I'm using her lovely old slightly battered saucepans, or sometimes out gardening, or knitting ...or when there's snooker on the telly. All things Granny loved, and I love too.
Apart from the snooker.
She was the most amazing cook my Granny, and seemed to be able to conjure up a feast from a few lonely ingredients pulled out of an empty looking fridge. She was a wizard with leftovers, an accomplished soup sorcerer: everything she made tasted magic.
We were always close, and when I married a soldier, that bond grew even stronger. My Grandad fought in the Second World War so she was the one who understood what it was like to have a husband away.
More than I ever could.
Granny was so fond of my husband too: I think the only thing that would have made her happier would've been if I'd married Stephen Hendry. She did love her snooker!
Her wartime experience made her strong: Granny always had a quiet strength about her. A quiet confidence. In her 50's she opened a Cafe/Coffee Shop with some friends in Holywood near Belfast. All the food was homemade, often with fresh homegrown ingredients, and of course there was always plenty of soup.
These sort of places are so common now, but not then; especially not in Northern Ireland in the 70's. It was one of the first of its kind; a breath of fresh air in troubled times, and they were run off their feet. Granny never made a fuss - just got on with it, in her usual understated way.
I've so many memories, but one I often think about now is the time she took me, my cousins and some of our friends on holiday to one of those big caravan parks in the South of France. Seven girls between the ages of 13 and 18, on her own..I mean, can you imagine! And we were complete horrors. Still, through all the squabbling, sunburn, smoking, boy trouble and general teenage angst, she kept her cool. I've no idea how she coped.
Wish I'd inherited more of her calm.
After my Grandad passed away she lived on her own for years; but none of us worried, because we knew she was happy in her own space. I can still see Granny sitting in her bright airy flat, with some knitting on her knee; telly blaring away...
She was in her 90's when she died. We were lucky to have her in our lives for so long.
But that doesn't stop me missing her.
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Rovio Planning To Give Pigs The Spotlight In Angry Birds Spin-Off?
Rovio has already shown that it can make some pretty drastic tweaks to the gameplay of its incredibly successful Angry Birds series and still end up with something just as addictive; look no further than Angry Birds Space earlier this year. Now the developer might be thinking about another side project along those lines, turning the tables on the sides we're used to playing with the possibility that the evil (or maybe they're just misunderstood) pigs will star in their own new game.
The company has released a teaser press release and set up a "Bad Piggies" Facebook page. Right now, there's very little to go on besides the message "We has new…" before trailing off, and a picture of the pigs facing off against a bird (above). That one might be a clue, though, with the boards, rope, and loose nails suggesting that maybe Bad Piggies – if that is the actual name of the game – will have something to do with building-up the kind of structures we're used to having fun demolishing.
Exactly how you might make a game out of that remains to be seen, but perhaps some cross between Angry Birds and World of Goo, where you're trying to build a structure up to some goal point, while the computer-controlled birds try to knock it down? Whatever it is, we can't wait to hear more.
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Another clean sheet!
Jermaine Jenas netted the only goal of the game as we rode our luck at times to defeat bottom of the table West Brom at White Hart Lane.
Jermaine Jenas netted the only goal of the game as we rode our luck at times to defeat bottom of the table West Brom at White Hart Lane.
The result keeps us in the hunt for seventh spot and a place in Europe for next season, and our sixth clean sheet in a row at home keeps our fantastic defensive record in front of our own fans in tact.
Going into our final home game of the campaign in a fortnight's time, we would still have only conceded nine goals at home this season.
This means Manchester City will have to score twice to deny our current defence of the best ever home defensive record in the Club's history.
There was just one change to the side defeated at Manchester United last weekend, with Roman Pavlyuchenko returning to the starting line-up in place of the injured Darren Bent.
West Brom, buoyed by their 3-0 win over Sunderland last time out, got out of the traps quickly.
Lone striker Marc-Antoine Fortune got the better of Ledley King down the right-hand side after just three minutes and pulled back for Borja Valero, who miss-kicked from six yards out.
But Heurelho Gomes was tested on 22 minutes when defender Jonas Olsson climbed highest to meet Chris Brunt's in-swinging corner, forcing the goalkeeper into a smart reaction save.
Our first chance came a couple of minutes later, when Scott Carson spilled a Jenas cross at the feet of Pavlyuchenko, and although Jonathan Greening got a vital foot in, the rebound fell to Aaron Lennon, who just couldn't open out his body enough to find the net with a left-foot volley.
We had been a touch sloppy in possession up until this point, but once we had woken up, we began to take control.
Luka Modric released Pavlyuchenko with a superb outside of the foot ball on 33 minutes, but the Russian could only blaze his shot over once he got into the box.
His strike partner, Robbie Keane, should also have done better on 39 minutes, when he could only muster an air shot from six yards out after Lennon's low cross.
Lennon himself was the first to properly test Carson a minute later, when he forced the visiting goalkeeper into a full stretch save with a well-hit shot from the edge of the box.
But as we pushed on looking to break the deadlock, we found ourselves a little thin on the ground at the back when West Brom went down the other end. Gianni Zuiverloon stood a good ball up to the back post for Fortune to find a yard of space and volley over.
However, Tony Mowbray's men, for all their efforts, were not showing a great deal of cutting edge despite their fair share of possession, and we deservedly took the lead.
Vedran Corluka fed Jenas 25 yards out, and he curled his fourth goal of the season neatly into the bottom right-hand corner, well out of Carson's reach.
However, the goal certainly did not dampen West Brom's spirits, and their second half performance was one full of belief.
The first of some great second half chances came five minutes after the break, when Greening released Fortune, who got into the box only to shoot straight at Gomes.
But the striker was far more unfortunate just a minute later, when he latched onto a long ball Jonathan Woodgate had misjudged the bounce of, and hit a shot that was deflected onto the inside of Gomes' right-hand post before running to safety.
It did not seem inevitable that we would double our lead, although Lennon was once again in fine form and certainly our driving force.
On 56 minutes, he broke away after a spell of West Brom pressure and once again tested Carson with a shot on getting into the box.
Two minutes later, he left his full-back Paul Robinson flat-footed as he skipped past, and put in a teasing low cross just out of Keane's reach with the goal gaping.
But that was to be our best chance of the half as it was the visitors who came closest to scoring during the 45 minutes.
Defender Shelton Martis will not be sleeping easy tonight, thinking of the header he put over the bar unmarked from six yards out after Brunt's free-kick to the back post on 69 minutes.
But the Caribbean was unlucky two minutes later, when he this time rose to meet Brunt's corner and got his header on target, only for substitute Jermain Defoe, of all people to block on the line, before Gomes turned over.
Defoe had entered as a 65th minute substitute for Pavlyuchenko to a fantastic reception from our fans, after what has no doubt been a difficult week for him and his family.
Then, nine minutes from time, it was Gomes' turn for the heroics, when he showed incredible reflexes to turn away Robert Koren's deflected shot that appeared to be heading out of his reach and into the back of the net.
It was clear at this point that it was, thankfully, not to be West Brom's day, and their heads may have dropped a little in the closing stages.
Lennon was unfortunate not to double our lead a minute from time, when he stepped inside of his defender and hit shot against Carson's left-hand post from inside the box.
Jenas also tested Carson in stoppage time, but it is safe to say we will be happy with the 1-0 scoreline after a brave effort from the visitors.
Spurs (4-4-2): Gomes; Corluka, Woodgate, King, Assou-Ekotto; Lennon, Palacios, Jenas, Modric; Pevlyuchenko (Defoe, 65), Keane
Subs not used: Cudicini, A Hutton Bale, Zokora, Huddlestone, Bentley
West Brom (4-4-1-1): Carson; Zuiverloon, Martis, Olsson, Robinson (Simpson, 58); Brunt, Mulumbu (Menseguez, 69), Greening, Koren; Valero (Teixeira, 77); Fortune
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World stock markets rebounded Friday on anticipation that central banks will act to keep any political instability in Greece following weekend elections from destabilizing the global economy.
Uncertainty ahead of the Greek elections has weighed heavily on sentiment this week, but was lifted somewhat Friday by the prospect that central banks would provide monetary stimulus if political parties opposed to maintaining terms of the Greek bailout win the election on Sunday. Investors fear that reneging on its bailout terms would force Greece to leave the euro currency union, with uncertain consequences for financial markets and the global economy.
Britain's FTSE 100 closed 0.2 percent higher at 5,478.81 while Germany's DAX gained 1.5 percent to 6,229.41. France's CAC-40 rose 1.8 percent at 3,087.62.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.4 percent at 12,704.85 while the Standard & Poor's 500 rose 0.5 percent to 1,335.51. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 closed flat at 8,569.32, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 2.3 percent.
The Bank of England and the U.K. government said they stand ready to offer up to 140 billion pounds ($217 billion) in cheap loans to lenders that might have trouble raising money from credit markets, which could tighten up if the Greek elections' results spook investors.
The European Central Bank, meanwhile, continues to offer unlimited amounts of cheap short-term loans as well, even though its chief, Mario Draghi, has warned that Europe governments need to make bold decisions to shore up confidence in the euro.
Draghi said Friday the ECB has supported banks against the ongoing debt crisis with (EURO)1 trillion ($1.26 trillion) in emergency credit to banks and that now it was the governments' turn to act.
Germany, however, is reluctant to accept any big moves that might cost Berlin more money, such as jointly-issued eurobonds. Any solutions would be announced at a June 28 summit of world leaders.
"I think Europe will do something because they have to save Greece and Spain. If they don't, it will be the end of Europe," said Francis Lun, managing director of Lyncean Holdings in Hong Kong. "I think maybe the worst is over. I think we have reached the nadir. Finally they have been pushed to do something."
Illustrating the urgency of the situation, Spain and Italy have seen their borrowing rates jump higher this week. Should the two countries find it too expensive to finance themselves on capital markets, they would need money from Europe's bailout funds. The problem is their combined financing needs dwarf all the sums EU countries could provide.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has asked EU leaders to push the European Central Bank to restart a program of purchases of government bonds that helped ease the country's borrowing rate last fall. The ECB, however, remains reluctant to do so, saying it would provide only temporarily relieve symptoms of underlying problems that need fixing by European governments.
In the U.S., speculation has grown that the U.S. Federal Reserve was preparing to pump more money into the economy to breathe life into its slackening recovery. Weak economic data _ including a drop in industrial production and consumer confidence on Friday _ suggests the Fed may be.
Elsewhere, benchmarks stock indexes in Singapore, Taiwan, mainland China and India closed higher. South Korea's Kospi fell 0.7 percent.
Benchmark oil for July delivery fell 25 cents to $83.66 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.29 cents to finish at $83.91 per barrel on the Nymex on Thursday.
In currencies, the euro rose to $1.2628 from $1.2600 late Thursday in New York. The dollar fell to 78.68 yen from 79.27 yen.


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Sewn of nylon fabric that keeps wind and moisture at bay, it's a shirt made for bombing the slopes on warmer days. But it's also perfect for chilling at the lodge or making the occasional beer run. Bonus: Spilled drinks roll right off the water-resistant exterior.
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We notice that our friends over at Power Word Fold got bOING-bOING'd, today. Good for them. We hope that their server is tuned and that they're using WP-cache. Otherwise, it's going to be a bumpy ride. We grew up along the banks of the Housatonic (not the Miskatonic) and never quite got the H.P. Lovecraft […]
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The Vigo Variation
We had some email from Marc Vigo this week, which pleased us mightily. Marc is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and studies some fascinating stuff that is beyond our abilities to describe: modeling and computational geometry and so on. Very cool. He and his friends in the AEP Barcelona are preparing for […]


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In Tim Lincecum's first start of 2013, catcher Buster Posey played first base.
Speculation was hot and heavy last year that the two had a strained relationship. Posey didn't catch Lincecum much, but both of them, along with manager Bruce Bochy, denied there were any issues between them. In fact, they looked perfectly fine together in the postseason, when Lincecum dominated in relief while throwing to Posey.


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In January, word got round that François Payard would be returning to the Upper East Side to open a new patisserie sometime in the spring. Spring has come and gone with no patisserie, though it did bring pricey macarons and asshole-y cupcakes to the neighborhood.
Fortunately for area sweet fiends, The Feast has learned that Payard will open his patisserie sometime in the fall. It will boast a 25-seat "salon" and 20-seat outdoor patio, as well as the usual pastries, cakes, sandwiches, and, it goes without saying, macarons.
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Escondido, California - Four African lion cubs cautiously followed their mother out of their den onto their new exhibit this morning at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. To the delight of Safari Park visitors, the cubs provided lots of ooh and aah moments, and plenty of photo opportunities, as they approached the viewing windows at Lion Camp and then began exploring the habitat. The cubs mostly followed mom's lead while exploring, but occasionally, bravely ventured off on their own to check out the long grass to play in and logs and rocks to climb.
The young lions, one male and three females, were born June 22 to mother Oshana, who has been bonding with and caring for the little felines in her den, out of public view. Animal care staff says Oshana has been extremely protective and attentive to her cubs, and only recently began taking them into a behind-the-scenes outdoor area where they could run around and enjoy the sunshine. Today, keepers deemed the cubs were strong enough to explore the larger exhibit at Lion Camp.
The almost three-month-old cubs have been named Ernest, Evelyn, Marion and Miss Ellen, in honor of longtime San Diego Zoo Global supporters Ernest and Evelyn Rady and Marion Wilson, and in memory of Miss Ellen Browning Scripps, the San Diego Zoo's first benefactor. They are described by keepers to be very active, very vocal, curious and feisty, each with their own distinctive personalities. Keepers tell them apart by shaving a small patch of hair in a different place on each animal. Weighing approximately three-and-a-half pounds at birth, the cubs are healthy and growing well and currently weigh 22 pounds each. When full grown around three years of age, female lions can weigh around 300 pounds and male lions can weigh around 500 pounds.
The Safari Park's lion pride consists of Oshana and the four new cubs; the cub's father, Izu; adult female Mina; and two of Oshana's older offspring, Ken and Dixie. The cubs have been visually introduced to their father, Izu, and keepers will introduce them physically in the near future.
Visitors to Lion Camp may see Oshana and her cubs daily from 9 to 11:30 a.m., when keepers will rotate mom and cubs inside and bring out either Ken and Dixie, or Izu and Mina for the remainder of the day.
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You must have read about the raids conducted by the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department, JAIS over the New Year weekend that ended with the arrests and charging of a number of Muslim Malaysians for offences related to alcohol consumption and khalwat. And if you are like me, a non-Muslim Malaysian you would have heaved a sigh of resignation and carried on. Such has life in Malaysia developed to be lor. But this morning I almost choked on a piece of my breakfast when I read the news story about the raids. The state executive councillor, Dr. Hasan Ali, in defending the JAIS raids said that 10 people would be charged in the Syariah Court for consuming alchohol. Okay. Muslims must not drink, I know that.
Then he went on to say that 46 others would have to undergo counselling for being present at an outlet that served alcohol!!!
Is he serious? Being present in an outlet that served alcohol osso cannot ah? Then how man? What about the hard-working Muslim Malaysian flers with honest jobs in hotel bars, restaurants, our national airline, golf clubs etc. to earn a decent living for themselves and their families? Must resign is it? Or all request for transfer to the car park pondok? Eh? Wait a minute. Car park osso part of the outlet that serves alcohol what. Which reminds me. Chinese New Year is coming. And we Chinese flers do drink. Especially when the hypermarkets are selling crates of beer at laughingly low prices. Just the other day I went and stocked up on beers for the Chinese New Year and I am quite sure that the young lady at the check-out counter was Muslim. She wore a tudung even. She didn't seem to have a problem being in an outlet that sold alcohol. After all she isn't going to drink it. Okay la. Maybe she is not there anymore. Attending counselling sessions maybe?
I am very glad that I was not born a Muslim Malaysian. Otherwise I sure damn confuse one man.


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ROSS COUNTY manager Derek Adams is satisfied with his team's early-season progress as he looks to get more points in the bag at Fir Park.
County's late turnaround victory against Hearts last weekend made it seven points from four Scottish Premiership games for County since they lost their first three matches of the season.
Adams had one of the biggest rebuilding jobs in the division this summer after losing the likes of Iain Vigurs and Paul Lawson, who could both line up against County for Motherwell.
But his experience of last season, when the arrival of the likes of Steffen Wohlfarth in a January reshuffle helped propel County into the top six, made him confident of producing another strong team.
And he was boosted by summer signing Melvin de Leeuw's impact from the bench last week as the Dutchman scored the equaliser and set up Richie Brittain's winner.
"Year on year you have to change the team, that's just the nature of the business and where we are location-wise," Adams said.
"We have taken in nine players and lost nine players. We did have a big change-over in January as well. It has been a good turnover for us and it takes time for players to adapt.
"We have taken in a number of foreign players and it takes time for them to adjust. I am delighted with the way things have been going.
"We have taken seven points from the last four matches and played really well.
"It's going to be tough in the Premiership but we are enjoying it. We are scoring goals and that's what you want. We probably have to be a wee bit tighter at the back."
Like last season, Adams wants to get far enough away from the bottom of the table to be able to push on in January without the threat of relegation.
County remain 15 points ahead of Hearts despite the Edinburgh club making decent progress into their pre-season punishment.
"We know the points total we want to get to in January and then we will look to take our season forward from there," Adams said.
"We had a fantastic period from last January, we got eight wins from 11 matches in our first season in the SPL.
"We have to look at being able to gather points to move away from the bottom of the table, which every team is aiming to do, and move forward from there."


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Writingfor me, as always, is a slow process. I can plan and plan, but not until I start to create does the story actually take shape. In other words: I think I know what is going to happen next, but I don't. Only my characters do (and even they aren't always sure).
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It was late in the evening on the day after Christmas, and Evelyn Hernandez should have been at home, warm, and in bed. Instead, she was sitting on the cold, cushion-less seat of a folding metal chair in an overly bright room located somewhere inside the County Sheriff's Station.
Book three picks up pretty close to where book two left off. As Evelyn continues to deal with the violent repercussions of the final events in The Dream Diaries, something happens to her over the Christmas holidays that will further complicate her return to school for the second semester of her junior year.
Okay, that's all you get … because this story ain't gonna write itself!
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The eight candidates running in Iran's June 14 election for president took radically different stands on personal freedoms, women's rights and censorship in the country's second round of televised debates Wednesday. Moderates vowed to loosen restrictions and hard-liners backed strong state intervention in people' lives.
The four-hour debate focused on cultural issues. A previous round covered the economy, and an upcoming debate will be devoted to foreign policy and security.
The election is to pick a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run for a third term. His re-election in 2009 was hotly disputed and set off weeks of street riots. Since then, heavy government repression has driven reformers off the streets, and last month, leading reform-minded candidates for president were disqualified.
Iran's president does not have control of central issues like nuclear development policy, but a president who has a close relationship with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can wield influence.
During the debate, centrist Hasan Rowhani said he would form a women's affairs ministry if elected, but Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said the best job for a woman is to be a mother.
Pro-reform candidate Mohammad Reza Aref insisted that Iranians have social and cultural rights under the constitution, complaining that the government looks at rights as a privilege it can deny, while imposing censorship at will.
"The solution to the country's cultural problems is to minimize the government's interference and allow guild associations and experts to run their own affairs," said Rowhani, Iran's former top nuclear negotiator. "Women work but don't enjoy equal rights. I'll allocate special insurance for women and will form a women affairs ministry to return their trampled rights to them."
Had-liner Jalili disagreed.
"The main role for a woman is to be a mother. If we look at mother as a fulltime role to raise children properly, many social ills would be erased," he said.
Aref, a former vice president when reformist leader Mohammad Khatami was president, said steps like banning satellite dishes, imposing media censorship, questioning university teachers and creating a tense security atmosphere in universities in recent years under Ahmadinejad have only caused disappointment and a sense of insecurity for Iran's 76 million people.
"An unprecedented security atmosphere has been imposed in recent years that caused lack of motivation among students," he said. "The solution is not confrontation, elimination or shutting down. We are living in the age of communications. The solution is producing fine cultural works."
Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, a lawmaker, said the country's leaders must intervene to protect the country's Islamic identity and culture.
"To fight drug addiction, we prevent drug smuggling and promote security. It's the same for cultural issues. If a cultural work such as a book or film insults people's religious beliefs and sanctities or attacks the moral pillars of the society, will you allow it to enter families and create corruption? Won't you censor it?" he asked.
Two other Khamenei loyalists, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Ali Akbar Velayati, sent mixed signals in an attempt to broadcast flexibility.
Qalibaf, Tehran's mayor, is a former Republican Guard commander and considered an insider, but he adopted the language of reformists.
Both said the next government must move toward reducing its intervention in people's private lives and allow experts to run cultural affairs. Yet they stuck to hard-line values.
Iran's clerics have shut down more than 150 newspapers, jailed dozens of writers and banned many news websites in the past decade over vague charges of insulting authorities or Islamic tenets.
Satellite dishes are banned, but Rowhani said about half of Iran's people tune in to foreign television channels. Television channels are under state control, and no private channels are allowed to operate in Iran. Authorities jam access to foreign satellite channels.
Although Wednesday's debate was restricted to cultural issues, some candidates still mentioned inflation and unemployment, which stand at the center of the presidential campaigning.
Mohsen Rezaei, a former commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, said cultural progress won't be achieved until economic woes are solved.
To make his point, he held up a 10,000-rial bill.
"Today, it's equal to 3,000 rials this time last year. Poverty, unemployment and inflation are serious problems. Cultural programs are ineffective until economic problems are tackled," he said.
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At around 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, Anne Krineski Joyce was making meatballs for that evening's dinner. She was in the kitchen with her three kids, Lara, 12, James, 9, and 6-year-old Justin.
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Campbell Brown, the anchor of the CNN program "No Bias, No Bull," has challenged conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to come onto her show and debate the merits of the stimulus package. CNN's chief business correspondent Ali Velshi had criticized Limbaugh's stimulus suggestions, offered on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, and Limbaugh fired back at Velshi on his radio show yesterday, calling Velshi "incompetent."
Campbell had Velshi on her show last night to address Limbaugh's criticisms in a lengthy rebuttal. She then invited Limbaugh to come and debate the stimulus package with Velshi, instead of just lobbying personal attacks on his radio program. We'll see if Rush accepts the challenge.
Watch the clip of Brown and Velshi below.
CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: But, first, we are "Cutting Through The
And, last night, on this program, we spent some time talking about Rush Limbaugh and a piece he had in "The Wall Street Journal" arguing there should be more emphasis right now on tax cuts to help the economy.
Our chief business correspondent, Ali Velshi, came on and took issue with some of what Limbaugh said.
Rush then responded with this today.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Mr. Velshi, you are incompetent. You are a disservice to your business, except you fit right in at CNN, disinformation, character assaults.
This economy is nowhere near as bad as it was in 1982.
BROWN: So, let's stop there.
Now, Mr. Limbaugh, you may well have a legitimate case to make about tax cuts and what they can do for the economy, but the histrionics and the name-calling, they undermine anything constructive you might have to say.
Rush, I would love for you to come on, on this show and debate Ali on the issues. Make a case for your ideas. Our country is in desperate straits right now, and we need ideas. But what we don't need is nasty rhetoric and useless noise. This doesn't help anyone get a job or keep a job or feed their family.
If there were ever a time to put the meanness behind us and focus on real dialogue and real solutions, this is the time. And, on that note, we invited Ali to respond, not to the name-calling, but to the substance of this debate.
We're putting ourselves to our NO BIAS, NO BULL test tonight. And, Ali, let's see, you know what you are. You're incompetent. No, seriously. I mean, let's deal with the substance of the issues and forget the other stuff he said.
ALI VELSHI, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Right. Right.
BROWN: And, with that in mind, let me play a little bit more of what -- of the case he made on his radio program.
VELSHI: Sure.
LIMBAUGH: Now, Mr. Velshi, after calling me a liar -- and I'm not even a business reporter, but you pretend to be -- 1986, GDP down over 6 percent. We were in a recession.
What was the centerpiece of Mr. Reagan's economic recovery plan, Mr. Velshi? Let me spell it for you, T-A-X C-U-T-S.
In fact, Mr. Velshi, you may not have seen anything like this before, but I have. I have seen worse. I lived through worse.
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the top marginal tax rate, Mr. Velshi, was 70 percent. When Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the top marginal tax rate was 28 percent.
BROWN: All right. So, he argues the economy much worse in the early '80s than it is right now.
Does he have a point?
VELSHI: Yes, I mean, I don't want to get into a "My recession is worse than your recession" argument. But, ultimately, I am going to have to interject with a few facts that he might have to think about. We have -- unemployment was higher back then than it is today. It was 10.8 percent. It's 7.2 percent right now.
But 2008, we saw the price of a median single family home drop 15 percent. Never before have we seen that on record. Industrial production, which is the measure of how much we actually make in this country, has never been lower than it is right now.
Personal income, adjusted for inflation, was higher then than it is today. Personal savings -- right after Reagan got elected, people were socking away 12 percent of what they made, today, virtually nothing, which means we don't have anything to get us through a recession.
But put all of the economic talk aside for a second. Ultimately -- we have talked about this many times -- this is an economy that is based on people's willingness to spend money, more than any other economy in the world. People are not willing to spend money.
And just to give you the one indication of this that we always talk about, and it's consumer confidence. Inconveniently, for Mr. Limbaugh, the standard for consumer confidence was set in 1985. So, 1985, whatever consumer confidence was back then is considered 100. Today, it
is at 38. It is the lowest it has ever been.
Until consumers start buying, businesses will not start investing. You can give them all the tax cuts you want; they can't.
Now, he is right about something. Reagan cut taxes from 70 percent to 26 percent. They're 35 percent right now, the top marginal tax rate. So, we don't -- we can't halve them.
Back then, when you took them from that rate over a course of years, down to 26 percent, even if you didn't believe in tax cuts, you would really believe that that would be stimulative.
So, ultimately, there are two schools of thought, cut taxes or stimulate the economy another way. Virtually nobody falls into one entirely camp or the other. I, too, would like to pay lower taxes.
But, ultimately, the facts are the facts. But maybe it was worse for a lot of people. Every recession is hard on -- on some people. But we are in a very dire situation right now.
BROWN: All right, Ali Velshi with that perspective tonight. Certainly, I will reiterate my request for Rush Limbaugh to come on.
VELSHI: Absolutely.
BROWN: And we could actually have this as a debate. But, Ali, appreciate it tonight. Thanks, as always.


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Saturday, September 25, 2010
poison ivy
poison ivy..if you see any red leaves in a tree now, its poison ivy..It is one of the 1st leaves to change colors in the fall, besides the burning bush,and pops red leaves in the spring just to stand out.. get ur attn. and the leaves imitate a immature cute harmless baby leaf ,so everything about its being is just to intice us, get r attn. draw us in and as soon as we reach in to admire it..it lets you have it..
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
If you build it,they will come
I have alot to do to get ready for spring..taking mowing head on, We are offering free gutter cleaning to all our full season mowing customers,
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Often I write some kind of summary when I get back from a conference, but today I ran into Justin Donaldson, a fellow Indiana alum, who said he still occasionally finds use of the content, or at least the visualizations, on my blog. Anyhow, I felt motivated to write my notes up as a blog post.
Overall many of the talks I attended where using latent factor models and stochastic gradient descent. A few mentions of gradient boosted trees. Good stuff. My favorite talks…
- Charles Elkin's "A Log-Linear Model with Latent Features for Dyadic Prediction". A scalable method to do collaborative filtering using both latent features and "side information" (user/item content features). Can't wait to try it out! Here's a link.
- Peter Norvig's Keynote about data mining at Google. Some tidbits:
- Google mostly uses unsupervised or semi-supervised learning, both because of the cost of labeling and because labels themselves can be an impediment to higher accuracy.
- He had this great graph of the accuracy of several algorithms for the word sense disambiguation task plotted against the amount of data used in training. The best performing algorithm always underperformed the worst algorithm when it was given an order of magnitude more data. A great argument for simple learning algorithms at very large scale.
- They are very interested in transfer learning
- KDD Cup. Topic was music recommendation using Yahoo's data.
- Many of the same ideas and observations as in the Netflix Prize. Neighbor models and latent factor models trained with stochastic gradient descent seemed pervasive.
- Ensembles were necessary to win, but the accuracy improvement wasn't huge over the best individual models. Quite the argument for not using ensembles in industry.
- Yahoo organizers made some really interesting comments about the data. Among them that the mean rating is quite different for power users, which makes sense. And the data is acquired from different UI mechanisms, if I understood correctly, which impacts the distributions.
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When you're looking for a healthy meal or snack that is also easy to make and cheap to buy the ingredients for, quesadillas top the list. There are so many ways to make delicious and healthy quesadillas, so we'll share some of these ideas with you below.
The BLT Quesadilla
You thought you could only make a BLT with bread, mayonnaise and all the rest of ingredients, but a quesadilla BLT is healthier and maybe even tastier than its classic cousin. All you have to do is put all the ingredients in a quesadilla and add some mozzarella cheese. If you don't want to put the lettuce and tomato inside the quesadilla, add it on top!
Classic Mexican Quesadilla
For a classic Mexican quesadilla, put black beans, corn, salsa and mozzarella or Monterey Jack cheese inside a quesadilla and pop it over some heat on the stove. Add guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo and cilantro on top as garnishes.
Pizza Quesadillas
You don't have to order out to have a delicious pizza at home. Just make a pizza quesadilla with some dipping sauce. Put a quesadilla in a pan with some olive oil on the stove. Add mozzarella cheese, some marinara sauce and any toppings you like. Pepperoni, peppers, onions, mushrooms, ham, pineapple, sausage and green and black olives are always a good idea, but you can go a bit simpler if you want. Put another tortilla on top and flip to cook. Cut the quesadilla into triangles and use some leftover marinara dipping sauce and parsley for garnishes.


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PHP built-in functionsBased on the common tasks required PHP has built in functions available at script level to use. These functions need not be declared and can directly used. Some common examples are string functions, math function and other basic functions to develop scripts.
User defined functionsWe can write code and define function for our use in our scripts, we will learn more about these functions here. We will learn how to declare a function, pass a variable or an array and how to return variables or array to main script or calling script. Let us see how to define a function.
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Step 3
Insert the needle and exit 5 dots out. Re-insert the needle from the bottom 3 dots behind, and exit 6 dots ahead. Then re-insert the needle exactly in the previous exit (3 dots behind). Exit again 6 dots ahead . . . and repeat.
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Thank you for posting this up. I need some help though. In PICTURE 3, you said that "Insert the needle and exit 5 dots out." The picture shows the needle going upwards at the 3rd dot. Can you please clarify should it be 3rd or 5th dot?


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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has extended a deadline for Shi'ite gunmen fighting government forces in the southern city of Basra to surrender their weapons, as coalition forces have dropped bombs on the city.
Mr. Maliki said militants will be rewarded financially if they hand over their weapons anytime between this Saturday and April 8. He had earlier set Friday as the deadline.
The British military says U.S. warplanes dropped bombs today on Basra for the first time in support of Iraqi ground forces. More than 100 people have been killed in fierce fighting in Basra and other areas since Tuesday.
In Baghdad, Iraqi officials say the office of Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has been hit by mortar fire in the fortified Green Zone. There is no word yet on casualties.
The U.S. State Department urged all U.S. embassy personnel in the Green Zone to stay inside reinforced buildings. Two Americans were killed this week by rocket fire there.
Meanwhile, a leading Iranian Shi'ite cleric urged Iraq's government and Shi'ite militant groups to negotiate an end to the clashes. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati called for the talks in his speech during prayers Friday in Tehran.
The militants are mostly followers of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has called for a political solution to the crisis. However, Mr. Maliki has vowed to continue the military offensive in Basra "to the end" with no negotiations or retreat.
Clashes between Sadr's Mahdi Army and Iraqi forces in southern Iraq and Baghdad are straining a seven-month cease-fire called by the cleric.
Iraqi authorities imposed a three-day curfew in Baghdad in a bid to contain violent clashes. Under the curfew, which will last until 5 a.m. Sunday, no unauthorized vehicles or pedestrians are allowed on the streets.
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Experts have long known that African American men are more likely to die from prostate cancer, but a new study may have found the reason why. Previous research has shown that black men are 74 percent more likely to get the disease than white men and are twice as likely to die from it. Now a new study suggests African-American males have a certain genetic makeup that makes prostate tumors more aggressive and resistant to drug treatments. Researchers believe this difference may contribute to the large mortality disparity between black and white men when it comes to the cancer.
The study was done by researchers at the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center in Washington DC. Experts found that genetic variation, called differential RNA splicing, could play a role in tumor aggressiveness and treatability of African-American men.
The study reported that the splicing led molecules to contain different combinations of cell proteins, which eventually made tumors more aggressive. When exposed to prostate cancer treatments, due to the genetic variation of these proteins, the drug was ineffective and was also resisted by the body. Blacks were more likely to think their cancer was not aggressive and were more likely to worry about the treatment's cost and side effects than their white counterparts.
The five-year survival rate for men with prostate cancer is 99 percent and the 15-year survival rate is 96 percent. But these statistics only apply to men who receive treatment.
Non-white men are less likely to have surgery to treat their prostate cancer, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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By Laura Zuckerman
(Reuters) - An openly gay former college professor who lives in Arizona said on Friday he is running as the Democratic candidate for the lone U.S. House of Representatives seat in Wyoming to protest the absence of other Democrats seeking the office in the conservative state.
Richard Grayson, 63, said the fact he is a liberal activist who strongly supports same-sex marriage and abortion rights makes him a long-shot to win a general election contest against incumbent Republican Cynthia Lummis, who first won the seat in 2008.
"My winning is not within the realm of possibility, but I would rather see a hopeless campaign by a Democrat than none at all," Grayson said.
He said it would be too dispiriting to watch Lummis or her Republican primary opponent Jason Senteney, a former U.S. Marine who calls himself a "blue-collar conservative," run unopposed in November.
Grayson has previously made unsuccessful congressional bids in Florida and Arizona after Democratic candidates failed to materialize. "It's a sad state of affairs when someone like me has to run for office because no one else will," he said.
The U.S. Constitution requires candidates for the House to be an inhabitant of the state in which he is seeking office at the time of the election. Grayson said he intends to rent a room or an apartment in Wyoming before the general election on Nov. 4.
The Wyoming Democratic Party said it failed to find a viable challenger to the Republican nominee this year, but is cultivating 2016 candidates.
"There are major political hurdles in Wyoming that almost make it 'act of God' territory for a Democrat to win," said the Wyoming Democratic Party's executive director, Robin Van Ausdall.
It has been nearly three decades since a Democrat was elected to the U.S. House in Wyoming. "Our potential candidates are working people who can't afford to take off the time needed for a serious campaign," said Van Ausdall.
Senteney, who challenges Lummis in an Aug. 19 primary, said Grayson's chances are slim because "different states have different mindsets and him being from Arizona means he's not in touch with Wyoming." Lummis did not respond to requests for comment.
Grayson is one of two Democrats from outside Wyoming seeking election to Congress in the Cowboy State. William Bryk of New York is vying for the party's nomination for U.S. Senate.
(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Will Dunham)


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Countryfile Sunday 9th September Rame Head Episode
The B4 Project is a Community Interest Company representing a group of beekeepers whose aim is to protect the UK's native honey bee, Apis mellifera mellifera.
The purpose of the B4 Project is to conserve, protect and increase the population of Apis mellifera mellifera, the European Dark Honey Bee (EDHB), by the fusion of science and beekeeping. This will be achieved by:-
- Setting up reserves with like-minded beekeepers.
- Working closely with scientists to identify genetic purity of samples taken geographically.
- Informing the public about the EDHB.
- Influencing decision makers.
These aims will be achieved by bidding for grant funding. Revised 13.12.2017
The Heritage Lottery Fund supported a partnership between B4, Eden, Paignton Zoo, Heligan, and Paradise Park, enabling B4 to commission preliminary genetic research which revealed that, while there has been a great deal of hybridisation, Cornwall still retained some relatively pure specimens of Apis mellifera mellifera.
B4 now has a mixture of apiaries, mating apiaries and observation hives at Eden, Heligan, Paignton Zoo, Paradise Park, Godolphin, Occombe Farm, Plymouth University, Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Tregantle Fort, Cockington Manor House, The Duchy Nursery and Mount Edgcumbe Country Park Black Bee Reserve.
Natural Environment Research Council PhD research project. Plymouth University and B4 are embarking on an exciting 4½ year collaboration, which includes PhD and MSc studentships. The PhD studentship is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and will investigate local adaptation in UK populations of the dark honey bee.
This collaboration will involve using the latest in genetic screening techniques as well as looking at colony traits with different genetic signatures.
We will also investigate the feasibility of using cryopreserved sperm as an archive of genetic material for safeguarding present day genetic variation.
Kurt Jackson's exhibition, "Bees (And the Odd Wasp) in My Bonnet"…. opens on the 25th March St Just. B4-Plymouth University will be represented.
Tim Smit opened Mount Edgcumbe Country Park Black Bee Reserve 2pm Thursday 25/05/17 at the French Conservatory.
The public bee display will improve the indigenous stock of these rare bees and will be the public interface of the Black Bee Reserve at the Park.
The admirable qualities of Apis mellifera mellifera :-
- significant winter hardiness
- low tendency to swarm
- defensive against invaders such as wasps
- careful, measured "maritime" brood cycle
- strong drive to collect pollen
- high longevity of the worker bees and queen
- excellent flight strength even in cold weather
- possible hardiness against varroa
Duchy Supports Aims of Project to Save Cornish Black Honey Bees http://duchyofcornwall.org/news/duchy-helps-cornish-black-bees/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — They were lovers for seven years, but Mihoko Manabe told jurors at her former fiance's murder trial that she never knew the true identity of the man who called himself by multiple names including Clark Rockefeller until he was charged with murder.
Manabe told a story elicited by a prosecutor to show that by the time she met the man whose true name was Christian Gerhartsreiter he had a terrible secret to hide.
Manabe said she met her boyfriend in 1987 when they worked at a New York brokerage firm. She was a translator; he was head of the bonds desk. She knew him as Christopher Crowe until he began using the Rockefeller pseudonym.
She didn't know until recently that he was Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant charged with the murder of a California man who vanished in 1985.
"He was an unusual person," she said, but after police began calling to interview him, she said he became downright odd.
"After the call, he was markedly different," she said.
He became paranoid and said they had to go into hiding. She described a cloak-and-dagger existence in which he had her dye his hair blonde, grew a beard, exchanged his glasses for contact lenses, and made plans to leave the country.
He proposed marriage and she accepted, she said, but they neither left the country nor got married.
"The plans all fell by the wayside," she said.
Her fiance quit his job at another major brokerage house and never worked again. She said she supported him while he stayed home and took care of bills and household chores. She got him a credit card in the name Clark Rockefeller.
"Why did you stick around that long and go along with it?" asked Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian.
"He had asked me to marry him and I was loyal," she said.
"Did you love him?" asked Balian.
"Yes, I did," said the witness as her former lover sat at a courtroom table taking notes and not looking at her.
"Did you believe he loved you?" asked the prosecutor.
"Yes," she said quietly.
But their relationship deteriorated and in 1994 she left to marry another man.
Manabe appeared nervous and said she would have preferred not to testify.
"It's not a part of my life I like to talk about or remember," she said.
Gerhartsreiter is charged with the murder of John Sohus, the son of a woman who rented her San Marino, Calif. guest house to the defendant.
Sohus and his wife, Linda, disappeared in 1985, and bones were dug up in the yard of the home in 1994. No sign of Linda Sohus was ever found.


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For U.S. Athlete and Georgian Birth Family, a Past and Present Revealed
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DIKHASHKHO, Georgia -- "Liana, stop shaking! Don't be so scared. She is fine in the United States. Someone has helped her!"
Liana Khurtsidze, 73, her back curved from years of plowing the small plot of land on which she now sits, hears her neighbor's words of comfort but struggles to contain her emotions.
Her voice quivers, as does her wrinkled hand, as it grips her walking stick. Thin wisps of gray hair peek out from beneath the blue kerchief around her head, framing sunken eyes and hollowed cheeks.
Holding back tears, she speaks the name "Ketevan" -- a name that has taken on prayer-like status for Liana, her family, and even her neighbors in the rural Georgian village of Dikhashkho. Ketevan is the daughter she gave up at birth, the daughter born without the lower half of her right leg, and the daughter she has just learned is not only alive and well but is excelling as a Paralympic athlete on the other side of the world.
A lack of information about her daughter's fate had led some in the family to assume she had died.
"I never believed it," Liana says. "If that were true, my heart would have told me."
Ketevan has not been "Ketevan" for nearly two decades. She is Elizabeth Stone, a spirited young American woman of 22 who, with the support of her adopted mother, a physical therapist, has overcome her disability to become a world-class swimmer.
"Never in a million years," Stone says, did she think she would learn the story of her birth family. A social worker that the Stones knew once searched for the Khurtsidzes during a trip to Georgia but found nothing. Now, Elizabeth's shock has given way to excitement at the chance to discover a past she never knew.
WATCH: RFE/RL correspondent Marina Vashakmadze visits Elizabeth Stone's native village of Dikhashkho to speak to her birth family, who knew her only as "Ketevan."
I've not technically known why I was put up for adoption, but I always assumed and I always believed that it was for me to have a better life, knowing that later on I would need medical treatment and knowing that's obviously very expensive and knowing, kind of, where my family is from, that financially that was something they would not be able to handle," Stone says. "Definitely I've come to terms with that. I've always wondered and been curious about the real reasons, but I've never been angry or thought badly about my biological family."
Alive And Kicking
The twist of fate that now promises an unlikely family reunion began in late August in a London swimming pool.
There, at the 2012 Paralympic Games, Stone powered through her favorite event, winning a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke. She had done even better at the 2008 Games in Beijing, taking home silver.
In London, she would also capture a second bronze in the 100-meter butterfly.
RFE/RL contacted Stone during the competition to learn the story of how a disabled Georgian adoptee became a U.S. Paralympic star.
The profile of Stone garnered significant attention in her country of birth. RFE/RL's Tbilisi bureau soon received a call from a man claiming to be a relative of the birth family. That would lead to a visit by our correspondent to Dikhashkho, a poor, mountainous village of about 1,000 people in Georgia's Imereti region.
There our correspondent found Liana Khurtsidze, her twin children, and a throng of expectant neighbors.
"We used to plow and that's how we fed the twins. We had no other means or income," Liana Khurtsidze says. "Later on, my husband started receiving a pension, which helped. Then my husband passed away. On his deathbed, he kept asking me to keep the twins alive. Ketino was [also] always in his heart -- how she was sent away from us. I kept begging God to let me see my girl one more time in my life. I wanted to see all of my three children together."
The details supplied by Liana and her family matched the information that had been given to Linda Stone, Elizabeth's adopted mother, when the child was sent to the United States.
Rare Condition
Elizabeth was born in 1990 with proximal femoral focal deficiency, a rare condition leaving her right leg about half the length of her left. She was the third child of Liana and her husband, Amberki, after the twins they had three years before.
Liana says local doctors and a close family friend convinced her husband that Elizabeth, or Ketevan, would have a better chance of surviving if they gave her up for adoption. Getting a prosthetic, not to mention special medical attention, would likely be impossible for peasant farmers with two other children to feed -- and as the state structures of the Soviet days were collapsing.
Liana says she only saw her daughter once, and that the rest was decided without her.
Ketevan was brought to an orphanage in Kutaisi, the country's second-largest city, where her father and a family friend would visit her before her adoption. They were the only ones who knew of the child's whereabouts, Liana says, and she isn't even sure if they knew the details of the adoption. Within five years, both had died, taking with them any of the unspoken information they may have known about Ketevan.
Lasha, Liana's son, says he has lived his entire life with the burden of having lost a sister.
"Remorse? Tell me about it. I've carried this burden with me all my life, I swear," Lasha says. "I am a man and I have been living with this feeling. I have never spoken to anybody about this, my friends or anyone else. This was my personal pain. Now, however, even if I never see her, I won't mind. A heavy stone has fallen away from my heart since I know she is alive, that she is well and happy. May God bless her."
Birthday Prayers
Linda Stone, 58, Elizabeth's adopted mother, says she remembers the tough questions her young daughter would ask about her birth family -- a mystery thousands of miles away from her new home in the state of Michigan.
She remembers watching Elizabeth trying to talk to the neighborhood kids in Georgian. She remembers the need she felt to make her daughter feel loved despite her disability. And she has also thought of the family that, just perhaps, had been thinking of Elizabeth through the years.
"[Elizabeth] probably doesn't even know this, but every year on her birthday, which is June 11, I don't think a birthday of hers went by -- I'm going to get teary now -- that I didn't think of her birth mom and wonder if she was thinking about her that day," Linda Stone says. "And I prayed for her birth mom -- I prayed that she was doing well. So, you know, in many ways, that birth family has kind of been in my conscious thought through these years as well."
Linda says that she and Elizabeth are now considering a trip to visit the Khurtsidzes. Elizabeth has decided to swim one more season on the U.S. Paralympic team, and perhaps, if they have enough money saved, they'll head to Georgia after the world championships in August.
"This is something I cannot give her myself," says Linda, who concedes that the reunion, if it happens, will not be without nerves.
Elizabeth says she has never considered what a meeting with her birth family might be like -- until now.
"Well, you know, to be honest, because I never thought it would happen, I never really thought about it," she says. "I've always wanted to go back to Georgia, just to learn about the country and the culture that I'm from, but I really don't know what to expect with this."
She adds: "I don't have any expectations. I know they don't speak English and we obviously don't speak Georgian, so I don't think it's probably going to be the most graceful meeting in the world. But I'm looking at it all as a positive."
Elizabeth, like her mother, also sees the value in seeing her story reach others. She hopes she can broaden people's ideas of what disabled people can achieve, and maybe even inspire interest in the Paralympics in Georgia and beyond.
On a personal level, one thing that particularly excites Elizabeth is that she has siblings, something she has always wanted.
Her older sister, Teona, bears a striking resemblance to her.
"I am very much hopeful and would very much like this to happen -- if she would like to see us," Teona says. "It's up to her. She might not want this at all. She might say we abandoned her back then. This is a big heartbreak, I know. I would feel the same way. It cannot be otherwise. She might not even be willing to forgive us; but I, as her sibling, as her flesh and blood, would love to meet her."
Copyright (c) 2012. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.
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