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You might think that actor Irrfan Khan — the co-star of the special effects-filled film Life of Pi -- performed his scenes by himself, or with inanimate objects that would later be transformed via CGI. Not so: As the older Pi in Ang Lee's new adaptation of the best-selling novel, Khan went back to the basics.
He tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he thinks of scenes as being like duets: "You strike a note, and somebody responds, and then you respond accordingly," Khan says.
In America, Khan is most popularly known for his role as the police inspector in the Oscar-winning drama Slumdog Millionaire. He's also appeared in the HBO series In Treatment, the film A Mighty Heart and in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited.
Khan would eventually study acting at India's National School of Drama, but when he was little, his family didn't allow him to watch films. They came from a feudal background, he tells Fresh Air, and "they had this attitude of looking down upon films, [that films] are not a good influence."
At school, though, he was finally able to watch films at a cultural center that was patronized by the government, and it was there that he discovered Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese and Costa-Gavras.
"That suddenly opened my doors and windows," he says, "and that's where my real training started."
Khan knew from an early age that he wanted to be an actor, but he wasn't entirely sure how to make it happen. At 14, a cousin told him that if he wanted to act in television, he should climb up to a transmission tower located at the top of a nearby mountain — that there would be an office there where Khan could get a job.
And that's exactly what he and his cousin did; though when they got to the top of the mountain and found nothing, they quickly forgot about getting work in television and roamed the terrain.
"We had a great time on the mountain," he remembers.
Interview Highlights
On his subdued character in 'The Namesake'
"At that point of [my] career, I was doing films which had a lot more to do with my presence on the screen. And when this opportunity came to me, I never know that it was going to challenge me in that way — that I need to work on my presence, that it should become unobtrusive, [that] it shouldn't just jump out from the screen. I have to work on being unnoticeable. That was something new for me ... and that made a hell of a lot of difference in my career. Sometimes as [an] actor, you get challenges which you think, 'How am I going to do that?' And that's where the fun begins — when you can really fulfill the demand of the part."
On working in Indian film musicals
"I did those films, but I was never, ever comfortable with things like just breaking into a dance without any rhyme or reason. ... I think it's a kind of challenge for an actor to believe in these situations which are completely fantastic. ... These elements are not really used in an innovative way; they are more used as a kind of formula, and that takes away the strength of these elements. But I think it's a great way of entertaining people and trying to create a world to make-believe in. I like that, but I couldn't do that."
On learning acting in India
We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India. Our films still are influenced by Parsi theater. Parsi theater was known for melodrama. So even in today's time, it still carries that melodramatic aspect; it's still there in our cinema. ... It's all about emotions, and you just have to project your emotions; you don't have to behave in a realistic way, you don't have to be believable, you just have to mesmerize the audience with histrionics. ... We don't have any 'school' like you have here. You have teachers like Stanislavsky who developed their own techniques and their own way of teaching people how to go about doing a role or performing a role realistically. We have no techniques, so it's like trial and error. You find your own method. You try things, you learn things by doing it."
On the international popularity of 'Slumdog Millionaire'
"It didn't have any direct effect as far as Indian viewership or Indian exposure is concerned. It didn't do the slightest thing in my life, but definitely here in America, people have seen it, and it was a real opportunity for me to be in the [Oscar] ceremony. ... It gave me a visibility in America, but there were films which I did which were close to me, [like] The Namesake — you know, I'm still very fond of that film — which really made a difference in my life as far as the American market is concerned."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. One of the films opening for the Thanksgiving holiday is "Life of Pi," which is based on the best-selling novel of the same name. The film is already getting a lot of attention for its 3-D cinematography and its CGI Bengal tiger.
My guest is one of the film's stars, Irrfan Khan - but he's not in any of the scenes with the special effects that are getting all the attention. So you may be thinking, why is he the actor we're having on? Because we've been keeping an eye on him since his 2007 film "The Namesake" when we realized what a good actor he is. Irrfan, as he's known now in his country, India, has been in over 30 Bollywood films. In America, he's best known for his roles in "Slumdog Millionaire" as the police inspector who interrogates the contestant; "A Mighty Heart," as the inspector general; and "The Darjeeling Limited," as the father of a drowned boy. In the third season of HBO's "In Treatment," he played Sunil, a man from India who lost his wife several months ago and is now living with his son and daughter-in-law Julia, in Brooklyn.
In this scene, they've taken him to a therapist - in spite of his protests - because he's grown depressed and uncommunicative. Gabriel Byrne is the therapist.
GABRIEL BYRNE: (as Dr. Paul Weston) Julia implied that your, your grieving for your wife hadn't eased in the past six months. Would you - would you agree with that?
IRRFAN KHAN: (as Sunil Sanyal) Look, my wife and I were married for 30 years - from the age of 23 until the day she died, I spent practically every day of my life with her. I do not understand the need to quantify the forces of grieving, this need to count the heal in months. I was a math professor, but this is not math, this is the furthest thing from math. It is only a feeling. And sometimes, it is only a blankness.
GROSS: In Irrfan Khan's new film "Life of Pi," he plays Pi as an adult, telling the story of his youth to a novelist who was sent to him by a friend who promised that Pi would tell an inspiring story and make him believe in God. The story Pi tells is about how he got his name and how his family left India by ship when he was a teenager to make their way to Canada. His father owned a zoo and took the animals on board, hoping to sell them. But the ship sunk in a storm. The final survivors were Pi and a Bengal tiger who were together in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a raft for over 200 days. Here's an early scene with Irrfan Khan as the adult Pi, and Rafe Spall as the novelist.
KHAN: (as Pi) Yeah, have I forgotten anything?
RAFE SPALL: (as The Writer) I think you set the stage. So far we have an Indian boy named after a French swimming pool, on a Japanese ship full of animals, heading to Canada.
KHAN: (as Pi) Yes. Now we have to send our boy into the middle of the Pacific and...
SPALL: (as The Writer) And make me believe in God.
KHAN: (as Pi) Yeah. We'll get there.
GROSS: Irrfan Khan, welcome to FRESH AIR.
KHAN: Thank you, Terry.
GROSS: I'm a big fan of your work. So how does it feel to be the star of a 3-D film with spectacular CGI and special effects on a stormy sea? But your character is in his home the whole time and just talking to a writer.
KHAN: Yeah. Even the whole unit, they started shooting the sea portion first, and once they finish that, and that was kind of a quite an adventure for whole unit, and once they finished it, they thought the film is over. And then they came to this apartment, which is colorless, and where two people are sitting there and talking and the whole unit was wondering what's going on, you know? So it's a kind of different film, completely, for the whole unit. And for me, you know, in the shoot sometimes what happens, you know, you start discovering things while you're doing. But we had not so much of time, like four or five days I have to finish everything, including the voiceovers. So that's how it started with me.
GROSS: So, I read that the director, Ang Lee, originally shot your sequences with a different actor playing the writer who you're speaking with. Initially it was shot with Tobey Maguire?
KHAN: Yeah.
GROSS: And, but in the actual finished film, that part is played by Rafe Spall. What happened to change it?
KHAN: I'm not sure. I have a certain idea about it. But see what happened, I finished the film, I went back to India and I was busy working doing other things and suddenly I got a call from Ang, and he said that we might re-shoot certain sequences. And I said what sequences you want to re-shoot. And he indicated that we have to re-shoot everything. And for me it was a difficult proposition because there are certain emotional scenes in the film which, you know, once you are done, you don't want to get there, you know, you just want to delete that file from your hard disk. You just want to, you know, you know that you have done it; now you don't want to go there. And then I didn't ask him on the phone why we are re-shooting it. I came back to LA and then I discussed with him what we are going to re-shoot. And then I - I wanted to, I was curious to know what happening, why there is another actor, why there's, you know, why he's not there. But somehow I could understand that they wanted a person who was, who doesn't have such a strong image, because he's playing a writer who's a struggling writer who is trying to make a name for himself, and I think that's the reason I could understand why they needed another actor.
GROSS: Was it really different for you, doing your part opposite Tobey Maguire versus opposite Rafe Spall?
KHAN: Oh, definitely. It always will be different because it's a kind of - a scene is a kind of duet between two singers, you know; you strike a note and somebody responds, gives a response, and then you respond accordingly. So it will always be different with different actor. It can never be the same.
GROSS: So let me play a scene from the film that I think you're best known for in the United States, and that's "Slumdog Millionaire." And you're a detective, a police detective. And in this scene you're interrogating the main character who has just won lots of money on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire." And no one believes that this young man who was from the slums of Mumbai could actually know the answers to the questions. And...
KHAN: Right.
GROSS: ...and have made that much money. So you're assuming that he's cheated.
KHAN: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: And he is, you have him hanging by his arms.
KHAN: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: And with electrodes attached to his feet. You're actually administering shocks to him.
KHAN: Right.
GROSS: So here you are with Dev Patel as the "Slumdog Millionaire."
KHAN: (as Police Inspector) It's hot and my wife is giving me hell. And I've got a desk full of murderers, rapists, extortionists, bomb bandits and you. So why don't you save us both a lot of time and tell me how you cheated. Hmm.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as character) I'm done, sir.
KHAN: (as Police Inspector) Now listen. Hello. He's unconscious, chutiya. What good is that? How many times have I told you, you should once...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as character) I'm sorry, sir.
KHAN: (as Police Inspector) What? What? Now we'll have Amnesty International in here next, peeing in their pants about human rights.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as character) Sir, I was thinking...
KHAN: (as Police Inspector) Get him down. Tidy him up. Please, for God's sake.
GROSS: That's my guest Irrfan Khan as the police detective in "Slumdog Millionaire." How did the popularity of "Slumdog Millionaire" - international popularity of it, Academy Award popularity of it change your life?
KHAN: It didn't have any direct effect as far as Indian viewership or Indian exposure is concerned. But definitely here in America, you know, people have seen it, and it was a real opportunity for me to be in the ceremony of, you know, Oscar awards. That was something, you know, which was I experienced for the first time. And it gave me a visibility in America, but there were films which I did which were close to me, was "The Namesake" and, you know, I'm still very fond of that film and it's my dear film - which really made a difference in my life as far as American market is concerned.
GROSS: And this was a film in which you played an Indian-American who is, you know, moved to the U.S. with your wife and your son has become very, you know, Americanized and is trying to kind of make sense of his Indian-American identity. And his name is Gogol, which he's always hated...
KHAN: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: And toward the end of the movie you tell him the story of how he was named and it's a very moving story. You play a college professor in it. But you're a very smart, very quiet, subdued man who obviously has a lot of very powerful feelings inside but you don't express it with a lot of drama.
KHAN: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
GROSS: What I mean is you're a very kind of subdued personality in it.
KHAN: Mm-hmm. That was something new. At that point of career, I was doing films which had a lot more to do with my presence on the screen. And when this opportunity came to me, I never knew that it's going to challenge me in that way - that I need to work on my presence, that it should become like unobtrusive, it shouldn't just jump out from the screen. I have to work on being unnoticeable. That was something, you know, something new for me to exercise in this part and that made, you know, a hell of a lot of difference in my career. It just gave me - sometimes as an actor you get challenges which you think, you know, how am I going to do that? And that's where the fun begins, you know - when you really, you know, fulfill the demand of the part and you can, you know, achieve what you were supposed to achieve. And that's what "Namesake" did to me.
GROSS: It's interesting that it was such a challenge for you to be unobtrusive, you know?
KHAN: Yeah.
GROSS: I've seen posters for some of your Indian films and seen a couple of scenes, you know, on websites from them. And there's scenes of you with guns and scenes of you, you know, and there's love scenes and you're working with a warlord in the mountains and, so those are roles that we haven't seen you in in American films.
KHAN: Yes. What you're talking about, warlord - yeah, that's the film which take me out of my slumber, you know, that was the film which really gave me birth. I was losing my interest in acting and I was doing a lot of television and television was making me bored of this profession, of this job of being an actor. Television was more of a verbal medium. It was more of a radio play, you know, at that time when I was doing television, you know, and so I was not having good time as an actor. And there was nothing to discover. And so I was losing interest as an actor and I was contemplating to leave this job. At that time I got this film called "The Warrior" by, it was produced by Channel 4 and directed by Asif Kapadia. And that film really changed my life. The experience of doing that film and being with that director it's, you know, it's something, you know, it really completely put my life into a different path. And that's a film which is again, very dear to me and that's the first time I went out of India, when they had the premiere of "Warrior" in London, and that's the first time I saw foreign land. I was never out of India before that. So...
GROSS: And what year is this?
KHAN: It was 2000, I think. 2000, yeah.
GROSS: You've done a lot of films in India. We associate Bollywood movies with a lot of like singing and dancing and, you know...
KHAN: Yeah.
GROSS: ...big production numbers. Have you been in that type of Indian film?
KHAN: Oh yes. I did try those films, and there were a few. I did those films and, but I was never ever comfortable with things like just breaking into a dance without any rhyme and reason. I think my training in theater stopped me from doing these unbelievable situations. And I think it's a kind of challenge for an actor to believe in these situations which are completely fantastic. Like, you know, suddenly you are sitting here and you just break into a dance and, you know, you start singing. But I think, you know, it's a great way of entertaining people and, you know, just trying to create a world to make believe in, you know, I like that. But I couldn't do that.
GROSS: My guest is Irrfan Khan. He plays the adult Pi in the new film "Life of Pi." We'll talk more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: So how did your parents feel about you becoming an actor?
KHAN: My mother still feels that I could be - she would be much more happier if I come back to my hometown and I take up some job, decent job, and so that I don't have to be away from her. She still feels that. Sometimes when my film comes and I forces her to go with everybody, that's the only time she says, OK, this was good. This was - you know, she's pleased with that.
But within her heart, she is still, you know, she still yearns for me to be there with her. So that's a kind of, you know, a pain I carry with me. You know, I don't know what to do with it.
GROSS: So does your mother take any solace in knowing that even though you're not living very close to her geographically, that you are so successful and so well-known and popular in India?
KHAN: It does do something to her, but not enough for her to really feel - you know, she still wants to see me.
GROSS: She still wants to see you anyways, huh?
KHAN: All the time. Yeah. Yeah. She has this feeling that all we brothers should be together. We should be living in the same house and we should be, you know, sharing everything. You know, she's like a - she just wants to put all of us under her wings and, you know, she wants to feel good about it.
GROSS: So I assume you grew up seeing some American movies, as well as Indian movies.
KHAN: Right.
GROSS: Were there American movies and American actors that influenced you and made you interested in performing?
KHAN: Oh, yes. They played a major role in my education as an actor. I was in drama school. There's not many drama schools in India. There's one which is authentic. It's the National School of Drama in Delhi. It was a three-year degree course. So I was doing that, and I had so many questions about how to learn acting and what acting is all about and things like that. And I started watching films at that time, because earlier we were not permitted to watch films.
GROSS: We, meaning your family?
KHAN: Meaning, like, my family didn't allow us to watch films.
GROSS: Why not?
KHAN: Because they were coming from this feudal background and, you know, they had this attitude of looking down upon films. Like, these are not a good influence. They used to think like that. So we were not allowed to watch films, and when I went to drama school there was a theater where all these interesting films used to play on a very discount rate.
And that's where I watched Scorsese or Costa-Gavras or Fellini, and that was something eye-opener to me. And I had never seen Brando before that. I never knew who Robert De Niro was. I never knew Al Pacino. I never knew anybody. And that suddenly opened my doors and windows, and that's where my real training started. And that's what gave me a kind of drive, perpetual drive as an actor.
GROSS: Were those movies dubbed or subtitled?
KHAN: No, no, no. They were subtitled. Like Costa-Gavras, subtitled. Like Fellini's films were subtitled.
GROSS: So you got hear Brando's voice. You got to hear Pacino's voice.
KHAN: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
GROSS: Because that's something you lose when they're dubbed.
KHAN: They were not commercial release.
GROSS: Yeah. Oh, I see.
KHAN: They were not commercial release.
GROSS: I see. I see.
KHAN: Yeah. They were, like, patronized by government, and these theaters were not commercial theaters. They were there - there was a kind of cultural center in Delhi, and they used to run these films just for, you know, just to popularize art.
GROSS: Did your parents let you watch television when you were growing up, even though you couldn't see movies?
KHAN: So television came a little late, I think. In our house, television came in '84. Yeah. Yeah. Just a year back, a year back. In '83 it came in our house, and at that time, it was just two channels used to come, which were government channels. They were not private. Private channels started coming in India around 2000.
Before that, there was just two channels, you know, and it used to start around six in the evening and used to end around 10:30 or 11 at night. Just those two, three hours.
GROSS: When you were doing a lot of television, were they government-controlled programs too?
KHAN: Yeah, they were. They were two channels that - they were two channels which is owned by government. But then, you know, they opened up for private channels, and then, there are now more than a hundred channels.
GROSS: My guest is Irrfan Khan. He plays the adult Pi in the new film "Life of Pi." We'll talk more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Irrfan Khan. Irrfan Khan plays Pi in the new film "The Life of Pi." He plays the adult Pi, who narrates the movie. And he's also known in America for the films "The Namesake," "Slumdog Millionaire," in which he played the detective, "In Treatment," the TV series in which he was the patient Sunil, and he was also in "A Mighty Heart," which starred Angelina Jolie.
You studied at the National School of Drama in India.
KHAN: Yeah.
GROSS: And I don't know if there's a specific approach to acting, a specific school of acting that's taught there, but I'm wondering if there's any comparisons you could make between acting as you learned it and acting as you think you may have learned it if you went to, you know, one of the theater schools in England or if you'd studied, you know, the Method in the United States.
KHAN: Yeah, it's a very interesting question. See, we don't have a culture of realistic acting in India. Our films still are influenced by Parsi theater. Parsi theater was known for melodrama. So it still carried - even in today's time, they still carry that melodramatic, you know, aspect of - it's still there in our cinema. I mean, there were actors...
GROSS: And when you say melodramatic, you mean everything's, like, a little overstated, a little big.
KHAN: Overstated, and it's all about emotions and, you know, you just have to project your emotions. You don't have to behave in a realistic way. You don't have to be believable. You just have to, you know, mesmerize the audience with your histrionics. So that was a kind of - you know, cinema was inspired or, you know, it adapted that element.
And we don't have any school like, you know, you have here, where you have teachers who have studied Stanislavski and developed their own techniques and they have their own way of teaching people how to go about doing a role or performing a role realistically. So we have no techniques. So it's like trial-and-error. You know, you find your own method. Although we had a kind of drama training in maybe in early ages, but it's really ancient, when our theater used to play a very important role in society. But that's not practiced in today's time. That's, like, 2,000 years old.
GROSS: In an interview on Al-Jazeera, you told a story that I thought was really funny. And the story is that, you know, when you wanted to, like, act on television you went to - you must've been pretty young when you did this. You climbed up, like, this little mountain or hill...
GROSS: ...where the TV transmission tower was, and you figured when you got there, that's where the offices would be and the people and you could see if you could do something there. And then you got there, and you realized it's just a tower.
GROSS: How old were you when you did that?
KHAN: I think I was 14. It, you know, it sounds strange in today's time. Fourteen-year-old boys is, you know, much more smart and, you know, they know. But I think we were very naive. We were very naive, and this was somebody - my cousin told me that, you know, if you want to work in television, you see that, you know, tower on the mountain? You know, there they have office and we can go there and we can ask them, you know, if we can work in television. And that's what we did. We climbed the whole mountain, you know.
KHAN: There was nobody. Not even a dog.
GROSS: So what was your reaction when you realized there's nothing there but a tower?
KHAN: So, you know, tower. Then we started roaming around on the mountain. So we forgot about getting work on television. You know, we were just having a great time on the mountain.
GROSS: Did you go to a real TV studio after that, eventually?
KHAN: No. No. I thought, you know, this is not going to work out. And, you know, just...
GROSS: Irrfan Khan, thank you so much for talking with us.
KHAN: Thank you, Terry. Thank you so much.
GROSS: Irrfan Khan plays the adult Pi in the new film "Life of Pi." I want to end by thanking Yowei Shaw for filling in on our show as an associate producer. We'd initially asked her to work for a couple of months, and we kept asking for more and more time until it turned into about half a year. It looks like our time is up. We hope she's willing to come back and work with us again. In the meantime, we'll be listening for her feature stories on the radio. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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One of the continuing lies from the Republicans and Teabaggers is that President Obama bailed out the banks. Uh, TARP was passed on October 3, 2008 and signed by President Bush. According to my memory, President Obama wasn't even elected until November 4, 2008. The Republicans and their lap-dog media just continues to imply that President Obama is responsible for the bailout. I'd bet 95% of the teabaggers believe that wholeheartedly. No surprise there though, they ARE more educated and wealthier, right?
Do you suppose these folks know that it was George W. Bush who passed the TARP bill? I don't think so. The Republicans have become very good at spreading lies and misinformation and it's hard for us liberals to keep up with shooting them down. There is so much of it out there, it's no wonder that the American people are so confused over what is real and what is a product of Frank Luntz's crafty word games. I know I'm trying to do my part in shining a light on this bullshit.

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Chrysler is up and working with its last try and make their 300 even the teensiest bit profitable on the market and only a few months after the 300 sedan hit the bottom operating at the Detroit Auto Show, the corporate has now introduced the 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8 the most highly effective model within the line-up.
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THE Environment Agency has issued more flood warnings for rivers in Worcestershire.
The organisation issued the warnings advising residents to take immediate action for the River Avon at Strensham and Bredon, expected to peak at about 2.9 metres this evening as well as at Wyre Piddle, expected to rise to levels of about 2.5 metres this evening.
A flood warning also remains in place for the River Severn at Court Medow, Kempsey and Callow End, expected to rise to levels of 6.2 metres on Saturday.
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A tutor who once helped students tackle academic challenges has been arrested, accused of stealing 25 iPads from a learning center.
A tutor who once helped students tackle academic challenges has been arrested, accused of stealing 25 iPads from a learning center.
Devin Lawrence Most, 26, a tutor at the Sylvan Learning Center at 3231 SE Maricamp Road, Ocala, was arrested Wednesday and taken to the Marion County Jail. He faces three counts of dealing in stolen property, three counts of false verification of ownership to a second-hand dealer, one count of commercial burglary and one count of grand theft.
According to Ocala Police Department reports, an employee at the learning center arrived for work at approximately 7:15 a.m. Monday and saw that a window had been shattered. She immediately called 911.
An inventory revealed that 25 Apple iPads valued at a total of $15,000, a receipt scanner valued at $400, and a small amount of cash were missing.
Detective Mark Hoover was assigned to investigate. After obtaining the serial numbers of the stolen items, he discovered that Most had pawned three Apple iPads on June 7, July 6 and Aug. 16. Two of the units subsequently were sold by the shops, but Hoover recovered the third one. The three iPads were included in the inventory total of 25 missing units.
Hoover talked with Most at his residence, and he agreed to be interviewed at the Police Department. There, Most initially denied being involved in the burglary.
After Most was confronted about the three pawned iPads, he told Hoover he owed money to a drug dealer as he has been abusing prescription drugs. He alleged that the dealer forced him to take the three iPads from the business and pawn them, according to reports.
Most was arrested Tuesday, charged with dealing in stolen property and false verification of ownership to a second hand dealer in connection with the three iPads.
As Hoover continued his investigation, he received information that the missing iPads and other items might be in Most's room at his parents' home. Officials obtained consent to search the property and recovered 15 iPads, a scanner and two drawing tablets, all from the Sylvan Learning Center, according to reports.
Hoover went to the jail and talked with Most, who again denied breaking into the learning center. Later during the conversation, however, Most said the items found in his room were in fact goods he had taken from the building.
Most then was charged with additional counts of commercial burglary and grand theft.
Most's arrests violated his probation on charges in New Mexico of grand theft of a motor vehicle and possession of a controlled substance. The theft charge was levied in 2009 and the possession charge in 2011. He was sentenced in October 2012 to one year and five months of probation.
The learning center, which is open Monday through Saturday, has offices in Ocala and Gainesville, with approximately 100 students and 15 teachers. The teachers often also are affiliated with the Marion County school system
Linda S. Bishop, the center director at Sylvan, said Thursday that Most had worked at the facility for less than a year and was a mathematics tutor. She described him as a "very good teacher" who "did an excellent job with the students." She said that hearing the news he was charged with the burglary was "shocking."
Bishop said Most had not been teaching at the learning center over the summer.
Bishop said they had done a background check and fingerprinted Most, which is standard procedure. She said the check did not reveal the charges in New Mexico and that she was "genuinely surprised" to learn they existed. She said that during his time there, Most was talked to one time about being late for work but that it did not lead to disciplinary action.
School District spokesman Kevin Christian said Most was a substitute teacher with Marion County Public Schools from March 12, 2012, to June 7 of this year, at a number of schools, but primarily Marion Technical Institute and Vanguard High School. In April 2012, while teaching at Forest High School, Most was accused of using inappropriate language. Most has not been asked to substitute in the new school year, which began this week, Christian said.
Most declined to comment.
According to the learning center's website, student programs include digital lessons. Bishop said, however, that even though the iPads were missing, they didn't "skip a beat" in providing services. She said the recovered goods had been returned to the center.
Officials said they still are looking for the missing iPads and that anyone with information about them can call Hoover at 368-8283 or the Crime Line at 369-7061.
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By River Huston
January 14, 2011
Recently my life fell apart financially, emotionally and spiritually. I had hit bottom. I have been in recovery for 25 years but I found a new addiction, or really not so new -- it might have been my first addiction -- and that is control. For the first 13 years of living with HIV infection as well as acute, chronic ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenia pupura) I came to accept I was powerless. It is one thing HIV, if you are willing, will teach you in spades.
But over the last seven years with the availability of treatment I realized if the drugs continue to work, and even if they take 20 years off the back end of my life (sorry AARP -- I wouldn't want them anyway), I might live another 25 years. Without that faithful companion of certain death from HIV infection (all I had to do was worry about getting hit by a bus), I reverted back to that need to try and control everything.
That is how I found myself freezing in a cold house watching my husband's despair turn to bitterness over a failed business that I had invested all my money and most of American Express, Visa and MasterCard's credit lines into. I kept thinking I could make it work; he wanted to let go about $50,000 ago.
I didn't stop there. I tried to control his depression, tried to motivate, change and help him. It made things worse and over the last year it became apparent that our lives were at a standstill.
Even before our financial crisis, things were not going well. It took the loss of everything including money, home, credit and intimate relationship for me to see more clearly. Up until this year, about the time the HIV meds kicked in, I have been living with the decisions I made essentially from a deathbed. It was time to live, but I was imprisoned with these choices that were lovely but not working -- including a half a million dollar home, many toys and a relationship that had morphed into dysfunctional codependence.
Every day was painful. I didn't know what to do. So I took drastic action. I left. I knew it had to be fast because slow is really painful so I pulled the band-aid off with speed I didn't know I had (it took me 10 years to decide on a sofa). I called a lawyer, filed for bankruptcy, stopped paying the mortgage and went on Craigslist and started looking for somewhere else to live.
I looked to the South, but too many churches for this Jew. My girlfriend who settled in Georgia said if I came down there would be two Jews in Georgia and as great as that sounded, I kept looking. I was in San Francisco thinking how much I would love to live there but even the smallest apartment was crazy expensive. On a lark I thought I would look at Craigslist in the Caribbean.
There was an interesting ad for an apartment on Water Island. I had never heard of Water Island and it took quite a bit of Googling to find it. It is less than 500 acres; about 75 homes, no restaurants, hotels or businesses of any kind and you can only get to it by boat.
I called and asked if the apartment was still available and the woman said yes. I said would call her back. I went to look for a flight. My thinking was, if there is a cheap one then it is meant to be. There was a ticket to fly to St. Thomas the next day for $235.
I called back and asked if I could see the apartment. She asked when would I like to come down and I said tomorrow. She was a little taken aback and said how about the day after. I said okay. I flew to St. Thomas already thinking it was a waste of time and money, and was filled with guilt -- apparently the band-aid was still hanging on.
I landed and took a taxi to my hotel which was advertised as cheap but nice. It was cheap but not very nice. I thought I would look at the apartment and just fly home, no big deal. No expectation.
The next morning I went down to this restaurant by the dock called Tickles and waited for a ferry. Once on the ferry, I started to get a little excited. The amazing color of the water and the warm wind in my hair brought a smile to my face.
A 10-minute ride took me to a plain concrete dock and there waited my host, Linda, to show me the place. We drove up a hill and got out. The first apartment she showed me was a nightmare and I realized why it was so cheap. But she had another apartment. We climbed the stairs of this ancient stone structure reminiscent of the house where Meryl Streep lived in the movie Mamma Mia and walked into a bright white one bedroom with a kitchen that faced St. Thomas and deck that faced the bay. Stunning, but a little pricy.
I didn't want to get stressed out about money again, and then I was still thinking about how it would work with my husband. While I was deep in thought Linda said I would have to hurry if I wanted to catch the ferry. I asked her if I could stay in the apartment a few days to think about it; she said yes.
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Daylighting systems, which use natural lighting to supplement electric lighting, have the potential to cut energy use, reduce peak demand, and create a more desirable indoor environment, yet these systems often fail to live up to their potential (see "New Designs in Active Daylighting," HE Jan/Feb '06, p. 40). One reason they fail is that they are sensitive to photosensor placement and performance, but there have been no easy-to-use tools to help designers predict performance and determine optimum sensor positioning. The Sensor Placement and Orientation Tool (SPOT) is a free software package that helps designers establish correct photosensor placement relative to a proposed daylighting and electric lighting design (see Figure 1). It also analyzes and predicts overall system performance prior to field installation and commissioning. Features and Benefits Anyone who can use Microsoft Excel can use SPOT.The user interface is an Excel worksheet, while most of the calculations made, using a sophisticated daylighting software program known as Radiance, are invisible to the user. Based on user input, the tool calculates nighttime illumination levels and the range of daylight contribution throughout ...
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uniform frontend to running Common Lisp code from a unix shell
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Lisp file for accessing Terminfo databases.
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B-Tree implemented in Common Lisp. Stores key/value pairs onto disk based data structure. Current implementation has been tested with SBCL.
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CFFI interface for Graphviz, integrated with cl-graph.
Portable localisation package for Common Lisp.
A Common Lisp interface to the MediaWiki API
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Bindings to PortAudio crossplatform library.
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defclass* and defcondition* that automatically generates accessors other things that are schematic for most defclass declarations.
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---The development period has concluded for the 1588 Spanish Armada Map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Beta Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready for BETA Play. After an extended period of time in BETA and once all quirks and issues have been resolved, the map will be put into Full Play (barring any Admins or Foundry Foreman vetoes).
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Obsessive Wrigley Renovation Watch: Deal Expected by Monday, Some Reported Details Trickle Out
More smoke on the Wrigley-Field-renovation-deal-coming-on-Monday fire.
The Sun-Times has reported that, according to two sources close to the negotiations, the Chicago Cubs and the City of Chicago will be in a position to announce a deal that paves the way to the long-awaited renovations of Wrigley Field. The Ricketts Family is willing to pay for the $500 million project (Wrigley renovations, and surrounding amenities) so long as certain restrictions on how they can monetize Wrigley Field are lifted by the City, in agreement with the neighborhood.
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- The Cubs will be allowed to place "at least" two new advertising signs in the outfield, one of which will be a large video board in left field, and one of which will be a more standard sign in right field.
- The size of the video board is still being debated. (Recall, the Cubs want a board of at least 6,000 square feet, while the City is blanching at anything larger than 3,000 square feet.)
- The video board in left and the sign in right would "minimally" block a "couple" of the rooftop buildings, who've feared that the erection of outfield signs would block their views into Wrigley Field, putting them out of business.
- The deal will allow the rooftops to continue operating for at least the next 11 years, which is the term of their agreement with the Cubs. An extension of that agreement is not expected to be part of the deal
- The deal will include an increase in allowable night games for the Cubs, from the current limit of 30 to "40 or more."
- Six to ten 3:05pm starts – presumably on Fridays and Saturdays – could be included.
- More concerts are expected. Currently, the Cubs are limited to three.
- The Cubs are expected to pay for increased police security.
- The Ricketts Family is expected to build the recently-discussed parking garage, which would accommodate about 300 cars.
- The deal is expected to be done in time for the Wrigley Field opener on Monday. I'd expect a joint press conference to be called at some point in the next couple of days, which will confirm that a deal is done.


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Skip to comments.Meet Obamas Wahhabist Relatives [With plenty of picture links]
Posted on 10/17/2012 4:21:43 AM PDT by Colofornian
While discussion of Obamas connections to his Muslim family in Kenya is an acceptable topic for discussion in the Arab world, it is viewed as a great taboo in the United States. But why is that so? This taboo should be considered unfair at best, purely prejudiced at worst. Is it fair, after all, that we censor such discussions just because Obamas relatives are Muslim?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) should condemn the media for keeping a tight lid on the subject, and its high time to go beyond what is disclosed by President Obama in his book, Dreams From My Father, or Wikipedias limited information, which includes the only photo released by the Obama family:
For the purposes of this article, we will cover only three of the closest Kenyan relatives to president Obama:
1. Sarah, Baracks beloved and benevolent grandmother.
2. Sayid Obama, his closest favorite uncle.
3. Musa Ismail Obama, his first cousin and Sayids main sidekick.
After President Obama was inaugurated, the Muslim side of the Obama family in Kenya boomed, and it went from rags to riches overnight. They became one of the most influential families in western Kenya and even extended their sphere of influence to Saudi Arabia. When Sarah, president Obamas grandmother, decided to go to the Hajj, an obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca with Musa, president Obamas first cousin, they were welcomed with open arms and were provided a special escort with full security detail and first-class treatment at the Saudi royal court:
His Royal Highness Prince Mamdouh bin Abdul Aziz accompanied the family of U.S. President Barack Obama in his palace in Jeddah after the performance of the Hajj this year. The event was attended by His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Thamer bin Abdul Aziz, and His Royal Highness Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Mamdouh Bin Abdul Aziz, and his HRH Prince Abdullah bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, and a number of other princes and officials.
The reason for such treatment, as explained in an exclusive interview with Musa Ismail Obama on Al-Jazeera, is that a close relationship was built between the Saudi royals, and like president Obamas call for education in the United States, the Kenyan Obamas embarked on a similar project.
Thus, president Obamas grandmother, Sarah Obama, started the Sarah Obama Benevolent Fund Institute, otherwise known as the Mama Sarah Obama Children Foundation, which raises 90% of its monies primarily from donors in the United States and some from Europe, solicited as humanitarian aid as the promotional website advertised: to make a lasting impact on the lives of the orphans and underprivileged children by improving their housing, their education, their upbringing, which continued to weigh heavily on Mama Sarah. All this and to help the neglected HIV/AIDS infected and affected in Kogelo village by linking them to care-givers and professional health services providers.
Barack Obama with step-grandmother Sarah
This is the version we are told. But when one peruses the foundations real activities in Arabic, one finds a very dark side to what the familys efforts are really all about.
Musa Ismail Obama, the presidents cousin, in an exclusive interview with Al-Jazeera TV (see all three parts, 1.here, 2.here and 3.here), explained all the troublesome detail, which does not bode well when translated into English: the bulk of the Sarah Fund as it turns out sends little to widows and orphans while the rest goes towards giving free scholarships to studying Sharia at the most influential Wahhabist centers in Saudi Arabia.
In the shocking interview, Musa was asked about his communications with cousin Barack, the president of the United States. The soft-spoken Musa explained that the presidents preferred method of communications was through one chosen conduit that relays messages back and forth with the family in Kenya by going through uncle Sayid Hussein Obama. This is the man who, with Mama Sarah, was also in attendance at Barack Obamas inauguration in 2009.
Mama Sarah begins her trip to see Barack inaugurated
Musa, Sayids sidekick and the public promoter of Mama Sarahs non-profit, became the familys key advertiser to the social efforts in Kenya. He selects specific Arab media asking wealthy audiences for help, but mandates as a prerequisite that no questions are asked regarding any details of such communications with president Obama or the delving into any political views. Yet, he tells just enough to connect the dots to the wealthy Arab audience of Al-Jazeera. He relays the message to raise all necessary funds since his mission is to transform Kenya to an Islamic majority by using the Obama household name and his grandmothers non-profit organization.
The fund has little to do with secular education or the care for widows and orphans and never even once mentions anything in any Arabic media in regards to helping the HIV infected. The bulk of Sarahs Benevolence Fund, as Musa explained, goes to sending scholarships destined to Saudi Arabias most virulent Wahhabi Sharia centers: the Islamic University in Medina, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah and the University of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. These are, as the Gulf Issues Centre For Strategic Studies describes, Salafi schools, which imbibed radical ideas and are the spring of Wahhabism:
[Wahhabists] grew up in the Wahhabi and Salafi schools which imbibed radical ideas in the Islamic University in Medina, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, and the University of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. (See essay, The Role of Wahhbist Movements, under a section entitled The Circle of Violence.)
Musa expresses in classical Arabic how he memorized the entire Quran and how he graduated and became an Islamic scholar on Sharia from the Islamic University in Medina.
I studied Arabic and Sharia at the Islamic university in Medina in Saudi Arabia, exclaimed Musa while telling how he visited Umm Al Qura University with his uncle Sayid. We also in the month of Muharram visited the dean of Umm Al Qura University, me and my uncle Sayid, he told Al-Jazeera during the interview.
The nature of the visit, Musa explains, was to facilitate scholarship to send students to Umm Al Qura.
Umm Al Qura University has a heritage that includes being one of Saudi Arabias historical and national monuments. A paragon in Wahhabist education, it takes pride that the university was the first to print the works of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab, the founder of the most virulent brand of IslamWahhabism. The history of its Wahhabist connections can be seen here.
On a cover-page of one of Wahhabs collections from Umm Al Qura University, one can clearly see in fanciful Arabic calligraphy, the title: Writings of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab, and a stamp that says A gift from Umm Al Qura University-Mecca is clearly visible.
In The Danger of Wahhabism in The Muslim World, by moderate Dr. Ahmed Abdul Rahim Al-Sayeh who abandoned the teachings, he reflects on his studies at Umm Al Qura: I studied Wahhabism, I studied their curriculum at the University of Umm Al Qura
At Umm Al Qura University, Musa and Sayid Obamapresident Obamas favorite uncleare seen taking photo ops and were described by several Arab media sources as diligent workers in advancing scholarships for Kenyans to study Sharia, courtesy of Sarahs fund.
Sayid Obama on right standing with Musa Ismail Obama at Umm Al Qura University
On right: Director of Umm Al-Qura University, Dr. Bakri bin Matouk Asas Musa Ismail Obama on left next to Sayid Obama
On left Sayid Obama
Meetings of President Obamas favorite uncle Sayid can even be seen at the official website of Umm Al Qura University where it proudly states:
His Highness the Director of Umm Al-Qura University, Dr. Bakri bin Matouk Asas received at his office in university city at Babidah Mr. Sayid Obama the uncle of His Excellency the President of the United States of America Barack Obama and Mr. Musa Ismail Obama the cousin of U.S. President
When they [the students] submit an application to Sarah Obama Benevolent Fund, they expect to get what they want but we are flooded, explains Musa.
As a result of the flood of students in the Wahhabi Sharia universities in Saudi Arabia, the interviewer then asks regarding the excess: So you are opening an avenue in other universities? For that, Musa explains he had to send the excess to nearby Doha in Qatar where he visited and arranged everything.
When Al-Jazeera asked, Do all these scholarships involve studying Arabic and Sharia? Musa explained, Some of those do not involve Sharia, like medicine or engineering. Al-Jazeera then asks, But the majority involves what? Musa answers: Uuuhhh . The majority of course is Sharia schools adding, because my connections in the institutions is with Sharia schools.
In what seems like a prepared script, Musa reads what he considers the catastrophe of Kenya, the lack of the process of proselytization, which goes hand-in-hand with Saudi interests seeking help from wealthy Saudis to transform Kenya to become a Muslim majority.
This goal is also expressed by Al-Arab Newspaper, which covered the call of the Obamas in an interview with Musa Ismail Obama on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of World University Ruff in Nairobi (photo here).
Under the title, Scholars in Kenya Call Their Brethren to Spread Islam and Teach Arabic it states: Muslims [in Kenya] suffer from the monumental Christianization aided by Zionist expansionism that infiltrates the nation. (Muhammad Lasheeb, Al-Arab Newspaper, 8816th edition, published on August 1st, 2012).
(Photo above of Musa on Al-Arab Newspaper)
Al-Arab Newspaper expounds on the effort to advance education by the Obama family in Kenya. Under the title Education First, assistant Mufti of the coastal city of Mombasa Ahmad Bimsallam chimed in explaining, that the grand destruction that came upon Muslims in Kenya, came from the education and schools that are planted all over the nation by Christian missionary movements.
Al-Arab does not even consider President Obamas conversion to Christianity an issue and included a section entitled, Obamas Islam stating:
President Obamas Islamic faith was considered a polarizing subject between Muslims and Christians in the Republic of Kenya. It is a center of struggle in the media and continues, as the Anglican Church there attempted to orchestrate a baptismal ordination for his grandmother Sarah in a grand celebration at the Gomokinyata playground in Kizimo, the third largest city in Kenya. It was a trick to trap her, pretending to invite her as a guest, as the church sent out information about her conversion and abandonment of Islam. The young Musa Ismail Obama, the cousin of the American president commented during his interview with Al-Arab that he was with his grandmother during Ramadan in the Holy Land in Mecca to do the Umra festivities after she completed her pilgrimage by invitation from the King of Saudi Arabia. Musa Obama who studied Sharia in Medina spoke to us regarding the situation of Muslims in Kenya calling upon the Arab and Islamic states to put more efforts towards aiding the Kenyan Muslim brethren especially that since there is much support coming from Western nations and Western churches spreading to the rest of Kenyan society from different religions. Musa pointed that the situation of Muslims in Kenya is continually getting better, pointing that the village of Barack Obama, Kogelo, which is situated on the shores of Victoria Lake, in Western Kenya, for example, had no Muslims except his family. But now, they are increasing, and that the majority of new Muslims adopted Islam from the kind treatment of their family and that they have now a benevolent institution to raise funds and give important aid to the orphans and the poor, and it also gives scholarships to study Sharia in Medina [Saudi Arabia]. Musa also stated that despite [the fact that] Barack Obama hasnt visited his tribe in Kenya since his election in the United States, there is a continual communication between him and several members of his family and his tribe in Kenya, which the Kenyan prime minister is also a member. We have also had members of the tribe who came to celebrate the appointment of one of their tribesmen as president of the United States a while ago. Musa also clarified that the election of Barack Obama had an impact for the betterment of the Muslim situation in Kenya to a certain degree, despite the attempts of churches to obstruct Muslim demands and rights, especially what relates to segregation and persecution against them in schools, as well as the issue of hijab and the lack of constitutional rights for Muslims in establishing Sharia courts.
Likewise, and probably most explosive, is president Obamas uncle Sayid Hussein Obama, who is active in his work with the notorious Muslim World League (MWL) as reported by Saudi media:
His Excellency Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin Al-Turki, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, and a member of the Council of Senior Scholars in Saudi Arabia in Makkah received on Monday Mr. Saeed Hussein Obama, Kenyan businessman, and uncle of President Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, who paid a visit to the Muslim World League, accompanied by a number of Kenyan graduates from Saudi universities.
This, despite the MWLs numerous connections with al Qaeda operatives. In fact, several MWL employees have worked with al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda gained material support and sponsorship, along with a cover, from MWL offices around the world. Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin Al-Turki, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, who received Sayid, is one of the most renowned Wahhabi scholars and a pioneer in spreading Wahhabism through education.
So are the Kenyan Obamas.
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Note: Snopes is generally "busting" the recent Muslim ring connection as a "no-go": Lord of the ring
The average American hasnt a CLUE how much of our tax money Obama has sent down Muslim sh*t holes while he plans to slash the military, STOLE 716 BILLION FROM MEDICARE TO FINANCE OBAMACARE and threatened to withhold seniors social security checks!
Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee.
It gives billions http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1 ...
of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.
$3.6 BILLION, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
$400 MILLION, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
AFGHANISTAN:$1.52 BILLION,$86 MILLION above the request
WEST BANK AND GAZA:$665 MILLION in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
JORDAN:$250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
EGYPT:$360 MILLION,$310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
PAKISTAN:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request
IRAQ:$968 MILLION,$336 million above the request
Oversight:$20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million
International Food Assistance:$500 MILLION,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
REFUGEE ASSISTANCE:$343 MILLION,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
Disaster Assistance:$200 MILLION to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
Peacekeeping:$837 MILLION FOR UNITED NATIONS peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
Department of Justice:$17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/ ...#
ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here.
http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office -...
And THATS just the tip of the iceberg.
THIS will blow your mind!!
They should have 2010 up, but they dont. Thats where youll find Obamas largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.
The best Obama exposure site on the net:
The Obama File ...
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After seven games of hell against the Boston Bruins, it was hard to know exactly what to expect from the Flyers in the first game of the NHL Eastern Conference finals against the Montreal Canadiens. A letdown would have been entirely understandable. A nervous, taut kind of game against a battle-tested opponent seemed pretty likely.
But a rout? Didn't see that coming.
Still, there it was: Flyers 6, Canadiens 0.
Outshot at home, the Flyers still managed to chase Montreal goaltender Jaroslav Halak from the game after scoring four goals on their first 13 shots. The team that has defied expectations for a month now -- winning as an underdog in the first round against New Jersey, coming from behind as an all-time underdog in the second round against Boston -- never sweated for a second of Game 1.
(Important traditional caveat: miles to go yet, et cetera. Especially against a Montreal team that wouldn't know what to do with a series lead if you handed it to them wrapped in a bow, and doesn't seem to care.)
The goals were of every style and flavor. Defenseman Braydon Coburn scored the first one, at 3:55 of the first period, from about 2 feet out on a power play, banging a free puck past Halak. Thirty seconds into the second period, James van Riemsdyk, awakened in Game 7 against Boston and still very much awake, scored soon after a faceoff, whacking away from in the crease on a puck shoved his way by Claude Giroux.
After that came two goal-scorer's goals -- a Danny Briere slapshot from the circle, a rocket high to Halak's glove side, and then a Simon Gagne shot through traffic in front provided by Ville Leino. It was Briere's eighth of the playoffs. For Gagne, who had the overtime winner in Game 4 of the Bruins series and the comeback-clincher in Game 7 -- it was his fifth.
At which point, Halak left and was replaced by Carey Price. And, at which point, the crowd at the Wachovia Center began amusing itself with the ole-ole chant that they never do here but always hear on television from the Bell Centre.
The only thing left to see was if Michael Leighton could hold on to his shutout. It remains a ridiculous story, Leighton's emergence this season from nowhere -- and his emergence in the middle of the second round after Brian Boucher was injured -- will be told and re-told in years to come (and really, really told and re-told if the Flyers can milk this thing for a couple of more weeks).
The truth is, since taking over from Boucher in the middle of Game 5 against Boston, Leighton has played about 10 shaky minutes -- at the start of Game 7 in Boston -- and about 200 superlative minutes other than that.
The truth is that he and his teammates made the whole thing last night almost boringly routine. Never, ever saw that coming.


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Hondo powered Win8 tablets; sweet spot or not?
Subject: Processors | October 18, 2012 - 05:58 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: homdo, AMD z-series, z-60 apu, tablet, win8
Could AMD powered tablets firt in a sweet spot for those looking to pick up one of these new Win8 powered devices? They will certainly be more powerful than an ARM powered WinRT tablet and the graphics will be superior to Intel powered tablets. The Z-60 will have two 1GHz Bobcat cores each with 512KB of L2 cache and the HD 6250 GPU with 80 DirectX 11-class shader ALUs which should give snappy performance up to a 1920x1200 resolution. The Tech Report talks about the various benefits and penalties to choosing a Hondo based device over an Ivy Bridge powered on in their article here.
"AMD is readying a new APU aimed at Window 8 tablets and hybrids. Otherwise known as Hondo, this Z-60 processor offers lower power consumption than AMD's existing APUs, and it comes with a side order of USB 3.0."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD A8-5600K Trinity Desktop APU Review @ Legit Review
- AMD Piledriver/Trinity A10-5800K Compiler Tuning @ Phoronix
- AMD Trinity Review - A10 5800K vs Core i3 3220 @ HCW
- AMD A10-5800K Performance On Ubuntu Linux @ Phoronix
- AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU Review @ Hardware Canucks
- AMD Launches Z-60 APU (Hondo) for Windows 8 @ Bjorn3D
- A10-5800K vs. Core i3-3220 CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets
- AMD's A10-5800K and A8-5600K 'Trinity' APUs @ The Tech Report
- AMD A8 5600K APU @ Guru3D
- AMD A8-5600K APU Trinity Desktop Processor @ Benchmark Reviews
- AMD A8-5600k APU Processor Review @ eTeknix
- AMD A10-5800K Trinity Desktop Processor @ Benchmark Reviews
- AMD A10-5800K Trinity APU @ Techspot
- AMD 2nd Generation A10 5800 & A8 5600 Desktop APU Review @ OCC
- AMD A10-5800K "Trinity" APU On Linux @ Phoronix
- All Core i5 Models @ Hardware Secrets
- All Core i7 Models @ Hardware Secrets
Acer shows trust in AMD, orders 80K Z-Series APUs from AMD
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2011 - 11:27 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: acer, amd, desna, bobcat core, APU, AMD z-series, brazos
AMD's C-series and E-series of APUs have been selling quickly, with an estimated 1/2 million processors sold already to tablet and SFF PC builders and putting plenty of pressure on Intel's Atom+ION lineup. AMD has made themselves so popular by providing better performance at a lower TDP and power draw, mostly because of the age of the Oak Trail based CULVs, once Huron River arrives we may see that change drastically.
Now we learn that Acer has orders in for 80K of the new dual core 1GHz APU, with a TDP of 5.9W. Obviously AMD and the OEMs purchasing the chips are intending these for tablets and SFF PCs running Windows. There will be no need to wait for Win8's ARM architecture support if you are looking to run a Win7 ultramobile PC right now. ARM, Tegra and even Intel's announced Moorestown pull less power and are more appropriate for smart phones, so don't expect to be seeing Desna in that particular form factor.
Check out DigiTimes coverage here.
"Acer has recently placed orders for 80,000 Z series APUs from AMD for use in tablet PCs, targeting the enterprise market, according to sources from upstream component makers. However, both Acer and AMD did not confirm the orders.
In addition to Acer, Micro-Star International (MSI) is also developing tablet PC models using AMD's APU.
Since Google Android 3.0 currently still has issues which need to be resolved, while the next-generation Android operating system codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich will not appear until the end of 2011, some tablet PC vendors have decided to launch Windows 7-based tablet PCs targeting the enterprise market to maintain their shipments.
Since Intel's Oak Trail-based Atom processor is higher in both price and power consumption, several notebook vendors have already started considering AMD's platform. In addition to Acer and MSI, some vendors have also started inquiring about AMD's Z series APU.
AMD's Z series APU is produced through Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) 40nm process and is already shipping, targeting the Windows-based tablet PC market, noted the sources adding that they expect shipments of Z series APUs to reach at least 500,000 units in the second half of 2011, creating strong pressure on Intel's Oak Trail processor."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Intel starts talking about 8nm node @ SemiAccurate
- iCloud without Apple: your platform-agnostic alternatives @ Ars Technica
- Ex-Google engineer dubs Goofrastructure 'truly obsolete' @ The Register
- Canon REALiS SX80 Mark II Review @ TechReviewSource
- Wii U Specification Rumours @ XSreviews
- Computex 2011 recap: Intel Z68 motherboard dominates but AMD Bulldozer missing @ The Inquirer
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