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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this West African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention.
On a recent day, small groups of Malians stood in the burning heat and orange sands in the town of Koulikoro, 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of the capital Bamako, learning to hold weapons. They began the training last week, and this week they learned how to shoot from standing, sitting and prone positions.
About 550 people form the team meant to ready Mali's army for combat. But there is worry that the project to train thousands of soldiers may not be sufficient to keep the armed Islamic militants at bay.
French forces entered Mali swiftly and strongly in January after Islamic militants began a formidable push south toward the country's capital. The militants, who are inspired by a radical interpretation of Islam, ruled the northern half of Mali for nearly 10 months before the French-led military operation forced them into the desert surrounding the main cities. The extremists have responded with a series of attacks, including suicide bombings.
French military spokesman Col. Thierry Burkhard said this week that about 100 French troops have been pulled out of Mali and were as of this week in Cyprus on their way back to France. Last month, French President Francois Hollande said that by July, about 2,000 French soldiers will still be in the former French colony, down from 4,000 at the peak deployment, and at the end of the year "1,000 French soldiers will remain." He said the French troops would likely be part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation that France is pushing for.
The French-led operation with backing from regional bloc ECOWAS and under authorization of the U.N. Security Council has largely been hailed a success so far, though there are some concerns the militants will simply regroup once the French start drawing down.
Mali's military chain of command was broken after a coup last year. Soldiers lack respect for their commanders and superiors. There are reports that soldiers, humiliated by their defeat last year at the hands of the Islamic extremists, have carried out reprisals against the Arab and Tuareg civilians left behind.
Human Rights Watch released a report Thursday that said two Tuareg men who had been arrested in February and tortured by Malian soldiers in the Timbuktu region have died in detention in Bamako.
The army had detained seven Tuareg men between the ages of 21 and 66 in February on suspicion they supported Islamic militant groups, the rights group said. The seven told a researcher they had been "severely beaten and kicked, burned, injected with a caustic substance, and threatened with death while in custody," the report said.
Col. Christophe Paczka, a French commander of the training center in Koulikoro, said weapons and equipment were brought and assembled for the training of the Malian troops.
"This army is getting back on its feet and needs weapons," Paczka said.
This week, the Malian trainees gathered in fatigues in front of chalkboards where European instructors showed them the basics of their weapons. The soldiers also laid on their bellies side by side, learning to aim from the ground.
Eventually 2,800 soldiers will be trained, said Col. Laurent Viellefosse, a trainer for the program.
The Malian soldiers seem motivated about the training as they split into smaller groups with instructors from England, Finland, Sweden and France.
"We have had easy exercises, some others more difficult, but nothing that's insurmountable," said Malian soldier Soumaila Fomba. "I'm most interested in leadership and commanding on the field, and shooting."
The EU has given 12.3 million euros for the training center, hospital and operating costs, said Col. Phillipe de Cussac.
However, even with the training, a U.S. official warned stronger forces are needed.
"In Mali right now, the French have pushed the AQIM out of the major cities in North Mali, and we're working to create a U.N. operation to follow that so the French can focus on the high-value targets and eventually turn over that security to the host country," Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Michael Sheehan, said Tuesday at a hearing, according to a transcript of the hearing.
He said the West African or ECOWAS force that is in Mali right now "is not capable at all."
French troops are currently backed by soldiers from other West African countries including Chad. Sheehan suggested a U.N. force be supported for the mission, but said eventually a stronger force was needed to chase the al-Qaida-linked militants out of the mountains.
"That is going to be a job for a much more capable force," he said.
Associated Press reporter Carley Petesch in Johannesburg contributed to this report.


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Picked up the Chewie today for 50% off at Gentle Giant's website... couldn't resist at that price. There are so many others that I'd like; Fett, Jawa, R2, Vader, Hammerhead, Greedo, etc., but I'm mainly holding out for Yoda and maybe a power droid.
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The arcade version of is a pretty big deal in retro gaming circles, as seen in the classic documentary . Until today, though, it was impossible to legally acquire or sell an arcade-perfect version of the game without tracking down an actual arcade cabinet, reportedly due to complex legal issues over authorship of the code. Now those issues appear to have been resolved: Nintendo just put out on the Switch
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This release actually contains three versions of the game: the Japanese original, the more common updated Japanese version with bug fixes, and the international version. You can rotate the Switch 90 degrees to play with a vertical screen layout, mirroring the arcade cabinet.
's cut-down NES version has been released for various platforms, of course, and Rare went as far as to rebuild the arcade version from entirely new code so that it could be included in without legal trouble. But you weren't playing the original the game that introduced Mario to the world —and now you can.
Nintendo also announced that it'll be releasing an Arcade Archives version of the long-lost next month. never saw a formal arcade release beyond some scattered location testing in 1981, and Nintendo had to extract the ROM from the only known original arcade cabinet still in existence.
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VIENNA (AP) — Ceija Stojka, who survived three Nazi death camps and went on to raise the awareness of the Nazi persecution of the Roma in her art and writings, has died. She was 79.
Stojka carried the horrors of the camps with her for decades, speaking out in words and pictures only decades after she was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp at age 12. While her mother and four siblings also survived, her father and one brother were killed in Auschwitz.
Her death in a Vienna hospital Monday was announced by her publisher Tuesday.
The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation describes Stojka's death-camp-themed paintings as reflecting "the entrenched sorrow in the bodies and spirit of the victims."


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Someday people may use a digital audio recorder to evaluate equine respiratory diseases, as well as the air quality of the stable environment.
Marco Duz, MedVet, MRCVS, and his colleagues recorded horses' coughs over 24 hours, then analyzed the coughs by reviewing the digital recording on a computer, which took about 2-3 minutes for every hour of recording time.
"We attached the digital audio recorder to the head collar with the microphone pointing toward the mouth," said Duz of the Weipers Center for Equine Welfare at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
Cough is a good indicator that something is wrong with the horse. "Studies have shown that the more frequently horses cough, the more severe disease of the lower airways is," said Duz. "Therefore, monitoring cough frequency can provide valuable information about the severity of disease."
The monitor may also help owners evaluate the stable environment. "This monitor would allow anyone to understand how much a horse is really coughing throughout the 24 hours," Duz said. "For example, if a horse has heaves, an owner may evaluate objectively if he is coughing more when fed some feeds rather than others, in different areas of the barn, in certain times of the day, etc. This could guide owners to manage their horse better."
However, the monitor only shows how much the horse is coughing, not why the horse is coughing. "More traditional and invasive diagnostic modalities would be indicated to determine the cause of the cough," Duz said.
Although only available for research at the moment, the monitor has potential for everyday use. "The hope is that these devices will be used widely in equine practice as part of standard monitoring of horses with respiratory disease because they are reliable, cheap, and non-invasive," Duz said.
The study, "Validation of a digital audio recording method for the objective assessment of cough in the horse," was published online ahead of print in Research in Veterinary Science.
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While saying that Minnesota has gone "backward and downward" in transportation funding, Dayton said a gas tax hike lacks public support.
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday he opposes increasing the state's gas tax "at this time," putting him at odds with the man he appointed to lead Minnesota's Department of Transportation.
Dayton tapped Minneapolis bus company executive Charlie Zelle as the new commissioner of the agency. He has been president and chief executive of his family's bus company, Jefferson Lines, for more than two decades.
Dayton cited Zelle's business experience as motivating his choice. But the two immediately took different positions on a proposal, put forward last week by a Dayton-appointed task force on which Zelle served, to raise Minnesota's gas tax by 40 cents per gallon over two decades to help improve roads and boost transit options.
The Transportation Finance Advisory Committee called for raising at least $50 billion more for roads and transit in the next 20 years. While saying that Minnesota has gone "backward and downward" in transportation funding, Dayton said a gas tax hike lacks public support.
Zelle stood by the task force recommendation.
"I think more revenue would be helpful," Zelle said. "Obviously gas tax increases are very difficult to look at, then again the challenges ahead are hard to look at too. We kind of recognized, I think, that more investments would be helpful."
Dayton said he'd have Zelle travel throughout the state in the next few years to help business groups and others understand the need to find invest more in transportation.
"We can do what we're doing now, and it will continue to deteriorate and continue to be inadequate for our needs," Dayton said. "Or we can figure out how to finance a world-class system; or we can settle for something in the middle."
Zelle's family founded Jefferson Lines in 1919, and the company now operates in 13 states, from North Dakota south to Texas.
Dayton cited Zelle's work expanding the company, modernizing its fleet and starting a program aimed at college students with a need to travel between home and school. Once Zelle begins work for the state in January, he'll no longer be involved in day-to-day business with Jefferson Lines and will recuse himself on any business between the state and the company, according to the announcement.
He'll remain on the company's board of directors.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation maintains more than 12,000 miles of state highways, including nearly 5,000 bridges. It has a multibillion dollar annual budget for road construction, plowing and other maintenance. With hundreds of employees, it is among the biggest agencies in state government.
Zelle's predecessor, Tom Sorel, resigned to become chief executive of AAA Minneapolis.
The other finalist for the job was acting commissioner Bernie Arseneau, a longtime engineer.


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Gary Johnson announced the start of his presidential campaign last week. I'm quite late commenting on the story on account of Holy Week and other obligations, but I do have a few things to say. If Ron Paul weren't intending to run, I could easily see myself supporting Johnson against the rest of the GOP field, but as it seems more likely than not that Paul will be running I don't quite see the point of Johnson's campaign.
As I've said before, it will help promote libertarian and antiwar right causes to have two candidates in the race instead of just one, but having two candidates running at the same time will just as often reduce the impact of a candidate espousing these views as it will bring greater attention to them. Neither one will win as many delegates with both of them in the race as one would win on his own, and contrary to emerging conventional wisdom Paul has the greater ability to win support among Republican primary voters. Because I don't expect Johnson to have a serious chance at the nomination, I would be somewhat willing to overlook his socially liberal and pro-immigration views so long as he made criticizing authoritarian and interventionist policies the focus of his candidacy. I don't think I am very representative of antiwar conservatives on that point. It goes without saying that those other views that Johnson holds makes him significantly less competitive in a Republican primary field than Paul. While I might be willing to give Johnson a pass, large numbers of conservative Ron Paul supporters would never have given Johnson's candidacy a second thought if he were the only one running. If Paul is also in the race, it's safe to say that none of us would consider supporting him.
There remains the danger that dueling Paul and Johnson campaigns will bring out the fratricidal element among their respective supporters. Given the genuinely shabby way that many currently pro-Johnson libertarians treated Paul in 2008, I'm not sure that this will be easily avoided. As it happens, I agree with Justin Raimondo's criticisms of some of Johnson's foreign policy positions, and he is probably right that Johnson is running to be the candidate for libertarians who don't want to be identified with Ron Paul. These include people who went out of their way to undermine Paul during the '08 campaign. One thing that may make such a feud less likely is Johnson's relationship with Paul. To his credit, Johnson was Paul's supporter throughout the campaign, and when talk of Johnson's candidacy started Paul still seemed to be very well-disposed towards Johnson. If both feel compelled to run, I would rather that their supporters spend their time and energy helping both of them against the rest of the field.
One of the reasons that Johnson has given underwhelming or disconcerting answers on some subjects is that he doesn't seem to have given them as much thought as I would like. When Johnson made his statement about supporting military intervention to prevent a "clear genocide," it was clear that he hadn't squared this with his call to slash military spending drastically, nor had he thought about the virtual inevitability of "nation-building" that would follow such an intervention. If he doesn't will the means, and refuses to accept the responsibilities that go along with intervention, my hope is that he doesn't really favor such interventions. That said, pleading ignorance is not a very good excuse for an incoherent policy view. In fact, such ignorance ought to be disqualifying.
On Libya, Johnson's reaction was mostly encouraging, but it wasn't as forceful or as principled as it should have been. Johnson ends up in the right place, which is something, but in light of Johnson's own comments about humanitarian intervention it isn't nearly enough. Johnson has previously opened the door to launching a war of choice in which no American interest is at stake, and he has done so by making a misguided and absurd claim that this is "what we have always been about," which isn't significantly different from the insipid notion that the U.S. has to meddle in other nations' internal affairs because "America is different."


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Pentecostal Pastors Are Confiscating AIDS Patients' Life Savings & Anti-Retrovirals To Offer Prayers For Cure Instead
Africa's image of being unwilling to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic scourge afflicting millions of its citizens worsens today with news of a new, deplorable practice at the hands of Pentecostal pastors. Pastors are now confiscating the HIV+ and AIDS sufferers to give up their anti-retrovirals (along with their life's savings) in exchange for healing through prayer. Pray the AIDS away, if you will.
At prayer healing services in some Pentecostal churches, pastors invite people infected with HIV to come forward for a public healing, after which they burn the person's anti-retroviral medications and declare the person cured.
The "cure" is not free, and some people say they shell out their life savings to receive a miracle blessing and quit taking the drugs.
"I believe people can be healed of all kinds of sickness, including HIV, through prayers," said Pastor Joseph Maina of Agmo Prayer Mountain, a Pentecostal church on the outskirts of Nairobi. "We usually guide them. We don't ask for money, but we ask them to leave some seed money that they please."
Not all in Africa's religious community are on board with the new practice.
"We (clergy) must demonstrate leadership in this area," said Jane Ng'ang'a, who coordinates the Kenya chapter of INERELA+, an interfaith network of religious leaders living with HIV. "We should be in the forefront, encouraging adherence to the medicines, as we offer psychological and mental support to those infected and affected."
But INERELA+'s plea isn't being heard fast enough. As victims of the pastoral scam experience worsening symptoms or death, reports of at least 10 patients a month (in Nairobi alone) falling victim to the practice are on the rise.
I don't understand how anyone could do such a thing. Sick people are desperate for a cure, no matter what's wrong with them. How could they be treated this way? The church wouldn't do this to cancer patients or even patients with the flu. This is a deliberate attempt to wipe out AIDS victims. Not to mention if you tell a person infected with AIDS that they are cured, they are at risk to unintentionally spread it to others. And Zachary, I am not targeting Christians, as I am one. I am saying organized deliberate attempts to kill people are wrong.


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Each and every day.
I won't forget the treats you made.
It's closing in on me.
Your rules don't apply to me, "I'm not Gonna talk it out".
I've heard it all before,
Won't hear it again.
Now I'm gonna make it end.
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You can't run, you can't hide
I'm gonna get my revenge,
Can't keep me down.
You never wanted me around,
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former chairman of the tribe that owns Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino was convicted Wednesday of stealing about $100,000 from his Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to pay for limousine service trips for his mother and satellite radio, cable TV and other personal expenses for himself.
A federal jury in New Haven deliberated less than two hours before finding Michael Thomas guilty of three theft charges.
At his two-day trial, testimony revealed that most of the money went toward a limousine service to bring his ailing mother to medical appointments. Thomas charged the tribe $89,000 for the trips, including $28,000 in tips, according to testimony.
A defense attorney argued the charges for rides to doctor's appointments were legitimate expenses. Thomas did not testify and his lawyer did not call any witnesses.
Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 22. Thomas faces a maximum of up to 25 years in prison but guidelines, which could call for less, have not been determined yet.
The defendant's brother, tribal treasurer Steven Thomas, is to be tried separately on charges that he stole $700,000 from the tribe.
During closing arguments Wednesday, prosecutor Doug Morabito said Thomas used a tribe-issued credit card "for his own piggy bank" at a time when the organization was struggling financially and laying off employees.
"The people of the Mashantucket community are out $100,000 because Michael Thomas took it," said prosecutor Christopher Mattei.
A defense attorney, Paul Thomas, told the jury that the government failed to prove its case and that the charges for rides to doctor's appointments were legitimate expenses.
"What you have in the end is opinion, belief and assumption," Thomas said. "The evidence did not show that Michael Thomas, other than a handful of small charges, made impermissible personal charges or that those charges were part of a scheme or that Michael Thomas acted with any unlawful purpose, intent."
Morabito said Thomas signed a tribal resolution prohibiting use of the credit card for personal expenses. Tribal employees repeatedly advised him he could not use the card for personal expenses, he said.
"Did he stop? No. He kept doing it," Morabito said.
He said Thomas "blatantly and systemically" used the tribe's money for his personal benefit while it was laying off employees.
"He did it because he could get away with it," Morabito said. "He did it because he couldn't afford to do it any other way."
Morabito asked the jury to consider how many employers would consider cable television in their home a legitimate business expense. He also cited charges for cellphones and computers, saying the tribe provided those items and what Thomas charged were for his personal use.
Morabito also challenged the use of the limo service, saying the tribe had its own transportation service.
Prosecutors said Thomas admitted he used the card for personal expenses. They asked the jury if it would be OK for a mayor or legislator to use taxpayer money to transport their mother in a limo service's Cadillac Escalade.
Paul Thomas defended the limo service expenses, saying transportation for medical appointments was within the scope of what the tribe was required to do. He said the tribe's transportation service did not operate during the early morning hours Thomas' mother needed rides, though prosecutors said the service tried to accommodate tribal members.
Thomas was a very busy leader, his attorney said.
"He was a man who had heavy burdens and maybe he made some mistakes," Thomas said, adding that they were not intentional or criminal.


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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's Shiite religious leaders must more forcefully denounce violence as a key step to ease the kingdom's 22-month uprising, the country's crown prince said Friday at the opening of an international security conference.
The appeal by Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa underscores the view of Bahrain's Sunni monarchy that Shiite clerics should be held partly responsible for rising violence in the strategic Gulf nation. It also suggests authorities could increase pressure on top Shiite clergymen, whom he referred to as 'ayatollahs' — a term more often associated with senior religious figures in rival Iran.
"I call on all those who disagree with the government, including the ayatollahs, to condemn violence on the street unequivocally . And more, to prohibit violence," the crown prince told policymakers and political figures gathered for the annual two-day conference known as the Manama Dialogue. "Responsible leadership is called for and I believe dialogue is the only way forward," he added.
More than 55 people have died in the unrest since February 2011, when Bahrain's majority Shiites escalated a long-simmering drive for a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled country.
The monarchy has offered some concessions, including giving the elected parliament expanded powers. But it falls far short of Shiite demands to loosen the Sunni rulers' controls over key government appointments and policies.
Shiite religious leaders, including the most senior cleric Sheik Isa Qassim, have never publicly endorsed violence, but have encouraged peaceful anti-government protests to challenge authorities. Breakaway groups during demonstrations often clash with riot police.
The conference includes high-level envoys from Bahrain's Western allies, which have so far stood behind the kingdom's leadership but are increasingly troubled by rising violence and continued crackdowns on the opposition. The U.S. delegation is led by Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and includes Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The crown prince thanked a host of nations for assistance during the crisis, but noticeably did not refer to the U.S. in his remarks — an omission that underlined the two countries' increasingly strained ties. He criticized nations that "selectively" criticize Bahrain's leadership, without citing specific countries.
Washington has called for dialogue in Bahrain, but sharply condemned its leaders' decision late last month to ban political rallies. The country hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, the Pentagon's main hub against Iran's rising military profile in the Gulf.
Earlier, the leaders of Bahrain's main opposition group urged participants at the summit to press Bahraini officials to open wide-ranging talks.
Sheik Ali Salman told thousands of supporters that the international envoys should push Bahrain's rulers to recognize the "demands of the people" and open negotiations.


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(Reuters) - Bankrupt San Bernardino, California, presented a new budget on Monday in which it proposed renegotiating its obligations to the state's powerful public employee pension, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the fund and other creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings.
San Bernardino's interim city manager released the city's "pendency plan" - in effect its operating budget while it seeks bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code.
As part of the plan, the city seeks a renegotiation of its debt to the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers).
The city has already halted payments to Calpers since it declared bankruptcy on August 1, and owes more than $6 million in dues to the fund.
The city says its halted payments to Calpers are merely deferrals, but the move is in stark contrast to the path taken by two other Californian cities - Vallejo, which emerged from bankruptcy in 2011, and Stockton, which is seeking bankruptcy protection. Both cities decided to keep current on all payments to the pension fund.
Calpers is the largest pension system in the United States and serves many cities and counties in California. It has long argued that pension contributions cannot be touched, even in bankruptcy.
San Bernardino's move, underscored in Monday's budget plan, sets up a showdown between Calpers and other creditors, particularly Wall Street bondholders and bond insurers, over how they will be treated as creditors in the city's bankruptcy.
Wall Street has already signaled that it intends to fight Calpers' historical primacy as a creditor in the San Bernardino case.
The pendency plan, which must be adopted by a deeply split city council before it can take effect, seeks to close the city's $45.8 million General Fund deficit, which has left San Bernardino barely able to meet its city payroll.
The plan proposes deferring payments to Calpers, negotiating payments over time and discussing the "reamortization" of its Calpers liability - that is, renegotiating or adjusting its dues to the pension fund.
The plan also seeks cuts elsewhere, such as the city's payment of its employees' contribution to Calpers, the elimination of vacant sworn positions in the Police Department, and the reduction of available overtime in the Fire Department.
"Without restructuring its finances or maintaining the protection of Chapter 9, the City could not pay its employees, retirees, bondholders or vendors. This would result in uncontrolled default and, presumably, a collapse of public services," the document states.
San Bernardino, with a population of 210,000, is the third California city to seek bankruptcy protection this year, following Stockton and Mammoth Lakes.
The city, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, lists Calpers as its biggest creditor, with unfunded pension obligations totaling $143.3 million. Calpers says it uses a different calculation method and pegs the debt at $319.5 million.
Calpers has already formally objected in court to San Bernardino's efforts to seek bankruptcy protection.
(Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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So I decided to make a thread where all of you guys can post your heroes, maybe add some comments on them.
This way people can have a big archive of heroes, they may use them or just get some inspiration from them :3.
Here is one of mine with whom I'm going to start a campaign, starting as vigilantes (PL 8).
Jamal Bricks (PL8)
I wanted to make a Sound controller, being in a not-so-serious RP group I just went with yer-average-black neighbour (if you live in the ghetto)


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Bank Street Theatre
155 Bank St.
August 4-21
Niae Knight (bottom), Dirk Weiler and Rachel Lu in a scene from The Gas Heart.
A surreal evening of performances
Play incorporates theater styles from the early twentieth century
By Jerry Tallmer
Everything old is new again. Welcome to 1955, when a young woman named Julie Bovasso, an inspired 22-year-old from Brooklyn, is introducing Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, and Michel de Ghelderode to the United States of America, and vice versa, at the tiny Tempo Playhouse shes built with her own hands at 4 St. Marks Place.
Jump cut to 2005 and the Bank Street Theatre, on the banks of the ancient and honorable Hudson River, where a woman named Shela Xoregos has put together and is directing a quintuple bill of short Surrealist plays by Jean Cocteau, Eugene Ionesco, Michel de Ghelderode, Tristan Tzara, and Rene Magritte. Yes, the painter that Magritte.
Well, loosely speaking Surrealist plays. And gloomy de Ghelderode isnt really a Surrealist at all. Hes in there as a serious anchor, says Ms. Xoregos. His piece, Escurial, first staged here 50 years ago by Bovasso, gives us a mad, haunted, death-driven king who plays murderous games with Folial, his court jester. As I said, a bucket of laughs but a landmark in modern drama.
Fairly familiar to Off-Broadway theatergoers is Ionescos Maid to Marry, an extended exchange of rampant banalities between a Gentleman and Lady, or husband and wife.
GENTLEMAN: All French postmen are Corsican. Whod bring in our mail if there werent any postmen?
LADY: Theyre a necessary evil.
GENTLEMAN: Evil is never necessary.
LADY: How right you are, thats very true!
The Cocteau is a strangely straightforward but troubling short story, A Practical Joke, originally written as a radio play for Jean Marais, the sad, gorgeous, enchanted beast of Beauty and the Beast and Cocteaus bedroom (also of that other Cocteau masterpiece, Orpheus).
Tristan Tzara was, strictly speaking, a Dadaist (as in Tom Stoppards ingenious Travesties), but Tzara was also a bit of everything else. His The Gas Heart, in which the characters are Eye, Mouth, Nose, Ear, Neck, and Eyebrow, has enough shape and structure (of a sort) to qualify as Surrealist.
And the Magritte? Its called The Round Square, and all three acts fit onto three-quarters of one typed page.
It was David Willinger of City College, a specialist in Belgian Surrealist drama, who told Shela Xoregas about that epic, which, she says, set everything switching around in my mind until I said what can I do [in one evening] to show different styles of theater in 30 early years [1920s to 1950s] of the twentieth century. The combine is called On the Banks of the Surreal.
Shes especially proud of the two actors who do the Ghelderode Peter Johnson as the King, Rodney Sheley as the Fool and of the sculptured Constructivist costumes designed by Russias Galina Kuzmetsova for the Eye, Mouth, Nose, etc., of Tzaras The Gas Heart.
To put together this five-part bill, Shela Xoregos read plays weeks on end. What she didnt know when she started out was that two of her chosen Parisian playwrights, Tzara and Ionesco, were originally from Romania, and two others, Magritte and de Ghelderode, were originally Belgian.
The only Frenchman was Cocteau. And then I learned that Tzaras real name was Samuel Rosenstock. He was Jewish, and Ionesco was half-Jewish, and Magritte was half-Jewish.
How about yourself, Ms. Xoregos?
Im ALL Jewish.
The name Xoregos, pronounced Koraygoes, is, she says, Greek for Leader of the Chorus.
And your real name?
That is shrouded in mystery. But it wasnt Smith.
The daughter of a papa who was a cook and a mama who was a housekeeper, she was born and bred in Pascagoula, Mississippi, near Biloxi. How many Jews are there in Pascagoula? More than you think.
Shes been dancing, choreographing, and directing all over the place ever since emerging from Los Angeles City College. One major accomplishment has been a production of Strindbergs Miss Julie set to banjo music in the post-bustle American South of 1895, with a black Jean the valet whom Julie lusts for and despises.
The actors at Bank Street are Jen Arvay, Niae Knight, Rachel Lu, Christopher Berryman, Ian Christiansen, John Rose, Dirk Weiler, Peter Johnson, Rodney Sheley. Their director lives alone in Clinton. I take in cats once in a while. Tristan Tzara says thats okay.
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Interview with 'Collaborator' Star David Morse
Brilliant veteran actor David Morse ( The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker) took a phone call with me recently and we talked about his new film Collaborator and how it was playing his role as Gus.
Nick- Hey David how are you doing?
David- Hey Nick, how are you?
Nick- I'm great man, how is it out there busy?
David- We're jumping around.
Nick- Well thanks for taking the time to talk to me I really appreciate it.
David- Glad to talk to you.
Nick- David you're a great actor and it's a privilege to talk with you. Everybody knows you for your roles in The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker, Shanghai, Disturbia and the list goes on and on. Today we are to talk about your new movie that was written and directed by your co-star Martin Donovan and it's called Collaborator. It came out June 20th on VOD right?
David- Yes that is correct.
Nick- The movies been out since last July going through festivals.
David- Yeah it's been going through festivals and I actually went over to
the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won some awards for it. That was a year ago but now people can actually see it.
Nick- Congratulations because I heard you won one award for it.
David- I did. It's an amazing film festival and the people over there could not have been kinder and more enthusiastic about this movie so it was a nice one to get.
Nick- Martin said the audiences have been receiving it very well.
David- Well they're getting exactly what I think he hoped for and I think what they're getting is a surprise. If you call this movie a hostage drama and the character that I play is somebody who has murdered somebody, we all have preconceptions about what that story is going to be. I think people are completely surprised by their own feelings for this man that I play, and what happens between these two men, and that's what I think Martin's film is very successful at.
Nick- You play Gus, who is the childhood next door neighbor of Martin's character Robert, he still lives with his mother and he seems to be lost a little bit.
David- Lost a little bit would be an understatement. He's a guy who has been in prison but really has never really gotten a break in his life and is living in the same house, and the same situation, almost his entire life and not escaped from it. The closest thing he gets to an escape is this evening with Martin's character, who is a successful screenwriter movie guy, and he seems like a total movie star to Gus and Gus gets to spend some time with him.
Nick- Do you feel the movie explains why Gus is still in his house living this way?
David- I'm not sure if Martin really needed to explain that because I think we recognize that character. I think there are a lot of people in our lives that are like this character. There are things that are mentioned like things with his father and things that happened to him in school. He really isn't the smartest guy around, even though he likes to believe he is. I think there is enough suggested about Gus that we get it.
Nick- Did you make any special preparations to play Gus? I know you grew your beard out a little bit for it.
David- Yeah, I suppose the preparations really were a rhythm. Martin grew up in the San Fernando Valley and is very familiar with that world and Gus has kind of a 'Valley' manner about him. I just tried to get as much of a feeling for that and that world as I could.
Nick- I felt like your voice was different in this movie.
David- Well that's what he wrote and I had to get comfortable with it.
Nick- It was really rough sounding I feel like.
David- Yeah.
Nick- It's a hostage situation sort of role and I feel like it would be really hard to remember all that dialogue because it's mainly just you two through the whole movie.
David- You know a lot of people have compared it to something theatrical like a play because there is so much that happens between us two in the house. The experience of it felt like that but it's really keeping with the character of Robert who is a playwright, so the whole tone of it feels appropriate for these people.
Nick- That's the feeling I got too. It almost feels like it's a play written for theater when you are watching it.
David- Yeah, and there's a thing about artists whether you are a writer, painter, musician, there has always been that observer part of you that while you are living your life, there's this kind of thing that is outside of you watching and observing to use later. That's what he's written about. The writer who is having this incredibly dramatic thing happening to him, but at the same time the writer is outside of himself watching this dramatic thing happening to him and wondering if he can actually use this somehow.
Nick- I saw that you are also a writer, writing the series called The Kid.
David- Yeah that's a series we wrote for TBS. It's written and we are waiting to see if we are shooting the pilot which we are hopeful about.
Nick- What made you want to start writing?
David- Well I have been writing for years and it is nothing new.
Nick- You did a show called Hack right?
David- Yeah I starred in that and wrote one of the episodes. I've done other writing as well. If you're familiar with golf at all Phil Mickelson his caddy Bones, Jim Mackay, had had an idea for a series for years and didn't know what to do with it. we have mutual friends and we wound up getting together and working out this series and TBS was very high on it, so we are looking forward to that happening.
Nick- When is that going to come out?
David- We don't know. We have to shoot the show first and see what happens. There are some other films that are coming out this year The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and World War Z with Brad Pitt.
Nick- Can you talk a little bit about World War Z because everybody is waiting for that film to come out.
David- Yeah it's highly anticipated and I didn't know anything about it myself, but I guess it's from a book, or a series of books, that are pretty popular. I know we've had a lot of zombie's lately but we're going to get a lot more zombies when World War Z comes out. It's gonna be big time.
Nick- What is the plot of the movie?
David- Basically it's Brad Pitt's character traveling the world trying to find the source of this outbreak of zombies which is taking over the world and if they can find where it started, maybe they can stop it. It's him making stops as he escapes from zombies all over the planet and I happen to be one of the stops and have information that keeps him going.
Nick- I can't wait to see that but first I can't wait for everyone to see Collaborator which came out June 20th on VOD and I thank you so much David for talking with us here at Movie Room Reviews. You've had such a great career and it's an honor to talk with you.
David- Thank you, and I am very happy to talk with you.


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2011 Recognized as a 2012 ITA Scholar Athlete ... Made 14 singles appearances, splitting time between second and third singles … Earned her sole victory of the season on September 10 to help shutout Newbury College with a 6-2, 6-3 two-set win … Fared much better at doubles, where she paired up with Hieu Nguyen at number two doubles … Finished with a 5-4 record in doubles … Started off the season with four straight wins including an 8-2 decisive victory over Southern Maine on October 2 … Defeated her first four doubles opponents by a combined 33-17 score, including three wins of 8-4 or better ... UMass Boston went 4-1 when the pair earned a victory in doubles.
2010 Saw action in 15 singles matches, primarily in the number five slot with two matches at number four ...Started the season on a 3-1 run, including two straight convincing wins against Pine Manor College and Eastern Nazarene College, including taking both sets vs. Pine Manor, 6-0 out of the number four slot on September 14... Had a strong run at the end of the season including a tight 7-6 victory in her number five match at Suffolk University on October 13... Also compiled a 4-4 record in number three doubles competition... Helped shut out her opponents from Johnson State College, 8-0 on September 3...Went on a hot streak from September 11-18, winning her three doubles contests 8-3 vs. Lyndon State, 8-1 vs. Eastern Nazarene and 9-7 vs. Western Connecticut State.
Personal/High School Lettered at Bridgewater-Raynham Regional during junior season ... Helped lead the Trojans to a 2009 OCL Championship ... Member of the National Honors Society ... Recognized as a Commended Merit Student at BRRHS ... GPA ranked 14th in graduating class ... Born May 30, 1992 ... Daughter of Federica Archer ... Undecided on major ... Enjoys drawing, swimming, jogging and surfing.


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Snakes up close
Herpetologist kicks off accelerated reading.
David Nieves never wanted to be anything else but a herpetologist—a scientist who studies reptiles and amphibians.
At age 8, the Bellevue native became fascinated with reptiles while caring for a garter snake brought home by his brother.
The 44-year-old visited Dudley Elementary youngsters Thursday where he shared some of his scaly pets, his enthusiasm for writing and books he's written.Nieves' visit was prompted by the school's kickoff of its accelerated reading program.
"Wild About Books" is the theme this year of the school-wide program which encourages students to read and take tests for comprehension based on individual reading levels.
"I like to write," said the author and photographer of three books about reptiles and amphibians, "because my books can go around the world easier and faster than I can."
Nieves kept his audience laughing with his antics and stories about reptile and amphibian behavior.
"I'm a silly scientist," he declared, telling youngsters that he likes to write in silly or interesting ways that don't bore the reader.
Through a multimedia slide presentation, Nieves showed that the first trait of writing—ideas—is a trait that can be used to hook the reader.
"I don't like boring, I like fun," he said.
While showing a Jackson's chameleon, Nieves explained that it had a long tongue for catching bugs.
Nieves then displayed his creativity by comparing a person to the lizard.
"With a tongue like that you can eat a bowl of popcorn three feet away."
He noted that reptiles and amphibians are afraid of humans and don't bite unless they're threatened.
"If you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone," Nieves said, noting that he's been in water with snapping turtles who swam away from him. "How would you like it if they poked you with a stick?"
Holding up Snowcone—a white rat snake—Nieves said everything is blurry to a snake, so the serpent relies on its tongue to smell.
"A snake's sense of smell is better than a dog's and it does a better job of catching a mouse than a cat," he said. "When the mouse goes down a hole, the cat stares at the hole while a snake goes down and catches it."
Cats sometimes get sick from eating mice, Nieves said, while snakes don't and help keep down mouse and rat populations.
While showing a mik snake, Nieves told a myth many people believe about the snake hypnoitzing a cow and then drinking all of its milk.
Before his presentation, the herpetologist said snakes have gotten a bad rap in U.S. society because it's been culturally ingrained.
"How many times do you hear that a person is as mean as a snake?" Nieves asked. "People in other parts of the world think of the snake differently."
During his talk, Nieves said snakes can open their jaws much wider than humans because of their bone structure that allows their jaws to swivel and stretch.
"Snakes could eat a whole birthday cake in one bite," he declared.
The study of reptiles and amphibians has taken Nieves to different parts of the world—from the rain forest to an island in Indonesia where he's studied and photographed the world's largest lizard—the Komodo Dragon.
"Twice I almost got eaten," he said about when he got too close to one of the massive creatures. "I found out I'm faster than the Komodo Dragon."
Nieves said scientists are studying the dragon's drool which causes severe infection that eventually kills its prey.
However when a Komodo dragon is bit by one of its own, the injured lizard doesn't get sick.
"Could you imagine taking one bite out of a sandwich and then waiting for two days before eating the rest?" he asks in his book More Reptiles Up Close.
For the grand finale, Nieves brought out "Maggie," a 155-pound python and told how he hatched the golden snake from an egg.
"Maggie is more than 15 feet long and is still growing," he said. "She will grow to about 200 pounds."
As the snake draped herself around the herpetologist, first grader Page Wright leaned over and whispered, "She's beautiful."
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Metallica unplugged for a rare acoustic performance at the 10th anniversary MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert on Monday night (12May14) to honour Ozzy Osbourne.
The heavy rockers performed four songs, including versions of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and the Beatles' In My Life, at the Club Nokia gig in Los Angeles and told guests they were thrilled to be able to play.
Frontman James Hetfield said, "We're here to celebrate life, man. Are you alive? It feels good most of the time. Sometimes not as much, but when we get together like this it feels a lot better."
Bandmate Kirk Hammett revealed the night was extra special because it gave him and his bandmates the chance to honour their friend and mentor Osbourne, who was handed the Stevie Ray Vaughn Award by longtime pal Joe Walsh.
He told Rolling Stone, "MusicCares is a great organisation and they've helped out a lot of our friends. And Ozzy Osbourne has done so much for us. This is one small way we can say thank you to him."
Bassist Robert Trujillo added, "I don't know if we'd be doing what we do if there wasn't an Ozzy and a Black Sabbath. We grew up playing those songs and the first time I picked up the bass and started getting into it, I was playing Iron Man or Sweet Leaf. He's our brother and this organisation has really helped save his life and keep him with us and more powerful than ever."
Osbourne closed his own tribute gig by taking the stage with his band, Slash and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro for a set that featured hits like Crazy Train and Black Sabbath's Paranoid.
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As I'm sure you know the Real Housewives of New Jersey drama never ends. Long after she left the cast, Danielle Staub continues to be at odds with her former co-stars and has continued to be the subject of much controversy and speculation.
Melissa Gorga was infamously accused of communicating with Danielle and giving her dirt on Teresa Giudice — a tale that has never been substantiated nor disproved. Jacqueline Laurita has long suspected that Danielle was spreading false rumors about her and the other ladies. Well, vindication is Jacqueline's.
Jacqueline's persistence on Twitter has finally paid off because after Danielle had a falling out with her number one fan and co-conspirator Mardigrasbarbie, sh*t hit the fan. Or Direct Messages did anyway! Mardigrasbarbie was able to provide "proof" that Danielle was intentionally stirring up trouble and going to the tabloids with stories that were apparently made up. Oh, to have Danielle's imagination and spare time…
Mardigrasbarbie, a longtime fan of the show, was apparently
crazy naive enough to consider Danielle a friend even though they never met in real life and had only an online relationship. Mardigrasbarbie's real world name is allegedly Nikola Charpentier, and together with Danielle, the poor man's Thelma & Louise would hang out on Twitter all day (jobs, anyone?) engaging in arguments against any detractors. Mardigrasbarbie became Danielle's henchman — her online Danny, if you will.
Their relationship started to unravel about a week ago. Danielle suddenly unfollowed Mardigrasbarbie on Twitter and Mardi was apparently tired of doing Danielle's evil bidding. Signs of trouble began to appear with ominous Tweets such as this: "Sometimes ppl are manipulated to do things out of their nature. Not because they are weak, but bc the manipulator is a professional at it!" There's many more like it, but you get the drift.
It seems that Mardigrasbarbie has run into the curse of Danielle, a situation experienced by many before her — including former nemesis by association only, Jacqueline! The unfortunate side-effect of being Danielle's friend (besides associating with Danielle herself) is that Daneille doesn't tell the truth and she uses everyone.
See, once Danielle has no use for her little friends, she turns on them or drops them faster than you can say "Posche!" Or "Strip club!" And very often it is about the same time these friends realize Danielle is a manipulator with a little problem called dishonesty. Can you imagine if she and Taylor Armstrong teamed up? Oh lawd…
In order to get back at Danielle, the spurned sidekick is now releasing a plethora of communications between Danielle and herself. And they expose Danielle basically telling Mardigrasbarbie to make up stories and and tweet them to the other ladies on the cast and even contact the tabloids with false information! Some of those exposed conversations are below! They are a little hard to follow, but you'll get the gist.
Amidst the revelations comes the idea that many of the stories we have used to harangue and hate several NJ Housewives likely aren't true at all! Oops. I guess the age old adage is true — always consider the source!
Jacqueline has claimed that Danielle made up the story about her being a stripper and leaked it to the press. Immediately after learning the news of Mardi's betrayal, Jacqueline turned to her best friend in times of crisis: Twitter, where she embarked on a rampage to spread the truth.
"WOW! SOOO MANY CRAZY LIES PUT OUT THERE! I INTERCEPTED THE CRAZY HOUR LONG INTERVIEW I TOLD U ALL ABOUT! DANIELLE STAUB NEEDS SERIOUS HELP!!," Jacqueline Tweeted.
Following that up with this: "HEY @BravoAndy I STAND BY MY OPINION THAT DANIELLE IS CRAZY AND DANGEROUS! LIES! LIES! LIES! I SMELL ANOTHER DEFAMATION CASE GOING HER WAY"
"PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE UP FAKE STORIES AND LIES ABOUT PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN PRINT,SELL IT AND GET AWAY WITH THAT.U WONT!," Jacqueline seethed. I love Jacs when she gets all fired up! I can just see her freaking out to Chris as she furiously types away at her iPhone while Chris sips some red wine. Some more of Jacqueline's Tweets are below!
Sadly, Andy Cohen has not made any comments about this latest crazy incident. Ahhhh… Danielle, the original shady character of Housewives and our first notion that Bravo background checks were not nearly thorough enough! Also withholding comment — for now — is Teresa! I cannot wait to hear what she has to say about all of this!
The most unfortunate result of all the lies, is that Danielle's behavior is likely partially to blame for Jacqueline's and Teresa's friendship ending. A fan asked Jacqueline if she was going to apologize to Teresa after learning that she was not responsible for all the false tabloid stories. Jacqueline responded, "NO. Because she does it too," and included Teresa on the Tweet. Jacqueline quickly added: "but mostly about herself."
Danielle is, of course, exonerating herself from blame and claiming that Mardigrasbarbie has made all of this up and it is the work of a lone crazy, obsessed fan. "I had [made up lies] do you honestly think I'd tell someone I never met? she's playing u all," Danielle Tweeted to Jacs and In Touch Weekly (the magazine that "uncovered" the so-called proof of Jacqueline's past as a stripper).
"You know no one can break you when you've done nothing wrong darlin- in time all in good time people will see they r playing fools," Danielle added. Danielle also claimed that a new fansite, D_Staub_Fans, that had cropped up in her "honor" was a fake account run by Mardigrasbarbie to further disparage her reputation.
Danielle claimed Mardi acted alone and would create constant fake accounts (remember the "little eggs" drama surrounding the RHONJ on Twitter) and attack other Housewives and fans. So what broke up the dynamic duo Danielle and Mardi? Ultimately Danielle asserts: "I asked her to STOP fighting w people it was bad energy! She wouldn't – I blocked her"
Mardi Tweeted just how she got so wrapped up in this Danielle drama, "my heart went out to her. I truly felt bad. She's the underdog so I was pulling for her. I was blinded."
In response to the so-called mesages between Danielle and Mardigrasbarbie that seem to prove Danielle's involvement, AllAboutTRH asked Danielle about what happened.
"I thanked her but her dm's made me extremely uneasy. If i spoke to anyone she would attack them!," Danielle remarked. And regarding the photograhic proof of said conversations, Danielle responded, "Honestly you see partial messages. At best she lives on her twitter. GN. Not defending myself bottom line! I'm a public figure. She got a little to aggressive. I was uncomfortable. Period" Ok, then!
Finally, in a bit of RHONJ that is not totally insane. Or maybe it is depending on how you look at it. Caroline Manzo the mama bear matriarch of the New Jersey ladies is in talks to get her own spin off. We all know she's Andy's favorite
because he's in love with Albie!
According to a new report the only Housewife already confirmed for Season 5 of the tumultuous show is Teresa and Jacqueline is definitely out (which has been corroborated in multiple reports). "They're always looking for new cast members that would add something to the show; they've been heavily courting a few people from other networks who have shows," a NJ insider tells Reality Weekly.
Caroline is still deciding whether or not to sign on for a fifth season and she is also in talks to develop her own show! About what I could only imagine? Babying her adult children and crying about how proud she is? "It's all about timing," the source explains. "She doesn't jump into anything — and this is no different."
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It's been a while since I've posted here, but this weekend I've been working on a project which I've wanted to tackle for a while. Mainly, I just wanted to figure out how doable it would be, and use it as an excuse to learn more about Python and automation framework design. The project was to "bot" TSM, in the name of automated integration testing. Fair warning: this is going to be a long post.
What does this mean?
Well, as you may know, the TradeSkillMaster addon
First of all, I've talked about how extremely optimized TSM's scans already are in the past. I have no doubt that, when compared apples to apples, TSM's scan speed blows any other addon out of the water as it stands today. Comparing TSM to other addons is not the purpose of this blog post, just know that there are already a ton of optimizations in place in TSM's scanning code as I've previously described.
At the end of the day, scanning fast comes down to scanning less pages. Nearly
This was initially a reply to this thread on /u/woweconomy on reddit, but I thought I'd post it here as well.
I have actually thought a lot about the things that are being discussed here over the past couple years, and here are my thoughts with respect to how TSM fits into this discussion.
First of all, I'd love to see more high caliber gold-making discussion going on. When TSM first started, we were pretty quickly drawn to The Consortium because it
As others have done already, I thought I'd take a moment to look back at the events of 2014 and look forward to 2015 with regards to TSM. This has been a very busy year for TSM. Here's a few of the highlights:
- Feb15 - I did an AMA on /r/woweconomy.
- Mar13 - We announced a closed beta for our brand new desktop application which got pre-processed data from our servers rather than the raw data from Blizzard to provide many new price sources and more reliable data.
- Apr1 - Our April Fool's joke
So, a few weeks ago I wrote up a monthly budget for TSM for the first time ever (now that our costs are stable with the new website). I thought it'd be a good idea to share an overview of our budget here, so people can see what it takes to run a project like TSM.
Here are our current expenses (per-month) in descending order:
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Do I Need a Safety Plan?
If you are experiencing domestic violence, you may want to consider developing a safety plan. A safety plan is for:
- individuals living with an abuser – because danger can occur at anytime
- individuals planning to leave – because few abusers allow their partners to leave peacefully
- individuals living away from the abuser – because danger often increases after a survivor leaves or ends the relationship
The trained advocates at one of Florida's 42 certified domestic violence centers or a hotline advocate at the toll-free statewide hotline – 1-800-500-1119 – can help.
What are Some Safety Tips in the Meantime?
- Identify a safe place to go if an argument occurs – avoid rooms with no exits (bathroom) or rooms with weapons (kitchen).
- Calls for assistance should be made from phones in safe locations.
- If you use email or instant messaging, use a computer and an account your abuser does not know about, or use a more private computer at a trusted friend's house, a library or an internet café. For more information regarding computer and internet safety: (include the link to internet/computer safety here)
- If someone is threatening you or your children, take the threats seriously.
- Keep important items in a bag with someone you trust. Items include your identification papers/cards, keys, cell phone, bank statements, money, medicine, pictures of the family that include the abuser, proof of income, financial statements, visas, passports, green cards, insurance documents, birth certificates for you and your children, your partners personal information including date of birth, social security number, place of employment and license plate number.
- Change your shopping habits by choosing different grocery stores, retail outlets, etc. and change your travel routes to and from the stores.
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Amid gret fanfare today in Brooklyn, the NFL and Nike unveiled new uniforms for all 32 teams, except most of the new uniforms look remarkably similar to the old ones.
The Eagles will be wearing the same uniform, with the exception of the Nike insignia on the sleeve, replacing the Reebok logo. A team source said the new uniform reflects no change in the overall appearance.
The jerseys will go on presale April 15 and on sale April 26 and 27.
A new line of shirts, hats and other products was unveiled April 1 and have been on sale on the Eagles web site and elsewhere since April 1. What was once known as midnight green is now Nike green.
Each team had one player to model the uniforms during the ceremony. Michael Vick, a Nike rep, was there for the Eagles.
"The new NFL uniforms thru Nike are going to be crazy ... Innovation at its finest!," he tweeted Monday night.
The biggest change is the Seattle Seahawks, who are going to be the Oregon or Baylor of the NFL. The team has the No. 12 on its jerseys, representing the 12th man, and a new color scheme that includes a feather image, for the Seahawks.
Some other notes:
* Expect the NFL preseason scheduled to be released tomorrow.
* Good news from Colt Anderson, whose season ended in surgery for a torn ACL. He tweeted: Ran for the first time on grass today with @proact and @BrentCelek. Felt good to be back on the fb field.
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Hey Ray - thanks for stoppin' by my garage (; Yeah - gotta love our projects. there's always something to do, even if you think you're done - LOL See u round.
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To further the flames. How many of you that claim we are "sterilizing the mountains" by helping people that perceive they are in danger have ever volunteered for any type of rescue group? Or how many have actually been in a situation where you needed help? Ever seen any one truly injured?
2- As we understand that people are not prepare, we understand that the two latest accident (lip slide of tuckerman and this one) are cause by route finding. People who climb are not acustome to route finding in bad weather. ...
Can I say pompous fucks ?I am a 'flatlander" I guess, but saying people don;t know about being in the mountains is bullshit. Yes i have done work with MRS..and yes i give them $$This sound s like the 'guides mentality " setting in to me. because some one is a guide doesn't mean they know it all and are beter than anyone else i know amga guide s that I wouldn't give the time of day....calling 911 doesn't make you an asshole .
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Werewolves unleashed at Iowa State
In vivid detail, Assistant Professor Benjamin Percy chronicled the discovery of a group of villagers who had been infected with "Lobos." This previously unknown pathogen, now spread throughout the world, produces an uncontrollable rage in its hosts, transforming them into Lycans, predatory animals with a hunger to kill.
No, this project was not the product of Benjamin's research -- but rather, it's a product of his imagination. You see, Benjamin Percy is a creative writing professor at Iowa State University and the published author of four books. His latest, Red Moon, is due to be published in 2012. It's generating so much buzz, he's already sold movie rights to Hollywood and the translation rights to seven foreign publishers.
Professor Percy is typical of the 1,700 faculty members you can learn from at Iowa State: leading scholars who go out into the real world and achieve great things. Whether it's researching savanna chimpanzees in Senegal, leading an evolution of dairy farming throughout Asia -- or in this case, writing a blockbuster that will be coming soon to a Cineplex near you.
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Benjamin believes Iowa State's a great environment for a writer because you're surrounded by so many creative people and so many compelling ideas. It's the stuff one can use to write an amazing adventure. Or live one.
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Fighting Dinos
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Fighting Dinosaurs: New Discoveries from Mongolia features more than 30 of the best preserved and scientifically important dinosaur and other ancient animal fossils ever discovered in Mongolia's famed Gobi Desert. On view through October 29, 2000 the exhibition focused on the "Fighting Dinosaurs" of Mongolia--one of the most famous fossil finds in the world. Never before seen in North America and designated a national treasure of Mongolia, the two Fighting Dinosaurs are a fierce Velociraptor that was apparently buried alive while attacking a plant-eating, shield-headed Protoceratops.
Also featured are many new specimens from Mongolia, including a number of species yet to be named, some of the most complete meat-eating theropod dinosaurs ever found, several nesting dinosaurs, and some of the finest lizard and mammal fossils ever discovered. These specimens have enhanced our understanding of life in the Gobi region 80 million years ago, and they shed new light on the rise of modern bird and mammal groups.
Never before seen in North America, the two Fighting Dinosaurs are a fierce Velociraptor that died apparently locked in combat with a plant-eating, shield-headed Protoceratops.
Visitors were introduced first to a striking diorama of the region now known as Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia, as it may have looked some 80 million years ago.
In this section, visitors could compare conclusions drawn from fossils discovered in the Gobi by Roy Chapman Andrews, the famous Museum expedition leader of the 1920 and 1930s, with results from research led in the 1990s by Drs. Norell and Novacek.
The third section of the exhibition focused on the exquisite preservation of fossils in the Gobi, which has provided scientists with some of the world's best fossil vertebrate specimens.
The exhibition's fourth section illustrated the diversity of life in the Gobi, how specific finds have increased our understanding of dinosaur growth, behavior, and variation, and how these specimens help scientists understand how groups of animals are related to one another, shedding light on the main lines of evolution.
Apparently locked in combat, these two fighting dinosaurs were remarkably preserved in this action pose some 80 million years ago.
This section of the exhibition examined the links between dinosaurs and birds, the continued search for more evidence to support this link, and the origin of feathers.
The exhibition's sixth section focused on the evolution of mammals, illustrating the evolution that led to the great diversity of modern mammals.
The seventh section of the exhibition discussed how paleontologists find fossil sites, how specimens are retrieved, and what happens back in the laboratory.
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Bravo began filming the 3rd season of The Real Housewives of New York City on Monday despite the widely publized contract issues.
Life&Style magazine reports, "There were contract issues, but Aug. 31 was always the start date, with or without a contract," says an insider.
Their insider also insists their salaries was not an issue, "The ladies wanted more money, and they're getting it." The insider continues, "Bravo was happy to up their pay since the show makes more money now. The Housewives just had an issue with some of the wording in the contract."
According to Life&Style, Bethenny Frankel is still in talks with Bravo to get her own reality show, and might be leaving the NY Housewives after this season.
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Skip to comments.Cats Killing Billions of Animals In The US (your tax dollars at work)
Posted on 01/29/2013 11:04:19 AM PST by drewhEdited on 01/29/2013 11:19:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Cats are one of the top threats to US wildlife, killing billions of animals each year, a study suggests.
The authors estimate they are responsible for the deaths of between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually.
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I think mostly windmills and silly things like that are killing wildlife.
Poor kitties are getting blamed for liberal stupidity.
Coyotes will also kill nasty humans.
It's maddening how ignorant and stupid people are....
I have had cats around most of my life. They are smart and sweet little critters.
Any animals left out in the wild resort to the natural instinct and survival. Right now we are overrun by rabbits. I like rabbits, but too many mean you can't have a garden. I like some cats outside to keep the bunny population in check.
My inside kitties are sweet babies! LOL
you know I did realize that - after I posted - LOL.
Mr. Mercat has been known to say that bird seed is cheaper than cat food. And that the welfare birds need a predator to keep them healthy.
The problem comes when lil precious spits out a litter, nobody wants them, so they throw them in a box, drive them to the country and dump them in front of the first farm they see.
"Oh lookie, a barn, farmers love cats." Er..No we don't!
Farmers often have to shoot batches of cats that get dropped off several times a year. The ones that don't get shot go wild and wind up getting shot or eaten by something else anyway.
I'm none too thrilled about lions and tigers and crocodiles and all those other creatures that eat animals, like eagles and wild dogs and those ugly, evil looking hyenas in Africa - and what about the black crows in Australia that eat the eyes out of little baby lambs...?
Exterminate all the creatures great and small that prey on others! Get rid of the fish in the sea that eat other fish, and then make meat an abomination for man to eat.
Might as well go all the way.
That's what 'they' are after, isn't it? They want you and I and our dogs and cats to become vegans. The world isn't the way they like it, it's just too scary for them.
I really don't have a problem with cats killing squirrels, mice, lizards, etc. Cats are probably doing us a favor by killing such vermin.
We are less pleased with them killing birds and we drew the line at humming birds. After they killed one hummingbird and I rescued another, we got rid of the hummingbird feeder. We love hummingbirds, but baiting them in reach of our cats isn't fair.
Maybe we'll put one down in Florida. No cats there.
They also love nasty, yappy rat dogs that stupid people leave outside to annoy neighbors. They cannot figure out how Fluffy disappeared from a yard with a 6' fence.
Out at Ft Irwin, the crows decimate the desert torise population by pecking holes in their shells. We called them "soul chickens" and loved to go plinking for them.
They be smart and would disappear when we would show up.
I acutally bought a trap for this purpose (my local shelter will not loan them out). Since buying it I've trapped four feral cats in my backyard. They go straight to the shelter for neutering.
We have a barn with hay and horsefeed. Having a cat in the barn is an absolute necessity. But the barn cat doesn't have to have a name. So we call him the cat in the barn that doesn't have a name.
Well, it worked for Prince!
I've been watching the eaglets growing up....many days their mom and dad bring them fresh rabbit....that's alot of rabbits.
I do this almost every weekend...i have 9 traps and a drop trap. It's my hobby.
My cat killed a lot of moles last summer! Good cat.
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